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Climate Seer James Hansen Issues His Direst Forecast Yet (The Daily Beast) + other sources, and repercussions
01/08/2015 UncategorizedDesastre, Elevação do nível dos oceanos, Estados Unidos, Incerteza, Inundação, Meteorologia, Miami, Modelagem, Mudanças climáticas, Nova York, Previsãorenzotaddei
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Mark Hertsgaard
07.20.151:00 AM ET
James Hansen's new study explodes conventional goals of climate diplomacy and warns of 10 feet of sea level rise before 2100. The good news is, we can fix it.
James Hansen, the former NASA scientist whose congressional testimony put global warming on the world's agenda a quarter-century ago, is now warning that humanity could confront "sea level rise of several meters" before the end of the century unless greenhouse gas emissions are slashed much faster than currently contemplated.This roughly 10 feet of sea level rise—well beyond previous estimates—would render coastal cities such as New York, London, and Shanghai uninhabitable. "Parts of [our coastal cities] would still be sticking above the water," Hansen says, "but you couldn't live there."
This apocalyptic scenario illustrates why the goal of limiting temperature rise to 2 degrees Celsius is not the safe "guardrail" most politicians and media coverage imply it is, argue Hansen and 16 colleagues in a blockbuster study they are publishing this week in the peer-reviewed journal Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics. On the contrary, a 2 C future would be "highly dangerous."
If Hansen is right—and he has been right, sooner, about the big issues in climate science longer than anyone—the implications are vast and profound.
Physically, Hansen's findings mean that Earth's ice is melting and its seas are rising much faster than expected. Other scientists have offered less extreme findings; the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has projected closer to 3 feet of sea level rise by the end of the century, an amount experts say will be difficult enough to cope with. (Three feet of sea level rise would put runways of all three New York City-area airports underwater unless protective barriers were erected. The same holds for airports in the San Francisco Bay Area.)
Worldwide, approximately $3 trillion worth infrastructure vital to civilization such as water treatment plants, power stations, and highways are located at or below 3 feet of sea level, according to the Stern Review, a comprehensive analysis published by the British government.
Hansen's track record commands respect. From the time the soft-spoken Iowan told the U.S. Senate in 1988 that man-made global warming was no longer a theory but had in fact begun and threatened unparalleled disaster, he has consistently been ahead of the scientific curve.
Hansen has long suspected that computer models underestimated how sensitive Earth's ice sheets were to rising temperatures. Indeed, the IPCC excluded ice sheet melt altogether from its calculations of sea level rise. For their study, Hansen and his colleagues combined ancient paleo-climate data with new satellite readings and an improved model of the climate system to demonstrate that ice sheets can melt at a "non-linear" rate: rather than an incremental melting as Earth's poles inexorably warm, ice sheets might melt at exponential rates, shedding dangerous amounts of mass in a matter of decades, not millennia. In fact, current observations indicate that some ice sheets already are melting this rapidly.
"Prior to this paper I suspected that to be the case," Hansen told The Daily Beast. "Now we have evidence to make that statement based on much more than suspicion."
The Nature Climate Change study and Hansen's new paper give credence to the many developing nations and climate justice advocates who have called for more ambitious action.
Politically, Hansen's new projections amount to a huge headache for diplomats, activists, and anyone else hoping that a much-anticipated global climate summit the United Nations is convening in Paris in December will put the world on a safe path. President Barack Obama and other world leaders must now reckon with the possibility that the 2 degrees goal they affirmed at the Copenhagen summit in 2009 is actually a recipe for catastrophe. In effect, Hansen's study explodes what has long been the goal of conventional climate diplomacy.
More troubling, honoring even the conventional 2 degrees C target has so far proven extremely challenging on political and economic grounds. Current emission trajectories put the world on track towards a staggering 4 degrees of warming before the end of the century, an amount almost certainly beyond civilization's coping capacity. In preparation for the Paris summit, governments have begun announcing commitments to reduce emissions, but to date these commitments are falling well short of satisfying the 2 degrees goal. Now, factor in the possibility that even 2 degrees is too much and many negotiators may be tempted to throw up their hands in despair.
They shouldn't. New climate science brings good news as well as bad. Humanity can limit temperature rise to 1.5 degrees C if it so chooses, according to a little-noticed study by experts at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impacts (now perhaps the world's foremost climate research center) and the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis published in Nature Climate Change in May.
"Actions for returning global warming to below 1.5 degrees Celsius by 2100 are in many ways similar to those limiting warming to below 2 degrees Celsius," said Joeri Rogelj, a lead author of the study. "However … emission reductions need to scale up swiftly in the next decades." And there's a significant catch: Even this relatively optimistic study concludes that it's too late to prevent global temperature rising by 2 degrees C. But this overshoot of the 2 C target can be made temporary, the study argues; the total increase can be brought back down to 1.5 C later in the century.
Besides the faster emissions reductions Rogelj referenced, two additional tools are essential, the study outlines. Energy efficiency—shifting to less wasteful lighting, appliances, vehicles, building materials and the like—is already the cheapest, fastest way to reduce emissions. Improved efficiency has made great progress in recent years but will have to accelerate, especially in emerging economies such as China and India.
Also necessary will be breakthroughs in so-called "carbon negative" technologies. Call it the photosynthesis option: because plants inhale carbon dioxide and store it in their roots, stems, and leaves, one can remove carbon from the atmosphere by growing trees, planting cover crops, burying charred plant materials underground, and other kindred methods. In effect, carbon negative technologies can turn back the clock on global warming, making the aforementioned descent from the 2 C overshoot to the 1.5 C goal later in this century theoretically possible. Carbon-negative technologies thus far remain unproven at the scale needed, however; more research and deployment is required, according to the study.
Together, the Nature Climate Change study and Hansen's new paper give credence to the many developing nations and climate justice advocates who have called for more ambitious action. The authors of the Nature Climate Changestudy point out that the 1.5 degrees goal "is supported by more than 100 countries worldwide, including those most vulnerable to climate change." In May, the governments of 20 of those countries, including the Philippines, Costa Rica, Kenya, and Bangladesh, declared the 2 degrees target "inadequate" and called for governments to "reconsider" it in Paris.
Hansen too is confident that the world "could actually come in well under 2 degrees, if we make the price of fossil fuels honest."
That means making the market price of gasoline and other products derived from fossil fuels reflect the enormous costs that burning those fuels currently externalizes onto society as a whole. Economists from left to right have advocated achieving this by putting a rising fee or tax on fossil fuels. This would give businesses, governments, and other consumers an incentive to shift to non-carbon fuels such as solar, wind, nuclear, and, best of all, increased energy efficiency. (The cheapest and cleanest fuel is the fuel you don't burn in the first place.)
But putting a fee on fossil fuels will raise their price to consumers, threatening individual budgets and broader economic prospects, as opponents will surely point out. Nevertheless, higher prices for carbon-based fuels need not have injurious economic effects if the fees driving those higher prices are returned to the public to spend as it wishes. It's been done that way for years with great success in Alaska, where all residents receive an annual check in compensation for the impact the Alaskan oil pipeline has on the state.
"Tax Pollution, Pay People" is the bumper sticker summary coined by activists at the Citizens Climate Lobby. Legislation to this effect has been introduced in both houses of the U.S. Congress.
Meanwhile, there are also a host of other reasons to believe it's not too late to preserve a livable climate for young people and future generations.
The transition away from fossil fuels has begun and is gaining speed and legitimacy. In 2014, global greenhouse gas emissions remained flat even as the world economy grew—a first. There has been a spectacular boom in wind and solar energy, including in developing countries, as their prices plummet. These technologies now qualify as a "disruptive" economic force that promises further breakthroughs, said Achim Steiner, executive director of the UN Environment Programme.
Coal, the most carbon-intensive conventional fossil fuel, is in a death spiral, partly thanks to another piece of encouraging news: the historic climate agreement the U.S. and China reached last November, which envisions both nations slashing coal consumption (as China is already doing). Hammering another nail into coal's coffin, the leaders of Great Britain's three main political parties pledged to phase out coal, no matter who won the general elections last May.
"If you look at the long-term [for coal], it's not getting any better," said Standard & Poor's Aneesh Prabhu when S&P downgraded coal company bonds to junk status. "It's a secular decline," not a mere cyclical downturn.
Last but not least, a vibrant mass movement has arisen to fight climate change, most visibly manifested when hundreds of thousands of people thronged the streets of New York City last September, demanding action from global leaders gathered at the UN. The rally was impressive enough that it led oil and gas giant ExxonMobil to increase its internal estimate of how likely the U.S. government is to take strong action. "That many people marching is clearly going to put pressure on government to do something," an ExxonMobil spokesman told Bloomberg Businessweek.
The climate challenge has long amounted to a race between the imperatives of science and the contingencies of politics. With Hansen's paper, the science has gotten harsher, even as the Nature Climate Change study affirms that humanity can still choose life, if it will. The question now is how the politics will respond—now, at Paris in December, and beyond.
Mark Hertsgaard has reported on politics, culture, and the environment from more than 20 countries and written six books, including "HOT: Living Through the Next Fifty Years on Earth."
By JIM AXELROD CBS NEWS July 21, 2015, 6:58 PM
Experts make dire prediction about sea levels (CBS)
In the future, there could be major flooding along every coast. So says a new study that warns the world's seas are rising.
Ever-warming oceans that are melting polar ice could raise sea levels 15 feet in the next 50 to 100 years, NASA's former climate chief now says. That's five times higher than previous predictions.
"This is the biggest threat the planet faces," said James Hansen, the co-author of the new journal article raising that alarm scenario.
"If we get sea level rise of several meters, all coastal cities become dysfunctional," he said. "The implications of this are just incalculable."
If ocean levels rise just 10 feet, areas like Miami, Boston, Seattle and New York City would face flooding.
The melting ice would cool ocean surfaces at the poles even more. While the overall climate continues to warm. The temperature difference would fuel even more volatile weather.
"As the atmosphere gets warmer and there's more water vapor, that's going to drive stronger thunderstorms, stronger hurricanes, stronger tornadoes, because they all get their energy from the water vapor," said Hansen.
Nearly a decade ago, Hansen told "60 Minutes" we had 10 years to get global warming under control, or we would reach "tipping point."
"It will be a situation that is out of our control," he said. "We're essentially at the edge of that. That's why this year is a critical year."
Critical because of a United Nations meeting in Paris that is designed to reach legally binding agreements on carbons emissions, those greenhouse gases that create global warming.
Sea Levels Could Rise Much Faster than Thought (Climate Denial Crock of the Week)
with Peter SinclairJuly 21, 2015
James Hansen has often been out ahead of his scientific colleagues.
With his 1988 congressional testimony, the then-NASA scientist is credited with putting the global warming issue on the map by saying that a warming trend had already begun. "It is time to stop waffling so much and say that the evidence is pretty strong that the greenhouse effect is here," Hansen famously testified.
Now Hansen — who retired in 2013 from his NASA post, and is currently an adjunct professor at Columbia University's Earth Institute — is publishing what he says may be his most important paper. Along with 16 other researchers — including leading experts on the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets — he has authored a lengthy study outlining an scenario of potentially rapid sea level rise combined with more intense storm systems.
It's an alarming picture of where the planet could be headed — and hard to ignore, given its author. But it may also meet with considerable skepticism in the broader scientific community, given that its scenarios of sea level rise occur more rapidly than those ratified by the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change in its latest assessment of the state of climate science, published in 2013.
In the new study, Hansen and his colleagues suggest that the "doubling time" for ice loss from West Antarctica — the time period over which the amount of loss could double — could be as short as 10 years. In other words, a non-linear process could be at work, triggering major sea level rise in a time frame of 50 to 200 years. By contrast, Hansen and colleagues note, the IPCC assumed more of a linear process, suggesting only around 1 meter of sea level rise, at most, by 2100.
Here, a clip from our extended interview with Eric Rignot in December of 2014. Rignot is one of the co-authors of the new study.
The study—written by James Hansen, NASA's former lead climate scientist, and 16 co-authors, many of whom are considered among the top in their fields—concludes that glaciers in Greenland and Antarctica will melt 10 times faster than previous consensus estimates, resulting in sea level rise of at least 10 feet in as little as 50 years. The study, which has not yet been peer reviewed, brings new importance to a feedback loop in the ocean near Antarctica that results in cooler freshwater from melting glaciers forcing warmer, saltier water underneath the ice sheets, speeding up the melting rate. Hansen, who is known for being alarmist and also right, acknowledges that his study implies change far beyond previous consensus estimates. In a conference call with reporters, he said he hoped the new findings would be "substantially more persuasive than anything previously published." I certainly find them to be.
We conclude that continued high emissions will make multi-meter sea level rise practically unavoidable and likely to occur this century. Social disruption and economic consequences of such large sea level rise could be devastating. It is not difficult to imagine that conflicts arising from forced migrations and economic collapse might make the planet ungovernable, threatening the fabric of civilization.
The science of ice melt rates is advancing so fast, scientists have generally been reluctant to put a number to what is essentially an unpredictable, non-linear response of ice sheets to a steadily warming ocean. With Hansen's new study, that changes in a dramatic way. One of the study's co-authors is Eric Rignot, whose own study last year found that glacial melt from West Antarctica now appears to be "unstoppable." Chris Mooney, writing for Mother Jones, called that study a "holy shit" moment for the climate.
Daily Beast:
New climate science brings good news as well as bad. Humanity can limit temperature rise to 1.5 degrees C if it so chooses, according to a little-noticed study by experts at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impacts (now perhaps the world's foremost climate research center) and the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis published in Nature Climate Changein May.
Earth's Most Famous Climate Scientist Issues Bombshell Sea Level Warning (Slate)
By Eric Holthaus – JULY 20 2015 4:23 PM
Monday's new study greatly increases the potential for catastrophic near-term sea level rise. Here, Miami Beach, among the most vulnerable cities to sea level rise in the world. Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images
In what may prove to be a turning point for political action on climate change, a breathtaking new study casts extreme doubt about the near-term stability of global sea levels.
The study—written by James Hansen, NASA's former lead climate scientist, and 16 co-authors, many of whom are considered among the top in their fields—concludes that glaciers in Greenland and Antarctica will melt 10 times faster than previous consensus estimates, resulting in sea level rise of at least 10 feet in as little as 50 years. The study, which has not yet been peer-reviewed, brings new importance to a feedback loop in the ocean near Antarctica that results in cooler freshwater from melting glaciers forcing warmer, saltier water underneath the ice sheets, speeding up the melting rate. Hansen, who is known for being alarmist and also right, acknowledges that his study implies change far beyond previous consensus estimates. In a conference call with reporters, he said he hoped the new findings would be "substantially more persuasive than anything previously published." I certainly find them to be.
To come to their findings, the authors used a mixture of paleoclimate records, computer models, and observations of current rates of sea level rise, but "the real world is moving somewhat faster than the model," Hansen says.
Hansen's study does not attempt to predict the precise timing of the feedback loop, only that it is "likely" to occur this century. The implications are mindboggling: In the study's likely scenario, New York City—and every other coastal city on the planet—may only have a few more decades of habitability left. That dire prediction, in Hansen's view, requires "emergency cooperation among nations."
The science of ice melt rates is advancing so fast, scientists have generally been reluctant to put a number to what is essentially an unpredictable, nonlinear response of ice sheets to a steadily warming ocean. With Hansen's new study, that changes in a dramatic way. One of the study's co-authors is Eric Rignot, whose own study last year found that glacial melt from West Antarctica now appears to be "unstoppable." Chris Mooney, writing for Mother Jones, called that study a "holy shit" moment for the climate.
One necessary note of caution: Hansen's study comes via a nontraditional publishing decision by its authors. The study will be published in Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, an open-access "discussion" journal, and will not have formal peer review prior to its appearance online later this week. [Update, July 23: The paper is now available.] The complete discussion draft circulated to journalists was 66 pages long, and included more than 300 references. The peer review will take place in real time, with responses to the work by other scientists also published online. Hansen said this publishing timeline was necessary to make the work public as soon as possible before global negotiators meet in Paris later this year. Still, the lack of traditional peer review and the fact that this study's results go far beyond what's been previously published will likely bring increased scrutiny. On Twitter, Ruth Mottram, a climate scientist whose work focuses on Greenland and the Arctic, was skeptical of such enormous rates of near-term sea level rise, though she defended Hansen's decision to publish in a nontraditional way.
In 2013, Hansen left his post at NASA to become a climate activist because, in his words, "as a government employee, you can't testify against the government." In a wide-ranging December 2013 study, conducted to support Our Children's Trust, a group advancing legal challenges to lax greenhouse gas emissions policies on behalf of minors, Hansen called for a "human tipping point"—essentially, a social revolution—as one of the most effective ways of combating climate change, though he still favors a bilateral carbon tax agreed upon by the United States and China as the best near-term climate policy. In the new study, Hansen writes, "there is no morally defensible excuse to delay phase-out of fossil fuel emissions as rapidly as possible."
Asked whether Hansen has plans to personally present the new research to world leaders, he said: "Yes, but I can't talk about that today." What's still uncertain is whether, like with so many previous dire warnings, world leaders will be willing to listen.
Ice Melt, Sea Level Rise and Superstorms (Climate Sciences, Awareness and Solutions / Earth Institute, Columbia University)
The paper "Ice melt, sea level rise and superstorms: evidence from paleoclimate data, climate modeling, and modern observations that 2°C global warming is highly dangerous" has been published in Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics Discussion and is freely available here.
The paper draws on a large body of work by the research community, as indicated by the 300 references. No doubt we missed some important relevant contributions, which we may be able to rectify in the final version of the paper. I thank all the researchers who provided data or information, many of whom I may have failed to include in the acknowledgments, as the work for the paper occurred over a several year period.
I am especially grateful to the Durst family for a generous grant that allowed me to work full time this year on finishing the paper, as well as the other supporters of our program Climate Science, Awareness and Solutions at the Columbia University Earth Institute.
In the conceivable event that you do not read the full paper plus supplement, I include the Acknowledgments here:
Acknowledgments. Completion of this study was made possible by a generous gift from The Durst Family to the Climate Science, Awareness and Solutions program at the Columbia University Earth Institute. That program was initiated in 2013 primarily via support from the Grantham Foundation for Protection of the Environment, Jim and Krisann Miller, and Gerry Lenfest and sustained via their continuing support. Other substantial support has been provided by the Flora Family Foundation, Dennis Pence, the Skoll Global Threats Fund, Alexander Totic and Hugh Perrine. We thank Anders Carlson, Elsa Cortijo, Nil Irvali, Kurt Lambeck, Scott Lehman, and Ulysses Ninnemann for their kind provision of data and related information. Support for climate simulations was provided by the NASA High-End Computing (HEC) Program through the NASA Center for Climate Simulation (NCCS) at Goddard Space Flight Center.
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DeLand, FL – The Volusia County Council moves forward with a contract proposal to hire a new interim chief medical examiner less than a month after the old one's complaints about "potentially dangerous" conditions at the county morgue came to light.
Dr. Jon Thogmartin – who has been doing the same kind of work for Pinellas County for nearly 20 years – could start as soon as Saturday, according to the terms of the contract posted in today's VCC meeting agenda.
The agenda item mentioned that the contract could pay Thogmartin up to $900,000 between then and the end of the year, but County Manager Jim Dinneen said during the meeting that the amount has since changed to $780,000, which is comparable to the pay rate he's getting at his current job.
"That gives us time [to hire someone permanent]," Dinneen added.
Thogmartin is the same forensic pathologist who reviewed Volusia's morgue at no cost to the county after Dr. Sara Zydowicz resigned less than a month into her new role. Zydowicz had been working part-time as a medical examiner for Volusia since 2016 before coming aboard full-time to replace the retired Dr. Marie Herrmann.
Dinneen said during the meeting that Thogmartin was recommended to him by Florida Medical Examiner Commission Chairman Dr. Stephen Nelson to review Zydowicz's claims and that talks to bring him on to replace Zydowicz on a temporary basis came after the review.
Following his presentation, Thogmartin said that the county needed to have someone in place by Friday or else it would be serious trouble, especially if no one's in place to handle autopsies for criminal cases.
Council members moved forward with the contract proposal for Thogmartin by a 6-1 vote after his presentation during the meeting, which was complementary to Zydowicz even though he claimed the conditions at the morgue were nowhere near as bad as her letter made it seem.
Thogmartin suggested several changes which could be made right away to address some of Zydowicz's concerns and get the department re-accredited by the end of the year, including removing items kept in formaldehyde from the cooler to increase storage space, working on weekends to keep the case backlog down and streamlining procedures so autopsy reports could be processed much faster.
The only "no" vote came from District 4's Heather Post after she raised numerous complaints and objections which weren't answered to her satisfaction, especially with regards to oversight of the medical examiner from Dinneen's office.
The back-and-forth exchange between Post and Dinneen about that oversight – which he claimed the state was responsible for – grew so heated at one point that a 10-minute recess was approved by VCC Chair Ed Kelley.
Other VCC members – especially Kelley and District 1's Pat Patterson – objected to some of Post's questioning, with Kelley saying she appeared to be headhunting Dinneen and Patterson calling the whole issue "ginned up".


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Look at your gorgeous desk and work area - just beautiful. The candles and soap look delicious! Oh, to visit your shop - what a treat it must be.
Oh I wish I could visit your shop but alas I am too far for now. :) It's probably a good thing. I would spent thousands!
It must be such fun being able to stock up with gorgeous goodies - the new range looks lovely!
I'll po a list trade list int he post this week, sorry it's been a while but things here are as crazy as ever, as we're moving at the end of the month to Rochester.
But i'd love to have a couple of my Christmas items in your beautiful shop, that's if you're have them?
I can't quite believe how fast this year has gone and they say time seems to go even faster the older you get. Yelp!
The new range looks wonderful, looking forward to seeing more of your shops goodies here on the blog. Hopefully?
Ohh I so wish I lived nearby! I would pop in weekly!
I look forward to photos of the shop during the holiday!!
I wish I lived nar to your shop. I'm sure the Christmas stock will be gorgeous. I hope you'll show some photos of the shop dressed for Christmas.
What a beautiful blog! And your shop!! If I am ever down your way, I will certainly drop in and indulge in a spot of vintage spending!! It is so lovely to know that there are little havens of scrumminess nestled between the modern, the dirty and the just plain ugly!!
Your new stock choice looks gorgeous. I love this time of year for those of us lucky enough to have shops to stock. I had a box of new stock delivered yesterday that someone had gift wrapped!! Lots of lovely parcels all in gold paper in a great big box, it was just like Christmas for me, if only all wholesalers would do that!! Love your blog (and your shop).
hi there, just found you blog and love all the pictures and your shop.
I've been out for almost a year..well not quite but close. I'm so glad to see that Buttercup & Roses is still here.
I'm trying to touch base with all of my favotire blogs as I was out sick for most of '07.
Looking forward to catching up on your blog.
Deanna from My Love Affair with Thrift Shops...now changed to Timeless Things.
oh what fun! Your desk area is too sweet and lovely and those new candles and soaps look amazing! Wish I could breeze by your shop and pick up a few!
I love your shop and your blog! I wish that I lived close by so that I could visit. I bet that its gonna be beautiful for Christmas. Please post some Christmas pictures!
Hi Jennifer, I have just discovvered your blog - and really enjoyed reading through your recent posts. The photo with the umbrella is beautiful. Your shop looks gorgeous and I must check back and see what the shop window looks like for Christmas. I love ebay too and buy and sell vintage china. My ebay store is called tea party land. I live in Australia and just getting started with blogging. Look for the vintage rose.
I know I've been thinking the same thing too!
I seem to have been thinking of Christmas for ages now though with having the shop.
What a lovely shop - it must be a joy to work in such a beutiful shop and know its all your own.
Well aren't I the lucky one, found your blog and started to read and could not beleive it when I saw you say that you purchased a sideboard from Exeter which was not far from you....wellll I live just outside of Exeter which means that I am not far from your shop HURAGH !!!!! Am going to raleigh my mum and sister, who lived in Wedmore, Somerset, and we are coiming to buy georgour, pretty things..... your shop looks just fab, I am willing to assist if you ever feel then need to open a second shop in the south hams !!!!
I'm new to blogging and I found your blog from a friend. I love the look of your shop and would love to visit it. You have some amzing things for sale. The year has gone two fast, and I wish Christmas only came around every two years.
Love your plans for Christmas...it's scary how soon it will be here.


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Texas top-ranked high schools don't prepare most kids for college, data show
Local // Texas Politics
Alejandra Matos Sep. 28, 2018 Updated: Sep. 30, 2018 9:14 a.m.
A majority of students at the top-rated high schools in Texas are likely to need remedial course work when they get to college because they don't score well enough on entrance exams, a Hearst Newspapers analysis of newly released school accountability data shows.
More than 900 high schools in the state received the equivalent of an A or B rating from the state last month. But the analysis shows that at two-thirds of those schools, the majority of students are failing to score high enough on the SAT or ACT to be considered "college ready," increasing the chances that they'll need remedial course work in college and jeopardizing their chances of getting a college diploma.
SCORES: Houston-area schools fare well on TEA's new accountability ratings
The low number of Texas students who are adequately prepared for college has emerged again as an issue as state lawmakers study education funding this fall, in preparation for the Legislative Session, which starts in January. At a meeting Tuesday, education committee chairman Sen. Larry Taylor, R-Friendswood, and Rep. Dan Huberty, R-Houston, recommended giving more money to schools for each student who scores college-ready on the entrance exams.
Another group of lawmakers studying the performance of Texas schools, including Rep. Diego Bernal, D-San Antonio, recommended that Texas do away with the STAAR test, the state standardized exam, and instead use the SAT or ACT to hold high schools accountable.
The state's top education official says Texas is steadily raising the bar for what students are expected to learn, and schools are improving.
But education experts say the combination of high ratings and low college readiness scores exposes a major flaw in the state's accountability system. They say the gap is proof that lawmakers are placing too much emphasis on improving scores on the STAAR and high school graduation rates, rather than on preparing students for what happens after they finish high school.
"To get an A means this school is doing a good job of getting an increasing number, and a majority number, of its students ready for the next stage in life," said Sandy Kress, a former senior adviser for George W. Bush and one of the architects of No Child Left Behind, the law that brought accountability ratings to schools across the country. "You have no business getting an A if you can't tell me that."
Some schools, especially in rural areas, may focus more on preparing students for careers after high school, rather than college.
But Hearst Newspapers also analyzed career-readiness data, which includes students enlisting in the military or receiving an industry certificate. Of the schools earning the state's top ratings, none was preparing the majority of its students for careers after high school. The highest percentage was in Cumby High School, about 65 miles northeast of Dallas. Thirty-nine percent of its students met career standards. About 3 percent tested at a college-ready level.
Low college graduation rates and career attainment have troubled lawmakers in Texas for years. They set a goal in 2015 that by 2030, 60 percent of Texas high school graduates would earn an industry certificate or a post-secondary degree within six years. The state has a long way to go — only 25 percent of students from the class of 2009 met that goal.
Texas Education Commissioner Mike Morath declined to be interviewed and did not respond to questions sent by email, instead releasing a statement:
"Well-rounded college and career readiness measures have been added to the A-F system for the first time, which reflects a substantial increase in expectations for our schools and our students," Morath said. "Over time, this additional focus will result in more kids being well prepared for college and career coming out of our high schools."
Students are "college ready" if they score at least a 530 on the math portion of the SAT and a 480 on the reading and writing portion, according to TEA documents. The top score is 800 for each portion of the test. Student taking the ACT need a 23 composite score, out of a top score of 36, and at least a 19 on the math and reading portion.
Students who don't hit those marks can still get into college, but the measure can predict how well they will perform in freshman writing and math courses. Some students may be admitted, but they'll have to take remedial courses, which do not count toward graduation and are expensive, increasing tuition costs and potentially delaying graduation.
How we did this story
Hearst Newspapers analyzed school accountability data from the Texas Education Agencyfor the 2017-2018 school year.
We identified the high schools that received a score equivalent to an A or B. We then looked at the measure that identifies what percentage of students scored at or above the college-ready level on the SAT, ACT or Texas Success Initiative Assessment. We also looked at the measure that identifies how many students met career-aligned goals in order to gauge how well schools are preparing students for both college and career.
Finally,for schools that received A's and B's,we determined if the percentage of students scoring college-ready or meeting career standards.
Testing that matters
In San Antonio's Northside ISD, eight schools earned an A or B overall rating from the state. Half of those are preparing less than 40 percent of their students to be college ready, based on SAT and ACT scores.
SAN ANTONIO AREA: TEA releases ratings for Bexar County school districts
Debbie Ritchey's son and daughter attended Northside schools, and she remembers being troubled by how many state-mandated exams they had to take. Now that they've both graduated from college, she wishes their high school would have focused more on preparing them for the SAT or ACT, rather than making them take tests that are rarely considered by colleges. Both had to take the college entrance exams multiple times before getting the scores that gave them the best chance of admission and scholarship opportunities.
"If you teach them correctly, and you have the best teachers in there, they should be able to take those ACT and SAT tests and do fine getting into college," Ritchey said.
Her daughter, Emily, graduated from Stevens High School in 2008 and was required to take a summer math course before enrolling at Texas State University in San Marcos. Still, Emily graduated college within four years and is now a teacher. Ritchey's son required no remedial work and made it through college in four years as well.
At Cypress-Fairbanks ISD outside Houston, the third-largest district in the state, all 10 high schools earned an "A" or "B." But the majority of students at seven of the schools are not scoring high enough on the SAT or the ACT to be considered college ready.
Cypress Creek High School, for example, earned an 86, the equivalent of a B, but less than 40 percent of students are meeting college-readiness standards. Jersey Village High School also received a B, but only 36 percent of students are college ready.
Nikki Cowart, a parent with children in Jersey Village High School, said she was shocked to hear seven high schools at Cy-Fair high schools had high percentages of students who didn't meet college-readiness requirements. She is very happy with the education her children are getting there.
"It's not indicative of what I am seeing," Cowart said.
Her son Landon was enrolled in an ACT prep course at Jersey Village, which helped him get into the C.T. Bauer College of Business at the University of Houston this fall. She said he is doing very well in his course work so far.
AG ON BOARD: Paxton takes a stand for Cy-Fair ISD in case of student who sat for Pledge of Allegiance
A spokeswoman for Cy-Fair ISD said the district is working to increase college readiness. The district pays for all juniors to take the ACT. The district is also increasing its dual-credit offerings, giving students a chance to take community college courses that also earn them high school credits, said Leslie Francis, the spokeswoman.
'Afraid to be honest'
The new accountability system, which debuted this summer, gives school districts and campuses letter grades that are designed to make it easy to understand if a school is meeting expectations. But the system gives schools a lot of credit for improvement on state standardized exams, graduation rates and other measures that may not predict how well students will do in college. A parent may see an A on a campus report and not dig deeper into the data, which may show that students are not scoring high enough on college exams to avoid remedial course work.
Kress and others say the state needs to be upfront with parents if high schools are not preparing the majority of students for college and career. While they agree the new accountability system has improved, they recommend the state give greater weight to SAT or ACT scores so that parents know if a school is underperforming.
"In Texas, we have a long history of failing to call it what it is," Kress said. "We are afraid to be honest about evaluation. In this case, we really do our kids a disservice by over-grading schools, especially when they are coming out of our schools not ready for college and career."
The Commission on Public School Finance, a group of lawmakers and educators studying how to better fund schools, recently discovered that students lose loan and Pell Grant money to pay for remedial English or math classes that do not count for credit.
At a meeting Tuesday, a working group of the legislative committee examining state education spending recommended an incentive program offering more money to schools whose graduates receive an industry-accepted certificate, enlist in the military or enroll in college without needing remedial courses. The state could also offer more money to schools that achieve those goals for low-income students. The working group also said school staff need to help more students fill out financial aid forms when they apply for college because Texas forgoes more than $500 million in federal Pell Grants annually because students don't apply for them. Unlike student loans, the grants don't need to be paid back.
"We lose a ton of kids (between high school and post-secondary)," said Todd Williams, a member of the work group and the education policy adviser to Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings. "High schools are incentivized to graduate kids, per the accountability system, but they are not historically incentivized for them to be ready to access the next level. We need to figure that out."
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Daniel Holzman started his cooking career at the age of 15 at Le Bernardin in New York City before attending the Culinary Institute of America with a full scholarship from the James Beard Foundation. In 2010, he opened The Meatball Shop on New York City's Lower East Side, which now boasts locations in Williamsburg, the West Village, Chelsea, the Upper East Side, and Hell's Kitchen, and is the co-author of The Meatball Shop Cookbook. Daniel has appeared frequently in the media, including Good Morning America, the Today show, and The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, and has been featured in an array of publications such as the New York Times, Food & Wine, Saveur, People, Food Network Magazine, and GQ. He lives in Los Angeles.


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NASCAR: Gordon wins at Dover
Dan Gelston
DOVER, Del. – Jeff Gordon doused Team Penske's hot streak with a champagne bath in Victory Lane.
Sticky and sweet, Gordon had secured an emphatic automatic spot in the next round of the Chase for the Sprint Cup championship.
But Gordon's entry in the field of 12 was all but guaranteed even before he dominated the closing laps Sunday at Dover International Speedway. What wasn't so sure was that Hendrick Motorsports teammate Kasey Kahne was coming along for the ride.
Kahne survived a bumpy 400 miles, falling four laps back before rallying for a 20th-place finish to nab the 12th and final spot in the field.
"Kasey made it a pretty long day," owner Rick Hendrick said. "We were watching the monitor at the end of the race hoping that we didn't have a caution and Jeff could win it and Kasey could get in. I didn't know exactly how close it was going to be until I watched that monitor."
NASCAR tried to inject its 10-race Chase format with a revamped formula for crowning a champion this season. Under NASCAR's elimination format, four drivers will be knocked out after every third race. Dover marked the third race.
That meant plenty of nerves all around the track — and tons of scoreboard watching.
Kurt Busch, AJ Allmendinger, Greg Biffle and Aric Almirola were eliminated from championship contention. Four more drivers will drop out following the next three-race segment that starts next week at Kansas Speedway.
Gordon joined Chase winners Brad Keselowski and Joey Logano as the three drivers who were guaranteed a berth in the next Chase round with victories.
"I think it makes a statement of what type of team we are," Gordon said after his fourth win of the season and 92nd overall. "I think that it makes a statement that we're a team to beat for this championship."
Kevin Harvick also advanced, along with the Hendrick duo of Jimmie Johnson and Dale Earnhardt Jr., and Kyle Busch, Matt Kenseth, Ryan Newman and Denny Hamlin.
Hamlin was the lone driver of the bottom four entering Dover to race his way into the top 12. The points will reset for the Kansas, Charlotte and Talladega bracket.
"The tracks just keep getting better for us as the Chase goes on," Hamlin said. "This is going to be a great comeback story."
Gordon won for the fifth time at Dover and first since 2001, when he won the last of his four Cup championships.
"I'm excited about our chances, not just these next three, but all the way to Homestead," Gordon said.
With crew chief Kenny Francis steadying the course after rough pit stops on the No. 5, Kahne survived a scramble that saw him nudge out Allmendinger for the final spot. Allmendinger fell two points shy of the cutoff. Busch was six off, Biffle seven and Almirola 18.
"I never really got nervous at all and I just raced real hard the whole time," Kahne said. "Kenny started telling me we were tied for 12th and this was with 30 to go. Then he would tell me we were one point in and then maybe two points in, and then he wasn't positive. Then I started getting a little bit worried, so it was intense inside the car."
Team Penske was rolling, winning four of the last five races dating to Bristol, including the first two Chase races. Keselowski was second at Dover to continue his strong Chase effort through three races.
Johnson, Logano and Kenseth completed the top five at Dover. Chase drivers took 10 of 13 spots. Kyle Larson was sixth for the best finish among non-Chase drivers. Tony Stewart was 14th in his first race since a grand jury decided he would not be charged in Kevin Ward Jr.'s death.
Harvick appeared to have the car to beat and led a whopping 223 laps from his seventh pole of the season until he suffered tire woes and finished 13th.
"We can beat every car on the race track. We just need some good luck," Harvick said. "If we get some luck, we'll win races and have a shot at the championship."
Kurt Busch, the 2004 Cup champion, failed to advance in his milestone 500th career start.
"If you're off, it's hard to put the car up on your back and run it," Busch said.
Gordon had the top car down the stretch and led the last 71 laps to lead a banner day for Hendrick. At 43, Gordon entered the season answering questions about retirement. After wins at Kansas, Indianapolis, Michigan and Dover for his first four-win season since he had six in 2007, Gordon is answering questions about championships and hitting the 100-victory mark.
"I don't think we're going to get to 100 this year," Gordon said, "but I hope we get past 93. That would be pretty awesome to get a couple more."
Just enough to guarantee him a spot in the winner-takes-all championship race.


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Take your steaks out of the fridge and let them gradually come up to room temperature. Cover them in a double layer of cling film, place on a chopping board and use a meat mallet or rolling pin to bash the meat nice and thin (escalope style, approx 5mm thick) and set aside. The cling film prevents you obliterating the meat altogether.
Tip the flour into a bowl, season with salt and pepper and mix together. Set up a bowl with the egg and another with the breadcrumbs. Dip each steak into the seasoned flour, followed by the beaten egg and finally the breadcrumbs, gently shaking off after each dip.
Put the oven on its lowest heat. Meanwhile, place a large frying pan onto the hob and heat on a medium to high heat, then add the vegetable oil. When it's the right temperature you should feel a strong ambient heat when you hold your hand 10cm over the pan. Place 1 or 2 steaks in the pan depending on size. The pan should sizzle happily, not spit madly. Shallow fry the coated steaks for approx 2 minutes each side until the breadcrumbs are lovely and golden. Set aside on a warm plate covered with a kitchen towel and place in the oven to keep warm.
Meanwhile add the cream, mustard, honey, salt, pepper and lemon juice to a small saucepan and boil down until the sauce is lovely and thick.
For the sprouts, heat a frying pan or wok on a high heat, add a splash of olive oil and stir-fry the chopped bacon. Add the shredded sprouts and stir-fry hot and fast for approx 2 minutes. If they are too dry, add 1 tbsp of water whilst you are cooking.
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Richard Childress Tanner Gray David Gilliland Joe Gibbs Hailie Deegan Tyler Ankrum Kyle Busch NASCAR NASCAR Truck Series Sports Automobile racing
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Gilliland to move Truck Series program from Ford to Toyota
By JENNA FRYER - Oct. 27, 2022 11:07 AM EDT
FILE - Driver David Gilliland, right, talks to a crew member in the garage during practice for the NASCAR Daytona 500 auto race at Daytona International Speedway, Saturday, Feb. 17, 2018, in Daytona Beach, Fla. David Gilliland will move his racing organization from Ford to Toyota next season and rebrand it as TRICON Garage, which will field entries in both the Truck Series and ARCA Series. (AP Photo/Phelan M. Ebenhack, File)
David Gilliland will move his racing organization from Ford to Toyota next season and rebrand it as TRICON Garage, which will field entries in both the Truck Series and ARCA Series.
TRICON, formerly known as David Gilliland Racing, will run three full-time Toyota Tundras and one part-time entry beginning with next season's opener at Daytona International Speedway.
The name change is based on the word's tri and icon, encompassing the partners in the organization and their plans to compete and win three titles — the driver, owner and manufacturer championships. The team is also involved in three different industries – racing, fabrication and transportation.
Gilliland previously fielded Toyotas from 2018-2019 and Tyler Ankrum won the team its first championship with the ARCA Menards Series East title.
"We are thrilled to return to Toyota and compete in the new Toyota Tundra TRD Pro next season," co-owner Gilliland said. "I've seen Toyota's dedication to the sport firsthand, and we are excited to partner with them going forward. I'm sure this new partnership is going to help TRICON reach our goals of consistently competing for race wins and championships."
TRICON effectively replaces Kyle Busch Motorsports, the flagship Toyota truck series program, when Busch moves to Chevrolet because of leaving Joe Gibbs Racing for Richard Childress Racing next season.
Toyota development driver Corey Heim will run for his first Truck Series championship next season in the No. 11 Toyota. Heim has made 15 starts this season and won at both Atlanta Motor Speedway and Gateway. Tanner Gray will remain in the No. 15 as he runs his fourth full-time season for the team in 2023.
Taylor Gray will begin his championship run in the No. 17 at at Circuit of the Americas in March because the 17-year-old is prohibited by NASCAR age restrictions to compete in the first three races of the season.
Gray has 12 career Truck starts with a best finish of sixth in Richmond in August. He has also raced in ARCA this season with multiple victories on the national, East and West tours.
The fourth truck, the No. 1 Tundra, will feature several drivers throughout the season on a part-time schedule.
"Toyota is pleased to rejoin TRICON with this expanded partnership," said David Wilson, president, TRD. "We are excited for this new opportunity for our Toyota development drivers and partners to experience TRICON's success and winning culture.
"The Truck Series is very important to Toyota, and we know TRICON is going to continue to deliver for us as we begin our 20th season in the series."
Hailie Deegan has spent the last two seasons racing in the Truck Series for Gilliland but as a Ford development driver will not make the move to Toyota with the organization.
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The next Devonport Community Network meeting will be held on Thursday 8 November, 10am-12pm at Devonport Yacht Club (accessible entry). These quarterly meetings are held to promote networking among residents and local community groups. All are welcome and morning tea provided. Guest speakers this month include Devonport Locals, Haimona Ngata and Tim White to speak about their BMX pump track project. Also Rebecca Fogel, Team Leader Built Heritage Implementation at Auckland Council who will speak about the Auckland Unitary Plan - Operative In Part rules applying to special character areas.
Annual event Scotty Brewer Skate Day – a skateboard competition with categories for all ages is happening on Saturday 17thNovember at Ngataringa Skate Park, 10am-3pm. There will be some great prizes up for grabs plus the Scotty Brewer Memorial Trophy for the top skater of the day.
Devonport's Santa Parade & Christmas Festival is taking place on Sunday 2 December from 11am-3pm. Commencing with Devonport Lions Santa Parade, stepping off from Clarence St at 11am and then afterwards in Windsor Reserve until 3pm, Dance in the Park - a celebration of dance and music, the Devonport Craft & Fine Food Market - a market full of festive goodies, Devonport Volunteer Fire Brigade demos, food stalls, try out a segway and more!


So when I woke up on Sunday, I was dreaming of their eggs benedicts. Finally ended up taking a bottle of rose and share a pizza. Once again they proved my theory, food excellent, and the service poor. The crowd well this is Turkey, so while a tourist is sitting on one side, some locals enjoying their lunch on the other, you could easily see a woman with her head covered having tea with her husband, sitting next to the table of the girl who has a mini, or I might say micro shorts sipping her chilled rose.
So I guess it shows very well what Turkey is about; a combination between Europe and Asia ….
That night we decided to go to my favorite Kebab Restaurant called "Venge". Normally the restaurant is in 4. Levent area, but this summer they decided to rent a spot at Sortie as well. Very good idea because with the heat wave in Istanbul right now, the bosphorus air is always a blessing.
The system is simple, when you sit to your table, they bring you warm pide bread with cheese, and a lahmacun (mini Turkish pizza w ground beef and spices), and then the mezze plate comes where you chose your Turkish tapas to accompany your meat.
Once the mezzes on your table, your Raki (Pastis) chilled with ice you can start thinking about your main dishes… Venge is famous for their Doner Kebap (Turkish döner kebap, literally "turning roast"), is dish made of meat cooked on a vertical spit and sliced off to order. Unfortunately they didn't have any, so we decided to take lamb chops and minced meat, no need to say delicious.
Although the weather was too warm and humid it was a great night, I mean how you can not enjoy it…. Great food, great view, great company and amazing music….
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I was born in Portland, OR in 1976, and have lived in Oregon all my life. I studied art at Western Oregon University beginning in 1999, and graduated in 2002 with a Bachelor of Science in Art. My focus with art has always been portraiture. I am fascinated with trying to capture the likeness, emotion, and personality of each of my subjects. I am constantly experimenting with a variety of media that has included but is not limited to: markers, pencil, ball-point pen, acrylic, pastel, charcoal, colored pencil, melted crayon, fingerprinting with stamp pad ink, etc.
I have been an MMA fan for nearly as long as the sport has been around. I believe the first MMA event I saw as it happened was UFC 7. And from that point on, I was hooked. I rented the previous UFCs soon after that, and have followed the sport religiously since that point. During my final year at WOU, I did my first MMA related painting....a red, yellow, and blue acrylic of Randy "the Natural" Couture. Since then, I have continued to produce MMA artwork.
I have also always had an interest in trading cards, and they have played an important role in my work as an artist. As a young boy, I drew baseball cards of myself and friends from the neighborhood. I collected baseball, basketball, and hockey cards as a teen. From that very first Randy Couture MMA painting, I had trading cards in mind. I've done most of my work in proportion to trading cards so that it would be easy to turn them into trading cards.
Then around 2009 I began the challenge of actually drawing on trading cards. These 'sketch cards' are original drawings that are standard trading card sized, 2.5x3.5" . In the Summer of 2012 I had the pleasure of drawing sketch cards for Topps UFC Bloodlines. From there I began working almost exclusively on sketch cards for various companies. I've worked for Topps, Leaf, Cryptozoic, Rittenhouse, Upper Deck, and others working on various different sports releases as well as some non-sports such as The Walking Dead, The Hobbit, Star Wars, Star Trek, Firefly and Downton Abbey.


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Bennington Battle Day is a state holiday unique to Vermont, commemorating the victory of American and Vermont forces over British forces at the Battle of Bennington during the American Revolutionary War in 1777. The holiday's date is fixed, occurring on August 16 every year.

In Bennington, there is a battle re-enactment put on by the local history foundation.

The Battle of Bennington took place in New York, but is so named because the British were headed for a cache of weapons and munitions stored where the Bennington Battle Monument now stands in present-day Old Bennington, Vermont.

References

External links
 Bennington's Official Website
 The Battle of Bennington: An American Victory, a National Park Service Teaching with Historic Places (TwHP) lesson plan
 Official Battlefield page
 The Riflemen's Song at Bennington

Holidays related to the American Revolution
Bennington, Vermont
Vermont culture
August observances

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Has it ever happened that what you are looking out for is what you get while you search? Not every time for me and today wasn't that day.
I racked my brain, troubled my lazy hubby and spent so much of time googling but nothing came out fruitful. But then I thought that nothing can be as better as writing about it all.
And here I am writing about When I Googled Seven!
Kiran was frantically telling Mita about Anshay dating a girl named Catherine. Mita had already drifted apart from what Kiran was talking. All she had in her heart was a sharp pain, a dry throat and a huge lump. She was choking.
Kiran just stopped abruptly when she saw Mita having a convulsion. It was the first time ever that Kiran was witnessing anything as such in person. She had seen something similar in that movie they had watched together a month ago. Meanwhile the cafe staff rushed to their table and picked up Mita and lay her on the floor. Kiran was crying. She was feeling helpless seeing her friend lying in such a miserable state. Somebody had already called for an ambulance.
Few minutes passed and Mita was still. She woke up feeling too tired and drained out. She was unable to figure out what had happened. Kiran took Mita in the ambulance to the hospital.
Kiran dropped Mita home and offered to stay. But Mita wanted some time alone. Kiran left. Mita walked over to the balcony of her sea facing flat located on 7th floor. The cool breeze of December wafted off her face and a chill passed through her spine. She went weak in her knees. The evening's talk came back to her and she gave out a shrill cry. She had failed, this time too.
It changed everything. She was aware that Anshay was not coming back this time. And she had accepted it. But this, this was terrible. It was a month since they had parted and Anshay was already dating someone.
The very thought of it made Mita mad. She was done crying. She rushed into her bedroom. Her madness melted into a heartfelt sob. Everything in the room had his scent, his likes, his dislikes, his laughter, his anguish. This was tough too tough. Mita closed her eyes, and all she could think for a moment was her proposing him, to be with him forever, and the next moment was all filled by his storming out of her life and now, now with someone else. This time it wasn't her. She had put in everything to build a beautiful castle of her love, lest she knew that the foundation was feeble.
Tears rolled down her face. The happiest day of her life flashed in front of her. Last year's Valentine Day. He had asked to write her wishes on a different pieces of paper and toss. She wanted to test the water and had written all the weirdest wishes she had on those pieces. Anshay had something in store for her. And now they are nothing but Seven Failures!
Seven Hours and Stardom is yours!
How many of us actually know who the makeup artist is when we watch movies, serials, shows and performances? No we don't know. Stephy was one such person. She was a makeup artist for Superstar Melanie. She was the most unfathomed one.
Stephy lived a low profile life. She stayed with her elder brother in this Bollywood loving city Bombay. Yes, she loved her work a lot.
It was around 10pm that day when she returned home after making Melanie ready for that pre-launch party. She was in dire need for some rest for tomorrow was going to be one hectic day. It was Melanie's movie launch tomorrow where she was to introduce someone new for her next movie. Stephy knew how much her boss was excited for tomorrow as the concept of the movie was hers.
Stephy was lying on the bed, wondering what Melanie had told her that morning that she will be taking a life altering decision. In fact she was confused as she had never seen Melanie so tensed. All the excitement of hers had an underlying hint of pain that Stephy was unaware of. All these thoughts were creating a whirlwind in her head and amidst all the ruckus she fell asleep.
The morning was beautiful as the Sun was finally on the horizon after the intense mayhem by the rains for last so many days. Her day began with all the daily chores and schedule. It was 11 am when she walked through the gates of Melanie's bungalow.
The aura of that day was totally different. There was nothing lined up for next few hours and thus she had all the time to relax accept Melanie's occasional panic bouts and the time to time revisiting the style diary she had on her laptop to confirm and reconfirm her boss's look for the evening.
It was 6pm and it was time for Melanie to get ready. As soon as Stephy stepped in the room, there stood Melanie , all anxious and hyperventilating. The moment she saw Stephy enter, her nerves almost calmed down. Melanie gave a smile to Stephy and they rushed to the makeup room. It took an hour and half for Melanie to be ready with a revived vibrance and charm. Stephy's task for now was completed and she was about to leave the room when Melanie made her sit. She ordered Stephy to get dressed. Mike, Melanie's backup stylist, entered the room. He gave a nod to both the ladies. Stephy was confused. The happenings were absurd as none of this was in the schedule. Melanie gave a nod and Mike started working on Stephy's looks. It took him an hour and Stephy had not once glanced in the mirror. For the entire time Melanie sat there in silence. She was awestruck looking at Stephy. She asked Stephy to have a look in the mirror. Stephy was shocked to see the transformation as she was looking drop dead gorgeous.
It was almost 9pm and they had to leave for the launch venue. Stephy was stunned and in a shock. She had absolutely no idea what was going around. As if under a magical spell she followed Melanie into the car. They settled and the car left out from the gates. Melanie was completely aware of the pondering thoughts in Stephy's mind. She held her hand and poured out her heart. She told her about her two announcements that she had planned to make during the launch. Stephy came to her senses and was on verge of a panic attack when Melanie comforted her.
It was 10pm when they reached the venue. The media was going bonkers at the arrival of a gorgeous lady with Melanie. Stephy too had a natural charm and poise when she posed in front of the camera just as if she was living it each day.
The next few hours were crazy. The media, the party, the shocking announcements. Ahh.. Finally day came to an end. It was 3am when Vikas, Melanie's driver, dropped Stephy home. Roger, her brother, was waiting for her.
She entered the house. Roger couldn't believe what he was witnessing. His sister was looking just like an angel in that pale pink long gown and a gorgeous look. He couldn't believe his eyes. Stephy knew it well that what he was going to hear would be a shock to him too. Stephy sat on the couch and started narrating the day's happenings. Roger let out a gasp hearing that his little sister is now casted as Melanie's movie 'Star's lead actress and the next news was absolutely shocking that Melanie had declared her retirement, that she would no longer be working in the movies and that 'Star' is her final project. Tears rolled down Stephy's eyes as she was speaking about it all in from of her brother.
Melanie had done something that no one ever in the history of Bollywood had ever dared to do. A formal retirement announcement and that too at the prime of a career. Everybody was well aware that Melanie had made a history that day and her name would be etched in gold forever.
Stephy had no idea where life was taking her. Roger was proud, really proud of his sister. They had never ever expected that the end of those crazy seven hours would be with a gift of Stardom. It was beyond their belief but then destiny has a vital role in this movie called Life.
When finally she got some breathing space alone Stephy started thinking about Melanie's words. That she had seen some spark in her. And that she knew that it isn't a mistake. Stephy chuckled as her lovely boss had actually planted a dream in her and was striving herself to make that dream a reality. She couldn't even thank Melanie for the gratitude couldn't be expressed merely in a Thank You, the depth was far too great.
Stephy certainly wouldn't have slept that night.
As it was mere Seven minutes since I had hit the snooze of the alarm and had travelled miles!
But I am stuck with my mornings at Seven that are same for years counting to three!


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The Sexual Minority and Legislative Zealotry
Feb 9, 2014 | Articles
By Prof. Wole Soyinka
Let us go back a little, nearly a year ago, to that earlier attempt to interfere in, and legislate on sexual conduct between consenting adults. Profiting from that experience, I would like to caution – yet again – that it is high time we learnt to ignore what we conveniently designate and react to as 'foreign interference'. By now, we should be able to restrict ourselves to the a priori position that, as rational beings, we make pronouncements on choices of ethical directions from our own collective and/or majority will, independent of what is described as 'external dictation'.
The noisome emissions that surged from a handful of foreign governments last year should not be permitted to obscure the fundamental issue of the right to private choices of the free, adult citizen in any land – Asian, African, European etc. Those external responses were of such a nature – hysterical, hypocritical and disproportionate – that, speaking for myself at least, I could only wonder if they had not been generated by a desperate need for distraction away from the economic crisis that confronted, at that very time, those parts of the world.
Hopefully, the majority of Nigerians have also learnt to sniff out ploys of legislative distraction within the nation. At that initial attempt to cloak prurience in legislative watchfulness, the timing of the removal of the oil subsidy was coincident with a sudden obsession with homosexual and lesbian conduct. Was this truly an accident of timing? And now? Attempting to mobilize public sentiment against what many, admittedly, do consider deviant sexual conduct certainly takes attention away from the crumbling of society and the failures of governance in multiple directions. These range from minimal infrastructural expectations to mind-boggling escalation of corrupt practices in high places, and the basic issue of security in day-to-day existence of the populace as it affects high and low, affluent or impoverished, old and young, regardless of profession or records of service to Nigerian humanity.
But, to begin with, I implore all those who boast the capacity for reason: let us separate two distinct, albeit related issues within that one bill tabled before our legislatures. One issue is: homosexual practice; the other, same-sex marriage. I first became aware of, and alarmed by, the conflation of the two – quite deliberate in most cases – when, after a lecture at the University of Technology, Calabar, a year ago, I advised the legislators to mind the numerous, and urgent businesses for which they were elected, and take their noses out of sexual practices between consenting adults. Either deliberately – as I have already indicated – or thanks to the now familiar deficiency in listening that sadly characterizes Nigerian responses to public pronouncements, the main reactions were unleashed against something I had not even commented upon, which was: same-sex marriage. With the now confirmed outing of this bill however, the law-makers have served notice that their monitoring zeal is intended at nothing less than the right of state interference in private lives, especially in personal relations of the most intimate kind. This is the warning shot of legislative fascism. It has no place in a democracy.
Basically, such legislations constitute improper encroachment on personal lives, leaving the door wide open for all forms of social persecution, intimidation and even – as we know very well in this society – incitement to violence against targeted individuals, including lynching. Next, as several nations all over the world have come to acknowledge after centuries of blindness and hideous injustice, such state interventions glorify ignorance of the science of the human body, and contribute to the elevation of limited or zero knowledge on any subject to the altar of the morally sacrosanct.
The biological truth is this: some are born with imprecise gender definition, even when they have sexual organs that appear to define them male or female. Years, indeed decades, of scientific research have gone into this, so what is needed is understanding and acceptance, not emotionalism and the championing of 'moral' or 'traditional' claims. Let us take the first. For those who base their position on moralities extracted from received scriptures, permit me to state bluntly that articles of faith are no substitute for scientific verities, no matter how passionately such faiths are embraced or espoused, or for how long. In any case, faith is also a very private matter, so what we have here is simply one private plaintiff, a 'conscientious objector', attempting to lord it over the rights of another private entity, this time one that yields to sexual impulses in obedience to Biological Scriptures. Now, which one should lay claim to precedence?
We must make up our minds where we belong. We must choose either to create a society that is based on secular principles, or else surrender ourselves to the authority of – no matter whose – theocratic claims. What this implicates is that the next time a woman is sentenced to be buried live in the ground and stoned to death on the authority of one set of scriptures, other scripture adherents must learn to hold their peace and allow such 'laws' to run their course. The full implications of either position leave no room for fence-sitting. The national train must run either on secular rails or derail at multiple theocratic switches. No theology can be privileged over another in the running of society. This means, theology and its derivates cannot be privileged over material reality and its derivatives.
The science of the body is not limited to issues of consenting adults alone. It is what guides the making of laws in rational societies, what makes the law frown decisively on sexual relations with the under-aged, and spells out just what the law means by 'underage' in specific years of existence. Adult males earn several years in prison for sexual relations with the under aged because scientific knowledge has identified – beyond argument – the often irreparable damage that is done to a pre-pubescent body through sexual penetration by males. Society therefore protects the potential victim. Has an adult homosexual run to the law for protection in any society we know of? Only where they have been, or are in danger of becoming victims of rape – and there, the law is firmly on their side. Otherwise, the law should have no interest whatsoever in any form of consensual sexual conduct between adults.
So far, we have only addressed the issue of the homosexual act itself as it should concern – or should not – a nation's legislatures. Let us now turn to the related problem of same-sex marriages. My interest is not – as a hysterical prelate, among others, tried to over-simplify in his reaction to my observation in Calabar – it is not whether or not homosexual marriages should be permitted or banned. Let us take it step by step.
The issue, to start with, is – 'criminalisation'! Perhaps such marriages exist in Nigeria – I am not aware of them. But we do know that homosexual liaisons exist. Are they granted the status of marriage? Not that I am aware of. Was there a threat somewhere that this might soon happen? Are they a menace to society? Again, all this is shrouded under legislative mystery. No case, to the best of my knowledge, has been brought to public notice where a court registry has been compelled to register same-sex marriages. No priest has been hauled up so far for sanctifying such a marriage. Always open to debate is the right of institutions (civil or state) to be part of the formal mechanisms for pledges that adults undertake in their relations with one another. Priests – of any religious adherence – remain free to refuse to become involved in the ceremonies of such associations. Individuals cannot be compelled to endorse such conduct. It remains their right to privately ostracize or embrace such liaisons – formal or informal.
The state however overreaches itself where it moves to criminalize them. Biology takes precedence over 'moral' sentiment. Physiological compositions are increasingly held responsible for a number of mental and/or physical predispositions. Only in the past few decades was schizophrenia successfully tracked backwards to – among other causes – the contraction by mothers of some forms of ailment during pregnancy, as well as to genetic transmission. We should learn to listen wherever the voice of the empirical can be called upon to testify in human conduct.
On the 'moralists', we urge a sense of proportion, and a turn towards objectivity. Yes, a society without moral signposts is only a glorified arena of brute instincts. Nonetheless, morality is far too often mired in subjectivity, sometimes touted as 'revelation', erected on untested foundations, increasingly subject to mass hysteria and manipulation. Morality therefore – we must re-emphasize – when applied to the private realm of the human body, must take second place to biology – morality either as derived from cultural usage or religious givens. We are speaking of – plain biological human composition, over which no individual has any control whatsoever. No individual was responsible for his or her birth, for emerging as a precocious being, a budding genius, or handicapped – either mentally or physiologically. Those who evoke 'morality' so loosely should take care that they do not keep company with theocratic warlords like al-Shabaab of Somalia, who instituted amputation at the wrist for anyone found guilty of the 'immoral' act of shaking hands with a fellow human being of the opposite sex!
Permit me to address some of the anxieties – publicly addressed or not – that I happen to have encountered. No one denies the perverse agency of 'peer pressure' in certain societies – or institutions – where homosexuality is considered 'fashionable', or even becomes a membership card for advancement in some professions. It is also the admissible right of the individual to experience and express disgust at the mere thought of homosexual conduct: the complement, incidentally, also obtains among some homosexuals with regard to heterosexual practice. I have encountered some who declare that the very thought of heterosexual act makes them sick. Also, there exist the bi-sexual individuals who live and die at ease – or with resignation – with their complex anatomy. None of these tendencies justifies criminalization.
The heterosexual – or 'straight', to use that tendentious expression – minds his or her business like the rest. Laws, if any are promulgated in these cases, should be towards the protection of the vulnerable in society, vulnerable from whatever cause, including deviations from the sexuality of the majority genders. Non-consensual conduct is a different matter, or coercion, such as rape or other forms of sexual abuse, and these apply both to the homosexual and the heterosexual. I have had occasion to intervene in boarding schools to demand protection for some young pupils whose lives were bedeviled by sexual harassment from their senior colleagues. Their teachers turned a deaf ear to the victims' complaints to an extent that virtually amounted to connivance. Now that is one area against which legislators might usefully want to turn their legislative ire – such teachers deserve to be brutally purged from their positions and made to face prosecution.
I shall be remiss if I do not also to address the appalling evidence of hypocrisy among the law makers. New laws are being proposed for private conduct that has never constituted a danger to the fabric of society. By contrast, the notorious violation of existing laws by a member of the law-making fraternity was rendered a non-event by a conspiratorial silence, amounting to connivance and enthronement of impunity.
A former governor and present Senator violated the laws of two lands – Egypt and Nigeria – through his sexual behaviour. Serial paedophilia and cross-border sex trafficking are criminalized near universally. Laws for the protection of minors are rigorously enforced in civilized societies. On that, and allied issues, the law-making conclaves of wise men and women remained mute or conciliatory. An opportunity to enforce the existing laws in high places as a high profile deterrent to others was simply discarded. No new laws have been proposed, not even as a sop to outraged public conscience, to re-criminalize such acts, yet the legislatures take time off to make laws that criminalize private conduct that have not constituted a threat to the well-being of the vulnerable in society.
Is it too much to ask that our legislators cool their moral ardour for a study period during which they seek to understand a phenomenon that many hold abhorrent? (Please note: this is not intended as yet another incentive to undertake expensive study tours around the world – the relevant publications are available everywhere.) If there are scientific explanations for homosexual conduct – and these have been expounded in profusion – then a process of education is called for, enabling a more empathetic response to what appears an aberration to the majority. That it appears an aberration to some does not however make it immoral or socially subversive. And foreign interventionists should – let me repeat – at least exercise a sense of proportion, recalling that even within their own societies, such issues are still up for debate, with see-saw decisions between state and federal courts – examples include the United States – right up to the present.
The high moral grounds that those nations attempt to occupy by hurling threats of sanctions etc etc. merely strike one as extreme cases of hypocrisy, unmindful of their own scriptural injunctions that urge: 'Physician, heal thyself "
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MainAll NewsDefense/SecurityPA Teaches 5-Year-Olds to Die for Allah
PA Teaches 5-Year-Olds to Die for Allah
PA kindergarten teaches children to die fighting Israel in the name of Islam. Class play involves soldiers, death.
Maayana Miskin, 16/08/11 19:54
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A Palestinian Authority kindergarten showed off what its young students had learned over the past year by having the five-year-olds act out scenes of terror and death for their families. The parents were moved to tears upon seeing their children pretend to die as "martyrs," Palestinian Media Watch reported reported.
During the graduation ceremony two plays were performed – one based on "Little Red Riding Hood," the second, "The Martyr's Wedding," a story glorifying death in battle with Israel for the sake of Islam.
"Another performance named 'The Martyr's Wedding' delighted the audience due to the role-play of the children, whose acting depicted the reality of roadblocks, children, occupation, soldiers, and the children's death as Martyrs," wrote the PA daily Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, in a report picked up and translated by Palestinian Media Watch.
The performance was accompanied by "nationalistic" songs, Al-Hayat Al-Jadida reported. Many such songs encourage "martyrdom" and bloodshed for the sake of "freeing the land of Palestine" - a land which, according to the PA, includes all of Israel.
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