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NHL Rumour Roundup: Are the Canucks interested in Nikita Zaitsev?
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Vaakanainen ready, but it’s a ‘long shot’ Bruins use him...
Vaakanainen ready, but it’s a ‘long shot’ Bruins use him for gaps on D
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BOSTON — The hockey world is only just getting to know Urho Vaakanainen. Most of us are still trying to keep the vowels and consonants arranged in the correct order when typing out his name.
But an intriguing scenario exists where the engraver at Boffey Silversmith in Montreal might have to double check that spelling when the Stanley Cup arrives there later this summer.
First Vaakanainen has to suit up for the Bruins — something coach Bruce Cassidy is calling a “long shot,” but not an impossibility. Then Boston must win two of its final three games against the St. Lous Blues to claim the trophy.
Vaakanainen is creeping into the conversation for Boston’s battered blue-line despite having just two games and 18 total minutes of NHL experience to his name. The 20-year-old Finn joined the main group for Wednesday’s practice at TD Garden after being part of the Black Aces for the last five weeks, essentially putting him on notice for Game 5 as Boston waits to see if either Zdeno Chara (jaw) or Matt Grzelcyk (concussion) will be cleared to play.
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Cassidy and his staff have debated the merits of inserting Vaakanainen, a left shot, if both of the other left-shot options can’t go. Understandably, they have some concerns about how he might handle that kind of assignment.
“That would be a big ask. A real big ask,” said Cassidy. “But if that’s the way we’ve got to go then that’s the ask we’re going to make. Right now, like I said, that’s a long shot, that we would go that way. Especially seeing Grizz out there today, so that gives us all a little bit of confidence that he’s closer. It’s always a step in the [concussion] protocol to be out on the ice.
“If that’s what we’ve got to do, that’s what we do.”
Vaakanainen would be one of the least likely players to suit up in a Stanley Cup Final in recent memory, especially since he’s a mere six months removed from winning gold at the world junior tournament in Vancouver. He could become the first player to win both in the same year, according to Sportsnet Stats.
The Bruins selected him 18th overall in 2017 — the seventh defencemen taken in that draft, behind Miro Heiskanen (No. 3, Dallas), Cale Makar (No. 4, Colorado), Cal Foote (No. 14, Tampa), Erik Brannstrom (No. 15, Vegas), Juuso Valimaki (No. 16, Calgary) and Timothy Liljegren (No. 17, Toronto).
There isn’t a whole lot of flash to Vaakanainen’s game. He’s a tough competitor and strong skater, according to Tero Lehtera, his former coach with SaiPa in the Finnish League. He’s known for surprising opponents who beat him by coming back to get the puck.
He got a small taste of NHL action when Boston ran into injuries early in the season, making his debut in Vancouver on Oct. 20 and then playing in Ottawa three nights later — where he suffered a concussion that sidelined him for two months.
“I was in a blur. I didn’t really sleep before the game so I can’t really remember anything about the game,” Vaakanainen said of his NHL debut. “The second game I didn’t play that much, I just played the first period, so I don’t know if that helps at all.”
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He last suited up for the AHL’s Providence Bruins on April 26 in a playoff game against Charlotte and has been skating and working out ever since just in case he was called on by the big club.
Anyone who dresses for a game in the Stanley Cup Final is guaranteed to get his name engraved on the trophy if his team wins. It doesn’t matter if you’re a recent draft pick who spent the majority of the season playing elsewhere.
Vaakanainen isn’t Cassidy’s preferred option right now — “You throw him at the end, is that fair? Can he succeed?” asked the coach — but he has to prepare like he might be playing.
There’s a high degree of unpredictability with the type of injuries Chara and Grzelcyk are nursing, and in this physical series with the forecheck-heavy Blues it’s always possible someone else goes down before Game 6 or a potential Game 7.
“If I play, I’m going to do my best,” said Vaakanainen. “But I don’t know about tomorrow.”
At this time of year, you never know.
Stranger things have happened.
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Former 'comfort women' serving U.S. military file damages lawsuit
Former 'comfort women' serving U.S. military file damages lawsuit June 28, 2014 By TORU HIGASHIOKA/ Correspondent SEOUL--A group of former South Korean “comfort women” who served in government-controlled brothels for U.S. soldiers filed a suit here, demanding state compensation for forced prostitution. It is the first such legal action in the context of brothels sanctioned by the South Korean government for the U.S. military. The plaintiffs are seeking 10 million won (1 million yen, or $9,850) in redress for being forced to serve as “U.S. military comfort women” after the Korean War ended in 1953. The suit, filed in the Seoul Central District Court on June 25, claims that the South Korean government controlled the women's activities and infringed on their human rights. According to a citizens group supporting the plaintiffs, the women were forced to provide sex to U.S. servicemen in government-designated “special areas” around U.S. military bases in South Korea since 1957. The group claims that the women's activities were controlled by the government, which also required them to undergo mandatory medical checkups for sexually transmitted diseases. They also claim the existence of government-run camps to accommodate women infected with STDs. The plaintiffs demanded that the government conduct an investigation to disclose the historical facts and issue an official apology.
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Leadership in Literacy: How Do We Know What We Do Not Know?
by Marc Maurer
Executive Director of the American Action Fund for Blind Children and Adults, Dr. Marc Maurer delivered this address on Thursday, July 13, to the convention of the National Federation of the Blind in Orlando, Florida:
How do we know what we know? Philosophers have had many answers to this question, but a great many thinkers believe that the basis of knowledge is the experience of our senses. However, René Descartes and Ebenezer Scrooge, along with many others, have opined that sense impression alone without contemplation and imagination is insufficient for knowledge. Consequently, they urge that we take proper steps to stimulate the imagination.
John Quincy Adams wrote “To furnish the means of acquiring knowledge is... the greatest benefit that can be conferred upon mankind. It prolongs life itself and enlarges the sphere of existence.”
Learning something new is a great idea. However, theorists have not always felt this way, and some cultures do not value learning, especially with respect to certain groups. It may be fair to say that all cultures (or almost all cultures) resist change, and learning implies change. If the blind are the intended audience, education has often not been a high priority. Indeed, competent, inclusive, accessible, high quality education for blind students is today sometimes very hard to get.
Let us begin not with the blind but with society in general. Alexander Pope said that “a little learning is a dangerous thing.” If this is so, how much is required for safety? When students finish the third grade, are they more of a threat to society than they were when they finished the second? Will they be more or less of a danger when they have completed fourth grade? What about graduate students or the professors who teach them? Current scientific research offers speculation that artificial intelligence can be built that will be able to hold more ideas than any human mind has ever possessed. Will the artificial intelligence add to the safety of our world? If so, whose safety will it protect? The debate rages with some futurists recommending that we invent new thoughts as fast as possible and others urging that limits be placed on scientific advancement. Regardless of the arguments, we in the National Federation of the Blind have a commitment to education; we believe that the blind have minds capable of learning whatever is to be known; and we intend to be in the midst of the educational process—participating in the learning for every discipline, teaching others, and pursuing the most imaginative research. Tell us that learning is dangerous if you like, but don’t try to keep us out because it can’t be done.
Although theorists have complained about the disadvantage of knowledge, societies have been stratified based upon the possession of it. In many places the priestly class could read, which gave this group an enormous advantage. Shakespeare said that we should kill all the lawyers. What advantage did lawyers have that caused such enmity? At least part of it is that they could read in a very specialized field.
Teaching slaves to read in many parts of the United States was regarded as a criminal act. Furthermore education for women in the United States has only comparatively recently become required by law. Despite the restrictions we have placed upon its acquisition, we in the United States have adopted the policy that knowledge is valuable and that we must encourage its acquisition. We follow this policy despite vituperative arguments that the path we tread is dramatically dangerous—that the things we learn may create events from which humanity itself will not survive. In the National Federation of the Blind we also follow this policy, and we encourage our friends to do likewise. We believe that we the blind have the ability to learn, and we honor those who demonstrate this capacity among us. Do others share our commitment for the education of blind students? Are imaginative methods of education for the blind being invented? Is there a widespread effort by agencies of government or the private sector to foster the latent potentialities of the blind?
For more than forty years federal law has declared that students with disabilities have a right to a public education. When the law was adopted, the language it employed was revolutionary. Prior to its enactment public schools had discretion about whether they would permit students with disabilities to be in class. Some disabled students were welcomed, but many were not. When the law came into effect, students with disabilities had a right to attend. Some of the judges who interpreted the law felt outrage that members of Congress could believe that children (they would call these children normal) could be required to be in class with students who possess disabilities. These judges decided that although the Congress had declared the law to be that disabled people had a right to attend class, this did not mean that the students who possessed these disabilities had the right to get anything out of the education other than presence in the room. The school districts were under no obligation (said these judges) to provide specific services, materials, or educational programs designed to assist in meeting the demands involving the disability itself. Blind students could come to class, but the school district was not required to provide training in Braille. Blind students could study geometry, but the school district had no obligation to offer a line drawing of the angles that the sighted students could observe in their books. It is almost as if some of the judges took the position “You can make the school district take you, but you won’t like it when they do.”
In March of this year, the Supreme Court reconsidered the rights of students with disabilities in the public schools under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act. The court said that disabled students have a substantive right to educational programs that are likely to provide a realistic education. This decision appears to restore the promise that students with disabilities have an equal right to an education.
Within the National Federation of the Blind we know that blindness is not a debilitating disability. Instead, it is a characteristic that many of us have. Many of us have wondered what the limitations of blindness are. We have speculated that this condition indicates an inability to perform certain functions. More than forty years ago some of us said that blind people could not fly a plane, drive a car, or serve as medical doctors. Since that time, we have created a way to drive a car, and some of us have come to be medical doctors. The airplane waits to be conquered, but I feel certain that it can be and that it will be. Which leaves the question, what are the limitations of blindness?
How do blind people learn? How do we stimulate the mind to be the medium in which the patterns of observation are implanted? How do we expand the range of such patterns, or cause the intuitive leap that connects one seemingly unrelated thought with another to bring new comprehension? Children are instructed from the time that they are born not to touch. Blind children are instructed to listen, and often they are expected to do nothing more. Although it seems intuitively obvious that learning will be faster when sound, touch, and perhaps other senses are combined, blind children with some remaining vision, or their parents, are sometimes required to choose between Braille and print. The argument goes, demanding that a student learn in more than one way will be overburdensome and detrimental to education. Does education advance more rapidly by listening or touching? Our experience suggests that both together are better than either one separately.
To learn effectively it is necessary to learn how to learn. Just as a birdsong may seem, when it is first heard, to be a jumble of unrelated notes and unmelodic racket, a polysyllabic word may appear to be incomprehensible upon first acquaintance. Visual imagery must also be learned before it has meaning, and the tactile sense must receive its own training if knowledge is to be gained through it. All methods of knowing are learned, except the innate knowledge that comes from being human. When knowledge becomes the goal, it is best for us to employ the widest range of methods for securing it that we can invent.
What does color signify? One tiny piece of the answer to this question is the wavelength of reflected light. The rest must include context, imagery, history, and culture. What does light signify? Only a part of the answer is an observable medium in the electromagnetic spectrum. The rest must involve context. Moonlight may be nothing more than a presentation of waves with certain characteristics, but its meaning is much more complex. How can these concepts be presented in nontraditional forms—auditory, tactile? How can these nontraditional patterns be implanted in the minds of the blind? We have very little experience in testing alternative methods of knowing to the ones that have become most common. We must explore this kind of knowing, and we must expand it. Enormous amounts of intellectual energy have been spent on visual representations, and the language has been created to favor this form of learning, although a substantial segment of knowledge is represented by music. Nonetheless, touch is by far the most important sense we possess. It puts us in constant contact with the world around us, and it keeps us safe. Without touch the constant danger of injury would be devastating. However, our usage favors the language of the eye. When we speak with each other, although we sometimes say “get in touch,” we more often use “I’ll see you.”
We must imagine a way to emphasize the nonvisual methods we use for learning, and we must create the language to support such alternatives. Can you hear a line? Can you touch a sound? Does the hue of a summer sky with the storm coming in from the north have an identifiable aroma? Let us begin with tactile imagery.
A significant part of the task before us is to change the perception that 83 percent of all knowledge comes through the eye. This idiotic statement came from an advertisement by Thomas Edison in 1923, I am told. Thomas Edison had invented the projector, and he wanted to sell it to school systems. He created this misleading line to get the school boards to buy his product, and we have been stuck with the false advertising ever since. Some people may learn 83 percent of all they know by looking—though I doubt this. However, there are other ways to learn, and we must demonstrate that they are as good as the visual method.
We are creating a project for children to learn tactile imagery. We are offering raised-line pictures along with the tools to make more of them. The Tactile Art Kit is a box containing examples of tactile images along with the tools and supplies to perform tactile drawings. Both print and Braille instructions are included along with directions to the website of the American Action Fund for Blind Children and Adults, the inventor and sponsor of this program, where audible and visual descriptions of how to create tactile art may be found. Five hundred of these kits are available for distribution to blind children ages two through eight. Half a dozen ways of making tactile representations are included in the suggestions about how to use the supplies in the Tactile Art Kit. Lines, two dimensional solid forms, and three-dimensional images can be created. A leaf, two-dimensional; a tree, three-dimensional; and an object at a distance with the imagery to show that there is intervening space between the observer and the object being observed—all of these can be made. What is the difference in a tactile image of a dog standing still and one racing after a rabbit? Can the images be shown in ways that illustrate the calmness of a peaceful afternoon or the uneasiness of an impending storm? All of this will be in our first effort at capturing the ideas transmitted through the tactile imagery of art.
Can blind people be artists? Some of us are. Can blind people engage in the tasks of architecture? Some of us do. Can blind people convey knowledge through the tactile imagery associated with science? Some of us have invented methods for doing exactly that. Can we identify color and represent its meaning? In many respects, we have. How can we expand our knowledge in these areas? We will ask the children and the teachers of the children what works, and we will honor those who expand the range of what we know.
We intend to create artistic experiences with vibrancy, fascinating shapes, and sometimes intense colors. We intend to show other people how the blind do art. At the threshold of learning is a sense of wonder. We do not know what limitations exist for us in the creation of new forms of knowledge, but we are absolutely certain that whatever these limitations might be, we have not reached them. With our sense of wonder we will explore unknown horizons, and this will bring us to new frontiers. In the meantime, as I encounter you at this convention, I do not look forward to seeing you—I anticipate with pleasure hearing you; I anticipate with pleasure touching my hand to yours. I know I could have said touching you, but such expressions are currently easily misunderstood. The sound and the touch will help me to know your spirit and to share mine. Together we will build a better knowing.
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“The Smell of Popcorn” Cast
Posted in Comedy, Entertainment, Movie/Film/Motion Picture, Other, Television, Theatre, tagged "Alive at Last", "Apathy: The Gen X Musical", "Atlantic Theatre Company, "Carlito's Way: Rise to Power", "Dancer", "Dollars & Sense Magazine", "Don't hold the Doors", "El Cantante", "El Diario/La Prensa", "El Nuevo Dia", "Guiding Light", "I rise in Flame Cried the Phoenix", "Lorca Federico Lorca", "Man of La Mancha", "Measure for Measure", "My Favorite Year", "No Dogs Allowed", "One", "Paper Boat: Hostos", "Passion", "Pie Derecho", "Psychosis", "Rocky Horror Show", "Romeo and Juliet Together", "Ruandi", "Seascape with Sharks", "The Goose is Getting Fat", "The Monkey Show", "The Smell of Popcorn", "The Wiz", "Threepenny Opera", AT&T, “The Winning Season, ” “Lottery Ticket, ” “The Last Samba", ” “Una calle Sin Salida, Bleecker Street Theatre, Eli Wallach, Guy Webster, Hal Prince, Javier E. Gomez, John P. Shanley, John Patrick Shanley, Jose Rivera, KICK IT! Festival, Long Beach Playhouse CA, Luciana Faulhaber, MAC Cosmetics, Nic's Spoon Theatre, Sandra Werneck, Teatro IATI, TEEN 99, The Tank on September 16, 2010| Leave a Comment »
Be sure to catch Luciana Faulhaber as “Fabiola” & Javier E. Gomez as “Georgie” in Jose Luis Ramos-Escobar’s “The Smell of Popcorn” at Teatro IATI (59-61 East 4th Street in NYC).
Through September 19, come watch the worlds of an acting student and career theif collide in this dark comedy about human connectedness and the multiple effects of urban crime upon daily life in “The Smell of Popcorn!”
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Luciana Faulhaber as “Fabiola”
A native of Brazil, Luciana is an actress on the rise! She completed a two-year Meisner training with Bill Esper adn the LABryinth Theatre Master Class. Her theatrical credits include many Off-Broadway and Off-Off-Broadway productions such as John Patrick Shanley’s new musical “The Monkey Show,” a staged reading with LAB theatre, “I rise in Flame Cried the Phoenix,” at TEEN 99, “Don’t hold the Doors” at Bleecker Street Theatre, “Seascape with Sharks” and “Dancer” at The Tank, “One” at Nic’s Spoon Theatre, Joleen in B.F.F. finalist at the From the Hip: Horror festival, “The Goose is Getting Fat” finalist of Kick IT! Festival, “Romeo and Juliet Together” and “Alive at Last!” at Long Beach Playhouse, CA. Her film credits include “The Winning Season,” “Una calle Sin Salida,” “Lottery Ticket,” and “The Last Samba.” Luciana has also been featured as a model for Guy Webster, MAC Cosmetics, and has a national AT&T commercial currently running. For much more on Luciana be sure to visit http://www.lucianafaulhaber.com.
1. Who inspired you to become a performer? That’s a tough one. I guess in a twisted way my family did. I come from a traditional one and being an artist was never on top of my mother’s list for me. She wanted me to have a “real job” and live the safe life. I played the good girl role for a while but as they pushed me in that direction the need to act and break free grew stronger, until I did. I guess you can say I am a bit of a rebel.
2. Who is the one person you haven’t worked with that you would like to? There are so many people I’d like to work with that it would be impossible to pick one. But I’ve had the chance to meet wonderful people in the past year that just make me see the world in a whole different level with their art: Sandra Werneck, John P. Shanley, Jose Rivera…I would be lucky to work with them not only cause they are so incredibly talented but because they are wonderful people and that is hard to find. Now if I had to pick another actor to work with, it would be Eli Wallach. He is a legend, sweet and just so adorable!
3. Do you have any rituals that you must do before a show? How do you decompress after a show? Every show is different for me. It really depends on what the character requires. “Fabiola” for example, needs to move to loud music, own the space and grow big before each performance. The only ritual that seems consistent is putting my make up on in the dressing room before every performance. I make sure to arrive at the theatre with an extra half hour, turn on a play list on my iPhone and play with the colors forgetting the world out there. That is the beginning of becoming a new character for me. Now to decompress I go for bike rides. I turn on my favorite sing along tunes, put my doggy Spike Lee in the basket, and just ride. The evenings are my favorite since the city is quieter and cooler. It just makes me happy.
4. If you couldn’t be doing what you are doing now, what career would you choose? Unfortunately this is a one way street for me. I can say I’ve been there and done that. I have tried other careers and life times. I can say with certainty that this is it.
5. Do you have any strange or unusual talent the no one knows about? Nothing I would proudly say in public. But I have one peculiar childhood obsession that grew into an amazing observant talent. I’ll tell you one of these days.
6. Favorite meal? Any meal cooked by my mom at home in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The smell of the black beans being cooked or the rising cakes she bakes…it’s all just sweet like childhood and I miss it so much here in NY. But I had a chance to be hosted in Lebanon last year by my beautiful friend Sarah Himadeh and she made sure I tried everything. Since then I have been a huge fan of Lebanese food.
7. Favorite way to stay in shape? Dancing! That’s my meditation. But I don’t have a gym membership. I must say the reason I joined was the steam room, but I try to exercise regularly. Key word here being “try.”
8. Favorite skin care product? I am very concerned with what kind of products I use on my skin since it absorbs almost everything you put on it. I really like “Kiss My Face” moisturizers. They are light in texture, all natural, smell great and give me an excuse to ask for some kisses. Couldn’t be better.
9. Favorite website? Imdb. I love movies and I want to do more film work from here on. So imdb helps me learn more about upcoming projects and the film industry even though it is not always up to date.
10. Superman or Wonder Woman? Wonder Woman! I am all about female empowerment. I learned a lot about my own feminine power by playing “Fabiola” and I wouldn’t trade that for anything.
11. If you could dream about anyone while you sleep, who would it be? I am not doing much sleeping these days…but I’d like to dream about people I am yet to know. Nothing like waking up looking forward to something new.
12. What’s the best advice you’ve ever received? “Whenever you don’t know what to do just smile. People will come to you. Everyone wants to talk to the happy person in the room.” This is advice I got from a girlfriend about dating but I apply it to just everything.
Javier E. Gomez as “Georgie”
Already an award-winning writer, Javier is an up and coming actor rising fast! He too is a graduate of the two-year Meisner program with Bill Esper. Recently, Javier appeared in “No Dogs Allowed” at the Atlantic Theatre Company. His other theatre credits include “My Favorite Year,” “Rock Horror Show,” Shakespeare’s “Measure for Measure,” “Apathy: The Gen X Musical,” “Lorca Federico,” “Ruandi,” “Paper Boat: Hostos,” Sondheim’s “Passion,” “Threepenny Opera,” “The Wiz,” and “Man of La Mancha.” His film and TV credits include “Guiding Light, ” “Psychosis” (Padre David), a Sunday prime-time series for Telemundo directed by Sonia Valentin, “El Cantante” and “Carlito’s Way: Rise to Power.” Javier is also an award winning writer with works published by “El Diario/La Prensa” (the oldest Spanish language newspaper in the US), “El Nuevo Dia,” “Pie Derecho,” and “Reuter’s Dollars & Sense” magazine.
1. Who inspired you to become a performer? My main inspiration to become a performer was originally self-generated. It came from within me, at a very early age, and there was nothing I could do about it. It was just there. It was an inexplicable drive to perform, and awareness that performing was what I was meant to do. Along the way I have strengthen my inspiration through the encouragement of my family and a dear high school teacher, and the example and legacy of Eleonora Duse, the late actor Raul Juliá, Puerto Rican playwright Rene Marqués, Teatro del Sesenta Theater Collective in San Juan, and director Joseph Papp, among other artists whose work led me to aspire to the same level of commitment and excellence.
2. Who is the one person you haven’t worked with that you would like to? Hal Prince! LOL. Talk about a man whose vision has repeatedly changed the course of theater in this nation!
3. Do you have any rituals that you must do before a show? How do you decompress after a show? Before a show I try to be as relaxed as possible. I usually take some time alone to be in silence, and meditate, and check with myself. Then I go into a voice, movement, and body warm up routine that varies according to what show I am working on. In the case of “The Smell of Popcorn”, such an intense non-stop physical and emotional show, it involves Suzuki, Viewpoint, and military exercises, and beating a punching bag conveniently located inside the theater. After a show, my favorite way to decompress is going home to family for a quiet conversation, and a cup of cereal in cold milk. Except for “The Smell of Popcorn”. After that show I head straight to a bar near the theater for a cheeseburger and beer.
4. If you couldn’t be doing what you are doing now, what career would you choose? I would be Mayor, or Director of Tourism or Cultural Affairs for my hometown in Puerto Rico. I love public service, and I believe that I would be equally content making a contribution there.
5. Do you have any strange or unusual talent that nobody knows about? I have a remarkable ability to remember historical facts, dates, and names. I keep it to myself because the moment I express it in public, people think I am a freak.
6. Favorite meal? Tough choice. I am a huge exotic food junkie, so my favorite meal keeps changing as I discover more foods from around the world. At the moment I am obsessed with tripe soup from Wing Wong Restaurant in Chinatown. For dessert, nothing beats the Tres Leches (Triple Milk Dipped) Cake, Cuban style.
7. Favorite way to stay in shape? Weight lifting and cardiovascular training, combined with eating and sleeping well.
8. Favorite skin care product? Kiehl’s entire line of moisturizers for men.
9. Favorite website? nydailynews.com and nypost.com (Oh, come on! I have the courage to admit it!)
10. Superman or Wonder Woman? Wonder Woman, of course!
11. If you could dream about anyone while you sleep, who would it be? My father, my grandparents, my great-aunt Tomasa, and all those people whom I adore but sadly passed away too soon in my life.
12. What’s the best advice you’ve ever received? “Create your own circumstance. Don’t let circumstance create you” – Landmark Forum.
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Ozman Sirgood
Updated on May 05, 2018
Full Name Osman Soykut
Occupation Actor
Website www.sirgood.com
Years active 1989–present
Born January 1, 1957 (age 60) (1957-01-01) Ankara, Turkey
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Osman Soykut (born January 1, 1957), better known by his stage name Ozman Sirgood, is an American actor of Turkish and East European heritage.
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Ozman Sirgood is an established actor who works on Film and Television projects on both sides of the Atlantic. A celebrity in his native Turkey, Ozman makes his home in Los Angeles, California. Ozman's career spans 17 years and three continents.
Ozman was born as Osman Soykut in Ankara, Turkey. His heritage includes East European roots on his mother's side and Crimean from his father. He attended Frankfurt International School, TED Ankara College Foundation Schools and holds a Bachelor of Architecture degree from the Middle East Technical University.
He moved to California in 1984 and began his acting career in 1989. In 2001, he began receiving training from Milton Katselas at the Beverly Hills Playhouse, continuing until Milton's death in 2008.
Ozman found quick success as an actor in Los Angeles and played in a number of productions including Charmed, Alias, The Bold And The Beautiful, The Hot Chick, Art School Confidential and others.
Discovered for the Turkish market in 2007, Ozman went to Istanbul with a lead role in the TV drama "Iki Yabanci". Quickly gaining a reputation as a skilled actor, he continued with bigger roles in "Pars Narkoteror" and "Adanalı".
1n 2009, he was cast as the suave and deadly Aron Feller in the long-running TV action drama "Kurtlar Vadisi Pusu" which he played for three seasons. In 2014, he was selected to play "Ibn Arabi" in the historical TV drama "Diriliş: Ertuğrul", another very successful role. in 2016, he played opposite Christian Bale as "Deputy Governor Mazhar" in the epic The Promise directed by Terry George.
Ozman is followed closely by a large fan base spread across Europe, North Africa and the Middle East.
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Rubber and PVC fetishism
Rubber fetishism, or latex fetishism, is the fetishistic attraction to people wearing latex clothing or, in certain cases, to the garments themselves. PVC fetishism is closely related to rubber fetishism, with the former referring to shiny clothes made of the synthetic plastic polyvinyl chloride (PVC) and the latter referring to clothes made of rubber, which is generally thicker, less shiny, and more matte than latex. PVC is sometimes confused with the similarly shiny patent leather, which is also a fetish material. Latex or rubber fetishists sometimes refer to themselves as "rubberists". Gay rubberists tend to call themselves "rubbermen".
Motives
Latex look alike materials
The terms "PVC", "vinyl" and "PU" tend to be used interchangeably by retailers for clothing made from shiny plastic-coated fabrics. These fabrics usually consist of a backing woven from polyester fibers with a surface coating of shiny plastic. The plastic layer itself is typically a blend of PVC and polyurethane (PU), with 100% PVC producing a stiff fabric with a glossy shine and 100% PU producing a stretchy fabric with a silky shine. A manufacturer's label may say, for example, 67% polyester, 33% polyurethane for a fabric that contains no PVC; or 80% polyvinyl chloride, 20% polyurethane with mention of the polyester backing omitted. The plastic layer is often textured to look like leather ("leatherlook", "pleather"), as opposed to smooth ("wetlook", "patent").
One reason why latex or other tight shiny fabrics may be fetishised is perhaps that the garment forms a "second skin" that acts as a fetishistic surrogate for the wearer's own skin. Thus, wearers of skin-tight latex or PVC garments may be perceived by the viewer as being naked, or simply coated in a shiny substance like paint. Latex and PVC can also be polished to be shiny and can also be produced in bright colours, adding further visual stimulus to add to the physical sensations produced by the material. The tightness of the garments may also be viewed as a kind of sexual bondage. The smell of latex rubber is also a turn-on for some rubber fetishists, and such garments are usually impregnated with chemicals to enhance the odour. Some rubberists also enjoy the idea of exhibitionism and some fantasise about going out in public wearing fetish attire. Some do this, especially in the more liberal areas (e.g., Berlin, New York, Montreal, San Francisco).
A compelling reason that people are turned on by wearing rubber is its transformative abilities. As with any costume, a rubberist can imagine themselves having a new identity, especially one that permits a different code of behavior.
Latex fetishism sometimes involves dressing up in the material; looking at it worn by sexual partners; or fantasies sometimes wearers of skin-tight or other latex garments, such as divers and workers wearing industrial protective clothing. Another common stereotype of is the image of a dominatrix wearing a skin-tight, usually jet-black, latex or PVC catsuit.
Some latex enthusiasts are also turned on by the wearing of draped latex garments such as cloaks. Other rubber paraphernalia, such as wet suits, gas masks, splash suits, Mackintoshes, galoshes, Wellington boots, rubber/plastic pants, and diapers are also often added to the scenario. Heavier fetishists often attempt duplicating all kinds of "everyday wear" into a rubber counterpart. Some PVC enthusiasts are turned on by PVC Hazmat suits and other forms of industrial protective clothing.
For hygienic reasons, many sex toys such as dildos and butt plugs are made from rubber or similar materials, and this is also a factor in rubber fetishism. Some rubber fetishists are also medical fetishists or have an interest in klismaphilia; medical gloves and catheters are made from latex, as are condoms.
A substantial industry exists to produce specialist latex or rubber fetish clothing garments for rubber enthusiasts.
Lots of latex or rubber clothes appear on websites such as eBay, and in recent years clothes made in PVC have been prevalent in young people's fashions, particularly in jackets, skirts and trousers. Several mainstream designers have made latex clothing. As fashions come round and round again, it would seem that PVC, latex and similar materials are appearing again in mainstream street fashions as well as continuing to be central to the fetish scene.
Among the numerous specialist rubberist magazines devoted to this fetish are AtomAge, Dressing for Pleasure, Marquis, «O», Shiny International, and Skin Two.
Latex look-alike materials
PVC and vinyl are two other shiny materials used for clothing from regular street wear (raincoats) to PVC Hazmat suits and other forms of industrial protective clothing. As with latex, these materials became more noted as fetish material in the 1960s and early 1970s. During that era, boots and garments made of PVC and vinyl were made and worn in public areas to some degrees. In the media, the most obvious was the British TV programme The Avengers.
Numerous underground fetish production houses were started, which published magazines such as "Shiny", "Shiny's International", "Rubberist", "Dressing for Pleasure" (both of these publications later merged with each other), noted rubber fetish author Helen Henley and others of this time frame.
Fashion designers such as Jean Paul Gaultier, Yves Saint Laurent, Pierre Cardin and André Courrèges have used PVC in their collections. Since 2010, the PVC has been the target of fashion not only for the female public but also to the male public.
In the film Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed, Velma wears an orange PVC outfit to look attractive, although she is uncomfortable in it.
In the Batman film series, Batman's costume is of rubber; in Batman Returns, Catwoman wears a rubber catsuit.
The artwork of Allen Jones has been strongly influenced by the imagery of rubber fetishism and BDSM.
In a scene from the film Two for the Road (1967), the actress Audrey Hepburn appears wearing a shiny black PVC trouser suit designed by Michele Rosier.
In an episode of the American television sitcom The Nanny, Fran Drescher wore a red PVC outfit.
In the music video for "Scream" (1995), Michael Jackson and his sister Janet Jackson wore black PVC pants.
The English television and radio personality Zoë Ball wore black PVC pants in one of her appearances on the English TV program Shooting Stars.
In certain episodes of the American television series Smallville, the actress Erica Durance appears wearing PVC clothes.
The 1990s pop group Spice Girls frequently wore PVC outfits in their presentations.
In 2007, the Brazilian singer Ivete Sangalo wore a black PVC outfit in her show Multishow ao Vivo: Ivete no Maracanã.
In recent years, latex and PVC have appeared in the media, in films like the 1989 Batman series, The Matrix, and Underworld; in TV series like Alias; in music videos by pop stars like Britney Spears,Pimmara Charoenpukdi, Kylie Minogue, Rihanna, Lady Gaga, and Thalía; and even in fashion trends.
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Elderly Couple Murdered As Part Of A Fake ‘Carnival Mafia’ Initiation
By Caroline Redmond
After police told him that the mafia was actually fake, one of the suspects said, "I just threw my whole life away."
WIBWAlfred “Sonny” Carpenter and Pauline Carpenter.
Four carnival workers took part in the murder of an elderly couple as part of an initiation ritual for a fake “carnival mafia” that one of the suspects simply made up.
Kimberly Younger, a carnival worker in Kansas, posed as a member of the fictional carnival mafia under the name “Frank Zaitchik” and told three of her coworkers to murder 78-year-old Alfred “Sonny” Carpenter and 79-year-old Pauline Carpenter as an initiation into the group, according to the Associated Press.
Under the guise of her manufactured mafia persona, Younger texted instructions to her carnival coworkers — Michael Fowler, Rusty Frasier, and Christine Tenney — ordering them to kill the elderly couple. According to Van Buren, Arkansas police, the couple were vendors on the fairgrounds in Great Bend, Kansas.
The police said that Frasier stabbed Alfred and then Fowler fatally shot the man. Afterward, Fowler entered the Carpenters’ camper and shot Pauline.
It still remains unclear why Younger made up the “carnival mafia,” what her motives were for wanting Alfred and Pauline dead, and why the other suspects took to the murder so readily.
But we do know that the “carnival mafia” is indeed fake. In an email to the Associated Press, the Van Buren police spokesperson Jonathan Wear said that the carnival mafia was something that Younger “definitely made up.”
Furthermore, according to ABC 40/29 News, text messages between Fowler and Younger (who was pretending to be Frank Zaitchik) obtained by police describe the moments directly following the couple’s murder:
Fowler: “it’s done their dead.”
Younger (pretending to be Zaitchik): “Good job, now get out.”
Fowler: “I am trying to calm down right now.”
Younger: “Deep breaths. The 1st is always the hardest. Jen sent me pictures of the man. I sent onto the heads of council. War is over.”
Fowler: “Thank God and ok. I feel like I got a lead weight on my chest.”
Younger: “You need to relax.”
Fowler: “I am my chest has eased up a bit.”
According to the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, Younger told them to clean up the camper where Pauline had been killed as well as dispose of their bodies.
OxygenThe four suspects. Top: Michael Fowler and Rusty Frazier. Bottom: Kimberly Younger and Christine Tenney.
The four suspects placed the Carpenters’ corpses into a camper and then drove them to where Fowler’s daughter lived in Van Buren, according to the police report. They disposed of Alfred and Pauline’s bodies in a creek in Crawford County and piled rocks and wood on top of them.
However, their devious plan would not remain a secret for long. Tenney’s sister-in-law called the police after Tenney told her that she had been kidnapped by three people who murdered an elderly couple. She also told her sister-in-law that she was being held against her will.
The police found the four suspects in an apartment complex in Van Buren and apprehended them. Fowler spilled the details of the so-called initiation and murders to investigators who told him that Younger had hoodwinked them and that she was posing as Zaitchik the whole time.
According to the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, Fowler responded saying that Younger had “suckered” him in and that he “just threw my whole life away.”
Each of the four suspects was charged with two counts of abuse of a corpse, one count of theft by receiving and one count of tampering with physical evidence. No other charges have yet to be filed in this bizarre case that still leaves many questions unanswered.
Next, read the often tragic stories of six of history’s most infamous sideshow performers. Then, see some fascinating vintage circus photos that bring the past to life.
Caroline Redmond
Caroline is a writer and Florida-transplant currently living in New York City.
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Senate President Clarifies Comments On Ministerial List
A file photo of the Senate President, Ahmed Lawan. Photo: [email protected]
President of the Senate, Ahmed Lawan, has clarified his comments on the list of ministerial nominees expected from President Muhammadu Buhari.
He spoke to reporters shortly after a dinner with the President on Thursday at the Aso Villa in Abuja, the nation’s capital.
The Senate President said he never promised Nigerians that the list of Ministerial nominees would be out this week.
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He made emphasis that he used the word ‘could’ when the issue was discussed during plenary on Wednesday at the Senate Chamber of the National Assembly in Abuja.
Senator Bassey Akpan from Akwa Ibom North-East district had raised a point of order to inform his colleagues about their recess coming up and the need for the President to constitute a cabinet.
Responding, Senator Lawan said President Buhari may submit the list of ministerial nominees for consideration and approval by the Senate before the end of the week.
He had also told the lawmakers that the Executive Arm was working to ensure that the list was ready before they proceed on their annual two-month break.
A day after, the President hosted the National Assembly leadership to a dinner during which he spoke about the delay in unveiling of the ministerial list.
He said he was aware of the calls for him to form his cabinet, saying, “I am under tremendous pressure on it.”
“The last cabinet which I had, most of them, a majority of them I didn’t know. I had to accept their names and recommendation from the party. I worked with them for three and a half years,” President Buhari told the lawmakers.”
The dinner took place one month after the President was sworn in for a second term.
On July 5, he reappointed Mr Abba Kyari as his Chief of Staff, as well as Mr Boss Mustapha as Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF).
Source: Channels TV
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SVT #111, Sisters at War: I’m Thankful I’m Not Part of This Crazy Family
Posted in books tagged Alice Wakefield, Cousin Robin, holiday (celebrate), Steven Wakefield, SVT at 5:02 pm by Jenn
This has to be Elizabeth. Jessica would never wear that dorky jumper
Summary: Alice’s sisters Nancy and Laura are coming to Sweet Valley with their families for Thanksgiving. We’ve read about Nancy’s daughters, Robin and Stacey, a few times, but Kelly has never appeared in SVT, only in SVH. The twins are excited to get to spend time with their cousins. Steven is much, much less excited, since there are no boys in the family. I wouldn’t want to spend that much time with four 12-year-old girls either, so Steven actually has some of my sympathy for once.
The kids have to give the house a massive cleaning to prepare for their guests. Everyone will be staying at the house, which sounds like a recipe for disaster. Even before that, the twins are starting to get on each other’s nerves. Alice claims that she and her sisters never fought as kids, which is either a) the biggest lie she’s ever told, b) means she’s in incredible denial, or c) indicates that at some point, Alice suffered a head injury or some sort of trauma that wiped out part of her memory.
We know from Kelly’s previous appearance in the Sweet Valley-verse that her parents are no longer together. At 12, the twins don’t know why, and are especially confused about why Laura and her husband Greg would split up since he’s so likable. Alice mentions that he’s “unreliable,” which is PG code for “deadbeat.” Alice also mentions that she thinks Laura should have married another guy. Steven’s interested in learning more about this family dirt, since he has to write about family stories for a school project.
Jessica overhears Alice on the phone, talking about arranging a surprise for someone at Thanksgiving. She’s pretty sure she hears Aaron’s name in the conversation, which means Alice must have invited Aaron over for dinner. I’d make fun of Jess for believing this, but it’s a pretty 12-year-old thing to think, and very keeping with Jessica’s character (mainly, her belief that the world revolves around her).
The relatives all arrive, and Kelly soon proves to be a quiet, shy, delicate flower. The twins aren’t as close to her as they are Robin, so they don’t know her very well. Kelly is clearly depressed, and hasn’t made any friends since she and Laura moved to Tucson, even though it was four years ago. Jessica wants to help Robin and Kelly become close, so she makes up some things they might have in common. Robin quickly discovers that they’re not true, but fortunately, the two have enough real things in common that they’re able to connect anyway. For the first time in four years, Kelly’s happy.
Steven tries to glean some interesting information from Alice’s conversations with her sisters. All he learns is that Kelly is boring, and Nancy shares Alice’s opinion that Laura shouldn’t have married Greg. She thinks Laura should have ended up with her high school boyfriend, Darren Caruso. In fact, they were supposed to go to college together and would probably have gotten married eventually, if not for Darren’s sudden disappearance. Laura never found out why he ditched her and joined the Marines with no notice. He sent her a couple letters a few months later, but she never read them.
It isn’t long before the Robertson sisters’ supposedly solid relationship starts to crack. Nancy criticizes Laura for not being a stricter parent. Alice has fonder memories of a childhood trip to the Grand Canyon than her sisters do. Elizabeth is like, “So you guys never fight, huh?” The tension isn’t helped by the fact that the younger pairs of sisters are bickering, especially the twins. They fight through most of the book, ignoring the fact that there are guests in the house. If I were Ned or Alice, I would pull them aside, threaten to never give them allowance again if they kept fighting, and mean it. But of course, Ned and Alice have no parenting skills, so the girls just keep fighting.
By the time Thanksgiving dinner rolls around, everyone seems to be ready to calm down and enjoy the holiday. Then they realize that there are 12 places set at the table instead of 11. Alice reveals that she ran into Darren, exchanged a few letters with him, and invited him to dinner. Jessica’s embarrassed that she misheard “Darren” as “Aaron” and isn’t getting a surprise visit from her sort-of boyfriend after all.
Laura goes nuclear. She tells Kelly they’re leaving immediately and refuses to stay long enough to see Darren. Kelly’s upset, since she’s been enjoying the time with her cousins and was just starting to feel happy. Both of Alice’s sisters are mad at her. Surprisingly, we don’t get a moment where Steven’s like, “Can I eat while everyone’s fighting?” Because honestly, that would be me.
In the midst of the chaos, Darren arrives, deeply apologetic for the way things went down with Laura. He explains that he was too embarrassed to tell her when he didn’t get into college, thanks to some learning disabilities. He joined the Marines and wrote a letter to ask her to wait. But his dyslexia made him transpose the numbers in her address, so she didn’t get the letter. By the time Darren figured that out, a few months had gone by. He sent more letters, but as we know, Laura didn’t read them. He asks her forgiveness, and amazingly, she quickly grants it.
But not everything is peachy: Kelly’s now missing. Her cousins find her at her old house, and she admits that she hates living in Tucson. Her only friend is her mom. She’s worried that, now that Laura and Darren have reconnected, Kelly and her mother won’t have as much time together anymore. Okay, girlfriend, they’ve talked for five minutes after 20 years apart. They don’t even live in the same state. It’s not like they’re going to get married tomorrow and ship you off to boarding school.
Stacey, who at eight years old is an Elizabeth in training, tells Kelly a story she wants to turn into a play. It’s about a girl who makes a ragdoll that comes to life and becomes her friend. Somehow, this makes Kelly feel better, like, is she going to go back to Tucson and build herself a friend? Is there a Build-a-Friend Workshop at the mall? The cousins try to cheer her up by pointing out that, if Laura and Darren do get back together, Laura could decide to move back to Sweet Valley to be closer to him. Then Kelly would be around the twins all the time.
Back at the house, Kelly tells everyone that they’re lucky to have sisters, and she wishes she had one. I think Steven just wishes he had something juicy to include in his family-stories project. How about a story about a disastrous Thanksgiving? No, wait, every family has one of those stories. Eh, just borrow one of Stacey’s.
Thoughts: I’d love to know the odds of three sisters all having children in the same year, especially when there’s an eight-year age difference between two of them.
Way to be on time for dinner at someone else’s house, Darren.
…And then Kelly got therapy, right? Her mother realized she’d been depressed for years and did something about it?
SVT #100, If I Die Before I Wake: Deliver Us from Eva
Posted in books tagged Alice Wakefield, Amy Sutton, Halloween, Steven Wakefield, SVT, Todd Wilkins, Winston Egbert at 5:07 pm by Jenn
Well, they should have known something was wrong with the house when they saw that there were giant eyes inside
Summary: Eva is ready to finish off the twins, Amy, Winston, and Todd on the Riccolis’ widow’s walk. Even though they have the advantage of five people against one, and Todd is ready to fight, the kids resign themselves to death. Eva attacks Elizabeth, who falls from the widow’s walk, but Eva grabs her arm to save her, I guess so she can kill Liz herself. Come on, Eva, let gravity help! She loses her grip and Liz falls again, then suddenly wakes up inside the house. The other babysitters are also alive and well, though confused about how all five of them could have had the same dream. Liz also has cuts from where Eva scratched her in the “dream.”
It’s pretty early in the morning, but the sitters keep themselves awake until the kids get up. Amy, Todd, and Winston leave, and the twins fall asleep for about an hour while the kids are watching TV. They don’t have any dreams, so they figure they’ve somehow defeated Eva. When the twins get back home, Andrew calls to tell them that the kids’ nightmares have also ended. The twins think the horrible stuff is behind them and start looking forward to Halloween, which is the next week.
Fast-forward a few days, and everyone’s getting costumes. Steven wishes he could find something super-scary, but the store everyone’s shopping in doesn’t have anything he likes. Since his sisters have been talking about Eva a lot, he decides to dress up as her and scare the crap out of the twins. This means he’ll have to wear a nightgown with daisies on it and carry a teddy bear, but it’s a sacrifice Steven is willing to make.
The twins visit the Riccolis, who are all happy now, partly because their nightmares are gone and partly because Mr. Riccoli has finally joined them. He and Mrs. Riccoli ask the twins to babysit the kids on Halloween while they go to a party, and since they figure Eva’s out of the picture, the girls say yes. (Jess will have to miss a Unicorn party, and Lila bugs her about it, so Jess makes her fall out of a canoe at Secca Lake.) At home, Jessica gives Alice a Halloween costume she bought her, but Alice is apparently anti-Halloween (how have we never heard about this on any of the series’ past Halloweens?) and won’t even consider wearing it.
Jessica hears scratching noises at her window one night and thinks she sees Eva outside. The next night, Liz thinks she sees her, too. When the twins start talking about Eva at breakfast, Steven takes advantage of the conversation to ask a few questions about what Eva looks like, so he can put the finishing touches on his costume. The twins think they see Eva again that night and wonder if she somehow left their dreams and became real.
While doing some landscaping at the Riccolis’, Steven finds a piece of cloth with daisies on it under a boulder. Even though he was just thinking about Eva, he doesn’t put it together that this must be from her nightgown. Meanwhile, the twins pay a visit to a cemetery and find Eva and her parents’ graves. They’re shocked to see that Eva has followed them there and run from her. Eva loses her bunny slipper, and Elizabeth picks it up, for some reason. The twins barely get away.
Halloween is the next day, and the twins ask Amy, Todd, and Winston to join them at the Riccolis’ that night. Steven is just about ready to put his costume to scarifying use when he decides he’s missing something. He remembers that Jessica has a teddy bear (which is actually Eva’s) and goes to get it from her closet. He spots the bunny slipper, too, and decides to take it as well. Jessica sees him heading back to his room and thinks he’s really Eva, freaking out the twins. Steven pretends he was asleep and didn’t see anyone in his room.
While trick-or-treating that night, Steven comes across the real Eva, who’s not happy that he has her bear and her slipper. Steven’s so shocked and scared that all he can think to do is give them to her. Eva isn’t appropriately grateful, telling Steven that he and his sisters will die that night. Steven rushes home, where Alice has received a picture and letter from Eva, leading her to remember the last night she babysat Eva: Halloween exactly 25 years ago. Eva’s parents got to a party, and Alice puts Eva to bed with her teddy bear and one bunny slipper. She makes sure to lock the balcony door so Eva won’t fall if she sleepwalks.
Alice’s friends Dyan, Jim, and Walter (Amy’s mom, Todd’s dad, and Winston’s dad, remember) surprise her by sneaking into the house through Eva’s window. Alice realizes too late that they didn’t lock the balcony door after they came in. By the time she gets up to Eva’s room on the third floor, Eva’s on the balcony. Alice doesn’t finish her flashback until later, but it’s pretty obvious what happens: Eva falls over the railing.
Steven interrupts Alice, babbling about “she” and the twins being in danger. She tells him the twins are trick-or-treating, since she doesn’t know they’re babysitting. Steven runs around town looking for them, learning from Lila that they’re at the Riccolis’. As he’s on his way over there, Jessica is lured to Eva’s room by a voice she thinks is Elizabeth’s. She passes out, and the others start getting worried when she doesn’t come back, but they don’t bother going to look for her. When they hear a scream, they run up to Eva’s room, where Liz sees that the picture of Eva and Alice that used to be there is gone.
As Eva locks the sitters in a room together, Steven shows up. His costume is so good that the sitters think there are somehow two Evas now. Steven is able to slow Eva down while the sitters go get the kids out of the house. They realize that the house is on fire and they can’t make it outside by going downstairs. They’re able to get the kids out through a window, since the roof slopes low enough that they don’t have to jump too far to the ground. But Eva’s still coming for them…
At home, Alice finishes the rest of her flashback, then reads Eva’s letter, which reveals that she didn’t die after her fall. She was somehow able to keep coming back to the house without her parents knowing. She blames Alice for her fall, since Alice scared her when she was on the balcony. She admits to using makeup to make herself look like a monster so she can scare the sitters. Now she plans to go even further and kill Alice’s daughters as revenge. Alice realizes this is all real, and that her kids are in danger. She rounds up her old friends and tells them to meet her at the Riccolis’ house. Just then, the Riccoli kids arrive to confirm that Eva is about to kill the sitters.
Back at the house, the sitters head to Eva’s bedroom, since they have no other place to hide. The house starts falling apart due to the fire, but the sitters and Steven are able to escape through a window. Eva isn’t so lucky, as the house collapses her around her, apparently killing her for real this time.
Sometime later, Alice and the twins go to the cemetery to visit Eva’s grave, which actually contains her body now. They’ve figured out that Eva, like Miss Havisham in Great Expectations, was never able to let go of what happened to her. They think the gardener who died in Too Scared to Sleep may have been helping her stay hidden. Though they can’t explain the shared nightmares, they think Eva was hurting them in real life, and they just thought she was harming them in their dreams. But who cares about details – Eva is gone, and everyone is safe. Let’s just hope the Riccolis had excellent insurance.
Thoughts: If you ask me, this whole thing is Mr. and Mrs. Sullivan’s fault. They should have moved Eva to a different bedroom or made the railing on the balcony higher when she started sleepwalking. And it wasn’t Alice’s fault that the balcony door was unlocked – it was Jim, Dyan, and Walter’s fault. Eva spent 25 years being mad at the wrong person.
So did Eva never grow? She should have been in her 30s during this miniseries, but apparently she was the same size as when she was a kid.
The ghostwriter needs to make up her mind whether Alice was 12 or a sophomore when she sat for Eva.
Winston: “I’m too nice to die!” Okay, Winnie.
SVT #99, The Beast Must Die: I’ll See You in My Dreams
Posted in books tagged Alice Wakefield, Amy Sutton, Joe Howell, Steven Wakefield, SVT, Todd Wilkins, Winston Egbert at 5:02 pm by Jenn
Two girls, two awful outfits
Summary: We pick up right where The Beast is Watching You left off, with the twins trapped in Eva’s bedroom while a fire is burning downstairs. The Riccoli kids are all asleep and somehow don’t hear the girls yelling and pounding on the door. Fortunately, Steven happens to be on his way over to scare his sisters, and he rescues the kids. Eva’s ticked and adds Steven to her kill list. The twins manage to break down the door, and Steven’s plan to scare them succeeds as they’re terrified to see what they think is a monster with the kids. (He’s wearing a mask.) When Mrs. Riccoli comes home, she figures Andrew, who has a history of playing with matches, started the fire, but he insists he was asleep. Steven backs that up.
Jessica already wasn’t that thrilled to be babysitting so much, and after this latest scare, she announces she’s done going to the Riccolis’ house. Alice is relieved, as she’s never liked how much time the twins have been spending at the old Sullivan house. Alice flashback time! Eva hates going to sleep because she has horrible nightmares, but Alice assures her that nothing will happen to her while Alice is around.
One afternoon when the twins are enjoying their free time, Mrs. Riccoli calls to beg them to come over. Her mother has been hospitalized, and Mrs. Riccoli has to fly out to Florida to see her right away. She apparently doesn’t know anyone else in town, so she asks two 12-year-olds to watch her kids for the weekend. (Remember that Mrs. Riccoli is a college professor, which means she must know a few dozen 20-somethings who would be much more responsible, and would probably appreciate the money. But whatever.) Jessica reluctantly accepts the job once Mrs. Riccoli offers to pay her and Liz triple their usual rate.
Elizabeth isn’t happy to have to cancel her plans with friends, but she can’t in good conscience leave the Riccolis in the lurch, so she and Jess go over for their marathon sitting job. (Todd will be joining them later.) Liz falls asleep and dreams about going back to Eva’s room, where a doll comes to life. The monster girl from the kids’ dreams attacks, trying to strangle her. Jessica wakes up her sister when she screams in her sleep, and both realize that Liz now has red marks on her neck.
Alice calls to check on her daughters, then has another flashback: One night when she was sitting for Eva, her friends Dyan, Jim, and Walter came by to visit. These would be Amy’s mother, and Todd and Winston’s fathers. Alice and Jim appear to have crushes on each other, which we’ve never heard about before and never will again. Nothing happens in this scene, really; it’s just setting up the kids’ friendship.
Over at the Riccolis’ house, Elizabeth asks Jess to wake her up after she’s been asleep for five minutes. She dreams about Eva’s room again, and the monster girl threatens her. Jess falls asleep as well and winds up in Liz’s dream. They hide from Eva, but she finds them and tries to strangle both twins. Fortunately, Todd arrives and wakes them up before Eva can finish them off. But somehow, Eva’s teddy bear makes it to the real world with them. Spooky…
The babysitters decide to try to stay awake the rest of the night, but Todd nods off for a little while and also dreams about Eva. Amy and Winston come over the next morning to relieve the overnight sitters and learn about the weird goings-on in the house. Wait…the twins, Amy, Todd, and Winston – the children of Alice, Dyan, Jim, and Walter? No way! What a strange coincidence! When the twins get home, they ask Alice about Eva, but Alice won’t tell them anything.
All five sitters go back to the house for a second night of sitting, and the sitters decide they need to stay awake all night. (By the way, the kids have stopped having nightmares, so at least the job is a lot easier now.) Jess tries to make coffee, but she screws it all up. Winston realizes it was decaf anyway, so it wouldn’t have mattered if she’d made it right. The sitters play board games for a while, but that’s not exactly a thrill a minute.
Eventually they decide that they can sleep for ten minutes at a time, setting an alarm to wake them up before Eva can attack them in their dreams. I’m sure sleeping in ten-minute increments all night will make them feel refreshed and ready to take care of five kids the next day! Winston accidentally unplugs the alarm clock, which Eva was about to unplug anyway, and all five sitters end up in the same dream. They’re all on the house’s widow’s walk, and Eva is thrilled to have them all in one place.
In the B-plot, Steven and Joe, who have just started a landscaping business, get a job from a man named Mr. Morgan. He needs them to spiff up his yard over the weekend, to get it ready for a dinner party on Sunday. Steven takes one look at Mr. Morgan’s daughter, Karen, and falls instantly in love. Joe proposes a bet: Whichever of them can’t get a date with Karen for Saturday night has to take one of the twins’ jobs at the Riccolis’ house.
Steven is completely oblivious to the fact that Karen clearly has no interest in him, and that’s even before Joe charms her a little. Then it turns out that Karen already has a boyfriend, which will make winning the bet even harder. But Joe manages to pull it off, getting a date with Karen while Steven does most of the landscaping work. Then Steven gets pulled over for riding his lawn mower in the street. Womp womp. At least he has a chance to make some money at the Riccolis’ house. You know, if Eva doesn’t murder everyone there first.
Thoughts: If I ever decide it’s a good idea for 12-year-olds to watch my five kids for an entire weekend, I authorize someone to call Child Protective Services on me.
Steven, who’s 14, doesn’t know what a cul-de-sac is. I’m so sad.
“He’d never even thought of feet as having looks before – but hers were amazing.” That’s a side of Steven I never wanted to know about.
SVT #98, The Beast is Watching You: Sweet Dreams, Sweet Valley
Posted in books tagged Alice Wakefield, Joe Howell, Ned Wakefield, Steven Wakefield, SVT at 5:03 pm by Jenn
The scariest thing about this is Jessica’s outfit
Summary: The girl from Too Scared to Sleep is still keeping an eye on the twins when they come to the old Sullivan house, ready to do something terrible to them if they ever fall asleep there. They’re none the wiser, and are even trying to explain away the weird stuff from their last sitting job with the Riccolis. They figure that Juliana was scratched by the cat and only thought a girl was responsible because of her nightmares. Jessica has also convinced herself that the Alice in the picture she saw in the hidden room isn’t her mother.
After the kids go to bed, the twins try to stay calm in the big, dark, possibly haunted house. Steven and Joe show up to scare them, traumatizing the kids in the process. Ned and Alice do some actual parenting, telling Steven not to go anywhere near the twins when they’re babysitting. Jessica mentions that Steven would have less time on his hands if he got a job like the twins did. Her parents think this is a wonderful idea. Steven does not. More on that in the B-plot.
Alice has a flashback to sitting at the old Sullivan house for a girl named Eva. Eva has night terrors and often sleepwalks, which is a big problem because her room’s on the third floor and there’s a balcony off of it. Alice has to make sure to lock the balcony whenever she puts Eva to bed. Eva likes to wear bunny slippers, but Alice only lets her wear one to bed because both would muffle her footsteps and prevent Alice from knowing where she is when she sleepwalks. It’s pretty obvious by this point that Eva is the girl watching the twins, and something horrible happened while Alice was babysitting her as a preteen.
Juliana seems to have gotten past her nightmares, but they’ve been passed on to her sister Gretchen. She dreams about a “monster girl” in a nightgown with yellow flowers on it – the same nightgown Eva wore as a child. The girl tries to push Gretchen down the stairs, but Gretchen wakes up. On another night, when Elizabeth and Todd are babysitting together, they smell smoke in Andrew’s bedroom but don’t find any signs of a fire. The boy tells them that he dreamed about a girl with a yellow-flowered nightgown and one bunny slipper who set the room on fire.
Jessica sits with Elizabeth again and falls asleep while putting Gretchen to bed. She dreams about the house back when the Sullivans lived there and is horrified at the sight of a grotesque figure wearing a yellow-flowered nightgown and one bunny slipper. The girl tries to push Jessica off the balcony, but Jess wakes up. She realizes that her shirt is ripped, just as it was ripped in her dream. At first the twins think that Jess just dreamed what Gretchen’s been dreaming because she’s heard all about it, but Elizabeth realizes that Jess never knew about the single bunny slipper, since only Andrew has mentioned it.
Things get worse when Gretchen sleepwalks and falls down the stairs while Jessica and Winston are watching the kids. She tells them she was dreaming about the monster girl. At this point, I would be taking all the kids to a psychiatrist, because clearly something is wrong, and it can’t just be about the move and the fact that their father hasn’t yet joined them permanently. I might also consider moving out, if my kids are all having the same dream about some monster who hasn’t been in a movie or TV show they all saw.
One night when the twins are sitting again, they decide to check out the third-floor room. They find a single bunny slipper in the closet and start freaking out. Then the door shuts and they can’t get it open. They smell smoke as Eva sets a fire to try to get rid of her unwelcome housemates once and for all.
In the B-plot, Ned gets a riding mower, and Steven and Joe decide to use it to start a landscaping business. Guys, it’s not landscaping if you’re just mowing lawns. Ned tells Steven he needs to read the user’s manual before he even turns on the mower. Steven is a moron and ignores him. He and Joe wreck the Wakefields’ yard, run over the neighbor’s fence, and almost drive the mower into the pool. For some reason, Ned doesn’t take the keys away and tell them to go get jobs at the mall.
While competing to see who can do a better job with the mower (the winner gets to name their business), Steven and Joe can’t get it to turn off. They ride it in circles around the yard, one behind the wheel and one on the hood. There’s an actual funny moment where the twins watch from the house, wondering if they should videotape the boys or place bets on how many laps they’ll end up taking. The boys take the mower out on the road and finally get it to stop at the Riccolis’ house. Mrs. Riccoli sees them and hires them to take care of the property, since the gardener died in the last book. Mrs. Riccoli, I’m going to tell you right now that this is a horrible idea.
Thoughts: Steven mentions a book called Dog Walking for Fun and Profit. That must be a short book. Step 1: Walk dogs. Step 2: Profit.
Jessica notes that Mrs. Riccoli is messy and leaves things like scissors on the floor of her study. Mrs. R., you have a two-year-old. Get it together.
“For safety reasons, the emergency shutoff may only be used once every ten minutes.” How is that safe? How is that mower manufacturer still in business?
SVT #97, Too Scared to Sleep: Don’t Close Your Eyes
Posted in books tagged Alice Wakefield, SVT, Winston Egbert at 5:08 pm by Jenn
I kind of like Liz’s shirt
Summary: This book is bookended (…heh) by scenes with a little girl angry that people are in her house. Though it’s not confirmed until the end, that house is the “old Sullivan house,” a mansion in Sweet Valley that’s been empty for a while. The twins are riding their bikes past it one day when they see that a family is moving in. The mother, Mrs. Riccoli, introduces herself and asks if the twins know anyone who can babysit her five kids. (Her husband is still back at their old hometown and won’t be joining them for a while. Mrs. Riccoli is a college professor who’s arranged to only teach at night so she can be with the kids during the day.)
Elizabeth is eager to help, of course, but Jessica isn’t as thrilled about the idea of babysitting. However, when the twins, Amy, Todd, and Winston go to Casey’s and don’t have enough money to pay for their ice cream, they realize they really need money. (By the way, Joe is now managing the place, and he’s nice enough to let them start a tab.) Elizabeth comes up with the idea of the five of them starting a babysitting service. The Riccolis become their first regular customers, and the twins take the first job.
Right away, things get off to a spooky start – the kids scare the twins before they’ve even met. Fortunately, the kids are pretty well-behaved and like the twins, which means the sitting job isn’t too difficult for them. The only real trouble is that five-year-old Juliana is scared to go to bed because she’s been having nightmares about a “monster girl.” Then, as the twins are leaving, they run into the gardener, Mr. Brangwen, who’s creepy. He advises them to never close their eyes in the house.
Since the Riccolis have a mishmash of furniture that Jessica thinks is ugly, she suggests that Mrs. Riccoli hire Alice to redecorate. There’s a funny moment where Mrs. Riccoli admits that she’d like to get rid of her husband’s beanbag furniture from college, and she decides to tell him it got lost in the move. Alice is happy to take the job.
Elizabeth and Amy watch the Riccoli kids together, and Juliana has another nightmare about the monster girl. Later, Elizabeth runs into Mr. Brangwen downtown, and he’s creepy some more, telling her someone will get her in her sleep. While sitting for the kids again, Todd and Elizabeth start to wonder if Mr. Brangwen’s spooky warnings are making Juliana’s nightmares worse. Liz mentions the dreams to Mrs. Riccoli, who, while obviously worried for her daughter, thinks they’re just due to the changes in Juliana’s life and will end soon.
Jessica takes Alice to the Riccolis’ house to meet Mrs. Riccoli, but as soon as Alice realizes where they’re going, she flips out. She completely refuses to go into the house. Her excuse is that she’s too busy to take the job, which Jessica finds strange since she wasn’t too busy when she first accepted it.
Mr. Brangwen dies, so now Elizabeth is spooked. Amy doesn’t see any connection to the Sullivan house, since he was in his 80s and died at home. Still, Liz can’t help but think that his warning not to close your eyes in the house is tied to his death. On the plus side, she thinks that with him gone, no one will put scary thoughts in Juliana’s head anymore, and her nightmares will end.
Wrong! The twins babysit again, and Juliana has a nightmare, saying that the monster girl scratched her. And just like someone in a Nightmare on Elm Street movie, she has actual scratch marks all over her back. While Liz is tending to this craziness, Jessica finds a hidden room that belonged to a little girl decades ago. There’s a picture of the little girl with a teenager, and it’s labeled “Alice and Eva.” And yes, that’s Alice as in Alice Wakefield. What Jess doesn’t know is that the little girl is watching her, and she’s very unhappy that someone is touching her things…
In the B-plot, Winston runs into Charlie Cashman (who I once called “a huge waste of DNA”) while leaving a music lesson. Ordinarily this wouldn’t be a big deal, but the instrument Winston plays is the uber-dorky accordion. Charlie threatens to tell everyone at school unless Winston gives him $25. Good thing Winston’s part of this new babysitting service, and easily gets a job sitting for the eight-month-old Karsten twins. Too bad he has no idea how to take care of children and feeds them soda and Jell-o.
Winston makes $15 and offers to pay Charlie in installments, but Charlie ups the price to $30. So Winston takes another job with the Karstens. For some reason, he doesn’t think to ask Elizabeth if he can help sit for the Riccolis, who need a sitter a lot more often, and don’t have any babies whose health Winston can ruin. Anyway, Winston microwaves a Tiffany bowl with metal in it, ruining both the bowl and the Karstens’ microwave. They fire him and refuse to pay him his $15.
Charlie comes to Winston’s house to collect his money, so Winston traps him in the dark garage while he tries to think of a way to get out of the blackmail. Charlie starts freaking out and admits that he’s afraid of the dark. With his own blackmail material in hand, Winston calls things even with Charlie and even gets his original $15 back. Then the Karstens ask Winston to sit for the twins again, since they apparently liked him a lot. I’m guessing what they really liked was the soda he gave them.
Thoughts: For once in his life, Todd makes an excellent point: No way would a college student take a class on a Friday night.
Mrs. Karsten is officially concerned about paying for a new microwave, considering she could afford a Tiffany bowl.
“My own mother, afraid of a haunted house – not that it’s haunted now, because the Riccolis live there.” So according to Jessica, a house can’t be haunted if people move in. Hasn’t she ever seen a horror movie about a haunted house?
SVT Super Edition #6, The Twins Take Paris: What’s French for “These Girls Are Idiots”?
Posted in books tagged Alice Wakefield, crime and/or punishment, Ned Wakefield, Steven Wakefield, SVT, vacation at 5:13 pm by Jenn
Summary: In what’s supposed to be their first trip to France (of many throughout all the Sweet Valley books), the twins have been chosen to spend their spring break in Paris. By the way, they speak, like, ten words of French. They’re annoyed that their phrasebooks don’t include anything helpful. Oh, come on, girls, you don’t think you’ll ever have the opportunity to say “hail to the never-dying ancestors of long ago” or “we are not dead yet”? I mean, I do nothing BUT wish I knew the French for that. Jessica thinks she should write her own phrasebook.
At the last minute, the twins’ host family has to back out, and they’re told they’ll be staying with an older women named Madame du Noir. The host family says a bunch of stuff in their explanatory letter about what Madame du Noir is like, but their English is pretty bad, and the girls aren’t sure what they’re trying to say. They both get an ominous feeling about the change in plans. But whatever, do you want to go to France or not? You do? Then you’re staying with the possibly weird lady.
On the plane, Jessica reads a magazine article about some American girls who went missing in Paris. Before one of them disappeared, she was seen with an older woman who was wearing a polka-dotted scarf. Both twins have dreams about an old woman (Liz’s inspired by the villain in a mystery novel). When they land in Paris and go to meet Madame du Noir, they recognize her black and white polka-dotted scarf. Their host is a murderer!
The girls make one of the dumbest decisions of their lives (and that’s saying a lot) – they get in a cab and flee. While Madame du Noir calls the Wakefields back in Sweet Valley to tell them their foolish daughters have run off alone in Paris, the twins eat pastries and wonder if their host is really a murderer. After all, she may have said threatening things about them in French, but she may not have – Elizabeth can’t be sure. They decide to go to her place to make sure, but they run into her and hear her saying something about cooking the girls for dinner and putting them under glass. They dodge her and run away again.
Ned and Alice book a flight to Paris to find their daughters, dragging Steven along instead of leaving him behind with a family friend or something. Steven couldn’t care less that his sisters are on their own in a strange city; he’d much rather try to sell a bunch of his college T-shirts, which he’s heard are really popular in France. How did he get 86 college shirts in the first place? Those things are expensive! Steven happens to run into a flight attendant from the twins’ flight, and she tells him that they may believe that Madame du Noir is behind the disappearance of all the American girls.
The twins come across a baker whose assistant just quit, leaving him with no help in preparing for a big wedding. The girls offer to help out in exchange for being allowed to sleep in the backroom. The baker soon learns that two 12-year-old girls aren’t the best people to rely on for help with a big project that requires attention to detail and meticulous measurements. While they’re working, the Wakefields meet up with Madame du Noir, who takes them to…the same bakery. Sure. The girls hear her say something about their mother, and they think she’s lying to the baker about being their mom. They run off without realizing that their family is with her.
The twins go to the Louvre, because a) what else do you do in Paris, b) it’s basically the law that you have to go to the Louvre when you’re there, and c) they probably don’t know where else to go. They try calling home but just get the answering machine. Steven goes off alone, thinking he sees the twins, and learns from a Parisian that college shirts aren’t popular anymore. Sacre bleu! A little later, when the Wakefields go looking for the twins at the Louvre, Steven almost gets arrested for saying “j’ai sorry” (“I have sorry” instead of “I am sorry”) to a guard, who thinks he stole a sari from an exhibit. Thanks for tagging along on this trip, Steven.
Apparently security at the Louvre is pretty lax, other than when a 14-year-old boy may have stolen a piece of clothing, so the twins are able to hide under a bed until everyone leaves. When they leave the next day, they encounter an older woman named Madame Renault who has a scarf similar to Madame du Noir’s, only hers is blue with pink dots. The woman invites the twins to her apartment for tea and cookies, telling them how lonely she is. Jess is like, “You have a mustache but I’m hungry, so let’s go.”
Ned and Alice get separated from Steven and Madame du Noir, who run into the baker again. He offers to drive them around and help look for the twins. They happen to pass Madame Renault’s apartment, and Steven happens to see the twins through the window, even though the book makes a big deal out of how fast the baker drives. The three head to the apartment, but again, the twins hear Madame du Noir’s voice and run away. Madame du Noir senses that something weird is going on and calls the police, who suspect that Madame Renault is the serial kidnapper/killer. But Madame Renault escapes and follows the twins to the Eiffel Tower.
While running from Madame du Noir and the cops, the twins realize that Madame Renault is wearing a wig and carrying a knife. Also, she’s not Madame Renault – she’s Monsieur Renault. I guess dressing up as a harmless little old lady was a good way to get young American girls to trust him. Or maybe this is a Norman Bates situation. Either way, the twins realize that they were wrong not to trust Madame du Noir. Plus, they only thought the killer had a black-and-white scarf because the picture they saw of her was in black and white. Okay, I buy Jessica making that mistake but not Elizabeth.
There’s a lot of running around in the tower, which Steven gets stuck on top of, but eventually everything gets worked out and Monsieur Renault is captured. Ned and Alice cancel the rest of the twins’ trip and will have to occupy themselves for the rest of spring break by working in the garden and clearing out the attic. The twins don’t seem to get how serious the situation was, but then again, it’s not like their parents bar them from ever traveling alone again, so maybe no one learned a lesson here.
Thoughts: “She tossed aside From Wimp to Hunk Quarterly, reminding herself to buy Steven a copy for his birthday.” Hee hee.
“They have electricity in France, don’t they?” How did Jessica make it to the sixth grade?
I hope no kids try to read this book to learn about France. All I learned is that it has a lot of traffic and pastries.
If I were Ned and Alice, I would abandon the kids in Paris and go home without them.
SVT #87, The Mother-Daughter Switch: Freaky Friday (and Saturday and Sunday)
Posted in books tagged Alice Wakefield, Steven Wakefield, SVT at 5:04 pm by Jenn
I just realized that I’m almost as old as Alice, and now I have to go lie down
Summary: Jessica’s getting ready for a rollerblading fundraiser (creatively called the Rollerblade-a-thon) when she almost flattens a neighbor’s flowers and gets yelled at for being irresponsible. I imagine that the neighbor, Mrs. Wolsky, screams at kids to get off her lawn no fewer than six times a day. Jessica’s offended at the implication that she’s irresponsible… then proceeds to prove how irresponsible she is by throwing together a barbecue with Liz in 20 minutes because neither did what she was supposed to do to get ready.
Alice is also irresponsible, though, as she hasn’t done her part. She blames all the time she’s spent working on a design for Mrs. Wolsky’s sunporch. They’re supposed to be hosting a mother-daughter event for friends, but neither mother nor daughters has bought anything. Instead of hamburgers, they serve bologna and tomato sandwiches with weak lemonade. They couldn’t at least order a bunch of pizzas?
After the disastrous event, Alice blasts the twins for thinking they’re busier than her when all they have to deal with is school and homework, while she works full-time and parents three kids. Ha ha, like Alice actually does any parenting. Jessica thinks being a preteen is way harder than being an adult. She suggests that she and Elizabeth switch places with Alice for the weekend. Alice will do Elizabeth’s project for her media class (reviewing some TV shows – what kind of easy homework is that?) and collect Jessica’s pledges for the Rollerblade-a-thon. In exchange, the twins will decorate Mrs. Wolsky’s sunporch.
Alice immediately slips into lazy-and-flighty-kid mode, while the twins relish getting to boss around both their mother and their brother. Really, at this point, Alice has already won this little experiment – as a working mom, she basically has two jobs, so she’s automatically busier than the twins. Alice gets to eat junk food and lounge around while the twins have to do grown-up things like cook dinner and clean.
Alice does struggle to get sponsors for the Rollerblade-a-thon (and she ends up just giving the money herself), but that’s nothing compared to her normal life. She also has trouble getting the VCR to work, because it’s supposed to be funny when people over the age of 18 have trouble with modern electronic devices, though in this case, either Alice has some actual cognitive problems or the VCR is needlessly complicated. She tries to get Steven to help her figure it out, but the twins get him to agree not to.
The twins get to work on Mrs. Wolsky’s sunporch but immediately hit a snag when they discover how much furniture costs. They also never talk to her about what she wants. It’s a good thing the twins are still kids because they wouldn’t last five minutes as adults (despite their experiences in BIG for Christmas). They spend a few minutes back as their kid selves by helping Steven, who’s now a budding filmmaker, create fake blood by microwaving tomatoes. The kid in me thinks that sounds awesome. The adult in me just cries, “Who’s going to clean that up?”
Alice solves her VCR problem by reviewing episodes of Days of Turmoil that Jessica had already taped. She’s having fun with the switch again, so when the twins come to her admitting defeat and asking to switch back, she says no. After all, when you’re an adult, you can’t just…stop being an adult. Okay, but a) when you’re an adult and you’re struggling to do something, you can ask for help, and b) if Alice had agreed to stop the experiment, she would have proven that being an adult is harder than being a kid. I think she just wants to have an excuse to keep sleeping in and eating donuts.
The twins have to cook dinner again, even though we know Alice doesn’t usually cook every night, so they shouldn’t have to do it this much. They try to pass off Dairi Burgers as their own, but Steven busts them. Whatever – the family got fed, so who cares? The twins then go back to their design job, and Jessica comes up with the “brilliant” idea of just moving the Wakefields’ sunporch furniture over to Mrs. Wolsky’s house. They don’t think anyone will notice that their own furniture is missing for a few days. No word on what they plan to do to replace it.
Apparently Alice is now participating in the Rollerblade-a-thon instead of Jessica, but she’s never rollerbladed before, and it soon becomes clear that she’s horrible at it. Steven tries to help her, but she doesn’t have much time to learn. Now she wants to end the switch, but the twins are doing well and say no. While Alice is off making a fool of herself on rollerblades, the twins sneak the sunporch furniture over to Mrs. Wolsky’s house. Steven promises to keep quiet if they dress up as burglars and let him film it.
The twins find a collage Alice made them all about how awesome they are and how much she loves having them as daughters. She was going to give it to them after the barbecue, but everyone ended up mad at each other, so she must have forgotten about it. The twins hurry to the Rollerblade-a-thon and see how hard she’s trying to finish. They realize that being a working mom is a lot harder than being a kid, and that Alice now sees how they sometimes have it rough, too.
Alice comes home from the Rollerblade-a-thon to find a redo of the mother-daughter barbecue (this time with food and napkins and stuff). Everyone’s happy and they all sympathize with each other now. Even Mrs. Wolsky is happy and thinks the twins are responsible after all. Alice lets them know that she had a backup plan in place – she bought furniture on the sly and was ready to swap it in for whatever monstrosities the twins put in Mrs. Wolsky’s sunporch. Since Mrs. Wolsky is so happy with what the twins did (she must not realize it’s all used furniture), the Wakefields will keep the new stuff. I hope Mrs. Wolsky also got a discount for letting 12-year-olds make decisions about her décor.
Thoughts: How do you “accidentally put all the cheese on one side of the pizza”?
But wait, that’s not the dumbest thing Elizabeth does in this book. She has no idea how interior decorators work. She and Jess think they have to pay for all the furniture themselves. How do they think their mother makes money, anyway?
When the girls come up with a plan to serve the family burgers from Dairi Burger and pretend they cooked, they hope no one finds all the hamburger patties in the freezer that they’re going to pretend they made. So why didn’t they…cook the burgers in the freezer? We know they know how to cook. They’re just so incredibly dumb in this book.
SVT #85, Elizabeth the Seventh-Grader: What a Difference a Year Makes
Posted in books tagged Alice Wakefield, Bruce Patman, Ned Wakefield, Steven Wakefield, SVT at 8:03 pm by Jenn
Same, Liz
Summary: Ned and Alice are called to school on a Monday night to discuss Elizabeth. Yes, Elizabeth, not Jessica, the twin you would expect to have a parent-teacher conference called for. Liz is terrified that she’s done something wrong, and normally I’d make fun of her, because when has she ever done anything wrong, but this is a totally normal reaction. It’s like when you drive by a police car and start worrying that you’ve broken the law. Anyway, the conference is for something completely unexpected: Elizabeth’s teachers think she’s not being challenged enough at school, and she should skip ahead to the seventh grade.
Elizabeth thinks this is a great idea, even if it might be hard for her socially. Jessica is less than thrilled, since being in different classes will mean that the sisters won’t get to spend as much time together or have as much in common. Steven tells Jess that he doesn’t think Liz will be able to handle hanging out with the older kids. For the first in what will be dozens of instances through the book, I roll my eyes, because there is not that much difference between sixth-graders and seventh-graders, but whatever. Jessica and Steven decide to try to convince Liz not to move up to seventh grade.
Liz doesn’t think much will change – she’ll keep her friends and will still see them a bunch. But she soon realizes that she’ll no longer be able to write for The Sixers. Amy takes over as editor-in-chief, and Elizabeth becomes the lowest person on the totem pole at the 7&8 Gazette. (Sidebar: Maybe people wouldn’t see the sixth-graders as so different from the other middle-schoolers if they were allowed to do things with them, like work on the same dang newspaper.)
I’m not sure Jessica and Steven fully understand reverse psychology, but that’s what they plan to use on Liz to get her to change her mind about switching grades. Jess will join The Sixers and hang out with Liz’s friends to make her realize what she’ll be missing. If they make the sixth grade seem super-fun, Elizabeth won’t want to leave it. You know, because Liz always chooses what’s fun over what seems to be the best fit for her, especially when it comes to academics.
Elizabeth gets a B+ on the very first quiz she takes as a seventh-grader, and she realizes she’ll have to work harder to maintain her grades. Maybe they shouldn’t have moved her ahead in the middle of the school year? Liz tries to befriend some seventh-graders, but they seem to view her as a child. Again, there’s only a year’s difference in their ages, and one of the girls is Kerry Glenn, who’s never had a problem being friends with sixth-grader Jessica, so there shouldn’t be an issue here.
Elizabeth is invited to a party Tom McKay is throwing (no sixth-graders allowed!), so now Jess has something to be jealous about. She and Steven tell Ned and Alice that seventh- and eighth-grade parties are wild, and Elizabeth is in for some eye-opening stuff. Ned and Alice are really only strict when it comes to parties, and they tell Elizabeth she can’t go. Liz’s new friends point out that the party will be a great way for her to socialize with her new classmates, so she decides she needs to find a way to go. She’s going to pull a trick from Jessica’s book and sneak out.
Jessica gives Elizabeth a mini-makeover so she won’t look like a baby in front of the “older” kids. Secretly, Jess and Steven plan to alert Ned and Alice (who are going to a dinner party) once Elizabeth leaves, so they’ll bust her and demote her to the sixth grade. But Steven realizes that Ned and Alice are so proud of Elizabeth that they’ll just punish her and let her stay in the seventh grade. He thinks that the better idea is to let Liz go to the party and find out for herself how unready she is for the seventh grade.
While Jessica hangs out with Elizabeth’s friends, who are planning the sixth grade’s class camping trip, Elizabeth goes to the party with Mary. The kids play Spin the Bottle, and Liz’s spin lands on Bruce. Liz negs him and runs off to cry in the bathroom. When she rejoins the party, everyone’s playing Truth or Dare. Mary realizes that Liz is going to be dared to do something horrible, so she pretends they have to leave right away. Janet announces that since Liz is going to miss her dare, Janet will think of something for her to do at school. Elizabeth is so desperate to leave that she agrees, not thinking about what Janet might make her do.
Alice and Ned catch Elizabeth coming back from the party, and though they’re upset that she disobeyed their orders, they’re fine with her desire to fit in with her new classmates. Liz realizes that she has to make it work in her new grade so her parents won’t be disappointed. She tells Jessica the party was great but won’t give her any details, since she’s not a seventh-grader and therefore not cool enough to find out.
Jess finds out what really happened at the party from Janet, and realizes she can use the upcoming dare to show Elizabeth that she’s not ready for the seventh grade. She gets Janet to dare Elizabeth to kiss Bruce in the cafeteria, in front of the whole middle school. Amy and Maria tell Liz to just not do it (really, what can Janet do if she doesn’t?), but Liz is suddenly big on peer pressure and worried that she’ll be ostracized if she doesn’t follow through. Someone please tell Elizabeth that she doesn’t have to make everyone like her.
Jessica is supposed to write a couple of articles for The Sixers, but she gets Liz to write one for her. Jess says that Amy can’t handle being editor-in-chief, so Liz needs to help out so the paper goes out on time and Amy won’t be embarrassed. Jess will probably keep this in her back pocket and use it as an excuse again in the future. On top of trying to make Elizabeth think that The Sixers is struggling without her, Jess hints that Todd is upset because he thinks his girlfriend is going to kiss Bruce in front of the whole school. Elizabeth is miserable in the seventh grade now, and she decides to tell her parents she wants to go back to the sixth grade. But they’re so proud of her that she realizes she can’t break their hearts.
Jess and Steven tease Liz about kissing Bruce, thinking they’ll get her to back out. Jessica brings up Todd again, saying that he might dump Elizabeth if she goes through with the kiss. Amy and Maria still think Liz should stand up to Janet and refuse to do it. Instead, Elizabeth goes for the kiss…and then balks at the last minute, announcing that she’s not going to do it. Instead of looking like a baby, though, Elizabeth looks like a boss for dissing the coolest guy in school.
Elizabeth decides to forget about making seventh-grade friends and just hang out with the sixth-graders. They all go on their camping trip, which Liz is now unable to go on, but Alice surprises her by taking her to join them. She tells her that she and Ned realized that, while Liz was doing well in her classes, she was clearly unhappy in every other aspect of the seventh grade, so she needs to go back to sixth. So Elizabeth’s two weeks in the seventh grade are over, and I guess she’ll go back to being unchallenged in her classes.
Thoughts: Saint Elizabeth is so pure and innocent that she’s never heard of Spin the Bottle.
Steven: “One time, a bunch of eighth-grade guys got together and…” Alice: “What?” Steven: “Maybe I shouldn’t say.” I know it’s Sweet Valley, so it couldn’t have been anything you wouldn’t see in a G-rated movie, but all I can think of is dirty stuff.
Elizabeth has green jeans. I feel sick.
While people are teasing Elizabeth about her upcoming kiss, Tom McKay says, “Bruce! Bruce! Kiss me! Kiss me!” So I guess the signs were there all along.
SVT Magna Edition #3, BIG for Christmas: Don’t Grow Up! They Make You Do Stuff!
Posted in books tagged Alice Wakefield, holiday (celebrate), Ned Wakefield, Steven Wakefield, SVT at 5:04 pm by Jenn
I’m not sure what they’re looking at. Santa?
Summary: Christmas is approaching, and since it wouldn’t be an SVT book without a party, the Howells want to throw one. Joe has agreed to let Janet invite a bunch of middle-schoolers to his high school party, which is A Big Deal. Janet warns all of the Unicorns to dress appropriately, since there will be older boys in attendance. Jessica is singled out as a fashion don’t. Ouch. Jess vows to find a killer outfit, and to make sure Elizabeth doesn’t embarrass her.
The Christmas carnival is back, and amazingly, Janet doesn’t think the Unicorns are too old to go to it. Steven, a mature high-schooler, also doesn’t find it too babyish. The Wakefield siblings run into each other, and the twins embarrass their brother. I have a feeling that there isn’t a lot about the twins that doesn’t embarrass Steven. This just sets up a slow burn through the book for Steven, who’s annoyed by how immature his sisters are.
Jessica has a hard time finding a party outfit, since everything in the juniors section is too small (really?), everything in the children’s section is too childish, and everything in the adult section is too mature. It doesn’t help that the department-store employees just see Jess as a kid. Elizabeth has similar problems when she tries to buy a book for Amy – everything the clerk recommends is too young, and the horse book she picks out is too expensive. She’s treated like a child as well, so both twins are annoyed that, at the ripe old age of 12, they’re not seen as adults.
Jess tags along on a shipping trip to L.A. with Lila and ends up hitting the jackpot – a woman was having a garage sale and getting rid of a bunch of clothes she’s made over the years. They’re perfect for Jess, and just in her price range. But then Ned finds out that the party at the Howells’ will feature high school boys. Apparently he thought Joe was just bringing some friends over to help set up, and then they would leave. Okay, Ned. Steven plays up this angle, trying to get his sisters banned from the party so they can’t embarrass him. This, plus Alice’s disdain for the twins’ party outfits, leads to the twins being told they can’t go.
The twins try to sneak out, pretending they’re going to the carnival, but Ned and Alice invite themselves along, so they have to go to the carnival for real. The twins are miserable. They head to a wishing well, run by a guy dressed like an elf, and both girls make the same wish: to be grown-ups. If you think this sounds like Big or 13 Going on 30, you’re right.
The next morning, Liz wakes up and realizes her nightgown is too small. At first she thinks she had a sudden overnight growth spurt, but she soon discovers that things are way weirder than that: She’s now an adult. Jessica finds her freaking out in the bathroom, and when they see each other, they both freak out some more. They realize they made the same wish, and both came true.
The twins decide they need to avoid their parents, so they steal some clothes from Alice, as their own clothes are now too small. Jessica runs into Steven, who can’t figure out why there’s a strange woman in his house who somehow knows his name. Ned and Alice start panicking about an intruder while the twins run off to figure out how to get themselves back to normal. Ha ha, no, they don’t. They want to start new lives for themselves as adults.
Jessica’s hungry, so she suggests that they go get donuts, even though they don’t have money. A delivery guy has skipped out on work, so Jess offers herself and Liz as replacement drivers. Never mind that they don’t have driver’s licenses, work experience, or any idea how to drive. Jessica flirts her way to the job and a free breakfast, saying that the twins need to be familiar with the product they’ll be delivering. They both eat a bunch of donuts, because being a grown-up means you need more food. Jess drives the truck, which is a disaster, and when she hits a car, she and Liz flee the scene of the accident, the little criminals.
Having discovered that the twins are missing, Ned and Alice call the police and try to convince them that the girls were kidnapped by the woman Steven saw. The police are unconcerned, figuring the twins just ran away after the fight with their parents about the party. Steven feels bad, since he got the twins banned from the party and then realized it was the wrong move.
He sets out to find his sisters, and accidentally runs into them as they’re dodging the police. It takes some convincing before he believes they’ve grown up overnight. Fortunately, he has some money on him, so the twins get him to hand it over. Steven also offers to make arrangements for them to sleep in the Wakefields’ garage without Ned and Alice finding out. This involves getting Joe to ring the doorbell and run, distracting Ned and Alice long enough for Steven to move things like sleeping bags to the garage.
The twins need money so they can find their own place to live, so they go to a temp agency to get jobs. Again, they have no work experience, no diplomas, and no IDs. Apparently it’s super-easy to get a job in Sweet Valley. Jess gets placed at a fashion company, and on her way to work on the bus, she tells a guy she’s a supermodel. The guy turns out to be a photographer at the fashion company, so Jess is pretty embarrassed when she’s outed as a temp. But probably not as embarrassed as the guy would be if he knew he was checking out a 12-year-old.
The twins both have horrible days – Elizabeth can’t juggle all the phone calls at the publishing house where she’s working as a receptionist, and Jess has no idea how to tackle her company’s filing system. Also, everyone is mean to them, which I find hard to believe. It’s all just to show that being an adult is hard, and you have to, like, work and stuff.
Jessica gets banished to a conference room to put together binders for a meeting. She starts sketching party clothes instead, and the photographer from the bus is impressed. The company has been trying to sell clothes to tween girls, but they can’t figure out what they want. I guess it would be too much work to…ask them? Anyway, Jess is immediately promoted and brought on board to consult for the line.
Elsewhere in town, Elizabeth is supposed to take minutes for a meeting about a book series for tween girls. My favorite part of this is when someone suggests a series about horses, and Elizabeth thinks to herself that since she loves the horse series she already reads, she wouldn’t want to read any other. That’s so ridiculous. Liz decides to contribute to the meeting by saying that the company should do a series about 12-year-old twin girls. This is seen as a genius idea, and, like Jess, Liz is asked to work on the series – which will be called Sweet Valley Twins. Please kill me.
The twins meet up for dinner and celebrate the great days they both had. When Steven joins them later, he tries to hide his disappointment – he wanted to convince them to go to the carnival and make a wish to go back to being themselves, but since they’re enjoying adulthood, he knows they won’t do it. Steven heads home, where Ned has decided to cancel a big meeting because he can’t focus on work when his daughters are missing. Steven realizes that this means he could lose money, which means Steven’s allowance could get cut, and he wouldn’t be able to help the twins. He tells Ned not to cancel the meeting, but won’t say why. Alice and Ned ground him for helping his sisters stay hidden.
Steven sneaks out of the house to meet up with the twins, not realizing that now Elizabeth is struggling to adjust to being an adult. They run into a bunch of middle-schoolers out caroling, and Liz is hurt when Amy doesn’t recognize her. Jessica is now also missing her old life, but it takes a while for the twins to admit to each other that being an adult is hard. And it only took two days!
The girls decide to go back to the carnival with Steven and make another wish. But alas! The carnival has closed and left town! They grab a bus and head to the next location, begging the man at the wishing well to let them in after-hours so they can make their wishes. The man’s wife is with him, and Jessica recognizes her as the woman she bought all the party clothes from. The three siblings make the wish together, and the man disappears in a flash of light. However, the twins haven’t turned back into 12-year-olds yet.
The Wakefields take the bus home, and the twins fall asleep. Steven wonders how he’s going to explain things to his parents. But it’s a moot point – when the bus reaches Sweet Valley, the twins are back to normal. Ned and Alice are so happy to see them that they don’t really care what happened, and the girls’ only punishment is doing a bunch of stuff with the family for Christmas. Well, I guess they don’t get paychecks or proper credit for their single day of work, so that’s punishment, too. And now they have a newfound appreciation for how much easier it is to be 12 than it is to be an adult.
Thoughts: “I can’t wait until I’m old enough to be called ‘Ms.,’ she thought.” You’ll change your mind when you’re older, Jess. I hate being called “Ms.”
“[Jessica] stepped into a sleeveless black sheath dress with a giant tiger head stitched onto the front. It was the coolest dress she had ever seen.” WHAT.
You know what will help convince your parents that you’re mature, Elizabeth? Storming out of an argument in tears.
SVT #55, Brooke and Her Rock-Star Mom: Madonna Never Tried to Pull This Crap
Posted in books tagged Alice Wakefield, Brooke Dennis, Ned Wakefield, Steven Wakefield, SVT at 4:54 pm by Jenn
Same, Brooke. Same
Summary: The twins are both friends with Brooke Dennis now, so they’re more than happy to try to help her come up with an idea for a Sixers article about a celebrity. She’s not feeling inspired, and she feels like all the “good” ones are taken. On the radio they hear the awesome new song “Chocolate Kisses for My Baby” by awesome new rock star Coco, who’s just about to hit it big in the U.S. Brooke decides to write her article about Coco, who, coincidentally, lives in France (though she’s American), as does Brooke’s mother (also American).
Everyone at SVMS has become a Coco fan, including a boy named Colin Harmon, who Brooke has a crush on. He seems to feel the same way about her. Jessica, Lila, and Ellen decide to start a Coco fan club, and when Jessica calls Coco’s record company to get information, she learns that the club would be the first in the U.S. This entitles Jessica to free stuff like shirts, and possibly a newspaper feature in the future. She also gets a signed photo of Coco, the first picture anyone’s seen of her in the States.
Though Brooke is excited about the fan club and Coco’s upcoming stateside music video debut, she’s more excited about the fact that her mother, stepfather, and half sister are coming to visit. Her mom, Constance, has some big news. For one, she, her husband Bobby, and one-year-old Sonya are moving to California, so now Brooke will get to see them all the time. She feels like her life couldn’t get any better. But wait! There’s more! Guess why Constance’s career is bringing her back to the States? Because she’s Coco!
Before Brooke can pinch herself to see if she’s really dreaming all these wonderful things, Constance’s agent, Bernice, tells her she can’t let anyone know Coco’s her mother. They want Coco to seem mysterious, so word can’t get out that she’s married and has kids. Yeah, no one ever liked a rock star who had kids. I really don’t think anyone cares about the family lives of their favorite singers unless they’re married to other celebrities and involved in scandals. I guess boy band members try to keep that stuff quiet, because it ruins the possibility that one will hook up with a fan if you know he’s in a relationship, but whatever. The point is that Brooke can’t even tell her friends that her mom is a rock star.
This is where Brooke’s happy new reality starts coming apart. She tries to spend time with her mom, but Constance keeps getting called away for photo shoots and interviews. The family can’t go out and do stuff together because Constance might be recognized. Brook ends up spending a lot of time with Bobby and Sonya, but barely any with her mom. Bernice is a controlling monster, and Constance doesn’t have the backbone to stand up to her and remind Bernice that she works for Constance, not the other way around.
Things don’t get any better at school. Everyone’s still all about the Coco fan club, but Brooke wants to distance herself from all the hype. Lila announces that she’s throwing a big viewing party for Coco’s debut video on a channel that’s supposed to be MTV. Brooke begs off and watches the video alone at her own pity party. She also begs off going with the rest of the fan club to a record store where Coco will be signing autographs. Elizabeth hangs out with her, trying to figure out why she’s suddenly so glum. When she notices that Brooke and Coco look a lot alike, Brooke spills her secret.
Constance hangs out with Jessica at her signing and gives her two front-row tickets to her first stateside concert. Jessica’s determined to find out more about her new idol, so she stalks Constance to her hotel (yes, really) and spots her with Bobby and Sonya. Brooke passes Jess on her way to see her mom, but doesn’t find it strange that a 12-year-old would be hanging out alone at a fancy hotel. Brooke learns about the concert and throws a fit over how much Constance is working instead of spending time with her family, and how hard it’s been to keep quiet about her mother’s identity.
Jessica decides to tell Elizabeth that she learned about Constance’s marriage and child. But as she’s starting to share the news, Elizabeth thinks she’s discovered that Constance is Brooke’s mother, and accidentally gives Jess that info. Jessica promises to keep quiet, and for once, she actually does. But it doesn’t matter – as revenge on her mother and Bernice, Brooke calls a newspaper and reveals that Coco is married and has two children.
Bernice figures out who leaked the info and tears into Brooke for jeopardizing Constance’s career. On top of that, Brooke has had to turn down a date with Colin – her very first date ever – because he wants to take her to Coco’s concert. She tells him she doesn’t think her mom would let her go, which is kind of funny. Brooke’s whole life has gone pear-shaped, so it’s not that surprising when Mr. Dennis goes to the Wakefields’ house to ask if they’ve seen Brooke. She’s disappeared.
Constance calls later, telling Elizabeth she feels horrible about everything Brooke has had to go through. Then why did you put her through it? It’s Bernice’s fault! Fire her! Constance is too distraught to sing, so she cancels her concert, which was scheduled for the next night. Jessica’s upset – who cares if their friend is missing if it means Jess can’t use her front-row tickets? Well, actually, she’s upset because there’s no reason for the concert to be cancelled. She ran into Brooke and invited her to hide out in the Wakefields’ basement instead of running away out of town.
Brooke quickly calls her mother, and the two of them easily make up. If I were Constance, I’d probably be a little ticked that Brooke disobeyed me instead of talking through her issues, but okay. Now the concert can go on! And Constance is going to fire Bernice and find an agent who actually respects the fact that she has a family! And Brooke doesn’t have to lie anymore! Also, she can probably get to first base with Colin at some point!
The B-plot is about how Ned and Alice keep finding debris from the kids’ big party around the house. They find empty chip bags and wonder what happened to all their pickles and mayo. The twins and Steven tell them that May ate all their food, though that doesn’t explain the slice of lunch meat found in one of Alice’s shoes. If I were her and Ned, I’d worry that I’d left my children in the care of a woman with an eating disorder and possible early dementia. Though if I were Ned or Alice, I would have a lot other problems to deal with.
The kids worry that Caroline’s mom is going to rat them out for the party, so they decide to come clean with their parents. They downplay how out-of-control things got, and don’t admit that they tricked May to get her out of the house (they say she was out running errands during the party). Ned and Alice don’t know anything about the party – Caroline’s mom wanted to talk to them about something else – but they’re impressed with their children for being honest. Yeah, three weeks later! Because of their integrity, or whatever, the kids don’t get punished, but they do have to clean the whole house (again) because their Aunt Helen is coming to visit. So basically, if the kids’ guilt hadn’t gotten the better of them, Ned and Alice never would have known about the party. They would have gotten away with it if it weren’t for those pesky consciences!
Thoughts: If Coco’s a rock star, why does she dress like a country singer? Also, Ted Mosby approves of her red cowboy boots.
If my mother gave me a signed picture of herself like Coco does with Brooke, I’d ask her if she had a stroke.
Hmm, I wonder what real-life magazine Rolling Rocks is based on?
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Boat with more than 400 people sinks in China's Yangtze
BEIJING, China -- A small cruise ship carrying more than 450 people sank overnight in the Yangtze River during a storm in southern China, and eight people have been rescued, the state broadcaster CCTV reported Tuesday.
Rescue work was underway but low visibility due to fog was hampering the search, CCTV said. The boat was traveling from Nanjing upstream to the southwestern city of Chongqing when it sank Monday night in Hubei province, the report said.
The official Xinhua News Agency quoted the captain and chief engineer, who were both rescued, as saying the ship sank quickly after being caught in a cyclone. The Communist Party-run People's Daily said the ship sank within two minutes.
CCTV said the four-level ship was carrying 406 Chinese passengers, five travel agency employees and 47 crew members. It sank in the Damazhou waterway section, where the river is 15 meters (about 50 feet) deep.
CCTV video footage of the river showed calm waters Tuesday morning, with dozens of rescue personnel in bright orange vests gathered on the shore. Several rescue ships were searching the waters, and submersible craft had been deployed.
The channel said seven of the survivors swam to shore and alerted authorities of the sinking.
The Eastern Star yacht measured 251 feet long (76.5 meters) and 36 feet wide (11 meters) and was capable of carrying a maximum of 534 people, CCTV reported. It is owned by the Chongqing Eastern Shipping Corp., which focuses on tourism routes in the popular Three Gorges river canyon region.
CCTV reported that 6 inches (150 millimeters) of rain had fallen in the region over the past 24 hours.
Chinese Premier Li Keqiang is reported to be traveling to the accident site. Xinhua reported that President Xi Jinping had ordered a work team of the State Council, the country's Cabinet, to rush to the site to guide the rescue work.
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Exclusive: Father of American 'Spy' Calls Iran Claims 'Bunch of Lies'
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PHOTO: Amir Mirzaei Hekmati is a 28-year-old U.S.-raised dual citizen of Iran and America.
The father of the Iranian-American who appeared to confess to being a spy for the CIA on Iranian television called the allegations of espionage "a bunch of lies" and said he's convinced the Iranian government forced his son to lie.
Amir Mirzaei Hekmati, a 28-year-old U.S.-raised dual citizen of Iran and America, was featured on an Iranian television program Sunday, saying he had been trained in intelligence by the U.S. military and sent to Tehran to become a double agent for the CIA from within the intelligence ministry.
"It was their [the CIA's] plan to first burn some useful information, give it to them [the Iranians] and let Iran's Intelligence Ministry think that this is good material," Hekmati says in accentless American English in the video.
However, an unidentified announcer claims Iran's intelligence apparatus detected the plot and arrested Hekmati. In addition to the alleged confession, Iranian television showed images of Hekmati sometimes in uniform posing with weapons and American military officers. In another pair of images, identity cards with Hekmati's name and picture identify him first as a U.S. Army soldier and then an "army contractor."
But Hekmati's father, Ali Hekmati, a biology professor at Mott Community College in Flint, Mich., told ABC News any idea that his son is a spy is "absolutely, positively" wrong.
"My son is no spy. He is innocent. He's a good fellow, a good citizen, a good man," Hekmati said in an exclusive interview. "These are all unfounded allegations and a bunch of lies."
Ali Hekmati said his son did join the military in 2001, but served the U.S. Marines, not the Army, and worked in linguistics as an Arabic translator, not in military intelligence. According to his father, Amir Hekmati never did any intelligence work for the Pentagon or the CIA. Public records show a man with Hekmati's first and last name apparently lived for years at or near prominent American military bases, including one home less than half a mile from the Defense Language Institute in Monterrey, Calif. At ABC News' request, the U.S. Marines are checking service records for possible information on Hekmati. After the military, Amir Hekmati went to work for a private security contractor, Ali Hekmati said.
The CIA declined to comment for this report, but one U.S. official said, "Whoever this young American is, he is obviously under duress and in the hands of an enemy. His safety is paramount."
Ali Hekmati said that since his son's arrest, he's had no direct contact and Amir was only allowed a couple visits by his Iranian grandmothers while in custody. He has not been provided a lawyer, Ali Hekmati said.
"[I'm] absolutely afraid to death," the elder Hekmati said. "I don't know what they're going to do with him."
Ali Hekmati said his relatives contacted the U.S. State Department after his son was arrested and were told the government would investigate. State Department spokesperson Victoria Nuland said today the State Department has been providing consular assistance to Hekmati's family, who first reported his detention in September. Nuland declined to elaborate on Hekmati's wellbeing, citing privacy concerns. The U.S. has requested access to Hekmati but has yet to receive it, Nuland said.
ABC News' Rym Momtaz, Gerard Middleton and Kirit Radia contributed to this report.
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Gymnast Simone Biles Aims to Make History at 2016 Olympics
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Simone Biles is doing things no other gymnast has ever done.
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She hasn’t lost a competition in three years. She even has her own move called “The Biles,” a gravity-defying feat that no one else even dares trying.
“She flips backward with a straight body two times, and on the second flip, she does a half turn and she lands forward,” said her coach Aimee Boorman. “So she's going backwards. She's like arched backwards, and she flips and then starts her second flip. And before she finishes the second flip, she turns her body.”
And just this past weekend, she took one more step towards the one thing she hasn’t yet achieved -- an Olympic medal. Biles qualified for the U.S. Women’s Gymnastics team and is heading to Rio next month for the 2016 Summer Olympics.
“Sometimes I hear the crowd cheering and most of the time your body’s on auto pilot so sometimes even after I do a floor routine, I’m like, 'Did I really just do that?'” Biles said. “But it’s very exciting to hear the cheering crowd and stuff like that.”
Biles’ talent and her medals have caught the attention of corporate sponsors, including Tide Pods.
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In 2012, Biles was too young to compete in the London Games, but since then, she has been on fire.
The 19-year-old gymnast is a three-time all-around World Gymnastics champion, the first woman to win the title three times in a row. She has earned 14 medals in the World Championships, 10 of which are gold.
She said she works 32 hours a week and she’s been home-schooled since she was 16 years old to focus on gymnastics.
“I was missing out on public school and going to the football games, prom or homecomings,” Biles said. “But I’ve been to three World Championships ... so I think it’s like a win-win.”
Béla Károlyi, who has coached nine Olympic champions, including greats like Romanian Nadia Comaneci, said Biles compares to the very best in Olympic gymnastics history.
“Nadia back at the time was considered the absolute perfection,” Károlyi said. “Then Mary Lou [Retton] at her time was considered the wonder child of gymnastics, and now Simone’s time is coming up [to be] considered absolutely the best gymnast in the world.”
Biles’ mother, Nellie Biles, said she was “always jumping, always flipping” from the time she was a little girl.
“I don't think Simone ever walked up the stairs,” she said.
But discovering gymnastics came as an accident.
“Simone went on a field trip,” Nellie Biles said. “And that day they were supposed to go to a ranch, but it was very hot, and because it was an outdoor trip, it got cancelled, and so they did an indoor trip instead and then ended up going to Bannon's Gymnastix.
“I still recall Simone coming home with a note,” she continued. “And it was a note saying ... ‘Would we consider her joining the gym?’”
Simone Biles’ biological grandparents adopted her from foster care when she was 5 years old. With their unwavering support, Biles thrived.
“They always travel to my meets and do whatever they need to do for me,” she said. “So I’m really grateful for that and I think whenever I go out and compete, they get very excited when I do well because they know all I put in.”
Boorman remembers when she saw Biles for the first time when she was just 6 years old.
“I was, like, ‘What is with this kid?’” she said. “She did a round-off back handspring her very first time in class, and she said, ‘My brother taught it to me in the backyard.’ So it didn't take long before we pulled her to have her evaluated for team.”
It’s her handsprings, perfected, that set Biles apart, Boorman said.
“You know how some people have incredible balance? Well, imagine having balance without your feet on the ground while flipping and twisting and knowing exactly when you have to bring your feet down to the floor so that you don't die,” Boorman said.
Boorman said she knows the countless hours Biles has put in at the gym have been tough on her, forcing her to miss out on certain teenage moments.
“She saw her friends that she grew up with going to prom and homecoming and all that stuff, and she didn't get to participate in any of that, so I know it was a struggle,” Boorman said. “She is a major rock star. I mean, when you have people like Mary Lou Retton and Béla Károlyi, saying that, you know, she's probably the greatest gymnast they've ever seen in their lives, that's a really big deal.”
Biles is the favorite to win gold in five of the six Olympic events next month. She needs just three gold medals to become the most decorated American gymnast of all time. Given the chance to take on that Olympic podium, she said she would be very emotional.
“You just kind of feel everything like all your hard work put into that one moment and especially with the team you all get to share that memory together and remember forever,” she said.
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Obama says Iran deal vindication of ‘strong American diplomacy…. reports Asian Lite News
US President Barack Obama hailed the full implementation of an international nuclear accord with Tehran and the release of Americans held prisoner in Iran as a vindication of “strong American diplomacy”.
“Today is a good day,” Obama said in a White House speech on Sunday. “When Americans are freed and returned to their families, that’s something we can all celebrate.”
A charter plane with the Americans has left Tehran for Switzerland, Xinhua reported.
The release of the four Americans, including a Washington Post reporter Jason Rezaian, was part of a prisoner swap between Iran and the US.
US media said Washington would either pardon or drop charges against seven Iranians in exchange for the Americans.
“Engaging directly with the Iranian government to sustain basis for the first time in decades has created a unique opportunity, a window, to try to resolve important issues,” Obama said.
The president’s speech came at a time when his government was lifting billions of dollars in international sanctions on Iran as part of the international nuclear accord.
The P5+1 group, namely the US, Britain, France, China, Russia and Germany reached the comprehensive nuclear deal with Iran on July 14, 2015.
The accord, known as Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, would provide sanctions relief for Iran in exchange for limits on its controversial nuclear programme.
Talking to the people of Iran, Obama said, “For decades your government’s threats and actions to destabilise the region has isolated Iran from much of the world. Now our governments are talking to each other.”
On Saturday, Obama signed an executive order to lift sanctions on Iran after international inspectors concluded that Iran has dismantled large parts of its nuclear programme as promised.
However, hours after the release of Americans, the Obama administration also announced new sanctions on Sunday on individuals and 11 entities involved in Tehran’s ballistic missile programme.
“We will continue to enforce these sanctions vigorously,” Obama said. “We are going to remain vigilant about it.”
Also on Sunday, the US announced that Iran will receive $1.7 billion in debt and interest as Obama pledged that it was time to solve the financial disputes between the two countries.
Iran will receive $400 million trust fund and roughly $1.3 billion compromise on the interest.
In 1981, the Iran-US Claims tribunal was established in The Hague to settle debts between the two countries.
Obama said the settlement between the US and Iran at The Hague would save US money. There was no point in dragging out that dispute, he said.
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Curse of Tutankhamuns tomb
Howard Carter entered the burial chamber of Tutankhamun on 17 February 1923. On 6 March, Lord Carnarvon (his financial backer) was bitten by a mosquito. The bite became infected and he died on 5 April. Rumours began to spread that the curse of Tutankhamun’s tomb had claimed its first victim.
Sources of the curse
According to Christine el-Mahdy, it was the Arab peoples of Egypt in the first century AD who were the first to suggest that a mummy could come to life and attack anyone who broke into a pharaohs tomb. This idea remained popular partly because the Ancient Egyptian language and culture had long since been suppressed and so there was no-one to correct this misunderstanding. When Carvarvon died following the discovery of the tomb of Tutankhamun, the notion of a curse was revitalised (but without the reanimation of the mummy).
The novelist Marie Correlli referred to the Arab superstition in a letter to the press before the death of Carnarvon;
“I cannot but think some risks are run by breaking into the last rest of a king in Egypt whose tomb is specially and solemnly guarded, and robbing him of his possessions. According to a rare book I possess … ‘The Egyptian History of the Pyramids’ [an ancient Arabic text], the most dire punishment follows any rash intruder into a sealed tomb. The book . . . names secret poisons enclosed in boxes in such wise that those who touch them shall not know how they come to suffer”. That is why I ask, Was it a mosquito bite that has so seriously infected Lord Carnarvon?”
When Carnarvon died, it appeared to many that she had been proven correct. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (creator of Sherlock Holmes) announced that he was convinced that Carnarvon had been killed by the “Pharaoh´s Curse” and the press began to publish wild speculation as fact.
However, the curse was not accepted by everyone. Sir Henry Rider Haggard (author of King Solomon´s Mines) described the idea of the curse as
“dangerous because it goes to swell the rising tide of superstition which at present seems to be overflowing the world.”
It is well known that Carnarvon wanted to keep the press and the public away from the tomb of Tutankhamun while it was cleared. He made an exclusive deal with the Times to allow them access and pictures. This angered many other journalists (most notably Weigall of The Daily Mail) who then proceeded to publish articles claiming the tomb was cursed (although he had no official access to the tomb or the workers clearing it) because the story was very popular with the public. One newspaper even printed the following curse allegedly written in hieroglyphs by the entrance to the tomb: .
“They who enter this sacred tomb shall swift be visited by wings of death.”
However, there is no record of this phrase anywhere in the report on the tomb of Tutankhamun (and no obvious reason for the Egyptologists to want to cover it up) and the inscription itself has since mysteriously “vanished”.
In another case a reporter simply expanded a real inscription to create a curse. He referred to a statue of Anubis on which the following text was inscribed;
“It is I who hinder the sand from choking the secret chamber. I am for the protection of the deceased.”
to which he added the following text;
“and I will kill all those who cross this threshold into the sacred precincts of the Royal King who lives forever.”
Again, there is no evidence in support of this text has ever been produced and the text does not appear on any of the statues of Anubis.
On 29 August 1980, Richard Adamson (a military policeman who spent seven years actually sleeping in the tomb to guard it) allegedly told the “Daily Mail” that the curse had been proposed by a journalist at the time and the archaeologists had not done anything to prevent the story being publicised as it meant less disturbances for them in their work (and made tomb robbery less likely). Of course, this story may also be apocryphal.
Even today, the curse is popular and there are a number of websites and books which report the invented texts as fact. When some of the treasures of Tutankhamun went on a world tour during the 1970’s, some people were apparently worried that the curse would effect them too. One person who tried to take advantage of this was the policeman employed to guard Tutankhamun´s gold funerary mask in San Francisco. He tried to claim compensation for a mild stroke which he claimed was cause by the curse. Unsurprisingly, the judge dismissed this rather unlikely claim.
The idea is generally rejected by serious Egyptologists and historians but typically the infamous Zahi Hawass (Secretary-General of the Supreme Council of Antiquities and accomplished self-publicist) is keen to keep the curse alive and has stated “I think we should still believe in the curse of the Pharaohs”.
The allegations
Howard Carter’s pet canary was eaten by a cobra on the day the tomb was opened. The cobra was associated with the goddesses Wadjet who was the Eye of Ra, the Royal Ureas worn on the brow as protection and Meretseger who protected the Valley of the Kings. Carter did have a pet canary, but he apparently gave it to his friend, Minnie Burton, to look after while he was working and so the fateful meeting with the cobra never took place.
At the time of Carnarvon’s death there was a widespread blackout in Cairo. This is apparently true, and would be impressive if it was not for the fact that blackouts were very common in Cairo at that time.
Carnarvon’s dog, Susie, (who had remained on his estate in England) let out a mournful howl at the moment of his death and promptly died herself. The whole story of the dog is rather suspect. The dog allegedly died at exactly four o’clock in the morning, yet this was apparently witnessed by Carnarvon’s son (who was perhaps an insomniac or made a habit of watching the dog obsessively during the night). In any case, Carnarvon died at 1.55am which would have been midnight, not 4am, in England.
According to newspaper reports native Egyptians working as diggers for Carter saw the curse inscribed above Tutankhamun’s body. It was also alleged that the diggers had to be bribed to remain in the tomb once they had read the curse. For this story to be true, we have to accept that Carter was able to employ poorly educated diggers who were fluent in hieroglyphs! It is also notable that this tale claims that the inscription was above Tutankhamun himself and not inscribed on the door as was claimed by other sources. This makes it even less likely that the entire tomb could be cleared without the discovery of the text.
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There are a number of problems with the curse from a purely logical standpoint
Egyptians didn’t write curses in their tombs. There were numerous spells but these were intended to help the deceased pass through the underworld or to ensure that the deceased received the food (and other) offerings he or she needed in the afterlife.
There is no evidence that a curse was found anywhere in Tutankhamun’s tomb even though the contents were fully recorded.
Many of the people who entered the tomb (including Carter himself) seem to have been immune to any curse. Herbert E. Winlock noted that by 1934 only six of the twenty-two people present when the tomb was opened (twelve years before in 1922) had died; of the twenty-two people present at the opening of the sarcophagus (ten years before in 1924) only two had died ; and none of the ten people present when the mummy was unwrapped had died. In fact the average survival rate following any involvement with the tomb (as calculated by Randi) was around 21 years!
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One Universe at a Time
The Flyby Mystery
In Astronomy by Brian Koberlein 4 October 2015 3 Comments
Everyone loves a good mystery. For space scientists, one of the more perplexing ones is known as the flyby anomaly.
The anomaly was first observed in the flyby of Galileo in 1990, when careful measurements of its motion found the spacecraft’s speed after the flyby was 4 mm/s faster than expected. On Galileo’s second flyby in 1992, no anomaly was observed. In 1998 NEAR gained 13 mm/s. Cassini had no anomaly in 1999. Rosetta had an anomaly in its 2005 flyby, but not in subsequent ones, and Messenger had no anomaly. There have been other anomalies in the motion of spacecraft, with the most famous one being the Pioneer anomaly. These anomalies are extremely tiny, so they can be notoriously difficult to pin down. In the case of the Pioneer anomaly it was due to a tiny push from the heat of the power source. But small anomalies can point towards revolutionary discoveries, so there’s a lot of interest in explaining them.
Delay residuals for flyby data.
There seems to be a slight correlation to the orientation of a flyby relative to the Earth’s equator and the appearance of the anomaly. This may be an indication that the anomaly is somehow related to the rotation of the Earth, though studies of relativistic frame dragging on the probes show that effect isn’t enough to account for the anomaly. But it’s the on-again off-again nature of the anomaly that’s particularly strange. If it were due to some internal effect as with Pioneer, we would expect it to be more consistent.
Lots of solutions have been proposed for the anomaly, from modified gravity to a halo of dark matter around Earth, but a new proposal is that it’s caused by “chirps” in the radio signals. A chirp is a quickly rising or lowering of frequency from a radio signal. They are sometimes caused by lightning strikes on Earth, but can also be caused by the Doppler effect as a satellite approaches Earth. In this new work the author notes that these chirps could cause a distance-based delay in the timing signals, thus causing an anomaly. If the idea is right, then a continuous observation of a timing signal should produce no anomaly.
The paper hasn’t been peer reviewed, but it’s possible that what looks like an anomaly isn’t one after all.
Paper: V. Guruprasad. Observational evidence for travelling wave modes bearing distance proportional shifts. EPL 110 54001 doi:10.1209/0295-5075/110/54001 (2015)
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2 January 2016 Reply
* Should not be the Delta-V of a flyby determined by spacecraft velocities when it is at large distances, thus not depending on tracking the velocities at perigee? The article seems to claim otherwise (at its “Explanation of the flyby anomaly” part).
* Should not the SSN vs. DSN residuals (at “Indication of the excess delay in DSN data” part) remain greater, since being determined from DSN when the spacecraft was at a greater distance?
Jean Tate
Brian, do you know if the same sort of Pioneer ‘thermal’ cause has been exhaustively investigated for these flyby anomalies? Given the active slewing and maneuvering the spacecraft were subject to, between flybys, it may be difficult to pin this effect down.
Also, what about the effects of micrometeorite impacts? These turned out to be significant, for HIPPARCOS, at least in terms of where it was pointing …
22 July 2016 Reply
V Guruprasad
1. Please don’t say European Physics Journal publishes without peer-review… I submitted to it after seeing John D Anderson et al’s papers in EPL ( DOI: 10.1209/0295-5075/110/10002 ) in the April issue. 🙂
2. The occurrence of chirp is not a conjecture – the uplink telemetry carrier is already a chirp during acceleration because its frequency is changing – it’s the Doppler rate of the carrier. That is the only cause of the change of frequencies in the carrier and in the modulated side bands envisaged in the paper – point I’m trying to clarify is that the frequency rise or fall need not be “quickly”.
(please keep this private… thanks)
-prasad
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New Bevo, Old Baylor
May 26, 2016 Courtney McCrary
On Tuesday Baylor finally responded to the reports that Ken Starr has been fired from Baylor University. As of the latest report they still have not made a decision on whether or not they will fire Starr. The spokeswomen for Baylor, Tonya Lewis, said, “we will not respond to rumors, speculation or reports based on unnamed sources, but when official news is available, the University will provide it. We expect an announcement by June 3.” It is speculated that President Starr and athletic director Ian McCaw will be losing their jobs, but head football coach Art Briles will not. It will be interesting to see if it was just a rumor, but for the sake of Baylor I hope it isn’t.
The University of Texas has selected a new Longhorn steer mascot. The school had to select a new mascot because Bevo XIV, who was on the Texas sideline since 2004, passed away in October 2015. The mascot will be introduced for the 100th anniversary season of its first appearance. The longhorns will play Notre Dame on September 4, the first appearance of Bevo XV.
Nothing has been made official yet but from the sound of it Wil Grier will be able to play for West Virginia the first game of the 2017 season. Grier is enrolled at West Virginia but due to testing positive for performance-enhancing drugs he may not be able to play until mid season. According to Holgorsen this might change. Holgorsen said, “I fully anticipate him being eligible for the opening game of the 2017 season.” If there is a will there is a way. I wouldn’t be surprised if somehow the NCAA waives the rest of his suspension and lets him play the full season with the Mountaineers.
Bev Kearney sued Texas for at least one million dollars in damages in 2013. Kearney was the head track coach and had a romantic relationship with one of her sprinters over a decade earlier. It has taken so long for her to get justice because the University has been appealing the issue. Kearney is saying she was more harshly punished because she is black. A white male football coach did the same thing and was only reprimanded, not fired. Kearney is seeking statements from Mack Brown, former athletic director DeLoss Dodds, former school president Bill Powers and current women’s athletic director Chris Plonsky. The statements they will write are on how exactly they handled the situation at the time it was brought to their attention. This case has been swept under the rug recently due to the Baylor scandal, but it will be interesting to see what happens.
Sylvester Turner an alumni of the University of Houston believes that when Oklahoma comes to town on September 3, the Cougars will beat the Sooners by “14, or possibly 21 points.” Did I mention Sylvester Turner is also the mayor of Houston? He has turned a lot of heads by making this statement and has also provided some locker room motivation for the guys in Norman. The Cougars are coming off of a really great season, but I have a feeling the Sooners will be ready for them, especially after that comment.
As the time draws near, it looks less and less likely that the Big 12 presidents are going to vote against the Big 12 expansion. After all of the schools that have sold themselves to try to get into the Big 12 it looks like they will all be disappointed. Apparently, after six years, the Big 12 is not in the “decision-making” stage, so it probably won’t ever be. If no expansion happens I think the Big 12 will fall apart in the next couple of years and Oklahoma will be the first school to leave.
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Big 12 Links: Rudolph Can Find Santa, but not a Catcher
April 14, 2016 Courtney McCrary
The Big 12 will be represented on the U.S. Collegiate Volleyball Team
A trio of Big 12 volleyball players will represent the Big 12 Conference on the 2016 Collegiate National Team. The three girls selected were Baylor’s Shelly Fanning and K-State’s Brooke Sassin and Bryna Vogel. The Collegiate National Team consists of 36 members so it is a big honor to be selected for this team. Being on this team is considered to be the second tryout for the U.S. Women’s National Team. These girls will play on June 26- 29 in Indianapolis, Indiana.
The National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association named Texas Tech’s Davis Hitter of the Week
Michael Davis has had a great baseball season so far for the Texas Tech Red Raiders. Davis leads all Big 12 players in RBI by accumulating 11 just last week. Davis helped the Red Raiders go on a 4-1 road trip that included a mid-week split with No. 5 Florida State. The Red Raiders also swept No. 16 Oklahoma State. The Red Raiders are having one of the best seasons they have had in a long time. Their record is 12-1 and haven’t swept a ranked team since 2002. They have completed that already this year and look like they can do it again.
Some Important, and not so Important Date Changes for the 2016 Football Season
The Big 12 has announced two date changes to its 2016 conference football schedule. When the Kansas Jayhawks travel to Lubbock Texas to play Texas Tech their game will be played on Thursday, September 29 instead of October 1. The second game that is being changed is when TCU plays Texas in Austin. This game has been moved to Friday, November 25 instead of Thursday November 24. These have been moved due to television purposes, but I’m not quite sure how many people will tune in to watch the KU vs. Texas Tech game.
Is Tubby Smith leaving Texas Tech?
After Tubby Smith led the Red Raiders to their first NCAA Tournament appearance since 2007 it looks like he might be leaving the up-and-coming Red Raiders behind. Rumors are that Coach Smith is on the top of a very short list of candidates that the Memphis Tigers are looking at. Tubby would replace the old Memphis coach Josh Pastner, who took the job at Georgia Tech after the end of last season. Tubby has really improved the Texas Tech basketball team. He has made the Red Raiders relevant again in the Big 12. This would be a huge blow not only to Texas Tech, but also to the Big 12 conference.
Rudolph Needs to Stick to being a QB
You would think that a quarterback who has an over 60 percent completion rate last season would be able to thrown a baseball to a catcher. But Mason Rudolph proves everyone wrong when he threw the baseball way over the catchers head. Make sure you watch the video for this one. It is pretty hilarious.
Gators QB Will Grier to transfer to West Virginia
This announcement came on Wednesday. Will Grier will have to sit out the 2016 season for the Mountaineers due to NCAA rules for transferring. Another problem is Grier was suspended in October after testing positive for a performance-enhancing substance. West Virginia is trying to argue it, but the earliest Grier can play is the fall of 2017. It will be interesting to see how much he will end up playing at West Virginia.
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Seminoles vs Gators: ACC Wrap Up
November 25, 2015 Justin Bramm
Florida State defeated Chattanooga 52-13 over the past weekend, in a game that was never really in question. At 9-2, the #13 Seminoles will now turn all of their attention towards the #12 Florida Gators.
Obviously this is a monumental game for both teams, a win for Florida State would be the highlight of their season and would keep the Noles from having their first three-loss season in a couple years. A win for Florida would keep them on track for a playoff berth if they can beat Alabama in the SEC Championship. This game also could mean a lot to the recruiting landscape in Florida, as the winner would have bragging rights within the state as the best program.
These two teams have been pretty similar throughout the season. Neither has gotten a lot of production from their offense, and both rely on their defense to win games. Both teams have their reasons for their offensive woes, but currently both have questions at quarterback. The Gators quarterback situation got sticky when Will Grier got suspended, while the Seminoles have just had a quarterback problem all season between Sean Maguire and Everett Golson. Both offenses rely on their rushing game to gain yards, and that will be no different this weekend.
On the defensive end, Florida’s defense is ranked third in the nation in points allowed per game, and the Seminoles’ defense is ranked 11th in the same category. All signs point towards this game being a low-scoring, defensive showdown that will be decided by which quarterback makes the fewest mistakes.
Whichever back has the better game will most likely determine who wins this game
For the Seminoles, this game will come down to the matchup between their ground game, and Florida’s 8th ranked run defense. Florida State’s offense hinges on the success of their run game, and if Dalvin Cook can continue doing what he’s done all season against Florida that would bode well for their chances of winning. At quarterback, the Seminoles need to get Sean Maguire settled into the game early on with some quick and easy throws that will help him get some confidence in the beginning of the game. Maguire has shown that he can play well when he establishes some confidence and gets into a rhythm. Noles fans are hoping that he can do this early on in the game, opposed to getting into a hole quickly on the road.
The game will be played in the Swamp at night, which provides it’s own set of problems for the Seminoles as they’re 2-2 on the road and 7-0 at home. However their game against Clemson in Death Valley should help prepare this team for the fans they’re about to face in Gainesville.
In a game that will be decided by big plays and the ground game, I’ll take the Seminoles winning this game simply because of Dalvin Cook. If Cook can shred the Gators this weekend he might even find himself in the middle of the Heisman discussion, although no ACC Championship for the Noles will make Cook’s odds very slim. Florida State’s defense should be able to contain the Gator’s offense considering that the Gator’s offense hasn’t really been able to do damage against anyone. In a low scoring game, I think the Seminoles will take this one 20-13.
The game kicks off at 7:30 in Ben Hill Griffin Stadium.
Here’s what else is happening in the ACC this weekend:
RIVALRY WEEK
Being that it is rivalry week in college football, there are numerous matchups to watch within the ACC. Georgia Tech could end their season on a positive note when Georgia comes into town to play them. Seeing as Georgia Tech has nothing left to play for, they should show up in this game against a beatable Georgia team. Clemson plays South Carolina in what has been a very disappointing season for South Carolina. Virginia Tech and Virginia face off in an interstate rival that will determine which team has the better season. One of the sneaky good matchups this weekend will be when UNC travels to NC State this weekend. At 7-4, the Wolfpack are a good team in their own right and the Tarheels will have their hands full with their high-powered offense.
FRANK BEAMER AND VIRGINIA TECH
Virginia Tech’s game this weekend has a lot more on the line than a victory over Virginia, a victory this weekend means that the Hokies will be bowl eligible in Frank Beamer’s final year with the team. At 5-6, the Hokies haven’t had a whole lot of positives from this season, and a win against Virginia would change that. A win would allow Frank Beamer the chance to finish his last season with a winning record, and would boost morale within the program going forward. A loss would be a sad way to end Beamer’s career at Virginia Tech.
ACC NEEDS CLEMSON AND UNC TO WIN
One thing that I don’t think will happen, but would be bad for the ACC is if Clemson or UNC were to lose this weekend. A win by both teams this weekend would mean that the winner of the ACC would most likely be playing in the playoffs. A loss this weekend for either team allows the possibility of the ACC winner not playing in the playoffs. A loss by UNC this weekend would make them 10-2, making it hard for them to advance even if they did beat Clemson, and a loss by Clemson would mean that if they beat UNC they might not make it to the playoff. Even though it is hard to imagine the ACC winner not being in the playoff, a loss by either team this weekend would open up a Pandora’s box of possibilities.
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Five You Must See: Week Nine
October 29, 2015 Mitchell Gatzke
North Carolina (6-1) at #23 Pittsburgh (6-1) Thursday 7:00 PM on ESPN
First place in the ACC Coastal division is on the line on Thursday night. The biggest difference between these two teams is found in the time of possession. Pittsburgh ranks fifteenth in the nation, holding the ball for 32 minutes and 49 seconds per game. North Carolina, on the other hand, possesses the ball for a tick shy of 25 minutes per game. Only Mississippi State and Hawaii rank lower. What does that mean? Well, clearly the Panthers like hanging onto the ball for the majority of the game, and apparently that doesn’t bother the Tarheels.
My x-factor for this close game is North Carolina quarterback Marquise Williams. If he plays well I like his team’s chances. If not, I’m not sure they have enough around him to overcome such a formidable opponent.
USC (4-3) at Cal (5-2) Saturday 3:00 PM on Fox
College football is full of up’s and down’s. You don’t need to tell these two teams. The Trojans have had a puzzling season that’s been tough to predict from week to week. They saved it last week with a big win over Utah. The Bears’ last two times out have resulted in disappointing losses that have them in a similar position to USC last week.
UCLA exposed the Cal offensive line last Thursday. With little time to sit in the pocket, Jared Goff was quieted relatively easily. Look for the Trojans to blitz throughout the game in an attempt to keep Goff unsettled. If the Cal offense isn’t scoring, they’re in trouble. The Bear defense isn’t terrible, but I imagine they’ll have a hard time containing a USC offense that can put up points in bunches.
Georgia (5-2) at #11 Florida (6-1) Saturday 3:30 PM on CBS
As usual, the World’s Largest Outdoor Cocktail Party will go a long way in deciding who will represent the East division in the SEC championship game. Florida holds that top spot now, but a loss here would see Georgia take it over.
I want to know if these teams are for real, especially Florida who played much better at LSU than I anticipated. After this tilt both teams have two winnable conference games, a joke of a non-conference game, and a rivalry game against an ACC foe. This is likely our last chance to see what the Gators and Bulldogs are really about.
Both have had a bye week to prepare. Both have lost an important playmaker. Florida quarterback Will Grier is suspended. Unfortunately, Georgia running back Nick Chubb has become just another in a long list of future first-round draft picks to suffer a tragic injury. Of the last eight matchups, each team has won four. Tune in to find out who will control their own destiny going forward.
#9 Notre Dame (6-1) at #21 Temple (7-0) Saturday 8:00 PM on ABC
This is easily the biggest game in Temple football history. It’s funny how at the beginning of the season we looked at this game as an easy win for the Irish, and now it’s turned into one of their tougher tests.
How have the Owls ascended to #21 in the nation so inconspicuously? They play stout defense and haven’t come across a ranked team yet. They give up 14.6 points per game, good for eighth in the country, sandwiched between Clemson and Ohio State. They’re one of eleven teams that allow fewer than 100 rushing yards per game. And they rush the passer well. Their 23 sacks tie them for eleventh in that category.
That means it’s on DeShone Kizer to keep the Owls honest. Kizer needs to be an accurate passer and scramble effectively when no one is open. If he can consistently move the chains the Irish should triumph. This atmosphere will be nuts and you’ll want to say you saw this game.
#8 Stanford (6-1) at Washington State (5-2) Saturday 10:30 PM on ESPN
You probably had to do a double take to make sure you read this matchup correctly. Yes, with a win here Wazoo will take control of the Pac-12 North. Surely, no one saw this coming when the Cougars opened the season by losing to Portland State.
Speaking of turning it around after a week one loss, how about Stanford? The Cardinal lost to Northwestern in a game that seems like it was ages ago. Since then they’ve been arguably the best team in college football, scoring 31 points or more every time out. In that time, quarterback Kevin Hogan and running back Christian McCaffrey have been a deadly combo that no team has been able to stop.
Washington State probably won’t either. That’s not their game. In true Mike Leach fashion, the Cougars will air it out in an attempt to roll up enough points that it won’t matter. Luke Falk holds the keys to the nation’s second best passing attack that averages 415 yards through the air. Falk’s numbers are mind-blowing. He throws 55 passes per game, far more than anyone else. That makes his FBS-leading 72.9 completion percentage that much more impressive.
The Cougars score 36.4 points per game. The Cardinal put up 37.4. Assuming the offenses are a wash, look for the Stanford defense to make the difference on Saturday night.
The Game of the Weak
Texas San Antonio (1-6) at North Texas (0-7) Saturday 7:00 PM
It’s the Roadrunners against the Mean Green in the battle for last place in C-USA. This is the single greatest matchup of nicknames we’ve ever seen. It gets no better than this. Football wise, I’m not sure it gets worse. Math is not my strong suit, but I believe I’m correct when saying these two have been collectively outscored 577-261 this season. I’d go into more detail, but I think that tells you everything you need to know. Sparingly, it doesn’t look like this game will be broadcast anywhere.
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The Two Biggest Games Left in SEC Football
October 21, 2015 Kristen Botica
SEC football is competitive every year, with this year being no exception so far. It seems like you can never accurately predict the divisional standings for neither the East nor the West. Honestly, even though I’m a Gator, I never would’ve guessed that Florida would be atop the East right now and would have such a good chance at actually winning the East. And although I knew LSU was going to be competitive, I probably still would have picked Alabama to be sitting at the top of the West right now. But as we Gator fans recently found out, things can change in a hurry.
That being said, I don’t expect too much to change too quickly in the races for the divisional titles in the SEC. Florida and Georgia both have a bye this week so nothing will change yet there. And LSU plays Western Kentucky so, barring some sort of catastrophic event, nothing will change there either. The only team whose status in the race to get to Atlanta seems to be in and kind of jeopardy is Alabama. Even though I was raised a Vol fan, I still think the idea of the Vols winning in Tuscaloosa this weekend is a bit farfetched. That isn’t to say that I wouldn’t enjoy a nice upset down there! But if everything stays the same this week with LSU and Alabama at the top of the West and Florida and Georgia at the top of the East, then the teams making a trip to the SEC Championship Game in December will be decided by two huge games in the next few weeks.
One of those games happens to only be about a week and a half away. It’s a game that every Florida and Georgia fan counts down to every year…The World’s Largest Outdoor Cocktail Party in Jacksonville. This season, it almost ensures a Gator trip to Atlanta if they manage to pull out the victory over Georgia. But I’d be remiss if I didn’t mention that this game always seems to be a good matchup regardless of whatever else is going on for the teams during that season. And I doubt this year will be any different. I said it was entirely possible for the Gators to get the upset win last year and they did…in convincing fashion. This year it would actually be an upset for the Bulldogs to win, though.
First, the Bulldogs got absolutely dominated by Alabama at home. And now after losing at Tennessee and suffering an even bigger loss when star RB Nick Chubb went down with an ugly knee injury on the first snap of that game, Georgia looks like they’re in trouble. Last week they barely eked out an ugly 9-6 victory over Missouri. Georgia needs to find some kind of offensive rhythm during their bye week. With the Gators playing how they have been in recent games, I can assure you that nine points and less than 300 yards of total offense just won’t do it when they play Florida in Jacksonville. And the pressure of this game is increasing, as the Bulldogs know very well what is at stake in that game.
The Gators have also recently suffered a couple of big losses when they came up short in a hard-fought game at Death Valley less than a week after learning that QB Will Grier was suspended per NCAA rules. But at this point, the Gators still have a lot to prove. Coming close to beating LSU in their stadium after losing their talented QB doesn’t count as a W in the win-loss column. It may have been a moral victory for the Gators though. They were able to see that they are able to compete at the highest level even without their starting QB. The Gators honestly could have won that game and even though they didn’t win, the team stuck together and fought their way back into what started to feel like a hopeless game. That momentum and that heart can carry the Gators very far as long as they remember to stay humble. Any team is beatable on any given day and the Gators need to remember to play with that in mind if they want to beat Georgia in a week and a half.
LSU & Alabama
In the West it’s looking like it’ll also come down to one big game. But this game isn’t on neutral ground; this game will be played in Tuscaloosa in about two and a half weeks. Less than a month ago I would’ve looked at Ole Miss and expected them to be in the driver’s seat or at least be in close competition with LSU for that SEC West title. But as they did last year, Ole Miss started out strong and has since faded away. That means it’ll come down to the one-loss Alabama Crimson Tide (who lost to formerly strong Ole Miss) or the still undefeated LSU Tigers.
It’s hard to view Alabama as an underdog in any game while Saban is still their head coach. But since they’re ranked lower and they have a loss, I’ll consider them the underdog just this one time. It’s easy to see that Alabama has a complete defense that is more than capable of suffocating offenses this season. Their defense may be good enough to finally slow down LSU RB Leonard Fournette. Even with two interceptions a week and a half ago, the Crimson Tide beat Arkansas by 13. And despite those two interceptions during that game QB Jake Coker has finally seemed to settle in to the offense, which has given their team the extra boost it could have used earlier in the season.
LSU has found their strength in one player more than anything else this season. We should probably just go ahead and hand the Heisman trophy to RB Leonard Fournette right now because unless he gets injured, there is no contest. Last week he still managed to rack up 180 rushing yards against Florida’s tough defense. Those rushing yards combined with some interesting play calls by Les Miles were just enough to lead the Tigers to victory. But now that those plays have been used, what will LSU do when they face another strong defense in two and a half weeks in Tuscaloosa? That game will answer the question once and for all of whether or not Leonard Fournette is stoppable. And if Fournette LSU wins that one, they’re almost certainly headed to Atlanta for what could be a priceless rematch on neutral ground against the Florida Gators.
We may have to wait a few more weeks to find out, but soon enough we’ll know who will be making a trip to Atlanta to fight for the SEC title. Right now all we can do as SEC football fans is anxiously await the two biggest games of the season. In case you missed it, the first of those games will be Florida vs. Georgia in Jacksonville on the 31st of October. The second game that we’ll be waiting for is LSU at Alabama on November 7th. Until then, I’m actually hoping for things to calm down a little bit as far as all this SEC football drama goes. Tennessee can stop losing games in the last quarter, Florida can stop letting their players shop at wellness stores without supervision, and Spurrier can refrain from breaking our hearts again.
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Week 7 Rundown: What. Just. Happened.
October 19, 2015 Jason Lindekugel
I struggled to find a place to start the Rundown this week since there wasn’t anything that interesting that happened this past weekend. Oh yeah..except one of the most insane finishes we’ll see in our lifetime. That Michigan State/Michigan finish is an all-timer and had everything you’d look for in an all-time type of finish: rivalry game, uniqueness, improbability, and context. If the game would have ended on a punt return touchdown or even a blocked punt it wouldn’t have been that crazy. We’ve seen those plays before. But a botched snap on the last play of the game? And the way the Spartans were able to take it to the house? As I watched the punter drop the snap I thought, “Well this is a disaster, but at least he can fall on it and Michigan State will still have to try a 50+ yard field goal or hail mary for the win.” Nope, the ball inexplicably floated sideways perfectly into the hands of a Spartans player with no Wolverine in sight. Then throw in the fact that both teams were ranked Top 10 with only one real challenge the rest of the season after Saturday. In 50 years when we’re watching TV in like 5D and kids are asking their parents (grandparents?) how we ever watched television like this, they’ll be showing replays of this finish.
The Michigan State-Michigan game overshadowed a dominant performance from Iowa in which they went into Evanston and beat Northwestern 40-10. On any other Saturday that win may have really put the Hawkeyes on the map, but they’ll still be flying under the radar more than normal. I think that’s fine, since I’m still not convinced they are that good and it’s hard to take any Big 10 West team seriously until we see what they do against Michigan State, Michigan, or Ohio State. And we won’t find that out anytime soon because Iowa avoided all three on the regular season schedule. So that matchup would happen in the Big 10 championship game, one that would have 2014 Ohio State-Wisconsin written all over it.
One team we don’t have to wonder if it’s any good is Stanford. That opening week loss to Northwestern seems like forever ago as the Cardinal have been a completely different team in the last month. Stanford housed UCLA 56-35 in a game that was never in doubt. They’ve scored at least 40 points in their last four games, which seems almost as improbable as the finish we saw in Ann Arbor. That should continue though with the emergence of do-it-all back Christian McCaffrey. McCaffrey torched the Bruins to the tune of 243 yards and two touchdowns on the ground to go alone with 122 kick return yards on just two opportunities. Oh, and this happened. The easy comparison for Stanford is last year’s Ohio State, who unexpectedly lost an early-season game only to roll the rest of the way undefeated. Stanford certainly isn’t as talented as that Buckeyes team (or this year’s for that matter) but the schedule sets them up for a similar run. At 5-1, the Cardinal only have to go on the road for two games the rest of the season, and those two contests are against Washington State and Colorado. In a Pac-12 that isn’t nearly as good as its pre-season projections, they should coast into the Pac-12 title game at no worse than 10-2.
Though the Cardinal may have a conference championship game spot locked up at that point, they’ll have to remain focused if they want to remain in the playoff hunt since they have a fascinating non-conference game the last week of the regular season against Notre Dame. The Irish could still be in the playoff hunt themselves and it may be the only game left the Irish have to impress the committee. The Irish play consecutive ranked opponents the next two weeks, but I don’t think they’ll be soaring into anyone’s Top 4 with wins over Temple and Pitt. And what would’ve been a marquee win over USC before the year started now is just another W. The Irish saved their best for last, outscoring the Trojans 17-0 in the fourth quarter to take a 41-31 victory.
A team that didn’t save their best for last, or their best for the beginning, or even bring it on the bus was the Boise State Broncos. The Broncos committed seven turnovers, in the first half. How does that even happen? I’m not sure teams even get seven possessions in a normal half. Boise State’s 1st half drives ended like this: Field Goal, Punt, Fumble, Fumble, INT, INT, Touchdown, Fumble, Fumble, AND A 90 YARD PICK SIX ON THE LAST PLAY OF THE HALF. That’s how you give up 45 first half points to Utah State. The Broncos weren’t done though. After receiving the second half kickoff, they fumbled the ball away on their second play from scrimmage. Incredible.
Boise State was the favorite to earn the Group of 5’s New Year’s Six bowl spot, a spot that is going to require a lot of luck to fall into now. That’s because there are multiple other candidates who are in prime position to make a run. Houston has been rolling this year behind dual-threat QB Greg Ward Jr. Their success, along with Memphis and Temple’s, has three teams from the American Conference in the Top 25. That should give the eventual conference champ enough of a strength of schedule to waltz into a New Year’s Six bowl game. It’s hard not to make Memphis the favorite out of those teams after the Tigers handily defeated Ole Miss on Saturday. After going down 14-0 early, Memphis outscored the Rebels 37-10 the rest of the way. It would take a miracle for Memphis to find their way to the playoff, but they would have a great chance of beating whatever Power 5 team they played in a possible bowl game behind the arm of future NFL-er Paxton Lynch, who is completing over 70% of his passes with 13 touchdowns and just one interception.
The last few weeks make it harder and harder to believe that that Ole Miss team who just lost to Memphis was able to go into Tuscaloosa and defeat the Crimson Tide. The Tide have looked dominant ever since, going into Athens and routing a Top 10 Georgia team and going on the road this past Saturday and beating a ranked Aggie team in a game where the outcome was never really in doubt. Looks like reports of Alabama’s demise were greatly exaggerated. We’re full steam ahead towards another Top 10 showdown between the Crimson Tide and the LSU Tigers on November 7th in a game where the winner will be heavily favored to make the playoff. The Tigers did their part as well on Saturday, fighting off a previously undefeated Gators squad who played extremely well considering the shocking news about Will Grier in the week leading up to the game. And this is your weekly reminder that Leonard Fournette is not, in fact, from this planet. Fournette has 1202 yards on just 150 carries (8.0 ypc) and 14 touchdowns in just six games. The cancellation of LSU’s opening week game may be the only thing keeping Fournette from breaking records this year.
Overshadowed by the LSU man-child, Florida State running back Dalvin Cook is having nearly as good of a season. The dynamic Seminoles back has been carrying the FSU team while Everett Golson becomes more comfortable in the offense each week. Cook has been the reason the Seminoles have won in half their games and if his hamstring holds up, he should have a spot as a Heisman finalist.
Baylor is a team who has multiple players who could find their way to New York for the Heisman ceremony. WR Corey Coleman has already broken the school’s single-season record for touchdown catches with 16. In six games. Coleman is averaging 21 yards per catch on 41 catches. I would say that TD/catch ratio is unsustainable but with Baylor, you never know. But it’s unlikely Coleman could pass his QB as the team’s leading Heisman candidate. Through six games, Seth Russell has 27 touchdowns and 5 INTs. If that isn’t enough he also has over 300 rushing yards and five touchdowns on the ground on over 8 yards per carry. The Bears haven’t played much in the way of quality competition thus far, but they’ll have their chances in the last month of the season to make statements.
Finally, the defending champs made a statement of their own on Saturday. Ohio State put together their best game of the season, dominating Penn State on their way to a 38-10 win. The Buckeyes are slowly rounding into form, and they have three more weeks to sharpen their game before finishing the year with Michigan State and Michigan.
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More Than A Friday: Thinking of Lamar Odom During a Busy Week in Sports
October 16, 2015 Jeff Rich
Lamar Odom is going to die. We sincerely hope it doesn’t happen today, tomorrow, next week, next month, or even in the next year. For Odom, there is a reality, and doesn’t that word really have some negative connotation to it? The reality is, that I hope he is able to survive from the time between now and whenever this publishes, but only for a life that doesn’t involve suffering.
Why do I care about the mortality of Lamar Odom? As former Arizona Cardinal Darnell Dockett so bluntly stated, he didn’t cross my mind before he was trending, so to speak. I don’t mourn for his situation with a Lakers or Heat flag on my car, and I’m not sympathetic to the character he was presented as to the masses on a show I didn’t watch. I know who he is, because of basketball, and I know how much he loved being a Laker, through the words of his ex-wife during a very brief glimpse of that show that I swear I didn’t watch. I’m sympathetic to his situation, because he is very obviously in the public eye, and it feels like he’s slowly dying in front of all of us.
I don’t feel that he deserves that. He deserves our compassion, but to suffer, with all of those toxins eating away at the very life he’s lived for the past 35 years, 11 months, and change; no one has earned that fate. Everyone in the media seems to be acting appropriately sensitive, walking on egg shells and citing his difficult background, while commending his wildly successful life and hoping for the best. We’re all human enough for that; we should be well wishing Odom for a prolonged life or a merciful death, though most of us don’t know the answers. While we brace ourselves for the inevitable assassination of his character from a few directions, and for various reasons, this is a time to be above the noise and just care.
In Major League Baseball
If you lack a dog in this fight, it’s been an awesome week of watching the field dwindle itself from 8 down to 4. If you had rooting interest in the Division Series, half of you are elated and half of you ain’t.
The Chicago Cubs were the first ones in the clubhouse, waiting to see what the rest of semi-final field would be. They had to win that winner-take-all game, which is always dangerous. It meant burning their best arm, leaving one Jake Arrieta available for just one start in the subsequent best-of-5 series. To survive that do-or-die game in Pittsburgh, it meant taking on baseball’s best regular season team and a long-time arch-rival in what’s been a very lopsided pairing for a very long time.
Give it to the Cubs, for not letting history get the best of them. They were able to bounce back after a poor showing in St. Louis in Game 1, a game that had you thinking the Cubs didn’t have the ammunition to survive the almighty Cardinals, beaten and battered as Mike Matheny’s squad may have been. Lo and behold, they kept hitting the ball out of the park, and when the Cardinals pecked away at a Chicago lead, the Cubs scratched back.
We’ll say good-bye to the Cardinals, and point out that they’re just another great National League team that managed to win at least 100 regular season games on a long list of triple-digit winning National League teams that have failed to win the World Series since the Mets won it all in ’86. The 2015 chapter of the Mets are a little different; they’re not supposed to be here. Blame the Washington Nationals for that, but maybe credit these young Metropolitans for being too dumb to know the stage is too big for them or that they’re not ready yet.
For a while, we’ve known the National League’s chapter of New York baseball was acquiring too much talent to be kept down for long. Remember when Matt Harvey was pretty much the chosen one there? Those days are long gone, with the flowing locks of Jacob deGrom and Noah Syndergaard making the Dark Knight (and the Yankees) an afterthought in Gotham. You’ve got Yoenis Cespedes and David Wright earning the headlines for Terry Collins’ team, but it was the efforts of the likes of Michael Conforto and Daniel Murphy that put them in the place they needed to be to host the Cubs on Saturday in Game 1 of the NLCS.
As for the Dodgers, the brilliance of Clayton Kershaw and Zack Greinke for two games apiece wasn’t enough. Chase Utley taking out Ruben Tejada on a questionable double-play breaking slide wasn’t enough. Justin Turner’s .526 batting average wasn’t enough, nor was any other aspect of the roughly $310 million payroll enough to get three wins against these Mets in a best-of-five series. If you’re into math, they were paying about $77 million, per team that advance farther than them in the 2015 Playoffs.
It’s probably not the best of ideas to reduce a best-of-five that goes the distance down to a single inning of an elimination game, but that’s how we’re going to roll with the American League Division Series. The conversation of the day on Wednesday, at around 2:30 PM (Mountain Standard Time) was about whether or not the Astros could rebound from their 8th inning collapse, a few days prior, against the defending AL Champs at home. And maybe the Royals had something to do with that as well, but you had to hold the phone on making Game 5 of Astros-Royals into headline material. Down 6-2 in the eighth inning, on the road, six outs from elimination, the Royals put together one of those innings. They got some bounces and scored enough runs(5) to survive(a 7-6 victory), but needed another win to advance. That was Monday.
Before the Royals could do what they needed to do, back at home on Wednesday evening, there was the issue of settling the other half of the bracket with Game 5 in Toronto. Fast forward to the 7th inning of that one, game tied at 2, with Rougned Odor on 3rd base and Shin-Soo Choo at the plate. On a Russell Martin throw back to Blue Jays’ reliever Aaron Sanchez, the ball hits Choo’s bat and squirts toward the third baseman. Odor scores on the “throwing error”, and all hell breaks loose in Toronto. After a review, the Rangers lead 3-2 and they were 9 outs from another trip to the ALCS. Rangers shortstop Elvis Andrus wasn’t prepared to help the cause.
It started with a routine ground ball to short, which he mishandled. Then, there was a double play ball, and well, the ball was thrown poorly by Mitch Moreland at first base, and Andrus couldn’t haul it in. Next batter, it’s a sacrifice bunt not executed well, where a good throw to third should eliminate the lead runner, but Andrus can’t handle it. Bases loaded.
Toronto tied the game on a ball that should be described as a Texas Leaguer, and could have invoked the Infield Fly Rule, floats beyond the reach of the Texas second baseman. It ends up being a fielder’s choice at 2nd base, but the tying run scores. Tie game, runners at first and third for Jose Bautista.
What he did was hit the ball, so far that metaphors would be ineffective for those that don’t know much about Canadian geography. It was a three-run job, giving the home team a 6-3 lead that would stick. After he hit it, he tossed his bat about eight feet in the air, and (we assume) it traveled for kilometers before it reached the ground, well after he’d run the bases.
Blue Jays win, and they’re back in the ALCS, for the first time since 1993. That was the year Joe Carter hit baseball’s second (and most recent) World Series clinching walk-off home run. In a lot of ways, regardless of what happens to the Blue Jays the rest of the way, this Bautista shot may have been a bigger deal.
1908, 1985, 1986, 1993. The last time the Cubs, Royals, Mets, and Blue Jays have won it all, respectively. We’re going to get someone new, while the Giants, Red Sox, Cardinals, and Yankees watch from the couch…and I that’s just fine by me.
In Football
Ohio State is going to stay #1 until they lose. It’s just the way it is. I look forward to them playing Penn State under the lights in Columbus, but I’m not looking forward to seeing them wearing all black, for the sake of wearing all black.
Texas A&M will host Alabama, and the Aggies have a legitimate shot to win that game and establish themselves as a legitimate player in the College Football Playoff talk, while Jim Harbaugh’s Michigan Wolverines host in-state rival Michigan State with a good chance to finally allow some points and to likely get handed their second loss of the season.
Florida will travel to Baton Rouge for a night game with LSU on Saturday. They will be without their starting quarterback, while South Carolina hosts Vanderbilt and USC travels to Notre Dame, both without their head coaches. You might expect an 0-3 run from that group with those voids.
On Sunday, expect plenty of blood in the water, in Pittsburgh, Cleveland, and Indianapolis. Bruce Arians didn’t even take the Cardinals back home last week, after thumping Detroit; you can be sure he wants to get his pound of flesh from Mike Tomlin and company, after they kicked him to the curb a few years back. TJ Ward said he wanted to remain with the Browns (and presumably his best friend, Joe Haden) two year ago, but Cleveland wasn’t interested, so he’ll surely be interested in ringing some bells with his Broncos visiting the 2-3 Browns. Finally, they say snitches end up with stitches, so go ahead and find your own shitty air/inflation-related pun to describe what Tom Brady and the Patriots might do to the Colts on Sunday night.
In the National Hockey League
Call it a Stanley Cup Hangover, or call it the distraction of one of your top players being accused of sexual assault, but the Chicago Blackhawks have looked anything but Champions…so far.
It’s obviously early, but we haven’t seen an immediate impact from Mike Babcock joining the Maple Leafs or Connor McDavid joining the Oilers. Both will happen in due time.
The Arizona Coyotes are basically left for dead by anyone who knows anything about this game, but they’re off to a promising start under Dave Tippett in Glendale. Rookies Anthony DuClair and Max Domi look like they have something special budding in the desert, making major contributions to the ‘Yotes 3-1 start.
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Five You Must See: Week 7
#18 UCLA (4-1) at #15 Stanford (4-1) Thursday at 10:30 PM on ESPN
It’s rare to have a game featuring two teams coming off their bye week, but that’s exactly what we’ve got here. UCLA badly needed that week off to get healthy and regroup after taking their first loss of the season two weeks ago against Arizona State. Last time we saw Stanford they were pounding Arizona back into their place and looking more like the team we expect them to be.
I’ll be interested to see how the Bruins plan to stop a Cardinal offense that is unlike any other in the conference. Being able to run the ball consistently with Christian McCaffrey and Barry Sanders (not THE, but his son) has made life much easier for Kevin Hogan whose completion rate is north of 67 percent.
The Bruins have a whole fleet of backs led by Paul Perkins, whose reliability has been a stabilizer for freshman quarterback Josh Rosen. The kid came out guns blazing, looking like he was ready to set the world on fire, but has since reminded us that he is less than a year removed from playing high school football.
Tune in to find out which Pac-12 contender will be the first to take its second loss this season. It’s something to watch late Thursday night, and Fridays seem to take care of themselves anyway.
#17 Iowa (6-0) at #20 Northwestern (5-1) Saturday at 12:00 PM on ABC / ESPN2
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You’re going to turn this game on for three main reasons. First of all, like me, you probably haven’t seen Iowa play yet. And why would we have? Kirk Ferentz never has what you’d consider an exciting team. But every few years his Hawkeyes rattle off a bunch of wins and end up factoring into the Big Ten discussion. This is starting to look like one of those seasons and a second win over a ranked conference opponent would obviously boost their resume.
Secondly, you’ll want to see how Northwestern rebounds from getting shutout by Michigan last week. The Wildcats’ hopes were high just a week ago, but the 38-0 drubbing sent them crashing back down to earth even faster than you’d expect. This game is crucial for their morale going forward.
Lastly, as is often the case, there is no better option in the noon timeslot. I mean, sure, you could watch Baylor roll up another 50-spot, or witness Florida State’s weekly routine of squeaking by an inferior ACC opponent, but those games aren’t real football. What you need is a hearty helping of Big Ten football, and lucky for you we’ve got that on tap.
#10 Alabama (5-1) at #9 Texas A&M (5-0) Saturday at 3:30 PM on CBS
This game, like so many others, will be won, or lost, in the trenches. The offensive lines will have to lead the way and here’s why:
Alabama needs to run the ball in order to move down the field consistently. Derrick Henry is a tank of a running back with a nose for the goal line, having rushed for at least one touchdown in each of the Tide’s six games. However, most of his big runs come on plays where his offensive line opens up a canyon for him to rumble through. If that doesn’t happen enough and Alabama has to rely on Jake Coker to convert third and longs, it could be a long day.
(Photo: AP Photo / Bob Levey)
That’s because one of the nation’s top pass rushes will be lined up on the other side. Can’t-miss NFL prospect Myles Garrett already has 7.5 sacks on the young season. He’s the type of player you have to gameplan around or you’ll pay for it.
On the other side, A&M needs to figure out how to occupy the Alabama front seven which has allowed fewer than 78 yards rushing per game, good for fourth in the country. My guess is that quarterback Kyle Allen, whose shown flashes of being a capable runner, will have an increased role in the rushing attack for the Aggies.
Settle in. This is going to be quite the clash of SEC titans.
#7 Michigan State (6-0) at #12 Michigan (5-1) Saturday at 3:30 PM on ESPN
You like defense? Good, cause that’s what we’ve got in the great state of Michigan. The Wolverines are led by their corners. Jeremy Clark has three interceptions already. And Jourdan Lewis, who’s near the top of the leaderboard in passes defended, has a couple picks of his own. These two have been Michigan’s best players. They’ve kept opposing receivers on complete lockdown which has allowed the safeties and linebackers to step up and fill the holes to stop the run. This, more than anything else, has been the key to the Wolverines’ success.
Interestingly, Jim Harbaugh seems to be testing out the same formula the Spartans have been working on perfecting for years now. Nobody was better at single man coverage with no help over the top than State was the past several years. Now, whether it’s related to Pat Narduzzi’s departure or not, I don’t know. But the Spartans are struggling a bit with continuing that tradition. When they get beat, it’s the corners who’ve failed. It’s not exactly fair because they’re asked to do the bulk of the work, but that’s the system they play.
Shilique Calhoun has five sacks and is another pass rusher you’ll see playing on Sundays soon enough. There are only a handful of guys in the country who have racked up more tackles than junior linebacker Riley Bullough so far this fall. The rest of the defense is still just as ferocious as it’s always been under Mark Dantonio.
So, what’s going to break this game open? Quarterback play. Connor Cook and Jake Rudock are going to have to challenge those corners when they see the defense setting up in single man coverage. Whichever one is more successful doing so will provide his team with a distinct advantage. You do not want to miss this sibling rivalry.
#8 Florida (6-0) at #6 LSU (5-0) Saturday at 7:00 PM on ESPN
All of a sudden Florida’s promising season is up in the air. This week the Gators found out they will be without their quarterback Will Grier for a calendar year due to a failed drug test that found some kind of NCAA-banned substance. There are still questions about whether or not Grier knowingly took this PED, but frankly it doesn’t matter we’re here to talk about the game.
Thankfully, the Gator defense is still intact. They’ll need to step up and carry an even bigger load now. Charged with the task of slowing Heisman front-runner Leonard Fournette, that’s the last thing the Gator defense needed to hear. At 14.3 points per game, Florida ranks eleventh in the nation in scoring defense. Staying true to that mark will be essential to winning this game.
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You really can’t say enough about what Fournette has done in five games. He’s tied for the FBS-lead in rushing scores with 12. The sophomore (that’s right he’s got one more year before hitting the NFL) has run for almost 150 more yards than anyone else in the country despite playing one less game. Fournette is averaging 204 yards on the ground per game. I’ll repeat that. He is averaging 204 yards per game. That’s superhuman. The dude has been incredibly fun to watch and I can’t wait to see how he does against the best defense the Tigers have come across this fall.
LSU loves playing at home in primetime. For some reason the team gets a major boost when the lights are on. Florida certainly has their work cut out for them here, but I would not count them out.
Basically, this is as good as it gets in college football. We’ve got two top ten teams set to beat the tar out of each other until one of them breaks. As Mike Wilson would say, “Get your popcorn ready.”
The “Better as a Basketball Game” of the Week
Purdue (1-5) at Wisconsin (4-2) Saturday at 12:00 PM on Big Ten Network
You don’t want to watch this game do you? I didn’t think so. Wisconsin isn’t a bad team, but they’re not as good as they have been in recent years. At this point, I think the Badgers are better hoopers than they are footballers. Purdue, on the other hand, is miserable on the gridiron so their basketball team has no choice but to be better. Don’t worry Boilermaker fans; it’s almost time to tip-off your favorite season. Until then, enjoy getting bowled over on a weekly basis.
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Two Top Ten Showdowns in SEC Football
This week we get to witness a rare moment in college football. Though it may be rare, it is usually well worth the wait in between occurrences. SEC football fans will be glued to their TVs this weekend with good reason. What’s that good reason? Two games will be played between AP Top Ten football teams from the SEC…one between Alabama and Texas A&M and one between Florida and LSU. Texas A&M, Florida, and LSU are all still unbeaten so far this season. And this week, that’s going to change for at least one of those teams. Who will it be? Will Alabama make a statement in College Station after last week’s early-game struggles? Will the Gators rally around Treon Harris to topple LSU? It’s time to get a better idea of the answers to those questions with a quick preview of the two biggest showdowns in SEC football this week…and arguably so far this season.
Alabama @ Texas A&M
Last year, Texas A&M got their heads handed to them on a platter and then some in Tuscaloosa. It was BAD. Like 59-0 bad. No, that was not a typo. So what makes this year different? Does Texas A&M really stand a chance against Alabama since they are undefeated at this point? Well, about that undefeated thing. Their early season schedule is anything but impressive as far as SEC schedules go. The best team they’ve played so far is Arkansas. And Arkansas only lost to them by a touchdown. So maybe they’ve just had an easy stretch of games so far that’s led them to this point of being undefeated.
But we have to consider something else…we have to consider that maybe Texas A&M is the dark horse playoff team that sports journalists were buzzing about before the season even started. Maybe all the personnel changes that resulted from last year’s embarrassing loss to Alabama and carried over into this season have really transformed the Aggies. Though I expect Alabama to win this game, there is some doubt in my mind because of the momentum Texas A&M seems to have going for them at this point. Sometimes that momentum and playing in your home stadium can make up for some of the shortcomings your team may have.
Florida @ LSU
Last year, Florida very narrowly lost to LSU at home under former head coach Will Muschamp. And after getting his first significant reps in the Tennessee game, QB Treon Harris had to sit this one out due to sexual assault accusations. This year, Florida has even bigger QB drama heading into this game. And this time they also won’t have the advantage of playing in the Swamp. Florida had seemed to finally find an offensive rhythm with new coach Jim McElwain and redshirt freshman QB Will Grier. The Gators finally had a pretty good passing game. But all that came to a screeching halt when the news of Grier’s failed NCAA drug test broke. Grier, at this point, is slated to sit out for the rest of this season and half of next season too. So now this game poses two very intriguing questions as we head into Saturday instead of just one.
First, the newest question…will sophomore QB Treon Harris be able to lead the offense with a well-balanced attack? Harris was in close competition with Grier for the starting position earlier this season. But at the end of the day, Harris is more of a rushing QB while Grier has the better arm. Now the Gators offense will have no choice but to rally around Harris and try to give the offense a chance at doing more than just running the ball all game. Because let’s be honest, there’s no way that’s going to result in a win for the Gators. Especially not with a weapon like Leonard Fournette on LSU’s side. That brings me to the second big question…will the Gators defense be able to contain Fournette? Though I’m a Gator, I have a great amount of respect for Fournette and what he’s done so far this season. In five games, he already has over 1,000 yards and 12 touchdowns. He seems unstoppable on his path to the Heisman Trophy this season. But the Tigers haven’t faced a defense like Florida’s yet. The Gators have a killer secondary led by Hargreaves and Tabor, not to mention an explosive group of linemen ready to come after QB Brandon Harris as well as Fournette himself. The Gators have allowed an average of just below 100 rushing yards per game this season and have yet to allow a touchdown on the road this year. Their defense really does seem like one of the most complete, most suffocating defenses in the country right now. So maybe, just maybe they have a chance at slowing down Forunette enough to get a victory.
All this being said, since nothing seems to be a given in college football this year, I’m not going to even bother speculating as to who will actually win each of these two games. But upon closer examination I can assure you that we’re in for a great weekend of SEC football. May the two best Top Ten teams win.
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Rapid Reaction: Alabama Saves its Dynasty; Destroys Georgia 38-10
October 3, 2015 Damien Bowman
Disgustingly ugly is the description I’d use to describe today’s game in Athens, Georgia. Georgia lost and it wasn’t close. The score at halftime was 21-3 and if Alabama’s defense doesn’t fall asleep on one play in the third quarter, there’s little doubt the Bulldogs would have scored a touchdown in the game. By the way, Nick Chubb ran 83-yards for Georgia’s single touchdown.
All this is fine, but really this is all about Georgia. Everyone at the beginning of the week was busy speculating how this could be the end of Alabama’s dynasty. That obviously didn’t work out too well. It also isn’t the end of the road for Georgia. The SEC East is absolute garbage.
Next week, Georgia will head to Knoxville, then back home to face Missouri before the bye week. After the bye week – the World’s Largest Outdoor Cocktail Party. Florida. Those three and the following game versus Kentucky are the only three that matter. Georgia is fine.
Missouri isn’t dead – I just assume I’ll never see Maty Mauk again and we’ll know a lot more about Florida after their game again Ole Miss tonight. Oh, and Will Grier started for Florida. It was nice knowing you too, Treon Harris. Thanks for stopping in.
The road for Alabama is significantly tougher, but after today’s game everything should be a bit clearer. Texas A&M on October 17th, LSU on November 7th in Tuscaloosa, at Mississippi State on November 14th and the Iron Bowl in Auburn on November 28th. You can say whatever you want about Auburn, but the Iron Bowl is no joke.
It never is.
As Bird and I talked about a few weeks ago on the SEC 411, Alabama has never been able to find the stud quarterback who could just walk in and let the world know he’s in charge. I think Jake Coker made the case for himself today. He’s one of the key’s to Alabama’s success. Derrick Henry and Calvin Henry will carry the offense, and if the Tide’s defense continues today’s domination, Alabama won’t have to listen to anyone talk smack about their failing dynasty.
My UGA big game tradition: have drink, get sad, post tweet about Richt being a better nice guy than coach. Feel bad about tweet. Repeat.
— Zattled (@Zattled) October 3, 2015
This fan perfectly sums up everyone’s feelings about Mark Richt and his performances in big games. I don’t think there was anything he could have done about today because Alabama had his number from the beginning, but the tweet is appropriate.
I believe tomorrow we’ll find that Alabama makes it way to at least number 7 and Georgia will probably land somewhere in 18-22 range depending on what happens to everyone else. Sure, they could be completely booted from the Associated Press Top 25, but who knows.
E-mail Damien at [email protected] or follow him on Twitter @damienbowman.
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Posts Tagged ‘Cathy Ashton’
I’ve put up several articles recently discussing and critiquing the rise of various Fascist movements in eastern Europe, such as Poland, the Czech and Slovak Republics, and the Ukraine. None of the peoples in these countries should have anything to do with these squalid movements, and their equally grotty leaders. The Nazis when they invaded these countries and the former USSR in World War II came to enslave and annihilate them, not to free them from Communist tyranny. After they had finished murdering the Jews and Gypsies, the Nazis intended killing 30 million Poles, Ukrainians, Russians and Belorussians, in an area extending across these nations as far as Lviv/ Lvov. This was to be reserved for colonisations by Germans and other Teutonic peoples, including the English. Its indigenous people were either to be deported or exterminated. The remaining population of this part of eastern Europe, including Czechoslovakia, were to become peasant farmers and slave labourers, denied access to any form of higher education, whose purpose was to provide the agricultural produce to support the new German colonists.
The Nazis openly compared the Slavonic peoples of these nations to Black Africans under western European colonialism. The head of the SS, Heinrich Himmler, declared: Eastern Europe is our Africa, and the Slavs are our Negroes. And the Nazis carried out this policy with great brutality. Seven million people from eastern Europe were forced to serve the Nazis in their own nations. A further seven million were deported to Germany to work as slave labourers for the factories in the Reich itself. And 3.7 million Russians died of starvation and horrific maltreatment in Nazi prisoner of war camps.
I’m writing about all this, not because I want to stir up old nationalist hatreds or resentment against the Germans, who are now some of the most genuinely anti-racist people in Europe. I’m doing so as I want to make it clear just what Nazism stood for. The people, who goose-step around in Nazi-inspired or blatantly Nazi uniform, shouting ‘Sieg Heil’, and showing off their SS tattoos ain’t patriots. They’re traitors. They’re the people the true patriots of these countries – those who joined resistance cells – fought against.
And what is now even more revolting and disturbing is that the US government has been supporting a coalition, which includes these thugs, in Ukraine.
Michelle, one of the commenters on this blog, sent me this link to a compilation of videos which another blogger, Dragan Stankovic, who also blogs on various left-wing and global issues, had put up on his Facebook page: https://plus.google.com/116332978520282633934/posts/TpEV2cpfcsv
It’s an hour-long collection of pieces from different news sources, including the Beeb, CNN, Faux News, and RT. Several of the pieces, including the first video, have been made by a peace group, St. Pete’s for Peace.
Many may not find this easy viewing. The footage in these documentaries includes scenes of brutal violence by members of the Ukrainian neo-Nazi far Right as they shoot and beat their opponents. It does, however, show them exactly as they are: not pacifists trying to lead a peaceful revolution in their nation, but as violent and brutal thugs.
The first video concentrates on Svoboda and its leader, Oleh Tyahnybok, one of the various far-Right groups and organisations within the Pravy Sektor, or ‘Right Sector’ grouping of such parties. The word Svoboda simply means ‘freedom’, which is innocuous enough. It was, however, previously known as the ‘Social Nationalist Movement’, which was directly modelled on the monicker of the National Socialists. They weren’t the only neo-Fascist movement to describe themselves as ‘social’. The main Italian neo-Fascist organisation, before it split with one section reforming itself as the centre right Alleanza Nazionale, was the Movimiento Sociale Italiano – the Italian Social Movement. These were full-blown Fascists, standing for the Corporate state and authoritarian rule. They were involved in attacks on Socialists, trade unionists, left-wingers generally, and immigrants. Svoboda’s name change was merely cosmetic. At various points in the compilation, leaders of Svoboda and other neo-Nazi outfits now lowering the tone in the country of Gogol, Moussorgsky and Vladimir the Great, try to claim that they aren’t really Nazis, and don’t worship Adolf Hitler. One says that they don’t want Nazism in Ukraine. Not for any good reason. He goes on to say that he doesn’t want it, because it wouldn’t work there, but it did work in Germany. The storm troopers in these groups sport tattoos with numbers ’88’. That’s a notorious design used by the goose-steppers across Europe. The ‘8’ stands for the eighth letter of the alphabet, and the two together stand for ‘Heil Hitler’. Others have the number ’18’ tattooed on them, which stands for ‘Adolf Hitler’. One of the groups shown in the video is ‘C18’, whose name recalls ‘Combat 18’, a notorious neo-Nazi outfit over here, who were set up by the American Nazi and Klansman, Harold Covington. And some of them don’t even bother to hide their Nazi sympathies. There’s a scene in one of the news reports of funeral of one of the extreme Rightists in the far west of the country. The mourners gather in their national dress, and a company of re-enactors in World War II Nazi uniform fire their rifles over the grave in salute.
And then there’s the abuse of various ethnic groups Svoboda, C18 and the like consider their enemies. There are several scenes of them screaming, or raising toasts, to the killing of Russians, Poles, Communists, and, of course, the Jews. A few of them in the interviews are rather cagey about talking about their anti-Semitic beliefs. A few start by saying that they are just against certain ethnic groups. When pressed, they then start to explain that they’re against the above peoples. At one point, one of the storm troopers says that the Jews don’t control Ukraine; they control the banks, which control Ukraine. So we’re back to the ‘international Jewish banking conspiracy’ of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, Adolf Hitler, Arnold Leese and the Britons, and bonkers American Nazis. The practical effects of this have been attacks on synagogues. A couple of rabbis are interview, talking about Nazi attacks on their places of worship. One Nazi tried to burn down one with Molotov cocktails. Another suffered some damage, and abusive graffiti, which translated into English, reads ‘Jews Get Out’. Except that it used a particularly ugly term for them instead.
And if the neo-Nazi iconography wasn’t bad enough, the Ukrainian super-patriots have been importing other far-Right symbols from the USSR. One of the documentaries discusses the use by Ukrainian Nazis at a demonstration of the Confederate Flag. RT interviews a Black American activist about this, who is understandable shocked at the flag’s continued appearance and use by Nazi groups. This particular gentleman makes it clear that to him and his people, it represents slavery, and he’s trying to educate the people of Ukraine about what it really means.
What is perhaps most interesting, and deeply sinister, is the fact that the Coalition, of which Svoboda was a part, was bank-rolled and at least partly controlled by the US State Department. The first documentary plays part of a leaked phone call between Victoria Nuland, the Department’s head, and one of her aides, about how she doesn’t want the former boxer-turned-politico, Sergei Klitchko, to serve in the Coalition under Tiahnybok. This documentary states that when the recording was released, most newspapers concentrated on Nuland’s use of the ‘F’ word to express her feelings about Europe. This was a diversion from the real news, which was that Nuland and her colleague, John McCain, were effectively running the Ukraine from behind the scenes, with the Coalition merely a puppet regime.
That part of the report opens with the way the American newspapers failed to mention the true identity of the snipers, who fired on protestors during the mass demonstrations that initially overthrew the government. The papers initially reported that they came Yanukovych’s side. The supporters of the ousted president were not, however, responsible. The shots instead came from Svoboda on the Coalition side. The documentary plays part of a conversation between Urmas Paet, the Estonian Foreign Minister, and Cathy Ashton, the head of the EU foreign ministry, discussing this and how the news has been suppressed.
Several of the documentaries are extremely biased in their turn. There are several from RT – Russia Today, which is the official Russian news agency. This takes the line that Russia is the innocent victim in this, the maligned subject of the machinations of the US and its partners. It doesn’t really need to be said that Putin’s own domestic regime is hardly whiter than white itself, and has perpetrated its share of human rights abuses. But despite their bias, and some of the very extreme claims RT makes, such as that Medecins Sans Frontieres and Amnesty International are now CIA penetrated US front organisations, it does seem that they’re basically accurate. The overthrow of Yanukovych’s regime does seem to have been orchestrated by the US and its western allies as part of geo-political strategy to weaken Russia internationally, and this has involved collaboration with neo-Nazi groups as constituent elements of the puppet regime.
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May 20, 2017 thelegglance39 Comments
It’s not so long ago that newspapers and broadcast media bestrode the world of information, disseminating news and comment to the public, explaining what was going on and read and watched by the public in their millions. The internet changed all that, mostly for the good and sometimes for the ill. It allowed blogs like this one to take off, gave a voice to a citizen army of writers and broadcasters and fragmented an industry that in some sectors still struggles to generate an income and define what content is worth paying for. New viewpoints could be heard, if sufficient numbers were prepared to listen, share and discuss, and the democratisation of opinion was held to be a “good thing” even while the established media lamented the loss of control and influence amongst the great unwashed who now had the means of answering back. Fake news became both a reality, and a term of abuse used to dismiss awkward opinions and shut down debate, and the general level of intolerance toward contrary opinions increased.
But there was a different strand that is only now being discussed and publicly recognised in traditional media – the centralisation of messaging amongst sports clubs and governing bodies. In one sense, it’s little different to how business has always operated, advertising being the key means of getting messages across and PR campaigns used to establish a reputation and a brand. The means may change, but the principles remain the same. Where it differed in a sporting context was that while the media had always been their means of doing so, there were few methods of exerting control over what was said and what angle the reporting took. The club or board might not like it, but retaliating against a media outlet was entirely counterproductive, as they could be starved of publicity or constantly referred to as an entity who didn’t like free speech. The objections in print would reach a wide audience, and be more or less impossible to successfully counter.
What has changed is that a club or a sporting body can now be their own media outlet. Football clubs have their own TV channels, where they proudly boast exclusive interviews with their own employees, and where the message can be controlled in its entirety under the guise of access.
Tim Wigmore, always one of the more thoughtful cricket journalists out there, and one prepared to ask the most basic and important questions has written an article about this very question, Manchester United’s expressed desire to increase the prevalence of its “news” app providing the catalyst, alongside an acknowledgement that the USA has been moving down the same path. There are many good points within that, and from a cricket blog perspective there’s a certain amusement to be had given it’s been one of the central themes of the writing on here over the last couple of years.
The ECB certainly floated the idea of their own subscription channel when musing the broadcast options coming up, and the appeal is easy to see – the revenue accrues entirely to them rather than to an intermediary and they can completely control the themes and provide a direct link to their army of sponsors. Something approaching that model has been seen fairly clearly in India, where broadcast criticism of the BCCI has been rather comprehensively shut down. In the UK at least, there are laws preventing the subject of a broadcast exercising editorial control, but that doesn’t apply (currently) to online. In any case, while the attraction is clear, creating a full on media company is a big undertaking and to that end the ECB realistically still need partners for the foreseeable future.
Of course, there’s nothing especially radical in wishing to control a message, businesses do that all the time though generally speaking, avoiding being in the news is the aim there. But the creation of their own story is part of the trick, and for employees and members of the industry, it’s nothing especially new. By way of example, working in the travel and tourism industry I will tend to be very careful about what I say in public – not just in terms of those I work for, but in general. Becoming the story through controversial opinions is something to be avoided like the plague, except in certain specific circumstances where such opinions are in themselves the currency – viz. Michael O’Leary.
Yet a full on takeover of the message by an organisation like the ECB is unlikely to be the real problem. When that happens journalists become much more critical anyway, and the example contained within Mr Wigmore’s article, when Newcastle United banned journalists, attracted lots of attention and even more criticism. By trying to control the story, they lost control of it completely, and freed the media to criticise with no further cost in terms of their relationship.
The far more insidious and dangerous trend in recent years has been the use of soft power to try to direct the narrative. Sports journalism of the day to day nature requires access to the players and other key people in order to provide copy and generate interest, readership and, yes, clicks. This can be made more difficult, and the plum opportunities given to those who are onside and can be trusted not to cause too many difficulties. Those that don’t follow the script find that it’s a little harder to talk to the right people. This is extremely tough to combat and a fair degree of sympathy for the individual journalist – but not the industry – is warranted. To turn it around a different way, the three of us on here have no compunctions about what we say for the very good reason that we know for certain there is no prospect whatsoever of us being invited into the ECB’s inner sanctum, or even within the same diocese come to that. However in our case, we aren’t being paid to do this, and don’t have a boss who can fire us. But our and other blogs’ freedom comes at a different cost – highly limited contact with those in any degree of power. A few journalists maintain a back channel to us, and occasionally we are given a heads up on something that they feel unable to write about themselves, which is a curious state of affairs on the one hand, and entirely understandable on another – not least the commercial imperative.
Where it is different for a journalist is that if they lose their access they struggle to do their job, and given it’s their livelihood it’s a real risk to take. A reluctance to rock the boat is the likely result, and the other side of the coin is that by keeping close to the ECB they can get even better access and thus even greater reach for their articles with obvious personal benefits. This kind of behaviour is worse by far because the bias is harder to spot, particularly amongst those who only pay cursory attention to the goings on. It’s for that reason it’s such an attractive way of working for the ECB, or for any other organisation in the same position – limiting dissent, encouraging promotion, and enabling the party line to be maintained. It’s also the hardest to combat; many journalists are very aware of the problem, but being aware of it and trying to prevent it are two different things.
There’s no real reason to assume this will improve, just the opposite. In order for sports reporters to do their jobs properly, they need that access and they need to be able to talk to people within the top levels of the game, not just for themselves but for us as readers to try to glean the truth. From that comes much of the best journalism, whether from sources or openly in interview. It is a problem for the truth if any time they report on something they’ve learned they are dismissed for daring to talk to people – that is their job. They face a dilemma in attempting to both gain insight and obtain a good story, while at the same time being entirely aware of what the ECB are up to. Equally, conspiracy theories about all of them are unreasonable – the vast majority have professional pride and wouldn’t allow it to happen to them and wouldn’t be party to attempts to restrict them. There are exceptions to that, and those that behave that way tend to attract a degree of contempt for their output. But it’s rarely a matter of open collaboration, but of being sufficiently vulnerable to rein any criticism in because of the possible consequences.
If much of sport is now nothing more than a branch of the entertainment industry, it shouldn’t be a surprise that the same kinds of rules apply to the reporting. Interviews with members of the movie industry are almost always on the back of promoting a film rather than for the sake of it – and always remember few people would wish to open up for the sake of it, these interviews are a part of their job and one many of them greatly dislike. The prevalence of a footnote stating that a player is being interviewed courtesy of a particular sponsor has been an unwelcome development, and creates the dilemma for the journalist as to whether to play that particular game. It’s hard to criticise them for doing so, yet it remains something of a blight.
There are few material answers to all of this. Either journalism as a body responds and reacts to the threat to their independence or they don’t, and as is so often the case some of them do just that, and others take the advantages on offer as a trade for their independence. It will undoubtedly allow them to generate much copy and many readers but at the price of their integrity. That is their decision, ours is how much trust we have in anything they might say. Some have found that even when they are right they are no longer believed, to their clear frustration. But it’s brought on by their own conduct, and the collateral damage of good journalism being considered guilty by association makes it even worse. We need them, we need them badly, but the truth is that they need us as well. And that’s what needs to be remembered.
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Local hero Anderson gunning for BJO glory
Donna Helmer2018-12-11T09:17:18+00:003rd Jan 2018|Categories: 2018, NEWS|Tags: Lewis Anderson|
Local English hope Lewis Anderson will be gunning for glory when he competes in the prestigious Dunlop British Junior Open in Birmingham this week.
Solihull-based Anderson heads into the event in top form after claiming his maiden title at the British under-17 national title in October, which has seen him seeded for the under-17 category at the Dunlop British Junior Open.
The 16-year-old’s win also saw him become the first Warwickshire male in over three decades to taste success at the British Junior Championships.
Anderson said:
“I hope to play the best squash I can at the BJO and ultimately I would love to win. But I realise that there is tough competition from other countries.”
“I played for England at the Junior European Championships in Prague, played in the finals in the English Championships in March and won the British Junior Championships in October.
“It made me realise that I can compete against the top players and beat them which has given me confidence since then.”
Anderson says it is the backing of two local coaches which has been the catalyst for his rise through the junior ranks.
He said: “Mike Edwards, the head coach at Edgbaston Priory, initially involved me as an eight-year-old junior to start playing for fun. He then coached me to start playing seriously and Mike Harris, the assistant head coach, became involved with my training around the age of 10.
“At 11 I felt that I had to choose between squash and football as I could not commit to both sports. Thankfully, squash won as I just love to play this fast-paced game.
“While other juniors then changed coaches and clubs I have remained loyal to both and I feel that it is now starting to pay off.”
Anderson is currently studying at Solihull Sixth Form College and recently returned from the US Squash Open where he finished in a credible seventh position.
“I am hoping to study at one of the Ivy League Universities and had discussions with various coaches while I was out there. It is great that the Commonwealth Games are coming to my local city in 2022 as it will be a great environment for me to see how the athletes at the top of the sporting game train, manage time and play. I am hopeful that squash will then become an Olympic Sport in the future.”
Lee Drew, England Squash national junior coach, said:
“Lewis has improved massively over the last six months. He is a deceptive player, likes to hold the ball and express himself on the court.”
Due to the size of the event, the tournament will be played over four venues between Wednesday and Sunday, with the finals being played at the University of Birmingham, which will host squash and hockey at the 2022 Commonwealth Games.
The other West Midlands venues will be the Edgbaston Priory Club (eight courts), Solihull Arden Club (four courts) and the West Warwickshire Club (three courts).
Day FOUR : SEMI-FINALS
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CIA concludes Russia intervened in 2016 election to help Trump
By WashingtonPost|Published Sat, Dec 10, 2016
By Adam Entous, Ellen Nakashima and Greg Miller
WASHINGTON – The CIA has concluded in a secret assessment that Russia intervened in the 2016 election to help Donald Trump win the presidency, rather than just to undermine confidence in the U.S. electoral system, according to officials briefed on the matter.
Intelligence agencies have identified individuals with connections to the Russian government who provided WikiLeaks with thousands of hacked emails from the Democratic National Committee and others, including Hillary Clinton’s campaign chairman, according to U.S. officials. Those officials described the individuals as actors known to the intelligence community and part of a wider Russian operation to boost Trump and hurt Clinton’s chances.
“It is the assessment of the intelligence community that Russia’s goal here was to favor one candidate over the other, to help Trump get elected,” said a senior U.S. official briefed on an intelligence presentation made to U.S. senators. “That’s the consensus view.”
President Obama’s administration has been debating for months how to respond to the alleged Russian intrusions, with White House officials concerned about escalating tensions with Moscow and being accused of trying to boost Clinton’s campaign.
In September, during a secret briefing for congressional leaders, Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky voiced doubts about the veracity of the intelligence, according to officials present.
The Trump transition team did not respond to a request for comment.
Trump has consistently dismissed the intelligence community’s findings about Russian hacking.
“I don’t believe they interfered” in the election, he told Time magazine this week. The hacking, he said, “could be Russia. And it could be China. And it could be some guy in his home in New Jersey.”
The CIA shared its latest assessment with key senators in a closed-door briefing on Capitol Hill last week, in which agency officials cited a growing body of intelligence from multiple sources. Agency briefers told the senators it was now “quite clear” that electing Trump was Russia’s goal, according to the officials, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss intelligence matters.
The CIA presentation to senators about Russia’s intentions fell short of a formal U.S. assessment produced by all 17 intelligence agencies. A senior U.S. official said there were minor disagreements among intelligence officials about the agency’s assessment, in part because some questions remain unanswered.
For example, intelligence agencies do not have specific intelligence showing officials in the Kremlin “directing” the identified individuals to pass the Democratic emails to WikiLeaks, a second senior U.S. official said. Those actors, according to the official, were “one step” removed from the Russian government, rather than government employees. Moscow has in the past used middlemen to participate in sensitive intelligence operations so it has plausible deniability.
Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks, has said in a television interview that the “Russian government is not the source.”
The White House and CIA officials declined to comment.
On Friday, the White House said Obama had ordered a “full review” of Russian hacking during the election campaign, as pressure from Congress has grown for greater public understanding of exactly what Moscow did to influence the electoral process.
“We may have crossed into a new threshold, and it is incumbent upon us to take stock of that, to review, to conduct some after-action, to understand what has happened and to impart some lessons learned,” Obama’s counterterrorism and homeland security adviser, Lisa Monaco, told reporters at a breakfast hosted by the Christian Science Monitor.
Obama wants the report before he leaves office Jan. 20, Monaco said.
During her remarks, Monaco didn’t address the latest CIA assessment, which hasn’t been previously disclosed.
Seven Democratic senators last week asked Obama to declassify details about the intrusions and why officials believe that the Kremlin was behind the operation. Officials said Friday that the senators specifically were asking the White House to release portions of the CIA’s presentation.
This week, top Democratic lawmakers in the House also sent a letter to Obama, asking for briefings on Russian interference in the election.
U.S. intelligence agencies have been cautious for months in characterizing Russia’s motivations, reflecting the United States’ long-standing struggle to collect reliable intelligence on President Vladimir Putin and those closest to him.
In previous assessments, the CIA and other intelligence agencies told the White House and congressional leaders that they believed Moscow’s aim was to undermine confidence in the U.S. electoral system. The assessments stopped short of saying the goal was to help elect Trump.
On Oct. 7, the intelligence community officially accused Moscow of seeking to interfere in the election through the hacking of “political organizations.” Though the statement never specified which party, it was clear that officials were referring to cyber-intrusions into the computers of the DNC and other Democratic groups and individuals.
Some key Republican lawmakers have continued to question the quality of evidence supporting Russian involvement.
“I’ll be the first one to come out and point at Russia if there’s clear evidence, but there is no clear evidence – even now,” said Rep. Devin Nunes, R-Calif., the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee and a member of the Trump transition team. “There’s a lot of innuendo, lots of circumstantial evidence, that’s it.”
Though Russia has long conducted cyberspying on U.S. agencies, companies and organizations, this presidential campaign marks the first time Moscow has attempted through cyber-means to interfere in, if not actively influence, the outcome of an election, the officials said.
The reluctance of the Obama White House to respond to the alleged Russian intrusions before Election Day upset Democrats on the Hill as well as members of the Clinton campaign.
Within the administration, top officials from different agencies sparred over whether and how to respond. White House officials were concerned that covert retaliatory measures might risk an escalation in which Russia, with sophisticated cyber-capabilities, might have less to lose than the United States, with its vast and vulnerable digital infrastructure.
The White House’s reluctance to take that risk left Washington weighing more limited measures, including the “naming and shaming” approach of publicly blaming Moscow.
By mid-September, White House officials had decided it was time to take that step, but they worried that doing so unilaterally and without bipartisan congressional backing just weeks before the election would make Obama vulnerable to charges that he was using intelligence for political purposes.
Instead, officials devised a plan to seek bipartisan support from top lawmakers and set up a secret meeting with the Gang of 12 – a group that includes House and Senate leaders, as well as the chairmen and ranking members of both chambers’ committees on intelligence and homeland security.
Obama dispatched Monaco, FBI Director James Comey and Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson to make the pitch for a “show of solidarity and bipartisan unity” against Russian interference in the election, according to a senior administration official.
Specifically, the White House wanted congressional leaders to sign off on a bipartisan statement urging state and local officials to take federal help in protecting their voting-registration and balloting machines from Russian cyber-intrusions.
Though U.S. intelligence agencies were skeptical that hackers would be able to manipulate the election results in a systematic way, the White House feared that Russia would attempt to do so, sowing doubt about the fundamental mechanisms of democracy and potentially forcing a more dangerous confrontation between Washington and Moscow.
In a secure room in the Capitol used for briefings involving classified information, administration officials broadly laid out the evidence U.S. spy agencies had collected, showing Russia’s role in cyber-intrusions in at least two states and in hacking the emails of the Democratic organizations and individuals.
And they made a case for a united, bipartisan front in response to what one official described as “the threat posed by unprecedented meddling by a foreign power in our election process.”
Some of the Republicans in the briefing also seemed opposed to the idea of going public with such explosive allegations in the final stages of an election, a move that they argued would only rattle public confidence and play into Moscow’s hands.
McConnell’s office did not respond to a request for comment. After the election, Trump chose McConnell’s wife, Elaine Chao, as his nominee for transportation secretary.
Some Clinton supporters saw the White House’s reluctance to act without bipartisan support as further evidence of an excessive caution in facing adversaries.
“The lack of an administration response on the Russian hacking cannot be attributed to Congress,” said Rep. Adam Schiff of California, the ranking Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, who was at the September meeting. “The administration has all the tools it needs to respond. They have the ability to impose sanctions. They have the ability to take clandestine means. The administration has decided not to utilize them in a way that would deter the Russians, and I think that’s a problem.”
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Story Idea: Plan An Island Getaway This Summer In New York City’s Borough Of Staten Island
PLAN AN ISLAND GETAWAY THIS SUMMER IN NEW YORK CITY’S BOROUGH OF STATEN ISLAND
While there might not be palm trees, New York City’s Staten Island offers many possibilities for fun in the sun with a side of history and culture. With its miles of sandy beaches and nature trails, free summer concerts on the beach and beautiful historic homes, the borough is New York City’s hidden secret waiting to be explored.
The summer fun starts with a ride from Lower Manhattan to St. George on the free Staten Island Ferry. Visitors getting off the ferry can walk to the Richmond County Bank Ballpark, where the Staten Island Yankees will play their home opener on Saturday, June 18. All summer long, fans can enjoy a game of baseball along with post-game fireworks on Friday and Saturday nights. For outdoor family fun, the Staten Island Greenbelt is the borough’s system of connected parkland and nature preserves throughout the middle of the island, complete with bike paths, hiking trails and Nature Center. Known as NYC’s “biggest little zoo,” the Staten Island Zoo features one of the country’s largest collections of venomous snakes and is also home to the City’s most famous groundhog, Staten Island Chuck. Visitors can enjoy the surf and sand at Midland Beach and South Beach on the East Shore, where they can also stroll along the Franklin D. Roosevelt Boardwalk with its picturesque views of the Atlantic Ocean and the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge.
Staten Island’s rich history can be traced at its museums and historic sites. Visitors can discover the borough’s history and contributions to the City’s art and culture at the Staten Island Museum. The museum has two locations: one just outside the St. George Ferry Terminal and a brand-new LEED-certified building at Snug Harbor Cultural Center & Botanical Garden. Snug Harbor was once a sailor’s retirement village and today is the location of the New York Chinese Scholar’s Garden, one of two authentic Chinese gardens in the country. Right up the street is one of the neighborhood’s beloved cultural spots, the St. George Theatre, which has seen the likes of Al Jolson, Diana Ross and Jerry Seinfeld perform on its stage.
The former residence of one of America’s earliest groundbreaking female photographers, the Alice Austen House Museum in Rosebank pays homage to Alice Austen with a permanent collection of her documentary work and other photographic exhibitions. Situated not too far away is Fort Wadsworth—one of the oldest military installations in the country—which guarded New York Harbor during the Revolutionary War. After exploring these cultural institutions on the North Shore, visitors can hop on the Staten Island Railway to Tottenville for a tour of The Conference House, site of the Revolutionary Peace Conference of 1776 held between John Adams, Benjamin Franklin and other significant figures in American history. In Historic Richmond Town, visitors can take a walk back in time through restored homes and a museum that depict how Americans lived in the early 1700s.
The borough is well-known for some of the City’s best cuisine, from Italian fare to Sri Lankan delicacies. After spending a day at Midland Beach and walking the Franklin D. Roosevelt Boardwalk, visitors can enjoy breathtaking views and an exquisite seafood menu at South Fin Grill. What’s visiting Staten Island without grabbing a slice of pizza? From Joe & Pat’s specialty slices in Castleton Corners to historic Denino’s Pizzeria & Tavern in Port Richmond, visitors can find a mouthwatering slice. Conveniently located near the St. George Ferry Terminal, Enoteca Maria in St. George takes homemade cooking to a new level, featuring old-school “nonnas” who create authentic dishes that will make visitors want to sail back for seconds. Not too far away, in Tompkinsville, home to one of the largest Sri Lankan communities in the country, New Asha offers blistered rotis, mutton curry, coconut broth soups and other tempting specialties.
Future Waterfront Attractions
Visitors taking the Staten Island Ferry toward St. George will soon see something new rising along the waterfront. Opening in 2017, the 630-foot-tall New York Wheel will be the world’s largest observation wheel, providing picturesque views of the Manhattan skyline. Also opening in late 2017, Empire Outlets will be New York City’s first and only shopping outlet mall, featuring brand-name stores such as Nike Factory Outlet, Banana Republic Factory Store, Nordstrom Rack, plus a boutique hotel and a vast array of dining options at the Marketplace at Empire Outlets. Destination St. George will be a must-see on any future NYC itinerary.
Those looking to enjoy more of Staten Island this summer can extend their stay at one of several hotels in the borough, including the Hilton Garden Inn New York/Staten Island, Hampton Inn & Suites Staten Island and the Holiday Inn Express – Staten Island West, all offering shuttle service to and from the Staten Island Ferry in St. George. These affordable hotels are conveniently located on Staten Island’s West Shore, which is less than 15 minutes from Newark Liberty International Airport.
The Staten Island Ferry runs every half hour—and every 15 minutes during rush hour—24/7, 365 days a year. Most attractions and restaurants can be reached by MTA New York City Transit Buses for $2.75 MetroCard fare by local bus or $6.50 for express buses from Manhattan. The Staten Island Railway, which is free to access except at the St. George and Tompkinsville stations, is another option for getting around the borough.
To explore more hidden treasures in Staten Island’s neighborhoods, visit nycgo.com/statenisland.
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Browse: Home » 2005 » August » Illinois Court Enforces Dell’s Website Terms and Conditions of Sale
Illinois Court Enforces Dell’s Website Terms and Conditions of Sale
August 31, 2005 · by John Ottaviani · in Licensing/Contracts
By John Ottaviani
Dell Computers has contributed to the growing body of cases finding that “browse-wrap” contracts (terms and conditions posted on a website that do not necessarily require one to click on an “I agree” or “I accept” button) can be enforceable in certain circumstances.
In Hubbard v. Dell Corporation, No. 5-03-0643, 2005 WL 1968774 (Ill. App., Aug. 12, 2005), an Illinois appeals court held that buyers who purchased computers via Dell’s website were bound by an arbitration clause contained in the “Terms and Conditions of Sale,” even though buyers were not required to click on an “I agree” or “I accept” button specifically accepting those terms of sale.
A few thoughts about this case:
· The court properly used traditional contract analysis to evaluate whether or not the arbitration clause was enforceable. Like in the recent McDonald’s case in the Seventh Circuit, it’s nice to see the courts getting the analysis right.
· A few other cases have discussed the enforceability of “browse-wrap” terms. But this may be the first reported case where a court has held that a first time or infrequent visitor to a website could be bound by “browse-wrap” terms if they are conspicuous. In other cases, the parties were repeat visitors (generally for an improper purpose, such as stealing competitive data or screen scrapers).
· The court also considered the sophistication of the buyers. (“Common sense dictates that because the plaintiffs were purchasing computers on line, they were not novices when using computers. A person using a computer quickly learns that more information is available by clicking on a blue hyperlink.”).
· Several colleagues and I wrote a paper a few years ago entitled “Browse-wrap Agreements: Validity of Implied Assent in Electronic Form Agreements” (59 Business Lawyer 279 (2003)), in which we set forth a four-part test for courts to use in determining whether a user has validly assented to the terms of a browse-wrap agreement: (1) the user is provided with adequate notice of the existence of the proposed terms; (2) the user has a meaningful opportunity to review the terms; (3) the user is provided with adequate notice that the taking of a specified action manifests assent to the terms; and (4) the user takes the action specified in the notice.
While the Illinois court did not cite our article or explicitly use our test in the Hubbert decision, it was satisfied in this situation.
Adequate Notice of Terms. What constitutes adequate notice of the existence of terms should be judged both in terms of the physical presentation of the notice and the content of the notice. Here, each of the five pages of forms that the buyer had to fill out to make the purchase contained a blue hyperlink to the “Terms and Conditions Of Sale”. The terms and conditions of sale were also included on the printed invoice that came with the computer. In addition, on three of Dell’s five web pages that the buyers completed to make purchases, the following statement appeared: “All sales are subject to Dell’s Terms and Conditions Of Sale.” The court felt (properly, I think) that this statement would place a reasonable person on notice that there were terms and conditions attached to the purchase and it would be wise to find out what the terms and conditions were before making the purchase. Is this any different than signing an invoice or sales receipt with “See terms and conditions on reverse” printed at the bottom?
Opportunity to Review the Terms. The second factor of our test requires that the user of the website have a meaningful opportunity to review the browse-wrap terms before the deal becomes final. Here, the terms were linked to each of five pages that the buyer needed to complete before purchasing. The terms were available before the purchasing decision needed to be made. Moreover, the buyers had all the time that they wanted or needed to review the terms (unlike cases refusing to enforce terms on the back of ferry tickets where the ticket was taken immediately after purchase).
Adequate Notice of Action. Another element in our test is that the user must receive adequate notice that the taking of certain actions manifests assent to the terms. Here, the notice was not as clear as it could have been, but was adequate (according to the Court, and I agree) to put the buyer on notice that his or her purchase was subject to the terms. I would have preferred if the notice were more explicit such as “By completing this form or purchasing the computer, you agree to the ‘Terms and Conditions Of Sale’” (with a link to the terms and conditions). In other cases, courts have enforced terms that stated that by submitting a query, the user would be bound by the terms, or that use of the website is subject to express terms of use, and by continuing past the page, one agrees to abide by the terms. This case would seem to be closer to the latter.
User Takes the Action Specified. Here, the users purchased the computers, thereby taking the action specified in he notice.
· In the end, using a click-through procedure provides more certainty and reliability when one needs to enforce a contract. This approach should be used whenever possible.
Discussion at ContractsProf Blog.
I think the call to action, and its location, makes a big difference. In this case, having the language “order subject to T&Cs” in a prominent enough place puts users on a pretty strong inquiry notice. I agree that a stronger call to action would have made this point sharper, but on the surface this may have been the right outcome. Eric.
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Lauren Ireland is IP Global’s UK Director of Sales. Based in London, she is responsible for managing our UK sales operation. Lauren has previously worked for industry leaders in both the UK and Australia and has a strong understanding of the UK market with an emphasis on London. She explains the shifts that she has seen in London’s property market over the past 15 years and how the expansion of transportation in the city has allowed for areas further out of Central London, like Woolwich, to rise to the top of property investors’ lists.
In my some 15 years of working in the property industry, over 10 has been focused on emerging markets in East/South East London. Having lived and worked in this area, I have seen firsthand the changes that have occurred in the city and the evolution of the property market in the local area. Working in the greater London area I have witnessed the shift of value areas and seen how the expansion of transportation links has allowed for the development of local property markets over the years.
With house prices growing over 5 times their 1970s level, London is an established hot-spot for global property investment. As the London property market has boomed and attracted an ever-growing amount of foreign and domestic investment, savvy buyers and renters have sought out pockets of value where they can pay less for housing while still being able to easily access employment hubs in central London.
As a result, thousands use London’s underground system, colloquially called the tube, on a daily basis and put pressure on the overworked system. The continued search for pockets of value in increasingly distant parts of the city also means that many deal with long commutes and inconvenient connections.
The city of London is tackling this problem with Crossrail, a massive infrastructure project, the biggest in Europe, which will open up new areas of the city, improving travel times and connections to Central London. Crossrail’s purpose is to alleviate the overloaded tube system by building the Elizabeth Line, an extensive new east-west line in the world’s oldest underground system. The project is costing GBP15.9 billion and will bring an estimated GBP42 billion to the local economy in long term jobs and associated industry.
The new line will increase London’s underground system’s capacity by 10%, ensure that 1.5 million more people are within 45 minutes of the city centre and shorten the average commuter time by 25%. The Elizabeth Line is set to complete in December 2018 with tracks, trains and trains already complete and in the final stages before being handed over to Transport for London for final testing.
Over the past decade, the 'Crossrail effect' has instigated a lot of discussion. Crossrail is opening up new areas of London for people to live, with shortened commutes to employment hubs in the city centre. This has led to a boost in the property markets of areas near stations as savvy investors purchase properties that will benefit directly from this improved transportation infrastructure.
I remember selling properties in Canary Wharf when the project first broke ground and even then we would present the benefits of the addition of the new station in the area. Whilst this was far in the future at the time, it was still something that people saw as a solid factor for appreciation long-term.
Investing in areas like this at the right time provide opportunity to investors as they are priced lower than central London while still allowing residents to work at employment hubs in Central London. Currently, one such area of opportunity is Woolwich in south-east London.
In the time that I have lived and worked in the area of East/South East London, I have seen firsthand the growth and development that has occurred in the Woolwich area and its relationship to London as a whole. Woolwich has risen from the period of stagnation that it experienced following the closure of key industries in the 1970s and 1980s to now being an up and coming area that young professionals are moving to, priced out of central London.
For Woolwich, it has and continues to be transformed off the back of the pending station addition. Once completed it will be only 8 minutes to Canary Wharf, where values in some blocks are almost triple. Average property prices have indeed improved in Woolwich, but there is serious scope for further appreciation given the very low price point compared with other areas in the same zone in London.
In the past several years property insiders have begun to take notice of this movement and have classified Woolwich as an “opportunity area”, predicting that it will continue to evolve, becoming a metropolitan centre within Greater London over the next few decades. The district has been ranked by JLL as the area which will be most impacted by Crossrail overall, taking into account the regeneration currently taking place as well as its future development potential and the effect it will have on residential housing prices.
With Crossrail and the opening of the Elizabeth Line, travel times into central London will drop from 34 minutes to 14 minutes, allowing for easier commutes and encouraging Londoners to move to the area, aided by cheaper living costs. Due to this a 21% increase in house prices and 19% rental growth is projected over the next four years in the areas near the station.
The local council has enacted measures to make this move very attractive, investing in the infrastructure and facilities of the local area. This has included a GBP31 million cultural district, featuring a 1200-seat auditorium, performance courtyard and black box theatre, redeveloping areas of the town centre to provide services such as shops and offices and the rejuvenation of local Grade I and II* listed buildings.
Driven by the rise of prices in Central London and the search for pockets of value Londoners and investors continue to look for new areas of Greater London with easy transport access to employment hubs. Crossrail will serve this need and will allow for previously ignored areas like Woolwich to flourish and to offer investors high appreciation prospects. By looking at these areas and seeing their long-term potential, savvy investors and local areas have great promise for the future.
Written by Lauren Ireland
As UK Sales Director for IP Global, based in London, Lauren is responsible for managing the property investment firm’s UK sales operation. With 15 years in the industry, Lauren has built a strong and successful career in property. Prior to her role at IP Global Lauren was the Sales Director for Savills in East London, taking her offices to record sales levels during her tenure. Today Lauren continues to drive IP Global's vision and values into the future, using her many years of experience to the benefit of clients.
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What Are the Requirements to Be a Tax Attorney?
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A tax attorney has a complex job that involves understanding tax law and helping clients if they have legal issues related to their tax returns or obligations. Tax attorneys might also work directly for the IRS, analyzing tax returns and dealing with people who are trying to avoid paying taxes. Becoming a tax attorney requires an extensive education.
To become a tax attorney, you first need an undergraduate degree. There is no requirement for a specific degree, though you should choose a degree that will help you develop useful skills for both law school and a tax career. Business, accounting, finance and economics majors are among the most helpful. You should also do well academically since your grades will play a big part in which law schools accept your application.
Law Degree and Licensing
The next step to becoming a tax attorney is to enroll in and graduate from an accredited law school, then pass the bar exam. Law schools do not offer specializations such as tax law. However, it is helpful to take a variety of tax classes to familiarize yourself with the topic and make sure tax law is the right choice for you. After you graduate from law school, you will need to take and pass the bar exam for the state you will be practicing in. The bar exam is a two-day or three-day test, depending on the state. To pass the exam, you should take a bar exam preparation course, which usually lasts six to eight weeks.
If you want to be qualified to represent clients before the IRS, you will need to complete the IRS program for becoming an Enrolled Agent. This involves passing a three-part Special Enrollment Exam that covers both business and individual tax returns. To keep your status as an enrolled agent, you need to take 72 hours of continuing education classes every three years and follow ethical standards.
You do not need any special certification to practice as a tax attorney. However, some attorneys choose to obtain state certifications so they can advertise themselves as specializing in tax law. This typically involves passing an exam and having a certain number of hours working in tax law. For example, in Florida, you must have practiced in tax law full-time for five years, or four years if you have an LL.M. degree in taxation. You must have at least 500 hours per year in the specialty of tax law during the three years immediately preceding application. You must also complete 90 hours of tax law continuing education during the three years before your certification, and pass a written exam, to be a certified tax attorney. In Texas, you must have 60 hours of continuing education in tax law. You must also have devoted at least 35 percent of your work hours practicing tax law during each of any five of the seven years immediately preceding application. In addition, you must provide specific examples of your tax work, submit five references and pass a specialty examination.
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George H.W. Bush, RIP
December 3, 2018 By The Central Standard Times in Politics Tags: China, CIA, Civil rights, Dana Carvey, George H.W. Bush, George W. Bush, international coalition, Iran-Contra, Kuwait, Lloyd Bentsen, Saddam Hussein, Watergate, World War II, Yale Leave a comment
President George Herbert Walker Bush died on Friday, and given the rancorous political rhetoric of today we were pleased to see how very respectful all the obituaries and public comments have been. Even the news media that were most critical of Bush over his long career in public service duly acknowledged his many historic accomplishments, and all his past foes joined his many friends in praising the man’s patriotic character. This will probably be the last time we see any American sent off with such bipartisan praise, and we fear it marks the passing on era when that was not only possible but fairly commonplace.
Bush was born 94 years ago in a bygone era of genteel New England Republicanism, the son of a wealthy businessman and future Senator and a socialite mother, and was educated in the best schools that a wealthy New England family could buy. As a star student and promising athlete he was admitted to the elite Yale University, but against his parents’ wishes he volunteered for the Navy at the outset of World War II, became one of the military’s youngest aviators, and came back with medals never wore and heroic tales he rarely told about parachuting from a burning plane and being luckily rescued by a submarine that happened to be nearby. At long last enrolled at Yale, he was a Phi Beta Kappa student and the captain and star first baseman of the school’s championship-contending baseball team. He also wed the shy but attractive socialite Barbara Pierce, a descendant of President Franklin Pierce, and they stayed married and quite obviously in love for the rest of their lives.
Instead of taking his Yale education and distinguished war record to Wall Street or an academic sinecure or some other obvious choice for wealthy New Englander, Bush went west to a particularly barren portion of west Texas to make his fortune in the rough-and-tumble oil business, and wound doing quite well for himself and his growing family. By age 40 he figured he’d made enough money to let the investment income accrue, and with an old New England sense of noblesse oblige he commenced one of the most remarkable careers of public service in American history.
Bush started in the humble position of Harris County, Texas’ Republican party, and lost his first race for the House of Representatives shortly thereafter. He won the seat two years later, a rare feat for a Texas Republican way back in ’66, an in two terms earned reputation as a centrist who voted for civil rights legislation he’d earlier opposed and bucked the party’s position on birth control but backed President Richard Nixon’s controversial Vietnam policies. At Nixon’s urging Bush ran for the Senate in ’70, and lost to Democratic nominee Lloyd Bentsen — more about that later — but was rewarded with an appointment to be ambassador to the United Nations. He served as national chairman of the Republican party during the Watergate, somehow keeping his reputation intact, and was then head liaison to China just after Nixon famously normalized relations, and was then the director of the Central Intelligence Agency.
With such an impressive resume Bush was considered a front-runner for the Republican presidential nomination in 1980, but there was already an anti-establishment sentiment brewing in the party, and he lost to former California governor and far more forcefully conservative Ronald Reagan. Although it had been a hard-fought primary campaign by both sides, Reagan chose Bush as his running mate, partly to appease the still-potent establishment wing of the party, and partly because of Bush’s impressive resume. The choice worked out well for the Republican party, with Reagan winning two landslides and Bush earning a third term parties rarely win, beating the ticket of Massachusetts Governor Michael Dukakis and the aforementioned Texas Sen. Lloyd Bentsen. Even his harshest critics of the time now agree it worked out pretty well for the rest of the world, too, with Reagan’s aggressive policies winning the Cold War and Bush’s more cautious diplomacy successfully negotiating the peace.
Bush’s long experience of foreign policy brought other masterstrokes. Although it was controversial at the time, his decision to invade Panama and arrest its dictator after several provocations was carried out with stunning efficiency and looks good in retrospect, and no one in Panama is griping about it. When the Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein invaded neighboring Kuwait in violation of international law and basic human decency, Bush drew a famous line in the sand, and enforced it with an undeniable brilliance. He won the approval of both Russia and China and the rest of the UN’s Security Council to fight the aggression, assembled an international coalition of nations that included all the keys players in the Middle East, then unleashed a near-perectly conceived military plan that drove the Iraqi army out of Kuwait before the first anti-war protest could be organized. Casualties were miraculously low, international law had been enforced, America’s world leadership was unchallenged, and Bush briefly enjoyed a record-setting 90 percent approval rating.
The public is fickle, though, and when the Reagan economic boom eventually ran into an inevitable recession Bush got the blame for the business cycle. The recession was relatively brief and mild by historical standards, and was largely over by the time Bush’s re-election day arrived, but he’d be hammered by the press for the pardons he issued to everyone involved in the unfortunate but now largely forgotten Iran-Contra scandal, and it was easy to caricature him as a well-heeled New Englander who didn’t understand the common folk. He had the misfortunate to run not only against “Slick Willie” Clinton, a Yale-educated snake oil salesman from small town Arkansa who could bite his lip and convince the common folk he felt their pain, but also the independent candidate Ross Perot, a megalomaniacal billionaire who told the anti-establishment sorts of Republicans who’d long distrusted Bush’s kinder and gentler conservatism everything they wanted to hear. Thus Bush became the most consequential and respected-by-history one-term president since John Adams.
Bush wasn’t one to seek revenge, but he got a small measure of it when his eldest son, George W. Bush, won the presidency after Clinton’s two peaceful and prosperous but scandal-ridden terms, becoming the first son of a president to win the office since John Quincy Adams. That’s a whole ‘nother story, as they say down in Texas, and it will continue to be rewritten long after the younger Bush’s obituaries are published, but the elder Bush’s popularity grew through his retirement. In keeping with the longstanding traditions that Bush always kept, he kept his political opinions mostly to himself through the Clinton and Bush and Obama administrations, and instead devoted his considerable energy to bipartisan good deeds. With no political opinions in the way people came to further appreciate his sunny disposition and impeccable manners, his love of God and family and country, and everything he embodied about the bygone era of noblesse oblige and New England Republicanism.
One of the endearing little details in all the respectful obituaries is about Bush’s friendship with the comedian Dana Carvey, who used to do a hilariously satirical impersonation of Bush on the “Saturday Night Live” show. Most politicians would have found it offensive, but Bush found it hilarious, and he invited Carvey to the shtick at the White House correspondent’s dinner and other events. After he lost his reelection bid he asked his friend to do the routine at the White House, and Carvey tearfully recalls it was because Bush though his staff needed some cheering up. The famous catch phrase of Carvey’s impersonation was “Nah, nah, not gonna do it, wouldn’t be prudent,” but as even The Washington Post duly noted, Bush’s greatest gift to America was his prudence, a quality currently out of style.
Even President Donald Trump is respectfully noting Bush’s death, and we’re glad to see that. Bush was the quintessence of the Republican establishment and the “globalist” foreign policy that Trump ran against, and he’d criticized the elder Bush’s decision not to topple Hussein and then falsely accused the younger Bush of lying America into a war to topple Hussein, and he’d ridiculed the “low energy” of another prominent Bush family member who sought the presidency. Trump isn’t one to let a family feud rest, but at least he seems to know better than to invite any comparisons at this moment in time.
— Bud Norman</p
The Students are Revolting
November 10, 2015 By The Central Standard Times in Politics Tags: athletes, costumes, feces, football, French Revolution, halloween, offensive, political correctness, protests, racial slurs, racism, Reign of Terror, resignations, swastika, systemic racism, University of Missouri, victims, Yale 1 Comment
The latest of wave of student protests have claimed a couple of high-profile scalps at the University of Missouri and Yale University, which will likely encourage similar efforts elsewhere. By the time it’s all over, we expect, even the most exceedingly progressive and exquisitely politically correct professors and administrators are likely to be targets of the mob they’ve created.
Both of the most recent brouhahas have been beyond satire, as usual. At MU — we’ll continue to call it by its old Big 8 and Big XII acronym, even though the cowardly turncoats bolted for the Southeastern Conference some years ago — it all started with a claim by the president of the Missouri Students Association that someone in a pickup shouted a racial slur at him, then a claim by a group called The Legion of Black Collegians that another man who walked by their gathering also taunted them with racial slurs, which led to a general conclusion that the campus was suddenly a hotbed of racial slurring. All of which seems highly suspicious. Our experience of the contemporary college campus, even the ones in Missouri, is that racial slurs are now the only curse words that students and their professors don’t routinely employ. Although we don’t doubt that some redneck might have passed through and shouted something rude from his pickup truck, that hardly suggests “systemic racism” at a university where the president of the Students Association is apparently black. We also think it would take a most unusually badass white boy to taunt an entire Legion of Black Collegians with even the mildest of racial slurs and get away with it.
Still, the university’s chancellor took everyone at their word and responded with an announcement of mandatory online “diversity training” for all faculty, staff, and students, who were presumably previously unaware that racial slurs are now frowned upon in polite society. In recent years this would have satisfied the mob, but these days they’re emboldened to ask for more. A group calling itself Concerned Student 1950, with the number harkening back 65 years to when black students were first admitted to MU, quickly held a protest that blocked the car of the Missouri University System’s president during the homecoming parade, and later issued a list of demands that included the president’s formal apology followed by his resignation, “mandatory racial awareness and inclusion curriculum” to be “controlled by a board of color,” increasing black faculty and staff to a ten percent quota, and, more sensibly, “An increase in funding to hire more mental health professionals for the MU Counseling Center, particularly those of color.” A couple of days a later a swastika of smeared feces was found on a bathroom wall in an MU dormitory, which might or might not have been the work of some unhygienic racist, given the recent spate of hoax hate crimes perpetrated at colleges where students are all too eager to feed a narrative of “systemic racism,” then there was the inevitable hunger strike by a student who would rather die than live in a world where the stray redneck in a pickup truck shouted racial slurs, and when the administration refused to grant any of the previous demands the Concerned Student 1950 made even more extravagant demands, including the outgoing UMS president’s public admission of his “white privilege” and his culpability for a protestor allegedly being hit while blocking the president’s car during the homecoming parade, and his failure to prevent the police from intervening in the protest, as well as his failure to get out of the car and have a nice apologetic chat with the mob.
Even in this age the UMS president and the university’s chancellor might have weathered the storm, but then a large number of the school’s football players threatened to sit out an upcoming game against Brigham Young University if the demands were not met. In the Big XII or the SEC or any big-time football conference this is when a campus controversy becomes serious, even if Missouri’s football team is faring no better in the SEC than it did back in the Big XII days, and with a reported $1 million in gate receipts and television revenues on the line the president agreed to step down. Both seem to have spared themselves the indignity of the demanded groveling apology for their pallor, so it remains to be seen if their sacrifice will satisfy the mob and those all-important football players, but we anticipate that even greater demands will soon be made. Once the legions of black collegiate athletes realize their bargaining power, the current protest movement could even exceed its ’60s and ’70s predecessors in destructiveness.
As befits its more elite Ivy League status, Yale’s controversy is even more ridiculous. In Yale’s case there were no alleged racial slurs or swastikas smeared in feces, but rather a worry that some student or another might don an offensive Halloween costume. This dire prospect prompted the university to issue some official warnings, which in turn prompted an atypically sensible member of the Yale faculty to compose a widely-disseminated e-mail to the students of Yale’s aptly named Silliman College, with the endearingly old-fashioned salutation “Dear Sillimanders,” which duly noted her credentials as a lecturer on early childhood development as well as her “concerns about cultural and personal representation, and other challenges to our lived experience in a plural community,” then advised students to lighten up and respond to any offense by either ignoring it or politely raising an objection, put in a plea for free expression, reasonably asked “Whose business is it to control the forms of costumes of young people?,” and humbly concluded “It’s not mine, I know that.” Such raw hate speech of course offended the refined sensibilities of Yale’s young charges, who responded with attacks on the author’s husband, who happens to be the “Master” of Silliman College, a title that had already caused some recent controversy at the university, and who has apparently failed to protect his easily-offended students from everything that might offend them.
A fascinating video posted on the essential YouTube site shows the “Master” being surrounded by a group of mostly black students at his college, which we hesitate to describe as a mob, while trying to get to his office, with one young woman shrieking curse words at him, telling him to “be quiet” when he tries to respond, contending that his wife’s e-mail requires that he quit his job, and shrieking that “This is not about a creating an intellectual space,” apparently without any intended irony. She’s presumably a student at Yale, which somehow retains a reputation as prestigious university, and we note that she’s rather attractive even when shrieking, so if she succeeds in mau-mauing the university to grant her a degree she’ll forever have a job-seeking advantage over any white male who was graduated from a more rigorous but less prestigious land-grant cow college, but apparently the Ivy League is somehow so rife with racist rednecks that she retains her victim status. This followed allegations that one of Yale’s fraternities had denied Elis of Color admission to one of their parties, we will concede, but even if that’s true we’re not sure why it’s problematic for progressives that the frat boys chose to sexually exploit only white women in their “culture of rape.”
In one of those coincidences that no satirist could ever get away with, the potentially offensive Halloween costume controversy occurred right around the time when then the university’s William F. Buckley Program was hosting its fifth annual conference on “The Future of Free Speech.” The eponymous Buckley launched his distinguished career as a conservative author with “Man and God at Yale,” which presciently described what would happen after the university abandoned its Christian roots in favor of a secular humanist approach to education during his years at the school, and free speech necessarily entails hate speech, so the conference was indignantly protested from the outset, buttwhen one of the symposiasts opined that people on campus were responding to the Halloween costume controversy as if the e-mail author “had burned down an Indian village,” which the mob took it as a callous joke about the genocide that he no doubt secretly desired. Protestors were hauled off by the ample security guards, panelists were spat upon, a “hashtag” campaign that “genocideisnotajoke” was quickly launched, and a group that we won’t hesitate to call a mob attempted to stop the free speech taking place.
We’re reminded of the student protests of our long ago youth, but we somehow recall that had something to do with a so-called “Free Speech Movement” launched at the University of California-Berkley, and that there was lots of talk of questioning authority and doing your own thing and dressing however the hell you wanted to dress even on Halloween, and as ridiculous as it was it made more sense the current “Revolt of the Coddled.” The more seasoned fellows over at the Powerlineblog site reminded us that back then there were still university administrators such as former San Francisco State University president S.I. Hayakawa, who defied black militant’s demands for open admissions and autonomous black studies departments and other efforts to undermine his institution’s mission, and was backed up by then-Gov. Ronald Reagan, and who later switched his party affiliation to Republican and won a noteworthy term as a United States Senator. Since then all those “free speech” and “question authority” and “do your own thing” students have taken over the faculties and administrations of America’s colleges and universities, and it’s a safe bet they’ll go along with whatever speech codes and strictly enforced regulations and busybody limits on personal autonomy and Halloween costume rules their unruly students might insist on.
Those former questioners of authority who now find themselves in positions of academic authority would do well to consider the fate of their colleagues at Yale and MU. The beleaguered bureaucrats of those schools almost certainly thought themselves the very model of a modern academic, with a proper enthusiasm for mandatory online diversity training and a considered concern for the cultural and personal representation and a willingness to have curses shrieked at them by coddled yet hysterical students, yet they all found themselves targeted by the mob. The protestors have even turned on the press, and threatened to call the hated cops on them, which suggests they aren’t nearly so media-savvy as their ’60s and ’70s predecessors, so they’re likely to turn on anyone insufficiently enthusiastic about their brave new world. We don’t know if they still bother to teach about the French Revolution and the ensuing Reign of Terror at America’s universities these days, what with all the dead white males involved, but the rest of academia might want to bone up on the fate of Robespierre.
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Old specimens establish a new bamboo worm genus and species
Tagged Annelida, bamboo worm, biodiversity, China, marine, marine fauna, marine worm, maritime, oceanology, Polychaeta, worm
Bamboo worms (family Maldanidae) comprise an easily recognizable family of bristle worms (class Polychaeta). Their common name they receive because of their elongated segments, ending with an appendage, which gives them the joint appearance of slender bamboo-shoots. These often fragile marine inhabitants can be found in mud-walled tubes in shelf sediments.
However, bamboo worms are tough to identify from each other. The problem is that to safely recognize them, a researcher needs both anterior and posterior ends from the same specimen. Nevertheless, now PhD student Wang Yueyun and Dr Li Xinzheng from the Marine Biological Museum, Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences have discovered two new species and a new genus (Paramaldane). The new bamboo worms are described in the open access journal ZooKeys.
Several specimens of the new genus were found during re-examination of specimens collected from South China Sea between 1959 to 1962. The new genus is characterized by the collar-like glandular band on the sixth chaetiger. This is the first discovery of a collar-like structure in the subfamily of Maldaninae. Moreover, there is only one species in this genus till now.
Another discovery, published in the present study, is the second new species, called Maldane adunca, which belongs to another genus within the family. It is similar to the cosmopolitan species Maldane sarsi, yet the differences are clear. The shape of its nuchal grooves, a kind of sense organ, is much more curved, thus resembling hooks. Therefore, it is called adunca, meaning ‘hooked’ in Latin.
Both new species are only found in mud sediment of offshore waters of Hainan Island.
Wang Y, Li X (2016) A new Maldane species and a new Maldaninae genus and species (Maldanidae, Annelida) from coastal waters of China. ZooKeys 603: 1-16. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.603.9125
New Chinese leaf-roller weevil does not know how to roll leaves
More assassins on the radar: As many as 24 new species of assassin bugs described
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SC asks all parties to submit details of political funding received through electoral bonds
Supreme Court: The 3-judge bench of Ranjan Gogoi, CJ and Deepak Gupta and Sanjiv Khanna, JJ has directed all the political parties who have received donations through Electoral Bonds to submit,
detailed particulars of the donors as against each Bond;
the amount of each such bond and the full particulars of the credit received against each bond, namely, the particulars of the bank account to which the amount has been credited and the date of each such credit.
to the Election Commission of India in sealed cover by May 30, 2019.
The aforesaid direction was given in order to ensure that any interim arrangement that may be made would not tilt the balance in favour of either of the parties but that the same ensures adequate safeguards against the competing claims of the parties which are yet to be adjudicated.
In the matter that deals with a larger question involving transparency in political funding, the bench said
“the rival contentions give rise to weighty issues which have a tremendous bearing on the sanctity of the electoral process in the country. Such weighty issues would require an indepth hearing which cannot be concluded and the issues answered within the limited time that is available before the process of funding through the Electoral Bonds comes to a closure, as per the schedule noted earlier.”
The Ministry of Finance, Department of Economic Affairs by Notification dated 2.1.2018 in exercise of powers under Section 31(3) of the Reserve Bank of India Act had promulgated a scheme called ‘The Electoral Bond Scheme, 2018’ whereunder an ‘electoral bond’ has been defined as “a bond issued in the nature of promissory note which shall be a bearer banking instrument and shall not carry the name of the buyer or payee.” The other provisions of the Scheme deal with the banks authorized to issue and encash the Electoral Bonds; persons entitled to purchase such bonds and the procedure for making an application for purchase of bonds and encashment of the said bonds.
It was contended before the Court that the said scheme has affected transparency in political funding inasmuch as in the annual contribution reports of political parties to the Election Commission there need not be any mention of the identity of the donors who have contributed to the coffers of the political parties through Electoral Bonds. This, in turn, is contended to affect the citizens’ right to know about the contributions made to various political parties and the source of such contribution.
Attorney General KK Venugopal, appearing for ECI, had contended that the said scheme has been introduced to deal with the menace of unaccounted money coming into the country’s economy through political funding. It is to do away with the aforesaid menace that the amendments to the different statutes had been brought by the Finance Act, 2016 and 2017 and the Electoral Bond Scheme has been introduced. He said,
“the implementation of the measures will be tested by the results obtained in the course of the ongoing general elections and the success thereof will be known only after the elections are over. The government must be allowed a free hand to implement measures in execution of policies framed and therefore it is premature for the Court to render any opinion on the issues raised or to pass any order/orders in the matter for the present.”
[Association for Democratic Reforms v. Union of India, WRIT PETITION (CIVIL) NO. 333 OF 2015, decided on 12.04.2019]
Published on April 12, 2019 April 19, 2019 By Prachi Bhardwaj
SC to pronounce verdict on Centre’s electoral bonds scheme tomorrow
Supreme Court: The Court has eserved its order on a PIL challenging the government’s electoral bond scheme for political funding. The bench headed by Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi said it would pronounce its order tomorrow on the plea filed by NGO, Association of Democratic Reforms (ADR).
The NGO, which has challenged the validity of the scheme, has sought interim relief including that either the issuance of electoral bonds be stayed or the names of the donors be made public to ensure transparency in the poll process.
Attorney General K K Venugopal, appearing for the Centre, supported the scheme saying the purpose behind it is to eliminate the use of black money in elections. Adding that the court can scrutinize the scheme after elections, AG said
“So far as the electoral bond scheme is concerned, it is the matter of policy decision of the government and no government can be faulted for taking policy decision”
(Source: PTI)
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Shock Room: A Horror-Movie Blog
Let the Old Dreams Die by John Ajvide Lindqvist
By S.P. Miskowski on November 11, 2013 at 7:24 PM
John Ajvide Lindqvist’s Let the Old Dreams Die was first published in Sweden several years ago. Recently translated into English and published by Thomas Dunne Books, the collection includes twelve stories, two of them sequels to Lindqvist novels.
“The Border” is an eerie and beautifully paced tale of self-discovery about a customs officer with an infallible knack for spotting smugglers. Physically and psychically scarred by a natural disaster during childhood, Tina has constructed a life of convenience, if not happiness, with a live-in friend. One day Tina encounters a strange traveler and experiences all the sensations that usually indicate she’s caught someone breaking the law. In this case, however, the traveler has nothing to declare. Tina’s mistake leads to an obsession with the traveler, who turns out to know a good deal about Tina and her mysterious origins.
In “A Village in the Sky,” a lonely apartment dweller begins to notice slight changes to his home. First the building appears to list to one side. Then his neighbors stop answering their doors. At night, the lights in various units form odd patterns.
The narrator of “Equinox” composes crossword puzzles for magazines. Working from home, despite her family obligations she has plenty of time to housesit for vacationing neighbors. This is when her weird streak emerges. She enjoys rummaging through people’s homes while they’re away. She likes it so much that she begins to visit a deserted house, where she stumbles upon something quite horrible. Or is she less stable than she has led us to believe?
These three stories and “Paper Walls,” a brief memoir of a terrifying moment in childhood, drew me immediately and inexorably into the lives of the characters. Lindqvist relies upon realistic, specific details to establish the every day world, and then begins to glide almost imperceptibly toward something very peculiar. In some cases, Lindqvist’s characters succumb to mental instability; in others, they find their actions reverberate in a different dimension and return to cause havoc.
Of the remaining stories, the most daring and original is the titular, final one. The others, including “Itsy Bitsy,” about a delusional paparazzo, and “The Substitute,” about former classmates who may or may not have brushed elbows with an inhuman entity, depend less on plot and more on mood. “Majken,” in which working class women strike out against wealth and commercialism, strikes a more heavy, socially conscious note than anything else in the collection.
Never mind. Any quibbles with the mid-section of the book are answered by “Let the Old Dreams Die.” Considering how much I like Let the Right One In, the brilliant vampire novel that made Lindqvist’s reputation, my refusal to skip forward to the last story is a tribute to my self-control. Or was I just afraid to see what the author might do with Eli and Oskar after they fled the Swedish suburb of Blackeberg?
The tale begins, “I want to tell you about a great love.” But instead of picking up where we left off with Eli and Oskar, the narrator recounts the devoted marriage of train conductor Stefan and police officer Karin, a relationship the narrator refers to as “a miracle.” It is the kind of passion–deep, unabashed, undiminished by time–the narrator himself hopes for but never finds. In the end he has to be content with being a friend and a witness to great love.
Brilliantly, the author has avoided a typical “where are they now” sequel. Stefan, Karin, and the narrator turn out to be tangential characters to the horrific events of Let the Right One In. We move forward with them, from the 1980s to the more recent past, when age and infirmity begin to take their toll. The narrator describes how his friends face looming mortality and grief, weaving into their love story an ongoing search for information about Eli and Oskar. It’s a masterful ode to love, offered by a lonely man. The events of the novel and the story intertwine in a deeper and more bittersweet depiction of the classic themes of romantic love and immortality. This is a satisfying end to a good collection, honoring the novel in its setting and its spirit.
Note: For review purposes I received an advance copy of the novel from the publisher.
S.P. Miskowski
Shock Room: A Horror-Movie Blog Search
Guest Post: Mercedes M. Yardley
Guest Post: Wednesday Lee Friday
“The Redfield Girls” by Laird Barron
The Moon Will Look Strange by Lynda E. Rucker
“After the Ape” by Stephen Volk
Visiting Writer: Brent Michael Kelley
November Book List
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Failure As Opportunity: Teaching Students Life’s Valuable Lessons
Greg Spalding
A Summit Learning students reads and reflects.
No one likes to fail — even talking about failure can be difficult. We’re all taught from a young age that failure is something to avoid or even to fear. But this school year, my 7th grade students started to understand an important life lesson about how failure equals opportunity in disguise.
Last year, my school — Woodland Park Middle School — started implementing Summit Learning in our classrooms. This personalized learning approach enables students to customize their learning based on their needs, their interests, and how they learn best. It helps my students learn the skills and habits necessary for success in life. Students work on projects, have a personal mentor, and learn content by completing focus areas. This setup means that I get to work with each student, helping them in ways that are best for them.
I remember one particular 7th grader last year who was really struggling with a focus area on the history of the Silk Road, an ancient network of trade routes that connected Asia with the Middle East and Europe for centuries. This student was an advanced learner, the kind of student that took 10 pages of notes for each lesson and was really well-prepared in class; however, the focus area on the Silk Road happened to be where she hit a wall. She was having trouble passing the content assessment to move ahead.
We sat down to talk about what had worked for her on the other assessments throughout the school year where she had been successful. I helped her analyze what she did to prepare for each of those — was it how she took notes, how she organized her notes, or maybe the way she had been studying? We decided that she would then go back to the Silk Road content and try all of these strategies to make sure she learned the information.
But she still wasn’t passing the content assessments. It got to the point where I even got an email from her parents asking me, “When do we just let this kid quit on this focus area and move on?”
All About Confidence
It became clear to me that this was more of a mental block. Because this student was a high achiever, and she was used to passing assessments on the first or second attempt, she had convinced herself that she couldn’t do it. So, I told her to put it aside for now and work on another focus area. She switched over to another subject, took a content assessment on that topic after she had learned the material, and passed it on the first try!
That’s what she was used to, and experiencing her normal level of success helped her gain confidence back. A week later, she went back to the Silk Road, took the content assessment, and passed it.
What really impressed me was that she never quit, even when her parents sent that email. As a teacher, it was exciting to see that happen and an awesome moment for that student.
“In my classroom, students understand that failure is not the end of the game. They know they have the freedom to fail, learn from it, and be more successful next time.”
7th grade students in Greg Spalding’s social studies class play a digital learning game.
Learning to Persevere in the Face of Failure
Summit Learning’s approach enables these wonderful learning moments to happen. If this student had taken the assessment in the traditional classroom she would have failed the first time, felt miserable because she was a high achiever but couldn’t “get” this topic, and not had the chance to try again. At Woodland Park, there was no punishment for this student not passing this focus area on the first try — she had the flexibility to switch gears, regroup, and come back to try again. Once she was able to prove her mastery, she could then decide to move to a new focus area.
After this student passed the focus area on the Silk Road, we had a conversation about what it means to struggle and how important it is to persevere and work through these challenges. It’s an invaluable lesson that all of the students in my class are learning.
Of course, they don’t do this alone. As a teacher, it’s a lesson in perseverance for me, too. I ask my students, “If you’re not successful, what will it take for you to get there?” I have to constantly teach the students to be flexible. I work with each of them to help them understand how they learn, recognize how they study and absorb information, and then establish a pattern for improved and continuous learning.
Failure simply means that you get back up and try again. That’s not just a lesson for 7th grade, it’s a lesson for all of us.
Greg Spalding is a middle school Social Studies teacher at Woodland Park Middle School in Woodland Park, Colorado. After graduating from law school and passing the bar exam, he discovered his love of teaching and went back to school to become a teacher. He has been a teacher for over 15 years at Woodland Park. He is in his second year with Summit Learning.
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New Group Setting for Admins
Over the last few months, we've added new features that improve the groups experience. Some of these include group descriptions, a catch up feature, and protection for people who are being added repeatedly to groups they've left.
Today, we're launching a new group setting where only admins are able to send messages to a group. One way people use groups is to receive important announcements and information, including parents and teachers at schools, community centers, and non-profit organizations. We've introduced this new setting so admins can have better tools for these use cases.
To enable this setting, open “Group Info,” tap Group Settings > Send Messages and select “Only Admins.” This setting is rolling out to all users around the world on the latest supported versions of the app.
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Carolus-Duran1879 by John Singer Sargent
As a teenager, Sargent was enrolled in the Accademia di Belle Arti in Florence and later, when he was 18, the family moved to Paris where Sargent could study at the atelier of the painter Charles Auguste Émile Carolus-Duran, of whom he would make one of his best early portraits. Carolus-Duran, an admirer of Velázquez, taught his students not to prepare a painting by making sketches or drawings, but instead insisted that, in the words of one of his pupils, “the main planes of the face must be laid directly on the unprepared canvas with a broad brush”. The emphasis was on capturing the flow of light on surface, seeking inflections and what was shimmering and in flux rather than solid mass or carefully delineated tonal structure.
Sargent’s talent was recognized by his fellow students, one of whom wrote in October 1874: “I met this last week a young Mr Sargent about 18 years old and one of the most talented fellows I have ever come across; his drawings are like old masters, and his colours are equally fine… Such men wake one up, and as his principles are equal to his talents, I hope to have his friendship.” During his time as a student in Paris, Sargent became immensely industrious, and indeed remained so until his death in 1925. In September 1877, his sister wrote to a friend that her brother “works like a dog from morning till night”. Unlike his fellow students, Sargent dressed respectably; he tended also to be prim and well-mannered.
(http://www.telegraph.co.uk/art/artists/the-secret-life-of-john-singer-sargent/)
Sargent studied with Carolus-Duran, whose influence would be pivotal, from 1874-1878. Carolus-Duran's atelier was progressive, dispensing with the traditional academic approach which required careful drawing and underpainting, in favor of the alla prima method of working directly on the canvas with a loaded brush, derived from Diego Velasquez. It was an approach which relied on the proper placement of tones of paint.
In 1879 Sargent painted a portrait of Carolus-Duran; the virtuoso effort met with public approval, and announced the direction his mature work would take. Its showing at the Paris Salon was both a tribute to his teacher and an advertisement for portrait commissions. Of Sargent's early work, Henry James wrote that the artist offered 'the slightly "uncanny" spectacle of a talent which on the very threshold of its career has nothing more to learn'.
(http://hoocher.com/john_singer_sargent/john_singer_sargent.htm)
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Arts & Culture / Inspiring Individuals
Made in Cola Town: Larkin Bogan
Larkin Bogan basks in Broadway’s neon lights
By Lynn Nickles
Talented Larkin Bogan studied theater at both Heathwood Hall and Hammond School before spending his senior year at Idyllwild Arts school in California, concentrating on musical theater and auditioning for colleges. He also studied at the CAP21 program at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts. Photography by Wheaton Mahoney Photography.
“Give me a head with hair, long, beautiful hair … Give me down to there hair, shoulder length or longer,” say the lyrics of the theme song for Hair. When Larkin Bogan walked into an audition for the Broadway musical in 2010, the director, he later learned, said, “‘Oh, dear, please just let him be able to sing a note,’” because the Columbia native rocks a splendid head of thick, curly hair. And, yes, Larkin’s tenor voice is equally amazing, with well-honed diction and pitch.
“This is the reality of show business,” Larkin says. “The very best person for the part could mean a whole number of things. The very best person isn’t always necessarily going to get the part. A lot of times it comes down to eye color, ‘You’re too tall,’ or ‘We wish you were a little more charactery-looking.’ Not to diminish how my audition went by any means, but, at the same time, I had a lot going for me with that ‘do.’”
Larkin got the job, joining the Hair tribe on Broadway, then the first American tour of the show, as an understudy for the roles of Claude and Woof. He later joined the inaugural tour for American Idiot before landing his current gig in the Broadway cast of Wicked in 2013. An understudy for Boq and a member of the ensemble, Larkin does eight shows a week in the Gershwin Theatre.
“I think that Wicked will play probably into eternity,” Larkin says matter-of-factly. “Wicked is in the tier of shows now where they likely just won’t close for a long time.”
The 32-year-old actor believes that Wicked has joined the ranks of shows like Cats, Les Misérables, Phantom of the Opera, Lion King, and Chicago.
“It’s kind of a rare thing. I’ve been in the show for a long time now, and I never imagined I’d be there that long. I never imagined I would have job security in show business.”
When Larkin and his younger brother, Ross, were in elementary school, their parents — Shannon Bogan, an interior designer, and Rick Bogan, a physician — took them to New York to see some Broadway shows.
“We went a couple of times, and I think the reason we went in the first place is that my mom used to play the soundtrack of Phantom of the Opera in the car. She had one of those Volvos back in the day where the back seat faced backwards, and you could look out the back window. I have all these vivid memories of watching the road fade away, listening to Phantom of the Opera, and my imagination running wild with what I thought it would be. We eventually flew to New York and saw it,” Larkin says.
Larkin first knew he wanted to pursue musical theater in sixth grade when he played Nick Bottom in Heathwood Hall’s abridged production of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream. (Fun fact: CMM Editor Margaret Clay played Hermia in the very same production.) Tamara Stevenson taught drama at Heathwood, and Barbara Bryan taught music. Under their direction, Larkin remembers developing a passion for Broadway tunes. Later at Hammond School, Larkin worked with drama teacher Linda Khoury and choral director Steven Hillard, who shepherded him into extracurricular theater roles, including a stint as Andrew in Workshop Theatre’s production of Jesus Christ Superstar.
Larkin took guitar lessons from Barrett Smith, who played bluegrass on Thursday nights with a live band at the now-defunct El Burrito in Five Points. He has fond memories of going to hear Barrett’s band play.
“I was too young to drink, but I was plenty old enough to appreciate the burritos and the live tunes, so my best friend, the other guitar player in my band at the time, and I would go to check stuff out there.”
Formed with neighborhood friends Lee Holmes; Lana Sims; and Larkin’s third cousin, Luke McFadden; Larkin’s band was called One Flight Down because rehearsals were held in Mary and Mac McFaddens’ basement.
“We used to play at Flora, at Hammond, and at all kinds of talent shows,” Larkin says. “We competed in a Columbia area battle of the bands our senior year, and we actually won it.” The prize was a free recording session and an invitation to open for a radio-hit band at a bar near the airport. Larkin treasures the recording that One Flight Down got to make. Nearly 15 years later he is looking forward to recording an album of original songs with his current band, Sir Richard Newton, which he formed with castmate Dan Gleason.
Larkin has a blue-eyed Australian shepherd, Newman, and lives in Astoria, about a 20-minute train ride away from Times Square. His girlfriend is fellow Broadway star Liana Hunt. The two met as students in the CAP21 program at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts.
“It was so funny because we played lovers in Pippin and Urine Town, and we were both dating other people at the time, so we were just friends. A year after school, we both found ourselves single, and it was kind of like, ‘Oh, of course,” Larkin says.
Larkin’s guidance counselor at Hammond sparked his path to NYU. He remembers Adeline Lundy pulling him aside in her office one day and suggesting he visit a private school in California, Idyllwild Arts. His parents took him to an audition, and he was accepted at Idyllwild on the spot. He spent his senior year in California concentrating on musical theater and auditioning for colleges.
Now that his career is well-established, Larkin spends his free time serving as a volunteer for the Broadway Green Alliance on the set of Wicked, finding ways to encourage environmental responsibility at the theater. He regularly practices yoga before going onstage. Surprisingly he learned a favorite thing to do before a Broadway show while spending summers at Folly Beach in South Carolina.
“Surfing is one of my very greatest passions,” Larkin says. “It’s probably one of my biggest artistic influences as well. Something about surfing has so many metaphors for the rest of life. It’s a discipline and a passion. It’s a solo venture, and it’s my favorite way of spending time outside and exercising.”
With a different wetsuit for each season, Larkin surfs year-round. “New York has world-class waves, much to my surprise when I moved here. Sometimes you’ve got to wait a month or so for the waves to come, but when they do, they’re really good. Never in a million years did I think I’d go surf some really nice waves before my Broadway show at night.”
If surfing is a metaphor for life, all Larkin Bogan needs to do is wait for the next big break.
“I’d love to be a part of an original Broadway cast, as opposed to a replacement, as I have been for my other shows. I think every actor’s dream, or at least a theater actor’s dream, is to be a part of a show from the ground up, to create a role. I would also love to work in television or film. I’ve dabbled a bit here and there.”
Meanwhile, Larkin is content to bask in the bright lights of Broadway. His smile is nearly audible as he tries to explain how great it feels.
“It’s kind of like everything I dreamed about as a kid,” he says. “I would say that I felt the same way, being the young guy in the crowd at all the community theater shows. But, when you come to New York and you’re on Broadway and it’s actually happening, it’s nothing like you expected and yet everything all at once.”
Larkin believes that Wicked has joined the ranks of shows like Les Miserables and The Phantom of the Opera. He performs in eight shows a week at the Gershwin Theatre in New York as the understudy for Boq and as a member of the ensemble.
Sitting down with Larkin Bogan:
Q: What was your hometown neighborhood growing up?
A: With having a mom who was an interior designer, we flipped some houses and moved around quite a bit. I lived in about 10 different houses between Columbia and Charleston growing up, but I would say we primarily lived on Lake Katherine. I had my company from Wicked send a bunch of supplies down during the flood. It was where I grew up.
Q: What is your favorite restaurant in Columbia?
A: Before it closed, El Burrito might be up there for the sake of the band.
Q: Do you have a favorite movie?
A: All things Jim Carrey. He’s such a clown, and I think he’s a big influence on me.
Q: What was your first job?
A: Technically, my first job was acting on Strike the Tent, also known as The Last Confederate: the Story of Robert Adams. I think that was my first paycheck. We shot that out in Hopkins.
Q: What was your first car?
A: A Jeep Wrangler.
Q: What’s your favorite comfort food?
A: A chicken biscuit. Here’s another good story. My dresser at Wicked, Randy Witherspoon, had a catering service where he would get up really early on two-show days (2 p.m. and 8 p.m. shows on Saturdays and Sundays) and make a ton of food and go drop it off in little to-go containers at many of the Broadway houses with an honor system envelope. He’s from Kershaw and makes all his grandmother’s old recipes. He finally just left to open his first brick-and-mortar down the street from the Gershwin Theatre. So, I’ll pop over there every now and then and get some chicken and biscuits and feel right at home. It’s called Spoonfed NYC. I’ll grab a bite and get a hug, and maybe my band will play a few songs. It’s great.
Q: What advice would you give to a young person starting out who sees Wicked and says, “I really want to do that”?
A: Dive in and really make sure it’s what you want to do. It’s a very unforgiving business. There’s a lot that you don’t really learn about it until you’re in the thick of it. So, I would say, jump in and figure out what you’re good at and what you’re not, and what you like about it. I think there’s something to be said for experience. You can read about it and study it all you want, but after you get up and do it a bunch, then you’ll really know.
Q: Are you an introvert or extrovert?
A: It’s weird. I’m a bit of both. When I’m on stage or I’m in a group of people, I am very much a clown, but there’s also the surfer in me who is perfectly content with going out and spending the whole day on the water by myself. I think it depends on the scenario, but I think I’ve found a nice balance.
Q: Besides surfing, what do you do for fun?
A: I love to travel, and I love to spend any time outside with Liana.
Q: Is your desk messy or neat?
A: Messy. There are old audition sides [pages from a script]. There are all of Newman’s paperwork and travel documents. There are head shots. There’s guitar equipment. A couple bars of surfboard wax. And lots of receipts for the business. There’s no use pretending — I’m a mess.
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Local Player Defeats Tekken 7 World Champion At Philippines Event
Filed to: TekkenFiled to: Tekken
The Philippines played host to a major Tekken 7 event this past weekend, allowing local competitors to try their skills against two of the world’s strongest players. South Korean masters Hyun-jin “JDCR” Kim and Jin-woo “Saint” Choi stopped in the city of Makati for the Rage Art tournament after placing first and second, respectively, at Combo Breaker in the United States. Saint’s status on the world stage, however, was put in jeopardy by an unlikely local.
Thanks to his victory at The King of Iron Fist Tournament 2016, Saint is the undisputed champion of Tekken 7. His mastery of the series has led to multiple tournament wins since the latest installment first launched in arcades in 2015, but that doesn’t mean he’s unbeatable. While periodic losses to fellow Tekken masters JDCR and Nakayama “Nobi” Daichi can be expected, being eliminated by a player with much less global recognition turned heads in Makati.
Filipino competitor Andreij “Doujin” Albar is well-known within his local community. Doujin barely missed out on earning a trip to Japan for The King of Iron Fist Tournament last year after losing to Tekken prodigy Alexandre “AK” Laverez, but previous showings at events like Singapore’s South East Asia Major have cemented him as one of the Philippines’ strongest players.
As Rage Art got under way on June 3, Doujin was immediately sent to the losers bracket with a loss to fellow Filipino competitor Jeff “Coffee_Prinz” Gonzales. The world champ, Saint, joined him there in the next round thanks to an unfortunate matchup against JDCR. Undeterred, both players fought through elimination matches, and after defeating Coffee_Prinz in the runback, Doujin found himself staring down the prospect of facing Saint.
The set started out with an interesting mirror match as Doujin decided to see how his Jack-7 stacked up against Saint’s. The robotic fighter has seen successive appearances in almost every Tekken installment since the franchise began in 1994, and Saint has used the latest iteration successfully at numerous Tekken 7 events. Even with the entire crowd behind him, Doujin’s gamble failed, and he found himself down one game to Saint.
WalkeDespite taking Saint down the wire, Doujin showed little hesitation in returning to the character select screen, shifting back to Kazumi Mishima, the tiger-wielding mother that carried him throughout the rest of the tournament. That’s when things took a turn. The slight advantage he enjoyed in the Jack-7 mirror dissipated, and Doujin took a commanding victory after three dominating rounds. Saint used the opportunity to switch to his other main character, Dragunov, who sits much higher on most of the accepted Tekken 7 tier lists. The commentators noted that this was the first time Saint chose Dragunov throughout the entire tournament, but his familiarity with the character did little to staunch the bleeding as Doujin picked up another convincing win.
As the Filipino crowd cheered for their hometown hero, Saint pulled a trump card in the form of Eddy Gordo. A perennial thorn in the side of many Tekken competitors, Eddie’s moves have been hard to pin down throughout the series’ history, and it’s likely Saint was trying to exploit any unfamiliarity Doujin may have fighting the character. Unfortunately for him, the local commentator noted that Eddy is super popular in the Philippines, meaning Doujin has had experience playing against him in other games, if not specifically Tekken 7 due to his recent debut in the console version. But, to the delight of the spectators, Doujin showed no signs of slowing down, dropping just one round to Saint en route to his third win, the deciding game of their set.
In the fighting game community, some global regions receive more attention than others. Players in Japan, the United States, and Europe can expect a good amount of shine for their competitive achievements that varies from game to game. This makes any deviation from the norm, such as a relatively unknown player taking down one of the greats, an exciting prospect, especially when that player hails from a region that isn’t known for producing prodigious talent. In this way, Doujin’s personal victory over Saint was also a point of regional pride for his fellow Filipino players, and the crowd showed their respect by chanting his name.
Doujin would go on to defeat AK, the young player who qualified for last year’s world championships, and earn the right to face JDCR in the grand finals. He had another strong showing against the visiting opponent, but Doujin ultimately succumbed to JDCR’s measured prowess, securing a second-place finish for his home country in the process.
But why Tekken? In recent years, players in the Philippines have made a name for themselves competing in games like Tekken Tag Tournament 2 and now Tekken 7, forcing some of the world’s strongest competitors to reevaluate their gameplay when facing the island nation.
“It’s mostly because of economics and arcade culture,” Franz “d3v” Co, a Filipino tournament organizer and one of my previous Shoryuken coworkers, told me. “Back in the day, arcades had more of the cheaper boards, such as Namco’s System 11 and 12 boards, that ran Tekken. Then there’s also the fact that more people here had PlayStations, which were cheaper and easier to pirate games for, and Tekken was a PlayStation franchise back then. Of course, what really helps solidify it is the decline of the arcades in the early 2000s. To survive, arcade operators just stuck to the favorites, ending up with safe bets like Marvel vs. Capcom 2 and, of course, Tekken.”
Co also noted that Bandai Namco supported competition in the Philippines in the late 2000s through the country’s largest arcade chain, Timezone. While the franchise’s popularity was already well-established by that point, the help the community received from the developers meant that players were more likely to stick with Tekken, cultivating skill in the process. Tekken’s longer match structure, despite its generally fast-paced gameplay, also had a hand in making it popular in the Philippines, as players felt they were getting more for their money.
“This is also why arcade operators changed Marvel vs. Capcom 2 to the lowest damage setting, which is partly the reason why you’re writing about Filipinos doing well in international Tekken competition, not Marvel,” he added.
Doujin’s victory over Saint, while small on its surface, is a sign that Tekken skill is no longer confined to just a handful of countries. Building off the accomplishments AK earned around the world over the past few years, Rage Art was a beautiful sort of coming out party for the Filipino community, showcasing the strides they have made and further expanding the world of Tekken for its competitors.
For more Tekken 7 action from Rage Art, check out the full finals archive courtesy of broadcaster Team Spooky.
Ian Walker is a fighting game expert and freelance writer. You can find him on Twitter at @iantothemax.
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Case Study: De Tape Director Yorn Heijnen elaborates on his proces when working on his short film De Tape.
Case Study: De Tape
Director Yorn Heijnen elaborates on his proces when working on his short film De Tape.
“The idea of making a 48 hour film was spinning around my head already for a very long time, so when I heard there was a new edition in Eindhoven last December I immediately signed up and gathered an enthusiastic team. I started looking for possible locations, actors, etcetera. Only a little while before the project started I found a writer, the CineSud Talent Thijs van Dijk. When we met he told me he would really like to write a very dark and controversial story which would focus on racism and religion and make people think about these subjects. I felt like this was something which hasn’t been done quite often in 48 hour projects. There are some more experimental films but you’ve rarely seen films which are trying to cross a certain border and make people think about the ethical aspect of what they’ve just been looking at.”
“I felt like this was crossing a certain border.”
Intense time-management
“The writing itself was pretty intense for Remy (Kooi, red) and Thijs who were writing the story. We called them about the things which had to be included in the film during the kick of event of the 48 Hour Project. It had to be a detective film with a callcenter employee as one of the main characters. When we met the writers Friday night, about 12 hours before the shooting would start, they pitched their idea in front of the rest of the crew. They immediately said they wanted to start a fire in a church which made me and the production leader quite nervous already. It became clear we had a pretty crazy concept, especially to realise it in such a short time, it was pure madness. This actually made the crew only more motivated to make this thing work. Whether we were able to pull this off in such a short time you are able to see in the film itself.”
“For me as a director, having only one shooting day was quite intense. This is mostly the case when you’re doing a 48 Hour Project. I had basically no time to prepare so most of the directing was being done on the spot. You just have to work with the script the writers handed to you a few hours before and try to do it understand the story the best way possible. There is even more pressure to realise it in a way the writers also imagined it.”
“A project like this all comes down to trust.”
“There is no time to be bothering yourself with another department so you really need to have faith in the abilities of other crew members. I don’t think it’s possible to make a (good) film in such a short time without this. Luckily this worked out very well in this crew.”
“A good example was my cooperation with music composer Yero Pharaoh. About 7 hours before the deadline I contacted him about my concept for the music which literally consisted only out of two sentences and some other songs as an example. Then he started working and right on time I received the music. I definitely didn’t made it easy on him because I asked him to make something which is haunting but also increasing this tension throughout the entire track. The moment when I received the music and had to see if it would match the film was one of the most nerve wracking things I’ve experienced. There was no time for feedback or adjustments anymore so the music just had to be right. Luckily it turned out great, but just the fact that you fully have to depend on the work of someone else without time for feedback was pretty intense.”
A dynamic film crew
“Every film crew is different, that’s one of the things I really like about making films. Every group consists out of different people so there are always different dynamics in a group. For this film the group was pretty great, also because everyone was focussed on doing their own task as good as possible. We all had one goal which was making an awesome film in such a short time. So when someone needed help there was always someone standing by for help. A good example where the writers of the film. While we were shooting the film, they took some time to recover the sleep they’ve lost when writing all night long to make sure the script was finished. When I was completely destroyed from the long shooting day, they took over and helped the editor with finishing a rough cut during the second night. Also for a difficult scene in the ending of the film some VFX was needed, one of the writers who also has experience with VFX (Remy) stayed up all night to make sure the scene looked perfect. This massive dedication from everyone in the crew was truly inspiring to see.”
“When I look back at it I definitely think this was one of my favourite projects to be working on.”
Patience is key
“Almost all the people who made a film during the 48 hour project in Eindhoven already posted their films online. I decided not to do this because I was still planning on submitting the film to a bunch of festivals via filmfreeway.com and see if it would be able to be screened at some festivals.”
“It’s a difficult decision not to put something online right away because it demands patience.”
“As a filmmaker you want to show your film as soon as possible when you’ve finished it but patience can be rewarding and is very important, especially when you are thinking of submitting your film to festivals. The earlier you are submitting your film to a festival, the cheaper the price but also the longer the wait, so waiting is just part of the deal. Seeing an audience watching your film, responding to it and talking about it is of course way more rewarding than receiving a like because you posted your film on Facebook, so in the end it will all be worth it.”
Be aware of what you are doing
“An important tip for (beginning) directors is to be fully aware of what you are doing on set. Preparation is key because the entire crew is depending on you. You are the one telling the story, the rest of the crew is there to help you to realize this in the best way possible. You have to be confident about your decisions because in the end this is what directing is about. You are the one responsible for the choices being made. When you show you are confident and have a clear vision on what you want to tell and how you want to tell it, the crew will also notice this and the process will run way smoother. You always have to think one step ahead when directing. For example when you are instructing your actors, you constantly have to think about why they are moving and acting in a certain way and if it makes sense with the rest of the story and the message of your film. So in A nutshell these are the most important tips, be prepared and think ahead.”
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„We have not made these choices lightly, Our decision was made in the full seriousness and clear knowledge of what is at stake.“
— Jack Layton, On announcing a coalition agreement with the Liberals and Bloc Québécois, Dec. 1, 2008. http://www.vancouversun.com/health/men/Quotable+Jack+Layton/5293720/story.html?id=5293720
político canadense 1950 - 2011
„I think when we make choices—for
each choice is individual of the choices we have made before—we must examine not
only our reasons for making them but what result they will have, and whether good people will be hurt by our decisions.“
— Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Princess
„If you import a commercial quantity of illegal drugs, it is because you have made the personal decision that you are prepared to get rich by destroying our children. I have made the decision that I love our children enough that we will kill you if you do this.“
— Newt Gingrich Professor, Speaker of the United States House of Representatives 1943
regarding his "Drug Importer Death Penalty Act of 1996" (H.R. 4170) bill
„«The decisions are made in the moment they are made.»“
— Mariano Rajoy Spanish politician 1955
Note: 9 May, 2012 Source: El Diario http://www.eldiario.es/canariasahora/economia/decisiones-toman-momento-tomarse_0_2799957.html
„I'll be damned if I apologize for the choices I've made. They were hard decisions, but I had good reasons for making them.“
— Christine Feehan, Oceans of Fire
„The final outcome of benevolent, informed, and intelligent decisions may turn out to be disastrous. But choices must be made; dies must be cast.“
— Herman Kahn American futurist 1922 - 1983
„I do not think abortion should be legal in this country. Abortion should not be legal. That is clear. But if a family made the decision to break the law, that's that family's decision.“
— Herman Cain American writer, businessman and activist 1945
„Christina Stead has a Chinese say, “Our old age is perhaps life’s decision about us”—or, worse, the decision we have made about ourselves without ever realizing we were making it.“
— Randall Jarrell poet, critic, novelist, essayist 1914 - 1965
“An Unread Book”, p. 42
„I would rather have a wrong decision made than no decision at all.“
— Robert S. McNamara American businessman and Secretary of Defense 1916 - 2009
Quoted in: Charles A. Stevenson (2006), SECDEF: The Nearly Impossible Job of Secretary of Defense http://books.google.com/books?id=2NXbS5AG_8QC&pg=PA28, p. 28
„The problems we face, did not come down from the heavens. They are made, they are made by bad human decisions, and good human decisions can change them.“
— Bernie Sanders American politician, senator for Vermont 1941
„No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made. Destiny is made known silently.“
— Agnes de Mille American dancer and choreographer 1905 - 1993
„Having made the decision, do not revise it unless some new fact comes to your knowledge. Nothing is so exhausting as indecision, and nothing is so futile.“
— Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Happiness
„We have to be careful to cast our gaze as widely as possible. If we only look for the lessons that reinforce decisions we have already made, we will run into trouble.“
— Margaret MacMillan Canadian historian 1943
„We allow ourselves to be blown by the winds because we do know what we want: our hearts know it, even if our thoughts are sometimes slow to follow- but in the end they do catch up with our hearts and then we think we have made a decision.“
— Muhammad Asad Austro-Hungarian writer and academic 1900 - 1992
„Russia has made its choice in favor of democracy. Fourteen years ago, independently, without any pressure from outside, it made that decision in the interests of itself and interests of its people — of its citizens. This is our final choice, and we have no way back. There can be no return to what we used to have before. And the guarantee for this is the choice of the Russian people, themselves. No, guarantees from outside cannot be provided. This is impossible. It would be impossible for Russia today. Any kind of turn towards totalitarianism for Russia would be impossible, due to the condition of the Russian society.“
— Vladímir Putin President of Russia, former Prime Minister 1952
the joint press conference with President George Bush in 2005, Slovakia http://georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov/news/releases/2005/02/20050224-9.html
„Under the rule of a repressive whole, liberty can be made into a powerful instrument of domination. The range of choice open to the individual is not the decisive factor in determining the degree of human freedom, but what can be chosen and what is chosen by the individual.“
— Herbert Marcuse German philosopher, sociologist, and political theorist 1898 - 1979
„We should all have access to the mathematical knowledge and tools needed to protect us from arbitrary decisions made by the powerful few in an increasingly math-driven world. Where there is no mathematics, there is no freedom.“
— Edward Frenkel mathematician working in representation theory, algebraic geometry, and mathematical physics 1968
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„In fairy tales, the princesses kiss the frogs, and the frogs become princes. In real life, the pricesses kiss princes, and the princes turn into frogs.“
Paulo Coelho389
„An amphibophile is the sort of girl who goes around kissing princes in the hope that one of them will turn into a frog.“
— Michael Kurland American writer 1938
Chapter 10 (p. 137)
„Not a frog, I hope?” he asked…She shook her head. “No. And if it was I wouldn’t kiss it, I promise you. I might kiss a prince if I could be sure he’d turn into a frog, but not the other way around.“
— Eva Ibbotson, A Song for Summer
„You don't always have to kiss a lot of frogs to recognize a prince when you find one
-Henrietta Barett“
— Julia Quinn, Minx
„no more pep talks about believing in toads," Liza said.
"Don't they turn into princeses when you kiss them?" Bonnie said.
"Thats frogs," Liza Said. "Entirely different species.“
— Jennifer Crusie, Bet Me
„(on Ashley Tisdale) "You don't need a prince to be a princess."“
— Zayn Malik British singer 1993
„(on "Someday My Prince Will Come" the Ashley Tisdale pop song) "Just because your prince hasn't come doesn't mean you're not a princess."“
„We have tried occasionally to buy toads at bargain prices with results that have been chronicled in past reports. Clearly our kisses fell flat. We have done well with a couple of princes — but they were princes when purchased. At least our kisses didn’t turn them into toads. And, finally, we have occasionally been quite successful in purchasing fractional interests in easily-identifiable princes at toad-like prices.“
— Warren Buffett American business magnate, investor, and philanthropist 1930
1981 Chairman's Letter http://www.berkshirehathaway.com/letters/1981.html
„Don't you know that I'm not joking?
Aah, you think you won't, I think you will.
Don't you know that this tongue can kill?
C'mon, c'mon, c'mon, c'mon, c'mon, c'mon.
Lady kiss that frog.“
— Peter Gabriel English singer-songwriter, record producer and humanitarian 1950
Kiss That Frog
„Prince or commoner, tenor or bass,
Painter or plumber or never-do-well,
Do me a favor and shut your face -
Poets alone should kiss and tell.“
— Dorothy Parker, The Collected Dorothy Parker
„One day you may kiss a man you can’t breathe without, and find breath is of little consequence.”
“Right, and one day my prince might come.”
“I doubt he’ll be a prince, Ms. Lane. Men rarely are.“
— Karen Marie Moning, Bloodfever
„Three days later the little princess was buried, and Prince Andrei went up the steps to where the coffin stood, to give her the farewell kiss. And there in the coffin was the same face, though with closed eyes. "Ah, what have you done to me?" it still seemed to say, and Prince Andrei felt that something gave way in his soul and that he was guilty of a sin he could neither remedy nor forget.“
— Leo Tolstoy Russian writer 1828 - 1910
Bk. IV, ch. 9
„Life invented it first, Zoe thought, like so many other things. Like eyes: Turning photon impacts into neurochemical events with such subtlety that a frog can target a fly and a man can admire a rose.“
— Robert Charles Wilson author 1953
„Life isn’t a fairy tale; the knight who kills the dragon doesn’t necessarily get the princess. So what? Who’d want to live in a cosmos less rich and various than the real one?“
— Poul Anderson American science fiction and fantasy writer 1926 - 2001
Section 3 “Admiralty”, Chapter X (p. 207)
„Like all fairy tales, the story of Sleeping Beauty begins with "Once upon a time," and continues with a foolish young princess who makes a witch very angry, and then takes a nap until her boyfriend wakes her up with a kiss and insists on getting married, at which point the story ends with the phrase "happily ever after."“
— Daniel Handler American novelist, children's writer, creator of Lemony Snicket 1970
Lemony Snicket
„He had risked his life and now it was walking away from him, hand-in-hand with a Ruffian prince.“
— William Goldman, The Princess Bride
„It's not about winning, Haven. I'm not a prize to be won. I'm not the princess that needs rescuing from the dragon. I'm the prince and I kill my own monsters. You need to be ok with that. -Anita Blake“
— Laurell K. Hamilton, Bullet
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City Room | Police Give New Details on Ledger Death
Police Give New Details on Ledger Death
By Al Baker
January 23, 2008 5:15 pm January 23, 2008 5:15 pm
Updated, 9:17 p.m. | The masseuse who discovered the body of Heath Ledger in a Manhattan apartment on Tuesday twice called a friend of his, the actress Mary-Kate Olsen, before calling 911, New York City police officials said on Wednesday. The officials, who provided new details about Mr. Ledger’s death, emphasized that no illegal drugs were found in the apartment and that there were no obvious signs of suicide. Tests on a rolled-up $20 bill that was found in the apartment found no evidence that the bill had been used to handle drugs, they said.
According to the police, around 12:30 p.m. on Tuesday, a housekeeper, Teresa Solomon, arrived at the apartment, at 421 Broome Street in SoHo, to do household chores. At about 1 p.m., she went into Mr. Ledger’s bedroom to change a light bulb in an adjacent bathroom; she found him on the bed face down, with the sheet pulled up to his shoulders, and heard him snoring.
A masseuse, Diana Wolozin, arrived to give Mr. Ledger a massage about 2:45 p.m. At 3 p.m., after Mr. Ledger did not emerge from his bedroom, with the door closed, the masseuse called him on his cellphone but got no answer. She entered the bedroom and saw him lying in bed. She took a massage table out of the closet and began to set it up near his bed. She then went over to him and shook him, but got no response. Using his cellphone, she used a speed-dial button to call Ms. Olsen in California to seek her guidance, knowing Ms. Olsen to be a friend of Mr. Ledger’s.
According to the authorities, Ms. Wolozin told Ms. Olsen that Mr. Ledger was unconscious. Ms. Olsen said she would call some private security people she knew in New York, and hung up. Ms. Wolozin again shook Mr. Ledger, called Ms. Olsen a second time, and said she believed the situation was grave and would call 911.
Ms. Wolozin called 911 at 3:26 p.m. to say that Mr. Ledger was not breathing. The call occurred less than 15 minutes since she had first seen him in bed and only a few moments after the first call to Ms. Olsen. The 911 operator urged Ms. Wolozin to try to revive Mr. Ledger, but Ms. Wolozin’s efforts were not successful.
Emergency medical workers arrived at 3:33 p.m., at almost exactly the same moment as a private security guard summoned by Ms. Olsen. The medical workers moved his body to the floor and then used a defibrillator and CPR, to no avail. Mr. Ledger was pronounced dead at 3:36 p.m. By that point, two other private security guards summoned by Ms. Olsen had arrived, as had police officers.
“I’m not going to speculate on why 911 was not called first,” said Paul J. Browne, the Police Department’s chief spokesman.
The police said that all five witnesses — Ms. Solomon, the housekeeper; Ms. Wolozin, the masseuse; and the three private security guards summoned by Ms. Olsen — were fully cooperating with the authorities. (On Tuesday, the police at first mistakenly stated that Ms. Olsen owned the apartment; she does not. They later corrected the error.)
The police conducted tests on a rolled-up $20 bill found in Mr. Ledger’s apartment, but found no evidence that the bill had been used for anything improper. No illegal narcotics or alcohol was found in the apartment. Two types of prescription medication — sleeping pills and an anti-anxiety medication — were found in the apartment, but it is not known if the medications played a role in his death.
Detectives from the Police Department’s 5th Precinct were looking to examine any surveillance videos from the apartment building and the surrounding area but were also awaiting the results of an investigation by the New York City chief medical examiner’s office. That office conducted an autopsy early Wednesday morning but said that the results were inconclusive and that additional testing was needed.
The death of Mr. Ledger, 28, the Australian-born actor whose breakthrough role as a gay cowboy in the 2005 movie “Brokeback Mountain” earned him a nomination for an Academy Award, has attracted international attention.
Sewell Chan contributed reporting.
Mauj January 23, 2008 · 5:38 pm
How awful for the family that the housekeeper didn’t call 911 immediately. What use was an Olsen twin ever going to be to her?
michael January 23, 2008 · 5:43 pm
thank you for taking the time to get the facts straight. although they may be dull to the fantasy struggles we would all like to see Mr. Ledger in, we appreciate the truth. sometimes people die and there is no real rhyme or reason. just a matter of death and timing. i think it would easier for us to accept his death if we could tie it to a life of substance abuse and an extreme alternative lifestyle. but i don’t think his case was so. my ‘assumption’ is a misuse of prescriptions. just a man trying to get a real nights rest and having a bad reaction. buts its only an assumption.
i appreciate that you Sir chose not to assume about Mr. Ledger’s death. thank you for the facts.
janus January 23, 2008 · 5:47 pm
It’s nice to see that the EMTs arrived in seven minutes. Seems like a good response time in NYC.
Ken T. January 23, 2008 · 5:50 pm
Already we have the People Magazine editor going on the air and saying that Ledger was known to be a substance abuser (and where are his sources?) when no direct evidence has been found to link his death to illegal drugs. Modern media coverage of celebrity, especially celebrity misfortune, is indeed a sad and sickening sight.
Tom S January 23, 2008 · 5:53 pm
Was it really necessary to release the detail about the rolled up $20 bill? If it ends up being determined to be relevant to the cause of death, I can see it. As it is, it seems a needless injury to his name and anyone who cared about him.
LHN January 23, 2008 · 5:59 pm
She called Mary-Kate Olsen TWICE? What on earth for? I realize she was probably in shock and blah blah blah but how flipping hard is it to dial 911? I can only hope that poor Heath was already dead and her ridiculous actions and time wasting did not contribute to his death.
Perley J. Thibodeau January 23, 2008 · 6:01 pm
More concerned with the public image than the health of the celebrity: nothing ever changes.
I’m glad I dropped out of show business 47 years ago. Believe me my health vastly improved.
My sincere prayers are with you, cowboy. Rest in Peace!
Al Cyone January 23, 2008 · 6:05 pm
Re #1: It was the masseuse, not the housekeeper, who called Mary-Kate Olsen, TWICE, before dialing 911. The housekeeper heard him snoring when she was last in the room.
It seems a bit macabre to speculate on the death of a stranger but I wonder if, lying face down after taking sleeping pills, he could have simply suffocated.
Any way you look at it, it’s a life cut short and a terrible burden for his family and friends to bear. And maybe the housekeeper is thinking, “If only I had woken him up . . . “.
chris darkins January 23, 2008 · 6:05 pm
Something doesn’t seem right about this story. Why would the housekeeper call Mary Kate Olsen rather than 911. And why would Mary Kate Olsen send her security person rather than instruct the housekeeper to call for medical help? The actions of the masseuse seem a little strange. She gets no answer on his cell phone, enters his room and sees him lying in bed but instead of saying hello or trying to rouse him her first step is to set up the massage table and only then does she bother to approach the bed. Lots of questions about this and I don’t think we have yet to hear the full story.
Barb January 23, 2008 · 6:07 pm
Regarding the above comment: I suspect she will ask herself that every day for a great many days to come.
Adam January 23, 2008 · 6:08 pm
Great update. It’s a shame he wasn’t woken earlier when the housekeeper went into his room at 1pm.
Al January 23, 2008 · 6:09 pm
Mauj don’t be so quick to judge, you have no idea how you would react in such a shocking situation! RIP Heath Shuler. Very sad indeed.
Bigeeta January 23, 2008 · 6:09 pm
Yeah, it’s a shame that the masseuse thought it best to dial an Olsen twin instead of the paramedics. Those few moments of time may have changed the outcome of the situation. The minute someone’s life seems to be in danger, you call 911 not a friend of the victim. Alas, may he rest in peace.
hank January 23, 2008 · 6:10 pm
It appears that the first line Diana Wolozin’s obituary has been written.
linda January 23, 2008 · 6:12 pm
How many soldiers die in Iraq and Afghanistan each and every day. Their names are known to no one except their families. This story is sad, but in the grand movie of our lives, does it rate total two day coverage? He’s young, he died, So many have, and that’s pity. You have to ask, who is more important, and why haven’t we told their stories?
David January 23, 2008 · 6:13 pm
My favorite part was in the initial aftermath of the death — Mary-Kate Olsen denies sub-letting the apartment, denies knowing why Ledger was there and all through a publicist. God forbid. That’s the ridiculousness of Hollywood today. Your friend is dead and your publicist tells you to hold back from saying anything until all is known. Great. And then she gets a call (twice) and says she’ll call some private firm. What the heck is wrong with these people?
LEA January 23, 2008 · 6:14 pm
I could not agree with LHN more. What kind of complete moron calls MK before EMT. What is wrong with people???? And why would MK not TELL her to dial 911 instead of calling “private security”. At that point his life was much more important than any possible bad press. It just gets sadder and sadder.
Yes, I meant the masseuse, not the housekeeper, thanks Al Cyone. And it wasn’t really my intention to judge- like Bigeeta, it’s awful to think that those couple of minutes could have made a difference. But this is just morbid speculation now. A sad loss.
Diana January 23, 2008 · 6:18 pm
Truly bizarre that he was friends with an Olsen twin. I’m sorry he was living alone and not with loved ones. Michelle would have called 911 immediately.
michelle January 23, 2008 · 6:18 pm
Thank you for getting the facts straight as there was so much confusion on what Ms. Olsen had to do with this. I agree with everyone who has asked why on earth would you call Ms. Olsen instead of 911? That I dont think I wil ever understand.
I also agree about the housekeeper. If she heard him snoring..I bet you she wonders no what if she would have woken him up.
#2 – your comment is well put and I agree.
RIP Heath
Ben S. January 23, 2008 · 6:19 pm
Why call a celebrity friend? Because she’d know how to deal with what might have been only a minor emergency and keep it out of the press–and she did, by sending private security people who got there the same time as the EMTs. When she became more concerned, minutes later, she called 911. It all makes sense to me.
Danny Tanner January 23, 2008 · 6:19 pm
I’m sure she called Bob Saget first but got sent to voicemail. With Uncle Jesse on the road touring, of course help from that imbecile Uncle Joey would have been worse than no help at all…so I think she did the right thing under the circumstances.
The police can tell us where DJ and Stephanie were throughout all this after their investigation concludes.
JVM January 23, 2008 · 6:19 pm
This is Heath Ledger we’re talking about, not Heath Shuler, who is still alive and well and serving in Congress, I hope.
LK January 23, 2008 · 6:20 pm
minutes/seconds are vital in emergency situations…failure to call 911 immediately or attempt in any way to revive him, but instead phoning another celebrity friend (!!) speaks volumes about “spin control” and less about pure common sense. while clearly not responsible for any ingestion of pills, the inability of those present to help by taking significant action is just so utterly tragic.
Julie January 23, 2008 · 6:20 pm
This is complete speculation on my part, but as a former drug user AND cop’s daughter, one idea came to mind: Perhaps the masseuse phoned celebrity/ friend Mary-Kate Olsen instead of authorities was because she came across some illegal drug evidence & wanted to ask her advice on what to do with it. It could also answer the question of why Ms. Olsen would phone private security people instead recommending immediately that 911 be called. The responses by both women seem suspicious and/or unbelievably stupid. RIP Heath.
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City Room | Big Ticket | Treetop Park Views for $16,575,000
Big Ticket | Treetop Park Views for $16,575,000
By Robin Finn
May 31, 2013 12:20 pm May 31, 2013 12:20 pm
There was once a rooming house at 18 Gramercy Park South.Credit Suzanne DeChillo/The New York Times
Real Estate Highlights
In this week’s section: New York City is a seller’s market, where bidding wars are the norm and open houses are packed to capacity.
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Perhaps it was the lure of a free key to exclusive Gramercy Park, but the as-yet-unfinished gut renovation of a historic Salvation Army rooming house at 18 Gramercy Park South by Zeckendorf Development and Robert A. M. Stern, the premier team that produced the premium price precedents set by 15 Central Park West, has recorded its first closing. A floor-through unit on the ninth floor sold for its full asking price of $16,575,000, an amount that escalated to $16,877,493.75 once the transfer taxes kicked in, and was the most expensive sale of the week, according to city records.
The 4,207-square-foot residence has four bedrooms and five and a half baths, and provides treetop views of the park and surrounding historic neighborhood with the addition of 35 large windows. The anticipated monthly carrying costs are $11,200. According to the developer, 8 of the available 16 residences, including a $42 million duplex penthouse with four terraces and two pools that was snapped up by Leslie Alexander, the owner of the Houston Rockets, went swiftly to contract for the full listing price despite being bought off the offering plan.
The new owner of No. 9 is Joanne B. Brown, a nom de plume used in this and other real estate transactions by the ex-wife of Jon S. Corzine, the former New Jersey governor. In 2010, Ms. Brown collected $43.5 million after divesting herself of a six-acre property in Sagaponack, N.Y., that she received as part of her 2003 divorce settlement. John Burger of Brown Harris Steven represented Ms. Brown in the Gramercy transaction, and Zeckendorf Marketing handled the sale of the sponsor unit for the developer.
Across town, at an address with a different type of cachet, Mr. Burger was involved in another significant negotiation: he represented Darren Star of “Sex and the City” renown in the sale of his luxuriously appointed corner unit, No. 35G, at Trump International Hotel and Tower at 1 Central Park West for $13 million. The initial asking price for the 3,059-square-foot condominium designed by Waldo Fernandez had been $15 million; the buyer is a Los Angeles limited-liability company, Beverly Park Corporation.
Big Ticket includes closed sales from the previous week, ending Wednesday.
A version of this article appears in print on 06/02/2013, on page RE2 of the NewYork edition with the headline: Treetop Park Views.
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Devizes Liberal Democrats
Windrush Day
By Isabelle Parasram
Please be advised that this article contains language that some may find offensive
As a child of the Windrush generation, Windrush Day is hugely important to me. I'm so glad that we, as a society, are marking it.
The term 'the Windrush Generation' stems from the arrival, on June 22, 1948, of the ship The Empire Windrush at Tilbury Docks, just east of London, bringing with it the first immigrants from the Caribbean.
It denotes the large-scale influx of Caribbean immigrants during the years that followed.
There's been a lot of press about the terrible treatment of people who came here from the Caribbean in the late 1940s and onwards, who now find that their very official existence has been denied.
There's also much discussion about the poor treatment of those Caribbean immigrants upon their arrival in the UK to date.
But there are also some positive stories and memories mixed in with those experiences.
I've recorded an 8-minute audio interview with someone who came to this country in 1962. She shared with me some of her memories and they were both good and bad.
The memories they shared included these:
'I came to the UK after a one month journey from Trinidad by ship with my young stepson and my new baby boy. When we arrived it was the coldest winter they'd had in a long time and we only had summer clothes.'
'I remember having no furniture, no heating, no washing machine, no fridge, no winter clothes. We had to try to stay warm in one room using a paraffin burner. Then, on Christmas Day, someone gave us a bed for my stepson. I was so happy!'
Since 2018, we've celebrated Windrush Day to honour the British Caribbean community.
'It was hard to find a job because no black people were allowed. The British people didn't want immigrants - "…no black people", they said.'
'I remember a bus driver saying to the passengers that '…all these Pakis had come over here to go on the dole. I pointed out to him that not everyone with Asian skin was from Pakistan and that we were all desperate to work.'
'We had so little money for food that I had to work at a sweet factory in the evenings just so we could eat. I know it was illegal, but I left my young stepson in charge of my toddler and my baby and, one day, I came home to find the baby under the kitchen table. But I had no choice.'
'Eventually, I got a job in local Government. I was the only black woman working in my department for the Council. They treated me well and helped me to get promotions.'
And so, the stories continue.
Listening to the person I interviewed who spoke about how hard it was to find work, it's ironic to note that, following the losses of World War II, Britain was in dire need of labourers. This prompted a campaign to entice people from the countries of the British Empire and Commonwealth to immigrate to the UK.
Yet, when they arrived, it seems that they weren't exactly welcomed.
I've read the 'official lines' that state, for posterity that '…the Windrush Generation and their descendants are honoured for their immense contributions to British society following the trauma of the Second World War'. However, this does not entirely reflect the British Caribbean community's experience - certainly not those with whom I've come into contact.
When Caribbean immigrants first arrived, there were met with extreme intolerance from large parts of the white population.
Having initially been encouraged to settle in the UK and take up employment to revive the labour market, many early immigrants were denied access to private employment and accommodation on account of their skin colour. Afro-Caribbean and Indo-Caribbean people were also banished from many pubs, clubs, and even churches.
From today's perspective, the arrival of The Empire Windrush is considered a major landmark not only for the country's recovery from the turmoil of war but also for the establishment of modern British multicultural society.
As Liberal Democrats, we must continue to fight for justice for those members of the Windrush Generation whose paperwork - destroyed by The Home Office - means that they have to face a costly, lengthy and sometimes unwinnable battle to establish their right to remain in the UK
Windrush Day is a way of encouraging communities across the country to celebrate the contribution of the Windrush Generation and their descendants - I guess that would include me!
But, it also serves as a reminder that, as Liberal Democrats, we must continue to fight for justice for those members of the the Windrush Generation whose paperwork - destroyed by The Home Office - means that they have to face a costly, lengthy and sometimes unwinnable battle to establish their right to remain in the UK, even if this is the only home they've ever known.
So, join me on Tuesday 25th June 2019 at an event organised by 'The Hackney Heroine', Pauline Pearce, the driving force behind Motion F5 from last Autumn's Conference 'Righting Wrongs: Restoring the Rights of the Windrush Generation'.
Alongside former Legal Aid Lawyer of the Year, Kaweh Beheshtizadeh and Professor Paul Reynolds (both key figures within the Liberal Democrats), I will be discussing the issues surrounding the Windrush Scandal and what we, as Liberal Democrats, can do about it.
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De Vilhena Lion Statue, Valletta
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Ortega Shows No Sign of Commitment for Change
Manuel Orozco, researcher of the Inter-American Dialogue, gives his view on the negotiating table.
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While the second attempt at a national dialogue to reach a peaceful solution to the crisis in Nicaragua stagnates again, the Civic Alliance for Justice and Democracy and the dictatorship of Daniel Ortega try to “raise the stakes” with their conditions for the process.
However, the Ortega regime has not shown any sign of being committed to change direction in the country, considers the researcher of Inter-American Dialogue, Manuel Orozco.
In an interview with journalist, Cindy Regidor, on the program “Esta Semana” (This Week), Orozco commented that the refusal of the Catholic bishops to participate as “witnesses and companions” of the negotiating table that was installed at the end of February is “an episode that was to be expected,” in view of the lack of will showed by the Ortega regime.
“The Catholic Church is sending a very strong message: it indicates that the conditions in which the [initial roadmap] agreement takes place does not create confidence to sit down and validate,” assures Orozco, who notes that the Government has practically controlled the talks.
But he believes this should represent an opportunity for the Civic Alliance to require the participation of an external guarantor and mediator, but it is urgent to establish real guarantees of the process itself.
“There is talk of guarantors, of mediators, but the negotiation process is more complicated, because to have a guarantor, guarantees are needed at the negotiating table,” he points out.
The regime must show commitment, and the Civic Alliance demand it
On Saturday March 9, Ortega invited the Organization of American States (OAS) to participate in the negotiations established with the Civic Alliance, which has indicated that it will reconsider its participation in the negotiation process and demanded that the regime show “signs of political goodwill” to continue with the talks.
Orozco believes that “the Government has not raised a single guarantee that there is a commitment to enter into a process of political change in the country.”
“Simply, they called for a negotiating table to discuss a route to the political process, without offering any single guarantee,” Orozco noted.
According to the analyst, given this lack of good faith shown by the government, the Civic Alliance “has the opportunity to really demand that the political process be taken seriously, that they stop delaying things at the table, and state what the guarantees are, with which a guarantor can enter to determine if the process is being categorically fulfilled.”
Orozco explains that it is not even enough to say “here we are going to move up the elections,” but to specify what are the guarantees of the electoral process.
In parallel with its invitation to the OAS, the Ortega regime revealed its negotiating agenda, which is far from the citizens’ demands for freedom, justice and democracy, while instead it exhorts to suspend all sanctions against its government.
The dictatorship announced its five points on the agenda to be discussed at the negotiating table, in which it rules out moving up the elections scheduled for November of 2021, precisely one of the main demands of various sectors to overcome the crisis.
In addition, Ortega proposes to “strengthen” the electoral institutions -of a system actually collapsed-, through the implementation of the recommendations of the mission of electoral support mission of the OAS and proposals for electoral reforms that improve free, fair and transparent electoral processes. The Government had already established in 2017 an agreement with the OAS on this subject, which months later was suspended without explanations.
The government agenda offers justice and reparation “to continue consolidating peace, security and stability in Nicaragua” and speaks of the “release of the prisoners in the context of criminal acts that occurred as of April 2018 against the State of Nicaragua, which have not yet been tried, and those already prosecuted.” However, the regime proposes to review each of their files, with the supposed purpose that no case is left in impunity. In reality, among the more than 600 political prisoners who still remain in the country’s prisons, there are no police or paramilitary forces prosecuted.
Another of the proposed points is “to continue strengthening” the freedoms, rights and guarantees established in the Constitution, although in practice it keeps infringing on the rights to mobilization, expression and protest and permanently harasses the independent media and non-governmental organizations that work with civil society and in defense of human rights.
However, the researcher of the Inter-American Dialogue, Manuel Orozco, believes that a basic guarantee of the entire process is to create the conditions and the proper political environment for the elections. In addition, to repeal the law against terrorism, under which they have prosecuted and sentenced the leaders of the protests. Likewise, free the political prisoners and change the composition of the Police, for a neutral system.
Ortega seeks to return to the status quo
According to Orozco, Ortega seeks to return to the status quo. For the analyst, the real change is about basic concessions such as reforming the Electoral Law in exchange for starting a normal process to regulate political tension; second, to determine a date for the elections. “Theirs is to have reforms first, without considering early elections,” he compares and notes that the restoration of the violated constitutional guarantees is being excluded.
Orozco said that there is a political tie, in which Ortega makes use of the few cards in his favor, limited to the control of the legal apparatus and repression. While the opposition to his regime estimates that it is about eight out of every ten Nicaraguans, which it considers gives legitimacy to the Civic Alliance to negotiate.
“Ortega is really trying to leverage his position, to enter a new path, but rather what he has done is to further deepen the political crisis,” he says.
For Orozco, the Civic Alliance has the strength of the legitimacy of the population, and a team that has the political will to work for political reforms, and not just for electoral reforms. Its disadvantages are the distrust of the population in this process, which they believe is controlled by big capital.
The future of sanctions
The dictatorship, in its agenda, also proposes to carry out international efforts to obtain support for the implementation of the final agreements of the negotiation, and the implementation and fulfillment of the agreements.
In its statement, the Executive also made “a call to the international community to suspend all sanctions against the people of Nicaragua, to facilitate the right to human, economic and social development of Nicaragua, favoring the most vulnerable sectors of the population.”
However, Orozco said that it is likely that the international community will continue its pressures, with more sanctions against individuals of the regime for corruption and human rights violations.
More US sanctions are pending over the dictatorship. Already sanctioned are the police chief and an in-law of Ortega and Murillo, Francisco “Paco” Diaz; the Secretary of the Mayor’s Office of Managua, Fidel Moreno, accused of coordinating paramilitary operations; the treasurer and vice president of Albanisa, Francisco “Chico” Lopez; the guardian of the secrets of El Carmen and intelligence and espionage operator, Nestor Moncada, and the Vice President and wife of Ortega, Rosario Murillo. In addition, the European Union has warned of similar measures against Ortega and his associates.
In an attempt to evade the siege of sanctions, Ortega ordered the State to buy the BanCorp, bank [which has handled huge sums of his companies’ money] an action that for Orozco “is clowning,” because he believes that Ortega tries to show that he still has an exercise of democratic sovereignty in the administration of the money of the people. However, what will happen with the sanctions is that they will move from one institution to another.
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Mariarita Santi, MD, PhD
Neuropathologist
Department of Clinical Neuropathology
santim@email.chop.edu
Dr. Mariarita Santi is a neuropathologist in the Department of Anatomic Pathology at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and a professor of pathology and lab medicine at The Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. She provides expertise in the area of pediatric brain tumors, developmental neuropathology, neurometabolic conditions and neuromuscular disease within The Children’s Brain Tumor Tissue Consortium (CBTTC). Dr. Santi also oversees screenings, triage and collections of all cases sent by the department of neurosurgery at CHOP.
Prior to joining CHOP in July of 2008, Dr. Santi worked as an associate professor of pathology and pediatrics at George Washington University Medical Center and a visiting faculty member of the Department of Neuropathology at the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology in Washington D.C.
Dr. Santi earned a BS from Classic Lyceum Reggio Emilia in Italy and an MD from the Modena University Medical School in Modena, Italy. She also completed a PhD in Pharmacology from Modena University.
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Posted on June 29, 2017 June 24, 2018 by David E. Storey
The Jaime Lannister of Climate Politics
Bjorn Lomborg is like the Jaime Lannister of climate change politics: a square-jawed, towheaded, smooth-talking semi-villain who never seems to go away. Unlike the “Circes” of climate denial, he concedes that climate change is anthropogenic and poses a serious threat. But he thinks devoting substantial resources to dealing with it is a miscalculation based on mistaken priorities. He is a skeptic–not of the science, but of the policy. His latest, an Op-Ed in last week’s Wall Street Journal, “The Charade of the Paris Treaty” (paywall), rehashes the argument he’s been making for years.
You might be surprised to hear that Lomborg’s position on climate passes as liberal for the WSJ Op-Ed page. Despite being the most widely distributed newspaper in the world, and one of the most widely respected, and a bastion of center-right thought, count the Journal a skeptic when it comes to climate change.
Lomborg’s was the article that tipped me over the edge and led me to spend a morning penning a letter to the editor that, as it turned out, got published a week later (albeit substantially trimmed):
Arguments like Lomborg’s are actually more dangerous than those of climate skeptics or deniers because they threaten to sow doubt among those who are already on board with climate science.
Below, I re-print my original letter to the Journal. As you’ll see, its length is probably not the only reason they didn’t print the whole thing:
“Unlike the Journal, Bjorn Lomborg (“The Charade of the Paris Treaty,” June 17-18) laudably acknowledges the reality and gravity of anthropogenic climate change. However, his piece contains several fallacies.
First, Lomborg correctly notes that the first round of pledges will fall far short of the stated goal of 2 degrees Celsius, and cites the failed Kyoto protocol as evidence for Paris’ likely failure, but he misconstrues the long-term logic of the agreement, as well as the way in which Paris is importantly different from Kyoto. For one, every five years pledges are reviewed and ratcheted up, which aims to foster trust, cooperation, and peer pressure between parties and gradually build toward more ambitious targets. For another, Kyoto had binding emissions cuts, whereas Paris has voluntary commitments in order to allow flexibility to account for countries’ political and economic feasibility constraints.
Second, Lomborg erects a straw man: no one serious is claiming that we’re sailing into the solar paradise tomorrow. The global energy economy is an aircraft carrier, not a speedboat. The point of Paris is to create a sea change in how countries think about climate: to see it as deeply tied to their economic and geopolitical interests so that they begin to invest more in renewables and put a price on carbon. Lomborg ignores the geopolitical dimension of Paris. The Obama administrations’ most important strategic diplomatic achievement was to elevate climate to the same status as core issues in international cooperation, such as trade and security.
Take it from philosopher and policy analyst Andrew Light, who worked in the Obama Administration to craft and negotiate the Paris agreement:
Trump’s decision will damage U.S. integrity at the negotiating table and impede the ability of this White House to effectively pursue other international issues that require multilateral support. Nicholas Burns, under secretary of State in the George W. Bush administration, put it bluntly: “I can’t think of anything more destructive to our credibility” than leaving the Paris Agreement. It will also make it difficult for other leaders to justify to their citizens sitting down with this White House to negotiate anything the U.S. wants, given the broad and deep recognition of the need for cooperative action on climate change among other major powers.
In the new reality, if you’re a bad actor on climate, countries can leverage this against you and make it harder for you to get what you want on a range of issues. Or punish you—France, e.g., has floated the idea of slapping a carbon tax on US imports.
Third, Lomborg descries subsidies for renewables. What he fails to mention is that fossil fuel subsidies far exceed the former. This should bother conservatives, since subsidies distort markets—the price of fossil fuels does not reflect their true cost, which leads to an inefficient use of resources. This is basic, uncontroversial, conservative economics. And he should know, from reading energy historian Vaclav Smil, whom he cites, that no major energy transition has ever happened without massive government support. Bizarrely, he concedes this toward the end of his piece, calling for increased spending on R and D; and indeed, one of the main goals of Paris is to stimulate such investment—hence billionaires such a Bill Gates rallying around the agreement and launching the Breakthrough Energy Coalition.
Fourth, Lomborg clings to the canard that action of climate is bad for the economy. However, in his work he relies on a morally and economically dubious value for the social discount rate. Even William Nordhaus, the dean of climate economics and a long time conservative on climate action, has conceded that he was wrong about the value he ascribed to the social cost of carbon. And others, such as economist Nicholas Stern, claim that the cost should be much higher, which makes the price tag of eventual climate change much, much higher than the investments needed to decarbonize the global economy. Again, the social cost of carbon is a fundamentally conservative idea: individuals and firms ought to pay the full costs of the byproducts of their economic activity. Economic growth is just one value among others, and it is unclear whether it is best fostered by weak climate policy. Prudent investors hedge against risk.
Lomborg is right to claim that we must approach action on climate in the context of global issues such as education, health care, poverty, etc., and that, in the short term, investments in these areas would have a greater impact on welfare. But he seems to assume that if we don’t direct resources to climate, they will indeed be devoted to these areas, which seems unlikely. Moreover, a number of these issues are entangled with and may be exacerbated by climate change. One reason e.g. that China and India are investing heavily in solar and decreasing their coal dependence is the costs of pollution to public health and their economies.
All told, Lomborg’s position—like the Journal’s editorial stance on climate in general and Paris in particular—is unserious, unconservative, and untenable.”
It seems to me that the winning strategy for climate advocacy is to craft arguments to appeal to 1) social conservatives and 2) economic conservatives. How, in other words, to explain why Christianity and Capitalism logically lead to action on climate?
Don’t talk about the “environment,” talk about “creation.”
Don’t talk about “ecological balance,” talk about “economic growth.”
Don’t talk about “ecological destruction,” talk about “job creation.”
The language is jobs, infrastructure, investment, insurance, energy independence.
More later on the psychology, culture, and communication challenges of climate politics.
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roguemillennials says:
It is definitely incredibly important to hear more Christian voices speaking out on climate change – and our responsibility to be good stewards of what God has given us!
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Legality of Cryptocurrencies: Where, How, and Why?
Alexander Yeghiazaryan
Is Bitcoin legal? Ha-ha! The answer varies substantially from country to country and is still changing or undefined in many of them. Many countries still hesitate on how to regulate bitcoins, as the system is relatively new or is considered an unknown territory. While some countries have banned or restricted their use, many have explicitly allowed bitcoins for trading. While this post provides information regarding the legality of bitcoin (please do not use it as a legal and binding opinion, I am not a lawyer:), prohibitions and regulations that apply to this particular cryptocurrency extend to all online currencies.
I am sure the issue of whether Bitcoins are legal or not concerns most of the progressive and not so communities: I did my brief survey to find out where should I travel and where not with my wallet full of 0.5 bitcoins - and thought you could benefit from some of the finds!
Here are my non-explicit list of countries that are bitcoin friendly (yay) – perhaps giving a bad example to more conservative ones:).
Alderney (Channel Islands): Even though there has been much gossip about the fact that it is the first bitcoin isle, there are no official records to support this claim. However, many journalists have included documents in their reports indicating that Alderney is doing its best to become the central hub for bitcoin. (Although reaching Alderney can come out to be quite a challenge (usually by boat, and the cliffs are stiff and waters are dangerous), it is worth the risk, but please don’t mention me in your travel documents). Japan, oh industrial and perhaps one of the most traditional countries - Japan! To my surprise, it is considered one of the friendliest when it comes to bitcoins. In February 2014 however during the Mt. Gox scam and bankruptcy, the country called for the introduction of a regulatory structure, which has subsequently been put in place. It is possible that the anonymity of transactions will be reduced to prevent money laundering.
When it comes to tiny Estonia, the country does not only have a history of continually providing innovations in the field of technology but also implements innovations like blockchain technologies for banking services, healthcare, and even governance by letting its citizens to become e-residents. Estonia is famous for being the birthplace of Skype, and currently hosts many bitcoin ATMs, with the aim to further indulge into the world of cryptocurrencies.
Not only Denmark is attributed with frequent technological innovations and high standard of living, but it is also at the forefront of eliminating cash or building an economy based a 100% on digital assets. Although it is not clear whether bitcoin will be the primary mean of exchange, in terms of digital currency and assets, Denmark is clearly one of countries taking the lead.
The country where you just have to have an umbrella (would be wonderful if bitcoins would fall instead of rain drops…), the United Kingdom: here cryptocurrencies are treated as ‘private money.' When bitcoin is exchanged for sterling or other foreign currencies, no VAT is assigned to the value of the cryptocurrency. However, supplies of goods and services sold in exchange for any cryptocurrency are subject to VAT.
The dream country of every student, writer, enthusiast, and novelist: the Netherlands. The country can also be considered one of the most bitcoin friendly countries (no doubts, Dutch like to be advanced and different!). It has its own "Bitcoin City" i.e. Arnhem, where over a hundred merchants conduct business. Here you can pay everything, including gas, bicycles, accommodation and even dental services, with bitcoins (if you have any of course). Under the Act on Financial Supervision of the Netherlands, cryptocurrencies are not regulated which is possibly why many bitcoin startups have emerged.
Finland: Considering its sparse population, the country has a significant amount of Bitcoin vending machines, including as much as ten (not a big number perhaps when considering the regular ATMs) in the capital of Helsinki. Cutting edge technological innovations in Finland are one of the main reasons why bitcoins are classified as a financial service completely exempt from VAT.
Kangoroos and giant spiders, what comes to mind? Well Australia of course: In October 2013, as a direct result of hacking, one of their major Bitcoin banks lost over 1 million US dollars. The result: Australian government plans to tax bitcoins, so that people who deal with them keep their records clean. Otherwise Australia is considered a bitcoin friendly country.
Where do aliens go first when they decide to attack the planet? Well of course The United States of America. Perhaps because of them, there is a positive incline towards the cryptocurrency; nonetheless, several government agencies actively work on reducing or preventing the use of bitcoin in illegal activities. Many popular businesses like Dell, Dish Network, Overstock.com accept payments in bitcoins. The Department of Treasury's Financial Crimes Enforcement Network defined Bitcoin not as a currency, but as a money service business. As of May 2015, the only state with a final rule on bitcoin is New York. The referral point is called ‘BitLicense.'
Texas and Illinois: Two states of the US, announced recently that direct trading of bitcoin is not under consideration for regulations, taxes, and KYC policy requirements. In addition, bitcoins will not be regulated under money transmission regulations, which allow users to trade freely in terms of bitcoins without experiencing any governmental jurisdiction.
Neighboring peaceful and pro life Canada: in general is accepting bitcoins, while making sure bitcoins are not used for laundering money.
Beeeeeeeer and more beer (always wanted to see a fountain of beer and take a sip in it.) Germany: According to the communication on bitcoin issued on 19 December 2013 by the Federal Financial Supervisory Authority, bitcoins are legally binding financial instruments, which fall under the category of units of account – Sctimt!
And finally, topping my list, South Korea (No, not Kim Jong-un). Home to giants such as LG and Samsung, South Korea has one of the highest mobile payment and smartphone penetration rates worldwide. Bitcoin is being embraced as both means of exchange and investment at fast rates. Unfortunately, there are no current regulatory laws in the country concerning bitcoins and cryptocurrencies alike.
The neutral zone:
Turkey (Oh can’t wait for thanks giving…): As bitcoin is not considered to be money by the law, they are not regulated. On the contrary, The European Union is having a tough time coming to a general consensus. There are no issues on an official decision on the regulation, legality, or acceptance of the cryptocurrency. As there is no accessible guide, individual countries in the EU have developed their bitcoin standpoints, which vary accordingly. Who wants some chocolate! Switzerland: On 5th of December 2013, a proposal was made by a few members of the Swiss Parliament, which called on the Swiss government to assess the utilization of the bitcoin currency by the financial sector. These members also tried to shed light on bitcoins and other cryptocurrencies from a legal standpoint. In response, the Swiss Federal Council states that since virtual currencies are not in the boundaries of a legal vacuum, there is no need for any legislative measures at the moment.
Where bitcoins are a no go:
“Matushka” Russia: The legality of the cryptocurrency is still disputed here although Russia's Ministry of Finance has high hopes of passing a law to ban bitcoins. Russia has always had an unusual standpoint on cryptocurrency and bitcoin, and for quite some time it was unclear how the situation will evolve. A new statement by the Bank of Russia sheds light on the matter and hints at a better future for bitcoin in Russia. Indeed the Bank of Russia deputy chairman Olga Skorobogatova stated:
“It became clear that it is not straightforward to address bitcoin with existing financial regulations. Regulators and financial agencies agree to not prohibit the use of bitcoin. Instead, we want to gain a better understanding of bitcoin, and build a regulatory framework we have gathered the necessary knowledge.”
Vietnam (a country where there are more motorbikes than people…): From the very beginning of bitcoins' release, the government and its state bank have maintained a firm position on the illegitimacy of the payment method, as they link it to criminal activities such as drug deals and money laundering. Elves and magical beings (yes, the majority of Icelandic people believe in Elves) Iceland: The main reason behind the illegality of bitcoins in Iceland is that they are trying to protect the Icelandic currency from outflowing the country. Another reason it is banned is the fact that the cryptocurrency does not align itself with their Foreign Exchange Act. As a matter of fact an entirely new cryptocurrency has been created outside of Iceland called Auroracoin, and its founders wish to create an alternative to the present banking system in Iceland. China, the country where it all started (yes, they created ice-cream): All financial institutions are prohibited from dealing or transacting in bitcoin. However, individuals are free to trade between themselves. The market is thriving in China, as it remains one of the largest bitcoin markets throughout the years. Just a few countries left to mention, Bolivia, Kyrgyzstan, and Ecuador: All these countries have one thing in common: the usage of bitcoins both for individual and commercial use is prohibited, usually by a majority vote in the national assembly.
Some serious conclusions!
Providing a concrete answer to the question ‘‘are bitcoins legal or not?'' is virtually impossible, as there are no parallels and precedents in the legislature of many a country. Although the bitcoin system is more than five years old, many countries still do not have systems that regulate, ban or restrict the cryptocurrency. Overall, bitcoin remains in the gray as the leap in technology has outweighed the lawmakers by a far shot.
One thing seems clear, without cryptocurrencies the new and more vibrant and trusted economy would be incomplete. Whereas, as more and more civil consciousness of the importance of the new ecosystem is built, the more pressure will there be on governments around the globe to consider cryptocurrencies and bitcoins in particular, more seriously. A point will come when there will be those who dwell in the new reality and those that are left out.
P.S. Disclaimer – the writer is not a lawyer, and the writing does not intend to provide any advice, “legal” in particular, whatsoever: please read, understand and implement my findings at your own risk - better do your own research, or ask a qualified lawyer when structuring anything with “B”.
I am sure you also know the latest news on subject: “The Securities and Exchange Commission has denied the application for the Winklevoss Bitcoin Trust ETF, in a stunning defeat for its founders, the Winklevoss Twins. In an order today, the commission found that the proposed fund was too susceptible to fraud, due to the unregulated nature of Bitcoin. The result is a major setback for the fund, and a frustrating false start for the crypto-currency at large.” by Russell Brandom. Sure to hear more and more of this from around the globe:)
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The American Northern border with Canada is 4,000 miles stretching from Washington State to Maine with 115 border crossing points that are manned (U.S. Border Patrol 2014). Likewise, the Southern border with Mexico is 2,000 miles stretching from Texas to California with 61 manned border crossing points (U.S. Border Patrol 2014). The Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has worked diligently to emplace a wall and vehicle barriers to prevent drug smugglers and illegal immigrants from crossing the southern border while improving the port crossing along the northern border. The borders had a combined flow of 25,755,204 pedestrian’s travelers and 111,595,575 vehicles both passenger ...view middle of the document...
The Predator is stationed out of Serra Vista, Arizona launching from Libby Army Airport in support of the Customs and Border Protection agency. There are several benefits to utilizing UAS’s personnel, equipment, and maintenance are all less than their competitor manned aircraft. As the technology for UAS advance, so does the efficiency of their employment when looking at the Border Patrols historical data for UAS usage to date. In 2010, the Predator flew 1,100 hours in support of border protection. While in 2011 Predator flew 4,400 hours aiding in the seizure of more than 7,600 pounds of narcotics and the apprehension of 467 individuals taking part in illicit activities (Protection 2014). The Predator saw even more use in 2012, traveling 5,736 hours contributed to the seizure of more than 3,900 pounds of cocaine and 62,000 pounds of marijuana (Protection 2014). The UAS missions also aided in the capture of 1,400 individuals for criminal acts. Also during 2013 the first sea born UAS was deployed to the San Isidro Air Base in the Dominican Republic in support of counter drug operations. This test phase solidified the capability and two Guardian UAS were subsequently purchased and are now stationed out of Corpus Christi in Texas (Protection 2014). Adding to the growing tally 2013 was another year of accomplishments flying 5,117 hours and assisting in the capture of more than 2,645 pounds of cocaine, 56,300 pounds of marijuana, 116 weapons, 2,525 apprehensions and 177 arrests (Protection 2014). These numbers are impressive, noting that the Department of Homeland Security only has nine unmanned aircraft in its fleet.
Benefits of UAS
A Predator B can stay aloft for more than 20 hours, in comparison to similar manned aircraft used by the Border Patrol. A helicopter average flight time is two hours before having to refuel, leaving the border unprotected. Eliminated by the UAS with its long endurance capability, coupled with the ability to do a relief on station. A relief on station is when one UAS is observing an area and is reaching its time limitation another UAS is dispatched to acquire the first UAS’s target area. Once, the second UAS is on station and observing the target area the first UAS returns to base for refuel and maintenance. This process when employed correctly provides uninterrupted surveillance. A concept that cannot be achieved by manned aircraft without incurring extreme cost, with fuel, maintenance and pilots.
Range is another benefit of UAS with the ability to control the UAS from satellite from around the world the range is only limited to the fuel on board. UAS can be deployed to areas where sending manned aircraft would place the pilots’ lives in danger. UAS also has multiple payload capabilities ranging from “Electro-Optical (EO) sensors cameras that can identify an object the size of a milk carton from an altitude of 60,000 feet” (Hardin 2003).
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The Consequences Of Illegal Immigration Essay
Illegal immigrants have caused lots of consequences for the U.S. economy. For examples like taking away jobs, not paying taxes, and committing crimes. These are a number of costs that U.S. citizens have to deal with constantly. As the lives of immigrants continuously improve in the United States, doesn’t connote that this situation is healthy for the citizens and our economy. Illegal immigration is a serious difficulty that is occurring in the United States. If this affair isn’t controlled soon, the state’s population is going to increase by 52%. That is forty-nine million illegal individuals, between the years 2000 and 2025 (Dickey 14). There are large amount of illegal aliens appearing in the nation. The U. S. government has allowed this issue to get out of hand which hurts our economy and the lives of authorized individuals; therefore there should be stricter manage on this dilemma. It’s time that the administration hears out what the public of this nation desire.
One of the major penalties the legal population has to compact with is the taking of jobs. "A 1997 study by the American Academy of Sciences found that the cheap labor of illegal immigrants and poor immigrants caused a 44% decrease in wages among the poorest Americans from 1980 to 1994" (Quote 5, Illegal Immigration Facts & Statistics). The way residents are treated about the occupation matter is much undeserved. The irritating fraction is that various main industries prefer to hire illegal workers over American citizens. This is so, because it is not a necessity for the company to pay the illegal workers as much. This method allows the business to profit, more money is left for them. An American business man who does the same exact labor as illegal aliens spoke out saying, “If I’m going to stay in business, I have to do what illegal do. They never pay taxes, on profits or on their employees’ pay. Right there, I’m at a 27% disadvantage. They’ll come in here with about six guys with paintbrushes who work for peanuts, do a fair job, and their gone. These competitors have driven every Americans out of gardening, and are doing it to house painting, roofing and car repairs. What am I supposed to do” (Qtd. in Dickey 13)? This man holds a strong point. Taking a good precise look at his condition, we can state that he is obligated to lower his status and earnings to the identical amount as illegal immigrants to even have an occupation. Another point is, back in the day the auto books business in South-Central was occupied with legal black workers. Those trades are currently in the hands of the illegal individuals, they used to pay $25 and the wages have been lowered down to $8 for illegal workers. What’s infuriating regarding this is that a black man won’t get hired even if he’s a professional at this profession. Is it me or does it seem like typical discrimination towards the black community? What are these companies trying to state, the Hispanics are the only minority that is...
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Cloud optimizer Spotinst raises $35 million in private funding
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Spotinst, an U.S.-Israeli startup that helps businesses to manage their computer infrastructure across different cloud providers, said it raised $35 million in a private funding round led by Highland Capital, bringing total funds raised to date to $52 million.
Existing investors Leaders Fund, Intel Capital, and Vertex Ventures also participated in the latest funding round, Spotinst said on Tuesday.
Spotinst, founded in 2015, said it helps companies achieve savings of 80 percent on average on regular cloud computing costs, by tapping into excess computing capacity in data centers operated by Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud.
It said it will use the new funds to increase its market share of the cloud optimization space with an artificial intelligence platform.
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ALP running scared of new NQ state
Katter’s Australian Party says a $70 billion rail proposal for south east Queensland is a slap in the face to North Queenslanders and supports the argument for North Queensland to break away and become self-governing.
The KAP says the State Labor Government is looking at pie in the sky proposals to save itself at the next state election, funded by the resurgence in coal prices and the likely start of the giant Adani coal mine.
KAP State Leader and Member for Traeger, Robbie Katter wants $250,000 allocated by the State Government to look at the economic, legal and cultural elements of a separate state in North Queensland.
Robbie Katter pushing hard fo a new state of North Queensland before the south east corner wipes out the north
“I bet this Government is spending a lot more on supporting the Jeff Horn/Anthony Mundine fight later this year in Brisbane, than the $250,000 requested to map out the costs and benefits of North Queenslanders being able to govern themselves,” he said.
“This Government has brought out the Adani credit card and is starting to spend the coal royalties, the great bulk of which come from North Queensland.
“We do not want to see progress stopped in south east Queensland but fair go – what about the North?”
“We don’t want $70 billion. We just want to see a better allocation of government investment in infrastructure, human and natural resources.
“The first step is $250,000 to map out a plan. Queensland Rail spent $500,000 on organic soap and toiletries in 2017, so we are not asking for much from this government to prove that the North can stand on its own two feet.”
Mr Katter said respected demographer Bernard Salt had said as far back as 2010 that North Queensland had a case for secession. He said that case was even stronger today.
Mr Katter said the combined gross regional product from the economies of Townsville and Cairns was around $25 billion – the same as Tasmania, run by its own State Government.
“Even without Adani, combined mining royalties in Queensland generated in the North is about $5 billion and that money should flow to the North. It isn’t,” he said.
“This Government is spending over $500,000 on trade missions overseas every year; millions on promoting boxing matches in Brisbane and at least $30 million to try and attract the Hollywood film industry here.
“The $250,000 we are seeking is a drop in the ocean.
“Why is the Premier so scared of this independent study proceeding? The answer is she knows that it will prove the case for North Queensland to make its own way.”
Mr Katter said previous work done by Queensland Treasury estimated the gross domestic product for someone living in the north west of the state was $186,502 per person compared to $63.631 in the south east, yet the flow of investment back into the regions doesn’t reflect this.
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To how many of our creditors have the borrowers of consecutive Australian Political Arena sold us ??
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Juries, Democracy and the European Union
Nigel Moore Posted On April 26, 2016
When it becomes serious, you have to lie. Jean-Claude Juncker President, European Commission
Whilst we recognise the role of juries in dispensing justice – namely establishing the truth and working together with the state, their role in facilitating democracy is less well known. Without juries and jury trials our understanding of democracy, especially the concept of the sovereignty of the people, would be very different. Perhaps our ‘democracy’ would have already come to resemble the European Union’s version – a figment of the ruling establishment’s imagination under which the sovereignty of the people something that, if it is recognised at all, can be ignored when inconvenient to their aims.
Alexis de Tocqueville wrote about the influence of jury service on the education of citizens in social responsibilities towards society in his book in Democracy in America. Yet jury service goes further because it is an acknowledgement that the state cannot operate alone. The citizenry are required to participate actively and the collective decision of the jury (about truth and therefore, guilt) is the correct one. The state in particular recognises the skills (listening, analysis and consensus evaluation), trustworthiness (honesty and integrity) and commitment (to justice and the rule of law) of the people.
The electorate is a somewhat larger jury, whose ability to determine the right political party (or parties) to form the government is largely accepted by everyone. Without this longstanding tradition of an active, participatory citizenry forming juries, whose collective judgement is ‘truth’ (hopefully based on factual evidence) and respect for the rule of law, there can be no functioning democracy as we understand it.
Historically there is also a close connection between a ‘jury’ and the limitation of state power. In Magna Carta (1215), in the forerunner of a rudimentary Parliament we find a council of 25 nobles established to keep the sovereign in check. There was also a real jury (of fellow men) to prevent abuse of absolute power through imprisonment of freemen. In time, as jury trials evolved, the need to review evidence and establish the facts became the foundation of determining guilt or innocence and therefore of dispensing justice.
The Roman law, which had considerably more influence on the Continent, was somewhat different from our common law in establishing guilt or otherwise. It amounted to listening to the rhetoric of the ‘for’ and ‘against’ orators (lawyers etc.) and accepting the better presented argument. The classical definition of rhetoric was ‘the art of pleading well’. Establishing ‘facts’ as such did not come into it. Our modern understanding of ‘facts’ became commonplace only after 1660 with the founding of the Royal Society. Previously ‘facts’ were deeds, derived from the Latin facio ‘I do’, and this older usage of the word still occurs in expressions such as ‘accessory after the fact’.
Currently, the electorate cannot operate as a jury in determining the most appropriate form of government and rule of this country in the EU Referendum (UK-based democracy or Brussels-based authoritarian corporatism) because it is being denied the necessary factual evidence. The state, in the form of the government apparatus has prejudiced its judgement by distorting the evidence, instead of working with the jury (the electorate) to further democracy,. Consequently we are left, as in Shakespeare’s, works to establish the truth for ourselves through tokens or signs and the rhetoric or claims being proposed by the advocate, as in the Roman law tradition.
In summary, our view of democracy, sovereignty of the people and the need for the electorate to be able to judge on the basis of facts is not necessarily shared in the ruling establishment of the EU because of their different historical evolution and precedence. Part of this difference comes from the world of Roman law and the reduced role of trial by jury which, where they exist, is much more limited. Electorates can in the EU’s strange world be legitimately misled by rhetoric (or deceived by lies) since the most eloquent are the final arbiters of truth. And as we regularly see, the will or sovereignty of the people can be ignored in a way that is naturally alien to us arising from our longstanding traditions.
Could we ever change this different EU vision to more closely align with ours? In effect, to achieve a paradigm shift of assumptions, objectives, knowledge and experience amongst the ruling elite? Mr Cameron’s brilliant Oxford-educated rhetorical skills (the triumph of style and superficiality over logic and substance) have failed so far. So he, his cronies, fellow travellers and the ruling elite have turned on us, spreading fear and despondency in order to get their way and in doing so are prejudicing the operation of democracy. The jury can no longer have any reasonable doubt – the facts so far don’t speak for remaining.
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May I add the following. The role of juries was considerably strengthened by the famous Penn case – well-known to barristers but regrettably far too little known to the general public. This case became a classic struggle between the power of the State in the form of the Judges and the will of the people to see justice.
From this single case was established the fact in England (and therefore in all the English speaking Dominions) that the verdict of the jury is paramount, no matter what the judge may direct as to the law.
This is called “jury nullification” or “legal democracy” and is the people’s antidote to oppression by the State.
After all every tyranny has LAWS. The English version of government is that the laws must have the consent of the governed.
This consent of the governed we naively suppose to be achieved by what we call “democracy” but more correctly called “elective dictatorship”(Lord Hailsham). Whilst in my preceding paragraphs we have been talking about LIBERTY and the way to protect it by the LEGAL process, the main article above speaks of POLITICAL PARTY (sic) democracy but, contrary to whatever Churchill may have said about it, it is a massive and dangerous confidence trick for the few good reasons as outlined below (as we have been experiencing since the 1970s and why the CIB exists). see my website http://www.camrecon.demon.co.uk.
As Godfrey Bloom points out in his brilliant little book “Dinosaur in a Libertarian Age” there is no enforceable contract between the voter and the party candidate. The PARTY candidate does not represent you, he/she represents the PARTY and the program of works outlined in their manifesto (many hundred pages long!!)
It so happens that each PARTY (sic) manifesto is a “package” and as things stand no matter why you vote for a party, say you love the NHS, you will get the whole package whether you like or even care about the remainder of its contents. If you participate in the electoral contest at all you will have to accept one “package” or another. Even if you do a Russell Brand and don’t vote you WILL get someone’s “package”, because “aren’t we lucky to have a vote”?? Indeed, when you vote it is assumed that you have consented to the whole “package”. This is the trap. IF YOU VOTE FOR A PARTY they have got you whether you vote or not.
Given that MODERN political parties seem to believe that every aspect of human activity is their remit – after all they have a Minister for this and a Minister for that – then it is about time we began to realise how dangerous it is to vote for ANY party. There is no OPT OUT. When we VOTE for a PARTY we consent to the transfer of our power as individuals to them – the collective. How often do you hear politicians say “when we come to power” as if there is absolutely nothing wrong with that. They also say “in this free AND democratic society of ours”………………………..
Well – take the period between 1970 and now – what better example do we have of how bloody dangerous this all is? Mr Heath was elected in 1970 on a traditional Tory “package” of law and order etc but as we know to our cost, included in the “package” was the EC bit. Not only did he lie, but the “democratic majority” which the voting public gave to him empowered him to beat the House of Commons into submission (with the help of Labour of course) and having got this “assent” he could then go to the Queen and say “Madam,
I have the will of parliament (whipped into obedience) and the people ( his parliamentary majority) please sign here (in contravention of her solemn Coronation Oath to us (English) to “govern according to our laws and customs”) and so began the destruction of the United Kingdom, thanks to what we call “democracy”. As I say in my website “there was no power LEGAL (Court) or REGAL (the monarch) which could stop him, such is this dangerous illusion we call “democracy”.
It is not to hard to see that for several decades what we blindly called “democracy” was slowly being transformed into a hidden dictatorship in preparation for the open dictatorship of the EU with all the legal attributes of a Soviet system of government which Torquil has so ably illustrated.
You see, you need a yardstick or something to measure the danger and if studying Magna Carta is too much of an effort how about this little definition. “FREEDOM is the ability to accept or reject ONE policy at a time.
Hold that definition up against the political party manifesto package and you immediately see how we have been conned into believing we are free just because every 5 years (sic) we are persuaded to hand over our right to govern ourselves , as INDIVIDUALS, TO THE COLLECTIVE MOB IN PARLIAMENT, who vote mostly the way they are told by their party. This, even though you pay their wages. Good set up?
If you are FREE you do not even need to know whether “they” are telling you the truth or not (as suggested in the article above) you simply choose your own course of action and fail to comply.
As a result our precious England has suffered a huge invasion of aliens none of whom care a fig about Magna Carta etc. and we have suffered a series of anti-discrimination laws to prevent us exercising our freedom to keep England the way WE want it. “This precious stone- set in a silver sea – with a moat against the ENVY OF LESS HAPPIER LANDS”
Now – the final question is -given our unique heritage why would natural born Englishmen do this to their own people, unless they were under severe duress. From whom? Shall we say, people in England with considerable power who are not English (though they may have changed their names to appear to be so) and I will let you work it out for yourself. The antidote is in my website.
Excellent article, and it is in agreement with what I have just read in Albert Venn Dicey, and Sir William Blackstone’s works. Absolute Sovereignty is in the hands, and is the right of the people. The Government of the day only has “Temporary Legal Power, or Sovereignty,” conferred upon them, which can be removed by the Sovereign People. Dicey also states that when the actions or laws passed by government are against the will and against the good of the people, they have cause and right to ignore those actions or laws.
The fact that since Heath’s lies about “The Common Market, in that he knew its eventual destination, and took The Charlemagne Award as his prize, we may consider ourselves members of The European union illegal. Since Major, at Maastricht, and Brown, at Lisbon, didn’t bother to seek our permission, then we may consider the transfer of our Sovereign Rights as a People to a Foreign Power not only illegal, but an Act of Treason. Add to that the confirmation of Dicey and Blackstone’s Jurist Views of British Constitution and Laws given in Lord Kilmuir’s Letter to Heath, then we are entitled to think that The Constitution remains valid, though it is a Fluid Constitution, and we are indeed illegally members of this Anti Democratic Organisation.
Following on then from Nigel’s article, not only is the Jury still out, it hasn’t heard the Truth, The Whole Truth and Nothing but The Truth, and hasn’t even been asked to consider its verdict. Until now that is. Martin says that if you are FREE you simply make up your own mind and fail to comply. If they try to do to us what they did to Ireland, France and Holland, that may indeed become necessary.
I have just started on Walter Bagehot’s “The English Constitution,” which goes into Parliament in quite a bit of detail, and is cited by Dicey, Thankfully it is proving a much more lighthearted read.
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Florida International U Launching Immersive Studio
A Florida university will be launching an immersive lab for its students, to help them learn how to work with augmented and virtual reality. Florida International University's College of Communication, Architecture + The Arts (CARTA) will open the new Immersive Studios for Altered Reality (iSTART) at its Biscayne Bay campus, in time for the fall semester.
Initial plans for the facility include an immersive theater and lecture room, an "experiential room," an extended-reality (XR) lab and an "engagement zone." The program will give students opportunities for internships and mentoring in companies that are developing augmented reality and virtual reality products.
The space is being designed, constructed and operated by iSTAR Enterprises and funded through what the university called a "a significant gift" from Lee Caplin, who serves on the Dean's Advisory Board for CARTA. Caplin co-founded Penske Media, which produces Variety magazine and Rolling Stone magazine.
iSTAR Enterprises itself is a joint endeavor being run by Caplin as well as Brian Schriner, dean of CARTA, and Travis Cloyd, an adjunct professor and mixed-reality producer.
"The future is now and XR is impacting every area of our lives from esports to hospitality to architecture and further," said Schriner in a statement. "iSTAR is an essential part of keeping our students ahead of the XR curve by providing the tools to lead in their industry with the innovation and global-facing focus we are known for as a university."
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David A. Plymyer: Political, Social & Random Commentary
The Baltimore County oligarchy takes aim at Jim Brochin.
Posted on June 16, 2018 October 25, 2018 by David A. Plymyer
There is an oligarchy comprised of rich, powerful men who exercise an inordinate amount of control over the Baltimore County government and who are the principal beneficiaries of the pay-to-play culture in Baltimore County. They are determined to install Councilwoman Vicki Almond as the next County Executive to preserve their power and influence. And they are increasingly fearful that they will not succeed.
That oligarchy, orchestrated by former county executive Jim Smith, is now taking dead aim at State Senator Jim Brochin who, according to a Baltimore Sun/University of Baltimore poll, is the decided frontrunner in the Democratic primary race for Baltimore County Executive. Mr. Brochin also happens to be a declared enemy of the pay-to-play culture in Towson.
In a post yesterday, I stated that a campaign of dirty tricks against Mr. Brochin was inevitable. Less than a day later I received in the mail a large, glossy mailer sent out by the “Baltimore County Victory Slate” (BCVS), a “slate fund” controlled by Mr. Smith. The mailer featured a demeaning photograph purporting to be Mr. Brochin with two fingers crossed behind his back.
The mailer urged me to vote for the “Southwest Team” of Ms. Almond and Councilman Tom Quirk, who represents my district. It attacked Mr. Brochin for not being a “Real Democrat” and for his alleged opposition to gun control.
Never mind that gun control is an issue decided on the state and federal levels, not the local level. Or that any favor Mr. Brochin enjoyed with the NRA ended when he co-sponsored a 2009 bill that allows judges to require subjects of temporary protective orders to give up their guns and voted in favor of Maryland’s ban on assault weapons in 2013.
The mailer did not go after Johnny Olszewski, Jr., the other Democratic contender in the primary, even though he voted against both the 2009 and 2013 gun control bills when he was a state delegate. Why wasn’t he mentioned in the ad? Because he is lagging well behind Mr. Brochin and Ms. Almond in the polls, and it is Mr. Brochin who is the main obstacle to the oligarchy’s goal of getting Ms. Almond elected. A mailer like the one in question is more effective when a single candidate is targeted.
Slate funds have always been controversial in Maryland, not only for an initial absence of limits on contributions to individual candidates but also because of their lack of transparency. The BCVS, however, has had an especially controversial history.
The BCVS was established in 2006 by Mr. Smith when he was the Baltimore County Executive. He set up the slate fund, contributed $400,000 to it from his own campaign account, and promptly transferred $315,000 from the slate fund to the campaign of Scott Shellenberger, then running for his first term as Baltimore County State’s Attorney. Mr. Smith ultimately contributed $585,000 to the slate fund from his own campaign account and moved $465,000 to the campaign account of Mr. Shellenberger in 2006.
It was a whopping amount of money for one candidate to give to another, especially when the candidate giving the money was the sitting County Executive and the receiving candidate was the would-be State’s Attorney for the county. It raised eyebrows around the state and drew immediate criticism.
Common Cause of Maryland noted its opposition to slate funds in general. Mr. Shellenberger’s opponent in 2006, Steve Bailey, was more specific:
“I never expected and was quite frankly shocked the county executive [Jim Smith] would form what appears to be a sham slate,” Mr. Bailey said. “Even if it technically complies with the letter of the law, it clearly violates the spirit of the law.”
Mr. Bailey filed complaints with both the State Board of Elections and the State Prosecutor. He was right; Mr. Smith may have violated the spirit of the law, but he did not violate its letter and was cleared of any wrongdoing.
A few words to explain the unease about the amount of money steered by Mr. Smith to Mr. Shellenberger in 2006: The allegations of a pay-to-play culture and too-cozy relationships between developers and County officials did not begin when the late Kevin Kamenetz took office as Mr. Smith’s successor in 2010, and the good old boys’ network was in full swing during Mr. Smith’s tenure as County Executive. Baltimore County had a robust history of corruption in prior decades.
Although Mr. Smith, a former Circuit Court judge, had an untarnished reputation, a few of his predecessors as County Executive such as Spiro Agnew and Dale Anderson did not. The idea of a Baltimore County State’s Attorney beholden to a Baltimore County Executive to the tune of almost one-half million dollars in campaign funds just did not sit well. For example, the State’s Attorney for a county is one of the few public officials who has the power under state law to refer a matter involving a county executive to the State Prosecutor for investigation.
To my knowledge, Mr. Shellenberger has never referred a matter involving alleged corruption within Baltimore County government to the State Prosecutor. Given some of the events that I have studied in Baltimore County, I find that difficult to understand.
In 2010, the BCVS ran into controversy for a second time. Even though Mr. Smith wasn’t running for any office at the time, he transferred money in his campaign account to candidates for County Council through the BCVS.
In 2015, the General Assembly amended the law governing slate funds to limit membership in a slate fund to persons running for office. It was referred to as the “Jim Smith rule.” Also, donations to individual members of the slate fund were capped at $24,000 which, incidentally, was $441,000 less than the amount given to Mr. Shellenberger by Mr. Smith via the BCVS.
The third time that the BCVS ran into trouble was in 2017, when it was accused by the State Prosecutor of making a $100,000 loan to Catherine Pugh in April 2016, a loan that some believed helped get Ms. Pugh over the finish line in her primary fight with former mayor Sheila Dixon. Although Ms. Pugh was running for mayor at the time of the loan she was not an official member of the slate as required by law.
By the time the civil charges were filed in January 2017, Ms. Pugh had been elected mayor and had appointed Mr. Smith to a $175,000 position in her administration as Chief of Strategic Alliances. I have been unable to find a specific job description for his position.
When the civil charges were filed against the BCVS in 2017, Donald Norris, director of the School of Public Policy at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, told the Sun that Mr. Smith had a reputation for being an “extremely honorable and a decent guy.” I take Mr. Norris’s word for that.
In fact, I have no doubt that the principals of Caves Valley Partners and all the other rich and powerful guys who lavish money on the campaign accounts of Baltimore County elected officials are also honorable and decent guys. But that’s not the point. The point is that a handful of rich and powerful men pursuing their own interests should not be wielding such extraordinary influence over the affairs of County government.
I also believe that honorable is as honorable does. The mailer that I received today attacking Jim Brochin suggests that honor has given way to desperation. In my opinion, it was misleading and shameful at best, scurrilous at worst. Mr. Smith needs to come out of hiding and tell us who designed and approved the mailer. It was what one would expect from political bottom-feeders, not from rich and powerful men. Unless the two are one and the same.
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Home HEALTH South Africa Healer Claims He is ‘tired’ of Consuming Humans is Jailed for Life
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South Africa Healer Claims He is ‘tired’ of Consuming Humans is Jailed for Life
December 17, 2018 Don Grey
Police officers have a lot to deal with, and most have heard a lot of strange confessions, although there might still be cases that even freak the officers out. South Africa is known for its violence and high crime rate, and it comes as no surprise that this strange case made the headlines around the world. An African man basically walked into the police station and told the officers that he was now “tired” of consuming human flesh, which lead to his arrest and he was sentenced to life in prison after killing a South African woman for her body parts.
Traditional Dealer Gets Sentenced to Life in Prison
Traditional healer Nino Mbatha was charged for the murder of Zanele Hlatschwayo, both Mbatha and a second man by the name of Lungisani Magubane was found guilty by the high court in Pietermaritzburg for the murder. The judge, Peter Olsen, described the case as the most heinous of all crimes.
The whole case started when Mbatha the traditional leader simply walked into the Estcourt police station, Estcourt is a small town in KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa, to announced that he urgently needed the assistance of the police. Once he had the attention of the officers, he simply told them that he had enough and was tired of consuming body parts.
Police First Thought Mbatha was Unstable
The two police officers who assisted Mbatha and listened to the story the healer had to tell, at first did not believe him as he appeared unstable. It was once Mbatha realised that the officers are not taking him seriously that he produced a human leg and hand from the bag he was carrying with him. A team of investigators was immediately sent to the house of the 33-year old healer where more body part was found.
Describes Mbatha’s Home as A Disgusting Mess
The judge describes the photograph of Mbatha’s home as a disgusting mess and the case have caused a major uproar in the community of Estcourt, residents are angry and gathered outside the courtroom every day of the hearing in protest of the hideous crime. Mbatha was in possession of the body parts of Hlatshwayo, which the judge rules duplicated the charge of murder. The healer was not charged with dealing in human body parts as he offered some of the body parts for sale, due to a lack of sufficient evidence.
The Estcourt community asked that the healer should be released so that they could kill him after he was sentenced to life in prison. The community continues to be furious about the sentence ruled by the judge in this case of cannibalism.
The Pietermaritzburg area is known for traditional healers, and some sell body parts from a starting price of R4,000, which brought to light another case in which the high court sentenced two men for the brutal murder on a 17-year-old boy.
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Character Study: Sir Richard Carlisle
April 7, 2015 September 18, 2015 ~ ADMIN ~ 3 Comments
It’s not particularly hard to see why season two of Downton Abbey is often considered the best. The World War One plotline was perfectly executed and gave the show a feeling of being more than just a soap opera about rich people’s problems (not that there’s anything wrong with that). It wouldn’t be fair to solely credit the plotline for this delightfulness as the new characters played an important role in the success of the season.
At first glance, it’s easy to write off Sir Richard Carlisle as purely villainous. He certainly ended his season long arc as the bad guy. When you look at the newspaper mogul’s tenure as a whole, you see that there was more to him than just his perpetual rudeness.
Iain Glen was tasked with a difficult job in portraying Sir Richard. Julian Fellowes never tried very hard to convince the viewers that Sir Richard actually stood a shot at taking Mary away from Downton. His proposal to Lady Mary ranks among the least romantic courtships in the history of television and most of the characters expressed doubt that Mary would actually go through with marrying him.
Sir Richard was a necessary evil. It was important to prolong the inevitable marriage of Mary and Matthew. This is how television works. With that in mind, it could’ve been easy to not care about Sir Richard as it was always clear that he wasn’t going to be around for very long.
It seems kind of surprising that Sir Richard proposed in episode two, his first appearance, and managed to hang around for the whole season in a completely loveless engagement (though Sir Richard was absent for episodes three and four). Early on, he proved his use by tracking down Vera Bates and saving Mary from public embarrassment had the first Mrs. Bates revealed her transgressions with the Turkish gentleman.
The difficulty with Sir Richard was that he needed to not be sympathetic to prevent the audience side from siding with him over Mary or from too closely resembling Lavinia Swire, who was conveniently killed, off allowing Matthew to save face with the viewers. Mary herself isn’t particularly likable. Sir Richard needed to be more despicable than her, but not excessively tedious to the point that he wouldn’t be able to hang around for the duration of the season. This balance was no easy task.
When you think about it, Sir Richard’s crimes weren’t really all that bad. He had some shady business with the Swire’s early on and his attempt at spying on Lady Mary was foolish, but neither act should really condemn him as a character. It was pretty clear that Mary did not love him and we weren’t really given an alternative motive for his failed efforts to recruit Anna for some espionage other than a genuine desire to please his fiancé.
It was perfectly reasonable of Sir Richard to be concerned about Mary’s proximity to Matthew. She once loved Matthew but she never loved Sir Richard. If you were in Sir Richard’s shoes, wouldn’t you be a tad concerned about your fiancé hanging around her ex?
Carlisle’s big crimes were that he was rude and that nobody liked him. Other than that, he was perfectly respectable and a great fit for Lady Mary. Sir Richard’s status as a self-made man likely made him respectable to many viewers, which is a testament to Fellowes’ writing. It would have been easy to create a villainous character for Mary to fool around with for a season before finally giving in to her love of Matthew, but the more challenging route paid off.
Instead, Sir Richard was given depth. Iain Glen has a knack for playing sketchy knights (he also plays Ser Jorah on Game of Thrones, another man who lusts after a girl he can’t have) and with Sir Richard, he portrayed a character who had a clear and finite purpose, but was surprisingly entertaining to watch.
I suspect that Fellowes had Sir Richard in mind when he created the character of Miss Sarah Bunting. Like Sir Richard, Miss Bunting was an odious character who clearly wasn’t going to be around for very long, but that didn’t mean that she wasn’t given depth and a couple redeeming qualities. Perhaps they would’ve been perfect for each other.
Sir Richard came and played his part on a show he was never going to be part of for very long. To some, he might be a character that you love to hate or just plain hate without any love at all (like his relationship with Mary). As for me, I liked him. He was perfect for Mary, but that’s not what was best for the show.
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Jim Johnson Died Five Years Ago Today and I Cried a Lot
Truth be told, I cannot explain exactly why I’m writing this post.
Even after it was finished and ready to go, I had a couple second thoughts before hitting publish. I didn’t want it to seem like I was using the anniversary of someone’s death as a way to generate clicks on a blog.
I don’t have any type of cool anecdote about Jim Johnson. There is a hat of mine autographed by some players and coaches during a few trips to Lehigh for training camp back in the day.
The Eagles former defensive coordinator unfortunately isn’t one of the signatures. Never once met the man.
I think, however, I’m doing this because despite never crossing paths with the guy, I loved Jim Johnson and never properly said goodbye.
Everyone knew Johnson’s battle with cancer had taken a turn for the worse, but it felt like the end came so quickly.
On the day Johnson passed away, I had been off the grid for about 12 hours from early in the morning until around 8 p.m. I was working as a camp counselor the summer before heading off to college, and it coincidentally happened to be the one day of the entire camp season that I had to work late, unable to check my phone or access the Internet.
Anyone who knows me now would wonder how I was able to do that, but it was the case back then. As I was walking to my car, a lifeguard stopped me and delivered the news. I can’t recall exactly what I said in response, but I got in the car and immediately turned on sports radio hoping it somehow wasn’t true.
But sadly it was. The defending World Series champion Phillies were 24 hours away from pulling off a blockbuster trade with rumors about Roy Halladay running rampant, and sure enough, WIP was discussing Johnson’s life and Eagles tenure, hosts and callers as distraught as I was about to become.
Before I could pull out of the parking lot, tears had already begun dripping down my face. They got heavier as the drive continued. At one point, I had to slam on my breaks to avoid running through a red light that I barely noticed.
Loved by players and fans, respected universally by colleagues, and deeply feared by opponents — Legend. For 10 years, he would appear on your television screen on Sundays, and you knew everything would be relatively okay. No longer seeing that gray hair tucked under an Eagles hat and headset on the sidelines wasn’t going to be the same.
I was supposed to see my then-girlfriend upon getting home from work but still trying to compose myself, I told her that I needed a little while. ‘Jim Johnson died,’ I texted (or something very similar along those lines)
I don’t think she knew who Jim Johnson was, but rather than completely blowing it off, she kinda pretended to care, so that was cool.
Still home and wiping my eyes after delivering the news to my dad, I logged onto Facebook and posted a pretty generic RIP status. One of my best friends who I always texted during Eagles games sent me a message that said something along the lines of ‘For someone who loved him so much, I’m kinda disappointed you didn’t come up with anything deeper.’
I tried again, but still shaken, this was the best I could do, unable to really put into words what it meant to me.
I was sad and mad — Sad that cancer had stopped the 68-year old from doing what he loved and what he was best at too soon, sad that in what turned out to be his final game six months earlier, his ‘bend but don’t break defense’ had broken late in the fourth quarter. With the Eagles clinging to a 25-24 lead and 10 minutes to go, Arizona marched 72 yards while eating up 7:52 of game time.
The drive ended in a touchdown. The Cardinals went to the Super Bowl. Johnson never got to coach another game, and the Eagles haven’t won a playoff game since.
Most of all, I was sad that for all his hard work and all of the terrific defenses he oversaw, Johnson never got to hoist a Lombardi trophy.
Even in a lot of the Eagles playoff losses during Johnson’s reign, a collapse like that was so rare. A week earlier, his unit held the defending Super Bowl champion Giants to three field goals in an upset victory.
In a span of three years, he twice stifled Michael Vick during the prime of his Atlanta Falcons career, limiting him to a 53.2 completion percentage and a combined 406 passing yards, 56 rushing yards, yards, zero touchdowns, and three interceptions over two playoff games.
I don’t watch the Steelers on a week-to-week basis to fully appreciate Dick LeBeau, but I’ve never seen a defensive coordinator call a game and confuse opponents the way Johnson consistently did.
Going back to that Facebook status though, perhaps it wasn’t so bad. I’ve always said that coordinators need players to make their schemes truly go, but as guys came and went through the years, Johnson never lost a step.
According to an ESPN article published a week after his passing, Johnson’s defenses between 2000 and 2008 ranked second in sacks, third down efficiency, and red zone percentage.
Here’s a chart that further shows how good he was and the significant drop-off after he was gone.
Year Points Allowed Average Per Game League Rank Made Playoffs Playoff Victory
1999 357 22.3 22nd No No
2000 245 15.3 4th Yes Yes
2001 208 13 2nd Yes Yes
2002 241 15.1 2nd Yes Yes
2005 388 24.3 27th No No
2006 328 20.5 15th Yes Yes
2007 300 18.8 9th No No
2009 337 21.1 19th Yes No
2010 377 23.6 21st Yes No
Sean McDermott initially had the challenge of being the guy to replace “the guy,” and he was decent but deemed not good enough at the time. So thinking he was closer to a Super Bowl than he actually was, Andy Reid fired him after two years.
Then, Andy Reid Andy Reid’d harder than he had ever Andy Reid’d before, replacing McDermott with Juan Castillo. A passionate worker and teacher but never having coached defense in the NFL before, it was an unmitigated disaster,
The missed tackles, the blown coverage assignments, the lack of effort, all of it would have had Johnson rolling in his grave had he saw what had become of his once proud defense.
Despite the still somewhat ugly numbers in that chart, things stabilized in 2013 when Chip Kelly brought in Billy Davis to run the show.
Davis took a group of scheme misfits and castoffs from other places and made a defense out of it. For the first time in a long time, things are looking kinda up on that side of the ball.
When someone like Johnson no longer has his job, the typical attitude is that the team looking to fill his role has to find an exact replica, “The Next Jim Johnson” if you will. But that’s impossible. The reason he was so good is the exact same reason he is so irreplaceable.
Since Johnson has been gone, the game has changed a decent amount. Offenses are faster and more innovative with spread formations and wide open schemes. Still, it’s unlikely the final couple years of the Reid era would have gotten as ugly as they did had Johnson still been by his side.
The Eagles current head coach is one of the leaders of that innovation charge, but for as much as I love him, for as much as any intelligent Eagles fan loves him, part of the city has always identified with a dominant defense, and that’s a big reason Johnson was so beloved.
I mentioned earlier that I don’t have any special anecdote, but I thought this one from Reuben Frank of CSN Philly was pretty good. A few days before the 2005 Super Bowl, Frank casually asks Johnson if he’s enjoying Jacksonville and he responds bluntly with “I’ve got Tom Brady on Sunday.”
The man just ate, slept, and breathed football.
He died at the same time my situation was beginning to change and looking back, I think that’s maybe what contributed to the initial sadness. I was a month away from going to college and preparing to leave a good amount of my life behind.
It sucks because you know things will never be exactly the same, but you try to solider on because what else are you going to do?
The Eagles in time have begun picking up the pieces and appear primed to make another Super Bowl run behind rising star Nick Foles over the next few seasons.
Crying over Johnson five years later won’t bring him back or make the defense as dominant as it once was, but it will help preserve memories of a great run under a brilliant coordinator. Certain people are worth occasionally crying over. Certain people worth crying over who you’ve never met? Now that’s a bit more complex, but he was one of those folks for me.
I’ll watch the Eagles practice at Lincoln Financial Field today and at some point look skyward and tear up for a split second thinking about the legend who provided so many childhood memories.
I attempted to express some of this five years ago tonight and came up pretty empty, so now, I’m trying again.
I miss you so much, Jim Johnson, and I hope you’re having fun designing blitz packages in heaven right now.
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Valentine’s Day Special: The Padres’ Love Doctor Is In
1 year ago Nick Lee
Mandatory Credit: Jake Roth-USA TODAY Sports
Credit: USA Today
With it being Valentine’s Day, it’s time to address some relationship issues with some of our favorite San Diego Padres players.
I am not talking about their life off the field. I am talking about statistics that some players need to break up with in 2018. Others need to embrace these stats and have a happy life together. If the Padres want to improve on their 71 wins from 2017, some changes need to be made. Here is some love doctor “relationship guru” advice for the team on this day of love.
Let’s first take a look at some break-ups that need to happen:
Strikeout Rate
The teams’ strikeout rate has been naughty and has gone around the Padres’ clubhouse. It has the strongest hold on Wil Myers, Hunter Renfroe, and Opening Day roster hopeful Franchy Cordero. It’s time for these Padres to say “no more” and break it off clean. Myers’ strikeout rate was a career-worst 27.7% last season. Renfroe and Cordero were at 29.2% and 44.4%, respectively (take Cordero’s with a grain of salt as he played in just 30 games, although still very concerning).
The strikeout rate has got to go. During spring training, this trio needs to focus on making contact and growing their knowledge of the strike zone. Nothing good happens when you strike out. Just put the ball in play and see what happens. It’s time to get into a healthier relationship with the walk rate. Myers actually flirted with that rate to the tune of 10.8%, a respectable number. Renfroe was nearly half that at 5.6%, and Cordero at 6.1%.
It’s time for these players to put themselves in a relationship that can help them succeed, not one that drags them down. Getting on base and putting the ball in play is one of the most vital parts of any successful offense.
Dinelson Lamet and Walk Rate
For the most part, Dinelson Lamet’s rookie season was a honeymoon for the Padres. He had the most strikeouts per nine innings (10.9) of any rookie starting pitcher last season. He truly has the stuff to be towards the top of this rotation, if not the de facto ace.
If he can break up with his 4.3 walks per nine innings rate, he could be one of the best young pitchers in baseball. Walks will happen, but even if he can approach Clayton Richard’s 2.7 BB/9 rate, his other numbers would improve drastically. It’s a much healthier relationship.
Phil Maton and Home Run Rate
When we say “chicks dig the long ball,” giving up 2.1 home runs per nine innings is not what we mean. Maton, overall, had a solid first season. He appeared in 46 games with a 4.19 ERA and 9.6 strikeouts per nine innings. The long ball is what hurt him. Twice, he allowed two home runs in one appearance, both just one inning long. He allowed 10 home runs in total.
In this age of baseball, chicks might also dig keeping the ball on the ground and pitching to weak contact. If Maton wants to be a staple in the bullpens of the future, he will have to break up with his home run rate.
Now let’s take a look at some pairs that should see each other more often or even get back together:
Austin Hedges and On-Base Percentage
Getting on base is a vital part of any offense that wants to put up a ton of runs. Hedges certainly holds his own defensively as the advanced metrics have him as one of the best in the game behind the dish. Catchers don’t have as much pressure to find those beautiful, slender .300 averages and 30 home runs. Hedges needs to use his charm and pick himself up an on-base percentage that vastly improves his .262 clip in 2017. James McCann is a perfectly average hitting catcher for the Tigers. His on-base percentage was .318 last season. Even Erick Aybar managed to have a .300 OBP last season.
Hedges and a .300 OBP would be perfect together. He doesn’t have to carry this offense, but he also can’t be a liability. I am counting on him to learn from the mistakes of previous relationships and thrive in this one.
Freddy Galvis and His 2016 Glove
Galvis normally has a good relationship with his glove. An infielder must be one with his glove in order to be consistent at the big league level. Galvis has a track record of being solid at shortstop, which is one of the reasons A.J. Preller traded for him. He lost his way a bit last year. It’s unclear whether or not he and his glove had a fight, but he posted a -5 Defensive Runs Saved at short, the second-worst of his career.
He and his glove need to get some counseling and rekindle that fire of the 2016 season when they enjoyed a +5 Defensive Runs Saved, a whole 10-run difference from last year. The Padres are hoping he can improve on Erick Aybar’s -4 mark last year at that spot. Galvis and his glove seem good together, they just need a bit of help.
Manuel Margot and 20 Stolen Bases
Margot is turning into perhaps the best overall athlete on the Padres’ roster. He has a bit of pop (13 home runs), a possible Gold Glove in center field (+8 DRS), and speed (17 stolen bases). It’s time to reach a new level in the relationship. It’s time for Margot to reach that 20 stolen base plateau. Margot has 20/20 tools (20 home runs and 20 steals in one year). Let’s take this slow and set a goal for 20 steals first.
Stolen bases, to some, might be getting obsolete, but a lot more players stole 20+ bases in 2017 than in 2008. They are still valuable. It can change the whole complexion of an inning, especially with fewer than two outs. If Margot makes a conscious effort to meet and court 20 stolen bases, the Padres will find themselves with more opportunities to score runs in 2018.
Clayton Richard and 30 Starts
Richard and 30 starts have seen each other before. Richard needs to knock on the door with roses and offer up his heart once again in 2018. Richard is the clear leader in the clubhouse of this pitching staff, and perhaps the whole team. Reaching at least 30 starts would be a great way to show these young pups in the rotation what it means to show up every fifth day and compete, even when you don’t have your best stuff.
Richard made 32 starts in 2017 and even had two complete games, which amazingly tied for the best in the National League. He also reached 30 starts in 2010 and 2012, both with the Padres. He needs to set the standard and have the model relationship the other pitchers should strive for.
Native of Escondido, CA. Lived in San Diego area for 20 years. Padres fan since childhood (mid-90s). I have been writing since 2014. I currently live near Seattle, WA and am married to a Seattle sports girl. I wore #19 on my high school baseball team for Tony Gwynn. I am a stats and sports history nerd. I attended BYU on the Idaho campus. I also love Star Wars.
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SD Don says:
A couple of of more thoughts on players you mentioned, Renfroe needs to improve his fielding to a ML average level and Margot should shoot higher like 30 SB’s and continue his fielding to a Gold Glove level. I think both of those are attainable this year.
Nick Lee says:
Margot and 30 stolen bases certainly deserve each other! I agree, Renfroe has some work to do with the glove. But if I had to pick one, I would love to see him make more contact and strike out less. Right fielders don’t need to be gold glovers. But of course, it would be nice to see improvement there too.
I just want him to be league average RF with a great arm. Renfroe has a Defensive rating on Fangraphs of -4.7, that is 4th worst in ML baseball. I am not looking for Betts or Hayward level of defense (10+) but just average 0.0.
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Facebook’s using AI to prevent suicides
According to the World Health Organisation (WHO), a suicide occurs every 40 seconds globally. Social, psychological, cultural and other factors can interact to lead a person to suicidal behavior. Facebook believes that they are uniquely positioned to help combat suicides amongst adolescents and its users.
They’re using AI and smart algorithms to detect suicidal tendencies and patterns. The AI software scans users’ messages and posts for signs of suicide, such as asking someone if they are troubled. Facebook already has tools in place for people to report concerns about friend's who may be considering self-harm, but the new AI software can speed the process and even detect signs people may overlook.
Posts that are flagged as worrisome are communicated to first-responders. It’s also dedicating more human moderators to suicide prevention, training them to deal with the cases 24/7. They have partnered with organisations like Save.org, National Suicide Prevention Lifeline and Forefront from to provide resources to at-risk users and their networks.
Ubiquitous technologies often come with unrealised responsibilities. Facebook’s demonstrating they're willing to take on these responsibilities and use their platform for greater social and health benefits.
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eHealth for mental health needs more intelligence
Cinderella never thought that her success would attach her name to parts of healthcare. Countries’ mental health service is one of them, and its eHealth investment is being held back too. A study in the Journal of Medical Internet Research (JMIR) sets out to explain why. It investigated individual characteristics that influence both preferences and intentions to use eHealth for mental health in Australia. It identifies factors that might inhibit or enable eHealth.
It found low reported preferences for eHealth for mental health services. Despite this, intentions to access these services are higher. This raises the challenge of how to translate these intentions into activities that use eHealth services. It found that strategies designed to enhance confidence and familiarity and ease people into new Internet-based mental health service programs may be important for increasing the chances of sustainable use. But, will users return to eHealth later?
It’s a worthy goal, but the study found that most respondents, almost 86%, prefer face-to-face services. The scope to engage eHealth users was found to be up to 40%. It’s a significant user base that needs supporting.
Acfee identifies several factors that needed in eHealth to secure benefits. They include:
Stakeholder engagementMeeting users’ information requirementsEasy to useHigh level of utilisation.
Putting these in place for the 40% will increase the chances of sustainable use and benefits realisation. For Africa, with its limited healthcare resource base, supporting up 40% mental health patients with eHealth access offers a valuable way to expand mental health services at minimal cost. It’s an opportunity. It’s not easy to achieve.
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iExhale mental health app raises US$1.86m
Based in Los Angeles, iExhale, is an online mental health company. It’s, raised US$1.86 m in funds led by Dorilton Capital. iExhale developed an iOS app for people to exchange messages with licensed therapists. The company plans to use the funds to scale its initaitive and take the platform nationally. People can use the app to share personal information anonymously or offer support to others in iExhale’s social network.
An article in the MobiHealthNews says iExhale’s currently available in California, offering its services to people aged 14 and above. The app aims to improve access to affordable, convenient mental health services. It’s similar to other mobile mental health services like Talkspace.
The comapany has two key foundational factors to their mission. One is a considerable lack of practicing psychiatrists, psychologists and social workers throughout the country. The other’s an increasing willingness of patients to embrace telemedicine. It also belives that many people with no prior exposure to therapy may feel more comfortable when starting their treatment with a virtual visit rather than in person.
iExhale’s benefit is that it’s a safe, non-judgemental environment where users feel supported and understood while life-affirming change is being encouraged. It provides profiles of all online therapists, which allows searches based on experience, area of expertise and special certifications too.
When people download the app, there’s a 48 hour window, known as Meet A Therapist,. Here, they can browse and meet therapists before booking sessions. This service’s also available to minors without parental consent because their questions are general, with large packages of therapy involved. When an underage client books a session, they must provide proof of legal consent, so parents or legal guardians are involved.
After the 48-hour trial period, sessions cost US $64.99 for 45 minutes, nearly US$1.45 a minute. No subscription’s needed. If users don’t want to book sessions, they can log in to browse iExhale’s anonymous social support network, either selecting the “How Are You Feeling?” feature to express how they feel through writing, pre-loaded pictures or specific emotions. They can also offer support to others in a safe environment. Since there is no free-form commenting or direct user-to-user messaging, and the images and emoticons are pre-loaded, the company believes there is a less of a chance of bullying or teasing.
This app is currently only availbale on iOS, although an Android version is in development. Depression is the leading cause of disability throughout the world and is especially prevalent among low-income African countries, where 75% of the people who suffer from mental illness do not have easy access to the mental health care they need. On average, developing countries only allocate 0.5% of their health expenditures to mental health, compared to more than 5% for high-income countries, says an article in Rand Corporation.
WHO has said armed conflicts, genocide, violence, famine and displacement in Africa cause significant challenges to mental health. Rates of mental disorders often double after emergencies. While the iExhale app does offer greater access to people in these regions, the cost, the reliance on Internet connection and accessibility to smart phones are all obstacles.
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Bolivia has mHealth for mental health
With its 2015 Gross Domestic Product (GDP) ranked by the World Bank as 95 out of 195, Bolivia’s not a rich country. It’s a bit richer that Cote d’Ivoire and Cameroon, and a bit poorer than the Democratic Republic of Conge (DRC) and Ghana. This relatively low income state hasn’t prevented it from assigning a priority to mHealth in mental health.
A study in ISRCTN starts from the proposition that depression is one of the most common mental disorders worldwide. It’s very common in low- and middle-income countries, but often untreated due to a shortage of mental healthcare resources, including trained professionals. Hence, mHealth’s part of the solution. The study tested the feasibility of a service using automated cell-phone calls to monitor patients’ depressive symptoms and give brief self-care advice. Patients were depressed adults receiving care from a clinic affiliated with Universidad Catolica Boliviana and El Servicio Departmental de Salud (SEDES) in La Paz and El Alto, Bolivia. Three types of patients were excluded from the study, patients with:
Life-threatening health problems, such as cancer, with less than a six-month life expectancySignificant memory problemsSevere mental illness, such as bipolar disorder or schizophrenia.
The USA’s University of Michigan School of Public Health financed the study.
All 50 participants received up to 14 weeks of automated, interactive, structured weekly telephone calls that assess current depressive symptoms and provided brief educational messages about how to manage their condition. Each call lasts about 10-15 minutes. At the end of the 14 week study, the amount of calls participants took is noted and participant satisfaction is measured through a telephone interview.
Results from the multi-centred non-randomised interventional trial were that participants benefit from recorded advice about depression management during calls and feedback about any changes in their depressive symptoms. Patients’ touch-tone responses provide feedback about changes in their depression severity in response to their brief pre-recorded, tailored advice for self-management. Alerts based on changes in symptoms are monitored by research staff and sent to patients’ primary care teams. Follow-up surveys are administered following program completion, either in-person or over the telephone. There’s a small risk that talking about mental health and other personal topics may distress some participants.
Outcome measures are:
Call completion rate, measured using system-tracked numbers of completed weekly calls out of the total number of active call-weeksParticipant satisfaction with the programme measured at 14 weeks using open-ended questions, such as what did you like best about your experience, and close-ended questions such as Likert-scale ratings of overall satisfaction with the programme and the likelihood of recommending it to a friendDepressive symptoms are measured using the Personal Health Questionnaire (PHQ-8) at baseline and during each call.
With Africa’s mental health in an equivalent state of under-resourcing, Bolivia’s experience offers an option for Africa’s health systems. It should find a place in mHealth Investment plans.
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ERA’s Top TV Picks 6th – 12th April 2019
Welcome back to this our TV Picks of the Week! Those interested in archaeology are in for a treat this week, though we’ve got everything from physics to politics covered.
Film4, 6:25pm – Recommended for… English and Film Studies
A retelling of the Grimm brothers’ classic fairytale starring Kristen Stewart and Chris Hemsworth.
Unstoppable: Sean Scully and the Art of Everything
BBC 1, 9pm – Recommended for… Art & Design
This documentary follows painter Sean Scully as he travels to exhibitions across the world and opens up about his life.
Sunday 7th April
The Boat Races
BBC 1, 1:20pm – Recommended for… P.E.
The competition returns, with 46-year-old Olympic champion James Cracknell becoming the oldest person ever to compete in it.
Our Classical Century
BBC 4, 9pm – Recommended for… Music, Film Studies
Presenters Suzy Klein and Joan Bakewell explore how classical music in film has led to a rise in its popularity. they also look into how this music has helped shape popular music culture.
Monday 8th April
When the Immigrants Leave: Dispatches
Channel 4, 9pm – Recommended for… PSHE and Politics
There are many politicians who will gladly stand up and say that immigrants are at the same time ‘stealing our jobs’ and ‘taking advantage of the benefits system’. Yet with Brexit on the horizon, less immigrants are coming the UK, and the impact is already proving devastating. Dispatches investigates.
Operation Stonehenge: What Lies Beneath
BBC 4, 9pm – Recommended for… History and Archaeology
Stonehenge has puzzled many historians and archaeologists for a long time, but with new technology at their disposal, a group of scientists believe that they can finally unlock the secrets of the precious site.
A House Through Time
BBC 2, 9pm – Recommended for… History and Forensics
Historian David Olusoga is at the helm of this new series, as he visits properties across Britain in an attempt to uncover the secrets that lurk in their past. This episode sees him visit a terraced house in Newcastle, which contains a past of theft and alcoholism.
Life After Lock-Up
Channel 4, 10pm – Recommended for… Policing and PSHE
This intriguing documentary follows the stories of recently-released convicts as they try and reintegrate themselves into the outside world. Some find it easier than others to slip back into their old lives, but for one of the convicts, jailed for murder, things prove a little more challenging.
Tuesday 9th April
Secrets of Bones
BBC 4, 7:30pm – Recommended for… Biology and Archaeology
How much of a role did our bones play in the colonisation of the planet? This is the question that evolutionary historian Ben Garrod sets out to explore in this six-part documentary.
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ITV, 8:30pm – Recommended for… Sociology
It may not seem like the first choice for an educational programme, but this series following older celebrities getting to grips with new technologies might be a really good way to teach about the generation gap in modern society.
Surgeons: at the Edge of Life
BBC2, 9pm – Recommended for… Medicine
If you’re squeamish, it’s probably best to avoid this one. In this episode, Dr Ismail Ughratdar, a neurosurgeon at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham, performs brain surgery on a patient who must be awake in order for him to successfully remove a brain tumour.
Looking for Rembrandt
BBC 4, 9pm – Recommended for… Art History
An exploration of the life of the Dutch artist, through what would have been his own eyes.
The Day the Dinosaurs Died
BBC 4, 10pm – Recommended for… Biology, Physics, and Archaeology
Ben Garrod returns to our screens for the second time tonight as he visits the Gulf of Mexico. There some scientists believe they have found the site that the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs landed, and are drilling down to try and find hard evidence.
Wednesday 10th April
Supermarket Secrets
Greg Wallace just can’t seem to stay away from the world of mass food production, can he? In this episode of the three-part series, he is joined by Nickki Fox as they find out more about how Tesco are trying to produce vegan products that taste like meat, and what Asda are doing to make their tomatoes taste so sweet.
The Sky at Night Guides: Stars
Professor Chris Lintott digs through the Sky at Night archives to recap on a lot of the information that they have uncovered about stars over the years and their importance in our life.
My F-ing Tourette’s Family
Channel 4, 10pm – Recommended for… Medicine, Nursing, and PSHE
This one-off documentary follows a family from Oxfordshire, whose two sons both have Tourette’s Syndrome. They explain what it’s like to help their sons, nine and thirteen, navigate life with a condition that is often misunderstood.
Horizon: Who Is Afraid of a Big Black Hole?
BBC 4, 11:30pm – Recommended for… Physics
Being such a deadly force, it is understandably difficult to study black holes. However, a group of physicists are currently attempting to map a black hole, and this documentary follows their progress.
Thursday 11th April
Egypt’s Lost Cities
BBC 4, 10pm – Recommended for… Ancient History
Presenters Dallas Campbell and Liz Bonnin travel to Egypt, where they meet Dr Sarah Parcak, in the hopes of uncovering hidden cities, pyramids, and temples lurking underneath its sands.
Film4, 9pm – Recommended for… English, Film Studies, P.E., and Politics
This second installment in the Hunger Games franchise sees Katniss (Jennifer Lawrence) and Peeta (Josh Hutcherson) return to the arena to fight against more experienced competitors. As well as being an ideal tool for those teaching about the novel (you can check out our guide to using film adaptations in the classroom, should you wish), it also explores the political and social facets of a dystopian world.
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The Eugene Police Department (EPD) is a progressive, professional law-enforcement agency that serves the city of Eugene, Oregon. In fulfillment of the public trust, the Eugene Police Department works in partnership with our community to promote safety and security, enforce laws, prevent crimes, and safeguard the constitutional rights of all people.
Approximately 200 officers and 121 professional staff are on duty to respond to calls for service and assist community members 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. In a typical day, Eugene police officers are dispatched to about 256 calls per day. This activity creates nearly 26,000 criminal cases every year. EPD staff members also engage in proactive community education and crime-prevention activities to help protect all of Eugene’s residents, with offerings ranging from the annual Prevention Convention program and the Safety Town program for pre-kindergarteners to seminars about crime prevention.
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The department serves a city of more than 169,695 residents (2018) with about 328 employees and a budget of $55,263,890 in FY18. About 192 sworn officers work in patrol, investigations, traffic enforcement and administrative positions, while about 136 civilian employees work mostly in records, communications, crime prevention and administrative support positions. These employees are distributed through the department’s three divisions:
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While the bulk of the work of the Eugene Police Department is undertaken by its full-time paid employees. Both day-to-day operations and special projects are greatly assisted by the numerous area residents who generously donate their time and skills by volunteering in approximately 30 positions. Anyone interested in volunteering is encouraged to call 541-682-5355. Tours of the department can be arranged by calling 541-682-5352.
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The RE5 route from Hamburg to Cuxhaven gives the only opportunity to travel behind class 246 diesel locomotives.
Formerly synonymous with the class 218 diesel-hydraulics, and the 220s before them, this 70-mile route links Germany’s second-largest city with the noted North Sea port.
246 004, Hamburg Harburg, 10/05/17 (JW)
Since the December 2007 timetable change, an hourly service has operated on the route in each direction seven days a week, complemented by a small number of “additional” out-of-pattern rush hour commuter trains on weekdays.
These services are hauled by a dedicated fleet of eight class 246s (246 002 to 246 009) leased from the regional transport authority Landesnahverkehrsgesellschaft Niedersachsen mbH (LNVG), and formed of double-deck carriages.
Until the December 2018 timetable change, this operation was worked by the private company Metronom, but it has now reverted to DB operation; retaining the same motive power and coaching stock.
The class 246 is a diesel variety of the Bombardier “TRAXX” family, first unveiled to the public at the InnoTrans expo in Berlin in 2006. They feature a 16-cylinder MTU 4000-series power unit of 3,000hp.
Metronom had been running services on a previously 100% electrified network in the Niedersachsen area since the December 2005 timetable change, and a fleet of brand new class 146 “TRAXX” electrics had been procured for this purpose. When the requirement for diesel traction emerged later, it was an obvious decision to source a fleet based on the same platform – there is in fact a fair amount of component synergy between the 146s and 246s, although they are maintained in separate locations – the 146s in Uelzen and the 246s in Bremervörde.
The multi-engine development of this design is class 245, which has had a far more problematic entry to service.
Non-“Metronom” 246s
The class 246 fleet actually consists of 11 locos, and all of them were initially procured by LNVG. All of the 246s have worked on RE5, but three of them have spent the lion’s share of their career to date as freight-only locomotives, and have now been sold outright to freight operators – 246 001 and 246 010 to “hvle” (the Havelländische Eisenbahn) and the erstwhile 246 011 to the Pressnitztalbahn, whose blue livery it now wears along with the painted number “246 049“.
Above is a link to a video uploaded to YouTube by user Jens Merte, showing 246 010, owned by hvle, working an RE5 train at Himmelpforten during a period of hire in early 2014.
Despite its sale, 246 010 did in fact return on hire to Metronom for a period of almost a year in 2014 – although it must be concluded that only 246 002 to 246 009 will be easily available for haulage for the foreseeable future.
RE5 returns to DB Regio operation
In late 2016, it was announced that the operating contract for the RE5 route would return to DB Regio at the December 2018 timetable change. However, this had no effect from a bashing perspective, with the new contract retaining the conditions that it must be operated to the existing timetable, leasing the same locos and stock as currently used.
Forthcoming Workings
There are no advertised railtour or special workings for class 246, although obviously they can be sampled every day of the week on the RE5 route from Hamburg to Cuxhaven.
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As the owner and founder of Events with Panache, Jennifer specializes in designing and orchestrating both intimate and large-scale events. She has directed and facilitated programs throughout the United States and Internationally in Hong Kong, London, Lisbon, Brussels, Madrid and Toronto. Jennifer has extensive experience with high-level government officials, corporate clients and celebrities in the corporate, non-profit, association and private social sectors. Jennifer has a diverse career history in Philadelphia, PA and Washington, D.C. She relocated to Charlottesville, VA in 2008 and launched Events with Panache at that time.
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Hella Juiced: AzChike
Read the full interview on YoungCalifornia.com!
AzChike is here to put on for this new wave of LA rap that’s taken over this generation. After quitting his jobs and coming up empty-handed in a tax scam, the South Central rapper soon realized music was not only his calling, but means for survival. The Chike is Egyptian for “power of God brings joy,” which is exactly what he aims to bring with his music. Read more…
With the success of “Burn Rubber Again” which pays homage to the legendary Too Short, AzChike proves he has the talent and drive to insert himself into the rap game, industry and all. Bringing together his AzCult with best friends in 2010, Chike recalls trash recording himself at home, doing anything he could with the little resources he had. His passion and ability to invest in himself is a testimony for anybody working towards turning their dream into a reality.
“Invest in yourself, spend that money, spend that time, and you’ll be alright.”
For those who don’t know, who is AzChike?
A South Central rapper, just trying to talk shit pretty much.
Where do you fit in the realm of hip-hop and R&B?
I love gangster rap. It’s the rawest shit out. You can’t go wrong with that. It can bring different shit out of different people. You never know. You don’t have to be hood to listen to gangster rap, that’s the beauty of it. Gangster rap fasho, just a younger version of it. A little wilder.
A younger version of who?
I look up to Ice Cube’s aggression and the shit he talks about. In some way, shape, form or fashion, I’m kind of on that but less political.
Being from South Central, how does that play into your life and career?
Perfect. I love it because I love LA. My mom hates LA. She feels like she’s been here all her life. South Central made me. Everybody wants to visit South Central at least once in their life. It’s always active. Technically, you don’t even need no parenting in South Central. To be honest, just put your kid outside and they’ll figure everything out from there. You can learn a lot from South Central. It’s real dirty. Not a lot of shit, not a lot of good resources, no good food, I love that shit. It’s definitely a staple in California.
How important is it to come to LA as an up and coming artist?
Right now? Very important. It ain’t been nothing like this in a long time. Not a lot of rappers coming out of LA at one time like this. The last time was with Snoop Dogg, Death Row, DPG, N.W.A, even Cypress Hill. All of them was coming up at the same time out of California. It was a phenomenon. It was taking over. I feel good. I’m happy about it, I’m not going to lie.
Can you talk about relocating to Inglewood and then Torrance?
I moved a lot. Probably a year before I moved to Inglewood, I lived in Long Beach. Probably 8 months before that, I was living in South Central on 83rd & Hoover. I’m used to it. I’ve lived in Virginia. I’ve lived in San Francisco, that’s my second home. I love it out there. I moved a lot. I lived in Compton for 5 years. I lived in Long Beach for 4. I’ve lived in fucking Palmdale, the actual valley. I’ve lived everywhere, moving aint shit to me.
Only thing I can say, when I’m closer to LA my house was more poppin’. I’m that dude who can have everybody at his house. Smoke, drink, bitches, all types of people. I’m that dude that has that type of freedom. My mom just let me be responsible with my own shit, until it got too out of hand. That’s the only thing. When I moved to Torrance and Long Beach, it be dry. Nobody really comes over there.
At what point did you realize this music thing was forreal?
This year, it kind of smacked me in the face. To where I was like “it’s going to change my life.”
I felt like a fucking first draft pick in the NFL or NBA or some shit. When million dollar companies are tugging at you and bidding on you, it gives you a different perspective. It doesn’t give me a big head or nothing like that, but it’s really amazing to me. Before I even get cocky about the shit.
So who are you talking to?
Aw shit. That’s going to be announced really soon, before 2019. Everything is getting done. Lawyer work, etc. Everything is pretty much a process. It’s that time. This past year, I’ve just been back and forth everywhere.
You dropped My World earlier this year. I know you mentioned you kind of just threw that together off vibes, have you started to record more attentively now?
It was definitely off vibes, but I honestly just want to talk and share my world. The way I put the songs together is really how I heard them, what fit best next to each other. But I am writing something with more content, and make everything piece together. I’m still going to be ignorant and sometimes all over the place, but it’s going to be good.
Do you freestyle or write your lyrics down?
I write all the motherfucking time. I freestyle to write. I freestyle the first 2 bars and write the rest. I’m not going to remember that shit. I don’t like punching in. I like doing everything in one. Do the hook, layer that, boom. Do the verse, boom, layer that. I don’t like all that “alright, one more time.” Let me get the shit done.
I know artists tend to have their own favorites on the album. What songs mean the most to you?
Before I drop a song, I listen to it a thousand times. By the time it drops, I low key am tired of it. I’ve turned up to it like how other people turn up to it months ago. I like putting energy behind a song before it drops. “The Shit” because the first day I made it I was happy as fuck, like “oh yeah, this the one.” “Whats Next” because it’s another well-structured song to me. I did a good job of writing the shit and having everything just flow in one. “Licked Up” because I did that a day before my tape dropped. That was random. The beat was from scratch. LowTheGreat and Almighty Suspect came to my house and we just did it. The shit just hit a million. You never know what will happen.
Talk about linking w/ Almighty Suspect on “Licked Up.” What was your vision w/ the visual?
The visual was fucking hilarious. We had an inflatable dick. Not intentionally, I don’t buy dicks. Don’t get the wrong idea. A lot of people be questioning me about that like “why do you have a dick in the video?” First of all, I knew it was going to cause some sort of controversy. People were going to ask questions. It was going to be funny and out of control. I rented the house out, and the host was like “I got props.” I was like “oh let me see.” The first thing she pulled out is a big ass rug, it’s huge. Then she pulls out the inflatable dick. Now I don’t know what kind of freak she is, but that’s how it happened.
Then she brought out a credit card that said “white devil” on it. She was fucking cocaine for Halloween. She was fun, it was more than I expected. A lot of hoes be boring or uptight. Definitely with the rappers, they don’t like that shit. “You about to smoke? Oh hell no.” She was real laid-back, low key a freak. I wanted to get the number, but she said she had a man. I didn’t want to intrude. It was dope, shot it with Zion and IMG Films. He got it done within a week. I wish it got premiered better, I feel like a lot of people was sleep on it.
Did it come out on Worldstar?
Nah, I dropped it on my page. It did 100K in a month, I was happy. Now that it’s a fucking million, they want to do something. Once they see the numbers accumulate, that’s what I be talking about. You’re supposed to catch me before that. Why are you trying to catch me after the hit? Now you got to catch up with time. Now you got to beat the clock before the song gets too old. Now you got to revive the song. You want a big remix, you want a new video, why you ain’t just peep me before that? You just ain’t believe in me. I wish it got a lot more attention. It could be doing another 5 million. It could be another “Burn Rubber Again” if I wanted to be, but that’s what the labels for. All that shit is out. No more songs going to waste.
What is it you want fans to get from your story?
Anything is possible. You get one life, never turn down. I understand breaks or a breather, but never turn down. Never. Always stay turnt up. Always stay energetic. There’s never a down moment. Mind over matter. The universe is real. If you want it and you put effort towards it, it’s going to happen. If you consume yourself to where there’s nothing else you can do but this, that’s what happens.
Sacrifice is everything. You can’t have everything in one time. You can’t have a good fucking job, a promising rap career, a good girlfriend, and financial stability all at one time. Like no. Out of those 4, 3 of them are going to have to go. You only get one, everything else will come. Never do anything for the money. I’ll never do anything for the money. I do it because I want to. You can get money plenty of ways, it comes and goes.
Talk about your AZ cult. You have Benzz who does R&B + Swaye who does dark ratchet LA sound. Where do you fit?
I met Swaye in the 6th grade, we used to beatbox on the corner. I met Benzz in 9th grade, in the jerking era in high school. We just linked up. It was a vibe. I would hang out with them and everything would go accordingly. It wasn’t like “oh we’re finna rap.” It wasn’t planned. Eventually, that was the idea. We ain’t no fucking actors or got a blog, none of us DJ. It was the music.
I quit my two jobs, Swaye blows up. That shit inspired me so much. In 2015, we went to SXSW with Skeme, Don Cannon, DJ Drama & Lil Uzi Vert, the whole Generation Now! That shit blew my mind. It was my first time in Austin, Texas. I got paid for everything. I swear to God, we stayed in the Airbnb garage, sleeping on concrete. Swaye slept on a pool table. He didn’t have to, but he was trying to make himself feel good. ‘Cause he had a spot in the house, the sprinter bus, he was straight. I had rented a van. It was gravy, I got everybody there and back. The homies was driving. That shit just inspired the shit out of me.
When I got back, I’m just doing hella songs. I don’t care what it is. I gotta buy beats, whatever I got to do. I had to take Benzz out of retirement. He was working hella regular 9 to 5. “Burn Rubber Again” came out and it was going crazy. As of right now, everybody is in their bag. We pop out when time is needed. Everybody’s on their grind. AzCult is just a collective. It’s not an abbreviation, it’s not fucking Arizona. It’s just me. Alpha and Omega, beginning and end. I called it Cult because ‘gang’ sounds gay. Don’t nobody want to call shit “gang.” I came up with it because that’s the type of following you want anyway.
Best part of touring w/ Shoreline Mafia?
The whole fucking tour, just being there honestly. The best part is I could see it with my own eyes. I watched them open doors for other LA rappers, because all they’re doing is getting others used to the sound that we got. They did a whole fucking 50 state tour, and probably only 2 or 3 dates didn’t sell out. It was in a small ass town anyway so it didn’t even matter. All the big cities and states all sold out. LA, New York, Texas, Chicago, even the dates I didn’t go on.
We got the same managers, I’ll be talking to them and they’ll just show me. Sold out: 1,500 to 1,800 people. It’s just crazy seeing that shit first hand. Being able to go to these places, I’d never been to New York. It was just perfect timing. I actually got something going. When I go out there, I’m meeting with labels and shit. I love Shoreline. They’re down to earth. Ain’t too many like them, that’s why they are where they are today.
What was it like seeing those guys get signed?
I didn’t even know them when they got signed. I didn’t even know them yet. The first person I met was Fenix. He hit me up like “yeah, let’s get it.” You ain’t got to tell me twice. After that, we just locked in. We’re pretty much in the same circle, it was only a matter of time. It had to happen, so I’m just glad it did.
What are some goals yourself as an artist at this point of your career?
To get my foot all the way in there. Don’t let up. I really want a plaque. I want to sell out a big, big shit. Bringing out crazy people, like “this nigga fucks with you?” “Yeah, they fuck with me.” I want to sell out stadiums. I want a few plaques. I want to be more well-established. I want the business down pat. A lot of people don’t know that part about the music, that’s why they don’t get too far. Not because they suck or don’t got the talent or work ethic, they don’t got the business. A good lawyer, attorney, financial advisor, manager, and just a good business team.
How important is social media for your career?
Social media is at an all time high now. Kylie Jenner’s getting 34M likes in a day. Why is there that many people on Instagram at one time? That’s fucking bananas. On Twitter, people are getting a million retweets. Literally a million likes, a million views. That wasn’t happening in 2012. Twitter would kick you off because there was so many people on there. It doesn’t control your career because a lot of artists came up with no social media. Kendrick Lamar is stupid right now, no social media. He’s one of the greatest, well-established, he’s good. TDE, period. I don’t feel like it’s “without social media, you ain’t shit,” but it’s a great advantage.
3 things you need in the studio?
The right fucking engineer, a Fronto Leaf, and Cookies weed. That’s all I need in the studio.
I know you said you were working 2 jobs before. What were you doing?
Weak ass Sprouts, and I worked at Del Amo mall which is right around the corner from the new place I live. Very traumatizing, I think about it all the time. I know all the routes, I used to take the bus every day to work and back. I see the same streets like “fuck.” It’s crazy to me. Both my jobs were right down the street from each other, so it was real convenient. I was at Del Amo Mall at Macy’s in the Men’s department. It was smaller section for Lids, we only sold California team merchandise. Weak as fuck. I got fired there for stealing.
My homie got fired from stealing from Macy’s.
My first time trying I got caught, it was over. I was trying to get too much. My manager was an asshole too, she was new. Then I quit Sprouts after that to go do a tax scam, like I was in college. To file taxes and get money back for my books. We were supposed to get $5K or $6K, which to me at the time was a fucking lot. I’m getting $360 a week as the highest paying check ever. Terrible. So $5K sounds crazy to me. All they were offering was only $3K, but the scam didn’t even go through. I went home empty-handed, no job.
What would you be doing if you weren’t doing music?
I don’t want to be negative. I’d have to be doing something poppin’, something to put you in that limelight. I played football but that wasn’t promising. I played football from 7 to 14, from flag to midget to tackle, all that shit. High school too, the first year. After that, it was over. I don’t know what I’d be doing. I’d still be getting money, but probably in some bad shit.
What’s the best encounter you had with a fan?
We did a show in Seattle and brought everyone back to the Airbnb. Everybody was still playing my shit like I didn’t just perform it. They sing the shit word for word. Recently I did a show in Victorville, some fans brought me a whole fifth of Hennessy. That was fire as fuck! I had a fan cry listening to the music, that was amazing. It was a turnt up cry too, not an ugly boo-hoo cry. They were dancing like “oh my god” crying. It was crazy, I loved it.
Who’s the most played artist on your phone?
Daboii from SOB x RBE. Do your research. Daboii is the hardest. He got his own shit. He just got different energy. It’s not what you say, it’s how you say it. He say shit differently, it just hits home. That n*gga is ridiculous. Daboii, for sure. I’ve been playing Peezy a lot from Detroit. He’s hard. He’s got a song called “Back End,” and a whole tape called No Hooks.
Dream collab?
I’m going to be typical, it’d have to be Wayne. Because when I get in the studio with him, I’m going to tell him “no autotune, no singing.” I’m really going to bring the old Wayne out of him. That would be ridiculous. I feel like he would bring a different me out, so it would be crazy.
Dope is there anything else you want to let us know.
It’s AzChike, not ‘ass cheek’, not ‘as chike’, or ‘chikay’. None of that shit. I’ve done heard it all at this point. It’s AzChike. It’s not hard.
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Do the Palestinians Really Want a State?
Dec 27, 2016At the Top, Israel1
Friday’s vote at the UN Security Council will be remembered as a Pyrrhic victory for the Palestinians — and a step backward in the quest for Israeli-Palestinian peace.
In all the focus on the December 23rd vote at the UN Security Council — where 14 nations supported a resolution critical of Israel, and the US broke with longstanding policy and abstained instead of vetoing the measure — the question of underlying Palestinian motives has not been addressed.
It should be. In fact, it’s the key to the whole exercise.
First, the Palestinians have rejected one offer after another for a peaceful settlement in the past nearly 70 years. Second, and more tragically, their misguided actions now make any chance of an accord even less likely.
Friday’s UN Security Council resolution is a case in point.
If the goal was to increase the chance of Palestinian statehood alongside Israel (and not in its place), the effort was an abysmal failure, despite the lopsided vote. Those diplomats who rushed to applaud the outcome — and I’ll set aside that thuggish countries like Venezuela that don’t bring a shred of good will to the table — should think twice about what they actually achieved.
If they wanted to excoriate Israel, a longstanding vocation of too many UN member states, then they can thump their chests. But for those truly committed to advancing prospects for peace, they took a big step backwards, once again falling into the Palestinian trap.
Three things should be abundantly evident by now.
First, while Israeli settlement-building is unquestionably a highly contentious matter, the core issue in the conflict has always been the refusal by the Palestinians and their supporters to recognize Israel’s legitimacy and to negotiate in good faith towards a lasting peace deal. That was true in 1947-8, when a two-state solution was proposed by the UN; in 1967; in 2000-1; in 2008; during the 10-month (2009-10) settlement freeze that Israel adopted under Prime Minister Netanyahu in response to an American request; and in 2013-14, the most recent attempt at direct, bilateral talks facilitated by the US.
Evidence abounds for this consistent pattern of rejectionism. One particularly striking comment, as true now as then, came from an unlikely source. In 2003, the Saudi ambassador to the US was quoted in The New Yorker as saying: “It broke my heart that [PLO Chair] Arafat did not take the offer (of a two-state deal presented by Israel, with American support, in 2001). Since 1948, every time we’ve had something on the table, we say no. Then we say yes. When we say yes, it’s not on the table anymore. Then we have to deal with something less. Isn’t it about time to say yes?”
Instead of obsessively and relentlessly focusing only on Israeli actions, why aren’t UN Security Council members asking the Palestinians to explain seven decades of avoiding a settlement of the conflict on terms satisfactory to both parties?
Second, the Palestinians clearly would rather avoid the bargaining table and seek instead to internationalize the conflict. That may produce some short-term victories, given that the UN is dominated by the Arab League, Organization of Islamic Cooperation and the Non-Aligned Movement. But where has it gotten the Palestinians? Exactly nowhere — if, that is, the real aim is a Palestinian state alongside Israel.
To the contrary, this approach has only convinced many Israelis that the Palestinian leadership has no real interest in finding a solution, only in waging a struggle.
And third, shouldn’t the responsible members of the international community push the pause button and look more closely at how peace might best be attained?
Israel has enduring treaties with Egypt and Jordan. In both cases, these were reached not through the UN, but rather via face-to-face talks. Israel made unprecedented territorial concessions of land it obtained in the 1967 war of self-defense, but it did so confident that Egyptian President Sadat and Jordan King Hussein had made sincere decisions to abandon war with the Jewish state.
Every poll in Israel has shown that a majority of Israelis are supportive of a two-state accord with the Palestinians, but, at the same time, deeply skeptical of Palestinian sincerity. And why shouldn’t Israelis have doubts? Palestinian Authority President Abbas, in the 11th year of his four-year term, talks out of both sides of his mouth, claiming he wants a deal, but then resorting to incitement, refusing to sit down with Israeli leaders, trying to corner Israel diplomatically and presiding, if that’s the term, over a deeply divided West Bank-Hamas polity.
Instead of infantilizing and coddling the Palestinians, isn’t it time to see their actions for what they truly are, and to help create conditions for tangible progress?
When Palestinian leaders emerge who grasp the legacies of President Sadat and King Hussein, extend the front, not the back, of their hand to Israel, and recognize that the legitimate concerns of Israelis must also be addressed in the peace process, then they will find a willing partner. Given his hawkish political background, Menachem Begin may have seemed an improbable candidate to evacuate the vast buffer space, oil deposits, and air force bases of Sinai — but he did so to the last grain of sand for the sake of peace with Egypt.
In other words, history lessons abound, even if history students don’t appear to be in overabundance at the UN these days.
Source: The Algemeiner
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Jan Favre 12/28/2016 at 6:28 pm
Political Islam in Judea Samaria want the land between Jordan and the Mediterranean, hopefully Judenrein, and by the way the whole world.
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Barry White Brings 26 Years of Tourism and Hospitality Experience to Chattanooga
CHATTANOOGA, TN — The Chattanooga Convention and Visitors Bureau has named Barry E. White as the new President and Chief Executive Officer, attracting a successful tourism and hospitality professional to the Scenic City.
“We look forward to welcoming Barry to Chattanooga,” says Chattanooga CVB board chair Keith Sanford. “The search committee was impressed by his proven track record of success in Augusta. Under his leadership, there has been a renewed focus on tourism growth and collaborating with elected officials and other partners at the local and state level to expand their convention center and bring new hotels to that city. We think he’ll be a great leader here.”
“I’ve had the privilege of assisting with the production of the USA Cycling Pro Road National Championships in Chattanooga a few years ago,” White says. “Chattanooga is a wonderful community that understands the importance of a robust tourism industry. I look forward to forging many new partnerships to ensure the city remains one of the nation’s top destinations.”
White succeeds Bob Doak, who is retiring after more than 35 years in the tourism and hospitality industry, 15 of them as the President and CEO of the Chattanooga CVB. The date of White’s first day on the job has not yet been determined, but Doak will remain at the CVB through February 2018 to assist in the leadership transition.
See the recent feature on Chattanooga in the 2018 Winter/Spring F&D Digital issue.
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Advance healthcare directive
An advance healthcare directive, also known as living will, personal directive, advance directive, medical directive or advance decision, is a legal document in which a person specifies what actions should be taken for their health if they are no longer able to make decisions for themselves because of illness or incapacity. In the U.S. it has a legal status in itself, whereas in some countries it is legally persuasive without being a legal document.
A living will is one form of advance directive, leaving instructions for treatment. Another form is a specific type of power of attorney or health care proxy, in which the person authorizes someone (an agent) to make decisions on their behalf when they are incapacitated. People are often encouraged to complete both documents to provide comprehensive guidance regarding their care, although they may be combined into a single form.[1] An example of combination documents includes the Five Wishes in the United States. The term living will is also the commonly recognised vernacular in many countries, especially the U.K.[2]
Advance directives were created in response to the increasing sophistication and prevalence of medical technology.[3][4] Numerous studies have documented critical deficits in the medical care of the dying; it has been found to be unnecessarily prolonged,[5] painful,[6] expensive,[7][8] and emotionally burdensome to both patients and their families.[9][10]
Living willEdit
Refusal of treatment form
The living will is the oldest form of advance directive. It was first proposed by an Illinois attorney, Luis Kutner, in a law journal in 1969.[11] Kutner drew from existing estate law, by which an individual can control property affairs after death (i.e., when no longer available to speak for himself or herself) and devised a way for an individual to express their health care desires when no longer able to express current healthcare wishes. Because this form of "will" was to be used while an individual was still alive (but no longer able to make decisions) it was dubbed the "living will".[12] In the U.S., The Patient Self-Determination Act (PSDA)[13] went into effect in December 1991, and required healthcare providers (primarily hospitals, nursing homes and home health agencies) to give patients information about their rights to make advance directives under state law.[14]
A living will usually provides specific directives about the course of treatment healthcare providers and caregivers are to follow. In some cases a living will may forbid the use of various kinds of burdensome medical treatment. It may also be used to express wishes about the use or foregoing of food and water, if supplied via tubes or other medical devices. The living will is used only if the individual has become unable to give informed consent or refusal due to incapacity. A living will can be very specific or very general. An example of a statement sometimes found in a living will is: "If I suffer an incurable, irreversible illness, disease, or condition and my attending physician determines that my condition is terminal, I direct that life-sustaining measures that would serve only to prolong my dying be withheld or discontinued."
More specific living wills may include information regarding an individual's desire for such services such as analgesia (pain relief), antibiotics, hydration, feeding, and the use of ventilators or cardiopulmonary resuscitation. However, studies have also shown that adults are more likely to complete these documents if they are written in everyday language and less focused on technical treatments.[15]
However, by the late 1980s, public advocacy groups became aware that many people remained unaware of advance directives[16] and even fewer actually completed them.[17][18] In part, this was seen as a failure of health care providers and medical organizations to promote and support the use of these documents.[19] The public’s response was to press for further legislative support. The most recent result was the Patient Self-Determination Act of 1990,[20] which attempted to address this awareness problem by requiring health care institutions to better promote and support the use of advance directives.[21][22]
Living wills proved to be very popular, and by 2007, 41% of Americans had completed a living will.[23] In response to public needs, state legislatures soon passed laws in support of living wills in virtually every state in the union.[21]
However, as living wills began to be better recognized, key deficits were soon discovered. Most living wills tended to be limited in scope[24] and often failed to fully address presenting problems and needs.[25][26] Further, many individuals wrote out their wishes in ways that might conflict with quality medical practice.[27] Ultimately, it was determined that a living will alone might be insufficient to address many important health care decisions. This led to the development of what some have called "second generation" advance directives[24] – the "health care proxy appointment" or "medical power of attorney."
Living wills also reflect a moment in time, and may therefore need regular updating to ensure that the correct course of action can be chosen.
Durable power of attorney and healthcare proxyEdit
Main articles: Health care proxy and Power of attorney
Second generation advance directivesEdit
As before, the next generation advance directive was drawn from existing law – specifically from business law. Power of attorney statutes have existed in the United States since the days of "common law" (i.e., laws brought from England to the United States during the colonial period).[28] These early powers of attorney allowed an individual to name someone to act in their stead. Drawing upon these laws, "durable powers of attorney for health care" and "healthcare proxy appointment" documents were created and codified in law, allowing an individual to appoint someone to make healthcare decisions in their behalf if they should ever be rendered incapable of making their wishes known.[29] The appointed healthcare proxy has, in essence, the same rights to request or refuse treatment that the individual would have if still capable of making and communicating health care decisions.[29] The primary benefit of second-generation advance directives is that the appointed representative can make real-time decisions in actual circumstances, as opposed to advance decisions framed in hypothetical situations, as recorded in a living will. This new advance directive was heartily endorsed by the U.S. public, and supporting legislation soon followed in virtually all states.[29]
Eventually, however, deficiencies in "second-generation" advance directives were also soon noted. Primarily, individuals faced problems similar to those that handicapped living wills – knowing what to tell the proxy decision-maker about one's wishes in a meaningful way. Studies found most of what appointed proxies are told is too vague for meaningful interpretation.[30][31][32][33][34] In the absence of meaningful information, family and physician "guesswork" is found to be inaccurate as much as 76% of the time.[31][35][36][37][38][39][40][41] While a study comparing next-of-kin decisions on behalf of an incapacitated person, (who later recovered) found that these surrogates chose correctly 68% of the time overall.[42] This continuing problem led to the development of what might be called "third generation" advance directives.
Third generation advance directivesEdit
Third generation advance directives were designed to contain enriched content to assist individuals and their appointed agents, families, and physicians to better understand and honor their wishes. The first of the third-generation advance directives was the Values History by Doukas and McCullough, created at the Georgetown University School of Medicine, first published in 1988, and then more widely cited in an article in 1991.[43][44] The Values History is a "two-part advance directive instrument that elicits patient values about terminal medical care and therapy-specific directives." The goal of this advance directive is to move away from a focus on specific treatments and medical procedures to a focus on patient values and personal goals. Another values-based project was later published by Lambert, Gibson, and Nathanson at the Institute of Public Law, University of New Mexico School of Law in 1990.[45][46] It continues to be made available via the Hospice and Palliative Care Federation.[47] One persistent challenge of third generation-based values documents is to show a linkage between the elicited values and goals with medical care wishes, although studies have demonstrated that values regarding financial and psychological burden are strong motivators in not wanting a broad array of end-of-life therapies.[48]
The next widely recognized third generation advance directive is the medical directive,[49][50] created by Emanuel and Emanuel of Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School. It is a six-page document that provides six case scenarios for advance medical decision-making. The scenarios are each associated with a roster of commonly considered medical procedures and interventions, allowing the individual to decide in advance which treatments are wanted or not wanted under the circumstances. Several criticisms regarding this advance directive have been expressed.[50][51][52] Primarily, it prompts individuals to make medical treatment decisions, which they are typically not equipped to make.[51]
Perhaps the best known third-generation advance directive is the Five Wishes directive.[53] This document was developed in collaboration with multiple experts with funding from the Robert Wood Johnson foundation,[54] and is distributed by the organization Aging with Dignity. The document was endorsed by Mother Teresa of the Sisters of Calcutta and by the Chief Justice of the Florida state supreme court.[citation needed] The document meets statutory criteria in 42 states.[53]
The most recent third-generation advance directive is the Lifecare Advance Directive.[55] In creating this document, researchers reviewed more than 6,500 articles from medical, legal, sociological, and theological sources. The conclusion was that advance directives needed to be based more on "health outcome states" than on rosters of medical treatments and legal jargon. Building upon the insights gleaned from the literature review, an advance directive document created, tested in a study involving nearly 1,000 participants, and then comparison tested against other popular advance directive forms. The results indicated greater patient/proxy decision-making accuracy, and superior comprehensive content as compared with other documents tested.[55] The primary criticism has been that it is very lengthy and tedious to complete.
While some commentators suggest that any recording of one's wishes is problematic,[51][56] the preponderance of experts recommend the completion of an advance directive document – especially one that includes both a living will and a proxy designation.[52][57] While most of the public continue to rely upon their state's standard directive format, research demonstrates that many of these documents are too jargon laden and vague,[52][58][59][60] confusing,[24][31][61][62][63] and incomplete to adequately capture an individual's wishes, and that they focus too much on the needs of medical and legal practitioners to the exclusion of the needs of patients.[64][65][66] Advance directive documents are increasingly available online.[67]
Some legal commentators have suggested that using a non-statutory advance directive will leave the user with a document that may not be honored. However, legal counsel for the Hastings Center for Bioethics[68] refute this assertion.[69] To make the best choice, individuals should consider reviewing several document styles to ensure that they complete the document that best meets their personal needs.
Legal situation by countryEdit
The laws regarding advance directives, powers of attorney, and enduring guardianships vary from state to state. In Queensland, for example, the concept of an advance health directive is defined in the Powers of attorney act of 1998 and Guardianship and Administration act of 2000.[70] Tasmania has no specific legislation concerning advance healthcare directives.[71]
Health Canada – Canada's federal health agency – has acknowledged the need for a greater investment in palliative and hospice care as the country faces a rapidly growing population of elderly and terminally ill citizens.[72]
Much of the current focus in Canada is on advance care planning which involves encouraging individuals to reflect on and express their wishes for future care, including end-of-life care, before they become terminally ill or incapable of making decisions for themselves. A number of publicly funded initiatives exist to promote advance care planning and to encourage people to appoint "substitute decision makers" who make medical decisions and can give or withhold consent for medical procedures according to the patient's pre-expressed wishes when the patient becomes incapable of doing so themselves[73][74][75][76]
In 2008, The Advance Care Planning in Canada: A National Framework and Implementation Project was founded.[77] The goal was to engage healthcare professionals and educate patients about the importance of advance care planning and end of life care.
Polling indicates that 96% of Canadians think that having a conversation with a loved one about planning for the end of life is important. However, the same polls show that only about 13% have actually done so, or have created an advance care plan for themselves. [78]
A 2014 Ipsos Reid Survey[79] reveals that only about a third of Canadian doctors and nurses working in primary care feel comfortable discussing end of life issues with their patients. End-of-life issues in Canada have recently been highlighted due to the ongoing related debate about physician-assisted death in Canada. Former Federal Health Minister Rona Ambrose (July 15, 2013 to November 4, 2015) has stated: "I think the starting point for me is that we still don't have the best elderly care and palliative care yet… So let's talk about making sure we have the best end-of-life care before we start talking about assisted suicide and euthanasia."[80]
European UnionEdit
Country reports on advance directives[81] is a 2008 paper summarizing advance health care legislation on each country in the European Union with a shorter summary for the U.S.; a 2009 paper also provides a European overview.[82]
England and WalesEdit
In England and Wales, people may make an advance directive or appoint a proxy under the Mental Capacity Act 2005. This is only for an advance refusal of treatment for when the person lacks mental capacity; to be legally binding, the advance decision must be specific about the treatment that is being refused and the circumstances in which the refusal will apply. To be valid, the person must have been competent and understood the decision when they signed the directive. Where the patient's advance decision relates to a refusal of life-prolonging treatment this must be recorded in writing and witnessed. Any advance refusal is legally binding providing that the patient is an adult, the patient was competent and properly informed when reaching the decision, it is clearly applicable to the present circumstances and there is no reason to believe that the patient has changed their mind. If an advance decision does not meet these criteria but appears to set out a clear indication of the patient's wishes, it will not be legally binding but should be taken into consideration in determining the patient's best interests.[83][84] In June 2010, the Wealth Management Solicitors, Moore Blatch, announced that research showed demand for Living Wills had trebled in the two years previous, indicating the rising level of people concerned about the way in which their terminal illness will be managed.[85] According to the British Government, every adult with mental capacity has the right to agree to or refuse medical treatment.[86] In order to make their advance wishes clear, people can use a living will, which can include general statements about wishes, which are not legally binding, and specific refusals of treatment called "advance decisions" or "advance directives".[87]
On 18 June 2009 the Bundestag passed a law on advance directives, applicable since 1 September 2009. Such law, based on the principle of the right of self-determination, provides for the assistance of a fiduciary and of the physician.
ItalyEdit
On 14 December 2017, Italian Senate officially approved a law on advance healthcare directive that came into force on 31 January 2018.[88][89]
Controversy over end-of-life care emerged in Italy in 2006, when a terminally ill patient suffering from muscular dystrophy, Piergiorgio Welby, petitioned the courts for removal of his respirator. Debated in Parliament, no decision was reached. A doctor eventually honored Welby's wishes by removing the respirator under sedation.[90] The physician was initially charged for violating Italy's laws against euthanasia, but was later cleared. Further debate ensued after the father of a 38-year-old woman, Eluana Englaro, petitioned the courts for permission to withdraw feeding tubes to allow her to die. Englaro had been in a coma for 17 years, following a car accident. After petitioning the courts for 10 years, authorization was granted and Englaro died in February 2009.[91] In May 2008, apparently as a result of the recent Court of Cassation's holding in the case of Englaro, a guardianship judge in Modena, Italy used relatively new legislation[92] to work around the lack of the advance directive legislation. The new law permitted a judicially appointed guardian ("amministratore di sostegno") to make decisions for an individual. Faced with a 70-year-old woman with end-stage Lou Gehrig's Disease who was petitioning the court (with the support of her family) to prevent any later use of a respirator, the judge appointed her husband as guardian with the specific duty to refuse any tracheotomy and/or respirator use if/when the patient became unable to refuse such treatment herself.[93]
The NetherlandsEdit
In the Netherlands, patients and potential patients can specify the circumstances under which they would want euthanasia for themselves. They do this by providing a written euthanasia directive. This helps establish the previously expressed wish of the patient even if the patient is no longer able to communicate. However, it is only one of the factors that is taken into account. Apart from the will in writing of the patients, at least two physicians, the second being totally unrelated to the first physician in a professional matter (e.g. working in another hospital, no prior knowledge of the medical case at hand), have to agree that the patient is terminally ill and that no hope for recovery exists.[citation needed]
SwitzerlandEdit
In Switzerland, there are several organizations which take care of registering patient decrees, forms which are signed by the patients declaring that in case of permanent loss of judgement (e.g., inability to communicate or severe brain damage) all means of prolonging life shall be stopped. Family members and these organizations also keep proxies which entitle their holder to enforce such patient decrees. Establishing such decrees is relatively uncomplicated.
However, in Switzerland, a patient decree has, as of November 2008, no legally binding effects, whether concerning civil or criminal aspects. Such a decree is today merely viewed as representing the supposed will of the person with the incapability. There is, however, a revision of the Swiss Civil Code under way that aims to change this situation (intended to be article 360 of the Swiss Civil Code) by making the patient decree a legally binding document.[94][citation needed]
Aggressive medical intervention leaves nearly two million Americans confined to nursing homes,[95] and over 1.4 million Americans remain so medically frail as to survive only through the use of feeding tubes.[96] Of U.S. deaths, 25–55% occur in health care facilities.[97] As many as 30,000 persons are kept alive in comatose and permanently vegetative states.[96][98]
Cost burdens to individuals and families are considerable. A national study found that: “In 20% of cases, a family member had to quit work;” 31% lost “all or most savings” (even though 96% had insurance); and “20% reported loss of [their] major source of income.”[99] Yet, studies indicate that 70-95% of people would rather refuse aggressive medical treatment than have their lives medically prolonged in incompetent or other poor prognosis states.[100][101]
As more and more Americans experienced the burdens and diminishing benefits of invasive and aggressive medical treatment in poor prognosis states – either directly (themselves) or through a loved one – pressure began to mount to devise ways to avoid the suffering and costs associated with treatments one did not want in personally untenable situations.[4] The first formal response was the living will.
In the United States, all states recognize some form of living wills or the designation of a health care proxy.[102] The term living will is not officially recognized under California law, but an advance health care directive or durable power of attorney may be used for the same purpose as a living will.[103] A "report card" issued by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation in 2002 concluded that only seven states deserved an "A" for meeting the standards of the model Uniform Rights of the Terminally Ill Act.[104] Surveys show that one-third of Americans say they have had to make decisions about end-of-life care for a loved one.[105]
In Pennsylvania on November 30, 2006, Governor Edward Rendell signed into law Act 169, that provides a comprehensive statutory framework governing advance health care directives and health care decision-making for incompetent patients.[106] As a result, health care organizations make available a "Combined Living Will & Health Care Power of Attorney Example Form from Pennsylvania Act 169 of 2006."
Several states offer living will "registries" where citizens can file their living will so that they are more easily and readily accessible by doctors and other health care providers. However, in recent years some of these registries, such as the one run by the Washington State Department of Health, have been shuttered by the state government because of low enrollment, lack of funds, or both.[107]
On July 28, 2009, Barack Obama became the first United States President to announce publicly that he had a living will, and to encourage others to do the same. He told an AARP town meeting, "So I actually think it's a good idea to have a living will. I'd encourage everybody to get one. I have one; Michelle has one. And we hope we don't have to use it for a long time, but I think it's something that is sensible."[108] The announcement followed controversy surrounding proposed health care legislation that included language that would permit the payment of doctors under Medicare to counsel patients regarding living wills, sometimes referred to as the "infamous" page 425.[109] Shortly afterwards, bioethicist Jacob Appel issued a call to make living wills mandatory.[110]
Indian Supreme Court on March 9, 2018 permitted living wills and passive euthanasia. The country's apex court held that the right to a dignified life extends up to the point of having a dignified death.[111]
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National Resource Center on Psychiatric Advance Directives (U.S.)
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9 South Africa factsheet on living wills
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Boris Barnet
Boris Vasilyevich Barnet (Russian: Бори́с Васи́льевич Ба́рнет; 18 June 1902 – 8 January 1965) was a Soviet film director, actor and screenwriter of British origin. He directed 27 films between 1927 and 1963.
Boris Vasilyevich Barnet
Moscow, Russian Empire (now Russia)
8 January 1965(1965-01-08) (aged 62)
Riga, Soviet Union (now Latvia)
Natalia Glan (1926–1927)
Yelena Kuzmina (1928–1936)
Valentina Barnet
Alla Kazanskaya
Boris Barnet was born in Moscow. His grandfather Thomas Barnet was a printer who moved to the Russian Empire from Great Britain back in the 19th century.[1] A student of the Moscow Art School, he joined the Red Army at age 18 and was then professionally involved in boxing. In 1927 he shot his first feature, a comedy film, The Girl with a Hatbox, starring Anna Sten. His 1928 melodramatic film The House on Trubnaya, starring Vera Maretskaya, was rediscovered in the mid-1990s and now ranks as one of the classic Russian silent films.
Encouraged in his early efforts by Yakov Protazanov, Barnet emerged in the 1930s as one of the country's leading film-makers, working with the likes of Serafima Birman and Nikolai Erdman. Amongst Barnet's masterpieces, we find Outskirts (1933), a pacifist story acclaimed at the first Venice Film Festival.
Later years and workEdit
Barnet's postwar work is exemplified by Secret Agent, the first Soviet spy film. The Stalin Prize-winning film was also years ahead of its time in exhibiting Hitchcockian influence and tricks and helped cement Barnet's reputation abroad.[2]
It was Barnet's gift of artistic invention that made him stand out from the crowd of Soviet colleagues. In a Barnet film, a photograph in the newspaper would unexpectedly come alive, and scenes would often end with a detail introducing the next scene. He would begin a scene with a close up, "so that the space is progressively discovered by changing the axis or by camera movement".[2] Among Russian filmmakers professing their admiration for Barnet was Andrei Tarkovsky.
In 1965, after some years of artistic silence Boris Barnet committed suicide in Riga, Latvian SSR[3] by hanging himself in a hotel room.[4][5] He was survived by wife Alla Kazanskaya and daughter Olga Barnet.
As director
Miss Mend (Мисс Менд) (1926)
The Girl with a Hatbox (Девушка с коробкой)(1927)
Moscow in October (Москва в Октябре) (1927)
The House on Trubnaya (Дом на Трубной) (1928)
The Living Corpse (1929)
Living Things (Живые дела) (1930)
The Ghost (Привидения) (1931)
The Thaw (Ледолом) (1931)
Outskirts (Окраина) (1933)
By the Bluest of Seas (У самого синего моря) (1936)
A Night in September (Ночь в сентябре) (1939)
The Old Horseman (Старый наездник) (1940) output to the screen in 1959
A Good Lad (Славный малый) (1942)
Dark Is the Night (Однажды ночью) (1945)
Secret Agent (Подвиг разведчика) (1947)
Pages of Life (Страницы жизни) (1948)
Bountiful Summer (Щедрое лето) (1950)
Lyana (Ляна) (1955)
The Poet (Поэт) (1956)
The Wrestler and the Clown (Борец и клоун) (1957)
Annushka (Аннушка) (1959)
Alyonka (Алёнка) (1961)
Whistle Stop (Полустанок) (1963)
As actor
The Extraordinary Adventures of Mr. West in the Land of the Bolsheviks (1924)
Miss Mend (1926)
Storm Over Asia (1928)
^ Nekipelov A.D., Danilov-Danilyan V.I. New Russian Encyclopedia in 12 Volumes. Volume 2. Entsiklopediya, 2005. ISBN 978-5-94802-009-9
^ a b Richard Taylor, Ian Christie. Inside the Film Factory: New Approaches to Russian and Soviet Cinema. Routledge, 1991. Page 158.
^ Vivaldi, Guiliano (31 July 2011). "Boris Barnet: The Lyric Voice in Soviet Cinema". Bright Lights Film Journal.
^ Kehr, Dave (11 December 2009). "All-American Soviet Heroine". The New York Times.
^ Wilmington, Michael (6 February 2004). "Boris Barnet series reveals a neglected Russian talent". Chicago Tribune.
Boris Barnet on IMDb
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Frederick Philipse
Frederick Philipse (born Frederick Flypsen;[1] 1626 in Bolsward, Netherlands – December 23, 1702[2]), first Lord of the Manor of Philipseborough (Philipsburg) and patriarch of the Philipse family, was a Dutch immigrant to North America of Bohemian heritage.[3] A merchant, he arrived in America as early as 1653.[1] In 1662 he engaged in a marriage to a wealthy and driven widow, Margaret Hardenbrook de Vries. Together, and variously in league with slavers, pirates, and other undesirables, the couple combined their industry to amass a fortune.[1]
1st Lord of the Philipsburg Manor
Frederick Philipse II
Frederick Flypsen
Bolsward, Netherlands
Province of New York, British America
Margaret Hardenbrook de Vries
(m. 1662; her death 1691)
Catharine Van Cortlandt Derval
(m. 1692; his death 1702)
4, including Philip, Adolphus
Vicount Philipse
Margaret Dacres
Landowner, merchant
Beginning in 1672 Philipse and some partners started acquiring land in what was to become lower Westchester County, New York. When the British took over the Dutch colony in 1674, Philipse pledged his allegiance to the Crown and was rewarded with a title and manorship for his holdings, which ultimately grew to some 81 sq mi (210 km2) (210 km²). Serving later on the Governor's executive council, he was subsequently banned from government office for conducting a slave trade into New York.
Upon his death, Philipse was one of the greatest landholders in the Province of New York. He owned the vast stretch of land spanning from Spuyten Duyvil Creek, in the Bronx (then in lower Westchester County), to the Croton River. He was regarded by some as the richest man in the Colony.[1] His son Adolphus acquired substantial land north of modern Westchester sanctioned as the royal Philipse Patent. Stripped from the family after the Revolution for their Tory sympathies, the some 250 sq mi (650 km2) tract became the present-day Putnam County, New York.
Map of Philipsburg Manor with current borders overlaid on the property
Frederick Philipse emigrated from the Friesland area of the Netherlands to Flatbush, New Netherland, on Long Island, and began his career by selling iron nails then rose to become an owner of taverns.
The land that would become Philipsburg Manor was first bought from Adriaen van der Donck, who had invested in an unsuccessful Dutch patroonship in New Netherland before the English takeover in 1664. Frederick Philipse I, Thomas Delavall, and Thomas Lewis purchased the first tracts of land in 1672 in current-day northern Yonkers. Philipse made several additional purchases between 1680 and 1686 from the Wiechquaeskeck and Sintsink Indian tribes, expanding the property to both the north and south; he also bought a small plot of land from the Tappans west of the Hudson River.[where?]
Philipse also bought out his partners' stakes during this time,[4] enticing friends from New Amsterdam and Long Island to move with him with the promise of free land and limited taxes. The manor grew to around 52,000 acres (21,000 ha), about 81 sq mi (210 km2) (210 km²), comprising much of today's lower Westchester County, New York.
The estate's boundaries were the Spuyten Duyvil Creek, the Croton River, the Hudson River, and the Bronx River. Philipse was granted a royal charter in 1693, creating the Manor of Philipsburg, and making him first lord of the manor. Along with the three other main manors of the colony—Rensselaerswyck, Cortlandt, and Livingston—Philipsburg created one of the richest and most powerful families in the colony.[5]
After swearing allegiance to the English and later being granted his manorship from them, he built in 1693 the first bridge connecting New York City with the mainland, erecting King's Bridge over the Spuyten Duyvil at Marble Hill. He also began construction of the Old Dutch Church of Sleepy Hollow. Although this project had financing, work likely progressed slowly and was completed in 1685. Philipse built a simple residence in today's Getty Square neighborhood of Yonkers, New York near the confluence of the Nepperhan River with the Hudson. Later it was expanded by his descendents into a full-fledged mansion, Philipse Manor Hall. The neighborhood of Kingsbridge, Bronx, is named for his bridge over the Harlem River.
In 1685 Philipse imported about 50 slaves directly from Angola on his own ship.[6] He was also a known trading partner of Madagascar pirate-merchant Adam Baldridge, employing traders like Thomas Mostyn and John Thurber to make the New York-to-Madagascar voyages. In the 1690s, Baldridge supplied many of the slaves traded and owned by the Philipse family; in return Philipse sent Baldridge guns, alcohol, and other supplies much in demand by pirates.[7]
Philipse was on the Governor's executive council from 1691 to 1698, when he was banned from government office by the British governor, Lord Bellomont, for conducting a slave trade into New York.[6]
Philipse died in 1702 and is buried with his two wives in the crypt of the Old Dutch Church of Sleepy Hollow.[8]
FamilyEdit
Philipse Manor Hall, the Lower Mills manor house
The Philipse family is of Bohemian origin. According to Supreme Court Justice John Jay, (whose maternal grandmother, Eva de Vries, had been adopted by Frederick Philipse upon his marriage to Margaret Hardenbroeck de Vries): "Frederick Philipse, whose family, originally of Bohemia, had been compelled by popish persecution to take refuge in Holland, from whence he had emigrated to New York." [3] By another account, Philipse was the son of Vicount Philipse [9] of Bohemia and Margaret Dacres, supposed to have been a lady of good family from the parish of Dacre, England[9]
Philipse's had eleven children with his first wife, Margaret:[10] Philip Philipse,[11] Adolphus Philipse, Annetje Philipse, Adolph Phillipse, Anna Philipse, Rombout Philipse, Frederick Phillipse, Charles Phillips, Hendrick Phillips, Catherine Phillips, and William Phillips.[12]
Philipsburg Manor House at the Upper Mills
Margaret died in 1691. A year later, Frederick married the widow Catharine Van Cortlandt Derval, who survived him for many years.[13][8] She was the sister of Stephanus Van Cortlandt, an adviser to the provincial governor. Her brother Jacobus Van Cortlandt married Frederick's adopted daughter Eva and their son Frederick Van Cortlandt later built the Van Cortlandt House Museum in Van Cortlandt Park in the Bronx, New York.[14] Jacobus and Eva's daughter, Mary, was the mother of John Jay by her marriage to Peter Jay.
In 1697 Adolphus Philipse, Frederick's second son, purchased a tract from Dutch traders which received British Royal sanction as the Highland Patent. Subsequently, known as the "Philipse Patent", the roughly 250 square miles parcel extended eastward from the Hudson River at the northern border of Westchester County some 20 or so miles to the Colony of Connecticut.[15]
The Hudson Highlands are among the scenic highlights of the Philipse Patent
Philip Philipse, the eldest and heir to the Manor, hereditary title, and family commercial holdings, died in either 1699 or 1700.[16] By predeceasing his father, the legacy that would have gone to Philip bypassed him and was distributed between Adolphus[17] and Philip's son, Frederick Philipse II. By the terms of Frederick Philipse's last will and testament, dated 26 October 1700, proved 1702, Adolphus received all the Manor north of Dobb's Ferry, including the present town. He was also named proprietor of a tract of land on the west bank of the Hudson north of Anthony's Nose and executor of Philip's estate.[18]
After the bachelor Adolphus' death in 1749 (Smith, others 1750), his Manor holdings and the Highland Patent passed to his nephew, Frederick Philipse II, his only heir-at-law, who became the second Lord of the Manor at Philipsborough.[19][20]
On Fredirick II's death in 1751 all Manor holdings and the title went to his eldest son Frederick Philipse III, the third Lord of the Manner of Philipsburg. The Highland Patent – today's Philipse Patent – was divided among Frederick II's surviving offspring, son Philip Philipse, and daughters, Susannah (wife of Beverley Robinson), Mary (wife of Col. Roger Morris), and Margaret (who died intestate, her share being divided among the other three).[21]
Frederick III leased the entirety of his property to William Pugsley before siding with the British in the American Revolution and leaving New York City for England in 1783. After the Revolution, the entire Philipse holdings, including the Manor and other lands in today's Westchester County, and the Highland Patent, were seized by New York and sold by its Commissioners of Forfeitures. In all, the lands were divided up into almost 200 different parcels, with the vast majority of the Philipse Patent becoming today's Putnam County, and other large parcels going to Dutch New York businessman Henry Beekman.[22]
DescendantsEdit
Main article: Philipse family
Adolphus Philipse (1665-1749), second son of Frederick, inherited part of the Philipsborough Manor and purchased the Highland Patent. Today known as the Philipse Patent, it became modern Putnam County, New York.
John Marshall Brown (1838–1907), [7], Captain and assistant. adjunct. general of ME volunteers and served in SC and FL; commanded regiment at Totopotomy and Cold Harbor and preliminary movements a Petersburg, VA.
Samuel Sprigg Caroll (1832–1893) [8], military officer in Northern VA campaign and Battle Cedar Mountain; commandant brigade at battles of Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville and Gettysburg.
Matthew Clarkson (1758–1825), major-general of NY State Militia; served with Gen. B. Lincoln until end of Revolutionary War, participated in siege of Savannah, defense of Charleston, present at surrender of Yorktown (1781).
John Jay (1745–1829), delegate and president of Continental Congress, drafter of the US Constitution, US Ambassador to France and Spain, first Chief Justice of the US
William Jay (1789–1858) [9], prominent jurist and reformer, active abolitionist
Henry Brockholst Livingston (1757–1823), Justice of US Supreme Court
Alexander Slidell MacKenzie (1842–67), an officer in the United States Navy during the American Civil War and his brother General Ranald S. Mackenzie.
Jay Pierrepont Moffat (1896–1943), notable American diplomat, historian and statesman who, between 1917 and 1943, served the State Department in a variety of posts, including that of Ambassador to Canada during the first year of United States participation in World War II.
John Watts de Peyster (1821–1907), Brigadier General in the New York State Militia during the American Civil War and philanthropist and military historian after the war.
Eva Philipse, adopted daughter of Frederick Philipse I, born Eva de Vries 1660, married Jacobus van Cortland[23]
Margaret Philipse, youngest daughter of Frederick II, bap. Feb. 4, 1733;[24] heiress to Philipse Patent, died intestate some time after 1751 bequeathal and before 1754 division; share redistributed to siblings Philip, Mary, and Susanna.[20]
Mary Philipse (1730–1825) [10], eldest daughter of Frederick Philipse II, and possible early romantic interest of George Washington, loyalist, wife of British Colonel Roger Morris, owner of the Mount Morris in Manhattan. Heiress to Philipse Patent.[25]
Philip Philipse, son of Frederick Philipse II, heir to Philipse Patent.
Susanna Philipse, middle daughter of Frederick Philipse II, married to Beverley Robinson, mother of Frederick Philipse Robinson, heiress to Philipse Patent. Possible romantic interest of George Washington.
Sir Frederick Philipse Robinson (1763–1852), son of a Virginian soldier who fought for England during the American War of Independence, also was an Empire Loyalist.
Jonathan Mayhew Wainwright III (1864–1945), [11] US Congressman and Army officer in the Spanish–American War.
Charlotte Margaret Philipse (Grand Daughter of Frederick Philipse II). Married Edward Webber, Lieutenant-General of the English military and lived in Wales.[26]
James Phillips Webber (1797-1877), son of Edward Webber and hence great grandson of Frederick Philipse II, obtained a grant of land in Paterson, NSW, Australia in 1822. He lived there until 1835, when he left the colony and eventually settled in La Maddalena, Sardinia, Italy, where he built Villa Webber (Villa Webber is named after him.) In 1943 Benito Mussolini was imprisoned in Villa Webber.
John Phillips Webber (1800-1845), son of Edward Webber, also received a grant of land in New South Wales, Australia, and lived there for a while before returning to London, where he died in 1845.
Edward Montgomery Affleck Webber (1802-1884), son of Edward Webber, lived in Wales all his life, in the Overton, Erbistock area.
Philipsburg Manor
Van Cortlandt family
^ a b c d Appleton, W.S. The Heraldic Journal, Recording the Amorial Bearings and Genealogies of American Families, Wiggen & Lunt, Boston, 1867
^ Frank Allaben "Frederick Philipse" in "John Watts de Peyster. Volume 1", Adamant Media Corporation, ISBN 1-4021-4454-7, pp. 62-63
^ a b (William Jay, The Life of John Jay: with selection of his correspondence and miscellaneous papers. New York: J. & J Harper, 1833, p. 10). On his Bohemian aristocratic ancestry, see also: Thomas Capek, Ancestry of Frederick Philipse: First Lord and Founder of Philipse Manor at Yonkers, N. Y. New York: The Paebar Co., 1939.
^ Maika, Dennis J. (2005). "Philipsburg Manor". In Peter Eisenstadt (ed.). Encyclopedia of the State of New York (First ed.). Syracuse, New York: Syracuse University Press. p. 1199. ISBN 0-8156-0808-X.
^ Eisenstadt, Peter (2005). "New York State: An Introduction". Encyclopedia of the State of New York (First ed.). Syracuse, New York: Syracuse University Press. p. 1199. ISBN 0-8156-0808-X.
^ a b Lewis, Tom (2007). The Hudson: A History. Yale University Press. pp. 109–112. ISBN 0-300-11990-9.
^ Jameson, John Franklin (1923). Privateering and Piracy in the Colonial Period: Illustrative Documents. New York: Macmillan. pp. 180–188.
^ a b Glenn, Thomas Allen, ‘’Some colonial mansions and those who lived in them: With genealogies of the various families mentioned’’, H. T. Coates & company, Philadelphia1900
^ a b Savery, Florence M., Cold Springs Recorder, 1912 Spellings of Philipse varied in the New World, among them: F-l-y-p-s-e, F-i-y-p-s-e-n, V-i-y-p-s-e, Y-i-y-p-s-e-n
^ Morris, F.O., Philipse of Philipsburgh, in The New England Historical and Genealogical Register, vol. 10 (1856) [1] Married 1662, name listed as "Philipszen", New York Genealogical & Biographical Record (quarterly), 1875, selected extracts
^ Philipse Manor Hall State Historic Site: [2] Philip Philipse, oldest son of Frederick Philipse I, and his wife, Mary, both died in Barbados in 1689 (on September 14 and October 18, respectively). Their death notices, signed by the rector of nearby St. James Church, list cause of death as "belly ake", aka dysentery, a frequent cause of death during that time period on the island.
^ Philipse profile at geni.com
^ Glenn, p. 258: Her will is dated 7th January, 1730
^ Jeff Canning and Wally Buxton, History of the Tarrytowns. Harrison, NJ: Harbor Hill Books, 1975.
^ Smith, Philip Henry, General History of Putnam County: From 1609 to 1876, inclusive, published by the author, Pawling, NY, 1877, p. 44
^ Morris, F.O., Philipse of Philipsburgh, in The New England Historical and Genealogical Register, vol. 10 (1856), p. 26: "PHILIP PHILIPSE, of Philipsbourg, born in 1656, who married, at Barbadoes, in 1697 (whither he had been sent by his father to an estate he had there, called Spring Head, and where he quickly recovered his health, having been before of a very delicate constitution), Maria, youngest of the four daughters of ? Sparkes, Esq., governor of Barbadoes, by Joyce, his wife, daughter of ? Farmer, Esq., (two of whom had retumed to their father's estate in Worcestershire, and the others accompanied their parents to the island), and, dying in 1700, left a son and successor. She also died in 1700."
^ Philipse family history
^ Glenn, p. 258: "By the will of Frederick Philipse "all that portion of the manor north of Dobb's Ferry, including the present town, became vested in Adolphus Philipse, his second son. This individual " was also proprietor" of a great tract of land north of " Anthony's Nose " and the executor of his brother Philip Philipse's estate, the latter having died in 1714. Adolphus died without issue in 1750, and the whole manor of Philipsborough descended to his nephew, Frederick Philipse, the nearest male heir of the grandfather. This nephew was born in 1698 upon the island of Barbadoes, at an estate called Springhead belonging to his father."
^ Philipse family history:[3] "At the death of Frederick Philipse in 1751, the Highland Patent was inherited by his son, Philip Philipse, and three daughters, Susannah (wife of Beverly Robinson), Mary (late wife of Col. Roger Morris), and Margaret, who died intestate. Margaret's portion was, by terms of her father's will, equally divided among her brother and sisters, and in 1751, after a survey of the whole tract, it was geographically divided into nine Lots; three on the river; three in the interior; three on the eastern (Connecticut) border. Each of the three heirs inherited a lot in each division."
^ a b Pelletreau, William, S, History of Putnam County, New York – With Biographical Sketches of its Prominent Men, W.W. Preston & Company, Philadelphia, 1886 [4] History of Putnam County, New York
^ French's Gazetteer of the State of New York (1860): "The Philipses Patent… divided among the remaining three [children] Philip… Susannah married to Beverly Robinson, and Mary married to Col. Roger Morris. On the 7th of Feb 1754, the patent was divided into 9 lots: 3, each 4 mi. square, bordering upon the Hudson and denominated ‘water lots;’ 3, each 4 mi. wide by 12 long, extending N. and S. across the patent, and denominated ‘long lots;’ 3, each 4 mi. square, upon the E. border denominated ‘back lots.’ Philip, Susannah and Mary Philipse each owned one of each kind of lots.
^ [5] Frederick Philipse genealogy: The entirety of the family property was divided up into almost 200 different parcels of land, with the vast majority of the Philipse Patent becoming today's Putnam County, New York, and other large parcels going to Dutch New York businessman Henry Beekman.
^ born July 6, 1660; married May 31, 1691
^ Purple, Edwin R., "Contributions to the History of the Ancient Families of New York: Varleth-Varlet-Varleet-Verlet-Verleth," New York Genealogical and Biographical Record, vol. 9 (1878), pp. 119-124 [6]
^ Philipse Memorial Hall website: On March 14, 1757, Joseph Chew began writing a series of letters to George Washington, starting the legend of a Washington/Mary Philipse doomed love. The Washington half of the correspondence has not been found:
March 14, 1757: "I am now at Mr. Robinson’s, he, Mrs. Robinson and his Dear Little Family are all well and they desire their Compliments to you. Pretty Miss Polly is in the same Condition & situation* as you saw her." * "Condition & situation" refer to Mary’s affections for Washington.
July 13, 1757: "As to the Latter part of your Letter what shall I say? I often had the Pleasure of Breakfasting with the Charming Polly. Roger Morris* was there (don’t be startled) but not always; you know he is a Lady’s man…" *Roger Morris ultimately marries Mary Philipse in January 1758.
July 13, 1757: "I intend to set out to-morrow for New York where I will not be wanting to let Miss Polly know the sincere Regard a Friend* of mine has for her and I am sure if she had my Eyes to see thro she would Prefer him to all others" * The "Friend" being George Washington.
^ Walsh, B.P. (2008). James Phillips Webber: The Man and the Mystery. CB Alexander Foundation. ISBN 978 0 7313 0615 2
Jeff Canning and Wally Buxton (1975). History of the Tarrytowns: Westchester County, New York, from ancient times to the present. Harrison, NJ: Harbor Hill Books. p. 29. ISBN 0-916346-14-5.
Brian Walsh (2007). James Phillips Webber: The Man and the Mystery. Paterson, NSW, Australia: CB Alexander Foundation. ISBN 978-0-73130615-2.
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Hawkins Preserve
Hawkins Preserve is a 122-acre (0.49 km2) property within the city limits of Cortez, Colorado. It is protected by a conservation easement held by the Montezuma Land Conservancy.
The property for the preserve was donated to the Cortez Cultural Center in the 1990s by Jack Hawkins which includes:[1][2]
Biological and botanical resources in a pinion-juniper woodland that is bounded by sandstone potholes and McElmo Creek.
Prehistoric archaeological sites.
Nature preserveEdit
Hawkins Preserve is a natural museum on 120 acres including seven ecological zones:[2]
Piñon-juniper woodland or Pygmy forest
Sagebrush steppe
Slickrock Pothole
Alluvial bottomland
Riparian corridor and intermittent streams
Post-disturbance and dunes
Early peopleEdit
Hunter-gather 8,000 B.P. to AD 1
Evidence from the Hovenweep National Monument, west of Cortez, indicates that there were Paleo-Indians hunter-gatherer and people of the Archaic period as early as 8,000 years ago.[3][4] The ancestors of the Mesa Verde Pueblo people hunted and lived in a difficult terrain, traversed deep canyons and areas of few animals and limited vegetation, and managed limited access to water - which made life difficult and limited the size of their hunt groups. They gathered seeds and fruit from wild plants to supplement their diet.[5]
Basket Makers AD 1 to 550
The people living in the Four Corners region were introduced to maize and basketry through Mesoamerican trading about 2,000 years Before Present Able to have greater control of their diet through cultivation, the hunter-gatherers lifestyle became more sedentary[5] as small disperse groups began cultivating maize and squash. They also continued to hunt and gather wild plants.[6][7]
They were named "Basket Makers" for their skill in making baskets for storing food, covering with pitch to heat water, and using to toast seeds and nuts. They wove bags, sandals, belts out of yucca plants and leaves - and strung beads. They occasionally lived in dry caves where they dug pits that they lined with stones to store food.[7] These people were ancestors of the pueblo people of the Hovenweep pueblo settlement[6] and Mesa Verde.[5][8]
Hawkins Preserve residentsEdit
Modified Basket Makers 550 to 750
This era resulted in the introduction of pottery which reduced the number of baskets that they made and eliminated the creation of woven bags. The simple, gray pottery allowed them a better tool for cooking and storage. Beans were added to the cultivated diet. Bows and arrows made hunting easier and thus the acquisition of hides for clothing. Turkey feathers were woven into blankets and robes.[9]
Developmental Pueblo 750 to 1100
Pueblo buildings were built with stone, windows facing south, and in U, E and L shapes. The buildings were located more closely together and reflected deepening religious celebration. Towers were built near kivas and likely used for look-outs. Pottery became more versatile, including pitchers, ladles, bowls, jars and dishware for food and drink. White pottery with black designs emerged, the pigments coming from plants. Water management and conservation techniques, including the use of reservoirs and silt-retaining dams also emerged during this period.[10]
Like the people at Hovenweep National Monument, Canyon de Chelly National Monument, and the Mesa Verde village communities moved from mesa tops to the heads of canyons about 1100.[11]
Great Pueblo period 1100 to 1300
People, generally considered part of the Mesa Verde branch of the northern San Juan Pueblo (Anasazi) culture,[12][13] transitioned from their disperse housing and began building pueblos in the late 12th century alongside springs or other water sources near or at the canyon heads. Most of the pueblo building was conducted, about the same time as the Mesa Verde cliff dwellings, between 1230 and 1275[3][14] when there were about 2,500 residents.[6] The Hovenweep architecture and pottery was like that of Mesa Verde.[8]
About 1160, area residents, such as those at Mesa Verde and Hovenweep, began building larger pueblo residential complexes, up to 3 story towers, dams, and reservoirs.[15] They moved their fields into areas where water could be controlled. They also built large stone towers, living quarters and other shelters to safeguard springs and seeps. The stone course pueblos and towers exhibit expert masonry skills and engineering. The builders did not level foundations for their structures, but adapted construction designs to the uneven surfaces of rock slabs. These stone pueblos were referred to as castles by 19th-century explorers.[14][16][17][18][19]
Post-Pueblo Native American tribes 1300 to 1700Edit
After 1300 hunter-gathers, ancestors of the Ute and Navajo, moved into the southwestern Colorado and southeastern Utah and came to inhabit the region.[20]
The ancestors to the Navajo were one of the tribes of the southern division of the Athabaskan language family that migrated south from Alaska and northwestern Canada, most likely traveling through the Great Basin.[21] The Navajo ancestors were in the area after 1300, but at least by the early 16th century.[20]
The people from who the Ute descended arrived in the area from the west in this period from 1300 to the 18th century.[20][22] The Ute's ancestors are hunter-gatherers who in the 12th century began migrating east from the present southern California area into a large hunter-gathering territory as far east as the Great Plains and in the canyons and mountains of eastern Utah and Colorado.[23]
During this period, the Spanish colonial reach extended to northern New Mexico, where they settled in the 16th century. They introduced items for trade, such as guns and horses, new and deadly diseases, and cultural influence in the forms of religion, language, and forms of government. In the 18th century Spanish missionaries visited the area looking for a route to Spanish missions in California.[20] One of the expeditions was that of Spanish friars Silvestre Vélez de Escalante and Francisco Atanasio Domínguez who traveled from New Mexico, through western Colorado to Utah.[24]
European and American settlement 18th century to presentEdit
The first Anglo American people arrived in the early 1800s, starting with trappers. With the discovery of precious ores in the last decades of the 19th Century, miners and other settlers moved into the region.[25]
The Hawkins Preserve includes land that was near a ranch owned by Henry Mitchell. On his land is an archaeological site of 9 medium-sized pueblos called "Mitchell Springs".[26]
By the mid-19th century the United States government and Native American tribes were at war over land ownership. People were forced to leave their homelands. The Navajo had moved south and the Ute territory was significantly reduced.[25]
Notable sitesEdit
Ruins site
Hawkins Pueblo 900 - 1250 Hawkins Pueblo, occupied by several related groups, is the largest ruin within the preserve. It was most populated in the Pueblo II period, from about 1000 to 1150. The site contains several room block ruins and rubble that contains a kiva, mounds, and middens.[26]
Cliff dwellings Possibly pre-historic period, historic period Several small cliff dwellings were found along McElmo Canyon, about 1 mile from the Mitchell ranch in 1878. The stone constructed dwellings had several small rooms and a nearby corral, likely for sheep or cattle. The site was occupied by European settlers and may have been built and occupied earlier.[26]
ExcavationsEdit
Lewis Henry MorganEdit
Lewis H. Morgan visited Montezuma Valley in 1878 during one of his trips through the American Southwest. At that time he made notes and maps of archaeological sites at the current Hawkins Preserve and nearby Mitchell Springs. Within the Hawkins Preserve he recorded cliff dwellings found along McElmo Canyon. The site included groups of several small chambers just above the canyon bottom. Nearby is a corral that held cattle, sheep or other livestock. It was clearly occupied some time after European American settlement, and possibly before then. The Mitchell Springs site, near Hawkins Preserve, consists of 9 medium-sized pueblos and believed to have occupied up to 1,000 people at its height. The site shows occupancy from the Basket Makers II period through late Pueblo III period.[26]
J.A. HalasiEdit
In 1977 J.A. Halasi conducted an archaeological inventory and identified 2 prehistoric scatters and a large pre-historic ruin. The large ruin was a rubble mound partially excavated to determine that were 2 kiva depressions, diagnostic pot sherds and midden deposits. The site seemed to be from the Pueblo II period.[26]
Bruce BradleyEdit
Bruce Bradley identified an additional 21 sites during an archaeological survey in 2000. The sites are from the Basket Maker II, Pueblo II, Pueblo II periods and unknown pueblo and pre-historic periods. In addition to dwellings, there were also an alcove room with pictographs, 3 check dams, a field house, grinding areas, hearths, and artifacts.[26]
Mona C. CharlesEdit
Mona Charles led a group of Fort Lewis College students through an archaeological study in 2006. During that time they completed:[26]
Limited, low-disruption excavation to collect artifacts, which were sent to Crow Canyon Archaeological Center for analysis
Electric resistivity and magnetometry technology surveys to identify ruins below the surface
Total station and Global Positioning System (GPS) maps
State Historic Fund GrantEdit
In 2006 a State Historic Fund Grant administered by the Colorado Historical Society was provided to study the main site in Hawkins Preserve.[26][27]
Other neighboring Ancient Pueblo sites in Colorado
Anasazi Heritage Center
Crow Canyon Archaeological Center
Other cultures in the Four Corners region
Trail of the Ancients
List of ancient dwellings of Pueblo peoples
Early American cultures
List of prehistoric sites in Colorado
Ancestral Puebloans
Oasisamerica cultures
Paleo-Indians
^ About the Preserve. Cortez Cultural Center. 2011. Retrieved 9-26-2011.
^ a b Vegetarian Communities. Cortez Cultural Center. 2011. Retrieved 9-26-2011.
^ a b Hovenweep Visitor Guide, National Park Service. Retrieved 9-20-2011.
^ Gibbon, Guy E.; Ames, Kenneth M. (1998) Archaeology of Prehistoric Native America: An Encyclopedia. p. 377. ISBN 0-8153-0725-X.
^ a b c Wenger, Gilbert R. (1991) [1980]. The Story of Mesa Verde National Park. Mesa Verde Museum Park, Colorado: Mesa Verde Museum Association. p. 27. ISBN 0-937062-15-4.
^ a b c History & Culture. National Park Service. Retrieved 9-20-2011.
^ a b Wenger, Gilbert R. (1991) [1980]. The Story of Mesa Verde National Park. Mesa Verde Museum Park, Colorado: Mesa Verde Museum Association. pp. 27-30. ISBN 0-937062-15-4.
^ a b Rohn, Arthur H.; Ferguson, William M. (2006) Puebloan ruins of the Southwest. University of New Mexico Press. p. 148. ISBN 0-8263-3969-7.
^ Wenger, Gilbert R. (1991) [1980]. The Story of Mesa Verde National Park. Mesa Verde Museum Park, Colorado: Mesa Verde Museum Association. pp. 33-37. ISBN 0-937062-15-4.
^ Rohn, Arthur H.; Ferguson, William M. (2006) Puebloan ruins of the Southwest. University of New Mexico Press. p. 146. ISBN 0-8263-3969-7.
^ Wenger, Gilbert R. (1991) [1980]. The Story of Mesa Verde National Park. Mesa Verde Museum Park, Colorado: Mesa Verde Museum Association. p. 7. ISBN 0-937062-15-4.
^ a b Little Ruin Canyon Trail Guide. National Park Service. Retrieved 9-20-2011.
^ Gibbon, Guy E.; Ames, Kenneth M. (1998) Archaeology of Prehistoric Native America: An Encyclopedia. p. 375, 377. ISBN 0-8153-0725-X.
^ Cajon Group. National Park Service. Retrieved 9-20-2011.
^ Cutthroat Castle Group. National Park Service. Retrieved 9-20-2011.
^ Holly Ruin. National Park Service. Retrieved 9-20-2011.
^ Horseshoe and Hackberry Groups. National Park Service. Retrieved 9-20-2011.
^ a b c d The Post-Pueblo Period: A.D. 1300 to Late 1700s. Crow Canyon Archaeological Center. 2011. Retrieved 9-26-2011.
^ "Spanish Relations with the Apache Nations east of the Rio Grande", Jeffrey D. Carlisle, B.S., M.A., University of North Texas. May 2001. pp. 3, 47.
^ What Other Indian Tribe is Related to the Navajo? Crow Canyon Archaeological Center. 2011. Retrieved 9-26-2011.
^ The Ute–Southern Paiute Connection. Crow Canyon Archaeological Center. 2011. Retrieved 9-26-2011.
^ Dominquez and Escalante Expedition, 1776. UintahBasintah.org, which cites Chavez Waner's The Dominguez and Escalante Journal published in the University of Utah Press in 1995.
^ a b The Historic Period: Late A.D. 1700s to Mid-1900s. Crow Canyon Archaeological Center. 2011. Retrieved 9-26-2011.
^ a b c d e f g h Hawkins Preserve: Research. Cortez Cultural Center. 2011. Retrieved 9-26-2011.
^ State Historical Fund Grants, Office of Archaeology and Historic Preservation, Colorado Historical Society. Retrieved 9-24-2011.
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Kang Song-san
Kang Song-san (3 March 1931 – 2007)[1] was a North Korean politician who served as Premier of North Korea from 1984 to 1986 and again from 1992 to 1997. He succeeded Ri Jong-ok in his first term and Yon Hyong-muk in his second term.[2]
강성산
5th Premier of North Korea
11 December 1992 – 21 February 1997
Yon Hyong-muk
Hong Song-nam
27 January 1984 – 29 December 1986
Ri Jong-ok
Ri Kun-mo
(1931-03-03)3 March 1931
Chosŏn'gŭl
Hancha
姜成山
Gang Seong-san
Kang Sŏngsan
This is a Korean name; the family name is Kang.
He was born in North Hamgyong. He graduated from Mangyongdae Revolutionary School and from Kim Il-sung University and went to study in the Soviet Union in Moscow State University. He became an instructor in the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea in 1955. Candidate member of the political politburo in 1973, Deputy Prime Minister in 1977, the Sixth Party Congress in 1980 he was elected a member of the Politburo. In 1984, he became Prime Minister.
1991 Chairman of the People's president and secretary hambuk faction, the People's Committee of the Party Central Committee, member of the Political Bureau of the Korean Workers' Party, the Supreme People's Assembly to the delegates in charge of such positions. He was awarded Kim Il-sung Order in 1982.
List of Korea-related topics
^ "강성산". 주요인물. Information Center on North Korea. Retrieved 2013-11-14.
^ Buzo, Adrian (1999). The guerilla dynasty: politics and leadership in North Korea. I.B.Tauris. pp. 135, 210. ISBN 978-1-86064-415-3.
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McCallum (TV series)
McCallum is a British television series that was produced by STV Productions (Scottish Television) and ran from 1995 to 1998.
Stuart Hepburn
Mike Cullen
Gerard Murphy
Zara Turner
James Saxon
Richard O'Callaghan
Alex Walkinshaw
Nathaniel Parker
Eva Pope
No. of series
9 (list of episodes)
Murray Ferguson
120 minutes (w./advertisements)
STV Productions
(Scottish Television)
28 December 1995 –
Rebus (2000-2007)
Dr Iain McCallum was the original lead character, played by Scottish actor John Hannah. McCallum is a forensic pathologist working in the morgue of St. Patrick's Hospital in London's East End,[1] who travels by Triumph Motorcycle, is generally charming and solves murders. The character has romantic involvements with two of the other principal characters, Joanna Sparks (played by Suzanna Hamilton), and later Dr. Angela Moloney (played by Zara Turner). The last episode did not include McCallum and Angela as the story stated that they had taken jobs in America. They were replaced by Dr. Dan Gallagher (Nathaniel Parker) and Dr. Charley Fielding (Eva Pope).
John Hannah as Dr. Iain McCallum
Zara Turner as Dr. Angela Moloney
Gerard Murphy as DI Braken
Alex Walkinshaw as DS Small
James Saxon as Fuzzy Brightons
Richard O'Callaghan as Bobby Sykes
Richard Moore as Sir Paddy Penfold
Suzanna Hamilton as Joanna Sparks
Nathaniel Parker as Dr. Dan Gallagher
Eva Pope as Dr. Charley Fielding
Maggie Whiting as Victoria Wells
EpisodesEdit
Pilot (1995)Edit
Original airdate
"The Key to My Heart" Stuart Hepburn Patrick Lau 28 December 1995 (1995-12-28) TBA
McCallum investigates when the body of a missing Vietnamese banker washes ashore, but soon has other problems to worry about when a female police officer that he has been having an affair with is found dead - and the police label him as the prime suspect.
Series 1 (1997)Edit
"Sacrifice" Stuart Hepburn Sarah Hellings 13 January 1997 (1997-01-13) TBA
McCallum investigates when a well-known baker is found dead at the bottom of the stairs in his award-winning baker's shop and his family try to cover up the circumstances surrounding his death.
"Touch" Ben Rostul Richard Holthouse 27 January 1997 (1997-01-27) TBA
McCallum investigates the death of a young Brazilian prostitute is who is found dead after having been scalded. However, the situation is complicated when the post mortem reveals that she died from a superbug bacterial infection and that she had previously suffered from two drug-induced heart attacks.
"Dead But Still Breathing" Mike Cullen Richard Laxton 10 February 1997 (1997-02-10) TBA
McCallum finds that he has become a moving target when a killer with a grudge against him attempts to exact revenge with a combination of poisonings and threatening telephone calls.
"City of the Dead" Mike Cullen Richard Holthouse 6 January 1998 (1998-01-06) TBA
McCallum finds himself defending his own colleague after his absence from work results in a tragic road accident which results in the death of an elderly man.
"Harvest" Ben Rostul Christopher King 13 January 1998 (1998-01-13) TBA
McCallum is convinced that a serial killer is at work when a mutilated body is found in a sewer - and more bodies turn up with graze marks and organs missing.
"Dead Man's Fingers" Jane Hollowood David Tucker 3 February 1998 (1998-02-03) TBA
McCallum finds himself implicated in the death of a hospital worker when she names him as the father of her unborn baby in her diary.
"Running on Empty" Mike Cullen Peter Smith 17 February 1998 (1998-02-17) TBA
McCallum is suspicious after his examination of two bodies reveals no cause of death - but when the lab is broken into, the theft of vital samples proves to be a clue.
Special (1998)Edit
"Beyond Good and Evil" Russell Gascoigne Richard Holthouse 7 December 1998 (1998-12-07) 8.18m
Gallagher goes on the hunt for the necrophilia-like murderers of two women who have kidnapped his girlfriend. Will he get to her in time, or will she become their latest victim?
^ Show summary on TV.com. Accessed on 2 May 2014.
Review of "McCallum, the Complete Series", by Matthew A. Stern, PopMatters, 2006.
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Oklahoma City Dodgers
(Redirected from Oklahoma RedHawks)
The Oklahoma City Dodgers are a Minor League Baseball team of the Pacific Coast League (PCL) and the Triple-A affiliate of the Los Angeles Dodgers. They are located in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, and play their home games at Chickasaw Bricktown Ballpark which opened in 1998 in the city's Bricktown entertainment district.
Team logo Cap insignia
Class-level
Triple-A (1962–present)
Minor league affiliations
Pacific Coast League (1998–present)
American Conference
Southern Division
Previous leagues
American Association (1969–1997)
Pacific Coast League (1963–1968)
American Association (1962)
Los Angeles Dodgers (2015–present)
Houston Astros (2011–2014)
Texas Rangers (1983–2010)
Philadelphia Phillies (1976–1982)
Cleveland Indians (1973–1975)
Houston Colt .45s/Astros (1962–1972)
Minor league titles
League titles (4)
Conference titles (3)
Division titles (15)
Team data
Oklahoma City Dodgers (2015–present)
Oklahoma City RedHawks (2009–2014)
Oklahoma RedHawks (1998–2008)
Oklahoma City 89ers (1962–1997)
Dodger blue, white, red
Brix and Brooklyn
Chickasaw Bricktown Ballpark (1998–present)
Previous parks
All Sports Stadium (1962–1997)
Owner(s)/
Operator(s)
Peter Guber / Los Angeles Dodgers
Travis Barbary
Michael Byrnes
The team was originally known as the Oklahoma City 89ers from 1962 to 1997 when the team played at the now-demolished All Sports Stadium at the state fairgrounds. It first competed in the Triple-A American Association (AA) in 1962, moved to the PCL from 1963 to 1968, and returned to the AA from 1969 to 1997. After the league disbanded, they rejoined the PCL in 1998 and became known as the Oklahoma RedHawks. They were called the Oklahoma City RedHawks from 2009 to 2014 before taking on the moniker of their major league affiliate in 2015.
Oklahoma City has won four league championships. The 89ers won the PCL championship in 1963 and 1965 as the Triple-A affiliate of the Houston Colt .45s/Astros. They later won the American Association championship in 1992 and 1996 with the Texas Rangers.
Team historyEdit
Oklahoma City has been home to professional baseball for all but a few years since 1904, when the Metropolitans (Mets) were established as the city's first team.[1] Oklahoma City's teams and names have changed numerous times since. The team became known as the Indians in 1909 before returning to the original Mets name in 1910 and reverting again to the Indians name in 1911. Oklahoma City was home to the Senators in 1912. After one year without a baseball team, Oklahoma City's squad became the Boosters in 1914. The Senators name returned from 1915 to 1916, but the Boosters name came back in 1917. The Oklahoma City Indians name returned in 1918 and the team name stuck until 1957 (the team did not compete during World War II).[2]
Oklahoma City's current baseball franchise began competing in 1962 as the Oklahoma City 89ers following a four-year period without professional baseball in the area.[3] The franchise's original name made reference to the Land Run of 1889, which led to the founding of Oklahoma City. After the Houston Buffaloes of the American Association were purchased for territorial rights by the Houston Colt .45s (later the Houston Astros) of the National League, the big league club decided to move the Buffs elsewhere. In July 1961, Spec Richardson, who was then general manager of the Buffs, met with Oklahoma City officials and boosters, and agreed to move the team.[4][5][6] After a unanimous approval from the American Association's board of directors, the current franchise began play in 1962 as the top affiliate of the Houston Colt .45s.[7] Eventually, the Astros sold the team to Tulsa businessman, P. C. Dixon, in November 1970.[8] In 1973, a three-year connection with the Cleveland Indians was established. A later affiliation with the Philadelphia Phillies lasted from 1976 until 1982.
Oklahoma City RedHawks logo from 2009 to 2014
In 1983, the Texas Rangers became the parent club, a relationship that would continue as the 89ers adopted new colors and uniforms along with the nickname "RedHawks" in 1998. The city's first professional baseball name change in 35 years corresponded with the team's move to its current home, Chickasaw Bricktown Ballpark, and with the team's return to the Pacific Coast League in 1998.[9] The team was renamed the RedHawks after the red-tailed hawk, a bird of prey commonly seen throughout Oklahoma. When announcing the new name, team officials noted the raptor's four-foot wingspan and migration patterns, which always return the bird to Oklahoma. A hawk is also part of the state's official song.[10]
Prior to the 2009 season, the team once again named itself after its home city. The minor renaming was accompanied by new logos and a new color scheme.[11] The team's name change to the Oklahoma City RedHawks was made to honor Oklahoma City citizens who paid for the ballpark through a temporary one-cent sales tax to fund the Metropolitan Area Projects Plan or MAPS.[12]
On September 14, 2010, the Texas Rangers ownership announced that they were moving their Triple-A affiliation to the Round Rock Express (formerly the Astros' Triple-A affiliate).[13] On September 15, the RedHawks were sold to Mandalay Baseball Properties, which also owns or operates four other Minor League Baseball teams, and is part of the Mandalay Entertainment conglomerate chaired by entertainment industry executive Peter Guber. On September 20, Mandalay entered into a formal agreement for the RedHawks to become the Astros' new Triple-A affiliate.[14][15]
After the 2014 season, the RedHawks announced the sale of the franchise to a partnership between Mandalay Entertainment Chairman and CEO Peter Guber, other current principals of Mandalay Baseball Properties, Jason Sugarman,[16] and the Los Angeles Dodgers. As a result of the purchase agreement, the RedHawks became the Triple-A affiliate of the Dodgers in 2015 and were renamed after their parent club, becoming the Oklahoma City Dodgers.[17]
Notable performancesEdit
Luis Mendoza pitched a no-hitter for the RedHawks on August 14, 2009.
Pitchers Dustin Nippert and Luis Mendoza recorded the two no-hitters in team history (since 1998). Nippert recorded the RedHawks' first no-hitter on June 29, 2008, at Johnny Rosenblatt Stadium in Omaha, Nebraska against the Omaha Royals. The Redhawks won the seven-inning game, the first of a doubleheader, 2–0. Nippert walked two batters and struck out five in the first Oklahoma City professional baseball no-hitter since August 13, 1996, when Rick Helling recorded a perfect game for the 89ers).[18]
Mendoza pitched the team's first nine-inning no-hitter on August 14, 2009, against the Salt Lake Bees at Bricktown Ballpark. He threw 125 pitches, including 74 for strikes. He walked six and struck out six batters in the 5–0 win.|[19]
Six players have hit three home runs in a single game. Adrian Gonzalez became the first to accomplish the offensive feat on May 24, 2005, at Albuquerque. He went 3-for-4 with five RBI. All three of Nelson Cruz's hits on July 19, 2008, against Memphis were home runs. He went 3-for-5 with five RBI in the game. Nate Gold went 4-for-5 with three homers and four RBI on July 28, 2008, at Colorado Springs. Chad Tracy hit three homers on June 27, 2010, against Omaha, finishing the game 3-for-3 with five RBI. Mike Hessman went 4-for-4 with three homers on June 3, 2012, against Iowa.[20] Matt Duffy went 3-for-4 with three homers and three RBI on June 9, 2014, against Salt Lake.
Gregorio Petit is the lone OKC player to record two grand slams in one game, accomplishing the feat June 22, 2010 at New Orleans. [21]
Anderson Hernandez put together the longest hitting streak in team history August 2 – September 2, 2011 – a streak that lasted 30 games. [22]
The 2013 Redhawks made numerous entries into the club's record book. The RedHawks set the team record for most runs scored in a game at Chickasaw Bricktown Ballpark and tied the club record for most runs scored in a game overall in a 24–5 win against Colorado Springs on August 3, 2013.[23]
The 2013 squad also compiled the longest overall and home winning streaks in club history. The RedHawks won 12 straight games overall from July 26 to August 6. They continued winning at home, stringing together 17 consecutive wins at Chickasaw Bricktown Ballpark from July 26 to August 20.[24]
The 2015 OKC Dodgers set a new modern era mark for wins, finishing the regular season with the best record in the PCL at 86-58 and going on to win the American Northern Division title. The last OKC team to win at least 86 games was the 1965 Oklahoma City 89ers (91-54). The 2015 team also set single-season team records for road wins (44), fewest runs allowed (608) and fewest home runs allowed (89). The team stood 30 games above .500 (85-55) during the season, marking the first time the team reached that mark in the team’s modern PCL history. OKC Dodgers manager Damon Berryhill was named 2015 PCL Manager of the Year, becoming the first OKC manager to win the honor since Greg Biagini in 1999. [25]
Corey Seager became the second OKC player in the PCL era to record six hits in a game when he went 6-for-6 in Salt Lake May 28, 2015, including a home run and two doubles. Seager collected six RBI and scored two runs. Jeff Pickler was the first OKC player in the modern era to accomplish the feat June 22, 2004 at Albuquerque, going 6-for-6 with a double, triple and RBI. [26]
The 2016 OKC Dodgers claimed a second straight 80-win regular season and picked up back-to-back PCL American Northern Division championships. They advanced to the PCL Championship Series for the first time since 2008. [27]
The 2016 Dodgers posted a 3.72 team ERA to establish a new club record during the PCL era and the OKC pitching staff racked up a league-leading 1,245 strikeouts to set the PCL modern era record for strikeouts in just 141 games. The Dodgers allowed a league-low 372 walks, also the fewest allowed by an OKC team during the PCL era. Pitcher Jose De Leon became the first OKC pitcher to record five double-digit strikeout games in one season. [28]
The record-breaking continued for the OKC Dodgers in 2017. The team broke its own record for strikeouts as Dodgers pitchers combined for 1,277 strikeouts during the season. [29]
Right-handed starting pitcher Wilmer Font led the charge and paced all of Triple-A baseball with 178 strikeouts and set OKC’s all-time single-season strikeout record (since 1998). He tied former Dodger Jose De Leon’s club record by compiling five games with at least 10 strikeouts. Font racked up a team-record 15 strikeouts May 15 against Sacramento at Chickasaw Bricktown Ballpark and went on to be named the PCL Pitcher of the Year. [30]
The Dodgers recorded back-to-back-to-back home runs for the first time in modern team history (since 1998) June 9, 2017 against Round Rock in Oklahoma City. With one out in the first inning, Joc Pederson, Scott Van Slyke and Willie Calhoun each homered within a span of five pitches. [31]
The third-largest crowd in Chickasaw Bricktown Ballpark history was on hand to watch a rehab appearance by Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Clayton Kershaw August 26, 2017 against the Omaha Storm Chasers. A standing-room-only crowd of 13,106 was the largest in OKC since April 18, 1998 – the third game ever played at Chickasaw Bricktown Ballpark. [32]
Ian Kinsler with the Redhawks in 2005
Jim Acker, pitcher
Cody Bellinger, outfielder/first baseman
Hank Blalock, third baseman/first-baseman
Steve Buechele, third baseman
Marlon Byrd, outfielder
Walker Buehler, pitcher
Francisco Cordero, pitcher
Carl Crawford, left fielder
Nelson Cruz, outfielder
Chris Davis, first baseman
Doug Davis, pitcher
R.A. Dickey, pitcher
Justin Duchscherer, pitcher
Scott Feldman, pitcher
Neftali Feliz, pitcher
Adrian Gonzalez, first baseman
Juan González, outfielder/designated hitter
Travis Hafner, first baseman/designated hitter
Matt Harrison, pitcher
Gabe Kapler, outfielder
Dallas Keuchel, pitcher
Ian Kinsler, second baseman
Danny Kolb, pitcher
Duane Kuiper, second baseman
Gerald Laird, catcher
Zach Lee, starting pitcher
Ryan Ludwick, outfielder
Rick Manning, center fielder
J.D. Martinez, outfielder
Mitch Moreland, first baseman/outfielder
Max Muncy, third baseman
Jeff Newman, catcher
Alexi Ogando, pitcher
Carlos Peña, first baseman
J.R. Richard, starting pitcher
Jarrod Saltalamacchia, catcher
Ryne Sandberg, second baseman
Corey Seager, shortstop
Rubén Sierra, outfielder
Justin Smoak, first baseman
Sammy Sosa, outfielder
George Springer, outfielder
Edinson Vólquez, pitcher
C.J. Wilson, pitcher
Michael Young, infielder
Josh Zeid, pitcher
Radio and broadcastersEdit
The Oklahoma City Dodgers broadcast all their games on the radio on KGHM (AM) 1340 The Game and television live on MiLB.TV, some select games are also broadcast locally on YurView Oklahoma on Cox Cable Oklahoma channel 703 and simulcasted on Cox digital HD channels 1333 or 1334 (In case of scheduling conflicts with local High School Football.) starting in June 2018 against the Salt Lake Bees on June 15, 2018.
The current main radio/television broadcaster for the Oklahoma City Dodgers is Alex Freeman 2012-present. Substitute Broadcaster (When Alex Freeman is doing the local television broadcasts.) is KGHM (AM) 1340 The Game/News-radio 1000 KTOK-AM sports director Randy Renner. Current Radio color commentator: None. Current local television color commentator: Varies with each game.
The team has had multiple broadcasters who advanced to the major league level.
Curt Gowdy (late 1940s): worked as a broadcaster for the New York Yankees, Boston Red Sox, MLB on NBC, and MLB on CBS Radio; Ford C. Frick Award winner
Bob Murphy (1949–1952): later broadcast for the Boston Red Sox, Baltimore Orioles, New York Mets, MLB on CBS Radio, and The Baseball Network; Ford C. Frick Award winner
Dewayne Staats (1973–74): later worked for the Houston Astros, Chicago Cubs, New York Yankees, The Baseball Network, MLB on ESPN, Tampa Bay Rays, and MLB on Fox
Mike Nail (1975-1979); He later became the voice of the Arkansas Razorbacks basketball team under coaches Eddie Sutton and Nolan Richardson
John Rooney (1980–82): later worked for MLB on CBS Radio, Minnesota Twins, Chicago White Sox, The Baseball Network, MLB on Fox, MLB on ESPN Radio, and the St. Louis Cardinals
Brian Barnhart (1988–94): broadcast for the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim
Joe Simpson (1985): worked for the Seattle Mariners, Atlanta Braves, TBS Superstation, MLB on TBS
J.P. Shadrick (2011-Early April 2012): Now Part of the broadcast team for the Jacksonville Jaguars in the National Football League. Host of pregame, post game shows and occasional sideline reporter.
RosterEdit
Oklahoma City Dodgers roster
Players Coaches/Other
14 Stetson Allie
21 Joe Broussard
31 Daniel Corcino
10 Caleb Ferguson *
15 Tony Gonsolin
25 Justin Grimm
26 Louis Head
37 Dustin May
44 Zach McAllister
27 Chris Nunn
43 Kevin Quackenbush
17 Casey Sadler *
23 Dennis Santana *
27 Josh Sborz *
12 Jaime Schultz *
-- Yaisel Sierra
-- Markus Solbach
5 Shea Spitzbarth
29 Brock Stewart *
-- Jesen Therrien
19 Luis Vasquez
16 Mitchell White
9 Rocky Gale
20 Ben Moore
10 Will Smith *
5 Matt Beaty *
13 Daniel Castro
22 Drew Jackson
55 Gavin Lux
3 Jake Peter
24 Edwin Ríos *
2 Blake Gailen
33 Kyle Garlick *
34 Connor Joe
18 Jon Kemmer
28 Cameron Perkins
44 DJ Peters
35 Shane Peterson
4 Zach Reks
8 Travis Barbary
11 Scott Coolbaugh (hitting)
7 Jeremy Rodriguez
41 Bill Simas (pitching)
7-day injured list
* On Los Angeles Dodgers 40-man roster
# Rehab assignment
∞ Reserve list
‡ Restricted list
§ Suspended list
† Temporary inactive list
Roster updated July 14, 2019
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→ Los Angeles Dodgers minor league players
Oklahoma City Dodgers players (2015–present)
Oklahoma City RedHawks players (2009–2014)
Oklahoma RedHawks players (1998–2008)
Oklahoma 89ers players (1962–1997)
^ Rohde, John (April 12, 1998). "Back where they started". The Oklahoman. p. 106.
^ "O.C. Might Decide AA Question Friday". Miami News Record. July 12, 1961. p. 3.
^ "Oke City Seeks Pro Franchise". Lawton Constitution. July 14, 1961. p. 18.
^ "Buffs' AAA Franchise Goes to Oklahoma City". Baytown Sun. July 16, 1961. p. 9.
^ "Oklahoma City is Admitted to AAA Ball Loop". Miami News Record. July 18, 1961. p. 5.
^ "Houston Astros Sell Ball Team". Mexia Daily News. November 12, 1970. p. 11.
^ Hersom, Bob (September 9, 1997). "Bye 89ers; Hello Oklahoma RedHawks". The Oklahoman. p. 1.
^ Patterson, Matt. "RedHawks to unveil new logos and colors." The Oklahoman. August 22, 2008. Retrieved on September 26, 2008.
^ Patterson, Matt. "New name, look for RedHawks". The Oklahoman. April 26, 2009. p. 4F.
^ Cohn, Alex. "Nolan Ryan And Rangers Nab Round Rock, Houston May Relocate Triple-A Team To Nashville." SB Nation. September 14, 2010. Retrieved on September 14, 2010.
^ Zachary Levine, "Astros cultivate farm system: Oklahoma City signs 2-year deal as AAA affiliate", Houston Chronicle, September 21, 2010.
^ David Falcheck, "Mandalay buys Oklahoma RedHawks franchise", The Times-Tribune (Scranton) The Times-Tribune, September 23, 2010.
^ "DSG TAG".
^ "RedHawks Announce Sale of Franchise". September 17, 2014. Retrieved September 17, 2014.
^ Wild, Danny (June 29, 2008). "RedHawks' Nippert Tosses No-hitter". Minor League Baseball. Retrieved August 12, 2015.
^ Kelley, Mason (August 15, 2009). "RedHawks' Mendoza No-hits Bees". Minor League Baseball. Retrieved August 12, 2015.
^ Ed Godfrey, "OKC RedHawks: Mike Hessman is the RedHawks' version of Crash Davis", The Oklahoman, June 5, 2012.
^ "OKC Dodgers Media Guide" (PDF).
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^ Mike Baldwin, "OKC RedHawks: RedHawks' 17-game win streak at home snapped", The Oklahoman, August 26, 2013.
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California State Route 1
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"Pacific Coast Highway (United States)" and "California 1" redirect here. For other uses, see Pacific Coast Highway (disambiguation) and Coast Highway.
"Cabrillo Highway" redirects here. It is not to be confused with the Cabrillo Freeway in San Diego.
State Route 1 (SR 1) is a major north–south state highway that runs along most of the Pacific coastline of the U.S. state of California. At a total of just over 659 miles (1,061 km), it is the longest state route in California. SR 1 has several portions designated as either Pacific Coast Highway (PCH), Cabrillo Highway, Shoreline Highway, or Coast Highway. Its southern terminus is at Interstate 5 (I-5) near Dana Point in Orange County and its northern terminus is at U.S. Route 101 (US 101) near Leggett in Mendocino County. SR 1 also at times runs concurrently with US 101, most notably through a 54-mile (87 km) stretch in Ventura and Santa Barbara counties, and across the Golden Gate Bridge.
Map of California with SR 1 highlighted in red
655.845 mi[3] (1,055.480 km)
(broken into 5 pieces by U.S. Route 101)
Route One, Big Sur Coast Highway and Route One, San Luis Obispo North Coast Byway
Portions of the Cabrillo Highway in Santa Barbara and San Mateo Counties[2]
Special restrictions'[1]
No flammable or combustible tank vehicles in the Sepulveda Tunnel
No trucks with 4 or more axles through Malibu
No trucks over 3 short tons (2.7 t) through Lompoc
No explosives, flammables or combustibles in the Tom Lantos Tunnels
I-5 in Dana Point
SR 55 in Newport Beach
I-10 in Santa Monica
SR 34 in Oxnard
SR 46 near Cambria
SR 68 in Monterey
SR 17 in Santa Cruz
SR 92 in Half Moon Bay
I-280 in Daly City
SR 20 near Fort Bragg
US 101 near Leggett
Orange, Los Angeles, Ventura, Santa Barbara, San Luis Obispo, Monterey, Santa Cruz, San Mateo, San Francisco, Marin, Sonoma, Mendocino
← I-980 SR 2 →
The highway is designated as an All-American Road. In addition to providing a scenic route to numerous attractions along the coast, the route also serves as a major thoroughfare in the Greater Los Angeles Area, the San Francisco Bay Area, and several other coastal urban areas.
SR 1 was built piecemeal in various stages, with the first section opening in the Big Sur region in the 1930s. However, portions of the route had several names and numbers over the years as more segments opened. It was not until the 1964 state highway renumbering that the entire route was officially designated as SR 1. Although SR 1 is a popular route for its scenic beauty, frequent landslides and erosion along the coast have caused several segments to be either closed for lengthy periods for repairs, or re-routed inland.
Route descriptionEdit
SR 1 is part of the California Freeway and Expressway System,[4] and through the Los Angeles metro area, Monterey, Santa Cruz, San Francisco metro area, and Leggett is part of the National Highway System,[5] a network of highways that are considered essential to the country's economy, defense, and mobility by the Federal Highway Administration.[6] SR 1 is eligible to be included in the State Scenic Highway System;[7] however, only a few stretches between Los Angeles and San Francisco have officially been designated as a scenic highway,[8] meaning that there are substantial sections of highway passing through a "memorable landscape" with no "visual intrusions", where the potential designation has gained popular favor with the community.[9] The Big Sur section from San Luis Obispo to Carmel is an official National Scenic Byway.[10]
The entire route is designated as a Blue Star Memorial Highway to recognize those in the United States armed forces. In Southern California, the California State Legislature has designated the segment between Interstate 5 (I-5) in Dana Point and US 101 near Oxnard as the Pacific Coast Highway (commonly referred to as "PCH"). Between US 101 at the Las Cruces junction (8 miles south of Buellton) and US 101 in Pismo Beach, and between US 101 in San Luis Obispo and Interstate 280 in San Francisco, the legislature has designated SR 1 as the Cabrillo Highway, after the explorer Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo who sailed along the coast line. The legislature has also designated the route as the Shoreline Highway between the Manzanita Junction near Marin City and Leggett. Smaller segments of the highway have been assigned several other names by the state and municipal governments.[11] The legislature has also relinquished state control of segments within Dana Point, Newport Beach, Santa Monica, and Oxnard; those segments are now maintained by those respective municipalities.[12]
In addition to connecting the coastal cities and communities along its path, SR 1 provides access to beaches, parks, and other attractions along the coast, making it a popular route for tourists. The route annually helps bring several billion dollars to the state's tourism industry.[13] The route runs right besides the coastline, or close to it, for the most part, and it turns several miles inland to avoid several federally controlled or protected areas such as Vandenberg Air Force Base, Diablo Canyon Power Plant and Point Reyes National Seashore.
Segments of SR 1 range from a rural two-lane road to an urban freeway. Because of the former, long distance thru traffic traveling between the coastal metropolitan areas are instead advised to use faster routes such as US 101 or I-5.
Orange CountyEdit
Southbound PCH in Crystal Cove State Park near Laguna Beach
At its southernmost end in Orange County, SR 1 terminates at I-5 in Capistrano Beach in Dana Point. It then travels west into the city center. After leaving Dana Point, Pacific Coast Highway (PCH) becomes simply "Coast Highway" while at the same time continues northwest along the coast through Laguna Beach (where it meets the southern terminus of SR 133) and Crystal Cove State Park.[14][15]
SR 1 then enters Newport Beach and passes through several affluent neighborhoods, including Newport Coast and Corona Del Mar, spans the entrance to the Upper Newport Bay, which marks the boundary between East Coast Highway and West Coast Highway, and crosses California State Route 55 near its southern terminus. Upon entering Huntington Beach, SR 1 regains the Pacific Coast Highway designation. It passes Huntington State Beach and the southern terminus of California State Route 39 before reaching Bolsa Chica State Beach and the Bolsa Chica Ecological Reserve. PCH then continues along the coast into Seal Beach, the final city on its journey in Orange County.[14][15]
Los Angeles and Ventura countiesEdit
PCH enters Los Angeles County and the city of Long Beach after crossing the San Gabriel River. SR 1 then continues northwest through the city to its junction with Lakewood Boulevard (State Route 19) and Los Coyotes Diagonal at the Los Alamitos Circle, more than 2 miles (3.2 km) from the coast. From the traffic circle, it continues inland west through Long Beach, including approximately one mile adjacent to the southern boundary of Signal Hill. PCH is marked as such in Long Beach, but originally bore the name of Hathaway Avenue east of the traffic circle and State Street west of there. PCH then passes through the Los Angeles districts of Wilmington and Harbor City. While bypassing the immediate coastline of Palos Verdes, SR 1 continues to head west into the cities of Lomita and Torrance along the route of the former Redondo-Wilmington Boulevard.[14][15]
PCH then turns north through Redondo Beach and Hermosa Beach. Upon entering Manhattan Beach, it becomes Sepulveda Boulevard and turns back into PCH designation through El Segundo.[16] At Imperial Highway, it regains the name Sepulveda Boulevard as it descends and passes under two runways of Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) via the Sepulveda Boulevard Tunnel.[14][15]
Southbound SR 1 between Santa Monica and LAX
After leaving LAX, SR 1 splits from Sepulveda and turns northwest, becoming Lincoln Boulevard and passing through the Los Angeles neighborhoods of Westchester, Playa Vista, Marina Del Rey, and Venice. It then enters the city of Santa Monica, where SR 1 turns southwest, merging onto the final segment of the Santa Monica Freeway. Passing through the McClure Tunnel, SR 1 emerges along the beachfront in Santa Monica and continues along the coast; it is known locally also as Palisades Beach Road and formerly as Roosevelt Highway. Upon leaving Santa Monica, it once again regains the name PCH as it follows the coast, curving west through the Pacific Palisades neighborhood of Los Angeles before becoming the main thoroughfare of the city of Malibu while traversing the entire 21 miles (34 km) of that city.[14][15]
PCH passing Mugu Rock at Point Mugu
SR 1 crosses the county line and continue through the Ventura County portion of the Malibu coast through Leo Carrillo State Park and Point Mugu State Park. After passing through a notch in the promontory that marks Point Mugu, the western end of the Santa Monica Mountains, and the beginning of the Oxnard Plain. The road cut left a very large rock formation at the tip of the point that is called the Mugu Rock. At that point, PCH leaves the coast and heads north, and then northwest as a freeway along the northeastern boundary of Naval Base Ventura County Point Mugu for several miles to an interchange at Rice Avenue, Pleasant Valley Road, and Oxnard Boulevard in Oxnard.[14][15] The reconstructed interchange at Rice Avenue and Pleasant Valley Road channels traffic north on the surface street, Rice Avenue, towards the interchange with US 101. The historic route along Oxnard Boulevard was relinquished in 2014. Truck traffic to and from the Port of Hueneme also uses this designated route at the Rice Avenue/Hueneme Road connector to connect with Route 101 at the Rice Avenue Interchange.[17]
After traveling through Ventura, SR 1 separates from US 101 to travel the historic beach route along the Rincon coast that was originally opened up by the construction of the Railroad Coastal Route from Emma Wood State Beach to the Mobil Pier Undercrossing near Sea Cliff, where it rejoins US 101 about 3 miles (4.8 km) south of the Santa Barbara County line near La Conchita.[14][15]
Central CoastEdit
The US 101/SR 1 concurrency (although actual signage mentioning SR 1 through this segment is nonexistent) from the Mobil Pier Undercrossing runs for 54 miles (87 km), passing through the City of Santa Barbara and its neighboring communities along the coast of Santa Barbara County. The route then turns away from the coast at Gaviota, avoiding Point Conception, and heads due north through Gaviota State Park and the Gaviota Tunnel. In Las Cruces, SR 1, now named Cabrillo Highway, splits again from US 101 and heads northwest to the city of Lompoc. It is briefly joined with SR 246 along Lompoc's east-west Ocean Avenue, before turning north as H Street to Harris Grade Road, where it then regains the Cabrillo Highway name.[14][15]
After reaching the main entrance to Vandenberg Air Force Base, SR 1 turns northeast, away from the immediate coastline of the base, to join SR 135. Route 135 then splits from Route 1 south of Orcutt, and the Cabrillo Highway turns northwest back towards the coast to Guadalupe. It enters San Luis Obispo County, avoiding the immediate coastline of the protected Guadalupe-Nipomo Dunes, before passing through Grover Beach and subsequently joining US 101 for the third time at Pismo Beach. The US 101/SR 1 concurrency then avoids the immediate coastline of Avila Beach and Diablo Canyon Power Plant, and instead heads straight inland to San Luis Obispo.[14][15]
SR 1 splits from US 101 at Santa Rosa Street in San Luis Obispo and then resumes as a four lane road as the Cabrillo Highway. It rejoins the coast in Morro Bay, running through that city as a freeway, where it crosses Morro Creek at the site of a prehistoric Chumash settlement dating to the Millingstone Horizon.[18] From there, SR 1 proceeds north to Cayucos until it again becomes a winding, two lane road with occasional passing lanes. It then continues along the coast through Cambria and San Simeon, and past the elephant seal colony at Piedras Blancas Light Station. SR 1 provides access to Hearst Castle in San Simeon in Northern San Luis Obispo County.[14][15]
Big SurEdit
Further information: Big Sur § Highway 1
Looking south, showing the McWay Rocks, about 16 miles south of Big Sur
The Bixby Creek Bridge in Big Sur
SR 1 then enters the Big Sur region, crossing the San Carpóforo Creek just south of the Monterey County line. For about 90 miles (140 km) from the San Carpóforo Creek to the Carmel River, the road winds and hugs the cliffs of Big Sur, passing various coastal parks in the area, with no connection to the other side of the Santa Lucia Mountains except Nacimiento-Fergusson Road. The road briefly leaves the coast for a few miles and goes through a redwood forest in the Big Sur River valley. This segment of the highway, built between 1919 and 1937, also crosses several historic bridges, including the scenic Bixby Creek Bridge, a reinforced concrete arch with a 320-foot (98 m) span that passes over the Bixby Creek gorge, the Rocky Creek Bridge.[14][15] and the Big Creek Bridge.[19]
Monterey Bay AreaEdit
After crossing the Carmel River, SR 1 turns inland and runs along just between the eastern boundary of Carmel and the western boundary of Carmel Valley before becoming a freeway in Monterey. After bypassing the immediate coastline of Pebble Beach and the rest of the Monterey Peninsula, the freeway heads north along the coast of Monterey Bay through Sand City, Seaside, and Marina. At the interchange with SR 156 near Castroville, SR 1 continues north as a two-lane rural road to Moss Landing.[14][15]
SR 1 becomes a freeway once again just before entering into Santa Cruz County. This four-lane freeway continues up the Monterey Bay coast through Watsonville to its interchange with SR 17 in Santa Cruz. (This trumpet interchange is locally known as The Fishhook due to its tight loop ramps that resemble a fishhook when viewed from above). After a short expressway section, it skirts downtown Santa Cruz as four-lane Mission Street, regaining the Cabrillo Highway designation (local/historic name is "Coast Road") after it leaves the city and continues north-west as a two-lane road (with occasional four-lane sections) up the coast.[14][15]
San Francisco Bay AreaEdit
Scene from SR 1 near Half Moon Bay at Tunitas Creek Beach
Entering San Mateo County, SR 1 follows the west coast of the San Francisco Peninsula, passing by the marine mammal colonies at Año Nuevo State Park, and the historic Pigeon Point Lighthouse, before reaching Half Moon Bay. Between Half Moon Bay and Pacifica, the highway bypasses a treacherous stretch known as Devil's Slide via the Tom Lantos Tunnels.[14][15]
The Golden Gate Bridge, which SR 1 shares with US 101
SR 1 winds along the Marin County coast
SR 1 then becomes a freeway once again at Sharp Park in Pacifica before turning inland to join Interstate 280 in Daly City. Just short of reaching the City and County of San Francisco, SR 1 splits from Interstate 280, where the road becomes Junipero Serra Boulevard. Shortly thereafter, the highway makes a slight left, becoming the six-lane wide 19th Avenue; the San Francisco Municipal Railway's M Ocean View streetcar line runs in the median from this point until a junction to a rail only right-of-way near Rossmoor Drive. SR 1 then turns into Park Presidio Boulevard after it passes through the city's Golden Gate Park. Then after entering the Presidio of San Francisco, it goes through the MacArthur Tunnel before joining US 101 for a fourth time on the approach to the Golden Gate Bridge known as Doyle Drive.[14][15]
After crossing the bridge and entering Marin County, SR 1 then splits from US 101 again near Marin City, where it leaves the city and, as the Shoreline Highway, returns to a winding, two lane road as it passes over the Marin Hills to rejoin the coast at Muir Beach. After passing Stinson Beach and the Bolinas Lagoon, SR 1 avoids the immediate coastline of Point Reyes National Seashore and the rest of the Point Reyes Peninsula, and instead heads towards, and then along, the eastern shore of Tomales Bay.[14][15]
Leaving Tomales Bay, SR 1 heads further inland to intersect with Valley Ford Road just north of the Sonoma County border. It then rejoins the coast in Bodega Bay, where its name changes to Coast Highway past the Sonoma Coast State Beaches. After bridging the Russian River at Jenner, SR 1 continues to wind along the rugged coast to Fort Ross, Salt Point State Parks, and the planned community of Sea Ranch.[14][15]
Mendocino CountyEdit
SR 1 crosses Russian Gulch State Park on the Frederick W. Panhorst Bridge
SR 1 then crosses the Gualala River and enters Mendocino County. The highway enters the city of Point Arena, in which it becomes Main Street, before following School Street to the northwest and then becoming Shoreline Highway once again. It bridges the Garcia River and then, near Elk, the Navarro River, where it meets SR 128.[14][15]
At the town of Albion, the Albion River is spanned by the Albion River Bridge, the only remaining wooden trestle bridge on the highway. SR 1 then passes through Little River and Van Damme State Park, crosses Big River and passes through Mendocino Headlands State Park and the Victorian community of Mendocino. Continuing north, SR 1 crosses Russian Gulch State Park on the Frederick W. Panhorst Bridge, and passes through the town of Caspar. It passes through a roundabout just south of the intersection with the western terminus of SR 20,[20][21] where it widens to two lanes, then bridges the Noyo River at Noyo, becomes Main Street of Fort Bragg, and crosses the California Western Railroad.[14][15]
North of Fort Bragg as a two-lane highway again, SR 1 passes MacKerricher State Park and the towns of Cleone and Inglenook before crossing Ten Mile River. After passing Westport-Union Landing State Beach, the road goes through a series of redwood-forested switchbacks before reaching Rockport. North of Rockport, the highway turns away from the Lost Coast to avoid steep and unstable highlands created by Mendocino Triple Junction uplift. The highway follows Cottaneva Creek inland through redwood-forested mountainous terrain before terminating at US 101 just outside Leggett.[14][15]
SR 1 has become famous worldwide,[citation needed] but the highway was signed as several other routes prior to 1964. When the road was first envisioned in the World War I era, California highways were referred to by either a highway name or a route number. The route numbers were used by state highway planners and the Legislature from 1915 until 1964, but were never posted on highways, referred to by the auto clubs or public, nor used on maps. The SR 1 designation was first assigned in 1939. Various portions of SR 1 have been posted and referred to by various names and numbers over the years. State construction of what became SR 1 started after the state's third highway bond issue passed before 1910.
Segments initially constructedEdit
Bixby Canyon Bridge under construction in 1932
Convict labor from Folsom Prison was paid 35 cents per day to help build the roadway.
Eager for a direct coastal route between Ventura and Santa Barbara, civic boosters used locally raised funds to begin building the Rincon Sea Level Road in 1911. The route between the Ventura River and Carpinteria had been an unimproved route along small alluvial fan beaches that skirted coastal bluff rock outcroppings at low tide.[22] Construction of the Southern Pacific Coast Line railroad had created a road flanked by riprap along this area. In order to make this part of the first coastal route for motorists driving from San Francisco to Los Angeles, they paved the road and built wooden causeways where the route flooded from the ocean waves.[23] Local funding ran out, but the newly formed State Highway Commission took over and completed the road in 1913.[24]
One of the most difficult routes to build was along the Big Sur coast. The state first approved building Route 56, or the Carmel-San Simeon Highway,[25] to connect Big Sur to the rest of California in 1919. Federal funds were appropriated and in 1921 voters approved additional state funds. San Quentin State Prison set up three temporary prison camps to provide unskilled convict labor to help with road construction. One was set up by Little Sur River, one at Kirk Creek and a third was later established in the south at Anderson Creek. Inmates were paid 35 cents per day and had their prison sentences reduced in return. The route necessitated construction of 33 bridges, the largest of which was the Bixby Creek Bridge. Six more concrete arch bridges were built between Point Sur and Carmel.[26]
After 18 years of construction, aided by New Deal funds during the Great Depression, the paved two-lane road was completed and opened on June 17, 1937.[27] The road was initially called the Carmel-San Simeon Highway (Route 56), but was better known as the Roosevelt Highway, honoring the current President Franklin D. Roosevelt. A 1921 law extended Route 56 south over the county road to Cambria.[28]
Route 60, from Oxnard via the coast to San Juan Capistrano, was extended from Oxnard to El Rio (midway to Ventura, now the site of the Oxnard Boulevard interchange with US 101), in 1925. At Point Mugu, a path for the highway was cut through the mountains using surplus World War I explosives, thus creating Mugu Rock.[29] The 1921 legislation, in theory, made Route 60 a continuous coastal loop, with both ends at what became US 101 in Oxnard and at Capistrano Beach (since 1964 the southern terminus of SR 1 at Interstate 5 in Orange County).[30] Route 56 was extended further south from Cambria to connect to present-day US 101 in San Luis Obispo in 1931.[31]
The route from San Simeon to Carmel (connecting with existing county highways at each end) was one of two sections designated as SR 1. It and Route 60 were intended as links in a continuous coastal roadway from Oregon to Mexico,[32][33]
A large expansion of the state highway system in 1933 resulted in Route 56 being extended in both directions. To the south, a second section was added, beginning at Pismo Beach on US 101 (Route 2) and heading south through Guadalupe and Lompoc to rejoin US 101 at a junction called Los Cruces (sic), just north of Gaviota Pass. (A short piece near Orcutt and Los Alamos had been part of Route 2, which originally followed present SR 135 from Los Alamos to Santa Maria.) To the north, Route 56 was continued along the coast from Carmel through Santa Cruz to San Francisco. Several discontinuous pieces were added north of San Francisco, one from Route 1 (US 101) north of the Golden Gate to the county line near Valley Ford, another from the Russian River near Jenner (where the new Route 104 ended) to Westport, and a third from Ferndale to Route 1 near Fernbridge. Except for the gaps in Route 56 north of San Francisco, these additions completed the coastal highway, with other sections formed by Routes 1, 2, and 71.[34][35]
The section of SR 1 from Santa Monica to Oxnard, via Malibu, went out to contract in 1925 as "Coast Boulevard", but was designated "Theodore Roosevelt Highway" when it was dedicated in 1929. Before the completion of its present alignment in 1937, a narrow, winding, steep road known as Pedro Mountain Road connected Montara with Pacifica. That highway was completed in 1914 and provided competition to the Ocean Shore Railroad, which operated between San Francisco and Tunitas Creek from 1907 to 1920. SR 1 also used to run along the coast between Pacifica and Daly City, but this segment was damaged and rendered unusable after a 5.3 magnitude earthquake on March 22, 1957. A small stub remains near Thornton Beach.
Route 56 along Big Sur was incorporated into the state highway system and re-designated as SR 1 in 1939. The section of road along the Big Sur Coast was declared the first State Scenic Highway in 1965, and in 1966 the first lady, Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson, led the official designation ceremony at Bixby Creek Bridge.[36] The route was designated as an All American Road by the US Government.[26]
Signs first postedEdit
San Juan Capistrano - Oxnard
U.S. Route 101 Alternate
State Route 208
Rockport - Leggett
SR 1 signs first went up after California decided to number its highways, in 1934. The section for Humboldt, Mendocino, Sonoma, Marin, San Francisco, San Mateo, Santa Cruz, Monterey, San Luis Obispo and Santa Barbara counties was posted as SR 1, that section of the road known Route 56 (Las Cruces to Fernbridge). For Ventura, Los Angeles and Orange counties, Route 60 (San Juan Capistrano to the Oxnard area) became SR 3, and a few SR 3 signs were actually posted.[37] The SR 3 signs were replaced by US 101 Alt. shields by 1936, as the road was built out; this change also allowed the extension of US 66 to end at another U.S. Route, in Santa Monica.[38]
The gaps of non-state highway along the northern coast were finally filled in by the Legislature in 1951, though the State Department of Public Works was not required to maintain the newly added portions immediately. A connection from near Rockport to Legislative Route 1 (signed US 101) at Leggett was also added to the Legislative Route 56 definition,[39] as the existing county road north from Rockport to Ferndale had not yet been paved.[40]
The state Legislature in 1963 tossed out the old conflicting Legislative Route Numbers (1964 renumbering), got rid of some famous old U.S. routes, and renumbered many state highways. It abolished US 101A in Los Angeles, Orange and Ventura counties and renumbered it as SR 1. The Rockport to Leggett connection then became State Route 208.[41] The cover of "California Highways" magazine in fall 1964 shows state engineers posting the new shield at Point Mugu.[42] The same year, the Legislature by state law named SR 1 "Pacific Coast Highway" in Orange, Los Angeles and Ventura counties, "Cabrillo Highway" from Santa Barbara north to San Francisco, and "Shoreline Highway" from Marin County to its northern terminus. Many cities, however, did not change the name of city streets that are part of SR 1, such as Lincoln and Sepulveda boulevards in Los Angeles, Santa Monica and El Segundo; and Junipero Serra and Park Presidio boulevards in San Francisco. Several other cities and communities like Newport Beach and Bodega Bay merely named their respective city streets as "Coast Highway".
Modern alignmentsEdit
Signs marking the northern terminus of SR 1 near Leggett; the route was originally proposed to run further north, but these plans were abandoned to avoid the steep and unstable highlands of the Lost Coast region.
The freeway portion of SR 1 from Highway 68 in Monterey to Munras Avenue opened in 1956–1960. The segment from Munras Avenue to the northern border of Sand City and Seaside opened in 1968, and bypasses the original highway alignment of Munras Avenue and Fremont Street in Monterey, and Fremont Boulevard through Seaside. North of Seaside, the freeway was built over the original SR 1 alignment through Fort Ord in 1973. North of Fort Ord, SR 1 now veers to the left of the original alignment and bypasses Marina to the west. This segment including the interchange with SR 156 and the short, 2-lane Castroville Bypass opened in 1976. Originally SR 1 followed the SR 156 alignment to the SR 183 intersection in Castroville, then turned northwest, following the present-day SR 183 through Castroville before rejoining its existing alignment at the northern terminus of the Castroville Bypass.
Plans to upgrade SR 1 to a freeway from its southern terminus all the way to Oxnard, including building an offshore causeway from the Santa Monica Pier to Topanga Canyon Boulevard south of Malibu, were ultimately killed by 1971 due to local opposition.[43] In 1980, another section was added northwest of Ventura near Emma Wood State Beach, when several miles of the old two-lane alignment of U.S. Route 101 were posted as SR 1 where the freeway had bypassed it in about 1960. Then in 1988, the segment from Purisima Road in Lompoc to SR 135 was re-routed from Harris Grade Road to the former County Route S20 so it could directly serve Vandenberg Air Force Base.
Construction to bridge the gap in the Lost Coast region between Rockport and Ferndale was eventually abandoned. The steepness and related geotechnical challenges of the coastal mountains made this stretch of coastline too costly for highway builders to establish routes through the area.[44] In 1984, SR 1 was then re-routed to replace State Highway 208, connecting Rockport and Leggett, while the segment between Ferndale and Fernbridge was renumbered as State Highway 211.[45] Most of the coastline in the area is now part of Sinkyone Wilderness State Park and the King Range National Conservation Area.
The roadway along Devil's Slide, south of Pacifica, became the site of frequent deadly crashes and roadway-closing landslides. Beginning in 1958, Caltrans supported a plan to construct an inland bypass over Montara Mountain as an alternate route, but was eventually opposed by community and environmental groups who supported a tunnel instead. After decades of legal disputes, the Federal Highway Administration ordered Caltrans in 1995 to re-evaluate the proposed tunnel. Then on November 5, 1996, San Mateo County voters approved Measure T to change the county's official preference from the bypass to the tunnel. Ground eventually broke in 2005, and the Tom Lantos Tunnels opened in April 2013.
In 2014, two-way traffic was restored along the original PCH segment from Copper Lantern to Blue Lantern streets in the Dana Point city center after 25 years of one-way operation.[46] During that period, only northbound traffic had flowed along this section of PCH while southbound traffic had been diverted onto the parallel Del Prado Avenue.
SR 1 has never been planned to extend south into San Diego, or north into Crescent City, where I-5 (which replaced the US 101 designation and signage between Los Angeles and San Diego) and US 101 serve as the coastal highways in those areas, respectively.
As a cycling venueEdit
Cyclists descend SR 1 at Devil's Slide on Stage 2 of the 2012 Tour of California before the segment was bypassed one year later by the Tom Lantos Tunnels
For the 1932 Summer Olympics, the segment of the SR 1 between Oxnard and Santa Monica (then known as the Theodore Roosevelt Highway) hosted part of the road cycling events.[47] Portions of SR 1 have also hosted stages of the Tour of California.[48][49]
MaintenanceEdit
California’s coastline is constantly changing and continually presents us with challenges. Through hard work and determination, we continue to keep this scenic highway open.
— Malcolm Dougherty, director of Caltrans.[50]
LandslidesEdit
Frequent California landslides and erosion along the coast have caused portions of SR 1 to either be closed for long periods of time, or be re-routed entirely. Some of these include:
A segment along the coast between Pacifica and Daly City in what is now Thornton Beach was damaged and rendered unusable after a 5.3 magnitude earthquake on March 22, 1957. SR 1 was then eventually re-routed to turn inland to join Interstate 280.
The Piedras Blancas Realignment Project plans to re-route the road up to 475 feet (145 m) further inland to avoid the expected coastal erosion from the Piedras Blancas Light Station to the Arroyo de la Cruz Bridge in San Luis Obispo County.[51]
Big Rock Mesa landslide in Malibu was one of the worst in state history. A total of 250 homes collapsed, cracked or slid off their foundation with 30 homes being condemned. The state agreed to pay forty million dollars as cutting through the hillside to build Pacific Coast Highway was a contributing cause.[52]
The Devil's Slide area has been prone to major landslides. One slide in 1995 caused the road to be closed for five months, while another in 2006 led to a four-month closure.[53] The Tom Lantos Tunnels, named after former U.S. Congressman Tom Lantos, opened in 2013 to bypass the area.[54]
In 2011, major reconstruction was completed between Muir Beach and Stinson Beach, including the addition of a 523-foot-long (159 m), 20-foot-high (6.1 m), but mostly buried, retaining wall. This followed a four-month, $25 million reconstruction that repaired damage from a 2007 landslide.[55]
A March 2011 landslide in the Big Sur region forced Caltrans to close the highway for several months.[56][57] A section south of Lucia that is also prone to frequent landslides, known as Pitkins Curve and Rain Rocks, was replaced with a bridge and a covered rock shed.[58]
During the winter of 2016–2017, the Big Sur region received more than 60 inches (150 cm) of rain. The road was closed or partially closed due to mudslides and landslides in at least six locations. On February 20, Caltrans declared that the Pfeiffer Canyon Bridge just south of Pfeiffer Big Sur State Park was damaged beyond repair, closing that segment of SR 1 for eight months, and effectively splitting Big Sur in half.[59] Some businesses, cut off from customers and without access to supplies, were forced to close. For some residents, the only means of getting out was via helicopter.[60][61] In March, Caltrans demolished the bridge and began construction of the replacement.[62] The rebuilt bridge opened on October 13, 2017 at a cost of $24 million.[63][64]
Another major slide at Mud Creek closed a 30-mile (48 km) stretch of the highway in May 2017.[65] The huge slide at Mud Creek covered about one-third mile (0.54 km) of road with 40 feet (12 m) of dirt and rock. The slide was on a section of the road that was already closed due to smaller slides. The scale of the slide was compared to a very large slide during the winter of 1983–1984 that closed SR 1 for more than a year.[66] A replacement roadway was built over the landslide and opened in July 2018, at a cost of $40 million.[67][68][69][70]
Future projectsEdit
Since 1976, widening of SR 1 beyond one lane in each direction has been prohibited in rural areas within the California Coastal Zone, per California Public Resources Code section 30254.
In 2014, Caltrans relinquished the portion of SR 1 in Oxnard along Oxnard Boulevard. The plan is then for PCH between Pleasant Valley Road and US 101 to be re-routed from Oxnard Boulevard onto Rice Avenue.[71][72] That segment of Rice Avenue includes a railroad grade crossing at 5th Avenue that was the site of the February 2015 Oxnard train derailment, which eventually led to one death and 29 injuries. This was the twelfth accident at the crossing in ten years.[73] An overpass has been planned at that site for almost two decades, but funding has not been available in Ventura County for the estimated $35 million grade separation project.[74]
In 2015, a $20 million project was proposed to add over 150 safety improvements to the stretch of the highway in Malibu. This follows a string of fatal accidents in the area, including one involving Caitlyn Jenner that claimed another person's life.[75]
The Calera Parkway project proposes to widen the non-freeway segment in Pacifica between the Rockaway Beach and Vallemar districts, but faces opposition by local residents and environmentalists.[76]
Major intersectionsEdit
ORA R0.13-33.72 Dana Point
I-5 (San Diego Freeway) – Santa Ana, San Diego Interchange; southern end of SR 1; I-5 exit 79; road continues as Camino las Ramblas
— Coast Highway south, Doheny Park Road – Capistrano Beach Interchange; former US 101
Northern end of freeway; northern end of state maintenance[a]
Dana Point–Laguna Beach line
Southern end of state maintenance[a]
SR 133 (Broadway Street, Laguna Canyon Road)
To SR 73 / Newport Coast Drive Northern end of state maintenance[a]
To I-405 / MacArthur Boulevard – Long Beach, Los Angeles, Santa Ana Former SR 73 north; serves John Wayne Airport
Jamboree Road – Balboa Island Southern end of state maintenance[a]
SR 55 (Newport Boulevard) – Costa Mesa, Balboa Peninsula Interchange; SR 55 exit 1
Brookhurst Street – Fountain Valley
SR 39 north (Beach Boulevard)
LA 0.00-62.69 Long Beach
SR 22 (7th Street)
I-710 (Long Beach Freeway) – Long Beach, Pasadena Interchange; I-710 exit 2
SR 103 (Terminal Island Freeway) / Willow Street – Terminal Island Interchange
2200-2400 East Pacific Coast Highway – Port of Los Angeles Interchange
Alameda Street (SR 47) via O Street Interchange
Wilmington–Harbor City line
I-110 (Harbor Freeway) – Los Angeles, San Pedro Interchange; I-110 exit 4
SR 213 (Western Avenue)
SR 107 north / CR N7 (Hawthorne Boulevard) – Inglewood, Palos Verdes Estates
I-105 east (Century Freeway) / Imperial Highway – Norwalk Interchange; I-105 exit 1
Airport Tunnel
Century Boulevard – LAX Airport Interchange
LAX Airport (96th Street) Interchange
Westchester Parkway Interchange
Culver Boulevard Interchange
SR 90 east (Marina Freeway)
Venice Boulevard (SR 187 east) – Culver City, Venice
Venice–Santa Monica line
Northern end of state maintenance[a]
I-10 east (Santa Monica Freeway) – Los Angeles Eastern end of I-10 concurrency; interchange; former western terminus of SR 2; southern end of state maintenance;[a] I-10 east exit 1A, west exit 1B
Southern end of freeway
McClure Tunnel
Western end of I-10 concurrency; northern end of freeway; western terminus of I-10
Ocean Avenue – Downtown Santa Monica Interchange; southbound exit and northbound entrance; former SR 187 east
SR 27 north (Topanga Canyon Boulevard)
CR N1 (Malibu Canyon Road)
CR N9 north (Kanan Dume Road)
SR 23 north (Decker Canyon Road) – Thousand Oaks
Mulholland Highway
VEN 0.00-43.62[b]
107 Las Posas Road - NAS Point Mugu
108 Wood Road – USN Point Mugu
109 Hueneme Road
110 Nauman Road No entrance ramps to SR 1; no access across SR 1
Hueneme Road Southbound exit and northbound entrance
Northern end of freeway
Rice Avenue, Pleasant Valley Road Northern end of state maintenance.[a] Rice Avenue is the future re-route of SR 1 to US 101 to bypass Oxnard[71]
113 Channel Islands Boulevard Southbound exit is via Rose Avenue
Rose Avenue No left turns from SR 1
Saviers Road, Wooley Road Saviers Road was former SR 34 west
SR 34 east (Fifth Street)
SR 232 north (Vineyard Avenue) to US 101 south – Los Angeles
22.73[b]
US 101 south (Ventura Freeway) / Oxnard Boulevard – Los Angeles Southern end of US 101 concurrency; interchange; southern end of state maintenance;[a] US 101 exit 62B
Southern end of freeway on US 101
63A[c] Wagon Wheel Road Southbound exit only
R23.45[b]
63B[c] Johnson Drive – Montalvo Signed as exit 63 northbound
64[c] Victoria Avenue – Channel Islands Harbor
65[c] Telephone Road
66A[c]
SR 126 east (Santa Paula Freeway) – Santa Paula Signed as exit 66 southbound; no southbound entrance; SR 126 west exit 1A
66B[c] Main Street (US 101 Bus. north) – Ventura No southbound exit
68[c] Seaward Avenue
69[c] Vista del Mar Drive, Sanjon Road Northbound exit and southbound entrance
70A[c] California Street, Ventura Avenue
70B[c]
SR 33 north (Ojai Freeway) – Ojai
71[c] Main Street (US 101 Bus. south) – Ventura Southbound exit and northbound entrance
Northern end of freeway on US 101
Solimar Beach
US 101 north (Ventura Freeway) Northern end of US 101 concurrency; interchange; northbound exit and southbound entrance; US 101 exit 72
US 101 south (Ventura Freeway) – Los Angeles Southern end of US 101 concurrency; interchange; US 101 exit 78
83[c] Bates Road
SB R0.00[b]-50.61 Carpinteria
R0.63[b]
84[c]
SR 150 east – Ojai, Lake Casitas
1.61[b]
85[c] Bailard Avenue
86A[c] Casitas Pass Road Signed as exit 86 northbound
86B[c] Linden Avenue Southbound exit and northbound entrance
87A[c] Santa Monica Road Signed as exit 87 northbound
87B[c] Carpinteria Avenue Southbound exit only
88[c] Padaro Lane, Santa Claus Lane
90[c] Padaro Lane – Summerland
91[c] Evans Avenue – Summerland
92[c] Sheffield Drive
93[c] San Ysidro Road
94A[c] Olive Mill Road, Coast Village Road No northbound entrance
94B[c] Hermosillo Drive Northbound exit only
94C[c] Cabrillo Boulevard, Coast Village Road Signed as exit 94B southbound, no southbound entrance
95[c] Los Patos Way (unsigned) Southbound exit only
95[c] Salinas Street Northbound exit and entrance
96[c] Milpas Street Former SR 144; northbound exit signed as exit 96A; southbound as exits 96B and 96A
96[c] Laguna Street, Garden Street – Downtown Santa Barbara Laguna Street/Garden Street northbound exit signed as exit 96B; Garden Street southbound exit signed as exit 96C
97[c] Bath Street, Castillo Street (SR 225 west) – Santa Barbara Harbor
98A[c] Carrillo Street – Downtown Santa Barbara Signed as exit 98 southbound
98B[c] Arrellaga Street Northbound exit and entrance
99A[c] Mission Street Signed as exit 99 southbound
99B[c] Pueblo Street Northbound exit only
100[c] Las Positas Road
101A[c] La Cumbre Road, Hope Avenue
101B[c]
SR 154 west / State Street – Cachuma Lake
102[c] El Sueno Road Northbound exit and entrance
103[c] Turnpike Road
104A[c] Patterson Avenue Signed as exit 104 southbound
SR 217 west – Airport, UCSB Northbound exit and southbound entrance
105[c] Fairview Avenue
107[c] Los Carneros Road
108[c] Glen Annie Road, Storke Road
110[c] Winchester Canyon Road, Hollister Avenue
113[c] Dos Pueblos Canyon Road
116[c] El Capitan Ranch Road
117[c] El Capitan State Beach
120[c] Refugio Road – Refugio State Beach
128[c] Mariposa Reina Interchange
Gaviota State Beach
Gaviota Rest Area
Gaviota Gorge Tunnel (northbound only)
US 101 north – San Luis Obispo, San Francisco Northern end of US 101 concurrency; interchange; US 101 exit 132
SR 246 east / 12th Street – Buellton Southern end of SR 246 concurrency
SR 246 west (Ocean Avenue) / H Street – NASA/Vandenberg AFB South Gate, Surf Northern end of SR 246 concurrency
Harris Grade Road, Purisima Road – Buellton
Vandenberg Village
211 Constellation Road Interchange
M29.89
California Boulevard, Lompoc Casmalia Road – Vandenberg AFB
San Antonio Road West – Casmalia
San Antonio Road East – Los Alamos
SR 135 south – Los Alamos Southern end of SR 135 concurrency; interchange; southbound left exit and northbound entrance
SR 135 north – Orcutt, Santa Maria Northern end of SR 135 concurrency; northbound right exit and southbound entrance
To SR 135 / Clark Avenue – Orcutt
SR 166 east (Main Street) – Santa Maria
SLO 0.00-74.32
Valley Road - Arroyo Grande
To US 101 south / Price Street (US 101 Bus. south) south end of US 101 Bus. overlap
L16.54
US 101 south interchange; no northbound exit; north end of US 101 Bus. overlap; south end of US 101 overlap; SR 1 south follows exit 191A
193[c] Spyglass Drive, Shell Beach Road
195[c] Avilla Beach Drive
196[c] San Luis Bay Drive – See Canyon, Avila Beach
198[c] Higuera Street
200A[c] Los Osos Valley Road Signed as exit 200 southbound
200B[c] Prado Road, Elks Lane Northbound exit and entrance
SR 227 south (Madonna Road)
202A[c] Marsh Street
202B[c] Broad Street
203A[c] Osos Street, Santa Rosa Street
US 101 / Santa Rosa Street Northern end of US 101 concurrency; interchange; US 101 exit 203B
277 Los Osos/Baywood Park (South Bay Boulevard)
278 Morro Bay Boulevard
279A Main Street
SR 41 north – Atascadero
284 Cayucos (SR 1 Bus. north) Northbound exit and southbound entrance
285 Cayucos Drive
North Ocean Avenue (SR 1 Bus. south) - Cayucos
SR 46 east (Green Valley Road) – Paso Robles
SR 1 Bus. north (Main Street) / Ardath Drive – Cambria
SR 1 Bus. south (Windsor Boulevard) / Moonstone Beach Drive – Cambria
San Carpóforo Creek Bridge Marks southern end of the Big Sur coastline
MON 0.00-R102.03
Nacimiento-Fergusson Road Intersects at the southern end of Kirk Creek Bridge
Big Creek Bridge
Pfeiffer Canyon Bridge Demolished in March 2017 because of irreparable damage suffered during February 2017 landslides, effectively splitting Big Sur in half.[62][80] The replacement bridge reopened in October 2017.[81]
Bixby Creek Bridge
Rocky Creek Bridge
Carmel River Bridge Marks northern end of the Big Sur coastline
CR G16 (Carmel Valley Road)
SR 68 west – Pacific Grove, Pebble Beach Southern end of SR 68 concurrency
399B Munras Avenue (SR 1 Bus. north) – Monterey No northbound entrance
399C Soledad Drive, Munras Avenue Southbound exit and northbound entrance
401A Aguajito Road (SR 1 Bus. south) – Monterey
SR 68 east – Salinas Northern end of SR 68 concurrency; SR 68 west exit 7B
401B North Fremont Street (SR 1 Bus. north) Northbound exit and southbound entrance
402A Casa Verde Way
402B Del Monte Avenue – Pacific Grove
SR 218 east (Canyon del Rey Boulevard) – Seaside, Del Rey Oaks
404 Fremont Boulevard (SR 1 Bus. south) / Del Monte Boulevard
406 Lightfighter Drive
408 Imjin Parkway
409 Del Monte Boulevard (SR 1 Bus. north) Northbound exit and southbound entrance
410 Reservation Road (CR G17)
412 Del Monte Boulevard (SR 1 Bus. south) – Marina
414A Nashua Road, Molera Road Signed as exit 414 southbound
SR 156 east to US 101 – Castroville, San Jose Northbound exit and southbound left entrance
T92.21
SR 183 south (Merritt Street) to SR 156 east – Castroville, Salinas
Dolan Road – Elkhorn Slough Reserve
423 Salinas Road Interchange. Former At-grade intersection
SCR R0.00-37.45
SR 129 east (Riverside Drive) to SR 152 east – Watsonville
426 Harkins Slough Road, Green Valley Road Northbound exit and southbound entrance
SR 152 east (Main Street) – Watsonville, Gilroy Southbound exit and northbound entrance
427 Airport Boulevard – Freedom Serves Watsonville Municipal Airport
Aptos Hills-Larkin Valley
428 Buena Vista Drive
431 Mar Monte Avenue – La Selva
432 San Andreas Road, Larkin Valley Road
433A Freedom Boulevard
433B Rio del Mar Boulevard – Rio del Mar, Aptos
435 State Park Drive – Seacliff Beach, Aptos
436 Park Avenue – Capitola, New Brighton Beach
437 Porter Street, Bay Avenue
438 41st Avenue
439 Soquel Drive, Soquel Avenue
440 Morrissey Boulevard
441A Emeline Avenue Northbound exit only
SR 17 north – San Jose, Oakland Signed as exit 441 southbound; SR 17 south exits 1A-B
442 Ocean Street – Beaches
SR 9 north (River Street) – Boulder Creek, Big Basin, Downtown Santa Cruz
Bay Street – UC Santa Cruz
Bonny Doon Road – Bonny Doon
SM 0.00-R48.56
Pescadero Road, Pescadero State Beach
SR 84 east – San Gregorio, La Honda, Redwood City
SR 92 east – San Mateo
Tom Lantos Tunnels
Linda Mar Boulevard, San Pedro Avenue
Rockaway Beach Avenue, Fassler Avenue – Rockaway Beach
Reina Del Mar Avenue
505A Sharp Park Road, Fairway Drive – San Bruno Signed as exit 505 southbound
505B Clarendon Road, Oceana Boulevard Northbound exit only
506 Paloma Avenue, Francisco Boulevard Southbound exit and northbound entrance
507 Manor Drive, Monterey Road, Palmetto Avenue
SR 35 (Skyline Boulevard) Signed as exit 508A (south) and 508B (north) southbound; SR 35 exits 54A-B
509A Serramonte Boulevard, Clarinada Avenue Signed as exit 509 southbound
R25.28[d]
I-280 south (Junipero Serra Freeway) – San Jose Southern end of I-280 concurrency; no exit number southbound; I-280 north exit 47, south exit 47B
510 Eastmoor Avenue, Mission Street Signed as exit 48 southbound
M27.17[d]
I-280 north – Downtown San Francisco, Bay Bridge Northern end of I-280 concurrency; southbound exit is exit 511; I-280 north exit 49B, south via exit 50
511 John Daly Boulevard – Daly City, Westlake District Signed as exit 49A northbound
SF R0.00-11.18[b]
Alemany Boulevard east – Cow Palace Interchange; northbound exit and southbound entrance
Brotherhood Way Interchange; no northbound exit to Brotherhood Way east and no southbound entrance from Brotherhood Way west
Junipero Serra Boulevard, 19th Avenue – San Francisco State University, San Francisco Zoo No left turn from SR 1 south to Junipero Serra Boulevard north
SR 35 south (Sloat Boulevard) – San Francisco Civic Center, Beach, San Francisco Zoo No left turn from SR 1 north to Sloat Boulevard west (SR 35 south)
Lincoln Way No left turns from SR 1
Geary Boulevard – University of San Francisco No left turns from SR 1
MacArthur Tunnel
US 101 south / Marina Boulevard – Downtown San Francisco Southern end of US 101 concurrency; US 101 south was former SR 480 east; US 101 exit 438
439[c] 25th Avenue – View Area, Presidio, Golden Gate NRA, Fort Point
(Tolled southbound only; no state maintenance on bridge)
MRN L0.00[b]-50.51 Sausalito
H. Dana Bower Rest Area and Vista Point (northbound only)
442[c] Alexander Avenue – Sausalito
Robin Williams Tunnel through Waldo Grade
443[c] Spencer Avenue, Monte Mar Drive
444[c] Rodeo Avenue No access across US 101
445A[c] Donahue Street
US 101 north – Eureka Northern end of US 101 concurrency; interchange; US 101 exit 445B
Almonte Boulevard – Mill Valley
Panoramic Highway – Mount Tamalpais State Park
Sir Francis Drake Boulevard – San Rafael
Point Reyes Petaluma Road – Petaluma
Tomales Petaluma Road – Petaluma
SON 0.00-58.58
Valley Ford Road – Petaluma
Valley Ford Freestone Road – Occidental, Monte Rio
Bodega Highway – Bodega, Sebastopol
SR 116 east (River Road) – Guerneville
Fort Ross Road – Cazadero, Fort Ross
MEN 0.00-105.58 Point Arena
Riverside Drive
SR 128 to US 101 – Cloverdale, Boonville
Albion River Bridge
Frederick W. Panhorst Bridge over Russian Gulch Creek
SR 20 – Willits
Usal Road
SR 271 / Drive Thru Tree Road – Leggett Former US 101
US 101 – Ukiah, Eureka Northern end of SR 1
Closed/former
Tolled
^ a b c d e f g h The state has relinquished, and turned over various segments of the highway to local control.
^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z aa ab ac ad ae af ag ah ai aj ak al am an ao ap aq ar as at au av aw ax ay az ba bb bc bd be bf bg bh bi bj bk bl bm bn bo bp bq br bs bt bu bv Indicates that the postmile represents the distance along US 101 rather than SR 1.
^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z aa ab ac ad ae af ag ah ai aj ak al am an ao ap aq ar as at au av aw ax ay az ba bb bc bd be bf bg bh bi bj bk bl bm bn Exit numbers follow US 101 rather than SR 1.
^ a b c Indicates that the postmile represents the distance along I-280 rather than SR 1.
^ "Special Route Restrictions". California Department of Transportation. Retrieved July 25, 2014.
^ California Department of Transportation (September 7, 2011). "Officially Designated State Scenic Highways and Historic Parkways". Sacramento: California Department of Transportation. Retrieved March 27, 2019.
^ Federal Highway Administration (March 25, 2015). National Highway System: California (South) (PDF) (Map). Scale not given. Washington, DC: Federal Highway Administration. Retrieved October 21, 2017.
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^ "Article 2.5 of Chapter 2 of Division 1 of the California Streets & Highways Code". California Office of Legislative Counsel. Retrieved February 6, 2019.
^ California Department of Transportation (September 7, 2011). "Officially Designated State Scenic Highways and Historic Parkways". Sacramento: California Department of Transportation. Retrieved October 21, 2017.
^ California Department of Transportation (2012). Scenic Highway Guidelines (PDF). Sacramento: California Department of Transportation. p. 5. Retrieved June 8, 2017.
^ Staff. "Big Sur Coast Highway". America's Byways. Federal Highway Administration. Archived from the original on December 2, 2011. Retrieved November 29, 2011.
^ Staff. 2007 Named Freeways, Highways, Structures and Other Appurtenances in California (PDF). California Department of Transportation. pp. 115–116. Retrieved March 28, 2007.
^ "California Streets and Highways Code §§ 301, 301.1, 301.2". California Office of Legislative Counsel. Retrieved February 6, 2019.
^ Miller, Heather (June 1999). "The Ups and Downs of Highway 1". Smithsonian Magazine. Archived from the original on July 2, 2013. Retrieved July 2, 2013.
^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t Official State Map (Map). Scale not given. Cartography by California Travel Media. California Travel & Tourism Commission. 2010. § E2–M7, N1–X11, AA3–HH8.
^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t Google (January 24, 2015). "Overview Map of State Route 1" (Map). Google Maps. Google. Retrieved January 24, 2015.
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^ Green, Nick (January 26, 1996). "City, County to Jointly Seek U.S. Funds for Freeway Link". Los Angeles Times.
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^ "Fort Bragg's $4.4 million roundabout". The Press Democrat. May 18, 2011.
^ Staff. "Simpson Lane Intersection". California Department of Transportation. Archived from the original on August 23, 2010. Retrieved July 7, 2011.
^ Yates, Morgan P. (September 2009). "Drive the Planks". Westways. Santa Ana, California: Automobile Club of Southern California. Retrieved December 18, 2014. [permanent dead link]
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^ Newland, Renee. "Bixby Creek Bridge". Monterey County Historical Society. Retrieved November 13, 2011.
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^ Glockner, Joseph A. (June 1, 2008). "Naval Facility (NAVFAC) Station History". The Navy CT / SECGRU History.
^ California State Assembly. "An act declaring the county road extending from San Simeon to Cambria to be a state highway and providing for the maintenance thereof". Forty-fourth Session of the Legislature. Statutes of California. State of California. Ch. 837 p. 1606.
^ Jupiter Entertainment (2004). "Pacific Coast Highway". Modern Marvels. The History Channel.
^ California State Assembly. "An act...to construct and maintain...a state highway, extending from the town of Oxnard to a point...at or near the town of El Rio, Ventura county". Forty-sixth Session of the Legislature. Statutes of California. State of California. Ch. 309 p. 508.
^ California State Assembly. "An act establishing certain additional state highways and classifying them as secondary highways". Forty-ninth Session of the Legislature. Statutes of California. State of California. Ch. 82 p. 103.
^ Blow, Ben (1920). California Highways: A Descriptive Record of Road Development by the State and by Such Counties as Have Paved Highways. pp. 182, 232–233, 249 – via Archive.org. (Google Books)
^ Howe & Peters. Engineers' Report to California State Automobile Association Covering the Work of the California Highway Commission for the Period 1911–1920 (Report). pp. 11–16 – via Google Books.
^ California State Assembly. "An act to amend sections 2, 3 and 5 and to add two sections to be numbered 6 and 7 to an act entitled 'An act to provide for the acquisition of rights of way for and the construction, maintenance..." Fiftieth Session of the Legislature. Statutes of California. State of California. Ch. 767 p. 2034-2039. : "Ferndale to State Highway Route 1 near Fernbridge." "Russian River near Jenner to Westport." "State Highway near southerly end of Marin Peninsula to the Marin-Sonoma County line via the Coast Route." "Santa Cruz to San Francisco via Coast." "State Highway Route 56 near Carmel to Santa Cruz." "State Highway Route 2 near Las Cruces via Lompoc and Guadalupe to State Highway Route 2 near Pismo."
^ California State Assembly. "An act to establish a Streets and Highways Code, thereby consolidating and revising the law relating to public ways and all appurtenances thereto, and to repeal certain acts and parts of acts specified herein". Fifty-first Session of the Legislature. Statutes of California. State of California. Ch. 29 p. 279. : "Route 56 is from: (a) Route 2 near Los [sic] Cruces via Lompoc and Guadalupe to Route 2 near Pismo. (b) San Luis Obispo to San Francisco along the coast via Cambria, San Simeon, Carmel, and Santa Cruz. (c) State Highway near southerly end of Marin Peninsula to the Marin-Sonoma County line via the Coast Route. (d) Russian River near Jenner to Westport. (e) Ferndale to Route 1 near Fernbridge." "Route 60 is from Route 2 near El Rio via Oxnard to Route 2 south of San Juan Capistrano."
^ Pavlik, Robert C. (November 1996). "Historical Overview of the Carmel to San Simeon Highway" (PDF). Historic Resource Evaluation Report on the Rock Retaining Walls, Parapets, Culvert Headwalls and Drinking Fountains along the Carmel to San Simeon Highway. California Department of Transportation. Retrieved December 17, 2011.
^ "State Routes will be Numbered and Marked with Distinctive Bear Signs". California Highways and Public Works. August 1934.
^ Automobile Route Along the Pacific Coast from Seal Beach to Santa Monica (Map). Automobile Club of Southern California. 1936.
^ California State Assembly. "An act to amend Section 356 of the Streets and Highways Code, relating to state highways". 1951 Session of the Legislature. Statutes of California. State of California. Ch. 1588 p. 3585. Route 56 is from ... to Route 1 near Fernbridge via the coast route through Jenner, Westport and Ferndale, including lateral connection with Route 1 near Leggett Valley
^ Highway Map of California (Map). H.M. Gousha Company. Archived from the original on December 2, 2011. , 1955
^ California State Assembly. "An act to add Section 253 and Article 3 (commencing with Section 300) to Chapter 2 of Division 1 of, and to repeal Section 253 and Article 3 (commencing with Section 300) of Chapter 2 of Division 1 of, the..." 1963 Session of the Legislature. Statutes of California. State of California. Ch. 385 p. 1171, 1186.
^ California Highways, September 1964 [full citation needed]
^ Masters, Nathan (May 2, 2012). "From Roosevelt Highway to the 1: A Brief History of Pacific Coast Highway". KCET. Retrieved November 17, 2013.
^ "King Range National Conservation Area". Bureau of Land Management. Archived from the original on July 2, 2012. Retrieved June 25, 2012.
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^ Zhou, Kelly (September 16, 2014). "Dana Point sees two-way traffic flow on Pacific Coast Highway". Orange County Register. Retrieved January 1, 2015.
^ 1932 Summer Olympics Official Report (PDF) (Report). p. 87. Archived from the original (PDF) on July 7, 2010.
^ "2013 Amgen Tour of California to Include San Francisco to Santa Rosa Stage". Santa Rosa Press Democrat. November 27, 2012. Retrieved June 3, 2013.
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^ Pogash, Carol (March 24, 2013). "New Efforts to Make a Scenic California Highway Less Perilous". The New York Times. Retrieved March 25, 2013.
^ District 5. "Piedras Blancas Realignment Project". California Department of Transportation. Retrieved November 29, 2011.
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^ Cabanatuan, Michael (June 19, 2010). "Major Progress on Devil's Slide Tunnel". San Francisco Chronicle. Retrieved August 14, 2011.
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^ "Landslide Shuts Famed Californian SR 1 as Big Chunk Falls into the Sea". Daily Mail. London. March 18, 2011. Retrieved August 14, 2011.
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Sultan Husayn
Sultan Husayn (also known as Soltan Hosayn and Soltan Hosein), (October 1668 – November 1726) (Persian: شاه سلطان حسین) reigned 1694–1722; was a Safavid Shah of Iran (Persia). He ruled from 1694 until he was overthrown in 1722 by rebellious marauder Mahmud Hotaki, an Afghan of Pashtun ethnic background.[1] His reign saw the downfall of the Safavid dynasty, which had ruled Persia since the beginning of the 16th century.
Shah Sultan Husayn
Contemporary portrait of Sultan Husayn by Cornelis de Bruijn
Shah of Iran
6 August 1694 – 21 October 1722
Suleiman I
Tahmasp II (Qazvin)
Mahmud Hotaki (Isfahan)
15 November 1726 (aged 58)
Fatima Masumeh Shrine, Qom
Farda Begum Sultan
Amina Begum
Safavid dynasty
LifeEdit
Early ruleEdit
When his father Shah Suleiman was on his deathbed, he asked his court eunuchs to choose between his two sons, saying that if they wanted peace and quiet they should pick the elder, Sultan Husayn, but if they wanted to make the empire more powerful then they should opt for the younger, Abbas. They decided to make Sultan Husayn shah. He had a reputation for being easy-going and had little interest in political affairs, his nickname being Yakhshidir ("Very well!"), the response he was said to give when asked to decide on matters of state. The young king was a devout Muslim and one of his first acts was to give power to the leading cleric Muhammad Baqer Majlesi. A series of measures against the Sufi order were introduced as well as legislation prohibiting the consumption of alcohol and opium and restrictions on the behaviour of women in public. Provincial governors were ordered to enforce Sharia law.[2][3]
However, power soon shifted away from Muhammad Baqer Majlesi to Sultan Husayn's great aunt, Maryam Begum (the daughter of Shah Safi). Under her influence, Hosein became an alcoholic and paid less and less attention to political affairs, devoting his time to his harem and his pleasure gardens.[4]
Revolts against Sultan HusaynEdit
Persian embassy to Louis XIV sent by Sultan Husayn in 1715. Ambassade de Perse auprès de Louis XIV, studio of Antoine Coypel.
Sultan Husayn's rule was relatively tranquil until he faced a major revolt in Afghanistan, in the easternmost part of his realm. The Afghans were divided into two main tribes: the Ghilzais and the Abdalis. In 1709, the Ghilzai Afghans of Kandahar, under their leader Mirwais, rebelled and successfully broke away from Safavid rule.[5] In 1716, the Abdalis of Herat followed their example and Safavid expeditions to bring them back under control ended in failure. The Abdalis then turned on the Ghilzais but were defeated by Mahmud Hotaki, one of Mirwais' son.[6]
In the meantime, Sultan Husayn was confronted by other rebellions resulting from his religious policy. The revival of Shia Islam promoted by Muhammad Baqer Majlesi and his successor and grandson, the chief mullah Muhammad Hosein, had led to increased intolerance towards Sunni Muslims, Jews and Christians (particularly Georgians and Armenians). The shah had also passed a decree ordering the forced conversion of Zoroastrians. In 1717–20, the Sunnis of Kurdistan and Shirvan revolted. In Shirvan and Dagestan, the northwestern domains of the Safavids, the Lezgins and the rest of the Sunni inhabitants of the area called on their fellow Sunnis, the Ottoman Turks, to aid them. When the rebellious Lezgins took Shamakhi, the main town of the Shirvan province in 1721, they sacked the city, massacred the Shia population, including the governor and his family, and robbed the property of its Christian inhabitants and foreign nationals. Writer Jonas Hanway wrote that "the city was ransacked".[7] Sultan Hossein was faced with problems elsewhere in his realm – Arab pirates seized islands in the Persian Gulf and there were plagues in the north-western provinces – but he and his court failed to take decisive action.[8]
Russo-Persian WarEdit
Main article: Russo-Persian War (1722-1723)
In June 1722, Peter the Great, the then tsar of the neighbouring Russian Empire, declared war on Safavid Iran in an attempt to expand Russian influence in the Caspian and Caucasus regions and to prevent its rival, Ottoman Empire, from territorial gains in the region at the expense of declining Safavid Iran.
The Russian victory ratified for Safavid Irans' cession of their territories in the Northern, Southern Caucasus and contemporary mainland Northern Iran, comprising the cities of Derbent (southern Dagestan) and Baku and their nearby surrounding lands, as well as the provinces of Gilan, Shirvan, Mazandaran, and Astrabad to Russia per the Treaty of Saint Petersburg (1723).[9]
The siege of IsfahanEdit
Main article: Siege of Isfahan
However, the main threat came from the Ghilzai Afghans. In 1722, Mahmud and his army swept westward aiming at the shah's capital Isfahan itself. Rather than biding his time within the city and resisting a siege in which the small Afghan army was unlikely to succeed, Sultan Husayn marched out to meet Mahmud's force at Golnabad. Here, on 8 March, the royal army was thoroughly routed and fled back to Isfahan in disarray. The shah was urged to escape to the provinces to raise more troops but he decided to remain in the capital which was now encircled by the Afghans. Mahmud's siege of Isfahan lasted from March to October, 1722. Lacking artillery, he was forced to resort to a long blockade in the hope of starving the Persians into submission. Sultan Husayn's command during the siege displayed his customary lack of decisiveness and the loyalty of his provincial governors wavered in the face of such incompetence. Protests against his rule also broke out within Isfahan and the shah's son, Tahmasp, was eventually elevated to the role of co-ruler. In June, Tahmasp managed to escape from the city in a bid to raise a relief force in the provinces, but little came of this plan. Starvation and disease finally forced Isfahan into submission (it is estimated that 80,000 of its inhabitants died during the siege). On 23 October, Soltan Hossein abdicated and acknowledged Mahmud as the new shah of Persia.[10]
Captivity and deathEdit
To begin with, Mahmud treated Sultan Husayn considerately, but as he gradually became mentally unbalanced he began to view the former shah with suspicion. In February 1725, believing a rumour that one of Sultan Husayn's sons, Safi Mirza, had escaped, Mahmud ordered the execution of all the other Safavid princes who were in his hands, with the exception of Sultan Husayn himself. When Sultan Husayn tried to stop the massacre, he was wounded, but his action saved the lives of two of his young children. Mahmud succumbed to insanity and died on 25 April of the same year.[11]
Mahmud's successor Ashraf at first treated the deposed shah with sympathy. In return, Sultan Husayn gave him the hand of one of his daughters in marriage, a move which would have increased Ashraf's legitimacy in the eyes of his Persian subjects. However, Ashraf was involved in a war with the Ottoman Empire, which contested his claim to the Persian throne. In the autumn of 1726, the Ottoman governor of Baghdad, Ahmad Pasha, advanced with his army on Isfahan, sending a message to Ashraf saying that he was coming to reinstate the rightful shah of Persia. In response, Ashraf had Sultan Husayn's head cut off and sent it to the Ottoman with the message that "he expected to give Ahmad Pasha a fuller reply with the points of his sword and his lance". As Michael Axworthy comments, "In this way Shah Soltan Hossein gave in death a sharper answer than he ever gave in life".[12]
IssueEdit
Sultan Husayn married numerous times;
(1); 1694, a daughter of Vahshatu Sultan, Safi Quli Khan.
(2); a daughter of H.M. Vakhtang V (Shah Nawaz Khan II), King of Kartli.
(3); 1710 Farda Begum Sultan, also known as Princess Khoreshan (died 1722, m. second, ca. 1727, the Khan of Erevan), daughter of H.M. Kaikoshrow, King of Kartli and commander-in-chief of the Persian army.
(4); Amina Begum, alias Khair un-nisa Khanum (m. second, ca. 1713, H.H. Amir Fath 'Ali Bahador Khan-e Qajar Quyunlu, Nai'b us-Sultana), daughter of Husain Quli Agha.
Prince Shahzadeh Sultan Mahmud Mirza (b.1697-k. 8 February 1725), Vali Ahad
Prince Shahzadeh Safi Mirza (b.1699-k. 8 February 1725)
Tahmasp II
Prince Shahzadeh Sultan Mehr Mirza (k. 8 February 1725)
Prince Shahzadeh Sultan Heydar Mirza (k. 8 February 1725)
Prince Shahzadeh Sultan Salim Mirza (k. 8 February 1725)
Prince Shahzadeh Sultan Soleyman Mirza (k. 8 February 1725)
Prince Shahzadeh Sultan Ismail Mirza (k. 8 February 1725)
Prince Shahzadeh Sultan Mohammad Mirza (k. 8 February 1725)
Prince Shahzadeh Sultan Khalil Mirza (k. 8 February 1725)
Prince Shahzadeh Mohammad Baqer Mirza (k. 8 February 1725)
Prince Shahzadeh Mohammad Ja'afar Mirza (k. 8 February 1725)
Princess Shahzadi ‘Alamiyan ... Begum, married Mirza Muqim Khalifa Sultani.
Princess Shahzadi ‘Alamiyan ... Begum, married Mirza Muhammad Ibrahim.
Princess Shahzadi ‘Alamiyan Gawhar Begum, married Mir Mahmud Hotaki.
Princess Shahzadi ‘Alamiyan Fatma Sultan, married Amanu’llah Sultan, a close adherent of Mir Mahmud Hotaki.
Princess Shahzadi ‘Alamiyan Nawabeh Begum, married Mir Miangi, religious adviser to Mir Mahmud Hotaki.
Princess Shahzadi ‘Alamiyan Shahzadeh Begum, married Ashraf Khan Hotaki .
Princess Shahzadi ‘Alamiyan Razia Begum (d. 1776, Karbala), married 1st a Georgian Prince and 2nd Nader Shah
Princess Shahzadi ‘Alamiyan Sultan Begum (d. 1736, Mashhad), married Ibrahim Khan Afshar.
Princess Shahzadi ‘Alamiyan Fatemeh Sultan Begum (d. 5 February 1740, Mashhad), married Prince Reza Qoli Mirza eldest son of Nader Shah.
Princess Shahzadi ‘Alamiyan Khan Ahga Begum, married Suleiman II.
Princess Shahzadi ‘Alamiyan Maryam Begum, married Sayyid Murtaza Khalifa Sultani.
Safavid conversion of Iran from Sunnism to Shiism
Aliqoli Jadid-ol-Eslam
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^ Axworthy pp.29–30
^ Cambridge History of Iran Vol.6 pp.311–312
^ An Historical Account of the British Trade Over the Caspian Sea — London. 1762. Т. II. С. 146.
^ William Bayne Fisher, P. Avery, G. R. G. Hambly, C. Melville. The Cambridge History of Iran, Volume 7 Cambridge University Press, 10 okt. 1991 ISBN 0521200954 p 319
Michael Axworthy, The Sword of Persia: Nader Shah, from Tribal Warrior to Conquering Tyrant Hardcover 348 pages (26 July 2006) Publisher: I.B. Tauris[permanent dead link] Language: English ISBN 1-85043-706-8
Matthee, Rudi (2015). "Solṭān Ḥosayn". Encyclopaedia Iranica.
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Suresh Kalmadi
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Suresh Kalmadi (born 1 May 1944) is an Indian politician and senior sports administrator.[1][2] He was formerly a member of the Indian National Congress. He was a member of parliament from Pune till May 2014.[3] He is alleged to have been involved in corrupt practices in relation to the 2010 Commonwealth Games during his tenure as president of Indian Olympic Association and chairman of Common Wealth Games 2010. He was charged with conspiracy, forgery, misconduct and under provisions of the Prevention of Corruption Act and later arrested for the same in April 2014, but as has yet not faced trial.[4] In Dec 2016, the Indian Olympic Association(IOA) named Suresh Kalmadi as its lifetime patron.However,he refused to accept the post until he was able to clear his name. [5]
9th President of Indian Olympic Association
1996 – 26 April 2011
Sivanthi Adithan
Vijay Kumar Malhotra (as acting president)
Member of the Indian Parliament
for Pune
Anna Joshi
Vitthal Tupe
Pradeep Rawat
Anil Shirole
Minister of State for Railways
(1944-05-01) 1 May 1944 (age 75)
Madras, Madras Presidency, British India
Indian National Congress(1977-2015)
Indian Youth Congress (Socialist) (1981-1986)
Meera Kalmadi
1 Son & 2 Daughters
Kalmadi House, Dr. Ketkar Road, Erandwane, Pune
As of December 13,, 2016
Source: [Government of India]
Kalmadi was born to Dr. K. Shamrao Kalmadi and Shanta Rao Kalmadi.[citation needed] He was educated at St. Vincent's High School and Fergusson College, Pune. Kalmadi joined the National Defence Academy in 1960 and was commissioned as a pilot in the Indian Air Force, serving between 1964 and 1972. He then became an instructor with the Air Force Training Team of the NDA from 1972 to 1974 before retiring from the IAF as a squadron leader.[6]
He is married to Meera Kalmadi. The couple have two daughters and one son.[7]
In 1977, Kalmadi became the President of the Indian Youth Congress, Pune, and the very next year took over President-ship of the Youth Congress, Maharashtra, a post he held from 1978 to 1980[citation needed]. In 1980, as the President of the Maharashtra Athletics Association, Kalmadi undertook the selection trials for the Marathon team to represent the country at the Moscow Olympics. This soon led to the establishment of the Pune International Marathon[citation needed].
Kalmadi served as president of the Indian Youth Congress (Socialist) 1981-1986.[8]
He was a member of the Rajya Sabha for three terms from 1982 to 1996, and again in 1998.
Kalmadi took over as the Chairman of the Maharashtra Tourism Development Corporation and in 1989 started the Pune Festival.[citation needed]
He was also elected to the 11th Lok Sabha in 1996, and to the 14th Lok Sabha in 2004. During the tenure of P. V. Narasimha Rao as the Prime Minister of India, Suresh Kalmadi served as the Minister of State for Railways from 1995 to 1996.[7] That year he presented the Railway Budget. He is the only Union Minister of State to have done so.[9]
Kalmadi served as the President of the Indian Olympic Association from 1996 to 2012.[9][10] He also served as the president of Asian Athletics Association from 2000 to 2013 and was named its Life President in 2015.[11][9]
Suresh Kalmadi at the inauguration of the First World Konkani Convention in 1995. He is dressed in a black coat, to the right.
ControversiesEdit
Corruption related to Formula One 2011Edit
Mr Kalmadi, as the Indian Olympic Association, signed an agreement to bring the Formula One Grand Prix to India in 2007. Later that year, the UK-based organizers Formula One Administration Limited signed a Rs 1600-crore contract in this regard with India-based JPSK Sports Private Limited. Records obtained by The Indian Express showed that Pune-based Sulba Realty Private Limited was a 13% shareholder in JPSK, along with Jaypee Group (74%). Kalmadi's son Sumeer was a director in Sulba Realty at the time, which would have implied a conflict of interest. While the JP in JPSK stood for Jaypee Group, it was alleged that the SK was a reference to Suresh/Sumeer Kalmadi. Records from the Registrar of Companies, India showed that a year after the company was floated, Kalmadi's daughter, Payal Aditya Bhartia, and his son-in-law, Aditya Bhartia, joined JPSK as independent directors.[12]
Commonwealth Games 2010Edit
Main article: Concerns and controversies over the 2010 Commonwealth Games
Kalmadi's conduct around the 2010 Commonwealth Games came under scrutiny, with the Central Vigilance Commission(India's anti-corruption organisation) asking the Central Bureau of Investigation to probe certain aspects of the games' organisation.[13] For this, the opposition demanded Kalmadi's resignation.[14]
On 25 April 2011, CBI arrested former CWG Organising Committee (OC) chairman Suresh Kalmadi in the Timing-Scoring-Result (TSR) case. He was arrested under Sections 120 B (criminal conspiracy) and 420 (cheating) of the Indian Penal Code.[15]
On 20 May 2011, CBI filed the first chargesheet in a special CBI court against Kalmadi. The CBI alleged that he was the main accused in awarding TSR system contract to a Swiss firm. The charge sheet said, "Kalmadi is the main accused as he was the person with all supreme powers. He had the supreme over-riding powers in the Organising Committee of the CWG, 2010." In addition to Kalmadi, the CBI named two companies and eight persons including OC former Secretary General Lalit Bhanot and former Director General VK Verma as accused.[16][17]
Kalmadi's membership of the Indian National Congress Party was suspended after being arrested and charged with corruption. On 26 April 2011 he was sacked from the post of president of the Indian Olympic Association.[18] On 1 July 2013 he lost the election for the post of President of the Asian Athletics Association, a post which he had held for 13 consecutive years, losing to Qatar's Dahlan Jumaan Al-Hamad.[19]
Suresh Kalmadi was in jail for 10 months and the court asked him to pay a surety amount of Rs. 500,000.[20] Kalmadi was allowed by a Delhi court on 13 July 2012 to go to London for 2012 Olympics.[21] He was, however, restrained on 25 July 2012 by the Delhi High court from participating in the opening ceremony of the London Olympics, saying his participation can cause "embarrassment" to the nation.[22]
He claimed to be suffering from dementia during course of investigation while in Tihar jail.[23] Medical tests were not conclusive to be able to prove his claim.[24]
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^ PTI (1 July 2013). "Tainted Suresh Kalmadi loses AAA elections". Sports. India. The Times of India,. Retrieved 26 February 2015.
^ "Tainted Suresh Kalmadi loses AAA elections". rediff.com. 1 July 2013.
^ "Official website of Suresh Kalmadi". Retrieved 11 February 2014.
^ "CWG scam: CBI files first chargesheet against Suresh Kalmadi, 8 others". NDTV.com.
^ From Hindustan Times Correspondent (2016). "Suresh Kalmadi not to accept Indian Olympic Association post of life-president" (Dec 28, ). Hindustan Times. Retrieved 15 October 2018.
^ Kothari, Vishwas (26 April 2011). "Suresh Kalmadi: An ex-pilot who flew high in networking, politics". The Times of India. Retrieved 5 August 2015.
^ a b Thevar, Velly (6 July 2008). "My political style is a sporting style. Generally we win". The Telegraph. Retrieved 5 August 2015.
^ india.gov.in. Detailed Profile: Shri Suresh Kalmadi
^ a b c "Who is Suresh Kalmadi?". NDTV.com.
^ Vaid, Amit (11 October 2008). "Indian Olympic Association Re-elects Suresh Kalmadi As President". ABC Live. Archived from the original on 15 October 2008. Retrieved 14 October 2008.
^ "Suresh Kalmadi given Asian Athletics Association's President's award". dna. 4 June 2015. Retrieved 5 August 2015.
^ Sarin, Ritu (22 August 2009). "For Kalmadi, F1 is Family 1st". The Indian Express. Archived from the original on 26 April 2011. Retrieved 26 April 2011.
^ Thakur, Pradeep (29 July 2010). "14 Commonwealth Games projects under CBI, CVC scanner". Times of India. Retrieved 3 August 2010.
^ "BJP demands Suresh Kalmadi's resignation – India – DNA". Dnaindia.com. 12 August 2010. Retrieved 12 October 2010.
^ "Kalmadi arrested by CBI in CWG scam case". moneycontrol.com.
^ "CWG: Court takes cognisance of chargesheet against Kalmadi". Deccan Herald. 23 May 2011. Retrieved 17 August 2012.
^ Kumar, Vinay (20 May 2011). "CWG scam: Kalmadi named 'main accused' in first CBI charge sheet". The Hindu. Chennai, India. Retrieved 17 August 2012.
^ "Tained Kalmadi sacked as IOA chief". The Times of India. 26 April 2011. Retrieved 26 April 2011.
^ "Scam-tainted Suresh Kalmadi loses Asian Athletics Association poll". The Times Of India. 1 July 2013.
^ "Kalmadi gets bail after nine months in jail". The Statesman. 19 January 2012. Retrieved 19 January 2012.
^ "CWG scam: Court allows Kalmadi to visit London for Olympics". The Hindu. Chennai, India. 13 July 2012.
^ "Kalmadi restrained from going to London for Olympics". The Hindu. Chennai, India. 25 July 2012.
^ "Suresh Kalmadi diagnosed with dementia, Games probe may suffer". intoday.in.
^ http://ibnlive.in.com/news/mri-fails-to-support-kalmadis-dementia-claim/170541-3.html
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"Solfatara" redirects here. For the volcanic crater in Italy, see Solfatara (volcano).
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Fumaroles on Mount Redoubt in Alaska
Fumarole at Námafjall, Iceland
Sampling gases at a fumarole on Mount Baker in Washington, United States
Fumaroles at Vulcano, Sicily
A fumarole (or fumerole – the word ultimately comes from the Latin fumus, "smoke") is an opening in a planet's crust which emits steam and gases such as carbon dioxide, sulfur dioxide, hydrogen chloride, and hydrogen sulfide. The steam forms when superheated water condenses as its pressure drops when it emerges from the ground. The name solfatara (from the Italian solfo, "sulfur") is given to fumaroles that emit sulfurous gases.
Fumaroles may occur along tiny cracks, along long fissure, or in chaotic clusters or fields. They also occur on the surface of lava or pyroclastic flows.[1] A fumarole field is an area of thermal springs and gas vents where shallow magma or hot igneous rocks release gases or interact with groundwater.[2] When they occur in freezing environments, fumaroles may cause fumarolic ice towers.
Fumaroles may persist for decades or centuries if located above a persistent heat source; or they may disappear within weeks to months if they occur atop a fresh volcanic deposit that quickly cools.[1] The Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes, for example, was formed during the 1912 eruption of Novarupta in Alaska. Initially, thousands of fumaroles occurred in the cooling ash from the eruption, but over time most of them have become extinct.
An estimated four thousand fumaroles exist within the boundaries of Yellowstone National Park in the United States. In April 2006 fumarole emissions killed three ski-patrol workers east of Chair 3 at Mammoth Mountain Ski Area in California. The workers were overpowered by toxic fumes (a mazuku) that had accumulated in a crevasse they had fallen into.[3] Another example is an array of fumaroles in the Valley of Desolation in Morne Trois Pitons National Park in Dominica.
Fumaroles emitting sulfurous vapors form surface deposits of sulfur-rich minerals; places in which these deposits have been mined include:
Kawah Ijen and Arjuno-Welirang, Indonesia
Purico Complex[4] near San Pedro de Atacama in Chile
Xingyang in Henan province, China
Mt Tongariro in the central North Island, New Zealand
White Island in the Bay of Plenty, New Zealand (mined from the 1880s to the 1930s)
Solfatara in Campi Flegrei in Italy
On Mars[edit]
The formation called Home Plate at Gusev Crater on Mars, which was examined by the Mars Exploration Rover (MER) Spirit, is suspected to be the eroded remains of an ancient and extinct fumarole.[5]
Boiling Lake
Cold seep
Hydrothermal vent
Mazuku
Mofetta
Mudpot
Mud volcano
^ a b This article incorporates public domain material from the United States Geological Survey document: "Fumarole". USGS Photo Glossary. Retrieved 2019-02-06.
^ Neuendorf, Klaus K. E. (2005). Jackson, Julia A.; Mehl, James P.; Neuendorf, Klaus K. E. (eds.). Glossary of Geology. Springer Science & Business Media. p. 257. ISBN 9780922152766. Retrieved 2015-06-06. fumarole field[:] A group of cool fumaroles.
^ Hymon, Steve; Covarrubias, Amanda (2006-04-09). "How Routine Turned to Tragedy at Mammoth". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 2011-05-09.
^ Global Volcanism Program, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution
^ R.V.Morris, S.W.Squyres, et al. "The Hydrothermal System at Home Plate in Gusev Crater, Mars". Lunar & Planetary Science XXXIX(2008)
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The New Statesman is a British political and cultural magazine published in London.[2] Founded as a weekly review of politics and literature on 12 April 1913, it was connected then with Sidney and Beatrice Webb and other leading members of the socialist Fabian Society, such as George Bernard Shaw who was a founding director.
Today, the magazine is a print-digital hybrid. According to its present self-description, it has a liberal, sceptical, political position.[3]
The magazine was founded in 1913 by members of the Fabian Society as a weekly review of politics and literature. The longest-serving editor was Kingsley Martin (1930–1960), and the current editor is Jason Cowley, who assumed the post in 2008. The magazine has notably recognized and published new writers and critics, as well as encouraged major careers. Its contributors have included John Maynard Keynes, Bertrand Russell, Virginia Woolf, Christopher Hitchens, and Paul Johnson.
Historically, the magazine was affectionately referred to as "The Staggers" because of crises in funding, ownership, and circulation. The nickname is now used as the title of its politics blog.[4]
Circulation was at its highest in the 1960s[5][page needed] but has surged again in recent years.[6] In 2016, the certified average circulation was 34,025.[7] Traffic to the magazine's website that year reached a new high with 27 million page views and four million unique users.[8] Associated websites are CityMetric, Spotlight and NewStatesman Tech.[9] In 2018, New Statesman America was launched.
2 1931–1960: Kingsley Martin
3 After Kingsley Martin
4 Since 1996
5 Guest editors
6 List of editors
The first issue of the New Statesman, 12 April 1913
The New Statesman was founded in 1913 by Sidney and Beatrice Webb with the support of George Bernard Shaw and other prominent members of the Fabian Society.[10] The Fabians previously had supported The New Age but that journal by 1912 had moved away from supporting Fabian politics and issues such as women's suffrage. The first editor of the New Statesman was Clifford Sharp, who remained editor until 1928. Desmond MacCarthy joined the paper in 1913 and became literary editor, recruiting Cyril Connolly to the staff in 1928. J.C. Squire edited the magazine when Sharp was on wartime duties during the First World War.
In November 1914, three months after the beginning of the war, the New Statesmen published a lengthy anti-war supplement by Shaw, "Common Sense About The War",[11] a scathing dissection of its causes, which castigated all nations involved but particularly savaged the British. It sold a phenomenal 75,000 copies by the end of the year and created an international sensation. The New York Times reprinted it as America began its lengthy debate on entering what was then called "the European War".[12]
During Sharp's last two years in the post, from around 1926, he was debilitated by chronic alcoholism and the paper was actually edited by his deputy Charles Mostyn Lloyd. Although the Webbs and most Fabians were closely associated with the Labour Party, Sharp was drawn increasingly to the Asquith Liberals.[13]
Lloyd stood in after Sharp's departure until the appointment of Kingsley Martin as editor in 1930 – a position Martin was to hold for 30 years.
1931–1960: Kingsley Martin[edit]
In 1931 the New Statesman merged with the Liberal weekly The Nation and Athenaeum and changed its name to the New Statesman and Nation, which it kept until 1964. The chairman of The Nation and Athenaeum's board was the economist John Maynard Keynes, who came to be an important influence on the newly merged paper, which started with a circulation of just under 13,000. It also absorbed The Week-end Review in 1934 (one element of which survives in the shape of the New Statesman's Weekly Competition, and the other the 'This England' feature). The Competition feature, in which readers submitted jokes and often parodies and pastiches of the work of famous authors, became one of the most famous parts of the magazine.[14] Most famously, Graham Greene won second prize in a challenge to parody his own work.
During the 1930s, Martin's New Statesman moved markedly to the left politically. It became strongly anti-fascist and pacifist, opposing British rearmament.[15] After the 1938 Anschluss, Martin wrote: "Today if Mr. Chamberlain would come forward and tell us that his policy was really one not only of isolation but also of Little Englandism in which the Empire was to be given up because it could not be defended and in which military defence was to be abandoned because war would totally end civilization, we for our part would wholeheartedly support him."[16]
The magazine provoked further controversy with its coverage of Joseph Stalin's Soviet Union. In 1932, Keynes reviewed Martin's book on the Soviet Union, Low's Russian Sketchbook. Keynes argued that Martin was 'a little too full perhaps of good will' towards Stalin, and that any doubts about Stalin's rule had 'been swallowed down if possible'.[17] Martin was irritated by Keynes's article but still allowed it to be printed.[17] In a 17 September 1932 editorial, the magazine accused the British Conservative press of misrepresenting the Soviet Union's agricultural policy but added that "the serious nature of the food situation is no secret and no invention". The magazine defended the Soviet collectivization policy, but also said the policy had 'proceeded far too quickly and lost the cooperation of farmers'.[18] In 1934 it ran an interview with Stalin by H. G. Wells. Although sympathetic to aspects of the Soviet Union, Wells disagreed with Stalin on several issues.[17] The debate resulted in several more articles in the magazine; in one of them, George Bernard Shaw accused Wells of being disrespectful to Stalin during the interview.[17]
In 1938 came Martin's refusal to publish George Orwell's celebrated dispatches from Barcelona during the Spanish civil war because they criticised the communists for suppressing the anarchists and the left-wing Workers' Party of Marxist Unification (POUM). 'It is an unfortunate fact,' Martin wrote to Orwell, 'that any hostile criticism of the present Russian regime is liable to be taken as propaganda against socialism'.[19] Martin also refused to allow any of the magazine's writers to review Leon Trotsky's anti-Stalinist book The Revolution Betrayed.[20]
Martin became more critical of Stalin after the Hitler-Stalin pact, claiming Stalin was 'adopting the familiar technique of the Fuhrer' and adding, 'Like Hitler, he [Stalin] has a contempt for all arguments except that of superior force.'[21] The magazine also condemned the Soviet Invasion of Finland.[22]
Circulation grew enormously under Martin's editorship, reaching 70,000 by the end of the Second World War. This number helped the magazine become a key player in Labour politics. The paper welcomed Labour's 1945 general election victory but took a critical line on the new government's foreign policy. The young Labour MP Richard Crossman, who had been an assistant editor for the magazine before the war, was Martin's chief lieutenant in this period, and the Statesman published Keep Left, the pamphlet written by Crossman, Michael Foot and Ian Mikardo, that most succinctly laid out the Labour left's proposals for a "third force" foreign policy rather than alliance with the United States.
During the 1950s, the New Statesman remained a left critic of British foreign and defence policy and of the Labour leadership of Hugh Gaitskell, although Martin never got on personally with Aneurin Bevan, the leader of the anti-Gaitskellite Labour faction. The magazine opposed the Korean War, and an article by J. B. Priestley directly led to the founding of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament.[citation needed]
There was much less focus on a single political line in the back part of the paper, which was devoted to book reviews and articles on cultural topics. Indeed, with these pages managed by Janet Adam Smith, who was literary editor from 1952 to 1960, the paper was sometimes described as a pantomime horse: its back half was required reading even for many who disagreed with the paper's politics. This tradition would continue into the 1960s with Karl Miller as Smith's replacement.
After Kingsley Martin[edit]
Martin retired in 1960 and was replaced as editor by John Freeman, a politician and journalist who had resigned from the Labour government in 1951 with Bevan and Harold Wilson. Freeman left in 1965 and was followed in the chair by Paul Johnson, then on the left, under whose editorship the Statesman reached its highest ever circulation. For some, even enemies of Johnson such as Richard Ingrams, this was a strong period for the magazine editorially.
After Johnson's departure in 1970, the Statesman went into a long period of declining circulation under successive editors: Richard Crossman (1970–72), who tried to edit it at the same time as playing a major role in Labour politics; Anthony Howard (1972–78), whose recruits to the paper included Christopher Hitchens, Martin Amis and James Fenton (surprisingly, the arch anti-Socialist Auberon Waugh was writing for the Statesman at this time before returning to The Spectator); Bruce Page (1978–82), who moved the paper towards specialising in investigative journalism, sacking Arthur Marshall, who had been writing for the Statesman on and off since 1935, as a columnist, allegedly because of the latter's support for Margaret Thatcher; Hugh Stephenson (1982–86), under whom it took a strong position again for unilateral nuclear disarmament; John Lloyd (1986–87), who swung the paper's politics back to the centre; Stuart Weir (1987–90), under whose editorship the Statesman founded the Charter 88 constitutional reform pressure group; and Steve Platt (1990–96).
The Statesman acquired the weekly New Society in 1988 and merged with it, becoming New Statesman and Society for the next eight years, then reverting to the old title, having meanwhile absorbed Marxism Today in 1991. In 1993, the Statesman was sued by Prime Minister John Major after it published an article discussing rumours that Major was having an extramarital affair with a Downing Street caterer.[23] Although the action was settled out of court for a minimal sum,[24] the magazine's legal costs almost led to its closure.[25]
In 1994, KGB defector Yuri Shvets said that the KGB utilised the New Statesman to spread disinformation. Shvets said that the KGB had provided disinformation, including forged documents, to the New Statesman journalist Claudia Wright which she used for anti-American and anti-Israel stories in line with the KGB's campaigns.[26][27] By 1996 the magazine was selling 23,000 copies a week. New Statesman was the first periodical to go online, hosted by the www.cleanroom.co.uk, in 1995.[citation needed]
Since 1996[edit]
The New Statesman was rescued from near-bankruptcy by a takeover by businessman Philip Jeffrey but in 1996, after prolonged boardroom wrangling[28] over Jeffrey's plans, it was sold to Geoffrey Robinson, the Labour MP and businessman. Following Steve Platt's resignation, Robinson appointed a former editor of The Independent , Ian Hargreaves, on what was at the time an unprecedentedly high salary. Hargreaves fired most of the left-wingers on the staff and turned the Statesman into a strong supporter of Tony Blair being Labour's leader.[29]
Hargreaves was succeeded by Peter Wilby, also from the Independent stable, who had previously been the Statesman′s books editor, in 1998. Wilby attempted to reposition the paper back "on the left". His stewardship was not without controversy. In 2002, for example, the periodical was accused of antisemitism when it published an investigative cover story on the power of the "Zionist lobby" in Britain, under the title "A Kosher Conspiracy?".[30] The cover was illustrated with a gold Star of David resting on a Union Jack.[31] Wilby responded to the criticisms in a subsequent issue.[32] During Wilby's relatively long tenure of seven years, the New Statesman moved from making a financial loss to having a good operating profit, though circulation only remained steady at around 23,000.[29]
John Kampfner, Wilby's political editor, succeeded him as editor in May 2005 following considerable internal lobbying[citation needed]. Under Kampfner's editorship, a relaunch in 2006 initially saw headline circulation climb to over 30,000. However, over 5,000 of these were apparently monitored free copies,[33] and Kampfner failed to maintain the 30,000 circulation he had pledged. In February 2008, Audit Bureau Circulation figures showed that circulation had plunged nearly 13% in 2007.[34] Kampfner resigned on 13 February 2008, the day before the ABC figures were made public, reportedly due to conflicts with Robinson over the magazine's marketing budget (which Robinson had apparently slashed in reaction to the fall in circulation).
In April 2008 Geoffrey Robinson sold a 50% interest in the magazine to businessman Mike Danson, and the remainder a year later.[35] The appointment of the new editor Jason Cowley was announced on 16 May 2008 but he did not take up the job until the end of September 2008.[36]
In January 2009, the magazine refused to recognise the National Union of Journalists, the trade union to which almost of all its journalists belonged, though further discussions were promised but never materialised.[37]
In 2009, Cowley was named current-affairs editor of the year at the British Society of Magazine Editors awards[38] and in 2011, he was named editor of the year in the Newspaper & Current Affairs Magazine Category at the British Society of Magazine Editors awards, while Jon Bernstein, the deputy editor, gained the award for Consumer Website Editor of the Year.[39] Cowley had been shortlisted as Editor of the Year (consumer magazines) in the 2012 PPA (Professional Publishers Association) Awards.[40] He was also shortlisted for the European Press Prize editing award in January 2013, when the awards committee said: "Cowley has succeeded in revitalising the New Statesman and re-establishing its position as an influential political and cultural weekly. He has given the New Statesman an edge and a relevance to current affairs it hasn’t had for years."[41]
In April 2013 the magazine published a 186-page centenary special, the largest single issue in its history. It also published two special editions (250 and 150 pages) showcasing 100 years of the best and boldest journalism from its archives. The following year it expanded its web presence by establishing two new websites: May2015.com, a polling data site focused on the 2015 general election, and CityMetric, a cities magazine site under the tagline, "Urbanism for the social media age" and edited by Jonn Elledge.
In December 2016, it was announced that the Weekend Competition, a feature inherited from The Week-end Review, would be discontinued, for reasons of space.
As of 2017 the New Statesman considers itself a "print-digital hybrid" with peak online traffic of over 4 million unique visitors per month, almost a four-fold increase since 2011. This compares to the magazine circulation of 34,000.[42]
At the 2017 British Society of Magazine Editors (BSME) awards, editor Jason Cowley was named Current Affairs and Politics editor of the year for the third time, defeating rivals from The Spectator, The Economist and Prospect. "The winning title is consistently fresh and thought provoking. In a very strong category it stood out for its eloquence and independent views," the BSME judges said, on presenting the award.[43]
The magazine's Spotlight series (which publishes specialist business content) also won the Launch of the Year award, with judges describing the supplements as a "great example of monetising a brand without losing its integrity".[43]
Guest editors[edit]
In March 2009 the magazine had its first guest editor, Alastair Campbell, the former head of communications for Tony Blair. Campbell chose to feature his partner Fiona Millar, Tony Blair (in an article "Why we must all do God"), football manager Alex Ferguson, and Sarah Brown, the wife of Prime Minister Gordon Brown. This editorship was condemned by Suzanne Moore, a contributor to the magazine for twenty years. She wrote in a Mail on Sunday article: "New Statesman fiercely opposed the Iraq war and yet now hands over the reins to someone key in orchestrating that conflict".[44] Campbell responded: "I had no idea she worked for the New Statesman. I don't read the Mail on Sunday. But professing commitment to leftwing values in that rightwing rag lends a somewhat weakened credibility to anything she says."[45]
In September 2009 the magazine was guest-edited by Labour politician Ken Livingstone, the former mayor of London.[46]
In October 2010 the magazine was guest-edited by the British author and broadcaster Melvyn Bragg. The issue included a previously unpublished poem[47] by Ted Hughes, "Last letter", describing what happened during the three days leading up to the suicide of his first wife, the poet Sylvia Plath. Its first line is: "What happened that night? Your final night."—and the poem ends with the moment Hughes is informed of his wife's death.
In April 2011 the magazine was guest-edited by the human rights activist Jemima Khan. The issue featured a series of exclusives including the actor Hugh Grant's secret recording[48] of former News of the World journalist Paul McMullan, and a much-commented-on[49] interview[50] with Liberal Democrat leader and Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg, in which Clegg admitted that he "cries regularly to music" and that his nine-year-old son asked him, "'Why are the students angry with you, Papa?'"
In June 2011 Rowan Williams, Archbishop of Canterbury created a furore as guest editor by claiming that the Coalition government had introduced "radical, long term policies for which no one had voted" and in doing so had created "anxiety and anger" among many in the country. He was accused of being highly partisan, notwithstanding his having invited Iain Duncan Smith, the Work and Pensions Secretary to write an article and having interviewed the Foreign Secretary William Hague in the same edition. He also noted that the Labour Party had failed to offer an alternative to what he called "associational socialism". The Statesman promoted the edition on the basis of Williams' alleged attack on the government, whereas Williams himself had ended his article by asking for "a democracy capable of real argument about shared needs and hopes and real generosity".
In December 2011 the magazine was guest-edited by Richard Dawkins. The issue included the writer Christopher Hitchens's final interview,[51] conducted by Dawkins in Texas, and pieces by Bill Gates, Sam Harris, Daniel Dennett and Philip Pullman.
In October 2012 the magazine was guest-edited by Chinese dissident artist Ai Weiwei[52] and, for the first time, published simultaneously in Mandarin (in digital form) and English. To evade China's internet censors, the New Statesman uploaded the issue to file-sharing sites such as BitTorrent. As well as writing that week's editorial,[53] Ai Weiwei interviewed the Chinese civil rights activist Chen Guangcheng,[54] who fled to the United States after exposing the use of compulsory abortions and sterilisations. The issue was launched on 19 October 2012 at The Lisson Gallery in London,[55] where speakers including artist Anish Kapoor and lawyer Mark Stephens paid tribute to Ai Weiwei.
In October 2013 the magazine was guest-edited by Russell Brand, with contributions from David Lynch, Noel Gallagher, Naomi Klein, Rupert Everett, Amanda Palmer, and Alec Baldwin,[56] as well as an essay by Brand.[57]
In October 2014, the magazine was guest-edited by the artist Grayson Perry, whose essay titled "Default Man" was widely discussed.
The former British prime minister Gordon Brown guest-edited the magazine in 2016, a special edition exploring Britain's relationship with Europe ahead of the EU referendum. Contributors to the issue included the Nobel laureate Amartya Sen and Michael Sandel.
List of editors[edit]
Clifford Sharp (1913–28)
Charles Mostyn Lloyd (1928–31)
Kingsley Martin (1931–60)
John Freeman (1961–65)
Paul Johnson (1965–70)
Richard Crossman (1970–72)
Anthony Howard (1972–78)
Bruce Page (1978–82)
Hugh Stephenson (1982–86)
John Lloyd (1986–87)
Stuart Weir (1987–91)
Steve Platt (1991–96)
Ian Hargreaves (1996–98)
Peter Wilby (1998–2005)
John Kampfner (2005–08)
Sue Matthias (acting editor 2008)
Jason Cowley (2008–)
Denis Pitts
G. W. Stonier
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October 3, 2007 (2007-10-03) –
Pushing Daisies is an American fantasy mystery comedy-drama television series created by Bryan Fuller that aired on ABC from October 3, 2007, to June 13, 2009. The series stars Lee Pace as Ned, a pie-maker with the ability to bring dead things back to life with his touch, an ability that comes with stipulations. Together with his formerly deceased childhood crush Chuck (Anna Friel), private investigator Emerson Cod (Chi McBride) and co-worker Olive Snook (Kristin Chenoweth), Ned uses his abilities to solve murder cases.[2] The cast also includes Ellen Greene, Swoosie Kurtz and Field Cate, with Jim Dale acting as narrator.
Touted as a "forensic fairy tale", the series is known for its unusual visual style, eccentric production design, quirky characters, fast-paced dialogue and grotesque situations. The series often uses wordplay, metaphor and double entendre, while Jim Dale's narration is very similar to that of a fairytale.
The series received critical acclaim and won numerous awards. The series received 17 Primetime Emmy Award nominations, with seven wins, including Outstanding Directing for a Comedy Series for Barry Sonnenfeld and Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series for Kristin Chenoweth. TV Guide included the series in their 2013 list of 60 shows that were "Cancelled Too Soon".[3] In 2015, Pushing Daisies was voted first in Esquire's "TV Reboot Tournament" that asked fans to vote for the show they would most like to see return to television.[4]
2 Cast and characters
2.1 Main
2.2 Recurring
2.3 Guest
3.2 Visual design
3.3 Quirkiness
3.4 Music
4 Series continuation
4.1 Comics
4.2 Mini-series/film
4.3 Broadway musical
5.1 Critical response
5.2 Awards and nominations
5.3 U.S. ratings
6 Home media
7 Syndication
Pushing Daisies centers on the life of Ned (Lee Pace), a pie-maker gifted with the ability to reanimate the dead by touching them. If something is revived for more than one minute, a similar "life value" in the vicinity drops dead as a form of balance. If he touches the revived person or thing a second time, they die permanently.
As a child, he brings back his mother when she dies of an aneurysm. This causes the death of the father of his neighbor and childhood sweetheart, Charlotte "Chuck" Charles (Anna Friel). That night, Ned's mother falls dead permanently when she kisses him goodnight. Chuck's agoraphobic aunts, Vivian and Lily (Ellen Greene and Swoosie Kurtz, respectively), move in to care for her and Ned is sent by his father to a boarding school, separating the children.
Ned becomes a pie-maker and opens a restaurant called The Pie Hole. He is aided by waitress Olive Snook (Kristin Chenoweth), who pines for him. The restaurant is failing financially when private investigator Emerson Cod (Chi McBride) accidentally discovers Ned's powers and offers a proposal: Ned will temporarily bring murder victims back to life, allowing Emerson to inquire about the circumstances of their death, quickly solve the case, and split the reward money with him.
The scheme succeeds without issue until they learn that Chuck, whom Ned has not seen since childhood, was murdered. Ned revives her, but he cannot bring himself to let her die permanently. Ned and Chuck fall in love again, and although they can never touch each other, she moves into his home. Chuck joins Ned and Emerson in investigating deaths for reward money, beginning with her own murder.
Over the course of the series, Emerson searches for his missing daughter who was taken away by her mother, a con woman. After meeting a publisher of pop-up books, he is inspired to create and publish his own pop-up book, hoping that his daughter will read the book and find her way back to him. Chuck struggles to keep the secret of her revival from Vivian and Lily, and Vivian and Lily slowly accept the death of their niece. It is discovered that Chuck is Lily's daughter from an infidelity with Chuck's father while he was engaged to Vivian. Ned revives Chuck's father to ask him questions, and Chuck tricks Ned into thinking he touched her father a second time so that she can keep her father in her life. Chuck's father and Ned have an antagonistic relationship, and Chuck's father asks her to travel the world with him. When she tells him she would rather remain in town, he leaves alone.
The epilogue reveals that Emerson's daughter returns to him, Chuck is able to let her mother Lily and aunt Vivian know she is alive, and Olive has fallen in love with Ned's friend and opens The Intrepid Cow, a restaurant dedicated to macaroni and cheese.
Cast and characters[edit]
Main article: List of Pushing Daisies characters
Main[edit]
Lee Pace as Ned, also known as "The Piemaker", the owner of the Pie Hole restaurant who has the power to bring back dead people.
Anna Friel as Charlotte "Chuck" Charles, Ned's childhood sweetheart, murdered, but brought back to life by Ned.
Chi McBride as Emerson Cod, a private investigator and Ned's business partner.
Kristin Chenoweth as Olive Snook, the Pie Hole waitress who is obsessed and hopelessly in love with Ned.
Ellen Greene as Vivian Charles, Chuck's agoraphobic aunt.
Swoosie Kurtz as Lily Charles, Chuck's other agoraphobic aunt (and birth mother).
Jim Dale as the narrator of the series.
Field Cate as Young Ned (season 2; recurring season 1), who appears in flashbacks.
Recurring[edit]
Sy Richardson as the Coroner, the man in charge of the morgue where most of the murder victims' bodies are stored.
Sammi Hanratty as Young Chuck, who appears in flashbacks.
Stephen Root as Dwight Dixon, a mysterious man connected to both Ned's father and Chuck's father.
David Arquette as Randy Mann, a taxidermist and client of the Pie Hole who is in love with Olive.
Nicholas Khayyat as Eugene Mulchandani, Ned's childhood friend who appears in flashbacks.
Diana Scarwid as Mother Superior, in charge of the monastery where Olive spends the first episodes of season two.
Leyna Nguyen as a newscaster for Channel 9.
Christine Adams as Simone Hundin, originally a murder suspect in season one, who becomes Emerson Cod's love interest.
Jon Eric Price (season one) and George Hamilton (season two) as Ned's father
Raúl Esparza as Alfredo Aldarisio, a traveling homeopathic antidepressant salesman.
Josh Randall as Charles Charles, Chuck's father. The character was portrayed by several extras in season one.
Paul Reubens as Oscar Vibenius, a murder suspect with an incredible sense of smell.
Brad Grunberg as Lawrence and Louis Schatz, the man in charge of Chuck's funeral and his twin brother.
Alex Miller and Graham Miller as Maurice and Ralston, Ned's twin half-brothers.
Marc Raducci and Diana Costa as Olive's parents in flashbacks.
Guest[edit]
Lee Arenberg as Arnaud Bailey ("Circus, Circus")
Barbara Barrie as Mamma Jacobs ("Girth")
Richard Benjamin as Jerry Holmes ("Window Dressed to Kill")
Shelley Berman as Gustav Hoffer ("Robbing Hood")
Matt Braunger as Rick ("Dummy")
Danny Comden as Rob Wright ("Robbing Hood")
Wilson Cruz as Sid Tango ("Kerplunk")
Nora Dunn as Blanche Ramora ("Kerplunk")
Patrick Fabian as Mark Chase ("Dummy")
Willie Garson as Dick Dicker ("Window Dressed to Kill")
Beth Grant as Marianne Marie Beetle ("Comfort Food")
George Hamilton as Ned's Father ("The Norwegians", uncredited)
Rachael Harris as Georgeann Heaps ("Circus, Circus")
Josh Hopkins as Shane Trickle ("Kerplunk")
Orlando Jones as Magnus Olsdatter ("The Norwegians")
David Koechner as Merle McQuoddy ("The Legend of Merle McQuoddy")
Riki Lindhome as Jeanine ("Dummy")
Hamish Linklater as John Joseph Jacobs ("Girth")
Jessica Lundy as Hillary Hundin ("Bitches")
Wendie Malick as Coral Ramora ("Kerplunk")
Jayma Mays as Elsa/Elsita ("Pigeon")
Joel McHale as Harold Hundin ("Bitches")
Ivana Miličević as Hedda Lillihammer ("The Norwegians")
Debra Mooney as Calista Cod ("Frescorts")
Sam Pancake as Denny Downs ("Window Dressed to Kill")
Ethan Phillips as Daniel Hill ("Robbing Hood")
Robert Picardo as Detective Puget ("Water & Power")
Mary Kay Place as Annabelle Vandersloop ("The Legend of Merle McQuoddy")
Missi Pyle as Betty Bee ("Bzzzzzzzzz!")
George Segal as Roy 'Buster' Bustamante ("Window Dressed to Kill")
Molly Shannon as Dilly Balsam ("Bitter Sweets")
Grant Shaud as Steve Kaiser ("Corpsicle")
Christopher Sieber as Napoleon LeNez ("Smell of Success")
Joey Slotnick as Jimmy Neptune ("Kerplunk")
French Stewart as Woolsey Nicholls ("Bzzzzzzzzz!")
Eric Stonestreet as Leo Burns ("Comfort Food")
Paul F. Tompkins as Gunther Pinker in ("Oh Oh Oh... It's Magic")
Gina Torres as Lila Robinson ("Water and Power")
Jenny Wade as Halley Hundin ("Bitches")
Mike White as Billy Balsam ("Bitter Sweets")
Fred Willard as The Great Herrmann ("Oh Oh Oh...It's Magic")
Ping Wu as Bao Ting ("Dim Sum Lose Some")
Ron Yuan as Shrimpboy ("Dim Sum Lose Some")
Constance Zimmer as Coco Juniper ("Window Dressed to Kill")
Development[edit]
The series was greenlit and given a 13-episode order by ABC on May 11, 2007.[5] On October 23, 2007, the show received a full season order.[6] However, scripts for nine episodes were completed before the start of the 2007–2008 Writers Guild of America strike.[7] Bryan Fuller reportedly made last-minute changes to the ninth episode to allow it to serve as a season finale, adjusting the episode to be a cliffhanger.[8]
Because of the Writers Guild strike, the show completed just nine episodes of a 22-episode season.[9] Instead of attempting to complete the first season, the writers planned to begin work on the second season with production resuming around March to June 2008. Although ABC picked Pushing Daisies up for the 2008–09 television season, when ratings quickly declined ABC opted not to order additional episodes beyond the second season's initial thirteen.[10][11] By November 20, 2008, creator Bryan Fuller had confirmed that Pushing Daisies had been cancelled by ABC and expressed the possibility of wrapping up lingering plotlines in a comic book or movie sequel.[12]
The last scheduled episode was broadcast in the United States on December 17, 2008, leaving three episodes unaired, although those episodes were screened at the 2009 Paley Fest.[13] ABC was negotiating at one time to forfeit broadcast rights to the shows and make the unaired episodes available exclusively online,[14] but announced on April 3, 2009 the final three episodes would be broadcast on ABC Saturdays at 10:00 pm beginning May 30.[15] According to Chenoweth, these episodes do not provide a narrative conclusion to the series.[16]
The final three episodes aired on ABC on successive Saturdays at 10:00 pm from Saturday, May 30, 2009 to June 13, 2009, having aired elsewhere around the world. In India, the last episode aired on February 27, 2009 as a world premiere. In Germany, the television network ProSieben showed the last three episodes of Pushing Daisies on March 4, 2009 ("Window Dressed to Kill") and March 11, 2009 ("Water and Power", "Kerplunk"). The three remaining unaired episodes were broadcast in the UK as ITV announced it would be showing the complete season in its run on the channel.[17]
The original concept of Pushing Daisies was rooted from Dead Like Me. The show's creator, Bryan Fuller, intended for Pushing Daisies to be a spinoff of Dead Like Me.[18]
Visual design[edit]
Production designer Michael Wylie told TV Guide that, "My goal was a storybook come to life. I wanted everything to look almost like an illustration." He achieved this by "concentrating on conflicting patterns in different colors, particularly reds and oranges, but per director Barry Sonnenfeld, virtually no blues."[19] Cinematographer Michael Weaver told Variety that he and the producers decided the visuals should "feel somewhere between Amélie and a Tim Burton film — something big, bright and bigger than life."[20]
Screenshot from "Bzzzzzzzzz!" showcasing its visual style—the use of colors, symmetry, and shapes.
The distinctive storybook-esque style is continued within the overall design of the visual aspects. Circular background shapes, circular windows, and framing shots within circles was a theme seen consistently throughout the series. Symmetry is a common theme used in the visual style, and characters are often framed in windows, doors, or background props. A heavy use of patterns within a location was often used, where a similar pattern would be used in almost the entire location—the wallpaper, window blinds, bedsheets, pillows, furniture, and even clothing, such as Olive's apartment. The series would often use top-down perspectives and over-head shots would showcase its overall visual style. Regardless of the fact that the show focuses on murder investigations, the morgue is painted in candy-cane stripes and many outfits worn by the characters are vibrantly colored, bright, and cheery (for example, Olive's work uniforms alternate between bright orange and lime-green pinstriped dresses, and Emerson is often seen wearing shades of purple).[21] Only Ned consistently wears black.
CGI is prominent in the series, with much use of blue screen technology[22] (the shop window, similar set pieces and outdoor scenery outside often cast a blue halo tinge) and 3D set-extensions (streets, grass and landscape, the pie shop façade). The use of matte painting backdrops are used to complete the look.[23]
Automobiles are often mint-condition vintage vehicles, though some newer vehicles were used (such as a mid-1990s Chevrolet Lumina APV minivan, a Hummer, or a 2006 Toyota Prius). Emerson drives a mid-1960s Lincoln Continental with suicide doors in new condition. Ned is seen driving an old, like-new Mercedes-Benz W108. Other characters drive decades-old vehicles as well. 1959 Cadillac Miller-Meteor cars in ambulance and hearse configurations figure frequently. Old-fashioned trolley cars can be seen in several shots panning in to the Pie Hole.
Quirkiness[edit]
Critics noted the Pushing Daisies distinctive visual style. A NYTimes critic describes it as a "candy-colored, computer-generated bucolic scenery"[24] and another describes a "Technicolor world that seems to exist at right angles to our own" and note "bizarre dialogue" and the use of alliterative and near-duplicate names of both characters (such as Deedee Duffield, Billy Balsam, the Darling Mermaid Darlings, Charles Charles, Charlotte "Chuck" Charles, John Joseph Jacobs, etc.) and locations (Boutique Travel Travel Boutique, Über Life Life Insurance, Coeur d'Coeurs, etc.).[25] Some narration is done in the poetic style of Dr. Seuss.
Music[edit]
The show contains original music composed and arranged by Jim Dooley. The first six minutes of the series pilot, "Pie-lette" were composed by Blake Neely. Dooley describes the musical score as having an Amélie type of sound (Yann Tiersen), which is a "wide-angled, adult fairy tale, with a narrator and this super-real world."[26] It was announced on Jim Dooley's website that the soundtrack of the first season was originally to be released by Varèse Sarabande on October 21, 2008, but was delayed until December 23, 2008, with the album available in the iTunes Store on December 10, 2008.[27] A soundtrack for the second season was released on April 5, 2011, also composed by Jim Dooley and released by Varèse Sarabande.[28]
Both Kristin Chenoweth and Ellen Greene have backgrounds in musical theater,[29][30] and have performed musical numbers in some episodes. In "Dummy", Chenoweth sang "Hopelessly Devoted to You" from the movie musical Grease. In "Pigeon", Chenoweth and Greene harmonized on the They Might Be Giants hit, "Birdhouse in Your Soul". Also in "Smell of Success", Greene sang "Morning Has Broken". Chenoweth asked to sing "Eternal Flame" in an episode, which Bryan Fuller agreed to accommodate.[31] The song was sung in "Comfort Food". She performed a cover of Lionel Richie's "Hello" in "Window Dressed to Kill".
Series continuation[edit]
Comics[edit]
The show's official website included a comic book that was distributed at the 2007 San Diego Comic-Con International, with new mysteries and background information not seen on the televised episodes.[32] The book also contained recaps of aired episodes.
When the show struggled in the ratings during its second season, Bryan Fuller said that, should ABC not pick up additional episodes, he would release comic books and maybe a movie based on the show to wrap up outstanding stories for fans.[33] Warner Bros. gave Fuller permission to produce comic books of the series.[34]
Fuller stated that the "third season" comic book series would be twelve issues long, with a fresh take on the zombie genre starring all of the characters from the show. It was to have been published by DC Comics' WildStorm imprint.[35] On October 13, 2009, Entertainment Weekly reported that Bryan Fuller had turned in the script for the first comic issue, featuring recurring character Oscar Vibenius, and continued to work with the show's writers on the next three comic scripts.[36] In January 2010, a rumor leaked that the comic series could potentially become a graphic novel instead.[37]
On September 23, 2010, Entertainment Weekly reported the first issue of "season 3" was expected in early 2011. Further, Fuller stated that he and the show's composer Jim Dooley had talked about giving the audience a multimedia experience with a Pushing Daisies comic soundtrack, to be released officially or streamed for free online when the comic book was published. Fuller stated that Dooley had started composing musical cues, and that the cast had agreed to sing on the soundtrack, though licensing fees for the actors may have prevented such performances from being included.[38]
In late 2010, DC Comics shut down its WildStorm imprint. On April 23, 2011, Fuller confirmed that release of the comic had been postponed by the loss of its publisher.[39] At the same time, Fuller released the first page of the uncolored version of the comic book.[40]
Mini-series/film[edit]
On April 1, 2011, at WonderCon in San Francisco, Bryan Fuller was quoted as saying "I am really emboldened by what Starz is doing with Torchwood and I would love to do a Pushing Daisies mini-series on Starz", Fuller said. "This would be a great way to wrap up the show properly. [We could] do six great episodes or even a Pushing Daisies movie. But I kind of like the idea of a Starz mini-series since they really embraced Torchwood."[41]
After his success on Kickstarter for raising money for a Veronica Mars movie in March 2013, Veronica Mars creator Rob Thomas said that Bryan Fuller approached him to "talk to [me] about how this thing works" in relation to continuing Pushing Daisies.[42] Fuller later commented that a Kickstarter campaign would be harder for Pushing Daisies due to the budget differences. He said that $12–15 million would be required.[43]
In the wake of Roseanne Barr's dismissal from the ABC Network in May 2018, Fuller pitched a Pushing Daisies revival on Twitter to take the spot left by the now-canceled Roseanne on its schedule.[44]
Broadway musical[edit]
On July 16, 2012, when asked about a potential stage adaptation of the show by TVLine's Michael Ausiello, Fuller responded, "Perhaps!" and continued with, "I can’t really say until it's confirmed, but perhaps. We're working on something that is definitely a 'Pushing Daisies' revival, and the idea would be to have as many cast [members] as we can to participate in it."[45] In February 2014, Fuller revealed he had discussions with Warner Bros. studios and director Barry Sonnenfeld about reviving the series as either a film or a Broadway musical starring Kristin Chenoweth.[46]
Critical response[edit]
Critics responded well to the series, comparing the style and direction to that of director Tim Burton.[47] The pilot, before it officially aired, was well received by critics who were able to screen it. TV Guide's Michael Ausiello claimed that "ABC has found its next Lost!" upon review[48] and the series has been touted as "the fall show with the most spring buzz" by many, including the trade publication Variety.[49] New York Magazine also provided a rave review, calling it "funny, imaginative and smart" while claiming it "boasts Gilmore Girls-speed wit."[50] Television Without Pity declared it "one of the most original, most genuinely entertaining shows on TV. It's filled with tongue-tying turns of phrase, fabulous set design and a fantastic cast."[51] Time magazine's James Poniewozik named it one of the Top 10 New TV Series of 2007, ranking it at #5.[52] The show was heavily promoted by E! online columnist Kristin Dos Santos (who guest starred in one episode as the "'30s Woman") and was featured in her Top 10 shows of 2007.
Awards and nominations[edit]
Main article: List of awards and nominations received by Pushing Daisies
The show was nominated for 57 awards, and won 18 of them, including 7 Primetime Emmy Awards.
In 2008, the series received 12 Primetime Emmy Award nominations, including 2 wins. Barry Sonnenfeld won for Outstanding Directing for a Comedy Series for "Pie-lette". James Dooley won for Outstanding Music Composition for a Series for "Pigeon". Other notable nominations included Lee Pace for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series, Kristin Chenoweth for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series, and Bryan Fuller for Outstanding Writing for a Comedy Series for "Pie-lette". The series also received 3 Golden Globe Award nominations for Best Television Series – Musical or Comedy, Best Performance by an Actor in a Television Series – Musical or Comedy (Lee Pace), and Best Performance by an Actress in a Television Series – Musical or Comedy (Anna Friel). Barry Sonnenfeld also won the Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directing – Comedy Series for "Pie-lette".[53]
In 2009, the series received 5 Primetime Emmy Award nominations, including 4 wins. Kristin Chenoweth won for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series while the series won 3 Creative Arts Emmy Awards.[53]
U.S. ratings[edit]
For per-episode ratings, see List of Pushing Daisies episodes.
The heavily promoted pilot episode ("Pie-lette") attracted 13 million viewers in the United States. It was the most-watched new series and 14th in overall viewership for the week.[54]
Timeslot (ET)
TV season
(in millions)
9 Wednesday 8:00 pm October 3, 2007 December 12, 2007 2007–2008 #52[55] 9.46[55] ABC
13 Wednesday 8:00 pm (October 1, 2008 – December 17, 2008)
Saturday 10:00 pm (May 30, 2009 – June 13, 2009) October 1, 2008 June 13, 2009 2008–2009 #95[56] 6.10[56]
Home media[edit]
Region 1 Release Date
1 September 16, 2008 June 23, 2008
September 15, 2008 (Blu-ray) December 9, 2008 9 3
Pie Time: Time for Pie – An interactive featurette with creators of the show, the set designer and special effects team who all come together to make this show so unique. Special interviews from creator Bryan Fuller and Lee Pace as they discuss their favorite first season scenes. Region 4 DVDs do not contain this special feature.
2 July 21, 2009 May 25, 2009 April 28, 2010 13 4
The Master Pie Maker – Hop into creator Bryan Fuller's mind to discover the inner secrets of Pushing Daisies!
From Oven to Table – Follow the production challenges of taking one of Bryan Fuller's script ideas, involving a lighthouse and an egg, and crafting it into reality.
Secret Sweet Ingredients – Learn how composer Jim Dooley's music shapes a scene in ways most viewers aren't even aware of.
Add a Little Magic – Watch the visual effects team bring a 2-ton rhino to life and learn about the challenges of executing a scene to rival Jumanji!
Syndication[edit]
Pushing Daisies premiered in syndication on Chiller on March 5, 2013.[57] In 2015, Pushing Daisies was added to The CW's streaming service CW Seed. The CW is partly owned by Warner Bros. who owns the distribution rights.[58]
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The Ambassadors (Holbein)
painting by Hans Holbein the Younger
The Ambassadors
Hans Holbein the Younger
207 cm × 209.5 cm (81 in × 82.5 in)
The Ambassadors (1533) is a painting by Hans Holbein the Younger. Also known as Jean de Dinteville and Georges de Selve,[1] it was created in the Tudor period, in the same year Elizabeth I was born. As well as being a double portrait, the painting contains a still life of several meticulously rendered objects, the meaning of which is the cause of much debate. It also incorporates a much-cited example of anamorphosis in painting. It is part of the collection at the National Gallery in London.
1.1 Anamorphic skull
2 Interpretation
3 References in popular culture
Although a German-born artist who spent most of his time in England, Holbein displayed the influence of Early Netherlandish painters in this work. This influence can be noted most outwardly in the use of oil paint, the use of which for panel paintings had been developed a century before in Early Netherlandish painting. What is most "Flemish" of Holbein's use of oils is his use of the medium to render meticulous details that are mainly symbolic: as Jan van Eyck and the Master of Flémalle used extensive imagery to link their subjects to divinity, Holbein used symbols to link his figures to show the same things on the table.
Holbein carpet with large medallions, of a type similar to that of the painting, 16th century, Central Anatolia
Among the clues to the figures' explorative associations are a selection of scientific instruments including two globes (one terrestrial and one celestial), a shepherd's dial, a quadrant, a torquetum, and a polyhedral sundial,[2] as well as various textiles including the floor mosaic, based on a design from Westminster Abbey (the Cosmati pavement, before the High Altar), and the carpet on the upper shelf, which is most notably oriental, an example of Oriental carpets in Renaissance painting. The choice for the inclusion of the two figures can furthermore be seen as symbolic. The figure on the left is in secular attire while the figure on the right is dressed in clerical clothes. Their flanking of the table, which displays open books, symbols of religious knowledge and even a symbolic link to the Virgin.
The Ambassador's globe (detail)
In contrast, other scholars have suggested the painting contains overtones of religious strife. The conflicts between secular and religious authorities are here represented by Jean de Dinteville, a landowner, and Georges de Selve, the Bishop of Lavaur. The commonly accepted symbol of discord, a lute with a broken string, is included next to a hymnbook in Martin Luther's translation, suggesting strife between scholars and the clergy.[3]
The terrestrial globe on the lower shelf repeats a portion of a cartographically imaginative map created in possibly 1530 and of unknown origin. The map is referred to as the Ambassadors' Globe due to its popularly known appearance in the painting.[4][5]
The work has been described as "one of the most staggeringly impressive portraits in Renaissance art."[6]
Anamorphic skull[edit]
The anamorphic skull as restored in 1998
The most notable and famous of Holbein's symbols in the work, however, is the distorted skull which is placed in the bottom center of the composition. The skull, rendered in anamorphic perspective, another invention of the Early Renaissance, is meant to be a visual puzzle as the viewer must approach the painting from high on the right side, or low on the left side, to see the form as an accurate rendering of a human skull. While the skull is evidently intended as a vanitas or memento mori, it is unclear why Holbein gave it such prominence in this painting. One possibility is that this painting represents three levels: the heavens (as portrayed by the astrolabe and other objects on the upper shelf), the living world (as evidenced by books and a musical instrument on the lower shelf), and death (signified by the skull). It has also been hypothesized that the painting is meant to hang in a stairwell, so that persons walking up the stairs and passing the painting on their left would be startled by the appearance of the skull. A further possibility is that Holbein simply wished to show off his ability with the technique in order to secure future commissions.[7] Artists often incorporated skulls as a reminder of mortality. Holbein may have intended the skulls (one as a gray slash and the other as a medallion on Jean de Dinteville's hat) and the crucifix in the upper left corner to encourage contemplation of one's impending death and the resurrection.[3]
Interpretation[edit]
Before the publication of Mary F. S. Hervey's Holbein's Ambassadors: The Picture and the Men in 1900, the identity of the two figures in the picture had long been a subject of intense debate. In 1890, Sidney Colvin was the first to propose the figure on the left as Jean de Dinteville, Seigneur of Polisy (1504–1555), French ambassador to the court of Henry VIII for most of 1533. Shortly afterwards, the cleaning of the picture revealed that his seat of Polisy is one of only four French places marked on the globe.[8] Hervey identified the man on the right as Georges de Selve (1508/09–1541), Bishop of Lavaur, after tracing the painting's history back to a seventeenth-century manuscript. According to art historian John Rowlands, de Selve is not wearing episcopal robes because he was not consecrated until 1534.[9] De Selve is known from two of de Dinteville's letters to his brother François de Dinteville, Bishop of Auxerre, to have visited London in the spring of 1533. On 23 May, Jean de Dinteville wrote: "Monsieur de Lavaur did me the honour of coming to see me, which was no small pleasure to me. There is no need for the grand maître to hear anything of it". The grand maître in question was Anne de Montmorency, the Marshal of France, a reference that has led some analysts to conclude that de Selve's mission was a secret one; but there is no other evidence to corroborate the theory.[10] On June 4, the ambassador wrote to his brother again, saying: "Monsieur de Lavaur came to see me, but has gone away again".[11]
Lutheran Psalmbook in The Ambassadors
Hervey's identification of the sitters has remained the standard one, affirmed in extended studies of the painting by Foister, Roy, and Wyld (1997), Zwingenberger (1999), and North (2004), who concludes that "the general coherence of the evidence assembled by Hervey is very satisfying"; however, North also notes that, despite Hervey's research, "[R]ival speculation did not stop at once and is still not entirely dead".[12] Giles Hudson, for example, has argued that the man on the right is not de Selve, but Jean's brother François, Bishop of Auxerre, a noted patron of the arts with a known interest in mathematical instruments.[13] The identification finds support in the earliest manuscript in which the painting is mentioned, a 1589 inventory of the Chateau of Polisy, discovered by Riccardo Famiglietti. However, scholars have argued that this identification of 1589 was incorrect. John North, for example, remarks that "[T]his was a natural enough supposition to be made by a person with limited local knowledge, since the two brothers lived on the family estates together at the end of their lives, but it is almost certainly mistaken".[14] He points to a letter François de Dinteville wrote to Jean on 28 March 1533, in which he talks of an imminent meeting with the Pope and makes no mention of visiting London. Unlike the man on the right of the picture, François was older than Jean de Dinteville. The inscription on the man on the right's book is "AETAT/IS SV Æ 25" (his age is 25); that on de Dinteville's dagger is "AET. SV Æ/ 29" (he is 29).[15]
North's book analyzes the painting and shows it to be representing Good Friday through various clues on the instruments.[2]
Scientific and mathematical elements
Shepherd's dial
Universal equinoctial dial (disassembled)
Polyhedral sundial
Torquetum
Peter Apian's arithmetic book
References in popular culture[edit]
In the fifth episode of Hunted, the painting is said to have been commissioned by British merchants who felt restricted by government. Their companies evolved into five multinationals concentrating their power and wealth as they undermine the public sector.
In 2004 the painting featured in the comedy/satirical television series Absolute Power with Stephen Fry and John Bird, as being purchased for the nation by a fictitious cousin of Osama Bin Laden, as part of a ploy to rehabilitate the name Bin Laden by purchasing British Airways.
In the 2014 film Calvary, Dylan Moran's character urinates on the painting.
External video
Holbein's The Ambassadors, Smarthistory[16]
HOLBEIN – The Ambassadors, Canaleducatif[17]
Holbein's skull Part I, Part II National Gallery (UK)[18]
Symbolism in Holbein's Ambassadors, National Gallery (UK)[19]
Mathematical Technique in Holbein's Ambassadors, Idols of the Cave[20]
Video demonstration of anamorphic skull illusion with actual painting, WorldScott[21]
Artists of the Tudor court
List of paintings by Hans Holbein the Younger
^ "Hans Holbein the Younger The Ambassadors NG1314 National Gallery, London". www.nationalgallery.org.uk. Retrieved 2018-10-24.
^ a b Dekker & Lippincott 1999
^ a b Mamiya, 675
^ Pigafetta, Antonio (1994). Magellan‘s Voyage: a narrative of the first circumnavigation. Dover Publications Inc. p. 30. ISBN 0-486-28099-3.
^ Hayes, Derek (2003). Historical Atlas of the Arctic. Douglas & McIntyre Ltd. pp. 8–9. ISBN 1-55365-004-2.
^ Welton, J. in Farthing, S. ed, (2011)
^ "Anamorphosis". World Wide Words. 2011-11-26. Retrieved 2012-08-21.
^ Rowlands, 139–41.
^ Rowlands, 140.
^ Foister, Roy, & Wyld, 16.
^ Foister, 14.
^ North, 7–8.
^ See Hudson, 201–205.
^ North, 7; see also, Foister, Roy, & Wyld, 102, n1.
^ "Holbein's The Ambassadors". Smarthistory at Khan Academy. Retrieved March 10, 2013.
^ "HOLBEIN – The Ambassadors". ArtSleuth. Canaleducatif. Retrieved March 10, 2013.
^ "Holbein's skull Part I". National Gallery (UK). Retrieved March 10, 2013. Part II
^ "Symbolism in Holbein's Ambassadors". National Gallery (UK). Retrieved March 10, 2013.
^ "Mathematical Technique in Holbein's Ambassadors". Idols of the Cave. Retrieved April 21, 2013.
^ "Amazing illusion painting in 4K, The Ambassadors (1533), by Hans Holbein the Younger". WorldScott. Retrieved November 1, 2016.
Dekker, Elly; Lippincott, Kristen (1999). "The Scientific Instruments in Holbein's Ambassadors: A Re-Examination". Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes. The Warburg Institute. 62: 93–125. doi:10.2307/751384. ISSN 0075-4390. JSTOR 751384.
Farthing, Stephen, ed. (2011). 1001 Paintings You Must See Before You Die. London: Cassell. p. 167. ISBN 978-1-84403-704-9.
Foister, Susan; Roy, Ashok; Wyld, Martin (1997). Making and Meaning: Holbein's Ambassadors. London: National Gallery Publications. ISBN 1-85709-173-6.
Hervey, Mary (1900). Holbein's Ambassadors: The Picture and the Men. London: George Bell and Sons.
Hudson, Giles (April 2003). "The Vanity of the Sciences". Annals of Science. 60 (2): 201–205. doi:10.1080/0003379021000047112.
Mamiya, Christin J. (2005). Gardner's Art Through the Ages 12th ed. California: Wadsworth/ Thomson Learning, Inc. ISBN 0-15-505090-7.
Zanchi, Mauro (2013). Holbein, Art e Dossier (in Italian). Firenze: Giunti. ISBN 978-8-80978-250-1.
North, John (2004). The Ambassadors' Secret: Holbein and the World of the Renaissance. London: Phoenix. ISBN 1-84212-661-X.
Rowlands, John (1985). Holbein: The Paintings of Hans Holbein the Younger. Boston: David R. Godine. ISBN 0-87923-578-0.
Zwingenberger, Jeanette (1999). The Shadow of Death in the Work of Hans Holbein the Younger. London: Parkstone Press. ISBN 1-85995-492-8.
Wikimedia Commons has media related to The Ambassadors (Holbein).
Google Art Project HQ scan of the painting
The Ambassadors, Zoomable and Annotated, with many details
Video proposing an explanation as to how the anamorphic projection was made
The National Gallery article on the painting
Essay on the meaning of the painting
ArtSleuth : The Ambassadors, Rendezvous with Death
Quaerentia (2009-07-21). "Holbein's The Ambassadors: unlocking hidden mysteries". Retrieved 2012-02-17.
List of paintings
List of portrait drawings
Double Portrait of Jakob Meyer zum Hasen and Dorothea Kannengießer (1516)
The Body of the Dead Christ in the Tomb (1520–1522)
Solothurn Madonna (1522)
Venus and Amor (1524)
Lais of Corinth (c. 1524)
Darmstadt Madonna (1526)
Sir Thomas More and Family (1527)
Portrait of Sir Thomas More (1527)
Portrait of a Lady with a Squirrel and a Starling (1526–1528)
Portrait of Nicolaus Kratzer (1528)
Portrait of Georg Giese (1532)
The Ambassadors (1533)
Portrait of Thomas Cromwell (c. 1532–1534)
Portrait Miniature of Margaret Roper (1535–36)
Portrait of Sir Richard Southwell (1536–37)
Portrait of Henry VIII (1536–37)
Portrait of Christina of Denmark (1538)
Portrait of Jane Small (c. 1540)
Self-portrait (1542–43)
Portrait of Erasmus of Rotterdam
Hans Holbein the Elder (father)
Ambrosius Holbein (brother)
Death and mortality in art
Consolatio
Lamentation of Christ
Personifications of death
Death mask
Funerary text
Post-mortem photography
Capuchin Crypt
Sedlec Ossuary
Film (category)
Bardo Thodol
Hamlet's soliloquy
The Masque of the Red Death
Music (category)
Der Erlkönig
Painting (category)
Gather Ye Rosebuds While Ye May
La Calavera Catrina
Pyramid of Skulls
Skull of a Skeleton with Burning Cigarette
Poetry (category)
And death shall have no dominion
Do not go gentle into that good night
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Wheels Up Over the Arctic for NASA’s Climate Science Mission
GREENBELT, Maryland, March 20, 2011 (ENS) – To probe the state of ice sheets, glaciers and sea ice near the North Pole, NASA is flying a specially equipped plane out of the U.S. armed forces’ northernmost installation, the Thule Air Base in Greenland, 750 miles north of the Arctic Circle.
The flights are part of Operation IceBridge, a six-year mission that NASA says is the largest airborne survey of Earth’s polar ice ever flown.
Since 2009, Operation IceBridge has flown annual campaigns over the Arctic starting in March and over Antarctica starting in October for multi-instrument views of the rapidly changing ice features.
The mission is yielding an unprecedented three-dimensional view of ice sheets, ice shelves and sea ice at both poles that the space agency says are important indicators of climate change.
NASA scientists say Operation IceBridge will bridge the gap in polar observations between NASA’s Ice, Cloud and Land Elevation Satellite, ICESat, which collected data fkrom 2003 to 2009, and ICESat-2, planned for late 2015.
“Understanding the change happening in the Arctic is very important because the poles serve as harbingers for the Earth’s climate system. Basically this means that the poles give insight into what changes will happen around the world before any other place on earth,” wrote First Class Midshipmen Eric Brugler, an honors Oceanography major at the United States Naval Academy, in the mission’s blog.
Large sea ice floes illuminated by the Arctic sunrise. (Photo by LCDR John Woods courtesy NASA)
On March 16, instrument teams and crew flew the campaign’s first science flight aboard the P-3B, a specialized four-engine turboprop plane capable of long duration flights up to 12 hours, large payloads up to 15,000 pounds and altitudes to 30,000 feet.
The airborne remote sensing measurements sampled sea ice from low (1,500 feet) to high (17,500 feet) altitudes, and along ground tracks of the European Space Agency’s Earth-observing Envisat satellite.
The campaign’s second flight on March 17 flew near the border of Russian airspace. The aircraft collected measurements as the European Space Agency’s ice-observing satellite, CryoSat-2, passed overhead.
On March 18, the P-3 crew sampled the thick multi-year ice north of Ellesmere Island, and the gradient to thinner ice toward the pole.
Among the highest priority flights is an overnight transit to Fairbanks, Alaska, to collect sea ice thickness data across a slice of the Arctic Ocean. Sea ice is thought to be thinning in recent years in addition to shrinking in the area covered.
Another high-priority flight plan is over the Barnes and Devon ice caps of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago.
“The Canadian ice caps are notably smaller than the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets, but are still significant potential contributors to sea-level change in the next few decades,” said Charles Webb, deputy cryosphere program manager at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.
“They also serve as potential early-warning indicators, responding more sensitively to temperature changes than the more massive ice sheets,” Webb said.
Other IceBridge missions will retrace paths flown in previous years, such as flights over Petermann, Jacobshavn, Kangerlussuak and Helheim glaciers – the outlets through which Greenland loses mass from its ice sheet.
With this multi-year data, scientists can begin to see how such glaciers are changing, where ice loss is slowing or accelerating, and why.
“Each successive IceBridge campaign has broadened in scope,” said IceBridge project scientist Michael Studinger of Goddard Earth Sciences and Technology Center at the University of Maryland. “This year, we have more flight hours and flight plans than ever before.”
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For a number of years, and a number of reasons, Frederick County has been embroiled in an ongoing controversy about the funding and construction of a regional 1,500 tons per day, mass burn incinerator, to be located on the banks of the Monocacy River, overlooking the Monocacy National Battlefield, only three miles from the heart of downtown Frederick. Although the extremely controversial project was approved by the previous Board of County Commissioners, and has continued to receive unwavering support from the current board, it remains an unsettled and uncertain issue. Because if its importance, it is one of the first public policy areas that we will be addressing here.
In the meantime, here are a few related resources:
No-Incinerator Alliance
The No Incinerator Alliance is a grassroots coalition working to stop new trash incinerators from being built in or near Frederick County, Maryland. The alliance of individuals and environmental groups working with residents, businesses and local governments to move toward Zero Waste concepts and practices. Such practices save natural resources, conserve landfill space and eliminate costly and polluting incinerators by reducing waste generation and reusing, recycling and composting discarded materials.
Waste Not! Carroll
The mission of Waste Not! Carroll is to educate the citizens of Carroll County about the local efforts to reduce waste, save precious resources and ease the burden on our landfills. By working with businesses, citizens and government leaders, Waste Not! Carroll hopes to build on the county’s early efforts to develop sensible and sustainable alternatives to managing its solid waste.
Waste Not! Carroll encourages public/private partnerships to realize effective resource recovery within Zero Waste concepts and practices, emphasizing reduction, reuse, recycling, and composting.
The Zero Waste philosophy is based on the realities that landfill space is limited, organic decay in landfills releases methane that contributes to the warming of the earth’s atmosphere, and that incineration not only poses health hazards but is a costly financial option. Implementing Zero Waste will eliminate all discharges to land, water or air that may be a threat to our communities and our natural resources.
You can also find Waste Not! Carroll on Facebook
The Frederick County / Carroll County WTE/incinerator controversy in the media
Open a chronological listing of news articles, editorials, columns and letters to the editor from the News Post, Gazette, Carroll County Times and other local and regional news sources about the 1,500 tons per day, regional mass burn incinerator that has been proposed and approved for the bank of the Monocacy River, looming over the Monocacy Battlefield National Park, and less than three miles from downtime Frederick.
Please note this from the News Archive home page:
Envision Frederick County is compiling an archive of news articles, editorials, columns and letters to the editor, from a range of local and regional publications. The archive will grow to include well more than 1,000 entries, covering the last decade or so.
In other words, while the link above will take you to a few dozen “news articles, editorials, columns and letters to the editor” about this issue, we are working to catch up with the past, and there will be MANY more links available, soon, to the local coverage and history of this long-running, controversial and highly contested issue.
WASTE-OF-ENERGY: Why Incineration is Bad for our Economy, Environment and Community
Eco-Cycle is one of the largest non-profit recyclers in the USA and has an international reputation as a pioneer and innovator in resource conservation. Eco-Cycle’s mission is to identify, explore and demonstrate the emerging frontiers of sustainable resource management through the concepts and practices of Zero Waste. Eco-Cycle believes in individual and community action to transform society’s throw-away ethic into environmentally-responsible stewardship.
Eco-Cycle’s website is a treasure trove of great information and resources about waste management, recycling, composting, incineration and more. The emphasis here, however, is on the outstanding 2011 report, WASTE-OF-ENERGY: Why Incineration is Bad for our Economy, Environment and Community, which analyzes the three primary technologies commonly known as “waste-to-energy” (incineration, conversion technologies like pyrolysis and gasification, and anaerobic digestion) and examines the economic, environmental and social impacts of waste-to-energy.
Stop Trashing the Climate
Stop Trashing the Climate is a 2008 report that provides compelling evidence that preventing waste and expanding reuse, recycling, and composting programs — that is, aiming for zero waste — is one of the fastest, cheapest, and most effective strategies available for combating climate change. This report documents the link between climate change and unsustainable patterns of consumption and wasting, dispels myths about the climate benefits of landfill gas recovery and waste incineration, outlines policies needed to effect change, and offers a roadmap for how to significantly reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions within a short period.
ENVISION FREDERICK COUNTY is a non-profit, non-partisan organization founded on the principle that informed public discourse and active engagement of individuals and groups in our civic life are essential to our mutual well-being and prosperity.
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Case Western Entertainment News
6 Underrated Artists College Students Should Check Out
By Victoria Robertson on April 29, 2019
Music is something we all have in common. Whether you’re a country fanatic or a rap god, a good song can move you, both physically and emotionally. And with a large number of artists out there to choose from, it’s hard to decide who is worth listening to and who isn’t.
Whether they’re well known, complete strangers or up-and-coming and well on their way to stardom, these artists are worth the listen. Here are six, underrated artists that college students should check out.
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1. Robyn
By now, you’ve likely heard her hit “Dancing On My Own,” but that’s probably been enough to make you fall in love with her. Robyn is a Swedish singer/songwriter with a nostalgic sound fitting of a 90’s pop princess. Her latest album, “Honey,” is no different. Featuring songs with that synthetic-pop sound that draws inspiration from the past while merging seamlessly with the present, her music is well worth the listen if you haven’t ever heard of her or are only familiar with her past songs.
2. Hayley Kiyoko
Best known as an actress for her work in “Gem and the Holograms,” Hayley Kiyoko is a musical talent that has gone unrecognized for too long. Her song “What I Need” featuring Kehlani is another pop anthem delivered by a pop powerhouse that deserves all the credit. If you’re going to check out her music, that’s where I would start, though a majority of her songs have an upbeat tempo and powerful lyrics that speak to modern society in a variety of ways. So really, no matter the song you choose, you can’t go wrong with Kiyoko.
3. Alec Benjamin
This young voice, best known for his song “Let Me Down Slowly,” tells a story in a manner that’s both captivating and beautiful, leaving you hanging on his every word. That aside, if you’re looking for a different take on a traditional pop song, listen to “Boy In The Bubble.” His voice is rhythmic and enticing and, most importantly, unique. One of my personal favorites? “I Built A Friend,” which you may recognize from America’s Got Talent as it was used in the backdrop of a performance. Not only does Benjamin give you a story to listen to, but he sings it to you in a way that will bring tears to your eyes.
4. Bridget Mendler
You’ll surely recognize this actress, singer and songwriter from her tenure on the Disney Channel, though she has certainly grown up plenty since then. Mendler has a vocal talent that’s undeniable, just check out her song “Ready or Not.” This artist has notes of Raggae in her music that will transport you to a far-off destination filled with relaxation and good vibes. Just as the lyrics to her song imply, she’s a breath of fresh air in a world of synthetic sounding music that can become far too monotonous and generic before long. If you’re looking for a few good jams to relax you, this is the artist you should turn to.
5. Janelle Monae
This actress is instantly recognizable as her career is flourishing, but as a singer, she should be far more prevalent. With music that’s a beautiful fusion of R&B, soul and hip hop, Janelle Monae has a powerful voice that will empower you along with it, and you’ll quickly fall in love with her, both as a person and as a singer. Check out “PYNK,” “Q.U.E.E.N.,” and “Make Me Feel” and you’ll quickly find yourself strutting with far more confidence and involuntarily dancing to a beat that’s undeniably catchy.
6. Melii
Already gaining popularity in Hollywood and earning interest from Rihanna herself for her song “Icey,” Melii’s name is becoming more common for a reason; she’s incredible. Her music has a Latin feel common in rap nowadays, yet she still manages to sound fresh and unique. Just listen to “Slow For Me” and “Before I” for the proof. Melii has drawn comparisons to Cardi B as she rises to fame, but comparisons aren’t necessary when your talent is that evident. It won’t be long before Melii is a household name and her songs are stuck in our heads on an endless loop. Which, if we’re being honest, is definitely not a bad thing.
Music speaks to all of us, and these six artists are ready to speak as well. Check out some of their songs and determine for yourself whether they fall within your genre tastes.
Again, not all music is for everyone, but one of these six may just be the underrated artist your playlist has been waiting for.
So put in your headphones, start your walk to class and let these artists do the rest; the soundtrack to your life just got a whole lot more interesting!
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2018 in review: the Church’s annus horribilis
Christopher Altieri
This was the year that the abuse crisis engulfed the Church, and those in power failed to live up to the challenge
2018 has been annus horribilis for the Catholic Church. There’s no point mincing our words. The mere rehearsal of the major disasters would run the length of a volume. An exhaustive list of the missteps and failures starting or ending at the Vatican would require a hefty tome. From the explosion of the abuse-and-coverup crisis — in Pope Francis’s face, at the end of January — the worldwide body of the faithful has been treated to a relentless succession of half-measures, publicity stunts, and increasingly incredible promises of earnest coming from the Pope and the Vatican. None has been minimally sufficient, let alone satisfactory.
The talk from the Pope and the Vatican regarding the abuse-and-coverup crisis has been equally relentless. It is boring, by now, and that is a problem on its own. The talk, however, is not the worst thing about the past year. The worst thing about the past year has been the double-talk.
Whether it concerns parsing of the difference between “proof” and “evidence” — a subtle distinction, to be sure — or the cavilling of “pardon” — if Francis has not pardoned anyone guilty of abuse, he has previously reduced the sentences imposed and even restored men to the clerical state, who had been penally laicized — he has been artful, rather than frank and direct.
Meanwhile, questions that arose when the generational crisis became a current scandal touching Pope Francis, remain unanswered.
There is the fate of the letter Juan Carlos Cruz wrote, supposedly hand-delivered to Pope Francis in 2015 by his hand-picked President of the Pontifical Council for the Protection of Minors, Cardinal Seán Patrick O’Malley, OFM. Francis publicly stated in 2018 that no witnesses had ever come forward to bring him evidence of Bishop Juan Barros’s misdeeds in relation to his mentor, Fernando Karadima. An adequate explanation for the apparent discrepancy remains wanting.
There is the question of Francis’s knowledge of the character and proclivities of the disgraced Archbishop McCarrick, and the date Francis became aware of them. Legitimate questions remain outstanding as to the extent of papal and curial involvement in promoting and protecting McCarrick and other churchmen.
Francis has repeatedly promised to be transparent, and consistently failed to be forthright.
However, Pope Francis has taken several bold steps in other areas, the most significant of which is his rapprochement with China. He took a beating in the press over the agreement with the Chinese government, the precise terms of which have yet to be disclosed officially, but apparently involve significant involvement of Chinese authorities in the choice of bishops. Whether the arrangement will prove workable in the long run obviously remains to be seen, but the short-term cost has already been high.
The end of the year also saw major news on the diplomatic front: Pope Francis will be the first reigning pontiff to visit the Arabian Peninsula — and celebrate a public Mass — when he goes to the United Arab Emirates in January. He is well-regarded in the country, the population of which is overwhelmingly composed of foreign guest-workers, nearly a million of whom are Catholic. Whatever comes of the visit, the fact it is happening at all is a significant diplomatic achievement.
Pope Francis’s calls for responsible care for creation have continued to be clarion, and his support of migrants’ rights constant. The force of his advocacy in these and other regards, however, has been diminished by public perception of his ability and sometimes commitment to the cause of ridding the Church of clerical abusers and reforming the leadership culture that fed and fostered the crisis.
Several year-end analysis pieces have appeared, questioning whether Pope Francis’s apparent inability to get his head around the nature and scope of the crisis — and get out of his own way when it comes to it — might not have permanently scarred his legacy already. “[D]amage to his moral authority on the issue has been done,” wrote Nicole Winfield for the Associated Press. “Before his eyes were opened, Francis showed that he was a product of the very clerical culture he so often denounces, ever ready to take the word of the clerical class over victims.”
If Francis is no longer willing to take the word of a cleric over that of an alleged victim, it remains to be seen whether he shall have the force of will to demand and direct real institutional and moral reform.
As we head into 2019, the eyes of the world will continue to be on Pope Francis. The question is whether the Church at the highest levels of governance will finally recognise what Church-watchers across the spectrum of theological and political opinion have understood for some time: that this crisis of leadership is the worst to hit the Church since the days of Martin Luther; that major reform is necessary and indeed long overdue; that not only Pope Francis’s personal legacy is at stake, but the power of the papacy to be a moral voice in the world.
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Saint Gaetano Errico
Second of nine children born to Pasquale, a pasta factory manager, and Marie Marseglia Errico, who worked weaving plush. A good child, pious, always ready to help his father at work, or his mother with his younger siblings. He felt a call to the priesthood at age fourteen. He was turned away by the Capuchins and Redemptorists due to his youth. Studied at a diocesan seminary in Naples, Italy from age sixteen, walking the five miles to class each day, and was ordained on 23 September 1815 in Naples.
School teacher for twenty years. Parish priest at the church of Saint Cosmas and Damian. Known for his devotion to the Sacrament of Reconciliation and ministry to the sick, his self-imposed austerities and penances. He made yearly retreats to the Redemptorist house in Pagani, Italy.
During his retreat in 1818, Saint Alphonsus Maria de Liguori appeared to him in a vision, and told him that God wanted Gaetano to build a new church, and to found a new religious congregation. While Gaetano initially received strong support from the local people, it faded in the face of fund-raising and work, and it wasn’t until 9 December 1830 that he dedicated and blessed the church Our Lady of Sorrows at Secondigliano; it has since become one of Italy‘s most popular pilgrimage sites.
Nearby he built a small house for himself and a lay-brother who took care of the church; this was the beginning of the Missionaries of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary. The Missionaries received local approval on 14 March 1836, approval by the Congregation of Bishops on 30 June 1838, royal approval on 13 May 1840, and papal approval by Blessed Pope Pius IX on 7 August 1846. Gaetano served as first Superior General.
His beatification miracle occurred in southern Italy in January 1952 and involved a man with a perforated stomach wall. Just before emergency surgery, his wife slipped a relic of Father Gaetano under his pillow, and together they prayed for his intercession. His health began to improve immediately, and he was soon healed without medical intervention.
19 October 1791 in Secondigliano, Naples, Italy
10am 29 October 1860 in Secondigliano, Naples, Italy of natural causes
Venerated
4 October 1974 by Pope Paul VI (decree of heroic virtues)
14 April 2002 by Pope John Paul II
Canonized
Sunday 12 October 2008 by Pope Benedict XVI
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Let us kindle the love of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary in the hearts of all people. – Saint Gaetano
“You were ransomed, not with perishable things such as silver or gold, but with the precious blood of Christ” (1 Peter 1:18-19). These words, taken from the second reading, make us think of Blessed Gaetano Errico, priest and founder of the Congregation of the Missionaries of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary. In an age defined by profound political and social change, in opposition to the spiritual rigorism of the Jansenists, Gaetano Errico proclaimed the greatness of the mercy of God, who always calls to conversion those who live under the dominion of evil and sin. True martyr of the confessional, the new Blessed spent entire days giving his best energies to welcoming and listening to penitents. By his example, he urges us to rediscover the value and importance of the Sacrament of Penance, where God distributes his pardon so generously and shows the gentleness of the Father towards his weaker children. – from the beatification homily by Pope John Paul II
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Updated: Here’s the sex offender map Ontario didn’t want you to see
By Patrick Cain National Online Journalist, News Global News
Update, May 14: The map now shows data for both April 2014 and May 2008.
After fighting in court for six years only to get shot down by three unanimous decisions involving a total of 13 judges, Ontario’s corrections ministry gave Global News a database of sex offenders by postal code last week, shortly after a Supreme Court ruling ordered them to do so.
The province claims it doesn’t know, or can’t say, how much that legal fight cost taxpayers.
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The ministry initially refused to release the information under an access-to-information request. Over the course of several years, it tried and failed at all possible levels of appeal. Ontario’s information commissioner ruled that the information should be released. So did Ontario’s Superior Court and Court of Appeal.
At each Ontario court hearing the judges ended proceedings after listening to arguments from the government’s lawyer, saying they didn’t need to hear from the other side.
UPDATE: Sex offender case a ‘colossal waste of money’: Tory jail critic charges
“Three different courts have now sided with my office on this issue, which is a good indicator that we were on the right side of this matter,” Ann Cavoukian, Ontario’s information and privacy commissioner, said in a press release. “It is truly unfortunate how many years and resources have been wasted on this pursuit.”
“It is unbelievable to me,” Cavoukian told Global News. “Why would they then waste taxpayer dollars to appeal it to the Supreme Court of Canada, knowing that the likelihood of success was very limited, given the previous two decisions, and the fact that we’ve been given deference by the lower courts?
“There was no risk to personal privacy, so privacy was not an issue. There was no public safety issue here.”
READ: Unanimous Supreme Court decision ends six-year FOI ordeal
Ontario privacy commissioner: “It’s information that the public has a right to know”
Ontario’s Ministry of the Attorney General used in-house lawyers and says it can’t break out what the six-year case cost taxpayers, said spokesperson Brendan Crawley.
The province argued that publishing the data could lead to identification of registered sex offenders in the community but was never able to show how this was possible. One Woodbridge postal area, for example, has more than 55,000 residents and 20 sex offenders. (In the United States, sex offenders identified by address have sometimes been subject to violent attacks.)
“The Ministry respects the Supreme Court of Canada and is focused on keeping our communities safe as we work to comply with the Information and Privacy Commissioner’s order,” ministry spokesperson Greg Flood said in an e-mailed statement.
“As long as it doesn’t identify individuals, it’s good,” says Catherine Latimer, executive director of the John Howard Society. “Information, generally, is good. I don’t think you gain anything by not having adequate access to information.”
Ontario’s registry requires people convicted of various sexual offences to register their home address with police for either 10 years or life. Offenders who are pardoned can be taken off the registry. They don’t register while in prison.
In 2009, Ontario’s correctional ministry claimed a 97% compliance rate among offenders required to register.
Over the six-year period:
Sex offender rates have risen in the Lower Town and Centretown areas of Ottawa
Rates rose in the west end of Hamilton
Rates fell in several gentrifying neighbourhoods in the older part of Toronto: the postal codes for Cabbagetown/St. James Town, South Riverdale, Leslieville and the Junction all have fewer registered sex offenders than in 2008.
Registered sex offenders by postal area »
Registered sex offenders by postal area
In Toronto, registered sex offenders cluster in the east downtown, roughly bounded by Carlton, Jarvis, the Don Valley Parkway and the Lakeshore. There are smaller pockets in the Junction and Parkdale.
Most of inner-city Hamilton has high rates of sex offenders, with about 200 living below the Mountain. In 2008, the western part of central Hamilton, along York Boulevard, had southern Ontario’s densest concentration of sex offenders.
In Ottawa, registered sex offenders concentrate in Vanier, which has 59.
There are clusters of sex offenders in downtown Kingston, the east end of London (in 2014, southern Ontario’s top neighbourhood for registered sex offenders was in east-central London) and Peterborough.
Northwestern Ontario has very high rates. A vast stretch from Kenora to Hudson Bay has Ontario’s highest rate of sex offenders – 122 out of a population of 16,347, for a rate of 746 per 100,000 residents.
The data shows sex offenders tend overwhelmingly to settle in low-income areas.
“Most people who are reintegrating back into communities after a period in prison are not particularly wealthy,” Latimer said. “They have difficulty functioning and getting jobs, so they’re lower-income people. A lot of them are getting dumped into homeless shelters when they’re released – it’s not good.”
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One of the reasons Ontario gave for withholding the data was that knowing how many sex offenders were living in a neighbourhood might lead to “community unease.” (A Supreme Court judge noted this isn’t a legal ground for withholding data under Ontario’s access-to-information law.)
But sex offenders don’t typically victimize people outside their immediate circles, Latimer says.
“What makes people anxious is stranger sexual assault. People feeling vulnerable walking down the street, or vulnerable because they’re worried about their kids not coming directly home from school, that kind of thing. But most sexual offences occur among people who know each other.”
Less than a quarter of sexual offences involve a victim who is a stranger to the perpetrator, according to a 2001 study. For youth and child victims, that falls to 16%.
And recidivism rates are low: According to the same study, less than 10 per cent of released provincial sex offenders were convicted of a new sexual offence in the three and a half years after release. (Conversely, a 1991 study found about a quarter of people in federal prison for sexual offences had a prior record of other sexual offences.)
Is there more violent crime in neighbourhoods with more registered sex offenders? There are some overlaps seen in this map, made by a Statistics Canada researcher in 2006.
Violent crime rates by census tract, 2006 »
Violent crime rates by census tract, 2006
But, as the map below shows, income could also play a factor.
Median family income, 2010 »
Median family income, 2010
The impact of having offenders cluster in poor neighbourhoods depends on the kind of support they get once they’re out, Latimer said.
“If they’ve gone into transition housing that’s run by organizations like ours, or other organizations that are supporting the reintegration of people, they will be getting assistance in terms of housing and employment and educational opportunities and so on,” she said.
“But if they’ve defaulted into a poor neighbourhood, like they’re in a shelter or something of that nature, then that doesn’t exactly help.”
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February 7, 2018 - 6:54 am EDT 1 year ago
Streaker Spends 5 Days in Jail, Says It Was Worth It
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Arizona's Family
How much is 15 minutes of fame worth? For a now-infamous Arizona man, the tab came in at five days in jail, a $1,500 fine and a place in an unemployment line.
The story of the week at the Waste Management Phoenix Open occurred during Wednesday’s pro-am when a then-presumably, now-officially inebriated patron stripped down to his birthday suit and proceeded to run, practice his “swing” and play in a bunker on the TPC Scottsdale 17th hole.
Waste Management Phoenix Open Streaker: “The alcohol helped. I definitely wouldn’t have done it if I was sober.” https://t.co/47Ems4hiZK
— GOLF.com (@golf_com) February 6, 2018
While it took a reported five minutes to apprehend the man, the repercussions were swift and harsh, but that doesn’t mean the streaker totally takes back what he did. GolfChannel.com’s Will Gray had more on Adam Stalmach, the WMPO streaker.
Despite losing his job and facing $1,500 in fines, Adam Stalmach doesn’t entirely regret stripping down to his socks and running across the 17th fairway last week at the Waste Management Phoenix Open.
Stalmach, 24, was caught on video running across the hole naked during Wednesday’s pro-am round, taking time to splash sand in a greenside bunker and break dance in the fairway. In an interview with AzFamily.com after spending five days in jail, Stalmach said he was “embarrassed” and “regretful” but defended the entertainment aspect of the stunt.
“Yeah, it was worth it,” he said. “As long as people got a kick out of it, it was worth it.”
The Waste Management Open streaker Adam Stalmach talks to me about his decision to take off everything but his socks. #azfamily pic.twitter.com/ABYpYZcwUc
— Maria Hechanova (@MariaHechanova) February 5, 2018
According to the report, Stalmach lost his job as an area bartender in the wake of his arrest. He explained that he benefited from some liquid courage in the form of at least eight drinks in the hour leading up to his decision to streak, a combination ranging from “Coors Light to regular Coors to chardonnay.”
“The alcohol helped,” he said. “I definitely wouldn’t have done it if I was sober.”
Arizona authorities were reportedly considering felony charges and a requirement for Stalmach to register as a sex offender if a child under the age of 15 was identified in the crowd, but ultimately allowed him to plead guilty to a misdemeanor charge of indecent exposure.
“Would I do it again? No,” he said. “That was a one-time thing.”
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Black Girl, White Girl – Joyce Carole Oates
This is a truly brilliant book, a thorough and often uncomfortable character study that highlights differences in race, class, privilege and values.
Genna Meade is the narrator, the wealthy daughter of radical liberals Max and Veronica, who were active in the activism of the 60s and early 70s. Max is a lawyer to the counter culture movement, and Genna saw countless hippies and radicals live in their shambolic house as she grew up. They are are from a rich family of Quakers, the Meades, though what Genna had in terms of financial wealth she lacked in family support.
At the liberal arts college that was paid for by her family, she gets a roommate in Minette Swift, one of the few black girls in the college hall. Minette is from a church family, is devoutly Christian, and despite all of Genna’s attempts to be her friend, is consistently aloof and guarded and self-reliant.
We hear the story through Geneva fifteen years after Minette’s death at the college. Through their time as roommates, Minette is subjected to apparently racist acts that Genna at first doesn’t see but gradually comes to understand. At the same time she tries to befriend Minette, but Minette always keeps her distance, refusing to accept Genna’s overtures of friendship – something that Genna can’t comprehend.
What’s so powerful about this novel is the detail of emotion – the fact that Minette can’t be pigeonholed, that Genna is both privileged and traumatised by her upbringing, that the relationship between the two girls is so tense, that Genna still can’t see what was going on even a decade and a half later.
And what’s here, too, is the impact of racism and racial stereotyping on Minette, how she is tense and awkward, how she has different values and ways of relating to people, when compared to Genna; and Genna can’t or doesn’t comprehend this, always thinking that Minette will
at any moment accept the generous hand of friendship and support she is offering.
We see, as well, the impact of historic forces on individuals’ lives – Minette who is shaped by a history of racism and resistance in America, and Genna who is traumatised by the life her parents forced upon her.
This is an uncomfortable read at times, not least because Minette is often unlikable, and the fact that it’s a white woman, Oates, writing about black experience, makes you wonder whether the portrayal is fair or ought to be more understanding or sympathetic.
Ultimately for me this book is about how, when two people with radically different and difficult histories, values and daily experiences, are thrown together, they can’t easily just get one another, they can’t just connect, there’s too much there holding them apart.
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The Ghost Rider – Ismail Kadare
A mysterious and beautiful story that uses a classic Albanian folk tale to talk about the supernatural surrounding love, loss and debt.
The heart of this novella is the story, also known as the ‘Lenore Motif’, of a family – a mother, her daughter Doruntine and her nine brothers, including Doruntine’s favourite brother Konstandin.
Set in a pre-industrial time, Doruntine had married far away from the village of her family, but in the three years she’s been away all but her mother died of the plague. After the mother was overheard cursing Konstandin’s grave for failing to keep his promise to return his sister home, something inexplicable happens – Doruntine returns on the back of a horse she says was ridden by Konstandin.
The story then turns to local lawman, Stres, who is intent on discovering what happened, how this could have been. He considers theory after theory, a person is even arrested. But as his investigation continues, and fear and suspicion are whipped up in the village, he eventually accepts that the only explanation is a supernatural one – that the brother did rise from the dead to return his sister home.
Ultimately, what Stres is accepting, I think, is the limits of the rational and the explainable. He doesn’t want to believe it but in the end he accepts that where love, honour and grief are concerned, sometimes things can only be accounted for by things that are beyond empirical verification. And what Stres accepts, too, is that the norms and conventions of the village, which see the return of the sister as an act by the dead Konstandin, are important their own right, more so than the authority of religion or deduction.
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“He now realised that everyone, each in his own way, would take some stand in this affair, and that each person’s attitude would have everything to do with their station in life, their luck in love and marriage, their looks, the measure of good or ill fortune that had been their lot, the events that had marked the course of their life, and their most secret feelings, those that people sometimes hide even from themselves… though they would believe they were passing judgement on someone else’s tragedy, in reality, they would simply be giving expression to their own.”
Ismail Kadare, The Ghost Rider
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Annihilation – Jeff Vandermeer
Annihilation is the story of a group of four women investigating an apparently post-apocalyptic part of the world, Area X. It is an expanse of wildness, separated it seems from the rest of world by a man-made border. The area may once have been populated but now the natural and supernatural world is taking it over, it’s history never fully explained.
There have been 11 previous excursions into Area X, to get information we think, although the purpose of the excursions isn’t entirely clear. It’s clear that for at least the last two, if not more, many people died whilst there or made it back but their psyche was shot afterwards.
We experience the 12th expedition through narration by a female biologist who goes into Area X with a psychologist (who has powers of hypnosis), a surveyor and an anthropologist (we never know their names). She signed up for the expedition it transpires, in part because she’s a biologist who’s fascinated by the wildness of nature, and in part because her husband was on the 11th expedition and came back as a shell.
Nature abounds in the abandoned Area X, but beyond the lush wildness it has two significant features – an obscure tower or tunnel, and a lighthouse.
The tunnel is the source of much fascination for the biologist, and they begin exploring it at once. They discover it continues for a long way down and, intriguingly, appears to be an organism – alive, growing, pulsating – with organically growing writing along the walls. In reviews of Annihilation there are frequent references to Lovecraft, Ballard and Poe, and you can see these influences in this mysterious supernatural being.
After things start to go very wrong in the tunnel, the biologist makes her way to the lighthouse where she finds the psychologist and an archive of the previous expeditions’ notes, including her husband’s.
It’s hard to talk about the plot, as the core of Annihilation is less plot and more atmosphere – a disturbing build of tension and uncertainty about the biologist’s co-workers, the secrets behind Area X and most of all the terrifying and uncanny unknown at work in the tunnel and beyond.
And equally interesting, Annihilation is also an excellent character study of the biologist – a woman captivated by nature not people, who longed to sit by a pond and observe, and who struggled in a relationship for years with a man who was extroverted and craved company.
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Honour Killings in Canada: An Undeniable Reality!
Commentary, Frontier Centre, Immigration, Media Appearances, Poverty, Workplace January 20, 2012
FACT: Since 2002, 12 murders of women in Canada were deemed to be honour killings.
You may have heard about numerous cases of honour killings being perpetrated in various foreign countries. After all, for those of us living in the West (and political North), these types of stories are quite sensational. They highlight how superior our collective and to some degree, composite Western culture is in comparison to the primitive tribal cultures of foreign lands. However, wherever there is a bubble of ignorance, I am there to burst it. Canada, a lovely country known for its open-hearted acceptance of immigrants from a vast array of foreign lands, is quickly becoming a cesspool in which cultures are clashing. These clashes are usually swept under the rug by the host country (Canada) and those who are integrating (at varying degrees) in to the host country.
Luckily, we still have brave and intellectually honest journalists and social activists who make it their mission to shed light on matters such as honour killings. My tasks in this short article are to inform the readers that honour killings do indeed occur in Canada and that we must do more to prevent such atrocious behaviour from occurring here.
For the sake of brevity, I will list a few high profile cases of honour killings in Canada from the last decade or so:
Jaswinder Kaur Sidhu, 24, was a B.C. native who was murdered in Punjab, India in 2000. It is alleged that her mother, Malkit Kaur Sidhu, and uncle, Surjit Singh Badesha of Maple Ridge, B.C. conspired to have Jaswinder killed as she married Sukhwinder Singh Sidhu, a rickshaw driver in India. This marriage was not approved of. India seeks the extradition of Malkit Kaur Sidhu and Surjit Singh Badesha.
Amandeep Singh Atwal, 17, was stabbed to death by her father in 2003 for dating a non-Sikh boy.
Amandeep Kaur Dhillon was killed in 2009 by her father-in-law in a Toronto-area grocery store where she worked. She had threatened to leave her husband.
These three cases are just the tip of the iceberg. We know about these cases because they were high profile. Heaven only knows how many other cases of honour killings are left undocumented. I do not wish to delve too deeply into an analysis of the problem of honour killings as I would not be able to do it justice. However, I recommend readers to gain valuable insights on the matter by downloading and reading Aruna Papp’s pioneering study for the Frontier Centre for Public Policy:
Papp, A., “Culturally Driven Violence Against Women: A Growing Problem in Canada’s Immigrant Communities.”, FCPP Policy Series No. 92, July 2010.
While on the subject of Papp’s work, I would like to highlight a key finding from her study on the topic of honour killings. Her study explains that women were killed due to reasons of honour and family shame. More explicitly, the victims were threatened over issues such as refusing to cover their heads, wearing makeup, wearing Western clothes, dating, going to parties, choosing friends the family disapproved of, refusing to marry a man chosen by the family, seeking a divorce from a violent husband and marrying against the families’ wishes. What is the root cause of this problem? Does this not seem symptomatic of families who simply do not understand the concept of social/cultural integration in to new host countries?
I want to conclude by applauding Aruna Papp’s work on the matter of honour killings and culturally driven violence against women. Papp’s study has outlined 14 realistic recommendations to curb the problem of culturally driven violence against women. I most certainly hope that our government and law enforcement agencies muster up the courage to come out of their “political correctness” shells in order to do what is right. I think an even bigger onus is on the communities in which these horrible acts are being perpetrated. They must come together by first accepting the fact that honour killings do happen. The next step would be to have community based programs to assist at-risk individuals and families (many of these programs already exist but they need to be able to expand their operating capacities).
The archaic and barbaric mindset of some individuals must not rule the majority. Old views and old ways have already died out in the Motherland and so immigrant communities should not fight an uphill battle to uphold backward views of the past! Immigrant communities need to do a better job in terms of integrating in to the new societies that they inhabit by taking the good and leaving out the bad (and from an introspective perspective – the same goes for their own cultures).
Signing off,
Abhaya Shanker Dube
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Anna Dumitriu is a British artist whose work fuses craft, technology and bioscience to weave complex narratives around our relationship to infectious disease and its cultural and personal implications. She works hands-on with the tools and techniques of microbiology and synthetic biology to create intricate artworks that reveal strange histories and emerging futures. Her obsessions with the history and treatment of infectious diseases, medical ethics, antibiotics and genetics speak urgently to the concerns of wide audiences and create a visceral and emotionally affecting experience.
Dumitriu is the 2018 President of the Science and the Arts section of the British Science Association. She holds visiting research fellowships at the University of Hertfordshire, Brighton and Sussex Medical School, and Waag Society. She is artist-in-residence with Modernising Medical Microbiology at the University of Oxford, and with the National Collection of Type Cultures at Public Health England. Her extensive exhibition profile includes The Picasso Museum Barcelona, ZKM, BOZAR Museum of Art, Ars Electronica Festival, The Museum of Contemporary Art Taipei, The Museum of the History of Science in Oxford, The Science Gallery Dublin, The Science Gallery Lab Detroit, The Beall Center for Art and Technology in Los Angeles, The Rockefeller and The V & A Museum, the Science Museum, and Eden Project.
http://www.annadumitriu.co.uk
FiveWordsForTheFuture - Oct 28, 2018 | Art, Biodesign, Biotechnologies, Health, Storytelling, Video
Tagged | evolution, history, infection, metadisciplinary, storytelling
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mini-review game: non-metal edition (read OP before posting)
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Still Walking - Throbbing Gristle (20 Jazz Funk Greats)
well... Let me first say that I am a bit into ambient and also industrial (but more the "rocky" industrial stuff mainly) but this... phew.. hard to call it music in a any form (imo). Static "noise" with a thin pulsing beat and some occassional bleeps with some mudded female spoken voice in the background later. I know that tastes differ and there is much stuff others enjoy which I don't but this? Man, do you really listen to this with pleasure? Anyway - each to thier own.
Okay - I stay electronic but a bit more, hmm, accessible
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aFbmQkTBulQ
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Devil's right hand
Location: The cavern's core
Is my track going to be forgotten?
Not for mercy does the evolution of I progress...
oh... I just took the last link I could found and that was the link posted by Scorntyrant. But now that I look at it I see that you were earlier and Scorntyrant kind of overran you.... However I only noticed it now. :/
Sorry - Thread Ninja-d! 2 for 1 sale then:
Tears for fears - "mad world".
Tears for Fears were always kinda riding on the coat-tails of the more experimental members of the post-punk/New-wave scene in my opinion. In that sense I tend to think of them in the same sense as Spaundau Ballet and Orchestral manoeuvre's in the dark - they "stood on the shoulders of giants" as they say. Unlike, say, New Order or Gary Numan, their sense of having developed from the punk scene was kinda questionable. But that said, I always liked their lyrics. "Mad world" and "Shout", their 2 most well-known songs, demonstrate a certain desperation and pathos very much in line with their Thatcher-ear British background.
Maethelvin - Delight
Also pretty cool. Major flashbacks to Detroit techno circa 88-89, Italian disco, and early-90's pop-house crossover like black box etc (but minus vocals). I'm a really big fan of that 4/4 driving "Motorik" beat that you saw cross over from Krautrock to Disco in the 70's, and while this is a bit self-conscious in a way it nails that beat pretty well.
Keeping with the 80's theme:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mVGDJmSr ... re=related
Scorntyrant wrote:
... it nails that beat pretty well.
If you're interested in more of that "modern nostalgia 80s electronic music", you could try out these two quite decent compilations. I spin them quite constantly and enjoy them a lot:
http://www.amazon.de/Futurecop-presents ... 124&sr=8-3
http://www.amazon.de/Valerie-and-Friend ... 6&sr=301-1
gonna skip your song's review for now as it was my turn just recently...
Skinny Puppy - Smothered Hope
Despite hearing about these guys many, many times, I've never bothered to check them out. I'm really not sure what to make of this. There is a dirty dance beat that persists throughout. The main thing I dislike is the vocals, especially at the beginning of the song. The kind of sneering dirty vocals - just rubs me the wrong way. They get a bit better as the song goes on, especially when they go towards a more anthemic style. In the end, I don't think I'd ever really listen to this, but I don't think it's bad and I understand the appeal.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eS0Vde0tBOA
Steve Von Till - Running Dry
Not a bad Neil Young cover but when you cover a legend you are going to be compared to the legend (and all the nostalgia and rose colored glasses that entails). I think if I had never heard the original I would have had a better reaction to the song. Von Till has a pleasant enough voice (maybe too pleasant for my preferences when it comes to this type of music). It's strong and considerably lower than Young's on the original. He uses a similar shimmery chorused out guitar tone to the original but adds a clean acoustic that I feel is a nice addition. My main problem with the recording (again completely due to having listened to the original more than a few times) is that it has a completely different feel to it. Von Till's clean, low tones, the clean production and the reduced violin part give the song a much more solid feel than the original. For me, part of the beauty of Young's version comes from the thin production, his higher pitched quavering voice and that sad spindly violin throughout the song. Along with the self loathing lyrics the effect is one of a hollow desperate man who despite trying to move on could crumble at any moment. Von Till's version is much stronger and seems less vulnerable to me but I'm probably overthinking things due to my fondness for the original.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FH9MhovIY9g
Josh Ritter - The Temptation of Adam
Hey, that was great. Musically it reminded me of Dylan and a bit of old Springsteen stuff however it got some kind of odd- and eerieness due to the lyrics.
So I think about the big one, WWIII
Would we ever really care, the world had ended?
You could hold me here forever like you're holding me tonight
I think about that big red button and I'm tempted
Stuff like that really appeals to a side in me and the sole, calm acoustic guitar music seems more fitted than any other style of music to underline it. Have to look more into Mr. Ritter's music, I guess.
here's another one for you guys:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spBzB5P5n-U
grauer_mausling wrote:
The Historical Conquests of Josh Ritter, the album from which that song comes, is a perfect example of a great EP that was bloated into a mediocre full length. I love the first 6 tracks. Unfortunately he put 14 songs on the album and none of the rest are memorable (at least for good reasons).
Vanilla Muffins - Mike Tyson
This release is from the year 2000? That is actually a kind of surprise, because from the mere sounds it could have been considerably older. Quite cool stuff actually... and according to Wikipedia 'pop-punk'. Nice drive, nice rhythms, a lot of characteristic punk elements and it is basically what you get when you buy a punk album. Well crafted and balanced. I am not too much interested in punk, but I can enjoy it now and then.
my contribution:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ImA-uXu5Vhg
ghostandthesong - "ou inme"
Nice, I like this. Shades of "kiss me, kiss me, kiss me" era Cure coming through in that early part.Then morphs into some semi funky basslines along the lines of Jesus Jones or EMF, but keeping the slightly odd (Japanese?)vocals. Remind me of when I was working as a waitress in a cocktail bar.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s8uniITqqB8
The_Great_God_Pan
Christian Death - Romeo's Distress
This isn't bad but I wouldn't know how to classify it though. I find the production to be a bit weak but I guess it suits the purpose this kind of music has. I haven't made any reading on the band but they sound British to me. A bit happy.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yqYRBTmGk_o
The World/Inferno Friendship Society - I'm Sick of People Being Sick of My Shit
Yess, I love this band. They're kind of like a punk band with orchestral/swing influences, although that description doesn't give them justice. I first became aware of them when I was 14 through their collaboration with Leftover Crack (which is great, by the way). This probably isn't the song I'd choose by them if I were to post one of their songs, but it's still great. It features old timey influences very prominently (I want to say swing, but I don't really know what I'm talking about with these kind of genres.) Anyway, the songwriting is good, the piano backbeat is catchy, almost sounding a bit like ska or reggae. Both the female and male vocals are very well done. The occasional guitar leads and organ appearances are a nice touch. The horns are awesome. Good band, good song.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tkjNg_Rbulw
The_Great_God_Pan wrote:
hehe, you'd probably be the first person ever to describe Christian Death as "a bit happy" considering their sagas of drug addiction and suicide. U.S Deathrock/Goth from 1982, which explains the thin productions somewhat. Interesting band, although I only really like the first 3 albums - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_Death
Abominatrix
Harbinger of Metal
Star Fucking Hipsters : "Snitch To The Suture"
I like the blittle "good time" riff that starts the song and recurrs in the middle and again toward the end of the piece. Most of the song has a bouncy ska-punk feel to it, reminding me a little of a band like Less than jake or something, but a bit less exciting. They seem to share LTJ's occasional affinity for heavier stuff, as suddenly in the last twenty seconds this tune goes into a slower, distorted section with screaming and a flurry of tremolo lead that turns into a bit of a wild solo. Not much else to say...I didn't much care for the vocals, and the last few seconds seemed to actually be the beginning of a completely different tune. I tapped my feet to the rhythm though, so it wasn't all bad...just nothing I'd return to, I think.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rceSnGUKUvU
Hush! and hark
To the sorrowful cry
Of the wind in the dark.
Hush and hark, without murmur or sigh,
To shoon that tread the lost aeons:
To the sound that bids you to die.
Seasons Of The Wolf - Interstellar
up until the vocals came in, I was thinking I heard this on a porno once. Once they did come in, I realised it was during the "introspective" scene in an 80's action movie. You know, the bit where the hero thinks he's failed and is drowning his sorrows, and then the love interest comes in and shows him there is still hope by showing some pg-13 sideboob or back-nudity during the soft-focus lovemaking scene. I guess its like a kind of Hard Rock, if you removed the elements that could be described as "hard" or "rock".
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6umd14j52w4
FateMetal
Location: Uganda
Sol Invictus - Do and Say
Such a bleak and haunting piece. I am new to this sort of music, neofolk it's called, but this has a dark yet subtle appeal that possibly anyone could easily enjoy. He sings "love is here to stay" with such a heavy tongue of doom making it sound more like an eerie presage than a genial declaration.
The music isn't too cluttered but drones on incessantly, giving it a sort of unique "heaviness" and the melodies are distant but constant and repeating in a well dressed folky manner.
Happy to have found this one! Great stuff!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qRbMKPdq5Aw
Robert Plant - Song to the Siren
Well, what can you say about Mr Plant's vocals. I'm sure that there are many of us who grew up listening to his voice as one of the first experiences of the power rock music has to take us out of our suburban wasteland existence and show us something OTHER. something that lifts you out of yourself. In this piece its somewhat strange, being so much later than the glory years of Led Zeppelin. there is more of a restrained and somewhat age-wearied tone to the song, but still infused with poignancy and yearning. A very nice song.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=karRE54L ... re=related
SleightOfVickonomy
Dead Can Dance- Xavier
The kind of song that takes your breath away because of is sheer delicacy and wounded beauty. The lyricism is fraught with religious imagery and yet kept open enough to all manner of interpretation. The music is as fitting as you can get. It works mostly because it has such depths of evocation yet comes off as a complete picture that didn't have to strive so hard to make its elements fit. This is pure genius. A brilliant work of art worth revisiting over and over again. Dead Can Dance is severely underrated but maybe should remain so because as precious as this is, I'm not too keen on sharing it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JB6C_zj2g5I
Belastbar
The Smashing Pumpkins - Porcelina of the Vast Oceans
Oh, Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness. A friend of mine gave me the album as an mp3 a few years ago, but i did not like it at first. I only knew Bullet on Butterfly Wings and thought the whole album would consist only of "annoying grunge-rock". However, it has grown on me since then.
The track I am reviewing here is one of the quieter ones on the album, although it has one hard rockish motif that returns several times throughout the song. I like this change of dynamics, but i can't quite get into the song as a whole. I wouldn't say it doesn't have a buildup into a climax, but this structure does not seem to be interconnected with the single parts. The quiet part is just going along quiet, the loud part is just going along heavy, and in the end there is a heavier part than before, but that's all that happens.
Conclusively, I must say i never got into Mellon Collie as a whole. There's a fair share of songs that i like, but also many ones I skip while listening to it. Perhaps the album is too long for the attention span of a guy in the 21st century. Perhaps it's just too long.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-0dJLKBSRZw
Schnuckenack Reinhardt - Nur nicht aus Liebe weinen
Alright, a bit out of my element here, but I'll give it a shot. This mixes a lot of genres together. The sorrowful violin in the beginning made me think this was going to be a straight up classical peice, but I was soon surprised to hear a bouncy (almost comical) bass line. However, there are elements of classical throughout.There were some bluesy elements in here, some jazz(ish) sort of stuff. One section had classical/jazz (not entirely sure which) guitar, and at the ending it has someone singing in Spanish (I'm pretty sure that's the language). This was a really weird matching of elements, but still somewhat interesting and well done. Pretty decent, not sure I'd go back to it, but I can definitely appreciate stuff like this.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=njYf72fCOAA
Blaak Heat Shujaa - High On Altitude
I heard a couple tracks from these guys a year or so ago but never followed up. Glad you posted it. Psych rock from France if I remember correctly. Love the guitar licks near the beginning. It's got that Dick Dale thing going on for a bit with the the slow bass driven build up and then the guitar comes in all whahed out with these eastern sounds. Sweet. Really dig the intro. The remainder of the song is fairly run of the mill modern psych rock that gets a little heavier and fuzzed out near the end before that whahed out guitar comes back in for a solo. I thought they could have done more with that solo but not bad. I like the bass tone. The drums and vocalist don't stand out much. All in all, I dig. I'll have to look into them more.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fx8Q6hisODo
Frank Black - Freedom Rock
This song somehow gives me a really happy vibe, I didn't do any research on it, but if I'm not mistaken this is the singer in The Pixies. The lyrics are interesting and the production sounds really 90's. The drums have some nice fills and you can hear a piano here and there. The riff during the verse is really catchy and I can't seem to get it out of my head now.
It's a nice song overall.
Something from the 90's
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6b5dFLeB-qI
Blind Melon - Mouthful Of Cavities
Well damn. This is SO much better than the their horrible single (No Rain), which admittedly is my only real exposure to Blind Melon. This is very classy, with what can only be described as a beautiful acoustic, and lengthy but welcomed introduction accompanied by wistful, yet somehow melancholic vocals. This sets the mood perfectly for this lush track to truly unfold at it's own pace, with accomplished grace and power. The way this swells slowly, but with strong purpose is amazing, and the addition of those angelic female vocals adds even more colour and depth. There is an edge of tragedy about this though, covered with the sheen of sunshine, but it is there none the less, as it cannot fully be hidden. Quite good stuff.
The title of this song has been miss spelled by the uploader, but that is only a minor worry.
Frontline Assembly - "Discention"
I'm not all that familiar with FLA's later work, but their earlier albums are some pretty class EBM. And so is this. It's a classic FLA-sounding track with a catchy bassline, pounding industrial drumbeats and uber-distorted vocals, but there's more of a techno element and a few glitchier, distorted sounds. It does add to the FLA sound, and the softer section around 2:20 serves really well to lead into the next section. There's always some great background atmosphere going on and a few passages of what sounds like a processed guitar, so this pulls of the excellent feat of being complex but still really memorable at the same time. The mastering isn't the best, because it sounds a bit too rough and overly distorted (yeah, I know it's industrial, but this is really clipping on my speakers), but I like it anyway. Hits the perfect sweet spot between aggression and melody. Will probably have to check out Artificial Soldier sometime.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Oh_r-n94uY
Richard Hawley - Leave Your Body Behind You
Where to start? This song is pretty fucking good. I had never heard about this artist before so it's a good introduction, the atmosphere it creates is beautiful with some very nice melodies added to it, it can even sound frantic at times. The highlight of the song are definitely the vocals, though I wouldn't know how to describe them, I'd say it sounds like an old man. The voice kinda reminds me of Johnny Cash but not quite so. I will definitely check more into this band. This song just makes me want to light up, lie down, relax and just let it take me anywhere. Great, great song.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=45g4Yz4YfaQ
The Offspring - "All I Want"
Woohoo, Crazy Taxi! I used to be quite the Crazy Taxi master back in the day. Man, that takes me back. Anyway, this is a very short (under two minutes) speedy punk blast. I've never really liked Dexter Holland's vocals, and his usual tuneless yelp is in place here, stopping me from enjoying it as much as I could, and the monotonous drums also drag it down. There are some pretty catchy and good guitar riffs, fast but melodic. Nothing too technically special, but hey, it's punk. To be honest, this song is probably only saved by sheer energy and catchiness. Definitely gives off that "anthem" vibe of not giving a fuck and wanting to do your own thing, which I can never resist, especially with the backing vocals on "IT'S ALL I WAAAAAANT!". Good when I'm in the mood, and definitely good for ramping a taxi off a speed bump, but doesn't quite hold together when I'm not.
Here's something while I grapple with the question of which mini-review thread to post Ulver's post-black metal stuff in. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8L_z-Qaaero
P.S. YA YA YA YA YA! (Sorry, couldn't resist.)
That Offspring reminds me of crazy taxi, too.
Public Image Ltd. - Careering
Man, it's been a long ass time since I listened to PIL. I liked them a bit when I was younger, found out about them through the Sex Pistols connection, who I was obsessed with when I was 13/14. This is a cool song. The minimal electronic/ambient in the background really sets the atmosphere. The vocal lines are quirky, but very memorable. The way they linger over the minimal music really makes the track. The processed (or programmed) drumming is very interesting, the snare has a really good timbre. This is a good song for sure.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UImc6kvYlpk
Morning Glory: "Poets Were My Heroes"
Well, this is a bit nutty. Starts off with a gentle piano and group-sung vocals, and I was expecting this tune to remain this way. i thought, "it sounds like england in the late 60s/early 70s". Then heavy guitars kicked in and we were introduced to a kind of lumbering hard rock song with progressive tendencies in the instrumentation. The vocalist reminded me of someone, but I can't really place him...it's as though I've heard him before in a different band. He has a pretty cool voice with a bit of a snarl to it and could be in any number of notable hard rock bands from the late 90s. That "duh duh--duh duh" riff gets a little boring after a couple of minutes, but after the second..chorus, I guess you could call it...they bring in a bizarre noisy solo that I rather liked. The last minute features a very bombastic symphonic climax that took me by surprise....even with the minimal keyboard backing throughout the tune I did not expect it to turn into something so grandiose. I kind of appreciate how this song's a bit all over the place yet seems rather seamlessly integrated. Pretty interesting.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sHWYi1_koyk
Abominatrix wrote:
Boodrock - Breach Of Lease
Jesus christ. If you ever read this Abom, thank you! This was fucking awesome. The slow build up was intense, because you knew good to great things were around the corner. It grows like a shadow crawling along a wall, softly but steadily, edging closer, and those vocals! He does remind me of Dio slightly, but really that is unimportant because these guys shine with a masterful ebb and flow of song craft. Tasteful bass and drum interplay take front and center stage, weaving beautifully about each other in a dance of rhythmic wonder, while those haunting, ghostly keys form a ethereal undercurrent of mystic enthrallment. There is a cyclic nature to this track, but it's so organic that you become lost in it's meandering nature, and truly absorb it. Seventies rock at it's most sublime, and captivating best. It's such a magnificently warm journey, swelling and fading into itself with ease and skill. Bloody fantastic.
This is much more modern, but I have become somewhat obsessed with it.
TheMizwaOfMuzzyTah
Location: the emerald forest
Alice In Chains - All Secrets Known
Black Gives Way to Blue was a decent album. This is one of the better songs on the album. It's filthy, it's heavy, but somehow it maintains a somewhat mellow atmosphere. I also love the wailing vocal effect in all of its glory, and the strange blues flavor that is hard to detect but certainly present. Good song. I liked Acid Bubble the best off of this album. Could be too dirgy for some, I suppose. Still miss Layne at the helm, though. Great fucking guitar tone. They always had that fat Les Paul sound, though.
Off of one of my favorite albums:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S5-MCPaoHIE
MetalCuresHeadaches
Posted: Mon Nov 05, 2012 5:20 am
Cypress Hill-Spark Another Owl
Rap and Hip-Hop have not been on my playlist for some time now, but I surely remember these guys and "Insane in the Brain" from when I was younger.
Very mellow and chill, and surely lends itself to toking. I felt like the opening, with all it's chimes and coughing, could have been the intro for a bizzare ambient track, and even though it's almost 4 minutes long, but I honestly felt like it sorta ended right as it got going. Definetely have me in the mood to revisit the urban section of my iTunes.
For my go, I present a gift i found on a distro. I couldn't find a video on Youtube where you could actually understand him over the guitar, so I linked to the BandCamp. (Track 2 is a favorite, but pick one that hits your fancy): thehomelessgospelchoir.bandcamp.com
islwnd wrote:
Grow the fuck up and mind your own business.
@ Crushed Revelation:
Man, I'm so glad you got into that. They really are one of my favourite 70s hard rock bands, and as you've probably noticed I listen to loads of stuff from this scene/time period. The first three albums are loaded with huge, sometimes really doomy songs like this one, with great organ playing and vocals in particular. Some real swaggering numbers too, of course.
Thanks for taking this; thought this thread was going to die on my post there!
The Homeless Gospel Choir track 2
This was hard to get through, I found the guys voice intensely annoying and I wanted to strangle him the whole time. I have come across roaming bands of young hobo traveling kids that play many different variations on folk music and this guy seems like he *boooo* pays rent and works at a pet store somewhere. I hate lyrics that are supposed to make you go "yeah man, I really know what he's talking about" or when some dumbass wino shit-liberal literature reading folk repeats the line about where he wants his girlfriends face to disappear, they'd laugh in a stupid voice then repeat the line ironically then laugh themselves. They got a connection, man. Whatever warbles he has in his voice is supposed to accentuated by the commercial jingle jolly nature of the music, as if it says "I know the world is horrible but I can just make fun of it and show my greater understanding through not caring". It is douchey. I hated this music horribly.
This isn't much better but I love it:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3XiKfcPmaY
ExNoctemNacimur
Location: United Arab Emirates
The Dots - Helen in Your Headphones
For me, this kind of music is the gold standard for bands that may have a couple of hits and then disappear off the face of the earth. It's the kind of song my mother would have "Grooved" to had she been 30. It's annoying, it's repetitive and weird. The vocals are bad - really bad. They don't do anything for the song. In addition, the keyboards sound like something that could have come out of a children's television show. I generally like 80s New Wave, but really, this crap is awful. (written after first listen).
After playing the song 3 times, it's annoyingly catchy. God I hate you Varth.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VuGzJVKtW6g
DeathForBlitzkrieg
A Dead Man's Robe
Black Veil Brides - Fallen Angels
Not as bad as I imagined upon reading the band moniker, but well, it's completely shallow music. Take a modernized Kiss outfit, an unremarkable singer, suger-coated dual guitar melodies and a chorus to shout along with and there you have Black Veil Brides. No wonder the song has 14 million views, everything about is streamlined to be enjoyed by everyone. I enjoyed it to some extent, too, but I wouldn't listen to it a second time, because it would already bore the hell out of me.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VmK-ukwTfUA
And now... it might satisfy to dream eternally.
Colour Haze - Tempel
reaction on the first part was "no wonder you can hear so many people talking - this is boring as fuck". Then the Kyuss riffs start up and things improve. It's actually a pretty sweet jam and the location is awesome - looks like that would have been a nice way to spend an afternoon, playing/listening to some tunes up on the headland over the ocean, smoking joints and drinking a few brews.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWW-XsIAoFc
Gary Numan and Ade Fenton: "Healing"
I'm quite familiar with a few Gary Numan albums now, but this is much more modern, I think, and definitely unknown to me. It's noisy, alienating, kind of danceable. I didn't really enjoy it as much as, say, The pleasure Principle or Replicas and so on, but i guess it was interesting. Luckily the song is short and doesn't overstay its welcome, because there isn't much going on. In fact, Numan seems to have gone further down into alienation than ever, doing away wit the catchy (if sometimes somewhat wrong-sounding) pop melodies of old and replacing them with a kind of thudding monotony. Vocals sound very detached, processed and make me think of some kind of robotic insect. This was a strangely ugly piece of music without being particularly harsh. It was interesting but I don't really imagine I'd return to this. I miss the melody of the old days, i guess.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lbOz_LqPSAE
@Scorntyrant: I thought that Gary Numan song was awesome. I have no experience with him, but that song was cool and weird as hell.
Yeah, I'm a massive Numanoid - I have every album on LP, seen him live 3 times and I have a bunch of live boots/concert DVD's. All his 90's and later stuff sounds quite a lot like early NIN, so nothing at all like Telekon or the Pleasure Principle. Still great though.
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Washington is under a state of emergency as measles cases rise
Posted 12:31 PM, January 28, 2019, by CNN Wire, Updated at 10:20AM, January 29, 2019
There are 36 confirmed cases of measles in the state of Washington -- an outbreak that has already prompted Gov. Jay Inslee to declare a state of emergency.
As of Sunday, there are 35 confirmed cases of measles in the state of Washington — an outbreak that has already prompted Gov. Jay Inslee to declare a state of emergency.
“Measles is a highly contagious infectious disease that can be fatal in small children,” Inslee said in his proclamation on Friday, adding that these cases create “an extreme public health risk that may quickly spread to other counties.”
There were 34 cases of the measles in Clark County, which sits on the state’s southern border, just across the Columbia River from Portland, Oregon. Officials said 30 of the cases involved people who have not had a measles immunization; the other four are not verified. Of the 34 cases, 24 are children between age 1 and 10. There are also nine suspected cases in Clark County.
There is also one case in King County, which includes Seattle. While the King County website says the patient, a man in his 50s, is a “suspected case,” the governor said in a news release it is a confirmed case of measles.
In a health alert from King County, it was said the man had recently traveled to Clark County.
Inslee’s proclamation allows agencies and departments to use state resources and “do everything reasonably possible to assist affected areas.”
A news release on the governor’s website says the Washington State Department of Health, or DOH, has implemented an infectious disease incident management structure so it can manage the public health aspects of the outbreak through investigations and lab testing.
The Washington Military Department, the release says, is organizing resources to assist the DOH and local officials in easing the effects on people, property and infrastructure.
Last week, a person infected with measles attended a Portland Trail Blazers home game in Oregon amid the outbreak. Contagious people also went to Portland International Airport, as well as to hospitals, schools, stores, churches and restaurants across Washington’s Clark County and the two-state region, county officials said.
Most patients with symptoms should call first
Measles is a contagious virus that spreads through the air through coughing and sneezing. Symptoms such as high fever, rash all over the body, stuffy nose and red eyes typically disappear without treatment within two or three weeks. One or two of every 1,000 children who get measles will die from complications, according to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
In 1978, the CDC set a goal to eliminate measles from the United States by 1982. Measles was declared eliminated — defined by absence of continuous disease transmission for greater than 12 months — from the United States in 2000.
But there has been a recent rise in unvaccinated children. The proportion of children receiving no vaccine doses by 2 years old rose from 0.9% among those born in 2011 to 1.3% among those born in 2015, the CDC reported in October.
The CDC recommends people get the measles, mumps and rubella vaccine to protect against those viruses. The typical recommendations are that children should get two doses of MMR vaccine, the first between 12 to 15 months of age and the second between 4 and 6 years old.
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Victoria Ann Weigel
Memorial Video
Obituary of Victoria Ann Weigel
Mrs. Victoria Ann Weigel of Matamoras, PA, died Friday, April 19, 2019, at Westchester Medical Center surrounded by her loved ones. She was 89.
She was born February 24, 1930, in Matamoras, PA, the daughter of the late Ferris Cokelette Sr. and the late Sarah Ennes Cokelette.
Victoria worked as a Bank Teller for Syracuse Savings Bank, Syracuse, NY.
She was married to George J. “Dutch” Weigel, Jr. for 60 years before his passing on August 7, 2011.
Victoria was very active in her community, even at 89 years of age. She was a longtime, active member of the Hope Evangelical Free Church in Matamoras, PA, and sang in the Choir. She volunteered at Milford Senior Care and Rehabilitation. Victoria was also a past member of the Triangles, the Eastern Stars, 4H Club, Community Choir of the County/Grange Hall, she played Girls Basketball in Matamoras, and was a member of the Matamoras High School Choir.
Victoria had many favorite pastimes including gardening, reading, and dancing. She had an immense love of dogs and was known to give full bags of treats to any neighborhood dogs as they were walked by her house. She will be greatly missed by her family, friends and community.
Surviving are:
6 children; one son and five daughters:
Susan W. Levandowski and her husband, Thaddeus of Bristol, RI
Cynthia J. McGovern and her husband, Thomas of Hopedale, MA
Janice L. Vinicuilla and her husband, Richard of Bellingham, MA
Elizabeth P. Coffey and her husband, William of Douglas, MA
Jeffrey J. Weigel and his wife, Kristina of Medford Lakes, NJ
Barbara A. Zahniser and her husband, Thomas of Downingtown, PA
11 Grandchildren
3 Great-Grandchildren
Also many nieces and nephews
She was predeceased by her brother, Ferris “Jack” Cokelette Jr.
Friends may call at the Gray-Parker Funeral Home, Inc., 100 E. Main Street, Port Jervis, NY, on Tuesday, May 7, 2019, from 2:00pm – 4:00pm and 6:00pm – 8:30pm.
Funeral service will be held on Wednesday, May 8, 2019, at 10:00am at Hope Evangelical Free Church, 308 First Street, Matamoras, PA 18336, with Rev. Leonard Gilpin III officiating.
Burial will follow at Pine Grove Cemetery, Matamoras, PA.
In lieu of flowers, donations may be made in Victoria’s name to: Hope Evangelical Free Church, 300 First Street, Matamoras, PA 18336 or to “Residence Activity Fund”, C/O Milford Senior Care and Rehabilitation, 264 Route 6 & 209, Milford, PA 18337.
Funeral arrangements are by the GRAY-PARKER FUNERAL HOME, 100 E. Main St., Port Jervis, NY 12771 845.856.5191 For additional information, directions, or to send a condolence note to the family, please visit www.grayparkerfuneralhome.com
Hope Evangelical Free Church
308 First St.
Matamoras, Pennsylvania, United States
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GB Web Editor
Why two wheels are better than four.
By Lettie Stratton, photography by Mark Dyrud
Boise’s bicycle culture is something to be admired. Between the 25-mile Greenbelt, the plethora of generous bike lanes on public roads, and the many cycle shops scattered throughout the area, the City of Trees is an optimal destination for every type of cyclist. There’s even been talk lately of turning Boise into the bicycle capitol of America.
This idea comes from the Boise Bicycle Project (BBP), a non-profit co-op that’s been fixing, selling, giving away bikes, and a whole lot more since 2007. Boise Bicycle Project Volunteer Coordinator Ryan King said that unlike many other cities, the conditions that exist naturally in Boise are favorable for cycling.
“The climate is pretty mild and the terrain is pretty flat,” King explains. “It’s a small enough city that the traffic volume isn’t too bad, even on the big roads. The lay of the land really makes it ideal for cycling.”
Even in the most favorable of conditions there are obstacles that cyclists must face, such as access to gear and safety concerns. Part of BBP’s goal is to help break down the barriers to cycling by offering affordable bikes and parts, safe riding classes, help with mapping out alternate routes for commuters, as well as repairs.
But don’t expect to walk into BBP headquarters on Lusk Street and wait around while your bike gets fixed. “We don’t do work on people’s bikes for them,” King explained. “It’s not a fee-for-service kind of model. We’re an educational workspace. We help people learn by setting them up with a mechanic.”
Empowering cyclists is central to BBP’s mission. As part of Idaho Gives on May 7, they launched #CarFreeForBBP and asked people to ride their bike for one trip they’d normally drive on.
“We wanted to create a critical mass of people riding that day and try to create a picture of what Boise would look like as that bicycle capital of America,” says King. “It’s always a big day for us and helps us raise awareness of what we’re doing. There’s a lot of recreational riding in Boise, and we need to build that connection to commuters and fulfill the potential for people riding bikes in Boise.”
King said if Boise is going to continue on its trajectory toward becoming a premier bicycling destination, bicycle transportation must be seen as a primary transportation method rather than an afterthought.
“A bicycle represents freedom,” he says. “The whole world opens up when you’re riding through and interacting with your environment instead of creating your own little bubble in your car.”
Even if you’re not on a bike, cyclists benefit the entire city. Fewer cars on the road decreases traffic for others, fighting frustrating congestion for those who can’t cycle places. For those who can pedal, there are social, physical, environmental, and emotional benefits.
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Congressman Francis E. Walter: He Served during a Time when many Democrats also Stood Against Communism
October 27, 2018 By Dan "Danny Boy" White in Uncategorized Tags: 1950s Communis, Communism in USA, Communist Goals, Communist Subversion, Congressman Francis E. Walter, Eastern Pennsylvania, Francis E. Walter, House Committee On Un-American Affairs, Lehigh Valley, Red Scare Leave a comment
Congressman Walter: The Lion of the US House
Francis Walter was a humble man, born in 1894, from the stock of Main Street America – the Lehigh Valley area of eastern Pennsylvania. Known, in his youth, as a natural leader with a keen mind and a disarming wit, young Francis Walter went on, in his early adult years to achieve financial success in the steel and banking industries. Yet in 1917, while many similarly successful young men (such as Joseph Kennedy Sr.) were looking for ways to avoid service during WWI, Walter joined the US navy without hesitation. He would later earn an officer’s commission and during WWII, aged well into his 40s, Walter would again step forward to serve his nation.
While in his 30s, he was urged by leaders throughout his community to run for an open seat in the United States House of Representatives. He would go on to represent the Lehigh Valley area in congress for thirty years. Congressman Walter was a member of the Democratic Party and a loyal supporter of President Franklin Roosevelt and the idea that the government had a responsibility to help the “little guy” who was willing to work hard to better himself. He was a strong proponent of the New Deal policies of FDR.
As a member of congress and later, Chairman of the House committee on Un-American Affairs, he would develop a growing concern over the efforts of foreign governmental backed subversive activity in the United States. In the years leading up the Second World War, Congressman Walter, stood firm in fighting the influence and espionage of the Axis alliance of Fascist nations including Imperial Japan and the Nazi government of German leader Adolph Hitler. After WWII, Congressman Walter became alarmed by a new threat to American security.
Soviet sponsored and funded Communism had tried, unsuccessfully so, for decades to gain influence and a voice in US policy and governmental circles. However, in the 1940s, these Marxist agents had seen considerable growth and success toward achieving their initial aims. This was due, in large part, to the uneasy and loose alliance with the Soviet Union during WWII. This short-lived and dangerous partnership helped US Communists to give their poisonous and untenable ideology, validation in limited circles of American society. Further, as the Communists sanitized their message to sound similar to New Deal policies during the Great Depression, some well meaning yet, gullible, souls where tricked in to buying into the this secret, cult like movement. Communists first started to gain a foothold in academia, radio, organized labor and motion pictures as well as in our own government. Taking their marching orders from the Kremlin, this secret, undercover Communist movement was beginning to spread to influential corners in American society.
Congressman Walter and many others, Democrat and Republican alike, began to be concerned by the fast spreading wave of Communism infiltration in American cultural and governmental circles. It would not be long before the fight against Communist sponsored espionage became a priority of the US Government. Leading that important and ultimately victorious, fight was Congressman Francis Walter – the humble son of the Lehigh Valley. Working hand-in-hand with the various US intelligence and law enforcement agencies, Congressman Walter, the fighting New Deal Democrat, was able to slowly undercover the Communist plan to subvert American society and it’s security apparatus. What disturbed him most was how Communist were camouflaging themselves as liberal and praying on the gullible. They recruited many of their hapless followers by plying them with emotional liberal arguments as opposed to logic. It was no surprise when, decades later after the collapse of the Soviet Union, it turned out that many of the so called “liberals” were in fact working for the enemies of America.
Through the thousands of hours of work in coordination with his committee and virtually every security organ of the US Government, Congressman Walter read into the record a detailed list of Communist objectives, based on their own communiques, words and policies, concerning their planned destruction of the United states. These became known officially as the “Communist Goals” list and they were read into The Congressional Record on January 10, 1963 and while supported by overwhelmingly by the American people in a January 23, 1963 Gallup Poll, the goals were also supported by the vast majority of members or congress and lauded by President John F. Kennedy, Vice-president Lyndon B. Johnson, Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy as well as the Joint Chiefs of staff.
Less than three decades later, the ‘Communist Goals” would be verified by the opening of the Security Achieves of the former Soviet Union.
The goals, as published, were as follows:
1. U.S. acceptance of coexistence as the only alternative to atomic war.
2. U.S. willingness to capitulate in preference to engaging in atomic war.
3. Develop the illusion that total disarmament [by] the United States would be a demonstration of moral strength.
4. Permit free trade between all nations regardless of Communist affiliation and regardless of whether or not items could be used for war.
5. Extension of long-term loans to Russia and Soviet satellites.
6. Provide American aid to all nations regardless of Communist domination.
7. Grant recognition of Red China. Admission of Red China to the U.N.
8. Set up East and West Germany as separate states in spite of Khrushchev’s promise in 1955 to settle the German question by free elections under supervision of the U.N.
9. Prolong the conferences to ban atomic tests because the United States has agreed to suspend tests as long as negotiations are in progress.
10. Allow all Soviet satellites individual representation in the U.N.
11. Promote the U.N. as the only hope for mankind. If its charter is rewritten, demand that it be set up as a one-world government with its own independent armed forces. (Some Communist leaders believe the world can be taken over as easily by the U.N. as by Moscow. Sometimes these two centers compete with each other as they are now doing in the Congo.)
12. Resist any attempt to outlaw the Communist Party.
13. Do away with all loyalty oaths.
14. Continue giving Russia access to the U.S. Patent Office.
15. Capture one or both of the political parties in the United States.
16. Use technical decisions of the courts to weaken basic American institutions by claiming their activities violate civil rights.
17. Get control of the schools. Use them as transmission belts for socialism and current Communist propaganda. Soften the curriculum. Get control of teachers’ associations. Put the party line in textbooks.
18. Gain control of all student newspapers.
19. Use student riots to foment public protests against programs or organizations which are under Communist attack.
20. Infiltrate the press. Get control of book-review assignments, editorial writing, policymaking positions.
21. Gain control of key positions in radio, TV, and motion pictures.
22. Continue discrediting American culture by degrading all forms of artistic expression. An American Communist cell was told to “eliminate all good sculpture from parks and buildings, substitute shapeless, awkward and meaningless forms.”
23. Control art critics and directors of art museums. “Our plan is to promote ugliness, repulsive, meaningless art.”
24. Eliminate all laws governing obscenity by calling them “censorship” and a violation of free speech and free press.
25. Break down cultural standards of morality by promoting pornography and obscenity in books, magazines, motion pictures, radio, and TV.
26. Present homosexuality, degeneracy and promiscuity as “normal, natural, healthy.”
27. Infiltrate the churches and replace revealed religion with “social” religion. Discredit the Bible and emphasize the need for intellectual maturity which does not need a “religious crutch.”
28. Eliminate prayer or any phase of religious expression in the schools on the ground that it violates the principle of “separation of church and state.”
29. Discredit the American Constitution by calling it inadequate, old-fashioned, out of step with modern needs, a hindrance to cooperation between nations on a worldwide basis.
30. Discredit the American Founding Fathers. Present them as selfish aristocrats who had no concern for the “common man.”
31. Belittle all forms of American culture and discourage the teaching of American history on the ground that it was only a minor part of the “big picture.” Give more emphasis to Russian history since the Communists took over.
32. Support any socialist movement to give centralized control over any part of the culture–education, social agencies, welfare programs, mental health clinics, etc.
33. Eliminate all laws or procedures which interfere with the operation of the Communist apparatus.
34. Eliminate the House Committee on Un-American Activities.
35. Discredit and eventually dismantle the FBI.
36. Infiltrate and gain control of more unions.
37. Infiltrate and gain control of big business.
38. Transfer some of the powers of arrest from the police to social agencies. Treat all behavioral problems as psychiatric disorders which no one but psychiatrists can understand [or treat].
39. Dominate the psychiatric profession and use mental health laws as a means of gaining coercive control over those who oppose Communist goals.
40. Discredit the family as an institution. Encourage promiscuity and easy divorce.
41. Emphasize the need to raise children away from the negative influence of parents. (“It Takes A village” authors note) Attribute prejudices, mental blocks and retarding of children to suppressive influence of parents.
42. Create the impression that violence and insurrection are legitimate aspects of the American tradition; that students and special-interest groups should rise up and use [“]united force[“] to solve economic, political or social problems.
43. Overthrow all colonial governments before native populations are ready for self-government.
44. Internationalize the Panama Canal.
45. Repeal the Connally reservation so the United States cannot prevent the World Court
Thanks to patriots like Democratic Congressman Walter, Communism was eventually destroyed as a global theat. A future President would read Congressman Walter’s list in January of 1963. He was shocked by it and some eighteen years later, the day he took the oath of office as our 40th President of the United States, he would, later that day, meet with his military chiefs of staff and tell them, “I’m sick and tired of trying to contain Communism and our new policy will be to destroy it as a viable threat.’ This president would later develop a plan that would drag the Soviet Union and it’s puppets into a ramped up cold war, which would ultimately bankrupt them and cause their people, at long last, to rise up in a successful revolt. That Communist slaying President was the great Ronald Reagan.
Despite our victory over communism abroad, one can tell, from fifty-five year-old list above, that there is still work to be done. Interestingly enough, another future US President would also read Congressman Walter’s list as a child. His father, a rags to riches real estate developer who posted the goals on the kitchen wall of his family home. As the young boy grew, he never forgot the “Communist Goals” list or its implications. That boy would one day himself become President and his name is Donald Trump. He will make sure that those lingering issues from the get stomped out.
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Samuel Joseph Kohn: exemplar of the Jewish immigrant experience
by Matt Berger December 15, 2018 December 15, 2018
He had been a powerfully-built man, which served him well when he spent nearly two decades as a Philadelphia police officer (rising as high as plainclothes detective in the late 1940s). His 1940 World War II draft card lists the then-36-year-old patrolman as 5’10” tall and 210 pounds, dark-complexioned with black hair and brown eyes. But the stroke he suffered at 73 had left the right half of his body paralyzed, making him seem much frailer. Nonetheless, as I stood next to his bed in the rehabilitation center, he had more than enough strength in his massive left hand to grip my smaller 11-year-old hand tightly.
As he held my hand, he made me swear to him that I would become either a doctor or a lawyer, the professional pinnacles for late 19th– and early 20th-century Jewish immigrants and their immediate descendants. At that age, I was far more interested in math and history—and not particularly good with blood (I still am not)—so neither option appealed to me. However, I adored my grandfather, so I did as he asked.
None of us in that room, in the early fall of 1978, had any idea what “epidemiology” was, but that is the field in which I earned my doctorate 36 years later.
That counts, right?
Wednesday, December 12, 2018, would have been Samuel Joseph Kohn’s 114th birthday. Here he is, with my grandmother Irene (who he would divorce only a few years later), at his younger daughter Elaine’s 1960 wedding to David Louis Berger. Six years later, the young married couple would adopt a boy and name him Matthew…but that is an entirely different story.
More precisely, what I learned growing up was that a man named Samuel Cohen had been born in a town near Kiev (in modern-day Ukraine) called Shpola (sometimes Shpolakievagubernia[1]) on December 12, 1904. And that date of birth is clearly recorded on his headstone:
However, as I wrote with regard to my paternal grandfather Morris Berger (and his four younger siblings), dates of birth are hard to pin down when official American birth certificates are not available. Decades after the fact, researchers (and curious descendants) are forced to rely on documentation such as naturalization papers, military service documents and United States Census (“Census”) records.
But it is not just dates of birth that can be difficult to verify. Things as supposedly straightforward as name and place of birth may prove tricky as well…especially when those facts were deliberately altered to fit in better with an early 20th-century urban American milieu.
I do not mean this to sound sinister. It was no secret when I was a boy that sometime between 1930 (when the Census records 25-year-old “Samuel Cohen” living at 1842 N. 32nd Street) and 1934 (when his marriage record to Irene Goldman lists him as “Samuel Kohn”), my grandfather changed the distinctly-Semitic (and distinguished) last name of “Cohen” to “Kohn,” believing it to be more ethnically ambiguous. He had done this, supposedly, anticipating anti-Semitic resistance when he joined the police force (and even when that occurred is a bit of a mystery). When you consider that his father, Joseph Cohen had been, variously, a rabbi, a shochet (Kosher butcher) and a Hebrew school teacher—and that he and his 11 brothers and sisters were purported to be direct descendants of the legendary Shpoler Zaide [2] (“the Grandfather from Shpola” or, as I knew him as a boy, “the Dancing Rabbi of Shpola”), the surname change is even more striking.
It may not have been simply joining the police department, though. Sometime after landing in Philadelphia in 1911, Yaakov Gurmankin of Cherson (in modern-day Ukraine) became “Jack Goldman” of Philadelphia—and his four daughters (of whom Ida—or Irene—was the eldest, born August 11, 1914) became the “Goldman Girls.” Adopting a less “Jewish” sounding name was a fairly common occurrence for these newly-arrived immigrants, a natural part of their slow assimilation.
But let us return a moment to his 1940 draft card. It lists his date of birth as December 12, 1904 (so far, so good) and his place of birth as…Cleveland, OH?
When I located this draft card via Ancestry.com sometime last year, as I began my family research, I was less surprised by the birth location as I was by how early Samuel Kohn had begun claiming it.
In February 2015, “Snowmageddon” shut down Boston’s Logan Airport, forcing me to spend two extra days in the San Francisco area (Burlingame, actually) following the conclusion of that year’s NOIR CITY film festival. As I enjoyed dinner (including a nice chianti) at Café Figaro my first night in Burlingame, I had a long text exchange with my maternal aunt and her children (which, unfortunately, I have since deleted). It was then I learned Samuel Kohn had changed his birthplace from Shpola to Cleveland, adding to his slow Americanization.
OK, so how do I know he was born in Shpola?
Let us start in 1979, when a grandson of Joseph Cohen (first cousin of my mother and her older sister) took three sheets of orange paper and wrote out the family tree of the descendants of Joseph Cohen and his wife Bat-sheva (later Bessie) Koslenko Cohen. I have no photographs of Joseph (so far as I know), but my great-grandmother struck quite a pose:
The 1979 record lists the eight children of Joseph and Bessie Cohen who eventually made their way to Philadelphia: Sima, Bella, Sarah, Benjamin, Sophie, Samuel, Anna, Jack. Some 60 years earlier, meanwhile, Joseph Cohen’s United States of America Petition for Naturalization (dated June 4, 1918) listed eight children (with dates of birth) of Joseph Cohen (and wife Bessie):
Sima (later Sarah; July 3, 1887[3]),
Rebecca (later Bella; November 10, 1890),
Sara (October 4, 1897[4]),
Benjamin (November 28, 1901),
Sofia (February 12, 1903),
Israel (November 22, 1905),
Anna (April 1, 1908[5])
Jacob (January 1, 1912)
According to this same document, Joseph Cohen (and his wife Bessie) hailed from Shpola, Russia (forcing him to “renounce forever all allegiance and fidelity to any foreign, prince, potentate, state, or sovereignty, and particularly to Nicholas II Emperor of all the Russias[6], of whom I am now a subject.”). The eldest daughter, Sima, also hailed from Shpola, according to the Naturalization Petition of her husband Leib (later Louis) Goldstein. Put two and two together…
Joseph, Bessie and six or seven of their children[7] were among the 1,091 steerage (I presume) passengers who sailed on the SS Haverford from Liverpool, England on November 18 (or 20), 1912, landing in Philadelphia on December 3, 1912.
Photograph from here.
It was quite a harrowing journey, according to the front page of the December 4, 1912 issue of the Philadelphia Inquirer. I wonder how close my grandfather and his family truly came to perishing in the North Atlantic (only eight months after the sinking of the Titanic), which would have rather dramatically altered my family’s history.
Wait, hold on, back up a second.
Who the bleepity-frick is “Israel Cohen,” born November 22, 1905?
When my mother died in March 2004, I acquired a handful of documents relating to my grandfather. One of them was a small white piece of paper on which was written my grandfather’s Hebrew name as it was supposed to appear on his headstone; I recently came across it digging (again) through the “genealogy” folders in my filing cabinet.
Clearly, at some point between December 3, 1912 and January 14, 1920–the date on which the 11-person Cohen household (including 15-year-old “Samuel”) at 729 Morris Street in South Philadelphia was enumerated by A. S. Burstein—”Yisrael (son of Yosef) HaCohen” became “Samuel Joseph Kohn.” I do not know why Rabbi Levin did not put this Hebrew name on the headstone; perhaps he simply could not reconcile “Yisrael” with “Samuel” (whose Hebrew equivalent is Shmuel).
As for when a date of birth of “November 22, 1905” became “December 12, 1904,” it is telling that the latter date is more consistent with the ages listed for Samuel Cohen on the 1920 (15) and 1930 (25) Censuses. The former is consistent with a date of birth between January 15, 1904 and January 14, 1905, while the latter (conducted April 4-5, 1930) implies a date of birth between April 6, 1904 and April 5, 1905.
The bottom line is this: upon embarking from the SS Haverford onto the Washington Avenue pier 106 years ago (what must the city have looked like to him, his parents and siblings coming from a town that had a population of about 12,000 in 1897?), a sea-sick Yiddish-speaking seven-year-old boy named Yisrael HaCohen from Shpola, on the rural outskirts of the Russian Empire, slowly transformed into the English-speaking Philadelphia police officer Samuel Joseph Kohn from Cleveland, OH. Why he chose “Cleveland” and moved his date of birth back 11 months and 10 days remains a mystery.
In April 1930, Samuel Joseph Kohn was an attendant at a Gulf Refining Station—and probably starting to play pinochle, which would be the great passion of his life. Sometime in the next four years, he met a lovely teenager who lived about five blocks north of his packed house at 1842 N. 32nd Street. He married Ida “Irene” Gurmankin, I mean Goldman, at the Jewish-catering Imperial Hotel in Atlantic City in the summer of 1934. The would have two daughters, including my mother Elaine in January 1938. It was a contentious marriage—two hotheads separated in age by eight or nine years—but he was a great father. Later, he would be a beloved grandfather—and family patriarch.
As I have noted, his time on the force remains a large black box, but a handful of articles in the Philadelphia Inquirer[8] and conversations with my aunt (plus this book) tell me he was stationed in at 28th and Oxford (not far from his Strawberry Mansion house) in February 1937, where he was an incidental part of a post-shootout car chase. By 1948, he was a plain-clothes detective working on the Crime Prevention Squad (which targeted juvenile offenders); in November of that year, he and partner Jack Auerbach arrested two brothers at 23rd and Venango for running a numbers bank with a daily take of $1,200.[9] In 1951 and 1952, a patrolman again, he worked in South Philadelphia (7th and Catherine) busting rackets under Acting Staff Sergeant Frank Rizzo (who would serve as a very controversial police chief, then mayor from 1972 to 1980); Rizzo and my grandfather looked very much alike, actually. My aunt told me he always voted Republican (despite living in a family that adored Democrats like Franklin Roosevelt) in those years because he thought his career depended on it.
A few years later, he had retired from the force and begun to operate a series of taverns in “seedy neighborhoods” (according to my aunt), at first with his brother-in-law Harry Alterman. I would love to imagine David Goodis frequenting one of those taverns.
His father Joseph died in October 1930, followed by his mother Bessie in November 1941. In January 1922, his sister Sophie had died seven days after giving birth to her only child, a daughter named Evelyn; she was only a month away from her 20th birthday (as I put it to my wife Nell, this is when this type of research “gets real.”). His sister Sima died in October 1944.
And by 1930, his brother Benjamin had moved to New York City to start a family. This left Samuel the male head of a rapidly growing family that would meet every year (becoming known as the “Cousins Club”) to celebrate the first night of Passover with the ritual Seder meal. (This tradition would continue for decades; as a boy, I looked forward to seeing all of my cousins at the vast Doral Caterers—which closed in 1989—near the intersection of Bustleton and Cottman Avenues, where inevitably one of us would be injured after an evening of high-spirited shenanigans).
Here he is, standing alone in the back, running the show in 1946 (my eight-year-old mother is sitting alone in the bottom center)…
…and again in 1953 (my 15-year-old mother is in the white blouse, seated on the right edge).
Five years after this Seder, in 1958, both his brother Benjamin and his sister Bella died.
But on January 17, 1960, he proudly watched his daughter Elaine marry a charming and handsome young man named David Louis Berger. His first (of four) grandchild, Mindy, was born on March 8, 1962. And then I arrived (literally) in September 1966.
By 1964, meanwhile, he had divorced his wife of nearly 30 years and moved to Atlantic City, where he drove a jitney for a few years before retiring; I used to spend hours riding them up and down Pacific Avenue for only 35 cents in the summer of 1974 and 1975.
It is those summers I remember when I think about my grandfather. By then, he had settled into the Warwick Apartments, just off the beach on Raleigh Avenue; I would occasionally spend a weekend with him there over the winter (I loved it, but let us just say that my grandfather could give Oscar Madison a run for his money).
Occasionally, he would take me for a ride on one of the double-decker (we always sat on top in the open air) boats that departed from Captain Starn’s seafood restaurant and sailed lazily south along the beach then north again. He would treat me to an ice cold can of Coke or Dr. Pepper from a vendor with a cooler; they remain the most delicious sodas I have ever tasted.
And then there was the night—probably in the summer of 1974—when my mother and I had dinner with him in his apartment. At the start of the meal, I was served a steaming hot bowl of tomato soup (most likely Campbell’s cream of tomato). It was a hot night, so I sat at the table shirtless. Then, somehow, my grandfather tipped the entire bowl of soup onto my bare chest.
Owwww!!!!!
At this, my grandfather—tough-as-nails Philly cop, tavern owner and Cohen family patriarch—became completely distraught; I have never seen a man look so shattered. And while my chest was still stinging in pain, despite the butter (yes, butter) being rubbed on it, his reaction had me feeling sorrier for him than anything else.
Just over four years later, on November 15, 1978, Samuel Joseph Kohn (and Yisrael ben Yosef HaCohen) succumbed to complications from his stroke (“cardio respiratory collapse” from “myocardial infarction”), ending an extraordinary rich life that typified the 20th century immigrant experience. Less than one year later, I wore his yarmulke at my Bar Mitzvah. Despite being a Jewish-raised Atheist (married to an Episcopalian-raised Agnostic), I still wear it (with my father’s tallit) when I light the candles of the menorah on Chanukah.
I end where I began, with this excerpt from page iv of my doctoral thesis.
This dissertation is dedicated to the memory of three late members of my family whose love and support I miss every day.
First is my maternal grandfather, Samuel Kohn. Toward the end of his life, he made me promise that someday I would become either a lawyer or a doctor.
Pop-Pop Sam, I kept my promise.
[1] “Shpola in the governing district of Kiev”
[2] In early November 2018, a man reached out to me on Ancestry.com, seeking information about Joseph Cohen. He believes (and there is some decent evidence in support) that his great-grandfather Yankel Cohen—a rabbi from a town just 10 miles south of Shpola called Zlatopol (now part of Novomirogrod), whose younger brother were also rabbis—was my great-grandfather’s older brother. And he alerted to the researches of Dr. Jeffrey Mark Paull, who has traced, through Y-DNA, the male descendants of the Shpoler Zaide. Somewhere in here lies the truth of our descent (or not).
[3] Curiously, the date of birth listed on her husband Leib (Louis) Goldstein’s Naturalization Petition is July 10, 1886.
[4] Or was it July 4, 1894?
[5] This was actually a guess based upon her being born on the third day of Passover in 1908, which she later learned was April 19.
[6] The italicized words were handwritten on his Declaration of Intention, dated June 1, 1915.
[7] According to the 1930 Census, Sima Cohen arrived in 1914, though that date is almost certainly 1913, when she and her husband Leib arrived in Philadelphia on the SS Breslau. Meanwhile, the 1930 Census says Bella arrived in 1899, though she would only have been eight or nine years old then; I suspect that is a miscommunication.
[8] “GUNMEN FLEE POLICE SHOTS IN TWO DUELS,” Philadelphia Inquirer (Philadelphia, PA), February 28, 1937, pg 4; “Brothers Seized On Numbers Count,” Philadelphia Inquirer (Philadelphia, PA), November 27, 1948, pg 15.
[9] A little over $12,600 in 2018 dollars.
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What a fascinating post! I had to giggle at the butter on the burn. My 89 year old mother in law STILL argues with me you put butter an a burn….lol
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Review of The Final Conflict (1981)
The Final Conflict (1981) is a horror/thriller film, the third film in the The Omen film franchise.
Directed by Graham Baker (Alien Nation (1988), Beowulf (1999)).
Written by Andrew Birkin (Joan of Arc (1999), Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (2006)).
Starring: Sam Neill, Rossano Brazzi, Don Gordon, Lisa Harrow, Barnaby Holm, Mason Adams, Dick Anthony Williams and others.
Once again we follow Damien Thorn, who now is 32 and the CEO of Thorn Industries, one of the most powerful corporations in the world. Don’t be fooled by thinking that the movie is set in the future. It is set in 1982, so since 1976 when Damien was about 5 he has grown up really fast.
After getting hypnotised by a dog, the US ambassador to Great Britain commits the most elaborate suicide ever and guess who gets appointed in his place? Our friendly neighbourhood Damien. So the movie is basically about his rise to power, while a bunch of people try to get in his way, only to suffer horrible deaths.
It is revealed through concrete scientific evidence that some sort of star alignment crap suggests the second coming of Christ. Not on Damien’s watch, he’s going to kill every child born on a specific date. Oh, but guess what, his right hand man has one of them Christ-children, so we get a subplot that matters very little.
The scenes where the astronomers are figuring out how stars mean that they should bring back crucifixions, introduces one of my big disappointments. The score suddenly contains some distinctly 80’s sci-fi themes. There’s nothing wrong with that, as long as it is not mixed in with the classic, huge Jerry Goldsmith chanting parts, that are common in The Omen series. It’s just two clashing styles.
The themes and implications the movie brings up are quite interesting, sadly they’re not really explored as much as one would like. You have to think of how you would act if you knew you are destined to be a great, powerful man and something threatens this. You can identify with Damien’s paranoia, his ability to not view himself as entirely evil, since his path of life was chosen for him. I don’t want to say that his actions are reprehensible or character not despicable, but there’s a fine line to walk when your protagonist is the villain.
The movie is in a way a precursor to slasher movies, where they make sequels that progressively glorify the villain, who is the returning character on another adventure, and makes the innocents less innocent, less interesting and less likable. We don’t want the evil to be victorious, but we have started to care about Damien and he has almost become a tragic figure. To be fair, he has a lot more personality than the average slasher villain, but the connection could be made.
And yes, the good guys here come off as silly and worthless. And when we see Damien walking around, creepily charming the pants off of everyone, it is hard not to take the wrong side. If good is so boring and uninspiring, why not root for evil? That’s a fine question, that, sadly, I don’t think the movie asks intentionally.
Damien also isn’t built up as all that evil. His rise to power is quite slow. He is just a CEO of a big company, but he doesn’t seem like the most evil one even amongst real-life ones. He has a romantic interest, sure, he’s a bit rough with her in the bed and makes her son his right hand ‘young’ man. But that just doesn’t seem that bad. He’s like some mafia godfather, who doesn’t even do his own dirty work most of the time.
The worst part is probably the ending. It is well built up and it seems there will be this epic Good vs. Evil stand-off, but it’s the most anticlimactic thing imaginable. It’s just nothing, there’s no spectacle, nothing. The Omen ‘trilogy’ ends with a faint stabbing sound.
The best part about it is Sam Neill’s performance as Damien. He is really good, exuding dark charisma. Managing to look like a youthful millionaire playboy, but at the time pulling off the sinister undercurrents of the son of satan, now fully aware of his power and purpose.
Overall, I would say that the previous movie was more reliant on the novelty deaths, so if nothing else, this is better than that and Sam Neill is awesome. Still, not a worthy sequel to the original. Not recommended.
“Last night I semi-raped your mother. We are going to have so much fun today.”
Tags: 1981, Horror, Movies, Reviews, Sequel, Supernatural, Thriller
Categories 1980's, Movie reviews
Review of The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 2 (2012)
The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 2 (2012) is a fantasy/romance/adventure film, the fifth film in the Twilight film franchise based on the series of novels by Stephenie Meyer.
Directed by Bill Condon (The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 1 (2011), Dreamgirls (2006)).
Written by Melissa Rosenberg (Twilight (2008), Step Up (2006)).
Starring: Michael Sheen, Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson, Taylor Lautner, Billy Burke, Peter Facinelli, Maggie Grace and a shitload of other good-looking people.
Here we are again. Thankfully, for the last time. Please, even if they decide to do some shitty spin-off, don’t tell me. I don’t want to know. Unless it is about Aro. I want to see a movie about him.
I don’t know where to start talking about this, because I don’t want to. The series as a whole has been an incredible journey through bad female role models, bad acting, bad effects and bad filmmaking in every other way. A year ago we saw the first part of the adaptation of the fourth novel. It was one of the most boring movies I’ve ever seen and I’ve seen Heaven’s Gate, Titanic and Alexander‘s final cut. It dragged like shit. If you pressed your ass against the floor, had some diarrhea explosion and then tried to blow it along the floor, using your mouth, it would be a more or less acurate representation of watching that movie.
To be fair this movie was way less boring. I still got bored, but I could see the simple-minded fans, who like the blank characters, enjoying the ethnical stereotypes, idiotic plot and the horrendous special effects.
We start off with Bela Lugosi waking up as a vampire chick now, all her senses have heightened, so she hugs Squidward with her Hulk-strength and then decides to go hunting for deer, doing weird faces and feral noises. She almost kills some cliff-climber, who doesn’t look down to see her jump away in a humourously frozen position doing an arc over a canyon, one of the many special effects in the movie done by a 5-year-old with Down’s Syndrome. Just donate the money, don’t make them work for it.
Then she remembers her baby, which is the most fucking creepy thing I’ve ever seen. Now she’s kind of pissed that Sixpack has ‘implanted’ her baby, so he’s destined to bang her. Him saying „It’s not like that!”, when it is exactly like that doesn’t sit well with Bela Lugosi, so Kirsten Stuart tries to do something she hasn’t done before. Emotions. Sorry K-Stu, A for effort, but F for looking like you’re face and voice doesn’t understand the concept.
After this, Sixpack goes to show his six-pack to Bela Lugosi’s dad, Charlie Movember. Sixpack for some reason thinks that taking off his clothes and turning into a cartoon-wolf would somehow explain his daughter’s absence. It doesn’t. Like at all. Charlie Tom Selleck is the saddest character ever. Every scene is him saying „Fuck it, no one is telling me shit, there’s no reason for me to be in this movie, I’m just going to grow my fucking moustache until someone decides to actually give me something to do.”
So basically Eddie Van Paleface and Bella Van Blankface have their horribly deformed child. It seems she’s ok, except for Sixpack’s pedophile curse, being half-vampire and having this disgusting CG face. It’s uncanny beyond the valley of death. I wanted to turn away every time I saw it. 10 actresses play their daughter. So they all (or at least 9?) have CG faces. It is insane.
And that is not the only awful effect they have. They’re all rubbish. Almost every scene takes place on a set. There’s a shitload of blurry matte paintings, green screen as shitty as they get. Having people wave their arms in front of a green screen, and then replacing the background with a sped-up footage of a forest is not an effect I should see in a 100+ million dollar movie.
The movie starts as an unfunny fish-out-of-water comedy with Bella Lugosi discovering her abilities, having PG-13 extreme close-up sex and ironically having to learn to act human. Then it transforms into a superhero team forming movie, where vampires from all over the world are gathered. They all have various superpowers and represent stereotypes, eurotrash Russian guys, red-haired Irish ones, an Egyptian (might as well be Indian) who is the last airbender, yet conveniently forgets to use his abilities during the final battle and even some Amazonians and later Brazilians dressed in loin-clothes and face-paint.
They need to gather this team of vampire X-men, to protect them from Volturi, the evil vampires, who want to kill Squidward and Bela’s daughter Jailbait, because they think it’s a full vampire and not a half-ling that will look like a full-grown woman at the age of 7, when Jacob is going to fuck the living shit out of her unstable pre-school psyche. For some reason they manage to gather this team from every corner of the earth during a couple of months or something, while the Volturi are travelling from Italy. What is taking them so long? Are they taking the bus?
The plot they devise to protect the little CG-creep is so stupid and involves so much unnecessary details, which does not make sense when they have a chick, who can tell the future. I guess these vampires don’t get wiser as they get older. Just like the wolves keep looking completely awful as the movies go on.
I do have some good things to say. Since the love triangle is resolved, the movie is a lot less annoying, since characters actually have some motivation. The actors seem more comfortable. Chicken-Stu attempts emotions, Bobby Patterson at times seems to enjoy himself and Squidward laughs when Betty is kicking the mexican’s ass. And the mexican gypsy is somewhat likable, since he’s moved on and is saving his sixpack for Charlie Brown Moustache and his 8-year-old granddaughter.
Another thing I loved was Michael fucking Sheen. He acts so over-the-top flamboyantly gay, I almost felt like being prison-raped and loving it. I think he knew exactly what he was doing and joyously screeching at the sight of the abomination that is the little half-vamp Renesmut, is something he did specially for me the desperate anti-fan, who somehow failed to feel the tone of scenes despite the constant bombardment soft rock and score telling me what to feel.
So yes, the ending that involved the most decapitations you’ll ever see in a movie, Michael Sheen’s constant mugging, mincing and overacting, while masturbating in his pocket and leaving the unconvincing love-triangle in the dust made the movie barely, but bearable. Despite the ending introducing a cop-out twist, some deus-ex machina and Beige saying „No one’s ever loved anyone as much as I love you, Squidward.”, which is an outright lie. Turning it into a B-movie was the right choice.
Overall, it was better than the previous Twilight movies, but that’s like saying a kick in the balls is better than a paper cut on the tip of your penis. Some might disagree, but most will agree that both are pretty bad. I would never recommend this movie to any sane person. But let’s rejoice, it’s over.
“Oh my, Carlisle, you’ve been working out, haven’t you? And that neckerchief, a feast for eyes, you are.”
Tags: Drama, Fantasy, Movies, Rated PG-13, Reviews, Sequel, Twilight
Review of Assault on Precinct 13 (2005)
Assault on Precinct 13 (2005) is a thriller/action/crime film, which is a remake of Assault on Precinct 13 (1976).
Directed by Jean-Francois Richet (Mesrine: Killer Instinct (2008), Mesrine: Public Enemy No. 1 (2008)).
Written by James DeMonaco (Jack (1996), Staten Island (2009)).
Starring: Ethan Hawke, Laurence Fishburne, Gabriel Byrne, Maria Bello, Drea de Matteo, John Leguizamo, Brian Dennehy, Ja Rule and others.
The original had a „cold open” of sorts, that set-up the possibility of action in a movie that was more slow-paced, this time we open with a completely frantic scene, with our main character played by Ethan Hawke in an undercover operation, which doesn’t turn out so well. Some time has passed and we see him arriving at a police precinct on the New Year’s Eve, as it is about to close and relocate the personnel.
Then we see a shoot-out in a church, after which Laurence Fishburne is arrested. Soon he has to be transported and the two groups of people who will have to meet at some point are set-up. On the prison bus, there’s four inmates being transported, one of them being John Leguizamo going into his over-the-top neurotic mode. Some shit happens along the way so they have to stay in this half-abandoned police station.
When the new year comes, suddenly everyone’s new year resolution becomes to stay alive, because they get attacked by masked men and the people inside the precinct are left to try to hold them back. They even manage to make them more inhuman by having them be hidden behind thick ski-masks, due to the storm outside. But then they decide to add a decent, yet very unnecessary twist to who the attackers are. I liked the almost supernatural quality they possessed in the original better.
The movie does have some kinetic energy and interesting visuals, like a bunch of lasersights sniping through the windows of the precinct, a cool mexican stand-off, involving like 10 people and almost everyone who dies for some reason gets shot in the head.
Yeah, I know, since the original was in a way a loose remake of Rio Bravo, it is forgivable that they made another remake, but there’s really nothing that the movie brings, that validates its necessity to exist. It’s just pointless, it doesn’t change enough to make it fresh and really interesting and only updating it a bit doesn’t make much sense, because the original wasn’t all that dated.
The score was disappointingly bland, not even worth comparing to Carpenter’s iconic synth-drone theme.
The acting also isn’t that great, to be fair in Carpenter’s version the acting wasn’t the best part either, but it was also a low-budget film, with relative unknowns, who were acting western parts in a modern-day setting. Here we have amazing actors (not all of them, there’s Ja Rule, after all) with huge experience, but the acting is just as unconvincing.
Overall, might be enjoyable, especially if you haven’t seen the original, but even then I don’t think it’s really worth bothering. It’s conventional, some good actors pop up, at times entertaining, but ultimately a waste of time. Not recommended.
PIctured: The most jolly movie rape scene ever.
Tags: 2005, Action, Crime, Movies, Remake, Reviews, Thriller
Review of Damien: Omen II (1978)
Damien: Omen II (1978) is a horror/thriller film, it is a sequel to The Omen, set seven years after it.
Directed by Don Taylor (The Final Countdown (1980), Escape from the Planet of the Apes (1971)).
Written by Stanley Mann (Conan the Destroyer (1984), The Mouse That Roared (1959)) and Mike Hodges (Get Carter (1971), Pulp (1972)).
Starring: William Holden, Lee Grant, Jonathan Scott-Taylor, Lance Henriksen, Robert Foxworth, Nicholas Pryor, Lucas Donat and others.
They know how to make us remember the first movie. We start with the over-the-top score blasting, we’re on a beautiful location and you think that this might be more of the same arguably good movie.
Seven years have passed between the first movie and this, so Damien isn’t just a grumpy tyke. Now he’s a frustrated teenager, living with his adoptive family and trying to act as a real boy. You’re not fooling anyone, Pinocchio. Ok, actually Damien is fooling everyone, except his aunt, who’s making a fuss about it, so she’s put down by the dark forces. With dark forces I mean a crow looking at her ominously.
Damien goes to some kind of military academy with his cousin/brother. There they meet a new platoon officer played by Lance Henriksen. He doesn’t get to do much with the role, but it’s at least nice to see him. Later on he informs Damien of his destiny.
Jonathan Scott-Taylor plays Damien quite well, both managing to make him intimidating and tragically frustrated. He really doesn’t seem to have a solid understanding of his abilities for most of the movie and acts evil more instinctly than consciously. When Damien realises his purpose in life, he is quite distraught and it makes you feel sympathetic. I wouldn’t really want to find out I am the antichrist, seems like a lot of responsibility.
If someone is closing in on Damien’s dirty little secret, they can expect a visit from the friendly neighbourhood hell-crow pretty soon. But don’t let the death of suspicious aunt fool you. He doesn’t just stare at everyone. As we learn from his next attack, he’s going to actively try to harm you, leaving his staring contests exclusively for old ladies.
The crow-attack effects are quite well done, it’s no Birdemic: Shock and Terror, though. The problem is that after a nicely done crow pecking a woman’s eyes out, we see her walk in front of a truck only for us to behold something that suspiciously looks like a „love-doll” dressed in her coat, get run over. It seriously looks like a student film special effect.
Soon another problem becomes apparent with the crow attacks, but actually concerns the movie as a whole. It takes a step back from developing characters and moving the plot along and 40 minutes in, it’s still not clear if the movie is building up to something or are we just going to watch various novelty deaths of people who don’t like Damien, most of the time involving the goddamn crow.
Don’t get me wrong, some of the set-pieces are really cool, like one, that takes place on a frozen lake, but there comes a point, when new characters keep being introduced, just to be killed a couple of minutes later. The movie seems to be just a bunch of death scenes, somehow stringed together by the actual plot.
Yes, the first one had death scenes, but they were inventive, but sparse and mostly happened to characters I cared about. Not to mention that The Omen was a far more intelligent movie, that actually played on the psychological terror, while this is a B-grade exploitation version of the first film, relying on cheap set-ups and impactless pay-offs, pretending to have more substance than it actually does. Also it seems to abandon some of the more interesting ideas of the first one.
Overall, it’s not awful, but it tries to replicate the first one without really understanding what made it good. Using a shitload of death scenes as a safety net. Not recommended.
Pictured: The curiously snake-headed antichrist, looking just like Damien Thorn. Or any other doughy faced innocent looking kid.
Tags: 1972, Horror, Movie, Movies, Reviews, Sequel, Thriller
Review of Splice (2009)
Splice (2009) is a horror/sci-fi/thriller film about gene splicing experiment not going as expected.
Directed by Vincenzo Natali (Cube (1997), Cypher (2002)).
Written by Vincenzo Natali (Nothing (2003), Elevated (1997 Short)), Doug Taylor (The Carpenter (1988), They Wait (2007)) and Antoinette Terry Bryant.
Starring: Adrien Brody, Sarah Polley, Delphine Chaneac, Brandon McGibbon, Simona Maicanescu, David Hewlet, Abigail Chu and others.
We see two scientists, who seem to have created these two CG creatures, which are revealed to be the combination of multiple species into one being. So yes, that’s what you get, you mix various species and get this blob of flesh that doesn’t seem to be very useful other than a scientific curiosity.
But of course it is. The scientists want to apply this gene splicing technology to humans, because it would provide incredible medical breakthroughs, but the corporate heads don’t approve this. It is reverse case of what we usually see in movies that try to push the idea of corporate greed, making the businessmen become reckless with the slightest possibility of profit. Here we have the scientists who are obsessed with their project. Similar to the mad scientist movies we don’t get so often anymore, like Frankenstein or The Fly.
The movie has a very slick visual style, some shots done with the use of such a wide-angle lens that it is almost fish-eye.
Our main characters are a scientist couple, played by Sarah Polley and Adrien Brody. From the first few minutes they have a great dynamic, are likable and believable. The chemistry is there, both literally and figuratively. Nowadays there’s an odd lack of scientists in science fiction, which this movie provides in spades.
The couple decide to fuck their sponsors and go ahead with the creation of a humanoid creature. From it’s „birth”, it becomes clear, that things have gone at least slightly wrong. The creature goes through various stages switching from practical effects to CGI, the practical effects are done great, it’s Greg Nicotero after all. Then we settle on a combination of the two, which looks pretty decent.
What is the most interesting part about it, is that as the experiment progresses and the creature evolves and grows, it starts getting kind of disturbing and you can’t help, but question the ethics of things like this. Maybe this message is a bit on the nose, but it doesn’t hammer it all that much, except you start feeling uneasy watching the relationships that are forming between the characters.
And it does get really creepy, the horror element works so well, because by the time a real threat starts forming, you care a lot about the characters and it terrifies you psychologically. It’s not a slasher flick so there’s not a body count running through the movie, it’s more about the build-up, because you just know that something horrible is going to happen eventually. The suspense keeps you interested, while all the exposition and character development is happening.
Both Polley and Brody do really great jobs, but special nod should go to Delphine Chaneac, who portrays the creature in its full-grown form, it’s a very physically demanding role and she delivers. Selling the horrors of parenting, growing up and changing and science gone wrong.
It has been somewhat poorly received by general audience, some people complaining that it was disturbing and offensive. For me it’s one of the better horror films of the recent years, mostly due to it being delightfully disturbing without trying to shock people. Those were shocked? Well, in my opinion they’re pansies, who should do some research on what they’re watching.
Overall, I enjoyed it a lot, I thought it was gripping, thrilling and twisted. Vincenzo Natali is a sci-fi filmmaker worth looking out for. Recommended.
Starring: Sarah Polley and Adrien Brody as young Professor Snape.
Tags: 2009, Horror, Movies, Reviews, Sci-Fi, Thriller
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Shocking! A child bride auctioned off on Facebook
I was shocked as I read a news on CNN, this morning, that a teenage girl in South Sudan was recently auctioned off as a child bride on Facebook, in barbaric use of technology.
An auction was held on the social media platform for a 16-year-old girl in South Sudan which sought payment for her hand in marriage. Facebook has told CNN that its platform was used for the bidding which started on 25 October. They said the post was taken down as soon as the company learned of it on 9 November, but that wasn’t until after the girl was married.
According to children’s rights organization Plan International, the girl was bid on by five men, some of whom were reportedly high-ranking South Sudanese government officials. According to Plan International, the girl’s father reportedly received 500 cows, 3 cars and $10,000 in exchange for his daughter, who was married off to the winning bidder at a ceremony on 3 November in the country’s Eastern Lakes State.
“That a girl could be sold for marriage on the world’s biggest social networking site in this day and age is beyond belief.”
— George Otim, country director for Plan International South Sudan
Child marriage is prohibited by international law, although it still occurs all over the world. Marriage before the age of 18 is a fundamental violation of human rights. In Sub-Saharan Africa, where the practice is most common, 38 percent of girls will marry, formally or informally, before their 18th birthday. South Asia sees the second highest levels at 30 percent, while Latin America and the Caribbean comes in third with 25 percent and the Middle East and North Africa are in fourth with 17 percent, according to UNICEF. According to UNICEF’s November 2017 figures, 52 percent of girls in South Sudan are married before they turn 18.
Children are married off for a number of reasons, UNICEF says, including poverty, religion, perceived protection for the child and family honour. Activists are now concerned that this auction could inspire other families to use social media sites to receive larger payments.
Society & LifestyleIndrajit Roy ChoudhuryDigital, Discrimination & Exploitation, Human rights, Social media9 comments
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9 thoughts on “Shocking! A child bride auctioned off on Facebook”
Such a horrendous thing to do!
And that too openly on Facebook! This is the darkest part of social media and its worst abuse. Age-old crime is being perpetrated on a high-tech, modern social media platform.
People use technology whichever way they want to. There is something called the dark web or dark net, which is supposed to be absolutely grotesque.
Yes, and all dark things are done through dark web.
Shocking. Guess it fuels the debate of how much is the platform’s responsibility.
Yes sir. Facebook must take adequate measures to avoid their platform being used for such purpose in future.
And we have to take some active steps to educate the parents.
Thank you for posting .
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innovation - The Eiffel Tower sheds its skin
angle-left The Eiffel Tower sheds its skin
The Eiffel Tower sheds its skin
The new layer of paint could bring the original red colour back to the Eiffel Tower. Credit: Joe deSousa
Francesco Rodella | Tungsteno
The most-visited paid monument in the world is preparing for the most complex painting campaign in its history, a delicate ritual that has been carried out 19 times since Gustave Eiffel delivered the work in 1889. The civil engineer himself warned: “We will most likely never realize the full importance of painting in the conservation of metal works and the more meticulous the paint job, the longer the Tower shall endure.” Since then, the Eiffel Tower has received this special care for its skin, with one complete coat of paint every seven years on average.
With 2019 marking the 130th anniversary of its inauguration, Paris is preparing a further renovation of its appearance, although this time with several added difficulties: the previously superimposed layers of paint make the weight of the structure excessive, impede the strong adherence of a new layer and also contain a very polluting element: lead. The Eiffel Tower Exploitation Society (SETE for its French acronym), the public society responsible for its management, once again faces the challenge of keeping the monument open to the public while carrying out repainting works, but complicated by the commitment to first remove the previous layers of paint from 10% of the tower’s surface. In total these paint layers have reached three millimetres in thickness and 350 tons in weight.
Gustave Eiffel knew to construct his monument from a long-lasting material: puddled iron (wrought iron), but there is still a dangerous enemy always lurking in the background: corrosion. "Painting protects against the effects of air, water and other elements such as pollution and bird droppings," explains the architect Bertrand Lemoine, an expert on the history of the Eiffel Tower.
A complex ritual every seven years
For this reason, at least once every decade, an area of up to 2.5 million square metres of iron has to be repainted in an operation that, according to the SETE, even under normal circumstances requires "a rigorous methodology":
- First, the workers search for the most corroded areas (up to 5% of the total area of the structure).
- Next, these points are sanded and two layers of antioxidant primer are applied.
- The less damaged parts are also steam cleaned.
- The paint, whose total weight reaches 60 tons, is applied to the whole structure once these previous phases have been completed.
The painting work of the Eiffel Tower is done exclusively by hand. Credit: Alessandro Prada
There are some factors (including cold and humidity) that complicate the operation, during which time the state of the structure is carefully checked and, occasionally, parts that exhibit signs of deterioration are repaired. Constant monitoring is needed by experts in anti-corrosion paint who "are responsible for controlling the quality of work done."
Initially, the start of the maintenance works was scheduled for the autumn of 2018 and its estimated duration was three years (twice the normal). But the complexity of the operation has led to a change in plans: the entity responsible for the tower confirms that the painting work has not yet begun and that it is not expected to start before the autumn of 2019. According to SETE: "Things have evolved and the campaign has been delayed."
Lemoine believes that the delay is probably due to the need to perform different tests before being able to carry out the elimination of a portion of the superimposed coats. "Removing paint containing lead requires that the entire surrounding area be protected," he says. "At some points, chemical substances may also be necessary to eliminate the old layers," the architect adds.
In the last two decades, the selection of the materials used has been made more and more meticulously. For the 2002 campaign, those in charge of the monument changed the type of paint that had previously been used because it contained lead pigments, a contaminating material that was harmful to health. After that year, that element was replaced by zinc phosphate, which guaranteed more resistance to corrosion and less contamination. In the next maintenance campaign (in 2009, the last to date), the use of other lead-free paints was experimented with in order to achieve even greater respect for the environment.
The objective is that the repainting works do not interfere in the visits. Credit: Chris Karidis
This complex renovation also affects other architectural symbols such as the Golden Gate Bridge of San Francisco. "Some say that the bridge is painted every seven years, others that it’s done every year, from end to end. The truth is that the bridge is painted continuously," say those in charge. The tasks of skin care are part of the day-to-day life of both the Golden Gate Bridge and the Eiffel Tower. However, these operations have never interrupted the access of tourists to the Parisian icon. In 2017, its managers said that their intention was to keep the tower open to the public throughout the next painting campaign, in a year as special as the 130th birthday. For the time being we have to wait, since the SETE has confirmed that in the coming months it will communicate new details about the start date of this latest maintenance project.
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Tungsteno, a journalism laboratory for investigating the essence of innovation, devised by Materia Publicaciones Cientificas for the Sacyr blog
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