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Book Review: It's Never Game Over by Cristina G #reviews @authorcristinag
Title: IT’S NEVER GAME OVER
Author: Cristina G.
Publisher: Independent
Pages: 145 ebook/268 paperback
Genre: Nonfiction/Self-Help
It’s the end of the year but you have the impression it’s the end of your life?
Start the New Year with a plan. Don’t make a resolution, make a habit!
Whatever your situation might be now, you have the power to change it.
Depression can be overcome.
You can lose weight and find love.
You can heal and transform your life.
Believe you’re happy, and you’re half way there.
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What I found interesting as I dived into It's Never Game Over by Christina G is that this book started out as a book for writers. According to Cristina, it had started out being a short book that she was going to give out for free, but as she started writing, she discovered she couldn't get everything that needed to be said and thus, It's Never Game Over was born as a self-help book for not only writers but everyone!
The author believes that everything we do or not do is a decision and we must zone in on those time wasters so that we can get done what we need to do. Every time you complain about something, you're not taking responsibility for your life. I'm waving my hand to this one because I am terrible at this. I'd rather take it and sweep it under the rug than take responsibility and take care of whatever it is that needs my attention. The author gives this example: "The writer who sold 800,000 copies of his books didn’t procrastinate, didn’t watch the ceiling for years complaining that it’s difficult to find someone to believe in them (I’m guilty), publish and get noticed. The success doesn’t come overnight." Whoa.
And this struck home for me: "If you didn’t like it when your parents complained without doing anything to change their situation, why do you act exactly the same?"
Think about that for a minute.
It's Never Game Over is the best pick me up for anyone who feels like they just accept what life has in store for them instead of making that change. Cristina writes from the heart and finds the knowledge to explain to us that while we are human, there are ways out of every situation that is common sense but we have to be smart about it. Just don't give up. I highly recommend it and give it five book trees!
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Guest Post from Richard Monts, author of Constitutional Renaissance
Title: Constitutional Renaissance
Author: Richard Monts
Publisher: XLibrisUS
Genre: Political Science/Government
Have you had enough? When will the United States government stop growing? All constitutionally enumerated activities should have been in place long ago. There should be no more expansion in scope, yet there is. What we have now is an overbearing out-of-control central government—expanding far beyond constitutional limits—imposing on member states’ sovereignty. The result is a reduction in competition among states, a stifling business environment, and citizens and businesses suffering under complex taxation and regulations. On top of that, a litigious environment depresses economic activity further. There is an alternative! This book presents one that is very business friendly, establishes competition among the states, and provides a positive environment for the individual to strive for their potential while honoring the genius of the Constitution.
How can United States government continue to expand without accompanying change to the Constitution of the United States? During Affordable Care Act discussions, I had heard enough. I endeavored to find out for myself what United States government role is intended to be. Inquiry resulted in a book, Constitutional Renaissance.
Watching the direction, we are being taken, I have become concerned for the future of this great country. This concern has prompted me to found the Constitutional Renaissance Institute to promote discussion and thought on the Constitution and on my suggested alternative to our expanding large central United States government. I know of no other suggestion of an alternative to big central government, we seem to be resigned to the inevitability of it.
To Realize our potential there must be a positive business environment. Without wealth it is very hard to achieve potential. Part of the mission of the Institute will be promoting a mechanism that provides the best environment in the world for business. It is described in more detail in the book Constitutional Renaissance. Regulations, taxation and litigation must be reviewed and modified as indicated to have the best environment for business. This mechanism coordinates economic activities nationally without the involvement of United States government.
United States government is too complicated, too intrusive requiring too much energy to navigate. We need disciplined government that stays within its constitutional role. In short, States take care of their internal affairs and United States government takes care of external affairs. There should be very little overlap, if any. This position is based on the intent of the Constitution. It is not based on what interpretation is in vogue.
Human character has not changed since the writing of the Constitution. Therefore, the Constitution is as valid today as when it was written. It means the same thing now as when written. The Constitution is the legal datum for our country, it does not change with time--unless we change it through amendment process. If the Constitution is interpreted differently over time we will not know where we will end up. It is up to the current stewards as they come and go to be true to it. It is the duty of every generation to hand this country off intact to the next generation. As citizens strive for their potential, building on past generations, the country improves in an endless cycle. There is no need for the various parts of government to change or expand roles.
(The statement above refers to the Congress of the confederate government, but it is applicable to the Congress of the federal government of today too.)
The Institute is not aligned with any political ideology. It is the intent of the Institute to encourage application of libertarian to liberal ideas as is appropriate for the intended task. What is being proposed is to move governance, as much as possible and constitutional, from a nebulous complex central government to as-local-as-is-possible government. Competition improves the breed, this goes for government too. By removing overlaying central government from domestic governance and having the states handle their own domestic issues puts competition in play thus improving governance. This should result in the best environment for both business and for individual citizens.
This country has tremendous potential, if only big intrusive government would get out of the way so it could be realized. Three quarters of the people of this country think we are on the wrong path. The only difference between the two parties is one goes down the left side and the other the right side of the same path. It is still the wrong path. We need to think anew for solutions to an out of control United States government. We are on the wrong path. Now is the time to make corrections and return to course, a course prescribed by the Constitution.
Founding of the Constitutional Renaissance Institute is motivated by the belief that it is individual citizens realizing as much of their potential as possible that, in the aggregate, makes a great society. Government affects us all, get it right and we all do better, get it wrong and we all suffer. The key to our potential is respecting the Constitution of the United States ("...its only keepers, the people."--George Washington). We all are in this together, working together we can realize the potential that is in all of us--"We the People of the United States."
Mr. Monts has been concerned about continued expansion of the United States government since the Kennedy administration. He deferred to others, constitutional and legal experts galore, for the correct interpretation of the Constitution. He assumed they were right. During the Affordable Care Act discussions, he had heard enough. He determined to answer two questions to his own satisfaction. First, what is the role of the United States government? Second, what is the best environment for the individual to realize their own potential? After reading the Constitution and other contemporary writings, using his own common sense, putting intellectual integrity and honesty before ideology, ignoring case law, using correct meanings of critical words, he had his answers. The results are in this book.
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A Bookish Conversation with 'A Wanted Man' Robert Parker
Robert Parker is a new exciting voice, a married father of two, who lives in a village close to Manchester, UK. He has both a law degree and a degree in film and media production, and has worked in numerous employment positions, ranging from solicitor’s agent (essentially a courtroom gun for hire), to a van driver, to a warehouse order picker, to a commercial video director. He currently writes full time, while also making time to encourage new young readers and authors through readings and workshops at local schools and bookstores. In his spare time he adores pretty much all sport, boxing regularly for charity, loves fiction across all mediums, and his glass is always half full.
His latest book is the crime/thriller, A WANTED MAN.
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Title: A WANTED MAN
Author: Robert Parker
Publisher: Endeavour Press
Genre: Crime Thriller
It’s down to fathers and fatherhood.
Ben Bracken, ex-soldier, has just got out of Strangeways.
Not by the front door.
With him, he has his ‘insurance policy’ – a bag of evidence that will guarantee his freedom, provided he can keep it safe – and he has money, carefully looked after by a friend, Jack Brooker.
Rejected by the army, disowned by his father, and any hopes of parenthood long since shattered, Ben has no anchors in his life.
No one to keep him steady.
No one to stop his cause…
The plan: to wreak justice on the man who had put him in prison in the first place.
Terry ‘The Turn-Up’ Masters, a nasty piece of work, whose crime organisation is based in London.
But before Ben can get started on his mission, another matter is brought to his attention: Jack’s father has been murdered and he will not rest until the killers are found.
Suddenly, Ben finds himself drawn in to helping Jack in his quest for revenge.
In the process, he descends into the fold of Manchester’s most notorious crime organisation – the Berg – the very people he wants to bring down…
This action-packed and fast-paced story will keep you turning the pages. Manchester is vividly portrayed as Ben races around the city seeking vengeance.
What first inspired you to write or who inspired you?
Sunday afternoons watching cartoons and matinee movies with my Grandad, before I realized he had a pretty wonderful set of bookshelves hidden in the front bedroom. They were full of crime, adventures, thrillers, mysteries, you name it. Cups of tea and stories with Grandad – that’ll be where it all came from.
At what age did you know you wanted to be a writer?
Age 6, although it could possibly be earlier. I knew very definitely at that point that telling stories was what I wanted to do, and that’s just what I did, working predominantly in the ‘preposterous dinosaur fiction’ genre as I recall.
Do you take notes when reading or watching a movie?
I used to, but then I realized I was just being a bit over-zealous and wasn’t really enjoying what I was reading or watching anymore! I love books and movies so much that I didn’t want anything to get in the way of that.
Has writing always been a passion for you or did you discover it years later?
Always, without doubt. I’d make my own books as a kid, and was never ever far from a pen and a scrap of paper – something which is still the case now. I have so many notebooks, all filled with all manner of gold and garbage (mostly garbage).
Can you name three writing tips to pass on to aspiring authors?
Write from your gut, enjoy yourself, and don’t you dare give up.
Do you let unimportant things get in the way of your writing?
Sometimes I can procrastinate as though my life depended on it, other times the words overflow. I tend to hold onto some control though, but there is one thing that I can’t dictate – the behavior of my kids! Sometimes they pick the worst moments to redecorate the living room in Sharpie – that said, I would never class my kids as unimportant. They always come first.
What hours do you write best?
Entirely depends! Sometimes in the dead of night, but I’ve noticed that early to mid afternoon is sort of my prime time.
How often do you write?
As close to everyday as I can, but I’m realistic enough to know that some days it just doesn’t work out. When there’s a deadline, or I set myself a target, I don’t let anything derail that.
Are you an avid reader?
Yes, I sure am.
The Forsaken by Ace Atkins, which is the fourth Quinn Colson book. The attitude and elegance of this series mesmerizes me every time, and the characters feel like family.
Well, I’ve completed the next two books in the Ben Bracken series, and ruminating on direction of the fourth while I’m halfway through a standalone novel (as yet untitled). The standalone represents a bit of a departure for me I think, as it focusses on more of a pure mystery. Kind of letting my imagination wander with this one, and it feels good!
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Title: NAVY SEAL PROMISE
Author: Amber Leigh Williams
Publisher: Harlequin Superromance
He made a promise he intends to keep.
Harmony Savitt is off-limits for navy SEAL Kyle Bracken. Not only is she his best friend's little sister, she's also a single mother and the widow of a fellow SEAL killed in action. This soldier needs to keep his distance. But something between them has changed…
Despite the new complicated feelings he has for Harmony, when his family comes under attack, there's no one Kyle trusts more than her to help him get answers. When that threat extends to her and her daughter, though, he vows to protect them…even if it means putting his own heart on the line.
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Kyle swung the door open. "Inside."
"No kiss this time?" Harmony asked, testing him. Her chin was high.
"That's right." He spoke quietly enough that it didn't carry into the lobby when he said, "You want to know something I'm afraid of?"
"What've you got, superhero?"
"That whatever's happened between us tonight wiped out everything that came before it. Is that what you want?" he asked.
"Are you kidding me?" For the first time, he saw the nerves behind her brave front. Her chin quavered even as she jabbed him with her finger. "Why do you think I didn't say anything before? You think I want to lose my best friend?"
He didn't reply.
She lifted her shoulders in a helpless shrug. "But I guess...at the end of the day...I'm not half as noble as you are."
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Amber Leigh Williams is a romance writer who lives on the US Gulf Coast. She lives for beach days, the smell of real books and spending time with her husband and their two young children. When she’s not keeping up with rambunctious little ones (and two large dogs), she can usually be found reading a good book or indulging her inner foodie. Amber is represented by the D4EO Literary Agency.
Interview with Owen Sypher, author of The Song of Solomon
Owen L. Sypher is a devoted servant of the Lord. At eleven years old, he started a spiritual journey to discover and understand God and his word.
In 1979, he received the baptism of the Holy Ghost. Since then, he has had fellowships with the same group. Song of Solomon is his first book.
You can visit his website at http://www.sypherbooks.com.
What’s inside the mind of a Bible book author?
My mind is full of a love of the word of God. I like to meditate and think about God’s word most of the day. I like to try and see how does the word of God work in my life.
What is so great about being an author?
People is impressed when you say you are an author, that is nice but the greatest thing is knowing that what I wrote can potentially help a lot of people get a closer walk with the Lord.
When do you hate it?
When I am tired and have writer’s block, and when I have a self imposed deadline or goal to reach.
What is a regular writing day like for you?
When I am thinking about a verse, I take the verse and just think about that one verse or setting from morning to night, sometimes for a few days and just let the Lord stir up scriptures. I try to always have a pen and paper with me so that when an idea comes I can write it down even if I discard the idea later. If I don’t write it down I tend to forget the idea. Then I transfer it to my rough draft that I am doing which I go over several times later on in the process.
How do you handle negative reviews?
I realize not everyone is going to like my books, I look at the star rating and read what they have to say about it. I try to see if there is anything positive said about my book and dwell on that. The negative part I try to use to see if I could have improve my book anyway, or my writing style so when I write another book it will be better.
How do you handle positive reviews?
I get real excited about positive reviews, they are like a pat on the back for a job well done.
What is the usual response when you tell a new acquaintance that you’re an author?
First response is usually surprise, you wrote a book? And then it gives me an opportunity to discuss my book with them, and to explain the wonderful things that are found in the word of God.
What do you do on those days you don’t feel like writing? Do you force it or take a break?
I usually take a break from writing, sometimes I waste my time playing a game on the computer. I had to force myself to write at the end because I had my own deadline of when I wanted the book done and published by, but this was in the finishing process.
What would you do if people around you didn’t take your writing seriously or see it as a hobby?
It is ok if they don’t take it seriously; I had to do it because it is what I felt like God wanted me to do. I did not get much encouragement or discouragement while writing my book people were just neutral on it until after it was written.
Some authors seem to have a love-hate relationship to writing. Can you relate?
Yes I can the most beautiful thing about writing this book is that I feel like I have imparted some words of wisdom to this world that will help people.
The worst part about writing is that it can be very time consuming especially if you have a full time job also.
Do you think success as an author must be linked to money?
No the true success is if you impart something of value into your readers lives to where they can improve or have a better life. Money is just a small part of the equation.
What has writing taught you?
The most important thing it has taught me is that I can start a long term project and finish it. This is important to me on a personal level; I grew out of writing this book.
It also taught me that I do have knowledge that I can pass on to future generations in the form of this book. Also that people wanted to hear what I had to say.
Leave us with some words of wisdom.
That is a tall order to leave words of wisdom, but I will try.
Write about things you are passionate about, and describe it in your own way. Speak from the heart. Do your homework so you can be more detailed about what you are writing about.
Enjoy the process it will have it’s ups and downs but stay focus on your goal of finishing.
I have enjoyed writing this book.
Title: THE SONG OF SOLOMON REVEALED
Author: Owen Sypher
Publisher: Litfire Publishing, LLC
Genre: Religion/Bible Studies
The book of Song of Solomon is a spiritual book full of allegories or pictures where God used the natural to show the spiritual. By using the keys of understanding found in the Bible the author has unlock the hidden meaning of the book of Song of Solomon.
The book of Song of Solomon is about the love that Jesus has for his bride. When looked at from this angle a lot of the verses makes more sense.
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Book Feature: Home Coming by Charles Lansford and Irene Nickerson
Title: Home Coming
Author: Charles Lansford and Irene Nickerson
Genre: Coming of Age
Homecoming is that surreal feeling that a soldier has when he has returned home. For our heroes, each is facing new challenges, hopes, and fears. Ti is worried about what the shape-shifter major told him. He wonders what other secrets might be hiding in the shadows and what dangers they might hold for his family. Beary and Crew have returned home to build a new warship to face the growing threat to the Bearilian Federation. It is one that is pointed directly at his family like a dagger to his throat. Angelina and Octavious have discovered that old enemies have joined in the vendetta against their family. Old secrets may surface. Old threats may appear. All the pieces are now in place. It has been a month since everyone has returned.
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Book Feature: A Tangled Web by Mike Martin
Title: A TANGLED WEB
Author: Mike Martin
Publisher: Booklocker
Genre: Mystery
Life is good for Sgt. Windflower in Grand Bank, Newfoundland. But something’s missing from the Mountie’s life. Actually, a lot of things go missing, including a little girl and supplies from the new factory. It’s Windflower’s job to unravel the tangled web of murder, deceit and an accidental kidnapping that threatens to engulf this sleepy little town and destroy those closest to him. But there’s always good food, good friends and the love of a great woman to make everything better in the end.
“Life doesn’t get much better than this,” said Winston Windflower. The Mountie looked over at his collie, Lady, who wagged her tail at the sound of his voice. If dogs could smile, she smiled back. His world was almost perfect. He had the love of a great woman and a good job as a Sergeant in the Royal Canadian Mounted Police patrolling one of the lowest crime regions in the country. Plus, the weather had been mild so far, at least for Newfoundland in early December, and that meant no snowstorms with forced overnighters at the detachment. Life was very good indeed.
He had good friends, including Lady, who was amongst the best of them. And he had a child on the way. His wife, Sheila Hillier, was pregnant and at the clinic for her three-month checkup. He was waiting to hear how both Sheila and the baby were doing. His Auntie Marie had told him the baby was a girl, and if anyone knew about these things, it was his Auntie. She was a dream weaver, an interpreter of not just dreams but of messages from the spirit world. Windflower had recently spent a week with her and his Uncle Frank, another dream weaver, to learn more about the dream world.
Interpreting dreams was part of his family’s tradition. But it was an imperfect tool that gave information, not always answers. Perhaps the most important thing he learned was that dreams do not predict the future. Instead, as his Auntie told him, “Dreams tell us about our past, what has already happened. They also point to actions we should take if we want to get the right result in the future and to the signs all around us that we need to follow.”
Windflower was contemplating that piece of wisdom when he noticed a very distraught woman get out of her car outside the RCMP detachment in Grand Bank. She ran towards the front door. He walked out to meet her, but the administrative assistant, Betsy Molloy, beat him to it.
“There, there now, Molly. What’s goin’ on?” asked Betsy as she put her arms around the other woman and guided her to a seat in the reception area.
“It’s Sarah, she’s gone,” said the other woman between sobs. “I told her to stay close by the house where I could see her. I went out back to put the wash on the line. When I came in, she was gone.”
“Okay, Mrs. Quinlan,” said Windflower as he knelt down beside the two women. “How old is Sarah?” He didn’t really need to know how old the girl was. He wanted to help the mother calm down so she could give them as much information as possible.
“She’s going to be six next month,” said Molly Quinlan. “She’s growing up so fast. But she’s still such a little girl. And now I’ve lost her. Brent is going to kill me.” She started sobbing again.
“What was she wearing so that we can help find her?” asked Windflower, trying to get information but also trying to help Molly Quinlan feel useful.
The woman stopped crying and said her daughter was wearing jeans and a favourite t-shirt. “It was pink and had sparkles. She said it made her feel like she was a princess. And she had her light blue jacket on with a hood.”
Windflower smiled. “I’m sure she’ll show up soon. But let’s go over to where you last saw her, and we’ll start looking. She can’t have gone far. Leave your car here, and come with me. I’ll drive you over.” The woman smiled weakly at Windflower through her tears and allowed him to take her arm and guide her to his Jeep outside the door.
He returned inside to give directions to Betsy. “Get Constable Smithson in here. I’ll call Frost and get him to come in from his rounds.”
Betsy nodded her agreement, and Windflower went outside to drive Molly Quinlan home.
Meanwhile, it turns out, Sarah Quinlan was fine, perfectly fine. She had wandered a little way from home in the centre of town. She was going to go down to the nearby brook to feed the ducks. She knew better than to go into the water, but she couldn’t see any reason why she couldn’t just look. She’d done it before, and nobody seemed to mind. As long as she didn’t stay away too long, everything was okay.
Sarah had that great fearless attitude of a child who grew up in a small and very safe community. She knew most of her neighbours, and they all watched out for her. She also had the natural curiosity of little children, especially when she saw something new. The truck parked on the roadway above the brook was new, so Sarah went to take a closer look. Even better, the back door of the truck was open, and there was a ramp leading inside. This was certainly worth a closer inspection.
Sarah Quinlan was having fun exploring the back of the large truck when she heard a loud, rumbling noise. She didn’t know it, but the driver had started the engine. It was so loud, and Sarah was so frightened by it, she froze. The next thing she remembered was everything going almost completely black and the back door of the truck slamming shut. She cried out, but by then it was too late. Seconds later she, the truck and the unsuspecting driver were barrelling out of town and onto the highway.
Windflower drove Molly Quinlan to her house and got her to show him where Sarah had been playing. Together they walked through the house to see if the little girl had come home and hidden there. But no such luck. While they were searching the house, they were joined by two of Quinlan’s neighbours who took over Molly’s care and made her a cup of tea. Soon afterwards Constable Harry Frost arrived from his highway patrol.
Windflower gave him a quick update and directed him to go to one end of town to start the search. He would begin the house-to-house search through the neighbourhood when Smithson showed up.
He first checked out back and looked in the storage shed, a favourite hiding place of every little kid and probably where Windflower himself would have taken refuge. But Sarah was not there. As he went to the front of the house, Constable Rick Smithson showed up.
“Afternoon, Boss,” said Smithson. “Any sign of her yet?”
Windflower shook his head. “Frost is doing the big circle search. You and I will start the door-to-door. Ask them if they saw the girl this afternoon. I’ll start from here. You go down to the brook, and work your way up.”
Smithson returned to his cruiser and sped off. Windflower wasn’t worried. Yet. But he knew that the first few hours were crucial in finding a missing child. If they didn’t, then it was almost always something more serious. Not time to panic, but no time to waste. He walked up to the first door and knocked.
Mike Martin was born in Newfoundland on the East Coast of Canada and now lives and works in Ottawa, Ontario. He is a longtime freelance writer and his articles and essays have appeared in newspapers, magazines and online across Canada as well as in the United States and New Zealand.
He is the author of Change the Things You Can: Dealing with Difficult People and has written a number of short stories that have published in various publications including Canadian Stories and Downhome magazine.
The Walker on the Cape was his first full fiction book and the premiere of the Sgt. Windflower Mystery Series. Other books in the series include The Body on the T, Beneath the Surface, A Twist of Fortune and A Long Ways from Home.
A Long Ways from Home was shortlisted for the 2017 Bony Blithe Light Mystery Award as the best light mystery of the year. A Tangled Web is the newest book in the series.
Lottie Loves Book Blast!
Title: LOTTIE LOVES
Author: Samie Sands
Publisher: Limitless Publishing
“Will you marry me?”
Four words I’ve waited my whole life to hear. Four words which I was sure would change my life forever, and it did. Just not in the way I thought it would.
Finding out that my extremely gorgeous rock star boyfriend was about to propose, had the complete opposite effect I thought it would. Rather than catapult me into a future I’ve always wanted, it plunged me all the way back to a past I tried to forget.
Now I can’t get him out of my head. I can’t help but wonder what could have been, how our lives would have ended up if he didn’t leave me behind a shattered mess.
All these memories of the past are dangerous. It’s bringing my past back to ruin my future. And worst of all, it’s taking me right back to him, my childhood sweetheart, my first love…my biggest regret.
"Will you marry me?"
It was the words that I'd wanted to hear my entire life. Didn't every girl fantasise over the perfect man going to buy the perfect ring and getting down on one knee in the most romantic way possible, before telling them that they loved them so much, they wanted to spend the rest of their life with them?
I knew that I certainly had.
Me and my best friend Cici used to talk about it all the time. We used to plan our dresses, the music, the flowers—every part of the ceremony down to the very last detail. Of course, the man didn't really matter. We were young enough and naive enough to believe that we would magically meet the perfect man without even trying.
And I really thought that I had. I really, truly believed that my dream had come true.
Me and Danny had begun our love story in a very typical fashion—our eyes had met across a bar, where we'd had long, lingering eye contact, sparking all kinds of emotions within me. The only difference between my story, and that of every other rom-com ever, was that Danny was a genuine up-and-coming rock star, playing on a fairly big stage, and I was a fan who already felt a lot of love for this man. I'd been admiring him from afar ever since I first heard their album a year or so before.
I certainly hadn't expected it to ever go any further than that moment, so when he came and joined me at the bar later on for a drink, despite being mobbed by other members of the audience, I felt like my entire life had been leading me up to that moment. I felt like everything that I'd experienced was all drawing me closer to Danny, the love of my life. Here was a gorgeous man who was destined to be famous, and who could have any girl in the world hanging off of his arm, talking to me, asking me questions, and actually showing me interest.
It seemed like a dream—one that I was terrified to wake up from.
As he flicked his messy auburn hair from his warm, chocolaty eyes and he gave me that smile that had already melted the hearts of the nation, I thought for a dreaded, wonderful second that he was going to kiss me in front of all of those people. But after a few beats of pure terror, he didn't. Instead he handed me his phone number, and he asked if I would like to go on a date with him.
Me—boring old Charlotte (Lottie) Jones—on a date with Danny Boreom, bassist of the (now very) famous band Jax. It didn't seem real.
Yet, it was real, and it did happen.
It was the start of my real life.
After a night out on the town where he well and truly wined and dined me, he walked me home to my tiny flat which must have looked ridiculous compared to the mansion that I now know he lived in with the rest of the band at the time, and he finally kissed me. As his lips met mine, I felt myself flying on top of the world—he was an amazing kisser, and there seemed to be an endless chemistry between us. One that I never wanted to end.
Breathless and turned on by the power of his mouth, I invited him inside. Although he coolly and calmly turned me down, it was still the best night of my entire life, made even better by a phone call the next day to say that he only didn't come inside with me because he wanted to be something real. He didn't want our love to end at a one-night stand, he actually wanted us to develop and for him to become my boyfriend.
Fast forward three and a half years and we were blissfully living together, grazing by every day happily and easily. Although he was away for a lot of the year touring, it didn't seem to bother us. We were so strong and so solid with what we had, that nothing would get in our way.
It was perfect, still a dream come true and that intense chemistry hadn't burned down one bit.
Which made it even weirder that my reaction to Cici telling me that Baz—another member of the band—had just told her that he'd been engagement ring shopping with Danny, wasn't one of pure joy.
"What...what do you mean?" I asked, my heart racing frantically in my chest. I could tell that my voice was breathless and kind of terrified, but my mind was spinning too fast for me to be able to do anything about it.
"Aren't you happy?" She giggled, "I thought that you'd be over the moon to finally be Mrs. Boreom."
"No, no, I am," I half lied. The idea had always been at the edge of my thoughts. I knew that Danny was the one for me, and despite all the car crash relationships around us, we'd even managed to survive the fallout of him becoming mega famous. It helped that I had no interest in the spotlight and that I did everything I could to avoid it, but even despite all of that, I felt like it proved that we could go the distance, and be together forever. So why wasn't I excited for us to take the next step? "It's just a bit of a shock, that's all."
But that was normal, right? Everyone freaked out at first when they learned that they were going to become someone's wife...didn't they?
Of course, I already knew that wasn't true. I'd already been proposed to once in my life before, and that time, I didn't hesitate one bit. Panic didn't even come into the equation, I was happy, over the moon at the thought of becoming his wife. This was nothing like that had been. I felt completely different.
For the first time in a very long time, I allowed myself to think about Joe again, and almost the second that I allowed that vault to open in my mind, I felt myself fall into a tailspin. As his face filled my brain once more, it was almost as if the last five years hadn't happened at all, and that I was still his proud girlfriend, waiting to be his wife.
As the wound reopened, I could barely hear what Cici was saying to me. I felt like I was gaping, exposed, and extremely vulnerable all over again, and I did what I'd always done when I was younger, when things got too difficult for me. I started to talk to Joe in my mind.
What became of you?
What happened to your life?
It was so strange to have gone from the closest people in the world, to absolutely nothing, and I struggled to imagine that he'd changed one bit. Of course I had, my life was completely different, but I couldn't think of Joe without viewing him as the other half of me. The boy that I'd adored, and the one that I never thought would leave my side.
"I...I've got to go," I finally announced to my friend. "I'll speak to you later, okay?" And then I hung up the phone, without even waiting for her to answer. I knew that I was being rude, acting more than a little strange, but I needed some time. I needed to be alone with my thoughts to try and process all of this.
So quite how I found myself sitting at my computer with my fingers running along the keys, I wasn't quite sure.
Don't press anything, I willed myself. As soon as you do, everything will change.
Since we had gone our separate ways, I hadn't contacted Joe once, and with the uprising of social media I hadn't looked him up either. I just couldn't face it. He was like an imaginary fantasy in my mind now, and I wasn't sure that I wanted to ruin that with reality. What if he was married now? Or into drugs or something? His life could have gone in any direction, and I wasn't sure that I really wanted to find out which one.
Plus, my life really was amazing now. Why would I want to even consider risking that? I had a gorgeous, passionate man who actually wanted to be with me forever, even though he was about ten leagues above me, I had a teaching job that I loved, and friends that would do anything for me. That was a hell of a lot more than most people had!
In the end I forced myself to stand up and to move away from the computer screen before it lured me in. I couldn't do it; I just wasn't willing to take that step into the unknown. It terrified me far too much. But as I wandered aimlessly from room to room, I realised that I couldn't just do nothing either. I needed to calm this beast within me, which meant delving into my past whether I liked it or not.
I stood at the bottom of the attic ladder, wondering what awaited me up there. When me and Danny decided to buy a place together—well, he put the most money in of course, but we still classed it as 'ours'—I shoved everything related to my old life away, not wanting to even consider it. But it was always a comfort, knowing that it was there, knowing that I could access it at any moment if I really wanted to.
And I could feel myself finally taking that step.
I creaked up the ladder, feeling my heart thump and my palms sweat with nerves. This was a mistake, I knew it was, but at the same time I couldn't stop.
There would be no way for me to get married without taking this step anyway. Right now, things were comfortable, but if I was ever going to have a future with Danny, I needed to consult my past first. At least, that was my excuse and I was sticking to it.
Danny knew about Joe anyway. Well, he'd been told some of it, the very basics, so I supposed that I was probably going to have to confess all before we finally took the plunge. With that thought in mind, I tore open the first box I stumbled across, and I ended up looking at the few photographs that I had of me and Joe when we were very young, when we very first met...
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1990s, 2000s, Dance Music, Electronic, Funk, Hip-Hop, House, Jazz, Latin, Soul
Then & Now: Roxy Blu
Click through the photo gallery for many more moments and memories from Roxy Blu.
The original Then & Now: Roxy Blu article was published September 21, 2011 by The GridTO.com. That story launched Then & Now: Toronto Nightlife History, originally envisioned as a series of brief articles devoted to defunct but influential Toronto music venues. As Then & Now’s popularity and reach expanded, it became increasingly important to include more voices in each story. As a result, the earliest stories for The Grid were entirely rewritten for Then & Now in book format. This expanded history of Roxy Blu was written in March 2015, and was exclusively available in the Then & Now book until this time.
Roxy Blu was home to the soulful side of Toronto’s dance-music underground, and with its four rooms, welcoming atmosphere, and loyal community of followers, Roxy fostered and supported a culture where parties and promoters could create without compromise.
Club: Roxy Blu, 12 Brant
Years in operation: 1998 – 2005
History: Although it would come to be known as a community-minded hotbed for soulful house and other underground sounds, Roxy Blu was decidedly different than any other club projects owner Amar Singh had ever touched.
In the early to mid-’90s, he and Bill Kourbetis worked together as B&A, promoting events at ritzy, popular nightclubs like Stilife, Skorpio, Orchid, and Exit II Eden. They parted as co- promoters when Singh opened a club called Bauhaus at 31 Mercer. Known for its see-and- be-seen Martini Mondays, well-dressed crowds, and sleek design, Bauhaus was successful, but Singh walked away six months after opening.
“I just wasn’t there mentally,” he says; “I knew I wanted to be in the industry, but I had to make some changes. I sold my shares for pennies on the dollar.”
Singh took another approach for his next venue.
“I didn’t want to do what I did with Bauhaus, which was spend so much on renovations. The clubs that I used to go to, that I really, really loved, were not the club I created in Bauhaus. The club I created was the kind I used to promote—the Orchids and so on, all pretty and nice. To this day, the clubs I loved going to the most were Tazmanian Ballroom—anything Johnny K really; he was my mentor—and of course Twilight Zone, as well as Le Tube. Those are the places, along with some spots in New York, that really inspired me in my next venture, which became Roxy Blu.”
1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, 2010s, Dance Music, Disco, Electro, Funk, Hip-Hop, House, New Wave, Post-punk, Rave, Soul, Techno, Toronto Rave
THEN & NOW: Book July 15. Launch July 23.
Then & Now book cover. Design by Noel Dix.
Then and Now: Toronto Nightlife History
By Denise Benson. Foreword by Stuart Berman.
Published by Three O’Clock Press. Publication Date: July 15, 2015
562 pages, with four sections of colour photos.
More info and to pre-order: http://threeoclockpress.com/titles/then-and-now
The history of Toronto’s nightlife reveals its pulse.
From award-winning veteran music journalist and DJ Denise Benson comes Then & Now: Toronto Nightlife History, a fascinating, intimate look at four decades of social spaces, dance clubs, and live music venues. Through interviews, research, and enthusiastic feedback from the party people who were there, Benson delves deep behind the scenes to reveal the histories of 48 influential nightlife spaces, and the story of a city that has grown alongside its sounds.
“Contrary to conventional wisdom, Toronto has known how to party for a while. Then & Now tells a heretofore untold social history of Toronto, including the clubs where often-marginalized people found both community and liberation deep into the night. This book is an essential chapter of Toronto’s recent history.” ̶ Shawn Micallef, Author and Spacing Co-owner
“The early days of punk and new wave at The Edge; clubs like Voodoo and Twilight Zone where you could be normal being weird; playing Depeche Mode and New Order at Focus and Club Z; dancing to The Specials at Nuts and Bolts and Fad Gadget at Domino Klub; playing The Happy Mondays at Empire … Legendary Toronto club culture and memories brilliantly captured and stamped in time.” ̶ Scot Turner, Producer/Host CFNY 102.1, Program Director Energy 108
“Denise Benson’s Then & Now … shines a deserved light on the many young, often disenfranchised, DJs, promoters, and business owners who created scenes from nothing, providing safe and exciting spaces for alternative communities and culture to flourish. Denise gets it so right because she was there herself, is still there. Good thing, since reading her chronicles makes me want to dance!” ̶ Liisa Ladouceur, author Encyclopedia Gothica
“Denise … ambassadors all good things in the Toronto music scene. The work she’s accomplished documenting pivotal moments in club history is nothing short of amazing. She is a proven archivist and we are lucky to have someone with this level of passion in our ever-growing and evolving scene.” ̶ Nitin Kalyan aka DJ/producer Nitin, co-founder of No.19 Music
Then & Now launch party poster design by Noel Dix
Please join us in celebrating the release of Then & Now: Toronto Nightlife History!
Denise Benson in conversation with Stuart Berman (8:30-9:30)
followed by DJs spinning through sounds, genres and decades from 10pm ’til late.
MARK ‘SHUGGY’ OLIVER
PAUL E. LOPES & MIKE TULL
JAMES ST. BASS
DJ BARBI
and DEKO-ZE
Then & Now will be for sale at a special launch price and Denise will be signing books.
About the launch party:
There will be a cash bar and a full dinner menu available to launch guests.
The main floor of NEST is physically accessible. We regret that there will not be ASL interpretation provided.
Please contact: publicity@threeoclockpress.com with any accessibility queries or concerns.
This is a FREE event.
1990s, 2000s, 2010s, Dance Music, Drum 'n' Bass, Electronic, Hip-Hop, House, Live Music, Pop, Rock, Techno, Toronto Rave
Then & Now: The Guvernment complex
All photos in the gallery by Tobias Wang of Visualbass Photography.
After almost two decades of hosting the world’s biggest DJs, alongside some of Toronto’s finest, Canada’s largest nightclub recently closed doors to make way for condo development on the waterfront. With the participation of some of The Guv’s key players, Then & Now delves deep to tell the exhaustive story of a club that mirrors – and contributed greatly to – electronic music’s evolution. Rave on.
Club: The Guvernment complex, 132 Queens Quay East
History: Charles Khabouth has been mentioned throughout the Then & Now series as his influence in Toronto nightlife is widely felt. Khabouth’s earliest nightclubs, Club Z on St. Joseph and Stilife on Richmond, were pioneering in very different ways. Early in 1996, he began work on a wildly ambitious project, one so successful that it would both cement Toronto’s reputation as an international clubbing destination, and anchor Khabouth’s ever-expanding business empire. But things could have turned out very differently.
In the mid ‘90s, the stretch of our waterfront near Queens Quay and Jarvis was still fairly isolated and industrial. A stone’s throw from Lake Shore Boulevard, it held factories, parking lots and stretches of open space. Condos did not dominate the landscape.
The 60,000 square foot space at 132 Queens Quay East had housed large clubs in its recent past. From 1984 to late 1985, it had been home to the Assoon brothers’ innovative Fresh Restaurant and Nightclub. For the next decade, it was the location of popular club RPM and its sister concert space, the Warehouse.
When Khabouth took over the building on January 1, 1996 he couldn’t have known that he had almost eight months of renovating ahead. But he did know that he had to compete with Toronto’s then-booming, highly concentrated Entertainment District.
“I thought, ‘How am I going to compete with 50 nightclubs side-by-side downtown?’ Khabouth tells me during an expansive interview. “Kids would go to the one area and bop around all night long. I realized I had to do a multi-room venue or I had no hope in hell. That’s why I created five venues under one roof, plus the Warehouse, which really was a warehouse.” Continue Reading…
1990s, 2000s, All-ages, Alternative, Electronic, Funk, Goth, Hip-Hop, House, Indie Rock, Industrial, Live Music, Metal, Punk, Rave, Rock, Singer-songwriter
Then & Now: The Big Bop, part 2
Poster wall of memories. Photo by Lucy Van Nie.
In the second half of the 1990s, the iconic purple building on the southeast corner of Queen and Bathurst underwent a transformation from dance club to all-ages live music hub. What now houses a modern furniture and décor store was once home to punk, metal, hip-hop, Darkrave, and a whole bunch of proud music misfits.
Club: The Big Bop, 651 Queen W.
History: Often, we must look back in order to move forward. That’s certainly the case with this story. When last we delved into the history of The Big Bop, it was during its period as a dance club owned by the Ballinger brothers.
Interviewees for that story were hazy, at best, about the closing of the Ballinger’s Bop. It was clear that the venue had suffered financial hardships from 1994, when it went into receivership, but concrete details about its eventual end – let alone its evolution as a club space – were scant.
As it turns out, the original Big Bop continued to operate until 1996 under the management of Peter Ballinger.
“Peter was the least seen and the least involved until the Ballingers bought Webster Hall, and the other three brothers – Lonnie, Steve and Doug – were in New York,” recalls Trevor Mais who, as DJ Tex, rocked crowds in the building through three different club incarnations.
Mais was an employee at the original Big Bop from 1989, working as busboy, bar back, lighting tech and, from 1993, DJ. While he also did lights at Go-Go and played at clubs including Boom Boom Room, The Phoenix, Joker, and Beat Junkie as DJ Tex, Mais had especially deep ties to Big Bop. He tells me that the club truly struggled from 1995. Various attempts at revival failed.
In spring of 1996, the building at 651 Queen West opened as Freedom: The Nightclub.
1980s, 1990s, Alternative, Dance Music, Disco, Funk, New Wave, Rock, Soul
Click through the photo gallery to see more scenes from inside the Big Bop.
Article originally published April 29, 2014 by The Grid online (thegridto.com).
In the mid-1980s, the Queen-and-Bathurst area was a wasteland—until this multi-floor/multi-genre dance-club rocked the corner to life, and shifted the future course of Toronto nightlife in the process.
Club: The Big Bop, 651 Queen St. W.
Years in operation: 1986-1996
History: The heritage building on the southeast corner of Queen West and Bathurst has long been a prominent marker in Toronto’s collective consciousness. Originally known as The Occidental Building, it was built in 1876 for the Toronto Masons, and was the work of Toronto-born architect E. J. Lennox who also designed Old City Hall, Casa Loma, and more than 70 other buildings in this city.
The south-east corner of Queen and Bathurst, circa 1928.
In 1948, the upper part of 651 Queen St. W. was demolished and the address opened as the Holiday Tavern. The Holiday was a dinner club, complete with stage shows, including jazz and R&B bands. Later, the Tavern would become known as a beer hall and strip club. An attempt to revive it as a live-music venue was made in the ’80s, with bands like The Shuffle Demons holding down residencies.
It was also during this period, specifically in 1984, that the largely white building underwent a neon, new-wave makeover by Toronto artist Bart Schoales, who was commissioned to create both interior and exterior murals.
1990s, Breaks, Disco, Downtempo, Drum 'n' Bass, Dub, Electronic, Funk, Hip-Hop, House, Live Music, Rave, Reggae, Rock, Techno
Then & Now: We’ave
We’ave wall mural. Photo by Merri Schwartz, courtesy of Dan Snaith.
Article originally published December 20, 2013 by The Grid online (thegridto.com).
In the late 1990s, this quirky three-storey Dundas West venue provided a homebase for emergent female DJs and was a hotbed for techno, drum ‘n’ bass and all kinds of experimentation. It also helped launch the careers of Caribou, Peaches, and future Azari & III member Christian Newhook.
Club: We’ave, 330 Dundas St. W.
Years in operation: 1997–2000
History: There is a row of heritage properties along Dundas West, between McCaul and Beverley Streets and directly opposite the Art Gallery of Ontario, that tend to catch the eye. Built in the late 19th century as homes, the properties at 312–356 Dundas West gained heritage status in 1973, and now host a mix of galleries, cafés, and other businesses.
The building at number 330 stands out for its shape, colour, and newness. An infill property that sits snugly between number 326 (the Howard Bryant House) and 334 (the Richard Chadd House), 330 is the relatively modern two-and-a-half-storey commercial building that replaced one of the original detached houses. It’s a quirky build, but not entirely out of place with OCAD University right around the corner.
The address opened as We’ave, an arts and music complex, in March of 1997. Its original general manager, Sherri Ranger, had envisioned the venue as an artists’ co-op.
“We’ave stood for ‘We Have,’ which was Sherri’s concept,” explains musician and DJ Barbi Castelvi, hired in April ’97 as its live-music booker and publicist.
“They were having some parties, but there was no liquor licence or restaurant yet,” Castelvi explains in an email interview. “It was literally a drop-in artist co-op. [Experimental jazz ensemble] GUH already had a residency; they were Sherri’s friends. There were also artist workshops, curated by Sherri.”
1980s, 1990s, Alternative, Electronic, House, Industrial, Rave, Rock
Then & Now: Empire Dancebar
The Empire crew is decked out and ready to dig Psychedelic Wednesdays. Photo courtesy of Michelle Fabry.
Article originally published October 8, 2013 by The Grid online (thegridto.com).
This edition of Denise Benson’s Toronto-nightlife history series tells the story of how a local gay-community landmark was reborn in the late ’80s as a cutting-edge alternative club where you could dance to acid-rock and acid-house alike.
Club: Empire Dancebar, 488A Yonge
History: In a city where history is so often obliterated or obscured to make way for the new, there’s something comforting about the old clock tower still found atop 484-488 Yonge. It was built in 1870, as part of the original Toronto Fire Hall No. 3, which remained at the address until its move around the corner, to Grosvenor Street, in 1929.
After the hall closed on Yonge, that building was occupied by retail businesses until the St. Charles Tavern took root in 1951. By the early 1960s, the St. Charles was known to be a gay bar. It, along with the nearby Parkside Tavern, became a significant gathering spot that would help hasten the development of queer social life anchored around Yonge during the 1970s. The St. Charles, while also remembered as the focus of homophobic attacks (especially at Halloween), remains one of this city’s best-known gay bars of all time. A number of discos opened above it over the years, with the most popular being The Maygay and Charly’s. A club called Y-Not also operated upstairs in the mid 1980s. By 1987, following years of neglect, the St. Charles was a shadow of its former self and closed.
A year later, the upper level would re-open as Empire Dancebar, a versatile venue dreamed up by friends Dave Craig and Michael Marier. As a teen, Craig had been an MC and DJ in TKO Sound Crew, a popular group that was eventually inducted into the Stylus Awards Hall of Fame in 2008. Craig left TKO to join a new crew, Romantic Sounds, which was started by Marier. Together, they produced events including The House, a weekly underground jam held at the Party Centre at Church and Shuter. As their crowds increased each week, so too did the building manager’s rent demands.
“Eventually Mike’s dad, Bob, suggested that we should get our own space, and he funded the creation of Empire with a quarter-of-a-million dollar investment,” says Craig.
1980s, 1990s, Dance Music, Disco, Electro, Gay, House, New Wave, Pop
Then & Now: Boots
The Boots dancefloor during a 1990s Pride weekend event. Photo courtesy of Casey McNeill.
Article originally published September 17, 2013 by The Grid online (thegridto.com).
One of the largest and longest-lasting gay dance clubs in Toronto, this Sherbourne Street super-club went through a number of evolutions as it spurred the local mainstreaming of gay culture during the ’80s and ’90s.
Club: Boots/Boots Warehouse, 592 Sherbourne St.
History: The story of Boots, one of Toronto’s best-known and longest-lasting gay dance clubs, begins in 1980 at the Waldorf Astoria apartment building. The basement of what was once a hotel at 80 Charles St. E. was rented to a group of men; their first incarnation of Boots proved popular enough that there were noise complaints. The lease was not renewed.
The original Boots on Charles Street. Photo by Joan Anderson,
courtesy of the Canadian Lesbian & Gay Archives.
By late summer of 1981, Boots re-opened in another lower-level location, this time at 592 Sherbourne St., site of the historic Selby Hotel. Once a grand mansion, the building was constructed in the late-1800s, and was home for more than 20 years to members of the wealthy Gooderham family. In 1910, a large addition built on the rear of the mansion opened as Branksome Hall, a private school for girls.
1980s, 1990s, 2000s, African, Blues, Dub, Funk, Hip-Hop, Jazz, Latin, Live Music, Reggae, Ska, Soul
Then & Now: BamBoo
Take a tour of the BamBoo through the gallery above. All photos noted as courtesy of Patti Habib are copyright the Estate of Richard O’Brien and the BamBoo.
Article originally published July 16, 2013 by The Grid online (thegridto.com).
Denise Benson revisits the legendary restaurant and club that served as an island oasis amid a rapidly transforming Queen West strip.
Club: BamBoo, 312 Queen St. W.
History: Like the best of clubs, Toronto’s BamBoo was produced out of friendships, late-night revelry, and the desire to create a unique experience for a core community. The path that co-owners Richard O’Brien and Patti Habib took to get there was filled with fateful turns.
Both were in media and loved the nightlife: O’Brien had been a freelance journalist and live-music booker in California before returning to Toronto where he worked for TVOntario and later CBC, while Habib was a story producer for CBC Radio’s As It Happens. In the late 1970s, O’Brien, also known to friends as Ricci Moderne, partnered with infamous bon vivant Marcus O’Hara to produce annual St. Patrick’s Day parties, dubbed the Martian Awareness Ball (2013 marked its 35th anniversary), with Habib joining them a few years in.
Not long after, the trio—along with a group of friends that also included Dan Aykroyd, publicist Joanne Smale, John Ball, and Roots co-founder Michael Budman—put together an extensive business proposal to re-open The Embassy Tavern, a 1960s Yorkville bar and live-music venue. The plans did not come to fruition. Instead, in 1980, O’Brien and Habib launched the MBC boozecan in what had been her third-floor loft at the corner of Liberty and Jefferson.
“I had to move out,” laughs Habib during a lengthy phone chat. “Richard brought in all his records, and it became an after-hours club opened Mondays—a theatre night—and Thursdays only.”
For two years, the duo drew crowds to this largely deserted part of town we now know as Liberty Village. They booked bands that ranged from reggae to Rough Trade, from a newly formed Parachute Club to soul man Junior Walker. Jamaican patties were the only food served. Income earned at the door was hidden in record covers, and put aside with larger goals in mind.
Habib and O’Brien were also regulars at influential upstairs Queen West boozecan-cum-nightly-artist-hangout The Paper Door. As luck would have it, on an evening spent sitting on the venue’s back balcony, O’Brien looked down and spotted Wicker World, a shop at 312 Queen St. W. set back from the street. The location had been a laundry for years before, looked industrial, and piqued O’Brien’s curiosity. Not long after, he spotted a “For Lease” sign at the address, put down a deposit, and was given three months’ free rent in order to build his business.
1990s, After-hours, Dance Music, Disco, Funk, House, Latin, Soul
Then & Now: Boa Café
Boa Cafe, as it appeared in the Oct. 1991 edition of Interior Design magazine. Photo courtesy of INK Entertainment.
Article originally published May 23, 2013 by The Grid online (thegridto.com).
A special two-part edition of Denise Benson’s nightlife-history series begins with a trip back to the Yorkville venue that brought fine dining and club culture together—before going down in a hail of bullets.
Club: Boa Café, 25 Bellair
History: This is a tale of two interconnected yet vastly different Toronto venues, each influential in its own way. For this article, I will be focussing on the first, Boa Café; the story of its second incarnation, Boa Redux, will be told in the next edition of Then & Now.
At the story’s centre lies Rony Hitti.
“I grew up in a family of restaurateurs and hoteliers, and was supposed to be the banker in the family,” says Hitti, who would instead become owner-operator of both Boas.
Hitti dutifully studied business finance and politics at York University, but also DJed steadily during the 1980s. He played a variety of Midtown-area clubs, and started his own DJ company, dubbed Earthquake in reference to the powerful Sensurround sound system created for the 1974 film of the same name.
“It used to shake movie theatres, and I bought one. I did pretty much all of the dances at York with that system.”
Banking didn’t work out for Hitti at the time, nor did dishwashing at his father’s restaurant. Instead, he studied culinary arts in Switzerland for a year. Upon returning, Hitti brainstormed a business plan with Charles Khabouth; the two Lebanese-Canadians had become friends as Hitti spent much time at Khabouth’s trendsetting Stilife nightclub.
“Charles and I were really close. We hung out, and traveled together. On a trip to Montreal, we went to a place called Lola’s Paradise. Lola’s was fine dining with that really cool Montreal vibe. We thought Toronto could use something like it. Continue Reading…
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Senior Athlete Spotlight: Katie Phipps
Published on April 21, 2013 by efkelley
After spending four years at St. Mary’s, senior and cross country athlete Katie Phipps shared her bittersweet feelings about leaving college. “I definitely have mixed feelings, and a lot of sadness now that the season is over. But I had a really great experience doing cross-country, and it was probably one of the best decisions I made coming into college.”
Katie’s first year at St. Mary’s, 2009, was the first year the cross country teams became varsity teams. Katie explained that being part of such a new team probably made her athletic experience different from most, and said, “the athletics department has been really supportive of the new program…we literally built the program. Before I came to St. Mary’s there was no cross country team, so we were the first team. I’m happy with what it’s become, and I have really good feelings for the future, but I’m also happy my time is up.”
Creating a team is not necessarily an easy venture. And the cross country team saw some coaching changes. Coach Tom Fisher, who helped start the program, officially became the coach again in February of this year.
In response to the coaching changes, Phipps said, “We had a coaching change last year. She was the coach for two years…that was also really difficult. I loved Coach [Lynnette] O’Dell, I thought she was a great coach, but it’s a lot harder building a program than I thought it was. I think the athletic department here did a great job supporting our team, and I really felt that appreciation.” She also said, “The coaching change obviously lead to a lot of difficulties in the team and the team cohesiveness between the men and women’s teams, but hopefully thats getting resolved.”
She explained that after eight years of a sport, it sometimes feels exhausting, but that she is excited to move on to new things. This future might even involve coaching. “I’d like to coach in the future and help other people to run,” Phipps said. “That’s one of my dreams and I feel like St. Mary’s athletics prepared me for that. But I’m happy I won’t have to compete anymore at a level where I’m being judged by coaches.”
Outside of cross country, Phipps also worked for Nairem Moran, the Sports Information Director. She loved the experience, and said that it gave her a new appreciation of sports. She said, “I basically have gone to every kind of sporting event that we offer here. It’s really opened my eyes to all the groups and teams we have here, and all the hard work that different athletes put in no matter what sport they’re in. It’s made me a lot more appreciative of athletes in general. Everyone puts in all this effort, and you can really see it when you go to all the events. My dad was shocked when he found out I was working for Nairem because I’m not a big sports person at all, but now I definitely see the dedication that all the teams put in, and it’s made me a better person.”
Although she switched her major a couple of times, Phipps decided to be a psychology and history double major. Although she said she would not consider herself very active in terms of other extracurricular activities, Phipps did a semester of crew, a semester of dance club, studied abroad in Australia, and even did a radio show her freshman year. She considered cross country to be her biggest commitment outside of school, and said, “I kind of just took cross country and ran with it, literally.”
In the future she wants to get a masters degree in school psychology or youth development. She added, “I’m also interested in going to the Peace Corps and working with youth and community development in a place that could use help.” When asked where she would want to go she responded, “Honestly, I’ve thought about it, and there is nowhere I don’t want to go. Ideally I would go to Central America or South East Asia, but I know the majority of people go to Africa, and that would still be an amazing experience.”
This summer Phipps will work at Camp Greentop, a camp she has worked at before for adults and children with mental disabilities. She said, “This is something I really love doing.”
As to leaving St. Mary’s, Phipps said, “I will miss my professors, I will miss my classes, I will miss this environment. St. Mary’s has shaped who I am, it’s part of who I am, and obviously I’ll take that with me anywhere I go. Relating to cross-country, the team means so much to me. I will miss them so much. I will definitely cherish these years.”
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At the junction of Egnatia street and Paleon Patron Germanos street, between the church of Panagia Gorgoepikoos and the Church of Ipapantis, is the small Church of Metamorphosis tou Sotiros, which belongs to a rare architectural style, the one of the registered tetra-niched: within the square in floor plan there are four semi-circular niches, one of which is the Holy Sanctuary’s arch, which is externally semi-hexagonal. On the west side of the building, there is an attached narthex, which is a later addition (built in 1936). The main temple is covered by a large and high octagonal dome, which is decorated with successive arches and brick semi-columns. The mud-made walls of the monument consist of clay (i.e. raw) stones in the base and bricks in the upper section.
The erection of the church of Metamorphosis, according to a coin found mounted on the dome, was made around 1350. It is noteworthy that within the church, beneath the floor of the north and south arch, the narthex, as well as the surrounding area of the building, there were discovered tombs, which leads to the conclusion that it was originally a tomb monument. Moreover, it was revealed a little leaden reliquary, which was the temple’s sanctification; two incised inscriptions showed that the temple was built in honor of Panagia. During the Turkish occupation, it is certain that the monument was not converted into a muslim mosque, apparently because of its limited scale or because of the fact that it was situated in the Christian district of Panagouda and inside a house’s yard.
Inside the church of Metamorphosis, in the section of dome, there are kept murals, which are dated back to between 1350 and 1370. At the top of the dome, it is depicted the Ascension of Jesus Christ and follows in the next zone Panagia with the Apostoles, accompanied by depictions of the sun, moon and personified winds. Between the windows of the dome there are shown eight prophets, while in its base there is the representation of the Holy Mass with bishops, deacons, cantors, and numerous believers.
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Classes are over for this semester, I've got a few papers to do then I'll be out next Wednesday. It was a good semester, it may sound frivolous to take a course like The Action Film, but I really learned a lot. That course was interesting in the way it used things you wouldn't usually analyze to construct an image of American popular culture throughout the twentieth century. My other classes were pretty good too, probably the best semester yet.
Anyway, I recently rewatched Wong Kar-Wai's film Happy Together. He made Happy Together after Fallen Angels, and this film is an extension of the visual style he was already developing there. The film is about a couple of gay guys from Hong Kong who go to Buenos Aires, and drift apart and together over the course of the film.
This is a film that's at times difficult to watch, because of the relationship between the characters played by Leslie Cheung and Tony Leung. I have trouble Leslie constantly take advantage of him, and yet they always get back together. What the film becomes about is the process of Tony asserting his independence and getting the courage to leave Leslie.
I love the parts with Chang Chen. His friendship with Tony is great fun to watch, and this is the only time in Buenos Aires that the character is genuinely happy, excluding the scene where he cries into the tape recorder, which isn't happy, but is still an incredible scene. Another great scene is later in the film where Chang is at the lighthouse talking about his memories. This film has some of WKW's best voiceover.
Most of Wong Kar-Wai's films take place in a glamourous world, where even though people are emotionally upset, they're always remarkably well dressed and move through beautiful environments. Here, everybody seems poor and the main characters' apartment is small and cramped. It's still a gorgeously shot film, but the environments aren't as cool looking as in Fallen Angels or 2046.
This is a really adventurous film, the ultimate exploration of the visual style first seen in Chungking. A lot of the film is in black and white, and the color all seems to be treated in some way to draw out certain visual elements, most notably in the soccer scenes and the scenes with the falls. My favorite shot is early in the film. We start on Tony and seem to dollying away from him, then the camera pulls back and we see we're in the car with Leslie, driving away. Really simple, but it works so well. I also really like the vivid red liquids throughout the film, in the Chinese restaurant and the slaughter house.
The film visually is amazing, really experimental, but it's tough to find the same amount of beauty in the shots as in Fallen Angels because Buenos Aires just isn't as cool looking as Hong Kong. The whole film really is about the longing for home, for Hong Kong. Tony Leung only has one reason to be in Buenos Aires, and that's Leslie, so once they break up, and Chang Chen leaves as well, he feels this ennui and a strong desire to get back home. The last chunk of the film has an impatience about it. He's working in the slaughterhouse to get enough money to go back , and it really feels like you're making this journey with him. What's remarkable about the film is that when he does make it back at the end, you feel the same sense of being home that he does. I've never been to Hong Kong, and I'm sure it would be an absoultely alien world, but in the film, it feels so comfortable and welcoming, and in the absoultely phenomenal final scene, where Tony rides the train around the city at night, with the title song playing, there's such a feeling of peace, after a lot of trauma.
Why is this? I think it's partially because of my knowledge of WKW's other films. It feels odd for his characters to be in Buenos Aires, so when they get back to the site of his other films, it's comforting, that's a part of where the feeling of home comes from. I think it's also from Tony Leung's acting, he always seemed pained when he's in Buenos Aires, but when he makes it back, he seems happy for the first time in the film. Also, I think a lot of the feeling of the people making the film went in to the film itself. I know WKW originally intended to end the film with Tony dying, but instead chose to give him the happy ending of making it back to Hong Kong. It was a long shoot and I think the crew's longing to return home becomes a part of the film. In that afforementioned last chunk you can really feel this.
This film is part of what I would consider a loose stylistic trilogy with Chungking and Fallen Angels. It's interesting that they all end with the same feeling, the sense that happiness won't last forever, but if we can just find happiness in small moments, that's enough. So, the endings aren't exactly ecstatic, but they're upbeat, and you get the sense things are getting better. This is a stark contrast to his 60s trilogy, which ends with emotional ties broken and characters distraught.
One of the reasons I like it when WKW makes films in the present is because of the choices he can make musically. Happy Together has one of his best soundtracks, notably the Frank Zappa songs. The music really helps make the visuals more stylish.
So, the only thing that really hurts the film is my mind is Leslie Cheung, who plays characters that really bother me. This character is a throwback to Yuddy in Days of Being Wild. I guess what annoys me most about his characters is the fact that people are drawn to him even though he's such a mean guy. This may be bringing out my own issues, like, why are women always attracted to these charismatic, but shallow and nasty guys, instead of people who are actually nice and really care about stuff. But, you're not viewing the film in a vacuum, it's all about the personal emotional connection, and what you bring to a film has a large impact on what you get from the film. So, my distaste for people like Leslie may result in a skewed view of his relationship with Tony. But, I feel like I can take an objective enough point of view to recognize that while Leslie may have some redeeming characteristics, the work is ultimately about Tony liberating himself from this emotionally manipulative person, and expressing himself as an individual.
I think Happy Together is an incredible piece of work. It's at once different from everything that WKW has done, and at the same time, contains everything that makes his films great. The stylistic experimentation is his boldest to date, and it's full of really affecting emotional moments. This is the film that really put him on the world map, critically speaking, and with good reason. Watching this is watching the medium used to its full potential in the service of storytelling and visual artistry.
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2005 So Far
Ten Works that Changed My Life: Part II: 5-1
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Obituary for Richard David Behler
Richard David Behler
Birth Date: Oct. 5th, 1969
Date Passed: Oct. 31st, 2009
Richard David Behler age 40 of Fremont, Michgian died Saturday, October 31, 2009 at his home. Richard was born on October 5, 1969 in Grand Rapids, Michigan to David A. and Judith A. (Jernberg) Behler. Richard is survived by his parents: David and Judith Behler of Bailey, 2 Daughters: Jessica and Jodie Behler of Fremont. 2 Sisters: Brandy (Scott) Miller of Bailey and Catherine (Jeremy) Cronk of Grant. Several Aunt, Uncles, Nieces, Nephew and Cousins also survive. A Memorial service will be conducted on Tuesday, November 3, 2009 at 3:00pm at the Northland Church of Christ at 9891 Mason Drive Grant, Michigan 49327. The family will be present at the Church from 2:00pm until time of service to greet friends. Memorials may be directed to the American Diabetes Association. See life history at www.throopfhravenna.com The Throop Funeral Home of Ravenna is in charge of funeral arrangements. 231-853-6511
2:00pm to 3:00pm on
Nov. 3rd, 2009 at Northland Church of Christ
Map/Directions to Northland Church of Christ
3:00pm on Nov. 3rd, 2009 at Northland Church of Christ
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ACADEMY WORK FOCUSSES ON THE DIGNITY OF HUMAN PROCREATION
VATICAN CITY, FEB 19, 2004 (VIS) - The Pontifical Academy for Life opened its Tenth General Assembly this morning in the Vatican with a Mass to commemorate the tenth anniversary of the academy's founding by Pope John Paul II. The assembly, which will end on February 22, has scheduled morning and afternoon sessions during which 26 Roman Curia officials, doctors and experts in genetics, bioethics, medical ethics, human reproduction, moral theology and psychology will make presentations. An audience with the Holy Father is also scheduled.
The theme of this year's meeting is "The Dignity of Human Procreation and Reproductive Technologies: Anthropological and Ethical Aspects."
Each work day will start with Mass in the chapel of the St. Martha Residence in the Vatican. Today's morning session focussed on the spiritual and moral figure of the academy's first president, Prof. Jerome LeJeune, who died shortly after being named to this position, and on the teachings of Pope John Paul II on human life. A concert is scheduled for the afternoon.
Friday, February 20, participants will study the biblical and theological meaning of human procreation, artifical procreation in all its implications and fatherhood and motherhood faced with the technologies of artificial procreation: anthropological considerations.
Saturday morning, February 21, will be dedicated to the psychological and spiritual repercussions of artificial procreation for women and families and alternative anthropological approaches, and to the juridical aspects in the making of right-to-life laws in a pluralistic society. Six round table discussions are scheduled for the afternoon.
The final day of the plenary assembly, Sunday, February 22, will feature communications by the academy's president, Prof. Juan de Dios Vial Correa, and vice president, Bishop Elio Sgreccia, a general discussion on and proposals for the theme for the 2005 meeting and the presentation of the draft of the Final Document.
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SIX BLESSEDS TO BE CANONIZED ON MAY 16
VATICAN CITY, FEB 19, 2004 (VIS) - An Ordinary Public Consistory presided over by the Holy Father took place this morning in the Clementine Hall in the Apostolic Palace, during which it was decided that the following Blesseds will be canonized on May 16:
- Blessed Luigi Orione, priest and founder of the Little Work of Divine Providence and of the Congregation of the Little Sisters, Missionaries of Charity.
- Blessed Annibale Maria di Francia, priest and founder of the Congregation of the Rogationist Fathers of the Heart of Jesus and of the Religious Daughters of Divine Generosity.
- Blessed Jose Manyanet y Vives, priest and founder of the Congregation of the Sons of the Holy Family of Jesus, Mary and Joseph and the Missionary Daughters of the Holy Family of Nazareth.
- Blessed Nimatullah Al Hardini, priest of the Lebanese Maronite Order.
- Blessed Paola Elisabetta, nee Costanza Cerioli, widow Busecchi-Tassis, foundress of the Institute of Religious of the Holy Family.
- Blessed Gianna Beretta Molla, mother.
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PAPAL TELEGRAM FOR TRAIN ACCIDENT IN IRAN
VATICAN CITY, FEB 19, 2004 (VIS) - The following telegram was sent by Cardinal Angelo Sodano, secretary of State, in the Holy Father's name, to government authorities in Iran following yesterday's train disaster in this country which claimed hundreds of victims:
"Having been informed of the tragic accident that took place in Iran, the Holy Father expresses his deepest sympathy to the authorities and to the Iranian people, once again in mourning for this railroad disaster. He entrusts the many victims to the mercy of the All Powerful and hopes that the families which have been so tried by this drama may benefit from the comfort of the solidarity of the authorities and those around them. The Pope invokes on all persons touched by this terrible accident, especially the wounded and those who saved them, blessings from on high."
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VATICAN CITY, FEB 19, 2004 (VIS) - The Holy Father appointed Archbishop Dominique Francois Joseph Mamberti, apostolic nuncio in Sudan, as apostolic nuncio in Eritrea.
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VATICAN CITY, FEB 19, 2004 (VIS) - The Holy Father today received in audience Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.
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VATICAN CITY, FEB 19, 2004 (VIS) - In recent weeks the following prelates died:
- Cardinal Opilio Rossi on February 9 at age 93.
- Bishop Guido Maria Casullo, emeritus of Candido Mendes, Brazil on January 10 at age 94.
- Bishop Noel Desmond Daly, emeritus of Sandhurst, Australia on January 14 at age 74.
- Bishop Walter Jansen, former auxiliary of Cologne, Germany on January 29 at age 80.
- Archbishop Denis Eugene Hurley, O.M.I., emeritus of Durban, South Africa on February 13 at age 88.
- Bishop Paul Mukanga Mambe of Kindu, Democratic Republic of Congo on January 26 at age 74.
- Bishop Gabriel Marie Joseph Matagrin, emeritus of Grenoble, France on February 2, 2004 at 85.
- Bishop Francis Xavier Mugadzi of Gweru, Zimbabwe on February 6, 2004 at age 72.
- Bishop Timothee Pirigisha Mukombe, emeritus of Kasongo, Democratic Republic of Congo on February 12 at age 83.
- Bishop Angel Adolfo Polachini Rodr¡guez, emeritus of Guanare, Venezuela on January 10 at age 84.
- Bishop Maurice J.A. Pourchet, emeritus of Saint-Flour, France on January 2 at age 97.
- Archbishop Candido Genaro Rubiolo, emeritus of Mendoza, Argentina on February 9 at age 83.
- Bishop George Henry Speltz, emeritus of Saint Cloud, U.S.A. on February 1 at age 91.
- Bishop Leonce Albert Van Peteghem, emeritus of Gent, Belgium on January 7 at age 87.
- Bishop Franz Zak, emeritus of Sankt Polten, Austria on January 28 at age 86.
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CONTINUE SUPPORT FOR CATHOLICS IN THE HOLY LAND
VATICAN CITY, 15 FEB 2008 (VIS) - Cardinal Leonardo Sandri, prefect of the Congregation for the Oriental Churches, has sent a letter to bishops all over the world, and to their respective Churches, asking them, in the Pope's name, to continue giving spiritual and material support to the Catholic community in the Holy Land. The letter has been made published in English, Spanish, French, Italian and German.
"The absence of peace", says the cardinal in the English-language version of the letter, "exacerbates the many long-standing problems as well as the poverty afflicting the region of the Holy Places. That absence also contributes to the creation of new difficulties. Thus, we must recognise that Christians who reside there are a priority for the attention of the entire Catholic Church, together with that of all other Churches and ecclesial communities".
The cardinal notes that "the Good Friday Collection has a special relevance", before going on to express the hope that "every local Church shall participate in the effort to further our commitment to charity. The Congregation for the Oriental Churches, by virtue of papal directive, co-ordinates this initiative, and does so with exactitude and fairness. Always, the goal is to assist with the everyday requirements of Christian life.
"In this way", he adds, "the Latin community openly supports the Patriarch of Jerusalem, the Franciscans who are Custodians of the Holy Land, and all those belonging to the Eastern Catholic Churches. The desire of the Holy See is that the charitable outreach by all Catholics will not simply be viewed as occasional, but as so continuous and profound that the future may be welcomed with hope. Nor is this programme of charitable distribution based upon religious, cultural or political distinctions. Rather, it seeks especially to equip the younger generations to take their place in society in a manner which renders them competent and able to transmit the worth of their Catholic education and formation.
"We cannot overlook, however, those numerous other challenges which are serious and urgent. For example, there is the ever present matter of immigration, bringing with it the risk that Christian communities can be deprived of their most important human resources. We must seek to safeguard Christianity's historic legacy by striving to preserve those 'living communities' in which the Mystery of Christ, our Peace, is cherished and celebrated".
"May I also take this opportunity to commend the various particular Churches for their many contributions on behalf of the Holy Land. I would mention, for instance, a word of gratitude to those who participate in pilgrimages, and those who volunteer their time and talents. This brings to mind the highly laudable care rendered by parishes and by the families of religious, and as is evident in their various institutions, foundations and associations". Cardinal Sandri concludes his letter by encouraging his fellow bishops "to authorise once again this 'Collection for the Holy Land' owing to the merit of its objectives and its specific characteristics".
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HUMAN TRAFFICKING: THE SLAVERY OF MODERN TIMES
VATICAN CITY, 15 FEB 2008 (VIS) - On 13 February, Archbishop Agostino Marchetto, secretary of the Pontifical Council for the Pastoral Care of Migrants and Itinerant Peoples, participated in a "Forum to Fight Human Trafficking" held in Vienna, Austria, from 13 to 15 February.
Speaking English, Archbishop Marchetto defined human trafficking as "one of the most shameful phenomena of our era. ... It is well known", he went on, "that poverty, as well as the lack of opportunities and of social cohesion, push people to look for a better future despite the related risks, making them extremely vulnerable to trafficking.
"Moreover", he added, "it should be emphasised that, nowadays, several factors contribute to the spread of this crime, namely, the absence of specific rules in some countries, the victims' ignorance of their own rights, the socio-cultural structure and armed conflicts.
"The Holy See encourages all kinds of just initiatives aimed at eradicating this immoral and criminal phenomenon and at promoting the welfare of the victims. The Palermo Protocol and the successive regional conventions have introduced an exhaustive international legislation against trafficking in human beings. Moreover, the Holy See notes with satisfaction the coming into force, at the beginning of this month, of the Council of Europe's Convention against trafficking in human beings".
In this context, the archbishop recalled that the Pontifical Council for the Pastoral Care of Migrants and Itinerant Peoples also monitors "the issue of the victims of human trafficking, considered to be the slaves of modern times".
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VATICAN CITY, 15 FEB 2008 (VIS) - The Holy Father accepted the resignation from the pastoral care of the archdiocese of Castries, Saint Lucia, presented by Archbishop Kelvin Edward Felix, upon having reached the age limit. He is succeeded by Coadjutor Archbishop Robert Rivas O.P.
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Wales PEN Cymru joins International Human Rights Delegation to Turkey
Chair of the Translation, Linguistic Rights and Writers in Prison Committee of Wales PEN Cymru, Turkish translator Caroline Stockford took part in a fact-finding mission to Istanbul from the 31st of August to the 2nd of September to report on the state of freedom of the press and to witness the trial of Tafaf Newspaper Editor Ahmet Altan, reporters Yasemin Çongar, Mehmed Baransu and former Editor Yıldıray Oğur.
Meetings with newspapers, television stations and the Turkish Union of Journalists
During the week we met with opposition and independent newspapers such as Evrensel, Birgün and Cumhuriyet.
The general opinion is that the situation for journalism and freedom of the press in Turkey is going to get a lot worse. Press cards are being cancelled and permits to attend Government press briefings are being denied to opposition newspapers. Kurdish reporters in the South East are being told by police that it is illegal to report under the State of Emergency. Evrensel newspaper told us that two of their journalists Cemil Ugur and Halil Ibrahim Polat had been arrested on the 23rd of August in the province of Mardin and held in custody for eight days with no access to legal representation.
Under the SOE members of the public suspected of having taken part in the coup, or of having Gülenist sympathies are being arrested and detained for up to 30 days with no legal advice for the first 5 days. It is widely believed that the SOE is being abused in order to purge society of writers, thinkers and journalists that are critical of the administration. Forty thousand prisoners in Turkish jails have been scheduled for early parole to make way for those arrested under suspicion of playing a part in the failed coup. These suspects include writers and journalists, academics and civil servants.
We also visited two television stations, IMC TV and Hayatın Sesi. The former reported that their cable broadcast licence had been cancelled due to their showing an interview they had conducted with a member of the outlawed PKK. This is despite state-run stations broadcasting similar interviews. IMC TV report from a humanitarian, ecological and gender balanced point of view and, like other independent television stations such as Hayatın Sesi, they face constant fines for having potentially ‘insulted the President’ or for broadcasting from the sites of suicide bombings in Turkey seconds after a blanket-broadcast ban had been introduced by the television regulating authority.
At least 15 journalists were arrested and detained during the four-day mission of our delegation which was led by Article 19 and representatives from Danish PEN, the European Federation of Journalists, German PEN, Index on Censorship, My Media, the Norwegian Press Association, the Norwegian Union of Journalists, Norwegian PEN, PEN International, Reporters Without Borders, and Caroline Stockford, Chair of the Translation, Linguistic Rights and Writers in Prison Committee of Wales PEN Cymru.
Arrest and detention of leading female writers, journalists and linguists
When the Kuridsh newspaper Özgür Gündem was under threat in the SE of the country, a group of 68 journalists went to Diyarbakır over a period of 8 weeks to work for the newspaper and show solidarity.
Leading literary figure, Aslı Erdoğan has been in solitary confinement at Bakırköy Women’s Prison since 20th August.
This is taken from Hürriyet Daily News, 25th August:
Aslı Erdoğan was a member of daily Özgür Gündem’s advisory board and columnist, is being held in solitary confinement and says she has been unable to get her necessary medicine for five days.
“They are treating me in a way that will leave permanent damage on my body,” she told daily Cumhuriyet through her lawyer, Nesrullah Oğuz, adding that she is forced to sleep in a bed that someone previously urinated in.
“I’ve been experiencing problems in my intestines for 10 years. My pancreas and digestive system doesn’t work properly, but my medicine has not been given to me for five days. I am diabetic and I need a special nutrition. But in jail I am only able to eat yoghurt … Also, even though I suffer from asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, I have not been allowed access to open air [since entering prison],” Erdoğan said.
There appears to be a danger of being accused of ‘affiliation with a terrorist organisation’ in Turkey at present for many who try to assist Kurdish causes or the call for peace talks and cessation of military activity in the SE of Turkey.
Another board member of the newspaper Özgür Gündem, Necmiye Alpay who is a writer and philologist in her seventies was arrested and remanded in custody at Bakırköy prison on 31st August. She is being charged with spreading propaganda regarding a terrorist organsiation and ‘disrupting the unity of the state’ In their statement on the 9th of September, 2016 PEN International said the following:
PEN International is deeply concerned by the arrest of renowned writer and linguist Necmiye Alpay on 31 August on terror charges as a part of an ongoing investigation into closed daily Özgür Gündem, which has also seen writer Aslı Erdoğan detained.
On 31 August, Istanbul’s Eighth Criminal Court of Peace ordered the arrest of Alpay on charges of being a member of a terror organization and disrupting the unity of the state; she denies all charges against her. PEN believes that Alpay is being held solely for her peaceful exercise of her right to freedom of expression and is calling for her immediate and unconditional release.
Wales PEN Cymru joined Danish PEN, German PEN, Norwegian PEN, Turkish PEN and over 200 others, including many Turkish writers and poets to demonstrate against the arrests of Aslı Erdoğan and Necmiye Alpay outside Bakırköy women’s prison on Friday 2nd September.
There were speeches, performances of poetry and theatre and several leading literary figures as well as the members of PEN Turkey expressed their gratitude to Wales PEN Cymru for their presence and solidarity.
Please consider sending postcards containing supportive messages in English to Necmiye Alpay and Aslı Erdoğan at the following address:
Ms. Necmiye Alpay
Bakırköy Kadın Kapalı Tutukevi
C-9 Koğuşu
Bakırköy – İstanbul – Turkey
Members writing in Welsh may send their messages to Wales PEN Cymru directly via Turkishinterpreterwales@gmail.com and have them sent on in Welsh and Turkish to both Necmiye Alpay and Aslı Erdoğan.
Observing the Taraf trial at the High Criminal Court, Istanbul
Wales PEN Cymru was among other PEN Centres, Embassies and Press Organisations in court to witness the Taraf Newspaper trial where Editor Ahmet Altan, reporters Yasemin Çongar, Mehmed Baransu and former Editor Yıldıray Oğur were before the three judges accused of having divulged state secrets in relation to a coup plot six years ago.
The case proceeded despite the fact that a new and unsigned indictment appeared to have been produced overnight and not submitted to defence. The 246 page indictment the defence had received contained 45 pages copied and pasted from the indictment of Cumhuriyet Editor in Chief Can Dündar whose trial took place in 2015. The words, ‘the defendant Can Dündar’ appeared on several pages of the indictment against the Taraf journalists. New charges had been brought against the defendants accusing them of having a role in the most recent failed coup, of spying and of attempting to bring down the state.
At the end of the day’s hearing, a new date was set for the 23rd of November and the defendants (all but Mehmed Baransu who has been in custody for several years) were released.
Following this, on Saturday, September 10th, defendant Ahmet Altan and his brother Dr Mehmet Altan were both arrested and detained on charges of ‘giving subliminal messages to incite a coup’ in a television programme on which they appeared on the 14th of July 2016.
Wales PEN Cymru are deeply concerned that the State of Emergency and anti-terror laws in Turkey are being used indiscriminately to imprison outspoken writers, journalists and academics and to stifle freedom of speech in the country.
Below is a short message from co-defendant and journalist Yasemin Çongar regarding the Altan brothers:
The most critical 24 hours for Ahmet and Mehmet Altan
Thank you all for supporting our demand for the release of Ahmet and Mehmet Altan.
After 11 days in police custody where they did not see the sky, had only two small cans of food for the whole day, no tea, no coffee, no cigarettes, limited drinking water, no access to family, no tv, no papers, no lights out –they had to sleep in a brightly-lit room behind bars– they will be questioned by the police for the first time today. Then they will see the prosecutor and in all likelihood will be referred to the court with a demand for pre-trial imprisonment, which might mean months if not years in today’s Turkey.
Anything you can do in the next 24 hours –getting more people to sign the support letter as well as social media messages with hashtags #AhmetAltan #MehmetAltan and #LetAltansGoFree or, more importantly, any public statements you can make or help organise — will mean a lot.
We would urge you, as our members, to send us your ideas on campaigns of solidarity that we might run to assist Turkish journalists and writers at this difficult period in the history of Turkey.
Thank you for your ongoing support of Wales PEN Cymru.
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3 BILLION PEOPLE NOW USE SOCIAL MEDIA
Nathan McDonald | 15 August 2017 Go To Blog Homepage
The latest Global Digital Statshot from We Are Social and Hootsuite reveals that the number of people using social media around the world has just passed the momentous three billion mark.
Growth trends show no signs of slowing either, with the number of active social media users growing at a rate of one million new users per day over the past quarter:
There were no comprehensive new reports of internet use in the past few months though, so we’ve been unable to make any major updates to our internet user numbers since our last report in April. However, it’s important to stress that this is purely due to a lack of new reporting, and these figures should not be interpreted as a slowdown in internet user growth. Indeed, the increase in social media user numbers suggests that internet use continues to grow at an equally impressive rate.
You’ll find our full Statshot report in the SlideShare embed below (and you can download it for free by clicking here), but read on for additional context and some deeper insights.
Social Media: The World’s Favourite Online Pastime?
Facebook delivered a significant portion of social media growth over the past 4 months, with the platform surging past the 2 billion MAU mark to reach 2.046 billion monthly active users at the time of writing:
Other key social platforms posted solid growth in the past few months too, notably YouTube, whose recent updates to global user figures put the platform in second place in our global MAU rankings, with 1.5 billion active users:
At a local level, WeChat consolidated its lead in China, with more than 870 million people in the Chinese mainland now using Tencent’s most popular platform – that’s more than 90% of the platform’s total 938 million users.
Despite global user declines, LINE posted growth in its home market of Japan to reach 70 million MAUs in the country.
It was a similar story in neighbouring South Korea, where Kakao Talk posted small local gains to reach 42.4 million users in its top country.
VK (also known as VKontakte) had a tougher quarter after the platform was blocked in Ukraine, which put a significant dent in its overall MAU numbers. Facebook was the main beneficiary of the block, with growth in Facebook users in the country accounting for more than 60% of the drop in VK’s local numbers in the past couple of months.
It’s worth noting that the global numbers suggest strong growth in messenger apps like WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger too, but these platforms don’t currently publish user numbers for individual markets on a consistent basis, so it’s tricky to map country-by-country performance and growth.
Upwardly Mobile
Mobile adoption continues to grow steadily around the world, with GSMA Intelligence reporting growth of more than 650,000 new users each day since our last report.
Meanwhile, the latest data from Ericsson show that our love affair with mobile connectivity continues to strengthen too, with the average smartphone user now consuming more than 2.3GB of mobile data every month via their mobile devices:
This 70% year-on-year increase versus June 2016 reflects the increasing variety of activities that we perform on our smartphones. The latest data on mobile app downloads from AppAnnie shows that there are very few aspects of our lives that remain untouched by mobile connectivity:
These new figures suggest that mobile phones are now the most important device for two-thirds of the world’s population, whether you measure ‘importance’ in terms of the billions of hours spent playing games like Candy Crush, or in terms of access to life-changing services like mobile banking for the world’s 2.5 billion unbanked.
Google powers more and more of these mobile activities too, with the company’s Android platform again extending its lead in the mobile OS market. The latest data suggest that almost three-quarters of all connected smartphones now run Android, meaning that Google knows more about its users than Santa Claus.
However, with Apple’s iOS share remaining static since the start of 2017, it appears that almost all of Android’s growth has come at the expense of other, smaller platforms. Between them, Android and iOS now account for more than 92% of all mobile devices used to access mobile web browsers:
Ericsson’s latest Mobility Report shows that the potential for connectivity continues its relentless advance too, with smartphones accounting for 4 out of every 5 phones sold in the first quarter of 2017.
Digging deeper into these numbers though, it’s clear that people are developing distinct behaviours for smartphones versus tablets. This may not come as a surprise, but these findings highlight the importance for business and marketers of approaching these devices differently.
The AppAnnie data (see above) shows that we use our smartphones for a wide variety of different needs, but tablet use appears to skew more towards entertainment and ‘lean-back’ content.
Data from Ericsson also shows that video accounts for 42% of mobile data traffic, compared to 58% of the mobile data traffic associated with tablets. Conversely, social media use accounts for a far higher proportion of smartphone data traffic compared to tablets.
品牌如何能最大限度地利用语音? Siri, How Can Brands Make The Most of Voice?
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S.H.I.E.L.D. #6 – Review
by Minhquan Nguyen — Posted in Marvel Comics on Feb 17, 2011
By: Jonathan Hickman (writer), Dustin Weaver (artist), Christina Strain (colorist)
The Story: Who says Renaissance men can’t kick butt? Sir Isaac Newton and Leonarda da Vinci can—and they’re ready to rumble!
The Review: Secret societies are nothing new to the world of fiction. Writers have been entranced with them since time knows when, whether with the ones rumored to exist (e.g. the Illuminati and Free Masons) or ones they made up themselves—perfect example: the Arcadians in the currently running Freedom Fighters. There’s a lot of appeal to a specially-select group seeing beyond the reach of ordinary people and manipulating events to their obscure goals.
Hickman plays on this concept to the extreme by literally connecting all the lights of humanity to an organization determined to preserve humanity. Then he takes it one step further by injecting a healthy dose of anachronistic science fiction, some intriguing philosophical theories, and a bunch of classic, cosmic Marvel characters. With a premise so loaded with good material, and woven together so well by Hickman’s plotting, S.H.I.E.L.D. can’t be anything other than extraordinary.
What really sells the ongoing conflict between Newton and da Vinci is how their different schools of thoughts are truly impossible to compromise. Besides that, their philosophies are so grand-standing, they surpass pettiness or prejudice, making the bitter violence between them seem that much more worthwhile. These men don’t fight over ridiculous ideals; their fight has the whole question of human nature at stake. Many wars of ideas in comics have a clear “side” you want to land on. This one does not.
Besides the intellectual-turned-physical divide within the Brotherhood of the Shield, Hickman wisely keeps the action pumping by maintaining dangers from the outside. He grounds the title by using Nathaniel Richards and Howard Stark as analogues of the more familiar Mr. Fantastic and Iron Man. Their chase after Night Machine falls under more comfortable comics territory: blaster guns, time travel, confrontations with villains, the whole deal. It keeps your heart racing while your brain processes the more cerebral stuff over on the Newton versus da Vinci storyline.
One missing element has been the intersection of these plots, but with the Forever Man, who turns out central to all the events we’ve seen so far, announcing his team-up with Leonid, Hickman’s sure to address this soon. This issue happens to be a turning point for both storylines, letting the characters regroup and take a breath before the final confrontation takes place. There’s still plenty of lively action, but plot-wise, nothing really advances.
Weaver brings a lot of great mechanical and architectural detail to his art, which is perfect since the script calls for all sorts of high-tech gadgetry in the middle of classical or retro settings. His character designs are also top-notch. Let’s face it—Leo da Vinci will never look as ruggedly handsome as he does in this series. The dynamic paneling style also keeps the energy levels high throughout the issue. Sometimes Strain’s almost blinding colors obscure the details of Weaver’s lines, but mostly she brings a sense of awe to the more fantastic scenes of the story.
Conclusion: It’s certainly an ambitious comic, with a lot of grand, far-reaching ideas. It’s not clear what place this title will end up having in the Marvel canon, but regardless, a lot of great sci-fi fun.
– Minhquan Nguyen
Some Musings: – Sheesh. What with R.E.B.E.L.S. and T.H.U.N.D.E.R. Agents, I’m just covering all the period-intensive titles, aren’t I? Any others? Bring them on, I say!
– Honestly, if I have to pick a side, I’m gonna go with Newton. When you hear news stories of people choking to death from not removing the toothpick from their sandwich, it’s hard not to see humanity as inherently limited.
– Weaver is really skirting the line of revealing Forever Man’s privates—just another degree to the left, and we’d be in full-frontal city.
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Starting Beekeeping
Central Sussex
Wisborough Green
BBKA
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Asian hornet in the UK
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West Sussex BKA - A Short History
There is hardly a beekeeping association that hasn't experienced 'Beekeeping Politics' to some degree and West Sussex Beekeepers' Association is no exception, including the circumstances surrounding it's founding, and on several occasions subsequently.
In the early 1970s the Sussex BKA covered the whole of the county, with five Divisions in West Sussex - Chichester, Horsham (later to become Horsham and Crawley, later still to be Central Sussex), Littlehampton (later to become Littlehampton and Arundel), Wisborough Green (who had absorbed Midhurst in the 1950s) and Worthing.
After several attempts and a considerable amount of animosity, mainly involving a small number of people, which continued for several years, it was finally agreed to form a separate county Beekeeping Association for West Sussex. For a couple of years there had been much discussion, some of it quite forceful, with concerns such as boundary changes and the possible cost of financing a new organisation. There was a letter sent to members by the Divisions who dealt with the matter in different ways, some changing their minds. The minutes record that at Worthing 'A vote was taken and proved strongly against' and at Horsham '...an extraordinary meeting when only two people attended...''!
The inaugural WSBKA meeting was held at Brinsbury School of Agriculture on Monday 22nd May 1973. Worthing stayed with Sussex BKA, leaving Chichester, Horsham, Littlehampton and Wisborough Green to form WSBKA.
As these Divisions had withdrawn from Sussex BKA, there was no apportioning of SBKA funds, so a silver collection was made at the inaugural meeting, which raised £5.45. Both Wisborough Green and Horsham Divisions offered £5 each.
The first President was Sqn. Ldr. Stratton, who had done much of the campaigning to form WSBKA. He was a Worthing member, but when Worthing voted to stay with Sussex BKA, he joined Littlehampton. The first Chairman was Roger Patterson of Wisborough Green, Secretary Dave O'Dwyer and Treasurer Greville Holmes, both of Horsham.
West Sussex County Council employed a County Beekeeping Instructor (CBI), Arthur Curnuck, but it was clear he was unlikely to be replaced on his retirement, in line with the cost cutting measures elsewhere. The CBI organised a residential weekend at Lodge Hill, Watersfield, every summer and when WSCC ceased to run it, WSBKA took it over and organised it for a couple of years. It was then replaced with two conventions, one in the spring and one in autumn. These were run successfully for several years, then ceased due to the lack of an organiser. After a gap of several years a single convention in spring was introduced and continues to this day.
Andrew Stedman of Horsham Division was keen on sailing and suggested that WSBKA hold an equivalent to the 'Kitting-out Party' that was organised by his sailing club at the start of each season. The first 'Kitting-out Party' was held in 1975. This was successful and rapidly increased in size, being renamed 'Beekeepers' Fayre' the following year, and many years later to 'Bee Market and Auction'. Over the years the format has largely stayed the same, with a few changes, such as a lecture that wasn't a success and Punch and Judy for children that certainly was - and with the adults too!
After several years, Worthing decided to withdraw from Sussex BKA and join WSBKA. Horsham and Crawley proposed that WSBKA considered becoming a registered charity, which caused a lot of ill feeling for some time, resulting in Horsham & Crawley withdrawing to become a charity themselves. They changed their name to Central Sussex BKA to more accurately reflect their catchment area, then decided to rejoin WSBKA some years later. In the meantime the membership of Littlehampton and Arundel, that had always been the smallest Division, had reduced to the point where they were no longer viable, so they disbanded.
Varroa had been seen as a threat for some time before it was first detected. In 1978 WSBKA put a resolution to the BBKA Annual Delegates' Meeting (ADM), 'Owing to the high incidence of disease coming in with imported bees, and the proliferation of Varroa jacobsonii and its spread across Europe, we propose that the BBKA should seek a ban on all imported bees.' This was passed and there was a ban for some time, but it was later lifted when Varroa arrived and spread.
With all organisations there are highs and lows. The lows are often caused by personalities or apathy. For a couple of years nobody wished to be Chairman, so it was agreed that each Division should chair the committee meetings in turn. Although it did not work very well it kept things going until the influx of new beekeepers in the early years of the 21st century.
The role of a county BKA has largely remained unchanged, although the expectations of the membership and methods of communication have changed. The responsibility for teaching beekeeping has moved from the County Beekeeping Instructor to the Divisions. They all approach it in different ways and arrange their own events independently, retaining complete autonomy. WSBKA arranges events it is difficult for the Divisions to stage on their own, such as the convention and auction.
Roger Patterson 30th April 2014
Sussex Beekeepers' Association continues, being active in the east of the county.
© 2014 - 2019 West Sussex Beekeepers' Association All rights reserved
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Home > News index 2017 > Maintenance partnership at Edgbaston
Maintenance partnership with Edgbaston
Floodlight maintenance and servicing.
Birmingham: July 2017
In 2011 Abacus designed and installed the Edgbaston floodlighting system as part of a £32m redevelopment project. Featuring a cantilevered design, each mast holds around 60 Abacus Challenger floodlights which form the iconic ‘e’ that is now part of the Edgbaston skyline.
Being the first permanent floodlighting system at the stadium, this has opened up many more opportunities for evening matches. Gareth Roberts, Commercial Director at Warwickshire County Cricket Club, said: “Edgbaston is set for one of its biggest ever programmes of major match cricket this summer, hosting five matches in the ICC Champions Trophy, England’s first Day/Night Investec Test match and NatWest T20 Blast Finals Day.” “It’s been great to work with Abacus as part of our preparation for such an important summer and we look forward to working with its team.”
With heavy reliance on the floodlighting system to enable this busy cricketing schedule to take place, the partnership between Edgbaston and Abacus will ensure that each evening match is played under a world class floodlighting system for many years to come.
Camilla Wigmore, Operations Director for Abacus Lighting, commented: “We are delighted to be enhancing our longstanding relationship with Edgbaston through the agreement to be ‘sole lighting provider’. We are proud to have designed, manufactured and installed the iconic Edgbaston lighting system in 2011 and are pleased to be entering into a long-term agreement to maintain the system on behalf of WCCC. We wish Edgbaston and WCCC every success with the forthcoming season and look forward to the spectacle of the first day-night test in the UK.”
Pictured: (l-r) Gareth Roberts Commercial Director, Edgbaston Stadium with James Brunt Sports Lighting Manager for Abacus Lighting.
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The Trial by Stephen Berkoff, adapted from Franz Kafka
Youth Action Theatre
Hampton Hill Theatre - 28 November 2018
Haunting, Harrowing, Horrifying
by Stephen Berkoff, adapted from Franz Kafka
Youth Action Theatre at the Hampton Hill Theatre, until 24th November
Review by John O’Brien
Franz Kafka’s The Trial, written in 1925, is one of the most important literary works of the twentieth Century. Indeed Kafkaesque has entered the language as a byword for byzantine bureaucratic obfuscation and frustration. Youth Action Theatre’s revival is Stephen Berkoff’s 1971 adaptation, directed by Rowan D ‘Albert.
The set is suitable minimalist. Think of a contestant on Mastermind as she sits in that chair in the dark, add eerie music by Philip Glass, and a rope that hangs menacingly from the gantry and you have some idea of the show’s visual and aural presentation. This chiaroscuro contrast gives the set the feel of a German expressionist classic, such as Fritz Lang’s 1927 film, Metropolis.
Joseph K (Benjamin Buckley) is a young man who works as a clerk in a Bank and lives as a lodger in the house of Mrs Grubach (Ella Barnett). One morning he is arrested by two guards (Meagan Baxter and Joe Evans) on charges which are never made explicit. Joseph K. now enters a nightmarish world of bureaucracy, law and unaccountable arbitrary power. The labyrinthine nature of this world is wonderfully realised by the use of six copper frames which do double duty as doors but also as mirrors. As he walks through and around these doors cum mirrors so Joseph becomes trapped in a series of absurd and menacing encounters. He is a victim. Moreover he is alone. More than that the people he encounters are unreliable. So he becomes confused and paranoid.
What makes The Trial so haunting, so harrowing, so horrifying is the notion that you are on your own, the people you encounter have mendacious designs on you and that there is no way out … …
Read John O’Brien’s full review at www.markaspen.wordpress.com/2018/11/22/trial
Photography by Jonathan Constant
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59-29. Abandoned old houses at State Street. Lafayette, Indiana, January 18, 1998.
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Abandoned historical houses on Ferry Street and Saint James Lutheran (?) Church. Lafayette, Indiana, March 22, 1998.
View of houses across railroad from Erie Street. Lafayette, Indiana, March 22, 1998.
A house at State Street. Lafayette, Indiana, January 18, 1998.
Remains of a cardinal (the state bird of Indiana) on a trail from Lafayette to Battle Ground along Wabash River. Indiana, January 31, 1998.
Main Street in downtown Lafayette. Indiana, January 18, 1998.
A house at South 9th Street. Lafayette, Indiana, January 18, 1998.
Intersection of Columbia Street and 9th Street. Lafayette, Indiana, January 18, 1998.
State Street near Chauncey Hill Mall. West Lafayette, Indiana, March 10, 1998.
Intersection of State Street with South Street (The Village area, shopping district). West Lafayette, Indiana, March 10, 1998.
- Trip to Harrison-Crawford State Forest, South Indiana, May 15-17 (Indiana and Lafayette, May 15 - 24, 1998)
Purdue University Memorial Union from State Street. West Lafayette, Indiana, March 10, 1998.
A church at State Street opposite to Chauncey Hill Mall. West Lafayette, Indiana, March 10, 1998.
Tippecanoe County Historical Museum (Moses Fowler House) at 9th Street. Lafayette, Indiana, January 18, 1998.
Baby snakes on a trail along Wabash River under State Street bridge. West Lafayette, Indiana, March 21, 1998.
Downtown Lafayette. The First Merchant s National Bank at 316 Main Street (built in 1918) is at the center. Indiana, January 18, 1998.
Downtown Lafayette. Carnahan-Ross-Kaplan Building at 622 Main Street (built in 1862) is to the left. Indiana, January 18, 1998.
An alley in downtown Lafayette parallel to Columbia Street with a view of Tippecanoe County Court House. Indiana, January 18, 1998.
Downtown Lafayette. Indiana, January 18, 1998.
An alley in downtown Lafayette. Indiana, January 18, 1998.
An abandoned (?) house on Ferry Street. Lafayette, Indiana, September 26, 1999.
Pablo Serra, Huan Pablo Neirotti and Alexei Sergeev at a dinner in a restaurant on State Street. West Lafayette, Indiana, February 26, 1998.
Tippecanoe Battlefield, north from Lafayette. Indiana, January 31, 1998.
Cincinnati(?) Street. Lafayette, Indiana, March 21, 1998.
Ferry Street. Lafayette, Indiana, March 22, 1998.
Brown(?) Street near intersection with Erie Street. Lafayette, Indiana, March 22, 1998.
North Street near intersection with Erie Street. Lafayette, Indiana, March 21, 1998.
6th(?) Street near intersection with Union Street. Lafayette, Indiana, March 21, 1998.
A gate to Tippecanoe Battlefield Park, north from Lafayette. Indiana, January 31, 1998.
Gen. W. H. Harrison s monument at Tippecanoe Battlefield, north from Lafayette. Indiana, January 31, 1998.
A statue at the top of Tippecanoe County Court House. Lafayette, Indiana, January 18, 1998.
View of Wabash River from Heritage Trail north from Lafayette. Indiana, January 31, 1998.
View of Tippecanoe Courthouse in downtown Lafayette from Amtrak Station. Indiana, January 31, 1998.
Rotten wood on a trail from Lafayette to Battle Ground along Wabash River. Indiana, January 31, 1998.
A shrub in a forest on Heritage Trail near Battle Ground, north from Lafayette. Indiana, January 31, 1998.
View of Wabash River from Davis Ferry Bridge north from Lafayette. Indiana, January 31, 1998.
- West Lafayette, Oct. 26-28 (Lafayette - Knobstone Trail, Indiana, October 25 - 31, 1998)
- A park near Celery Bog in West Lafayette 10/25/98 (Lafayette - Knobstone Trail, Indiana, October 25 - 31, 1998)
View of Wabash River (near confluence with Burnett Creek) from Heritage Trail north from Lafayette. Indiana, January 31, 1998.
Skunk cabbage flowers in a creek on Heritage Trail near Battle Ground, north from Lafayette. Indiana, January 31, 1998.
- Erie, Ferry, State, Valley Street and downtown Lafayette 4/12/98 (Lafayette, April 5 - 28, 1998)
- Near Wabash River 5/24/98 (Indiana and Lafayette, May 15 - 24, 1998)
- Near Clinton, West Indiana 6/28/98 (Lafayette, May 24 - July 12, 1998)
Grand View Cemetery. West Lafayette, Indiana, February 8, 1998.
I-65 road between Lafayette and Chicago during a snow storm. Indiana, March 9, 1998.
View of Fairfield and Alcoa plants from S. R. 52. Lafayette, Indiana, February 7, 1998.
View of Tippecanoe Courthouse and the downtown from Big Four Depot. Lafayette, Indiana, March 10, 1998.
Fountain of Purdue University Mall. West Lafayette, Indiana, March 10, 1998.
View of Tippecanoe Courthouse from Amtrak railroad Station. Lafayette, Indiana, March 10, 1998.
Heritage Trail along Wabash River between Lafayette and Battle Ground, Indiana, February 22, 1998.
Purdue University Mall and Bell Tower. West Lafayette, Indiana, February 27, 1998.
Purdue Memorial Union (student services). West Lafayette, Indiana, February 27, 1998.
- Watching sparrows in grassland near Universal mine, West Indiana 6/28/98 (Lafayette, May 24 - July 12, 1998)
Purdue University Hall and Recitation Building. West Lafayette, Indiana, March 10, 1998.
Heron Island on Wabash River between Lafayette and Battle Ground, Indiana, February 22, 1998.
Perrin Building (built in 1877) at 330 Main Street. Lafayette IN, January 18, 1998.
- Final banquet at Midwest Theoretical Chemistry Conference in Purdue University 5/23/98 (Indiana and Lafayette, May 15 - 24, 1998)
A raccoon eaten by an eagle(?) on Heritage Trail from Lafayette to Fort Ouiatenon. Indiana, February 8, 1998.
Corn farm near Heritage Trail along Wabash River from Lafayette to Fort Ouiatenon. Indiana, February 8, 1998.
View of an opposite bank of Wildcat Creek from Clegg Botanical Garden. Lafayette, Indiana, March 21, 1998.
Rapid flow of Wabash River. Heritage Trail from Lafayette to Fort Ouiatenon, Indiana, February 8, 1998.
Abandoned vehicle in Ross Hills Park, 7 miles west from West Lafayette. Indiana, May 1, 1999.
View of a sewage plant on Wabash River from Heritage Trail between Lafayette and Fort Ouiatenon. Indiana, February 8, 1998.
View of Wabash River and Heron Island from Heritage Trail between Lafayette and Battle Ground, Indiana, February 14, 1998.
Winter mushrooms (velvet foot, Flammulina velutipes) on Heritage Trail between Lafayette and Fort Ouiatenon, Indiana, February 21, 1998.
View of trees cut by beavers and industrial buildings on the opposite side of Wabash River from Heritage Trail to Fort Ouiatenon. Near West Lafayette, Indiana, February 8, 1998.
Pablo Serra and Huan Pablo Neirotti at a dinner in a restaurant near Purdue University. West Lafayette, Indiana, February 26, 1998.
Abandoned houses near Camp Street, view from a parking lot in Warehouse District. New Orleans, Louisiana, May 15, 2005.
- West Lafayette Nov. 26 - Dec. (West Lafayette, November 26, 1998 - January 3, 1999)
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William M. Conlon (1923-2009)
Recollections and stories in loving memory
Desk-Fax: the first commerical facsimile
Your loving son, Bill
William Martin Conlon 1921-2009
William Martin (Bill) Conlon died on June 2, 2009 at Stanford University Hospital in Palo Alto, California, shortly after celebrating his 57th wedding anniversary. Bill left behind his wife Dorothy (Figueroa) Conlon and son William Jr. (Judith Schwartz) of Palo Alto, son Thomas (Paula D’Entremont) of Millville, MA, and daughter Barbara (David Resch) of Colorado Springs, CO.
Bill was raised in Whitman, Massachusetts by his father and an extended family of grandparents, aunts and uncles after losing both his mother and step-mother by age 9.
After graduating from Whitman High School in 1941, he entered Northeastern University to study Electrical Engineering. In 1942 he to work at the Fore River shipyard, doing Electrical layout on 3 Essex-class aircraft carriers, and in 1943 was drafted into the Army Signal Corps, serving in the Philippines.
After the war, he completed his degree at Northeastern and went to work for Western Union, where he installed one of the first fax machines in the U.S. Capitol. He met his wife Dorothy on a blind date, and the attraction was mutual. They married on May 31, 1952 and settled in Bethpage, New York.
Most of his career was in aerospace engineering on Long Island working for Bendix, Sperry Gyroscope, Servomechanisms, ARMA, and then joined Grumman to work on the Lunar Module. The family moved to Houston for three years while he was Chief of Test Engineering for the Lunar Excursion Module. As Apollo 11 was launched in 1969, Bill returned to Bethpage, arriving as the Eagle landed on the moon. He continued at Grumman on the F-111B, EA-6B and F-14 programs, finally retiring from Grumman in 1988.
He thoroughly enjoyed his retirement, traveling to see his children and grandchildren, learning about computers growing hot peppers, getting together with his fellow ROMEOs, and telling stories about his childhood and war years. He was a kind and generous man and is missed very much.
2 thoughts on “William Martin Conlon 1921-2009”
Kenneth Conlon December 17, 2013 at 8:57 pm
I am doing a fmily tree and was wondering if there is any relationship here.My kin came fron County Armah Ireland in the 1840’s They came to Canada but understand there was kin in the U.S.
looking forward to here from you. Kenneth Conlon
Alexander Magoun August 20, 2014 at 11:28 pm
Hello, for an article on facsimile by Prof. Jonathan Coopersmith to be published on our website and in Proceedings of the IEEE, we would like to use the photo of the woman with the Western Union prototype Desk-Fax: http://william_martin.conlon.org/wp-content/uploads/DeskFax-Engineering-Prototype.jpg. Additional details about Mr. Conlon’s work on it, the date, location, etc., would improve the caption. We would of course offer a credit, “Courtesy. . . ” as you wish.
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In Dad’s Words
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AttackerSoft. Markus Klesman, Oleg Maskhov, Raul Keller. Phobos, 1990. MSX-mäng / MSX game
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Q&A with exhibition’s curator Tuuli Lepik
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RAM. Early Estonian Computer Art
Kumu, The Project Space, 4th floor, A-wing
Through September 4, 2016
Through September, Kumu Art Museum is hosting an exhibition of extracts of Estonian computer art and locally created computer games, as saved in historical memory. RAM (random access memory) is the main memory of a computer; it is where data can be accessed by moving to different parts of the memory.
What are three key reasons why visitors should attend this exhibition?
By now, enough time has passed since the invention of personal computers to find it interesting how, and what kind of, visuals were made on them when they first became available. The exhibition RAM is a kind of history of computer use in Estonian visual culture. A lot of the works are on display in a museum for the first time. Never before have Estonian exhibition halls shown the most famous demo in Estonia from those days, or computer games from the early 1990s, some of which were created by the same programmers who later brought us Skype.
Hillar Uudevald. Noli turbare circulos meos!, 1993
We can assess the works on display from multiple points of view. On the one hand, Rauno Remme’s computer programme can be viewed as an early criticism of the omnipotence of computer media; on the other hand, it is an example of how the computer became a tool in creative industries and how this turned out. There are also some items that can be seen in the framework of traditional art, but which have been outsiders until now. Some of the works are accompanied by notes about the software or methods used to create the programmes or animations. In those days, computer technology was so primitive and low-capacity that one had to come up with all sorts of wizardry to achieve results on the screen – things which now are considered perfectly ordinary.
I really hope that the exhibition offers something for different target audiences: for designers and computer game programmers, for people who love naive computer art and traditional art, and even for children – who can play on a real Amiga computer, a technological wonder that was used more than 20 years ago to create the graphics of some of the computer games displayed.
Renee Kelomees. Geom I, 1994. Amiga Deluxe Paint. Muusika: Renee Kelomees
Could you give us a few highlights of the oeuvre that can be seen in this exhibition?
I would highlight the computer animation Geom I (1994) by Renee Kelomees. The author of this black-and-white video has discarded colour as a vain means of expression. Designers know how you familiarise yourself with a new programme. First you try out the flashier functions and tricks, even if in later work you barely use them. In this way, you learn the possible and dangerous language of clichés. How about turning to greyscale at a time when everyone else is trying to squeeze a maximum of colours and pixels out of the monitor? Technologically, the video was made as an animation with the Amiga programme Deluxe Paint. It was started and recorded in real time as a video output. The animation itself was created by a pixel-by-pixel change of the location of the greyscale. With this beautiful work, we might be tempted to see the process as the behaviour of light in emptiness, how it is dispersed and refracted, and its many cultural meanings. The author combined light in different development stages and established a pattern through shade. Hence the title and framework.
Rauno Remme (1969–2002). Wanna play?, 1992. The programme was written in Basic to parody computer games; there is actually no possibility of winning
The central place in the display is occupied by Rauno Remme’s computer programme Wanna play?, which was inspired by technological chaos, and is allowed to cut into the sounds made by other displayed items. The programme is based on an old computer game used by the author as early as 1992 to ironically comment on media technology's supposed omnipotence and controllability by humans.
The visitor might be surprised by computer games made in Estonia in the early 1990s. Those files are not common and it takes a lot of effort to make them run on modern technology.
The FARM / BlueMoon Software. Jaan Tallinn, Ahti Heinla, Priit Kasesalu, Juhan Soomets, Kaspar P. Loit, Ott Aaloe. ROKETZ, 1995
Could you sketch out the exhibition’s viewing experience and its layout?
The exhibition consists of a large projected area on which animations and video-recorded extracts of computer games and programmes run. In addition, we have four monitors, some of them with authentic computers and joysticks. A colour TV set shows examples of advertisement and television graphics. You can play a programme written by Rauno Remme on PC 486. Amiga’s version of the Roketz game can be tried out on an Amiga 1200. Both the Amiga and its monitor are directly linked to Roketz, as they belong to the creators of the game and were actually used to create it. One wall has a larger-than-life print-out of a cover illustration created for the popular .EXE magazine in the early 1990s. It teems with iconic symbols and was drawn with just a computer mouse. Together with the computer games, it forms a not-so-serious and naive, but honest, whole. Other examples of computer graphics are blotter drawings from 1986–1987. In the eighties there was an artists’ group called Fin Plotter, comprised of the scenographer Vello Tamm, the hydrobiologist Jüri Tenson, and the biophysicist Jüri Lilles. Under the name Fin Plotter, the three men spent their leisure time at a Tektronix computer, writing programmes with a final output of a graphic image which was then transferred onto paper with a plotter and then presented as a (computer) graphic print.
AttackerSoft. Markus Klesman, Raul Keller, Kaspar P. Loit. Adventurer. King of England, 1990. MSX game
Computer animations and graphics of that time, due to their exotic nature, were free from any aesthetic standards being applied to the used images, and fell outside the sphere of criticism. The majority of electronic art remains distant from traditional aesthetics, focusing rather on technology. In putting together the exhibition, we did not consider whether a phenomenon belonged to a category, but rather looked at how the computing environment was reflected in the inner world of the created works.
Marko Kekišev, Kalle Toompere. Advertisement for Amerest, 1990–1991. Olav Osolin’s private collection
If we look further, we can see how an unexpected field can suddenly find momentum and start to grow. In general, people did not take the world of computer games seriously at the beginning of the 1990s. It was unthinkable to consider it a separate branch of the economy, much less teach it in schools. Thus, the schoolboys who created computer games needed to find “real jobs”, thereby continuing in a field related to computer technology, but giving up on creating more games. Today, the game industry forms a significant part of the economy, having surpassed the turnover of the film industry. Even though some gaming companies operate in Estonia rather successfully, a lot of the potential from back then, unfortunately, remains largely untapped.
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Lindsey Millikan
Adia Millett
What's Your Soundtrack?
December 2, 2014 Charmin Baaqee
I thought I'd drop in to say hello. I find this song inspiring in many ways. Sometimes we need to hear words that remind us that there is still love in what sometimes feels like a bleak place. "Hang in there" to my friend who has suffered a great loss.
Source (photographer unknown)
Connect For...
November 17, 2014 Charmin Baaqee
I once attended an event hosted by Oakland's Impact Hub that featured entrepreneurial guru, Michael Bush. During his presentation, he asked all the participants to split into smaller groups and engage in a discussion on various topics. There was one topic in particular that sparked several thought-provoking discussions. The question posed was, "How do you deal with feelings of self-doubt and isolation when you are a small business owner?" Responses to this question ranged from creating short-term goals to participating in video chats with other business owners around the world.
This question came to mind again during my recent visit to Yosemite National Park . While taking in all of the beauty and sheer wonder of my surroundings, I was reminded that we are a part of a larger continuum and that our journey was never meant to be experienced alone. Nature, in it of itself, is a collective. It is the essence of syncopation, harmony, and partnership. I have been fortunate as a new business owner to have met so many people that have been supportive and really want to see the vision of Art Is Luv flourish. A big thanks to my family, friends, mentors, artists, and other business owners for your enthusiasm and genuine kindness. Each of you continues to remind me that I am and here with a purpose and that I am a part of a rich and fertile community that is truly boundless.
Source: 1 (Art is Luv), 2, 3, 4, 5 (unknown)
Art Smart - Imogen Cunningham
November 5, 2014 Charmin Baaqee
"The Unmade Bed" (1957), Imogen Cunningham
Today I pondered over why I still somehow manage to feel sleep deprived even when I gain an extra hour of sleep. Has that been your experience too? Well, this photograph shot by Imogen Cunningham (April 12, 1883 – June 24, 1976) entitled, "The Unmade Bed" is literally a testament to how I am feeling as of late. It's like those ruffled sheets and that blanket, probably still warm from the body that once laid beneath it, are my kindred spirits.
I was first introduced to Ms. Cunningham's work during a recent lecture, given by Oakland Museum of California, photography curator, Drew Johnson. Ms. Cunningham's work is included in one of the museum's latest exhibitions, "Fertile Ground: Art and Community in California."
The backstory of "The Unmade Bed" is that the photo was taken in response to an assignment her fellow colleague, Dorothea Lange of the California School of Fine Arts, had given to her students. Lange asked her students to capture a photograph of something that described their environment without anyone in it (source). Cunningham raced home and snapped this iconic photograph. "The Unmade Bed" is thought-provoking, yet simply stated.
Cunningham's body of work includes a collection of highly celebrated botanicals, industrial landscapes, and nude pieces. You can learn more about her life and her work here and here.
I suppose if I was asked to capture a photo of my surroundings today, you'd see a pile of unfolded laundry...lol! And you? Please share a comment or two. I would love to here from you. Until next time, night all.
Upcoming Local Art Event
October 26, 2014 Charmin Baaqee
Sunday, October 26, 2014, 12 - 4:30 PM
20th Anniversary Days of the Dead Community Celebration at the Oakland Museum of California
I believe that body art is oftentimes one of the most personal and public forms of artistic expression. Be it an expression of tradition or culture, or statement of belief or beauty, it has the ability to captivate, intrigue, inspire and sometimes silence those who cross its path. Here are a few that captured my attention. Good night all.
Source: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 (unknown), 7, 8, 9
Grits: Sarah Kersten
I am a firm believer that life is a continuum of experiences and moments that connect people in a way that will ultimately be for the greater good. About two weeks ago, I crossed paths with the beautiful and talented Sarah Kersten. Sarah is a ceramic artist that specializes in pottery. I came to know of Sarah by browsing Kickstarter on a hunt for inspiration for my own Kickstarter video. Sarah's story felt so genuine, that I felt compelled to support her campaign. I recently had an opportunity to meet with Sarah over tea at the Artis Cafe in Berkeley and learn more about her journey as an artist and her approach to creating timeless and covetable pieces. One of the most interesting perspectives Sarah shared was that what she values most about her craft, is its function and that for her, being recognized as a fine artist pales in comparison to the lifelong memories of family and communion that are quietly transcribed into her vessels.
See more of Sarah's story in our interview and be sure to visit her Kick Starter campaign (https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1869045264/sarah-kersten-handmade-studio). It's pretty amazing what people are doing to make a life out of what they love. Let's show support! Who knows who you will meet along the way.
Source: Sarah Kersten and Art Is Luv
Art Is Luv: Where do you call home and what makes home feel like home?
Sarah Kersten: At the moment, home is where I live in North Oakland/Emeryville. I live in a beautiful, historic home, and my housemates are the greatest. It feels like home because it's my most familiar place; it's the longest I've lived anywhere aside from my parent's house.
That being said, I spend a lot of time feeling homesick for Washington State and New York State. I was born in New York, and we moved to Washington when I was twelve.
Art Is Luv: When did you begin practicing ceramic arts? Were you introduced to the art form or were you the creative kid that somehow knew how to make more out of "Play Doh" than just a cookie?
Sarah Kersten: I started taking ceramics classes when I was thirteen at a pottery school in Seattle's Pioneer Square District. It was a way to stay busy in the summer. I was definitely obsessed with it in retrospect; from the moment I started, I found a way to always keep working in clay. That being said, I never considered "being an artist" as a career path until I was 22.
As a child I definitely liked to hang out in the sand box and play with play dough, but honestly, no one ever said I had artistic talent. I also remember that pottery was definitely not a hip form of art when I was in high school; it's had some kind of a renaissance recently, and all of the sudden it's cool.
Art Is Luv: I have always felt a personal connection with handmade items. One of my earliest memories of this was actually in a ceramics class I took during a summer day camp when I was 11-years old. I always felt especially proud of and enamored by my creations, even when it wasn’t always clear what they actually were. Has that been your experience and why do you think working with clay evokes such a feeling?
Sarah Kersten: I think it's pretty amazing to manipulate tangible, earth based elements, and to watch them go through a transformation into something that is different, but permanent and solid. It's very grounding. That's probably why people experience a lot of wonder when they look at their finished pieces. It marks the passage of time, and it shows that transformation is real. That's cool.
Art Is Luv: I think there was a period of time, especially in the 80s and 90s, that people thought of a piece of pottery as only a decorative item, but I have noticed a shift within the last 5 - 10 years that seems to inspire collectors to rediscover the utilitarian value of pottery. Has that also been your observation and is this a movement that spans generations (e.g. Has mom also decided to move the good dishes out of the china cabinet?)?
Sarah Kersten: This is the story as I know it, but I'm not a historian. The market for handmade pottery started to slow down in the 80s and 90s, as mass produced inexpensive modern dishes became abundantly available. Tastes and aesthetics changed during that time too, and many people started to prefer the clean look of manufactured work.
Today, there is obviously a revival in interest in all things handmade and locally made. Handmade dishes can be used multiple times a day, and I think that feels really good for people. It gives them a tactile connection to a meaningful object, and it ties into food consciousness as well.
As for my mother, she was never particularly interested in pottery, but she understands it more now. She uses work i've given to her often. Using my work gives my parents a connection with me even though I'm far away, and I'm grateful that my craft can do that.
Art Is Luv: Honestly, I've never thought to ferment anything but I would be lying if I didn't tell you that I would entertain the idea of eating all gut healthy foods just so that I can use one of your beautiful fermenting jars. If someone asked you to recommend a piece of pottery to start a collection or include in an everyday arsenal, what would you tell them?
Sarah Kersten: Bowls and mugs are nice because they're useful every day. An assortment of different vases for different flowers is nice too.
Art Is Luv: Who are some of your favorite ceramic artists?
Sarah Kersten: Recently I've been admiring Erin McGuinnes's work most often. She happens to work in the building where my new studio is located.
Historically, Lucie Rie.
Art Is Luv: As I am sure you are aware, California has been home to many of the first pioneers of ceramic arts, some of which have gained both national and international notoriety. However, as a whole, do you feel like ceramic art is as widely recognized in the fine arts world as other visual arts forms? If not, what do you think is the missing link?
Sarah Kersten: First off, I'm not particularly hip to the fine art side of ceramics. From what I have observed, no, it isn't as widely recognized as other fine art mediums, but that isn't universal. Ai Weiwei's sunflower seeds comes to my mind. I don't think there is an inherent bias against the medium.
Art Is Luv: What's next for you and where can we see more of your work?
Sarah Kersten: The best place to find my work right now is in my Kickstarter campaign, which runs through October 17th. (https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1869045264/sarah-kersten-handmade-studio). After that campaign finishes, we're going to quickly get to work assembling the studio. I'm planning to be at West Coast Craft and at the Remodelista Holiday Market this year, both in December.
As for my work, I'm planning to continue making functional work, more fermentation jars, and hopefully some smaller fun stuff. I would love to start working on bigger pieces more often.
Art Is Luv: Finally, what's for breakfast?
Sarah Kersten: I eat a lot of frittatas with eggs and leftover roasted veggies that might be in my fridge on any given morning. In a similar theme, this summer I found a recipe for baked eggs over a bed of roasted cherry tomatoes. I've been pretty into that.
Connect For...Breast Cancer Awareness
I was driving to work today and I nearly gasped when I heard the most recent statistics for breast cancer in women. Are you ready for this? One in eight women will develop breast cancer within their lifetime. October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Everyone, please make it a point to see your physician for regular screenings. It's a matter of life and death. I love you all. Charmin
Source: 1 (unknown), 2, 3, 4
Grits: Ian Johnson
October 8, 2014 Charmin Baaqee
Good evening good people,
Today I am pleased to introduce the Grits Series – a collection of artist interviews over breakfast. Each of the artist featured in this series possesses a spirit of fearlessness and tenacity that is translated into their work in a raw, inspiring and captivating way.
I feel so fortunate to kick this series off with the very talented Ian Johnson. Ian is an artist living and working in San Francisco. His work has been exhibited around the country and internationally. Much of his work is heavily rooted in music and celebrates the artists that brought the music to life. Ian’s drawings and paintings demonstrate his ability to capture an explosion of complex rhythms, forms, and personality, in a way that is both eloquent and familiar. Ian and I discussed a myriad of topics ranging from his beginnings as an artist to his opinion on what it means to stay relevant as an artist. One of things that stood out most in our discussion was the importance of understanding the value of an artist’s work and determining one’s personal means for investing in art. Ian notes, that as collectors one of the many ways we can support artists is by “meeting them at the price they or their gallery sets”. The take home for me was that buying art is a choice just like buying a pair of shoes. You just have to find a pair that speaks to your aesthetic and your budget.
And without further ado, “Grits”…according to Ian Johnson. Thanks Ian! It was an honor!
Art Is Luv: Where do you call home?
Ian Johnson: I live in San Francisco, I've lived here since 1993. I guess it is more home than anywhere else at this point.
Art Is Luv: What is your earliest memory of painting and/or sketching and what did you create?
Ian Johnson: My earliest memory is drawing with pens on yellow legal pads my grandmother had in her desk drawer for work. They were usually long battle scenes of some kind with random characters from cartoons and toys.
Art Is Luv: For many artists, art as a career is often an indirect pathway. What were some of your oddest and most memorable detours along the way?
Ian Johnson: I can't really think of any specifically odd detours per se. I never intended to make a living in art so i guess it has all been pretty odd. Well, one time my mom got me a job doing a logo for a comedy club that was opening inside a strip club in manhattan. That was only time i've been in a strip club to meet the owner and it was pretty early in back room of the club. While we were talking a few of the dancers were eating dinner before work. They were in their show gowns, all made up and housing very large steaks. It kind of killed the illusion for me. I don't know why, but I never thought strippers ate at work. It was kind of stupid thing to assume, but it just struck me as odd.
Art Is Luv: I noticed that many of your pieces are inspired by jazz artists. Are you often inspired by music? If I pressed your Pandora play button, what would I hear?
Ian Johnson: I primarily work from portraits of jazz musicians so music is my primary base of my inspiration. Of course music influenced by the lives of those that made it so it is also filtered through the context of thinking of their lives and the time period in which it was created. You couldn't push play on my Pandora because I don't use it, ha. But like most people I listen to all sorts of music. The musicians I'm working on painting or drawing like Sun Ra, John Coltrane, Yusef Lateff, Bill Evans, Nina Simone, etc. More contemporary things like King Krule, Sachillpages, Shabazz Palaces... Classical sometimes... I listen to podcasts a lot now as well, comedy, npr, sports, history and science ones mostly.
Art Is Luv: How do you stay relevant as an artist? What advice would you give to an emerging artist?
Ian Johnson: I'm not sure how to stay relevant as an artist. I don't know if I am, ha! I'm not sure you actually can either. Opinions sway and artists come in and out of fashion. The ones that last connect to base human emotions, feelings and aesthetics in a unique way i suppose. As far as advice I would say not to worry too much about how you fit into the art world at large. Just do work you like and are into and if your good you'll probably find a fit. However, you might not, life is complicated and timing is a delicate thing and it doesn't always work out how you think it will. To be successful in most anything you have to work very hard. For art you usually have to do that have a solid aesthetic, be stylistically fashionable, have an bullshit intellectual subtext for your work and play the political game of the art world. Even then it still might not work.
Art Is Luv: What was the last piece of art you purchased? Why do you think it's important to invest in art? Who is one of your favorite artist?
Ian Johnson: I buy art books and prints and trade other artists for work. I haven't bought a piece of art work in a long time unfortunately. I haven't really had the disposable income to do so and now I have a child and still I can't really afford it. I think it's important to invest in art if you like art and want to see more of it from that person or want to show your appreciation for what they have done so far. I don't think its more important that food or shelter but if you have the means and enjoy it its worth supporting. Some of my favorite artists are Jules de Balincourt, Francesco Igory Deiana, Harley Lafarrah Eaves, Alicia McCarthy a bunch of people... If I ever get a lot of money I will buy stuff from them and others, ha
Art Is Luv: What direction do you think your paintbrush will take you next?
Ian Johnson: Not really sure. I plan on continuing on painting and drawing and hopefully getting better at them both. What that leads to, I guess I'll find out when it happens.
Art is Luv: Where can we see more of your work?
Ian Johnson: On Instagram @ianmjohn. I try to post things once i finish them on there now. My website ianmjohnson.com has a sample of work. As far as physical shows, the next one have is a Park Life in San Francisco, October 17th through November 9th.
Ian Johnson: I don't have much time anymore in the mornings so I usually just have coffee and toast. Sometimes my lady has some extra time and makes me chia pudding or something more time consuming like a frittata or portuguese sausage, rice and eggs. I'm ashamed to say I don't really cook much unfortunately, but she is a fantastic cook.
Upcoming Local Art Events
September 24, 2014 Charmin Baaqee
Happy Tuesday or at least what's left of it! I just wanted to pop in quickly to let everyone know about two upcoming local art events taking place this weekend. The first event will be hosted by one of our very own artists, Joshua Whitaker, at his brand new gallery space, Spirithaus in Oakland...should be a fun time. The other event is hosted by Oakland's own Loakal as part of Art Beats, a free art and music experience. Check them out folks. Let's support the art movement!
I could not resist...
What a beautiful interpretation of Indian Summer. You guessed it...Helen Frankenthaler - Indian Summer, 1967.
Today's Connect For entry is an ode to summer's end. Saying goodbye to summer is all too often bittersweet, unless you live in California, where summer gets an encore called Indian Summer. So far all of my fellow Californians out there, "Party On!" and to the rest of the gang, "Enjoy the beginnings of a beautiful harvest." Be blessed and talk soon.
Source: 1, 2, 3, 4
September 1, 2014 Charmin Baaqee
Welcome to September lovelies! I have great things in store for you this month. In September, I will be launching two new series; the first is "Through the Looking Glass" where I will feature a local gallery and the second series is called "Grits" which will showcase a local artist interviewed over breakfast. Should be fun and delicious! I hope you will join me. Stay tuned...
August 24, 2014 Charmin Baaqee
This is what I'm diggin' today (play me)...
Source: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
And him (play me)...
Art Smart - Helen Frakenthaler
Helen Frankenthaler (December 12, 1928 - December 27, 2011) was an American abstract expressionist painter (source). She was widely recognized as a contemporary artist and exhibited her work for over 50 years. I first came to know of Ms. Frankenthaler in 2011 when every large newspaper publication noted of her passing. One of her most famous quotes expresses that, "There are no rules. That is how art is born, how breakthroughs happen." I believe that her body of work is a testament to her own individuality as an artist. One of my favorite pieces (title unknown) is shown above. I love its simplicity and beauty. I also love how even her use of red and fuchsia tones, still somehow conveys a feeling of calm in the piece. I suppose it's a subtle reminder that often it is that which excites us that centers us and ultimately helps us to find our own purpose and sense of contentment. Here's to following our passions! Cheers!
July 30, 2014 Charmin Baaqee
Today I wondered what it really means to be moved by something or someone. Often we are moved by things that elicit an emotional response but what happens after we smile, cry, or laugh? Do we act on those emotions? Do we move? Whether the subject matter is related to nature, the human spirit, or the architecture of a bustling city, art compels us to feel something and hopefully act in a way that will help the world become a better place.
I have always found it fascinating how a piece of art can provide the perfect opening to any introduction. It is often the impetus that moves us to engage with one another despite our differences. Although seen through many different lenses, art has the ability to evoke a sense of community and spark endless conversations that appear almost effortless. It beckons our senses and invites our inner artist to collectively hear, taste, feel and smell the creativity in the things that inspires us the most.
Source: Share Design
Source: Camille Styles
Source: Not Just a Label
Art Smart - Horace Pippin
June 19, 2014 Charmin Baaqee
The Artist's Wife (1936) - Horace Pippin
I have to admit that one of my greatest reservations when I began the Art Is Luv journey was my own personal lack of familiarity with art history. Sure, I took the art history general requirement course in undergrad and I've learned a few things here and there at various museums. But not nearly enough to even begin carving a dent in the vast world of art greats past and present. However, I have learned to overcome this plague of ignorance by reminding myself that history is written, spoken, and passed from generation to generation. Which means that it's never too late to open the vault. So let's jump in! Shall we?
I would like to introduce the first artist of this series, the incomparable, Horace Pippin (Feb 22, 1988 - July 6, 1946). Horace Pippin was a self-taught African American painter, whose work depicted imagery of war, religion, and social injustice. He was one of the first African American artist to openly express his concerns on these subject matters throughout his work (The Barnes Foundation). Horace Pippin also served in Word War I, where he was shot and lost the use of his right arm. He continued to paint as a therapeutic exercise and used a poker to hold up his arm while be guiding the left to create masterpieces (Biography.com). He is best known for his "Self Portrait of 1941", where he is shown cradling his right arm (Wikipedia.com). The piece shown above is entitled, "The Artist's Wife" (Horace Pippin -1936). I think it's amazing.
¿Listo?
May 29, 2014 Charmin Baaqee
I am amazed at how we are often controlled by fear. So much so that it can paralyze our footsteps and silence our voices. Imagine how much of the world we never see or hear simply because of our own inhibitions. One of the things I remember most about my childhood is that my enthusiasm and curiosity were the catalysts for new adventures and meeting friends along the way. I watch my two 4-year olds and am amazed at how fearless they are even in foreign, uncharted territory. For example, they are currently learning Spanish at their pre-school. When the three of us are out, I encourage (also known as force) them to initiate conversations with Spanish speaking strangers. Although my children are native English speakers, with only one year of Spanish under their belts, they typically oblige my request and sometimes make a new friend in the process.
Whether learning a language or embarking on some other new adventure, (like publishing your first blog post!) taking a first step can sometimes feel like a daunting task...unless of course you are 4-years old. Well, I'm not...surprise! Nonetheless, today is the day that I will summon the courage of my adolescence and follow the example of my children. Today is the day that I will commit to being fearless. My name is Charmin Baaqee and I am the owner and founder of the Art Is Luv Movement. Thank you for joining me on the beginning of this fantastical journey.
¿Listo? Absolutely!
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Kia ora to Linda
Kirsten Hawke
Our newest BUSINESS buddy, Linda Nowacki (pronounced as Novaski), has spent more than a decade working in accountancy work and she is now working fulltime at the East Tamaki office.
Linda is a real numbers person and loves the satisfaction that comes from balancing the books, but she also enjoys client interaction.
In 2006, Linda moved with her family to Pakuranga and worked with an accountant at Highland Park.
During that time, she gained a lot of experience in client services and reviewing accounts work, and she will capably apply these skills at BUSINESS buddy.
Of course, life can’t be all work and no fun, which means a lot of Linda’s free time is devoted to her family’s activities.
“I like going to the gym and enjoy watching sport, especially tennis,” says Linda. “I used to be a keen tennis player.”
When she isn’t watching tennis on television or catching the action live at ASB Tennis Arena, she’ll be following her son’s motorsport events.
It’s no surprise that after all that action – Linda enjoys winding down with a glass of wine.
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Job creation by young entrepreneurs
Tags: entrepreneurs, china, art, design, international building material
TWO young entrepreneurs, Nicholas Tan and Catherine Lingyi Li, are turning the famous Highgate into Africa’s only home and decor mall creating more than 2000 jobs and 250 international and local brands will occupy the revamped mall, named Home Africa.
The project the two say the project is a catalyst in the expansion and facilitation of trade between China and Africa. Home Africa Mall will be the first one stop wholesale distribution hub for construction and home-related products.
Lingyi Li who is the Chief Marketing Officer for Home Africa Mall, is behind the revamping the image and branding of the consumer shopping site to fit the new international home and decor concept. Nicholas Tan is the Chief Executive Officer.
She says: "The role has been very exciting and terribly challenging because Home Africa Mall is the first of its kind in the continent and it has been wonderful working with the Chinese Ministry of Commerce to create a novel, very modern and chic East Meets West concept."
Lingyi Li says Home Africa Mall will serve as an international trading hub between China and Africa so getting it right, within the constraints, is critical.
Lingyi Li has a colorful background having attended the University of Toronto, studying media, and subsequently Parsons School of Design. She has also worked in New York, under internationally renowned designer Naeem Khan and subsequently at the Guangzhou Broadcasting Network.
"I am an entrepreneur at heart and am very passionate about music, the arts and design, and a core mission of mine has been to contribute to the cultural advancement of South Africa, and Africa at large,” she says
Lingyi adds that she has been a contributor of the Bongi Ngema-Zuma Foundation, which seeks to empower women and children in South Africa through raising awareness of health and education.
Tan who is 27 years old also has big dreams for the Home Africa says the mall being the first of its kind in the country and continent as a whole its unique offering will make a good value proposition to businesses and consumers.
“We had the benefit of converting Highgate Mall into this fantastic mall that is a one-stop for everyone. We have all home and décor products, from construction to home-related products,” he says.
Tan is not concerned about recent growing concerns about an over-saturated retail market due to other ongoing shopping malls.
Over the past 10 years, to the end of 2015, retail property delivered an annualised total return (income and capital growth) of a substantial 16%, as measured by MSCI’s independent property databank index.
However, ongoing pressure on consumer spending amid SA’s ever-growing pool of new shopping-centres is starting to eat into profit margins.
He says: “The response to Home of Africa has been phenomenal in terms of people seeking occupation. This is the only mall of its kind in South Africa. We will have 250 international and local brands, 2000 jobs will be created and mall products will be 30% lower than in other malls.”
Small businesses in the construction sector are also set to receive a massive boost through discounted prices on materials through a partnerships between the Chinese commerce ministry and the management of the new specialist mall, Home Africa.
Tan says the SMEs will receive assistance on product sourcing, price negotiations, quality control and supply chain costs with Chinese suppliers.
The management says the mall will be the first with factory outlets with pricing at 30% that will be lower than the traditional malls
Buy n Build, the international building materials supplier, is investing R500m and will anchor the new Home Africa mall.
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Beginning Investing - a Glossary of Stock Market Terms
Beginning investing in the stock market means that, if you want to be fully comfortable with what's happening around you, you'll have to learn a new 'language', the jargon of investing. Our glossary of terms for beginning investors will get you up to speed with the words you need to know. In fact, if you read this from A to Z, you'll know more than many seasoned pros!
accredited investor
the SEC recognizes a certain type of investor as financially sophisticated, and therefore able to invest in hedge funds, angel partnerships, and other higher-risk investments without restriction. To qualify as an accredited investor you must earn an individual income of at least $200,000 a year ($300,000 for a joint income) for the last two years and expect to make at least that amount this year, or have a net worth, either individually or with your spouse, exceeding $1 million, not including the value of your main residence. I think this is a nice target - we should all strive to become accredited investors!
can have a simple meaning of an individual repeatedly buying shares in the same company, but it is more often used to indicate one or more institutions building large positions in a stock. It is the opposite of distribution. There is a technical indicator, the accumulation/distribution line, which purports to highlight whether the large players are accumulating or distributing positions, by associating volume with price changes.
adaptive moving average (AMA)
popularized by Perry Kaufman and Tushar Chande, AMA’s seek to overcome some of the weaknesses of ordinary moving averages. Slow moving averages (bigger number of days) are the most reliable, helping us to trade in the direction of the prevailing trend. However, in periods of rapid price moves, they will tend to react too slowly, missing some of the gain if prices are moving up, or signaling an exit too slowly when prices are falling. Faster moving averages (smaller number of days) are good at catching rapid price moves, but they tend to react too much to random ‘noise’, the day-to-day fluctuations in price, and we get ‘whipsawed’ in and out of trades. Adaptive moving averages measure the rate of price change, and use this to speed up or slow down the average, as necessary. For the full rationale and methodology, see Perry Kaufman’s book.
a set of rules for defining the timing, price, or quantity of an entry or exit decision. Algorithmic trading, also called black box trading, describes the method widely used by the major institutional investors – they program their trading ‘rules’ into their computers, and the computers automatically execute the trades.
used mostly when referring to the performance of a particular fund, alpha is the risk-adjusted measure of the return on investment (ROI). If alpha is positive, the fund has exceeded the risk-adjusted rate of return. If it is negative, the fund has earned less than the risk-adjusted rate of return. Negative alpha does not mean negative returns, just less than what should have been earned for the given level of risk.
American Depositary Receipt (ADR)
an ADR is a negotiable security issued by a U.S. bank representing shares of a non-U.S. company traded on a U.S. exchange. ADR’s are denominated in, and pay dividends in, U.S. Dollars.
American Stock Exchange (AMEX)
actually it’s now called NYSE Amex Equities, but most people would still know it as AMEX. Now part of NYSE Euronext, the world’s biggest exchange group, it was acquired in 2008. It is situated in New York; the Amex equities trading floor now shares the NYSE trading floor at 11 Wall Street. Hours of trading are from 9:30am to 4:00pm.
a book entry (i.e. no cash involved) to write off a portion of intangible assets against profits. We depreciate tangible assets, and we amortize intangible assets.
a meeting of shareholders required to be held once a year within a specified time after the fiscal year end, to approve the company's financial statements.
a report of the activities and performance of the preceding year which a company makes to its stockholders once a year. Quoted companies are required to report every quarter, but the annual report is the company’s chance to impress the stockholders with a glossy brochure. Although similarly named, the annual report to the SEC on form 10K is a separate document. A lot of the content of the two annual reports may overlap, but they are pitched at two different audiences.
a method of trading taking advantage of market inefficiencies which have led to price differences for identical or similar securities.
also called the ‘offer’, the Ask is the lowest price a seller is currently asking for their stock. The ask quote will also detail the number of shares offered at that price. Opposite of a Bid.
a company’s assets are the things the company owns. Assets can be divided into two main types, current assets and fixed assets.
an investment strategy that attempts to balance risk versus reward by adjusting the percentage of each asset class (stocks, fixed income, and cash) in an investment portfolio according to the investors risk tolerance, goals and investment time horizon.
the Average Directional Index (ADX), Minus Directional Indicator (-DI) and Plus Directional Indicator (+DI) represent a group of directional movement indicators that form a trading system developed by Welles Wilder.
a measure of the volatility of a security. The difference between the highs and lows for a given number of bars are summed, and then divided by the number of bars to give the ATR. It can be used in setting stops, to keep the stop out of the range of the average daily fluctuations.
a listing of the assets and liabilities of a company as at a certain date. If the earnings statement can be said to be like a ‘video replay’ of the preceding year’s trading, then the balance sheet is a ‘snapshot’ of the position at the end.
band trading
also called ‘range trading’, this is a trading system based on the tendency of the prices of certain securities to trade within a band, up to resistance and down to support. Bands can also enable us to spot a breakout from a range.
band trading - click to enlarge
someone who expects a market to decline; opposite of a bull.
a measure of the volatility, or systematic risk, of a security or a portfolio in comparison to the market as a whole. Beta gives an indication of the sensitivity of a security to market moves, i.e. a beta of 2.0 would suggest that if the market rises 5%, this stock may rise 10% (and of course vice versa for a fall). A negative beta would suggest that the security tends to move opposite to the market as a whole.
the Bid is the highest price a buyer is currently willing to pay for a stock. The Bid quote will also detail the number of shares wanted at that price. Opposite of the Ask.
a large number of shares in a company, sold as a unit, normally traded by institutions. One block of shares in the U.S. markets comprises 10,000 shares.
according to NYSE, a blue-chip stock is stock in a company with a national reputation for quality, reliability and the ability to operate profitably in good times and bad. Blue chips include, but are not limited to, the 30 stocks of the Dow (DJIA).
created by John Bollinger in the 1980’s, Bollinger bands are trading bands above and below the price which adapt to volatility, automatically widening when volatility increases and narrowing when it decreases.
open positions; someone who publicly recommends stocks which they own could be said to be ‘talking their book’.
the value of a company according to its latest financial statements. The book value per share is equal to the shareholders’ equity divided by the number of shares in issue. It is not linked to the stock price, and for investment purposes it is really rather meaningless.
a price movement through an identified level of support or resistance, breaking out of a previous trading range, usually accompanied by heavy volume and increased volatility. A breakout is taken to signify a continuing move in the same direction.
an agent who buys and sells shares from other market makers, i.e. they execute trades on behalf of others. Some firms are referred to as broker-dealers; when acting on behalf of a client they are brokers, and when they are trading for their own account they are dealers. You can see there may be some difficulty in avoiding conflicts of interest in this situation.
someone who expects a market to go up; opposite of a bear.
buy side
the part of the market where the investing institutions, such as mutual funds, hedge funds, pension funds and insurance firms, originate their orders; the other part is the sell side. Buy-side analysts make stock recommendations to their funds, but these analyst reports are for in-house consumption only. Individual investors are usually excluded from the buy side.
the benchmark index for the Paris Bourse (now Euronext Paris), comprising the 40 companies with the highest free float market capitalizations on the Bourse.
a type of option or warrant giving the right, but not the obligation, to buy an agreed number of shares at a set price by a pre-determined date.
a type of chart, supposedly first used in 16th century Japan, depicting stock prices. Users believe that the candlesticks form patterns which can be interpreted to give the likely movement of future prices.
the value of funds, in both cash and stock, available for investment.
tax levied on profits arising from buying and selling securities. The method of calculation, the allowances, and the rates vary from country to country.
the measure of a company’s cash receipts less cash payments over a period of time. It is possible to have more cash going out than coming in, say during a period of heavy investment, but over the long run more cash must come in than go out for the company to survive. Investors can check a company’s cash flows by looking at the cash flow statement which is part of the company’s quarterly and annual reporting. This statement will show how much cash the company generated from its operations, how much it invested, and how it financed itself during the period.
chaos theory is an attempt to see and understand the underlying order of complex systems that may appear to be without order at first glance. In fact, chaos is a higher form of order where randomness and stimuli become the organizing principle. Related to financial markets, proponents of chaos theory believe it supplies us with a new and predictable way to analyze the current and future action of a stock – for more information see Trading Chaos, Second Edition by Bill Williams.
climax reversal
a change of trend direction that happens very quickly with little or no transition period. If a market has become very overextended in one direction, there comes a point when everyone has bought (or sold) and there is a sudden reversal. The resulting long bar pattern is called a spike.
climax reversal with spike - click to enlarge
also called ordinary stock, this is the class of shares that bears the most risk (as the stockholders are the last ones to be paid out in a liquidation) but can reap the highest rewards (as the common stockholders are the residual owners of the company, after all other claims have been paid).
a term used to describe a largely-sideways movement of prices for a period. Even a strongly rising stock does not go straight up (or down) in value – it trends up, consolidates within a channel, then trends up again.
a security whose owner has the right to exchange it for something else, according to the terms of the instrument – so, for instance, a convertible preferred stock may be converted into a stated number of common shares within a fixed period.
cum dividend
denotes that a buyer of this stock will be entitled to receive a recently-declared dividend, provided they are still holding it when it goes ex-dividend.
cumulative preference shares
a type of preferred stock with a provision which states that any missed dividends will be carried forward for future payment.
a company’s assets held for trading purposes – these assets, mainly comprising cash and equivalents, accounts receivable (amounts due from customers), and inventories, will be turned over or ‘realized’ within 12 months.
a company’s trading liabilities, mainly comprising short-term borrowings, accounts payable (amounts due to suppliers), and items such as unpaid payroll or income taxes, which will be turned over or repaid within 12 months.
cyclical stock
the stock of a company in an industry which is very sensitive to business cycles, such as automobiles, steel, and housing.
a market index of 30 blue-chip stocks traded on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange.
day order
a type of stock order which expires if not executed by the end of the day. This can be contrasted with a GTC (Good Till Cancelled) order.
a person or firm which stands ready to buy and sell securities as principal, i.e. for their own account.
defensive stock
a stock that tends to maintain its earnings and dividends even when the economy is performing badly. In this sense, it is the opposite of a cyclical stock. Examples are food, tobacco, oil, and utilities stocks.
a measure of the using up or wearing out of a fixed asset. Depreciation seeks to charge the cost of the asset against profits over its useful life. It is just a book entry, it does not entail any cash outlay – the cash went out when the company bought the asset – so the depreciation charge is always added back to operating earnings in arriving at the operating cash flow in the cash flow statement. By reducing the profit available for distribution by the amount of the depreciation charge, we are endeavoring to ensure that sufficient funds will be retained in the business to buy replacement assets at the end of their useful life.
direct stock purchase plans (DSP)
to carry out a regular stock purchase through a broker requires a reasonable amount of money, as shares are normally traded in lots of 100. Some companies offer a scheme whereby regular savers or small investors can buy shares, or even partial shares, direct from the company. For a list of available companies (there may of course be others not on the list) go to Computershare here.
different trading systems have different responses when a setup is triggered. A discretionary trading system relies on a person’s judgment for making the entry and exit orders based on that setup; it is the opposite of systematic trading, which would place an order for all system-generated setups without question.
it has two meanings in investing jargon: 1) a payment of a dividend or capital gain to a stockholder, unitholder or bondholder 2) institutional selling of a stock over a period. See accumulation for a discussion of the accumulation/distribution line.
used in technical analysis to indicate two trend lines moving in different directions, often thought to give a strong signal for action. So for instance prices may be trending down while the MACD line has started to rise – this may indicate a buying opportunity..
bullish divergence - click to enlarge
the spreading of risk, either over different market sectors, or different asset classes. Warren Buffett is quoted as saying, “Wide diversification is only required when investors do not understand what they are doing.” However, if your skill level is below Mr. Buffett’s, most people would still regard it as a sound strategy.
a regular payment made to shareholders out of the accumulated profits of a company. The directors can declare interim and final dividends, based on their opinion of the company’s ability to pay, but the dividends must be approved by the shareholders in the Annual General Meeting. Different companies will have different dividend policies, but to generalize, young companies may pay little or no dividend as they can use their cash for organic growth, while older, mature companies may pay larger dividends as they have less growth opportunities.
dividend cover
computed as earnings per share divided by dividend per share, it shows the margin of safety for the dividend payment based on the previous period’s results.
dividend reinvestment plan (DRIP)
it is normally difficult to reinvest a dividend through a broker, as the amount is often too small. Many companies offer a Dividend Re-investment Program (DRIP), whereby dividends are not paid in cash but are instead used to buy shares or parts of shares. This scheme allows the power of compounding to work its magic over time.
an investing method that encourages the investor to invest a constant dollar amount every month (or year, or whatever the investing interval is), as it is too difficult to pick tops and bottoms of prices, and over a long period they will even out.
a supposedly reliable chart signal, shaped like a ‘W’ on the chart. It implies that the stock has retested the lows, built its base, and is now set to climb. At the top of the chart we may encounter a double top, shaped like an ‘M’, signifying the end of a bull run.
also referred to as the DJIA, or just the Dow, it is an index of 30 major blue-chip U.S. companies, and is owned and computed by the CME Group. Components of the Dow trade on both NASDAQ OMX and NYSE Euronext. It has been criticized for being a price-weighted index, so that the more expensive counters will have a disproportionate influence on the index. However, along with the S&P 500 and the Nasdaq 100 index, it is a bellwether of the U.S. economy.
a measure of the largest amount a trading system can fall from peak to trough, derived either from back-testing or actual trading. Some people would not be comfortable trading a system, however good its annualized returns, if it can also deliver a 50% drawdown of capital.
earnings before interest and tax (EBIT)
a company’s profit from its operations (sales minus cost of sales and operating expenses), before taxation and financing expenses.
earnings before interest tax depreciation and amortization (EBITDA)
EBIT plus (add back to profit or deduct from loss) depreciation and amortization. It is an approximate measure of a company’s operational cash flow, although not a very good one as it doesn’t take into account changes in working capital.
after-tax earnings divided by the weighted average number of shares in issue for the period. Of great interest to the stockholder, it shows how much each of his shares has earned, and how many times the proposed dividend is covered by those earnings.
earnings statement
part of a company’s financial statements, it shows the trading results for the period. Can also be called Statement of Operations, Income Statement or P&L (profit & Loss) account.
a method of technical analysis of stock prices based on theories put forward by Ralph Nelson Elliott in his 1938 book. He observed that mass psychology swings from pessimism to optimism and back in a natural sequence, creating specific and measurable patterns. He identified Impulse Waves, made up of five sub-waves, and Corrective Waves, made up of three sub-waves. Often combined with Fibonacci numbers. If you want to learn more, this is the Elliott Wavers' favorite book.
the term used for financial markets of rapidly developing countries. It is difficult to make an exact list of emerging markets; the best guides tend to be investment information sources like ISI Emerging Markets and The Economist or market index makers (such as Morgan Stanley Capital International). In recent years, new terms have emerged to describe the largest developing countries such as BRIC, for Brazil, Russia, India and China.
the act of taking a position in a stock.
another term for stocks (or shares).
another term for capital. In a company’s accounts, it may be called stockholders’ equity or shareholders’ equity, and it is equal to total assets minus total liabilities.
equity curve
an investor’s equity, plotted against time. We would like to see a steadily rising equity curve!
the buyer of this stock is not entitled to receive a recently-declared dividend, as the transaction will not be recorded before the record date. When a stock goes from cum-div to ex-div, we would expect the price to drop by the amount of the dividend.
ex-rights
the buyer of this stock is not entitled to receive a recently-declared rights issue, as the transaction will not be recorded before the record date. When a stock goes from cum-rights to ex-rights, we would expect the price to drop by the value of the rights.
exchange-traded fund
an investment fund which trades on an exchange like a regular stock. ETF are much favored for their low costs, easy convertibility, and tax efficiency. They usually track indices, but they are also a low-cost way to diversify into commodities, precious metals, and many other asset classes. One of the most widely known ETFs is called the Spider (SPDR), which tracks the S&P 500 index and trades under the symbol SPY.
an open, organized marketplace in which securities, commodities, derivatives and other financial instruments are traded. Successful markets will have a real-time matching system for bids and asks, clearing and settlement systems, and fast price dissemination.
the act of closing a position in a stock.
a measure of the profitability of a trading system, put forward by Van Tharp in his book, Trade Your Way to Financial Freedom. It is defined as (Win Rate * Average Win) minus (Loss Rate * Average Loss).
expectunity
equals expectancy times number of opportunities in the period. You can understand that it’s pointless to have a system with a high expectancy if it only throws up one trade a year! Use expectunity to compare two systems, rather than expectancy.
Leonardo of Pisa, also known as Fibonacci, was a 13th century mathematician who introduced the sequence now known as Fibonacci numbers. The sequence is arrived at by starting with the seed numbers 0 and 1, and then adding each number to its predecessor to give the next number, as follows:
0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, 55, 89, 144, 233, 377… etc
The numbers seem to have some interesting properties. Each number is approximately 0.618 of the following number; 0.618 is also the ratio of the ‘golden mean’, used by artists throughout the ages. The sequence appears in nature, such as branching in trees, arrangement of leaves on a stem, the fruit spouts of a pineapple, the flowering of artichoke, an uncurling fern and the arrangement of a pine cone. In investing, Fibonacci numbers are often combined with Elliott Wave techniques, to predict the size of likely advances or retracements.
fiscal year
the period used by company’s for calculating their financial statements. Whilst many company’s choose to have fiscal and calendar years coinciding, others have mid-year ‘year-ends’, and some even use 52 week periods, so that the year-end date changes by a day or two every year.
assets which are expected to last for several years, such as plant, office machinery, and automobiles. The cost of these fixed assets is charged against profits over their expected useful life, as a depreciation charge.
operating cash flow less investments in new fixed assets. Some capital-intensive businesses may appear to have a healthy cash flow, but most of this cash may be consumed replacing fixed assets. Free cash flow is needed to expand the business and pursue opportunities to build shareholder value.
shares available for trading by the general public, excluding those held by company officers and other controlling-interest investors.
informally known as the ‘footsie’, it is an index of the 100 most highly capitalized companies on the London Stock Exchange. The index is jointly owned by the Financial Times and the London Stock Exchange. FTSE 100 companies represent about 80% of the market capitalization of the whole London Stock Exchange.
the person responsible for implementing a fund’s investment strategy and managing its portfolio. Fund managers are paid a percentage of the value of their assets under management.
the study of the fundamental attributes of a business, with a view placing a valuation on the whole. This notional valuation can then be compared with the market valuation. to identify undervalued stocks for purchase. Warren Buffett is the greatest living exponent of this art.
standing for Generally Accepted Accounting Principles, GAAP is the framework, the set of rules, under which companies quoted on a U.S. exchange must prepare their financial statements. However, these standards are not universal – for instance, companies in the U.K .prepare their financial statements under IAS (international Accounting Standards).
a stock of a company that generates substantial and sustainable positive cash flow and whose revenues and earnings are expected to increase at a faster rate than the average company within the same industry. Growth companies generally pay small or no dividends, as cash can be profitably reinvested.
good till cancelled (GTC)
a fairly self-explanatory type of order – you place the order, and the broker will keep it on his books until execution or cancellation (but there may be some in-house rules on maximum holding time).
one of the ‘classic’ visual chart patterns. A Head and Shoulders reversal pattern forms after an uptrend, and its completion marks a trend reversal. The pattern contains three successive peaks with the middle peak (head) being the highest and the two outside peaks (shoulders) being low and roughly equal. The reaction lows of each peak can be connected to form support, or a neckline. For a full explanation of the various rules, including the role volume plays in a valid pattern, read StockCharts.com here.
a private investment fund that participates in a range of assets and a variety of investment strategies intended to protect the fund's investors from downturns in the market while maximizing returns on market upswings. Hedge funds are often aggressively managed – they need to generate high returns in order to justify the high management fees. Hedge funds are not for the man in the street – in the U.S. the regulations ensure that they are targeted at accredited investors.
HFT uses complex computer algorithms and sometimes specialized hardware to hold short-term (anything from a few seconds to several hours) positions in equities, options, futures, ETFs, currencies, and other financial instruments that possess electronic trading capability. High-frequency traders compete on the basis of speed with other high frequency traders for very small, consistent profits. According to Thomson-Reuters, 60% of exchange volume now comes from HFT.
a numerical representation of price movements on an exchange.
a mutual fund, unit trust or ETF which tracks a market index by holding the index securities in the correct ratio. It is a passive fund, i.e. no active investment decisions are required, so you can train a monkey to do it (well not really, but almost), thus keeping costs down.
when owners or initial venture capital investors in a successful private company want either to raise cash for expansion, or to cash out part of their holdings, the usual route is to offer shares to the public through an IPO. An underwriter (depending on the size of the issue it may be a consortium of banks with a lead manager) will be appointed to advise on when to go to market, how to structure the capital, how much to raise, and at what price. The underwriter will guarantee to take up any unsold shares, for a fee of course.
exchanges, and the bodies that regulate them such as the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), do their best to offer a level playing field to investors. Of course there are some advantages that the big players have, like HFT, because they have deep pockets and can afford supercomputers and complex algorithms, but the SEC likes to try and ensure that sensitive information is available to everyone at the same time. There is a whole industry dedicated to trying to anticipate companies’ results before they are published, but there are certain lines that cannot be crossed. If you have ‘inside’ information not publicly available, and you act on that information, it can result in prosecution - even if you lose money on the transaction!
a large body which invests other people’s money. Examples are banks, insurance companies, pension funds, local governments, mutual funds, hedge funds, and sovereign wealth funds.
literally assets that can’t be touched, such as brand value, patents, and goodwill on acquisitions.
companies with a market capitalization of more than $10 billion dollars.
the last price at which this stock traded. Remember, there is a bid price and an offer price – only when one side or the other ‘blinks’ and meets the bid or the offer will you have a trade, and that will mark the last price.
amounts that you, or a company, owe.
if you hold an open position, you are said to be ‘long’ that stock – the opposite is to be ‘short’.
limit order
a fairly self-explanatory order type. You give the instruction to buy or sell, but you set a limit to the price you are willing to pay or receive. If the price is not available, the order will not be executed.
buying ‘on margin’ means buying securities using money advanced by your broker. If the value of those securities then falls, you will get a ‘margin call’, asking to make up the difference. The rationale behind trading on margin is that it increases your financial leverage, but it also magnifies your financial exposure, so it is not recommended for beginning investors.
the total market value of a company, computed as number in shares in issue times market price.
a company or an individual who makes a market in a security, i.e. quotes bid and ask prices and volume. The market maker hopes to make money from the bid-ask spread. The Nasdaq is the prime example of market makers in action – there are over 500 member firms all offering bid/ask quotes.
market order
an order to be executed ‘at market’. This will guarantee execution, but the price you get may be more or less than you expect (slippage).
mechanical trading
see systematic trading
mid-cap
companies with a market capitalization of between $1 billion and $10 billion.
momentum investing aims to make money by riding trends, jumping on board fast-rising stocks, and bailing out when they slow down.
money market fund
an open-ended investment fund that earns income by investing in top-quality short-term securities such as Treasury bills and commercial paper. Because of their secure nature, investors should consider keeping their cash holdings in money market funds.
an average of stock prices over a selected look-back period,updated each period. The average is usually charted and superimposed on a bar or candlestick chart of prices. The average can be simple or exponential, the latter giving a heavier weighting to more recent prices.
this is going to sound complicated, but stick with us, this is one of our favorite technical indicators. Invented by Gerald Appel in the late 1970’s, it is used to spot changes in the strength, direction, momentum, and duration of a trend in a stock's price. The MACD line (colored blue by convention) is computed by taking the difference between a long (normally 26-day) exponential moving average (EMA) and a short (normally 12 –day) EMA. A 9-day EMA of this blue line is then plotted as a signal line (usually colored red). Finally, a histogram of the difference between the blue and red lines is plotted. The blue line crossing the red signal line from below can be used as a buy signal, but we feel the strength of this indicator lies in its ability to forecast price moves through divergences.
a professionally managed type of collective investment that pools money from many investors to buy stocks, bonds, money market instruments and other securities. Most mutual funds are open-ended meaning that new funds are just added in. The value of units in the fund is computed once a day at the end of the day, and units can be sold back to the fund at that value. Income of the fund, earned through dividends or interest received is paid out to the unit-holders as a distribution, after deducting the fund’s management fees. Exchange Traded Funds have captured some of the mutual fund business, because of their lower charges and the fact that a price is available at any time, not just at the end of the day.
an index of the 100 largest non-financial companies on the Nasdaq. It is based on market capitalization, with some modification to cap the influence of some large counters. It differs from the Dow and the S&P 500 because it does not include financial companies, and because it includes some companies headquartered outside the U.S. Don’t confuse this index with the Nasdaq Composite, made up of all shares traded on the Nasdaq.
NASDAQ OMX
the world’s largest exchange company. As well as the Nasdaq (which originally stood for the National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations) it owns the Boston and Philadelphia Stock Exchanges, and through its acquisition of OMX it owns 7 Nordic and Baltic exchanges.
also known as net income or net profit, it is the final result after deducting all costs, financial expenses and taxes. It is usually the last line on the earnings statement, so it is also informally known as the 'bottom line'.
NYSE AMEX Equities
an American stock exchange owned by NYSE Euronext. The NYSE Amex is located in New York City, where it shares the trading floor with the NYSE at 11 Wall Street. Historically it was a strong competitor to the NYSE, but that role has since been filled by the Nasdaq. Today, almost all trading on the AMEX is in small-cap stocks, exchange-traded funds and derivatives, but it still handles around 10% of U.S. trading volume, and is the second-largest floor-based exchange.
NYSE Euronext
a Euro-American for-profit corporation that manages multiple exchanges, notably the New York Stock Exchange and Euronext, which itself comprised the stock exchanges of Amsterdam, Brussels, Paris, and Lisbon, plus the London International Financial Futures Exchange (LIFFE). The shareholders of NYSE Euronext have accepted a bid from Deutsche Börse, and approval is now awaited from the U.S. and European authorities.
a parcel of shares which is less than the standard lot size – for example, in the U.S. the standard lot is 100 shares, so a parcel of 57 shares would be an odd lot.
off-board
sometimes two large institutions will get together to transact a block of shares without going through the exchange, i.e. off the ‘board’. These sorts of transactions are sometimes referred to as ‘dark pools’. Also refers to any dealings in the over-the-counter market.generated from its operations, how much it invested, and how it financed itself during the period.
the profit the business made from its operations, i.e before financing costs and taxation. For this reason, it is usually synonymous with EBIT.
give the holder the right but not the obligation to buy (call option) or sell (put option) the underlying security at a predetermined price (the strike price) before an expiry date. If the option is not exercised, it expires worthless. Can be traded for profit like any other instrument, but they are also often used for hedging.
to ‘tweak’ the parameters of a trading system to produce the most favorable result. Whilst it is natural to try to obtain the best result during testing, over-optimization can lead to a system that performs perfectly on the data sample being tested, but poorly elsewhere.
a group of technical indicators used primarily to show overbought and oversold conditions. Oscillators are normally calculated to range between 0 and 100. Well known oscillators include RSI (Relative Strength Index), ROC (Rate of Change), and MFI (Money Flow Index).
securities trading other than on a formal exchange. Examples are institutions dealing direct with one another, or brokers selling unlisted shares in small companies.
to say a stock is overbought would be very subjective; however, technical analysts could objectively agree by looking at the RSI chart – if it is over 80, the stock is considered by most to be overbought (although even in this example there are different views on exactly what the number should be).
see overbought. If the RSI chart is below 20, many would consider the stock oversold and due for a correction.
to have a larger percentage allocation than normal for a particular asset class – thus a fund manager might say that the fund is ‘overweight equities’.
calculated as stock price divided by earnings per share for the last financial year. The answer is the number of years it will take to cover today’s share price at last year’s rate of earnings. A beginning investor who buys a low P/E stock because they think they have spotted a bargain may be in for a disappointment – the reason it has a low P/E ratio may be because investors do not believe last year’s earnings can be maintained this year, and this may spell trouble ahead.
par value
the nominal value of a share when it is first issued. As time goes by, it becomes more and more disconnected from the market price. For instance, Berkshire Hathaway B-shares with a par value of $0.0033 (one-third of a cent each) are quoted today at $76.38!
parabolic stop and reverse (SAR)
a price and time-based system devised by Welles Wilder. The system underpins rising prices with a trailing stop below the price; then when prices start to fall it indicates a trailing stop for a short position above the price.
parabolic stop and reverse - click to enlarge
payout ratio
calculated as dividend per share divided by earnings per share for the fiscal year, it is the inverse of the dividend cover., and shows how much of the earnings have been paid out as dividend and (by deduction) how much retained.
stocks priced under a dollar in the U.S., or under a pound in the U.K.
a share allocation made by a company or an underwriter direct to an institution, as opposed to being offered to the public.
the initiation of a transaction in the market creates a position. A long position means you've bought stock, as in ‘I now hold a long position in XYZ’. A short position means that you've sold stock that you don't own.
position sizing
the science of managing risk in relation to trading capital so as to achieve your financial objectives. See Van Tharp’s excellent book, Definitive Guide to Position Sizing.
a class of stock which is a hybrid between a share and a bond, it carries a dividend but at a fixed rate. It normally has no voting rights, and in the event of liquidation of the company it is senior to common stock, but subordinate to a bond. There are special types of preferreds, such as convertible or cumulative.
someone who acts for their own account, rather than as an agent of another.
profit-taking
one of the well-worn phrases used by stock market commentators who have column inches to fill every day – as in ‘the market fell today on profit-taking’.
a person appointed to vote on behalf of another at company meetings.
a contract which gives the right, but not the obligation, to sell a specified number of shares at a specified price before a fixed date. Used in option and warrant trading, it is the opposite of a call.
qualitative analysis
that part of fundamental analysis where the investor looks at the intangible factors of the company as part of the process of assessing its health and future prospects. It is more subjective than quantitative analysis, which looks at hard numbers, and therefore harder to get right. Qualitative factors might include such things as the company’s business model, brand value, management expertise, research and development capability, and labor relations.
that part of fundamental analysis that looks at the hard numbers of the company, such as revenue, earnings, margins and market share.
quarterly report (10Q)
the quarterly financial statements of a company, set out in the format laid down by the SEC.
the Bid and Ask prices offered in the market
R-multiple
according to Van Tharp in his book Trade Your Way to Financial Freedom, R stands for the amount risked on a particular trade, and the R-multiple is the profit or loss expressed in terms of R.
the rise in a stock, or the whole market, after a fall.
holders of a security who are on the company’s records, i.e. their Register of Members, on this date will be entitled to receive an announced dividend or distribution.
a Real Estate Investment Trust, a fund set up to own and manage income-producing real estate. Each REIT will normally specialize in a different area of the market, for instance commercial, industrial, retail, or residential. A REIT is quoted on an exchange like a regular share, and so it’s a highly liquid way to invest in property. A trust enjoys certain tax advantages, so it’s also tax-efficient.
developed by Welles Wilder, the RSI is a technical momentum indicator which measures the speed and change of price movements. It is calculated to range within 0 and 100, with a number 30 representing an oversold condition, and a number above 70 representing overbought.
relative strength index - click to enlarge
a price on a chart which has been touched at least twice and preferably more, but which has not been exceeded – it seems to act as a ‘ceiling’ for the time being. However, when finally breached, the resistance price may become support for future price retracements.
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a price movement in the opposite direction of the prevailing trend, a pullback.
return on assets (ROA)
usually calculated as (operating profit / total assets) x 100, it is a measure of profitability, and shows how well the managers are employing the assets of the company to earn income. Two companies may have the same operating income, but if one has half the assets of the other we can say it is twice as profitable. It can be used to compare the performance of companies within the same sector, but it is not sensible to use it compare, say, a manufacturing company with a software company.
shows how well the managers of the company can generate earnings for the common shareholders from the invested capital. It is defined as (net earnings / shareholders equity) x 100. Net earnings are taken after preference dividends but before common stock dividends, and shareholders capital excludes preference shares.
a way to compare different possible investments. The formula is: (benefits / costs) x 100.
an issue of additional shares to raise capital. Shares are offered to shareholders in proportion to their existing shareholdings. Some rights issues are usually offered at a discount to market price, and the rights may themselves be traded without taking up the shares.
too big a subject for a short note! The main types of risk to be assessed for each investment are country risk, foreign exchange risk, interest rate risk, political risk, and market risk. If you invest $10,000 in a stock, in theory you are risking the whole amount, but in reality you should have a stop loss in place, so that the amount risked is only the difference between the purchase price and the stop loss. For more explanation see our page on position sizing.
when you enter a position, you should have two figures in mind: your stop loss, and your target price. Your risk is the difference between your purchase price and your stop; your reward is the difference between your target and your purchase price. You should always try to ensure that the trade you are considering is worthwhile, i.e. it has a risk/reward ratio of at least 2:1, and preferably 3:1.
round lot
the normal trading units for a stock. In the U.S. and the U.K. one lot is 100 shares.
a stock market index of the bottom 2,000 companies in the Russell 3000 Index. It is the standard benchmark for the performance of the small-cap and mid-cap sector.
a stock market index of 3,000 companies, representing around 98% of the tradable U.S. market.
S&P 500 .
a free-float capitalization weighted index of 500 large-cap stocks, selected for their liquidity and industry grouping to represent the risk/return profile of the large-cap universe. It is a bellwether of the U.S. economy, and because of its larger size it is more widely used as a benchmark by professionals than the Dow.
the act of profiting from very small price differences. Day-traders may attempt to grab one or two ticks with high volume; market makers attempt to scalp by profiting from the bid/ask spread.
the Securities and Exchange Commission is a federal agency, and the regulatory body for the securities industry, and the stock, options, and other electronic securities markets.
secondary listing
a share listing on an exchange other than the company's primary exchange. This may be done to raise additional capital, or to increase their international profile.
a financial market where previously-issued securities are bought or sold. Thus, all stock exchanges are actually secondary markets, as the shares traded there were previously issued by a company to an initial owner.
sector fund
a mutual fund or exchange traded fund that concentrates its investments in one particular market sector.
secular market
a secular market trend is a long-term trend, typically driven by major national or world events, that lasts 5 to 25 years. A secular bear market consists of smaller bull markets and larger bear markets; a secular bull market consists of larger bull markets and smaller bear markets. Most people agree that the U.S. enjoyed a secular bull market from 1980 to 2000, and that it is currently in a secular bear market.
the broad term for any freely exchangeable, negotiable instrument representing financial value.
owners of securities can lend them to another party, to allow that party to short them. The owner will retain the right to dividends and other distributions, and will be paid a fee.
sell side
the side of the industry that deals with the general public, i.e. the retail brokers and research departments that sell securities and make recommendations for brokerage firms' customers.
a pre-determined set of conditions within a system which, when met, triggers a potential stock purchase.
shareholders' equity
the shareholders’ interest in the company, defined as total assets minus total liabilities.
if you hold an open position in shares which you have sold but do not own, you are short – the opposite is long.
short covering
if you have a short position, anticipating a fall in the stock price, but it continues to rise, you may have to cover your shorts, i.e. buy stocks to match your short positions.
sideways market
a market which has no strong upward or downward bias.
the difference between the price at the time you place a market order and the price at which the order is executed.
companies with a market capitalization of less than $1 billion.
sovereign wealth fund (SWF)
a fund set up by a state to invest their surplus capital. The top three SWF's in 2010 were Abu Dhabi, Norway, and Saudi Arabia.
a market maker in an exchange. The specialist holds an inventory of stock, posts the bid and ask prices, manages limit orders and executes trades.
an extended price move at the top or bottom of a trend, signaling a trend reversal.
the difference between the Bid and Ask prices.
– a momentum oscillator developed by George C. Lane in the late 1950s. It shows the location of the closing price relative to its price range over a set number of periods. The theory behind this indicator is that, in an up-trending market, prices will tend to close near their highs, and vice versa.
a company may split its shares if it decides that each individual share is getting too expensive, thus reducing its liquidity. If the terms of the split are, say, 3 to 1, a holder of 100 shares before the split will end up with 300 shares after the split; however, the net assets of the company haven’t changed, so each share should be worth one-third of its pre-split value.
an order instructing your broker to sell if a stock should fall to a certain price. Actually there are two parts to the order – at what price should it trigger, and what action should be taken, i.e. market order, or limit order at a certain price.
a price on a chart which has been touched at least twice and preferably more, but which has not been breached – it seems to act as a ‘floor’ for the time being. However, when finally breached, the support price may become resistance for future price retracements.
support line - click to enlarge
a short-term trading style that aims to capture profits on positions held for one to five days, so it sits between day trading and trend trading.
a set of rules for trading. A complete trading system should have rules for entry, stop loss, profit target, exit, and position sizing.
systematic trading
also called mechanical trading, it is trading according to a set of pre-determined rules, usually computer driven. True systematic trading leaves no room for discretion. The space between the two extremes of purely systematic and purely discretionary trading leaves plenty of room to find the degree of discretion that suits you.
on entering a trade, it is the price, set by you, at which you will exit the trade. But if and when you get there, will you exit or will you be greedy?
the forecasting of the likely direction of future price movements by reference to past prices. Technical analysts believe that everything known about a company and its future prospects is already in the stock price. You could say that one of the problems of technical analysis is the sheer number of indicators available – which ones do you look at? If you are going to be a technician, pick two or three indicators, back-test them to satisfy yourself that they give you a tradable edge, and then stick to them.
the smallest possible price move for a particular stock. Many U.S. exchanges have an official tick value of one cent, but the effective tick value, i.e. the one used by the market, can be quite different – don’t expect Berkshire Hathaway A-shares, currently around US$115,000 each, to trade in penny ticks!
ticker tape
a term from history, share prices used to be relayed to brokers via a small machine which printed the prices on continuous tapes, hence ‘watching the tape’. Nowadays we see the ticker at the bottom of the screen on the financial news channels, or scrolling on the outside of buildings in the financial district.
a stop loss which follows the share price as it moves upwards, but which never moves downwards. The objective is to lock in profits, but if the stop is too tight it may stop you out of a winning position prematurely.
a method of trading which seeks to capitalize on the tendency of market to move predominantly in one direction, either up or down. The idea is to trade in the direction of the trend, and hold until the trend reverses direction.
– a straight line drawn on a chart connecting at least two, and preferably more, points to highlight the dominant trend. By convention, the lines are drawn to connect the lows in an uptrend, and the highs in a downtrend. When a trend line is broken, it may indicate a reversal of trend direction.
trend lines - click to enlarge
triple withching hour
the final hour of the stock trading session on the third Friday of March, June, September, and December, so called because at the end of the day the contracts for stock options, stock market index options, and stock market index futures expire simultaneously.
to have a smaller percentage allocation than normal for a particular asset class – thus a fund manager might say that they are ‘underweight equities’.
a financial institution, such as an investment bank, that administers the issuance of a security on behalf of the issuer. The underwriter will advise on the timing of the issue, the amount, the proportion of different share classes, and the issue price, and will undertake to buy an shares of the issue that are not taken up.
unit trust
the U.K. term for a mutual fund.
uptick
an upward movement in the price of a stock. The uptick rule states that a short sale can be executed only when the last sale of a stock is at a higher price than the immediately preceding sale. The rule was in effect in the U.S. markets from 1938 until 2007. Short sellers were blamed (a convenient scapegoat?) for exacerbating the 2008 crash in the markets, and the SEC is still debating whether to reintroduce the rule.
a very subjective term used to describe stocks that are trading for less than they are ‘worth’. One indication of a value stock is a high dividend yield. A value stock might be a stock in a mature industry with limited future growth prospects, but it might also be a stock which has been unfairly beaten down by the market, for example, in the opinion of Warren Buffett, Burlington Northern Santa Fe railroad.
a measure of the movements in a stock over time. The more extreme the movements are, the higher is the stock’s volatility. Stocks with a higher volatility will be more risky investments, but (remember the connection between risk and reward) can give greater rewards.
the number of shares of an individual stock, or the market, traded within a given time period.
a derivative security that entitles the holder to purchase securities (usually equities) from the issuer at a fixed exercise price within a certain time frame. They differ from options in that they are issued by companies or investment houses only – individuals cannot ‘write’ warrants like they can options.
the capital used by a company in trading, defined as current assets (principally cash and equivalents, accounts receivable, and inventories), minus current liabilities .
the dividends or distributions received on a security.
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Boys & Girls Clubs of Harford County Appoints Three New Directors to Board
Boys & Girls Clubs of Harford County
Appoints Three New Directors to Board
March 2016—Harford County
Boys & Girls Clubs of Harford County is pleased to announce the appointment of John Goodin of Harford Mutual, Paul Majewski of Chesapeak Shredding, and Lorrie Schenning of Harford Bank, as the three newest members to its Board of Directors. “With our 25th Anniversary behind us, we are ecstatic about the support and momentum that has built up over the last year and feel that these three individuals will be great allies in strengthening our position in the community,” says Jeff Foulk, Immediate Past President for the Clubs. “Our Clubs served over 6,000 youth in Harford County last year, so it’s essential we add members to our Board with the reach and expertise to grow our resources,” adds Phil Crocker, current Board President.
Highly accomplished in his field, John Goodin has held several leadership roles during his 7-year tenure at Harford Mutual, most recently being named the Senior Vice President of Commercial Business Services. John, who is active in the local community and currently resides in Havre de Grace with his wife, Janine, has been a Boys & Girls Club supporter for several years. His volunteerism at the Aberdeen Boys & Girls Club includes assisting with Thanksgiving dinners, Baseball games, and Wiffle Ball tournaments.
Paul Majewski, Owner of Chesapeak Shredding, is a Maryland native, currently residing in Forest Hill, MD with his wife, Brittany, and their five children. Paul is involved with the Aberdeen Rotary and sits on the Harford Community College Foundation Board. In addition to donating his shredding services to the Club, over the last several years, Paul has volunteered by raising funds for the Kiss-a-Pig contest and has been a helping hand at pancake breakfasts, the Haunted Trail, open houses, and even helped to start a new fundraiser called Backpacks, Burgers, and Brews with the Harford Roundtable Group. Paul is enjoying the current projects he is helping with, getting signs built and placed for the BCG summer camp and jump-starting the Passport to Manhood program.
Currently, the Senior Vice President at Harford Bank, Lorrie Schenning, brings a wealth of non-profit experience to the Clubs. Lorrie is a Past President and member of Chesapeake Professional Women’s Network, Board Member of Chesapeake Therapeutic Riding, Board Member and Treasurer of Harford Day School, member of the Harford County Chamber of Commerce, member of the President’s Council and the Black Gold Committee of John Carroll School, and a member of the Women’s Giving Circle of Harford County.
All will be welcome additions to our Board of Directors.
About Boys & Girls Clubs of Harford County:
Celebrating more than 25 years, Boys & Girls Clubs of Harford County was established in 1990 by a group of concerned citizens in the Aberdeen area. The organization now serves over 6,000 youth per year and operates Clubs in Aberdeen, Bel Air, Edgewood, Havre de Grace and Windsor Valley, as well as summer programs at Camp Hidden Valley and the Aberdeen Family Swim Center. Our mission is to inspire and enable all youth, especially those who need us most, to realize their full potential as productive, responsible and caring citizens. The Club is open to all youth ages 6 to 18 and provides positive youth development programs in five core areas: Character and Leadership Development; Health & Life Skills; Education & Career Development; the Arts; and Sports, Fitness and Recreation. For more information visit www.bgcharfordco.org or call 410-272-0010.
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Newcomer on the Mound, 1936
This picture was published in the Milwaukee Journal on Sunday, March 8, 1936. The Brewers had just opened their Spring Training camp at Lake Wales, Florida, and this man was among those hoping to make the club.
A NEWCOMER to the Milwaukee pitching staff is Joe Heving, who's shown here all wound up and ready to let fly. The former big leaguer is expected to bolster the Brewer staff considerably. Other pitching regulars probably will be Garland Braxton, if he signs; Presnell, Hamlin and Clyde Hatter.
It's an unusual photo, taken from above as the pitcher begins his windup. The ground fills the frame, forming a rough backdrop that works very well with the intricate texture and deep folds of his flannel uniform. A closer look reveals some of the crude airbrushing of the day, exaggerating the lines around his eyes and giving him a somewhat-kabuki appearance up close.
There's only one problem; that's not Joe Heving.
The caption on the reverse of the photo crosses out Heving's name entirely. Along the top, a handwritten notation: "Luke Hamlin".
So who is it? Heving, Hamlin, or someone else entirely?
Joe Heving was, as the original caption indicated, "former big leaguer" who was new to the Brewers. At thirty-five years of age, had already pitched for fifteen seasons. Most recently he had spent 1933 and 1934 hurling for the White Sox at Comiskey Park. That second season was a rough one, and he was sent to the Louisville Colonels. Heving, perhaps not willing to accept the "former" part of that title, refused to accept his assignment and sat out the 1935 season rather than play for Louisville. Now, a year later, he had a lot on the line when he reported to the Brewers' spring training camp.
On the other hand, Luke Hamlin was well-known to the fans at Borchert Field. Like Heving, he was in his thirties (thirty-one year as the season started). He was also a former big leaguer, who had spent part of 1933 and all of 1934 in the Show. In Hamlin's case it was Detroit, where he earned an ERA of 5.38 in 1934, his only full season. Hamlin was about to start his second season with the Brewers, after going 8-14 in thirty appearances with the Brews in 1935.
Both men pitched well as the Brewers cruised to the 1936 American Association pennant. Heving went 19-12 with an ERA of 3.48, and Hamlin was just behind him with 19-14 and an 3.82 ERA. Similarly, both found used their time in Milwaukee to vault themselves back in the bigs in '36; when the next season opened, Hamlin was with Brooklyn and Heving was hurling in Cleveland.
So which one is shown in our photo? Google makes this one easy. Let's take a look at the two men in the years immediately following this one, when Heving had been traded to the Boston Red Sox and Hamlin was in Dodger blue.
Joe Heving in 1938
(Getty Images) Luke Hamlin in 1937
Two clean-shaven men of approximate age; I guess it's possible to see where an editor might have misattributed the photo. But looking at the two men side by side, there's no question. Between the deep vertical lines on his cheeks and the thin lips, that's obviously Hamlin in our photo.
Whoever corrected the attribution was dead-on.
Labels: 1930s, historical players, uniforms, wire photos
Brewing a Different Kind of Pride in Milwaukee
Rare Photo - the 1923 Milwaukee Bears
"Back Yards to Big Leagues: Milwaukee’s Sports and...
"The First Rows of Summer", 1938
Beer and J. C. Penney, 1993
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Otto Borchert at the Milwaukee County Historical Society
Today, we finish our review of the Milwaukee County Historical Society's recently-closed exhibit "Back Yards to Big Leagues: Milwaukee’s Sports and Recreation History", with a look at old Otto Borchert himself.
It's a small display, but nice to see that he at least got some recognition.
The text reads:
Otto Borchert (1874-1927) was the son of brewery owner Frederick Borchert and got his introduction to baseball selling peanuts at the Wright Street ballpark. He worked several jobs in Milwaukee as a young man, but made his fortune as a traveling salesman, first for the Wisconsin Telephone Co., then Julius Andrae & Sons (electronic equipment and bicycles). In 1919 he bought 2/7 of he Milwaukee Brewers and Athletic Park, eventually taking full control. He proved to be a shrewd baseball businessman frequently selling his players to big league teams for huge profits. He enjoyed the game, too, often sunning himself in the stands and interacting with the fans as they jeered him. On April 27, 1927 Borchert was speaking in front of 600 people at an Elks Club banquet in honor of the upcoming Brewers season when he collapsed. The 52-year old died that night, leaving the team and ballpark to his wife Idabel. She nominally ran the team until she sold it to Henry Killilea who allowed her to retain the ballpark and collect rent on it.
A relic of Idabel's ballpark is in the collection of the Historical Society.
In the center, a wonderful portrait of old Otto beaming broadly.
On the left, a photo of Otto with his first baseman Bunny Brief in January of 1925.
When this photo was taken, Borchert had just traded for the veteran first baseman from the Kansas City Blues. Brief had fifteen years of pro ball under his belt but wasn't done yet; Bunny led the league that year in home runs (37) and slugging (.652), and spent the next four years at Borchert Field.
Finally, a clipping from the Milwaukee Sentinel, April 28, 1927, announcing his death.
700 AT BASEBALL DINNER SEE CLUB OWNER FALL DEAD
Brewer Magnate Slumps Before Microphone When Gripped by Stroke; Elks Sing Ritual at Death.
Death called three strikes last night on Otto Borchert.
The picturesque owner and president of the Milwaukee ball club died on his feet, talking to 700 baseball fans who were attending a banquet in honor of him and his team.
Borchert's last inning in the game of life ended in the banquet hall at the Elks' club, of which he was a life member, and whose donation financed the memorial altar in the new clubhouse, a tribute to brother Elks who are dead.
A microphone stood before Mr. Borchert, on the speakers' table carrying his words out into space to an unseen radio audience.
At his home, 590 Hi-Mount boulevard, his wife, Mrs. Ruby Borchert, listened at the receiving set.
Awfully poetic, that newspaper column. You can read more about his story here.
And with that, we conclude our review of the exhibit. Special thanks again to the Milwaukee County Historical Society for putting so much of the city's sporting history in one place. Can't wait to see what's next.
Posted by Chance Michaels at 11:55 PM
Labels: 1920s, Modern Museum Exhibitions, Otto Borchert, ownership
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Biography – FROBISHER, SIR MARTIN – Volume I (1000-1700) – Dictionary of Canadian Biography
FROBISHER, SIR MARTIN, mariner, privateer, explorer, the first Englishman after the Cabots to seek a northwest passage; b. 1539?; d. 1594.
He was one of five children of Bernard Frobisher and his wife, the daughter of a knightly family named York. When Martin was of an age to be schooled, his widowed mother put him in the care of her brother, Sir John York, then master of the Mint and resident in London. The extant personal papers of Frobisher suggest that he leaned little towards scholarly pursuits, as lad or man; but as Lok says in his account of the first voyage, his uncle perceived him “to be of great spirit and bould courage, and naturall hardnes of body.” In 1553, Sir John sent Martin to Guinea with the Wyndham expedition, in which Sir John had invested; Martin was among the quarter of the expedition who survived, In 1554, he joined another trading expedition to Guinea; on this venture he was detained some months by an African chief as a hostage.
From the close of his second Guinea voyage until 1573, Frobisher’s rise in prestige and worldly influence followed the pattern of Elizabethan England’s myriad daredevil, swashbuckling, fortune-seeking marine careerists. In 1571 and for a year or two after, he was employed by the queen herself in her campaign to subjugate Ireland. Meanwhile, he had engaged in legitimate merchant trade and also privateering, sometimes with a licence, sometimes not. Although never brought to trial, he was at least three times taken into custody on charges of piracy, the charges probably dismissed when balanced against the booty his forays added to the queen’s treasury. The spirit and boldness his uncle observed in him did not diminish; to them the years added brilliant seamanship. In 1569, he caused the merchants of Rye to petition the Privy Council for special protection against his harrying of French vessels carrying Rye merchandise: “no six of their ships were fit to cope with Frobisher.” In 1564, according to Admiralty Court records, “his name was as well known to Philip of Spain and as well hated as that of Hawkins himself.”
No contemporary document dates the year in which Frobisher’s seaman-venturer’s imagination began to work on opening a route west across the northern seas between Elizabeth’s England, feverish for gold, and Cathay, treasure house of the known world. At his uncle’s house, even before being sent to sea, young Frobisher would have heard constant talk of the wealth of the Orient and of routes to it. Likely enough, coming from such a household, his ears and fancy were pricked by the tales of a captain on the Wyndham expedition, one Pinteado, who declared that such a passage not only existed but that Pinteado himself had earlier passed “this streicte.” By 1561 Frobisher had laid before his friends a map by which he proved a northwest passage voyage “easie to bée performed” (G. Best, “The fyrst booke of the first voyage of Martin Frobisher . . .”). For 15 years thereafter he offered his services for such a voyage to likely entrepreneurs of the time. Unable to promise them “sure, certayne, and present gaynes,” he despaired of opening their purses and took his plan to the queen’s court.
Ambrose Dudley, Earl of Warwick, brought Frobisher to the favourable attention of members of the Privy Council who, in December 1574, recommended to the Muscovy Company that it grant him a licence for a northwest exploration. When the Muscovy Company, itself under licence from the Privy Council to search out a northwest passage, refused to support Frobisher, the Council ordered the company either to attempt the exploration by an expedition of their own or to grant a licence to someone who would attempt it. Michael Lok, the director of the Muscovy Company, had meantime become enthusiastic about Frobisher’s proposal; he persuaded the company to grant Frobisher a licence for north-west passage exploration without further opposition.
From 18 of many persons solicited, Lok and Frobisher were able to raise £875. Lok agreed to assume the remaining cost, more than £700. They built a ship of about 20 tons, the Gabriell, and bought the Michaell, a ship of about 25 tons, and a pinnace of about 10 tons. Dr John Dee, Elizabethan England’s most famed astrologer, mathematician, and sometime magician passed the spring of 1576 on board Frobisher’s ships, instructing the men in the new art of cosmological and mathematical navigation.
On 7 June 1576, the fleet, with Frobisher its admiral and pilot, sailed from Ratcliffe. Christopher Hall was captain of the Gabriell, Owen Griffyn of the Michaell; the crews numbered in all, 35. The queen herself waved them farewell as they passed Greenwich. On 26 June, having been delayed by wind, they reached the Shetland Islands, then sailed westward.
On 1 July, Frobisher sighted the east coast of Greenland; this he took to be Friesland, an island then charted on most maps of the North Atlantic Ocean, but now known not to exist. [See Appendix for a discussion of the Zeno brothers’ map.] Ice and fog along the coast prevented a landing. While they were near Greenland, a great storm arose in which the pinnace and its crew of four were lost, the Gabriell nearly swamped, and the Michaell separated from the Gabriell. Capt. Griffyn of the Michaell was so frightened by the ice encountered that he decided to turn back. When he arrived in London, he reported the rest of the expedition lost.
Undaunted by the loss of his sister ship and pinnace, Frobisher continued westward “knowing that the Sea at length must néedes have an endyng, and that some lande shoulde have a beginning that way.” On 28 July he sighted a coast (probably Resolution Island) that he named Queen Elizabeth’s Foreland. Directly north of it he discovered a “greate gutte, bay or passage,” dividing, or so he thought, Asia on the north from America on the south. He sailed some 60 leagues into the passage which, following the precedent of Magellan, he named for himself – Frobisher’s Strait. The “strait” is in fact the deep bay in Baffin Island that still bears Frobisher’s name.
In late August, natives came to the ship to trade meat and furs for trinkets and clothing. One native agreed, by signs, to pilot the ship into the “West Sea.” Frobisher sent the native, accompanied by seamen, back to shore to prepare himself for the journey. Contrary to Frobisher’s orders, the five men who rowed the native ashore landed out of sight of the ship. Two of the five rowed into sight again, but then headed back to shore, and none of the five was ever seen again. Frobisher, hoping they would return, stood by for three days; he then proceeded along the coast with the plan of capturing other natives whom he might ransom for his own men. He found no other natives and when he returned to the place where his men had disappeared he found the natives who had been there gone. In despair, he decided he must return home. Just before leaving Frobisher’s “strait,” he captured a native who had come to the ship in his kayak to trade and took him to England.
The Gabriell’s arrival in London, on 9 October, was greeted with joy and admiration, not only because the ship had been supposed lost, but also, as Lok said, because of the “strange man and his bote, which was such a wonder onto the whole city and to the rest of the realm that heard of yt as seemed never to have happened the like great matter to any man’s knowledge.” Frobisher was “highly commended . . . for the great hope he brought of the passage to Cataya” (Best) but his prisoner, who had taken a cold at sea, soon died.
Frobisher gave to Michael Lok, according to a promise he had made, “the fyrst thinge that he founde in the new land,” a piece of mineral. Lok took the mineral to three assayers, each of whom identified it as marcasite. A fourth assayer, an Italian named Agnello, returned to Lok three tiny amounts of gold for the three pieces of marcasite he had tested. When Lok asked Agnello how he had succeeded where others failed, the Italian replied: “It is necessary to know how to flatter nature.”
The rumour of gold made the supporters of the first voyage eager to join in financing a second. In March 1577 they formed the Cathay Company, under royal charter; Lok was appointed governor and Frobisher styled “high admiral.” Queen Elizabeth subscribed £1,000 to the new company and lent a ship of 200 tons, the Ayde.
Frobisher’s commission for his second voyage, according to Best, “directed hym . . . only for the searching of the Gold Ore, and to deferre the further discoverie of the passage untill another tyme.” On 31 May 1577, Frobisher set out from Harwich with 3 ships and about 120 men. He, his lieutenant, George Best, with Charles Jackman as mate, sailed in the Ayde; Edward Fenton captained the Gabrielle, and Gilbert Yorke the Michaell. They were off Greenland on 4 July, but ice prevented a landing. On 17 July they reached the island from which the marcasite had been taken but, finding the ore body meagre, Frobisher moved to another island in his “strait” for mining. While the five miners and other members of the expedition loaded the Ayde with about 200 tons of ore, Frobisher searched for his lost men. No trace of them was found. Before they left the mine, on 23 August, Frobisher took prisoner a native man and a woman with a child, all of whom died about a month after they reached England.
During the winter of 1577–78, disagreements, both among the investors of the Cathay Company and among the refiners, arose over the smelting of the ore. The disagreements terminated when the refiners declared the ore poor and the Company decided upon a third, more ambitious voyage. On 31 May 1578, Frobisher, in the Ayde, led a fleet of 15 vessels from Harwich with the double object of establishing a settlement in Frobisher’s “straits” and of bringing back to England 2,000 tons of ore.
On 20 June, Frobisher took possession of Greenland (he still thought it Friesland) in the name of Queen Elizabeth and renamed it West England. On 2 July the expedition sighted the new land – Meta Incognita, Queen Elizabeth had named it – but ice and unfavourable winds prevented their landing immediately. Driven south, they sailed some 60 leagues into a “mistaken straytes.” Frobisher consulted with his subordinates, especially with James Beare, a master in the fleet who had made a chart of the coast in 1577, and Christopher Hall, his chief pilot. At first Frobisher insisted, against Hall’s opinion, that it was “Frobisher’s strait.” He explained later that he had hoped, by maintaining the newly discovered strait was his own, to follow it to China. A quarter of a century elapsed before George Waymouth, in 1602, and Henry Hudson, in 1610, demonstrated that the “mistaken straytes” led not into the South or West Sea, as Frobisher believed, but into the inland sea now called Hudson Bay.
Ice, currents, and contrary winds held the fleet from its destination during most of July. One ship sank, crushed by the ice, but its crew was saved; another ship, with its full complement of men, deserted to return to England. At the end of July the fleet gathered in the sound within Frobisher’s “strait” which the admiral had named for the Countess of Warwick. Here Frobisher led a search for ore, and in the short season remaining the sailors mended the damaged ships; the miners and gold refiners dug out and tested the ore, assisted by the “Gentlemen [who] for example sake laboured hartily, and honestlye encouraged the inferiour sorte to worke” (Best). Because most of the building timber had been lost with the sunken ship, the establishment of a wintering colony, one of the objects of the expedition, was given up. Frobisher caused to be built near the mines a house of lime and stones so that the effect of an arctic winter on them might be observed in the future. (Charles Francis Hall* in 1861–62 found the site of Frobisher’s mines; Hall divided between the Smithsonian Institution and the Royal Geographical Society the relics he found at the mines, but both sets of relics have since been lost.)
At the end of August, the 13 vessels left the Countess of Warwick’s Sound with their cargo of ore. In England, attempts to refine gold from the ore continued at least until 1583; finally both refiners and investors admitted failure. Many of the documents relating to the organization and the financing of Frobisher’s three arctic voyages have been preserved in the records of the litigations following on the failure of the Cathay Company. Had the voyages turned out more favourably to the investors, the company’s earlier records would probably by now have been lost or destroyed.
Frobisher continued in naval service after the failure of the Cathay Company. In the autumn of 1578 he participated in a campaign to put down a rebellion in Ireland. In 1582 he planned – but never made – an expedition to Cathay by way of the Cape of Good Hope. In 1585 Sir Francis Drake, with Frobisher as vice-admiral, led a privateering expedition of 25 vessels to the West Indies; the fleet returned to England in July 1586, having done great damage to the Spanish settlements and taken a booty of £60,000. In 1588 Frobisher held one of the chief commands in the naval defence of England against the Spanish Armada; for this service he was knighted. In the spring of 1589, Sir Martin assisted Drake in harassing Spanish shipping, an activity he continued, in positions of command, until 1594. In that year the Spanish king sent a force to Brest to assist a faction warring against the king of France. Elizabeth sent a force to support the French. In the course of storming a fort held by the Spanish at Crozon, Sir Martin was shot in the side. He died of his wound a few days later, on 22 Nov. 1594, at Plymouth.
Little is known of Frobisher’s personal life. His first wife, Isabel, evidently died some time after his third arctic voyage; by 1591, he had married Dorothy, the widow of Sir William Widmerpole. He had no children, but named as heir his nephew Peter Frobisher.
Stefansson has given a useful assessment of Frobisher’s character, in view of the derogatory comments of some of his contemporaries:. “Though he is frequently described as a hasty, choleric, or passionate man, this estimate appears to be based mainly on the abuse heaped upon him by his old friend Lok when schemes went wrong. That the brave admiral was not unloved by those under him appears from the narrative of the sailor Thomas Ellis, and the various poems written by him and others in praise of Frobisher, as well as from the references to his heroism, his feats of strength, his desire to treat the natives kindly, in the various accounts of his voyages by other participants.”
Alan Cooke
George Best, A true discourse of the late voyages of discoverie, for the finding of a passage to Cathaya, by the northweast, under the conduct of Martin Frobisher generall . . . (London, 1578); reprinted in Stefansson ed. (infra), I, in Hakluyt, Principal navigations, VII (1903–5), and in Collinson ed. (infra). Thomas Ellis, A true report of the third and last voyage into Meta incognita: atchieved by the worthie capteine, M. Martine Frobisher, esquire, Anno. 1578 (London, 1578), reprinted in Stefansson ed., II, and in Collinson ed. Dionyse Settle, A true reporte of the laste voyage into the west and northwest regions, &c. 1577. worthily atchieved by Capteine Frobisher of the sayde voyage the first finder and generall (London, 1577); reprinted in Stefansson ed., II.
The three voyages of Martin Frobisher in search of a passage to Cathaia and India by the north-west, A.D. 1576–8, ed. R. Collinson (Hakluyt Soc., 1st ser., XXXVIII, 1867). The three voyages of Martin Frobisher in search of a passage to Cathay and India by the north-west, A.D. 1576–8: from the original 1578 text of George Best, ed. Vilhjalmur Stefansson (2v., London, 1938); all quotations in the text above are from this edition. DNB. William McFee, The life of Sir Martin Frobisher (New York and London, 1928). Oleson, Early voyages, 148–54. Sharat K. Roy, The history and petrography of Frobisher’s “Gold Ore,” Field Museum of Nat. Hist. Pub., 384, Geol. ser., VII (1937), 21–38. E. G. R. Taylor, Tudor geography, 1485–1583 (London, 1930).
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Alan Cooke, “FROBISHER, SIR MARTIN,” in Dictionary of Canadian Biography, vol. 1, University of Toronto/Université Laval, 2003–, accessed July 15, 2019, http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/frobisher_martin_1E.html.
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Civil war in the stands: give it a rest
Plenty of stories have come through today, concerning violence between Arsenal fans at last night's Anderlecht game. This isn't the first time it's happened in recent years; Reading and Brighton away are just a couple of examples where fighting has taken place in the stands.
Yesterday afternoon images of the "Thanks for the memories" flag started doing the rounds, when it was hung outside a pub in Belgium. For those who are unaware of the flag, it's addressed to Arsene Wenger and says "Thanks for the memories but it's time to say goodbye". Needless to say, those who back our manager are never happy when it comes out.
To be perfectly honest, I couldn't care if the flag is displayed outside a pub; people are entitled to their opinion and if they think the manager should go, that's up to them. However, some apparently took offence to the flag yesterday and thought they'd get violent towards its owners. Naturally there was a reaction to this provocation... resulting in punches thrown. All because of one man. Madness.
It's sad that it's come to this and it's pathetic we have Arsenal on Arsenal violence. Outside the stadium is one thing, but when it happens in the ground, there are a couple of key issues.
First and foremost, you're there to watch a football match and support your team. Abuse or fighting among fans can easily filter through to the players and let's be honest, they're hardly full of confidence at the moment are they? So channel your energy into getting behind the team. We all want The Arsenal to win every match, so when the players pull on that shirt and are on the pitch, forget the manager and drive the team on.
Secondly, football grounds now are so full of CCTV that you're more than likely going to be on film if you're throwing punches at another fan. Therefore expect police involvement, court, and a three year ban from all football grounds.You may want the manager here or want him gone, but don't get so wound up in the ground and get yourself nicked.
I've never known our fanbase to be this divided, and with the Board seeing fit to award Arsene Wenger a 3 year contract, things will get worse before they get better. It's at that stage where those at the opposite ends of the spectrum are always bound to clash... but when you're in the ground, give it a rest and sing up for The Arsenal.
'Highbury Harold'
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Rev. John Wing Sites
created by Raymond T. Wing
England, Hamburg, and The Netherlands
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: Wing, Buckinghamshire
Balloon points to the site of All Saint's Church in Wing. This church sits on the site claimed to be the oldest continuously used religious site in England. Archaeological evidence suggests that the site goes back to the Roman occupation of Britain.
Wing, Buckinghamshire
: Wing, Rutlandshire
Balloon pointing to the location of the famous "Wing Maze"
Theodore Wing of Rutland, Warden of the Wards and Liveries to King Henry VII (reign 1485-1509) was granted a coat-of-arms by Henry.
He was the only Wing who was granted a CoA in England.
The famous astrology family of Wing (Vincent, John & Tycho), were also from No. Luffingham, Rutland.
Wing, Rutlandshire
: 1599 - 1604 Oxford University
Where Rev. John Went to College
1599 - 1604 Oxford University
: 1617-1620 Hamburg
Rev. John spent the years 1617-1620 at Hamburg serving as the minister to the Merchant Adventurers Zeughausmarkt 22 Neustadt Hamburg Germany
1617-1620 Hamburg
: 1614? - 1617 Sandwich, Kent
Rev. John probably spent some time prior to 1617 in or near Sandwich.
1614? - 1617 Sandwich, Kent
: Fenstanton, Huntingtonshire
Fenstanton was the home of the Henry Howland Family.
DNA testing has shown that the Howland family is closely related to the Wing family.
Fenstanton, Huntingtonshire
: Newport Pond, Essex
Earliest known home of the Howland family.
The Howlands were closely related to the Wings
Newport Pond, Essex
: Horningsea
Howland family located here had family given names of Henry & John. Possibly Henry Howland of Fen Stanton was of this line.
Horningsea
: 1608 - 1614 Strood, Kent
St. Nicholas church, first church Rev. John served. Possibly there (as an assistant) as early as 1605 as some of the handwriting is similar to his handwriting.
1608 - 1614 Strood, Kent
: 1584-1599 Banbury, Oxford
Birthplace of Rev. John Wing. This Bubble is placed on the site of the present St. Mary's Church in Banbury. See http://www.stmaryschurch-banbury.org.uk/information/history.html
1584-1599 Banbury, Oxford
: 1620 - 1627 Flushing, Zeeland
Rev. John was the pastor of the English Church at Vlissingen (Flushing) from 1620 - 1624.
1620 - 1627 Flushing, Zeeland
: 1620 - 1627 Middelburg, Zeeland
Rev. John also occasionally preached here from 1620-1627. His sermon, "The Best Merchandise" was preached here in 1622 for the Merchant Adventurers just before they moved from Middelburg to the Delft.
1620 - 1627 Middelburg, Zeeland
: Wherwell, Hampshire
Parish Rev. Stephen Bachiler was curate, and where Deborah Bachiler was probably born.
Wherwell, Hampshire
: 1629 St. Mary Aldermary, London
The Will of Rev. John Wing was made at St. Mary Aldermary, London in 1629. The church was basically destroyed by the Great Fire of London in 1666. However, the church was rebuilt using the remaining walls from the old church.
Website for church at:
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/mothersole/
1629 St. Mary Aldermary, London
: 1627 - 1629 The Hague
Rev. John was installed as the First Pastor of the English Church at The Hague in 1627.
1627 - 1629 The Hague
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18/05 - Zelkova Quartet (string quartet) - St Martin-in-the-Fields
St Martin-in-the-Fields WC2N 4JJ (map)
Ludwig van Beethoven -
String Quartet in E minor, Op. 59 No. 2 (‘Razumovsky’)
Zelkova Quartet
Violin 1 – Caroline Pether
Violin 2 – Ed Pether
Viola – Alex Mitchell
Cello – Jonathan Pether
Winners of the 2017 St Martin's Chamber Music Competition, the Manchester-based Zelkova Quartet was formed at the Royal Northern College of Music.
Recent performances include recitals at St Martin in the Fields, St John's Smith Square, Moscow's Rachmaninov Hall and the Bridgewater Hall, Manchester. Prior to their success at the St Martin's Competition, the quartet were awarded the Elias Fawcett Trust Prize for Outstanding Chamber Ensemble at the 2014 Royal Overseas League Competition.
artially made up of three siblings, the quartet takes its name from the beautiful Zelkova tree, found commonly around Europe and East Asia.
15/05 - Tamesis Duo (cello piano) - UCH Macmillan Cancer Hospital
25/05 - Piotr Dec (clarinet) & Edyta Lajdorf (piano) - St Martin-in-the-Fields
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Chuck Warren Utah
About Chuck Warren
Chuck Warren: Utah Political Expert
Over the course of more than two decades, Chuck Warren, Utah political operative and consultant, has gained a reputation for his willingness to happily work on extremely difficult assignments and to obtain the best possible results. Chuck is considered highly skilled at implementing strategies that raise awareness for a variety of projects and to bring them to a successful conclusion.
In choosing Chuck Warren, Utah Republican Congressional candidate Mia Love picked a Finance Co-Chair someone who is not only a proven fundraiser, but who, as managing director for Silver Bullet, LLC, a very important consultancy, has dealt with issues such as public affairs, crisis communication and initiative qualifications for a long time, often on behalf of gigantic global corporations, large law firms, governments and many other types of organizations. In addition, Chuck Warren is also a prolific businessman in his own right. He is an equity owner in September Inc. and he serves as a managing director for both Campaign Butler, LLC and Monolith Registries, LLC and he is a partner in Running with the Bulls, LLC. As if that isn’t enough, he also owns a very successful Slices Pizza franchise. Of course, for Chuck Warren, Utah comes first in his heart, which is why he works closely with many state nonprofits, such as the Boys and Girls Clubs of South Valley, Special Olympics Utah and Operation Kids, among many others.
Chuck Warren – Passion for Local Politics in Utah
While being a businessman, public speaking and writing engagements, Chuck Warren also makes time to give back to the community of Utah. In this, he has come to be known as a prolific fundraiser and volunteers for many charitable and political organizations. When he sees a cause he wants to support, he does just that. Chuck Warren is currently serving as Finance Co-Chair for Republican Mia Love in Utah’s 4th Congressional District and is a Finance Chair for the National Republican Congressional Committee for Utah and Arizona. Chuck Warren also worked as a grass roots and voter contact consultant for Sen. Lindsey Graham and Rep. Bill Shuster’s re-elections.
Chuck Warren, Utah Campaign Finance Specialist
With Chuck Warren, Utah’s Republican Mia Love, who is running for Congress in that state’s 4th District, has a Finance Co-Chair a man who has demonstrated himself to be a remarkable fundraiser. The managing director for Silver Bullet, LLC, he has dealt with issues like public affairs, crisis communication and initiative qualifications on behalf of large multinational corporations, high-profile law firms, municipalities, developers and many other types of organizations.
However, whereas he has worked in almost every state, for Chuck Warren, Utah is special. He has served as the National Republican Congressional Committee Finance Chair for Utah and Arizona and he served prominent campaign finance roles with several Republican presidential campaigns as well as numerous Republican campaigns for the House and Senate. He is so influential in Republican politics that he was selected as one of “Campaigns and Elections” magazine’s Influencers 500 in 2013.
Chuck Warren is someone willing to take on difficult assignments and get the best results. He has shown himself to be very good at adopting strategies that raise awareness and bring success to a variety of projects. In one example, he was able to get a $1 billion commitment from Congress for the production of commercial reusable in-space transportation for his client IOSTAR. He has also managed to bring about regulatory changes that halted some of the worst financial practices that brought down the financial system in 2008.
As busy as he is, however, to Chuck Warren Utah comes first. He serves in various capacities with several nonprofits, including Special Olympics Utah, Boys and Girls Clubs of South Valley, Operation Kids and others. Chuck also was once a radio host for “Inside America.”
Chuck Warren, A Well-Rounded Businessman
From radio appearances to volunteering for various charitable organizations, Chuck Warren is a well rounded business professional. Warren has worked in a multitude of industries from major law firms to developers to municipalities. These variations on fields has supplied him with a wealth of knowledge that he is able to use as the managing director of Silver Bullet, LLC. Silver Bullet takes on a wide variety of tasks such as public affairs, crisis communication and initiative qualifications. Chuck Warren brings years of experience to the job from his careers at Amazon.com, Blue Cross Blue Shield, Delta Airlines, and Cancer Treatment Centers for America, just to name a few.
But Chuck Warren is not a man only focused on business he can also be heard and read quoted on numerous radio programs and his columns and comments can be found published in the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, Cal News, and the Washington Times. You can also find many of these op-eds on his website www.chuckwarren.com.
In addition to these skills and experiences, Chuck Warren also is a prolific fundraiser and volunteer for many charitable and political organizations. He is currently serving as Finance Co-Chair for Republican Mia Love in Utah’s 4th Congressional District and is a Finance Chair for the National Republican Congressional Committee for Utah and Arizona. Warren also served as a grass roots and voter contact consultant for Sen. Lindsey Graham and Rep. Bill Shuster’s re-elections.
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New York Philharmonic - Bach, Busoni & Schumann - 10/20/16
Conductor: Leonidas Kavakos
Bach: Violin Concerto in D Minor, BWV 1052R (reconstructed by W. Fischer)
Leonidas Kavakos: Violin
Paolo Bordignon: Harpsichord
Busoni: Berceuse élégiaque, Op. 42
Schumann: Symphony No. 2 in C Major, Op. 61
After some forays into the wild side of classical music last week, I was back on familiar territory, albeit with a ground-breaking twist, last Thursday at the David Geffen Hall for favorite violinist Leonidas Kavakos, this season's Artist-in-Residence, making his debut as New York Philharmonic conductor. The program included a reconstructed violin concerto by Bach, for which he would do double-duty as soloist and conductor, followed by a short Busoni piece and Schumann's compelling Symphony No. 2, for which he would trade his ubiquitous Stradivarius for the baton.
So it was with great expectations – and the knowledge that in all likelihood they would be amply fulfilled – that I made it to the Lincoln Center on Thursday, an unusually sultry October night, for my first concert of the season at the David Geffen Hall.
About six months ago Leonidas Kavakos' arresting Gavotte en Rondeau from Bach’s Partita No. 3, which he played as an encore after a stunning Sibelius concerto with the NY Phil, was a priceless gift and a merciless teaser, leaving us all both infinitely grateful for the treat and desperately eager for more. Well, since apparently wishes do come true in New York Philharmonic's land, he is back with more Bach this season, and by all accounts the Violin Concerto in D Minor we heard on Thursday night more than rewarded our patience. While the reduced orchestra expertly brought out the superb craftsmanship that had gone into the composition, the performance really stood out thanks to the glowing life that was inconspicuously injected into it, happily filling up the hall with technical wizardry and elegant poise. It was also evidence that Leonidas Kavakos had no problem multi-tasking.
Busoni may have resented being associated with Debussy – Although, let's face it, worse things could happen to a composer – but the connection between the two sounded rather evident during the eight exquisite minutes of his Berceuse élégiaque. This touching tribute to his mother, who had just passed away, exuded delicate colors and subtle textures, and constituted a truly poignant interlude.
I had definitely come for Bach, but I am thrilled I stayed for Schumann, who may not be one of my top composers when it comes to symphonies, but again, in the right company, I cannot help but find myself carried away by the inherently engaging nature of his work. Written during a time of serious physical ailment and mental turmoil, his second symphony is nevertheless surprisingly life-affirming. And that was certainly the general vibe we got on Thursday, where the composer's agonizing struggle, endless agitation, quiet melancholy and final triumph over adversity were expressed with much brilliance and heart by the fully committed orchestra. Nonplussed by the daunting challenge, Leonidas Kavakos conducted sans sheet music, but with a clear vision, a steady command and an instinctive rapport with the musicians, which allowed him to conclude this relatively new endeavor of his with a totally enjoyable performance.
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THOMPSON, MAX
Company: Company K
Division: 18th Infantry, 1st Infantry Division
Born: Bethel, N.C.
Entered Service At: Prescott, Ariz.
G.O. Number: 47
Place / Date: Near Haaren, Germany, 18 October 1944
On 18 October 1944, Company K, 18th Infantry, occupying a position on a hill near Haaren, Germany, was attacked by an enemy infantry battalion supported by tanks. The assault was preceded by an artillery concentration, lasting an hour, which inflicted heavy casualties on the company. While engaged in moving wounded men to cover, Sgt. Thompson observed that the enemy had overrun the positions of the 3d Platoon. He immediately attempted to stem the enemy's advance single-handedly. He manned an abandoned machinegun and fired on the enemy until a direct hit from a hostile tank destroyed the gun. Shaken and dazed, Sgt. Thompson picked up an automatic rifle and although alone against the enemy force which was pouring into the gap in our lines, he ??fired burst after burst, halting the leading elements of the attack and dispersing those following. Throwing aside his automatic rifle, which had jammed, he took up a rocket gun, fired on a light tank, setting it on fire. By evening the enemy had been driven from the greater part of the captured position but still held 3 pillboxes. Sgt. Thompson's squad was assigned the task of dislodging the enemy from these emplacements. Darkness having fallen and finding that fire of his squad was ineffective from a distance, Sgt. Thompson crawled forward alone to within 20 yards of 1 of the pillboxes and fired grenades into it. The Germans holding the emplacement concentrated their fire upon him. Though wounded, he held his position fearlessly, continued his grenade fire, and finally forced the enemy to abandon the blockhouse. Sgt. Thompson's courageous leadership inspired his men and materially contributed to the clearing of the enemy from his last remaining hold on this important hill position.
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Dan on Husband Poison Scandal
Filed under: Public Appearances — Editorial Staff @ 4:38 pm
Dan appeared on Good Morning America, Thursday, September 4th to discuss the disturbing case of a man who was arrested for allegedly poisoning his wife back in 1994. Authorities had been stumped by this case for years when Linda Curry, a nonsmoker, died 20 years ago with fatal levels of nicotine in her system. After recent new tests authorities believe they have been able to link Curry to his wife’s death. He was arrested four years ago in small Kansas town where he worked in government, had remarried and was living off of the $400,000 insurance payout from Linda’s death. If convicted Curry faces life in prison without possibility of parole. Says Dan, “He’s a been a suspect from the beginning. Not one of those cases where new DNA evidence came to light and they were able to find it based on new technology because, remember, this is a husband and wife who lived in the same house so his DNA would be everywhere. It seems that there’s some sort of new technology or new testing that was done that allowed them to determine exactly how she died but what this really comes down to to me is a reinvigorated investigation in 2007. A district attorney who decided to take a new look at this case, do some new testing in this case and now has filed charges in 2010…They haven’t been able to file charges because it’s been a tough case and put on top of that you have these witnesses who may have passed away, may have forgotten thing, et cetera, this is not going to be an easy case.” Watch the full clip here.
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Ep 87: Sonja Gittens-Ottley: Remember Your Power and Worth
Diva Tech Talk enjoyed interviewing Sonja Gittens-Ottley, Head of Diversity and Inclusion at Asana, a leading work management platform designed to help teams organize, track, and manage work, for team clarity and collaboration.. (Dustin Moskovitz, a co-founder of Facebook, is also co-founder of Asana, which undoubtedly elevates the company’s standing amongst Silicon Valley startups. Sonja’s major mission is setting standards to drive inclusivity and equity in the workplace. As a first generation transplant to the United States, she immigrated in 2004 from The West Indies. “I am the married mother of a 4-year old boy,” Sonja said. “That has shaped my work and my approach to diversity, because I am bringing up a child in this society. How can what I do today, impact his life, and shape his opportunities for the future?”
Growing up in The Republic of Trinidad/Tobago, Sonja did not have aspirational limits placed upon her. Growing up “we had really structured expectations of what were ‘cool’ jobs. Good jobs were being an educator or lawyer or perhaps an engineer. But the idea of being a technologist did not exist.” Sonja became an attorney, earning a bachelor’s of law degree from The University of the West Indies in Barbados, and a graduate degree from The Hugh Wooding Law School. As a lawyer, she worked at both the Ministry of Legal Affairs/Office of the Attorney General in her home country, and the Central Bank of Trinidad and Tobago. Now she is adamant that “Inclusion is defined by thinking about all the opportunities; ensuring that everyone has access; not being confined to what society says you should be doing.”
Sonja’s transition from law to the tech industry was prompted by her marriage and move to the U.S. for what was originally planned as a two-year stint. “But I got the option to work at a company called Yahoo.” There she implemented project management and did legal internal consulting: “an opportunity too good to pass up!” When Yahoo established a human rights program, Sonja played a significant role. That naturally led to working with Yahoo’s corporate policy making team for diversity and inclusion. “Multinational groups and organizations, and human rights activists were using the company’s tools in a really different way,” Sonja explained. To better understand customer product needs and motivations, she emphasized that “The company has to look like their diverse customer base to really be representative of how products are being used and the potential products that they might use. Imagine the products we could build if people inside companies reflected all users!”
From Yahoo, Sonja moved to Facebook as the company’s Global Diversity Program Manager, and then to Asana as Head of Diversity/Inclusion, where “I get to work across the entire company.” To empower Asana’s diversity, she focused on two strategic pillars: recruiting candidates (“how do we get the best people from everywhere”) and employee evaluation and growth (“how do we ensure they are assessed in a fair manner.”) She stressed that “the culture is really supportive” and that neither pillar can exist without the other; diverse recruitment and accommodating a nurturing culture must work in tandem. She works closely with the company’s University Recruiting team and targets other events that attract diverse attendees and potential talent. To expand inclusion and diverse thinking she works with a variety of supportive initiatives like ERGs (Employee Resource Groups) for internal communities where, “making space for the community, and space for allies to learn more is paramount…”. Today, there are three groups: Asana Women, Asana Gradient (for people of color), and Asana Team Rainbow (for LGBTQ employees). According to Sonja, “They are open to people who identify in those communities and also to employee allies of these groups.” Each group autonomously sets its objectives, but all three are aligned, overall, to the greater Asana mission. One practical approach that Asana initiated to support inclusion is the Asana Real Talk series where people can engage in honest, authentic discussions about overcoming challenges, communicating purpose and driving change, individually and in the greater world/workplace. Sonja also does onboarding sessions with all Asana team members ensuring , “ what is important to us,” is emphasized and they understand how vital inclusion is to the company. Additionally, Sonja concentrates on initiating and strengthening policies such as the liberal Family Leave policy (“this is something open to everyone --- all genders”) to support a diverse, inclusive culture. When speaking about feedback on programs and innovations in this area, Sonja proudly exclaimed: “The beauty of Asana is that it is really transparent,” so any question asked about progress is answered with data. She added, “People are not shy, they ask the questions.”
Much of Sonja’s leadership is enabled through wielding influence and her tips for doing that include: “Be clear about what you are trying to achieve. Be honest. If you are not sure what the results are going to be, say so. People want clarity on an objective --- possible issues, risks involved, and probable results.” For those who want to work at a company with strong diversity and inclusion orientation, she advised, “You have power. You have a brand. You can ask for what you want the company to reflect to both internal and external audiences. It can be as easy as asking in an all-hands: ‘You say you care about diversity and inclusion; what are the actions we’re taking? How welcoming is our workplace? For companies initially adopting diversity and inclusion programs, Sonja recommends conducting a company-wide engagement survey with questions about “belonging” to gauge employee’s perspectives. “There are great online resources,” Sonja said, to create the surveys. (Diva Note: SHRM, Society for Human Resource Management, has created one, and evaluated a series of others). “Think of it as an audit to see where you are.” Sonja cautioned that acting NOW is more prudent than waiting. “The longer you take to do this, the harder it is. If you have an HR team, someone needs to carve out time to think about culture, and employee engagement. And you should be thinking about policies. Are they inclusive and welcoming to everyone?” She pointed to some of the mundane but vital questions a company can ask itself: “What is our restroom situation? Should we have ‘all gender’ restrooms? Are we thinking about ‘mother’s rooms’? You should be thinking about these questions in terms of creating company policy.” For recruiting in companies without a dedicated diversity expert, she suggested: “You should be thinking about interview skills and training.” At Asana, the company has reviewed and addressed bias in interviewing and concentrates on skill-sets rather than a candidate’s former companies.
To measure diversity and inclusion success, Sonja said: “At Asana, we look at it as we would any other objective, in terms of both qualitative and quantitative data. What’s our new hire rate? How is it mapping to our goals? Through surveys, tracking employee engagement as well as monitoring sense of belonging in terms of the overall company, and how are specific groups doing, and the intersectionality of these groups.” The intersectionality data can offer “very different pictures,” according to Sonja.
To keep goals on track, Sonja and Asana do several things:
Monthly “All Hands” company-wide meeting with topics focused on diversity and inclusion progress;
Use of company-wide Slack communication channel and Asana to consistently, transparently share diversity and cultural data;
“Office Hours” and “Ask Me Anything” sessions dedicated to diversity/inclusion/culture, “where people can ask questions” or propose new approaches.
In addition to Asana Real Talk series, Sonja is very proud of the recent apprenticeship program the company launched, AsanaUp. “It was about a year in the making,” she said. “We were thoughtful and intentional about widening that funnel of great candidates coming from non-traditional backgrounds.” In the AsanaUP apprenticeship, the company welcomes candidates from all backgrounds and without university computer science degrees (with other degrees, from coding schools, or parents returning to the workforce) to join the company for 6-9 months and work alongside software engineers. The apprentices “are engineers at Asana. I am really proud of the teams I worked with to get this done,” Sonja said, , “It was a cross-collaborative effort, in the best sense.” Asana plans to expand the program in the immediate future.
Sonja characterized herself as “an eternal optimist.” In her view, “everyone can make a difference. Children are the future, and they have no limits.” She loves to laugh, and “see the humor in every situation.” That attitude helps her make progress on challenges that can appear, at times, to be challenging. “There are people out there who don’t have access to the opportunities,” she said. “I plan to be working on lengthening that pipeline. This has to be done with really great partners like the Grace Hopper Celebration conference”. “Part of the work is reminding people that this is really important. We, often, forget that this is new and uncomfortable for a lot of people: to talk about race or gender or any of the other identities that people possess. Getting people to a place of comfort is how you change things.” Sonja emphatically believes that to overcome diversity challenges, everyone must develop “a real sense of empathy; people might look different than you, might sound different, but we are all trying to do the same thing. Be respectful to others.” The most important thing Sonja would like to do is “remind people of their own power and their own worth. It makes a difference in what you can achieve!”
Sonja Gittens-Ottley can be reached via LinkedIn and Asana can be viewed via the web at https://asana.com/.
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Ep 86: Chloe Condon: Choreographing a Completely New Career
Diva Tech Talk interviewed actor-turned-technologist/evangelist, Chloe Condon , Cloud Advocate for Microsoft.
Chloe is a passionate supporter of women in technology, with an extensive social media brand and robust following. For an engineer, she has a “non-traditional background,” since she “grew up doing musical theater in all shapes and forms.” Chloe’s father is a director/playwright. Her mother is a theatrical costume designer and graphics designer. “So, I grew up in a trunk!” she said (quoting the Judy Garland lyric from the 1954 version of A STAR IS BORN). “I didn’t know a lot about computers, although we did have a computer in our home. I played games on it.” She had little exposure to tech. “I did not know what STEM stood for, until about 4 years ago! I had blinders on. I just knew that I wanted to be an actress.”
After attending a performing arts high school, Chloe matriculated at San Francisco University receiving her bachelors’ degree in theater performance. “I booked my first starring role, playing Kira in Xanadu” a San Francisco stage production. “My picture was on billboards. There was a cut-out of me in the lobby. I thought ‘this is it’…”. But reality brought Chloe up short when “they handed me $500 for three to four months of rehearsal and performances.” She starkly acknowledged the negative economic ramifications of an early theatrical career. So she proceeded to address cashflow through “bizarre 9-to-5 jobs to support my nights/weekends in theater, although I am probably one of the only actresses, you’ll meet who never had a waitressing job.” Chloe took numerous retail jobs, then landed an Account Executive position at (pre-IPO) Yelp, selling online advertising to merchants in Kansas. She became fascinated by the startup, tech environment, but “I was terrible at sales.” Eventually, she “stumbled into other tech roles” including Zirtual, the first virtual personal assistant company. There she met Ben Parr, (“he was then editor-at-large at Mashable”), who co-founded VC fund The Dominate Group. NOTE: Ben is now a columnist at Inc., a sought after speaker, and philanthropist. (“Later in my career, I became his full-time assistant.”)
During this discovery period, Chloe was unhappy. She had a deficit of free time, juggling acting and her “day jobs,” combined with minimal personal autonomy. “It gave me a lot of insight” into others performing service work, who might not realize the world of self-actualization through tech opportunities. Then Chloe attended a Google-sponsored talk focused on getting girls interested in software. It inspired her to take an online class and find a bootcamp for coders (“these can be life-changing”). Narrowing down her choices, “HackBright Academy, an intense 12 weeks, stood out. It was all women. It felt very empowering.”
Hackbright’s message, to the male-dominated programming world, is “change the ratio!” Initially, surrounded by a select cohort of women, many of whom had math or science in their background, Chloe suffered from “Impostor Syndrome” which she thinks is more pervasive in technology than other fields (“tech is always changing; it’s always growing. You’re never going to know everything”). A key to making progress, at the bootcamp, was to adjust learning style from simply reading about concepts to reading AND doing. “I had to think of it like choreography.” Her tenure at the focused camp culminated in a project, based on skills she had learned (Python, Java and more). It was a social media application that rigorously timed postings to achieve optimal exposure, no matter your time zone --- a “set it and forget it” app using Twitter and Facebook API’s as the base. As she prepared for graduation “Demo Night,” Chloe’s revelation was that “building the app was hard; talking about it was not. This was a huge light bulb for me. I had always viewed my theater degree as a setback. But I truly use my theater degree, every day, as an engineer, and doing public speaking.”
Initially interviewing for junior engineering roles, (“interviewing is brutal”), Chloe experienced “a significant change” when she “pivoted my brand to be more ‘developer relations’.” She discovered a niche for her blend of speaking, performing, and communications merged with newly minted programming skills. She was hired by start-up CodeFresh, specializing in Docker innovation. After a year, Chloe left CodeFresh to join Sentry.io, a company focused on error-tracking for developers working in open source. “I was their first developer/analyst.” This gave Chloe “a lot of creative control.” She lauded the company’s culture. “You wanted to go to work, every day. The people were so fun and cool.” There, she reveled in creative, fun projects. “I really had the freedom to throw things at the wall and see if they stuck.” Most of them did. Through that work, she collaborated with Microsoft, (“it’s changed a lot in the last 5 years!”) and that behemoth extended “an offer I couldn’t refuse.” At Microsoft, Chloe currently works with the cloud-based Azure platform. Most recently, she concentrated on cognitive services, infusing applications, websites and bots with intelligent algorithms to interpret in natural language. “I built an app that analyzes images of Cosplay Mario Kart characters to determine their mood and emotions” as one example. “95% of my demos are either funny, quirky or solve a unique problem. I try to have fun elements in everything I do.”
Chloe shared classic advice. “Treat people like humans. As they say in The Book of Mormon, let’s just be really nice to everyone. It’s not that hard.” When faced with a challenge that seems insurmountable (like code not working) Chloe advised: “Take a walk and come back with the solution.” She also counseled people to take breaks for inspiration and to achieve higher productivity. And “ask for help!” When requesting help, Chloe enumerates steps she has already taken so that she is “not wasting anyone’s time.” She also cited Twitter as a rich source of feedback and advice. “There are a lot of online communities, with many wonderful people.” Chloe is amazed by the generosity of experts in the tech industry. “People are willing to help. This community is so welcoming and warm.”
Chloe has evolved to revel in her differences. “I do not look like an engineer. And I fully embrace that,” she said, discussing the male, middle-aged technocrat stereotype. “I think it educates people” when she is the keynote speaker at a tech conference. To build her brand influence “I began tweeting out my experience, getting a following” even as she was becoming a “junior” engineer. In 2017, she wrote an article matter-of-factly describing how it feels to be a sole woman at a tech conference. (“You get kind of lonely.”) It went viral, she thinks, because it allowed others to empathize without judgement. “Here’s the deal, and here’s what you can do to make it better.” To protect herself, from Internet intrusion, she wryly said “I am very sharp, and witty, on Twitter. Anyone who comes at me, publicly, will get destroyed by my awesome jokes!” Pragmatically, she is building a bot to respond to inappropriate DM’s.
In terms of job-hunting, Chloe urged women to be selective. “Work at a place you are comfortable.” She cited “red flags” that become obvious in interviewing. They include a company that is uncomfortable with negotiation; or who has a paucity of women leaders in the interview process. Positively, she expressed appreciation for companies who cultivate sensitivity to issues experienced by women as the minority of engineers. She also cited Ru Paul’s advice to “silence your inner saboteur” and proceed with confidence.
Chloe noted the industry is missing the mark by not considering those with degrees that are not technical. “There is a huge chunk of talent” being missed, by the automatic filtering out of those without computer science degrees. “If you are going to claim you are a diverse company, be open to hiring people from bootcamps! Put your money where your mouth is.”
As an evangelist for Microsoft, and developers in general, Chloe measures success by “folks approaching me and telling me that the work I am doing changed something fundamental for them. At the end of the day, If I have affected one person, or opened eyes to something new, that is success for me!” For other women in the field, she urged “be authentically you. Don’t feel like you must act like one of the guys. We need more ideas, and diverse thoughts.”
Ep 85: Linda Cureton: Master ‘Debugger’ of Powerful Organizations
Diva Tech Talk was honored to interview Linda Cureton, veteran U.S. federal government tech leader, turned entrepreneur. As a child, Linda “was always fascinated with numbers.” Facetiously she recalled doing a math problem as a youngster to compute how old she would be in the Year 2000. “I remember the arithmetic and coming up with the age --- 41.” She thought: “Oh my God. I’ll be dead.” This immediately spurred her. “I better hurry up and do things!”
Linda has had many chances to “do things” (BIG THINGS) although she resisted technology in early life. Still in high school, as an example, she worked for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association as a student assistant cartographer. But because she was left-handed, she would smear the ink, and was “banished” to using computers, instead. Originally aimed toward Washington D.C.’s Duke Ellington School of the Arts, Linda wanted to take calculus in 12th grade, the field of mathematics which focuses on the rate of change over time. So she matriculated at the famous Howard University, because she could enter as a senior in high school in an advanced early calculus program. She began university as a pre-med major, (“I hated it”) but kept taking music classes at Duke Ellington. A Howard University mentor counseled her to drop out of the pre-med program. “You will be successful if you do what you love and enjoy,” he said. Linda switched, sophomore year, to major in mathematics with a minor in Latin. “I wanted to do pure math, but the counselor insisted I take computer classes. I couldn’t get out of it!” As she began to take programming classes (IBM Assembler, Fortran, etc.), much to her surprise, “I really enjoyed them.” Upon university graduation, she was awarded a full scholarship for a PhD in mathematics. But fate intervened in the person of her first husband who “wanted me to get a job and a new car.” So she interviewed at the National Air and Space Administration (NASA), where she started her career. “That’s how I got into technology,” although to her, at the time, it felt like “punishment.” Clearly, over the years, that feeling dramatically changed.
Linda was a mathematician/programmer for 2 years at NASA, then moved to the U.S. Navy, working in the weapons systems development program, and studying to become a program manager in undersea warfare. Her primary motivation for taking the role was to spend time in Seattle, Washington (where her first husband’s family lived), then travel across the country to various naval bases, finally ending up in Crystal City, Virginia. “After 6 months, I realized I didn’t like it, at all” so she moved to become a systems programmer at the Seattle naval base. Her next transition was sparked by divorce. Post-divorce, Linda moved home to Maryland and Washington, D.C, where she took a systems programmer position at the U.S. Department of Justice. She stayed with the department for 16 years, in a variety of technology management jobs. “I met my current husband in the computer room!” In looking back at that period, “I joked that I did every job you could do in a data center, except operations, and I married him….”
She eventually became Deputy Director of the DOJ Data Center. After 16 years at DOJ, Linda began applying for senior executive positions in government. “I was told I was not qualified,” she said. Never one to back down from a challenge, “I started applying for jobs I thought I couldn’t get!” Evaluating rejections taught her what she needed (“what I really needed, not what people said, but what the marketplace truly required”) in experience, skills and seasoning. She recognized a need to learn to build coalitions, and whole organizations, “from dirt, from the ground up.” Engaging in that developed the “executive acumen” that characterized the rest of her career. She went to the U.S. Department of Energy as the Associate Chief Information Officer for operations for several years. The person who hired her had left, and she had no guidance nor support. “I was the only African-American career executive in the department, and the only black female; it felt very lonely.” But from that experience, she grew immensely.
Linda became the Deputy Assistant Director of Science and Technology and then Deputy CIO for the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF) for four years, as a female executive in a male-dominated agency where she had numerous accomplishments and “built a very strong team.” Following that, she spent the next 8 years, again at NASA – first as CIO at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, for 4 years, where she built that organization up to become viable and respected. Then she served as CIO for the entire NASA agency, for her final four years. (“My boss’s boss was President Barack Obama! The buck stops there.”) In contrasting ATF to NASA, Linda laments that NASA did not always have the most innovative technology, in comparison to ATF, who had excellent, up-to-date computers, applications and support for “those who put their lives on the line.” At NASA, she spent most of her time “debugging” the nationwide agency and bolstering it. One of her most enjoyable moments was watching the last space shuttle launch.
In looking back, and evaluating her government career, Linda admitted “I was a pretty terrible programmer, but I was good at debugging.” She still considers that one of her major strengths: the ability to find “bugs” in an organization, a project, a challenge or a team and solve them. “I learned the value of teams and teamwork,” along the way. Linda had no formal mentors in her career but learned that “the best way to have a mentor is to be a mentor,” and mentors can be found outside of your organization. While at DOE, feeling isolated, Linda reached out to Gloria Parker, the first African-American female working at a Cabinet level, as the CIO for the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. Gloria generously shared invaluable advice about how to effectively serve as a CIO. They have remained friends to this day. “We mentor each other. She got me through those rough parts!” One piece of advice Linda would give to others is to pay attention to your health. Having weathered nationwide stresses (like a “hanging chad” election and the cataclysmic effects of 9/11), she has learned that it is important to maintain your health and well-being in the face of major challenges.
After retiring from NASA, Linda founded Muse Technologies, branded to reflect the concept of “goddesses of inspiration.” She wrote a book: THE LEADERSHIP MUSE , in which she ruminated, from her heart, about things in the physical and spiritual world from which she drew leadership inspiration (“from hummingbirds to owls to notions about numbers and infinity and music…” and more.) In Linda’s eyes, “the job of leadership is so difficult, and impossible, it takes divine inspiration, sometimes, to get through it.” That is why she founded Muse to support Federal executives and leaders, who need technical change support, supplying them with innovative problem-solving, process support, strategic planning, project/program management, technology recommendations and “soft skills” training for staff. Her problem resolution skills are well-utilized on behalf of diverse clients.
Linda expressed gratitude for setbacks and disappointments she experienced over the years. “They have made me what I am, today.” Her greatest joy comes from contemplating “the vastness of the world we live in, God’s creation. It gives me a chance to decompress….to understand more about my purpose in life.” Conversely, Linda’s biggest fear is potential failure, which “I have pivoted to have the courage to succeed.” Having recently seen the movie: “Hidden Figures,” (about African-American women overcoming prejudice and discrimination to strongly contribute to the U.S. space program), Linda left the theater “annoyed” because so many people were rejoicing, thinking that barriers faced by the protagonists in 1965 no longer existed. “Dude,” she said. “That was so last week. Maybe they don’t give you the trash to take out, but I had my share of more ‘nuanced’ attitudes!”
On work-life balance, Linda commented: “Life is not 50/50. It is 100/100. I am 100% who I am all the time.” Three of her career lessons for women are:
You can cry, but keep on moving;
Don’t apologize for being a woman – use female advantages to succeed: heightened empathy, intuitiveness, compassion and more;
Never sell out; “it’s better to quit a job than do something you think is wrong.”
In her community life, Linda gives back by being an active board member for the DC Youth Orchestra for K-12 children (“being a child musician taught me resilience and grit”) , and a newly-formed regional group called Pink Architecture, convening tech women “in an intimate space” to share insights, knowledge and support.
Linda can be reached on Twitter at @curetonL and via the web at www.muse-technologies.com.
Ep 84: Tarsha McCormick: Your Plan Might Not Be Your Destiny
Diversity Leadership Series
Diva Tech Talk interviewed enlightened leader, Tarsha McCormick, North American Head of Diversity and Inclusion, for Thoughtworks, a global software consulting company, created to drive a socially, economically fair and moral world, by bettering humanity through software. With over 6000 employees, “we custom build large software applications for Fortune 100/500 companies, and help our customers solve some of their toughest business challenges,” according to Tarsha. The company has won multiple awards as a top company for women in technology. “For us, diversity and inclusion are about righting some societal ‘wrongs’ – particularly as it relates to race, gender, and sexual orientation.”
Born and raised in Chicago, Illinois, Tarsha is the youngest of seven children. Her parents emanated from southern parts of the United States in the 1930’s and “had to face a lot of segregation in the ‘Jim Crowe’ South.” She also noted that “of all my siblings, I am the only one with a college degree. Statistically speaking the odds were against me.” Tarsha inadvertently entered the technology industry; came to fully understand how significant the industry would be; and is now “impassioned about diversity and inclusion in the technology space.” She noted that her mission-oriented journey is an example of “just because it isn’t your plan, doesn’t mean it isn’t your destiny.”
In her early career, Tarsha was a social worker for the State of Illinois specializing in child welfare. With a political science undergraduate degree from Illinois State University, and a master’s degree in human resources management from Keller Graduate School of Management at DeVry University, she subsequently carved out a path in human resources and workforce development, working for Hewitt, then joining Thoughtworks (“when we were under 100 employees”) almost twenty years ago. In her Thoughtworks journey she has “had the opportunity to wear many hats, roles from recruiter to generalist to benefits manager to HR manager.”
Thoughtworks created a business division (the People Division) in Atlanta, Georgia and New York City. Tasha moved to Georgia to the role of Human Resource Business Partner, responsible for The Americas in 2010. “We started having some of those tough conversations about inclusion, at Thoughtworks, that some employers shy away from --- privilege, and sexism, and race in America,” she said. “I helped the company put in organization around pay equity, and how we were looking at promotions. We started to formalize employee resource groups.” In 2015 she accepted a promotion to become the company’s first Head of Diversity and Inclusion. “This was around the time we had hired some transgender employees. And we didn’t know what we didn’t know,” Tarsha exclaimed. “We didn’t know how to support this group of employees. We had to get up to speed quickly. It was an eye-opening experience; we realized we had to be more intentional in our approach.” This promotion allowed Tarsha to spearhead creating a diversity strategic plan and overall vision. “I was the first person in the role. I felt a little overwhelmed and scared!” Tarsha acknowledged that Thoughtworks was “probably at the forefront” of diversity work in the tech space, which has led the company to honors for its inclusion programs, including being named at the Grace Hopper 2018 Celebration of Women in Tech, as a leading company for women in technology. Retention of talent is a high priority. “We want every employee to feel they have a voice. They belong.”
For high velocity recruiting, “talent doesn’t have a face or a background,” said Tarsha. “We don’t care if you are self-taught, went to a bootcamp, or went the more traditional route of a 4-year university. If you have the aptitude, attitude and experience, then Thoughtworks can be a home for you.” To accelerate recruiting, Thoughtworks has significantly expanded the sources for its talent pipeline. “We look for candidates outside the computer science department,” as an example, when conducting college recruiting. They also attend tech conferences, visit schools without computer science curricula, visit historically black colleges and universities, meet with candidates from community colleges, and more. “Our employee referrals are a great source, as well.” Tarsha stressed that it is important to closely examine your recruiting process; “are you mitigating bias in the process?”
Tarsha emphasized that diversity does not stop with the recruitment of people with different backgrounds, different creeds/races/colors/ages/belief systems/socio-economic statuses. Equally important is the concept of “inclusion.” She stressed that if colleagues “don’t feel like the workplace is supportive, if they don’t feel like it’s a place where they can be their authentic selves, where they can grow, and learn, then we aren’t going to retain them.” At Thoughtworks, the company has created a place where “people feel they have a voice; that they matter.” The team has re-architected learning/development, benefits, communication methods/content and channels, and methods of promoting high potential employees, in new and more inclusive ways.
Thoughtworks mantra is “once you learn more about a person, their background, their situation, it will hopefully broaden your perspective and you can empathize and sympathize.” To institutionalize best diversity practices, the company established employee-led resource groups for women’s interests, LGBTQ interests, and African Americans. There is a consistent feedback mechanism to gauge employee needs. Prior to any major policy roll-out, interest groups are polled. “An example of that is when we rolled out a policy for gender transitioning on the job,” Tarsha said. “We hired an outside expert to come in and do some training, not only for our leadership team, but for all our employees. We had appropriate groups review the policy. We created the preferred pronoun buttons. We take them to our career fairs and have them available in all our offices. We want to be sure we are being respectful of people, and how they self-identify.” To measure the success of its diversity/inclusion programs, Thoughtworks has important tools. One is a diversity survey administered annually to all employees, measuring reaction in 5 key areas. Another is “Measures of Success” --- a benchmark tracking of every program, over time.
For other companies motivated to establish or strengthen diversity and inclusion programs, Tarsha shared key advice. As a first step, she recommended that any company start with a holistic assessment of the organization, to identify areas for enhancement, gaps, and key priorities. Then map those back to the strategic goals of the company. “You won’t be able to do everything, but if you prioritize what’s most important, you can start the work there.” Then simply, methodically, progress from step to step. She also stressed that accurate data collection, and planning for it, should be part of your progress, including the selection of a flexible HR information system.
For individuals looking for new roles, Tarsha recommends asking a series of questions about any company they are considering joining, including:
What are the diversity and inclusion policies?
What are the backgrounds of leadership?
Do they have leadership development opportunities, and how are candidates selected for those?
What is the average tenure for an employee?
Can I speak with other employees, at the company, about their experiences?
Tarsha emphasizes that this work cannot be done in a vacuum. “I can create the vision, and the initiatives. But it takes all of us to live it and breathe it every day; and make people feel welcome and included.” Tarsha wholeheartedly agrees with Diva Tech Talk. “One person can’t do everything. But everyone can do something!”
Tarsha McCormick can be reached on Twitter at @tarsha_mcc and via email at tmccormi@thoughtworks.com.
Ep 83: Gail Bernard: Live Your Life Like You Stole It!
Diva Tech Talk was delighted to interview Gail Bernard, Director of Sales, Americas, for Cybernoor, a leading provider of Oracle platform solutions, with focused expertise in systems integration, managed services, cloud solutions, application development, technical training, and overall digital transformation of any enterprise.
In Gail’s childhood, she was fascinated by science. Directly after high school, she worked as a dental assistant and then attended the University of Washington where she entered a pre-med program. “I saw technology, originally, as enabling medicine,” she said but additionally “I saw we could use technology to solve business problems, life problems.” She migrated to management information systems and then transferred to the University of Michigan, where Gail completed her BBA in MIS. While completing her degree, she was fortunate to undertake two internships at the Chrysler Corporation. As an intern, she managed the personal computer rollout for the entire corporation. Gail was fortunate to have had a great deal of breadth and autonomy in her initial roles, making decisions about displacement of existing systems and how/where/when this pivotal technology would be deployed. Then she began working at Chrysler, full-time after graduation, as a systems analyst in their product development group. “We were the first to use DB2/CICS to do relational applications, married to transactional applications, in the country.” Her team produced a complicated engineering BOM (Bill of Materials) and in the course of that “I got to work with amazing, brilliant people!”
After Chrysler, Gail moved to consulting initially for the retail industry, where she gained more in-depth experience in inventory and supply chain technology deployment. Then she moved into technology consulting sales. “I knew what people were doing; I knew the challenges.” She strove to lead a consulting service that would “deliver the breadth and depth of services” required by her clients, which grew to include the three largest automotive OEM’s (Ford, GM, Chrysler) and other large Michigan organizations like DTE Energy, University of Michigan Healthcare, St. Joseph’s Mercy Hospital System, Blue Cross/Blue Shield of Michigan, and others. Some of her favorite projects involved using information technology to empower healthcare solutions. “Being around diverse groups of people taught me how to conduct myself in any given scenario,” Gail said.
Gail then migrated to founding and leading the Detroit-based office of Interactive Business Systems, as they expanded into Michigan with their full portfolio of products and services. “I had recruiters, I had services, I had sales” as part of her team. “I needed a briefcase of solutions that any customer needed at a given time,” she said. She then moved, for a short period of time, to Alliance Technology Solutions, an IBM business partner.
While Gail enjoyed the sales and consulting work, she became intellectually restless. She also underwent a bout with breast cancer, and “realized that having healthcare choices, in retirement was big.” So, she decided to get her PMP certification, passing her exam on the first round. That led Gail to her next career chapter as the Project Management Officer (PMO) for the U.S. District Court, Eastern Division, in Michigan ---- one of the biggest consolidated court systems in the U.S. “We covered two agencies/systems, pre-trial and probation, with a dotted line to both the U.S. Marshall Service, and the U.S. Attorney General’s office.” Always a disruptor, Gail explained that the system “was new to the judiciary. It had never been done.” Prior to her tenure, “no one had created the point of service to incorporate all of those agencies.” The number of elements that required automation was extensive. “We were able to digitize the probation and pre-trial functions so that we ended up with the lowest recidivism rates of offenders, in the nation.” Gail is inordinately proud because this accomplishment was the foundation of “programs that worked on true rehabilitation” of offenders. “These people could become productive, and they wanted to be productive!”
Now Gail has returned to a consulting role at 10-year old Cybernoor, which is “new to Michigan.” Its founder, Ahmed Alomari , was the Vice President of Application Development at Oracle Corporation but left a decade ago to create an improved portfolio of products and services, on top of Oracle platforms. What most excites Gail, in her role of driving sales throughout North America, is that Cybernoor is a leader in full, organic digital transformation for large organizations. “In the cloud, there are a lot of services and integration that must go on,” she said. And Cybernoor is positioned to make that easier for its clients, through the “lift and shift” phases of evolution, migrating from on-premise solutions to Internet-based implementations.
Gail’s career strengths include intellectual agility, the propensity to move/evolve at the speed of disruptive change, and her constant quest for greater meaning in her work, as a motivator, coupled with boundless energy. To stay joyous, she fully recognizes and basks in the glow of both small and large accomplishments. “I don’t necessarily separate my professional life and my personal life,” she said. Having faced a significant health challenge, when she triumphed over cancer, she has only two fears today: physical heights, and failure! She also gives back, regularly, to others dealing with that disease by “being a buddy” when she finds someone who needs support.
Gail shared key leadership lessons for women following her on the tech journey:
“Don’t take shortcuts. They will catch up with you!”
“Accept that males and females are different. We have different brain structures. That’s a good thing. Lean into it! Celebrate it and pull the best out of it.” (One example Gail cited is linear thinking vs. multitasking, and how each can contribute to a success.)
“Empower, rather than command.”
Gail also said that a key lesson for her has been that “no one has it figured out.” She noted that many younger colleagues and teammates of hers “mentor up.” And that is both healthy and can produce vigorous innovation. She also counseled that each of us should live in the moment and understand that life’s goal “is not a destination, it is a process.” Seizing the day, she giggled: “I say live your life like you stole it!”
Gail can be reached at gbernard@cybernoor.com, and her twitter handle is @gailabernard.
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Blackwell's Island of musical treasures
05/24/2009 11:46 PM | By Andrew Perry, Telegraph Group
Island Records founder Chris Blackwell - who discovered Bob Marley, U2 and Grace Jones - reflects on his 50 years in music.
As Chris Blackwell arrives at his London offices, six large cases of limes are stacked up in the hallway.
For the past two decades, Blackwell has been based in his native Jamaica, where he runs several of the world's most beautiful elite hotels. In the 30 years before that, he masterminded Island Records, one of Britain's great independent labels, which gave the world Bob Marley and U2.
Island, and Blackwell himself, were always renowned for a laid-back, nurturing style, which endured at the label long after he sold up to PolyGram in 1989. Casually dressed in faded denims, Blackwell, now 72, is in London for his brainchild's 50th anniversary celebrations. Preceding a run of gigs showcasing some Island legends, there is to be a major party in London, which will acquire a fitting Caribbean flavour thanks to the 100 cases of Blackwell rum, shipped over especially - hence all the limes. British pop's greatest surviving mogul is in unusually reflective mood.
Although you're no longer involved on a practical level, does Island's 50th birthday mean a lot to you?
I never look back. I don't even have a copy of most of the records we made, but it feels great, it really does. I've seen so many companies that I've really admired drop out of sight, like Stax, and Duke-Peacock, and King. A lot of them get sold to majors, and then they tend to drop them. Fortunately, they decided to keep Island and I hope they continue to do so.
Part of the reason I'm keen to get involved now is that I'd love to see it stand the test of time.
Why do you think it has, thus far?
It's probably because two of our artists became so big. Bob Marley and U2 are probably in the top 10 artists of all time, plus we had Cat Stevens, who actually sold the most records. Maybe it's because we've had a lot of varied music on Island, too.
When you started out in the late '50s, pop wasn't the kind of thing you'd be celebrating in 50 years' time. It was seen as ephemeral. Was it frowned upon as a career?
It wasn't considered a serious business, more a quasi-outlawish business, sort of like the gambling business might be seen today, or a bookmakers.
It was a similar world, full of characters and semi-misfits, of which I was definitely one. It certainly wasn't a thing that people had serious careers with. It was right at the start of something, which is always exciting, because you're feeling your way.
What kind of childhood did you have in Jamaica?
When I was young, I didn't have a lot of contact with people, because I was sick a lot. Then I went to school in England [to Harrow]. I didn't do terribly well at school, so I came back at the age of 17. After that I did different things. I rented motor scooters. I had a little jazz club. I managed 63 jukeboxes in Jamaica, which meant I had to go all around the country to the jukeboxes, and change the records, and argue about the provision of threepenny pieces with the owner of a bar in a little fishing village or up in hills. It was all great stuff to absorb - real life.
You actually started the label in Jamaica, but, just before independence in 1962, you went to London, where you pressed up ska hits from Jamaica to sell to England's new West Indian community.
Yes, I made deals with my old competitors in Jamaica to release their records over here. I'd go down there every now and then, and listen to all their records, and pick the best ones. I always thought I had a good ear for it.
I was up against a label called Blue Beat, and the music became known as bluebeat, so it was like trying to sell vacuum cleaners against Hoover.
Legend has it that your financial backing derived from the family business, Crosse & Blackwell, purveyors of jarred foods and relishes. Is that true?
I'm distantly related to Crosse & Blackwell, in that my father was the son of one of the 10 or more children of the younger brother of the person who started the company. Very little trickled down to him, and zero trickled down to me. I had an allowance of £2,000 [Dh11,667] a year from my mother, which was not bad at all. It allowed me to have an apartment, to get by and build on what little I was earning.
And you would deliver your early 45s around the country in your Mini Clubman?
It was a Mini Cooper, they didn't have the Mini Clubman yet. Boy, could that thing move fast. It was tiny, and I could whisk around the periphery of central London, where all the Jamaicans lived. It was great fun.
There was a guy, Nat Fox, who had a stall in Dalston market - he was a rough character. I remember inviting him in to play some new music in my office. I had two hi-fi systems, one for buying, one for selling. My buying system never sounded so great, but the selling system sounded fantastic. I played him these records on my selling system, and he bought the lot, then when he got them back to his stall, he didn't sell them quite as quick as he thought he would.
Your first big hit was with My Boy Lollipop, which you recorded yourself in Britain with Millie Small.
I didn't put it on Island because I knew it was going to be so big. Independent labels in those days couldn't handle hits, because you couldn't pay the pressing plant in time to supply the demand, so I licensed it to Fontana, which was part of Philips. It was a big hit all around the world, and I really wanted to look after her, so I went everywhere with her, which took me into the mainstream of the record industry. I was lucky enough to see Stevie Winwood with the Spencer Davis Group at a TV show in Birmingham. So then I started to spend more time in that area.
This whole new music was emerging. It wasn't really pop, it was anti-pop. In pop, everybody dressed in uniforms. In rock, everybody would go on stage in clothes they'd been sleeping in for three days. It was much looser, and it fitted with my jazz sensibility because it was musicianship, rather than a pretty face.
You sold prog-rock by marketing it imaginatively via albums, which were often packaged in beautiful gatefold sleeves. As the new coffee-table book about Island's history, Keep On Running, really shows, your products were always lovingly designed. Was that your idea?
I really believe that if people see something that looks good, subconsciously they'll think maybe there's something going on inside, on the record.
There were times when somebody came out with a cover which was actually better than the record itself, so I'd have to send them back to remake the record. Melissa Etheridge was one. The sleeve for Catch A Fire, Bob Marley's first album, was fantastic - it was a Zippo lighter, which opened.
You famously overdubbed white session musicians on to Catch A Fire, in order to make Marley more palatable to white rock audiences. Was Bob au fait with that?
He trusted my instincts, which were that he should go after being a rock star, rather than a star on black American radio. His music was rough and raw and exciting, but all black American music at the time, other than James Brown, was very slick and smooth. Bob trusted me on that, he was as keen as I was. He was with me in the studio when we did all the overdubs. After that, it was just a matter of getting people to see him perform, and word of mouth did the rest.
Through Marley's eyes, you must have been ineradicably connected to the old order, the British Empire, while he was a ghetto ruffian, a revolutionary. How well did you work together?
It was as good a working relationship as I've ever had with anyone. I respected him from day one. We never had any misunderstandings. But I never hung out with him. He was his own guy, he had his own life, it wasn't that kind of thing.
He was tough if he had to be, but he never gave off a tough air. He gave off a very shy and quiet image. He absolutely had an aura about him. I never saw him leading his band by toughness, I saw him leading them by example. If the bus was going on somewhere, he'd be the first person on the bus.
Normally the star turns up at the end, cracks a few jokes and climbs on, but he'd be the first one there.
In many ways, pop in the '80s became the antithesis of the rootsy music which Island had always represented. How did you find your niche, post-Marley?
Bob died on May 11, 1981, and Cat Stevens retired on the 12th, when Bob's death was reported around the world, so that was a dark day for us. But we had got a name, so we were in the game, as it were, and U2 became the group that carried the flag for Island.
You've said that U2 weren't initially exactly to your taste - what did you see in them?
My roots were more in jazz, and musicianship. When I first saw them, they were nothing like as accomplished as they are now, but they absolutely had something where you just knew that they were going to be great.
They also had somebody who was what I call a very serious adult, as their manager [Paul McGuinness]. You don't see a lot of adults in the record business, including myself. All the labels turned them down. The most spectacular was CBS, who said, well, if you fire the drummer, we'd probably sign them. But at that stage, the drummer [Larry Mullen] happened to be the leader of the band.
Did you have as much input with them as you'd had with Bob?
Very little. I had some input, and I was overridden. Even though I love Brian Eno, and his work, I didn't think he was the right producer for them at the time they first wanted to use him [for 1984's The Unforgettable Fire]. They'd got this cult status, but I felt it was the time where they just needed that hit record.
I had Jimmy Iovine [Bruce Springsteen's producer] lined up to produce them, but they wanted to go with Eno. So I went to have a meeting with them in Ireland, and I was all ready to say, now come on, this is how it's going to be, but they really talked me out of it. They said, we want Brian Eno for his intelligence, which was a great way of explaining that they didn't want Jimmy Iovine.
You must be relieved to be out of music, looking at all of today's problems with digital piracy and so forth. Can you see a way forward?
It will just go back to how it was in the '30s, '40s and early '50s: Count Basie would want to have a hit, because then he'd make $1,000 (Dh3,674) more a night in concert. The hit was really the advertising for personal appearances. Certainly in the foreseeable future, that's how it's going to be.
If someone writes a song which is successful, they'll still make money on it, it's just they might not sell 20 million records. Amy Winehouse sold 11 million records [on Island] - that's unbelievable, but 10 years ago, it would've been 25 million.
Which leaves the record companies where?
It leaves the major record companies where they are now. They have the catalogue of the last 100 years of music. That's incredibly precious, and valuable.
But I think new artists and new talent, and new characters like myself, will thrive in the new kind of business. They can build up their own company, which is based on touring, so you bring the new act out with you.
That's exactly how it was in the early days.
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Salon.com: USCB conference: A close encounter with Chris Carter
USCB conference: A close encounter with Chris Carter
Russ Spencer
When the creator of “The X-Files” makes a rare public appearance, things begin to get weird.
Chris Carter, the world leader of the sci-fi geeks, is also the definitive anti-geek. You might expect the brain behind “The X-Files” to look like one of those guys you see at the “Star Trek” conventions sporting a mullet haircut and glasses held together with duct tape, but Carter doesn’t even wear glasses. He’s tall, tanned and handsome, well-scrubbed and well put together.
He made a rare public appearance recently in Santa Barbara, Calif., which is where he lives part-time. It’s also the place he most likes to surf. That’s what they say about him in the online chat rooms, anyway. They also say his nickname is “Carver” from his days as a writer for Surfing, and that he surfs goofy-foot, which means he keeps his right foot forward. He chose the character name Mulder because it’s his mom’s maiden name and named Scully after famed baseball announcer Vin Scully. But if you’re an “X-Files” fan worth your salt, you already knew that. There’s little they don’t know about him, those fans. In the chat rooms, Carter is commonly referred to as “God.”
After Carter was introduced to a packed auditorium of 800 at Santa Barbara’s gorgeous seaside University of California campus, the audience erupted into sustained, possessive applause. Carter strode onstage in tan pants and a blue, button-down oxford shirt. God was in the house, and he was wearing Banana Republic.
Before Carter arrived, the middle-aged woman in front of me had been wringing her hands in anticipation. When he was 10 minutes late, I feared a nervous breakdown. Now that he was here, she breathed easier but looked like she might cry.
Carter carried himself as though he were meeting up with some dudes for a beer. Despite being the ’90s’ most intense purveyor of paranoia, his entire demeanor in person seemed to say, “What, me worry?” After the applause died down, he initiated a penchant for deflective self-deprecation that would last all night — “I have a lot of family and friends who are probably wondering why you are clapping.”
Carter was introduced by Constance Penley, a professor and chairwoman of the University of California at Santa Barbara Film Studies Department, who has herself written extensively on science fiction. “The creation of ‘The X-Files’ was arguably the most important event of the decade, except for possibly the discovery of the Mars rock, or the impeachment of the president,” Penley said. “Of course, in the ‘X-Files’ universe, the two would be connected.”
Penley continued to gush: “The show was so sophisticated in its presentation of the ethical and social dimensions of science that you would have thought that Chris Carter had been trained as a philosopher, rather than a journalist.”
A philosopher? A blue-collar guy from Bellflower, Calif., a crummy Los Angeles suburb? His dad was a construction worker; his mom, a housewife. He earned a journalism degree from cheap California State University in Long Beach in 1979, paying his way through school as a potter. For a while, he did construction. He started working as a reporter for Surfing magazine but, after seeing “Raiders of the Lost Ark” six times in six days, began to entertain the idea of becoming a scriptwriter. He was encouraged by his screenwriter girlfriend, Dori Pierson.
That’s when things began to get weird.
In 1985, Jeffrey Katzenberg, while still head of Disney, saw a script Carter had written and gave him a development gig for $40,000 a year — chump change in Hollywood, but twice as much as Carter had ever made in his life. He worked on such forgettable product as “Meet the Munceys” and “B.R.A.T. Patrol.” But his work impressed an up-and-coming suit named Peter Roth, and when Roth became president of 20th Century Fox in 1992, he stole Carter away to develop new shows. Carter’s “X-Files” pitch didn’t fly at first. Too out there. But Carter did some research, showing in part that 3 percent of all Americans believed they had been abducted by aliens, and Fox took a chance.
Carter’s story, obviously, is too whacked to have been scripted on any show besides, perhaps, his own. “It only proves he’s an alien,” Penley said. “He has been placed here by creatures who did not know how to construct a believable narrative about how one becomes a television producer and creator of a mass cultural phenomenon.”
Carter’s appearance in Santa Barbara came just a day after he began work on the final episode of the show’s seventh season, which he revealed will be called “Requiem.” It could be the last “X-Files” show. Carter and Duchovny’s contracts come up this season. And even though Gillian Anderson is still under contract, she’s said to be unsure about returning. Meanwhile, Duchovny has filed a lawsuit against Fox protesting what he sees as sweetheart rerun licensing deals.
“Elián González’ future is more certain,” Carter remarked.
But even after 160 episodes, Carter said, he still has more stories to tell, and would like to keep going: this, despite the incredible weirdness that the job has brought into his life. As he told the crowd in Santa Barbara, the weirdness began before the series even made it on the air.
From the start, Carter envisioned the dichotomy of an inquisitive, credulous male lead working with a female lead who combined elements of rationalism and skepticism with a deep spiritual yearning. The studio accepted Duchovny immediately for the role of Fox Mulder, but didn’t warm to Gillian Anderson as Dana Scully.
“Gillian was unknown and when she came in she was disheveled,” Carter said. “She wasn’t a very good salesperson for herself. But she had an intensity and an intelligence — and she cleaned up well. I couldn’t get the executives to see what I saw, no matter how much I tried, and it really came down to the idea of how she would look in a bathing suit. And I kept saying to them, she’s not going to be in a bathing suit. She wasn’t the bombshell they envisioned. They thought it was going to be a show much more like ‘Hunter.'”
The only thing more difficult than dealing with the suits was dealing with the FBI. “Early on, I was calling the FBI for some research. And they were very kind. They talked to me about procedure and protocol, and then one day they just cut us off. They wouldn’t accept our calls and then about two weeks before the first show aired, a call came in from the FBI and they said, ‘Who are you and what are you doing?’ And I swear to God, it was like J. Edgar Hoover reaching up from the grave. I was that nervous about it, as you can imagine.”
The FBI’s tune changed, though, when the show became a hit that glorified its work. “All of a sudden we started getting calls from agents, individual agents, saying that they loved the show,” Carter said. “And by the end of the first year they took us on what they call the ‘Jodie Foster tour’ of the FBI. They rolled out the red carpet as they had done for her in ‘The Silence of the Lambs.'”
Of course, the show hit just about the same time as the Internet started to take off, which added a whole new dimension to fandom, and to Carter’s job as producer of the first television show to ever attract such a huge online following. “The Internet and ‘The X-Files’ grew up together and it was great,” Carter said. “The show originally aired at 9 o’clock on Friday night and at 10 o’clock, I could get on the Internet and see what people thought of it. It was great in the beginning.”
But even that got weird. “It became overwhelming; it was too much,” Carter said. “I used to see every single piece of Internet mail. And now I see the reams of stuff after every episode and I ask them not to put it on my desk. It’s not because I don’t care anymore — it’s because I think there are lots of voices out there trying to be heard, and a lot of it ends up being shouting. A lot of people do it just to get attention.”
The intense fan passion for the show meant his personal appearances could also take on an element of otherworldliness. “The autograph sessions at events like this are always really odd,” Carter said. “People try to slide you things, tapes of their abduction. My wife and I have gone to bed at night listening to tapes of people’s abductions. It’s better than counting sheep.”
The obsessive-fan phenomenon played itself out in living color in Santa Barbara. The event opened with Carter showing clips from the series. Then questions came from Penley and another film studies professor, Lisa Parks. Then the night was turned over to audience questions.
Carter was asked if he had ever been dropped on his head as a child. He was asked about his surfing. He was asked about specific episode elements too arcane for anyone but the most hardcore fan to understand. He answered every question, no matter how bizarre, with the same low key sense of humor, as if he knew better than anyone how absurd it all was.
Had he ever been abducted?
“I have never had an experience with an alien, and I think they owe me a visit because I’ve been their best P.R. man ever.”
“What are you horrified by?”
“I would say an IRS audit.”
“What about Mulder’s fascination with pornography?”
“He’s a lonely man.”
“Explain the apparent homoeroticism between Mulder and Skinner.”
“We’re saving that for the cable series. The ‘Triple X-Files.'”
In the end, Carter left the impression that he doesn’t take the fandom and his own place in it especially seriously, but that he does take his role as a popular storyteller with the deepest sense of personal gravity and responsibility. “The X-Files” gets raves in part because it addresses so many of the central themes of life in the United States at the turn of the millennium — a wariness about technology, a wondering about the deeper questions of life and a distrust of big government.
It is his ability to bring these issues forth in story form that makes Carter want to continue, despite the weirdness, and makes him so valuable to a culture that needs an intelligent mirror of itself. And he revealed in Santa Barbara that what all the wondering and yearning really come down to is not paranoia, but society’s increased need for a spiritual touchstone.
In his last statement of the night he talked about Scully’s personality traits. “The most difficult thing to reconcile is science and religion,” he said. “And so we created a dilemma for her character that plays right into Mulder’s hands. So that cross she wears, which was there from the pilot episode, is all-important for a character who is torn between her rational character and her spiritual side. That is, I think, a very smart thing to do. The show is basically a religious show. It’s about the search for God. You know, ‘The truth is out there.’ That’s what it’s about.”
Then he sat down to sign autographs, and listen to people’s abduction stories.
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The X-Files Magazine: The Next Files
The X-Files Magazine [US, #14, Summer 2000]
The Next Files
[Typed by Gayle]
You have to hand it to Frank Spotnitz. No matter how busy he is, The X-Files executive producer always makes time to answer our questions. And right now, in the midst of wrapping up the show for the year, putting together the Lone Gunmen spinoff and juggling many more new projects at Ten Thirteen Productions, you can bet he’s pretty busy.
The X-Files Official Magazine: You described Season Seven as “the year of the actor.” How did David Duchovny’s new episode and Gillian Anderson and William B. Davis’ first episodes take shape?
Spotnitz: David’s getting to be an old hand at this. This is the second one he’s written by himself. He co-wrote “The Sixth Extinction II: Amor Fati,” and he contributed story ideas in previous seasons. He’s the veteran. Gillian came to Chris early in the season with an idea that she’s worked on very, very hard. I think it’s going to be exceptional and unlike anything we’ve done before. Bill Davis, we talked about his idea for months and months before we finally hit upon just the right way to approach it. He went off and started writing and then we went through the revisions process, like any other writer. What I really liked about it [was the pairing of Scully with the CSM] because the truth is you haven’t seen much of those characters together at all. When you think back on the mythology of the show, there are obvious connections to draw between those two characters. I thought it was a really interesting idea.
The X-Files Official Magazine: How did you manage to schedule the episodes to allow the actors enough time to prepare for their behind-the-camera duties?
Spotnitz: For their own separate reasons, it turned out that David and Gillian’s episodes needed to be shot in the order that they were, but it really works out perfectly. David is light in Gillian’s episode, so he can be prepping his directorial effort while that is shooting. Everything just fell into place. We had to be very clever in the way the script preceding Gillian’s was written. She had to be very light in that to make time for her to prep her directing. That story works out very nicely because Scully comes in by telephone. It really is a Mulder case.
The X-Files Official Magazine: Can you reveal anything about the finale?
Spotnitz: Of course not. [Laughs]. What I would say is that Chris has always had in his mind what the end of the mythology is. I think you will see important ideas about the relationship between Mulder and Scully, what they mean to each other, and about what the catch phrase of the series, “The Truth is Out There,” means. Beyond that, I would be as vague as I always am about these things.
The X-Files Official Magazine: Will any characters die?
Spotnitz: I wouldn’t be surprised.
The X-Files Official Magazine: What other developments are in the works at Ten Thirteen?
Spotnitz: There are a number of movies I can only hint about because none of them are definite yet. There are a lot of things going on actually, it’s just which one of these horses will exit the gate. We’re preparing ourselves for life after The X-Files, whether that’s the end of this year or the end of next year. The movie development process being what it is you need to start thinking about it early because it takes a long time for things to become reality. We’re as busy as we’ve ever been in that respect. There are so many ideas floating around.
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FilmScoreMonthy: Downbeat: Harsh Realm
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Downbeat: Harsh Realm
Jason Foster
[Original article here]
Jason originally wrote the following for use in "Downbeat," our section in FSM dealing with current scores and the challenges featuring well-known (and some not well-known) composers. He talked to Mark Snow about Harsh Realm -- which was canceled before anyone could blink. So, we didn't run the piece. Recently, however, Harsh Realm has been broadcast on the Sci-Fi Channel so we thought we'd dust this off: -LK
Having already cemented their place in TV shows dealing with the paranormal, ten-time Emmy-nominated composer Mark Snow and X-FILES creator Chris Carter are at it again — this time with the series HARSH REALM.
Described as a tense and edgy contemporary-looking virtual reality adventure along the lines of THE MATRIX, Snow says that HARSH REALM should easily lend itself to music, much in the way THE X-FILES has.
“THE X-FILES is such a great show. It’s like scoring a mini-movie each week,” says Snow. “And coming from the same people, HARSH REALM, from what I’ve seen of the pilot, I expect the same quality which makes scoring the shows much more inspiring and a pleasure rather than just work.”
While Snow’s weekly scores for episodes of THE X-FILES have tended to stay in a similar musical ballpark throughout the entire series run, he says that won’t be the case with HARSH REALM.
“I think that it will be a combination of many, many different styles because the show is virtual reality at least 80 to 90 percent of the time,” says Snow. “I think they’re planning to have many different virtual worlds from periods dating back to the Dark Ages, futuresque, and all over the world. It’s going to be wide open to a lot of different cultures and we’ll be using a lot of different musical styles.”
Snow has enjoyed the musical freedom he’s been given in his previous collaborations with Carter and crew. But he points out that with a successful show, freedom isn’t all that rare an occurrence.
“Well, once you get on a TV series that’s successful, basically it’s the first ten episodes where everyone is involved and giving a lot of input into the project,” he says. “Then if they’re happy and feel comfortable, they leave you alone and then you have the freedom to experiment. My experience with X-FILES has been just that. After the first bunch of episodes, I was left to my own devices and felt totally uninhibited by whatever I wanted.”
Much like the music for THE X-FILES, and most television scoring in general, Snow will not develop different character themes for HARSH REALM. While that isn’t something that would be very difficult to do, Snow says it would be very limiting.
“The TV show works better for me to have themes for situations rather than people,” he says. “I think that by now if you had a theme for Mulder or Scully you’d grow sick of it. That’s why it’s not about themes for them as much as it is the situations they get in to. Each week the situations are, as you know, colored so differently and there are so many variations of the themes — so to keep my interest in it and to keep it sounding fresh, I prefer to score new thematic material every week and I think that’s how it’s going to work for HARSH REALM.”
One of the trademarks of THE X-FILES is Snow’s very memorable main title melody. But unlike his scores for that show, Snow says he’ll incorporate the HARSH REALM main title theme into the different episode scores.
“I’ll be able to use the theme as underscore a lot more than with X-FILES and certainly variations of it,” he says. “I also have a four-minute version of it where I’ll be able to take sections of it and use for underscore which will help the identity of the show. I’m looking forward to that. With THE X-FILES, I never used it (the main title) in the underscore. I did use the theme for the feature film, and come to think of it, I did use it a few times after the film because I liked how it sounded. I’m looking forward to having a different approach for HARSH REALM.”
While Snow says that nobody involved predicted the success of THE X-FILES, he says the ingredients are there for HARSH REALM to be successful, but says there’s really no way to know that.
“I can only do the best work I can, cross my fingers and hope that it will be another hit show,” he says.
Snow has also chosen to shed a little light onto the recent rumor that the name of FSM’s own Jeff Bond appears somewhere in the HARSH REALM main title.
“I’m not going to say it is or isn’t,” says Snow. “People are welcome to try and speed up, slow down, or play the music backwards to discover what’s there. It’s kind of like the 60s when people played that Beatles song backwards to try to hear it say, ‘Paul is Dead.'”
The truth is out there.
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AOL chat with Gillian Anderson
TVGLive3: Joining us right now is Gillian Anderson. Thanks for coming to chat.
TVG Gillian: Hey, everybody! I’m here. Thanks for waiting…
Question: What motivated you to write and direct an X-Files episode? Did you achieve what you wanted to achieve?
TVG Gillian: I had been asked recently if I would ever consider writing one, and I initially thought that I might attempt to write something with one of the other writers. Then I was asked if I ever had an idea myself, and I described something that was more of a couple of images. And the motivation for the episode was based on those images. So someone asked if I wanted to write one. So, I sat down one evening and wrote the entire outline for episode. And I think that it majoritivily what I had envisioned. There are certain areas where you have to let go… and let go. 🙂 There are certain pieces of dialogue which had to be taken out for timing purposes. But I think it still makes sense.
Question: Did you write the entire outline of the script in one sitting, or was it gradually developed over the course of the year?
TVG Gillian: I wrote the outline in one sitting. And then I wrote the script, the first three acts, over about five months. Then continued to tweak it until we started shooting.
Question: where did the inspiration for your episode’s story came from? luv you!
TVG Gillian: Just from those two images I had. The rest came seemingly out of nowhere… LOL
Question: Gillian, Can you give us any background on “all things”? What’s your favorite part in the episode? –Agent Amy–
TVG Gillian: I think my favorite parts have to do more with camera work, with particular shots and transitions from one scene to another scene. I hesitate to speak too much about it… I feel like I’ve been describing it in interviews for the past couple of weeks, and I’m kind of at a point where I just want people to see and have their own reactions and responses to it.
Question: Did you ever write scripts while in school?
TVG Gillian: Never.
Question: what authors do you read? what kinds of books?
TVG Gillian: I think I’ve only actually read like two or three books over the past seven years…which makes me kinda sad. The last book that I read from start to finish is “She’s Come Undone” by Wally Lamb. Most of the time it’s difficult for me to allow myself the time to read. Between the episodes and other scripts, and the rest of my life, if I do read, it’s usually more spiritually minded books. And one of my favorites of those over this past year has been a book called “When Things Fall Apart” by Pema Chodron.
Question: Gillian, I am looking forward to Sunday’s episode. Did you like writing and directing? And also , what actors/actresses have been the biggest influence on you?
TVG Gillian: I did enjoy it very much. It was an incredible learning experience for me and an insight into how hard and complicated the task is for writers and directors. I feel like I learned so much in the whole process from beginning to end. I think influentially, let’s see, actors… Well, the usual response from female actors Meryl Streep, Kathy Bates. Kevin Spacey I love… Stephen Tucci. I love it when actors take it upon themselves to create material. I love what Sam Mendes has been doing. I love what Stanley Tucci has been doing. I think that Paul Thomas Anderson is very talented.
Question: After so many years of playing Scully, was it easier or harder than u thought to write for the character? LGW
TVG Gillian: Easier to write for the character. Scully has become so much a part of myself, and it was just second nature for me.
Question: Are you going to be watching the show with everyone else on Sunday?
TVG Gillian: I am. Some friends are throwing a little gathering for me and we’re all going to watch together.
Question: How long does it take for you to learn all those medical terms in the show. Seems like one can easily get tongue tied.
TVG Gillian: I guess I do kind of learn them… It kind of depends. I study the script the night before and show up at work and work on them throughout the day… continue going over them and over them. Working on getting my mouth around them.
Question: What did you think of William B. Davis’ script? Was it fun to work with someone who was obviously eager to work with you?
TVG Gillian: Yeah, it was. I thought it was good. It’s tricky… I’m not sure in the end how much of it was his. Our scripts are syphoned through Frank and Chris. Sometimes they let them be, sometimes they readjust them. But, I think it was good.
Question: Is the title of your episode based on the ee cummings poem?
TVG Gillian: No. It’s not. The title is close. It speaks to that which is innate in everything, and the unity of life energy and all of us and of all things.
Question: What is the first thing you are going to do after the X-Files wraps up shooting for the season?
TVG Gillian: I’m attempting to take the summer off, especially if we come back next season. I’m going to be doing some travelling… I hope. 🙂 Try and relax. Read a book. 🙂
Question: Do you have any pets??
TVG Gillian: Oh, yes… 🙂 We have a dog and two bunny rabbits, some coy fish and a horse.
Question: How did you decide on doing “The House of Mirth”? It is so different from your previous works. ~Karey
TVG Gillian: I’ve always wanted to do a period piece, and I loved the book and was in awe of Edith Worten, of her writing. I’d been a fan of Terrance Davies’ previous work, and it seemed like a good idea.
Question: Hi Gillian. Can you tell us if there is any validity to the rumors you may be in Episode 2 of Star Wars?
TVG Gillian: Not so far. I haven’t been approached. I would love to play a Jedi, but there is no validity as of yet. But, you’re welcome to push for it for me… LOL
Question: Was it difficult to direct an episode in which your character is so prominently featured or was that helpful to you?
TVG Gillian: It was not helpful AT ALL. It was a mistake… LOL It was difficult to split my focus in so many ways, and I hadn’t forethought that as much as I could have. It was also a challenge to stay present in a scene that I was in, and at the same time remain on the outside enough to give notes to the other actors as a director would.
Question: Have you given any thought about going back and doing stage work?
TVG Gillian: Very much. I was considering doing different pieces over the summer, and have been looking for the right project, and will eventually — probably either in New York or London.
Question: Wow! You go girl! You’re so talented..the first woman to write and direct an episode of The X-Files.
TVG Gillian: Thank you. 🙂
Question: Are we going to see a different side of Scully in this week’s episode?
TVG Gillian: Yes, we are. And I think it may shift things slightly for future episodes as well.
Question: At the NY xfiles expo two years ago, you said you would feel weird directing David Duchovny in an episode. When you actually did it, was it as strange as you thought?
TVG Gillian: It wasn’t THAT strange. I didn’t write him in very much of the episode so it wouldn’t be too strange. But he was very acquiescent.
Question: We’re all in love with Scully’s knee-length fitted black jacket! Can you tell me who the maker is?
TVG Gillian: She has a few, and I couldn’t tell you any of them. I think that Thari is one of them. The others… I couldn’t tell you.
Question: Do you plan on doing any more animation films; you did an excellent job in Princess Mononoke
TVG Gillian: Thank you, and I would love to. It would depend on the project.
Question: What is it like to know that you are the first women on XF to do this, I know what if feels like to be in a boys club, I played football my Sr. year of high school. I just wonder what it felt like to you?
TVG Gillian: I’ve been in the middle of a very powerful boys club for the past seven years, and have gotten used to it… as much as anyone can. I actually found everyone, especially the men, to be incredibly supportive, gentle and agreeable from the moment we started working on this together. And the crew was just phenomenal. And at no time did anyone ever roll their eyes… which was great. And they all did exactly what I said! LOL
Question: I would like to know what your dream role is–any character from any play or piece of literature that you could choose.
TVG Gillian: I have many. Many and none. I love some of the contemporary female roles that have been written in films. I loved all the characters in American Beauty and Shakespeare in Love and Magnolia. Historically, I’d love to do Lady MacBeth. I love to do Hedda Gabler. And eventually, I’d love to do Blanche.
Question: is most of this script your own words or did you conference a lot with Frank Spotnitz and Chris Carter to get the right feel for the dialogue? I imagine that you wrote most of the dialogue since you know Scully so well.
TVG Gillian: I wrote most of it. And then the next step was to go through it with Frank and determine which order of scenes was most effective and what the right tone for each of the scenes. And then I went back and I rewrote, and we kept going through that process for a while. Brainstorming and me re-shifting. Then Chris stepped in and rewrote. Then, I went back and tried to get it back to my original idea… 🙂 Which worked. 🙂 A lot of it was a matter of lack of time I had after a certain point. So, once and a while there were short scenes that we would both write, then come together and hash out the best version. This was way at the end, when there were a couple of weaker scenes that needed some fixing. Then, Chris actually wrote the final scene, because we’d left it up to the last moment. And I was already in prep and didn’t have time.
Question: Gillian – Do you plan to do more projects involving writing and directing in the future? – Becca and Erin 😀
TVG Gillian: I would love to. I”m not sure what form that will take… whether it will be from scratch, or adapting a novel, or directing someone else else’s script. But, I would love to do more of it.
Question: Can you give us any hints as to whether or not this will be the last season? ~Mystic
TVG Gillian: If I knew… I’d give you a hint. 🙂
Question: Gillian, when you began directing all things, did you discover that you had learned alot from watching the Directors on your show for the past seven years? Heidi from Phoenix
TVG Gillian: Yes. I was very nervous that I didn’t know anything, until I started to work out my shot list and I realized that I knew a lot more than I thought I knew.
Question: Did you enjoy working with your sister on the episode Christmas Carol? ~ Melissa
TVG Gillian: Yeah… I did. 🙂 She just visited… actually they just left yesterday, and I was thinking about that. It was fun, and I think she did a great job. I think it was exciting for her at the time.
Question: What is your favorite Hobby?
TVG Gillian: I think the only hobby I have, and it’s one that I’ve started since January, is riding.
Question: What has been your favorite episode thus far this season?
TVG Gillian: That’s a good question. I’ve actually missed the last six episodes, and it’s the first time I’ve ever missed some. But, with the whole writing and editing and such, there just wasn’t time. In fact… I’m not sure I can remember what we shot this year…LOL
Question: Gillian, you’re the best!! Thanx for bringing one of my role models to life every week! I’m so glad you’re writing an episode..My question is when did you find the time to write?
TVG Gillian: I have no idea… 🙂 I wrote in between scenes in my trailer. I wrote a little bit on weekends, as much as I could. And as much over Christmas as I could.
Question: We will lobby Lucas for you! Gillian for Jedi! What type of music do you like?
TVG Gillian: I’ve been listening to a lot of soundtracks lately. I like the Magnolia soundtrack, and one for The Hurricane. And I’m listening to Annie Lennox’s new album. And Moby. In fact, I use one of his tracks in my episode. And Red Hot Chili Peppers. And this album called Ron Rocco…. guitar music. I like a lot of world music.
Question: In the show filmed like “cops”, was alot of that improv? It seemed that is was hard for you to keep a straight face at times (or was David trying to crack you up?). How much artistic license do they allow you?
TVG Gillian: I don’t think it was trying to keep a straight face or cracking up. It was just so intense and nothing like what we’d done before. And everything was reacting in the moment on a whole new level than what we’re used to that there may have been a feeling that we were flying by the seat of our pants. Because we were. 🙂
Question: Have you had the opportunity to work with real F.B.I. agents, as tech advisors for your show?
TVG Gillian: Technical advisors we work with when there’s specific medical procedures that we need to adhere to.
Question: to Gillian, Is there one material item that you can’t live without?
TVG Gillian: My daughter. I’d say she’s material… LOL
Question: Are you nervous about what the public’s reaction will be to your directing debut?
TVG Gillian: No. I made this episode for myself, for many reasons. To see if I could do it, and as a vehicle to express some philosophies that I believe in. I’ve done the work… and I’ve let it go.
Question: Can fans expect a second X-Files movie?
TVG Gillian: Most likely. Almost certainly.
Question: Would you say you are more skeptical or less skeptical than Scully at this point in the show?
TVG Gillian: I’ve always been much less skeptical.
Question: Did anyone pull any practical jokes on you during the filming of ‘”all things?”
TVG Gillian: No.
Question: When did you get your DGA card?
TVG Gillian: I’m qualified now. I applied for it as of this episode.
TVGLive3: Thanks for chatting with us tonight Gillian.
TVG Gillian: Thanks everybody for coming. I hope that you enjoy the show. I want to remind everyone that throughout the month of May on the Gillian Anderson website is an auction of X-Files memorabilia. The proceeds of which will go towards NF Inc. Thank you!
TVGLive3: You can catch Gillian’s directorial and writing debut this Sunday night at 9PM on Fox. Good night.
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University of California Santa Barbara: A Conversation with the Creator of the X-Files
[Unknown transcriber]
Last night I had the opportunity to attend Chris Carter’s lecture at UCSB. It was a great evening! He talked to us for a couple of minutes, then showed a clip reel from all 7 seasons of The X-Files. (Even a clip from David’s new episode, Hollywood AD) Then there was a discussion between he and some of the professors from the college. Afterwards the time was turned over to the audience for questions. I was about 4th or 5th in line and was able to speak to him. Let me just say that his answers are not much better than watching the show. He is cryptic and somehow managed to escape answering all questions that would give any sort of definitive answer. Very frustrating.
My question to Chris Carter was about Samantha. I had read that Chris had envisioned the outcome of her abduction somewhat differently than what actually happened on the show. His answer to me wasn’t really an answer. He told me that all the character’s evolve on the show. He doesn’t know exactly what will come of them and Samantha’s fate wasn’t too far off from what he had envisioned. I asked him what he had originally wanted to happen and somehow he got around having to answer it. Oh well, I was able to be one of the few to speak to him in front of an entire audience, it was a really awesome experience.
One of the people I was with got up and asked a question about “all things”. Okay, the question that was asked was concerning the events during the time between Scully falling asleep on the couch and getting dressed in the bathroom later that night (or early morning I should say).
Chris was hesitant to answer that question, but the crowd was anxiously awaiting an answer. Chris told us that the end of the episode might not make much sense now, but in future episodes the event will have much more meaning. We will understand what truly happened. In fact, he said that the scene will have great importance in the future. However, later on he commented about why he never let Mulder and Scully have a physical relationship. He said that people don’t really want it, and it was a sure way to ruin the show. People think they want it, but they really don’t. He also mentioned that when a relationship becomes physical, it ruins everything. I am sure that his wife, who was present in the audience, loved hearing that last comment.
After the lecture, Chris stayed to sign autographs. My friends and I split up into the two lines that were forming. I got into the wrong line along with my best friend. Luckily my other friends were in the correct line. We joined them and when it came time for us to speak with Chris we told him of the time we were on set. My friend told him that we knew someone who worked on set and he asked us who. He knew who we were talking about and it sounded as if they got along pretty well. He noticed David Duchovny’s and Dean Haglund’s signatures on our items we brought to have signed. He told my friend that it was good thing to hold onto. I finally got Chris to sign my movie script. I was very happy. Now all I have to do is get Gillian to sign it:) We took a picture with Chris and had to hurry because there was such a big line, but he was a very nice guy, and I had a wonderful time.
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Customers Suck! > The Heart of the Site > Sightings > The case of the Rose Bush.
View Full Version : The case of the Rose Bush.
This is a little "case" that got some serious write up in my local newspaper. It's a wonderful example of a person putting their foot in their mouth claiming they know more than they do. It all centers around one solitary little rose bush. Well, not one, but more of a bed; and, a light pole.
The bed was a nice one. Good and large with a series of rose bushes in it. Bushes which stood almost five feet in their highest point. Now these bushes hadn't really been there long. No, the owner had spent a great deal of time with them. Climbing roses grow fast. VERY fast if you put the right nutrients down. Now, the bush wasn't the only thing in that bed. There was a smallish apple tree, and a large ammount of pansies. Pansies of all colors and sizes. This bed, well it looked beautiful along the owner's yard. Dead center in all this, was a light pole. that pole had been there years, and for years it had caused the owner trouble when mowing around it. That's the reason for the bed. His wife spent all her time out there.
One day, the owner's wife came home to find to her horror that the rose bush was gone. In fact, not only was it gone, but every bit of her little bed was missing. The stone dividers were cast about, the bush cut up and neatly lain beside the road for pickup. Gone too was her apple tree, and the pansies were smashed. Right in the center of them, the tracks of what looked to be a tractor, or even a truck. The light pole was gone as well, replaced by a new funky green one. No letter of explanation, no applogy, nothing. Just a missing bed, the mess, and a light pole.
She ranted, and raved, calling the power company and complaining. There was nothing they could do about it, it wasn't their fault. Again and again she tried, but to no satisfaction. In the mean time, the owner and wife planted some new rose bushes, hoping to rebuild. Lawsuits were threatened, and another apple tree was planted.
It did not last.
Not a week after the first incident, the owner comes home this time to find a county bush hog (mower) neatly cutting down all her plants and apple tree. This time, there was also a letter on the door. She was being...fined?
She tried to stop the mower, but the man ignored her. He, had a job to do and she was not part of it. Once finished he turned and left. Here's where the papers caught it.
She wrote, time and time again, to the papers. It was my plants, she said, my land. Mine mine mine. They had no right! It's illegal. It's this, it's that. Time and time again she called the power company, and time and time again she was told that no, it wasn't her land, that on her power bill was an explanation. Further if she kept calling, the company would file charges for harrassment.
In the end, it took a single letter from a local writer to stop the tide. He, it turned out was an ex lineman. His letter was not long, and yet polite. Caring while also chiding her. What did it say? Just this:
Read the back of your power bill.
The story ends there, with one assuming she read the bill. Many wonder though, what did it say? What was so important back there that she had missed all those years? Well, what it says is this:
<Power Company> by right of law, reserves the right to remove any and all obstructions from the right of way (to not excede 9 linear feet, 18 total) around power poles and lines. This will be done without permission of the owner and can result in charges and fines for obstructing <power company> employees from the due course of their job.
Solution is easy, I'd install solar cells and a gas generator. Rescind the contract with the power company, and demand they leave my property and land.
That it is on a contract doesn't means it's right to do. Else all of Phone Jockey's rowdy techs would be justified. :)
I think the main problem here was the woman didn't understand what the right of way means. I've another story along this lines I'll post soon called "buyer beware." It's in the same vein, but I'll give you a quick teaser here.
In the US at least, cities and state orginizations own a kind of "right of way" around things like power lines, roads, and in some cases railroads. This right of way, though you may mow it or maintain it, isn't actually your property. Rather, it's owned by the state and can be siezed at any point to widen roads, move power lines or whatever. There's not a single thing the owner can do about it either.
For more Right of Way fun, that ended badly, read "buyer beware."
ladodger34
I think what it's called is a utility easement. It depends on the state and the utility, but they generally say that the owner still owns the land but the utility retains the right to access the equipment, etc.
I think the owner should have been more civil about it, but I understand her frustration. When I googled "utility easement", most of them had pretty decent guidelines about what could and could not be done with in the area of the easement. Her best recourse would have been to ask what the restrictions were and go on from there.
While I understand that the utility company was within their rights to do what they did, it would have been a nice gesture to inform the property owner (even after the fact) that "Hey, we had to put up a new pole in your flower bed. We apologize that your garden was torn up, but our company policy states that xxx. We advise that you do not plant xxx to avoid this from happening in the future".
ThePhoneGoddess
right-of-way is a big issue in Montana and Idaho, where my family lives. In Montana, for instance, a lot of people from large cities back east have moved to retire. Many of them do not understand how right-of-way laws and water rights are interpreted out here, and there are constantly battles going between neighbors.
My Mom lives in a small semi-rural housing development. The way property is set up there, there are canals on the backs of most people's property. There are gates at one end of the canal on every person's property. The water is used to water your pasture, or your garden, whatever you've got back there. The water comes down several times per year, and when it comes to you, you go out into the back and open your gate to let the water through to your part of the canal. Then you can use it for what ever you need. When you're done, you call your neighbor and let them know it's their turn for the water, and they go out and open their gate. If you're gone on vacation or something, the association president has legal permission to go onto your property and open your canal gate.
Well my Mom's neighborhood had one lady who decided to build a fence over the right of way for that canal. She was told repeatedly she couldn't do it but she did anyway. Then she refused to let the next person have the water. Her reasoning? The water was on HER private property, so it was hers, and if she didn't send it to the next lot, there was nothing anyone could do about it.
The association had to initiate legal proceedings against her, and when the water came, have the police come out and go onto her property to open her canal gate. It was a big mess, and when she lost in court, she had a huge tantrum and sold her property, telling everyone they were 'nazis' and that she was moving back east where people actually 'respected' pricate property rights. Sheesh.
Gurndigarn
One of the ongoing complaints from my western rural friends: people from the big cities who go to the small towns-- then start looking for (and getting) all the trappings of the big cities.
It's not just out west. Quite a few people here move out of the big city to small towns...and then complain because they have to drive to the mall/restaurant/etc. Over time, the area builds up, and becomes *exactly* what they were trying to "escape" in the first place--they'll turn around and bitch about the "heavy traffic, crime increase, noise, etc." and move even *further* away....to start the cycle all over again. Anyone who has driven south on PA Route 19 over the past 20 years knows *exactly* what I'm talking about. Then, traffic was much lighter and you could easily travel 55-60 with no traffic lights. Now, it's 35mph and a light on *every* damn corner.
A lot of people in the development where I live have all kinds of flowers planted around the electrical boxes in their yards, despite the big labels with large, easy-to-read print telling them not to. The neighbors have the one in their yard, which is connected to their house, mine, and probably a couple of others, almost completely surrounded.
I imagine if the power company ever has to come out and get inside the thing, they're not going to be too happy.
draftermatt
I think most people do it to "dress it up" as they are ugly. But you are right, they shoudn't do it.
It was a big mess, and when she lost in court, she had a huge tantrum and sold her property, telling everyone they were 'nazis' and that she was moving back east where people actually 'respected' pricate property rights. Sheesh.
Hope it's not NJ, where "emminent domain" rules, for some reason that I still haven't completely figured out. (Hey, I'm not from around here!)
PA has that crap too. It's been used mainly to seize private property...so some corporation (or sports team) can build something other than residential property.
Sofar
I'm uneasy about that emminent domain stuff, during the fifties Seattle lost a lot of great architecture to the great gaping wound that is Interstate Five. Of course back then we positively detested Victorian architecture, or really everything about the past. Thus spawned the "Urban Renewal" project, which invovled replacing every building in our historic district with a parking structure.
Over here in the UK, we have townies - usually Yuppies - getting a second home in the countryside because it looks nice. No concrete monoliths etc.
There are many examples of them buying up the housing and driving the local house market prices through the roof, effectively ensuring that genuine locals who have lived there for generations cannot afford to live there. They tend to arrive for a weekend with a car full of groceries, ensuring that the local economy plummets.
They also love the countryside so much, there are many recorded examples of them complaining that cocks crow as the sun rises, church bell ringers being asked to stop their traditional ringing, complaints over cows being herded along roads, whinging that farmers spray manure on their fields for fertiliser etc.
I wish I were joking about this.
There are many examples of them buying up the housing and driving the local house market prices through the roof, effectively ensuring that genuine locals who have lived there for generations cannot afford to live there. <snip>
Housing prices in Montclair skyrocketed, because people from Manhatten would have bidding wars on available houses...sight unseen.
In other words, sounds like NJ. I think I'll move back to WI.:p
I know your'e not. In Carroll County, MD you have to sign a waiver saying when you buy property that you will not complain about the "Smells of Nature" or some crap. And, like you, no one can afford to live here anymore. Everyone who works in Washington, DC and Baltimore moves here to live. So many that the state said that we can no longer issue building permits wer'e running out of water.
My home value went up $60,000 in two years. Which is great, but even if I sell I can't afford to live anywhere else.
Around here, that $60,000 gain would buy a reasonable house out right.
LdyJedi
Where my in-laws live out west, people were buying up homes that bordered a pig farm. A pig farm that had been there for generations.
And they were surprised it smelled.
And they complained.
Idiots.
SongsOfDragons
They could have phoned ahead and advised her to move her prize and joys before they came and smashed the flowers into mulch. What if the climbers were prize-winning?
There are many examples of them buying up the housing and driving the local house market prices through the roof, effectively ensuring that genuine locals who have lived there for generations cannot afford to live there.
My dad's equity was recently valued - I'm not putting the result but let's say my face was :eek: . He owns about six houses up north to rent out, one of which is his and mum's retirement bungalow, and both have no problem with the countryside.
I think I head of someone in Wales making a complaint about all the empty space near Sennybridge - why wasn't it being used for more houses? He tried to organise some sort of half-hearted protest stamp but soon stopped when he read one of the many signs that told him the Army use live rounds in this training area...:o
Housing and live ammunition do NOT mix. Well, unless you live in the southern US.
skeptic53
I'm uneasy about that emminent domain stuff, during the fifties Seattle lost a lot of great architecture to the great gaping wound that is Interstate Five. Of course back then we positively detested Victorian architecture, or really everything about the past. Thus spawned the "Urban Renewal" project, which invovled replacing every building in our historic district with a parking structure.It came DAMN close being a lot worse. There was a huge, long, nasty fight to keep the Pike Place Market from being torn down for a skyscraper (the compromise was Westlake Center). The PPM is an historic farmer's market that is now considered one of the main attractions of downtown Seattle. There was also the RW Thompson Expressway, which was going to run from I-5 south of downtown across Capitol Hill, through the Arboretum, and on up north to Lake Forest Park. This got as far as houses being condemned & torn down on the west side of the Arboretum, and the well-known "ramps to nowhere" on Hwy 520 by University of Washington, where people skinny-dip in the summer.
The Washington Park Arboretum is a huge, gorgeous park in the heart of the city, a priceless treasure. You can argue that the PPM is nothing but a tourist trap nowadays, but it still beats a soulless skyscraper. But losing the Arboretum to a freeway would have been just plain insane. Thank god wiser folk carried the day in the end.
There's a "Plan B" in the works regarding Pittsburgh's downtown. For those who don't know, there's not much downtown anymore. Since downtown parking sucks and is expensive, most people tend to go to the 'burbs to shop. As a result, many former stores are empty now.
What's going on, is that the city wants to seize many of the old (1900 and older) buildings and knock them down. In their place, they want to build new shops and condos.
The idea keeps getting shot down...simply because they'd be tearing down what makes our city unique. Even though some of the buildings are vacant and/or in decrepit condition, people don't want to lose them. Modern buildings just aren't interesting enough--they're simply ugly boxes with no real character ;)
What's going on, is that the city wants to seize many of the old (1900 and older) buildings and knock them down.
In my opinion, they'd be better off tearing down newer buildings and work on something better.
I can sort of understand both sides. I grew up in an area that was similar to that (much smaller scale, though). The problem was that the scenic buildings were kept around until a few of them were condemned because they were unsafe.
A better idea would be figuring out some way to get individuals interested in dropping cash into keeping up the old buildings before they get to the unsafe/too expensive to repair situation.
It'll probably never happen though. Most businesses want to build new ones...simply because of the tax benefits. They can write off "depreciation" as a business expense. Also, many times the cost of restoring the building can be multiple times what it's actually worth. Unless there's a serious offer of tax credits or grants, I doubt people will want to invest cash there.
The main problem downtown though, is that there's really no reason to head down there--many of the same stores are out in the 'burbs. It'll pick up a bit during Christmas...since people head downtown to (hopefully) see the Macy's (formerly Kaufmann's) window displays.
Then there are places like Grafton, WV. At one time, Grafton was a thriving town built on the mining and railroad industries. Then the mines closed, and the railroad (the former B&O, now part of CSX) scaled things back and downgraded the line. Now, the town is in pretty bad shape--many of the buildings are falling apart simply because it's not worth it to fix them. Why fix something that's going to stay vacant?
However, within the past few years, Grafton has been making an effort to rebuild itself--several new shops have opened, and some of the old buildings have been restored. The worst ones, including an abandoned church, got torn down.
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Home / Fan Film News / Friday The 13th: The Obsession Teases Deleted Pics And Feature Run Time
Friday The 13th: The Obsession Teases Deleted Pics And Feature Run Time
Jason Parker • May 12, 2012 •
Since the successful conclusion of the hit web series, Friday The 13th: The Obsession, this past April 13th, fans have now been asking if there is going to be a DVD release and what the details of that release will be. For those people who have not been following all of the events of the web series, originally, fans had an opportunity to contribute funds to help produce the Friday The 13th show, and in exchange, those contributors would receive a DVD. If you contributed more money from the baseline, then you would receive mention in the credits and then prop masks and so on.
For those people who are receiving the DVD of the web series, which includes the re-cut, full feature length version of the series, here is some info from the Facebook page for the series.
Friday The 13th: The Obsession Facebook
10 more minutes of footage will be added to the feature film version of the web series and should run about 80-82min. Will have director cut commentary as well.
There was also a few images posted from previously cut scenes from the series that will be added back in. Those are below. When the full length movie is sent out on DVD, we will have a review for everyone to read that compares how the feature length experience differs from webisodes.
Friday The 13th: The Obsession Teases Deleted Pics And Feature Run Time Reviewed by Jason Parker on May 12, 2012 Rating: 5
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What’s In A Name? | Gold in the Days of Summer: A Novella
Annie’s World
Life of Annie
Published on Sunday 14th July 2013 by Susan Pogorzelski
“As things stand now, I am going to be a writer. I’m not sure that I’m going to be a good one or even a self-supporting one, but until the dark thumb of fate presses me to the dust and says ‘you are nothing,’ I will be a writer.”
– HUNTER S. THOMPSON –
Author.
It still feels so strange to associate myself with that word, though it’s what I’d always dreamed of, ever since I was a little girl and filling notebooks with everything from sappy illness stories (thanks to my Lurlene McDaniel phase) to mystery and “horror” writings (kudos, R.L. Stine).
Even though whenever someone asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up, I’d answer with the same simple answer: “I want to be an author.”
Even though I’m grown up now.
Even though an author is exactly what I’ll be in a few short days with the publication of this book.
Still, it doesn’t feel real. And, in a way, maybe it doesn’t feel right, either.
Can self-published writers call themselves tried and true authors? Even though self-publishing is becoming as reputable as going through a traditional publisher, I can’t help but still hesitate to claim my place using the same descriptor as New York Times Best-Selling writers, among those great names I’d studied in school.
I can’t help but wonder if I will ever feel comfortable calling myself an author. The humbled part of me says I haven’t yet earned it, and maybe that’s the very argument of self-publishing versus traditional publishing:
When you’re published through traditional means, you’ve earned your place there. Your work is good enough to be picked up by an agent, to be passed through the channels of the publishing industry and laid at the desks of some of its biggest names. You’ve been given an advance and a contract, and you will see your books lining the shelves of Barnes and Noble and on the front page of Amazon.
You are an author.
But when you self-publish, the game is a little bit different. Of course, you put in the same amount of work as any other writer — the blood, sweat, and tears of the words are the same no matter which way the resulting book is packaged — but when you publish on your own, you bypass the rejections and initial judgements of the gatekeeper for those big-name companies to go-it alone. And though you start a business and build your own company around being a published writer, that accomplishment seems more subdued.
Maybe it’s because traditional publishing is the fast track, and when you self-publish, it takes longer to get to where you dream of being.
Maybe it’s because there remains engrained in us the idea that those published traditionally are the “real” writers, as virtually anyone can self-publish if they have a manuscript in hand.
I call myself a real writer now.
But I’m still not sure I can call myself an author.
No matter how my books are published, no matter how many books I write, I think there will always be some piece of me that clings to the word “writer” because that’s the work, the artistry, and I’ve put in my time, while “author” seems to be the title given in the aftermath of success.
I don’t have any expectations with this book.
I don’t want to become famous or rich (OK, maybe extremely financially comfortable would be nice), but I do want my story to be read. And, when I’m being completely honest with myself, I hope to be respected as a writer as well.
I’m still in the very beginning of things, led by a dream to tell a story that is so personal and dear while I build a career and a future in this company alongside it. For now, that’s enough.
For now, I’ll continue to call myself a writer because that’s what I do and, published or not, it’s what I’ve always done.
Though I do like the sound of authoress.
Perhaps someday…
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Chris Kelly and Sarah Schneider at the 2018 New York Television Festival.
The Other Two Gets Season Two
The Broadway Video produced series The Other Two got the greenlight from Comedy Central for a Season Two. The show premiered on the cable channel on January 24 and is currently airing Season One on Thursdays at 10:30pm ET.
The show is created, written, and executive produced by Sarah Schneider and Chris Kelly, former co-head writers at Saturday Night Live. The show stars Drew Tarver, Heléne Yorke, Case Walker, and Molly Shannon.
We ran across the team shooting on the Upper West Side back in June 2018.
You can still catch the pilot episode on the Comedy Central website.
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Isabelle Kunicki
Co-Founder Isabelle Kunicki can trace her Montessori experience back to her own childhood when she attended Toronto’s High Park Montessori School. Those early years provided her with an enriched foundation and many wonderful memories. In addition, it helped cement a desire, many years later, to open her own Montessori school. After earning a degree in History and Political Science from the University of Western Ontario in 1994, she knew she wanted to pursue a career in education. Combining her love for children and a desire to teach in a holistic non-traditional setting, she returned to her roots and pursued her A.M.I. Montessori Teacher’s Certification in 1995. It was during this time that she met Sandra Dale with whom she connected immediately through their shared passion for Montessori education. Their friendship led to a business partnership in 1996 when they founded Forest Hill Montessori School in Toronto. As a mother of two girls, she understands the concerns of today’s time-strapped parents who seek a compassionate, yet challenging learning environment for their children – an environment that celebrates and respects each child’s unique gifts and learning style. A passionate advocate of the Montessori methodology, she is dedicated to sharing her experience and knowledge about its benefits with parents and caregivers in her community and beyond.
Sandra Bosnar-Dale
Sandra Bosnar-Dale, who co-founded Forest Hill Montessori in 1996, always knew she wanted to work with children. Her experience tutoring students throughout high school and university helped convince her of her calling to pursue a profession in education. After spending time at Penn State University for a track and field scholarship, she returned to Toronto to complete her B.A. in French Language and Linguistics. From there, she began her studies to become an A.M.I. Certified Montessori teacher. Immediately, she knew she’d chosen the right career path. During her training, she developed a lasting friendship with Isabelle, with whom she forged a business relationship in 1996 when they opened their own Montessori school. Now a mother, she recognizes the powerful philosophy behind Montessori more than ever and incorporates it into her own family life in Toronto where she lives with her husband and two daughters. She loves reading books about education and how to raise resilient, independent, and intelligent kids. She feels privileged to have Toronto families select Forest Hill Montessori School for the care and education of their children, and is committed to building awareness about the power of Montessori to enrich the lives of children and families everywhere.
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The Anatomy Of: Astronoid
written by Eden Kupermintz on June 28, 2016
Welcome to Heavy Blog is Heavy’s feature, “The Anatomy Of.” Taken from the Between The Buried And Me album of the same name, in which the band pays tribute to artists/bands that they feel have most inspired their songwriting, “The Anatomy Of” allows us to hand off the metaphorical microphone to bands so they can talk about their influences. Read more entries from this series here.
We have (along with the rest of our niche of the community) been singing the praises of Astronoid for quite some time now. If you’ve never run into the name, imagine what would happen if you take a dream and then crash-landed it into a thrash metal concert. The guitars go fast, the drums blast away but the vocals are clean and soar high above the music. In composition as well there is a marked style, a bright, lazy, honey-slow drip that just pulls you right in. It’s like a hot, summer day when you were a child and the hours drew out in the long, dark tea time of the soul (as one Douglas Adams puts it) into a pastiche of nostalgia, fear, hope and dreams.
What goes into such a broth? How does a band like this come to be, seemingly emerging from nowhere to revolutionize what we thought was possible within the somewhat stale confines of thrash? Instead of speculating, hear it from the band themselves! We reached out just after our interview and asked the band our fateful, Anatomy Of question: what made you the musicians that you are today? More specifically, which musicians contributed to how you write, think and perform music? Below you can find styles ranging from progressive pop to Norse metal and much in between. Blast Air in the background and get ready to dive into what makes Astronoid tick.
Devin Townsend – Ocean Machine
Brett Boland (guitar/vocals): This album was a huge turning point for me. I have been listening to Strapping Young Lad for a long time and always loved their ferocity and energy. Friends kept telling me that I had to listen to Devin’s solo stuff, but I never gave it the proper shot. I bought Addicted and really enjoyed it, but it didn’t suck me in. Off of a friends recommendation I listened to Ocean Machine and it finally clicked. “Seventh wave” was all I needed. This album became an enormous inspiration to me. There is so much emotion in the songs. The album has such a nice flow and the songwriting is amazing. What really captivated me about the album is his vocal performance. The vocals are sung with such character and they convey the feeling of the song so perfectly.
“Funeral” is a perfect example. The song ebb and flows and brings you on a journey. The vocals suck you in. After I bought this album I bought every album. In about a month I had every Devin Townsend CD, DVD and SYL album. They all had a different effect on me and my songwriting and he was all I listened to for months. The epicness of his music, with the sometimes subtle and other times in your face progressiveness, and just incredible songwriting gave me something to strive for when writing myself. He was a huge inspiration to keep going the path that we chose. He writes whatever he wants. Metal, pop, a concept album about a dude on the moon chasing a radio inspired by Johnny Cash. He gave me the confidence to go with my gut, no matter what other people may think about the music, and write an album that we wanted.
Favorite tracks: “Seventh Wave”, “Funeral”, “Bastard”
Mew – No More Stories Are Told Today, I’m Sorry They Washed Away // No More Stories, The World Is Grey, I’m Tired, Let’s Wash Away
Brett Boland (guitar/vocals): I don’t think that this is my favorite Mew album, but it had the most influence on my writing for Air. What I love about this album so much is the way the vocals were written and treated in the mix. The way that the album opens is one of the most interesting things about it. From what I hear, the vocals were sung backwards, and then reversed in the mixing process. This is no easy task. It is such an interesting and haunting introduction to the album. It inspired me to mix the vocals in a way that would further add to the message of the music. What I also love about this album, and Mew in general, is his rhythmic and melodic vocal lines. The vocal melody is independent from any other melodic line in the music. They stand alone rhythmically and melodically. They also change from verse to verse. The vocals are so diverse over the record. They keep the listener engaged by changing things slightly as the song progresses and then bring something familiar back to grab the listener again. There are so many brilliant things about their band. Their use of rhythm and syncopation throughout their albums are so different than anyone else. They are a band that continues to inspire me differently each time I listen to them. All their albums offer something different to the table and I love them all. They are all so diverse and trying something different and new.
Favorite Tracks: “Repeaterbeater”, “Hawaii”, “Sometimes Life Isn’t Easy”, “Introducing Palace Players”
Cynic – Carbon Based Anatomy
Brett Boland (guitar/vocals): This EP was a pivotal release for Cynic. They stopped screaming, and focused on their atmosphere and songwriting. This was the release that I wanted from them after Traced in Air. I am in love with Paul Masvidal’s vocals. He is also such an amazing guitar player. Sean Reinert’s drumming is phenomenal and ties all the parts together. Reinert plays melodically and adds more to the songs than just a backbone. His playing is fluid and dynamic and he plays only as much as he has to. What is so cool about this album is what they decided to leave out; their use of space. There is rarely a lot going on which makes you really listen to the individual parts. The orchestration and layering to create the atmosphere is extremely intricate. Nothing in particular jumps out at you unless it was meant to. The songs are beautifully woven together and have a similar vibe to them. I wish this album was longer, but it wouldn’t have been the same if it had been. “Elves Beam Out” in particular had a big impact on me. The listeners focus is on the drums and vocals, with the guitars just creating an atmosphere. The vocal line is also particularly interesting and draws you in. As the song builds, it’s landscape gets more dense and intricate. This drove me to try to create a sense of atmosphere in simpler ways than just layering 100 riffs together, and also helped me with the mixing process. Less is more sometimes.
Favorite Tracks: “Elves Beam Out”, “Carbon Based Anatomy”
Alcest – Shelter
Dan Schwartz (Bass): Alcest has been a big influence on Astronoid from the very beginning. If I were to pick my favorite album it would probably be Ecailles de Lune, but the most important album to the development of Air for me was Shelter. When they released the song “Opale” I was absolutely blown away. Such a beautiful and uplifting track. I’m pretty sure I listened to it ten times in a row the day it came out. It was abundantly clear that it was going to be one big beautiful shoegaze album, which is something I’ve always wanted to hear them do. The album came out, and that’s exactly what I got. I just love the atmospheric textures. It’s a perfect album for daydreaming on a sunny day. That’s something that I know I wanted to capture with Air. I also love that it was recorded at Sundlaugin Studio since I’m also a huge Sigur Ros fan. I think my favorite track on the record is “Into the Waves” which is only on the deluxe edition surprisingly. It is also another very uplifting song. I love the contrapuntal guitar lines. That’s what really hooks you in and carries you away.
Favorite tracks: “Opale”, “Shelter”, “Délivrance”, “Into the Waves”
Steven Wilson – The Raven that Refused to Sing (And Other Stories)
Dan Schwartz (Bass): I wasn’t always a big Steven Wilson fan. Thanks to Opeth, I’ve always had a tremendous respect and appreciation for his work, but his solo stuff never grabbed me, until this album. Raven is an absolute masterpiece. Everything about it is perfect. The performances and the players are unreal. Guthrie Govan’s solo in “Drive Home” might be my all time favorite guitar solo, such beautiful lines and phrasing, and of course Marco Minnemann is amazing. The mix sounds unbelievable, and I expect nothing less from him in that respect. However, I think the most amazing part of this album is the songwriting. Each piece tells a story with such vivid execution and detail. These stories evoke such emotional responses. He is a master of form and composition. I try to do the same with my writing, and I hope to explore more complex forms in the future. The best part about this album is that it finally clicked for me, and now I love his whole catalogue.
Favorite tracks: “Drive Home”, “The Watchmaker”, “The Raven that Refused to Sing”, “The Pin Drop”
Other albums we could not stop listening to:
Coheed & Cambria – The Afterman | Emperor – Prometheus: The Discipline of Fire & Demise | Leprous – Coal | Windir – 1184 | Agalloch – The Mantle | M83 – Before the Dawn Heals Us
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karlo June 28, 2016 Reply
cynic and a shoegaze band were obvious choices, whilst i can definitely see how devin and steven wilson fit into it. mew is an interesting pick, though im really surprised that there isnt a thrash band listed here haha
Squall June 28, 2016 Reply
They really aren’t thrash at all. The “dream thrash” label is such a bad description of what they are. To me, they sound like New Found Glory with Mew’s vocalist and Deafheaven’s drummer.
i disagree, i find that thrash and speed metal elements come up time and time again throughout the release – and my understanding is that the dream thrash tag is self-styled – so im happy for artists to decide for themselves which genre tags to apply, as they should know better than anyone. works for me
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Short Films I, Friday, 22.01., 17:45 (Hall 2)
II – by Efthymis Kosemund Sanidis
Greece/Germany, 2014, 16′, Greek with English subtitles
An old groom walks in the open horizon towards a bride waiting for him. They meet but the distance between them starts to grow once again.
Efthymis Kosemund Sanidis
born in 1983, bears the Greek and german nationalities. He lives and works between northern France and Athens. Since 2010, he has directed commercial projects and short films. Currently, he is in residency at le Fresnoy – Studio National des Arts Contemorains in france. he is an alumnus of the Berlinale and Sarajevo Talent Campus. II is his debut short film.
Jennings Lodge – by Aliki Souma
Greece 2013, 10′, English
The inhabitants of Jennings Lodge, a small town in the US, listen to a local radio show from different places of the town. The program is interrupted suddenly by the breaking news of a child’s disappearance. Next, we see a gang who wanders in the woods, wearing hooded masks. Are they planning a criminal act, a ceremony, or a game? How are these events connected to each other and what is the meaning that hides behind them?
Aliki Souma
born in Athens 1989. In 2014, got her Bachelor’s degree in Fine Arts from the Athens School of Fine Arts. “Jennings Lodge” was her diploma thesis, and was initially presented as a three-channel video installation. It was screened at various film festivals in Greece and won the Best Student Film Award at the 21st Short Film Festival in Drama.
Elvin – by Orfeas Peretzis
Greece 2014, 24′, Greek with English subtitles
A musician wonders around the Greek province. On his way to Athens he picks up a young girl.
Previous screenings / festivals worldwide:
DRAMA SHORT FILM FESTIVAL, ARTFOOLS FILM FESTIVAL LARISSA, AIFF 2014, DAM SHORT FILM FESTIVAL (NEVADA, USA)
Awards and nominations:
PAN-HELLENIC FILM CRITICS ASSOCIATION AWARD FOR BEST GREEK SHORT FILM (ARTFOOLS FILM FESTIVAL)
Orfeas Peretzis
born in 1984 in Athens, Greece. Started making amateur films as a teenager and then moved to the UK to study Film & Video and Screenwriting at the London Film School. His student films participated in Festivals like The Brief Encounters in the UK, Drama International Short Film Festival in Greece, where he received 1st Prize for “Small Talk”, which also received an award for best student film from the Southern Royal Television in the UK.
He worked in London as a Promo Producer/Director for a few years. In 2010 equipped with a camera, moved back to Greece. He started filming protests, music events, documentaries, video art pieces and some branded content.
His short film “Elvin”, received top prize from the Panhellenic Union of Film Critics. His latest film “Quantum” will premiere at the Athens International Film Festival this September.
He is a co-founder of the Athens based production house StudioBauhaus where he directs and produces short films and branded content.
Filmography:
• “Quantum” (20 mins, 2015, Greece)
• “Elvin” (25 mins, 2014, Greece)
• “Sell It” (13 mins, 2010, Greece)
• “Small Talk” (14 mins, 2007, UK)
• “Catharis” (13 mins, 2006, Greece/UK)
• “Anton Chekov. The Last Curtain (13 mins, 2005, UK)
White sheet – by Sonia Liza Kenterman
August. Blistering Heat. Cars speed up as they pass by the solitude of small towns. A sole presence in this deserted landscape a woman who spends her time on the highway. She has no destination other than her past.
Sonia Liza Kenterman
is a Greek-German film director and writer. Her short film ‘Nicoleta’ has won 14 awards and entered 32 festivals. She is currently in development of her first feature film ‘Tailor’ for which she has gained the development fund from the Greek Film Center. “White Sheet” was also funded by by the Greek Film Center and had its premiere at the 20th Athens International Film Festival in September 2014.
Dye – by Giorgos Teltzidis
A family living in Athens let out the flat above to Rashid, a young immigrant. A chance to sell the flat presents itself and each one of them will have to choose sides, with the lines between the victim and the perpetrator becoming blurred.
Giorgos Teltzidis
has written and directed a number of short films, documentaries, and commercials. He has also participated in various festivals in Greece and abroad.
He has collaborated as an assistant director, script and casting director with: Konstantinos Giannaris, Ektoras Lygizos, Periklis Hoursoglou, Stathis Athanasiou and more. Three of his scripts have been funded by the Greek National Television’s “Microfilm” program and the Greek Film Center.
In 2012, he was awarded with the best documentary award for his “Pure radio”, at the Drama International Short Film Festival. In 2013, in the same festival, he received honors as well as the panhellenic film critics association award for his script “Generator”, directed by Nikoleta Leousi. In 2015, his short film “Dye” was nominated for the Hellenic Film Academy award.
2010 – Short Film. 30 seconds. (Writer & Director)
2012 – Short Film. Pure radio (Writer & Director)
2013 – Short Film. Generator (Writer)
2014 – Short Film. Dye (Writer & Director)
Short Films III: Retrogate – von Vasilis Kekatos, Without Milk –... New Vision III (short films), Saturday, 23.01., 19:45 (Hall 3)
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Five Years After Sandy, Professor Leigh Graham Shares Lessons from Research On Disaster Recovery
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Five years after Hurricane Sandy, Professor Leigh Graham has been featured on PBS Newshour as well as CUNY TV to discuss the successes and challenges of recovery efforts in New York City. Last year, Graham co-published a report comparing the experiences of the Lower East Side and the Rockaways after Sandy, two NYC areas significantly impacted by the storm.
In the wake of recent hurricanes both in the US and around the world, we spoke with Professor Graham to learn more about her experience and how we can better prepare for future disasters.
How did you first come to this work?
Leigh Graham: I started this work shortly after I was hired at Seedco—a national non-profit in New York. My first day was the Monday after 9/11, and one of the first things we did was meet with the NYC Economic Development Corporation to figure out our response.
From there, I applied for my Urban Planning Degree at MIT in 2004, and during my second year, Katrina hit. I went to New Orleans and wrote my dissertation, focusing on community economic development practice and the preservation of public housing, as well as green cities and urban equity.
When Sandy hit, I was teaching my first semester at John Jay. I lived in Queens, and I really liked the Rockaways. I thought I could look at recovery there.
From your research looking at various neighborhoods and disasters, have you identified any patterns in what makes a recovery effort successful?
LG: The broad finding is that when communities are well-organized, have civic infrastructure, shared solidarity, and ties not only to each other but to external power brokers, they can respond. That's true across multiple disasters and multiple contexts.
One thing that was interesting for us from our research on Sandy was what we found on gentrification. Gentrification is almost always seen as having a negative impact on communities, but we saw that Lower East Side organizations had rallied around that issue, and as a result, they’d built the skills and frameworks to respond to Sandy.
In the Rockaways, they didn’t have that. Despite it being a small strip of land, there’s segregation as well as racial and geographic conflict. Organizations have historically lacked the resources and political will to come together. There wasn’t the civic infrastructure to respond.
How can your research apply to Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria?
LG: In the aftermath of any disaster, the politics of inequality and equity come to the fore. You see who will be displaced and who will have a harder time rebuilding. You see where resources are likely to be directed.
The impact of Hurricane Maria sounds just as bad as Katrina, but it’s not dominating the news like it should be. We have an administration that's not interested. Even President Bush went to Katrina and gave heartfelt speeches about inequality and unequal recovery. Trump hasn’t done that.
There are a lot of folks around the College who have a lot to say on this. [John Jay Professor] Denise Thompson was recently explaining to me that in the Caribbean, lots of island nations have come together for a cohesive emergency response. But as a territory of the US, Puerto Rico isn’t well integrated into the Caribbean, and it’s also isolated from the continental United States. That puts Puerto Rico in a precarious position.
What are some key takeaways for people to understand about disaster recovery?
LG: It’s important to know there’s a difference between response and recovery. Response is what happens immediately after. It’s emergency management, and includes getting people shelter and resources.
The recovery period kicks in after that. That's when you're thinking how do we rebuild? How do we get people’s lives to what they were like beforehand, and with ideally some improvements so they can be resilient going forward? That recovery period can last years.
There’s always a tension between the sense of urgency to respond and the reality of how long it takes to rebuild a community. Managing that is really important, especially if you are a bureaucrat or politician and need people to have realistic expectations.
Does rebuilding need to happen within the community? What about people outside the community who might want to assist?
LG: When you have an outsider come in and say I want to help, there’s always this question of what that help really looks like. It makes a world of difference if you come into a community with an invitation.
When I first went to New Orleans after Katrina, I had never been there, but I was given good advice. I was told to learn the history and dynamics of the city, and I did. By doing that, you’ll still be an outsider, but you won’t be uninformed.
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John responds to HS2 Phase 2b route announcement
I am bitterly disappointed but not surprised by the Government’s HS2 announcement. Ministers have rejected the very strong case against this new route which as MPs we’ve worked with local groups and put directly to Government. South Yorkshire’s been sold a dud with this spur line to Sheffield rather than a main route station at […]
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Last bid for HS2 Meadowhall route
AN MP has made a last ditch attempt to persuade the Government to back the original HS2 route via Meadowhall. Based on the original timetable, the Transport Secretary is expected to make his final decision on the high speed rail route this month. MPs across South Yorkshire, and Rotherham and Doncaster councils, have repeatedly called […]
New HS2 route a badly thought-out, ill-judged option say MPs
In a joint submission to the Government, MPs from Barnsley, Doncaster, Rotherham and Sheffield have made clear their opposition to the new HS2 route proposed in Summer 2016. Ed Miliband, Kevin Barron, Caroline Flint, John Healey, Angela Smith and Rosie Winterton joined forces to send the Government a blistering assessment of HS2’s proposal to move […]
Transport secretary ‘stretching truth’ on HS2
TWO Rotherham MPs have accused the Transport Secretary of stretching the truth about visiting South Yorkshire and listening to concerns about HS2. A Freedom of Information (FoI) Act request by a member of Bramley Action Group has revealed that although Chris Grayling claimed to have “personally visited most places along the HS2 route”, in fact […]
John challenges location of HS2 consultation event
Rotherham MPs have slammed HS2 bosses for the location of the Bramley consultation event – because it’s in Thurcroft. The Government has recently announced a consultation until March on the new Phase 2b route which, it is proposed, will pass through Bramley, Ravenfield and the Dearne. A series of information events have been planned for […]
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Arabs Rise for Rights, Armed Conflicts, Democracy, Editors' Choice, Featured, Global Geopolitics, Global Governance, Headlines, Human Rights, IPS UN: Inside the Glasshouse, Middle East & North Africa, Peace, Poverty & SDGs, Religion, TerraViva United Nations
U.S. Ally Yemen in Danger of Splitting into Two – Again
By Thalif Deen Reprint | | Print | |En español
Yemeni protesters in Sanaa carrying pictures of arrested men. Credit: Yazeed Kamaldien/IPS
UNITED NATIONS, Jan 28 2015 (IPS) - When North and South Yemen merged into a single country under the banner Yemen Arab Republic back in May 1990, a British newspaper remarked with a tinge of sarcasm: “Two poor countries have now become one poor country.”
Since its birth, Yemen has continued to be categorised by the United Nations as one of the world’s 48 least developed countries (LDCs), the poorest of the poor, depending heavily on foreign aid and battling for economic survival.
"This double game was well known to the Americans. They went along with it. It is what allowed AQAP to take Jar and other regions of Yemen and hold them with some ease." -- Vijay Prashad
But the current political chaos – with the president, prime minister and the cabinet forced to resign en masse last week – has threatened to turn the country into a failed state.
And, more significantly, Yemen is also in danger of being split into two once again – and possibly heading towards another civil war.
Charles Schmitz, an analyst with the Middle East Institute, was quoted last week as saying: “We’re looking at the de facto partitioning of the country, and we’re heading into a long negotiating process, but we could also be heading toward war.”
In a report released Tuesday, the Brussels-based International Crisis Group said the fall of the government has upended the troubled transition and “raises the very real prospect of territorial fragmentation, economic meltdown and widespread violence if a compromise is not reached soon.”
The ousted government of President Abdu Rabbu Mansour Hadi was a close U.S. ally, who cooperated with the United States in drone strikes against Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) holed up in the remote regions of Yemen.
The United States was so confident of its ally that the resignation of the government “took American officials by surprise,” according to the New York Times.
Matthew Hoh, senior fellow at the Center for International Policy (CIP), told IPS, “I don’t know if Yemen will split in two or not. [But] I believe the greater fear is that Yemen descends into mass chaos with violence among many factions as we are seeing in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya and Syria, all nations that have been the recipient of interventionist U.S. foreign policy.”
According to an Arab diplomat, the Houthis who have taken power are an integral part of the Shiite Muslim sect, the Zaydis, and are apparently financed by Iran.
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But the country is dominated by a Sunni majority which is supported by neighbouring Saudi Arabia, he said, which could trigger a sectarian conflict – as in Syria, Iraq and Lebanon.
Ironically, all of them, including the United States, have a common enemy in AQAP, which claimed responsibility for the recent massacre in the offices of a satirical news magazine in Paris.
“In short, it’s a monumental political mess,” said the diplomat, speaking on condition of anonymity.
Vijay Prashad, George and Martha Kellner Chair in South Asian History and Professor of International Studies at Trinity College, told IPS it is very hard to gauge what will happen in Yemen at this time.
“The battle lines are far from clear,” he said.
The so-called pro-U.S, government has, since 2004, played a very dainty game with the United States in terms of counter-terrorism.
On the one side, he said, the government of former President Ali Abdullah Saleh and then Hadi, suggested to the U.S. they were anti al-Qaeda.
But, on the other hand, they used the fact of al-Qaeda to go after their adversaries, including the Zaydis (Houthis).
“This double game was well known to the Americans. They went along with it. It is what allowed AQAP to take Jar and other regions of Yemen and hold them with some ease,” Prashad said.
He dismissed as “ridiculous” the allegation the Zaydis are “proxies of Iran”. He said they are a tribal confederacy that has faced the edge of the Saleh-Hadi sword.
“They are decidedly against al-Qaeda, and would not necessarily make it easier for AQAP to exist,” said Prashad, a former Edward Said Chair at the American University of Beirut and author of ‘Arab Spring, Libyan Winter.’
Hoh told IPS: “Based upon the results from decades of U.S. influence in trying to pick winners and losers in these countries or continuing to play the absurd geopolitical game of backing one repressive theocracy, Saudi Arabia, against another, Iran, in proxy wars, the best thing for the Yemenis is for the Americans not to meddle or to try and pick one side against the other.”
American foreign policy in the Middle East, he said, can already be labeled a disaster, most especially for the people of the Middle East.
“The only beneficiaries of American policy in the Middle East have been extremist groups, which take advantage of the war, the cycles of violence and hate, to recruit and fulfill their message and propaganda, and American and Western arms companies that are seeing increased profits each year,” said Hoh, who has served with the U.S. Marine Corps in Iraq and on U.S. embassy teams in Afghanistan and Iraq.
When the two Yemens merged, most of the arms the unified country inherited came from Russia, which was a close military ally of South Yemen.
Yemen’s fighter planes and helicopters from the former Soviet Union – including MiG-29 jet fighters and Mi-24 attack helicopters – were later reinforced with U.S. and Western weapons systems, including Lockheed transport aircraft (transferred from Saudi Arabia), Bell helicopters, TOW anti-tank missiles and M-60 battle tanks.
Nicole Auger, a military analyst monitoring Middle East/Africa at Forecast International, a leader in defence market intelligence and industry forecasting, told IPS U.S. arms and military aid have been crucial to Yemen over the years, especially through the Defense Department’s 1206 “train and equip” fund.
Since 2006, she pointed out, Yemen has received a little over 400 million dollars in Section 1206 aid which has significantly supported the Yemeni Air Force (with acquisitions of transport and surveillance aircraft), its special operations units, its border control monitoring, and coast guard forces.
Meanwhile, U.S. military aid under both Foreign Military Financing (FMF) and the International Military Education and Training (IMET) programme has risen substantially, she added.
Also, Yemen is now being provided assistance under Non-Proliferation, Anti-Terrorism, De-mining, and Related programmes (NADR) and International Narcotics Control and Law Enforcement (INCLE) programmes.
According to the U.S. Congressional Budget Justification – U.S. support for the military and security sector “will remain a priority in 2015 in order to advance peace and security in Yemen.”
Edited by Kitty Stapp
The writer can be contacted at thalifdeen@aol.com
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“The resignation took the U.S. by surprise”. What else is new? The U.S. hasn’t the fogyish idea what it’s doing in the M.E. to begin with. It has all those think tanks and neocons spinning their B.S., and yes, that’s all it is, about how to run a war. The only thing that’s for sure, is the money the American taxpayer has to keep pouring down the proverbial rat hole or bottomless pit, to keep the idiots who think these things up. The so-called war on terror, is really the war on the American pocket book. There is no way on earth that the WoT can be won/eliminated, because there will always be those who want to dominate, as in the strong victimizing the weak. IMHO
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HOME > Past issues > 2017 November 22 - 28 > Board of Audit: Finance Ministry’s 90% discount on land deal for Moritomo inappropriate
2017 November 22 - 28 TOP3 [POLITICS]
Board of Audit: Finance Ministry’s 90% discount on land deal for Moritomo inappropriate
The Board of Audit acknowledged that the Finance Ministry’s decision to offer a 90% discount on a national land deal to the school corporation “Moritomo Gakuen” was inappropriate, Akahata learned on November 21.
The exceptionally favorable treatment by the ministry’s local bureau in Osaka came to light in February as Japanese Communist Party lawmakers Miyamoto Takeshi and Tatsumi Kotaro took up the issue in the Diet. In addition, it is alleged that Prime Minister Abe Shinzo’s wife, who has close ties with the Moritomo president, helped the school corporation obtain the outrageous discount.
In June 2016, the Finance Ministry’s Kinki Finance Bureau sold national land in Osaka’s Toyonaka City to Moritomo Gakuen at the price of 134 million yen, about one-tenth of its market value of 956 million yen. The regional bureau asserts that it provided the price reduction in order to compensate Moritomo for the clean-up costs of abandoned waste buried in the land. The cost of disposal was calculated by the bureau with the help of the Land Ministry’s local bureau.
In the Board of Audit’s report scheduled to come out on November 22, the board states that it found unconvincing points in the preconditions that the Finance Ministry’s bureau had used to estimate the amount of waste on the land in question, such as the extent in area and the thickness of layers which were deemed to contain waste as well as the density of undesirable materials in the dirt. The board also points out that it could not confirm the appropriateness of unit disposal costs used in the estimate.
The Board of Audit made the inspection in response to a request from the House of Councilors in March.
Past related articles:
> Kagoike’s testimony damages Abe gov’t [March 25, 2017]
> Abe’s wife-associated school corporation gets national land at exceptionally low price [February 11, 2017]
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What do you do to spice up the 2 & 4?
Thread starter DrummerCA35
evilg99
Anon La Ply said:
This is the Central Scrutiniser ...
Attention all drummers. Once more it must be stressed that it is essential for all drummers to try to sound like each other all of the time. The rhythm must be expressed with backbeats on the two and four. Dissent shall result in ostracism and poverty.
You have been warned. Do not try to be creative. It is self indulgent and immature. Creativity should be left to composers and musicians who are more popular with audiences than are drummers. Rest assured, you will probably get your little feature spot if you behave.
I repeat. Do not try to be creative or you shall rot for the rest of your days, alone with just your drums in your basement. Single. Unloved. Unwanted. A clerk.
Don't let that be you. Be what others want you to be. That is your function as a drummer. Use your instrument to oil the wheels of commerce and they will spin for you. Fail to do so and you will fall by the wayside in this competitive world because if you don't do it, others will. If you don't get the chance to play rhythms that you love, accept that as your lot and keep the backbeats coming.
Failure to cooperate will no longer be tolerated.
// end transmission
Amen. Thank you.
Where do some get the idea that playing 4 and 2 can be boring? I play the song, and if it cooks with the most basic of beats then I feel it and it feels wonderful. If it cooks better with a slight tweak to the 2 and 4 then thats what I do. I'm a musician, I can feel when the groove is good and when it is great cos I help to make it so.
Skrivarna
Gel-Sol said:
Break as many rules as you can. If you don't like sitting back being the band's glorified metronome, form your own band where the drums take center stage.
Absolutely. We all know how successful these bands are.
mrfingers
Some songs just call out for more, some can't--there may be other percussion( & more drums confuses things) or the beat is too fast to add frills without sounding busy...or it's the blues! Otherwise being the band metronome is poor.
Alex Sanguinetti
JustJames said:
Sorry Alex, but this smacks of arrogance.
When Leon Chancler played the money beat throughout Billie Jean, I'm pretty sure it wasn't for lack of appropriate theoretical knowledge and dexterity.
If you're playing your own version of a song, feel free to be as busy as you like, but if you're in a cover band, the job of the band is to do a very recognisable rendition of the song. Playing the 2 and 4, and sticking to it, is about being faithful to the feel that you are aiming to recreate, it's not about being limited.
Man, I never mentioned Leon Chancler OR ANY OTHER DRUMMER, or any song
The original poster IS JUST asking how he can add, or change to the 2 and 4 in ANY song, and I answered him he can use anything, he just needs to know how is done.
If Leon Chancler decides to play 2 and 4 is his own choice, whatever the reason is, he (Leon) was not the one posting the message...
I was just saying playing always the same TO ME is boring (it doesn¨t matter in which band), and I will not change my mind. If you don´t find it boring is your own thing. Oh, by the way, what is "your thing", because I never SEEN A VIDEO OF YOU... (mine are all over, and you can see more than 10 at my site).
New Tricks
4815162342 said:
Isn't that the one where he plays 1 and 3 on the snare for a section?
He spiced it up!
Personally, I pretty much love the 2 and 4. I can play without thinking. Just sit back, look around and enjoy the vibe. Although, this weekend I decided to work in some subtle stick twirls on some 2/4 songs. When the blister heals, I'll work on it some more.
And, easy there Alex. You're going to have a stroke. Bada boom!
It's just the internet. People talk schit all the time. Consider the source is JJ and discard it.
After all, the subject wasn't "what it the proper thing to do", it was, "what do you do". There can be no right or wrong.
New Tricks said:
Bada boom!
Actually the EXACT question was: "What do you do to spice up the 2 & 4? and not, for example, "What do you do to avoid doing anything else but 2 & 4"..." Badabing!
You aren't arguing with me are you?
Hell, I was on your side
The bada boom was for the stroke pun. Get it? A stroke? A drummer having a stroke?
It was funnier in my head.
But, if we are going to argue, I said specifically the subject wasn't "what it the proper thing to do" and didn't refer to the exact question so your premise is invalid.
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DrummerCA35 said:
I know this is a pretty basic question but...
Suppose you're playing a lot of groove-oriented dance music, and the drum parts on this music often consist of very simple drumming...8th notes on the hats, 1&3 on the kick and 2&4 on the snare. What do you find yourself doing to "spice it up?" when you have several songs in a row and they all have that same beat?
Also, do you find that some songs just don't lend themselves to anything BUT that feel? Take Kool and the Gang's "Celebration" and "Ladies Night" for example. Both of those go over (of course) extremely well at our gigs. The second one is a real chore sometimes for me to get through. A bunch of women dancing makes it less painful. I know...focus on the groove and not what cool licks I can throw in.
Although, I'm sure we ALL have our bag of tricks we like to use to spice it up and keep from going insane.
Returning to the original question...I notice that both the examples you've cited actually have the kick on all four beats most of the time. Once you've got that pattern going on it's so solid that there's not much you can do to mix it up...
...however, something I quite like is adding notes to the kick drum part occasionally. An extra 8th note, e.g. 1 2 3 4 + 1, can actually add a bit more drive to the beat if you throw it in from time to time. Or indeed an extra 16th just before the 1 - so 1 2 3 4 a1. You can take a similar approach with the hi-hat too, add in a 16th here and there. The important thing is maintaining the strong quarter notes, provided you don't mess that up you can do what you like.
These examples do have variations though...'Ladies Night' has the offbeat open hi-hat variation though, and Celebration has the switch to four-to-the-floor kick after the intro, to take two examples. I think if I were playing these songs...I'd just play them like the record.
I wasn´t arguing with you and I understood you were "sort" of on my side, I said sort ONLY because when you put the question you put it INCOMPLETE.
It¨s not the same to put "what do you do?" and ""What do you do to spice up the 2 & 4?". The second, the original question, implies clear intention TO CHANGE, or to play more notes, than the 2 and 4 ALONE.
So all the stuff about not changing the 2 and 4, XX drummer, Michael Jackson, etc. from James it´s completly irrelevant.
And again, no, I wasn´t arguing with you.
Oh, by the way, your stating of my premise is also wrong, the only premise (doublecheck with my original answer) was: "you can change everything all the time, not just HH, but snare, bass drums, add toms, etc."
Whatever, I´m not even interested in the subject at all. Please let´s stop here, is of no importance.
Stroman
Lol! I stopped a long time ago.
I've been checking out the dancers. All you need to know about the groove, right there...
Curly Haired Drummer
A bit of spice could work but - taking a bit from each "side"(those in favour of additions, and those that aren't) - add your spice sparingly.
While I love Queen to bits, their more disco oriented "Hot Space" is an album I like to forget (with the exception of one or two songs). But with that said, Roger Taylor's signature little hi hat click with his snare works wonders for the songs. It's subtle, but gives spice.
Ride bell hits in conjunction with the snare are a personal favourite of mine (Copeland style), but I'd use it maybe once in a verse as something to keep your drumming listeners intrigued.
You'll have two kinds of people in the audience at the end of the day: Those who hear what the drums are doing, and those that don't. As long as 2 and 4 keep the beat, and you're subtle but effective with the spice, you'll impress both while serving the song.
Some of your band might even like it, and it'll change things up a bit for you.
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Turkey, Russia, Germany, France to meet over Idlib
September 14 2018 10:25:00
Sevil Erkuş – ANKARA
Officials from Turkey, Russia, France and Germany will meet in Istanbul on Sept. 14 over Syria in a bid to seek political settlement in the war-torn country as an imminent offensive into the last rebel-held enclave of Idlib looms.
“We aim to prevent clashes in Idlib and declare a ceasefire here,” a Turkish diplomat, who asked to remain anonymous due to restrictions on speaking to the media, has told Hürriyet Daily News, elaborating on the agenda of the Sept. 14 meeting.
“The international community should put in efforts for a ceasefire in Idlib,” the diplomat noted. Turkey will be represented in the four-way meeting by presidential advisor İbrahim Kalın. French President Emmanuel Macron’s diplomacy adviser Philippe Étienne, Russian presidential advisor Yuri Ushakov and German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s foreign policy adviser Jan Hecker will be the other participants.
Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu held phone conversations with his German, French and U.S. counterparts on Sept. 12. The minister discussed the issue of Idlib with his counterparts, the diplomat said. Meanwhile, Defense Minister Hulusi Akar also held a phone conversation with his French counterpart Florence Parly on Sept. 13 as well.
President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan previously said the leaders of Turkey, Russia, Germany and France would meet in Istanbul on Sept. 7, but the initial meeting was held by bureaucrats. A western diplomat, who asked to remain anonymous due to restrictions on speaking to the media, in Ankara told Hürriyet Daily News that holding the four-way leaders’ summit will be decided in the Sept. 14 meeting. Germany and France are careful not to give off an impression that they were taking sides in the Russia-U.S. strife regarding the issue of Syria, the diplomat said and noted that they don’t want the meeting to turn into an “anti-Trump” event.
The meeting is part of international demarche to converge efforts conducted by actors of the Astana process and the Western countries involved in the Syrian crisis.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel earlier said that the conflict in Syria had escalated to an enormous scale and cannot be settled without the participation of Russia, Turkey, Iran, Europe and other regional powers.
In another statement, Merkel said a four-way summit “could make sense” and added, “It must be well prepared, that’s why no date has been set yet.”
“But we will arrange for advisors to hold a preparatory meeting and then decide whether it makes sense to hold such a meeting together,” the German chancellor stated.
“I have also discussed Syria during my phone conversation with Mr. Erdoğan since we have a very, very tense situation in Idlib.”
French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian warned on Sept. 11 that a Syrian government offensive on Idlib could scatter thousands of foreign extremists abroad, posing a security threat to the West.
“There are in all likelihood dozens of French fighters from both Al-Qaeda and ISIL,” in Idlib, Le Drian told France’s BFMTV, warning that there were “also many terrorists from other nations who could scatter” in the event of a joint Syrian-Russian offensive, posing “risks for our security.
Le Drian said there was “still time to guard against this scenario” and expressed support for Turkey “in its efforts to keep the population safe, particularly the civilian population.”
Erdoğan, Russian President Vladimir Putin and Iranian President Hassan Rouhani attended a leaders’ summit on Syria in early September as part of guarantors in the Astana process, a deal which aimed for de-escalation zones in Syria in order to maintain a ceasefire. However, Idlib, one of the de-escalation zones where many opposition groups including radical ones are huddled, has been at the heart of concerns of the international community since the Syrian regime and Russia intensified military attacks on the grounds of eliminating terrorist groups there.
Turkey has intensified contacts with Russia and Iran in recent days amid escalating tension over the Syrian regime’s impending military operation on Idlib. Ankara also calls on Western countries to initiate efforts to solve the Idlib problem, saying that any possible refugee influx would not only pose a threat to Turkey but also to European countries since there are foreign militants among these groups as well.
Turkey urges Russia and Iran to separate moderate and radical groups in the rebel-stronghold, warning against a massive military offensive which could cause a bloodbath in the enclave where 3.5 million people live.
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Polycystic kidney disease is a disease of the kidneys that causes multiple cysts to form on these organs. Polycystic kidney disease is also commonly known as PKD. The cysts that are associated with this disease are fluid filled sacs. They can grow and multiply to the extent that they increase kidney mass and cause the kidneys to malfunction and eventually fail.
This disease happens when one parent who carries a certain abnormal gene which can be passed down during conception. There are about 500,000 people who currently have this disease in the Untied Stats. This disease can afflict all ethnic groups and is not constricted to any certain group. There are actually two kinds of Polycystic Kidney Disease. Autosomal dominant , which is most commonly found in people who are 50 years of age or older and autosomal recessive which occurs in infants. The autosomal dominate is more common. It affects about 1 in every 500-1000 adults where as autsomal recessive only affects 1 in every 20,000-40,000 infants who are born. People who undergo years of kidney dialysis for other reasons can also sometimes develop a nonhereditary case of PKD. However, these cases are rare.
As the dominate form of the disease progresses the kidneys can become enlarged and pain in the back or sides is experienced. Bleeding into the cysts can occasionally happen. Common symptoms of PKD include tenderness and pain in the abdomen and blood in the urine. A doctor may sometimes actually be able to feel the enlarged kidneys when doing a routine abdominal exam. The person may experience the need to make several bathroom trips during the night. There may be pain on one side or both sides of the lower back. High blood pressure, drowsiness, joint pain and nail abnormalities are other symptoms. Women may experience painful menstruation because of polycystic kidney disease. Urinary tract infections are common as well as the fever and chills that are typical of any kind of infection in the body.
Unfortunately there is no known cure for polycystic kidney disease. People who have this disease should go in for regular check ups. A diagnosis is made after careful examination and certain testing for it that can include a CT scan or an MRI to detect the presence of kidney cysts. Repeat testing can reveal enlargement of the kidneys to see how far the disease has developed. Blood tests can also be done to check the level of kidney function. High blood pressure and heart conditions are also commonly found in a person who has polycystic kidney disease too and the patient can be treated for those conditions.
Autosomal recessive polycystic kidney disease is less common and appears in infants at birth. It usually leads to the cause of infant death during the first month of life. Children born with this disease usually are born with enlarged kidneys and produce very little urine output as well as liver problems in utero. The low urine output during the fetal stage can also cause there to be a reduction in amniotic fluid which in turn can cause damage to the development of the lungs. Newborn infants born with damaged lungs typically have trouble breathing which can cause death in newborns also. Autosomal recessive polycystic kidney disease is a genetic disorder that affects both male and female infants. Enlarged kidneys in the embryo can be discovered before birth during a prenatal ultrasound test. The ultrasound test can reveal it as soon as 18 weeks after conception.
Older people who have autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease usually reach the stage of kidney failure by about the age of 60. They will usually have to be put on kidney dialysis for the rest of their life or at least until a kidney transplant can be performed.
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Student's t-test for independent samples
Jill C Stoltzfus
The Research Institute, Temple University/St. Luke's University Health Network School of Medicine, 801 Ostrum Street, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania 18015, USA
Date of Submission 16-Sep-2015
Date of Acceptance 28-Nov-2015
Temple University/St. Luke's University Health Network School of Medicine, 801 Ostrum Street, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania 18015
When analyzing data for two independent groups (e.g., males vs. females), the Student's t-test is commonly used for normally distributed data measured on a continuous/interval scale (e.g., body mass index). The mathematical formula for the Student's t-test includes the mean between-group difference in the numerator and between-group variability in the denominator.
The following core competencies are addressed in this article: Medical knowledge.
Keywords: Between-group variability, independent groups, Student's t-test
Stoltzfus JC. Student's t-test for independent samples. Int J Acad Med 2015;1:27-8
Stoltzfus JC. Student's t-test for independent samples. Int J Acad Med [serial online] 2015 [cited 2019 Jul 15];1:27-8. Available from: http://www.ijam-web.org/text.asp?2015/1/1/27/172708
When analyzing data, it is common practice to compare two independent groups, such as males versus females or smokers versus nonsmokers. In this case, “independent groups” means that the observations from one sample are completely unrelated to the observations from another sample. If the outcome is measured on a continuous/interval scale (i.e., it exists on a continuum that can be added, subtracted, multiplied, or divided) and is normally distributed (i.e., it looks like a “bell-shaped curve”), the Student's t-test is the appropriate statistical method.[1],[2]
The Student's t-test (also known as an unpaired t-test) was developed in 1908 by a chemist named William Sealy Gosset (who went by the pseudonym “Student” when publishing his work) to test the quality of stout at the Guinness Brewery in Dublin, Ireland. Below is the mathematical formula for the Student's t-test:[1],[2]
In this equation, the numerator (X-bar and Y-bar) represents the difference in means between the two independent groups. The denominator represents the between-group variability, with n1 and n2 being the sample sizes of the two groups, and Sp being the pooled standard deviation or the weighted average of the standard deviation of the two groups. The formula for Sp[1],[2] is:
In this equation, n1 and n2 are the sample sizes of the two groups, and S12 and S22 are the standard deviations of the two groups.
Besides requiring continuous/interval-level outcomes that are normally distributed, the Student's t-test was originally designed for data with equal variances between the two groups being compared.[1],[2] This means that the distribution of data in one group should be similar to the other group for example, when comparing body mass indexes (BMIs) in males versus females, the distribution of BMI values should be similar at the low, middle, and high ranges for both males and females. If two groups have unequal variances, which sometimes happen when the two groups' sample sizes are noticeably different or highly imbalanced, a slightly different type of Student's t-test may be used.
Although statistical software packages can quickly compute a Student's t-test, it is easy enough to calculate by hand. Consider the following example: In a group of 50 male athletes, mean BMI is 28.5, and the standard deviation is 10.5. In a group of 50 female athletes, mean BMI is 23.5, and the standard deviation is 12.5. If we apply the Student's t-test formula:
Step 1: Calculate
X-bar (males) – Y-bar (females) = 28.5–23.5 = 5.0
Step 3: Complete the formula:
The t-test value for our BMI data is 2.16. We then compare this value to the critical t-test threshold that matches our data's parameters, including the level of error we select for finding a significant difference that does not truly exist (usually 0.05, or 5%). (Note that critical t-test threshold tables can be found online).[3] If our value of 2.16 is greater than the critical threshold, we conclude that male athletes' BMIs are significantly greater than female athletes' BMIs. If our t-test value is less than the critical t-test threshold value, we must conclude that BMI does not differ significantly by gender.
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Seltman HJ. The t-Test and Basic Inference Principles. Experimental Design and Analysis; 2015. p. 141-70. Available from: http://www.stat.cmu.edu/~hseltman/309/Book/chapter6.pdf [Last cited on 2015 Sep 15].
Itl.nist.gov. Critical Values of the Student's t Distribution. Available from: http://www.itl.nist.gov/div898/handbook/eda/section3/eda3672.htm.[Last cited on 2015 Sep 15].
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At the Corner of Liberty and Main: John Gardner, Raymond Carver, and the Generation of '31
Piotr Dziedzic
In the summer of 1958, John Gardner, at that time still an unpublished author, happened to teach writing to Raymond Carver in Chico State College in California, a meeting which has won its own modest place in American literary legend. But behind the "surface" story of Carver trying his hand at serious writing in his teacher's borrowed office (where he discovered boxes containing Gardner's own unpublished material), and even behind Carver's open and unqualified acknowledgement of indebtedness to his tutor, one traces a stronger, if less obvious, connection, a shared vision and shared dilemma. -- The present study aims to examine the works of John Gardner (1933-1982) and Raymond Carver (1938-1988) against the literary output of other American writers of their generation (referred to as Generation '31 by Jerome Klinkowitz, and represented by writers such as John Barth, Thomas Pynchon and Donald Barthelme).
Piotr Dziedzic. At the Corner of Liberty and Main: John Gardner, Raymond Carver, and the Generation of '31, Katowice: Wydawnictwo UŚ, 2002.
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by fashion and lifestyle blogger Karen Closs
Korean Drama Hwarang Favorite Scenes
The upcoming Korean drama that will be shown in local television next month is very exciting. I've read a lot of positive comments from fellow fans of the show that is entitled Hwarang. Although there are negative comments about it, we can't ignore the charm of the characters that made this project attract fans from the Philippines. This is the same Korean television series mentioned by Anne Curtis when she was interviewed about her favorite Korean TV shows. Are you ready? Let's talk about the beautiful knights.
Hwarang, a famed Korean Drama, is becoming more popular these days as it will be shown via ABS CBN this coming November 2017. The said TV series, dubbed as The Poet Warrior Youth, was originally shown in KBS2 from December 19, 2016 to February 21, 2017 and top-billed by Park seo-joon, Go A-ra and Park Hyung-sik. As an avid fan of the show, I'd like to share my favorite scenes of Hwarang, especially the parts that are really spectacular and fascinating. I'll focus more on the lessons shown of each scene, the emotions involved and how it could possibly resonates with the viewers. With screen-grabs of each scene, I wouldn't want to tell-all in order to give way to those who haven't seen the entire drama yet.
But before talking about my favorite scenes, let me share with you the top three characters that made the story shine. Moo-myung, the nameless boy who was called Dog Bird. He became so enamored with Aro who is a half-breed, having a half-lowly and half-royal status. She's the sister of a very close friend named Sun-woo. Later on, he used the same name to be able to protect Aro. The most interesting character is played by Park Hyung-sik, who is the faceless king of Silla hiding under the name of Ji-dwi, and later on became a strong leader of his people.
1. The Sword Dance is the first thing that comes into mind if I remember Hwarang while reading about my favorite Korean dramas. If you'll see the scenes where they practice the dance for an upcoming presentation in front of the queen, it's really hilarious and entertaining. To the tune of Even If I Die, It's You, the Sword Dance is really awesome.
2. The scene wherein Moo-myung or Sun-woo told Aro that "If you'll die, I'll die, too." There was a scene when Aro got hit by an arrow released by Sookmyung, the sister of the faceless king. It is a common scenario of a heroine in danger and the hero comes along to save her, but it gave a strong support to the story-line that the two will eventually fall in love no matter what. Aro often shows off her doubts that Sun-woo is really her brother, tells her close friend that she has mixed feelings towards her sibling, and later on will know that she's right that the Sun-woo he knows is not really her brother.
If you also noticed the way her character is portrayed, that she's subdued in most cases, maybe it's because the focus of the story is really the friendship and strength of the beautiful knights. She was able to help make them shine though, especially when she was hired to take care of their medical needs inside the Hwarang residence.
3. The moment when the beautiful knights have chosen a king for the future is really breathtaking. It is obvious that the known king, formerly called Ji-dwi, isn't confident that his comrades will not support him.
4. The scene wherein one of the beautiful knights died is heartbreaking. He left a letter stating and quoting what he learned as a Hwarang that "Even a rough path becomes a path." He mentioned that his half-breed brother is only protecting him as a sacred bone. When all of them gathered in front of his coffin, their leader even mentioned, "Never lose a friend."
5. If you will see the scene where the faceless king saves Aro, you'll be extremely emotional. It was a life and death situation for Aro since the queen regent ordered that everyone who sees the face of the king will die.
6. The grand entrance of Hwarang to save their comrades who escaped from their enemies is spectacular. I find it very captivating, especially when Su-ho and Ban-ryu became close friends, since they're shown as enemies at the start of the story.
7. The scene wherein Su-ho is staring at the queen regent is mesmerizing. We know that she's a womanizer, a playboy who is so popular among girls in town, but we couldn't believe that he will eventually fall in love with Ji-dwi's mother. The queen regent love his loyalty to the royal family during the time he was asked to guard her.
8. During the preparation for the show, an event to make the people happy in front of the queen regent, Ban Ryu was caught in the dilemma of staying loyal to his comrades or following the wishes of his adoptive father. He can't disobey his adoptive father because his biological father will also bear the consequences, but he can't betray the other beautiful knights and the woman he loves who wanted him to perform at the show, so that was really hard for him.
9. Ban Ryu's presence is astonishing. Why? His character is so mysterious, strong and independent. After all, he was only acting to please his adoptive father, who wanted him to be the next ruler of Silla in any way possible. He taught us the importance of being responsible and loyal by strategically helping his fellow beautiful knights to retrieve the stolen goods that were stored in his adoptive father's home. Ban Ryu chose love in the end and it is really fascinating for all of us.
I know that many of you are really excited to watch the show on TV here in the country and reminisce your favorite scenes of the Korean drama. After all, Hwarang is all about camaraderie, true love and patriotism. Even though there are flaws that we can notice here and there, the show is still memorable for me. I can even smile at the remarkable scenes involving the beautiful warriors. How about you, fellow fans out there?
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Saudi Arabia Seeks Medical Cooperation with Korea
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SEOUL, KOREA — The Ministry of Health and Welfare informed that the “Executive Program between the Ministry of Health and Welfare of the Rep. of Korea and the Ministry of Health of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia signed an agreement which involved Healthcare and Medical Science on February 8. This proved to be a successful visit to Saudi Arabia.
The Minister of Health of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (Dr. Abdullah bin Abdulaziz Al-Rabiah) and Healthcare and Medical Policy Director of the Ministry of Health and Welfare of the Rep. of Korea (Goh Kyung-Seok) signed the agreement.
According to an official from Ministry of Health and Welfare, this Executive Program had been promoted since 2009 as a part of the implementation plan of the Agreement on Economic and Technical Cooperation between the Government of Rep. of Korea and the Government of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (4 Jul. 74)
The Program was signed at the request of the Saudi Government, taking the Korean Presidential visitation as an opportunity.
Officials explain that there hasn’t been active cooperation in the field of healthcare and medicine between the two nations compared with the economic cooperation. Although Saudi Arabia is a central country in the Middle East, this Executive Program holds great significance as it lays the foundation for facilitation of cooperation in the field of healthcare and medical science between Korea and Saudi Arabia.
Like other Middle Eastern countries, Saudi Arabia has difficulty in providing quality medical service to its people due to a lack of human resources and skills, though it has numerous medical institutions.
There are four main medical cities that include 406 hospitals, 28 medical institutions, 55,932 beds, and 54,306 doctors.
In Saudi Arabia, the number of people who travel overseas for the purpose of medical tourism is around 200 thousand (mainly to US, UK, and France). The main causes of death is Cardiovascular disease (35%), injuries (16%), other chronic disease (16%), and cancer (11%). Saudi Arabia ranks third in terms of obesity which is 35.6% of the entire population and diabetes which is 17% in the world.
Saudi Arabia expressed its intention to carry out medical expert training and education, with the transfer of high-tech medical devices, technological skills, cooperation in the pharmaceutical area, and joint R&D, based upon the Executive Program that it signed with Korea.
Prior to the signing of the Program, Goh Kyung-Seok, Healthcare and Medical Policy Director Goh Kyung-Seok explained to the Minister of Health of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia in a consultation meeting.
Recently Korean medicine is being highly recognized in the Middle Eastern area. As a result, cooperation in the area of healthcare and medical service with Middle Eastern countries is being expanded including MOU and the contract on patient transfer etc.
With Korea’s experiences and know-how, it has become a world-class medical service country in a short period of time. Korea will provide its full support for the development of the healthcare and medical science in Saudi Arabia.
He emphasized his hope that the Korean medical institutions will be given a chance to participate in creation and modernization of the large scale medical city, which is a national project of the Saudi Government and Korea’s high quality medical devices and medicines will be introduced into the Saudi market.
Saudi Arabia is executing the establishment of 162 medical facilities including 86 newly built hospitals with the budget of USD 10 billion at the governmental level.
So far there have been 42 institutions with infrastructure renovations, 86 newly built institutions, 20 diabetes-specialized institutions, 7 dental clinics and 7 local blood banks and labs established.
In response to Goh’s comment, Saudi Arabia’s Health Minister also said that he expects tangible results to be achieved by expanding cooperation in the field of healthcare and medicine between the two nations based upon excellent medical facilities and skills. In fact, over the past thirty years, many Koreans have come to Saudi Arabia to help the nation grow as it is today.
He added that since Saudi patients are going to foreign countries for organ transplants, cancer treatments, organ transplant and chronic disease care such as diabetes in which Korea is known to excel is necessary.
The Ministry of Health and Welfare said that at the celebration of the Janadria Festive, the biggest cultural festival in Saudi Arabia, which was being held with Korea invited as a major guest country in celebration of 50th anniversary announced the official relationship between Korea and Saudi Arabia. Korea carried out promotional activities to make Korean Medicine known to more Saudi people such as distribution of Korean medical service promotion brochures and showing of the Korean medical service promotion video, etc.
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Tackling Racism In Comics
By Sean Kleefeld | Monday, January 19, 2009 3 comments
Today, here in the U.S., we're celebrating Martin Lurther King, Jr. Day. And with the inauguration of America's first black President, there will undoubtedly be any number of pieces written about racism and prejudice. Indeed, there has been a notable increase in racial discussions since Barack Obama's election day victory.
The question I find myself asking, though, is: is it really a dialogue at all? A dialogue requires two or more people trading thoughts and ideas. Most of what I've seen/heard has been simply one person spouting off their opinions. I'm not complaining about that, mind you, just that I have to wonder how much it's helping.
See, the thing is that people generally know that racism is wrong at a conscious level. If you sit down and read most comics discussing racism, the issues that are brought up tend to be at the Archie Bunker end of the scale, where the character is blatantly racist. Even the graphic biographies of Dr. King and Malcolm X spotlight the more intense moments of racial tensions in their lives. What you see very little of is this type of thing...
That's the face of racism that still hasn't really been addressed: the fact that most of the heroes are white males, with a disproportionally small number of minorities. Aside from American Born Chinese, I can't think of another comic from the past few decades that's really addressed racism in a more reflective manner like that. It's all Nazis and the KKK and fistfights and lasers.
Granted, it wouldn't make sense for EVERY book to be about the subtler aspects of racism. But it would make sense for characters living in large, heavily populated areas like New York and Metropolis to encounter more minorities than they do. And it would make sense to see more of them in positions of power, and not just innocent bystanders in the street saying, "Look! Up in the sky!" Sure, comic fans have Robbie Robertson, but not a whole lot else. How about a city mayor, or a corporate CEO who tries to take over Lexcorp, or an independent genius inventor who's hired by Tony Stark, or...?
I think a lot of the issue isn't racism as it's classically known and discussed, but just one of lazy thinking. Why can't the next semi-recurring character to be introduced be a minority? Jack Kirby had this radical idea years ago that started off with a thought not unlike, "Why can't the next superhero to be introduced be black?" And, while Black Panther still isn't quite the household name that Superman is, he's had a long life in comics and is set to be the star of his own show on BET this year. It just takes a slight shift in the head-space of the creator to not just spit back what they've been doing. Who is the next MacGregor in High Moon? Who are Cloak and Dagger's friends and supporting characters? Who are members of Atomic Robo's team? Don't strictly emulate the bubble around your little world, but flip on the news from time to time and get a sense of the bigger picture. Then put THAT into your stories. I think that's what Dr. King was ultimately hoping for...
Continue to work with the faith that unearned suffering is redemptive. Go back to Mississippi, go back to Alabama, go back to South Carolina, go back to Georgia, go back to Louisiana, go back to the slums and ghettos of our northern cities, knowing that somehow this situation can and will be changed.
Let us not wallow in the valley of despair, I say to you today, my friends.
And so even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream.
I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal."
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Gilbert Hernandez's story, Love & Rockets X, is all about racism in Los Angeles in the early 90s.
Mark Siegel said...
Can't wait till you read First Second's upcoming STUFFED, by Glenn Eichler and art by Nick Bertozzi. Definitely not Nazis and KKK but it gets into the very things you're on about here.
Jason Green said...
Sure, comic fans have Robbie Robertson, but not a whole lot else. How about a city mayor...?
Actually, in Amazing Spider-Man right now, a black man, Bill Hollister, is running for mayor, and his daughter Lily is dating Harry Osborn. None of this is treated as anything special, just two characters who happen to be black.
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Phillip Marquis Davis
1.1 Family background
1.2 Early career and personal life
1.3 Mandrake - The Early Years
1.4 Mandrake - The WW2 Years
1.5 Mandrake - Pre WW2 - the Fifties
1.5.1 Press annoucement
3.1 Other Sources
Family background
Charles Henry Davis (1873-1956) and Ethel Herchenrath (1874-1936) married[1] on April 30, 1900, in Franklin, Howard, Missouri. Charles worked as a dealer in general merchandise and the newly married couple lived[2] in the house of Charle's father, James H. Davis.
When their first son, Hugo Herchenrath, was born[3] on December 23, 1902, the family had moved to 1462 Belt Avenue in St. Louis. When Phillip Marquis was born[4], on March 4, 1906 the family lived in 1155 Bayard Avenue. On December 8, 1907, Phil's baby sister, Emily Price, was born[5].
In 1910 the family lived[6] in 4023 Green Lea Place and Charles worked as a salesman, real estate. Phil later told[7][8] that: he was a regular kid as a boy, with the exception that he got deeply interested in drawing at the age of 6:
"I had a mania for parades”, he says. "I drew every parade I could see. My family neither encouraged nor discouraged me; they just went along and accepted my dark fate."
When Phil was 12 years old he got[9] a summer job as a tool boy in the Liberty Motors plant. Also doing a war job during the summer was his pal's father, Franz A. Berger. He was a mechanical engineering professor at Washington University and he encouraged Phil to take a manual training course at high school. In 1918 the family lived[10] in 5915 Minerva Avenue, and Charles as an inspector for Wagner Electric Mnfg Co.
With every hope of becoming an engineer Phil enroled Soldan High School in 1919. But in 1921, at the end of his sophomore year[11], his family was in financial trouble and Phil had to quit school to support himself and his family.
Early career and personal life
Due to his training in mechanical drawing the 15 years old Phil got himself a job as a draftman[9] for the tecnical department of the Bell Telephone Company[12] in St. Louis. But Phil had a form of sleeping sickness[9], as an after-effect of the flu epidemic in 1918, company had to transfer him to outside work with the installation crew.
His next job[11] was for a radio concern and he got[9] a first-class ham license (9 EDD). He worked[11] in the radio concern, mainly with experimental research, until they demanded he invented an entirely new circuit for them.
Then[11] Phil went to Florida as a draftsman with an civil engineer and when returned he got a job in a office of a consulting engineer. With some help from his roommate he teached himself trigonometry after his work, at night. About this time he also designed[8] a streemlined coffin for a St. Louis casket company.
The chief draftsman suggested[11] lettering as a way of selling himself to some commercial art house. Phil started teaching[11] himself lettering at night from library books, and took[9] a Y.M.C.A. course in showcard lettering.
For a display adverticing company his first[7][8] job was to letter "Merry Christmas" - 25 feet long, but he no idea how to lay it out and they had to call an outsider to do that. Phil continued to study[11] figure painting and illustration at Washington Art School at night, and in 1928 he got[12] a job in the Post-Dispatch Art Department.
In 1929, Phil married[13] Helen Culbertson in a small ceremony at the house of his uncle and aunt, Ralph Waldo and Florence Bugbee. The marriage in 5881 Plymounth Avenue was soleminized by Dr. William Growe, pastor of the Westminister Presbyterian Church. The bride was unattended and wore a simple shell-pink frock. She wore an arm bouquet of spring flowers, and the seremony was witnessed by a small gathering of friends. The young couple made ther home in 5316 Pershing Avenue. Phil now worked[14] for The Triad Studios[footnotes 1] , one of the midwest's largest advertising art agencies doing advertising illustration, fashions, photo retouching and cartoons.
In 1930, on March 8, their son Phil Culbertson David was born[15], and about this time they moved[16] to an appartment in 5525 Enright Avenue.
In 1932 Phil worked[17] at Paragon Studio with J Hamilton Stevens, Sam M Schoke and Louis F Westbrook. Helen and Phil now had moved to 5930 Kingsbury Avenue.
Phil told[11] that the a smart guy talked him into corporating with him, Phil as the artist and him as a salesman. But Phil found that he did all the work and his salesman only pulling down half the pay. Phil now started as a freelance artist, and rented[18] room with The Illustraters, founded in 1933 by Russel Viehman, Alf Parker[footnotes 2], Mrs Frances Deppe and Janet Lane.
In 1933 Phil C became ill and just 3 days after his third birthday he died[19][20] by lobar pneumonia, and later the same year Helen divorced[21] Phil. Phil continued working with magazine covers and illustrations with The Illustraters and did a cover for the Liberty magazine in 1933, and shortly after a young man named Lee Falk came walking into his office.
Mandrake - The Early Years
Lee Falk came with his idea for an adventure strip, suggesting a partnership. Phil Davis worked out the physical appearance of characters in a story, which he figured could be serialized indefinitely, and made up a two-week sample. Part of Falk’s stake was to finance his own trip to New York to try to sell it. And right away Mandrake the Magician landed in the New York Journal under the heading "Floyd Gibbon's daily page of thrills and mystery” June 11, 1934. On November 5 Phil re-married Martha Grocott Walter, whom later became the head fashion artist in Vandervoort's art department. And in 1935 (February 3) the first Sunday page with Mandrake was to been seen in the newspapers.
"I didn't have any idea of the amount of work involved in a comic strip," Phil recalls. "I nearly killed myself in Mandrake's first year-working 14 hours every day, and 5 hours on Sunday besides! There's a lot of difference between taking a week to do one drawing for an advertisement - and doing 24 complete drawings for six comic strips! "Still, I wouldn't go away from my anatomically correct figures to do the faster type of cartoon illustration. Anyway, once you start a strip, the Syndicate wants it to be always exactly the same. "But all this pressure has had its advantage. By doing good art for Mandrake, I don't lose my touch, and I can always do commercial work in addition. I find that Mandrake has made me a better artist, and a much faster worker."
In the beginning Phil Davis did all the artwork himself. Late 1935 Phil Davis sublet parts of the ink work to a man named Ray Moore, whom later became the first artist of the other Lee Falk figure – The Phantom. It is believed that Ray Moore worked on the Mandrake dailies from the strip printed the January 13, 1936, since Phil Davis stop signing the strips with his own name.
In 1939 Phil Davis had developed a tight work schema so that he could be 4 weeks ahead the publication dates, so at:
Mondays he roughing out the six strips of dailies and one page of the Sundays.
Tuesdays and Wednesdays he spent tree hours in pencilling one strip in the morning, afternoon and evening.
Thursdays he pencilled the Sunday page.
Fridays he spent inking in.
Saturdays at noon he picks up his wife and they went to their weekend house at Big River, in the foothills of the Ozark Mountains.
As assistants he had a pen and ink draftsman, to whom he sublets part of his pen work, and another part time worker (Eddy Walcher) did the lettering.
From 1940 he took up his carer as an illustrator and did commercial illustrations for various companies, Coca-Cola etc. In 1941, Phil Davis received a $500 award as the winner of a medal-design contest of the American Newspaper Publishers Association ($ 500). The medal he designed was presented annually to the winner of an annual essay contest open to students of journalism on The Achievement of the Daily Newspaper in Public Service.
Mandrake - The WW2 Years
About 1941 his wife Martha, gave up her career as fashion artist for on of St. Louis department store, to assist him in preparing Mandrake drawings. Martha had a great influence on women's costumes, those of Narda in particular. During WW2 he served as an art director for Curtis-Wright Aircraft Corp in St. Louis. He did most of the technical illustrations for the instruction book of the Curtiss A-25 Dive Bomber, and found time to write the operational data for the radio equipment used by the plane. During this time Martha sometime did the entire strip and as Phil Davis said in 1948: "And now," says Phil, "she's just as good as I am! After the war, she didn't want to leave Mandrake - so now we work together, and each of us can do any part of the job, or finish the work of the other one."
Mandrake - Pre WW2 - the Fifties
In 1948 Phil Davis did his work at whichever of the places he happens to be, his studio downtown, his studio at his home or at his drawing boards in his country house.
Lee Falk mailed two or three months' supply at a time. Phil studied the script, edit it a little, cut down the amount of talking the characters did (on account of space limitations) and proceeds to rough out in pencil. When he had six strips finished that way, he sendt them over to a lettering man who inked in all the lettering. Sometimes a balloon would take more or less space than Phil had estimated, and with the lettering in first, he could adjust the drawings to fill the panels properly. Phil Davis said in 1963 that he illustrated the art comprehensively in pencil and then Martha did the rendering (ink).
Little are known about his life outside his work on Mandrake. But it is known that he had a complete power-tool woodworking shop in his country house, and that he did most of the cabinet work, plumbing and electrical work out there. He liked to swim in the river and lake behind his property. He did a little hunting, and played with his two dogs: Julius, a French poodle and Max, a dachshund.
In 1963 Phil Davis suffered a heart attack. He died of a second attack at St John's Mercy Hospital on December 16, 1964. He was survived by his brother Hugo H Davis and his sister Emily Price Drimmel.
Martha Davis continued the art for the ongoing dailies and Sundays until Fred Fredericks became the new artist on the "Mandrake the Magician" in 1965.
Press annoucement
Death annoucement ("The Desert Sun"- Palm Springs, California - December 18, 1964)
↑ Interesting, the cartoonist Elmer Simms Campbell did work at the same place before he moved to New York in 1929
↑ Alfred Charles Parker (1906-1985), an artist and illustrator known as Al Parker
↑ ancestry.com: Missouri, Marriage Records, 1805-2002
↑ ancestry.com: Federal Census 1910
↑ "Births Recorded" St. Louis Post-Dispatch (St. Louis, Missouri) 29 Dec 1902, p 8
↑ "Births Recorded" St. Louis Post-Dispatch (St. Louis, Missouri) 6 Mar 1906, p 12
↑ ancestry.com: Missouri, Birth Registers, 1847-1910
↑ 7.0 7.1 King Features Syndicat (1946), Phil Davis, Famous Artists and Writers, 1946
↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 King Features Syndicat (1949), Phil Davis, Famous Artists and Writers, 1949
↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 9.3 9.4 Dale Bert (1948), Meet Phil Davis, The OPEN ROAD for Boy's, February 1948, 34-36. Copy: Interview - Meet Phil Davis by Dale Bert
↑ ancestry.com: World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918
↑ 11.0 11.1 11.2 11.3 11.4 11.5 11.6 11.7 Martyn, Marguerite. "The Man Who Draws - Mandrake" St. Louis Post-Dispatch (St. Louis, Missouri) 30 Aug 1939, "The Everyday Magazine" p 3D
↑ 12.0 12.1 "The Bulletin", Volume 21, Missouri Historical Society, 1964, p 269
↑ "Recent Weddings and Engagements" St. Louis Post-Dispatch (St. Louis, Missouri) 19 May 1929, p 28
↑ "Gould's St. Louis (Missouri) City Directory", vol 1929 LVIII
↑ "Gould's St. Louis (Missouri) City Directory", vol 1930 LIX
↑ "Gould's St. Louis (Missouri) City Directory", vol 1932 LXI
↑ "Gould's St. Louis (Missouri) City Directory", vol 1933 LXII
↑ ancestry.com: U.S., Find A Grave Index, 1600s-Current
↑ [1]: Missouri Death Certificates, 1910 - 1967
↑ "Divorces Granted" St. Louis Post-Dispatch (St. Louis, Missouri) 11 Oct 1933, p 35
Wind G.L. (1948), Chuck Dressler. St. Louis: Concordia Publishing House. ill
Rochelle Ogden J. Editor & Publisher, "Mandrake and Narda Look Like Creators". January 22 1949.
Willette, Allen. These Top Cartoonists Tell How They Create America’s Favorite Comics. Allied Publications, 1964, 23
Lacassin Francis et Tercinet Alain (1964), Pour prendre conge de Phil Davis, Giff.Wiff no 12 1964, 11-16
"Martha's magic for Mandrake", The Australian Women's Weekly January 20, 1965, 15
Jostein Hansen. e-mail interview Fred Fredericks, 2007
Spotlight on Phil Davis - Other illustrations
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Attacks of ‘fake news’ must end
It was less than a month into his term when President Donald Trump ramped up his “fake news” battle with several national media outlets, referring to them at that time as the “enemy of the people.” The rhetoric continues 18 months later as the term “fake news” now permeates all aspects of our national dialogue, becoming a catch-all phrase used by many to dismiss news reports that are truthful and accurate but that a person simply does not agree with.
Mr. President, it’s time for the “fake news” talk to end. Using a broad brush to paint all members of the media as “fake news” — from national publications and broadcast outlets to community daily and weekly newspapers — is not only untruthful, it’s harmful to our democracy.
At The Marietta Times we take our mission to accurately report the news and serve our communities through steady, consistent leadership more seriously than ever. That’s a mission we’ve held firm to since our founding more than 100 years ago. For decades, our slogan has read, “Our community is what we’re all about!” That remains true today.
We’re your trusted news source covering this region, from city council meetings to little league baseball games. We’ve built that trust by being fair, truthful and accurate in all that we do.
However, we’re finding that some of our work covering issues of importance to the region now is being labeled as “fake news.”
Why? Because our role as watchdog journalists is to hold the powerful accountable. That can include, at times, being at odds with the position of elected leaders of a local community, or taking on top officials in state government over how offices are decorated with taxpayer dollars.
Our mission has not wavered over the years. But today, when we take a position on our editorial page, or write a story detailing unethical or criminal activity, we often are accused of spreading “fake news.” That’s not only unfair, it’s flat-out incorrect and it’s harmful to our way of life in a free society.
We do make mistakes, and when we do, we quickly issue a correction. “Fake news” has no part in our business. Our goal each and every day is to provide our readers with a fair, truthful and accurate account of the happenings within our communities.
Our nation’s founders agreed with this approach, as they recognized that an aggressive, unfettered press is the best friend of a nation such as ours. They insisted upon it, in fact.
Congress — and, by extension, the executive branch — shall make no law “abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press …” they mandated in the First Amendment to the Constitution.
Throughout our history, presidents have been subjects of unfavorable reporting — and yes, sometimes inaccurate stories — by some in the press. Yet none has attempted to pit the American people against journalists to the extent that Trump has.
As we noted earlier, Mr. President, it’s time for the “fake news” talk to end. It does not serve the American people.
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Stephen Young Hord Jr
Stephen Young Hord
October 29, 1927 - May 9, 2015
Steve died peacefully in San Francisco on May 9, 2015 at the age of 87. He was born in Chicago, Il. on October 29 1927, to parents Stephen Young Hord and Catharine Norcross Hord.
The oldest of three siblings, he grew up in nearby Lake Forest, IL. Steve graduated from the Fountain Valley School and Colorado College. He moved to San Francisco in the 1960's where he lived on Telegraph Hill for 50 plus years.
Steve worked in the investment business and became an investment counselor. He retired in 1992.
Steve was blessed with a wry sense of humor and a keen appreciation for the natural world. He was an avid tennis player, fisherman, and skier. He belonged to the California Tennis Club for over 50 years where he loved to socialize over lunch. His apartment beneath Coit Tower had a sweeping view of the bay, and in his later years, he loved hosting his five great nephews there to watch the Blue Angels when they were in town.
He is survived by his son, Peter Heckler, his sister, Brent Hord Malarkey, and his nephews and nieces Stephen and Aubrey Hord and Thomas, Tucker and Sarah Malarkey.
Published in San Francisco Chronicle on May 18, 2015
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It’s been a really solid year for hard rock and metal so far. At six months, I’m often adding mediocre albums that I know won’t make the final list to get to 10. This year, I actually had to make a tough call or two. Maybe I should have gone to 13, but with two 13s on the list already, that might get confusing …
No. 10: GLORYHAMMER – TALES FROM THE KINGDOM OF FIFE: Christopher Bowes, the man who brought us Scottish Pirate Metal with Alestorm, now brings us Scottish Epic Fantasy Metal. Tales from the Kingdom of Fife pokes a little bit of tongue-in-cheek fun at the formulas of power metal, but also shows a great respect for the music. It’s a little cheesy, a lot of fun and better than a great deal of the “serious” power metal out there. If for nothing else, this album gets a nod because “Angus McFife” is the most fun I’ve had singing along to a song with my son all year.
No. 9: HOLY GRAIL – RIDE THE VOID: The second full-length release from these Pasadena traditional metal merchants shows a great deal of maturation in songwriting and composition. None of the songs are as instantly catchy as some of those on their debut Crisis in Utopia, but they’re still quite good, showcasing the band’s best attribute, the twin-guitar attack of Eli Santana and Alex Lee.
No. 8: PINNICK GALES PRIDGEN – PINNICK GALES PRIDGEN: It’s hard to go wrong with the lineup of Dug Pinnick, Eric Gales and Thomas Pridgen. It’s funky, it’s bluesy and it rocks hard. What more could you ask?
No. 7: SKID ROW – UNITED WORLD REBELLION, CHAPTER 1: Thus far, this has been the surprise of the year for me. I didn’t really expect much, but the first part of United World Rebellion is really, really good. It has a little of the vibe of Slave to the Grind, but also adds a few new tricks.
No. 6: SUICIDAL TENDENCIES – 13: Here’s that rare record that was worth the 13-year wait. Suicidal Tendencies is re-energized and ignores all barriers on this album. They get funky like Infectious Grooves, thrash like the late 1980s version of the band and dash out energetic punk like it’s the early days. Throw in a few slow, soulful numbers, and you’ve got a comeback album of epic proportions.
No. 5: AMON AMARTH – DECEIVER OF THE GODS: It’s Amon Amarth. It’s bloodthirsty, chest-pounding Viking metal, and I expect no less. Pass my sword and fur loincloth, please. On second thought, no one really wants to see that.
No. 4: SOILWORK – THE LIVING INFINITE: I always groan when I get a double album. In most cases, they contain one record’s worth of good music and a record’s worth of filler. The Living Infinite breaks that mold. There is filler, but not as much as you’d think. The record marks the band’s most diverse effort, ranging from their melodic death metal past to some really moody and progressive material.
No. 3 BLACK SABBATH – 13: If you had asked me in January, I would have laid money on the fact that this record would top my list at this point, but it’s been a slow grower on me. Iommi’s riffs are monstrous, and I suspect it will continue to rise as time goes on.
No. 2: FLOTSAM AND JETSAM – UGLY NOISE: The band’s last album, The Cold, served as a comeback, but this one ups the ante. Ugly Noise plays up the more progressive side of the band and even experiments with a few new sounds. For me, it’s on par with Drift, my favorite F&J record.
No. 1: TOM KEIFER – THE WAY LIFE GOES: Keifer’s first solo record may end up being for this year what Blackberry Smoke’s The Whippoorwill was for me last year. It’s an album filled with songs that really connect with me and where I’m at in life right now. The Way Life Goes features great variety, ranging from hard rockers that will remind listeners of his other band Cinderella to 1970s blues rock to some country-flavored material. It hasn’t strayed far from my speakers since its release.
THE JURY’S STILL OUT:
AMORPHIS – CIRCLE: Amorphis experienced a creative resurrection with the addition of vocalist Tomi Joutsen in 2005, and I thought their last two albums were incredible – with 2009’s Skyforger being, perhaps their masterwork. Circle, though, is still simmering in my head. There are several standout tracks, but as a whole, it hasn’t impacted me like their last few.
VOLBEAT – OUTLAW GENTLEMEN AND SHADY LADIES: You’d think the Western concept would play right into Volbeat’s strengths with the country and rockabilly flavors they’ve brought in the past, and on occasion it does. A guest shot from King Diamond also doesn’t hurt. But there’s a bit of blandness and sameness to many of the songs on the album. After the unexpected commercial success with their last album, I was afraid this one might move more toward a mainstream sound, and it often does.
QUEENSRYCHE – QUEENSRYCHE: I fully expected this album to be my favorite from the band in quite a while, but I find I’m liking it even more than I expected to. Each trip through, I come away with something new, but it’s going to take a little more time before I can say where it belongs.
WHITE WIZZARD – THE DEVIL’S CUT: White Wizzard has been one of the more disappointing acts in recent years for me. After their amazing full-length debut Over the Top, the band has been a revolving door of musicians, and they’ve never quite found themselves again. The Devil’s Cut certainly tops 2011’s Flying Tigers, but there still seems to be something missing.
OLIVA – RAISE THE CURTAIN (July 2): Yeah, somebody’s getting booted off the list in the first week of July. Featuring the last unrecorded music from the late Criss Oliva, what I’ve heard of Jon Oliva’s first solo album blends the classic Savatage sound with a more progressive ‘70s rock bent. Can’t wait to hear the whole thing.
PHILLIP ANSELMO – WALK THROUGH EXITS ONLY (July 16): The songs released so far are pummeling, but also have some pretty good grooves. It has elements of all of Anselmo’s projects – Pantera, Down, Superjoint Ritual – but sounds quite like none of them.
NEWSTED – HEAVY METAL MUSIC (Aug. 6): I was a bit disappointed by the EP released earlier this year, but I still have hopes for Jason Newsted’s first solo project.
BLACK WATER RISING – PISSED AND DRIVEN (Aug. 13): I loved the band’s debut record, which was a collection of no-nonsense hard rock. I’m hoping the follow-up delivers more of the same.
JUDAS PRIEST (no title or release date): Rob Halford has been hinting at a new Priest album by the end of the year. Following up the concept piece Nostradamus, Halford has said this will be more of a straightforward Priest record.
Labels: Amon Amarth, Amorphis, Best of 2013, Black Sabbath, Flotsam and Jetsam, Gloryhammer, Holy Grail, Pinnick Gales Pridgen, Queensryche, Skid Row, Soilwork, Suicidal Tendencies, Tom Keifer
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Tags: celebrity smiles retainers orthodontic treatment
In her decades-long career, renowned actress Kathy Bates has won Golden Globes, Emmys, and many other honors. Bates began acting in her twenties, but didn't achieve national recognition until she won the best actress Oscar for Misery — when she was 42 years old! “I was told early on that because of my physique and my look, I'd probably blossom more in my middle age,” she recently told Dear Doctor magazine. “[That] has certainly been true.” So if there's one lesson we can take from her success, it might be that persistence pays off.
When it comes to her smile, Kathy also recognizes the value of persistence. Now 67, the veteran actress had orthodontic treatment in her 50's to straighten her teeth. Yet she is still conscientious about wearing her retainer. “I wear a retainer every night,” she said. “I got lazy about it once, and then it was very difficult to put the retainer back in. So I was aware that the teeth really do move.”
Indeed they do. In fact, the ability to move teeth is what makes orthodontic treatment work. By applying consistent and gentle forces, the teeth can be shifted into better positions in the smile. That's called the active stage of orthodontic treatment. Once that stage is over, another begins: the retention stage. The purpose of retention is to keep that straightened smile looking as good as it did when the braces came off. And that's where the retainer comes in.
There are several different kinds of retainers, but all have the same purpose: To hold the teeth in their new positions and keep them from shifting back to where they were. We sometimes say teeth have a “memory” — not literally, but in the sense that if left alone, teeth tend to migrate back to their former locations. And if you've worn orthodontic appliances, like braces or aligners, that means right back where you started before treatment.
By holding the teeth in place, retainers help stabilize them in their new positions. They allow new bone and ligaments to re-form and mature around them, and give the gums time to remodel themselves. This process can take months to years to be complete. But you may not need to wear a retainer all the time: Often, removable retainers are worn 24 hours a day at first; later they are worn only at night. We will let you know what's best in your individual situation.
So take a tip from Kathy Bates, star of the hit TV series American Horror Story, and wear your retainer as instructed. That's the best way to keep your straight new smile from changing back to the way it was — and to keep a bad dream from coming true.
If you would like more information about orthodontic retainers, please contact us or schedule an appointment for a consultation. You can learn more about this topic in the Dear Doctor magazine articles “Why Orthodontic Retainers?” and “The Importance of Orthodontic Retainers.” The interview with Kathy Bates appears in the latest issue of Dear Doctor.
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Loveless Monkey Adopts Chicken at Israeli Zoo
A lonely monkey at an Israeli zoo has found a way to soothe her maternal urges: by adopting a chicken.
Niv, an Indonesian black macaque, has spent the past week caressing, cleaning and playing with the bird at the Ramat Gan Safari Park near Tel Aviv.
"It seems that Niv, who is four years old and has reached the age of sexual maturity, has difficulty finding a partner," the zoo's spokeswoman Mor Porat said.
"This probably explains the maternal instinct she expresses to this chicken."
The bird, which doesn't have a name, could easily escape through the bars but chooses to stay near Niv.
"These kinds of relationships are rare," Porat told AFP. "Sometimes macaques kill and eat chickens that enter their pens or play with them until they die."
To avoid such a tragic end, officials separated Niv and her feathered companion from the other macaques -- apart from her mother, who is often the target of hostilities from other females.
Porat said the chicken "seems very happy to have found a surrogate mother. At night they sleep together."
A few months ago, Niv attempted to adopt a previous chicken, but it spurned her advances.
Seemingly unlikely animal friendships are often the result of different species being put together by humans.
A bear, lion and tiger discovered during a drug raid in the United States remained inseparable for life after they were moved to an animal sanctuary.
But Porat said it wasn't clear where the chickens at the zoo had come from.
The black macaque is listed as critically endangered by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature.
The domesticated chicken is the most common bird in the world.
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Trump: Reining In Iran
From the time of his electoral campaign, Donald Trump was one of the biggest opponents of Iran and the hard-won nuclear agreement, which he tore up in May.
His stated aim is to stop Iran's ballistic program and its influence in the Middle East.
- 'Nuclear holocaust' -
On August 16, 2015, the American billionaire and Republican presidential frontrunner says that the nuclear accord with world powers will not prevent Iran from having a nuclear bomb.
"They are going to be such a wealthy, such a powerful nation, they're going to have nuclear weapons. They are going to take over parts of the world that you wouldn't believe and I think it's going to lead to nuclear holocaust," Trump says.
- 'Dismantle' the agreement -
Trump insists on March 22, 2016 that his "number one priority" is to dismantle the agreement, as he and Democratic opponent Hillary Clinton court a massive crowd of pro-Israel lobbyists.
"This deal is catastrophic for Israel -– for America, for the whole of the Middle East," he says.
- Iran 'playing with fire' -
Ten days after Trump comes to office the White House signals a tougher stance toward Iran, condemning a recent missile test and declaring America is putting the Islamic republic "on notice" following its "malign actions."
On February 3, Trump tweets "Iran is playing with fire -- they don't appreciate how 'kind' President Obama was to them. Not me!"
- 'Isolate' Iran -
On May 21, 2017, Trump calls on all countries to "isolate" Iran in a speech in Riyadh.
"From Lebanon to Iraq to Yemen, Iran funds, arms and trains terrorists, militias and other extremist groups that spread destruction and chaos across the region," he declares.
- 'Rogue state' -
On September 19, 2017, the US president says that the nuclear accord is "an embarrassment to the United States" and "one of the worst and most one-sided transactions the United States has ever entered into."
Trump tells the U.N. General Assembly Iran's government turned the "wealthy country with a rich history and culture into an economically depleted rogue state."
- 'Brutal, corrupt' regime -
On January 1, 2018, Trump says it is "time for change" in Iran after days of deadly protests against the government in Tehran, along with economic difficulties and corruption.
A day later he denounces the "brutal and corrupt" regime in Iran.
"The people have little food, big inflation and no human rights. The U.S. is watching!" he says.
- Trump tears up deal -
On May 8, 2018, Trump pulls the U.S. out of the nuclear pact, reinstating Washington's sanctions on Iran.
Describing the deal as "defective at its core," he says at the White House: "Today, we have definitive proof that this Iranian promise was a lie."
"Any nation that helps Iran in its quest for nuclear weapons could also be strongly sanctioned by the United States."
- 'NEVER, EVER THREATEN THE UNITED STATES' -
On July 22, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani tells the U.S. it should not "play with the lion's tail" and warns any conflict with Iran would be the "mother of all wars".
Trump responds with an all-caps Twitter tirade, warning "NEVER, EVER THREATEN THE UNITED STATES AGAIN OR YOU WILL SUFFER CONSEQUENCES THE LIKES OF WHICH FEW THROUGHOUT HISTORY HAVE EVER SUFFERED BEFORE."
On July 30, however, Trump says he is ready to meet with Iranian leaders "anytime they want" and promises "no preconditions."
"Threats, sanctions & PR stunts won't work," Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif says on Twitter.
- 'Open' -
On August 6, Trump says he is "open" to a new Iran deal, while confirming a return to sanctions.
"I remain open to reaching a more comprehensive deal that addresses the full range of the regime's malign activities, including its ballistic missile program and its support for terrorism," Trump says in a statement.
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The CE mark is the official marking required by the European Community for all Electric- and Electronic equipment that will be sold, or put into service for the first time, anywhere in the European community. It proves to the buyer or user that this product fulfills all essential safety and environmental requirements as they are defined in the so called European Directives. The CE markings directive (93/68/EEC) was adopted on 07-22-1993. It amends 12 other directives including the directives mentioned below. The CE directive gives a detailed description of the initials CE and any other marks specific to a particular directive and the ways conformity may be acquired.
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Stacey Dash: Trump ‘Absolutely Right’ About Charlottesville
Posted by Ellen -7794.60pc on March 09, 2018 · Flag
“Clueless” Stacey Dash just put a few more nails in the coffin of her 2018 congressional campaign with her enthusiastic support for Donald Trump’s “both sides” remarks about Charlottesville white supremacists. She was also – yes, clueless – in her declaration that Obamacare should be repealed first and that she’d look for solutions later.
As MSNBC host Ari Melber suggested, Dash has little chance of winning her race given that her district went 83% for Hillary Clinton in 2016.
But to say that Dash didn’t help herself in her MSNBC appearance yesterday would be an understatement. The former Fox News contributor, who was fired last year after a shockingly poor record as a pundit, looks on her way to outdo herself as a shockingly poor candidate.
Our first clue to Dash’s cluelessness came when Melber asked her about the Trump administration’s lawsuit against California over its “sanctuary” policies for immigrants.
“We have to respect law enforcement, we have to respect laws,” Dash said. When asked by Melber to elaborate, she said, “That’s it.”
Later, she said ObamaCare should be fully repealed. “Of course, there’ll be another solution but Obamacare is not working,” she said blithely about those who will lose their ObamaCare health insurance. But she was unapologetically oblivious about any replacement. “That’s where I’m gonna go and listen and pay attention and have a dialogue to come up with a solution,” she said.
“So you won’t tell us yet, though, what the solution is?” Melber asked.
“No,” Dash replied.
Then Dash sent her brain-dead candidacy down in flames with her approval of Trump’s supportive remarks for the white supremacists who rallied in Charlottesville last summer.
DASH: I think he’s absolutely right. They were two extreme sides. And here’s what it boils down to: our right. They had a right to assemble. Both sides had a right. But they were both extremes. And here’s where I said in the beginning: We have to listen to each other. If we do not listen, there will be no solutions. It’s just a bunch of banter and noise.
MELBER: If the white supremacists were the hate on one side, what was the hate that would be equivalent to that on the other side? That’s what has enraged so many people about those comments the president made and stands by. There was not another hate group there. It was the white supremacists in Charlottesville that had organized those rallies. What other hate do you see there?
DASH: No, I’m not saying that there was hate on the other side or that I’m justifying the hate on the other side. What I’m saying, what their constitutional right was and they were exercising that. There should be no hate at all. Hate is not the answer. … And that is what the president said. He wasn’t siding with the neo-Nazis.
What happened? It became violent, didn’t it? So violence on either side is no good. … I’m not here to judge. The only one who can judge is God. Do I know every person in the Neo-Nazi party, if they have a good heart or not? No, I don’t.
Dash seemed to be arguing that more hate is not the answer to white supremacist hate and that listening is more fruitful than blanket condemnation. But that is not what Trump said. In the clip played by Melber, Trump said, “There’s blame on both sides and I have no doubt about it and you don’t have any doubt about it, either.” This was after a young anti-white-supremacist protester was murdered. Trump sounded angry and defiant, not at all like someone looking to broker reconciliation and understanding. Unfortunately, Dash couldn't seem to tell the difference.
Watch Dash deal more death blows to her candidacy below, from MSNBC’s March 8, 2018 The Beat with Ari Melber.
Ellen commented 2018-03-10 01:33:35 -0500 · Flag
w d, they don’t care. They would rather Americans get sick and die for lack of treatment than see ObamaCare succeed. I have no words for my level of disgust for them. I’m an independent and I do not have a lot of love for Democrats. But as I told a woman who was surprised I did not want to go to a forum for my local gubernatorial candidates: I can’t vote in the primary and I don’t care who gets the nomination. I’ll vote for the Democrat. ObamaCare (how I get health insurance) is one big reason.
w d commented 2018-03-09 21:40:43 -0500 · Flag
The scores of republicans who are saying that Obamacare is “not working” — do they understand that it is in place and well — working?
Melber wasted his time with her?
David T commented 2018-03-09 16:45:21 -0500 · Flag
She is so bad at everything that at some point she will likely garner some sympathy. Unfortunately for her, we’re not quite there yet.
scooter commented 2018-03-09 16:24:29 -0500 · Flag
Clueless doesn’t even begin to describe her vacuity.
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Home >> July 2013 Edition >> Satellite Technology Delivers Dependability For Disaster Crisis Management
Satellite Technology Delivers Dependability For Disaster Crisis Management
By Anu Sood, Channel Marketing Manager, SkyWave Mobile Communications
According to The International Disaster Database (EM-DAT), 196 natural disasters occurred during 2011, worldwide, affecting more than 85 million people and resulting in an estimated $290 billion in economic damages. Combined with the amount spent on natural disaster recovery and response-related activities, the cost for worldwide natural disasters is estimated to be $380 billion.
Fortunately for emergency preparedness managers, communication technology is quickly advancing with new, improved ways to collect and manage the vital information needed before, during and after natural disasters. One technology that is changing the face of emergency preparedness is satellite machine-to-machine (M2M) communication. The dependability of the technology results in better communication for emergency preparedness, quicker evacuations, and improved logistics during post-disaster crisis management.
Hawaii Improves Disaster Preparedness With Satellite Technology
Hawaii State Civil Defense is a cutting edge example of what can be accomplished with satellite M2M technology. As part of its mandate, State Civil Defense maintains the state-wide outdoor siren warning system. It is designed to alert the public to any emergency that may pose a threat to life and property. In addition to natural and technological hazards, the siren warning system could be used for terrorist incidents or acts of war.
Hawaii’s siren system ran on a “decades-old high-frequency radio system”, according to George Burnett, Hawaii Civil Defense Telecommunications Branch Chief. “Our sirens pretty well exceeded their life cycle. It was taking extraordinary efforts from our maintenance staff to keep them running properly. You can’t just have a technician with a meter at each siren checking electrical currents to see if it’s going to work.”
The VHF/800MHz radio frequency sirens installed across all of the islands could not be monitored from a central location. Unless there was a reason to visit a specific siren, technicians had almost no way of knowing when a siren was malfunctioning or had completely stopped working. The preventive maintenance check was scheduled to be performed only twice a year.
As there were no remote monitoring capabilities defining when to follow up on reported issues, such as a failed siren, the crew needed to visit the site, conduct tests, return to the office to source replacement parts and then return to the site to make repairs.
Between the age of the siren system and the amount of time and budget necessary to maintain it, Hawaii needed to upgrade the state-wide outdoor siren warning system that would alert the public properly.
Any new state-wide replacement warning siren control system had to meet a long list of requirements:
– A state-of-the-art solution that would abide by the Federal Communications Commission’s mandate that states move away from high bandwidth communications to one that uses lower bandwidth
– A unified and standardized control system that would work across all of the State’s counties
– The ability to remotely monitor and test area-specific sirens regardless of the island they were located on
– Technology that withstood Hawaii’s geographical topology and allowed sirens to be installed where previously not possible
– Communication redundancy to ensure all sirens were activated to ensure proper warnings
Hawaii worked with SkyWave and its Solution Provider, Federal Signal, a provider of safety and security solutions, to develop the new statewide siren system.
The system relies on M2M (machine-to-machine) satellite hardware from SkyWave and cell towers to transmit data from remote sites to the central office and provide total control and execution of the warning system. The new sirens use solar panels and batteries rather than relying on the electrical grid.
By the time the project is completed, a total of 490 sites will be using Federal Signal sirens and SkyWaveM2M terminals to warn residents of possible emergencies. The benefits of the alarm system include:
Redundancy: “The sat/cell solution gives us better ability to expand in areas where we don’t have radio coverage,” explained Tom Simon, Systems Engineer at Hawaii Civil Defense. “Everywhere we have a siren currently installed, we’re able to verify that cellular and satellite service is available. This is the most foolproof way to make sure that the sirens will sound during an emergency.”
Efficiencies: “Our standard system allows us to monitor and test sirens from our office in Oahu. We no longer have to rely on the public to report a failed siren,” said Simon. “As well, the time spent having to physically verify the issue, head back to the office to find parts and then return to fix the problem, is eliminated. The new system includes the ability to query and change the status of specific sirens; confirm that sirens operate as expected during tests and emergencies; monitor the solar charger, battery voltage; and alert authorities if someone intrudes into the system.”
Budget-Wise: “Buying new, lower bandwidth 800 MHz trunk radios costs about $570,000 more than leasing space on commercial satellite and cellular networks,” Burnett said. “The service cost of operating sirens via satellite and cellular is $11 per month. Amortized over a 10-year period, combined with the lower cost of related equipment, there was a cost advantage.”
Total Visibility During Inclement Weather
Satellite M2M communication can also play a critical role in predicting the effects of natural disasters through weather monitoring. Early detection of natural disasters is a considerable part of public preparedness and safety. This type of weather monitoring often involves detecting and monitoring unusual geographic or weather fluctuations.
A variety of environmental elements can be monitored, including the strength of coastal tides; humidity, rain levels, wind speed, temperature; air pressure and air quality.
Satellite M2M is an efficient way to collect and transmit data from weather instruments or data loggers connected to sensors. This technology also offers the added benefit of near real-time data frequency, transmitting as frequently as needed at any time of the day.
By collecting full weather information in real-time, governments can model events that may affect public safety. Communities can be advised in advance of the high risk areas and how to protect themselves. Disaster warnings can also be issued earlier allowing the necessary precautions or plan evacuation procedures to be executed before the high-risk event occurs.
Fleet Management During Emergencies
Once the sirens have been activated, fleet tracking and logistics play a large part in rescue and recovery operations. From first responders to clean-up crews, fleets of vehicles are heavily used during and after the crisis. When cellular and radio systems are unavailable, mobile workers cannot report on the status of affected areas or request additional assistance.
Satellite M2M technology can play a huge role in fleet management and mobile worker communication during disasters. Because the system does not rely on terrestrial towers, satellite M2M service can be used for GPS tracking of rescue vehicles. When equipped with a handheld device, satellite M2M terminals are also able to send and receive text-messages and are significantly less costly to use than satellite phones.
Understanding the location and maintaining consistent communication with first responders and emergency management crews is critical for the safety of disaster victims as well as mobile workers. With satellite, stable communication is possible even in unstable situations.
In addition to tracking vehicles, satellite M2M terminals are also used to track trailers and containers of supplies. Their slim profile allows them to be easily installed in the grooves of containers. The terminals are typically self-powered with AA batteries, which means they can report their location even when they are not connected to vehicle power supply.
Post-disaster Resource Monitoring
During a natural disaster, the geographic landscape can change significantly. This puts many natural resource and resource management systems at risk, most significantly clean drinking water. For communities near oceans, rivers or mountains, the ground and surface water quality is most often at risk. After Hurricane Sandy, the United States Geological Survey (USGS) used measurement tools in existing wells to monitor water concentrations of nutrients, sediment, and contaminants in order to accurately report water safety information to the general public.
Many wells and pump systems are equipped with sensors to monitor water fluctuations like volume, flow, and sediment. After an emergency, sending out employees to check on these sensors can be dangerous as well as impractical. Satellite M2M can help with this issue. Equipping existing sensors and measurement tools with satellite M2M terminals provides a method for transmitting water quality data in real-time without the costs and time delays associated with sending employees to manually check the system.
With a distinct upward trend for economic damages caused by natural disasters, emerging technologies are becoming more important in lessening the impact of natural disasters. Early detection and management not only helps to save the people who are affected but also helps the rest of the connected global economy contribute to recovery and stabilization.
Satellite M2M terminals can play a critical role in providing a communication link before, during and after natural events. They provide a cost-effective communication link especially when terrestrial-based communication networks, like cellular and radio, fail or are unavailable.
For additional information, please access the company’s website at: http://www.skywave.com
For the past decade, Anu Sood has been working with customers around the world to develop, promote and market their unique satellite-based Machine-to-Machine (M2M) solutions. Ms. Sood brings nearly two decades of technology expertise in the telecommunications, software development and satellite industries to her current role. Ms. Sood holds a Bachelor of Electrical Engineering from University of Western Ontario, is a published author as well as a regular speaker at international conferences.
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The Church of San Domenico is a religious architecture of Noto, the most important and best preserved examples of Baroque Netino.
It was built as a church convent of the Dominicans, already present in ancient Noto, by the architect Rosario Gagliardi, between 1703 and 1727.
The fa�ade has two orders, Doric on the first and second ion, and the body leans toward the street with a convex shape.
The interior is well preserved, is structured in five domes, richly decorated with stucco and side altars with eighteenth-century paintings.
The former convent, now a school, it was largely rebuilt except in the wing to the south where it is a portal site of ashlar Sinatra.
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Black Boy Study Guide (Choose to Continue)
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Black Boy: Chapter 14
Aunt Maggie’s husband has left her and she joins Richard’s mother and brother in scheming for them all to move to Chicago. During a visit to Memphis it is determined that she and Richard will go first and find a place to live, and that Richard’s mother and brother will then follow. Richard struggles with how to share the news with his boss and co-workers, and ultimately decides to tell them just before leaving that his mother is taking him against his will. Shorty envies him, saying he wishes he too could leave, but is too lazy and will likely stay operating the elevator until he dies or is killed. On a train the next day, Richard feels he is running away rather than toward something, but maintains the hope that the world of books will open to him in the North, and he welcomes the sense of unknown elsewhere yet recognizes the South is a part of him and thus cannot be left behind. He maintains his belief that he can live with more dignity, and embraces the continual struggle he hopes will lead him to such a life in reality.
After a life of estrangement from his family, Richard’s plans to relocate to Chicago with his mother, brother and Aunt Maggie suggest hope for reconciliation. These three represent his only positive familial relationships, and it seems fitting to conclude with their departure together for a different life up North. It is challenging for Richard to admit his own role in the decision, given the resistance of Southern whites to the black exodus that suggests their system’s inadequacy. His lie that he must move due to family obligations is an ironic insinuation given that his family has never offered him much. While they benefit socially from the subjugation of blacks in their community, they also benefit economically from their labor, so it is a complex relationship of dependence that Richard is leaving behind, hoping for a different dynamic in the legendary northern states. Chicago represents all that Memphis is not both to Richard and to his white co-workers, who dismiss his move and express their beliefs that life for him will be more difficult and less satisfying lest he think the opposite. It remains to be seen whether Richard will find the freedom he seeks, but as he states in the concluding sentence, for him, life is all about the struggle for success, and the process is of as much importance to him as the possible outcome.
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Support for Transgender Youth is More Important Than Ever
What does it mean to be transgender? We’ve heard it described a few different ways but one description rings in our heads the most: like being born in a bad costume that you can never, ever take off without undergoing intense pain. You know that if someone describes being transgender like that it’s time to pay attention. Unfortunately, we’re not paying attention. Being gay, lesbian, or bisexual has its share of challenges, and we’ve talked about them endlessly in the past. But what does it mean to be transgender, and why are we ignoring the problem?
We think that the conversation on transgender youth needs to definitely be out there. It’s okay to be LGBT, and that definitely includes transgender. But when you have no articles discussing your lifestyle, it’s hard to feel included at the table. We’ve read some reader feedback about this, and felt it was time to correct the situation. Since we’re not transgender, we apologize for any hurt feelings that the lack of inclusion may have caused.
Being transgender means a complex series of decisions. Do you consider yourself a male or a female? Do you want to look at gender reassignment surgery? Do you want to dress as a woman, but keep the genitals of a man? There’s no easy answer here, and there’s no wrong answer either.
As a society, we need to allow the discussion to take on more than just genitals and dresses. We also need to highlight transgendered people in the media. Laverne Cox is speaking out about transgender issues. She is an MTF transgender activist and actress who wants the world to accept transgendered people as who they are, rather than as whom the world thinks they should pretend to be. Media representation is the fastest way to increase people’s view of transgender issues, but it’s also a way that criticism creeps in. People tend to reject what they don’t understand. Unfortunately, gay and lesbian people tend to also be in that category. We have to embrace transgender people as allies, not as enemies. We’re all in the same battle. Don’t you want them to have the same freedoms that you enjoy? The “gay agenda” has enjoyed a long time in the sun, but there’s room in the sun for everyone’s issues. We don’t have to pick and choose, though it can feel that way at times. Throw in subjects of race, class, and disability, and the conversation gets even more complicated.
What we can do as true LGBT activists is to show transgendered youth that we hear them. Support them on the issues that matter to them. If someone is giving them a hard time, stick with them. Don’t steer the conversation into the obvious issues of genitals and reassignment surgeries. If they’re ready to make the transition, they will. It has to be something that they decide to do. The last thing that we want to do is pressure people into making a decision they’re not fully ready to embrace.
You also may see transgender youth pushed out of their own mini community by friends and family that don’t understand. If you want to know where to begin, approach your friend and just ask. If they are biologically female but want to use a male name, go with what they want. If they feel comfortable with sharing more details about their life, show them that you’re there to listen. But don’t press them on things that they’re not ready to discuss. Being a great friend to a transgendered person is just like being a good friend to anyone else. Sensitivity and tact rule the day, always!
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Top African American LBGT’s
We try to include as much as we can from all across the LGBT spectrum, so why not a listing of some amazing black LGBT icons? They are truly world influencers and have put their own stamp on what it means to be gay and black at the same time.
1. Carolyn Mobley
Here is an interesting example of Christian mercy in motion. Carolyn Mobley was the first woman to co-chair the African-American Lesbian/Gay Alliance — it’s a smaller part of the National Coalition of Black Lesbians and Gays. She was actually raised as a devout Christian, but get this…her church condoned her sexuality even though she was a Christian educator. The organization she served bridged the gap between the civil rights movement and the LGBT movement. Powerful!
2. Lorraine Hansberry
A lot of people were very shocked to find that yes, Lorraine Hansberry was indeed part of the LGBT community. She is the playwright and civil rights activist who wrote A Raisin in the Sun and gained immense popularity.
3. Josephine Baker
Red hot and wild in her heyday, Josephine Baker had it all — actor, singer, dancer, and all around entertainer. She fled to France in order to have more opportunities, but it didn’t stop her from becoming a worldwide sensation.
4. Sheryl Swoopes
A true LGBT icon in the sports world — she was the first woman that signed with the WBNA and paved the way for others to come after her. She has also won three Olympic gold medals and is an outspoken advocate of higher pay for female athletes around the sports world.
5. Wanda Sykes
While Ms. Sykes has only been openly gay in the media for a few years, she’s been a media darling for much longer than that. She is a stand up comedienne and an all around funny woman.
6. Andre Leon Talley
If you haven’t checked out Andre Leon Talley or know who he is, no problem! He is a top fashion icon in the industry, a man who has been a key part of Vogue and other fashion portals for many years. He is consulted, admired, and carries his own sense of style in a really big way. In his own way, he is also a spokesperson for the healthy at any size movement, given his proportions. He proves that you don’t have to be thin in order to be…well, fabulous!
Gays of color should have their own role models, because it can be hard to look into a community and not see anyone that looks like you. The black community has traditionally been very conservative and religious, which hasn’t always meant a lot of tolerance for its black gay youth and young adults. The tide is changing though, thanks to the stylish, powerful, and influential black LGBT’s of the past, present, and most certainly the future.
Filed Under: Other Tagged With: Andre Leon Talley, Carolyn Mobley, Josephine Baker, Lorraine Hansberry, Sheryl Swoopes, Wanda Sykes
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Lichfield Cathedral waits for the return
of finest collection of Flemish windows
Detail of the Herkenrode windows on a display board at the entrance to the Lady Chapel in Lichfield Cathedral (Photograph: Patrick Comerford, 2015)
When I was back in Lichfield Cathedral at the weekend, the Lady Chapel was closed off and the east end of the cathedral was covered in scaffolding. It was good to see that the re-installation of the Herkenrode windows is now well underway and on course for completion by March.
Exhibition boards at the entrance to the Lady Chapel detail the restoration project and recall the story of the Herkenrode windows.
The Dean of Lichfield, the Very Revd Adrian Dorber, told the Lichfield Mercury recently: “The return of the Herkenrode Glass is a monumental event at the cathedral.”
The appeal for the restoration of the Lady Chapel and the Herkenrode stained glass had a target of raising £3.7 million, and I was told at the weekend that all but £30,000 of this target figure has now been raised.
Because of the success of the campaign, work to the masonry of the south and north quire aisles has been completed, badly eroded external stonework has been restored, replaced or strengthened, and gargoyles and grotesques have been repaired sensitively. All this work reaches its completion in a few weeks’ time with the re-installation of the Herkenrode windows in March.
Last year [2014], the fund-raising campaign included the efforts of Lichfield Cathedral School in the Michaelmas Term, when the Cathedral was the school’s Charity of the Term. Activities such as pop-up restaurants have raised over £1,500 for the restoration work.
The windows of the Lady Chapel contain some of the finest surviving mediaeval Flemish Painted Glass, and the seven immense Renaissance Herkenrode glass windows represent the greatest collection of unrestored 16th Century Flemish glass anywhere.
The windows were bought by Lichfield Cathedral to replace mediaeval stained glass that was destroyed during the English Civil War.
But, while the cathedral has survived centuries of political and religious upheavals, the glass came under threat because of the effects of the weather and pollution, as well as crumbling masonry in the Lady Chapel.
The mediaeval pinnacles and buttresses were so weathered there were fears that the failure of any one buttress could have led to the catastrophic collapse of the wall and roof and shatter the glass.
The collection was removed for restoration in 2010 and preparatory work began on the Lady Chapel.
The glass was made between 1532 and 1539 for a Cistercian nunnery, founded about 1182 by Count Gerard of Loon at Herkenrode in Flanders, now part of modern Belgium. The nunnery attracted the nobility whose families gave generously to sponsor the windows.
The glass was designed by Pierre Coecke van Aelst (1502-1550) of Antwerp, who was the court painter to the Emperor Charles V. He is credited with bringing Italian Renaissance ideas to the Netherlands, and scholars identify his work by his figures having over-large earlobes. His students may have included Pieter Brueghel the Elder, who married his daughter, Mayken, and so his grandchildren included Pieter Brueghel the Younger and Jan Brueghel the Elder.
It is said he produced his sketches for the windows in his Antwerp workshop after he visited both Rome and Constantinople, and the glass was manufactured in Flanders. In a very special way, the glass encapsulates the values and practices of life in the Renaissance period, and the central role of religion and culture. The subject matter is partly narrative covering the life of Christ and partly portraying donors praying before an altar or image, often with a personal patron saint to intercede.
The glass remained in Herkenrode until the abbey was dissolved during the Napoleonic Wars, when Napoleon dissolved religious houses throughout Europe. The glass was the bought in 1801 by Sir Brooke Boothby (1744-1824), a member of the Lunar Society and the intellectual and literary circle in Lichfield that included Anna Seward, Richard Lovell Edgeworth and Erasmus Darwin and a close friend of Jean-Jacques Rousseau.
Boothby’s great-grandparents, William and Hill Boothby, owned the Moat House, the Jacobean house in Lichfield Street, Tamworth, once owned by the Comberford family.
Boothby translated the first part of Rousseau’s three-part autobiographical Confessions and published it in Lichfield in 1780.
Boothby brought the glass to Lichfield Cathedral in 1803, when it was then bought on a non-profit basis by the Chapter of Lichfield Cathedral to replace the stained glass destroyed a century and a half earlier during the English Civil War.
As the restoration project began, the Dean of Lichfield said: “The story of the glass, of its ruin and rescue, serves as a powerful metaphor in this Cathedral Church of the death and resurrection of Jesus which stands at the heart of the Christian faith. These windows are breath-taking.”
The glass was removed in 2010 and taken to Barley Studios for work on the conservation project. Funding from trusts, foundations and generous individuals allowed the glass to be removed and the masonry to be repaired.
When the Herkenrode Glass was removed to safe storage, clear isothermal glass was installed temporarily, and the Lady Chapel was filled with a new light on bright sunny days. The glass is now being fitted in new tungsten brass frames, and it will be protected by clear glass.
The staff at the cathedral are planning a programme of celebratory events once the re-installation of the windows is complete in March.
Scaffolding covers the Lady Chapel in Lichfield Cathedral as work continues on restoring the Herkenrode windows (Photograph: Patrick Comerford, 2015)
Meanwhile, Herkenrode Abbey is going through its own form of restoration, and the site of the former monastery of Cistercian nuns in Kuringen, in the Belgian province of Limburg, is protected as a national historical monument and landscape. Since 1972, some of the surviving buildings have been home to a community of the Canonesses of the Holy Sepulchre. The community has built a new monastery, retreat centre and the Church of the Risen Lord, which now serves the canonesses and their guests.
Labels: Architecture, Art, Lichfield, Lichfield Cathedral, Local History, Theology and Culture
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Bradley Cooper Attends “The Words” Philadelphia Premiere: Participates in Q&A
By Veronica Dudo at 12:03 am on Thursday September 6, 2012
Bradley Cooper’s new film, “The Words” hits theatres Friday, September 7th nationwide. The star and executive producer spent some time in his hometown for a special screening hosted by the Philadelphia Film Society at The Prince Theater. Cooper, along with his childhood friends Lee Sternthal and Brian Klugman (the writers and directors of the film), attended the screening.
“The Words” is a romantic drama that stars Cooper, Zoe Saldana, Olivia Wilde, Jeremy Irons, Dennis Quaid and Ben Barnes. Aspiring author Rory Jansen (Cooper) uses the stolen work of an Old Man (Irons) written decades ago. While Rory Jansen experiences acclaim in his professional life the secret proves to be a tragic decision in his personal life.
While visiting the City of Brotherly Love; Cooper met with reporters at the Four Seasons Hotel to talk about the new film.
“The Words” is an odd little movie, in the sense that your character is supposedly looking back in time, but it’s not really your character – it’s the words and the novel that you found. What was the appeal about this role?
The appeal sort of revealed itself as the movie-making process went on. The truth is it was initially these two guys (points to Brian and Lee). Brian has been my closest friend since I was a little kid, and it was really just to do anything for him. Then the one who wound up benefiting the most was myself, because I wound up playing a guy in a way I had never really done on film. It’s a sort of quiet exploration, and simple, because I felt so safe with them as directors. They allowed me to open up. Whenever you feel safe on a set you really can explore more and more. I was able to do that with them, and that was a surprise to me.
One thing I really liked about this guy (Rory) was that I thought you could really relate to him, if you could get past the moral dilemma. He’s not just a stock character who’s super ambitious and who’ll do anything to get ahead. It’s quite the opposite. He’s actually a good writer which I think is a nice hook to it. In that scene with Ron Rifkin, we learn that he’s very talented. He just hasn’t written something that’s marketable yet.
His fatal flaw is his lack of patience and he feels like time’s running out, which I can certainly relate to. Time being the biggest enemy in some respects. He finally sees his wife look at him and speak to him in the ways he’s always dreamt, and he just doesn’t have the heart to say that’s not me. And that just snowballs into this world, all of a sudden, that becomes his reality.
You come home often, what was it like to be able to share this triumph with family and friends?
Thank you for saying it’s a triumph, because I feel that way. I honestly wake up these days feeling very grateful. It’s like a dream. I keep waiting to wake up. Because when you’re a kid, you want to create with your friends, and that’s what I got to do. Brian and I used to sit in my house in Rydal, watching ‘Apocalypse Now,’ ‘The Deer Hunter’ and ‘Overboard’ and just wanted to be in that world and create that world. Then to be able to be here in Philly, talking about this movie that they wrote in 1999, that I saw a reading of when I first moved to L.A. – that I could help being a part of making that a reality is heaven.
Were star struck when you first met Jeremy Irons?
I’m definitely a victim of the magical essence of movies. I still to this day feel like I did when I was 10 years old going to the movies. I love when the lights go down and the movie’s about to start. The first time I met Jeremy and heard his voice in real time it was incredible. And then very quickly what starts to happen is they become human and it’s amazing that process. Robert De Niro is the best example of that for me. I love him today, and he’s really just Bob, and I never thought that that would be possible! He’s the reason I became an actor, in many ways. But we’ve done two movies. That process is so fascinating. I think it happened for all of us with Jeremy, and it’s because these guys – like Liam Neeson and Christopher Walken – are so present and down to earth and make you feel at ease.
In terms of acting with them, it’s just effortless because they are so good and you are in such great hands. When you’re acting with a great actor, it’s not as if you’re playing against them in a sport. They’re on your team, so you want the best actors. I don’t want to be playing against Jeremy Irons; I want to be playing with him. Acting is a collaborative sport, and what you’re up against is telling the story. So you’re all on the same team.
How did you get involved with this project after all these years?
They decided they wanted to direct it about four years ago, and asked me if I’d want to play Rory. I said of course, and that was it; we just tried to find a date. They had financers and we just tried to get it made. I talk to Brian four or five times a day, every day, so I was aware of the whole process.
Can you talk about any time you spent growing up at the Jersey Shore?
My memory is the greenheads [flies] from Brigantine! I grew up going to Brigantine, New Jersey. We used to go there when the Brigantine Castle existed. It burnt down. My grandfather bought a house there in 1960, and they would go crabbing all the time, so we spent our summers in Brigantine. I still have the house.
Being called ‘The Sexiest Man Alive’ by People Magazine for the year – does that have any concrete advantage in the movie world?
I don’t think so (laughs) I think it’s just the butt of a joke more than anything.
Veronica Dudo is an award-winning journalist covering everything from breaking news to red carpet celebrity interviews. Follow her on Twitter @VeronicaDudo and Facebook
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William S. Burroughs’ Home Movies, Featuring Patti Smith, Allen Ginsberg, Steve Buscemi & Cats
in Literature | February 6th, 2015 1 Comment
Giving Gus Van Sant's Drugstore Cowboy a re-watch a couple of weeks ago, I found I especially enjoyed William S. Burroughs' appearance toward the end as — what else? — an aged but wise drug user in whose benevolent presence Matt Dillon's protagonist comes to life-changing conclusions. That picture represented a break into the mainstream, or close to it, for Van Sant, a director previously known for Mala Noche, a stark black-and-white take on street hustlers on Portland's Skid Row.
But Burroughs' presence, among other things, allowed Drugstore Cowboy to keep a certain raw edge. If you really want to see Burroughs' in a context of cinematic rawness, though, have a look at these home movies. We've pulled them out of the internet's attic as a celebration of the Naked Lunch author's 101st birthday. Only lightly and tastefully edited, these VHS gems (part one, part two) candidly depict Burroughs at home in Lawrence, Kansas in 1996, just a year before his death.
They also find him in the company of such notable friends as Patti Smith, Steve Buscemi, and Allen Ginsberg, smoking, drinking, and — in Smith's case — busting out the guitar. Cats, as promised, roam through the frame. You might not call Burroughs himself, made somewhat less exuberant by time, the life of the party, but he does seem to have radiated a kind of askew animating spirit until the end. It certainly kept him surrounded by countercultural luminaries, all of them surely still as keen as that young pharmacy-robber to learn from him.
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Colin Marshall hosts and produces Notebook on Cities and Culture as well as the video series The City in Cinema and writes essays on cities, language, Asia, and men’s style. He’s at work on a book about Los Angeles, A Los Angeles Primer. Follow him on Twitter at @colinmarshall or on Facebook.
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Imagine yourself in a hall whose interior walls are totally lined with mirrors. There is a circle of folding chairs in the center of the hall around a large multi-faceted diamond. Here, have a seat.
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The Assassination – THE CONCLUSION!!!
07/01/2006 - Read previous installments online at www.ourtowncasper.com!
"Wait a minute, Anna, hang up the phone!" Roy exclaimed.
Anna had already begun to call an ambulance for Jason, but clicked the phone off with a questioning look.
"Roy, what are you thinking?" Elijah said. He was angry because he did not understand his friend's actions, but felt he didn't need to because he just knew they were wrong. He took the phone from Anna and started to dial. "We have to help Jason," he said.
Roy knew, having worked at the hospital, that they would need some ID and an explanation of what happened. Wagon Wheel did not need another "Mystery Man" -- not now, or ever. Especially not so close to Election Day. Roy tried to stop Elijah verbally, but Elijah was shutting him out, so he resorted to physical force. Neither friend would harm the other, but they were both determined to overpower each other until Jonathan stepped in.
"What are you two doing?" he shouted, "This is getting us nowhere!" He took the phone and returned it to Anna.
"I used to work at the hospital," Roy interrupted with an urgency in his tones, "I can help Jason, but if we take him to the ER, we'll need to tell them who he is and what happened to him. You all know we can't do that."
Jonathan turned to Elijah, who nodded his agreement.
"Let's start by getting him into the guest room," Roy said.
Jason's recovery, though quick for the injury he'd sustained, seemed much too slow for the rest, who not only cared about Jason, but felt as though their lives, Jonathan's in particular were somewhat dependant upon him. By the end of the week Jason was well enough that he, the Pattersons, the Cohens and the Moores began to discuss the assassination.
Elijah showed Jason the cell phone he'd found in Maximus' hospital room, and the films they had discovered. "They're all from the alter-reality described in the letters that were in our photo album," Roy explained, "but we have no idea how they managed to film us in that cabin."
"Bring me your cell phone," was all Jason said in reply.
"Mine?"
Jason nodded, so Roy brought it, only to have it smashed on the desk.
"What are you doing?" Roy asked, more confused than angry because Jason had earned his trust.
Jason sighed. "I want you to think back to everything you know or saw about your alter-reality. Do you remember when Elijah and Jonathan left you alone in the cabin? It was the day that Elijah's parents were killed in the auto accident. They returned to town and left you alone in the cabin because you had been injured. After a long time, you worried that they might not come back, so you called Jonathan's cell phone."
Roy nodded as he recalled the detailed narrative he'd written himself. "Jon had been captured and one of Maximus' workers answered the phone."
"That was my old buddy, Jack," Jason continued. "While you were on the line, I downloaded all of the information on your cell and set up a film process I invented myself that works through the phone line. The camera that filmed everything that happened in that cabin, and possibly some of what's gone on these last couple of weeks has been your own phone.
Roy was dumbfounded. "That means they've seen everything that happened even up to this minute!" he said.
"Yes, but I can fix that." Jason turned the swiveling office chair in which he sat to face the computer and tapped a quick message on the keys. The screen, which had been showing Elijah's desktop, went blank. Then a floor plan appeared on the screen, with little red dots in every room. "This is the layout of the Chandler Building," Jason explained. "The red dots are all the computers Dr. Maximus owns and I'm about to reprogram every single one."
"Won't he know it was you who did it?" Jonathan asked.
"Yes, but with his computers all scrambled he'll have no way to track me down and stop us until all of this is over."
Elijah, Roy and Jon watched as Jason's hands flew over the keyboard. It had been less than five minutes when the screen went blank again and the words, "TOTAL SYSTEM RECONSTRUCTION COMPLETE IN 10, 9, 8..." began to flash.
And I thought I was good at this stuff! Elijah couldn't help thinking as the countdown continued until it reached zero and the normal desktop returned to his computer screen.
Jason turned to face them and rested his elbows on his knees. "Now, does anyone have a plan?"
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Jonathan and Lily Ann looked wonderful, decked out for the inaugurational ceremony. Elijah wished so badly that he and his wife could relax and enjoy this very special day in her father's life, but he was hardly able to give them more than a compliment that morning as he, Roy, and Jason were working out the final details of the day's agenda.
Elijah knew that his responsibility was to attend the ceremony and stake out the situation. He left Anna at the hotel with Elizabeth, for her safety, but they were connected by his cell phone at all times as they watched the event from the hotel TV. Roy and Jason had the dirty work.
"I know that it was your own math figuring that gave us this genius idea, Roy," Jason said to the elderly doctor, referring to the plan to prevent Jonathan's death, "But I think it best for your own safety that you stay behind. Besides, I've been looking for the day I could put Maximus in his rightful place. A large part of the mess the world is in right now was my doing and now that we have the chance to fix it, it's my responsibility, not yours."
Roy refused to let Jason go alone, so the two of them decided they would go together to back each other up. Careful farewells said, knowing they may be the last ones, Roy and Jason departed from the US capital, DC, for the Chandler Building by way of the "yellow mouse" device they had become so accustomed to. Roy knew that once they had put an end to all the "time travel" that he would no longer have that available and he was going to miss it.
Once he and Jason had arrived back in Wagon Wheel, Jason worked his computer magic, disarming all of the security cameras surrounding the old, dilapidated place and they positioned themselves on the perimeter. Both of them had a stack of explosives in backpacks they had lugged along and were prepared to run to a sheltered place nearby within the ten seconds they would have, once they'd started the detonation process. When their clocks said twenty till, they would begin to position the explosives. Until then, all they could do was wait.
Roy was afraid. He could not believe that all of this had happened, to him much less! He concluded that he would again never think that living in Wagon Wheel was dull!!!
Jonathan was nervous. Even if he made it through the ceremony, there was still the speech – and the job!
Lily was proud of her husband, but very afraid it might be her last day by his side, so she cherished every minute of it.
Elijah was afraid as well, of course. His mind was in a blur and he hadn't really processed everything that was going on, but he felt like that was a good thing, because he knew that if he understood it all, he would be even more afraid, and might possibly fail at his job.
Anna and Elizabeth felt very helpless and prayed nonstop the whole time.
The time seemed to pass even more slowly than they had anticipated, but at last it was twenty till twelve, the ceremony had already started and Roy and Jason began to place the bombs all around the base of the Chandler building. When they were finished and had returned to their place their hearts were racing, adrenaline pumping and sweat ran down their faces. There were now only ten minutes left until the detonation.
To Elijah, the ceremony seemed to be going smoothly until he heard Anna and Elizabeth talking to him on the other end of his phone. "We see him, we see Maximus! He's right by the front! You have to stop him now!!!"
The familiar red hair was not difficult to spot in a crowd. Elijah felt lucky to have an enemy that was so easy to identify, but the lucky feeling did not linger as tried to inconspicuously approach the foot of the steps. He could see the red keyboard in Maximus' hands and knew that his plan was to kill Jonathan as soon as Jon reached the front of the platform. Jonathan had already stepped onto the platform. Things were happening way too fast!
Elijah contacted Roy and Jason, hoping they could detonate the bombs early. "We would, Elijah," Jason said, "but unless we wait until twelve sharp, all it will do is blow up the building, and what we need to do is much more than that or we will face this whole scenario again as soon as Maximus travels back to before it happened and changes it. Try to stall it!"
"Stall what?" Elijah asked in panic, "The presidential inauguration ceremony? How, pray tell, do you suggest that I do that?!"
"I don't know, but figure something out."
Elijah slammed his phone shut. He kept his fingers crossed and his eye on Jonathan, who was, for the time being, standing in the back. He also kept an eye on his watch. It was seven minutes and eleven seconds until twelve o'clock. What normally would have seemed like a short time was way too long!
Anna and Elizabeth's eyes were glued to the screen. They could see Dr. Maximus in the very front row and they could see a red keyboard in his hand. Apparently, it was the new murder weapon he was so excited to use. They saw that Elijah was just a couple rows back and they could see Jonathan up on the steps.
Two uneventful minutes passed and then Jonathan began to approach the front. Elijah wanted to call out a warning to Jon, but he knew if he did that, Maximus would just activate the weapon early and he would have accomplished nothing by yelling, so he did the only thing he could think of to do and jumped Maximus, making an attempt to wrestle the keyboard out of his hands. Immediately all of the media and security attention turned from Jonathan to him. Some armed officers tried to pull Elijah off Maximus, but Elijah just shouted at the top of his lungs, "Help me, he's going to assassinate the president!!!"
Jonathan himself ran down the steps and began to help. The police tried to stop him for his safety, but he said, "That's my son-in-law, let me help!!!"
With the wrestling match at the inaugurational ceremony going on, Roy and Jason were still waiting outside the Chandler building, detonators ready, as the minutes ticked by. They knew their timing was of utmost importance because even if the assassination was prevented, they would still constantly have to battle Maximus' schemes if they didn't take care of him once and for all.
Elijah finally managed to get the keyboard out of Maximus' grasp, and he smashed it into the pavement. With the police surrounding Max, and all guns aimed at his head, one of them said, "You are under arrest for--" but before he could finish, Dr. Maximus pulled out a yellow mouse, held it up and disappeared.
Roy had the detonator in his hand and was counting seconds until he had to push the button. When his watch said ten seconds until twelve, he was supposed to activate the bombs. His watch said there were forty.
Suddenly, Jason jumped up and took off toward the building. Roy looked up, "Jason where are you going? You're going to get yourself killed!" he exclaimed. That's when he saw Dr. Maximus running their way.
"Maybe," Jason said, " but he's going to try and stop us. Don't let anything get in the way of you pushing that button!!!"
Roy was having a hard time keeping himself from watching his friend instead of the timer. He was afraid that Jason would get caught in the explosion or killed by Maximus in the meantime, but he also knew that what Jason said was true. One man's life in exchange for many, while heartbreaking, was the right thing to do and Maximus could certainly overpower Roy if he tried. Roy only wished he didn't feel that Jason's blood would be on his own head if he detonated the explosion. Roy looked up just in time to see Jason deliver a final blow to Maximus and run in his direction. It seemed like slow motion as Jason shouted, "Push it now, Roy! Push it now!!!"
Roy didn't bother to double check his time, but pushed the button and ran for the cover. When he reached it, he turned back around to watch his friend. Maximus appeared unconcious and was right in the middle of the Chandler property. There was no question that he would be caught in the crossfire of the explosion, but Jason, while he ran with all his might, was still too far away from the shelter. Roy reached his hand out, but Jason was still several yards away when the bombs went off.
Roy couldn't bear to watch, but he looked at his clock to be sure the time was accurate. 12:00 PM. They would never have to face Maximus again. No war for Jonathan during his term. No more time travel. No more being watched by a practically undefeatable foe with every move you make. Finally they could have normal lives again, but at the moment, Roy wasn't sure it seemed worth Jason's life. Life is a precious gift. Something to be treasured and treated with respect. He was so confused and torn as he boarded the flight to Washingto DC. He and Jason had picked up tickets the week before. The flight was to leave shortly after the explosion so they could celebrate with Elizabeth and the Cohen's in DC. How would he tell them about Jason? He couldn't stop thinking about it as he gave the other ticket away.
The flight was long, but it seemed even longer because Roy did not know what to do with himself. He couldn't bring himself to watch the movie, read or sleep. All he could do was cry and pray. He received three phone calls on his cell phone while in the air, all of them from the crew back in Washingto DC, but he didn't answer. He thought it would be better to tell them the news in person and besides that, he didn't know what to say.
When he finally arrived, they were all waiting for him, even Jonathan, the president. Elizabeth rushed to greet him. "I was so afraid when you didn't answer your phone! I thought maybe you hadn't made it!" Then she looked into his face and saw the tear streaks and swollen red eyes. "What's wrong?" she asked, her voice trembling a little bit.
"Jason didn't make it," he said, the tears spilling freely again.
What seemed like it should be a happy occasion was marred by the tradgedy that accompanied it, but the friends were able to have peace, knowing that it was Jason's choice to give his life for the rest of their safety and stand up for what was right, and they knew that he died a hero, so somehow their grief was not as crippling. They stuggled for months to come, though, because even though they had only known him for a very short time, he had received a place in all of their hearts, both for helping them, and for just being who he was.
Roy Patterson and his wife, Elizabeth, Jonathan Moore and his wife Lily Ann, and Elijah Andrew Cohen and his wife, Anna were able to live out the rest of their lives as normal people, but about Jason and everything that surrounded their meeting him in the first place they never, ever forgot.
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A Peace Process That Makes Peace Impossible
December 2, 2008 Articles
By Nicola Nasser – The West Bank
Palestinian-Israeli peace-making can only deliver if Palestinians are united, but the current Annapolis "peace process" was launched first of all as a blueprint for perpetuating the inter-Palestinian divide.
Commitment or non-commitment to what the Quartet of the US, EU, UN and Russian mediators in Middle East peace – making described as the "Annapolis Process" in a statement they released after their meeting in the Egyptian Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh on November 8 has become the terms of reference to make or break the Palestinian unity of ranks, which has so far failed the Egyptian mediation efforts, the latest in a series of national, Arab and non-Arab similar reconciliation endeavors.
The Annapolis conference, which was hosted by the United States in Meryland on November 27, 2007 and attended by all members of the League of Arab States, convened with much fanfare and re-launched the Palestinian-Israeli negotiations after a seven-year interruption since the collapse of the trilateral Camp David summit with the U.S. in 2000.
In Annapolis, Arab leaders and the Palestinian presidency were lured by a promise of a Palestinian state by the end of 2008 and a wider Arab-Israeli peace process, mainly on the Syrian track thereafter, to coexist with the inter-Palestinian divide between the PLO-led West Bank and the Hamas-led Gaza Strip and to grudgingly hide their bitter resentment of the U.S.–Israeli threat of siege, which had aborted Qatari, UAE, Saudi, Egyptian, Yemeni and other Arab and non-Arab mediation efforts to unify Palestinian ranks.
The Annapolis plan to implement the first stage of the 2003 Road Map for a Palestinian-Israeli political settlement has built on two pillars, the first a Palestinian-Israeli security coordination that is solely and directly monitored by three senior U.S. generals, namely James Jones, William Fraser and Keith Dayton, and the second pillar is inter-Palestinian divide between the PLO in Ramallah and Hamas in Gaza.
However, the failure of the "Annapolis process" could be better proved by the unmet deadline of 2008 and the un-honored promise of a Palestinian state, but the two pillars nonetheless survived the failure of Annapolis so far to perpetuate and exacerbate the Palestinian rift, with the security coordination raising accusations by Hamas of PLO collaboration with Israel and the divide developing into what threatens to become a permanent separation between the West Bank and Gaza.
There remain too at the core of the Annapolis process and at the heart of the Palestinian divide the three Israeli-U.S. "good conduct" preconditions that qualify Palestinians to be partners to peace negotiations as well as to evade military siege, economic blockade and diplomatic isolation, namely to unilaterally renounce violence without any guarantees of Israeli reciprocity, recognize the existence of the state of Israel without any Israeli reciprocal recognition of the state of Palestine, and commitment to the accords signed by the PLO with Israel regardless of Israeli reciprocal respect thereto.
Israel’s lack of reciprocity has come recently under spotlight by the refusal of the U.S. State Department to publish a report by its Middle East security envoy General James Jones on Palestinian-Israeli security, which the Israeli newspaper Haaretz, quoted by AFP on November 26, described in August as "an extremely critical report of Israel’s policies" in the West Bank and Gaza Strip."
It is now public knowledge that the Palestinian partner to the Annapolis process, represented by the President Mahmoud Abbas-led Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) and the autonomous Palestinian Authority (PA), are wholeheartedly committed thereto irrespective of any Israeli reciprocity. The emergency meeting of the Arab foreign ministers in Cairo on November 26 concluded similarly committal, encouraged beforehand to let go the undelivered promises of the Annapolis conference by indications floated by both the Israeli President Shimon Peres and the U.S. President-elect Barak Obama’s team of their willingness to deal with the collective Arab peace initiative.
Hamas is consequently left in the cold to fend off a Palestinian and Arab diplomatic isolation as much as to survive the Israeli ongoing economic blockade and military siege, "hopefully" to gradually be finished off or alternatively to surrender to those same three preconditions to which its Palestinian rival had subscribed to as early as the Oslo accord was signed with Israel in Washington D.C. in 1993.
More out of presuming the weakness of Hamas than out of feeling a strength in his own position, but stiffening his back with the U.S. and Israeli determination to push hard with their three pre-qualifications, President Abbas feels safe enough to persistently reiterate his commitment to Annapolis and to corner the besieged Islamic movement to either dismantle voluntarily or otherwise being swept away in a way or another, and he is on record as saying that the end of the "black coup d’etat" in Gaza in June 2007 is only a matter of time.
However the end game of the Annapolis process is still far away from being the only game in the town as it is held hostage to Hamas’ fate as much as it has cornered Hamas, but meanwhile this process remains the detrimental factor that makes or breaks the unity of Palestinian ranks, as long as both Palestinian protagonists continue to risk it out in their brinkmanship policies.
-Nicola Nasser is a veteran Arab journalist based in Bir Zeit of the Israeli-occupied Palestinian West Bank. He contributed this article to PalestineChronicle.com.
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Don Shula
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American football coach and former player
Shula in 2009
No. 96, 44, 25, 26
(1930-01-04) January 4, 1930 (age 89)
Grand River, Ohio
Painesville (OH) Harvey
1951 / Round: 9 / Pick: 110
As player:
Cleveland Browns (1951-1952)
Baltimore Colts (1953-1956)
Washington Redskins (1957)
As coach:
Detroit Lions (1960-1962)
Miami Dolphins (1970-1995)
2× Super Bowl champion (VII, VIII)
NFL champion (1968)
5× AFC champion (1971-1973, 1982, 1984)
4× AP NFL Coach of the Year (1964, 1967, 1968, 1972)
Sports Illustrated Sportsman of the Year (1993)
NFL 1970s All-Decade Team
Miami Dolphins Honor Roll
Most regular season wins as head coach (328)
Career NFL statistics
Interceptions:
Head coaching record
Regular season:
328-156-6 (.676)
Postseason:
19-17 (.528)
Career:
Coaching stats at PFR
Donald Francis Shula (born January 4, 1930) is a former professional American football coach and player who is best known as the head coach of the Miami Dolphins, the team he led to two Super Bowl victories, and to the only perfect season in the history of the National Football League (NFL). He was previously the head coach of the Baltimore Colts, with whom he won the 1968 NFL Championship. Shula was drafted out of John Carroll University in the 1951 NFL Draft, and he played professionally as a defensive back for the Cleveland Browns, Baltimore Colts, and Washington Redskins.
Shula was named 1993 Sportsman of the Year by Sports Illustrated. He had only two losing seasons in his 33-year career as a head coach in the NFL. He led his teams to six Super Bowls. In his first Super Bowl, the Colts set the record for the longest period to be shut out, not scoring until 3:19 remained in the game, which was later broken in Super Bowl VII. At his next Super Bowl, the Dolphins set the Super Bowl record for the lowest points scored by any team, with one field goal. The following year, he coached a perfect season and broke the record of longest shutout, this time with his team on the winning side, not giving up any points until 2:07 remained. The Dolphins repeated as Super Bowl champions the following season, as they defeated the Minnesota Vikings 24-7. He currently holds the NFL record for most career wins as a head coach, with 347. Shula was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1997.
Early life and college
Shula was born in Grand River, Ohio, a small town along the Lake Erie shore in the northeastern part of the state.[1] His parents, Dan and Mary, were of Hungarian origin, having immigrated when they were children.[2] Shula's father Dan worked for $9 a week at a rose nursery and saved up to buy the small house where Shula spent his early childhood.[2] The house was next door to a grocery store in Grand River owned by Mary's parents.[2] Shula played football in his neighborhood as a child, but his parents forbade it after he got a gash on his face when he was 11.[1]
As Shula's family expanded--he had six siblings, including a set of triplets born in 1936--his father got a job in the local fishing industry for $15 a week, and later worked at a rayon plant in nearby Painesville, Ohio.[2] Shula attended elementary school at St. Mary's, a private Catholic school in Painesville; his mother was a devout Catholic, and his father converted to that denomination when they married.[2] He later attended Thomas W. Harvey in Painesville and played on its football team starting in 1945.[2] He did not try out for the team because of both his mother's prohibition on him playing and he was recovering from a bout of pneumonia, but an assistant football coach noticed him in a gym class and convinced him to join.[1][2] Shula forged his parents' signatures to sign up.[1][2]
Within weeks of joining Harvey's football team, Shula was a starting left halfback in the school's single-wing offense.[2] He handled a large portion of the team's rushing and passing duties, and helped lead the team to a 7-3 win-loss record in his senior year.[2] It was the first time in 18 years that Harvey had a seven-win season.[2] The team would have won a league title had it not lost an early game to Willoughby.[2] Shula also ran track at Harvey and was an 11-time letterman in his three years there.[2]
As Shula prepared to graduate from high school in 1947, many men whose football careers were delayed by service in World War II were returning and competing for athletic scholarships.[1] As a result, Shula was unable to get a scholarship and contemplated working for a year before going to college.[1] That summer, however, he had a chance meeting at a gas station with former Painesville football coach Howard Bauchman, who suggested he ask about a scholarship at John Carroll University.[1] Shula got a one-year scholarship at the private Jesuit school in University Heights, a suburb of Cleveland.[1][2] It was extended to a full scholarship after Shula performed well in his freshman year, including in a win over Youngstown State in October 1948.[1][3] He ran for 175 yards and scored two touchdowns substituting for the injured starting halfback.[3] The same year, Shula considered joining the Catholic priesthood after a three-day retreat at John Carroll, but decided against it because of his commitment to football.[3] During his senior year in 1950, he rushed for 125 yards in a win over a heavily favored Syracuse team.[4]
Playing career
Shula graduated in 1951 as a sociology major with a minor in mathematics, and was offered a job teaching and coaching at Canton Lincoln High School in Canton, Ohio for $3,750 a year ($36,197 in 2019).[1] The Cleveland Browns of the National Football League, however, had selected him in the ninth round of the 1951 draft that January.[5] Cleveland had won the NFL championship the previous year behind a staunch defense and an offense led by quarterback Otto Graham, fullback Marion Motley and end Dante Lavelli.[6]:177-182 Shula was joined in the Browns' training camp by John Carroll teammate Carl Taseff, whom Cleveland coach Paul Brown selected in the 22nd round.[5][6]:220 Brown made the selections in part because John Carroll coach Herb Eisele attended his coaching clinics and used similar schemes and terminology as Brown did.[1] Shula and Taseff both made the team and were its only two rookies in 1951.[4][6]:220 Shula signed a $5,000-a-year contract and played as a defensive back alongside Warren Lahr and Tommy James.[4][6]:220
Shula played in all 12 of Cleveland's games in 1951, making his first appearance as a starter in October, and recorded four interceptions.[3][7] The Browns, meanwhile, finished with an 11-1 record and advanced to the championship game for a second straight year.[8] The team lost the game 24-17 to the Los Angeles Rams in Los Angeles.[6]:233-234[8]
Shula served for 11 months in the Ohio National Guard in 1952 during the Korean War.
Shula was a member of an Ohio National Guard unit that was activated the following January amid the Korean War.[3][9] Military service in Ohio and at Fort Polk in Louisiana kept Shula away from football until the unit was deactivated that November.[3] Returning to the Browns, Shula signed a $5,500-a-year contract and played in five games at the end of the season, having become a full-time starter because of injuries to other players.[6]:247[7] The Browns again advanced to the championship game and again lost, this time to the Detroit Lions.[6]:251-253 In early 1953, Brown traded Shula along with Taseff and eight other players to the Baltimore Colts in exchange for five Colts players including tackles Mike McCormack and Don Colo.[6]:264 Before joining Baltimore, Shula finished a master's degree in physical education at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland.[10]
Shula signed a $6,500-a-year contract with Baltimore, which was preparing for its first season after relocating from Dallas, where the franchise had been called the Dallas Texans.[3][11] The team replaced an earlier Colts franchise that folded after the 1950 season.[12] The Colts finished with a 3-9 record in 1953 despite leading the NFL in defensive takeaways, including three interceptions by Shula.[7][13] Baltimore continued to struggle the following year under new head coach Weeb Ewbank, a former Browns assistant.[14][15] The team again finished 3-9 for last place in the NFL West, although Shula had a career-high five interceptions.[7][15]
Shula had five interceptions again in 1955, but the Colts finished 5-6-1, well out of contention for the divisional championship.[7][16] Shula missed the final three games of the season because of a broken jaw suffered in a 17-17 tie with the Los Angeles Rams.[3] Ewbank brought in future Pro Football Hall of Fame quarterback Johnny Unitas as a backup in 1956, but the Colts posted a losing record even after he became the starter partway through the season.[17] Shula had just one interception that year.[7] The Colts waived Shula at the end of training camp in 1957 season, and the Washington Redskins picked him up.[3][18] Shula spent one season with the Redskins before retiring. In his seven NFL seasons, he played in 73 games, intercepted 21 passes and recovered four fumbles.[7]
Coaching career
Early years (1958-1962)
Shula got his first coaching job shortly after ending his playing career, signing as an assistant at the University of Virginia under Dick Voris in February 1958, before being an assistant at Iowa State University.[3][19] Virginia finished with a 1-9 record that year.[20] Shula got married in the summer before the season to Dorothy Bartish, who grew up near Painesville. Shula and Bartish had begun dating after he graduated from John Carroll; she was working as a teacher in Hawaii when he proposed.[21]
After one season at Virginia, Shula moved to an assistant coaching job at the University of Kentucky in 1959 under head coach Blanton Collier.[3] Collier had been an assistant to Paul Brown when Shula played in Cleveland.[6]:17-18 After one season in Kentucky, Shula got his first NFL coaching job as the defensive backfield coach for the Detroit Lions in 1960.[3] The Lions posted winning records in each of Shula's three seasons there under head coach George Wilson and finished in second place in the NFL West in 1961 and 1962.[22][23][24] Detroit's defense was near the top of the league in fewest points allowed when Shula coached there, including a second-place finish in 1962.[24] The defense also led the league that year in fewest yards allowed, with 3,217.[25] Detroit's defense featured a group of linemen dubbed the "Fearsome Foursome" in 1962, consisting of defensive tackles Roger Brown and Alex Karras and defensive ends Darris McCord and Sam Williams.[25]
Weeb Ewbank, under whom Shula had played in Cleveland and Baltimore, was fired as the Colts' head coach in 1963 following a string of losing seasons and disagreements over team strategy and organization with owner Carroll Rosenbloom.[26][27] Colts owner Carroll Rosenbloom immediately named Shula as the team's next head coach, having recruited him for the job earlier.[26] Shula was only 33 years old, making him the youngest coach in league history at the time, but Rosenbloom was familiar with his personality and approach from his playing days in Baltimore.[27] While Rosenbloom said he realized he was "out on a limb" in hiring Shula, he felt it would bring a sense of team spirit back to the Colts.[27] While Shula had only been an average player, he was "always... taking pictures, talking football", said Rosenbloom. "He had always wanted to coach".[27]
Shula lost his first regular-season game, a September 15 matchup against the Giants.[3] The 1963 Colts won their next game, however, and went on to finish the season with an 8-6 record for third place in the NFL West.[3][28] The team was still led by Unitas, who was Shula's teammate during his final year as a player in Baltimore and had helped the Colts win championships in 1958 and 1959.[17] The team's primary receivers were end Raymond Berry and tight end John Mackey, while defensive end Gino Marchetti anchored the defense.[28]
Shula guided the team to a 12-2 record in his second year as coach.[29]:123 That put the Colts on top of the NFL West and earned a spot in the NFL championship against the Browns, which by then were coached by Collier.[29]:121-123 The Colts were heavily favored to win even by sportswriters in Cleveland, due in large part to their strong receiving corps and Unitas, who had 2,824 passing yards and won the league's Most Valuable Player award.[29]:122[30] Halfback Lenny Moore also had 19 touchdowns, setting an NFL record.[29]:123 In addition to having the NFL's top-scoring offense, the Colts defense allowed the fewest points in the NFL.[29]:124 Before the championship, Collier said Shula had always thought about coaching even during his playing career, giving him "the experience of a man in the profession for ten years."[29]:123 The Colts, however, lost to the Browns 27-0 in the title game.[29]:151 Despite the loss, Shula won the NFL's Coach of the Year Award.[29]:123
The Colts tied the Green Bay Packers with a 10-3-1 record at the end of the 1965 season, forcing a playoff to determine which of them would play in the championship game.[31] The Colts had lost twice to the Packers during the regular season, and Unitas and backup Gary Cuozzo were sidelined by injuries as the playoffs approached.[32] Baltimore got out to a 10-0 lead at halftime while using halfback Tom Matte at quarterback, but the Packers, coached by Vince Lombardi, made a comeback in the second half and tied the score at the end of regulation.[33] The Colts stopped the Packers on their opening drive in the sudden-death overtime, but the ensuing drive ended with a missed field goal by placekicker Lou Michaels.[33] The Packers then drove for a field goal of their own, winning 13-10.[31][33] Shula said after the game that while his team could not expect to execute its usual strategy without Unitas and Cuozzo, the Colts "don't belong in this league" if they could not beat Green Bay once in three tries.[33]
The Colts fell to second place in the NFL West the following season, the first year a Super Bowl was played between the NFL champion and the winner of the rival American Football League.[34] In 1967, the Colts again failed to make the playoffs despite a regular-season record of 11-1-2, losing the newly created Coastal Division on a tiebreaker with the Los Angeles Rams because the Rams scored more points in the games between the two clubs.[35][36][37] The Colts' only loss was a 34-10 setback to the Rams at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum on the final Sunday of the season.[38] Though the season ended in disappointment, Shula won his second Coach of the Year award, and Unitas was again the league's MVP.[39]
Before the 1968 season began, Unitas injured his elbow and was replaced by backup Earl Morrall.[39] Expectations for Morrall were low, but the veteran quarterback led the Colts to a string of wins at the beginning of the season.[40] Shula tried to ease Unitas back into the lineup, but the quarterback's injury flared up numerous times, culminating with a game against Cleveland when he had just one completion and three interceptions.[40] That turned out to be the only loss of the season for Baltimore, which finished with a league-leading 13-1 record.[41] The Colts beat the Minnesota Vikings in the Western Conference championship game, and then beat the Browns 34-0 in the NFL Championship Game the following week.[41] That set up a matchup with the New York Jets in Super Bowl III. The Jets were led by quarterback Joe Namath, who guaranteed a victory before the game despite being the underdog. New York won the game 16-7.[41]
Shula spent one more season as the head coach of the 8-5-1 Colts, and missed the playoffs. He compiled a 71-23-4 record in seven seasons with Baltimore, but was just 2-3 in the postseason, including upset losses in the 1964 NFL Championship Game and Super Bowl III, where the Colts were heavy favorites.
After the 1969 season, Joe Robbie, owner of the Miami Dolphins, signed Shula to a contract to become Miami's second head coach. As a result of Shula's signing, the team was charged with tampering by the NFL, which forced the Dolphins to give their first-round pick to the Colts.[42] The decision was controversial because Shula and Robbie's negotiations and signing were conducted before and after the official NFL/AFL merger, respectively. Had the negotiations been concluded before the merger, while the NFL and AFL were rivals, the NFL's antitampering rules could not have been applied.
Shula's Miami teams were known for great offensive lines (led by Larry Little, Jim Langer, and Bob Kuechenberg), strong running games (featuring Larry Csonka, Jim Kiick, and Mercury Morris), solid quarterbacking (by Bob Griese and Earl Morrall), excellent receivers (in Paul Warfield, Howard Twilley, and TE Jim Mandich) and a defense that worked well as a cohesive unit. The Dolphins were known as "The No-Name Defense", though they had a number of great players, including DT Manny Fernandez and MLB Nick Buoniconti.[43]
In 1972, the Dolphins were unbeaten in the regular season, 14-0-0. They swept the playoffs and finished 17-0-0.
Shula changed his coaching strategy as his personnel changed. His Super Bowl teams in 1971, 1972, 1973, and 1982 were keyed by a run-first offensive strategy and a dominating defense. In 1983, shortly after losing Super Bowl XVII to the Washington Redskins, the Dolphins drafted quarterback Dan Marino out of the University of Pittsburgh. Marino won the starting job halfway through the 1983 regular season, and by 1984, the Dolphins were back in the Super Bowl, due largely to Marino's record 5,084 yards through the air and 48 touchdown passes.
For all his success, the Dolphins' January, 1974 Super Bowl win over the Minnesota Vikings proved to be Shula's last championship. Despite consistent success in the regular season, Shula was unable to win in the postseason, failing in 12 trips to the playoffs--including two more Super Bowl appearances--before retiring after the 1995 season.
His retirement following that regular season ended one of the greatest coaching legacies in NFL history. He set numerous records in his 33 seasons as a head coach. He is first in most games coached (526) and most consecutive seasons coached (33). Shula had a 2-4 record in his 6 Super Bowl appearances.
Shula was the head coach of the 1972 Miami Dolphins, which finished a perfect 17-0 and won the Super Bowl VII 14-7 over the Washington Redskins. Shula's 1973 team repeated as NFL champions, winning the 1974 Super Bowl over the Minnesota Vikings. The following season, the Dolphins had a chance to win a third title in three years, but they fell to the Oakland Raiders 28-26, in an AFC divisional playoff game in one of the more popular playoff games ever played. With 35 seconds remaining in the game, Ken Stabler was in the process of being sacked by Vern Den Herder. Just before he was tackled, he threw a completed desperation forward pass to his running back Clarence Davis in the game's final moments, and in doing so, ended Miami's two-year dominance. The Dolphins team was decimated the following season by the creation of the now defunct World Football League and their inability to match contract offers to three of its star players--Larry Csonka, Jim Kiick, and Paul Warfield--to the rival league. The Dolphin franchise has never been able to duplicate the success of 1971-74.
Matchbook from Shula's Steakhouse in Indianapolis, Indiana, circa 1990
In retirement, Shula has lent his name to a chain of steakhouses, Shula's Steakhouse,[44] and a line of condiments.[45] He appeared in NutriSystem commercials with Dan Marino and other former NFL players.
Shula also has a hotel in Miami Lakes, Florida, which is home to the Original Shula's Steak House, The Senator Course at Shula's Golf Club, The Spa at Shula's, and Shula's Athletic Club. The hotel has 205 guest rooms and specializes in college and professional sport travel.
In 1999, Shula was honored with the "Lombardi Award of Excellence" from the Vince Lombardi Cancer Foundation. The award was created to honor coach Vince Lombardi's legacy, and is awarded annually to an individual who exemplifies the spirit of the coach.
In 2003, in San Diego at Super Bowl XXXVII, Shula performed the ceremonial coin toss to end the pregame ceremonies.
As part of a government public awareness campaign, he was the first American to sign up for Medicare Part D prescription drug plan benefits, enrolling just after midnight on November 15, 2005.[46]
In 2007, in Miami Gardens at Super Bowl XLI, Shula took part in the Vince Lombardi Trophy presentation.[47] On March 25, 2007, Shula presented the Winners Cup to Tiger Woods, winner of the 2007 WGC-CA Golf Tournament held at the Doral Resort in Miami. On February 3, 2008, he participated in the opening of Super Bowl XLII.
In 2011, he received the Ellis Island Medal of Honor in recognition of his humanitarian efforts.
At John Carroll University, he endowed the Don Shula Chair in Philosophy, which supports the Philosophy Department by presenting programs of interest to philosophers and the general public.[48]
Don & Mary Anne Shula at the 2014 Miami International Film Festival
Shula married Painesville native Dorothy Bartish on July 19, 1958. They had five children: Dave Shula (b. May 28, 1959), Donna (b. April 28, 1961), Sharon (b. June 30, 1962), Anne (b. May 7, 1964), and Mike Shula (b. June 3, 1965). Dorothy died of breast cancer on February 25, 1991.[3] That same year, the Don Shula Foundation for Breast Cancer Research was founded.[49]
He married Mary Anne Stephens on October 16, 1993. On November 25, 1996, he was added to the Miami Dolphin Honor Roll. In 2007, ads for NutriSystem geared for people age 60 and older featuring the Shulas aired.[50] They reside in Indian Creek, Florida, in the home Mary Anne received in her divorce settlement from her third husband, investment banker Jackson Stephens.[51]
Shula has been deeply religious throughout his life. He said in 1974, at the peak of his coaching career, that he attended mass every morning.[52] Shula once considered becoming a Catholic priest, but decided he could not commit to being both priest and coach.[52]
A statue of Shula outside of Hard Rock Stadium
Shula set numerous records in his 33 seasons as a head coach. He is the all-time leader in victories with 347. He is first in most games coached (526), most consecutive seasons coached (33), and Super Bowl losses (four, tied with Bud Grant, Dan Reeves, and Marv Levy). His teams won seven NFL conference titles: 1964, 1968, 1971-73, 1982, and 1984. Shula's teams were consistently among the least penalized in the NFL, and Shula served on the Rules Committee, to help change the game to a more pass-oriented league. He had a winning record against almost every coach he faced, with several exceptions: Levy, against whom he was 5-14 during the regular season and 0-3 in the playoffs; John Madden, against whom he was 2-2 in the regular season and 1-2 in the playoffs for a total of 3-4; and Bill Cowher, against whom Shula was 1-2 late in his career. Don Shula also had losing records against Tom Flores(1-6) Raymond Berry (3-8), Walt Michaels (5-7-1), and Vince Lombardi (5-8).
Shula also holds the distinction of having coached five different quarterbacks to Super Bowl appearances (Johnny Unitas and Earl Morrall in 1968, Bob Griese in 1971, 1972, and 1973, David Woodley in 1982, and Dan Marino in 1984), three of them (Unitas, Griese, and Marino) future Hall of Famers. He also coached Johnny Unitas to another World Championship appearance (in the pre-Super Bowl era) in 1964. The only other NFL coach to approach this distinction is Joe Gibbs, who coached four Super Bowls with three different quarterbacks (Joe Theismann, Doug Williams, and Mark Rypien), winning three times.
Shula is honored at the Don Shula Stadium at John Carroll University, and the Don Shula Expressway in Miami. An annual college football game between South Florida schools Florida Atlantic University and Florida International University is named the Shula Bowl in his honor. The game's winner receives a traveling trophy named the Don Shula Award. On January 31, 2010, a statue of him was unveiled at Hard Rock Stadium.
He has co-authored three books: The Winning Edge (1973) with Lou Sahadi ISBN 0-525-23500-0, Everyone's a Coach (1995) ISBN 0-310-20815-7, and The Little Black Book of Coaching: Motivating People to be Winners (2001); ISBN 0-06-662103-8, both with Ken Blanchard (author of The One Minute Manager).
8 6 0 .571 3rd in Western Conference -- -- -- --
12 2 0 .857 1st in Western Conference 0 1 .000 Lost to Cleveland Browns in NFL Championship Game.
10 3 1 .769 2nd in Western Conference 0 1 .000 Lost to Green Bay Packers in Western Conference Playoff.
9 5 0 .643 2nd in Western Conference -- -- -- --
11 1 2 .917 2nd in Coastal Division -- -- -- --
13 1 0 .929 1st in Coastal Division 2 1 .667 Won 1968 NFL Championship. Lost to New York Jets in Super Bowl III.
8 5 1 .615 2nd in Coastal Division -- -- -- --
BAL Total
10 4 0 .714 2nd in AFC East 0 1 .000 Lost to Oakland Raiders in AFC Divisional Game.
10 3 1 .769 1st in AFC East 2 1 .667 Lost to Dallas Cowboys in Super Bowl VI.
14 0 0 1.000 1st in AFC East 3 0 1.000 Super Bowl VII Champions.
12 2 0 .857 1st in AFC East 3 0 1.000 Super Bowl VIII Champions.
11 3 0 .786 1st in AFC East 0 1 .000 Lost to Oakland Raiders in AFC Divisional Game.
10 4 0 .714 2nd in AFC East -- -- -- --
6 8 0 .429 3rd in AFC East -- -- -- --
11 5 0 .688 2nd in AFC East 0 1 .000 Lost to Houston Oilers in AFC Wild-Card Game.
10 6 0 .625 1st in AFC East 0 1 .000 Lost to Pittsburgh Steelers in AFC Divisional Game.
11 4 1 .733 1st in AFC East 0 1 .000 Lost to San Diego Chargers in AFC Divisional Game.
7 2 0 .778 1st in AFC East 3 1 .750 Lost to Washington Redskins in Super Bowl XVII.
12 4 0 .750 1st in AFC East 0 1 .000 Lost to Seattle Seahawks in AFC Divisional Game.
14 2 0 .875 1st in AFC East 2 1 .667 Lost to San Francisco 49ers in Super Bowl XIX.
12 4 0 .750 1st in AFC East 1 1 .500 Lost to New England Patriots in AFC Championship Game.
6 10 0 .375 5th in AFC East -- -- -- --
8 8 0 .500 2nd in AFC East -- -- -- --
12 4 0 .750 2nd in AFC East 1 1 .500 Lost to Buffalo Bills in AFC Divisional Game.
11 5 0 .688 1st in AFC East 1 1 .500 Lost to Buffalo Bills in AFC Championship Game.
9 7 0 .563 3rd in AFC East 0 1 .000 Lost to Buffalo Bills in AFC Wild-Card Game.
MIA Total
Total[53]
*57-day long players' strike reduced the 1982 season from a 16-game schedule per team to 9
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The NAO is a sophisticated humanoid robot. Armed with many sensors, actuators and heavy duty servo motors, it can be programmed to walk, talk, speak, listen and interact with its environment. The artificial intelligence of the NAO can be programmed to such a level that it can be seen to be taking on personality traits chosen by its programmers. The uses to which it can be put range from classroom learning tool, learning companion for children dealing with learning challenges such as autism, entertainer via interactive dance routines, language teacher.
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There's certainly some very good direction, editing and acting. I especially liked the performances by the kids. The main character enjoys three incarnations -- one as a 5 year old, one as an adolescent and finally as an adult. His is an incredible, harrowing story of life and death struggle at every turn, but the adult actor shows little of that struggle in his manner or soft skinned face. The same is true of the female lead. Both of these actors are endearing enough, but I just didn't feel that they carried the weight of the back story. This was likely one reason I found the climax underwhelming. That said, from a humanitarian point of view, I'm glad this film is getting a lot of attention. Perhaps a raised awareness will somehow lessen the struggles of those in poverty and make it more difficult for abusers to take advantage of youths.
I'm pleased Slumdog has been pleasing so many audiences, even though this Danny Boyle film didn't wow me. Actually, there's another Boyle film of similar title that did. I'd recommend instead the film Millions.
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in: The Musical Standard. A Newspaper for Musicians, Professional and Amateur, Bd. 23, Heft 576, Samstag, 14. Januar 1905, Rubrik »Music in the Provinces«, S. 27
relevant für die veröffentlichten Bände: III/5 Don Juan
Dr. Strauss at Birmingham.
BIRMINGHAM.
MUSICALLY the visit of Dr. Richard Strauss to Birmingham was looked forward to as one of the events of the season. True, we had an opportunity of hearing him as a pianist at one of Mr. Max Mossel’s drawing-room concerts last season, and several of his works had been introduced by Mr. Geo. Halford. But, for all that, of the man and his music – that is, his greater works, we knew little. Therfore we were glad of another opportunity of judging him not only as a composer but also as a conductor. A number of vacant seats were noticed, and undoubtedly some few people appear somewhat afraid of attempting to listen to a concert composed wholly of Strauss music. It was a bold undertaking on the part of Mr. Halford to ask his patrons to listen to the music of one man, but the audience present – among whom one noticed many influential people in the musical world – must have been gratifying both to the promoters and to the composer-conductor. The programme was as follows: »Don Juan«, Op. 20; Violin Concerto in D minor, Op. 8; Tone poem »Tod und Verklärung«, Op. 24; »Ein Heldenleben,« Op. 49. The novelty of the concert was the Violin Concerto, and, as its opus number indicates, this is an early work, but as music it is excellent in every respect. It is formed on classic models, but contains some real melodies, which charm the listener by their beauty. Speaking personally it did not appeal to the writer as a great work; but played as it was by Mr. Max Mossel, it certainly created a most favourable impression. Mr. Mossel gave his part excellently. The Lento was charmingly played, while the Rondo went with a most inspiriting swing. The first movement appeared to contain the most solid scoring. Under Dr. Strauss the orchestrea gave just the requisite accompaniment.
As regards the orchestral selections, Mr. Halford had evidently prepared his ground well, especially as regarded the »tone-poems«, all of which, however, have been dealt with in detail in previous issues of this journal. The »Don Juan« poem is a work of great power, but, to my way of thinking, does not depict the idealist in his best light. The orchestral colouring is in places most vivid, and several of the themes are beautiful, and one must say the composer imparted a certain individuality to the performance. One of the best performances was undoubtedly that of »Tod und Verklärung«. There was nothing in this poem which struck a repellent chord, while the realism of some sections, especially that of the dying struggles of the unhappy man, was excellent. This performance created great enthusiasm. »Ein Heldenleben« has been the subject of special comment as to its merit. Its powerful scoring is admittedly great, while in places its beauty is impressive; but it is such a combination of beauty and ugliness that, as a work of art, I am loth to place it. Sometimes, it must be confessed, one appears to be listening to a musical joke. Certainly the performance of the work was magnificent in every respect, every point being accentuated. The majority of the audience remained until the close, and Dr. Strauss met with a reception which must assured him of the high estimation in which he was held by the audience. Shouts of »bravo!« at the close of the concert were a startling demonstration on the part of the audience, and undoubtedly the Strauss Concert will long be remembered by many. –
S., Our Correspondent.
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Ondine CEO Carolyn Cross Appointed Founding Member of Ernst & Young Global Women in Business Advisory Council
Ondine Biomedical Inc. is pleased to announce that Carolyn Cross, its CEO and Founder, has been named a Founding Member of the Ernst & Young Global Women in Business Advisory Council. Carolyn Cross plays a significant role in Canada’s life sciences community and this council appointment complements her position as Founder and Chair of the BC Women’s Business Advisory Council.
Carolyn Cross, CEO Ondine Biomedical Inc - Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
It is a great pleasure to be a part of the Ernst & Young Global Women in Business Advisory Council and I look forward to working with the inspiring women entrepreneurs who join me on this Council. - Carolyn Cross.
Vancouver, British Columbia (PRWEB) August 02, 2013
The world’s women entrepreneurs have a new resource to help them accelerate their successes: the EY Global Women in Business Advisory Council. The Council is designed to harness the insights and experiences of top women entrepreneurs from around the world, consider the challenges faced by women in business today, and help promote opportunities and economic empowerment for all women who own and operate their own businesses.
The Global Women in Business Advisory Council has been established to provide women with information, networks and guidance to facilitate access mentors, networks and capital. A primary objective of the Council will be to provide a strong network so that women can:
Share and learn from each other
Access funding and capital networks
Formalize mentoring, coaching and networking opportunities
Be inspired by each other
Demonstrate best practices
“Ernst and Young wants to encourage the development and success of Women Entrepreneurs around the world,” says Global Vice Chair Maria Pinelli, who spearheads the new initiative. For the past decade, Ms. Pinelli has been a leader in the EY Entrepreneur of the Year (EOY) award program, the entrepreneurial world’s most prestigious, highly competitive and independently judged global business honor.
“Entrepreneurs are more important than ever– especially in the emerging markets. Women own a third of all businesses in the world, nearly half of which are in the developing countries. Combined with the rapid growth of the middle class around the world, success of the world’s women entrepreneurs will continue to have a dramatic impact on global economies. If women started businesses with the same capital as men, the US alone would have 6 million more jobs,” says Ms. Pinelli.
“I am thrilled that global powerhouse, Ernst & Young, goes beyond just recognizing the importance of women entrepreneurs in the global economy, but has taken significant action. By creating and facilitating a dedicated council, Ernst & Young has demonstrated its willingness to commit resources and its worldwide network to support the success of global women in their own businesses. It is a great pleasure to be a part of the Ernst & Young Global Women in Business Advisory Council and I look forward to working with the inspiring women entrepreneurs who join me on this Council,” says Carolyn Cross.
The success of women-owned businesses as well as their impact on global jobs, economies and support of youth employment is well documented. A recent study from the EY Global Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation shows that women EOY winners are more optimistic about their local economies than their male counterparts (88% versus 71% feel confident) and intend to hire in their home markets more than men (by 73% to 69%).
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About RBC > Media Newsroom > News Releases > RBC joins HRC’s Business Coalition for the Equality Act in support of federal protections for the LGBT+ community
RBC joins HRC’s Business Coalition for the Equality Act in support of federal protections for the LGBT+ community
NEW YORK, April 16, 2019 - The Royal Bank of Canada (RBC) today announced that it has joined the Human Rights Campaign’s (HRC’s) Business Coalition for the Equality Act, a group of 190 leading U.S. businesses that support federal legislation that would safeguard LGBT+ persons against discrimination as a protected group. HRC’s Business Coalition for the Equality Act includes businesses operating in all 50 states that employ over 9.8 million people and generate $4.2 trillion in combined revenue.
The Equality Act is proposed U.S. federal legislation that would protect LGBT+ persons from discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity in employment and on a range of public services, including housing, credit, juries, and more. The Equality Act would provide the same protections to LGBT+ persons as other protected groups under U.S. federal law.
Our commitment to HRC’s Business Coalition represents RBC’s continued advocacy towards creating a more inclusive workplace and society. We believe that diversity and inclusion are fundamental to helping our clients thrive and communities prosper, and we support the introduction of the Equality Act as another step towards promoting fairness, equality and equal opportunity for all.
Royal Bank of Canada is a global financial institution with a purpose-driven, principles-led approach to delivering leading performance. Our success comes from the 84,000+ employees who bring our vision, values and strategy to life so we can help our clients thrive and communities prosper. As Canada's biggest bank, and one of the largest in the world based on market capitalization, we have a diversified business model with a focus on innovation and providing exceptional experiences to our 16 million clients in Canada, the U.S. and 33 other countries. Learn more at rbc.com.
We are proud to support a broad range of community initiatives through donations, community investments and employee volunteer activities. See how at rbc.com/community-sustainability.
About Human Rights Campaign (HRC)
The Human Rights Campaign Foundation is the educational arm of America's largest civil rights organization working to achieve equality for lesbian, gay, bisexual transgender and queer people. HRC envisions a world where LGBTQ people are embraced as full members of society at home, at work and in every community.
Elisa Barsotti, 212-618-2057, elisa.barsotti@rbccm.com
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Greater Than the Sum
Author: Christopher L. Bennett
RRP: £6.99, US $7.99
ISBN: 978 1 8473 9277 0
Available 01 September 2008
On an unusual survey mission to a sentient carbon cluster of planets the Starship Rhea comes under attack from the USS Einstein, a former Starfleet vessel now under the control of the Borg. On the planet's surface the landing party are helpless to aid their comrades who are being assimilated, when their turn comes the half Vulcan Lieutenant T’Ryssa is horrified at the thought of being assimilated until she is instantaneously transported to another planet, naked. Only Slipstream technology can do this and with the Borg orbiting the carbon planets Starfleet sends the Enterprise to investigate...
Star Trek: The Next Generation: Greater Than the Sum, is a new novel by Christopher L. Bennett. I guess I must have missed a lot of the recent Trek books, as the Trek Universe seems to have undergone a radical transformation. Janeway is dead, having been temporarily a Borg Queen, and the Borg, although isolated from the collective, have adapted in other ways. Picard is finally married to Dr Crusher, though everyone knew that this was on the cards at some point, and Worf has transferred from his ambassadorial duties to the Klingon Empire to rejoin his old crew, or at least what’s left of them. I know this as Bennett spends a lot of time showing various characters mulling and re-mulling over past events.
I’m personally a big fan of the Borg, though their real threat has been watered down over the years and so was looking forward to reading a Borg tale, this however was not it. The actual parts of the story, which involve the Borg can’t be more than thirty pages out of the whole three hundred and fifty-three-page book. Depending on what you want from a Trek book this is either a massive disappointment or a feast for your eyes.
So, if the book isn’t full of Borg bashing what is it about? This is very much a book, which concentrates on the characters, and their various takes on families and relationships. Beverly and Picard have got to that sticking point about whether to have children - not an easy decision for Picard who knows the danger that living on a Starship entails. La Forge spends much of his time lamenting his lack of luck with the ladies. Much of this is reflected by the carbon planet's interest in the various methods of procreation employed by the crew, being a single entity it has little understanding of the concept of children.
Mostly Trek books are constrained by canon, though as time goes on and no more shows are being made, thankfully this stranglehold on the writers imagination appears to be loosening. This allows the characters to develop and new characters to be introduced. The most enjoyable new character here, or at least to me, was Lieutenant T’Ryssa - a feisty, irreverent half Vulcan, whose believable character very much jumped out of the page, making you want for more.
So, if you're looking for hundreds of pages of Borg action, then this book is most probably not for you. However, if you're looking for a thoughtful set of character studies, I think you’d be hard pressed to find a better book.
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Cross sector call for the next Prime Minister to back science and innovation
Business, charities, researchers and universities unite to appeal to Tory leadership candidates
A coalition representing some of the UK’s leading businesses, campaign organisations, universities and charities is today calling on the next Prime Minister to put research and innovation at the heart of their plan for UK prosperity, post-Brexit.
The group is urging Boris Johnson and Jeremy Hunt to deliver a concrete and overdue vision for UK R&D which builds upon existing pledges, to boost jobs and deliver vital medical, technological and social breakthroughs. The group includes the Campaign for Science and Engineering, Cancer Research UK, the CBI, the Royal Society, the Russell Group and Universities UK.
As CaSE's analysis shows, despite having made a firm commitment to spend 2.4% of national wealth on R&D by 2027, the Government is not on track to meet its target and the UK already trails behind its international competitors.
Commenting on the statement, Executive Director Dr Sarah Main said:
"This joint statement shows just how important it is that the next Prime Minister invests in the UK’s strength in science. It will stimulate ideas, innovation and investment that will improve people’s quality of life and attract global attention."
"To deliver on the promise of UK science, the next Prime Minister needs to back vision with a plan and a budget that attracts cross-Government support and global attention."
Joint statement in full
The next leader of the Conservative Party should commit to ensuring the UK remains a world leader in research and innovation.
We ask the Conservative leadership contenders to pledge their support for the R&D commitments necessary to ensure the UK remains globally competitive, delivering a strong and prosperous future for our economy and society post-Brexit.
The evidence is clear: investment in R&D drives productivity and raises living standards, benefitting people and communities across the whole of the UK. From the great challenges of our time, including cancer, climate change, food security and caring for an ageing society, to the creation of high-skilled jobs, new businesses, and the innovations that power our NHS – UK research and innovation has real-life impact.
It is vital that the next government sends a clear message to domestic and international investors that the UK is open for business and ready to embrace the opportunities of a changing world. Globally, our competitors such as Germany, Israel, South Korea and Japan already invest more than 3% of their GDP in R&D.
The next Prime Minister must set out a long-term plan for research and innovation investment up to 2030. This should build on the Government target to boost overall R&D investment initially to 2.4% of GDP by 2027 – and the longer-term aim of 3% of GDP. But words and targets will not be enough, the UK needs a coherent long-term plan to build our position as the global hub for new world-leading technologies, to draw on our strengths across multiple disciplines, to attract talent from around the world and to promote British entrepreneurship.
Action is overdue. The next leader of the Conservative Party will have the opportunity to be the Prime Minister who builds on the bold vision for UK R&D, putting us on a solid path to delivering it.
The statement has been signed by the Academy of Medical Sciences, the Association of Medical Research Charities, the British Academy, the Campaign for Science and Engineering, Cancer Research UK, the Confederation for British Industry, the Institute of Physics, the Royal Society, the Royal Academy of Engineering, the Russell Group and Universities UK.
Read the coverage of the statement by the BBC.
CaSE has published a new report, 'Building on Scientific Strength; The Next Decade of R&D Investment', on how the Government can stimulate a rise in the UK’s research intensity.
The UK Government has committed to increasing the UK's research intensity by around a half, from 1.7% of GDP to 2.4% GDP over ten years, to create a more scientifically-enabled economy, drive productivity across the UK and bring R&D investment in the UK closer in line with other leading scientific nations.
R&D investment required to meet the target
The Government has made an initial pledge of an additional £7bn to UK R&D between 2016 and 2021. Ahead of the next Spending Review, CaSE calls on the Government to increase the scale of step-wise increments in R&D investment over the next five years, calculating that the Government needs to invest an additional £20.2bn between 2020/21 and 2024/25 to meet its target - around treble its initial commitment. This £20bn investment would attract a calculated £28bn of leveraged research investment from private sources over 15 year. Furthermore:
CaSE's calculations show that failure to provide additional public investment in R&D would lead to stagnation, leaving the research intensity of the UK economy at 1.7% of GDP, which may even decline to 1.6% of GDP by 2027. This would represent a £12bn shortfall against the Government's target in 2024.
If the Government continues to invest new money at the initial rate, but does not increase that rate, CaSE's calculations show UK research intensity will grow but the Government will miss its target substantially, reaching 2.0% of GDP by 2027. The shortfall against the Government's target in 2024 would be £6.5bn.
Report recommendations on what Government can do to increase public R&D investment and incentivise private R&D investment.
To increase public R&D investment:
Government needs a vision with a plan and a budget, that attracts cross-Government support and global attention.
New funding should sustain the unique breadth of the UK's academic science base, which is an asset for discovery and global research partnership
Government should front-load investment in research infrastructure and future skills to ensure UK R&D capability can sustain growth
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invest in the science base because its exceptional strength is the primary reason R&D companies come to the UK
package the UK's innovation offer simply and with greater appreciation of business needs
use the power of Government procurement to adopt innovation faster
make the fiscal environment for R&D internationally competitive by updating R&D tax credits
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posted Friday, September 26 2014 - Volume 42 Issue 39
Eric Holder resigns as Attorney General - Leaves a legacy of civil rights protections
U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder announced on September 25 that he would resign from office as soon as a replacement was confirmed by the U.S. Senate.
He is the first African American Attorney General, and - at six years in office - one of the longest serving.
'Holder's accomplishments have estab more
Louisiana state judge strikes down marriage ban
A judge in Lafayette Parish, Louisiana, has ruled that his state's ban on same-sex marriages is unconstitutional.
Judge Edward Rubin's September 22 decision contradicts an earlier ruling by federal court judge Martin Feldman that Louisiana's ban on same-sex marriage satisfies ra more
The Pink Door unveils a public mural in Pike Place Market featuring Waxie Moon
by Shaun Knittel - SGN Associate Editor
Waxie Moon, the fabulous glittered and Gay dancer, actor and Queer artist about town that he is, has been seen onstage, onscreen, and now - on the side of a building?
Yes, you read that right. Waxie Moon's likeness now adorns the side of a building and, that's right, you g more
SPD Chief O'Toole meets with demographic advisory committees
On September 22, Seattle Police Chief Kathleen O'Toole met with leaders from various advisory councils at the SPD Educational and Training Center. The Chief wanted our input on how to handle serious, if not critical, incidents that may happen in Seattle from a community perspective. T more
250,000 same-sex couples married in first decade of marriage equality
According to the U.S. Census Bureau's American Community Survey, more than 250,000 same-sex couples have been married since May 2004, when Massachusetts became the first state to allow them to do so.
The figure does not include couples who married, but were subsequently divorc more
New report on Bisexuals: they're a majority of LGBTs, and poorer than Gays and Lesbians
Bisexuals make up 52% of the LGBT community, a new report says, and despite their numbers, they fare worse than Gay men and Lesbians when it comes to income and working conditions.
The study, by Movement Advancement Project, in conjunction with Bi Resource Center and BiNet USA more
Lambda Legal asks for summary judgment in Puerto Rico marriage suit
Lambda Legal entered a motion for summary judgment on September 15 in a suit to overturn Puerto Rico's ban on same-sex marriages.
As a Commonwealth of the United States, Puerto Rico is internally self-governing, but is under the jurisdiction of U.S. federal courts, and the sui more
Greek Gays organize against violence
Greece's Gay community is organizing against a wave of recent Gay-bashings in the capital, Athens, and several other cities, according to the Greek newspaper Kathimerini.
In April, the LGBT rights organization Color Youth launched a website, www.pestosemas.com, where victims o more
Olympic host cities must agree to LGBT protections, IOC says
by Mike Andrew - SGN Staff Writer The International Olympic Committee (IOC) announced on September 25 that all future Olympic host cities must agree to protect LGBT athletes and attendees from discrimination.
According to IOC Sports Director Christopher Dubi, a new clause will be added to the contract that host cities must more
Make PrEP free, SF Supervisor says
San Francisco Supervisor David Campos has introduced a plan to distribute free PrEP drugs to city residents. His proposal was put before the Board of Supervisors - a combination city/county council - on September 22.
PrEP (pre-exposure prophylaxis) is a method of preventing HI more
Vaccinate Gay and Bi men for HPV, Brit activists say
British LGBT rights activists are urging a government panel to vaccinate Gay and Bi men against HPV (human papilloma virus).
According to BBC News, HPV experts from the British government's Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunization will investigate whether to extend the va more
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Seven Candidates, Two Ceremonies, One Lodge Meeting…
Monday, 18th January 2016 saw the Passing of two candidates to the 2nd Degree and the Initiation of an impressive FIVE candidates into Freemasonry. The candidates were a mixture of local gentlemen, and students who approached the Lodge through the UGLE Universities Scheme. It would be tempting to describe such an occasion as unique but it is becoming increasingly commonplace for Singleton Lodge which has been regularly carrying out multiple ceremonies with multiple candidates since joining the Universities Scheme back in 2008. (more…)
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Freemasonry is the largest secular, fraternal and charitable organisation in the United Kingdom. It teaches self-knowledge through participation in a progression of ceremonies. Members are expected to be of high moral standing and are encouraged to speak openly about Freemasonry.
What happens at a lodge meeting?
The meeting, which like those of other groups, are open only to members, is normally in two parts.
First, there are normal administrative procedures such as:
• Minutes of the previous meeting
• Proposing and balloting for new members
• Discussing and voting on the annual accounts
• Masonic news and correspondence
• News about charitable work
Second, there are the ceremonies for:
• Admitting new members
• The annual installation of the Master of the Lodge and his officers
Why do Freemasons take oaths?
New members make solemn promises concerning their behaviour both in the Lodge and in society. Members also promise to keep confidential the way they recognise each other when visiting another Lodge. Freemasons also promise to support others in time of need but only so far as it does not conflict with their family and public obligations.
Are Freemasons expected to give preference to fellow members?
Certainly not. This would be unacceptable and may lead to action being taken against those involved. On joining, each new member states that he expects no material gain from membership.
Who do the Masonic charities donate to?
Whilst there are Masonic charities that cater specifically, but not exclusively, for Masons or their dependants, others make significant grants to non-Masonic organisations.
What is Freemasonry’s relationship with religion?
All Freemasons are expected to have a religious belief, but Freemasonry does not seek to replace a Mason’s religion or provide a substitute for it. It deals in a man’s relationship with his fellow man not in a man’s relationship with his God.
Why do some churches not like Freemasonry?
There are elements within churches who misunderstand Freemasonry and its objectives. They confuse secular rituals with religious liturgy. There are many Masons in churches where their leaders have been openly critical of the organisation. Masonry has always actively encouraged its members to be active in their own religion.
Does Freemasonry accept Roman Catholics?
Yes. Four Grand Masters of English Freemasonry have been Roman Catholics. Today there are many Roman Catholic Freemasons.
What is Freemasonry’s relationship with politics?
Freemasonry, as a body, will never express a view on politics or state policy. The discussion of politics at Masonic meetings has always been prohibited.
Is Freemasonry an international order?
Freemasonry exists throughout the world. However, each Grand Lodge is sovereign and independent. There is no international governing body for Freemasonry.
Are there women Freemasons?
Yes. Whilst UGLE, following the example of medieval stonemasons, is, and has always been, restricted to men, women Freemasons have two separate Grand Lodges, which are restricted to women.
Why do you wear regalia?
Wearing regalia is historic and symbolic. Like a uniform, the regalia indicates the rank of the wearer in the organisation.
How many Freemasons are there?
Under the United Grand Lodge of England, there are over a quarter of a million Freemasons.
There are Grand Lodges in Ireland, which covers both Northern Ireland and Eire, and Scotland which have a combined total of approximately 150,000 members.
Worldwide, there are approximately six million Freemasons.
How many degrees are there in Freemasonry?
Basic Freemasonry consists of three degrees:
• Entered Apprentice
• Fellow Craft
• Master Mason
How much does it cost to be a Freemason?
It varies from Lodge to Lodge. Anyone wishing to join will find a Lodge to suit his pocket. There is an initiation fee on entry and in due course regalia will have to be bought. The meeting is normally followed by a dinner, the cost depending on the venue. There is, in addition, an annual subscription.
Members are invited to give to charity but this should always be within their means and it is entirely up to the individual how much they wish to contribute.
About Singleton Lodge
Singleton Lodge No. 8399, Swansea
Date of Warrant: 8th September 1971
Meeting at: Masonic Hall, St Helens Road, Swansea, SA1 4DF
Meetings:
3rd Monday in September
3rd Monday in November
3rd Monday in January
3rd Monday in March
As dispensation may not have been sought or given as yet, please note that meeting dates falling on Bank holidays or Sundays are subject to change. Contact the respective Lodge Secretary for further information.
Mother Lodge: 5378 Glantawe Lodge
The History of Singleton Lodge No. 8399
It was in 1971 that The Grand Lodge granted a warrant for the establishment of a new lodge in Swansea to serve the various academic establishments of the city. It had originally been suggested that it be called the “Colleges Lodge” . However, this was felt by those in authority to be rather similar to the name “Universities Lodge” which was already being used by a lodge in Cardiff. The university at Swansea is on a campus on the sea-shore built around Singleton Abbey, which at one time was the home of the Vivian family, the Lords Swansea, until they left the estate in 1919.
John Hussey Hamilton Vivian, the 4th Lord Swansea, had recently become the Provincial Grand Master (1966) in South Wales, and it seems that he expressed a wish that the new lodge should be named the “Singleton” Lodge, thereby combining references to the university and to his own family’s connection with the area. The Singleton Lodge No. 8399 was consecrated by Lord Swansea on Monday, 15th November 1971. After the ceremony, the Brethren attended a six-course banquet, complete with sherry, wines and coffee – at a cost of £3.50 per head! It seems that up to that time His Lordship had never set foot in his family’s ancestral home at Singleton, but our Worshipful Master was able to arrange for him to pay a visit there and to be shown around the old house. Lord Swansea found it a very interesting and nostalgic experience, but he expressed his great delight and relief that he was no longer responsible for the upkeep of that great roof!
After much discussion in the early days, the Lodge Committee decided upon a badge for the lodge, which was duly submitted to, and approved by, the Provincial authorities. It consisted of an oval shape, divided horizontally into two. The upper half has a light blue background on which is placed the usual square-and-compasses motif in gold. The lower half is taken from the arms of University College Swansea. It has a green background on which are shown a pick-axe and an anchor in saltire, together with a vertical sledge-hammer. These represent, coal-mining, the sea and the metal industries which historically are characteristic of the area. Over them is laid an open book. This is a charge often found on the arms of universities and, of course, symbolises learning. The motto which was adopted was “AD UNAM OMNES” which translates as “ONE FOR ALL”, a sentiment very appropriate for an organisation which promotes the idea of fraternity and unity.
At first, various items of the lodge furniture required for the ceremonies were borrowed from our Mother Lodge, the Glantawe Lodge No. 5378 – (that is to say, the lodge under whose sponsorship the petition for the formation of the new lodge had been prepared and presented). Officers’ collars were donated by the Brethren who served in the various offices of the new lodge during the first year. A beautiful set of gavels (which are used during the course of the ceremonies) made out of brass and mahogany, with inset masonic symbols had been made and presented to the lodge by one of our founder members.
In November 1973 the decision was taken to purchase a full set of the required items – this decision being spurred on by the imminent arrival of a new form of taxation, VAT, and the fear that a considerable price rise would ensue if matters were delayed! The lodge was thus now fully equipped, save for the fact that as yet we had no board on which to display the names of Past Masters and no lodge banner – both rather expensive items for a new small lodge to acquire. Fortunately, we were provided with a Masters’ Board in the late 1970s through the much appreciated generosity of two of our Brethren who were partners in a local firm of builders. They undertook the construction of the board at their own premises, and presented it to us.
The banner took rather longer. During the late 1970s earnest discussions took place as to the prospect of acquiring one, but nothing happened, banners being very expensive items. However in 1989 the lodge was extremely fortunate in being presented with a banner by the wife of one of our members – and moreover, a banner made and embroidered by her own fair hand. This was dedicated by the then Assistant Provincial Grand Master at a special meeting held on 30th October of that year. The banner now hangs above our Worshipful Master’s chair at every meeting, and we record once again our gratitude to the lady concerned for her generosity.
Over the years, in addition to our normal regular meetings, many social functions, such as Sunday lunches and Ladies’ Evenings, have been held at various venues. Popular features of lodge activities in the early days were the weekend hotel breaks taken at locations in west Wales, including Saundersfoot, St. David’s and Aberystwyth – although for various reasons no such trips have been organised in recent years. Perhaps the time has come for them to be revived? Christmas Parties have also been arranged for the children and grand-children of the Brethren – functions at which Father Christmas has never failed to put in an appearance! Other memorable events have been the Church Services held from time to time during the summer recesses.
Singleton Lodge is, as stated previously, a daughter Lodge of Glantawe No. 5379. They also have an elder daughter, The Old Goreans Lodge No. 7193, founded in 1952. The three Lodges have kept in close contact over the years, and a notable feature has been our annual ‘official’ visits to one another. As mentioned earlier, the original intention was that Singleton Lodge should be associated with the educational establishments of the city – although it should be stressed that it was never a “closed” or restricted Lodge in any formal way. Our early initiates reflected this academic connection but as time went by, experience showed that this early intention could no longer be fulfilled. Nowadays our members and initiates are drawn from all walks of life. However we have recently joined the ‘Universities Scheme’ launched by Grand Lodge and we hope once more to increase our recruitment from the academic community.
During the period of our existence three of our Brethren have achieved the distinction of having been Freemasons for fifty years and four of our founders are still subscribing members of the lodge. The lodge celebrated its first 25 years in 1996. We are hopeful for the future as we carry on into our second 25 years, and we trust that the golden jubilee celebration, when it comes, will find Singleton Lodge in good heart.
Tradition and continuity are two of the values which characterise the relationship between Freemasonry and universities. It was nearly 200 years ago that the first university Lodge, Apollo University Lodge, was founded at Oxford, with Isaac Newton University Lodge following soon afterwards at Cambridge. Since then many thousands of young men have been introduced to Freemasonry through these two Lodges, and they provided the inspiration for the Universities Scheme. This was set up at the beginning of 2005 with the objective: ‘To establish and/or enhance arrangements and opportunities for undergraduates and other university members to enjoy Freemasonry’.
There are now 29 other Lodges pursuing a similar, yet distinct, course. Their membership consists of undergraduates, postgraduates, senior members of the university and alumni, ranging in age from 18 upwards. All under-25s benefit from the recent decision by Grand Lodge to halve their dues in order to make Freemasonry as accessible to as wide an audience as possible.
Singleton Lodge No. 8399 is one of two University Lodges in Wales, the other being Universities Lodge, Cardiff No. 5461, Cardiff
The Scheme is headed by the Assistant Grand Master, David Williamson, who explains: “We know from these long-established university lodges that students – whether undergraduates or postgraduates – enjoy Freemasonry to the full. Through the Universities Scheme, we hope that university members from all over the country will be able to gain the same inspiration, fulfilment and enjoyment.”
If you are interested in finding out more about becoming a Freemason through the Universities Scheme, please contact us for further information or visit the United Grand Lodge of England’s University Scheme website.
Download the Singleton Lodge University Scheme leaflet here
Are you thinking of becoming a Freemason?
Our fraternity has a wonderful history, which dates back more than three centuries. It is one of the world’s oldest secular fraternities, a society of men concerned with moral and spiritual values. Founded on the three great principles of Brotherly Love, Relief and Truth, it aims to bring together men of goodwill, regardless of background and differences.
People might think that to become a Freemason is quite difficult. It’s actually straightforward.
The essential qualifications for admission is that you have a belief in a Supreme Being. It is usual for candidates to be “mature men of 21 years and over”, but through the Universities Scheme candidates from the age of 18 can be admitted.
If you live in Swansea or the South Wales area and are interested in finding out more about becoming a Freemason, or joining Singleton Lodge No. 8399 please contact us for further information.
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on 8th July 2019 at 3:44 pm
Director: Jon Watts
Starring: Tom Holland, Samuel L. Jackson, Zendaya, Cobie Smulders, Jon Favreau, J. B. Smoove, Jacob Batalon, Martin Starr, Marisa Tomei and Jake Gyllenhaal
Tom Holland is back as everybody’s favourite friendly neighbourhood Spider-Man in Jon Watts’ follow-up to Spider-Man: Homecoming, Spider-Man: Far From Home.
Peter’s been on quite some journey since the events of Spider-Man: Homecoming. He had to help fight Thanos in Avengers: Infinity War, only to be a dusted and subsequently undusted in Avengers: Endgame to have to face the titan in one final battle.
That last fight ended with Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr.) sacrificing himself, and the loss really took its toll on Peter, who’s still struggling to come to terms with it in Spider-Man: Far From Home.
The beginning of Far From Home sees peter back in Queens and back in school. He just wants to live a normal life, yet he’s constantly bombarded with questions on whether Spider-Man is going to replace Iron Man.
Image via Marvel Studios
Don’t ever apologize for being the smartest one in the room.
All Peter wants to do is go on his science Euro trip and tell MJ (played by Zendaya) how he feels about her, and he has a plan. Unfortunately, the plan meets a hitch in Venice when a watery monster turns up out of nowhere along with Jake Gyllenhaal’s Mysterio.
These ‘elemental’ monsters then plague the world, and Samuel L. Jackson’s Nick Fury tries to get Spidey to join him and Mysterio in ridding the Earth of these pesky beings, but Peter’s not convinced and just wants to finish his trip and tell MJ how he feels about her.
This is a first in Spider-Man movies. It’s the first time Spider-Man actually leaves the New York area, and it’s both the film’s strength and the film’s weakness.
Many of the best films are between Peter and his school friends, in particular, the awkward ‘talks’ between Peter and MJ, and their relationship is something which is both excruciating and endearing.
Heads-up. Nick Fury’s calling you.
It’s a testament to Holland’s and Zendaya’s acting ability that these scenes actually work because they could have so easily ended up feeling like they’re taken out of a Disney Channel TV show. But, thankfully, they’re so much better than that.
There’s also something very satisfying about seeing Spider-Man taken out of his ‘neighbourhood’ element and thrown into a place like Venice or Prague.
That said, there is a bit too much location hopping for my liking, and it does start to detract from the story somewhat. One of the greatest strengths of Homecoming was that it was confined to one location, and that helped to give the story focus.
Then there’s the addition of Jake Gyllenhaal’s Mysterio to the Marvel Cinematic Universe, and it’s a genuine pleasure to see him in this movie. Gyllenhaal never puts a foot wrong, and he gets to do so much with the character.
I was also glad to see that director Jon Watts and the film’s writers took inspiration from the animated Spider-Man series for the psychedelic Mysterio illusion scenes. They were some of the best scenes in this film; I just wished there had been more of them.
I think Nick Fury just hijacked our summer vacation.
However, the film is not without its flaws, and these become apparent towards the end of the film which does culminate in just another standard battle scene, albeit better lit than most superhero final battle sequences.
The scene takes place in London, around Tower Bridge, and it is nice to see the United Kingdom’s capital get some Marvel movie love. However, I would have liked them to lean a bit more heavily on the visual weirdness that Mysterio could have added. It ended up being a bit of a standard battle with relatively low stakes.
However, the film does end up being the perfect antidote to Avengers: Endgame, which ended on a bit of a depressing beat. Far From Home gives us Marvel movie fans some much-needed rest bite from all the tears we shed in Endgame.
It’s a light and frothy Spider-Man adventure movie, and the combination of Watts and Holland is really starting to hit its stride. I would also advise you to stay until the very end of the film since there are two of the very best Marvel movie post-credit scenes on show here, and you’ll definitely be missing out if you don’t stay put in your cinema seat.
I’m just your friendly neighbourhood Spider-Man.
That’s all I’ll say on that point, just make sure you watch it and hopefully enjoy and ‘marvel’ at what they’ve done in these post-credit scenes.
Meanwhile, why not have a read of our articles on the five ways Game of Thrones season 8 dropped the ball and the five movies you should watch if you still think Robert Pattinson won’t be a good Batman.
You can also have a read of our reviews of Toy Story 4, Aladdin, Detective Pikachu, John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum, Godzilla: King of the Monsters, Avengers: Endgame, Hellboy and Glass.
Spider-Man: Far From Home is in cinemas all across the UK now.
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There's a new technology that's (literally) putting a smile on plenty of young faces: A system of clear, removable aligners made especially for teens called Invisalign Teen®! If you (or a teenager you know) are a candidate for this treatment, you might find it's the best fit for your lifestyle: It lets you eat what you want, makes it easier to clean your teeth — and best of all, it's virtually invisible.
Is a clear aligner right for you? It all depends on what kind of orthodontic treatment you need. Traditional metal braces still work best in some situations — and you might be surprised to find that they're still a popular option for many teenagers! But now that aligners are being designed specifically for teens, more are choosing them every day.
What is a clear aligner? Basically, it's a thin plastic covering or “tray” that fits over your top and/or bottom teeth. You'll wear a series of aligners that will gradually move your teeth into better positions. Here's how they work: Each aligner is custom-made with the help of a computer program that takes into account exactly where your teeth are now, and how they need to be moved. You'll wear each tray for two weeks or so, to shift your teeth slightly, and then you'll go on to the next, which is slightly different. Over time, all of the small movements will add up to a big change!
A Clear Distinction
Your aligner is designed to be worn 22 hours a day, allowing you to take it off for meals or important social occasions. Yet even when you're wearing it, it's pretty hard for anyone else to tell it's there — a big difference from metal braces! Plus, it offers other advantages that aren't so easy to see.
One benefit of aligners over traditional braces is that they make your teeth easier to clean. Because they're removable, there's nothing to keep you from brushing and flossing everywhere in your mouth, just as you would without appliances. But brushing and flossing can be much harder to do around the brackets and wires of braces — and oral hygiene often suffers.
Some people also suffer irritation to the cheeks and gums from the metal parts of braces. Fortunately, the plastic of an aligner rarely causes that kind of problem. Plus, you won't have to rush into the dental office to quickly fix a protruding wire or reattach a broken bracket. You won't have to watch what you eat, either, because you'll simply remove the aligner at mealtimes.
An Aligner Just for Teens
Clear aligners for adults have been available for over a decade, but until recently they weren't recommended for teens in most cases. Why not? Chiefly, for two reasons: It was thought that teens wouldn't always wear them for the recommended 22 hours per day; also, since many teens have some permanent teeth still erupting (emerging from below the gums), the precisely planned movement of the teeth might be disturbed.
Luckily, technology has come to the rescue. The first problem is addressed by “compliance indicators” located on the aligners themselves. These colored dots fade over time as the aligners are worn in the mouth, showing whether or not you've followed the plan. To solve the second problem, aligners made especially for teens come with “eruption tabs” built in; they are designed to hold space for teeth that have not yet fully erupted.
Today, more people than ever — both adults and teens — are finding that clear aligners suit their needs best. Are you one of them? Why not come in to our office and ask whether clear aligners could work for you.
Clear Aligners for Teenagers Teens who regard traditional braces as restrictive, confining, and obstructive to their lifestyles now have another choice for orthodontic treatment: clear aligners. This advanced dental technology, originally geared toward adults, has recently evolved to treat a greater variety of bite problems in younger people. These improved orthodontic appliances can help teens function normally during a difficult phase of life... Read Article
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Group Matrix
A Group Exhibition
Lloyd Martin, Lg Mete, 2012, oil and mixed media on canvas, 76 x 60 in (193 x 152 cm)
Margaret Evangeline, Glacier Observations, 2014, oil on canvas, 72 x 72 in (189 x 189 cm)
Johnnie Winona Ross, Seep - 11, 2013, various minerals and pigments burnished on linen, 72 x 70 in (189 x 177 cm)
Bruno Romeda, Quadrato 1, 2006, bronze, 27.5 x 26 x 5 in (70 x 66 x 12 cm)
Larry Zox, Open White (Center), 1973 – 1974, acrylic on canvas, 60 x 60 in (153 x 153 cm)
Lloyd Martin, Red Check, 2012, oil and mixed media on canvas, 66 x 66 in (168 x 168 cm)
Johnnie Winona Ross, Seep – 08, 2013, various minerals and pigments burnished on linen, 36 x 34 in (91 x 86 cm)
Larry Zox, Algonkin II, 2004, acrylic on canvas, 52 x 67 in (133 x 170 cm)
Margaret Evangeline, Breathing Spell, 2013, oil on canvas, 48 x48 in (122 x 122 cm)
Bruno Romeda, Triangle, 2008, bronze, 13 x 11 x 2 in (33 x 28 x 5 cm) Edition 8
Bruno Romeda, Circle, 2012, bronze, 12 x 10.5 x 2 in (30.5 x 27 x 5 cm) Edition 8
Bruno Romeda, Circle, 2012, bronze, 12 x 10.5 x 2 in (31 x 27 x 5 cm) Edition 8
Bill Barrett, Isis, 2000 - 2003, bronze, 28 x 16 x 12 in (71 x 41 x 31 cm)
Linda Stojak, Figure 86, 2014, oil and mixed media on canvas, 72 x 62 in (183 x 158 cm)
Anna Jóelsdóttir, Loosing Ground, 2007, acrylic and ink on canvas over panel, 42 x 57 in (107 x 145 cm)
Anna Jóelsdóttir, When The Bough Breaks, 2008, acrylic, ink, colored pencil on canvas, 42 x 43 in (107 x 109 cm)
Bruno Romeda, Untitled, 2012, bronze, 23 x 22 x 3 in (58 x 56 x 8 cm)
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STUX + HALLER is excited to announce the opening of Group Matrix, an exhibition celebrating the affiliation of two prominent long-lived NYC art galleries - "Powerhouse Veterans" in the words of Alanna Martinez of the New York Observer.
Stefan Stux Gallery and Stephen Haller Gallery are addressing the current shakeup in the NYC art world by coming together and moving to the 57th Street Historic Arts District from their longtime establishments in Chelsea - creating a matrix from which new, creative, and exciting activity will flourish.
In this dynamic new gallery model, STUX + HALLER will blend their programs and diverse group of many internationally known artists, producing a creative synergy - a new environment. Group Matrix will include select abstract artworks emblematic of the two galleries’ years of programming, including paintings by Lloyd Martin whose intensely colorful array of lines and merging columns of paint epitomizes the concept of matrix, outstanding examples of works by Anna Jóelsdóttir whose tangled bursts of color address the juxtaposition of logic and emotion, and quintessential new paintings by Guggenheim Award-winning artist Linda Stojak. Included in this exhibition will be Johnnie Winona Ross's uniquely meditative and pristine works, and Italian sculptor Bruno Romeda's hand-wrought plays on geometric symbols cast in bronze. Also featured will be Margaret Evangeline's work whose visual and philosophical pursuits in painting attend to experiences of temporality and of becoming. Bill Barrett best known for his abundant monumental public sculptures in welded metal brings a sense of clarity and firmness to the classic idiom of gestural abstract expressionism.
And finally Group Matrix will include classic works from the Estate of Larry Zox whose work is currently seen in Make It New, a traveling exhibition of Modern Masters from the collection of the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.
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Mon, Aug 19, 2013 - Page 4 News List
Pakistani court acquits cleric in blasphemy case
AFP, ISLAMABAD
A Pakistan court on Saturday acquitted a Muslim cleric who accused a Christian girl of blasphemy before he himself was arrested on similar charges, a lawyer said.
The girl, Rimsha Masih, was arrested in August last year for allegedly burning pages containing Koranic verses, but the case against her, which drew widespread international condemnation, was quashed.
Hafiz Mohammed Khalid Chishti, the cleric who made the allegations, was accused of desecrating the Koran and tampering with the evidence against Rimsha.
However, his lawyer, Wajid Ali Gilani, said: “The court has dismissed all charges against Khalid Chishti and has acquitted him in this case.”
Gilani said the prosecution had failed to prove the charges, while all the witnesses had withdrawn their accusations.
Rimsha, who lived in a poor neighborhood on the edge of Islamabad, spent three weeks on remand in one of Pakistan’s toughest jails and could have faced life in prison if she had been convicted.
She and her family were forced into hiding, living under government protection in fear of their lives. Rimsha is now in Canada.
Blasphemy is a sensitive issue in Pakistan, where 97 percent of the population is Muslim, and insulting the Prophet Mohammed can be punished by death under the country’s penal code.
Local media previously said Rimsha was as young as 11, but an official medical report classified her as “uneducated” and 14 years old, but with a mental age younger than that.
Pakistani Christian leaders last year paid tribute to Muslim clerics, members of the media and civil society for highlighting the injustice done to Rimsha.
In 2011, politicians Salman Taseer and Shahbaz Bhatti were assassinated for demanding that the blasphemy law be reformed.
Asia Bibi, a Christian mother of five, remains in prison after being sentenced to death in November 2010 after other women claimed she made derogatory remarks about the Prophet Mohammed.
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TALKERS | August 10, 2017
Bennett Helps WCBS-AM Note Its All-News Golden Anniversary. A special interview and performance this past Tuesday (8/8) by iconic singer Tony Bennett at the PlayStation Theater in Times Square highlighted a celebration of 50 years of news as CBS Radio New York’s WCBS-AM observed its 50th birthday as an all-news outlet. Wayne Cabot (29 years at WCBS-AM, the station’s longest-tenured anchor) and fellow news anchor Alex Silverman (who joined WCBS-AM in April 2011) hosted the event, which included a plethora of stories from WCBS-AM personalities and guests. Senior vice president and market manager for CBS Radio New York Marc Rayfield states that WCBS-AM “is a trusted New York City news outlet with a rich history and legacy of delivering up-to-the-minute news. We will continue to tell the stories of the people, places, and happenings from all around this great city. This special night gathered listeners, station personalities, and prominent figures to celebrate what the station has meant for the past 50 years and will continue to mean into the future.” In addition to Cabot and Silverman, other WCBS-AM personalities there Tuesday night included Craig Allen, Joe Connolly, Pat Farnack, Brad Heller, Tom Kaminski, Paul Murnane, Steve Scott, and Michael Wallace. Among those sharing their New York stories were Lesley Stahl of “60 Minutes,” “Late Show with David Letterman” bandleader (“The World’s Most Dangerous Band” and “CBS Orchestra”) Paul Shaffer, and former New York Mets manager Bobby Valentine. CBS News’ Anthony Mason conducted the Tony Bennett interview. A portion of the proceeds from ticket sales (which ranged from $55 to $150 per person) was donated to Exploring the Arts Foundation, Bennett’s charity organization dedicated to transforming lives of young people through arts education. Following back-to-back 2.4 showings (6+) in Nielsen Audio’s April and May PPM reports, WCBS-AM has registered a 2.7 (6+) in June and July, moving up from #13 in June to #12. Entercom will continue to use the CBS Radio News brand for at least one year after it closes on all of CBS Radio’s AM and FM properties.
KIRO-FM Teams with Seattle Police to Provide “Beds for Kids.” The goal of a joint effort between Bonneville Seattle news/talk KIRO-FM and the Seattle Police Department is to provide 600 needy local children with mattresses, bedframes, sheet sets, comforters, pillows and a Teddy bear. KIRO-FM afternoon drive (3:00 – 7:00 pm) hosts “Ron (Upshaw) & Don (O’Neill)” have been dedicated advocates for the “Beds for Kids” project since its inception, with O’Neill emphasizing, “Now, more than ever, we need to make sure that every child that needs a bed – gets a bed. When a child gets a good night sleep and something to eat, it is proven they stay in school and they do better in school. Help us help police help kids – it’s another way to be a part of something bigger than ourselves.” The “Beds for Kids” cofounder Jeremy Wade notes, “Over the last three years, we have been amazed to see how many kids in our community sleep on the floor. Through the ‘Beds for Kids’ program, we have provided over 500 local kids with a brand-new bed. This year’s goal of 600 beds is our most ambitious yet, but with the support of our partners and the public, we know it can be done.” The project was created in 2014 by Wade and fellow officer Ryan Gallagher, who responded to a 9-1-1 call and discovered two young girls had been sleeping on the floor. Wade and Gallagher returned to that home with new beds purchased with their own money. Since then, hundreds of people have stepped up to assist the two officers in providing beds for children in need. Elsewhere inside that Bonneville cluster, Seattle Seahawks coverage on sports talk KIRO-AM “710 ESPN” will include John Clayton (formerly with ESPN-TV), who will serve as a sideline reporter. In addition, Hall of Fame quarterback Warren Moon, who called Seahawks pre-season games and was part of Westwood One’s NFL coverage the last two seasons, returns as radio analyst, a role he held for 13 seasons prior to 2015. Back as well for his 36th year on play-by-play is Steve Raible; Jen Mueller is in her ninth season doing sideline reporting.
Stigall Featured on “The Fox News Specialists.” Pictured above at the far right as he made his point yesterday afternoon (Wednesday, 8/9) on “The Fox News Specialists” is CBS Radio-owned WPHT “Talk Radio 1210,” Philadelphia 5:30 am – 9:00 am talent Chris Stigall. Intently looking on (left to right) are another guest specialist Mike Baker, co-host Eboni Williams, guest-host Mark Steyn, and co-host Katherine Timpf.
PPM Data – Part Three. July 2017 ratings information has been released for Portland, Charlotte, San Antonio, Pittsburgh, Sacramento, Salt Lake City, Las Vegas, Cincinnati, Orlando, Cleveland, Kansas City, and Columbus. Nielsen Audio’s July 2017 survey period covered June 22 – July 19. View all the 6+ numbers from subscribing stations here.
Gottlieb Kicks Off Training Camp Tour. Gearing up for the start of football season, Fox Sports Radio’s Doug Gottlieb hits the road for on-location coverage from several NFL training sites. The journey began this past Monday (8/7) with a broadcast from the Los Angeles Rams facility at UC Irvine. Still in Southern California (Oxnard-Ventura), Gottlieb is with the Dallas Cowboys today (Thursday, 8/10), and he will visit the Los Angeles Chargers’ camp at the Jack Hammett Sports Complex in Costa Mesa next Wednesday (8/16). Pictured left to right are Fox Sports Radio’s Doug Gottlieb with Los Angeles Rams head coach Sean McVay.
LG To Activate FM Chips in its Smartphones. The announcement that LG phones in North America and Latin America will have FM chips activated moving forward comes from NextRadio parent TagStation, whose president Paul Brenner states, “We are proud and excited to partner with one of the world’s leading Smartphone providers to continue our mission of connecting and exposing users to a fully immersive radio experience. This alliance will give millions of consumers the opportunity to receive real over-the-air FM radio through their phone.” NextRadio will be pre-loaded on some models.
WQBA Named Dolphins’ Spanish-Language Radio Flagship. As part of the multi-year agreement, Univision Radio Miami Spanish news/talk WQBA will air all Miami Dolphins pre-season, regular season, and playoff games. Raul Striker Jr. will handle play-by-play duties, while Eduardo Martell will provide color analysis. WQBA will produce pregame and postgame shows, as well as a weekly show covering Dolphins-related news/events. Sports programming falls under the recently-launched Univision Deportes Radio sports network. WQBA senior vice president and general manager Claudia Puig comments, “We are excited to once again partner with the Miami Dolphins, offering them a terrific opportunity to reach their Spanish-speaking fans through Univision Deportes Radio. Our listeners will now be able to cheer their favorite football team ‘en español.’ The Dolphins broadcasts will be a perfect complement to Univision Deportes Radio’s outstanding sports programming lineup.” Miami Dolphins senior vice president and chief commercial officer Todd Kline adds, “We are proud to partner with Univision Deportes Radio WQBA 1140 AM and are confident they will deliver the most complete and up-to-date coverage of the Miami Dolphins to fans. The Dolphins have a 36-year commitment to broadcast games in Spanish in the South Florida market – this partnership delivers on our strong tradition.” Spanish-language broadcasts of Dolphins games were previously heard on crosstown Deportes Media Spanish Sports WNMA “ESPN Deportes Miami.” The team’s English-language flagships are CBS Radio Miami’s WQAM “Sports Radio 560” and co-owned WKIS “Kiss 99.9 New Country.”
TALKERS News Notes. Citing other media sources, The Tennessean reports that former Tennessee Titans tight end Frank Wycheck will leave his “Wake-Up Zone” morning show co-hosting duties on Cumulus Media Nashville sports talk WGFX “104.5 The Zone” in the next few weeks. Earlier, Wycheck announced he is stepping away from his role as analyst for Titans’ radio broadcasts for a year, owing to cognitive issues related to concussions from his playing days. It is reported, however, that Wycheck will remain with “The Zone” for swing duty ….. In other football-related news, iHeartMedia Tucson’s KTZR “Fox Sports 1450” joins the Arizona Cardinals radio network. Senior vice president of programming for iHeartMedia Tucson David Adams comments, “As the new home for Fox Sports in Tucson; the future home of Dan Patrick; and the official broadcast partner of the Tucson Roadrunners, we couldn’t be more excited to solidify our position as ‘Tucson’s Sports Station’ by adding the Cardinals.” The team’s previous Tucson affiliate was Cumulus Media’s KCUB “Sports Radio 1290.”
Checkpoint Radio Adds Houston, Philadelphia, and St. Louis Affiliates. The latest to join Checkpoint Radio – the first nationally syndicated radio show dedicated to the world of e-sports and gaming – are GOW Media’s KFNC “ESPN 97.5 FM,” Houston; Beasley Media Group’s WPEN “97.5 FM The Fanatic, Philadelphia”; and Hubbard’s WXOS “101 ESPN, St Louis.” Westwood One president/Cumulus Media executive vice president of corporate marketing Suzanne Grimes comments, “Checkpoint Radio is the only national show that connects radio stations and listeners to the explosive energy around e-sports. According to Newzoo, e-sports will grow to $696 million in revenue this year, a year-over-year increase of 41%. Brand investment is predicted to grow to $1.5 billion by 2020. This is a space you want to be in. Westwood One is the undeniable leader in sports programming – we know e-sports is an important sector for affiliates and advertisers.” Checkpoint Radio managing partner Rick Scott notes, “We are excited at the rapid growth of Checkpoint Radio in so many quality and big markets. It is a testament to the quality and appeal of the show and the passionate crew working to put it together.” Hosted by Nate Bender, Robbie Landis, Norris Howard, and Joe Sloan, two-hour weekly Checkpoint Radio features insights, news, interviews, and updates designed specifically for the video game and e-sports fan. In addition to the weekly show, Checkpoint also produces a podcast featuring content not heard on the radio program.
WKLB Elevates Santolucito to Director/Music and Marketing. Over and above continuing her oversight of the marketing/promotions department of WKLB “Country 102.5,” Dawn Santolucito is promoted to music and marketing director at the Beasley Media Group Boston property. Program director David Corey states, “Dawn’s passion, dedication, and organizational skills – plus a great ear for music – made her the ideal candidate for the position. We are proud to have Dawn in our ‘Country 102.5’ family.” Santolucito comments, “It truly has been a privilege being a part of the ‘Country 102.5’ family for the past seven years in my role within the marketing/promotions department. I am thrilled to begin this new chapter.” Among persons 6+ in Nielsen Audio’s just-released July 2017 PPM report, WKLB is flat at 4.5, but climbs from seventh in June 2017 to sixth, while cross-town format competitor – iHeartMedia-owned WBWL “101.7 The Bull – Boston’s New Hit Country” is up (modestly) for the third straight time (2.1 – 2.2 – 2.4 – 2.5, 6+) and inches up from #17 to #16. With a 7.7 (6+), WKLB classic hits-oldies sibling WROR “Boston’s Classic Hits” remains at #1 for the seventh successive sweep.
iHR, Understood.org Align to Help Kids Facing Learning/Attention Issues. One of every five children have a learning and attention challenge such as ADHD or dyslexia. A partnership between iHeartMedia and Understood.org explores and raises awareness of learning and attention issues, and breaks stereotypes about these often-misunderstood children. The partnership includes public service announcements voiced by iHeartMedia personalities Ryan Seacrest, Elvis Duran, Mario Lopez, and Bobby Bones, as well as a long-form public affairs show. Commenting about Understood.org, its executive leader/corporate partnerships & alliances Nancy Smith states, “This whole team is deeply committed to helping the millions of children with learning and attention issues get the support they need – support that can help them reverse any downward spiral in school.” From prior experience, Smith felt that iHeartRadio “has a strong belief in win-win partnerships and in helping the world be a better place. I knew collaboration with the iHeart team could take us to new levels of support for kids with learning and attention issues.” Aided by 15 nonprofit organizations, Understood.org launched nearly three years ago. “Today, it supports and empowers millions of parents through personalized resources, daily access to experts, a community of other parents and experts, and interactive tools,” Smith explains. “Many accomplished musicians including Justin Timberlake [ADHD], Lindsey Stirling [dyslexia], and Jewel [dyslexia] have learning and attention issues. Understood is happy to call iHeartRadio a partner in our mission to raise awareness of learning and attention issues. Having the support of a community of musical artists and fans who embrace differences can help build widespread acceptance for kids who are so often misunderstood. Together with iHeartRadio, we want to help even more children with learning and attention issues.”
Sun Broadcast Group Enters the “Country Fried Mix.” A sales and affiliation partnership with Sun Broadcast Group will bring “Country Fried Mix” with national touring artist and producer DJ Sinister to the network in three weeks (9/1). Sun chief executive officer Jason Bailey remarks, “One of the things we have always tried to do at Sun is find exciting and unique programs for our listeners and clients. When I heard ‘Country Fried Mix’ for the first time, I knew we had to have it in our lineup. There is simply nothing [else] like it on the radio – that’s why it is perfect for us. We are honored to represent this incredible product to the industry and the clients who support it.” According to DJ Sinister, “This new opportunity really takes us to the next level with partners that are willing to take risks,” while the program’s producer Charlie Pennachio adds, “Focus created this expansion; this opportunity gives us the ability to become a laser beam with a team.” The weekend show of mashed up/remixed country hits has aired since 2014 and has affiliates in (among other markets) Philadelphia, Miami, Detroit, Phoenix, and Nashville.
Opening “The Vault” Again in Montgomery. Jettisoning its top 40 format in order to return to rock as “107.1 The Vault” is Bluewater Broadcasting Montgomery, Alabama’s WQKS-HD3 W296AI. It abandoned “The Vault” four years ago in favor of classic jams “Yo! 107.1,” but as program director Rick Peters writes on his Facebook page, “The market has spoken and – contrary to popular belief – we do listen. ‘The Vault’ will try to recreate album and progressive rock stations from the 1970s, such as [Los Angeles’] KMET and KLOS; [Chicago’s] WLUP [‘The Loop’]; [Philadelphia’s] WMMR; [Miami’s] WSHE; and [St. Louis’] KSHE. The format is freeform – the [on-air talent] can program what they like. Every day will be different – it’s a throwback. At the same time, it’s evolutionary for the day [but] it’s not designed to be mass-appeal. For those that ‘lived’ the music the first time, we will try to be worthy. For the rest of you, listen up [because] you might find something you love.” Among persons 12+ in Montgomery’s most recent Nielsen Audio book (spring 2017), WQKS-HD3 checks in at #16 with a .8, while iHeartMedia urban contemporary WZHT “Hot 105.7” is on top with an 11.2 (12+).
More Music Radio News and Career Moves. Earlier this week, midday host Danny Dwyer of Alpha Media Portland country outlet KUPL “98.7 The Bull” raised $10,000 for St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital in his inaugural golf invitational at Salem Oregon’s Creekside Country Club ….. A variety of tomato-themed activities will be included next Saturday (8/19) when Beasley Media Group Philadelphia classic rock WMGK morning personality John DeBella holds his three-hour (11:00 am – 2:00 pm) “Tomato Fest” in Pennsauken, New Jersey. Among the highlights are a biggest-tomato contest; a dunk tank manned by the show’s “Super Steve”; and bobbing for tomatoes. In addition, WMGK’s house band Kategory Five will perform, and there will be a classic car display. Donations of canned goods and fresh produce will be collected to benefit the South Jersey Food Bank. DeBella is said to have thought up the “Tomato Fest” concept while seeing a vast number of farm stands and pondering why the tomato wasn’t being celebrated ….. Three (four-hour) Westwood One Labor Day weekend music specials are in the pipeline. Imagine Dragons front man Dan Reynolds will host rock’s “Summer Wrap Up”; Louis Tomlinson does the same for the pop format’s “Last Big Summer Weekend”; and ACM-award winner Kelsea Ballerini has the honors for “Workin’ Hard Country.”
Ell Talks Up Her Latest “Project.” During her visit to Westwood One’s syndicated “Ty, Kelly, & Chuck” morning show, Lindsay Ell discussed touring with Brad Paisley and creating her new album “The Project” with producer Kristian Bush. Shown left to right are Ty Bentli, Kelly Ford, Lindsay Ell, and Chuck Wicks.
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Month / April 2015
April 25, 2015 June 12, 2015 by Tom Collins
Just cogs in the machine – turning a blind eye to horror
cog in wheel, death, high seas
Bodies carried ashore from boat tragedy
Hedy Bohm is 86. When she was just 16 she was transported to Auschwitz from her home in Romania. The experience has haunted her life. But she is a survivor, and this week she travelled to Germany to give evidence at the trial of Oskar Gröning.
He too says his life has been haunted by what he witnessed in the Nazi concentration camp. Gröning is a survivor too; but he was wearing an SS uniform, not a grubby uniform with a yellow star.
Oskar Gröning was one of 6,500 SS men in Auschwitz: 43 have been charged with offences, and only 25 have been convicted. It is a pretty sorry record.
Hedy is hoping to see Gröning behind bars. It was his job to take luggage from the Jews, Roma, homosexuals and other men and women branded ‘degenerate’ by the Nazis. Having lost their liberty, they were then deprived of the last few things they treasured.
Imagine what would have been in those suitcases: imagine you were forced to flee your home. What would you take? And what would you leave behind? That will not be much of a stretch of the imagination for some. Within recent history there were refugees in Belfast, and we are living still with the consequences of that mass movement of people.
In his defence, Gröning says he was just “a small cog in the machine”. And maybe he was. But more than a million people died in Auschwitz – he is charged with complicity in the deaths of 300,000 – and there is not much time left to bring the perpetrators to justice.
Hedy Bohm knows what she thinks of his excuse. “Whether you’re a bookkeeper, a supplier, a driver, a cook, whatever you are, if what you’re doing helps the machinery of death of a regime to keep rolling, you should be called to account. No one should ever be allowed to say ‘I was just a small cog in the machine’.”
There is nothing to compare what happened in Germany with what is happening on the seas between Africa and Europe. But there are parallels, and the scale of human suffering is truly horrifying. Not a week goes by without some tragedy.
Refugees, asylum seekers, and economic migrants are the labels we put on the victims in an attempt to distance ourselves from the reality that they are men, women and children – no different from ourselves.
And through the indifference of governments that we elect, they have been exploited by traffickers who herd them on to ships unfit for animals.
Europe has turned a blind eye to their plight – primarily because we do not want them to be a ‘drain’ on our resources. The British and Irish governments are complicit.
Indeed, the machinery of European states has been mobilized to repel those who are trying to come to our shores for safety. It is the equivalent of relieving pressure on the NHS by telling the police to stop sick people reaching hospital.
Last year, Europe closed its search and rescue mission on the pretext that it encouraged people to have a go at crossing the Mediterranean.
The International Organization for Migration believes 30,000 could lose their lives there this year – the number trying to cross is growing. Last year more than 3,000 deaths were recorded. The 800 who died in the sinking on Sunday – many locked below deck – brought this year’s total to almost 2,000.
One of the few world leaders to speak out on behalf of the victims is Pope Francis. This week he called on European governments to provide sanctuary for the victims, to stop the traffickers, and to deal with the underlying issues that have created the crisis in the first place – war, greed, power politics, and poverty.
His has been a lone voice since the early weeks of his pontificate. His first pastoral visit after his election was to the Italian island of Lamperdusa – just 80 miles off the coast of Tunisia – where he prayed for the victims of traffickers and called on governments to act.
Condemning the “global indifference” to the plight of refugees, he said we had lost our sense of “brotherly responsibility”. His words have fallen on deaf ears. But they apply to us all.
In one way or another, we are each a “small cog in the machine”. It is time to act. It is time to pressurize our governments to put the lives of vulnerable people above national self-interest.
This article appeared in The Irish News on Friday April 24 2015
One of their own: the tragedy of Karen Buckley
Glasgow, Glasgow Caledonian University, Karen Buckley, missing, murder, parents, student
Karen Buckley: shock at her killing
It is one of those stories that stops people in their tracks. When the reporter said Karen Buckley’s body had been found, the living room went silent. The news was listened to with shock – for all that it was expected.
Every parent who kisses a child goodbye as they head out for the night, or to a sleepover, or off to college suppresses the thought that they might not come back. It is a fear all parents have to live with, even if it is one that rarely is realised.
But every so often the nightmare becomes reality.
The sympathy for John and Marian Buckley is so intense and so widespread, because every parent knows it could have been them.
Our teenage daughter is still at the stage where she is chaperoned to gigs. This week she asked to go into Glasgow with her friends on Saturday – it’s about 25 miles from where we live. Our evening was devoted to an analysis of the rights and wrongs. The anguished discussion would have made an expert in risk management proud.
It’s during the day. She will be with people. They are sensible. The risk is minimal. But you could say exactly the same things about a 24-year-old going out to a nightclub.
Like Belfast, Glasgow is a young person’s city. There are more than 45,000 university students, and countless more at college. By and large, students work hard, no wonder they love an excuse to party.
Karen was studying for a masters degree. It’s intensive work. If she’d asked – and at 24 she didn’t have to – John and Marian would have said: ‘Go out, enjoy yourself’. They would have suppressed the fear, because we all know that if you allow your life to be determined by fear, it will not be a life at all.
A man is in court tomorrow. In time there will be an opportunity to point the finger of blame and to condemn. Now is the time to mourn.
The Buckleys are in grief, and deserve the space they have asked for. Their grief will be lessened not one jot by the knowledge that it is shared across Ireland, and in Scotland too.
This is a country that values young people, and welcomes those who come here to study; a country which prayed for her safe return; a country that feels her loss intensely.
As far as the Scots are concerned, Karen was one of their own. That is how she will be remembered.
This article first appeared in The Irish News on April 17 2015. Karen Buckley was a student from Cork, studying at Glasgow Caledonian University. He body was found on April 16, she had been missing since the weekend. A 21-year-old man Alexander Pacteau has been charged with her murder
Obama handshake ties up Kennedy loose ends
Castro, Cuba, Guardian, Hetherington, Khruschev, Latin America, Nuclear, Obama
Barak Obama and Raul Castro at the Summit of the Americas
A handshake and four simple words – “those days are past” – signalled a new era of diplomacy between the United States of America and Latin America. The handshake between presidents Barack Obama and Raul Castro at the opening of the Summit of the Americas was the not the first (the two met at Nelson Mandela’s funeral), but it is certainly the most significant.
There is still a long way to go before US-Cuba relations are truly normal, with mutual suspicion and anger still running high. But the pressure to make the thaw work is greater and the diplomatic rebuilding is genuinely underway at last.
Cuba’s isolation is an anachronism, sustained more by the internal politics of the US (Florida in particular) than global politics. It is a loose end left by history – and it is rather satisfying to see a Democratic president tying up one left by another.
John F Kennedy’s presidency was defined by Cuba, first in the botched Bay of Pigs invasion, then in the stand-off with Khrushchev in the Cuban missile crisis.
Global crisis
The extent to which the crisis had transfixed America’s western allies is perhaps best illustrated in the memoirs of a prominent British observer, the Guardian editor of the time, Alastair Hetherington, which are held in the archive of the London School of Economics.
Britain, like the rest of the world, was a bit player during the missile crisis. As Peter Thorneycroft, Harold Macmillan’s defence minister, said: “We were all bystanders.” Macmillan offered support and a shoulder to cry on, but Kennedy was circumspect; this was the United States’ game. Britain may have had a special relationship, but like the rest of the world, Kennedy let Macmillan’s government know only what he wanted it to know.
The Guardian, which had opposed Eden on Suez, was just as concerned about the United States’ intentions against Cuba and opposed direct action. Hetherington, a former major in the Intelligence Corps, had been scarred by the reaction to his newspapers’s opposition to Suez and, as US-Cuba relations deteriorated ever further, he saw history repeating itself, but with much more serious – and more global – consequences.
A Guardian editorial on October 27 1962 addressed the issue of a possible attack on Cuba:
Is the United States about to bomb or invade Cuba? This is now the question. Worse, there is even talk of a possible nuclear attack on Cuba. This is reliably reported as under consideration because the authorities in Washington are so troubled by the rapid approach to readiness of the intermediate range bases on the island. It would be madness.
An American attack on Cuba, he wrote: “would seem to most of the world to be as much a piece of aggression as the British and French attack on Suez.”
The October 27 Guardian leader told Macmillan: “The British Government should make it clear that it must vote against the United States in the United Nations just as the Americans voted against us at Suez.”
Fraught relationship: Nikita Kruschev and John F Kennedy in 1961.
US Department of State, CC BY
Six weeks later, Hetherington met Kennedy in his study in the White House. The president talked for 40 minutes from his rocking chair. Hetherington’s note of their discussions, held in the archive of the London School of Economics, gives an insight into the mind of an editor whose views had been proved wrong by events, and a president who felt his allies had let him down.
In the retained memo, Hetherington writes:
I began by saying I thought we ought to apologise for some of the things we’d said – for our misjudgements – at the time of the Cuban crisis. We’d been critical because we thought Kennedy was walking into a trap. We thought that the Russian objective was to establish the missile bases in Cuba as a bargaining counter against which they would try to trade all the American bases in western Europe and Britain. We also thought that the reaction would come with a new blockade of Berlin to balance the blockade of Cuba.
The president was magnanimous: “Kennedy laughed off the apology, and said that perhaps our analysis hadn’t been so far out. But there had been a bit of difficulty with the British press. He hadn’t had the backing he’d expected.”
As Hetherington records it, Kennedy said there were three things about Cuba. There was “deliberate bad faith” on the Russian side. Khrushchev had given “a personal assurance to Kennedy that there would be no offensive missiles in Cuba”.
Fidel Castro and Nikita Kruschev in 1961.
Superdominicano via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY
If the US had given in, its allies would have doubted its willingness to defend them in any future crisis. “This, the president said, was more important than the military effect of the missiles in Cuba… The Russians had brought about an open alteration in the balance of nuclear power. This had to be resisted.”
Kennedy told Hetherington: “Our intelligence had said that the Russians would never put offending missiles in Cuba. They would be too exposed… but their intelligence had obviously told Khrushchev that the Americans would not react.”
The most frightening thing about the crisis was just how far the two sides were from understanding each other. Hetherington writes: “Such misunderstanding could easily lead to nuclear war. This was what [Kennedy] found most frightening about the Cuba affair.”
In a statement Kennedy was fated never to see tested, he gave Hetherington his assessment of the likelihood of nuclear conflict: “How, he asked, can we get through the next ten years without nuclear war? He was not sure that we could do so.”
Asked whether there would be more progress on talks to ease tensions, Kennedy said he thought not. “It wasn’t possible to take their word for anything,” he said of the Russians.
The president then proceeded to lecture the editor on his editorial stance. “He thought the greatest flaw in what The Guardian had been writing was our failure to realise that the Russians were expansionist.”
He was dismissive about the need for a European nuclear deterrent. It would be too costly and the issue of political control was too complicated. “The bomb is great until you’ve got it,” Kennedy told Hetherington. National deterrents such as Britian and France’s, in his view, were unnecessary and dangerous.
Latin lessons
Kennedy told Hetherington that America would welcome economic competition with the Russians: “It was a challenge that the Americans would like to meet,” Hetherington reported.
Kennedy’s view was apparently that if the two powers competed economically rather than militarily, the world could benefit. In an exchange that resonates with the agenda for the 2015 Summit of the Americas, Kennedy talked Hetherington through the challenges facing Latin American states:
Kennedy said that yesterday he had been entertaining the president of Honduras, 60% of whose people were illiterate. The day before he had had a long talk with the ambassador of Brazil, where the country was almost bankrupt, and the day before that he had seen another Latin American ambassador, half of whose people were either undernourished or near starvation.
It would be much more profitable if the Russians and the Americans competed in trying to raise standards in these countries. But unfortunately the Soviet Union was not prepared for this kind of peaceful competition. It had the urge to expand.
We live in a different world today. Instead of gauging a president’s attitude to nuclear war, The Guardian is reporting on the beginnings of a real Cuban-American thaw.
The Castros still bear intense antipathy towards Washington and its machinations and it will be a while before an American president goes walkabout on the streets of Havana. But as relations between the two nations start to normalise, with an inevitable exchange of ambassadors, it might not be too long before some fine cigars are at last on their way to the White House in diplomatic bags.
This article was originally published on The Conversation.
Strange Fruit and lynch mob justice in the USA
Billie Holiday, capital punishment, death penalty, death row, Jazz, Lady Sings the Blues, Obama, United States of America
Lady Sings the Blues: Billie Holiday
Some voices are so compelling you just have to stop and listen. The American jazz singer Billie Holiday has such a voice.
Lady Day, as she became known, was a survivor. By the time she was 15 she had endured poverty, prostitution and prison, and you can hear it in her voice. It is the voice of a woman who has endured and lived to tell the tale. Many like her did not. One of her most famous songs is Strange Fruit. It’s not subtle.
Into the 1960s, lynchings were all too familiar; about 4,000 have been recorded but many extrajudicial murders remain unrecorded. Whites were targeted by lynch mobs too, but African Americans bore the brunt.
As for the judiciary, it also too often believed being black was enough to prove guilt. Justice may be blind, but in the United States of America it was never blind to the colour of a person’s skin.
Historical stuff? Yes, America has been transformed, equal rights is embedded in law and an African American is in the White House. Yet earlier this week I listened to a remarkable interview given by Anthony Ray Hinton. Exonerated this week, Mr Hinton spent half his life in solitary confinement in Alabama, sentenced to death for a crime he did not commit. And yes, he is black.
The thing that pained him most was the injustice done to his mother. Denied the company of her son, she died while he was still behind bars. His priority on getting out was to lay flowers on her grave.
Miscarriages of justice happen – we have seen our share on this side of the Atlantic. But in a country where the death penalty is administered with psychopathic fervour, the wrong verdict is often a matter of life and death.
There are too many examples of injustice. Since 1973, 152 people been freed after being cleared of capital crimes.
The Alabama administration’s slogan is “connecting our state with its people”. It’s website invites us to explore the great outdoors. “It’s not called Alabama the beautiful for nothing”. But behind the slick marketing lies a sick regime that uses lethal injection and electrocution to dispatch those it deems unfit to “explore the great outdoors”.
The statistics are chilling. Alabama has more than 190 people on death row, and in the US more than 3,000 citizens are waiting for the executioner’s call. Since the death penalty was reintroduced in 1976, more than 1,300 have been executed. Hanging is too good for some. Electrocution, lethal injection, and the firing squad are all deployed.
The US obsession with the death penalty is wildly at odds with the Enlightenment spirit of its founding fathers. They proclaimed their independence with the words: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”
Injustice after injustice demonstrates these “unalienable rights” are for the chosen – and they are white.
Racial discrimination is a distinctive feature of the US justice system. According to the Equal Justice Initiative, more than half those on death row are people of colour – more than four in 10 are African Americans.
And a defendant is more likely to get the death penalty if the victim is white.
In Alabama, 65 per cent of murders involve black victims, yet 80 per cent of people on death row have been convicted of crimes in which the victims were white. The judiciary is overwhelmingly white. Only one district attorney is black, and 23 capital cases have been overturned because prosecutors were found to have excluded blacks from juries.
I listened to Mr Hinton with sympathy, but no real surprise. Later that day, when I heard Holiday singing Strange Fruit on the radio, I made the connection and fully appreciated the scale of the injustice done to him. Nothing much has changed. He was lucky to escape with his life.
While the US continues to use capital punishment, and until it addresses the racism in its judicial system, it cannot claim to be leader of the free world; and Obama’s two-term presidency will look like a hollow act of tokenism.
“Blood on the leaves, and blood on the root”, strange fruit indeed.
This article first appeared in The Irish News on April 10 2015
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The PCOS Diaries: My Diagnosis Story
A couple of weeks ago I shared my story about how and why I've been losing weight. The main reason being my diagnosis of PCOS. Since then I've had a few people ask to share how I was diagnosed, and what started off that whole process. So grap a cup of tea, or coffee whatever you prefer, sit down, and get ready for a long one.
For those of you who don't know what PCOS is - and I was definitely one of them - it stands for Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome. I heard it and thought ah okay, polycystic ovaries - I've heard of that, fair enough. Nope - turns out it's not the same thing. And as someone who has the full fledged syndrome, it really shouldn't get confused. I'm going to try and explain this as best I can.
PCOS is basically a set of symptoms due to elevated androgens - male hormones - in women. When speaking to my doctor, they've said it's actually a genetic condition - they don't know what causes it, but you can have the gene for it in your family, and then something in your lifestyle could trigger it. Or you may always have it. This hormone imbalance creates problems in the ovaries, meaning you can have irregular cycles, and polycystic ovaries. This hormone imbalance can cause other issues, such as excessive hair growth, acne etc. This imbalance can also cause insulin issues - meaning your body can't handle insulin like it should, and therefore you can gain weight very quickly if you don't manage it properly, and means it is more difficult to loose weight. So all sorts of fun stuff! So how did I find out I had it?
I've been on a contraceptive pill since I was about 18, and I had always said if it got close to 10 years I would come off it. Mainly because I didn't like the idea of being on a pill for a long period of time. My closest friends came off theirs, so that was a bit of a trigger for me to decide it was time to come off mine. Once I did that, I noticed after a couple of months that my cycles were becoming longer - just by a couple of days at first, and then it was a week late, then 2 weeks later, and then between January and March I had no period. I had already begun to worry in December, so I booked to see my doctor in February to find out what was going on.
This was also a push from friends and family as well, as not only did I have irregular cycles, but as long as I can remember I've had facial hair as well. Which has always been a sore point, but it wasn't until we were looking at causes of irregular cycles that we saw hair was a joint symptom for PCOS. I'd also put on a lot of weight very quickly the last couple of years, so it was a number of variants that made me really start to think I may have it.
So in February I went off to my Doctor (with my Mum) and talked to her about what was going on and my concerns. I was a little concerned my Doctor would brush it off and just be like no you're probably fine, just do some exercise or something. But she listened and took me seriously, and sent me to have some blood tests to check my hormone levels as well as thyroid and iron levels, and also to have an ultrasound to look at my ovaries.
When I called for my blood test results about a week later, I was told to make a phone appointment to talk the results through with my Doctor. So I knew there was something, and by the time that appointment came around they also had my ultrasound results. So about two weeks later I had my phone appointment - not with my doctor as she was off sick - and he basically just went "So you've been told you have PCOS correct?". Um no, no I hadn't but thank you for sugar coating it. He then went on to tell me I had it, and that I needed to make another appointment to come in and speak to my doctor about the specifics and what action to take next to help manage it. He booked me an appointment then - but it wasn't for another two weeks. So I then spent the next two weeks researching PCOS, getting myself very worked up about it and what I had to do to manage it before I finally saw my Doctor.
She told me I had a mild version, and the best thing to do would be to eat healthily and do exercise - so basically lead a healthy lifestyle. When I asked her about the insulin part of PCOS and the types of foods I should or shouldn't be having, she was quite unspecific and just said have a balanced healthy diet. So, that's what I did.
Then, we went to see a specialist a few weeks ago, and he told me that I really needed to focus on what I was eating, and digesting. Because due to the insulin issue, my body can't break down sugars as well as normal, and also high GI carbs wouldn't digest as they should which would then cause weight to go on again. In order to manage and balance out my hormones - I had to get my weight and diet in order. Which is what I've been doing ever since - which I'm planning to write a whole other post on in terms of diet and food. But as part of this consult, he also told me that for my height, my BMI was high, and that I needed to loose about a stone to be considered in a healthier limit.
It's essentially a vicious cycle with PCOS - your hormone levels screw up your insulin resistance so you put on weight very easily, and makes it super hard to loose it - but the additional weight screws up your cycle and hormones even more. So it's something you need to manage for the rest of your life pretty much. There are drugs to help manage, and you can go on the pills etc, but for me I really want to manage this naturally as I just feel it'll be better for me, and so I don't become reliant again on the pill to keep things in check.
I've had a few people asking me how I felt about the diagnosis, and I'm not going to lie - I felt absolutely crushed after that initial call. Honestly, I knew it was coming because they wanted to talk to be about the results, but I remember sitting there after the call and just crying because I didn't know the full extent of what it meant. And as any normal human does, I had googled the shit out of PCOS and was fully aware that it made conceiving harder, would probably involve a lifestyle change and would be a lot of work. For me, the hardest part was telling my husband - I just felt like I had massively let him down. We've always said we want a family, so what if this meant that I couldn't give him one? He was amazing, so supportive and has been the whole way through, but it was always my biggest worry with this - and still is. But also, I just felt like less of a woman. Feminists will hate me for this - but evolution-wise, as a woman you're body has been crafted and made with the sole intention of producing babies. But something in me meant that may not happen, and I didn't quite know how to feel. I just felt like less. And that feeling is still there, that doesn't go away - and it's something I'm still working on, but I think it's totally normal.
Thankfully, I have a friend who also suffers, and when I spoke to her about it, it massively helped because it made me feel like I wasn't alone or overreacting. She felt exactly the same as I did at that time, and even my husband said he could tell I felt so much better after I spoke to her than I did before. So it really does go to show that talking to someone who understands, really does help.
I have come to terms with my diagnosis - which is why I feel comfortable sharing it. I hadn't really told many people I had it because I felt a bit ashamed, but also I knew it would then bring up questions around fertility issues - which I wasn't ready to answer. I'm still not really because that is super personal and not something we've really approached yet. Even though I've come to terms with it, I still have my down days, the ones where I feel less, or useless. My cycles have definitely improved since sorting out my diet, but they're still not perfect and honestly that causes a lot of anxiety for me a lot of the time. Just to be clear - I don't suffer from anxiety, and I know people who do so I would never try to say I have the same - but it does make me anxious. For example, we're going on holiday in a couple weeks - will I be on my period for it? Who knows? It's a bit of a guessing game which is a massive pain, but again - something I'm learning to deal with. I'm so lucky to have a great support network that are always there for me to talk about it, but it can feel lonely at times. I do have my down days, but I also have good days where I'm like it is what it is. That's totally normal.
This is part of who I am now, and although it feels like a huge part now I know that'll reduce in time. And the more I can manage it, and control it, the more comfortable I'll feel with it. And I just want to reiterate - it really helped me to have someone else I knew who had it and understood, so please reach out - email me or message me on here - if you want to talk about. You're not alone!
Much love, Lisa May x
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U.S. Climate Change Cabal Purges ‘Deniers’ and Demands Adherence to its Dogma
Silencing anyone who dares even to question climate change orthodoxy is yet another oppressive tactic in the Left’s anti-speech crusade. They simply cannot abide any opinion that does not align with their progressive worldview. It’s an extension of what’s happening in academia, in Hollywood, in the media, and in the private sector.
By Julie Kelly for American Greatness
The climate cabal is in a panic. The Trump Administration is systematically dismantling President Obama’s climate change legacy: Federal agencies are scrubbing references to climate change, President Trump announced the United States. would exit the Paris Climate Accord, and his cabinet is peddling American-made fossil fuels around the world.
Climate change barely registered a blip in the 2016 presidential election, and even members of the alleged Party of Science are increasingly uninterested in global warming. Only 19 percent of Democrats say climate change is the most important issue in the mid-term elections, and that support drops to 11 percent for independent voters. On the heels of an El Nino season where temperatures were customarily warm, most of the country is now enduring a frigid, blizzard-like winter, which the climate propagandists counterintuitively also blame on global warming.
So, as the climate cabal feels their grip on federal policy and public opinion weaken, its zealots are becoming more desperate. Michael Mann, a Penn State University climatologist and the media’s go-to-guy for any apocalyptic quote about how anthropogenic global warming will kill us all, seems more unbalanced than usual. As the “Citizen Secretary of Science and Environment” in Donald Trump’s so-called “Shadow Cabinet”—which also includes Laurence Tribe and Robert Reich—Mann appears to be taking his pretend post a bit too seriously. Mann recently called White House advisor Kellyanne Conway “evil incarnate,” said Trump is a “moron” and a “threat to the planet,” and denounced Devin Nunes as “a traitor to this country” and demanded he “be subject to appropriate sanctions.” He’s mocked the president’s son and tweeted at the First Lady. (Pretty ironic coming from a guy who filed a lawsuit because someone called him a mean name.)
Me too. Though if we must go in that direction, then it should be “the Democrat party” vs. “the Robber Baron party” (or is it the “Robber Baron Trump party”?)…
— Michael E. Mann (@MichaelEMann) February 4, 2018
Last April, he started the #ShowYourCancellation hashtag to urge others to join him in cancelling their New York Times subscriptions after the paper hired anti-Trump “conservative” and former climate change skeptic Bret Stephens. (As a Wall Street Journal columnist, Stephens mocked climate change as a “religion” and vilified “climate prophets and profiteers” for years. He quickly reversed his view once he joined the Times.) Channeling his inner child—apparently, an easy task for him—Mann just published a children’s book to help indoctrinate the nation’s youth in the ways we human beings are causing global warming. He smears other scientists who don’t adhere to strict climate dogma, but still portrays himself as the victim. In testimony last year on Capitol Hill, Mann compared himself to scientists purged under Stalin’s reign of terror. But despite his inane bleating about his supposed oppression, Mann still manages to earn awards and accolades from climate acolytes around the world, and is the most quoted climate scientist in the American press.
Now, the notorious “Hockey Stick” creator is going after the American Museum of Natural History in New York. Mann is demanding that museum officials remove Rebekah Mercer from its board of trustees: Mercer is an heiress, philanthropist and major Republican Party benefactor who supports Donald Trump. She runs the Mercer Family Foundation, which has donated $4 million to the museum since 2008—and probably helped raise much more than that—and has been a museum board member since 2013. Her father was a scientist, and Mercer has a master’s degree from Stanford in management science and engineering.
Despite her scientific credentials and largess, Mann wants her kicked off the board because she doesn’t agree with the mythical consensus on man-made global warming, and because her foundation donates money to nonprofits that challenge climate science. A letter signed by Mann and more than 400 activist-scientists gives a scary glimpse into the next stage of attack by the climate cabal: “We ask the American Museum of Natural History, and all public science museums, to end ties to anti-science propagandists and funders of climate science misinformation, and to have Rebekah Mercer leave the American Museum of Natural History Board of Trustees.”
In a New York Times op-ed on February 5, Mann accuses Mercer of spending millions to “discredit science.” While he rants about President Trump, the Koch brothers, and conservative climate deniers, Mann laughably argues his stunt isn’t rooted in politics: “Let’s be clear: This is not about partisan politics; it’s about mission alignment and truth. A financier of climate denialism does not belong in a leadership position at a science museum.” He arrogantly suggests that Mercer’s donations should be spent “to develop exhibitions and programs that educate the public about the climate-denial machine, that illuminate its history of using propaganda to obstruct pro-climate action and that document how we’ve arrived at this current crisis point for the planet.”
Here, I have a suggestion for Dr. Mann: After you raise the $650,000 the Mercers donate to the museum every year, then the board can ask her to step down. It’s easy to rage about “climate deniers” and make demands for a litmus test that museum board members must pass. The hard part is putting your money where your big mouth is.
He’d better start selling a lot of those kids’ books.
But this is not about science. Silencing anyone who dares even to question climate change orthodoxy is yet another oppressive tactic in the Left’s anti-speech crusade. They simply cannot abide any opinion that does not align with their progressive worldview. It’s an extension of what’s happening in academia, in Hollywood, in the media, and in the private sector. “Mission alignment” is the creepy term they will use to impose their speech and conduct codes.
They are even starting to turn on their own. Scientists recently blasted Mann’s pal, Bill Nye the Science Guy, for attending the State of the Union address with Jim Bridenstine, Trump’s pick for NASA administrator. More than 500 women scientists accused Nye of placing his “personal brand over the interests of the scientific community at large” and blamed him for using his “public persona as a science entertainer to support an administration that is expressly xenophobic, homophobic, misogynistic, racist, ableist, and anti-science.” They claimed, “it is impossible to separate science at major agencies like NASA from other pressing issues like racism, bigotry, and misogyny.”
So Bill Nye—a man on record saying he wants “climate deniers” to die off and who is a shameless promoter of identity politics—is now some kind of Trump stooge because he dared to sit with someone who holds a different opinion from his friends. Not only is he banished from the scientific establishment for his dirty deed, he is now branded racist, homophobic, and misogynistic.
This is a scary trajectory for science, and it’s being led by pernicious bullies like Michael Mann. The good people in the field need to speak out or it’s only a matter of time before they, too, are targeted just like Mercer and Nye.
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(2017)The Last Word (2017)The LEGO Batman Movie (2017)The LEGO Ninjago Movie (2017)The Little Hours (2017)The Lost City of Z (2017)The Lovers (2017)The Lucky Man (2017)The Lure (2017)The Man Who Invented Christmas (2017)The Marseille Trilogy (2017)The Mayor (2017)The Midwife (2017)The Mountain Between Us (2017)The Mummy (2017) (2017)The Nut Job 2: Nutty by Nature (2017)The Only Living Boy in New York (2017)The Ornithologist (2017)The Oscar Nominated Short Films 2017 (2017)The Other Side of Hope (2017)The Ottoman Lieutenant (2017)The Passion of Joan of Arc (2017)The Persian Connection (2017)The Post (2017)The Prison (2017)The Promise (2017) (2017)The Red Turtle (2017)The Resurrection of Gavin Stone (2017)The Salesman (2017)The Sense of an Ending (2017)The Shack (2017)The Shape of Water (2017)The Snowman (2017)The Space Between Us (2017)The Square (2017)The Star (2017)The Stray (2017)The Sunshine Makers (2017)The Swindlers (2017)The Thousand Faces Of Dunjia (2017)The Trip to Spain (2017)The Trouble with Terkel (2017) (2017)The Unknown Girl (2017)The Void (2017)The Wall (2017)The Wedding Plan (2017)The Women's Balcony (2017)The Wrong Light (2017)The Zookeeper's Wife (2017)Their Finest (2017)Thelma (2017)This Is Not What I Expected (2017)Thor: Ragnarok (2017)Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017)Tiger Zinda Hai (2017)Til Death Do Us Part (2017)Tim Timmerman, Hope of America (2017)Toilet: Ek Prem Katha (2017)Tom of Finland (2017)Tommy's Honour (2017)Tomorrow (2017)Transformers: The Last Knight (2017)Truman (2017)Tubelight (2017)Tulip Fever (2017)Twenty Two (2017)Tyler Perry's Boo 2! 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(2006)Why We Fight (2006)Wordplay (2006)World Trade Center (2006)X-Men: The Last Stand (2006)You, Me and Dupree (2006)Zinda (2006)Zoom (2006)_________All of 2005 Films_______2046 (2005)3 Burials of Melquiades Estrada (2005)3-Iron (2005)5x2 (2005)9 Songs (2005)A History of Violence (2005)A Lot Like Love (2005)A Sound of Thunder (2005)A Tout de Suite (2005)A Wake in Providence (2005)Aeon Flux (2005)After Innocence (2005)Aliens of the Deep (2005)Alone in the Dark (2005)An Unfinished Life (2005)Apaharan (2005)Appleseed (2005)Apres Vous (2005)Are We There Yet? 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Do We Know?! (2004)White Chicks (2004)Wicker Park (2004)William Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice (2004)Wimbledon (2004)Win a Date with Tad Hamilton! (2004)Without a Paddle (2004)Woman, Thou Art Loosed (2004)Wooly Boys (2004)You Got Served (2004)Young Adam (2004)Yu-Gi-Oh! (2004)Yuva (2004)Zatoichi (2004)Zelary (2004)_________All of 2003 Films_______1+1=11 (2003)2 Fast 2 Furious (2003)21 Grams (2003)28 Days Later (2003)A Guy Thing (2003)A Man Apart (2003)A Mighty Wind (2003)Agent Cody Banks (2003)Alex and Emma (2003)Alexandra's Project (2003)Alien: The Director's Cut (2003)All the Real Girls (2003)Amandla! (2003)American Splendor (2003)American Wedding (2003)And Now Ladies and Gentlemen (2003)Anger Management (2003)Annie Brocoli dans les fonds marin (2003)Anything But Love (2003)Anything Else (2003)Armaan: The Desire (2003)Assassination Tango (2003)Bad Boys II (2003)Bad Santa (2003)Baghban (2003)Basic (2003)Bend It Like Beckham (2003)Better Luck Tomorrow (2003)Beyond Borders (2003)Big Fish (2003)Biker Boyz (2003)Billabong Odyssey (2003)Blizzard (2003)Blue Car (2003)Boat Trip (2003)Bon Voyage (2003)Book of Mormon Movie (2003)Bringing Down the House (2003)Brother Bear (2003)Bruce Almighty (2003)Bubba Ho-Tep (2003)Buffalo Soldiers (2003)Bugs! 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(2003)La Grande Seduction (2003)Lara Croft Tomb Raider 2 (2003)Laurel Canyon (2003)Le Divorce (2003)Legally Blonde 2: Red, White and Blonde (2003)Lockdown (2003)Looney Tunes: Back in Action (2003)Lost in La Mancha (2003)Lost in Translation (2003)LOTR: The Return of the King (2003)Love Actually (2003)Love Don't Cost a Thing (2003)Lucia, Lucia (2003)Luther (2003)Madame Sata (2003)Main Prem Ki Diwani Hoon (2003)Malibu's Most Wanted (2003)Mambo Italiano (2003)Marci X (2003)Masked and Anonymous (2003)Master and Commander (2003)Matchstick Men (2003)Modern Times (2003)Mona Lisa Smile (2003)Monster (2003)My Architect (2003)My Boss's Daughter (2003)My Flesh and Blood (2003)My Life Without Me (2003)Mystic River (2003)National Security (2003)Nez Rouge (2003)No Good Deed (2003)Northfork (2003)Nowhere in Africa (2003)Old School (2003)On Line (2003)Once Upon a Time in Mexico (2003)Once Upon a Time in the Midlands (2003)Open Range (2003)Out of Control (2003)Out of Time (2003)Owning Mahowny (2003)Party Monster (2003)Passionada (2003)Paycheck (2003)People I Know (2003)Pere et Fils (2003)Peter Pan (2003)Phone Booth (2003)Pieces of April (2003)Piglet's Big Movie (2003)Pirates of the Caribbean (2003)Pokemon Heroes (2003)Poolhall Junkies (2003)Pride and Prejudice (2003)Radio (2003)Raising Victor Vargas (2003)Respiro (2003)Riders (2003)Rivers and Tides (2003)Rugrats Go Wild (2003)Runaway Jury (2003)S.W.A.T. (2003)Scarface (2003)Scary Movie 3 (2003)Seabiscuit (2003)Secondhand Lions (2003)Secret Lives of Dentists (2003)Shanghai Knights (2003)Shattered Glass (2003)Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas (2003)So Close (2003)Something's Gotta Give (2003)Spellbound (2003)Spider (2003)Spun (2003)Spy Kids 3D: Game Over (2003)Step Into Liquid (2003)Stoked: The Rise and Fall of Gator (2003)Stuck on You (2003)Super Sucker (2003)Sur le Seuil (2003)Sweet Sixteen (2003)Swimming Pool (2003)Sylvia (2003)Taxi 3 (2003)Tears of the Sun (2003)Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines (2003)The Barbarian Invasions (2003)The Battle of Shaker Heights (2003)The Cat in the Hat (2003)The Company (2003)The Cooler (2003)The Core (2003)The Cremaster Cycle (2003)The Dancer Upstairs (2003)The Eye (2003)The Fighting Temptations (2003)The Fog of War (2003)The Good Thief (2003)The Gospel of John (2003)The Guru (2003)The Hard Word (2003)The Haunted Mansion (2003)The Heart of Me (2003)The Hebrew Hammer (2003)The Hero - Love Story of a Spy (2003)The Holy Land (2003)The Housekeeper (2003)The Hulk (2003)The Human Stain (2003)The Hunted (2003)The In-Laws (2003)The Italian Job (2003)The Jungle Book 2 (2003)The Last Samurai (2003)The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (2003)The Legend of Johnny Lingo (2003)The Legend of Suriyothai (2003)The Life of David Gale (2003)The Lizzie McGuire Movie (2003)The Magdalene Sisters (2003)The Man on the Train (2003)The Man Without a Past (2003)The Matrix Revolutions (2003)The Matrix: Reloaded (2003)The Medallion (2003)The Missing (2003)The Order (2003)The Real Cancun (2003)The Recruit (2003)The RM (2003)The Rundown (2003)The Safety of Objects (2003)The School of Rock (2003)The Shape of Things (2003)The Singing Detective (2003)The Statement (2003)The Station Agent (2003)The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2003)The Trip (2003)The Triplets of Belleville (2003)The Weather Underground (2003)The Young Black Stallion (2003)Thirteen (2003)Tibet: Cry of the Snow Lion (2003)Timeline (2003)To Be and to Have (2003)Todo el Podor (2003)Together (2003)Tupac: Resurrection (2003)Under the Tuscan Sun (2003)Underworld (2003)Uptown Girls (2003)Veronica Guerin (2003)View from the Top (2003)Washington Heights (2003)Whale Rider (2003)What a Girl Wants (2003)Where's the Party, Yaar? (2003)Willard (2003)Winged Migration (2003)Wonderland (2003)Wrong Turn (2003)X2: X-Men United (2003)_________All of 2002 Films_______13 Conversations About One Thing (2002)24 Hour Party People (2002)25th Hour (2002)40 Days and 40 Nights (2002)8 Femmes (2002)8 Mile (2002)A Walk to Remember (2002)Aankhen (2002)Abandon (2002)About a Boy (2002)About Schmidt (2002)Adam Sandler's 8 Crazy Nights (2002)Adaptation (2002)Adrenaline Rush: The Science of Risk (2002)All About the Benjamins (2002)All or Nothing (2002)Amadeus: Director's Cut (2002)Amen (2002)American Adobo (2002)American Chai (2002)Amy's Orgasm (2002)Analyze That (2002)Antwone Fisher (2002)Apollo 13: The Imax Experience (2002)Ararat (2002)Asterix and Obelix: Mission Cleopatra (2002)Atanarjuat- L'homme rapide (2002)Austin Powers in Goldmember (2002)Auto Focus (2002)Bad Company (2002)Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever (2002)Barbershop (2002)Bartleby (2002)Beauty and the Beast Special Edition (2002)Beijing Bicycle (2002)Below (2002)Big Fat Liar (2002)Big Trouble (2002)Birthday Girl (2002)Blade II (2002)Blood Work (2002)Bloody Sunday (2002)Blue Crush (2002)Bollywood/Hollywood (2002)Bowling for Columbine (2002)Brown Sugar (2002)C.Q. (2002)Catch Me If You Can (2002)Changing Lanes (2002)Charly (2002)Cherish (2002)Chicago (2002)Cinema Paradiso: The New Version (2002)Circuit (2002)City by the Sea (2002)Clockstoppers (2002)Collateral Damage (2002)Comedian (2002)Confessions of a Dangerous Mind (2002)Crocodile Hunter: Collision Course (2002)Crossroads (2002)Crush (2002)Dahmer (2002)Das Experiment (2002)Death To Smoochy (2002)Deuces Wild (2002)Die Another Day (2002)Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood (2002)Dogtown and Z-Boys (2002)Dragonfly (2002)Drumline (2002)E.T. (2002)Eight Legged Freaks (2002)Elling (2002)Empire (2002)Enigma (2002)Enough (2002)Equilibrium (2002)Escaflowne (2002)ESPN Ultimate X -- The Movie (2002)Evelyn (2002)Extreme Ops (2002)Far From Heaven (2002)Fear Dot Com (2002)Femme Fatale (2002)Festival in Cannes (2002)Formula 51 (2002)Four Feathers (2002)Frailty (2002)Frida (2002)Friday After Next (2002)Full Frontal (2002)Gangs of New York (2002)Ghost Ship (2002)Green Dragon (2002)Half Past Dead (2002)Halloween: Resurrection (2002)Hansel & Gretel (2002)Happy Times (2002)Harrison's Flowers (2002)Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002)Hart's War (2002)Heaven (2002)Hey Arnold! The Movie (2002)High Crimes (2002)Histoire de pen (2002)Hollywood Ending (2002)Home Movie (2002)Hometown Legend (2002)How to Kill Your Neighbor's Dog (2002)Human Nature (2002)I Am Trying to Break Your Heart (2002)I Spy (2002)Ice Age (2002)Igby Goes Down (2002)Impostor (2002)In Praise of Love (2002)Insomnia (2002)Intacto (2002)Invincible (2002)Italian for Beginners (2002)Jackass: The Movie (2002)Jason X (2002)John Q. (2002)Jonah: A Veggie Tales Movie (2002)Joshua (2002)Juwanna Mann (2002)K-19: The Widowmaker (2002)Kaante (2002)Kissing Jessica Stein (2002)Knockaround Guys (2002)Kung Pow: Enter the Fist (2002)L'Odyssee d'Alice Tremblay (2002)La Mysterieuse Mademoiselle C (2002)La Turbulence des fluides (2002)Last Orders (2002)Late Marriage (2002)Lawrence of Arabia (2002)Le Collectionneur (2002)Les Dangereux (2002)Life or Something Like It (2002)Like Mike (2002)Lilo & Stitch (2002)Little Secrets (2002)Love Liza (2002)Lovely and Amazing (2002)Mad Love (2002)Maid in Manhattan (2002)Manna from Heaven (2002)Martin Lawrence Live: Runteldat (2002)Max (2002)Me Without You (2002)Men in Black II (2002)Men With Brooms (2002)Metropolis (2002)Minority Report (2002)Monsoon Wedding (2002)Moonlight Mile (2002)Morvern Callar (2002)Mostly Martha (2002)Mr. Deeds (2002)Mujhse Dosti Karoge (2002)Murder by Numbers (2002)My Big Fat Greek Wedding (2002)My Wife is an Actress (2002)Narc (2002)National Lampoon's Van Wilder (2002)Never Again (2002)Nicholas Nickleby (2002)Nine Queens (2002)No Such Thing (2002)Notorious C.H.O. (2002)One Hour Photo (2002)Orange County (2002)Paid in Full (2002)Pandora's Box (2002)Panic Room (2002)Personal Velocity (2002)Pinero (2002)Pinocchio (2002)Pokemon 4Ever (2002)Possession (2002)Pulse: a STOMP Odyssey (2002)Pumpkin (2002)Punch-Drunk Love (2002)Quebec-Montreal (2002)Queen of the Damned (2002)Rabbit Proof Fence (2002)Rain (2002)Ram Dass (2002)Read My Lips (2002)Real Women Have Curves (2002)Red Dragon (2002)Reign of Fire (2002)Resident Evil (2002)Return to Never Land (2002)Road to Perdition (2002)Roger Dodger (2002)Rollerball (2002)Russian Ark (2002)Saathiya (2002)Santa vs. the Snowman (2002)Savage Messiah (2002)Scooby-Doo (2002)Scotland,PA (2002)Scratch (2002)Secretary (2002)Seraphin un homme et Son peche (2002)Serving Sara (2002)Sex and Lucia (2002)Shanghai Ghetto (2002)Shiri (2002)Showtime (2002)Signs (2002)Simone (2002)Skins (2002)Slackers (2002)Snipes (2002)Snow Dogs (2002)Solaris (2002)Sorority Boys (2002)Space Station (2002)Spider-Man (2002)Spider-Man/Men In Black II (2002)Spirit: Stallion of Cimarron (2002)Spirited Away (2002)Spy Kids 2: Island of Lost Dreams (2002)Standing in the Shadows of Motown (2002)Star Trek: Nemesis (2002)Star Wars: Episode II -- Attack of the Clones (2002)State Property (2002)Station Nord (2002)Stealing Harvard (2002)Stolen Summer (2002)Storytelling (2002)Stuart Little 2 (2002)Sunshine State (2002)Super Troopers (2002)Sweet Home Alabama (2002)Swept Away (2002)Swimfan (2002)T-Rex: Back to the Cretaceous (2002)Tadpole (2002)Talk to Her (2002)Tanguy (2002)The Adventures of Pluto Nash (2002)The Banger Sisters (2002)The Believer (2002)The Bourne Identity (2002)The Cat's Meow (2002)The Cockettes (2002)The Count of Monte Cristo (2002)The Country Bears (2002)The Crime of Father Amaro (2002)The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys (2002)The Earth Will Swallow You (2002)The Emperor's Club (2002)The Emperor's New Clothes (2002)The Fast Runner: Atanarjuat (2002)The Good Girl (2002)The Grey Zone (2002)The Hot Chick (2002)The Hours (2002)The Importance of Being Earnest (2002)The Kid Stays in the Picture (2002)The Lady and the Duke (2002)The Last Kiss (2002)The Last Waltz (2002)The Lion King (2002)The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002)The Man From Elysian Fields (2002)The Master of Disguise (2002)The Mothman Prophecies (2002)The Mystic Masseur (2002)The New Guy (2002)The Pianist (2002)The Powerpuff Girls Movie (2002)The Quiet American (2002)The Ring (2002)The Rookie (2002)The Rules of Attraction (2002)The Salton Sea (2002)The Santa Clause 2 (2002)The Scorpion King (2002)The Singles Ward (2002)The Son of the Bride (2002)The Sum of All Fears (2002)The Sweetest Thing (2002)The Time Machine (2002)The Transporter (2002)The Trials of Henry Kissinger (2002)The Triumph of Love (2002)The Truth About Charlie (2002)The Tuxedo (2002)The Way Home (2002)The Weight of Water (2002)The Wild Thornberrys (2002)Time Changer (2002)Time of Favor (2002)Time Out (2002)Trapped (2002)Travelling Birds (2002)Treasure Planet (2002)Tuck Everlasting (2002)Tully (2002)Two Weeks Notice (2002)Undercover Brother (2002)Undisputed (2002)Unfaithful (2002)Waking Up in Reno (2002)Wasabi (2002)We Were Soldiers (2002)Welcome to Collinwood (2002)Wes Craven Presents: They (2002)What Time Is It There? (2002)White Oleander (2002)Who is Cletis Tout? (2002)Windtalkers (2002)XXX (2002)Y Tu Mama Tambien (2002)Yamakasi (2002)_________All of 2001 Films_______15 Fevrier 1839 (2001)15 Minutes (2001)3,000 Miles to Graceland (2001)A Beautiful Mind (2001)A Knight's Tale (2001)A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001)About Adam (2001)Ali (2001)All Access (2001)All Over the Guy (2001)Along Came a Spider (2001)Amelie (2001)America's Sweethearts (2001)American Desi (2001)American Outlaws (2001)American Pie 2 (2001)Amores Perros (2001)An American Rhapsody (2001)Angel Eyes (2001)Antitrust (2001)Apocalypse Now Redux (2001)Asoka (2001)Atlantis: The Lost Empire (2001)Baby Boy (2001)Band of Outsiders (2001)Bandits (2001)Baran (2001)Behind Enemy Lines (2001)Behind the Sun (2001)Black Hawk Down (2001)Black Knight (2001)Blow (2001)Blow Dry (2001)Bones (2001)Bread & Tulips (2001)Bread and Roses (2001)Bride of the Wind (2001)Bridget Jones's Diary (2001)Brigham City (2001)Brother (2001)Brotherhood of the Wolf (2001)Bubble Boy (2001)Bully (2001)Burnt Money (2001)Captain Corelli's Mandolin (2001)Carman: The Champion (2001)Cats & Dogs (2001)Charlotte Gray (2001)China: The Panda Adventure (2001)Company Man (2001)Corky Romano (2001)Crazy/Beautiful (2001)Crocodile Dundee in Los Angeles (2001)Dark Blue World (2001)Dinner Rush (2001)Divided We Fall (2001)Domestic Disturbance (2001)Don't Say a Word (2001)Donnie Darko (2001)Double Take (2001)Down to Earth (2001)Dr. Dolittle 2 (2001)Driven (2001)Eban and Charley (2001)Encounter in the Third Dimension (2001)Enemy at the Gates (2001)Escanaba in 'da Moonlight (2001)Evolution (2001)Exit Wounds (2001)Extreme Days (2001)Faithless (2001)Fast Food Fast Women (2001)Fat Girl (2001)Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within (2001)Focus (2001)Freddy Got Fingered (2001)From Hell (2001)Funny Girl (2001)Gabriela (2001)Get Over It (2001)Ghost World (2001)Glitter (2001)Go Tigers! (2001)Gosford Park (2001)Grateful Dawg (2001)Greenfingers (2001)Hannibal (2001)Happenstance (2001)Happy Accidents (2001)Hardball (2001)Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (2001)Haunted Castle (2001)Head Over Heels (2001)Heartbreakers (2001)Hearts in Atlantis (2001)Hedwig and the Angry Inch (2001)Heist (2001)Herman U.S.A. (2001)High Heels and Low Lifes (2001)How High (2001)I Am Sam (2001)In the Bedroom (2001)In the Mood for Love (2001)Innocence (2001)Intimacy (2001)Iris (2001)Iron Monkey (2001)Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back (2001)Jeepers Creepers (2001)Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius (2001)Jodi No. 1 (2001)Joe Dirt (2001)Joe Somebody (2001)John Carpenter's Ghosts of Mars (2001)Josie and the Pussycats (2001)Joy Ride (2001)Jump Tomorrow (2001)Jurassic Park III (2001)Just Visiting (2001)K-PAX (2001)Kandahar (2001)Karmina 2: L'enfer de Chabot (2001)Kate & Leopold (2001)Keep the River on Your Right (2001)Kingdom Come (2001)Kiss of the Dragon (2001)Kuch Khatti Kuch Meethi (2001)L.I.E. (2001)La Forteresse suspendue (2001)Lagaan (2001)Lajja (2001)Lantana (2001)Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (2001)Last Resort (2001)Last Wedding (2001)Le cercle (2001)Left Behind (2001)Legally Blonde (2001)Les Boys III (2001)Liam (2001)Life and Debt (2001)Life as a House (2001)Lost and Delirious (2001)Lumumba (2001)Made (2001)Max Keeble's Big Move (2001)Me, You, Them (2001)Megiddo: The Omega Code 2 (2001)Memento (2001)Merci pour le chocolat (2001)Million Dollar Hotel (2001)Monkeybone (2001)Monster's Ball (2001)Monsters, Inc. (2001)Monty Python and the Holy Grail (2001)Moulin Rouge (2001)Mulholland Drive (2001)My First Mister (2001)N'Sync: Bigger Than Live (2001)Nico and Dani (2001)No Man's Land (2001)Not Another Teen Movie (2001)Novocaine (2001)Nuit de noces (2001)O (2001)Ocean's Eleven (2001)On the Line (2001)One Night at McCool's (2001)Original Sin (2001)Osmosis Jones (2001)Our Lady of the Assassins (2001)Out Cold (2001)Pearl Harbor (2001)Pinero (2001)Planet of the Apes (2001)Pokemon 3 (2001)Pootie Tang (2001)Porn Star: the Legend of Ron Jeremy (2001)Punks (2001)Rat Race (2001)Recess: School's Out (2001)Riding in Cars With Boys (2001)Rock Star (2001)Rush Hour 2 (2001)Save the Last Dance (2001)Saving Silverman (2001)Say It Isn't So (2001)Scary Movie 2 (2001)See Spot Run (2001)Serendipity (2001)Series 7 (2001)Session 9 (2001)Sexy Beast (2001)Shackleton's Antarctic Adventure (2001)Shallow Hal (2001)Shrek (2001)Sidewalks of New York (2001)Snatch (2001)Someone Like You (2001)Songcatcher (2001)Sordid Lives (2001)Soul Survivors (2001)Spy Game (2001)Spy Kids (2001)Startup.com (2001)Sugar & Spice (2001)Summer Catch (2001)Sweet November (2001)Swordfish (2001)Tape (2001)Texas Rangers (2001)The Adventures of Felix (2001)The Affair of the Necklace (2001)The Amati Girls (2001)The Animal (2001)The Anniversary Party (2001)The Big Eden (2001)The Bread, My Sweet (2001)The Brothers (2001)The Business of Strangers (2001)The Caveman's Valentine (2001)The Center of the World (2001)The Circle (2001)The Claim (2001)The Closet (2001)The Crimson Rivers (2001)The Curse of the Jade Scorpion (2001)The Day I Became a Woman (2001)The Debut (2001)The Deep End (2001)The Devil's Backbone (2001)The Dish (2001)The Endurance (2001)The Fast and the Furious (2001)The Fluffer (2001)The Forsaken (2001)The Glass House (2001)The Golden Bowl (2001)The Independent (2001)The Invisible Circus (2001)The Last Castle (2001)The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)The Luzhin Defence (2001)The Majestic (2001)The Man Who Cried (2001)The Man Who Wasn't There (2001)The Mexican (2001)The Mummy Returns (2001)The Musketeer (2001)The One (2001)The Other Side of Heaven (2001)The Others (2001)The Piano Teacher (2001)The Pledge (2001)The Princess and the Warrior (2001)The Princess Diaries (2001)The Road Home (2001)The Royal Tenenbaums (2001)The Score (2001)The Shipping News (2001)The Son's Room (2001)The Tailor of Panama (2001)The Trumpet of the Swan (2001)The Vertical Ray of the Sun (2001)The Wash (2001)The Wedding Planner (2001)The Widow of St. Pierre (2001)Thirteen Ghosts (2001)Together (2001)Tomcats (2001)Tortilla Soup (2001)Town & Country (2001)Training Day (2001)Trembling Before G-d (2001)Two Can Play That Game (2001)Un crabe dans la tete (2001)Under the Sand (2001)Va Savoir (2001)Valentine (2001)Vanilla Sky (2001)Waking Life (2001)Wet Hot American Summer (2001)What's the Worst That Could Happen? (2001)When Brendan Met Trudy (2001)Yaadein (2001)Zoolander (2001)_________All of 2000 Films_______102 Dalmatians (2000)28 Days (2000)3 Strikes (2000)8 1/2 Women (2000)A Hard Day's Night (2000)A Time for Drunken Horses (2000)Adrenaline Drive (2000)Agnes Browne (2000)Aimee & Jaguar (2000)Alice and Martin (2000)All the Pretty Horses (2000)Almost Famous (2000)American Psycho (2000)An Affair of Love (2000)An Everlasting Piece (2000)Autumn in New York (2000)Backstage (2000)Badal (2000)Baise-Moi (2000)Bait (2000)Bamboozled (2000)Basket (2000)Battlefield Earth (2000)Beautiful (2000)Beautiful People (2000)Bedazzled (2000)Before Night Falls (2000)Best in Show (2000)Beyond the Mat (2000)Big Momma's House (2000)Billy Elliot (2000)Bittersweet Motel (2000)Black and White (2000)Bless the Child (2000)Blood Simple (2000)Boiler Room (2000)Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2 (2000)Boricua's Bond (2000)Bossa Nova (2000)Bounce (2000)Boys and Girls (2000)Boys Life 3 (2000)Bring It On (2000)Bulandi (2000)But I'm a Cheerleader (2000)Butterfly (2000)Cast Away (2000)Catfish in Black Bean Sauce (2000)Cecil B. Demented (2000)Center Stage (2000)Chal Mere Bhai (2000)Charlie's Angels (2000)Chicken Run (2000)Chocolat (2000)Chuck & Buck (2000)Chunhyang (2000)Cirque du Soleil: Journey of Man (2000)Cleopatra's Second Husband (2000)Coyote Ugly (2000)Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000)Croupier (2000)Cyberworld 3-D (2000)Dancer in the Dark (2000)Dark Days (2000)Dhadkan (2000)Digimon: The Movie (2000)Dinosaur (2000)Disney's The Kid (2000)Down to You (2000)Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas (2000)Dr. T and the Women (2000)Drowning Mona (2000)Dude, Where's My Car? (2000)Duets (2000)Dungeons and Dragons (2000)East Is East (2000)Erin Brockovich (2000)Eye of the Beholder (2000)Fantasia 2000 (2000)Final Destination (2000)Finding Forrester (2000)Frequency (2000)George Washington (2000)Get Carter (2000)Ghost Dog: Way of the Samurai (2000)Girl Next Door (2000)Girl on the Bridge (2000)Girlfight (2000)Gladiator (2000)God's Army (2000)Godzilla 2000 (2000)Gone in Sixty Seconds (2000)Gossip (2000)Goya in Bordeaux (2000)Grizzly Falls (2000)Groove (2000)Gun Shy (2000)Hadh Kar De Aapna (2000)Hamara Dil Aapka Pase Hain (2000)Hamlet (2000)Hanging Up (2000)Har Di Jo Pyar Karega (2000)Held Up (2000)Here on Earth (2000)Hey Ram (2000)High Fidelity (2000)Highlander: Endgame (2000)Himalaya (2000)Hollow Man (2000)Hum To Mohabbat Karega (2000)Human Traffic (2000)I Dreamed of Africa (2000)I'm the One That I Want (2000)Into the Arms of Strangers (2000)Isn't She Great (2000)Jesus' Son (2000)Joe Gould's Secret (2000)Josh (2000)Judy Berlin (2000)Jungle (2000)Kadosh (2000)Karobaar (2000)Keeping the Faith (2000)Khauff (2000)Khi pyar na ho jaye (2000)Khiladi 420 (2000)Knockout (2000)Kurukshetra (2000)La Buche (2000)Left Luggage (2000)Little Nicky (2000)Loser (2000)Lost Souls (2000)Love & Sex (2000)Love and Basketball (2000)Love's Labour's Lost (2000)Loving Jezebel (2000)Lucky Numbers (2000)Luminarias (2000)Maelstrom (2000)Malena (2000)Me Myself I (2000)Me, Myself & Irene (2000)Meet the Parents (2000)Mela (2000)Men of Honor (2000)Mercy Streets (2000)Michael Jordan to the Max (2000)Mifune (2000)Miss Congeniality (2000)Mission to Mars (2000)Mission: Impossible 2 (2000)Mohabbatein (2000)MVP: Most Valuable Primate (2000)My Dog Skip (2000)New Waterford Girl (2000)Next Friday (2000)Not One Less (2000)Nowhere to Hide (2000)Nurse Betty (2000)Nutty Professor II: The Klumps (2000)O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000)One Day in September (2000)Panic (2000)Passion of Mind (2000)Pay It Forward (2000)Phir Bhi Dil Hain Hindustani (2000)Pitch Black (2000)Place Vendome (2000)Pokemon The Movie 2000 (2000)Pollock (2000)Price of Glory (2000)Promenons-nous dans les bois (2000)Proof of Life (2000)Pukar (2000)Quills (2000)Raju Chacha (2000)Ready to Rumble (2000)Rear Window (2000)Red Planet (2000)Reindeer Games (2000)Remember the Titans (2000)Requiem for a Dream (2000)Return to Me (2000)Ride (2000)Rififi (2000)Road Trip (2000)Romeo Must Die (2000)Rugrats in Paris: The Movie (2000)Rules of Engagement (2000)Running Free (2000)Saving Grace (2000)Scary Movie (2000)Scream 3 (2000)Screwed (2000)Shadow of the Vampire (2000)Shaft (2000)Shanghai Noon (2000)Shikari (2000)Shower (2000)Simpatico (2000)Small Time Crooks (2000)Smiling Fish and Goat on Fire (2000)Snatch (2000)Snow Day (2000)Solas (2000)Space Cowboys (2000)State and Main (2000)Such A Long Journey (2000)Sunshine (2000)Supernova (2000)Taxi 2 (2000)The 6th Day (2000)The Adventures of Rocky & Bullwinkle (2000)The Art of War (2000)The Beach (2000)The Big Kahuna (2000)The Broken Hearts Club (2000)The Cell (2000)The Closer You Get (2000)The Color of Paradise (2000)The Contender (2000)The Crew (2000)The Cup (2000)The Emperor's New Groove (2000)The Exorcist (2000)The Eyes of Tammy Faye (2000)The Family Man (2000)The Filth and the Fury (2000)The Five Senses (2000)The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas (2000)The Gift (2000)The House of Mirth (2000)The In Crowd (2000)The Ladies Man (2000)The Last September (2000)The Legend of Bagger Vance (2000)The Legend of Drunken Master (2000)The Life and Times of Hank Greenberg (2000)The Little Vampire (2000)The Next Best Thing (2000)The Nightmare Before Christmas (2000)The Ninth Gate (2000)The Opportunists (2000)The Original Kings of Comedy (2000)The Other Conquest (2000)The Patriot (2000)The Perfect Storm (2000)The Replacements (2000)The Road to El Dorado (2000)The Skulls (2000)The Tao of Steve (2000)The Taste of Others (2000)The Tigger Movie (2000)The Virgin Suicides (2000)The Watcher (2000)The Way of the Gun (2000)The Whole Nine Yards (2000)The Yards (2000)Thirteen Days (2000)This Is Spinal Tap (2000)Thomas and the Magic Railroad (2000)Time Code (2000)Time Regained (2000)Titan A.E. (2000)Traffic (2000)Trixie (2000)Trois (2000)Turn It Up (2000)Tuvalu (2000)Two Family House (2000)U-571 (2000)Unbreakable (2000)Under Suspicion (2000)Uninvited Guest (2000)Up at the Villa (2000)Urban Legends: Final Cut (2000)Urbania (2000)Vatel (2000)Venus Beauty Institute (2000)Vertical Limit (2000)Waking the Dead (2000)Way Down Town (2000)Wes Craven Presents: Dracula 2000 (2000)What Lies Beneath (2000)What Planet Are You From? (2000)What Women Want (2000)What's Cooking (2000)Whatever It Takes (2000)Where the Heart Is (2000)Where the Money Is (2000)Whipped (2000)With a Friend Like Harry (2000)Woman on Top (2000)Wonder Boys (2000)Wonderland (2000)X-Men (2000)Yi Yi (2000)You Can Count on Me (2000)_________All of 1999 Films_______10 Things I Hate About You (1999)20 Dates (1999)200 Cigarettes (1999)42 Up (1999)8MM (1999)A Dog of Flanders (1999)A Midsummer Night's Dream (1999)A Walk on the Moon (1999)After Life (1999)Alien Adventure (1999)All About My Mother (1999)American Beauty (1999)American Movie (1999)American Pie (1999)An Ideal Husband (1999)Analyze This (1999)Angela's Ashes (1999)Anna and the King (1999)Any Given Sunday (1999)Anywhere But Here (1999)Arlington Road (1999)Asterix and Obelix vs. Caesar (1999)At First Sight (1999)Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me (1999)Autumn Tale (1999)Baadshah (1999)Babar, King of Elephants (1999)Baby Geniuses (1999)Bats (1999)Beefcake (1999)Being John Malkovich (1999)Besieged (1999)Better Than Chocolate (1999)Bicentennial Man (1999)Big Daddy (1999)Black Mask (1999)Blast from the Past (1999)Blue Streak (1999)Body Shots (1999)Bowfinger (1999)Boys Don't Cry (1999)Breakfast of Champions (1999)Bringing Out the Dead (1999)Brokedown Palace (1999)Buena Vista Social Club (1999)Cannabis 101 (1999)Children of Heaven (1999)Chill Factor (1999)Cookie's Fortune (1999)Cradle Will Rock (1999)Crazy in Alabama (1999)Cruel Intentions (1999)Dahek (1999)Deep Blue Sea (1999)Detroit Rock City (1999)Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo (1999)Dick (1999)Dil Kya Kare (1999)Dillagi (1999)Dog Park (1999)Dogma (1999)Double Jeopardy (1999)Doug's 1st Movie (1999)Dr. Akagi (1999)Drive Me Crazy (1999)Drop Dead Gorgeous (1999)Dudley Do-Right (1999)Earth (1999)East-West (1999)Edge of Seventeen (1999)EDtv (1999)Election (1999)Elmo in Grouchland (1999)Elvis Gratton II (1999)Encounter in the Third Dimension (1999)End Of Days (1999)Endurance (1999)Entrapment (1999)eXistenZ (1999)Extreme (1999)Eyes Wide Shut (1999)Felicia's Journey (1999)Fifty (1999)Fight Club (1999)Flawless (1999)Foolish (1999)For Love of the Game (1999)Forces of Nature (1999)Galapagos (1999)Galaxy Quest (1999)Get Real (1999)Girl, Interrupted (1999)Gloria (1999)Go (1999)Goodbye Lover (1999)Grey Owl (1999)Guinevere (1999)Happy, Texas (1999)Haseena Mann Jaayegi (1999)Hello Brother (1999)Hideous Kinky (1999)Hindustan Ki Kasam (1999)Histoires d'hiver (1999)Holy Smoke (1999)Hote Hote Pyar Ho Gaya (1999)House on Haunted Hill (1999)Humsaath Hain (1999)Idle Hands (1999)Illuminata (1999)In Dreams (1999)In Too Deep (1999)Inspector Gadget (1999)Instinct (1999)International Khiladi (1999)Island of the Sharks (1999)Jakob the Liar (1999)Jawbreaker (1999)Just a Little Harmless Sex (1999)Just the Ticket (1999)Korhram (1999)La nuit des chauvre-souris (1999)Lake Placid (1999)Lal Badshah (1999)Last Night (1999)Laura Cadieux ... La Suite (1999)Le dernier souffle (1999)Les enfants du marais (1999)Liberty Heights (1999)Life (1999)Light It Up (1999)Limbo (1999)Lock,Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (1999)Lost & Found (1999)Love Stinks (1999)Lovers of the Arctic Circle (1999)Lucie Aubrac (1999)Magnolia (1999)Man on the Moon (1999)Mansfield Park (1999)Mast (1999)Matroni et moi (1999)Message in a Bottle (1999)Mickey Blue Eyes (1999)Mr. Death (1999)Mumford (1999)Muppets From Space (1999)Music of the Heart (1999)My Favorite Martian (1999)My Life So Far (1999)My Name is Joe (1999)My Son the Fanatic (1999)Mystery Men (1999)Mystery, Alaska (1999)Never Been Kissed (1999)Notting Hill (1999)October Sky (1999)Office Space (1999)One Man's Hero (1999)Open Your Eyes (1999)Outside Providence (1999)Payback (1999)Play It to the Bone (1999)Plunkett & Macleane (1999)Pokemon: The First Movie (1999)Princess Mononoke (1999)Pushing Tin (1999)Random Hearts (1999)Ravenous (1999)Ride With The Devil (1999)Romance (1999)Run Lola Run (1999)Runaway Bride (1999)Sarfarosh (1999)She's All That (1999)Siegfried & Roy: The Magic Box (1999)Silsila Hain Pyar Ka (1999)Simon Sez (1999)Simply Irresistible (1999)Sirf Tum (1999)SLC Punk (1999)Sleepy Hollow (1999)Snow Falling on Cedars (1999)South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut (1999)Star Wars: The Phantom Menace (1999)Stigmata (1999)Stir of Echoes (1999)Straight From the Heart (1999)Stuart Little (1999)Such a Long Journey (1999)Sugar Town (1999)Summer of Sam (1999)Sunshine (1999)Superstar (1999)Sweet and Lowdown (1999)Taal (1999)Tarzan (1999)Tea With Mussolini (1999)Teaching Mrs. Tingle (1999)The 13th Warrior (1999)The 24-Hour Woman (1999)The Astronaut's Wife (1999)The Bachelor (1999)The Best Man (1999)The Blair Witch Project (1999)The Bone Collector (1999)The Castle (1999)The Cider House Rules (1999)The Corruptor (1999)The Deep End of the Ocean (1999)The Emperor and the Assassin (1999)The End of the Affair (1999)The General's Daughter (1999)The Green Mile (1999)The Harmonists (1999)The Haunting (1999)The Hurricane (1999)The Insider (1999)The Iron Giant (1999)The King and I (1999)The King of Masks (1999)The Legend of 1900 (1999)The Limey (1999)The Loss of Sexual Innocence (1999)The Love Letter (1999)The Lovers on the Bridge (1999)The Matrix (1999)The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc (1999)The Minus Man (1999)The Mod Squad (1999)The Mummy (1999)The Muse (1999)The Nutcracker (1999)The Omega Code (1999)The Other Sister (1999)The Out-of-Towners (1999)The Rage: Carrie 2 (1999)The Sixth Sense (1999)The Story of Us (1999)The Straight Story (1999)The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999)The Third Miracle (1999)The Thirteenth Floor (1999)The Thomas Crown Affair (1999)The Winslow Boy (1999)The Wood (1999)The World Is Not Enough (1999)Thicker than Water (1999)This Is My Father (1999)Three Kings (1999)Three Seasons (1999)Three To Tango (1999)Titus (1999)Topsy-Turvy (1999)Toy Story 2 (1999)Train of Life (1999)Trekkies (1999)Trick (1999)Trippin' (1999)True Crime (1999)Tumbleweeds (1999)Twice Upon a Yesterday (1999)Twin Dragons (1999)Twin Falls Idaho (1999)Unconditional Love (1999)Universal Soldier: The Return (1999)Vaastar (1999)Varsity Blues (1999)Virtual Sexuality (1999)Virus (1999)Wild Wild West (1999)Wildfire: Feel the Heat (1999)Wing Commander (1999)Wolves (1999)Xiu Xiu: The Sent Down Girl (1999)_________All of 1998 Films_______3 Ninjas: High Noon at Mega Mountain (1998)54 (1998)A Bug's Life (1998)A Civil Action (1998)A Friend of the Deceased (1998)A Merry War (1998)A Night at the Roxbury (1998)A Perfect Murder (1998)A Price Above Rubies (1998)A Rat's Tale (1998)A Simple Plan (1998)A Soldier's Daughter Never Cries (1998)Affliction (1998)Africa's Elephant Kingdom (1998)Air Bud: Golden Receiver (1998)Almost Heroes (1998)American History X (1998)Another Day in Paradise (1998)Antz (1998)Apt Pupil (1998)Arguing the World (1998)Armageddon (1998)Artemisia (1998)Babe: Pig in the City (1998)Barney's Great Adventure (1998)BASEketball (1998)Belly (1998)Beloved (1998)Beyond Silence (1998)Billy's Hollywood Screen Kiss (1998)Black Dog (1998)Blade (1998)Blues Brothers 2000 (1998)Bride of Chucky (1998)Buffalo 66 (1998)Bugs Bunny Film Fest (1998)Bulworth (1998)C't'a ton tour Laura Cadieux (1998)Can't Hardly Wait (1998)Caught Up (1998)Celebrity (1998)Central Station (1998)Chairman of the Board (1998)Chambermaid On The Titanic (1998)Character (1998)Chinese Box (1998)City of Angels (1998)Clay Pigeons (1998)Clockwatchers (1998)Cousin Bette (1998)Cube (1998)Dance With Me (1998)Dancer, Texas Pop. 81 (1998)Dancing at Lughnasa (1998)Dangerous Beauty (1998)Dark City (1998)Dead Man On Campus (1998)Deceiver (1998)Deep Impact (1998)Deep Rising (1998)Deja Vu (1998)Desperate Measures (1998)Dirty Work (1998)Disturbing Behavior (1998)Down in the Delta (1998)Dr. Dolittle (1998)Elizabeth (1998)Enemy of the State (1998)Ever After (1998)Everest (1998)Fallen (1998)Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998)Firelight (1998)Firestorm (1998)Fireworks (1998)Four Days in September (1998)Freeriders (1998)Gadjo Dilo (1998)Gods and Monsters (1998)Godzilla (1998)Gone With The Wind (1998)Grease (1998)Great Expectations (1998)Half Baked (1998)Halloween: H20 (1998)Happiness (1998)Hard Rain (1998)Hav Plenty (1998)He Got Game (1998)Henry Fool (1998)High Art (1998)Hilary and Jackie (1998)Holy Man (1998)Home Fries (1998)Homegrown (1998)Hope Floats (1998)How Stella Got Her Groove Back (1998)Hurlyburly (1998)Hurricane Streets (1998)Hush (1998)I Got the Hook-Up (1998)I Love You ... Don't Touch Me! (1998)I Still Know What You Did Last Summer (1998)I Think I Do (1998)I Went Down (1998)I'll Be Home For Christmas (1998)In God's Hands (1998)Insomnia (1998)Jack Frost (1998)John Carpenter's Vampires (1998)Kissing a Fool (1998)Knock Off (1998)Krippendorf's Tribe (1998)Kurt and Courtney (1998)Last Night (1998)Lawn Dogs (1998)Le Bossu (1998)Les Boys II (1998)Les couloirs du temps (1998)Les Miserables (1998)Let's Talk About Sex (1998)Lethal Weapon 4 (1998)Life is Beautiful (1998)Little Voice (1998)Live Flesh (1998)Living Out Loud (1998)Lolita (1998)Lost In Space (1998)Love & Death on Long Island (1998)Love is the Devil (1998)Madeline (1998)Mafia! (1998)Major League: Back to the Minors (1998)Mark Twain's America in 3D (1998)Mean Streets (1998)Meet Joe Black (1998)Meet the Deedles (1998)Men With Guns (1998)Mercury Rising (1998)Mighty Joe Young (1998)Modulations (1998)Monument Avenue (1998)Mr. Jealousy (1998)Mr. Nice Guy (1998)Mrs. Dalloway (1998)Mulan (1998)My Giant (1998)Mysteries of Egypt (1998)Next Stop Wonderland (1998)Niagara Niagara (1998)Nights of Cabiria (1998)Nightwatch (1998)No Looking Back (1998)One Tough Cop (1998)One True Thing (1998)Orgazmo (1998)Out Of Sight (1998)Palmetto (1998)Passion In the Desert (1998)Patch Adams (1998)Paulie (1998)Pecker (1998)Permanent Midnight (1998)Phantoms (1998)Pi (1998)Picnic at Hanging Rock (1998)Place Vendome (1998)Playing by Heart (1998)Pleasantville (1998)Plump Fiction (1998)Polish Wedding (1998)Post Coitum, Animal Triste (1998)Practical Magic (1998)Primary Colors (1998)Psycho (1998)Quest for Camelot (1998)Regeneration (1998)Return to Paradise (1998)Ride (1998)Ringmaster (1998)Ronin (1998)Rounders (1998)Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer (1998)Rush Hour (1998)Rushmore (1998)Safe Men (1998)Saving Private Ryan (1998)Senseless (1998)Shakespeare in Love (1998)Shattered Image (1998)Shooting Fish (1998)Simon Birch (1998)Six Days, Seven Nights (1998)Six-String Samurai (1998)Slam (1998)Slappy and the Stinkers (1998)Sliding Doors (1998)Slums of Beverly Hills (1998)Small Soldiers (1998)Smoke Signal (1998)Snake Eyes (1998)Soldier (1998)Sour Grapes (1998)Species II (1998)Sphere (1998)Spice World (1998)Star Kid (1998)Star Trek: Insurrection (1998)Steam: The Turkish Bath (1998)Stephen King's The Night Flier (1998)Stepmom (1998)Still Breathing (1998)Still Crazy (1998)Strangeland (1998)Strike (1998)Suicide Kings (1998)Swept from the Sea (1998)T-Rex: Back to the Cretaceous (1998)Tango (1998)Tarzan and the Lost City (1998)Taste of Cherry (1998)Taxi (1998)The Avengers (1998)The Bicycle Thief (1998)The Big Chill (1998)The Big Hit (1998)The Big Lebowski (1998)The Big One (1998)The Borrowers (1998)The Butcher Boy (1998)The Celebration (1998)The Cruise (1998)The Dinner Game (1998)The Dreamlife of Angels (1998)The Faculty (1998)The General (1998)The Gingerbread Man (1998)The Governess (1998)The Hanging Garden (1998)The Hi-Lo Country (1998)The Horse Whisperer (1998)The Impostors (1998)The Inheritors (1998)The Land Girls (1998)The Last Days (1998)The Last Days of Disco (1998)The Man in the Iron Mask (1998)The Mask of Zorro (1998)The Mighty (1998)The Negotiator (1998)The Newton Boys (1998)The Object of My Affection (1998)The Odd Couple II (1998)The Opposite of Sex (1998)The Parent Trap (1998)The Players Club (1998)The Prince of Egypt (1998)The Proposition (1998)The Real Blonde (1998)The Red Violin (1998)The Replacement Killers (1998)The Ride (1998)The Rugrats Movie (1998)The School of Flesh (1998)The Siege (1998)The Spanish Prisoner (1998)The Swindle (1998)The Thief (1998)The Thin Red Line (1998)The Truce (1998)The Truman Show (1998)The Waterboy (1998)The Wizard of Oz (1998)The X-Files (1998)There's Something About Mary (1998)Touch of Evil (1998)Twilight (1998)Two Girls and a Guy (1998)U.S. Marshals (1998)Urban Legend (1998)Velvet Goldmine (1998)Very Bad Things (1998)Waking Ned Devine (1998)Wedding Singer (1998)Western (1998)What Dreams May Come (1998)Whatever (1998)Why Do Fools Fall In Love (1998)Wide Awake (1998)Wild Man Blues (1998)Wild Things (1998)Wilde (1998)Without Limits (1998)Woo (1998)Wrongfully Accused (1998)You've Got Mail (1998)Your Friends & Neighbours (1998)Zero Effect (1998)_________All of 1997 Films_______187 (1997)4 Little Girls (1997)8 Heads in a Duffel Bag (1997)A Chef in Love (1997)A Life Less Ordinary (1997)A Self-Made Hero (1997)A Simple Wish (1997)A Smile Like Yours (1997)A Thousand Acres (1997)Absolute Power (1997)Addicted to Love (1997)Afterglow (1997)Air Bud (1997)Air Force One (1997)Albino Alligator (1997)Alien Resurrection (1997)Alive and Kicking (1997)All Over Me (1997)Amistad (1997)An American Werewolf in Paris (1997)Anaconda (1997)Anastasia (1997)Anna Karenina (1997)As Good As It Gets (1997)Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery (1997)B.A.P.S (1997)Bandwagon (1997)Batman & Robin (1997)Bean (1997)Beautician and the Beast (1997)Bent (1997)Beverly Hills Ninja (1997)Bliss (1997)Blood & Wine (1997)Boogie Nights (1997)Booty Call (1997)Box of Moonlight (1997)Boys Life 2 (1997)Brassed Off (1997)Breakdown (1997)Broken English (1997)Buddy (1997)Buscando un Sueno (1997)Career Girls (1997)Catherine's Grove (1997)Cats Don't Dance (1997)Chasing Amy (1997)Children of the Revolution (1997)City of Industry (1997)Commandments (1997)Con Air (1997)Conspiracy Theory (1997)Contact (1997)Contempt (1997)Cop Land (1997)Crash (1997)Critical Care (1997)Dancehall Queen (1997)Dangerous Ground (1997)Dante's Peak (1997)Das Boat (1997)Day for Night (1997)Deconstructing Harry (1997)Def Jam's How to Be a Player (1997)Different for Girls (1997)Dirty Dancing (1997)Donnie Brasco (1997)Double Team (1997)Dream With the Fishes (1997)End of Violence (1997)Eve's Bayou (1997)Event Horizon (1997)Excess Baggage (1997)Face/Off (1997)Fairy Tale:A True Story (1997)Fast, Cheap & Out of Control (1997)Father's Day (1997)Female Perversions (1997)Fierce Creatures (1997)Fire (1997)Fire Down Below (1997)First Strike (1997)Flamenco (1997)Flubber (1997)Fools Rush In (1997)For Richer or Poorer (1997)For Roseanna (1997)Free Willy 3: The Rescue (1997)G.I. Jane (1997)Gabbeh (1997)Gang Related (1997)Gattaca (1997)George of the Jungle (1997)Going All the Way (1997)Gone Fishin' (1997)Good Burger (1997)Good Luck (1997)Good Will Hunting (1997)Gridlock'd (1997)Grizzly Mountain (1997)Grosse Pointe Blank (1997)Guantanamera (1997)Gummo (1997)Happy Together (1997)Hard Eight (1997)Hercules (1997)Hollow Reed (1997)Home Alone 3 (1997)Hoodlum (1997)Hotel de Love (1997)I Know What You Did Last Summer (1997)In & Out (1997)In Love and War (1997)In the Company of Men (1997)Inventing the Abbotts (1997)Irma Vep (1997)Jackie Brown (1997)Johns (1997)Julian Po (1997)Jungle 2 Jungle (1997)Kama Sutra (1997)Kicked in the Head (1997)Kiss Me, Guido (1997)Kiss or Kill (1997)Kiss the Girls (1997)Kissed (1997)Kolya (1997)Kull the Conqueror (1997)Kundun (1997)L.A. Confidential (1997)La Conciergene (1997)La Promesse (1997)Late Bloomers (1997)Latin Boys Go to Hell (1997)Lawrence of Arabia (1997)Le plus beau metier du monde (1997)Leave It to Beaver (1997)Les Boys (1997)Liar Liar (1997)Lost Highway (1997)Love and Other Catastrophes (1997)Love Jones (1997)Love Serenade (1997)Love! Valour! Compassion! (1997)Ma Vie en Rose (1997)Mad City (1997)Marguise (1997)Marius et Jeannette (1997)Masterminds (1997)Matusalem II (1997)McHale's Navy (1997)Meet Wally Sparks (1997)Men in Black (1997)Metro (1997)Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil (1997)Mimic (1997)Money Talks (1997)Mortal Kombat Annihilation (1997)Most Wanted (1997)Mouse Hunt (1997)Mr. Magoo (1997)Mrs. Brown (1997)Murder at 1600 (1997)My Best Friend's Wedding (1997)Napoleon (1997)Night Falls on Manhattan (1997)Nothing to Lose (1997)Nowhere (1997)Nueba Yol 3 (1997)Office Killer (1997)One Night Stand (1997)Operation Condor (1997)Oscar and Lucinda (1997)Out to Sea (1997)Paperback Romance (1997)Paradise Road (1997)Picture Perfect (1997)Pink Flamingos (1997)Pippi Longstocking (1997)Playing God (1997)Ponette (1997)Prefontaine (1997)Prisoner of the Mountains (1997)Private Parts (1997)Red Corner (1997)Return of the Jedi (1997)Rhyme & Reason (1997)Rien ne va plus (1997)RocketMan (1997)Romy & Michele's High School Reunion (1997)Rosewood (1997)Rough Magic (1997)Scream 2 (1997)Selena (1997)Seven Years in Tibet (1997)Shadow Conspiracy (1997)Shall We Dance? (1997)She's So Lovely (1997)Shiloh (1997)Shooting Porn (1997)Sick; Bob Flanagan, Supermasochist (1997)Smilla's Sense of Snow (1997)Snowriders 2 (1997)Soul Food (1997)Spawn (1997)Speed 2: Cruise Control (1997)Sprung (1997)Star Maps (1997)Star Wars (1997)Starship Troopers (1997)Steel (1997)Substance of Fire (1997)SubUrbia (1997)Sunday (1997)Switchback (1997)Telling Lies in America (1997)Temptress Moon (1997)Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1997)That Darn Cat (1997)That Old Feeling (1997)The 6th Man (1997)The Apostle (1997)The Assignment (1997)The Boxer (1997)The Daytrippers (1997)The Delta (1997)The Devil's Advocate (1997)The Devil's Own (1997)The Disappearance of Garcia Lorca (1997)The Edge (1997)The Education of Little Tree (1997)The Empire Strikes Back (1997)The Fifth Element (1997)The Full Monty (1997)The Game (1997)The Godfather (1997)The Hanging Garden (1997)The House of Yes (1997)The Ice Storm (1997)The Jackal (1997)The Little Mermaid (1997)The Lost World (1997)The Man Who Knew Too Little (1997)The Matchmaker (1997)The Myth of Fingerprints (1997)The Peacemaker (1997)The Pest (1997)The Pillow Book (1997)The Postman (1997)The Rainmaker (1997)The Relic (1997)The Saint (1997)The Second Jungle Book (1997)The Swan Princess 2 (1997)The Sweet Hereafter (1997)The Tango Lesson (1997)The Van (1997)The Wind in the Willows (1997)The Winter Guest (1997)This World, Then the Fireworks (1997)Thrill Ride (1997)Til There Was You (1997)Titanic (1997)Tomorrow Never Dies (1997)Touch (1997)Traveller (1997)Trial and Error (1997)Truth or Consequences (1997)Turbo: A Power Rangers Movie (1997)Turbulence (1997)Twin Town (1997)U-Turn (1997)Ulee's Gold (1997)Un Air de Famille (1997)Vegas Vacation (1997)Volcano (1997)Wag The Dog (1997)Waiting for Guffman (1997)Warriors of Virtue (1997)Washington Square (1997)Wedding Bell Blues (1997)Welcome to Sarajevo (1997)Wes Craven Presents Wishmaster (1997)When the Cat's Away (1997)When We Were Kings (1997)Wild America (1997)Wings of the Dove (1997)Year of the Horse (1997)Zeus and Roxanne (1997)
Disconnect (1)
Date Released 4.12.13
Opening Weekend Gross $0.124
Total Domestic Gross $1.437
Peak # of Screens 180
Weeks in Top 60 6
Rank This Week --
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Weekend Box Office Stats for Disconnect
Week Weekend Weekend Rank Weekend Gross
(millions) Pct. Change Per-Screen Avg. # of Screens Cumulative Gross
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1 April 12 - 14, 2013 31 $0.124 -- $8,267 15 $0.124
2 April 19 - 21, 2013 24 $0.253 104% $3,776 67 $0.412
3 April 26 - 28, 2013 22 $0.262 4% $2,360 111 $0.770
4 May 3 - 5, 2013 18 $0.211 -20% $1,311 161 $1.055
5 May 10 - 12, 2013 22 $0.160 -24% $889 180 $1.300
6 May 17 - 19, 2013 32 $0.074 -54% $803 92 $1.437
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November 23,2015 Country Reports
Country Report: South Korea (November 2015)
Editorial Staff (prepared by Han Minjeong)
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The first half of the fall was a trying period for South Korean diplomacy, which the conservative and progressive media viewed differently. There was a persistent sense of US pressure on the Park administration: against leaning toward China in support of reunification, for reassuring Washington that she is not leaning toward China, for accepting Japan’s new right of collective self-defense and strengthening trilateral ties, for a strong Park-Obama summit statement putting pressure on North Korea, for a clear affirmation of freedom of navigation in the South China Sea, and for a Park-Abe summit that would satisfy US expectations even if Abe did not offer a solution on the “comfort women” issue. Progressives were dissatisfied with the choices Park made, offering reasons why they were undesirable or unbalanced. Conservatives found more reason to be pleased, but their articles also show some concerns. In contrast to the previous two months, when the focus was on an assertive, rather autonomous foreign policy—toward Abe as he prepared his statement, toward North Korea when it escalated tensions, and in taking an independent stand toward China on September 3—, the priority of a successful Park-Obama summit was in the forefront.
Park’s Reunification Diplomacy and China’s Role
On September 10, a DongA Ilbo article criticized Park’s “reunification diplomacy” for its “overwhelming” pace. Citing the need for international empathy that the reunification is beneficial to neighboring countries and the world, it asserted that experts are concerned about whether it is appropriate to discuss the issue deeply with China before doing so with the United States, the ROK’s ally. Timing also matters. Washington is closely watching if Seoul is leaning toward Beijing, and both it and the ROK see no sign that Beijing would change its strategy to abandon its alliance forged in blood with North Korea. More importantly, there is no consensus in Seoul on how to pursue reunification. Arguing that Park is rushing to leave a legacy in her remaining time as president, the author advises her to focus on allaying an ally’s’ suspicions and laying down a cornerstone for a sustainable mid-term or long-term reunification policy, unlike what she is doing at this time.
On September 18, DongA Iblo carried an article by Chun Yungwoo, who opined that Park’s visit to Beijing was of less consequence than many in Seoul have argued. In response to growing expectations that China will help to resolve the nuclear issue and reunification, Chun calls them fantasies. It is undeniable that Beijing has the greatest influence on Pyongyang, but the problem is that it has no willingness to exercise the power to resolve the nuclear issue, because the stability of the DPRK is more important. Chun argues that South Korea’s intensified pursuit of Beijing on the issue will only increase Beijing’s voice in the region and not prove helpful to resolving the issue. He adds that the only way to achieve reunification is to reach an agreement between the two Koreas. China cannot stop the agreement nor force the North to have one. The only situation where China’s cooperation would be needed on reunification would be if North Korea collapsed, leading to anarchy, and South Korea’s military intervention were the only way to stabilize the status. Seoul needs to keep Beijing from intervening against such an effort, but it is doubtful if Beijing would conclude an official agreement on this, given the sensitivity of the issue. Readers are reminded that Beijing has financed the North’s nuclear arms development by limiting UN sanctions and increasing imports from it. Chun argues that Park’s attendance at the military parade has left the impression that South Korea is being incorporated into the Chinese hegemonic order. He concludes that the Park-Obama summit should be an opportunity to restore lost confidence by reaching agreement on military measures in response to the nuclear and missile threats.
A September 15 Chosun Ilbo article also calls it a fantasy to expect China’s help on reunification, i.e., Beijing cannot tolerate any type of reunification led by Seoul, as its first defense principle is not to share a border with a US military ally. Other major countries think the same way. Without Poland, Moscow would not have agreed on German reunification without military intervention. Russia’s annexation of Crimea and the US invasion of Cuba in 1961 are explained by the same logic. History tells us that Beijing would not keep its hands off should South Korea lead in reunification, unless Seoul gave up its alliance with the United States or US forces were withdrawn. The article reiterates that as long as China needs North Korea as a buffer zone, its cooperation on Seoul’s reunification efforts cannot be expected.
The progressive Hangyoreh on October 1 warned of the danger of mounting expectations over China’s role, explaining that North Korea is both an asset and a liability to China. It gives Washington an excuse to be more active militarily in the region, actually targeting Beijing, while it leaves Beijing unable to join the trilateral band against North Korea, due to its function as a buffer zone. The author introduces a Huanqiu shibao piece to show China’s dilemma on the issue, asserting, “South Korea, the US, Japan, and North Korea all have a simple stance. China is in the trickiest situation.” Unlike the others’ view, Beijing is not in a position to control Pyongyang, the author makes clear (The author says Beijing does not have the power though the others think it has). The article argues after the military parade not to regard China as being “on Seoul’s side” nor count on it to press the North.
Liu Yunshan’s Visit and China – North Korea Relation
With Liu Yunshan, a member of the Standing Committee of the Politburo, visiting Pyongyang, media discussed if the bilateral PRC-DPRK relationship is to be restored. It is the first time that a member of the Standing Committee has visited North Korea since Xi took the office. Liu was right next to Kim all the time, showing that he was treated with honor. Also, Kim did not fire any missiles or mention nuclear weapons in his speech. It was a positive meeting, the beginning of a relationship between Xi Jinping and Kim Jung-un, but concerns are being raised about the consequences of China’s sudden policy shift for the region.
On October 11, a Hangyoreh article argues that the meeting shows that the two countries’ needs overlap. It quoted an unnamed diplomatic source in Beijing, saying, “China seems to play the card of restoring the bilateral relationship in response to the enhanced US Asia rebalancing strategy.” And Pyongyang was desperately in need of China’s assistance in the economic area primarily, but in others also. Projecting accelerating economic cooperation and high-level official meetings, the author insists that South Korea’s North Korean strategy should be revised. Seoul has been pushing China to have Pyongyang abandon its nuclear weapons. The article concludes, quoting Lee Huiok saying, “As Xi’s ideas have common ground with Park, to encourage the North to change and achieve stability on the Korean Peninsula, Seoul needs to take proactive steps together.”
On October 17, Joongang Ilbo carried an article by John Everad, the former UK ambassador in Pyongyang, who opines that the honeymoon era is to begin between the two. Beijing can enjoy three benefits from it. First, it can rebuild the only ally and prevent an undesirable way of reunification of the peninsula. Second, it can reduce the risk of the North’s missile or nuclear tests. Last, its influence over North Korean lawmakers, which was lost for the last few years, would be restored. China has been dissatisfied with the fact that it was not able to figure out what is going in Pyongyang. The author surmises that the October 10 meeting will be remembered as a historic moment and adds that it is not a good sign for Seoul, as Pyongyang is becoming more dependent on Beijing.
On October 12, a Chosun Ilbo observer argued otherwise that the summit was not necessarily an alert for South Korea. Pyongyang did not launch an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), and China played a role in that. The author sees the unexpected visit by Chinese key officials as opening the possibility of ties improving beyond expectations. Reminding readers that Pyongyang has repeatedly made provocations right after its temporary gestures of reconciliation, the author is concerned that Beijing’s policy changes should be based on more concrete and fundamental changes from the North. The author also urges Beijing to assure Kim Jung-un that nuclear weapons and missiles cannot revive its economy nor the relationships with neighboring countries. On the same day, a DongA Ilbo columnist appreciated China’s success in stopping the North’s provocations, but was also wary of a possible hasty move from China. Given that Liu was the only high-level foreign official attending the anniversary and Kim said, “North Korea and China have a strategic relationship rooted in a traditional friendship forged in blood,” the author argued that both sides want to restore the good, old relationship. For sure, it is a good sign that Kim highlighted the “people” in his speech and did not launch missiles. However, Kim would not easily give up nuclear weapons, as he was reported to have avoided discussing the Six-Party Talks with Liu and recently reasserted the need of nuclear development. Arguing that Beijing’s move, the only country to have influence in Pyongyang, would change the circumstances in the region, the author urged Park to cement trilateral cooperation among Seoul, Washington, and Beijing against North Korean nuclear weapons at her meeting with Obama, agreeing on a detailed strategy.
On November 1, a Chosun Ilbo correspondent in Beijing raised a somewhat skeptical voice about the geopolitical circumstances behind China’s shift toward North Korea. It pointed out that Liu mentioned “peace and stability of the Korean Peninsula” before “denuclearization” in the meeting with Kim, as the first of three principles. The sequence remained the same in Seoul when Premier Li Keqiang met Park on October 31. It shows Beijing’s retreat from prioritizing “denuclearization” over “North Korea’s stability” since the North’s third nuclear test in 2013, readers are told. Then, the author sheds light on Xi’s state visit to Vietnam in the middle of a confrontation over the South China Sea to prevent it from leaning toward the United States. As Beijing does not want the US armed forces to cross the thirty-eighth parallel even after reunification, the author argues, it would not abandon Pyongyang. Though South Korea seemed to enjoy the best relationship ever with China, as good as the one North Korea had under Kim Il-sung, the author concludes that nothing much changed, after all, since then.
While the conservatives focused on China’s role and its implication, the progressives highlighted how South Korea can take advantage of the change to bring Pyongyang to the negotiating table to abandon its nuclear weapons. On October 11, a Hangyoreh article argued that Kim’s conciliatory gestures show that he has started to put more weight on dialogue over confrontation. Before the meeting with Liu, Kim signed the 8/25 agreement with Seoul and suggested that the United States replace the armistice agreement with a new peace treaty. Readers are told that this series of actions should not be taken lightly. Pyongyang’s willingness now indicates that it may abandon its nuclear weapons, and Seoul needs to play a role in encouraging it. The article concludes that the Park-Obama summit should be the opportunity to forge a detailed strategy. On the same day, Kyunghyang Shinmun reiterated that South Korea needs to accept the North’s conciliatory gestures to lead the international efforts to resolve the nuclear issue. The article urges Park to check on the US willingness for her to conduct a summit with Kim.
Japan’s Right of Self-Defense and TPP
On October 14, a Hangyoreh observer concluded that this year marks the beginning of a new international system, designed by the United States to counter an emerging China. Called rebalancing, the US strategy has two core parts; expansion of Japan’s military role (collective self-defense) and Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP). Washington is now equipped with these two mechanisms to shape a system likely to last over the next 10 years.
As for the right of collective self-defense, both left and right media outlets expressed concern that it would trigger an arms race in the region. Especially, the question of deploying Japan’s self defense forces (SDF) to the peninsula drew the spotlight. A September 21 Chosun Ilbo article understood why the question is being raised, given the history, but argued that the discussion is based on extreme assumptions and is blind to the real problems. The Japanese force cannot enter South Korea without the South’s consent. It might only do so when a North Korea-Japan war had begun or if Japan broke its alliance with the United States to pursue militarism. In addition, Seoul’s defense capability is not as weak as a century ago, when it could not stop Japan’s invasion. The real challenge facing South Korea is to find a way to cope with the changing security landscape of the region. While competition is growing between the United States and Japan on one side and China on the other, there is little discussion about what kind of defense capability South Korea needs to build with a limited budget—smaller than those of China and Japan—and more serious challenges, i.e., North Korea. The article warns of the danger of missing the reality due to excessive obsession with assumptions.
A September 19 Joongang Ilbo article expressed concern over the vicious circle the passage would cause in the region, but the reporter took some comfort in the public’s opposition in Japan. The article introduced Asahi Shimbun’s poll, in which 68 percent of the respondents disapproved, and it mentioned that Japanese are asking the fundamental question of how can they expect to keep the peace if the stance that has kept the country in peace for the last 70 years is to be abandoned. The author finds hope in the demonstrations calling for the repeal of these laws and in expected lawsuits finding them unconstitutional, initiated by civic groups, constitutional scholars, and opposition parties. Pointing out that Abe’s approval rate is as low as 30 percent, the author says it is worth taking a close look if Japan’s grass-roots opposition can overturn the decision.
On the same day, another observer in the same newspaper expressed a more pragmatic view. Agreeing that Japan’s shift will further trigger the arms race in the region, the observer also saw a benefit—South Korea’s deterrence against the North will be enhanced, as Tokyo can immediately react when Pyongyang attacks US forces near the peninsula. Concluding that what is done is done, the author urges Park to find a way to maximize Seoul’s national interests, such as expanding the exchange of military intelligence, while keeping the new Japan in check. The article proposes using the China-Japan-Korea (CJK) trilateral summit to express concerns and develop a mechanism to deal with them.
On the next day, a Chosun Ilbo article argued that the time has come to sketch the security picture in consultation with Tokyo, but it is very tricky. Washington wants to bolster the trilateral alliance against rising Chinese military power; however, the South Korean public is worried about Japan’s expanding military role and its history revisionism. Cooperation with Beijing is also required. The article concludes that South Korea’s priority is to figure out how to achieve stability and peace on the peninsula with Japan in the picture.
On September 19, a Hangyoreh article also urged that a pragmatic strategy should be found. It acknowledged a need for increased deterrence capacity and keeping China under control; however, if the law’s passage intensifies conflicts between Beijing and Tokyo, it would tie Seoul’s hands, the author argues. Thus, the article concludes that Seoul needs to avoid being deeply drawn into the South Korea-US-Japan military alliance to press China.
An October 17 Chosun Ilbo article looked into the geopolitical implications of TPP and “One Road, One Belt,” quoting Japanese Economic Minister Amari Akira, who hugged Trade Representative Michael Froman and said, “There were ups and downs, but we are like a family,” celebrating the conclusion of the talks. The article argued that by calling each other family the two countries showed that their interests perfectly coincide. At the “One Belt, One Road” seminar in Beijing, the participant countries endorsed China’s call for a “community of destiny.” This shows that China binds countries to its west, while the United States and Japan bind 12 countries around the Pacific—a confrontation between the continental power and the maritime power. The author quoted Obama saying, “The TPP means that America will write the rules of the road in the twenty-first century. If we don’t pass this agreement—if America doesn’t write those rules—then countries like China will.” The article added that South Korea’s entry into the Asian Investment Infrastructure Bank (AIIB), the body funding “One Road, One Belt,” means that it is becoming part of the community of destiny (운명공동체), but its absence from TPP excludes it from the US and Japan family bond (혈연공동체). Citing a US think-tank’s report, supposing a war between Washington and Beijing, the author said that Seoul is avoiding making a decision where to put its weight between the two at a time when US anxiety over China is unimaginable, adding that Japan is aware of it, but Seoul is not and sends mixed signals to Washington.
The Park-Obama Summit
The assessment of the Park-Obama summit was split with North Korea the focus of the left and China of the right. Progressive outlets criticized the summit for failing to advance talks to resolve the nuclear threat. On the day after the summit, October 17, a Kyunghyang Shinmun article assessed that the primary goal was met, to some extent, to clear US suspicions that South Korea was leaning toward China. However, it failed to suggest an alternative on the DPRK issue, the starting point of which should be improvement in the bilateral relationship between Pyongyang and Washington. Though Park could have encouraged this, taking advantage of Kim Jong-un sending conciliatory gestures on the seventieth anniversary of the ruling Workers’ Party as well as the 8/25 agreement, Park approved the mutual statement against the North to increase the level of pressure. The author criticized her for being too focused on the United States, and losing a sense of balance, while missing an opportunity to advance the relationship with Pyongyang.
On October 18, a Hangyoreh observer said that the top priority of the meeting should have been to resolve the nuclear issue; however, the results were disappointing, complicating the situation. Before the summit, Park stated the principle, “nuclear abandonment first, assistance later” several times, which figured in the meeting’s mutual statement. It not only increased pressure on the North, but also linked the nuclear issue with the inter-Korean relationship, making the situation worse. The author calls it a “stubborn hard policy,” failing to reflect the changing circumstances, i.e., the North’s conciliatory gestures and China efforts to resume its mediator role with the North. Quoting Park’s statement, “Now is the time to spread our history of creating miracles to the entire peninsula,” the piece questions the administration’s diplomacy capability. While the policy statement may have arisen in the context of clearing US suspicions, it could be interpreted by the North as “reunification by absorption” and by China as an intolerable threat. The article concludes that Park has been wavering between the China and the United States, causing distrust on both sides and a conundrum for herself.
Another Hangyoreh reporter also denounced the meeting for benefiting only the United States and China. Though the Blue House seems to give great significance to Park leading the discussion over reunification and North Korea in summits with both countries in the course of a month, the author says that the meetings have constrained South Korea’s role. The mutual statement, it is said, turned back the clock, reverting to “complete, verifiable, and irreversible dismantlement (CVID)”, as in the early phase of the Six-Party Talks. As Seoul has learned that Pyongyang is not going to accept these conditions, it is the same as giving full support to joining the US strategy to contain China, using the excuse of a nuclear DPRK. Washington’s gain is Seoul’s loss, leaving it no room to play a mediator role. It is China’s gain at the same time, readers are told. The statement says, “To deter any strategic provocation by the North, Korea and the United States will continue to strengthen coordinated efforts with the international community, including China, Russia and Japan.” The observer claims that this means the two countries will ask China to mediate with the North. Since Liu Yunshan, a member of the Standing Committee of the Politburo visited North Korea and no missiles were fired on October 10, experts expect that the China-North Korea relationship will be restored and economic cooperation accelerated. Under the current structure, China’s leadership would be acknowledged in the region and economic cooperation would facilitate development of the three Northeast provinces. It is a loss, again, for Seoul as the vision of “economic community of the Korean Peninsula” loses any significance. The article charges that Park’s reunification diplomacy has a fancy exterior but seems to help the two power countries not the two Koreas.
On the right, there was discussion of what South Korea’s strategy should be in the face of growing suspicion that it is leaning toward China. Mostly, it was agreed that the Obama summit cleared the suspicion to some degree. However, on October 19, a DongA Ilbo article warned that the problem is not so simple that it can be cleared through one meeting. It will be repeatedly raised, the more China’s emergence matches South Korean national interests and the more the US-Japan alliance tightens, the author argues. Though the two leaders said that South Korea’s relations with the United States and China are compatible, readers were told otherwise. Quoting Obama’s demand to “speak out” on the freedom of navigation issue, the observer argued that the hidden message is to stand on the US side at critical moments. It added that Washington’s patience is worn thin on the history conflicts with Tokyo, and Park has little time to drag out the issue; she needs to make a decision soon. The article concluded that the strategy should be more about managing the suspicion than trying to erase it all at once.
On November 4, a Joongang Ilbo columnist assessed Obama’s call for Park to “speak out” on China as proof that the perception of South Korea leaning toward China, starting from rejecting Japan, is widespread. The Blue House’s emphasis on the achievement in alleviating suspicions indicates how much the Park administration was under stress. Then, the author questions if Seoul is actually leaning toward Beijing (중국경사론), insisting that it is not leaning but only considering China important (중국중시론). The bilateral relationship seems extraordinarily close under the Xi and Park administrations, but that is due to the gap during the previous Lee administration. The relationship is in the process of restoration. Attention is given to the fact that, economically, South Korea is highly dependent on exports, unlike Japan, a quarter of which go to China. In addition, the two countries share Confucianism; so have lower barriers to cultural exchange, it is said. As Seoul does not see Beijing as a competitor for leadership in the region, its emergence is generally considered an opportunity. The article argues that the framework created by Japan constrains South Korea’s diplomatic choices related to either the United States or China and leaves it under suspicion. The solution, the author argues, is to get out of this frame of reference. It is urged not to use the term leaning but say that Seoul regards China as important, as it does the United States and Japan.
The South China Sea and the US-China Conflict
Discussion over a balancing diplomacy extended to the South China Sea issue. On October 29, two days after tension escalated in the South China Sea, a DongA Ilbo article disapproved the government’s statement on the issue for giving a reluctant impression and ambiguousness. The tension shows that in the Sino-US power game, it is difficult not to provoke either side. However, the author questions how long South Korea is going to keep equivocating on a matter of national interest such as the South China Sea, through which 30 percent of its exports and 90 percent of imported energy pass. Strategic ambiguity has failed to meet the national interest. Arguing that the tension in the South China Sea is about international norms and rules of free navigation by which every country should abide, the author urges the Park administration to revisit its diplomacy principles and strategy.
On the same day, a Kyunghyang Shinmun article agreed that China’s behavior is breaching international norms and is not desirable as a way for it to rise. However, the author also blamed the United States for choosing armed force over diplomacy. Though the US claims the right of innocent passage, it is disputed among experts on international law whether warships are entitled to this right. With most countries in the region, including the Philippines, Vietnam, Malaysia, Taiwan, Japan, and Australia, supporting the United States, bilateral tensions make Asia more and more unstable and pose a serious threat to South Korea. The article concludes that diplomatic capacity is required to resolve the tensions in cooperation with neighboring countries.
A Chosun Ilbo article, published on November 5, opposes picking sides in the Sino-US struggle. Against the interpretation that Defense Minister Han Minkoo’s statement on the South China Sea at the ASEAN Defense Ministers’ Plus put the weight on the US side, the author argues that this stance should be seen as in line with the international rule of the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea, not the US position. Also, China’s behavior is directly in opposition to South Korea’s interests. If South Korean cargo and vessels had to detour due to disputes on the sea, it would take two more days and hike costs tremendously. The article concludes that South Korea’s choice should not be about picking sides but about making an independent decision in accordance with international rules and consensus.
The South Korea-Japan Summit
The summit was seen in the two contexts of US-South Korea-Japan trilateral cooperation and the war-time sex slave issue. Mostly, the current two-track approach is approved at both ends of the ideological spectrum. More dialogue on the sidelines of upcoming multilateral forums is encouraged. An October 13 Joongang Ilbo article says that the hidden agenda of the Park-Obama summit might be the South Korea-Japan relationship. With Japan’s right of collective self-defense passed and TPP negotiations concluded, Washington can complete its rebalance policy by improving this bilateral relationship to reinforce trilateral cooperation. The author urges the two leaders to break the current stalemate, as it would be the last chance to make an agreement on some sensitive issues, including the sex-slave issue, and as prospects will dim with elections scheduled in both countries. Pointing out that the relationship is too much driven by emotions, the article calls on Park and Abe to show leadership and vision.
After the summit, it was generally agreed that there was no fruitful outcome, but the mere fact that it occurred is meaningful. A November 3 Joongang Ilbo article opined that the relationship should be seen in a broader context, given the complex circumstances in East Asia. Readers are told that the United States should remain as a strong pillar in the region. Then, a working trilateral alliance is essential, and it requires cooperation between the two countries. Also, to build the Northeast Asian Economic Community, suggested at the trilateral CJK meeting, restoring the bilateral relationship is necessary. The author acknowledges there was no practical solution at the meeting, but urges the two leaders to have more dialogue on the sidelines of multi-national talks. A November 2 Kyunghyang Shinmun observer also supports more dialogue, arguing that even the sex slave issue, where the starkest difference exists, can be resolved only in a normalized relationship. However, a November 2 Hangyoreh article disapproved of Park suddenly changing her mind to hold talks before resolving the war-time sex slave issue and then failed to make progress. The meeting was largely pushed by the US pursuit of its rebalancing policy. Abe’s history revisionism is now a constant and is not going to change under him. Regarding the trilateral security cooperation, the author argues against proceeding without cost-benefit analysis. The decision should be based on the clear principle of bolstering peace and cooperation rather than confrontation.
A November 3 DongA Ilbo article agreed that South Korea should design a solution first and try to build domestic consensus on the sex-slave issue. Japan is skeptical of Park’s concept of “sincere measures (성의있는 조치)” and is afraid that public opposition would make its efforts in vain. The author suggests that Seoul frames the matter as an international humanitarian issue, which is the same as Japanese abductees in North Korea.
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English as a Second Language, Motorcycles as a First Love
Universal Technical Institute Mar 25, 2019 ·
When Keinosuke “Keino” Sasaki enrolled at Motorcycle Mechanics Institute (MMI) in Phoenix, motorcycles weren't the only thing he was going to learn about. He also needed to master English.
His enrollment at the school was his first time leaving his home country. The Fukuoka, Japan, resident had gotten his history degree in college, originally intending to be a teacher. But his passion for motorcycles was hard to ignore. After a friend showed him an ad for a vocational school called MMI in a motorcycle magazine, Keino realized there was a place where he could study what he loved. And that meant moving to the States.
He first landed in San Diego, California, where he took English as a Second Language classes. After three months, he headed to Phoenix to start orientation at MMI and begin school. It definitely presented some challenges.
“My first thought was, 'What the hell did I get myself into?'” says Keino, 45, who now lives in Brooklyn, New York. “I had no idea what anyone was saying. Everyone was a fast talker to me. I had to constantly look around to see what people were doing. I wasn't quite sure how to make it, but the passion was there.”
Every day, Keino would record each class, take copious notes and ask instructors questions after class. He says he had never studied as hard in his life as he did at MMI, where he was constantly reading and asking questions. Within a few months, he made friends and got used to the grind.
That was back in 1998, a time when internet resources were scarce. Keino's hard work has paid off, and today he is a New York business owner, creating custom motorcycles and doing fabrication as the owner of Keino Cycles.
Passion Is Born
As a kid growing up in Japan, Keino developed an interest in bikes from his dad. His father was a chef who used a motorcycle for his daily commute. Around the age of 13, Keino's father purchased a Yamaha TY125 for Keino and his brother. They couldn't ride the bike on public streets, but they'd buzz around on it around their home.
When Keino was 16 years old, he got his license. All the while, his dad was a hobbyist who would fix stuff up in his work studio, including an abandoned scooter he found. Keino learned not just how to ride a motorized bike, but how to work on one, as well.
While he studied at Fukuoka University, Keino also started hanging out at a bike shop and became a custom bike apprentice. He started to have second thoughts about being a teacher.
“Working on a motorcycle was more of a passion,” Keino says. “If I had to choose something I could do for the rest of my life, it felt like I should choose something I would enjoy every day. That's what I was going after.”
He finished college and worked at a Mitsubishi manufacturing plant as a line worker to save money for MMI. When he discovered MMI, he felt the school wasn't just a vehicle to pursue work he loved. Attending MMI was also an opportunity to leave the place he had lived in for so long, which provided excitement.
Life After MMI
Once Keino lived in the States and saw the potential to evolve his life in the U.S., he was committed to making a life in America. MMI's Employment Assistance representatives helped Keino build a résumé and send it out, primarily to West Coast employers because of the motorcycle scene and abundance of shops there. Most didn't get back to him, though, but a dealership in New York City was interested. At the time, Keino didn't even know where New York was located.
Keino mistook an interview offer for an offer of employment. He packed up everything he had and drove across the country intending to start work. Luckily for Keino, the dealership did indeed hire him as a repair technician.
Keino went on to work at a custom bike shop in Manhattan, which he later became a primary partner of after it moved to Brooklyn.
In 2008, he founded his own business and set up a small shop. While he has an apprentice who works with him a couple times a week, Keino relishes being his own boss at his appointment-only Brooklyn shop. He enjoys setting his own schedule and working only on projects he wants to work on.
“I always wanted to have my own shop, and at some point I felt the confidence I could pull this off,” Keino says. “I wanted to build bikes and run the shop the way I wanted to run it.”
New York Cycle Scene
New York's motorcycle scene is definitely different from the West Coast. Keino says in the winter, especially when it snows, there are less riders.
During colder seasons, he works on custom bikes and fabrications. Recently, he worked on six projects at once, making progress on each one little by little. Keino works with clients throughout New York and within driving distance. He also has had clients from as far away as California, France and Spain.
In warmer months, he does repairs, but he favors helping customers who seek him out. As opposed to random people walking into his shop and asking him how much a service is, Keino says clients who come to him knowing the high-quality level of work he provides are the type he wants to do work for.
“My bottom line is, I tell people, 'Let me do my best job,'” Keino says. “It may not be cheap, and it may not be easy, but if anyone gives you a price right off the bat without taking a look at it and not diagnosing it, that's not good.”
Keino says studying at MMI helped him develop a diagnostic mentality that goes beyond one that's just about getting a bike fixed.
“What I feel I learned that sticks around from MMI days is more of an academic approach to understand what's going on,” Keino says. “It's figuring out why this happened, and how do you not make it happen again.”
Keino hasn't let go of his teacher training, either. He holds several workshops throughout the year on subjects like sheet metal shaping. The classes are small, not just because of the size of his shop, but so that each student gets plenty of hands-on experience and feedback.
What's Next for Keino Cycles?
Keino says his ultimate goal is to continue doing what he's doing. While the East Coast wasn't the location he originally intended to work, the abundance of competition, especially in California, makes him content to focus on the niche he has built back east.
“I spent 25 years to come this far,” Keino says. “I wanted to wake up in the morning and be ready to come into my little shop. This is my dungeon, this is my sanctuary, this is my shop that makes me happy doing what I do, besides my home with my wife and daughter. It's my ultimate goal to keep this and do this ultimately until the day I die. I want to keep this shop.”
Keino says he does want to eventually move his shop to a quieter environment in the suburbs, like in Pennsylvania, within a few years.
“I love this trade, I love this job, and I can't picture myself doing anything else, so I have to figure out how to do this the rest of my life,” Keino says. “Plans change and markets change and society changes and the environment changes, so I have to adapt my business to survive.”
Part of being ready for whatever comes next is embracing a love for learning. Keino says without school he probably wouldn't have come as far as he has today, and his desire for education never stops.
“Don't stop learning,” Keino says. “Learning is the key. You have to be curious about new things. That's how you increase your knowledge and become who you are. I'm still learning.”
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Vainieri Huttle Legislation Urging Port Authority Not to Recognize NY Transportation Inspector General Clears Panel
Legislation Assemblywoman Valerie Vainieri Huttle sponsored to denounce a recent single-handed effort by New York to introduce an office overseeing the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey - a bi-state agency - was advanced Thursday by an Assembly committee.
The resolution (AR-226) objects to New York legislation creating the Office of the Inspector General of New York for Transportation. The legislation gives the office the power to investigate and prosecute criminal and unethical conduct at transportation entities, including the Port Authority.
The establishment of the office violates the terms of the Port Authority Compact, an agreement between New Jersey and New York that New York is not permitted to unilaterally modify, said Vainieri Huttle. The Port Authority, which already has an Office of Inspector General, does not require a new office that answers only to New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, she noted.
"The Port Authority is a bi-state agency. By going ahead and independently establishing the Office of the Inspector General of New York for Transportation, New York is violating the Port Authority Compact," said Vainieri Huttle (D-Bergen). "The compact unequivocally requires the consent of the legislatures of both New York and New Jersey. This is a patently illegal and ill-intended effort by Gov. Cuomo to unilaterally seize political control of the Port Authority, and it cannot stand."
The legislation urges the Port Authority not to recognize the legitimacy of the office and urges the New Jersey attorney general to act to declare the New York legislation inapplicable to the Port Authority.
The measure was advanced by the Assembly Transportation and Independent Authorities Committee, of which Vainieri Huttle is vice-chair.
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You are at:Home»Current in Carmel»Carmel Community»Carmel neighbors say religion ‘not the issue’ in opposition to proposed mosque
Carmel neighbors say religion ‘not the issue’ in opposition to proposed mosque
By Adam Aasen on January 29, 2018 Carmel Community
Al Salam’s Islamic Life Center has been proposed near 141st Street and Shelborne Road. (Submitted photo)
To say the proposed Islamic Life Center at 141st Street and Shelborne Road has garnered a lot of attention is a bit of an understatement.
Not only did approximately 300 people show up to a Carmel Board of Zoning Appeals meeting Jan. 22, but the BZA has received 946 letters in opposition and 955 letters in support of the project. Because the story was picked up by national news sites, some letters come from people who live elsewhere in Indiana, outside the state or even outside the United States.
Many of the letters from outside of Carmel are focused on religion. But those who live next to the development say their concerns simply address zoning issues, plain and simple.
Alan Irvin, a resident of Shelborne Road, said he thinks the mosque could be a “real asset to our community” but in a “more suitable site in Carmel.”
“I’m concerned that my opposition and that of my neighbors is being misconstrued as intolerance of this organization’s message or purpose,” he said. “We mean no slight or offense. Some proponents have unfairly insinuated that anyone opposed to this development necessarily is uninformed or biased against this group. Religion is not the issue.”
Carmel City Councilor Laura Campbell, who represents the area, said she supports the remonstrators who oppose this project because she doesn’t believe that the location is appropriate for a project of this size and scale.
“People on social media and in the general media have chosen to accuse the residents of discrimination, which is not the case,” she said. “The residents represent a diverse range of religions and nationalities. Accusing people of discrimination is an easy way to shut down a conversation when one has a weak defense of their own point of view.”
Campbell said the letters of remonstrance come from a very diverse group of people, some even coming from people with Islamic backgrounds.
Some neighbors said they have received online attacks and threats from all across the nation because they’ve voiced their opposition to the project.
Ashhar Madni, vice president for the board of trustees of the Al Salam Foundation, said there has been some misunderstanding about what the Islamic Life Center will be. Nonetheless, he said nobody at Al Salam is accusing the remonstrators of being bigots.
“I think their concerns are about traffic and other issues,” he said. “I don’t think they’re opposed because of religion. Some might be unfamiliar with a mosque since it would be new to Carmel, but we can educate them.”
Neighbors in Overbrook Farms, just west of the project, told Campbell the Islamic Life Center would have a negative effect on traffic because Shelborne Road is narrow.
The Al Salam Foundation has agreed to purchase 15 acres of land but said it would only build on one-third of the land and would scale back previous plans that showed a much larger building. Documents from Al Salam initially showed the project including a multi-purpose prayer hall that could fit 300 to 500 worshippers, basketball courts, a soccer field, a tennis court and walking trails. A school and gym could be part of later phases.
Madni said Al Salam officials have scaled back plans, although a final version hasn’t been set. He said a gas line easement on part of the land could prevent further expansion but that Al Salam had to buy the entire site as part of the deal. Madni said the foundation has tried unsuccessfully for years to find a place for a mosque in Carmel and that some landowners have been unwilling to sell because of the proposed religious use.
Madni said the foundation has been willing to make adjustments on lighting, building height and more.
“We want to be good neighbors,” he said.
Some neighbors in Overbrook Farms shared photos of their own backyards, which show the Islamic Life Center’s parking lot directly backing up to their homes.
The area where the Islamic Life Center would be located is zoned S-1, meaning it is planned for residential development unless a special exemption, such as for a religious use, is granted. Neighbors said they know the field won’t remain empty, but they’d like to see single-family homes on the property instead.
Those in support of the project have said they don’t think there would be this kind of opposition if a church were proposed instead of a mosque, but Campbell said that’s not a fair comparison. She pointed to a similar situation in Fishers when iTown Christian Church submitted a proposal to build on Gray Eagle Golf Course. There was significant remonstrance against that project because residents didn’t feel it was an appropriate use of the land. The church found another parcel and had the full support of the community to construct at that location.
“There has been much comparison of other churches in the area, but those churches are on larger pieces of land with substantial buffers,” Campbell said. “The Coptic Church was approved in 2012, before the neighborhoods to the south. The Coptic Church is on a larger parcel of land, and people building homes in those neighborhoods knew that a church was going to be built there. It has taken some time for the church to be built, but again, the church came before the neighborhood.”
The BZA will meet again Feb. 26 to gather additional public feedback and possibly vote on the project.
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Rick Smith on January 29, 2018 10:33 pm
It never is intolerance in the opinion of the intolerant. We all have bias blind spots though most have no idea what that is and would disagree that it applied to them even if they understood the concept.
I had to make sure this was the same Current in Carmel where I had seen readers post comments that could have given someone the wrong idea: http://www.youarecurrent.com/2018/01/05/islamic-life-center-proposed-near-141st-street-shelborne-road/
After re-reading the comments I must say this article does not match what I have seen written about the mosque.
Eric Morris on January 30, 2018 11:53 am
I’m wondering if the somewhat unspoken intolerance is left over from the Line of Control or ETIM.
Pete on January 30, 2018 12:31 pm
What is the purpose of Planning and Zoning? It seems every where you drive in Carmel there is a Zoning meeting about “this” plot of land. Why implement zoning areas when you(Carmel Zoning) is going to change it for their friends. FOJB.
Look at all the land available along Illinois Street. How about right next to Market District? I’m thinking they would rather 141st St because the land is cheaper.
RKW50 on January 31, 2018 2:18 am
Trust me, all that land on Illinois, and the land between Illinois and Spring mill, will be the next change taking place. Lots of apartments, and Brainard’s (and Rider’s) urbanization plans, in an area that was never meant to be urban. You just know there’s gonna be a Walgreens at one of the north corners of Spring Mill and 116th. As a guide, just use the Bridges as a template, and expand that north. Before this is all over, I bet there are 600 apartments in that area, and more fast food places. Zoning means nothing to the Planning commission or City council. This will be approved even though it needs a variance from the planning commission. The final yes or no is pretty much a rubber stamp from Carmel. They just don’t know how to say no, when a proposal is against zoning regulations. They sure don’t like AirBnB though. And for sure, they don’t want to give up commercially zoned land, to a religious organization that will pay reduced taxes. Follow the money. All that land along Illinois, and Spring Mill, is or WILL be zoned commercial. Note all the recent changes they made to the overlay zones, in these areas recently. Brainard wants to build multi use buildings in the parking lots of the office buildings for goodness sakes!
Cletus on February 1, 2018 6:45 pm
The fact that this discussion has gone on so long makes me think this has less to do with zoning and more about intolerance. Please, can someone prove me wrong by pointing to similar zoning complaints about a Christian church or school going in? When I read the list of complaints about this center, and think about the times I’ve waited in traffic as a large protestant church or school lets out, I have my doubts about the stated reasons for concern.
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Selena Gomez Makes History at 2019 Kids’ Choice Awards
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Selena Gomez just broke a major Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards record.
The "Back to You" singer made history over the weekend by becoming the most winningest nominee ever—beating celebs like Will Smith and Amanda Bynes. Though she didn't attend the 2019 KCA's on Saturday (Mar. 23), she won her 11th blimp after winning Favorite Female Voice from an Animated Movie for her role in Hotel Transylvania 3.
Her past awards include five wins for Favorite TV Actress for Wizards of Waverly Place, four wins for Favorite Female Singer, and the Selenators award in 2014. The only series that has more awards than Gomez is SpongeBob SquarePants, who has won a total of 14 KCAs over the course of its TV run. However, we can probably expect more awards in SelGo's future. After taking a much-needed break from music, she's preparing her comeback this year. Earlier this month, Gomez revealed she's currently in the studio working on SG2.
"I’m currently in the studio and it’s going really good. I’m just nervous about it, honestly, 'cause I feel like the next few choices that I’m gonna make are very crucial. So I’m trying to be really really diligent and just patient with everything," she said during an Instagram Live feed. "The album is coming soon."
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