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Regrouping Go Aggro/Manipulate around Coercion/Convincing
Author Topic: Regrouping Go Aggro/Manipulate around Coercion/Convincing (Read 15300 times)
Daniel Wood
Re: Regrouping Go Aggro/Manipulate around Coercion/Convincing
Quote from: JasonT on August 09, 2012, 07:17:54 PM
I definitely do want violence to feel like it matters in this game, that there are consequences to it. Much of that comes from the fiction, given that it's a modern day setting. (Where will we hide the body? What will we tell the cops?) Some of that comes from the peripheral mechanics. (Other angels and demons in the neighborhood can hear it whenever you injure anybody or break anything.)
Yeah, that sounds like something to incorporate into your Principles or MC moves, rather than the basic moves.
I do want it to be reflected in the moves, too, but I want to make sure I'm not just taking stuff from Apocalypse World whole cloth if it overcomplicates things, and I'm concerned Go Aggro as written (and its inflexibility on whether you're ready to commit violence) may work better for the post-apocalypse than modern-day social interaction.
I agree, I think Go Aggro in its primary application is very specific to how violence (and violent coercion) works in Apocalypse World, and I'm not surprised that lots of hacks don't use it. That said, all those games that I am familiar with also significantly (or radically) rework Seize by Force, because the AW-version of Seize by Force by itself doesn't necessarily do the best job of modelling a lot of violent situations. (Or, as in Monsterhearts, they just don't feature violence as centrally, or worry about modelling it as comprehensively.)
Go Aggro is a really useful catch-all for, as Johnstone mentioned, situations where someone is trying to hurt someone or get something through directly-violent means, and the target of the violence both a) cannot fight back and b) is not completely vulnerable, either. If they can fight back, Seize by Force is fine -- if they're completely vulnerable, you don't need to roll, the violence succeeds. But there are a whole lot of situations in which both a) and b) are true, and where you want an unpredictable or risky outcome, and that's a major (if still secondary) role of Go Aggro.
So if you want to jettison Go Aggro then you will also probably need to either add a move to replace it or somehow modify Seize by Force to cover a wider variety of situations.
So I actually disagree that you would need to substantially change the other violence move if you left one of them out. You can use either move as your sole violence move with not a whole lot of modification and while violence will feel quite different, it won't "break the game" or anything (well, depending on the setting/genre, of course).
Go Aggro and Seize by Force are just two different perspectives on violence. I think Vincent said he wrote Go Aggro first and added Seize by Force to fill a gap that was left over? (could be wrong--but I seem to remember Go Aggro being the first significant rules example he brought up in podcast interviews when discussing AW). There's all the stuff that's been mentioned already, but there's also a difference between the two moves in when you roll the dice, by which I mean what point in the narrative of violence you roll dice to see what happens (sorta like that IIEE stuff).
With Go Aggro, you roll the dice as soon as you commit to violent action, ie when you demonstrate that you are willing to use force. This could be when you pull the trigger, or it could be when you stick the gun in someone's face and make demands. While it puts the choice over onto the other person, if you use just this move on it's own, it rewards taking the initiative, because you get to dish out your harm before your opponent can react.
With Seize by Force, you roll dice after mutual use of force has been established in the fiction. It means there is no mechanical weight to the threat you make when you put a gun in somebody's face and demand the microfilm. He can do whatever he wants until you pull the trigger and even then there's room for him to decide if he's fighting back or not, and only then do you roll dice. There's more risk to initiating violent action with just Seize by Force, but on the other hand, if your opponent is not in a position to fight back immediately, it makes violence more deadly.
Let's imagine two other situations, coercive violence and attempted murder:
On patrol, Wilkinson takes a hit to the leg and goes down, out in the open. He can't move so he's a sitting duck. Parker rushes out to grab him and carry him back to the squad, so I decide to lay down some suppressive fire so the enemy stays under cover instead of picking off Wilkinson and Parker both.
If we use Go Aggro for this I roll when I declare my suppressive fire action. If I roll a hit, the enemy can either stay behind cover or they can suffer harm. Basically, in order to get a shot off at Wilkinson and Parker (or me), they will have to take my harm first. They can go back to shooting after, when my turn to say stuff is done, but Parker will have gotten Wilkinson back by then. Maybe our attempts to take cover from their return fire will be us acting under fire. But notice that they have an "out," because I am trying to influence their behaviour: They can just do what I want (stay behind cover and not shoot) and they suffer no harm. This move has a forgiving nature and tries to accommodate those who want to avoid bloodshed.
If we use Seize by Force, I don't roll until the enemy decides how they react, because they have the opportunity of shooting back written right into the move. The move also encourages them to fight back, because otherwise I don't need to choose to suffer little harm (because I'm not suffering any harm at all) so I'm free to inflict terrible harm and scare the bejesus out of them both. Or seize their position and drive them back, even. So there is no "out" with this move: the best tactic here is actually to fight back and refuse to be coerced.
But what if I see you and I shoot you to death and that's it? If we use Go Aggro I roll as soon as I say I shoot you to death. On a strong hit, you can either be shot to death or suffer harm based on my gun. Being "shot to death" could literally be that or it might just be suffering harm based on my gun. On a weak hit, you might be able to escape, though (you have an "out" on a 7-9, but not on a 10+). This is good for games that have a lot of bullets hitting walls and people almost getting shot in the face before they duck back under cover and run away. This might make a 7-9 feel like a miss, although I'd argue that making your enemy run away instead of shoot you is probably a good thing.
If we use Seize by Force I don't roll until we know what you are doing. So, as above, it's probably a better idea for you to shoot back, and then we resolve me shooting you to death and you shooting me to death, all in one roll. If you try to run away, then I get to hurt you even more effectively.
Does all that make sense? We've mostly been discussing the intents and the fictional stuff that leads to a player rolling either of these moves (or manipulate), so I figured it's probably a good idea to discuss the effect the actual move architecture has on the fiction. You can see why Dungeon World uses a modified Seize by Force for melee fighting and a modified Go Aggro for ranged weapon attacks, for instance.
I think that analysis makes sense except that it's a bit weird to talk about what the NPC 'chooses to do' based on a mechanical incentive -- because that's not really how the game/fiction/moves work. The NPCs (and PCs) choose to do whatever they do based on the fiction, and that in turn decides what move (if any) is taking place. It doesn't make sense for a PC to say 'I am seizing by force!' and then the MC to be like 'okay, well then they better fight back' -- if they weren't fighting back, then there would be no seizing by force in the first place.
Unless the suggestion is there's some kind of like meta-fictional decision-making where the MC is like 'well clearly most of the NPCs who are still alive have figured out they should fight back because otherwise they're dead already' and so Seize By Force suggests that people in the world operate a certain way. But to my mind you have to go with how people react in the fiction first, and that will determine what move is going on. Like for the cover fire example, it's not about which move the player decides to use, it's about what they actually describe themselves doing, and how the MC decides the NPCs react. Possibly this is what Johnstone is already saying, and I am talking to myself, but the phrasing seemed strange.
Quote from: Daniel Wood on August 09, 2012, 11:47:03 PM
Like for the cover fire example, it's not about which move the player decides to use, it's about what they actually describe themselves doing, and how the MC decides the NPCs react. Possibly this is what Johnstone is already saying, and I am talking to myself, but the phrasing seemed strange.
No, I'm saying these are how the game will play out based on the game designer's choice to use only one move for violence. No part of my examples above include the player choosing one move over the other, they are examples of players choosing different games.
(Edit: Hm. On re-reading I guess that's not clear in my last post. But the point was to see the different perspectives offered by the mechanics and possible outcomes as a basis for hacking, as opposed to the fictional trigger for the move.)
Although on that note, I see the moves as describing what kind of world the characters inhabit, and I don't see an awareness of that as outside a character's POV, or meta-gaming at all. Rules can be based on the type of story they are designed to be emulating, or based on the life experiences of the game designer (ie "realism"), but if they don't reflect the lives of the characters in the game, that's kind of weird. Which isn't to say they know the ins and outs of the mechanics, but they should be aware of the outcomes generally produced by the mechanics, because that's the fiction they inhabit. Unless the character's perspective of the fiction is sadly at odds with the author's perspective (which is also a legitimate stance to take, of course).
I mean, yeah, you should be going to a move based on actions in the fiction, but even so, it may not always be clear what certain actions are supposed to be. You may be intending to Go Aggro and you might describe your actions in line with what you think triggers that move, and your MC might think another move is more appropriate. Like a lot of the moves in Monsterhearts require the MC to ask, like "so it sounds like you're shutting someone down here, yeah?" And you might say "oh, no no, I wanted to lash out physically, that's why I grabbed her arm." Or something. Anyway, I think I'm off on a tangent now.
« Last Edit: August 10, 2012, 12:47:41 AM by Johnstone »
JasonT
These examples are interesting because they're leading me to wonder whether I'd be better off with a modified version of Go Aggro than a modified version of Seize By Force (the latter of which being what most of the hacks mentioned above use).
What bugs me about using Go Aggro as written is the fact that you can use it before the shooting starts. I don't picture this setting as a lawless wasteland where your instincts take over if the enemy you threaten makes the wrong move. In this setting, when you threaten somebody, you should get to decide afterward – or perhaps better yet, realize afterward – that you're not actually willing to follow through with violence. This is why I'd rather have intimidation mechanics grouped under the Manipulation move, as some other hacks have done.
What I really do like about Go Aggro as described in Johnstone's examples, however, is that it involves actually opening fire, but is still described as a means to an end. Choosing to "suck it up" can even be a tactical decision from NPCs who want to fire back and do you harm. That actually feels more flexible than Seize by Force, but I wonder whether hacks have avoided adapting Go Aggro for that because the move can be so confusing. Maybe if you were using something like Go Aggro as your only combat move, you'd just need to make it more explicit in the wording of the move that you CAN still deal damage on a 7-9 if your opponent decides to suck it up in exchange for the option to shoot back. Looked at that way – assuming I get the move now – every time you use the move is an implied invitation to your enemy to surrender and end the fight, but still leaves open the opportunity to exchange fire until someone actually gets disabled. That may be a little higher-risk than how this move is normally used, though...
So I did some playtesting for World of Algol last night, specifically to test out violence moves, as that is my most important current dilemma (now you know why I have so much to say on this topic!).
I started off using the less-complicated violence move (which is more like Seize by Force):
When you make an attack, declare your intentions and roll+mighty. On a hit, your enemy must choose to allow your maneuver, give in to your demands, or suffer harm as determined by your weapon. Additionally, on a 10+, choose 2. On a 7-9, choose 1:
* You force your enemy to move.
* You inflict +1 harm.
* You suffer -1 harm.
* You take definite hold of something.
We started off with a fight in a bar. The PC was a Bravo, laden down with mighty weapons. The first round of the fight he attacked the gang leader with his magic sword while two minions with mundane swords tried to hack him up. He threatened the leader with 4-harm but his maneuver was to break the guy's cybernetic arm, so I took that option. The two swordsmen couldn't get through his armour, because he chose to suffer -1 harm.
The guy in the corner with the laserpistol was trying to blast him, so he charged and took a laser blast he didn't even notice. But he skewered the gunman and threw him at the other swordsmen. Then he charged them, killed one and knocked the sword out of the other's hand. He had to make the harm move here, and his accumulated wounds meant that he stumbled and dropped his sword.
He managed to make his recover move and triumphed in the end. He used his stun whip to knock them unconscious and I was a bit uncertain as to whether they should be able to attack him back, seeing as the stun whip has a longer reach (which is definitely something for me to think about). Overall, it was pretty brutal
Then a fat merchant came out and said he passed the test. The merchant wanted a might warrior to retrieve some magical purple rocks from a wizard who had stolen them. So the Bravo, after healing up, went off to the wizard's tower and we switched to the more complicated violence move (which is a bit more like Go Aggro):
When you make an attack, declare your intentions and roll+mighty. On a hit, your enemy must choose 1:
* Allow your maneuver.
* Back off or flee (if an escape route is available).
* Suffer harm, as determined by your weapon.
* Take cover and stay there (if cover is available).
Additionally, on a 10+, you may choose 1:
* You cut off any chance of escape.
On a 7-9, unless you have some superior advantage in terms of position, surprise, or weaponry, if you inflict harm the GM may choose 1:
* You make yourself vulnerable to counterattack.
* You need to move to a new position.
* You strain or overextend yourself, your gear, or your other resources.
* Your attack causes collateral damage.
So the Bravo got ambushed outside the tower. A sniper with a lasergun tried to pick him off, so he pulled out his needlegun rifle, took what little cover was available, and fired back. With his 10+, he forced his opponent to move, so the sniper bugged off the hilltop right quick -- needleguns do little damage but are designed to deliver poison.
At that moment five riders on bird-steeds carrying lances came over the opposite ridge and charged the Bravo. He pulled out his disruptor ray and when the riders were close enough and blasted them. Unfortunately (because of a miss), the magical forces emanating from the wizard's tower turned the disruptor blast into a psychic storm that engulfed everybody. The Bravo fell unconscious.
He awoke with his hands bound inside the wizard's tower, all his gear on a table a ways away. When the wizard tried to use a spell on him, he charged past the wizard and through the riders standing around, snapped his bonds and took up his magic sword. One of the guards leaped onto his back while the others drew their short swords. The Bravo threw the guard off and fled through a doorway, into a store room. His attempt to block the door with a barrel went awry when one of the guards slashed his chest and he fell beneath a barrel. He managed to recover immediately (10+ on his recover roll) and flailing wildly, he pushed past the guards and out of the store room. In the main room, the Bravo grabbed the wizard and used him as a hostage. When the guards dropped their swords, the Bravo threw the wizard aside and charged them and chopped some of them up, but the rest tried to wrestle his sword away from him. He dropped his sword and ran to his gear, picked up his stun whip and went to town. The wizard fled and the Bravo mercilessly dispatched the unconscious riders.
I wanted to try some more ranged combat, so I had the sniper and the wizard ambush the Bravo in town. He saw the sniper poking his laser rifle from around the corner of a shack, with the wizard exhorting him in a rage. The Bravo threw his spear and the sniper dropped his gun and fled (again). The wizard began to cast a spell, but since the Bravo was mounted on one of the bird-steeds, he ran him down and trampled him. then he made a deal with him that he would take him to a healer if he would reveal what the purple rocks do. The Bravo didn't like the answer and began to think twice about returning them to the fat merchant.
There was more repeat rolling of the attack move in the second fight, but ironically it felt like there was more tactical positioning in that fight and less repetition. The first fight felt like the two sides meet and exchange blows and the player rolls. There was a bit of an "attrition" feeling to it, and since in one fight the Bravo had armour and in the other he didn't, the player really noticed how effective it was (I use harm similar to AW, I don't use HP and rolled damage like DW does). After a few times using the simple move, the player said he could sort of see how a certain situation was going to go before even rolling -- the complicated move had more back-and-forth.
In the second fight, there was more instances of enemies fleeing or backing off and letting the Bravo maneuver his way around the battle. There was more back-and-forth, too. The wizard cast a magic missile at the Bravo, he went into danger and rolled a 7-9, so I said he could reach the wizard if he was affected by the spell, or he could dodge away in the opposite direction. He dodged into the storeroom. After taking a wound in the storeroom, he charged out of the room, past the riders trying to get into the room. He rolled good, so the riders backed away from his wildly-swinging sword blade and he got out of the storeroom. Then the Bravo charged the wizard and tried to grab him, and rolled 10+. I looked at taking 3-harm from his magic sword and decided the wizard would flee down the stairs behind him instead. The player chose to cut off his escape route, and so I decided he managed to grab the wizard.
I had already used a move similar to this complicated one the last time we playtested World of Algol and in that game there was a lot of just choosing the same options every time an attack was made. This time, not so much. In any case, it wasn't conclusive exactly, but still good data for how a single PC uses both of these moves.
Thanks for sharing how those moves worked out. Really interesting to see some details that differ from what I've seen elsewhere.
I'm wondering if there's a way to mix Go Aggro and Seize by Force into something relatively simple and versatile. Like:
When you attack someone capable of fighting back, roll+hard. On a 10+, choose 3. On a 7-9, choose 2.
Deal harm. (But they can make a move in response.)
If you deal harm, increase harm by 1.
If they attack in response, reduce harm by 1.
Gain some advantage or deal some disadvantage to them (e.g., maneuver them someplace dangerous, hobble them, disarm them, make an impression on them, etc.).
Give them the option to take no effects from this move if they take cover or otherwise forgo making a move of their own in response.
(Edited to fix an issue I found in this.)
« Last Edit: August 11, 2012, 08:39:11 PM by JasonT »
I feel like it's a bit too fiddly, and there's some false choice in there. To me, it looks like my simple violence move except the initial choice offered to the enemy (allow your maneuver, submit to your demands, or suffer harm) has been put into the choices, which means that just allowing your enemy a way out weakens your leverage for coercing them to actually take that way out. And then +1 harm can't be chosen unless deal harm is chosen, but the choices are presented as if they have no prerequisites (also, Daniel will criticize you for this if I don't). It feels less user-friendly to me, but then again I'm not one of your players, so...
I do like the phrasing of giving yourself an advantage in terms of positioning or disadvantaging your opponent in some way. I would probably make them different options, actually (so I can put him into a headlock AND drag him through the poison ivy).
Also, an aside: So like I know you state it clearly in the OP, and I saw you x-posting this on Story Games and all that, but it was only literally just now that I saw the thread you necro'd on rpg.net and realized... this is an In Nomine hack... and not a Nobilis hack. Hilarious!
Quote from: Johnstone on August 12, 2012, 06:41:45 AM
Isn't somebody working on a Nobilis hack already? Then again, you can't put anything past a dude who cross-posts a question to three totally different websites, nercros a thread on one of them, and posts in the totally wrong forum on another one. (I just remembered I said I'd move this discussion to the hacks forum, too, so I think I'll do that now.)
Response to your post in summary: Yeah, you identified some problems, but at least one part identified as a weakness was meant to be a strength, given demands of the setting. I do need to rework it, though.
Isn't somebody working on a Nobilis hack already?
I'm sure I've seen something. If I had to bet money off the top of my head, I'd go with Jonathan Walton maybe? Anyway...
Lettuce go to uthah thread!
I thought for a bit before I decided to perform necromancy on this thread, but I think that given this subforum's intended purpose as a study for hacking it seemed appropriate to put my comments here such that further hackers can find it one thread rather than two. So, without further ado...
I think the separation between Seize By Force, Go Aggro, and Seduce or Manipulate is very intriguing. Each move occupies its own very specific niche within the fiction, and there are very specific circumstances where each is appropriate. I think what got lost in the early part of this discussion is not so much the structure of the moves themselves, but rather the stats upon which they are based.
Seize By Force represents the conscious commission of violence. AW is interesting in its use of violence in that it's one of the few games I've encountered that makes no allowance for the kinds of things that most RPGs care about when you talk about smacking people (speed, strength, skill, etc). In AW, violence is all about having the will and aggressiveness to hurt somebody else in order to achieve your goal. With everyone walking around packing guns, this sort of makes sense. Any idiot can pull a trigger, but do you really have the stones to look a man in the eye and take his life? It all boils down to how Hard you are, and the governing stat makes sense.
By the same token, Go Aggro is about being absolutely ready and willing to commit vioence, but still giving the other guy the option to back down. But if he doesn't you're not going to waste a second thought to hurting him. You have already decided you're willing (and able) to hurt him. You're not hesitating for your sake, you're giving him an out. And maybe the only reason you're doing so is because this jackass isn't worth the bullet you're about to put into him and you're trying to save yourself some jingle on ammo. But either way you are committed, and your opponent knows it. He can look you in the eye, know that you are Hard, and know that if he doesn't do what you want he's going to suffer for it.
As an aside, I feel like a lot of the difference between which of these two moves is appropriate comes out in the fiction. If I can realistically narrate that I've got the drop on you, then Go Aggro is appropriate, because I'll get a chance to inflict Harm before you can do anything. But if we're already all guns-in-hand and looking at each other Mexican-standoff style waiting for someone to twitch, then if I choose to resort to violence I must put myself at risk. I can maybe do things to minimize that risk (i.e. choose to "suffer little Harm" and narrate my actions appropriately), but I'm not getting out of this without a few holes in my hide.
But Seduce or Manipulate isn't about your Hard, it's about your Hot. I've always seen Hot as how socially adroit you are, how much interpersonal acumen you have. If you are threatening someone using Go Aggro, the other guy already knows you're serious. If you're threatening someone using Manipulate, you trying to make the other guy believe you're serious. Your threat is intrinsically empty because you have no intention of actually committing violence (because if you did, you'd be using Hard). But the other guy doesn't know that, and you're using everything you know about how people tick to get him to buy what you're selling.
Anecdote time: I know a guy who illustrated this principle very well. Picture if you will a crowded bar in a college town. A big dude knocks into my associate, precipitating the spilling of some of the associate's drink on said big guy.
The big dude says, "What the fuck is your problem?"
My associate says, "You are, you idiot. Watch where you're going."
Big dude: "Yeah? How about I pound your fucking face in, you little twerp?"
Associate (looking over said huge dude): "Dude, do you play football?"
Big Dude (flexing): "Yeah, I'm a linebacker and I crush people for breakfast. And I'm about to fuck you up. Whaddya have to say about that?"
Associate: "Only that before you beat me down I'm gonna make damn sure I get in one good hit. And I'm going to make sure that that hit explodes your knee and ends your career. So let's get started whenever you're ready, tough guy."
Now my associate was no prize physical specimen, hadn't ever been in a serious fight, and had perhaps only the vaguest inkling of how to actually break a knee. I'm not even sure he'd have been willing to try if push came to shove. But he was so good at sizing the other guy up, deducing his motivations, and playing on his opponent's fears (i.e. ending his career, losing his scholarship, ruining his chances of going pro) that he was able to effectively bluff. And he made himself seem more Hard than he actually was (more willing to actually put up a fight). Had the big dude not bought the lie, he would have beaten my associate to a bleeding pulp and suffered no injury to himself. But he hesitated, and ultimately backed down. In my mind this is a perfect example of using the (empty) threat of violence to Manipulate someone.
Right, so the reason I bring all this up is as a prelude to hacking myself. I'm thinking of going sort of feudal Japan in flavor, with traits like Honor, Composure, Passion, Insight, and Fury. And I'm trying to decide how best to span the dimensions of attributes and basic moves to capture some of this same nuance. I'm thinking of separating Go Aggro into two separate moves, those being Impose Your Will and Strike Without Warning. This would split off the kind of "sniping from an elevated position" aspect off from Go Aggro, and let me do things like introduce some more finely-tuned stat-substitution moves (like the hypothetical Ninja playbook, which might let someone use Insight rather than Fury to Strike Without Warning, meaning that the Ninja is good at observing his opponent as a prelude to a surprise attack, but which doesn't also make him better at threatening people).
Seduce is obviously off Passion, that's a no-brainer. But when I get to manipulation, deceit, and driving bargains, I'm at a little bit of a loss. Hot is kind of cool in that it's sort of all things social, and includes figuring out how to apply what you know about how people tick to achieve the effect you want. But some of that is Insight as well (i.e. Read a Person). Do I have Passion serve as a direct substitute for Hot and tie both Seduce and Manipulate to the same stat just like in AW? I don't really want to tie it to Insight, but I'd hate to have another stat just for lying.
Ironically, Honor might be the best stat here. When you are lying to someone, roll-Honor. So slimy characters who lack honor are good at lying, but upstanding dudes who care about their own integrity have a harder time with it. And Reputation (one of the potential currencies within the game) certainly enters the equation - if I have a reputation for being an upstanding dude but am actually a slimy bastard, it should be a) easy for me to lie to you and b) more likely for you to believe it. But then again not all manipulation is based on lies, so I'm kind of going in circles in my head.
Thoughts, suggestions, or ideas?
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On your shogun-era game's manipulate:
First, why not Insight? In your college bar example that's exactly what's at issue:
But he was so good at sizing the other guy up, deducing his motivations, and playing on his opponent's fears (i.e. ending his career, losing his scholarship, ruining his chances of going pro) that he was able to effectively bluff
How is this not Insight? Now, one could certainly argue that the knowledge of how to manipulate someone doesn't translate into the chutzpah to actually do it; I suspect that I, myself, might well have had the insight that the linebacker would be loath to risk his ACL tendon, but I know for sure that I wouldn't have had the recklessness and self-confident to turn that knowledge into an empty threat. But that's me. Note that in your description of the encounter, you're emphasizing the knowledge of how to manipulate.
When you write the kind of game that an AW hack is, you're not trying to model all of possible reality (here, social reality): rather, you're creating a kind of engine to create a certain kind of story, full of the kinds of characters who inhabit that kind of story. AW's parsing of seize/go aggro/seduce&manipulate creates a specific world, full of characters who know full well when they lift the gun that if the fucker doesn't back down they'll pull the trigger, and others who know full well that they're bluffing. Those are the people that that world is full of, the people left here after what happened. The fact that those moves constrain and channel the possibilities of who the characters get to be is a virtue, not a flaw. Monsterhearts' turn someone on/shut someone down/lash out physically (and, late in the game, its corresponding Growing Up moves) structure that space totally differently, which makes the stories that game produces distinctly different. AW is full of Hot characters who turn others on knowing full well what that will accomplish, where to go from there, and use it efficaciously to further their goals. MH is full of Hot characters who turn others (especially other PCs) on, not fully understanding or in control of the consequences. (For a more overt example, MH explicitly drops helping moves, so that the characters won't have much luck helping each other).
If I was in that bar with the jock, there is no way in hell I would have threatened his knee. But nor would I have been the slightest bit scared of him. I would have been charming, and the conversation would have ended with him laughing at his own overreaction. Now, you can model that in AW, with some effort, as manipulate with some kind of marginal leverage (my approval? the relaxed attention of another human being? him not looking like an asshole for hitting someone so clearly being friendly?), and those all reference some of the de-escalatory tactics I might have employed, but they would do so only with some effort, by pushing the narrative into a different frame than the one it inhabits in my head (and, as I say, this is a virtue -- because I don't live in Apocalypse World). This is not unrelated to the fact that, in my game, the relevant stat is Charming.
So -- if you actually see manipulation as largely a matter of insight into people, you might consider going with that. If your concern is that that messes up game balance -- because Insight is already the root of various other moves -- I'd say maybe don't try and balance too early. It's better to have an unbalanced game that expresses something interesting than a balanced game with a muddy heart.
By that same token, "roll-honor" is cool too. It's a sort of fundamental hack (but an interesting one) to start having stats that work both ways, benefiting some rolls and hurting others. You have to think carefully what that does, because it has ripple effects throughout the game. AW has a relatively simple structure in that every single stat is a thing which, if it goes up, will straightforwardly push you away from 6- territory and towards 10+ territory. It's a profound shift to change that. It makes "honor" what we might call a Trollbabe stat. That's cool, and, for that matter, you might actually want to build on it. In a game set in a Buddhist cultural context it would make perfect sense for Passion to be a Trollbabe stat too: monks deriving power from nonattachment want it low, while maybe poets, bar-room wrestlers, and tempestuous warlords want it high.
(Or maybe I misconstrue what Passion is. You say Passion would be the no-brainer stat for Seduce, but that's not at all clear to me. If this is like AW's seduce -- not sex for sex's sake, but sex to get something -- then inspiring passion in others, but keeping my own head cool and not falling for the guy myself, seem to be pretty fundamental. I don't imagine a character who is himself utterly Passionate at being adept at employing sex hardheartedly as a tool. Inspiring great tragic romances, yes; strategizing who will be the most useful to glean information from during pillow talk, no. But maybe your insights about the human condition, or your read on the characters the genre is peopled with, differ here. Maybe you want to explicitly push characters who are adept at getting others to fall in love with them manipulatively, to also be at risk of falling in love right back themselves. Maybe you want the stat to tie "desiring" and "being desired" together, on purpose, because that's part of what you're saying with the game, or what kind of characters you want to inhabit it).
If you go with Trollbabe stats, I wonder if you actually need Composure: could it be the flip side of Passion? Or do they, instead, work together somehow: Composure is the capacity to control Passion, so the higher your Passion, the more you find yourself in need of Composure? A zen monk who has excised Passion from himself has little need of Composure, a swordsman whose blood boils at every insult and whose heart belongs to his liege's lady has enormous need for it? If so, that's also an interesting relationship between stats, right? It's sort of like how Sharp affords other stats in AW, but in reverse....
Or, hmm, is it Composure and Fury which relate in this manner? What's the border between Passion and Fury? Because, just looking at the words, fury seems like one of the passions. But perhaps you mean by passion something more like "the profound appreciation of beauty" and by fury "the righteous wrath of the warrior unleashed". (Did you ever see Emily Care Boss's game City of the Moon? It's set in Heian-era Japan. There was a playtest version up at one point, seems to have been taken down now. The stats were miyabi -- elegance, refinement -- and aware -- sensitivity to the impermanence of things.)
I know I'm totally running off with your game in a direction you never intended by talking about Trollbabe stats -- I just wanted to illustrate how one innocent little "roll-stat" does begin to change everything. And I kind of like the idea of tradeoff stats in a game in this setting, and if you imply about honor that it's a help in some contexts and a hindrance in others, it raises the question of what other aspects of a person's character are like that too? There would be something elegant about making all the stats Trollbabe stats, like: Honor (high for winning reputation and the respect of the wise, perhaps that of the very universe; low for manipulating, perhaps for manipulating fools particularly), Passion (high for unleashing warrior Fury and for falling in tragic and mutual love; low for monkish nonattachment, composure, Buddhist metaphysical attainment, but also for coldhearted manipulation without becoming attached), perhaps Simplicity (high for Taoist immediate natural insight into people and things and the harmony of the universe; low for Confucian legalistic complexity and erudition, courtly graces)...
Well anyway.
As for reputation: is it a currency? As with stats, currencies in AW are straightforward. A stat in AW is something which, if it gets better, you get better at doing stuff. A currency in AW is something which, if you have it, you can spend it, to effect. There are no moves in AW, afaik, which go "roll+barter, but you don't have to spend the barter" or "roll+stock, but don't spend the stock".
I also have a reputation currency in Shtetl World, and it doesn't quite follow this rule -- there are times when your static reputation matters, without having to spend it. But there's at least one basic move, rebuke, which is "roll+reputation spent"; the fiction being, if you don't have any real leverage to control someone, you can simply curse and revile and start a blatant public feud with them, savaging their reputation, but it's a negative-sum game; you put their name in the mouths of the shtetl's gossips only by putting your own in their too ("did you hear what Gittel said about Feigele? I can't believe..." etc.) I wanted to make this move attractive, in order to fill Shtetl World with the kind of divisive, brutal, corrosive gossip and quarrels which have characterized Jewish social life since Talmudic times (the sages spend an enormous amount of time discussing gossip and its effects)... and which makes sense in a historical context for a society which has largely had to police itself internally without much recourse to a state-like monopoly on violence. But I digress.
Point is, reputation is a currency if you can both earn, and also spend it. In Shtetl World it's a quasi-currency, because you can earn and spend it, but it's also used as a bonus or limiting factor for certain moves. Thus, when trying to persuade someone from the shtetl (i.e., someone for whom your reputation stat is relevant), if you have a rep above [threshold], take +1; if you have a rep below [threshold], take -1. That kind of thing.
I guess my main advice is to think about what kind of characters inhabit this world, and how they manipulate and seduce each other, rather than trying to capture manipulation and seduction in general. Is manipulating someone a matter of sacrificing your honor? (Maybe honor is a currency!) Kind of like how, in Monsterhearts, doing violence is a matter of losing control, of lashing out, showing yourself to be volatile -- something which is mechanically effective (kinda) but fictionally positioned as a lack. Is that -- the cost -- what you want to foreground when characters manipulate each other? Or is it a matter of keen understanding, of reading the other, knowing where to push? (So Insight?) So then the game is full of devilishly keen observers whose daring in putting their insights into practice goes without saying, like your friend in the bar. Or is it about being charming and suave, or refined and elegant? Or is manipulating someone a matter of leveraging your position, your power over them?
Whoah, memories...
Why not use one move for convincing/manipulating but use one stat for when you are telling the truth, and another stat for when you are lying? I dunno what all your basic moves are, but I might combine Passion and Fury, so there's just Honour, Composure, Passion, and Insight. Use passion to seduce, convince, command, or inspire when you are telling the truth. Use insight to do the same when you are lying.
Or use Composure to lie/bluff, and Insight to read a person.
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Mercury and Venus Transits
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3D Mercury Transit
Composite Credit & Copyright: Greg Piepol
Mercury is now visible shortly before dawn, the brightest "star" just above the eastern horizon. But almost two weeks ago Mercury actually crossed the face of the Sun for the second time in the 21st century. Viewed with red/blue glasses, this stereo anaglyph combines space-based images of the Sun and innermost planet in a just-for-fun 3D presentation of the Mercury transit. The solar disk image is from Hinode. (sounds like "hee-no-day", means sunrise). A sun-staring observatory, Hinode was launched from Uchinoura Space Center and viewed the transit from Earth orbit. Superimposed on Mercury's dark silhouette is a detailed image of the planet's rugged surface based on data from the Mariner 10 probe that flew by Mercury in 1974 and 1975.
Hand Drawn Transit
Credit & Copyright: Mark Seibold
The sight of Mercury's tiny round disk drifting slowly across the face of the Sun inspired and entertained many denizens of planet Earth last week. In fact, artist and astronomer Mark Seibold viewed both the 1999 and 2006 transits of the solar system's innermost planet through solar filtered telescopes and composed this rendering of Mercury "hovering in the photosphere" near the edge of an enormous solar disk. The original work is a 23 by 17 inch pastel sketch. While the artist's hand is creatively superimposed, Seibold concentrated on offering an impression of Mercury's silhouette, surrounded by shadings reflecting his visual experience that are not easily captured in photographic exposures. Of course, before the age of cameras drawings were more widely used to record telescopic observations of sunspots and planetary transits.
Mercury's Transit: An Unusual Spot on the Sun
Credit & Copyright: David Cortner
What's that dot on the Sun? If you look closely, it is almost perfectly round. The dot is the result of an unusual type of solar eclipse that occurred last week. Usually it is the Earth's Moon that eclipses the Sun. Last week, for the first time in over three years, the planet Mercury took a turn. Like the approach to New Moon before a solar eclipse, the phase of Mercury became a continually thinner crescent as the planet progressed toward an alignment with the Sun. Eventually the phase of Mercury dropped to zero and the dark spot of Mercury crossed our parent star. The situation could technically be labeled a Mercurian annular eclipse with an extraordinarily large ring of fire. From above the cratered planes of the night side of Mercury, the Earth appeared in its fullest phase. Hours later, as Mercury continued in its orbit, a slight crescent phase appeared again. The next Mercurian solar eclipse will occur in 2016.
Mercury and the Chromosphere
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Enjoying Wednesday's transit of Mercury from Dallas, Texas, astronomer Phil Jones recorded this detailed image of the Sun. Along with a silhouette of the innermost planet, a network of cells and dark filaments can be seen against a bright solar disk with spicules and prominences along the Sun's edge. The composited image was taken through a telescope equiped with an H-alpha filter that narrowly transmits only the red light from hydrogen atoms. Such images emphasize the solar chromosphere, the region of the Sun's atmosphere immediately above its photosphere or normally visible surface. Left of center, the tiny disk of Mercury seems to be imitating a small sunspot that looks a little too round. But in H-alpha pictures, sunspot regions are usually dominated by bright splotches (called plages) on the solar chromosphere.
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Simulated Transit of Mercury
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Mercury, the solar system's innermost planet, will spend about five hours crossing in front of the Sun today - beginning at 1912 UT (2:12pm EST), November 8. Specially equipped telescopes are highly recommended to safely spot the planet's diminutive silhouette however, as Mercury should appear about 200 times smaller than the enormous solar disk. This simulated view is based on a filtered solar image recorded on November 3rd. It shows active regions and the Mercury transit across the Sun at six positions from lower left to middle right. Depending on your location, the Sun may not be above the horizon during the entire transit, but webcasts of the event are planned - including one using images from the sun-staring SOHO spacecraft. This is the second of 14 transits of Mercury during the 21st century. The next similar event will be a transit of Venus in June of 2012.
Space Station, Venus, Sun
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On June 8, Venus was not the only celestial object to pass in front of the Sun. A few well-situated photographers caught the International Space Station also crossing the Sun simultaneously. Pictured above is a unique time-lapse image of the unprecedented double transit, a rare event that was visible for less than a second from a narrow band on Earth. The above image is a combination of 12 frames taken 0.033 seconds apart and each themselves lasting only 1/10,000 th of a second. The image was taken from the small village of Stupava in Slovakia. The next time Venus will appear to cross the Sun from Earth will be in 2012.
Transit of Venus Stereogram
Credit: G. Schneider (Steward Obs.), J. Pasachoff (Williams College), TRACE Project, NASA
Venus glides in front of an enormous solar disk in these two frames from the TRACE satellite imaging of the inner planet's 2004 transit. Arranged in a "right/left" stereogram, the frames are intended to be viewed at a comfortable distance from the screen with your eyes gently crossed, allowing the images to merge and produce a pleasing stereo effect. Shown during the ingress (beginning) phase of the transit, the silhouetted portion of the planet appears to float dramatically in front of the Sun's granulated surface. Of course, the dense Cytherian (Venusian) atmosphere also scatters and refracts the intense sunlight. The effect is visible across the portion of the planet still beyond the Sun's edge and viewed against the blackness of space.
A Picturesque Venus Transit
The rare transit of Venus across the face of the Sun earlier this month was one of the better-photographed events in sky history. Both scientific and artistic images have been flooding in from the areas that could see the transit: Europe and much of Asia, Africa, and North America. Scientifically, solar photographers confirmed that the black drop effect is really better related to the viewing clarity of the camera or telescope than the atmosphere of Venus. Artistically, images might be divided into several categories. One type captures the transit in front of a highly detailed Sun. Another category captures a double coincidence such as both Venus and an airplane simultaneously silhouetted, or Venus and the International Space Station in low Earth orbit. A third image type involves a fortuitous arrangement of interesting looking clouds, as shown by example in the above image taken from North Carolina, USA. There the distant orb of giant Venus might have been mistaken, at first glance, for a small but unusually circular cloud.
A Rare Annular Venusian Solar Eclipse
Credit & Copyright: Peter Lawrence
An unusual type of solar eclipse occurred last week. Usually it is the Earth's Moon that eclipses the Sun. Last week, for the first time in over 100 years, the planet Venus took a turn. Like a solar eclipse by the Moon, the phase of Venus became a continually thinner crescent as Venus became increasingly better aligned with the Sun. Eventually the alignment became perfect and the phase of Venus dropped to zero. The dark spot of Venus crossed our parent star. The situation could technically be labeled a Venusian annular eclipse with an extraordinarily large ring of fire. From above the thick cloud tops of Venus, the Earth appeared in its fullest phase, brighter in the Venusian sky than even Mars appeared from Earth last August. Hours later, as Venus continued in its orbit, a slight crescent phase appeared again. The next Venusian solar eclipse will occur in 2012.
Venus and the Chromosphere
Credit & Copyright: Stefan Seip
Enjoying the 2004 Transit of Venus from Stuttgart, Germany, astronomer Stefan Seip recorded this fascinating, detailed image of the Sun. Revealing a network of cells and dark filaments against a bright solar disk with spicules and prominences along the Sun's limb, his telescopic picture was taken through an H-alpha filter. The filter narrowly transmits only the red light from hydrogen atoms and emphasizes the solar chromosphere -- the region of the Sun's atmosphere immediately above its photosphere or normally visible surface. Here, the dark disk of Venus seems to be imitating a giant sunspot that looks perhaps a little too round. But in H-alpha pictures like this one, sunspot regions are usually dominated by bright splotches (called plages) on the solar chromosphere.
Venus at the Edge
Credit: D. Kiselman, et al. (Inst. for Solar Physics), Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.
With Venus in transit at the Sun's edge on June 8th, astronomers captured this tantalizing close-up view of the bright solar surface and partially silhouetted disk. Enhanced in the sharp picture, a delicate arc of sunlight refracted through the Venusian atmosphere is also visible outlining the planet's edge against the blackness of space. The arc is part of a luminous ring or atmospheric aureole, first noted and offered as evidence that Venus did posses an atmosphere following observations of the planet's 1761 transit. The image was recorded using the 1-meter Swedish Solar Telescope located on La Palma in the Canary Islands. For the Institute for Solar Physics, Dan Kiselman, Goran Scharmer, Kai Langhans, and Peter Dettori were at the telescope, while Mats Lofdahl produced the final image. Excellent movies of the transit - including one of the emergence of Venus' atmospheric aureole - are available from the Dutch Open Telescope, also observing from La Palma.
2004 June 9
Venus Transit at Sunrise
Credit & Copyright: Jimmy Westlake (Colorado Mountain College)
Did you see the transit? While some watched by webcast, sky gazers in Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and Asia were able to witness the complete 6 hour journey of Venus' silhouetted disk across the face of the Sun. As seen from North America, the much heralded Venus Transit of 2004 was nearing its final stages at sunrise yesterday in this telescopic image. The view looks across the Atlantic from Tybee Island near Savannah, Georgia, USA. In fact, many in eastern North America experienced a dramatic view of a perfect, dark, round Venus against a reddened Sun filtered by banks of low clouds. Ironically, the Sun takes on the appearance of a cloud covered planet itself as Venus marches toward the right through this dreamlike scene.
A Planet Transits the Sun
Credit & Copyright: Ronald F. Dantowitz (The Clay Center)
Today an astronomical event will occur that no living person has ever seen: Venus will cross directly in front of the Sun. A Venus crossing, called a transit, last occurred in 1882 and was front-page news around the world. Today's transit will be visible in its entirety throughout Europe and most of Asia and Africa. The northeastern half of North America will see the Sun rise with the dark dot of Venus already superposed. Never look directly at the Sun, even when Venus is in front. Mercury's closer proximity to the Sun cause it to transit every few years. In fact, the above image mosaic of Mercury crossing the Sun is from two transits ago, in November 1999. Will anyone living see the next Venus transit? Surely yes since it occurs in 2012.
A Mercury Transit Sequence
Credit & Copyright: Dominique Dierick
Earlier this month, the planet Mercury crossed the face of the Sun, as seen from Earth. Because the plane of Mercury's orbit is not exactly coincident with the plane of Earth's orbit, Mercury usually appears to pass over or under the Sun. The above time-lapse sequence, superimposed on a single frame, was taken from a balcony in Belgium on May 7 and shows the entire transit. The solar crossing lasted over five hours, so that the above 23 images were taken roughly 15 minutes apart. The north pole of the Sun, the Earth, Mercury's orbit, although all different, all occur in directions slightly above the left of the image. Near the center and on the far right, sunspots are visible.
Mercury Transits the Sun
Credit & Copyright: Thierry Legault
How big is the Sun? The Sun is not only larger than any planet, it is larger than all of the planets put together. The Sun accounts for about 99.9 percent of all the mass in its Solar System. Merely stating the Sun's diameter is about 1,400,000 kilometers does not do it justice. Last week a chance to gain visual size perspective occurred when planet Mercury made a rare crossing in front to Sun. Mercury, a planet over a third of the diameter of our Earth, is the dark dot on the upper right. In comparison to the Sun, Mercury is so small it is initially hard to spot. Also visible on the Sun are dark circular sunspots, bright plages, and dark elongated prominences -- many of which are larger than Mercury. The above contrast-enhanced picture was captured last week from France.
Mercury Spotting
Credit: SOHO - EIT Consortium, ESA, NASA
Can you spot the planet? The diminutive disk of Mercury, the solar system's innermost planet, spent about five hours crossing in front of the enormous solar disk yesterday (Wednesday, May 7th), as viewed from the general vicinity of planet Earth. The Sun was above the horizon during the entire transit for observers in Europe, Africa, Asia, or Australia, and the horizon was certainly no problem for the sun-staring SOHO spacecraft. Seen as a dark spot, Mercury progresses from left to right (top panel to bottom) in these four images from SOHO's extreme ultraviolet camera. The panels' false-colors correspond to different wavelengths in the extreme ultraviolet which highlight regions above the Sun's visible surface. This is the first of 14 transits of Mercury which will occur during the 21st century, but the next similar event will be a transit of Venus in June of 2004. Need help spotting Mercury? Just click on the picture.
Spot The Planet
Credit & Copyright: Rick Scott and Joe Orman
OK, it's a picture of the Sun (duh!), but can you spot the planet? Of course, most of the spots you've spotted are sunspots, as large or larger than planet Earth itself. The sunspots are regions of strong surface magnetic fields which are dark in this picture only because they are relatively cool compared to their surroundings. Over the past few years, the number of sunspots has been steadily increasing as the Sun approaches the maximum in its 11 year activity cycle. But also visible in this photograph from November 15, is planet Mercury. At just over 1/3 Earth's size, Mercury is passing in front of the Sun, its silhouette briefly creating a diminutive dark spot drifting across an enormous solar disk. While "transits" of Mercury do occur 13 times a century, this one was additionally a very rare grazing transit of our Solar System's innermost planet. Spotted Mercury yet? Click on the picture for a hint.
Mercury And The Sun
Credit: Brian Handy (Montana State Univ.), TRACE Project
Just days before the peak of the Leonid meteor shower, skywatchers were offered another astronomical treat as planet Mercury crossed the face of the Sun on November 15. Viewed from planet Earth, a transit of Mercury is not all that rare. The last occurred in 1993 and the next will happen in 2003. Enjoying a mercurial transit does require an appropriately filtered telescope, still the event can be dramatic as the diminutive well-done world drifts past the dominating solar disk. This slow loading gif animation is based on images recorded by the earth-orbiting TRACE satellite. The false-color TRACE images were made in ultraviolet light and tend to show the hot gas just above the Sun's visible surface. Mercury's disk is silhouetted against the seething plasma as it follows a trajectory near the edge of the Sun.
X-ray Transit Of Mercury
Credit: ISAS, Yohkoh Project
This sequence of false color X-ray images captures a rare event - the passage or transit of planet Mercury in front of the Sun. Mercury's small disk is silhouetted against the bright background of X-rays from the hot Solar Corona. It appears just to the right of center in the top frame and moves farther right as the sequence progresses toward the bottom. The dark notch is a coronal hole near the Solar South Pole, while a flaring coronal bright point can be seen to the left of the notch in the top frames. The frames were recorded on November 6, 1993 by the Soft X-ray Telescope on board the orbiting Yohkoh satellite. Transits of Mercury (and Venus) were historically used to discover the geometry of the solar system and to map planet Earth itself.
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BMA: ‘On Right Track Of Achieving Equivalence’
Following high-level talks with officials in Brussels earlier this month, the Bermuda Monetary Authority remains confident that Bermuda will be successful in its bid to win equivalence with Europe’s Solvency II Directive.
The Authority also said they are “optimistic that European Commission undertakings exempting captive insurance companies in Bermuda from the Solvency II provisions will be honoured.”
Authority Chief Executive Officer Jeremy Cox said he was pleased with the tenor and content of the talks he held in Brussels.“I came away from the meetings with a renewed level of confidence,” said Mr. Cox.
“It is clear that we are on the right track, both in terms of achieving equivalence for our commercial insurers and reinsurers and in terms of securing the promised exemptions for Bermuda’s captive or limited purpose insurers.”
Mr. Cox said that the meetings, which were arranged in collaboration with the Bermuda Government and the Association of Bermuda Insurers and Reinsurers, provided a further indication that the relationships which have been developed over recent years with the Commission, the regulatory body, EIOPA, and with members of the European Parliament, have helped pave the way for the current dialogue to take place.
Ms. Shanna Lespere, the Authority’s newly-appointed Director of International Affairs, who also attended the talks, said she was “impressed by the commitment of officials in Brussels to treat Bermuda fairly.”
Ms. Lespere added: “We are not yet over the finish line so I think our continuation of a strong advocacy programme remains a critical support element to achieving our goals in Europe.”
Group supervision, the merits of full equivalence, transitional equivalence, delays in Solvency II implementation and relations between Bermuda and EIOPA were among other subjects covered in technical discussions the Authority held in Brussels.
Cox: “This Is Significant News For Bermuda”
BMA Pursues Full Equivalence For Solvency II
Island “Well Placed To Reach Equivalency”
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Royal Enfield opens stores in Madrid and Paris
October 13, 2015 by Ryan Lee Leave a Comment
Royal Enfield announced the opening of two new stores in Madrid and Paris. This move is a part of the company’s growth strategy in Europe, to promote the mid-size motorcycles in the 250cc – 750cc segment.
At the opening of the stores Royal Enfield unveiled their limited edition motorcycle range inspired by ‘Despatch Riders’ from the World War. The motorcycles showcased were – Battle Green Despatch, Desert Storm Despatch and Squadron Blue Despatch. Apart from the new range of motorcycles, Royal Enfield also showcased the company’s collection of motorcycle accessories and apparel.
Commenting on the occasion of the store launches, Arun Gopal, International Business Head, Royal Enfield said, “France and Spain represent two of the most important markets for us in Europe. We have witnessed immense growth in both France and in Spain, which is fuelled by our close proximity to the customers in these regions through a wide distribution network and increasing dealerships in the past few months. Our evocative product range available at an accessible price point is what appeals to motorcycling enthusiasts in these markets. The exclusive stores are part a of Royal Enfield’s new retail strategy, showcasing our brand philosophy of ‘Pure Motorcycling’ in every aspect of the Royal Enfield ownership experience. The concept stores that draw inspiration similar to a living room of an motorcycling enthusiast has been designed to provide an impressive retail experience to our customers internationally. In future we are also looking at other cities in these countries to expand our distribution network, in addition to a strong after-market network and infrastructure to ensure full service support.”
October 8th, 2015.
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Recent Research Progress of Long Non-coding RNA
In general, long non-coding RNA (lncRNA) refers to the transcripts that are greater than 200 nucleotides in length which cannot encode a protein but have influential functions. Recently, lncRNA has gradually become a hot spot in the study of biology. This review summarized the advances in unde... (29 Dec., 2018)
Construction of Overexpression Vector of CONSTANS Gene Plant in Brassica napus and Production of Transgenic Plants
The CONSTANS target gene from Brassica napus was cloned, and the full length amplified primer of it was designed and amplified on the sequence released on NCBI. The target gene fragments were sequenced and the restriction loci were analyzed. The enzyme primers (BamHⅠ, SacⅠ) were designe... (14 Dec., 2018)
Immunohistochemical Research of the Expression of Nile Tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus) NCCRP-1 in Various Tissues
It is well known that non-specific cytotoxic cell is a kind of lymphocyte in teleosts, which plays an important role in nonspecific immunity by up-regulating inflammation response and releasing cytokines. NCCs are equivalents of NK cells in mammals. NCC in fishes distributes in tissues and org... (29 Dec., 2018)
Identification and Detection Analysis of SSR Purities of Three Tender Pumpkin Cultivars
Simple sequence repeat (SSR) molecular markers and traditional field identification were used to identify the purity of three widely popularized hybrid cultivars of tender pumpkin, named Nenzao 2, Nenzao Jiamei and Nenzao Heiniu. It turned out that primer NG05, NG74 and NG88 all amplified spec... (30 Oct., 2018)
Light-trap Catch of Microlepidoptera spec. indet. in Connection with the Gravitation Potential of Sun and Moon
This study deals with light-trap catching of Microlepidoptera spec. indet. in connection with the gravitation potential of Sun and Moon. During seven years 590,139 moths were caught by the 49 light-traps, in 1,479 nights. We could work up 21,761 observation data. The influence of the... (12 Oct., 2018)
Processing and Storage Effects on the Proximate Composition, Changes in Heavy Metal Contents and Total Volatile Base Nitrogen (TVB-N) of Selected Fish Species in Osun State, Nigeria
This study assessed the effect of location, processing methods and storage on the proximate composition, heavy metal contents and total volatile base nitrogen (TVB-N) of some selected fish species from Asejire and Opa reservoirs, Osun state. The fish species were processed by salting, drying, ... (08 Jun., 2018)
Some Biological Parameters of the Three Commercially Important Fishes in Ethiopian Water Bodies: A Review
The findings on length-weight relationship and condition factor of the native Varicorhinus beso , endemic Labeobarbus nedgia and the African catfish Clarias gariepinus showed varied pattern in different water bodies of Ethiopia. Labeobarbus nedgia and Clarias gariepinus showed isometr... (18 May, 2018)
Hybridization Breeding between Triploid OT Lily and Diploid Oriental Lily
This study was aimed to find out the law of hybridization breeding between triploid OT lily and diploid O lily, and breed interspecific hybrids. The conventional compression method was used to analyze maternal chromosome karyotypes. The cut style and normal stigma pollination methods were appl... (04 May, 2018)
The Expression Pattern of ArgAH1 and ArgAH2 Genes in Arabidopsis thaliana
Urea is the major nitrogen form supplied as fertilizer in agricultural production and also an important nitrogen metabolite in plants. Urea can be generated from Arginine breakdown by Arginase in germinating seeds under salt stress. To better understanding the biological functions of Arginase... (11 May, 2018)
Histopathological Study of Female Striped Gourami (Trichogaster fasciata, Bloch & Schneider, 1801) Gill Exposed to Chlorpyrifos
Histopathological study was carried out with the gills of female striped gourami ( Trichogaster fasciata ) exposed to chlorpyrifos 20 EC. The main objective of the present work was to evaluate the effects of chlorpyrifos to observe the histopathological alterations on gills of striped gourami ... (01 Jun., 2018)
Changes in the Protected Areas of Bayelsa State, Nigeria
Bayelsa state is one of the core states in the Niger Delta region that inhabits several species of biodiversity of global significance. Six major protected forest reserves (viz: Taylor creek, Apoi creek, Nun river, Edumanon, Ikibiri creek and Igbedi creek) with natural, ecological and cultural... (30 May, 2018)
The Influence of GA on the Germination of Sophora davidii
The seed of Sophora davidii is a high-activity hard seed, of which the seed coat is thick and tough, limiting the penetration of water and exchange of gas in embryo, thereby inhibiting the respiration of seeds and mechanically restraining the growth of embryo. If not treated, the germination... (04 May, 2018)
Level and Health Risk Assessment of Heavy Metals in Selected Seasonings and Culinary Condiments Used in Nigeria
Eight trace metals (Mn, Cd, Co, Zn, Cu, Pb, Cr and Ni) were analyzed in selected brands of seasonings and culinary condiments used for cooking in Nigeria with a view of determining the potential health risk index with regard to dietary intake and total hazard quotients. The samples were proces... (11 May, 2018)
Determination of Seasonal Occurrence of Camallanus sp. and Ligula intestinalis on Fresh Usipa, Engraulicypris sardella from Selected Mzuzu Markets, Malawi
This study assessed the seasonality of two parasites, Camallanus sp. and Ligula intestinalis on fresh E. sardella from selected Mzuzu markets in Malawi. Samples were collected during the cold, dry and rainy seasons and the determination of the parasites was conducted to quantify by calcu... (23 Mar., 2018)
Severe Case of Lordosis-Kyphosis-Ankylosis in Mullus barbatus Linnaeus, 1758 (Teleostei: Mullidae) Collected from the Northern Aegean Sea, Turkey
This study aimed to identify skeletal deformities in Mullus barbatus collected from a natural population from northern the Aegean Sea, Turkey. Lordosis, kyphosis, and ankylosis were detected. Assessment of abnormality in the studied specimen was carried out by the morphological diagnosis and... (23 Mar., 2018)
Microbial Quality Assessment of Open Sun and Solar Tent Dried Barbus paludinosus in Lake Chilwa Basin
This study assessed the effects of two processing methods; open sun drying and solar tent drying on microbial quality of Barbus paludinosus , (straight fin barb locally known as Matemba), a species of ray-finned fish in the family Cyprinidae that supports a significant fishery sector in Malaw... (02 Mar., 2018)
Larvicidal and Growth-Regulatory Activities of Methanolic and N-hexane Extracts of Leaf of Ficus vallis-choudae Delile (Rosales: Moraceae) against Culex quinquefasciatus (Diptera: Culicidae)
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New Strategy toward Sustainable Livelihoods in Coastal Fisheries-How Japanese Experiences Could Be Applied to Southeast Asia?
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Teclis's Sparks by T. Cobbin
Gracian Mates, Book 3
Genre(s): Erotic Science Fiction Romance / Ménage
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Will Crimson agree to join Teclis and Coil's relationship and make their twosome a threesome?
Teclis and Coil are security officers assigned to the Gracian spaceship the Gemorph, but for the last few months they've been living on a small island on Earth where they've been learning to become more human-like. Due to the decline of female births on their planet, their race is nearing extinction. But their possible salvation has come from the most unexpected of places. Several of their warriors have found their sparks—or mates—in the form of human females. The Gracians are hopeful that more sparks will be discovered. Teclis has already found his spark, but not one that he can procreate with being his spark is male. Teclis and Coil are unsure if there is a female spark out there for them.
One afternoon something drifts past the Gracian's early warning system around the island, and when Tec and Coil go to investigate they discover a female floating in the sea. She's unconscious and badly beaten. Both Tec and Coil are shocked when they discover that this female is the spark to both of them. If she will accept them, their twosome will now become a threesome.
Crimson has spent her entire marriage being abused by her husband. She plucks up the courage, and after much planning, she escapes. But to her dismay, her husband finds her and takes her aboard his boat. After another severe beating, Crimson wishes for nothing but death and throws herself overboard. She wakes to discover that she's been rescued by aliens. And if that weren't enough of a shock, apparently two of these gorgeous aliens want to claim her for themselves.
After what Crimson endured at the hands of a man who was supposed to have loved her, she has no desire to enter into a relationship with any man, let alone two. But Teclis and Coil are awfully hard to resist. And when her husband comes looking for her, she discovers just how serious they are about wanting to love and protect her for all time.
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A Bride for Lord Redfield by Arabella Sheen
Genre(s): Historical Romance
A risqué regency romp enjoyed by both servants and masters as love and passion is discovered―above and below stairs―in his lordship's household.
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Lord Thomas Redfield realizes the time has come for him to take a wife and that this duty can no longer be delayed. The only trouble is…he isn't sure the desire he once felt for Catherine, the woman he was previously betrothed to, is over and a new life with Rosalinda can begin.
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Elkhorn in the Moonlight by Constance Bretes
Genre(s): Contemporary Romance
The search for stolen Sacred Arrows leads to much more.
Marcus Blackhawk is on a mission to locate the Sacred Arrows that were stolen from the Cheyenne Nation. When he learns that someone has seen the arrows he leaves immediately to track the person down and get more information.
Nicole Lancaster ekes out a living in a small town by helping her brother run a motel and working part-time in a restaurant. Her mundane life suddenly becomes more exciting when Marcus arrives in town asking about some arrows that she came upon years ago while hiking in the Elkhorn Mountains. The gorgeous man makes her heart beat fast, but she knows he'd never be interested in a Plain Jane like herself.
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Will help arrive in time to save them? And if so, can their night of passion ever be anything more? Marcus has no interest in an actual relationship, and Nicole wants the whole nine yards.
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Yoke of Wind (Hardcover)
By Luke Comer
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Before the Civil War, a slavemaster named Jonah takes his family and five of what he believes are his most loyal and trustworthy slaves to a remote and beautiful island off the coast of Florida.
But as soon they arrive, one of the slaves named Shaka lures the other slaves into his Shamanic and animistic beliefs. When a pair of black, inverted wings appear on the island from nowhere, the slaves come into conflict with Jonah and soon revolt altogether.
As Jonah strives to repress the rebellion and his wife, Eloise, strives to reconvert the slaves back to Christianity, the slaves delve deeper into the Shamanic realms until Shaka reveals to them that they are preparing for an extraordinary exodus back to Africa.
While the island hovers on the verge of violence--and even madness--the whites and black are forced to confront the dark, secretive but sometimes loving relationships that exist between them through spending their lifetimes together on a raw and uncivilized plantation in the backwoods of Alabama.
As the day of liberation approaches, the story increasingly turns and twists in ways the reader cannot imagine, as the characters see their ideas about their lives shattered--and eventually reconstructed anew.
Written in seamless, well-paced and poetic prose, this novel synthesizes several genres into one story: while driven by adventure and suspense, it simultaneously delves into the ideas behind our American culture--and then even deeper into the most repressed reaches of our mind. In the end an allegory emerges from the pages, at once painful and unflinching but healing, about the history of America.
Publisher: Aurignacian
Publication Date: June 22nd, 2015
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A Double Shot Of IPO - Chicago: Part One
Poster from Ellis Clark's Facebool page.
The Material re-Issue performance at The Abbey Pub on the final evening of International Pop Overthrow - Chicago 2011 definitely lived up to all the publicity that preceded it. The SRO crowd at The Abbey Pub roared with approval at the end of the opening number, “Valerie Loves Me,” blowing away any doubts that singer-guitarist Phil Angotti would be embraced for bringing the songs of Jim Ellison back to the stage again. Introducing the trio of Angotti and original members Ted Ansani and Mike Zelenko, International Pop Overthrow honcho David Bash had exuberantly proclaimed, “Jim Ellison, this one’s for you!”
About 24 hours earlier, Angotti had been part of an IPO - Chicago showcase at The Abbey that drew a much smaller crowd, but still underscored the sense of community this annual festival tends to foster. Friday night’s opening set was by guitarists Tom Curless and Brian Krumm of Your Gracious Host, who played tuneful indie rock songs like “Surrender Me” and “The Sunrise Nearly Killed Me.” Your Gracious Host’s newest CD, Sleepers Awaken, was available at the merchandise table.
Angotti came on next, performing the bulk of his latest solo effort, People And Places. Well-crafted songs like “Broken Baby Doll House,” “Same Ol’ We,” and “Whatever Happened To. . .” came off well in the live setting, and “My Old Records” featured a guest appearance by Brad Elvis on drums. Tommi Zender, who played drums throughout most of the set, also took a few turns on guitar, and provided harmony vocals. Kevin Junior, who was due up next, joined Angotti on harmony vocals while covering a vintage Kinks song. Keyboards player-vocalist Carolyn Engelmann was also impressive, and would become a familiar face throughout the night by performing on Kevin Junior and Ellis Clark’s sets as well. Angotti dedicated the touching “Parting For Awhile” to the late Carlos Hernandez Gomez, an acclaimed reporter as well as a Beatles fanatic.
Kevin Junior, best known for his symphonic pop music with the acclaimed Chicago band The Chamber Strings, performed a set of melodic songs from his Ruins CD, backed by Lou Hallwas of Penthouse Sweets on keyboards, Angotti on guitar, and Engelmann on keyboards and backup vocals. Junior and Angotti harmonized beautifully on several songs, and toward the end of the set, guest musicians Brad Elvis and Ellis Clark came on board. Junior announced that The Chamber Strings will be playing their first live gig in two years at The Hideout on May 19th.
Ellis Clark and Epicycle came on next, with Engelmann on keyboards, Charlie (sorry, I didn’t catch his last name) from Phil Angotti’s band on bass, and Brad Elvis on drums. As David Bash pointed out during his introduction, singer-guitarist-keyboards player Clark has explored numerous types of music throughout his career, always with wit and imagination. Friday night’s show included catchy songs like “Strange Days,” “Big Day,” and the satiric “I’m So Cool.” The set included new songs like “The Lucky Ones” and (I’m guessing on the title) “Hand Of Love.”
Brothers Jonathan and Robert Scott of Doleful Lions unleashed sheets of shimmering sound via their guitars and pre-recorded synth beats. Their songs, like the title track of their latest CD, Let’s Break Bobby Beausoleil Out Of Prison, recalled the UK shoegazer music of the 1990s.
Penthouse Sweets were minus bassist Eric Chial for their IPO - Chicago gig, and aside from the occasional odd comment like vocalist-guitarist Andy Hansen telling guitarist-vocalist Lou Hallwas, “You looked like Adolph Hitler for a minute there,” the musicians didn’t joke around as much as in past shows. Still, it’s always fun to take in the band’s freewheeling brand of melodic pop. New songs like “Dark Eyes” and a cover of The Who’s “Pictures Of Lily” were particularly strong, and Penthouse Sweets wrapped up the evening with a rollicking version of The Replacements’ “I.O.U.”
Members of Penthouse Sweets showed up at The Abbey Pub long before they were due to go on, and Curless and Krumm from Your Gracious Host hung out long after their opening set was over. It’s inspiring how much the bands involved with International Pop Overthrow support each other. Mike Galassini from 92 Degrees and The Valley Downs was also hanging out, as was Chloe F. Orwell, Brad Elvis’s partner in crime from The Handcuffs. Phil Angotti pretty much spent the entire evening at Friday’s showcase, and I had a chance to ask if he was nervous about the Material re-Issue gig coming on the following night. He said he felt a little nervous, but strongly believed he, Ansani, and Zelenko were ready.
Coming Up: A sold-out crowd finds Material re-Issue is ready.
Index: International Pop Overthrow
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Consolation Prizes: Record Store Day Part Two
Consolation Prizes: Record Store Day Part One
A Double Shot Of IPO - Chicago: Part 2
IPO - Chicago 2011: On With The Show, This Is It
IPO - Chicago: Various Sounds For A Weekend Aftern...
Media Blitz Eve - Friday At IPO - Chicago
IPO - Chicago Thursday: Another Fun Lineup at Red ...
When Wednesday Comes - IPO Continues
IPO Chicago: Review & Preview
Monday, Monday. Let’s Rock That Day.
Sunday Will Never Be The Same
Friday On My Mind: International Pop Overthrow
IPO Opening Day Line-Up
A New Release For Record Store Day
CD Review: T & The Wonder
CD Review: Eulogies - Tear The Fences Down
CD Review: The Disciplines - Virgins Of Menace
CD Review: The Bad Examples - Smash Record
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Photographing Liquid Mountains | That’s Amazing
When you think of the Great Lakes, you may not picture towering 30-foot waves. But Dave Sandford knows better. The professional photographer from Ontario, Canada, braves the icy cold water and fierce winds of Lake Erie to make his masterpieces. And they will absolutely astound you.
Who Put the Hole in the Donut?
Football and a rags-to-riches story—perhaps the only things that America loves more than donuts. But the delectable rings of sugar and dough didn’t always appear in their now-ubiquitous circular form. So where did the donut’s shape (and its signature hole) come from? The curious story involves a boastful sea captain, a Massachusetts Native American with unparalleled aim, and a national debate. With the help of food historian Michael Krondl, we get to the center of this deep-fried mystery.
Ropes, Rhythm and Life: Inside Competitive Double Dutch
Khnaue Robinson, a senior in high school, has been competing in double dutch since she was 12 years old. She practices with her school’s team three times each week, and says being part of the team has given her a home—something she didn’t have before joining up. For Robinson and her teammates, all of that practice and hard work has paid off: the team has 19 world championship titles and is working toward number 20.
How to Eat Like a Hindu God
The Ganesha Temple in Queens, New York, has been a cultural hub for Hindus in the United States since the 1970s. But this temple isn’t just dedicated to religious practice. The canteen in the temple’s basement is a bonafide restaurant, serving up more than 100 traditional vegetarian Indian dishes. What started as a kitchen to prepare food offerings to the gods has become a place for Hindus and non-Hindus alike to chow down on some of the most authentic South Indian food in New York City.
The Life and Lies of Betty Crocker
Betty Crocker—she’s a staple of the American sweet tooth. But who was she really? Turns out, there’s a lot we don’t know about our all-American baking icon—including the fact that … she isn’t a real person. Dun, dun, dun!
Custom Craftsman Built on Tiny House Nation
Adam’s tiny house was built on a previous episode of Tiny House Nation and now he’s forced to relocate because of a change in life circumstances and also zoning issues. This custom craftsman tiny house is breathtaking to say the least. Thanks for sharing this tiny house video tour with us Adam! If you like this video, like us on facebook and twitter.
Free And Virtually Unlimited Fuel To Heat Your Home
Every day we have tons of paper sent to us in the mail, boxes that our food is packaged in and in my case, lots of beer packaging. In this video I show you how to turn all that paper into something very useful, a way to heat your home for free. http://tinyhouselistings.com If you like this video, like us on facebook and twitter.
Mini Mansions Tiny House Has All The Creature Comforts
All kinds of features that make living in pretty darn cozy. In this video Emily Mitchell (co-owner of the company) gives a thorough tour of their tiny house for sale. If you like this video, like us on facebook and twitter.
Mancave Tiny House is for The Guys
Upper Valley Homes is a tiny house building company based out of Utah with lots of tiny house builds under their belts. In this video, we get a tour of their “Man Cave” model which is exactly that, a tiny house for the guys. Darts, toy hauler, big fridge for brewskies, rooftop deck for chilling, you name it. If you like this video, like us on facebook and twitter.
Julie and Andrew’s Converted School Bus Home
Julie and Andrew Puckett live happily in their converted school bus in Atlanta, Georgia. They were kind enough to give us a tour of their 200 square feet home that they appropriately call “The Housebus.” Thanks Julie and Andrew for sharing! You can learn more about them at their website: http://houseb.us. Their bus was featured on Tiny House Swoon awhile back here: http://tinyhouseswoon.com/house-bus-2/ If you like this video, like us on facebook and twitter.
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Holdings in Company
LONDON, UK / ACCESSWIRE / April 11, 2019 / Condor Gold (“Condor Gold” or the “Company“) (AIM: CNR; TSX: COG) announces that it has been informed that Garraway Capital Management LLP (“Garraway”) no longer has an equity participation in the Company. The Company notes that Garraway were transferred the investment management activities of City Financial Investment Company Limited following it being put into administration on 21 March 2009.
Garraway (and previously City Financial Investment Company Limited) previously held an interest in 3,486,376 shares in the Company, representing 4.7% of total issued share capital.
TR-1: Standard forms for notification of major holdings are attached to this announcement.
– Ends –
For further information please visit www.condorgold.com or contact:
Condor Gold plc
Mark Child, Chairman and CEO
Beaumont Cornish Limited
Roland Cornish and James Biddle
John Prior and James Black
Blytheweigh
Tim Blythe, Camilla Horsfall and Megan Ray
About Condor Gold plc:
Condor Gold plc was admitted to AIM in May 2006 and dual listed on the TSX in January 2018. The Company is a gold exploration and development company with a focus on Nicaragua.
In August 2018, the Company announced that the Ministry of the Environment in Nicaragua had granted the Company the Environmental Permit (“EP”) for the development, construction and operation of a processing plant with capacity to process up to 2,800 tonnes per day at its wholly-owned La India gold project (“La India Project”). The EP is considered to be the master permit for mining operations in Nicaragua. Condor Gold published a PFS on La India Project in December 2014, as summarised in the Technical Report (as defined below). The PFS details an open pit gold Mineral Reserve in the Probable category of 6.9 Mt at 3.0 g/t gold for 675,000 oz gold, producing 80,000 oz gold per annum for seven years. La India Project contains a Mineral Resource of 9,850Kt at 3.6 g/t gold for 1,140Koz gold in the Indicated category and 8,479Kt at 4.3g/t gold for 1,179Koz gold in the Inferred category. The Indicated Mineral Resource is inclusive of the Mineral Reserve.
Neither the contents of the Company’s website nor the contents of any website accessible from hyperlinks on the Company’s website (or any other website) is incorporated into, or forms part of, this announcement.
Qualified Persons
The technical and scientific information in this press release has been reviewed, verified and approved by Andrew Cheatle, P.Geo., who is a “qualified person” as defined by NI 43-101.
Certain disclosure contained in this news release of a scientific or technical nature has been summarised or extracted from the technical report entitled “Technical Report on the La India Gold Project, Nicaragua, December 2014“, dated November 13, 2017 with an effective date of December 21, 2014 (the “Technical Report“), prepared in accordance with NI 43-101. The Technical Report was prepared by or under the supervision of Tim Lucks, Principal Consultant (Geology & Project Management), Gabor Bacsfalusi, Principal Consultant (Mining), Benjamin Parsons, Principal Consultant (Resource Geology), each of SRK Consulting (UK) Limited, and Neil Lincoln of Lycopodium Minerals Canada Ltd., each of whom is an independent “qualified person” as defined by NI 43-101.
All statements in this press release, other than statements of historical fact, are ‘forward-looking information’ with respect to the Company within the meaning of applicable securities laws, including statements with respect to: the Mineral Resources, Mineral Reserves and future production rates and plans at the La India Project. Forward-looking information is often, but not always, identified by the use of words such as: “seek”, “anticipate”, “plan”, “continue”, “strategies”, “estimate”, “expect”, “project”, “predict”, “potential”, “targeting”, “intends”, “believe”, “potential”, “could”, “might”, “will” and similar expressions. Forward-looking information is not a guarantee of future performance and is based upon a number of estimates and assumptions of management at the date the statements are made including, among others, assumptions regarding: future commodity prices and royalty regimes; availability of skilled labour; timing and amount of capital expenditures; future currency exchange and interest rates; the impact of increasing competition; general conditions in economic and financial markets; availability of drilling and related equipment; effects of regulation by governmental agencies; the receipt of required permits; royalty rates; future tax rates; future operating costs; availability of future sources of funding; ability to obtain financing and assumptions underlying estimates related to adjusted funds from operations. Many assumptions are based on factors and events that are not within the control of the Company and there is no assurance they will prove to be correct.
Such forward-looking information involves known and unknown risks, which may cause the actual results to be materially different from any future results expressed or implied by such forward-looking information, including, risks related to: mineral exploration, development and operating risks; estimation of mineralisation, resources and reserves; environmental, health and safety regulations of the resource industry; competitive conditions; operational risks; liquidity and financing risks; funding risk; exploration costs; uninsurable risks; conflicts of interest; risks of operating in Nicaragua; government policy changes; ownership risks; permitting and licencing risks; artisanal miners and community relations; difficulty in enforcement of judgments; market conditions; stress in the global economy; current global financial condition; exchange rate and currency risks; commodity prices; reliance on key personnel; dilution risk; payment of dividends; as well as those factors discussed under the heading “Risk Factors” in the Company’s annual information form for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2017 dated March 29, 2018, available under the Company’s SEDAR profile at www.sedar.com.
Although the Company has attempted to identify important factors that could cause actual actions, events or results to differ materially from those described in forward-looking information, there may be other factors that cause actions, events or results not to be as anticipated, estimated or intended. There can be no assurance that such information will prove to be accurate as actual results and future events could differ materially from those anticipated in such statements. The Company disclaims any intention or obligation to update or revise any forward-looking information, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise unless required by law.
TR-1: Standard form for notification of major holdings
NOTIFICATION OF MAJOR HOLDINGS (to be sent to the relevant issuer and to the FCA in Microsoft Word format if possible)i
1a. Identity of the issuer or the underlying issuer of existing shares to which voting rights are attachedii:
1b. Please indicate if the issuer is a non-UK issuer (please mark with an “X” if appropriate)
Non-UK issuer
2. Reason for the notification (please mark the appropriate box or boxes with an “X”)
An acquisition or disposal of voting rights
An acquisition or disposal of financial instruments
An event changing the breakdown of voting rights
Other (please specify)iii:
3. Details of person subject to the notification obligationiv
GARRAWAY CAPITAL MANAGEMENT LLP
City and country of registered office (if applicable)
4. Full name of shareholder(s) (if different from 3.)v
5. Date on which the threshold was crossed or reachedvi:
6. Date on which issuer notified (DD/MM/YYYY):
7. Total positions of person(s) subject to the notification obligation
% of voting rights attached to shares (total of 8. A)
% of voting rights through financial instruments
(total of 8.B 1 + 8.B 2)
Total of both in % (8.A + 8.B)
Total number of voting rights of issuervii
Resulting situation on the date on which threshold was crossed or reached
Position of previous notification (if
applicable)
8. Notified details of the resulting situation on the date on which the threshold was crossed or reachedviii
A: Voting rights attached to shares
Class/type of
ISIN code (if possible)
Number of voting rightsix
% of voting rights
(Art 9 of Directive 2004/109/EC) (DTR5.1)
(Art 10 of Directive 2004/109/EC) (DTR5.2.1)
SUBTOTAL 8. A
B 1: Financial Instruments according to Art. 13(1)(a) of Directive 2004/109/EC (DTR5.3.1.1 (a))
Type of financial instrument
Exercise/
Conversion Periodxi
Number of voting rights that may be acquired if the instrument is
exercised/converted.
SUBTOTAL 8. B 1
B 2: Financial Instruments with similar economic effect according to Art. 13(1)(b) of Directive 2004/109/EC (DTR5.3.1.1 (b))
Conversion Period xi
Physical or cash
settlementxii
Number of voting rights
SUBTOTAL 8.B.2
9. Information in relation to the person subject to the notification obligation (please mark the
applicable box with an “X”)
Person subject to the notification obligation is not controlled by any natural person or legal entity and does not control any other undertaking(s) holding directly or indirectly an interest in the (underlying) issuerxiii
Full chain of controlled undertakings through which the voting rights and/or the
financial instruments are effectively held starting with the ultimate controlling natural person or legal entityxiv (please add additional rows as necessary)
Namexv
% of voting rights if it equals or is higher than the notifiable threshold
% of voting rights through financial instruments if it equals or is higher than the notifiable threshold
Total of both if it equals or is higher than the notifiable threshold
10. In case of proxy voting, please identify:
Name of the proxy holder
The number and % of voting rights held
The date until which the voting rights will be held
11. Additional informationxvi
Place of completion
Date of completion
SOURCE: Condor Gold plc
https://www.accesswire.com/541656/Holdings-in-Company
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Lloyd’s Register Provides Independent Measurement on the Outcome of Genoil’s GHU Demonstration
Landmark Process Demonstration, Shows that Genoil’s GHU Unit Can Convert High Sulphur Heavy Fuel Oil Into 2020 Compliant Marine Fuel
NEW YORK, NY / ACCESSWIRE / April 1, 2019 / (OTC PINK: GNOLF) Genoil Inc., the publicly traded clean technology engineering company for the energy industry, announced today that it’s Hydroconversion Upgrader (GHU®) has received an independent third-party witness from Lloyd’s Register (LR) regarding the outcome of the demonstration of the desulphurisation process stated to reduce the sulphur content of a High Sulphur Heavy Fuel Oil (HSFO) marine fuel from 1.72% sulphur content to 0.38% – a content level that meets the International Maritime Organisation’s (IMO) 2020 sulphur compliance standards.
Leveraging on a considerably improved patented fixed-bed reactor technology, the GHU can be built alongside existing refinery infrastructure in major bunkering hubs rather than incurring the costs to develop and build all new infrastructure.
Muhammad Usman, Lloyd’s Register, Product Manager – Fuel oil bunker analysis and advisory service (FOBAS), stated:”‘Although LR did not have full visibility of the technical approach used by Genoil’s process or demonstration and was not present throughout, the sample analysed from the output sample of the demonstration was 0.38% m/m, in comparison to the feedstock used for the process which was stated to be an ISO-F-RMG380 fuel with sulphur content of 1.7% m/m.”
David Lifschultz, CEO of Genoil., added: “Gaining independent verification from a renowned shipping classification society of the product characteristics of the supplied sample at entry to the GHU process and the end product at completion of the process is a significant step for Genoil in proving to the industry that there is a less expensive means of ensuing compliance with 2020 regulations that doesn’t require paying a large premium for distillate fuels, or investing millions of dollars of capital, which may never see full payback, in scrubber technology or LNG. And because the GHU produces fuel with the same properties of heavy fuel oil minus the sulphur content, it also reduces the risk of engine damage, which so many in the industry are concerned with in relation to new hybrid distillate products.”
It was stated that the exercise was run with conventional high sulphur RMG 380 grade sourced from Rotterdam. A sample was taken by Lloyd’s Register of the input material and sealed in a FOBAS bottle (cap seal 1834910).
The news comes after the latest successful demonstration run for the GHU conducted for Petroleos Mexicanos (PEMEX) at Genoil’s state-of-the-art multipurpose demonstration facility hosted by the UFA Scientific Research Institute of Petroleum Refining and Petrochemistry located in Bashkortostan, conducted in October and November 2018.
About Genoil Inc.
Genoil has developed a proprietary, state of the art advanced hydroconversion process technology, the Hydroconversion Upgrader (GHU), which reduces sulfur and produces clean-burning fuels for transportation. The company is deeply focused on the downstream transportation refining industries especially shipping. Hydroconversion is a well-known and proven desulfurization process, proven on feedstocks ranging from crude oil to Naptha.
About The Genoil Hydroconversion Upgrader:
The Genoil Hydroconversion Upgrader (GHU®), is an advanced upgrading and desulfurization technology, which converts heavy or sour crude oil into much more valuable light low sulphur oil for a very low cost. The GHU achieves 96% pitch conversion and 95% desulfurization with an operating cost of up to 75% less than the competition. For Conoco Canada Ltd, Genoil converted their bitumen of 6-8.5 API and converted it to 24.5 API. We also removed 92% of the sulphur reducing the amount from 5.14 % to below 0.24%. These results were taken by Conoco Canada Ltd, who had them analysed by Core Laboratories, one of the largest service providers of core and fluid analysis in the petroleum industry.
Hanisha Ganwani
BLUE Communications
E: Hanisha.Ganwani@blue-comms.com
David Lifschultz
Email: dklifschultz@Genoil.com
SOURCE: Genoil Inc.
https://www.accesswire.com/540412/Lloyds-Register-Provides-Independent-Measurement-on-the-Outcome-of-Genoils-GHU-Demonstration
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Tankard: Chester's Stevens 1-1 after Day 1
Chester's Chad Stevens is now 1-1 after defeating Brent MacDougall 6-2 in draw 2 of the Molson Tankard. Stevens' rink never trailed, scoring one in the 2nd end before stealing singles in the 4th and 5th ends on route to the convincing win. Meanwhile, Kent Smith leads the way after day one with a 2-0 record while six teams are tied at 1-1. Opening ceremonies will be held Wednesday night. Draw 3 gets started at 9am Thursday morning.
Kent Smith 2-0
Brent MacDougall 1-1
Chad Stevens 1-1
Ian Fitzner-LeBlanc 1-1
Jamie Murphy 1-1
Mark Dacey 1-1
Peter Burgess 1-1
Ian Juurlink 0-2
Police, Town reach agreement on Pension and Wage
It's been four long years but the town of Bridgewater and its Police Association have finally reached a collective agreement. The six-year agreement includes a wage increase that will see a police officer's salary jump to $74,700 a year from $70,807 on April 1. The police will also contribute nine percent of their base salary towards the pension plan, with the town matching that figure. Chief John Collyer says the agreement keeps Bridgewater competitive with similar sized police departments. Collyer says there are 23 officers and eight civilians with the department that fall under the agreement. He says the new agreement provides long-term stability for policing in the town of Bridgewater. Wage increases for Bridgewater Police are as followed :
April 1, 2008 - $63,558
The new collective agreement is retroactive to April 1, 2008, and expires March 31, 2014.
Lunenburg: Town Creates Heritage Manager Position
The Town of Lunenburg is set to hire a Heritage Project Manager. It's a two-year term position and will assist the town with duties related to the town's UNESCO designation and its role as a world heritage site. The successful applicant will also play a key role in the future of Lunenburg Academy. Mayor Laurence Mawhinney says the work load associated with the town's UNESCO designation isn't getting any easier. " Mawhinney says the town is prepared to pay for the position but would like to explore cost sharing with Parks Canada. He says the town will begin advertising for the new job soon and hopes the position will be filled before the spring.
Sports: Chester curling team falls in Molson Tankard opener
It was a hard fought battle but in the end Chester's Chad Stevens fell just short. Stevens stole one in the 7th end and one in the 9th end before 2010 Tankard Champ Ian Fitzner-LeBlanc scored one in the 10th end to win 7-6 in draw one of the Molson Tankard in Bridgewater. Elsewhere, Mark Dacey moved to 1-0 with an 8-4 win over Ian Juurlink, Kent Smith upended Jamie Murphy 9-5 and Brent MacDougall got by Peter Burgess 9-8. Draw 2 will be held at 2pm Wednesday afternoon at the Bridgewater Curling Club.
Recreational Zone changes call for Public Meeting
A meeting to discuss changes to Bridgewater's recreational zones to allow leash-free dog parks will be held Wednesday night. The town's Planning Department is looking to discuss proposed amendments to its Municipal Planning Strategy and Land Use by-law. Director of Planning, Eric Shaw, says they need to make adjustments to allow a space for a leash-free dog area in Generations Active Park.
"Before we move forward with any sort of construction to make that happen, we have to make sure that our statutory planning documents allow for that use to exist on that piece of land."
Shaw says people who live 100 feet from any recreational zone in the town have been notified about the meeting. He says it helps keep things open and transparent so the public is aware of the potential changes. The meeting gets underway at 6pm Wednesday night in Council Chambers.
Molson Tankard gets underway
The provincial men's curling tournament gets underway Wednesday morning in Bridgewater. The first draw starts at 9am and features matches between Chester's Chad Stevens and Ian Fitzner-LeBlanc, Peter Burgess and Brent MacDougall, Jamie Murphy and Kent Smith, and Mark Dacey and Ian Juurlink. The second draw will be held at 2pm Wednesday afternoon. Opening ceremonies will also be held this evening at the Bridgewater Curling Club. The eight-team tourney will play a round-robin format before a page playoff system Saturday and Sunday.
Sports: Chester curling team falls in Molson Tanka...
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Canada Fulltimers
A chronicle of the travels of David and Denise Smith, living the RV lifestyle in Barrie, Ontario, and Aguanga, California, and on our journey between these places. We will be posting regularly as we travel, and when we experience things of interest to the RV community. Check back here frequently, as this blog is ongoing, and please leave comments.
Mods to Our Rig
Thoughts on Fulltiming
Residential Dishwasher
Generator, Microwave and Range
Residential Fridge
Fifthwheel Tires
Bearings and new brakes
SteadyFast Stabilizer System
Musings on the definition of "Home"
Alpine, Texas
We are presently in Alpine, which is a town located in the Big Bend region of west Texas. The area is known as the Big Bend because it is located along the Mexican border, roughly inside a northward bend of the Rio Grande river.
We're in West Texas
We are now in West Texas, near a small town called Loraine, on I-20.
Westbound trip 2016
We stayed at Milton Heights Campground for five weeks, and finally made preparations for departure on December 14.
Almost ready to leave
Our site at Milton Heights on a snowy December 11
In another three days we will be embarking on our sixth cross-country trip to Southern California. Weather permitting, we will leave on Wednesday morning.
Colder weather
We are still on our original site in Cedarwood. Everyone else has gone, most have departed for warmer places. My teaching contract runs until mid-December, so we have to wait until then.
Snowy, blustery day. Saturday will be 19C (67F)
View from our living room. Lots of empty sites, the remaining rigs are stored here on-site for the winter.
Tomorrow, we will move our rig to a site near the Community Hall in Cedarwood, so that staff can winterize the water system, which is done in stages. It will be a very short trip of about 300 yards. A week later we will leave for Milton Heights Campground west of Toronto, where we will stay until December 14. Milton Heights is one of the very few campgrounds in Ontario which is open year-round.
Next Spring we will be moving to a brand-new site in Cedarwood, which is presently under construction, directly across from our site for the last 5 years. Concrete should be poured within the next few days, and the new sites will be ready for Spring.
Our new site under construction
It will certainly feel good to get on the road again in December after 6 months in one place. This year, we plan on entering the USA at Sarnia-Port Huron, and driving south through Indianapolis, Louisville, Nashville and the Natchez Trace Parkway to Jackson MS. We will take I-20 westbound, with a 3 day stopover for the holiday in Jefferson TX, then on to Alpine TX for a 4 day stay in the Big Bend region of southwest Texas. New Years Day we will resume our westbound trip, arriving at Rancho California Resort on January 6.
Our truck and fifthwheel is serviced, inspected and ready to go, with 6 new tires on the truck. I did all the maintenance work myself, before the weather became cold.
Traveling time is approaching
Red sky in the morning at Cedarwood. It rained later that day.
Canada Geese have returned to the Cedarwood pond. They return every year in the Fall.
The weather is getting cooler, and darkness falls much earlier now, around 7:00pm. The season at Cedarwood is drawing to a close, and I have been attending to some maintenance tasks before it gets uncomfortably cold.
Wheel bearing maintenance
In the last two weeks, I have performed the annual wheel bearing maintenance, which includes inspection and repacking of the wheel bearings, and brake adjustment. The grease seals were replaced with new ones.
While the wheels were off, I used metal polish and a buffing attachment to polish the aluminum wheels, making them look like new.
I inspected the suspension components, including the springs and shackles, and lubricated the wet spring bolts.
I did a thorough inspection of the roof, caulking any suspicious-looking areas with Dicor rubber roof sealant. I replaced batteries and o-rings on the tire pressure transmitters, and topped off the tires to 120 psi.
Next on the list is our truck. I will be changing the oil, and replacing air, fuel and transmission filters. I will do this work myself, using genuine AC Delco filters ordered online. In two weeks the truck will go for its mandatory annual safety inspection, and I will have the four rear tires replaced to match the front tires which were installed last spring in Florida.
I will be replacing our two house batteries in a few weeks, with two 6 volt golf cart batteries. The original 12 volt RV batteries are almost six years old, and have reached the end of their useful life.
We will be staying at Cedarwood until November 5, then moving to Milton Heights Campground west of Toronto until December 14, when we will begin our sixth cross-country journey. Our rig has been in this spot since May 5, which is the longest time it has remained in one place. Cedarwood will be almost empty by the time we leave. Most people will be leaving on the official end-of-season date of October 16.
It will be great to get on the road again. We are eagerly anticipating the westbound trip this year. We will take the Natchez Trace Parkway from Nashville to Jackson, Mississippi, as we have done the last three years. We will be stopping for a few days at the end of December in Alpine, Texas, which is in the Big Bend area of southwestern Texas. We will be visiting with new fulltiming friends, who stayed next door to us in Cedarwood for a week this summer. Their Texas home base is in Lost Alaskan RV Resort near Alpine. We look forward to exploring this part of Texas, which we have driven through, but never visited, before. The Southwest Texas region is appealing to us because of its lonely spaciousness and vast desert areas interspersed with mountain ranges. Sounds like a great place to spend a few days leading up to New Year's.
Almost in Canada
It is Friday evening, May 6, and we are 45 minutes drive from the US - Canada border. We are wallydocking at a Walmart in Fredonia NY, as we did last night at Anmoor WV. This far north on our route, there are few campgrounds open at this time of the year, and no Passport America parks. Walmart is a great alternative for an overnight stop. We hate paying $40+ for the privilege of parking in a muddy camping resort for a few hours. We use the Allstays Walmart ONP Android app, which lists the stores which may allow overnight RV parking, and also has user reviews of the location.
It is May 1, and we are well on our way northbound. We decided to eschew Interstate 75, because of the insane traffic and widespread construction in Florida. Instead, we took I-75 30 miles from Naples to Fort Myers, then turned inland across the peninsula on state highways. We passed just to the north of Lake Okeechobee, then through miles of citrus groves stretching as far as one could see. This is a part of Florida we have never seen; it is off the beaten track.
One of the TPMS sensors on the fifthwheel. It will generate an alarm if the pressure drops below 110 psi.
For the last five years, since beginning our fulltiming adventure, we have used a Tireminder TPMS to monitor the pressure in the fifthwheel tires. It actually saved the rig from extensive damage 3 1/2 years ago, when one of the original equipment GoodYear Marathon tires started to disintegrate (we replaced the Marathons with heavy-duty commercial tires).
View from our site in Silver Lakes Resort
Update on the tire situation
The punctured inner dually, before removal from the truck
I had intended to repair the damaged tire, and use it as a spare until I replaced all six tires later in the year. I removed the offending self-drilling screw (see picture) and plugged the hole using a tire repair kit. I wanted to see if the tire was okay after inflating, and if it was, I intended to have a tire shop install an internal patch.
Close to Florida
We are making great progress on our relentless eastbound journey. So far it has been really enjoyable. The secret is to limit the daily distance, and make two-day stops some of the time
We had a nice two-day stop near Hammond LA, which is near the north shore of Lake Ponchartrain, across the lake from New Orleans.
Wildflowers, Schnitzel and a tire puncture
Almost across Texas!
Three days were spent in the Texas Hill Country. We stayed at Cowboy Capital RV Park in Pipe Creek, about 15 miles from Boerne. The cost of our stay was $44, and it was a positive experience. Gerhard, the owner, greeted us warmly upon our arrival, and escorted us to a large pullthrough site. The park is very rural and has that "back to nature" look, but the utilities were good, and it was quiet and peaceful.
The Hill Country
The distance east-to-west across Texas, along Interstate 10, is about 880 miles (1400km). We are now at the 540 mile point, in the Hill Country northwest of San Antonio.
Into Texas
We have done about 1000 miles since leaving Rancho
After a one-night stop at Las Cruces, we got on the road and headed east through the city of El Paso. I usually get fuel when the truck is uncoupled from the fifthwheel, but today I made an exception, pulled into a Flying J and topped off with diesel at 1.69 per gallon. I had sufficient fuel to get to our next stop, but not enough to get to the Hill Country, where we will stay for at least 2 days. Flying J are easy in and out, with lots of room to maneuver the rig.
Benson to Las Cruces
Another 228 miles eastbound
We stayed in Benson for an additional day, making three days total. Thunderstorms and heavy rain passed through the area on Sunday, so we decided to take the extra day, rather than drive in the heavy rain. Also, I had some online business stuff to take care of (Ontario Automation Services).
Tombstone, Arizona
We left the rig at Benson I-10 RV Park, and drove 22 miles to Tombstone, which was a silver mining boom town in the 19th century. Those were the days of the Wild West, with outlaws on one side and sheriff's deputies on the other. The famous Earp brothers (Wyatt Earp) were on the law enforcement side in Tombstone during that era. The town of Tombstone is now on the National Register of Historic Places, and it has been preserved much as it was 150 years ago.
Day 2 Benson AZ
We are making visible progress across the map
We stayed one night in Yuma, which is known for its dry, desert climate, and amazingly, it rained for most of the night! Until about 9:00pm, there was the deafening sound of military jets taking off from the Marine Air Corps base just down the road. A plane took off every couple of minutes, probably doing night-flying training. The RV park was directly under the departure flight path.
After three wonderful months at The Ranch, we are finally rolling again. We left Aguanga CA, and traveled to Yuma AZ, a distance of 175 miles.
Preparing for the eastbound trip
We have been in Southern California for almost three months, and it has been another wonderful winter. We have enjoyed our rented lot in Rancho California Resort, and the weather has been warm and sunny almost the entire time.
It is time to prepare for our journey back. This year we will be staying in Naples, Florida for a week. It involves a 400 mile detour down the Florida peninsula, and it was a favorite annual destination before we became fulltimers. With diesel prices this low, it is quite inexpensive to cover the extra miles.
Rancho California Resort
Here are some pictures of our resort, which is our home for three months in the winter, as it has been for the last four years. We keep returning here every year, and it has become a "second home" for us. We have become familiar with the surrounding area, and when we return each year, we actually feel like we are coming home. We meet people who remember us from the previous winter, and meet our good friends from British Columbia, who also return here every winter.
Washing and waxing
Our Pinnacle was very dirty when we arrived at Rancho. Usually, we take the rig through a Blue Beacon Truck Wash on route, but this year the weather was so wet that we didn't do that. As a result, we pulled into Rancho with the truck and fifthwheel in a sorry state, which is somewhat embarrassing because the resort is full of gleaming RVs.
Home for the winter
We are settled in for three months until April 7, and this year we have a different lot in Rancho California Resort. Rancho is an ownership RV resort with about 600 lots, located in the high desert in Aguanga (pronounced "Awanga"), 20 minutes east of the city of Temecula. The scenery surrounding the resort is spectacular, with views of the mountains from everywhere in the resort. Each lot is individually owned, and many of the lots have been improved with "buildouts", making each lot somewhat unique.
Reaching our destination
We left Benson AZ after a hearty breakfast at Denny's next to the campground, and soon we passed through the city of Tucson, then Casa Grande, and had a nice easy drive across the Sonoran Desert to Yuma AZ, which is on the Arizona - California state line. Interstate 8 across the desert was almost deserted, and I took advantage of the arrow-straight highway, sparse traffic and a 75 mph (120 kph) speed limit to increase our cruise speed to 74 mph. There was a moderate tailwind, we achieved 11.5 mpg at this speed, and covered the distance quickly.
West Texas to New Mexico
We left Boerne on New Year's Day after a great five-day stay at Top of the Hill RV Resort. Our destination that day was Van Horn, TX, a distance of just under 400 miles. This is further than we usually drive in a day, but because the drive was westbound on I-10 through mostly plains and desert, the distance was easy to cover. We arrived at Van Horn around 4:00pm, and checked into Southern Star RV Park for the night. This is a typical southwestern desert park, with lots of room to maneuver and good utility hookups, and no grass in sight.
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Seahawks, Richard Sherman, agree on new deal
Posted by Bob Condotta
The Seahawks wanted to get a deal done with Richard Sherman (above) before the NFL Draft, and they have done so just in the nick of time.
The team has called an 11 a.m. press conference to announce a new deal with Sherman — the Draft starts tomorrow.
Sherman reported on his own blog that the deal is four years for a total of $57.4 million, with $40 million guaranteed. That comes to an average of $14.25 million per year and will make him the highest-paid cornerback in the NFL, an honor that currently belongs to Darrelle Revis of New England, making $12 million next season.
Sherman further wrote on his blog that: “I am blessed to announce that the Seattle Seahawks and I have reached an agreement on a contract extension. The goal has always been to stay in Seattle and continue to play for the Seahawks. With this chapter closed, I can continue to focus on what is important – defending our Super Bowl Championship and being the best cornerback in the NFL.”
Sherman had told the Times last week that he was not concerned about being the highest-paid cornerback.
“I don’t care for that,’’ said Sherman, who is due to make $1.4 million in 2014 on the last year of the four-year rookie deal he signed in 2011. “The only list I care about being at the top of is interceptions.’’
Still, Sherman said he will want what he feels he is worth.
“It’s about respect,’’ he said. “Whatever the team feels I deserve, the respect they feel — that (money) is the respect from the team. That’s how they show it, at least in this game. In other aspects of life it may be different. You may show respect in different ways. But in this game that’s how they show it.’’
Getting Sherman done completes most of the team’s off-season goals.
Last week, the team signed free safety Earl Thomas to a four-year deal through the 2018 season making him the highest-paid safety in the NFL at $10 million a season.
And re-signing Sherman assures that three-fourths of the Legion of Boom secondary is intact for four more years as strong safety Kam Chancellor last year signed a five-year, $35 million deal taking him through the 2017 season.
The team has been paring salary throughout the off-season to clear the cap space to be able to re-sign Thomas and Sherman. After the 2014 season the team will then attempt to sign QB Russell Wilson to an extension. Wilson has to play the 2014 season under the terms of his original rookie contract.
The Seahawks also earlier this year extended the contract of coach Pete Carroll through the 2016 season, matching an extension given last year to general manager John Schneider.
UPDATE — Here’s a Tweet from Sherman confirming the news:
New contract signed! Great moment for my family & foundation. #LOB #12s #Seahawks #Respect http://t.co/dVYWrRaYYq pic.twitter.com/85xhN9pyhG
— Richard Sherman (@RSherman_25) May 7, 2014
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The World Out of Whack: from Pig Iron Magazine, # 18, 1992
This is the Introduction to Pig Iron 18, published in 1992. I’m posting in response to Molly Best Tinsley’s reaction to the Republican Senate’s finding that Humans have not caused climate change. Molly’s observation is that her garden thinks it’s March already:
Jack Remick
THE WORLD OUT OF WHACK
Ecological Morality and Environmental Hypocrisy
in the Second Half of The Last Century
of Humans on Earth
and other Hyperbole
Art, Ecology, and the Esthetics of Ugliness
in their relationship to the Aristotelian Fallacy: Art should Imitate Life
Out of whack: (colloq.) Not in proper condition.
The world is out of whack. There are too many people and not enough resources. Every year we add a population the size of Mexico. About 90 million people.
Imbalance. There are three aspects to the imbalance that keep us from bringing ourselves into harmony with the planet: 1) Ecological morality; 2) Environmental hypocrisy; 3) Economic Matrix.
The problem is this: We are ecologically amoral in our treatment of the planet; we have lived and continue to live as environmental hypocrites exploiting the resource base. The reasons for this are embedded in the economic matrix which measures wealth, happiness and well-being in goods and quantity rather than spiritual health and quality of life. We are in effect at war.
All wars are fought for control of a resource base. In this war the antagonists are the human race and the planet.
Gaea is suffering. Unless we take some very strong stands we can expect the environmental facism to continue. How long can we continue to rob the environment before we get caught and have to pay the price? In fact, we get caught every day, we just don’t know it. One day it will come to us that there is nothing left. What does that mean? It means we will be sterile, the land will be sterile, the water will be undrinkable. One way to deal with a limited resource base is to make fewer demands on it. And that means fewer people with each person expecting less.
Ecological morality is held hostage by environmental hypocrisy and the economic matrix. We destroy what we ought to save. We’ve gotten ourselves into a bunker mentality, a Gotterdammerung frame of mind, and the result will be a wipeout.
To paraphrase Fritjof Capra, we are in a crisis, and this crisis is essentially one of perception. At its root, the problem is one of hierarchies. Where do human beings belong in the scheme of things?
If the world is out of whack, how has it gotten that way?
We are supposedly in a time of rejection of the cartesian duality of mind and body. In The Quantum Self, Danah Zohar sums it up: “Equally affected is our attitude towards Nature and the material world. If our minds, or conscious selves, are wholly different from our material selves as Descartes argued, and if consciousness has no part to play in the universe as Newtonian physics implies, what relationship can we have to Nature and to matter? We are aliens in an alien world, set apart from and in opposition to our material environment. Thus we set out to conquer Nature, to overwhelm her and use her for our own ends, never minding the consequences” (20).
Gaea. From the Middle Greek, Gaia. Also Ge.
We have to put the world right again. If the problem is fragmentation, then the solution must be synthesis. But is it that simple? Can we undo the damage and set things right? How do we reverse what’s gone?
We are aware of the fragmentation, we see the need to rebuild, but we still have let science divide our brain into two parts: the left brain and the right brain. The left brain is creative, the right brain is analytical. Or is it the other way around? Does it matter? This is another duality that takes the place of the Cartesian duality and makes it possible for us to avoid responsibility for ourselves and our being in the world. It is, after all, one brain. The left half and the right half both will get zapped by the same carcinogen. We know the problem, but how do we get back on track and instill a sense of ecological morality not just in the young, but in ourselves? How do we pick up the pieces and make the world whole again? Is it possible?
The political forces in the economic matrix are so strong that they have been able to subvert nearly every attempt at ecological regeneration or environmental rehabilitation. In those rare instances when something has gotten out of the two houses of Congress, such as the SuperFund for cleaning up toxic waste sites, implementation has been eviscerated by delays through local politics, infighting and business jeremiads about fair share, leading to court battles about responsibility. The latest corruption comes in the Bush Administration’s plan to redesignate all the wetlands in the United States in such a way that they can be developed. This is another attempt to make a problem go away by redefining it. We need only to think back to the Reagan years when the Department of Education tried to re-define catsup as a vegetable in school kids’ lunches.
Meanwhile, civilization continues to fail. The resource base erodes, the population increases and chaos with it. An ecological morality can be defined as accepting responsibility for our acts. When we were unconscious beasts acting on instinct, we got away with a lot. But as conscious beings we have to become responsible. Ecological morality, and its opposite, environmental hypocrisy, are linked in responsibility. Unfortunately, what happens today is that the magnate says, yes, we’re responsible, pays the fifty thousand dollar fine, and continues to export poisons to the Third World.
Somehow, business leaders fail to see that the end of civilization will have a negative effect on their businesses. They seem to think that they can move away from it, but there, they run up against the first limit in a world of limits: where are they going to go? The devastation is so complete, that there is no where on the planet they can re-locate that has not been affected by the greed and insensitivity of those who preceded them. The bottomline, shareholder obligations, is a stranglehold. It is very strong. And it is enigmatic. So enigmatic that business leaders fail to see that their shareholders have to live somewhere; they fail to see that the profits they take result in the degradation of the quality of life that their shareholders are making their profits to purchase.
I can foresee a time when there’s nothing left but chickens, cows, pigs, horses, sheep, and fungus. Then, no doubt, business will find a way for us to use animal dung as currency. The greed is universal, endemic, and epidemic. The greed is so destructive that we will shoot our own feet off rather than cut back on our expectations.
We are in a time when there can be no more compromises. There can be no more trade-offs against the environment. We have despoliated it to such a degree that all acts against it are now criminal and cannot be tolerated. There is no such thing as a small, insignificant project in an environment which has been degraded.
Garrett Hardin, in his doctrine of Lifeboat Ethics, says that when there are too many people, we should let them die. There are too many people. Do we let them die? Is this too hardhearted? Why are there too many people? Because, some have said, we have become too good at death prevention. We worry about keeping people alive and at the same time destroy the environment they depend on. We bring children into the world, keep them alive but we don’t care about the quality of life they will be forced to choose.
Part of our problem is that we are addictive. We’re addicted to chemicals, to electricity, to gas, to cars, to money; we’re addicted to any and every thing that we can produce, and we are addicted to throwing things away. And we’re addicted to producing people. Seattle artist Kathy Ross writes: “The reality of addiction is related to the reality of oppression and environmental destruction. Addiction is an attempt to fill the void where self respect and peace ought to go. We can’t respect either ourselves or the world so we trash both. It is the same impulse.”
How does this translate into environmental hypocrisy? Take the example of hospitals. The costs of health care delivery systems destroy the environment because it is cheaper to throw things away than it is to recycle them. As a result, the death prevention business becomes the death causing business. The medicrats save lives and irrevocably erode the quality of life on the planet. We save our people’s lives, then ask them to live in an environment that is so polluted we wonder why anyone would want to live in it.
Is Cartesian thinking dead? No, it is not. It is very much alive when we consider the waste disposal business. We do not see any relationship between ourselves and the world around us. It has existed and still exists so that we can exploit it.
Resources are not unlimited. The first limitation we bump up against is the land. The second is the water. The third is our inability to conceive of a resource base that is limited and act within its limits. Our vision and our creativity become the means of our own destruction. How do you explain that to the birds?
Richard Nelson, in The Island Within, writes: “Any animal knows more than you do.” What is this animal wisdom? I posed this question to Dr. Dee Boersma, a scientist at the University of Washington. She gave me this example: “In the Galapagos Islands, when El Nino is running, the sea birds simply do not propagate if the food source begins to diminish. Any bird, operating on environmental sense, knows more than human beings do in this regard. Under stressful conditions, birds abandon their young and then do not conceive others. For other species, scientific studies show that when a female’s body fat falls below a certain level, she stops ovulating. The resource base drives reproduction. In human society, we are hypocritical in providing just enough fat to allow the female to reproduce, but not enough to assure the survival of the offspring. Living should be accompanied by quality of life, and not just a brutish existence in which barely enough is eaten to survive.”
My friend, Cat Newsheller has been trying for a couple years to save a small wetland in her community. The area is a natural drainage basin for underground streams. As she works to preserve this wetland, the local community college is trying to build a new gymnasium on it. Cat maintains: “We don’t need a gymnasium. We need a natural classroom where people can see what is left of the world. But I tell that to the people on the committee and they get glassy-eyed. Everyone is afraid of facing the truth. You get along better with people if you don’t tell the truth. We really don’t need all this stuff. But who’s going to listen to that? The problem with humanity is that people have no relationship with their environment, we just don’t see ourselves as part of it. The solution is to recognize that we are.”
What’s wrong with poverty and why is poverty equated with dirt? The land becomes synonymous with ugliness in the city. It symbolizes poverty and disenfranchisment. In Mexico City, where millions of peasants migrate, they are finding that what worked in a village doesn’t work in the city. Normal agrarian practices become filth in the city. The dirt floors of the village houses translate into grime. In the country, sweeping the floor meant moving the dirt from inside the house back into the environment where it was recycled by natural means. In the city, sweeping the dirt outside results in an accumulation of filth and grime and litter. We have not changed our attitudes, we have merely changed locale. We are all land dwellers and at one time we all had houses with dirt floors. The land cannot absorb our wastes when it is sterilized. The solution to pollution used to be dilution. But the way we are going, there isn’t any way to dilute it all. Our future depends on how we manage rot.
But what are we doing about it?
“”Vous, Hypocrite lecteur, mon semblable, mon frere,” as Baudelaire says. Any time you call your readers lying hypocrites you run the risk of offending them. But that is what I am doing. As you read this, you are a hypocrite because you have driven your car today. You have consumed your share of the chemicals that our unethical companies export to the third world. You and I are the same. Last night, I ate a salad made of lettuce grown in Mexico. It was probably sprayed with para-quat applied by Mexican laborers who didn’t wear protective equipment. I am guilty. We are all guilty.
What can we do? If we can’t change our thinking, how do we expect the emerging industrial countries in the third world to change theirs? We could start by not buying the chemicals. We could sacrifice a little convenience to the common good. Don’t use hair spray. Take the bus a couple times a week. Sacrifice a little time. Make the chemical companies be responsible. Touch the bottom line by infusing it with morality.
If we had a medical system that guaranteed health care, would we need so much money to purchase a health care plan? If we had a government that guaranteed our child’s college education, would we have to accumulate so much wealth in order to provide? We are suffering from a crisis of perception. We are suffering from a failure of government as much as we are suffering from a devastated environment. They are one and the same. Socialism is a nasty word now that Communism has failed. But do we really expect every individual human being on this planet to acquire the resources necessary to provide for his or her offspring and retirement?
We need to look beyond self to see ourselves in the others. We can only expect a lowered quality of life as a result of our exploitation of the resource base. Limited resources mean that only the rich will be able to live well. The rest of us will go hungry and live in sub-standard housing and do without the things that our predecessors took for granted.
We are living in the time of the sins of our fathers. Their recklessness has caught up with us, disregard for the planet is killing us. We know what their mistakes were, but we continue to consume and to breed.
Our refusal to accept the right of other creatures to share the resource base will result in the extinction of our own expectations; it will cause social upheaval and will dislocate millions of people. Our leaders, who take their lead from our unrelenting greed, and who refuse to act, commit the most cynical act of all.
I once I asked my brother-in-law, a banker, why we couldn’t have a steady state economy. His answer was that growth was good, and fast growth was even better. It didn’t matter that his bank was lending money to buy houses built on some of the richest agricultural land in the world. Growth to him was and is good. There were no consequences. Just keep on growing. Keep on consuming. No limits.
I recently talked to a forest resource manager who told me that the slow growth of wood is what makes it strong. Fertilizing the trees on farms causes the wood to grow too fast. The rings are too far apart, so that even the quality of the wood that we grow is inferior. This will, of course, he said, be denied by the tree farm people. But they cannot be believed because they are key factors in the economic matrix that drives our consumption. The meretriciousness of their self-serving and prevarication about the effects of their practices on the environment are obvious. You have to remember that it wasn’t until the 1950s that companies like Weyerhauser and Georgia Pacific even began to think about reforestation. Our own hypocrisy is intensified when we allow them to lie to us about what they are doing and how it will affect us and the future. The choices are: Slow growth or no growth.
Gordon Wood, a Seattle artist, works downtown and rides his bike eight miles one way, sixteen miles round trip, rain, shine to work. His art is an environmentally focused art that looks at the exploitation of the natural environment and the serious damage we are doing to it to feed the economic matrix. Too few of us dare to be like Gordon Wood, he lives his convictions, he believes that something can be done about the problem. Gordon Wood believes that you to choose life, and life implies sacrifice.
The Northwest is seen as paradise by some, and as an unlimited resource base by others. In the past fifty years, Paradise has had its wild salmon runs devastated, its forests clear cut and its rivers polluted just like every other locale in the economic matrix. California wants water from the Columbia River. All those billions of gallons of water will fill millions of swimming pools. But what about the salmon? Can salmon spawn in swimming pools in the California sunshine?
The Northwest gave the world the Hanford Nuclear Reservation and now it’s anybody’s guess how much of the Northwest is threatened by nuclear waste. Nuclear energy, we are told, is safe. Only too late we learned that it isn’t the energy we have to deal with, it is the waste. The French dump it in ocean, the future be damned. We are more circumspect. We dump it at Hanford where, over a thousand year period, it will leach into the Columbia before it goes into the ocean. In the meantime, the water table is contaminated, so people move away. This creates economic depression, so the remaining workers demand that Hanford be made into a National Nuclear Dump to make jobs.
So what other kind of environmental thinking is taking place in the Great Pacific Northwest? A lot of thinking, not much action. Solveig Torvik writes in the Seattle Times, “One thing seems a safe bet in this sea of uncertainty: If the salmon vanish while corps officials (Army Corps of Engineers) study, they’ll justly take the blame, enhancing their reputations as eco-bums. If they step out front to surmount this nettlesome technical challenge, they’ll be heroes. There’s one more prediction that safely can be made about all this: If, knowing what we now know, we Pacific Northwesterners let our wild salmon perish, perplexed coming generations will understand at least this much: that we did it on purpose, not in ignorance. They will know we weighed the salmon in the balance and found them wanting, unworthy of our sacrifice.”
It should be perfectly obvious that we can’t talk about ecological morality without confronting environmental hypocrisy. We say that we need to preserve the wilderness, but we refuse to take the land out of the economic matrix; we say that we need to stop the pipelines bringing Alaskan crude to the Puget Sound for refining, but we won’t stop driving our cars long enough to send our message to the economic gurus and banking barons. We say we want to preserve the spotted owl habitat, but we confuse the spotted owl with the deeper problem of the shrinking resource base and we say that the spotted owl and the eco-radicals are taking jobs away from loggers. Finally, we pass toothless growth management acts designed to make developers responsible, but we refuse to pass the funding acts and tax increases that will put enforcement teeth into the law.
Yes, we in the Northwest are ecologically aware, but we are also hypocrites. As I said before, you call your readers hypocrites, you run the risk of offending them. Well, it’s about time we got offended, it’s about time we looked at the truth. We want our cars and we want our environment too. We can’t have it both ways. We have to make a choice. Either we get on our feet and lead the way to environmental salvation, or we shut up and once and for all get on the economic bandwagon and let the environment go to hell around us. The downside is that by continuing to go in the direction we’re taking, we undercut our own quality of life. Each decision to consume in the present, limits future choices. Human beings use about 40 percent of the world’s primary productivity. What this means is that we are stealing not just from the future, but from every other living creature.
How do artists approach the question? When I managed the Pig Iron Press display at Seattle’s Bumbershoot Literary Festival two years ago, I passed out manuscript requests for The Environment: Essence and Issue. I asked artists to try to define ecological morality in this time of severe exploitation of the resource base. I thought that Northwest artists would be a good source for commentary on this issue. Meanwhile, rain forest acreage the size of the state of Texas has been devastated to make cattle ranches. I’m afraid there are no answers in the artists’ imagery, there is only further documentation of the ruination and devastation; there are poems about dying fish and vanishing forests, but there is no blueprint for salvation.
Are artists articulate commentators capable of making a meaningful social commentary, or are we strictly peripheral to the debate about the fate of the world? If we think about it for a while, we see that far from leading the world, the art community has participated almost nonchalantly in the destruction of the world.
Artists are guilty of the esthetics of ugliness. The Aristotelian fallacy which says that art should imitate life has led generations of artists into ugliness. We are guilty of letting devastated reality dictate to us instead of using our powers to create alternatives to the destruction which our compadres are bringing to the world.
At the root of the artists’ complicity is the economic matrix. We sacrifice beauty to shock because shock translates into cash. How much advancement in artistic thinking has there been since the naturalists and the surrealists said they wanted to shock the bourgeoisie. They have triumphed. Shock has given way to ugliness and ugliness to deceit and deceit to hypocrisy. Most artists, painters, poets, writers, are Johnsonians in that we are doing it for money and money and money. What else is there? We have taken our instruments and coated them with blood. We are no longer making art, we are participating in a sacrifice of the world to our own gain. Most of us are no better than the Georgia Pacific moguls who slaughter forests for money. They just do it directly.
I am an urbanite. Most artists I know live in the cities. As artists, our life is in the city. The people who buy and enjoy our art are there.
What can we do as artists? We can refuse to create ugliness. That’s not to say become Pollyanna. But refuse to make ugly, stupid art. Draw, learn to tell stories. To be effective, I think, means we have to invent and adopt an entirely new aesthetic. In the past, we have tried to let form and content be the same. The result has been that if we wanted to make a piece about chaos, we dissolved the form into a chaotic jumble of pieces. If we wanted to write about madness, we went into stream of consciousness and wrote word salad. I would like to see art that once again interprets the world instead of shitting on paper and calling it painting. If our anger is so deep that we are reduced to that, then maybe the problem is better dealt with on the psychiatrist’s couch than on canvas or in print.
As artists, we have to accept responsibility for the world as it has become. We can show a new way, instead of continuing to run with the notion that art is destruction of form.
We all know what the problem is, but art has gotten locked in a tight little loop of bitching about and then depicting what everyone already knows. In the process we are losing our audience. Not because that audience is insensitive, but because they already know what the problem is but don’t know how to get out of it without sacrificing some of the standard of living they enjoy. The role of the artist could be to offer alternatives to the world by creating another reality that reintegrates human beings into the world and lets us see it not as an enemy but as an extension of ourselves and ourselves as an extension of it.
The good art of the next century will be art that doesn’t fragment, it will be art that shows the continuity of being; it will be art that allows us to imagine things that cannot be and have never been. If the problem is disintegration, then the solution must be integration. To integrate, each of us will have to give up something.
I had hoped to be able to define an ecological morality. But I am not certain it can be done. Environmental sensitivity is an individual mind-sweep, and there isn’t time to wait for each of us to make it. As we, in the United States, become more aware of what we are doing, other places in the world are beginning to imitate us. They are not imitating us as we move into a new consciousness. They imitate us as we were in the 1950s. And we will pay for that.
What will we do when a billion Chinese start to run automobiles? Already the coal dust in China has disastrous health effects. The Chinese are building nuclear plants. What will they do with their nuclear waste? They plan to dam the Yang Tze River. What will happen to the fishing industry in China as a result?
We do not have time to wait while 850 million humans on the Indian Subcontinent become environmentally aware. We can’t even get everybody in this country to agree that there is a problem.
Is guilt the first component of an ecological morality? Is shame the second? If so, how do we instill them?
Can we, as artists, do something positive? Can we forget what is gone, and turn our attention to the present, look at what is left and make something out of that? Maybe. But painting a picture is not enough. Writing an essay on environmental hypocrisy is not enough. We have to do something. But what? I suggest that we become politically active, that we get down right militant. I suggest that we use our art in a political way. I suggest that we get serious about evolving a new aesthetic and move away from the craft of alienation. I suggest that we make politicians pass an environmental litmus test and hold them to it. It’s time to get political. Either that or designate who among us will become the first New Cave-Painters, then sit around and wait for the end of the world.
I’m not ready to do that. Time is running out. I know that; you know that. What is missing is the program that we can adopt that will salvage the world.
Ten years ago, in Baseball (Pig Iron 9), I ended my allegory, “The Game Against the People,” with Gaea saying,
My skin, my trees, my life stripped off reveal the wounds (my rivers raped, they will not heal but bleed forever) made with steel I gave to men who thanked me not, but dug their grave. This life I’ve born—my hope, my joy—is death. My lungs, once clear, can barely now take breath. In pain I lie as work of man turns rain to death and melts my fish while in that brain I gave for lie, ideas are born that kill. Quickly! Quickly! Before Rose my will. My plea is rough, my song in ancient rime, whose rhythms are life, whose cycles my soul. I need you. Do not turn away this time, you are the only loves I can expect to find. “eight, seven, six….”
Not much has changed in ten years. We’re still slaughtering . Gaea, and the NEA is taking away support for activist artists.
The switch is in our heads, but we haven’t turned it on yet. We’re still hoping we’ll get rich so we can go away someplace where it won’t matter. We are still children thinking that the infinite mother will provide for us infinitely. Right now, the infinite mother’s milk is running dry. And we just keep on sucking.
Boersma, Dr. Dee. “Breeding Patterns of Galapagos Penguins…” Science Magazine
30 June 1978: 1481-3. Personal Communication.
Capra, Fritjof. The Turning Point. NY: Bantam, 1987.
Hardin, James Garrett. Lifeboat Ethics.
Nelson, Richard. The Island Within. NY: Random House, 1991.
Newsheller, Cat. Letter.
Ross, Kathy. Remarks preceding an exposition
of her work, October, 1991.
Torvik, Solveig. “Conflict on the Columbia.”
Seattle Times 11 Nov 1991.
Villani, Jim, ed. Baseball (Pig Iron 9).
Youngstown: Pig Iron Press, 1982. 78.
Zohar, Davah. The Quantum Self. 1990. NY: Morrow, 1991.
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Motorservice’s new packaging design
At Automechaika 2018, spare parts specialist MS Motorservice International GmbH is showcasing its altered packaging design, which features a modified logo and new colors. While changing the optical appearance of its packaging, the company also adopted additional measures to combat product piracy: The latest generation includes security features on the labels that offer an even greater protection against counterfeiting.
“We’re very pleased to have successfully completed our logo revamp. The new packaging definitely gives us a fresher, more up-to-date look”, declares Sven Zeitler, head of marketing at Motorservice. “And what better place to unveil it than Automechanika?” The new packaging will be on show at the sector’s premier trade fair in Frankfurt am Main, September 11-15, 2018. However, the company’s customers may have to wait a while before getting their hands on the new design: Motorservice will be shipping previously ordered and packaged products in the original packaging until supplies run out. “It could well be that the complete changeover won’t take place until 2019”, says Zeitler.
As a supplier of OEM-quality engine components, Motorservice goes to great lengths to make sure its products aren’t counterfeited. In the process of changing the design, the company therefore decided to employ the latest generation of security features: the tesa PrioSpot, developed by tesa scribos. This anti-counterfeit product identification system contains a variety of visible and concealed security features. Some can be seen with the naked eye, while others require a magnifying glass or special scanner. Thanks to this patented technology, up to seven different verification levels can be simultaneously inscribed on the label, giving the product a unique identity. In addition, the 2-D matrix code on the label has been replaced with a QC code. This makes checking the authenticity of the product quick and easy: all you have to do is scan in the QR code with a smartphone, and seconds later a green light appears on the display if it’s an original product, or a red light if it’s a fake.
You can find here the new safety features and an updated online-check.
About Motorservice
The Motorservice Group is the sales organization of Rheinmetall Automotive’s global aftermarket activities. It is a leading supplier of engine components for the spare parts market, encompassing the Kolbenschmidt, Pierburg, BF and TRW Engine Components brands. An extensive, in-depth product range lets customers draw all their spare parts from a single source. Moreover, as a problem-solver for wholesalers, retailers, and auto repair shops, Motorservice offers a level of comprehensive technical expertise befitting the subsidiary of a major high-tech enterprise.
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There is no alternative: THE FUTURE IS SELF-ORGANISED–2 texts for artists opposing neoliberalism PT1
October 16, 2015 / Stephen Pritchard
There are two texts that have been at the centre of my thinking for many years; inspirational works that demand structural change and true cultural democracy. I’m sharing them here to hopefully start a broader discussion within arts and culture that looks outside the crumbling bureaucracies of the totally administered Creative Industries.
TINA 1 and 2 as they are fondly known are both the work of three artists:
Stephan Dillemuth (Munich), Anthony Davies (London) and Jakob Jakobsen (Copenhagen).
Part one was published on 12th June 2005.
Both texts can be freely distributed without the permission of the authors.
There is no alternative: THE FUTURE IS SELF-ORGANISED
As workers in the cultural field we offer the following contribution to the debate on the impact of neoliberalism on institutional relations:
• Cultural and educational institutions as they appear today are nothing more than legal and
administrative organs of the dominant system. As with all institutions, they live in and
through us; we participate in their structures and programmes, internalise their values,
transmit their ideologies and act as their audience/public/social body.
• Our view: these institutions may present themselves to us as socially accepted bodies, as somehow representative of the society we live in, but they are nothing more than
dysfunctional relics of the bourgeois project. Once upon a time, they were charged with the role of promoting democracy, breathing life into the myth that institutions are built on an
exchange between free, equal and committed citizens. Not only have they failed in this task, but within the context of neoliberalism, have become even more obscure, more unreliable and more exclusive.
• The state and its institutional bodies now share aims and objectives so closely intertwined with corporate and neoliberal agendas that they have been rendered indivisible. This intensification and expansion of free market ideology into all aspects of our lives has been accompanied by a systematic dismantling of all forms of social organisation and imagination antithetical to the demands of capitalism.
• As part of this process it’s clear that many institutions and their newly installed managerial elites are now looking for escape routes out of their inevitable demise and that, at this juncture, this moment of crisis, they’re looking at ‘alternative’ structures and what’s left of the Left to model their horizons, sanction their role in society and reanimate their tired relations. Which of course we despise!
In their scramble for survival, cultural and educational institutions have shown how easily they can betray one set of values in favour of another and that’s why our task now is to demand and adhere to the foundational and social principles they have jettisoned, by which we mean: transparency, accountability, equality and open participation.
• By transparency we mean an opening up of the administrative and financial
functions/decision making processes to public scrutiny. By accountability we mean that these functions and processes are clearly presented, monitored and that they can in turn, be measured and contested by ‘participants’ at any time. Equality and open participation is exactly what it says – that men and women of all nationalities, race, colour and social status
can participate in any of these processes at any time.
• Institutions as they appear today, locked in a confused space between public and private, baying to the demands of neoliberal hype with their new management structures, are not in a position to negotiate the principles of transparency, accountability and equality, let alone implement them. We realise that responding to these demands might extend and/or guarantee institutions’ survival but, thankfully, their deeply ingrained practices prevent them from even entertaining the idea on a serious level.
• In our capacity as workers with a political commitment to self-organisation we feel that any further critical contribution to institutional programmes will further reinforce the relations that keep these obsolete structures in place. We are fully aware that ‘our’ critiques, alternatives and forms of organisation are not just factored into institutional structures but increasingly utilised to legitimise their existence.
• The relationship between corporations, the state and its institutions is now so unbearable that we see no space for negotiation – we offer no contribution, no critique, no pathway to reform, no way in or out. We choose to define ourselves in relation to the social forms that we participate in and not the leaden institutional programmes laid out before us – our deregulation is determined by social, not market relations. There is no need for us to storm the Winter Palace, because most institutions are melting away in the heat of global capital anyway. We will provide no alternative. So let go!
The only question that remains is how to get rid of the carcass and deal with the stench:
• We are not interested in their so-called assets; their personnel, buildings, archives, programmes, shops, clubs, bars, facilities and spaces will all end up at the pawnbroker anyway…
• All we need is their cash in order to pay our way out of capitalism and take this opportunity to make clear our intention to supervise and mediate our own social capital, knowledge and networks.
• As a first step we suggest an immediate redistribution of their funds to already existing, self-organised bodies with a clear commitment to workers’ and immigrants’ rights, social (antiracist, anti-sexist, anti-homophobic) struggle and representation.
There is no alternative! The future is self-organised.
• In the early 1970’s corporate analysts developed a strategy aimed at reducing uncertainty called ‘there is no alternative’ (TINA). Somewhat ironically we now find ourselves in agreement, but this time round we’re the scenario planners and executors of our own future though we are, if nothing else, the very embodiment of uncertainty.
• In the absence of clearly stated opposition to the neoliberal system, most forms of collective and collaborative practice can be read as ‘self-enterprise’. By which we mean, groupings or clusters of individuals set up to feed into the corporate controlled markets, take their seats at the table, cater to and promote the dominant ideology.
• Self-organisation should not be confused with self-enterprise or self-help, it is not an alternative or conduit into the market. It isn’t a label, logo, brand or flag under which to sail in the waters of neoliberalism (even as a pirate ship as suggested by MTV)! It has no relationship to entrepreneurship or bogus ‘career collectives’.
• In our view self-organisation is a byword for the productive energy of those who have nothing left to lose. It offers up a space for a radical re-politicisation of social relations – the first tentative steps towards realisable freedoms.
Self-organisation is:
• Something which predates representational institutions. To be more precise: institutions are built on (and often paralyse) the predicates and social forms generated by self-organisation.
• Mutually reinforcing, self-valorising, self-empowering, self-historicising and, as a result, not compatible with fixed institutional structures.
• A social and productive force, a process of becoming which, like capitalism, can be both flexible and opaque – therefore more than agile enough to tackle (or circumvent) it.
• A social process of communication and commonality based on exchange; sharing of similar problems, knowledge and available resources.
• A fluid, temporal set of negotiations and social relations which can be emancipatory – a process of empowerment.
• Something which situates itself in opposition to existing, repressive forms of organisation and concentrations of power.
• Always challenging power both inside the organisation and outside the organisation; this produces a society of resonance and conflict, but not based on fake dualities as at present.
• An organisation of deregulated selves. It is at its core a non-identity.
• A tool that doesn’t require a cohesive identity or voice to enter into negotiation with others. It may reside within social forms but doesn’t need take on an identifiable social form itself.
• Contagious and inclusive, it disseminates and multiplies.
• The only way to relate to self-organisation is to take part, self-organise, connect with other self-organising initiatives and challenge the legitimacy of institutional representation.
We put a lid on the bourgeois project, the national museums will be be stored in their very own archive, the Institutes of Contemporay Art will be handed over to the artists unions, the Universities and Academies will be handed over to the students, Siemens and all the other global players will be handed over to their workers. The state now acts as an administrative unit – just as neoliberalism has suggested it – but with mechanisms of control, transparency accountability and equal rights for all.
October 16, 2015 / Stephen Pritchard/ Comment
Economics and culture, Self-organising
Anthony Davies, commons, creative industries, Jakob Jakobsen, neoliberalism, self-organised, Stephan Dillemuth, TINA
There are two texts that have been at the centre of my thinking for many years; inspirational works that demand structural change and true cultural democracy. I’m sharing them here to hopefully start a broader discussion within arts and culture that looks outside the crumbling bureaucracies of the totally administered Creative Industries. TINA 1 and 2 as they are fondly known are both the work of three artists:
Part two was published in February 2012.
There is no alternative: THE FUTURE IS SELF-ORGANISED Part 2
Reclaiming Self-Organisation
Part one of our text, ‘There is No Alternative: THE FUTURE IS SELF-ORGANISED’ (TINA1), was first published in 2005, a period when the ‘animal spirits’ of unlimited accumulation were still drunk on their own sense of infallibility. At the time, we couldn’t fail to notice a similar over-confidence and arrogance in the attitude of the political, managerial and professional classes that were moving deeper into cultural and educational institutions.
We therefore felt unsure about accepting an invitation to speculate on self-organisation by an institutional commissioning body that had only recently staked a claim in this tendency and its discourse. The organisation in question, the Nordic Institute For Contemporary Arts (NIFCA) had itself become vulnerable when the progressive programming for which it had become internationally renowned fell out of sync with the increasingly localised and insular interests of its political backers. Without broader consultation it was closed in 2006 – its funds redirected to a more ‘manageable’ organisation without significant public opposition or protest.
In TINA1 we sought to rethink self-organisation, a term that had gained currency as a means to disguise organisational restructuring, manage critique and enhance professional careers. The text sought to place self-organisation back within its oppositional and revolutionary vocabulary, also setting it off against ‘self-help’ and ‘self-enterprise’, terms with which self-organisation had become confused and whose tendency was to stabilise and extend rather than challenge institutional hegemony.
That was 2005 – a world away – before the systemic contradictions started to become more pronounced and exploded with such frequency, and with such blinding force and violence, that the animal spirits faded, the image of eternal growth was shattered and, for most, the ruins beckoned.
The Coming Resurrection
In the midst of a period of intense struggle, violence and social upheaval, who needs economists and pundits to remind us that this is the worst financial crisis since the last? As bad as the 1990s, 1980s, 1970s, the late 1920s? Isn’t the evidence all around us all the time? In the intensities of labour struggle and workers’ suicides in China and South East Asia, the further dispossession of the poor in the US, or the punishing effects of austerity measures imposed everywhere, particularly in those neoliberal European economies once regarded as exemplary, like Greece, Italy and Spain.
For decades, the catastrophic consequences we now find ourselves living through were deferred by fostering rapid market expansion and contraction, boom and bust. Here, crisis played an integral part in the seductive, syncopated rhythm of ‘creative destruction’. Bust was deferred by selling it as boom – which no doubt displayed a certain creativity. A formula of almost redemptive proportions was devised to cover up the wreckage while the supposed necessity of uninhibited free market expansion could be relied upon to sanction even the most blatant acts of global plunder. In tandem, novel ways of shifting, shunting, bundling and repackaging otherwise problematic phenomena, allowed everything – even debt and poverty – to continue to serve capitalist accumulation.
An early response to the financial collapse of 2008 was the slogan ‘We won’t pay for their crisis’, which later gave way to the more trenchant statement ‘Capitalism is Crisis’. This underlined the realisation that the most vulnerable are not only paying a high price for the crisis, but that crisis is implicit in a system where such violence, such destruction is part and parcel of its reproduction. A distinction must here be made between economic and ideological crisis. The former is integral to the logic of capitalist accumulation, which in its neoliberal mode has contended that ‘free’ markets have a tendency towards self-regulation and can therefore construe crises as a temporary manifestation of that principle. The latter is a consequence of the former; a rupture in the belief in capitalism compounded by deep social crisis. The more established middle classes, for example, have been thrown into self-doubt, having lost their sense of global hegemony and the material securities they took for granted for decades. The world’s poor, meanwhile, are, as ever, pushed further down into the mud.
It is this congruence of the economic and ideological crisis, which has exacerbated misery everywhere – and, with it, conjured potentially revolutionary forces now appearing on the surface. As the ranks of the newly immiserated and proletarianised continue to swell, the former middle classes now sit cheek by jowl with those whose hopes of escape they may have once embodied.
But could it be said that this re-composition is part of a more generalised revolutionary process? What we see instead is that the coming resurrections of zombie tendencies are already fully compliant with capitalist logic: nationalism, populism, xenophobia and an obsession with security – to be flanked by propaganda, surveillance, dictatorial, and/or mafia type structures.
Disciplinary austerity is presented as a necessary corrective, an emergency response to the economic crisis and global market crash. Should that fail to convince, there’s always the tale of ‘public sector over-spending’ and ‘living it large’ – a popular profligacy to justify the collective sacrifice. After all, ‘we’re all in this together’. These narratives are typical of capitalism’s meager offering of legitimating excuses.
Under the Wheels
In recent decades we have seen a very close integration of market dynamics and culture. We have witnessed the rise and rise of the Creative Industries. These promised the liberation of Marx’s alienated workers in a process of creative self-realisation and autonomy. Through creativity of the hands and the hearts, they would grant capitalism a human face. Artists, with their idealism, flexibility and enthusiasm to work even under precarious circumstances, became the role model for a new concept of capitalism, leading its ‘triumphant procession around the globe’. The hopes for this spectacle were twofold: it would strengthen belief in capitalism’s new formula, and it would disguise the fact that, like so much else wealth generated under the sign of creativity, it was the product of a proliferation of speculation, and increasing indebtedness. Meanwhile, under the procession’s grinding wheels, the sweatshops, child labour, privatisation of commons and all other disasters that accompany the economic warfare of rich versus poor, continued unabated.
As workers in the cultural and educational sector we have to acknowledge that what passes for critique and politicisation, particularly within the contemporary art community, has proven to be even more toothless than feared. Mimicking the strategies of corporate management, art institutions adopted the rhetoric of social responsibility and ethical governance as a means to appear progressive. Under the guise of art trends like relational aesthetics and the new institutionalism, and state agendas like social inclusion, the privileged continued their merry dance. Political agendas were de-politicised, struggle was taken out of politics as glamorous institutions dressed up as community centres, and corporations as charities. While this may not have entirely convinced the progressives and radical reformists, they still singularly failed to expose a deeper process of de-structuring, organisational hollowing out and the consolidation of existing power relations.
With the recent economic collapse, and the ideological crisis of capitalism, the more progressive branches of the cultural institutional landscape entered a void, displaying both panic and paralysis. In some cases institutional surfaces became more porous and open, while in others they congealed and contracted further, becoming ever more rigid and conservative. At the height of the Occupy Wall Street movement, New York’s Artist’s Space, for example, demonstrated how both processes can occur simultaneously. Here, management initially supported its own ‘occupation’ by artist-activists. But the progressive dream scenario of participation ‘from below’ suddenly turned undesirable, when ‘lack of clear demands’ was cited as cause to call security and remove the occupiers from the building.
In 2008, similar institutional confusion and violence marked the 28th São Paolo Biennale, where the ground floor of the massive exhibition complex was left open ‘for the community’. When urban graffiti crew, pixadores, entered the space with their spray cans, as might be expected, they were forcibly evicted by security and police. This was not the right kind of ‘participation’. Students of Berkeley University occupying Wheeler Hall in 2010 fared no better: faced with nothing more than a sit-down protest, Administration called the UC Berkeley police, which used pepper spray to drive the students from their institutional home violently.
Where antagonisms are not successfully negotiated or suppressed, institutions tend to lay low – either reproducing the state narrative that the crisis is an anomaly that can be overcome, or quietly scrambling for ways not to be cut or shut.
If we can be sure of anything at this moment, it is this: there will be no bailout for us. In fact, it is much worse – communities, homes, workplaces and organisations have again been called upon to facilitate the next phase of capitalist development. The question is: what are we going to do about it? Which is only interesting insofar as it could equally be, what can we do about it? That is, while we remain subject to a system geared towards squeezing cash even out of the rubble it generates, the task, as we see it, is to remind ourselves that this rubble might offer a relative but significant opening: namely an awakening sense that there is no neoliberal future to build, and that we’re no longer compelled to compete as individuals for a piece of the free market world. Against this backdrop, we can measure those in the art system as it stands and by what it is they have to offer in the preparation of a post-capitalist society.
Race to the Bottom
It remains urgent to examine how institutions learnt to simultaneously demand their subjects (workers, students, consumers) accept less (wages, resources, support) while having to pay more (fees, free and voluntary labour). This would include the intensification of ‘hollowing out’, where institutions outsourced large swathes of their activity bar the baseline cultural programming, which continued to legitimise their existence. And, more recently, the rhetoric of ‘de-institutionalisation’, which, removed from its original context of mental health and community care, gained some currency among art professionals as part of a pragmatic institutional response to austerity agendas.
The bogus consultative mode associated with this discourse is now widespread, demonstrating that an increased ‘openness’ to exterior (and critical) forces can alleviate the immediate impact of dwindling funds and gaps in programming by effectively securing free input into everything, from content to strategic organisational development. By way of illustration, London’s ICA, on the verge of collapse in late 2009, gathered representatives from the ‘critical art community’ for an invitation-only discussion forum, The Reading Group. Its framing questions, albeit generalised, clearly also possess a strategic function: ‘What work can we do?’, ‘How do we find alternative ways of thinking about production and labour?’ and ‘How can we act collectively?’
How, then, do we begin to relate the material impact of the ‘race to the bottom’, which can be seen everywhere – all competing against all, all the time – with what appears to be a personal and simultaneously institutional need for, and indeed desire to, cooperate, work together, self-organise? To counter this apparently unassailable dynamic, we must continue to define the system’s key characteristics and patterns, especially as these develop and change. Do we have any choice but to ally ourselves with the explosive rage this has triggered on the streets, directed so decisively at symbolic sites of knowledge, wealth and power?
What role do cultural and educational institutions play during this period of rapid change? Given the current scale of cuts and devastation, these places, where some of us happen to work, study, breathe, pose an unenviable choice: do we self-organise, break the relationship, fight it out among the ruins and accelerate the process of collapse, destruction? Or do we take on more traditional forms of opposition, slow down the process in the search for a temporary haven in the violent storm? These questions follow us into the ruins, a crumbling landscape where the terms may have changed, but the struggle, which remains a class struggle, continues.
As we move into the ruins, can art production, the art system and its institutions, for example, play a part in unlearning capital? Can it feature in a more generalised process of de-education and unlearning? Can it contribute to the exit, the movement out of capitalism? Can those in the cultural and educational sector situate notions of collectivity and communism beyond the specialisation that capitalist production continues to impose? Can these struggles be connected, widened? Can they contribute to post-capitalist, de-specialised spaces, which enable cultural production and engagement in the wildest sense?
Those of us with a need to continue to self-organise will do so in relation to the specific contours and tempos of our respective struggles. Some of us self-organise because we still can, and because we have no choice, while some self-organise to survive, to resist. Self-organisation relies on a dominant form of organisation only to depart from it. Whether it’s workers on the factory floor or artist-revolutionaries elsewhere, the desire to self-organise is first and foremost caught in the contradiction that it both affirms and breaks with the dominant order. If we, then, accept that self-organisation serves a specific purpose at a specific point in any given struggle, we might also ask: at what point is it possible to move beyond self-organisation? And what would this ‘beyond’ look like?
Into the Ruins
There is no reason to be afraid of the ruins, among which some of us now find ourselves, because they could represent the end of capitalist relations and the dissolution of its opaque administrative bodies. It’s difficult to feel concerned about the ways in which the term self-organisation has been re-purposed by those who rely on its aura of radicality to prop up their ailing power. The desired outcome of self-organisation is not the affirmation of the self, the individual, the institution – it’s in the negation of these relationships.
Take over the factory (again!), occupy the schools, colleges, universities, hospitals, rip up management dictats, diss reforms, take over all public transportation, dismiss self-help, head-lock entrepreneurs, outflank the bosses, cancel all dodgy contracts, drop ownership, turn over directors, managers, curators, administrators, break into their offices, liberate their ‘resources’.
In all its forms, self-organisation is a basic and necessary social process that relies on an initial binding condition or problem, which is then addressed collectively. It is a collaborative tool, a means to mobilise skills, experience, support, resources and knowledge. Looking back (and forward!), we see its role in the formation of council democracies (soviets, Räte, councils), where politics developed at the level of the factory, kindergarten, neighbourhood – and people came together to organise, practically, artistically, intellectually.
But it should be noted that decision-making and debates about executive and legislative processes can produce larger, more complex structures – a union of councils. In order to gain broader impact for different experiments in self-organisation, it will eventually become imperative to join forces, organise and unite beyond various specific and singular interests.
Issue impossible demands, make no demands, say nothing, deny everything, wreck classrooms, put social knowledge to work, re-deploy those wasted years of education, construct new tools, question and undermine normalisation, tear apart populism and nationalism, take space, refuse reform, refuse negotiations, refuse explanations, no demands in their language, anti-normative, anti-hegemonic, pain in the ass, fragile, refuse their language, scream, shout, dance, riot, smash, fuck, make noise, remain silent.
As we’ve seen in recent struggles, it is necessary to work against the tendency to cut off self-organised processes from a potentially revolutionary mainstream in order to gain momentum. The framework and infrastructures for such connections are everywhere, at all times. But how can they be brought together in such a way as to maintain ‘difference’, and allow for tensions, antagonism and disputes to be productive? In the process of its own negation, then, self-organisation should continue to question terms like consensus, alliance, solidarity and democracy.
Try out, flow, keep on, moving with others, enjoy failure, camps, communication, interaction is production, rewrite history, redefine identity, unlearn property, make demands in another language, redistribute the sensible, de-specialise, re-specialise, re-imagine the present, socialise depression, make new dictionaries, vocabularies, lexicons, indexes, catalogues, new maps.
Continuing to produce culture, despite the dominance of capital and its institutions, is not a call for a placebo utopianism, or to prepare for a separate form of life outside of production and the creation of surplus. Instead, it means testing new forms of collaboration and developing a different measure and grasp of value. Here, production embodies mutuality, togetherness, new and dynamic social relations, all of which continue to occur among the ruins, helping to accelerate the expansion of the commons and a total transformation of social relationships.
Block, parry, side-step, strike, counter, dig out, confront, tear up, get your shit together, your guts together, boycott, complete dissent, proletarian shopping, hit and run, critique, purge, find unexpected comrades, abolish, destroy money, watch the bullshit fall apart, dance among the ruins.
A key task now is to derail capitalist restructuring, continue to widen the cracks, block all attempts at reform wherever possible. We need to build, protect and defend the communes and commons that will make up post-capitalist life. As we’ve seen, most states and their institutions can switch into emergency mode at a moment’s notice, unleashing levels of extreme violence that are commensurate only with their own fear – not with any actually existing threat. New warfare is underway everywhere – on the Internet, in the street, private and public sphere; all are either in a state of emergency, or threatened by impending incursions. We have to maintain the alliances and continue to develop the destructive language that shapes the exit.
Merge, get organised, disorganise, flow together, join forces, exchange experiments, experiment with yourself, get rid of yourself, slowly, start synthesising, synchronising, syncopating, shaping structures, play with weapons, stray research labs, converging forms of communication and collaboration, anti-property, no-property, property-less, non-proprietorial, non-patriarchal education, self-educate, co-educate, experiment, dump your expertise, experiment, no programme, force open the archives, inhabit histories, dig the bones out of the rubble, re-animate the long, long memory of political struggles, victories and defeats, activate conflicting utopias, realise oneiric knowledge.
Anthony Davies, artists, commons, creative industries, Jakob Jakobsen, self-organised, Stephan Dillemuth, TINA
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June 6, 1944: Souviens-Toi
June 6, 2014 buffalopundit 21 comments
US GIs Marching to the Docks June 1944
70 years ago today, thousands of Allied men crossed the English Channel to land on the beaches of Normandy to help defeat European fascism.
Anyone with a passing general knowledge of history knows about D-Day and its significance – the war was over less than a year later. This montage of then-and-now images published by the Guardian is simply incredible.
Less well-known in the US is the fate of the French town of Oradour-sur-Glane. On June 10, 1944, the town was under the control of Vichy France. That day, a German Panzer division massacred 642 men, women, and children – most of them shot and then burned alive in the town church – for no known reason. It’s suspected that the massacre was in retaliation for the killing of some German soldiers in the area (possibly in another town also named “Oradour”) by the French resistance.
The French government left the town as it stood on that day. It is a monument to the relentlessly brutal German occupation, and to the innocent victims of Naziism.
A Peugeot allegedly belonging to the town doctor stands where it was parked as the doctor arrived back to town from a house call just as the round-up of villagers began.
Via Wikipedia
Here, two visitors walk through the ruins of the village, where time stood still.
Via Oradour.info
tagged with france, Oradour-Sur-Glane, war, WW2
Jaquandor (Kelly Sedinger)
If Oradour and the church-burning sounds familiar, it may be via the movie THE PATRIOT, which relocates that atrocity to the American Revolution and lays it at the feet of the British villain. I always found that scene deeply distasteful in its disrespect to the real history.
Russ Andolina
June 6, 2014 11:10 am
Well….you know….Mel Gibson.
Lamont Cranston
June 6, 2014 1:42 pm
He’s still can’t get over the fact that his side lost WWII.
Sean Danvers
Slow clap for that one
rastamaniac
June 7, 2014 12:49 pm
And in comparing him to a nazi you have just run afoul of Godwin’s Law and are officially the tool of the thread. Thanks for playing. Wanker.
If he didn’t want to be compared to a nazi he shouldn’t have opened his big fat mouth about how much hates jews, pervert.
June 11, 2014 10:44 am
The internet has very specific rules about saying stupid shit. Godwin’s Law not mine homie. Take it like a man and stop trying to weasel out of it. What you’re doing lacks dignity.
June 12, 2014 9:09 am
It’s so cute that you think Godwin’s Law is a rule. Do you hate Jews the way ugly old pervert Mel Gibson does?
BlackRockLifer
My late father landed at Normandy, fought in the Battle of the Bulge, and received the Bronze Star and Silver Star for his service. He was also anti-war and opposed the Vietnam War as well as the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. He often said those that glorified war were not there or just were not right.
What your father said brings Dick Cheney to mind.
UncleBluck
“they shall greet us as liberators”……..
James Zski
;l;l
17 USS Cole Oct 12th 2000.
WTC 1993 attack killed 6 injured 1000
1995 bombing in Saudia Arabia kills 5
19 killed 200 injured Saudia Arabia 1996 Khobar towers
1998 Africa bombing kills 257 injures 5000 = 314 http://www.snopes.com/rumors/clinton.asp
2,982 people killed in the 9/11 terrorist attacks 2753 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Trade_Center
http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0884893.html
1993 (Feb.): Bombing of World Trade Center (WTC); 6 killed.
1993 (Oct.): Killing of U.S. soldiers in Somalia.
1996 (June): Truck bombing at Khobar Towers barracks in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, killed 19 Americans.
1998 (Aug.): Bombing of U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania; 224 killed, including 12 Americans.
1999 (Dec.): Plot to bomb millennium celebrations in Seattle foiled when customs agents arrest an Algerian smuggling explosives into the U.S.
2000 (Oct.): Bombing of the USS Cole in port in Yemen; 17 U.S. sailors killed.
2009 (April): on April 6 in Baghdad, a series of six attacks kills 36 people and injure more than 100 in Shiite neighborhoods; April 23: at least 80 people are killed in three separate suicide bombings in Baghdad. This is the largest single-day death toll due to attacks since February 2008. One of the bombings is reportedly set off by a female, who was standing among a group of women and children receiving food aid.
2009 (Dec.): A Nigerian man on a flight from Amsterdam to Detroit attempted to ignite an explosive device hidden in his underwear. The explosive device that failed to detonate was a mixture of powder and liquid that did not alert security personnel in the airport. The alleged bomber, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, told officials later that he was directed by the terrorist group al-Qaeda. The suspect was already on the government’s watch list when he attempted the bombing; his father, a respected Nigerian banker, had told the U.S. government that he was worried about his son’s increased extremism.
2009 (Dec.): A suicide bomber kills eight Americans civilians, seven of them CIA agents, at a base in Afghanistan. It’s the deadliest attack on the agency since 9/11. The attacker is reportedly a double agent from Jordan who was acting on behalf of al-Qaeda.
2010 (Oct.): Two packages are found on separate cargo planes. Each package contains a bomb consisting of 300 to 400 grams (11-14 oz) of plastic explosives and a detonating mechanism. The bombs are discovered as a result of intelligence received from Saudi Arabia’s security chief. The packages, bound from Yemen to the United States, are discovered at en route stop-overs, one in England and one in Dubai in the United Arab Emirates. A week after the packages are found, al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) takes responsibility for the plot.
2011 (Jan.): Two Frenchmen are killed in Niger. France highly suspects the al-Qaeda Organization in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM).
2011 (Jan.): Four suicide bombings occur in Iraq between January 18-20. At least 137 people are killed and 230 are injured. Al-Qaeda is suspected in all four bombings.
2011 (April): Men claiming to be Moroccan members of AQIM appear on the internet and threaten to attack Moroccan interests. The following week a bomb killing 15 people, including 10 foreigners, explodes in Marrakesh, Morocco.
2012 (Summer): Over the summer of 2012, al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb and Ansar Dine, another radical Islamist group, take advantage of the instability and an increasingly weak military in Mali and capture Timbuktu, Kidal, and Gao, cities in the north. They implement and brutally enforce Shariah, or Islamic law. They also destroy many ancient books and manuscripts and vandalized tombs, saying that worshipping saints violates the tenets of Islam. The Islamists continue to stretch their area of control into the fall, prompting concern that legions of Islamists will gather and train in northern Mali and threaten large swaths of Africa. ECOWAS begins planning a military action to reclaim the north from the Islamists.
2012 (Sept.): Militants armed with antiaircraft weapons and rocket-propelled grenades fire upon the American consulate in Benghazi, Libya, killing U.S. ambassador to Libya Christopher Stevens and three other embassy officials. U.S. secretary of state Hillary Clinton says the U.S. believes that al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, a group closely linked to al-Qaeda, orchestrated the attack.
2013 (Jan.): Militants push into the southern part of Mali, crossing into the area controlled by the government. France sends about 2,150 troops to Mali to push them back. By the end of January, French troops push the militants out of Gao and Timbuktu, forcing them back to northern Mali. Soldiers from other African nations are also deployed to Mali to aid in the effort and will take a more active role in both combat and training Malian troops once France withdraws from Mali.
2013 (Jan. 16): Islamic militants enter neighboring Algeria from Mali and take dozens of foreign hostages at the BP-controlled In Amenas gas field. Algerian officials say the militants are members of an offshoot of al-Qaeda called Al Mulathameen and are acting in retaliation for France’s intervention in Mali. On Jan. 17, Algerian troops storm the complex and attack the kidnappers. By the end of the standoff on Jan. 20, 29 militants and 37 hostages are killed. Three Americans are among the dead.
2013 (April 15): Multiple bombs explode near the finish line of the Boston Marathon. Two bombs go off around 2:50 in the afternoon as runners finish the race. Three people are killed and more than 170 people are injured. Three days later, the FBI releases photos and video of two suspects in the hope that the public can help identify them. Just hours after the FBI releases the images, the two suspects rob a gas station in Central Square then shoot and kill a MIT police officer in his car. Afterwards, the two men carjack a SUV and tell the driver that they had set off the explosions at the marathon. Police pursue the vehicle into Watertown. During the shootout, a MBTA officer is shot and one of the suspects, identified as Tamerlan Tsarnaev, age 26, is killed. A suicide vest is found on his body. The other suspect, Dzhokhar A. Tsarnaev, age 19, remains at large for several hours, causing a massive manhunt and lockdown for all of Boston, Cambridge, and many other surrounding communities. The manhunt ends the next evening, on April 19, when he is found alive, but seriously injured, hiding in a boat behind a house in Watertown. The two suspects are brothers and had been living together on Norfolk Street in Cambridge. They have lived in the U.S. for about a decade, but are from an area near Chechnya, a region in Russia. While the ongoing investigation so far has shown that the two suspects were not acting with any known terrorist group, evidence suggests they may have learned how to build the bombs online from an affiliate of Al Qaeda in Yemen.
Terrorist Acts Suspected of or Inspired by al-Qaeda
http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0884893.html#ixzz2jupd9tTK
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1087538/posts
http://news.yahoo.com/white-house-failed-protect-benghazi-mission-house-report-165551798.html
White House Failed to Protect Benghazi Mission, House Report Concludes
That’s a crock. The 19 hijackers were in the United States training to be pilots when Bill Clinton was in office. Bill Clinton had ten chances to kill Osama bin Laden between May 1998-May 1999 and did nothing.
Osama bin Laden declared a fatwah on the United States in 1996 and then committed huge terrorists attacks in Saudi Arabia and in Africa on a total of 4 US embassies.
This is about Obama and Hillary Clinton’s failures.
http://www.westernjournalism.com/okeefe-obamas-national-organizers-caught-tape-committing-voter-fraud/
Percentage of white welfare recipients are 38.8% and black are 39.9%, Hispanics are 15.7%. This is from the US dept of health and human services. In absolute numbers whites would far outnumber blacks and Hispanics. Percentage wise there is a 1% difference Not enough to label blacks and minorities as lazy and welfare dependents.
May 26, 1998: Bin Laden Promises to Bring Jihad to US
Top: Bin Laden, surrounded by security, walking to the press conference. Bottom: the three journalists attending the press conference sit next to bin Laden.
Top: Bin Laden, surrounded by security, walking to the press conference. Bottom: the three journalists attending the press conference sit next to bin Laden. [Source: CNN]
Bin Laden discusses “bringing the war home to America,” in a press conference from Khost, Afghanistan. [US CONGRESS, 9/18/2002] Bin Laden holds his first and only press conference to help publicize the fatwa he published several months before. Referring to the group that signed the fatwa, he says, “By God’s grace, we have formed with many other Islamic groups and organizations in the Islamic world a front called the International Islamic Front to do jihad against the crusaders and Jews.” He adds later, “And by God’s grace, the men… are going to have a successful result in killing Americans and getting rid of them.” [CNN, 8/20/2002] He also indicates the results of his jihad will be “visible” within weeks. [US CONGRESS, 7/24/2003] Two US embassies will be bombed in August (see 10:35-10:39 a.m., August 7, 1998). Bin Laden sits next to Ayman al-Zawahiri and Mohammed Atef during the press conference. Two Pakistani journalists and one Chinese journalist attends. But event never gets wide exposure because no independent videotaping is allowed (however, in 2002 CNN will obtain video footage of the press conference seized after the US conquered Afghanistan in late 2001). Pakistani journalist Ismail Khan attends and will later recall, “We were given a few instructions, you know, on how to photograph and only take a picture of Osama and the two leaders who were going to sit close by him. Nobody else.” Two sons of Sheikh Omar Abdul-Rahman attend and distribute what they claim is the will or fatwa of their father (see May 1998), who has been sentenced to life in prison in the US. Journalist Peter Bergen will later comment that the significance of the sons’ presence at the press conference “can’t be underestimated” because it allows bin Laden to benefit from Abdul-Rahman’s high reputation amongst radical militants. Bergen also later says the press conference is a pivotal moment for al-Qaeda. “They’re going public. They’re saying, ‘We’re having this war against the United States.’”
December 4, 1998: Clinton Warned ‘Bin Laden Preparing to Hijack US Aircraft’ Inside US
Mohammed Shawqui Islambouli.
Mohammed Shawqui Islambouli. [Source: Public domain]
On December 4, 1998, an item in President Clinton’s Presidential Daily Briefing (PDB) is titled, “Bin Laden Preparing to Hijack US Aircraft and Other Attacks.” The PDB says “Bin Laden and is allies are preparing for attacks in the US, including an aircraft hijacking to obtain the release of Sheikh Omar Abdul-Rahman, Ramzi Yousef, and Muhammad Sadiq ‘Awda. One source quoted a senior member of Al-Gama’a al-Islamiyya (IG) saying that, as of late October, the IG had completed planning for an operation in the US on behalf of bin Laden, but that the operation was on hold. A senior bin Laden operative from Saudi Arabia was to visit IG counterparts in the US soon thereafter to discuss options-perhaps including an aircraft hijacking.” The same source says bin Laden may implement plans to hijack US aircraft before the start of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan on December 20 and that two members of the operational team had evaded security checks in a recent trial run at a New York airport. A possible different source says that in late September, Mohammed Shawqui Islambouli, brother of the assassin of Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and described in the PDB as an IG leader, was planning to hijack a US airliner during the “next couple of weeks” to free Abdul-Rahman and other prisoners.
Bill Clinton had 10 chances to capture or kill Osama bin Laden between May 1998-May 1999 did chose NOT to.
@Buffalojimmyz Facebook James Zski Read it and weep liberal trash.
The two clowns are at it again. Isn’t the Buffalo News enough for you 2 liberals?
Who comes to mind? Let’s see. Bill Clinton and Barack Hussein Obama Jr. who NEVER served in our military. Neither did Tingle boy Chris Matthews of MSNBC who ran away t the Peace Corps and liberals like Jay Leno and David Letterman. BTW that is one ‘Fugly’ azz picture of you old man. Does your beanie come with a propeller to generate electricity? lol You fool. There are about ten old ignorant liberal clowns posting in the news and Sarah isn’t doing her job as a moderator. I reporter her to her editor. She did take some of your posts down which I saw you whine about. Ah, too bad ‘widdle’ liberals. Did you see your dg eating, Koran reading, pot smoking, cocaine snorter Mulllah Obama lift his puny 5 pounds weights to the tune of ‘macho man?’ lol Putin, Assadm King Jung Un are eating Obama’s lunch and Obozo, OVomit, Obummer is the worst president ever. I though weak wimpy Jimmy Carter would be . After all hisi was attacked by a killer rabbit. lol
That moron Democrat Carter threw the Shah of Iran to the Muslims dogs after we had peace with Iran for 26 years. They repaid Carter by taking 52 Americans hostage for 444 days days and they were released when Ronald Reagan came into office Day one. To stop the spread of Communism in Central America which would have fallen like many more dominoes possible even to Mexico if we had not gotten money to the Contras who fought the Communist Sandinistas. The cowardly Democrats in Congress at the time led by murderer of Mary Jo Kopechne Ted Kennedy blocked all aid to the Contras and something had to be done. Iran fought against Iraq from 1980-1988 and we didn’t want either side to win. Yes, missiles were given to Israel to sell to Iran and the profits went to the fighters against Communism in Central America,thank God. I was in the Persian Gulf in 1983-1984 and it was nasty with Iran. They tried to attack my guided missile destroyer USS Lawrence in the Straits of Hormuz Feb. 28th 1984 AP and UPI story US destroyed fired at Iranian aircraft as tensions rise in the Persian Gulf. The USS Stark got his by accident by an Iraqi jet. Two us warships hit Iranian mines and the guided missile cruiser fought off Iranian fast patrol ships who fired upon them. An Iranian Airbus was hit. Why did Iran fly a civilian plane right into hostilities? We sunk or damaged 3 Iranian frigates and a destroyer shot up an oil platform mused as a missile firing base. I did my job as a Firecontrolman. I lost a child on that cruise and almost my wife as well during the poor care by Naval hospital Portmouth. My wife should have been back to Buffalo. Then my golden lab puppy was run over and killed by a speeding ar and my friends tried to save her by taking her too the vet. Some punks kids must have run through my moms yard and left the gate open. I served my country honorable for ten years until I became injured on active duty. My family and I paid the price. I still suffer the physical and mental wounds from that time. My dad served in WW II in the Army Air Corps. He got sick at age 44 and died 5 years later sick in bed because the A did jack squat to help him. Left was my dads 43 year old wife and his 11 year old boy(me). So we all paid. I’m so sick of hearing about Obama. He disgusts me and it has NOTHING to do with his skin color.
Obama may be the racist one as he called his own grandmother “Toots” a racist because she was afraid of a large group of black men standing on the street corner. That’s common sense. Obama’s white grandparents are the people who brought Obama up as his lying, adultering, bigamist, drunken father dumped Obama ate age 2 and later died driving drunk in Kenya. His white mother “Stanley” was atheist hippie, dippie freak who loved black Muslim men and then got real fat and ugly fast. That’s why you only see the one picture of her holding Obozo.
SOME OF OBAMA’S CLOSEST ASSOCIATIONS!
1. Bill Ayers (Terrorist)
2. Tom Ayers (Radical)
3. Van Jones (Former Green Jobs Czar, Communist)
4. Anita Dunn (Maoist, Communist)
5. Tony Rezco (Convicted Felon: Fraud, Bribery)$300,00 Hyde park land deal
6. Rev. Jeremiah #$%$ America” Wright (Radical, Black Liberation Theologist)
7. Prof. Frank Marshal Davis (Communist)
8. Gov. Rod Blagojevich (Convicted Felon and former Gov. of IL)
9. Andy Stern, Union SEIU Head, (Maoist, Communist)
10. Saul Alinsky (Author: Rules for Radicals)
11. Prof. Frances Fox Piven (Communist and Radical)
12. Kevin Jennings – “safe school czar” (radical homosexual who supports NAMBLA)
13. George Soros (Billionaire)
14. Satan (Father of lies)
15. Louis Farrakhan (Jew hater)
16. George Soros
17. et al MSNBC, CNN, NBC, CBS ABC, NY Times, Washington Post, Moveon.org, CODE PINK, Salon.com, Huffington Post…It’s disgusting. I will revel in your certain defeat come this November and again in 2016. We will rebuild all the damage and 7-10 trillion dollar debt Obama will leave us. We will get rid of Obamacare which the CBO now says won’t save us any money. The Obama lies of if you like your doctor you can keep your doctor. If you like your health insurance you can keep your health insurance. OBAMA LIES! You make sure your fat, ugly mustached buddie Rick gets to see this. I hate that SOB and all of you dirt bag liberals. We will get our country back so help me God.
jimd54
On behalf of the human race I would like to apologize for the disparaging remarks made by some douchebag about your father. Some people have no decency.
In 1865 a Democrat shot and killed Abraham Lincoln, President of the United
States .
In 1881 a left wing radical Democrat shot James Garfield, President of the
United States who later died from the wound.
In 1963 a radical left wing socialist shot and killed John F. Kennedy, President
of the United States .
In 1975 a left wing radical Democrat fired shots at Gerald Ford, President of
the United States .
In 1983 a registered Democrat shot and wounded Ronald Reagan, President of the
United States .
In 1984 James Hubert, a disgruntled Democrat, shot and killed 22 people in a
McDonalds restaurant.
In 1986 Patrick Sherrill, a disgruntled Democrat, shot and killed 15 people in
an Oklahoma post office.
In 1990 James Pough, a disgruntled Democrat, shot and killed 10 people at a GMAC
office.
In 1991 George Hennard, a disgruntled Democrat, shot and killed 23 people in a
Luby’s cafeteria in Killeen , TX .
In 1995 James Daniel Simpson, a disgruntled Democrat, shot and killed 5
coworkers in a Texas laboratory.
In 1999 Larry Asbrook, a disgruntled Democrat, shot and killed 8 people at a
church service.
In 2001 a left wing radical Democrat fired shots at the White House in a failed
attempt to kill George W. Bush, President of the US .
In 2003 Douglas Williams, a disgruntled Democrat, shot and killed 7 people at a
Lockheed Martin plant.
In 2007 a registered Democrat named Seung – Hui Cho, shot and killed 32 people
in Virginia Tech.
In 2010 a mentally ill registered Democrat named Jared Lee Loughner, shot Rep.
Gabrielle Giffords and killed 6 others.
In 2011 a registered Democrat named James Holmes, went into a movie theater and
shot and killed 12 people.
In 2012 Andrew Engeldinger, a disgruntled Democrat, shot and killed 7 people in
Minneapolis .
In 2013 a registered Democrat named Adam Lanza, shot and killed 26 people in a
school in Newtown , CT.
As recently as Sept 2013, an angry Democrat shot 12 at a Navy ship yard.
Clearly, there is a problem with Democrats and guns.
Not one NRA member, Tea Party member, or Republican conservative was involved in
any of these shootings and murders.
SOLUTION: It should be illegal for Democrats to own guns..
The top 1% pay 40% of the taxes. The top 10% pay 70% of the taxes. the top 20% pay 86% of the taxes. So the bottom 80% only
pay 14% of the taxes. 50% of them pay no taxes.
BTW did you know Obama ate a dog, studied the Koran, smoked pot and snorted cocaine? It’s in his own words from his book
Dreams from my father.
1. The highest unemployment rate in modern history
2. The highest participation in welfare in modern history
3. The highest participation in SNAP in modern history (food stamps)
4. The highest number of middle class driven into poverty in modern history
5. The highest National debt in modern history
6. The highest uninsured population in modern history due to Obamacare
7. The fewest number of people working in modern history
8. The most lies coming out of ANY admin in history
9. The most people on SS Disability ever, Obama has doubled
10. The most lies and broken promises of any POTUS in history.
http://americanoverlook.com/us-military-deaths-skyrocket-under-obama/11172
1. I will have the most transparent administration.
2. I have Shovel ready jobs.
3. The IRS is not targeting anyone.
4. If four Americans get killed, it is not optimal.
5. ObamaCare will be good for America.
6. You can keep your family doctor.
7. Premiums will be lowered by $2500
8. You can keep your current healthcare plan
9. Just shop around, for that healthcare I claimed you wouldn’t lose.
9A. I am sorry you lost your healthcare, (you know the health care you have to shop
around for, ya the same health care I said you could keep, yup, that’s the one).
10. I did not say you could keep your health care. (Regardless that 29 recorded videos show I did)
11. ObamaCare will not be offered to illegal immigrants.
12. ObamaCare will not be used to fund abortions.
13. ObamaCare will cost less than 1 Trillion Dollars.
14. No one making under $250,000 will see their taxes raised one dime.
15. It was about a movie.
15A. I will fundamentally transform America.
16. If I had a son.
17. I am not a dictator.
18. I will put an end to the type of politics that “breeds division, conflict and cynicism”.
19. You didn’t build that.
20. I will restore trust in Government.
21. The Cambridge police acted stupidly.
22. I am not after your guns.
23. The fact that we are here today to debate raising America’s debt limit is a sign of leadership failure. The BO of (2006)
24. I have been practicing…I bowled a 129. It’s like — it was like Special Olympics.
25. I think when you spread the wealth around, it’s good for everybody.
26. The Public Will Have 5 Days To Look At
Every Bill That Lands On My Desk
27. It’s not my red line it is the worlds red line.
28. Whistle blowers will be protected.
29. We got back Every
Dime we Used to Rescue the Banks, with interest.
30. I will close Gitmo.
31. The point I was making was not that Grandmother harbors any racial animosity. She doesn’t, but she is a typical white
32. I am not spying on American citizens.
33. By, on, on, by, Friday uh afternoon things get a little uh, uh challenged uh, uh ( when left to think for himself without
Teleprompter).
http://www.policymic.com/articles/24164/a-list-of-children-killed-by-drone-strikes-in-pakistan-and-yemen
Name | Age | Gender
Noor Aziz | 8 | male
Abdul Wasit | 17 | male
Noor Syed | 8 | male
Wajid Noor | 9 | male
Syed Wali Shah | 7 | male
Ayeesha | 3 | female
Qari Alamzeb | 14| male
Shoaib | 8 | male
Hayatullah KhaMohammad | 16 | male
Tariq Aziz | 16 | male
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Saul David Alinsky(January 30, 1909 – June 12, 1972) was an American community organizer and writer. He is generally considered to be the founder of modern community organizing.
He is often noted for his book, “Rules for Radicals”. From that book here are Saul’s thoughts on how to create a social state:
There are 8 levels of control that must be obtained before you are able to create a socialist state. The first is the most important.
1) Healthcare – Control healthcare and you control the people
2) Poverty – Increase the Poverty level as high as possible, poor people are easier to control and will not fight back if you are providing everything for them to live.
3) Debt – Increase the debt to an unsustainable level. That way you are able to increase taxes, and this will produce more
poverty.
4) Gun Control – Remove the ability to defend themselves from the Government. That way you are able to create a police state.
5) Welfare – Take control of every aspect of their lives (Food, Housing, and Income)
6) Education – Take control of what people read and listen to – take control of what children learn in school.
7) Religion – Remove the belief in the God from the Government and schools.
8) Class Warfare – Divide the people into the wealthy and the poor. This will cause more discontent and it will be easier to
(Tax) the wealthy with the support of the poor.
The Carter Doctrine was a policy proclaimed by President of the United States Jimmy Carter in his State of the Union Address on January 23, 1980, which stated that the United States would use military force if necessary to defend its national interests in the “Persian Gulf.”
It was a response to the Soviet Union’s invasion of Afghanistan in 1979, and was intended to deter the Soviet Union—the United
States’ Cold War adversary—from seeking hegemony in the Gulf.
The following key sentence, which was written by Zbigniew Brzezinski, President Carter’s National Security Adviser, concludes the section:
Let our position be absolutely clear: An attempt by any outside force to gain control of the Persian Gulf region will be regarded as an assault on the vital interests of the United States of America, and such an assault will be repelled by any
means necessary, including military force.
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Gulf Coast Gators’ defense has them in APDFL Top 10 in first year
By : Landon Wright
The majority of the Pre-Season Top 10 teams in the Amateur to Professional Developmental Football League are established teams that have been around for several seasons, but the Gulf Coast Gators managed to crack the Top 10 in just their inaugural season.
However, at their core, the Gators are not entirely a first-year team.
Owner Phil Carver was the head coach of the Okaloosa Strykers last year and the offensive coordinator of the Northwest Florida Nightmare prior to that. When the Strykers owner decided to retire that brand, the lot fell to Carver to provide his players with a place to play.
“This is a combination of those two teams,” Carver told Developmental Football USA. “We are a really diverse group. One of the main reasons I chose Gulf Coast as our name is because I’ve got guys from Pensacola all the way to Panama City that play on this team. We are a really diverse group, so combining the talent from those two former teams is really big and we feel really good about where we are there.”
Offensively, several solid running backs will give the Gators plenty of gadgets to work the field with.
“We’re really deep at running back, we go three or four deep,” Carver said. “I expect those guys, led by Tray Williams, who is our speed back and receiving threat out of the backfield, to have a very good season. Trey and Jamarius Green, who has been my leading rusher ever since I’ve coached at this level.”
Carver has yet to name a starting quarterback and noted that competition could continue all the way up until Week 1 kickoff. Whoever gets his number called will have several options to work with and the pieces in place to thrive at quarterback.
“Two-time Defensive Player of the Year Labarron Mallory also plays some wide receiver for me,” Carver said. “At 6-foot-4, he can take the top of the defense. I have him, Franklin Harvey and Jordan Ewing at wide receiver.
“Quan Johnson plays a Percy Harvin role in my offense at the H. He does some rushing and receiving. We can create some mismatches with him and lean on his production.”
While the Gulf Coast offense is in no way lacking, it’s the defense that has the Gators pegged as a Top 10 team.
“We’re going to hang our hat on our defense,” Carver said. “I feel like our defense is one of the best in the league. We absolutely love our front four.”
Look no further than West Georgia product Dalvon Stuckey, who leads what could be the fiercest defensive line in the league.
“His motor and his technique, you put the film on and you love what you see,” Carver said. “We have depth inside with T.J. Boyet and Sam Williams in there. Our ends are probably one of the best bookends in the league in Rondrick Ragsdale and Shaquille Campbell.”
Should a play get past those groups, the Gators have more playmakers positioned all over the field to shut it down at the next level.
“The plug in the middle is Isaac Warren,” Carver said. “The last time we were in the APDFL, Isaac had 129 tackles. He’s a tackling machine, reads the offense real well. Having that front four in front of him will be big for us this season.
“I feel like we have the best cornerback in the league in Dee Garrett. Teams just don’t go his way, they learn to stay away from him. At safety, we have two-time Defensive Player of the Year Labarron Mallory and a couple of new former D-I players, like strong safety Jacob Onyechi. We’re really excited about our defense, that’s what we’ll hang our hat on. If you love a dominating defense, I feel like that’s what we’re going to give the fans.”
With more than a half dozen options geographically as to which league the Gators would join, it was more than familiarity that led them to the APDFL.
“The APDFL is widely regarded as the best league, especially in this area,” Carver said. “When I explain it to people, I tell them it’s the SEC of this level of football. That’s the way we view it. When we were the NWF Nightmare, we competed in the APDFL, then the Okaloosa Strykers competed in the APDFL for their first three years. When the decision came to me, it was easy to go to the APDFL.”
While the Gators will look to prove to everyone that their No. 10 ranking isn’t inflated, there is one other team new to the APDFL they are especially looking forward to facing.
“The old coaching cliche, we just want to take it one game at a time, but there is one game where our former owner Eric Solgard with the Atlanta Venom comes back to visit us May 5,” Carver said. “All the former players and myself, we still talk to him and we have a great relationship, so I think that will be a fun ball game.”
The Venom and Gators both expect to contend for it all this season, but Carver knows the week-to-week gauntlet that is the APDFL and the other elite organizations that will have something to say about it.
“Obviously the Mississippi Dynasty is one,” Carver said. “The last time we faced the Dynasty, two years ago in the playoffs, we beat them 10-6. Dee Garrett, our corner, knocked the ball down in the end zone as time expired to seal the game.
“I have a lot of respect for everything about that organization and the way they do things. The Louisiana Lightning is always a fun trip when we go out there to play those guys. There are so many good teams when you look at the league roster. The Augusta Ducks have the pedigree when we look at them, we say, ‘Wow we’d love the chance to play those guys.’ Mr. Hunt has done a fabulous job of stacking the teams in this league. Who knows? There are so many contenders.”
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The Government’s perpetual apathy for the millions relying on food banks this Christmas and beyond spells frightening realities for 2014.
December, and the festivities that hold its hand, are equated with warm, cosy houses, roaring log fires, a bustling kitchen full of meaty and spicy aromas while the alcohol flows and Christmas programmes blare from the TV. The same cannot be said though for tens of thousands of families this year– a year which saw a record number of people turning to food banks for assistance. Turkeys will not be carved, nor presents exchanged, as households rely on parcels from food banks to get them through this particularly poignant season.
Food banks have, really unfortunately, had a big year. Use is up by 60% in the south east – an area generally known for its larger proportion of wealth; new food banks open every couple of days throughout the UK; and half a million people received emergency food from food banks between April and December this year – over 150,000 more people than 2012. But perhaps the most grossly shocking headline of all is that the Government is continually refusing to meet with charity the Trussell Trust to discuss overcoming the growing pressure and increasing use of the emergency service with the help of Government – because it claims the two ideas are not linked.
Iain Duncan Smith, the Work and Pensions Secretary, has on several recent occasions declined to meet with the Trust, accusing it of “scaremongering” and pursuing a political agenda. He flatly dismisses the link between cuts to welfare and the increased use of food banks, and instead accuses the Christian charity of publicity-seeking.
Meetings have been sought since June by Trust chairman, Chris Mould. He expects 2014 to see a million people through food bank doors, and anticipates another 100 centres opening. Among Duncan Smith’s responses to Mould include: “I strongly refute this claim [linking welfare to increased food bank usage] and would politely ask you to stop scaremongering in this way. I understand that a feature of your business model must require you to continuously achieve publicity, but I’m concerned that you are now seeking to do this by making your political opposition to welfare reform overtly clear.”
What is actually overtly clear is that the coalition Government is not concerned with this deeply troubling state of affairs sinking the UK deeper and deeper with every year. So much so that it turned down a €22m of EU funding towards food banks, claiming it should be left to individual member states on how to spend its money. And Duncan Smith is in a second firing line after he walked out in the middle of a recent debate on food banks, but not before the House and he had laughed and jeered as Labour MP Fiona MacTaggart told of shoppers fighting over cut price fruit and vegetables which prompted increased security measures in the stores. Are these the scenes Government really wants playing out across the UK at Christmas so that families can put on as festive a spread as their means will allow?
Are these the scenes Government really wants playing out across the UK at Christmas?
The Government has made a point of chastising food banks already this year, suggesting they merely subsidise those that cannot manage their finances. So what does 2014 hold for the welfare state and food banks when the Government holds these attitudes? If the minister responsible for the working life of the UK’s people continues to sneak out of Parliamentary debates, and Tory ministers find it amusing to laugh at the hungry, then next year looks decidedly bleak. It’s kind of like being back in the playground scenario of the bully taking the kid’s dinner money – but this time the hungry will not be silenced.
Food banks are the ‘Big Society’ in practice, but that does not mean it is for the Government to wash its hands of. A democratic government is supposed to represent the interests of its people, but instead, the UK’s very own buries its head in the sand. Food banks are now a reality for Britain but by no means should they be a certainty like death or taxes. For all the while the Government aligns itself with the school of thought that ignorance is bliss, could we be hurtling towards a scenario where 2015 – 30 years since Live Aid – might see a concert for the UK’s food impoverished in the absence of the coalition Government’s intervention and its two fingers to Europe? What a harrowing thought.
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Supermarkets: Conditions of Employment
What recent assessment his Department has made of the equity of employment contract terms and conditions in the supermarket sector.
<p>The Government is committed to upgrading workers’ rights and protecting the most vulnerable workers. Our legal framework already ensures that employers should always treat their employees fairly, and our Good Work Plan will introduce the biggest upgrade to workers’ rights in a generation.</p><p> </p><p>In the retail sector specifically, the industry-led Retail Sector Council has identified employment as a priority workstream and this will be discussed at our next meeting on 20 June.</p>
Rochester and Strood
Kelly Tolhurst
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Business: North Yorkshire
What recent steps he has taken to support businesses in North Yorkshire.
Julian Sturdy
<p>Businesses across North Yorkshire are benefitting from this Government’s investment of over £840 million through the York, North Yorkshire and East Riding and Leeds City Region Growth Deals. This is providing financial assistance to local businesses, as well as improving infrastructure and skills.</p><p> </p><p>For instance, £47 million LGF award will release significant private sector investment in the York Central project. This £100 million urban regeneration will accommodate up to 7,000 jobs, and create more than 112,000 square meters of new retail, leisure and commercial space.</p>
Andrew Stephenson
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Business: Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk
What recent steps he has taken to support businesses in Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk constituency.
Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk
John Lamont
<p>We’ve committed to invest up to £560 million through both the Borderlands Growth Deal and the Edinburgh and South East Scotland City Region Deal, demonstrating our commitment to supporting growth and prosperity in the Scottish Borders.</p><p> </p><p>As of May 2019, the British Business Bank’s Start-Up Loans programme has made 45 loans totalling over £340,000 for businesses in his constituency.</p>
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Migrant Workers: Scotland
What recent assessment he has made of the effect on Scotland of required income levels for skilled migrants.
<p>Our future immigration system is designed to drive up wages and productivity across the UK and allow us to bring in the most talented while responding to public concerns about immigration.</p><p>We have been very clear that no decision on the levels at which salary thresholds should be set will be taken until we have completed the UK-wide engagement process that is currently underway.</p>
Investigatory Powers Commissioner: Public Appointments
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what discussions he had with the Scottish Government before the appointment of the first Investigatory Powers Commissioner in 2017.
Stewart Malcolm McDonald
<p>The appointment of the Investigatory Powers Commissioner is subject to a statutory process set out in section 227 of the Investigatory Powers Act 2016. The Prime Minister must appoint a person who holds or has held high judicial office, and the candidate must be recommended jointly by the Lord Chancellor, (b) the Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales, (c) the Lord President of the Court of Session, and (d) the Lord Chief Justice of Northern Ireland.</p><p>Section 227(5) of the Act provides that the Prime Minster must consult with Scottish Ministers before making the appointment. In 2017, the Prime Minister wrote to the Cabinet Secretary for Justice within the Scottish Government about the proposed appointment of the first Commissioner.</p>
Wyre and Preston North
Mr Ben Wallace
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Overseas Trade
What recent discussions he has had with his international counterparts on the maintenance of the rules-based system for international trade.
Damien Moore
<p>The UK is a strong supporter of the rules-based multilateral trading system. I recently advocated for this at the Global Trade Review 2019 Conference and at the OECD Ministerial Council Meeting where I held meetings with the Director General of the World Trade Organization, Roberto Azevedo and my Japanese counterpart Trade Minister, Mr Hiroshige Seko.</p>
Dr Liam Fox
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To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what estimate he has made of the number of people earning less than (a) £7.70 per hour and (b) £8.21 per hour.
East Londonderry
Mr Gregory Campbell
<p>The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the Authority to reply.</p>
Kevin Foster
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Academies: Lighting
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 5 June 2019 to Question 257589 on Academies: Lighting, if he will place those documents in the Library.
<p>The documents are sensitive whilst investigations are ongoing. The Department will consider publishing these reports once investigations are complete.</p>
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Council Tax: Tax Rates and Bands
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether he has pans to encourage local authorities to reduce rates of council tax.
Stephen McPartland
<p>Council tax levels are determined by local authorities, although the Government maintains a referendum threshold to ensure local residents can have the final say on excessive increases. Referendum principles are set each year alongside the Local Government Finance Settlement, and proposals for 2020-21 will be published later in the year.</p>
Richmond (Yorks)
Rishi Sunak
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To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether he has plans to reduce the two per cent referendum threshold on council tax increases to zero.
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Business, Innovation and Skills
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what assessment he has made of the effect of the EU Precautionary Principle on the scale of scientific innovation in the UK.
<p>The Department has made no systematic assessment of the effect of the precautionary principle on scientific innovation in the UK.</p><p> </p>
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Culture, Media and Sport
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what steps he has taken to encourage public sector users of the radio spectrum to share bands.
<p>All public sector spectrum users are subject to Administered Incentive Pricing (AIP) which serves to encourage spectrum to be used efficiently or released to other uses. This charge is set by HM Treasury with advice from Ofcom and the DCMS.</p>
Mr Edward Vaizey
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Teachers: Training
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she has taken to encourage (a) computer science graduates and (b) professional programmers to become teachers.
<p>The Department for Education is committed to recruiting high-quality graduates into teaching. The latest data published by UCAS on 25 September 2014 in its ‘UCAS Teacher Training statistical releases’[1], indicates that there will be an increase in computing trainees commencing initial teacher training (ITT) this year, although this will not be certain until the 2014/15 ITT census is published.</p><p>For computing trainees starting their training in 2015/16, we have increased bursaries to up to £25,000 tax-free. We are also funding a prestigious scholarship scheme for computing trainees worth £25,000 tax-free and offering a range of professional benefits. Additional funding has also been made available to schools offering School Direct (salaried) places in computing to boost starting salaries; computing trainees will be able to earn over £21,000 nationally and £25,000 in inner London.</p><p>There are a range of other incentives in place to attract high quality computing trainees into the teaching profession, including:</p><ol><li>The delivery of a targeted marketing campaign to encourage high-quality computing graduates and potential career changers to consider a career in teaching.</li><li>The offering of tailored support for graduates and career changers interested in teaching computing, including access to a School Experience Programme.</li><li>Funding of computing subject knowledge enhancement (SKE) programmes, which prepare applicants for teacher training by building up or refreshing their existing knowledge. 31% of computing applicants who accepted an ITT place for 2013/14 accessed a SKE course.</li></ol><p>[1] <a href="http://www.ucas.com/data-analysis/ucas-teacher-training-statistical-releases" target="_blank">www.ucas.com/data-analysis/ucas-teacher-training-statistical-releases</a></p>
Mr David Laws
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Air Routes: Thames Valley
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment he has made of the noise impact in (a) Windsor constituency and (b) the Thames Valley of recent flight path trials from Heathrow.
<p>The assessment of the noise impact of the trial will be made by Heathrow Airport Ltd in consultation with NATS.</p>
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what his policy is on excluding foreign university students from net immigration targets.
<p>Net migration statistics are produced by the independent Office for National Statistics (ONS). In line with the internationally agreed UN definition, these statistics define a migrant as someone changing their normal place of residence for more than a year. This includes students in net migration in the same way as other migrants. Other countries, including the United States, Canada, Australia and New Zealand also include students in their net migration figures. <br><br>Net migration measures the difference between the number of peoplecoming the UK and the number leaving, so if students return home after<br>their studies, their impact on long-term net migration will be minimal. The ONS has recently improved its methodology so that it is possible to<br>better identify students in the emigration flows to give a more accurate measure of the contribution of students to overall net migration.In the last year, 124,000 non-EU students came to Britain to stay for more than 12 months, and the ONS estimates that only 50,000 left the country. <br><br>All migrants who are in the UK for 12 months or more have an impact on our communities, infrastructure and public services. Changing the way we measure migration would not make any difference to our student migration policy. There is no cap on the number of students who can come to the UK, and the county remains open to the brightest and the best.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p>
James Brokenshire
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Tax Allowances: Business
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment he has made of the potential costs and benefits of removing the cap on entrepreneurs' tax relief.
<p>The last published cost for changing the cap on entrepreneurs' tax relief related to increasing the lifetime limit from £5m of qualifying gains to £10m. This is available in the full Budget 2011 document at the following address on page 42 in table 2.1 of the report.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p><a href="http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20130129110402/http:/www.hm-treasury.gov.uk/2011budget.htm" target="_blank">http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20130129110402/http://www.hm-treasury.gov.uk/2011budget.htm</a></p>
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many (a) company headquarters and (b) jobs have been reshored in the UK since the reduction in corporation tax rates.
<p>Supporting businesses and helping them to invest, create jobs and to grow is a key part of the Government’s long term economic plan. Since 2010 we have already cut Corporation Tax (CT) from 28% to 21%, and next year it will fall to 20% - the joint lowest rate in the G20. The Government has also cut the small profits rate to 20%. Overall these CT cuts for large and small firms will be worth £9.5bn a year to business by 2016.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>HM Treasury has not estimated the number of jobs reshored.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>We will continue to work to ensure that the tax system in the UK remains competitive and enables us to attract business investment.</p><p> </p>
Teachers: Secondary Education
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many teachers of science, technology, engineering and mathematics there were in UK secondary schools in (a) 2011-12, (b) 2012-13 and (c) 2013-14.
<p>The following table provides the number of science (by separate science subject), technology, engineering and mathematics teachers in service in publicly funded secondary schools in England in November of each year from 2011 to 2013: [1], [2]</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Subject [3]</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2011</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2012</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2013</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Physics</p></td><td><p>5,900</p></td><td><p>6,000</p></td><td><p>6,200</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Chemistry</p></td><td><p>6,900</p></td><td><p>7,200</p></td><td><p>7,400</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Biology</p></td><td><p>8,500</p></td><td><p>8,700</p></td><td><p>8,800</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Combined/General Science</p></td><td><p>34,700</p></td><td><p>32,700</p></td><td><p>32,900</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Other Sciences</p></td><td><p>2,800</p></td><td><p>2,400</p></td><td><p>2,400</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Technology</p></td><td><p>14,800</p></td><td><p>13,800</p></td><td><p>13,400</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Engineering</p></td><td><p>1,600</p></td><td><p>1,500</p></td><td><p>1,500</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Mathematics</p></td><td><p>35,200</p></td><td><p>32,800</p></td><td><p>33,300</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="4"><p><em>Source: School Workforce Census</em></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>[1] Figures are based on a large sample of over 70% of secondary schools.</p><p>[2] Figures are rounded to the nearest 100.</p><p>[3] Each teacher is counted once under each subject they teach.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Information for Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland is a matter for the respective devolved administrations.</p><p> </p>
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View of Islam on Employment of Women (Part 4)
Harms of intermediary economy and service jobs instead of generative jobs
The increase in the number of services and mediating jobs in the economic culture of people and neglect of generative jobs is another consequence of the promotion of the western lifestyle.
View of Islam about Employment of Women (Part 3)
Attempts Made by the Penetration Movement for Creation of Wrong Examples for Women
A characteristic example for the execution of the cultural-educational policies of the oppressing powers by the penetration movement is the secret implementation of some communicated instructions of 2030 Document inside the country.
Employment of Women for Supplying Cheap Labor Force Leads to the Disintegration of the Family and Its Foundation
In 21 century, a thousand of ads have been created for encouraging women to participate in economic activities, especially laboring in the American factories.
Economic Consequences of the Western Lifestyle
In addition to the disintegration of the families, marriage rarely occurs in the Western lifestyle. The ones brought up and trained within this civilization have no tendency to marry, have children and head a family.
The faculty member of the Research Center for Islamic Culture and Thought:
Imam Sadiq (AS) preserved the Judicial and legal Independence of Shia Islam Part (3)
If jurisprudents, historians and scholars recognize Imam Sadiq as the founder of the Shiite sect and Jafari Jurisprudence it is also due to the fact that Imam Sadiq preserved the independence of Shia (Shiite judicial system) through the application of a different methodology.
Imam Jafar Sadiq had a significant role to preserve the Judicial and legal Independence of Shia.
The faculty member of the Research Centre for Islamic Culture and Thought said, “Imam Sadiq established a judicial system protected by the spiritual and religious sanctions within the Muslim society.”
Introduction of the Paper “The Gender Difference/s According to Islam and Feminism Part (3)
The philosophy of equality in feminism
The world in which feminism rose, any belief in an absolute fact standing beyond the boundaries of time and place was impugned.
The philosophy of difference/s of rights in Islam
In order to know Islam’s philosophy of the difference of rights between the man and woman, the following items are necessary to be noted:
Gender differences according to some Muslim thinkers
Dealing with or neglect of the gender differences for determination of women’s rights makes the main difference between Islam and feminism.
Era of British and American piracy is over
Shaykh Zakzaky Speaks about Imam Khomeini (Video)
The civilization-creating Resistance should be promoted in the Islamic Ummah
Through powerful diplomacy, the Supreme Leader frustrated the enemies
Human rights organizations have lost their identity
The Islamic Ummah world Assembly called for the liberation of Sheikh Zakzaky
US leverage of power over Iran has been incapacitated
Nigeria government is responsible for preserving the life of Sheikh Zakzaky/Nigerian Shiites’ leader should be liberated
If Europe doesn’t fulfill its obligations, Iran will take the third step with power
The main burden of implementing the Statement on the Second Step of the Islamic Revolution is in the hands of the youth
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Review: The year Eighty-Eight went to TIFF and felt fancy
We at Eighty-Eight leaned in hard to the TIFF buzz this year, skipping out at all hours of the day to enjoy a film. Our Senior PR Manager Morgan took polls in order to award movies the praise we felt they deserved.
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By morgan
The stars were out in full force this month as the Toronto International Film Festival returned to the city — and I’m not exaggerating when I use the word force.
My TIFF season started the same way I imagine most do for the plebs. One minute I was perched on the patio of the ultra cool, members-only Soho House sipping rosé, the next I was promptly being booted out of my table because Brooklyn Beckham’s ex-girlfriend needed a seat. C’est la vie.
I won’t bore you with the details about all the fancy gala premieres I attended (read: one – shout out to The Kit, you know how to throw a party), but I will tell you that my luck started to look up for the rest of the week. Even a strong bout of cellulitis on my elbow couldn’t hold me down.
I spent two hours listening to the captivating Mahershala Ali as he shared his life journey — from growing up watching his father on Soul Train, to being “the token black actor” on every TV show, and finally winning an Oscar for his role in Moonlight, which helped him score the lead role in HBO’s upcoming season of True Detective. I fell in love with Bradley Cooper’s deep, grumbling, southern drawl in his directorial debut of A Star Is Born; I laughed at Jason Sudeikis and Lee Pace’s bromance in Nick Hamm’s Driven; I cried watching Hilary Swank in her return to the big screen in What They Had, and I left White Boy Rick blown away by not only newcomer Richie Merrit, but by yet another story of America’s scuzzy justice system.
And while this post has been all about me so far, my cultured, movie-loving colleagues got in on the TIFF action, too. Honourable mention goes to the best managing director in the game, who not only keynoted TIFF’s industry conference but who also let us shimmy in and out of the office as we pleased so we wouldn’t miss the flicks we wanted to see.
Over 300 films were screened in 11 days, and yes, TIFF ended almost a week ago, but we’re still talking about the good, the bad, and the fan-fucking-tastic films everyone in the office saw.
Without further ado, I give you the first annual Eighty-Eight TIFF review.
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Peter Farrelly’s Green Book
Cast: Viggo Mortensen, Mahershala Ali, and Linda Cardellini
Not only was this film crowned with the most closely-watched award at TIFF 18, the Grolsch People’s Choice, but it also captured the hearts of all the Eighty-Eighters who saw it. Mahershala Ali plays celebrated black classical pianist Don Shirley, who embarks on a tour of the Deep American South in the 1960s with his driver, a racist Italian-American bouncer played by Viggo Mortensen. Directed by one of the Farrelly brothers — the duo behind iconic comedies like Dumb and Dumber and There’s Something About Mary –– this movie tackles serious subjects like race, masculinity, stereotypes, and class. But while its themes are serious, the movie is delightfully funny and charming. It tells a true story about friendship through the eyes of two very different men. We laughed, we cried, we clapped, and we didn’t want it to end.
MOST LIKELY TO MAKE YOU BELIEVE LOVE IS REAL, BUT AFFIRM THE WORLD IS BAD
Barry Jenkins’ If Beale Street Could Talk
Cast: KiKi Layne and Stephan James
There ain’t no love story like a Barry Jenkins-directed love story. Back at TIFF with his follow-up to Moonlight, this film adaptation of James Baldwin’s novel follows a young woman as she fights to free her falsely-accused partner from prison.
Starring Toronto’s very own Stephan James, this social realism film depicts America’s broken justice system. Themes of injustice, oppression, and prejudice are represented throughout the film, juxtaposed with love, hope, and family. We’re still swooning over all the Jenkins-esque details from the film — including a masterful score and soundtrack, and brilliant, beautiful cinematography.
MOST CONVINCING CASE FOR MOVING TO FRANCE
Olivier Assayas’ Non-Fiction
Cast: Guillaume Canet and Juliette Binoche
The newest film by French filmmaker Olivier Assayas, Non-Fiction is a comedy about a Parisian publisher and his successful-actor wife that explores a theme that we at Eighty-Eight are privy to every day: digital disruption. Assayas’ social critique wonderfully depicts the state of things as they are today, through hilarious running conversation that shares varying opinions on the role digital plays in our day-to-day.
Even better, this movie gives us an indication of what a life lived in France would be like. Endless stimulating conversation paired with nightly dinner parties? Oui, s’il vous plaît!
MOST LIKELY TO CAUSE A THEATRE WALKOUT
Claire Denis’ High Life
Cast: Robert Pattinson, Juliette Binoche, Mia Goth, and Andre Benjamin
The plot of this movie sounds promising on paper: criminals agree to go on a space mission to investigate black holes but aren’t told they will also be the subjects of reproductive experiments. Space drama ensues.
Instead, this sci-fi drama is perplexing, graphically sexual, violent, and a waste of a strong premise. During the TIFF 18 screening, a large number of audience members walked out, and those who did stay until the end left scratching their heads and asking themselves what the heck they just watched. The most impressive part of this movie is the fact that it has kept us perplexed for weeks after. Avoid at all costs, unless you love existential French films with a weird sex room — we’re not judging.
MOST LIKELY TO INSPIRE YOU TO LIVE LIFE TO THE FULLEST
Rashida Jones and Alan Hicks’ Quincy
Cast: Quincy Jones
Spoiler alert: Quincy Jones is more accomplished and badass than pretty much anyone else in the music business. If you didn’t know that going into this movie, you’ll definitely know it when you leave. Quincy’s daughter Rashida Jones teamed up with filmmaker Alan Hicks to direct this intimate documentary, brilliantly and honestly depicting the rise to, and the price of, fame.
Quincy played, wrote, and produced for the best of the best, from Frank Sinatra and Ray Charles to the King of Pop (Michael Jackson, duh). He grew up during the depression and almost died several times for his craft. This movie takes you deep into his life, and his greatness will blow your mind. It’s about drive, and health, and family, and heartbreak. It gives you all the feels and makes you fall in love with a man you don’t even know.
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On the northern tip of the Indonesian island of Sumatra, there is a coffee cooperative whose name translates as “there is light in Gayo”. The 1813 farmers in the cooperative didn’t name their organisation by accident; they are determined to build a strong and transparent body with the power to improve the lives of its members and their community.
Growing coffee isn’t the easiest way to make a living. The world market price is volatile, so farmers often don’t know what their crops will earn from one year to another. The crops are susceptible to disease and pests, and highly vulnerable to changes in climate and rainfall - so even if prices are high, the yield may be low. Despite these challenges, the farmers of the KSU Ara Cahayani Gayo cooperative are just some of the 25 million people trying to make a living from the highlight of our mornings - a cup of invigorating coffee.
But the farmers of KSU Ara Cahayani Gayo have an advantage - the cooperative has been Fairtrade certified since 2017, and the coffee grown there is sold to Nespresso for inclusion in their new Master Origin capsules. The smallholder farmers in the cooperative each have an average of 1.5 hectares, on which they grow different varieties of Arabica coffee, including a hybrid resistant to leaf rust, a fungus that damages the plants. The beans are processed using the “wet hulled” method to produce a higher toned, lighter bodied coffee, with caramel, spice and fruit flavours.
Fairtrade Australia and New Zealand CEO Molly Harriss Olson said the discerning coffee drinkers of the two countries were a perfect market for the high quality beans coming out of Indonesia.
“Australians and New Zealanders love their coffee, and they love an underdog. When a brand as big as Nespresso adds Fairtrade certified products to their range it makes it easier for everyone to support farmers while still buying the brands they know and trust.”
Being able to sell their product on Fairtrade terms means farmers are doing more than just making a living, they’re able to make fundamental improvements to their community, and ensure the future viability of their local industry. The Fairtrade Premium - an amount paid out on top of the Fairtrade Minimum Price for the commodity that covers the cost of sustainable production - has enabled the cooperative to fund demonstration plots in three villages to help farmers learn new techniques; buy new tools for farmers, including saws, hoes and pruning scissors; purchase a truck to transport the coffee; conduct erosion mapping and work towards organic certification; and get plans underway for a proposed sports and arts centre for use by the children at two local primary schools. A long-term project has also just started with the aim of creating five champion farmers in each village - including two women farmers - who learn new farming techniques and better ways to cultivate their plants and then teach other farmers how to do the same. (Out of the 1813 farmers in the cooperative, 477 are women.)
“Nespresso and Fairtrade share a common goal - we both want to support farmers working towards better futures for themselves, their families, and their communities. Together, our goal is to ensure coffee farming is a sustainable industry that appeals to the next generation. This partnership strengthens our ability to make that goal a reality, to the benefit of farmers - and coffee lovers - the world over,” Ms Harriss Olson said.
“Fairtrade is proud of the work we have done with Nespresso since becoming partners in 2013, including the creation of an innovative Pension Program for Colombian coffee farmers and a new Fairtrade certified cooperative in Indonesia. The launch of two Fairtrade labelled Master Origin coffee capsules represents our mutual commitment to supporting small-scale coffee farmers to build better futures.”
The Nespresso AAA Sustainable Quality Program has been in place since 2003 to improve farming practices and coffee quality, and is well aligned with Fairtrade’s own emphasis on sustainability. Now, the two organisations are working with the farmers of the KSU Ara Cahayani Gayo to keep shining a light on a better future.
Globally Fairtrade works with 445 coffee producer organisations such as KSU Ara Cahayani Gayo, representing 810,000 farmers in 30 countries to make sure they are paid fairly for their produce and work. In 2016, more than 185,000 metric tonnes of coffee were sold on Fairtrade terms, and Australians and New Zealanders alone bought the equivalent of 393 million cups.
Fairtrade works with farmers and workers to make sure the coffee industry has a bright future. The Fairtrade Premium can be used to fund training and education programs, as well as climate change adaptation and resilience strategies or crop diversification. Buying coffee carrying the Fairtrade Mark, such as Nespresso Master Origin Indonesia, means you’re investing in the future for coffee farmers, and coffee.
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Australia considering resettlement for fleeing Saudi woman
Chief of Immigration Police Maj. Gen. Surachate Hakparn talks to media during a press conference in Bangkok Wednesday, Jan. 9, 2019. Thailand. Australia says it is considering granting the Saudi who fled from her family refugee resettlement based on a referral by the U.N. (AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit)
Australian Foreign Minister Marise Payne speaks to journalists in New Delhi, India, Wednesday, Jan. 9, 2019. Australia says it is willing to consider the application of a Saudi Arabian woman, Rahaf Mohammed Alqunun, who has fled her homeland, after the UNHCR assessment is completed. Alqunun arrived in Bangkok from Kuwait late Saturday after slipping away from her family, whom she accused of abusing her. The 18-year-old was stopped by officials in Thailand who confiscated her passport. (AP Photo/Shonal Ganguly)
Chief of Immigration Police Maj. Gen. Surachate Hakparn talks to media during press conference in Bangkok, Wednesday, Jan. 9, 2019. Thailand. Australia says it is considering granting the Saudi who fled from her family refugee resettlement based on a referral by the U.N. (AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit)
FILE - In this Jan. 7, 2019, file photo released by the Immigration Bureau, Saudi woman Rahaf Mohammed Alqunun, foreground, walks by Chief of Immigration Police Maj. Gen. Surachate Hakparn, right, before leaving the Suvarnabhumi Airport in Bangkok, Thailand. Australia says it is considering granting the Saudi who fled from her family refugee resettlement based on referral by the U.N. (Immigration police via AP, File)
FILE - In this Jan. 7, 2019, file photo released by the Immigration Police, Chief of Immigration Police Maj. Gen. Surachate Hakparn, right, walks with Saudi woman Rahaf Mohammed Alqunun before leaving the Suvarnabhumi Airport in Bangkok, Thailand. Australia says it is considering granting the Saudi who fled from her family refugee resettlement based on referral by the U.N. (Immigration police via AP, File)
BANGKOK — A Saudi woman who fled her family, alleging abuse, moved a step closer Wednesday to her goal of gaining asylum in Australia after a U.N. agency granted her refugee status.
The Australian government said it was considering Rahaf Mohammed Alqunun for refugee resettlement, in a case that has advanced rapidly since the weekend when the 18-year-old barricaded herself in an airport hotel in Thailand and publicized her case on social media.
Alqunun arrived in Bangkok on a flight from Kuwait on Saturday, and planned to continue to Australia, where she held a tourist visa. But after being detained by Thai authorities, she refused to board a flight back to Kuwait.
After grabbing worldwide attention with dramatic posts on social media in which she said she feared for her safety if made to return home to her family, Alqunun eventually was placed in the care of the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees as her bid for refugee status was considered.
Alqunun's father denied physically abusing her or trying to force her into an arranged marriage, among the reasons she gave for her flight, Thailand's Immigration Police chief said after meeting him Wednesday.
The father, whose name was not released and who was not seen by reporters, said he wants his daughter back but respects her decision, police Lt. Gen. Surachate Hakparn said. He described the man as being a governor in Saudi Arabia.
"He has 10 children. He said the daughter might feel neglected sometimes," Surachate said. "But he didn't go into detail."
Alqunun refused to meet with her father, who arrived in the Thai capital on Tuesday. She had said in her online postings that she was afraid of such an encounter.
Alqunun arrived in Bangkok from Kuwait late Saturday, but was stopped from proceeding to her planned destination of Australia. After mounting a campaign for assistance on Twitter, she was allowed to temporarily stay in Thailand under the care of the U.N.'s refugee agency, which ruled her claim for asylum valid.
Australia's Home Affairs Department said it would "consider this referral in the usual way, as it does with all UNHCR referrals."
Indications from Canberra suggest Alqunun may receive a sympathetic hearing.
"If she is found to be a refugee, then we will give very, very, very serious consideration to a humanitarian visa," Health Minister Greg Hunt told the Australian Broadcasting Corp. before the UNHCR's referral.
The case has highlighted the cause of women's rights in Saudi Arabia. Several female Saudis fleeing abuse by their families have been caught trying to seek asylum abroad in recent years and returned home. Human rights activists say many more similar cases will have gone unreported.
The influence of the Internet on Alqunun's case was noted by several human rights advocates.
The representative in Australia of Human Rights Watch, Elaine Pearson, said it was encouraging that Alqunun was able to highlight her situation using social media, and she hoped more Saudi women might act similarly.
"The unique thing about this case is that she had access to social media, and was able to report on it and bring the world's attention to her plight," said Pearson. "I think there are many cases like this that go unreported."
A similar point was made by UNHCR spokesman Babar Baloch, who said that what was different in Alqunun's case was that "the wave of all of the voices of solidarity and support came together, joined up in terms of caring for this individual."
Surachate discussed Alqunun's situation on Tuesday with Saudi Charge d'Affaires in Thailand Abdalelah Mohammed A. Alsheaiby. In a video clip of the meeting released by Thai immigration police, Alsheaiby is heard telling Thai officials: "From the moment she arrived, she opened a new account and her followers reached almost 45,000 in a day . and I would have preferred it better if her phone was taken instead of her passport."
The comments sparked anger on social media. Surachate said that police could not confiscate her phone because she was not being detained and said that the Saudi diplomat's remark was "just an opinion" and "nothing to be taken seriously."
A Tuesday statement from the Saudi Embassy in Thailand denied interfering in Alqunun's case, and said it was only monitoring her situation. Describing her case as a "family affair," it said Saudi officials had neither seized her passport — as Alqunun had claimed several times — nor demanded her deportation back home.
The embassy and Thai officials earlier said that Alqunun was stopped by Thai authorities because she did not have a return ticket, a hotel reservation or itinerary to show she was a tourist, which appeared to have raised a red flag about the reasons for her trip.
Saudi Arabia's wider human rights record has come under intense scrutiny since the killing of Saudi writer Jamal Khashoggi in October. Khashoggi, who wrote critically of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman in columns for The Washington Post, had been living in self-imposed exile before Saudi agents killed and dismembered him inside the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul.
The kingdom offered various shifting accounts of the circumstances of his death before eventually settling on the explanation that he died in a botched operation to forcibly bring him back to Saudi Arabia.
Marshallsea reported from Sydney. Associated Press writer Jamey Keaten contributed to this report from Geneva.
This story has been corrected to show the rank of Thailand's immigration chief is lieutenant general.
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Why are intellectuals so Grecophilic?
ian replied to Robert J. Kolker's topic in History
I started posting in humanities.philosophy.objectivism in 2001 and Robert J. Kolker was there. He is a veteran of Objectivist discussion and I think you need to work on your manners.
That is my hope also. I don't want anything bad to happen to China. I'm just worried that they will try to have the technology without the freedom of expression. And Objectivist principles tell us that it will not work in the long run. I know the Chinese probably think we are being hypocritical, or have some evil plan in mind, when we lecture about human rights. But we're really just trying to stop a collapse which will in principle happen and will hurt us all, including the U.S.
The idea that you need individual rights to have prosperity is correct, but it's a long term principle. You can have prosperity in the short term without it (for example by introducing new technologies), but it will all come crashing down. This is what worries me about China. Everything's great today because we're still in the short term. But *in principle* a bad time will come. And when the strict state no longer has economic progress to legitimize it, what do they do? Do they start being all nationalistic to keep the citizens happy?
Physical life vs. "Life as a man"
ian replied to mb121's topic in Questions about Objectivism
I think it might be monism. They hear us talking about man qua man, but they think man is just a lump of meat, so they can't understand how we "get to" man qua man from pure physical survival. But of course we don't "get to" it at all, we start at it, because we see man as an entity with many aspects in the first place. As JMeganSnow said, we don't separate existence from identity.
Because that would be arbitrary (living just for survival). It is all of you that faces the alternative of existence or non-existence. On what basis does one pick and choose? On what basis does one say "I will focus on my physical needs and the rest be damned?"
I think it's because we have physical and non-physical aspects to us, and we face the fundamental alternative as a whole. So it's not just physical survival - it's survival of *you* as a whole. Which means survival of your individuality in some sense - so you need self esteem and indepedence to enable that.
Logical fallacies in arguments
ian replied to ~Sophia~'s topic in Miscellaneous Topics
Maybe you could also mention the distinction between premises and axioms, a premise being something true for a particular argument but an axiom being something that is always true for any argument. Also Ayn Rand identified some fallacies... "Stolen Concept" "Context-dropping" "Reification of the Zero" "Stepping into Limbo" "Non-differentiation between Existence and Consciousness"
Why logic works
ian replied to source's topic in Metaphysics and Epistemology
If Fred was an Objectivist, at this stage of the argument he would just silently point at reality. I don't know if that makes him a foundationalist or not.
Objectivist Ethics
ian replied to Veritas's topic in Questions about Objectivism
To expand on JM Snow's first point, in Objectivism you must get all your concepts from reality. Within this framework, the concept of "value" - the idea that a thing could be "good or evil" instead of simply "is or is not" - can not be obtained as a primary - it can not be "just seen" outright like some concepts can - it requires a certain juxtaposition of entites. You need something that can act, facing an alternative. An alternative means: one of two different futures are possible to it depending on how it acts. You can see that you need at least this, since if no matter how it acted the future is exactly the same, how can there be any barometer of whether the action was good or not, since *everything* is the same? The only things in nature that satisfy this concept-derivation requirement are living entities. And the fundamental alternative they face: the alternative at the end of all the alternatives, is existence or non-existence. It is in the context of a fundamental alternative faced, that an ultimate value arises (if there are no more alternatives beyond there can be no more value scenarios beyond and therefore no higher value), and that ultimate value (corresponding to existence or non-existence) is life.
No Sedition in New Zealand
ian replied to DragonMaci's topic in Political Philosophy
Yes, my country (Australia) has an anti-sedition law. It defines Seditious Intent as: An intention to use force or violence to effect any of the following purposes: ( a ) to bring the Sovereign into hatred or contempt; ( b ) to urge disaffection against the following: (i) the Constitution; (ii) the Government of the Commonwealth; (iii) either House of the Parliament; ( c ) to urge another person to attempt, otherwise than by lawful means, to procure a change to any matter established by law in the Commonwealth; ( d ) to promote feelings of ill-will or hostility between different groups so as to threaten the peace, order and good government of the Commonwealth. The laws have only been used a handful of times over the years, detailed here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_sedition_law#History They were renewed as part of the Anti-terrorism Act 2005, due to Islamists preaching the overthrow of the Commonwealth and establishment of an Islamic state.
Primacy of existence - help me please!
ian replied to bicklevov's topic in Questions about Objectivism
That is where the Objectivist models differs, right where you said "outside of consciousness." Most people think that the things we see around us day to day are models of the real world constructed inside our consciousness, and therefore the next question they ask is: is there really something out there we're creating them from, or are we just making them up out of whole cloth? Objectivism throws all that away. What we see around us are things that exist, and consciousness is not them or the realm they are in, it is merely the fact that were are aware of them, and consciousness has no visible form of it's own. But just because we know automatically that everything we see is existence and not consciousness, doesn't mean we automatically know what things are purely product of brain, and which have a cause outside our bodies. That we must learn by experience. But it is merely a problem of classification, of inventing concepts like "physical" and "mental," there's no fundamental problem of the validity of consciousness, or the existence of existence.
Finite existence
ian replied to Onar Åm's topic in Metaphysics and Epistemology
There can't "be" nothing, right? It's a contradiction. Therefore it's impossible to go somewhere where there's nothing. Therefore no matter how far we go in any direction there must just be more and more something.
Bush's Speech
ian replied to Mimpy's topic in Domestic United States Politics
I watched the speech, desparately willing him to say something good. But every time he talked about how the Iraqis were going to do this, and the Iraqis were going to do that, he just lost all credibility in my eyes. The only plan that will work is one that will work even if the Iraqis do nothing, or are even actively working against it from within. Anything that relies for it's success on them doing their part is not very confidence inspiring, to say the least. Also I believe Kagan and Keane (the guys who came up with this plan) said that 30,000 would be the absolute minimum, and anything less would be worse than nothing. rtsp://video.c-span.org/project/iraq/iraq010507_aei.rm
Ought from Is
ian replied to Klarinettus's topic in Metaphysics and Epistemology
Friedman's error is to misunderstand Rand's argument, and then attack his misunderstanding of it. The argument is not (as he thinks) "animals act for their own survival therefore we should too." The argument is "Values are only possible in the face of an alternative. There is only one fundamental alternative: existence or non-existence. Therefore only life makes value possible."
America: Freedom to Fascism
ian replied to The Guru Kid's topic in Political Philosophy
That video is amazing if true. Basically the congress tried to pass a law, it was rejected by the Supreme Court, and they just went ahead anyway. Sooo... who is supposed to enforce Supreme Court verdict? I guess there was no one in this case.
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With his right eye swollen and stitched moments after the fight, Ramirez smiled and asked questions when presented with a card by a group of Fresno State student volunteers from Camp Kesem, an organization that supports kids who have a parent affected by cancer.
#activity #boxing #sports #alumni #athletics #Jose Ramirez
Album 2019 Jose Ramirez Boxing
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Fresno State President Joseph I. Castro and first lady Mary Castro, who have long supported the former Fresno State student, met Ramirez in his locker room after the fight to congratulate him.
Ramirez battled through adversity, including a cut near his eye, to raise his hand and retain the title belt in front of a crowd that helped lift him to victory with support during the critical moments.
Alumnus Jose Ramirez (left) successfully defended his WBO super lightweight title in front of 14,000-plus fans at the Save Mart Center in February.
Ramirez needed all 12 rounds to edge out the challenger Jose Zepeda on the judges’ scorecards in what became his most tightly contested fight as a professional.
Dedicating his fights to community causes has become a staple for Ramirez and his manager, Rick Mirigian. Billed as the fight to “KO Cancer,” Ramirez wore purple gloves and visited patients and staff at the Community Cancer Institute in Clovis two days before the fight. A portion of the event’s proceeds went toward supporting the institute.
Jose Ramirez is focused and intense as he’s taped up moments before his nationally televised fight on ESPN where he defended his WBC super lightweight title in front of 14,000-plus fans at the Save Mart Center at Fresno State, the University he attended for three semesters before his Olympic training began.
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Second FAIR-Russia Research Center Contest among young group leaders on antiproton and ion research for 2018-2022
The Second Contest among young group leaders on antiproton and ion research (hereinafter – Contest), participating in research work on scientific topics of the Facility for Antiproton and Ion Research in Europe (hereinafter – FAIR), the “NICA” complex (Dubna) and the U-70 accelerator (Protvino) in educational and scientific centers of the Russian Federation, is announced in the scope of FAIR-Russia Research Center (hereinafter – FRRC).
The Contest aims to support the most talented and active Russian scientists as well as their becoming as leaders in the respective fields of science with the prospective of future career growth. Besides the Contest helps to increase the interest in carrying out research on the topics of the FAIR project, the “NICA” complex and the U-70 accelerator in the Russian research organizations in accordance with the Topics of the Contest.
The target audience of the Contest are young the Russian scientists, who are already working in established research groups or planning to gather such a group, possessing leader qualities and great reputation in the scientific society, interested in further work on the research topics of the FAIR project, the “NICA” complex and the U-70 accelerator in the Russian research centers.
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Financial support will be provided in case of successful work in the form of money reward and reimbursement of expenses for business trips for participation in joint research work, participation in conferences, seminars and meetings related to the topic of the project in amount of up to 4 mRUB per group per year. Procurement of the necessary equipment and materials could be financed in the scope of the project.
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1 : North America 443 : Maryland 3960800
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1 : North America 447 : Illinois 3960800
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1 : North America 456 : Inbound international calls for carrier-specific services 3960800
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1 : North America 463 : Indiana (central Indiana, including Indianapolis) 3960800
1 : North America 470 : Georgia: An overlay onto Area code 404, area code 678, and Area code 770 3960800
1 : North America 473 : Grenada (all) 3960800
1 : North America 474 : originally was assigned for numbering relief to 306 in Saskatchewan, but it was changed to 639. It is not used now 3960800
1 : North America 475 : Connecticut 3960800
1 : North America 478 : Georgia (Macon, Warner Robins, Swainsboro, Milledgeville, Perry, and part of central Georgia) 3960800
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1 : North America 508 : Massachusetts (Worcester, New Bedford, Fall River, Cape Cod, and most of southeastern Massachusetts) 3960800
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1 : North America 510 : California (coastal regions of the East Bay—Oakland, Fremont, Hayward, Richmond, Berkeley and Alameda) 3960800
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1 : North America 513 : Ohio (Cincinnati, Middletown, Hamilton, Lebanon, and parts of southern and southwestern Ohio. This area code formerly also included Dayton.) 3960800
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1 : North America 515 : Iowa (Des Moines, Ames, Fort Dodge, Jefferson, Indianola and most of north-central Iowa) 3960800
1 : North America 516 : New York State (Nassau County, Hempstead, Long Beach, Great Neck, etc.) 3960800
1 : North America 517 : Michigan (Lansing, Jackson, Charlotte, Deerfield, Addison, and most of south-central Michigan) 3960800
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1 : North America 519 : Ontario (London, Windsor, Kitchener-Waterloo, Cambridge, and most of southwestern Ontario) 3960800
1 : North America 520 : Arizona (Tucson, Nogales, Fort Huachuca, and most of southeastern Arizona) 3960800
1 : North America 521 : Reserved for Personal Communications Services – effective July 2011 3960800
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1 : North America 530 : California (Redding, Auburn, Chico, Davis, the California shore of Lake Tahoe, Placerville, Susanville, Truckee, Yreka, and most of northeastern California) 3960800
1 : North America 535 : Reserved for Personal Communications Services – effective September 2013 3960800
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1 : North America 540 : Virginia (Fredericksburg, Roanoke, Blacksburg, Harrisonburg, Lexington, Staunton, Winchester, and parts of north-central Virginia) 3960800
1 : North America 541 : Oregon (Eugene, Bend, Corvallis, Medford, Pendleton, and all of Oregon except metropolitan northwestern Oregon, including Portland, Salem, Astoria, etc.) 3960800
1 : North America 548 : Ontario 3960800
1 : North America 551 : New Jersey 3960800
1 : North America 555 : Reserved for directory assistance applications, not used 3960800
1 : North America 557 : Missouri: planned overlay for 314, but it has been suspended indefinitely 3960800
1 : North America 559 : California (Fresno, Hanford, Madera, Tulare, Visalia, and parts of the San Joaquin Valley 3960800
1 : North America 561 : Florida (Palm Beach County, including Palm Beach, West Palm Beach, Boca Raton, Boynton Beach, etc.) 3960800
1 : North America 562 : California (Downey, Long Beach, Whittier, Norwalk, La Habra, Lakewood, Pico Rivera, and most of southeastern Los Angeles County) 3960800
1 : North America 563 : Iowa (Davenport, Dubuque, Clinton, Bettendorf, and most of eastern and northeastern Iowa) 3960800
1 : North America 564 : Washington (proposed overlay area code for 206, 253, 360 and 425) 3960800
1 : North America 567 : Ohio (Northwest) 3960800
1 : North America 570 : Pennsylvania (the Wyoming Valley, including Scranton and Wilkes-Barre; Bloomsburg; Danville; Nanticoke; Williamsport; and most of northeastern Pennsylvania) 3960800
1 : North America 571 : Virginia 3960800
1 : North America 573 : Missouri (Columbia, Jefferson City, Hannibal, Cape Girardeau, Farmington, Lake of the Ozarks, Poplar Bluff, and most of eastern Missouri excluding St. Louis County and the City of St. Louis) 3960800
1 : North America 574 : Indiana (South Bend, Elkhart, Goshen, and most of north-central Indiana) 3960800
1 : North America 575 : New Mexico (Las Cruces, Roswell, Carlsbad Caverns National Park, Socorro, Taos, Truth or Consequences; excludes central (Albuquerque and its suburbs) and northwestern New Mexico) 3960800
1 : North America 579 : Quebec (central southern Quebec including the city of Laval and other suburbs of Montreal but excluding the City of Montreal) 3960800
1 : North America 580 : Oklahoma (Ponca City, Ada, Ardmore, Enid, Lawton, Elk City, and most of southern and western Oklahoma) 3960800
1 : North America 581 : Quebec 3960800
1 : North America 582 : was proposed for relief of 814 (Pennsylvania), but no date has scheduled for this to go into effect 3960800
1 : North America 585 : New York State (Rochester, Batavia, and much of western New York State) 3960800
1 : North America 586 : Michigan (Warren, Sterling Heights, and Macomb County) 3960800
1 : North America 587 : Alberta 3960800
1 : North America 600 : Canadian non-geographic, teleprinter, caller-pays mobile. 3960800
1 : North America 601 : Mississippi (Jackson, Hattiesburg, Meridian, Natchez, Vicksburg, and most of central Mississippi) 3960800
1 : North America 602 : Arizona (Phoenix) 3960800
1 : North America 603 : New Hampshire (all) 3960800
1 : North America 604 : British Columbia (Greater Vancouver Regional District, Whistler, and remaining portion of 604 not part of overlay complex) 3960800
1 : North America 605 : South Dakota (all) 3960800
1 : North America 606 : Kentucky (Ashland, Pikeville, Hazard, Somerset, London, Corbin, Maysville, and much of eastern Kentucky) 3960800
1 : North America 607 : New York State (Binghamton, Elmira, Cornell, Norwich, Ithaca, and most of south-central New York) 3960800
1 : North America 608 : Wisconsin (Madison, La Crosse, Platteville, Beloit, and most of southwestern Wisconsin) 3960800
1 : North America 609 : New Jersey (Trenton, Atlantic City, Princeton, and most of central & southeastern New Jersey) 3960800
1 : North America 610 : Pennsylvania (Chester, Lehigh Valley, Norristown, Reading; parts of southeastern Pennsylvania) 3960800
1 : North America 611 : Repair service for land-line telephones; customer service for most wireless carriers 3960800
1 : North America 612 : Minnesota (Minneapolis, Fort Snelling, St. Anthony, and Richfield) 3960800
1 : North America 613 : Ontario (Ottawa and eastern Ontario) 3960800
1 : North America 614 : Ohio (Columbus and Franklin County) 3960800
1 : North America 615 : Tennessee (Nashville, Lebanon, Murfreesboro, Smyrna, Springfield, and other parts of Middle Tennessee around the Nashville Metropolitan Area) 3960800
1 : North America 616 : Michigan (Grand Rapids, Greenville, Holland, Ionia, Zeeland, and most of southwestern Michigan) 3960800
1 : North America 617 : Massachusetts (Boston, Cambridge, Quincy, Newton, Everett, and the nearby suburbs) 3960800
1 : North America 618 : Illinois (Carbondale, Alton, Belleville, Cahokia, Centralia, Edwardsville, Marion, Metropolis, Vandalia, and most of southern Illinois) 3960800
1 : North America 619 : California (southern half of San Diego, California city, and southern and eastern suburbs including Chula Vista, National City, El Cajon, La Mesa, Lemon Grove.) 3960800
1 : North America 620 : Kansas (southern Kansas not including the Wichita Metropolitan Area and Hutchison.) 3960800
1 : North America 622 : is nominally reserved to overlay +1-600, a rarely used Canadian non-geographic code 3960800
1 : North America 623 : Arizona (part of Maricopa County, including Glendale, Buckeye, Goodyear, Peoria, Sun City, and the western half of Phoenix) 3960800
1 : North America 626 : California (San Gabriel Valley communities including Alhambra, Arcadia, Azusa, Baldwin Park, Covina, Duarte, El Monte, Glendora, Irwindale, La Puente, Monrovia, Pasadena, Rosemead, San Gabriel, Temple City, and West Covina) 3960800
1 : North America 627 : was assigned for numbering relief to Area code 707 (the northern California coast), but it has been cancelled 3960800
1 : North America 628 : California (San Francisco) 3960800
1 : North America 629 : Tennessee (Middle Tennessee, including Nashville and surrounding area) 3960800
1 : North America 630 : Illinois (Western suburbs of Chicago, including DuPage, central and southern Kane, northern Kendall, far northern Will, and small portions of Cook Counties. Includes Aurora, Naperville, Wheaton, Downers Grove, Elmhurst, Lombard, Glen Ellyn, Bloomingdale, Carol Stream, Addison, Glendale Heights, Bartlett, Hanover Park, Streamwood, Bolingbrook, St. Charles, Geneva, Batavia, Sugar Grove, Oswego, Yorkville, Plano, Darien, Woodridge, Hinsdale, Oak Brook, Lemont, and other suburbs west of Chicago.) 3960800
1 : North America 631 : New York State (Suffolk County on Long Island) 3960800
1 : North America 636 : Missouri (St. Charles, Chesterfield, Union, Troy, and parts of east-central Missouri) 3960800
1 : North America 639 : Saskatchewan 3960800
1 : North America 641 : Iowa (Mason City, Oskaloosa, Creston, Pella, Ottumwa, Britt, Clear Lake, Fairfield, and parts of central Iowa) 3960800
1 : North America 646 : New York State (Borough of Manhattan, except for Marble Hill on the mainland of New York) 3960800
1 : North America 649 : the Turks and Caicos Islands (all) 3960800
1 : North America 650 : California (Daly City, South San Francisco, Palo Alto, Redwood City, Menlo Park, Mountain View, San Mateo, Santa Clara) 3960800
1 : North America 651 : Minnesota (St. Paul, Eagan, Lindstrom, Red Wing, Hastings, Stillwater and part of east-central Minnesota) 3960800
1 : North America 658 : Listed for Jamaica, but no date is scheduled for this to go into effect 3960800
1 : North America 659 : Assigned for numbering relief to 205 (Alabama) but no date has been scheduled for this to go into effect 3960800
1 : North America 660 : Missouri (Sedalia, Kirksville, Maryville, Mexico, Whiteman Air Force Base, and part of north-central Missouri) 3960800
1 : North America 661 : California (Bakersfield, Lancaster, Palmdale, Edwards Air Force Base, and parts of Kern County, and Los Angeles County.) 3960800
1 : North America 662 : Mississippi (Tupelo, Columbus, Corinth, Greenville, Greenwood, Starkville, and most of northern Mississippi) 3960800
1 : North America 664 : Montserrat (all) 3960800
1 : North America 669 : California (San Jose) Created on November 20, 2012 as an overlay code for 408 3960800
1 : North America 670 : Northern Mariana Islands (the former country code for this present Commonwealth of the United States that includes Saipan, Tinian, and Rota.) 3960800
1 : North America 671 : Guam (the former country code for this possession and unorganized territory of the United States that includes Andersen Air Force Base.) 3960800
1 : North America 672 : British Columbia (assigned for numbering relief to 236 (British Columbia)[9] but no date has been scheduled for this to go into effect.) 3960800
1 : North America 678 : Georgia 3960800
1 : North America 679 : assigned for numbering relief to 313 (Michigan) but no date has been scheduled for this to go into effect 3960800
1 : North America 680 : future overlay on New York's 315 3960800
1 : North America 681 : West Virginia 3960800
1 : North America 684 : American Samoa (the former country code for this possession and unorganized territory of the United States) 3960800
1 : North America 689 : proposed for numbering relief to Area code 407 (Florida) 3960800
1 : North America 700 : Long Distance carrier use for pre-subscribing phone numbers, 1-700-555-4141 most often gives a recorded message indicating the default carrier on a line. In theory, an interexchange carrier may assign any +1-700- number to any carrier-specific service, but this use is rare 3960800
1 : North America 701 : North Dakota (all) 3960800
1 : North America 702 : Nevada (almost all of Clark County, including all of the Las Vegas Valley, including Henderson and Boulder City) 3960800
1 : North America 703 : Virginia (Northern Virginia: mostly the suburbs of Washington, D.C., including Alexandria, Arlington County, Fairfax County, Prince William County, and eastern Loudoun County) 3960800
1 : North America 704 : North Carolina (Charlotte, Concord, Gastonia, Salisbury, and much of south-central North Carolina) 3960800
1 : North America 705 : Ontario: (Northeastern Ontario and Central Ontario: Greater Sudbury, Sault Ste. Marie, North Bay, etc.) 3960800
1 : North America 706 : Georgia (Athens, Augusta, Columbus, Carrollton, Carroll County, Cartersville, Dalton, Rome, and much of northwestern, northeastern and eastern Georgia, with an exclave in western Georgia) 3960800
1 : North America 707 : California (Vallejo, Crescent City, Eureka, Redwoods National Park, Santa Rosa, Ukiah, and most of northwestern California) 3960800
1 : North America 708 : Illinois (Western and southern portions of suburban Cook County and far eastern sections of Will County. Includes Beecher, Berwyn, Brookfield, Bridgeview, Burbank, Calumet City, Chicago Heights, Cicero, Dolton, Elmwood Park, Evergreen Park, Franklin Park, Harvey, Hazel Crest, Homer Glen, Homewood, La Grange, Lansing, Matteson, Maywood, Melrose Park, Mokena, Monee, Oak Forest, Oak Park, Orland Park, Palos Hills, Park Forest, Peotone, Tinley Park, University Park, and other southern and near western suburbs of Chicago.) 3960800
1 : North America 709 : Newfoundland and Labrador 3960800
1 : North America 710 : U.S. Government Special Services 3960800
1 : North America 711 : Telecommunications device for the deaf/Relay Service for TTY to Voice and Voice to TTY 3960800
1 : North America 712 : Iowa (Sioux City, Council Bluffs, Denison, and most of western Iowa) 3960800
1 : North America 713 : Texas (Houston area)—overlays with 281, 346 and 832 3960800
1 : North America 714 : California: Orange County: Anaheim, Fullerton, Garden Grove, Huntington Beach, Irvine, Newport Beach, Orange, Santa Ana, etc.) 3960800
1 : North America 715 : Wisconsin (Wausau, Eau Claire, Rhinelander, and most of northern Wisconsin) 3960800
1 : North America 716 : New York State (Buffalo, Niagara Falls, Olean, and parts of western New York) 3960800
1 : North America 717 : Pennsylvania (Harrisburg, Gettysburg, Lancaster, York and most of south-central Pennsylvania) 3960800
1 : North America 718 : New York State (New York City except for Manhattan, but this area code includes Marble Hill, a neighborhood of the Borough of Manhattan located on the mainland.) 3960800
1 : North America 719 : Colorado (Colorado Springs, Pueblo, Florence, Leadville, Limon, Trinidad, La Junta, and most of southeastern Colorado) 3960800
1 : North America 720 : Colorado 3960800
1 : North America 721 : Sint Maarten 3960800
1 : North America 724 : Pennsylvania (Washington, Greensburg, Indiana, New Castle, Uniontown, Butler, and the majority of Southwestern Pennsylvania outside of Pittsburgh's Allegheny County) 3960800
1 : North America 727 : Florida (all of Pinellas County including St. Petersburg, Clearwater, Dunedin, Palm Harbor, Tarpon Springs, and the coastal parts of Pasco County) 3960800
1 : North America 730 : proposed overlay of 618 3960800
1 : North America 731 : Tennessee (most of West Tennessee—excluding Metropolitan Memphis and Shelby County (area code 901)—but including Dyersburg, Jackson, Martin, Paris, Union City, and Crockett County) 3960800
1 : North America 732 : New Jersey (New Brunswick, Lakewood, Neptune, Fort Dix, and most of east-central New Jersey—but not Atlantic City) 3960800
1 : North America 734 : North Carolina 3960800
1 : North America 740 : Ohio (Suburban Columbus, central Ohio outside of Franklin County, excluding the Marysville area, together with southeastern Ohio: Athens, Lancaster, Cambridge, Delaware, Ironton, Marietta, Mt. Vernon, Newark, Portsmouth, Steubenville, Washington Court House, and Zanesville) 3960800
1 : North America 742 : Reserved as a future area code in the 289/365/905 region of Ontario, Canada. 3960800
1 : North America 747 : California (Los Angeles County, San Fernando Valley) 3960800
1 : North America 752 : California Formerly was a planned overlay for 909, but it was suspended indefinitely. Reserved for planned potential North American Numbering Plan expansion 3960800
1 : North America 754 : Florida 3960800
1 : North America 757 : Virginia (Part of Hampton Roads and the Eastern Shore of Virginia) 3960800
1 : North America 758 : Saint Lucia (all) 3960800
1 : North America 760 : California (Bishop, Ridgecrest, Barstow—eastern portions of San Bernardino County and Riverside County, including Palm Springs, Palm Desert, and Indio—Imperial County, and parts of northern and eastern San Diego County, including Oceanside and other northern suburbs of San Diego, California.) In summary: most of the desert and mountain portions of southeastern California 3960800
1 : North America 761 : Currently reserved for split or overlay of 561, Palm Beach County, Florida 3960800
1 : North America 763 : Minnesota (Brooklyn Park, Plymouth, Maple Grove, Monticello, Elk River, Fridley, Blaine, and the northwest suburban area of Minneapolis) 3960800
1 : North America 764 : Formerly was assigned for numbering relief to 650 (western San Francisco Bay, including San Mateo County) but it has been cancelled 3960800
1 : North America 765 : Indiana (Kokomo, Lafayette, Marion, Muncie, Richmond, West Lafayette, and most of central Indiana excluding Indianapolis and immediate suburbs.) 3960800
1 : North America 767 : Commonwealth of Dominica (all) 3960800
1 : North America 769 : Mississippi 3960800
1 : North America 770 : Georgia (Marietta, Carrollton, Gainesville, Jonesboro, Lawrenceville, Roswell, Stone Mountain, and much of north-central Georgia outside of Atlanta's Interstate 285 Perimeter Highway). Area code 770 is shaped like a donut, with Atlanta, Chamblee, Decatur, and Tucker 404 in its hole 3960800
1 : North America 772 : Florida (Fort Pierce, Port Saint Lucie, Sebastian, Stuart, and Vero Beach, and all of Indian River County and Martin County) 3960800
1 : North America 773 : Illinois (City of Chicago, excluding downtown) 3960800
1 : North America 774 : Massachusetts 3960800
1 : North America 775 : Nevada (Carson City, Reno, Elko, Ely, Sparks, Winnemucca, Great Basin National Park, Naval Air Station Fallon, and all of Nevada except for most of Clark County in southernmost Nevada) 3960800
1 : North America 778 : British Columbia (all) 3960800
1 : North America 780 : Alberta (Edmonton, Jasper, Grande Prairie, Peace River, and all of northern Alberta). This area code overlays onto 587 and also 403 in southern Alberta 3960800
1 : North America 781 : Massachusetts (Saugus, Norwood, Waltham Woburn, and other suburbs of Boston along Route 128) 3960800
1 : North America 782 : Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island 3960800
1 : North America 784 : Saint Vincent and the Grenadines (all). Was split from 809 3960800
1 : North America 785 : Kansas (Topeka, Salina, Colby, Lawrence, Manhattan, and all of northern and central Kansas not including the Kansas City Metropolitan Area.) 3960800
1 : North America 786 : Florida (Miami-Dade County and the Florida Keys) 3960800
1 : North America 787 : Puerto Rico 3960800
1 : North America 800 : Toll-free telephone service (see also 822, 833, 844, 855, 866, 877, 880, 881, 882, 883, 884, 885, 886, 887, 888, 889) 3960800
1 : North America 802 : Vermont (all) 3960800
1 : North America 803 : South Carolina (Columbia, Rock Hill, Sumter, Aiken, and most of central South Carolina) 3960800
1 : North America 804 : Virginia (the Richmond Metropolitan Area, including Petersburg; also the Northern Neck and Middle Peninsula) 3960800
1 : North America 805 : California (Ventura County, San Luis Obispo County, Santa Barbara County, Atascadero, Lompoc, Ojai, Oxnard, Pismo Beach, San Buenaventura, Santa Maria, Simi Valley, and Vandenberg Air Force Base.) 3960800
1 : North America 806 : Texas (Lubbock, Amarillo, Canadian, Canyon, Dalhart, and the entire Texas Panhandle) 3960800
1 : North America 807 : Ontario (Northwestern Ontario: Thunder Bay, Kenora, Dryden, Greenstone) 3960800
1 : North America 808 : Hawaii (covers all of the Hawaiian Islands to Midway Atoll, and major Hawaiian cities including Honolulu, Kailua, Mililani, Haleiwa, Hilo, Kahului, Lihue, etc. Area code also includes Wake Island) 3960800
1 : North America 809 : Dominican Republic 3960800
1 : North America 810 : Michigan (Port Huron, Flint, Lapeer, and Michigan \Thumb\) 3960800
1 : North America 811 : Regional information number, usage varies by country 3960800
1 : North America 812 : Indiana (Southern Indiana, including Bloomington, Evansville, Terre Haute, Columbus, Jeffersonville, Lawrenceburg, Madison, and New Albany.) 3960800
1 : North America 813 : Florida (all of Hillsborough County, including Tampa and its suburbs, MacDill Air Force Base, and Plant City; and also the inland areas of Pasco County) 3960800
1 : North America 814 : Pennsylvania (Erie, State College, Altoona, Clearfield, Emporium, Johnsonburg, Johnstown, Meyersdale, Ridgway, Somerset, and most of northwestern and parts of central Pennsylvania) 3960800
1 : North America 815 : Illinois (much of northern Illinois outside Chicago & its immediate surrounding suburbs. Includes Rockford and its suburbs, Belvidere, La Salle, Peru, DeKalb, Sycamore, Freeport, Dixon, Sterling, Rock Falls, Ottawa, Morris, Princeton, Mendota, Rochelle, Sandwich, Streator, Pontiac, Kankakee, and some outlying Chicago suburbs such as Harvard, McHenry, Crystal Lake, Woodstock, Plainfield, Joliet, Romeoville, Lockport, New Lenox, Frankfort, Minooka, Channahon, and Shorewood.) 3960800
1 : North America 816 : Missouri (Kansas City, St Joseph, Independence, Harrisonville, and parts of west-central Missouri) 3960800
1 : North America 817 : Texas (Fort Worth, Arlington, Grand Prairie, Grandview, Weatherford) 3960800
1 : North America 818 : California (the San Fernando Valley of Los Angeles County, including Burbank, Canoga Park, Encino, Glendale, North Hollywood, Northridge, Panorama City, Reseda, San Fernando, Sylmar, Tarzana, Van Nuys, and Woodland Hills.) 3960800
1 : North America 819 : Quebec (Western Québec except Montréal 514 and surrounding area 450. A large area including Abitibi-Témiscamingue, Estrie, Mauricie, Outaouais, Sherbrooke, and Trois-Rivieres.) 3960800
1 : North America 825 : assigned to an overlay of 403, 587 and 780 Alberta (Calgary, Edmonton) on April 9, 2016 3960800
1 : North America 828 : North Carolina (Asheville, Franklin, Hickory, Murphy, Waynesville, and parts of western North Carolina) 3960800
1 : North America 829 : the Dominican Republic 3960800
1 : North America 830 : Texas (Del Rio, Kerrville, Eagle Pass, Fredericksburg, New Braunfels, and part of the Rio Grande Valley) 3960800
1 : North America 831 : California (Monterey County, including Salinas and Monterey, San Benito County, including Hollister, and Santa Cruz County, including Santa Cruz and Watsonville) 3960800
1 : North America 833 : reserved for future toll-free expansion (see also 800, 822, 844, 855, 866, 877, 888, 880–882, 883–887, and 889 in this list) 3960800
1 : North America 835 : was to be an overlay for 610 and 484 (Pennsylvania), but was canceled in 2008 3960800
1 : North America 843 : South Carolina (Charleston, Florence, Hilton Head Island, Myrtle Beach, Charleston Air Force Base, and most of southeastern South Carolina) 3960800
1 : North America 844 : Toll-free 3960800
1 : North America 845 : New York State (Dutchess, Orange, Putnam, Rockland, Sullivan, and Ulster Counties in southeastern New York State. Includes: Poughkeepsie, Middletown, Kingston, West Point, Newburgh, and the Catskill Mountains west to Margaretville) 3960800
1 : North America 847 : Illinois (North and northwest suburbs of Chicago, including Lake, northern Cook, northern Kane, and extreme southeastern McHenry Counties. Includes Evanston, Skokie, Niles, Park Ridge, Des Plaines, Mount Prospect, Arlington Heights, Palatine, Wheeling, Buffalo Grove, Barrington, Elk Grove Village, Schaumburg, Hoffman Estates, Elgin, Carpentersville, Algonquin, Lake in the Hills, Huntley, Hampshire, Cary, Lake Zurich, Fox Lake, Round Lake Beach, Antioch, Gurnee, Waukegan, Zion, Lake Forest, Vernon Hills, Libertyville, Mundelein, Northbrook, Glenview, Deerfield, Highland Park, Wilmette, Winnetka, etc.) 3960800
1 : North America 850 : Kentucky (Lexington, Richmond, Danville, Covington, Florence, and northernmost Kentucky) 3960800
1 : North America 854 : Designated as an overlay to Area code 843 3960800
1 : North America 855 : Toll-free telephone service (see also 800, 822, 833, 844, 866, 877, 888, 880–882, 883–887, and 889 in this list) 3960800
1 : North America 856 : New Jersey (Cherry Hill, Camden, Millville, Vineland, and most of southwestern New Jersey) 3960800
1 : North America 858 : California (Southern California: the northern half of San Diego city and some northern suburbs) 3960800
1 : North America 860 : Connecticut (Hartford, Bristol, Norwich, and northern and eastern Connecticut) 3960800
1 : North America 863 : Florida (Lakeland, Bartow, Sebring, Winter Haven in south-central Florida) 3960800
1 : North America 864 : South Carolina (The Upstate, including Greenville, Spartanburg, Anderson, Clemson, and most of northwestern South Carolina) 3960800
1 : North America 865 : Tennessee (Knoxville, Alcoa, Athens, Clinton, Crossville, Dayton, Gatlinburg, Loudon, Maryville, Newport, Oak Ridge, Oliver Springs, Pigeon Forge, Rockwood, Sweetwater, etc., in East Tennessee) 3960800
1 : North America 867 : Yukon, Northwest Territories, and Nunavut 3960800
1 : North America 868 : Trinidad and Tobago (all) 3960800
1 : North America 869 : Saint Kitts and Nevis (all) 3960800
1 : North America 870 : Arkansas (Texarkana, Jonesboro, Pine Bluff, and southern, eastern, and northeastern Arkansas) 3960800
1 : North America 876 : Jamaica (all) 3960800
1 : North America 880 : Codes 880 through 882 were used (until April 1, 2004) to allow international customers to access toll-free numbers they otherwise could not by paying the international portion of the toll. 880 was paired with 800, 881 with 888, and 882 with 877.[13] As of 2008, they were reserved for toll-free area codes, but were not yet in use 3960800
1 : North America 883 : As of 2008, they were reserved for toll-free area codes, but were not yet in use 3960800
1 : North America 889 : As of 2008, it was reserved for toll-free area codes, but was not yet in use 3960800
1 : North America 900 : premium-rate telephone numbers 3960800
1 : North America 901 : Tennessee (Memphis, Covington, Germantown, Somerville, and extreme southwestern Tennessee, mostly in Shelby County) 3960800
1 : North America 903 : Texas (Tyler, Sherman, Longview, Marshall, Palestine, Jacksonville, Carthage, and Northeast Texas) 3960800
1 : North America 904 : Florida (Jacksonville, St. Augustine, Starke, and most of northeastern Florida) 3960800
1 : North America 905 : Ontario (Niagara Falls Region, Hamilton, St. Catharines, suburbs of the Greater Toronto Area, and southeastern Ontario) 3960800
1 : North America 906 : Michigan: Upper Peninsula (Sault Ste. Marie, Escanaba, Houghton, Iron Mountain, Marquette, Menominee, etc.) 3960800
1 : North America 907 : all of Alaska excluding the lone town of Hyder 3960800
1 : North America 908 : New Jersey (Alpha, Washington, Elizabeth, Warren, Plainfield, and west-central New Jersey) 3960800
1 : North America 909 : California (western portions of San Bernardino County, and parts of Los Angeles County and Riverside County, including Fontana, Pomona, Chino Hills, Claremont, Chino, Ontario, Redlands) 3960800
1 : North America 910 : North Carolina (Fayetteville, Wilmington, Fort Bragg, Seymour Johnson Air Force Base, Jacksonville, Lumberton and much of southeastern North Carolina) 3960800
1 : North America 911 : Reserved as an emergency telephone number in all geographic and non-geographic areas 3960800
1 : North America 912 : Georgia (Savannah, Statesboro, Vidalia, Waycross, Brunswick, Douglas, and southeastern Georgia) 3960800
1 : North America 913 : Kansas (Kansas City, Kansas, Overland Park, Leavenworth, Ft. Leavenworth, parts of eastern Kansas) 3960800
1 : North America 914 : New York State (Westchester County) 3960800
1 : North America 915 : Texas (all of El Paso County and portions of Hudspeth County) 3960800
1 : North America 916 : California (the Sacramento Metropolitan Area) 3960800
1 : North America 917 : New York State (New York City; cellular telephones) 3960800
1 : North America 919 : North Carolina (the Research Triangle—including Raleigh, the state capital city; Durham, Cary, and Chapel Hill—plus Goldsboro and other parts of north-central North Carolina) 3960800
1 : North America 920 : Wisconsin (Appleton, Sheboygan, Oshkosh, Green Bay, Manitowoc, Marquette, Fond du Lac, and parts of eastern Wisconsin—but not Milwaukee County) 3960800
1 : North America 925 : California (inland regions of the East Bay—Livermore, Concord, Pleasant Hill, Walnut Creek, Martinez, Pleasanton and Dublin, just east of the hills that ring San Francisco Bay) 3960800
1 : North America 927 : Florida (Orlando, Sanford, St. Cloud, Kissimmee, and part of east-central Florida) Currently reserved for cellular telephones in the 407 areas, but no date has been scheduled for this to go into effect 3960800
1 : North America 928 : Arizona (Flagstaff, Kingman, Lake Havasu City, Page, Payson, Prescott, Tuba City, Williams, Winslow, Window Rock, Yuma, and most of northern and western Arizona, including the Grand Canyon National Park, the Lower Colorado River Valley, and the Navajo Nation) 3960800
1 : North America 929 : New York 3960800
1 : North America 930 : Indiana 3960800
1 : North America 931 : Tennessee (Middle Tennessee, excluding the Nashville Metropolitan Area, which is in 615: Clarksville, Manchester, Columbia, Cookeville, Sparta) 3960800
1 : North America 932 : once reserved as a third area code for West Virginia, but it was replaced by a 304-932 exchange area code in Charleston 3960800
1 : North America 934 : New York (Suffolk County) 3960800
1 : North America 935 : was assigned for numbering relief to 619 (San Diego), but it has been cancelled 3960800
1 : North America 936 : Texas (Nacogdoches, Lufkin, Conroe, Huntsville, Center, and Southeast Texas) 3960800
1 : North America 937 : Ohio (Dayton, Marysville, Springfield, Hillsboro, and southwestern Ohio excluding the Cincinnati Metropolitan Area) 3960800
1 : North America 938 : Alabama (Huntsville, Anniston, Cullman, Decatur, Florence, Fort Payne, Gadsden, Madison, Sheffield, Tuscumbia) 3960800
1 : North America 940 : Texas (Denton, Wichita Falls, Decatur, Gainesville, Vernon, etc.) This is Texas immediately north of the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex 3960800
1 : North America 941 : Florida (Gulf Coast immediately south of Tampa Bay: all of Manatee County, Sarasota County, and Charlotte County; includes Bradenton, Port Charlotte, Sarasota, and Punta Gorda.) 3960800
1 : North America 947 : Michigan 3960800
1 : North America 949 : California (Irvine, Lake Forest, Mission Viejo, Newport Beach, Corona del Mar, and part of southern Orange County) 3960800
1 : North America 950 : Exchange prefix 950 was formerly used to access competing interexchange carriers. A subscriber would call 950-XXXX to reach a specific carrier, then dial the long-distance destination number. This feature group 'B' has been rendered obsolete by 1010xxx \dial-around\ feature group 'D' but the exchange remains reserved in each individual area code. 3960800
1 : North America 951 : California (western Riverside County, including Riverside, Corona, Lake Elsinore, Mira Loma, Moreno Valley, Sun City, Temecula, Winchester, Lakeview, etc.) 3960800
1 : North America 952 : Minnesota (Bloomington, Eden Prairie, Edina, Minnetonka, Chaska, and the southwest suburban Minneapolis area) 3960800
1 : North America 954 : Florida (all of Broward County: Fort Lauderdale, Hollywood, Coral Springs, etc.) 3960800
1 : North America 956 : Texas (Laredo, Harlingen, Brownsville, McAllen, and southmost Texas) 3960800
1 : North America 970 : Colorado (Grand Junction, Aspen, Durango, Estes Park, Fort Collins, Frisco, Glenwood Springs, Greeley, Purgatory, Steamboat Springs, Telluride, Vail, Rocky Mountain National Park, Dinosaur National Monument, and most of north-central, south-central, and western Colorado) 3960800
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Aboriginal Australians -- Ethnic identityAboriginal Australians -- Rites and ceremoniesAboriginal Australians -- Social life and customsYolngu (Australian people)
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Isaac, Graeme.Murray, Tom.
In native Australian with English subtitlesTitle from resource description page (viewed September 16, 2014)Warning: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander viewers should be aware that this content may contain images or names of people who have since passed away. In one of the most remote corners of indigenous Australia a boy will soon become a man. His father has told him that his initiation will be soon. This film documents a rare and intimate moment in the life of a family living in a remote indigenous community in Northern Australia's Arnhem Land region. Set against the political backdrop of Government pressure to close 'un-economic outstations' this small community is doing its best to integrate the understandings of its ancestors with the demands of life in the globalised 21st Century
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Franklin Parrasch Gallery began in 1986 with a program guided by a conscious reflection upon the process of creativity as it relates to human evolution.
Over the past two decades, the gallery has established a profile of exhibiting Los Angeles artists whose careers emerged in the 1960s and whose aesthetic alignment with Minimalism developed independently from that of their East Coast contemporaries. Through numerous group exhibitions, the gallery has explored artistic philosophies specific to West Coast subcultures, including hot-rodding and surfing, and how these sensibilities informed the works of Los Angeles artists of this time period.
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We bring together a desirable international education environment, significant investments in leading curriculum and child research, world-class facilities and a community of highly accomplished teachers – driven by an inspiring set of core values that place the international student at the centre of everything we do.
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Here’s how we do things differently from other international schools at GEMS World Academy (Singapore):
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We believe the best teachers make the biggest difference. With an average of 15 years international teaching experience, our teachers are passionate about educational excellence. Across the GEMS Education network, we received 90,000 applicants for teaching positions within our international schools. At GEMS (Singapore), we have an extensive and rigorous recruitment process for our teachers.
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Neoliberal nightmare
Written by Mark Maslin
Published in Opinions
The 'outdated' WTO headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland Martin Good / Shutterstock
I was recently asked by an incredulous colleague why I was working in a Geography department. I answered that geography was the study of ‘the who, the where, and the how, of the past, present and future’
I followed this up suggesting our subject has a profound role to play in both understanding and solving the great challenges of the 21st century. Of which I would suggest global inequality, global poverty, global security, environmental degradation and climate change are the most pressing. I hope this gave them a new appreciation of geography because in my opinion, by combining natural and social sciences, geographers are building a body of work that suggests the rules governing our society are not fit for purpose and new governance systems are required to deal with these immense challenges.
Let us investigate the state of our planet, starting with human health. Every year, seven million children die due to preventable disease and starvation. 700 million people go to bed every night feeling hungry and one billion people still do not have access to clean, safe drinking water. This is despite the fact that we have enough food and water for all seven billion people, but our political-economic system means that many people simply cannot afford them.
If we look at the Earth’s major biogeochemical cycles, all have been profoundly altered by humanity. For example, the invention of the Haber-Bosch process allowing the conversion of atmospheric nitrogen to ammonia for use as fertiliser has altered the global nitrogen cycle so radically that the nearest suggested geological comparison was ~2.5 billion years ago. Human actions have increased atmospheric CO2 by 40 per cent to a level not seen for at least 800,000 years, and may have even delayed the next ice age. This has increased the acidity of the ocean faster than anytime in the last 50 million years.
Human action also impacts on non-human life. Global productivity appears relatively constant; however, the appropriation of a third of it for human use reduces that availability for millions of other species. Land use conversion for food, fuel, fibre and fodder, combined with targeted hunting and harvesting, has resulted in species extinctions 100 to 1,000 times higher than background rates, and likely constitutes the beginning of the sixth mass extinction in Earth’s history. We have also moved crops and domesticated animals and pathogens around the world, leading to a unique global homogenisation of Earth’s biota.
Considering the huge influence humanity is having on the planet, it would be reasonable to assume that there should be some attempt to manage and distribute fairly the Earth’s resources. However this contradicts the dominant geopolitical and economic philosophy of the West, namely neoliberalism.
Neoliberalism encapsulates a set of beliefs which include: the need for markets to be free, State intervention being as small as possible, strong private property rights, low taxation, and individualism. Underlying neoliberalism is the seductive view that it provides market-based solutions to all our ills, and enables everyone to become more wealthy. This trickle down effect has been the central mantra of neoliberals for the last 35 years. Currently there are 3.5 billion people who live on less than $3.25 per day. In fact, according to Oxfam, the 85 richest people in the world currently own the same wealth as the 3.5 billion poorest people. If we want to eradicate extreme poverty and bring the very poorest people in the world up to $1.25 per day, at current rates of trickle down it would require global GDP to increase by 15 times, taking over 100 years. Under the current economic system, this would require a huge increase in consumption levels. So the neoliberal nightmare is that to lift people out of poverty, we need to make and consume more stuff. This all requires cheap energy, which will mainly come from fossil fuels, which accelerates climate change driving deforestation and environmental degradation, making those poorest of people more vulnerable.
So the geographic understanding of the world’s current and future social and environmental challenges suggests the very economic theories that have dominated global economics for the last 35 years are not fit for purpose. What is required is proactive and aggressive redistribution of wealth, both within and between countries. This could be via provisioning of free essential services, such as access to clean water, health care and education. Progressive taxation is essential to rebalance inequalities and this in turn reduces costs, as it has been shown that small social divisions within a country lower the health care costs and raise longevity. Outdated institutions, such as the World Trade Organisation, need to be dismantled and governance structures fit for the 21st century created to accelerate sustainable development.
This is where ‘geography’ can make a difference by envisioning new political systems of governance, enabling collective action and with more equal distribution of wealth, resources and opportunities.
Mark Maslin is Professor of Physical Geography at University College London and a Fellow of the RGS–IBG
This story was published in the January 2015 edition of Geographical Magazine
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Album review: JOE BONAMASSA – Redemption
Posted on September 11, 2018 by petefeenstra
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Provogue Records [Release date 21.09.18]
‘Redemption’ is a loosely based concept album on which some of the songs explore the titular theme.
The dozen self penned songs track Joe Bonamassa’s musical evolution as one of the most broad based blues artists of our times.
His career so far has embraced rock, blues, soul, world music, jazz-funk and acoustic music. And the mission statement of this album seems to be to expand his rock/blues template further into related musical areas, though you suspect with producer Kevin Shirley at the helm, he will never let go of the Zeppelin fetish that has permeated much of his career so far.
‘Redemption’ is built round song-led material that leaves plenty of room for big horn arrangements and significant solos that are always an essential part of the song.
There’s a significant Nashville influence here, both in terms of the songs and their ability to crossover from one niche to another.
Then there’s the horns which provide a suitable context for his intense guitar work and expansive vocals, most notably on ‘Love Is A Gamble’. His solos resonate and he pushes his rough-hewn timbre into falsetto mode.
‘Redemption’ does it best to bring make a coherent whole of the the primacy of songs, some elaborate big band outings and the aforementioned Zeppelin influences.
All three neatly fit into Bonamassa’s contemporary take on the blues. He’s a broad church open to many related musical persuasions, as evidenced by his willingness to collaborate on songs.
He’s at his best on ‘Self-Inflicted Wound’, on which a big drum sounds acts as the scaffold for an atmospheric ballad with an imperious build. It’s full of significant bv’s and harmony guitar parts that lead to a tension busting solo, as fluid as it is evocative.
He’s positively jumping on the celebratory ‘King Bee Shakedown’, a big band boogie and swing number. The horn stabs provide the perfect foil for his slide solo over a crisp percussive track with sampled party voices.
He also adds some big toned steely licks on ‘Just ‘Cos You Can Don’t Mean You Should’, on which the horns sound like an unwanted luxury, while the name checked Reese Wynans’s organ solo acts as a conduit to JB’s wah wah inflected solo.
Not everything works as well, as the ‘kitchen sink and all’ approach of ‘Deep In The Blues Again’, provides plenty of bluster, but not a lot of soul. And ‘Pick Up the Pieces’ is almost an exercise in songwriting as it veers towards a sleazy, after hours, Tom Waits jazzy feel that might be better suited to Beth Hart.
In the same spirit of adventure, he goes for contrast as he pairs his tenor with Outlaw Country singer Jamey Johnson’s weathered husk. The song sounds like familiar territory until some startling picking on an uplifting solo that brings intensity and melodic emphasis.
The country feel also permeates the nicely ragged slide-led ‘Ive Got Some Mind Over What Matters’, on which he returns to his reflective central theme.
And just when you think we’ve got his stylistic measure, he draws us in further with the emotive and acoustic ‘Stronger Now In Broken Places’, which is arguably one of his best ever songs.
‘Redemption’ feels like a musical journey with familiar pit-stops, but it takes its time to wend its way through engaging musical diversions, all of which act as a catalyst for his musical spark.
The album might not quite live up to the strong unifying theme of its title, but it’s a musically ambitious work with good songs, inspired band interplay with fiery guitar work and a freshness that belies the fact that this is his 13th solo album. ****
Review by Pete Feenstra
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Allplan Deutschland GmbH is a leading European provider of Building Information Modeling (BIM) solutions. The company, headquartered in Munich, was founded by prof. Nemetschek in 1981 and since then has been part of the Nemetschek Group. From the beginning, the focus has been on the concept of virtual building models, the foundation of Building Information Modeling (BIM). The flagship product Allplan offers high performance solutions for architects and engineers. These are supplemented by the Nemetschek Group’s solutions for visualization (CINEMA 4D), structural analysis (SCIA Engineer and Frilo Static).
Prof. Georg Nemetschek, the founder and deputy chairman of Nemetschek Group was born in 1934. He started using design software in his own engineering office in the late 1960s, long before computers became available for personal use. In 1970 he was appointed professor for Civil Engineering Informatics at the Munich University of Applied Sciences and later served as dean of the Faculty for Civil Engineering from 1977 to 1996. He paid special attention to providing students with practical training.
1963 Georg Nemetschek founds his engineering office.
Photo: Gabor Takacs and Prof. Georg Nemetschek, Munich
1968 Georg Nemetschek’s office is one of the first companies in the construction sector to use computers in buildings’ planning and construction. They started developing software for engineers, at first only for personal use.
1977 Nemetschek’s first software program is developed "Programmsystem Statik 97_77". The calculated values are printed on paper strips and glue into the structural analysis plans.
1980 Nemetschek presents the first computer-aided engineering software (CAE)
1983 Nemetschek Programmsystem GmbH begins to distribute its products in Austria and Switzerland.
1984 Allplan V1 - the first version of Allplan CAD system for architects and engineers is launched.
1987 Allplan V3 is released. The company logo carries the message to the customers: "We support you as a strong partner today and in the future." This motto still applies.
1988 -1992 Due to company's expansion additional branches and subsidiaries are open. The name of the product becomes the name for the subsidiary Nemetschek Allplan GmbH.
1988 Planners can use Allplan to create 3D models and perform hidden-line calculations. Directions on how to enter the parameters are provided in thе user manual.
1989 Allplan V5 is released
1990 With the launch of Allplan V6 Nemetschek Programmsystem GmbH follows the motto “Think of the Whole.” The company is the leading systems vendor of CAD software in the building industry with 150 employees.
1991 "We connect worlds" says the slogan on a poster from the 1990’s. This motto still applies today: Nemetschek software builds bridges – across rivers, between planners, engineers, contractors and designers.
1992 Allplan V7 is released. Since 1992 the new high-performance Allplan version makes it possible to visualize complex buildings in three dimensions.
1994 Allplan V10 is released. Allright, an AVA and expense management solution that interfaces with Allplan is introduced.
1995 Actual wireframe model on a box used for delivering the manuals.
1996 Allplan V12 is released.
1997 Nemetschek AG is found. Professor Georg Nemetschek heads the new company as CEO. With the “Object-oriented Product model Engineering Network” (O.P.E.N.), Nemetschek introduces a database-centered platform, now known as “Building Information Modeling.
1998 Allplan V14 is released. Numerous acquisitions: Frilo, Glaser, Bausoftware (now Nevaris), Crem.
1999 Allplan V15 is released. Nemetschek AG goes public. Acquisitions: Maxon and Auer (now Nevaris).
2000 Allplan V16 is released. Group headquarters move to new premises at the Munich Fair. Acquisition of Vectorworks.
2001 Nemetschek AG’s corporate headquarters move to a new location in the “Center for IT in Design, Construction and Management” near the new tradeshow grounds in Munich.
2002 Allplan 2003 is released.
2006 Graphisoft and Scia become subsidiaries of the Nemetschek Group.
2008 Allplan BIM 2008 is launched.
Allplan GmbH (formerly Nemetschek Allplan Systems GmbH) is founded as a 100% subsidiary of Nemetschek AG and operates in the core area of development and sales of CAD, AVA, and facility management software. In parallel, Nemetschek AG develops a new corporate identity as a finance holding company and positions itself as an international firm with ten strong brands.
2009 Allplan 2009 is released. Allplan Campus, the Allplan web based portal for teachers, professors, and students goes live under campus.allplan.com.
2011 Allplan 2012 is released. Allplan Connect, the international service portal for Allplan users, goes online.
2012 Allplan 2013 hits the market. The Munich-based Nemetschek Allplan Group, comprising of the technology company Nemetschek Allplan Systems GmbH and its local distributors, is a leading provider of CAD software for planning, building, and management of buildings with more than 400 employees in nine countries. Its component-based software is available worldwide in 18 languages.
2013 Allplan comes with Unicode and drives increasing internacionalization of the company. Aquisition: Data Design Systems.
2014 "Allplan 30 Year Edition" - an exclusive Allplan anniversary edition is released with the motto 30 years of Total Quality.
Acquisition of Bluebeam Software. Investment in the start-up Sablono GmbH
2016 Acquisitions: Solibri and SDS/2 (formerly Design Data). Conversion of Nemetschek AG into Societas Europaea (SE) 2017 Acquisitions: dRofus, RISA
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Persija Coming Home?
I understand tentative agreement has been reached for Persija to start playing their home games at Bung Karno.
Jakarta plod have agreed to them staging their games in the nations capital and discussions between the police, FA, Persija and their supporters club early in September will decide whether or not fans will be allowed into the stadium or not.
What's the bloody point of playing in Bung Karno if they don't allow fans inside the stadium anyway? Why not just do away with the fans and indeed the game and play on line instead?
Persija have yet to play a home game this season which of course affects their cash flow if not their performances.
Tonight the ISL leaders 'host' Pelita Jaya at Manahan Stadium in Solo. This will be their first 'home' game this season and it is believed a few hundred fans will make the long journey east by rail.
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by Kracken
" What's the matter, Duo?"
The Preventer locker room was empty, just the two of them having waited, even after everyone else had left, to put off their final departure as long as possible. Duo was frowning down at his uniform tie, held between his two hands as if it were something precious. He had changed into his street clothes, but he seemed to be having trouble with that one last item.
"Duo?" Heero tried again as he slipped on a blue polo shirt and tucked it into his jeans.
"Just wondering if I should keep... something," Duo replied uncertainly. "I mean... it's all going in the garbage, you know? It's twenty years of bullet holes, knife cuts, shrapnel rips, blood stains, and saving the day."
"Hopefully, you did not wear that one uniform the entire time?" Heero tried to joke as he slipped into his shoes and stood behind Duo, staring down at the length of tie.
Duo snorted irritably, "You know what I mean."
"You can keep it, if you want to," Heero told him as he slipped arms around Duo's waist and held him close, "but you're not throwing away all of your medals, or all of your plaques honoring your every pore. You're also not not throwing away your friends, here, even though we won't be clocking in every day. You've got a lot more than just a tie."
Duo tried on a smile, but it was shakey. "I suppose it just feels more final, dropping this into the garbage. I didn't think retirement would suck this much. I was always looking forward to it."
"We could re-enlist, do another five years?" Heero suggested, though it lacked enthusiasm.
Duo turned in Heero's arms, his smile wider, telling Heero he was being an idiot. "Then we'll be too old to enjoy retirement... or too dead. That last mission... we barely made it out alive... again. Lady luck is only on your side for so long."
"Then let it go," Heero told him, more seriously. "Time to relax and live for us. We have a shuttle waiting, two tickets to the islands, and a beach house with our names on the deed. Let's go have some fun. We've earned it."
Duo sighed, ran the tie through his fingers one more time, balled it up, and then tossed it into the nearest garbage. "Two points," he chuckled.
Heero laughed, hooked a finger into the belt loop of Duo's jeans, and pulled him along towards the exit door.
Fiction : GW
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Kenya: Killing Corruption Monster
This blog is dedicated to comments and discussion on political, economic and social issues in Kenya. It also throws insights to issues of corruption, democratisation and human rights.
The Second Lot of Suspects Appear in the ICC!
Uhuru Kenyatta, Francis Muthaura and Hussein Ali made their first appearance in the ICC on 08.04.2011 amid renewed warning from the Court that they observe the conditions of the summons. The Presiding Judge, Justice Ekaterina Trendafilova spoke plainly this time round cautioning the suspects against engaging in utterance that could jeopardize peace in Kenya. She said that the Court would not hesitate to replace the summons to appear with warrants of arrest.
At the same time, the Prosecutor had applied for harsher conditions that would require the three to be appearing in person before the judges at least once every six months. He also sought an order to ensure that the suspects refrain from making any public statements that contain or can be construed as containing “an open or veiled threat to actual or prospective witnesses or victims”. In addition, they should submit complete financial information. The defence lawyers too requested the Court to order the Prosecutor to restrain from making what they termed as “extra-judicial” utterances at press briefings. The Court promised to make its decision on the matter raised.
The hearing for confirming the charges against the three will be held on 21.09.2011. During yesterday's proceedings, the defence lawyers for the accused actively engaged the Court demanding that the Prosecutor provide the suspects with the evidence he presented to the Court on 15.12.2010. The Court ruled that during the planned conference on April 18, the prosecutor will give an estimate of documents he wants to use to prove the cases, number of witnesses, no of witness statements, indication whether he intends to involve victims and his many witnesses he intends to keep confidential. In addition, the defence teams will be required to indicate whether they want to call witnesses and the documents they intend to use.
With home-coming reception rally planned by the supporters of the two presidential candidates, William Ruto and Uhuru Kenyatta and their declared onslaught on their main presidential candidate rival Raila Odinga, it will be a difficult or impossible balancing act to require the two to tame their language. If Raila were to utilise this opportunity to deride his opponents, then Ruto and Uhuru could easily argue that the ICC is being used to silence them and therefore ‘working for Raila’.
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Dr. Stephen Kabera Karanja
I am a lawyer by profession. I have interest in Kenyan politics because like any patriotic Kenyan I would like to see Kenya as a prosperous country that takes care of its people politically, economically and socially. I have lived in exile for many years as a result of my engagement for political change from one party to multiparty state in the late 80s.
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Monday Morning Fuel: School of Seven Bells - Low Times →
September 19, 2016 by J. Hamlet in music, Monday Morning Fuel
This song is real long. Probably longer than it needs to be but the story it tells is so abstract and the music so full of deep mysteries that continue to bleed through the track no matter how many times you listen to it that it doesn't seem like six plus minutes at all. And, more than the recorded track, observe the artist in action live. They bring nothing if not more energy and layers to it. At times, the layers become white noise, then back again as they are peeled away and new ones introduced. I often marvel at how anyone could've made this mix and had it sound comprehensible. I can't imagine the levels, the envelopes, the effects all colliding into one another and then separating out. That School of Seven Bells is defunct at this point still saddens me, but legendary tracks like this will always live on. Ghostory and tracks like this were when they became more than an electronic, dreamy pop group and into something more intense. It's too bad we barely found out where that was going.
September 19, 2016 /J. Hamlet
School of Seven Bells, Monday Morning Fuel, Ghostory, Low Times
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Monday Morning Fuel: Diskopunk - Fire
August 01, 2016 by J. Hamlet in music, Monday Morning Fuel
It may start like a typical indie rock song from several years ago, cutesy falsetto crooning, electric piano pounding out quarter-note chords. I was about to give up on it, then that cleaning guitar begins to prance all over it like a parade marshal of fun thinking it owns the place telling you to wait just a minute because the real shit is coming.
And it does, the rhythm guitar shuffling with a sweet, vivacious chord progression before the chorus arrives in a bloom of synths and harmonies. Is it done then? No, of course it's not. Why coast? Why take all that musical goodwill and end it there? When we come out of the chorus, it leaves us with a new verse full of a punchy baseline and even more jumpy guitar work building to . . . SOMETHING EVEN BETTER.
This track gets it. It doesn't do quietLOUDquiet, as classic as that is, it actually leaves every section of better as it finds it. One simple verse, a rousing chorus, a better verse, and then . . . a moment of tension before an even more explosive chorus. This song is what we must all be in life, rolling into next stage hungrier and fresher than the last. This diskopunk, they might be one worth following.
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Monday Morning Fuel: DJ Shadow and Run the Jewels - Nobody Speak
May 09, 2016 by J. Hamlet in Monday Morning Fuel, music
DJ SHADOW. RUN THE JEWELS. DJ SHADOW AND RUN THE JEWELS. DJ SHADOW AND RUN THE JEWELS SIMULTANEOUSLY!
You're looking at me like you don't understand how important this is. Just go ahead and listen to it, and then you'll understand. Shadow has seemed to be lost in the wilderness for awhile now. While he was an instrumental (heh) force in pushing me to understand and appreciate left-of-center hip hop and turntablism in my youth, much of his recent output has been in the meh to okay range. That's a dramatic fall when someone once called him the Jimi Hendrix of the Sampler or some shit like that.
Then, of course, you have Run The Jewels, probably one of the most vital forces in hip hop right now. Killer Mike's unctuous verbal battery combined with the air strikes of El-P's compelling weirdness and raunchiness blend with this slick and funky Shadow track like nothing I've heard in a long time. You can just feel Shadow's revitalization happening in your ears as two lyrical veterans knock it out of the park.
May 09, 2016 /J. Hamlet
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TRACKED: Reverend Matt and Low's "Blue-Eyed Devil"
May 05, 2016 by J. Hamlet in Chaos Theology, Books My Favorite Movies, music, Prophet of Chaos
Prophet of Chaos (Chaos Theology Book 2)
By J. Hamlet
My writing has always leaned on music. Whether inspiration, mood, or energy to keep me going through the many hours of drafting and editing, it can be an important force and fuel for what I do. These tracks in particular were especially crucial, helping me build or refine a character, a scene, or a whole story arc.
As much as I love the Soul Coughing original of this song, with it’s bright guitars, sardonic tone, and punchy bass, I’ve long found this version to be more compelling. Low’s version of this tale, a song about the “god among salesman,” is a complete different character study. Smooth, slow, mournful, and a touch creepy, it feels more complex and evokes a whole different set of emotions than the original. It’s perfect to fit Reverend Matt Renault. On the surface, he’s a salesman of a sort. He sells a new destiny to the ignored, the excluded, and the failed. With all of his smooth talk and his intricate plans, he’s a suave force of malevolence. A song like this fits him and his slow, meticulous, and dangerous ways.
Reverend Matt Renault has been many things in his life. A former altar boy with a grasp on the power of religion, he originally felt called to Seminary school. His mastery of theology was beyond question, but very quickly his teachers realized he was too skilled at twisting its meanings into manipulating his own heretical understandings of life and God. He had an eerie talent for using the forces of religion and faith to manipulate people. It didn’t take long for Matt to realize his potential was being wasted and drop out of Seminary school to find more fruitful endeavors. The agents of Hell were quick to approach with an offer, eager to turn Matt’s talents with words and manipulative flare for religion into something they could use. His skill was particularly well-suited to Summoning, the art of calling Demons from Hell itself and binding them to his will. Very quickly, Matt found himself able to call and control some of Hell’s mightiest creatures and even converse with the Pit Lords themselves.
Eventually recruited by the Goetians, an elite group of Hell’s servants composed of mortals like Matt and devilkin who could trace their lineage to the Pit Lords themselves, he had a radical idea. Why not copy the model of active fundamentalist churches, but turn it on its head? Building a Hell church with active outreach programs to disaffected youth, loners, and social outcasts could yield an endless stream of angry recruits that could hide in plain sight as it masqueraded as any number of “normal” churches. It didn’t take long before the Goetians saw the virtue in his proposal and decided to fund it. One of Matt’s mentors, a talented Sorcerer, even helped design the church to be a veritable fortress of arcane defenses in case they were ever exposed.
Over the years, after recruiting and carefully grooming a handful of talented and powerful acolytes, his following and his church have grown into something dangerously special. With his honeyed words and talk of better lives, Reverend Matt has built quite the force of adepts and soldiers ready and able to fight for Hell all under the roof of what looks to be a normal church. And under that church? He’s built something even more dangerous. It started with an idea from his Goetian mentor, a construction from the middle ages called a Possession Chamber. While his mentor perished after completing the first phase of it in a summoning gone wrong, Matt has remained determined to make the Chamber a reality. Able to pull Demons directly from Hell to infest the souls of anyone placed in the Chamber, Reverend Matt has constructed the ultimate factory for Hell’s sleeper agents to hide in the bodies of others and terrorize all of humanity.
That is, once the Chamber is finished. Matt witnessed his mentor die, then over a dozen more talented enchanters follow suit as they try to complete the design. Hell’s power is not easily controlled, nor are its bloodthirsty denizens. As the number of enchanters that Reverend Matt can lay hands on begin to dwindle even as the design inches ever closer to completion, he finds himself in a strange place. His cult of acolytes is ready to act, to help Reverend Matt ignite the world and knock the forces of Heaven back from their dominance over humanity. The only problem? Their best weapon may never be complete. His last ditch hope before he falls to truly desperate measures is the name of one last enchanter he’s discovered - an obscure graphic designer named Derek Watts.
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Monday Morning Fuel: Bob Mould - Black Confetti
April 20, 2016 by J. Hamlet in music, Monday Morning Fuel
Sometimes you just want some rousing guitar noise. Bob Mould is always a pretty good place to start with that, especially his recent output. Patch the Sky continues a long streak started by The Silver Age where he brought a more lively grunge style back with the polished sonics of distinctly better production. His dissonant and harmonic choruses further seal the deal, giving these anthems an almost meditative field. Black Confetti is one of those, with a building, mid-tempo cadence that is underlined by a busy rift that is so dense it nearly swallows the world as it wraps you in a sonic fog. It's that kind of guitar-fog and Bob Mould's voice that can almost feel like a forcefield against the world around you at times.
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Where to start with this obscure gem. The detuning slide guitar and whispery feminine growl set it up perfectly. Is this the song of a woman scorned? Or a woman delivering the scorning? Who cares! It rocks! The dissonant harmonies that are like pop through a fun-house mirror and the drunken wail of the guitar instantly transport you to a hookup gone off the rails. It's short, but it's not sweet. It's magnificently sour.
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Flashback Friday: On Missy
February 20, 2015 by J. Hamlet in music, kids these days, Youtube
Sometimes when an artist that you haven't though about in years pops up again out of nowhere, it can really unleash a fountain of memories. Missy Elliot at the Superbowl and the incipient Missy Elliot mania couldn't be more deserved. Coming from Hampton Roads, VA like myself, she's always stood out to me and I've always paid attention. Timbaland is too, of course, but he was never as interesting as Missy was and when he was working with her. Here she is even improving on Skrillex and Diplo's work, although that doesn't surprise me too much. Hopefully this is the beginning of a lot more to come. Let's rewind first, though, to where it all began.
I'm cribbing a lot of this from her wikipedia page, because while I remember quite a bit of it I'm old and my memory of 90s music isn't as good as it once was. After the folding of early 90s record label Swing Mob, label Missy, Timbaland, Magoo, Ginuwine, and many others were on, Missy and Timbaland became a bit of a songwriting and producing powerhouse. She was a bedrock of Aaliyah's One in a Million album, a collaborator with Destiny's Child, P. Diddy (a frequent malingerer in all of my musical flashbacks), Total, MC Lyte, New Edition, the list goes on and on. She was everywhere in the mid-90s, but I won't further elaborate on that because if you really want to know, you can always go to her artist discography here or her production discography here. It's voluminous and staggering.
I would be lying if I said my teenage self noticed Missy Elliot's producing and songwriting skills in the background of all of these 90s R&B and Hip-Hop classics. I didn't read liner notes. I had maybe a dozen CDs up until the late 90s. I noticed Missy first the same way a lot of us who actually watched MTV back then noticed her: when this happened towards the end of high school.
Like many suburban white kids growing up in the shallow south, I didn't listen to a ton of hip hop. I've admitted this before. Missy was different, though. She was a local. She was also weird. As much as I saturated my brain with grunge, jam bands, and repetitive big beat electronica, I did enjoy hip hop of the weird variety. Particularly from this gentleman, who had a penchant for the weird and his video reminded me a lot of "The Rain" and came out not too much later.
That bass, Missy's odd flow, and of course the insane visuals. And Missy was a local, in a sense, so I had to cheer for the hometown girl. She was one of many artists who showed me that I was missing out on a lot by listening to too many second-rate grunge acts and hour-annihilating jam bands. And I will always remember that video. Judging by certain things, I'm not the only one who hasn't had it etched permanently in their mind.
Soon later, I actually saw Missy in person. I worked at a Hampton Roads movie theater at the time as an usher, and when I was ripping tickets one day I got a call from the phone on the wall nearby that a VIP would be coming through, a celebrity with a bodyguard. A tiny woman in a pink parka and one of the most enormous men I've seen in my life, her bodyguard, passed through. I couldn't make out her face too well in the parka, but she looked familiar. My manager came by after that and explained that it was Missy. This made sense as the theater itself was apparently very close to where she lived. I was shocked at how small Missy was, but also a little bit starstruck. She was definitely the only celebrity we ever had passing through that theater.
But let's get back to the music.
I loved how aggressively weird this song was, but like many great songs it was nearly ruined by a little too much airplay. A friend of mine in college who wasn't such a big Missy fan used to sing "Cut This Song off, Cut This Song Off" over it. That eerie music, the startling visuals, the overall unapologetic vibe that refused to fit in with any other music out there. But more greatness was to come. I mean, she even made that Moulin Rouge song tolerable (sort of).
These are the three hits that everyone remembers. I'm not going to say my music collection is busting with Missy, but they're songs and videos that I'll never forget. Missy is like that, her music is so distinctive, it even feels creative and fresh today ten, fifteen, almost twenty years after it first came out. It invigorated hip hop at the time, and with a refresh button hit on this, maybe it will invigorate everything now.
So it's good to have you back, Missy. And I (shudder) have to even thank Katy Perry of all people for helping you reclaim the spotlight you deserve. She helped pull me down the hip hop rabbit hole, she opened my ears and my eyes and quasi-traumatized me with an eccentric musical and visual point of view that can't be unseen or unheard. I mean, there are a ton of people that grew up in Hampton Roads who have maybe made more money or are more famous than she is with not quite as much talent (ahem) but she'll always be my favorite from old Tidewater. Maybe it's because I've got a little too much of that unapologetic and aggressive eccentricity in me too. I wish I had the talent and work ethic she does, though.
February 20, 2015 /J. Hamlet
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Flashback Friday - The Long Bloody Road to Let's Dance
May 23, 2014 by J. Hamlet in Youtube, music
It's a fantastic song that is musically interesting and has a socially-conscious message. It's video is even interesting as well. You can never go wrong with Bowie. There's so much appreciate, from the bright guitar shuffle to the horns to the catchy bassline. This isn't even the long version with the zany trumpet solo (I seriously love the fuck out of that zany trumpet solo, btw). I remember hearing this song occasionally when I was very young because my mom did listen to the hipper radio stations when I was growing up in the 80s. Back when radio stations played more than five songs over and over again and would even (gasp) play a song that was a few years old. It faded from my memory for quite some time. At the time I didn't appreciate David Bowie at all. Mostly because I was a child and, well, David Bowie is some advanced shit. Today, I am a huge David Bowie fan. How did that happen? My secret shame is that this is how it happened.
If you were alive during this era of music, you're probably at least cringing and possibly having an episode. There were many years there where Puff Daddy/P. Diddy dominated the airwaves with other people's reheated music in such a blatant and uncreative way that it all but killed sampling off. Which is a shame, because people like the Beasties and Beck used it quite ingeniously back in the day, but that's a topic for another time.
Among the PD siege that occurred during my latter high school years, something about this song triggered latent memories in me. Then I saw something on TV where people were pointing out the basis of a lot of these sampled songs and there it was: Let's Dance. A few second snippet of Bowie playing that guitar next to that upright bass. Months later I found myself in the used section of a CD store (haha, I know, right?) and I bought the Bowie singles collection. I listened to these songs and realized that the Let's Dance guy was the same guy as the Suffragette City guy who was the same guy as the Space Oddity guy who was the same guy as the Changes guy. My adolescent musical mind was blown to bits by this revelation. Weirdly enough, I have Puff Daddy/P. Diddy to thank for that. Not that it wipes out all the deep red in his ledger, but I can't deny that impact on my life.
I'm not going to let you off easy, though. Given the success of a new Godzilla flick, I'm going to make you remember this:
This story doesn't have a sad ending. Another Bowie song that would come along shortly after that and it would force me to notice him again, cementing me as a fan of his forevermore. It's still a bit of a guilty pleasure and enjoys regular plays alongside Let's Dance, Fame, and much better works.
Smell that Trent Reznor flavor. Also a subject for another day.
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Flashback Friday - De La Soul
May 09, 2014 by J. Hamlet in music
On Valentine's Day this year, something crazy happened. De La Soul gave away most of their albums for free, just for 24 hours. When I downloaded them, and listened through the entire catalog again, it jogged a lot of memories. I was a late-comer to this music, I'll freely admit it. The first time I really became acutely aware of De La Soul was with this song. Why? Because my college roommate played it on loop early and often.
Granted, that was also how I became acutely aware of Usher, but that's a trauma to relive another day. Something about this song, with its low-key guitar riff and guttural chorus, really grabbed me. It made me (back in the days of early 2000s days of P2P misadventures) "obtain" as much of their music as I could. In High School, I'd known little more than Wu as solid hip hop, my ignorance compounded by the godawful radio selections from where I grew up and crowded out by my monomaniacal obsession with obscure jam bands at the time.
"Oooh" was a key moment to change all that. From there I rewound to the joy of 3 Foot High and Rising and the stylistic marvels of Prince Paul's production. As I relived all of that a few months ago listening to all those songs again, I regained an appreciation for how much De La really did convert me into a hip hop fan, even if I came to them at a later point in their careers.
Another thing I'll always remember about De La? Seeing them perform at the 9:30 club at a late show on a Friday night. As Pos demanded we sing back chorus to him at 2:00 AM with taunts of "I can't hear you!" I remember thinking, "that's because I'm too tired. I'm getting old." I haven't really been to a late show at 9:30 since.
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MORE GUZHENG
January 01, 2014 by J. Hamlet in Youtube, music
Her covers just get better and better. Who even thinks to play Derezzed on a GUZHENG? More importantly, when will someone get her a record contract?!?!
January 01, 2014 /J. Hamlet
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John Wayne's Holster: Who Cares About Taiwan?
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Who Cares About Taiwan?
For the past several decades, China and Taiwan have coexisted under the “One China, Two Systems” policy. In recent years, there has been a growing sentiment in Taiwan to declare independence. China is dead-set against this. China considers Taiwan a renegade province, and appears to be willing to use force, if necessary, to make it comply with the “One China” policy. If Taiwan were allowed to separate, that might encourage other regions in China with separatist tendencies (Tibet, Inner Mongolia) to follow course, and could lead to the downfall of the current Communist government.
One would think that the Bush administration, with all its rhetoric about freedom and democracy in Iraq and Afghanistan, would support Taiwan’s desire to determine her own future. That has not happened. The official Bush position is to preserve the status quo. In other words, preserve the “One China, Two Systems” policy. Critics of the Bush administration are quick to point out the apparent hypocrisy of maintaining this position. They even go as far as saying that Bush has “sold out” Taiwan. Read it HERE
I believe this is a bit underhanded and misleading. Bush has not abandoned Taiwan. The Bush position is a diplomatic necessity under the present situation. Although there is growing sentiment in Taiwan regarding independence, the people remain divided on this issue. The US is still committed to defending Taiwan in the event that China should use military force against her. But the US should not push the issue at present, as our military is a bit overextended in Iraq and Afghanistan.
That being said, I think it should be pointed out that the rationale for our defense of Taiwan has nothing to do with ideology or democracy. Like all US foreign policy, it is purely self-serving. Our worldwide commitment to a nation's right of self-determination has taken a back seat.
But why is the US so interested in Taiwan? It is a small island country of about 23 million people. In a nutshell, the answer is that Taiwan holds a vital geostrategic position in the control of Asian security and the emerging Asia-Pacific economy. The US wants to continue to be the dominant force in this area, and wants to prevent China from doing the same. A failure by the US to support Taiwan in its current crisis with China would demonstrate to our regional allies (Japan, South Korea, Australia) that we are unreliable, which could negatively affect our reputation in the region and around the world.
China’s economy is emerging! With 1.3 billion people and untapped natural resources, it has the potential to be not only the dominant economy in the Asia-Pacific region, but in the world. For China to realize this potential, it must expand its maritime influence. China's access to the Pacific is obscured by a chain of islands that essentially extends from Russia, through Taiwan, and down to the Phillipines. Taiwan represents China's gateway to the Pacific. Controlling this gateway is vital to maintaining China's economic growth and establishing sea lines of communication to ensure its ability to import oil.
China would also be able to control and disrupt sea lane access to other regional powers. Japan would be most affected by this, as she too relies on the same sea lines for the importation of virtually all her energy and raw materials. As an ally and trading partner of Japan, the US would be affected economically. However, the geopolitical consequences for Asian security (from the US perspective) would be severely endangered. China would be able to deny sea access to the US Navy, effectively pushing our outer defense perimeter back to Guam or Hawaii. This could have dire consequences, particularly if the current nuclear situation with North Korea should escalate.
Bottom line: Taiwan is in a key strategic position for exercising economic and military control in the Asia-Pacific region. Both the US and China realize this and are effectively engaged in competition for control of the island, and thus domination of the region. Unfortunately neither country has Taiwan’s best interest at heart.
posted by Joe Verica @ 9:38 PM 6 comments
At 11:04 PM, Mister B said...
I think you have missed your calling. Leave the plants (no pun intended). You should be writing for the Op Ed of the NY Times.
Seriously, you have a natural and succinct style that combines rather effortlessly with some serious analytical accumen, if I can alliterate for a moment (and I can).
I write blog entries. You write impromptu primers on issues that people don't care enough about.
Thanks for taking up where my meager plea for more coverage of the uncovered left off.
At 8:47 PM, Rene Eife Abray said...
You make me proud.
Oh, and I agree with the other guy...roomfive.
You need to funnel this intellectual energy into something bigger, wider audience.
At 10:03 PM, Todd B. said...
Your analysis of the Taiwan "independence" issue was concise and level-headed. I think, however, that you give President Bush too much slack on his geopolitical accomodations of "necessity" to China on the Taiwan issue.
If we are to believe, truly believe, that Bush's over-arching vision is of "democratic freedom" as the guiding, motivating principle of his foreign policy and world view (as opposed to say, oil), it cannot be selectively, opportunistically or cyncially employed.
By the way, doesn't Bush's stated foreign policy of "the promotion of democratic freedoms" sound an awful lot like the much maligned (from the Right) former President Jimmy Carter's foreign policy based on "human rights"?
At 7:54 AM, Joe Verica said...
Hey Robert
Thanks for the compliment. The blog is like my soapbox - although most of the time, I don't think anyone is listening.
Hey Todd
You state that I give President Bush too much slack on his diplomatic stance on the independence issue. Perhaps you are right, but I don't see that he has any other choice. Back in '97 when China was testing missles in the Taiwan Strait, Clinton had to send two carrier groups over to protect Taiwan (read: protect our interests in the region). If Bush were to push the issue now, and Taiwan made a formal declaration of independence, that could provoke a military response from China. I think the US military is a bit overextended, and would rather not stir things up at this point.
Is this hypocrisy on the part of the Bush administration? Absolutely! But a necessity nonetheless. As you correctly point out, if we are to truly beleive that democratic freedom is the guiding principle of Bush's foreign policy, then it must be consistently applied. I think that the Bush reaction to Taiwan clearly shows that our guiding principles are really of own enlightened self-interest. "Democracy" is the sales pitch used to get the public to go along. After all, who can be opposed to that?
To your last point, Bush's foreign policy objectives are somewhat reminiscent of Carter's human rights based agenda, at least on the surface. But I think there is one major difference. I beleive Carter's intentions were sincere and charitable - and implementtaion of his policies carried a price tag with no real hope of a "return on the investment". Bush's intentions have the facade of being noble and moral - and perhaps in some indirect or unintended way they are. But I don't think the hidden virtues of the Bush position are the primary motivating force behind his agenda. The "spread of democracy and freedom" is only being employed to bring stability to a region in order to protect OUR interests there. Like Carter's plan, this too costs money - probably a lot more. BUT, there is also an opportunity here for that "return on the investment" that the Carter plan lacked. In other words, someone stands to make a hell of a lot of money here. I think it was Calvin Collidge who said, "The business of America is business".
Perhaps I am being to cynical.
At 11:58 PM, the lone harranguer said...
I think Napoleon said it best when asked about the potential of the Chinese. He said,
"Let China Sleep"
I am all for keeping the status quo, as a strong non-communist nation would most certainly become the worlds' number one super power in 50 years.
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Why Sharp is Buying Toshiba's Slipping Notebook Business
By: Chris Preimesberger, eWEEK | June 08, 2018
NEWS ANALYSIS: Analyst claims Sharp’s expansion into notebook markets lines up with Foxconn Group’s internet and industrial-focused vision and will allow Foxconn Group to cut into the ecosystem of notebook OEMs.
Toshiba, which makes a pretty good notebook PC but couldn’t compete successfully enough against the Apples, HPs and Lenovos of the world, is giving up that business.
Sharp revealed June 5 that it is acquiring the Japanese personal computer business for a mere $36 million. Besides the fact that it's essentially a bargain-basement deal that will barely make a mark on the company's bottom line, there are some good reasons why Sharp is doing this.
Sharp had closed its own PC business previously when it was strapped for cash five years ago, but this new deal is likely connected with the continued growth of Foxconn Technology Group, according to WitsView, a division of market analyst TrendForce.
Sharp’s expansion into notebook markets lines up with Foxconn Group’s internet and industrial-focused vision and will allow Foxconn Group to cut into the ecosystem of notebook OEMs, TrendForce said in a media advisory.
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China’s Foxconn is one of the largest original equipment manufacturers of personal connected devices, such as the iPhone and Apple notebooks, in the world.
Toshiba’s performance in the notebook market hasn’t been trivial. Its shipments to retailers reached 17.5 million units in 2011, amassing a market share of 8.8 percent. However, with the saturation of notebook market, Toshiba lost the price competition to most of its rivals, TrendForce said. Its shipments fell to less than 1 million units in 2017, and market share dropped to 0.6 percent.
However, as an established Japanese brand, Toshiba still occupies a place in commercial and European markets despite of its decreasing shipments. Its reputation for high quality may be part of Sharp's motive for this deal, TrendForce said.
In fact, Sharp used to be inactive in the notebook market, so the acquisition is likely to be related to Foxconn Group’s strategic deployment, TrendForce said. Foxconn Group has previously listed its subsidiary, Foxconn Industrial Internet Co. Ltd (FII), as the key in the group’s ambition to compete as its own entity in internet-focused businesses.
The integration with the traditional notebook industry may not seem very unusual, but because 5G connectivity is about to impact the internet world, the deal may trigger potential changes in the market, TrendForce said.
Foxconn Group has not been a leader in the notebook OEM industry in terms of business expansion. In 2017, its OEM orders for notebooks amounted to 4.69 million units, which accounted for only 2.8 percent of the notebook OEM orders worldwide. In the past, Foxconn Group’s notebook OEM orders came only from Apple, so it remained difficult for the amount of orders to grow. After integrating the brands of Sharp and Toshiba in the future, it would be a shortcut for Foxconn Group to expand its notebook OEM business, TrendForce said.
In another important market, Sharp’s television business recorded outstanding shipment performance in 2017 with the support from Foxconn Group, so it is worth observing whether the situation will be the same for Toshiba after being acquired.
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Guide to finding information sources
Links to other repositories
OpenDOAR is an authoritative directory of academic open access repositories. As well as providing a simple repository list, OpenDOAR lets you search for repositories or search repository contents.
Some books to help you in your research
The books listed below are housed in the E.G. Malherbe Library (Dbn)
Adventures in social research : data analysis using IBM SPSS statistics
Babbie, Earl R.
Constructing a good dissertation : a practical guide to finishing a master's , MBA or PhD on schedule
Hofstee, Erik. 808.02 HOF
Dissertation writing : a research journey
Badenhorst, Cecile. 808.02 BAD
The emerging researcher : nurturing passion, developing skills, producing output
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Handbook for classical research
Schaps, David M. 938.0072 SCH
The Practice of social research
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Practical research : planning and design
Leedy, Paul D.
Research in practice : applied methods for the social sciences
Terre Blanche, Martin J. 300.72 RES
Research writing : breaking the barriers
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ResearchSpace
Another way of finding theses is to do a search on the library catalogue (OPAC). Theses that have been digitised will have a URL icon - click on this and you will be directed to the full text of the item.
ResearchSpace is the online repository of the University of KwaZulu-Natal. It houses the full text of all new theses issued by the university. In addition, the library is at present involved in a project to digitise all past theses from the university, so many of these are also available full text .
You can go directly to ResearchSpace to search theses by author, title or subject. The link below will take you to theses in the School of Religion, Philosophy and Classics.
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Databases for theses
Current and completed research
Covers South African research projects in various disciplines including masters and doctoral theses of SA universities and technikons as well as information on research projects from NGOs, the private sector and government departments. All non-English titles of projects are translated into English. Abstracts are included for completed projects from 1988 onwards. The Nexus Database System Division of the National Research Foundation maintains this database.
The following links will direct you to databases of theses / dissertations. In most cases they are not available full text. If found in South Africa, they are sometimes available via interlibrary loans.
Database of African Theses and Dissertations contains citations and abstracts for dissertations completed in African universities. To search and access the brief citations, you must first register at the site and then login.
ProQuest Dissertations & Theses A&I
A comprehensive collection of dissertations and theses from around the world, spanning from 1743 to the present day. You will be able to view the first 24 pages of each thesis found here.
Nexus - Current and Completed Research Projects
Although this database is searchable via Current and Completed Research as above, you may go directly to the the Nexus database.This database provides information on approximately 150 000 South African current and completed research projects including theses and dissertations. This source now provides information on all fields of science since 1919. The records of the Union Catalogue of Theses and Dissertations (UCTD) formerly maintained by the Potchefstroom University for CHE are now included. The NAVTECH research projects are included in the database. It also includes abstracts and English titles are given for projects not in English.
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President Chavez's Abuse of the Holocaust
edited 9:20 a.m.
Please note: this list is still in formation. If you would like to add your signature to those of the other Holocaust scholars and academics listed below, please contact rafaelmedoff@aol.com
The David S. Wyman Institute is preparing the following letter.
Hon. Hugo Chavez
c/o Embassy of The Republic of Venezuela
via email: prensa@embavenez-us.org
To His Excellency, President Hugo Chavez:
As Holocaust and genocide scholars, we are deeply troubled by your statement that Israel is carrying out “a Holocaust” in Gaza, and that Israeli President Shimon Peres should be prosecuted for genocide. (Reuters, Jan. 7, 2009)
The Holocaust was the deliberate, systematic mass murder of six million innocent Jews by Germany and its collaborators. By contrast, Israel is acting in legitimate self-defense against Hamas terrorism; has no interest in harming innocent residents of Gaza; and indeed has done its utmost to avoid civilian casualties, whereas Hamas deliberately targets Israeli civilians. Any comparison between Israel and the Nazis outrageously distorts Israel's actions and trivializes the enormity and nature of the Holocaust.
We note that the U.S. State Department, in its report last year on global antisemitism, included “Drawing comparisons of contemporary Israeli policy to that of the Nazis” as an example of antisemitism. (Sec. 1:7)
We therefore urge you to retract your comparisons of Israel to the Nazis and refrain from making any such comparisons in the future.
Prof. David S. Wyman
University of Massachusetts-Amherst (emer.)
Author, The Abandonment of the Jews
Prof. Shlomo Aronson
Hebrew University (emer.) / University of Arizona
Author of Hitler, the Allies, and the Jews
Prof. Michael Berenbaum
Director, Ziering Institute on the Holocaust, American Jewish University
Research Director (emer.), United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
President (emer.), Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation
Dr. Paul R. Bartrop
Head, Department of History. Bialik College (Australia)
Author, False Havens: The British Empire and the Holocaust
Prof. Zev Garber
Editor, Studies in the Shoah
Dr. Myrna Goldenberg
Ida E. King Distinguished Visiting Scholar of Holocaust Studies, The Richard Stockton State College, NJ
Coauthor, Experience and Expression: Women, the Nazis, and the Holocaust
Dr. Irving Greenberg
Past President, Jewish Life Network
Past Chairman, United States Holocaust Memorial Council
Dr. Alex Grobman
Institute for Contemporary Jewish Life
Author, Genocide: Critical Issues of the Holocaust
Dr. Elvira Groezinger
Institut fuer Jdaistik
Freie Universitaet Berlin, Germany
Author, Die jiddische Kultur im Schatten der Diktaturen
Prof. Susannah Heschel
Eli Black Professor of Jewish Studies, Dartmouth College
Author, Betrayal: German Churches and the Holocaust
Dr. Steven Leonard Jacobs
Author, Christian Religious Responsed to the Shoah
Prof. Kevin Lewis
Dept. of Religious Studies
Fulbright Senior Lecturer, Islamic Univ. of Gaza, Fall 1998
Mitchell Lieber
Director and Editor, www.Rumbula.org Educational Web Site
(the Holocaust in Latvia) - Chicago, IL
Prof. Deborah E. Lipstadt
Dorot Professor of Modern Jewish and Holocaust Studies
Author, History on Trial: My Day in Court with David Irving
Rev. Dr. Franklin H. Littell
Distinguished Emeritus Professor of Religion, Temple University
Founder, Annual Scholars’ Conference on the Holocaust
Dr. Marcia Sachs Littell
Professor Holocaust & Genocide Studies - Richard Stockton College of NJ
Executive DIrector, Annual Scholars’ Conference on the Holocaust
Dr. Erich H. Loewy
Professor of Medicine and Founding Chair of Bioethics (emer.)
Author, Freedom and Community
Dr. Sharon. R. Lowenstein
Author, Token Refuge
Prof. Andrei S. Markovits
Deutsch Collegiate Professor of Comparative Politics and German Studies
The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Author, The German Predicament
Dr. Rafael Medoff
The David S. Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies
Author, Blowing the Whistle on Genocide
Prof. Stephen H. Norwood
Coeditor, Encyclopedia of American Jewish History
Prof. David Novak
J. Richard and Dorothy Shiff Professor of Jewish Studies
Prof. Paul Oppenheimer
City College and Graduate Center, the City University of New York
Author of Evil and the Demonic
Prof. Zsuzanna Ozsvath
University of Texas at Dallas
Author, In the Footsteps of Orpheus
Prof. David Patterson
Bornblum Chair in Judaic Studies, The University of Memphis
Author, Encyclopedia of Holocaust Literature
Prof. Robert Jan van Pelt
University Professor, University of Waterloo
Author, The Case for Auschwitz
Dr. Susan L. Pentlin
Professor Emeritus University of Missouri
New Editor, Mary Berg's Diary: Growing up in the Warsaw Ghetto
Prof. Allen Podet
State University of New York College at Buffalo
Author, The Anglo-American Committee on Palestine
Prof. Eunice G. Pollack
Prof. Harry Reicher
University of Pennsylvania Law School;
Scholar-in-Residence, Touro Law Center
Author, Holocaust Law: Materials and Commentary
Prof. Paul L. Rose
Editor, Archives of the Holocaust (Vol. XIV)
Prof. Thane Rosenbaum
Director of the Forum on Law, Culture & Society
Author, The Myth of Moral Justice
Prof. Richard L. Rubenstein
President Emeritus, University of Bridgeport
Author, After Auschwitz
Dr. Mary Todd
Prof. Kenneth Waltzer
Professor and Director, Jewish Studies
Prof. James E. Young
Chair, Department of Judaic & Near Eastern Studies, U. of Mass. Amherst
Author, Writing and Rewriting the Holocaust
Member, Academic Council, U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum
Prof. John C. Zimmerman
University of Nevada Las Vegas
Author, Holocaust Denial
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gaza PLO propaganda...
http://hotair.com/archives/2009/01/08/cnn-stung-by-fake-atrocity-video/
also TYPO ALERT above, should be ACADEMICS, with an S ....not academic, singular.....plural not singular...you are not reading your emails again hehe
kashmir said...
Felicitarla por su aporte en cuanto al tema de "Angel at the Fence" de Herman Rosenblat.
Su labor intelectual y social fue muy importante para salvaguardar la memoria de nuestro mundo.
Saludos de Buenos Aires.
Grumpy Old Man said...
Israel's actions in Gaza are of course not a Holocaust--if they wanted to slaughter Gazans in larger numbers they could.
They are still war crimes.
You can be a war criminal without being a Nazi.
"The Holocaust was the deliberate, systematic mass murder of six million innocent Jews by Germany and its collaborators. By contrast, Israel is acting in legitimate self-defense against Hamas terrorism; has no interest in harming innocent residents of Gaza; and indeed has done its utmost to avoid civilian casualties, whereas Hamas deliberately targets Israeli civilians. Any comparison between Israel and the Nazis outrageously distorts Israel's actions and trivializes the enormity and nature of the Holocaust."
Exactly. Well said, Prof. Lipstadt.
President Chavez's incongruous comparison of Israel's defence of her Jewish citizens and their precarious existence in the Middle East with that of Nazi Germany's zealously orchestrated genocide against the Jewish people reminds me of Mark Twain's remark that, "Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has merely laid an egg cackles as if she had laid an asteroid."
I saw on the news this morning that there was a large pro-Israel rally in the city of Berlin, Germany. Seeing this made me break down and cry.
"If I forget Jerusalem..."
Your friends are with you, Prof. Lipstadt, and with the Jews of Israel. Hang in there.
Hockey Hound
Exactly, Dan. Thankyou.
"if they wanted to slaughter Gazans in larger numbers they could."
Conversely, Hamas and their band of merry men want intensely to kill Jews in large numbers, even to the point of genocide (as per their Islam-based constitution), but can't. Thank G-D for that.
It's a war crime for Hamas to "invite" weapons fire from Israeli positions by launching rockets and mortars at Israel's civilian-populated areas from civilian-populated areas of Gaza. Hamas loves taking human life is all; doesn't matter to them whether its Palestinian or Jewish. It's not the fault of Israel's military or their government that Hamas' religious Muslims do not respect the civilian content of their constituency (read: those who voted Hamas into power in Gaza).
You fail, as did Fisk, as does every apologist for Islam, to address the exterminationist elements within the ideology of Islam, the tenets of which are followed zealously by terrorist groups such as Hamas. It is this same "exterminationist element" the IDF is now defending its Jewish population against.
Stephen Plaut points out that the Tamil Tigers have killed more Muslim civilians than have the Israeli Defence Force, yet, and strangely so, the leading voices of Islam have been strangely silent about these deaths. It's only when Jews are defending themselves from an intented, religiously inspired genocide that the world is discomposed and given to protestations against Israel's "disproportionate response". Der oilem iz a goilem. The masses are asses, if you ask me.
Jack Engelhard writes, 'Now you’re up and about? Now you speak? Where were you when, throughout the years, thousands of jihadist bombs fell on Israel? The streets of Europe were empty. There were no pictures in the newspapers of grieving Jewish mothers and fathers. You called it “peace” as long as the Arabs were doing the killing and the Jews were doing the dying. All was well with the world.'
Are you the same GOM who recounts on his blog site the apologist [for Islam] Fisk as saying that "Twenty Israelis dead in 10 years around Gaza is a grim figure indeed" (as compared to "600 Palestinians dead in just over a week, thousands over the years since 1948 – when the Israeli massacre at Deir Yassin helped to kick-start the flight of Palestinians from that part of Palestine that was to become Israel – is on a quite different scale")? If you are that GOM, please clarify which numbers and statements are yours and which numbers and statements are Fisk's.
You might want to see some of this guy's blogs (globaloctopus.blogspot.com), Prof. Lipstadt, especially his rendition of the history of the Middle East. Of all places, why would he come to a blog dedicated to preserving the memory of the Nazi Holocaust against the Jews in order to complain about Israel's so-called "war crimes"? Seems a wee bit nasty to me.
I will leave with you, Prof. Lipstadt, one of GOM's noetic utterances from that blog page copied above. You will be interested in rebutting this guy's politics, I'm sure:
"The Holocaust is a far more horrible and emotional concept than McCarthyism, and the battle over who can appropriate it for what purpose rages on. There are those who contend it is unique and incommensurable with any other event or series of events in history, while others would confine its use to mass genocides such as in Rwanda or Cambodia. In part this notion of the Holocaust as sui generis is part of an effort to use horror at the Nazi murders as an emotion-evoking symbol to try to unify an otherwise discordant Jewish community, and to discredit criticism of Israeli policy."
And another quote by GOM:
'...the murder of millions of Jews by the Nazis, now conventionally and inappropriately called the "Holocaust" (because the Biblical holocaust was part of a religious ritual, and there was nothing sacred or holy about the Nazi mass murders), is used to refer to everything from other genocides, to Israeli misdeeds against Palestinians, to the factory farming of chickens, as in PETA's notorious "Holocaust on your plate" campaign.'
Der oilem iz a goilem.
Tadhg Ó Muiris said...
The BBC reported on February 28, 2008, that Matan Vilnai, Israeli Deputy Defence Minister, said Palestinians risked a "shoah". Speaking on Israel Army Radio, Mr Vilnai said if Palestinians increased rocket fire, they would bring upon themselves a "shoah". It should be pointed out to Mr. Vilnai, of course, that "holocaust" refers only to the mass murder of Jewish people, not Palestinians.
Tadhg:
Shoah is a Hebrew word meaning complete annihilation. It is used -- not frequently -- but often enough in common Hebrew conversation, e.g. to describe a tremendous fire or other cataclysmic event.
marosy said...
Nothing can justify the killing of innocent civilians.
Holocaust is a Greek word meaning holos, "completely" and kaustos, "burnt". According to Human Rights Watch Israel is using white phosphorus munitions, this has the effect of burning the skin of the people.
The word "Holocaust" existed before WWII. No one can have exclusive rights on words.
President Chavez has the right to freely speak and no one can deny this right.
I must say, I agree with president Chavez.
David Ben-Ariel said...
Chavez hates the American, British and Jewish peoples, Israel and Judah, and his latest outrage proves he must hate the plain truth of the Bible and history too.
David Ben-Ariel,
Author, Beyond Babylon: Europe's Rise and Fall
Thanks for your support of the petition to Pres. Chavez, but it was completed last week and sent to the Venezuelan Embassy at that time.
Rafael Medoff
"Nothing can justify the killing of innocent civilians."
Could you please foward this message to Hamas, Marosy? (I'm not on their email list.) They have this thing about killing civilians, no matter whether Jewish or Muslim. If only we could convince them to stop dragging their civilian electorate into war with Israel.
By Yashiko Sagamori
If you are so sure that Palestine , the country, goes back through most of recorded history, I expect you to be able to answer a few basic questions about that country of Palestine :
1. When was it founded and by whom?
2. What were its borders?
3. What was its capital?
4. What were its major cities?
5. What constituted the basis of its economy?
6. What was its form of government?
7. Can you name at least one Palestinian leader before Arafat?
8. Was Palestine ever recognized by a country whose existence, at that time or now, leaves no
room for interpretation?
9. What was the language of the country of ** Palestine **?
10. What was the prevalent religion of the country of ** Palestine **?
11. What was the name of its currency? Choose any date in history and tell what was the
approximate exchange rate of the Palestinian monetary unit against the US dollar, German
mark, GB pound, Japanese yen, or Chinese yuan on that date.
12. And, finally, since there is no such country today, what caused its demise and when did it
occur?
You are lamenting the 'low sinking' of a 'once proud' nation. Please tell me when exactly was that 'nation' proud and what was it so proud of?
And here is the least sarcastic question of all:
If the people you mistakenly call 'Palestinians' are anything but generic Arabs collected from all over -- or thrown out of -- the Arab world, if they really have a genuine ethnic identity that gives them right for self-determination, why did they never try to become independent until Arabs
suffered their devastating defeat in the Six Day War?
I hope you avoid the temptation to trace the modern day 'Palestinians' to the Biblical Philistines: substituting etymology for history won't work here.
The truth should be obvious to everyone who wants to know it. Arab countries have never abandoned the dream of destroying ** Israel **; they still cherish it today. Having time and again failed to achieve their evil goal with military means, they decided to fight ** Israel ** by proxy. For that purpose, they created a terrorist organization, cynically called it 'the Palestinian people' and installed it in ** Gaza **, **Judea** and ** Samaria **. How else can you explain the refusal by ** Jordan ** and ** Egypt ** to unconditionally accept back the '**West Bank**' and ** Gaza **, respectively?
The fact is, Arabs populating Gaza, Judea and Samaria have much less claim to nationhood than that Indian tribe that successfully emerged in Connecticut with the purpose of starting a tax-exempt casino: at least that tribe had a constructive goal that motivated them. The so-called 'Palestinians' have only one motivation: the destruction of ** Israel **, and in my book that is not sufficient to consider them a nation' – or anything else except what they really are: a terrorist organization that
will one day be dismantled.
In fact, there is only one way to achieve peace in the ** Middle East **. Arab countries must acknowledge and accept their defeat in their war against Israel and, as the losing side should, pay ** Israel ** reparations for the more than 50 years of devastation they have visited on it. The most appropriate form of such reparations would be the removal of their terrorist organization from the land of Israel and accepting Israel 's ancient sovereignty over Gaza , Judea and Samaria .
That will mark the end of the Palestinian people.
What are you saying again was its beginning ?**
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Overthrow their councils, change their state, destroy their very root! Tipu Sultan seized all the guns and took the entire detachment prisoner.
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Miller, Orient Longman, p. Nairs were surrounded with offers of death or circumcision. Out of Europeans, about were captured alive, and the sepoys, who were about men, suffered very high casualties. The campaign was a failure for Tipu. International Journal of Multidisciplinary Education and Research.
Haidar Ali and Tipu Sultan and the struggle with the Musalman powers of the south ed. Tipu Sultan's family was sent to Calcutta by the British.
He then worked on to check the advances of the British by making alliances with the Marathas and the Mughals. Napoleon conquered Egypt in an attempt to link with Tipu Sultan. He has collected the history related to Tipu Sultan and his fights. The denomination does not appear on the Hijri dated gold coins, but was added on all the Mauludi dated pieces. Those condemned by Tipu Sultan for treachery were hanged instantly, the gibbets being weighed down by the number of bodies they carried.
In response, Lord Cornwallis mobilised company and British military forces, and formed alliances with the Marathas and the Nizam of Hyderabad to oppose Tipu. However, such arguments are dubious because even contemporary French sources mentions about cruelties of Tippu Sultan. Best urdu books you can get from here very simply and easily No extra work to do just find the book and can download easily. Khan Asif has written a long Urdu book about Sultan Tipu. Devta Urdu novel is the longest novel of the world.
Bucknell University Press. The last siege of Seringapatam. The French were allies of Tipu Sultan.
Khan Asif who is a famous Urdu author and Urdu novelist from Pakistan. He was also one of the few Indian rulers to have defeated British armies. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. He was the eldest son of Sultan Hyder Ali of Mysore.
His English was broken and stilted, having lost all his vernacular idiom. He paid the amount in two instalments and got back his sons from Madras. In other projects Wikimedia Commons Wikiquote.
Tipu Sultan was master of his own diplomacy with foreign nations, in his quest to rid India of the East India Company and to ensure the international strength of France. Campbell, Richard Hamilton. He even had French engineers build a mechanical tiger for his palace.
Napoleon learned a lot about Quran and Islam from Tipu Sultan. However Tipu Sultan wanted to escape from the treaty of Marathas and therefore tried to take some Maratha forts in Southern India, 8 mile full movie online no which were captured by Marathas in the previous war.
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Being illiterate, Hyder was very particular in giving his eldest son a prince's education and a very early exposure to military and political affairs. The mainstream view considers Tipu's administration to have been tolerant. Sometimes this tiger was very ornate and had inscriptions within the drawing, alluding to Tipu's faith.
British Library Online Gallery. Tipu Sultan requested the Ottoman Sultan to send him troops and military experts. Tipu Sultan was instructed in military tactics by French officers in the employment of his father. May the Lord God assist thee, Oh Muhammad, with a mighty great victory. Mysore silk and Economic history of India.
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Slay them as slay them as Shedaud i. After Tipu's defeat in the fourth war the British captured a number of the Mysorean rockets. Captivity of Mangalorean Catholics at Seringapatam. It was a normal practice for any ruler, Muslim or Hindu, on his accession or on the conquest of new territory. Tipu Sultan's invasion of the Malabar had an adverse impact on the Syrian Malabar Nasrani community of the Malabar coast.
Silva of Gangolim Letter of a Mr. The Making and Unmaking of British India. They were given refuge by Sakthan Tamburan, the ruler of Cochin and Karthika Thirunal, the ruler of Travancore, who gave them lands, plantations and encouraged their businesses. The Mysore silk industry was first initiated during the reign of Tipu Sultan.
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Elizabeth Ruby, 2008 BHS Graduate, Dies October 17, 2018
By the Family
Oct. 24, 2018: Elizabeth Ora Ruby of Bronxville and Shelter Island died suddenly in her sleep on October 17, 2018, at the age of 29. Beloved daughter of Sarah Gavan and David Ruby. Dear sister of Caroline Ruby.
Elizabeth graduated from Bronxville High School, class of 2008, and from Gettysburg College, class of 2012. Upon graduating, she went to work for the New York Post. Elizabeth was an avid sailor and an accomplished flutist who enjoyed performing.
Gifts in memory of Elizabeth may be given to the charity of your choice.
A memorial service will be held at The Reformed Church of Bronxville on Wednesday, October 24, at 11:00 am.
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By the family Jul. 3, 2019: George Lawrence of Vero Beach, Florida, peacefully passed away on Tuesday, June 18, 2019, at the age of 81. George was born on August...
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March 17, 2019 - by CG Directory Editor
Photo: Andres Nieto Porras/Flickr
You can never run out of things to do in New York City, and that includes things that are free of charge! Pinch some pennies with City Guide's list of free things to do in NYC this week. You may just be surprised at how little it'll cost you to have a great time in the world's greatest city, with music, museums, and other free events awaiting.
Jazz for Kids - Jazz Standard
Through February 11, 2019 - New York
he Jazz Standard Youth Orchestra is a performance driven program that gives talented and dedicated young jazz musicians the opportunity to perform regularly in one of New York City's leading jazz clubs often with guest artists from the New York scene. The visiting guests give a workshop to the band members in addition to providing the experience of playing with the top musicians on the scene. On Sundays during the school year, the students rehearse and workshop in the room before opening the doors at 1:00pm and giving a concert that is free and open to the public at 2:00pm.
Intercultural Poetry At Russian Samovar - Russian Samovar
March 17, 2019 - New York
Intercultural Poetry is proud to present Ruth Padel, David Lehman, and Andrey Gritsman, reading from their poems and translations of Pushkin and Mayakovsky. Sunday, March 17, 2019, at 6 PM The Samovar offers a world-class selection of flavored vodkas as well as poetry and song expressive of the American and Russian sensibilities For more information, visit www.russiansamovar.com Russian Samovar 256 W 52nd St, New York, NY 10019 212-757-0168
Sunday Night Prime Time Comedy - New York Comedy Club
Wondering what to do in the East Village? Our New York stand up comedy showcase is one of the most fun things to do on a weeknight! From a casual date night to a spontaneous friends night out, you can’t miss with an incredible stand up show that will become a great conversation piece over drinks or dinner later tonight and a favorite memory for years to come! Tonight’s show features: Lineup TBA
Sunday Funday Comedy - New York Comedy Club
Wondering what to do tonight? Our New York stand up comedy showcase is one of the most fun things to do on a weeknight! Whether you’re with your friends from work looking for a great Happy Hour, want to have a fun, casual date night or just love to laugh every day, our comedy nights have you covered! Tonight’s show features: Lineup TBA
Sunday Comedy Matinee - New York Comedy Club
It’s never too early for Comedy! Join us for the quintessential New York City Comedy experience. Our happy hour show presents a mix of citywide stars, club favorites, and fresh faces so you can kick off your evening with a lot of laughs!
Goerne and Trifonov - David Geffen Hall
Matthias Goerne ("a masterly singer endowed with an opulent baritone that includes a silky, cellolike high register and penetrating depths" — The New York Times), the season's Artist-in-Residence, joins Daniil Trifonov ("The finest young pianist in the world" — The Times of London), and Philharmonic musicians in this feast of chamber music.
Terry Waldo's Gotham City Band - Fat Cat
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Brandon Lee Group - Fat Cat
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After Hours hosted by The Program of Deprogramming - Fat Cat
After Hours hosted by The Program of Deprogramming
LYFE @Doux w/Kervyn Mark & Duce Martinez - Doux
Saturday, March 17th,5-11pm Kervyn Mark & Duce Martinez present LYFE LETTING YOURSELF FIND ENERGY Join us as LYFE returns to the city and makes it debut at Doux Supper Club on 21st Street! DJ Kervyn Mark (The Real) Duce Martinez (Duce is Wild)
CELEBRATING ST. PATRICK'S DAY & IRELAND WITH SONG AND HARP - St John's in the Village Episcopal Church
Irish songs and poems with harp, in celebration of St. Patrick's Day Hear the history of Ireland told in poetry, song, and music. Niamh Ryan (actress), Scott Mooney (tenor), and Mia Theodoratus (harp) present verse, song, and harp repertoire telling of the joys and sorrows of the Irish people, from the Middle Ages to the 20th century. Songs include The Fields of Athenry, She Moved through the Fair, Danny Boy, and more. Poetry by William Yeats, Seamus Heaney, and others. Harp music by Turlough O'Carolan and as accompaniment to song. Poems by Kavanagh, Wilde, Yeats, Heaney, et. al Songs: Sally Gardens Danny Boy There Were Roses The Fields of Athenry ABOUT THE ARTISTS: Niamh Ryan is an actress and playwright from Dublin living in New York. Her most recent credits include Macbeth (Shakespeare in Bryant Park, The Drilling Company), Hamlet (The Drilling Company), Three More Sleepless Nights (Chelsea Rep Lab), 4 $tages (Planet Connections). Her own show Eternal Youth has been produced three times in New York and will be part of the Galway Theatre Festival in Ireland this year, an excerpt from her show Forgive Us Our Trespasses also premiered there in 2017. She is t... (read more)
Happy St Patrick's Day Concert - Christ & St Stephen's Church
North/South Consonance, Inc. celebrates St. Patrick's Day with a free-admission concerts to be held on Sunday afternoon March 17 at 3 PM. The North/South Chamber Orchestra under the direction of Max Lifchitz will perform music by composers hailing from Australia, Ireland and the US. To be heard for the first time in New York City will be music by Ireland's Frank Corcoran; Australia's John David Little, as well as Americans David Froom and Heather Niemi-Savage. Flutist Lisa Hansen and clarinetist Sammy Lesnick will appear as soloists.
New York Knicks vs. Los Angeles Lakers - Madison Square Garden
The New York Knicks will play the Los Angeles Lakers at Madison Square Garden
The Jazz Standard Youth Orchestra is a performance driven program that gives talented and dedicated young jazz musicians the opportunity to perform regularly in one of New York City's leading jazz clubs often with guest artists from the New York scene. The visiting guests give a workshop to the band members in addition to providing the experience of playing with the top musicians on the scene. On Sundays during the school year, the students rehearse and workshop in the room before opening the doors at 1:00pm and giving a concert that is free and open to the public at 2:00pm.
A Brivele Der Mamen - Carnegie Hall
A Brivele der Mamen was one of the last Yiddish films made in Poland before the Nazi invasion. Made by a joint American and Polish Jewish film team, it tells the heart-wrenching story of a mother who tries to keep her family together despite the disruptions caused by immigration and the traumatic events of World War I. The film highlights the move to America, how it divided the family, as well as the work of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee. A discussion led by Anita Norich, as well as a reception, follows the screening.
Sunday Night Jazz at The Campbell - The Campbell
Need a place to wind down before the start of the work week? Then come unwind at The Campbell for a night of jazz while enjoying cocktails and light bites. Every Sunday from 6pm – 10pm, forget about your problems while the sounds of smooth jazz flow from the hugely talented jazz duo, Acute Inflections. *Entry to Sunday Night Jazz is free, however booking a table is highly recommended to make sure you get the best view of the show*
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Join one of our expert guides for an unparalleled insider's experience at the world's leading performing arts center, home to the Metropolitan Opera, the New York City Ballet, the New York Philharmonic, and more.
Unity of New York Sunday Service - Symphony Space
March 17, 2019 - Manhattan
Unity of New York is a joyful, diverse, and welcoming spiritual community that honors all paths to God. Their mission is to serve the NYC community through spiritual teaching, music, prayer and outreach. They come together at their weekly Sunday Celebration Services (11am, right here at Symphony Space) to discover the power within all to unleash divine potential, know Oneness with God and each other. Unity affirms the power of prayer and the power of thoughts to create our own reality, helping people experience a stronger connection with God every day. Come for the Music... Stay for the message!
Opera on Screen: La Traviata - Symphony Space
La Traviata features a star cast including Royal Opera favorite Plácido Domingo. The opera tells the story of the Parisian courtesan Violetta (Ermonela Jaho) and her tragic love affair with Alfredo Germont (Charles Castronovo). Their romantic idyll in the countryside ends abruptly when Alfredo's father Giorgio (Domingo), shocked by their scandalous liaison, persuades Violetta to leave Alfredo for the good of his family – even though he knows Violetta is seriously ill. A distraught Alfredo finally learns the truth when Violetta is on her death bed. The opera contains some of Verdi's most inspired arias including Violetta's Sempre libera and Addio del passato. Antonello Manacorda makes his Royal Opera debut as conductor. Sung in Italian. Two intervals and three acts.
Mennie/Minasi Duo - Symphony Space
Carol began singing jazz in 1989 when she met her husband, jazz guitarist Dom Minasi, and by April 1990 they debuted as a duo in the Kingsborough College Jazz Concert. Carol combined her singing & acting in the dual role of Lady Blues and Mrs. Beckoff in the revival of TORCH SONG TRILOGY in New York, where Dom was the Musical Director. Carol and Dom have worked as a duo since 1990, performing in the most noted clubs, including Birdland, Smoke and The Blue Note in New York City. During the 1999 Christmas Season they performed at the Clinton White House. In 2002 they performed with their septet at the Central Park Bandshell. Carol can be heard on Dom Minasi's Time Will Tell on Monk's ' Round Midnight. She is featured on Dom's website (www.domminasi.com) as well as her own: (www.carolmennie.com) Her 2004 release as a solo artist I'm Not A Sometime Thing produced arranged by Dom with 5 of his originals, met with glowing reviews. Other collaborations include being featured on Dom's double CD extravaganza, The Vampire's Revenge voted 'Top 10 Album of 2006' by Downbeat's Howie Mandel. Carol is currently working on her next album featuring Dr. Lonnie Smith.
Lúnasa with Natalie Merchant - Symphony Space
Lúnasa has long been one of contemporary Irish music's leading voices. Named after an ancient Celtic harvest festival in honour of the Irish god Lugh, the group that Folk Roots magazine once called an "Irish music dream team" was formed from members of some of Ireland's greatest bands and over the years has proven its mettle time and again, having sold over a quarter of a million records, and collaborated with notable artists outside the tradition such as Natalie Merchant, Mary-Chapin Carpenter, and Tim O'Brien. They have performed more than 2,000 shows across 36 countries including venues such as Carnegie Hall, The Hollywood Bowl, National Concert Hall (Dublin), and Paris Bercy, and many of the leading festivals such as Glastonbury, Womadelaide & Edmonton.
The Interrupters - Irving Plaza
For over 150 years, Irving Plaza has been one of New York City's premier entertainment sites. Located just minutes from Union Square, the famed red marquee has displayed the names of thousands of artists, bringing them together with fans all throughout the city. Enjoy a cold beverage from our wide selection of drinks, and kick back in our lounge area before the show. No matter what genre, Irving Plaza shows are like no other.
Grant Stewart Quartet - Smalls Jazz Club
Born in Toronto, Canada on June 4, 1971, Grant Stewart was exposed to the music of Charlie Parker, Wardell Gray and Coleman Hawkins by his father, a high-school English teacher and semiprofessional guitarist. Father and son often played together for hours on end. It was through these early experiences and his father's encouragement that Stewart first developed a strong ear for melody, style, and improvisation. He began with the alto saxophone at age 10, and when he was 14 his first teacher, noted Toronto bandleader Pete Schofield, invited him to play professionally in Schofield's Big Band. At 17 he switched to the tenor saxophone and was soon playing with such master saxophonists as Pat Labarbara and Bob Mover. Stewart considers Mover to be one of his greatest teachers and among his strongest influences along with Sonny Rollins, John Coltrane, Don Byas, and Lester Young. Since moving to New York City at the age of 19, Stewart has studied with such masters as Donald Byrd, Barry Harris, and Joe Lovano, and performed with Curtis Fuller, John Hendricks, Clark Terry, Etta Jones, Bill Charlap, Frank Gant, Dan Barret, Bob Mover, Brad Mehldau, Russell Malone, Larry Goldings, Peter Bernstei... (read more)
Jon Beshay Quartet - Smalls Jazz Club
"I play music because I like to listen to music, and when I'm playing I'm in charge of what I'm hearing." Jonathan Beshay-jazz saxophonist, bandleader, and composer-says that there's no other agenda when his group takes the bandstand. Fortunately for audiences, Beshay likes to hear good music. His first role models were the old masters of jazz (John Coltrane, Charlie Parker, and Lester Young) but it would be a mistake to assume that modern music isn't fair game for Beshay. Artists such as Walter Smith and John Ellis make their way onto his list of influences, all uttered in the same breath as Coleman Hawkins and Woody Shaw. When pressed, he compares his musical process to the late Mulgrew Miller's; something that is rooted deep down in the history of jazz, but has blossomed outward into an art that is unique and new.
Ben Zweig Trio After-Hours - Smalls Jazz Club
Jazz drummer and educator, Ben Zweig, "is able to combine history with the current musical environment, making it sound fresh" (Don Sickler, Grammy winning producer). After moving to NYC in 2011, the 26 year old has accompanied an impressive array of jazz luminaries, including; Randy Weston, Johnny O'Neal, Larry Ridley, David Williams, Roy Hargrove, Deborah Davis, Joe Cohn, Champian Fulton, Jerry Dodgion, and Steve Nelson. Described by downbeat as "especially crisp and articulate," Zweig has presented his personalized drum sounds on tours throughout the continental US, Asia and Canada. He currently tours regularly with Ben Rosenblum's trio and leads a bi-weekly residency hosting the Sunday late night jam sessions at Smalls Jazz Club in NYC.
Kgb: Sunday Night Fiction - KGB Bar
KGB: Sunday Night Fiction
Pitchaya Sudbanthad & Mina Seckin - KGB Bar
Pitchaya Sudbanthad's debut novel Bangkok Wakes to Rain He has received fellowships in fiction writing from the New York Foundation for the Arts and the MacDowell Colony, and currently splits time between Bangkok and Brooklyn. Recreates the experience of living in Thailand's aqueous climate so viscerally that you can feel the water rising around your ankles."--Ron Charles, Washington Post "Important, ambitious, and accomplished." --Mohsin Hamid, New York Times bestselling author of Exit West Mina Seçkin is a writer and editor from New York City. She is the managing editor of Apogee Journal. Her writing has been published in McSweeney's Quarterly Concern, The Adroit Journal, and elsewhere.
The Good Life Brunch at LDV Hospitality’s Scarpetta in NoMad - LDV’s Scarpetta in NoMad
This Sunday, March 17th at 1:00 PM, LDV Hospitality’s Scarpetta in NoMad is launching their new menu, The Good Life Brunch. The new menu features delicious dishes such as their signature Spaghetti with Tomato and Basil, Almond French Toast with mascarpone and orange preserve, shared plates including Creamy Polenta with Fricassée of Truffled Mushrooms as well as desserts including a Valrhona Chocolate Cake with Chocolate Banana Toffee Sauce and Caramel Gelato. For $40 per person, guests could indulge in 2 Brunch Cocktails, a Bloody Mary or Mimosa, 1 Share Item, 1 Brunch Entree and 1 After Brunch Sweet.
MelimeL Digital Art Design and The sisSTAR Loop present A Day of Women Empowerment - Town Stages
MelimeL Digital Art Design and The sisSTAR Loop present A Day of Women Empowerment at Town Stages, 221 West Broadway, NYC Sunday, March 17, 2019, from 9:30am-3:30pm Creative design company MelimeL Digital Art Design and the women-owned business and professionals' platform The sisSTAR Loop host the Women Empowerment sisSTAR Summit followed by the seventh annual Women Empowerment Event at Town Stages, 221 West Broadway, NYC on Sunday, March 17, 2019 from 9:30am-3:30pm.Tickets start at $35 and can be purchased at www.mldigitalart.com/we-event.html. This year MelimeL Digital Art Design is producing two back-to-back events at Town Stages for an empowered filled day, starting with the first ever Women Empowerment sisSTAR Summit featuring women across various industries and professions uniting to discuss and tackle some of the most pressing issues affecting women today to further empower our personal and professional lives, while paving a new way forward for generations to come. The Women Empowerment sisSTAR Summit is an extended platform of the Annual Women Empowerment Event featuring keynote conversations, panels, workshops, performances, opportunities to network with other wo... (read more)
Pillowland - The Pete at The Flea Theater
Pillowland presented by NYC Children's Theater Written by Barbara Zinn Krieger (Ballerina Swan) Devised by Jonathan Shmidt Chapman (Up and Away) Directed by Khalia Davis (Judy Moody and Stink: The Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad Treasure Hunt) Based on the song by Laurie Berkner Stanley always has trouble falling asleep - even counting sheep doesn't help! When he receives an invitation to visit the Kingdom of Pillowland, he sets off on an exciting adventure with his friends Finn, Quinn and you! From the company that brought you Please Bring Balloons comes a new interactive play for your youngest theatergoers based on the hit song by Laurie Berkner. 50 minutes duration. October 7, 2018 - April 14, 2019 | 10am and 12pm | Select Sundays through April 14th The Pete at The Flea Theater 20 Thomas Street New York, NY 10007 (212) 226-0051 *Before Pillowland opens join us for FREE Story Time on Saturday, September 15th at 11am at Strand Books (ADD the address for Strand books here) Pillowland is best for ages 2-5 Tickets: $25.00 | Tickets on sale at : https://nycchildrenstheater.org/shows-and-events/current-season/ #Pillowland
Public Sound - Smoke Jazz & Supper Club
Giveton has a beautiful sound and feel conception about the music. He's definitely an important part of the wave of younger musicians who have the intellect, feeling, and intensity to perpetuate the highest levels of our music." -Wynton Marsalis "I really love Giveton's sound and vocal quality that he has when he plays. He is one of the few players that I have heard that actually sings through the horn." -Roy Hargrove
Kelly Green Trio - Fine & Rare
Performance by Kelly Green Trio
On the Table - A One Woman Show by Diana Arnold - Triad Theater
Diana Arnold's brilliant one woman show On the Table. Watch how this riveting actor/poet/storyteller weaves her experiences waitressing in NYC into a story of discovery, resilience and the universal heart. Directed by the equally fabulous and very accomplished Ken Barnett.
Tyler Blanton - 55 Bar
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Signs by Julia Ryan - Parasol Projects
Through March 17, 2019 - New York
This is the sign you’ve been looking for: Contemporary New York artist Julia Ryan debuts her newest series SIGNS featuring her interpretation of the zodiac signs and elements through oil paintings. The show will feature an immersive installation in which the viewers can see themselves within the zodiac calendar and explore associated traits within each element.
Fritz Hansen Sample Sale - Fritz Hansen Store
SAVE UP TO 50% ON EXCLUSIVE FLOOR SAMPLES DURING THE FRITZ HANSEN SAMPLE SALE. FRIDAY, MARCH 15, 9AM – 5PM SATURDAY, MARCH 16, 10AM – 4PM SUNDAY, MARCH 17, 10AM – SOLD OUT
Billie, Malcolm & Yusuf - Castillo Theatre
Billie, Malcolm & Yusuf opens at a funeral. Among the guests mourning the passage of the “dear departed” are the great revolutionary Malcolm X, the legendary blues singer Billie Holiday, and a black teenager Yusuf Hawkins, who was brutally murdered by a white mob in 1989. As the funeral procession makes its way through the Gates of Heaven, we learn the identity of the “departed,” the conflicts between Billie, Malcolm and Yusuf, and their struggle to live, love and laugh without gods or icons. With songs, humor, powerful reminiscences, historical footage and more than a few surprises, these characters take the audience on a spellbinding journey.
Ailey II at NYU Skirball - NYU Skirball
Ailey II returns to NYU Skirball from March 13 – 17 for its annual New York season during Ailey’s 60th Anniversary celebration. The renowned second company to Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater will inspire audiences in dynamic works by some of today’s most revered choreographers. Premieres by Uri Sands, Bradley Shelver, Ailey Artistic Director Robert Battle, and Ailey II Artistic Director Troy Powell will grace the stage, along with returning crowd-pleasers by Juel D. Lane, Renee I. McDonald, and Darrell Grand Moultrie.
St. Patrick’s Day Booze Cruise - Hornblower Cruises & Events - Pier 15
All aboard for a St. Patty’s Day you’ll never forget! The luck of the Irish will be on your side as we set sail with plenty of drinks, music, and fun to keep you partying till the top of the morning. Our 3 live DJs will be spinning your favorites all night long, so wear your best green outfit, put on your headphones, and get ready to shake your shamrocks! PLEASE NOTE: Boarding: 9:30-10:30 pm **If you are late, the boat does not wait!** Set Sail: 10:30 pm Return: 2:00 am Your 3 Live DJs are spinning all night: DJ 1 (Green): Top 40 Dance Hits DJ 2 (Red): 80’s, 90’s & 2K Throwbacks DJ 3 (Blue): Hip Hop/R&B Your Experience Includes: • A pair of Quiet Events headphones • Glow in the Dark gear • 3 live DJ’s battling for your attention • Amazing views of Statue of Liberty, Brooklyn Bridge, & NYC Skyline Special Notes: • 21+ to party • Rain or shine • Dress Code: Dress to impress, green is highly encouraged! What to bring: • Valid ID • You MUST have a credit or debit card for the check-in process. If the headphones are NOT returned, there will be a $100 charge to your credit or debit card after the event. • No need to print your ticket, just show the code ... (read more)
WOW - Women of the World Festival 2019 - Apollo Theater
The Apollo Theater will host the third annual WOW – Women of the World Festival. Presented over four days in various spaces at the iconic cultural theater, the WOW Festival runs from March 12-17 and will feature workshops, activities, programming, and performances with artists, community leaders, writers, thinkers, activists, and leaders exploring a variety of issues across cultural, civic, and social boundaries with a focus on empowerment and activism. WOW Apollo will feature more than a dozen events, many of the events free or low cost.
Twelfth Night - The Sheen Center for Thought & Culture
Frog & Peach Theatre Company presents their streamlined take on Shakespeare’s celebrated comedy, TWELFTH NIGHT. Now in their 20th year, Frog & Peach creates fast-paced and entertaining productions of Shakespeare's plays that appeal to all audiences, with a special outreach to those who may feel shut out or priced out of the cultural conversation. Set in the seaside kingdom of Illyria, this startlingly modern romp is replete with fiendish pranks, public brawls, and an original rocking score by the band Honey West’s Ted Zurkowski. The production will play a limited engagement from Friday, February 22nd through Sunday, March 17th at The Sheen Center (18 Bleecker Street in NYC). TWELFTH NIGHT, centered on twins Viola and Sebastian separated by shipwreck, has easily maintained its relevance for over 400 years, with its commentary on gender identity and sexual ambiguity cleverly disguised as a case of mistaken identity. Frog & Peach apply their quick wit and swift cinematic pace to another hilarious evening with the Bard that’s accessible, entertaining, and over before you know it. Co-founder and Artistic Director Lynnea Benson directs. Tickets are $24.95-$29.95 and can be purchased... (read more)
ColorStruck - Theatre for the New City
NEW YORK, January 28 -- From February 28 to March 17, Theater for the New City, 155 First Ave. will present comedian/actor/broadcaster Donald E. Lacy Jr. in the New York debut of his one man show, "ColorStruck." The play was born in California's Bay Area and has been presented on college campuses around the country and at the National Black Theatre Festival. It was performed twice for the U.S. Congressional Black Caucus. The piece begins as a comedic autobiography of a sensitive, light-skinned African American man growing up in Oakland during the height of the Black Pride movement. It recounts how, as a child, Lacy was shunned by some people in the black community for not being dark enough and ostracized by some members in the white community for being too dark. It develops into an examination of how cultural assumptions underlie institutionalized racism and how they make us judge people by the color of their skin and not the content of their character. Director is Sean San Jose; soundscape and music are by Grammy nominee Tommy Soulati Shepherd. Born light-skinned to a dark-skinned African-American family in 1960s Oakland, Donald E. Lacy, Jr. was taunted by other boys as a half ... (read more)
New Work Series - TADA Theatre
The New Work Series is a developmental series featuring new musicals, plays, solo-shows and dance pieces. Over 50 shows (in various stages of development) will be presented over the course of 3 weeks. This year, the series has a diverse line-up showcases a wide range of topics including ex Mormon’s, Japanese dance, dating after 50, a close-knit Pentecostal family, a female coal miner, transitioning, politics, and a dead armadillo. Visit the theater any evening during Emerging Artists New Work Series and you will find yourself transported in a number of surprising ways: by a single performer embodying a whole host of characters; by a company showcasing traditional and non-traditional dance from another country; by a cozy two-person show exploring relationships; or perhaps by a bouncy new musical that will have you humming. Shows run Sunday through Saturday. Please go to http://newworkseries.com to check out the complete line-up and get tickets.
Bruce Nauman: Disappearing Acts - The Museum of Modern Art
Through March 17, 2019 - Manhattan
Schaulager, Basel, The Museum of Modern Art, and MoMA PS1 present the first comprehensive retrospective of American artist Bruce Nauman (b. 1941) in over 20 years. Opening at Schaulager in March 2018 and traveling to New York in October of that year, the exhibition expands upon the rich holdings of the organizing institutions. Spanning the artist's entire career, from the mid-1960s to the present, Disappearing Acts provides a singular opportunity to experience his command of a wide range of mediums, from drawing, printmaking, photography, and sculpture to performance, film, neon, and large-scale installations.
The Mosquito - Dixon Place
Hang out at the lounge at Dixon Place, the iconic & funky east-village theatre. Have a drink while checking out an early evening collection of musicians, writers, comics & creative types doing all kinds of things. Regulars include Pat Candaras, Cynthia Kaplan, Peri Gaffney, Kathryn Rossetter, Sheila Head, Susan Burns, Sue Giles, Nancy Shayne, and MORE!
Osso String Quartet - Fat Cat
Osso String Quartet
George Braith Group - Fat Cat
George Braith Group
After Hours hosted by Billy Kaye - Fat Cat
After Hours hosted by Billy Kaye
Frans Helmerson Master Class - Morse Hall
Internationally-renowned Swedish cellist Frans Helmerson works with Juilliard cellists in a public master class.
Nic Cage Teaches Sex to Adults - The Pit Underground
March 18, 2019 - New Yor
Join manic movie star Nic Cage (played by Gary DeNoia) as he does his best to explain human anatomy through diagrams, dialogue, and d-audience participation.
Legally Blonde Trivia at Taco Electrico - Taco Electrico
“Hi. I’m Elle Woods and this is Bruiser Woods. We’re both Gemini vegetarians.” Start practicing your Bend and Snap’s because you’ve been accepted to Legally Blonde Trivia at Taco Electric on Monday, March 18 starting 8pm. There will be FIVE rounds of trivia that any Cosmo girl would know that will be more difficult than judging a tighty-whitey contest for Lambda Kappa Pi. Questions on the first movie only. RSVP at; http://LegallyBlonde031819.Eventbrite.com The best way to reserve tickets is to elect a team captain, and have the captain make a reservation for your whole squad. For example, if Elle, Emmet, Vivian and Warner are a team and Elle ecomes captain, she will then reserve 4 tickets, one for each member. PLEASE ONLY RESERVE SINGLE TICKETS IF YOU PLAN TO PLAY BY YOURSELF. You'll receive a confirmation email shortly before the event. Bolding going where no blonde has gone before!
Master Class with Glenn Dicterow, Violin - Manhattan School of Music
Violinist Glenn Dicterow has established himself worldwide as one of the most prominent American concert artists of his generation. Mr. Dicterow, concertmaster of the New York Philharmonic for 34 years, an all-time record in that major orchestral position, became the first holder of the Robert Mann Chair in Strings and Chamber Music at the USC Thornton School of Music in 2013. He is also the Chairman of the Orchestral Performance Program at New York's Manhattan School of Music. He is as dedicated to passing along a great musical legacy as he once was to his orchestral work, while maintaining an active career as an orchestral soloist, a recitalist and a chamber musician.
Harolyn Blackwell Voice Master Class in Miller Recital Hall - Manhattan School of Music
Harolyn Blackwell (born November 23, 1955) is an American lyric coloratura soprano who has performed in many of the world's finest opera houses, concert halls, and theaters in operas, oratorios, recitals, and Broadway musicals. Initially known for her work within musical theater during the early 1980s, Blackwell moved into the field of opera and by 1987 had established herself as an artist within the soubrette repertoire in many major opera houses both in the United States and in Europe. Feeling that she was being "type cast" into one particular kind of role, Blackwell strove to establish herself within the lyric coloratura repertoire beginning in the mid-1990s. With the aid of such companies as Seattle Opera, Blackwell successfully made this move and is now an interpreter of such roles as Lucia in Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor and Olympia in Offenbach's Les contes d'Hoffman. She has also periodically returned to musical theater performances throughout her career in staged productions, concert work, and recitals. Blackwell is known for her interpretations and recordings of the works of Leonard Bernstein
City Symphony - Anthology Film Archives
A collection of five distinct films centering around the city environment in a constant state of change, focusing on images of construction and destruction of modern structures in the urban environment. CONTINUUM CONTINUUM (1987) centers on the people who perform hard manual labor, such as tarring roofs, digging up streets, etc. DECONSTRUCTION SIGHT (1995) shows how modern methods of construction have rendered men and women insignificant behind mammoth tools of destruction. IN THE COURSE OF HUMAN EVENTS (1997) documents the demolition of the Embarcadero Freeway, which was structurally damaged during the 1989 earthquake. THE LINE OF FIRE (1997) finds Angerame returning to his apartment building the day after it burned down. And PREMONITION (1995) shows the vacant Embarcadero Freeway after it has outlived its usefulness, but before its destruction.
Ec: L'atalante - Anthology Film Archives
Vigo's feature is outwardly a simple story: couple weds, couple has problems, couple reunites, but it's transformed by the director's poetic, idiosyncratic touch into a masterpiece. Cinematographer Boris Kaufman (the younger brother of Dziga Vertov) recalled, "He used everything around him: the sun, the moon, snow, night. Instead of fighting unfavorable conditions, he made them play a part." Already in delicate health (at times he had to direct from a stretcher), the winter location shooting may have pushed Vigo over the edge – he died of lung disease at age 29, three weeks after the Paris premiere.
National Choral Festival - Carnegie Hall
National Choral Festival
We Are Witnesses: Becoming an American - Carnegie Hall
The father of a Colombian family is suddenly deported after living in New York City for 20 years. A former ICE officer describes a massive raid on a factory that employs 500 undocumented workers. A Russian-born lesbian flees persecution and is finally sworn in as an American citizen. These are just some of the stories told to the camera and presented in We Are Witnesses: Becoming an American, a new film by The Marshall Project that illustrates the reality of the US immigration system today. A panel discussion and audience Q&A follows the screening.
What is CSW? A United Nations CSW Informational Event - 315 West 86th Street
CSW is the Commission on the Status of Women; A UN hosted conference taking place from March 11th to March 22nd. OutRight is 1 of 8 LGBTIQ organizations in the entire world with UN affiliations. Because of that status, we have a big say in what goes on during these deliberations. If you've never heard of this conference or want to know more about the intricacies of the UN this is the event for you! Come to Tim's lovely apartment in the Upper West Side, with special appearances from our activist global partners from all around the world. While we listen to the work they do, we will enjoy cocktails, appetizers and light banter.
D'Ambrose Boyd Presents Singers Space - Symphony Space
Come to Singers Space at Bar Thalia, hosted by D'Ambrose Boyd, where New York's finest professional and aspiring singers come to sing their favorites and hear their peers perform before an intimate audience. Bar Thalia offers cocktails, wine & beer, soups, salads, wraps, and desserts. There's no cover and no minimum. Each Monday night a guest vocalist stars in the Feature Spot, an extended 20-minute showcase for their talents. Before and after the Feature Spot, other performers sing their current favorites during the open mic spots. D'Ambrose presides over the fun and fabulous music. It's a classy way for singers and listeners to enjoy a great variety of songs and song stylists.
This Is Not This Heat with YVETTE - (Le) Poisson Rouge
Event Ticket: $30 Day of Show: $35
No Justice, No Peace: Documenting Discrimination - New York Public Library For the Performing Arts
Dispatches from Cleveland (2017), an examination of police misconduct and social discrimination in Cleveland, Ohio, will frame a consideration of the history of using moving images to document or bear witness to social injustice and the policing of Black America. The evening will include a panel discussion and historical films held in the Library's Reserve Film and Video Collection, including Cinda Firestone's seminal work Attica (1974).
Jazz at Lincoln Center Youth Orchestra with Special Guest Marshall Gilkes - Dizzy's Club Coca Cola
With the Jazz at Lincoln Center Youth Orchestra and trombonist Marshall Gilkes.
Kalman Olah Group - Smalls Jazz Club
A native of Hungary, jazz pianist Kálmán Oláh has gained international renown as an artist who masterfully combines elements of jazz, folk and contemporary classical music. The recipient of numerous awards, including the Grand Prize at the 2006 Thelonious Monk International Jazz Composers Competition, he has appeared with scores of well-known artists including Lee Konitz, Jack DeJohnette, Ron McClure, Randy Brecker, Steve Grossman, John Patitucci, Tommy Campbell, Stefano Di Battista, Jay Leonhart, Daniel Humair, Andrej Ceccarelli, Paolo Fresu, Kenny Wheeler, Mark Murphy, Shelia Jordan, Palle Danielsson and Ravi Coltrane to name a few.
Joe Farnsworth Trio - Smalls Jazz Club
Joe Farnsworth is already regarded as one of the top jazz drummers in the world, but as far as he is concerned, he is just getting started. He is dedicated to the great tradition of jazz drumming as conceived by men like Max Roach, Roy Haynes, Elvin Jones, Billy Higgins and Arthur Taylor and it keeps him in the practice room trying to continue and extend it
Jon Elbaz Trio After-Hours - Smalls Jazz Club
Kgb: Monday Night Poetry: Austin Smith Dora Malech Grace Schulman - KGB Bar
Austin Smith grew up on a family dairy farm in northwestern Illinois. He has published three poetry chapbooks: In the Silence of the Migrated Birds; Wheat and Distance; Instructions for How to Put an Old Horse Down; and one full-length collection, Almanac, which was chosen by Paul Muldoon for the Princeton Series of Contemporary Poets. His next collection, Flyover Country, will be published by Princeton in Fall 2018. Austin's poems have appeared in The New Yorker, Poetry Magazine, Yale Review, Sewanee Review, Ploughshares, New England Review, amongst others. His stories have appeared or will appear in Harper's, Glimmer Train, Kenyon Review, EPOCH, Sewanee Review, Threepenny Review, Fiction and Narrative Magazine. He was the recipient of the 2015 Narrative Prize for his short story, "The Halverson Brothers," and an NEA Fellowship in Prose for FY 2018. He is currently a Jones Lecturer at Stanford University, where he teaches courses in poetry, fiction, environmental literature and documentary journalism. He lives in Oakland.
The Free Press - The Graduate Center, CUNY
A free press, with its role as a watchdog of the government, is enshrined in the U.S. Constitution. Yet today journalists are under attack. They have been called “the enemy of the people” by our president and silenced by dictatorships around the world. Is freedom of the press in jeopardy, and what is at stake for the future of democracy? Peter Beinart—contributor to The Atlantic, CNN commentator, and a professor at The Graduate Center and CUNY’s Newmark School of Journalism—moderates a discussion featuring renowned journalist Bill Moyers, host and producer of many PBS programs; Anne Applebaum, columnist for The Washington Post; Graciela Mochkofsky, award-winning reporter in South America and the U.S. and professor at the Newmark School of Journalism; and Jelani Cobb, staff writer at The New Yorker. Part of the series The Promise and Perils of Democracy. This project is made possible in part with support from the Carnegie Corporation of New York.
Mike Stern - 55 Bar
Sheriff Bob - Porchlight
Stop by Porchlight Monday nights from 6-9 for a musical treat to accompany our delicious cocktails and food. "Live from the Porch" showcases performers in various genres of music, from blues, bluegrass, folk and jazz to soul and country in partnership with Keyed Up. There is no cover charge.
Daniel Bennett Group - Residence Inn Times Square
New York saxophonist Daniel Bennett has been hailed as one of the most original and unpredictable musical voices of his generation. Daniel Bennett Group performs the weekly "Experimental Tuesday" concert series at the Residence Inn Times Square. Bennett is joined every week by renowned guitarist Mark Cocheo. The music is a provocative mix of jazz, avant-pop, and American folk music. The Boston Globe describes Bennett's music as "a mix of jazz, folk, and minimalism." The trio was recently voted "Best New Jazz Group" in New York City Hot House Magazine. The Daniel Bennett Group has been featured in the Washington Post, Boston Globe, NPR, Indianapolis Public Radio, San Francisco Examiner, St. Louis Public Radio and the Village Voice. Time Out New York describes the music as, "hypnotic." In addition to leading his own band, Daniel Bennett performs in Broadway and Off-Broadway theater productions in New York City. Daniel Bennett recently composed the musical score for stage adaptations of 'Frankenstein' and 'Brave Smiles' at the Hudson Guild Theatre in Manhattan. Daniel Bennett currently plays woodwinds in 'Blank! The Musical,' the first fully improvised Off-Broadway musical to launch o... (read more)
Guerrilla Lit Reading Series - Dixon Place
Featuring: Jaclyn Gilbert, Tanya Marquardt & Aatif Rashid This series has hosted readings by emerging & established authors since 2007. Because the pen is mightier than the Kalashnikov (we hope). Curated by Lee Matthew Goldberg, Camellia Phillips, and Marco Rafalá. Hosted by Lee Matthew Goldberg.
Comic Book Club - The PIT
Comic Book Club is a live talk show and podcast held every Tuesday at 8:00 pm in NYC! It's hosted by Pete LePage, Justin Tyler, and Alex Zalben. We talk nerdy stuff.
Saul Rubin Zebtet - Fat Cat
Saul Rubin Zebtet
Victor Santos Salsa Band - Fat Cat
Victor Santos Salsa Band
After Hours hosted by Russ Nolan's Latin Jam Session - Fat Cat
After Hours hosted by Russ Nolan's Latin Jam Session
New York Youth Symphony Presents - An Evening of Chamber Music
Chamber Music Directed by Dr. Lisa Tipton Suggested Donation: $30 at nyys.org/donate or call at (212) 581-5933
Change Every Day: Invest in Your Neighborhood - The Greene Space at WNYC & WQXR
From joining food co-ops to shopping local, communities are talking about how to invest in themselves. Learn from leaders with startups that are leveraging the power of the collective to approach community building — and how every community can take steps toward fully owning local initiatives and solutions. Hosted by WNYC's Shumita Basu. Use comp code INVEST for free tickets.
New Roadmaps for Asia: The 'Free and Open Indo-Pacific' and the 'Quad' - Asia Society and Museum
The last two years have seen a rise in uncertainty and anxiety in much of Asia, as long-standing assumptions about regional security have been called into question. Meanwhile, two ideas are gaining traction: the "Free and Open Indo-Pacific" (FOIP) and the Quadrilateral Security Dialogues (the "Quad") — made up of Australia, India, Japan, and the U.S. Both ideas are generally credited to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, with the Quad first raised in his vision for Japan in 2006, and the FOIP first used in his speech to the Indian parliament in 2007. Both ideas may alter the geopolitical order of the region, and shape the nature of U.S. engagement with more than half the world's population.
Votes For Women!, A Reading & Discussion Program At The Woman's Club Of Albany - Woman’s Club
March 19, 2019 - Albany
Hosted by the League of Women Voters of Albany County.
Theater Resources Unlimited March Panel - Secrets of Successful Not-for-Profits: How to Keep Your Theater Company Going and Growing - Polaris North
Theater Resources Unlimited announces the March Panel Secrets of Successful Not-for-Profits: How to Keep Your Theater Company Going and Growing Tuesday, March 19, 2019 Theater Resources Unlimited (TRU) presents the March Panel, Secrets of Successful Not-for-Profits: How to Keep Your Theater Company Going and Growing on Tuesday, March 19, 2019 at 7:30pm (networking at 7pm) at Polaris North, 245 W. 29th Street, 4th floor, NYC, 10001. This panel is free for TRU members; $12.50 for non-members in advance ($15 at door). Please reserve using the bright red reservation box at https://truonline.org/events/successful-not-for-profits/ or e-mail TRUStaff1@gmail.com. Panel will include Luis Reyes Cardenas, co-founder and co-artistic director of Open Hydrant Theatre Company; Anne Hamburger, founder & artistic director En Garde Arts; Ralph Peña, producing artistic director of Ma-Yi Theater Company; Lorca Peress, founding artistic director of MultiStages; others tba. The perspiration and inspiration it takes to start a theater company is daunting enough in itself. How do you keep your company vital and relevant from year to year? Starting out, a strong and specific mission state... (read more)
Online Open House: Mathematics Programs - Bank Street College of Education
March 19, 2019 - Morningside Heights
This online open house is for our three mathematics programs in Adolescent Mathematics, Teacher Leader in Mathematics, and Leadership in Mathematics. Join us to find out more information about admissions, financial aid, the curriculum, and supervised fieldwork! The Adolescent Mathematics Education program is for student teachers and working teachers who want to create classrooms in which students are expected to gain a conceptual understanding of mathematics and be eligible for a New York state certification in Mathematics, 7-12. The Teacher Leader in Mathematics program prepares elementary school teachers to lead math development in schools. Applicants must already have a valid initial teaching certification to apply. The Leadership in Mathematics Education program is one of the few programs in the nation that grounds preparation for school leadership in a strong mathematics education program. At the end of the program, you'll be eligible for a New York state School Building Leader license.
Sophia Sarlatt - Rue-B Jazz
Sophia Sarlatt
Water & Dams Film Program - Anthology Film Archives
Dams and water systems may seem like unlikely subjects for acclaimed directors, but strangely enough everyone from Ermanno Olmi and Jean-Luc Godard to prolific American independent filmmaker Kevin Jerome Everson have made fascinating films about those very things. Both Olmi and Godard began their careers with lyrical short works documenting the construction of dams, while Everson's SOUND THAT depicts the employees of the Cleveland Water Department on the hunt for leaks in Cuyahoga County's water system. The program also includes two Canadian non-fiction films, Gordon Sparling's PICKING LOCKS and Roger Blais's THE DIKES.
Psychohydrography - Anthology Film Archives
This mesmerizing work follows the Los Angeles water supply from its Eastern Sierra Nevada source through the alien channels of the Los Angeles River all the way to its eventual Pacific deposit. Constructed entirely from single-frame photographic images, combined with sound recordings of the sun by Thomas Ashcraft, PSYCHOHYDROGRAPHY is a strikingly conceived and fully accomplished work. It is reminiscent of the work of James Benning and Thom Andersen in its formal qualities as well as its concern with the social and political dimensions of landscape.
Super Sketch Tuesday Season 3 - The PIT
Every Tuesday, join two of the best Sketch House Teams in the city as they drop a knockdown hoedown of comedic insanity all over The PIT Underground. As always 100% free, IT'S SUPER SKETCH TUESDAY Y'ALL!
Lara Downes & Friends: HOLES IN THE SKY - Lower Eastside Girls Club of NY
Join trailblazing pianist Lara Downes, with host Clemency Burton Hill of WQXR and special guests soprano Leah Crocetto and cellist Sophia Bacelar, to celebrate the launch of Holes in the Sky, Downes' new Sony Masterworks collection of music celebrating the contributions of phenomenal women to the past, present, and future of American music. "A charming selection of pieces by some powerful composers - a celebration of otherness, as well as an act of repatriation” - The Washington Post "Expect glamour with substance" - WQXR This music tells the story of what women and girls can contribute to the world when they are given a chance - their dreams can make holes in the sky. This festive evening of music, conversation and a champagne reception is presented in support of The Lower Eastside Girls Club of New York, breaking the cycle of poverty by training the next generation of ethical, entrepreneurial, and environmental leaders.
NICE JEWISH GIRLS GONE BAD - Joe's Pub
NICE JEWISH GIRLS GONE BAD RETURNS TO JOE’S PUB! SCHTICKING IT TO THE MAN SINCE 2003 Tuesday, March 19, 2019 Joe’s Pub 425 Lafayette St., NY, NY 10003 9pm doors, 9:30pm show $20 Hosted by Susannah Perlman Featuring: Ophira Eisenberg Cory Kahaney Schlep Sisters Marcia Belsky Vicky Kuperman Tammy Faye Starlite Vanessa Hidary Amber Bloom Michelle Maleh Live Drawing by Flash Rosenberg Ticket Link: https://joespub.publictheater.org/Tickets/Calendar/PlayDetailsCollection/Joes-Pub/2019/Nice-Jewish-Girls-Gone-Bad/?SiteTheme=JoesPub Nice Jewish Girls Gone Bad returns to Joe’s Pub just in time for Purim. The Badass Sisters of Schtick are back for a one night engagement to celebrate Purim, Shabbat and Sisterhood. Sixteen years ago NJGGB started at Joe’s Pub, a refreshing mix of comedy, music, spoken-word and show-stopping burlesque, featuring the gals who learned to smoke at Hebrew School, got drunk at their Bat-Mitzvahs and would rather have more schtuppa than the chupah, featuring performers seen on Comedy Central, HBO and Late Night TV. These badass chosen chicks boldly dare to deconstruct years of tradition, expectations and guilt in a fast-paced vau... (read more)
Saint Vitus Presents Light the Torch & Mark Morton - Gramercy Theatre
Just a few blocks from Madison Square Park, Gramercy Theatre's intimate live experience remains unmatched by any other Manhattan venue. Get up close and personal with the performers in the general admission section, or enjoy a full view of the unforgettable environment in our authentic theatre seating. Grab a cold drink from one of the many bars located in the venue, including the downstairs lounge.
Bar Quiz Hosted by Geeks Who Drink - Symphony Space
Come to Bar Thalia every Tuesday night and enjoy a bar quiz hosted by Geeks Who Drink and Quizmaster Ant-Man! Prizes include bar tabs, free drinks, and more... Drink Special: $6 Beers!
Japan’s Role in a Turbulent World - Japan Society
Corporate Luncheon Today, the world is witnessing unprecedented levels of instability and uncertainty, from the U.S. President’s nationalistic “America First” policy, to Brexit, to North Korea’s nuclear and missile programs. Furthermore, in the international cooperation arena, many are raising concerns about the effectiveness of the UN's interventions, in particular on how to resolve serious conflicts. How can Japan play a role in contributing to peace and stability? How can the U.S. and Japan cooperate for a more prosperous and stable world? In this program, Ambassador Tsuneo Nishida discusses current world affairs and Japan’s role in an era of uncertainty. Speaker: Tsuneo Nishida, Honorary Director, The Center for Peace, Hiroshima University; Special Assistant to the President, Hiroshima University; former Ambassador Extraordinary & Plenipotentiary, Permanent Representative of Japan to the United Nations Moderator: Cameron Munter, Chief Executive Officer & President, EastWest Institute Agenda: 12-12:30 PM Registration and Reception 12:30-1 PM Luncheon 1-2 PM Lecture and Q&A Admission: Non-Corporate members: $65 lunch & lecture/$20 lecture only Japan Soci... (read more)
Valentina Kozlova International Ballet Competition - Symphony Space
The Valentina Kozlova International Ballet Competition (VKIBC) is a weeklong celebration of dance, which hosts young, international talent that perform before a distinct panel of judges and awards scholarships and company contracts in addition to prizes.
Clutch - Book Of Bad Decisions Tour 2019 - Irving Plaza
Golden Lady Burlesque - Sid Gold's Request Room
A monthly Burlesque/Variety Show hosted by Essence Revealed. With special guests, piano bar singalongs and more!
Dexter Gordon Sound Salon - New York Public Library For the Performing Arts
Celebrate the life and legacy of tenor saxophonist Dexter Gordon (1923–1990), one of the major innovators of modern jazz. Join an informal guided listening event, with special guest Maxine Gordon, author of the new book Sophisticated Giant: The Life and Legacy of Dexter Gordon. Like a jazz composition, this sound salon will casually blend anecdote, expert commentary, recitation from Dexter's personal letters, with, of course, lots of music from the Library's vast recorded sound collections.
Stay Tuned with Preet @ Nyu's Skirball - NYU Skirball
CAFE proudly presents a live taping of Stay Tuned with Preet. Join Preet Bharara to celebrate the release of his new book, Doing Justice: A Prosecutor's Thought on Crime, Punishment, and the Rule of Law. Tickets include a signed copy of the book. Stay Tuned with Preet is a podcast about issues of justice, law and democracy. The night's program starts with Preet answering audience questions about the latest headlines. And then this time he's in the hot seat, interviewed by Bianna Golodryga, co-host of CBS This Morning. Preet Bharara served as U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York from 2009 to 2017. Bharara oversaw the investigation and litigation of all criminal and civil cases and supervised an office of over 200 Assistant U.S. Attorneys, who handled cases involving terrorism, narcotics and arms trafficking, financial and healthcare fraud, cybercrime, public corruption, gang violence, organized crime, and civil rights violations. The New York Times dubbed Bharara one of "the nation's most aggressive and outspoken prosecutors." In 2017, Bharara joined the NYU School of Law faculty as a Distinguished Scholar in Residence. He is the Executive Vice President of Some Spi... (read more)
Ricardo Grilli Quintet - Smalls Jazz Club
ince relocating to New York continues to make an impact in today's jazz scene and has performed or recorded with notable artists such as Chris Potter, Chris Cheek, Aaron Parks, Joe Martin, Eric Harland, Matt Penman, Kendrick Scott, Jon Cowherd, Billy Drewes, John Scofield, Orlando Le Fleming, Matt Clohesy, EJ Strickland, Colin Stranahan, Julian Shore, among others. He also frequently performs at some of the world's most renowned clubs both in the USA and abroad like: The Blue Note, The Iridium, Scullers Jazz Club, Smalls Jazz Club, Cornelia Street Cafe, The A-Trane (Berlin),The SideDoor (Connecticut), The Rex (Toronto), JazzB (São Paulo, Brazil) and many others. He has two critically acclaimed records to his name "1954" and "If On A Winter's Night A Traveler"
Jonathan Michel Quintet - Smalls Jazz Club
Jonathan Michel Quintet
Malik Mclaurine Trio After-Hours - Smalls Jazz Club
Born and raised in Queens, NY, Malik McLaurine is a young rising Bass player on the scene. Still residing in Queens, Malik attended the renowned SUNY Purchase Conservatory of Music where he studied under Doug Weiss and Todd Coolman. Although his time at SUNY Purchase prepared Malik for his arrival to the New York scene, he attributes most of the credit for his success to his lessons with his father, the amazing Bass player, Marcus McLaurine. Since graduating in 2016, Malik has played and recorded with Jon Faddis, Abraham Burton, Patience Higgons, David Gibson, Eric McPherson, Ed Cherry, David Bryant, Antoine Rooney, Gerry Eastman, Jovan Alexandre, Duke Ellington Orchestra, and George Gee Orchestra. Malik also performs with Starchild & The New Romantic which is an R&B Funk band lead by Bryndon cook
Rr: Last Taboos Literary Salon - KGB Bar
LAST TABOOS LITERARY SALON: CUBAN MAFIA NIGHT Join Tony Perrottet in conversation with T.J. English about his bestseller The Corporation, a gripping tale of gangsters, drugs, violence, sex and murder that has been dubbed "a Cuban version of The Godfather" by Deadline Hollywood. By the mid-1980s, the American underworld was a vicious melting pot of powerful criminal tribes. The most feared was the Cuban mob. This organization of exiles, ruthlessly led by a kingpin named "battle", was so cold-blooded it was known on both sides of the law as "The Corporation". Drawing on first-hand accounts and deep research, and with the blistering prose that established him as "America's top chronicler of organized crime", T.J. English's The Corporation reveals how a generation of Cuban refugees, racketeers, corrupt cops, hitmen, and their families got caught up in a very American saga of empire building, criminal enterprise and revolution.
An Evening Of Women Who Kill - Strand Book Store
March 19, 2019 - Union Square
Featuring Cara Robertson, author of the upcoming The Trial of Lizzie Borden, Harold Schechter, author of Hell’s Princess: The Mystery of Belle Gunness, Butcher of Men moderated by Refinery 29’s Leah Carroll, author of Down City: A Daughter’s Story of Love, Memory, and Murder In 1892 it was said that Lizzie Borden took an axe and gave her mother forty whacks. When she saw what she had done, she gave her father forty-one. This was quite possibly the trial of the century. Between the years of 1884 and 1908 in Illinois and Indiana Belle Gunness went on such a violent, murderous reign of terror she was dubbed The Butcher of Men. Belle Gunness was never caught. Who was she and how did she escape the fanfare Lizzie Borden received? We invite you to find out.
Magnet Musical Mixer - Magnet Theater
Try your lady (and manly) luck at making up music side-by-side with some of the finest Musical Improvisers in the country! Anyone can sign up to perform - even if it's your first time. Keep your bankroll stashed because admission to the Mixer is 100% free! Hosted by Vegas Lounge Legend and Lush Miss Trudy Carmichael and the incomparable Frankie Keys, tickling the ivories.
Dan Weiss - 55 Bar
"HEALING JOURNEYS WITH THE BLACK MADONNA" - Cathedral of Saint John the Divine
Alessandra Belloni and her I Giullari di Piazza performance troupe will return to the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, 1047 Amsterdam Ave., with a concert, "Healing Journeys With The Black Madonna," and an accompanying book launch. The launch is for Belloni's book, "Healing Journeys With The Black Madonna" (Inner Traditions - Bear & Company), which is presently No. 1 on Amazon pre-sales in the category of Folk dances. The book contains a forward by bestselling author Matthew Fox, the foremost proponent of creation spirituality (based on mystical teachings of Hildegard von Bingen, Meister Eckhart and Saint Thomas, among others). An ensemble of nine will perform live versions of healing chants, ritual drumming and trance dance ceremonies that are found on the CD accompanying the book. These include rites of the Tammorriata, the transgender rite of Femminielli, and the erotic "spider dance" of the Tarantella, which has been used for centuries in the Mediterranean for healing.
Healing Journeys With The Black Madonna - Cathedral of St. John the Divine, St. James Chapel
Insights at the Atrium: An Evening with Music Director Jaap Van Zweden - David Rubenstein Atrium
As he approaches the end of his inaugural season as Music Director of the New York Philharmonic, Jaap van Zweden discusses his path to the Philharmonic, the core values he brings to his musicianship and the Orchestra, and his views on the role of the symphony orchestra in the 21st century.
American Museum of Natural History Presents: New Science, New Solutions: Leadership, Economics, and Governance Under Climate Change - American Museum of Natural History
What will we need to meet the challenges of climate change? What type of leadership, economic, and governance models will be required? These questions are more pressing than ever, as scientists report that the pace of climate change is faster than anticipated and as we begin to experience its catastrophic effects, including displacement of human populations, species extinction, and crop losses. Join a diverse panel of experts as they discuss new science and new policy, as well as their recommendations for mitigating climate change across the globe.
Raphael D'lugoff Trio +1 - Fat Cat
Raphael D'lugoff Trio +1
Don Hahn and Mike Camacho Band - Fat Cat
Don Hahn and Mike Camacho Band
Chiara Fasani Stauffer, Baroque Violin - The Juilliard School
Chiara Fasani Stauffer, Baroque Violin
After Hours hosted by Ned Goold - Fat Cat
After Hours hosted by Ned Goold
New Jokes & Newbies - New York Comedy Club
If a band practices in a garage, where does a comedian practice?... Right here! Take a peek into the "garage" as veterans work on new material and fresh faced comics polish up their acts. The lineup is a surprise and changes nightly - you never know who you're gonna see!
Weeknight Prime Time Comedy - New York Comedy Club
Eric Dlux - Marquee New York
Eric Dlux
Insights at the Atrium: An Evening with Music Director Jaap Van Zweden - David Rubenstein Atrium at Lincoln Center
Chiara Fasani Stauffer, Baroque Violin - Morse Hall
ANTONIO LUCIO VIVALDI Violin Concerto in E Minor, RV 278 THOMAS BALTZAR Prelude in G Major from The Division Violin DAVIS MELL John Come Kiss in G Major from The Division Violin JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH Sonata Sopra' Il Soggetto Reale in C Minor from The Musical Offering NICOLA MATTEIS Passaggio Rotto in A Minor from Ayres For The Violin NICOLA MATTEIS Diverse Bizzarrie Sopra La Vecchia Sarabanda Ò Pur Ciaccona in C Major from Ayres For The Violin JEAN-MARIE LECLAIR Violin Concerto in G Minor, Op.10 No.6
New York Knicks vs. Utah Jazz - Madison Square Garden
The New York Knicks will play the Utah Jazz at Madison Square Garden
Cocktail Wednesday with Nana Shimosegawa - Bar Moga
Experience new, innovative cocktails made by Nana on Wednesday during March at Bar Moga. Nana is a world-class mixologist and was the first female at the bartender at Angel's Share in the East Village; she'll present three different cocktails that spotlight Japanese ingredients and spirits, including: Printemps Milk Punch (Haku Vodka, Maraschino, yuzu, Sakura, sencha tea, Gyokuro tea, sansho pepper, shiso, milk) High-Curry Fizz (Roku Gin, sweetened spice blend, citrus, apple vinegar, club soda) Purple Coty (Haku Vodka, Roku Gin, beets, apple & plum shrub, sumac, thyme)
Juliette Shipp - Rue-B Jazz
Ed Barker, Principal Double Bass of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Op Master Class - Manhattan School of Music
BSO principal bass Edwin Barker has concertized in North America, Europe, and the Far East. He has performed and recorded with the BSO, the Boston Symphony Chamber Players, and the contemporary music ensemble Collage, and is a frequent guest performer with the Boston Chamber Music Society. Mr. Barker gave the world premieres of James Yannatos' Concerto for Contrabass and Chamber Orchestra (which was written especially for him) and of Theodore Antoniou's Concertino for Contrabass and Chamber Orchestra; he was the featured soloist in the New England premiere of Gunther Schuller's Concerto for Double Bass and Chamber Orchestra. Mr. Barker graduated with honors in 1976 from the New England Conservatory, where he studied double bass with Henry Portnoi. That same year, at age twenty-two, while a member of the Chicago Symphony, he was appointed principal double bass of the Boston Symphony Orchestra. His other double bass teachers included Peter Mercurio, Richard Stephan, Angelo LaMariana, and David Perleman. Mr. Barker inaugurated the BSO's 100th Anniversary Season with performances of Koussevitzky's Bass Concerto; other solo engagements have included appearances at Seiji Ozawa Hall, Carn... (read more)
Rigoletto - Lincoln Center
Verdi's tragic jester returns in Michael Mayer's neon-bedecked, Las Vegas–themed production. Baritones Roberto Frontali and George Gagnidze share the title role, and soprano Nadine Sierra reprises her portrayal of Gilda, the role that helped launch her now-blossoming Met career. Tenors Vittorio Grigolo and Bryan Hymel share the role of the lascivious Duke, and Nicola Luisotti conducts
Nina Lee Cello Master Class in Miller Recital Hall - Manhattan School of Music
An active chamber musician, Nina Lee has collaborated with many artists such as Felix Galimir, Jaime Laredo, David Soyer, Nobuko Imai, Isidore Cohen and Mitsuko Uchida, and has performed at the Marlboro and Tanglewood Music Festivals. She has toured with Musicians from Marlboro and has participated in the El Paso International Chamber Music Festival. She is the recipient of a Music Certificate from the Curtis Institute of Music, and Bachelor's and Master's degrees in music from the Juilliard School, where her teacher was Joel Krosnick. Ms. Lee teaches at Princeton University and Columbia University.
Yen-I Lee Collaborative Piano Master Class in Greenfield Hall - Manhattan School of Music
Taiwanese pianist Yen-I Lee is in high demand as an accompanist, chamber musician, and vocal coach. Her commensurate proficiency with vocal, instrumental, and choral repertoire reflects her many talents and her musical versatility. In 1996 she completed her BM in vocal performance at the National Taiwan Normal University in Taipei, earning the Modal Student Award. Afterward, she came to America and achieved a double MM in piano performance and piano accompanying at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. Upon the completion of her ensuing DMA studies in accompanying and vocal coaching at the University of Minnesota, Lee was accepted on full scholarship to pursue post-doctoral studies at the New England Conservatory of Music, where she recently completed a Graduate Diploma in collaborative piano. Ms. Lee's primary teachers include Margo Garrett, John Greer, Tim Bach, Kayo Iwama, Karl Paulnack, and Irma Vallecillo. She has also enjoyed coaching with Martin Katz, Jean Barr, Warren Jones, and Pierre Vallet. During her studies, Ms. Lee also participated in summer festivals at both the Music Academy of the West and the Tanglewood Music Festival. In the past she has served as a staff acc... (read more)
BoneyM feat Liz Mitchell - Hulu Theater
The disco legend Boney M featuring lead singer, Liz Mitchell, will bring their sparkling synths and bumping beats in March 2019. Boney M has enjoyed enduring popularity since the ‘70s and ‘80s across the world, storming the global charts with massive hits like Daddy Cool, Ma Baker, Sunny and international mega-sensation and Billboard Top 40 hit Rivers of Babylon. Boney M is in the Guinness Book of World Records for being the top-selling band worldwide. These enduring Europop hitmakers will be storming America with their infectious Euro-Caribbean beats and deep catalog of often sampled but never equaled Eurodisco, in March 2019. BoneyM will be performing at Hulu Theater Madison Square Garden in New York on Wednesday, March 20th. Official FaceBook Page: https://www.facebook.com/BoneymUS/ Official Promo Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_WQ3Zj0l_so Official Website & Tickets: https://www1.ticketmaster.com/event/3B005553AF8F4048
Newfilmmakers - Anthology Film Archives
NEWFILMMAKERS
The Path Of Oil - Anthology Film Archives
"In the interval between BEFORE THE REVOLUTION and PARTNER, Bertolucci directed his only substantial documentary, a fascinating exploration of the 'path of oil,' following its extraction in Iran to its dispersal throughout Europe. Commissioned by Eni, the nationalized petroleum company of Italy, Bertolucci's meditation on the complex process of gas production seems nonetheless slyly preoccupied by the colonial enterprise underlying it; Middle Eastern nations supply the raw materials of modernity but don't benefit from its advancements. Divided into three parts, Bertolucci's grandly shot black-and-white film experiments with the nonfiction form as he discovers aesthetic riches buried in its substrate." –Steve Seid, PACIFIC FILM ARCHIVE
Emanuele Arciuli, piano - Italian Academy, Columbia University
Part of Carnegie Hall's Spring 2019 MIGRATIONS Festival John Corigliano: Fantasy on an Ostinato Nino Rota: a selection from 15 Preludi Chick Corea: Children's Songs 10-20 Curtis Cacioppo: Armed and Dangerous (fantasy-variations on L'Homme Arme) Missy Mazzoli: Isabelle Eberhardt Dreams of Pianos Frederic Rzewski: Down by the Riverside Winnsboro Cotton Mill Blues (from North American Ballads) Emanuele Arciuli has established himself as one of the most original and interesting performers on today's classical music scene. His repertoire ranges from Bach to contemporary music, with a strong affinity for composers from the United States. He continuously develops new projects and is in constant pursuit of new ideas and innovative programs. Round Midnight Variations, a group work written for Arciuli by composers such as Crumb, Babbitt, Kernis, Rzewski, Torke, Daugherty, Bolcolm, Hoffman, and Harbison, has sparked the interest of international critics. His numerous recordings include Gates to Everywhere, with music by Carla Bley, Fred Hersch, and Chick Corea, the complete piano works of Berg and Webern, and the world premiere of Bruno Maderna's Concerto for Piano and Orchestra. ... (read more)
Emanuele Arciuli - Carnegie Hall
Esteemed Italian pianist Emanuele Arciuli focuses on Italian-US cultural cross-migration. The solo recital features works by composers with deep ties to both Italy and the US, including John Corigliano, Nino Rota, Chick Corea, Curt Cacioppo, Missy Mazzoli, and Frederic Rzewski
Purim Eve on Broadway - The Jewish Theological Seminary
A witty, timely, and edgy multimedia exploration of faith and doubt, good and evil, courage and cowardice, and what the masks we wear reveal. - Festive evening service will include full megillah (Book of Esther) and shpiel throughout. - Featuring Rabbi Jan Uhrbach, director of the JTS Block / Kolker Center for Spiritual Arts, with JTS students, faculty, alumni, friends, and family. - Reception will follow. - Come in costume and sing along! - Space is limited, so reserve early.
World Music Institute Presents: Bombino with special guests Dead Messengers - (Le) Poisson Rouge
Death Becomes Us - True Crime Festival - Festival Passes - Gramercy Theatre
Death Becomes Us is a true crime pop culture festival curated by Brightest Young Things. It will take place at Gramercy Theater and Town Hall in New York City from Wednesday, March 20th through Sunday, March 24th, 2019. This *very* limited quantity pass gives you guaranteed entry to all shows for only $126.50 + fees! Festival pass holders will enjoy reserved seating and front of line access at Gramercy Theater and Town Hall!
Alexis Parsons - Symphony Space
Alexis Parsons is a New York City based vocalist of Greek and Swedish decent. She has spent a lifetime honing a uniquely personal vocal style and fiercely independent career. The long and often arduous journey through the years has stamped her rich alto voice with warmth, wisdom and a flexibility borne of the eclectic musical roads she's traveled. During the past two decades, Alexis has led a variety of bands, showcasing her distinctive interpretations of both standard and lesser-known works in the jazz canon. As a bandleader, she has shown exceptional skill and a discerning ear in selecting accompanists. Her trios have included a host of celebrated artists, including pianists Frank Kimbrough, Arturo O'Farrill, David Berkman, and Lynn Arriale among others. Manning the bass have been top call performers such as Drew Gress, Dean Johnson, Cameron Brown and Sean Smith. And behind the drums, Matt Wilson and Willard Dyson have provided swinging and sensitive grooves. Alexis graduated from the Manhattan School of Music.
Uptown Jazz Tentet - Dizzy's Club Coca Cola
With trumpeter/co-leader Brandon Lee, trombonists/co-leaders Willie Applewhite, trumpeter James Burton III, alto saxophonist Andy Gutauskas, tenor saxophonist Jon Irabagon, baritone saxophonist Carl Maraghi, pianist Adam Birnbaum, bassist Clovis Nicolas, and drummer Aaron Kimmel.
Immanuel Wilkins Quartet - Smalls Jazz Club
Immanuel Wilkins is an American Saxophonist, Composer, Arranger, and Band Leader. While growing up in the Philadelphia area, he played in his church and programs dedicated to teaching jazz music such as the Clef Club of Jazz and Performing Arts. Immanuel has had the opportunity to play in Japan, Europe, South America, The United Arab Emirates, and the United States, working and/or recording with Jason Moran, the Count Basie Orchestra, Gretchen Parlato, Solange Knowles, Bob Dylan, and Wynton Marsalis. He also leads his own band, composing and performing new music. Immanuel currently attends The Juilliard School where he studied with saxophonists Bruce Williams and the late Joe Temperley. By being emerged in the scene at a young age around various masters, he continues to pursue his goals of being a force in music and society today. His mission is to create a sound that has a profound spiritual and emotional impact and to become a great leader in the lineage of jazz musicians throughout history. Through studying the human pathos of the music and the culture of jazz, he aspires to bring people together through the commonality of love and belief in this music.
Kgb: Fantastic Fiction - KGB Bar
KGB: Fantastic Fiction
Harold Mabern Trio - Smalls Jazz Club
Early in his career, Mabern played in Chicago with MJT + 3 in the late 1950s and then moved to New York in 1959. Mabern has worked with Jimmy Forrest, Lionel Hampton, the Jazztet (1961-1962), Donald Byrd, Miles Davis (1963), J.J. Johnson (1963-1965), Lee Morgan (1965), Sonny Rollins, Freddie Hubbard, Wes Montgomery, Joe Williams (1966-1967), and Sarah Vaughan.
Rr: Young, Edmundson, Scollins - KGB Bar
RR: Young, Edmundson, Scollins
Micah Thomas Trio After-Hours - Smalls Jazz Club
MICAH THOMAS TRIO "AFTER-HOURS"
Magnet Mixer - Wednesday - Magnet Theater
Magnet students past and present join improvisers from all the world over and non-improvisers who just want to play, forming rare and wonderful one-night-only teams.
Melissa Stylianou - 55 Bar
Free Soul - The VNYL- Vintage New York Lifestyle
The X Shows presents.....FREE SOUL - produced by @findyouridnyc Join us for an eclectic evening of soulful and sultry performances at your favorite live music venue, THE VNYL (East Village). Talented artists from the areas of soul, R&B, funk, jazz and poetry take the stage for an epic showcase of rhythm by New York City’s most prominent voices. Part of The X Shows live music series each & every Wednesday at The VNYL. This Wednesday, we also celebrate the EP Release of Afro Punk's Ida Divine's new album, DIVINE TIMING. Ida Divine will be performing her new tracks at The VNYL for the very first time. It promises to be a sultry evening of SOUL. Do you have a voice or sound that should be heard at Free Soul? Apply now via www.thexshows.com/apply to be considered. 20$ to perform. Paying online does not guarantee performance slot - applications are required in ordered to be reviewed by The X Shows team. Artists who arrive late or do not fulfill music submission requirements prior to the show's start time are not guaranteed a performance slot. #FreeSoulNYC #TheXshows 5:00 - 10:00 Free Entry 1 Drink Minimum Only paid tickets are guaranteed entry once we reach capacity.
Hall of Ocean Life - American Museum of Natural History
The Milstein Hall of Ocean Life at the American Museum of Natural History is one of New York's best-known grand spaces and home to a celebrated 94-foot-long model of a blue whale. The Hall's classic lines and visually arresting elegance have been restored and reinvigorated with cutting-edge exhibition technology and the latest scientific research on the mysteries of our vast water planet, of which only 5 percent of the deep ocean has been explored. The 29,000-square-foot Hall has been transformed into a fully immersive marine environment with high-definition video projections, interactive computer stations, hands-on models, 14 renovated classic dioramas, and eight new ocean ecosystem displays that transport visitors from the rainbow-hued profusion of life in the Indo-Pacific coral reefs to the flickering bioluminescence of fishes in the eerie darkness of the deep sea. The new Milstein Hall of Ocean Life highlights as never before the drama of the undersea world and its diverse and complex web of vertebrate, invertebrate, and plant life.
New at the Morgan: Acquisitions Since 2004 - The Morgan Library & Museum
Presenting over one hundred works that underscore the great scope of the Morgan's collecting interests, the exhibition includes old master and modern drawings, literary and musical manuscripts, illuminated texts, and rare printed books and bindings. The selections were drawn from more than 1,200 works acquired since 2004 and include seminal figures from various genres. The earliest work on view is a treatise in praise of poetry, dating to ca. 1300; the most recent, a drawing by Alexander Ross, dates to 2007. Medieval and Renaissance manuscripts are represented by, among other objects, the jewel-like Prayer Book of Queen Claude de France and the Book of Hours of the scribe Guillaume Lambert. Drawings include sheets by Rembrandt, Degas, Sargent, and Matisse. The show also features manuscripts and letters by Robert Frost, Vincent van Gogh, Henry James, Dylan Thomas, and Oscar Wilde. A large group of first edition music scores that came to the Morgan as part of the James Fuld Collection are also on view, notably a sketch by Beethoven for his Seventh Symphony and a set of proofs of Wagner's opera Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg.
UG! COMEDY SHOW!! @ Drexler's: Tuesday March 19th 2019 ed. - Drexler's
Through March 20, 2019 - NYC
UG! COMEDY SHOW!! NOW @ Drexler’s: Tuesday March 19th, 2019 ed. Todd Montesi & Richard James present awesome comics in front of a cool supportive crowd in the epicenter of hip, NEW YORK CITY. Featuring both established comic veterans you've seen on TV to the up and comers, UG! guarantees a swell time all for FREE! We've also got tons of drink specials! So what are you waiting for? Come down and UG! it with us!!! UG! COMEDY SHOW!! @ Drexler’s Presented by Todd Montesi & Richard James 9 Ave A (btwn E. 1st & 2nd st.) Showtime: 8:30PM No Cover, 1 Drink Min. For info/reservations: (646) 524-5226 Via Subway: F train to 2nd Avenue This Week’s Guests: (Tuesday March 19th, 2019 ed.): The Irishman Sean Lynch! Money Mallory Bradford! It’s All Dan Goodman! Get Money Grisel Cabrera! Royal Robbie Goodwin! The Quiet Storm Sean Mallory! Shiny Mike Szar! Super Dale Cheesman! Not Your Average Joe Everard! & The Undertaker, Tom Paciaffi! Hosted By Your Mans Todd Montesi! Featuring The Big Bawse Hawse Christopher Wagner!! W/ Our Official Hype-Man/DJ Cactus Black himself Richard James!!! #UGIT
WQXR PRESENTS: BACH BIRTHDAY BASH - The Greene Space
March 21, 2019 - Hudson Square
What do you get someone who's turning 334? A party at The Greene Space, of course — featuring performances with musicians from across the musical spectrum! Join us for this special evening as we celebrate the legacy of Johann Sebastian Bach. Participating artists include acclaimed pianist Simone Dinnerstein with Ensemble Baroklyn; the Arturo O'Farrill
Ladies Day by Alana Valentine - Dixon Place
Madeleine Diggins It's Ladies Day at the horse races in remote Broome, Australia. The fabulous and fearless Mike is at the center of fashion and debauchery. Underneath the glitz and glam, Mike is subjected to a much uglier and violent treatment. The verbatim storytelling reveals that old habits (and prejudices) die hard in Broome. Tolerance and acceptance are as well-performed as the fashion shows on race day. This play invites audiences to witness the experiences of victims: denial, shame, anger or guilt in a deliberately unapologetic Australian way.
Teapasar to Launch in New York City as First Global Tea Marketplace - Galeries Bartoux
teapasar, the new premier global online marketplace for teas, will celebrate its US launch with a carefully curated NYC Pop Up event open to the public at Galeries Bartoux, 104 Central Park South, NYC. Since its first launch in September 2018, this Singapore based multi-brand tea boutique features close to 700 tea and tea-related products (including workshops, accessories and food), from over 55 brands and plantations. New Yorkers can visit the teapasar Mindfulness, Art and Tea Experiential Event at Galeries Bartoux from 6 to 8pm on 21st March (Thursday). Tea lovers will be able to discover their perfect blend based on their unique taste profile using teapasar’s ProfilePrint technology. ProfilePrint is a metabolomic fingerprinting technology that authenticates the quality of tea leaves, fighting tea fraud, while identifying and matching the taste profiles of all the tea on the teapasar database to tea lovers’ unique preferences – allowing them to more confidently purchase teas online before even tasting or smelling it. Visit www.teapasar.com.
MOCATalks: Five Cents A Can: Making Visible the Invisibles with Si Yan Wong - Museum of Chinese in America
Painter Si Yan Wong joins us to talk about her paintings of the canners (people who pick up cans and bottles to live) in our communities. She came to notice the canners when she started jogging in her neighborhood in 2015. From her observations, these canners are generally seniors, the indigents and the working poor. They weather extreme conditions by working in the sweltering heat in the summers and braving bone-chilling winds during the winters. Who are they? Where do they come from? What does it say about this affluent city when more and more people are rummaging through rat-infested garbage to locate cans and bottles to survive? Si Yan Wong is a painter whose socially-engaged art practice invites reflections and conversations into the contradictions and the unseen present in the everyday. Her current and on-going projects include "Five Cents A Can: Making Visible the Invisibles” that focuses on the people ("canners") who survive on picking up cans and bottles and their existence in a city with many of the "haves." Find her on Facebook for more information about her upcoming exhibits on the canners as well as on her other socially engaged projects. Tickets are $15 and incl... (read more)
Kyoko Oyobe Group - Fat Cat
Kyoko Oyobe Group
Vocal Arts Honors Recital - The Juilliard School
Vocal Arts Honors Recital
POD - Fat Cat
After Hours hosted by Yoshi Waki - Fat Cat
After Hours hosted by Yoshi Waki
March Madness Viewing Party - Marquee New York
March Madness Viewing Party
Yi Qun Xu, Cello - Morse Hall
Yi Qun Xu, Cello
Vocal Arts Honors Recital - Alice Tully Hall
Winners of the 2018-2019 Vocal Arts Honors perform in duo recital. Each year, singers from the Ellen and James S. Marcus Institute for Vocal Arts are nominated by their teachers to audition and are selected through a competitive audition judged by a distinguished panel.
Albert Cano Smit, Piano, and Derek Louie, Cello - Morse Hall
Albert Cano Smit, Piano, and Derek Louie, Cello
The Serious Side Of Food, A Reading & Discussion Program At The Nyc Department Of Records - New York City Department of Records
The Serious Side of Food Reading Series w/ Jane Ziegelman and Andrew Coe Embark with food historians Jane Ziegelman and Andrew Coe on a literary journey to explore an aspect of our culture that we often take for granted: food. Beginning in September, the NYC Department of Records & Information Services (DORIS) will be hosting a reading and discussion series sponsored by Humanities New York. During the 6-session program, the group will examine the multitude of complex interactions and entanglements which lie under the surface of our source for both nourishment and pleasure.
Teen Game Night - American Museum of Natural History
Teen Game Night and related activities are generously supported by the Science Education Partnership Award (SEPA) program of the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
Bank Street Camp Tour - Bank Street College of Education
Since the Bank Street Summer Camp is back in the Bank Street building from June 17 – August 9, we're offering a few evening tours so families can see classrooms and some of the other incredible developmentally appropriate spaces that campers will be making use of. We encourage you to bring your campers.
The Experimental City - Anthology Film Archives
In the 1960s, frustrated by the growing problem of urban pollution, Athelstan Spilhaus, a visionary scientist and futurist comic strip writer, assembled a team of experts to develop a bold experiment: the Minnesota Experimental City (MXC). MXC would be the city of the future, a domed metropolis for 250,000 pioneering residents, built from scratch and using cutting-edge technology to prevent urban sprawl and pollution. It was a compelling vision, with powerful backers, hundreds of experts, and its own state agency. But things didn't quite go as planned, as explored in Chad Friedrichs's fascinating look back at the would-be city of tomorrow.
Afa Members Only: Anguish - Anthology Film Archives
Once every calendar we offer a special, AFA Members-Only screening, featuring sneak-previews of upcoming features, programs of rare materials from Anthology's collections, in-person filmmaker presentations, and more! The benefits of an Anthology membership have always been plentiful: free admission to over 100 Essential Cinema programs, reduced admission to all other shows, discounted AFA publications. But with these screenings – free and open only to members – we sweeten the pot even further.
Snowpiercer - Anthology Film Archives
"South Korean director Bong Joon-ho, perhaps best known for the 2006 monster movie THE HOST, uses genre, with fantastical distortions, to comment upon social ills. SNOWPIERCER, co-written with Kelly Masterson, combines the outlandish disaster/thriller movie setup, akin to those seen in such 1970s films as THE CASSANDRA CROSSING or THE TOWERING INFERNO, with the recent vogue for apocalypse plotlines. Here the survivors of climate change circumnavigate a frozen planet in the cars of a ceaseless train. A perversion of the railway's original function to bring civilization to remote areas, the Snowpiercer is a self-contained society hurtling through desolation. As the train speeds along its course, the negative effects of an imposed infrastructure corrode from within, leading everyone towards inevitable catastrophe. Tilda Swinton stars in one of her most unforgettable roles." –Rebecca Cleman
True Crime Festival: Damien Echols with Dave Hill - Gramercy Theatre
Great Art on Screen: Carravagio - Symphony Space
Take an immersive journey through the life, works and struggles of the Italian master Michelangelo Merisi di Caravaggio. Roberto Longhi, a Caravaggio expert, explores in the artist's masterpieces the echo of personal experiences and the expression of the human state, both physical and emotional. These evocative moments -- thanks to the use of light and cinematic techniques -- allow viewers to go deep inside the mind and soul of Caravaggio, empathizing with his impulses and fears.
Hell Hath No Fury - Immersive Burlesque Floor Show - Madame X
FURY [fyoor-ee] noun, plural fu·ries. - unrestrained anger, rage, passion, or the like: - vehemence; fierceness: - Furies, Classical Mythology . minor female divinities: the daughters of Gaea who punished crimes at the instigation of the victims: known to the Greeks as the Erinyes or Eumenides and to the Romans as the Furiae or Dirae. Originally there were an indefinite number, but were later restricted to Alecto, Megaera, and Tisiphone. Hell Hath No Fury is an immersive burlesque show honoring historical, mythical and spiritual women who have been misrepresented because of their power. Join the likes of Medusa, Cleopatra, Salome and Jezebel as they retell their stories of power, pleasure, and purity through unrestrained passionate dance in honor of Women's History Month. Taking place in a lair fit for Sirens, Madame X is a spicy red velvet and crimson bordello-style speakeasy-like boudoir lounge that's cozy, seductive and romantic located in the Village. Doors at 7:30 | Show at 8:00pm Seating is first come, first served, so please arrive early for the best possible views. Otherwise, its standing room only. If you're interested in reserving a VIP table, please emai... (read more)
Revelry: Liz Vice - Symphony Space
Liz Vice has always had a love for storytelling. The Portland native who currently resides in Brooklyn, started her career working behind the scenes in the world of film and video, only to accidentally find herself behind the mic. Liz Vice's sound is a fusion of Gospel and R&B, with dynamic and soulful vocals, and lyrics, deeply rooted in spirituality, that give her work a timeless feel. Vice got a knack for performing early. She was raised by her mother as the middle of five children. Every morning growing up, she was awaken by her Mother's voice singing "rise and shine and give God the glory." She also found herself frequently stealing away to the basement to dance and lip sync songs from the radio, and soundtracks from her favorite films. Liz taught herself how to play piano, marking the notes on the piano using blue painter's tape on the the notes of a keyboard, placed by her friends who were taking piano lessons. Her Aunt bought her headphones that she would make young Liz sit with on her head in the living room for hours mimicking the notes she would hear from an instrumental CD.
Jerome Robbins' Poppa Piece - New York Public Library For the Performing Arts
In the early 1990s, as Jerome Robbins confronted the twilight of his storied career, he endeavored to create one last theater work that would reconcile the questions and mysteries of his life. Hidden away at his Bridgehampton beach home and cloistered behind the closed doors of private rehearsal studios, Robbins tirelessly attempted construct an honest self-portrait, detailing his own Jewish immigrant heritage, family history, and personal failures. Join us for an archival dive into Robbins' never produced autobiographical theater masterwork, Poppa Piece. For this special program, the Library presents a collage of rarely heard private audio recordings, rehearsal footage, musical numbers, plus recitations of Robbins' private journals and diaries.
Diva Jazz Orchestra - Dizzy's Club Coca Cola
With the DIVA Jazz Orchestra.
A Reading by the 2019 Whiting Awards Winners - Strand Book Store
Join the Whiting Foundation for readings in fiction, poetry, nonfiction, and drama by the ten talented winners of the 2019 Whiting Awards, whose names will be announced on March 20th! The writers will be introduced by Alexander Chee, Whiting 2003 fiction winner and author of How to Write and Autobiographical Novel. Wine and cheese will be served throughout the evening. The Whiting Foundation provides support for writers and scholars who astonish us by expanding the boundaries of art and understanding. Since 1985, the Foundation has supported creative writing through the Whiting Awards, given annually to ten emerging writers in fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and drama. The awards are based on early accomplishment and the promise of great work to come.
Kgb: Drunken Careening Writers - KGB Bar
KGB: Drunken Careening Writers
Tim Hegarty Quartet - Smalls Jazz Club
At age 14 Tim Hegarty was asked to sit in with jazz legends Art Farmer, Clark Terry, and Jon Faddis which changed his life forever. Frank Foster became his saxophone teacher. After soloing with the Guggenhiem Concert Orchestra at Lincoln Center in 1984, Tim was given the opportunity to study clarinet with Ben Armato of the Metorpolitan Opera. He also began to study harmony and piano with Harold Danko and James Williams. It was 1985 when Tim got to meet the great Gil Evans and first got to play with the band.
Malick Koly After-Hours - Smalls Jazz Club
MALICK KOLY "AFTER-HOURS"
Billy Joel - In Concert - Madison Square Garden
Tickets for Billy Joel's unprecedented 67th consecutive show as a part of his record-breaking residency at The Garden on August 28 are ON SALE NOW – Click HERE for more info! Billy Joel Moves into the Garden In 2014, Billy Joel was established as the 4th franchise at Madison Square Garden—joining the Knicks, Rangers and Liberty as a resident at the World's Most Famous Arena. The internationally acclaimed, six time Grammy-winning New Yorker has a decades-long history with the Garden. Since 1978, he's played a record-breaking 106 shows, including a sold-out run of 12 consecutive nights in 2006, and a moving performance at the 12-12-12 concert benefiting victims of Sandy.
How To Solve A Murder with Billy Jensen - Gramercy Theatre
You may know Billy Jensen as the tireless writer who helped finish I’ll Be Gone in the Dark after his friend Michelle McNamara passed away. Jensen is also a true crime investigative journalist focused on unsolved crimes and citizen detectives. After 17 years of writing about unsolved murders, he became fed up—and came up with a system for solving murders himself. He has been referred to as the world’s first “digital consulting detective,” and it’s this expertise that led him to write Chase Darkness With Me: How One True Crime Writer Started Solving Murders, which will be released this April by Audible. If you’re interested in Jensen’s world of DIY detectives–and want to know how you too can solve crimes–then this is the show for you! Presented in collaboration with Audible.
Damien Echols in Conversation with Dave Hill - Gramercy Theatre
Damien Echols is a ceremonial magician. He spent over 18 years on death row for a crime he didn’t commit, and is the subject of four documentaries, including the Paradise Lost Series. Since his release Damien has written several books, the most recent of which: High Magick: A Guide to the Spiritual Practices That Saved My Life on Death Row was released last year. Damien will be in conversation with his friend: comedian, writer, musician, actor and man-about-town Dave Hill.
DIFFA's COCKTAILS BY DESIGN - Pier 92
DIFFA: Design Industries Foundation Fighting AIDS will gather thousands of designers, notable guests and avid supporters to celebrate its annual DINING BY DESIGN (DBD), March 21 – 25. Staged for five days, DINING BY DESIGN showcases extraordinary dining environments from renowned designers and brands to raise critical funds for DIFFA’s work fighting HIV/AIDS. For the tenth consecutive year, the New York event will be held at Pier 92 in conjunction with the Architectural Digest Design Show. The fun and fundraising starts on Thursday, March 21 with the annual COCKTAILS BY DESIGN. This special preview party offers attendees the first look at these one-of-a-kind dining installations. Guests are treated to bites from some of New York’s favorite restaurants at tasting tables. Individual tickets are available for $150 (early bird rate).
Our Brain on A.I. - The Great Hall at Cooper Union
Learn about the human and social implications of artificial intelligence and machine learning through the concerns and questions of NYC teens. This discussion is part of an ongoing initiative to engage more students in STEM learning and careers.
The Thistle & Shamrock: Karine Polwart - Carnegie Hall
Fiona Ritchie talks to Scottish songwriter, spoken-word performer, and essayist Karine Polwart, who performs at Carnegie Hall on March 23. Ritchies considers the lasting impact of 18th- and 19th-century Scots and Irish migrations on North American music today.
Meet Mikaela Shiffrin - Macy's Herald Square
Join Macy's and Longines for a special meet and greet with two-time Olympic Gold Medalist and World Cup Alpine Skier, Longines Ambassador of Elegance, Mikaela Shiffrin! The first 50 customers in line will have the opportunity to meet the athlete and snap a photo with her*! Event subject to change or cancellation. *While time permits. Meet & Greet is limited to the first 50 guests.
Ghp Glaze Clinic - Greenwich House Pottery
Refresh your basic glazing skills by attending one of these clinics. Free for currently registered GHP students. Simply show up in the glazing area.
FLOS Offers 15% Discount during Spring Season Sale - FLOS Showroom
FLOS, the world-renowned Italian lighting brand, is pleased to announce that from March 4th to March 21st the company will host their spring season sale at participating dealers, offering 15% off their decorative collection, excluding replacement parts. This is a great opportunity to own some of the world’s most distinguished lighting fixtures for below retail value. Sale items include lamps from the Gaku collection (originally $279, now $237), the Snoopy Green table lamp (originally $1,495, now $1,271), and Wirering (originally $1,195, now $1,016) as well as the remainder of FLOS decorative collections.
The Legendary Russian Samovar Restaurant Presents SEKRET - Russian Samovar
The Legendary Russian Samovar Restaurant Presents SEKRET Featuring The One and Only DJ Mekhanik Every Thursday Starting at 8 PM Full Bar, Food, Bottle Service, Drink Specials Ladies receive complimentary glass of champagne before 10 PM Upstairs at Russian Samovar For more information, visit www.russiansamovar.com Russian Samovar 256 W 52nd St, New York, NY 10019 212-757-0168
Repertorio Español: El Coronel No Tiene Quien Le Escriba/ No One Writes to the Colonel (1pm) - Harlem Stage
Based on Gabriel GarcÍa Márquez's Novel El Coronel No Tiene Quien Le Escriba Adapted by Jorge Alí Triana & Verónica Triana, Directed by Jorge Alí Triana The story covers a few months in the life of a colonel whose pension, delayed 15 years by an overwhelming bureaucracy, becomes an obsession. Reduced to penury despite his veteran status, the protagonist and his wife live in anticipation of his pay. But every Friday the only apparent contact with the outside world comes and goes with the same declaration from the postmaster, "Nothing for the colonel. No one writes to the colonel." The show is performed in Spanish with English super titles.
Ladies of the Land - Dixon Place
As Brooke tries on the necklaces of women throughout her life, she lives through the experiences and lessons that these women have shared with her. It is an exploration not only of the physical and emotional manifestations of grief, but of the way we endow objects with meaning. A necklace is no longer a piece of jewelry, but a symbol that can empower as much as it can inhibit its wearer.
Le Chant Des Sirénes - Schimmel Center
After a 15-year absence Sylvain Émard is now back onstage, rediscovering himself as a dancer changed by the passage of time as he ventures into a fascinating territory of experimentation. With Le chant des sirènes, he probes the states of being of a man who wants to believe that all is not lost. Holding high his hope like a subversive banner, he refuses to succumb to the glitter and sparkle of mirage. Against all odds he dances, a solitary maestro haunted by the sound and fury of the world he inhabits
Ray Gallon Trio - Fat Cat
Ray Gallon Trio
Piano Competition Finals - The Juilliard School
Piano Competition Finals
The Supreme Queens - Fat Cat
The Supreme Queens
Jordan Bak, Viola - The Juilliard School
Jordan Bak, Viola
Ricky Rodriguez Group - Fat Cat
Ricky Rodriguez Group
After Hours hosted by Jared Gold - Fat Cat
After Hours hosted by Jared Gold
New York Knicks vs. Denver Nuggets - Madison Square Garden
The New York Knicks will play the Los Angeles Clippers at Madison Square Garden
Piano Competition Finals - Paul Hall
RAVEL Piano Concerto in G Major (piano reduction)
Jordan Bak, Viola - Paul Hall
MAX BRUCH Romanze, Op. 85 JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH Cello Suite No. 5 in c minor, BWV 1011 JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH (arr. Zoltán Kodály) Fantasia Cromatica for Viola Solo, BWV 903 SIR ARTHUR BLISS Sonata for Viola and Piano
EMT Presents Mary Janes: The Women of Weed Movie Night - Come Back Daily
March 22, 2019 - New York City
Looking to beat the winter blues? Or catch a new flick with friends? Head to Come Back Daily for an exclusive screening of Mary Jane: The Women of Weed, an award-winning documentary by filmmaker Windy Borman about women leading the cannabis industry. Presented by Elmore Mountain Therapeutics, Borman takes us on a fascinating exploration into the movement to end marijuana prohibition, her own relationship to the plant, and the stereotypes surrounding it. Featuring Grammy® Award-winning singer-songwriter Melissa Etheridge and other female “ganjaprenuers,” don't miss what DOPE Magazine called "The most Important Documentary of our time." 7pm to 9pm (movie starts at 7:30pm) NO COST TO ATTEND ***Limited Seating Available Seating is on a first come first serve basis 21+ ***Register now to reserve your spot***
The American Symphony Orchestra presents “The Key of Dreams” - Carnegie Hall
The American Symphony Orchestra presents “The Key of Dreams” Friday, March 22, 2019 at Carnegie Hall, Stern Auditorium/Perelman Stage Conductor’s Notes Q&A 7 PM – 7:30 PM Concert 8 PM – 11 PM The American Symphony Orchestra presents “The Key of Dreams” conducted by Leon Botstein. Based on the French play Juliette, ou La clé des songes (Juliette, or The Key of Dreams) by Georges Neveux, Martin?’s operatic masterpiece Julietta, one of the greatest 20th-century works for the stage, explores the intersection of dreams and reality. Set in a seaside town, this psychological drama follows Michel, a traveling salesman, who finds himself in search of a mysterious girl whose voice he has been hearing for more than three years. In love with Julietta and realizing he is caught in a dream world, he must decide—should he stay in the dream or wake up? This Friday night program includes: Bohuslav Martin? – Julietta (US Premiere in Czech) With the Bard Festival Chorale Program and artists subject to change. Tickets on sale September 4. Prices $25 / $40 / $55
Schimmel Center at Pace University presents LE CHANT DES SIRÈNES by Sylvain Émard - Schimmel Center
Schimmel Center at Pace University presents LE CHANT DES SIRÈNES by Sylvain Émard Friday, March 22, 2019 at 7:30pm Schimmel Center at Pace University concludes its 2018-19 Dance Series with Le chant des sirènes, the newest solo work from accomplished Canadian dancer and choreographer Sylvain Émard, on Friday, March 22, 2019 at 7:30pm. Tickets start at $29 and can be purchased at SchimmelCenter.org, by phone at 212-346-1715, or by visiting the Schimmel Center Box Office at 3 Spruce Street, Manhattan. Box office hours are Tuesday–Saturday, noon–5pm, and then beginning three hours prior to each performance, through intermission. With Le chant des sirènes (“Siren Song”), dancer/choreographer Sylvain Émard returns to the stage after a 15-year absence from performing, rediscovering himself as a dancer changed by the passage of time. Now in his early 60s, Émard probes the states of being of a man who wants to believe that all is not lost. Without sacrificing the precision and formality that are the hallmarks of his thirty-year dance career, he approaches this work in a spirit of pleasure and freedom, driven by the idea that the special qualities of mature performers give them th... (read more)
The Blue Moons - Rue-B Jazz
The Blue Moons
Master Class with Steven Schick, Percussion - Manhattan School of Music
Percussionist, conductor, and author Steven Schick was born in Iowa and raised in a farming family. For forty years he has championed contemporary music by commissioning or premiering more than one hundred-fifty new works. Schick is music director of the La Jolla Symphony and Chorus and artistic director of the San Francisco Contemporary Music Players. He was music director of the 2015 Ojai Festival. He maintains a lively schedule of guest conducting including recent appearances with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, Ensemble Modern and the Asko/Schönberg Ensemble. Among his acclaimed publications include a book, "The Percussionist's Art: Same Bed, Different Dreams," and numerous recordings of contemporary percussion music including a 3 CD set of the complete percussion music of Iannis Xenakis (Mode) and a companion recording of the early percussion music of Karlheinz Stockhausen in 2014 (Mode). Steven Schick is Distinguished Professor of Music and holds the Reed Family Presidential Chair at the University of California, San Diego.
Msm Composers' Orchestra Directed by George Manahan - Manhattan School of Music
MSM Composers' Orchestra Directed By George Manahan
Msm Artists in Residence: American String Quartet - Manhattan School of Music
Peter Winograd and Laurie Carney, violin Daniel Avshalomov, viola Wolfram Koessel, cello With George Abud, baritone HAYDN String Quartet in C Major, Op.33, no. 3 FAIROUZ Evermore DEBUSSY String Quartet in G Minor, Op. 10
The Land Of Wandering Souls - Anthology Film Archives
Panh's observational documentary follows a poor, unnamed Cambodian family over a four-month period as they travel through the country engaging in the back-breaking work of laying fiber optic cables. The man, woman, and their six children are but a few of the hundreds of individuals employed by the French company Alcatel to construct this enormous infrastructural project, one that looks to a national future, but is intimately bound to post-colonial and civil traumas of the past. As the family marches across the nation, digging holes in the ground, it is the unresolved traumas of the nation's recent past that are exhumed and encountered, and Panh's open-eyed gaze that records it.
Trans Film: Kairos Dirt And The Errant Vacuum - Anthology Film Archives
A middle school lunch lady and mystical non-binary student have an unusual relationship. Through dreams the two make intimate contact with an otherworldly trans being who occupies a carnal dimension of death and sex-driven existence. Amid the post-industrial decay of the American South, a disparate band of nobodies including fellow lunch ladies, a mortician, a trans elder, a ministry worker, and a lesbian hospice provider all encounter the otherworldly being, known only as Kairos Dirt. A spiritual medium/phone sex operator is called upon to help transport these nobodies into this carnal dream-dimension. Television monitors, radio frequencies, and orifices all become portals to access this dimension. The characters must ask, "What is dream? What is reality? What must we give up to become something else?"
Reichsautobahn - Anthology Film Archives
"'Where Germany ends,' Hitler once said, 'the potholes begin.' And so he set about engineering the massive public works project known as the Autobahn. Hailed as a hedge against unemployment, a stimulant for a sluggish economy, a boon for car owners, and an efficient network for military transport, REICHSAUTOBAHN forwards the notion that from its conception the Autobahn 'wasn't to be just a road, it had to be a cultural institution.' Accordingly, Bitomsky states that the Nazis didn't develop the idea of the uberhighway, they simply formulated the aesthetics of the monumental road. REICHSAUTOBAHN drives headlong into the cultural politics of a 'road without obstacles,' the perfect symbol for a nation seeking extreme unification. And as with all dictatorial symbols, cultish adorations spread throughout the arts. There were Autobahn poems and novels, Autobahn paintings, Autobahn movies and, even, Autobahn oratorios. These propagandistic praises became the extended facade to a sweeping architecture without ornamentation, 'not the shortest but the noblest connection between two points.' Towards the end of the documentary, Bitomsky segues to black-and-white shots of the highway today. Con... (read more)
Subway Silent Disco - Overlook
Limited to just 75 people, this dance party combines elements of a flash mob, night club, and city tour all mixed into one incredible night. Wearing headphones playing two channels of non-stop party music, we go underground as we hit several iconic NYC subway platforms and terminals, as well as bars! Unlike your normal subway ride, your Party Tour Guide/Emcee will not only teach you about the NYC subway system, but have you doing some crazy things to surprise the unsuspecting passengers and onlookers. Check-in location: Overlook Bar Check-in time: 7:00-8:00pm // Leave at 8:00pm *Party ends at Overlook Bar Two channels of music: Green Channel: Top 40 Dance Hits Blue Channel: 90’s, 2k Throwbacks, Hip-Hop Your experience includes: • A pair of Quiet Events headphones • An experienced tour guide/emcee • Glow in the dark gear • Fun NYC facts to tell your friends! Special Notes: • 21+ to party • Limited tickets so act fast! • Comfortable shoes are recommended What you’ll need: • Metrocard with at least two swipes • Valid ID • Credit/debit card for check-in process How it works: When you arrive you’ll receive a pair of special wireless headphones. Each h... (read more)
10th Annual Edible Good Spirits - The Bowery Hotel
Edible Manhattan will celebrate the Tenth Annual Good Spirits, a cocktail pairing event, at The Bowery Hotel on Friday, March 22 from 6 to 9 p.m. The wildly popular event will again showcase cocktails prepared by many talented mixologists from celebrated local, national and international brands, to be sipped alongside top-notch tastes from some of New York City’s most acclaimed chefs and food artisans. This year, Edible is showcasing innovation and technology in the spirit world. The evening will feature presentations on how the entire drink industry is transforming with technology playing a role in distilling, delivering, creating, paying and consuming. Early bird tickets cost $65 per person and are available until Friday, March 21. Day-of admission costs $85 per person. Tickets can be purchased at https://bit.ly/2StnAJw. Guests must be 21 or older and must provide a valid government ID for entry. Participating vendors, subject to change, include: Brooklyn Food & Beverage, Bulleit Bourbon Fronteir Whiskey, Finger Lakes Distilling, Green Mountain Energy, Ketel One Vodka, Les Trois Petits Cochons, NOLET’S Gin, Orwashers Bakery, and Zacapa Rum.
True Crime Festival: Hln Night - Forensic Files Uncorked - Gramercy Theatre
Ulver - Irving Plaza
The Kamau Adilifu Quartet - Symphony Space
"One for Sonny" is the working title of our concert, with the "Sonny" in question being the late saxophonist Cornelius "Sonny" Fortune. Sonny died unexpectedly late last year and I, for one, feel his absence deeply. He was my closest musical associate from the time I joined his then new band about 45 years ago. I don't believe anyone would say that we played alike. Rather, our individual styles seemed to compliment each other. More importantly, we seemed to think about music in similar ways, both in long talks off the bandstand as well as in musical conversation on the bandstand. Oftentimes, we'd sit in his car after a late night gig and talk until well after sunup. Over and over again in those rap sessions we'd endeavor to solve the world's problems regarding politics, race, the business of jazz, you name it. Sonny's passing brings an end to our marathon chats. What remains, however, is the style of music that we shared. And, on the evening of March 22nd, we'll be playing that music, with Sonny's fiery spirit and unrelenting passion in our mind and in our hearts. We hope you'll decide to share the evening with us. - Kamau Adilifu
Vicki Burns Jazz - Symphony Space
Jazz vocalist Vicki Burns has appeared regularly in New York City since her arrival in 2009. Since then, she has performed at Birdland, The Iridium Jazz Club, The Zinc Bar, Cornelia Street Cafe and Bar Thalia to enthusiastic audiences. Working on fresh material for an upcoming recording, she will be joined by great guitarist, Paul Bollenback who has performed with, Carol Sloane, Joe Locke and Joey DeFrancesco.
One-Time Reading of Marlowe's 'Doctor Faustus' Will Accompany March 22 Presentation of 'Johannes Dokchtor Faust, a Petrifying Puppet Comedye' by Czecholslovak-American Marionette Theatre - Theater for the New City
On Friday, March 22, Theater for the New City will present a special one-hour, acoustic-punk reading of Christopher Marlowe's classic "Doctor Faustus," directed by Elizabeth Ruf Maldonado. The reading follows the 8:00 PM production of "Johannes Dokchtor Faust, a Petrifying Puppet Comedye" by Czechoslovak-American Marionette Theatre. Crystal Field, Artistic Director of Theater for the New City, will portray Faust. The Czech/British/U.S. cast also includes: Jonathan Slaff, Briana Bartenieff, Emily Pezzella, Robert (Moe) Maloney, Elizabeth Ruf-Maldonado, Matt Roper, Vit Horejs, Bonnie Stein, Kerry Milliron, Michelle Beshaw, Deborah Beshaw-Farrell and Ben Watts. Soundscape is by Karl Bateman. Refreshments will be served. Admission is free but donations will be gratefully accepted. The reading will start around 9:20 PM. No RSVP is required. The reading is a special event to accompany the marionette theater production, "Johannes Dokchtor Faust, a Petrifying Puppet Comedye," which is translated and directed by Vit Horejs. In it, the story of the learned Johannes Faust, who sold his soul to the devil for ultimate knowledge, is staged with age-old technical tricks of Czech puppetry... (read more)
Rr: Naama Gheber and Friends - KGB Bar
No cover. 2 drink minimum. RR: Naama Gheber and Friends
Duane Eubanks Quintet - Smalls Jazz Club
Philadelphia native and trumpeter Duane Eubanks has performed everywhere from the Hollywood Bowl to Birdland to the Kennedy Center, in addition to touring throughout Europe and Japan. He is a member of Dave Hollands two time GRAMMY Award winning big band and the late Mulgrew Miller's band, Wingspan. Duane was born into a family of musically gifted talent. His mother, pianist Vera ubanks was Kenny Barrons first piano teacher and a professional church pianist; his brothers, renowned trombonist, Robin Eubanks and guitarist, Kevin Eubanks, former bandleader of the The Tonight Show with Jay Leno ; as well as his uncle, legendary pianist Ray Bryant all contributed to his early music education. Duane started playing trumpet for the first time at age eleven, but didnt consider music as a career until college. While studying for a Business Administration degree at the University of Maryland Eastern Shore, Duane joined the universitys jazz band, which afforded him opportunities to play with jazz luminaries such as Stanley Turrentine, Shirley Scott, Charles Fambrough, and Clark Terry.
Mark Gross Quintet - Smalls Jazz Club
2 X GRAMMY AWARD WINNER, Mark Gross swings and sings with soul and rhythm along today's jazz vanguard. He constantly pushes the music forward, while staying true to the elements of the classic sound. Mark Gross has recorded on over 40 notable jazz recording, including GRAMMY winning projects by the Dave Holland Big Band - 'What Goes Around' on ECM Records, and 'Overtime' on Dare 2 Records. Mark has recorded 2 cd's under his own name to date.
Jd Allen After-Hours - Smalls Jazz Club
The Detroit natives apprenticeship has largely been in New York, where he has performed, recorded, and toured with legends Lester Bowie, George Cables, Betty Carter,Louis Hayes , Ron Carter, Jack DeJohnette, Frank Foster Big Band, Winard Harper, Butch Morris, David Murray, Wallace Roney, and contemporaries Cindy Blackman, Orrin Evans, Marcus Gilmore, Russell Gunn, and Me'shell N'degeocello, Dave Douglas among others.
HLN Night – Forensic Files Uncorked w/ Wine & Crime Gals - Gramercy Theatre
Wine & Crime is a hit true crime / comedy podcast you know and enjoy. What you maybe didn’t know is that it started in part because Amanda, Kenyon, and Lucy bonded over their love of Forensic Files. Join them as they chug wine, screen and chat about their favorite FF episodes, and unleash their worst Minnesota accents! PLUS: fun, girly things to do before and after. Presented in collaboration with HLN, the exclusive TV home of FF.
HLN Night – with Golden State Killer Investigator Paul Holes - Gramercy Theatre
Join Cold Case expert Paul Holes (of Golden State Killer solving fame, most recently) and HLN’s Jax Miller & Sarah Cailean, as they discuss strategies and investigation techniques in relation to a new HLN Original Series that explores a harrowing and unique missing persons case that is currently evolving into a much larger story of unsolved murder, cover- up and corruption. Presented in collaboration with HLN.
Battle! Hip-hop In Armor - The Metropolitan Museum of Art
The world of hip-hop dance culture collides with the bygone age of chivalry when freestyle dancers meet knights in armor. Discover the unexpected parallels in this unrivaled series of thrilling dance battles, commissioned by MetLiveArts in collaboration with The Met's Arms and Armor department and the fierce artists from the urban dance organization Dancing in the Streets of the South Bronx.
The Flute In The Low Countries: Brandon Patrick George - The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Acclaimed flutist Brandon Patrick George takes inspiration from 17th-century Dutch composer Jakob van Eyck's Der Fluyten Lust-hof (The Flute's Garden of Delights) in a program of rarely performed chamber works. With Jordan Dodson on baroque guitar.
How Green Was My Valley - Carnegie Hall
Ron Simon (The Paley Center for Media) and Dale Gregory (New-York Historical Society) introduce the 1941 Academy Award winner for Best Picture that follows the story of the Morgans, a hardworking family living in a small Welsh village. As coal mining and industrialization take hold of their once-idyllic home, the grown children must confront the tough choice between adapting to the changes or searching for fresh prospects and better lives elsewhere. Presented by the New-York Historical Society as part of the Bernard and Irene Schwartz Classic Film Series.
Jd Allen - Smalls
Hailed by the New York Times as "a tenor saxophonist with an enigmatic, elegant and hard-driving style," J.D. Allen is one of the most thoughtful jazz saxophonists on the scene today. The Detroit natives apprenticeship has largely been in New York, where he has performed, recorded, and toured with legends Lester Bowie, George Cables, Betty Carter,Louis Hayes , Ron Carter, Jack DeJohnette, Frank Foster Big Band, Winard Harper, Butch Morris, David Murray, Wallace Roney, and contemporaries Cindy Blackman, Orrin Evans, Marcus Gilmore, Russell Gunn, and Me'shell N'degeocello, Dave Douglas among others.
Rock This Town! Backstage in Cleveland: The Stories You Never Heard & the Swag You Never Saw - The Cutting Room
Fran Belkin's collection of t-shirts wound up in boxes in the attic, until one day she realized these mementos—chronicling over thirty years of Cleveland rock and roll history—could illustrate the incredible story of a most unusual family business: Belkin Productions. The shirts and swag paint a picture of the times, the music, the bands and the concert promotion company her husband Jules and his brother Mike built from the back room of their father's clothing store into a powerhouse on the national music scene. And unlike the concert tees the rest of us wore, these shirts were designed and produced in very small numbers as swag for the bands and crew, rarely seen beyond backstage. In Rock This Town!, Fran's collection is artfully woven together with vintage snapshots, concert photography, and intimate stories—shared by the Belkin Productions crew who lived them. Rock photographer Janet Macoska calls this book "one of the only memory albums ever made that gives an inside glimpse at concert production and promotion." This book is for those of us who were out front, standing drenched in a World Series of Rock downpour, singing along to every word of our favorite song, Bic lighters in... (read more)
Roots and Wings - Agor Gallery
Agora Gallery is pleased to announce Roots and Wings, a group exhibition on view March 2 through March 22, 2019. Roots and Wings features twelve artists whose works speak to the tension between political and social aspiration and the obstacles presented by everyday pressures. This exhibition includes James Chisholm, Markeith Woods, Diana Linsse, Poonam Verma, Roberta Caviglia, Teona Titvinidze-Kapon, Jon Kraja, Vasant Dora, Eunhyue Shin, Katha Rossein, Emil Silberman, Raul Mariaca Dalence and Yoram Kafkafi. Roots and Wings is an exhibition of works that rest somewhere on the continuum between figuration and abstraction. Yet, all of the works share in spatially and visually embodying the drama of historic aspiration. With themes ranging from the depiction of battlefields, to death under moonlight, to the more interior struggles of domestic life and the pressures of femininity, Roots and Wings communicates a melancholic atmosphere which isn’t without a tincture of hope. Roots and Wings exhibits all the distinguishing characteristics of formalism, while showcasing all-too-familiar scenarios. In this way, the exhibition expresses the conatus of human aspiration as something that... (read more)
Ghp Exhibition: Rirkrit Tiravanija - Greenwich House Pottery
NEW YORK – The Jane Hartsook Gallery is pleased to present new work by Rirkrit Tiravanija. Tiravanija has transformed the gallery into a familiar environment that invites visitors to take a minute to sit, relax, have a drink and contemplate pottery. Tiravanija is known for creating similar installations and events that emphasize social engagement, as well as his traditional material-based art. He made a name for himself in the early '90s by eschewing typical visual arts practices and engaging audiences by cooking for them. He has continued this practice throughout the decades in nearly all subsequent installations and exhibitions, including during his 2017 residency at Greenwich House Pottery—cooking 3-inch thick porterhouse steak in his thrown custom-formulated flameware to make lunch for the Pottery's community. In Untitled (Billy Wilder doesn't like green tea), Tiravanija once again brings his material-based artwork together with his social practice. Born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Tiravanija is a Thai artist widely recognized as one of the most influential artists of his generation. His work defies media-based description, as his practice combines traditional object making, p... (read more)
Family Concert: Who is Miles Davis? - Jazz at Lincoln Center
Our Jazz for Young People series continues with an hour-long narrated concert that will teach you all about Miles Davis. With an engaging script, live musical performances, and crowd participation, your family will be excited to learn about Davis' trials and triumphs and hear examples of what made his music so special. Trumpet master Sean Jones (a former Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra member) serves as host and bandleader, bringing both the story and the music to life in a most impressive manner. Far from a typical career retrospective, this Family Concert shows you not only what Davis accomplished, but also how he did it. Your kids will discover how Davis listened with open ears, found inspiration in the genius of others, and brought many influences into his own individual and evolving vision. Our Family Concerts are always a good time, and this fun afternoon program will entertain and inspire your family whether you're already jazz lovers or perhaps simply wondering, "Who is Miles Davis?"
The Nature of Forgetting - The Duke on 42nd Street
March 23, 2019 - Midtown
Flying downhill on a bicycle. Whispering with a sweetheart. Wedding toasts and first dances. When the past begins to dissolve for Tom, a father experiencing early onset dementia, happy childhood moments collide with momentous adult milestones in tangled threads of memory. Through intricate choreography and a cinematic live musical score, London-based Theatre Re creates a compellingly powerful narrative of heartwarming humanity that moves you to places where words cannot.
Yakov Smirnoff - Schimmel Center
Russian comedian Yakov Smirnoff takes the Schimmel Center stage for an evening of laughter. You may remember Smirnoff from his many appearances on The Tonight Show and Night Court, movie roles alongside Robin Williams, Tom Hanks, Jack Nicholson, and Meryl Streep, and his hit Broadway show, As Long as We Both Shall Laugh. He has also appeared at The White House at the personal request of three American presidents.
The Siegel Family & Friends - The Peoples' Voice Cafe
The Siegels' roots are firmly implanted in social justice and a love of music. Raised in the Hudson Valley activist folk scene, Laurie and Peter began performing together at local festivals as part of the Harmonious Hogchokers folk trio. They joined Pete Seeger's Clearwater organization in the 1970's, and both contributed to Pete Seeger's CDs, Tomorrow's Children and Pete at 89. Carole, Jeff, and Laurie sing with the Walkabout Clearwater Chorus, and Laurie is also a member of Hudson Valley Sally. Peter's songs and fiddle tunes have been published in Sing Out! and The Portland Collection of Fiddle Tunes. His most recent work is centered around his Vermont-based world beat ensemble The Gaslight Tinkers.
Robert Will Show You the Door - Dixon Place
Susan Jeremy with special guest Phillip Giambri On her journey for show biz success, Susan has had to endure many jobs, from her first job at a fast food joint in Long Island to a cigarette girl in Los Angeles to a diamond runner in Manhattan. Though she has learned a little about herself with each job, she also learned that she does not fit into the box. This show is about finding her truth: she is FIRE-able and allergic to polyester uniforms.
Hudson Valley Sally - The Peoples' Voice Cafe
Hudson Valley Sally is Terry Colliton, John Fisher, Laurie Siegel, and David Tarlo. Their music is rooted in the tradition of activist folk music--an unending chain that goes back centuries and spans the globe. They are dedicated to keeping alive some of the oldest songs, and introducing some of the newest. "Hudson Valley Sally sings with a freshness and innocence that reminds us why we fell in love with folk music in the first place." --Si Kahn
Uptown Nights: Wepa! Movement, Culture and Music the Curtis Brothers and Circa '95 - Harlem Stage
Harlem Stage and the Caribbean Cultural Center African Diaspora Institute (CCCADI) present a two part series of music and conversation celebrating the courageous and resilient Caribbean immigrants who traveled across land and sea and arrived in El Barrio, aka Spanish Harlem, seeking a bright future. What did they bring with them? What was left behind? What was reinvented? Spoken word, hip-hop, DJ and Afro-Latin jazz will be the vehicles that transport us to sunny beaches, sofrito, five floor walk-ups and sun kissed dreams of belonging.
Watson Adventures’ Wizard School Scavenger Hunt for Harry Potter Fans - Metropolitan Museum of Art
Join us on a Harry Potter-themed scavenger hunt for kids ages 10 and up! Young wizards will enjoy a trip to the Metropolitan Museum, in search of art that echoes characters and enchanted objects in the Harry Potter books. You'll track down serpents, Dumbledore look-alikes, and figures as scary as any Death Eater. The hunt is not an addition to or variation on Harry’s adventures, but instead references to the books will provide a surprising bridge to many strange and wonderful works of art. Kids must be accompanied by an adult, but all-adult teams can compete separately. Advance purchase is required. Price includes museum admission.
Jiaqi Long, Piano - The Juilliard School
Jiaqi Long, Piano
Karina Colis Band - Fat Cat
Karina Colis Band
Wayne Escoffery Group - Fat Cat
Wayne Escoffery Group
After Hours hosted by Greg Glassman - Fat Cat
After Hours hosted by Greg Glassman
Theaterworksusa's the Magic School Bus - BMCC Tribeca Performing Arts Center
When the class gets lost on the way to the planetarium, Ms. Frizzle saves the day by blasting into outer space for an epic interplanetary field trip! But when rivalries both old and new threaten to tear the students apart, our young heroes must learn to pull together or risk getting forever lost in the solar system. Hop on the Magic School Bus for a ride in this new musical adaptation based on the original book series published by Scholastic. Ages 5-19
American Museum of Natural History Presents: Identification Day - American Museum of Natural History
The Museum celebrates natural history collections by inviting visitors to bring in their own specimens for our annual Identification Day. Get an up-close look at specimens from the Museum’s extensive collections. This year, the focus is on predatory species in honor of the new exhibition T. rex: The Ultimate Predator. Scientists will attempt to identify your discoveries throughout the day!
Pre-College Student Recital - Paul Hall
11:00 AM - David Kwak, Violin 12:00 PM - Sami Ahn, Double Bass 2:00 PM - Christy Choi, Cello 2:30 PM - Sophia Su, Violin 3:00 PM - Keona Rose, Piano 4:00 PM - Sarah Busse, Violin 5:00 PM - Daniel Ma, Cello 6:00 PM - Hsi Yun Wu, Piano
Pre-College Student Recital - Morse Hall
1:00 PM - Nagyeom Jang, Cello 2:00 PM - Laura Futamura, Flute 4:00 PM - Soomin Kim, Cello 5:00 PM - Daniel Bierman-Chow, Trombone 6:00 PM - Chamber Music
MAP Student Recital | Oboe - Morse Hall
Oboe students of the Music Advancement Program (MAP) perform.
Identification Day - American Museum of Natural History
The Museum celebrates natural history collections by inviting visitors to bring in their own specimens for our annual Identification Day. Get an up-close look at specimens from the Museum's rarely seen collections, while scientists attempt to identify your discoveries.
Luc Moutin Trio - Rue-B Jazz
Luc Moutin Trio
Trans Film: The Films Of Suzie Silver, Program 1: Alternate Imaginaries - Anthology Film Archives
Over a career spanning the last thirty years, artist and filmmaker Suzie Silver has been persistently re-imagining human desires through the lenses of science fiction, drag, camp, and myth. We are thrilled to present two programs of her highly collaborative work, including early projects that helped define the canon of queer and trans video and performance, and new works that continue to expand upon it today. OBLIGATE SYMBIONTS OF COLUBUS GRAND takes us into an imagined cosmology 45.3 light years away where beings enact ritualized dance, while STINKHORN is the latest edition of Silver's work exploring fairy tales and mythic stories. ERIC MOE'S IDYLL reveals the mating rituals of forest nymphs, while THE HAPPIEST DAY creates a realm of innocence and pleasure in which historic performances are reenacted. A SPY: HESTER REEVE DOES THE DOORS is perhaps Silver's best-known work, wherein drag king Reeve performs to The Doors' "The Spy," clad as Jesus Christ with small, painted portraits on each breast. NEBULA creates an immersive kaleidoscopic sensory viewing experience, and FREEBIRD features Silver performing in drag the infamous Southern rock anthem that inspired an entire generation of... (read more)
Trans Film: The Films Of Suzie Silver, Program 2: Testing One Two: Trans-q Tv - Anthology Film Archives
In 2014, Suzie Silver began producing an episodic work called TRANS-Q TELEVISION. It is a playful and provocative video variety show reveling in the fluidity of gender and sexuality. Created with Scott Andrew, and in collaboration with a wide range of talent, the programs include stand-up theory, micro-documentaries, interviews, video art, animation, literary presentations, performance art, music, and much more. A Dadaist Variety Show for the 21st Century, it is a truly twisted mix of Sonny and Cher, SESAME STREET, ANDY WARHOL'S TV, Ernie Kovacs, Flip Wilson, Carol Burnett, WIGSTOCK, and PEE WEE'S PLAYHOUSE. We are pleased to present both completed episodes, as well as the special edition of TRANS-Q TV.
Once Upon A Time In The West - Anthology Film Archives
"The iconic opening sets an indelible scene: in a barren desert landscape in the American Old West, lone figures lurk around a remote railway station, waiting. The composer Ennio Morricone fills this scene with the sounds of weathered infrastructure, creaking under footfalls and whistling in the wind. When at last the train pulls in, its rhythmic huffing is monumental, signaling that the railway has an outsized impact on this land and its inhabitants. Along with the modern conveniences it brings, the train is a harbinger of violent upheaval; it is both a sustaining and destructive force. The original story was co-written by Leone, Dario Argento, and Bernardo Bertolucci, and features blue-eyed Henry Fonda cast convincingly against type as a cold-blooded villain." –Rebecca Cleman
For Teens: Studio 57 - Carnegie Hall
Young artists from across New York City are invited to make music at Carnegie Hall every Saturday throughout the school year at Studio 57. Students can collaborate with each other and work side by side with New York City's best performing artists. This program is open to young musicians with any level of experience in any genre, ages 14–19.
East Harlem–El Barrio: Where Art, Culture, and Community Intersect - Carnegie Hall
East Harlem–El Barrio is a conglomeration of Puerto Rican, Mexican, and Dominican influences of mostly working-class immigrants. It is also a neighborhood once again in transition as new arrivals from below 96th Street push north to East Harlem and begin to make their mark on the streetscape. But in the face of impending gentrification, East Harlem continues to visually and artistically display its energy, culture, and protest in street art and murals, processions, and street festivals. Explore this vibrant neighborhood during this guided, 90-minute walking tour.
Elite International Music Competition Student Recital - Carnegie Hall
Elite International Music Competition Student Recital
Thalia Docs: Who Will Write Our History? - Symphony Space
Led by Historian Emanuel Ringelblum and Known by the Code Name Oyneg Shabes, a Clandestine Group of Journalists, Scholars, and Community Leaders in the Warsaw Ghetto Vowed to Defeat Nazi Lies and Propaganda Not with Guns or Fists but with Pen and Paper. Now, for the First Time, Their Story Is Told in the Documentary Featuring the Voices of Three-Time Academy Award® Nominee Joan Allen and Academy Award® Winner Adrien Brody. in English, Yiddish, and Polish with English Subtitles
Carnegie Hall Citywide: Siena Licht Miller, Mezzo-Soprano Cameron Richardson Eames, Piano - Carnegie Hall
Mezzo-soprano Siena Licht Miller's versatile operatic career—she has sung roles by John Adams, Britten, Ravel, Mozart, and Puccini—is coupled with noteworthy performances on concert and recital stages. A 2016 Marilyn Horne Rubin Scholar, she has sung in master classes led by Ms. Horne, Renée Fleming, and Plácido Domingo. She is joined by pianist Cameron Richardson-Eames, who has accompanied master classes led by such singers as Dame Felicity Lott and Dame Sarah Connolly.
Thalia Docs: Becoming Astrid - Symphony Space
Teenaged Astrid Lindgren, future author of Pippi Longstocking, leads a carefree life in rural Sweden. Eager to break free from her conservative upbringing, she accepts an internship at a local newspaper where she attracts the attention of its married editor. After Astrid becomes pregnant, she leaves home to give birth to a son, whom she reluctantly leaves with a foster mother. When the foster mother falls ill, Astrid uses her imagination and flair for storytelling to reconnect with her child. In Swedish and Danish with English Subtitles
Watson Adventures’ Secrets of Grand Central Scavenger Hunt - Grand Central Terminal
Discover hidden history, cool places, little-known passageways, and surprising sights in the amazing landmark terminal in this unique scavenger hunt. You'll search for mysterious markings in the constellation ceiling, times for "ghost" trains in the former arrivals room, the gourmet extravaganza of the Grand Central Market, the architectural wonder of the Whispering Gallery, the delightful exhibits in the Transit Museum Annex, the dazzling art deco lobby of the Chrysler Building, surprising murals and carvings in the Graybar Passage, the snack heaven that is the Dining Concourse, hidden art, and more. A smartphone is required for each team to participate on this hunt. Advance ticket purchase required.
Watson Adventures’ Murder at the Met Scavenger Hunt - Metropolitan Museum of Art
Join Watson Adventures on a murder mystery scavenger hunt at the Metropolitan Museum! A curator's been murdered at the Metropolitan Museum, but he's left a trail of clues connected with secrets in works of art. As your team gathers answers about the art, you begin to piece together a sordid tale revolving around the museum’s planned purchase of a rare painting by Leonardo Da Vinci. The murder victim knew too much—and now it’s your turn to discover what drove someone to commit murder. To find out, you’ll have to crack a secret code to figure out whodunit. Price includes museum admission. Advance purchase is required.
Takeshi Nagayasu, Piano - Carnegie Hall
Takeshi Nagayasu, Piano PianoSummer 2018 Flier Competition Winner
This event forms part of Carnegie Hall's Migrations: The Making of America festival Harlem Stage and the Caribbean Cultural Center African Diaspora Institute (CCCADI) present a two part series of music and conversation celebrating the courageous and resilient Caribbean immigrants who traveled across land and sea and arrived in El Barrio, aka Spanish Harlem, seeking a bright future. What did they bring with them? What was left behind? What was reinvented? Spoken word, hip-hop, DJ and Afro-Latin jazz will be the vehicles that transport us to sunny beaches, sofrito, five floor walk-ups and sun kissed dreams of belonging. Puerto Rican and Dominican by way of the Bronx and Washington Heights—Circa '95, Patty Dukes and Reph, who rhyme seamlessly through English and Spanish, will showcase music and stories inspired by their families' migration to New York City during the golden era of hip-hop. The Curtis Brothers, African American and Puerto Rican, will explore West Africa's influence on American music from Latin America by mapping rhythms that evolved from the African slave trade: from samba, hip-hop, R&B, gospel, to blues, jazz and rock music. This is a jam you don't wanna miss
Voice of My City Gallery Tour - New York Public Library For the Performing Arts
New Yorkers see the city as a character in their own personal novels. Choreographer Jerome Robbins was no different. Take a tour of the exhibition Voice of My City: Jerome Robbins and New York with Library staff and special guest exhibit curator Julia Foulkes to discover how all of Robbins' love, frustration, and identity as a New Yorker were infused into his works.
Vhs Collection: 'Retrofuturism' North American Tour 2019 - Irving Plaza
Just Kidding: Papa Siama and Auntie Dallas - Symphony Space
A morning of Congolese-fuelled world music for the kids. Prepare to sing, dance, help play percussion and hear Papa Siama's fun stories about growing up in rural DR Congo.
Mendelssohn, with Words and Without: Adventures on String - New York Public Library For the Performing Arts
The New York Classical Players continue the Library for the Performing Arts' Felix Mendelssohn celebration! See a display of Mendelssohn's hand-written letters before enjoying performances of the popular Piano Trio No. 1, the rarely heard Variations Concertantes for cello and piano, and the late-period masterwork, String Quartet Op. 80. Enjoy recitations of Mendelssohn's tender correspondence to family and friends, plus a mid-concert conversation with the performers.
Theater on Screen: Anna Karenina Musical - Symphony Space
A spectacular, breathtaking, high-tech musical production based on the masterpiece by Leo Tolstoy. The dramatic love story between the married Anna Karenina and a dashing military officer, Alexey Vronsky, takes place amidst the glitter and luxury of the Russian nobility in the second half of the 19th century. Featuring Russian musical stars Ekaterina Guseva, Natalia Bystrova, Sergey Lee, Andrey Alexandrin, Alexander Marakulin and Lika Rulla, from a score by Roman Ignatyev and a libretto by Yuliy Kim. Filmed before a live audience from the Moscow Operetta Theatre. Presented in Russian w/ English subtitles. "The show is a marvel, seamlessly transitioning from train station to concert hall to ice rink" - Moscow Times "Drama is present in every song." - Russia Beyond the Headlines "A visual feast" - The Theatre Times
Selected Shorts on Tour: The Getty Museum - Symphony Space
That classically trained, Oscar-caliber actor who brings gravitas to an enduring text. That quirky, indie darling who wrings every little laugh from a modern writer's dialogue. Sometimes, the marriage between performer and text is undeniable—the connection is dynamic and uncanny, yet completely natural. The hit public radio show and podcast Selected Shorts takes things one step further in an evening of memorable live performances. In collaboration with actors and select guest introducers, the beloved series pairs stories and storytellers sure to fit like a glove. Hosted by Jane Kaczmarek.
Carlos Dias - 'the Living Room' - Symphony Space
The Brazilian-born, Manhattan-based singer, musician and actor, Carlos Dias has led a remarkably eclectic international career. He has appeared in many of Brazil's highest-rated novelas (soap operas) and musical productions imported from Broadway; sung pop-jazz at top New York venues; worked as an acrobatic dancer; and recorded several CDs of dance music and American standards. In his performance "The living room", Carlos Dias as a soloist, travels through his Brazilian roots from the Capoeira and Bossa Nova to Jazz. Playing his Berimbau, the pandeiro and the guitar, he talks about his music influences. Come to be part of his living room!
Orion Weiss and Shai Wosner, Piano Duo - Bridgehampton Chamber Music Festival
BCMF's 2019 Spring Season kicks off with two titans of the piano, Orion Weiss and Shai Wosner. Both have appeared separately with BCMF in the past, but the duo has teamed up for a stunningly glorious program that pairs intimate gems by David Lang with masterpieces by Schubert and Brahms.
Schimmel Center at Pace University presents YAKOV SMIRNOFF: The Happily Ever Laughter Tour - Schimmel Center
Schimmel Center at Pace University presents YAKOV SMIRNOFF: The Happily Ever Laughter Tour Saturday, March 23, 2019 at 7:30pm Schimmel Center at Pace University concludes its 2018-19 Comedy II Series with an evening of standup featuring internationally-acclaimed comic Yakov Smirnoff, on Saturday, March 23, 2019 at 7:30pm. Tickets start at $29 and can be purchased at schimmelcenter.org, by phone at 212-346-1715, or by visiting the Schimmel Center Box Office at 3 Spruce Street, Manhattan. Box office hours are Tuesday-Saturday, Noon-5pm, and beginning three hours prior to each performance, through intermission. "Warmhearted, delightful, and splendidly funny!" - The New York Times Hailed as a "laugh riot" by the Wall Street Journal, actor and comedian Yakov Smirnoff envisions a world where sadness and tears are replaced with love and laughter. Fans of the Russian born entertainer will enjoy Yakov's hilarious and insightful philosophies on love, relationships, and the differences between men and women in Happily Ever Laughter: The Neuroscience of Romantic Relationships. Yakov Smirnoff is a Russian-American comedian, actor, and writer. Born Yakov Naumovich Pokhis in Ru... (read more)
Philadelphia native and trumpeter Duane Eubanks has performed everywhere from the Hollywood Bowl to Birdland to the Kennedy Center, in addition to touring throughout Europe and Japan. He is a member of Dave Hollands two time GRAMMY Award winning big band and the late Mulgrew Miller's band, Wingspan. Duane was born into a family of musically gifted talent. His mother, pianist Vera Eubanks was Kenny Barrons first piano teacher and a professional church pianist; his brothers, renowned trombonist, Robin Eubanks and guitarist, Kevin Eubanks, former bandleader of the The Tonight Show with Jay Leno ; as well as his uncle, legendary pianist Ray Bryant all contributed to his early music education. Duane started playing trumpet for the first time at age eleven, but didnt consider music as a career until college. While studying for a Business Administration degree at the University of Maryland Eastern Shore, Duane joined the universitys jazz band, which afforded him opportunities to play with jazz luminaries such as Stanley Turrentine, Shirley Scott, Charles Fambrough, and Clark Terry.
2 X GRAMMY AWARD WINNER, Mark Gross swings and sings with soul and rhythm along today's jazz vanguard. He constantly pushes the music forward, while staying true to the elements of the classic sound. Mark Gross has recorded on over 40 notable jazz recording, including GRAMMY winning projects by the Dave Holland Big Band - 'What Goes Around' on ECM Records, and 'Overtime' on Dare 2 Records. Mark has recorded 2 cd's under his own name to date. 'Preach Daddy' on King Records and 'Riddle of the Sphinx' on J Curve Records. His consistently professional musicianship has led to live and recorded efforts with many of his fellow pacesetters in jazz music. Mark has toured the world with the Mark Gross Quartet, Philip Harper, Nat Adderley, Dave Holland, Mulgrew Miller, Nicholas Payton, Delfeayo Marsalis, Wynton Marsalis, Dizzy Gillespie, Nancy Wilson, Jimmy Heath, Dizzy Gillespie Alumni Big Band, Village Vanguard Jazz Orchestra, Tom Harrell Big Band, Duke Ellington Orchestra, Frank Foster and the Loud Minority, Charles Mingus Big Band, Freddie Hubbard, Donald Harrison, Mark Whitfield, Joe Dukes, Captain Jack McDuff, Joe Chambers, Neal Smith, Cyrus Chestnut, Regina Carter, Lionel Hampton, St... (read more)
Philip Harper Quintet - Smalls Jazz Club
Philip Harper (born May 10, 1965 in Baltimore, Maryland) is a jazz trumpeter. He grew up in Atlanta and studied music there. He later worked with The Jazz Messengers and Charles Mingus' big band. He also signed with Verve Records and produced four albums for them.
Tinder Live with Lane More - True Crime Edition - Gramercy Theatre
The critically acclaimed show is an anything-can-happen interactive comedy showstopper (where the audience chooses who Lane Moore swipes right or left on!) with helpful and oftentimes ridiculous tips, tricks, and real-time swiping and messaging! If you’ve ever been on an online dating site, you need to see this show. The true crime edition will feature true crime festival talent as guests!
Ailey Extension Spring Performance Showcase - The Ailey Citigroup Theater
Since 2005, Ailey Extension has made dance accessible to people of all levels and backgrounds through its “real classes for real people.” As part of Ailey Extension’s Performance Workshop Series, family, friends, and the general public are invited to see Ailey Extension students perform original choreography from Karen Arceneaux, Baila Society, Jeffrey Bynum, Robin Dunn, Antonio Jefferson, and Terri Wright. Tickets will sell out, so grab yours today!
Harlem Stage and the Caribbean Cultural Center African Diaspora Institute (CCCADI) present a two part series of music and conversation celebrating the courageous and resilient Caribbean immigrants who traveled across land and sea and arrived in El Barrio, aka Spanish Harlem, seeking a bright future. What did they bring with them? What was left behind? What was reinvented? Spoken word, hip-hop, DJ and Afro-Latin jazz will be the vehicles that transport us to sunny beaches, sofrito, five floor walk-ups and sun kissed dreams of belonging. Puerto Rican and Dominican by way of the Bronx and Washington Heights—Circa '95, Patty Dukes and Reph, who rhyme seamlessly through English and Spanish, will showcase music and stories inspired by their families' migration to New York City during the golden era of hip-hop. The Curtis Brothers, African American and Puerto Rican, will explore West Africa's influence on American music from Latin America by mapping rhythms that evolved from the African slave trade: from samba, hip-hop, R&B, gospel, to blues, jazz and rock music. This is a jam you don't wanna miss
This Irish American Life - Carnegie Hall
Hosted by historian Dr. Miriam Nyhan Grey, This Irish American Life showcases the best of Irish and Irish-American history, literature, current affairs, and artistic endeavors. For six weeks, This Irish American Life will devote its weekly show to the theme of migration and immigration.
Magic show - Broadway Comedy Club
Prepare yourself for an afternoon filled with mystery and inspiration during the Magic Show, one hour show at the legendary Broadway Comedy Club. Rich Kameda will enchant the young at heart with a dazzling display of sleight of hand tricks for kids and mentalism for adults. It is an interactive experience for the young at heart. DOORS OPEN AT 12:30 P.M. SHOW RUNS FROM 1:00 P.M. TO 2:00 P.M. Please note – there is two item food and beverage minimum requirement.
Scratch Paper - Caveat
Scratch Paper is a smart, supportive open mic for informative comedy, research-inspired storytelling, and charismatic talks, brought to you by Caveat.
Theater Works USA's the Magic School Bus - BMCC Tribeca Performing Arts Center
Emily Nachazel - Arlo Nomad
Through March 23, 2019 - New York City
WHO: New York based producers Jason Jude Hill and Daniel Sears of GrumpyFilms & Productions are announcing winter/spring 2019 RSVP at Arlo dates with brand new line-ups. WHAT: This Real Sexy Variety Party, RSVP at Arlo, is paving the way for out-of-the-box variety shows and intimate/immersive entertainment experiences in New York City. The venue combines a chic, welcoming atmosphere with design-forward spaces for a one-of-a-kind experience that makes audience members and performers all part of the party. RSVP at Arlo features talent spanning an array of disciplines including music, dance, comedy, burlesque, magic, and more! Hosted by VODKA STINGER (54 Below, Christmas With the Crawfords) With performances by: ONLIEST (Harmony-Driven Duets) CORNELIUS LOY (Theremin Virtuoso) TANYA SOLOMON (Preposterous Comedy-Magic) SHARON SPELL (No Bummers Storytelling) WHEN: Mar 22-23 Shows at 7:30pm & 10:00pm TICKETS: $5 floor seats (cushion provided), $25 general admission (comfy couches and chairs). A free drink included with ALL TICKETS! Also $8 house beer/wine all night, and 15% off dinner before/after RSVP at Arlo NoMad's first-floor restaurant.
The Pleasure Project - The Kraine Theater
Fri, March 22 at 8:30pm & Sat, March 23 at 8pm The world is ending and humanity is doomed. President Pussygrabber and Supreme Leader Lil Kim have come to blows and nuclear annihilation is nigh. Five aliens living amongst us as human women pose the very serious question: Can the clitoris save humanity? The Pleasure Project is an internationally-acclaimed sci-fi comedy show, a celebration of female sexual empowerment, an "eye-opening exploration of just how important this beautiful, tiny creation really is." (The Adelaidian) "Funny, engaging, informative and empowering, The Pleasure Project is a performance you will leave feeling inspired, fulfilled and ready to change the world. Bogle tackles controversial issues such as sex, feminism, religion, spirituality and politics with revolutionary candor and style." -Ms. Magazine $15-$20. Presented by Ava Bogle Productions. http://www.thepleasureprojectshow.com thepleasureprojectshow@gmail.com
Forms of Enclosure: New Prints 2019/Winter - International Print Center New York
INTERNATIONAL PRINT CENTER NEW YORK (IPCNY) presents the fifty-ninth presentation of its New Prints Program, a biannual, juried open call for prints and print-based work created in the preceding twelve months. Titled Forms of Enclosure, this exhibition features 30 artists from the United States, Argentina, France, Poland, Canada, and Bulgaria. Find additional information about the exhibition at ipcny.org/formsofenclosure Image: Ulrike Müller. 'Keks', 2018. Monotype with chine-collé. Sheet: 29 x 22 inches. Printed by Marina Ancona; published by 10 Grand Press, Brooklyn. Edition: Unique. Courtesy of the artist and 10 Grand Press, Brooklyn, NY. © 2019 10 Grand Press & the artist.
RSVP at Arlo - Arlo Nomad
WHAT: This Real Sexy Variety Party, RSVP at Arlo, is paving the way for out-of-the-box variety shows and intimate/immersive entertainment experiences in New York City. The venue combines a chic, welcoming atmosphere with design-forward spaces for a one-of-a-kind experience that makes audience members and performers all part of the party. RSVP at Arlo features talent spanning an array of disciplines including music, dance, comedy, burlesque, magic, and more! March 22-23: Hosted by: VODKA STINGER (54 Below, Christmas With the Crawfords) - RETURN ENGAGEMENT!! Featuring performances by: SHIHORI (award-winning Japanese singer-songwriter) CORNELIUS LOY (Theremin Virtuoso) TANYA SOLOMON (Preposterous Comedy-Magic) SHARON SPELL (No Bummers Storytelling) VIPE X FEETZ (Amazing Flexn Dance) ...and more surprises!
Voice of My City: Jerome Robbins and New York - Lincoln Center
Jerome Robbins was an inveterate observer, seeker, and creator. In diaries, drawings, watercolors, paintings, story scenarios, poems—and, especially, in dance—he reimagined the world around him. And New York dominated that world, where he was born one-hundred years ago and where he lived his entire adult life. Ideas of New York have long inspired artists but often the city serves as a backdrop in an artwork rather than the basis for plot, theme, and meaning. Robbins put the city at the center of his artistic imaginings. From Fancy Free—his breakout hit ballet in 1944—to the musical West Side Story on stage (1957) and screen (1961) and the ballets N.Y. Export: Opus Jazz (1958) and Glass Pieces (1983), Robbins explored the joys, struggles, grooves, routines, and aspirations of New York. And in recreating the city around him on stage, Robbins found a place for himself. Voice of My City traces Robbins' life and dances alongside the history of New York, inspiring viewers to see the city as both a muse and a home.
Her Story, Her Song: Women’s History Month Concert - Marble Collegiate Church
Join us for Marble's Women's History Concert: Her Story, Her Song: Inspired Music of Women Poets and Composers. Featuring the Marble Choir, under the direction of Kenneth Dake and celebrates women composers and poets whose visionary voices have shaped the landscape of classical and contemporary music.
We Banjo 3 - Schimmel Center
For all the innovation and invention that goes into modern music these days, it’s the inspiration derived from one’s roots that proves the most enduring. So credit Ireland’s We Banjo 3 for finding common ground between old world tradition and authentic Americana by playing their banjo, fiddle, guitar and mandolin in an innovation fusion of styles that they dub “Celtgrass.”
John Merrill & Friends 'After-Hours' - Mezzrow Jazz Club
Join guitarist John Merrill & friends for our after-hours set.
Philip Sheegog, Cello - The Juilliard School
Philip Sheegog, Cello
Valery Ponomarev Sextet - Fat Cat
Valery Ponomarev Sextet
NYC Craft Pop-up - Grand Bazaar NYC
We're celebrating "National Craft Month" by featuring a curated selection of talented independent and emerging craft-makers. Come discover these incredible local makers who produce one-of-a-kind handmade fashion, home goods, jewelry, leather goods, furniture, stationary, lamps, art and more. Part of Grand Bazaar NYC's mission is to help keep New York City creative and vibrant by supporting talented local artists, designers and makers with much needed affordable retail space, and by organizing such quality shopping events.
The Steel Beast - Anthology Film Archives
This daring collage of rhythms, abstractions, superimpositions, and wild shots of the railroad and other machines, made by the great German photographer Zielke, was originally commissioned to celebrate the centennial of the Nuremburg-Furth railroad line, and later banned by the Third Reich for "decadent aesthetics." French film critic Jean Mitry made this film poem to honor the largest French steam locomotive, the Pacific. The montage of speeding wheels, pistons and gears; the parallel lines of rails and wires; a stoker furiously shoveling coal in concert with the score – together these elements visually and musically describe the exhilaration of the train's motion.
Bridges Film Program - Anthology Film Archives
This program explores the various ways that filmmakers have celebrated and explored the phenomenon of the bridge, with classics by Joris Ivens, Rudy Burckhardt, and Shirley Clarke, alongside the rarely-screened BRIDGE HIGH by Manfred Kirchheimer (director of STATIONS OF THE ELEVATED), one of Heinz Emigholz's exquisite architectural studies (MAILLART'S BRIDGES), and more.
Trans Film: Hanky Code - Anthology Film Archives
Before Internet dating and hookup apps, The Handkerchief code was largely used by gay men in the 1970s to distinguish sexual preferences and fetishes in gay clubs and on the streets of places like San Francisco and New York. In HANKY CODE, San Francisco's queer experimental film collective Periwinkle Cinema brings together queer and trans filmmakers across a spectrum of genres, styles, genders, and locations to dissect the code in this epic anthology feature comprised of 25 short films. Each filmmaker or filmmaking team tells a story of a different color/fetish of the code. Films range from narrative to experimental to erotic and animated, with many films redefining the traditional code with colors, patterns, and fetishes according to the creative interpretation of the artist. Audience members are invited to flag their hankies at the screening.
Canal Zone - Anthology Film Archives
CANAL ZONE is about the people who live and work in the Panama Canal Zone and shows both the operation of the Canal and the various governmental agencies – business, military, and civilian – related to the functioning of the Canal and the lives of the Americans in the zone. The film includes sequences of ships in transit, the work of special canal pilots, aspects of the civil government, the work of the military, and the social, religious, and recreational life of the Zonians.
Piano Teachers Congress Honors Program Winners - Carnegie Hall
Piano Teachers Congress Honors Program Winners
Carnegie Hall Citywide: The Itty Biddies - Carnegie Hall
The Itty Biddies' foot-tapping tunes, crystal-clear vocals, and instrumental skills inspire audiences of all ages to sing and dance along with the band. The musicians' soaring vocals are buoyed by sweet ukulele, melodic piano, groovy bass, and fat drums for an irresistibly joyous sound that will lift your spirits, and get your fingers snapping and your toes tapping.
The 16th Annual Colon Cancer Challenge - Randalls Island
Schimmel Center at Pace University presents WE BANJO 3 - Schimmel Center
Schimmel Center at Pace University presents WE BANJO 3 Sunday, March 24, 2019 at 7:30pm Schimmel Center at Pace University continues its 2018-19 Folk Series with an evening of Irish "Celtgrass" music featuring We Banjo 3 on Sunday, March 24, 2019 at 7:30pm. Tickets start at $29 and can be purchased at SchimmelCenter.org, by phone at 212-346-1715, or by visiting the Schimmel Center Box Office at 3 Spruce Street, Manhattan. Box office hours are Tuesday-Saturday, Noon-5pm, and then beginning three hours prior to each performance, through intermission. "Ultra-talented Irish performers... freshness and finesse bordering on magical." - The Wall Street Journal We Banjo 3is one of the most prolific and exciting bands to emerge from Ireland in recent years. Featuring banjo, fiddle, mandolin, guitar, percussion and beautiful harmonies, this Galway and Nashville based quartet comprises two sets of brothers, Enda & Fergal Scahill and Martin & David Howley, who collectively hold over a dozen "All Ireland" titles and are among the most revered musicians in Ireland today. The March 24 concert is the final stop on the band's Roots to Risetour, which opened January 22 in New Phi... (read more)
Jay Critch 'Hood Favorite' Tour - Irving Plaza
The Aim Invitational - Symphony Space
Broadway Dance Center's youth performance company Arts In Motion (AIM), presents the annual AIM Invitational. A youth dance variety showcase evaluated by top industry professionals.
The Cathedral of St. John the Divine Presents the Spirituality of Dementia with the Very Reverend Tracey Lind - The Cathedral of St. John The Divine
The Cathedral of St. John the Divine will welcome the Very Reverend Tracy Lind, Episcopal priest and community activist, as a guest preacher sharing spiritual insights and lessons gained from a life complicated by early-onset dementia at the Choral Eucharist service on Sunday, March 24 at 11 a.m. at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, 1047 Amsterdam Avenue (at 112th Street). In 2016, the Very Rev. Tracey Lind was diagnosed with the early stages of Frontotemporal Degeneration, a disease which is caused by progressive nerve cell damage in the brain. This loss of function in the brain leads to behavior and personality deterioration, and difficulty with language production and comprehension. This diagnosis hasn’t stopped her from fully immersing in what life has to offer—and what she has to give. In the time since her diagnosis, she has given enlightening addresses in churches across Europe and North America. Tracey was formerly the Dean of Trinity Cathedral, Cleveland’s oldest church congregation, and has spent more than 30 years working for interfaith relations, social and environmental justice, sustainable urban development, arts and culture, and progressive theology. She ... (read more)
Rr: Red Hen Press - KGB Bar
Red Hen Press is proud to present Joe Jimenez, Dolores Hayden, and heidi andrea restrepo rhodes at the famed KGB Bar Red Room for a night of unforgettable poetry. Joe Jiménez is the author of the poetry collection The Possibilities of Mud and Bloodline, a young adult novel. Jiménez is the recipient of the 2016 Letras Latinas/ Red Hen Press Poetry Prize. His poems have appeared on the PBS NewsHour and Lambda Literary sites. Jiménez was recently awarded a Lucas Artists Literary Artists Fellowship from 2017 to 2020. He lives in San Antonio, Texas, and is a member of the Macondo Writers Workshop. For more information, visit joejimenez.net. DOLORES HAYDEN, award-winning poet and historian of American landscapes, engages the lives of daredevil pilots—women and men from the earliest years of aviation—in Exuberance, her third poetry collection. Hayden's poems have appeared in Poetry, the Common, Ecotone, Raritan, Shenandoah, the Yale Review, Southwest Review, Best American Poetry, and Poetry Daily. Author of American Yard (2004) and Nymph, Dun, and Spinner (2010), she's received awards from the Poetry Society of America and the New England Poetry Club, and residencies in poetry from Dj... (read more)
Nyc Teen Author Festival Kick-Off Event - Strand Book Store
We're excited to be kicking off New York's Teen Author Festival for the third year in a row with a panel of talented young authors! Featured authors include: Kayla Cagan Jimmy Cajoleas Kevin Emerson Amy Ewing Katherine Locke Shawn Sarles Hosted by David Levithan! Join us in the Rare Book Room as we once again kick off NYCTAF! This event is free to attend and copies of the author's books will be available at the event. Please Note: If you want to get a book signed from any of the attending authors, you must purchase any of the featured books at the event.
Writers Studio - KGB Bar
About the Series: KGB Bar Sunday Night Fiction The KGB Bar Sunday Night Fiction showcases the finest in contemporary fiction from new and emerging writers.
Lezlie Harrison Quartet - Smalls Jazz Club
Lezlie Harrison is her own personal renaissance. Her constant state of evolution and growth brings with it, gifts for those those paying attention.
Jc Stylles Quintet Feat. Steve Nelson - Smalls Jazz Club
"Hittin' the Hutch"
Craigy F, Wave Matthews, Dash Flash - Pianos
This Event Is 21 And Over CRAIGY F WAVE MATTHEWS DASH FLASH
Flower Show Opening Day - Macy's Herald Square
Join us for Opening Day of Flower Show! Enjoy Ellia Aromatherapy sessions presented by HoMedica in the Home Department beginning at 12PM. Take a trip to Outer Space with Peppa Pig in the Kid's Department at 1PM. Plus, don't forget to stop by our floral seminar with Dreamwork Diva and Men's Suiting event on the 5th Floor. RSVP is required for seminars. Seats are limited. Please check back for details. Events subject to change of cancellation. While time permits.
Lezlie Harrison Quartet - Smalls
Lezlie Harrison is her own personal renaissance. Her constant state of evolution and growth brings with it, gifts for those those paying attention. As a vocalist both bold and subtle, her vulnerability attends to the fragile matters of our collective human affairs while her optimistic momentum inspires us to rise above any tribulation to rejoice. Be it Jazz, Blues, Gospel, Soul ,The American Song Form, original compositions or any song in ANY form, Ms. Harrison will imbue it her distinctive stamp and make a very personal delivery.
Jc Stylles Quintet Feat. Steve Nelson - Smalls
New York based Jazz Guitarist JC Stylles (aka Jason Campbell) first touched a guitar around 7 years of age, and was introduced to the world of jazz in the most unlikely of places, that being in the rainforests of Kuranda, a tiny, predominantly aboriginal town in the tropics of Far North Queensland Australia, via his stepfathers jazz record collection. At 16 years of age he left the rainforests for Sydney where significantly in his development, he had the opportunity to attend 2 shows a night for nearly a week in front row seats of the touring jazz guitar great George Benson. This sponge-like absorption at such a close range left an indelible mark in his development long term as a guitarist.
NYLON - Theaterlab
Theaterlab Presents Blockchain Theater Project’s production of NYLON Written by Sofia Alvarez Directed by Knud Adams March 6 – 24, 2019 Wed-Thu at 7:30pm, Fri-Sat at 8pm, Sun at 3pm with extra performance Tues, Mar 19 at 7:30pm Tickets: $22 HERE An estranged couple, Anna and Matthew, meet for the first time in four years. Their joint history is dredged to the surface in a way that threatens their futures as well as those of everyone around them. This world premiere psychological drama explores the options available to women and the ways in which we become our own worst enemies when we stray from the acceptable paths available to us. Cast: Maggie Bofill, Brian Miskell, Cesar J. Rosado, Claire Siebers, and Sheila Vand Writer: Sofia Alvarez (screenwriter, Netflix’s To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before) Director: Knud Adams Sets by Andrew Moerdyk Lighting by Kate McGee Costumes by Clara Fath Sound design by John Gasper Original music by Anand Wilder Stage Manager: Pat Harnett-Marshall
DEATH OF A DRIVER - urban stage
Sarah is an American engineer. Kennedy is an East African taxi driver. They strike up a friendship and embark on a journey to change rural Kenya building new roads. But when a disputed local election lands Kennedy in jail and threatens the work, Sarah questions the integrity of their alliance and wonders how well she knows the man she thought was her friend. Death of a Driver is a bracing examination of "doing good" abroad, the limits of understanding another person, and what happens when personal and political obligations collide.Performance Schedule: Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday at 7:30 pm Matinees on Saturday and Sunday at 3pm ADDED PERFORMANCE: Sunday, March 3 at 7:30pm Tickets are $40 ($25 during previews, March 1 thru March 3) Opening Night tickets are $50 (includes the performance and a Champagne reception on March 4) Tickets for Urban Stages Patrons’ Night on Wed., March 7th are $150 (6:30 pm Cocktails / 7pm Show / 8:30pm Dinner) Student Rush tickets are available for $15 (with valid ID, subject to availability). All tickets may be purchased at www.urbanstages.org or by phone at 1.866.811.4111 For more information about Urban Stages, please visit www.ur... (read more)
BIG GAY SING: BODY & SOUL - NYU Skirball Center
Through March 24, 2019 - Greenwich Village
For 2019, Big Gay Sing pays tribute to the contributions of black artists from gospel, jazz, R&B, pop, rap, and beyond. Join us as we celebrate the soul behind the music, and honor the musicians whose unique sound helped forge the musical identity of America. Add an homage of R-E-S-P-E-C-T for the Queen of Soul Aretha Franklin, and round it out with a heaping dose of Beyoncé, The Temptations, Rihanna, John Legend, and Stevie Wonder, and you've got the sing-along party of the season.
Silent Saturday @ Hudson Station - Hudson Station
It’s Saturday night and we know where the party’s at! Hudson Station is about to be lit with our three live DJs spinning your favorite jams all night long. This bar has all the booze and snacks you need for an amazing night. We’ll even sweeten the deal with $5 beer, $6 wine, and $10 Titos drinks. So what are you waiting for? Get your tix today! Your 3 Live DJs are spinning all night long: DJ 1 (Green): Top 40 Dance Hits DJ 2 (Red): 80’s, 90’s & 2K Throwbacks DJ 3 (Blue): Hip Hop/R&B Your Experience Includes: • A Pair of Quiet Events headphones • Glow in the Dark gear • 3 live DJ’s battling for your attention • Drink deals all night long Special notes: • 21+ • Rain or shine • Dress Code: Dress to Impress What to bring: • Valid ID • You MUST have a credit or debit card for the check-in process. If the headphones are NOT returned, there will be a $100 charge to your credit or debit card after the event. • No need to print your ticket, just show the code on your phone or they will have your name at the door. How it works: With your pair of Quiet Events headphones you can adjust the volume and choose between our three DJ’s with the flick of a switch. Each... (read more)
"Adaku's Revolt" at Abrons Arts Center - Abrons Arts Center
Presented as part of the TILT Kids Festival, in partnership with Cultural Services of the French Embassy and the French Institute Alliance Française (FIAF) "Adaku’s Revolt," created and performed by Okwui Okpokwasili and designed and directed by Peter Born, is an interdisciplinary performance about one young black girl’s revolt against normative standards of beauty: a revolt against normalizing the pain that one must endure to achieve conventional standards of beauty, against enduring the physical scarring that is an inevitable result of using chemical straighteners or iron hot combs, against accepting that her natural hair should be a source of humiliation, and against the insidious self-loathing that might seed itself in the fertile ground of that humiliation.
Architectural Digest Design Show - Piers 92 & 94
The Architectural Digest Design Show is March 21-24 in NYC at Piers 92 & 94 on the West Side. From gorgeous new designs by emerging talent, to major product premieres by well-known brands, the show is a destination for extraordinary design finds with over 400 brands to discover. Tickets are available online now! General admission tickets Friday through Sunday are $32 online or $45 at the door. VIP Consumer Tickets are $95 and give early access to consumers interested in attending on Thursday (trade day). Admission is complimentary to the design trade with two forms of business credentials via online pre-registration.
Miranda from Stormville - IRT Theater
In small town New Jersey, somewhere off the Garden State Parkway, a great storm is raging. But inside their little house, Miranda Milano watches the once magical energy drain from her Pops eyes. Their dormant life is shocked awake by the arrival of two young men, stranded by car trouble, who cause a shift in the fabric of the family’s life. But is their random arrival actually random at all? Miranda from Stormville asks: how do we escape circumstances we can’t avoid? How do we continue on when hope is lost? Just miles outside New York City, Miranda’s rural America may as well be a stranded island: is she destined to only experience life through the books she constantly devours? Or does her ailing father, with his self-professed powers, and a caretaker with a flair for the dramatic have bigger plans in store? Written by Adam Bertocci Directed by Jennifer Sandella Produced by Random Access Theatre Part of IRT’s 3B Development Series The cast features Anna Cain, Brendan Cataldo, James A Pierce III, Mackenzie Menter, Gabe Templin and Richard Wayne.
Kazu Pf Yokoshima Trio - Rue-B Jazz
Kazu Pf Yokoshima Trio
DIFFA's DINING BY DESIGN 2019 - Pier 92
DIFFA: Design Industries Foundation Fighting AIDS (DIFFA) will host its annual DINING BY DESIGN fundraiser from March 21-25. Staged for five days, DINING BY DESIGN showcases extraordinary dining environments from renowned designers and brands to raise critical funds for DIFFA’s work fighting HIV/AIDS. 2019 marks the event’s 10th year at Pier 92 in conjunction with the Architectural Digest Design Show. AD Design Show ticket holders will receive free admission into DINING BY DESIGN. The fun and fundraising starts on Thursday, March 21 with the annual COCKTAILS BY DESIGN. This special preview party offers attendees the first look at these one-of-a-kind dining installations. Guests are treated to bites from some of New York’s favorite restaurants at tasting tables. Early bird tickets start at $150. As the keystone event, the GALA DINNER includes cocktails and table-hopping followed by an elegant seated VIP dinner, dancing and a silent auction. Tickets start at $500. The public is invited to see this spectacular display of design during general admission hours (Friday, March 22 from 10am to 6pm - Sunday, March 25 from 10am to 5pm) Visit https://diffa.org/dining-by-design/... (read more)
Tom Dixon Sample Sale - Tom Dixon
Tom Dixon is having a sample sale from March 21st to March 25th from 10 AM - 6 PM on 323 Canal Street. Guests can enjoy up to 80% discount on ex-display & discontinued furniture, lighting & home accessories.
Two Hands Productions presents Pilots: Season 001 - Far Off Places - Town Stages
Two Hands Productions presents Pilots: Season 001 - Far Off Places at Town Stages, 221 West Broadway, NYC Wednesdays in March 2019 at 7pm Two Hands Productions presents Pilots: Season 001 - Far Off Places at Town Stages, 221 West Broadway, NYC running March 6-27, 2019, Wednesday evenings at 7pm. Single show tickets are $25 and include one drink ticket for the bar special of the day. $80 season tickets, which include one drink ticket for each of the four dates, are also available. Early bird season tickets are available for $60 until 11:59pm on February 19th. Tickets and packages can be purchased at https://bit.ly/pilotstheshow. Pilots (https://www.pilotstheshow.com)is an episodic playwriting competition in which writers go head-to-head to win the favor of the audience. Each week the writers will present a ten-minute episode based on a theme. Those who fare well will get another episode, those who don't will have to start over with a brand new pilot episode. At the end of the season the two writers with the most consecutive episodes will face off in a final showdown to determine who wins their golden wings and the season's prize. Season 001 of Pilots will feature all ... (read more)
Live Piano Karaoke with Julian Velard - Sid Gold's Request Room
With a style The Sunday Times calls "catchy but complicated; a surprisingly rare combination," Julian Velard is piano-pop tunesmith recalling Stephen Sondheim or Randy Newman at the peak of their talents. With 4 albums of original material under his belt, he's toured internationally alongside the likes of Jamie Cullum, Paul Carrack, and Amy Macdonald. His quirky, native new york, piano-man sound has found its largest audience in Holland, where he headlined Amsterdam's legendary venue, Paradiso. His comedic timing and musical stylings have made him a regular on The Howard Stern Show and NPR's Ask Me
Timatha Kasten & Her TKO PARTY BAND at ROW HOTEL NYC - ROW HOTEL NYC - Times Sq.
THURSDAYS EACH WEEK!! Bring your friends and come on over to the TKO SHOW AT ROW!! Grooving the Row hotel in Times Square! Come join the best dance party band in town for funky live music hits, good times, cocktails, and gourmet pizzas / salads/ cheese plates ! (FREE / No cover charge) *** Timatha Kasten *** & Her TKO R&B PARTY BAND!!!! TIME: 9pm -12 THURSDAYS (Near all Times Sq. Transportation) (Kitchen closes at 11pm/ BAND PLAYS TILL MIDNIGHT!) LOCATION: ROW HOTEL ADDRESS: 700 8th Ave. between 44th/ 45th Streets NYC (All ages welcome/ 21+ i.d. to drink) (Playing hits of Earth, Wind & Fire, Bruno Mars, Prince, Kool & the Gang, Commodores, The Emotions, Tina Turner, Justin Timberlake and more! Oldies to CURRENT hits!) **** Timatha Kasten Orchestra & Her TKO Party Band *** are available to play for your holiday parties, corporate events & weddings. Contact us Thru: WWW.TKObandUSA.com or (212) 946-1244
Happy Hour Piano Karaoke with Mark Piro - Sid Gold's Request Room
Sid Gold's Request Room now features Happy Hour Piano Karaoke on Fridays! Start your weekend off with a song! With Mark Piro at the keys!
Student Rush Tickets at National Geographic Encounter: Ocean Odyssey - NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC ENCOUNTER: OCEAN ODYSSEY
National Geographic Encounter: Ocean Odyssey in Times Square is now offering student rush tickets! A limited number of $20.00 Student Rush Tickets are available for each day's tours by showing a valid student ID at our Guest Services desk, limit 2 tickets per ID. Student tickets are subject to availability, and may be limited during weekend and holiday hours. Cash or credit cards accepted for purchase. Student rush only valid on the day of your visit, and not for advance sales. Recently celebrating its one-year anniversary, National Geographic Encounter: Ocean Odyssey in Times Square is a unique must-do experience that allows guests to dive into an ocean of fun without getting wet! It is a great way to escape the outdoor winter temperatures. As an entertaining and immersive adventure across the ocean from the South Pacific to the coast of California, National Geographic Encounter utilizes groundbreaking technology to transport guests to extraordinary places and rarely witnessed moments in nature. Guests can play with mischievous sea lions, escape the jaws of a Humpback Whale, and survive a deep sea battle between ferocious Humboldt squid.
Not My Monster! - The Flea Theater
Have you ever noticed a small bearded man running around your house? Look again because Russian folklore promises that every home has a Domovoi, the house spirit who protects the family. In Not My Monster! Father, Mother, Darya and Vasily are forced to move from their lavish penthouse in the city to a creepy cabin in the middle of a swamp when the Russian economy tanks. Watch what happens when the children are not so sure that their Domovoi came along too. Not My Monster! is best for families with children ages 5 and up. Children under 1 are FREE.
Restaurant Fest at Eataly NYC Flatiron - Eataly NYC Flatiron
RESTAURANT FEST AT EATALY NYC FLATIRON WHAT: Introducing Restaurant Fest, Eataly’s two-week long dining festival featuring two-course lunch and dinner deals and specially priced wines in all three full-service restaurants. From Monday, March 18th to Sunday, March 31st, Eataly NYC Flatiron invites guests to enjoy lunch and dinner specials at all six of Eataly Chicago’s full-service restaurants. With spring around the corner, Eataly’s culinary experts have been creating new menus reflective of Italian springtime traditions, featuring the best ingredients of the impending season! Tables can be booked in advance at Eataly.com. Here’s how it works: 1. Pick a restaurant. Each restaurant has its own unique theme, chef, and menus, providing guests with endless dining options. Pick three classics for $18 at La Piazza Select two courses $18 at La Pizza & La Pasta Select two courses $18 at Il Pastaio Select two courses $28 at Manzo Select two courses $28 at Il Pesce Select two courses $28 at SERRA by Birreria 2. Choose two courses. Once guests have selected a restaurant of choice, they are able to select two courses from the dedicated prix-fixe menu – there’s a dish f... (read more)
Restaurant Fest at Eataly NYC Downtown - Eataly Downtown NYC
Restaurant Fest at Eataly NYC Downtown WHAT: Introducing Restaurant Fest, Eataly’s two-week long dining festival featuring two-course lunch and dinner deals and specially priced wines in all three full-service restaurants. From Monday, March 18th to Sunday, March 31st, Eataly NYC Downtown invites guests to enjoy lunch and dinner specials at all three of Eataly NYC Downtown’s full-service restaurants. With spring around the corner, Eataly’s culinary experts have been creating new menus reflective of Italian springtime traditions, featuring the best ingredients of the impending season! Tables can be booked in advance at Eataly.com. Here’s how it works: 1. Pick a restaurant. Each restaurant has its own unique theme, chef, and menus, providing guests with endless dining options. Pick two classics for $18 at Vino e Grano Select two courses $18 at La Pizza & La Pasta Select t wo courses $28 at Osteria di Eataly 2. Choose two courses. Once guests have selected a restaurant of choice, they are able to select two courses from the dedicated prix-fixe menu – there’s a dish for everyone! 3. Pair with a $25 bottle of wine. Complete your meal in true Italian fashion with a $2... (read more)
Restaurant Fest at Eataly NYC Flatiron - Eataly Flatiron
Restaurant Fest at Eataly NYC Flatiron WHAT: Introducing Restaurant Fest, Eataly’s two-week long dining festival featuring two-course lunch and dinner deals and specially priced wines in all three full-service restaurants. From Monday, March 18th to Sunday, March 31st, Eataly NYC Flatiron invites guests to enjoy lunch and dinner specials at all six of Eataly NYC Flatiron’s full-service restaurants. With spring around the corner, Eataly’s culinary experts have been creating new menus reflective of Italian springtime traditions, featuring the best ingredients of the impending season! Tables can be booked in advance at Eataly.com. Here’s how it works: Pick a restaurant. Each restaurant has its own unique theme, chef, and menus, providing guests with endless dining options. Pick two classics for $18 at La Piazza Select two courses $18 at La Pizza & La Pasta Select two courses $18 at Il Pastaio Select two courses $28 at Manzo Select two courses $28 at Il Pesce Select two courses $28 at SERRA by Birreria Choose two courses. Once guests have selected a restaurant of choice, they are able to select two courses from the dedicated prix-fixe menu – there... (read more)
Releasing Words: The Cut Paper Art of Deborah Ugoretz Opening Reception - Museum at Eldridge Street
Celebrate the opening of the Museum's newest exhibition, featuring intricate cut-paper art by Deborah Ugoretz. Ugoretz was already a working artist when she saw traditional Jewish paper cutting work for the first time. She was dazzled by this centuries-old tradition and its creative possibilities for "visualizing Judaism," and its ability to transform a simple piece of paper into a work of art that could release words into pictorial space. This exhibition will present a retrospective of the artist's work in cut paper, ranging from traditional ketubot (elaborately decorated marriage contracts), pieces inspired by Biblical texts and prayer to more recent work that considers the traditional as a starting point to explores themes and concepts in exciting and very contemporary ways. Brief remarks will be made by Museum staff and exhibition curators.
ST. PETER'S FOOT - Fort Washington Collegiate Church
Through April 06, 2019 - NY
ST. PETER'S FOOT, a UP Theater production, is a two-character play about Mike and Roma, a quirky middle-aged, self-absorbed, childless couple, who have no idea how hilariously miserable they are. On the eve of a long-planned trip to Italy, to scatter the ashes of Roma's deceased mother into the Po River, a gift is left at their door that causes them to question their marriage, their illusion of happiness, and their priorities. The play asks - and answers this question: Is love enough to conquer regret? Anna Theresa Cascio’s play also taps into the never-ending discussion around abortion and the right of choice, and the currently trending conversation about a lifestyle decision that many couples are making: to live a child-free life.
Celebrate Women's Month with Urban Zen - Urban Zen
Through April 07, 2019 - New York
Celebrate Women’s Month at Urban Zen with a group exhibition curated by Mashonda Tifrere. Featuring female visual artists encompassing a mix of styles from street art to abstract painting, hyper-realism and portraiture. The exhibition will take place from March 8th to April 7th.
James M Rucinski - Theater For The New City
Through April 07, 2019 - New York City
NEW YORK, January 27 -- To update one of its perennially popular productions and share it with a wider audience, Czechoslovak-American Marionette Theatre (CAMT) will re-imagine its "Johannes Dokchtor Faust, a Petrifying Puppet Comedye," translated and directed by Vit Horejs, March 21 to April 7 at Theater for the New City, 155 First Ave., Manhattan. This classic of the Czech marionette repertoire is traditionally used to make fun of a king or a local mayor. The company's adaptation was initially developed in 1990 and its topical references will be updated to current times. The staging incorporates age-old technical tricks of Czech puppetry, including fire and thunder, hellish gargoyles and underwater creatures. The script is the first definitive American translation of the classic Czech text by the author known today only as "A.B." The production was developed by Czechoslovak-American Marionette Theater between 1991 and 1994 and it became a favorite and definitive part of its repertoire.
Sam Rudy - CHERRY LANE
In ACTUALLY, WE’RE F**KED, four millennials order take-out every Thursday, drink too much wine and argue over how to rescue the planet. They know the world is a dumpster fire, and they’re the generation to fix it. That is, until someone makes a life-changing announcement that challenges their beliefs, their relationships and whether babies should have their own Instagram accounts .ACTUALLY, WE’RE F**KED will begin its limited run on February 26 and run through April 7, 2019, celebrating its opening night on March 7, 2019. It will play Tuesday at 7PM; Wednesday – Friday at 8PM; Saturday at 5PM & 9PM; Sunday at 3PM with an additional performance added on Monday, March 4 at 7PM. Tickets to ACTUALLY, WE’RE F**KED are $65-$95 ($55 during previews) and are available by visiting www.CherryLaneTheatre.org , by calling 866-811-4111 or by visiting the Cherry Lane Theatre at 38 Commerce Street
Queerball: A LGBTQ+ Comedy Variety Show - Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre - East Village
What is Queerball? QUEERBALL is a comedy variety show hosted by faggy/sexy/cool comedian, Timothy Dunn, for the L's, G's, B's, T's, Q's, I's... and everyone in between AND everyone outside the lines. We celebrate the gays and the queers, but also the ladies, the freaks, the weirdos, the neo-maxi-zoom-dweebies, the spazzes, the wonks, and all their kinds of comedy! QUEERBALL is a safe, inclusive, supportive space for comedians and audiences members to come together and GIVE EACH OTHER LIFE! All are welcome! QUEERBALL is the second Monday of every month at 10:30pm at the esteemed Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre in the East Village of New York City!
World Premiere of Perp by Lyle Kessler - The Barrow Group
There’s a vicious killer on the loose and the kindhearted Douglass finds himself the unwitting target of detectives who need a win at any cost. Desperate to seek justice, Douglass sets out on a harrowing, fantastical quest to find the true perpetrator. In this riveting world premiere by Lyle Kessler, the lines between good and evil blur in a divine search for redemption.
NYC Premiere SIX CORNERS by Keith Huff - Chain Theatre
"..what gun crime does not shatter lives on every side of the trigger?" – Chicago Tribune, SIX CORNERS NYC Premiere of a new play by Emmy nominated Keith Huff (Mad Men, House of Cards, American Crime). Keith Huff's most recent Broadway production was the sold out sensation A Steady Rain starring Hugh Jackman and Daniel Craig. Chain Theatre is an award winning theatre company and SIX CORNERS will be the first main stage production in their new location at the Theatre Building in midtown Manhattan. Late one night, two burnt-out violent crimes unit detectives try their damnedest to close the puzzling murder of a CTA employee. What should be a simple open-and-shut case, however, evolves into a horrifying mystery and unearths a legacy of violence stretching back years. Inspired by a personal story, SIX CORNERS is the third in a loose Chicago cop trilogy that began with A Steady Rain followed by The Detective's Wife. Mr. Huff has also written Big Lake Big City (Lookingglass Theater, directed by David Schwimmer), and Pursued By Happiness (Steppenwolf). Mr. Huff is currently developing a cable series for TNT with Academy Award nominated screenwriter/director, Billy Ray.... (read more)
Le Board presents...INDIRA CESARINE x NEON Exhibit - Le Board
You are invited to the Opening Reception of the INDIRA CESARINE x NEON Exhibit, presented by Le Board. Le Board is redefining the rules of retail by creating an immersive space where entertainment meets fashion through innovation. OPENING RECEPTION: DATE: THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 14TH TIME: 5pm - 8pm LOCATION: Le Board (800B 5th Avenue, New York, NY) Cocktails by McQueen and The Violet Fog + Mi Campo Heart chakra opening elixirs with CBD oil Spiritual readings from With Love, Co. And much more ...
Shareholder Value - Theater For the New City
THEATER FOR THE NEW CITY presents SHAREHOLDER VALUE, a new play by Tom Attea where stocks plummet and tensions soar. This play, which reunites the playwright with director Mark Marcante and composer Arthur Abrams, the team behind Heather Smiley for President, America’s Favorite Newscaster, and An American Worker is based loosely on the meltdown at General Electric. It centers around the struggles the CEO of a troubled conglomerate faces to deliver what he must every quarter, regardless of the problems the company runs into. The production will play a limited engagement from Thursday, March 21st through Sunday, April 14th at Theater For the New City (155 1st Avenue at East 10th Street). Like all CEO's of publicly held conglomerates, Dennis Holland of the fictional company Total Electric must deliver one thing: SHAREHOLDER VALUE. From the financial crisis of 2008 through the present, Holland scrambles to implement short-sighted ways to deliver quarterly profits, including spinning off divisions and green lighting cutbacks, consistently favoring quick fixes over long-term strategy. An activist investor challenges his leadership, and when the CEO decides to sell the light-bulb divi... (read more)
Don Giovanni - Lincoln Center
Baritone Peter Mattei and bass-baritone Luca Pisaroni star as opera's most notorious seducer in Mozart's masterpiece of dark comedy. Cornelius Meister makes his Met debut conducting performances that also include sopranos Rachel Willis-Sørensen and Guanqun Yu as Donna Anna, sopranos Federica Lombardi and Susanna Phillips as Donna Elvira, and basses Ildar Abdrazakov and Adam Plachetka as Leporello.
Guillaume Bresson Momentum - FIAF Gallery
In richly layered paintings, New York–based French artist Guillaume Bresson uses classical techniques to elevate contemporary subjects and imaginary landscapes—carnivals, breaker waves, and woodland scenes—to profound statements. In collaboration with Galerie Nathalie Obadia, FIAF presents Momentum, Bresson's first solo show in the US. The show will feature recent paintings that address current divisions in a globalized world—class struggles, migrations, and gender inequalities—echoing the writings of socially conscious French novelist Édouard Louis. Drawing upon influences going from Caravaggio to Jeff Wall, Bresson inserts modern-day figures into timeless grisailles, eschewing anachronism to merge past and present.
Julie Shelton Snyder Opening - The Gallery at W83
Meditation and stillness are the themes of Julie Shelton Snyder’s show, “now we will count to twelve”, inspired by her residency at the foot of Mount Fuji. Celebrate the opening at the Gallery at W83 (150 West 83rd) on March 5 from 6:30-8:30 pm.
For Freedoms: Where Do We Go From Here? - International Center of Photography (Museum)
In the wake of the 2018 midterm elections, ICP’s new exhibition "For Freedoms: Where Do We Go From Here?" explores the role of art and visual representation in American civic life through the work of the For Freedoms collective. The exhibition features work from their 50 State Initiative—composed of a network of over 300 artists and 200 institutional partners—which featured concurrent exhibitions, art installations, and public programs as well as a nationwide artist-designed billboard campaign in all 50 states including DC and Puerto Rico, in the lead up to the midterm elections. Also central to the 50 State Initiative is the collective’s series of photographs that re-envision American artist Norman Rockwell’s Four Freedoms paintings—depicting freedom of speech, freedom of worship, freedom from want, and freedom from fear, as articulated by Franklin D. Roosevelt’s 1941 State of the Union address—which will be on the view for the first time. For Freedoms’ stylized scenes of the everyday reference Rockwell’s iconic style while bringing new, more inclusive representations of the country to the discussion of our core values. Members of For Freedoms will be in residence at the ICP Museu... (read more)
The Theater at the 14th Street Y Announces the 2018-2019 Season LGBTQ+ Series - 14th Street Y
The Theater at the 14th Street Y Announces the 2018-2019 Season LGBTQ+ Series NEW YORK - The Theater at the 14th Street Y continues to honor the edgy, diverse, and rich history of innovative culture making in the East Village for people of all ages with the 2018-2019 LGBTQ+ Series. The series kicked off on November 12, 2018 with #NastyWomen, A Night of Female Resistance Comedy and runs through April 2019. "For our season of War & Peace, we knew that artists from the LGBTQ community would have a strong reaction to the theme. Coming out can often feel like war and creating a family can bring much needed peace. Our LGBTQ offerings this season have addressed the gamut, from Vietnam Veterans coming to terms with their sexuality to a TYA show with a non-gender binary protagonist to a piece about a modern family facing discrimination from within. Our theater is a safe place for provocative work that will inspire conversation, debate and hopefully action," said Ronit Muszkatblit, Artistic Director. 2018-2019 LGBTQ+ Series: The Baby Monitor Different Translation November 29 - December 16, 2018 Written by David Stallings, directed by Antonio Miniño When Claire's concerns ... (read more)
Works & Process, the Performing Arts Series at the Guggenheim, Announces Spring 2019 Season - The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Peter B Lewis Theater
Works & Process, the Performing Arts Series at the Guggenheim, Announces Spring 2019 Season Highlights: New commissions by Caleb Teicher and Conrad Tao, and by Reid Bartelme and Harriet Jung Behind-the-scenes views of new commissions by Houston Ballet and Washington Ballet First looks at theatrical productions Be More Chill, Downstate, Gary: A Sequel to Titus Andronicus, Octet,and The Secret Life of Bees Previews of Glimmerglass Festival's Blue and Santa Fe Opera's The Thirteenth Child New productions in conjunction with exhibitions Hilma af Klint: Paintings for the Future and Implicit Tensions: Mapplethorpe Now Artist receptions in the rotunda following evening performances "An exceptional opportunity to understand something of the creative process." -The New York Times Works & Process at the Guggenheim is pleased to announce its spring 2019 season. Since 1984 the performing arts series has championed new works and offered audiences unprecedented access to leading creators. Programs explore the artistic process through stimulating discussions and riveting performance highlights. Each 70-minute program takes place in the intimate Frank Lloyd Wright-designed Peter B. ... (read more)
Carolee Grand Central Pop Up - Grand Central Terminal
CAROLEE Is Popping Up In Grand Central! Join us to shop a curated edit of our favorite styles and gifts. Spend $100 and receive an Exclusive gift with purchase. Plus, enter to win a $100 gift card! We will be located near Graybar passage at the Lexington Avenue entrance. 20% of proceeds will be donated to RAINN, the nation's largest anti-sexual violence organization. Learn more about RAINN: https://www.rainn.org/ Dates and times: February 1st - April 30th Monday- Friday: 8:00 AM - 8:00 PM Saturday: 10:00 AM - 6:00 PM For inquiries please contact us at: 917.428.5947 or caroleepopup@carolee.com
Mort Gerberg Cartoons: A New Yorker's Perspective - New-York Historical Society
Through May 05, 2019 - New York
Artist Mort Gerberg grew up with a pencil in his hand, creating cartoons from the time he was a young boy in his native Brooklyn. Illustrated with a sensitivity and humor that have made him beloved by his audiences, his work has been featured in major publications, including the New Yorker and Saturday Review. The 100 cartoons on view in this exhibition cover a range of topics, such as life in New York City, women, youth, old age, and politics. Curated by Marilyn Satin Kushner, curator and head, Department of Prints, Photographs, and Architectural Collections.
Ecological City - Goldie Chu Community Room
Ecological City is a cultural and climate action project engaging the Lower East Side community through creative strategies co-creating a theatrical pageant and environmental actions to develop and bring together climate resiliency and ecological sustainability plans, policies and solutions within the gardens, neighborhood and waterfront of the Lower East Side of New York City, and its contribution to city and global climate challenges.
Ecological City Costume/Puppet Workshops - Two Bridges Neighborhood Council
EARTH CELEBRATIONS' ECOLOGICAL CITY - PUPPET & COSTUME WORKSHOPS - MARCH 2 - MAY 8 Volunteers are invited to participate in our workshops led by Earth Celebrations' Artists-in-Residence to create spectacular visual art, giant puppets, and costumes for the culminating Ecological City: Procession for Climate Solutions celebrating and bringing together climate resiliency and ecological sustainability initiatives throughout the gardens, neighborhood and East River Park waterfront on the Lower East Side. -Costume Workshops: WEDNESDAYS, 6-9pm with artist Yelaine Rodriguez -Puppet Workshops: SATURDAYS, 12-4pm with artist Lucrecia Novoa @ Two Bridges Neighborhood Council (Community Room) 82 Rutgers Slip (btw. FDR & Cherry St. LES - F train to E. Broadway - walk two blocks east) Workshops are free of cost - please register here: http://earthcelebrations.com/register-ecological-city-workshops-2/ For more information: http://earthcelebrations.com/
Tolkien: Maker of Middle-earth - Morgan Library & Museum
"In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit." With these words the Oxford professor J.R.R. Tolkien ignited a fervid spark in generations of readers. From the children's classic The Hobbit to the epic The Lord of the Rings, Tolkien's adventurous tales of hobbits and elves, dwarves and wizards have introduced millions to the rich history of Middle-earth. Going beyond literature, Tolkien's Middle-earth is a world complete with its own languages and histories. Tolkien: Maker of Middle-earth celebrates the man and his creation. The exhibition will be the most extensive public display of original Tolkien material for several generations. Drawn from the collections of the Tolkien Archive at the Bodleian Library (Oxford), Marquette University Libraries (Milwaukee), the Morgan, and private lenders, the exhibition will include family photographs and memorabilia, Tolkien's original illustrations, maps, draft manuscripts, and designs related to The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, and The Silmarillion. Tolkien: Maker of Middle-earth is organized by the Morgan Library & Museum in collaboration with the Bodleian Libraries, Oxford University and with the support of The Tolkien Estate, The Tolk... (read more)
WINTER SEMESTER CLASSES at TADA! Youth Theater: January 13- May 21, 2019 - TADA! Youth Theater
Curtain Up! At TADA! Youth Theater’s (Winter Semester) From page to stage – the longest and most in-depth play building semester yet! Create and perform an original mini-musical by blending the essential skills of singing, dancing, acting, and playwriting. Classes will culminate with final presentations for family and friends. Get 15% off Winter Semester registration by using the discount code EARLYBIRD15 For more information on TADA!’s Camps and Classes, please call the Education Department at 212-252-1619 x4 or email education@tadatheater.com. To register please visit: http://www.tadatheater.com/education-programs/classes/winter-classes For over 30 years, the Drama Desk Award winning TADA! Youth Theater has been providing children with musical theater classes that teach them how to sing, dance, and act while inspiring their individual creativity.
TAMPONS, TEARS AND TRIUMPHS (TTT) - The PIT (Peoples Improv Theater)
Exciting news. We're inviting you to one big girly sleepover, where you share weird secrets about your body and let out all your feelings. Except, it's an hour, and guys can come. And we think the invitation is long overdue. There are SO many things that women go through with cheesy grins on our faces like nothing's happening! That's what we're expected to do, isn't it? Because if we complain about it, or cry about it, or really say anything about it, we're just being "girls." Welp, F that noise. This storytelling and show is an open conversation about the things we usually hide – FINALLY – cause the painfully real stuff is the funny stuff.
The Theater at the 14th Street Y Announces the 2018-2019 Season Family Series - 14th Street Y
The Theater at the 14th Street Y Announces the 2018-2019 Season Family Series NEW YORK - The Theater at the 14th Street Y continues tohonor the edgy, diverse, and rich history of innovative culture-making in the East Village for people of all ages with the 2018-2019 Family Series. The series kicks-off on October 20, 2018 with The Not-So-Spooky Ghost and runs through May 2019. "Ever since I was a child, I can remember sitting in the theater, waiting as the lights went down for the magic to start. From the age of two, my mother would schlep us to see new worlds and experience foreign types of movement, sounds and music. She believed in exposing us to all parts of our imagination, building paths towards new unknowns. Here at the 14the Street Y Theater, we also believe that all children should experience that magic, sit excitedly for unknowns, and meet new characters for their imagination to take into new worlds. We want to create a platform that will enable artists to weave their magic for our kids. That is why we have started incubating and supporting a Theater for Young Audiences series. This year we are launching this series with 5 new plays and events that will shar... (read more)
72 Hour Shootout Competition - CUNY
Through June 01, 2019 - New York
Compete in the 2019 72 Hour Shootout and win cash, network TV mentorships and much more! Film lab will be offering how-to workshops between now and June and, on June 6, 2019, a theme will be announced at 8pm EST on which all films must be based! Filmmakers then have 72 hours to complete films of 5 minutes or less. Judges include ABC's Executive Director of Casting! Like Facebook.com/72HrShootout [facebook.com] to learn more and register at https://form.jotform.com/90588438090162?fbclid=IwAR1D_ObRUW7ByHBaCUWhI7j5ZTX9b8T23YsF8wjZWsZsw47EZmShBCgmBSg [form.jotform.com]. The top ten films screen at the AAInternationalFilmFestival!
Mean Girls - August-Wilson Theatre
Mean Girl Broadway Musical If you didn’t see Mean Girl back in the 2000s, then you probably didn’t have that great of a childhood. Most people might call it a chick flick, but in our opinion, it is one of the greatest teen movies of our generation. The people were in awe over our little mathematician. Oh, and it’s not just our opinion, the movie was showered with more awards then we can count. But, the story just keeps getting better. After her incredible movie, Tina Fey didn’t just stop there. She has far greater and extravagant plans for the Mean Girls Franchise. You'd like to know if Tina Fey can write a musical. The oh-so-not-surprising answer is... yes! – Peter Marks, The Washington Post We sometimes feel that our childhood is coming to life with musicals. First, it was Bring it On, then Heathers with several others in development. But, the musical for Mean Girls is already here. The Mean Girls Musical is a masterpiece from the great Fey. It’s based on her book and the movie of the same name. The musical was under construction since 2013. But, it was a moment of joy for every fan when it was announced on “Mean Girls Day” that their favorite movie was comi... (read more)
“Move Your Curves” Workshop at Ailey Extension - The Joan Weill Center for Dance
Ailey Extension is teaming up with Pretty BIG Movement to bring you a “Move Your Curves" workshop. Pretty BIG Movement, based in New York City, is a full-figured dance company specializing in various dance genres such as hip-hop, jazz, ethnic, and more. Founder and CEO Akira Armstrong realized there wasn't a platform for women with voluptuous curves in mainstream media, and so she created one. While auditioning for Full Figured Fashion Week, Akira found that she was surrounded by confident, plus-size women who were beautiful, curvaceous, and shared the same passion in dance. She seized that moment and started Pretty BIG Movement. By 2015, the voluptuous dance troupe performed in Ladies Of Hip-Hop, Carnival (choreographers' ball), Ms. Full Figured USA pageant, Female Hip-Hop Honors award show, Salt N Pepa, Lane Bryant campaigns ("I'm No Angel" and "Plus Is Equal"), Full Beauty commercial, Mz. 007 concert and NBC's America's Got Talent (season 10). Currently, Pretty BIG offers dance workshops in the tri-state area to the plus-size community, creating a No Judgment environment where individuals can feel comfortable dancing.
Manhattan Hip Hop vs. Reggae Party Cruise Yacht party - Skyport Marina
Friday June 22nd, 2018 – NYC Hip Hop vs. Reggae Yacht Party at Skyport Marinas Jewel Yacht located at East 23rd st & FDR Drive 10010 NY (347) 592-0300. Music by NYC Hottest Djs! Tickets 20$! Boarding 11:45pm, Sailing after midnight! The Only Hip Hop vs. Reggae cruise to be in NYC...Jewel Yacht! www.Gametightny.com (347) 592-0300 info/tickets YACHT PARTIES IN NY - NY'S HOTTEST – YACHT NIGHT PARTY NYC HIP HOP VS. REGGAE CRUISE! The Only Boat Party to be in NY... Skyport Marina Jewel Yacht East 23rd st & FDR Drive 10010 (347) 592-0300 NYC HIP HOP VS. REGGAE BOAT PARTY! 1 DAY - 1 EXCLUSIVE EVENT! MUSIC BY NYC HOTTEST DJS AT SKYPORT MARINA JEWEL YACHT PARTY, NEW YORK!! TICKETS JUST $20 FOR TICKET WHICH INCLUDES:ADMISSION TO THE BOAT SAILING INFO:Boarding Starts at 11:45pm (highly recommend getting there at 10:00pm to avoid long lines & confusion), Sails after midnight. Boat Returns at approximately 4am. For tickets info, birthday parties, table reservations please call (347) 592-0300 or simply log onto www.Gametightny.com Also you can email us at Gametightny@hotmail.com
Ailey Extension’s Afro Flow Yoga Workshop - The Ailey Studios at Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater
Come experience joy and elation through movement and sound at Ailey Extension. Afro Flow Yoga® infuses electrifying dance movements of the African Diaspora flowing with a meditative yoga sequence of gentle yet powerful stretches. Deeply connect with the soulful rhythms of live drumming, energize your charkas, gain strength and flexibility, and rejoice in the bliss of feeling grounded and peaceful! Through the power of collective energy and the creation of sacred space, students will leave feeling empowered, energized, and renewed. With a mission to promote healing and community building through dance, music and yogic practices, husband and wife team, Leslie Salmon Jones, Ailey School Alum, and multi-instrumentalist Jeff W Jones created Afro-Flow Yoga to celebrate, honor and respect our shared humanity and cultural differences in a non-judgmental and safe environment.
Backyard Wilderness - American Museum of Natural History
Backyard Wilderness will surprise and entertain viewers with the unexpected wonders of nature that are in our own neighborhoods and communities, arming explorers of all ages with the tools and inspiration to discover the wonders of nature at their fingertips. The film reveals animal inhabitants in rare and breathtaking detail captured by cameras mounted inside dens and nests and moving along forest floors and pond bottoms. Screening through June 30, 2019, Backyard Wilderness will be shown daily in the Museum’s Samuel J. and Ethel LeFrak Theater, in 2D at 11:30 am and 4:30 pm, and in 3D at 10:30 am and 12:30, 1:30, 2:30, and 3:30 pm. Times are subject to change. To purchase tickets in advance, the public should call 212-769-5200 or visit amnh.org. A service charge may apply.
Made in New York City: The Business of Folk Art - American Folk Art Museum
Through July 28, 2019 - New York
The exhibition Made in New York City: The Business of Folk Art will be presented at the American Folk Art Museum (AFAM) from March 19 through July 28, 2019. Around 100 works by 18th, 19th, and early 20th-century self-taught artists highlight the history of of New York City as a financial and financial and commercial capital. The exhibition is curated by Elizabeth V. Warren, independent curator and author of Red and White Quilts: Infinite Variety, The Perfect Game: America Looks at Baseball, and Young America: A Folk Art History, among other books. The coordinating curator is Stacy C. Hollander, deputy director for curatorial affairs and chief curator of the American Folk Art Museum. Made in New York City will tell its story from two perspectives simultaneously: "The Art of Business" focuses on the people and places that were part of the city's thrumming commercial life. "The Business of Art" highlights the products of the artists, artisans, and manufacturers – the commercial signs, store figures, and early advertising images that they made. The exhibition will draw on the collections of a number of New York City museums, including the American Folk Art Museum, The New-York Histori... (read more)
Among Others: Photography and the Group - The Morgan Library & Museum
Through August 18, 2019 - Manhattan
Composed chiefly of works in the Morgan's collection, this exhibition explores how photographers have represented the bonds uniting people, whether in group portraits or in serial imagery. In arranged sittings, form is content: when commissioned to photograph the royals of Germany and England at a wedding in 1894, James Russell and Son's Studio instinctively centered its composition around the family's matriarch, Queen Victoria. Camera artists sometimes insert themselves into the action, as Susan Meiselas did when mingling with carnival strippers, first to portray them behind the scenes and then to photograph those in the audience from a performer's perspective. Action can also be a pose: in 1970, when asked to create a positive poster image for the Gay Liberation Front, Peter Hujar asked the group's members to run toward him on the street, enacting their slogan, "Come Out!!" Ingenuity may be called for when one's subjects are all too well-known: a press photographer, Jean-Pierre Ducatez, appealed to the primal desires of Beatles fans by zeroing in on the lips of each band member, creating a captivating game of who's-who. Bringing together works from the 1860s to the present, Among... (read more)
Rebel Rebel: the Secret David Bowie NYC Tour - West Village
Through September 15, 2019 - New York
HALLO, BOWIE’S NYC Experience an immersive adventure featuring David Bowie’s little-known NYC haunts. By the time of his death, Bowie had lived in New York for over 20 years. “I’ve lived in New York longer than I’ve lived anywhere else. It’s amazing. I am a New Yorker.” Discover the story of Blackstar and the history of Ziggy as you trace the footsteps of David's life in NYC, visiting locations where he recorded, and the notable spots significant to the Thin White Duke as an artist and New Yorker.
Hogarth: Cruelty and Humor - The Morgan Library & Museum
Through September 22, 2019 - Manhattan
The satirical scenes of the celebrated English artist William Hogarth (1697–1764) are iconic representations of eighteenth-century urban life at a time of great socio-economic disparity. An academic outsider and an activist, Hogarth was driven to innovate, creating new genres and modes of expression in his painting, printmaking, and drawing in his effort to elevate the status of British art. This exhibition will investigate the ways the artist used humor, satire, and political commentary to engage a broad audience and agitate for legislation and political goals. The exhibition features the Morgan's exceptional cache of six sheets preparatory for two of Hogarth's most revered print series, both issued in February 1751: Beer Street and Gin Lane and The Four Stages of Cruelty. The story of Hogarth's images reveal an artist who addressed the ills and injustices of life in a modern metropolis, exploring the connections between violence, crime, alcohol abuse, and cruelty to animals in ways that would amuse, occasionally shock, and edify his audience.
Terez: Explore. Shop. Create. Pop-Up - Terez: Explore. Shop. Create.
Through December 02, 2019 - New York
For the first time in brand history, Terez will be inviting New York City to connect face-to-face, shop the newest Terez products, and partake in memorable experiences, with creative inspiration and activations to be discovered around every corner. Modeled after NYC, where Terez was founded and still maintains its headquarters, design and manufacturing operations, the two-level store will take guests through a reimagined New York City setting, complete with a Terez subway station. The in-store experience will be enhanced by an ever-changing programming calendar, empowering guests to let their inner light shine through immersive, personalized activations. Programming partners will include Dana's Bakery, Petite 'N Pretty, Stretch*d, sundays, Florabrook, Olfactory NYC, MisterKrisp, Donna D'Cruz, and more. Terez: Explore. Shop. Create. will be open Monday-Friday,11:00AM-7:00PM, Saturday, 10:00AM-8:00PM, Sunday, 11:00AM-6:00PM, and closed on Thanksgiving, November 22, with extended hours on Black Friday, 8:00AM-8:00PM.
Dear Evan Hansen - Music Box Theatre
Dear Evan Hansen Tickets. Dear Evan Hansen Musical. Dear Evan Hansen Broadway. Dear Evan Hansen is the epitome of a modern musical. The show is set firmly in the mid 2010's with technology and social media at the core of its plot, catering directly to its target audience of the teenagers and young adults of today while also connecting to people of all ages. Winning the Tony Awards for Best Musical, Best Original Score, and Best Book of a Musical, the crew behind the production take full advantage of their target audience. Musical theatre is becoming increasingly more popular with young people, so with it's music, characters and plot, Dear Evan Hansen is almost irresistible to them. The show, with music and lyrics by Benj Pasek and Justin Paul, and book by Steven Levenson, deals with some pretty heavy subject matter, but they're issues that are very hot topics at the moment. The heavy themes of mental illness, suicide, and struggling families are confronting, but as they become more prominent in real life, the need to portray these issue seriously in theatre is more crucial than ever. Dear Evan Hansen handles these themes with grace and honesty. It makes a point of giv... (read more)
The Infinite Wrench - Kraine Theater
The Infinite Wrench is a mechanism that unleashes a barrage of two-minute plays for a live audience. Each play offers something different, be it funny, profound, elegant, disgusting, topical, irrelevant, terrifying, or a song; all are truthful and tackle the here-and-now, inspired by the lived experiences of the performers. With new plays every week, The Infinite Wrench is the Neo-Futurists’ ongoing and ever-changing attempt to shift the conventions of live performance and speak to audiences including those unreached or unmoved by traditional theater. The Infinite Wrench runs every weekend (except the last 2 weeks of December). Different show every time! If you’ve seen the show once, you’ve seen the show once.
Manhattan & Central Park Bike Tour - Brooklyn Giro Bike Tours
No other bike tour of Manhattan covers this much ground! In fact, one could argue that this scenic cycling excursion is the most fully-loaded tour of Manhattan, full stop! On a bike, you’ll see everything—every nook and cranny that you couldn’t access by any other means. You’ll also see all the greatest hits: the Brooklyn Bridge, The Manhattan Bridge, Lady Liberty and all the postcard architecture recognized the world over. But for many, the star of this Manhattan bike tour is the nearly 6-mile loop you take through Central Park. This stretch of the Manhattan adventure is a complete sightseeing tour unto itself! Take a 4-hour Manhattan bike tour, including an extensive Central Park bike ride! Start off in Lower Manhattan under the Manhattan Bridge. Travel along the East River and appreciate the perfect views of the Brooklyn Bridge! Head into Southport Seaport and make your way to Battery Park. Here, you’ll have amazing photo opportunities of the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island! Continue along the Hudson River Greenway with scenery that includes Chelsea Piers, the Meatpacking District, Highland Park and more!Explore the Upper West Side, home to Julliard, the Lincoln C... (read more)
BUILD Brunch - Build Series NYC Studio
Digital entertainment program BUILD Series takes its popular and extensive live interview show to the next level, adding a new, daily morning talk show "BUILD Brunch," as BUILD Series continues its commitment to bring its fans closer to culture. Airing weekdays at 11am live on BUILDseries.com/Brunch, it will feature a roundtable of diverse, young and influential personalities speaking to breaking news, hot topics and the latest in entertainment. PLEASE READ BEFORE ARRIVAL: Doors open 30 minutes before showtime and CLOSE 5 minutes prior to each show. There will be a standby line for every show. VALID ID REQUIRED FOR ENTRY for security purposes (No age minimum). Please note we clear the studio after every event and we DO NOT permit autographs on our premises. This event will be streamed LIVE on BUILDseries.com! Make sure to check out the BUILD Series Newsletter for updates and information about our events:
Shopping and Champagne - Trina Turk and Mr. Turk
Through October 08, 2028 - New York
Sip champagne as you shop our new Holiday Collection at 25% off! Plus enter for a chance to win a 1000$ Shopping Spree!
YY Dance Company - Peridance Capezio Theater
Dancer/choreographer Yiin Yue presents her YY Dance Company in a program of her explosive works, performed by an ensemble of stellar dancers. The Shanghai native has already received commissions from Hubbard Street 2 in Chicago, and her company has performed at Jacob's Pillow, Dancenow, and the Schrit-tmacher Dance Festival in Germany.
Fine Art Auction October 20 and 27 – Works by Leading Artists of the Salmagundi Club - Salmagundi Club
The Salmagundi Club, a leading center for fine artists presents its annual fall auctions. Auctions will be held on October 20 and 27, 2017 at 8:00 p.m., at the Club’s historic brownstone mansion at 47 Fifth Avenue, New York City. To view the art online and bid now, visit liveauctioneers.com and search for Salmagundi.
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‘I DRINK YOUR BLOOD’ Update!
November 19, 2016 grindhousereleasing Leave a comment
Grindhouse Releasing’s 2-disc deluxe edition of I DRINK YOUR BLOOD is now the #1 best selling Blu-ray at DiabolikDVD.com! David E. Durston’s ’70s hippie horror classic is screening Nov. 27 at the Alamo Mission in SF and Dec. 3 at the Music Box Theatre in Chicago.
Grindhouse Releasing has sent along a limited supply of official I DRINK YOUR BLOOD “HORROR HYPO” syringes to theaters for the upcoming engagements. To get your HORROR HYPO, be one of the first 3,000 customers to buy the Blu-ray – available now from Diabolik DVD, Amazon, and in stores everywhere Tuesday, Nov. 22!
Advance praise for Grindhouse Releasing’s I DRINK YOUR BLOOD Blu-ray:
“One of the best examples of everything a drive-in horror film should be…Grindhouse Releasing has produced one of the best two-disc sets of 2016!” – DVD Drive-In
“INCREDIBLE…an essential purchase for all lovers of LSD and Satan!” – Brain-Hammer.com
“The old Grindhouse Releasing special edition DVD release of I DRINK YOUR BLOOD was fantastic but this Blu-ray reissue is leaps and bounds above…Not only does the movie look and sound better than ever but it’s got some impressive new supplements and it comes packed with two additional feature films also debuting in HD. The movie itself holds up incredibly well, a no-holds barred epic of nasty, exploitative horror that is as ridiculously entertaining now as it has ever been.” – Rock! Shock! Pop!
“Inspired, ambitious and full of surprises in that way that distinguishes the best exploitation films…I DRINK YOUR BLOOD delivers the goods in a way guaranteed to satisfy grindhouse devotees” -Schlockmania
“Absolutely essential…Grindhouse Releasing puts out the hands-down, bar-none best Blu-ray releases of genre cinema” – DVD Talk, Collector’s Series choice
“This riotous drive-in classic arrives on deluxe edition Blu-ray from the good folks over at Grindhouse Releasing who continue to astound and amaze with their HD releases….it looks absolutely gorgeous. Of course Grindhouse wouldn’t think of upgrading an older release without adding some new stuff for fans and they again go beyond expectations for I DRINK YOUR BLOOD” – McBastard’s Mausoleum
“It’s highly unlikely that I DRINK YOUR BLOOD could look better than this; it’s quite an impressive piece of transfer work. Absolutely not to be overlooked is THE BLUE SEXTET…what’s on display here is definitely way beyond what a ’71 R rating would allow including a lingering and graphic disembowelment, satanic rituals, copious female and male nudity, and a third act orgy scene that goes about as far as softcore would allow at the time.” – Mondo Digital
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Grindhouse Releasing Announces I DRINK YOUR BLOOD Blu-ray!
September 23, 2016 grindhousereleasing Leave a comment
HOLLYWOOD, Calif. – Grindhouse Releasing, the award-winning “Criterion of cult movie labels”, has set a Nov. 22 street date for the new deluxe Blu-ray edition of David E. Durston’s gruesome and graphically violent 1971 horror favorite I DRINK YOUR BLOOD. It’s NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD meets the Manson Family in this gore-drenched tale of LSD-crazed hippies who go on a murderous rampage through a small town after consuming rabies-injected meat pies!
Grindhouse Releasing’s deluxe 2-disc Blu-ray set not only presents the ultra-violent, uncensored director’s cut of I DRINK YOUR BLOOD in a new hi-def transfer but also includes two more vintage exploitation films in their HD debut: Del Tenney’s I EAT YOUR SKIN (1964) and Durston’s long-unseen, X-rated psychedelic shocker BLUE SEXTET (1969). Packed with new bonus features not seen on Grindhouse Releasing’s 2002 DVD release, the I DRINK YOUR BLOOD Blu-ray is the ultimate edition of a notorious “Blood Horror” classic.
The first film to be rated X for violence, I DRINK YOUR BLOOD was a huge-grossing hit at drive-ins and “grindhouse” theaters but was severely censored during its original release.
Grindhouse Releasing’s uncut, restored version of I DRINK YOUR BLOOD recently debuted in New York and Los Angeles and is now playing theaters across the U.S. and Canada.
“I DRINK YOUR BLOOD is one of the most infamous movies in the history of exploitation films,” says Grindhouse Releasing co-founder Bob Murawski. “Rescuing this lost gem was one of our most important achievements. And being able to finally unite I DRINK YOUR BLOOD with its legendary co-feature I EAT YOUR SKIN, both fully remastered in stunning HD for the very first time, takes that accomplishment one step further. We’ve spent almost a decade working on this release, and I feel it’s our finest yet. I’m also thrilled that so many theaters are playing I DRINK YOUR BLOOD. We’ve been trying to make this happen for years and have finally succeeded. Seeing this movie on the big screen with an audience is a mind-blowing experience. No self-respecting horror fan should miss this rare opportunity.”
I DRINK YOUR BLOOD stars Bhaskar, John Damon, and cult superstar Lynn Lowry (George A. Romero’s THE CRAZIES, David Cronenberg’s THEY CAME FROM WITHIN, and Paul Schrader’s THE CAT PEOPLE).
A limited run of 3,000 copies of the Blu-ray will include the official “I DRINK YOUR BLOOD Horror Hypo” – an actual syringe that fans can use to infect their friends with rabies! Supplies of the Horror Hypo are not expected to last long, so fans should pre-order from DiabolikDVD.com to get the best shot at receiving one!
The I DRINK YOUR BLOOD Blu-ray is now available for pre-order exclusively at DiabolikDVD.com – click this link to reserve your copy!
Upcoming I DRINK YOUR BLOOD Screening Dates:
9/23 & 10/1 – Grand Illusion Cinema, Seattle, WA
9/24 – Midway Drive-In, Dixon, IL
9/30 – Filmbar, Phoenix, AZ
10/1 – Alamo Drafthouse, Omaha, NE
10/4 – Alamo Drafthouse, Yonkers, NY
10/5 – Alamo Drafthouse Vintage Park, Houston, TX
10/7 – Frida Cinema, Santa Ana, CA – with I EAT YOUR SKIN
10/7 – 13 – Plaza Theatre, Atlanta, GA
10/14 & 15 – Landmark Main Art, Detroit, MI
10/14 & 15– Landmark Inwood, Dallas, TX
10/14 – 16 – Gateway Film Center, Columbus, OH
10/19 – Alamo Drafthouse, Lubbock, TX
10/20 – Alamo Drafthouse, Littleton, CO
10/22 – Landmark Uptown, Minneapolis, MN
10/22 & 23 – Mayfair Theatre, Ottawa, ON
10/23 – PhilaMOCA, Philadelphia, PA
10/27 – Royal Cinema, Toronto, ON
10/27 – Sun Ray Cinema, Jacksonville, FL
10/28 – Film Scene, Iowa City, IA
10/28 – Alamo Drafthouse Mission, San Francisco, CA
10/28 & 29 – Cedar Lee Theatre, Cleveland, OH
10/28. 29 & 30 – Screenland Tapcade, Kansas City, MO
10/31 – Tampa Theatre, Tampa, FL
11/12 – Olympia Film Festival, Olympia, WA
11/16 – Abertoir Film Festival, Wales
12/3 – Music Box Theatre, Chicago, IL
I DRINK YOUR BLOOD Blu-ray Specs:
– Spectacular new HD restoration of the original UNCENSORED DIRECTOR’S CUT
– 4 controversial deleted scenes including the original blood-drenched ending deemed too disturbing for ’70s audiences!
– Provocative audio commentary by director David Durston and star Bhaskar
– Newly recorded audio commentary by stars Jack Damon and Tyde Kierney
– Revealing on-camera interviews with stars Lynn Lowry, Tyde Kierney and Jack Damon
– New in-depth interview with director David Durston
– The original theatrical trailer and radio spots
– Extensive gallery of stills and poster art
– Rare and shocking film of Bhaskar performing THE EVIL KING COBRA DANCE
– TWO BONUS CO-FEATURES –
I EAT YOUR SKIN (1964) – presented for the very first time in HD
+ exclusive interview with 2nd unit director William Grefe
BLUE SEXTET (1969) – David Durston’s long-lost X-rated psychedelic shocker – presented for the very first time on home video!
– Liner notes by David Szulkin (WES CRAVEN’S LAST HOUSE ON THE LEFT: THE MAKING OF A CULT CLASSIC)
– Beautiful embossed slipcover
– BONUS – I DRINK YOUR BLOOD HORROR HYPO – Inject your friends with rabies! – limited to the first 3000 copies!
– PLUS OTHER SURPRISES!
For theatrical bookings and publicity contact info@grindhousereleasing.com.
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I DRINK YOUR BLOOD Returns To Theaters!
August 30, 2016 grindhousereleasing Leave a comment
Grindhouse Releasing is bringing David E. Durston’s I DRINK YOUR BLOOD back to theaters, in an uncut and uncensored 45th anniversary release!
It’s NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD meets Charlie Manson in this gore-drenched 1971 drive-in classic. After consuming rabies-infected meat pies, an LSD-addicted hippie cult goes on a vicious murdering rampage! Heavily censored since its original release, this infamous landmark of cinematic brutality is being presented in all its blood-splattered glory.
‘I DRINK YOUR BLOOD’ 45TH ANNIVERSARY SCREENING DATES
9/2 –4 – Landmark Sunshine, New York, NY
9/9 – Landmark Nuart, Los Angeles, CA
9/9 & 10 – Belcourt Theatre, Nashville, TN
9/16 & 17 – Coolidge Corner, Boston, MA
9/16 & 17 – Moolah Theatre, St Louis, MO
9/17 – Skyline Drive-In, Shelbyville, IN
10/7 – Frida Cinema, Santa Ana, CA
10/28, 29 & 30 – Screenland Tapcade, Kansas City, MO
Check out the Grindhouse Releasing screening calendar for more upcoming theatrical screenings of Sam Raimi’s EVIL DEAD, Lucio Fulci’s THE BEYOND and CAT IN THE BRAIN, Ruggero Deodato’s CANNIBAL HOLOCAUST, and more!
Stay tuned to GrindhouseReleasing.com for more I DRINK YOUR BLOOD screening dates and Blu-ray news coming soon!
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Grindhouse Releasing Update!
October 3, 2015 grindhousereleasing Leave a comment
As Bob Murawski and the team at Grindhouse Releasing are hard at work completing the upcoming Blu-ray releases including PIECES, I DRINK YOUR BLOOD, CAT IN THE BRAIN, and SCUM OF THE EARTH, the leading horror and exploitation film distributor is unleashing a nationwide series of theatrical screenings of Sam Raimi’s original EVIL DEAD in advance of the new ASH VS. EVIL DEAD series on Starz! Also screening in theaters this Halloween season from Grindhouse Releasing are Lucio Fulci’s THE BEYOND, Umberto Lenzi’s CANNIBAL FEROX, Ruggero Deodato’s CANNIBAL HOLOCAUST, and more!
10/3/2015 – EVIL DEAD, BeyondFest – Egyptian Theatre, Hollywood, CA – with Bruce Campbell!
10/3/2015 – CANNIBAL HOLOCAUST, Mile High Horror Film Festival, Alamo Drafthouse Littleton, Littleton, CO
10/4/2015 – THE BEYOND, BeyondFest – Egyptian Theatre, Hollywood, CA – with Fabio Frizzi / Frizzi2Fulci Live!
10/9/2015 – EVIL DEAD, Moolah Theatre, St Louis, MO
10/9/2015 – EVIL DEAD, Elm Road Drive-In, Warren, OH
10/9/2015 – CANNIBAL FEROX, Skyline Drive-in, Shelbyville, IN – double feature with THE GREEN INFERNO!
10/9/2015 – EVIL DEAD, Skyview Drive-In, Belleville, IL
10/10/2015 – EVIL DEAD, Skyview Drive-In, Belleville, IL
10/10/2015 – EVIL DEAD, Moolah Theatre, St. Louis, MO
10/10/2015 – EVIL DEAD, Elm Road Drive-In, Warren, OH
10/10/2015 – CANNIBAL FEROX, Skyline Drive-In, Shelbyville, IN
10/10/2015 – CANNIBAL HOLOCAUST, Donner Party Film Feast, Reno, NV
10/15/2015 – EVIL DEAD, Cinemagic Movies, Merrimack, NH
10/16/2015 – EVIL DEAD, Dixie Twin Drive-In, Dayton, OH
10/16/2015 – EVIL DEAD, Field of Dreams Drive-In, Tiffin, OH
10/17/2015 – EVIL DEAD, Central Cinema, Seattle, WA
10/17/2015 – THE BEYOND, Nightlight Cinema, Akron, OH
10/18/2015 – EVIL DEAD, Central Cinema, Seattle, WA – DCP
10/18/2015 – EVIL DEAD, Alamo Mainstreet, Kansas City, MO
10/22/2015 – EVIL DEAD, Cine Theatre, Athens, GA
10/23/2015- THE BEYOND, Skyline Drive-In, Shelbyville, IN
10/23/2015 – EVIL DEAD, Indiana University Cinema, Indianapolis, IN
10/23/2015 – EVIL DEAD, Jacob Burns Film Center, Pleasantville, NY
10/23/2015 – EVIL DEAD, Alamo Lubbock, Lubbock, TX
10/24/2015 – THE BEYOND, Skyline Drive-In, Shelbyville, IN
10/24/2015 – EVIL DEAD, Manor Theatre, Pittsburgh, PA
10/24/2015 – GRINDHOUSE RELEASING’S TRAILER APOCALYPSE, Coral Gables Art Cinema, Coral Gables, FL
10/24/2015 – PIECES, American Cinematheque – Aero Theatre, Los Angeles
10/24/2015 – EVIL DEAD, Alamo Vintage Park, Houston, TX
10/24/2015 – PIECES, Carlton Cinema, Toronto, ON
10/24/2015 – THE BEYOND, Carlton Cinema, Toronto, ON
10/25/2015 – EVIL DEAD, Cine, Athens, GA – DCP
10/25/2015 – EVIL DEAD, Alamo One Loudoun, Ashburn, VA
10/25/2015 – EVIL DEAD, Alamo S. Lamar, Austin, TX
10/26/2015 – THE BEYOND, Trylon, Minneapolis, MN
10/26/2015 – EVIL DEAD, Alamo Richardson, Richardson, TX
10/28/2015 – EVIL DEAD, Alamo Laredo, Laredo, TX
10/28/2015 – EVIL DEAD, Alamo Marketplace, New Braunfels, TX
10/30/2015 – EVIL DEAD, Loft Cinema, Tucson, AZ
10/30/2015 – EVIL DEAD, State Theater, Traverse City, MI
10/30/2015 – EVIL DEAD, North Park Theatre, Buffalo, NY
10/31/2015 – THE BEYOND, AFI Silver Cinema, Silver Spring, MD
10/31/2015 – EVIL DEAD, Castro Theatre, San Francisco, CA
10/31/2015 – EVIL DEAD, Alamo Drafthouse, Kalamazoo, MI
11/1/2015 – THE BEYOND, AFI Silver Cinema, Silver Spring, MD
11/1/2015 – PIECES, Film Society of Lincoln Center, NYC, NY
11/5/2015 – THE BEYOND, AFI Silver Cinema. SIlver Spring, MD
11/6/2015 – EVIL DEAD, Landmark Esquire Theatre, Denver, CO
11/8/2015 – AN AMERICAN HIPPIE IN ISRAEL, Olympia Film Festival, Olympia, WA
11/13/2015 – GRINDHOUSE RELEASING’S TRAILER APOCALYPSE, Olympia Film Festival, Olympia, WA
11/14/2015 – THE BEYOND, Olympia Film Festival, Olympia, WA
11/24/2015 – I DRINK YOUR BLOOD, Hollywood Theatre, Portland, OR
12/4/2015 – THE BEYOND, Landmark E Street Cinema, Washington, DC
12/5/2015 – CANNIBAL HOLOCAUST, ArtsQuest Center, Bethlehem, PA
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Mahakali bridge to transform far west: PM Deuba
Bhimdattnagar, Aug 31: Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba has said the four-lane bridge to be constructed over the Mahakali River would bring change not only in the far west but to the entire nation.
Laying foundation stone to the four-lane bridge over the River here today, PM Deuba further said efforts would be made to construct a dry port in the Chandani Dodhara. "With the completion of the bridge, the Kanchanpur border point would be promoted," he said, adding that the foundation stone to the Pancheshwor Project would be laid soon.
The DPR for it completes in one month, he said while sharing the achievements of his visit to India.
On the occasion, Minister for Physical Infrastructure and Transport Bir Bahadur Balayar informed that far west people that a process to construct an international airport had begun in the region.
Chief of the Road Improvement Project, Sushil Babu Dhakal, said the four line bridge over the Mahakali is aimed to be completed in three years. The length of bridge would be 800 metre while the width 23.8 m.
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Title: The Kia ora coo-ee : the magazine for the ANZACS in the Middle East, 1918, with introduction by David Kent
Publication details: Cornstalk Publishing, 1981, Sydney
Digital publication kindly authorised by: David A. Kent
Part of: The Kia ora coo-ee : the magazine for the ANZACS in the Middle East, 1918
The Kia ora coo-ee : the magazine for the ANZACS in the Middle East, 1918
My First Outpost
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My First Outpost.
I don't think I can be charged with egotism, when I claim that I am as game as the next man; but there have been times during my career as a soldier—yes, I said soldier—when I have—well—er—been a bit funky. Not that I'm ashamed of that fact; all of, us get scared at times. The bravest man born is invariably scared to go home and face his wife—sometimes.
However, that's beside the point. What I want to talk about is a time when I was actually scared. It was on my first outpost duty, when I was a raw recruit. I haven't ripened too well, even though it is close on three years since- I was introduced to the game of soldiering Now, abou this outpost. It was a cold, wintry night, with rain falling in torrents. I was second shift. The sergeant, a fatherly sort of chap, realising my inexperience—that word sounds better than "mug", which I undoubtedly was—tolerantly answered my many questions, loaded and put the catch over my rifle; and undertook to lay down beside my post, so as to be hardy if anything did happen. Of course, I protested against this procedure; I was all right. At the same time, I was inwardly praying that be would "carry on," No, I wasn't frightened— not nervous. It was only the cold that caused my limbs to shake; a few nils of rum would have remedied that.
My orders, on taking up post, were most explicit; there was no mistaking them. Give no quarter; the gallant Gobble-ups (of which I was a proud member) must not be caught napping. Nap was something at which they were most adept, be it in bed or at cards. When I took "post" I was a proud man. For the time being, I was the sole guardian of thousands (whoa! of my fellow countr>men; all of them game, and beggars to fight.
The seconds seemed rrinutes, the minutes hours, and the wait for relief an eternity. My eyes ached, peering into empty space; soon I began to get fancies. Visions of battalions of the enemy dashing headling toward me danced before my eyes. Cwld shivers ran down my back. What was that which crackled behind me? Merely the slumbering sergeant, rolling over and disturbing some drift wood with his boot in the act. Something directly ahead arrested my attention. It was obviously, to me, a man's form; but then, there was a glimpse of white. The enemy would surely not be so damn-fool as to leave a piece of white visible. The white momentarily fluttered: that enemy, I thought had been so indiscreet as to risk wiping his nose with a white handkerchief. I felt like doing the same myself, for the cold and rain had manufactured verv annoying, not to say inconveniencing lcicles on the outlet of my nasal organ.
The thought uppermost in my mind was, should I shoot or wait till it advanced closer; call "on it to halt, and then blow it to blazes. Then I thought of waking my friend, the sergeant; no, that wouldn't do, it might be nothing (yet. I believed it was); and probably, besides making myself look like a mug, I might lose the sergeant's much valued friendship by unnecessarily disturbing his slumbers, particularly when it meant that he would get cold and wet. No, I would prove that I possessed that initiative and resourcefulness characteristic of the Australian, even if it cost me my life.
What greater sacrifice can a man make than to be killed in action. The newspapers would (when I was dead) extol my virtues, and express the stereotyped regrets that such a promising young life had been nipped in the bud; that I had died for King and Country, duty nobly done, etc, etc. My relatives would picture my dying agonies. My published biography would divulge who were my relations—you know the stuff: "He was the son of Mr. and Mrs. So and So, brother of So and So, uncle of So and So. nephew of So and So, grand-son of So and So."
But to get back to the "plot" of my story. That object which had arrested my attention drew nearer and nearer. Suddenly a mist are se before me, my overcoat flapped furiously, my hat was blown off my head, something was pelting into my face and stinging, like short, sharp pricks with a pin. Then something hit me fair in the face with a crackling sort of a bang. I felt clammy, and rolled and fell full length over the pro-trate form pf the sergeant, who sat up, a bit dazed. Then he hurriedly groped in the sand, and the next thing I knew was, that my rifle was snatched out of my hand.
"What the blazes is the matter?" Demanded the sergeant.
I could feel throbs like a machine gun in full blast in my left breast, still I managed to mutter "Dunno!" The fatherly, pleasant-speaking sergeant then revealed his true colours.
"No, I'm damned if ] think you do. You nearly frightened tf, e life out of me, and it's a good job you didn't fire. Too damned frightened, I suppose?"
He stood up. How game, I thought, for look at the risks he took of being seen by the enemy.
"I fell . . . over the Sergeant."
Meanwhile, my eyes were stinging, and on my cheek I had a sticky feeling. I put my hand on it; it felt like a mixture of blood and sand. I had been too excited before to feel or notice blood, that was evidently oozing from my cheek. It was obviously the result of that blow that caused me to reel over and fall; yet I could feel no cut.
"What's that?" suddenly said the sergeant, at the same time indicating something white a few yards distant. We approached—he went first for non-coms, always have the privilege of the lead. He picked it up—it was a piece of newspaper. He dropped it, with the remark, "Damn it. it's all sticky; the blasted thing's all smeared with jam."
I put my hand to my cheek again; then a smeared finger to my mouth. Yes, it was jam on my cheek, all right. The truth then began to dawn on me. It was that piece of newspaper, blown by a gust of wind that had hit me, and it was sand, likewise scatteled, that had stung my face. That was why I had been rubbing my eyes. It wasn't the enemy at all. That Orderly Officer was a romancer of the highest order there was no enemy within miles and miles; and he had only been trying to "put the wind up" us, so that we would know what to do when we did get into enemy territory. You see, we were only recent arrivals from Australia. I was feeling dead game when the relief arrived, The sergeant wasn't a bad sort, and didn't tell any of my cobbers. Nor have I . . . . till now
Palestine. S. F. Cusack.
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ZOOM, Series I
Weekly half-hour programs which showed what youngsters do and think. Seven ZOOMers hosted each program, cast changed over run of series. Premiered locally as "Summer-Do" in 1970, nationally in January 1972. ZOOMers played games, told jokes, riddles (called Fannee Doolees) and stories and did crafts projects...and invited ideas from their audience. The result was an avalanche of ZOOMmail - in the first season, over 200,000 letters. Ubbi Dubbi language was invented by ZOOM. NOTE: Several episodes re-aired JUN-SEP 1994. Series release date: 1972
Chicago: “ZOOM, Series I,” 02/23/1978, WGBH Media Library & Archives, accessed July 19, 2019, http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/V_50805FB9650A428C987F917B6D6B6673.
MLA: “ZOOM, Series I.” 02/23/1978. WGBH Media Library & Archives. Web. July 19, 2019. <http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/V_50805FB9650A428C987F917B6D6B6673>.
APA: ZOOM, Series I. Boston, MA: WGBH Media Library & Archives. Retrieved from http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/V_50805FB9650A428C987F917B6D6B6673
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Ji Wallace
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Ji Wallace won Australia’s first Olympic gymnastics medal, in trampolining, at Sydney 2000. The gymnastics discipline made its Olympic debut at the Sydney Games, and Wallace was triumphant in front of a home crowd. After qualifying in equal third position, Wallace went on to claim the silver medal behind Alexandre Moskalenko, of Russia.
Wallace began trampolining in 1987 on the instruction of his mother who wanted the 10-year-old to learn danger avoidance. Wallace went to his first World Championships in 1992 and attended every championship after that in the lead up to the Sydney Games, with his biggest achievement coming when he won gold in the double mini trampoline in 1996. In the same event in 1998, Wallace set a world record, performing a triple front somersault with half twist into a back somersault with full twist.
Final 39.30pts 2nd
Qualifying 67.40pts 4th
Final Placing 2 / 16
Bouncing into history
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Interview with Oded Fehr
October 13, 2001 By Kim Ziervogel Leave a Comment
Oded Fehr is afraid everyone will find out he can\’t act. An interesting paranoia to say the least, considering he was recast in a lead role in the new NBC television series UC:Undercover; that his role in The Mummy was rewritten so his character lives to return for more screen time in the sequel, The Mummy Returns; and that he was also called back to perform as a different character in next year\’s star-studded Texas Rangers (which he couldn\’t do due to other commitments.)
It\’s mid-morning in Vancouver, Canada and Oded is getting ready for another day of work on UC:Undercover. Through the phone line it sounds like he is moving around his place, perhaps choosing what to wear to the set. The sound of a door squeaks in the background as the tell-tale clacking sound of hangers slide across a closet bar. He has taken a bit of time on this chilly fall morning to talk to Ones2Watch4 about UC:Undercover, which role he is best known for (you\’ll be surprised), and Bert and Ernie.
By now anyone who has been following Oded\’s career knows that the character that launched his career, Ardeth Bay in 1999\’s The Mummy, was supposed to die. But director and writer Stephen Sommers liked Oded\’s portrayal of the stoic Med Jai warrior so much, he rewrote the part so Ardeth would live to return in the sequel. Oded isn\’t sure of this fact. He says, quite humbly, that it was more likely the character that was the reason for the rewrite and not his performance. Oded cites Sommers\’ vision for the way his character turned out.
“I owe Stephen my career. I was my first year out of drama school. And he gave me the role in The Mummy and brought me back for The Mummy Returns. I owe him a lot.”
After completing The Mummy Returns, Oded spent ten months looking for the right role to portray next. He had offers of villains, ethnic characters and so on, but he stuck it out until he was presented with a dynamic character. That perfect part just happened to be in television. Originally cast as one of the bad guys in UC, Oded once again wowed the producers who switched gears and offered him the role of Frank Donovan, the head of an elite team of undercover agents who infiltrate gangs, broker deals with crime families, and bust rotten cops.
“What was really important for me was to do something really different than anything I had ever done before,” says Oded. “I felt that this point of time in my career, I need to do a character that most people wouldn\’t see me as.”
And most people still won\’t see him as Frank Donovan, at least not at first. His trademark long locks have been transformed into a number 3 Caesar. He has said before that he cut it so he wouldn\’t be stereotyped into the same roles. But we didn\’t talk hair. We were here to talk about the show and his part. And talk Oded did.
“I was interested in doing both either film or television. What drew me to television was it\’s very quick but for a very long period of time. And you get to play the same character and get a chance to really explore it. As far as Frank Donovan is concerned, he\’s a very interesting character. We\’re going to find out a lot about him. And he does get the opportunity every so often to go undercover. Which for an actor is fantastic because you get to play different roles. ”
When he first attended drama school, Oded says, actors rarely crossed-over between film and television but it now happens regularly. Choosing a television role doesn\’t bother him over a feature film career. He just wanted to make sure he chose the right project for his career.
“I was very adamant about the fact that I wanted to make sure that whatever it is that I am filming it is really good.”
And UC:Undercover is good television, Oded pledges.
“It is very different from anything that is out there today. We really try to give a cinematic experience to people. We really do little features every week.”
He adds that the scripts are challenging and the work is grueling but admits that the crew has it a lot tougher than he and the rest of the cast.
“They spend most of the day with the camera on their shoulders or on a steadicam,” he says admiringly.
The show has already established the fine line undercover agents walk between a character\’s reality as an agent and the fictional person they portray to trap a bad guy and how those lines sometimes get blurred.
“You will find that in talking to actual undercover agents that these bad guys are really likeable, friendly, smart, intellectual people who just happen to sell drugs, who happen to steal cars, who happen to, god forbid, kill people. So we try to show that on (UC).”
So a show that deals with bad guys, good guys, car chases, gun battles, is that what television viewing audience wants in a time when war is one the minds of many? Oded says the show is about heroes saving lives. There are no senseless deaths. Every time a person loses their life on the show it is dealt with and talked about. In the wake of Sept. 11 while studios scrambled to change their lineups and scrap storylines, UC:Undercover, like other shows, also had at least one casualty. A previously shot show was shelved due to a terrorist story line. Scripts were juggled around but that was the only change made, confirms Oded.
“Our job is to entertain, to give people an enjoyable out for an hour, to just sit and watch something different. And to do a show about terrorists is just too hard at the moment. Each person uses entertainment for his own pleasure in a
After an exhausting day of shooting, he usually gets home around midnight and can only spare about 30 minutes for TV before heading off to bed. Oded says he tries to catch a comedy but on his days off he also likes to watch The West Wing or Law and Order. He adds that because he hasn\’t been in North America for very long he hasn\’t had the opportunity to watch a great deal of television. Subsequently, he has never tuned into his Sunday night rival (not mentioning the name of said show here is our Practice).
What we will mention here though is his next movie on the big screen Texas Rangers. He shares the screen with a veritable who\’s who of up and coming actors such as James Van der Beek, Ashton Kutcher, Dylan McDermott, and Rachel Leigh Cook. The release date of this movie has been pushed back, yet again, to spring of 2002. Although his part as a French-Canadian bad guy is small in this film, Oded is enthusiastic about the project.
“I was very excited when I got the part in Texas Rangers, you know being on a horse, wearing a cowboy hat with your guns in a holster and all that.” His voice rises and falls and you can picture him standing as though astride a horse with his fingers as six-shooters.
“That was very exciting. But I never…I just love what I do and am very happy with whatever comes my way,” Oded says, stumbling over his words.
Although if a studio ever gets it into their heads to do a live-action version of Sesame Street, Oded might not be too keen to take on the role of Bert or Ernie.
“I don\’t know when I was stupid enough to mention that…or maybe my mother did,” it dawns on him. When Oded was very young he used to impersonate his favourite Children\’s Television Network characters in Hebrew. Although his mother may be able to coax him into an impersonation still, Ones2Watch4 couldn\’t.
“You\’re never going to hear that,” he laughs.
But we will hear about his other children\’s love. And that is the Kids Cancer Connection, a charity for children with the disease and their families.
“My wife and I wanted to do some kind of charity with children,” he explains.
His wife, Finding Forrestor producer Rhonda Tollefson, found out about Kids Cancer Connection. Oded went to one of their meetings and says it became very clear, very quickly he could do a lot for the charity with The Mummy and a charity screening. His film schedule and working up in Canada, makes it harder for him to be involved in the charity but he tries to keep a hand in it.
Texas Rangers is one of those projects that kept him away from Kids Cancer Connection. After his part was filmed and he was already onto his next project, Oded was asked to come back and shoot a larger role for Texas Rangers. He couldn\’t due to his commitment to the Rob Schneider vehicle Deuce Bigelow: Male Gigolo. Surprisingly, this is the role that Oded is most recognized for and not as Ardeth Bay in The Mummy movies.
“I was surprised because my role in Deuce is not that big either. I come in and the beginning and at the end but I don\’t participate throughout the movie. I got a lot of recognition for that film, which is fantastic.”
Oded says doing comedy is difficult for him, but had fun working on Deuce Bigelow and wants to work with Schneider again. He would like to work with Sommers again too, now that he has a bit more of an idea what to expect.
“I just kind of survived through it (The Mummy). People say \’Wow! You did such an amazing job\’…I didn\’t do an amazing job.”
And that is pretty much how Oded feels about his abilities.
Trained at Bristol\’s Old Vic Theatre School, Oded wants to return to the theatre some day. Perhaps, even to do a Shakespearean play on a London stage, he says willfully.
“I\’d like to get to a point in my career where I\’ve established myself enough that I can afford to take three or four months off so I can do some theatre. But I think that will take a little more time but I\’d love that. I\’d definitely love that. My biggest wish is to one-day do Shakespeare on a London stage. That was my biggest challenge when I first joined drama school. I couldn\’t understand anything from that language. It was like Chinese for me. If it\’s done well than you understand it and can see the beauty of it. And that\’s the difference between a good Shakespearean actor and a bad one.”
“I am completely convinced that I know nothing. And that some day somebody is going to find out that I know nothing. And when that happens I am going to be in big trouble.”
But those moments of self-doubt aren\’t stopping him from forging ahead in his career and thinking about the future, his and some very special kids.
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OneSamurai
OneSamurai: Dusk Steam Greenlight Trailer
The year is 1274 and the Kamakura Shogunate is celebrating the 82nd year since its establishment by Minamoto no Yoritomo. The current shogun Prince Koreyasu is also celebrating his 10th birthday under the regency of Hojo Tokimune. But all is not as stable as it seems. Only 16 years earlier the ruling Goryeo dynasty of Korea was forced to swear fealty to Kublai Khan the grandson of Genghis Khan and his Mongol Horde. Kublai Khan has aspirations to conquer from the coast of the Atlantic to the coast of the Pacific and his gaze may soon fall east. Inside Japan’s borders itself many different clans vow for land, power and strength and some for the chance to eventually rule the land of the rising sun for themselves. You start as a single man with no clan, land, power or strength but in end may have the potential to divert the course of Japanese history.
OneSamurai: Dusk
OneSamurai: Dusk covers the events of the first Mongol invasion of Japan in 1274. You play as Akahoshi Aritaka a member of the Ao Ken Mercenary company who are investigating attacks on the western coast of Japan.
OneSamurai: Night
OneSamurai: Dusk covers the events of the Kamakura Shogunate of Japan in 1281.
OneSamurai: Dawn
OneSamurai: Dawn covers the events of the Emperors War against the Shogunate in 1331 where your decisions come to fruition in the final game of the OneSamurai series.
ONESAMURAI: DUSK FEATURES LIST
Turn based tactical combat.
Stats based levelling.
Open world map with over 30 unique Villages, Towns, Cities and Castles.
Over 100 quests covering events of Kamakura shogunate and clan quarrels.
3 different classes with different play styles.
4 different companions with different play styles to complement your own or oppose it.
Decisions system which can change the outcome of the final game.
Ability to import character from this game to next with your decisions changing future outcomes.
Chance to help clans in territorial conflict and increase their personal strength.
Coming on PC.
CHARACTERS AND CLANS
AKAHOSHI ARITAKA
Born: Unknown
Occupation: Akahoshi Aritaka is a member of the Ao Ken Mercenary Company.
TAIRA KAGETAKA
Born: Iki, Sea of Japan
Occupation: Taira Kagetaka is the marshall of Iki and guards the island against attack.
SUZUKI ARATA
Born: Naniwa, Honshu
Occupation: Suzuki Arata is a guard at the Shrine of Izumo Taisha.
SEOK-HAN KEISUKE
Born: Miyazu, Honshu
Occupation: Seok-Han is a fisherman and supposed thief who lives on the island of Sado.
YAMAUCHI RYUU
Born: Hakata, Kyushu
Occupation: Yamauchi Ryuu is the leader of the Ao Ken Mercenary Company.
KIKUCHI JIRO
Occupation: Kikuchi Jiro is a samurai and also the heir to the Kikuchi Clan.
HOJO TOKIMUNE
Born: Kamakura, Honshu
Occupation: Hojo Tokimune is regent of the Shogunate and de-facto ruler of Japan.
KI KWAN JUN
Born: Jeju, Goryeo Korea
Occupation: Ki Kwan Jun is a wokou pirate who raids the western coast of Japan.
SOME FACTIONS OF ONESAMURAI
ANDOU CLAN
The Andou Clan are a clan based in Aomori, located in the Touhoku Region of Japan. The Clan Head in 1274 is Andou Goro. Andou Goro also has a son named Andou Shiki and a daughter named Gozen.
While Andou Goro is a friendly and jolly man, he also commands complete respect over his subjects and is known as a resilient warrior.
The Andou Clan’s territory of Aomori is the northernmost settlement in Japan. The Clan often trade with the Ainu people, found on the northern island of Ezo.
ASHIKAGA CLAN
The Adachi Clan are a clan based in Ashikaga, located in the Kantou Region of Japan. The Ashikaga Clan also control the territory of Tsuruga. The Clan Head in 1274 is Ashikaga Yoshitada who also has a son named Sadashi.
Ashikaga Yoshitada is known as a diligent leader of his clan, but many find him to be a cold and cruel individual at times. His son is different, being known as a good warrior who has a humble, kind heart while also being involved in his local Temple.
GENJI CLAN
The Genji Clan are a clan based in Totsukawa, located in the Kansai Region of Japan. The Clan Head in 1274 is Genji Yoshinobu. Genji Yoshinobu also has a son named Genji Kazan who manages their other territory the village of Hamada.
Genji Yoshinobu is known as a wise scholarly man.
The Genji Clan are descended from one of the old branches of the Japanese Imperial Family, though the once famous clan no longer hold as much sway as they once did.
The Hojo Clan are a clan based in Kamakura, located in the Kantou Region of Japan. The Clan Head in 1274 is Shikken(Regent of the Shogunate) Hojo Tokimune. The Hojo Clan hold many other domains including Ootsu, Numazu, Sakai and Shima.
Hojo Tokimune is possibly the most powerful man in the Shogunate with his family dominating the position of regent for generations. He is a major proponent of Zen Buddhism, and has influenced its introduction to the Samurai Class. Other members of the Hojo Clan also hold powerful positions at court.
The Imperial Court are based in Kyoto the capital of Japan. It is located in the Kansai Region of Japan. The Japanese Emperor in 1274 is the newly acceded Emperor Go-Uda.
Seven year old Emperor Go-Uda rose to the Chrysanthemum Throne after his father Emperor Kameyama abdicated, therefore being known as the Cloistered Emperor. Emperor Kameyama continues to hold influence and power at court, but his son Go-Uda has to carry out the ceremonial duties of Emperor.
KIKUCHI CLAN
The Kikuchi Clan are a clan based in Kumamoto, located in the Kyuushuu Region of Japan. The Clan head in 1274 is Kikuchi Takayasu. Kikuchi Takayasu has a son named Jirou and a daughter named Moa.
Kikuchi Takayasu is known to be in ill health, and has not been seen in public for a number of years. Instead his son Kikuchi Jirou takes care of most of the Clan Business. Kikuchi Jirou has somewhat of a mystic air about him, but is known to his followers as a charismatic and attentive man.
KOUNO CLAN
The Kouno Clan are a clan based in Matsuyama, located in the Shikoku Region of Japan. The Clan head in 1274 is Rokuro (Kouno Michiari). Rokuro has a son named Michimori.
The Kouno Clan are located on the island of Shikoku, the smallest of Japan’s main three islands. Matsuyama the seat of the Kouno Clan is famous for the bathhouse Dogo Osen. The Osen has been visited in the past by the Japanese Emperor and reportedly has healing properties, even once healing a god who was feeling unwell.
MATSUDAIRA CLAN
The Matsudaira Clan are a clan based in Iwade, located in the Kansai Region of Japan. The Clan head in 1274 is Matsudaira Hideaki. Matsudaira Hideaki also has a son named Arichika and a daughter named Emiko.
Though the Clan is small in power Matsudaira Hideaki is known to be a competent schemer. His son attempts to follow in his image but lacks the necessary intrigue to fill this role properly.
Iwade itself is a small inconsequential village with some lakes and a Shingon Buddhist Temple.
SOU CLAN
The Sou Clan are a clan based in Tsushima, located in the Sea of Japan. The Clan head in 1274 is Sou Sukekuni. Sou Sukekuni also has two sons named Umajiro and Moriaki.
The island of Tsushima serves as the gateway from Japan to mainland Asia with Buddhism and the Kanji writing system travelling through the area.
Due to Tsushima’s important location it has been heavily involved in trade and war. The island had some trade with the Korean Kingdoms and was also subject to invasion by Jurchen Pirates in 1019.
YUAN DYNASTY
The Yuan Dynasty are the rulers of the Mongol Empire based in China, Mongolia and Korea with reach into Eastern Europe, Central Asia and Persia. The leader of the Dynasty is Kublai Khan, the grandson of Genghis Khan.
In 1258 the Mongols finished their war on the Korean Peninsula, with Korea agreeing to become a vassal state to the Mongol Empire.
The Mongols in 1274 are attempting to invade the Song Dynasty, the rulers of Southern China. Victory over the Song would allow the Yuan Dynasty to stretch their power across the whole of China.
Over 30 unique Clans and Factions in total!
ONESAMURAI DEVELOPMENT BLOG
The OneSamurai Development Blog is the place to go to get more detailed information about OneSamurai. If you want to check out the OneSamurai Development Blog then check out the link below.
CONTACT US AND SOCIAL MEDIA
@ONESAMURAI
ONESAMURAI:DUSK
General Emails: general@onesamurai.co.uk
Media related Emails: media@onesamurai.co.uk
Issues or bug reports: issues@onesamurai.co.uk
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Company Biography
Flaming Eye Games is a company based in Sheffield, United Kingdom. Flaming Eye Games was founded in 2014 and is committed to make a series of games that are both fun and rewarding for the player. The OneSamurai game series will be the first games released by the company and we hope you will enjoy our games as much as we are planning to do.
OneSamurai is a Role playing game series for PC, Mac and Linux set in the Kamakura era of Feudal Japan.
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Pinnacle Foods Inc. Announces Quarterly Dividend
PARSIPPANY, NJ, (December 9, 2014) - Pinnacle Foods Inc. (NYSE: PF) announced today that its Board of Directors has declared a quarterly cash dividend of $0.235 per share, payable on January 9, 2015 to all common stockholders of record at the close of business on December 19, 2014.
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In more than 85% of American households, consumers reach for Pinnacle Foods brands. Pinnacle Foods is ranked on Fortune Magazine's 2014 Top 1000 companies list. We are a leading producer, marketer and distributor of high-quality branded food products, which have been trusted household names for decades. Headquartered in Parsippany, NJ, our business employs an average of 4,400 employees. We are a leader in the shelf-stable and frozen foods segments and our brands hold the #1 or #2 market position in 10 of the 13 major categories in which they compete. Our Duncan Hines Grocery Division manages brands such as Duncan Hines® baking mixes and frostings, Vlasic® and Vlasic Farmer’s Garden® shelf-stable pickles, Wish-Bone® and Western® salad dressings, Mrs. Butterworth's® and Log Cabin® table syrups, Armour® canned meats, Brooks® and Nalley® chili and chili ingredients, Duncan Hines® Comstock® and Wilderness® pie and pastry fruit fillings and Open Pit® barbecue sauces. Our Birds Eye Frozen Division manages brands such as Birds Eye®, Gardein™, Birds Eye Steamfresh®, C&W®, McKenzie's®, and Freshlike® frozen vegetables, Birds Eye Voila!® complete bagged frozen meals, Van de Kamp's® and Mrs. Paul's® frozen prepared seafood, Hungry-Man® frozen dinners and entrées, Aunt Jemima® frozen breakfasts, Lender's® frozen and refrigerated bagels, and Celeste® frozen pizza. Our Specialty Foods Division manages Tim's Cascade Snacks®, Hawaiian® kettle style potato chips, Erin's® popcorn, Snyder of Berlin® and Husman's® snacks in addition to our food service and private label businesses. Further information is available at www.pinnaclefoods.com.
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Iggy Azalea – Mo Bounce
Iggy Azalea returns with her highly-anticipated new single, “Mo Bounce,” the lead offering from her forthcoming sophomore album, Digital Distortion.
Produced by The Stereotypes and Far East Movement, the record reiterates the bootylicious album cover, as the Australian rapper sets the club a blaze with the bouncy offering. A video was shot in Hong Kong and will drop on Friday.
“Little bit of ratchet, little boujee, you should all know,” Iggy raps. “Everybody got opinions, yeah, like assholes / You ain’t gotta worry ’bout those / ‘Cause they assholes / We just came to party.”
“This is my intentional single,” Iggy told Beats 1. “I wanted to put out the Uzi record, where I feel like it’s maybe more hip-hop, more about rapping verses. To me, this is about the whole sound, as an entirety.”
Iggy’s upcoming album may boast appearances from YG, Jeremih, and Lil Uzi Vert.
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Ureaplasma women: Symptoms and Treatment
What is it and why there is disease
How does the disease
Analyzes on a ureaplasma in women
How to treat a ureaplasma
Treatment without drugs
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Ureaplasma - one of the diseases of the urogenital system of the human body, which is caused by Gram-negative microbes.
Ureaplasma - one of the diseases of the urogenital system of the human body
Gram they are called in reaction to the Gram stain. This method allows us to differentiate bacteria on the structure of their walls. Gram-positive bacteria take color and turn blue. The color change is strong, followed by washing does not change the color of their new.
gram-negative bacteria, although change color, but when flushing discolor, indicating that the greater the strength and density of the cell membrane. Such bacteria are resistant to the antibodies, produced by the body, presence in their structure components, causing inflammation, making them particularly pathogenic. If the number of these microorganisms starts to exceed the rate, manifested symptoms of inflammation.
Disease, which provoke these bacteria, It called ureaplasmosis, but in its pure form, it is quite rare. This diagnosis can be put only in the event, when only a ureaplasma detected in inflammation, without inclusions of other microorganisms.
In most cases the disease affects women. Besides, they are often carriers of the disease, who do not show any symptoms of the infection of their own. Ureaplasma in women is often found in the natural microflora of the vagina in an inactive state, that is, a woman with the healthy. In men, the microorganism can reside peacefully in the urethra.
This suggests, In some cases, the disease does not occur when you transfer media from a microorganism, and the formation conditions, enabling to activate the bacteria and the onset of disease. This is the opinion of many specialists, which quite convincingly answer the question, where does ureaplasma in healthy women.
The weakening of the woman's body can lead to ureaplasmas
Here are some reasons to increase the probability of occurrence of disease:
the body condition, wherein suffers immunity:
supercooling
period after surgery
poor quality of life
disregard hygiene rules
up to age 30 years old
sex life too young
sexually promiscuous
unprotected sex
penchant for unconventional forms of sexual intercourse
presence of diseases, caused by other pathogens (chlamydia, gardrnerellez, Trichomonas fetus, herpes etc.)
dysbiosis
long courses of antibiotics without proper measures to restore the microflora
malnutrition, constant fatigue
The main route of penetration into the body ureaplasma - sexual contact, however the infection can get into the body and at home, via common carrier to hygiene items and household.
Sometimes the infection occurs during the prenatal period, from carrier mothers.
If the infection enters the body for the first time, there may be a relatively long incubation period, to 3-5 weeks, the exact duration is not set. After that, there are signs of infection ureaplazmozom, which are rather blurry character, so diagnosis requires
repeated studies.
pain urination, rezyu and burning
pain in the abdomen scattered nature, preferably in the lower part
discomfort during intercourse
colorless allocation, not intense
a slight increase of body temperature.
If getting ureaplasmas happened oral route (eg, after oral sex), In addition to these symptoms may start to hurt his throat and there are signs of, similar to angina. That is, a woman will treat throat, without touching the real cause of the disease.
Ureaplasma if not treated immediately, After a month and a half, it becomes chronic, while symptoms are blurred, even may disappear. Ureaplasmosis women in this form can be found in the course of intensive treatment of recurrent thrush.
Ureaplasmosis can be detected during treatment intensive repetitive thrush
Staging such a diagnosis as a ureaplasmosis requires several studies, and only on the basis of the results it can be concluded.
For accurate diagnosis conducted:
immunofluorescence (study using dye, that glows under ultraviolet light)
linked immunosorbent assay (similar to the previous, but instead of the dye used enzyme)
serological blood test (study, allowing to detect the presence of viruses in the blood)
other studies.
Detection ureaplasmosis requires several studies
The main treatment for the disease - the use of antibiotics, capable of producing action on gram-negative microorganisms.
For the treatment of the disease, caused by this organism, are not suitable for all antibiotics. Absolutely harmless to the penicillins and cephalosporins ureaplasmas.
The physician may prescribe antibiotics following groups:
macrolides (sumamed, erythromycin)
tetratsiklinы (tetracycline, doxycycline)
lincosamides (lincomycin).
Depending on the condition of the female organism and some other factors, the doctor will recommend a course system (tablets reception, capsules) or local treatment (applying vaginal and rectal suppositories). Treatment is carried out on an outpatient basis, at home.
Scheme systemic treatment, besides the main product, acting on microorganism pathogen, It includes:
vitamin complexes for immunity, with minerals and essential trace elements
facilities, soderzhashtie bifidobacteria- and lactobacilli, for restoring and maintaining intestinal and vaginal microflora
diet, excluding acute, greasy, roast, smoked. Under the ban is also alcohol - antibiotics for the most part are not compatible with alcohol, may begin the human liver works
in parallel with anti-bacterial drugs antifungal drugs may be prescribed.
Besides, doctor may advise to refrain from intimate contact during the treatment period, it is about 3 weeks.
ureaplasmosis treatment requires comprehensive measures
Local treatment of ureaplasma in women - more sparing scheme, is the use of vaginal and rectal suppositories.
The most used drugs - "Genferon" and "Gensikon".
effective candles, It has a pronounced anti-viral and anti-bacterial action, support the immune system, not only local, but also the general, the whole body.
Suppozitorii, due to its composition:
successfully docked inflammation
disrupt vital functions in cells of bacteria,
support the functionality of the affected cells
relieve symptoms (pain, mulligrubs, burning).
The course of treatment with this drug - 10 days in the case of an acute form. If the disease has already dragged on, duration of therapy can be increased.
The drug is relatively harmless, it can be administered to pregnant women, starting from the second trimester. However, to make a decision about its use can only be a doctor, especially in the treatment of women, expecting a baby.
These suppositories contain antiseptic agent hlorgeksina digluconate. The drug is quickly and effectively destroys a ureaplasma, wherein the natural vaginal flora is not violated. With the help of this drug poisoning can be cured in a week, candle is inserted in the vagina once daily.
The agent can be administered to pregnant women as a, and lactating mothers.
Despite the availability of information on, how to treat a ureaplasma in women, do not do it yourself. In studies before diagnosis may reveal other microorganisms, lingering inflammation, especially if the first stage of the disease went unnoticed. Only after identifying the form of the disease and its agents may be administered an effective treatment.
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Tineri Wins Coveted Space at Travel Technology Launchpad 2017
By Tim Russell on 22 December 2016 Startups
Tineri, one of Asia’s most exciting new travel technology startups, are delighted to announce that they have won a place at the 2017 Travel Technology Europe Launchpad!
Over 40 travel startups applied for just 14 slots at the event, which grants the world’s most promising travel tech startups a free booth at Europe’s biggest travel technology show, and we’re delighted to be one of those selected.
Travel Technology Europe takes place at London’s Olympia exhibition centre on 22-23 February 2017. Sponsored by tech giants Sabre, Cognizant and Adobe, it is attended by over 5500 travel tech professionals who will meet over 130 exhibitors showcasing the latest booking, e-commerce, payment, CRM, marketing and mobile technology for the travel industry.
Tim Russell, Tineri’s founder & CEO says “We’re delighted to have won a place at the TTE 2017 Launchpad. Whilst exhibiting at such events is vital for tech businesses, the cost can be prohibitive for new startups, so we really appreciate getting a leg-up from TTE! We’re looking forward to going to London and hopefully meeting lots of potential partners, customers and investors.”
To arrange to meet Tineri at TTE Launchpad, email tim@tineriapp.com. You can find out more about TTE at http://www.traveltechnologyeurope.com/.
See original article at http://tineriapp.com/news/tineri-wins-place-travel-technology-europe-launchpad/
Tim is one of representasia’s co-founders and the company’s CMO. He has been in the tourism industry since 1992 and has worked in Paris, London, Saigon & Bangkok. He has a strong background in operations, technology, sales & marketing. Representasia is his second business venture, following his founding of a successful Vietnam DMC in 2009.
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An Early Christmas Gift
"So, it's not like a gay couple is going to be able to rush out and get married tomorrow," I ask attorney Peggy Tomsic, really as an aside, at the end of our interview at 3PM on Friday. Tomsic, who argued for marriage equality in front of Judge Robert Shelby, sits up in her chair, adjusts her reading glasses, and with some urgency, makes a dramatic correction, "they could go out and get married right now!" she peers at me. "Wait, what?" I respond, and at that moment, I realize, history is unfurling in front of us all, and I am just now understanding the implications, and the early Christmas gift getting ready to be delivered to a large portion of Utah's population.
Peggy Tomsic
I knew that Judge Robert Shelby's ruling that Utah's ban on gay marriage was unconstitutional was big, but I assumed, wrongly of course, that there must have been a stay in place until the state's inevitable years long appeals of the Shelby's proclamation was settled. There was not.
Shelby has ruled that banning gay couples from marrying as Utah voters had done overwhelmingly in 2004, violated those citizens due process, and consequently is a violation of the U.S. Constitution.
Thus began a frenetic, electric, buzzy, and most importantly, monumental day in the news.
The Salt Lake County Clerk's office is one of a handful of a few that decides they will begin issuing marriage licenses. The clerk's office is bulging within the hour. Impromptu weddings are being conducted in the halls, and back offices. For those couples it was absolute, unexpected jubilation.
For those who support the idea of traditional marriage, judge Shelby's ruling was equally unexpected, but evoked a wholly different emotion.
Judge Robert Shelby
"So, attending any weddings anytime soon?" I joke with Gayle Ruzicka, the head of the ultra-conservative Eagle Forum as the photographer quickly adjusts his focal length on the camera in preparation of our interview, "oh yeah," she laughs on her porch, adorned with a pair of fanciful snowmen and, as you might imagine, a complete manger scene. "Can you believe it?!" she joshes, "I didn't even get an invitation to Jim's wedding!" Ruzicka is talking about State Senator Jim Dabakis, the openly gay lawmaker, who was among the first to be married in the wake of the marriage equality ruling, and he did so very publicly on 2News live at 5 PM.
Gayle Ruzicka, Eagle Forum
Ruzicka, is much reviled and conversely, beloved by many in Utah for her unabashed and often curt criticism of anything that falls slightly to the left of her ardently conservative views. Despite her prickly persona, and pronounced politics, in conversation she always allows for some humor.
When the camera gears up, Ruzicka assumes the position, and begins to breath fire, using words like "incompetent," to describe the Utah Attorney General, and "disgusting," to characterize, Salt Lake City Mayor Ralph Becker, proceeding over wedding in Salt Lake County.
Ruzicka finds herself talking about a very different Utah, a Utah that she and fellow opponents of gay marriage, ironically helped to create.
The campaign to ban gay marriage was frenzied 9 years ago, with pro-traditional marriage groups working long hours, knocking on countless doors, and sending out thousands of fliers in the mail. They worked hard, and their work payed off for them, the Amendment passed overwhelmingly in a referendum by 66 percent of the vote.
Had the ban never existed though, Peggy Tomsic would not have had anything to challenge, and Judge Shelby would have had nothing to overturn. Ruzicka and others it appears, made all the slapdash wedding spilling into the halls of the Salt Lake County building on 2100 South, possible.
As we pack up our gear, and leave Ruzicka's Alpine, Utah home, I turn and toss a parting quip, "Don't forget to pick up some wedding gifts this weekend," She guffaws, "Yeah right!", and waves us on cheerily, unaware that in many ways she actually helped wrap the gift of marriage equality for gay couples, just days before Christmas.
Posted by Chris Jones at 1:01 PM 2 comments:
Labels: Gay marriage, Gayle Ruzicka, marriage equality, Peggy Tomsic, Robert Shelby, Utah
Accidentally Perfect.
"You know," I say, as the white lights from our Christmas tree dance across her clear eyes, I caress the flawless, gentle skin of her cheek, "I'm going to get old," I press aside a lock of blond hair that, like a velvet curtain in a old movie house, reveals her large, deep blue eyes. "I'm going to get old much faster than you."
My wife Amanda is 17 years younger than me, I am 43, she, 27. "I'll love you forever," she frowns, offended at the mere thought that she would ever find my sagging skin, creaking knees, or chaotic morning snorts unappealing. "You are my dream man," she says as she thrust her blonde head into my white t-shirt and closes her eyes, pressing her forehead hard into my chest, and she smiles, content. "I love you," I say as I run my fingers over her recently washed and beautifully chaotic, accidentally perfect mane.
Oddly enough, my dad was 17 years older than my mother. There are patterns in nature, birds, they say, fly south for the winter and the currents keep salty water moving across the globe, and it turns out, at least in the case of the Jones family, we follow familiar patterns as well.
I never thought I would replicate my father's life. I thought babies, families and dogs were for squares, and I never wanted a wailing child, or K-9 eager to play fetch, to ever interrupt my date with a mug of beer, or a rocks glass teeming with whiskey.
Today, at the dog park, as Daisy bounded towards a crusty old pug, and wiggled her bobbed tail at the sight of a spastic Terrier, I found myself, encases in gentle, subtle, happiness, better than the achy, bloated high I got as I dragged fermented hops out a bottle.
Today I find myself, smiling unconsciously, at a life I didn't particularly try to achieve, but one, that I stumbled upon on with accidental perfection.
A while back, Amanda and I kicked our way down the wet gravel of Doolin, in Ireland, just a mile from the Cliffs of Moher, it was frigid, and the icy drizzle, peppered our faces with uncomfortable pinpoints of stinging rain. The ornate restaurant seemed "good enough," as it was flanked by tour buses, and purple haired grandmas from Kansas slowly creaking their way off the massive people hauler and into the teeming restaurant. The building was crammed full, like the backpacks worn by 20 something college kids from England on holiday looking for an "authentic" Irish experience.
As the waiters, all in matching t-shirts sporting the restaurant's name, scurried quickly from table to table, bringing plate after plate of fish and chips to bulging tourist, Amanda and I, burst from the trap, back into the rain, and took in deep breaths, as if we had been submerged under water for too long. We walked for a quarter mile in the damp air, and pushed our way into a nondescript little pub. It was serene and soft inside, only the clouded natural light, barely pressing through the smudged widows lit the place. We sipped Guiness, as a handful of American's quietly chatted and laughed. Amanda and I warmed by the popping, hot embers, housed by a 500 year old fire place. As Amanda pressed the spoon into her mouth, her eyes widened, "This is the best claim chowder I've ever had!" she grinned, as we both dipped into the white creamy soup. After a couple of hours (and more than a couple of beers) we began gently singing to each other, composing a little song, then as we giggled, recorded the tune into her cell phone, then we kissed. It was accidental perfection.
In 6 months, Amanda will give birth to our first child. I'm much older than my wife, like my father before me. The parallels may simply be accidental, but I know, they are perfect.
Posted by Chris Jones at 9:44 PM 1 comment:
Baking Up Trouble
Timothy Lawson, is a name dropper. Constantly evoking the nature of his friendship with former Attorney General Mark Shurtleff. In fact he did it so much in casual conversation, that his easy use of the AG's name, would eventually, one attorney in the AG's office prophetically predicted, "bring down the whole house of cards."
Lawson was charged yesterday with 6 felonies, including tax charges and trying to intimidate potential witnesses, just to name a few. The Davis and Salt Lake County District Attorneys alleged that Lawson was a bit of a political fixer. He would get paid thousands of dollars by a crooked businessman, Marc Jenson, to try and curry favor with Utah's top cop. Jenson, although serving time in jail on fraud charges bought by Shurleff's office, was paying for Shurleff, and his deputy John Swallow to stay at a swanky California villa. Lawson allegedly did all the dirty work, using Jenson's money to pay for Swallow and Shurtleff, to get massages, and gorge themselves on fresh fish pulled right from the Pacific Ocean while the squinted into the soothing West Coast sun.
Lawson, according to charging documents, was quick to throw out Shurtleff's name when he and Jenson, didn't like what someone was doing. Lawson allegedly told one man that he was Mark Shurtleff's Porter Rockwell, referring to the notorious and colorful "Avenging angel of Mormondom." Rockwell was the body guard for both Joseph Smith and Brigham Young, some historians say Rockwell, was quick to do the bidding of the two men, sometimes violently. Rockwall was said to have tried to assassinate the governor of Missouri by shooting Lilburn Boggs through a window in his study, Rockwell was arrested, tried and acquitted of all charges.
Unlike Rockwell, it appears Lawson's most active weapon was his mouth. One neighbor told me, that his son had a playground tiff with one of Lawson's daughters, Lawson allegedly called up this neighbor and warned him to keep his boy in check because Lawson, "Is good friends with Mark Shurtleff." "Really?" The balding man exclaimed, shaking his head, as he watched a handful of FBI agents scurry around the exterior of Lawson's expansive, Tudor home.
"He's a wheeler-dealer," the neighbor told me as he walked into his home, looking back one more time at federal agents as they rolled large plastic crates into Lawson's house.
Lawson, is, of all things, a baker. He apparently does a sizable business, selling gluten-free bakery goods from right inside his home. He has dozens, if not hundreds of large, yellow food crates stacked high on his front porch, and at least two large cargo trucks, crowded tightly into his driveway. Even as a simple baker, Lawson found an opportunity to puff up his cream puffs, by making mention of the Attorney General in the "About me" section on his bakery website:
They see him as the “Shield of Truth” against injustice, the voice of the faceless masses and the “Sword of Justice” for the people’s right to live in a free Democracy. To me, he was my dear friend, my sounding board and my confidant that always listened, always cared, and always tolerated me.
It's customary to mention when you started your business and why, but it seems a bit odd to expound romantically about the prudence of the attorney general on a website that sells multi-grain dinner rolls.
"What's going on in there!?" An older woman says, darting her blonde head into the open front window of our news truck. "Lawson's been arrested," I say, as I prepare for my 5 PM liveshot. "Good!" she folds her arms with satisfaction. I thought she was excited about Lawson's incarceration because of all the news about he and the AG's office, but that wasn't the case, "Hopefully now we can do something about all this bakery business baloney." The woman claims Lawson has 30 employees who report to his HOUSE for duty everyday, crowding the winding, narrow streets outside his home. "I have no idea how this has continued to go on," she says, almost shouting.
Lawson has been running this business out of his house for some time say neighbors, and despite repeated complaints to the city, he continues to produce gluten-free sourdough bread and pecan caramel bars from in his kitchen.
Perhaps Lawson's "wheeler-dealing" allows him to continue to run a large bakery in a residential area or maybe he tossed around a certain name to help keep production running, either way, as he sits in jail trying to come up with $250,000 dollars bail, it is clear, Lawson has baked up a batch of trouble for himself, and it's possible, others might get a taste of that as well.
Posted by Chris Jones at 8:44 AM 2 comments:
Labels: Chris Jones, John Swallow, Marc Jenson, Mark Shutleff, Timothy Lawson, Utah Attorney General
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Terrorism - The Rise of Vehicles As Weapons
As we have all witnessed in recent times, the nature of terror attacks has changed, it is impacting businesses in ways unforeseen just a few years ago.
Terror attacks using vehicles as weapons feel like the new normal and are incredibly hard to police or protect against. The tactic was used widely by militant groups in several attacks in Israel from 2008 onwards.
It has been adopted by small terror cells and lone wolf terrorists in Western Europe with devastating effect. In August, a van drove at speed down Barcelona’s La Rambla Boulevard, crashing into people and killing thirteen.
In London, a terrorist drove into people along Westminster Bridge in March, killing four. Just three months later, eight people were killed by a group of three terrorists who drove a van into people on London Bridge.
The continued widespread use of vehicles as weapons has highlighted the difficulty authorities have of protecting “soft targets” and while more barriers and CCTV cameras will go up, this type of terror attack will continue to be hard to stop.
The impact on business, whilst not as devastating as human casualties, is still nevertheless keenly felt. This summer’s London Bridge attack left hundreds of businesses in and around Borough Market out of action for a week and a half, as police necessarily cordoned off large sections of the area. However, when these businesses tried to claim back the cost of significant business interruption on their terrorism policies, payment was denied for many as no physical damage – the traditional policy trigger – had occurred. The Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) as well as the CEO of Pool Re has been calling on the government to update this critical gap in cover, explaining that this kind of event can have a catastrophic impact on business .
But so far, nothing has been done to address the issue.
What can I do to protect my business against lost earnings if I cannot access my property following an attack?
The good news is that there are insurance policies available that provide the option to cover lone wolf style attacks that focus on civilian casualties rather than property damage. This protects against the often significant costs of business interruption due to a terrorist attack which results in denial of access to your premises where there is no physical damage to any property.
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Oh, Give Me a Home Where the Burritos Roam
February 24, 2015 / Micah Nolte / 0 Comments
Near the end of the buying process for the trailer, they asked me where I wanted it delivered. Suddenly I realized that I had no idea where exactly I would be living.
I had only given a passing thought to the concept of trailer parks, so it was time to research. I scoured Google Maps for every RV park I could find, and gauged their livability based on the Street View. Very few places had an actual website or any method of contact other than a phone number.
After identifying the best choices, I began calling each one, and finding out that they were all full and had a waiting list. This was unexpected, but by the end of a long calling session, I had two parks with open spots.
The first one was nice and clean, with a swimming pool and laundry facility. I instantly liked it, but it was also the most expensive in the entire Bay Area, which is saying a lot.
The next day, I went to the second location, and things went downhill from there.
The manager wasn’t there, so I called him to check, and he had forgotten about it. While I waited outside the central park office, I overheard residents yelling between their trailers. One lady evidently was sick and had diarrhea all night. Later, I see a young girl stick her head through a hole in a trailer door and start speaking to me in Spanish. I shrug and apologize.
When the manager finally arrives, with a bad combover and a track suit, he says, “Let’s talk first.” So he opens the office building and leads me through a dirty office space to a back room. He tells me to sit on an ugly, stained couch and takes a seat across from me.
He starts his interview by asking vague personal questions, and eventually trying to find out how much money I make. I awkwardly avoid answering in too much detail, telling him only the things he needs to know. Eventually, he stands up and says, “Ok, let’s take a drive.”
“Uhh… Drive?”
Leading me back outside, and he tells me that the available spot is in another lot nearby, and we’ll drive over there together in his minivan.
I stop outside and say, “Oh, I can just drive there. Do you have the address?”
“There’s no address, but it’s really close,” he says, as he opens the passenger side door, grabbing handfuls of trash in the seat, and throwing it in the back of the van. Once he’s cleared out enough for me to sit inside, he orders, “Get in.”
Stupidly, I get in the van.
So we start to drive several blocks away, while he’s pointing out the sites nearby, trying to sell me on the neighborhood. Finally, we drive down a street and pull into a small parking lot between a convenience store and a pawn shop. This lot is extremely small, with around 8 RVs parked in it.
To the left is a line of three old cars with their hoods open. It looks like a “chop shop” for stolen vehicles. At the back corner of the lot is an RV straight out of Breaking Bad, with two guys standing outside of it, wearing sleeveless, open biker jackets and no shirts on underneath. They mostly ignore us.
He points at the line of cars, “There’s the space.”
“Where the cars are?”
“Yeah. I let him work on cars there, but don’t worry, he won’t mind moving them somewhere else.”
I don’t remember exactly what I said after that, but we had an awkward drive back, and I escaped as soon as possible.
Once safe at home, I immediately filled out the rest of the paperwork for the first park and my new home was locked in.
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A dummy called Starman in SpaceX's spacesuit in Musk's red Roadster. Image: Screengrab from SpaceX youtube
Falcon Heavy is the most powerful rocket designed and manufactured by American space company
SpaceX. It conducted Falcon Heavy’s maiden launch on February 6, 2018 at 3:45 p.m. from
the Cape Canaveral, Florida. The rocket carried a Tesla Roadster belonging to SpaceX CEO Elon
Musk as a dummy payload. It was designed to carry humans into space farther than ever before
especially to Mars. It is partially reusable super heavy-lift launch vehicle.
It has capacity to launch 64 tonnes of payloads to low earth orbit which is greater in mass than a 737
jetliner loaded with passenger crew, luggage and fuel. Its two boosters successful landed on ground
while third booster destroyed and felt at sea. It was built in around $90 million.
The two reuseable side boosters of the Falcon Heavy
landed in perfect harmony on the launch pad.
Image: Wikipedia
Falcon Heavy, with its great lifting capability and low cost, could prove a handy vehicle for
interplanetary missions. “You can imagine a number of possibilities that are only in the drawing board
phase,” says Jack Burns, an astrophysics professor at the University of Colorado and recent member
of the NASA transition team. “This could include a mission to orbit Pluto which requires a more
massive spacecraft than New Horizons, missions to the moons of Saturn, [and] sample return from
Mars, [which] requires multiple launch.” “We want a new space race,” Elon Musk said at a
press conference after the Falcon Heavy Launch. “Space races are exciting.”
He’s going to get one. SpaceX might be king of the hill right now, with the most cost-effective
rockets on the market, but you better believe other companies have the front runner in their crosshairs.
Elon Musk’s Tesla Roadseter that was used as a payload in
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Image: Elon Musk’s Instagram
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Pip Sleazy
In addition to letting the sender see that the receiver has seen their message, Facebook has released a “Seen the Seen” feature to tell the receiver that the sender has seen that they saw it. Or wait, no, the sender sees that the receiver saw that the sender saw…no, the receiver sees that the sender knows—wait, shit. You know how it says “Seen” when the receiver opens the message? Now the person that opens the message will know you saw them open it, and with that knowledge still chose not to respond. This allows the receiver to truly appreciate that he or she has successfully severed the unborn relationship the sender attempted to create. The ever-popular “Seen” feature allows people to understand how long a response to “What’s up?” can take. It identifies who is lying when they say, “Oh, I didn't see that.” And, most importantly, it reveals just how little that cute girl in your Spanish class wants to talk to you. But now you KNOW they saw it, thus marking the death of the awkwardly inexplicable “Maybe their Internet isn't working,” excuse.
This new feature is reshaping Internet culture. Now, when a user clicks an unwanted message, the “Seen” feature lets sender down easy, while the “Seen the Seen” feature will confirm the irreversible damage. Although the feature is still in Beta, Facebook has confirmed that after a “Seen-Seen” incident the interacting agents will never be able to look each other in the eye again. This fatal reaction is anticipated to be the silent stake in what little hope people hold when using the Internet to converse with people way out of their league.
Facebook continues to find innovative ways to make the beloved cyber platform as discouraging as possible. This includes precise advertising to show you products you want, but wish you didn't. An intrusive list of “friends” you should add, but deep down feel weird adding because you are not that close. And of course, they have an elite team of NASA coders that won’t sleep until they display every one of your friends that is having the best fucking time of their life, all the time, and consequently enjoying their life more than you. And don’t tell yourself you’ll be more successful, you damn well saw how many likes they got.
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Interview: Urban Tapestry
Peggi Warner-Lalonde
Issue: 10 September 2001
Allison Durno, Jodi Krangle, Debbie Ridpath Ohi
Photo by Gary Rush
The spotlight this month is on the filk group Urban Tapestry. Based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, this versatile trio has guested as far away as Digeri-Douze in the UK, and Consonance in Santa Clara, California! Their music ranges from the serious to the sublime, with a bit of silliness thrown in for good measure. They won the 1997 Pegasus Award for best performer, and are currently in the planning stages for their third recording.
Peggi Warner-Lalonde: So what exactly is Urban Tapestry?
Allison Durno: Urban Tapestry is a filk trio consisting of Jodi Krangle, Debbie Ridpath Ohi and Allison Durno. Our music is acoustic-based and mainly performed at science fiction and fantasy conventions. We have also performed at weddings and at children's concerts at local libraries.
Jodi Krangle: I probably couldn't add much to that -- except to say that we're constantly expanding our music repertoire and challenging ourselves to come up with different ways of arranging our songs. Debbie, in particular, has amazed both Allison and I by not only starting to play the guitar, but also by adding third harmonies, lending a much-appreciated extra depth to our vocal arrangements.
Debbie Ridpath Ohi: I feel compelled to mention that we have two albums out (one available as an independently produced tape, another available in tape and CD format from Dodeka Records. Both can be ordered from Dodeka or other filk dealer, or our Web site.
Those who aren't familiar with the term "filk", by the way, might want to refer to some definitions.
PWL: How did you get together in the first place?
AD: Debbie and I met through music gatherings at local Toronto science fiction conventions. She played flute and piano and I played guitar and we began to collaborate casually together. We met Jodi through a mutual friend and the three of us started experimenting further with song-writing and vocal harmony. Shortly after that we recorded a tape together called "Castles and Skyscrapers" and began to perform together at science fiction conventions.
JK: . . . it was a gaming friend that introduced me to Allison and Debbie. (Prior to 1993, I'd never heard of conventions.) Participating in filk was a real eye-opener for me, but there was an almost instant musical connection between Debbie, Allison and myself. My own musical projects had never had so much creative songwriting and vocal harmonies and I'd never been in a group where a flute was one of the major influences. Previous to my getting together with Allison and Debbie, I'd been making music that was fairly techno, in a group called "Group of 77" where my partner used a synth to create the backing tracks. While I enjoyed that, it was definitely a true joy to discover and experiment with the more acoustic end of things. I think that's where my heart truly lies.
DRO: I met Allison through SF conventions. . . . I remember noticing a red-headed guitarist with a gorgeous alto voice, and would sit in filk circles hoping against hope that she would show up. I finally got tired of passively waiting and started nagging her to sing (she was a bit shy back then) more aggressively. Instead of running screaming from an avid fan, Allison was pretty friendly, and we hit it off pretty well. Same chemistry happened when we both met Jodi. Our weekly get-togethers are often more social than strictly music practice, I have to confess. Mainly because we're friends as well as music partners.
PWL: How would you describe your work?
AD: Urban Tapestry performs filk music, which is generally described as songs written on themes that appeal to fans of science fiction and fantasy. Our songs cover the silly and the serious in styles from ballads to jazz to rock, and our arrangements include vocal harmonies, guitar, flute and percussion.
JK: Oh. And schtick. You can't forget the schtick. (On the funny songs, anyway.) Debbie is a fantastic cartoonist, which helps us a lot with the schtick end of things.
DRO: I agree . . . our music is a real grab-bag, a result of all of us having different musical tastes. Originally, Allison tended be the folkie in the group, Jodi more mainstream, while I leaned toward silly humour. Our songwriting and musical tastes have evolved over the years, however, so it's not as simple now.
PWL: What drew you to filk in the first place?
AD: I have always loved science fiction and fantasy literature and media, as well as contemporary folk music. I was setting Tolkien poetry to music before I knew what filk music was. It was a perfect match for me to discover folk music with science fiction and fantasy themes and I was immediately drawn to the filk community once I found it.
JK: Allison and Debbie? <chuckle> Seriously though, it wasn't much of a stretch. I'd also loved science fiction and fantasy from an early age, watched whatever science fiction/fantasy shows the networks decided to toss our way. . . . I'd also been gaming (D&D, etc.) for a while. Finding filk was like coming home -- melding my interests and my music together. It was (and still is) an amazing experience.
DRO: I love jamming with other musicians, so was immediately drawn to the collaborative, creative atmosphere of the filk community. Since then, however, many other aspects of filk appeal to me such as the friends we've made, and the accepting and supportive community in filking.
PWL: What are your goals for the group?
AD: Our goals are to continue to improve our talents as musicians and songwriters by experimenting and working on our music together. We will continue to sing and perform at conventions and other appropriate settings. We are honoured that we've been asked to guest at ConChord, the filk convention in LA on August 2-4 of next year. We are in the early planning stages of preparing a third recording together.
JK: Our goal is also to have a lot of fun. After over 8 years together, when you're still having fun, that's a not too shabby accomplishment.
DRO: Agreed! I think our goals are definitely a mixture of musical growth and experimentation as well as making sure we continue to have fun along the way.
Sound Clips:
Myths and Urban Legends
cover art © 1997 Beckett Gladney
Days We Spent Together (RealAudio)
By AD/JK. About friendships and a bittersweet summer in 1993. Keyboard, guitar, flute.
Puppies Cooked In Brine (RealAudio)
By DRO. A vain attempt to break out of our earlier "sweet ballads and lovesong" reputation. Guitar, flute.
The Lady (RealAudio)
By JK. Dave Clement: lead guitar, Kylea Fulton: penny whistle, Tom Jeffers: bass. Also: flute.
Web Surfin' (RealAudio)
By AD. Paul Kwinn & Kathleen Sloan: harmony vocals. W. Scott Snyder: electric guitar. Also: tambourine.
More sound clips (in mp3 format) are available at Urban Tapestry's mp3.com page.
Peggi Warner-Lalonde is Senior Music Editor for Strange Horizons.
© Copyright 2001 Peggi Warner-Lalonde
About Peggi Warner-Lalonde
Bio to come.
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Gorin , et al. January 12, 1999
Automated meaningful phrase clustering
A system and method for automated task selection is provided where a selected task is identified from the natural speech of the user making the selection. The system and method incorporate the selection of meaningful phrases through the use of a test for significance. The selected meaningful phrases are then clustered. The meaningful phrase clusters are input to a speech recognizer that determines whether any meaningful phrase clusters are present in the input speech. Task-type decisions are then made on the basis of the recognized meaningful phrase clusters.
Inventors: Gorin; Allen Louis (Berkeley Heights, NJ), Wright; Jeremy Huntley (Warren, NJ)
Assignee: AT&T Corp (Middletown, NJ)
Current U.S. Class: 704/257 ; 704/245; 704/251; 704/254; 704/E15.024
Current International Class: G10L 15/18 (20060101); G10L 15/00 (20060101); G10L 005/06 ()
Field of Search: 704/9 395/12 701/231,232,245,246,243,244,251,254,255,256,257
5384892 January 1995 Strong
5434777 July 1995 Luciw
5675707 October 1997 Gorin et al.
Primary Examiner: Hudspeth; David R.
Assistant Examiner: Wieland; Susan
1. A method for automated task classification which operates on a task objective of a user, the task objective being expressed in natural speech of the user, comprising:
selecting meaningful phrases from a plurality of transcribed speech utterances;
clustering selected ones of the meaningful phrases which occur in similar semantic contexts into meaningful phrase clusters;
detecting meaningful phrase clusters present in input speech utterances; and
making task-type classification decisions based on the detected meaningful phrase clusters in the input speech utterances.
2. The automated task classification method of claim 1, wherein the meaningful phrases are selected using a test for significance.
3. The automated task classification method of claim 1, wherein the meaningful phrases are clustered using a distortion measure between the meaningful phrases.
4. The automated task classification method of claim 3, wherein the distortion measure is based on string distortion.
5. The automated task classification method of claim 3, wherein the distortion measure is based on semantic distortion.
6. The automated task classification method of claim 3, wherein the distortion measure is a combination of string and semantic distortion.
7. The automated task classification method of claim 1, wherein the meaningful phrase clusters are detected in input speech by exactly matching the input speech to any of the meaningful phrase clusters.
8. The automated task classification method of claim 1, wherein clusters are detected in input speech by exactly or approximately matching the input speech to any of the meaningful phrase clusters.
9. The automated task classification method of claim 1, wherein the task-type classification decisions are ranked using a statistical model.
10. The automated task classification method of claim 1, further comprising a neural network for making the task-type classification decisions.
11. A method for automated call-type classification which operates on the call routing objective of a user, the call-routing objective being expressed in natural speech of the user, comprising:
selecting meaningful phrases from a plurality of transcribed speech utterances,
making call-type classification decisions based on the detected meaningful phrase clusters in the input speech utterances.
12. The automated call-type classification method of claim 11, wherein the meaningful phrases are selected using a test for significance.
13. The automated call-type classification method of claim 11, wherein the meaningful phrases are clustered using a distortion measure between meaningful phrases.
14. The automated call-type classification method of claim 13, wherein the distortion measure is based on string distortion.
15. The automated call-type classification method of claim 13, wherein the distortion measure is based on semantic distortion.
16. The automated call-type classification method of claim 13, wherein the distortion measure is a combination of string and semantic distortion.
17. The automated call-type classification method of claim 11, wherein the meaningful phrase clusters are detected in input speech by exactly matching the input speech to any of the meaningful phrase clusters.
18. The automated call-type classification method of claim 11, wherein the meaningful phrase clusters are detected in input speech by exactly or approximately matching the input speech to any of the meaningful phrase clusters.
19. The automated call-type classification method of claim 11, wherein call-type classification decisions are ranked using a statistical model.
20. The automated call-type classification method of claim 11, wherein the call-type classification decisions are made using a neural network.
21. An automated task classification system which operates on task objectives of a user, the task objectives being expressed in natural speech of the user, comprising:
a meaningful phrase selector that selects a plurality of meaningful phrases from a set of speech utterances, each of the meaningful phrases being selected based on one of a predetermined set of the task objectives;
a meaningful phrase clustering device for clustering selected meaningful phrases which occur in similar semantic contexts into meaningful phrase clusters;
an input recognizing device for detecting any of the clustered meaningful phrases in input speech of the user, the input recognizing device having as an input the meaningful phrases clustered by the meaningful phrase clustering device; and
a classification device responsive to an input of the detected meaningful phrase clusters for making a classification decision based on the detected meaningful phrase clusters as to one of the set of predetermined task objectives.
22. The automated task classification system of claim 21 wherein the meaningful phrase selector selects meaningful phrases using a test for significance.
23. The automated task classification system of claim 21 wherein the meaningful phrase clustering device clusters meaningful phrases using a distortion measure between meaningful phrases.
24. The automated task classification system of claim 23, wherein the distortion measure is based on string distortion.
25. The automated task classification system of claim 23, wherein the distortion measure is based on semantic distortion.
26. The automated task classification system of claim 23, wherein the distortion measure is a combination of string and semantic distortion.
27. The automated task classification system of claim 21, wherein the input recognizing device detects meaningful phrase clusters in input speech by exactly matching the input speech to any of the meaningful phrase clusters.
28. The automated task classification system of claim 21, wherein the input recognizing device detects meaningful phrase clusters in input speech by exactly or approximately matching the input speech to any of the meaningful phrase clusters.
29. The automated task classification system of claim 21, wherein the classification device ranks decisions using a statistical model.
30. The automated task classification system of claim 21, wherein the classification device makes decisions using a neural network.
1. Field of Invention
This invention relates to speech processing, and more particularly to a system and method for automated clustering of meaningful phrases in relation to the performance of one or more desired tasks.
In communications networks there are many instances where it is desirable to provide for automated implementation of particular tasks desired by a user of such a network--i.e., implementation of such a task without human intervention. In the prior art, such automated task implementation is generally carried out via a plurality of menu choices which must be selected by designated signals from a user, general numeric signals generated by a keypad associated with a user's telephone set, and in some cases by the user pronouncing such numerals as key words. In many cases such menu-based automated task implementation arrangements involve multi-tiered menus. Such multi-tiered menu structures are generally unpopular with users and remarkably inefficient at achieving the desired objective. The percentage of successful routings through such a multi-tiered menu structure can be quite low. Stated differently, in such circumstances, many of the calls accessing such a multi-tiered menu structure might be either terminated without the caller having reached the desired objective or else defaulted to an operator (or other manned default station).
The limitations in the prior art were addressed in U.S. patent application Ser. No. 08/528,577, "Automated Phrase Generation", and filed Sep. 15, 1995, and U.S. Pat. No. 5,675,707, "Automated Call Router System and Method", issued Oct. 7, 1997 which are incorporated herein by reference. These applications provide a methodology for automated task selection where the selected task is identified in the natural speech of a user making such a selection. A fundamental aspect of this method is a determination of a set of meaningful phrases. Such meaningful phrases are determined by a grammatical inference algorithm which operates on a predetermined corpus of speech utterances, each such utterance being associated with a specific task objective, and wherein each utterance is marked with its associated task objective.
The determination of the meaningful phrases used in the above noted application is founded in the concept of combining a measure of commonality of words and/or structure within the language--i.e., how often groupings of things co-occur--with a measure of significance to a defined task for such a grouping. That commonality measure within the language can be manifested as the mutual information in n-grams derived from a database of training speech utterances and the measure of usefulness to a task is manifested as a salience measure.
Mutual information ("MI"), which measures the likelihood of co-occurrence for two or more words, involves only the language itself. For example, given War and Peace in the original Russian, one could compute the mutual information for all the possible pairings of words in that text without ever understanding a word of the language in which it is written. In contrast, computing salience involves both the language and its extra-linguistic associations to a device's environment. Through the use of such a combination of MI and a salience factor, meaningful phrases are selected which have both a positive MI (indicating relative strong association among the words comprising the phrase) and a high salience value.
However, such methods are based upon the probability that separate sets of salient words occur in the particular input utterance. For example, the salient phrases "made a long distance", "a long distance call", and "long distance call", while being spoken by the users to achieve the same objective, would be determined as separate meaningful phrases by that grammatical inference algorithm based on their individual mutual information and salience values. Thus, many individual phrases which are virtually identical and have the same meaning, are generated, remain separate, and represent independent probabilities of occurrence in the grammatical inference algorithm. By not grouping these "alike" salient phrases, the above methods could provide inferior estimates of probability and thus ultimately provide improper routing of requests from users.
A method and system for automated task selection is provided where a selected task is identified from the natural speech of the user making the selection. The method and system incorporate the selection of meaningful phrases through the use of a test for significance. The selected meaningful phrases are then clustered using a combination of string and semantic distortions. The meaningful phrase clusters are input to a speech recognizer that determines whether any meaningful phrase clusters are present in the input speech. Task-type decisions are then made on the basis of the recognized meaningful phrase clusters.
FIG. 1 illustrates examples of false and missed detection by a classifier for an automated call routing system based on use of "meaningful phrases";
FIG. 2 illustrates examples of correct detection by a classifier for an automated call routing system based on use of "meaningful phrases";
FIG. 3 illustrates an example of the advantage provided by the "meaningful phrase" classification parameter of the system of the invention;
FIG. 4 presents in block diagram form an exemplary structure of the system of the invention;
FIG. 5 depicts the method of the invention in flowchart form;
FIG. 6 illustrates a Meaningful Phrase Cluster;
FIG. 7 illustrates a Meaningful Phrase Cluster using approximate matching; and
FIG. 8 is a graph of ROC curves illustrating the performance of the invention.
DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF INVENTION
The discussion following will be presented partly in terms of algorithms and symbolic representations of operations on data bits within a computer system. As will be understood, these algorithmic descriptions and representations are a means ordinarily used by those skilled in the computer processing arts to convey the substance of their work to others skilled in the art.
As used herein (and generally) an algorithm may be seen as a self-contained sequence of steps leading to a desired result. These steps generally involve manipulations of physical quantities. Usually, though not necessarily, these quantities take the form of electrical or magnetic signals capable of being stored, transferred, combined, compared and otherwise manipulated. For convenience of reference, as well as to comport with common usage, these signals will be described from time to time in terms of bits, values, elements, symbols, characters, terms, numbers, or the like. However, it should be emphasized that these and similar terms are to be associated with the appropriate physical quantities--such terms being merely convenient labels applied to those quantities.
It is important as well that the distinction between the method of operations and operating a computer, and the method of computation itself should be kept in mind. The present invention relates to methods for operating a computer in processing electrical or other (e.g., mechanical, chemical) physical signals to generate other desired physical signals.
For clarity of explanation, the illustrative embodiment of the present invention is presented as comprising individual functional blocks (including functional blocks labeled as "processors"). The functions these blocks represent may be provided through the use of either shared or dedicated hardware, including, but not limited to, hardware capable of executing software. For example the functions of processors presented in FIG. 4 may be provided by a single shared processor. (Use of the term "processor" should not be construed to refer exclusively to hardware capable of executing software.)
Illustrative embodiments may comprise microprocessor and/or digital signal processor (DSP) hardware, such as the AT&T DSPI6 or DSP32C, read-only memory (ROM) for storing software performing the operations discussed below, and random access memory (RAM) for storing results. Very large scale integration (VLSI) hardware embodiments, as well as custom VLSI circuitry in combination with a general purpose DSP circuit, may also be provided.
A fundamental objective of the invention is a task selection method involving communication between human user and machine, that shifts the burden of understanding a specialized vocabulary from the user to the machine. Thus, in a generalized embodiment, the invention is represented as a task selection method having the following characteristics:
First, a user accessing s system will be presented with a greeting similar to "How may I help you?"
After the user responds to that greeting with a natural speech statement of the user's objective (such as the implementation of a desired task), the user's request may be classified into one of a number of predefined task objectives with the task objective then being implemented.
In the preferred embodiment of the invention described hereafter, implementation of the invention's system and method will occasionally be illustrated by exemplary applications in the form user-requested tasks to be carried out by a telephone system or network. In such exemplary applications, task objectives for a user may include call billing options (e.g., collect, third-party), dialing information, billing questions, credit requests (as for a wrong or mis-dialed number), area codes, etc.
I. DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS
In traditional communications environments, a user is often required to know separate numbers and/or dialing patterns to access different services available at a given communications destination, as well as possibly having to navigate a menu-driven system which then routes the user to the desired objective. With the system and method of the invention, the user is able to access a central number and the user's objective will be implemented by the communications recipient on the basis of its content.
An example of such content-based routing would be where a caller responds to a "how may I help you" prompt with I want to reverse the charges. The appropriate action is to connect the caller to an automated subsystem which processes collect calls. Another example would be a caller response of I am having a problem understanding my bill, in which case the caller should be connected to the telephone carrier's business office. The system thus needs to understand spoken language to the extent of routing the call appropriately.
A. Baseline Approach
The basic construct of such a system has been described by one of the inventors in Gorin, A. "On automated language acquisition", J. Acoust. Soc. Am., 97 3441-3461, (June, 1995) [hereafter referred to as Gorin 95], which is incorporated herein and made a part hereof. A number of considerations from that baseline approach are material to the system and method of the invention. Certain of those considerations will be briefly reviewed hereafter. As a preface to that review, it is to be noted that the approach described in Gorin 95, the classification parameter for determination of an association between input text or speech and one of a set of predefined task objectives is implemented as salient words derived from a corpus of speech utterances having marked associated task objectives. In the adaptation of that method described herein, the classification parameter is implemented as meaningful phrase clusters derived from a corpus of speech utterances having marked associated routing objectives.
Central to the approach here is a database of a large number of utterances, each of which is related to one of a predetermined set of routing objectives. This database forms an input to a classification parameter algorithm. Preferably, such utterances will be extracted from actual user responses to a prompt of "How may I help you?" (or similar words to the same effect). Each utterance is then transcribed and labeled with one of the predetermined set of routing objectives. Illustrative utterances from the database utilized by the inventors are as follows:
Yeah, I want to reverse the charges
I was just disconnected from this number
I was trying to hang-up
I am trying reach Mexico
Charge this to my home phone
In a related article co-authored by one of the inventors [Gorin, A. L., Hanek, H., Rose, R. and Miller, L., "Spoken Language Acquisition for Automated Call Routing", in Proceedings of the International Conference on Spoken Language Processing (ICSLP 94), Yokohama (Sep. 18-22, 1994)] [hereafter Gorin 94A], it is noted that the distribution of routing objectives in such a data base may be substantially skewed. The implications of such skewing may well be taken into account in the determination of the particular set of routing objectives to be supported on an automated basis by the system of the invention.
A salience principle as related to the system of the invention has been defined in another article co-authored by one of the inventors (Gorin, A. L., Levinson, S. E. and Sankar, A. "An Experiment in Spoken Language Acquisition," IEEE Trans. on Speech and Audio, Vol. 2, No. 1, Part II, pp. 224-240 (January 1994)] [hereafter Gorin 94]. Specifically, the salience of a word is defined as the information content of that word for the task under consideration. It can be interpreted as a measure of how meaningful that word is for the task. Salience can be distinguished from and compared to the traditional Shannon information content, which measures the uncertainty that a word will occur. As is known, such traditional information content can be estimated from examples of the language, while an estimation of salience requires both language and its extra-linguistic associations.
As previously noted, Gorin 95 uses as a classification parameter, words from test speech utterances which have a salient association with particular objective routings. U.S. patent application Ser. No. 08/528,577 and U.S. Pat. No. 5,675,707 represent a significant point of departure from that methodology through the use of meaningful phrases as the classification parameter. Before describing the method for determining such meaningful phrases, it is useful to define two types of errors experienced in such an automated routing system and a related "success" concept:
False detection of a routing objective can occur when a salient (meaningful) phrase related to one routing objective is detected in a caller's input speech when the caller's actual request was directed to another routing objective. The probability of such a false detection occurring will hereafter be referred to by the designation: P.sub.FD
Missed detection of a routing objective occurs when the callers input speech is directed to that routing objective and none of the meaningful phrases which are associated with that routing objective are detected in the input speech. The probability of such a missed detection occurring will hereafter be referred to by the designation: P.sub.MD
Coverage for a routing objective refers to the number of successful translations by the system of a request for a routing objective to that routing objective relative to the total number of input requests for that routing objective. As an illustrative example, a routing objective for which 60 successful translations occurred out of 100 input requests for that routing objective would be said to experience 60% coverage. It is noted that Coverage=1-P.sub.MD
Of the two error types defined above, one is significantly more "costly" than the other. The consequence of a false detection error is the routing of a user to a different task objective than was requested by the user. Such a result is at a minimum very annoying to the user. The possibility also exists that such an error could result in a direct cost to the system provider--an annoyed customer or potential customer being classified here as an indirect cost--through some non-system error resulting from the caller being connected to an incorrect routing objective. The consequence of a missed detection error, on the other hand, is simply the routing of the user to a default operator position and the only cost is the lost opportunity cost of not handling that particular task on an automated basis. Thus, while ideally the probabilities of both missed detection and false detection should be near zero, it is far more important from the user's perspective that this objective be realized for false detection errors. As will be seen below, there are circumstances where tradeoffs must be made between minimizing one or another of these error probabilities, and this principle will be applied in such circumstances.
B. Adaptation of Baseline Approach
FIG. 1 provides several illustrative examples of False Detections and Missed Detections from the database of speech utterances used by the inventors. While the basis for error in each of these examples is believed to be largely self-explanatory, the error in the first example in each set will be briefly described. In the first example under False Detection, the meaningful phrase is I.sub.-- NEED.sub.-- CREDIT.sub.-- EOS (end of sentence), and thus this phrase would have been classified as a request for credit. However, from reading the entire utterance, it is apparent that the caller actually wanted to be transferred to another carrier (the carrier receiving this request being AT&T). In the first example under Missed Detections, there are no meaningful phrases identified in the utterance (and therefore no basis for classifying the caller's objective), although it is apparent to humans from reading the utterance that the caller is seeking a billing credit. As a comparative illustration, FIG. 2 shows several examples of correct detection of a billing credit objective from meaningful phrases in the input speech.
There are two significant advantages of the methodology of the invention in using meaningful phrases as the classification parameter over the use of salient words in the baseline approach described in Gorin 95. First, with the use of words as the classification parameter, the word choices for detecting a given routing objective may be highly limited in order to achieve a minimum probability of false detection--i.e., use of only words having a near 100% likelihood of predicting the intended routing objective--and therefore the coverage for such a routing objective is likely to be very low, leading to a high probability of missed detection errors occurring. With meaningful phrases as a classification parameter, on the other hand, both low probability of false detection and low probability of missed detection are achievable.
FIG. 3 provides an illustrative example of this advantage. This figure shows the Classification Rate and the Coverage for an exemplary routing objective, Billing Credit, as the phrase used for the classification parameter grows in length and/or complexity. The Classification Rate is defined as the probability of the routing objective (CREDIT) having been requested, given the occurrence of the selected phrase in the input speech (i.e., P(CREDIT .vertline. phrase). Similarly, the Coverage term is defined as the probability of the selected phrase appearing in the input speech, given that the designated routing objective (CREDIT has been requested. In the Phrase column, parenthesis surrounding a series of terms separated by " .vertline. " indicate one of those terms appearing in the indicated position with other terms in that row. The nomenclature "F(Wrong)" indicates a grammar fragment surrounding the word "wrong", the phrase in the fourth row of that column being representative of such a grammar fragment surrounding a salient word. The designation "previous" indicates a carry forward of everything on the preceding line. And finally, the abbreviation "eos" indicates "end of sentence."
In speech recognition systems, the larger the fragment of speech presented to such a speech recognizer, the higher the probability of a correct recognition of that speech fragment. Thus a speech recognizer programmed to spot one of a set of salient words can be expected to fail in its task significantly more often than such a device programmed to spot meaningful phrases, comprising two or more words.
C. Description of the Methodology of Invention
The methodology of the invention is graphically illustrated in the flowchart of FIG. 5. Following the steps of the flowchart, meaningful phrases are generated at step 110 from transcriptions of recognized utterances using estimated posterior distributions over task types and a test for significance, as set forth below. The meaningful phrases that have been generated are then clustered at step 120 and formed into meaningful phrase clusters using a distance measure between phrases, based on string and semantic distortion. Meaningful phrase clusters are then searched for and detected in input speech in step 130 using exact or approximate matching procedures. Task-type decisions are made at step 140 based on the detected meaningful phrase clusters.
D. Selection and Clustering of Meaningful Phrases
1. Selection of meaningful phrases
It is desirable in a speech recognition system to select phrases that are meaningful for the task. A measure of salience may be used to assess, for a particular phrase, the distortion between the prior and posterior distributions over the call types. However, this does not take into account the frequency with which a fragment occurs. For example, a fortunate conjunction of events can give a low-frequency phrase a high apparent salience purely by chance.
Here, this shortcoming is avoided by testing, for each phrase, the null hypothesis that is governed simply by the prior probabilities (and therefore occurs at random). Suppose a phrase .function. has a total of n occurrences of call-type labels in training, and let (r.sub.1,r.sub.2, . . . ) denote the set of all possible partitions of n occurrences into K=15 classes. Let the actual observed distribution of counts for .function. be r.sub..function., and the prior distribution be denoted {P.sub.k }.sub.k=1, . . . ,K. Under the null hypothesis, the probability of a partition r.sub.i =n.sub.i1, . . . , n.sub.ik is given by the multinomial distribution: ##EQU1## A phrase .function. of frequency n is accepted at significance level .alpha. if ##EQU2## Any phrase for which the observed distribution can be seen to be a relatively likely random sample from the prior is therefore rejected. This is an exact test of significance, and is therefore valid even for phrases with very small occurrence counts. Imposing a significance level of 5% reduces the total number of phrases generated in the prior art by about 30%.
2. Meaningful phrase clustering
The second step is to cluster the phrases using an agglomerative clustering procedure. For this we use a Levenshtein string distance measure d.sub.s (.function..sub.1,.function..sub.2) between phrases .function..sub.1,.function..sub.2, in which the insertion, deletion and substitution penalties are weighted by word salience. However, phrases that are similar as strings can have different semantics, for example the phrases "need a credit" and "a credit card" indicate a billing credit request and credit card payment, respectively. It would be undesirable for these phrases to enter the same cluster. Again, the variability attributable to small samples must be considered in assessing this problem. Therefore, a measure of semantic distortion is used where ##EQU3## P(C.sub.k .epsilon. C.sub.t .vertline..function. .epsilon. F.sub.t) is the estimated posterior distribution over call types c.sub.k for phrases .function., and C.sub.t, F.sub.t are the sets of labels and observed phrases for an utterance t. The denominator is an estimate of the variance of the difference between the estimated posterior values (for each call type) under hypothesis H. This hypothesis states that the two phrases have the same true (but unknown) posterior distribution. If H is true then the expected value of d.sub.M (.function..sub.1,.function..sub.2) is equal to 1.0 regardless of the phrase occurrence counts, so a large value for this measure is evidence for divergence between the posterior distributions. The overall measure used for clustering is a combination of the string and semantic distortions.
Each of the resulting phrase clusters is converted into a Finite State Machine (FSM) representing a meaningful phrase cluster. An example is shown in FIG. 6. In this example, "make a collect call", is clustered with the other meaningful phrases, "place a collect call", "make collect call" and "make a collect phone call".
The posterior distribution over the call types is then obtained for each FSM. Observations in the form of exact or approximate matches to a path through the FSM are then found for the test utterances. The approximate matches are found using a dynamic programming algorithm in which word salience is used to weight the errors. An example of an approximate match is shown in FIG. 7, where the word a is substituted by this, both words having low salience.
3. Exploiting multiple phrases
In order to combine the evidence from several observations, there are several methods well known in the art. For example, the call types can be ranked by adopting a "bag-of-phrases" model: ##EQU4## Meaningful phrase clusters are often found to be correlated, and experiments involving higher-order statistical models are in progress.
4. Classification Experiments
The initial results were obtained using a set of meaningful phrases of length up to four words. A test set of 1000 utterances was processed by a large-vocabulary speech recognizer. Matches of phrases to the output were found, and parsed in a manner which favors longer phrases because these tend to be more salient. The call-type was determined by a peak-of-fragments classifier. One of the call-type labels is other, and the desired goal is for these particular calls to be rejected. By varying the acceptance threshold and plotting correct classification rate against false rejection rate we obtain the ROC curves shown by the dotted lines in FIG. 8.
The solid lines in FIG. 8 show the results obtained using the procedures described above. A significant improvement in performance is seen, for the same output of the speech recognition system. This is especially notable in the area of a useful operating point with 87% correct classification rate at rank 2, for 40% false rejection rate.
E. Exemplary Structure for the Invention
FIG. 4 shows in block diagram form the essential structure of the invention. As can be seen from FIG. 4, that structure comprises two related subsystems: Meaningful Phrase Generation Subsystem 1 and Input Speech Classification Subsystem 2. As already described, Meaningful Phrase Generation Subsystem 1 operates on a database of a large number of utterances each of which is related to one of a predetermined set of routing objectives, where each such utterance is labeled with its associated routing objective. The operation of this subsystem is essentially carried out by Meaningful Phrase Selector 10 which selects as an output a set of meaningful phrases having a probabilistic relationship with one or more of the set of predetermined routing objectives with which the input speech utterances are associated. The selected meaningful phrases are then input to a Meaningful Phrase Clustering Device 15 that clusters those meaningful phrases which are semantically related. The operation of Meaningful phrase Selector 10 and the Meaningful Phrase Clustering Device 15 are generally determined in accordance with the previously described algorithm for selecting and clustering meaningful phrases.
Operation of Input Speech Classification Subsystem 2 begins with the inputting of a user's task objective request, in the caller's natural speech, to Input Speech Recognizer 20. The Input Speech Recognizer 20 may be of any known design and performs the function of recognizing, or spotting, the existence of one or more meaningful phrase in the input speech. A Meaningful Phrase Cluster Detector 25 then detects the meaningful phrase clusters present among the meaningful phrases recognized. As can be seen in the figure, the meaningful phrases clusters developed by Meaningful Phrase Generation Subsystem 1 are provided as an input to Meaningful Phrase Cluster Detector 25.
The output of Meaningful Phrase Detector 25, which will comprise the detected meaningful phrases clusters appearing in the caller's routing objective request, is provided to Classification Processor 30. The Classification Processor 30 may apply a confidence function, based on the probabilistic relation between the recognized meaningful phrases clusters and selected task objectives, and makes a decision either to implement a particular task objective or a determination that no decision is likely, in which case the user may be defaulted to an operator position.
As will thus be apparent, the meaningful phrase clusters developed by Meaningful Phrase Generation Subsystem 1 are used by the Meaningful Phrase Cluster Detector 25, to define the meaningful phrase clusters which the Detector is programmed to spot, and to Classification Processor 30, defining the task objectives related to meaningful phrases input from the Meaningful Phrase Cluster Detector 25 and, if warranted, for establishing the level of confidence for a relation of such input meaningful phrase clusters to a particular task objective.
A method for automated task selection has been disclosed which carries out the function of searching for a classification parameter in natural speech. These classification parameters are presented in the form of compact meaningful phrase clusters which are generated from a set of selected meaningful phrases. By automatically selecting and clustering meaningful phrases, the overall accuracy of automated routing systems is increased.
Although the present embodiment of the invention has been described in detail, it should be understood that various changes, alterations and substitutions can be made therein without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention as defined by the appended claims.
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Gara-Bokka - Sunday’s disaster kills 157 people from more than 30 nations. Second crash involving the Boeing 737 Max 8.
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Gara-Bokka - China and Indonesia grounded their fleets of Boeing’s 737 MAX 8 aircraft on Monday as witnesses recalled the terrifying spectacle of smoke and debris trailing from an Ethiopian Airlines plane before it crashed killing 157 people. The disaster came just months after a jet of the same model came down in Indonesia killing 189 people, and prompted a global aviation safety scare. The Ethiopian Airlines 737 Max 8 plunged into farmland minutes after take-off from Addis Ababa for Nairobi on Sunday. The victims came from more than 30 nations and included 22 United Nations’ staff. “The plane was very close to the ground and it made a turn. We looked and saw papers falling off the plane,” Malka Galato, the farmer whose land the plane crashed on, told Reuters from the rural area where horse-drawn carriages ply rough roads.
“Cows that were grazing in the fields ran in panic ... There was smoke and sparks coming from the back of the plane.” The plane tried to climb but failed, then swerved sharply trailing white smoke and objects including clothes before crashing, said farmer Tamirat Abera, who was walking nearby. Investigators seeking to find the cause of the crash discovered the black box with both the cockpit voice recorder and digital flight data on Monday, Ethiopian state TV said. Boeing’s share price plunged at the prospect that two such crashes in such a short time could reveal flaws in its new plane. The company has already accepted orders for more than 5,000 of the new, high fuel economy planes, which entered service less than two years ago and are set to be the workhorses for airlines around the globe for decades.
INTERNATIONAL ALERT
The 737 line, which has flown for more than 50 years, is the world’s best selling modern passenger aircraft and viewed as one of the industry’s most reliable. The new MAX 8 variant, with bigger engines designed to use less fuel, entered service in 2017. By the end of January this year, Boeing had delivered 350 of the new jets to customers, with another 4,661 on order. Its stock slid 10 percent in early trading on Monday. The move, if maintained through normal trading hours, would be the biggest fall in Boeing’s stock in nearly two decades, halting a surge that has seen it triple in value in just over three years to a record high of $446 last week. Various worried nations took swift action. Ethiopian Airlines, which has four other 737 MAX 8 jets, said it was grounding them as a precaution. China also ordered its airlines to suspend their 737 MAX 8 jets by 6 p.m. Noting that the accidents involving newly delivered planes had both taken place shortly after take-off, the Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC) said it would notify airlines when they could resume flying the jets, after contacting Boeing and the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). Indonesia, where a Lion Air 737 Max 8 went down in October, also said it would temporarily ground the model for inspection. Cayman Airways grounded both of its new 737 MAX 8 jets temporarily too, while India announced a safety review.
At the crash site, men in Red Cross jackets and face masks picked through a large crater, stacking clothes in a heap on one side and wrapping corpses in white body bags. The smell of jet fuel mixed with burned flesh hung in the air, as local villagers watched. Another heap contained twisted green-and-yellow metal from the fuselage. A lone engine with dents around the edges and several damaged tyres lay nearby. The dead included aid workers, doctors, professors of literature and botany, a law student, a newly-wed woman, a father soon expecting a child, and a couple who just had a baby. In Nairobi, a major hub for aid workers and diplomats, a summit opened with a moment of silence and tears for the U.N. members killed. In New York, the 15-member U.N. Security Council also stood to remember the dead. “Our colleagues were women and men - junior professionals and seasoned officials - hailing from all corners of the globe,” U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said. “They all had one thing in common - a spirit to serve the people of the world and to make it a better place for us all.” Ethiopian Airlines said its pilot Yared Getachew, who was a dual Ethiopian-Kenyan national, had a “commendable record” and more than 8,000 hours of flying experience.
The airplane was received in November 2018, had flown more than 1,200 hours, and returned from Johannesburg earlier on Sunday, Chief Executive Tewolde GebreMariam said. The flight had unstable vertical speed after take-off, the flight tracking website Flightradar24 tweeted. The Sweden-based service said the jet had climbed almost 1,000 feet after taking off from Addis Ababa, a hot and high-altitude airport whose thinner air requires extra effort from an aircraft’s engines. It dipped about 450 feet before rapidly climbing another 900 feet until the point where satellite tracking data was lost.
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The Netherland Inn Lo Country Boil
Junk & Treasures Sale
1818 Christmas at the Netherland Inn
Early Transportation
Christian Marker
The Netherland Inn
The Boat Yard
The Boone Cabin
The Bank Barn
The Pence House Gift Shop
The Charlotte
Tours and Rentals
2019 New Events include:
Tea at the Inn
(email: slcox13@gmail.com for info and reservations)
Fun Fest Open House at the Inn
July 13 (12noon – 4pm)
Lo’ Country Boil
Kingsport Farmers Market
August 10 (6pm – 10pm)
Tickets required (Adults only)
[(423) 677-1640 or (423) 677-3263 for info]
Listed on the National Register of Historical Sites, the Netherland Inn rises above the Holston River. The restored Inn faces the Old Stage Road in the heart of Kingsport’s Boat Yard Park, an area along the Holston River that served as migratory spot for settlers to build boats for their westward trip during the mid-1700s.
William King originally built Netherland Inn between 1802 and 1808 as a point from where he could ship salt westward. He later sold the inn in 1818 to Richard Netherland who procured a stage contract and established the inn and tavern for travelers along the Old Stage Road.
As a stop along the route from Washington City and Nashboro and the main route to western Kentucky and middle Tennessee, the inn hosted many famous persons including Presidents Andrew Jackson, Andrew Johnson and James K. Polk.
The Inn is filled with museum furnishings that depict an intimate study of life in one of the South’s most important American frontier settlements. Behind the Inn is the Netherland Inn Log Cabin Children’s Museum and Schoolhouse, featuring children’s toys of the 18th and 19th centuries. Not original to the site, the cabin was moved from Daniel Boone’s Wilderness Trail in Virginia. Boone is believed to have lived in the cabin between 1773 and 1775.
The Inn is open May through October and by special arrangement.
For more information, contact Netherland Inn, 2144 Netherland Inn Road, Kingsport, TN 37660, or call 423-245-5449
Saturday & Sunday 2pm-5pm. Group Tours By Appointment
The Netherland Inn ©, 2019, 2144 Netherland Inn Road, Kingsport, TN 37660 | 423-245-5449
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Otherwise Still Swinging On The Good Fight Tour
By Matt Bishop March 24, 2018 April 6, 2018 Features
(TRR) – Modern rock mainstays Otherwise are still swingin’, without a doubt. They’re currently trekking across the country on The Good Fight Tour, which stopped in Allentown, PA last night. The run is in continued support of their third album Sleeping Lions which dropped back in September. Third time is indeed the charm… Continue reading
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LAS RAGEOUS Music Festival Announces Updated Performance Lineup
By Johnnie Crow February 2, 2018 February 2, 2018 Alternative Rock, Arena Rock, Blues, Goth Rock, Hard Rock, Heavy Metal, Rap Rock/Metal, Rock
LAS RAGEOUS Music Festival Announces Updated Performance Lineup Otherwise & New Years Day Join A Perfect Circle, Five Finger Death Punch, Ghost, Judas Priest & more Friday, April 20 & Saturday, April 21 At The Downtown Las Vegas Events Center KOMP-FM & Smash Magazine Launch ‘Battle Of The Fans’ Contest… Continue reading
Tagged A Perfect Circle, Adelitas Way, Bad Wolves, Beartooth, Black Star Riders, Clutch, DED, Downtown Las Vegas Events Center, Five Finger Death Punch, Ghost, Hollywood Undead, In This Moment, Joyous Wolf, judas priest, las rageous, las vegas, live nation, New Years Day, Otherwise, Pop Evil, saxon, VYCES
ShipRocked Family Reunion – A Decade Of Vacationing Harder
By Johnnie Crow January 18, 2018 January 20, 2018 Arena Rock, Grunge, Hard Rock, Photos, Pop Rock, Rock, Rock News
FIRST SHIPROCKED CRUISE The very first ShipRocked was a five day floating rock festival on the MSC Poesia that departed from Ft. Lauderdale, Florida on November 15, 2009 and featured onboard performances by Queensryche, Tesla, Ratt, Skid Row, Broken Teeth, EndeverafteR, Lynam, Niki Barr Band, Stereoside and StoneRider. The original… Continue reading
Tagged Adelitas Way, Aranda, Ask4 Entertainment, Badflower, Beartooth, black label society, Carnival Liberty, DED, Doll Skin, He Is Legend, In This Moment, Joyous Wolf, Kaleido, like a storm, Nothing More, Otherwise, P.O.D., Palisades, Red Sun Rising, Seether, Shaman's Harvest, ShipRocked, Starset, Stereo Satellite, Stone Sour, The Letter Black, Vacation Harder
Otherwise Announce New Album ‘Sleeping Lions,’ Preview Two New Singles
By Matt Bishop July 31, 2017 August 1, 2017 Rock News
(TRR) Las Vegas rock outfit Otherwise have announced their long awaited third album Sleeping Lions. The new LP is set for release on September 22 via Century Media Records. Today the band released two new singles from the album – “Angry Heart” and “Close To The Gods” which can be streamed below. Pre-order… Continue reading
FOOD TRUCK & ROCK CARNIVAL LINEUP ANNOUNCED – SLASH, GODSMACK, and MORE
By Matt Bishop June 11, 2015 July 31, 2015 Rock News
This fall, The Food Truck and Rock Carnival will make its debut in Clark, NJ. The music, food, and beer festival is set for September 18-20 at Oak Ridge Park. Slash feat. Myles Kennedy & The Conspirators and Godsmack are set to headline, along with featured performances by Stone Temple Pilots, Skillet, Lita Ford, Black Label Society, Sevendust,… Continue reading
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THE TOP 25 ROCK MUSIC VIDEOS OF 2014
By Matt Bishop December 29, 2014 December 29, 2014 Features, Rock News
The Rock Revival presents The Top 25 Rock Music Videos of 2014 25.) Otherwise – “Darker Side of The Moon” 24.) Bring Me The Horizon – “Drown” 23.) Sixx:A.M. – “Stars” 22.) The Black Keys – “Fever” 21.) Theory of a Deadman – “Drown” 20.) Godsmack – “1000hp” 19.) Papa Roach… Continue reading
Tagged A Day to Remember, ac/dc, Beck, behemoth, best music videos 2014, best of 2014, best of music, black keys, Bring Me The Horizon, Crobot, crown the empire, emigrate, enter shikari, ffdp, Five Finger Death Punch, fuse, Godsmack, Jack White, Korn, Kyng, Linkin Park, Monster Magnet, MTV, music news, music videos, Of Mice & Men, Of Mice and Men, Otherwise, Papa Roach, rock music, rock revival, royal blood, sixx am, sixx:a.m., Slipknot, Theory of a Deadman, TheRockRevival.com, top music videos 2014, year-end list, You Me At Six
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Emerging Trends in Security & Access Control — by Scott Ondik PE, CPP, Systems Designer
As mobile device technology continues to advance, so does their extensive use in new security and access control applications and functionality. Our smartphones provide a single, powerful device, which is mobile and connects us to the world in ways previously not imagined. Mobile device applications in the electronic security industry have become much more prevalent in recent years. For example, security and access control operators can conduct video surveillance, receive alarm notifications, and manage security systems remotely from mobile devices. And within the access control environment, a mobile access credential integrated within a smartphone, also referred to as mobile access or a mobile key, can now replace the physical access card to unlock doors.
Early on, the disparity in hardware and software produced by various smartphone manufacturers was a significant challenge for standardization and adoption of mobile credentials, as was the ability to ensure the security of data transfer between mobile device and host system card reader. Mobile access technology has made significant improvements since its inception and is now used successfully today. As new security systems are designed to be around for 20+ years, potential future migration to mobile access must be designed in.
Physical access control systems with card readers to grant access through electronically-secured openings have been around since the early 1980’s. Access control is an extremely important component in almost every physical security system. In addition to secured access, they offer many advantages, including convenience for users, centrally managed database, programmable features, door scheduling, audit trails, and reduced problems associated with issuing hard keys.
The conception of electronic access control ID credentials began with mag stripe cards, which used magnetically encoded, unencrypted data. These were highly susceptible to wear due to repeated physical use. Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) proximity cards and key fobs were next introduced to the market in the early 1990’s, providing ”contactless” use with 4” read range. At the time, “prox” cards became the industry standard, though card data was still unencrypted, and card credentials could unknowingly be scanned and cloned.
With the advent of the smart card about a decade later came the next significant development of more secure access credentials. Smart card data is encrypted, and the card must be mutually-authenticated with host card reader. As such, once reader and card each validate the secure parameters of the other, only then can encrypted data be exchanged. Second generation smart card technology was introduced around 2013, providing more secure cryptographic methods of encryption and data transmission. Unlike traditional prox cards, smart cards cannot be hacked or cloned. Smart card microchips also have read-write capability and can store large amounts of data, allowing for multi-application use. For example, in the educational environment, students and faculty can carry a single campus smart card for providing both physical access and cashless point-of-sale transactions. The card may be used for dining or bookstore purchases, and users manage and load funds to their campus card account. If implemented by the campus, the card can also support automated event or class attendance monitoring.
eBay’s 140,000 SF data center in Phoenix AZ required high-security building systems to ensure the safety and security of the mission critical facility, its equipment and stored data, and building occupants. The Sextant Group provided consultation and design services to program and implement comprehensive electronic security solutions, including alarm notification, digital video surveillance, and advanced access control system which provides flexibility for integration with third-party technologies and will be sustainable well into the future.
Which brings us to the newest generation of access control credentials, the mobile device key. Mobile access has been available for quite a few years now, and provides great convenience for users navigating access to controlled spaces. In lieu of carrying both a smartphone and access credential, the two are integrated into a single device — a very appealing solution for employers, staff and students. As organizations continue moving towards supporting more prevalent use of mobile platforms in business, mobile access is in harmony with the bring-your-own-device (BYOD) deployment model. Like smart cards, mobile credentials may also be used for multi-application use, as described above.
With mobile access, the user interface is provided by an app on the mobile device, which permits the user to access the digital key, or virtual credential. Authorized system administrators can issue or revoke digital keys over-the-air to user smartphones via encrypted data transmission. Each credential is unique to each mobile device, so they cannot be copied or duplicated. If a user replaces their smartphone, a new credential must be issued. Solutions may also allow for multiple devices to be assigned per user, each with an independent credential. Mobile keys can be set for ”always on”, allowing user to be on a phone call or multi-task with other apps in foreground while unlocking door.
And in the hospitality industry, prominent hotel brands such as Marriott, Hilton and others have begun to roll-out mobile key applications at designated properties, with plans for continued large scale expansion. Hotel guests may check-in and receive their digital room key via mobile app, allowing them to bypass the traditional check-in process, a much welcomed convenience.
NEAR FIELD OR BLUETOOTH?
Mobile devices can communicate with access readers using Near Field Communications (NFC) with a read-range of about 1.6”. The mobile device is tapped on the reader, similar as using a smart card. The mobile devices must support NFC in card emulation mode (CE) or host card emulation mode (HCE), also referred to as ‘secure NFC’. As opposed to ‘open NFC’ communication which is used for less secure applications such as reading NFC tags, smart posters, or data exchange with NFC peer devices. The card application and credential are stored in the secure element of the phone or as a service running on the operating system. Not all mobile device operating systems support card emulation mode, as do Android and Blackberry OS. For instance, Windows 10 for mobile devices requires a card emulation app using a SIM-based secure element. And though Apple’s iOS now enables NFC for tag reading, card emulation mode remains unsupported with iOS 11.
Bluetooth 4.0 Low-Energy (BLE) communication protocol is also used in mobile access, with the card application and credential securely stored in the operating system of the device. BLE does not require devices to be paired as did classic Bluetooth, which simplifies implementation of the technology. BLE has other advantages in mobile access, it is supported by any smartphone and has a much greater read-range up to 6’. BLE readers also incorporate device tap for user access, and reader chip sensitivity levels are adjustable by individual device to reduce false triggering. Manufacturers have developed unique applications to take advantage of extended read range capability of BLE. An example is HID’s Twist and Go gesture in which the phone is rotated 90 degrees and back to initiate the mobile key transaction to the reader upon approaching the door.
There are potential drawbacks with mobile access. With over-the-air transmission, data integrity can be a concern. And the nature of BLE with its long-range communication raises worry for potential eavesdropping of data transactions. However, mobile access solutions do incorporate AES128 encryption and mutual authentication protocol, similar to smart card technology described earlier. Other shortcomings of mobile access include the need for a charged battery. If completely drained where cell phone or text will not function, neither will the mobile access app. And though we may eliminate the need for access cards, a company’s policy may dictate that physical ID badges be worn and displayed for identification, erasing the benefit of carrying only a single device.
Those drawbacks aside, mobile credentials offer many other advantages. Mobile access readers can be integrated with high-security access control systems, and “multi-tech” readers are available, able to read both smart cards and mobile credentials. This allows employers to implement hybrid systems, giving staff the option of utilizing physical access card or mobile key. Manufacturers also offer “mobile ready” readers which can be upgraded for mobile access by the addition of a module, providing end-users flexibility for a more seamless migration path. Smartphones may be protected by locked screen, increasing security by introducing two-factor authentication: PIN+credential. And due to the personal nature of one’s mobile device, people are naturally very vigilant and protective of their smartphone, decreasing the likelihood of someone lending out or misplacing their mobile device, thus inherently reducing security risk.
Mobile access has overcome many of the initial obstacles, as the ecosystem of smartphones is becoming more interoperable with common technologies to meet the demands of the security industry. As manufacturers close the gaps in technological disparity, the mobile key is becoming more widely adopted as an alternate, favorable solution for physical access control. It provides convenience to administrators and staff, and enhances the user experience by moving the physical access card to the smartphone while adding the “wow factor”. Looking down the road, new access control system infrastructure should support future migration to mobile credentials. Attention should be given to preparing a system solution which is “mobile ready”, or capable to be retrofit in a cost-effective manner. Existing systems should be maintained with current software versions, and security renovation projects should consider feasible improvements which may also better prepare the system for potential migration. End-users, architects and engineers should be aware of the implications of mobile access on physical security so that informed decisions can be made early in the design process.
For in the end, early planning and preparation for Security and Access Control is the most important mobile device key of all.
Top image courtesy HID Global.
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"As long as human rights are violated, there can be no foundation for peace. How can peace grow where speaking the truth is itself a crime?"
Peace youth conference organised in honor of Dalai Lama
track (India)
Dharamsala, Oct 28 (ANI) -- Three Nobel Peace
laureates participated in a peace youth
conference organised in honor of Tibetan
spiritual leader Dalai Lama in Dharamsala.
Three Nobel peace laureates, Shirin Ebadi from
Iran, Mairead Corrigan Maguire from Northern
Ireland and Jody Williams of United States along
with the people of Tibet were present to grace
the occasion at Upper Tibetan Children Village school auditorium.
For 50 years, the 14th Tibetan spiritual leader
Dalai Lama and the people of Tibet have waged a
peaceful struggle to preserve their ancient
culture, religion, language and identity.
"This public ceremony is conducted to express the
three laureates appreciation for his holiness
efforts to resolve the issue of Tibet
peacefully," said Thubten Samphel, spokesperson of the Government-in-exile.
The Nobel Peace laureates expressed their grave
concern about the survival of Tibetan identity
and offered their support to Dalai Lama for his
non-violent efforts to attain autonomy for the Tibetans.
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Does the Talmud say that Gay Sex Causes Earthquakes?
I'm quoted in the Pacific Standard as an authority on the cause of earthquakes, "Gay Sex Caused the Earthquakes in Nepal."
On 8/23/2011 I wrote this post:
Does the Talmud say that Gay Sex Causes Earthquakes? In 2010 I covered this nonsensical topic after the Haiti earthquakes. (At that time Jeffrey Goldberg of the Atlantic cited me on this subject.)
Here it is again.
Yes, the Talmud does say that gay sex causes earthquakes.
I mused, That must be some awesome gay sex.
But seriously, if one can get serious over this bizarre idea, some cockamamie rabbis were going around preaching that gay sex caused Haiti's earthquakes.
See here and here for the reports about Rabbi Yehuda Levin and the Rabbinical Alliance of America.
Now not only is this a strange teaching. I must chastise these rabbis for not doing their Talmud homework and for not paying closer attention to the text in Yerushalmi Berakhot (9:2), which several years back I translated and published through the University of Chicago Press.
According to the Talmud text, earthquakes are caused by any one of a number of acts: yes one of them is gay sex, but others are by disputes, and also by not taking heave offering and tithes from your produce, and also because God is just upset that the Temple is in ruins and there are theaters and circuses in Israel.
Rabbis ought to know better than to cherry pick among the Talmudic reasons for earthquakes.
So rabbis, stop all of those disputes that you keep stirring up, get busy separating your heave offerings and tithes, and go rebuild the Temple, and maybe the earthquakes will stop.
And be sure to review the Talmud more carefully next time.
Here is my translation of the pertinent Talmud text:
[III.A] Elijah [the prophet] of blessed memory asked R. Nehorai, “Why do earthquakes occur?” He said to him, “On account of the sins of [those who do not separate] heave offerings and tithes [from their produce].”
[B] One verse says, “[God protects the Land of Israel], the eyes of the Lord your God are always upon it” [Deut. 11:12]. And a second verse says, “[God] who looks upon the earth and it trembles, who touches the mountains and they smoke” [Ps. 104:32].
[C] How can one reconcile these two verses? When Israel obeys God’s will and properly separates tithes then, “The eyes of the Lord your God are always upon it, from the beginning of the year to the end of the year” [Deut. 11:12], and the Land cannot be damaged. But when Israel does not obey God’s will, and does not properly separate tithes [from the produce of the earth], then he, “Looks upon the earth and it trembles” [Ps. 104:32].”
[D] [Elijah] said to him [Nehorai], “My son, on your life, what you say [about earthquakes] does make sense. But this is the main [reason that there are earthquakes]. When the Holy One, blessed be He, looks down on the theaters and circuses that sit secure, serene and peaceful [in Israel], and [he looks down] on the ruins of the Temple, he shakes the world to destroy it [and the earth trembles]. In this regard [the verse says], ‘The Lord will roar from on high, and from his holy habitation utter his voice’ [Jer. 25:30]. [It means he will roar] on account of [the destruction of] his Temple.”
[E] Said R. Aha, “[The earth quakes] on account of the sin of homosexual acts. God said, ‘You made your genitals throb in an unnatural act. By your life, I shall shake the earth on account of [the act of] this person’".
[F] And the sages said, “[The earth quivers] on account of disputes. [As it says, ‘And the valley of my mountains shall be stopped up, for the valley of the mountains shall touch the side of it;] and you shall flee as you fled from the earthquake in the days of Uzziah king of Judah’ [Zech. 14:5].” [Uzziah contested the authority of the priesthood and attempted to enter the Temple and offer an incense offering, cf. II Chron. 26:16 23. This dispute caused an earthquake.].
[G] Said R. Samuel, “An earthquake is a sign of the cessation of kingship. As it says, ‘The land trembles and writhes in pain.’ On what account? ‘For the Lord’s purposes against Babylon stand, to make the land of Babylon a desolation, without inhabitant.’ [Jer. 51:29].”
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KWIP ACTIVITY REPORT JULY- AUGUST
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SUMMARY CONFLICT DYNAMICS OF ADJUMANI REFUGEE SETTLEMENT & HOST COMMUNITY
This programme aims at enhancing active and informed citizen participation, a culture of regular free and fair elections, adherence to the principle of separation and devolution of power, respect for human rights and observance of rule of law, and transparent and accountable leadership at all levels.
Under this thematic area, there are three main programmes namely;
Parliamentary Liaison
This programme aims at strengthening the capacity of citizens to hold their leaders accountable through information provision, sensitization and awareness creation; enhancing advocacy and promoting quality service delivery at community, sub-county and district levels; and strengthening reporting and feedback mechanisms between leaders and citizens through the citizens’ forum.
Citizen Participation Programme
Transparent and accountable governance
The citizen participation programme is intended to increase and ensure active participation of citizens in issues of community development. By so doing the programme facilitates and enhances citizens’ capacity to hold leaders accountable. The programme was inspired by biblical teachings on good leadership in Mathew 20: 25- 27, John 13: 1-17, Nehemiah 2: 11-20.
The programme is implemented through local church structures known as Ecumenical Joint Action Committees (EJACS) who facilitate citizens with and gather relevant information for dissemination and advocacy on service delivery and budget allocation and utilization at district and sub county level. The EJACS mobilize citizens and create awareness about the programme.
The programme also further contributes to increased awareness on the roles and responsibilities of various local government organs and citizens through civic education.
To increase the participation of citizens in promoting transparent and accountable governance at community level.
To strengthen the capacity of citizens to hold their leaders accountable through information provision, sensitization and awareness creation.
To strengthen community, sub-county and district advocacy.
To promote quality service delivery at the community, sub county and district levels.
To build the capacity of EJACs to facilitate citizen participation in accountable governance.
To strengthen reporting and feedback mechanisms between the leaders and the citizens through the Citizens Forum.
Activities of the Programme are:
Mobilize citizens and leaders to convene citizen forums. A forum is deliberately held to enable interactions and discussions between leaders and citizens on issues that impact on the welfare of communities. Participants to these forums explore possible solutions to the identified challenges.
Facilitate easy access to key information by use of Notice boards placed in strategic locations like the trading centers.
Increase flow of information and views and developmental ideas from citizens through the use of suggestion boxes that are placed at strategic places.
Use media programmes
Hold dialogue meetings between citizens, policy makers and civic leaders.
Sensitize and educate communities on their rights, civic roles and responsibilities.
Programme area of operation
The citizen participation programme that was started in 2007 was piloted in the districts of Mityana and Iganga in two sub counties per district with support from Norwegian Church Aid.
In 2009, with support from DIAKONIA-Sweden, the programme was extended to the districts of Abim, Pader, Kaberamadio and Dokolo.
Empowering Members of Commissions, Councils and Committees of all member churches and Ecumenical Joint Action Committees (EJACs) in 15 regions with civic education knowledge and skills enabled them to actively engage in delivering civic education to the population in their areas, within Uganda. The affirmative action builds on the work that had already started in a programme of workingthrough the Karamojong tradition system to enhance community participation in decentralisation for improved service delivery and holding leaders accountable.
Through support to Church members in Karamoja in capacity Building in Conflict Sensitivity, Decentralization, Rights Based Approach and promoting effective Citizen Participation in holding leaders accountable, the Ecumenical Joint Action Committees (EJACs) of South Karamoja Dioceses based in Moroto and North Karamoja based in Kotido cascaded skills to the districts within their mandates like Abim and Kaabong for North Karamoja and Nakapiripirit and Amudat for South Karamoja.
The Karamoja region also made Civic Education preparations for the 2011 Elections approach where Skills of EJACS were built who later used their knowledge in the districts within their Dioceses. In an effort to strengthen the capacity of the EJACs (religious leaders) in the delivery of civic education and citizen participation; knowledge and skills were enhanced in Human rights based approaches to development; Human rights and gender equality; Development of District work-plans; and Programme management issues.
Civic education materials in form of booklets, brochures, posters, fliers, T-shirts were developed and disseminated to deliver empowerment messages to the masses in the region. Some materials were also translated in the local language for easy use by the civic educators and the citizens. As a result, the knowledge empowered Karamojongs to effectively participate in the election processes and actively participated in governance processes as their constitutional right. They also appreciated their roles and responsibilities as citizens of Uganda.
CSOs empowered to influence citizen participation
UJCC in partnership with National Democratic Institute, conducted capacity building sessions for a number of CBOs in the areas of; conducting a baseline survey; data entry and analysis for a baseline survey report; and research report writing; advocacy, networking; community dialogue and communication. Among the CBOs that benefited from this were; CIFOVUP, UWESO- Kumi, YAPI and Bumakwe Widows Group.
The programme aims at strengthening the involvement of community leaders and civil society organizations in working for a just society. Initiatives undertaken include advocacy on governance-related issues; such as advocacy on free and fair elections, anti-corruption, promotion of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), and election observation at all levels-national, local, regional and international.
Parliamentary Liaison Programme
This programme seeks to increase civil society’s engagement and participation in the legislative processes. It focuses on information gathering and dissemination of parliamentary proceedings, legislation and other policy documents; creating space for dialogue on draft legislation; and soliciting people’s views on government policies and programmes.
UJCC engagements with Parliament
Because of her undoubted experience in engaging with Parliament on numerous bills, UJCC is always called on to make inputs on bills before Parliament. She uses the opportunity to solicit different opinions and views from Religious leaders and the public by creating space for dialogue on draft legislations. These views and opinions later make the memorandum that is presented to respective committees of Parliament.
UJCC has input in a number of Bills among which:
The Kampala Capital City Authority Bill 2009;
The HIV/AIDS Control and Prevention Bill, 2010;
The Regional Governments Bill, 2009;
The Regulation of Interception of Communication Bill, 2007;
Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs);
The East African Community Election Bill,2008;
and The Marriage and Divorce Bill, 2009.
UJCC Parliamentary Bulletins
UJCC publishes and disseminates bi-monthly Parliamentary Bulletins through out the year. The bulletins highlight the process of bills in Parliament, and any business as regards to Parliament.
The Bulletins are a good source of information of what goes on in Parliament and understanding parliamentary processes. Issues highlighted in the Bulletins provide useful reference materials for religious leaders and other stakeholders who are keen on following the work of Parliament.
CSOs engagement with Parliament
UJCC together with other Civil Society Organisations are in discussions of coordinating more effective engagements between civil society organizations and Parliament. A draft strategy for engagement was prepared by a Consultant following consultations with different CSOs working with Parliament. The strategy was adopted and will act as a guide for CSOs engagement with Parliament. The strategy is a big step towards consolidating efforts by civil society to undertake a more coordinated approach to advocacy issues involving Parliament. It represents the consensus of the CSOs involved in the process.
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Chapter 2430: Lost Country
Edited by RED
The Holy Spirit Dynasty was the same as before. The previous time Lin Feng had been there, the Fire Shrine’s members had sent some people to attack Lin Qiong Sheng. Luckily, Lin Feng had arrived and had pretended to be a strong cultivator from the Fortune Shrine. Now, Lin Feng didn’t know where his son Lin Qiong Sheng was, or what had become of him.
At the same time, because of the particular status of the Holy Spirit Dynasty, the other Dynasties didn’t like it. They wanted to destroy it, but as long as Lin Feng was alive, nobody would be able to destroy them, including the Animal District. There were many strong cultivators in the region since the lower and higher worlds were now connected, but the Holy Spirit Dynasty was the same as before, it hadn’t changed. Lin Feng was famous, and that was probably one of the reasons why people feared him.
Lin Feng and Duan Feng arrived. Holy Emperor Ling came out to greet Lin Feng personally, because he liked him a lot. He was the father of their future Holy Emperor! Lin Feng had transmitted his blood to their descendants, so they were connected now.
“Lin Feng.” Many strong cultivators came out to greet him. They looked at him and didn’t notice anything about him particularly, but they didn’t doubt that he had become much stronger. Dozens of years had passed; it wasn’t a long time, but they could see that Lin Feng had changed.
“Holy Emperor!” Lin Feng replied. “Is Qiong Sheng here?”
Holy Emperor Ling shook his head and said, “I don’t know where he is. I haven’t heard anything from him since. He never contacted me.”
“He’s a bit too hands-off,” said Lin Feng, smiling wryly.
“Lin Feng, who’s this?” asked Holy Emperor Ling, looking at Duan Feng. His Qi looked extraordinary.
“My friend, Duan Feng.”
“Lin Feng, Duan Feng, let’s go inside to talk,” said Holy Emperor Ling. They all entered the Dynasty’s territory.
“Holy Emperor Ling, so many years have passed. Has Qi Tian Holy Town changed a lot?” asked Lin Feng.
“Of course, there have been great changes. All the Dynasties have changed. The Holy Spirit Dynasty is the Dynasty which has changed the least, especially since many strong cultivators from the higher world come here. There are many battles and so on, changes are normal and expected. The reason why not so many things changed here in the Holy Spirit Dynasty is that we’re half stuck.”
“Half stuck?” asked Lin Feng.
“Yes, you know there are conflicts between the other Dynasties and the Holy Spirit Dynasty. They don’t want us to rise. We can’t do anything without being watched. They just don’t dare attack us directly, that’s all,” said Holy Emperor Ling.
Lin Feng nodded and said, “It’s going to stop.”
“Holy Emperor, send some people to the most powerful groups and have them convey a message from me: tell them I want all their leaders to come to the Holy Spirit Dynasty,” Lin Feng said calmly. Even though he sounded calm, it made Holy Emperor Ling and the other strong cultivators of the Holy Spirit Dynasty tremble. How crazy! Have all the Dynasties’ leaders come?!
“I don’t think they’ll come…” replied Holy Emperor Ling.
“Just transmit my message. If they don’t come, it’s their choice,” said Lin Feng.
Holy Emperor Ling smiled and nodded, “Alright, we’ll see if they come. It’s their decision.”
The first thing Holy Emperor Ling wanted to do didn’t surprise Lin Feng; he organized a huge banquet for him! But Lin Feng didn’t want one, so he said, “I’m just going back to where I was before. You can let the other Dynasties’ leaders stay in those great and magnificent places.”
“Alright, I’ll be waiting for you here,” said Holy Emperor Ling. He knew how Lin Feng was. He smiled as Lin Feng and Duan Feng left. Lin Feng went back to the place he used to share with Tang You You, and they watched the sunset.
“Duan Feng, where is your teacher?” asked Lin Feng out of curiosity. Feng Mo was a mysterious and legendary cultivator. Where had he created his group? “Of course, if it’s a secret, you don’t need to tell me,” Lin Feng added quickly.
“It’s alright. It’s not a secret for everybody. I would guess most of the Shrines’ Saints know where he established his sect.”
“Why have I never read anything about him, then?” asked Lin Feng. He didn’t understand.
“Because even if you had read about it, you wouldn’t necessarily be able to go there, so writing about it would be useless,” said Duan Feng with a smile. “My teacher’s sect is in the Imperial Court of the Continent of the Nine Clouds, in a place called Sealed Imprint Mountain. Brother Lin Feng, do you know where Sealed Imprint Mountain is in the Imperial Court of the Continent of the Nine Clouds?”
“How could I guess?” He shook his head. Duan Feng was creating suspense.
“The Lost Country,” Duan Feng stated calmly.
Lin Feng was astonished. The Lost Country? He had heard that name before, of course.
“Sealed Imprint Mountain is situated in the Lost Country?” whispered Lin Feng.
“Indeed, one of the seven forbidden territories, the Lost Country,” said Duan Feng, bursting into laughter when he saw Lin Feng’s flabbergasted face. Apart from Sealed Imprint Mountain, other people couldn’t go there unless someone gave them directions.
“How do you go there?” asked Lin Feng. He was really curious now. The Lost Country was one of the seven forbidden territories, a famous place. According to legends, the Lost Country used to be an incredible country with many strong cultivators. There used to be many demon and ghost cultivators there. One day, they faced a catastrophe, the gods abandoned them, and their nation had turned into ruins and desolation. Now many incredible cultivators were sealed in there, and many people had died there.
Of course, it was a legend, which didn’t prove anything, and going inside could be deadly. Few people dared go there. Yet now Duan Feng was telling Lin Feng that Sealed Imprint Mountain was in the Lost Country.
“We have a special way to avoid danger, we can go straight to the sect. The sect is in a sealed area. It’s not a really a mountain, it’s a world created by my teacher.”
“I see. I’m curious, I wish I could meet your teacher,” murmured Lin Feng.
“I’ll take you there some time. Even though his world can’t be as big as the Continent of the Nine Clouds, it’s still amazing there.”
“Your teacher doesn’t allow people to come and go as they wish, right?” Lin Feng smiled.
“Correct, most people don’t know about the world, only some people who practice in Sealed Imprint Mountain know about it and can go there. You can only go with prior authorization.”
“I understand,” Lin Feng nodded.
Outside of the Holy Spirit Dynasty, an incredible Qi filled the air. A group of strong cultivators arrived and entered the Holy Spirit Dynasty. One of the guards stopped them and smiled, “Please stop here.”
“Is this a joke? The Holy Spirit Dynasty invited us, and this is how you treat your guests?! Have Holy Emperor Ling come here!” shouted the leader of the group icily.
“Don’t prevent Holy Emperor Tianci from entering!” shouted a voice in the distance. The guards suddenly understood; these people were from the Tianci Dynasty, and Holy Emperor Ling came out personally to greet them.
“Holy Emperor Ling, I trust you have been doing well since we last met,” said Holy Emperor Tianci, entering the Holy Spirit Dynasty’s territory.
“I’m alright. And guards, don’t stop anyone who comes here! Many Dynasties’ leaders are coming to pay us a visit. Greet them warmly,” said Holy Emperor Ling.
“Yes sir, Holy Emperor!” replied the guards. They thought of Lin Feng; he had come back and now something big was going to happen. He had invited all the leaders of the Dynasties here!
“Where is Lin Feng?” asked Holy Emperor Tianci. He arrived in a great hall where a banquet had been prepared.
“He’s here. He’ll come soon, I guess,” Holy Emperor Ling smiled. He was convinced Lin Feng knew what was going on.
“We came because he invited us, why isn’t he here? What’s that supposed to mean?” asked Holy Emperor Tianci. He sounded unhappy.
“You can ask him when he arrives,” Holy Emperor Ling smiled. Lin Feng could take care of everything.
More and more people arrived outside. All the leaders were arriving!
Chapter 2431: Waiting
The atmosphere in the Holy Spirit Dynasty was getting lively. The Holy Spirit Dynasty had dispatched some people to invite these guests over. Even though the Dynasties’ leaders were all furious, they were also a bit frightened. Why did Lin Feng dare act so arrogantly? He had sent people to invite them to come to the Holy Spirit Dynasty, it felt more like an order to come than anything else: I, Lin Feng, summon you, the Dynasties’ leaders!
That was precisely why they were a bit worried, and that was also the reason why they had all come, they wanted to see what was happening. Now that they were here, they didn’t need to be very polite because having come was already polite. Lin Feng didn’t give them face, so they needed to show they were proud and dignified.
“Holy Emperor Ling, what does Lin Feng want?” asked the Holy Emperor of the Qin Dynasty icily.
However, Holy Emperor Ling just looked unmoved. He glanced around at all the strong cultivators, smiling calmly. Lin Feng was right, they had all come. Of course, it was due to the fact that Lin Feng was famous abroad.
“Holy Emperor Qin, don’t worry. You’re not the first one to ask me that. Everybody, please sit down and enjoy the banquet. Why are you all so nervous?” Holy Emperor Ling smiled. Lin Feng hadn’t appeared, yet so all the leaders were worried about what he was planning…
“How insolent!” said someone icily. He looked at Holy Emperor Ling and said, “I haven’t left the university for years! I was invited today, so I came, and now you keep us waiting?”
Holy Emperor Ling looked at the speaker; it was an old man, an elder from Goblin Spirit University. People respected him because many geniuses studied at Goblin Spirit University, but Lin Feng kept him waiting.
“Lin Feng invited all of you, he also said you could choose not to come if you didn’t want to. Now he’s not here, he must have his reasons. If you want to wait, wait; if you don’t feel like it you can leave, nobody is forcing you to stay,” replied Holy Emperor Ling calmly. The old man pulled a long face, but he said nothing. They could stay and wait, or just leave. As they wished!
Holy Emperor Ling sounded a bit haughty. How could those people not be furious? They were all extraordinary people. Nobody burst out into anger though, they just tried to put pressure on the Holy Spirit Dynasty. If Lin Feng showed up and wasn’t strong enough to keep them in control, then they wouldn’t hesitate anymore.
“The banquet is for everybody, so help yourself,” said Holy Emperor Ling smiling. Servants kept bringing fine liquor and food, but it didn’t suffice to make those people happy.
They waited for a while, and it became dark outside, the crowd grew more and more furious. Even though they all chatted, they looked dark and gloomy. Many strong cultivators just drank silently.
Holy Emperor Ling was a bit surprised. What was Lin Feng doing? Was he trying to infuriate these people?
“Excuse me, everybody,” said Holy Emperor Ling. He suddenly stood up and left. The crowd guessed he was going to go and look for Lin Feng; they couldn’t do much but wait now.
Holy Emperor Ling indeed went to look for Lin Feng. Lin Feng and Duan Feng were laying in the grass in a courtyard and chatting as if the outside world had nothing to do with them. They had even sealed the area with Qi in order not to get disturbed by people’s godly awareness. They looked completely at ease. They obviously didn’t know that some of the leaders were already furious.
“Lin Feng.” shouted Holy Emperor Ling in the courtyard.
“Holy Emperor Ling, come in,” said Lin Feng smiling. When he saw Lin Feng lying in the grass, he was annoyed and asked, “All the leaders are here, aren’t you going to see them?”
“No rush. It’s still early,” said Lin Feng smiling.
“It’s still early?” Holy Emperor Ling’s face stiffened, and he replied, “Those guys are all furious. If you keep making them wait, I’m afraid they will…”
“Don’t worry. Nothing will happen. Even if they get furious, then what? If they want to leave, they can leave,” said Lin Feng smiled. He was calm, all pale clouds and light breezes, as if it wasn’t a problem at all. Holy Emperor Ling didn’t understand.
“Lin Feng, could you please tell me what you intend to do?” asked Holy Emperor Ling, smiling wryly.
“Holy Emperor.” Lin Feng sat up. He asked, “Do you remember what happened last time when I came back?”
“Yes, there was an envoy from a Shrine, and some Dynasties also got involved, they wanted to attack Qiong Sheng. Luckily, you came back at the perfect time and solved the issue. I was astonished.”
“Indeed. Nowadays, the Continent of the Nine Clouds is in a state of chaos. Nobody can escape it anywhere. If they weren’t afraid of me, they could have joined hands and destroyed the Holy Spirit Dynasty, what do you think?” asked Lin Feng.
“That’s a fact,” said Holy Emperor Ling, nodding agreement.
“Do you think we can accept a compromise, or coexist peacefully with them?” asked Lin Feng.
“Therefore, this time, I want to teach them a good lesson. I want to show everyone in Qi Tian Holy Town that nobody can treat me or my family like that, I want them to remember it forever,” said Lin Feng indifferently.
Holy Emperor Ling smiled and nodded, “Alright, but some Dynasties aren’t our enemies, what will you do if they are furious or leave?”
“Even if they’re angry, so what? Nobody will dare attack in the Holy Spirit Dynasty. If they leave, I’ll invite them again,” Lin Feng smiled. “Including those we have tensions with.”
“Since you have a plan, I’m not going to ask again,” said Holy Emperor Ling, leaving quietly.
At dawn, the atmosphere was oppressive. Lin Feng hadn’t shown up at all, the leaders had been waiting the entire evening and nobody could give them an explanation. How infuriating!
“Holy Emperor Ling, are you humiliating us on purpose?” asked Holy Emperor Qin icily.
“I’ve also been waiting here. I told you, if you want, you can leave!” said Holy Emperor Ling calmly.
Holy Emperor Qin punched the table in front of him, and it exploded. Alcohol fell onto the ground. He looked dark and gloomy. “Everybody, should we go?”
People were surprised and glanced at one another.
“Everybody, you must have noticed that many people are watching us from outside. People must already be talking about the fact that we’ve been waiting here the whole time. Do you really intend to stay here and wait?” asked Holy Emperor Qin. The crowd was surprised. They had also released their godly awareness, and noticed that some people had been watching. All the leaders of the Dynasties had gathered there, how could there not be anyone outside?
“I agree. Let’s leave,” said the Holy Emperor of the Great Desert Dynasty.
“Since you want to leave, just leave. Nobody is forcing you to stay. Why talk so much?” said someone with a smile. It was the celestial being of the Ancient Jade Dynasty. The two Holy Emperors looked furious.
“Hmph! You’re patient then, celestial being!” said Holy Emperor Qin icily. He rose up in the air and flew away.
Outside, many people saw Holy Emperor Qin leave, and whispered. He was out, he didn’t want to wait anymore. Back in the days, there had been conflicts between him and Lin Feng, and now he had just been badly humiliated.
“Everybody, enjoy yourself. I’m off,” said Holy Emperor Qin, rolling up his sleeves. Then he left, also furious.
After Holy Emperor Qin, Holy Emperor Tianci also left. Three days later, everybody left. The hall was just empty. Holy Emperor Ling was annoyed. What was Lin Feng thinking? Even people outside who had come to watch were annoyed. What was going on?
When everybody calmed down, on the fourth day, a terrifying beast landed in the Qin Dynasty. It was dozens of meters tall. It could crush people with one foot. It went through the Qin Dynasty and destroyed all their buildings, but it didn’t kill anyone. Many people were panic-stricken. The Qin Dynasty used their full strength to attack that beast by surprise, but nobody could compete with it. Each time the beast punched someone, they died.
The beast looked for Holy Emperor Qin, and it stared at him with its gigantic eyes, it looked excited.
“Master, what do you want from the Qin Dynasty?” asked Holy Emperor Qin when he realized how terrifying that beast was.
The gigantic beast didn’t reply. Holy Emperor Qin felt pressured. The gigantic beast then threw his hand at Holy Emperor Qin. He wanted to dodge but he had no time; he coughed up blood, his eyes rolled and he fell onto the ground.
Chapter 2432: Rolling Up His Sleeves and Leaving
“Master, why? Why are you doing this?” asked Holy Emperor Qin, crawling back up. He didn’t understand why that beast had attacked the Qin Dynasty.
The gigantic beast spat out Qi, but didn’t say anything. He raised his hand and threw it out again. Holy Emperor Qin wanted to dodge, but he couldn’t move because of the oppressive strength. Rumbling sounds spread in the air, and he crashed onto the ground hard, forming a crater. Blood splashed. The beast continued attacking.
Boom boom boom...
The beast continued punching him. All the members of the Dynasty didn’t understand, why was that beast attacking their Holy Emperor?
The Qin Holy Emperor had never felt so humiliated.
He was still coughing up blood. He suddenly flew away, trying to leave the Dynasty. He quickly realized that the beast was attacking him and nobody else.
“Why?” asked Holy Emperor Qin. His bones were all broken. He wanted to escape, but the beast was much faster than him. The beast continued punching him or squashing him with his feet. How humiliating. Holy Emperor Qin had never felt this way before. He was going insane. Had he offended a terrifying cultivator?
“Lin Feng?” Holy Emperor Qin was frightened. Was this happening because he hadn’t waited for Lin Feng? But Lin Feng had done that on purpose, what was he supposed to do? Wait forever?
“The Tianci Dynasty is there.” Holy Emperor Qin turned around and saw two people in the distance, a big one and a small one. When he saw them clearly, his face paled, those two figures were: Holy Emperor Tianci and a gigantic beast.
He wasn’t the only one who was going through this.
“Holy Emperor Qin!…” shouted Holy Emperor Tianci. His face was deathly pale. When he saw that Holy Emperor Qin was going through the same thing as him, he was stunned.
“Go, let’s go to the Holy Spirit Dynasty. Only they can save us.” shouted Holy Emperor Qin to Holy Emperor Tianci suddenly.
“Yes, let’s go to the Holy Spirit Dynasty. What a humiliation for us, two Dynasties’ leaders,” agreed Holy Emperor Tianci. He felt wretched and miserable.
“I feel the same, damn!” said Holy Emperor Qin. He even had tears in his eyes. How miserable for two Dynasties’ leaders!
They flew towards the Holy Spirit Dynasty as fast as they culd, but on the way, the beasts continued humiliating them, and hitting them. Their clothes were torn apart. They both had a running nose and sniffled, with tears in their eyes.
On the way, some people saw them, they were astonished. Those two people were Dynasties’ leaders, and those two beasts were making them cry. They looked truly miserable. Many people even had compassion for them. Poor leaders!
“Holy Spirit Dynasty, we’re there.” Holy Emperor Qin looked like he had hope again when he saw the Holy Spirit Dynasty. Were the beasts finally going to stop humiliating them? Those beasts had even put their dirty feet on their faces. Their noses were even broken!
Boom! Holy Emperor Tianci and Holy Emperor Qin wanted to enter the Holy Spirit Dynasty, but they collided with a light curtain. Their faces became even paler. Thunder rumbled behind him. The gigantic beasts drew closer.
“It’s a seal.” Holy Emperor Qin’s face was deathly pale. Behind the light curtain was Holy Emperor Ling. Holy Emperor Qin said, “Holy Emperor Ling, let us come in!”
“I thought you didn’t want to stay here, Holy Emperor Qin? Why did you come back?” asked Holy Emperor Ling indifferently.
“I want to keep the appointment, I want to keep the appointment!” said Holy Emperor Qin, forcing himself to smile. But when he said that, he raised his head and saw a gigantic stinky foot move towards his face again. He wanted to dodge, but heavy strength oppressed him and squashed his face.
The beast wiped his foot on his face. Holy Emperor Qin’s pale face turned red. He looked at Holy Emperor Ling and said, “Holy Emperor Ling, I was wrong, I offended you, I’m so sorry, I want to keep the appointment, please let me back in.”
“After you left, we canceled the banquet, we’re not receiving guests anymore. Sorry,” said Holy Emperor Ling indifferently. Holy Emperor Qin’s face paled again.
The gigantic beast squashed Holy Emperor Qin’s face again. Holy Emperor Qin crashed onto the ground and crawled back up on his knees.
“Holy Emperor Qin, what are you doing? You’re a Holy Emperor, I can’t stand seeing you like this. If you really insist, I’ll go and see Lin Feng,” said Holy Emperor Ling sighed. Holy Emperor Qin wanted to kill Lin Feng so bad, so he was the one who had sent those evil creatures.
“Thank you so much,” said Holy Emperor Qin standing up. However, Holy Emperor Ling didn’t move. He just giggled and looked at him. Holy Emperor Qin’s face turned even paler. He realized something.
What banquet? Lin Feng had done this on purpose.
If I don’t kneel down, the beast will squash my face again, thought Holy Emperor Qin realizing what was going on. He felt so miserable and pathetic, but it was the truth, the sad and cruel truth. He had joined hands with a Shrine hoping they would kill Lin Qiong Sheng, and now Lin Feng was back and he wanted to get his revenge. And now, even if Lin Feng destroyed his Dynasty, he wouldn’t be able to do much about it. How tragic, how humiliating!
“Lin Feng, I will definitely see you die someday!” shouted Holy Emperor Qin inside. He knew he couldn’t surpass Lin Feng, but he hoped he would die, and then it would be the Holy Spirit Dynasty’s judgement day.
“Boom boom!”
When the Tianci Dynasty’s Holy Emperor saw that Holy Emperor Qin was kneeling down, he did the same. He had also had conflicts with Lin Feng back in the days. Lin Feng hadn’t destroyed their Dynasties entirely, he had just humiliated them.
On that day, the atmosphere outside of the Holy Spirit Dynasty got very busy. Leaders of universities and other powerful groups came and begged to see Lin Feng. All those strong cultivators gathered there, but Lin Feng didn’t show up.
Holy Emperor Ling went to Lin Feng’s courtyard, raised his head and heard Lin Feng’s voice, “Holy Emperor, I’m leaving those Bestial Saints here, they will protect the Holy Spirit Dynasty. If anything happens, you can give them orders. I’m off.”
He just heard Lin Feng, but didn’t see him.
“You’re free and unrestrained. A group of strong cultivators is waiting outside and you’re leaving it to me,” said Holy Emperor Ling, shaking his head and smiling wryly. Lin Feng didn’t feel like wasting his time with those people. If he wanted, he could kill them in a flash, but he didn’t, he just wanted everybody in Qi Tian Holy Town to remember him and to know that the Holy Spirit Dynasty was powerful.
And he didn’t even show up.
“Lin Feng, I’m sure people will remember you for a very, very long time in the Continent of the Nine Clouds,” replied Holy Emperor Ling, before turning around and slowly walking away. He arrived outside, where the sealing strength had already disappeared. The beasts looked at the sky; they were half-Bestial Saints from the Starry Sky World, their leader had asked them to protect the Holy Spirit Dynasty.
“Lin Feng said he didn’t want to see you. Please leave,” said Holy Emperor Ling, waving his hand.
Those people’s faces paled, they were terrified. The leader of the university who had burst into anger the previous time shuddered with fear, “Holy Emperor Ling, please help us and tell him we wish we could see him.”
“Yes, please, Holy Emperor Ling!” said Holy Emperor Qin. He had the impression the beast would squash his face anytime again with his dirty feet.
“Eh…” Holy Emperor Ling had cold sweats. He looked at the gigantic beasts and said, “Masters, please come back in.”
“Yes, we have received orders from our Master,” the beasts replied. They shrank down and entered the Holy Spirit Dynasty.
“Alright, everybody, please go back,” said Holy Emperor Ling.
Those people glanced at one another and asked Holy Emperor Ling, “Really?”
“Really,” Holy Emperor Ling nodded.
“Thank you very much,” said Holy Emperor Qin and the others, standing up. They turned around and left as fast as they could. They felt so humiliated. When they left, flames of fury appeared in their eyes. Holy Emperor Ling understood that, but he didn’t care anymore. Those beasts could protect the Holy Spirit Dynasty. It was difficult to imagine how strong Lin Feng would become within a thousand or even ten thousand years!
Chapter 2433: Treasure Hall
In the Imperial Court of the Continent of the Nine Clouds, in the Fortune Shrine…
There were gigantic mountains and waterfalls coming from the sky. They were magnificent and grandiose.
Lin Feng was walking in the Fortune Shrine. Many people looked at him in surprise. They smiled and said, “Brother Lin Feng!”
Lin Feng also replied and smiled back. Even though many things had happened in the Fortune Shrine because of him, he rarely spent time with the others. He only spent time with the Diviner.
“Lin Feng, you’re back!” said an old man walking past Lin Feng, and smiling.
“Yes, I’m back,” Lin Feng smiled. He didn’t recognize anyone, but they all recognized him. Lin Feng slowly walked towards a waterfall. At the top of the waterfall, there was a figure, graceful and elegant. She smiled broadly when she saw him.
“Meng Qing!” said Lin Feng. He flew up in the air and landed next to Meng Qing. He stretched his arms and caressed her wan and sallow face. He smiled gently and said, “Silly girl.”
Meng Qing laughed and said nothing. She put her head on Lin Feng’s shoulder and her eyes turned red.
“You left for so long, don’t do that again,” whispered Meng Qing. Lin Feng felt guilty.
He nodded and said, “I will always take you with me in the future.”
“You said it,” said Meng Qing raising her head and smiled softly.
“Indeed,” Lin Feng nodded. They both sat down on a gigantic stone and gazed into the distance. The landscapes were incredible here.
“Any news from Zhe Tian?” asked Lin Feng.
“No. I don’t know where he is. He has the same personality as you back in the days.”
“Like father, like son,” Lin Feng grinned.
“But while you were away all those years, many things happened to the Fortune Shrine. The Continent of the Nine Clouds is now in a state of chaos. More and more Shrines want to fight against the Fortune Shrine, and the Shrines are also starting to fight for supremacy.”
“During times of prosperity, people don’t really fight over territories that much. But now that the world is in a state of chaos, resources are scarce and influential groups start fighting over territories. All the influential groups want to gain some mysterious worlds or places where there are precious things. They want to use resources for geniuses, so the competition is even more fierce.”
Lin Feng understood that. If the Fortune Shrine controlled a city, it meant that the resources in that city also belonged to the Fortune Shrine, and whenever new geniuses appeared in that city, then the Fortune Shrine could also recruit them. When the world was in a state of chaos, it lasted for thousands and thousands of years. The situation couldn’t be solved from one day to another, so the Shrines had to do their best.
“So anyway, what I wanted to say is, seven years ago, the Fortune Shrine decided to recruit core disciples every ten years. The core disciples can then all compete, no matter what their cultivation level is. Your friends, Hou Qing Lin, Jun Mo Xi, and someone else came back, they want to try and become core disciples in the Fortune Shrine.”
Lin Feng smiled, “You saw Brother Hou and Jun Mo Xi?”
“Yes, they came to see you, but then they found out you weren’t here,” said Meng Qing nodding.
“How are they doing?” asked Lin Feng.
“Very good. In three years, you’ll be able to see them,” said Meng Qing smiling.
“Great, in three years then,” Lin Feng nodded. He grabbed Meng Qing’s hand and said, “Come, I want to take you somewhere.”
Meng Qing was curious. They walked towards an ancient palace. They both entered the cultivation room, Lin Feng waved his hand and a praying mat appeared.
“Let’s go in.” Lin Feng and Meng Qing stepped onto the praying mat, lights flashed and they both disappeared, quickly reappearing in the Starry Sky World, Meng Qing was stupefied when she saw the landscapes. This wasn’t Lin Feng’s world…
“Where are we?” asked Meng Qing.
“A god’s world,” Lin Feng smiled. “Meng Qing, I disappeared for a few years because I was stuck in a forbidden territory. You probably know about that. Then, I found the Godly Grave’s god’s historical remains, this Starry Sky World. This world was created by a god.”
“The news that many people came out of the historical remains quickly spread. There are also many strong cultivators from other worlds. Everybody knows about that now. I would never have thought it all happened because you obtained the god’s world,” answered Meng Qing, smiling sweetly. It meant that the god had chosen Lin Feng as an heir!
“Let’s go. There are many places here. I don’t even know what to do with all these places,” said Lin Feng. Their figures flickered, and they went to a few ancient star palaces. Lin Feng and Meng Qing entered one of them. Dazzling lights surrounded Meng Qing, which made her shiver.
“There are Saint’s Weapons everywhere?”
Meng Qing was stunned. There were Saint’s Weapons everywhere: blades, spears, swords, halberds, axes, bows and arrows, whips, armors, gourds, rainbow cups… it was incredible, the palace was filled with treasures.
“Those are Saint’s Weapons the god obtained back in the days. He practiced cultivation for a very long time, and obtained many Saint’s Weapons. The Saint’s Weapons in this palace are all the best low-level Saint’s Weapons you can find. In the other rooms, you can find medium-level Saint’s Weapons, high-level Saint’s Weapons, peerless Saint’s Weapons, but I can only enter two rooms. I’ll take you to the second one,” Lin Feng told Meng Qing.
He took her to another room. An incredible energy filled the air there. There were even more Saint’s Weapons, all of them dazzling. In the outside world, people would go insane for them, he could only tell Meng Qing about them. He didn’t even tell his teachers about them. People were envious; he had given his teachers many things, but not as incredible as these things because he didn’t want enemies to kill his teachers to steal their weapons!
“Meng Qing, choose a weapon you want,” said Lin Feng, smiling at her. Everything he had in life, he wanted to share with Meng Qing.
Meng Qing and his friends were strong enough, he wanted to help them all become stronger.
“I can’t use Saint’s Weapons, I’m too weak, so I’ll choose one for defense so that you don’t need to worry about me,” she agreed.
“Alright, choose something to protect your physical body and soul. When you become a Saint, you’ll choose some for attacks,” he told her. He didn’t need Meng Qing to become incredibly strong and reach the clouds, he just wanted her to be safe. He could do the rest himself.
Meng Qing chose a soft armor and a Saint’s soul sword. The sword could protect her when someone attacked her soul, so even if a Saint attacked her by surprise, she wouldn’t die.
“Don’t spoil just me. Give some to the others, too. They’re all in your small world, aren’t they?” she prodded him.
“I will go and see them; my world is becoming more and more perfect. They like calm and tranquility. This world is dangerous, so I will ask them,” said Lin Feng smiling.
“Yes, respect is the most important thing,” Meng Qing agreed.
“Let’s go. I’ll take you to a place perfect to practice cultivation!” said Lin Feng, dragging her along. They soon arrived in a cultivation palace.
“Meng Qing, this place is perfect to study Celestial Dao strength. It’s perfect to try and break through to the Sheng Layer. You should practice here for a while,” he said to her.
“Alright, but don’t worry if I don’t manage to break through to the Sheng Layer,” said Meng Qing. They both smiled. She started meditating and Lin Feng went to another room. It was good to practice cultivation too, but it was also suitable to practice special Saint’s spells, as it helped Saints improve their fighting abilities.
Lin Feng controlled several types of original strength. He wanted to become stronger and increase his fighting abilities. He was a low-level Saint now, and he wanted to have no enemy at the same cultivation level!
Chapter 2434: Together
Lin Feng entered the palace and some intent surrounded him. It was a mysterious world.
The place was dark, and Lin Feng couldn’t see much, even with his godly awareness. However, at that moment, some light appeared and illuminated the space around him.
After that, a second light appeared, and a third one. The lights kept twinkling on. Millions of lights appeared, the space around him turned into a starlit sky. The stars were dazzling.
“Some kind of intent?” Lin Feng was surprised, all the stars seemed to be changing every second. It was an incredible sight.
However, at that moment, all the stars disappeared, and the space became dark again. It made Lin Feng feel uncomfortable, as it lasted for a while.
Lin Feng sat down cross-legged patiently. Since that palace aimed at improving cultivators’ fighting abilities, he didn’t mind being patient and staying there for a while.
Suddenly, the lights appeared again, Lin Feng had the impression those lights were as sharp as blades in his eyes, so he closed them. It was very difficult to describe how he felt.
“The first kind of strength is accumulation, the second type is explosiveness. The goal is to accumulate strength until it becomes explosive, like the God’s Sword,” murmured Lin Feng. The intent in the space around him changed again as it attracted star original strength. Finally, Lin Feng saw the intent invade the space around him, as a kind of finger attack.
One finger seemed like it could move through space and time. It contained an endless number of dazzling lights, and also contained destructive strength. Only that finger was left in the space around. Some explosive strength made the space look even darker. It absorbed all the dazzling lights around, the stars condensed into that finger, it was impossible to escape from it.
Lin Feng had the impression he was hallucinating. That attack pierced through him; even if his eyes were closed, he still had the impression the attack had pierced through his brain. It gave him chills.
“That one finger uses star original strength, similar to light and space original strength. That attack is so powerful!” Even though the Ruler’s Sword attack was powerful, it didn’t use original strength in such a perfect way.
“That kind of finger technique can improve my Ruler’s Sword attack!” He was meditating calmly. He started using his Ruler’s Sword. He made it condense again, trying to make it as explosive as possible.
After Lin Feng finished studying, he went to another room. They each contained different sorts of intent. He visualized different sorts of Saint’s techniques. Lin Feng had the impression he was becoming much more erudite quickly. He was amazed by the power of original strength. He was focused and enjoyed learning.
Three years passed extremely quickly, it felt like minutes for Lin Feng. He went to see Meng Qing and they left the Star World.
“How do you feel?” asked Lin Feng to Meng Qing.
“I learned so much, I think I could become a Saint soon,” replied Meng Qing happily. “You? You must have progressed a lot during those three years, right?”
“Yes, I studied several things. I understand original strength even better. I understand what I have to do to increase my own Saint’s techniques now,” he replied. During those three years, he had indeed progressed a lot.
“The god’s Saint’s techniques must be incredible.”
“Yes, I saw a technique where he just stretched his arm out and he could pick up the sun, the moon, and the stars. Nothing could stop him. It was incredible,” Lin Feng sighed. He had seen such an attack in the past: the two strong cultivators of the Giant Gods Clan had such an attack, but it was much weaker than the god’s own.
“Lin Feng, you’re back!” said someone at that moment.
Lin Feng was startled and smiled at Meng Qing and told her, “I’ll go and see the Diviner.”
“Alright,” she assented.
Lin Feng sped off, and quickly arrived in another ancient palace, it was also a Starry Sky World.
“Master!” Lin Feng said to the Diviner.
“You went to the Godly Grave and a few decades later, you came out and you were a low-level Saint already. Your cultivation speed is astonishing,” said the Diviner, smiling at Lin Feng gently. “But don’t be too proud. The world is in a state of chaos. Many terrifyingly strong people travel the world. I found some people whose cultivation speeds were terrifying as well, and I recruited them.”
“I understand. At my cultivation level, cultivation speed is not the most important thing. We have to see how strong someone can get in the end,” said Lin Feng calmly.
“No, you’re wrong. If the world wasn’t in a state of chaos, you would be right. But now the world is different, speed is extremely important. You might be more talented than someone else, but if they reach a higher cultivation level than yours more quickly, then you’re doomed. If the Fortune Shrine doesn’t raise geniuses quickly enough, we’ll be doomed,” said the Diviner.
Lin Feng’s heart twitched. “Who is stronger these days?” asked Lin Feng.
“The situation is too chaotic, we can’t be sure. Anyway, everybody is very nervous and every day, every year, everything changes. But all of this has nothing to do with you. Lin Feng, I hope that you will become a high-level Saint as soon as possible. Of course, I also hope you’ll become a peerless Saint someday. Before that happens, you don’t need to fight against the other Shrines directly.”
“Only high-level Saints can help?” asked Lin Feng, smiling wryly.
“Indeed. Great emperors represent the lower strata. High-level Saints are the pillars because they are the only ones who can keep the situation under control. Regarding battles to death, peerless Saints control the whole situation, and we haven’t reached that point yet. The Star Priest of the Fortune Shrine, a peerless Saint, has already started recruiting disciples. Do you know what that means?”
“It means that the situation of the Continent of the Nine Clouds will change thoroughly. Maybe another great war like long ago will take place.”
“Yes, people in the future will maybe consider our war to be like the war of the ancient days. Usually, our peerless Star Priest practices cultivation to try and become a god, but now, he’s recruiting disciples. The peerless Saints of the others Shrines are doing the same.”
Lin Feng nodded. The situation was becoming serious.
“Anyway, don’t worry about those things. Right now, you can’t battle, or at least, you can’t participate as Lin Feng. You can use another face and Qi to participate. Your fate is more important than the fate of a hundred people. You need to become a high-level Saint as quickly as possible so that we can use you in battles.”
“I understand,” Lin Feng said firmly.
“I won’t put pressure on you. You know what to do. Go to Fortune City. Your friends are back,” said the Diviner, smiling at him.
“My friends are back?!” Lin Feng looked surprised. “Do you think they have the potential to become core disciples?”
“Yes,” said the Diviner agreeably. Lin Feng was pleasantly surprised, so he left immediately.
He left the palace and descended from the sky, releasing his godly awareness to inspect the area. Many people raised their heads in Fortune City, sensing something.
Hou Qing Lin and Jun Mo Xi sensed it, too. They raised their heads, and Hou Qing Lin said, “What a terrifying godly awareness strength. That’s someone from the Shrine.”
“Eh… people in Fortune City are all members of the Fortune Shrine,” Jun Mo Xi laughed.
“Half,” said Hou Qing Lin smiling.
At that moment, a voice said to them telepathically, “Brother Hou, Jun Mo Xi!”
“Lin Feng.” Hou Qing Lin was astonishing. He raised his head and saw Lin Feng descending from the sky, grinning broadly.
“How come you’re together?” asked Lin Feng smiling at the two of them. He landed on the ground next to them. Hou Qing Lin’s Qi was strange; when looking at his eyes, one had the impression one could drown in space and time. Jun Mo Xi’s Qi was ice-cold, one didn’t dare get close to him.
“We bumped into each other while traveling, I almost died, Jun Mo Xi saved me,” Hou Qing Lin smiled.
“Nah, it’s not true. I almost died, but anyway, we were lucky to find one another. If we hadn’t, we would not have today’s cultivation level,” said Jun Mo Xi smiled.
“You both became Saints in such a short time. Good!” said Lin Feng happily.
“Good? There’s still a huge difference between us and you. Back in the days, during the Meeting of the Continent of the Nine Clouds, we were at the same level, now we’re too weak to stand next to you,” protested Jun Mo Xi. He had just sensed Lin Feng’s terrifying godly awareness. He was still happy for him, though.
Chapter 2435: Reincarnation Priest
Lin Feng looked at Jun Mo Xi and shook his head with a grin. “I was lucky. You came to Fortune City to become core disciples, I heard. What kind of exam do you have to take?”
“The Continent of the Nine Clouds is in a state of chaos, so the exam will be a bit different. Every ten years, there will be a round and the Fortune Shrine will recruit core disciples. People of all cultivation levels will have the opportunity to participate, and the exam will be different depending on the different cultivation levels. In any case, it will be extremely difficult. We will do our best. I hope we’ll have the opportunity to become core disciples like you,” Jun Mo Xi smiled. During the Meeting of the Continent of the Nine Clouds, they had failed. Such opportunities were rare.
“Yes, it’s difficult to understand the Shrines if you don’t become core disciples. This time, I hope we will succeed,” said Hou Qing Lin solemnly.
“When is the exam going to take place?” asked Lin Feng.
“In seventy days,” replied Hou Qing Lin.
“Alright, I’ll take you somewhere first, then. I think it’ll help you become stronger,” said Lin Feng, smiling at his two friends.
Hou Qing Lin and Jun Mo Xi were curious when they arrived in a secret cultivation room. It was isolated from the world. Lin Feng took Jun Mo Xi and Hou Qing Lin out to the Star World. Jun Mo Xi and Hou Qing Lin were some of his best friends, Lin Feng wanted to help them become stronger. He also wanted to give them some medium-level Saint’s Weapons. They were already Saints, so they could use medium-level Saint’s Weapons even if they couldn’t make the most out them.
Before the exam started, Hou Qing Lin and Jun Mo Xi left the Star World, arriving in front of an illusory castle. It was similar to Fortune City when Lin Feng had gone there from the small world. Someone took Hou Qing Lin and Jun Mo Xi into the castle while Lin Feng and the Diviner stood aside. They were at the top of a mountain range and could see everything.
“Master, that’s…?” Lin Feng glanced at a mountain. A waterfall coming from the sky flowed onto it. There were some old people there, their eyes closed. There were many people seated next to them, all looking down at the castle.
“People who organized the exam choose core disciples. Lin Feng, if you wish, you can also choose disciples,” the Diviner told him.
“That’d only harm the younger generation,” said Lin Feng shaking his head. He preferred focusing on cultivation, he didn’t feel like teaching.
“The exam is starting,” whispered the Diviner. Lin Feng was staring at Hou Qing Lin and Jun Mo Xi. They were in the same place as some other Saints who had entered the castle with them. It was a vast hilly place, many ordinary disciples of the Fortune Shrine were hiding there. They were guarding, the examinees had to break through them to move on to the next round.
“They’re all disciples who have just become Saints. So many people are hiding, breaking through must be difficult,” murmured Lin Feng.
“Becoming a core disciple is indeed not easy,” said the Diviner softly.
Hou Qing Lin, Jun Mo Xi, and the others started moving forwards. The hills and hiding places were not real, they were made of Saint’s strength and breaking them was impossible, so resorting to trickery was impossible, too.
“They have to break through and then cross a tunnel. They all have to go through eight blockades,” said the Diviner.
Very quickly, Hou Qing Lin arrived in front of his first opponent, their battle was explosive. Hou Qing Lin’s reincarnation strength was incredible. He kept moving forwards with an indomitable will, flinching wasn’t part of his vocabulary. Even if his opponent was extremely strong, Hou Qing Lin’s reincarnation strength could defeat them.
“Your friend is an insane fighter,” the Diviner observed.
“Back then, when we hadn’t broken through to the Huang Qi layer yet, he said being insane was a necessity to become an emperor. Even though he has an exceptional talent and a distinguished appearance, his fighting method has never changed, he’s always been crazy,” laughed Lin Feng. Hou Qing Lin’s fighting abilities were indeed impressive. Even if Hou Qing Lin was injured, he wanted to make his opponents drown in reincarnation strength. Nobody dared risk their life against him. Very quickly, he defeated his first opponent.
Jun Mo Xi also faced his first opponent; their fight was straightforward and explosive. They had a close combat.
“Imperial immortal body, he looks like a king of Hell,” the Diviner observed. “At the same cultivation level, even if someone can defeat him, it’s almost impossible to kill him unless the enemy has some sort of special power.”
“The guards aren’t strong enough, otherwise it would be difficult for them to move on,” noted Lin Feng.
“Haha, you mean we should have sent core disciples who were low-level Saints? That would have been extremely difficult and unfair. After all, they aren’t core disciples yet. We can’t only test their fighting abilities, we also need to test their intent.”
Hou Qing Lin and Jun Mo Xi made great efforts and passed the test of the first round.
“Brother Hou is on the right path to create a perfect Saint’s technique. When he succeeds, his attacks will be even more terrifying,” Lin Feng pointed out.
“You noticed that too? Indeed, that kind of Saint’s technique is great,” agreed the Diviner. Among the people who had just become Saints, there were twenty-eight contestants. The majority of them were people from Fortune City. At lower cultivation levels, among people who weren’t Saints yet, there were many, many contestants, yet only twelve people passed the first exam.
Jun Mo Xi and Hou Qing Lin continued on, arriving in an illusory place. Lin Feng didn’t understand what kind of exam it was.
“After this, their obsessiveness will be tested. It will be extremely difficult. During this part, some people will be badly injured, some of them will even die.”
“That scary?” Lin Feng’s face stiffened.
“Yes, we will see how determined they are. Many people are talented and good at fighting. However, intent is rare and crucial,” replied the Diviner grimly. The examinees continued walking in the illusion, nothing happened, but Lin Feng knew it was going to be difficult.
An hour passed and someone suddenly groaned with pain and coughed up blood, his face deathly pale. Lin Feng’s heart twitched, noting that person was injured…
Very quickly, a second person was injured. He moved back and left, giving up.
Half a day passed, and of the twelve people, seven people were injured or gave up. Only five persevered.
“As expected, it’s very difficult.” Lin Feng’s face stiffened. Hou Qing Lin continued moving forwards, bathing in reincarnation lights. Many shadows appeared around him.
“What’s that?” Lin Feng was astonished. Worlds of reincarnation appeared around Hou Qing Lin.
“Good little boy. He’s very determined. He can even improve his own natural abilities like that,” said the Diviner. His eyes twinkled.
An old man at the foot of the waterfall suddenly opened his eyes and looked at Hou Qing Lin, “I want that one to become my disciple.”
The other old men nodded. They didn’t try to steal him away. The Diviner looked happy and said, “Lin Feng, your friend is definitely going to become a core disciple, and he’s extremely lucky.”
“Who’s that Master?” asked Lin Feng.
“A senior official of the Fortune Shrine who hasn’t shown up for tens of thousands of years. He is the Reincarnation Priest. Tens of thousands of years ago, he was already a peerless Saint. Then, the Continent of the Nine Clouds became chaotic and our leader had him come back. Hou Qing Lin is going to become his disciple, that’s an extraordinary opportunity for him,” the Diviner beamed. “You know what peerless means?”
“The Reincarnation Priest has made several sorts of special original strengths fuse together to become a peerless Saint?” asked Lin Feng.
“He became peerless thanks to the Six Great Karma Wheel Divisions,” the Diviner beamed. Lin Feng was impressed. His fellow disciple was going to have an incredible opportunity, indeed!
“The second round is about transcending worldliness, getting rid of the self. The third round is going to be easy for him. Everything will happen naturally,” said the Diviner. Hou Qing Lin, as expected, left the castle easily. He looked around at the crowd, seemingly surprised.
“Fellow disciple, congratulations!” said Lin Feng to Hou Qing Lin telepathically. At that moment, Hou Qing Lin didn’t understand. His facial expression was funny.
“Come here,” the Reincarnation Priest said to Hou Qing Lin.
Hou Qing Lin looked at him, Lin Feng said to him telepathically, “Brother, he’s a peerless Saint of the Fortune Shrine. Go!”
Hou Qing Lin was surprised and slowly walked towards the old man. He bowed and said, “Greetings, Master.”
“Would you like to become my disciple?” asked the old man, smiling at Hou Qing Lin.
Hou Qing Lin was stupefied. He said, “I have two teachers, they’re like fathers to me. I can’t have another teacher.”
Lin Feng was astonished, but then smiled. Brother Hou was the same old Brother Hou, he hadn’t changed.
“Alright, you refuse to forget your former teachers even when facing someone like me. Come with me, I won’t force you,” said the Reincarnation Priest. He was a bit annoyed when Hou Qing Lin had refused. But he also admired and appreciated such people. Hou Qing Lin was a good person.
“Thank you very much, Master,” said Hou Qing Lin, bowing deeply. He glanced at Lin Feng and then entered the Fortune Shrine with the Reincarnation Priest.
Chapter 2436: Support Needed in Da Yu City
Only three people passed the exam at the level of new Saints. After Hou Qing Lin, Jun Mo Xi also passed, he was extremely determined. The Diviner thought highly of both of them. They had very different personalities. Hou Qing Lin was crazy, while Jun Mo Xi was determined.
Teachers noticed them other two, but they weren’t as lucky as Hou Qing Lin. No peerless Saint wanted to recruit them as disciples, so they left with high-level Saints. The difference between Saints of different levels was incredible; the difference between someone who had just become a Saint and a high-level Saint was gigantic. Therefore, they were happy anyway.
“There are so many great emperors, their exam lasts much longer. But ten people at most will become core disciples,” murmured the Diviner, looking over the great emperors.
“The majority of them are geniuses from Fortune City and the passing rate is still so low. Ten disciples in a year, the exam is so difficult,” whispered Lin Feng.
“At the scale of the Imperial Court of the Continent of the Nine Clouds, ten years are nothing. Even a hundred years are nothing. It’s a great opportunity for many people,” the Diviner smiled. Lin Feng nodded. At his cultivation level, ten years were really short, sometimes he could practice cultivation and meditate in seclusion for a few years, and it felt as if a few days had passed. Some old members of the Fortune Shrine sometimes practiced cultivation for tens of thousands of years.
“Lin Feng, in the Imperial Court of the Continent of the Nine Clouds, the Fire Shrine and the Empty Space Shrine keep oppressing us. They want to steal Da Yu City from us. We’ve already sent three high-level Saints to protect it. However, the two Shrines are determined too, they sent four high-level Saints, eighteen low-level Saints, thirty-six Half-Saints, and an army of great emperors.”
“They sent such a terrifying army for a city?” Lin Feng was astonished. When two Shrines joined hands, things became even scarier. The Shrines weren’t fighting in one city only. There were explosive battles everywhere. The Shrines had probably asked all their Saints to come back for battles. They were getting ready for a great war.
“Indeed, the battles aren’t happening in the shadows, the battles are now in the open and they’re growing in size. For example, in the past, we used to try and keep Fortune City under control. Of course we were interested in surrounding cities, especially big ones, but now all the Shrines are trying to conquer new cities, especially those in which there are influential groups.”
“Da Yu City is an extraordinary city. It’s situated in the middle of the Fortune Shrine, the Fire Shrine and the Empty Space Shrine. Many geniuses come from that city. Many of them have become powerful and influential, many Shrines’ disciples are from Da Yu City. Some influential groups in Da Yu City are extremely powerful. Therefore, I hope we won’t lose it,” said the Diviner grimly.
Lin Feng understood. They needed to fight on all fronts. The battles were going to last for a long time, and they needed much energy. At the same time, they needed to be resistant, they needed to be able to survive until the end.
“Master, how may I help?” said Lin Feng.
“We don’t have enough fighters. Apart from the strong cultivators who are in the Fortune Shrine most of the time, we also called all our strong cultivators back. We had never done that before. But even like that, we don’t have enough fighters,” the Diviner said to Lin Feng, “Last time, I told you, peerless Saints would only get involved in the end. When they fight, it will be the end of the chaotic era. Now, we’re competing slowly, and high-level Saints are at the core of the battles. Therefore, I hope you can become a high-level Saint as soon as possible.”
“At the level of high-level Saints, our fighters have the advantage in Da Yu City. But our Half-Saints and low-level Saints are facing difficulties. I need you to use another identity and go to Da Yu City to help. But first, let’s wait for the three new recruits to become strong enough, then you’ll take them there. ”
“No problem. But how long will my fellow disciple and Jun Mo Xi need before being able to go to Da Yu City?” replied Lin Feng.
“Don’t worry about that, the battles over the big cities will not end in a few years. Besides, I already told the fighters I dispatched not to fight. They can waste some time like that, we won’t lose quickly that way. However, it also means that our enemies will send more and more strong cultivators there, they will have the advantage, and when you go there, things will be even more difficult. But at that moment, if we send people who can compete with all of them, we won’t let any of them escape. Quality is better than quantity. That’s why we’re not afraid of waiting.”
“I understand.” Lin Feng nodded. At the level of Saints, even if some people lost, it didn’t necessarily meant their enemies could kill them unless there was a huge level difference between them.
“You go back. When they’re ready, I’ll tell you.”
“Alright,” Lin Feng agreed. He left and headed to his own palace.
The Diviner was in charge of establishing the military strategies of the Fortune Shrine, the peerless Saints didn’t seem to be doing anything. Lin Feng was wondering just how strong the leader of the Fortune Shrine was. And even though he was the leader, could he compete with the other peerless Saints of the Fortune Shrine? He didn’t know yet.
Lin Feng didn’t go far. He practiced cultivation calmly. He wanted to reach the next step of his God level. A year quickly passed, and the Diviner came to him and told him to change his face. He took him to meet Jun Mo Xi and Hou Qing Lin.
“They’re coming, too?” asked Lin Feng. There were great emperors around, they had also passed the previous exam.
“Yes, they are core disciples now, take them to Da Yu City. After that, let Saint Qing Ye organize everything,” said the Diviner.
“Alright.” Lin Feng nodded and said to Hou Qing Lin and Jun Mo Xi telepathically, “Fellow disciple, Mo Xi, it’s me, I need to hide my real identity. Call me Mu Lin now. ”
The two were surprised, but then they understood that if the Shrines knew he was Lin Feng, they would encircle him and kill him.
“I transmitted you the location and map of Da Yu City. You can go,” said the Diviner patiently.
“Alright.” Lin Feng waved, and an ancient boat appeared. It was a medium-level Saint’s Weapon, and its speed was incredible. It was perfect for the occasion.
“Let’s go!” said Lin Feng. The group of people jumped into the boat and rapidly left. The Diviner watched them leave and smiled, “Qing Ye, that’s all I can do for you. I hope you’ll claim Da Yu City.”
Da Yu City was gigantic, and there were many incredible Clans there. One of them was the Ye Clan. However, the Ye Clan had been completely destroyed, only ruins were left.
“That’s the Ye Clan?” When the group of people flew above the Ye Clan in the boat, they were startled, as they only saw ruins.
“Yes. This is the place the Diviner marked on the map. Something must have happened,” murmured Lin Feng.
A figure came out of the ruins and challenged them, “Where do you come from?”
“Who are you?” challenged Lin Feng sharply.
“You recognize this?” asked the person. His third eye twinkled, it looked like a Fortune Star. Lin Feng and the others recognized it, a Fortune Shrine’s disciple.
Lin Feng and the others’ third eyes also twinkled, that person nodded and said, “You came to help, right? The Ye Clan was attacked by surprise, come with me. ”
“Alright,” said Lin Feng and the others. Lin Feng asked, “How bad are the losses?”
“The battles here are direct. They know we’re everywhere here, so they don’t try and hide, they attack directly, mostly relying on strength. We suffered severe losses. Three of our Saints died. We also lost many great emperors. It’s a tragedy. The Ye Clan is completely destroyed. ”
Lin Feng and the others took a deep breath. The Ye Clan had been completely destroyed, that was a tragedy indeed.
“How is the Fortune Shrine’s disciple who’s also from the Ye Clan?”
“He escaped. He feels desperate, he wants to kill the enemies. They destroyed the Ye Clan because they didn’t want us to have a place to stay here.”
They destroyed the Ye Clan as an example to others, thought Lin Feng. How tragic. They had directly destroyed the Ye Clan.
Chapter 2437: Counterattack
The strong cultivators of the Fortune Shrine used the Ye Clan as a headquarters because a member of the Ye Clan was also a core disciple of the Fortune Shrine. The Fire Shrine and the Empty Space Shrine had decided to destroy the Ye Clan to show all other Clans that they better cut off ties with the Fortune Shrine.
When the Ye Clan was destroyed, Lin Feng and the others were already on their way. The strong cultivators of the Fortune Shrine knew that so they had one disciple hide in the ruins to receive them. The disciple took them to an ordinary yet large courtyard. It looked ordinary from the outside and didn’t attract people’s attention.
Lin Feng sighed, the situation was difficult for the Fortune Shrine…
A group of figures arrived. When they saw Lin Feng and the others, their eyes twinkled. But they looked desperate, a middle-aged man said, “You’re the only ones who came?”
Lin Feng was shocked. They were indeed only four Saints. Three of them were Half-Saints. No wonder the man was devastated and disappointed. These people wouldn’t be able to change anything.
“Yes, you know that the Fortune Shrine is under pressure. Only the four of us could come,” replied Lin Feng.
“Never mind. Let’s go and see Officer Qing Ye,” said that person turning around. During wartime, they called high-level Saints Officer. Saint Qing Ye was thus an Officer.
The middle-aged man brought Lin Feng and the others to a building in the depths of the courtyard to talk. A few people were standing there, the leader of the group was a clean and elegant middle-aged man. He looked at Lin Feng and the others and asked, “Mu Lin?”
“Greetings, Officer Qing Ye,” Lin Feng replied.
“Mu Zhen, go and and tell them their tasks,” Qing Ye told the middle-aged man, pointing at the great emperors.
“Alright.” Mu Zhen nodded and left to assign different tasks to the great emperors.
“You saw what happened to the Ye Clan. We don’t have the advantage here. If they manage to kill us, they’ll take control over Da Yu City,” said Qing Ye to Lin Feng, “I’m touched and impressed you came at such a moment, but you have to be prepared psychologically, this war is very dangerous.”
“I understand,” said Lin Feng. It was a battle to death! “Officer Qing Ye, how many Saints are left on our side here?”
“Three high-level Saints, they aren’t injured. Seven low-level Saints. Seventeen Half-Saints, and that’s including you guys,” said Qing Ye to Lin Feng.
“Our enemies have joined hands. They have four high-level Saints, eighteen low-level Saints, and thirty-six Half-Saints, has anything changed?”
“Yes, they now control a few Clans, who have already submitted. They also took some of their strong cultivators to make them participate in the battles,” said Qing Ye. The enemies didn’t have fewer fighters, they had even more!
“I understand,” said Lin Feng.
“Why did the Diviner only send four people? It would have been better not to send anyone at all,” spoke up the woman next to Qing Ye. She looked heroic and valiant in her armor, but also annoyed. She was initially very happy, she had thought the Fortune Shrine would send many strong cultivators. In the end, they had sent only four Saints.
“Mo Yu, you know perfectly well how the situation of the Fortune Shrine is. Don’t be angry, you’re too old for that. Tell Mu Lin and the others more about the situation of the Shrine,” Qing Ye ordered the woman. Mo Yu nodded. Even though she was annoyed, she knew things were complicated for the Shrine.
“Come with me,” Mo Yu told Lin Feng and the others. They moved over in front of a golden map. It was a map of Da Yu City.
“Mu Lin, we’re here now,” said Mo Yu, pointing at place on the map. Lin Feng’s heart twitched; they were stuck in a corner.
“This territory is already occupied by the Fire Shrine and the Empty Space Shrine; here, it’s the Hong Clan, here the Leng Clan. They are present in those nine places. They have probably dispatched great emperors everywhere in Da Yu City, first to see what’s going everywhere, and second because they are about to take control over the whole city.”
“This map is small, so it’s as if they had already taken over the whole city, but Da Yu City is gigantic, they’re still not altogether in one place,” said Lin Feng.
“The nine places they occupy already have teleportation portals. They can teleport themselves everywhere in the twinkling of an eye. They also have many empty space deployment talismans. Therefore, they dispersed in nine different places because they know they can easily meet anywhere. So attacking them is useless, as they will directly converge and attack us,” said Mo Yu.
“No wonder with the Empty Space Shrine,” said Jun Mo Xi. It didn’t look good for them.
“We can do the same. Give me some time and I’ll make some teleportation deployment talismans,” said Lin Feng.
“You can make teleportation talismans?” asked Mo Yu.
“Yes, I can,” said Lin Feng nodded. Making talismans was easy for him at his cultivation level, and he also controlled empty space type original strength. Therefore, his teleportation talismans were definitely going to be good.
“Good news then. If you can make teleportation talismans, even if they encircle us, if we use the talismans before they seal the area around us, we’ll be fine. If we want to seal the area around them, they’ll also use teleportation talismans immediately.”
No wonder. We didn’t have the advantage from the beginning, thought Lin Feng.
Mo Yu showed them where they could stay. Lin Feng made some talismans for a few days. He gave them to everybody, relieving them greatly. They hadn’t felt so assured for a while, but still, they couldn’t gain the advantage.
“Mo Yu, come with me,” Lin Feng said to Mo Yu.
Her eyes twinkling, she followed Lin Feng, as they arrived in front of the golden map, Lin Feng showed her the Hong Clan and said, “They have eighteen low-level Saints, they occupy nine places, therefore, each of their places has around two low-level Saints. Let’s go and destroy one of their territories. ”
“We can only attack once by surprise, and if we do, they’ll be very vigilant, they might even chase us. It’s a bad choice,” said Mo Yu shaking her head.
“Don’t exaggerate. The five of us can go, that’s more than enough,” said Lin Feng. Mo Yu was stupefied, “The five of us?”
She glanced at Jun Mo Xi and Hou Qing Lin. If the five of them went, it’d be extremely dangerous, and they would definitely not be able to defeat their opponents.
“Indeed, the five of us, you don’t trust me?” said Lin Feng to Mo Yu.
“It’s not that, but we’re such a small force, we can’t do anything,” said Mo Yu frowning.
“Let’s try and see. Don’t forget, we also have very powerful deployment talismans. You tried one, we can use them and leave instantly,” said Lin Feng smiled. “Don’t worry. I am not going to put my life at stake recklessly. ”
Mo Yu was surprised, she looked at him and said, “Alright, Mu Lin. What kind of strength do you control? ”
“It’s quite complex to explain. You?” asked Lin Feng.
“Empty space sealing strength and world creation.” replied Mo Yu.
Lin Feng’s eyes twinkled as Mo Yu continued talking, “But it’s not very useful. We don’t have many people, so our enemies won’t let us escape. And if we aren’t able to destroy them quickly, even if they’re weaker than us, they’ll call their friends and they’ll be there instantly, and then we’ll be in danger. ”
“I know what to do. So just tell me: will you help or not?” asked Lin Feng, staring at Mo Yu. Mo Yu’s eyes glittered, and she nodded, “I’ll try and help you.”
“Alright, let’s go to the Leng Clan first,” said Lin Feng. He turned around and started walking away.
Mo Yu hadn’t thought Lin Feng would be so determined. She followed him and asked, “Why the Leng Clan?”
“There can never be too much subterfuge in war,” said Lin Feng calmly. He left the building and they flew into the air. After they left, three people appeared in the building, one of them Saint Qing Ye.
He watched them leave and smiled. “That’s the boy all the Shrines want. I wonder if he can prove himself on the battlefield of Da Yu City.”
“Mara-Deva had him come to Da Yu City, he has something in mind. Maybe that it’s to pave the way for him.” whispered the person next to him. They knew that Mu Lin was Lin Feng!
Chapter 2438: Illusion Finger
The Leng Clan was a Clan in Da Yu City. They were very strong.
Two people in the Leng Clan were seated under a pavilion in the garden, playing chess. Some people were standing next to them and watching.
“How long do you think we’ll need to take over Da Yu City?” asked a middle-aged man wearing a fire robe, while putting down his piece.
“I’m sure it’s feasible within three years, if they don’t hide the whole time,” replied his opponent. He was wearing fine golden clothes, and was also a middle-aged man. They were strong cultivators from the Empty Space Shrine and the Fire Shrine. The Leng Clan was one of the territories they had taken over.
“I bet we’ll need less than three years,” said the Fire Shrine’s Saint. “Last time, we already taught them a good lesson. If we have another opportunity to do the same a second time, they’ll leave of their own free will.”
“I would prefer it if they stayed here forever,” laughed the Empty Space Shrine’s strong cultivator laughing. He suddenly frowned and said, “There’s sword Qi.”
The Fire Shrine’s strong cultivator also sensed it. His eyes glittered as he heard a sound in the distance. Sword lights flew past his shoulder, breaking and snapping sounds spread in the air. The ancient palace next to them crackled, a fissure appeared, and with a loud roar, the palace exploded. A huge trail appeared on the ground leading right through it.
“Everybody, get ready to fight, inform the other military bases, and activate the teleportation portals,” said someone coldly. They released their godly awareness as they rose up into the air.
A few sword lights descended from the sky and moved in different directions, more fissures appeared on the ground. The Saints in the sky looked furious; the Fortune Shrine was there to get their revenge?
“Only one person is attacking,” said the Fire Shrine’s Saint.
“Watch out and remain vigilant. Wait for the others to teleport here and then we’ll act together,” said another cultivator. Very quickly, the deployment portals twinkled and figures appeared. Saint’s strength filled the air. They moved forwards, but paused when they saw a figure in the sky.
He was smiling icily as he said, “Scoundrels, members of the Leng Clan, listen to me. The Fire Shrine and the Empty Space Shrine decided to completely destroy the Clan where the disciples of the Fortune Shrine were; they are cruel and decided to act with utter disregard for principles. We will definitely get our revenge. From now on, if you continue cooperating with them, we’ll have no choice but to destroy you.”
Another sword light streaked across the sky, and a valley appeared through the very middle of the Leng Clan. The crowd was astonished. What a disaster for them! The Shrines were almost better off than those Clans!
“Capture him!” some people flickered. They broke their deployment talismans, and appeared around Lin Feng. However, at the same time, Lin Feng disappeared, all that remained was some pale undulating energy.
“Deployment talisman?” The group of strong cultivators frowned in astonishment. One of them said, “Follow the empty space strength and chase him. He’s alone. I don’t think he disappeared. ”
The one who had just talked also disappeared, following Lin Feng. He reappeared somewhere else in the sky, but then frowned. The undulating strength seemed to be even farther, which meant Lin Feng was even farther away.
He broke another deployment talisman. The group of people chased Lin Feng as fast as they could, but in the end, they still didn’t find him.
“Inform the other bases and tell them to be careful, the Fortune Shrine is attacking us by surprise. Tell them the members of the Fortune Shrine also have teleportation deployment talismans,” said a strong cultivator. Everybody started contacting other people. Even though they hadn’t lost any cultivators, it made them feel very nervous, especially since the enemy had tried to scare the Clans of Da Yu City by saying they would destroy them if they collaborated with the Fire Shrine and the Empty Space Shrine.
Very quickly, the Saints of the Fire Shrine and the Empty Space Shrine received messages about what had happened in the Leng Clan. They had been attacked by surprise, so they had to be careful.
The sky of Da Yu City turned rosy red, it was a beautiful sight.
Outside of the Hong Clan, a group was walking in the direction of the Hong Clan. Some people were staring at them. Threads of godly awareness appeared in front of them as they asked the group icily, “Who are you?”
“Fortune Shrine’s members,” said Lin Feng smiled. The person who had just asked him that looked shocked, but then threads of death intent pierced through his body and he collapsed.
More threads of godly awareness appeared, but Lin Feng also released his godly awareness, covering the sky of the Hong Clan.
“I’ll be right back,” said Lin Feng, breaking a deployment talisman. He reappeared somewhere else in the sky. Underneath him was a shimmering teleportation portal.
A terrifying sword Qi descended from the sky. Sword strength condensed all around him and slashed through the teleportation portal.
“Stop him!” A group of people moved towards Lin Feng.
“Break!” shouted Lin Feng icily. He moved towards the teleportation portal, sword lights showering down. There was a loud explosion as the portal was blown apart.
“What a powerful attack!” The guards were astonished. The teleportation portal was extremely resilient. Low-level Saints couldn’t break it but he had, how scary.
“World!” said a voice icily. A gigantic light curtain appeared in the sky and surrounded the area. It was a sealing world strength.
“Five people, two low-level Saints.” The group of strong cultivators glanced at the intruders and finally saw them clearly. They didn’t use any deployment talismans. They used deployment talismans only when they faced enemies stronger than them. Since Lin Feng and the others weren’t stronger, they didn’t elect to escape.
“Hong Dong Liu, you and I fight against him. You guys fight against the others,” said an Empty Space Shrine’s low-level Saint, staring at Lin Feng. That guy’s sword attacks were powerful, two low-level Saints had to join hands to fight against him. Hee let the Fire Shrine’s low-level Saints fight against the woman. In total, there were three low-level Saints and six Half-Saints there.
“Finish them as quickly as you can!” said Lin Feng. Even though he had destroyed the teleportation portal, enemies could also come quickly, they had to fight and solve the issue fast.
Lin Feng looked at Hong Dong Liu; that guy was probably a Saint of the Hong Clan, which meant that he was unlikely to be very strong.
Lin Feng shot towards Hong Dong Liu, faster than the other would really believe.
“Illusion!” said Lin Feng. Hong Dong Liu was astonished. Illusion?! Illusion strength filled the air, but he didn’t feel like he was appearing in an illusion. Nothing happened?
The low-level Saint of the Empty Space Shrine threw a golden hand at Lin Feng, trying to grab him directly.
Lin Feng slapped the air in front of him, and energies rolled out towards the golden hand. The space around them shook violently. It contained earth strength and it was becoming more and more powerful. When it collided with the hand, the gigantic empty space hand exploded into pieces.
“Hong Dong Liu, die!” said Lin Feng, pointing at Hong Dong Liu. Hong Dong Liu withdrew, but sensed that he was slowing down. Lin Feng had released slow strength onto him and condensed fast strength in his finger. Hong Dong Liu looked a bit surprised.
“Die!” said Lin Feng. Hong Dong Liu was astonished. Lin Feng hadn’t even gotten close to him and he was already attacking?
“Be careful!” Hong Dong Liu heard. He was stunned, something was ripping through his brain. His face paled as he stared at Lin Feng. He couldn’t believe it. “How is that possible?”
His brain exploded and he fell from from the sky. He didn’t even know how he had died.
It was an attack Lin Feng had practiced for years. He created an illusion, but the enemy didn’t know he was in an illusion, it was as if nothing changed around them, and then suddenly, Lin Feng was in front of them.
Now Lin Feng had improved the attack because he had condensed even more sorts of original strength in his finger. The attack was shapeless, invisible, and intangible.
The strong cultivators of the Empty Space Shrine were astonished. How could a low-level Saint have been so careless? Lin Feng had definitely used a terrifying attack!
“Break free from this territory and disperse!” said the low-level Saint of the Empty Space Shrine. They had to act promptly. They wanted to give up, he didn’t feel like fighting against Lin Feng even if he was holding a Saint’s Weapon!
Chapter 2439: Destroying a Stationary Point
After the strong cultivator of the Empty Space Shrine said that, their group moved back and dispersed.
The one who initially wanted to fight against Lin Feng was holding a halberd with three blades. Strength emerged from it. It was a Space Lacerating Halberd, it could cut apart space. Against people, it was quite efficient too, it could chop them up quickly.
The cultivator attacked Mo Yu’s sealed world with the Space Lacerating Halberd. Fissures appeared and the world strength dispersed. But after that, the crowd sensed the space tremble, they had the impression they were going to explode.
Mo Yu was bathing in star lights, and suddenly the space turned into a star world, shattering the spatial ties. After the seal broke, dazzling stars appeared and surrounded everybody.
“Let’s end the battle quickly, otherwise their people will rush over!” said Mo Yu. She looked nervous. Lin Feng had destroyed their teleportation portal, but the enemies who weren’t there would realize it soon enough and then would rush over. Mo Yu and the others couldn’t waste time.
“I understand,” said Lin Feng. He then moved towards the Empty Space Shrine strong cultivator who was holding the Space Lacerating Halberd. At the same time, Hou Qing Lin and the others also charged towards their enemies.
Two people who had just become Saints moved towards Hou Qing Lin. Hou Qing Lin released reincarnation strength, startling them. Reincarnation strength was rare.
Reincarnation lights appeared as Hou Qing Lin released sword strength, six star-like lights appeared. The atmosphere was explosive, the reincarnation strength was corroding it.
“Six great divisions in the wheel of karma!” The two cultivator’s faces paled. That was the intent of the six great divisions in the wheel of karma! One of them raised his fist and threw a punch in Hou Qing Lin’s direction. The space turned into a gigantic fire giant, its gigantic hand shot towards Hou Qing Lin.
Hou Qing Lin raised his hand and reincarnation lights surrounded the giant and corroded its body away. At the same time, he grunted coldly, and raised both fists. The six great divisions in the wheel of karma surrounded the two cultivators, and they screamed, panic-stricken. One of them had half of his body stuck in the reincarnation strength, the upper half of his body still flailing outside.
“How could a Half-Saint be so strong? His Saint’s technique is already incredible. A really strong cultivator must have transmitted that Saint’s technique to him!” shouted one of them anxiously. Hou Qing Lin attacked again, six beam of lights intertwined in the space and attacked two enemies.
My Six Great Karma Wheel Divisions attack is a billionth of my teacher’s attack, thought Hou Qing Lin, sighing. After becoming a core disciple of the Fortune Shrine, he had left with the Reincarnation Priest, who had taught him a lot. In the end, Hou Qing Lin had acknowledged him as a teacher, not differently from his two teachers. His teacher had then taught him the Six Great Karma Wheel Divisions attack, but Hou Qing Lin’s attack was much weaker.
Hou Qing Lin had seen his teacher use the Six Great Karma Wheel Divisions. When his teacher used it, the earth and the sky emitted sad and plaintive cries. It could destroy entire populations, nobody could escape. Hou Qing Lin hadn’t even been able to see the intent inside because it was so complex.
Hou Qing Lin jumped forwards and killed him. At the same time, Lin Feng’s God’s Sword penetrated into the Empty Space Shrine’s low-level Saint’s forehead and killed him. The Fire Shrine’s low-level Saint against whom Mo Yu was fighting was the only one left, and that battle wasn’t difficult for Mo Yu.
At that moment, breaking sounds came from outside, alerting them.
“Oh no!” Mo Yu’s face changed drastically, “The others arrived, they’re attacking my sealed world!”
The Fire Shrine’s low-level Saint retreated, the others moved back to the edge of the sealed world. If the sealed world broke apart, they’d be able to leave safely. Then, they’d counterattack and surround them!
“Everybody, come, let’s get ready to disperse,” said Mo Yu. They gathered together. If the sealed world broke apart, they’d all leave together.
“It’s not that easy, they may have sealed the area outside,” said Lin Feng. Mo Yu looked worried. Those people were really fast.
“But even if they did, those people are, at most, those who were near the Hong Clan’s stationary base, so we don’t have anything to fear,” said Lin Feng. He took out a spear, a medium-level Saint’s Weapon. If he used his two other Saint’s Weapons, people would recognize him. He had to use a different kind of Saint’s Weapon.
The long spear shot towards the Fire Shrine’s low-level Saint, who glared at Lin Feng anxiously.
The Fire Shrine’s strong cultivator was desperate. Two low-level Saints had already been killed by Lin Feng, he was scared. He condensed fire original strength, and the space around him started burning as fire giants appeared all around him. At the same time, a fire god appeared around him, bathing him in flames. The earth and the sky started burning, too, turning everything glaring red.
“Die!” He shouted furiously, the fire giants stretched out their hands at Lin Feng. So many hands appeared all around Lin Feng.
A terrifying absorbing strength emerged from his spear, the fire turned into a beam of light and was drawn into the spear. The spear turned bright red.
“That Saint’s Weapon contains absorbing strength!” The Fire Shrine’s strong cultivator pulled a long face. A terrifying dragon appeared and absorbed the energies around him. The spear continued absorbing the fire strength, and the fire giants slowed down as Lin Feng released slow strength. Lin Feng turned into a beam of light, he threw his spear and condensed fast strength in it, it was impossible to follow it with the eye.
The Fire Shrine’s Saint screamed defiantly. The giant behind him threw out his hand.
“Die,” said Lin Feng. His spear shot towards the other’s third eye. The Fire Shrine’s strong cultivator was astonished, he couldn’t believe it his eyes. How was this possible?!
Flames invaded the space around him. He was bathing in flames, but he had no time to release his full strength. His attack vanished into nothing. Lin Feng’s slow and fast strengths were incredible, and when he used such attacks against Half-Saints, they couldn’t do anything at all. They just died instantly.
“How strong!” Mo Yu shivered when she saw Lin Feng. She had hopes again! Maybe this Mu Lin could really change things in Da Yu City.
At that moment, her sealed world broke apart, and a group of people appeared outside. When they saw that their allies had disappeared inside, they were shocked.
“Come with me,” said Lin Feng. He released fast strength which surrounded the whole group, and they shot away. Lin Feng released earth and empty space original strength and condensed it into his spear. He accelerated and reached his maximum speed.
“Let’s go.” Lin Feng and the others sensed a terrifying energy fill the air in the distance. They broke talismans and disappeared.
“As expected, they have deployment talismans.” The strong cultivators didn’t chase them, as the strongest cultivators of the Hong Clan had been killed.
Very quickly, even more people gathered and pulled long faces. One of their stationary bases had been destroyed by their enemy, and none of their soldiers were left!
“We need to inform the four other Officers that a strong cultivator has shown up. He can easily kill low-level Saints in a short time, and even destroy a stationary base,” said one of them. They had to think of ways to protect themselves. They couldn’t let the same thing happen again!
Chapter 2440: Trap!
Lin Feng and Mo Yu arrived somewhere else. They had already used several deployment talismans. Once they were far enough away, they felt relieved. The enemies had four high-level Saints, after all. They couldn’t protect themselves against those terrifying cultivators.
“Pfew…” Mo Yu took a deep breath. She was still wearing her armor and looking graceful in it. She smiled and stared at Lin Feng.
“What?” asked Lin Feng, smiling.
“I want to get to know you,” said Mo Yu smiling. She put out her hand and smiled at Lin Feng.
Lin Feng smiled and shook her hand freely.
“At the level of low-level Saints, killing enemies is extremely difficult, even if the difference in strength is big. Usually, those who are defeated have the choice to escape. However, today, you proved me wrong. Your attacks looked ordinary, but you easily killed the enemy with them, even though they were at the same cultivation level as you. From now on, I’ll stay with you,” said Mo Yu. She knew that what Lin Feng had done was extraordinary.
She had also been amazed by Hou Qing Lin. He was just a Half-Saint, but his attacks were incredible, worthy of a legendary priest’s disciple. His identity was extraordinary. Hou Qing Lin had come with Lin Feng, and Lin Feng looked like the leader. She could imagine that Lin Feng had a particular status in the Fortune Shrine.
“Following me can be dangerous. If the high-level Saints had come a moment ago, it wouldn’t have been fun. It was the first time, next time will be difficult. We can’t use the same strategy again,” said Lin Feng. Mo Yu was impressed and nodded. Indeed, they had killed three low-level Saints at once, it was a splendid and glorious victory, but it wouldn’t happen again.
“So what do we do next?” asked Mo Yu. If they couldn’t attack by surprise anymore, what could they do?
“I don’t know. I need to think,” said Lin Feng.
“Yes, everyone should think,” said Hou Qing Lin nodding.
“What if we disappeared for some time and came back at some point?” asked Mo Yu. She was nervous.
“No,” said one of the cultivators with them, shaking his head.
“Yan Qing, what’s your idea?” asked Lin Feng. Yan Qing had passed the exam at the same time as Jun Mo Xi and Hou Qing Lin, he was also extremely strong.
“We should fish in troubled waters and reap benefit from confusion. The more confused the enemies are, the more chances we have to achieve what we want. If they are calm and serene, they will have time to set up a great defense strategy, and we won’t be able to do anything anymore,” said Yan Qing, shaking his head. “I have an idea, but it’s dangerous.”
“Tell us, then,” said Lin Feng.
“Master Mu Lin, you’re a low-level Saint, you kill strong cultivators of the same level quickly. Master Mo Yu and Hou Qing Lin can kill Half-Saints quickly. Jun Mo Xi and I can’t do that. Jun Mo Xi and I can become bait. We can feign an attack, then when someone discovers us, we escape. It’s a sensitive period, they definitely don’t have a great strategy yet, they must be badly organized right now. It’s an opportunity for you, but that strategy requires lots of deployment talismans to escape, and it’s also very dangerous,” said Yan Qing.
Lin Feng and the others looked thoughtful.
“I don’t think it’s that dangerous, it’s only dangerous for those who get attacked by surprise,” said Jun Mo Xi. After attacking, they could leave immediately.
“You can do that, I’ll attack alone,” said Lin Feng to the people.
“No. If there are many people, we can all disperse and move in different directions, which would be good to distract them. If you’re alone, they might set a trap and catch you. There are many Saints from the Empty Space Shrine among our enemies. They are experts at controlling empty space energy. They can seal the area anytime,” said Hou Qing Lin, shaking his head. He didn’t want to let Lin Feng take risks alone.
“It’s precisely the reason why I think it’s the best if I attack alone. The more people we are, the more dangerous it gets for us,” said Lin Feng. “Don’t worry. My goal is only to kill a low-level Saint. We can slowly kill their low-level Saints and then at some point, they’ll have as many low-level Saints as us. Then, we won’t be in a weak position anymore. ”
“Are you worried about me?” said Lin Feng smiling, “Let’s do it like that.”
“Alright, I agree,” said Mo Yu. “What do you want me to do? Feign an attack? Or attack? I’ll just listen to you. My life is your hands. ”
“Alright, I’ll protect you then,” said Lin Feng, smiling and nodding. Since they had already attacked by surprise once, they couldn’t attack a second time by surprise, so Lin Feng hoped the strategy would work. He hoped he’d manage to kill a low-level Saint, and two would be even better.
“Where do we act?” asked Yan Qing.
“The Leng Clan. Last time, we went there, but didn’t take anything from them. This time, it has to change,” Lin Feng grinned nastily. The others nodded.
“Alright,” said Yan Qing. They were all extraordinary people, otherwise, they wouldn’t have passed. They admired Lin Feng though, he could make deployment talismans, he had incredible fighting abilities, even Mo Yu admired and respected him.
“Alright, let’s do it then, dear friends,” said Lin Feng smiling, “We’re done with the details I think, should we go?”
“Alright,” everybody agreed. They wanted to help Lin Feng kill a low-level Saint, at least one, and if they succeeded, the Fortune Shrine would feel less pressured.
It was dawn in Da Yu City. After what had happened on the previous evening, the Fire Shrine and the Empty Space Shrine were extremely nervous, and even the Leng Clan was nervous. They had been attacked on the day before, but luckily, they hadn’t lost any Saint, just some face. But the Leng Clan didn’t know what to do; they were occupied by Shrines, what could they do? They couldn’t say anything. Even if they hoped the Shrines would change their stationary base, they couldn’t say anything.
The Continent of the Nine Clouds was in a state of chaos, all the Clans had their own ideas and none wanted to be destroyed. The relations they had with other groups was complex.
A few li away from the gate of the Leng Clan, someone appeared, walking slowly. That person was wearing ordinary clothes, a hat, and looked like a tourist. It was Lin Feng, about to attack the Leng Clan. He had gotten prepared. Mo Yu and the others were going to attack the Leng Clan by surprise, and then Lin Feng would attack once the situation was chaotic and try to kill a low-level Saint. That was his plan.
But as Lin Feng got closer to the Leng Clan, he didn’t feel safe. The sensation was becoming more and more intense.
That kind of feeling, it’s the intuition I get because of the Celestial Dao Destiny Technique. It could be dangerous, thought Lin Feng, frowning. He didn’t feel relaxed at all, and acted promptly. He took out a talisman and said, “Plan canceled. Disperse! ”
“We’re about to attack, how could we give up?” replied Mo Yu. At that moment, an attack descended from the sky and attacked the Leng Clan.
“Disperse, Jun Mo Xi, fellow disciple, Yan Qing, disperse!” said Lin Feng, contacting everyone personally. Lin Feng realized that the ground under his feet was golden. Lights surrounded his body. Those lights surrounded everybody li away, including the members of the Leng Clan.
What a powerful attack. The atmosphere is becoming chaotic. Only a high-level Saint could do that!, thought Lin Feng. He was petrified. He took out a deployment talisman and broke it. However, he didn’t disappear. The atmosphere around him was in chaos, he couldn’t control anything. Lin Feng pulled a long face… this deployment spell could constrict deployment talismans!
Mo Yu realized that, too. Mo Yu was stupefied. This time, they hadn’t destroyed the teleportation portal, the situation was extremely dangerous.
“Officer Qing Ye, we’re in the Leng Clan and we’re in danger. Help us!” Mo Yu sensed danger and immediately contacted Qing Ye. The Leng Clan’s teleportation portal kept flashing. Qi filled the air. Mo Yu saw strong cultivators moving towards them.
“Go!” shouted Mo Yu urgently. Jun Mo Xi, Hou Qing Lin, and Qing Lin dispersed.
“Come here!” A dazzling light streaked across the sky, it was Lin Feng, riding a Saint’s Weapon.
Mo Yu was stupefied and said, “Moron! Who told you to show yourself!”
Lin Feng smiled at the angry Mo Yu and said, “You’re the moron, I told you I’d protect you.”
He shot towards Hou Qing Lin and said, “Come here!”
Hou Qing Lin, Jun Mo Xi, and Yan Qing weren’t very strong. If they stayed alone, they would be in danger, especially if they couldn’t use deployment talismans. They wouldn’t be able to escape!
Aladanor
PMG Chapter 2418-2424
King-feng •
What about those 2425-2429 chapters?
Macaak •
Ahh you’re right, i just got on and thought i missed the previous ones i thought there were 12 fresh chapters.. :/
Elesillo •
Vas a subir 2425 – 2429?
Neto •
Those chapters were in the new site, I guess you need to wait for it to be an unforbidden territory
Fonz •
Yeah I was just wondeirng the same thing.
Totally Anonymous •
It’s in the new website
Thank you for the chapters!
Moldovaz •
First !!!
thanks for the chapters hehee
Ty for the chapters teachers.
Agil •
Its so chaotic…
Its look like new site distub your determine ini cultivating progress
Kenneth White •
Thanks for giving my “fix” guys!
Bigfatbrowncat •
Must wait for 2425 to 2429…must…endure…
Gamblemad •
Please post the link to chapters 2425-2429. I would feel lost if I missed part of the story so I’ll wait.
Asura •
Why can’t I comment even once??? :<
OddManOut •
There you go 😀
Bang Dur •
where are chapters 2425-29??? i need those chapters…..
Iqqy Chan •
I need an anti Cliffhanger Celestial Dao. This driving me nuts. 🙁
CC •
please put c 2425-2429 here I can not open the new site. I don’t want to skip those chapter!
Cliffhanger Kun •
Mwahahahahahahahahahahahaha!
Cliffhanging all the way to the finish line!
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w1z4rD •
This is not fun at all…
Ronaldino •
Can someone give me the link to the new site?
Totallytranslations.com
I haven’t heard so many complaints about difficulty accessing. We also have Heavenly Curse up and started there!
Mikko •
My cultivation is not enough to enter the forbidden territory. 🙁
Dreias •
Just to let you know guys, in the new site you can find chapters 2441-2445
bounty69 •
right now chapter 2451
chakra •
thanks for the chapters
Cory Hawks •
Comments seem broken on the new site. Unfortunate since were in the last stretch of the series.
I want talk about chapters 2458 – 2462.
Man LF son’s are both annoying characters that can’t do anything themselves. Aomo is the only that’s useful.
Comments still not working on new site.
Chapters 2470 -2476. – I just don’t see how everything that needs to wrap up can wrap in a satisfyingly good way in just 24 chapters? There’s to much that needs to be done.
I can already tell the ending is going to feel rushed, and how a ending can feel rushed in a 2500 chapter series is beyond me.
Duan Feng •
PMG FINALLY MEET ITS END!!! THANKS FOR THE JOURNEY!
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'Nosegate' Is Good News for Mitch McConnell's Tea-Party Challenger
Gaffes rarely cause a campaign to unravel. But the revelation that Mitch McConnell's campaign manager privately confided he's "sorta holding my nose" while working for the senator's reelection could still pack a wallop.
The content of Jesse Benton's remark was bad enough, suggesting that even the conservatives on McConnell's payroll don't like him. But the timing was worse: It comes just as the Senate minority leader is trying to extinguish a fledgling primary challenge from the right by Louisville-area businessman Matt Bevin. A serious, sustained Republican rival would not only threaten McConnell's grip on the nomination, it would divert his attention from the general-election opponent many consider his most serious threat—Democrat Alison Lundergan Grimes.
"I think Jesse spoke for Republicans in Kentucky and all across the country when he said he had to hold his nose to support Senator McConnell," said Matt Hoskins, spokesman for the Senate Conservatives Fund. "McConnell's liberal record and his failure to lead on key issues is very disappointing."
Benton made the remark during a private phone call with Dennis Fusaro, who appeared to secretly record the conversation. Fusaro and Benton had worked together on Ron Paul's presidential campaign last year, which Benton managed before moving on to McConnell.
"Between you and me, I'm sorta holdin' my nose for two years," Benton says on the recording, which was posted Thursday at the Economic Policy Journal. He said he hoped what he was doing would be "a big benefit to Rand in '16. That's my long vision." It was a reference to a potential 2016 presidential run by Rand Paul, Kentucky's other GOP senator, who is Ron Paul's son.
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Tuesday 28th, February 2006
Hemstock & Jennings
Les Hemstock and his partner Chris Jennings are the most revered and successful trance producers in Britain. Their productions are played by the worlds top DJ's including Paul van Dyk, Tiësto, Armin van Buuren, Ferry Corsten, Guy Ornadel, Johan Gielen - the list is truly endless! After joining forces a few years ago, Hemstock & Jennings had a string of massive anthems as ‘Sagitaire’, ‘Merge’ and ‘Hemstock & Jennings’, lining the UKs record shops, resulting in them being one of the most in demand remix and production teams in the UK. Les has remixed for the likes of ‘Ian van Dahl’, ‘Warp Brothers’ and ‘Joshua Ryan’ and his winning collaboration with Paul van Dyk is certainly a major highlight. Their record ‘Nothing But You’ sold tens of thousands worldwide charting in every Top 20 national chart. As an international DJ, Les has entertained crowds all around the world. Whether it be playing in front of 60,000 clubbers at the huge Dance Valley festival in Holland, rocking the BBC Radio one soundstage in Ibiza or touring Asia with Gatecrasher. In England Les regularly appears at all the major trance clubs including Gatecrasher, Slinky, Goodgreef, Promise, and Escape. 2004 saw Hemstock & Jennings hit the worlds clubs with yet more huge trance hits including ‘Reverance’ signed to Mondo Records and ‘Magenta’ which has featured on Gatecrashers compilation and Paul van Dyk’s Mixmag covermount compilation CD. Not only did Judge Jules and Armin van Buuren make ‘Reverance’ their radio shows tune of the week and Tried and Tested accolade, but Tiesto also used it several times to open his live gigs! 2005 saw the release of ‘The Passion’ on Mondo records and Hemstock & Jennings make another global advance by signing to fellow trance producer and top DJ Armin van Buuren's label for future Hemstock & Jennings releases, beginning with their widely supported ‘Babylon’ tune. And recently Hemstock & Jennings made their first mix compilation ever called ‘Quest For Trance’ on United Recordings.
Trance.nu: How did you guys meet each other and when did you decide to team up?
Les: In 1998 I signed my solo tune Gold & Delicious “Ascension” to Judge Jules label ‘Serious Records’. During this time I met a production manager at Serious Records recording studios in London whom informed me he managed a producer by the name of Chris Jennings in Stoke on Trent. He was surprised that I hadn’t heard of Chris, my being from the same town.
The production manager put me in touch with Chris and we obviously hit it off and have never looked back. Since our first tune, Sagitaire “Shout” on Dave Pearce’s “Nu-Life” label we have created some of the biggest trance tunes from the UK including our Paul van Dyk collaboration and Top 20 UK hit.
Trance.nu: You also worked together with Paul van Dyk. How was it to work together with him?
Les: Well, as anyone familiar with our back catalogue will know “Nothing But You” was originally entitled “Arctic” on our Phaze Records label.
It was a song I wrote in Norwegian from my days of residence in Norway. Chris and I had a chord structure down which we recorded sometime earlier and decided to ask our session vocalist if she would like to give it a go for us.
Our session singer by the way was Kym Marsh, lead singer with the band “Hearsay” (winners of the Popstars TV show) Kym used to drive over from Wigan to sing sessions on various tunes for us before she was drafted for the TV show. In fact we didn’t even know she had entered for the show until her Dad said she was in Norway because of a TV competition she had won. That was all good and well as she certainly deserved it.
Kym picked up the Norwegian phrases for “Arctic” very quickly and sang like an angel. Chris and I recorded the tune and sent it out to labels who thought it was too slow and not pacey enough for the dance market so we went back to do a new mix with a big riff and then we manufactured it ourselves. When I received the white labels I sent them out to all the A-list DJ’s including Paul van Dyk in Germany.
Paul rang me weeks later and asked if he could either sign it to remix or we could collaborate with him on it for his forthcoming album. Naturally we opted for the lucrative advantage of a collaboration and flew out to Berlin where we joined Paul for a couple of days. It’s quite funny as Paul didn’t realize those were actual words on the tune, he thought they were purely ad-libs and when I told him what the words meant in English he came up with the title ‘Nothing But You’
The ironic thing is that the mix Paul eventually released was also more similar to our original mix of ‘Arctic’ that everyone rejected and now because it had his name connected everyone wanted it – ironic and quite petty that the industry responds to names in this way and must overlook so many great tunes without really listening to their potential.
All in all ‘Nothing But You’ was a great success and not only was the launch single for Paul van Dyk’s new album but also the biggest single from the album on an international scale which says something for our production idea in the first place don’t you think? It was great to see the tune in at No.14 on the UK charts.
Trance.nu: Will there be a follow up for ‘Nothing But You’ maybe?
Les: Doubtful as we have so many tunes written that there really isn’t time for any outside influences at this time though you never know what’s around the corner so stay tuned as they say…
Trance.nu: And collaborations with other producers?
Les: To be honest we don’t have any intentions of working with anyone at all for a while unless it’s an important career move that is unavoidable.
Trance.nu: Are there any producers or vocalists that you would like to work with? And who would it be and why?
Les: There are really very little producers we would want to work with these days beside the well established BT or Dutch new boy Jochen Miller whom I highly rate. As far as vocalists are concerned I believe the best ones are yet to be discovered so who knows maybe we discover who we really want to work with?
Trance.nu: Do you both have your own studio, or do you work together in 1 studio?
Les: Chris and I share our studio in Stoke on Trent which we co-own and run.
Trance.nu: What is your favorite equipment?
Les: I think it has to be the computer a G5 and simply because without it there would be no dance music these days.
Trance.nu: What do you prefer: Software / hardware?
Les: We used to be full on hardware but as times progressed so have we and now it’s software all the way!
Trance.nu: You guys produced some tracks under aliases like Magenta, Sagitaire, Fusion, Merge and of course Hemstock & Jennings. Can we expect some new tracks from any of those projects in the near future?
Les: Possibly – we have lots of new tunes lined up for future production and with the restrictions of contractual obligation we may find ourselves using further pseudos.
Trance.nu: In the past you guys did remixes for acts such as Ian van Dahl, Warp Brothers, Neo & Farina and Moogwai. Can we expect some new remixes made by you guys soon?
Les: We recently finished a remix for Aria ‘Tears Of An Angel’ which should be seeing a Dutch release very soon and we also recently completed a mix for Sony Music in the UK of a great song called ‘Drown In Me’ by Silencer.
Trance.nu: The two of you recently remixed a double CD called ‘Quest For Trance’. This one is out now. How was it to mix a compilation like this one?
Les: This is our debut trance compilation through a very well respected label in Holland, United Recordings whom I have long admired and supported through their great releases. The album has been an absolute pleasure to create, not only from the amount of quality tunes we used in the mix but also to work with such a great team as Hans van Veen and his crew.
This album will also feature a unique mixing concept never before done in the history of dance compilations. We have taken parts of each tune like vocals, effects and synths from the masters and actually mixed them into the cross over’s as well as editing the mixes into unique forms that can never be found anywhere else in those compiled tunes other than this album. No producer in the world could remake this album exactly was we have – I guarantee it.
You would not believe how many man hours this album has taken and we have worked it like no other product…I hope we have given the CD buying clubber something more for their money than the average money making corporate compilation. Anyone can check it out at the United Recordings website; http://www.unitedrecordings.com/questfortrance
Trance.nu: How are the reactions on the compilation so far?
Les: Amazing….reactions are flooding in from fans and industry alike whom al comment on the quality of the content and the unique mixing style of the whole double album. In fact Chris and I have received two other offers in the last two weeks for mixing other label compilations. We are considering but will not commit yet as we have an amount of our own productions to complete primarily.
Trance.nu: Will there be a follow up for this CD in the future?
Les: Hopefully yes - we would like to do it though I think as a label United Recordings have to research other producers too and we also have to be careful of not over marketing our name. One thing is for sure – the amount of quality United release would always tempt us back for another bash!
Trance.nu: Les, you are a DJ for a long time. What are the biggest changes in the scene during the years?
Les: Without doubt the biggest change has been the music style and technology which I think has gone mad! I’m not interested in how a computer programme can cue up my tunes and play them from a laptop - I’m interested in playing bloody good tunes and watching a club full of people going nuts – that’s it! Nothing more is required of a DJ in all truth.
I have watched music change which is fine as it should always be developing and progressing and its good to see equipment has developed to the extent of CD players being not only equal to the record deck though in fact being better now.
Time will tell but as long as there is live music there has to be a live element and that element is the man supplying the sounds – the DJ - not the computer…a computer doesn’t have a soul - remember that!
Trance.nu: What is your Top 5 of this moment?
1. Hemstock & Jennings – Babylon
2. Aria – Tears Of An Angel
3. T.B.A. – Revelation
4. Jochen Miller – Chromatic
5. Hemstock & Jennings – Mirage (Jochen Miller Remix)
Trance.nu: What can people expect of Hemstock & Jennings in the near future?
Les: The new trance single on Armins label called ‘Babylon’ – another set of international dates with our new live PA and DJ sets around the world as well as lots of new releases and various other things like radio shows and remixes which will certainly help us spread our music to a global audience.
Oh... and there may be one or two surprises in store for 2006..stay tuned!
Trance.nu: Thank you very much for your time and good luck in the future!
Les: Thank you too and best wishes to all your readers!
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TUCSON, AZ – The Tucson Roadrunners, proud American Hockey League affiliate of the Arizona Coyotes, announced today that the club has signed defenseman Dennis Busby to an amateur tryout.
The 5-foot-11, 190-pound native of Richmond Hill, Ontario registered one goal and 13 assists for a total of 14 points and 14 penalty minutes (PIM) in 27 games with the Flint Firebirds (OHL) this season. He has recorded three goals and 27 assists for a total of 30 points through 89 games over two junior seasons.
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The Little BEAR that could: The robot that saves lives
John Lin VIA Technologies
Sometimes war is necessary, but the cost of war is always great and many lives are lost. In an effort to diminish the loss of life, some companies have stepped up to develop robots such as the Vecna Battlefield Extraction-Assist Robot (BEAR) to rescue soldiers from dangerous venues.
In the grim reality of war, casualties are inevitable. Casualties that result in the loss of a life are tragic. But to lose a life because of inaction or neglect is even worse. Field commanders may feel the burden of a moral dilemma when extraction or rescue decisions need to be made. Should the life of a healthy soldier be risked to save the life of a wounded soldier? All life is valuable. Yet in a tactical sense, attempting an extraction or rescue may not be the most practical decision - though it is certainly an honorable one. So what should a field commander do? In the heat of the moment, decisions need to be made with clarity and level thinking - not based on emotions.
To date, more than 655,000 (all wars since 1775) U.S. service members have died in battle[1]. These numbers do not include the other 538,000+ deaths of U.S. service members that occurred in wartime. How many of those battle deaths could have been avoided remains unknown. But with the benefit of modern technology, those numbers may not have to increase too much. Wouldn’t it be great if there were a robot that could save (or try to save) a human life? Movies such as "I, Robot" show how useful robots could be. In the movie, the NS4 robots sacrificed themselves without hesitation in order to prevent Del Spooner from being killed. Because robots have no emotion, there is no hesitation and no fear when it comes to executing an order. Robots that are programmed to rescue humans would make the perfect addition to military medical teams. However, such robots are thought to be only in the realm of science fiction, aren’t they? Maybe, but the Battlefield Extraction-Assist Robot (BEAR) just might prove otherwise.
Meet the BEAR
Today, more and more companies are engaging in the research, development, and production of technology that is poised to make an impact on the battlefield. One of the notable products in development is the BEAR.
A BEAR that treads lightly
The main purpose for the creation of the BEAR is reflected succinctly in the first two words of its acronym: battlefield extraction. It was intended for rescuing soldiers. And as such, it needs to be able to go where people can go. This requirement for extreme mobility meant that it would probably need legs of some sort, so its legs provide the BEAR with various methods of mobility. With its legs, the BEAR can walk, balance on any joint, and roll around using any part of its legs. Its most efficient means of mobility will be via the tracks on its legs. Using its tracks, it can traverse up and down stairs, so soldiers wounded on the upper floors of a building in an urban battlefield can rest assured that help is on the way.
The BEAR’s tracks are powered by an electric motor capable of propelling it at speeds up to 10 mph. Granted, that may not sound fast, but to a wounded soldier, 10 mph is better than 0 mph. For rescue purposes, traveling at 10 mph is a good speed. A wounded soldier is most likely going to be suffering from some level of shock. The last thing he needs is to have his condition exacerbated by high-speed movement.
The Dynamic Balancing Behavior (DBB) in its legs enables the BEAR to adjust to a variety of positions and still maintain its mobility with the tracks on its legs (see Figure 1). Each leg can adjust independently. This is particularly useful for carrying a wounded soldier over rough terrain or up and down a flight of stairs. The BEAR’s torso can rotate so that it can go through a doorway while carrying its precious life-ebbing cargo.
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BEARing the weight
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In order to provide enough power to lift heavy objects, the BEAR is designed with a hydraulic upper body. The hydraulics are similar to the hydraulics used in earth movers such as an excavator. Using hydraulic-powered arms, the BEAR is capable of lifting up to 600 lbs.[2] Each arm consists of three hydraulic pistons (see Figure 2). The first piston is located in the forearm. The forearm hydraulic piston controls the wrist flexion and wrist extension. The second piston is located in the upper arm and performs the basic functions of elbow flexion and elbow extension similar to the biceps brachii and triceps brachii muscles in the human body. The third piston is connected to the shoulder and located within the chest cavity. This piston simulates the lateral movement that the lateral deltoid provides humans. In addition, each piston can be rotated. With the rotational capabilities, each arm has six degrees of freedom in movement.
The BEAR responds to commands
Usually, when people think about robots, two extremes come to mind: the completely mindless machines that have been programmed to do one thing repetitively - and the machine with a mind of its own (for example, HAL 9000, "Transformers"). The BEAR hits the middle ground when it comes to autonomy. When given a command, the BEAR will proceed to carry it out. To issue commands, a Joint Architecture for Unmanned Systems (JAUS) compliant Operator Control Unit (OCU) is needed. The OCU being developed by Vecna is based on the VIA Nano-ITX EPIA-NL5000[3].
The BEAR’s Heads-Up Display (HUD) will be seen on the OCU, so the human operator can see and hear what is in the BEAR’s environment. Data about the BEAR’s environment is captured through its cameras and microphones and transmitted to the OCU. The current version of the OCU employs a gamepad to control the BEAR’s actions. For example, if a user wanted the BEAR to pick up a box, the user would either type or select the 'pick up' command from its repertoire of commands, and then click on the item in the HUD. Future versions of the OCU may include voice commands. The human operator can also communicate with a casualty through the BEAR’s microphone and speaker system.
The BEAR is still in the development stages. Currently, it is in its sixth prototype. But when the final product is ready (estimated to be field ready in 2015), it will take on one of the biggest problems of war - casualties. Aside from its usefulness in military situations, the BEAR will also be useful in civilian applications such as the healthcare industry or as part of search and rescue firefighting teams.
United States. Department of Veterans Affairs. America’s Wars. Washington: GPO, November 2007.
"Vecna Robotics Products: The BEAR Robot Product Home". Vecna Robotics Website. 2007. Vecna Technologies, Inc. 24 Mar. 2008.
"VIA EPIA NL-Series Nano-ITX Board," VIA Technologies Website. 2008. VIA Technologies, Inc. 24 Mar. 2008 .
John Lin is a senior technical writer at VIA Technologies, Inc., based in Taipei, Taiwan. He has seven years of experience in the computer industry, with five-plus years at VIA. John graduated with a bachelor’s degree in Business Economics from UCSB. He can be reached at JohnLin@via.com.tw.
www.via.com.tw
Another role for BEAR
Because the characteristics of strength and endurance can be designed into robots, BEAR can also be suitable for lugging support gear such as extra ammunition, weapons, repair kits, communications equipment, and so on. Standard army gear consists of items such as an M16A2 rifle, M9 pistol, M9 bayonet, Alice frame pack, and extra cartridges of ammunition. Together all of these items (with a fully loaded pack) could weigh more than 70 lbs. Extra ammunition is heavy and can easily add weight. It would be ideal if every squad had at least two robots: one for carrying gear and the other for assisting the medic.
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Niagara-on-the-Lake Public Library opens Craft Room and Historical Resource Centre.
Niagara Library to have major resource and craft rooms
The former works room in the basement of the Court House will be taking on a new look during the next few weeks. The room which opens onto the children's section of the Niagara Public Library will be completely redecorated for use as a children's craft room. Design for the room has come under the skilful hand of Paul Johns and the room will soon have storage area, counter running along two sides, double sinks and book shelves along one wall. The colonial designed cupboards will boast butcher clock counters and pine doors and the floor and ceiling will be refinished in keeping with the rest of the room.
The library has applied for a Wintario grant to help offset the $6,500 cost of refurbishing the room with the balance of monies coming from the library reserve fund. The room will allow the children's craft program to move from its present quarters in the reading room and it will give the children more freedom for creativity.
The reading room will be turned into an historical research room with a glass book case housing the historical book collection which has never been on display before. The collection includes over 200 old Canadian books. A microfilm reader and printer will be installed in December and the room is already equipped with files of historical documents. Microfilm of hundreds of documents and old newspapers dating back to 1799 are already at the library. Librarian Mrs. Gerda Molson is enthusiastic about the research room and plans an official opening and dedication in January. "This will be a major historical resource centre for the residents of Niagara Region," Mrs. Molson said and added that this will be the only library in the area with such an extensive resource of historical material.
Niagara Advance. December 2, 1976.
Town library opens local history section
For years now the staff of the Niagara-on-the-Lake public library have had to tell researchers delving into the history of Niagara to seek their information elsewhere. But chief librarian Gerda Molson says all that will change this Sunday with the opening of a new section in the library, the Niagara Historical Resource Centre.
The library is holding an open house Sunday at 2 p.m., at which Culture Minister Bob Welch will officially open the resource centre. In fact, materials in the centre have been gradually built up during the past year until it is now, in Mrs. Molson's words, a "mini-archives."
The centre already contains a catalogue of documents held by area churches, the municipality and the Niagara Historical Society relating to the early history of Niagara. The resource centre, located in one of the library's basement rooms, also contains a stock of microfilmed documents pertaining to early Niagara obtained from the national and provincial archives. Census information, land grant records, town plans and municipal and school board minutes as well as a host of other documents are stored in the microfilm cabinet. The library has recently obtained a new microfilm reader-printer which can reproduce the microfilmed documents on paper. The library's collection of rare books will also be stored in a locked cabinet in the resource centre for reference use only.
The resource centre will enable the library to provide information to genealogists, university researchers and local historians, according to Mrs. Molson. But anyone with a yen to discover more about Niagara's past is free to make use of the new facilities. In addition to opening the resource centre Sunday, the room where it is located will be formally named the Janet Carnochan Room. Miss Carnochan was the founding president of the Niagara Historical Society and an early proponent of the public library. She died in 1926.
St. Catharines Standard. May 27, 1977
Federal funds finance library microfilm project
The Niagara Library's historical research facilities are now in the process of expansion with the initiation in September of a Canada Works Project titled "Ommnisciens" (all knowing). Under the direction of Peter White, project coordinator with George Sinclair, microfilm operator Joyce Spear and Pat Frazier, research technicians, the project will increase the Niagara Library's research potential.
The project will run for a full year and during this period those involved in the project hope to have a complete file on microfilm of all township documents as well as the complete records from area churches. Many of these were registered but never microfilmed when the initial historical research program started two years ago.
A second goal is to acquire microfilm records from other sources which are relevant to the history of Niagara. An order has been placed with the Church of Jesus Christ Latter Day Saints which has already recorded on film all Lincoln County Wills from 1794-1900 and the Land Instrument records from the same period. These will be purchased through a Wintario Canadian Materials grant. Eventually the Niagara Library expects to spend $6,000 on additional microfilm. Mr. Sinclair, who is a graduate of Sheridan College in photography and fine arts as well as the visual arts course at Niagara College will be using photography facilities at Brock university for the actual microfilming. The microfilming must meet archival standards and copies of the completed microfilm will be stored with the Ontario Archives.
As co-founder of the Niagara Historical Resource Centre, which was opened in May 1977, Peter White sees this latest project as an extension of the original. "This is considered one of the most advanced research centres in Canada," Mr. White said, noting the filing system at the Library was not only easy to use but was unique in set up.
Before microfilming takes place, researchers Joyce Spear and Pat Frazier arrange and identify the material. In addition, a table of contents is produced, introductions are written, reel labels are made and indexed card files are completed. The end result should be the completion of 40-60 reels of microfilm which will be stored at the Library. This will represent 60,000 pages of documents. "It is a very technical project and must be very precise," Miss Spear said last week. "It is a very important project and one which is worthwhile. We are really the only city in Ontario following proper archival procedures." Anticipating their involvement in archival work the group visited the Ontario archives before embarking on this latest venture and Mr. Sinclair spent two weeks at the Archives learning specialized techniques of microfilming. For the four employees of project "Omnisciens" the end result will be an overview of history relating to Niagara, one which will include social and cultural influences and one which will allow students and researchers in general a chance to use original source material. Librarian Gerda Molson observed the material available at the library is exceptionally easy to use. Research has been simplified. Mrs. Molson said, and people are gradually learning the material is here.
Articles about opening of the Craft Room and Historical Resource Centre on May 27th, 1977.
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1. Photograph of Gerda Molson with Robert Welch and Frank Carnochan, with a caption:
"Library opens historical section. The history of early Niagara is the focus of a new section of the Niagara-on-the-Lake public library which was opened yesterday by culture and recreation minister Bob Welch, left. The section has been opened in a part of the library newly-named the Janet Carnochan Room. Frank Carnochan, a great-nephew of Miss Carnochan, shared in the opening with Mr. Welch and chief librarian Gerda Molson. The Carnochan Room contains the library's collection of rare books, microfilmed documents from the federal and provincial archives, and an index to historical documents held by persons and organizations in the town itself."
2. "The craft room at the Niagara Library has been a busy place during the past few weeks as area youngsters prepare for Christmas with hand made gifts and tree
decorations. Working on their project are Laura Wickham, J.B. Hopkins, Liz Molson, Jennifer MacTaggart, Mark Adams and Shant Nercessian." Niagara Advance. December 20, 1979.
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Australian Open winners and runner-ups (male)- From 1980-1989
by MairaS on December 9, 2011
in Australian Open Winners and Runner Ups
The Australian Open Tennis has been a center stage for many records over the time by different famous tennis players. The youngest player to have won Australian Open was Donald Young who was just 15 years and 191 days. Many Australian tennis players made their way to Australian Open but not everyone claimed the title. After Pat Cash who won the Australian Open title in 1987, it was Lleyton Hewitt was the first Australian tennis player to claim the title. Who ruled the era of 1980-1989 of Australian Open, here is the list:
Australian Open Tennis- 1980
Australian Open winner (male): Brian Teacher
Australian Open runner-up (male): Kim Warwick
Australian Open winner (male): Johan Kriek
Australian Open runner-up (male): Steve Denton
Australian Open Tennis-1983
Australian Open winner (male): Mats Wilander
Australian Open runner-up (male): Ivan lendl
Australian Open runner-up (male): Kevin Curren
Australian Open winner (male): Stefan Edberg
Australian Open Tennis wasn’t played in 1986
Australian Open runner-up (male): Pat Cash
Australian Open winner (male): Ivan Lendl
Australian Open runner-up (male): Miloslav Mecir
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The Australian Open has gone through numerous changes specifically in the surface context from grass to hard courts. Famous tennis player Mats Wilander was the only tennis player to have played and won on both the grass and Rebound surfaces. Roger Federer is the only male tennis player of the current era to have won the Australian Open title on Plexicusion and Rebound Ace tennis surfaces. Enjoyed the facts? Now let’s move on to the winners and runner-ups of Australian open during the period of 1970-1979:
Australian Open winner (male): Arthur Ashe
Australian Open runner-up (male): Dick Crealy
Australian Open winner (male): Ken Rosewall
Australian Open runner-up (male): Arthur Ashe
Australian Open runner-up (male): Mal Anderson
Australian Open winner (male): John Newcombe
Australian Open runner-up (male): Onnay Parun
Australian Open winner (male): Jimmy Connors
Australian Open runner-up (male): Phil Dent
Australian Open runner-up (male): Jimmy Connors
Australian Open winner (male): Mark Edmondson
Australian Open runner-up (male): John Newcombe
Australian Open winner (male): Rosco Tanner
Australian Open runner-up (male): Guillermo Vilas
Australian Open winner (male): Guillermo Vilas
Australian Open runner-up (male): John Marks
Australian Open runner-up (male): John Sadri
Tags: Australian Open, Australian Open winners and runner-ups male, Famous tennis player, From 1970-1979, Grand Slam, Mats Wilander, Rafael Nadal, Rebound Ace, Roger Federer, tennis player, the Australian Open, the Australian Open title
Australian Open tennis tournament is the first Grand Slam of the year that is played in the last fortnight of January. It is a hard court tournament and played at the Melbourne Park. Over the last decades, the greatest tennis players, both male and female have displayed tremendous talents and played some extraordinary games at the Australian Open tournament. Some have ruled the court over an extended period of time making it impossible for other players to penetrate the consistent win cycle. In the male category, famous male tennis players Rod Laver and Roy Emerson ruled the hard court Australian Open. Here are the winners and runner-ups (male players) of Australian Open from 1960-1969:
Year 1960- Australian Open Tennis
Australian Open winner (male): Rod Laver
Australian Open runner-up (male): Neale Fraser
Australian Open winner (male): Roy Emerson
Australian Open runner-up (male): Rod Laver
Year 1962: Australian Open Tennis
Australian Open runner-up (male) Roy Emerson
Australian Open runner-up (male): Ken Fletcher
Australian open Tennis: 1964
Australian Open runner-up (male): Fred Stolle
Australian Open runner-up (male): Arther Ashe
Australian Open winner (male): Bill Bowrey
Australian Open runner-up (male): Juan Gisbert
Australian Open runner-up (male): Andres Gimeno
Tags: Australian Open, Australian Open winners and runner-ups male, From 1960-1969, Grand Slam, Rod Laver, Roy Emerson, Roy Emerson and Rod Laver, sports, tennis, the Australian Open tournament, World number one male tennis player rankings
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Dementia Friendly Screening: Kind Hearts and Coronets - 70th Anniversary (U)
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Starring: Dennis Price, Joan Greenwood, Alec Guinness, Valerie Hobson
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Originally released in June of 1949, this British black comedy remains a firm favourite on Top British Film lists and features an all-star cast including Dennis Price, Joan Greenwood, Valerie Hobson and Alec Guinness; with Guinness playing nine characters.
The story follows Louis D’Ascoyne Mazzini, the son of a woman disowned by her aristocratic family for marrying out of her social class. After her death, Louis decides to take revenge on the family, and to take the dukedom by trying to murder the people ahead of him who are in line for succession of the title.
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Steam Review 2019
Alyssa Greenberg
How to Play Steam Games on iOS If You Have No PC
You have no PC, but you want to play exciting games? The steam app can help you do that. The app
is specifically designed for game lovers to bring their enthusiasm to the next level and discover more
games that can satisfy their interests.
n this article, you will be able to learn more things about the Steam app. We give you valuable
information about what it is or how to play Steam games on IOs.
STEAM APP OVERVIEW
Before diving into how to play VR steam games on iOS, let us define first what is the Steam app.
Steam is among the most popular outlet for various games you can find on the Internet. The app has
an excellent reputation for good practices from indie developers.
Steam also refers to the multi-player platform which was developed by Valve Corporation. The app is
primarily used for distributing games and other related media online. Using the app, you will be able
to acquire an automatic and installation management of the software on different computers.
The app was first developed for Microsoft Windows and expanded to include the Linux and Mac iOS
X version. It is considered as the central hub for gaming software while its other version is used for
educational software and schools.
STEAM APP FOR iOS AND ANDROID DEVICES
In 2012, Valve released the Steam version which can be used for iOS and Android devices. The app
will allow you to log into your account to browse the storefront, manage games, and then
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Furthermore, the app can incorporate a two-factor authentication system that can work with the
Steam Guard to further enhance the security of your account. In June 2016, a mobile Steam app for
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similar functionality devices like the Nvidia’s Shield that is offered similarly years ago.
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you want on your iOS device. Thus, the app increases the motivation of many game enthusiasts to
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Ways to Make Steam Mobile App More Useful In years that followed the release of Steam app for mobile devices and we’ve heard a lot of negative reviews of its functions and usability. We’ve gathered all the major user complaints and made a list of patches and add-ons that Steam mobile app desperately needs. Changes Welcomed! Steam mobile app has very limited capabilities but could be boosted up with additional content, such as Enhanced Steam and Steam Inventory Helper features. The first add-on was released as a browser extension that helps users in sorting out their wishlists and lets them find the best price for the game, and it also has the improved searching mechanism comparing to Steam website search. The latter is the app for selling gaming items and downloading them right to your inventory. A couple of special add-ons for different games with lots of downloadable content like CS: GO or Fortnite. Making pre-sets, comparing weapons and their prices along with the ability to buy it right away would make a mobile app twice as useful as it is now. Steam chat improvements would also be welcomed. Ability to organize group chats and make voice calls is the main priority here, but pop-up notifications on the locked screen are also essential. Some users find it irritating to open up the whole Steam app to say hello to someone. Some system bugs must be eliminated. For example, it’s impossible to change the install directory for the games you download. The app doesn’t recognize standard client settings, neither it lets users choose their own. Steam mobile is insufficient without a streaming option. This point has been solved with Steam Link app, though. But it seems weird to have two apps instead of a better one that would make a perfect mix of them. Mortal Combat X, GTA 5 and a good deal of racing games are quite suitable for mobile and tablet screens. Let’s improve Steam mobile together In recent year there have been many complaints and negative reactions to Steam mobile app. If you’re not happy with your mobile version of Steam either, share your troubles with us so that together we could make it a generally more pleasant experience.
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Top Reasons Why Steam Mobile App Is a Great Game Assistant Probably every person out there knows Steam as a number one distribution platform for digital gaming, and every other one uses Steam mobile app that noticeably enhances the whole Steam experience. Valve Corporation launched Steam mobile in 2012 as an addition to its PC version where users could manage their collections, search for new games, exchange game objects and send messages. Add such useful functions as news feeds on your favorite games and search for sales and best deals and you will get a crucial tool for Steam community building. What Are The Main Steam Mobile Features? Steam Guard is probably the first feature that gamers all over the world use Steam mobile client for. It’s a tool for additional security level apart from your credentials on the website. When you try to enter the website from any other device, Steam Guard will ask you for a special access code. The code can be sent to your e-mail or, and that is much more convenient, straight to the mobile app. The app will automatically generate a new code every 30 seconds. Steam mobile chat is a perfect tool for communicating with other members of the Steam community. On June 25, 2018, Steam also launched a desktop and web chat versions with new encryption technology and a lot of new options (group chats support, voice messages). Still, Steam mobile chat is your best option on the go. Community Market is always at hand on your smartphone. With Steam mobile client you can easily access the inventory connected to your account, enter trades and confirm your decisions on the market. It looks like it’s the best way to approve or deny the deals when you’re away from your PC. Remote download function is another treat for Steam mobile users. You can search for games and add them to your PC Steam library. The mobile client will automatically synchronize with your Steam account to download and install the games you’ve chosen on your computer. Steam mobile is excellent for keeping up with the latest information on your favorite games, as well as from groups and users you’re subscribed to. You can enter a discussion or make comments on your gaming experience at any time. What Does Steam Community Think? In spite of the fact that Steam mobile is widely used, occasional bugs and glitches in its work may occur. Some users find a lot of things about it annoying: the chat often fails to connect, and the interaction with the main Steam account isn’t always stable. In the comments on the leading mobile app stores, you can always find a couple of Steam mobile users complaining about its laggy messenger and the overall poor design of the app. The app looks like a web page extension, and many Steamers find it unfitting for mobile screens. Still, almost everyone uses Steam Guard on mobile for authentification. Another weak point of Steam mobile is recent Apple scandal. While the latest Steam mobile Android version has a more or less smooth launch, the developers couldn’t agree with Apple. As a result, Steam mobile apk file installed easily, but Steam iOS app didn’t load. This fact made even long-time fans turn away from Steam application. The Change is Coming On January 14, 2019, a post appeared on the Valve blog on the new Steam features. Using the latest technologies very similar to those from the last year great desktop Steam reboot they’ve also made some claims about the client destiny. Let’s find out about all the new Steam features the Valve promises. The Valve also claimed an utterly new chat mobile app, though it’s unclear if it will become part of the mobile app reboot or the developers will launch another independent app. Steam TV is said to support not just tournaments and special events, but all the games there are. A brand new recommendation system based on machine-learning algorithms will help players quickly discover games more suitable for their taste. New event system will let you highlight all the challenges, streams and tournaments connected to the games you’re subscribed to. Steam Trust is a new technology that will become a full Steam feature instead of a CS: GO add-on. Now when you trade with other players, you get access to information that helps you determine the cheating. A new PC Cafe Program will be launched for a better player experience in different parts of the world. What to make of it? It’s not clear yet which of the features will be presented in Steam mobile app and how different will its next version be from what we have now, but hopefully, all the lags and design inconsistencies will soon be eliminated.
Steam Games Come to Your Mobile Device: Steam Link App For Android and iOS Valve announced the new Steam Link app that will synchronize your entire Steam Library with mobile and any other type of devices running iOS or Android. With the new Steam app you will only need a 5Ghz network to play any game there is on your smartphone, tablet and even Android TV or Apple TV. If you don’t have a 5Ghz connection, there also a way of connecting to a Mac or PC via Ethernet wire. In their official announcement Valve introduced us to a list of controllers Steam app will support: apart from Steam Controller there are SteelSeries Nimbus, Gamevice and other MFI controllers available for iOS and Android. And There’s More Steam Link iOS and Android app will be available for free, which means the mobile gaming audience will be huge at the start and keep on growing as the app proves viable. And with Valve, we’re pretty sure it does. In case you forgot, Steam app for Mac worked fine from the very start. Which means the iOS compatibility is a problem already solved, and Steam apk file format is the most exciting thing now. We didn’t even dare to dream of playing Steam games on Android! Android release is said to start with a public Beta version a little bit soon after release for iOS devices. The release is planned in the final weeks of May. Wait and See The developers don’t hurry to bring out all the details, but playing a Steam game on a mobile device already seems like a revolution in the world of video games. Steam Machine used to have a massive community around itself, but it still was a club of enthusiast gamers. Reaching every person with a mobile device today means opening the club to literally everyone.
How to get Steam Trade link on mobile Steam Trade link helps to alleviate the exchange of items on Steam. Once you have it, the whole procedure becomes convenient for everyone and more professional. It can help you in trading Dor 2, CSGO skins for example, but there is no limit to these exact goods. This link is not visible to the public and actually can be changed after you enter your page on Steam. Placing the order you will automatically be asked to give the public trade link. How to get Steam Trade link on mobile The first thing you need to do is to check your profile settings. Go to your Steam Account before sending any Steam URL. Follow this instruction: Open your profile on Steam and press the button Edit Profile, which is available on the right-hand side. Pick My Privacy Settings from the list that will be opened. Now you will see the Profile Status category on the left. Choose Public and press it. This means anyone from the Internet will be able to see it. Scroll down and do the same in the Inventory section. Go down to the bottom of the page and pick the Save Changes option. How to find the Steam trade link? Let’s do it step by step: So, the 1st step is going to your Steam account and log into it. Step 2 is to open Inventory in the upper bar. Step 3 is to click the Trade Offers in the Inventory section. Step 4 will send you to different options, where under the View Trade History you can see Who can send me Trade Offers? Pick this one. Step 5 reveals the information on Third-Party Sites which will be able to send you their offers after you will share the URL with them. This Steam Trade URL is located right under the text about parties. It is signed and it is hard to miss. Copy this URL and paste it to the email or other messaging services in the response of the Shop order message. The URL will give you the ability to choose items you want to buy through Trade Offers. Copy this link and save it somewhere close just in case. You may need it once in a while. Question of Safety You may be wondering whether it is safe to give your Steam Trade link to third-party traders. That’s a good question and the answer is yes, it is safe. You must know that by giving the URL from your account, you don’t give the whole access to your page. All you give is the ability to see your Inventory section and make different trade offers you may want to see. Besides, once you decided to agree on offer, you still need to confirm that. No chance that someone will be able to agree on trade offers instead of you having only this URL. So, either you gave someone all your contact information with passwords and logins and full access to the devices you are using or there is nothing to worry about. However, lots of unwanted weird offers may come from scammers or bots. If you begin to receive it, go to your account and created the new URL. Use the instruction above, and don’t worry, you will stop receiving unwanted ads. In the section under Third-Party Sites, there will be a button Create New URL. Press it. There is no limit to the number of time you can create a new link. Still, you need to be careful with this. After you create another link on Steam Trade, the old one will be gone. You will not be able to reach it as and anyone who will want to contact you by using it. All they will receive is the error message. So, until the deal will be arranged and you receive everything you wanted from it, the best option is not to change anything. Steam Trade URL allows you to receive offers from other traders and buy things you want. It is completely safe and simple in use. All you need to do is copy the link and send it to the trader to make a deal.
How to activate and use mobile authenticator steam? Steam Guard Mobile Authenticator is a useful feature made by Steam developer, for the Steam mobile app. It gives users an extra security for their account. This program generates security code which you need to enter every time you are opening your account. This code can’t be guessed, and it changes every 30 seconds. Welcome to Fort Knox. This is a two factor authentication system. It is considered to be the most secure way to protect your account. Codes are constantly changing and you need to enter it physically, as granting permission does not work. Another good advice is to add number of your phone to your account. Just in case you are afraid to lose access, forget credentials, etc. This will help to recover account, no matter what could happen. How to add phone number to account? This is something you need to do before turning on the app. Add the phone number into your account on Steam. Follow this simple guide: Open client page on Steam. Click on your name at the higher right corner on the main screen. You are able to open this account from the browser and also follow the steps. It does not matter where you are doing it. Now pick the drop down menu. Scroll down the list of options until you find Account Details, enter it. In the Account Details will be contact details. Under it will be Add a phone number button. Once you are entered the number, you will see Manage your phone number button, instead. Enter the number with the code of the country you are living in. You may select the country from the list of the menu. After you finish with entering phone and code, push Next button. Wait for some time, as Steam is going to send you SMS with the code of confirmation. Enter the code to prove that the number is correct and click Next. If you did not receive the message, check spam. If you did not get the code, wait for some time and click Send the code again. So, you registered your phone number. Now you can activate authenticator. Before you start the process make sure you really need it and you will not regret this decision. It may be a little bit annoying to enter authentication code every time. How to activate mobile authenticator steam? To activate this feature, you need to install the app at first. How to do that? Go to the app store and download app Steam. Make sure that the publisher is Steam itself. Don’t download the app from an unknown and unreliable source. Some of them may steal your information. You need to download only the real Steam app. Use the website to follow the link which leads to the official store. Next steps: After you downloaded the app and finished installation process, enter your data in the main screen. Now click the icon Menu that you may see at the upper left corner of the screen. The whole menu will be exposed in front of you. Select from there Steam Guard option. This is the first option in the list, so you will find it easily. If you have not setup the Authenticator, this option will appear on your screen. Click Add Authenticator button. After that the app will ask you to enter your current mobile phone number. If you have added it to your account on Steam, this is not necessary step for you. When the number of your phone will be confirmed, the Steam app gives you a so-called recovery code. You need to save this code somewhere. Write it down so you will never lose it. If you lose it, you’ll have to come through a complicated procedure of recovery. The code is a sign that you still have access to the account even if Authenticator or credentials are not available. Don’t try to skip this step. After that, Authenticator from Steam will start its work. You can see from your screen that code is changing every 30 seconds so no one can enter it instead of you. It gives almost 100 percent security. How to login with Steam Guard Mobile Authenticator? If the feature is working, you have to enter the code reflected on your mobile screen every time you want to enter the app. Sometimes the code pops up into the notification bar on your phone. Check it entering Steam app on mobile and watching the current code. Enter this code in 30 seconds. Make sure you are fast enough to type it. You will have to enter another once if you missed this time. Go to the Steam client and log in to the program with your credentials. Steam app will ask you for the Authenticator Steam Code. You will see it on the screen of you mobile. Check the mobile for notifications and open the Steam app to obtain code from it. Now enter the code on the device and press Ok. You will be logged in successfully into the client page on Steam. What to do if you don’t have a phone near? You can’t use the Guard if you can’t reach the phone. Developers promise that sooner or later they will create stand alone authenticators. For now, they are not available. So you can wait for the future, where you will not need to use your phone for getting access to the app or you can just go and take your phone. Which devices are compatible with Guard Authenticator? This feature works with the iOS system, starting from iOS 6.1 and up. It also works with all devices on Android starting from 2.2 system and higher. It supports Windows if the system is 8.1 or up. Steam Guard Mobile Authenticator was made to secure your account. It raises the reliability of Steam, and you are willing to share your private information more eagerly. It needs a mobile phone to receive the code and a lot of patience once you are entering the code that will disappear in 30 seconds.
Steam Review 2019 How to Play Steam Games on iOS If You Have No PC You have no PC, but you want to play exciting games? The steam app can help you do that. The app is specifically designed for game lovers to bring their enthusiasm to the next level and discover more games that can satisfy their interests. n this article, you will be able to learn more things about the Steam app. We give you valuable information about what it is or how to play Steam games on IOs. So, here we go! STEAM APP OVERVIEW Before diving into how to play VR steam games on iOS, let us define first what is the Steam app. Steam is among the most popular outlet for various games you can find on the Internet. The app has an excellent reputation for good practices from indie developers. Steam also refers to the multi-player platform which was developed by Valve Corporation. The app is primarily used for distributing games and other related media online. Using the app, you will be able to acquire an automatic and installation management of the software on different computers. The app was first developed for Microsoft Windows and expanded to include the Linux and Mac iOS X version. It is considered as the central hub for gaming software while its other version is used for educational software and schools. STEAM APP FOR iOS AND ANDROID DEVICES In 2012, Valve released the Steam version which can be used for iOS and Android devices. The app will allow you to log into your account to browse the storefront, manage games, and then communicate with your friends within the Steam community. Furthermore, the app can incorporate a two-factor authentication system that can work with the Steam Guard to further enhance the security of your account. In June 2016, a mobile Steam app for Windows phone was finally released. So, if you already have the Steam app on your mobile device, the next thing you need to learn is on a how-to-play-pc-games-on-iOS-with-steam-link mobile device. WHAT ARE THE PROS AND CONS OF USING STEAM APP Over the years, the Steam app has been helping many game enthusiasts to develop a library of indie- developed titles and free AAA games. If you are interested in having Steam app on your device and learning on how to play VR steam games on an iOS device, it is a nice idea to discover the pros and cons of the app to help get a deeper understanding and have a hint of what will be your possible gaming experience. Pros: Access to Variety of Cheap Titles One of the good thing about the Steam app is that you do not need to spend a lot of money. Sometimes, learning how to play VR steam games on iOS devices is enough. With the help of this app, you will be able to access different titles that are cheap. You can try accessing those titles during Steam Summer Sale happening every year. Access to Different Titles Not just cheap titles will be available for you if you take advantage of Steam, but also a wide array of high quality titles. The app welcomes all kinds of developers making it possible for may players to access millions of titles. Thus, it serves as a good opportunity to find long-lost titles or even stay updated with the new releases. Account-Based Games If games that are account-based is your thing, the Steam app is right for you. Through this app, you can tie up all your games to your account. Meaning, if you will build a new computer, there is nothing to worry since you can still access all your games. All you have to do is to install the app and then re-install the games you purchased. Unlockable Achievements Although you are not an achievement hunter, you still find this feature a good motivation to play games. Unlockable achievements can be a good business strategy. Blizzard, Microsoft, and Twitch use this strategy to generate the interests of players. Cons: Easy to Manipulate Rating System You can find the rating steam easy to manipulate. So, using the Steam app will be based on your personal preference. Too Much Emphasis on the Trading Cards If you do not have a fondness to the idea of trading cards, this can be a drawback for you to use the Steam app. HOW TO PLAY STEAM GAMES ON iOS DEVICES Now that you already have the ideas about the pros and cons of the app, this time you will learn how to play steam games on the phone IOs. Valve already extended the functionality of the Steam app to iPhones, iPads, tablets, Smartphone, or TVs when it launched the Steam Link. So, there is no way for you not to learn how to play steam games on iOS no PC. To make it happen, you will need the leading gaming it as well as a stable 5GHz or Ethernet wireless connection. You are not even required to own a Steam Link box since the Steam app already shares a built-in streaming service so that games can be beamed to less powerful Mac and PCs. It is quite similar functionality devices like the Nvidia’s Shield that is offered similarly years ago. Furthermore, Valve also launched a free Steam Video app which can accomplish similar functionality for the library of Steam movies even without the help of host PC. The video app will work over the LTE connection on the phone in addition to the home network. Although you may not typically consume your films on Steam, still Valve made an effort to improve its services. This innovation is a good idea for those who do frequent travel activities who desire to have a decent, fun collection of video on the app. CONCLUSION The steam app is a different kind of innovation in improving the gaming experience of everyone. Through this app, you do not need to stay in a room to play games because you can play any game you want on your iOS device. Thus, the app increases the motivation of many game enthusiasts to discover more games.
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WHS Music Department conducting “Adopt a Uniform” fundraising campaign to replace band uniforms
New uniforms ... Waukon High School senior Micah Treptau models a sample of the new uniforms for the Waukon High School Marching Band. Submitted photo.
The Waukon High School Music Department is seeking donations for new high school marching band and concert band uniforms through an “Adopt a Uniform” campaign. The current marching band uniforms were purchased in 1997 and are in need of replacement following years of usage and alterations.
The Allamakee Community School District and the Allamakee Music Boosters will each be providing one-third of the funding for the uniform replacement project, leaving a final third of the total cost to be raised through the “Adopt-a-Uniform” donation drive. Donation levels for specific pieces of the uniforms being sought are listed below in the accompanying donation form below, but any donation amount would be welcome.
Waukon High School band members have reviewed numerous styles and sample uniforms and voted on their selection. Their selected favorite uniform features an orange and black ensemble and is pictured in the photo at right, modeled by Waukon High School senior band member Micah Treptau. The concert band uniforms selected are black tuxedos and formal dresses.
In order to have these uniforms guaranteed for the 2019 school year, the uniforms would need to be ordered by February 1, 2019. Those who are willing to donate to the “Adopt a Uniform” campaign are asked to fill out the form below and submit it and their intended donation as directed. For more information, contact Jo Ann Sherman, director of bands at Waukon High School, by calling the high school office at 563-568-3466.
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Microsoft�s next move? Code-name Falcon
Published by endless on Monday, July 09, 2007
Mercury News is reporting a price cut move by Microsoft. Its code name is Falcon, which is a move to 65 nanometer chipsets. Cpu, and Gpu. With perhaps beefed up heatsinks, smaller motherboard, and possibly sticking the power brick in the console.
Its also mentioned that perhaps Microsoft has plans down the road for 45 nanometer chipsets.
Lastly a Wedbush Morgan analyst expects the recently released Xbox 360 Elite to go from USD 479 to USD 399, the Premium model to see a drop from USD 399 to USD 349 and the Core system to be reduced from USD 299 to USD 249.
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Here�s a trade secret that Microsoft is unlikely to publicly acknowledge.
Sony�s cutting the price on the PlayStation 3. How will Microsoft react? We�ll find out soon. But a key part of the strategy is going to be a project code-named Falcon.
Falcon is the name for the latest internal electronics in the Xbox 360. It will have an IBM microprocessor and an AMD/ATI graphics chip that are manufactured in a 65-nanometer production process. These are cost-reduced chips that do the same thing as their 90-nanometer predecessors, but they�re smaller.
With smaller chips, Microsoft gets a bunch of benefits. They won�t generate as much heat. So the risks of overheating � one of the main reasons behind Microsoft�s billion-dollar write-off for repairs and extended warranties � are much lower. The chips may also cost half of what it took to make them before because they use less material and fewer manufacturing steps to produce.
Everyone knows that console makers cut the prices and costs on their consoles over time. But you may not be aware that the primary chips � microprocessor, graphics, and the Ana video processing chip � are the bulk of the cost of the machine. Microsoft started making the Xbox 360s in August, 2005, with a 90-nanometer process. It is overdue to switch to the newest technology, 65 nanometers, but that day has finally come. It may be some time � a year, maybe two � before it moves on the a 45-nanometer process.
But it�s worth it. I recall that Ken Kutaragi said that by moving along the semiconductor manufacturing cost curve with the PlayStation 2, Sony was able to reduce the size � and therefore cost � of the PlayStation 2�s original chips to just 13 percent of the original over the life cycle of the PS 2.
If you cut the costs on the chips, you can cut the overall cost of the system. You get ancillary benefits such as using a smaller motherboard, more air flow inside the console, and the ability to take the big giant power supply in the Xbox 360�s power brick and put it inside the console.
Microsoft is in the process of qualifying the new Falcon chips and motherboard this summer. I expect it will launch Xbox 360s with the new Falcon innards this fall. That is why the company has been able to say that it has solved its manufacturing quality problems. Microsoft is likely to spend a little more money on heat sinks to make sure that the overheating problem doesn�t resurface with Falcon.
The good thing about the smaller chips is that they will likely be easier to make in mass quantities and they shouldn�t fail as often. Quality should automatically go up. That�s what folks said about the 90-nanometer generation. But the 65-nanometer production process is a known quantity at this point at places such as IBM for sure and possibly at other suppliers such as Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. So rather than fix the problems with the 90-nanometer machine, Microsoft has the easier problem now of getting a 65-nanometer machine to work right. I suspect that is why Robbie Bach, president of the Entertainment & Devices group, said on Thursday on a conference call with analysts that the company has �its hands around it at the engineering level.�
But once this machine is in the field, Microsoft will have a few options. It can take the power brick and put it inside the same chassis. It can also make a smaller version of the core, but this involves considerable redesign and retooling resources. And it could also beef up the console and make room for more costly things � as it did with the Elite.
It�s anybody�s guess as to what Microsoft will do with the Falcon as its base platform going forward. But Sony had better watch out. Microsoft is moving ahead of Sony on the cost-reduction curve. It would be risky for Sony to get into a price war with Microsoft.
Now it�s easier to see why Microsoft still expects to be profitable in fiscal 2008 with the Xbox 360 business. In this fiscal year, Microsoft will introduce a major cost reduction with the Falcon platform. It will launch Halo 3. And it has already written off in fiscal 2007 the costs of repairing consoles for the next few years.
Falcon is a fundamental part of the strategy that Microsoft is using to try to beat Sony. Is it going to be good enough to beat Nintendo on costs? Very doubtful. Nintendo can play the cost-reduction game just as Microsoft can. Falcon certainly means that Microsoft can afford to cut the price of the Xbox 360 going forward. Whether it does so depends on how aggressive it wants to be at winning the lead market share in the business. But everyone knows that if you cut your hardware price too much, you lose money. After all, Microsoft lost an estimated $3.7 billion on the original Xbox.
When I asked David Hufford, a Microsoft spokesman, about Falcon on Friday, he said I was telling him something new. When I asked Peter Moore, head of games at Microsoft, about Falcon on Thursday, he said, �We have a bunch of different projects that cost reduce and improve quality as you find issues, as does our competition. Once you get millions in the field, you learn about the box under all kinds of different circumstances, you can adjust and tweak what you do accordingly.�
$80 off Elite, $50 off Premium models to maintain pricing advantage
Following Sony's USD 100 price cut announcement, leading industry analyst Michael Pachter has gone on record predicting that Microsoft will quickly follow its rivals' lead and slash prices on all Xbox 360 models.
The Wedbush Morgan analyst expects the recently released Xbox 360 Elite to go from USD 479 to USD 399, the Premium model to see a drop from USD 399 to USD 349 and the Core system to be reduced from USD 299 to USD 249.
"We expect Microsoft to follow with a price cut of its own," said Pachter.
"Last week, Microsoft announced a slight Xbox 360 shipment shortfall and we do not believe that the company is prepared to allow Sony to erode its pricing advantage.
"We think that the console manufacturers will continue to cut price as their production costs come down, and expect sales to ramp significantly this holiday season," he added.
The company does not expect Nintendo to reduce the price of the Wii or DS, "as sales for both are still very strong and are anticipated
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Atlanta’s ‘Rabbi Jake’ Takes Jewish Music World by Storm
Rabbi Jake Czuper appeals to all age groups and gears specific songs to adults. Courtesy: Eli Gray Photography.
Atlanta might be well-known for Coca-Cola and Hartsfield-Jackson International, the busiest airport in the world, but for music lovers both large and small, the city’s true claim to fame may very well be hometown-born “Rabbi Jake,” a singer, songwriter and entertainer whose cheerful tunes and exciting concerts have been delighting Jewish listeners for years.
Growing up in Atlanta, Jake Czuper began composing songs when he was in fourth grade. His talent for combining Judaic concepts with upbeat music had him throwing tunes together, and after being invited to entertain his wife Chani’s preschool class, he found that they resonated with young children. Czuper began performing in Atlanta’s synagogues, summer camps and day schools in 2014 as Rabbi Jake, stressing themes like gratitude, simcha (“joy”) and emunah (“faith”) in a fun, fresh way. Much like his brightly colored signature orange shirts, he stands out from the crowd, offering even the youngest of listeners high-energy entertainment.
“My shows have LED lighting, bubble machines, glow sticks, candy and a professional sound setup—a real concert experience with plenty of audience participation,” said Czuper. “I never wanted to just be a guy with a guitar. I enjoy the interaction with kids and being able to give them a multi-sensory experience.”
Czuper finds Jewish children’s music to be a niche market—one that mainstream Jewish singers typically aren’t focusing on. He prides himself on writing music that appeals to kids of all ages, and loves watching teachers and counselors enjoying his performances just as much as their young charges.
“It’s not that bingy-boingy annoying kind of kids’ music,” explained Czuper. “This is regular music with lyrics for kids. Parents even tell me that they put it on in their cars even when their kids aren’t with them.”
Rabbi Jake upped the ante in July 2015, releasing his first official music video featuring his popular “Aleph Bais” song. Just several months later, his first album, “Rabbi Jake, Vol. 1,” debuted, followed in 2017 by “Rabbi Jake 2, Vol. 2: Thank Hashem.”
Czuper’s music runs the gamut, with song titles including “Thank You, Hashem,” “Jolly Jelly Bean” and “The Kipa Song,” addressing a variety of themes that help children build a personal relationship with God and a love of Torah and mitzvot — concepts that, as an educator, he had seen lacking in his own students.
Audiences nationwide have enjoyed his music, with Rabbi Jake entertaining youngsters at hotels during Passover and in Minnesota, Florida, Texas, New York and Canada. He performed most recently in honor of Rosh Chodesh Adar in the New Jersey region at Chabad of Tenafly and Fair Lawn’s Anshei Lubavitch. He often finds himself facing questions from TSA agents who want him to explain his large supply of jelly beans, as well as the hollow plastic pipes he uses to build a stand for his concert banner.
With a level of sophistication that is above most of what is currently available for children, Rabbi Jake has also found an audience with older listeners. As a former high school teacher who currently works as NCSY’s city director in Atlanta, Rabbi Jake is closely involved with teens, and he produces music for them as well. Rebranding himself under his Hebrew name, Tzidkiyahu, Czuper released his third album, “Tzidkiyahu, Vol. 1” in 2018, covering a full range of musical styles, including the very entertaining “4 Chords,” a mashup of more than 20 songs from various artists, including Gad Elbaz, Yaakov Shwekey, Shalsheles, Shalsheles Junior, The Chevra, Yeshiva Boys Choir, Mordechai Shapiro and Simcha Leiner, all of which are constructed using the identical four chords.
Some of Czuper’s most memorable moments performing as Tzidkiyahu include a Purim concert for Holocaust survivors in a nursing home that had one resident getting up and dancing for the first time in years, and playing two concerts for Floridians ravaged by Hurricane Irma in 2017. Another particularly poignant experience came when he took a group of NCSY teens on their first-ever trip to Israel. Setting the words “Am Yisrael Chai” to music, along with lyrics covering 3,000 years of history, Czuper and his students saw the song come alive as they toured the country.
Head of the Atlanta Boys Choir, Czuper plays weddings, bar mitzvahs and other private events. Ironically, he often finds himself fielding requests for some of his children’s songs at those affairs.
‘See light in darkness’
Recalling how he would start school each year with rabbis calling him by his full name, Tzidkiyahu Yaakov, inevitably opting for the more concise “Jake” within days, the 34-year-old father of four identifies with his biblical namesake, drawing on his unique ability to inspire others through song.
“Just like Shimshon [‘Sampson’] was gifted with super power, Tzidkiyahu had eyes that were able to see light in darkness, which is what I try to do in my music and in the Torah that I teach,” he said.
The message seems to be resonating. One father told Czuper that he had been on a road trip with his family, and as Rabbi Jake’s “Gam Zu L’Tova” song was playing in the car, he experienced a blowout. While the man and his wife were concerned that their children might have been frightened, their fears proved to be unfounded.
“The children told their parents that gam zu l’tova, and everything that Hashem does is for the best, which led to a meaningful discussion about emunah and [God],” recalled Czuper who was grateful that the song turned a potentially traumatic experience into a positive moment. “Teaching children essential hashkafa [“outlook”] at an early age literally transforms a child’s world and gives them the ability to have a true relationship with Hashem for eternity.”
Sandy Eller is a freelance writer who writes for numerous websites, newspapers, magazines and many private clients. She can be contacted at: sandyeller1@gmail.com.
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Symbiosis can work
The article today on Jambase that talks about the many successful fan efforts to get Phish to play specific songs, quite honestly, brought me to tears. It's one of the most beautiful things to be reminded yet again of the love that my favorite band has for its fans. Because the love that I feel for the band that changed my life is beyond more than words can say.
You all probably know by now that I would love if Phish would play in Israel.
A bunch of years ago I had a whacky vision inspired by who knows what that they would play there on a specific date.
When I asked a dear friend to pass on a whole research packet I put together (admittedly, that really does sound a bit bonkers) who is close to the band, quite legitimately, she said she wouldn't feel comfortable passing it on. That's understandable.
I am no social media wizard.
I am an individual, a mama, a fortunate wife.
I am chatty.
I am friendly.
I am sometimes misunderstood.
I am usually truthful.
I am Loony.
I love Phish.
I am grateful for chatting with Fish this spring when he told me directly, in response to the Phish in Israel question, that he would "love to play that amphitheater," making no promises.
"I just go where they tell me to set up my drumkit." -Jon Fishman, drummer of Phish
I have zero official record of that conversation.
So believe me or not.
Maybe so or maybe not.
But Fish told me that.
I will continue in my earnest, honest way to put out the energy in the world that a bunch of us would love it if Phamily had a reason to visit Israel to see our favorite band play an epic run.
Politics shmolitricks.
Love and light will prevail if Phish played in Israel.
If you will it, it is no dream tour.
#phishinisrael
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I am a proud gun owner!
Glue guns, that is.
Since we *are* on the topic of guns, I figured why not shout out to the world I own two guns! I know some folks are more reserved about telling the public, and yes it would probably be wise not to give away trade secrets.
However, I think you'd have to be living in a cave, or maybe have your head buried in an academic journal or otherwise be totally oblivious to the DIY crafting explosion over the past 20 years, to not realize there's at least one (more likely multiple locations of a) Michael's craft store in every major American metropolitan area. No, I get no revenue by the way from that link. I'm just nice like that. Not like I am driving much traffic to Michael's. But let's leave the self-deprecating stuff aside. This is a positive place.
The glue gun is readily available at many local craft stores in both the low heat only and LO/Hi combo versions. Hot glue sticks are available in various lengths, too.
It's been a fun crafting evening amidst the busy life I lead of caring for a family of 6, hosting a large Shabbat lunch today with way too much food, and getting 3 children ready to leave for 5 weeks. B H for a dishwasher!
Gearing up for Summer Tour. Not like I am going on tour. I wish. Only in my dreams. But I am getting to at least 3 shows in the next couple of weeks. And gearing up to sell OhKeePahs, HeadyBands, hoodies, and other donut-related items in person.
Here's a cute tote I just made.
What exactly happened with the whole donut explosion thing? It's like....slap some Fishman Donuts on it and people go ballistic. I don't quite get it. But somehow the masses love it. So, being the enterprising and entrepreneurial self I am, I am slapping donuts on my crafting items. This phenomenon fascinates me and is a topic I'd love to research and write about. But that's another story.
And a fanny pack I accessorized.
And some luxury hotel slippers, headyfied.
Anyhoooo...
Here are some of my favorite musicians visiting a gun shop somewhere in Europe a while back. I love the theatrics, the fun and games, when Trey scratches his very white leg, the silliness between Mike and Trey, the fact that Trey tries to bargain down and then when they finally offer him lower than his offer, he *still* walks away. These are good, solid guys! They definitely would be fun guys to hang with but that's another story.
What exactly did Trey do with that whip? I don't really want to know.
Safety Concerns Especially in the Jewish Community...I Prefer a Cavern.
Your time is near, the mission's clear....
Have been thinking a lot lately about guns and gun safety. The Orlando tragedy was just that. Tragic. I do believe that people have access too easily to very dangerous weapons and many people act irresponsibly.
However, others act responsibly. I don't really like bringing up this topic since it can often get ugly, but I am doing it anyway. Feel free to bash me. When thinking about being a synagogue goer, and thinking about having spent time in Israel, I don't have to think too much to come to the conclusion that, overall, our synagogues are a lot safer in Israel (the 2014 Har Nof synagogue attack and tragedy comes to mind and is very sad). Many synagogues are beefing up security around the United States. It's about time, I think. At least in Europe it's easy to find a synagogue when you're a tourist because you just look for the police car outside. Back in the states, what this that means is that community members are carrying weapons. And these weapons are stored in local homes.
It's a sad state of affairs, but it's not just swastikas being painted on synagogue walls anymore.
The topic was covered recently in the 5 Towns Jewish Times.
This all being said, I am concerned about my children's safety. Five years ago when I moved here I heard murmurs that people owned guns. I didn't think about it too much. But now I decided to ask the question that the Brady Campaign's ASK Pledge recommends. Which is, before you send a child over to play to another family's home, ask the simple question:
"Is there an unlocked gun in the house?"
So far, I asked twice.
The first time was a huge bomb because I didn't ask word-for-word. The mom was highly offended and thought I was meddling which I wasn't. I had only asked wrong, and I made a mistake. Call me stupid, call me an airhead. I did it wrong. It was a mess and it took me a few weeks to ask the question again but in the right way.
The second time was totally fine. This family happens to let their children know they own a gun. The mom said it was a well-worded question. Her children know that the parents go to a shooting range. I have no idea if the children know where the gun is located in the house, but at least I know the parents keep it locked up.
A friend who lives on the Upper West Side said not to be fooled; just because she lives in a liberal area, there are gun owners. She is just too chicken to adopt the pledge.
But you know what, it's like asking if there's a gate around the pool. It is well-worded and an educated question. If you don't like guns, and especially if you're a shul-goer, you're basically gonna have to get with the program and realize it's the reality. Or just live in ignorance. Or just hope that the people you send your children to play at are responsible. But that is the whole point of the Brady Ask Campaign.
Not that I personally think a person can beat down ISIS when they come knocking down their door. Especially when the gun is hiding behind the Manolos in the closet.
Personally, I prefer serpent deflectors and ribbon reflectors. Happy Summer Tour!
Just Relax, You're Doing Fine
Had an unfortunate interpersonal fail today which ended up working out. But it took a while. It was energy-draining. Also I am sleep-deprived. And very busy with many things to do in life. Grateful for my health, home and family above all.
Still, I found great solace in Strange Design. As is often the case with so many Phish songs, I find tremendous goodness in their lyrics and music. This time was no different.
Here's a beautiful rendition. I was there at my first New Year's Eve shows in 1995.
Strange Design
I'm needing less restraint before
I'm needing to hit the lights and close the door
I'm fine, I'm fine
Cause I'm...
Dripping in this strange design
None is yours and far less mine
Hold the wheel, read the sign
Keep the tires off the line
Swimming in this real thing I call life
Can I bring a few companions on this ride?
I'm feeling, my heart's not beating anymore
I'm feeling. It's alright, this happened once before
I'm fine, I'm fine.
Labels: just relax, phish, sleep deprived, strange design
Hot as a pistol, and by the way do you guys keep guns in the house?
"Nothing left to do but smile, smile, smile." -Grateful Dead
Taboo topic
Gun ownership isn't talked about much in my world of observant Jews.
Out in the open, that is.
That's how it works among my kind - you do stuff and you don't necessarily talk about it.
That's not always a good thing. Especially when it comes to child safety.
Kids turn things into guns
The Wolfman's Brother, nearly 9, lately has been making things into guns. Legos, aluminum foil, you get the picture. This is probably all very normal for a kid his age. But this is pretty new, and I worry about the real deal. Who knows what his influences in school are in this realm.
Gossip or truth? Liberal NYC Jews ain't here in suburban Philly.
A few years ago, when we moved here, I was privy to a conversation at a Shabbat table where a couple told me that there's a lot of hush hush discussion about who carries a gun in town. That some rabbis here carry weapons to shul. That overall this is a conservative Republican frum community where a lot of people own guns. Moving from New York City to Pennsylvania was a real culture shock in that regard. Since then I have heard nothing, but I try to stay out of pretty much all busy-body discussions. I don't really know what people talk about.
What my Gut tells me.
My gut tells me that I wouldn't want my children in any home where there are guns. Period. Loaded, unloaded, stored separate or together, in a bed stand, in the attic. I don't want my children in a home where there are guns. Many people here have told me they don't get me. That they live inside the box and I am very much outside of that box. So maybe I don't have that many friends to begin with to lose. But I do wonder what might happen. Will people start whispering into each other's ears...Rachel Loonin the mother who likes live music, kept her last name, feeds her children kale and only 1 slice of pizza, and who knows what else goes on in that house...that the hippy liberal suspicions we had about her all along are true. I doubt the Shabbat meal invitations are at risk because we don't get invited out much anyway!
It's not that big a deal to ask if there's an unlocked gun in the house.
A brief bit of research shows that homes are safer if there's a gun safe. When ammunition is kept separate. When the safes are locked. According to Asking Saves Kids, which is run by the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence, you should ask if there's an unlocked gun in the house before you send your kids there to play. An ABC News entry gives advice about how to ask others if they have guns in the house. This article in the Washington Post offers a bit more nuance and discussion from a parent's perspective.
These things do give me reassurance. However, my gut still tells me I do not want my child in another home where there is a gun. How can I trust that the owner is responsible and will always lock their gun? Yes, it is our constitutional right to bear arms. That's the 2nd Amendment, right? But it still makes me feel uncomfortable. Am I then supposed to get into a whole discussion with the gun owner..."do you always keep it locked? Does your child know about it? Has your child ever touched your gun? Did you even forget just one time?" We're not talking the level of discomfort from them being in a home where there's junky snacks served or tv on all afternoon. And don't even ask about drugs. Prescription drugs are in so many of our houses and can be pretty dangerous and potentially lethal chemicals. Just in case you thought you could get me on the cannabis argument. This is very different. This is about life or death. Yes, I will let my child play in your house if you have prescription drugs. It's the reality of our society. And what about toxic chemicals like bleach that I don't keep in my own home, partially for safety reasons? Am I going to start preventing my children from going to homes that have Clorox?
Should I just throw in the towel and say that guns are a reason to keep my children away from your home?
And yet, I choose life.
Probably one of the few people who I am guaranteed to know will actually read this full blog is a person I know who I think owns a gun whose house we visit sometimes. What's the answer? Hard to know. It is 1:27am and I still have to do dishes in the kitchen sink, pack up an order, and take a shower before I go to sleep. What a convenient way to leave things open-ended.
This is the closest I want my children to getting to "hot as a pistol but cool inside."
Fishman Donut Phish Yarmulkas Kippas....you don't get a refund if you OverPray
Pretty excited to have these in stock.
Have been selling some as pre-sale before Summer Tour starts.
But we are saving most of them to sell in person this summer.
Getting good feedback.
Here's our new logo.
Glad to have another great item to add to the Phish community.
this was the bad version, the first try.
Note. Please note: the photo above is *not* the current incarnation of the Phish Yarmulkas.
My mom is here and we got to talking about the number 127.
Mom: "Why do you have a card with the number 127 on it hanging in your bathroom?"
Me: "I love the number 127; I have a deep connection to it."
Mom: "Me too"
Me: "I know, it's your number originally in my life. But I write about it from time to time in my blog. So I guess you don't read my blog."
It occurred to me that most people don't read my blog.
So, if you're reading this, good for you.
You're definitely in the minority.
I don't think she's going to be reading this, but I did explain to her at least part of my prediction about Phish playing in Israel from 2012 that didn't come true. At least I am making some progress. I spoke in person with Jon Fishman this year and told him it would be great if they played there. To which he said, "Yeah, I'd love to play in 'that amphitheater' but I just go where they tell me to set up my drum kit."
I have no clue if anyone in the band has heard there is at least one Loony girl who would like them to play there. I have no clue if they know who I am or what I am up to. It's a small world, and it's moving real fast. So, I like to think they know who I am. But that's not likely. Well, Mike knows who I am. He told me I leave him really long messages on his voicemail. That is very true. Yet it's also a big world and there's a lot of people in it. So sure word travels fast, especially if you're annoying and in people's faces. But I am an honest gal, so I have that. If I ever get into a person's face (which has been known to happen), I do know that I am always kind, friendly and fun-loving. And I know that at least 2 people like reading my blog and my posts on various boards, including the Freaks List. People just don't like reading on and on when I ramble on and on and on. For some reason people like reading Big Dog's Ramble. And who knows maybe people like reading what I write. Actually a bunch of lovely Freaks women came up to me at the most recent ball and told me they love my posts on Freaks list. We are all just so busy with life and who has the time to ramble on and on. But I am really warmed when some really nice women come up to me and say they like what I write. You have to block out the noise, forget about the negative comments, and just move on and focus on the positivity because it's all the goodness that's out there that is what is going to propel you. Don't let one negative thing hold you back.
For the most part, people don't reply to what I say. "God never listens to what I say." That's not true, actually I disagree. I believe that the Aybeshter does listen. BH I have a cozy happy home with my material needs met. And a loving dear husband and BH healthy children. These are really and truly the things that matter. A happy, peaceful home. Health. Sufficient sleep. Can't say that the last thing really happens all that much. Especially when you're wasting time writing a blog.
Pink Talking Fish at the Ardmore Music Hall, PA 4/9/16
Fortunate for us we planned ahead and bought tickets a few weeks ago to this sold-out show. Once again the Ardmore Music Hall booked a solid band of stellar talent, and I am feeling repeated waves of gratitude for having excellent music so accessible outside of New York. A ten minute drive from our house with free parking makes this venue a win win all around for any local freak.
A hybrid blend of Pink Floyd, the Talking Heads, and those boys from Vermont, Phish, we enjoyed a real treat last night from talented musicians. They put on a solid show, and we were treated to familiar Floyd tunes such as "Mother," "Dogs," and "Shine on You Crazy Diamond." The music was absolutely on point, though as we were getting into the groove, my dance neighbor Casey, a lovely and beautiful woman who clearly knows how it happens, said that hearing David Gilmour perform one particular Floyd tune played would *really* blow your mind. No doubt, but I was really enjoying lead guitarist Dave Brunyak take the music to a contemporary level in front of my very eyes.
Here's the setlist I culled. The official setlist is posted at the end of this post. But cut me some slack: Me no misses nice noob, but a seasoned über-educated music fan like Bob Lefsetz or any one of the myriad of kind freaks on Neddy and JR's list or in the greater jam band live music world I am neither:
Set I
very. very. very makeshift. But, mama tried. Haven't really done setlists since 1995 but I'm going back to my more youthful days. Don't love looking at a screen so at the end of the set I can at least go back on my notes and see what I just experienced. Yes, that did just happen.
totally incomplete but pretty good for not asking for anything except for Dogs, which I of course recognized but didn't know the title of. Ruff ruff.
The show, which was billed as covering Phish's Gamehenge, was truly for any fan of rock & roll. You didn't need to be a Phish fan to appreciate this show. If you're a music fan of these genres (prog rock, punk, new wave and plain ole rock) you would likely have been familiar with most of the Floyd and Talking Heads tunes played. Incidentally, I felt a very personal sense of gratitude towards my brother who introduced me to Pink Floyd. I likely would never have known any Pink Floyd if not for my big brother. So, thanks dude! But if it were just Floyd and Talking Heads, that would have been enough. Dayeinu, as they say.
But oh did those Lizard people gather and that famous mockingbird did fly. What I mean by that is that if you were there because you love Phish (which I am guessing was most of the audience) at many points during this show in suburban Philadelphia, you'd probably be smiling all the way to King of Prussia. Especially when my new and local mama friend Sam called it when they started the first notes of "Possum." (note: even though I knew they played this song, it didn't make it to the set list. Such is life).
Tela...pretty psyched! Wilson seemed as if unfinished, and I felt a sense of emptiness with the absence of Mike Gordon's fun "blat boom," (or is it blap boom, feel free to debate) so when they played Dogs then AC/DC with sounded like a M*A*S*H theme song intro (see below: clearly that was my own idea and not what was played) and back into the classic Wilson ending, the sense of closure was fulfilling.
Set II
One very special moment at 1:10 (approx) minutes into the intro of Shine on You Crazy Diamond (see video above), I glanced onto the stage and saw keyboardist Richard James do some kind of half moon motion with both arms, as if conducting the group to its next stage in this 10+ minute long song and into the entire Second Set. As if to say, here we go, and we're all in this together. Right on, Richard!
Phish's "Moma Dance" followed by Pink Floyd's "Mother" was fun back to back, especially since some interpreters tend to think of Phish's tune as having a maternal feel to it because of its name (which if you look at the lyrics doesn't really, and more makes you feel like you are a prep school hippy summering in Oak Bluffs with your Vineyard Vines khakis, or back in the day, Vuarnets).
We are in the throes of a presidential election year, so when they arrived at the lyric "mother should I trust the government" in "Mother" I couldn't help but elevate on a nearby bar stool look out at the sea of fans and wonder if anybody else was thinking about what will happen this November.
An added bonus, of course, is that while everyone there comes for the good vibes and tasty tunes, there's always a great communal feel at these types of shows. Either you see people you know, meet new friends, or don't even talk to a single soul but you have the feeling of connecting with something greater than you because of the music. The question is: what do you do with that feeling when you walk out the door?
Thank you to PTF for posting the official setlist.
The Ardmore Music Hall
Gamehendge concept
Wilson Prelude*>
TMWSIY>
In The Flesh>
The Lizards>
Psycho Killer>
The Lizards
Have A Cigar>
Tela>
Esther Interlude>
Crosseyed And Painless
Wilson>
Dogs>
AC/DC Bag>
Wild Wild Life
Colonel Forbins Ascent>
Great Gig In The Sky**>
Famous Mockingbird>
Once In A Lifetime>
The Sloth
Possum***
Shine On You Crazy Diamond****>
What A Day That Was>
Moma Dance
Take Me To The River>
Down With Disease>
Life During Wartime>
Down With Disease
E: Loving Cup
*w/ Is There Anybody Out There? and Houses In Motion lyrics
**w/ Aly Paige on vocals
***w/ David Bowie tease and "I Want My MTV" lyric from Money For Nothing
****w/ Harpua and David Bowie teases
Bernie Reprise: Two TV Sets & Two Cadillac Cars
Many moons ago, my dear friend Ariela told me that if this is a Phish blog, she'd be lost. I assured her that it is not. Sure, I am inspired by much of my favorite band's lyrics, but as stated in the subheader, this is a cultural commentary. I talk about parenting and other stuff too.
However, it's a presidential election this year. Me? I don't get too into it. I can say I will not vote for a bigoted and racist fool.
So far, the thing that has caught my attention is that Bernie Sanders has wonderful things to say about the band that changed my life. Yep, Loony gets about that deep when it comes to her politics. As the old adage goes, "Her life was saved by rock-n-roll" (and the Torah).
I know that most of you reading can't relate to the power of a Tweezer Reprise, but there is incredible power, emotion, depth of heart in experiencing that song live. Ask any phan and no one will deny the proper respect that a Tweeprise deserves. There's little debate that this tune is emblematic of the Phish experience. It's filled with positivity and hope and all good things. It is a very motivational tune.
So when Bernie walked out to this tune at a recent rally, I was pretty psyched.
I was also pretty psyched to meet the very solid and kind Tom Marshall, one of Phish's essential lyricists and collaborators, recently though a friend. Sometimes it's hard to keep all of my seemingly disjointed thoughts together, but I shared with his wife, whose name is spelled Lea Lea but pronounced "LiLi" as in the song "Yaalili", that her name reminds me of this really catchy tune that was popular in the Jewish world like 5 years ago. She definitely gave me a blank stare, but was kind about it. Am I nuts? Nah, just got a little bit of the loony thing going on.
When you have a conphergence of a person who loves both Phish and her ancient heritage (that's me you're talking about!), you get one freaky, heady holy chiller!
How I get from a Princeton prep school hippy who writes noodley jamband tunes (the classic one being Golgi Apparatus) to heart-o-Flatbush observant, chassidic Jews who created a tune that has reached millions of Jews is the power of my ever connecting thoughts. I attribute this ability to the aybishter, as always. What can I say, it's a G!d-given gift. I just want more people in my life who can appreciate this stuff.
I just hope that Tom and Lea Lea got a kick out of the video. And of the Balki-looking guy towards the end.
Labels: bernie sanders, holy chiller, tom marshall, tweeprise, tweezer reprise, yaalili
Farberware is Built to Last!
My mother's friend Shelley always swore by Farberware, so when I first married I got a few pieces. Over the years, I have acquired more. As a kosher keeper, I have two sets, naturally. I still use some of the other brands, but I really do love Farberware.
check out what I have for meat!
So I was pretty disappointed when the lid to my dairy 8 quart slipped on the counter and the knob fell off.
I called Farberware's 800 number, 800-809-7166 isn't so easy to find, but find it I did! Can I tell you how amazing of a customer service experience this was? In this day and age of long queue waits on the phone and being given the runaround by companies, this was not at all the case with Farberware!
My friendly customer service rep, Richard G, was nothing but pleasant over the phone. He said if it is a factory defect they will send me a replacement for free. Within an hour of looking at the photo I emailed (to his personal email at the company, not some anonymous address), he replied to me, stating indeed they would replace it for free. And actually I am getting not the glass top (which I never really loved), but the stainless top, which is my preference.
As the music I love is always on my mind, I could not help but state:
And so is Jerry, whom I continue to thank for being part of such an important venture.
There are times that you can beckon
There are times when you must call
You can shake a ton of reckoning
But you can't shake it all
There are times when I can help you out
And times that you must fall
There are times when you must live in doubt
And I can't help at all
Three blue stars / Rise on the hill
Say no more, now / Just be still
All these trials / Soon be past
Look for something / Built to last
Wind held by the collar
Got a cloud held by the breeze
You can walk on coals of fire
But sometimes you must freeze
There are times when you offend me
And I do the same to you
If we can't or won't forget it,
then I guess we could be through
One blue star / Sets on the hill
Call it back / You never will
One more star / Sinks in the past
Show me something / Built to last.
Built to last till time itself
Falls tumbling from the wall
Built to last till sunshine fails
And darkness moves on all
Built to last while years roll past
Like cloudscapes in the sky
Show me something built to last
Or something built to try
There are times when you get hit upon
Try hard but you cannot give
Other times you'd gladly part
With what you need to live
Don't waste the breath to save your face
When you have done your best
And even more is asked of you
Let fate decide the rest.
All the stars / Are gone but one
Morning breaks / Here comes the sun
Cross the sky now / Sinking fast
Show me something / Built to last
Mighty Quinn on the Bus
It's ticket pre order season for summer shows and I am figuring out what we're going to do. Continuing feeling grateful and blessed we can now finally get to more shows. Stango is so supportive, and that's really the best part.
Been busy with headybands, hoodies, and other mech-related products to Whole Phamily. So the blog has been dormant. But I know there are some of you who enjoy this blog. So consider this an entry just for you.
There's just so much I love about live music.
You're either on the bus or you're off the bus.
So glad to be on it.
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14 Juli 2010T04:38
World Cup Logo Piala Dunia 2014
Logo Piala Dunia 2014 (FIFA World Cup Logo)
Host country : Brazil
Dates : 13 June - 13 July
Teams : 32
Venue(s) : 12 (in 12 host cities)
The 2014 FIFA World Cup will be the 20th FIFA World Cup, an international football tournament that is expected to take place between June and July 2014 in Brazil.
This will be the second time the country has hosted the competition, the first being the 1950 FIFA World Cup. Brazil will become the fifth country to have hosted the FIFA World Cup twice, after Mexico, Italy, France and Germany. It will be the first World Cup to be held in South America since the 1978 FIFA World Cup in Argentina, and the first time two consecutive World Cups are staged in the Southern Hemisphere. 2010 World Cup champions Spain will be defending their title.
On 3 June 2003, CONMEBOL announced that Argentina, Brazil, and Colombia wanted to host the 2014 World Cup finals. By 17 March 2004, the CONMEBOL associations had voted unanimously to adopt Brazil as their sole candidate. Brazil formally declared its candidacy in December 2006 and Colombia did so as well a few days later. The Argentina bid never materialized. On 11 April 2007, Colombia officially withdrew its bid, Francisco Santos Calderón the vice president of Colombia announced that instead Colombia would be hosting the 2011 FIFA U-20 World Cup. With this Brazil was the only official candidate to host the event in 2014.
Brazil won the right to host the event on 30 October 2007 as the only country to enter a bid.
Venues of FIFA WorldCup 2014 in Brazil
Seventeen cities showed interest in being chosen as World Cup host cities: São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Belo Horizonte, Porto Alegre, Brasília, Belém, Campo Grande, Cuiabá, Curitiba, Florianópolis, Fortaleza, Goiânia, Manaus, Natal, Recife/Olinda (a stadium will be shared by both cities), Rio Branco and Salvador. Maceió withdrew in January 2009.
According to current FIFA practice, no more than one city may use two stadia, and the number of host cities is limited between eight and ten. The Brazilian Confederation requested permission to assign twelve cities hosting World Cup Finals. On 26 December 2008, FIFA gave the green light to the 12-city plan.
Even before the twelve host cities were selected, there are few doubts that the chosen venue for the final match will be the Maracanã stadium in Rio de Janeiro, which also hosted the final match for the 1950 FIFA World Cup. Originally the CBF's intentions were to have the opening match at Estádio do Morumbi in São Paulo, the largest city in Brazil. However, on the 14th June 2010 the stadium was excluded from hosting games in the tournament due to a failure to provide financial guarantees for the improvements needed to have it as an eligible venue. Despite the desire of the CBF to still have São Paulo as one of the 12 host cities, there are still no defined plans to have a proper venue in the city.
The twelve host cities for the 2014 World Cup were announced on 31 May 2009. Belém, Campo Grande, Florianópolis, Goiânia and Rio Branco were rejected.
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