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10 Images from Thimphu, Bhutan
Thimphu is the biggest town in Bhutan. It seems to be in a hurry to become a city but like all the places in Bhutan that I visited it is so beautiful and charming. It didn’t feel like a big city at all.
10. Takin, the National Animal of Bhutan
Takin, the National Animal of Bhutan #lumia1020
Takins are weird to look at. It feels like they have a small cow’s body and a goat’s head. It is a goat antelope, whatever that may mean! The legend of Takin goes back to the divine madman of Bhutan Drukpa Kunley. It is said that he was fed a whole cow and a whole goat for lunch. When the bones were left he put the goat’s head on the cow’s body and the Takin was born! There is Motithang Takin Reserve in Thimphu where you can see the national animal with relative ease.
09. The Local Vegetable Market
The Local Vegetable Market, Thimphu #canon550D
As we were passing by the local vegetable market in Thimphu, we went and took a stroll. I was amazed as to how clean it was. In fact whatever I saw in Bhutan, it was absolutely clean!
08. Crafts Market, Thimphu
The Crafts Market, Thimphu #canon550D
The crafts market at Thimphu is expensive to shop at. People accept Indian rupees everywhere and the Nu exchanges on par with the rupee. Shopkeepers don’t really bargain. An average tourist coming to Bhutan has to spend 250 USD per person per night and I guess that explains the prices and the lack of bargaining. The crafts market is next to the Taj Tashi hotel.
07. The National Memorial Chorten
The National Memorial Chorten, Thimphu, Bhutan #canon550D
The National Memorial Chorten is dedicated to the third King Jigme Dorji Wangchuck and to the world peace. It is close to the city center. It is a small monument where you can see a lot of people doing their Buddhist rituals.
06. A Far Away View of Tashichho Dzong
Tashichho Dzong- A far Away View #canon550D
We didn’t had time to go to the Tashichho Dzong in Thimphu. So I had to be satisfied with a far away view. If you peer hard you can see it close to the mountains.
05. Simtokha Dzong, Thimphu
The Simtokha Dzong, Thimphu #canon550D
Simtokha is said to have been built in 1629. We did a quick tour of the dzong and it was impressive. The main prayer halls of all the dzongs I visited were no photography zones. The main prayer hall of Simtokha was huge and exuded peace from every corner.
04. The National Library, Thimpu
The National Library, Thimphu #canon550D
The National Library at Thimpu is an impressive building. It has a lot books, mostly religious, after all it is the national library. But it has a massive display of pictures on the walls as well. The pictures are of the kings and the dzongs. It was quite an impressive collection. I bought a book from the library called The Dragon Finds its Voice by Bunty Avieson. It was a very good decision to buy the book as it gives a good insight of life at Bhutan.
03. A View of Thimphu City from Buddha Point
Thimphu the Capital of Bhutan
Buddha Point gives a beautiful view of the Thimphu City in almost all the directions. When I was there construction was going on at the site.
02. Dochula Pass
Dochula Pass #canon550D
Dochula Pass is on the way to Phunakha. It is just outside the Thimphu City. You can visit it as a destination in itself. There is a restaurant at the pass. On a clear day I am told that you can see high mountains. But you know my tale since 2013, all I saw was the clouds!
01. The Buddha at the Buddha Point
The Buddha at the Buddha Point, Thimphu #canon550D
And this is the giant Buddha at the Buddha Point. It is an amazing site. I loved it for the atmosphere and the beautiful view of the city it provided.
As you can see from the post, there is a lot to do in Thimphu and I am sure I have just scratched the surface as of now!
PS. I was invited by Makenytrip to Bhutan. And they have got me hooked to the country! While writing this post I must have thought at least a 100 times that I have to go back. Let us see when.
There is something about Paro that makes me calm. Maybe it is the size, it didn’t feel big. Maybe it is the number of houses which didn’t seem excessive. Maybe it is the mountains, maybe the small and charming market. But as soon as we started getting out of the airport I said to no one in particular, “now this is exactly what a doctor would order for the frayed city nerves.” After spending 3 nights at Paro, I have still not revised my opinion. It feels as if no one can strike a discordant note in Paro, Bhutan.
The Naksel Resort, Paro, Bhutan #Lumia1020
We stayed at the Naksel Resort which is away from the city. But then in Paro, even the city does not feel like city. My room at Naksel was huge and it had a balcony. The nights were so silent that I would leave a small light on in my room, even though I don’t get easily scared! The only hitch in the paradise? The rooms were at a sharp incline and it was a task to walk back after dinner! But it was good in a way, that way we could digest some of the awesome dinner we would gobble everyday!
The Tiger’s Nest, Paro, Bhutan #Canon550D
The highlight of my trip was the climb to the Tiger’s Nest in Paro. If you are even mildly fit you have to attempt it. The walk is steeply uphill but the location of the monastery is amazing. It is perched on the top of a cliff almost floating up there in the clouds! I will surely like to walk this path again with my daughter one day.
The Traditional Dance at Paro, Bhutan #Canon550D
The Naksel Resort organized an evening of traditional dances from Bhutan. But let me digress for a moment. At college, a colleague asked me to join the ‘Cultural Club’ as a mentor to which I asked her, “Ma’am do I look cultured to you in any way?” That is the truth about me. I miss out on all the finer aspects of dances and such. And yet it is always a pleasure to watch the traditional dances of a country even if I can understand and appreciate so little.
The Market at Paro, Bhutan #Canon550D
They called it a market! For me it was a small place to wander! There is more to the market than I could capture in one frame but it was a small, cozy place. But shopping in Bhutan is expensive. As it has a restriction of USD 250 per person per night on tourists from many countries (but not India), the shopping reflects this. But then who wants to shop when one can roam around and click beautiful pictures! The shops had ornately beautiful windows too!
Rinpung Dzong, Paro, Bhutan #Canon550D
As we were staying away from the city, I could never walk next to the Paro River. It is on my agenda. I also could see the Rinpung Monastery from a distance. But then I have to simply find a way to go back to Bhutan! I am completely smitten by it. I am sure if tranquility had an address it would be Paro!
PS. I was invited by Makemytrip to visit Bhutan and I so thankful that I could easily take leaves and go!
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Paradise City – Guns N’ Roses Preview Guitar Lesson
Paradise City is a great Guns N’ Roses song from their debut album “Appetite for Destruction” released in 1987. This song starts with an acoustic style opening with large open chords and arpeggios. The really cool thing about Slash’s playing is that he plays a chord and breaks it up into arpeggios or double stops while letting the other notes of the chord ring out, which is really unique and a bit tricky to pull off. The solo is a perfect example of Slash’s lead playing style and really accentuates how he started his phrasing with his first finger. Most guitarists phrase with their ringer finger as the the target, but Slash used his first finger which fit his style of playing nicely into the pentatonic shape you’ll be using in this song. There’s a lot of rock and roll style vibrato that relies on more wrist than finger action, as well as wide bends that bend and release repetitively to create a unique vocal style vibrato. There’s also a blues influenced string skipping concept that Slash adapted for rock music, pulling form his influences. You really hear it in the bridge where he uses descending 16th note patterns that repeat in different positions on the neck. There’s a lot to learn in this one, so get your chops ready and lets get started!
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Trump and Xi are supposed to meet at the upcoming G20 summit. Here’s why experts say the outcome will dictate the fate of the entire stock market.
/ By Todd Mitchell
The planned meeting between President Donald Trump and his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping, at the annual G20 summit remains a high-stakes "will they, won't they" game.
Trump said he wanted to meet with Xi later this month as trade tensions linger. Beijing has not confirmed any meeting, according to reports. And sources told Reuters this week that expectations were low that the leaders would progress toward ending the US-China trade war that has raged on for more than a year.
Whether or not the two leaders convene in Osaka, Japan, to discuss trade relations between the two largest economies will have implications for investors in US markets, according to equity strategists and economists.
With the Federal Reserve already assuming an accommodative posture in the face of slowing economic growth and volatile international trade tensions, any indication that relations are headed further south could sway the central bank's tightening path and influence the markets.
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"We continue to see the Fed on hold through much of next year — a view that rests importantly on a market-positive outcome from the G20 meeting," Morgan Stanley strategists led by Ellen Zentner wrote Thursday in a note to clients.
Because the Federal Open Market Committee is set to meet next week, ahead of the Osaka summit, Zentner's team expects the market to move in response to the news flow surrounding the G20 meeting.
Investors appear pessimistic about the state of the trade war given the MSCI China Index's recent underperformance relative to the MSCI USA Index, along with moves in the renminbi against the US dollar, Oliver Jones, an economist at Capital Economics, said.
"There seems to be little expectation that another meeting at the next G20 summit this month will result in a fresh cease-fire," Jones wrote in a Thursday note to investors.
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"Indeed, it would probably come as little surprise to markets if the two sides imposed tariffs on virtually all bilateral goods trade, as we now think is likely," he said.
Jones also added that what's fueling his bearish view on equities is the belief that global growth will continue unabated, regardless of the trade war.
Some strategists say stock-market investors — within arm's reach of record highs in the US — are stuck in a "wait-and-see" mode with the G20 summit on the horizon.
Athanasios Vamvakidis, Bank of America Merrill Lynch's global head of G10 foreign-exchange strategy, told investors on Wednesday that the "rates market is too pessimistic, the equities market too optimistic," and the FX market is complacent.
In other words, he argues global stocks should probably be trading a bit lower, rates should be a bit lower, and the foreign-exchange market should be trading in a more volatile fashion. That is, if they were all properly pricing in risk surrounding the US-China talks.
"We remain optimistic, but one can also argue that things could get worse before/if they get better, both before and after the G20," Vamvakidis said.
Stocks in the US were broadly positive on Thursday, with the S&P 500 trading within 2% of its May 1 record.
Source: https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/trade-war-possible-trump-xi-g20-meeting-stock-market-impact-2019-6-1028278377
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Some Things Sound Better in the Dark
My clock radio is tuned to Album 88, the college station at Georgia State. Last fall, I often heard the Lambchop song "Slipped, Dissolved and Loosed" when I awoke. As my consciousness reassembled itself in the early morning darkness, the music usually led me along the same train of thought. The blackbird in the chorus of the Lambchop song would remind me of "Blackbird" by the Beatles. Then I would recall that Paul McCartney wrote "Blackbird" in support of the civil rights movement, and that would inevitably lead me to wonder if Barack Obama was truly to become our next president. ("Blackbird" also made me think about Tenacious D's "Rocket Sauce", but that's another story.)
Sometime this spring, the Lambchop song gave way on Album 88 to "Young Master Sunshine" by Venice Is Sinking. Like the above-mentioned songs, "Young Master Sunshine" is gentle in its acoustic rhythms, and quietly hopeful in its mood. The instrumentation (particularly the trumpet and the expressive drumming) reminds me of the Atlanta band Smoke. On other songs (such as "Wetlands Dancehall"), Venice Is Sinking recalls the retro-futuristic music that Angelo Badalamenti and Julee Cruise made for the Twin Peaks soundtrack: the tremeloed guitar, tremulous harmonies, and whispers of synth. I recommend listening to Azar as an album, start to finish. The opening instrumental, "Azar One", introduces a melody that is recalled at the end of the climactic "Charm City". It's an impressive record, with a broad palette of lush and lovely sounds that my clock radio could only hint at.
Venice Is Sinking recorded a session for WOXY that you can listen to and download to get a taste of the band's talents. Venice Is Sinking also did a session for Daytrotter that should appear next month. And they are about halfway toward their goal of raising money through Kickstarter to press their third album on vinyl. Donate $20 or more by September 13 and you get the new LP, a brand new EP, and mp3s of the LP and EP songs. Plus your donation supports the rebuilding of the Georgia Theater in Athens. It's easy to donate (especially if you already have an Amazon account -- presto, you're a record mogul!) Or you can buy Azar for ten dollars from the label.
Lambchop: Slipped, Dissolved and Loosed
Venice Is Sinking: Young Master Sunshine
Misanthropology or Misogynecology
I've been listening to KVLR a lot lately. It's not a radio station (or a building material, like Tyvek). KVLR is a band (like Tyvek). Here's my favorite song from KVLR's 2004 self-titled album. The song predicts "a generation of a$&#%s and w&*%s". A bit dark, I'll grant you, but it's quite catchy.
The song title "Birthcam" seems an appropriate metaphor for a generation that thinks it has something novel to say (and worthy of posting to the internet) about experiences that have been common throughout human history. On the other hand, I still find it exciting to discover bands that can do something novel with the guitar/bass/drums format. So there's that.
KVLR is RIYL Fugazi, Chavez, and Swervedriver. (Me? Yes, yes, and hell yes.) Buy KVLR (the album) brand new from the label for $3.00! I call that a bargain, the best you'll ever have.
KVLR: Birthcam
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Bleuets et Fraises
Another month gone with nary a blog post. The home PC crashed and was replaced. I cancelled my eMusic subscription, after four years and almost 700 artists downloaded (some of which I lost in the crash).
Two of my favorite music blogs, Little Hits and Shake Your Fist, have recently folded. My good friend Paula seems to be ready to shut down her blog, Intellectual House of Pancakes. IHOP isn't strictly about music, but it is (or was) invariably amusing and thought-provoking.
On a more positive note, Miriam Linna recently started blogging. Kicksville 66 is her story of coming of age in Cleveland in the mid-70's, and then moving to NYC to join the nascent Cramps. Her first-person perspective connects the dots between CLE and NYC at the birth of punk (a story familiar to readers of Please Kill Me). Miriam recommends that you read Kicksville 66 chronologically, and you can start here. Miriam Linna is a talented musician and writer, and a passionate fan.
Speaking of Ohio's invaluable contributions to punk culture, here is an outstanding Devo cover (from a great new Austin TX band). I found it on the blog The Finest Kiss.
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The World of Film in Australia - on the Internet Updated Thursday June 20, 2019
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After 20 years of online publishing (1,040 weekly editions), Urban Cinefile will pop the champagne to celebrate its final weekly edition on February 16, 2017. But Australia’s pioneering online movie magazine will remain a freely accessible online resource with its full complement of over 22,000 articles, including a special section dedicated to over 600 Australian films.
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“We are immensely proud of our track record as the voice of Australian film on the internet,” say the founding editors, Andrew L. Urban and Louise Keller, who have written, reviewed, managed and published it all with enthusiasm. “Over the years we have attracted readers from every corner of the globe and have served our Australian readers with a weekly menu of reviews, interviews, news and box office reports.”
Urban Cinefile was launched in February 1997 and in 1998 was voted the Best Arts & Entertainment Site in the inaugural Australian Internet Awards. The quality of its content was also recognised by major internet portals bursting onto the new online landscape. Urban Cinefile became the source of syndicated movie reviews and other content for the likes of Telstra Big Pond, Optus, AOL, Yahoo! City Search, Virtual Communities, Qantas Inflight and many more. Urban Cinefile produced movie reviews on mobile phones as well as a movie review program for subscription TV channels Ovation and World Movies.
“We also pioneered webcasting of the AFI Awards and Tropfest,” recalls Urban, “in association with our client partners, and I think we gave Australian movie lovers easy and entertaining access to the discussion of movies and insights into film and filmmaking in Australia.” Keller adds: “We are proud to have hosted Australia’s first live online chat with Kate Ceberano (through AOL) and hosted the official Telstra webcast of the Fox Studios Opening with over 40 Red Carpet interviews including Baz Luhrmann, Hugh Jackman, Tom Cruise, Nicole Kidman, Kylie Minogue, Kerry Packer and Rupert Murdoch.
The future of movies was canvassed at a forum for our 10th anniversary when a panel of industry notables including (then) Foxtel CEO Kim Williams, Oscar winner George Miller, Animal Logic’s Greg Smith, AFTRS acting head Chris Fitchett. Oscar winner Peter Jackson recorded a special video message reinforcing his view that the internet will drive changes in filmmaking.
Since 1999, the National Library of Australia has archived Urban Cinefile in its PANDORA project, the ongoing web archive, citing Urban Cinefile as ‘an online publication of cultural value’.
We will continue to enjoy movies (& continue publishing our reviews of some) and safeguard our legacy in Urban Cinefile; we invite readers to browse our extensive archives and enjoy the reflections on the thousands of films we have reviewed.
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Section 377: Here is everything you need to know
Essay on section 377 and gender justice, simplifying section what india needs to understand!
It came into force in Most of the times homosexuals and their behaviour are termed as deviant. It violates Article 15 of the Indian constitution which ensures that no person shall be discriminated against on the basis of caste, gender, creed etc. You might also enjoy:
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In our view, Indian Constitutional law does not permit the statutory criminal law to be held captive by the popular misconceptions of who the LGBTs are. He had a relationship with Francis Wacziarg for 23 years until Wacziarg passed away.
Section refers to 'unnatural offences' and says whoever voluntarily essay on section 377 and gender justice carnal intercourse against the order of nature with any man, woman or animal, shall be punished with imprisonment for life, or with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to 10 years, and shall also be liable to pay a fine.
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On 27 Marchthe Supreme Court reserved verdict on these.
Section came into force in However, the judgement keeps intact the provisions of Section insofar as it applies to non-consensual non-vaginal intercourse and intercourse with minors. It had in restored the criminality of the sexual relationship between persons of the same sex, after the Delhi High Court had decriminalised it in Office No.
He was in a committed relationship with Navtej Singh Johar and drew from his personal experiences while protesting. Further SC says that it is the work of parliament to make or amend the legislation and parliament shall make endeavor to remove such controversial provisions form statue books of India.
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On the other hand, rape does not involve consent and the country should be focusing on punishing rapists and other criminals instead of criminalising sexual activities between consenting adults and punishing the innocent. Shashi Tharoor in the Lok Sabha, if people are being discriminated against on the basis of their sexual preference? This Court believes that Indian Constitution reflects this value deeply ingrained in Indian society, nurtured over several generations.
In a page judgement, a bench of Chief Justice Ajit Prakash Shah and Justice S Muralidhar said that if not amended, section persuasive essay with modals the IPC would violate Article 14 of the Indian constitution, which states that every citizen has equal opportunity of life and is equal before law.
The effort to end discrimination against gays should be understood as a necessary part of the larger effort to end the inequality of the sexes, he said.
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Sandré R. Swanson
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I worked hard to make Education California’s top budgetary priority and the California Teachers Association (CTA) have endorsed me.
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More Middle Class jobs for our district and affordable housing for seniors and working families is another top priority.
Profession:Sandré R. Swanson California State Assembly 2006 -2012
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Sandré R. Swanson served three successful terms as a Member of the California State Assembly. He was the Chair of the Assembly Labor & Employment Committee and was a vocal advocate for growing the middle class with sustainable jobs. Mr. Swanson also served on the Assembly Budget Committee, Sub-committee on Education Finance; Assembly Committee
on Utilities and Commerce and was the Speaker’s Appointee to the State Workforce Investment Board.
Mr. Swanson is passionate about the plight of troubled and at-risk youth.
As Chair of the Assembly Select Committee on the Status of Boys and Men of Color, his committee’s work is widely used by the State today in its strategies for assisting young people. As a result of this work, in 2014 Mr. Swanson was invited to the White House by President Barack Obama and was requested to participate in the President's “My Brothers Keepers “ initiatives.
During his tenure in the Assembly, Mr. Swanson passed landmark legislation dealing with the atrocities of human trafficking—which he calls “modern day slavery.” His legislative work assisted with the development of programs for job training, housing and counseling for the victims of human trafficking—some as young as 12 years old. Several of his laws are prominently referenced on the California Attorney General’s web site. District Attorney offices are using these laws across our State to successfully prosecute human trafficking criminals in California today.
Following his work in the legislature, Mr. Swanson served as Deputy Mayor for the city of Oakland, California.
He worked successfully on growing the City's economy by developing small businesses and jobs. Before his election to the California State Assembly, Mr. Swanson served five years as Chief of Staff for Congresswoman Barbara Lee. Before that, he worked for 25 years as the District Director and Senior Policy Advisor for Congressman Ronald V. Dellums. He also served as Chair of the Alameda County Employee’s Retirement Association, Chair of the Oakland Civil Service Commission, and Chair of the Oakland Re-Use and Redevelopment Authority.
Early key endorsements of his campaign for the California Senate include key legislators currently representing the people of the 9th Senate district. They include the incumbent, Senator Loni Hancock, Assemblymember Rob Bonta, Assemblymember Tony Thurman and his campaigns Honorary Chair, Congresswoman Barbara Lee, and more.
Mr. Swanson is a native of Oakland he and his wife Anita have four children and five grandchildren.
California Teachers Association (CTA)
Incumbent, Senator Loni Hancock
AFSCME District Council 57
California Legislative Black Caucus
SEIU California
Union of American Physicians and Dentists
Teamsters Joint Council 7
California School Employees Association (CSEA)
California Nurses Association(CNA)
Oakland Fire ghters IAFF Local 55
The Wellstone Democratic Renewal Club
Black Women Organized For Political Action (BWOPA)
Alameda Fire ghters IAFF Local 689
Jerome Horton, Member CA Board of Equalization
Desley Brooks, Councilmember, City of Oakland
Jane Brunner, Former Councilmember, City of Oakland
Nancy Nadel, Former Councilmember, City of Oakland
Frank Matarrese, Vice Mayor, City of Alameda
Jim Oddie, Councilmember, City of Alameda
Maxwell Anderson, Councilmember, City of Berkeley
Jesse Arreguin, Councilmember, City of Berkeley
Kriss Worthington, Councilmember, City of Berkeley
Nathaniel Bates, Councilmember, City of Richmond
Courtland “Corky” Booze Councilmember, City of Richmond (Ret.)
Surlene Grant, Vice Mayor, City of San Leandro (Ret.)
Nina Senn, Oakland Uni ed School District Board of Education
Meredith Brown, President, Peralta College Board
Dr. William S. Riley, Vice President, Peralta College Board
Linda Handy, Peralta College Trustee
William Patterson Vice President, EBMUD Board, Director 6
Abel Guillén, Councilmember, City of Oakland
Jean Quan, Mayor, City of Oakland (Ret)
Beverly Johnson, Mayor, City of Alameda (Ret.)
Assemblymember Mary Hayashi (2006-12)
Senate President Kevin de León
Assemblymember Rob Bonta
Assemblymember Tony Thurmond
Senator Darrell Steinberg President Pro Tem (2008-14)
Senator Tony Mendoza
Assemblymember Sally Lieber (2002-08)
Assemblymember Joe Coto (2004-10)
Assemblymember Mariko Yamada (2008-14)
Marlon McWilson,Trustee, County Board of Education
Sheila Jordan, Alameda County Superintendent of Schools (Ret.)
Donald White, Treasurer/Tax Collector Alameda County
Fiona Ma, Chair, CA Board of Equalization
Assemblymember Mike Eng (2006-12)
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SEIU Local 1000
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The record will show, that as Chair of the Labor and Employment Committee and Member of the Assembly Budget Committee on Education, I worked hard to make Education California’s top budgetary priority. That
is why the California Teachers Association (CTA) and The California School Employees Association (CSEA) have endorsed me for the State Senate. I was the leader in the fight to keep Redevelopment Agencies for affordable and senior housing because we are in a housing affordability crisis and I passed laws to reduce neighborhood crime.
I led the fight to keep the “Healthy Family Program” that provided healthcare for 740,000 poor children—
and I worked for a healthy environment. The California Nurses Association (CNA) and the Union of American Physicians and Dentists support my record and have joined our campaign. I was the leader in the Assembly on protecting your pensions and retirement security. The Teamsters, SEIU, and AFSCME working families agree and are on our team. I am committed to student loan debt relief and have sponsored environmental justice efforts to stop the spraying of pesticides near schools, to stop illegal dumping in our community and support green jobs and wetland restoration. Our first responders, the City of Alameda and Oakland/Alameda County Firefighters have also endorsed me for State Senate.
I proudly led the State’s efforts to rescue our children from Human Traffickers—some children as young as 12 years old and I increased funding for wrap-around services for our most at-risk youth. I supported small business loans in underserved communities to increase employment opportunities and have been an advocate for Equal Rights and Civil Rights for everyone.
During the budget battles of the recession, I challenged those in leadership to keep the social safety net for the poor, the disabled, seniors and children.
That’s why I’m running for State Senate.
Candidate, California State Senate, 9th District
Why I’m running for State Senate
Progressive Values For State Senate
Our community has a rich history of progressive politics and for being the conscience of California. I would like to continue that tradition and give a voice to our progressive values in the State Senate.
I led the fight to keep the “Healthy Families Program” that provided healthcare for 740,000 poor children—
and I worked for a healthy environment. The California Nurses Association (CNA) and the Union of American Physicians and Dentists support my record and have joined our campaign. I was the leader in the Assembly on protecting your pensions and retirement security. The Teamsters, SEIU, and AFSCME working families agree and are on our team. I am committed to student loan debt relief and have sponsored environmental justice efforts to stop the spraying of pesticides near schools, to stop illegal dumping in our community and support green jobs and wetland restoration. Our first responders, the City of Alameda and Oakland/Alameda County Firefighters have also endorsed me for State Senate.
I am respectfully asking you to join progressive champions like Congresswoman Barbara Lee, State Senate President Kevin de León, Senator Loni Hancock, Assemblymember Rob Bonta, Assemblymember Tony Thurmond and support our campaign for the California Senate.
I humbly ask for your support.
Office Phone: 510-842-5930
Join Team Swanson at: www.SandreSwanson.org
Website: sandreswanson.org
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UltraSoC joins GSA IoT Security Working Group
IoT Security Workshop takes place in Santa Clara on 18th June
CAMBRIDGE, UK – 17 June 2019 UltraSoC today announced it has been selected as a member of the Global Semiconductor Alliance (GSA) Internet of Things (IoT) Security Working Group and will be participating in the upcoming IoT Security Workshop, as part of the 2019 GSA Silicon Summit. The group has recently identified automotive security as a key area for focus – an area where UltraSoC will draw on its experience in embedded analytics for cybersecurity and functional safety applications.
The GSA IoT Security Working Group was established to address end-to-end issues in IoT security. It is comprised of various IoT ecosystem security stakeholders including chipset vendors, platform companies, cloud vendors and service providers. The goal is to promote best practices on IoT security, share information on threats and attacks, define security requirements and inform standards bodies. It is also an opportunity for GSA members and partners to influence the requirements for security that get passed to all participants in the value and supply chains.
UltraSoC’s embedded analytics technology delivers value throughout the security value chain. For developers building secure systems it helps speed time to design and build secure SoCs and provides the ability to continue to monitor and report on their performance once in place. In addition, UltraSoC offers in-life benefits to its customers and even to the end users – by enabling on-chip monitoring and analytics systems that respond at hardware speed (microseconds rather than milliseconds), are difficult to subvert because they operate “below the operating system”, and can provide an additional orthogonal “root of trust” to those used in conventional systems.
“Being able to guarantee security at the heart of our technology is fundamental to the work of this group,” said Marc Canel, Chair of the GSA Security Working Group. “We’re therefore delighted that UltraSoC has joined the Group and look forward to benefiting from the company’s ‘embedded insights’ to educate and inform our essential work in this area.”
Rupert Baines, CEO of UltraSoC, added: “At UltraSoC, we appreciate the challenges of building a comprehensive security ecosystem for something as diverse as the IoT. We also believe our team has a lot to bring to the table and look forward to participating in the Group’s activities. We are committed to improving cybersecurity and functional safety from ‘within’ and we believe all devices can benefit from the sort of in-life embedded intelligence our technology delivers.”
The Working Group has also already identified important project topics including Pre-Silicon Assessment, Identity Management, Provisioning, Trusted Supply Chain, and Virtualization. The Group will also be undertaking future projects in Automotive Security and Silicon-as-a-Service. To date, stakeholders in the IoT security ecosystem from more than 50 companies have been involved.
The GSA IoT Security Workshop takes place as part of the 2019 GSA Silicon Summit on the 18th June, in Santa Clara, USA.
About UltraSoC
UltraSoC is a pioneering developer of analytics and monitoring technology at the heart of the systems-on-chip (SoCs) that power today’s electronic products. The company’s embedded analytics technology allows product designers to add advanced cybersecurity, functional safety and performance tuning features; and it helps resolve critical issues such as increasing system complexity and ever-decreasing time-to-market. UltraSoC’s technology is delivered as semiconductor IP and software to customers in the consumer electronics, computing and communications industries. For more information visit www.ultrasoc.com
About Global Semiconductor Alliance
GSA is Where Leaders Meet to establish an efficient, profitable and sustainable semiconductor and high technology global ecosystems encompassing semiconductors, software, solutions, systems, and services. It is a leading industry organization that provides a unique neutral platform for collaboration, where global executives interface and innovate with peers, partners and customers to accelerate industry growth and maximize return on invested and intellectual capital. GSA has an impressive global footprint representing over 30 countries and 300 corporate members comprised of top companies in the semiconductor industry representing 75% of industry revenues. To learn more about the GSA please visit: https://www.gsaglobal.org/
Andy Gothard
andy.gothard@ultrasoc.com
david.marsden@ultrasoc.com
Twitter: @ultrasoc
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A Media Campaign Against Uber That Starts With A Question
Sep 11, 2015 | Industry News |
Transportation companies are in the fight of their lives to stop the illegal activities of Uber, the multi-billion-dollar corporation whose growth plan relies on breaking the law, putting untrained and uninsured drivers on the streets, and taking a cut from the fare riders pay. So what is the industry doing to fight this?
Part of the response from the Taxicab, Limousine & Paratransit Association (TLPA) has been to wage the most concerted public information campaign in its nearly 100-year history.
Contracting with the public relations firm Melwood Global, the TLPA launched the “Who’s Driving You?” public safety initiative in 2014. The goal of the campaign is to provide timely, relevant and authoritative information and perspective on the inherent dangers created by Transportation Network Companies (TNCs) such as Uber and Lyft. The goal is to educate policy makers and the public through the media about why a responsible regulatory approach to TNCs is vital for public safety.
The campaign’s name was chosen because it applies to so much of what we in the transportation business see as wrong today. Who’s driving that Uber vehicle and has he been fingerprinted? Who’s driving a city councilor’s decision to ignore public safety? Who’s driving the message that more cars on the road somehow magically reduce congestion? Who’s driving the immense funding behind Uber’s war chest?
A central piece for this campaign is the website www.WhosDrivingYou.org, constantly updated with new information, including smartly written blogs to the latest news about TNC dangers. The new website also has a list of criminal incidents reported by the media that involve Uber drivers, from sexual assaults to kidnappings to DUIs. The site features links to all incidents, as well as a running counter of the total number.
Social Realms
The campaign has a robust social media arm to it as well, with daily postings and tweets on Facebook and Twitter. All transportation company representatives are encouraged to follow the campaign on Facebook (www.facebook.com/WhosDrivingYou) and on Twitter at @WhosDrivingYou.
At certain times, the campaign runs specific advertisements on Facebook to highlight key messages such as background checks, insurance, or the shocking and inexcusable rise in violence against women at the hands of Uber drivers.
Members of the “Who’s Driving You?” team constantly monitor media reports from around the world about Uber and Lyft, and are in daily contact with reporters in many cities. Their support is available to any TLPA member by calling the campaign phone number at (202) 822-2093 or by emailing info@whosdrivingyou.org.
The messages of the campaign center around key themes of safety and background checks — something that anyone in the professional for-hire vehicle business knows are the two greatest concerns of any operation. As needs arise, the campaign also refocuses on additional messages, which have ranged from Uber’s egregious breaches of privacy to its hollow claims of job creation. The campaign staff talks daily and often hourly with TLPA leadership on latest events, messaging opportunities and planning.
Media Gets
It takes a lot of coordination to battle Uber and its Wall Street billions, but the effort has gained attention. The Washington Post called the TLPA “Uber’s primary lobbying foe at the national level” while USA Today highlighted the association’s “vigorous media nationwide campaign” from the “Who’s Driving You?” initiative.
In response to Uber’s missteps and the opposition it faces from associations like TLPA and the National Limousine Association, Uber last year hired David Plouffe, the media strategist behind President Obama’s 2008 election. This year, the company hired Rachel Whetstone, a public relations consultant from the United Kingdom’s conservative party who later ran Google’s media communications in Europe. Her addition signals that Uber has big concerns about Europe.
Meanwhile, Uber works overtime to keep up the appearance of a responsible company despite the frequency of its drivers having their mug shots hit the media in yet another alleged crime. And North American cities are waking up to the notion that Uber, if left unchecked, will run roughshod over their streets, sacrificing safety for profit. From Miami to Toronto, and New York to Houston, Uber no longer delights in the free reign it once had.
Our industry’s concerns are as real as the dangers we see visited upon innocent Uber passengers. Through it all, a strong communications effort has been, and will continue to be, crucial to making our message heard. So in case you haven’t already asked the question, “Who’s Driving You?” when it comes to Uber, the TLPA can help with that answer.
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eve’s pin cactus
Austrocylindropuntia subulata
Whorled
Reduced / Needle
Austrocylindropuntia subulata can reach heights up to 4 meters, with numerous branches. The elongated, slightly brittle branches are up to 50 centimeters long. The stems are marked by rhomboid to ovate bumps in a few spiral rows. At the tip of each bump is the areole, from which grow one to four straight, grayish-white spines up to 8 centimeters long. The awl-like rudimentary leaves are up to 12 centimeters long.
Also known as: Eve's Needle, Eve's-pin prickleypear, Long Spine Cactus, Eve’s Needle Cactus, Eve's Pin, Cane Cholla,
Not known in Australia
Peruvian Andes
State declaration
Category 3 - Must not be distributed or disposed. This means it must not be released into the environment unless the distribution or disposal is authorised in a regulation or under a permit.
As per State Declaration
Cool Arid
Branching shrub to three metres tall. Forms patches to eight metres wide. Leaves to 12 centimetres long and these may persist for more than one season.
Basal bark
Cut stump
Austrocylindropuntia could displace other species from native vegetation and hinder movement of humans and animals. However, they are slow growing and have not been reported as causing problems in South Australia. Austrocylindropuntia may be able to naturalise in areas of South Australia south of 32° S.
Stem segments are glossy green, sometimes with a purple tinge (especially around the areoles and margins). Often more than 2 cm thick, 5–25 cm long.
Leaves: evergreen wide leaves, elongated 30-60 or 120 mm long, curved, fleshy and persistent.
Flowers are pink. Fruit large, solitary or in small chains of 2–4, green, 50–135 mm long.
It spread by seeds dispersal
A. cylindrica
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Working on Wellness
in Hidalgo & Starr Counties, Texas
About W.O.W. in Hidalgo County
South McAllen
Contact W.O.W. in Hidalgo County
About W.O.W. in Starr County
Contact W.O.W. in Starr County
According to Mr. Muñoz, working in the Transforming Texas gardens teaches more than how to grow and sustain a garden. While not all children will participate in building the garden in its early stages, every student who spreads compost, plants seeds, waters the garden, or harvests ripe fruits and vegetables, will see the product of their individual and team work. He believes that the gardens teach students that with hard work and dedication you can grow your own personal success and proudly achieve your goals. He is confident that the gardens cultivate more than organic produce, but actually cultivate a sense of pride and encouragement in the students that will transfer to other areas of their lives.
Sixto Flores sees the role of Transforming Texas as one that inspires the community to take action. Self-sufficiency, caring for one another, and strong family values represent the collective beliefs of the almost entirely Hispanic community, said Mr. Flores. Those same values encourage people in Starr County to contribute to the community and “make something happen,” he said, “but they don’t know what or how.” According to this WOW coalition member, Transforming Texas community efforts guide those values and inspire community members to make the community better if not for them, for their children. “When [the community] sees us working, pulling grass, and starting gardens, they realize that they don’t need giant fields and fancy equipment, they can do this on their own,” he said. No single coalition or community member could do this alone, but through the Transforming Texas community effort things are getting done, making the community better every day.
About W.O.W.
The Working on Wellness project is focused on improving the health environment of Hidalgo and Starr counties by increasing the residents’ access to healthy foods and places to be physically active.
Playability Workshop 2018
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Breaking Ground For Katarina Park Walking Trail
The WOW Coalition and community leaders, like you, are integral to the success of Transforming Starr County. Your support and assistance help ensure that the programs are effective and what the community needs!
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And There Were Three: Chapter Three
Fiction By Clare Marie // 6/22/2008
The house of the Earth Fairy lay in a corner of the Fairy Kingdom, between two marvelous birch trees, and surrounded by flowers of all sorts. It was a comfortable house made of tree bark; not very big perhaps, but snug and homelike. Out of the roof stuck the chimney, which was always smoking. The door leading into the house was rectangular at the bottom, but oval-shaped at the top, and on this hung a large mat made of grass. Dried flowers were woven in it, making a cheery picture. Inside a little carpet of the same material lay on the dirt floor. Curtains of a light substance embroidered with flowers and trees were draped on the three windows. Along the wall ran shelves with strange and outstanding carvings, on which rested shapely glass vases filled with many different kinds of flowers and bushes. In a corner sat a fat stove with a merry fire, and copper-bottomed baking dishes and pans hung on gold hooks above. An open doorway showed a small bedroom with a mattress and pillow filled with the down of cattails. A table made of cherry-tree wood with a candle on its top rested there, too. It was altogether a pretty, comfortable house.
The Water Fairy’s house was just as comfortable, but in a much different way. It was a cave beside a tremendous waterfall that poured into the Anomiada. The front of the house looked east toward the Fairy City. The inside of the cave had beautiful symbols and pictures painted on its walls. Delicate tapestries and curtains made of water lilies hung on the walls and windows. Soft mats of rushes lay all around the floor. A curious cupboard holding wonderful earthenware sat in an opening in the wall, and a fireplace cut into the rock was below it. A miniature waterfall springing from the larger one shot through a hole in the roof, ran splashing down the southern wall and out into the river. Light streamed in through other holes in the roof and through the windows, mingling with the spray from the waterfalls and casting cheery bits of rainbow around the cave.
It was in this bright house that the lost baby boy laughed and played, shoving his wee hands into the dancing spots of light. Anomien started to call him Ficum. Every morning she gave Ficum his breakfast and played with him. Then she carried him down to the riverbank, and leaving him in the care of the water animals, who were her fellow river guardians and better caregivers than any nurse, she mounted a dolphin and sailed down the water to patrol the border. Finding all secure, she would return to her riverbank, and usually discover Ficum sleeping deeply on the blanket of grass, a sweet smile on his face.
Near the end of the week, Anomien received a message from the Queen’s court, telling her to wait another seven days to meet with her sister, as Asani was still in counsel with her wise advisors. Evidently she was determined to get to the bottom of the mystery which enveloped Ficum and his box. Anomien was grateful for the delay, for she was still recovering from the first shock of finding the babe and his mother. The Water Fairy in turn sent a message to the Earth Fairy, telling her what the Queen said. On her part, Syla was disappointed in the delay, for she was extremely curious about all that happened, and sighed to think of how long it would be before she learned any answers. However, it turned out the week was shorter than she expected, for Anomien invited her many times to visit with her and Ficum. Syla was delighted with this arrangement. In this way they passed the week of waiting, and as was expected received at its end a summons to have an audience with the Fairy Queen.
Anomien and Syla walked the road to the Fairy Queen’s palace once more. The Earth Fairy chattered excitedly, describing her curiosities to Ficum as she held him in her arms, while the Water Fairy glided behind, smiling softly to herself as she watched them. Arriving at the palace, they found Queen Asani pacing the room, again impatiently waiting to see her visitors. She bounced toward them, and bestowed kisses on all three, even the startled Syla. Then sweeping the baby up into her arms, Asani skipped back towards her throne and plopped herself upon it. She said with a giggle,
“Pardon my, well, un-ladylike enthusiasm, but I can’t tell you how I’ve been longing to see you!” Anomien replied, laughing,
“You sound like my dear friend Syla! Although I think she was more impatient for answers to her questions than anything else.” Syla grinned sheepishly while Asani exclaimed,
“And you shall get your answers, at least some of them. I don’t know all, but I shall relate what I have learned.
“Having consulted with my counselors about this matter, and having made many explorations, we have arrived at the simple conclusion that the writing on this box is written in some ancient script known only to a particular race of humans, those to whom our Ficum belongs. We do not know what the writing says, but are hoping that in time, Ficum himself will be able to read it. We have a feeling that there is something of great importance in the box, most likely concerning Ficum. So far, that is all we have been able to discover, which, unfortunately, is not much; after all, we fairies are very unacquainted with humans and their ways.” Asani leaned back in the throne, her slender fingers drumming the armrests. Anomien gazed out of the throne room window while Syla sat brooding. She abruptly broke the silence:
“But why did Ficum’s mother get murdered in such a brutal way? What could have caused such a tragedy?”
“We are not even sure that the girl was actually Ficum’s mother,” answered Anomien. “Perhaps she did not have anything to do with the boy? Maybe it was just a coincidence that we found her beside the child?”
“No,” said Asani. “It was not a coincidence; I am sure of that. I suppose that the people who killed Ficum’s mother wanted to do the same with Ficum. It was lucky that Ficum’s enemies didn’t find him. Poor girl!” (She sighed, thinking of Ficum’s mother.) “If only we could find out who was responsible for her death. Then we could do something, we could act.”
They continued in this manner, talking far into the morning. The outcome was that they would raise Ficum themselves in the arts of combat, riding, swimming, everything a fairy boy would learn, and even more. When he was of age, they would reveal to him his true heritage (if he had not guessed it already) and as much of his story as they knew. Then they would send him with their blessing on a journey, a perilous one, to find those who were his real family. Anomien, the softhearted, shed silent tears at the anticipated parting.
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I can't wait for the next
I can't wait for the next chapter!
Hmm, I wonder what happens...
Anna | Sun, 06/22/2008
I have hated the words and I have loved them, and I hope I have made them right. --The Book Thief
The next chapter is dramatically different...in a good way. ;)
I'm glad you like the story, and thanks for the commment!
Clare Marie | Sun, 06/22/2008
*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*
"I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve." -Bilbo Baggins [The Lord of the Rings]
Are we going to find out why
Are we going to find out why the title is "And then there were Three"?
Anna | Mon, 06/23/2008
Yes, but not until much later in the book.
For now, you'll just have to guess. :D
Clare Marie | Mon, 06/23/2008
Oh, you stink... :) JK not
Oh, you stink... :) JK not really since Stars Over Llorleya doesn't get revealed until later also. :)
(evil smile)
Mwahahaha...
Finally, someone else who
Finally, someone else who spells it "mwa" instead of "mua"... sorry, random thought... :)
I don't know anyone who spells it "mua" instead of "mwa"...
I do... or at least i see
I do... or at least i see alot of them. I think it looks better with a w though.
I think a w looks better, too.
This story is great.
Um Wow interesting conversation, I think W is best. Well to the point, this story is great.
Arthur | Tue, 12/08/2009
"My greatest wish for my writing is that it would point you to the Savior."
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BERGAMOEvents
THE PRIVATE MUSEUM. THE PASSION FOR CONTEMPORARY ART IN THE COLLECTIONS IN BERGAMO | GAMeC
THE PRIVATE MUSEUM. The passion for contemporary art in the collections in Bergamo
Curated by Giacinto Di Pietrantonio and M. Cristina Rodeschini
Opening: 5 October 2010, 6:30pm
Dedicating an exhibition to contemporary art collecting in the city of Bergamo and its territory twenty years after the GAMeC opened means exploring the city’s ‘hidden potentials” and discovering its unexpected richness.In 1991, the year the Galleria d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea opened, the town administration chose, upon the advice of the board of Directors of the Accademia Carrara, to express the city’s great involvement and interest in modern and contemporary art by inaugurating the GAMeC with the presentation of the show Collezione privata, Bergamo. Arte italiana del XX secolo, dedicated to the most important collections in Bergamo with works dating up to the end of the Seventies.
Further to the exhibition, some citizens of Bergamo – including Gianfranco Spajani and Gianfranco and Marta Stucchi – decided to donate the best works in their collections to the City of Bergamo and the Accademia Carrara for the Galleria d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, in the wake of the great tradition of patronage that is uniquely characteristic to the City of Bergamo, from the origins of the Accademia Carrara founded by Giacomo Carrara in 1796.
Art collecting, with special focus on contemporary works demonstrates the experimentation and research involved in the visual culture of our times. The purpose of this exhibition ‘THE PRIVATE MUSEUM. The passion for contemporary art in the collections in Bergamo’ is to present to what extent and in what cultural direction the city has developed since 1991, through a selection of works of contemporary art bought by collectors of Bergamo throughout the course of their experience.
Academic research has shown that many collections have grown in the last twenty years, and that there has been significant growth in the number of new enthusiasts.
There are many reasons for collecting, Giacinto Di Pietrantonio reminds us in the exhibition catalogue: “Although contemporary art skeptics are quick to point out the economic factor, there are still other reasons for collecting, such as the fact that more and more people are realizing how much art is able to enrich their lives, or that the value of the work is not merely the result of its capacity to resist time, but also its ability to reflect contemporary reality; or else that art maintains the mind and the challenge to live the present that is also made of sensations drawn from the unconscious, which is sometimes tiresome, but true, and that a collection must be something more than the sum total in order to assume its own identity”.
Their research has led them to explore collecting ranging from Programmed and Kinetic Art to Arte Povera to Conceptual Art, from the Transavanguardia to Postmodernism with an international approach, and not excluding artists working in Bergamo.
As M. Cristina Rodeschini maintains in her text in the catalogue, “one of the criteria of the project has been to present structured collections in the show that are the fruit of personal taste, but above all a cultural passage that recognizes collecting as a constant research exercise. […] Bringing works together in order to give shape to a collection is an effort that requires in-depth awareness as well as the pleasure of allowing oneself to be surprised by the unexpected. The collections are gradually structured and they change: with each new work the relationships between all the others are recalibrated. They may also be transformed by partial alienations of the collections, in order to have the pleasure of initiating new experiences. Each collector seeks a way to keep the indissoluble couple of desire-possibility in a delicate balance. There are many reasons presiding over the choices and wealth remains among the differences once again.”
Giacinto Di Pietrantonio continues: “With the increased specialization of knowledge the artist is perceived as unique, art nonetheless remains an island of multidisciplinary aspects, while collecting — acquiring works — acts as a place for supporting Man’s complexity as witnessed by art.”
Bergamo is an important point of reference in the field of art collecting, in part because of the relationship that the public institutions have successfully woven with the city and that the Accademia Carrara and the GAMeC symbolize par excellence.
The contemporary art collections in the territory of Bergamo bring together many high quality works, in many cases veritable museum “pieces” that have never before been on public display, and this exhibition offers a unique opportunity to admire a heritage of about 200 works that are otherwise inaccessible.
On Show:
A12, Marina Abramovic, Carla Accardi, Vito Acconci, Vincenzo Agnetti, Eija-Liisa Ahtila, Mario Airò, Getulio Alviani, Meris Angioletti, Giovanni Anselmo, Nobuyoshi Araki, Rodolfo Aricò, Stefano Arienti, John Armleder, Atelier Van Lieshout, Richard Avedon, Maja Bajevic, Olivo Barbieri, Matthew Barney, Gabriele Basilico, Bernd and Hilla Becher, Vanessa Beecroft, Fausto Bertasa, Mariella Bettineschi, Joseph Beuys, Alighiero Boetti, Agostino Bonalumi, Candice Breitz, Olaf Breuning, Angela Bulloch, Sophie Calle, Nino Calos, Mircea Cantor, Rino Carrara, Lawrence Carroll, Valerio Carrubba, Maurizio Cattelan, Christo, Francesco Clemente, John Coplans, Tony Cragg, Martin Creed, Mario Cresci, Enzo Cucchi, Roberto Cuoghi, Aaron Curry, Keren Cytter, Dadamaino, Gino De Dominicis, Wim Delvoye, Sam Durant, Olafur Eliasson, Elmgreen&Dragset, Weng Fen, Gianfranco Ferroni, Sylvie Fleury, Franco Fontana, Tom Friedman, Giuseppe Gabellone, Cyprien Gaillard, Stefania Galegati, Regina José Galindo, Anna Galtarossa, Andrea Galvani, Ryan Gander, Carlos Garaicoa, Alberto Garutti, Kendell Geers, Piero Gilardi, Gilbert & George, Nan Goldin, Douglas Gordon, Dan Graham, Giorgio Griffa, Alberto Guidato, Shilpa Gupta, Damien Hirst, Rebecca Horn, Roni Horn, Zhang Huan, Gary Hume, Irwin, Emily Jacir, Ilya Kabakov, Anish Kapoor, Hannu Karjalainen, Kcho, Joseph Kosuth, Jannis Kounellis, Yayoi Kusama, Ketty La Rocca, Luisa Lambri, Bertrand Lavier, Richard Long, Clara Luiselli, Margherita Manzelli, Robert Mapplethorpe, Eva Marisaldi, Jason Martin, Andrea Mastrovito, Paul McCarthy, Allan McCollum, Mario Merz, Jonathan Monk, François Morellet, Yasumasa Morimura, Liliana Moro, Zwelethu Mthethwa, Bruno Munari, Vik Muniz, Takashi Murakami, Ciprian Muresan, Hidetoshi Nagasawa, Kenneth Noland, Luigi Ontani, Catherine Opie, Dennis Oppenheim, Gabriel Orozco, Adrian Paci, Gina Pane, Giulio Paolini, Pino Pascali, Yan Pei-Ming, Alessandro Pessoli, Gianriccardo Piccoli, Pino Pinelli, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Paola Pivi, Avery Preesman, Luigi Presicce, Riccardo Previdi, Dimitri Prigov, Daniele Puppi, Gerhard Richter, Pietro Roccasalva, Ugo Rondinone, Matteo Rubbi, Thomas Ruff, Paolo Scheggi, Mario Schifano, Serse, Santiago Sierra, Alessandro Zuek Simonetti, Nedko Solakov, Ettore Spalletti, Giuseppe Stampone, Rudolf Stingel, Thomas Struth, Pascale Marthine Tayou, Wolfgang Tillmans, Marco Tirelli, Rirkrit Tiravanija, Patrick Tuttofuoco, Ian Tweedy, Piotr Uklanski, Giuseppe Uncini, Carlo Valsecchi, Victor Vasarely, Nico Vascellari, Ben Vautier, Vedovamazzei, Claudio Verna, Claude Viallat, Li Wei, Lawrence Weiner, Franz West, Entang Wiharso, Sislej Xhafa, Jiang Zhi, Gilberto Zorio.
Throughout the show, the collections will be the protagonists of the art scene as they will remain on display longer than the temporary exhibitions, although the latter, through their own displays, will also enrich the meaning and value of Bergamo’s collections.
Knowledge, which is settled by the production of a show such as this, is fundamentally important, both because it updates the museum as to the dynamics of taste in the cultural community within which it operates, and because it consolidates the indispensable dialogue between collectors and the museum, which has deeply established roots in Bergamo.
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ALEX CONFER
Migrations: 2010-14
Watercolors: 2016-17
Cheap Allegories: 2003-06
Perishables: 2000-03
Landscapes: 2010-17
Prints: 1997-2016
The painting series entitled "Migration," conveys a limbo where nature is at odds with defunct industry. Birds and other animals continue to survive--apathetic to the bleak human imprint that marks their surroundings. Society is altogether absent in the compositions, while ruined factories and machines wither in remembrance. The animals themselves demonstrate human qualities as they quarrel or reflect in a reclaimed kingdom.
CHEAP ALLEGORIES
The Cheap Allegories is a series of paintings, drawings and installations based on ten masks sculpted from paper mache´, synthetic fibers, animal pelts, wood, plastic, latex and other materials. Starting with just a head, the mask itself, a character is eventually developed and given attributes through, drawing, painting and the construction of a life-sized figure.
Informed by horror films, taxidermy, and classic portraiture, the Cheap Allegories series intends to give life to fantastical creatures that materialize in thoughts and dreams. Rather than painting from imagination or memory, this series depends on the mask-- a three-dimensional embodiment of the fantasy, as a model for rendering a natural likeness. Each mask is mounted on a life-sized mannequin which is then clothed like a doll, positioned and surrounded by objects to suggest a narrative. This approach to painting the figure borrows from the classical tradition of the artist observing and attempting to capture the specific qualities and features of the individual who is posing. By contrast, however, the lifeless models depicted in the Cheap Allegories are static forms that appear stiff and restrained.
The Perishables series is comprised of 35 gouache and watercolor paintings that attempt to capture animals' life essence in various post-mortem expressions. The subjects were found in Chinatown markets, natural history museums, or caught in traps. This body of work investigates the urge to memorialize and applies it to the undomesticated animals that have been captured or killed.
Each figure's treatment in the series is determined by the circumstances of its death. Some studies explore the strange results achieved by taxidermy: attempts to re-create noble or ferocious qualities often produce a blank, even comical expression. The images of mice testify to the violent struggle preceding death in a trap. The trap not only preserves the final, unnatural contortions of its victim, it also allows the normally furtive victim to be studied at length and close up. The animals from Chinatown markets are portrayed intact, before their transformation into something edible. In such a state, carcasses force the viewer to confront the physical features humankind shares with the animals it eats.
In depicting the mundane details of an animal's form, Perishables attempts to distinguish its subjects and recoginize the common attributes of human and animal mortality.
All landscape drawings were drawn in situ. The Spain drawings were made during three separate college teaching trips in Seville.
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LFW DAY 1 | MINNIE STYLE BLOGGER BREAKFAST & EXHIBITION
First stop for this season's London Fashion Week journey was a blogger breakfast hosted by Disney to celebrate the Minnie: Style Icon photographic exhibition that explores the character of Minnie Mouse and her influence on fashion and pop culture through the decades. Mercedes-Benz, who are official sponsors of LFW, were kind enough to provide a smart car to pick me up and take me to the Soho venue. There were quite a few of these cars transporting all manner of LFW attendees this season, each with a custom Minnie Mouse design decorating it. Mine was blue with polka dots and bows. The Minnie Style exhibition was created in partnership with the British Fashion Council and model Georgia May Jagger, who lends her own photography work, eerie multiple exposures of herself and someone in a Minnie Mouse suit (unfortunately these weren't allowed to be photographed). Also shown were images from an editorial Georgia did wearing Minnie themed pieces as well as other famous Minnie inspired shoots throughout history, including Madonna in Tokyo 1987 shot by Herb Ritts, and Chanel Iman for Vogue Germany. Photographs from the 1930s till now showcase the birth of Minnie, from the very moment that inspired Walt Disney to create her to following her evolution into animation, it was all very interesting to see, especially how major fashion houses such as Dior and Lanvin created outfits for her that then became inspiration to what she wore in cartoon form and vice versa, how much Minnie, with her bow and polka dots, has left her imprint on decades of ever-changing fashion. It was so nice to catch up with Sophie from Fashion Slave and to meet Fashion for Lunch, getting to hang out with other bloggers is definitely one of my favourite parts of LFW. After a full tour and a delicious breakfast and coffee, they sent us off with a Polaroid Socialmatic camera, which, as well as printing instant photographs, can also upload to various social media with wifi! How nifty is that? On the way to Brewer St. Carpark I bumped into Olivia Purvis from one of my favourite blogs, What Olivia Did, and she's just as sweet in real life as she appears to be.
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OOTD | LONDON FASHION WEEK SS16 - DAY 1
ASOS suede coat / Topshop striped top / Dali skirt (off Etsy a few years ago) / Catarzi hat / Alexander Wang boots / Givenchy bag / Regal Rose hair clickers/ Daniel Wellington watch*
I had a relatively quiet LFW season this time around and only went for two days out of a total four. For the first day (which was actually the second but my first, if that makes any sense), I went for something more relaxed and comfy as I had an early start and not much time to get ready. The seventies vibes were out in full force as I paired the newest addition to my striped top collection (this one has a lace up front to keep it current) with my tan suede coat, praying that London would defy itself and not rain and make me smell all musty. I also wanted to try something different with my hair, and since a 5am wake up call is not the best time to trial this, I made use of Regal Rose' s awesome new hair clickers, which, as the name implies, just clicks onto your hair and makes it look like you put in a lot more effort than you actually did! These Alexander Wang boots that you might have seen in my Youtube video were definitely going to be my shoe of choice, I've worn them almost every single day for the past two months and even from the get go, they were super comfortable. The heel height is the perfect amount of support too if like me, you often find flat flats too errr... flat. Oh and I think this is the most detailed debut of my yellow/lime green hair on my blog! You would have seen if you're following me on Instagram that not too long ago I got a grey ombre done at the hairdressers in Singapore but turns out it was rather difficult to maintain the grey by myself so one day I decided on a DIY hair jobby with Manic Panic's Electric Banana. I'm quite fond of the shade now and it lasts for absolute ages before fading.
*You can get 15% off any watch on www.danielwellington.com with the code 'adventuresofananglophile'
MUSIC | MUSE SECRET GIG
On the 11th of September, Muse were on BBC radio to announce their upcoming Drones world tour. My friends and I decided to wait for them outside the studio as we were all massive fans. What we weren't expecting was a surprise gig revelation at around 11am while we were there. The trio would be playing the Electric Ballroom in Camden that very night with tickets being sold at a first come, first served basis at the venue. Immediately we cancelled all our other plans for the day to leg it to Camden as there was no way I'd be missing the possibly once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to see my favourite band and coincidentally one of the world's biggest, play an intimate setting like the Electric Ballroom. Another push was the fact that I've been going to their shows for the past eight years, ever since I was still living in Australia and no matter how proud I am of their ever rising success, every time a bigger arena tour is announced, I can't help but get super anxious as I don't usually hold up too well in a mosh pit, let alone in one the size of a stadium. At around 2.30pm (a good three hours after they posted about the surprise show), we arrived at the Electric Ballroom. The realist in me had thought that there was no chance of us getting a place as the venue is tiny but it turns out that they have the capacity to fit a thousand people in and my friends and I were number 200 and something so you bet we got our hands on some tickets!
Muse have a repertoire of being the best live band in the world, and although there's always a risk of me being biased, it's probably true, just go ask anyone else. Stripped of all the flashy effects and machinations of their typical stadium shows, the band truly showcase how rich on the ears the music they produce is. The band opened with Reapers, off their latest album Drones, and unsurprisingly the majority of their 90 minute set was composed of newer material. I was super pleased that they played The Handler, which is one of my favourites off the new album (the other being The Globalist, which they've yet to perform live). Halfway through the gig, fans banded together to repeatedly chant for them to play 2006's Assassins, to which Matt Bellamy apologetically responded that they didn't have the right bass for it. I'd been wondering what the final song of the encore would be and I was beyond ecstatic when they launched into the powerful intro of the epic Knights of Cydonia. Matt Bellamy has a voice from the gods that can go from belting out a rock number to a soaring falsetto in slower songs. Combined with his unmatched guitar skills, the mad drumming machine that is Dominic Howard, and Chris Wolstenholme's beautiful bass and background vocals, the trio (plus live keyboardist Morgan, we mustn't forget him) always put on a show that in the words of another audience member I overheard, instantly becomes 'The best gig I've ever been to'. I came home completely bruised and battered after a long day but it was more than worth it and I would do it all again in a heartbeat.
Reapers
The Handler
Plug In Baby
Supermassive Black Hole
Dead Inside
Drones D&B
Knights Of Cydonia
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Topshop Unique dress / ASOS flats / Chloe bag
That Topshop dress that needs no introduction. I actually saw this dress with my own eyes as Alexa Chung walked past me on the way to the Topshop Unique show during London Fashion Week. Yeah I was a mere half metre away from her and all I could do was gawk because it was the most beautiful dress I had ever seen in my life. Since that moment I dreamed of owning one and I set an alarm for when it went on sale on the Topshop site. This is my first ever piece from their Unique line and it’s even more glorious in person. The silk material is so light and comfortable to wear, breezy in the heat but somehow insulating in the cold. It hangs so nicely on your body and the extra full skater skirt swishes magically with every little movement you make in it. Of course I love the detail with the high neck and floaty sleeves, it feeds my seventies style obsession. Okay I’ll stop singing all the praises now as I’m sure that’s even more annoying than the fact that it’s sold out (wahhhh).
PS. Apologies for my posting being a little all over the place lately. I have heaps of content to publish but it's been a super hectic few weeks and at the same time I don't want to bombard you all. I'm trying my best to post things in chronological order but do want to keep events write ups relevant so if my hair colour jumps back and forth between OOTD posts, that's why haha. FYI, I had brown ombre, then grey, and now lime green (my instagram is where I update daily).
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The New South African Standards and Labelling Programme for Residential Appliances – A First-Hand Evaluation Case Study has been presented at IEPPEC in Amsterdam by bigEE’s team.
On the 8th of June, 2016, Thomas Götz from the Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment & Energy has presented at the IEPPEC (International Energy Policy & Programme Evaluation Conference) policy case study results derived from bigEE’s collaboration with South African partners, on the subject of the New South African Standards and Labelling Programme for Residential Appliances.
Finally, by overcoming a set of barriers, in November 2014 the South African (SA) government managed to publish mandatory performance standards for a set of most used household appliances (refrigerators, washing machines, dryers, dishwashers, electric water heaters, ovens, A/C and heat pumps).
The research team has analysed the current status of South African energy standards and labelling, the design and implementation of policies in SA, a retrospective on the appliances market, inter-relationships of the studied policy with other energy policies; all for better understanding the new programme’s functioning and potentials and to also discover what further steps should be taken in order to achieve energy-efficiency targets.
The study reveals that South Africa is positively moving towards energy efficiency in policy elaboration in the related market and presents further improvement potentials. Accordingly, this study’s findings are to be used as relevant and useful information in further planning and policy implementation with insights applicable also in other countries and regions.
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JUNE 16: WORLD SEA TURTLE DAY
May and June are the most important months for the oldest creatures in the world. Sea turtle have been living for more than 200 million years on Earth, however they are disappearing rapidly, as a result of the exotic food industry, destruction of habitat and pet trade.
a) May 23rd is the official “World Turtle Day”, an event sponsored by the American Tortoise Rescue to create greater awareness of the importance of these animals in the ecosystem.
b) On June 16th, “World Sea Turtle Day” is celebrated. The chosen date commemorates the birth of a famous conservationist who dedicated his life to protect these reptiles, defend their contribution to the Environment and explain to the world their importance.
Complicated Life
After long journeys swimming, every year males and females meet in certain places that are recorded in their genetic memory, to procreate the new generations. After intercourse, the males usually return to the sea and females dedicate themselves to nesting, making large wells and burying their eggs in the sand.
“Sea turtles are truly extraordinary animals and essential to maintain the delicate balance of the oceans and life on Earth. For more than 100 million years ago sea turtles have been crossing waters all over the world and are present in all marine habitats. “
A female can spawn up to eight times each season. The turtle hatchlings are born after approximately six to eight weeks and after breaking the shell they dig to the surface of the sand to find their way to the sea. The life of a sea turtle is very tough and about one in 1,000 babies manage to reach adulthood and start the life cycle again.
Contributions of Sea Turtles
One of the most fascinating things about sea turtles is that every moment of their lives has an impact on the ecosystems to which they belong. This happens in many ways and is fundamental for the environmental health.
Eggs are an example, since those that do not hatch decompose in the sand and provide nutrients for the plants. When baby sea turtles are born and crawl to the sea, they move a huge amount of nutrients, feeding the small living organisms that swarm near the surface. Also, when adults arrive at nesting beaches they bring new nutrients from the sea.
Hawksbill turtles, for example, feed on sponges which affects the global biodiversity of coral reef communities, as sponges compete aggressively for space with reef-building corals. They can make the difference between the survival of sponges and corals and help balance the competition of the latter, allowing them to colonize larger spaces, provide a key habitat for a wider range of species and maintain the marine Environment healthy.
They are seven different sea turtle species, six are threatened to extinction due to our irresponsible way of acting with the environment, so they need special attention.
Sea turtles face risks that affect their survival, such as the presence of plastics in the ocean, which traps them and suffocates them. Water contamination contains different chemicals and substances that cause the destruction of nests, consumption of eggs, and constructions in the zones of nesting.
The garbage that is trapped in the ocean currents have a severe impact in these reptiles, who ingest the microscopic plastic particles of humans’ trash and we are not even aware of. Although they are from large waste, such as shopping bags, which reach the sea from nearby places such as beaches or boats, sea turtles get trap, with the consequent risk of dying asphyxiated.
Puerto Vallarta and Sea Turtles
Mexico has the honor of being visited by six different sea turtle species. These animals are somewhat solitary, rarely live together and spend 90% of their life on the ocean.
If you are one of those who want to help preserve this species, you can go to one of the many sea turtle camps that exist in Puerto Vallarta. Puerto Vallarta is the second most important beach in Mexico, sea turtles come to nest and visit other states. Sea turtles conservation programs are managed, but that’s not enough, one of the most important things is that we value the opportunity to meet these animals and return to nature a little of what it offers us. Becoming aware and educating ourselves to prevent the extinction of sea turtles.
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Can Star Wars Hold Onto Three Weekends in a Row as The Hateful Eight Debuts?
Star Wars: The Force Awakens looks to remain at the top of the box office as only one new movie hits theaters this New Years Eve 2015 weekend or New Years 2016 weekend (whatever is the right terminology).
Hit Factor: Tarantino is a critics darling filmmaker that has never made movies to please critics.
Flop Factor: At almost 3 hours long (or longer depending if you watch it in 70mm) with intermission, it may deter the average moviegoer.
The Chipmunks: The Road Chip Weekend Gross (millions)
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Star Wars: The Force Awakens Sets Christmas Record
Star Wars: The Force Awakens easily held onto it's second weekend with a record breaking $153.5 million.... Yes, just to add more records to it's name, The Force Awakens has now:
Biggest Second weekend for a movie: $153.5 million (previously held by Jurassic World's $106 million)
Fastest movie to $1 Billion: 12 Days (Also previously held by Jurassic World... 13 days).
And a bunch of other records.
It's also safe to say that Avatar's $760.5 domestic total is in jeopardy, but it's worldwide take of $2.788 Billion is still somewhat safe.
In other movie news (there were other movies out this weekend) the Mark Wahlberg and Will Ferrel comedy Daddy's Home ($38.8 million) performed better than expected. The Jennifer Lawrence vehicle directed by David O'Russell, Joy ($17.5 million), had a strong debut. Meanwhile, the Will Smith NFL drama Concussion ($11 million) underwhelmed. And... Point Break ($10.2 million), the remake with a reported $100 million budget, fell short. Speaking of short...The star studded, The Big Short, made a decent $10.5 million to movie a notch above Point Break... Wow, that was a handful.
Quentin Tarantino's The Hateful Eight debuted in only 100 theaters and grossed $4.5 million, landing just outside the top 10.
Phew...
Weekend Estimates
Movie Weekend Gross Total Gross Budget
1) Star Wars: The Force Awakens
2) Daddy's Home
3) Joy
4) Sisters
5) The Chipmunks: The Road Chip
6) Concussion
7) The Big Short
8) Point Break
9) HG: Mockingjay - Part 2
10) Creed $153.5 million
$4.6 million $544.6 million
$96.3 million $200 million
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Star Wars: The Force Awakens vs The Big Short vs Concussion vs Joy vs Daddy's Home vs Point Break
In other words, a slew of new movies hit theaters this crowded Christmas Weekend, all vying for that Star Wars pie.
Hit Factor: Awards season buzz, great cast.
Flop Factor: Might be too much of a economic drama than most people want for the Holidays.
Hit Factor: The same team that brought us American Hustle and Silver Linings Playbook.
Flop Factor: While reviews have been good, they aren't as good as those movies listed.
Hit Factor: Will Smith has been getting a lot of buzz for his role in this film.
Flop Factor: Will Will Smith fans turn out for him in a serious role?
Hit Factor: Will Ferrell and Mark Walhberg's film The Other Guys was pretty funny.
Flop Factor: The director of that film went on to do The Big Short instead.
Hit Factor: Cool Stunts
Flop Factor: Well, where to start, a seriously crowded box office, for one.
Concussion Weekend Gross (millions)
Star Wars: The Force Awakens Sets Record $238 million Debut
The biggest movie of all time... be, will it?
Well, there's certainly no shortage of records being broken this weekend as Star Wars: The Force Awakens' $238 million debut easily topples the previous record, Jurassic World's $209 million. Though, since these are still estimates, the margin of error could be millions off, and the numbers could end up higher.
Overseas, The Force Awakens couldn't quite claim a record ($279 million)... behind Jurassic World ($316 million) and Harry Potter: Deathly Hallows Part 2 ($314 million). But to be fair, it didn't debut in the all the same places as those films. Worldwide, The Force Awakens has already grossed $517 million.
Now back to the other records it has broken...
Biggest Thursday night preview night: $57 million
Biggest opening day and single day: $120.5 million
First film to cross $100 million in a single day.
Fastest film to $100 million and $200 million.
Biggest Imax opening: $30.1 million
Also, biggest opening in December, which was previously held by The Hobbit ($84.6 million). And, according to Holiday Season box office economics, could mean a healthy stay at for the next couple of weeks... with the potential to dethrone Avatar's $2.79 billion worldwide gross.
But who cares about that movie, when there were two other debuts this weekend: Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Road Chip ($14.4 million) and Sisters ($13.4 million).
2) Alvin and the Chipmunks 4
5) Creed
6) The Good Dinosaur
7) Krampus
8) In the Heart of the Sea
9) Dilwale
10) Bajirao Mastani $238 million
$1.7 million $238 million
Star Wars: The Force Awakens To Crush Jurassic World's $209 Million Record Debut?
Probably...
Jurassic World also holds the record for worldwide debut ($526 million).
There are other films coming out this weekend, but let's face it, there's only one film everyone's gonna be talking about.
Hit Factor: Well...
Flop Factor: People will probably consider this a flop if it debuts under Jurassic World. The Holiday Season isn't known for setting weekend records, but movies released in this period have gone on to become the highest grossing movies of all time (ie: Avatar, Titanic).
Hit Factor: Positive early reviews (80% Tomatometer).
Flop Factor: A certain other movie is probably taking up all the theater space.
Alvin and the Chipmunks: Road Chip
Hit Factor: Kids... enough to warrant a fourth film.
Flop Factor: Wow, they did four of these?
Alvin and the Chipmunks 4
The Good Dinosaur Weekend Gross (millions)
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2 Holds on to Fourth Weekend in a Row
Newcomer In the Heart of the Sea, starring Chris Hemsworth and directed by Ron Howard, capsized at the box office this weekend ($11 million)... It's mediocre reviews (43% Tomatometer) and lack of awards buzz probably deterred most movie-goers. The reported $100 million movie will definitely have a tough time recouping it's budget, especially when a certain franchise awakens next weekend.
So, that left The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2 to narrowly hold on to the top spot with $11.3 million. It, so far, has grossed $564.6 million worldwide.
6) Spectre
7) The Night Before
8) The Peanuts Movie
9) Spotlight
10) Brooklyn $11.3 million
$2 million $244.5 million
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In the Heart of the Sea vs The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2
Only one new move hit theaters before that one movie comes out next week.
Hit Factor: Thor in Ron Howard film.
Flop Factor: Last movie they did together (Rush), although good, didn't do well at the box office.
HG: Mockingjay - Part 2
Spectre Weekend Gross (millions)
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2 Takes Third Weekend in a Row
The final installment of The Hunger Games series: Mockingjay - Part 2 managed to three-peat for the top spot at the box office this weekend ($18.6 million). It has grossed $227 domestically and $524 million worldwide, so far.
The only new movie in wide release, Krampus, unexpectedly managed a second place finish with $16 million. It beat out Creed ($15.5 million) and The Good Dinosaur ($15.5 million) the later of which had an unheard of drop of 60% for Pixar.
9) Brooklyn
10) Secret in their Eyes $18.6 million
Krampus vs Mockingjay Part 2 vs The Good Dinosaur vs Creed
Only one new movie opens in wide release this post Thanksgiving weekend.
Hit Factor: Looks entertaining... like that Rare Exports movie.
Flop Factor: Lack of much buzz might make for a quiet weekend.
HG: Mockingjay Part 2
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2 Wins Thanksgiving Weekend
The final installment in The Hunger Games franchise, Mockingjay Part 2, remained a top the box office for the second weekend in a roll with $51.6 million. It's worldwide total now stands at $440.7 million.
Despite having one of Pixar's lowest openings, The Good Dinosaur earned a strong second place finish ($39.2 million). Disney remains hopeful as the mostly positive reviews and upcoming Holiday season should keep this movie going strong through to next year.
The Rocky spinoff, Creed, managed a strong 3rd place finish ($30.1 million), probably due to a bit of nostalgia and very good reviews.
In not so good news, Victor Frankenstein, wasn't alive at the box office as it's $2.4 million debut wasn't good enough to crack the top 10.
7) The Secret in their Eyes
10) The Martian $51.6 million
$218.6 million $160 million
The Good Dinosaur vs Creed vs Victor Frankenstein vs Mockingjay Part 2
Can The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2 fend off a bunch of newcomers this Thanksgiving Day Weekend?
Hit Factor: Pixar track record
Flop Factor: May get overshadowed as people say, "Well, it's not as good as other Pixar films." even though it still is getting positive reviews.
Hit Factor: Very positive reviews (93% Tomatometer)
Flop Factor: Too much drama for the Holidays?
Hit Factor: Harry Potter and Professor X in the same movie
Flop Factor: Unfortunately odd for a big budget CGI fest to get so little marketing.
The Peanuts Movie Weekend Gross (millions)
The Final Hunger Games Takes $101 million Opening Weekend
The final installment of the Hunger Games franchise, Mockingjay Part 2 debut to $101 million, which was easy enough to claim the top spot at the box office. However, it marks the lowest debut of the entire franchise (the first Hunger Games movie opened to $158.1 million back in 2013). Mockingjay Part 2 has already grossed $247 million worldwide... a great feat, but also a bit short of Mockingjay Part 1's $274.9 million worldwide debut a year ago.
In other news, The Night Before and The Secret in their Eyes also debuted less than expected ($10 million and $6.6 million, respectively). And although Spectre is slipping in domestically, it's already grossed over $677.8 million worldwide.
5) Secret in their Eyes
6) Love the Coopers
7) The Martian
9) The 33
10) Bridge of Spies $101 million
The Final Hunger Games Movie vs The Night Before vs Secret in Their Eyes
The Hunger Games aims to wrap up the franchise with a bang this pre-Thanksgiving Weekend.
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 2
Hit Factor: Have you heard of The Hunger Games?
Flop Factor: Mockingjay Part 1 wasn't really that good.
Hit Factor: Seth Rogen movies are usually funny.
Flop Factor: Usually funny, his last comedic outing was The Interview
The Secret in their Eyes
Hit Factor: Acting chops from Julia Roberts, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Nicole Kidman
Flop Factor: Material may be too dreary for the regular movie-goer
The Peanuts Movie
The Secret in their Eyes Weekend Gross (millions)
Spectre Easily Holds Onto the Top Spot
The latest James Bond flick, Spectre, easily fended off any newcomers as it held on to the top spot at the box office this weekend with $35.4 million. Even though it's second weekend domestic total is behind what Skyfall ($130 million vs $160 million) did at the same point a few years ago, Spectre is already at $550 million worldwide.
The Peanuts Movie held on to a strong second ($24.2 million) while newcomers Love the Coopers ($8.4 million) and The 33 ($5.8 million) came in 3rd and 5th.
6) Goosebumps
7) Bridge of Spies
8) Prem Ratan Dhan Payo
9) Hotel Transylvania 2
10) The Last Witch Hunter $35.4 million
Love the Coopers vs The 33 vs Spectre vs The Peanuts Movie
Spectre and The Peanuts Movie look to repeat box office on top as a couple of newcomers hit theaters this weekend.
Love the Coopers
Hit Factor: First ensemble Holiday Season movie this Holiday Season.
Flop Factor: This feels like the same type of family Holiday movie that comes out every year, just with different actors.
Hit Factor: An awards-noticeable, based-on-a-true-story drama.
Flop Factor: With early mediocre reviews (40% Tomatometer), it may be miss that awards buzz this movie needs.
The Martian Weekend Gross (millions)
Spectre Easily Takes the Top at the Box Office
The latest installment in the James Bond franchise, Spectre, easily dominated the box office this weekend. It raked in $73 million for first place, beating out a strong debut from The Peanuts Movie ($45 million) and also helping this weekend to become the biggest weekend since early July.
Despite taking the top spot, Spectre's debut is significantly behind Skyfall's $88.4 million. This is probably due to it's less than stellar reviews compared to Skyfall (64% Tomatometer vs 93% Tomatometer). In fact, it is the lowest reviewed Bond film of the Daniel Craig era, just dipping below Quantum of Solace's 65% Tomatometer. Perhaps the silver lining is that it has already grossed more than $300 million worldwide.
In other news, The Peanuts Movie had a solid debut with $45 million, which was aided by solid reviews (86% Tomatometer), zero competition, and the upcoming Holiday Season.
7) Burnt
8) The Last Witch Hunter
9) The Intern
10) PA: The Ghost Dimension $73 million
$1.7 million $73 million
Spectre vs The Peanuts Movie
Or James Bond vs Charlie Brown... and Snoopy... and Linus... and...
A couple of movies hit theaters this weekend November weekend.
Hit Factor: The last James Bond film made over $1.1 billion.
Flop Factor: Early reviews, while good (65% Tomatomer) fall way short of Skyfall (93% Tomatometer).
Hit Factor: Counter audience to Bond. Has that Thanksgiving vibe.
Flop Factor: Do kids want to watch films that aren't Pixar or Dreamworks or Minions related?
Bridge of Spies Weekend Gross (millions)
The Martian Easily tops Lowest Box Office Weekend of the Year
With a recent string of high profile movies under-performing (The Last Witch Hunter, Paranormal Activity: The Ghost Protocol, Crimson Peak, Steve Jobs, Pan), this weekend proved no differently as Burnt ($5 million) and Our Brand Is Crisis ($3.4 million) debuted. Both movies which rely on word of mouth to do well were obviously, burnt, by bad reviews (29% and 32% Tomatometers).
What's interesting to note is there was no breakout Horror film this fall, an attempt Crimson Peak and Paranormal Activity failed to deliver... Even last year's already forgotten Horror flick, Ouija managed to scare up $20 million on it's opening.
In the mean time, this made it easy for The Martian to stay on top of the box office with only $11.4 million. Next weekend should get a significant boost in the box office as Daniel Craig returns as the legendary spy in Spectre.
7) PA: The Ghost Dimension
8) Our Brand Is Crisis
9) Crimson Peak
10) Steve Jobs $11.4 million
Our Brand is Crisis vs Burnt vs Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse
A few new movies hit theaters in what could be a very calm weekend before the storm.
Our Brand is Crisis
Hit Factor: Sandra Bullock. Targeting the Argo audience.
Flop Factor: Wont get there if early reviews are an indication (43% Tomatometer).
Hit Factor: Low budget. Bradley Cooper.
Flop Factor: Poor early reviews (35% Tomatometer). Target audience?
Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse
Hit Factor: Low budget.
Flop Factor: Marketing seems very absent for this film.
Hotel Transylvania 2 Weekend Gross (millions)
The Martian Reclaims Top of the Box Office
In what looks like a crowded box office, Ridley Scott's The Martian managed to reclaim the top spot with only $15.9 million.
All the newcomers pretty much underperformed; The Last Witch Hunter ($10.8 million), Paranormal Activity: Ghost Dimension ($8.2 million, a franchise low), Steve Jobs ($7.3 million). As for Rock The Kasbah ($1.5 million) and Jem and the Holograms ($1.3 million), the didn't even crack the top ten... 13 and 15 respectively.
Next weekend could be another soft weekend before James Bond returns in Spectre.
6) PA: Ghost Dimension
7) Steve Jobs
10) Sicario $15.9 million
$7.3million
$39.8 million $108million
Steve Jobs vs Paranormal Activity: The Ghost Dimension vs The Last Witch Hunter vs Jem and the Holograms vs Rock the Kasbah
That was a mouthful, as a slew of new movies hit theaters this weekend.
Hit Factor: Has some awards season buzz.
Flop Factor: Most of the people that new Steve Jobs don't care for this film. Feels like it's going for The Social Network, but it's missing that special something.
Hit Factor: Very low budget.
Flop Factor: How many of these have they made already?
Hit Factor: Vin Diesel... Action, Boom! Effects.
Flop Factor: Seems like too much CGI and a missed target audience.
Flop Factor: People who watched the TV show growing up are not remotely nostalgic about this film.
Hit Factor: Bill Murray
Flop Factor: Lots of competition and it's early negative reviews aren't helping.
Paranormal Activity: Ghost Dimension
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Toy Odyssey: The Lost and The Found Review
Matthew Cooper October 1, 2016
Toy Odyssey came out of nowhere and hit me over the head with an experience I didn’t know I needed: A Metroidvania Roguelike set in an ever changing house, playing as a super hero robot taking out hostile toys. I hadn’t followed it’s development – I hadn’t even heard of it until Brash Games offered it up for review. That’s one of the perks of writing up games for a living; playing what you’d otherwise overlook. Sure, for every BioShock Collection there’s a Pro Farmer, but it’s the hidden indie gems such as Toy Odyssey which really make this pursuit worthwhile.
People move home every day. Somebody, somewhere, in the developed world is packing their belongings into a truck and going to set up anew right at this moment. For the unseen family of Toy Odyssey though, it comes at a heavy price: A darkness creeps through the very foundations of their new home, and it wants their son. So what does this evil entity do? It takes control of his toys. Thankfully though, our hero – Brand, a robotic action hero figurine – is on hand to take them down, save their son (Brand’s owner), and deliver the house from evil.
The randomly generated Roguelike genre has seen something of a renaissance recently, especially with indie developers. Neon Chrome, Full Mojo Rampage and a plethora of other games take the concept of one-life gameplay and ship themselves as twin-stick shooters. Toy Odyssey does something different though, and it largely succeeds: It combines Roguelike gameplay with the gated progress and exploration of Metroidvania titles, even being presented as a side scrolling platform game. As Brand, you run and gun your way through dozens of screens of the family’s home, which is procedurally generated every time you play. Each time you die, and you will die a lot as you are vastly underpowered for the first dozen or so playthroughs, the game ticks time forward by one night. When you respawn, the house layout has changed, and any quest you were on will have to be undertaken afresh.
Progress through the house is a simple affair, with a button to attack and another to jump. Platforming feels weighty and natural, but the actual combat is a little lacklustre – enemies barely react to your hits, so it’s a matter of timing your attacks and dodges to match their pattern of attack. To be honest, I found this quite satisfying in a way, but it would be nice to have some indication that the enemy was being hurt. As you collect nuts from the enemy toys you destroy, you can return these to your base in the missing child’s room, and speak with the various good toys you’ve rescued along your adventure to level up your abilities and skills. You can also craft weapons here, and there’s even a base defence element which has you creating turret guns and the like. Every time a night ends through your death, the room has a chance to be raided by evil toys, and without the defences you build you’ll have a chance of losing some crafting components.
I was pleasantly surprised by the whole aesthetic of Toy Odyssey. All of the backgrounds are hand drawn in classic 2D platformer style, and the bright colours of your base contrast superbly with the dark, oppressive atmosphere of unexplored rooms. The soundtrack matches too, and can even be rather sinister at times. The user interface is reasonably friendly, and once you get your head around the different systems in play – Roguelike, Metroidvania, crafting, RPG-lite – you’ll find a lot to enjoy here. The fact the map is constantly changing around you makes each night an unpredictable playthrough, so if you have a passing interest in any of the mashed up genres present in the game, I recommend giving it a shot.
Toy Odyssey is fun to play, good to look at, has a lot to keep you busy and is reasonably priced. With it’s combination of platforming, crafting and survival, if you’re looking for a memorable and solid indie experience, this is it. What’s not to like?
Matthew Cooper
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The Float for a Cure is a super fun dinner cruise on the Avalon River Boat in Stillwater, MN. There will be live music with headliners GB Leighton and Audio Circus with acoustic duos and trios. Full prime rib buffet dinner, silent auction, minute to win it type games and lots more!!
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Buy your tickets NOW and save! $50 in advance, $60 at the boat. $35 for children and children under 3 are free.
Float for a Cure will be October 4th. The boarding will start at 5:30pm this year and will depart at 6:30pm SHARP. Tickets are non-refundable. The Avalon River Boat will dock at 10:00pm.
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More than 200 shows a year. Jubilant fans who follow him from Minnesota to Mexico. More than 70,000 albums sold. A new release “Get Up” and a state-of-the-art nightclub named after one of his songs -- all without the support of a major record label…
Meet GB Leighton, a band named after one of the regions’ most incendiary live performers and consistently solid songwriters, Brian Leighton. Through more than a decade and eleven studio albums, Leighton and his six piece band have been tearing up rock clubs, festivals and even a few fan’s living rooms with a slew of songs that connect with the heart and couples singing along out on the dance floor. “A man of the people” is a phrase usually reserved for statesmen and politicians, but for Leighton, it’s a fitting description when you see him in action working a crowd.
Where have we seen this phenomena before? Springsteen in Asbury Park before he lit out for New York and the wider world; Mellencamp back in those anonymous Indiana bars; Hootie and the Blowfish lightin’ up the southern circuit…Leighton delivers that same inescapable rock ‘n’ roll spirit night after night. “If I hadn’t heard a bunch of Bruce’s bootlegs or seen the videos I’d be a much different musician,” he says today. “He’s always been a great songwriter and performer, like a preacher almost who commands an audience. That’s the place I’m coming from. But at the end of the day, I’m just a common guy, a working class kid from a Twin Cities suburb who loves to put on a good show and hopefully write some good songs in between.”
When approached to have a first-class, high-tech nightclub – not far from his house in New Brighton - named after a song his first album, “Pickle Park”, Leighton was in. Not since Prince opened Glam Slam in downtown Minneapolis has any Minnesota musician opened a club where fans can expect to see a hometown rocker and his band play live and hang out “to catch a Vike’s game or just kick back”. He adds, “It’s another way to keep fans happy and to share a space with them. It’s something I’ve wanted for a long time and when club owners Tom Tomaro and Mike Tupa approached me about the idea, I was all over it.”
Leighton makes his national country debut with “Get Up”, his eleventh album. For Leighton, who was also recently honored by Billboard.com as a Top 10 Country Artist to Watch in 2014 as well, this project is something his fans of all ages and interests can enjoy. Leighton’s music has clearly left a lasting impression in the Midwest as fans have inked themselves with his lyrics.
“This is the only thing I ever wanted to do. I don’t see stopping or changing it up no matter where it takes me and the band.”
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Audio Circus is a female-fronted live music band. Whether it's pop, country, or rock, Audio Circus plays something for everyone and brings an energetic stage show performance that leaves crowds texting their friends to come and check out this band!
The band is a diverse group of musicians from popular local and national cover and tribute bands that have entertained crowds across the country throughout their careers. They are quality players with experience, great looks, and the desire to have fun! As a result they bring an exciting edge to their music that is unlike anything you've ever heard or seen!
Audio Circus brings their big top thrills to music venues near you and thrives for the live shows. Be sure to follow them on here so you are ready when the Circus comes to your town!
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Chris has been performing since 1998 and has performed numerous corporate and high-end companies for the past 10 years. Chris is a international award-winning magician, and performing member of the Academy of Magical Arts (Magic Castle). He was inducted into the Academy of Magi Arts (Magic Castle) in 2012 and has become a frequent performer for the weekend brunch shows. He has quickly become the most awarded magician in Central California, becoming the only American to win three gold medals three years in a row in addition to winning sever International medals within the last four years. Throughout his career Chis has performed on multiple television radio commercials and specials. He has produced several successful sould out magic shows titled "the Festival of Magic". He has entertained in multiple countries around the world and has entertained in the presents of such celebrities as Neil Patrick Harris, Olivia Wilde, Jason Sudeikis, Jon Lovitz, and Danny Trejo.
2013 - Silver Medals in Comedy & Children's
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In the show, there is Mitchell and Cameron, a gay couple who have adopted a little girl from Asia.
I really didn’t think much of it, until they kissed and Mini-Muggle looked over at me with a confused look. It was absolutely priceless, she said “why did they kiss?”. Well, I answered with the obvious, “because they’re a couple”. It was that damn simple.
While writing, the saying “don’t tell me, show me” stays lodged in the back of my head. I showed my daughter what a gay couple is. Now, at the wise old age of nine, she doesn’t think twice about it. Because that is how it should be.
She obviously didn’t see men kissing men every day, because i’m a woman married to a man. And the extent of her social life was daycare, zoos, etc… The odds of seeing a straight couple kissing, much less a gay couple- was slim.
Now, my daughter won’t grow up to be an ass hole. Get your kids this book so they can be non-assholes, too. Also known as: a decent human being.
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What’s It All About? Having Two Dads is double the fun! Many families are different. The family in this story has Two Dads. A beautifully illustrated, affirming story of life with Two Dads, written from the perspective of their adopted child. Two Dads is a book about LGBT parents and adoption. The simple narrative and illustrations depict just how very normal LGBT families are. It is a funny and tender representation of family life. The book would be a good platform for opening up conversations about adoption or same sex parenting.
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The American Academy of Pediatric Dentistry (AAPD) suggests that parents should make an initial “well-baby” appointment with a pediatric dentist approximately six months after the emergence of the first tooth, or no later than the child’s first birthday.
Although this may seem surprisingly early, the incidence of infant and toddler tooth decay has been rising in recent years. Tooth decay and early cavities can be exceptionally painful if they are not attended to immediately, and can also set the scene for poor oral health in later childhood.
The pediatric dentist is a specialist in child psychology and child behavior, and should be viewed as an important source of information, help, and guidance. Oftentimes, the pediatric dentist can provide strategies for eliminating unwanted oral habits (for example, pacifier use and thumb sucking) and can also help parents in establishing a sound daily oral routine for the child.
What potential dental problems can babies experience?
A baby is at risk for tooth decay as soon as the first tooth emerges. During the first visit, the pediatric dentist will help parents implement a preventative strategy to protect the teeth from harm, and also demonstrate how infant teeth should be brushed and flossed.
In particular, infants who drink breast milk, juice, baby formula, soda, or sweetened water from a baby bottle or sippy cup are at high-risk for early childhood caries (cavities). To counteract this threat, the pediatric dentist discourages parents from filling cups with sugary fluids, dipping pacifiers in honey, and transmitting oral bacteria to the child via shared spoons and/or cleaning pacifiers in their own mouths.
Importantly, the pediatric dentist can also assess and balance the infant’s fluoride intake. Too much fluoride ingestion between the ages of one and four years old may lead to a condition known as fluorosis in later childhood. Conversely, too little fluoride may render young tooth enamel susceptible to tooth decay.
What happens during the first visit?
Pediatric dentists have fun-filled, stimulating dental offices. All dental personnel are fully trained to communicate with infants and young children.
During the initial visit, the pediatric dentist will advise parents to implement a good oral care routine, ask questions about the child’s oral habits, and examine the child’s emerging teeth. The pediatric dentist and parent sit knee-to-knee for this examination to enable the child to view the parent at all times. If the infant’s teeth appear stained, the dentist may clean them. Oftentimes, a topical fluoride treatment will be applied to the teeth after this cleaning.
What questions may the pediatric dentist ask during the first visit?
The pediatric dentist will ask questions about current oral care, diet, the general health of the child, the child’s oral habits, and the child’s current fluoride intake.
Once answers to these questions have been established, the pediatric dentist can advise parents on the following issues:
Accident prevention.
Adding xylitol and fluoride to the infant’s diet.
Choosing an ADA approved, non-fluoridated brand of toothpaste for the infant.
Choosing an appropriate toothbrush.
Choosing an orthodontically correct pacifier.
Correct positioning of the head during tooth brushing.
Easing the transition from sippy cup to adult-sized drinking glasses (12-14 months).
Eliminating fussing during the oral care routine.
Establishing a drink-free bedtime routine.
Maintaining good dietary habits.
Minimizing the risk of tooth decay.
Reducing sugar and carbohydrate intake.
Teething and developmental milestones.
If you have further questions or concerns about the timing or nature of your child’s first oral checkup, please ask your pediatric dentist.
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The Seeds of Death - "I never thought I'd see that again. A rocket rising in flight."
BBC - Doctor Who Classic Episode Guide - The Seeds of Death - Details
Season 6, Episode 5 (Overall Series Story #48) | Previous - Next | Index
Pulling gs the old-fashioned way.
The Troughton era is winding down at this point. Doctor Who is teetering on the brink of cancellation. Despite the fine cast and their chemistry, there's something not quite right about the whole enterprise. Change is coming. Pertwee and the new format are a few stories off yet, but there's still more than enough here to enjoy of the old regime. If nothing else, it's at least a complete story with no missing episodes. The Ice Warriors are back in all their scaly, whispery menace and the Earth is in grave peril from the fungus among us.
In 1969 the space race was at its zenith, so the neat twist pulled here is this story features a rocket scientist and all that current tech, but the story is set in the future so all that exciting Rocket Ship to the Moon Future is Now! stuff is passé. T-Mat is all the rage here. The future turned out a little differently then optimists back then might have expected. The US, at least, is largely out of the space shuttle to orbit business and uncomfortably hitching rides with Putin's cosmonauts aboard Soyuz rockets for the time being. We didn't advance beyond rockets, we just decided it was more important to focus our efforts on concentrating wealth in the hands of oligarchs while dismantling the Great Society than to be bold explorers and committed scientists.
If we let Doctor Who down by putting our energy into more mundane matters, then Doctor Who is letting us down a bit here as well in a couple of ways. It's a bit stodgy to make the rocket scientist the saving grace of humanity after he's been superseded. After the neat twist, the show comes back to a conservative position on technology, not just arguing for not putting all your eggs in one basket and not having a back-up plan, but -- in my opinion -- taking a chastising tone against the proponents of the new technology. Sandifer, as usual, does a brilliant job peeling back the layers and revealing the source of the tension we feel while watching this:
And so it comes to this, in which the Doctor praises neo-Victorian adventuring imperialism with one hand while gunning down imperialists with the other, the only difference seeming to be that one set of imperialists is human and British and the other is green. The Troughton era’s one catastrophic blind spot stands revealed – for all of its anarchic and psychedelic charm, it could never bring itself to hurl the brick through its own window. And as the psychedelic spaceship crashes back to Earth, this contradiction becomes fatal. There is no way past it without completely altering the entire structure of the show.
So, even though it's great fun to watch Troughton's Doctor wade through the foamy fungus the Ice Warriors have started to cover the Earth with as stage one of the terraforming -- well, 'mars'forming might be closer to appropriate -- plan, the fun can't raise the story too far above its underlying dissonance. We chuckle when Troughton slips and falls due to the foam all over the set, leaving Wendy Padbury unable to keep a straight face, before she slips on the foam herself. But it's a short-lived chuckle.
This story is definitely worth a watch due to the classic monster, it's rare-for-the-era completeness, and some strong supporting performances along with top rate main cast -- Two, Zoe, and Jamie is a one of the all-time best TARDIS crews.
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PDF417: The Specific Barcode for Data Management Applications
Komeil Bahmanpour, Sadjad Bahmanpour
Chortkeh Rayaneh Hamrah, LLC
Information Transfer in a Whole New Dimension
Imagine a database that’s totally portable, freed from the computer to go anywhere and yet be accessed immediately at any time. Or a paper-based communication medium that makes documents, labels and cards “live” with machine-readable information, including text, graphics, biometrics or other data. And imagine capturing this information quickly, easily and inexpensively. There’s a technology that offers all this, and it’s here today: it’s PDF417.
PDF stands for Portable Data File. A two-dimensional symbology, a single PDF417 symbol carries up to 1.1 kilobytes of machine-readable data in a space no larger than a standard barcode. And, unlike traditional one-dimensional barcodes, which depend on real-time links to a larger database, PDF417 symbols are the database. PDF417 symbols travel on paper, packages or parts, with people, too.
PDF417 technology translates into productivity. Easy to use and easy to integrate, a PDF417 application delivers the benefits of digital data communications with the simplicity of barcoding. It’s very low in cost, printable in various sizes on a wide variety of media using traditional printing technologies, easy to support, and highly robust in its error correction capabilities. Moreover, PDF417 has been recognized as the standard among two-dimensional symbologies by leading organizations worldwide.
Equally important, any business, government agency or service organization must be assured of a low-risk, long-term return on its technology investment. PDF417 scanning equipments can also read all conventional one-dimensional barcodes, assuring compatibility with your installed barcode systems.
PDF417: Much More than Meets the Eye
PDF417 answers the need to capture, store and transfer large amounts of data inexpensively. It can exchange complete data files (such as text, numeric, or binary) and encode graphics, fingerprints, shipping manifests, electronic data interchange (EDI) messages, equipment calibration instructions, and much more. It provides a powerful communications capability, without the need to access an external database. And, for virtually no incremental cost, you can add a PDF symbol to the documents and labels you are already printing.
Think of PDF as an independent database with complete freedom of movement, traveling together with a person or on an item, object, package, form, document, card or label. It does what wired networks can’t: allows you to immediately access your data regardless of location. Plus, encryption is available as an option when additional security is required.
Moreover, because PDF417 is a machine-readable method of transporting data, it eliminates time-consuming and error-prone manual data entry. It functions as a paper-based computer memory that can be written once and read over and over again. And, as a universal machine language, it communicates with all host operating systems. PDF417 encodes full ASCII, numeric or binary data and it uses sophisticated error correction algorithms to keep intact 100 percent of the data, even when as much as half the symbol is damaged. And it’s self-verifying, so data errors can be detected and data integrity maintained. All of the rewards of leading-edge technology with none of the risks. Benefits like these are well worth capturing today.
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One-dimensional barcodes contain an access code that serves as a real-time key for opening a database. A PDF417 symbol contains a complete data record and requires no access to an external database. Data, text, graphics, biometrics and voice records are immediately applied to the application transaction by simply scanning the symbol.
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PDF417 is the de facto standard 2-D symbology. In addition to its performance capabilities and application value in a wide range of industries, PDF417 technology is in the public domain and it conforms to industry and international open standards. For all of these reasons, PDF417 is emerging as the standard 2-D symbology by leading standards-setting organizations:
The American National Standards Institute (ANSI) has just published a new 2-D standard: ANSI MH 10.8.3M unit loads and transport packages for two-dimensional symbols. It recommends the use of PDF417 for all shipping, receiving and supporting EDI documentation. Most standards associations will use this ANSI standard as the basis for their specific industry’s application specification.
AIM USA and AIM Europe, accredited ANSI standards-developing organizations, which have approved and published PDF417 as a Uniform Symbology Specification (USS) standard.
The U.S. Department of Defense, which has designated PDF417 as the standard 2-D barcode for logistics applications and EDI formatting on paper labels.
The American Association of Motor Vehicle Administrators (AAMVA), which has approved and published PDF417 for a broad range of driver and motor vehicle applications.
The Automotive Industry Action Group (AIAG) 2-D Applications Committee, which has selected PDF417 for its key 2-D production and logistics applications, is completing their B-10 standard for shipping and receiving.
The Telecommunication Industry Forum (TCIF) is reviewing PDF417 as the 2-D standard for product marking.
The U.S. Department of Defense, Office of Personnel and Readiness, has issued millions of military identification cards with PDF417 symbols for use on a global basis.
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Government Retail Transportation Health Manufacturing
Identification cards (national ID, military ID, social services)
Motor vehicle licenses and registrations
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Border/passport/customs control
Asset management Manifesting for shipping and receiving
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Unlike some new technologies, PDF417 doesn’t require users to learn different procedures, abandon existing hardware or software, or commit to costly reinvestment in facilities or systems. A PDF417 solution can often be added with little change to current applications and it can make use of existing printers and other equipment.
It’s compatible with all the same printers used to print 1-D barcodes, including laser, thermal direct, thermal transfer, inkjet and others, and all are widely available today. Mainframe solutions are also available for high-speed printing applications. You can print on a wide variety of materials: paper, cards, labels, plastics, metals and others. Even you can fax it.
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BMW Motorrad 2014 Results
Discussion in 'Street and Performance Bikes' started by xcel, Jan 21, 2015.
I do not talk bikes nearly as much as I should but BMW had a good year in 2014.
In 2014 BMW Motorrad sold more vehicles than in 2013 and in doing so, achieved record sales results for the fourth consecutive time.
In December, BMW sold 7,032 bikes globally, up 10.9 percent over the 6,343 bike sold in December of 2013. For the year, the company sold 123,495 bikes worldwide in 2014, up 7.2 percent over the 115,215 bikes sold during all of 2013.
Germany continues to be the most successful single market for the brand with 21,714 bikes sold and a market share greater than 25 percent.
USA sales finished the year in second position with 15,301 bikes sold, up 8.5 percent over the 14,100 sold in all of 2013.
In 2014 the brand launched five new models worldwide. The R nineT, C evolution – an all-electric Maxi-Scooter were to key contributors.
The most popular BMW Motorrad bike continues to the most profitable in the form of R 1200 GS and GS Adventure with over 40,000 sold. The BMW R 1200 RT takes third place with 12,140 units sold.
The R nineT sold exceptionally well. In its first year with 8,488 bikes delivered worldwide. This makes the roadster the fourth most successful model in the BMW Motorrad product portfolio. With more than 10,000 bikes sold, the S 1000 R and the S 1000 RR both achieved excellent sales result.
The middle range bikes and the ones I believe are the best of the brand F 800 GS/GS Adventure sold in 7,040/4,278 quantities. The F 700 GS was picked up by 6,499 new owners, the F 800 R by 3,953 new owners and F 800 GT by 3,901 new owners.
2015 BMW F800 GS Adventure
The Maxi Scooters C 650 GT and C 600 Sport reached 6,391 new riders hands.
xcel, Jan 21, 2015
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Home Forums > Conventional Automobile Owners Community > Other Manufacturers >
Volvo wants to replace car keys with smartphones
Discussion in 'Other Manufacturers' started by ALS, Feb 23, 2016.
ALS Super Moderator Staff Member
By Chris Woodyard,
Volvo plans to start selling cars without keys beginning in 2017, using smartphones as replacements.
In effect, Volvo says the Bluetooth-enabled smartphone would become the "digital keys" and there would no longer be a need for physical key.
“Our innovative digital key technology has the potential to completely change how a Volvo can be accessed and shared. Instead of sitting idle in a parking lot the entire day, cars could be used more often and efficiently by whoever the owner wishes,” says Henrik Green, vice president for product strategy at Volvo Cars, in a statement.
If Volvo's plan works, it would become only the latest in a series of moves in recent years that have struck a blow against the traditional metal key. Even the cheapest subcompacts these days often come with electronic key fobs instead of metal keys. Though they can be expensive to replace, the fobs -- in combination with start buttons-- eliminate the danger that a key can become stuck or break off in the ignition lock.
Full Story : http://www.usatoday.com/story/money...s-banish-car-keys-favor-smartphones/80797472/
ALS, Feb 23, 2016
Has anyone here had a key break off? Is that a valid concern? I never have.
PaleMelanesian, Feb 23, 2016
Luke Well-Known Member
The main issue I have with this is that it probably only works with certain phones. E.g. iPhone or newer Android system. Reminds me of AudiOnDemand which requires an iPhone app just to reserve a car. Second most replace their smartphones much more often than a car and you better hope there won't be bugs when you upgrade to newest OS...
That said I don't understand any of benefits you'd get with this unless this is car sharing. A keyless entry just works and a key is less likely to break than a smartphone despite those claims above. Or what if my smartphone battery runs out which is really not that uncommon? And then last we didn't even talk about the additional security exposure...
Luke, Feb 24, 2016
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My thoughts too. Phone battery dies, and you can't get in the car. Your phone gets lost or stolen, and you can't get in the car. Drop your phone in a puddle, and you can't get in the car.
Nothanks.
08EscapeHybrid, Feb 24, 2016
brick Answers to "that guy."
I'll always need some kind of stand-alone key. I can't always bring my phone when I leave the car so the phone stays there. My assumption is that the phone will be an alternative, not a necessity.
brick, Feb 24, 2016
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PaleMelanesian said: ↑
Funny, You mention it. Just back in November.
Car was running and it was a bear to remove.
vangonebuy, Mar 19, 2016
I haven't broken off a key, but I had a Subaru with door locks so stiff-operating that turning them distorted the key.
My mother told of getting into some kind of horseplay with her sister in their parents' car a very long time ago. Somehow, somebody's foot inadvertently pushed against the key in the ignition switch, breaking it off.
RedylC94, Mar 19, 2016
Thinking back to my childhood, I remember my mother living with one inoperative door lock for a while after a key snapped off in it. Somehow it snapped about half-way down the key.
brick, Mar 19, 2016
If my car was only as reliable as a phone , I'd be in a heap o'trouble. No thanks.
EdwinTheMagnificent, Mar 20, 2016
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David Chase’s overly nostalgic and dull trip down memory lane has us yearning for the acid flashback version of Oliver Stone. Not Fade Away is so dominated by its pop music touchstone it crushes any attention to character and story.
Not Fade Away (2012) dir. David Chase
Starring: John Magaro, Jack Huston, Will Brill, James Gandolfini
By Alan Bacchus
It’s 1964, the Rolling Stones have entered the pop culture consciousness, sending New Jersey high schoolers, Douglas (John Magaro), Eugene (Jack Huston) and Wells (Will Brill) into a frenzy and causing them to form their own band. The journey of this band as they age through the years and as girlfriends appear and fall off the bandwagon are peppered, as expected, with the well known political events of the period.
Chase knows he’s not treading new ground as filmmakers have been telling this story for decades. If George Lucas’ American Graffiti and ground-breaking TV series The Wonder Years exemplifies are the top bar and say, the now-defunct TV series American Dreams and Julie Tamor’s Across the Universe, the bottom rung, Not Fade Away sits in the middle.
Clearly no expense was spared in licensing the absolute best music of the era for this film. So much so we can’t help but tally these costs on the film’s bottom line. But for a film populated with so much great music the adventures of Douglas and his band mates are surprisingly joyless and dramatically inert.
Chase’s decision to cast mostly fresh faces as the leads fails and none of the youngster command the screen as vividly as say, the young Richard Dreyfuss, Ron Howard or Charles Martin Smith did in American Graffiti. Perhaps it’s an unfair compare, but this seems to be where Chase is aiming and can’t help but compare. And the most recognizable face, James Gandolfini, has nothing substantial to work with, as the doubting father character cut from the same cloth as the grumpy conservative father character in Wonder Years.
The shear number of pop cultural references extends beyond the songs, television shows such as the Twilight Zone and Orson Welles' film Touch of Evil has the effect of having a conversation with an annoying name dropper.
Not Fade Away is available on Blu-Ray from Paramount Home Entertainment in Canada
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GordonG. said...
Hello! I have been checking out your blog and it seems like you have reviewed a lot of movies. I was wondering if you would be up for an interview by phone or email for a student project on the movie industry. I would appreciate it a lot if you could answer a few questions. If you can send me an email at gordon.directory@gmail.com.
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Longhorn Band ranked among best college marching bands
Photo Credit: Chelsea Purgahn | Daily Texan Staff
Published on April 29, 2016 at 12:38 am Last update on April 29, 2016 at 1:16 am
By Hannah Daniel
UT’s Longhorn Band was recently ranked No. 7 of the 35 Great College Marching Bands, compiled by Great Value Colleges, a website dedicated to helping students find the best education for their money.
Longhorn Band director Scott Hanna said although these rankings are quite subjective, they are still appreciated by himself and the band.
“It’s very nice to have publicity mentioning us in a positive way,” Hanna said. “Being included in a list with a lot of other terrific college bands is a wonderful thing.”
According to the site, the bands were ranked based on a point system that took four criteria into account.
The “Hollywood Affiliation” category referred to performances related to Hollywood in ways like movie appearances or celebrity participation. The Longhorn Band may have earned points here for its appearances on the soundtrack of the “My All American” movie, Hanna said.
“It was great to not only have our music featured, but also to have the band represented in the movie,” Hanna said.
The “Awards and Recognition” category granted two points for each international accolade and one point for each national accolade the band has received. The Longhorn Band has been awarded many of these, including the Louis Sudler Intercollegiate Marching Band Trophy for the best collegiate marching band in the nation in 1986.
The band may have earned points in the “Historic Relevance” criterion for its performances at several presidential inaugurations, in addition to historical references and tributes incorporated into its shows, Hanna said.
The final point category, “Other Recognition,” offered one point for the band’s inclusion on other rankings, performance videos gone viral, and facts about the band that have become common knowledge.
The Longhorn Band received 11 total points according to these criteria. Great Value Colleges cited features such as Big Bertha, a drum measuring eight feet in diameter, 41 inches wide and over 10 feet high, as being especially impressive.
Biochemistry freshman Abhishek Yedugondla said the ranking is well-deserved.
“They deserve more recognition,” Yedugondla said. “I remember that I went to a game once and they were playing their instruments under their ponchos...they’re really dedicated.”
Sydney Rodriguez, a history and UTeach junior, said she’s proud to represent the student body as a member of the band, especially because of the support the band receives.
“Our fans are members of our already very large family,” Rodriguez said. “That’s something I don’t believe many other bands can identify with.”
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FCTA calls for re-positioning of education sector
By Mulikatu Mukaila | Published Date Sep 15, 2017 2:00 AM Jul 29, 2018 17:40 PM
The permanent secretary of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Mr. Christian Chinyeaka Ohaa, has charged stakeholders in the education sector to evolve strategies that would engender the culture of skill acquisition among youths.
Mr. Ohaa, who gave the charge during the advocacy and sensitization forum on Innovation Enterprise Institutions (IELs) yesterday in Abuja, also challenged FCT Education Secretariat and other stakeholders in the territory to do more in the area of students’ counseling to give them the opportunity to choose careers in line with the current labour market.
“I therefore challenge this forum to focus on evolving strategies that would translate into positive change in our current tertiary education services delivery system that is characterised by producing graduates for white collar jobs only.
“The forum should also focus on how to engender in our youths, the culture of creativity and skill acquisition.
“The education secretariat and other relevant stakeholders should strive to improve on counseling services in order for students to make better and more rational choices of careers that would fit into the competitive labour market.
“In this regard, I urge you to vigorously drive policies aimed at equipping youths with relevant skills that will drive diversification of the economy.”
The permsec expressed hope that the exercise would achieve its intended purpose of sensitizing senior secondary school students across the six area councils of the FCT on the benefits of innovative enterprise institutions, the imperative of skill acquisition for wealth and job creation, among others.
Ohaa, who praised the Ministry of Education for introducing the Innovative Enterprise Institutions (IELs), called on heads of sister agencies to support the scheme.
In his welcome address, the Acting Director of FCT Department of Higher Education, Mr. J. J. Garba, implored stakeholders in the education sector to sensitize the youths on the importance of IELs.
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Davey in the News
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February 20, 2013. With the 2008, Peugeot capitalises on its expertise, acquired with the success of the award-winning 3008 Crossover, to create an innovative vehicle for the B segment. Set to go on sale in the UK in the late summer (with the order book opening in June), 2008 builds on the product offensive successfully initiated by the 208, with 20,000 orders in the UK in its first six months on sale.
The new crossover by Peugeot is the first vehicle produced by the Marque that was designed and developed simultaneously by several international markets. With its worldwide objectives, the 2008 thrusts the Brand into a new dynamic, in line with its strategy of developing its crossover range and attracting new customers.
An innovative concept
In a world constantly evolving and increasingly urban, a new generation of customers is emerging. Eager to always be on the move; they feed on dynamism. Agile and diverse, on every continent, they are looking for products which reflect their personality.
"In the 2008, the Marque has the vehicle that will secure its leadership in the segment in Europe and which will win new customers in Asia and Latin America."
Maxime Picat, Director General of Peugeot
Drawing strength from this observation, the Marque drew up a specification with ambitious objectives. From the start, it incorporated into the DNA of the crossover by Peugeot, elements that together combine an accomplished driving experience and stylish design.
Peugeot rose to the challenge. Upmarket and dynamic, the new crossover by Peugeot offers a rich and varied experience in the B segment. At just 4.16 metres long, the 2008 innovates by combining the driving characteristics of a hatchback with the strengths of an SUV giving space, modularity and comfort. Equally at ease in town as on the open road, it can escape from the city with confidence, due to features like Grip Control. Stimulating and versatile, the 2008 suits a diverse spectrum of customers. The 2008 will be produced close to its markets, in France (Mulhouse), in China (Wuhan) and in Brazil (Porto Real).
“With the 2008, Peugeot is continuing its product offensive and capitalising on the success of the 3008 by offering a new crossover, urban and innovative, to win over an international clientele.” Xavier Peugeot, Peugeot Product Director
A unique style, combining elegance and strength
The 2008 reinvents the standards of large-volume vehicles in the compact car segment. Innovative from a first glance, it successfully merges the two worlds. The strong stylistic trend affirms its identity for practicality, volume and the driving experience available.
With its higher driving position and pronounced wheel arches the 2008 has an appealing road presence and stance when fitted with either ‘Mud & Snow’ tyres or 17’’ alloy wheels. The black bumpers and body sills serve to protect it from abrasions with the addition of front and rear body protection and side mouldings in stainless steel.
The front face adopts the latest Peugeot style codes, with panel fit and features working together seamlessly and precisely. Finely sculpted, the bonnet lines infer lightness, strength and protection for the 2008, while the ‘floating grille’ face has a solidity of form with vertical elements to harness aerodynamic performance and efficiency. The innovative headlamps are designed precisely to reflect the technical functions. Sharp and precise, they act with the bodywork to given the outline appearance of a cat's pupil. Sculpted, they are at one with the front face, giving it an even more expressive, technological and individual character. This look is emphasised by LED daytime running lights.
"The 2008 has succeeded in merging worlds and cultures to offer a style which goes beyond customer expectations." Gilles Vidal, Peugeot Style Director
This new urban crossover has elegant and sophisticated sculpted wings and sides, indicating clear athletic qualities. The generous glazed surfaces, including the panoramic roof available on some models, promise a spacious interior open to its surroundings.
The rear also combines strength with dynamism. The boot volume, with a low loading sill, has above it a roofline with dynamic curves, inspired by the double-bubble roofline of the desirable RCZ Sports Coupé. The rear lights appear to be floating inside their housing and the three luminous claws are lit at their base by LEDs that appear suspended.
The contoured and elegant roofline design style is most prominent in profile view. The roof has a wave-line that rises above the rear seat position and sets the scene as a characteristic feature of the 2008. The roofline optimises aerodynamic performance with an integrated spoiler, extended over the top of the tailgate. The precise design of the roof bars are the finishing touches that enhance the personality of dynamism and leisure pursuits expressed with the Peugeot 2008.
The latest-generation engines draw the very essence of the lightness and profiled silhouette to offer an exceptional driving experience combined with a true breakthrough in terms of fuel economy. Due to the technology of the e-HDi Diesel and new 3-cylinder petrol engines, the 2008 urban crossover stands out from the competition with CO2 starting from just 99g/km.
The new 2008 will make its world debut at the Geneva Motor Show in March.
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Originally Posted by droid
If they get in via a November or spring election I imagine their first move would be to negotiate an extension of article 50. If that happens I think there would either be a second referendum or, more likely a deal that includes the custom union and a soft Brexit.
The calculation at the moment is whether they can afford to alienate the UKIP & Leave contingent they picked up last time. Presumably the vast majority of hardcore remainers will stick with them despite the ambiguity, because there's no real alternative. Ideal scenario is for EU pressure to force a Tory split with the DUP and bring down the govt in October.
I've always read the Lab leadership's opposition to Brexit as part of their hostility to neo-liberalism i.e. political rather than the about electoral triangulation. Maybe I'm wrong about this, I don't know - the Ian Dunt article I've linked above suggests as much, saying that the "cap on spending limits" argument is bollocks. Anyway, I thought electoral triangulation was mere Blairite Devilry, and it was about sticking to your principles?
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Principles are important but not of much help if you cant get elected.
Its a difficult line to walk and Labour arent doing with much grace, but the logic is sound, I think.
The most apposite poll Ive seen recently was the one that said about 60% of the UK is sick of Brexit anymore and just wants it all over with.
Well the motion for Labour to support a second referendum has been carried: https://www.theguardian.com/politics...-politics-live
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Darned cockwombles.
Today's buzzphrase: extension of the Brexit transition period.
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Hello from Brussels and the EU Council that promised a Brexit breakthrough and delivered nothing.
So on the basis of conversations with well placed sources, this is how I think the Brexit talks are placed (WARNING: if you are fearful of a no-deal Brexit, or are of a nervous disposition, stop reading now).
1) Forget about having any clue when we leave about the nature and structure of the UK’s future trading relationship with the EU. The government heads of the EU27 have rejected Chequers. Wholesale. And they regard it as far too late to put in place the building blocks of that future relationship before we leave on 29 March 2019. So any Political Declaration on the future relationship will be waffly, vague and general. It will be what so many MPs detest: a blind Brexit. The PM may say that won’t happen. No one here (except perhaps her own Downing St team) believes her.
2) The earliest date for a deal on Brexit terms - that vacuous Political Declaration and the Withdrawal Agreement - is now the Council in mid December. But even that date may prove too challenging.
3) The gulf between the EU27 and May, as you know, is over how to keep open the Northern Ireland border. There is no chance of the EU abandoning its insistence that there should be a backstop - with no expiry date - of Northern Ireland, but not Great Britain, remaining in the Customs Union and the single market. That would involve the introduction of the commercial border in the Irish Sea that May says must never be drawn.
4) All efforts therefore from the UK are aimed at putting in place other arrangements to make it impossible for that backstop to be introduced.
5) Her ruse for doing this is the creation of another backstop that would involve the whole of the UK staying in something that looks like the customs union.
6) But she feels cannot commit to keeping the UK in the customs union forever, because her Brexiter MPs won’t let her. So it does not work as a backstop. And anyway the Article 50 rules say that the Withdrawal Agreement must not contain provisions for a permanent trading relationship between the whole of the UK and the EU. Which is a hideous Catch 22.
7) There is a solution. She could ignore her Brexiter critics and announce the UK wanted written into the Political Declaration - as opposed to the Withdrawal Agreement - that we would be staying permanently in the customs union. This is one bit of specificity the rest of the EU would allow into the Political Declaration. And it could be nodded at in the Withdrawal Agreement.
8) But if she announces we are staying in the Customs Union she would be crossing her reddest of red lines because she would have to abandon her ambition of negotiating free trade deals with non-EU countries. Liam Fox would be made redundant.
9) She knows, because her Brexit negotiator Olly Robbins has told her, that her best chance - probably her only chance of securing a Brexit deal - is to sign up for the customs union.
10) In its absence, no-deal Brexit is massively in play.
11) But a customs-union Brexit deal would see her Brexiter MPs become incandescent with fury.
12)Labour of course would be on the spot, since its one practical Brexit policy is to stay in the Customs Union.
13) This therefore is May’s Robert Peel moment. She could agree a Customs Union Brexit and get it through Parliament with Labour support - while simultaneously cleaving her own party in two.
14) It is a Customs Union Brexit, or leave the EU without a deal.
15) Which will May choose? Ultimately this is her choice, and hers alone. It is her moment in history.
drama much?
the Peel allusion is good, i wonder would the brexiteer irregulars assassinate her?
that's a useful summary, thanks, cos I was totally lost and the newspapers are useless
Withdrawal text agreed. The next few days will define Britain's (and May's) future.
Droid's shit-stirring glee during our Brexit agony has been one of the few enjoyable things about it.
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Is it even possible for there to be a GE before xmas?
Meltdown.
It certainly is. Ive gone from glee to disgusted pity. Like seeing the old teacher who used to humiliate you at school stumbling down the street with a can of lager and shit dribbling down his stained trouser leg.
thirdform
this was all a smokescreen politics for the capitalist class to continue its austerity. I said this in 2015-16.
There will be no no deal. we are staying in the EU. both the middle class leftists and opportunist Class War muppets fell for this shit and diverted crucial organising energy. All who have won are the left wing jingoists (red brown more like!) and the fringe nutters on the tory party. Otherwise, it's business as usual as the country shifts ever more rightward.
I have such a crush on Katya Adler.
looking in from afar. admittedly with a scintilla of the understanding you all have, it looks as if Theresa May is basically being shit on. comes off as if a bunch of powerful men got the country into a supremely fucked up situation and then didn't want to take responsibility, so they got a woman in to try and clean up their mess and ultimately take the fall for the inevitable failure, allowing them to walk away and point the finger elsewhere (but not before openly laughing at her).
surely this isn't the actual case, certainly may could have handled things differently. but that's the optics from outside, kind of make you feel sorry for her.
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Lower Dodder Flood Alleviation Works
Ringsend Bridge to New Bridge
All flood alleviation works are complete downstream of New Bridge. This work has entailed the placement of 665m of sheetpiles, the building of 1130m of reinforced concrete floodwalls and the construction of 130m of flood retaining earth embankment. The sheetpiles have mainly been placed to prevent a flow path for flood waters under the flood retaining structures to low lying estates such as Derrynane Gardens and O’Connell Gardens. Works at the Aviva Stadium were carried out in conjunction with the Lansdowne Stadium Development Company. These works now afford protection to the National Standard of a combined 1:200 year coastal and fluvial event for inter-tidal areas, and makes allowance for global warming to the year 2100.
Utility services, such as the 500mm County Sewer main have been re-laid to facilitate this work. This scheme also facilitated the upgrading of the footpaths along the banks of the river and the associated public lighting. Viewing platforms and benches have been placed by Lansdowne Lawn Tennis Club to enhance the river way for residents. Environmental mitigation measures such as the provision of fish holes in the river bed (on consultation with Inland Fisheries Ireland), the elimination of invasive plant species, the provision of an artificial otter holt and replanting of riverine habitat have also taken place.
Smurfit weir to Lansdowne Railway Bridge
Update January 2017
The section of substantial extra work from Sherry Fitzgerald to Ballsbridge Motors should be completed in March 2017. The last section of wall on Beatty’s Avenue can then be completed and the riverbed reinstated to Inland Fisheries Ireland specifications. The existing scour mat under Balls Bridge will be lowered and re-laid during late spring/early summer 2017. The substantial extra works on Anglesea Road by the RDS will require a new planning permission. Consultations are currently taking place with all stakeholders with a view to getting planning permission later this year. Works at Embassy House and Herbert Park are complete. Works on Herbert Park Hotel Bridge are currently in abeyance due to stakeholder issues. It is still envisaged, however, that works on this bridge will be completed in 2017. The floodwall is constructed between Zardoz Court and 17A Anglesea Road. The wall at 1 Anglesea Road must be on a piled foundation and it is envisaged to procure a contractor in April 2017 to progress this section. Flood alleviation works are complete between the Dunluce development and the Licensed Vintners Association grounds. Work is currently ongoing in Anglesea Lane. It is envisaged that works up to 133 Anglesea Road will be completed by June 2017. Embankment works are completed in Donnybrook RFC with wall construction works scheduled over the second and third quarters of 2017. Flood works around Smurfit weir is scheduled for end 2017.
Update October 2015
All flood works complete. An item of art is to be installed by the river in spring 2016 just downstream of New Bridge commemorating the works.
Lansdowne Railway Bridge to New Bridge
Flood alleviation works are now substantially complete along this section of the river. 335m of floodwall have been constructed as part of this work as well as 25m of flood retaining earth embankment. As in the previous section of works, improvements for pedestrians have been made to the river footpath by Marian College and the public lighting upgraded. Invasive species have been eliminated and replanting with native species is taking place. An area of land downstream of 79 Lansdowne Road will be left for wildlife. Currently, landscaping and replanting works are taking place, with this work scheduled for completion in March 2013.
All flood works complete. Some landscaping is to take place by the site adjacent 79 Lansdowne Road on completion of the parapet wall works to New Bridge.
Bridge Parapets at London Bridge and New Bridge
Following consultations with local residents associations, local representatives and other stakeholders, this scheme is currently going through the planning phase with submissions on the planning applications due for receipt by 3rd December 2012. The planning documentation can be found below. Dependant on planning approval, it would be envisaged to commence this work in March 2013.
The contract for the parapet strengthening works at New Bridge has been awarded. The process of agreeing the contractors proposed design for the post-tensioned cable system is currently being progressed. It is envisaged that construction work will now take place during the summer of 2017.
Appendix 1 Figure 1.pdf
Appendix 2 London Bridge Figure 1.pdf
Appendix 2 London Bridge 9S9229 4211 Option 3.pdf
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Appendix 3 New Bridge 9S9229 4103 Option 4.pdf
Appendix 4 Archaeology Assessment.pdf
London and New Bridges Part 8 draft v12.1 FINAL 24-07-12.pdf
Update: The planning permission was passed by Dublin City Council on 4th February 2013 with conditions. Work will start on London Bridge on 8th April and will take three and a half months to complete. Work will involve a road closure at the bridge for vehicular traffic and diversions will be in operation. Pedestrian access will be maintained at all times
Traffic Diversion Drawing 1
Below is a Dublin City Council letter which will be circulated to all residents affected by the closure:
Letter to Residents
Update July 2013: The above works at London Bridge have been extended to 1st September 2013. This prolongation of the road closure has arisen due to delays with relocating existing services (mainly ESB) within the bridge. Moving services requires outages of that service and this is not under our control. There has also been some delay due to the tops of the stone blocks, which form the bridge arches, being higher within the bridge than anticipated. This has required careful grinding down to a height that facilitates the placement of the reinforced concrete strengthening slabs without structurally weakening the arches.
Dublin City Council apologises for any inconvenience caused during the course of these necessary engineering works.
Below is a Dublin City Council letter which will be circulated to all residents affected by the extended closure:
Bath Avenue and Londonbridge Road were reopened to traffic on 31st August 2013. The works on London Bridge are now substantially complete with the surrounding areas protected to the National Standard for flood alleviation works. Finishing works are currently being undertaken and pedestrian restrictions on the bridge, which will last until the end of this year, are locally in place to facilitate the placement of the original stone cladding back onto the bridge structure.
Design works and stakeholder liaison are well advanced for New Bridge, also known locally as Herbert Bridge and Lansdowne Road Bridge, and it is hoped to commence these works on completion of works at London Bridge.
Tender documents are being prepared for the placement of post-tensioned cables to the parapet walls, local raising of the walls, strengthening works to the bridge decking and other ancillary works. It is anticipated that these will go to tender this year with a view to works taking place over the summer of 2016.
This work will involve the construction, where necessary, of flood defence walls and embankments, raising of bridge parapets, work on weirs and other ancillary works similar in nature and design to previous schemes on the river. It is envisaged that mitigation works to ameliorate any adverse environmental and social impact will also take place. A consultant has been procured for the design of these works, and flood defence levels have been determined as an output of the River Dodder Flood Risk Assessment and Management Study. Consultation is taking place with relevant stakeholders and it is envisaged that progression to planning will occur in the first half of 2013.
Following the major flood event on the river on 24th October 2011, advanced works are taking place by the Sweepstakes apartments and at the Licensed Vintners Association building off Anglesea Road. These advanced works are scheduled for completion in March 2013.
As part of the Planning and Development Acts 2000 – 2011 and Planning and Development Regulations 2001-2012, Part 8, Dublin City Council is now applying for planning permission to carry out flood alleviation works on both sides of the river Dodder, from Lansdowne Road Railway Bridge to the Lower Smurfit Weir. (more details outlined in stakeholders notification letter below)
Dodder Flood Alleviation Works Ph 2c 2d 2e Part 8 Stakeholders Notification Letter.
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The plans and particulars of the proposed developments may be inspected up until Wednesday 5th June 2013 at the following locations during the following times:
Planning Department, Dublin City Council, Ground floor, Block 4, Civic Offices, Wood Quay, Dublin 8 during the hours 9.00am to 4.30pm Monday to Friday.
Ringsend Library, Ringsend, Dublin 4, between the hours 12.45pm - 4.00pm & 4.45pm - 8.00pm on Monday and Wednesday, and 10.00am - 1.00pm & 2.00pm - 5.00pm for Tuesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday.
Pembroke Library, Anglesea Road, Dublin 4, 1.00pm – 8.00pm on Monday and Tuesday, 10.00am – 5.00pm on Wednesday and Thursday, and 10.00am -1.00pm and 1.45pm – 5.00pm Friday and Saturday.
Submissions or observations with respect to the proposed development dealing with the proper planning and sustainable development of the area in which the development would be situated, may be made in writing to the Executive Manager, Planning Department, Dublin City Council, Block 4, Floor 3, Civic Offices, Dublin 8, before 4.30pm on Wednesday 19th June 2013.
Please see below Part 8 Planning Application Documents:
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Appendix A Drawings.pdf
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Photomontages.pdf
A11.1 to A12.2.pdf
Appropriate Assessment Report.pdf
Natura 2000 Site Screening Tables.pdf
Other Plans and Programmes Assessed.pdf
Planning permission was granted to this scheme on 1st July 2013 subject to 13 conditions. Construction works have commenced on site at Beatty’s Avenue and are scheduled to sequentially move upstream, with final completion by end 2015. Emergency works at the Licensed Vintners Association off Anglesea Road and the Sweepstakes apartments are complete.
Construction works are ongoing on this phase of works. Flood wall construction is largely complete at Beatty’s Avenue and Dodder View Cottages. The installation of the windows to sections of this wall will take place by November 2015. On structural assessment of the buildings on the opposite bank of the river to Beatty’s Avenue, extra walls have been designed and are being constructed for the section from Sherry Fitzgerald to Ballsbridge Motors. These substantial extra works will delay the final completion date. It is envisaged that this extra section of works will be completed by summer 2016. Works will then commence on lower the floor of the Balls Bridge scour mat. Works by Embassy House, including an extra section of wall strengthening works, are largely complete. Substantial extra works are now required to strengthen the wall on Anglesea Road by the RDS. This will require specialist piling, and tender documents have been drawn up for this work. It is anticipated that construction works along the rear of properties on Anglesea Road will take place during 2016 with completion by the end of that year. Flood works to Herbert Park and Donnybrook RFC are nearing completion. It is currently envisaged that works upstream of Donnybrook Bridge will largely take place in 2017, with the finish in Q2 of that year.
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How Not To Write Comics Criticism
Created: 18 Sep 2012 / Categories: Comics, Essays, Reviews
A couple of years ago my good friend, the writer Sara Ryan, did the world a favor when she put together a blog post series called “How NOT to Write Comics.” (Post one, post two, post three.) It’s a useful collection of tips and anecdotes to help aspiring comic book writers, with most of the information drawn (haha) directly from comics artists who have suffered at the hands of inexperienced or incompetent writer-collaborators.
These posts were needed in part because comic books are still not a very dominant medium in the English-speaking world. Travel to France or Japan and you’ll witness a very different culture, where plenty of cartoonists rank in the creative elite, producing work that is both widely read and taken seriously by critics and scholars.
Yet many people in my part of the world still don’t really know how to read comics, much less create them. Sara’s posts provided a useful sort of “Goofus and Gallant” appendix to the ever-growing body literature on how to create compelling and readable graphic narratives.
However, one group wasn’t served by “How Not To Write Comics,” because this group is not interested in writing comics per se. They are interested in writing about comics – or their editors are forcing them to try. Because now that comics have infiltrated the mainstream book trade (and the reading lists of grownups) in the form of graphic novels, memoirs, and trade collections, an increasing number of critics are faced with the task of reviewing the damn things.
The results are, shall we say, mixed.
For every column inch of well-considered and well-informed discussion, there are fifteen yards of lazy, confused, condescending, clueless, unhelpful, and sometimes even frankly hostile copy.
Some of these critics are just jerks who resent that their editor has torn the galley copy of the latest Houellebecq novel out of their hands and replaced it with some stupid book with pictures in it. Pictures. Only Umberto Eco gets to use pictures!
I can’t help those people. I just feel bad for them, because they’re going to miss out on a lot of wonderful and important books.
This leaves all the critics who are just beginning their journey into comics reading, or who have yet to be entirely won over to the medium but want to keep an open mind (perhaps due to peer pressure: I remember a literati cocktail party where somebody near me anxiously muttered “I guess we’re all supposed to read graphic novels now.”) These brave souls are willing to give it a try, but they tend to make a lot of mistakes when they first start out.
Certain errors needlessly recur in comics criticism. Encountering one of them in a critical review or essay is an instant signal to an informed comics reader that the writer doesn’t know what they’re talking about. There might still be some excellent insights on display, but those insights are diminished by sharing the page with outright errors.
Don’t get me wrong: there is plenty of room for interesting-but-still-arguable observations from outsiders, and even room for points best described as obviously-not-true-if-you-know-your-stuff–but-shows-genuine-effort. I don’t want to discourage original thought. But the sorts of mistakes I’m after in this post are not near-misses born from attempts to take on something new. They’re just unprofessional blunders.
Luckily, these mistakes are easily avoided with a little attention. This post is intended to help you, the critic, identify those mistakes in advance so they never hit the page. So, without further ado…I present to you my own personal….
TOP TEN COMICS CRITICISM MISTAKES
#1. Comics Aren’t For Kids Anymore
Used, often as a headline, with popular variant “Comics Aren’t Just For Kids Anymore.” This line is so notorious amongst comics folk that it is often referred to in acronym form (CAFKA).
Here’s the thing: comics haven’t just been for kids since, oh, the 1960s. Underground comics (“comix”) combined counterculture subject matter (sex, drugs, rock and roll, etc.) with some of the artistic techniques from syndicated newspaper cartoons, mid-century horror comics and animation. Virtually none of it is “kid-safe,” although I’m sure many contemporary cartoonists owe their vocations to surreptitious perusal of Mom and Dad’s poorly concealed collections of R. Crumb and RAW.
Furthermore, the sorts of comics that contemporary English-speakers often associate with “kid-friendly” reading – superhero comics – have veered towards an adult audience since the mid-1980s. Did you see The Dark Knight? The Batman movie where Heath Ledger drives a pencil into a guy’s eye-socket by slamming his head onto the table? That sort of thing happens in superhero comics all the time. “Kid-friendly” titles are the exception, not the rule, and it’s been that way since I wore Osh Kosh B’Gosh overalls in size 3T.
So. Stop leading with this phrase; your news story is decades out of date.
As a related sub-genre, I sometimes encounter the critic who gives a comic book a bad review because the comic is (deep breath of smelling salts here) not for children. They are tripping along reviewing this strange little children’s picture-novel when OH MY LORD AND SAVIOR, violence (or worse yet, boobs)!
Certainly, some adult humans will be shocked to learn that they cannot simply pick up a comic book and hurl it at the nearest child. But you’re smarter than that, more sophisticated than that, and you don’t want to waste your precious critical energy on these people. They are too busy being upset about the internet.
In short: some comic books are for kids; some are just for adults. Plenty more will appeal to just about anybody. Comics are a medium, not a toy. The content – not the package – will tell you who should be reading.
#2. “Biff! Pow! Zap!”
Often used in conjunction with “Comics Aren’t For Kids Anymore.” Other, equivalent sound effects are common (SOKK! etc.), and variant headlines or leads include “Holy [insert word], Batman!”
These phrases seem to derive from the 1960’s Adam West Batman TV show, which superimposed lettered “sound effects” during campy fight scenes; the “Holy [whatever], Batman!” was the Robin line that Burt Ward was forced to utter in endless variance. Neither of these phrases have much relevance to actual comic books (Batman or otherwise), and the datedness of the TV show reference is justification alone for avoiding these moldy chestnuts.
And, lest you cling to this language for some illusion of originality or catchiness, a quick Google search for “biff pow zap” turns up ALL of these headlines:
Bang! Pow! Zap! HEROES ARE BACK! – Time Magazine, 1986
Biff! Pow! Using comics to sell health law – Associated Press, 2011
Pow. Zap. Bang. How God makes your action-packed life like a superhero’s. – ChristianityToday.com, 2010
Pow! Zap! Physics? Prof. Jim Kakalios Spices Up Science with a Colorful Teaching Tool – People.com, 2011
and, perhaps most horrifying:
Biff! Pow! Judge Gives Jack Kirby Heirs One In The Kisser In Marvel Characters Ruling – Wall Street Journal, 2011
Likewise, I encourage you to avoid harping on these tired cliches:
people who dress up in costume at conventions (they’re normal people having fun on their day off)
the Comic Book Guy from The Simpsons
anything along the line of “pale guys who live in Mom’s basement”
any and all unbidden Star Trek or Star Wars references
Don’t go there, friends. We’ve already been.
#3. “With the box-office success of…”
EXAMPLE: “With the box-office success of The Avengers, comic books haven proven their appeal to a wide audience.”
In its most painful incarnation, this sentence will kick off a review of, say, an autobiographical memoir about the artist’s childhood in the slums of Bangladesh.
The point is: movies based on comic book properties are not necessarily relevant to all of comics. (Shocking though it may seem, many comic books have no direct relevance even to other comic books). Would you start a review of a literary novel with the sentence “With the box-office success of Twilight, novels have proven their appeal to a wide audience”? No, you wouldn’t, because (a) it’s patently silly and (b) it doesn’t say anything about the actual work you’re supposedly addressing.
If you must reference the recent blockbuster, a better approach might be something like “while Marvel Comics has sought out a wider audience by adapting its characters for blockbuster flicks like The Avengers, Publisher X has focused on fostering mature, original voices in non-fiction memoir.”
Give it your own spin.
#4. “Non-fiction graphic novel” OR “this isn’t a comic book. It’s a graphic novel.”
This confusion was probably inevitable. The way people talk about comics has changed a great deal in the last thirty years. Let us try to set the record straight! God help us.
Comics (generally singular, despite the s) is the medium. You may also (though much less frequently) hear sequential art.
A comic is any complete work in the comics medium, regardless of genre or length. Rather like “film” or “poem.”
A comic book is, for the sake of definition, any complete work made in the comics medium that is long enough to involve several pages of material or have a collective title. If it were printed, would you have to staple it to keep it all together? Great. Let’s call it a comic book, then.
A graphic novel is a complete work of fiction in the comics form which, if printed, is long enough to be bound as a trade volume, so with a glued or sewn spine. (How’s that for arbitrary?) It is a novel, just as Jane Eyre is a novel, but it is told in comics, not prose.
“Graphic novel” is basically a very clever marketing term that allows booksellers, librarians, and other nervous adults to have a shorthand for “book-length thing of comics that we can sell for over ten dollars and doesn’t make you look like a pedophile for reading in public.” Unlike many people in the comics business, I don’t mind the (fairly new) term, because it’s done great things to convince people who aren’t avid comics readers that it’s okay to pick up a comic book now and again without fearing their book group’s scorn.
When people ask me what the difference is between a comic book and a graphic novel, I say that all graphic novels are comic books, but not all comic books are graphic novels. Then they look confused, and we change the subject.
Hitch #2 inherent to the term “graphic novel” – the word “novel” implies “fiction” which is to say “stuff that didn’t actually happen to anybody.” While I have no sacred commitment to “novel” (since it originally connoted “sordid fad that is corrupting our women and children”), it is rather awkward and confusing to refer to something as a “non-fiction graphic novel” since this translates to “book-length work of non-fiction comics fiction.”
Even more awkwardly, thanks to the multiple meanings of the word “graphic”, if you remove the term “novel” and swap in a more accurate genre description, like “memoir”, you get embarrassing locutions like “graphic memoir” which can be mistaken to mean “prose memoir which involves lots of intense sex and violence.” (The Toronto Comic Arts Festival famously instructs its American guests to avoid using the term “graphic novels” at the border, since many customs agents hear “graphic” and think “pornography.”)
I have no good solution for this one, and nobody else has come up with a consistent reference. Eventually I’d love to hear “comics” replace “graphic” and thus hear about “comics novel” or “comics memoir,” but only time will tell. In the meantime, tread with caution and consult the oracles.
#5. Cartoon(y)(ish)/comic-book(y)(ish)
These words are frequently used, in comics criticism and in criticism in general, as stand-ins for “dumb,” “wacky,” “brightly-colored,” “outlandish,” and “lurid and kinetic with no intellectual or emotional core.” Friends: I challenge you to read David Mazzucchelli’s masterpiece novel Asterios Polyp and apply any of those descriptive terms to it. (Well, it is brightly colored, but there’s symbolism, so it doesn’t count.)
I think it’s fine to use “cartoonish” to describe a simple and exaggerated portrayal. That’s been in use for quite some time, since the heyday of illustration. And obviously the term is also acceptable to explain where on the spectrum of stylization an artist’s work falls – Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi is drawn in a style that is much more “cartoony” than, say, The Killing Joke (drawn by Brian Bolland, written by Alan Moore), which is far more “realistic.”
It’s also fine to use “comic-book-y” to describe a work that intentionally emulates a type of comics work; Lichtenstein, for example, was grabbing directly from comics sources, and there are plenty of movies that draw story and style inspiration from certain kinds of comics.
But it’s foolish to assume that the readers knows WHICH kind of comics you’re talking about. What you really mean is “this work is reminiscent of my personal stereotypes about a medium with which I’m obviously not overly familiar.” And you don’t want to write that, do you? Call out a specific type of comic – “reminiscent of Golden Age Marvel comic books, bright and punchy” or find another descriptor.
In the meantime, if you’d like a more in-depth discussion of the aesthetics and function of visual style in comics, pick up a copy of Scott McCloud’s landmark book Understanding Comics.
#6. Talk bubbles and picture boxes
Would you describe brushstrokes as “paint patches” or a song bridge as “transition verse?” Would you call a fictional plot an “event structure” or a pas de deux a “two-person dance?” No, you would not, because you’re a professional, and you make it a point to understand the terms that define the medium you are concerned with. Nor would you spend overmuch time in a review defining these terms for readers, since it behooves you to assume that they are already interested in what you are talking about (and are capable of looking up terms they don’t recognize).
One of the most common errors is to mis-refer to the visual/textual device by which characters in comics traditionally “speak.” These are word balloons. A contiguous chunk of narrative text not uttered directly by a character but instead superimposed over the imagery is typically called a caption. Closed, discrete image units, which generally depict a distinct chunk of time or space – are panels. The spaces between panels are gutters. (Please, no puns; they’ve already been made.)
There are plenty of other terms – including many that are shared with prose and film – but those are the most essential. No neologisms required.
If you’re looking for some further reference on comics vocabulary (and you are), I recommend browsing the following widely-published titles, all of which are appropriate for a general audience:
Understanding Comics, Scott McCloud
Drawing Words and Writing Pictures, Matt Madden and Jessica Abel
The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Creating a Graphic Novel, Nat Gertler and Steve Lieber
#7. This muffin is so good that it’s actually a bagel
Oh, I do love this one, and by love I mean that it can induce me to hurl an otherwise a respectable publication across the room. In this case, the reviewer has been sentenced to read and then write about a comic book. There are two varieties, one seen mostly in smaller, local publications and blogs, and the other in publications of a hoity-toity bent.
VARIANT #1: I Don’t Come Here Often, But…
The first kind of reviewer undertakes her task with a great deal of foot-dragging and exculpatory phrases about how they aren’t “big graphic novel boosters.” Here’s a classic example, from a recent issue of the Seattle Times:
I, like many other rampant bibliophiles, am a reluctant reader of graphic books. Yet, a few pages into Alison Bechdel’s latest memoir, “Are You My Mother?” (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 290 pp., $22), I was hooked despite the comic-book format.
To me, all this paragraph says is “I’m reluctant to try anything that challenges my arbitrary habits, and I’m probably not qualified to review this book in a larger cultural context.” Or maybe (even less charitably) “Oh my gosh, I’m SO not that kind of annoying nerd! Please don’t dismiss my intellectual seriousness for liking this one comic book. If I convince other people to like it, then maybe I won’t feel so uncomfortable!”
I appreciate what the writer is trying to do – reach out to other reluctant readers. (Because that’s what you are in this case, kids: reluctant readers. Not “rampant bibliophiles.”) There’s really something to be said for a “come on in, the water’s fine” approach to convincing the status-anxious to pick up a new kind of book. But you’re not doing yourself or those readers any favors by wincing your way through your appraisal of the work at hand. The most “rampant bibliophiles” I know don’t dismiss a potentially great book just because of its format or genre.
So instead of making yourself look narrow-minded, why don’t you just open your review with praise of the book, as you would for any other title of merit? Then, if you’re worried that people will be hesitant to read on, emphasize that the material has the potential to be both accessible and appealing to prose readers.
VARIANT #2: Green Eggs and Ham
Not all writers are well-intentioned, of course. Some of them see themselves as arbiters of high culture and comics as a party crasher.
This sort of person seems to look forward to writing a vicious takedown. He opens with some flippant references to a legacy newspaper strip like Hagar the Horrible or a sniffy description of the manga collections that his teenaged niece reads in a corner at Thanksgiving while the grown-ups quaff sherry and discuss matters of international diplomacy.
Now that the critic has safely established that he’s not one of “those” people, he brings up the actual comic book he’s been paid to read. To his infinite horror, he finds that it is pretty good.
There will be a few stumbling paragraphs of praise – why, this is reminiscent of fine literature! The pictures and the words combine to create meaning beyond what each individually represents!
And then there will be a stunning piece of rationalization.
Because this comic book is really good, it must not ACTUALLY be a comic book.
(Or, this comic book is so good, it doesn’t seem RIGHT to call it a comic book.)
There are certainly examples of work that exists to comment on its own form or genre – deconstruction, meta-commentary, appropriation, satire; pick your Trojan horse. It it work that takes on a form just to piss on that form. Every medium has its anarchists, and being able to recognize that intention is a valuable critical skill.
But just because something is better (in your opinion) than many of its peer works does not mean that it is a commentary on its medium, or that the medium ceases to apply. The critic’s assumption that “comic book” connotes “low culture” doesn’t make the work at hand any less of a comic book, or any less of an artistic achievement.
All you’re doing with this kind of rationalization is revealing your own discomfort about liking something you don’t think you’re supposed to. Which is ridiculous. This is comic books, not heroin or blood diamonds or Celine Dion.
#8. Comics: A Bold Artistic Choice for a Cartoonist
The reviewer observes that the cartoonist in question has, in fact, produced something very good, and perhaps not typical of the reviewer’s notion of what a comic book is like. The reviewer acknowledges that the comic book creator is, in fact, a first-rank talent – somebody whose abilities could potentially shine through in other media, as well. (She’s not comic book pretty…she’s literature pretty!)
From this, the critic concludes that the creator is, in fact, making a bold artistic choice by composing her work in this medium. How brave of her – and what does it mean? What is the significance of this choice for the story? Why isn’t it a novel, or a screenplay, which are things that grownups make? If David Mitchell took up macramé the critic would hardly be less perplexed.
The critic will think all these things in apparent ignorance of the fact that the creator in question has been making comics – exclusively comics – for her entire career. She is not a prose novelist in a cartoonist suit for an evening. She is, in fact, a cartoonist. She might be making bold artistic choices within her chosen medium, but comics aren’t a “choice” any more than it’s a “choice” for Steven Spielberg to make a movie.
There are indeed cases where a creator works in several media, and chooses to work in comics for specific story or audience reasons. This is more often true of creators who provide just the writing or just the art and create comics as part of a collaborative team. And some creators genuinely do “moonlight” in comics, as a side venture within a career focused elsewhere.
There’s a simple way to determine which kind of creator you’re dealing with: Google them. Look up their work. Figure out what the comics-to-other-stuff ratio is.
Then decide if what this creator is doing really constitutes a “bold artistic choice,” or merely what she was born to do.
#9. The Unbearable Lightness of Word Balloons
A related genre of critical overreaching. The critic encounters standard elements of comics work – word balloons, square panels, standard layouts – and immediately interprets them as meaningful to the content of the work.
Comic by Kate Beaton; see on her site, buy on Amazon
This is another example of the critic’s own ignorance coming out to play. Imagine if a critic wrote (of a prose novel) that “the straightness of the lines of text reflect the narrator’s matter-of-fact perception of the world, and the ordering of the letters from left-to-right functions as a subtle reference to his growing political conservatism as he comes of age over the course of the novel.”
This would be silly. Likewise, a painting executed on a rectangular canvas is not automatically assumed to be commenting on the nature of the rectangle. There are plenty of formalist experimenters in comics (pick up a Chris Ware title and watch him go). However, the odds are that the book you’re reading is one of the other 95%, the kind of work that uses standard formal elements as a vehicle for subject matter beyond the borders of the medium itself. The form is meant to become invisible, or at least not draw more attention to itself more than is necessary to enjoy and understand the work.
The only cure for a critic prone to over-analysis is to read enough comic books that it becomes clear when a formal element is routine, and when it’s being used more creatively. Tough break, right? But, in comic books as in everything, you have to walk before you can run.
#10. Poverty of Reference
Another error bred by too narrow a reading list. A critic reads a comic book (“Book A”) and finds some aspect of it striking. The critic has only read one other comic book (B). The critic then adds two and two and gets seventeen: clearly, Book A is deeply influenced by Book B. This leads to a lot of bizarre attributions that seem less like comparing apples to oranges and more like comparing apples to Kevin Bacon. Surely you must see the clear influence that Spider-Man has had on MAUS!
Alternatively, the critic can’t stomach the thought of referencing other comic books at all, or can’t remember even a single one (I once met a graphic arts professor so impressed with himself that he claimed not to have heard of Garfield).
So she spends the entire review talking about nothing but prose work and fine art, etc., as if the cartoonist had invented an entire new medium from the leavings of greater art forms.
Comics in their current form are a tradition dating from the 19th century – like film and the modern novel – but static-words-and-pictures-telling-a-story-in-sequence are as old as words and pictures and nearly as old as sequences. A culture critic expressing wide-eyed surprise that the two things can be combined is kind of like a restaurant reviewer being surprised by sandwiches.
So, yes, Alison Bechdel was very much informed by themes from Proust’s writing when she created her memoir Fun Home. But she also took a lot from Charles Addams, the cartoonist of The Addams Family; she even mentions it in the book itself.
Cartoonists are, in general, not very prejudiced when it comes to their influences. Most of my peers are voracious readers, watchers, lookers, listeners, and players, mostly unconcerned with labels of “high” or “low” so long as the stuff on the menu is good. We don’t collectively put much stock in work that preens over its own elite inaccessibility (having too often been the victims of snobbery in academic settings), but nobody is going to be shunned for liking something and making use of it in their own work. You will quite possibly see the influence of Star Wars and the influence of Ezra Pound sharing a table at your local convention.
But we also come from a rich artistic tradition with plenty to say for itself, and we all owe an explicit debt to the comics creators before us. Their work is our inspiration; their rules and expectations are our challenge.
So you don’t get to pick and choose Alison Bechdel’s influences; Bechdel already did that for herself. The same goes for every other comics creator who strives for original expression. If you can’t acknowledge our full creative heritage, you can’t fully appreciate our work.
Now go forth, to love and serve good books!
So, in review.
If you’re reviewing a comic book, you need to review it in the context of works that are relevant to the one at hand, and you need to make sure that the story you’re telling about it is up-to-date. If you have trouble with this – you haven’t read anything even faintly like this book before and have no idea where it came from, then you need to put in a few hours of research.
Magical secret #1: comic books are a really quick read. Reading “Great Expectations” will take you twice as long as it would take you to get a quick, serviceable survey of the underground comix movement. Librarians, the internet, your twelve year-old neighbor, and comics retail professionals – to say nothing of the creators themselves, who often have websites and give interviews – will all gladly help in ridding you of that certain je ne sais quoi I’m talking about.
Magical secret #2: comic books can be truly wonderful. They can also suck. A (very earnest) librarian once asked me how you can tell if a comic book is “good.” I was briefly dumbstruck by the question. I had to tell her that you figure it out the same way as you do with a prose book – you read it, or you read reviews of it, see if it’s won awards or been recommended by organizations, ask friends, see what’s circulating. If you pick up a comic book and you don’t like it – think first “this is probably a bad comic book.” Not “comic books are probably bad.” Can you imagine if a professional acquaintance of yours grabbed a novel at random from the Goodwill book bin and judged all of literature by it?
You wouldn’t be a paid critic if such minor roadblocks as a new genre or a bad book got in the way of your reading habit. It’s your job to tell us, the clueless schmoes of the reading public, if something is worth picking up or not.
When I read a negative review, I want to know what’s wrong with the book, not what’s wrong with your relationship to the medium. Likewise, in a positive review, I’m not looking for a blow-by-blow account of your realization that comic books can have cultural value. I already know that they do; I’m hoping you’ll tell me why this particular comic book has cultural value.
All I want is for you to write a review that I can respect. You can do that by writing a review that respects me, as a reader and a creator.
Because I really need some new reading material. And I’m hoping you can help.
MaggieDreadful
September 18 2012 / 11:55 am
This article is great. I’ve encountered a lot of these cliches just talking to people about comics. I’ve found it very difficult trying to explain to people what “graphic novel” actually means.
September 18 2012 / 12:06 pm
This is a fantastic article, but now I’m committed to spreading the use of the term “table dagger” everywhere I go from here on out. I learned it from watching you!
Rob Salkowitz
Useful and cautionary advice – thanks! As someone who tries to write intelligently about comics, some of these landmines are more familiar than is comfortable 🙂 . Quick note on point 2: writers don’t usually write the headlines that appear with their stories. “Zap! Bam! Pow!” is usually the affectation of a lazy editor and can be as cringe-inducing for the bylined writer as for the readers.
Indeed – I’ve been the victim of Bad Editor Headline Syndrome myself. My hope is that this will discourage bloggers and other folks who write their own headlines from using the title, and will give publication writers ammunition for saying “Here’s the piece on Alan Moore; p.s. my sources say “pow biff zap” is a no-go for lead, thx”, and will likewise give annoyed readers/commenters something to point at to discourage publications from using it.
I’m kind of glad to read something like this, though it makes me sad that it’s a prevalent enough issue that the article needs to exist. Most of the points listed apply not just to comics writing, but any kind of writing. It just feels like common sense. I run into this all the time as I also write about figures/statues/collectibles, and have to try and be fair even if I don’t particularly dig the source material (anime, comic, movie, game in question).
Either way, I found it helpful since I blog books and things in my own time, and am preparing to write about the comics I’ve been picking up as well. Granted, my scope is rather limited as I used to read much more comics when I was younger, but New 52 titles got me back into it now and I like the idea of sharing the experience. Of course, I’m reading other books that aren’t necessarily New 52, but they essentially pulled me back into being a regular subscriber at my local comic shop.
Thanks for writing this — I’m glad to know that I could be one less writer asserting herself as a “big, responsible grown-up who’d never go for comics as they’re for kiddos and read fancy literature instead” by simply following a few hard rules.
Christopher Grimm
September 18 2012 / 1:03 pm
This essay is both informative and enjoyable. Thank you very much.
Brilliant write up here.
Its quite often to see content like such be dismissed solely due to “lowly” qualities such as illustration. But here’s me hoping we’re slowly phasing that out.
Again, good write up, and good read.
While I thoroughly enjoyed the article, I severely cringed at the line “je ne sais quoi I’m talking about” – what is it even supposed to mean?
Hi Dainty! It’s just my little joke about how people sometimes think they’re being sophisticated by demonstrating their ignorance about something, but really it only makes them look silly.
Rick Worley
Ah, it feels good to read that. Now there needs to be a companion article explaining some of those same things to fans who say they’re fans of comic-books, but actually are only fans of superheroes. They think they’ve read a lot of issues of Spider-man, so they’re an authority on comic books, as opposed to what they actually are, a person obsessed with Spider-man. A lot of those people write for comic-book websites, and they think they can comment on anything with words and pictures in it, including things in the world of visual arts that aren’t comics. It’s like somebody who has only ever read Sherlock Holmes novels in their life deciding to teach a class on Tolstoy- “I’ve read a novel before, I can talk about that!”
Alexa (Ladies Making Comics)
I took a “Graphic Narrative” class in college from a professor who had only been reading comics for two years, and still suffered from many of the mental blocks that Dylan addresses above.
It was painful.
September 20 2012 / 9:02 am
Did/do you go to school in a grey northern city? I attended a lecture by a similar professor and had to walk out before the Q&A.
I went to Wesleyan University; I will leave the culprit unnamed. He was a real dragon!
This is awesome. Thank you!
Chris Schweizer
Wonderfully written, very informative article. Thanks for taking the time to (hopefully) give future reviewers the ammunition with which to write useful reviews.
Do you have a favourite comics reviewer? I’d like to read (and encourage!) good reviewers.
I’m a big fan of my friend Douglas Wolk and his writing; he is smart, omnivorous and fair.
This article is basically perfect, and really sums up a lot of problems people clearly have with discussing comics in general, let alone specific ones. Bookmarking this for re-reading later, because this definitely seems like an article worth memorising and pointing out to others.
Incredible Piece. Thank You!
Jon P
I feel like another common trope in comics critique, similar but distinct from #1, is someone saying “Yes, it’s a good story, but it’s not funny and comics are supposed to be funny.”
This is great! As someone who is just starting to read graphic novels I’m glad to see I haven’t been guilty of any of these.
A note on #4: I work at a library and any nonfiction comics we have are labeled “graphic nonfiction”. I think that term works pretty well, given that other books are split by fiction/nonfiction…these are just either fictional or nonfictional works told through graphics.
I like it! I’m always excited when I see libraries whose comics collections are thoughtfully categorized and displayed.
I despair when i go to my local library – all of the ‘graphic novels’, ‘trade collections’ etc are in the humour section. They obviously have no idea of the content of some of the books on that shelf – i think i have only seen one book that they have that i would classify as humourous. They do have work by Maus, Warren Elis, Garth Ennis, Ed Brubaker etc – so a lot of ‘graphic’ violence, sex and swearing – i’m just waiting on and adult picking up a ‘humourous comic’ for their kid and all hell breaking loose when they get it home. I have spoken to the librarians but deaf-ears prevail.
Excellent article – i will be passing it around.
Kip W
In 1980, our local newspaper somehow decided to do a story on my roommate and me and all the comics we had collected. Using your guidelines, they creatively titled it “[#2] [#1].” It felt like a cliche even then. (I managed a comic shop from 1975 to 1976. Maybe I heard it all then.)
After doing countless mainstream press interviews about the business that wound up printed under the CAFKA or “Biff, Pow” headline — I greatly appreciate this column. And the movies-to-comics thing is the topic of every other call I get from a reporter these days. I think it’s just such an easy assignment for an entertainment desk to make.
On the terminology style, for a long time at Comics Buyer’s Guide, we tried to maintain a distinction between original graphic novels and collected editions; I have continued that at my Comichron research site, though I admit that ship has sailed. The reader doesn’t need to know that Watchmen came out as individual monthly chapters, but it’s good for would-be publishers to be aware of. Several prose outfits in the 2000s jumped into publishing original graphic novels, not realizing that serialization is built into the profitability model for most comics. There’s a business reason more than 90% of the books on the “graphic novel” shelf are collected editions. So the distinction has relevance — but probably not to the mainstream audience most of these reporters are talking to.
On a similar score, for what it’s worth, our stylebook at CBG for more than 30 years held that “comic” should never be used as a singular, unless you’re referring to Jerry Seinfeld. Something was either a comic book or a comic strip; “comics” is what appears on the page. But “webcomic” blurred that, and I think that’s another ship that’s put out to sea.
Gary C
That was great. No one who has read one or even ten novels would be allowed to review literary novels – a proper reviewer should be totally familiar with the medium.
I can count the number of printed comics I’ve read on both hands, but I totally agree with everything above. Especially the bit about being able to like and draw influence from both the “high” and “low” arts. I have George Orwell sitting next to Star Wars novels on my bookshelf.
M.S. Patterson
Brill as usual my dear.
Also very humorous.
I personally have gotten to where I can’t stand the “low” and “high” art thing. It just makes me want to slap whoever is going on about it in their tightly pursed little pretentious mouth. Grr.
Andrew Farago
Shaenon and I were talking to Mo Willems once, and he said that he disliked the term “graphic novel,” since it’s so rarely applied to something that he’d consider a novel. Lots of memoirs, lots of genre fiction, but rarely novels. I think the most accurate term we settled on was “fat comics,” but I don’t think that’s going to catch on anytime soon.
Dustin Weaver
Well put, Dylan.
You are making the world a better place.
Nika-N
Lovely article, hopefully more reviewers and critics come around and read it.
Shitty articles about comics, usually spurred by a successful superhero movie, is a relatively small casualty in the overall decline and corruption of jouralism. That said, the Batman sound effects are still annoying. Thanks.
Great read! I particularly appreciated the non-fiction graphic novel conundrum.
On the other hand (sorry – this is going to be a bit long), as a long time comic fan I have to respectfully disagree with what ultmately you settle upon for the definition of graphic novels: “A graphic novel is a complete work of fiction in the comics form which, if printed, is long enough to be bound as a trade volume, so with a glued or sewn spine.” You yourself identify that nowadays “graphic novel” is really more of a marketing term. A collection of previously released, single issues of comic books bundled into a larger grouping is a “trade paperback,” really. To qualify as an actual graphic novel, the work in question needs to have aways been always intended as a single, standalone piece of work. The Watchmen for instance has been consumed in its trade paperback format so exclusively that most of its readers are unaware it initially existed as a limited, monthly comic book series. I’d even object when people described it as a graphic novel.
It does seem like the “comics” description you outline could have considerable utility in this area.
Thanks for a great article!
That’s a little what I was going for when I said “a complete work of fiction” – a unified piece of storytelling with a beginning/middle/end. I thought about discussing “collections” as well, but when I got two paragraphs in and found myself talking about the serialization of Dickens novels I made an executive decision to leave that debate for another day.
I think most reviewers who have to tackle a comic book and feel out of their depth are going to be reviewing “literary” (oy) or youth market volumes, or collected works with a unified story like “Watchmen” (or, say, “Box Office Poison”) that, in bound form, are going to be indistinguishable from one-off graphic novels to the average reader. How much does distribution system matter vs. authorial intent and does anybody really care if all they want is to be able to read the whole story between two covers (or in one download)?
Either way, it’s clear that “graphic novel” is a very poor term for taxonomic purposes, but a great PR tool. Like how everybody sells prunes as “dried plums” these days.
Nat Gertler
Whenever I get into the “graphic novels are not necessarily novels” discussion, I always point out that most comic books are neither comic nor books. Misleading terminology is our heritage!
A good piece, Dylan, and I wish you luck in having it seen (and understood) by the people who should see it.
Peter S. Conrad
Like many other comics lovers, I read prose only infrequently 😉 But holy moley, this is a cogent, well-written, much-needed, light-hearted, informed, enjoyable essay. Wow. Gonna go share this on FB now.
This written article is in fact SO GOOD that I’m tempted to say it’s actually a comic!
Critic Carl Wilson wrote a fascinating book about the concept of taste and why we’re not supposed to like Celine Dion. Well worth investigating.
http://www.amazon.com/Celine-Dions-Lets-Talk-About/dp/082642788X/ref=sr_1_10?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1348080077&sr=1-10&keywords=what+we+talk+about+when+we+talk+about+love
(GREAT piece, by the by.)
Lisa Jonte
“I once met a graphic arts professor so impressed with himself that he claimed not to have heard of Garfield”
That was my figure drawing professor in college. Would that I had been as articulate in my defense of comics then as I am now, or as you have been here.
In any case, I love this post so much I just want to hug it and feed it cookies.
Nentuaby
Is “Word Balloon” really the only common standard? I’ve heard “speech bubble” from a *lot* of sources who seem like they’d know.
I’d say speech bubble is an acceptable alternative, but word balloon is more common.
John Scialli MD (forensic psychiatrist)
Off topic, however people may like the follow-up to Fig. 1 above:
Gallant died at age 52 of autoerotic asphyxiation following his 4th divorce and 3rd coronary. His two sons, although united in hatred for the old perfectionist, remain in litigation over ownership of his liver the fat content of which is said to rival that of the gavaged geese of Strasbourg.
Goofus and his wife of 43 years, the former Mabel Timbertoe, are retired and spend part of the year with each of their six children and multiple grandchildren, while distributing the earnings of their charitable Foundation. Goo’s numerous patents reflect his flair for innovation and open-mindedness, which as a child were mistaken to be signs of impulsiveness and thoughtlessness. He has forgiven his late brother Gallant for the murder attempt.
Eric Lindberg
Absolutely brilliant article! So many of these cliches aggravate me to no end (especially the “biff bam pow” nonsense). As both a fan and writer of comics, I hate that the medium is still perceived this way by many people. For all the progress it’s made over the years, it still gets treated like the red-headed stepchild of literature. I only hope that this article reaches the critics and casual readers that it’s intended for.
I like the piece is general, but it seems a little too perfectly symptomatic that your defense of the smartness and depth of comics against people who use “comic-bookish” to mean “dumb” is illustrated with a panel from Asterios Polyp that *misspells* Nietzsche’s name.
I might argue that it reflects worse on the copyeditor at Pantheon.
I really like “This muffin is so good it’s actually a bagel.” I see this happen not just with comics but sci fi all the time and it drives me crazy.
Nick Mullins
This is great. I really love the illustrations, too.
#1 and 2 aren’t as common as they used to be, I don’t think. But I see, or hear, number 8 all the time. “So why comics?” the interviewer asks perplexed. Because I’m a duck and ducks do swim.
Along the problem with the word “graphic” in graphic novel, I once made the mistake of telling someone I created comics books for adult readers. She immediately thought I made porn.
Not that I necessarily disagree with any of your points, but this article would have been dramatically improved by the inclusion of more direct quotes and links. As it stands, it feels a little bit straw man-y.
A fine point, and one I struggled with in writing this. I had to ask myself whether the priority of the post was to vent my own frustration and nail specific writers or publications for biffing it (and give readers a weapon with which to bludgeon future transgressors), or to provide a snarky-but-instructional guide to the writers who want to write well about comics.
After sending drafts to a few readers whose livelihoods DON’T depend on the comics industry, I decided that it was more important to extend a hand than slap wrists; particularly when so many of the articles which drove me crazy in the first place were written by people of fundamentally decent intention. It’s not always easy to sell a feature article about a funny-book in a media environment that increasingly demands pandering conformity from its content authors, and I didn’t want to piss on people without knowing the story behind any individual feature.
As a creator and reader, it benefits me nothing to give any specific author the impression that their first, imperfect foray into writing about comics was WRONG and that they should therefore NOT WRITE ANOTHER WORD until THEY ARE SURE THEY CAN GET IT RIGHT. And, more cravenly, I fear the possibility of inadvertently burning a bridge with a writer or publication who might have otherwise considered my own creative work as subject matter someday.
If somebody reads a flawed article and replies to it with a note saying “This seems like #8 from this widely-circulated post about problems in comics criticism. Consider avoiding this language next time” rather than posting a snotty one-liner or sighing glumly and clicking on the next link, then huzzah.
But, in the interest of further discussion: here are links to two articles that I find both interesting and frustrating, and that partially inspired me to write this essay; the writers clearly put much thought into writing them and had a fair amount of editorial leeway. I will leave it to readers to form their own opinions about how these pieces could have been improved in ways I discuss in this post.
Not Funnies, Charles McGrath, New York Times, July 11, 2004
Drawn From Life: the World of Alison Bechdel, Judith Thurman, The New Yorker, April 23, 2012
And I more than welcome links from readers here in the comments that might serve as handy examples.
SI Rosenbaum
ahahaha, this is so awesome, Dylan.
I remember having a conversation at a party about how to talk to people about the comic you’re reading and making when they have no idea about comics outside of superheros and funny animals. My solution was just to follow the word “comics” with the word “about.” “I’m reading a great comic book about French-Canadian history, and I’m working on one about anthropologists in Papua New Guinea.” Thus you preempt a whole chunk of the inevitable conversation. When I write about comics for thephoenix.com, which is fairly often, this is the method I use to bring non-comics readers along with me, too.
That is super aikido! LET THE MOMENTUM OF HOW INTERESTING THIS IS BRING YOU ALOOOOOOOOONG
m . a . noregna
Superb article Dylan. Can i make a Translation of this to spanish? With total credit for you, obviusly. There are some things that need massive spread and being in a country, yet young on the comic medium but willing to embrace it (Colombia) this comes in as very useful. Un abrazo.
Of course! Post a link when you finish.
rabahjam
I live in Switzerland and have been in France and Belgium as well… these have to be the most obvious mistakes anyone can make, you’d never read anything like that over here. I’m actually shocked to hear these clichés still exist.
Jeremy Barlow
This is fantastic, Dylan, and all of it needed saying. Thanks for being the one to say it.
Jessamyn
Thanks for this. A friend (not Sara Ryan, surprisingly) read it and said “Hey we should write one of these about librarians” and so I did.
http://www.librarian.net/stax/3920/how-not-to-write-about-libraries-some-guidelines-for-reporters/
What a great article! LIBRARY LOVE.
Well said–you’ve hit several nails on the head. Nails that needed hitting.
Chris Lawson
Great article. I’ve seen these same reviewers’ prejudices against my field of science fiction, including some who have argued that science fiction is bad by definition, therefore any book they enjoyed cannot be science fiction even if it contains spaceships, aliens, time travel, etc. You could take your article, change a few keywords, and it would work perfectly well for SF/fantasy.
Oh, absolutely – I really wanted to mention the time where, as a part of his column on reading, Nick Hornby picked up a random George Martin sci-fi cinderblock as a test of whether or not genre could be any good (because he didn’t like Tolkien and hadn’t tried since then) and then tossed it after a few paragraphs because he found it incomprehensible, and declared that clearly sci-fi/fantasy was an irredeemable genre.
Then a few months later he got ahold of some genre YA fiction and found that he ASTONISHINGLY enjoyed it, and generally behaved as if he had discovered a new continent. He didn’t seem to make the connection that perhaps the Martin novel just wasn’t written in a style to his taste, and wasn’t representative of every book set in a reality that isn’t explicitly our own.
The sorts of readers who proudly declare that they have a bias for books set “in our world” or “in the here and now” seem to forget how many great works of literature are also works of wild imagination, but because they don’t have spaceships or dragons they aren’t classified as sci-fi/fantasy. And these readers also seem to disregard the possibility that not all works of fantasy or speculation are about pure escapist entertainment, but that some might actually be providing valuable commentary on “our world in the here and now.”
It’s essentially the same line of thinking that leads people to dismiss or avoid comic books. Not everybody is going to like a medium or a genre, but assuming that every work on a shelf is the same merely because of the shelf is missing out on the sorts of mind-opening reading experiences that lead us all to become readers in the first place.
Raimu
I love me some blood diamonds, though.
Gary Harland
Read the article and not convinced. In fact it was so precious and defensive about the medium as to almost prove in of itself how frivolous it is. Comics are for fun, leave it at that. Great literature requires the expression of ideas, and the expression of ideas requires words, lots and lots of words. Get over it, and then read a real book.
Hi Gary! I think you’re quite wrong about comics, and your response suggests that your reading list could use broadening – you’re really missing out on some incredibly thoughtful books of genuine merit. (I’d tell you to give Alison Bechdel’s “Fun Home” a go.)
I would also tell you that there are many readers of exclusively prose who read nothing but thrillers, romance, horror, or humor, and enjoy nothing else; there’s nothing wrong with that, but it also says nothing about the possibilities of intellectually ambitious books. Danielle Steele and James Joyce aren’t mutually exclusive.
The same is true of comics. Many of my favorite comics are fun and frivolous (brilliantly so!); many of them are by contrast quite serious and trenchant. And most of them do have words. Lots and lots of words. Also lots and lots of pictures, which are quite capable of presenting complex information in a mode inaccessible to the abstractions of prose (unless you think all of art history is a canard, in which case, godspeed). Is film incapable of conveying complex thought? Or theater? Both of those combine words and images to create narrative.
Perhaps you simply only enjoy funny comics, in the way that plenty of people only enjoy thriller novels. But that is something to do with your tastes as a reader. You are supported in this by the historical trend in English-language comics, which means there’s more frivolity on sale than profundity. But novels were also considered to be frivolous when they first appeared (as many of them were); poetry and scholarly monographs were what serious readers were supposed to stick to. Luckily nowadays we can have our cake and eat it too.
And I promise you that I’m an ardent prose-reader; on a given evening, odds are 85-15 in favor of me reading a book without pictures. I’m happy to bang on about The Greats, my favorite novel is Middlemarch, I can tell you all about terza rima in Dante, I have suffered through Heidegger, I can drone all you like about christological symbolism in 20th century Russian surrealist fiction, yadda yadda yadda. I’m no genius, but I’ve had a so-called classical education. I loved it. I also love comics.
I do know the difference between fizz and substance. And I also know from personal experience as a reader and creator that comics are perfectly capable of being either. It’s a young medium, and one I’m excited to contribute to. Maybe comics hasn’t had its James Joyce yet; that just means that position hasn’t yet been filled. How exciting is that for a young creator?
It’s quite a shame you haven’t found the comic book that changes your mind, but I can’t force you to be curious. Luckily, there are enough titles on this earth to keep us all satisfied indefinitely.
Doctor_Fruitbat
October 1 2012 / 5:00 pm
If the expression of ideas requires words, that would mean that fine art and music are worthless, including all classical music and the work of the greatest Renaissance masters.
After all, they didn’t use words to express themselves, which I guess makes them ‘frivolous’ and ‘just for fun’.
scottA
How not to write how-not-to articles: use the phrase ‘still not a very dominant medium’ . Even if you don’t know why this is technically wrong the sound of it ought to wound your ear enough to avoid it.
Your tone is annoying and victim-y.
I’m not a victim at all; I do something that I love for a living. I can’t hide my frustration with something that affects me as a professional, but I can temper my response with humor and try to focus on providing helpful information instead of just whining or trying to nail people to the wall. I’m sorry it’s not your flavor; I more than welcome alternative takes on this subject. Cheers!
Winston Rowntree
(^Oh god, just delete the one-sentence-or-less-unpleasant-jackass-comments, if they don’t see other troll comments they won’t bother writing any. Trust me, it works, and it doesn’t make you a bad person.)
Anyway, as Someone Who Makes Comix For Some Reason i just wanted to thank you for sticking up for the medium like this, it’s really a necessary article. It’s so hard to get any goddamn media attention to begin with, and then even if you’ve got a bestselling graphic novel odds are the reviews will be just as asinine as the examples you cite above (although this seems to be less of a problem in the UK, in my experience of reading various reviews over time, so there IS hope). I’m just glad you took the time to actually write all this out, you do us all a favor for sure.
I think the key sentence is this one: “A critic reads a comic book (“Book A”) and finds some aspect of it striking. The critic has only read one other comic book (B). The critic then adds two and two and gets seventeen: clearly, Book A is deeply influenced by Book B. ” That is, after decades, we’re unbelievably STILL in the phase where the medium is seen not as a medium but as a genre (or sub-genre), and thus if you like one comic you’ll like them all, or vice versa. And there’s some truth to that, unfortunately! As a kid i would read anything that came in comics format regardless of subject matter, and i know i wasn’t alone in that, and i also know that’s completely untrue of any other medium. In addition, there’s still a narrow range of voices operating in the medium compared with things like music or prose literature, which certainly contributes to any accusations of sameness among any two given graphic novels. It is NOT a genre obviously, it most certainly IS a medium, but there are certain internal peculiarities that contribute to it being erroneously seen as one big set of interrelated content. There’s the semi-famous (?) Brad Bird quote about how animation is not a genre, it’s a technique, and that’s the same battle we have in comix.
And the answer of course is to grow the medium, to have it appear to a greater variety of people as An Option when they’re deciding what to do with their lives (and webcomics have been a HUGE step forward in this regard, the increasing diversity is outstanding). And the ONLY way to get over the tipping point in that regard is with the help of the media. And the only way they’ll help is by actually taking the medium seriously. And i reckon articles like this are most certainly a step in that direction, so, again, cheers, and a firm handshake in your direction.
Haha! Don’t worry, I only respond to short comments when I think my response will be instructive to other people reading the post. Thanks for your thoughtful response!
Ben Saunders
Hi Dylan,
Excellent stuff. I’d only add that comics didn’t stop being for kids in the 1960s. In the USA at least they STARTED OUT not being for kids – from the very beginning. Mutt and Jeff, perhaps the first successful daily newspaper strip, started out on the sports pages of an SF newspaper (under the title of A. Mutt) and was clearly aimed at adult readers. Comics in the USA are initially a newspaper phenomenon (something you’d think more journalists would understand) and it was GROWNUPS who bought newspapers – not kids.
Not that I have anything against great children’s literature or comics that are created for an all-ages audience. Some of my favorite comics are kids comics. Just because something is aimed at children doesn’t mean it can’t be insightful, profound, moving, and artistically important.
BTW, some of us academics are working on trying to create a whole new generation of historically informed comics scholars. Check out the link:
http://comics.uoregon.edu/
Thanks again for this witty piece. Hope it does some good.
Great article. I make comics, and read them. Don’t review much, but I noticed all the faux-pas you mentioned that bugged me for years, even from my favorite websites. Thanks for writing this.
Fawnet
“Certainly, some adult humans will be shocked to learn that they cannot simply pick up a comic book and hurl it at the nearest child.”
Oh god, I am laughing so hard at the mental image. Thank you, that was wonderful!
One of my grandparents once bought her young nephew a copy of Viz.
If you don’t know what that is, it features characters such as the Two Fat Slags. Enough said.
I think you’re unduly harsh in your criticism of some of the critics. Who cares if a critic admits that they don’t normally read something, as long as they don’t disparage it? People are entitled to their own personal preferences.
“I don’t normally read comics” = no big deal, and a positive review will be all the better from someone that doesn’t normally read them.
“Comics are stupid and I was forced to read this” of course not good, but you didn’t seem to be mentioning people saying that.
Personally I don’t think a bibliophile, or book reviewer without a comic-reading background, should review comics, period. Sure, they could evaluate the written portions, but how in the world could they properly evaluate the art? Not simply the drawn figures, but also the panel spacing, text flow, etc. One of my biggest beefs with many comics is they lay down panels wherever…
Simply put, I don’t feel it’s the critics fault, but the editor’s. Assigning an individual to review a comic that has so far only reviewed books, and never read a comic is like taking someone who’s never read a book and asking them to type up a review on a novel.
Honestly, to follow-up, what editors should do is hire comic-readers to review graphic novels.
Now if only someone could explain to me why Anthony Lane of the New Yorker insists on reviewing superhero movies when he obviously hates comic books and superheroes!
Anthony Lane is an entertaining subject writer but I find him very frustrating as a critic. I think his heart lies in writing longer pieces about cultural figures and that short reviews must irritate him or bore him enough that he uses them as target practice.
MEITTI
Good article, though the problems you’ve listed are not quite so widespread, since most serious comic reviewers tend to know about the world of comics already. Many of these problems are more common with movie reviewers and critics, theres a LOT of really bad film critics out there.
Érico
October 1 2012 / 11:21 am
I write about comics for a publisher’s blog in Brazil (among other venues) and just published a piece about this post of yours. It’s in Portuguese, so I guess it won’t mean much, but I hope you like it.
http://www.blogdacompanhia.com.br/2012/10/resenhando-os-quadrinhos/
I think a large part of the problem is why people look down on any visual medium – because unlike literature, we can instinctively understand them without needing to learn how to comprehend them first.
That’s why I usually compare comics, movies or videogames to music – we can easily comprehend them, but learning to ‘read’ those mediums and fully understand why you’re enjoying them and how their structural elements combine so effectively takes intelligence and thought. The difference being that music, being as old as time, has long been accepted as an intelligent and valid art form, while the others still have stragglers who assume that having a natural comprehension of those mediums makes them less intelligent.
Accessibility does not equal lack of intelligence, and failing to understand that is what turns people from considered intellectuals into ignorant snobs.
Karl Ruben
Really well-written and well argued article, and a valuable tool for anyone who works with or thinks about comics a great deal. The one thing I missed from your ten point list is a crucial one, and that is critics who treat or refer to the pictures as illustrations. This happens a lot when a work has been produced by a multi-person team, with a writer’s name at the top of the masthead. The writer is then for the duration of the piece treated as the authorial force behind the work, the artist(s) relegated to a perfunctory mention in one of the last few paragraphs. And/or, any remarkable effects achieved by the work is attributed to the writer, not the writer and artist(s) in tandem.
This seems to me a problem that is prevalent even with more knowledgeable critics, not just the mainstream press writers your list is targeted towards.
Anyway, thanks again for the article, and for taking the time to be so active in your comments section, it’s a much appreciated effort.
October 3 2012 / 9:29 am
It’s funny – in different venues, either the writer OR the artist involved in a collaborative comic book can be devalued. I’ve seen reviews that talk about nothing but the art, and reviews that talk about nothing but the writing.
I think part of the problem is that the creative balance in comics can vary so wildly from project to project – there are author-driven books where the artist is given loads of direction and is basically a hired hand; there are artist-driven books where the writer is there to provide a structure for what amounts to an art showcase; there are completely collaborative books where the artist is very much co-authoring the book even though the writer is the one with a script document on her hard drive, or where the writer strongly specifies style and imagery.
It’s a little more predictable when the work comes from a house like Marvel or DC, where editorial and scheduling expectations demand a certain conformity of process and more clearly defined roles. But the kind of book most likely to be reviewed in publications with ‘New York’ in the title is generally a mystery. Short of interviewing the creators, there’s just no way of knowing who can be credited for specific elements.
You’re certainly right about the authorial contributions of different individuals involved in a comic being difficult to parse, and difficult in a different way from work to work. That’s precisely what makes it an important thing to consider when analysing a comic. If you are widely read, it becomes a useful angle for approaching the work, providing context for the contributions of the various people involved. And if you’re new to the medium, like the target audience for your list, it’s a crucial thing to remember when discussing authorial intent.
Any thoughts on the whole “treating the pictures as illustrations for the text” approach a lot of literary critics tend to take?
>Can you imagine if a professional acquaintance of yours grabbed a novel at random from the Goodwill book bin and judged all of literature by it?
Sadly, there are many people who actually do this.
October 11 2012 / 5:23 pm
I just happened to find out about this post yesterday. Today I happened to come across Richard Brody’s piece about middlebrow attacks on highbrow movies:
http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/movies/2012/10/movie-culture-isnt-dead.html
(Not sure if your commenting software will allow links — if not google “Richard Brody O’Hehir Bailey site:www.newyorker.com”.) It’s kind of interesting to see how similar your attack on middlebrow culture from “below” is to Brody’s attack on it from “above”.
One thing that struck me about Brody’s piece is his point that cinematic technique isn’t opposed to feeling; it’s how movies elicit and express feeling. That got me thinking that perhaps your point 9 is too broad. I think I know what your real target is: “Like, OMG, the pictures actually convey something that couldn’t be put in words! Who knew?” But it is interesting to observe how the very basic formal features of comics work to convey meaning. Exhibit A is McCloud’s discussion of the gutter in “Understanding Comics”. His emphasis on the work that the reader has to do in filling in the space between panels is to me the most interesting single point in his book. But of course the gutter is a necessary feature of comics. You can’t have a series of drawings without having separation between them. In the right hands, absolutely basic formal features can be interestingly interpreted — even if the creator is not a “formalist experimenter” a la Ware.
Lennie
October 16 2012 / 6:29 am
Alistair Gray, as well as Umberto Eco, seems to be able to get away with pictures in his books (nice pictures they are too).
Came across this article about the recent ‘Marvel Comics the Untold Story’ book by Sean Howe at Salon.com, and look at the description of the article: “Bam! Pow! A new history of the iconic comics company reveals the bare-knuckled scrapping behind famed superheroes”…looks like the author didn’t read your article, which is great by the way.
November 15 2012 / 4:10 pm
My parents are in the category of people who think when something like the NY Times reviews the new Chris Ware book they’ve lowered their standards as if they’re reviewing Tales of Suspense #32.
They’re also in the category of people who think because something’s a comic, that means I’ll like it, which is like saying “PBS and MTV are the same thing because they’re both broadcast through a cathode ray tube.”
January 18 2013 / 7:15 pm
I will behave.
June 10 2013 / 5:48 am
Where I come from the media has a problem with reporting of fmale comic artists. They are like: “LOOK! WOMEN CAN DRAW COMICS! WOW! BREAKING NEWS!” every time they talk about a female comic artist, ignoring that they have been around for quite some time now.
That can happen in North America, too, although most often about superhero comics.
Patrick Ijima-Washburn
BAM! POW! WHIZ! I can’t believe it’s not literature!
Just kidding. So perfectly spot on. Glad I ran across your wonderful article which is intelligent and not defensive at all. This is how comics should be discussed.
I was wondering if I can quote you and some of your points for a rhetorical piece on the non-acceptance of comics. Title: The Greatest Books You’ve Never Read.
Sure, go right ahead!
June 11 2013 / 4:39 pm
I think critics should think of comics as a medium and not a genre, that way these mistakes would be avoided. The only common ground an action blockbuster has with a student short is the stock they’re shot on, but most of the same people that would agree look at “comics” as one thing painted with a big brush. It’s like assuming Howard Stern and NPR are the same thing.
Woops! I didn’t realize I’d commented on this before several months back. Sorry about that. I think most of these writers know better but feel the need for such condescension for a general public that feels that way. An article such as yours should be written for those people to prevent CAFKA journalism from being the norm.
May 3 2014 / 2:33 am
Excellent article. Finally I have something to point people to when the whole graphic novel debate arises!
One thing: I’ve been reading comics for thirty years now, and never once have I seen those referred to as word balloons! They’ve always been speech bubbles to me. I’m now thinking that maybe this is a British thing … ?
June 1 2014 / 10:26 am
It’s rare to see a blog post about art that is this entertaining, this on-point, and this insightful. I’ve read /lots/ of blog posts, so I think my bona fides as a critic of the blog-post genre will hold up 😉 .
Your anger is real, but your tone is helpful rather than hateful, and by quoting some of the egregious criticisms you’ve encountered, you prevent this post from devolving into a rant session (though it works on that level, too).
So many pithy, quotable lines! I particularly loved the muffin ≠ bagel illustration and this snarky jewel: “while the grown-ups quaff sherry and discuss matters of international diplomacy.”
Jo Waite
This is terrible, and true. Another of my comics community in Melbourne, Australia sent me the link to this, as here we are so far behind the rest of the civilized world with our comics journalism; there isn’t any! Even actual comics historians will call their exhibition at the State library Zap! Pow! Comics aren’t for kids anymore! *sigh*
In 1979 or around then, the local paper ran a small feature on my roommate Sam and me, which actually used the line (as a headline or subhead), BIFF! BAM! POW! COMICS NOT JUST FOR KIDS ANY MORE
And even then, we knew it was a goony cliche.
It is true, though, that when I was managing a comic shop, I heard women walking by (probably tellers from the bank across the street or some such) say “Comic books!” and then giggle like Betty and Wilma. I told the owner it was a bad location for walk-in. A year or two after firing me, he told me that I was right about that. (Thanks, Chuck!)
Hell, I said the same thing in 2012, only with fewer words. Getting old is tough, kids.
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European Biotech industry figures show signs of chronic under-funding
The latest figures published today compares biotechnology sectors across some eighteen European nations and the USA.
The report finds that the European and the US biotechnology industries both have around 2000 companies, but the US sector employs nearly twice as many people, spends around three times as much on research and development, has twice the number of employees involved in research and development, raises over twice as much venture capital, and has access to 10 times as much debt finance. It earns twice as much revenue.
Despite the right-minded high-level political intentions to transform Europe into an innovation-intensive economic powerhouse, Europe's biotechnology project is in danger of foundering from the relative dearth of that most vital of fuels for innovation: money. There is a good deal of national government enthusiasm for biotechnology, apparent in a myriad of technology transfer initiatives, seed funding schemes, and taxation schemes encouraging bioscience and other hightechnology research and development.
According to John Hodgson, Partner at Critical I - a specialist biotechnology consultancy â who authored the study: "Venture capital is a luxury. Less than 10% of European companies win venture funds each year. But it is an indispensable luxury. Only properly capitalised companies can hope to compete globally in knowledge-intensive industries like biotechnology."
The report shows that Europe's science base is inventive, and the establishment of over 100 new biotechnology firms across Europe in 2004 is testimony to the fact that its inventors are entrepreneurial, too. However, the practicalities of funding innovation, whether in science or in business, are currently confounding the good intentions and enthusiasm. "Europe can be a breeding ground for European companies, or it can be a greenhouse for high-technology firms that are acquired by better funded US firms. The development of technology will follow the money that allows it to develop. Europe needs to ensure that the money is here," says John Hodgson.
This study identified 2,163 European biotechnology companies whose primary commercial activity was in biotechnology.
Responding to the industry figures published today, Dr Hans Kast, Chairman of EuropaBio, and President and CEO of BASF Plant Science said: "Identifying the problem is the first step to a solution. A second step is providing significant financial and tax incentives to investors and venture capitalists to invest in biotechnology such as the Young Innovative Company (YIC) concept. This was introduced in France in 2004, and gives generous tax and social cost incentives for small companies developing new, science-based products. Making this the norm across all Member States would give a significant boost to attracting more investors to our sector and help to close the yawning competitiveness gap."
Johan Vanhemelrijck, Secretary General of EuropaBio said: "Europe is extraordinarily entrepreneurial, creating over 100 new small vibrant companies each year. These companies must keep being vibrant, but they must stop being small. More than anything, Europe must ensure that its biotechnology firms grow, and they must do it rapidly and efficiently."
For furhter information, please visit:
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1550: Jacopo Bonfadio, indiscreet
Add comment July 19th, 2018 George Bruce Malleson
(Thanks to George Bruce Malleson for the guest post on Italian humanist Jacopo Bonfadio (English Wikipedia entry | Italian). Although time’s ravages against the original legal paper trail has fogged the matter, it appears to be July 19 of 1550* that the Republic of Genoa took Bonfadio’s head for sodomy. In our more queer-friendly time, many scholars now believe (contra our Victorian guest author) that the scandalous charge might well have been accurate, although also one that most observers believe was invoked due to Bonfadio’s creditable disdain for protecting the secrets of the powerful. Malleson’s biographical vignette was originally published Studies from Genoese History. -ed.)
To possess genius — to have cultivated your talents to a degree which places you above the level of a prejudiced and half-educated community — to be incorruptible in a corrupt society — to have acquired, in virtue of your office, secrets which make you dreaded by the guilty — these are crimes which society, in a low state of morality, never has forgiven, never will forgive. They are, in fact, crimes which in every age have driven the perpetrator of them to exile, to proscription, and to death!
The truth of this statement has been illustrated by many noble examples, but of these there is not one more striking than that of Jacopo Bonfadio.
One of the most brilliant writers of the sixteenth century, a philosopher, a poet, and a historian, occupying one of the most important posts in the republic of Genoa, it was the fate of Bonfadio to be sentenced to be burnt alive for an offence which he had not committed, simply because, in his Annals of the Genoese, he had given certain indication of the possession of knowledge, which some influential families considered compromised themselves.
This was the sole crime of Jacopo. He was a self-made man; he had raised himself by his own abilities to the position he occupied; he was the intellectual life of Genoa; he possessed the confidence and affection of the learned; yet from this great position he was hurried to death by the machinations of the half-educated, corrupt, and demoralised amongst the influential families of the ‘proud city.’ [“la Superba”, the city’s nickname -ed.]
What he was, intellectually, may be gathered from the recorded opinions of his contemporaries, and of the great writers of subsequent ages. Thus, the French writer, Antoine Teissier, who flourished in the second half of the seventeenth century, pronounces him ‘l’un des plus beaux esprits d’ltalie;’ Menagio places him in the front rank amongst the poets of Italy; Bayle, in his dictionary, speaks of him as one of the best writers of the sixteenth century. ‘His private letters in particular,’ writes Mazzuchelli, ‘are held in the greatest esteem, so that not only are they considered equal to those of our best masters, such as Caro, Tasso, and Tolomei, but they are preferred by the soundest critics to the choicest productions of all the others. I do not propose to prove this by the sole authority of Octavio Rossi, who calls the style of his familiar letters “unique and inimitable,” for I can cite as strong supporters both Gianmatteo Toscano, who affirms without hesitation that Bonfadio might be regarded “in epistolis familiaribus Etrusca lingua tenui stylo, ac presso compositis, omnium Princeps;” and Scipione Ammirato, a judge not less competent, who frankly asserts that “he knows not what there is of polish in the art and manner of writing letters which is not to be found in the letters of Bonfadio.” Many other authorities are cited; but I need only name one, that of Ludovico Dolce, who, writing to Count Fortunate Martineiigo, thus expresses himself: ‘I have a liking for many men, but an especial liking for Bonfadio. I often see his letters, and I adore them.’
To his most famous work, The Annals of Genoa from 1528 to 1550, intended as the continuation of the history of Uberto Foglietta, it would be difficult to ascribe too much praise. The style is admittedly clear, elegant, and precise. But there belongs to it a greater praise — a praise the greatest of all — but which, by a strange contradiction of right, was earned by a quality which caused the death of the author. This quality, so rare, has thus been described in the concluding lines of a sonnet addressed to him by Alessandro Piccolomini, and which thus terminates:
Dunque direm de vostri scritti poi,
Quel che forse di rado in altro e detto;
Cosl series’ei, cosi fu fatto a punto.
And which may thus be imperfectly rendered:
In your writings we feel most acutely
A virtue so rarely conferred;
The events you describe so minutely
Are just the events which occurred.
It was because these annals were so true — I may say, so uncompromising in their truth — that they drew upon the author an anger, born of a lax perception of moral duties, which could only be satiated by his death. Written by Bonfadio in Latin, and translated into Italian by Paschetti, in 1586, they constitute to the present day the most valuable history of the events of the administration of the country after the recovery of its liberty by Andrea Doria, including the account of the conspiracy of Gianluigi Fiesco.
I will but briefly refer to the other writings of Bonfadio. They may, including those specially mentioned, be comprised under the following headings: I. His ‘Carmina,’ or Latin elegies; II. His rhymes. III. His letters. IV. His translation into Italian of the oration of Cicero in defence of Milo. V. The Annals of Genoa. VI. Poems translated from the Greek.
Regarding these I will extract only one criticism, and that will be on his elegies. Of these Antonio Abate Sambuca writes: ‘To all who examine them they appear a chef-d’oeuvre, whether for the perfection and regularity of the language, for the strength and novelty of the sentences, for the expression of the affections and manners, for the nobleness of the figures, for the clearness and sweetness of the style, and for the happiness and vividness of the rhyme.’ Of his poetry I shall give specimens at the end of the story, which I propose now to narrate, of his career.
The precise date of the birth of Jacopo Bonfadio has not been traced, but it is certain that he came into the world about the year 1500. He was born in Gazano, a small property in the Riviera di Said, in the province of Brescia. This property was situated between Salo and the river Clisi. He always believed that his family was of German origin, of noble race, and that his ancestors, settling on the banks of the river Clisi, had pursued there the vocation of blacksmiths. Such was the family tradition; but there seems reason to believe that he may have been mistaken, and that his ancestors were mountaineers of Brescia. This, however, is of little consequence.
Jacopo early displayed a happy disposition, and his natural genius was fostered by a careful education. At an early age he was sent to Verona and placed under the care of Signor Niccolo Pellegrini. Thence he migrated to Padua, to finish his studies at the university of that famous city. Here he so distinguished himself as to be accounted one of the most promising scholars of the university, from which he in after years received the degree of doctor of law.
His education completed, he set out for Rome — then the arena for the debut of a young man of ambition and of education. His first step seemed to promise success, for he was almost immediately appointed secretary to Cardinal di Bari. In this office he remained till the death of the cardinal, three years later. His life at this period he thus describes, in a letter written subsequently to his friend, Francesco della Torre: ‘For three years at Rome I served Cardinal di Bari in a very honourable position — that of secretary to himself — and I received from that Signor all the kindnesses which can be desired, without my asking for even one. And, besides presents, which he gave me every year, he promised to obtain for me a good position, in the most obliging manner, for he said I should not hope for it as emanating from his courtesy, but from my deserts. But when the time came he died, and all my hopes vanished.’
The loss thus sustained by Bonfadio was a great one. Again was he on the world. The new cardinal, Girolamo Ghinucci, did indeed appoint him as secretary, but he found himself on a footing very different to that he had occupied under his predecessor. ‘I served then,’ wrote he in the same letter to della Torre, ‘in the same office, Cardinal Ghinucci; and although one of his ministers, a man born in the country and brought up in the mountains, who had come smoke-dried and starved to Rome, with the old fierceness of soul and thenew avidity for office — although, I say, this man, who could do much, persecuted me with bitter hatred, in order to give my place to one of his friends, yet I might have hoped to obtain from the cardinal the post which Messer Giacomo Gallo, who succeeded to me, had afterwards, but, for my misfortune, a serious and long illness deprived me of my secretaryship.’
It was probably a little after this time, when at Venice, on his way to his native place, that Bonfadio incurred the temporary displeasure of two famous men of letters, his friends Paolo Manuzio and the Padre Ottavio Pantagato. It would appear that some four years previously the padre had made certain corrections in translations made by Bonfadio from the orations of Cicero. The translations as originally made Bonfadio had given to Manuzio, but he had refused to send him the emendations. Nevertheless, he did give or sell these to a printer named Giunta. The story is chiefly interesting from the insight afforded into his character by the letters of excuse he wrote on the subject to Manuzio: ‘Tramentino,’ he wrote, ‘gave me your letter. You can conceive how agreeable it was to me, and I thank you from my heart. I shall reply confusedly, for my mind is now agitated by pleasure and displeasure. I shall begin with that which weighs most upon it.
‘It is true that on the departure from Venice of the friend to whom I owed my life, it being necessary for him, in a matter concerning his honour, to go to Rome — he having no money even for his journey I was assailed by him with the most earnest and ardent prayers I ever heard, and, having no other means of succouring him, I did give to Giunta those corrections made four years ago by Padre Ottavio in certain orations of Cicero which you had from me in the Casa Colonna. … And although the cause which induced me to do this was one of humanity and duty, as you see, I am nevertheless liable to be blamed by the other side because I have disobliged you.’ He proceeds then to enter more fully, and with great feeling and eloquence into the case. The letter is a masterpiece of pleading, and of successful pleading, for it removed all anger from the mind of Manuzio.
Shortly after this correspondence Bonfadio received an offer to proceed to Spain in the suite of the Signor Guido Bagno, envoy of the Duke of Mantua. He accepted the appointment, in every respect very desirable, but he arrived at Rome to take it up only to find that Guido Bagno had just died. Full of sad thoughts Bonfadio at once quitted Rome for the kingdom of Naples. In this he passed many months travelling. He visited the places most famous for their beauty, their antiquity, and their historical recollections,. reaping much enjoyment, though, he adds very feelingly in a letter, no profit. In fact, his means at this period appear to have been extremely restricted. Having explored Naples, and found it intellectually barren, Bonfadio had resolved to proceed by sea to Venice, thence by land to Padua — the city of his education. But at this juncture he received a letter from his friend Marcantonio Flaminio, strongly urging him to return by way of Rome, as he would find in that city a patron in the person of Cardinal Ridolfo Pio di Carpi. He followed the advice, was well received by the cardinal, and assigned a stipend. Still retaining this he set out for Padua, where he had determined to fix his abode. He proceeded thither by way of Florence and Ferrara, renewing his acquaintance with valued friends at both those places. Arrived at Padua, fortified by his five years’ experience of the shallowness and instability of a courtier’s life, Bonfadio applied himself steadily to the study of the fine arts and of philosophy. He lodged in the house of Cardinal Bembo, who had for him so great an esteem that he appointed him one of the tutors to his son Torquato. He devoted likewise a considerable portion of his time to the education of the youth of the city, earning thereby their gratitude — for his name had become already established.
During his stay of from four to five years in Padua it was the custom of Bonfadio to make autumnal visits to various parts of the country. Thus, in the month of September, 1541, we find him at Verona; in October at Colognola, enjoying the society of his distinguished friend, Marcantonio Flaminio. More than once, too, he visited his native Gazano. The good effect on him of the re-opening of ties which exist between a man and the place in which he is born he thus recounts in one of his letters: ‘You know well,’ he writes, ‘that in Padua I was often tormented by a cloud of black thoughts, and that I came here to recover my serenity. That which I could not do myself by myself; that which you could not do by faithful reminders, by sweet reprovals, nor by efficacious prayers — for you are indeed a true friend to me; that which time could not do, although it is generally accustomed to do it — to be the only author of joy — that did in a moment the sight of this Riviera; for at the very first glance a deep sigh issued from my heart, and seemed to take away from me a mountain of humours, which till then had weighed me down.’
In a letter to another friend he thus expresses himself: ‘I am longing for the time to come when I may be there. Oh, happy time! I shall be in Gazano with the mountains and the rivers near me. Every eight days I shall descend to the lake, free from those thoughts which have kept my mind withered and burnt up. Carrying in my heart a lake of perfect joy, I shall go diverting myself, living a pure life, an Arcadian life with shepherds, shepherdesses, and the muses.’
It is not difficult to divine the cause of the sad thoughts to which Bonfadio alludes in these letters. He had, since his arrival in Padua, been mainly dependent for his livelihood upon the stipend granted him by cardinal Ridolfo Pio di Carpi. This stipend the cardinal suddenly, and without given reason, stopped. It became then difficult for Bonfadio to live in Padua in a style suited to his position and increasing fame. On this subject he thus wrote to his friend Francesco della Torre: ‘You know the conditions on which I now live in Padua; and it is because the maintenance I enjoy is not very secure, — not, indeed, because the Signor who keeps me here, Cardinal Bembo, is not very liberal, — I am always fearful lest it should diminish, — and the doubt which I feel regarding the future is the reason why I do not enjoy the present.’
Many thoughts of how to better his position appear to have crossed his mind at this period. At one time he endeavours to obtain the position of tutor in a well-to-do family; at another he strives to establish an academy for instruction in moral philosophy and ethics; at another he asks for an ecclesiastical benefice. But, if all these efforts were unsuccessful, a very long time did not elapse before he reaped the fruit of his studies. Just after he had learned that his application for the benefice was not likely to prove successful, there came to him from Genoa the offer of the Chair of Philosophy in that city. He promptly accepted it, and repaired without delay to his post some time in the year 1545.
Bonfadio went to his new labours with a light and cheerful heart. Nothing could have whispered to him that he was about to take up his abode amongst a people by whom his erudition, his honesty, his want of sympathy with every kind of corruption, would be imputed to him as the most heinous of all crimes. There was no cloud on- his brow now. In the other parts of Italy in which he had lived, he had been esteemed, honoured, and loved. The voice of envy and jealousy had never been raised against him. Enjoying at Rome, at Naples, and at Padua, the society of the most cultivated and intellectual men of the day, he might well have hoped to find some members of that class in the city still virtually governed by Andrea Doria. At all events there could be no suspicion in his mind that the very virtues which had caused him to be selected for the post to which he had been called, would prove, in the eyes of an influential portion of the Genoese society, defects so great as to necessitate his death.
We find recorded in his own letters his first impression of Genoa and its society. ‘I like Genoa,’ wrote he, after his arrival, to his friend Count Fortunate Martinengo. ‘I like Genoa, both for its position, and for all those peculiarities about it which you have seen. I have some friends, amongst them Messer Azzolino Sauli, a well-educated and refined young man. This winter I read the first of the Politica of Aristotle to an elderly audience, rather merchants than scholars. I am, then, up to a certain point happy, but am not without some annoyances. Towards the end of July I shall come to Brescia on my way to the lake.’ It is clear from this extract that he was little satisfied with the quality of his scholars. The same dissatisfaction may be traced in another of his letters. He writes: ‘The country is beautiful, the air good, the conversation agreeable; and if the intellects here were as fond of letters as they are of traffic in sea matters, I should be still better pleased.’ Still he never hesitated to declare himself quite satisfied with his lot, and ambitious of nothing beyond it.
To the duty of reading philosophy there soon became joined another. This was no less than to take up the history of the Republic at the point where it had been left by Uberto Foglietta, and to continue it. Bonfadio willingly applied himself to the task thus thrust upon him by the Republic. It was a noble undertaking. In 1528 Andrea Doria had restored to Genoa her liberty, and from that date Bonfadio started his annals. He had to write, in fact, the history of Genoa under the constitution which had been the first to secure her against the constant contests for authority amongst the great families — contests which up to that time had filled so large a part of her domestic history. The work was executed in a manner that may be pronounced perfect, whether with respect to the happy style or the accuracy of statement which characterised it. But it happened that amongst the events recorded in the twenty-two years, the story of the conspiracy of Gianluigi Fieschi occupied a very prominent place. Now all the archives of the State had been open to the inspection of Bonfadio. Either by their means, or by others to which, from his position, he was allowed to have recourse, he had become acquainted with a heap of secrets compromising many members of the aristocratic families. The reader who has accompanied me so far will probably recollect that many families belonging to the Portico Nuovo had given their adhesion to Fiesco; that even after the conspiracy had failed the Senate had actually treated with the elder surviving brother of the drowned Gianluigi; and that it was due, solely and entirely, to the personal influence of Andrea Doria, that that august body had consented to pursue ‘to the bitter end’ hostilities against the members of the family. It is very evident that the Fieschi had been supported openly by many, secretly by a considerable number, of the members of the Senate. It may even be inferred that their adherents were not to be counted in the Portico Nuovo alone.
In the Centuria No. 35, Trajano Boccalini gives the following figurative account of the appearance in Parnassus before the King of Heaven of Jacopo Bonfadio, after he had undergone the sentence pronounced against him, that of being burnt alive. ‘Hardly,’ he writes, ‘had the stoic youth been dismissed when there appeared in the hall of audience, all singed by the fire, Jacopo Bonfadio. He informed His Majesty that having been invited by the Genoese to write the history of their country, — solely because some of them had found him most resolved to write it with the dignity befitting an historian, without respect of persons, obeying only the voice of truth, — he had been terribly persecuted and accused of vice; that he thus had lost at the same time his reputation and his life. Apollo,’ pursues Boccalini, ‘contrary to the opinion of the rest, not only showed no compassion for the learned man, but informed Bonfadio in severe language that although the charge on which he had been tried might be entirely false, he did not the less deserve to be so treated by the Genoese by reason of his shameful imprudence. Because the writing of matters prejudicial to the honour of influential people during their lifetime and that of their sons, however true the matters might be, displayed rather imprudence or rashness than an uncorrupted mind and a love of truth; that a man must be a fool who should think he could preserve his life from the anger of an influential man whose reputation and perhaps even, whose honour he had attacked and soiled with his pen.’
There may possibly be some who would agree with Apollo.
-One of Malleson’s footnotes
Now, in writing the annals of that conspiracy, two courses were open to Bonfadio, — the honest and the dishonest course. He might tell the truth or he might disguise it. There was no middle way. The object of the compilation of the annals was to ensure for posterity an authentic record of the events of each year, without favour or affection for any man or any body of men. It was probably to ensure this result that the task had been entrusted to a distinguished foreigner, — though an Italian, — rather than to a born Genoese. Truth and impartiality were even more essential than a good style. Bonfadio possessed this peculiar qualification for the task, in that, whilst a distinguished writer, he had apparently no interest to conceal the truth. Obliged to speak, his inner conscience forced him to speak all he knew.
For such a man there could be but one course. Yet in Genoa — the city in which the educated people were money-making rather than intellectual — it was a course fraught with danger. The stern old man whose vigilance and caution had received so terrible a blow from Gianluigi Fiesco, and whose fiat was still supreme in Genoa, had not yet satiated his vengeance. The publication of all the secrets Bonfadio had acquired would, besides, induce the inference that he possessed others which he had not as yet divulged. The secrets of half the nobility of the city would thus be dependent on his forbearance. Yet Bonfadio did not hesitate. His Annals were found to contain such an account of the baffled conspiracy as could be acquired only by one who had acquainted himself with its most secret springs.
Then occurred one of those resolutions which most surely mark a low temperature of morality in a society. Bonfadio, it was evident, possessed certain secrets which many members of both Portici knew to be compromising to themselves. It was not as if each of those members had made a confidant of his fellow. Bonfadio, by the knowledge he had displayed in his annals, showed that he knew the secrets of each. Not one was sure that he might not at any moment be denounced. Without confiding in each other, all the secret conspirators knew instinctively that Jacopo Bonfadio was the common enemy of all.
Instinctively, too, each man simultaneously felt that Bonfadio must be got rid of. Not simply banished, for then he might tell his tale in other lands, but so dealt with that his tongue might be for ever silenced. Bonfadio, in fact, must die.
But how to accomplish his death. His life had been blameless. He was unmarried. They could not strike him through a wife. But he must be got rid of. The lie which could alone effect this must be a good one; it must have something in it of probability; something which was associated with the previous habits of the man. To unscrupulous Spirits of the baser sort the fabrication of such a lie was easy. It was produced. An infamous crime was manufactured, and Jacopo Bonfadio was Condemned to be burnt alive.
It is curious that of the process of this illustrious man no records are now to be found in the archives of Genoa. To an enquiry made on the subject by the author of the history of his life, Count Giainmaria Mazzuchelli, the following answer was returned: ‘The process of Bonfadio is not in the archives, nor are there any of his writings but the annals. I will search, in other places, but I cannot flatter myself that I shall be able to throw any light on the subject.’ Subsequently: ‘After having diligently searched in three different archives, in which it was possible something might be found, I have discovered nothing regarding Bonfadio, by which I conclude the process has either been taken away or burnt.’
Through the intercession and interest of his friends the sentence of burning was commuted into one of beheading, and this was duly carried into execution in the course of the year 1550. Bonfadio betrayed to the last all the consciousness of innocence. The following letter, the last of his on record, was written to his friend, Signor Giambattista Grimaldi, some short time before the sad event: ‘I am sorry to die, because it does not seem to me that I deserve so great a punishment; but I submit myself to the will of God. I am sorry, too, because I die ungrateful, not being able to thank so many honoured gentlemen who have toiled and laboured for me, and especially yourself. I give you, from the bottom of my heart, infinite thanks, and I consign to you and to Signor Domenico Grillo, and to Signor Cipriano Pallavicino, my nephew Bonfadino. My body will be buried in San Lorenzo; and if, from the world beyond, it shall be possible for me to convey to any friend a sign without terrifying him, I will give it. May all of you remain happy!’
Such was the end of Jacopo Bonfadio, a man who received death as the reward for exposing, in the course of duty, the crimes of the society of which he was a noble member. I have adopted the view that he was innocent of the crime attributed to him — that that crime was invented to screen delinquents from his censure — because that view is supported by the best authorities. Thus, Ghilini, in his ‘Teatro d’Uomini litterati,’ attributes the death of Bonfadio to ‘his having too freely, and perhaps more freely than became a historian, written severely of some families of Genoa.’ So, likewise, Carlo Caporali affirms that ‘Bonfadio, invited by the Genoese to write the history of their country, for speaking too freely, was, under other pretexts, condemned to the flames ;’ and in the’ Biblioteca Natiana’ it is stated that ‘Bonfadio was badly paid for his Annals, since, having spoken ill of some member of a noble family, he was accused, although innocent, of a shameful crime, and condemned to be burnt.’
The same sentiment was expressed by the celebrated poet Gianillateo Toscano, in the following lines:
Non mimis intumuit nuper Benaeus alumni.
Bonfadii, ac Musis, docte Catulle, tuis,
Bis tamen infelix: rapuit nam Roma Catullum
Bonfadium Letho das scolerate Ligur.
Historia teternum eujus, fera Genua, vivis
Immeritum sseva lege neoare potcs?
Mitius est, quod te spumanti vortice marmor
Pundit; et es scopulis durior ipsa tuis.
Trajano Boccalini, again, takes occasion to warn all writers of history, by the example of Bonfadio, against writing anything prejudicial to the honour of powerful members of a community; whilst Garuffi, in ‘Italia Academica,’ expressly asserts that ‘the capital crime of Bonfadio was his having described, with the freedom which is the duty of an historian, the conspiracy of the Fieschi.’ Finally Ottavio Rossi declares that’Bonfadio was really doomed to death for secret reasons of State, and not for the crime imputed to him.’ It is true that the historian, Mazzuchelli, summing up the various opinions which he cites, thinks it not impossible that he may have appeared guilty of having incurred the hatred of certain families, and also of the crime; but whilst he rests the evidence of his guilt of the crime solely upon some Latin verses written at the time by Bonfadio’s friend, Manuzio, who, in his turn, accepted the sentence as proof of guilt, Mazzuchelli proceeds to indicate that he may have made enemies not only by the freedom of his Annals, but by the honest freedom of his tongue, one example of which he cites. The opinion, then, of Mazzuchelli is certainly not borne out by the concurrent testimony I have cited, nor would it appear to be endorsed by later writers. Of these I will cite only one, Giunio Carbone whose work, the ‘Compendium of the History of Liguria,’ appeared in 1837.
Carbone thus sums up the case:
To write history, a mind resolute and impervious to fear is necessary. To expose nakedly the facts of a case is but a small thing; but to reveal the causes, to point to the consequences, and to assign to each actor his proper part, is the proper office of an historian. When this is done with respect to men of a past era, no danger is incurred; but, when men still living are referred to, it becomes necessary to offend either truth or the wrong-doers. For the first fault posterity will punish us; for the second, the offended wrong-doers will fabricate vengeance. It is never difficult for human malignity to paint its charges with the colour of reason. Jacopo Bonfadio had lived the greater part of his life wandering and unhappy. Nature had endowed him with a mind never satisfied with itself. After many wanderings he settled in Genoa, the life in which pleased him. To him was then allotted the duty of writing the annals of the Republic, and all the grandees of Liguria emulated with each other to do him honour. He wrote his work with great spirit and elegance, though not altogether with prudence, especially in his account of the conspiracy of the Fieschi. As an eyewitness of the event, and possibly aware of the part taken in it by certain grandees, he could neither suppress nor soften certain light allusions and certain pointed indications, which, in our days, may, indeed, have lost their significance, but at that time were as knives and spears piercing the hearts of many powerful nobles.
‘Now, those who were pricked in their own consciences, and who knew that Bonfadio was acquainted with their many secrets, terrified lest he should make still more important and damaging disclosures, tortured their ingenuity how they might rid themselves of him. Examining, then, very minutely his habits and mode of life, and finding therein no fault, not even a pretext, whereby they might convict him of a State crime, they thought they might compass his destruction by accusing him of some grave outrage against religion or morality … A process having been instituted against him, and he having been declared guilty, he was condemned to be decapitated and then burnt. The sentence was executed. But I do not believe, nor is it possible for me to believe, that he suffered so severe a penalty for a crime of that nature; nor can I conceive how the Ligurian Senate would have been so severe and ferocious in an age when Pierluigi Farnese boasted of greater atrocities, the indecent accounts of which were circulated in every country. No! the death of Bonfadio is attributable to far more potent causes — to the terror of that hypocrisy which veils the deadliest vengeance with professions of religion and of virtue, to the necessity of applying discipline to one who speaks about the most important affairs of the age in which he lives.
I cannot conclude this sketch of the life of this famous man, ‘whose writings,’ wrote Mazzuchelli, with great truth, ‘will live for ever immortal in the memory of the learned,’ without giving a few quotations from his letters and poems. It cannot but be interesting to know the opinion which such a man had formed of himself, the account which he has left of his habits and mode of life. These details, fortunately, still exist recorded in his letters to his most intimate friends. Thus, in a letter written in Genoa to his friend and patron, Signor Giovanibatista Grimaldi, he says: ‘Your Lordship having inquired about me from Messer Stefano Penello, it appears to me that I am bound to give you some information about myself. As to literature, it is true that I know less of it than I should like to know, and of the little I do know I don’t care to vaunt, for I detest arrogance, and am by nature inclined to its opposite. As to my life and habits, I would rather be accounted sincere and modest than a man of learning and letters. Above all, I love truth and honesty, nor can I change in this respect. … I am a man of few words, neither very cheerful nor melancholy, but very thoughtful, even more so than is good for me. In Rome I exhausted what I had of ambition, and I have learned to bear every inconvenience. I do not care for it when it comes, nor does it seem to me very strange when it does come, and I accommodate myself without ceremony to whatever may happen. I avoid the proud, but to .whoever shows me the smallest sign of courtesy I am the humble servant; nor do I ever insult anyone.’ Again, in a letter to a friend, dated Genoa, December 26, 1547, Bonfadio thus writes: ‘You deceive yourself if you think that I am other than I am. I am poor, alike with respect to nature, to fortune, and to virtue. Regarding the first I have not been able to increase my store, but I have lived very closely on that with which she endowed me at my birth. To the second, I have never been able to find out the road, although I have sought it in many places at the cost of great inconvenience. To the third, I do not deny that I have equally endeavoured to discover the way; but having seen that it was long, and rough, and steep, I have often been discouraged. Besides that, many times hard shocks of adverse fortune have struck me. And the syrens, still, have often sung in my ears, too open to their voices, so that I have remained at the foot of the mountain, whence only I have been able to see the summit of virtue. Yet I have had this happy fortune, that modesty having once descended from the peak I embraced her, and have since kept her with me.’
I shall conclude these extracts with one to his friend, Paolo Manuzio, written from Padua. ‘Your life,’ he writes, ‘is too much occupied and too much given to labour. Nor do I know for what end you are labouring; to enrich yourself? I do not believe it, for you do not measure riches with the crooked rule of the vulgar; and you have sufficient of the goods of fortune for your desires. Perhaps to have ecclesiastical honours? I do not believe that, because I know that you always held in higher esteem the being worthy of the honour than the honour itself; and already every honour is due to you. I see the stimulus that spurs you on, and that the desire for glory keeps you awake day and night. … Yet, although you may decrease, your labours, for which you are always striving to obtain new materials, you must not fear that the esteem of the world will decrease in the least, for your fame is already so high that it will always be recognised; Be content with that, and do not allow a love of glory to do that which may injure your health.’
I now proceed to give a few specimens of his imagination, as indicated in his lighter pieces of poetry. The first is a short extract from one of his longer odes. It may thus be rendered1: —
What men call Life, is like a meadow fair
Wherein some serpent makes his trench.rous lair:
And thus uneasy fears perturb each breast,
No heart finds happiness, no bosom rest.
‘Would as a child my life had passed away
‘Ere carking care began his cruel sway.’
Thus some. Whilst others nought but sorrow feel,
And sighs and wailings form their only meal:
And e’en if pain or death to vex forbear,
Still on their bosom lies the sleepless care,
Their pleasures finish ere they well commence,
Most brief those hours in which they.re most intense.
The next piece is addressed to his first love. The first four verses may be translated as follows: —
When the buds burst forth and blossom
In the month which heralds May,
And the scent of a thousand flowers
Is wafted from each spray,
I rise from my couch at daybreak,
And I seek my lattice and gaze,
And I list to the trills the nightingales
Pour forth as their song of praise,
And I see the glad sea peacefully
Smile its greeting to the morn,
And I feel my heart a glad captive led,
Yet I do not feel forlorn;
For I mind those days in my childhood,
When the crystal wave so dear
I stemmed, and sought from bank to rock
Delights in the water clear.
And I wrap myself in the memories
Of the past, and descend to the sea,
And I feel the soft air and all Nature
Seem, Laura, to murmur but thee!
Might it please the Fates that my heart.s desire
Should at last be granted to me,
Sweet Laura, then, I would supplicate
No sweeter boon than thee.
Then all Nature would seem more lovely
And the Graces and Loves, as a prey
Having yielded their charms, should follow
And grace thy triumphal day;
And I, who in thy absence
Feel all things dark and drear,
Should revel and bask in the light which shines
From those eyes so soft and clear.
And I, — What am I, dearest? None other than you see,
Whilst thou, in the wealth of thy beauty,
Art more than a goddess to me.
In the wealth of the youth of thy sweet spring-life
I could lie beside thee and gaze
On thy perfect form, and my lips should tell
Their tale of love and of praise.
I would tell thee what man men think me to be
Since the childhood of the past,
When I gave my heart to thy keeping, —
Oh! Love! shall I win thee at last?
I conclude with a short extract in the original from one of his Latin Carmina, on the subject of Villa Coloniola, the favourite resort for his autumn holidays: —
Nunc vivo: et vita est multo mihi carior, in me
Quum memini de quo venerit ilia loco.
Salve, o terra beata, mihi gratissima terra
Diis superis: salve dia Coloniola.
Nomen fama tuum immortalibus in monimentis
Protendat; nec te deruat ilia dies.
Haec lingua ante meis haerebit faucibus, ante
Haec dextra attractis concidet articulis,
Quam memori exanimo, et nostro de pectore migret
Saepe vocanda mihi cara Coloniola.
I should be glad to give a specimen of the clear and vigorous style of the Annals, but I refrain. It is possible I may some day be tempted to translate them into our language. I have met no Italian writings which would so well adapt themselves to the robustness and vigour of the English tongue.
For the present, I leave, and leave with regret, the name of Jacopo Bonfadio. He was not the first, and probably has not been the last, victim to the malignity of inferior natures, alarmed by the dread of the discovery of their own evil deeds. But to a noble nature his fate, sad as it was, possesses an element which reassures. It is true his enemies killed him. But, after a lapse of three hundred and thirty years, his name still lives, clothed with honour, veneration, and respect. But for those who killed him! A too kind Providence has preserved them, by the annihilation of their very names, from the execration of posterity!
* Even the year is a matter of dispute among various sources.
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1550: Four Anabaptist martyrs at Lier
Add comment January 31st, 2016 Headsman
The Martyrs Mirror hagiography of Reformation martyrs offers us these four stalwart subjects of the Habsburgs’ Low Countries patrimony:
On the last of January, 1550, there were offered up for the faith, at Lier, in Brabant, four pious Christians, named Govert, Gillis, Mariken and Anneken, who, as sheep for the slaughter, had been apprehended without violence. When they were brought before the council, and questioned concerning their faith, they made a frank and unfeigned confession of it. The bailiff then said, “You stand here to defend yourselves?”
Govert replied, “As regards my faith, I have freely confessed it, and shall turn to no other; though it cost my life, I will adhere to it.”
Forthwith the imperial edict* was read to them, and the bailiff asked them whether they understood its contents.
Govert said, “God has commanded us through Christ, as is recorded in the sixteenth chapter of Mark, that all who believe and are baptized shall be saved, and that those who do not believe shall be damned; but the emperor, in his blind judgment, has commanded that whoever is baptized upon his faith, shall be put to death without mercy. These two commands militate against each other; one of the two we must forsake; but everyone ought to know that we must keep the command of God; for though Satan teaches that we are heretics, yet we do not act contrary to the Word of God.”
When they were led to the tribunal, Govert said to the priests, “Take off your long robes, put on sack cloth, put ashes on your heads, and repent, like those of Nineveh.”
In the court the bailiff asked him whether he desired no favor.
He replied, “I will not ask for your favor; for what I cannot do without, the most high God will give me.”
The bailiff said also to Anneken, “Do you not desire a favor, before sentence is passed upon you?
She answered, “I shall ask favor of God, my refuge.”
Mariken, an old woman of seventy-five years, was asked whether she would confess her sins to the priest.
She replied, “I am sorry that I ever confessed my sins to the mortal ears of the priests.”
Seeing some brethren, Govert turned his face and joyfully comforted them, saying among other things, “I pray God, that you may be thus imprisoned for His glory, as I now am.”
The bailiff very fiercely said, “Be still, for your preaching is of no account here.”, “My lord bailiff,” said he,”I speak only five or six words, which God has given me to speak, does this give you so much pain?” And when the people murmured on this account, he said, “This has been witnessed from the time of righteous Abel, that the righteous have suffered reproach; hence be not astonished.” The two servants that stood by him said, “You must not speak; the bailiff will not have it; hence be still.”
Immediately God closed his mouth, which grieved many. Gillis was not questioned, and he said nothing at all; but they were led back to prison, where they rejoiced together, and sang: Saligh is den man, en goet geheeten; and also the forty-first psalm. The bailiff then came into prison, and asked Govert, whether he had considered the matter; to which be replied, “Unless you repent, the punishment of God shall come upon you.” The bailiff looked out of the window, and said, “Will God damn all this multitude of people?”
Govert replied, “I have spoken the Word of God to you; but I hope there are still people here who fear God?”
The bailiff then turned to Anneken, and asked her what she had to say to it.
She replied, “Lord bailiff, twice I have been greatly honored in this city, namely, when I was married, and when my husband became emperor; but I never had a joy that did not perish, as I now have.”
On his way to death, Govert delivered an excellent admonition, reproving the wicked railing, and said, “Be it known to you, that we do not die for theft, murder or heresy, but because we seek an inheritance with God, and live according to His Word.”
The executioner commanded him silence, but he said, “Leave God be with me for a little while; repent, for your life is short.”
A brother then said, “God will strengthen you.” “Oh, yes,” said he, “the power of His Spirit is not weakening in me.”
The monk attempted to speak to Mariken, but Govert said, “Get you hence, deceiver, to your own people; for we have no need of you.”
Entering the ring, Govert said to the gild-brothers, “How you stand here with sticks and staves? Thus stood the Jews when they brought Christ to death; if we had been afraid of this, we would have fled in time.”
They then knelt down together, and prayed; whereupon they kissed each other. Anneken immediately commenced to sing, “In thee, O Lord; do I put my trust.” The servants told her to be still; but Govert said, “No, sister, sing on,” and helped her sing. Enraged at this, the bailiff called to him a servant, and whispered something in his ear. The latter went to the assistant of the executioner, who, upon receiving the order, immediately put a gag on Govert; but the latter held his teeth so firmly closed, that the gag did not hinder him much, and he laughingly said, “I could easily sing with the gag on; but Paul says: “Sing in your heart to God.”
The executioner, in order to put her to shame, made Anneken stand in her bare chemise. A servant asked Gillis whether he did not see some of his people. Gillis said, “Do you know of nothing else to torment us with?” “What does he say?” asked Govert. “He inquires for our fellow brethren,” replied Gillis. Govert said, “Though I could count twenty, I would not mention a single one. You think that by killing us you can suppress the Word of God; but of those that hear and see this, hundreds shall yet come forth.” Standing at the stake, he said, “Amend your ways and repent; for after this there will be no more time for repentance.” A servant who had a bottle of wine, asked them whether they wished to drink. Govert said, “We have no desire for your insipid wine; for our Father shall give us new wine in His eternal kingdom.” When it was thought that the old woman had been strangled at the stake, she began to sing a hymn in honor of her Bridegroom, which when Anneken heard it, she, from ardent love, sang with her. When they all stood at their stakes, each with a strap around the neck, they smiled at and nodded to one another, thus affectionately saluting and comforting each other, and commending their souls into the hands of God, they fell asleep in the Lord, and were burned.
* A 1535 edict against Anabaptists, issued in the aftermath of the Muenster rebellion.
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1550: The leaders of the Prayer Book Rebellion
Add comment January 27th, 2011 Headsman
On this date in 1550, the leaders of England’s Prayer Book Rebellion were hanged, drawn, and quartered at Tyburn.
When Henry VIII dropped dead in 1547 and pitched his contentious realm and dubious progeny into the mid-Tudor crisis, Henry’s old theological henchman Thomas Cranmer really got to work.
During the unsteady regency of Henry’s sickly heir, Cranmer would push frenetically to make the religious reformation that his former boss never completely backed. The Archbishop sent to the continent for Protestant theologians like Peter Martyr who could help him “do away with doctrinal controversies and establish an entire system of true doctrine.”
The piece de resistance of Cranmer’s project was his Book of Common Prayer — a reformed liturgy, and in English, to go with the new English Bible. Many centuries — and revisions — later, it’s still the basis of Anglican services and of rites in many other Protestant denominations.
In 1549, it debuted to decidedly mixed reviews.
Enforced by Parliament’s Act of Uniformity, the Book of Common Prayer replaced all Latin liturgies on Whitsunday 1549, and for many of England’s Catholics, it was one affront too many. (The country’s bumpy economic realignment couldn’t have helped matters.)
On Whitmonday, traditionally-minded parishioners in West Devon unimpressed* with this newfangled vernacular service forced their local cleric to break out the old vestments and say Mass in Latin. State attempts to enforce the ban soon produced a martyr for the cause — one William Hellyons, melodramatically impaled on a pitchfork — and a march to Exeter that spiraled into outright revolt, heavy with suppressed Cornish nationalism.
We, the Cornishmen, whereof certain of us understand no English, utterly refuse this new English.
Religion, theology, the liturgy, the text of the Scripture … these were things that early modern Europeans were ready to fight and die for.
Yet the most problematic demand made by the men of Cornwall was probably not for the dead tongue of Latin, but for a partial reversal of the Dissolution of the Monasteries.
Since this considerable plunder of Church wealth had been widely redistributed to the English gentry, talk about repossessing it really emptied the pews of potential allies.
At any rate, neither Latin nor monastic restoration would be provided as carrots; London under Lord Protector Edward Seymour instead put down the rising with the more customary stick.
After the bloody Battle of Clyst Heath and the conclusive Battle of Sampford Courtenay, English troops rounded up and summarily executed survivors and sympathizers.
Such principals as remained were reserved a more awful fate: drawing and quartering at Tyburn. These seem to be the chaps who endured it:
Henry Bray, Mayor of Bodmin
Landowner and military leader Humphrey Arundell
Landowner John Wynslade
Thomas Holmes
John Bury
Bill Ind, Anglican Bishop of Truro, made news in 2007 acknowledging “that the English government behaved brutally and stupidly” in crushing the rebellion.
The Book of Common Prayer was never translated into Cornish, a circumstance sometimes credited with speeding the tongue‘s demise.
A stone commemorates the Prayer Book Rebellion at Penryn. (cc) image from Drewhound
* Petitioning:
We wyll haue the masse in Latten, as was before.
We wyll haue the Sacrament hang Oller the hyeghe aulter, and there to be worshypped as it was wount to be, and they whiche will not thereto consent, we wyll haue them dye lyke heretykes against the Holy Catholyque fayth.
We wyll haue . . . images to be set vp again in euery church, and all other auncient olde Ceremonyes vsed heretofore, by our mother the holy Church.
We wyll not receyue the newe seruyce because it is but lyke a Christmas game, but we wyll haue oure old seruice of Mattens, masse, Euensong and procession in Latten as it was before.
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1550: Jon Arason, the last Catholic bishop of Iceland
Add comment November 7th, 2009 Headsman
At dawn this date in 1550, two sons* of Jon Arason were beheaded at Skalholt, followed by the energetic sextegenerian prelate himself — cementing Lutheranism in Iceland.
As bishop of the northern diocese of Holar and one of the most powerful pols in Iceland, Arason did what he could to maintain papal authority when the Danish King Christian III began pushing Protestantism.
Arason was a practical guy; remote from any prospect of aid, he was content to maintain a cordial balance between his diocese and the southern one of Skalholt. (The two sees were political rivals of long standing; Skalholt’s previous Catholic representative, Ogmundur, had at one point many years before our narrative excommunicated Arason and forced the latter to flee to Denmark.)
Whether driven by the prince or the bishop within,** Arason took advantage of his Protestant opposite number’s timely passing in 1548 to make a play for power in the south as well. Early returns augured well; Arason arrested the Lutheran replacement, got the Icelandic parliament to throw in with him, and captured key points in the Holar diocese, reconsecrating ecclesiastical properties as Catholic.†
But his rival Dadi Gudmundsson turned the tables on the man who was becoming the de facto ruler of the island by ambushing him at a parley. The cleric and the two sons, having been declared outlaws months before by Danish decree, were executed on that basis without trial, lest holding them for the planned hearing the following spring enable their supporters to rally. Arason’s beheading was reportedly botched.
Legally doubtful but practically effectual, the axe that (eventually) decapitated the divine did likewise to his flock. Lutheranism thereafter settled comfortably into the ascendancy: Iceland would not have another Catholic bishop for nearly four centuries, by which time its Catholic population had shrunk near the vanishing point.
Although his faith didn’t have legs on the island, Arason reads very easily as a proto-nationalist figure and political actor; he’s been well-loved by Protestant, Catholic, and irreligious posterity alike.
He also gave Icelandic a bit of vernacular on his way to shuffling off this mortal coil. When a priest named Sveinn proffered the solace, “There is a life after this one!” as the last bishop approached the block, he replied, “Veit ég það, Sveinki!” — “This I know, Sveinki!”
In everyday conversation in Iceland, that phrase is still used to tease someone who has just stated the obvious.
* Although this is well into the period when Catholic clergy were supposed to be practicing celibacy, Arason’s indifference to this particular mortification of the flesh is just another bit of his charm. With his mistress Helga Sigurdardottir, he sired nine sons and daughters, marrying them into politically advantageous allegiances where possible. At least eight subsequent Lutheran bishops sprang from his seed; by the present, “virtually all Icelanders can validly claim direct descent” from Jon Arason, according to Iceland, the First New Society.
** Jon Arason was also a notable poet. Ljomur, whose attribution to Arason is speculative, can be enjoyed for free here.
† More particulars about the Icelandic political chessboard are available in this 19th century text (the pdf is easier on the eyes than the text), or in “An Icelandic Martyr: Jón Arason,” by Thomas Buck, in the Jesuit publication Studies: An Irish Quarterly Review, Vol. 46, No. 182 (Summer, 1957), pp. 213-222.
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1850: Five Cayuse, for the Whitman Massacre
Add comment June 3rd, 2014 Headsman
On this date in 1850, five Cayuse were publicly executed in Oregon City for the Whitman Massacre.
Beginning in earnest in the 1830s, Anglo settlement in the Oregon Country presented for the native inhabitants of the Pacific Northwest the same Hobson’s choice that had confronted tribes further east long before: resist or accommodate.
The New York-born couple Marcus and Narcissa Whitman* were two of the most notable figures among the hundreds, and then thousands, of settlers pouring into the territory every year. In 1836, they founded on the banks of the Walla Walla River a Christian mission to the nomadic Cayuse who roamed the territory. It’s in present-day Washington State, which was then part (with the current U.S. states of Oregon and Idaho) of a single frontier territory collectively known as Oregon.
The Whitmans’ early settlement, offering medicine, education, and (of course) proselytizing, proved a success at first; it would become for several years a waypoint on the developing Oregon Trail.
White diseases came with the settlers.
The Cayuse people had already dwindled (pdf) to just a thousand or two after the decimations of smallpox and other plagues swept the region in the decades preceding. Now, outbreaks of measles were ravaging those remaining.
Marcus Whitman, a doctor as well as a spiritualist, proved unable to check the new epidemic. Rumors went abroad that the missionaries were bewitching or poisoning the Cayuse, as the vanguard of a coming territorial conquest; the Whitmans themselves were very keen to the hostile feeling the situation had engendered and had even heard whispers that they were the targets of assassination plots. Bravely, they stayed.
“Perhaps God thought it for the best that your little child should be called away,” Narcissa Whitman said in strange consolation to the grieving mother of an Anglo child who also succumbed to measles in 1847. “It may calm the Indians to see a white child taken as well as so many natives, for otherwise we may all be compelled to leave within two weeks.” (pdf source, op. cit.; this document also reconstructs a detailed narrative of the unfolding tragedy)
But that remark was only days before the terrible November 29, 1847. On that cold autumn Monday, a small party of Cayuse led by a chief named Tiloukaikt fell on the mission and slaughtered both Whitmans plus another 11** inhabitants of the little compound.
Some 54 surviving women and children were taken hostage, and several of these died in custody as well. A Canadian official of the Hudson’s Bay Company hurried to ransom the captives at the price of 62 blankets, 63 cotton shirts, 12 muskets, 600 loads of ammunition, 37 pounds of tobacco, and a dozen flints.†
This quick response might have forestalled a worse tragedy for the missionaries — but as far as the Cayuse went, the die was already cast. A volunteer militia of Oregonians under Cornelius Gilliam soon mobilized to retaliate, driving many Cayuse into the Blue Mountains.
By mid-1848, spurred in part by the Whitman bloodbath, Congress officially incorporated the region as the Oregon Territory; arriving early in 1849, the new territorial governor Joseph Lane immediately opened negotiations with the Cayuse to hand over the perpetrators of the massacre. With federal troops arriving later in 1849, the Cayuse at last capitulated and gave up five warriors: Tiloukaikt, the leader; Tomahas; Kiamasumpkin; Iaiachalakis; and Klokomas. (There are numerous alternative transliterations of these names.)
They were tried in Oregon City, the territorial capital at the time — a town of 500 or so on the Willamette River Falls — in a landmark case: the first proper death penalty trial in the young territory.‡ This would fall a little short of modern standards, and not just because it was held in a tavern for want of a regular courthouse. The prosecution was not especially rigorous linking all the defendants to specific violent acts, but the defense’s recourse to Cayuse cultural practices that held shamans liable for the failure of their medicine conceded the point by implication. The judge‘s final instructions simply directed his jury to “infer” the defendants’ culpability by virtue of “the surrender of the Defendants by the Cayuse nation as the murderers, the nation knowing best who those murderers were.” So why even have the trial? Kiamasumpkin, against whom no evidence was ever individually presented, went to the gallows insisting that he didn’t even arrive to the Whitman Mission until the day after the massacre.
All five were condemned in the end, and executed by prominent early pioneer and lawman Joe Meek.§ “On the 3d of June an election and a hanging match took place at Oregon City,” ran the Aug. 22, 1850 story in the New York Tribune — for the Whitman massacre had been a matter of national interest. “The town was full of men and women, the former coming to see how the election resulted, and the latter to see how the Indians were hung.”
“Their tribe, the Cayuses, gave them up to keep peace with the whites. Much doubt was felt as to the policy of hanging them, but the popularity of doing so was undeniable.”
Fears that the quintuple hanging would stoke a running conflict with the Cayuse were not altogether misplaced, but over the subsequent years the dwindling tribe was simply dwarfed by over 30,000 newly arriving settlers lured by a congressional grant of free land. By 1855, the defeated Cayuse were forced onto the small Umatilla Reservation, ceding (along with the Umatillas and the Walla Wallas) 6.4 million acres to whites. The Cayuse tongue was extinct by the end of the century.
Present-day memorial obelisk at the site of the Whitman Massacre, now a national historic site. (cc) image from Jasperdo.
* Present-day Whitman College (Walla Walla, Wash.) is named for them.
** Figures of both 13 and 14 (inclusive of the Whitmans) are cited in various places for the Whitman Massacre’s body count; the discrepancy turns on whether one’s tally includes as a casualty Peter Hall, who escaped from the mission, fled to Fort Walla Walla, and then made a panicky attempt to reach The Dalles. Hall disappeared into the wilderness, and was never heard from again.
† Ransom covered gratis by the Hudson’s Bay Company.
‡ The Espy file‘s index of U.S. executions lists only a couple of undated executions many years before under informal frontier justice.
§ Cousin to the recent First Lady Sarah Childress Polk.
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1649: Saint Jean de Brébeuf, missionary to the Huron
2 comments March 16th, 2013 Headsman
It was on this date that the Jesuit missionary Saint Jean de Brébeuf was martyred by indigenous Iroquois near present-day Midland, Ontario.
(cc) image from Patrick Shanks
Brebeuf was of Norman stock, kin to poet Georges de Brebeuf.
Ordained in 1622, Brebeuf soon decamped to the New World to Christianize the natives.
There he teamed up with another Jesuit missionary named Gabriel Lalemant and established the Sainte-Marie among the Hurons mission.
As the name advertises, this outpost aimed to minister to the Hurons (Wyandot); to that end, Brebeuf — who learned the local tongue well enough to write a catechism and a dictionary — composed the still-beloved Christmas song “Huron Carol”.
Brebeuf’s own missives recording Huron established him an energetic chronicler who has been styled Canada’s first serious ethnographer. For instance, Brebeuf on the POW treatment he saw the Huron dish out:
when they seize some of their enemies, they treat them with all the cruelty they can devise. Five or six days will sometimes pass in assuaging their wrath, and in burning them at a slow fire; and they are not satisfied with seeing their skins entirely roasted, — they open the legs, the thighs, the arms, and the most fleshy parts, and thrust therein glowing brands, or red-hot hatchets … After having at last brained a victim, if he was a brave man, they tear out his heart, roast it on the coals, and distribute it in pieces to the young men; they think that this renders them courageous … we hope, with the assistance of Heaven, that the knowledge of the true God will entirely banish from this Country such barbarity. (From the Jesuit Relations, volume 10)
Well … not just yet.
Brebeuf regrettably foreshadowed his own ghastly fate, for during his ministry, the Huron and Iroquois went to war. No fewer than eight men posted to Brebeuf’s mission were martyred during 1640s Huron-Iroquois wars.
On March 16, 1649, Iroquois captured Brebeuf and Lalemant, and subjected them to a horrific death just like the sort of thing Brebeuf had seen inflicted by the Huron. Other Jesuit missionaries recorded the tortures from eyewitness accounts given in the subsequent weeks:
As soon as they were taken captive, they were stripped naked, and some of their nails were torn out; and the welcome which they received upon entering the village of St. Ignace was a hailstorm of blows with sticks upon their shoulders, their loins, their legs, their breasts, their bellies, and their faces, — there being no part of their bodies which did not then endure its torment.
Father Jean de Brebeuf, overwhelmed under the burden of these blows, did not on that account lose care for his flock; seeing himself surrounded with Christians whom he had instructed, and who were in captivity with him, he said to them: “My children, let us lift our eyes to Heaven at the height of our afflictions; let us remember that God is the witness of our sufferings, and will soon be our exceeding great reward. Let us die in this faith; and let us hope from his goodness the fulfillment of his promises. I have more pity for you than for myself; but sustain with courage the few remaining torments. They will end with our lives; the glory which follows them will never have an end.” “Echon,” they said to him (this is the name which the Hurons gave the Father), “our spirits will be in Heaven when our bodies shall be suffering on earth. Pray to God for us, that he may show us mercy; we will invoke him even until death.”
Some Huron Infidels — former captives of the Iroquois, naturalized among them, and former enemies of the Faith — were irritated by these words, and because our Fathers in their captivity had not their tongues captive. They cut off the hands of one, and pierce the other with sharp awls and iron points; they apply under their armpits and upon their loins hatchets heated red in the fire, and put a necklace of these about their necks in such a way that all the motions of their bodies gave them a new torture. For, if they attempted to lean forward, the red-hot hatchets which hung behind them burned the shoulders everywhere; and if they thought to avoid that pain, bending back a little, their stomachs and breasts experienced a similar torment; if they stood upright, without leaning to one side or the other, these glowing hatchets, touching them alike on all sides, were a double torture to them. They put about them belts of bark, filled with pitch and resin, to which they set fire, which scorched the whole of their bodies.
At the height of these torments, Father Gabriel Lallement lifted his eyes to Heaven, clasping his hands from time to time, and uttering sighs to God, whom he invoked to his aid. Father Jean de Brebeuf suffered like a rock, insensible to the fires and the flames, without uttering any cry, and keeping a profound silence, which astonished his executioners themselves: no doubt, his heart was then reposing in his God. Then, returning to himself, he preached to those Infidels, and still more to many good Christian captives, who had compassion on him.
Those butchers, indignant at his zeal, in order to hinder him from further speaking of God, girdled his mouth, cut off his nose, and tore off his lips; but his blood spoke much more loudly than his lips had done; and, his heart not being yet torn out, his tongue did not fail to render him service until the last sigh, for blessing God for these torments, and for animating the Christians more vigorously than he had ever done.
In derision of holy Baptism, — which these good Fathers had so charitably administered even at the breach, and in the hottest of the fight,—those wretches, enemies of the Faith, bethought themselves to baptize them with boiling water. Their bodies were entirely bathed with it, two or three times, and more, with biting gibes, which accompanied these torments. “We baptize thee,” said these wretches, “to the end that thou mayst be blessed in Heaven; for without proper Baptism one cannot be saved.” Others added, mocking, “we treat thee as a friend, since we shall be the cause of thy greatest happiness up in Heaven; thank us for so many good offices, — for, the more thou sufferest, the more thy God will reward thee.”
These were Infidel Hurons, former captives of the Iroquois, and, of old, enemies of the Faith, — who, having previously had sufficient instruction for their salvation, impiously abused it, — in reality, for the glory of the Fathers; but it is much to be feared that it was also for their own misfortune.
The more these torments were augmented, the more the Fathers entreated God that their sins should not be the cause of the reprobation of these poor blind ones, whom they pardoned with all their heart. It is surely now that they say in repose, Transivimus per ignem et aquam, et eduxisti nos in refrigerium.
When they were fastened to the post where they suffered these torments, and where they were to die, they knelt down, they embraced it with joy, and kissed it piously as the object of their desires and their love, and as a sure and final pledge of their salvation. They were there some time in prayers, and longer than those butchers were willing to permit them. They put out Father Gabriel Lallement’s eyes and applied burning coals in the hollows of the same.
Their tortures were not of the same duration. Father Jean de Brebeuf was at the height of his torments at about three o’clock on the same day of the capture, the 16th day of March, and rendered up his soul about four o ‘ clock in the evening. Father Gabriel Lallement endured longer, from six o’clock in the evening until about nine o’clock the next morning, the seventeenth of March.
Before their death, both their hearts were torn out, by means of an opening above the breast; and those Barbarians inhumanly feasted thereon, drinking their blood quite warm, which they drew from its source with sacrilegious hands. While still quite full of life, pieces of flesh were removed from their thighs, from the calves of the legs, and from their arms, — which those executioners placed on coals to roast, and ate in their sight.
They had slashed their bodies in various parts; and, in order to increase the feeling of pain, they had thrust into these wounds red-hot hatchets.
Father Jean de Brebeuf had had the skin which covered his skull torn away; they had cut off his feet and torn the flesh from his thighs, even to the bone, and had split, with the blow of a hatchet, one of his jaws in two.
Father Gabriel Lallement had received a hatchet- blow on the left ear, which they had driven into his brain, which appeared exposed; we saw no part of his body, from the feet even to the head, which had not been broiled, and in which he had not been burned alive,—even the eyes, into which those impious ones had thrust burning coals.
They had broiled their tongues, repeatedly putting into their mouths flaming brands, and burning pieces of bark, — not willing that they should invoke, in dying, him for whom they were suffering, and who could never die in their hearts. I have learned all this from persons worthy of credence, who have seen it, and reported it to me personally, and who were then captives with them, — but who having been reserved to be put to death at another time, found means to escape.
But let us leave these objects of horror, and these monsters of cruelty; since one day all those parts will be endowed with an immortal glory, the greatness of their torments will be the measure of their happiness, and, from now on, they live in the repose of the Saints, and will dwell in it forever.
Brebeuf’s intercultural legacy allegedly lives on in sport form. Though it’s unverifiable folklore, it is said that Brebeuf saw Iroquois tribesmen playing the game of baggataway and, reckoning the sticks used to manipulate the ball resembled bishops’ croziers, conferred upon the game the name lacrosse.
Europeanized versions of this game (“with a few genteel refinements”) remain wildly popular in Canada, and are growing throughout North America. Lax bros can be found especially in the environs of well-heeled private high schools … like Brebeuf Jesuit Prep School (Indianapolis, Indiana).
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1782: William Crawford, expeditioneer
2 comments June 11th, 2012 Headsman
On this date in 1782, Col. William Crawford was burned to death by Delaware Indians after being captured leading a punitive expedition to Ohio’s Sandusky River.
Originally an Atlantic coast peoples — “Manhattan” is a Delaware word, although “Delaware” itself isn’t — the Delawares or Lenape had with other native peoples removed to an Ohio territory supposed to be reserved against white settlement. It was the fruit of a deal that kept them on the British side (or at least, off the French side) in the Seven Years’ War.
But staying out of it would be a nonstarter during the American Revolution, because said territory was situated right between the British in Detroit and the westward American settlements in the Ohio Valley. Our man William Crawford was on hand to sign the colonists’ 1778 Treaty of Fort Pitt making nice with the Delawares: it’s the first written treaty between the United States and any Native Americans, and like most of that genre it didn’t last long.
The Delawares were okay with letting colonists march through their territory to attack Detroit, but when the U.S. pushed for them to get into the fight themselves — and when frontiersman murdered the pro-neutrality chief — it pushed many Delawares over to the British side. Opinion among their neighbors, the Shawnee, Wyandot and Mingo, likewise tended to range from “hoping to stay out of it” to “allying with the British,” and the latter sentiment was further encouraged by a kindling sentiment among peoples all along the frontier that uniting their efforts was their only hope of holding back imminent Anglo expansion.
Back east, the colonists beat the British at Yorktown in October 1781, more or less clinching independence. Hostilities around the eastern seaboard settled down in the run-up to the war’s formal diplomatic conclusion in 1783.
“Quite otherwise,” said M.M. Quaife in a 1930 address to Ohio’s Wittenberg College* “was the situation west of the Alleghenies. In this area the war was prosecuted with increased vigor and fury throughout 1782, which thereafter acquired the significant designation, the Bloody Year.” It was not a clean fight by any party.
In March of 1782, an expedition by colonials hunting settler-killing Indian raiders resulted in the Gnadenhütten massacre, the wholesale butchery of a settlement of noncombatant Delawares — Christian converts, no less.
In May of that same year, finding Indian raids not deterred, the Crawford Expedition finally set out: a party of officially-blessed volunteer frontiersmen whose object was “to destroy with fire and sword (if practicable) the [Delaware] Indian town and settlement at Sandusky, by which we hope to give ease and safety to the inhabitants of this country; but, if impracticable, then you will doubtless perform such other services in your power as will, in their consequences, have a tendency to answer this great end.” (General William Irvine)
Crawford had come out of retirement for this great end. And he made out his will before he departed.
The expedition came to grief within days, as an attempt to fall back by nightfall from a spot called Battle Island (actually a copse of trees in an open space, not an island in a river) deteriorated into a disordered rout. And though most of the expedition was able to flee safely back to their point of departure, Crawford himself and a few subalterns became separated, and lost.
When Indians picked them up, with Gnadenhütten still on their minds … well, Crawford made out that will for a reason. Most of the lesser prisoners were simply tomahawked and disposed of, but Crawford and a Dr. John Knight were reserved for more fearful treatment.
Knight — who would escape before his own execution — left this blood-chilling description** of his compatriot’s end, under the eyes of the British agent Simon Girty. (Knight later also composed a ballad about the expedition.†)
When we went to the fire the colonel was stripped naked, ordered to sit down by the fire, and then they beat him with sticks and their fists. Presently after I was treated in the same manner. They then tied a rope to the foot of a post about fifteen feet high, bound the colonel’s hands behind his back and fastened the rope to the ligature between his wrists. The rope was long enough for him to sit down or walk round the post once or twice, and return the same way. The colonel then called to Girty, and asked if they intended to burn him? Girty answered, “Yes.” The colonel said he would take it all patiently. Upon this Captain Pipe, a Delaware chief, mae a speech to the Indians, viz., about thirty or forty men, sixty or seventy squaws and boys.
When the speech was finished they all yelled a hideous and hearty assent to what had been said. The Indian men then took up their guns and shot powder into the Colonel’s body, from his feet as far up as his neck. I think not less than seventy loads were discharged upon his naked body. They then crowded about him, and to the best of my observation, cut off his ears; when the throng had dispersed a little, I saw the blood running from both sides of his head in consequence thereof.
The fire was about six or seven yards from the post to which the Colonel was tied; it was made of small hickory poles, burnt quite through in the middle, each end of the poles remaining about six feet in length. Three or four Indians by turns would take up, individually one of these burning pieces of wood and apply it to his naked body, already burnt black with the powder These tormentors presented themselves on every side of him with the burning fagots and poles. Some of the squaws took broad boards, upon which they would carry a quantity of burning coals and hot embers and throw on him, so that in short time he had nothing but coals of fire and hot ashes to walk upon.
In the midst of these extreme tortures he called to Simon Girty and begged of him to shoot him; but Girty making no answer, he called to him again. Girty then, by way of derision, told the colonel he had no gun, at the same time turning about to an Indian who was behind him, laughed heartily, and by all his gestures seemed delighted at the horrid scene.
Girty then came up and bade me prepare for death. He said, however, I was not to die at that place, but to be burnt by the Shawanese towns. He swore by G-d I need not expect to escape death, but should suffer it in all its extremities …
Col. Crawford, at this period of his sufferings, besought the Almighty to have mercy on hi soul, spoke very low, and bore his torments with the most manly fortitude. He continued in all the extremities of pain for an hour and three-quarters or two hours longer, as near as I can judge, when at last, being almost exhausted, he lay down on his belly; they then scalped him, and repeatedly threw the scalp in my face, telling me that “that was my great captain.” An old squaw (whose appearance every way answered the ideas people entertain of the devil) got a board, took a parcel of coals and ashes and laid them on his back and head, after he had been scalped; he then raised himself upon his feet and began to walk round the post; they next put a burning stick to him, as usual, but he seemed more insensible to pain than before.
The Indian fellow who ha me in charge now took me away to Capt. Pipe’s house, about three-quarters of a mile from the place of the colonel’s execution. I was bound all night, and thus prevented from seeing the last of the horrid spectacle. Next morning, being June 12, the Indian untied me, painted me black [signaling his imminent execution -ed.], and we set off for the Shawanese town, which he told me was somewhat less than forty miles distant from that place. We soon came to the spot where the colonel had been burnt, as it was partly in our way; I saw his bones lying among the remain of the fire, almost burnt to ashes: I suppose, after he was dead, they laid his body on the fire. The Indian told me that was my big captain, and gave the scalp halloo.
Detail image (click for the full view) of an illustration of Crawford’s torture and execution. Here’s another.
Counties in both Pennsylvania and Ohio bear Crawford’s name; several historical markers in Ohio chart the course of the ill-starred Sandusky campaign … including a phallic monument at the approximate spot of the burning, just north of the tiny town of Crawford, Ohio. (Map)
* Printed as “The Ohio Campaigns of 1782” in The Mississippi Valley Historical Review, March 1931.
** Here’s another description by another white eyewitness (alleged, anyway), who was taken in an unrelated raid some weeks before.
† A recent mp3 rendition of “Crawford’s Defeat by the Indians” is available for a 99-cent download.
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Tags: 1780s, 1782, american indians, american revolution, captain pipe, delaware indians, first peoples, frontier, geopolitics, john knight, june 11, lenape, sandusky, simon girty, william crawford, william irvine
1638: Three (of four) English colonists for murdering a Native American
6 comments September 4th, 2008 dogboy
Four hundred years removed from the events surrounding the colonization of Massachusetts by English settlers through the 1620’s, it’s difficult to properly evaluate the mindsets of either colonist or colonizer in this time of violent encounters and expansive cultural shifts.
The 1638 case of Arthur Peach, Thomas Jackson, Richard Stinnings, and Daniel Cross serves as a potent reminder that the relationship between the interlopers and natives in the early years of these meetings was driven as much by tribal politics as by interpersonal attitudes.
Peach, by all accounts, was not on track to be elected Plymouth Man of the Year. A servant of Edward Winslow, one of the Mayflower originals responsible for political gaming with the native leaders, Peach was dispatched to serve in the Pequot War in 1637. The war pitted English colonists and some of their tribal neighbors against the Pequots and resulted in the slaughter of hundreds of Pequot in several attacks.
Peach went work-idle in the post-war years, enjoying his remaining youth: he frequently drank and spent evenings in merriment with his friends, accumulating a sizable debt in the process; said merriment also extended to impregnating Dorothy Temple, a servant of Stephen Hopkins (who was, in one of the less surprising twists, later charged with allowing drunken merriment of his servants in his house).
Plymouth Colony leader William Bradford: Can’t we all get along?
William Bradford speculates that it was to escape punishment for this latter social offense that Peach convinced three other indentured servants to break their bonds and follow him to the nearby Dutch plantations. No matter the motive, they were ill-advised to join him.
Along the way, the quartet came across a man of the Nipmuc tribe (allied with the English and Narragansett during the recent war) named Penowanyanquis. They convinced him to stay, smoked a pipe and talked trade, then stabbed and robbed him, leaving him for what they thought was dead; Penowanyanquis was found on the road and lived for several more days, plenty of time to describe his attackers to first his tribesmen, then the Englishman Roger Williams.
The Plymouth authorities accepted the case (in Plymouth, though the event occurred far from its apparent jurisdiction) in the interests of maintaining the tenuous peace with the New England natives — in Bradford’s words, “The Gov[ernment] in the Bay were aquented with it, but refferrd it hither, because it was done in this jurissdiction; but pressed by all means that justice might be done in it; or els the countrie must rise and see justice done, otherwise it would raise a warr.”
Peach, Jackson, and Stinnings were caught at Aquidneck Island, while Cross fled to Piscataqua (New Hampshire), where it was traditional for locals to refuse to help Plymouth colonials. The three detainees were tried, with much of the trial devoted to proving that Penowanyanquis was, in fact, dead. It took two Narragansett to affirm upon pain of their own heads that Penowanyanquis had succumbed to his injuries, but their testimony sent three whites to the gallows for killing an Indian; for the second time since the Plymouth colony was established 18 years prior, a murderer was hanged.*
The oddity of the affair is not that such a conviction occurred — it was a long-standing colonial tradition to uphold treaties with natives through civil law and break them in a variety of other ways — but the reaction of persons involved before and during the trial. To wit:
Ousamequin coming from Plymouth told me that the four men were all guilty. I answered but one; he replied true, one wounded him, but all lay in wait two days and assisted. Also that the principal must not die, for he was Mr. Winslow’s man; and also that the Indian was by birth a Nipmuck man, so not worthy that any other man should die for him.
Ousamequin, here making the case that Peach should be spared, was another name for Massasoit, the old chief of the Pokanoket whose special kinship with Peach’s indenturerer Winslow was cemented after the settler brought a severely ill Massasoit European remedies when the chief was struck with an unnamed ailment in 1623.
Nor, indeed, were the colonists uniformly positive about the event: Bradford reports that “[s]ome of the rude and ignorant sorte murmured that any English should be put to death for the Indean.”
Massasoit himself seems to have been the only thing holding the colonial relationship together: Metacomet (“King Philip”) took the title of Great Sachem shortly after Massasoit’s death, and his alliances with other tribes exacerbated the harsh feeling towards English attempts to Christianize their neighboring “heathens”. With the white population expanding swiftly beyond its early boundaries, a small event was bound to spell trouble, and when the Christian convert John Sassamon (an Indian) was found murdered and three Wampanoag were executed for the deed, Indian sovereignty was impugned.
King Philip’s War was on, and it did not end well for the native Americans.
To his credit, Peach still produced a son, and Temple’s pregnancy ended the public life of Hopkins. Hopkins was charged with mistreating Temple, who was his indentured servant, and ordered to pay for both her and her child through the two years remaining on her contract.
Hopkins dissented and was jailed, bailed out four days later by John Holmes, who purchased Temple’s servitude for a whopping three pounds (somewhere between 1/4 and 1/2 the price of a cow). Her son remains unnamed in the record, but after giving birth, Temple was charged with producing a bastard child and whipped. Her fate thereafter is lost to the mists of history, as are the future exploits of Daniel Cross.
* The first was Mayflower original John Billington, who was executed in 1630 for shooting John Newcomen to resolve what was apparently a long-standing dispute.
1799: Ettore Carafa - 2018
1964: James Coburn, George Wallace's first death warrant - 2017
1821: Jose Miguel Carrera, Chilean patriot - 2016
1946: Leon Rupnik, Erwin Rosener, and Lovro Hacin, for the occupation of Slovenia - 2015
1822: Francisco Javier de Elio - 2014
1951: King Abdullah's assassins - 2013
1778: Patrick McMullen, repeat deserter - 2012
1953: Miss Earle Dennison, the first white woman electrocuted in Alabama - 2011
1896: Chief Chingaira Makoni, Rhodesian rebel - 2010
1942: Bishop Gorazd of Prague - 2009
1881: Not Billy the Kid
1850: Prof. John Webster, for the timeless conflict between donors and academics
1796: Mastro Titta’s first execution of many
1864: William Johnson, a bad example
1622: Antonio di Nicolo Foscarini
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Tags: 1638, american indians, arthur peach, daniel cross, king philip, king philip's war, massasoit, mayflower, metacomet, narrangansett, native americans, nipmuc, penowanyanquis, pequot, pequot war, pilgrims, plymouth colony, richard stinnings, september 4, thomas jackson, william bradford
5 comments December 26th, 2007 Headsman
On this date in 1862, 38 rebellious Sioux were hanged in Mankato, Minnesota, in the largest mass execution in U.S. history.
Fully 303 had been condemned to die in drumhead trials after the five-week Dakota War, one of the numerous native conflicts sparked by the march of European settlers across North America.
Abraham Lincoln — in a political risk — commuted all but 39 sentences* adjudged “to have participated in massacres, as distinguished from participation in battles,” essentially defining a special category for what today might be considered “war crimes.”
Lincoln had more pressing business on his hands, to be sure, but seems to have been affected by the plight of the natives that drove them to wage hopeless war on encroaching settlers:
“[Bishop Henry Whipple] came here the other day and talked with me about the rascality of this Indian business until I felt it down to my boots. If we get through this war, and I live, this Indian system shall be reformed!”
Fateful “if” — but politicians say many things, after all, and it was long before Lincoln went to Ford’s Theater that the tribes had been forced out of Minnesota, scattered to wasteland reservations and subsequent clashes with the American army.
On this day, all that doleful future was prefigured in the 38 who hanged together in what is now Mankato’s Reconciliation Park, an event that after a century’s time has become a moment for commemoration.
Two academics’ pages on the Dakota War and its aftermath are here and here.
*One of those was subsequently spared over uncertainty of the evidence against him.
Part of the Themed Set: The Spectacle of Public Hanging in America.
1845: John Burnett, failson - 2018
2017: Fifteen Sinai Islamic militants - 2017
831: St. Euthymius of Sardis, iconophile - 2016
1864: James Utz, St. Louis spy - 2015
1502: Ramiro d'Orco, discarded by Cesare Borgia - 2014
1936: Harry Singer, in the holiday spirit - 2013
1942: Fernand Bonnier de La Chapelle, Darlan's assassin - 2012
1872: Du Wenxiu, Panthay rebellion leader - 2011
1870: Kumoi Tatsuo - 2010
Feast Day of St. Stephen - 2009
1862: Asa Lewis, Confederate deserter - 2008
Themed Set: The Spectacle of Public Hanging in America - 2007
1838: Seven perpetrators of the Myall Creek Massacre
1491: Eight current and converted Jews at an auto de fe
1920: Kevin Barry
1995: Ken Saro-Wiwa and the Ogoni Nine
1831: Nat Turner
1882: Guglielmo Oberdan
Entry Filed under: 19th Century,Capital Punishment,Death Penalty,Disfavored Minorities,Execution,Hanged,History,Martyrs,Mass Executions,Milestones,Minnesota,Murder,Not Executed,Notable Jurisprudence,Notable Participants,Occupation and Colonialism,Pardons and Clemencies,Public Executions,Racial and Ethnic Minorities,Soldiers,U.S. Military,USA,War Crimes,Wartime Executions
Tags: 1860s, 1862, abraham lincoln, american indians, dakota war, first peoples, january 26, mankato, native americans, sioux
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Twin Explosions Hit Jos Park, UNIJOS Gate, kill 12
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At least, 12 persons were killed and scores of others injured as two separate bombs exploded in Jos on Thursday.
Our correspondent gathered that the first bomb went off at the Bauchi Road motor park, adjacent to the Bauchi road campus of the University of Jos at about 4.30pm, while the second one occurred almost simultaneously in front of the UNIJOS gate.
It was gathered that the second targeted the students, who were just trooping out of the school after the day’s lectures.
The students resumed on Monday and started their second semester examinations after the school was closed down in November last year following students protest.
It was not exactly known the spot where the second bomb went off.
While one report said it exploded opposite Shemsak Hotel, a spot frequented by the students and which is directly opposite the Faculty of Medical Sciences, other reports said it went off in front of a pharmacy, opposite the school gate.
Most of the victims were said to be taking shelter from a downpour, which started at about 3.45pm, the first in the city of Jos this year.
Another source said the blast at the Bauchi Road motor park was carried out by a female suicide bomber, who entered the park wearing a Hijab.
Executive President of Stefanos Foundation, Mr. Mark Lipdo, quoting security sources, put the casualty figure at 12, but a student of the school, who identified herself as Grace, said the figure could be higher.
According to her, when the bomb exploded, there was confusion in the campus as students ran helter skelter.
She added that there was also traffic jam along the busy Bauchi road as motorists hurriedly turned back to escape the commotion.
She said, “Because it was raining, everybody was trying to take shield and so nobody noticed the bomber.”
A source told our correspondent that he saw Hilux vehicles carrying some persons to the Bingham University Teaching Hospital, Jos.
Both the spokesmen for the Special Task Force, Capt. Ikedichi Iweha, and the police, Emmanuel Abuh, confirmed the blast.
They said security men were still assessing the situation as both the dead and the injured were being conveyed to hospital.
http://www.punchng.com/news/scores-die-as-explosions-rock-jos-biu/
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The Author > Articles >
By Roy Gault, Sports Editor,
Corvallis, Gazette-Times, 1974.
The Capital Fails
Oregon State University is supposed to be the high jump capital of the world.
No other university or city contests that claim.
After all, Dick Fosbury won the Olympic Gold medal in 1968 and won three NCAA championships - two outdoors and one indoors. He revolutionized the event.
Tom Woods added another NCAA championship in 1972 and this year won the national AAU indoor title. At the NCAA indoor championships Woods placed second to an OSU teammate, Mike Fleer.
No other school, city or nation has turned out three 7-4 high jumpers (Fosbury, Woods and John Redetich), and no other university has had five seven-foot jumpers (Steve Kelly has a best of 7-0 and Fleer has cleared 7-3).
All of OSU's seven-foot jumpers but Kelly used the Fosbury Flop technique. Radetich cleared seven feet using both the western roll and the flop and is the only man in the world to have done so.
OSU Coach Berny Wagner has a reputation for being able to take any good straddle-style high jumper and tack six inches onto his lifetime best by converting him to a flopper.
No Surprise
It came as no surprise when Joni Huntley of Sheridan, the American women's record holder with the Fosbury Flop style, decided she will enroll at OSU next fall.
Her coach is Glen Stone, a 6-10 OSU jumper who has been overshadowed by OSU's horde of seven-footers. Huntley has cleared 6-0 3/4.
All of this is to establish that Woods and Fleer, who were the best collegiate high jumpers all spring, were clear-cut favorites in the 1974 NCAA championships last weekend at Austin, Tex.
Ed Lipscomb won the NCAA title for OSU in the pole vault, Jim Judd won the javelin and the Beavers placed fifth as a team.
But Wagner couldn't truthfully say he was happy.
Woods placed fourth in the meet and Fleer failed to make the finals.
"It was a good trip and we did well, but I'm definitely disappointed that we didn't win the high jump," Wagner said. "It's kind of a pride thing."
Woods and Fleer were unable to adjust to a downhill approach to the high jump bar.
The meet was held on the University of Texas football field, and the high jump pit was located in one end zone. The field sloped downward towards the goal line as all football fields do.
The downhill approach - on AstroTurf - caused Woods and Fleer to approach the bar at a faster rate of speed than normal and it caused them to start their jumps too close to the bar.
Fleer failed to clear 7-0 in the preliminaries, a height which he has missed only twice all season.
Could Have Helped
Wagner was in an NCAA Rules Committee meeting while Fleer was having his difficulties.
"I never dreamed he wouldn't make seven feet," Wagner said. "I really feel I could have helped him if I had been there."
Woods negotiated the downhill run successfully in the finals until the bar went to 7-2. He cleared 7-0 and 7-1 on his fires jumps and led the event on fewer misses until the bar went to 7-2.
Comment: There is more to this article, but this is all I have.
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High Jump On-Line Book > HJ Technique > Flight Dynamics >
When you're on top of the world...
Efficiency Rules
Bar clearance is all about how efficiently you use the height given to by your takeoff. If your center of mass clears the bar by a foot (0.3m) and you knock the bar off, then your bar clearance is not very efficient. On the other hand, if your center of mass just reaches the height of the bar and you still clear it, then your bar clearance is very efficient indeed.
The Measure of Efficiency
How do you determine if your bar clearance is efficient? The easiest way to tell is to view the jump with your eye at the level of the bar and looking down the length of the bar.
Watch as the jumper passes over the bar and observe how much clearance there is between the top of the bar and the underside of the jumper. The less variation in clearance during the jumper's passage, the more efficient the clearance is. There will always be some variation in clearance because the jumper has lumps and bulges on the underside, but the lowest points on each of the jumper's downward bulges should pass equally close to the bar.
This view of what constitutes the most efficient bar clearance is hard to prove. At least I haven't seen a proof of it yet. The best evidence for it lies in the way articulated bodies (bodies with a rigid structure and joints) behave when they are off the ground. High jumpers are articulated bodies, so from this point forward I will just refer to jumpers.
Imagine that a high jumper is aboard the international space station in orbit around the earth; a zero-g environment. Now imagine that the jumper is in the exercise room, not touching anything, and "standing" at attention with her center of mass at the center of the room.
If she "arches her back" in such a way that her body forms a "uniform" curve from head to foot. What happens to her hips, feet and head with respect to her center of mass? her head and feet both move backward, and her hips move forward relative to her center of mass. The center of mass remains stationary.
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Saudi seeks death penalty for five Khashoggi murder suspects: Prosecutor
November 15 2018 13:28:00
Also check this photo story
Five Saudi officials face the death penalty over the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, who was killed inside the kingdom’s Istanbul consulate, Riyadh’s public prosecutor said Nov. 15.
Khashoggi, a Washington Post columnist and vocal dissident, died Oct. 2 after being drugged by the accused and then dismembered, a spokesman for public prosecutor Saud Al Mojeb’s office in Riyadh said in the first Saudi acknowledgement of the manner of his killing.
According to a statement by Al Mojeb's deputy and spokesman Shaalan al-Shaalan, eleven Saudis have been indicted.
"The Public Prosecutor has requested the death penalty for 5 individuals who are charged with ordering and committing the crime and for the appropriate sentences for the other indicted individuals," Shaalan said, without naming the five.
He said 11 out of 21 suspects have been indicted and that their cases will be referred to court, while the investigation with the remaining suspects will continue in order to determine their role in the crime.
A travel ban has been imposed on a top aide to the crown prince, Saud al-Qahtani, while investigations continue over his role, Shaalan said, adding Qahtani had met the team ordered to repatriate Kashoggi ahead of their journey to Istanbul to brief them on the journalist's activities. Qahtani has already been fired from the royal court. and the person who had ordered the killing was Saud al-Qahtani, the head of the negotiating team sent to repatriate him.
How the man behind Khashoggi murder ran the killing via Skype
Although al-Qahtani has been his close aide, Saudi Arabia’s de facto ruler Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman was not implicated in the murder, the prosecutor's spokesman claimed.
He added that the journalist’s body parts were handed over to an agent outside the consulate grounds, but their whereabouts remains unknown, as the investigation continues.
‘Tell your boss’: Recording is seen to link Saudi Crown Prince more strongly to Khashoggi killing
Prosecutor Al Mojeb was in Istanbul on Oct. 28 night and held talks on Oct. 29 with Istanbul’s chief prosecutor, days after he contradicted weeks of Saudi statements by saying that Khashoggi’s killing was premeditated.
He held a second round of talks with the Turkish prosecutor, İrfan Fidan, at the court house on Oct. 30 before inspecting the Saudi consulate in the Levent neighborhood.
Demirören News Agency reported that Mojeb left Turkey after he visited the Istanbul office of Turkey's National Intelligence Agency (MİT) early Oct. 31.
Saudi prosecutor in Istanbul for Khashoggi investigation
Khashoggi was killed inside the consulate after he went there to get documents for his forthcoming marriage on Oct. 2.
After a weeks-long denial, Saudi Arabia admitted on Oct. 25 that the journalist fell victim to a premeditated killing in the building while arresting 18 people.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan had called on the Saudi prosecutor on Oct. 30 to reveal who ordered the killing as "it makes no sense to try to save certain people."
“Who sent these 15 people? As Saudi public prosecutor, you have to ask that question, so you can reveal it,” he had told reporters in Ankara.
Turkey calls for international probe into Khashoggi murder
Jamal Khashoggi, Saudi Arabia, Crime, Saud al-Qahtani, Saud Al Mojeb
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The Gu’ Band - Showcasing the Pang Instruments of PANArt
We featured the Gu’ Band briefly in a post we published earlier in the year titled, Gamelan, and the Pang Orchestra - which discussed the connection between the instruments/sound-sculptures of PANArt (the Hang makers), and the Gamelan instruments of Indonesia.
And while PANArt themselves may have moved on somewhat from their original Hang design (which would become the prototype for the entire Handpan instrument-type), it’s natural that most fans of the Handpan should have an at least partial interest in what the parents of the Handpan are up to, and putting out, with each subsequent new addition to the Pang family of sound-sculptures. And as it turns out, one of the best ways of doing this, is by following the activities of the musical ensemble going by the name of "Gu’ Band". An outfit that features exclusively the Pang instruments of PANArt. And primarily the newer Pang instruments, such as the Hang Bal, Hang Gudu, and Gubal...
The unprecedented access that the Gu' Band appear to have to PANArt's complete range of next-generation Pang instruments suggests that PANArt themselves could be involved in some manner with the project. Or at the very least, have given it their blessing. And in addition to featuring PANArt's next generation percussive instruments, and the original Hang, the Gu' Band are the only place we've yet to see in use (other than PANArt's own videos) the stringed Pang Sui, Pang Sai, and Pang Sei...
You can hear more from the Gu' Band over at YouTube: HERE. Or find them at Facebook: HERE
Fixing Broken PANArt Hang (and Other Handpan) - With Blesspan
When towards the end of 2011 PANArt withdrew their previous offer of re-tuning, and maintenance work for their earlier Hang instruments (anything prior to the Free Integral Hang if we remember correctly, though certainly for first, and second generation Hanghang) thousands of Hang owners suddenly found themselves with nowhere to turn, should their Instrument (sound-sculpture) become detuned, or fall foul to some other tragedy.
And while very few things these days come with any kind of life-time warranty, with the ability to tune Hang, and/or Handpan, being an especially rare skill (particularly at the time), to say it was a godsend, when some of the newer makers began to extend offers to pick-up where PANArt had left off, and provide tuning services for the Handpan’s earliest Swiss incarnations, would be underselling it. And one of the first to officially offer maintenance work for Hang in need (and other Handpan) was Italian Handpan maker, Tommaso Varriale, of Blesspan. Who according to the resume on his website, has to date retuned at least thirteen PANArt Hang. And below you can watch him perform a complete restoration of a first generation PANArt Hang, in Yu Shang Diao tuning...
And while PANArt employee, Micheal Paschko, raised The Ship of Theseus conundrum over at YouTube (now removed) regarding Tommaso’s work - with PANArt no longer offering to re-tune or repair earlier Hang themselves, the argument is essentially moot in this instance. And of far more use are the videos provided by Tomasso Varriale, of some of his previous work on Hang, to which those in need can listen, and decide for themselves…
You can find more information on the re-tuning services offered by Blesspan: HERE
The MEINL Range of Sonic Energy Harmonic Art Handpan
It has been impossible to move through Handpan-circles this last week without stumbling across talk of German percussion manufacturer and distributor MEINL’s first foray into the Handpan market. Bringing with it renewed talk of the “Yamahang”, a term that has been in use since at least as far back as 2009 (and likely before) to describe the oft-feared-by-many introduction of a mass-produced Handpan, that would with its birth suck all traces of artistic-integrity from the art-form. And force trend-setter types the world over to ditch the now soul-less instrument in numbers - in favour of some other newly discovered and hard to acquire fad.
While for the rest of us, MEINL’s newly introduced range of Handpan represent nothing more than yet another option to be considered under their own merits (or lack thereof depending).
At time of posting MEINL are offering three different sound models / tunings, under the title of “Sonic Energy Harmonic Art Handpan“, each priced at 2.490,00 € (approx $2650), including bag, and protective shell (and you can see how this compares price-wise to a handful of other brands: HERE).
Unfortunately though, there's nothing in the way of audio, or video being offered up by MEINL to demo their new Handpan range over on their site (that we can find). But thanks to YouTube user, borisak, you can at least catch a brief soundcheck of one of the MEINL pans (below).
Arguably more interesting, and relevant to MEINL's newly offered range of Handpan, than the whole YamaHang debate (which has been levied against at least half a dozen other "non-conforming" Handpan operations over the years), is the origin of these particular instruments. Because while these may be a new offering from MEINL, Colombian Handpan makers, "Harmonic Art", who appear to be producing these on MEINL's behalf, are certainly no new entity to the world of Handpan.
And while some might consider Harmonic Art's own past to be among the most controversial and checkered in Handpan history, their instruments have certainly shown considerable improvement since their earliest days. And with sound-samples for the MEINL range of Handpan being thin on the ground at time of posting. Should you be considering purchase - you might do well to take a listen to some of Harmonic Art's own videos (below). In order to gain a more thorough idea of approximately what it is that you might be spending your money on. And/or possibly even grab yourself a better deal by purchasing directly from the makers (though it's worth pointing out that when purchasing the MEINL range through distributor Thomann you receive a thirty day money back guarantee, and a three year warranty, which may, or may not be offered when purchasing directly)...
What Kind of Handpan Could $800 (or Less) Buy You at eBay? (2016)
Loiter too long in certain Handpan hotspots on the internet, and you will find yourself force-fed such dogma as “Rule number one: NEVER buy on eBay!”.
Here at HPM, we tend to be of the opinion that any kind of advice that comes in blanket-form, is usually of a very low quality . If we were Star Wars geeks (and we are a little) we might state that “Only Sith deal in absolutes”. And being Handpan-Jedi through-and through, we would ourselves instead advise caution, accompanied by an open mind. And here’s why…
What kind of Handpan Could $800 (or less) buy you at eBay?
In a recent post we established that the average cost of a Handpan when purchased directly from a known/established maker is somewhere around the $2000 mark. And while as far as we’re concerned, that is a fine and fair price for a quality handmade instrument, it feels fair to say that that price point was set at the highest wave of Handpan-madness - when it was near impossible to get your hands on a decent Handpan of any kind, and instruments by the likes of Pantheon Steel were selling for as much as $15,000.00 at open auction.
Things have changed a little since then though. And during mid-2016 we announced having added our one hundredth name to our list of Handpan makers. And while prices have been slowly falling over at eBay (a marketplace we monitor closely), very few of the more established makers have really tested their price-point at open auction following this past years influx of new builders. And the only one who has in more recent times, found that the prices people were “happy” to pay (even if they might be willing to pay more in a closed sale), had fallen considerably.
So, with this post, for comparison purposes, first we’ll be sharing a video of a Handpan from the Saraz team that sold recently in way of direct sale via their website for the cost of $2400. And we're singling out Saraz here only due to the fact that as makers they are now about as established as any are, and because we have a known price point for the sale of this particular instrument which was sold recently via flash-sale...
And then next we'll share videos of the last three Handpan that sold via eBay over the last few weeks at under $800 (at a combined cost of $2157 for the three instruments)...
(1) Handpan Hand Steel Drum Q-Handpan *Shaolin* Scale (Sold for $777)...
(2) Handpan by Logam Acoustic ''Agnima" (Sold for $730)...
(3) handpan prototype pantam percussion with heat treatments (Sold for $650)...
Of course, price isn't necessarily the only factor a prospective Handpan purchaser should be considering. But for some it could be a deciding factor. And for comparison purposes, hopefully this post demonstrates what kind of instruments do come up for sale for your consideration at auction at the sub-$800 price point, at time of posting. Leaving readers free to decide how much of, and where they choose to spend their money - for themselves.
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Post Date: November 20, 2016
“How much does a Handpan cost?” is one of those questions that we find people frequently reaching this website researching. And with there now being well over one hundred known makers at time of posting, it is not a question that can easily be answered in simple terms. Each Handpan maker charges whatever price they are willing to sell their instruments for, and ultimately, that is the cost of any given Handpan.
However, to give readers a rough idea of how much money they could be looking at spending on the purchase of a Handpan, it’s easy enough to take some known prices and figure out the average. And so with that in mind, below are the last known prices we could find being charged by a handful of established makers. Followed by the average cost of a Handpan, based on these prices (in U.S. dollars).
Zephyr: $1479
Harmonic Art: $1700
Spacedrum: $1507
Vision Instruments: $1400
Panstream: $1450
Dave’s Island Instruments: $1800
Innersound: $2260
Tzevaot: $2800
Saraz $2400
Pantheon Steel Halo $3000
Average = $1979
As you can see from the above list of prices the cost of a Handpan can vary considerably. And in real-world scenarios such things as geographic locations, shipping costs, and currency exchange rates are deserving of greater consideration. But based purely on the data above, we can take the average price of a Handpan when purchased directly from a maker to be close to the $2000 mark (at time of posting).
The Echo Sound Sculpture DuBas - Bass Handpan
A number of Handpan makers have experimented with the concept of a “Bass Handpan”, including both Pantheon Steel, and Aura. And recently it has been the turn of Switzerland-based makers Echo Sound Sculpture to unveil their experiments in this area, with the release of video footage of the ESS “DuBas”...
When it comes to Handpan, essentially, the lower the note, the larger the space required upon the dome for the tone-field. Which is why the DuBas from ESS in the video above features only three notes (and three Ding-like structures to allow for Ding-singing). However to make optimum use of the additional surface space available, in this second video (below) ESS have mixed things up by also squeezing three TaK’s in between the tone-fields, for increased sonic-diversity…
Designing an Electronic Handpan Tone-Field - with Lumen
Attempts to produce an electronic version of the Handpan have been appearing on our radar here at HPM since back in 2011, with “Dome Control”, by Sonic Fingers. And the more recently announced “Oval”. However, one of the main concerns with these new digital versions of the Handpan, is whether they could in any way replicate the subtle nuances of the Handpan, or would ultimately turn out to be little more than expensive Handpan-shaped MIDI controllers. With one of the main issues in this area being the function and sensitivity of any given electronic Handpans tone-fields.
In their most simplistic definition, “tone-fields” are often thought of as being the "notes" that make up a Handpans scale,or sound-model. But in reality, the tone-fields of a well-tuned Handpan are more complex than that, incorporating such things as overtones, and octaves, and harmonics. And with earlier electronic Handpan like the Dome Control being lacking in even basic velocity sensitivity - any real world comparison between digital Handpan, and the real thing, has thus far been bleak (though the Oval also shows promise).
However, recent updates from the team behind the development of the Lumen Electro-Accoustic Handpan, have shown that this is an issue very much at the forefront of their minds. With the announcement of their newly designed sensors. That have been constructed to offer force-measurements across ten different zones (see right). Combined with an intention to use this technology to more closely mimic the complexities of a hand-tuned Handpan.
Unfortunately at time of posting there is still very little in the way of actual audio/video footage of the Lumen out there for consumption. Other than the original video of the prototype (below).
But design updates such as the new sensors, and other recently announced refinements are suggestive of a strong desire to produce an electronic Handpan that offers as close an experience (and perhaps in some ways more than) its steel-made counterpart. And with the first Lumen expected to reach their owners come January, 2017. We don't have too long now to wait, to see if they hit their mark.
You can get the latest on the Lumen over at their Facebook page: HERE
Post Date: October 29, 2016
The Handpan Art of SoHung
While traditionally Steel Tongue Drum have made up the flashier looking members of the melodic steel UFO family, with the outward beauty of Handpan being a little more subtle. As makers from around the world have begun to experiment with, and tweak almost every other aspect of the instrument type, visual appeal too, is a quality that has not been forgotten entirely. So that whereas the first generation of Hang were fairly simple looking creatures, increasingly the instruments of some makers, are becoming as pleasing to the eyes, as they are to the ears.
That said, It is likely that preference in terms of looks will vary considerably person-to-person, but if you’re a fan of the more highly ornate looking creations, such as the instruments of Vadjraghanta - you might also find pleasing the recent Handpan-art of Russian-makers, SoHung.
Historically, the painting of Handpan has been discouraged among the Handpan community, due to a belief that paint restricts the vibrations of the Handpan, and dulls the sound. However when questioned over at Facebook as to how these Handpan are decorated,the answer came that: “This special drawings with inks and polish that allows us to use high temperatures if tuning is needed and also it prevents the pan from scratches and rust.”
For more information and to follow the SoHung Art experiment you can join their Facebook group. Or find them at YouTube.
At-TaK of the UFOs - The Handpan and the Rise of the TaK
When we first discovered the Hang a whiles back now, it seemed to be an instrument in a fairly concrete state of form - eight tone-fields (notes) circling a central ding. Since then though have come the inpex, booty taps, grace notes, and a number of other maker-explorations big and small. And recently, one thing we’re seeing more and more of, is the “TaK”. A subtle, yet distinctive addition to the sounds of these UFO-shaped steel instruments.
While we weren't entirely sure which maker first employed the TaK, as we noticed them coming into use around the same time by both Swiss-makers Echo Sound Sculptures, and Italian-makers Vision Instruments. According to Handpan musician, Adrian Portia, in reference to the mutant-esque Handpan “LoDu” instruments of ESS (see video below): “On my signature model i have introduced what i call TaKs. The TaK is a tuned high pitch note/tone that's placed in designated areas around the surface, designed by me and produced by EchoSoundSculpture they add a new percussive element for the player on this very cool and unique sounding instrument.”...
While in definition the TaK sounds to be similar to the "grace notes" employed by Pantheon Steel on some of their Halo instruments. While grace-notes are essentially just another tone field squeezed in above-and-between, TaK (just about visible in the center in the video below) are more percussive in tone and nature. Fairly un-pronounced in appearance, but bringing yet another possible dimension to the sounds of the Handpan, TaK, look to be here to stay...
The Dalai Lama Plays the Handpan
While the title of this post might be a little misleading, with his Holiness the Dalai Lama employing little more than a few cursory taps, and while the video itself (below) might be of a pretty poor quality, we’re sharing it anyway. Because as far as we’re concerned, a man of the Dalai Lama’s stature being introduced to the Handpan, particularly while during a visit to the city of Bern, the birthplace of the PANArt Hang (and the Handpan instrument by default), is an event of note, for this world of UFO-shaped singing-steel that we celebrate here at HPM...
And as it happens, while this may well be the Dalai Lama’s first introduction to a bona-fide Handpan, it is not his first meeting with a member of the melodic-UFO family. When back in 2012 the Dalai Lama got to try his hand at playing the Steel Tongue Drum...
As a point of note, over at Facebook - HangBlog author Micheal Paschko has stated that despite the Handpan in question being presented to his Holiness the Dalai Lama as being a Bern made Hang, in the very birthplace of the instrument, “I have discussed this with Felix (one of the Hang-makers) and Frank (admin of the now defunct Hang-forum) and we are sure: This is not a Hang. Our best guess is: A BElls from Bellart. But I'm not completely sure. Perhaps a handpan from another maker.”. Which is a little strange. But regardless of the make, HDL seemed to be visibly impressed with the Handpan, just as he was with the Steel Tongue Drum before it, and so for that, we’re chalking him up as yet another fan of the instrument-type, and (however briefly) member of the Handpan-playing community.
You can read more about the Dalai Lama’s visit to Bern, and his meeting with the Handpan (and watch a much better quality video that we are unable to embed here) over at bernerzeitung.ch
HandPan Tuning Stand / Rings for Sale from NaturePan
In traditional Steelpan making where pans are typically produced from 55-gallon oil barrels, the body of the barrel itself essentially acts as both the stand, and tuning rings for the creation of the instrument. But with Handpan being made from specially formed steel domes, most commonly known as “shells”, or alternatively as “raw-forms”, something else is required to hold the steel dome (or steel sheet) firm, for the purposes of sinking, shaping, and tuning (as required).
Tuning rings themselves are usually comprised of a pair of metal rings within which the shell or steel sheet are clamped, utilising bolts to hold the steel firmly in place. And while Handpan makers of varying levels have created for themselves many ingenious solutions for budget-minded tuning over the years, a stand such as those being offered for sale by NaturePan over at ETSY, that holds the tuning rings in a convenient all-in-one form, that allows for convenient 360 degree movement of the shell, for ease of tuning, obviously has its benefits.
And with NaturePan additionally also offering Handpan shells designed specifically for use with their tuning stand, and custom-made Handpan tuning hammers, if you’re looking to source a one-stop Handpan building solution, you might like to take a browse over at NaturePan’s ETSY store: HERE.
Vibrational Healing Through the Sounds of the HandPan
While here at HPM we often feel a little uncomfortable heading into the realms of things like “Auras”, “Chi”, “Chakras”, and so forth. Particularly with regards to the Handpan instrument, which, during its earliest years developed a certain kind of mystique around it, that had more than a touch of the ultra-spiritual about it. Despite preferring to see the Handpan as just a musical instrument, there is something kind of special about it - that even we might describe as being a kind of “healing quality”.
Listen to the lyrics in PANArt’s recent video of the Hang Bal, and the suggestion that this is an instrument that is in some way intended to heal, is hard to overlook.
“If you a smart phone slave, surfing non-stop on a digital wave, if your life has become indeed too virtual, if you are looking for a better ritual, you are maybe ready to deal, with the new PANArt Hang Bal Spiel. If your hands are tense, your fingers blocked, burned out your spirit, your life somehow shocked - you would like to dance your own dance, you can get it, there is a chance…”
And while the above words may have been intended solely to describe the newer Hang Bal, there has been something about the sounds of the Hang, and the Handpan, that have drawn those in need of a little extra “something” to it from the very beginning. With PANArt listing in their book Hang: Sound Sculpture: therapists, caretakers for the terminally ill, the sick, the stressed, and the mentally unwell, among the distinct demographics that would frequently write to them in a bid to get their hands on one of their sound-sculptures. And hands in the air, and cards on the table, there was a little of that in our own initial journey to seek out and play the Hang/Handpan.
The vibrations of the Hang recorded
using holographic interferometry.
PANArt themselves refer to the Hang as being a “Mirror to the Soul”, and perhaps therein lies its healing abilities. The intuitive playing style that requires little in the way of musical training, combined with the instruments emotive, fragile quality of sound, that has been described as being reminiscent of a "Choir of Angels", makes it easy to let whatever is inside, out. Which can be therapeutic in its own right. And even putting any metaphysical beliefs that one may, or may not harbour towards the instrument type, with regards to vibrational healing aside, here at HPM, we like to look towards the science of Cymatics for something a little more concrete. For when we consider that the average human body is roughly made up of 60% water, Cymatics helps to demonstrate in a very visible way how the vibrations of the Handpan’s enveloping sound bath, could provide a kind of sonic massage, at the very least, in a way not clearly visible to the eye.
Ultimately, whether you consider the Handpan to be an instrument with healing attributes, or not, we leave to you to decide. But on a personal note, we’ve yet to find anything more soothing, when feeling blue, than to pick-up a Handpan, and give audible form to that which ails us.
“...On some nights I still believe that a car with the gas needle on empty can run about fifty more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio.” - Hunter. S. Thompson.
PANArt’s Hang Bal - Hangin’ Round Ya' Neck
When PANArt retired the Hang back in 2013, it felt like a huge blow. Many people around at the time were only just beginning to discover the instrument, and then, all of sudden, it was seemingly gone.
As it turns out though, PANArt’s announced retirement of the Hang hasn’t been quite the catastrophe that it felt to be at the time. Because for a company that stopped making Hang, PANArt continue to produce a whole lot of instruments, that are very "Hang-like" (with recent additions even partially adopting its name).
The Hang Bal
All this week we’ve been considering instruments for possible inclusion in our own imagined Handpan-centric-orchestra. But when it comes to PANArt, they have always very much had their own orchestra in mind - the orchestra of Pang. And the recently announced Hang Bal, is the latest addition to that family.
With no more than a passing glance at the Hang Bal, you’d likely find it difficult to find much to separate this newer PANArt-produced instrument from its older sibling. However, despite its visual similarities, there are strong differences between the original Hang, and its newer incarnation.
The Hang Bal features a neck strap, and is designed to be played in a standing position - or while “dancing”, which makes for an interesting concept. But even placing that to the side, the Hang Bal is tuned in a fashion more complimentary to another Hang successor, the Gubal. And other more recent Pang instruments. Essentially taking the Hang design (with minor variations - such as its protruding Gubal-esque bottom), and bringing it back into line with the concept of the Pang orchestra.
And while as with other more recent PANArt instruments, here at HPM, we've not been as instantly enamoured with the Hang Bal, as we were on first discovering the original Hang itself, upon watching the following video from PANArt showing the dance of the Hang Bal in action, and considering the possibilities of the “collective groove” - it’s difficult not to find a certain charm in, and of the idea, and the instrument itself...
Find more information on the Hang Bal over at PANArt's website: HERE
Buy an Evatek HandPan Case from Hardcase Technologies via ETSY
When Handpan players hit up one of the now many and varied online communities in search of recommendations for a decent case to protect their Handpan, one brand is offered up as being the best option, time-and-time again, by those in the know. And that is the products of Hardcase Technologies. A company based in Italy, that has been ingrained within the Handpan-world, since near the beginning of the birth of the Instrument type.
While the Handpan cases produced by Hardcase Technologies have undergone a number of evolutionary steps along the way, their current incarnation (at time of posting) is in the form of the Evatek. And anybody who has followed HCT man Alessio’s journey along the way, enjoying videos of him jumping on, stomping on, flinging, and generally beating the living-daylights out of his cases in any way he can imagine, in a personal quest to design the ultimate Handpan case, will know that this is as much a labour of love, as it is a desire to establish a workable business model. So you know that despite the many advocates from within the Handpan community who speak very highly of the Evatek range of Handpan cases, arguably the best recommendation worthy of consideration when giving thought to the purchase of an Evatek, is the fact that Alessio himself feels comfortable with its current form.
Shock resistant in its base form, the Evatek can also be transformed with the purchase of optional Handpan “shields” into a full flight-case. Is 100% waterproof. And is available in different sizes to suit different sized Handpan. In addition to featuring a number of other well thought out design elements that keep the needs of the travelling Handpan player well in mind.
>> Evatek Handpan cases for sale over at the Hardcase Technologies ETSY Store
Porn Stars Vs Singing Steel - Miss Cherry Crush
While in the past here at HPM we’ve adopted Handpan-playing celebrities from more mainstream media, such as Golshifteh Farahani, to our knowledge, Miss Cherry Crush (pictured right), is the first singing-steel performer to have emerged from the racier world of "Adult Entertainment".
It’s at this point that we should probably suggest that if you’re offended by such things, you might want to hit the back button now. Because while it would be unfair to write Miss Cherry Crush off purely as a porn star - with her also running a heavily-subscribed to YouTube channel through which she entertains her followers in a variety of means and methods, she does run a nice sideline in used panties, and photos of her sticking things up her own bottom.
Still here?
Then let’s meet Miss Cherry Crush, performing on her steel tongue drum (an instrument considered by some to be the Handpan’s little brother)...
Hailing from the U.S., Miss Cherry Crush has just short of 130,000 YouTube subscribers (that's nearly twice as many as top Handpan ambassador Daniel Waples). And while you might expect her fans to be there for one thing only, the comments on the video above have revealed considerable interest in the instrument itself...
"Where did you get the drum? i feel like it's something that could make a persons life 100% better..."
Which just so happens to be a GUDA Drum Freezbee.
And in addition to her "naughtier" activities over on her adult-only site, Miss Cherry Crush also uses YouTube to offer such things as relationship advice, and tips for dealing with anxiety and depression.
You can find Miss Cherry Crush at YouTube: HERE. Or (Warning Adult Content) visit her "other" website mycherrycrush.com: HERE.
Post Date: September 26, 2016
The Oktava Mk 12 Microphone - More Handpan Recording Samples
With the Oktava Mk 12 being one of the microphones awarded special commendation by Handpan musician, David Kuckhermann, in his recent Microphone comparison video - with this post we’ll be presenting a little more video footage from over at YouTube, of various Handpan recorded using them.
The following video from George Gain's YouTube channel titled, “Oktava MK-012 Pair TEST” tests a number of singing-steel instruments against a pair of the Mk 12s. Including Hapi Drum, RAV Drum, and an Overtone Handpan. While for extra good measure also demos a whole bunch of other instruments too. To provide a solid look into how the Oktava holds up, against pretty much anything that you might choose to throw at it.
While the following videos offer further example of how the Oktava Mk 12 sounds in use by Handpan musicians around the world.
Jean-Matthieu Bourgeot presents his Meraki Kurd9 Handpan recorded using a pair of Oktava MK-012 plugged into a ZOOM H4N…
An official video from Ayasa Handpans pits a pair of Oktava against an Ayasa Adiyuga - E Kumo...
While YouTube user, djimbej, demos a Saraz F# Minor 9, again using two Oktava MK012's...
The Gu’ Band - Showcasing the Pang Instruments of ...
Fixing Broken PANArt Hang (and Other Handpan) - Wi...
The MEINL Range of Sonic Energy Harmonic Art Handp...
What Kind of Handpan Could $800 (or Less) Buy You ...
How Much Does a HandPan Cost? - Average Price (201...
Designing an Electronic Handpan Tone-Field - with ...
At-TaK of the UFOs - The Handpan and the Rise of t...
HandPan Tuning Stand / Rings for Sale from NatureP...
Vibrational Healing Through the Sounds of the Hand...
Buy an Evatek HandPan Case from Hardcase Technolog...
The Oktava Mk 12 Microphone - More Handpan Recordi...
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Chesterton Repeats as State Champion; Carroll's Steinke wins All-Around Crown
Chesterton repeated as state champions thanks to four individual champions and Carroll's Ashelynn Steinke claimed all-around honors during the 47th Annual IHSAA Gymnastics State Finals at Noblesville High School.
The top-ranked Trojans of coach Dawn Matthys scored 113.875 points easily besting the field for the second straight year and its fifth state championship overall in the sport. It was also the second state title of the school year for the Porter County school which also claimed the 3A boys soccer crown on Oct. 27.
Junior Sophia Hunzelman and sophomore teammate Mia Pak shared the uneven bars title with McCutcheon senior Crysta Dilley. The trio each scored a 9.60 resulting in the first three-way tie for a title in tournament history. Dilley became the first state champion gymnast in her school's history.
It was the second bars title in three years for Hunzelman who also repeated as the winner in the balance beam with a 9.725. Pak topped the field in the vault with a 9.7 score and Trojan senior Jordan Bush claimed her second straight crown in the floor exercise with a 9.725.
Steinke became Carroll's first all-around winner (38.125) taking second in beam (9.575), third in the floor (9.575), fifth in the bars (9.475) and tied for 10th in the vault (9.50). The senior led the way in helping Carroll to the runner-up spot in the team competition with 110.975, the school's highest finish ever.
Lake Central, making its first team appearance in the state finals, placed third with 110.175.
Valparaiso senior Whitney McKeon, the defending champion in the beam, settled for third this year with a 9.525.
47th Annual IHSAA Gymnastics State Finals
Worthen Arena, Ball State University, Muncie, IN
Final Team Scores
1. Chesterton 113.875
2. Carroll (Fort Wayne) 110.975
3. Lake Central 110.175
4. Portage 109.025
5. Columbus North 108.575
6. Homestead 107.500
7. Angola 106.100
8. Columbus East 103.600
9. Richmond 102.375
State Champions
All-Around: Ashelynn Steinke (12) Carroll (Fort Wayne), 38.125
Vault: Mia Pak (10) Chesterton 9.700
Uneven Bars: (3-Way Tie) Crysta Dilley (12) McCutcheon; Sophia Hunzelman (11) Chesterton; Mia Pak (10) Chesterton; 9.600.
Balance Beam: Sophia Hunzelman (11) Chesterton 9.725
Floor Exercise: Jordan Bush (12) Chesterton 9.725
Jordan Bush of Chesterton named Mildred Ball Mental Attitude Award Winner
Following the event, members of the IHSAA Executive Committee named Chesterton High School’s Jordan Bush as the recipient of the Mildred M. Ball Mental Attitude Award.
The award is presented annually to a senior participant in the state finals who is deemed to have best demonstrated mental attitude, scholarship, leadership and athletic ability in gymnastics.
Jordan has competed at the State Finals in each of her four years including last year’s state title. Last year she finished as the state champion in the floor exercise. Bush has been awarded MVP of the Chesterton High School Gymnastics Team every year during her time as a Lady Trojan, as well as receiving 1st Team All-State and All-Conference honors each year. In addition to gymnastics, Bush plans to compete on Chesterton High School’s inaugural Unified Track and Field Team this spring.
In addition to her achievements in the gymnasium, Jordan volunteers her time with St. Patrick’s Church where she helped raise money for a young girl suffering from cancer. She has also helped with Dinner for Hope, USA Flags for 9-11, Boys and Girls Club, numerous community gymnastic camps, and College and Career Night at CHS. At her school, Jordan has held positions and participated in the Student Athletic Council, National Honors Society, International Baccalaureate Program, Fellowship of Christian Athletes, and the German Club.
Academically, Jordan ranks 26th in her class of 462 students, receiving a Chesterton High School Scholar Athlete Award every semester during her career. She was also a member of the Academic All-State Team.
The daughter of Nathan and Tanya Bush of Chesterton, Indiana, Jordan will attend Valparaiso University next year to study Nursing.
The IHSAA Executive Committee, on behalf of Indiana Farm Bureau Insurance, presented $1,000 to Chesterton High School's general scholarship fund in the name of Jordan Bush.
The mental attitude award is named in honor of the former IHSAA assistant commissioner who served the Association from 1977 to 1997. During her career, Mildred Ball administered the state gymnastics tournament among other sports and also oversaw the licensing and training of all contest officials in the state of Indiana.
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Former Texas coach Rick Barnes hired as Tennessee’s next head coach
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Rick Barnes went 402-180 at Texas.
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — Just two days after leaving Texas, Rick Barnes has landed at Tennessee.
Tennessee announced the hiring Tuesday, calling Barnes an “elite basketball coach in every respect.” The agreement is for six years at $2.25 million annually. The school scheduled an afternoon news conference.
Barnes succeeds Donnie Tyndall, who was fired Friday after one season amid an NCAA investigation of his two years at Southern Mississippi.
Barnes went 402-180 at Texas and reached the NCAA tournament in 16 of his 17 seasons, including a Final Four appearance in 2003.
“Rick brings an extremely impressive track record of excellence, as well as much-needed stability, to our men’s basketball program,” Tennessee athletic director Dave Hart said in a statement. “This is an exciting day for our Tennessee family.”
Texas announced his departure Sunday, saying it was a mutual decision. Barnes made it clear at his farewell news conference that he was fired and that he told Texas athletic director Steve Patterson he wanted to stay. Barnes said he was given the choice of firing his staff or being fired himself.
The 60-year-old Barnes is 604-314 in 28 seasons overall with stops at George Mason, Providence and Clemson. He has reached the NCAA tournament in 19 of his last 20 seasons.
Hart said he fired Tyndall for cause after determining the NCAA would likely find the coach committed major violations while at Southern Mississippi from 2012-14. Tyndall went 16-16 in his lone season at Tennessee.
Although Barnes’ only Southeastern Conference experience came during a brief stint as an Alabama assistant in 1985-86, Barnes has some familiarity with the area. He grew up in Hickory, North Carolina, about 200 miles east of Tennessee’s Knoxville campus.
Barnes takes over a Tennessee program that has gone at least as far as the NCAA regional semifinals four of the last nine seasons despite encountering plenty of recent coaching turnover.
Bruce Pearl was fired in 2011 amid an NCAA investigation after leading Tennessee to NCAA tournament appearances in each of his six seasons. Pearl was replaced by Cuonzo Martin, who left for California after earning one NCAA invitation and two spots in the NIT in his three seasons. Tyndall took over for Martin.
Tennessee loses all-SEC guard Josh Richardson to graduation and doesn’t return any proven point guards or post scorers.
Barnes’ 402 wins at Texas were the most in school history. Kevin Durant and T.J. Ford earned national player of the year honors while starring on Barnes’ teams.
He led Texas to the Sweet 16 five times, one Final Four and three trips to the regional finals — but hadn’t advanced the Longhorns beyond the first weekend of the NCAA tournament since 2008.
Hiring a veteran coach from a Big 12 school represents a change of pace for Tennessee, which selected head coaches from the mid-major ranks for its last four hires: Buzz Peterson (Tulsa), Pearl (Wisconsin-Milwaukee), Martin (Missouri State) and Tyndall (Southern Mississippi).
Tennessee becomes the second SEC school to hire a veteran coach with Final Four experience this month. Mississippi State announced last week it was replacing the fired Rick Ray with 57-year-old Ben Howland, who made three consecutive Final Four appearances with UCLA from 2006-08.
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By The Associated Press Thursday, October 16, 2014 6 a.m. CDT
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — The W.K. Kellogg Foundation has given a $2.3 million endowment to the Mississippi Department of Archives and History to support development of educational programs that will be operated by the Mississippi Civil Rights Museum.
The endowment, announced Tuesday, will fund a partnership between the department, the William Winter Institute for Racial Reconciliation and the Medgar & Myrlie Evers Institute. It also will fund numerous educational initiatives in the lead-up to and after the opening of the museum, including:
— Summer teacher training programs and workshops to prepare educators to teach an expanded civil rights curriculum.
— Digitizing important historical documents from the Evers collection to be housed at the museum
— Supporting the Medgar Wiley Evers Lecture Series throughout the state to engage communities in the museum's programs.
Mississippi is one of four priority places in the United States for the foundation — along with the city of New Orleans and the states of Michigan and New Mexico.
The foundation's endowment to the Mississippi Civil Rights Museum comes one year after the foundation committed $3.8 million in grants to 25 organizations across the state whose work focuses on helping Mississippi's young men of color by building a comprehensive network of support from birth into adulthood, developing their educational, emotional, physical and economic potential.
"We've come to understand that racial equity and healing are essential if we are going to accomplish our mission to support children, families and communities in Mississippi," said WKKF President and CEO La June Montgomery Tabron in a news release. "The Mississippi Civil Rights Museum will help us all take an honest look at the past in a state that was, in so many ways, the epicenter of this struggle in our county. It's important to heal the wounds of the past, so that we can move forward together and put racism behind us for good."
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Why Throw in the Towel?
Posted on 16:23, August 20th, 2014 by Pablo
In the wake of Nicky Hager’s latest revelations, Chris Trotter has penned a cynical defense of dirty politics as being the norm. For Chris, when it comes to politics “(t)he options are not fair means or foul: they are foul means or fouler.”
Idiot Savant at No Right Turn categorically rejects this view. I agree with him and can only add that either Chris has lost his ideological bearings or has consciously decided to join the Dark Side.
The Standard reprinted the NRT post and I commented on it there. Here is what I wrote:
“The stability of democracy is based on mutual contingent consent, not only between capitalists and workers but between opposing political factions. Mutual contingent consent requires that all actors accept mutual second best outcomes (that is, no one gets their preferred outcome all of the time), something that is evident, for example, in compromises over wages and employment conditions at the bargaining table or in the lobbying of political parties over legislation. “Winning” is therefore temporary and tempered by the pursuit of self-limiting strategies in pursuit of the mutual second best. Otherwise the political game descends into zero-sum self-interested maximisation of collective opportunities. That is not democracy, even if there are those within the democratic system who adhere to such views.
This is why Chris is wrong. He mistakes the venal pursuits of a political few for the general substance of democracy as a political form. The pursuit of dirty politics represents a fundamental corrosion of democratic principle and practice. It reflects a fundamental contempt for the foundational tenets of this type of governance. That this contempt is channeled into underhanded tactics by some does not undermine the core values upon which democracy rests and in fact serves to underscore what democracy is not. That the resort to dirty politics in NZ has at its core a group of people with pathological tendencies and profoundly disagreeable personalities is further proof that their style of play is not politics as usual.
Chris may be a bit jaded by years of fighting the good fight in losing wars. He seems to given up all hope that politics can be played cleanly. But he and many others (including some on the Right) would not have fought, and continue to fight, if they did not think that there was a better way to do things in pursuit of a just society. Mr. Slater, Mr. Ede, Mr. Bhatnagar, Ms. Odgers, Judith Collins and John Key clearly do not, but that does not mean that democracy as a whole is reducible to their contemptible view of politics.”
Let us be crystal clear. There is no moral equivalence between what the Left does or may wish to do versus what the organised dirty tricks cell centred around Cameron Slater does. Moreover, what Slater and company do centrally underpins not just how National engages politics, but how ACT has done as well. In contrast, Left activist groups may sputter about “direct action,” hold demonstrations and on occasion undertake animal liberations or environmental defense by climbing into trees or blocking trains, but they do not systematically attempt to uncover dirty laundry in order to smear, blackmail or undermine opponents within and outside their partisan ranks. They do not take covert money in order to cut and paste ghost written attack columns supplied by others. They do not get favoured backdoor access to sensitive government documents based upon their partisan, when not ministerial, connections. Perhaps that is why they are less effectual than those on the Dark Side.
The institutional Left centred in the Labour Party may gossip about their rivals across the aisle and backstab each other in factional disputes, but even then there are limits to where they will go in the pursuit of “winning.” The Slater-led dirty tricksters have no such limits.
Whatever his motivations, Chris needs to reconsider his position. There still is room for the good fight to be fought fairly even if the opponent does not. Contrary to what John Key believes, that applies as much to politics as it does to sports.
Tags: Chris Trotter, Democracy, Idiot/Savant, open government, Participation, playing fair versus playing dirty, Representation, symbolic politics
Posted in Democracy, governance, intellectuals, Make a difference, Politics | Print
7 Responses to “Why Throw in the Towel?”
Lew on August 20th, 2014 at 20:30
True and important.
One of the things that has annoyed me over the years is when calls for the left to better apply what we know about framing and messaging and voter behaviour and media management and symbolism and such like have been interpreted as the sort of professionalisation Simon Lusk advocates. The right do most of those things better than the left, it’s true, but that’s not a problem. What Lusk seems to mean by “professionalisation” is the application of huge amounts of money to every link in the chain, and the ruthless use of that money to work “below the line” of our democratic norms.
These things could not be more different, and I hope, though I don’t remain terribly confident, that this episode will emphasise the distinction.
CnrJoe on August 20th, 2014 at 20:46
Vaughan Little on August 21st, 2014 at 16:00
something similar could happen in the Labour party tho. we urgently need to make financing way more transparent. also it’d be great if Labour could develop explicit protocols around its attack politics. or at least commit to no go zones, i.e., never traffic info related to politicians’ sex lives.
deepred on August 21st, 2014 at 17:58
Trotter is being his usual pessimistic self.
Steering By The Real: Chris Trotter responds to Paul Buchanan « The Daily Blog on August 22nd, 2014 at 15:29
[…] Why Throw In The Towel? – A Brief Response To Trotter’s Cynicism I am thus dismissed by Dr Buchanan as either bewildered or a blackguard, and my offending essay […]
Steering By The Real: Chris Trotter responds to Paul Buchanan - NWZ on August 22nd, 2014 at 15:37
sam v on August 22nd, 2014 at 21:24
I agree that dirty politics and the manufacture of consent is terrible but it is hopelessly naive to consider it anything but the norm.
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Bhasker Shetty murder case: Accused had dumped remains in 3 rivers?
Udupi, Aug 15, 2016: Interrogations of priest and astrologer Niranjan Bhat, one of the three main accused in the Bhasker Shetty murder case, have reportedly revealed that he had thrown the remains of the dead body of businessman Bhasker Shetty and other things into the Palli river and at two rivulets at Kadandale.
If the ash, bones, watch and mobile phone of the accused were disposed at Palli river in Nandalike, the pepper spray bottle, poison bottle and iron rod used by Rajeshwari and Navaneeth to eliminate Shetty were thrown into one river at Kadandale while tiles and bricks of the Homa Kunda which had blood stains were disposed in another nearby rivulet.
It is believed that this was done to ensure that the police had to face a daunting task in finding the remains.
Though a search is underway in the rivers, so far there has been no progress. Meanwhile, it has been gathered that every now and then during interrogation Niranjan Bhat had an excuse saying he does not remember properly.
Police have meanwhile confirmed that the garments worn by the accused have been traced in a laundry in Nitte. It is believed that the accused had given the same to the laundry to get the blood stains removed.
Sources said that all five persons including Rajeshwari, Navaneeth, Niranjan, his father Srinivas Bhat and driver Raghavendra are being interrogated separately and there is suspicion that there were many others involved in this gruesome murder.
The new SP of Udupi District T K Balakrishna has said that the investigation was underway in the right direction and the police are leaving no stone unturned in gathering evidences. He also requested the public not to pay heed to rumours regarding the case.
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Cpp Mobilizes Npa Vs Mining Firms
Source: GMA TV News ()
GMA TV News - http://www.gmanews.tv/story/53998/CPP-mobilizes-NPA-vs-mining-firms
The Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) mobilized the New People's Army (NPA) Thursday to stop what it called the "plundering of the country's environment and mineral resources" by mining firms.
In a statement posted on its website (www.philippinerevolution.net), CPP spokesman Gregorio "Ka Roger" Rosal scored President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo for placing a mining firm directly under her office.
"Arroyo is taking complete control of the mining industry to further ensure big foreign mining companies and their comprador partners all privileges and advantages as provided for under RA 7942 or the Mining Act of 1995. With their heightened control, Arroyo and her kin and collaborators will be pocketing billions of pesos in cuts and bribes," Rosal said.
President Arroyo, in Executive Order 636, placed the Philippine Mining Development Corp. (PDMC), a government-owned and controlled corporation, under her direct supervision.
Rosal also questioned the appointment last July 31 of her brother-in-law, Rep. Ignacio Arroyo, as head of the House Committee on Natural Resources.
He branded the two moves as part of a "double mining coup" that will pave the way for unrestricted foreign and big comprador plunder of Philippine mineral resources.
Because of this, he said the NPA now has marching orders "to intensify efforts, both armed and non-armed, to stop the Arroyos and their imperialist and local comprador partners from plundering the country's environment and mineral resources."
Rosal said Mrs Arroyo and foreign big mining companies have set eyes on some nine million hectares of Philippine mineral-rich lands for intensified exploration and exploitation.
This acceleration of foreign plunder of Philippine mineral resources is detrimental to the Philippine economy and the environment, Rosal added.
"Foreign mining companies plunder billions of dollars worth of resources, siphon them out of the country and leave the Filipino people suffering from their pillage." Since the 1970s, foreign mining companies have plundered as much as $30 billion worth of mineral resources from the Philippines, said Rosal.
He said the NPA "has standing orders to carry out all necessary action and assistance to the people in preventing foreign big mining companies and their local big comprador and bureaucrat collaborators from carrying out the all-out plunder of our natural resources."
"The NPA, the peasant masses and national minorities will do their utmost to stop Arroyo and foreign big mining companies from setting up and stepping up their operations in the Philippine countryside especially within and around revolutionary territory," he said. - GMANews.TV
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Review: Stoner by John Williams
Stoner: A Novel
Since its re-release by Vintage in 2013, this almost forgotten novel has been everywhere. So much so that is has been hard to ignore and I had to add it quickly to my reading wish list. I have to admit that momentarily I did take the title at face value (come on, and you didn't?), but I stood corrected upon reading the blurb. Yes, Stoner is a the main character's name.
Stoner recounts the life of William Stoner, an academic who faced disappointment at every turn. The novel starts with Stoner as he heads of to university to study Agriculture at the request of his parents (they believe it will help him when he takes on the family farm). During a compulsory English Literature class Stoner has what can only be called an epiphany and switches his major to English. So starts a love affair with the written world and his life in academia. But Stoner marries the wrong woman, is thwarted in his career, and loses the love of his life. It is an immensely sad novel but one that I think will stay with me forever.
At times I thought Stoner was a bit of a wet blanket (generally in relation to his horrendous wife), but overall it's safe to say I fell in love with him a little bit.
His wife is seriously horrendous. I've never felt the urge so badly to reach into the book and punch someone's lights out.
This quote made me so sad: 'With wonder stoner realised she was crying, deeply and silently, with the shame and awkwardness of one who seldom weeps.'
So did this one: 'He went out of the office into the darkness of the long corridor and walked heavily into the sunlight, into the open world that was like a prison wherever he turned.'
This is quite a claustrophobic novel - it feels like Stoner is stuck in his prison-like world with no possibility of escape or happiness. There are tiny fragmentary moments of freedom though, which are so full of hope it makes the rest of it seem bearable.
This: 'In his forty-third year William stoner learned what others, much younger, had learned before him: that the person one loves at first is not the person one loves at last, and that love is not an end but a process through which one person attempts to know another.'
I loved the sections which talked about academia and English as a subject (this is an academic novel, I would say). They are detailed and fascinating and really demonstrate the author's passion.
The writing itself, completely separate from the content, is brilliant. It's hard to describe what is good about it but it is so open and engaging that you just sink in to it. I think it's a re-reader in that sense.
Stoner isn't really about anything. It is the story of a quiet, unassuming and wholly disappointing life but you do not want to stop reading. Who needs an exciting plot line?!
Stoner's antagonists (Hollis Lomax, Charles Walker and his wife, Edith) are skillfully written and his clashes with them are painful yet thrilling to read. This is where my wet blanket impression came in, but some of his later actions and reactions completely defy this label.
Considering how much I enjoyed this novel, I've found this an extremely difficult review to write (hence the brevity and bullets). It's hard to put my thoughts into words when my thoughts were not so much thoughts, but rather feelings. It's fair to say that I had an emotional reaction to Stoner. It made me unspeakably sad at points, chuckle at others, and feel enlivened at others. I'm glad it has been rediscovered because it is certainly not a book you would want to forget.
'Thus he found it possible to live, and even be happy, now and then.'
Have you read Stoner? If so, what did you think?
Andi 22 May 2014 at 15:49
Squee! I want to read it even more now, and I want this gorgeous Vintage edition.
I've been on the fence about reading this one (even though the cover, as usual for Vintage, is LOVELY), but I think you might just have booted me off onto the 'Yes, read it!' side... :)
CyberKitten 22 May 2014 at 18:06
I've heard of it (as you said who hasn't) and have even picked it up a few times in Waterstone's but never took it home with me. Maybe I should!
Oh, I've just posted a review of a History of WW1 I think you'd like.
Laura 24 May 2014 at 11:50
Even though everyone has been reading this, I have apparently not read any reviews until now and still thought it was a drug book! OR, I did until I actually found it in a charity shop last week and realised that it wasn't so much that, so yeah. I'm welllllll excited to read it now though!!
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Celebrate in style at this elegant yet wholly unpretentious Baroque champagne bar in the heart of Soho. Dimly-lit, effortlessly elegant and with gleaming Mahogany surfaces,... More
The London Cocktail Club
6-7 Great Newport Street, Covent Garden, London WC2H | 6 minutes walk from Shaftesbury Theatre
Lamb & Flag
33 Rose Street, Covent Garden, London WC2E | 6 minutes walk from Shaftesbury Theatre
One of the oldest pubs in London, the Lamb & Flag was once known as the Bucket of Blood, thanks to the bare-knuckle fights held... More
The Toucan
19 Carlisle Street, Soho, London W1D | 6 minutes walk from Shaftesbury Theatre
This is not so much a restaurant as a tiny atmospheric Irish bar. Having grown out of its minuscule basement into the bar upstairs it's... More
Scarfes Bar
252 High Holborn, Holborn, Holborn, London WC1V | 6 minutes walk from Shaftesbury Theatre
Named after the cartoonist Gerald Scarfe (whose characterful illustrations will adorn the bar's walls), Scarfes Bar is a shining beacon in the otherwise lacking High... More
77 Dean Street, Soho, London W1D | 7 minutes walk from Shaftesbury Theatre
It sounds magnificent - décor based on the Indian Architecture of the Moghul period – but despite creating a fantastic, discreet atmosphere Akbar isn’t breaking... More
Admiral Duncan
54 Old Compton Street, Soho, London W1D | 7 minutes walk from Shaftesbury Theatre
This once staid gay pub has been the subject of much media attention in the wake of 1999’s tragic bomb attack. Today, it is a... More
B.Y.O.C
28 Bedfordbury Street, Covent Garden, Covent Garden, London WC2N | 7 minutes walk from Shaftesbury Theatre
A speakeasy bar with a twist, B.Y.O.C is a cocktail bar that doesn't stock any alcohol. But, before snubbing it in disgust, you can relax... More
28 Rathbone Place, Fitzrovia, London W1T | 7 minutes walk from Shaftesbury Theatre
Prohibition-era themed basement bar in Fitzrovia, with a good line in retro comedy. The joke is that it's a bar dodging the law by masquerading... More
Cork & Bottle
44 Cranbourn Street, Soho, London WC2H | 7 minutes walk from Shaftesbury Theatre
Located in the heart of the West End you’d expect it to be packed with the usual crowds but hidden in a basement below a... More
Jerusalem Bar and Kitchen
33-34 Rathbone Place, Fitzrovia, London W1T | 7 minutes walk from Shaftesbury Theatre
Most Londoners must have been to Jerusalem's basement bar over the years. It's... More
Meza
London > Nightlife > Mediterranean restaurants
100 Wardour Street, Soho, Soho, London W1F | 7 minutes walk from Shaftesbury Theatre
If you come to sample the delights of the West End and get a craving for some Mediterranean food you can’t do better than this... More
La Casa del Habano
100 Wardour Street, Soho, London W1F | 7 minutes walk from Shaftesbury Theatre
As soon as you step into the La Casa del Habanos bar you feel like you're in Cuba. Warm oranges and yellows stand out from... More
Drakes Tabanco
3 Windmill Street, Fitzrovia, London W1T | 7 minutes walk from Shaftesbury Theatre
Drakes Tabanco opens on 7th October 2013. Serving fine and rare sherry wines straight from barrel, alongside a Spanish and British food menu, Drakes Tabanco... More
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Bunga Bunga Summertime Spectacular
Clubbing and Nightlife | Until 31st August 2019
Bunga Bunga Covent Garden 3 minutes walk from Shaftesbury Theatre
Save money on a holiday this summer and embrace the staycation with the help of the Bunga Bunga Summertime Spectacular. ...More
Theatre | Until 5th January 2020
New London Theatre 3 minutes walk from Shaftesbury Theatre
Students at a prestigious prep school "stick it to the man" with encouragement from their substitute teacher - wannabe rock ...More
Theatre | Until 10th August 2019
The Donmar Warehouse 3 minutes walk from Shaftesbury Theatre
Michael Longhurst directs the 25th anniversary revival of David Greig's searing drama about two refugees from a war zone, who ...More
Albukhary Foundation Gallery Of The Islamic World
British Museum 4 minutes walk from Shaftesbury Theatre
Works revealing the British Museum's outstanding collections in engaging new ways, underscoring the global connections of this vast region of ...More
Rembrandt: Thinking On Paper
Exhibitions | Until 4th August 2019
To mark 350 years since Rembrandt's death, the British Museum presents Rembrandt: Thinking on Paper. The museum holds one of ...More
Exhibitions | Until 26th August 2019
A recreation of the oldest surviving manga bookshop in Tokyo comes to the British Museum as it stages the largest ...More
Edvard Munch: love and angst
Norwegian artist Edvard Munch, famous for his haunting depictions of raw human emotion - think of Munch and you'll soon ...More
Symbolist Prints
Exhibitions | Until 18th July 2019
Prints from the era of Symbolism in the 1800s with works by artists such as Rodolphe Bresdin, Gustave Moreau, Albert ...More
Reimagining Captain Cook Pacific Perspectives
This exhibition explores the perspectives of the Pacific Islanders to Cook's voyages and displays the work of contemporary Pacific artists, ...More
The World Exists To Be Put On A Postcard: Artists' Postcards From 1960 To Now
This collection of 300 postcards recently gifted to the British Museum by the artists' postcard expert Jeremy Cooper, shows the ...More
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WSPCA Seizure Highlights Continuing Neglect of Dogs
Published on Tuesday, July 15th, 2014 at 11:00 am
Before: a West Highland White Terrier, after its seizure by the WSPCA.
Two young dogs recently taken into care by the Waterford SPCA highlight the ongoing and cruel neglect of domestic animals in the city and county.
Both dogs, two West Highland White Terriers, were seized once discovered in a small, uncleaned pen with horribly matted coats which had not been properly kept for a significant period.
They were immediately brought to a veterinary clinic for treatment before the arduous task of sheering their dreadlocked coats began.
WSPCA Chairperson Barbara Bent says this is a typical example of the huge neglect of animals witnessed on a regular basis.
“We recently received a call from a very concerned member of the public that there were two little dogs in a dreadful state and appeared to be extremely neglected,” said Ms Bent.
After: a much healthier and happier looking 'Westie'.
“Our inspector Alice went the following day and requested the owner to show her the dogs. The person tried to avoid showing her the Westies but eventually agreed to do so after some persuasion.
“When found these little guys were in good body condition so obviously they were being fed but we couldn’t tell because of the state of their coats.
“We had never seen coats in such a state. The matted hair was as hard as rocks. Imagine the weight of such coats in the hot weather, they weighed 10 kilograms each and were living in a small pen that appeared not to have been cleared out for some time.
“They were immediately taken to a veterinary facility and the staff were utterly amazed at the state of them.”
While they’re a most sociable breed, one of the dogs appeared withdraw as a result of the experience and a lack of socialising with other dogs.
“As the photos show, under all the filth, mats and hair were two lovely little guys and after flea and worm treatment, micro-tagging and castration will be up for re-homing again,” said Ms Bent.
“They have been a pair for nearly four years so it would be good to re-home them together.”
The WSPCA office is located at Summerville Square on the Yellow Road and can be contacted on 051-841432.
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What The Recent Beacon Decision Means For Developers And General Contractors
Steven M. Cvitanovic and Whitney L. Stefko – Haight Brown Bonesteel – August 14, 2014
On July 3, 2014, the California Supreme Court (the “Court”) came out with its decision in Beacon Residential Community Association v. Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, et al. The Beacon decision settled a long-standing dispute in California about whether design professionals such as architects and engineers owe a duty to non-client third parties. In finding that the plaintiffs in Beacon could state a claim against the architects of the Beacon project, the Court also sowed the seeds of change in the way contracts are structured between developers, architects, engineers, and even general contractors.
So, how will Beacon change the landscape for developers and general contractors? It is important to understand the factual background in Beacon to predict how the decision may alter the playing field. For a detailed analysis of the Amicus briefs in the Beacon matter from the AIA, the CBIA, and the Consumer Attorneys of California, please click here.
The Beacon case arose from a common development model in California: a developer conceives a multi-unit project, maps the project as a condo development but rents as apartments. Shortly after completion of the Beacon project, the developer sold the entire project and the new owner finalized the existing condominium map and placed the units on the market as condominiums. Although the architects always knew they had designed a residential structure, the project ultimately became a condominium development. The newly formed homeowners’ association filed a construction defect suit against the developers, general contractor, the subcontractors and the architects for design and construction defects.
Starting a project as “apartments” and later selling them as condominiums has been a major source of litigation. Moreover, the evolution of such a project creates complex issues involving indemnity and insurance. The decision to market a project as apartments rather than condominiums is normally driven by, among other things, timing and cost. The timing element boils down to the developer’s assessment of market conditions. The cost element boils down to which project (i.e., apartment or condo) will be more profitable. The cost to obtain insurance on an apartment project is less than the cost to obtain insurance for a condo project, thus the incentive for the developer to start the project as an apartment.
The most immediate result of the Beacon decision will likely be that design professionals will use the result as leverage in price negotiations on certain projects to account for the real or perceived risk that they may be brought into a lawsuit involving third parties.
Developers will also likely see an increase in indemnity and deed restriction requests from design professionals. Construction defect litigation concerning apartments is infrequent. In contrast, a significant percentage of condominium projects go into construction defect litigation. Many years ago, general contractors felt that the developer client’s decision to convert to condominiums left them with significant litigation exposure so they began demanding deed restrictions and reverse indemnity in the event of a conversion. Developers can now expect much the same from architects where they seek indemnity or deed restrictions on condo conversions.
Similarly, developers can also expect renewed efforts by design professionals to limit liability under the contract. Limitations of liability are still valid under Civil Code section 2782.5. While such liability limitations will probably not be binding on third parties, it will bind the developer in the event of an issue.
Although California has fairly strong anti-indemnity statutes, the plain wording of Civil Code section 2782.05 still at least allows indemnity for passive negligence in non-residential projects. Apartments would qualify as non-residential. General Contractors must be more vigilant than ever regarding indemnity provisions, particularly provisions that purport to indemnify the architect, such as the AIA General Conditions A201, section 3.18.1. In the event a General Contractor is provided with an A201, that document must be modified to take into account a possible change in indemnity obligations in the event of a conversion of the project to condominiums.
Finally, look for the insurance market to realize an opportunity when it sees one. Normally design professionals have their own E&O insurance, but design wraps do exist. On some projects, it might make a whole lot of sense for the owner to put together a program that covers the contractors and a program that covers the design professionals. This model could take a lot of pressure off owners when it comes to increased pricing, deed restrictions, and indemnity.
It will be years from now before we understand the full effect of the Beacon decision. There will likely be effects that are currently unforeseen. In the long term, and after all the hoopla surrounding the decision is yesterday’s news, the effects of the Beacon decision could turn out to be marginal. What is for certain is that the building industry will inevitably find an equilibrium point around which it will do business, with or without the Beacon decision.
via Haight Brown Bonesteel | Publications & Insights | Construction Law Client Advisory: What The Recent Beacon Decision Means For Developers And General Contractors.
Posted in Construction Law | Tagged Architects, Design Professionals, Home Owners Association | Leave a reply
Limitation of Liability Clause in Pre-2007 Professional Contracts Enforceable
Ross A. Hoogerhyde – Gordon & Rees LLP – August 25, 2014
The Colorado Legislature enacted the Homeowner Protection Act (HPA), C.R.S. § 13-20-806(7), in response to unequal bargaining power between builders/developers and home buyers. The Legislature was concerned that builders/developers included onerous clauses in form home purchase agreements that limited their liability for any homeowner dispute. Homebuyers, left with the choice of agreeing to the limitation or not purchasing the home, would agree to limit their liability, often without reading or understanding the agreement. Then, years later, the builder/developer would rely on the limitation of liability to defeat homeowner claims.
The HPA addresses this concern by voiding any express waiver of or limitation on the legal rights and remedies provided by Colorado’s Construction Defect Reform Action as against public policy. The HPA was enacted on April 20, 2007, and applies to any action filed after its enactment.
Since its passage, builders, developers, architects and engineers struggled with whether the HPA voids limitations of liability in professional contracts executed prior to enactment. Architects, engineers and other professionals argued that the HPA could not void their contractual limitation of liability because: (1) voiding these clauses in contracts executed prior to the HPA would be unconstitutionally retrospective and (2) the HPA applied only to contracts with homeowners, not sophisticated commercial parties such as builders, developers, architects and engineers.
Colorado district courts struggled with these issues without guidance from Colorado’s superior courts for seven years. Finally, on Jan. 30, 2014, the Colorado Court of Appeals issued its first reported opinion regarding the HPA in Taylor Morrison of Colo., Inc. v. Bemas Constr., Inc., 2014 COA 10.
In Taylor, the Colorado Court of Appeals concluded that applying the HPA to void limitation of liability clauses in professional contracts executed prior to enactment of the HPA was unconstitutionally retrospective. Thus, limitations of liability in professional contracts between sophisticated parties executed prior to 2007 are enforceable.
However, the Court of Appeals did not address the alternative argument that the HPA could not apply to any professional contracts and was limited to only homeowner contracts. Given this, uncertainty remains whether the HPA voids limitation of liability clauses in a professional contract executed after enactment of the HPA. This uncertainty will not be resolved until the Colorado Court of Appeals or Supreme Court clarifies the scope of the HPA.
via Limitation of liability clause in pre-2007 professional contracts enforceable – Lexology.
Posted in Construction Contracts | Tagged construction contracts, Limitation of Liability Clause | Leave a reply
Duty to Defend Construction Defect Case Triggered by Complaint’s Allegations
Tred Eyerly – Insurance Law Hawaii – August 20, 2014
The subcontractor’s insurer could not escape contributing to defense costs of its insured when coverage was possible based upon the underlying complaint’s allegations. Seneca Ins. Co. v. James River Ins. Co., 2014 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 97156 (D. Ore. July 17, 2014).
The underlying action alleged construction defects in a 60-unit complex located in Seaside, Oregon. S.D. Deacon Corp. was the general contractor and contracted with the owners association to reconstruct portions of the building, including the curtain wall. Deacon subcontracted with Superwall Design, LLP for work on the curtain wall renovation.
At some point not specified in the underlying complaint, the Association notified Deacon of construction defects in the curtain wall renovation. Deacon investigated and concluded that the alleged property damage was the result of inadequate usage of materials, violations of state and local building codes, and violations of relevant industry standards relating to the work performed by Superwall. Deacon contended that the problems were caused by Superwall’s faulty workmanship.
Deacon put Superwall on notice of the construction defect claims in a letter dated January 24, 2012. Deacon tendered its claim as an additional insured under Superwall’s policies to James River and Travelers. Deacon filed the underlying action against Superwall, and sent James River a copy of the complaint by email on October 25, 2012. James River denied the tender with no explanation.
Deacon later amended its complaint and added another defendant, Beeline Glass Company, which Decon hired on July 8, 2011 to assist Superwall.
James River argued that Deacon’s pleadings contained allegations from which James River could conclude the alleged damage occurred before the policy’s effective date of September 26, 2011, thereby excluding such damage from coverage. James River relied on Deacon’s allegation that it had to hire Beeline to assist with Superwall’s work in July 2011. Thus, James River’s argument that the fact that Superwall performed work on the project in the summer of 2011, coupled with Deacon’s allegations that Superwall’s work was defective, demonstrated that the alleged damage occurred, or began to occur, prior to the policy’s effective date.
The court did not find this argument convincing. The fact that Superwall performed work on the Project in the summer of 2011 did not mean its work was finished prior to the inception of the policy. Similarly, an allegation that remedial work was performed in the fall of 2011 did not establish when in the fall the remedial work was performed.
Therefore, James River’s duty to defend was triggered by the allegations in Deacon’s complaint and the duty was not extinguished by any allegations in Deacon’s amended pleadings.
via Insurance Law Hawaii: Duty to Defend Construction Defect Case Triggered by Complaint’s Allegations.
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Talk is Cheap – Promises to Pay are a Poor Substitute for Adherence to Contractual Notice Provisions
Charlie G. Baxley – Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP – August 1, 2014
A recent Wyoming case – JEM Contracting, Inc. v. Morrison – Maierle, Inc. – serves as a reminder to contractors and subcontractors of the importance of following the contractual requirements for notice when differing site conditions are discovered. As the contractor in that case learned, failure to comply can serve as a waiver of such claims even when the upstream party makes subsequent promises of compensation for the cost and delays associated with the differing conditions.
JEM Contracting (“JEM”) entered into contracts with two Wyoming counties to perform construction services to improve 3.6 miles of a road which traveled through both counties. The counties hired Morrison-Maierle, Inc. (“MMI”) to provide engineering services and serve as the owner’s representative on the project. There was no direct contractual relationship between JEM and MMI.
JEM began work on June 21, 2010. That same day JEM verbally reported to MMI’s on-site representative that it had discovered a differing site condition that would increase time and costs due to the additional work required to pulverize the existing road. JEM’s contract included a provision regarding the procedure for asserting differing conditions claims:
Contractor shall notify the [counties] and [MMI] in writing about differing subsurface or physical conditions within 5 days of discovery and before disturbing the subsurface as stated above. No claim for an adjustment in the contract price or contract times … will be valid for differing subsurface or physical conditions if procedures of this paragraph 4.03 are not followed.
(Emphasis added).
JEM did not provide written notice of the differing condition until 18 days later, on July 9. The two parties met that same day to discuss the issue. JEM alleged in court that at this meeting MMI told JEM that it would be paid for the increased costs if JEM could find savings on the remainder of the project so that it could complete the work within the contract price. When JEM later submitted its claim formally, however, both MMI and the counties rejected it. JEM brought suit against both shortly thereafter.
JEM alleged that it had relied on MMI’s statements to its detriment and that it was induced to continue working due to these statements. The trial court rejected JEM’s arguments due to JEM’s inability to show harm from MMI’s representations because JEM’s contract required it to continue performance during a dispute. JEM appealed and eventually the matter arrived before the Wyoming Supreme Court. Wyoming’s highest court initially noted that the lower court had failed to fully consider the types of harms that could have resulted from MMI’s representations – namely the reduced profit JEM suffering in cutting other areas of work in order to stay within the contract price. Even still, the court said, JEM had clearly failed to assert its claim in writing within the five days required by Paragraph 4.03. The Wyoming Supreme Court found that JEM’s inability to prove that MMI’s representations on July 9 caused JEM any harm was irrelevant, as JEM had already waived its right to such claims when the five day time limit expired.
Differing conditions are common on projects, as are exchanges like the one that occurred between JEM and MMI on June 21, 2010. JEM likely had good intentions for not following up its verbal notice with a letter, perhaps because it did not want to ‘rock the boat’ early on in its performance of work. However, as this case showed, once a dispute arises good intentions are a poor substitute for compliance with the requirements of the contract.
via Talk is cheap – promises to pay are a poor substitute for adherence to contractual notice provisions – Lexology.
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California Law Restricting Non-licensed Contractors’ Right to Recover for Unpaid Services does not Apply to Miller Act Claims
Carly Miller – Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP – August 1, 2014
In a recent decision, the federal appellate court encompassing nine western states and two Pacific island jurisdictions held that a California law restricting the right of non-licensed contractors to recover for unpaid services did not apply to actions brought under the Miller Act, federal legislation that requires prime contractors on certain government contracts to post payment and performance bonds.
In Technica LLC ex rel. U.S. v. Carolina Casualty Insurance Co., Candelaria Corporation (“Candelaria”) was the prime contractor on a federal project in California in which it purchased a payment bond provided by Carolina Casualty Insurance Company (“CCIC”). Candelaria entered into a subcontract with Otay Group, Inc. (“Otay”), which, in turn, subcontracted with Technica, Inc. (“Technica”). Technica received only partial payments from Otay for the labor, materials, and services it provided. Candelaria at some point terminated Otay’s subcontract, prompting Technica to file a complaint invoking its Miller Act rights to recover outstanding amounts under the contract and payment bond.
The Miller Act provides that a person who has provided labor or materials in performing work on a federal project and who has not been paid within 90 days after the work was performed may bring an action on the payment bond for the amounts unpaid. The Miller Act extends this right to subcontractors as well as sub-subcontractors. The scope of the remedy and the substance of the rights under the Miller Act are, in general, considered matters of federal, not state, law.
Candelaria and CCIC argued that California Business and Professions Code § 7031(a) provided a defense to Technica’s Miller Act claim in that it precludes contractors who are not licensed in California from maintaining an action for compensation for services under the contract. Candelaria and CCIC argued that because Technica did not hold a valid California contractor license, it could not assert a Miller Act claim. The lower court sided with Candelaria and CCIC, concluding that because Technica was not licensed, as required by a California law, it was precluded from pursuing its Miller Act claim.
Upon review, however, the federal appellate court reversed and held that the limitation in § 7031(a) did not apply to a Miller Act claim, and that, therefore, Technica’s Miller Act claim was not barred. The appellate court reasoned that the application of a state statute as a defense to a Miller Act claim could result in the nullification of those rights. Additionally, as a practical effect, enforcing a state licensing requirement against Miller Act claims would cause inconsistent applications of the Miller Act, as federal subcontractors should not be required to comply with licensing requirements in every state in which they may perform work on a federal project.
Those performing work on government projects should take heed of the Technica decision in the event of future disputes regarding non-payment. State laws restricting non-licensed contractors from collecting for unpaid services may be poor defenses to Miller Act claims. As with any other law, however, it may be prudent to comply with licensing statutes in a given state before undertaking to perform work there. For example, had this suit been filed by a sub-subcontractor against Technica, Technica’s lack of a license might have precluded Technica from asserting a counterclaim.
via California law restricting non-licensed contractors’ right to recover for unpaid services does not apply to Miller Act claims – Lexology.
Posted in Construction Law | Tagged contractors, Miller Act, Right to Recover | Leave a reply
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Serial rapist Robert Fardon to be released
September 16, 2014 1:37 pm in Gold Coast by myGC
ONE of Australia’s most notorious serial rapists will walk free from prison after claims he was planning to escape a Brisbane compound couldn’t be proven.
Robert John Fardon, 65, was arrested and taken from supervised accommodation in Wacol earlier this month after a fellow inmate, described as an “underworld snitch”, told police Fardon was planning an escape.
In Brisbane Court today, Counsel for Attorney-General Jarrod Bleijie said there wasn’t any evidence to support the claim and they came from a ‘unreliable source’.
Fardon will soon be back at the secure facility in Wacol.
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Edo. G, Shabaam Sahdeeq & Fokis - Recognize Your Power [EP]
Recognize Your Power the EP collaboration between East coast emcee greats Edo. G and Shabaam Sahdeeq is finally here. Entirely produced by Fokis (MC Eiht, Planet Asia, N.O.R.E,Sadat X, Canibus) Recognize Your Power also boasts guest verses/appearances from include Ras Kass, Oh No, Planet Asia, Craig G, Torae and DJ Eclipse.
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Producer's Corner: The Kount x James Gent - The Sum
Canada's Kount and London's James Gent link up to drop off "The Sum" via BLVNT Records. While it is an instrumental track, it's just dripping with soul and speaks to me more than most lyrical laden songs do these days. It begins with some flighty plucks of the guitar accompanied by exploratory strokes of the ivories before erupting into a smorgasbord of only the grooviest synths backed by dense, clean drums falling in a classic hip hop pattern. The ghostly vocals elevate the tracks potential to evoke longing, but it feels like a more self-assured longing than a desperate one. It seems to be acknowledging a sense of seclusion while also inspiring hope for salvation from that seclusion. You can stream the track below or, if you feel so inspired, you can name your own price and get the download over at Bandcamp.
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The group, which consists of emcees Collasoul Structure and I.B. Fokuz and DJ Seanile, has been together since the mid-2000s and has released three projects to date: Ragtime, On the Rocks, and On The House.
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Modern Masters of Science Fiction
Illinois University Press
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A concise yet comprehensive literary analysis on the works of the late Iain Banks. Kincaid’s writing functions primarily through illustrating and deconstructing the thematic lineage and interplay between Banks’ novels published with and without the M, but also delves into the deeper political and societal backdrop in which Banks’ wrote and lived.
Andreea at Infinite Text
This book has been written with so much passion. Kincaid writes an in-depth analysis as a product of very detailed close reading.
Leticia Lara at Fantastica Ficcion
Kincaid's journey through all works is exhaustive, chronologically placing each publication and relating it to the moment of writing. In this respect the book is brilliant.
Ian Sales at It Doesn't Have to be Right ...
[A]fter reading Paul’s book on Banks’s novels, it occurs to me that my problem with Banks is that he rewarded careful reading but his prose was so effortlessly readable that I likely never gave his fiction the depth of reading which generated the most reward. And I reached this conclusion because Paul, a friend of many years, writes about Banks’s novels so well, so readably, that I want to go back to Banks’s books immediately and reread them and discover in them all the depth and goodness identified by Paul which I plainly missed.
Russell Letson in Locus, issue 681, October 2017
While Kincaid takes Banks's work seriously, neither the writing nor the viewpoint of his study is academic-hermetic -- he had met and liked his subject and places him in the social world of SF and its fandom... With Paul Kincaid, [Banks is] in pretty good hands.
Nick Hubble at Strange Horizons, 18 December 2017
while some of Kincaid’s characterisation of the Culture is open to question, he is successful in making us rethink the standard division of Banks’s work into mainstream and SF books. He demonstrates through concise analysis how the Scottish fantastic novels are as much a form of science fiction as the Culture novels. He also provides excellent detailed readings of those novels which have perhaps been unfairly overshadowed by the Culture series, such as Feersum Endjinn and Transition. ... Kincaid’s Iain M. Banks is ... likely to become a benchmark for Banks studies in the years ahead
Jerome Winter in Science Fiction Studies, #134, March 2018
this new volume in the MODERN MASTERS OF SCIENCE FICTION series seems like a bona fide twofer: Paul Kincaid, a remarkably incisive and informed critic of print sf, on Iain M. Banks, one of the most talented and beloved sf writers of the past thirty years. And in many ways this survey delivers on such a promise, save for a couple of caveats I hazard below. Certainly, as Kincaid himself mentions in his brief summary of the extant criticism on Banks, scholarship is still in its early stages in the academic reception of this prolific, recently deceased author. This book is therefore useful as a comprehensive primer written for the uninitiated, the curious, or for those invested scholars or die-hard aficionados who simply want a brush-up or broad overview of the author’s oeuvre. And, with any luck, this lucid and cogent survey will pave the way for further theoretically rigorous studies.
Abigail Nussbaum at Lawyers, Guns and Money, 26 March 2018
One of the most interesting aspects of Iain M. Banks is that unlike most SF critics approaching Banks—in which group I include myself—Kincaid doesn’t restrict himself to the books published under the “M.” label. His overview discusses both Banks’s science fiction and his mainstream fiction, and he argues persuasively that the two streams had more in common than is widely acknowledged. That Banks’s literary novels had a strong streak of the fantastic running through them (Kincaid identifies this as the influence of several other authors in the flourishing Scottish literature scene at the time that Banks was getting his start as a writer, primarily Alasdair Gray), and that certain themes, chiefly a fascination with doubling and uncertain identity, recur in all of his novels.
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Maciel – Four Possibilities
March 13, 2009 in clergy sex abuse scandal, Maciel, Narcissism, sexual abuse, Vatican 12 Comments Tags: Legion of Christ, Maciel
The Vatican and the Legion of Christ have decided to maintain a discrete silence about Maciel. Perhaps a further statement will be forthcoming, as promised, or perhaps the Vatican and the Legion count on the short attention span of the public.
The Legion has admitted that Maciel fathered a child in his old age and was leading a double life. Maciel went to his grave without admitting any guilt. He let the Legion portray him as a wrongly-persecuted saint.
When the Vatican told Maciel to retire to a life of prayer and penance, it showed it believed at least some of the allegations that he had molested seminarians.
There are further allegations and rumors, which I list in roughly descending order of probability:
– That Maciel absolved his sexual partners during confession
– That Maciel misused Legion money
– That Maciel led a luxurious life
– That Maciel used narcotics
– That Maciel became the lover of several rich women to extract money from them
– That Maciel was involved in narcotraffic
– That the mother of the daughter was only 15 when Maciel impregnated her.
The admitted double life and the certain molestations of seminarians are bad enough; the others simply compound the crimes.
From the admissions and allegations about Maciel I have come up with four possibilities, in descending order of seriousness:
1. He was a false prophet who was sent to deceive if possible even the elect. Germain Grisez leans in this direction.
2. He was a charismatic psychopath, totally lacking in empathy for the pain he was causing, and he constructed the Legion to indulge his vices.
3. He was a pathological narcissist, not completely lacking in empathy, but determined to keep everyone centered upon his personality and thereby control everyone. His altruism was in the service of his narcissism: he did good things so that he would be the center of attention.
4. He was himself seriously damaged by abuse and compartmentalized his personality, as men all too easily do. All his good work was in one part of his life; then there was another, sealed-off compartment that contained his sexuality.
I don’t know, and perhaps no human being alive knows, which of these possibilities is closest to the truth. Maciel did a lot of harm, whatever the cause, but clearly one’s attitude to him would change if he himself had somehow been a victim.
There were enough clues over the years to alert authorities in the Vatican that something was wrong, there was at the very minimum too much of a cult of personality and too rigid a control of members. But no one acted until Benedict became pope; he knew something was seriously wrong, and at least took some action. Was it enough? Those who said that Maciel abused them are still being called liars by some members of the Legion.
Members of the Legion want to think that Maciel was simply a sinner, that his one fling showed he had human weaknesses. But clearly Maciel’s personality was severely damaged and distorted to the point that the Legion, which was set up to reflect his personality, itself must suffer from serious distortions.
Can a religious congregation be founded by an unrepentant sinner? Who would want to join a congregation founded by a child molester? But what is the Church to do with the Legion? I would suggest a spiritual Chapter 7 bankruptcy. The assets of the Legion, its members, properties, and endowments, should be distributed to other congregations in the Church.
Benedict XVI on the Crimes of the Past
January 31, 2009 in Anti-Semitism, clergy sex abuse scandal, Vatican No Comments Tags: Anti-Semitism, Benedict XVI, past crimes
The efforts of victims (and now of a U.S. attorney) to make bishops accountable is often derided as bringing up ancient history (i.e., 1970) or criticized as demonstrating a failure to carryout the great biblical principle of forgive and forget (I have never been able to locate that verse).
Of the Holocaust, Benedict said:
Das Vergangene ist nie bloß vergangen. Es geht uns an und zeigt uns, welche Wege wir nicht gehen dürfen und welche wir suchen müssen.
The past is never really gone. It’s our business and it shows us the way we should not follow and the way we should seek.
Papal Words But No Papal Deeds
July 19, 2008 in Australia, clergy sex abuse scandal, Vatican 2 Comments Tags: Australia, pope, sexual abuse
The Pope said the right words in Australia:
“Dear friends, may this celebration, in the presence of the Successor of Peter, be a moment of rededication and renewal for the whole Church in Australia!
“Here I would like to pause to acknowledge the shame which we have all felt as a result of the sexual abuse of minors by some clergy and religious in this country. Indeed, I am deeply sorry for the pain and suffering the victims have endured and I assure them that as their pastor I too share in their suffering.
“These misdeeds, which constitute so grave a betrayal of trust, deserve unequivocal condemnation. They have caused great pain and have damaged the Church’s witness. I ask all of you to support and assist your bishops, and to work together with them in combating this evil. Victims should receive compassion and care, and those responsible for these evils must be brought to justice. It is an urgent priority to promote a safer and more wholesome environment, especially for young people.
“In these days marked by the celebration of World Youth Day, we are reminded of how precious a treasure has been entrusted to us in our young people, and how great a part of the Church’s mission in this country has been dedicated to their education and care.
“As the Church in Australia continues, in the spirit of the Gospel, to address effectively this serious pastoral challenge, I join you in praying that this time of purification will bring about healing, reconciliation and ever greater fidelity to the moral demands of the Gospel.”
I would feel better about this is these words had not been added at the last minute. According to John Allen, “The pope’s direct apology was a last-minute addition to his prepared text.”
There is still no indication that bishops will suffer any consequences if they choose to tolerate abuse and to make hard-hearted remarks about victims (see below).
Lying Bishops and Tangled Webs
July 7, 2008 in Australia, clergy sex abuse scandal, Vatican 2 Comments Tags: abuse, Australia, Catholic, lie, Pell
As a young man in Australia Anthony Jones was forcibly molested by the Rev Terence Goodall. Jones made a formal complaint to the church, which ordered an investigation. Australian Lateline reports
While the report says that Father Goodall raised the issue of an element of consent, the investigator recommended that Anthony Jones’ allegations be sustained without qualification. The report, as well as a number of other documents, was referred upwards to the desk of Archbishop George Pell. And it was the Archbishop who would eventually respond to Anthony Jones about the outcome.
But the letter George Pell wrote to Anthony Jones differed markedly from the investigation’s findings.
The Archbishop wrote: “After examining all of the material, Mr Murray provided me with a report, and he has recommended that the allegations of inappropriate behaviour against you be found to be substantiated. However, as no other complaint of attempted sexual assault has been received against Father Goodall and he categorically denies the accusation, Mr Murray was of the opinion that the complaint of attempted aggravated sexual assault cannot be considered to have been substantiated.
But Pell was lying; on the same day he wrote and signed another letter:
But what the Archbishop wrote was not true. On the same day George Pell signed a letter to another man who had claimed that when he was just 10 or 11 years old he’d been attacked by Father Goodall. In a letter to that victim, which was put into evidence in the District Court in 2006, George Pell accepted his complaint.
LETTER FROM GEORGE PELL TO ABUSE VICTIM: After examining all of the material, Mr Murray provided me with a report in which he recommended that the complaints of inappropriate behaviour with altar boys and of indecent assault of you when a young be found to be substantiated.”
And now, according to the West Australian, Pell is compounding the lie:
But Cardinal Pell, in response to the Lateline program, denied he had misled Mr Jones.
“The letter to Mr Jones was badly worded and a mistake – an attempt to inform him there was no other allegation of rape,” Cardinal Pell said in a statement.
“However, I signed both letters of February 2003 mentioned in the ABC’s Lateline program, and any fault in the drafting was mine.
“In a subsequent letter soon after the February 2003 letter, I expressed my sorrow at what Mr Jones had suffered and offered to meet him.
“There was no attempt to mislead him. I apologise for the confusion caused to Mr Jones.”
Just the thing to set the tone for World Youth Day. Pope Benedict has apologized for priest who abuse; when will he apologize for and remove bishops who lie?
Music at St. Peter’s
April 20, 2008 in Music, Vatican 1 Comment
We were in Rome last week, and decided to attend the 10:30 sung mass at St. Peter’s. I had hopes because Benedict is a musician.
Several years I met an American musician who lived in Switzerland. He had negotiated with he Calvinist Cathedral in Geneva to host a Catholic choir, the first Catholic choir to sing there sinceteh Reformation. He wanted the Sistine Choir, but a friend warned him that he should go to Rome to hear them first. They were disappointingly mediocre. John Paul II had no ear for music.
A schola sang at the high mass. They may have been good, but I couldn’t tell, as they used an amplification system so tinny that it sounded like an old car radio.
The elderly cardinal who said mass knew the music, but his voice was cracking with age.
Alas, is there no place in the Catholic world that has consistently good music – not spectacular, but sung on key, with everyone stopping and starting at the same time. I have not come across one yet.
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Book Sketch: Wintersong by S. Jae-Jones
By: S. Jae-Jones
Published By: Thomas Dunne Books
Series: Wintersong
Reading Level: Young Adult
Source: Bought
Goodreads Summary: All her life, nineteen-year-old Liesl has heard tales of the beautiful, mysterious Goblin King. He is the Lord of Mischief, the Ruler Underground, and the muse around which her music is composed. Yet, as Liesl helps shoulder the burden of running her family’s inn, her dreams of composition and childish fancies about the Goblin King must be set aside in favor of more practical concerns.
But when her sister Käthe is taken by the goblins, Liesl journeys to their realm to rescue her sister and return her to the world above. The Goblin King agrees to let Käthe go—for a price. The life of a maiden must be given to the land, in accordance with the old laws. A life for a life, he says. Without sacrifice, nothing good can grow. Without death, there can be no rebirth. In exchange for her sister’s freedom, Liesl offers her hand in marriage to the Goblin King. He accepts.
Down in the Underground, Liesl discovers that the Goblin King still inspires her—musically, physically, emotionally. Yet even as her talent blossoms, Liesl’s life is slowly fading away, the price she paid for becoming the Goblin King’s bride. As the two of them grow closer, they must learn just what it is they are each willing to sacrifice: her life, her music, or the end of the world.
First Thought After Finishing: Honestly, I still don’t know how I feel!
From the first time I heard about it, Wintersong seemed like the perfect book. With its historical German setting, the Erlkonig lore, and all of the references to music, I knew that this book would make an impression, and it’s definitely been on my mind since I read the last page.
Liesl has grown up hearing her grandmother’s stories of the Goblin King. As a child, she fancied him her friend, but then she was forced to grow up and help her family stay together. A musician and dreamer at heart, Liesl has had to sacrifice much of her identity in the face of her sister Kathe’s beauty and her brother Josef’s musical talent. But when legends of the Goblin King resurface as more reality than dream, Liesl finds herself trying to navigate Der Erlkonig’s underground world to save her sister...but she may just lose her heart in the process.
"'Life,' he said softly, 'is more than flesh. Your body is a candle, your soul the flame. The longer I burn the candle...'
He did not finish.
'A candle unused is nothing but wax and wick,' I said. 'I would rather light the flame, knowing it will go out, than sit forever in darkness.'"
From the beginning of the story, I felt an immediate kinship with Liesl. She was a musician at heart who had to shoulder responsibilities other though music, though she never forgot the pull of the song. Liesl’s identity is wrapped up in her family, and throughout this book, she is rediscovering who she is as an individual. Enter the Goblin King, who fuels Liesl’s musical dreams. S. Jae-Jones’s reimagining of Der Erlkonig’s character honored the original story while creating something beautifully unique. From the descriptions of the Underground to its inhabitant creatures, the world was thoroughly infused with magic. Beyond this, I loved reading the shy, at times unsettling, but always tender romance that blossomed between the two. Liesl may have agreed to become the Goblin Queen, but their relationship still had a slow burn that made the story that much more intense. Like Liesl, I wanted to discover all of Der Erlkonig’s secrets and to see what happened when they both became the best version of themselves.
I’ve been thinking for some time about how to adequately describe the one sticking point I had with this book. Several times LIesl credited her intimacy with the Goblin King with helping her to become authentic and free, and that struck a dissonant chord. I wish she would have chosen that path because she wanted to share herself rather than find herself.
Regardless of the reason, the emotional journey of Liesl and Der Erlkonig was nothing short of magical. I cannot wait to read the second installment of this story and discover the future for them both.
Most Memorable Aspect: The musical references and lush writing style.
Labels: 4.5 Bows, Book Review, Fantasy, Macmillan, S. Jae-Jones, Wintersong, Young Adult
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46% Believe Government’s Done Too Little For Young Black Americans
16% Think Young Blacks Better Off Under Obama
Just 22% Think Race Relations Are Getting Better
62% Say MLK's Dream Still Not Reality
60% Say Race Relations Have Gotten Worse Since Obama’s Election
39% Say Americans Talk About Race Too Much, 33% Not Enough
Most Still Think U.S. Economy Fair to Women, Minorities But Not to All
Voters Sour on Black Lives Matter But Question Fairness of Justice System
Now that Donald Trump, accused by many of his detractors of being racist, has replaced America’s first black president, more voters think the government’s not doing enough to improve conditions for America’s black youth, though they think they’re ultimately responsible for improving their own situation.
A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone and online survey finds that 46% of Likely U.S. Voters now say the government has done too little to improve conditions for young black Americans, while just 11% think they’ve done too much. Thirty-one percent (31%) of voters think the level of government action has been about right, while another 12% are not sure. (To see survey question wording, click here.)
The survey of 1,000 Likely Voters was conducted on January 16-17, 2018 by Rasmussen Reports. The margin of sampling error is +/- 3 percentage points with a 95% level of confidence. Field work for all Rasmussen Reports surveys is conducted by Pulse Opinion Research, LLC. See methodology.
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Sober Dating 101
By Kelly Burch
You’ve put in the hard work, going to meetings, resisting temptation and redefining your life as positive and productive. But now, you want someone to share all that progress with. But where to begin?
Going to the bar to meet someone is out of the question, and even the mainstream dating sites are likely to garner suggestions to meet for drinks after work.
Luckily, there are plenty of online dating sites specifically targeted toward singles who want to date sober, and share their recovery journey with someone who understand that’s road.
Here’s Renew’s guide to sober dating:
Looking for love in all the right places
“If you’re on a traditional dating site, ‘Hey how about we meet for drinks?’ is first thing you’ll hear,” said Paul Kole, cofounder of lovesoberdating.com. “But if you’re on a sober site it’s more of a fellowship. You don’t have to explain yourself.”
Forest Williams, owner of recoverydate.com, agreed.
“Dating is hard enough, but dating in recovery is even harder,” he said. “You need to find someone who understands trials and tribulations of someone in recovery.
Both Kole and Williams were inspired to start sober dating websites from their own recovery experiences. Kole saw friends in recovery entering relationships with people who still used drugs and alcohol, and both their relationships and their recovery suffered.
“There was a lot more drama than was necessary,” Kole said. “I thought if there was a site specifically for the recovery community, people could focus more on recovery.”
Williams knew that he wanted to date someone in recovery, but he didn’t want to date within his meeting and wasn’t sure where else to turn.
“I really wanted to find someone who is likeminded, for whom recovery is very important. But I don’t like to date within the meetings because if it doesn’t work out it makes it odd and it can be uncomfortable,” he said. “Which is why we created recovery date, to really help find people who are likeminded.”
Love Sober Dating and Recovery Date both match individuals who are in recovery with romantic partners. Being niche sober dating sites, there is an instant connection among members that is lacking on larger dating sites.
“Personally, I prefer to date other people in recovery because they can relate to my story. They understand that I’m living with disease that is in remission,” Kole said.
Although Kole is still waiting on finding his perfect match, he is enjoying the sober dating lifestyle, and the camaraderie that comes with being around others in recovery.
“When you’re dating you always have to have that conversation [about recovery] eventually, but online it’s almost immediate,” he said. “There’s an immediate understanding of where you are. It’s like cancer survivors: people who have been there understand what you’ve gone through.”
Date yourself first
You’re in recovery, you’re feeling great and you’re making fast progress toward becoming the person you want to be. It’s natural to want to share the new you with a partner, but don’t go looking for love too quickly, experts caution.
“A lot of times we tell people that they should wait for the first year to make major changes,” said Dr. Harris Stratyner, clinical regional vice president of Caron Treatment Centers in New York. “Relationships are fraught with positive and negative emotions and those can be used as triggers, so people need to be aware of that.”
In addition, recovery addicts need to relearn how to be in social situations without relying on drugs or alcohol.
“It’s important to learn coping strategies,” Stratyner said.
Addicts should also be aware that while dating someone else in recovery can be a great support system, it can also lead to being triggered to relapse by your partners behavior.
“Love sometimes takes over, and it is difficult to recommend it one way or another,” whether former addicts should date others in recovery, Stratyner said.
After the first year, people in recovery know they are ready to date when they are comfortable being completely open and honest about their recovery journey, he added.
Paul Kole has an even simpler piece of advice:
“Take yourself out on dates first. You need to learn to love yourself first before you have anything to offer anyone else,” he said. “Date yourself first, and if you have good time then you know you have something to offer to someone else.”
Five tried-and-true sober date ideas.
“There are so many things to do that are fun in recovery and don’t revolve around alcohol,” said Forest Williams. Here are our favorite five ideas for sober dates:
1. Have coffee and conversation: Because “coffee and recovery go hand in hand,” according to Paul Kole.
2. Go shopping. Find an antique store or flea market, and devote the dollars that you’re not spending on drinks to finding something both of you can cherish.
3. Explore the fair. As a kid you probably looked forward to the fair and carnivals that would come into town during the summer and fall. Channel your inner child as you eat cotton candy and ride the rides.
4. Attend a meeting. What better way to build your relationship than to share in taking care of yourself and each other at a meeting.
5. Take a lesson. Whether you’re practicing a dance or trying to cook up a dessert there will be plenty of laughter when you try your hands at something new.
Sober Dating Websites
Single and Sober
www.singleandsober.com
Single and Sober has an established recovery community with new sober singles signing up daily. They believe dating in recovery is possible and sober dating is their specialty. Creating a profile on the dating site is easy and browsing others in your area is 100% free.
Recovery Date
Recoverydate.com
This site lets your get specific, allowing you to search for potential dates by state, age and even recovery program, from Overeaters Anonymous to Adult Children of Alcoholics. The site is free as well, and allows you to connect with over 11,000 sober singles across the country.
12 Step Match
12stepmatch.com
As it’s name implies, this site is for anyone working the 12 steps. You can search by the usual criteria (age, area, etc.) and can then narrow your results to a specific 12 step program, from AA or NA to Al-Anon. The site also has recovery chat forums, sober dating advice, and information on 12 step events.
“Other” Dating Websites
The recovery community isn’t the only one to embrace niche online dating. Here are some match websites that may make you raise an eyebrow.
Farmersonly.com. As their commercials boast, “For farmers, ranchers and good ‘ole country folk.”
Meet-an-inmate.com. For those who prefer to keep their partners at a distance. Search inmates by sex, age and whether they are in federal or state prison, and then get ready to write some letters.
Saladmatch.com There will be no arguments over dinner if you meet your “salad soul mate” through this site. Although, we suspect this one may be more about meeting marketing success for restaurant chain Just Salad.
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Westpac says RBNZ capital proposals would add $6,000 p.a. to an Auckland mortgage
Westpac says the Reserve Bank’s bank capital proposals will mean homeowners with an average mortgage in Auckland will be paying about $6,000 a year more in interest.
The Australian-owned bank says the central bank has greatly underestimated the cost of its proposal to near double minimum tier 1 capital from 8.5 percent currently to 16 percent for the big four banks and 15 percent for the smaller banks.
The RBNZ has said its proposals would add between 20 and 40 basis points to the cost of a home loan and that amount would be lost in “noise” around interest rate changes but Westpac says the cost will be more than 100 basis points in its submission on the proposals.
Westpac says RBNZ hasn’t provided “quantitative justification” for the proposals which “go well beyond international norms.”
It criticises the central bank’s failure to produce a cost-benefit analysis, a criticism already levied by many commentators who, like Westpac, have said that should have been the RBNZ's starting point.
Westpac says the absence of that analysis means “it is unclear that the economic costs of implementing the proposals are justified.” It estimates one of the costs will be to shave 1.3 percentage points off New Zealand’s annual GDP.
GDP in the year ended March was 2.8 percent so, if Westpac is right, the bank capital proposals would reduce that to 1.5 percent.
Westpac’s submission is littered with savage criticism of the analysis RBNZ has done. For example, the consultation paper released in December “does not adequately consider” the adequacy of existing bank capital levels.
“The RBNZ has not considered whether there is in fact a problem with current capitalisation and, consequently, has not defined the problem that the proposals seek to solve.”
RBNZ has said New Zealand banks on average carry about 12 percent tier 1 capital, significantly above the current 8.5 percent minimum.
Westpac says the proposals “are not justified by any supporting data or evidence,” RBNZ’s analysis is “materially incomplete and flawed”, and that the central bank has selectively used academic research to back its proposals while ignoring research that doesn’t support them.
It submission points out that as late as November last year, six weeks before the consultation paper was released, RBNZ was proposing to cap the probability of a banking crisis to a one in 100 year event. In the consultation paper, that cap was doubled to one in 200 years.
The consultation paper, and subsequent supporting documents, use assumptions “which do not provide a complete picture of crisis scenarios nor a realistic view of how the proposals may impact borrowers and savers in ordinary times.”
Detailed analysis of the impact, including on interest rates and credit rationing, “has not been undertaken” and RBNZ has needed “considerable manipulation to unreasonable levels” to get the outcomes it wanted.
“The proposals have essentially assumed that New Zealanders would be willing to pay for protection against a banking crisis occurring within a period equivalent to that from the time between the failure of the Medici Bank in 1494 through the South Sea Bubble in 1720 to today.”
Westpac complains about the lack of regulatory checks and balances in the Reserve Bank’s mandate to be prudential regulator compared to the checks and balances on other regulators.
Westpac is also railing against the RBNZ’s proposal to limit the advantage the big four banks get from using their own internal models to calculate risk-weighted capital. All the other banks, including the four New Zealand-owned banks, Kiwibank, TSB Bank, SBS Bank and the Co-operative Bank, have to use standardised models.
In February, RBNZ illustrated that advantage by showing that ANZ needs to hold slightly more than half as much capital as Kiwibank does for each $100 of mortgage lending.
The central bank is proposing to reduce that advantage to no more than 90 percent of the capital required by the standardised models all four of the smaller banks are required to use.
Westpac describes that as “creating some simplistic public support for this aspect of the proposals.”
The logic behind internal models is that each individual bank is supposed to apply its own actual experience of how different types of loans perform and how likely borrowers are to default.
Reducing the benefit so much discourages bank investment in risk analysis and risk modelling and “has the effect of dulling portfolio signals in the event of an economic downturn.”
Westpac says average risk weights for mortgages in New Zealand are about 28 percent compared with 24 percent in Australia and would rise to about 34 percent under the RBNZ proposals.
RBNZ talks about “levelling the playing field” for the locally-owned banks but “levelling the playing field between banks is not currently within the statutory mandate of the RBNZ,” Westpac says.
It suggests that all RBNZ needs to do to level the playing field is to adopt the latest Basel lll rules rather than to continue using the Basel ll rules, standard-setting agreements between banks internationally.
For example, RBNZ’s current rules and the Basel ll rules impose a 35 percent weighting for mortgages with loan-to-valuation ratios up to 80 percent. The superceding Basel lll rules would mean a 20 percent weighting on mortgages with 0-to-50 percent LVRs, a 25 percent weighting on mortgages with 50-to-60 percent LVRs and a 30 percent weighting on mortgages with 60-to-80 percent LVRs.
Like a number of other submitters, including the four NZ-owned banks, Westpac is also criticising RBNZ’s proposal to disallow using hybrid securities – those which normally behave like debt but which could be converted to equity in a crisis – to be part of tier 1 capital.
Hybrids are significantly cheaper than equity and “we strongly suggest that this decision should be revisited.”
Reserve Bank governor Adrian Orr was Westpac's chief economist between 2000 and 2003 and National Bank's chief economist before that. National Bank was later taken over by ANZ Bank.
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Cardiff City rule out move for Ryan Giggs
Posted by Steven Tan | Source from WalesOnline.co.uk
Cardiff City have ruled out mounting speculation linking them with an audacious swoop for Wales and Manchester United legend Ryan Giggs.
And Malky Mackay’s old scoring star Danny Graham, another Premier League player being touted for the Bluebirds,says he won’t be coming to the Welsh capital either.
The Giggs for City rumours have gathered in such pace in recent days that one bookmaker is even understood to be turning away bets on the wing wizard joining Craig Bellamy at his home-town club.
The speculation intensified as a result of Giggs becoming a bit-part figure under Sir Alex Ferguson in recent weeks, with £17million man Shinji Kagawa’s return to fitness over Xmas likely to push the Welsh ace even further down the Old Trafford pecking order.
Giggs, who has always stated he would one day like to play for Cardiff, appears to be coming towards the end of his United career.
Bluebirds boss Mackay is aware of the talk about a January swoop for Giggs, but has privately laughed off the suggestion.
The City boss also reckons any swoop for Graham, who Mackay knows well from their time together at Watford, would prove unsuccessful.
Graham shone under Mackay’s tutelage at Watford, where he became Championship top scorer and clinched a £3.5million move to Swansea.
Like Giggs, Graham is getting little Premier League football at the moment, but Mackay knows he would be wanted by other top flight clubs.
The Echo has learned Mackay does intend to pursue a striker in the January transfer window.
But more realistic targets than Graham appear to be Fraizer Campbell at Sunderland and Bolton’s Marvin Sordell.
There could yet be a cheeky bid to bring Aston Villa’s out-of-favour England forward Darren Bent here on loan.
Graham himself insists he won’t be joining Mackay at Cardiff.
Graham said: “I don’t know where these rumours come from.
“It’s every other day. It was Wolves this week apparently, there was Cardiff, Norwich, Sunderland, Reading, Aston Villa. I have had just about everyone.
“But the gaffer has not said he doesn’t want me at Swansea so I don’t see a reason to be looking elsewhere.”
“The only time I will go is if the gaffer says we have accepted a bid.
“Then there is nothing I can do about that because he obviously doesn’t want me.
“But until that time comes I sense as though I am part of his plans and there is no reason to be looking elsewhere.”
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Women's fencing head to Brock for OUA Championship
By Ontario University Athletics (OUA)
ST. CATHARINES, Ont. – The Toronto Varsity Blues snapped a seven-year skid to claim the OUA Women’s Fencing title a year ago, but with several talented squads nipping at their heels to find similar success in St. Catharines, this year’s championship could be claimed by any number of talent-laden teams. And whether Toronto doubles down for their second straight banner or another program climbs the podium, Brock University will be the place to be to see the best fencers in the province dueling it out this weekend.
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The Varsity Blues women’s fencing team is looking to defend their OUA championship in St. Catharines, but will do so without two of their top past competitors. Despite the loss of Donna Vakalis and Christie Lee, however, the team as a whole have stepped up this season.
In the foil event, 2017-18 OUA all-star, Siobhan Drysdale (London, Ont.) looks to build on her silver-medal performance at last year’s championship. This season, she placed second at the Western Open and just off the podium at the Brock Open; results that Drysdale and company hope spark a second straight foil team championship for the Blues.
Turning to the epee, Toronto is going to rely on sophomores Leanne Lui and Emily Principe (Sydney, Australia). Lui just missed the podium in last year’s provincial finale, while Principe, the second-year student-athlete, finished seventh. Similar to the foil, however, the Varsity Blues claimed team gold a year ago and will look to do so again after claiming the silver medal at the RMC in November. Another standout from that event, meanwhile, will aim to spark U of T’s sabre crew, as Rebecca Jeffrey (Muskoka, Ont.) will hope to translate her RMC Cup gold and Brock Open bronze into provincial success this weekend.
A second-place finish from a year ago has the Mustangs going for gold this year, but if they want to improve on last year’s result and claim the top prize, they’ll need to rely once again on Victoria Edwards (Point Edward, Ont.). The fifth-year sabre fencer made her mark in more ways than one a year ago, entering this year’s festivities as the reigning individual sabre winner, as well as the recipient of the Most Proficient Female Fencer award. Needless to say, her presence at the event makes the Mustangs an immediate contender. Western grabbed team gold in sabre and an epee team silver, but they’ll look to do that little bit more this time around to return to their golden form from 2016-17.
It may be more than 10 years since the RMC Paladins have seen the top of the women’s fencing podium, but they remain a top contender for the provincial prize, entering this year’s edition on the heels of a third-place finish in 2017-18. For the squad to not only remain on the podium, but climb even further, the likes of Haley Saulnier (Ottawa, Ont.) and Roxanne Cormier (Val Doucet, NB) must be among their key contributors, representing two of the more experienced fencers among the new faces in the fold.
The former won individual bronze a year ago as a second-year fencer, and this year, the sabre standout captains the team. She is looking to replicate her previous success on the piste; something she has done by example thus far to get the best out of her teammates. One such teammate is Cormier, and the soon-to-be graduate has a final chance to claim an OUA medal at this weekend’s finale. Only time will tell if that is the motivation she needs to defeat her fellow foilists, but certainly Cormier and the rest of the Paladins team will hope they turn that drive into victory against the OUA’s best.
McMaster is hoping that a pair of key contributors can help the team build on a middle-of-the-pack finish from a year ago, and certainly, they have the resumes to do so. Kyla Selmeczi (Peterborough, Ont.), the team’s reigning MVP, is the leader of the Marauders foil squad, and after a fifth-place finish last year, Selmeczi and company have multiple members that can contend for the podium this time around. Fiona Chen (Hamilton, Ont.) is another strong presence for the maroon machine, as the veteran serves as the leader for the sabre squad. Under the leadership of these two standouts, the Hamilton group will certainly have their hopes set on a podium finish in an event or two.
Carleton finished sixth a year ago, but backed by a pair of Masters students, they’ll have a podium finish on their minds when they make their way to St. Catharines. Sharon Schuppe (Burlington, Vermont) and Marion Agier (Montreal, Que.) are two to watch for the Ravens, as the black birds look to soar to heights they haven’t reached since their 2014 banner victory.
While plenty of this weekend’s competitors have taken home hardware over the years, the Ryerson Rams are looking to join the pack with a podium finish of their own this season. They have never cracked the top-three on the provincial stage; however, over the past couple of years, Ryerson has revamped their program with their sights set on improvement. This year, the Rams are fielding one of their strongest women’s teams to date, with one of their best and brightest taking centre stage. Natasha Kis-Toth will make her championship debut this weekend, but as the Brock Open winner and a former Canadian national team member, the first-year fencer certainly has the pedigree to make a banner season splash.
Trent is another squad without a women’s fencing banner to their name, but they too boast the talent to improve on last year’s result and build toward a strong showing in 2018-19. One of the keys to the Excalibur’s success is fourth-year fencer Ashley Hodgson (Guelph, Ont.). Hodgson has naturally taken to fencing and has posted impressive results for only her third year with the sport. She has been gaining momentum all season long and is hoping to carry it into this weekend’s finale. Fellow fourth-year Josephine Schryer(Mono, Ont.) is also looking to build on a strong season and will do so as the pillar of Trent’s sabre program. Schryer is hoping to bring that strength into her championship performance and set a new personal best in the process.
Also taking part in this weekend’s women’s fencing festivities are the Queen’s Gaels, who claimed bronze in team sabre, but fell just shy of the overall podium a year ago; the host Brock Badgers; the York Lions; the Ottawa Gee-Gees; and the Guelph Gryphons, all of whom will aim to improve on their most recent championship efforts to rise the ranks this time around.
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by Jamie Zerndt Read author interview March 15, 2006
The way Piper is walking with her arm folded over mine is uncharacteristically submissive. There are a couple of spots off to the side where we can sit and have a cup of coffee and maybe some dried peanut-butter-squid. Korea’s idea of popcorn. We like to go to the park at night, after teaching English, to take walks around the lake. The massive koi follow us around the rim like shadows.
“I’m so tired of these girls looking me up and down. You’d think I was walking around naked or something,” she says.
Two Korean high school girls are walking past us, giggling with their hands over their mouths.
“Ignore them, Piper,” I say.
“Sometimes it doesn’t bother me, but right now I want to scream in their perfect little faces and tell them how dull their black designer clothes are. They don’t look at you the same way, Dave.”
“Can we stop for a while and let these girls pass before I rip their long beautiful hair out?”
Piper says this in a voice loud enough so that the girls can hear, but it’s pointless since most of the Korean kids here only understand English when it’s on paper. She stops and bends over a wooden rail to watch a group of koi glide by. There are three orange ones and a large white one.
“Dave, how did this happen?”
“I don’t know,” I say.
We continue to walk until we fall in step behind a young professional-looking couple. The woman has her head on the man’s shoulder. Their laughter feels like bee stings.
“Look at them. They’d probably be excited about a baby. I wish this pregnancy was a stone I could slip into their pocket …or maybe a stone I could skip across this ugly fucking lake.” She says this in a new voice, one I haven’t heard before.
I’ve nothing to say.
“Well, it’s true. I was sabotaged before I even get on the plane.”
“I didn’t mean for—”
“I don’t mean you sabotaged me, Dave. I’m just tired, that’s all.”
We pass by the bungee jump where a crowd has gathered and is pointing up at a teenage girl about to jump. Every now and then, someone yells out something encouraging and the crowd balloons with laughter.
“What do you want to do, Piper? Honestly now.”
There is a long pause. The girl lets out a shriek as she almost loses her balance. The crowd is amused. They all seem to know the girl.
“I swore to myself I’d never do this again, Dave. Do you understand that? That’s why I have this stupid tattoo on my arm. I don’t know what it’ll do to me if I have another one.”
Peeking out at her elbow are the roots of a tree. I know the tattoo well. It grows to her shoulder. In the middle of the trunk, the face of the Virgin of Guadalupe peers from beneath a thin layer of bark. The protector of children.
Above us the girl jumps. She lets out a shriek when the cord goes taut and then another as the line recoils. As the line begins to lose its energy you can hear her laughing and crying at the same time. The crowd is losing interest and begins to break up.
Piper gives my arm a tug.
“I feel sick,” she says. “Can we go home now?”
Jamie Zerndt's poetry has appeared in The Oregonian Newspaper, Mid-America Poetry Review and Nerve Cowboy. He lives and teaches in Portland, Oregon. He is currently refraining from adding any third-person wit.
This story appeared in Issue Twelve of SmokeLong Quarterly.
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New York developer scaling back height of downtown St. Pete condo tower
Red Apple Group is now considering two buildings instead of one on the 400 block of Central Avenue.
Work vehicles are seen on the 400 block of Central Avenue in downtown St. Petersburg where geotechnical engineers are doing test borings for a planned condo and hotel project. [CHRIS URSO | Times]
By Susan Taylor Martin
ST. PETERSBURG — A condo and hotel tower planned for the 400 block of Central Avenue in downtown St. Petersburg won't be quite as towering as initially planned.
Because of height limits imposed by proximity to Albert Whitted Airport, a New York developer is now considering two shorter buildings rather than one tower of 50 or more stories.
"We weren't able to accomplish what we ideally wanted so we're looking at a revised scheme where we're going to separate the hotel from the condos,'' Ralph Zirinsky of Red Apple Real Estate said Monday.
Zirinsky said it is uncertain how many floors the condo tower will have but "it's still going to be a pretty tall building.''
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Red Apple hopes to submit plans to the city this year and start construction early next year, Zirinsky said. For the past several days, geotechnical engineers have been doing test borings on the two-acre site. "We want to fully understand the subsurface conditions so we adequately design the foundation for the buildings,'' Zirinsky said.
The hotel, which will be managed by Marriott under one of its boutique brands, will share parking space with the condo tower. The overall project will include office space entered off Central Avenue.
The tallest building now in St. Petersburg is the 41-story ONE St. Petersburg condo tower on First Avenue N and First Street.
Contact Susan Taylor Martin at smartin@tampabay.com or (727) 893-8642. Follow @susanskate.
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Long may speedway continue in Mercury Bay
Posted On Wednesday, 12 September 2018 16:59
By Stephan Bosman and Jordan Gower
This month, the Mercury Bay Speedway Club is celebrating 30 years since the original Mercury Bay Raceway Club was formed in September 1988. It’s a bittersweet milestone.
The lease (in essence, a gentlemen’s agreement) of the club’s club’s dirt track at the Whitianga Airport will be coming to an end in the first half of next year and a location for a new track hasn’t as yet been secured.
The Mercury Bay Raceway members raced for two years in nothing more than paddocks close to Matarangi and on the 309 Road before Owen Whiting, then president of the Mercury Bay Aero Club, asked them in 1990 to join forces with the aero club. “The Mercury Bay Aero Club had an abundance of land, but were very short on members,” says Rob Davis, current president of the Mercury Bay Speedway Club. “It was a win-win for both organisations. Mercury Bay Raceway would get their own dirt track and the aero club would gain a significant number of new members.
“Mercury Bay Raceway was always a family-focused organisation, which is what the Mercury Bay Speedway Club still is today, and once the deal with the aero club was done, all the raceway members - husbands, wives and children - got stuck into building a dirt track. Keith Finch, who used to own Whitianga Hardware, still remembers drilling the first post hole. Other club members who helped included Ray Parker, who measured out the track, and Phil Towgood, who pushed dirt.”
Only a few years later and the Mercury Bay Speedway Track’s reputation as the place to be over Easter was well-established. “The Mercury Bay Raceway members were always aware that there was no significant speedway racing in the North Island during many of the long weekends, including Easter, and stepped into the gap,” says Rob. “The result was nothing short of enormous Easter Weekend meetings. We’re talking 130 plus vehicles racing in every class imaginable and spectators standing shoulder-to shoulder on the banks next to the track. The evening get-togethers in the old Mercury Bay Aero Club clubhouse, now the Flight Club Ballroom, were legendary. Entry and gate fees and bar takings over an Easter Weekend easily contributed $26,000 or more to the aero club’s coffers.”
Lisa Abrahamson, a well-known Whitianga local and former Mercury Bay Raceway member, remembers the Easter Weekend meetings well. “They were just massive,” she says. “We had so much fun.”
Journalist Barry Brown wrote in the May 1999 issue of “New Zealand Dirt Track Racing” about the Easter Weekend speedway meeting in Whitianga a month earlier. It was his first time at the Mercury Bay Speedway Track and he and his family stayed for two days. “Huge pit area, tons of cars, tent city out the back where all the free camping was being had [we actually paid for a site in town after being warned that not much sleep is to be had at the track], good looking clay track surface, helpful staff everywhere - I was looking forward to the racing,” he wrote early on in the piece. After commenting on the results in the various classes and the fact that results were less important than fun, he concluded with the following, “[Whitianga] is an isolated little place, up the Coromandel Peninsula there - I didn’t think it was that isolated, though - but I’ll be back, nothing surer, and I think I’ll have to make it a four-day trip next time.”
From about 2010, Mercury Bay Raceway started to suffer a decline in membership as people moved on to other things. "The decline in membership led to the Mercury Bay Aero Club deciding it was better for the raceway members to form their own speedway club. So, in 2015 we formed the Mercury Bay Speedway Club and entered into a gentlemen’s agreement with the aero club with regard to leasing our track," says Rob.
“Everything ended up working out very well as the Mercury Bay Speedway Club 's first president, Peter Candy, arranged for us to join the New Zealand Circle Track Racing Association [NZCTRA] - an association of smaller dirt tracks around New Zealand - and we started hosting regional and national titles race meetings.
“A few sponsors, most importantly Dive Zone Whitianga, came on board and it wasn’t long before speedway enthusiasts of all ages started joining the Mercury Bay Speedway Club. It’s highly encouraging that many families have joined over past few years. Speedway in Mercury Bay has always been a family affair and we would like to keep it that way.
“We have a very good track and NZCTRA titles meetings have been held at our track every year from 2016 and two more meetings are scheduled to be raced in January and March next year.”
Throughout the years, many of the Mercury Bay Raceway and Mercury Bay Speedway Club members went on to compete in other venues around New Zealand, among them Phil Towgood, Bryan Skelton, Bodie Abrahamson, Regan Marceau, Tammy Greig, Darren Hartley, Craig Richards, Jordan Richards, Brandon Cooper-Barnett, Aaron McClennan and Jarrod Scarrot.
Knowing that the "gentleman's" lease of their dirt track at the Whitianga Airport had an expiry date, the Mercury Bay Speedway Club entered more than a year ago into negotiations with Thames-Coromandel District Council about building a new track on TCDC land in close proximity to the Whitianga Airport, but no decision has been made as yet. “Things are uncertain for us at the moment, but we hope for a speedy and good outcome in our negotiations with TCDC,” says Rob. “In a perfect world, we hope a deal can be done that will allow not only for a new speedway track, but also a go-kart track, a burnout pad, a track for the racing of remote controlled model vehicles and maybe even an off-road motorcycle track.
“We would like to think that speedway has a rich history in Mercury Bay and that we are part of what makes our area special. Long may that continue.”
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It seems there's always a mole running around CTU. Usually, it's some new face that turns on the CTU gang from within. With that modus operandi established by the writers, wouldn't it be refreshing if there was a true betrayal by a friend, a loyalist, that decides for whatever reason(s) that the terrorists need to win this round? With that in mind, I am voting for a significant shake-up for this season- I nominate Chloe O'Brian as this year's mole.
Okay, so this is some form of sacrilege that I'm suggesting here, I know. Chloe is a beloved character- she's Jack's loyal friend and go-to person in a crunch. But that's exactly why her betrayal would be magnificent. Jack has been kicked around, tortured, killed, burned, etc. You name it, and Jack has had to endure it. And let's add Chloe turning bad to that list because it would mess with Jack even more than some garden-variety turncoat (like Morris or Milo).
But you're saying to yourself "how could they explain Chloe being a mole?" Well, remember that this year's plot is linked to last year's group of bad guys. Also, remember that Jack believed the murders of David Palmer, Tony Almeida and Michelle Dessler were all meant to drag Jack out of hiding. Whomever set up the whole group of killings knew Jack was alive. Well, Chloe knew Jack was alive. Chloe was the one that called Jack, forcing him out of hiding. Graem and Phillip Bauer would certainly be interested in Jack's whereabouts. They'd also want to neutralize Jack in the face of what they were planning. And remember at the end of last season, when Chloe holds the photo of her and Edgar? There was some cryptic writing on the back of the picture that on freeze-frame makes you wonder what the heck is going on:
Written backwards are the words "JACK IS DEAD." What is that all about? Is it a clue or is it a dead-end? If the writers had any grapes whatsoever, they'd push for Chloe being the mole. This is more wishful thinking than serious prognostication on my part. If forced to place a bet, my money would be on Milo or someone like that because that's what the writers would probably end up doing. But if they wanted to shock us like they did in the good 'ol days... Chloe would be the best mole in "24" history, and that's saying a lot.
Posted by TheJackSack at 10:50 PM
Labels: Chloe O'Brian, CTU, Mole
tw111 said...
It's Holy Milo..... the mole, that is. Just look at that mug......
Tsk tsk. Don't talk nonsense like that, Jacksack! Chloe can't be the mole! She'll taser you, scowl, glare, make a snarky comment, but she'll never betray the man she's (not so) secretly in love with!
If you are looking for a new way to hurt Jack after all he's been through, I say do me a favor and get Audrey and her oppossum face killed!
Hey, even though that's some serious coolness you thought out, Nina will always be the nr1 mole ;-)
Was Chloe feeling "ambivalent" in ex-POTUS Weasel's presence because she has first-hand knowledge of the 411 of last season's plot?
Hmmmmm.
Hey, here at The Jack Sack we're all about stirring up a little controversy.
One thing I do predict: Nadia will be a suspect and her interrogation will be extremely hot.
yankz said...
I'm going with Milo the Mole too.
Unfortunately, Nadia my love's interrogation was not very hot. Mostly sweaty.
I don't know, man, Jack banged a girl who ended up being a mole. I don't know if you can top that.
Yeah, it was sweaty more than hot... but anything where Nadia is not scowling at Morris is a good scene as far as I'm concerned. I just want Buchanan to whisper to her something like "CTU apologizes for this interrogation, here's a giftcard to Bloomingdale's, go shop till you can't spend no more" JUST so we can see this girl smile!!!!!!!!!!
I don't want Chloe to be the mole, but I think it would be great in terms of drama if she were. The audience would then feel some sense of the turmoil Jack felt when Nina betrayed him.
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What Is Legal Weed's Next Move?
Speculation on the immediate future of legal cannabis in America.
Ben Parker Karris
Senior Editor / Los Angeles
Marijuana reform in America has historically been a torpid process. Meaningful legislative action moves at a state-by-state pace, with the federal government happy to impede any sort of national momentum. And ever since the inauguration of President Donald Trump and the appointment of Attorney General Jeff Sessions, the only element clearly visible on the horizon––in regard to legal weed at least––is ambiguous uncertainty.
The Department of Justice's potential dismantling of the cannabis industry, along with state medical marijuana programs, comes at a time when a majority of the country actually favors relaxed weed laws. According to the most recent polling, 60 percent of Americans support legal weed for recreational purposes, 94 percent of the country approve of the legal use of medical marijuana, and 76 percent believe that pot should be reclassified from its current DEA Schedule I designation––a tier that also includes heroin and meth.
Similarly, this week Congress will decide whether or not to pass a massive spending bill, which includes the Rohrabacher-Blumenauer amendment––a provision that prevents the federal government from going after medical marijuana businesses, growers, producers, and patients in compliance with state medical weed laws. Should Congress fail to reach a decision (or remove the provision from the bill entirely), not only will the government “shut down,” but such an action would spell out capital-T trouble for the legal cannabis industry––not to mention those facing prosecution for marijuana cultivation and other weed crimes.
UPDATE: Congress passed the bill and kept the Rohrabacher-Blumenauer amendment. Read about it here:
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Slate's David Feige provides thoughtful context for the situation, explaining what the country and cannabis industry stand to lose should the provision be removed:
“Consider that legal marijuana is a $7 billion-a-year business and is projected to grow to $50 billion by 2026. Estimates are that a mature marijuana industry could generate up to $28 billion in tax revenues for federal, state, and local governments. . . And while it’s likely that the Rohrabacher-Blumenauer amendment will find its way into this current spending bill, it’s high time that Congress send a strong, clear, and bipartisan message to the Trump administration about the foolish prosecutorial priorities of the Sessions Justice Department.
Indeed, nixing the Rohrabacher-Blumenauer amendment would be an exercise in witlessness. At this point in American history, marijuana is about much more than getting high. Legal and regulated markets can potentially generate billions of dollars in tax revenue for state and local governments.
"It's a freedom issue," Rep Dana Rohrabacher (R-CA) said to VICE. Rohrabacher––who has been open about being a cannabis consumer in his youth––sponsored the amendment and earlier this year formed a bipartisan congressional caucus focused on protecting state marijuana laws. The Congressional Cannabis Caucus also includes Earl Blumenaur (D-OR), Jared Polis (D-CO), and Don Young (R-AK).
"If someone wants to live their own life, and they're not hurting somebody else, the federal government should butt out. It's as simple as that,” Rohrabacher told VICE.
Recently, caucus member Polis proposed the Regulate Marijuana Like Alcohol Act as part of a package of pot-related bills coming from the caucus, which are designed to end prohibition on the drug. Under Polis’ proposed act, the cannabis plant would see a Controlled Substances Act rescheduling and be regulated by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives. And adults over the age of 21 would be allowed to blaze down freely.
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“Colorado has proven that allowing responsible adults to legally purchase marijuana gives money to classrooms, not cartels; creates jobs, not addicts; and boosts our economy, not our prison population,” Polis said in a statement. “This budding industry can’t afford to be stifled by the Trump administration and its mixed messages about marijuana. The cannabis industry, states, and citizens deserve leadership when it comes to marijuana.”
Currently, cannabis is legal in some form in more than half the country, Puerto Rico, and the District of Columbia. Earlier this year, Governor Eddie Calvo proposed a bill to legalize marijuana in Guam. And it's not as if Polis is wrong in his assertion of legalized weed’s social value. The War on Drugs created a class of secondhand citizenship for weed smokers, marijuana farmers, and pot dealers alike.
But his words, and the efforts of a larger normalization movement, will be for nothing if they continue to fall on the deaf ears of Donald Trump and Jeff Sessions.
Massroots marijuana journalist Tom Angell speculates on the most pressing issue at hand in the larger legal weed narrative. He writes,
“. . . while legalization advocates are optimistic that they have the votes to pass the state medical marijuana protections again and extend them through most of 2018, it’s an open question as to whether they will even get the opportunity. . . Even if the government shuts down and Sessions and the DEA technically regain the ability to enforce federal prohibition laws against state-legal medical cannabis patients and businesses [sic], it doesn’t necessarily mean they will do so.”
Essentially, though, speculating on legal weed's future is like predicting the outcome of the Super Bowl before football season even begins. Sure, existing game analytics, team statistics, and player insight can no doubt inform an educated guess in the same way Trump's previous statements, voting records, and Cabinet appointments give us some clue what we're up against. Still, there's always a chance for rain.
Should Congress remove the Rohrabacher-Blumenaur amendment as part of Friday’s decision on the spending bill, the skies could indeed open up for federal acid rain to pour down on the legal pot industry.
But that could just as likely not happen. Either way, we'll keep our eyes peeled.
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Wi-Fi facility launched at 28 stations on Konkan railway
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MUMBAI : In line with the government's Digital India initiative, the Railway Ministry on Sunday launched free Wi-Fi facility at 28 stations on Konkan railway in Maharashtra. Unlimited free Wi-Fi facility will be provided at 28 stations from Kolad to Madure in the initial phase, according to an official statement issued on Sunday.
The ministry said this facility will help travelling public, commuters and tourists on Indian Railways to access essential information and they could use their time productively while waiting for trains at railway stations.
This initiative is a step towards making a smarter India, it added.
It has informed that the Joispot mobile application provides 2 megabits per second (mbps) speed wireless internet with unlimited uploads.
Indian Railways has tied up with Internet service providers Syscon and Joister for provision of this facility.
The free Wi-Fi internet bandwidth is provided at the stations of Kolad, Mangaon, Veer, Karanjadi, Vinhere, Diwankhavati, Khed, Anjani, Chiplun, Kamthe, Sawarda, Aravali Road, Sangameshwar, Ukshi, Bhoke and Ratnagiri.
Other stations with availability of free internet under this initiative are Nivasar, Adavali, Vilavade, Rajapur Road, Vaibhavwadi Road, Nandgaon Road, Kankavali, Sindhudurg, Kudal, Zarap, Sawantwadi Road and Madure.
The system can provide access to about 300 users at bigger stations and about 100 users at smaller stations.
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LA sues Weather Channel app, alleging it sold users’ data
LOS ANGELES (AP) — The operator of The Weather Channel mobile app tracks the whereabouts of users and sells their data to third parties, Los Angeles prosecutors said as they sued to stop the practice.
The company misled users of the popular app to think their location data would only be used for personalized forecasts and alerts but instead covertly mined the information for corporate profit, City Attorney Michael Feuer said Friday.
The Weather Channel app intentionally obscured its motives in a lengthy privacy policy that got four-fifths of users to agree to share geolocation data, Feuer said.
A spokesman for IBM Corp., which owns the app, said it has always been clear about the use of location data collected from users and will vigorously defend its “fully appropriate” disclosures.
Feuer said operators of the app, TWC Product and Technology LLC, sold data to at least a dozen websites for targeted ads and to hedge funds that used the information to analyze consumer behavior.
The lawsuit seeks to stop the company from the practice it deems “unfair and fraudulent” and seeks penalties of up to $2,500 for each violation.
It comes as companies, most notably Facebook and Google, are increasingly under fire for how they use people’s personal data. Both companies faced congressional hearings last year on privacy issues, which are likely to remain on lawmakers and regulators’ minds both nationally and in California.
In June, California lawmakers approved what experts are calling the country’s most far-reaching law to give people more control over their personal data online. That law doesn’t take effect until next year.
IBM bought the app along with the digital assets of The Weather Company in 2015 for $2 billion but did not acquire The Weather Channel seen on TV, which is owned by another company.
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Airships to the Arctic
by David Robinson
In: Commentary, David Robinson
David Robinson
Laurentian University
A few years ago it took imagination to see the future sneaking up on Northern Ontario’s mining sector. Now it is getting hard to ignore.
When the first Airships to the Arctic conference was held in 2002, skepticism about both cargo airships and climate change ran high. Now, burning carbon is an existential threat, ice roads are a dying breed and food supply for remote northern communities is a national concern. The problems that airships can address have become more acute and public interest in the technology is suddenly growing.
Multiple venders are bringing airships to market. Lockheed-Martin’s LMH1, for example, completed FAA certification. Lockheed expects to deliver 24 or more this model beginning this year. One buyer, Straight Line, has already announced plans to operate LMH-1s in Canada’s Arctic.
The place to see what the future may hold for Northern Ontario is the Airships to the Arctic conference in Toronto March 14 to 15.
Airships to the Arctic is organized by University of Manitoba’s Dr. Barry Prentice, an economist and professor at the I.H. Asper School of Business. Prentice was director of the Transport Institute from 1996 to 2005. In 2005, he founded ISOPolar Airships, a not-for-profit organization to encourage the use of cargo airships in Northern Canada.
The speakers list includes a who’s who of the airship industry. The session on American airship developers includes Dr. Bob Boyd of Lockheed-Martin, the company that will have the first commercial model in the air. The session on European developers includes Sébastien Bougon, CEO of France’s Flying Whales company and Gennady E. Verba, president of Russia’s RosAeroSystems.
Speakers will address key challenges for mining and remote communities. Pierre Rivard, the CEO of TUGLIQ Energy, will deliver a keynote talk about the future of hydrogen in transport and mining. TUGLIQ is working to replace diesel generation across the north. Dirk Naumann, president of Torngat Metals, will talk about the advantages of using lighter-than-air craft for mining. Dale George, CTO of Winnipeg’s Buoyant Aircraft International Systems, will focus on using cargo airships in northern regions, and Doug Morrison, president and CEO of the Centre for Excellence in Mining Innovation in Sudbury, will talk about moving oversized freight for the mining and energy industries.
How will the coming of airships affect the mining supply sector? The answer may depend on how many mines will be developed in Northern Ontario over the next 50 years.
The Ring of Fire has a big enough chromite discovery to justify the building of a road or rail line, but like Timmins, Sudbury and Val d’Or camps, which have innumerable abandoned mines, the Ring of Fire may have hundreds of ancillary deposits that won’t justify the expense of a road.
Small operations can be installed and serviced by airships without the capital expense of a road. The next generation of craft will accommodate payloads upward of 50 tonnes – large enough to bring in all the equipment necessary to develop a mine. Smaller craft are suitable for cycling a workforce, supplying consumables and shipping out concentrate. The same system could remove almost all traces of a mine once production ends. We may be entering an age of surgical mining.
If so, there will be growing demand for mining equipment that can be flown in and moved back out quickly and easily. Mine projects may call for housing and energy systems designed to be airlifted to the next mine once an orebody is depleted. Small, automated mines may become the way to cut costs and environmental impacts.
So who will supply the new fly-in mines? Companies in the Sudbury area mining supply ecosystem have the talent.
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The Windows 10 Migration Report
Let’s put things in perspective first: Migration from iOS 8 to iOS 9 is off the charts. As this article was written, Mixpanel Trends had it at over 55% and growing just 15 days after it was released. It helps that Apple has made it as easy as possible to upgrade by supporting the same hardware as iOS 8. In addition, the iOS 9 installation requires far less free storage than its predecessor, so the bottlenecks afflicting the previous version have mostly been eliminated.
On Wednesday, Apple released OS X El Capitan, free and supporting the same Macs as the two previous versions. While it’s too early to know how popular it’ll be, the early buzz is promising. It’s not about the wealth of compelling new features, but adding spit and polish that will make for a satisfactory upgrade for most of you.
But that takes us to the other side of the OS universe, Microsoft. On July 29th, Microsoft released Windows 10 as a free upgrade for people using Windows 7 or Windows 8.1. Indeed, to the chagrin of some, Microsoft even pushed installer files in the background to many PCs, so users could begin a fairly quick installation as soon as they were ready. Of course you wonder about the morality of a stunt of that sort. While it may be true that these people already reserved their free upgrade, grabbing ahold of several gigabytes of free space on someone’s PC without their permission doesn’t sound terribly nice, and how does it show respect for their privacy?
I’m also concerned that there aren’t more complaints about this stunt. One article I read about the migration rate merely mentioned the fact of unwanted downloads in passing. Have we really fallen that far when it comes to privacy concerns?
But considering how simple it is to get a copy, just how well is Windows 10 doing? Well, it certainly started out well. In August, after a month’s availability, NetMarketShare reported that the migration rate went from 0.39 percent — consisting of beta testers — to 5.21 percent. That was sufficient to exceed the current share of Windows 8. Microsoft boasted of 75 million downloads. Everything was coming up roses.
Except that the shine appears to be fading. The web metrics for September indicate that Windows 10’s share only climbed another 1.42 percent. Not so good. While such stats aren’t necessarily perfect, there are some curious developments. So the share of Windows 8 increased from 2.56 percent to 2.60 percent, but Windows 8.1 fell by 0.67 percentage points. This may have, in part, been the result of statistical noise.
Regardless, the slowing migration rate doesn’t seem to bode well for Windows 10 now that the early adopters have upgraded. However, it is still expected that Windows 10 will slide past Windows 8.x by January, but perhaps just barely.
Windows 7’s share dropped 1.14 percentage points to 56.53%. Curiously, Windows XP diehards aren’t going anywhere. The share increased a tad in September from 12.14 percent to 12.21 percent. Indeed, I still run into businesses that are stuck on Windows XP, and I’ve grown too exhausted to question them as to why. I expect that the numbers won’t change significantly for years, despite issues of compatibility and security. Or maybe Windows XP users are not the major targets for malware authors that they used to be.
What’s most troubling, however, is the fact that Microsoft, as usual, still cannot devise an ad campaign that conveys the real value of Windows 10. Evidently they have watched just too many Apple ads focusing on lifestyle and have browbeaten the ad agencies to conform. I cannot imagine how this is the best way to promote Windows 10. Hint: It’s not about watching kids draw annotations on a web page in the Edge browser on a convertible PC. That’s not Microsoft’s target audience.
Indeed, just showing a decent-looking operating system with a fully functioning Start menu may actually be enough to entice people who ignored Windows 8.x like the plague to upgrade. The fact that it’s free for many users surely helps. It also helps that its best features are the ones that take it closer in concept to Windows 7. Had Microsoft gone direct to what became Windows 10 — without the Windows 8 detour — things might have gone much better.
Yes, there’s a story to tell here about a solid operating system that has a decent mix of features and is solace for anyone who got stuck with Windows 8.x. But Microsoft doesn’t seem to understand how to get the message across, and there’s no foolishly warm and fuzzy solution.
Even assuming the worst of the early bugs have been eradicated in all the updates that followed the release of Windows 10, that doesn’t mean businesses will be flocking to install it. There are still matters of compatibility with existing apps and hardware, and whether businesses, most of whom stuck with Windows 7, will find it worth the bother to upgrade. It may take a couple of years for a meaningful migration and, considering all those Windows XP holdouts, maybe it won’t be significant.
I mean is there anything really wrong with Windows 7 that makes Windows 10 an essential upgrade for the enterprise? That’s a question Microsoft will have to answer, and the promise of Universal apps and identical operating systems for mobile and desktop doesn’t seem enough to sway large numbers of Windows users.
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7 Responses to “The Windows 10 Migration Report”
DaveD says:
Interesting that there are still users of Windows 8. Given that one has a year to get the free upgrade that some may take a wait-and-see approach. I have a high expectation that when the free period expired the upgrade cycle will drop precipitously. Who in their right mind would pay over a hundred bucks for the privilege of using a new version of Windows?
And how many users of Windows 10 are using the “Cortana” feature?
Kevin T says:
Personally, I am staying with Win 7 on my work PC. In part due to software compatibility, but more because for the most part, Win 10 seems like it took the worst parts of Win 8 and put those together with the worst parts of Win 7. The Start menu Apps list is a horrid mess. The tiles are irritating, live or not. You can get rid of the tiles, but then you simply have blank space. The Settings window is badly organized. The only thing I could say that I liked was the desktop background shot. Very cool in evoking a Poltergeistish look…
There’s another factor to consider: I’d venture the guess that the majority of Apple iOS users are individuals, who are not troubled to face the (very small) risks involved in a system upgrade and, at least with OSX, experience the occasional headaches involved in waiting for developers to put out versions compatible with the new OS). A large percentage of Windows machines are owned by government, the Enterprise and other large organizations where the decision to upgrade is made by the outfit’s IT gurus, and it’s easy to imagine that these guys operate with a very cautious philosophy towards risk-taking that makes them averse to innovation in the absence of some very compelling reason. If Windows 7 works well enough, why gamble with upgrades?
Bryan W. says:
TNO says “Microsoft even pushed installer files in the background to many PCs”
My wife’s 16GB iPad had the iOS8 update pushed to it. I believe it needed 4.6GB of free space to update. As you said above…”Of course you wonder about the morality of a stunt of that sort. While it may be true that these people already reserved their free upgrade, grabbing ahold of several gigabytes of free space on someone’s PC without their permission doesn’t sound terribly nice, and how does it show respect for their privacy?”
Gene Steinberg says:
@Bryan W., Not quite. You would normally accept an iOS update.
@Gene Steinberg, Yes I would normally want to update iOS, but the choice to update should be reserved for the iPad’s owner – not Apple. It should not be forced upon me, with the subsequent loss of over 1/4 of my storage space on my device, unless I do update. Apple should notify me, which is does through the App Store, that an upgrade is available. When I click “Agree” it should automatically back up my iPad, update my software and restore my Apps, Photos, settings and so on. As it stands now, when I tried to update from iOS7 to iOS8, Apple had already automatically downloaded the update to my iPad, using up my limited storage. When I clicked to install the update Apple gave no help by saying “please free up some disk space before installing”. I never went through the hassle. iOS 9 arrived and I was notified by Apple that an update was available. I clicked “Agree” and the installer prompted me to connect to my iPad to my iMac and open iTunes. I was then prompted to back up my iPad to my iMac and then it downloaded and started to update my software. It then asked me if I wanted to restore my iPad and I clicked yes. It then to started to continually reboot, telling me to “Slide to upgrade” after every reboot. I finally had to “restore original software” and then the update took. It booted up as new and found my back-ups, and asked me if I wanted to restore from my last back-up. I clicked yes and it went back to the “Slide to upgrade” cycle again. Again I went through the process of restoring the original software. I then set it up as a “new” user, and proceeded to load all my apps and photo’s and such back on to the iPad manually, through iTunes. Rant over 🙂
TNO said “…the promise of Universal apps and identical operating systems for mobile and desktop doesn’t seem enough to sway large numbers of Windows users.”
I agree! Who wants the Windows experience on their phone…bad enough at work. Maybe that’s why Apple sells so many iPhones.
@Bryan W., If you don’t want apps/updates to be downloaded automatically, just turn off the option (App and iTunes Stores > Apps). Period. You have a choice here. You aren’t being forced to take anything without permission.
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LG G Pad III 10.1 LTE Tablet with FHD Display, Adjustable Kickstand Launched
LG has launched the LG G Pad III 10.1 LTE tablet in South Korea. The LG G Pad III 10.1 LTE features a 10.1-inch (1920 x 1200 pixels) Full HD WUXGA Display. It is powered by a 1.5GHz octa-core processor coupled with 2GB of RAM. It comes with 32GB of internal storage which can be further expanded up to 2TB via a microSD card.
It sports a 5-megapixel Autofocus Rear camera and a 5-megapixel front-facing camera. The device measures 7.9mm thickness and weighs 510 grams. It is backed by a massive 6000mAh non-removable battery.
It runs on Android 6.0.1 Marshmallow operating system and also arrives with a kickstand, which allows the tablet to be used at 70-degree angle. Thanks to LG’s “time square” software that comes with this device, you can use this tablet as a desk clock, table top calendar, or digital photo frame. Connectivity options includes 4G LTE, Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n/ac, Bluetooth 4.2, USB Type-C & GPS.
LG G Pad III 10.1 LTE Specifications:
Display: 10.1-inch (1920 x 1200 pixels) Full HD WUXGA Display
Processor: 1.5GHz octa-core processor
RAM and Storage: 2GB RAM, 32GB internal storage (expandable up to 2TB)
Camera: 5MP Autofocus Rear camera and a 5MP Front camera
OS: Android 6.0.1 Marshmallow
Battery: 6000mAh non-removable battery
Connectivity: 4G LTE, Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n/ac, Bluetooth 4.2, USB Type-C, GPS
Dimensions: 256.2×167.9×7.9 mm and weighs 510 grams
The LG G Pad III 10.1 LTE tablet comes in Black colour and has been priced at 429,000 Won ($360 / Rs. 25,000 approximately) and is already on sale in South Korea. The company has also announced that they’ll expand the G Pad III series with a new 10.1-inch tablet with a stylus early next year.
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Audiobook Review – The Bones of Paris by Laurie R. King
by Michelle | Oct 3, 2014 | Audiobook, Books Read in 2014, K Author | 2 comments
Title: The Bones of Paris
Author: Laurie R. King
Narrator: Jefferson Mays
Audiobook Length: 13 hours, 11 minutes
Origins: Mine. All mine.
Bottom Line: Enjoyable but ultimately not the series for me
“New York Times bestselling author Laurie R. King garners widespread acclaim for her suspenseful novels rich with historical detail. Set in the vibrant Paris Jazz Age, The Bones of Paris introduces private investigator Harris Stuyvesant, an American agent who’ s been given the plum assignment of locating beautiful young model Philippa Crosby. But when Philippa’ s trail ends at the Theatre du Grand-Guignol in Montmartre, Stuyvesant discovers a world where art meets sexual depravity– and where a savage killer lurks in the shadows.”
Thoughts: Harris Stuyvesant is arrogant. He’s brash, stubborn, and guilty of machismo. All of this should antagonize modern readers. Instead, he embodies the quintessential private detective of 1920s. He has all of the directness of the loosening morals of the Jazz Era with the hardened experience of a war veteran. He is direct. He is intense. He is so very male. He is the perfect hero for The Bones of Paris.
The story is little more than a traditional detective novel. A woman is lost; family members hire a private detective to find her. There is an added sense of debauchery in the popularity of the macabre Modernist movement, to which Harris is firmly introduced. The sense of unease those works by Man Ray and his peers cause within Harris set the tone of the novel. In many aspects, what Harris discovers during his investigation about the 1920s art world not only makes for fascinating reading and great suspense, it also provides a sad but unspoken commentary on the state of Europeans after the first world war and their willingness to accept the dark and disturbed as entertainment.
What makes The Bones of Paris so entertaining are the historical details. There are the close-knit communities of the American expatriates and of artists, with much overlap between the two. There are the scandalized and the scandalous – those pushing the envelope of the excesses of the Jazz Era and those who are fighting those excesses with every breath. There are the war veterans still struggling with processing their battlefield scars, emotional as well as physical. There is a growing socialist movement, which will soon ignite certain parts of Europe. There is the influx of the newly rich, riding the stock market as it climbs to ever higher heights and the sense of infallibility that this is one thing that will never change. There is the night life for which Paris during the Jazz Age is famous, during which drinking, smoking and doing drugs to excess were the norm and worked off during sweaty bouts of dancing to the latest jazz tunes long into the wee hours of the night. The Bones of Paris has it all. More importantly, the story enfolds readers so that one feels very much a part of this vibrant setting.
Jefferson Mays steps into Harris’ macho shoes and provides an excellent narration of this quintessential 1920s male detective novel. He adopts the insouciance of the era with ease. His adaptation for the feminine voice is decent, and his French flows effortlessly. His voice is easy on the ears, and he speaks with the deliberate cadence of that era. His performance wonderfully enhances the overall entertainment quality of the story.
The Bones of Paris is surprisingly fun given its dark tale and very entertaining. It is a great throwback to an era when pleasure and money collided to create an atmosphere that defined an entire generation. It is also something about which readers could quickly tire. The genre is formulaic after all and one can only listen to so many detective novels before even Harris Stuyvesant becomes redundant. Thankfully, The Bones of Paris makes for a great stand-alone story if one wants to dip one’s toes into Ms. King’s fiction and an excellent addition to her canon if one is already a fan.
Ti on October 9, 2014 at 10:05 AM
I don’t read too many detective novels these days and when I do, I tend to reach for Scandinavian crime fiction but this one does sound good.
Michelle on October 12, 2014 at 5:44 PM
I really liked it; I was surprised actually how much I did. The Bones of Paris is part of a series, and there is frequent reference to a previous case, but other than curiosity in wanting to know what the characters were talking about, it didn’t detract from the story. And I do love a good criminal mind. The more depraved, the better!
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Come as you are Friday to Machinery Row for a pro-LGBT Halloween costume bash
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Earlier this year Machinery Row saw one of the largest crowds ever to come to an event there.
Now the same people who put on that popular event, the Open Definition: Great Falls LGBTQ + Allies group, returns with a Halloween bash featuring seven musical acts, and a costume contest with winners receiving gift certificates from local businesses and a $100 bar tab from Machinery Row.
The party starts Friday at 8 p.m. Admission is $5 for people 21 and up and $7 for those under 21.
Performing will be Britta Lee, and Ryan Johnson and the Dreams from Great Falls, Sunraiser and BOYS from Missoula, Sioux Falls from Portland, and Couches from San Francisco. DJ Dregan performs between sets and at the end of the night, as well.
Tyson and Sara Habein, co-organizers of the event along with Jonny Ravenscroft, said they expect the bar to be at full capacity throughout the evening.
Tyson said the event gives the LGBT community another opportunity to increase its visibility in Great Falls after making a big splash with the drag show.
“One of my major goals coming into this group, Open Definitions, is to make the city feel more complete and help make people feel like they are more connected,” he said. “Because when you look at it, Great Falls as a whole is not so big where we can segregate ourselves into separate Burroughs. It’s not New York City so we have to behave as if this is Great Falls not New York or Seattle.
The band Boys performs Friday at Machinery Row.
We all have to come together as a community in the city of Great Falls isn’t going to feel complete if only 10,000 of its residents are actually coming up and enjoying each others’ company, we have to make sure everyone is on board and welcome, whether they come to an event like this or live their lives as they would otherwise, they have to know the community is welcoming and share that kind of mentality that we all share a city so we can’t pretend we can put walls around ourselves.”
And while the first two events from the LGBT group were costume-related, the Habeins said by looking at what’s planned for the near future, they feel there need not be concern that the only way to get Great Fallsians to an LGBT event is by making it a costumed affair.
“I can see where someone might have that concern, but if you look at our long term goals, it becomes apparent that that’s not the case,” Tyson said. “In November we have a family game night planned at Bowser Brewery so there’s nothing big and flamboyantly costume faced about that, and then post that we are starting to work on a holiday ball in December which will be more formal with suits and ball gowns sort of deal, so those things are in the works as well. It’s far from being an exclusively “camp” event crew.”
Connected to those events are the fundraising element which the group has made the decision to focus on educational charities that may or may not be LGBT related.
“The other thing to keep in mind is with the first event we had, a large portion o the money went to the Great Falls Gay Straight Alliance at Great Falls High for their homecoming float so they could actually have a float this year,” Tyson said. “I think the group has a consensus that we’re going to aim to give a part of the money for charitable things that are education based. That’s important because they are things that make the whole community healthier, not just the LGBT portion.”
Tyson added that already they’ve heard from others and seen themselves that there has been more acceptance of people who identify as LGBT, but added it’s still a work in progress.
Britta Lee of Great Falls performs her keyboard-based set on Friday at Machinery Row
“Everyone in our community is just another group of tax-paying citizens … but part of the larger group I think at the best times in Great Falls and Montana history as a whole has been ignored and at the worst of times has been maligned, so a big part of the group’s goals is to increase its visibility which is the first step in that progress because we have to know that a certain need exists before we can fill it.”
Sara said while the progress of acceptance has been somewhat slow in Great Falls, she said the more the LGBT community does to put itself out there, the more accepting people will become.
“The more things we do, the more it will help, and I don’t just mean we as Tyson and I, the more events that the whole LGBT community puts on, the more people will see what we really are about.”
Tyson said he equates the local LGBT collective’s potential growth along the same lines of the growth the arts scene has seen here in the last five years.
“Five years ago, the arts and culture community here was not as motivated and active but then a few people started throwing shows, and then a few more started throwing shows and music and art came together and now it’s a regular occurrence to see people painting at an event with multiple bands on stage or DJs of all different genres. The growth we’ve seen in the arts and culture community here in the last five years, I fully expect to see the LGBT community have that same kind of growth in the next five years and beyond that.”
Sara said while the two aren’t quite the same, as there’s a “social justice” aspect to what people in the LGBT community are seeking, she agrees with Tyson that she fully expects it to grow as fast as the cultural scene here has.
“Plenty of people are just trying to fight for the right to live their lives, which is not the same as ‘I want to do a painting at a show,’ But as far as the growth and visibility I would not be surprised if in five years we had a very active and encouraging LGBT community, as well.”
In the meantime, the group seeking equality for everyone no matter their age, gender or sexual orientation, likely will have another successful event this weekend featuring quality music, art and lots of intriguing costumes.
For more information on Friday’s shindig, visit the Facebook Page. If you’d like to join the Open Definition Facebook group, check out that link here.
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BLOG TOUR: From Inside The House - WD Jackson-Smart
Two victims. Brutally murdered in their own home. Body parts taken.
D.I. Graves is back on the case to face his toughest challenge yet. A case with no motive and no suspect, nothing at all that could explain why someone would kill innocent people in such a way.
Then the next victims are discovered. Another pair of bodies. New body parts taken. Again in their own home.
Someone is breaking into houses across the city at night, leaving horror in their wake. It seems to Graves that this could be two serial killers, working together. But how are they choosing their victims? Is any house in London a target? Is anyone safe?
To make matters worse, a journalist is threatening to cause more harm than good with her obsessive push in covering the story to further her career, and someone is targeting Graves personally, seeking revenge against him in relation to an old case.
Can Graves keep himself safe long enough to stop the serial killers before they strike again?
From Inside The House is the second book in the DI Graves series and having read and loved the first book, The Demons Beneath, I couldn't wait to get stuck into this next instalment. This story sees victims being killed in pairs and bodies left posed at crime scenes. The police suspect two serial killers working together, rather intriguingly one is a psychopath and one is a sociopath.
You could read From Inside The House as a standalone but there is a continuation of a storyline from the first book, so I think it's better to read The Demons Beneath first to get the full story. There are definitely enough details included to make sure that new readers aren't disadvantaged though and you could always read The Demons Beneath afterwards to fill in any blanks.
Graves is such a great name for a homicide detective, especially one who almost vomits at the sight of a dead body. I love the dynamic he has with his partner, Charlie Palmer, which contrasts with the tenuous relationship he has with his sister. Graves and his sister were close once until a series of events changed Graves' life forever. His sister does make an appearance at the end which left me with baited breath for the next book!
Strangely enough, I really liked the annoying journalist character, Kelly Malone. It just shows what a competitive business journalism is and perhaps explains why reporters do what they do in order to get a story. Kelly even puts her life at risk to get a story just so she can get one over on her rival at the newspaper. Obviously, I don't imagine such things happen in real life but reporters are like sharks and once they smell blood they can't do anything else but go in for the kill.
With murder scenes described in amazing detail, From Inside The House is flesh crawling in a gory way as opposed to the supernatural element that spooked me in The Demons Beneath. As with many second novels in a series, it didn't quite manage to knock the first book off the top spot but I have a feeling that things are about to get really interesting for DI Graves. From Inside The House is gritty, dark and gruesome and I'll definitely be keeping an eye out for book 3.
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review: HOLES by Louis Sachar
HOLES by Louis Sachar
Series: Holes #1
Scholastic: Yearling
Released: September 2, 2000
Source: Bookstore
Rating: It was okay
Stanley Yelnats is under a curse. A curse that began with his no-good-dirty-rotten-pig-stealing-great-great-grandfather and has since followed generations of Yelnats. Now Stanley has been unjustly sent to a boys' detention center, Camp Green Lake, where the warden makes the boys "build character" by spending all day, every day, digging holes: five feet wide and five feet deep. It doesn't take long for Stanley to realize there's more than character improvement going on at Camp Green Lake. The boys are digging holes because the warden is looking for something. Stanley tries to dig up the truth in this inventive and darkly humorous tale of crime and punishment—and redemption.
I’ve heard many good things about Holes over the years but never read it until this class. It was… okay. I wasn’t a huge fan and quite honestly could have gone the rest of my life without reading it – not because it was bad, but because I simply couldn’t bring myself to care. The story was too exaggerated for my taste.
Kids would like this book for the humor and the ridiculous level to which the camp takes its prisoners’ punishment. The family’s history could also be a draw. I don’t remember many of my friends being interested in this book, which came out when I was in middle school. The teachers and school librarian pushed it a lot, but most of us weren't interested. That’s been the same attitude I’ve seen in other kids at the library.
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Peshawar Zalmi faced 2nd defeat against Multan
by Toqui Tahmid | Posted on Wednesday, March 7th, 2018 | 0
Multan Sultans and Peshawar Zalmi both teams are regarded as the favourite in the ongoing season of Pakistan Super League where Multan Sultan is the newbie franchise team and Peshawar Zalmi is the founding member of PSL. They are also the defending champion of the tournament. But as the newborn team Multan Sultans has impressed the audiences. They are in great form and still holding the top position on the point table where almost half season of PSL has passed quite successfully. They started the tournament by playing the inaugural match where they beat Peshawar Zalmi. Now, in the 16th match of the tournament, Multan Sultans once again beat the same team. So, Peshawar Zalmi faced 2nd defeat against Multan in the season of Pakistan Super League.
Multan Sultans is a franchise team which has played already six matches in the season and managed four victories among them. So, they are holding the top position on the point table. Their opponent Peshawar Zalmi played same number of matches but won three times so far. And so, they are in 3rd position. The last match which was hosted in 6th March, 2018 between Peshawar Zalmi and Multan Sultans was the 16th match of the tournament. In the match, Zalmi won the toss and decided to bowl first. It was a day match and staged at Dubai International Cricket Stadium. Multan Sultans did able to present a handsome total which was 183 runs in front of Peshawar Zalmi. They lost six wickets and did the score. Sohaib Maqsood scored highest 85 runs unbeaten in 42 balls. He just played tremendously and led the team ahead. Liam Dowson took 1 wicket for Zalmi in the match and he was the economy bowler in the match for his team.
Later, Peshawar Zalmi came to chase the score but it was too big for the defending champion and their player failed to play under pressure. Though, they managed to play full 20 overs and lost eight wickets but they finished their innings scoring 164 runs so far. Mohammad Hafeez scored 56 runs highest for the team Zalmi. On the other side, Sohail Tanvir took three wickets for Sultans in the match.
As a result, Peshawar Zalmi was lost by 19 runs. So, Multan Sultans got their 4th victory in the season of PSL. Sohaib Maqsood received the player of the match award due to his destructive innings.
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Print Copies Arrived and in Stock! - October 15, 2015
It's always exciting when printed versions of books arrive, and this week all three books arrived safely. Now the fun starts with working out how to market these titles widely beyond Amazon Kindle and Prime.
If the titles interest you, they can be ordered as ebooks or in print format through the following links:
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New Publication: The Need - September 9, 2015
Jason Held is sixteen, on his L plate licence and building his first car with his father's help in the shed. He shares a passion for hot, fast cars through generations, and with his two brothers, but when he inadvertently finds himself on the dark side of the car world he has to choose between what he loves and what is right to do.
Written for a suggested audience of 12-15 year old boys, The Need is a reflection of my boyhood (some would say I'm still in it) and my father who raced speedway, and who rode motorbikes and drove cars fast.
National Bookshops Day - August 8, 2015
To celebrate National Bookshops Day, Collins Booksellers Edwardstown opened its doors and invited Mandy Foot, Tarran Jones, Jason Fischer, Melanie Casey, Victoria Purman, Bronwyn Stuart, Janeen Brian, Adam Cece and myself to run signings, launches and mini-workshops throughout the day. Pictured left with me are Tarran and Jason.
Print Release: In My Father's Shadow - May 5, 2015
To complement the epub release of this novel, I've used CreateSpace to prepare and make available for purchase a paperback edition of In My Father's Shadow.
Click on the image to open the Amazon purchase page :)
Multiple Print Release: The Waking Dragon, Maker of Kings, Dragonlord War, and Tales of the Dragon - May 4, 2015
Keen to have out-of-print books available for readers in print format, I have learned how to use the CreateSpace online publishing format to release print versions of the epub publications of the Andrakis novels and the Tales of the Dragon anthology.
All four texts, in both versions, are available on Amazon under a search for Tony Shillitoe. Price ranges in US$ from $7 for the stories to $15 for the Andrakis novels (plus postage).
ePub Release: Tales of the Dragon - April 27, 2015
This collection of fantasy stories arose from stories I wrote from 1993-2000, partly in response to the adventures of role-playing groups who enjoyed the games I designed and ran for them. Several stories in the collection were first published in fantasy magazines and anthologies. The collection was first published by Altair Australia in 2006, but it is now available as an ePub via Amazon Kindle Direct, and at $3 it's not a wallet breaking experience to buy it.
Book Launch: Tarran Jones' story, 'All That Glitters' - March 2015
I was very happy to be asked to launch Tarran Jones' story, 'All That Glitters', at Collins Bookstore, Edwardstown. Tarran's story appears in the anthology Twice Upon a Time, edited by Joshua Allen Mercier, and published by The Bearded Scribe Press. The anthology contains a host of stories, based on the concept of re-imagining fairy tales, myths and legends, and the contributors have revisited a broad range of stories from many different cultures. The anthology is a fascinating read, and Tarran's story well deserves its place among them!
Watch out for Tarran's next project, a novel in the preparation stages now.
Visit to North Adelaide Primary School - March 2015
It was an absolute honour to be invited to speak to two Year 7 classes at North Adelaide Primary School. The students have read Caught in the Headlights and from all the amazing and engaging questions they asked they must have enjoyed it. Questions ranged through character creation and fates, how much personal experience was brought to the story, my other works, to aspects of the writing craft - and no one asked 'Where do you get your ideas from!!!' Great work. Thank you to Carol Mower for organising the visit, to the Year 7 teachers for choosing to use the novel, and to the students for their enthusiasm.
ePub Release: In My Father's Shadow - March 8, 2015
In My Father's Shadow began as the novel I created during my unfinished PhD period (2003-8). It's original purpose was to have publishers explain why they would reject it from publication - yes, that's right, I wrote a novel I wanted rejected, but my PhD topic was based on censorship of teenage novels. So, I included teenage sexuality, parent separation, dying parent, bullying, supernatural, Christianity, murder, father/son relationships, narrator's creativity etc. Oh yes, overloaded - but not impossibly so. When the PhD study collapsed on lack of verifiable evidence from reluctant publishers (I can't blame them for not wanting to go on record for why they chose not to publish a novel), I put the manuscript aside. I also dropped the PhD.
Two years ago, I revisited the manuscript, cleaned it up, altered content to make the story more viable, and I'm happy with the result. Since it was always going to be an experimental piece, it's my first new work to be released as an epub on Amazon Kindle.
ePub Release: Andrakis: the trilogy on Kindle - March 4, 2015
For a long time I've pondered self-publishing, not of new work but of those that go out of production for which I get the occasional request to buy or find. Hard copy print-on-demand is still clumsy and expensive for an author, if writing isn't a source of income, but finally I've relaunched the Andrakis trilogy with Amazon Kindle, as of March 4, 2015. After re-editing some text, trying to reduce the rife over-writing in the original, I've published all three texts - The Waking Dragon, The Maker of Kings and The Dragonlord War - as individual epubs, and an omnibus version - Andrakis The Trilogy - which contains all three books in one. Price is dirt cheap. Omnibus version is available at Amazon of course :)
Book Launch: Robert Stephenson's Life Light - January 2015
I was honoured to launch Robert N Stephenson's novel, Life Light, at Collins' Booksellers, Castle Plaza, Edwardstown on January 31st. I thoroughly enjoyed the novel and love the concepts and premises on which it has been created.
The publisher, Satalyte Publishing, can be accessed at http://satalyte.com.au/
The bookseller, Collins Booksellers, can be accessed at: http://castlebookshop.blogspot.com.au/
Short Story Published! Hope in From Out of The Dark anthology - January 2015
Thanks to publisher, Altair Australia, for selecting my story, Hope, as one of the ten stories published in a not for profit anthology, From Out of the Dark.
You can acquire a copy of the anthology from the Smashwords web site at https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/509090 in epub, kindle, pdf or other formats to read at your leisure.
The Write Week: Clare Writers' Festival - November 2014
First, Clare has an amazing group of passionate people who started a writers' festival in 2013 and backed it up in 2014 with a talented array of writers, including Kate Forsyth, Liz Harfull, Katherine Howell, Helene Young, Tricia Stringer and their patron Fiona McIntosh - oh, and me. It was fantastic to meet up with some 'old' writing friends and to meet new ones!
The organising team and sponsors provided generous accommodation in Clare and there was plenty to eat and drink.
I had the pleasure of participating in a panel of writers, answering questions about our different lives and approaches to our craft.
I also ran a brief (90 minutes) writers' workshop, focussing mainly on questions from the participants about the usual suspects - inspiration, preparation, process, editing, publication.
So, accolades to Nan Berrett, Nigelle-Ann Blaser, Meredith Appleyard and Sandra Watson for organising and running a wonderful event (and for letting me come along and play).
Young Adult Writers' MasterClass: Clare - October 2014
It was an absolute pleasure to run a young adults' writing masterclass for the Clare Writers' Festival lead-up. Twenty young people from Clare High, Burra Community and Horizon Christian Schools participated in the workshop, exploring the importance of conflict in story creation, pace, opening lines that grab, necessary dialogue and potent description.
Thank you to Nan Berrett, Nigelle-Ann Blaser, Meredith Appleyard and Sandra Watson for inviting me to run the masterclass. It was fun!
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Source : Hot Volvo XC90 Polestar under consideration
Performance arm plans 350bhp four-pot engine, hybrids along with even a hot XC90
Polestar, Volvo’s high-performance sub-brand, is actually preparing to launch a highly tuned variation of the company’s brand-new four-cylinder petrol engine.
The brand-new powerplant will have at least 350bhp along with will replace the turbocharged straight six currently used inside S60 along with V60 Polestar, according to Niels Möller, Polestar’s chief operating officer.
The brand is actually also likely to launch a high-performance hybrid along with is actually considering a hot variation of Volvo’s highly successful XC90.
The 2.0-litre Drive-E unit will get both a supercharger along having a turbocharger. Möller said which will be “as strong or even stronger” than the current six-cylinder unit along with be hooked up to an eight-speed automatic gearbox.
“With the brand-new engine, weight will be reduced along with power will increase, however there will be nearly half the CO2 emissions,” Möller said. “We believe inside future performance cars must cope with environmental developments.”
Since Polestar was bought by Volvo last July, Möller said his company has had “full access to Volvo technology along with, naturally, which means access to a lot of hybrid technology. There will be performance hybrids, which use electrification to enhance performance, rather than worrying about range”.
Mölller added: “If I don’t see a business case on each along with every product, I will not do which. Right today, we are taking the full range of Volvo’s portfolio along with thinking about how we could position a Polestar variation.”
Möller stopped short of confirming a full-blooded Polestar variation of the XC90 however did reveal which which’s one of the designs under discussion.
“Everything is actually possible,” he said. “SUVs are hip. People actually like them as urban cruisers, so why not have an XC car which can go on the track as well?”
A notable development for the Polestar brand is actually Volvo’s return to motorsport. Two S60 Polestar TC1 race cars will take to the grid during the 2016 FIA World Touring Car Championship season.Möller said which is actually primarily to enhance global awareness of the Polestar brand as part of the aim to double sales figures to 1500 units in 2016.
Comment – How far must Polestar go to match German rivals?
The task of muscling in on a high-performance market dominated by German behemoths should not be underestimated, however Polestar is actually clearly ambitious.
which’s targeting a market which, which says, has grown by 41% since 2009, during which time the standard road car segment has increased by just 9%. Aiming to double its sales to 1500 units next year sounds like a not bad start, however which figure still languishes some way behind the 15,000 RS along with R8 designs which Audi shifted during 2014 alone.
There’s a huge gap between the manufacturers in terms of sales, then, however Polestar is actually still in its infancy. In truth, which’s unlikely to rival the total sales of its German stablemates, however if which can build on the promise of its S60 along with V60 designs along with deliver on its interesting projects inside pipeline, which could prove a hit with those after an off-piste alternative to the ubiquitous Germans.
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Baklarz and Fisher exchange vows on the beach at Cabo San Lucas, Mexico
Wendy C. (Jenkins) Baklarz and Jaison H. Fisher exchanged wedding vows at 4 p.m. Friday, Aug. 9, 2013, on the beach at RIU Palace, Cabo San Lucas, Mexico. The bride is the daughter of Roger and Jane Jenkins of Franklin, Pa. Parents of the bridegroom are Dan and Sharon Fisher, also of Franklin, Pa. Reverend Marco Arechiga officiated at the double-ring ceremony.
The bride looked beautiful in a trumpet-style heavily encrusted lace Mori Lee gown, accented with a satin belt adorned with Swarovski crystals and pearls. Her v-neckline was piped with delicate beading and metallic embroidery, which carried on to the back of the dress. Her scalloped lace hemline was enhanced with silver metallic detailing from which flowed her chapel length train, and looked breathtaking on the sands of Cabo San Lucas. The bride's look was completed with an elbow length veil, trimmed with crystals and pearls to complement her dress, and 2 crystal-encrusted starfish hair combs; the perfect accompaniment to complete her look.
Maid of Honor for the bride was Melissa Bayus of Columbus, friend of the bride. The bridesmaids wore aqua blue halter chiffon cocktail length dresses accented with an ivory sash and rhinestone starfish brooch. Matron of Honor was Heather Taindel of Charlotte, N.C., friend of the bride. Bridesmaids were Allie Baklarz of Boardman (daughter of the bride), Pam Hernandez of Canfield (friend of the bride), and Kathy Maiorana of Charlotte, N.C. (friend of the bride).
Baklarz and Fisher
Jeffery Fisher, brother of the groom, of Uniontown, Pa., served as Best Man for the bridegroom. The groomsmen wore ivory camp shirts, khaki slacks and brown sandals. Groomsmen were Krystopher Baklarz of Boardman (son of the bride), Mike Armant of Erie, Pa. (friend of the groom), Mike Jacobs of Erie, Pa. (friend of the groom), Andrew Jannot of Denver, Colo. (friend of the groom), and Jeff Kelly of Pittsburgh, Pa. (friend of the groom). Ushers were Joe Veverka of Pittsburgh, Pa. (friend of the groom) and Chris Jamison of Rochester, N.Y. (friend of the groom).
Kristen Fisher of Uniontown, Pa. (niece of the groom) and Madison Sivi of Johnstown, Pa. (cousin of the groom) served as flower girls. Ringbearer was Ethan Jannot of Denver, Colo. (friend of the groom). Music at the ceremony was provided by Bob Lyons Steel Drum Music of Fory Lauderdale, Fla. Readings were provided by Allie Baklarz (daughter of the bride) and Krystopher Baklarz (son of the bride), both of Boardman.
A sunset reception immediately followed at Mar de Cortes Steakhouse followed by dancing at Pacha nightclub. An at home reception was held at The Commons at Franklin on Aug. 24, 2013, also the 45th anniversary date of the groom's parents.
The bride is an account executive for LIN Media representing WKBN, WYTV, WYFX and My YTV in Youngstown. She graduated from Rocky Grove High School and Duquesne University. The groom is an account executive with Enterprise Car Sales in Canton. He graduated from Rocky Grove High School and Edinboro University. Following their honeymoon in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, the couple reside in Boardman.
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Canfield swimmers sweep the Poland Invitational
After their Senior Night swim meet had to be canceled on Jan. 22 due to bad weather, the Cardinal swimmers were ready to race. On Saturday, Jan. 26, the Canfield High School Swim Team competed at the Poland Invitational at Beeghly Natatorium at YSU and both the boys and girls won the meet. The boys team won with a score of 243 in a field of 14 teams. The girls team won with a score of 159 in a field of 17 teams.
Individual event champions were: Rob DiDomenico (200 freestyle), Joe Klepec (100 breaststroke), and Jason Paris (50 freestyle).
Top scorers for the boys were Jason Paris (first in the 50 free, fifth in the 100 free, first in the 200 free relay, and first in the 400 free relay), Bobby Kutsch (first in the 200 free relay, first in the 400 free relay, second in the 200 free, and second in the 500 free), and Rob DiDomenico (first in the 200 free, first in the 400 free relay, second in the 200 medley relay, and fourth in the 500 free).
Pictured after the Poland Invitational on Jan. 26 are, in front, Rob DiDomenico. Second row, left to right, are Kristin Shelley, Sydney Schuler, Theresa Wasylychyn, Tessa Searcy, Bella Bellino. Third row, left to right, are Sarah Klepec, Emily Pondillo, Madison Peckman, Miranda Peckman. Back row, left to right, Joe Klepec, Matthew Peckman, Jason Paris, James Dietz, Bobby Kutsch, Ty Schaab, Connor Fritz, Luke Dietz, and Nick Colonna.
For the boys relays, the 200 free relay earned first place with the team of Matthew Peckman, James Dietz, Kutsch, and Paris. The 400 free relay also earned first place with the team of Kutsch, DiDomenico, Peckman, and Paris. The 200 medley relay had a runner-up finish with the team of Connor Fritz, Ty Schaab, DiDomenco, and Luke Dietz.
Luke Dietz earned a third place in the 200 IM, and Klepec was fifth. Connor Fritz earned a third place in the 100 back, and Luke Dietz was sixth. In the boys 100 fly, James Dietz was fourth, and Fritz was fifth. In the boys 100 freestyle, Peckman was fourth, Paris was fifth, and James Dietz was sixth. Ty Schaab was fifth in the 100 breaststroke, and Nick Colonna was 11th in backstroke.
Top scorers for the girls were Jordan Helmick, Sydney Schuler, Miranda Peckman, and Elle Dawson. This foursome earned a first place in both the 200 medley relay and the 200 free relay. Helmick also earned third place in the 100 fly and fourth place in the 200 free. Schuler also earned a sixth place finish in the 200 IM and the 100 back. Miranda Peckman also earned a sixth place in the 50 free and 10th place in the 100 free. Elle Dawson placed fifth in the 100 back.
The girls 400 free relay earned fourth place with the team of Theresa Wasylychyn, Sarah Klepec, Tessa Searcy, and Madison Peckman. Wasylychyn also got fifth in the 200 free, and eighth in the 100 free. Klepec was 12th in the 200 IM. Searcy was fifth in the 500 free and 11th in the 200 free. Madison Peckman was eighth in the 50 free. Also scoring points were Mackenzie Durham (ninth in the 500 free) and Isabella Kelty (12th in the 100 backstroke).
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Why Words can Hurt or Heal
“You’re too slow!”
“I asked you to clean your room two hours ago!”
“I thought everybody knew how to do that.”
“That project was due two days ago. What’s keeping you?”
“I don’t see how you’re going to be able to do that.”
“That’s sloppy/lazy____(fill in the blank)”
If those statements were directed at you, how would you feel? My guess is that sensitive individuals would feel one of two reactions: a dark, panicky feeling; or, a dark, seething anger. In either case, you obviously wouldn’t feel empowered or uplifted. You would feel the light drain out of your body. How is that helpful to anyone?
Your own Communication: Problem, or Solution?
In my last blog post, I mentioned a relative named Carol. She and I have had dysfunctional communication for about two decades. I have never understood her aggressive need to impetuously “tell it like it is” without considering the lava flow of ill will likely to result. To me, it’s rude and immature. It’s doesn’t show wisdom, and it has almost ruined our relationship at least once.
Her underlying message to me is, “You’re inadequate.” Now, I ask you, is that empowering? Does that make me believe in myself and want to try harder?
A Useful Message: “You’re not Good Enough”?
In my book, Accept No Trash Talk: Overcoming the Odds, I mention many situations in which some people offend others. These people wish to communicate quickly, and they don’t consider the long-term effects of speaking before they weigh their words. I mention cases of authority figures who cause years of mental trauma to those under their supervision.
These authorities seem to condemn rather than merely correct people. In other words, they make people feel generally worthless rather than letting individuals know, specifically, how they would like the individuals to change. I suggest that criticism is not a good motivator; it’s a de-motivator.
How Can we Boost Enriching Communication?
The Book of Proverbs in the Bible has many useful quotes on the importance of words. The fundamental theme is that words are so powerful that we must weigh the consequences of our words, good or bad, before we speak them:
“The mouth of a righteous man is a well of life; but violence overtaketh the mouth of the wicked.”
“The heart of the wise teacheth his mouth, and addeth learning to his lips.”
“He that keepeth his mouth keepeth his life; but he that openeth wide his lips shall have destruction.”
“A soft answer turneth away wrath; but grievous words stir up anger.
“The mouth of the just bringeth forth wisdom; but the forward tongue shall be cut out.”
“Death and life are in the power of the tongue; and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof.”
My Conclusion
Words are literal weapons of the mind. They are always creative forces. Every bit of communication creates light (life), or darkness (death). The effects last longer than many physical wounds. That’s why it’s so important that every person considers their words before they speak. Wouldn’t you rather a person build you up with kindness than suck the life out of you with cruel words? Hello?! Everybody else feels that way, too!
Did you create life or death today (with your words, with your words!)?
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EU vil begrænse salget af gummibåde til Libyen, alt imens NGO’ere opsamler migranter nær kysten…
Det er ikke ligefrem en nyhed, at humanitære organisationer i praksis fungerer som menneskesmuglere, og EU’s seneste tiltag illustrerer ganske fint magtesløsheden. Et ‘Hello Kitty’-plaster på en fremskreden kræftsvulst.
“I et forsøg på at modarbejde den farlige smugling af migranter over Middelhavet tillader EU, at medlemslande kan begrænse salget af oppustelige både og påhængsmotorer til Libyen. Det har EU’s udenrigsministre besluttet, skriver nyhedsbureauet AP. Ministrene er mandag samlet i Bruxelles til møde om netop migrationsstrømmen.” (Politiken, 17. juli 2017)
Man kan følge NGO’ernes menneskesmugling med Marinetraffic, hvor man også kan overvåge udvalgte skibe. Det var ikke svært at finde NGO’ernes (kun enkelte medtaget), for de cirkulerede alle få nautiske mil fra Libyens kystlinje. Kortene er lavet her til eftermiddag.
(‘No borders NGO’-flåde, fem eksempler, 22. juli 2017)
(Opererer tæt på den libyske kyst)
(Eksempel på rute, ‘The Golfo Azzurro’, 21.-22. juli 2017)
‘The Aquarius’ og ‘Vos Prudence’, Médecins Sans Frontières (Læger uden grænser).
‘The Golfo Azzurro’, hollandske Boat Refugee Foundation.
‘Sea-fuchs’, tyske Sea-eye.
‘The Vos Hestia’, Save The Children (Red barnet).
(Eksempel på rute, ‘Open arms’, 21.-22. juli 2017)
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Ét ord bliver ved med at dukke op, når jeg ser de billeder: dartpile….
“Aquarius” er åbenbart ret ‘berømt’ og ses i denne nylige video fra Italien: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1i6P7lMO0RA
Denne video – Hasta La Vista Europe” er osse værd at se: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a2-D3q89rAU (Trumps kommentarer er faktisk ret humor)
Kommentar by Kuffar — 22. juli 2017 @ 18:37
Var der ikke et link i et tidligere indlæg, der fortalte om en organisation, der ville tage ned og dokumentere, hvad det egentlig er alle disse NGO’er har gang i ?
Kommentar by Kent — 22. juli 2017 @ 19:33
Jeg hæfter mig ved følgende formulering:
“I et forsøg på at modarbejde den farlige smugling af migranter over Middelhavet tillader EU, at medlemslande kan begrænse salget af…..”
Hvilket kunne tyde på at EU indtil nu IKKE har tilladt denne begrænsning. Og altså indtil nu har modarbejdet denne begrænsning, som de så nu forholder sig passivt til.
Artiklen for det til at lyde som om EU foretager sig noget. udover at stoppe med at sabotere ting.
Kommentar by Mikael Drachmann — 22. juli 2017 @ 20:18
19:33 Det er de franske identitaire, som har fået crowd-sourcet en ekspedition. De fik så stor tilslutning, så de fik råd til at chartre en båd
Lauren Southern, som har dækket historien, har fået lukket sin Patreon-konto, selvom hun ikke skulle med og gruppen angribes for at være pirater og bringe liv i fare, for at ville dække historien journalistisk. De er vist blevet stoppet af myndighederne på alle tænkelige måder, men prøv at kigge på Laurens youtube channel.
Kommentar by Alexander — 22. juli 2017 @ 20:27
http://snaphanen.dk/2017/07/21/i-dromfabriken-paa-svt/
Kommentar by Nielsen — 22. juli 2017 @ 21:37
Heldigvis lader det til Østrig nu er besluttet på at lukke Brenner-passet, og Frankrig & Spanien har sagt nej til at tage flygtninge fra Italien. Når italienerne ikke kan komme af med dem, kommer de vel til fornuft. Desuden kommer højrefløjen efter alt at dømme til magten ved næste valg i Italien, der formentlig kommer allerede til efteråret (ellers inden 20 maj næste år).
Kommentar by Odo — 22. juli 2017 @ 21:59
http://defendeurope.net/
Kommentar by Hodja — 22. juli 2017 @ 22:49
https://twitter.com/DefendEuropeID
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a93kShSN9tk
https://www.wesearchr.com/bounties/defend-europe-identitarian-sar-mission-on-the-libyan-coast
Er det ikke typisk EU,et totalt nyttesloest uproduktivt forslag,der hverken goer det ene eller det andet ved problemet ,saa har vi gjort hvad vi kunne,og saa er det jo week end .
Kommentar by dunk — 22. juli 2017 @ 23:33
EU´s Nye nationalhymne.
Ud med Beethoven 9, nu skal vi have en ægte “slager”.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oxWfTs1psoM
Birthe kan det gylle. Og det kan ikke blive værre end, det er nu.
Historyman
Kommentar by Historyman — 23. juli 2017 @ 00:19
Saadan der,der er heldigvis ikke noget som et godt grin midt i tragedien
Det er sandelig nogle beslutsomme udenrigsministre, vi har i EU.
Men hvad med badedyr? Vil de også tillade en begrænsning af salg af oppustelige krokodiller og den slags til Libyen.
Migranterne skal jo ikke drive mange meter til havs, før de bliver samlet op af “de humanitære”.
Kommentar by Catfish — 23. juli 2017 @ 06:09
Jeg orker næsten ikke at skrive det igen. Både nationale politikere – bortset fra de tidligere østlande – og EUs politikere er kun ude på at ødelægge nationalstaterne, hvad der strider mod befolkningernes ønske.
Det skider forræderne på, derfor gør man intet. Vi kan sende flådefartøjer til at tøjle pirateriet i Adenbugten, men egne ydre grænser gider man ikke vogte. Ja, hvorfor gør man ikke det?
Da de indre grænser blev nedlagt (Schengen), blev der snakket meget om bevogtningen af de ydre grænser, men vanen tro, snak, snak og atter snak. Ord uden handling er værdiløs.
I stedet modtager man en dødvægt af daglejerere, gederøgtere og kriminelle, som ikke kan eller vil prøve at arbejde. Hvorfor skulle de dog også det, fra dag et bliver der udbetalt penge og nurset om dem. Resultatet er bare, at de vestlige lande er ved at segne under denne urimelige byrde.
Derfor, tiden er inde til et folkeligt oprør mod denne undergravende virksomhed.
Kommentar by der Adler — 23. juli 2017 @ 06:59
Jo tidligere EUs hovedkvarter i Brussels brændes ned til grunden, jo hurtigere kommer vi i gang med at genindføre vores nationale demokrati og sende perkerne ud af Europa.
Dumheden, absurditeten, forræderiet fra EU kender ingen grænser. No Borders. Den ubegrænsede idioti.
Ja, for fanden da, der må snart komme et folkeligt oprør.
“Vos” skibene ejes af det Hollandske rederi Vroon. Det ville ikke undre om de terrororganisationer der har chartret skibene har fået en klækkelig rabat.
https://www.vroon.nl/Company
Kommentar by Hans Und — 23. juli 2017 @ 08:37
Blodige terrorangreb reduceres til et problem med lastbiler. Illegal masseindvandring reduceres til et problem med gummibåde. Mellemøstligt mafiavælde på Nørrebro reduceres til et problem med gadebelysning, som kommunen helt sikkert vil løse straks efter sommerferien.
Det er nærmest komisk at se dem danse på tåspidser omkring deres hellige tabu og udføre kompliceret mental akrobatik for at slippe for at forholde sig til substansen.
Kommentar by Ruby Tuesday — 23. juli 2017 @ 09:27
Tante Berling: “Uledsagede flygtningedrenge på sommerlejr i Mols Bjerge”.
Disse uledsagede småbørn er tilsyneladende blevet så glad for den friske søluft over Middelhavet, at et stort antal såkaldte “børn”, med et tilsvarende stort antal pædagoger og frivillige, nyder, og har nydt, bølgen i Fuglsø Vig og områdets gode feriecenter.
Ingen tvivl om at disse uønskede importerede skaber meget arbejde, men overordnet set er det et kæmpe underskudsforetagende, som vi selv må betale.
Og hvad med pigerne? Bør der ikke være 50/50 af slagsen, og således også ligestilling på dette område? Hvor råber politikerne og KVINFO ikke op?
I øvrigt synes jeg ikke at der er meget drenge over de unge mænd der er vist på billederne. Og da man efterhånden kender MSM, så er der ingen tvivl om at de billeder der er vist, er dem hvor de små puslinge ser yngst ud på.
https://www.b.dk/nationalt/uledsagede-flygtningedrenge-paa-sommerlejr-i-mols-bjerge-det-er-godt-for-hjernen
Kommentar by Birger Jensen — 23. juli 2017 @ 09:48
Ja, og sådan her ser det ud: Det vælter ind med isis-djævle! Vi skulle såmænd alle sende et takkekort til Merkel, fordi hun på dén, godt nok langsommelige måde, vil reducere antallet af oprindelige europæere.
http://pamelageller.com/2017/07/european-isis-returning.html/
De mohammedanske svin kommer i høj grad fra Europa, og nu estimerer man, at 30 % af dem returnerer hjem til mors skørter i Europa! Så kan de samle kræfter til at begynde at slagte… Jeg drømmer tit om at gå op og overtage talerstolen inde i Folketinget og råbe sandheder ud. Fx at Løkke er en uduelig nar, og at Enhedslisten og Alternativet burde bures inde.
@ 20 det er noget rent ud sagt forbandet svineri, at man giver disse kriminelle reptilhjerner og voldtægtsforbrydere in spe FERIER – betalt af OS! Hvor hører vi om, at fattige og ensomme eller forældreløse DANSKE børn får en hyggelig, dejlig ferie???
Hvis jeg havde pengene til det og ikke havde fået ødelagt mit helbred efter at være blevet mejet ned af et køretøj, så ville jeg nok seriøst kigge mig om efter et andet land at bo i, og det skulle ikke være hverken USA eller Europa.
Kommentar by Rekrut Bente — 23. juli 2017 @ 13:43
Åh nej, nu atter en jødehader/nazist på kommentatorsporet. Han kalder sig Alexander og tror også på samtlige konspirationsteorier.
Jeg har det som Kuffar, gider ikke at anbefale Uriasposten til andre, når der er så fyldt med jødehadere/Holocaustfornægtere/konspirationsstosser, der i ramme alvor tror, Bilderbergmøder styrer kloden.
Sammen med de jøder, I hader lige så meget som muslimerne.
Personligt tror jeg ikke, I nogensinde får proportionerne på plads, det er I simpelthen for dumme til.
Kommentar by Henrik Petersen — 23. juli 2017 @ 13:58
-> 23. Henrik Petersen.
Ja, der er nogle få der bevidst forsimpler debatten, og gør den unødvendig rå og ondskabsfuld. Virkeligheden er slem nok i forvejen.
Det er med til at give et det hele et useriøst indtryk, som jeg også tror er med til at få mange til at afholde sig fra at læse Uriasposten.
http://ekstrabladet.dk/kup/elektronik/saadan-knuser-du-en-internet-troll/5431145
Birger Jensen: “Ja, der er nogle få der bevidst forsimpler debatten”
Må jeg høre, hvem er det der forsimpler debatten? Det kunne da vel ikke være Henrik Pedersen med sine bombastiske indholdsløse kommentarer. Jeg tror ikke de er del af en debat, og det tror han vel heller ikke selv. Han kan ikke lide lugten af en frie debat, for han ved at han og de af hans meningsfæller som er bedre udstyret intellektuelt og verbalt end ham selv, ikke kan klare sig i en debat med velinformerede “holocaustbenægtere”, “konspirationsteoretikere”, eller “Nazister”. Vi kender Henriks Pedersens løsning. Det er den samme som mange venstreekstremister og kulturradikale også har; læg låg på debatten med jura og udskamningspropaganda.
Skrub dog af med dig Henrik, du er for simpel til at være med på Uriasposten.
Kommentar by Balder — 23. juli 2017 @ 18:38
@ 23 og 24: Nej, man gider ikke rigtig. Måske har Uriasposten også udspillet sin rolle efterhånden. Den debat, der før foregik her fordi den var bandlyst fra mediestøttemedierne, er nu blevet mainstream. Det er i høj grad Uriaspostens fortjeneste, og tak for det. Men den er ikke hvad den har været.
“Soros was 13 years old in March 1944 when Nazi Germany occupied Hungary.[30] Jewish children were barred from attending school by the Nazis, and Soros and the other schoolchildren were made to report to the Judenrat (“Jewish Council”) which had been established during the occupation. Soros later described this time to writer Michael Lewis: “The Jewish Council asked the little kids to hand out the deportation notices. I was told to go to the Jewish Council. And there I was given these small slips of paper…. I took this piece of paper to my father. He instantly recognized it. This was a list of Hungarian Jewish lawyers. He said, “You deliver the slips of paper and tell the people that if they report they will be deported.”[31][32]
Soros did not return to that job; his family purchased documents to say that they were Christians, thereby allowing them to survive the war. Later that year at age 14, Soros posed as the Christian godson of an official of the collaborationist Hungarian government’s Ministry of Agriculture, who himself had a Jewish wife in hiding. On one occasion, rather than leave the 14 year old alone, the official took with him while he inventoried a rich Jewish family’s estate, though Soros did not take part. Tivadar not only saved his immediate family but also many other Hungarian Jews, and George would later write that 1944 had been “the happiest [year] of his life,” for it had given him the opportunity to witness his father’s heroism.[33][34] In 1945, Soros survived the Siege of Budapest in which Soviet and German forces fought house to house through the city.
In 1947, Soros immigrated to England and became a student at the London School of Economics.[35] While a student of the philosopher Karl Popper, Soros worked as a railway porter and as a waiter. Soros received £40 from a Quaker charity.[36] In a discussion at the Los Angeles World Affairs Council in 2006, Alvin Shuster, former foreign editor of the Los Angeles Times, asked Soros, “How does one go from an immigrant to a financier? … When did you realize that you knew how to make money?” Soros replied, “Well, I had a variety of jobs and I ended up selling fancy goods on the seaside, souvenir shops, and I thought, that’s really not what I was cut out to do. So, I wrote to every managing director in every merchant bank in London, got just one or two replies, and eventually that’s how I got a job in a merchant bank.”[37] That job was an entry-level position in Singer & Friedlander.
In 1951, Soros earned a Bachelor of Science in philosophy and a Master of Science in philosophy in 1954, both from the London School of Economics.[38]”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Soros
“Silverstein was born in Bedford-Stuyvesant, in Brooklyn in 1931 into a Jewish family.[6] Growing up, Silverstein enjoyed classical music and played the piano. He attended the High School of Music and Art in New York, and then New York University, graduating in 1952 ..
In 1980, Silverstein won a bid from the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey to construct 7 World Trade Center, to the north of the World Trade Center site. Silverstein was interested in acquiring the entire World Trade Center complex, and put in a bid when the Port Authority put it up for lease in 2000. Silverstein won the bid when a deal between the initial winner and the Port Authority fell through, and he signed the lease on July 24, 2001.
Soon after the September 11 attacks, in 2001, Silverstein declared his intent to rebuild, though he and his insurers became embroiled in a multi-year dispute over whether the attacks had constituted one event or two under the terms of the insurance policy, which provided for a maximum of $3.55 billion coverage per event.[2] A settlement was reached in 2007, with insurers agreeing to pay out $4.55 billion,[3][4] which was not as much as Silverstein had sought. Silverstein also ran into multiple disputes with other parties in the rebuilding effort, including with the Port Authority. In an agreement reached in April 2006, Silverstein retained rights to build three office towers (150 Greenwich Street, 175 Greenwich Street, and 200 Greenwich Street), while One World Trade Center (previously referred to as the “Freedom Tower”) would be owned by the Port Authority, as would Tower Five, which it would have the option of leasing to a different private developer and having redesigned as a residential building.[5] ”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Silverstein
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Kissinger
“The Rothschild family is a wealthy family descending from Mayer Amschel Rothschild, a court Jew to the German Landgraves of Hesse-Kassel in the Free City of Frankfurt, who established his banking business in the 1760s.[2] Unlike most previous court Jews, Rothschild managed to bequeath his wealth and established an international banking family through his five sons,[3] who established themselves in London, Paris, Frankfurt, Vienna, and Naples.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rothschild_family
“Kushner was born in Livingston, New Jersey,[6] to Seryl Kushner (née Stadtmauer) and Charles Kushner, a real-estate developer.[7] His paternal grandparents, Rae and Joseph Kushner, were Holocaust survivors who came to the U.S. in 1949 from Navahrudak, Belarus.[8][9]
Kushner was raised in a Modern Orthodox Jewish family.[10] He graduated from the Frisch School, a coed yeshiva high school, in 1999. According to a Kushner Companies spokeswoman, he was an honors student and a member of the debate, hockey, and basketball teams.[11] Former school officials described him as a less than stellar student.[12] ..
Senior Advisor to the President
Assumed office
Serving with Stephen Miller
Brian Deese
Shailagh Murray
Director of the Office of American Innovation
Preceded by Position established
Born Jared Corey Kushner
Livingston, New Jersey, U.S.
Political party Democratic[1]
Spouse(s) Ivanka Trump (m. 2009)
Relatives Charles Kushner (father)
Joshua Kushner (brother)
Education Harvard University (AB)
New York University (JD, MBA)
Kunne EU dog for fa…. ikke bare blive enige om, at begrænse sig til selv og lade iSlammets og NGOérnes fejlslagne efterladenskaber vågne op til dåd:
Dyrk jorden/livet, hvor du er den blevet dig givet
og avl ikke flere børn, end den kan bære,
uanset om du tro på Gud, Allan, Buddin eller Thor,
så er der måske en grund til,
at netop du´ er blevet født de´r,
hvor du´ må udvikle
jordens fremtid
for dig
og dine
og rette anernes forsagelse
af selv samme.
Kommentar by M.S. Carstens — 23. juli 2017 @ 23:28
In December 2016, when asked “Aren’t you an atheist?” in response to a Christmas Day post on Facebook, Zuckerberg responded, “No. I was raised Jewish and then I went through a period where I questioned things, but now I believe religion is very important.”[177] As he closed his commencement address at Harvard University in May 2017, Zuckerberg shared the Jewish prayer Mi Shebeirach, which he stated he says when he faces challenges in life.[183][184]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Zuckerberg
Page was born March 26, 1973[16] in East Lansing, Michigan.[17] His mother was Jewish,[18] and his grandfather later made aliyah to Israel,[19] although Page does not follow any formal religion.[18][20] His father, Carl Victor Page, Sr., earned a PhD in computer science from the University of Michigan in 1965, when the field was being established, and has been described by BBC reporter Will Smale as a “pioneer in computer science and artificial intelligence.”[21] He was a computer science professor at Michigan State University and Page’s mother, Gloria, was an instructor in computer programming at Lyman Briggs College and at Michigan State University.[22][21][23]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Page
Brin was born in Moscow in the Soviet Union, to Russian Jewish parents, Yevgenia and Mikhail Brin, both graduates of Moscow State University (MSU).[10][11] His father is a mathematics professor at the University of Maryland, and his mother a researcher at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center.[1][12][13]
In May 1979, when Brin was five years old, his family felt compelled to emigrate out of the Soviet Union.[14] In an interview with Mark Malseed, co-author of The Google Story,[15] Sergey’s father explained how he was “forced to abandon his dream of becoming an astronomer even before he reached college.” He said “Communist Party heads barred Jews from upper professional ranks by denying them entry to universities, Jews were excluded from the physics department, in particular, at the prestigious Moscow State University, because Soviet leaders did not trust them with nuclear rocket research.” Mikhail Brin therefore changed his major to mathematics where he received nearly straight A’s.[12] In another interview with Dominic Lawson of The Independent, Mikhail said: “No one would consider me for graduate school because I was Jewish.” He went on to tell Lawson how MSU required Jews to take their entrance exams in different rooms from non-Jewish applicants, and how they were marked on a harsher scale.[16]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergey_Brin
Ved ikke om det her er noget af Balders :D Men jeg snuppede bare det øverste på min google-søgning, alle skulle selv kunne finde bedre info
Unmasked: The Mastermind behind the Mass Invasion of Europe and His Plan in 8 Steps
Posted on November 6, 2015 by Anders
Abstract: There is an elitist master plan to destroy Europe’s borders and old culture ethnically, religiously, economically for the purpose of a communist one-world government (Agenda 21). Order out of chaos is the motto of the Masonic spirits behind it. But first they want to create chaos by 1) Muslim mass immigration – by pursuing Coudenhove Kalergi´s and President Sarkozy’s racial interbreeding philosophy 2) War. Furthermore, they obviously want to achieve the Biblical Endtime scenario in the Middle East (Pentacostals, Chabad Lubavitch), i.e. the Albert Pike / William Carr Plan for the 3rd World War.
Soros’ / Rothschild´s open society plan is necessary for the Rothschild banking / finance, etc. corporations to completely plunder open societies. States that refuse are considered closed, the so-called rogue states – and are bound for Open Society Revolutions.
Therefore Soros’ Open Society’s many undermining NGOs that are practically behind all unrest and revolution in today’s world (Arab Spring, color revolutions) – together with USA´s Freedom House and National Endowment for Democracy (funded by Congress).
This article shows the plan that is behind the Muslim mass immigration, in 8 obvious stages:
1) The Euro-Mediterranean Process / Mediterranean Union
2) Puppet Masonics bombing Middle East / Africa
3) Local massive mendacious propaganda + USA-paid fare tickets for migrants to Europe
4) Rothschild agent George Soros’ European Program for Integration and Migration is sponsored by the super-wealthy elitists / mighty Funds (EPIM). PASOS comprises the European Commission and Parliament, NATO, USA’s Congress NGO NED and Soros’ Open Society. Both aim at eliminating all borders. Bribery is flourishing
5) Freemason Angela Merkel invites Muslims worldwide and then commands other EU countries to take their share!
6) Rothschild agent, George Soros, has just released a 7-point demand on behalf of his master acc. to which Europe has to take at least 1 million Muslim immigrants annually – as well as to pay for the maintenance of at least 4 million refugees in Turkey, Jordan and Lebanon and per migrant in Europe at least 15,000 euros a year the first 2 years.
In addition, the EU must spend at least 8-10bn euros on the frontline states (So they loot us – and now even comes the grand climate looting (Paris 15. Dec.). Besides, the EU must create safe journey channels to Europ from the front.
7) There is an asylum industry which costs the EU 140 billion euros, and 1.2 million people are employed. Behind this stands Rothschild´s Barclay’s Bank – his son-in-law was chairman of the bank and is in the control committee of the Bilderbergers. N.M. Rothschild and Sons is a shareholder.
8. UNs Special Representative for International Migration, a former Goldman Sachs (Rothschild bank) Board Member, EU Commissioner and head of the European Trilateral Commission, Peter Sutherland, calls on the EU to undermine the homogeneity of the member states and to eliminate all borders.
http://new.euro-med.dk/20151106-unmasked-the-mastermind-and-his-plan-behind-the-mass-invasion-of-europe-in-8-steps.php
Organizations Funded Directly by George Soros and his Open Society Foundations
By Discover The Networks
Organizations that, in recent years, have received direct funding and assistance from George Soros and his Open Society Foundations (OSF) include the following. (Comprehensive profiles of each are available in the “Groups” section of DiscoverTheNetworks.org):
Advancement Project: This organization works to organize “communities of color” into politically cohesive units while disseminating its leftist worldviews and values as broadly as possible by way of a sophisticated communications department.
Air America Radio: Now defunct, this was a self-identified “liberal” radio network.
Al-Haq: This NGO produces highly politicized reports, papers, books, and legal analyses regarding alleged Israeli human-rights abuses committed against Palestinians.
All of Us or None: This organization seeks to change voting laws — which vary from state to state — so as to allow ex-inmates, parolees, and even current inmates to cast their ballots in political elections.
Alliance for Justice: Best known for its activism vis a vis the appointment of federal judges, this group consistently depicts Republican judicial nominees as “extremists.”
America Coming Together: Soros played a major role in creating this group, whose purpose was to coordinate and organize pro-Democrat voter-mobilization programs.
America Votes: Soros also played a major role in creating this group, whose get-out-the-vote campaigns targeted likely Democratic voters.
America’s Voice: This open-borders group seeks to promote “comprehensive” immigration reform that includes a robust agenda in favor of amnesty for illegal aliens.
American Bar Association Commission on Immigration Policy: This organization “opposes laws that require employers and persons providing education, health care, or other social services to verify citizenship or immigration status.”
American Bridge 21st Century: This Super PAC conducts opposition research designed to help Democratic political candidates defeat their Republican foes.
American Civil Liberties Union: This group opposes virtually all post-9/11 national security measures enacted by the U.S. government. It supports open borders, has rushed to the defense of suspected terrorists and their abettors, and appointed former New Left terrorist Bernardine Dohrn to its Advisory Board.
American Constitution Society for Law and Policy: This Washington, DC-based think tank seeks to move American jurisprudence to the left by recruiting, indoctrinating, and mobilizing young law students, helping them acquire positions of power. It also provides leftist Democrats with a bully pulpit from which to denounce their political adversaries.
American Family Voices: This group creates and coordinates media campaigns charging Republicans with wrongdoing.
American Federation of Teachers: After longtime AFT President Albert Shanker died in in 1997, he was succeeded by Sandra Feldman, who slowly “re-branded” the union, allying it with some of the most powerful left-wing elements of the New Labor Movement. When Feldman died in 2004, Edward McElroy took her place, followed by Randi Weingarten in 2008. All of them kept the union on the leftward course it had adopted in its post-Shanker period.
American Friends Service Committee: This group views the United States as the principal cause of human suffering around the world. As such, it favors America’s unilateral disarmament, the dissolution of American borders, amnesty for illegal aliens, the abolition of the death penalty, and the repeal of the Patriot Act.
American Immigration Council: This non-profit organization is a prominent member of the open-borders lobby. It advocates expanded rights and amnesty for illegal aliens residing in the U.S.
American Immigration Law Foundation: This group supports amnesty for illegal aliens, on whose behalf it litigates against the U.S. government.
American Independent News Network: This organization promotes “impact journalism” that advocates progressive change.
American Institute for Social Justice: AISJ’s goal is to produce skilled community organizers who can “transform poor communities” by agitating for increased government spending on city services, drug interdiction, crime prevention, housing, public-sector jobs, access to healthcare, and public schools.
American Library Association: This group has been an outspoken critic of the Bush administration’s War on Terror — most particularly, Section 215 of the USA Patriot Act, which it calls “a present danger to the constitutional rights and privacy rights of library users.”
The American Prospect, Inc.: This corporation trains and mentors young leftwing journalists, and organizes strategy meetings for leftist leaders.
Amnesty International: This organization directs a grossly disproportionate share of its criticism for human rights violations at the United States and Israel.
Applied Research Center: Viewing the United States as a nation where “structural racism” is deeply “embedded in the fabric of society,” ARC seeks to “build a fair and equal society” by demanding “concrete change from our most powerful institutions.”
Arab American Institute Foundation: The Arab American Institute denounces the purportedly widespread civil liberties violations directed against Arab Americans in the post-9/11 period, and characterizes Israel as a brutal oppressor of the Palestinian people.
Aspen Institute: This organization promotes radical environmentalism and views America as a nation plagued by deep-seated “structural racism.”
Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now: This group conducts voter mobilization drives on behalf of leftist Democrats. These initiatives have been notoriously marred by fraud and corruption.
Ballot Initiative Strategy Center: This organization seeks to advance “a national progressive strategy” by means of ballot measures—state-level legislative proposals that pass successfully through a petition (“initiative”) process and are then voted upon by the public.
Bend The Arc: A Jewish Partnership for Justice: This organization condemns Voter ID laws as barriers that “make it harder for communities of color, women, first-time voters, the elderly, and the poor to cast their vote.”
Bill of Rights Defense Committee: This group provides a detailed blueprint for activists interested in getting their local towns, cities, and even college campuses to publicly declare their opposition to the Patriot Act, and to designate themselves “Civil Liberties Safe Zones.” The organization also came to the defense of self-described radical attorney Lynne Stewart, who was convicted in 2005 of providing material support for terrorism.
Black Alliance for Just Immigration: This organization seeks to create a unified movement for “social and economic justice” centered on black racial identity.
Blueprint North Carolina: This group seeks to “influence state policy in North Carolina so that residents of the state benefit from more progressive policies such as better access to health care, higher wages, more affordable housing, a safer, cleaner environment, and access to reproductive health services.”
Brennan Center for Justice: This think tank/legal activist group generates scholarly studies, mounts media campaigns, files amicus briefs, gives pro bono support to activists, and litigates test cases in pursuit of radical “change.”
Brookings Institution: This organization has been involved with a variety of internationalist and state-sponsored programs, including one that aspires to facilitate the establishment of a U.N.-dominated world government. Brookings Fellows have also called for additional global collaboration on trade and banking; the expansion of the Kyoto Protocol; and nationalized health insurance for children. Nine Brookings economists signed a petitionopposing President Bush’s tax cuts in 2003.
Campaign for America’s Future: This group supports tax hikes, socialized medicine, and a dramatic expansion of social welfare programs.
Campaign for Better Health Care: This organization favors a single-payer, government-run, universal health care system.
Campaign for Youth Justice: This organization contends that “transferring juveniles to the adult criminal-justice system leads to higher rates of recidivism, puts incarcerated and detained youth at unnecessary risk, has little deterrence value, and does not increase public safety.”
Campus Progress: A project of the Soros-bankrolled Center for American Progress, this group seeks to “strengthen progressive voices on college and university campuses, counter the growing influence of right-wing groups on campus, and empower new generations of progressive leaders.”
Casa de Maryland: This organization aggressively lobbies legislators to vote in favor of policies that promote expanded rights, including amnesty, for illegal aliens currently residing in the United States.
Catalist: This is a for-profit political consultancy that seeks “to help progressive organizations realize measurable increases in civic participation and electoral success by building and operating a robust national voter database of every voting-age American.”
Catholics for Choice: This nominally Catholic organization supports women’s right to abortion-on-demand.
Catholics in Alliance for the Common Good: This political nonprofit group is dedicated to generating support from the Catholic community for leftwing candidates, causes, and legislation.
Center for American Progress: This leftist think tank is headed by former Clinton chief of staff John Podesta, works closely with Hillary Clinton, and employs numerous former Clinton administration staffers. It is committed to “developing a long-term vision of a progressive America” and “providing a forum to generate new progressive ideas and policy proposals.”
Center for Community Change: This group recruits and trains activists to spearhead leftist “political issue campaigns.” Promoting increased funding for social welfare programs by bringing “attention to major national issues related to poverty,” the Center bases its training programs on the techniques taught by the famed radical organizer Saul Alinsky.
Center for Constitutional Rights: This pro-Castro organization is a core member of the open borders lobby, has opposed virtually all post-9/11 anti-terrorism measures by the U.S. government, and alleges that American injustice provokes acts of international terrorism.
Center for Economic and Policy Research: This group opposed welfare reform, supports “living wage” laws, rejects tax cuts, and consistently lauds the professed achievements of socialist regimes, most notably Venezuela.
Center for International Policy: This organization uses advocacy, policy research, media outreach, and educational initiatives to promote “transparency and accountability” in U.S. foreign policy and global relations. It generally views America as a disruptive, negative force in the world.
Center for Reproductive Rights: CRR’s mission is to guarantee safe, affordable contraception and abortion-on-demand for all women, including adolescents. The organization has filed state and federal lawsuits demanding access to taxpayer-funded abortions (through Medicaid) for low-income women.
Center for Responsible Lending: This organization was a major player in the subprime mortgage crisis. According to Phil Kerpen (vice president for policy at Americans for Prosperity), CRL “sh[ook] down and harass[ed] banks into making bad loans to unqualified borrowers.” Moreover, CRL negotiated a contract enabling it to operate as a conduit of high-risk loans to Fannie Mae.
Center for Social Inclusion: This organization seeks to counteract America’s “structural racism” by means of taxpayer-funded policy initiatives.
Center on Budget and Policy Priorities: Reasoning from the premise that tax cuts generally help only the wealthy, this organization advocates greater tax expenditures on social welfare programs for low earners.
Center on Wisconsin Strategy (COWS): Aiming to redistribute wealth by way of higher taxes imposed on those whose incomes are above average, COWS contends that “it is important that state government be able to harness fair contribution from all parts of society – including corporations and the wealthy.”
Change America Now: Formed in December 2006, Change America Now describes itself as “an independent political organization created to educate citizens on the failed policies of the Republican Congress and to contrast that record of failure with the promise offered by a Democratic agenda.”
Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington: This group litigates and brings ethics charges against “government officials who sacrifice the common good to special interests” and “betray the public trust.” Almost all of its targets are Republicans.
Coalition for an International Criminal Court: This group seeks to subordinate American criminal-justice procedures to those of an international court.
Color Of Change: This organization was founded to combat what it viewed as the systemic racism pervading America generally and conservatism in particular.
Common Cause: This organization aims to bring about campaign-finance reform, pursue media reform resembling the Fairness Doctrine, and cut military budgets in favor of increased social-welfare and environmental spending.
Constitution Project: This organization seeks to challenge the legality of military commissions; end the detainment of “enemy combatants”; condemn government surveillance of terrorists; and limit the President’s executive privileges.
Defenders of Wildlife Action Fund: Defenders of Wildlife opposes oil exploration in Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. It condemns logging, ranching, mining, and even the use of recreational motorized vehicles as activities that are destructive to the environment.
Democracy Alliance: This self-described “liberal organization” aims to raise $200 million to develop a funding clearinghouse for leftist groups. Soros is a major donor to this group.
Democracy 21: This group is a staunch supporter of the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2002, also known as the McCain-Feingold Act.
Democracy Now!: Democracy Now! was created in 1996 by WBAI radio news director Amy Goodman and four partners to provide “perspectives rarely heard in the U.S. corporate-sponsored media,” i.e., the views of radical and foreign journalists, left and labor activists, and ideological foes of capitalism.
Democratic Justice Fund: DJF opposes the Patriot Act and most efforts to restrict or regulate immigration into the United States — particularly from countries designated by the State Department as “terrorist nations.”
Democratic Party: Soros’ funding activities are devoted largely to helping the Democratic Party solidify its power base. In a November 2003 interview, Soros stated that defeating President Bush in 2004 “is the central focus of my life” … “a matter of life and death.” He pledged to raise $75 million to defeat Bush, and personally donated nearly a third of that amount to anti-Bush organizations. “America under Bush,” he said, “is a danger to the world, and I’m willing to put my money where my mouth is.”
Demos: This organization lobbies federal and state policymakers to “addres[s] the economic insecurity and inequality that characterize American society today”; promotes “ideas for reducing gaps in wealth, income and political influence”; and favors tax hikes for the wealthy.
Drum Major Institute: This group describes itself as “a non-partisan, non-profit think tank generating the ideas that fuel the progressive movement,” with the ultimate aim of persuading “policymakers and opinion-leaders” to take steps that advance its vision of “social and economic justice.”
Earthjustice: This group seeks to place severe restrictions on how U.S. land and waterways may be used. It opposes most mining and logging initiatives, commercial fishing businesses, and the use of motorized vehicles in undeveloped areas.
Economic Policy Institute: This organization believes that “government must play an active role in protecting the economically vulnerable, ensuring equal opportunity, and improving the well-being of all Americans.”
Electronic Privacy Information Center: This organization has been a harsh critic of the USA PATRIOT Act and has joined the American Civil Liberties Union in litigating two cases calling for the FBI “to publicly release or account for thousands of pages of information about the government’s use of PATRIOT Act powers.”
Ella Baker Center for Human Rights: Co-founded by the revolutionary communist Van Jones, this anti-poverty organization claims that “decades of disinvestment in our cities” — compounded by “excessive, racist policing and over-incarceration” — have “led to despair and homelessness.”
EMILY’s List: This political network raises money for Democratic female political candidates who support unrestricted access to taxpayer-funded abortion-on-demand.
Energy Action Coalition: Founded in 2004, this group describes itself as “a coalition of 50 youth-led environmental and social justice groups working together to build the youth clean energy and climate movement.” For EAC, this means “dismantling oppression” according to its principles of environmental justice.
Equal Justice USA: This group claims that America’s criminal-justice system is plagued by “significant race and class biases,” and thus seeks to promote major reforms.
Fair Immigration Reform Movement: This is the open-borders arm of the Center for Community Change.
Faithful America: This organization promotes the redistribution of wealth, an end to enhanced interrogation procedures vis a vis prisoners-of-war, the enactment of policies to combat global warming, and the creation of a government-run heath care system.
Families USA: This Washington-based health-care advocacy group favors ever-increasing government control of the American healthcare system.
Feminist Majority: Characterizing the United States as an inherently sexist nation, this group focuses on “advancing the legal, social and political equality of women with men, countering the backlash to women’s advancement, and recruiting and training young feminists to encourage future leadership for the feminist movement in the United States.”
Four Freedoms Fund: This organization was designed to serve as a conduit through which large foundations could fund state-based open-borders organizations more flexibly and quickly.
Free Exchange on Campus: This organization was created solely to oppose the efforts of one individual, David Horowitz, and his campaign to have universities adopt an “Academic Bill of Rights,” as well as todenounce Horowitz’s 2006 book The Professors. Member organizations of FEC include Campus Progress (a project of the Center for American Progress); the American Association of University Professors; theAmerican Civil Liberties Union; People For the American Way; the United States Student Association; theCenter for Campus Free Speech; the American Library Association; Free Press; and the National Association of State Public Interest Research Groups.
Free Press: This “media reform” organization has worked closely with many notable leftists and such organizations as Media Matters for America, Air America Radio, Global Exchange, Code Pink, Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting, the Revolutionary Communist Party, Mother Jones magazine, and Pacifica Radio.
Funding Exchange: Dedicated to the concept of philanthropy as a vehicle for social change, this organization pairs leftist donors and foundations with likeminded groups and activists who are dedicated to bringing about their own version of “progressive” change and social justice. Many of these grantees assume that American society is rife with racism, discrimination, exploitation, and inequity and needs to be overhauled via sustained education, activism, and social agitation.
Gamaliel Foundation: Modeling its tactics on those of the radical Sixties activist Saul Alinsky, this group takes a strong stand against current homeland security measures and immigration restrictions.
Gisha: Center for the Legal Protection of Freedom of Movement: This anti-Israel organization seeks to help Palestinians “exercise their right to freedom of movement.”
Global Centre for the Responsibility to Protect: This group contends that when a state proves either unable or unwilling to protect civilians from mass atrocities occurring within its borders, it is the responsibility of the international community to intervene — peacefully if possible, but with military force if necessary.
Global Exchange: Established in 1988 by pro-Castro radical Medea Benjamin, this group consistently condemns America’s foreign policy, business practices, and domestic life. Following the 9/11 terrorist attacks, Global Exchange advised Americans to examine “the root causes of resentment against the United States in the Arab world — from our dependence on Middle Eastern oil to our biased policy towards Israel.”
Grantmakers Without Borders: GWB tends to be very supportive of leftist environmental, anti-war, and civil rights groups. It is also generally hostile to capitalism, which it deems one of the chief “political, economic, and social systems” that give rise to a host of “social ills.”
Green For All: This group was created by Van Jones to lobby for federal climate, energy, and economic policy initiatives.
Health Care for America Now: This group supports a “single payer” model where the federal government would be in charge of financing and administering the entire U.S. healthcare system.
Human Rights Campaign: The largest “lesbian-gay-bisexual-transgender” lobbying group in the United States, HRC supports political candidates and legislation that will advance the LGBT agenda. Historically, HRC has most vigorously championed HIV/AIDS-related legislation, “hate crime” laws, the abrogation of the military’s “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy, and the legalization of gay marriage.
Human Rights First: This group supports open borders and the rights of illegal aliens; charges that the Patriot Act severely erodes Americans’ civil liberties; has filed amicus curiae briefs on behalf of terror suspect Jose Padilla; and deplores the Guantanamo Bay detention facilities.
Human Rights Watch: This group directs a disproportionate share of its criticism at the United States and Israel. It opposes the death penalty in all cases, and supports open borders and amnesty for illegal aliens.
I’lam: This anti-Israel NGO seeks “to develop and empower the Arab media and to give voice to Palestinian issues.”
Immigrant Defense Project: To advance the cause of illegal immigrants, the IDP provides immigration law backup support and counseling to New York defense attorneys and others who represent or assist immigrants in criminal justice and immigration systems, as well as to immigrants themselves.
Immigrant Legal Resource Center: This group claims to have helped gain amnesty for some three million illegal aliens in the U.S., and in the 1980s was part of the sanctuary movement which sought to grant asylum to refugees from the failed Communist states of Central America.
Immigrant Workers Citizenship Project: This open-borders organization advocates mass immigration to the U.S.
Immigration Advocates Network: This alliance of immigrant-rights groups seeks to “increase access to justice for low-income immigrants and strengthen the capacity of organizations serving them.”
Immigration Policy Center: IPC is an advocate of open borders and contends that the massive influx of illegal immigrants into America is due to U.S. government policy, since “the broken immigration system […] spurs unauthorized immigration in the first place.”
Independent Media Center: This Internet-based, news and events bulletin board represents an invariably leftist, anti-capitalist perspective and serves as a mouthpiece for anti-globalization/anti-America themes.
Independent Media Institute: IMI administers the SPIN Project (Strategic Press Information Network), which provides leftist organizations with “accessible and affordable strategic communications consulting, training, coaching, networking opportunities and concrete tools” to help them “achieve their social justice goals.”
Institute for America’s Future: IAF supports socialized medicine, increased government funding for education, and the creation of an infrastructure “to ensure that the voice of the progressive majority is heard.”
Institute for New Economic Thinking: Seeking to create a new worldwide “economic paradigm,” this organization is staffed by numerous individuals who favor government intervention in national economies, and who view capitalism as a flawed system.
Institute for Policy Studies: This think tank has long supported Communist and anti-American causes around the world. Viewing capitalism as a breeding ground for “unrestrained greed,” IPS seeks to provide a corrective to “unrestrained markets and individualism.” Professing an unquestioning faith in the righteousness of the United Nations, it aims to bring American foreign policy under UN control.
Institute for Public Accuracy: This anti-American, anti-capitalist organization sponsored actor Sean Penn’s celebrated visit to Baghdad in 2002. It also sponsored visits to Iraq by Democratic Congressmen Nick Rahall and former Democrat Senator James Abourezk
Institute for Women’s Policy Research: This group views the U.S. as a nation rife with discrimination against women, and publishes research to draw attention to this alleged state of affairs. It also advocates unrestricted access to taxpayer-funded abortion-on-demand, stating that “access to abortion is essential to the economic well-being of women and girls.”
International Crisis Group: One of this organization’s leading figures is its Mideast Director, Robert Malley, who was President Bill Clinton’s Special Assistant for Arab-Israeli Affairs. His analysis of the Mideast conflict is markedly pro-Palestinian.
J Street: This anti-Israel group warns that Israel’s choice to take military action to stop Hamas’ terrorist attacks “will prove counter-productive and only deepen the cycle of violence in the region”
Jewish Funds for Justice: This organization views government intervention and taxpayer funding as crucial components of enlightened social policy. It seeks to redistribute wealth from Jewish donors to low-income communities “to combat the root causes of domestic economic and social injustice.” By JFJ’s reckoning, chief among those root causes are the inherently negative by-products of capitalism – most notably racism and “gross economic inequality.”
Joint Victory Campaign 2004: Founded by George Soros and Harold Ickes, this group was a major fundraising entity for Democrats during the 2004 election cycle. It collected contributions (including large amounts from Soros personally) and disbursed them to two other groups, America Coming Together and the Media Fund, which also worked on behalf of Democrats.
Justice at Stake: This coalition calls for judges to be appointed by nonpartisan, independent commissions in a process known as “merit selection,” rather than elected by the voting public.
LatinoJustice PRLDF: This organization supports bilingual education, the racial gerrymandering of voting districts, and expanded rights for illegal aliens.
Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights Under Law: This group views America as an unremittingly racist nation; uses the courts to mandate race-based affirmative action preferences in business and academia; has filed briefs against the Department of Homeland Security’s efforts to limit the wholesale granting of green cards and to identify potential terrorists; condemns the Patriot Act; and calls on Americans to “recognize the contribution” of illegal aliens.
Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights: This organization views the United States as a nation rife with racism, sexism, and all manner of social injustice; and it uses legislative advocacy to push for “progressive change” that will create “a more open and just society.”
League of United Latin American Citizens: This group views America as a nation plagued by “an alarming increase in xenophobia and anti-Hispanic sentiment”; favors racial preferences; supports the legalization of illegal Hispanic aliens; opposes military surveillance of U.S. borders; opposes making English America’s official language; favors open borders; and rejects anti-terrorism legislation like the Patriot Act.
League of Women Voters Education Fund: The League supports taxpayer-funded abortion-on-demand; supports “motor-voter” registration, which allows anyone with a driver’s license to become a voter, regardless of citizenship status; and supports tax hikes and socialized medicine.
League of Young Voters: This organization seeks to “empowe[r] young people nationwide” to “participate in the democratic process and create progressive political change on the local, state and national level[s].”
Lynne Stewart Defense Committee: IRS records indicate that Soros’s Open Society Institute made a September 2002 grant of $20,000 to this organization. Stewart was the criminal-defense attorney who was later convicted for abetting her client, the “blind sheik” Omar Abdel Rahman, in terrorist activities connected with his Islamic Group.
Machsom Watch: This organization describes itself as “a movement of Israeli women, peace activists from all sectors of Israeli society, who oppose the Israeli occupation and the denial of Palestinians’ rights to move freely in their land.”
MADRE: This international women’s organization deems America the world’s foremost violator of human rights. As such, it seeks to “communicat[e] the real-life impact of U.S. policies on women and families confronting violence, poverty and repression around the world,” and to “demand alternatives to destructive U.S. policies.” It also advocates unrestricted access to taxpayer-funded abortion-on-demand.
Malcolm X Grassroots Movement: This group views the U.S. as a nation replete with racism and discrimination against blacks; seeks to establish an independent black nation in the southeastern United States; and demands reparations for slavery.
Massachusetts Immigrant and Refugee Advocacy Coalition: This group calls for the expansion of civil rights and liberties for illegal aliens; laments that illegal aliens in America are commonly subjected to “worker exploitation”; supports tuition-assistance programs for illegal aliens attending college; and characterizes the Patriot Act as a “very troubling” assault on civil liberties.
Media Fund: Soros played a major role in creating this group, whose purpose was to conceptualize, produce, and place political ads on television, radio, print, and the Internet.
Media Matters for America: This organization is a “web-based, not-for-profit … progressive research and information center” seeking to “systematically monitor a cross-section of print, broadcast, cable, radio, and Internet media outlets for conservative misinformation.” The group works closely with the Soros-backed Center for American Progress, and is heavily funded by Democracy Alliance, of which Soros is a major financier.
Mercy Corps: Vis a vis the Arab-Israeli conflict, Mercy Corps places all blame for Palestinian poverty and suffering directly on Israel.
Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund: This group advocates open borders, free college tuition for illegal aliens, lowered educational standards to accommodate Hispanics, and voting rights for criminals. In MALDEF’s view, supporters of making English the official language of the United States are “motivated by racism and anti-immigrant sentiments,” while advocates of sanctions against employers reliant on illegal labor seek to discriminate against “brown-skinned people.”
Meyer, Suozzi, English and Klein, PC: This influential defender of Big Labor is headed by Democrat operativeHarold Ickes.
Midwest Academy: This entity trains radical activists in the tactics of direct action, targeting, confrontation, and intimidation.
Migration Policy Institute: This group seeks to create “a North America with gradually disappearing border controls … with permanent migration remaining at moderate levels.”
Military Families Speak Out: This group ascribes the U.S. invasion of Iraq to American imperialism and lust for oil.
Missourians Organizing for Reform and Empowerment: This group is the rebranded Missouri branch of the now-defunct, pro-socialist, community organization ACORN.
MoveOn.org: This Web-based organization supports Democratic political candidates through fundraising, advertising, and get-out-the-vote drives.
Ms. Foundation for Women: This group laments what it views as the widespread and enduring flaws of American society: racism, sexism, homophobia, and the violation of civil rights and liberties. It focuses its philanthropy on groups that promote affirmative action for women, unfettered access to taxpayer-funded abortion-on-demand, amnesty for illegal aliens, and big government generally.
Muslim Advocates: Opposed to U.S. counter-terrorism strategies that make use of sting operations and informants, MA characterizes such tactics as forms of “entrapment” that are inherently discriminatory against Muslims.
NARAL Pro-Choice America: This group supports taxpayer-funded abortion-on-demand, and works to elect pro-abortion Democrats.
NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund: The NAACP supports racial preferences in employment and education, as well as the racial gerrymandering of voting districts. Underpinning its support for race preferences is the fervent belief that white racism in the United States remains an intractable, largely undiminished, phenomenon.
The Nation Institute: This nonprofit entity sponsors leftist conferences, fellowships, awards for radical activists, and journalism internships.
National Abortion Federation: This group opposes any restrictions on abortion at either the state or federal levels, and champions the introduction of unrestricted abortion into developing regions of the world.
National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty: This group was established in 1976 as the first “fully staffed national organization exclusively devoted to abolishing capital punishment.”
National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy: This group depicts the United States as a nation in need of dramatic structural change financed by philanthropic organizations. It overwhelmingly promotes grant-makers and grantees with leftist agendas, while criticizing their conservative counterparts.
National Committee for Voting Integrity: This group opposes “the implementation of proof of citizenship and photo identification requirements for eligible electors in American elections as the means of assuring election integrity.”
National Council for Research on Women: This group supports big government, high taxes, military spending cuts, increased social welfare spending, and the unrestricted right to taxpayer-funded abortion-on-demand.
National Council of La Raza: This group lobbies for racial preferences, bilingual education, stricter hate-crime laws, mass immigration, and amnesty for illegal aliens.
National Council of Women’s Organizations: This group views the United States as a nation rife with injustice against girls and women. It advocates high levels of spending for social welfare programs, and supports race and gender preferences for minorities and women in business and academia.
National Immigration Forum: Opposing the enforcement of present immigration laws, this organization urges the American government to “legalize” en masse all illegal aliens currently in the United States who have no criminal records, and to dramatically increase the number of visas available for those wishing to migrate to the U.S. The Forum is particularly committed to opening the borders to unskilled, low-income workers, and immediately making them eligible for welfare and social service programs.
National Immigration Law Center: This group seeks to win unrestricted access to government-funded social welfare programs for illegal aliens.
National Lawyers Guild: This group promotes open borders; seeks to weaken America’s intelligence-gathering agencies; condemns the Patriot Act as an assault on civil liberties; rejects capitalism as an unviable economic system; has rushed to the defense of convicted terrorists and their abettors; and generally opposes all U.S. foreign policy positions, just as it did during the Cold War when it sided with the Soviets.
National Organization for Women: This group advocates the unfettered right to taxpayer-funded abortion-on-demand; seeks to “eradicate racism, sexism and homophobia” from American society; attacks Christianity and traditional religious values; and supports gender-based preferences for women.
National Partnership for Women and Families: This organization supports race- and sex-based preferences in employment and education. It also advocates for the universal “right” of women to undergo taxpayer-funded abortion-on-demand at any stage of pregnancy and for any reason.
National Priorities Project: This group supports government-mandated redistribution of wealth — through higher taxes and greater expenditures on social welfare programs. NPP exhorts the government to redirect a significant portion of its military funding toward public education, universal health insurance, environmentalist projects, and welfare programs.
National Public Radio: Founded in 1970 with 90 public radio stations as charter members, NPR is today a loose network of more than 750 U.S. radio stations across the country, many of which are based on college and university campuses. (source)
National Security Archive Fund: This group collects and publishes declassified documents obtained through the Freedom of Information Act to a degree that compromises American national security and the safety of intelligence agents.
National Women’s Law Center: This group supports taxpayer-funded abortion-on-demand; lobbies against conservative judicial appointees; advocates increased welfare spending to help low-income mothers; and favors higher taxes for the purpose of generating more funds for such government programs as Medicaid, food stamps, welfare, foster care, health care, child-support enforcement, and student loans.
Natural Resources Defense Council: One of the most influential environmentalist lobbying groups in the United States, the Council claims a membership of one million people.
New America Foundation: This organization uses policy papers, media articles, books, and educational events to influence public opinion on such topics as healthcare, environmentalism, energy policy, the Mideast conflict, global governance, and much more.
New Israel Fund: This organization gives support to NGOs that regularly produce reports accusing Israel of human-rights violations and religious persecution.
NewsCorpWatch: A project of Media Matters For America, NewsCorpWatch was established with the help of a $1 million George Soros grant to Media Matters.
Pacifica Foundation: This entity owns and operates Pacifica Radio, awash from its birth with the socialist-Marxist rhetoric of class warfare and hatred for capitalism.
Palestinian Center for Human Rights: This NGO investigates and documents what it views as Israeli human-rights violations against Palestinians.
Peace and Security Funders Group: This is an association of more than 60 foundations that give money to leftist anti-war and environmentalist causes. Its members tend to depict America as the world’s chief source of international conflict, environmental destruction, and economic inequalities.
Peace Development Fund: In PDF’s calculus, the United States needs a massive overhaul of its social and economic institutions. “Recently,” explains PDF, “we have witnessed the negative effects of neo-liberalism and the globalization of capitalism, the de-industrialization of the U.S. and the growing gap between the rich and poor …”
People for the American Way: This group opposes the Patriot Act, anti-terrorism measures generally, and the allegedly growing influence of the “religious right.”
People Improving Communities Through Organizing: This group uses Alinsky-style organizing tactics to advance the doctrines of the religious left.
Physicians for Human Rights: This group is selectively and disproportionately critical of the United States and Israel in its condemnations of human rights violations.
Physicians for Social Responsibility: This is an anti-U.S.-military organization that also embraces the tenets of radical environmentalism.
Planned Parenthood: This group is the largest abortion provider in the United States and advocates taxpayer-funded abortion-on-demand.
Ploughshares Fund: This public grantmaking foundation opposes America’s development of a missile defense system, and contributes to many organizations that are highly critical of U.S. foreign policies and military ventures.
Prepare New York: This group supported the proposed construction of a Muslim Community Center near Ground Zero in lower Manhattan – a project known as the Cordoba Initiative, headed by Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf.
Presidential Climate Action Project: PCAP’s mission is to create a new 21st-century economy, completely carbon-free and based largely on renewable energy. A key advisor to the organization is the revolutionary communist Van Jones.
Prison Moratorium Project: This initiative was created in 1995 for the express purpose of working for the elimination of all prisons in the United States and the release of all inmates. Reasoning from the premise that incarceration is never an appropriate means of dealing with crime, it deems American society’s inherent inequities the root of all criminal behavior.
Progressive Change Campaign Committee: This organization works “to elect bold progressive candidates to federal office and to help [them] and their campaigns save money, work smarter, and win more often.”
Progressive States Network: PSN’s mission is to “pass progressive legislation in all fifty states by providing coordinated research and strategic advocacy tools to forward-thinking state legislators.”
Project Vote: This is the voter-mobilization arm of the Soros-funded ACORN. A persistent pattern of lawlessness and corruption has followed ACORN/Project Vote activities over the years.
Pro Publica: Claiming that “investigative journalism is at risk,” this group aims to remedy this lacuna in news publishing by “expos[ing] abuses of power and betrayals of the public trust by government, business, and other institutions, using the moral force of investigative journalism to spur reform through the sustained spotlighting of wrongdoing.”
Proteus Fund: This foundation directs its philanthropy toward a number of radical leftwing organizations.
Psychologists for Social Responsibility: This anti-capitalist, anti-corporate, anti-military, anti-American organization “uses psychological knowledge and skills to promote peace with social justice at the community, national and international levels.”
Public Citizen Foundation: Public Citizen seeks increased government intervention and litigation against corporations — a practice founded on the notion that American corporations, like the capitalist system of which they are a part, are inherently inclined toward corruption.
Public Justice Center: Viewing America as a nation rife with injustice and discrimination, this organization engages in legislative and policy advocacy to promote “systemic change for the disenfranchised.”
Rebuild and Renew America Now (a.k.a. Unity ’09): Spearheaded by MoveOn.org and overseen by longtime activist Heather Booth, this coalition was formed to facilitate the passage of President Obama’s “historic” $3.5 trillion budget for fiscal year 2010.
Res Publica: Seeking to advance far-left agendas in places all around the world, RP specializes in “E-advocacy,” or web-based movement-building.
Roosevelt Institute: Proceeding from the premise that free-market capitalism is inherently unjust and prone to periodic collapses caused by its own structural flaws, RI currently administers several major projects aimed at reshaping the American economy to more closely resemble a socialist system.
Secretary of State Project: This project was launched in July 2006 as an independent “527” organization devoted to helping Democrats get elected to the office of Secretary of State in selected swing, or battleground, states.
Sentencing Project: Asserting that prison-sentencing patterns are racially discriminatory, this initiative advocates voting rights for felons.
Social Justice Leadership: This organization seeks to transform an allegedly inequitable America into a “just society” by means of “a renewed social-justice movement.”
Shadow Democratic Party: This is an elaborate network of non-profit activist groups organized by George Soros and others to mobilize resources — money, get-out-the-vote drives, campaign advertising, and policy iniatives — to elect Democratic candidates and guide the Democratic Party towards the left.
Sojourners: This evangelical Christian ministry preaches radical leftwing politics. During the 1980s it championed Communist revolution in Central America and chastised U.S. policy-makers for their tendency “to assume the very worst about their Soviet counterparts.” More recently, Sojourners has taken up the cause of environmental activism, opposed welfare reform as a “mean-spirited Republican agenda,” and mounted a defense of affirmative action.
Southern Poverty Law Center: This organization monitors the activities of what it calls “hate groups” in the United States. It exaggerates the prevalence of white racism directed against American minorities.
State Voices: This coalition helps independent local activist groups in 22 states work collaboratively on a year-round basis, so as to maximize the impact of their efforts.
Talking Transition: This was a two-week project launched in early November 2013 to “help shape the transition” to City Hall for the newly elected Democratic mayor of New York, Bill de Blasio.
Think Progress: This Internet blog “pushes back, daily,” by its own account, against its conservative targets, and seeks to transform “progressive ideas into policy through rapid response communications, legislative action, grassroots organizing and advocacy, and partnerships with other progressive leaders throughout the country and the world.”
Thunder Road Group: This political consultancy, in whose creation Soros had a hand, coordinates strategy for the Media Fund, America Coming Together, and America Votes.
Tides Foundation and Tides Center: Tides is a major funder of the radical Left.
U.S. Public Interest Research Group: This is an umbrella organization of student groups that support leftist agendas.
Universal Healthcare Action Network: This organization supports a single-payer health care system controlled by the federal government.
Urban Institute: This research organization favors socialized medicine, expansion of the federal welfare bureaucracy, and tax hikes for higher income-earners.
USAction Education Fund: USAction lists its priorities as: “fighting the right wing agenda”; “building grassroots political power”; winning “social, racial and economic justice for all”; supporting a system of taxpayer-funded socialized medicine; reversing “reckless tax cuts for millionaires and corporations” which shield the “wealthy” from paying their “fair share”; advocating for “pro-consumer and environmental regulation of corporate abuse”; “strengthening progressive voices on local, state and national issues”; and working to “register, educate and get out the vote … [to] help progressives get elected at all levels of government.”
Voter Participation Center: This organization seeks to increase voter turnout among unmarried women, “people of color,” and 18-to-29-year-olds — demographics that are heavily pro-Democrat.
Voto Latino: This group seeks to mobilize Latin-Americans to become registered voters and political activists.
We Are America Alliance: This coalition promotes “increased civic participation by immigrants” in the American political process.
Working Families Party: An outgrowth of the socialist New Party, WFP seeks to help push the Democratic Party toward the left.
World Organization Against Torture: This coalition works closely with groups that condemn Israeli security measures against Palestinian terrorism.
YWCA World Office, Switzerland: The YWCA opposes abstinence education; supports universal access to taxpayer-funded abortion-on-demand; and opposes school vouchers.
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In addition to those organizations that are funded directly by George Soros and his Open Society Foundations (OSF), there are also numerous “secondary” or “indirect” affiliates of the Soros network. These include organizations which do not receive direct funding from Soros and OSF, but which are funded by one or more organizations that do.
Center for Progressive Leadership: Funded by the Soros-bankrolled Democracy Alliance, this anti-capitalist organization is dedicated to training future leftist political leaders.
John Adams Project:This project of the American Civil Liberties Union was accused of: (a) having hired investigators to photograph CIA officers thought to have been involved in enhanced interrogations of terror suspects detained in Guantanamo, and then (b) showing the photos to the attorneys of those suspects, some of whom were senior al-Qaeda operatives.
Moving Ideas Network (MIN): This coalition of more than 250 leftwing activist groups is a partner organization of the Soros-backed Center for American Progress. MIN was originally a project of the Soros-backed American Prospect and, as such, received indirect funding from the Open Society Institute. In early 2006, The American Prospect relinquished control of the Moving Ideas Network.
New Organizing Institute: Created by the Soros-funded MoveOn.org, this group “trains young, technology-enabled political organizers to work for progressive campaigns and organizations.”
Think Progress: This “project” of the American Progress Action Fund, which is a “sister advocacy organization”of the Soros-funded Center for American Progress and Campus Progress, seeks to transform “progressive ideas into policy through rapid response communications, legislative action, grassroots organizing and advocacy, and partnerships with other progressive leaders throughout the country and the world.”
Vote for Change: Coordinated by the political action committee of the Soros-funded MoveOn.org, Vote for Change was a group of 41 musicians and bands that performed concerts in several key election “battleground”states during October 2004, to raise money in support of Democrat John Kerry’s presidential bid.
Working Families Party: Created in 1998 to help push the Democratic Party toward the left, this front group for the Soros-funded ACORN functions as a political party that promotes ACORN-friendly candidates.
https://youtu.be/t9ptPqXswaw
Soros Caught Funding Terrorist Refugee Boats To Europe
https://youtu.be/JW_F1lxAH1I
“A conspiracy fact”: Soros, Trudeau plot “refugee” scheme
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Ezra Levant er som navnet antyder også jøde
“Born in Calgary, Levant holds a commerce degree from the University of Calgary and a law degree from the University of Alberta. His great-grandfather emigrated to Canada in 1903 from Russia to establish a homestead near Drumheller, Alberta.[4] Levant grew up in a suburb of Calgary. He attended a Jewish day school in his childhood before transferring to a public junior high school.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ezra_Levant
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Alexander, stop tæppebombning. Nøjes med linkene, så finder vi selv frem til den fuldstændige beretning, hvis vi skønner det umagen værd. Begræns din indsats til at forklare det uforståelige: Hvorfor iværksætter nogle jøder masseindvandring af muhamedanere, der som bekendt er jødernes værste fjender? Jeg har tidligere skrevet følgende forsøgsvis “forklaring”, men jeg har stadig til gode at få en tilbagemelding:
“Jødehaderne på Uriasposten påpeger ofte jøders rolle i forbindelse med storstilet undergravende virksomhed. I min forestillingsverden, er det irrelevant. Det kan være personer, jeg gerne ser elimineret, ikke fordi de er jøder, men fordi, de gør det, de gør. En nyttig analogi er de forræderiske danskere: Hans Gammeltoft-Hansen, Straksopbremseren Lille Lars, Connie Hedegaard, Margrethe Vestager og mange flere. Skal vi på grund af sådanne uheldige eksemplarer iværksætte kampagner mod Danmark og danske; og således sparke os selv i røven?
Forstå det nu! Det vi laver på Uriasposten, skulle gerne give mening og allerhelst ligge på et fagligt højt plan. Start med Jer selv. Gør Jer umage, læs korrektur på Jeres indlæg. Lad være med at tæppebombe, men brug gerne links, der kan underbygge og dokumentere Jeres påstande.”
Kommentar by Tommy Jørgart — 24. juli 2017 @ 17:35
Styr nu dine Youtube- og/eller ‘jøde’-links. Det er dybt trættende, og i reglen irrelevant.
Kommentar by Kim Møller — 24. juli 2017 @ 17:36
Det er sgu da jer der er helt blæste. Er George Soros jøde eller er han ikke, er Rotschild jøde, i er sgu da for syge i hjernen.
I godkender ikke fakta, uanset i hvilken form i får dem, så i er jo reelt retarderede.
Funktionelle idioter, hahaha. I er sgu da helt syge. Gør de mange bogstaver ondt på jeres lave selvværd?
Holdt nu kæft Alexander, de taler jo ret pænt til dig ikke? Jeg ved godt hvad jeg ville forklare dem, men jeg er f* træt at at gentage det samme hele tiden. Men ja der kommer nye til som ikke forstår logikken og kender til de mange fakta i en sammenhæng. Jeg synes jeg har skrevet det mange gange, men det er også noget med at gøre sig lidt umage for at forstå, eller også drukner det i mængden. Dem som nu har reageret på dig er jo ikke de her fanatikere som blot kommer med personangreb. Så jeg forstår ikke hvorfor du ikke bare kan forstå at det bliver for meget med alenlange copy paste stykker og oneliners? Eller er du virkelig en troll?
Næeh, Balder. Jeg er bare skide træt af at sige det samme igen og igen. Enhver kan sgu da selv gå til truther-sites og få fat i hovedtrækkene. Nu har jeg givet den komplette historie. Hvorfor så¨blive ved med at bekæmpe fakta?
Det er ok, at kæmpe, hvis man byder ind med noget der har relevans, ellers er det bare trolleri.
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'Ray of sunshine' wins Dr Hare Puke Mori Leadership Scholarship
Wednesday, 17 April, 2019 - 10:54
Reina Daji, Wintec’s Library Customer Service Assistant, has just been named as the 2019 recipient of the prestigious Hare Puke MÄori Leadership Scholarship.
Reina, who is of NgÄ Puhi and NgÄti TÅ«wharetoa descent, was chosen for her passion for improving the services she provides for students in the library, and boldly introducing te reo MÄori and cultural elements.
"Reina recognised the need for creating a large scale kete (kit) of resources to guide students study both in the library, and in her role as kaiÄwhina for the new physiotherapy programme. She also wants to expand and grow her leadership skills as an extension of Wintec’s He Manukura MÄori programme," says Wintec Director of MÄori, Hera White.
"Reina came across in her application as a young person that Hare Puke would want to nurture."
Reina said it is truly an honour to be selected as this year’s recipient.
"Honestly, I was completely stunned when Whaea Hera shared with me the incredible news. I was on a "happiness high" for the next few days and so excited for the amazing opportunities that I’ll be able to participate in this year."
Wintec established the scholarship in 2008 for staff to recognise and honour its late kaumÄtua, Dr Hare Puke. Its goal is to enable MÄori staff to gain further leadership and management skills.
"I have a deep respect for kaumÄtua Hare Puke and the work he did here at Wintec and throughout our community. To even be considered for this scholarship, which carries with it so much mana, esteem and prestige, and has been awarded to staff members of remarkable calibre in the past, is a profound privilege to me. I will certainly do my best to make the most of it this year," says Reina.
Reina is planning to utilise the scholarship to continue participating in a Women and Leadership New Zealand programme called, Leading Edge.
"Leading Edge is designed to enable the transition of aspiring and early career women into confident, capable and motivated leaders," says Reina.
Several of the programme’s key themes, such as ‘Effective Interpersonal Communication’, ‘Emotional Intelligence and Conflict Resolution’, and ‘Leading in Times of Change’ are good indicators of what Reina is hoping to gain over the coming months.
The scholarship has a value of $15,000 per year and one additional week of professional development leave.
As Customer Service Assistant in the Library, Reina focuses on the customer experience in the Library, creating an inviting and comfortable space for everyone to feel welcome and respected.
"A typical day at work for me has changed significantly this year with acquiring not one, but two, additional roles here at Wintec. One as kaiÄwhina for the brand-new Physiotherapy programme, where I help provide extra pastoral care support for those students, and the other as an exam supervisor for the Centre for Languages on the weekends.
"I am busy this year and working hard to keep up with it all, but each of my roles is incredibly rewarding. It is a pleasure to come to work each day," explains Reina.
Reina with her Improvement and Opportunity award at the Wintec 2018 Staff Awards
Not only is Reina the 2019 recipient of the Hare Puke scholarship, but she also won the Improvement and Opportunity Award at Wintec’s 2018 Staff Awards.
Liaison Librarian, Rachel Axcell explains that Reina has been a member of the library team for more than 18 months and has really stamped her mark.
"Reina has encouraged and supported the library team in learning te reo MÄori, with each library meeting now starting with a karakia and waiata, bringing us closer together.
"Reina has embraced all personal development opportunities that have come her way, winning a scholarship to attend the Te RÅpÅ« Whakahau conference last year. She is also part of the Wintec He Manukura MÄori group, and relishes being around such inspirational women at Wintec. She always eagerly reports back on her experiences, so our team can gain new knowledge through her.
"The library and Wintec are a sunnier place with Reina in it," says Rachel.
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The following articles have been published in the International Journal of Sudan Research (IJSR).
(pp.001-007) A. Ahmed ‘IJSR welcome editorial’, IJSR, Vol. 1, No. 1, 2010
IJSR, IJSR V1 N1 2010 8th October 2010
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(pp.009-028) R. A. Ghobrial and S. M. Sharif ‘Sudanese memory institutions and digital technologies’, IJSR, Vol. 1, No. 1, 2010
(pp.029-033) A. H. Fahal ‘Continuing professional development in medical & health professions’, IJSR, Vol. 1, No. 1, 2010
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Shihab Khogali, University of Dundee
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Playlist: WFIU's Favorite Holiday Specials
Compiled By: WFIU
WFIU has brought together some of our favorite holiday specials we've produced over the years.
A Cool Christmas
From WFIU | Part of the Night Lights Classic Jazz: Specials series | 59:02
An hour-long program of classic jazz. Come along for a jzz sleigh ride with music from Shirley Horn, Paul Bley, Duke Ellington, and more...
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It's "A Cool Christmas" as we usher in the holiday with a jazz tribute. Come along for a jzz sleigh ride with music from Shirley Horn, Paul Bley, Duke Ellington, and more. Also featuring Ella Fitzgerald, Buselli-Wallarab Jazz Orchestra, Eddie Higgins, and Duke Pearson.
A Cool Christmas | 59:02
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An Early Music Christmas
From WFIU | 57:59
An hour-long program of seasonal music from the distant past and through the ages -- both sublime and earthly, across time and place, across beliefs and traditions.
An hour-long program of seasonal music from the distant past and through the ages, both sublime and earthly, across time and place, and across beliefs and traditions. Featuring a rich selection of well-known holiday vocal music, including selections from Handel's Messiah, Bach's Christmas Oratorio, and a variety of traditional hymns, carols and song. A festive addition to your Christmas programming schedule!!!
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Hep to the Holidays
An hour-long program of "cool-Yule" classic jazz, featuring holiday jazz from Louis Armstrong, Bill Evans, Horace Silver and more, including poet Sascha Feinstein’s reading of his “Christmas Eve” jazz poem.
Night Lights' annual holiday tribute celebrates the season with plenty of cool-Yule jazz, including Shorty Rogers' take on "The Nutcracker," pianist Bill Evans having some vocal fun with "Santa Claus Is Coming to Town" (as well as the backstory on how the song came to be written), guitarist Emily Remler offering up a luminous version of "Snowfall," and poet Sascha Feinstein reading his poem about the legendary Miles Davis-Thelonious Monk Christmas Eve 1954 recording session. Lighthearted and poignant, perfect for December.
Hep to the Holidays | 59:01
A Latin American Christmas
One-hour special of warm and sunny holiday music from many latin-american locales. A festive program for the holiday season!!!
A Latin American Christmas brings your listeners some warm and sunny music of the season and a lot of good cheer from many lands south of the border and even the equator. Feliz Navidad! (A Spanish version is coming soon!)
A Latin American Christmas | 58:55
A Very "Earth Eats" Christmas
From WFIU | Part of the Earth Eats: Specials series | 58:57
This hour-long program of cooking and conversation and music presents a festive Christmas meal of roast duck, parsnip soup and more. We'll share stories, have some laughs and taste a lot of food.
Celebrate local and seasonal eating with A Very Earth Eats Christmas. "The tradition of using the seasonal ingredients is what brings these things out during the holidays," says Chef Daniel Orr, the mastermind behind our holiday feast today.
During this hour-long program, we prepare roast duck, parsnip soup, a goat cheese cheese ball and foraged mushrooms. He'll have some help preparing the food from three old friends. We'll share stories, have some laughs and taste a lot of food.
The day wouldn't be complete without some holiday music by southern Indiana-based singer-songwriter Krista Detor. So, pour yourself some eggnog, cozy up with a warm sweater and join us as we celebrate A Very Earth Eats Christmas. Annie Corrigan is your host.
A Very "Earth Eats" Christmas | 58:57
Have Yourself a Very Quiet Christmas
An hour-long program of classic jazz, paying tribute to the holidays with an emphasis on the quiet, reflective side of Christmas melodies.
Take a break from the frazzled and frantic vibe of the holidays with "Have Yourself a Very Quiet Christmas." This episode of Night Lights emphasizes the more laidback side of holiday music; even "Santa Claus Is Coming To Town" gets a cool-jazz treatment from the Dave Brubeck Quartet, while Joe Pass delivers a reflective guitar version of "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas," and Paul Desmond joins the Modern Jazz Quartet for a poignant reading of "Greensleeves."
There are some little-heard and unconventional seasonal tracks such as Judy Holliday's "It Must Be Christmas" and hardbop pianist Horace Silver's "Peace," and tasteful nods to standard holiday-jazz fare such as Vince Guaraldi's "What Child Is This" and two of Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn's arrangements from The Nutcracker Suite. Perfect for paying homage to the holidays in the mellowest of moods.
Have Yourself a Very Quiet Christmas | 58:59
An Afterglow Winter Wonderland!
From WFIU | Part of the Afterglow (Jazz and American Popular Song): Specials series | 59:00
Not all winter songs are about Christmas! In this Afterglow special, we’ll hear some favorite wintertime songs from the Great American Songbook sung by Rosemary Clooney, Julie London, Bing Crosby, and many more.
Winter is right around the corner, so this week on the show, I’ll be bringing you some songs of the winter season, looking at our chilliest months of the year. This hour, we’ll hear some songs about winter (NOT Christmas!), including snow songs sung by Rosemary Clooney and Tony Bennett. We’ll also hear some songs about the cold from Bing Crosby and Sam Cooke,. And June Christy will bring us a bit of hope as we brace for the winter weather.
An Afterglow Winter Wonderland! | 59:00
Other Playlists by WFIU
WFIU's Favorite Halloween Specials
WFIU's Favorite Thanksgiving Specials
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THE SEA TRIALS OF THE YACHT MARCO POLO (1961)
An amateur film by Ken Christie of the sea trials of the yacht Marco Polo built at Clelands Shipbuilding Company at Wallsend. The yacht was launched on the 29th May 1961 and completed August 1961.
THE SEA TRIALS OF THE CARGO SHIP MANCHESTER PROGRESS (1967)
An amateur film made by Ken Christie showing the sea trails of the cargo ship Manchester Progress built at the South Bank yard of Smiths Dock Company near Middlesbrough for the Manchester Liners Ltd. The ship was launched on the 16 September 1966 and completed February 1967. Mr Christie worked for DECCA Marine Radar and was on board representing his company as part of the ships' sea trials.
PALMERS HEBBURN (1949)
A promotional film made for Palmers Hebburn Co. Ltd highlighting the various products and services offered by the company. The first part of the film shows their constructional engineering works at Hebburn and steel frames under construction for a building. The second part of the film documents the ship repair and construction yards at Jarrow including the construction of a new cargo ship, the ‘Afghanistan’.
TEES LIVES (1965)
An amateur film made by members of the Cleveland Cine Club about the River Tees, tracing the course of the river from Cauldron Snout falls in County Durham, downstream at High Force waterfall in Teesdale, and on to Middlesbrough and the launch from Smith's Dock of the semi-submersible oilrig Ocean Prince on the 25th July 1965. The film features views of the Tees Newport Bridge and Transporter Bridge.
TUGS AND SHIPPING (1979)
A short amateur film made by members of the Cleveland Cine Club showing Tees Towing Company tug boats escorting a cargo ship upstream along the river Tees to Middlesbrough Dock.
A WIND OF CHANGE (1980)
An amateur film produced by members of the Cleveland Cine Club looking at the history and operation of Middlesbrough Dock shortly before it is closed in 1980. The final part of the film shot short after the closure of the dock shows the dismantling of the dockside cranes which are seen being taken down the River Tees by tug boat.
PARADE OF SAIL: NEWCASTLE MARITIME FESTIVAL '86 (1986)
An amateur film made by Eddie Nelson of the Cleveland Cine Club of the parade of sailing ships leaving the river Tyne as part of the 1986 Cutty Sark Tall Ships Race.
TALL SHIPS ON TYNE (1986)
Amateur film by Stephen Gray that documents the 1986 Cutty Sark Tall Ships’ Races along the River Tyne between Newcastle upon Tyne and South Shields, and the firework display the night before the start of the race.
TYNE AND TIDE (1979)
This amateur film by Stephen Gray records life on the River Tyne from the South Shields riverside, including pilot boats helping ships navigate downriver, fishermen, sailing boat activities, and locals enjoying some stormy weather along the Shields pier.
THE WRECK (1960)
A home movie by Austen McOlvin Laws of the shipwreck of the MV Yewglen, which ran aground off Beadnell Point in Northumberland on the 27th February 1960. Filmed between February and October of that year, the films shows the ship after the initial disaster, with people looking over the wreck plus high winds and waves crashing over the vessel causing the bow section to come away. The final part of the film in October shows the now rusting vessel plus debris now strewn along the shoreline.
FAMILY AND FRIENDS AT BEADNELL (1951-1957)
A collection of home movies made by Austen McOlvin Laws between 1951 and 1957 showing family and friends on holiday at Beadnell in Northumberland. As well as showing them playing in the sand and paddling and swimming in the sea, they are also filmed in the garden of their house. The film also features the family in their small sailing dinghy sailing the waters near the beach and harbour. The film ends with a family trip to the Farne Islands.
SIX FIVE: SEA BURIAL HARTLEPOOL HARBOUR (1968)
Film insert of a Royal Navy ceremony for a sea burial on board HMS Abdiel in Hartlepool Harbour. Filmed for the Tyne Tees Television Six Five news programme, this item broadcast on 16 January 1968. The ship was commissioned on 17 October 1967, designated by the Ministry of Defence as an ‘exercise minelayer’.
LOOK OF THE MONTH: SHIPYARD STRIKE (1968)
Tyne Tees Television interview with Chief Executive Sir John Hunter of Swan Hunter and Tyne Shipbuilders and film inserts on a shipyard strike at Swan Hunters, Newcastle upon Tyne, including aerial footage of shipyards and of a strike meeting. This news footage was included in a Look of the Month compilation, originally broadcast on 28 October 1968.
SIX FIVE: LORD ROCHDALE VISITS TYNESIDE (1968)
Mute Tyne Tees Television footage showing a visit to Tyneside by John Durival Kemp, 1st Viscount Rochdale. The film shows him being escorted around a shipyard, possibly John Readhead and Sons at South Shields. This report was transmitted 1 May 1968.
TODAY AT SIX: RIVER TEES POLLUTION (1968)
Mute Tyne Tees Television news footage transmitted on the 19th November 1968 showing various industrial views along the River Tees passing the Newport Bridge and heading towards the Transporter Bridge.
HMS ILLUSTRIOUS & SPEEDBOATS (RETURN AFTER FALKLANDS WAR): NEWCASTLE WATER-SKI GRAND PRIX (c.1984)
This amateur footage by Stephen Gray, an Environmental Health Department officer with Gateshead Council, records the return of HMS Illustrious to the Tyne following service in the Falklands War and a Newcastle Water-Ski Grand Prix (power boat racing) in Newcastle upon Tyne.
RAIL TO SELL (1978-1979)
This is an amateur 'trainspotting' film made between 1978 and 1979 by Stephen Gray that records various British Rail diesel locomotives arriving and leaving Newcastle Central Station and York Station, plus footage of Gateshead Motive Power Depot in the snow and Boldon Colliery Station.
HOLIDAYS AND TRAINS (1978)
This amateur film footage by an environmental health officer at Gateshead Council, Stephen Gray, documents the streets and parks of South Shields, Gateshead, and Durham. It also includes footage of diesel locomotives at Durham, Carlisle, Newcastle upon Tyne and Boldon Colliery railway stations, a visit to Whitby and a school fete, probably in Gateshead.
NORTHERN LIFE: LONGSTONE LIGHTHOUSE (1976)
Filmed report for the Tyne Tees Television Northern Life news programme, broadcast on 1 November 1976. Reporter Tony Cook spends time with three lighthouse keepers working at the Longstone Lighthouse on Longshore Rock off the Northumberland coast, which is celebrating its 150th anniversary. One of the keepers, David Hindmarch, claims to have experienced a haunting at the lighthouse, said to be the ghost of Grace Darling.
ESTUARY (1974)
This film is a meditative look at activity on the river Tees, split into three sections. The first and longest section looks at the work of the famous Transporter Bridge which links Middlesbrough on the south bank of the Tees with Port Clarence on the north bank. The next section follows the work of Foyboatmen, who assist with the mooring of large vessels coming into port. The final section looks at the area of Greatham Creek on the north side of the Tees with its fishermen and associated houseboats.
EAST BY NORTH EAST: THE HONG KONG CONNECTION (1984)
Promotional film for British Shipbuilders about the delivery of bulk carriers Hupeh, built at the Deptford Yard, and the Sunderland Venture, the last SD-14 built at the Austin & Pickersgill Southwick yard, Sunderland. The ships are delivered to clients in Hong Kong, the Wahkwong Line and Taikoo Navigation Company, at a time of economic gloom for British industry.
NORTHERN STAR ENTERS PALMERS DRY DOCK (1961)
Record of the recently launched Northern Star ocean liner manoeuvred by tugs into Palmers dry dock at Hebburn on the Tyne for the fitting-out process of the ship. [Some footage in this film also appears in NEFA 19259 Northern Star.]
TODAY AT SIX: SHIP ARRESTED HMS KEDLESTON ESCORTS FISHING BOATS (1975)
Tyne Tees Television Today at Six news insert showing HMS Kedleston, probably as part of the Fishing Protection Squadron, escorting herring fishing ships back up the Tyne after the arrest of one ship. This news item was first broadcast on 5 February 1975.
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TODAY AT SIX: SHIPYARD SITE BLYTH (1975)
Tyne Tees Television Today at Six news insert consisting of general views of wasteland in Blyth proposed as the site for a new shipyard. This news item was first broadcast on 5 February1975.
TODAY AT SIX: FERRY BOAT MODEL ON DISPLAY TYNE FREDA CUNNINGHAM'S REPLACEMENT (1975)
Tyne Tees Television Today at Six news insert of a passenger ferry boat model. It is believed it was on display as a replacement for the Tyne-built Freda Cunningham, which operated as the Shields ferry from 1972 to 1993. This news item was first broadcast on 5 February 1975.
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I like our relationships, they’re very professional Actually, we have never really said we were “dating“, but I’m sure they have figured it out. I mean, the way they’re constantly giving me orders and getting mad at me on the phone, we must be dating. Really, why else would they call me in the middle of the night while I’m working? They say things like, “God, you’re the best” and “what would I do without you? We have a really solid relationship.
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