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‘I Sold Indomie & Egg To Survive’ – Lucy Akwawa, Nigeria’s Most Beautiful Student
Nigeria’s Most Beautiful Student, Lucy Akwawa in an interview with The Bug magazine revealed that contrary to popular belief, a good number of students in Covenant University are from average and below average families who struggle like most Nigerians to foot their bills. She explained how she managed a petty trade through school.
She is the very first winner of the elite pageant, crowned Queen at the event which took place on the 21st of December at the prestigious Lekki Coliseum.
Excerpt from Lucy Akwawa’s profile on The Bug magazine:
Lucy started school at Our Lady’s Nursery and Primary School, but it was Immaculate Conception Secondary School (both in Bauchi) that she develop her ambitious personality which has kept her success-bound ever since. When she got into Covenant University, she was already ready to take on the academic and social rigour the school is known for. In Lucy’s words: “Covenant University is a very disciplined school and it takes alot to comply with all the rules. All these made me more accountable, responsible and self disciplined”.
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“Going through C.U was a miracle because sometimes it seemed like the school fees was not gonna come. People have this mindset that All students in C.U have wealthy parents and are more than capable, financially. But that’s not true; there are the rich, the average and the financially challenged.
“I had to take up responsibilities for myself when monthly allowance wasn’t coming in steady as usual due to some financial challenges we had at home. The most eaten food in C.U is Indomie as that is the only thing we are allowed to cook. So i came up with a business idea of selling eggs and cooking noodles for people just to have an alternate source of income – yeah i love cooking and people loved my noodles. Covenant University added to my life positively, the teachings of the chancellor are still engraved in my heart. And i feel more than proud saying ‘I attended Covenant University’”
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Thursday, July 11, 2019 6:12 PM EST
By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS, AP
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Mississippi has suspended the medical license of an OB-GYN physician amid several complaints about him, including that he had an affair with one of his married employees starting in 2015 and tried to insert abortion-inducing drugs into her while she was pregnant with his child. The baby was born in 2016.
The Mississippi Board of Medical Licensure on Wednesday ordered what it called the "temporary suspension" of Dr. Walter Ray Wolfe's license, saying that allowing him to keep practicing medicine is an "immediate danger to the public."
Wolfe is asking a judge to block the suspension, according to court documents posted online by the Clarion Ledger . His attorney, C. Maison Heidelberg, said in court papers Thursday that Wolfe has practiced medicine for more than 30 years without any reprimands, and that many of the allegations against him are "preposterous."
Wolfe lives and practices medicine in Madison County, just north of Jackson.
The licensing board says it interviewed a patient who said Wolfe made inappropriate comments after doing a vaginal exam on her. The board also says Wolfe failed to maintain patient records of controlled substances he prescribed.
In addition, the board says a student who was studying to become a physician assistant worked in Wolfe's office in 2018 and saw him kiss a pregnant patient just before doing an ultrasound on her. Wolfe's court filing says he was engaged to the woman he kissed and is now married to her. He says he is the father of the baby she was carrying.
"To allege this act in these circumstances is a physical or sexual assault is frivolous and reckless and in outright bad faith," Heidelberg wrote in the filing in Hinds County Chancery Court.
The medical licensing board scheduled a July 24 hearing for Wolfe. At that time, board members will consider putting his license on probation, extending the temporary suspension of the license or revoking the license. They also have the option of letting him resume practicing.
Information from: The Clarion Ledger, http://www.clarionledger.com
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Thousands Of Elderly Patients Go Blind In Britain Due To Eye Surgery Rationing
Healthcare rationing is a regular part of the United Kingdom, which has nationalized healthcare in a way Democrats in America want to bring here.
But this rationing leads to consequences. Hundreds of elderly citizens go blind each year while waiting for eye surgeries. The latest report on the issue comes from the Times of London. The outlet reports that the latest survey from the Royal College of Ophthalmologists (RCO) found rationing of cataract surgery continues even after guidance was issued suggesting patients not have the surgery delayed.
Tennessee House Advances Bill Seeking to Overhaul Medicaid
Tennessee would dramatically overhaul how it provides health care to its lower-income and disabled residents under a proposal the House advanced Thursday.
The bill cleared the GOP-dominated chamber on party lines, with 68 Republicans in favor and 21 Democrats against.
It’s a proposal considered one of the top policy debates of the sessions, yet many in the minority party were visibly upset after being cut off from the debate and forced to cast a vote before all members had a chance to speak.
Approaching the Singularity of US Health Care Politics
What is a more limited-government, pro-market (not simply pro-business) health policy reformer supposed to do? There are plenty of other short-term poses one might adopt. Accept a lot of givens as too politically difficult to challenge and then suggest quarter-way compromises that slow the pace of retreat. Or try procedural sidesteps that alter the venue of policy development (let the states do it!), without greater guarantees than what shuffling a somewhat altered deck of cards with a different set of political intermediaries offers. Or propose new tricks of manipulating magic money from somewhere else (reinsurance, reshuffled subsidies, formulaic reimbursement and benefit cuts) in the further away future.
GOP May Outflank Bernie on Drug Price Controls
It wasn’t so long ago that Bernie Sanders (I-VT) comfortably occupied the left flank of health care policy. His Medicare For All bill was sufficiently costly, coercive and utopian to set him apart from the pack.
Times have changed. When it comes to drug pricing, Bernie faces unexpected intruders on his left: Republicans.
In recent months, Bernie has yielded socialist turf to two Republicans of impeccable capitalist pedigree. First, it was President Trump, who last fall announced a plan to incorporate drug prices set by foreign governments into Medicare. Then Sen. Rick Scott (R-FL) last week introduced a bill pegging U.S. retail prices for prescription drugs to those set by five foreign governments.
How Medicaid Expansion is Crowding Out Private Insurance
Expanding Medicaid in the remaining non-expansion states would crowd millions of able-bodied adults out of private insurance coverage and shift them into taxpayer-funded Medicaid. In fact, nearly two-thirds of these adults either have private coverage already or have access to very low-cost coverage through the ObamaCare exchange. Even worse, this expansion could also shift more than one million kids who currently have private insurance into Medicaid.
Ultimately, ObamaCare’s Medicaid expansion means taking resources away from those who truly need Medicaid in order to fund a welfare expansion for those who already have private coverage.
Dr. Matthew Stryker: Who Profits from Drug Price Decreases?
The Trump administration has been pushing for lower drug prices, and some drug manufacturers have responded by lowering prices and providing greater access to life-saving treatments. However, there is a growing concern among health care providers that the middlemen who negotiate drug prices on behalf of insurers—known as pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs)—are actively working to keep prices high for consumers, presumably in an effort to increase their own profits. I run a free cardiovascular risk reduction service at a local clinic where we see many patients either suffering from, or at high risk for, heart disease. In collaboration with providers, I work to apply evidence-based medicine in the clinical setting and ensure any new treatment is financially sustainable for a patient—a task that can be made difficult by profit-driven insurance companies denying medication access and PBMs that keep treatment costs high.
Idaho Gov. Little Signs Bill to Put Work Requirements on Medicaid Expansion
Republican Idaho Gov. Brad Little has signed a bill that adds work requirements and other sideboards to Idaho’s Medicaid expansion. Voters approved the expansion—giving Medicaid health insurance to all low-income adults in Idaho—with a 61% vote in November. Instead of funding the expansion or repealing it, the Idaho Legislature took up bills to change it. Lawmakers passed the latest version of their sideboards legislation on Friday, after weeks of intense deliberation. The governor received it Monday.
Alaska Is Okay Funding Medicaid through Grants, Governor Says
Alaska Gov. Mike Dunleavy told President Donald Trump that the state is open to the idea of receiving Medicaid funding through fixed amounts annually. The block grant approach could allow the state more flexibility in how it spends Medicaid funding, Dunleavy spokesman Matt Shuckerow told Alaska Public Media. The Republican governor wrote to the president last month that Seema Verma, the administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid, had urged the state to become the first receive the federal funding this way. He noted that Alaska is eager to do it.
Justice Department Appeals Decision on Medicaid Work Requirements
The Justice Department has appealed a federal judge’s decision to strike down work requirements in Kentucky and Arkansas pertaining to certain Medicaid beneficiaries. The case will go before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia after being struck down March 27 by Judge James Boasberg of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, an appointee of former President Obama. At issue are rules the Trump administration approved in the states obligating some people who are able to work, volunteer, or take classes for 80 hours a month to be allowed to remain on Medicaid. The rules don’t apply to caregivers, parents, and people undergoing treatment for serious illness.
Would Patients Be Able to Escape BernieCare?
Sen. Sanders calls his new bill “Medicare for All” because polls tell him that voters don’t want to abolish traditional Medicare. Voters also don’t want him to destroy the U.S. system of private medical insurance, but his plan would do that, too. The bill reads, “Any individual entitled to benefits under this Act may obtain health services from any institution, agency, or individual qualified to participate under this Act.” In other words, you are free to choose any doctor the federal government allows you to choose. But good luck finding one when payments to doctors and hospitals will be slashed to the point that many will have difficulty keeping their doors open. On at least one point, Mr. Sanders is being honest. He’s not even trying to sell the Obama whopper that patients will get to keep the plans and the doctors they like.
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Are You Relevant?
By Adrienne Tallacksen
More marketers are turning to social media as a way to reach consumers, as shown in the recent ANA study “Harnessing the Power of Newer Media Platforms”. In 2007, 20% of survey respondents were using social media. The 2009 survey found that 66% now use social media platforms. Just over half of marketers surveyed are funding newer media spending with dollars shifted from traditional media.
When moving into the newer media space, marketers must continue to remain relevant to consumers. In a presentation at the June Central Region Digital Marketing Meeting, Google’s Jim Lecinski spoke about staying relevant in a presentation titled “Connecting with the Recession Shopper.” Lecinski said marketers must be useful, helpful, and relevant; not interruptive, shocking, or annoying.
If I’m looking for tomorrow’s weather forecast, I am definitely not interested in a candy ad taking up half of my screen. I’m trying to think of a situation where this ad might be relevant, and I’m coming up with nothing. However, an ad for shipping services on a social networking site for business professionals could be useful. I might not have an immediate need to ship something, but the ad is at least in the ballpark of relevancy.
Jan 13, 2010 11:24:17 AM | Adrienne Tallacksen, Communications, Consumer Insights, Content, Digital Media, Media, The Customer
ANA Television Advertising Committee Point of View On Local TV Ratings By Bill Duggan Nielsen recently announced its decision to modify the reporting data streams made available in local television markets, with plans to eliminate the Live Only data stream from overnights and electronic data files and replace that with the...
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// Melbourne, VIC, Australia
John Batman (21 January 1801 – 6 May 1839) was an Australian grazier, entrepreneur and explorer.
He is best known for his role in the founding of the settlement on the Yarra River which became the city of Melbourne.
When he found the current site of central Melbourne, he noted in his diary of 8 June 1835, "This will be the place for a village" and declared the land "Batmania."
Places named after John Batman
Batman Bridge (Tasmania)
Division of Batman (Victorian electoral division)
Batman Park (Melbourne CBD)
Batman's Hill (Melbourne CBD)
Batman railway station, Melbourne (North Coburg, Victoria)
Batman Avenue, Melbourne
Batman Close, Thornton, New South Wales
Batman Lane, Surry Hills, New South Wales
Batman Road, Eltham
Batman Street, Burnside Heights
Batman Walk, Parramatta
Batman Drive, Melton West
Batman Gardens, Sandringham
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Idea: Is it a bar/restaurant in Melbourne or an album by a Perry Farrell band?
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3. Good God's Urge
4. Mr. Wow's Emporium
5. A Cabinet of Curiosities
6. Naked for Satan
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Two minutes from Massive Wieners in Prahran is Pablo's Escoburgers.
Its Patron burger is garnished with a line of white garlic powder and a rolled-up faux $100 bill.
What's the story behind how Bludso's Bar and Que in Los Angeles has an outpost in Melbourne?
The casino in Melbourne contains a ludicrous number of roulette tables.
Meanwhile, across three(!) floors of casino, I found one craps table, inside the "Vegas Room."
It's "Vegas" because it's scented and dealers are dressed in street clothes.
Melbourne Central: Let's enclose a 19th century shot tower in a 21st century shopping centre.
South Melbourne: Hold my Foster's.
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IN THE PINK OF THINGS – JAIPUR
April 23, 2015 at 10:14 am (Best In the World, Culinary Delights, Family Holidays, Great Hotels, Rambagh Palace)
Tags: Adler Tours, Adler Tours & Safaris, Asia, Children and Family Holidays, Jaipur, Rajasthan
Jaipur’s forts, palaces, colors and hospitality will make you feel like the royals that lived here centuries ago
Across the rocky plains encircled by desert hills, with bastion and fortified walls spiraling over their contours, lies the capital of Rajasthan. I rolled the window down as we drove through early morning rush hour at Bapu Bazaar. Vendors prepared their fresh supply of fruits, vegetables and bright orange marigolds for sale, children crowded together in cycle-rickshaws headed for school, and there was an extraordinary chaos in the air, as every possible mode of transport, from luxury cars to scooters, rickshaws, horse-drawn carts and camels, all found their place on the same road. The morning sun reflected on the stunning 18th century architecture of pink sand-stone, turning into a soft shade of honeycomb with a pinkish hue.
In stark contrast, our car soon wheeled into a royal landscape which was home to a fairytale princess, the fabulous Rambagh Palace that is now a luxury hotel. The imposing exterior was reminiscent of the regal style of the buildings in the city. We were greeted to a rose petal welcome and led to our suite by an attentive turbaned butler.
The palace interiors were no less impressive, with long, white-marbled verandahs that wound around the courtyards. As the third wife of HH Maharaja Sawai Man Singh II, this was Rajmata Gayatri Devi’s first home after marriage. Sipping tea on the manicured lawns, you get a sense of the kind of grandeur that she wrote so fondly of, what with all the elephant polo matches, lavish meals and the Rolls-Royces. The palace’s resident peacocks complete the picture.
The sights and sounds of Jaipur, like its people, are vibrant and exuberant. It is a world of Bandhani And Leheriyan Saris, Mojari Chappals, Puppet dolls and Daal Baati Churma and Makkai Muthiya meal that we had been anticipating since we left. But first, a brief history lesson: just outside the city, accessible by car – or better yet, by elephant – is the spectacular Amber Fort. Built four centuries ago by Raja Maan Singh I, Amber Fort is renowned as an architectural marvel with stunning artistic elements and stonework, which used the practical approach of the ancient Indian study of vaastu.
Listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site, Amber Fort gets approximately 5000 visitors a day, most of whom seemed to be waiting for an elephant ride up to the Fort.
“Padharo Mare Desh!” yelled out short, pot-bellied turbaned tour guide Gyaan Singh, in his uncanny American accent. We cheated the serpentine queues to enter the Fort, thanks to his wasta (influence) and soon we were taking in enough history to fill an encyclopaedic volume. He walked us through the Suraj Pol, Jalebi Chowk (an Arabic word referring to a place for soldiers to gather), Ganesh Pol, Sila Devi Temple, the stately courtyards, and numerous other places of unimaginable intrigue all amongst this immaculately planned palatial fort of red sandstone and marble masonry, lattice-screens and mirror work walls.
After taking in all that history, we made our way to some retail therapy in the bustling markets of the city. Jaipur is famous for its textiles, block prints being made by local artisans, silver and of course the spectacular Jaipur gems.
The next morning, we bid farewell to the city and our not-so-humble abode and headed for the undulating Aravalli hills to pink sandstone and limestone-walled resort, reflecting Rajasthan’s famed architectural history. The Tree Of Life Resort and Spa offers a quiet tranquillity – it is an ideal place to unwind and rest. It inspired my very urban children to go off on a ‘nature walk’, so that is something. They reported back with an interesting list – “a real carrot garden, four monarch butterflies, three big squirrels and a large German Shepherd…..that belongs to the lady in the next villa.”
Up here in the Aravalli hills, under the clear blue skies, with no cellphones, no computers or schedules to uphold, you get a chance to be pensive and contemplative. Perhaps, that is my version of being Royal in Rajasthan.
Courtesy by K.T.
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IFC and MIGA invest $460 million in Guinea’s bauxite, rail and port projects
IFC and MIGA, members of the World Bank Group, have announced a $460 million debt and guarantee package to support the sustainable development of the Guinea Alumina Corporation bauxite project.
[Sierra Leone] NATCOM signs free roaming agreement with Guinea, Liberia and Côte d'Ivoire
Sierra Leone National Telecommunications Commission (NATCOM) has signed an MOU with telecom regulatory heads from Liberia, Guinea and Ivory Coast to implement the One Area Network work initiative.
Liberia Government signs deal with Niron Metals for export of Iron Ore from the Zogota Project
The Government of the Republic of Liberia and Niron Metals Plc have signed a Memorandum of Understanding regarding the passage through Liberia of iron ore from the Zogota iron ore deposit in the Republic of Guinea
American Homebuilders of West Africa signs agreement with Guinea government to build 4,000 homes
American Homebuilders of West Africa (AHWA) and the Guinea Ministry of Housing and Urban Development have signed a $207 million convention agreement targeting construction of 4000 homes.
[Guinea] President Alpha Conde opens Bel Air mine
Africa Finance Corporation has announced the official opening of the Bel Air mine in Guinea-Conakry, a high-grade bauxite mine.
Guinea Bissau to fully adopt renewable energy by 2030
Guinea Bissau is looking at investing $700m to make the energy transformation a reality by 2030.
Oradian and West African partner TAB Finance partner to boost financial inclusion
TAB Finance, a new microfinance bank licensed by the Central Bank of the Republic of Guinea, has joined Oradian’s global community of financial institutions.
AU Chairperson, Moussa Faki Mahamat, visits West Africa countries
The Chairperson of the African Union Commission, Moussa Faki Mahamat, will undertake a visit to West Africa that will take him to Benin, from 22 to 23 October; the Republic of Guinea, from 23 to 24; and Nigeria, on 25 and 26 October.
Afreximbank presents new trade facilitation programme to Guinean banks
The African Export-Import Bank has taken its recently-introduced Afreximbank Trade Facilitation Programme to Guinean banks, telling representatives of the Guinean banking sector that the programme will lead to improved support from Afreximbank.
[Guinea] Bauxite mining boom threatens human rights, study reveals
Guinea’s fast-growing bauxite mining industry is threatening the livelihoods of thousands of Guineans, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today.
OFID extends $37.5 million loan to Guinea Bissau, Burundi and Uganda
OFID, the OPEC Fund for International Development, has signed public sector loan agreements totaling $37.5 million with Guinea Bissau, Burundi and Uganda to support socio-economic development and living standards in the African continent.
[Guinea] Bel Air Mine project sends first bauxite consignment to China
Africa Finance Corporation, the continental infrastructure development finance institution in Africa, has announced the on-time completion of the Bel Air Mine in Guinea and loading of its first shipment of high grade bauxite to China.
Urbanization dampens growth opportunities in West Africa, World Bank
While the cities of West Africa grapple with large migratory flows, consisting chiefly of young people, they must tackle the many challenges associated with this rapid urbanization.
Islamic Bank of Guinea introduces financing product for agricultural inputs targeting pineapple farmers
The Federation of Fruit Planters of Lower Guinea has organized the distribution of fertilizer to planters who subscribed to a new financing product offered by the Islamic Bank of Guinea (BIG).
Anglophone West African countries weather odds to project bright economic prospects, Ecobank research
The economic forecast for Anglophone West Africa is looking brighter according to analysis by Ecobank’s research team in the newly published Anglophone West Africa section of its flagship financial website.
Orange extends its solar energy services to five African countries
Telecommunication company Orange has expressed its desire to become a key player in the energy transition sector in Africa, by providing services directly to the general public or as a wholesaler to public operators.
Ethiopian Airlines, ASKY sign agreement for strategic partnership with Guinea Airlines
Ethiopian Airlines, the largest Aviation Group in Africa and SKYTRAX certified Four Star Global Airline, has signed an Agreement with Guinea Airlines, for strategic partnership in management, maintenance and training.
Belgium opens embassies in Benin, Guinea, Mali and Niger to foster bilateral cooperation
Belgium Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Didier Reynders and Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Development Cooperation Alexander De Croo have announced the opening of 4 new Belgian embassies in Africa.
InfraCo Africa commits $3 million to develop the Khoumagueli Solar project in Guinea
InfraCo Africa, part of the multi-lateral Private Infrastructure Development Group (PIDG), has signed a Joint Development Agreement (JDA) with Solvéo Energie S.A.S, Solvéo Guinea Renewable Energy SA and Solvéo International Investments SARL.
[Guinea] SMB Winning announces a $3 billion investment in bauxite refinery
The SMB-Winning consortium , a major player in the bauxite sector, has presented to His Excellency Alpha Condé, President of the Republic of Guinea, a project to build an alumina refinery in Guinea
[Guinea] National Office of Professional Training completes training with 25 MSMEs in Boke Region
The National Office of Professional Training, in partnership with the Guinean government’s Delivery Unit, completed a training program for business leaders from 25 Micro, Small and Medium-sized Enterprises in the region of Boke, one of the country’s resource-rich provinces.
World Bank Group pledges $2.35b in financing for Guinea
During the meeting of the Consultative Group for Guinea held in Paris on November 16 and 17, 2017, the World Bank Group announced financial support totaling $2.35 billion to help Guinea implement its National Economic and Social Development Plan
Four African States apply for Fisheries Transparency Initiative membership
Guinea, Mauritania, Senegal and the Seychelles have informed the FiTI Secretariat of their desire to join the Fisheries Transparency Initiative (FiTI).
African Development Fund approves €48m grant finance for Guinea-Sierra Leone border road reconstruction
The Boards of the African Development Bank Group have approved funding of €48 million from the African Development Fund for the reconstruction of the border road from Guinea to Sierra Leone.
AfDB launches pilot programme to cultivate the savannah in eight African countries
The savannahs of Africa cover a mind-boggling 600 million hectares, of which 400 million hectares are cultivable, the President of the African Development Bank, Akinwumi Adesina, has said.
Total partners with National Office of Petroleum of Guinea in offshore oil exploration
Total and the National Office of Petroleum of Guinea (ONAP) have signed a Technical Evaluation Agreement to study deep and ultra deep offshore areas located off the coast of Guinea Conakry.
[Guinea] Government Delivery Unit provides Guineans training opportunities in mining
The Guinean government’s Delivery Unit has announced a plan to launch the development of the Mobile Training Unit (MTU) program, to provide Guineans with post-graduate hands-on training in the mining sector.
Guinea eyes export of 100 tonnes of pineapple by January 2018
The Delivery Unit, under the Office of the Prime Minister of Guinea (DU), the Ministry of Agriculture and main actors in the sector have set a target of 100 tons of fresh pineapple exports targeting international markets , by the end of January 2018.
Wartsila to supply gold mine extension to Guinea
The technology group Wärtsilä has announced it will supply a power plant extension to AngloGold Ashanti’s gold mine in Siguiri, Guinea.
MTN kicks off employee volunteer program with call to share knowledge
MTN Group is inviting social media users across Africa and the Middle East to join its employees in a virtual campaign to break down traditional barriers to education.
Afreximbank pledges financial support to Guinea's development plan and power agenda
The African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) will provide financial support to assist Guinea in the implementation of its national development plan and related investment programme, Dr. Benedict Oramah, President of the Bank, has said in Conakry.
Africa Legal Network welcomes new members from Algeria, Guinea and Morocco
Africa Legal Network has announced the admission of three new members as part of their strategy to expand into francophone Africa. The new members are based in Algeria, Guinea and Morocco.
African Development Bank to open field offices in Benin, Guinea and Niger
Benin, Guinea and Niger will benefit significantly from the development support provided by the African Development Bank Group (AfDB) following the Board’s approval to open offices in the three countries in order to strengthen its operational presence.
Guinea awards Fluor Corporation USD700m Bauxite Mining Project
Fluor Corporation announced today that Guinea Alumina Corporation has awarded Fluor an engineering and program management consultancy contract for a major bauxite mine in the Boké region of Guinea.
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'Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.' Profile: Jemma Simmons
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This article contains plot details about an important, recent or upcoming episode. Read at your own risk!
Jemma Anne Simmons
Biochemist
"Fitz-Simmons" (with Leo Fitz)
Season(s)
"Pilot"
Elizabeth Henstridge
Dr. Jemma Anne Simmons is a biochemist who works for S.H.I.E.L.D.. She was previously undercover in the terrorist organization HYDRA, tasked with providing Coulson and the rest of her team with key information. She specializes in life sciences (both human and alien) and is generally the partner of Agent Leo Fitz, an engineer.
Jemma is usually highly enthusiastic and has a bright personality. She has a deep passion for science. She is also very accepting and forgiving (examples include: forgiving Skye for betraying the team in "Girl in the Flower Dress"). Another one of her key traits is mercy (examples include not wanting to kill Centipede operatives in "The Magical Place".) Jemma can usually be found bickering with her best friend and partner, engineer Leo Fitz, and they are almost always found together. They are so close that Jemma and Fitz are often referred to as Fitz-Simmons, a gestalt entity. Despite Jemma's kind and calm nature, she cannot lie. When she tries to, she always ends up giving herself away, a bad habit. When pressured, she panics. She protested in the "Pilot" that she is "not Hermione", but, in "Seeds", Leo claims that she's so smart "because she loves homework more than life itself". Jemma loves her friends and always cares about their safety.
Jemma is a Caucasian female with light brown hair. She has brown eyes which sometimes look hazel in different lighting. Her height is about 5'4". She dresses a lot like Fitz, wearing flannel shirts, a lot of different style sweaters, ties, overcoats, and jeans.
Jemma is stated to be a genius bio-chemist. She is incredibly talented at her job that she graduated 3 years early and is becoming a star in S.H.I.E.L.D.'s research division. She has more than two PhDs.[1]
A bio-chem genius with two PhDs, Jemma Simmons attended the S.H.I.E.L.D. training academy with her best friend, engineering genius Leo Fitz. Among their instructors were Professor Vaughn[2] and Professor Hall, who taught chemical kinetics during their second year[3].
Wanting to see more than the inside of a lab, and against the advice of Professor Vaughn, Jemma convinced Leo to seek out a field assignment.
Jemma and Fitz were recruited by Agent Phil Coulson to be the science crew for a new team he was putting together, although it has since been claimed by May that she was, in fact, responsible for their inclusion. Stationed on the Bus, the pair have designed specialized equipment and compounds on the fly in various emergency situations.
Their first foray into the field involved the case of Mike Peterson, a man in danger of exploding due to his use of the volatile Centipede formula. Peterson was saved in part by Jemma's efforts to create a Centipede counter-agent for Peterson [4].
Jemma first faced danger in the field in Peru, where the team was investigating an 0-8-4. She and the team escaped Peruvian rebels only to face an armed takeover of the Bus. Working with the team, she helped take back the Bus and secure the old Hydra weapon[2].
While investigating a mysterious death in Pennsylvania, Jemma was infected with a fatal alien virus passed along from a Chitauri helmet. After what appeared to be a final failed attempt at a cure, Jemma threw herself from the Bus in flight in order save her team from the virus' effect. Fortunately for her, the cure was actually effective and teammate Grant Ward caught her in mid-flight, injected her with the antiserum, and parachuted them to safety[5].
When the team stopped at the Hub, Jemma and Fitz were forced to separate when Fitz and Grant went into the field. She was shown to fuss over Fitz a lot before he went, and made him a sandwich. Skye convinced Jemma to help her hack SHIELD, at great risk to Jemma's good-girl reputation. While accessing a wall panel, she was confronted by Sitwell, a superior officer. After many lame excuses and failed sweet talking, Jemma panicked and used the Night-Night Gun to shoot Sitwell in the chest. Coulson managed to get Jemma out of any serious trouble, luckily. The team rescued Fitz and Grant with perfect timing, and Fitzsimmons were very happy to be reunited. After Fitz bragged about how he had Grant's back, Jemma excitedly told him about how she had shot a superior officer in the chest, only to see his face fall.
At the beginning of "The Well", Jemma and the others are cleaning up after the events of the latest Thor movie. She ducks a call from her parents because she's been yet to tell them the events of "FZZT". A bit later, when the team goes to investigate a chopped down tree, Ward helps Jemma scale the tree, because she still has a fear of falling to certain death.
As of "Providence", Simmons appears to have the least faith of any of the original members in her colleagues, showing any real degree of trust only in Fitz.
In "Beginning of the End", Jemma found out that Fitz has loved her for a long time already, but she perceived him only as a friend.
In "Shadows" Coulson reveals that she has left the team, at least in part in the hope that forcing Fitz to recover without her will speed the process. It has, unfortunately, had the opposite effect, and her former partner is hallucinating her continuing presence. Despite appearing to have quit the team, she, in fact, was sent by Coulson to infiltrate HYDRA.
In the end of the season 2 finale, Jemma was dragged into the strange object that the Inhumans were trying to secure. In the Season 3 Premiere, it was revealed that she had been transported to an alien planet. She was saved from the unknown planet by Fitz in "Purpose in the Machine ".
After a long, complicated search, Fitz was able to figure out how the portal works with the help of Daisy Johnson, Phillip Coulson, and other S.H.I.E.L.D agents. He tied a rope around himself and jumped through in attempt to save Jemma. Luckily Simmons was nearby and heard his voice, and he dragged her back through.
In the episode "4,722 Hours", the plot revolves solely around Jemma and her new friend Will Daniels, and reveals how she survived all of those long months on the planet without a sun. At first Will thought that she was evil, or a figment of his imagination, so he locked her up. Later however, he changed his mind and they developed a friendship and romantic interest with each other, and eventually found a pattern to when and where the portal back to Earth would be opening next.
While Jemma was glad to be back on Earth, she regretted not being able to save her new friend and partner Will Daniels, and told Fitz that she needed to go back and rescue him.
In "Many Heads, One Tale", Jemma and Leo are seen together researching how to rebuild the portal or make a device similar to the monolith that sucked Jemma to the other planet. In doing so, Jemma suddenly gets upset at Leo because he is being so helpful, and seemingly isn't mad that she fell in love with somebody else. Leo responds by saying that he is mad, just not at her. They then kiss for the first time in the series, causing Jemma to drop her book on the ground. When they break apart, she looks down at the book and realizes that the NASA symbol looks incredibly similar to the Hydra symbol upside down, which ties into the Inhuman plot line that the other S.H.I.E.L.D. agents are working on with the ATCU during the same episode.
After "starting over" their friendship in episode 11 of season three, Jemma and Leo, while trying to figure out how to cure Hive's parasite, kiss again in episode 17. At first, Fitz apologizes for moving too fast, bringing up Will and the fact that Jemma wished to start over. Jemma reassures him, saying that it's been 10 years and they can't waste any more time. They bring up Leo's comment that the cosmos are against them, and say that they won't let themselves be torn apart again. Leo states that he doesn't need space, as he has something magnificent right here. Simmons laughs and goes in to kiss him again, but he stops her to joke that he was talking about one of his most prized possessions, a poster of space. Laughing, Jemma interrupts him mid-sentence, kissing him once more. This implies that the best friends are now a couple.
Leopold Fitz — Colleague, research/work partner, best friend, love interest, boyfriend and then husband.
Will Daniels — A NASA astronaut. Jemma forms a romantic relationship with Will during her time stranded on the alien planet Maveth. Though the two became close friends and lovers, their first meeting occurred in hostile circumstances. Will imprisoned her in fear that she was a hallucination. In an attempt to escape, Jemma feigned a stomach ache, but injured in the process. Now convinced that Jemma is a real person, Will cares for her in his underground hovel. The two converse; Jemma introduced herself to Will, who in turn, revealed that he been stranded on Maveth since 2001.[6]
Milton — A former boyfriend. Jemma briefly dated Milton during her studies at S.H.I.E.L.D. Academy. He was described by Fitz as having a "fat cabbage head". Jemma eventually broke up with Milton as she believed him to be too amicable and obedient for her liking[7].
Deke Shaw: Grandson
Friendships and allies
Skye: Friend and colleague (Was previously under Hive's influence)
Phillip Coulson: Colleague and team leader
Melinda May: Colleague
Fitz: Best friend and colleague who eventually becomes her boyfriend and then husband.
Mike Peterson: Former colleague
Trip: Former colleague and friend (deceased)
Bobbi: Colleague and friend (Disavowed)
Antagonistic
Grant Ward — Former colleague, former friend (now enemy) (Entirely possessed by Hive)
Jemma - "little dove" in Hebrew.
Anne - a name of Hebrew origin, meaning "gracious".
Simmons - patronymic surname derived from the ancient Hebrew Shimon, means "to hearken".
Sunil Bakshi - Killed
Maveth Tentacled Creature - Killed
Alistar Fitz (Framework) - Killed
Her current ID badge serial number is A 0956307; the card was issued on 5 February 2013, and will expire on 5 February 2018.
As of "FZZT", both her parents are still alive. In a deleted scene from The Well, Jemma mentions being unable to help Ward or her parents due to their lack of knowledge about otherworldly biology, and there's no further explanation regarding why her parents would need help.
As seen in "The Hub", her birthday is 11 September 1987. This is also the birthday of actress Elizabeth Henstridge, who portrays her. It is revealed she was Clearance Level 5.
Fitz-Simmons named their eight flying gadgets after Snow White and Seven Dwarfs. 00 is Snow White, 01 is Doc, 02 is Sleepy, 03 is Grumpy, 04 is Bashful, 05 is Sneezy, 06 is Happy (07 hasn't yet appeared on screen). (0-8-4)
While usually calm and collected, she's willing to lose her cool so that her point comes across. As seen when she asks Coulson to send the GH325's results to the Hub, so that they can understand it better and possibly help more people, and he forbids her. (Turn, Turn, Turn)
It appears she's a fan of Harry Potter or is simply aware of its fiction. (Pilot)
She apparently watches the British TV Show Doctor Who, as seen by her response in the episode Providence when Koenig asks what's inside a box that washes up on a deserted island (She responds, "The TARDIS").
For the majority of the series, Jemma only could see Fitz in a platonic way; however, she eventually confronts Fitz about what happened at the bottom of the ocean, implying that she may reciprocate his feelings for her which is confirmed in season 3. (S.O.S. Part Two)
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Leo Fitz: The bullets work. Non-lethal, heavy stopping power, break up under the sub-cutaneous tissue-
Jemma Simmons: Oh, with a dose of .1 microliters of dendrotoxin. I'm not Hermione. I can't create instant paralysis with that.
"The Asset"
Phil Coulson: We need a reset here, Fitz. Fitz? -
Jemma Simmons: Saying his name repeatedly does not increase productivity!
Jemma Simmons: Or maybe it does.
"FZZT"
Jemma: [Imitating Ward] I'm Agent Grant Ward, and I could rupture your spleen with my left pinky... blindfolded. [Ward arrives]
Ward: Hustle up and grab your gear, we're on a mission... Is something funny?
Jemma: Poor silly Fitz, he mistakenly left a dummy round in the pistol. [Hands him the gun] Should be proper now.
Phil Coulson: Any idea what could cause an effect like this?
Jemma Simmons: There's the soliton hypothesis-
Leo Fitz: Well, okay, judging by the horizontal...
Jemma Simmons: Perhaps nanobatteries-
Leo Fitz: ...electrical discharge could be-
Phil Coulson: Time. Let's try again. Any idea what could cause an effect like this?
Jemma Simmons: Hell if I know.
Leo Fitz: Uh, no, no clue.
Phil Coulson: What's Fitz doing over there?
Jemma Simmons: He detected a strange energy coming off the body.
Phil Coulson: He's afraid of it, isn't he?
Leo Fitz: It's the smell.
Jemma Simmons: There's no shame in it, Fitz! It's perfectly natural to be afraid.
Leo Fitz: No, the only thing I'm afraid of is putrid decaying flesh corrupting my pristine workspace. (Jemma rolls her eyes) Do you remember the last time you brought a dead thing into the lab?
Jemma Simmons: Oh, not the stupid cat again.
Leo Fitz: The cat, tell him about the cat!
Jemma Simmons: And it's our lab Fitz, not your lab!
Leo Fitz: You left its liver next to my lunch!
Phil Coulson: Guys! Can we please...?
"The Hub"
Skye: What if they're [Fitz and Ward] injured or being tortured somewhere right now?
Jemma Simmons: Fitz. Tortured. (pause) What exactly do you have in mind?
Leo Fitz: Enough mission talk already. Did anything exciting happen at the Hub?
Jemma Simmons: I shot a superior officer in the chest.
"Repairs"
Leo Fitz: You screamed like a girl.
Jemma Simmons: I am a girl!
Grant Ward: That isn't a word in our language.
Jemma Simmons: Our language? You mean the English language, first spoken in England?
"The Bridge"
Jemma Simmons: Yeah, we couldn't have that, could we? It would be a shame if, especially if you're so, well, formed and symmetrical. Wh-when did you stop talking?
Leo Fitz: About three embarrassing sentences ago.
"Nothing Personal"
Simmons: I wish this bunker had a bunker.
"Beginning of the End"
Simmons: That's sweet. Though apparently, I was miserable before I was born- upside down, umbilical cord all wrapped around my head.
Simmons: That means that every bit of energy inside us, every particle will go on to be a part of something else; maybe live as a dragonfish, a microbe, maybe burn in a supernova ten billion years from now. And every part of us now was once a part of some other thing - a moon, a storm cloud, a mammoth.-
Fitz: A monkey.
Simmons: A monkey. Thousands and thousands of other beautiful things that were just as terrified to die as we are. We gave them new life a good one, I hope.
Quotes about her
Coulson: There's only one person on this plane capable of finding a solution for this, and I'm willing to bet my life she will.
"Seeds"
Fitz: Well, Simmons is probably smarter, technically, but that's only because she likes homework more than life itself.
↑ Jemma's abilities described
↑ 2.0 2.1 "0-8-4"
↑ "The Asset"
↑ "Pilot"
↑ "FZZT"
↑ "4,722 Hours"
↑ "Failed Experiments"
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Heh. Yuffie smirked a little as she munched on her pancakes. Would her limits work? She'd never particularly thought of them as gifts before. But... eh, she could work with that!
Swinging her legs back and forth beneath the chair, Yuffie rid herself of the smirk and tilted her head quizically at the red... thingie. "Just three times?! Awww, damn." She pouted a little. "Are they limited in other ways, too? Like... duration or strength? And will normal fighting or athletic abilities be affected at all?"
empathshinigami
Hisoka frowned. He wasn't sure he liked the idea of being without his gift. While on one level it was refreshing to to feel everyone's feelings all the time, on the other hand he would have to learn to interpret other cues to determine a person's emotional state. The idea of retaining memories from this place was reassuring to him, at least of things happened to him he would know that they had happened. However there was one point he wanted clarification on.
"You said we would 'gain our home back', indicating we would return to where we left. But how does time run here in relation to our home worlds? Will we be returned at the same instant we were taken, or will the same amount of time pass in both worlds or will be be deposited in a world where many years have passed?"
Allen studied Sydney as he spoke and recalled the Noah in particular Rhode from what she said in Rewinding town. What he said sounded like something she or Tiki might say if caught in this situation. It brought back old memories that flowed slowly through his mind. "
We're super human. We're different from you wimps.
Was he like the Noah; near immortal or true immortal? He was a curious looking stranger to the former exorcist and he shifted using his innocence bearing red hand to lift the tea cup. "There is always that possiblity. Though what happens if we die here?" He questioned their host carefully, his silver gray gaze flicking that way. It was a question he wished to know the answer too. Not that he planned to die, it was just best to know ahead of time what he was fighting like crazy to keep from happening.
The wires he'd seen around the blonde's neck felt familiar. He was trying to figure out just why those would be there.
runedexexorcist
He listened to the conversation going on with half an ear. He'd pick out what was vital for him to know likely tune out the rest. Allen seemed in no hurry to leave so he wasn't going to budge just yet either. Kanda stuffed another piece of pancake in his face as he considered just where they were going to explore first. It might be best to start with the top floor and go down since others would likely try the first floor right away.
He glanced at Sydney before he paused at the sight of the wires. The swordsman turned his dark eyes on the other and narrowed his eyes. He wouldn't say what he thought those were for, he just raised an eyebrow and sipped his coffee. "You might want to try wrapping and then a set of gloves over the wrapped hands." Ah he remembers Crowley well, the bipolar man that he is. He had that same problem for a while.
And that was a good point from the brown haired kid. Yuffie raised a hand slightly. "Ooh~! I'm hoping there's no chance that we'd get sent back to some point before we got brought here. That'd suck majorly."
Leviathan forbid she have to go through the entire Deepground war again. Once was more than enough, thankyou very much.
And speaking of more than enough, Yuffie was starting to get bored. Slipping out of her seat lightly, ninja stretched herself out before poking Kanda on the head. "Ne, Kandy Bear~! I'm bored, so I'm gonna go explore."
"That would more than just suck. It would fucking suck." Hello ruining the king's english, ah the habits one could pick up while running a bar. That was just mild compared to what he heard while bar tending on a daily basis. The former exorcist had to agree going through the Ark would blow big ones if he had to do that all over again. He'd lost enough damn life to that place, he didn't need a second tour.
He twitched when Yuffie started poking him in the head. Oh not this again, he'd dealt with this when he was ten from a hyper active, bundle of rejective annoyance called Rabi. "You want to drag me with you don't you?" He was amazed at the patience he'd learned to have. Then again after dealing with Rabi and his current profession? He'd have been dead ages ago without it. "Are you leading or do I get to, imp?"
Well it was only fair she did call him that vile nickname. He still needed something worse than imp and beansprout was an retired nickname. One that Allen still corrected him on if he ever said it.
rood_bearer
He quirked an eyebrow at the children, carefully not smirking. It had been quite a few years since he'd had to deal with a younger generation. "Indeed, if we were returned to the pasts of our worlds... actually... I don't see any way I couldn't use that. Ah well."
He looked over the rest of the food and found himself not hungry. Hardin had always tried to make him eat but as it wasn't necessary and took time away from other tasks... He supposed that was another thing he would have to get used to.
Rubbing the wires once more he shrugged and waited for Marious to give answers to the latest questions before he left to find whatever there was to find here.
That would, as Kanda said, fucking suck if it turned out they would go back to a time prior from which they were taken from. That would mean having to deal with elephant lady again.
And that whole damn 'saving all the worlds out there' thing again to. That would mean he would have to wait again before the Earl, once again, gave him permission to use his natural abilities instead of those horrid 'job class' ones.
revansremnant
She shook her head in near disbelief. Time flowing differently on seperate worlds? It didn't matter which world or system you were in, the universe moved on as always. Who educated these people?
"Matter transmission is one thing. I don't know how it was fianlly achieved, but the results are clear. Micro-receptors for placement in the collars and dishes or some tech of that nature. But even converting matter to energy and recondensing does not change where we are in time. That's fancilful speculation found in ten credit novels and holodramas."
Ailynn pushed back from the table and gave the gathered a brief nod. Wondering about powers didn't interest her, she was no Jedi. If there was a possiblity of escape then she needed to use what "free time" she had today to map out her surroundings.
Before her captors began to play their games.
"If I have to look at one more Tsviet, ever..." She cut herself off with a small twitch of an eyebrow. It wouldn't be fun, not at all. Unlike Kandy Bear.
Yuffie grinned and folded her arms behind her head, "I'm pretty sure we'll be informed if we miss anything important, yah?" She moved away with a bounce in her step, towards the door. ...She wouldn't be comfortable until she knew the lay of the place, and the number of people was setting her on edge as it was.
"I'll follow you if you follow me." She added, "Coming, then? And I'm not an imp!"
"...If I have to fight that damn Noah Skin again..." Kanda gritted his teeth and growled ferally as he got up from the table. It would be a pain in the ass, and he might burn off even more of his life force which would put him closer to death. The prospect was not in the least entertaining, not that he thought of that profession as a joy ride. No, it just had been his life for as long as he could remember.
He paused when the woman spoke an cocked his head to the side. He didn't get most of what she had just said. So the former exorcist gave her a confused 'you're likely insane' expression before turning to go. "Allen let us know if anything important occurs." He breathed as he adjusted his coat and started after the ninja. The swordsman had wanted to explore and see where he could and couldn't go so this did work into his best interests.
He would have agreed with Yuffie on the number of people if she had spoken about it. Even in the bar he had a block between him and the sheer number of people. Though this group was small in comparison to how many a business establishment could have, it was still too many people to him at the moment. "Whatever and yes I'm accompanying you."
He pushed his dark bangs out of his face even as his fellow exorcist gave him a small goodbye wave. "And of course you're not an imp, imp."
The children had the right idea, even if they were leaving a little presumptuously. Arching a brow at the woman who rambled about impossibilities, he wondered if he should *show* her a little bit of the truth. But then, truth is a tad subjective, and if they only had three times a day to use their 'skills'... No. Let her learn on her own. She wasn't a part of his plans, he didn't *need* to play with her.
"And are you also going to 'investigate the site', I believe is the term?" He asked of the pair currently snuggling. They reminded him of Ashley in build, but the Riskbreaker had never looked quite so... cute, outside of his own twisted memories.
"Why not you?" He looked around the room, chuckling lowly as he noted the few still asking questions.
"Time here is time everywhere and nowhere at once. How it relates to your place of origin... well, you will simply have to find out when you leave. Death has a penalty, as all deaths do. If the penalty is death itself is another matter entirely." He spread his hands on a low laugh.
"As for the rest of the questions... Since it seems you've all gotten impatient to explore, I'll leave them to your imagination." He smirked, then a swirl of smoke wrapped around him and he vanished, giving them no chance to protest.
calculateapathy
"Thanks Jafar." Puck hissed before looking at Kitty. "Wanna go see if I can make you a tank?"
"Well, it would be best to explore this place if we are stuck here." he said jovially, standing up. The Noah looked around before giving a quick nod before starting to move out of the room.
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Events for November 1, 2018
Night at the Museum: Student Art Shows - Boys and Girls Club of The Western Reserve
November 1, 2018, 4 – 7 pm
Nearly all artists start by putting pen, paintbrush or pencil to paper in a classroom. Get a preview of what tomorrow’s famous artists are doing TODAY at one of the museum’s Student Art Shows.
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Night at the Museum: Student Art Shows
Featuring the students of The Boys and Girls Club of The Western Reserve
Nearly all artists start by putting pen, paintbrush or pencil to paper in a classroom. Get a preview of what tomorrow’s famous artists are doing TODAY at one of the museum’s Student Art Shows. Featuring schools and organizations from the community, these events highlight the talent of Northeast Ohio’s youngest artists, as well as their amazing teachers and mentors.
Night at the Museum is made possible with support from the Robert O. and Annamae Orr Family Foundation.
Reading Under the Roof Cloud Book Club: The Power by Naomi Alderman
Grab a drink in the café and join museum staff for a discussion of The Power a novel in which teenage girls have immense physical power!
In the book The Power, teenage girls have immense physical power—they can cause agonizing pain and even death. And, with this twist of nature, the world changes utterly. Grab a drink in the café and join museum staff for a discussion of The Power. The evening will conclude with a tour of Allison Zuckerman: Pirate and Muse.
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Free Thursday
November 1, 2018, 11:00 am – 9:00 pm
Spend Thursdays at the Akron Art Museum—admission to the galleries is free all day and all evening, from 11:00 am – 9:00 pm.
Connect to your creative life. Spend Thursdays at the Akron Art Museum—admission to the galleries is free all day and all evening, from 11:00 am – 9:00 pm.
Become a New Member of the Akron Art Museum on Thursday (in-person or online) for 25% off the regular price. Join today!
Free Thursdays are generously supported by The J.M. Smucker Company.
Dig In: HR3: Beats, Drums, and Music
Join us for a performance by one of three reknowned local African-American artists. Each of the featured artists will create a work of art inspired by Donaldson that will be performed live in the museum. Video of the performances will be presented throughout the run of the exhibition.
Akron arts publication The Devil Strip teamed up with the museum to create video profiles of three African-American artists in the Akron community that will be on view in the museum’s Jerry and Patsy Shaw Video Box during the run of Jeff Donaldson: Dig. Each of the featured artists will create a work of art inspired by Donaldson that will be performed live in the museum. Video of the performances will be presented throughout the run of the exhibition.
The first performance is from Akron Producer/Drummer HR3: Beats, Drums & Music!
Upcoming performances include Dominic Moore-Dunson, a dancer/choreographer (Thursday, November 15 at 6:30 pm) and Jenniva Cummings, a special effects & makeup artist (Thursday, December 13 at 6:30 pm)
Kids Creative Playdate - Rails, Wings and Cardboard Things
November 1, 2018, 11:15 am – 12:30 pm
Meaningful messes and inventive play are the foundation for big ideas. Make a date to celebrate your child's creative side.
Best for ages 12 months – 5 years and their grown-ups (siblings welcome)
Art meets play every first Thursday! Make plans to bring your kids age 1-5 and let them create meaningful messes and indulge in inventive play. Celebrate your child’s creative side, with a little imagination; everyday materials have infinite potential. Kids can create their own objects of wonder or work together with friends. This program provides kids with a sensory-rich, open-ended experience. Art smocks provided.
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The Argus, 16 januari 1896
The Armenian Question
TURKS AND RUSSIANS FRATERNISING
SIGNIFICANT DEMONSTRATIONS
ISMAIL BEY BANQUETED
FRANCE SURRENDERS REFUGEES
LONDON, Jan. 14.
A new development of the situation in Armenia is attracting attention, and appears to indicate another stop in the rapprochement between Russia and Turkey, a tendency to which has been noticeable for some time past.
Effusive demonstrations of friendship are being made by the Russian and Moslem soldiery stationed upon the frontier of Asiatic Turkey.
A significant change of attitude is also indicated by the action of the Russians in giving a banquet to Ismail Bey, a Turkish pasha, who was gravely implicated in the atrocities committed upon Armenians at Sassoun, in the Erzeroum district.
[It was hinted by the Standard some weeks ago that negotiations for a treaty between Russia and Turkey were in progress.]
The "Daily News" this morning states that the French Government intends to transfer to the authority of the Sultan the Armenian refugees who have sought safety in French territory.
The Russian Government in December took a similar stop, ordering 18,000 refugees from Armenia to return to Anatolia.
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it changed the world —
As of today, no US airlines operate the mighty Boeing 747
But don't worry, British Airways, KLM, and Lufthansa will keep flying them—for now.
Jonathan M. Gitlin - Jan 4, 2018 6:12 pm UTC
with 154 posters participating, including story author
Queen of the Skies, Delta Airlines' last 747-400. It went on a tour at the end of December, and on Wednesday made its final flight to a boneyard in Arizona.
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Boeing President Bill Allen (left) and Pan Am CEO Juan Trippe (right) celebrate the launch of the Boeing 747 in 1968.
The first Boeing 747 rolls off the production line with Pan Am markings and dwarfs a Pan Am Boeing 707-321B sitting in the foreground, Everett, Washington, March 5, 1969.
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747s weren't just for passengers. An early cargo model, operated by Lufthansa.
Lufthansa AG/ullstein bild via Getty Images
Attendees gather to view a Boeing 747-8 Intercontinental, the company's newest and largest passenger plane, during an unveiling ceremony February 13, 2011 at the company's factory in Everett, Washington. The new plane features quieter, more fuel-efficient engines, more seating, and a redesigned interior. The first plane also featured a red paint job, a departure from the traditional Boeing blue.
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These days, most new 747-8s are the freighter variant, seen here making its first test flight February 8, 2009 at Paine Field in Everett, Washington.
From the biggest 747 to the smallest, the 747-SP.
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One of the better-known jumbos. Fresh from the STS-126 mission space shuttle Endeavour, mounted atop its modified Boeing 747 carrier aircraft, flew over California's Mojave Desert on its way back to the Kennedy Space Center in Florida on December 10, 2008.
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A Boeing VC-25 on the tarmac in Belfast, Northern Ireland. You may know this plane as Air Force One, although that's only its callsign if the US president is onboard.
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The VC-25 has a scarier sibling, the E-4B Advanced Airborne Command Post.
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One of the stranger 747 spinoffs, the YAL-1A Airborne Laser.
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Some 747s spend their time putting out fires.
The 747-400 production line in 1997.
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A 747 at Boeing's factory in Everett, Washington.
A British Airways 747 aircraft landing at Heathrow Airport in London.
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The flight deck of a Boeing 747-8 Intercontinental airliner that was delivered to Lufthansa in 2012. The glass cockpit is a far cry from the ones early 747 crews would be used to.
United Continental's new 747 takes off from San Francisco's International Airport in San Francisco, California, on Wednesday, February 23, 2011.
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Four years later, United retired its last 747.
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A commercial plane, a Boeing 747 flying in front of the moon on September 30, 2010 is seen from Martigues, close to Marseille, southern France, September 30, 2010. What a great photo!
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Regular 747 not big enough for you? How about this large cargo freighter variant used by Boeing to move around 787 Dreamliner parts.
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On Wednesday, Delta Airlines flight 9771 flew from Atlanta to Pinal Airpark in Arizona. It wasn't a full flight—just 48 people on board. But it was a milestone—and not just for the two people who got married mid-flight—for it marked the very last flight of a Boeing 747 being operated by a US airline. Delta's last scheduled passenger service with the jumbo was actually late in December, at which point it conducted a farewell tour and then some charter flights. But as of today, after 51 long years in service, if you want to ride a 747 you'll need to be traveling abroad.
Way back in the 1960s, when the white heat of technological progress was burning bright, it looked for a while as if supersonic air travel was going to be the next big thing. France and Britain were collaborating on a new kind of airliner that would fly at twice the speed of sound and shrink the globe. But there was just one thing they hadn't counted on: Boeing and its gargantuan 747 jumbo jet. The double-decker airliner wouldn't break the sound barrier, but its vast size compared to anything else in the skies helped drop the cost of long-haul air travel, opening it up to the people in a way Concorde could never hope to do.
Boeing was already having a pretty good time selling its 707 jetliner, but Pan American Airlines boss Juan Trippe wanted something special for his passengers, and he approached the aircraft manufacturer with a request for a plane that could carry twice as many passengers as its bread-and-butter long-haul model. In 1966, Trippe signed an order for 25 of the new passenger airliners. The first of these entered service in 1970, and the world would never be the same again.
Since then, more than 1,500 747s have left Boeing's factory in Everett, Washington. Most spent their lives carrying passengers for airlines or carrying freight around the world. But some special variants have lived more exciting lives, fighting forest fires, carrying presidents—even ferrying space shuttles. The US Air Force uses a small fleet of E-4Bs as airborne doomsday control centers, and it even tried using one for ballistic missile defense, complete with a giant laser poking out its nose. More outrageous (stillborn) proposals even wanted to use 747s as mobile cruise missile launchers or as airborne aircraft carriers for little jet fighters.
Now that every US carrier has retired its 747s, if you want to fly one, your best bet is with British Airways, which still operates 36 of them, many on routes to the US. Here are 11, seen at Heathrow's Terminal 5 in 2013.
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In 2017 I flew on BA 747s twice, from Heathrow to Dulles.
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On one of those flights, I had the lucky privilege of sitting in 1A, right up in the nose. Air miles and reward flights are a wonderful thing.
BOAC (a predecessor of British Airways) was one of the first airlines to really transform first-class flight.
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But flying commercial is for scrubs. If you're Iron Maiden, you can have your own 747-400. The band's lead singer, Bruce Dickinson, also serves as the plane's pilot.
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Then again, Iron Maiden's 747 probably can't hold a candle to this, the interior of Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal's private Boeing 747 airplane.
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Yes, that is a throne.
I think our former colleague Andrew Cunningham would appreciate this All Nippon Airways "Pokemon Jet US version" 747-400. ANA has painted more than one 747 up in Pokemon colors.
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Andrew would probably also dig this one, an Air New Zealand 747 painted up for Lord of the Rings.
All good things come to an end. Scraps of metal sit about as Air Salvage International dismantles a Boeing 747 aircraft on April 12, 2010 at Kemble airfield, Cotswolds, England. The dormant airplanes are collected in one of the largest graveyards for aircrafts. The Boeings are reduced to a pile of sheet metal by an excavator on wheels and then moved to a recycling plant.
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Come on in, the water's fine!
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Oops—anyone have any superglue? A damaged Kalitta Air cargo plane lies by the runway at Zaventem, Brussels International Airport, on May 25, 2008 in Zaventem, Belgium. Four people were slightly injured when the Boeing 747 slid off the runway at take off and split in half.
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Part of the wreckage of the two Boeing 747s, KLM 4805 and Pan Am 1736, which collided on the runway of Los Rodeos Airport, killing 583 people, the deadliest collision in aviation history.
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Some of the wreckage of Pan Am Flight 103 after it crashed onto the town of Lockerbie in Scotland, 22nd December 1988. On 21st December 1988, the Boeing 747 Clipper Maid of the Seas was destroyed en route from Heathrow to JFK airport in New York, when a bomb was detonated in its forward cargo hold. All 259 people on board were killed, as well as 11 people in the town of Lockerbie.
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The 747's long career has seen it fly billions of miles, carrying billions of passengers, but it also had its share of tragedies. In 1977, a pair of 747s (one KLM, one Pan Am) crashed into each other on the runway at Tenerife's airport. In 1983, the USSR shot down a Korean Air Lines 747 after mistaking it for a US spy plane. Terrorist bombs destroyed two 747s mid-flight—an Air India 747 in 1985 and a Pan Am 747 in 1988—and several more had been hijacked in the 1970s. Other disasters resulted from poor maintenance or human error. Terrible as those incidents were, they should be seen in context: 61 747s (out of 1,540) have been lost since 1970, more than half of which came without any loss of life—jumbos are estimated to have carried more than 3.5 billion passengers since 1970.
On a personal note, the 747 has been a pretty important aircraft in my life. When my family moved from South Africa to the UK in the late 1970s, it was onboard a jumbo jet. And I'm pretty sure the same is true for my move to the US back in 2002. This past summer I crossed the Atlantic in 747s twice, most memorably sitting in seat 1A on one occasion.
If this post has you hankering to spend some time airborne in a jumbo, fret not; although no US passenger carriers still operate the big bird, several hundred remain in service with other airlines, most notably British Airways and Lufthansa. And if you happen to be an oligarch or Saudi prince, Boeing will happily build you your own 747-8—but don't expect it to be cheap!
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Infinity4011 Ars Scholae Palatinae
jandrese wrote:
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So what have they been replaced with?
Does that also count the newer 747 variants too?
Smaller aircraft for the most part. Airlines have moved away from the hub and spoke architecture which is why planes like the 747 and A380 have been falling out of favor. People prefer direct flights in a 737 or A380 over having a layover but flying in something larger.
Also, the extended twinjets like the 777-9 are going to fit nearly as many people and have lower operating costs than the quadjets like the 747. ETOPS is definitely a factor in the decline of the 747.
ETOPS absolutely. Once twin engine jets achieved the ETOPS certifications necessary to do pond-crossing the 4-engine jets like the A380 and 747 were doomed, and they were additionally doomed by the fuel price increases of the 2000's and new aircraft designs that were aggressively focused on wide body, low drag, high fuel efficiency planes and engines.
As to the reason why the price of air travel declined so dramatically in the 60's, it was largely due to the invention of the high-bypass turbofans Boeing built for the C-5 Galaxy. The TF39 was developed into the CF6 family of turbofans that powered the first 747's. The 747 was was sort of the confluence of a bunch of different technologies that helped make low cost, long-distance air travel a reality.
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Lee Hutchinson Senior Technology Editor
Oh hey, great place to link up the time I got to fly biz class on a KLM combi 747 with maybe 50 people on the flight total.
Easily the best flight I've ever had in my entire life. I actually wanted it to keep going when it was time to land.
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alastairmayer Ars Praefectus
reply Thu Jan 04, 2018 3:54 pm
Morris von Habsburg wrote:
Alexstarfire wrote:
cheetahfox wrote:
Great timing for this story! Today; literally as I write this I am sitting in the upper deck of a 747 flying from Frankfurt to Denver(Lufthansa).
I had always wanted to sit up here and I got quite lucky with the timing when I bought the tickets for it to only add about $600 vs Economy. I booked the flight about six months ago. Two days later the price was an extra $2,700 vs Economy. Which would have made this impossible...
The one time I got to fly on a 747 was on a flight from Tokyo to Taiwan. It was at night and there were so few people on the plane we could just sit wherever we wanted. I decided to sit in the top section. I don't think I'll ever be on a plane that empty again.
My record empty flight was sitting with eight other people in a Fokker 100. That means about 80 or 90 empty seats.
Because of weight distribution all nine passengers had to sit in the last three rows for takeoff. I got a distinct Alice in Wonderland “No room! No room!” feeling about it.
My first leg of that post-9/11 Australia trip was Denver to LA on a 757. There were so few people they just upgraded everyone to business class. Economy was completely empty.
My Frankfurt-Moscow flight shortly after Gorbachev was ousted was almost as empty (and I think nearly everyone else was news crew) ... but the cargo hold was filled with video gear and carton after carton of blank video cassettes for the CNN crews.
bthylafh Ars Legatus Legionis et Subscriptor
Infinity4011 wrote:
As to the reason why the price of air travel declined so dramatically in the 60's, it was largely due to the invention of the high-bypass turbofans Boeing built for the C-5 Galaxy. The TF39 was developed into the CF6 family of turbofans that powered the first 747's.
Your post is poorly worded: it was not Boeing but Lockheed who made the C-5 and General Electric for the TF39, but the TF39 was indeed developed into the 747's CF6 engines.
iCowboy Wise, Aged Ars Veteran
fic wrote:
GreenEnvy wrote:
I've always wanted to fly on a 747 but it hasn't happened yet. May need to book a flight to Europe sometime before they are all gone. Also want to fly a 777 and 787 and haven't got those yet either.
Most of the time I end up on 737, 757, 767, a320, or a330's, which are nice too, but i want to see the big and/or new ones.
777s are nice. I still remember my first flight in one.
I'd definitely like to catch a 787 though.
777s used to be fine for those of us in the cheap seats, but in recent years as well as shrinking the seat pitch, airlines have started to move to 3-4-3 in the back which is pretty bone crunching for long-haul flights.
I've got a 747 flight in a couple of weeks and I still love seeing one of these handsome beasts up at the jetway. My aim is to try and get a seat upstairs before they disappear entirely. Still a few years to become rich before BA phases them out entirely.
jdhardy Smack-Fu Master, in training et Subscriptor
Boeing offers tours of the Everett plant, and the 747 production area is something to see. Think of how big a 747 is, and then realize you're in a room holding 3 or 4 of them.
The Museum of Flight at Boeing Field in Seattle has a pre-production 747 that was used for flight tests and has been completely stripped inside to walk around in (and an SR-71, and a Concorde, and all sorts of other cool stuff).
Baoth are definitely worth seeing if you're in the area.
EdelweissPirate Smack-Fu Master, in training
psyllidae wrote:
Personally, I'm not sad to see them go.
[747s] are showing their age. Even in Business, on the upper deck which is less densely packed, the wall panels are creaky, the windows rattle and the engines are noisy.
It’s not that 747s are showing their age, it’s that you flew on some 747s with beat-up interiors. Some people imagine (reasonably) that planes are like cars: a worn-out interior suggests they’re flying on an “old plane,” and that an old plane’s engines, landing gear and other components are probably similarly worn/aging.
I’ve overheard other passengers supposing that they could tell we were on an old plane because its wings were flexing so much. It doesn’t work that way.
Large passenger planes are more like houses than cars. You can buy an old house with “good bones,” renovate it with a chic interior and a new furnace, and the end result will feel very modern and comfortable—not remotely “worn out.”
Similarly, planes get new interiors, engines and electronics all the time. Boeing will happily take money to upgrade an older 747 to the Signature interior from the 777. Similarly, you can get your tired old 737NG retrofitted with Boeing’s Sky interior, the same style used on the 787.
Planes also get re-engined when that makes economic sense, just as an older house will get a new furnace or central AC unit that’s a lot more efficient than the old one. An “old plane” (dumpy interior) may have very modern engines and upgraded avionics. One of the 787 engine options, the GE GEnx, is also available for the 747-8.
We flew a 787 from LHR to Montreal recently. Much nicer...more space, quieter, I was surprised how big the windows were. [...] Overall a much more modern place to spend several hours.
“More space” has less to do with the “plane” (airframe) than with the fresh interior. You can have an early-eighties 747 refit with a gorgeous business-jet interior, though it’s not cheap. The quietness of the 787 comes from its modern engines and also partly from the carbon fiber fuselage. (Laminar composites damp vibration, including sound, better than aluminum).
That carbon fuselage is responsible for not only those big, beautiful windows, but also for the increased cabin pressure. The 787 is pressuried to the equivalent of 6000 feet, which is a lower cabin altitude than the 8000-foot pressure you get on most other planes. The lower cabin altitude is responsible for much of the increased comfort of the 787.
The 787 you flew on felt much more modern than the 747s you flew on, absolutely. But much of that modern feel comes from a fresh interior, which you can also get on an older plane.
For what it’s worth, I’m a mechanical engineer who played a tiny role in the development of the 787. I really mean tiny: I worked not for Boeing but for a subcontractor, and there were thousands of subcontractors who worked on the 787.
P.S.: A friend of mine, an electrical engineer, spent a number of years at a company that develops high-end seats for fancy non-US carriers. You know those lay-flat first-class seats with so much privacy that they’re essentially personal cabins? He told me that they all have video cameras in them so that the flight attendants can keep an eye on the passengers. Yes, people probably try to have sex in them, but I think the main idea is to let the FAs see if a passenger is assembling a bomb or has passed out and choked on their own vomit after an opiate overdose.
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iPilot05 Ars Scholae Palatinae et Subscriptor
mhoweofduke wrote:
Atlas Air, a US based airline in Purchase, New York operates a fleet of 747 cargo aircraft. They also have passenger 747's for Charter.
The largest 747 fleet in the world in fact. I'm a First Officer on the 747 and it's been easily the nicest jet I've ever flown. Sad to see the passenger model fade away but we've just advanced beyond needing huge airplanes with 4 engines to cross the sea safely.
That said the cargo version will be around for a very long time. The weight carrying ability is unparalleled. The 777 was built to be as light an efficient as possible which is fine when taking people (very low density). Even the 777F with all its reinforcement can't come close to the 747-8F. Only thing is the cargo market buys very few jets at a time so Boeing will just have to make due making 1 aircraft a month. Luckily the jet is pretty much paid off for Boeing so there's very little cost continuing such a slow build.
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PurpleBadger Wise, Aged Ars Veteran et Subscriptor
Sad to see them go from US passenger carriers, but I'll still have the joy of seeing the cargo versions flying in and out of KIND.
Back in '69 or '70 some cereal maker had a mail-in offer for a little 747 model. Being the greedy little rug-rat I was, I managed to persuade my mother to send off for two of them. For a cheap little snap-together plastic model they had surprisingly good fidelity, complete with Pan Am decals. I played with them till they were ready for the plastic model bone yards and remember them well to this day. Because of those models I have a lingering soft spot for the 747 despite never having flown on one.
Thanks much Jonathan for this article.
Lostfanboi Ars Scholae Palatinae
Jim Z wrote:
nothing compares to NorthDelta's DC-9s just as they were retiring them. those were some old planes.
You want to talk about a solid little workhorse! Once I got to fly in the military variant, the C-9, that was being used as a medevac aircraft. Crewchiefs were saying how they had the easiest job in the fleet (especially compared to our always breaking down C-5s) since they were so darn reliable, despite these ones being built in the 60s or 70s. They were used hard, in tough middle eastern, hostile conditions, yet were awesome. Flight docs/nurses I talked to from my old wing were pissed when they announced the retirement of them.
Jim Z Ars Legatus Legionis et Subscriptor
bthylafh wrote:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gzbYQv9XjWo
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misterp Seniorius Lurkius
I still vividly remember touring the Boeing plant in the late 80's - the part of the building I toured was the 747 assembly area, and there were dozens and dozens of full 747 airframes, and subassemblies being ready to be turned into full airframes... all under one roof. I took pictures, but they are long lost, and wouldn't do it justice anyway.
I loved watching these 747's off and land at the airport while waiting for other flights.
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Azethoth666 Ars Tribunus Angusticlavius et Subscriptor
My first was South Africa to Rio in a 747 then a tour up the Americas to Vancouver with various planes.
Crossing the Atlantic was amazing, we flew through cloud layers above and below us. Except for gravity and knowing up vs down, the blue ocean and blue sky were identical above and below with white clouds scattered everywhere. We were glued to a window for hours. I have not seen anything like that since.
Sibuna Smack-Fu Master, in training
enilc wrote:
I've never flown in one, either. I've always wondered what that upper deck lounge is like. I appreciate the photos of the private versions...but curious what it's like in a standard commercial 747.
flown on them to Asia from the US, the upper deck is just more business/first class seats, there really isn't anything special to it
simonbp Wise, Aged Ars Veteran
Lostfanboi wrote:
Yeah, I got to fly on a C-9 once, literally. It was the now-retired NASA C-9 and we did 30 parabolas, 28 microgravity, 1 lunar, 1 Mars. Tough little plane.
But of the NASA 747s, I'm rather partial to the one still flying, SOFIA. Last year, I got to sit in the back of the cockpit landing in heavy fog in Christchurch. That was pretty incredible, and so was the science we got!
alansh42 Ars Centurion et Subscriptor
My first 747 flight was on Qantas in coach from Los Angeles to Auckland in October 2001. Despite the date, the flights there and back were pretty full. I also got to meet some guys from Operation Deep Freeze, coming back from Antarctica.
My second (and possibly final) was United first class from San Francisco to Tokyo in January 2011. Then-US Airways had a very generous frequently flyer miles promotion where I got 100K miles. Along with some I already had, this covered the first class ticket.
It is truly amazing to see a 747 in flight, that something SO big is actually flying.
I've heard the real reason there were fancy piano bars in the upper deck initially was that they didn't have working evacuation slides from that height, so no one could be seated there during takeoff or landing. Even though they do have slides now, it would be one hell of a drop.
I've flown to Europe many times on Delta's 767s, and have flown on a couple of Singapore and United 777s. Back in the day, I rode Delta's L1011 from Atlanta to Orlando a couple times. Never managed the DC-10 or MD-10 though. And I haven't ridden the A380 or 787 yet. I need to fly international more.
Unclebugs Ars Scholae Palatinae et Subscriptor
THavoc wrote:
Smaller aircraft for the most part. Airlines have moved away from the hub and spoke architecture which is why planes like the 747 and A380 have been falling out of favor. People prefer direct flights in a 737 or A380 over having a layover but flying ic's, it was largely due to the invention of the high-bypass turbofans Boeing built for the C-5 Galaxy. The TF39 was developed into the CF6 family of turbofans that powered the first 747's. The 747 was was sort of the confluence of a bunch of different technologies that helped make low cost, long-distance air travel a reality.
Boeing does not design jet engines. The original 747 is powered by four P&W JT9s. An acquaintance growing up became an AF engine mechanic. He much preferred the JT9 to the General Electric TF39 which evolved into the CF6. Boeing 747s subsequent to the first series have been powered by engines similar to the JT9: CF6 variants, RB 211 variants and more modern derivatives from all three major manufacturers of commercial jet engines.
joshuasmith1981 Smack-Fu Master, in training et Subscriptor
Sarty wrote:
jnk1000 wrote:
I've used many words to describe my 757 and 767 flights. "Nice" isn't generally one of them. They are old, tired, and utilitarian.
757s, in particular, always feel like they've been ridden hard and put away wet.
No fault of the airframe, of course, just the niche they ended up occupying in airline structures.
I've always had the same impression. One time though, I was in a 757 and we had to take off (much) quicker than usual for noise abatement. That particular horse shoved me back into my seat. It was fantastic.
Power_Struggle Ars Centurion
new2mac wrote:
justcauseisjustthat wrote:
I wish I could fly on 787, to every location.
I'd kill to even SEE a 787. God damn things are rarer than unicorns. They're all flying on the other side of the world.
Weird. I work at an airport, and I see them all the time.
It is actually quite odd how often they are parked there for long hours. The A350 is much rarer in my opinion. Might be a local thing.
In the last month we had two 747 subbing in for more modern planes. Will probably happen in the states too.
747's will fly freight for a really, really long time.
AccountingforMe Wise, Aged Ars Veteran
I've been very lucky to fly in a 747, 757, 767, 777 (new-ish), and 787 (nearly brand new). The 787 was not as amazing as I thought it would be but I was in coach and distracted so who knows? The 747 was an old bird bought by India Air, I am just glad I had a chance to fly in one at some point.
Richardprice Ars Centurion
Power_Struggle wrote:
The A350 has only had 133 deliveries since 2015, while the 787 has had 625 since 2011 - that's why you are seeing more 787s, as there literally currently is more in the market 😀
lysergicl Wise, Aged Ars Veteran
The Boeing 777X is even more sick.
...737Max is also wicked. Someone at Boeing is eatting their Wheaties.
They can't make both these planes fast enuf -- tired of flying 1970s tech.
Where do you live? I see 3-4 787s in the SF Bay Area every day without trying. Also feel earthquakes now and then .
SuperSmartGuy Ars Centurion
I mostly fly domestic (LA-DC) with Virgin/Alaska so it's always either a 737 or A320 for me. My wife was flying international a couple of weeks ago on A380 LA-Paris and that plane looked huge, but apparently had no wifi. I did fly a 747 to Europe a few times back when I was a kid, and it was not a good experience, but mostly due to the fact that smoking wasn't banned at that point. Spending 8hrs in a confined space across from a chain smoker was rough to say the least.
jbode Ars Tribunus Angusticlavius et Subscriptor
Got to fly the big bird once on a trip to London, back in '91 (American, I think). Economy class (we were po'), pretty far to the back, which just emphasized the gargantuan-ness to me. For someone who spent most of his time flying MD-80s, it was like flying in a goddamned movie theater.
Not that comfortable IIRC.
Got to fly a 777 biz class to Tokyo in '96 or so - that was a ride, and kind of ruined me on air travel ever since.
Hap Ars Tribunus Angusticlavius et Subscriptor
I'm approaching 2 million miles flown on Delta, even though I've only had one work trip in the last year. Never got to fly a 747.
Fewest people on a craft: Lockheed L1011 to Hawaii (layover on trip to Kwajalein Atoll) with a total of 10 people on board. I was just out of college and thought it was great. On the trip back it was completely full and I was in the middle of five seats from HNL to ATL. Miserable!! Made that trip many times and much more comfortably due to a loop hole in Delta's rewards program at the time. It cost 10,000 miles to upgrade to first, but upgrading to first got you double miles (even mileage upgrades) and the trip was worth 10,800 miles
Nicest flight: Layflat seats from Seattle to Atlanta this last September. I honestly can't remember the plane, 767? It was Delta. Although that first class service to Honolulu from Atlanta was pretty nice on L1011s. 767s to Rome/Munich were also decent (company paid for business seats - international flights only)
Roughest flight, 10 seater to Yuma, AZ from Phoenix - just like a damn roller coaster.
Fastest takeoff and descent. C-141 Starlifter from Kwajalein to Honolulu.
Multiple scares:
- Looking directly at out the window at a runway (aircraft was almost on it's side when caught by a wind gust) taking off from DFW.
- Having to get a tow vehicle to turn the plan around after landing in Orlando and the pilot couldn't get the plane down and we came within feet of running out of runway
- Two wave offs at SFO due to crossing traffic
1337 poster Ars Praetorian
The A380? Boeing might have called it right with the Dreamliner however.
fitten wrote:
My first overseas flight was on a 747 operated by SwissAir back about 25 years ago. It's a great plane... great safety record (modulo some terrorists).
I remember one time on a 747, there were not many passengers, two thirds of the cabin was roped off but every passenger still had a row of seats to themselves.
citpeks Ars Scholae Palatinae
KAL and CCA are also still flying the 747; the 8I version no less.
It's a big, but graceful airplane in a way the A380 will never be. The latter looks like it lumbers even when moving.
I've been on a number of 747 flights, including the SP, and one where the extra pylon was used to ferry an additional engine. I've also been on the Everett plant tour.
But the highlight was being able to have free roam of a 747 in for maintenance. Sat in the cockpit, opened the escape hatch, and checked out the crew rest area at the rear of the plane. It feels even larger inside when not loaded with people.
zepi Ars Praetorian et Subscriptor
With big cities getting bigger and main airports getting busier (ie. more contention for the slots), shouldn't it increase the demand for highest capacity planes?
I mean why fly 400 people between JFK - LHR paying fixed fee per take off slot / gate for at the airport, if you can take 600 instead?
Sure, it is way better to have direct flights when you can, but these megacity-routes should be fully bookable anyway?
727200 wrote:
As of January, here's the list of US cities where a 747 operates from:
BOS FRA
BOS LHR
DEN FRA
DEN LHR
DFW LHR
EWR FRA
HNL ICN
IAD FRA
IAD LHR
IAH AMS
IAH FRA
JFK AMS
JFK FRA
JFK ICN
JFK LHR
JFK PEK
JFK TLV
LAS LGW
LAS LHR
LAX AMS
LAX BNE
LAX LHR
LAX SYD
MCO FRA
MCO LGW
MIA LHR
ORD AMS
ORD FRA
ORD LHR
PHL LHR
PHX LHR
SAN LHR
SEA FRA
SFO LHR
SFO PEK
SFO SYD
Looks like you should book a trip to Germany if you want to fly in a 747.
I'd say London would be best.
Nilt Ars Legatus Legionis et Subscriptor
jdhardy wrote:
I couldn't agree more. I worked as tech PM on a project at Boeing rolling out 63,000 new PCs and spent a lot of time in that place. It's one hell of an impressive building and you get to see loads of neat industrial tools like the thing that holds an airplane fuselage and turns it over.
My crew wanted to do a FPS map of the place and even started but then 9/11 happened and that wasn't a great idea any more.
geo_2 Ars Scholae Palatinae
In 1983, the USSR shot down a Korean Air Lines 747 after mistaking it for a US spy plane.
They might have thought it was used for spying, but they knew damned well it was a passenger plane and U.S. Secretary of State Schultz played the radio intercepts of the fighter that shot it down right in the U.N. It was no mistake. It was a heinous act of mass murder.
DougF Ars Scholae Palatinae et Subscriptor
My first ride in a 747 was 1975, coming home from 3 years in Indonesia. Flew from Bangkok to London with stops in New Dehli, Tehran, and Beirut along the way. Indira made it an interesting flight, lots of people were escaping her purge with their Commonwealth passports to the UK. Many had never seen an aircraft let alone fly in one. As we climbed out from New Dehli, one guy decided that this "flying" thing was nonsense and wanted off, now. He was restrained and calmed down. Then, at altitude another guy wanted to "go outside" for some fresh air, he made it to the door before they tackled him. When we went to the galley on the first leg for a stretch/water, we came back to our seats to find several Indians going through our stuff...completely unapologetic about it too... The stopovers in Tehran and Beirut were another story altogether.
But my second, and last, ride in a 747 was heaven. Got to fly business in 1998 from Riyadh to Zurich on SwissAir, in the upper deck. Spoiled me rotten. The only drawback was we had to take off at night, arriving at 0darkthirty, when everything was closed and an 8 hour layover to the flight home (economy class, drat it).
zepi wrote:
It's all about seat cost/mile. Newer twin engine wide bodies can move people about much cheaper than bigger jets with 4 engines. Then, add in turnaround times to keep said machine producing cash, and maintenance issues with older airframes, it means the 747 (and eventually the A380) will be gone.
Although, if you really want to see a "cattle car", the A380s and 747s that haul the workers into Saudi Arabia and other Middle Eastern oil nations are CROWDED. I would swear 500 came off a 747 and 800 from an A380, but my eyes probably deceived me.
DougF wrote:
I wonder if the Saudi slave labor planes come equipped with the "arbeit macht frei" sign that lights up during takeoff and landing.
mike8675309 Ars Scholae Palatinae et Subscriptor
My dad has a picture of himself and Seymour Cray at Boeing working on a 747 being used to test the new airframe. Control Data Corporation was assisting with instrumentation and data gathering during the flight tests. He told me a story about how you had to have special federal security clearance to enter the grounds of the 747 testing and that numerous government officials coming to see the airplane were turned away at the gates due to not having proper clearance.
The densest A380 configuration is currently an Emirates layout on their Copenhagen routes - so yes, your eyes did "deceive" you.
compuguy1088 Ars Praetorian et Subscriptor
United Airlines has 787's. I know they fly them between IAD and CDG. Its a very nice and modern plane.
563 posts | registered Dec 29, 2007
the other Donald Smack-Fu Master, in training
As a young engineer at Delta, I saw the 747 at Boeing before it flew (Delta had ordered five). My first impression was "We have made a dreadful mistake - this can NEVER fly!"
Of course it flew and it was magnificent. Now I have outlived the C-46 (cargo), CV-440, the DC-6, DC-7, CV-880. DC-8, DC-9, L-100 (civilian C-130 cargo), several variants of 737, and 747. Turn out the lights, .... you know.
7 posts | registered Jul 27, 2017
jddaigle Smack-Fu Master, in training
As I recall (maybe read it here?) the next Air Force One planes will be based on 747-8s. With all the hardening and extra gear they need, the extra space is pretty handy.
Of course, I often wonder it wouldn't be easier to build a special Globemaster with a passenger compartment than it is to up-fit a civilian airframe like the 747. The reason it isn't done that way is probably for the same reason that great pains are taken to make the Presidential limo look like a regular car, instead of putting a Cadillac interior into a Stryker variant painted gloss black with little American flags on the front fenders. The US is run (in theory) by a government by the people for the people—not by the military.
67 posts | registered Jun 9, 2005
Maury Markowitz Ars Praefectus
As to the reason why the price of air travel declined so dramatically in the 60's, it was largely due to the invention of the high-bypass turbofans Boeing built for the C-5 Galaxy.
General Electric, shurely.
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Advancement by opportunity -or- my boss gave his 2 weeks notice today
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Dragondazd
Ars Tribunus Angusticlavius
Posted: Thu May 02, 2013 10:05 am
jbest is answering Black_Obsidian's rhetorical and incomplete question. That is not the same thing as this particular example of reality.
Black_Obsidian
"There are eels in my hovercraft!"
et Subscriptor
Tribus: Ottawa, Canada
Registered: Sep 16, 1999
AndrewZ wrote:
jbest wrote:
Ardax wrote:
Which sounds like the exact opposite of what's about to happen.
True, but we don't know what's been promised to the new manager.
Just saying though, that if they promised me the authority to go with the responsibility, it could be an interesting job.
Give the excellent details and description that B_O has provided, we are pretty sure we have several executives who are fairly inflexible and not competent dealing with technology management. We can probably guess what's been promised the new manager.
That being said, should they reneg on the authority I would walk pretty fast.
Now you are starting to see why everyone is leaving
I agree with jbest that, given the authority and support to do what needs to be done, this would be a fantastic job. Unfortunately, the company is unwilling to give anyone that, and they haven't chosen the best candidate the could find; they chose the only viable candidate out of the crop they felt they had time to interview.
That might result in a great manager, and the EVP might give him the power he needs to effect real change, but there's a ton of company history that suggests the likelihood of either of those things is quite low.
My director sent out the notification of my departure today (odd phrasing likely due to his first language not being English):
It is with regret that I have to announce that Black_Obsidian has tendered his resignation. Black has accepted a new position as Systems Administrator in a local IT company and his last day is May 10th, 2013.
While his stay with $Company has been quite short, we will remember him as a professional of great rigor, capable of analyzing and solving complex issues. We will also miss a nice comrade to work with.
Please join me in wishing Black well in his future endeavors.
Director, Quality
ronelson
Ars Legatus Legionis
Tribus: Indianapolis, IN
Registered: Mar 21, 1999
nah, the blame's going to fall upon you. Fortunately it won't matter to you.
On this..
You're bound to at some point hear that someone was talking to your old colleagues and they said you suck. It happened to me when I left a company. It really translated to, "He sucks, because we all wanted out and he took the best job in a bad market. Asshole!" But all I heard was that they had a problem with me. Just a heads up so you don't focus on the wrong thing like I did
papadage
Tribus: Celerius quam asparagi cocuntur.
Registered: Jul 27, 2001
The new manager is not going to have any authority. The mangement team probably sidelined OB as a menas of collecting power under themselves, hence hiring a guy for tech skills, and not as a director.
It's going to be a shit show as they try and cluelessly make plausibly deniable decisions after you are gone.
And it's hard to blame the user support guy for collapse of infrastructure. he will be a footnote on the blame of the outgoing manager.
Last edited by papadage on Thu May 02, 2013 11:14 am
yes, the recently departed is simply a really easy excuse for All Things Wrong. Happens all the time.
caustic meatloaf
I have to admit, I'm tempted ot talk to former coworkers at my old job to see how things have settled down there after my leaving. I'm of two worlds on it. Part of me hopes that the shit hit the fan and then there's chaos, but there's also a large part of me that hope things are ticking along just fine. I figure that if it was total chaos after I left, then that would show that I was justified with my assessment of my former managers, and if it just was ticking along, it would justify my awesome abilities as an administrator.
You'll note that neither scenario implies that I was either incompetent or wrong in any way .
GByteKnight
Ars Praefectus
Tribus: Sacramento, CA
Registered: Nov 2, 2010
On that note....
A new manager starts at an organization and finds on his desk three envelopes (marked 1, 2 and 3) and a note from the outgoing manager. The note reads: "To my successor - whenever you are in deep shit, open one of these envelopes."
He goes about his business and does an awesome job for a year, then he makes a bad mistake. He's sweating it but then he sees the envelopes, so he opens #1. There's a note inside that says "Blame your predecessor." He does this and gets away with it.
Things are fine for another year and he makes another bad mistake. This time he doesn't sweat it as badly, he just reaches into his drawer and opens #2. The note inside reads "Blame the consultants." He does this, the consultants are replaced and everything is okay.
A few more years pass uneventfully and he screws up for the third time. He knows he's in really deep shit but then he remembers that he still has envelope #3! He opens it up and fumbles out the note. It reads:
"Prepare three envelopes..."
You're forgetting the reality distortion field. I had old coworkers from the hell shop who told me it got better after I left, even though I left because of the 25% pay cuts (failed startup). These people went down with the ship. And the fact that it was bought out still, 7 years later, is still pitched as if *I* was the crazy one, even though the company was bought at fire sale prices by a company that is now in its own death throes. You can't reason with people who rationalized either how dumb you were for leaving or how smart they were for staying.
Personally, I just wanted them to finally fail so I could buy some cheap Aeron chairs during bankruptcy
topham
Tribus: ☁☁☁☁
GByteKnight wrote:
I love that joke, why? Because its true.
kperrier
Tribus: Nashville, TN
B_O, how is your last week going? The crowd demands entertainment!
Nothing all that exciting has happened yet. I've buried the new manager's email account under a ton of documentation and "By the way, here's a 'unique' little situation you should be aware of..." messages. Since we'll never meet, hopefully he has everything he needs, because once I'm gone, contracting rates are going to apply if anyone wants anything.
I have had the following conversation a number of times:
$Random_Person: Hey Black, who's responsible for $System?
Me: That'd be me.
$Random_Person: But you leave on Friday.
Me: Right.
$Random_Person: So who handles it after you leave?
Me: The new manager if it's in his skill set.
$Random_Person: And if it's not?
Me: Hope it doesn't break.
$Random_Person: Shit.
Almost fifty people have come to see me since the announcement of my departure went out, and they're divided pretty evenly into two camps:
1) People who wondered why I've stayed here so long when I'm clearly work well above my position
2) People who know about my proposal/the EVP's plan and who wonder what the HR Director has over the CEO that he sided with her "optics concerns" over continuity of operations
My last day is bound to be fun.
Alamout
Tribus: s/(?<=Bay) State/ Area/
Registered: Aug 12, 2000
As far as 2, keep in mind that you and the EVP were not in agreement. The EVP's plan turned out to be "let's keep not paying people, and hope they still work super hard."
Thinking about it as "CEO and HR" vs "EVP and you" is misguided, because it turns out the EVP wasn't really on your side.
"Klazy Kolean Uncre"
Tribus: Los Angeles, CA
Registered: Nov 14, 2000
Alamout wrote:
Yup, I would side with this. He won't realize exactly what he's lost, until things hit the fan.
That IT Director's skillset will be the only thing holding things back.
It'll be hilarious if the IT Director has a change of heart and doesn't show up on day 1.
If the IT Director DOES show up and it turns out be someone related to someone in management, you have your answer right there.
Hopers
Registered: May 6, 2005
I've read stories about people who started a new job, went out for lunch, and then never came back.
I'm starting to understand why someone might do that.
Did they decide to bring the guy in as a director?
hamete
Ars Tribunus Militum
Tribus: Silicon Valley
Dragondazd wrote:
Hands on manager. Sounds like they basically hired outside to do what B_O was willing to do for a small pay raise and change in title.
I'll be curious 3, 6 months from now to see how things are going...
I've thought about it before. That's pretty bad, since I work at home...
Yup, hands-on manager (which I translate to mean "going to be paid less than the last manager"). I actually know who it is now, and as far as I can tell he's not related to anyone. No clue how competent he is, but I've been feeding him documentation and stuff for the past week. I'm pretty sure he already realizes that he's going to be buried up to his neck on his first day, since I doubt that came up in his interview.
There's a good deal of speculation as to just how long he'll stay, once he starts and realizes how difficult the situation really is. Doubly so if one of the two remaining guys decides to leave (either taking away all I.S. support, as that's outside the new manager's wheelhouse, or the only desktop support guy), and they're both looking.
I haven't been asked for an exit interview yet, and I don't imagine I will be. It's not as though my proposal left any questions as to exactly what I think needs to be changed about the environment, after all.
wavelet
Tribus: Collisveris, Judaea
Registered: Jan 9, 2002
From earlier:
Incidentally, the new guy coming in is just a manager, not a director. Apparently he was hired for his hands-on skills, and was specifically told not to expect the position to grow into a directorship.
Which guarantees they'd get a weak candidate or one who'd quit promptly once s/he started. I've never ever encountered or heard of a person who fulfilled all the below:
(a) Had management experience in tech
(b) Enjoyed managing and wanted to continue managing
(c) Was not interested in advancement along that path
That was the point it became clear the company management as a whole is incompetent.
Up until that their actions could be explained as not realizing how to handle IT management (as the company itself is not a digital-tech house), but that decision means they have no clue about the most basic rule-of-thumb HR principles. And then later it transpired they didn't even want the incoming manager to meet the current team before starting...
Last-day entertainment starts early!
The new consultants want us to run a scanning tool on each server (manually) to generate whatever information they want. It's a manual process because it's the free version of the tool, which states right at the download link they provided that it's absolutely not licensed for commercial use.
The request came down from our director (who isn't an I.T. guy), with the EVP and Director of HR CCed. Before I could even respond to it, the other I.T. guy replied, in a rather rambling manner, that maybe our high-paid consultants shouldn't be asking us to commit software piracy (his words, not mine).
I replied with a much briefer agreement, and contrasting suggestion that this would hardly be the greatest of our licensing woes, since the company is well aware that it has been been out of license compliance with MS since 2011, and that the cost of remediating that is somewhere in the tens of thousands.
The outcome of this email should be amusing. It doesn't sound like the other I.T. guy is willing to do what's being asked at all. I probably would, given these emails as a CYA measure, but I also have the benefit of having 80% of my body already out the door.
EDIT: I also CCed the new manager, just so he knows what's up. I figure it's only fair, since the resulting shit show will be his responsibility, come Monday.
Hattori HANZo
Ars Scholae Palatinae
Tribus: Beer Capital
Registered: Feb 14, 2012
I always thought it would be hella cool to spend a last day at a job with a big bucket of popcorn I'd carry around with me anywhere. And whenever I see or hear something that's going to get interesting, I would start to grab some hands of that popcorn and stuff it in frantically. While saying "yeah, sure!" to even the dumbest suggestions.
It seems you're having that, just without the popcorn bucket.
Arbelac
Tribus: Lower Mainland, BC
Registered: Aug 4, 2004
Where are these consultants from? Maybe you should report them to the software vendor...
I wonder how these 'consultants' were picked. This screams of 'IT isn't hard, my 12 year old nephew can do it...' mentality.
Thank $deity you are gone tomorrow, cause this isn't good. You should start a pool on 1) whether the new "manager" makes it through the first week and 2) if the IS and/or desktop support guy leave before the manager does.
I always wondered who those BSA "rat your company out - get a bounty" radio commercials were targeting.
dotorg
I helped a company on the receiving end of one of those 'don't copy that floppy" complaints. It was a small computer shop operating out of the back of a Radio Shack. They had one OEM license for Windows, Word Perfect and several other things. They installed it on hundreds of computers.
It appears, sadly, that the BSA no longer offers the generous reward. The new terms seem quite sketchy. https://reporting.bsa.org/r/report/usa/ ... tions.aspx
Paltivar
Tribus: IL
Faustian deal, IMO.
Black_Obsidian wrote:
I don't understand this.
Spiceworks or even appropriate WMI scripting plus powershell would give them the answers.
I'm sure there's other free software packages that could do the same.
Welcome to the world of overpriced, unethical and lazy consultants.
papadage wrote:
You know... having you you use a freeware tool in contravention to the license instead if using a real enterprise inventory/monitoring tool, or heaven forbid, writing some scripts.
Like how Best Buy got caught giving its Geek Sqaud guys DVDs filled with unlicensed freeware diagnostics and malware scanners instead of paying for fully licensed versions, or developing their own solution.
Last edited by papadage on Thu May 09, 2013 10:19 pm
KD5MDK
Tribus: Longhorn Country
dotorg wrote:
Note the linked form is US only even though it mentions Canada and you'd lose any bonus if you filled this exact one out.
I guess you must have missed me complaining about consultants and contractors for the last few years.
What they're doing is amateur hour. The pros at being the overpriced "consultant" will subcontract any difficult work to give themselves an out as well as charge you margin on any licenses while talking it up like it's a discount.
If you don't feel like you've been had, then it's still amateur hour. If you're thankful for when they're done, then they're real pros.
Now, a real professional working for a competent MSP or consultancy? It'll be like that first taste of true love during a summer romance. The memories will keep you wanting more, and dreading the drudgery of every day life.
I really have to work on two of those three. Lazy I have mastered, but I still have a hard time using the skill for work purposes. I'm sure once I manage to make it the premise of my work the ethical values will finally rush out of me and the ability to charge crazy rates will somehow certainly just come with that...
Hattori HANZo wrote:
Please see what I wrote above about engaging subcontractors. Then you can now call yourself a project manager as well
Arbelac wrote:
Our CEO (who owns a number of smaller, largely limited-success/not-yet-failed companies) uses these consultants to support a couple of his other companies. Although we host the hardware for those companies, I've had little to no interaction with the consultants in the past, beyond "please stick a cleaning tape in the LTO3 drive," so I wasn't in a place to judge their competency.
I am now, however, and what I see isn't good. I've definitely considered emailing the vendor to give them a heads up on this. In the meantime, the other I.T. guy has basically told the consultants (and our upper manager) to sit on it and rotate. He's apparently fully prepared to resign on the spot today if they give him too much grief over it.
The pools you speak of already exist. The leading bet on the manager's is currently "Leaves for lunch on his first day and doesn't come back," followed closely by "Never shows up at all."
AngelZero
"Population: Tire"
FWIW there are good orgs out there who don't use shit tools or cut corners. They also tend to charge significantly higher due to the much higher operating costs, and while a few do very well due to great skill, great trust, and great people, many of them languish and never grow above X size or worse - they get beaten out by the shit-shops.
Total sidetrack here, however maybe Black_Obsidian you can use this experience moving forward to help you in interactions with whatever consultants your NEW employer works with.
The reward is the knowledge of what happens next.
OurTheir CEO
T,FTFFive O'Clock.
Wait, you're sending emails to a guy who doesn't work there yet, probably at a gmail or hotmail account that could be hacked? Please be sure to implement an actual DLP policy at your new job @_@
I took it as FNG's internal mailbox was already set up and he was queuing messages up there.
That happens here quite frequently - we know someone is coming onboard but their start date is a week or two off. In the interim, we add them to DLs and stuff and they spend part of Day 0 catching up on recent things.
Last edited by dotorg on Fri May 10, 2013 10:36 am
I interpreted it as he's sending emails to an internal address that the new guy has web access to, or won't encounter till he sits down the first day.
I've definitely considered emailing the vendor to give them a heads up on this.
Seems like one of those things that has no real upside for you. I don't know why you would.
Paltivar wrote:
Yah, bad idea.
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City of Gold by Len Deighton (1992)
Part one – Plot summary
Cairo during the war
Because of the chameleon on the book cover I thought this might be another novel set in South America, the setting of MAMista, but in fact this one is set in wartime Cairo – apparently known back then as the ‘city of gold’ – in January 1942, as Rommel and Montgomery push each other’s armies back and forth across North Africa.
The novel opens with Army Special Investigator, Major Albert Cutler accompanying a soldier, Jimmy Ross (accused of killing a superior officer under fire) back to Cairo by train to stand trial. Cutler has a heart attack giving Ross a golden opportunity to swap clothes, identity cards and so on, and arrive in Cairo masquerading as the special investigator. A confident actor, he hands over Cutler’s body to the officer meeting him at the station, Captain Marker, claiming it is Ross’s. From that point onwards Ross-as-Cutler is on tenterhooks, scared that at any moment his impersonation of the investigator will be discovered by the soldiers surrounding him. Captain Marker escorts him to the Army’s main barracks at Bab el-Hadid, where he is assigned rooms, introduced to his staff, and then shown around town by Marker, who is puzzled as to why he seems so nervous.
By this route we enter the lives of a circle of people living in the Cairo at this moment in history. Peggy West, a good-looking, 30-year-old senior nurse, who lost her only child to illness and whose husband, Karl, has been away on active service in Iraq for eighteen long months. We see her supervising her sometimes difficult or emotional nurses at the Base Hospital, often overcome by the sight of so many dying and mutilated young men.
Peggy relies on money from the slippery Solomon Marx, who lives on a houseboat on the Nile, and who we see talking with his partner, Yigal, in a conversation which seems to reveal that they’re working for the Jewish independence forces in occupied Palestine. Solomon asks Peggy to keep and eye on Prince Piotr Nikoleiovitch Tikhmeibrazoff, a large, imposing Russian émigré who rents the entire top floor at the Hotel Magnifico. Its Italian owner, Lucio wants him out so she can rent the individual rooms at much greater profit to the hordes of Allied officers swarming into the city and looking for stylish bolt-holes. Everybody gossips that the Prince is Rommel’s spy in the city – it is well known that Rommel is getting verbatim reports of British troop deployments from a well-placed spy. But the Prince rises above it all, continuing to host his stylish parties, one of which Ross is taken to by the only woman on his staff at the barracks, the phenomenally posh Alice Stanhope. Alice’s mother, also living in Cairo, knows absolutely everyone dahling.
Meanwhile, in the Lady Fitzherbert brothel in the notorious El Birkeh district of the city, we see two partners in crime, Sergeants Percy and Smith, not their real names, who have booked a room to share the money from their latest deals. But Smith is getting cold feet: the Army appointed a new auditor at his stores who is bound to find out that he’s been embezzling them on a grand scale. As he whines and wails, Deighton surprises us by having Percy move forward, place his hand over his mouth and stab him through the heart with an oriental dagger. A young Arab serving girl looks on while this happens, then goes to fetch towels and cloth to clear up the mess.
All this takes place in the first 60 or so pages of this 320-page novel to set the scene, the location, the atmosphere, to establish quite a large cast of characters, all with secrets or agendas or plans afoot, which the remaining 250 pages will bring to light and work through. I’ve been to Cairo; the city is fairly well evoked, but the dominant impression from these early pages is Deighton’s humourlessness and the flat, blank, factual, heartless way he describes violence and death.
Stereotypes and clichés
So the plus sides are: large cast of characters, intriguing setting, interesting plot arcs, Deighton’s in-depth knowledge of military history, strategy and hardware, and his taut clipped sentences.
Unfortunately, these strengths are related to a number of weaknesses. Many characters, yes, but too many of them are stereotypes, too many of them are famous for x, or a classic example of y, or a stock type of z.
She recognised it as one of Darymple’s stories. His skill as a storyteller was renowned throughout the clubs and bars of Cairo. (p.51)
Jeannie MacGregor’s grand-father had lived in a castle, and through him Jeannie claimed to be a direct descendant of Rob Roy, the famous Scots outlaw. (p.61)
Sayed was a handsome young man. His light-coloured skin and clear blue eyes were said in Cairo to be the legacy of Circassian concubines, women renowned for their beauty. (p.64)
‘I met an old chum in Shepheard’s bar last week. Toby Wallingford, RNVR, a very good pal. I thrashed him countless times at school; he says he still has the scars.’ (p.68)
‘Cleo’s club. Just about every crook and black-marketeer in Cairo visits this place at some time or other.’ (p.75)
‘They call him Zooly; he’s one of the richest men in this town. If you want a tank, or a virgin, or your enemy murdered, he’ll fix it for you – at a price.’ (p.75)
Short clipped sentences, yes, but this means the characters’ feelings or psychology are generally conveyed with crushing bluntness and obviousness. Deighton proved himself a brilliant popular historian with Blitzkrieg and Fighter. His thumbnail sketches of key figures in those histories, eg the tank commander Guderian or Wing Commander ‘Bomber’ Harris are more interesting and thorough than you might expect in a history. But they are nowhere near subtle or nuanced enough to appear in a novel, the form most concerned with psychological development and insight.
You could say that, as novelists go, Deighton is a very good military historian – a writer who is much more at home with the technical specifications of a Messerchmitt 109E or a brisk explanation of Rommel’s attack formation at El Alamein, than with the foibles of the human heart. Again and again you read sentences that might have come from a Mills & Boon novelette, especially when he’s dealing with his female characters. The issue of Peggy West having lost a young baby, thus making her forlorn, seems like something out of Catherine Cookson.
Had the baby lived, everything might have gone differently. (p.56)
It was a glorious smile, the sort of smile that a woman saves for the man she adores. Was it possible that she could fall in love with a man she’d only just met? The answer was yes. (p.97)
She wondered if this man would ever realise that she was desperately in love with him. Everyone who had seen her with him in the last few days seemed to guess. No matter how hard she tried, Alice could not keep it a secret from anyone except from him. (p.100)
She was beautiful, yet shy. She was eternally reticent, yet she knew so much. What a wicked twist of fate that he’d met her at a time like this. (p.98)
Yes, what a wicked, wicked twist of fate.
The plot(s)
Wallingford’s criminal gang
The 20 or so characters intertwine and interact. We have been introduced several times to a Lieutenant Commander Toby Wallingford, a posh boy who went to the same public school as some of the other officers, namely Captain Darymple. Wallingford gives out to his officer colleagues that he’s part of a hush-hush secret unit, often deployed to the front on high risk missions. Now we learn he is in fact a deserter who has set up a smuggling operation. Key to it is Percy, in fact a German deserter, the man we saw murder Smith in one of the opening scenes. Percy knows the position of various German and Italian arms dumps which were abandoned in the last retreat. Thus he is able to navigate Wallingford’s crew of criminals in lorries through the front line on what Wallingford tells everyone are hush-hush missions, to load up the guns and ammo, and drive them back to Cairo to flog on the black market.
One aspect of Wallingford’s operations is to kindly arrange a loan for his superior, Captain Darymple, who is always in debt. Wallingford drives him to a dingy Arab house, where Darymple signs a loan agreement with the cunning old Egyptian ‘banker’ and businessman, Mahmoud. Inevitably, within days, Mahmoud is calling for the short term to be repaid with interest, Darymple is begging Wallingford to help him, and Wallingford is kindly offering to intercede if Darymple will just sign a few forms and arrange the transit of some, er, goods. In other words, he co-opts Darymple into becoming an accessory to his black market organisation.
Another and persisting element is the existence of a massive arms dump, packed with Italian Beretta machines guns, at a place in no man’s land between the armies called Al Jaghbub. Wallingford’s plan is simple: to go and collect them and transport them back to Cairo and sell to Solomon. However, various things go wrong. For a start, we are introduced to a gung-ho American journalist, Harry Wechsler, and his Irish fixer, Chips O’Riley, who somehow get wind of the secret, and undertake a perilous drive out into the desert. Turns out British Army investigators are also there, question Wechsler, then order him to push off. The authorities decide to leave the guns where they are but spike them. Aware they’ve been found, but not of the decision to sabotage them, Wallingford tells Percy he’ll go ahead and sell them to Solomon Marx’s Jewish organisation, but they’ll have to collect them themselves.
Sayed el-Shazli
In a separate strand, Peggy West and Alice take an Army lorry and follow Sayed el-Shazli, a young well-connected Egyptian who’s part of the Prince’s circle, out onto the perilous Western road and then off to an out-of-the-way native village. Ross-as-Cutler had ordered Alice to tail him, thinking it would be a safe assignment around Cairo bars. Alice parks the lorry, tells Peggy to guard it, and walks into the village unaccompanied, ignored by the sullen villagers. Suddenly she realises she’s being followed and the Arab man moves closer then speaks to her. The atmosphere becomes sinister, as she is accompanied to the big house of the village where she finds Sayed and a fat, rich old pasha who proceeds to read her fortune as she sips the tea, becomes woozy and then passes out. I thought something bad might happen to her, but it turns out to be simple heatstroke. Sayed’s people look after her, and then return her to Peggy’s care.
King Farouk
On a higher political and diplomatic level, we see through the eyes of nervous Jimmy Ross the political crisis which flares up when the British diplomats (foolishly, in the opinion of the Army) force young King Farouk to change his government. The crisis atmosphere comes about because it seems as if the King will refuse, in which case the British will force him to abdicate. This is all told from the point of view of Ross who appears in the square in front of the palace at night, the whole city in an atmosphere of great tension, the soldiers on duty who Ross talks to uncertain what is going on. Eventually, in the early hours, Farouk concedes, changes government and remains king. The senior officers, brigadiers and the like that Ross talks to, think it’s all the fault of the damn fool diplomats, that the Army has enough on its plate fighting Rommel out West without having to worry about riots and insurrection back in Cairo.
Sayed’s humiliation
Prince Piotr takes his friends (Sayed, Peggy, Alice, Wallingford, Darymple) to one of Cairo’s swankiest restaurants to celebrate his birthday, partly because he knows the tubby 22-year-old King Farouk will be there (nickname: ‘fatty Farouk’) and he’ll be able to show off his acquaintanceship with him. The king grandly enters with his entourage, emphatically countering the rumours surrounding his abdication and the knife-edge political situation of just a few days before. Alice, Peggy and the other bien-pensant liberals are favourably inclined to him. Half way through the evening he sends over an equerry who conveys very polite birthday felicitations to Prince Piotr, compliments to the ladies, and then addresses Zeinab, the beautiful sister of Sayed: the king requests the honour of a dance. A private dance. At his palace. Leaving in fifteen minutes.
Stricken, tense, muttered conversations ensue, in which the Prince explains that neither Sayed nor Zeinab can refuse this ‘honour’; if they do Sayed will wake up dead at the bottom of the Nile. The Western women are outraged, and suddenly not so fond of the good-looking young king who now makes his exit, returning to the palace to prepare himself for his ‘dance’ with Zeinab. And then she goes mournfully, to be accompanied away by an equerry, in reality a glorified pimp for the fornicating king.
This proves an important turning point in one of the numerous plot strands, because Sayed is so embittered by this public and personal humiliation that he reveals to Alice, then Ross, that he is a member of the illegal Free Officers revolutionary organisation, working to overthrow British rule and establish a free monarchy. Not any more. Now he agrees to spy on it for the British. Alice fixes up a meeting with her boss Ross (all the time masquerading as the dead Special Investigator, Bert Cutler, and increasingly feeling relaxed and comfortable in the role) who conducts a fraught conversation which ends with him producing a blank piece of paper. ‘Write their names’, he says, knowing that once Sayed has crossed that Rubicon, and betrayed his colleagues, there will be no going back.
The tense psychology of spying, interrogation, betrayal, the links between individual behaviour and the broader political scene, descriptions of a lorry driven by nervous criminals making its way through a minefield in the Western desert – all of this is powerfully and persuasively done. It’s the softer, social sides of life, cocktail party chatter, and especially anything to do with women, their thoughts as they try on outfits for the party, their feelings and emotions, and especially his descriptions of falling in love or being in love, where Deighton is at his weakest.
The Jewish plotline
Ross/Cutler’s relationship with his boss, an unpredictable brigadier, is reminiscent of the Ipcress novels and the narrator’s insubordinate opinion of his superiors. There is a hilarious scene two-thirds of the way through where Ross has to listen to his boss banging on about the Jews, about the origin of Christianity, and about Jewish freedom fighters in Palestine. But the Jewish thread is compounded a few pages later when Captain Marker reports to Ross that the American journalist, Wechsler, has posted a long detailed piece to US newspapers explaining how the British used Jewish spies in the Levant from as early as 1940, on a promise to help them secure independence / fight the Arabs. Now the British are reneging on that promise, various underground Jewish organisations are finding ways to secure Axis munitions left in dumps in no man’s land.
These revelations put into context the activities of Solomon Marx and his colleague, who we met early on; they are one of these teams securing arms for the Jewish homeland. It explains the activities of Peggy West, who in a low-level way collects a stipend from Marx for spying for him. It puts in context Wallingford’s plan to flog the Italian machine guns at Al Jaghbub to Solomon which, we now realise, will be passed on to the Haganah or other Jewish militias in Palestine. It explains why the brigadier wants to set up a new unit to monitor Religious Subversives, namely whatever Jewish organisations they can locate. It explains why Captain Marker is riveted to discover, after extensive investigation, that Peggy West’s missing husband, Karl, is in fact a Haganah operative, with a long record of criminal convictions and two escapes from captivity. And explains why Marker decides to help Peggy’s long-expressed wish to find her missing husband; if they trail her, and she finds him, they can arrest him.
The Italian guns
Marker informs Ross that there’s been an incident at the Italian arms dump. Some Arabs turned up and insisted they had authorisation to remove them. The brigadier’s men were a bit trigger happy and the incident degenerated into a shootout in which eight Arabs were killed. So we have this information as we watch Solomon and Yigal drive to an appointment with Mahmoud. Wallingford had sub-contracted collecting the arms to Mahmoud, whose men are the ones who’ve been killed. The interview is tense because Mahmoud is convinced Solomon is in league with the British and partly responsible for the deaths, whereas Solomon doesn’t even understand what’s happened. On leaving the house Solomon and Yigal are arrested by British Army cops who Mahmoud has tipped off in revenge.
The Desert War
The scene then shifts for the last forty pages or so to a forward base in the desert. Captain Darymple has managed to arrange a transfer here, back to his old armoured car brigade, and away from Cairo where he learns there is now a contract out on him for non-repayment of Mahmoud’s debt. Here, by coincidence arrives Wallingford, along with Percy and a gang of his criminals. They are planning to go forward to steal more munitions from the desert. At the same time, Ross-as-Cutler arrives to seek help from the commanding officer. And also here is the ubiquitous Harry Wechsler and his gofer, Chips, wanting to see some real action for a change.
All these strands come together when the Germans make their presence felt and threaten to attack. The entire unit is ordered to withdraw, lorries, armoured cars and all. Their commanding officer, nickname Thunder, is just admiring the size and power of Wechsler’s V-8-powered lorry when it runs over a mine, exploding, killing Chips outright, fatally crushing Wechsler behind the engine block, burning and crippling all the passengers. The medic helps out as best he can before the rest of the convoy continues on to their main base.
Here, there are dramatic scenes as the commander in chief, Anderson, lets Wallingford know in no uncertain terms that he knows that Walingford and most of his men are deserters and criminals: they’ll be given guns to fight against the advancing Germans, but no forgiveness or amnesty, and all he can offer them is a decent burial.
The entire Wallingford gang plotline is over in a stroke. As part of this round-up Ross-as-Cutler goes to arrest Percy who he suspects (correctly) of being German. But Percy makes a break for it and runs off, scrambling up the nearest sand dune. Ross chases him, up sand dunes then down into a dry, hard, creviced valley bottom, all the time coming under fire from the German positions which are less than a kilometre away. Finally he rugby tackles him and starts violently beating him. An armoured car arrives, German rifle bullets pinging off it, sent by the commanding officer, and Ross pushes Percy into it and it returns them to the base. Here Ross interrogates Percy and finally cracks the ‘Rommel’s spy’ case which has hung over the whole novel.
The spy isn’t Percy, who is simply the low-level crook and black marketeer we’ve been led to believe. But before he deserted, Percy worked on Rommel’s signals unit, and here he had access to the signals being sent by the spy. So he is able to tell Ross that the information is being sent by an Axis spy within the US embassy in Cairo, the Americans being given privileged access to all British troop movements and strategy. Aha.
In the last page of this section, Ross has himself handcuffed to Percy, as they prepare for the final German assault, and tells him one of the commander’s staff has orders to shoot them both if the compound is over-run (to prevent knowledge that they know about the master spy, from being revealed to the enemy).
Tying up the threads
The setting cuts away to Cairo.
1. Alice is informed that Ross is alive. Just. He and the survivors of the unit were found some days after the Germans attacked and wiped them out. Almost all of them were dead, in fact the patrol thought Ross was dead, with badly burnt legs and exposure. But he was alive, still handcuffed to the dead Percy. She rushes to be by his side, convinced now that she loves him.
2. Ross is recovering in bed when visited by his ever-efficient adjutant in Special Investigations, Ponsonby. Unfortunately, when he was brought in he was so delirious that he gave his true name (Ross) to his rescuers, was tagged as such all the way to the hospital, where questions started to be asked. Ooops. They know he is Corporal Jimmy Ross; they know he was only masquerading as Major Cutler.
But Ponsonby has carried on being loyal to him and, it is implied, the brigadier has turned a blind eye while Ponsonby worked bureaucratic wonders. Ross has been declared dead some months ago, his death certificate associated with Cutler’s corpse from the train. But now ‘Cutler’ has also been declared dead, thus neatly solving the problem from an administrative point of view: for if the truth ever came out, that Ross had managed to fool all those people, including his superior, for so many months, everyone involved would look a complete ass. Better that ‘Cutler’ dies, and dies a hero, in the desert, giving his life fighting the Hun. And to those in the know, making the breakthrough with the Rommel spy case.
Ross will be given a completely new identity and packed off out east somewhere, India, Burma. Ross is briefly miffed that he won’t get any recognition for unmasking Rommel’s spy, but then is grateful to be free. Well, still in the army… Alice arrives full of love. Presumably their romance will blossom…
3. Peggy West arrives at Solomon’s houseboat after dark. She finds him badly wounded, sitting in the dark. He and Yigal were ambushed by Mahmoud’s men. Yigal is dead. A felucca of his people, the Jewish underground, is coming to rescue them. While they wait Peggy tries to clean and bind his wound. Solomon tells her that her husband, Karl, is dead. Maybe he only ever wanted the British passport. In a last gesture Solomon tells Peggy he’s giving her the houseboat. Its name is City of Gold.
Peggy helps Solomon into the felucca which starts up an outboard and putters away in the dark night. Moments later soldiers arrive led by Captain Marker. He was the officer who met Ross-Cutler all those months earlier on his arrival in Cairo station. During the ‘trouble with Jews’ conversations he had mentioned to Ross that he was himself Jewish. Now we, Peggy and his own soldiers strongly suspect he has timed his ‘arrest’ of Solomon just too late to actually capture him. And, after his men have searched the houseboat and found nothing, he sends them away, and settles down for a drink with Peggy. She is realising she has no husband, no ties, a new property (the houseboat) maybe she can stretch her wings and live a free life for the first time. Marker finds her especially attractive and they flirt. Maybe their story, too, will have a happy ending.
The last 100 pages or so really pick up pace and intensity, Deighton’s clipped style well-suited to situations of men deceiving, double crossing and manipulating each other, to the edginess of combat situations, to moments of violence and physical action – like the lorry blown up by a mine and its grisly aftermath, or Ross’s desperate pursuit of Percy across the sand dunes under enemy fire.
It is the intensity of these closing scenes which stays in the memory and persuades you this was a good thriller, helping you to forget the first two hundred pages of social chit-chat, party conversation and attempts to convey a feminine perspective on emotions and feelings, which are a lot less convincing.
Throughout the book, there has been a continuous chorus of characters speculating about whether and when Rommel will reach Cairo, and the more thoughtful of them predicting that, if he does, the entire Middle East will fall to the Germans, who will then be able to push north and reinforce their forces fighting in Russia and, ultimately, win the war. (Deighton is, of course, no stranger to counter-factual speculation as one of his most successful novels, SS-GB, describes what England would feel like after the Nazis had in fact invaded and conquered us.) The speculation is in part fuelled by rumours that Rommel knows everything the British Army is planning to do before it does it, and therefore to win victory after victory. Therefore, the discovery by Ross that the enemy is getting their information from sources inside the US Embassy is absolutely vital.
Deighton tops and tails the narrative with quotes from a history of codebreaking which confirm that Rommel’s victories were in part based on these intelligence tip-offs – and that they abruptly stopped in the summer of 1942, therefore leaving him, for the first time, blind about British intentions.
A few months after the narrative ends, in October 1942, there took place the decisive battle of the Desert War, and one of the great battles of the entire war – the battle of El Alamein. Deighton has seeded clues about it by having characters refer to stopovers there, for Alamein was just an insignificant train stop in the desert until this historic event made its name famous. It was here that the British decisively beat Rommel and pushed his Afrika Corps into retreat. The very last lines quote Churchill as saying that, before El Alamein we never had a victory; but after El Alamein, we never had a defeat.
This places Jimmy Ross’s behaviour in impersonating a Special Investigator so thoroughly that he begins to solve his cases, and in particular his heroic chasing of the German deserter Percy across desert dunes under enemy fire, and, back at the base, his beating out of Percy the truth about the sources of Rommel’s intelligence – in a completely new light. In case it wasn’t obvious, Deighton is implying that Ross played a decisive role in winning the war. It is an example of Deighton’s super-dry humour that this entire novel makes a stroppy criminal corporal from Glasgow turn out to be a figure of world historical importance.
Part Two – First and third person narrators
If my summary of City of Gold seems a bit chaotic, if it’s hard to grasp who the lead characters are, I think this is a strategy or effect which Deighton deliberately seeks. In all his third-person novels characters are killed off almost on a whim because most of those novels, especially the ones about war (Bomber, Goodbye Mickey Mouse, SSGB) seek to depict the horrifying arbitrariness of accidents, pain and death.
In most of Deighton’s fiction – rather like in ‘real life’ – you are deliberately kept guessing which characters are ‘important’ and which ones are going to die horribly grisly deaths. As in ‘real life’, there’s a large cast and wildly unpredictable things happen ie the heart attack in the first chapter of City of Gold or Wechsler, who I was just getting to like, being killed in the blown-up lorry. In his 3rd-person narratives, it is as if Deighton is trying to teach his readers a lesson about how bloody awful life is.
This is one of the things which makes the first-person narratives so different from the third-person ones. In the third-person narratives, the narrator is rather formal and anything can happen, horrible unpredictable things can happen at any moment. It is a tense experience reading them, and often upsetting.
By contrast, the first-person narratives eg the Ipcress novels, the first-person Bernard Samson narratives or a novel like Violent Ward, feel warmer and funnier for several reasons, but a main one is because you are on the solid ground of knowing that at least the narrator himself is not going to be blown up in a lorry, cut down in a jungle ambush, vapourised by ack ack fire, or any of the numerous other fates awaiting characters in the 3rd-person texts.
Deighton is happier in the first-person narratives, and so is the reader.
City of Gold Dramatis personae
Major Albert Cutler – Army Special Investigator, recruited from Glasgow police force, accompanying Corporal Jimmy Ross in handcuffs back to Cairo for trial for assaulting an officer under fire, when he has a heart attack and dies.
Corporal Jimmy Ross, also from Scotland, is travelling in custody of Major Cutler until the latter has a heart attack, whereupon Jimmy gets the keys to the handcuffs, frees himself and swaps clothes and identity cards with Cutler. When the train arrives in Cairo Ross confidently adopts Cutler’s identity, handing over the body to Captain Marker and being escorted to his new offices in the huge Bab el-Hadid barracks. He was hoping he could do a runner and disappear into the Cairo crowds but now finds himself trapped in his new identity. But after a nervous few days he discovers that everyone accords an Army Special Investigator lots of respect, he discovers he likes ordering around other officers, having a slavish assistant (Sergeant Ponsonby) and very much likes the only woman on his staff, the stunning Alice Stanhope. He finds excuses to be near her, and gives in to her requests to actually do something instead of hanging round looking decorative. Thus he lets her follow Sayed, the personable, western-educated young Egyptian who is part of their social circle, a simple request which becomes complicated when she finds herself driving out to an isolated village and then surrounded by threatening armed men… In the event it is Sayed’s home village and she is perfectly safe. Through various encounters, at work and at the various cocktails parties described in the first half of the novel, we watch her and
Ross fall in love. As the months go by he begins to use his powers to seriously track down Rommel’s spy who everyone is talking about. This eventually leads him to the Western Desert where he tracks down Percy, the German deserter who is part of Major Wallingford’s criminal gang, and beats the truth out of him, before himself being badly wounded in a German attack on the Allied base. Badly burned and half dead, Ross is recovered after the battle is over, and brought back to hospital in Cairo.
Sergeant Ponsonby – ever efficient adjutant, always ready with his disgusting tea made with cloying evaporated milk, always ready with the correct file and always shifting responsibility for dodgy tasks, missions and reports onto other units so as to keep his boss squeaky clean. He carries on being super efficient even after, right at the end of the novel, it is revealed that Ross has been impersonating Cutler all along. Ponsonby manages all the paperwork so that Ross can remain free (although in the Army), assume a new identity, and start a new career out East.
The brigadier – Ross-Cutler’s superior at the Bab el-Hadid barracks. He is eccentric and unpredictable – as demonstrated in a long and very funny scene in the last third of the novel, when he prattles on about Jewish conspiracies and links it somehow to the founding of Christianity by that rascal, St Paul.
Captain Lionel Marker – Ross’s number one, the upright, punctilious officer who meets Ross at Cairo station and is taken in by him from the start, who escorts him around Cairo, introducing him to its criminal and ethnic communities, as well as to the polite society of various bars and hotels and into the elite social circle gather round Prince Piotr. When the issue of Jewish spies securing arms for the Jewish forces in Occupied Palestine rears its head, Marker points out to his boss, Ross, that he, Marker, is Jewish. This doesn’t bother Ross one way or the other, but it may explain the slight undercurrent when Marker, early on in the novel, is tasked with searching Solomon Marx’s houseboat, along with all the other houseboats moored along the Nile, for guns or other smuggled goods. At the very end of the novel, he definitely arrives to carry out another search of The City of Gold just after Solomon has left. Moreover, we know that Peggy West was married to a Jew and considers herself part Jewish. This may or may not explain the mild flirtation that Marker feels relaxed enough to begin with Peggy right at the end of the novel.
Captain Robin Darymple (page 50) – dashing public school chap who knew Wallingford at school and finds himself blackmailed, via his gambling debts, into getting involved in Wallingford’s shady schemes.
Lieutenant Commander Wallingford RNVR (page 76) Public school chap who happens to have deserted his unit and uses his public school connections (with, among others, Darymple) to maintain the fiction that he is commander of a hush-hush secret unit tasked with carrying our daring raids out behind enemy lines. Giving himself a naval rank was a smart move, since naval records are stored in Alexandria and difficult for Cairo Army intelligence to access. Wallingford is actually running a black market racket with a bunch of other deserters and Sergeant Percy, masquerading as a South African, in fact a deserter from the German Army.
Mogg and Powell, two deserters who are part of Wallingford’s gang.
Sergeant Percy is a German deserter. His unit was completely decimated in an Allied advance and so he walked East into our arms but managed to escape capture, dressing in British Army gear, pretending to be a South African and finding his way into ‘Major’ Wallingford’s criminal gang of black marketeers. He becomes an invaluable source for the location of various ammo dumps which he leads Wallingford’s gang to in the desert, which they can load up, drive back to Cairo and sell. Nonetheless, he has an uneasy relationship with Wallingford, having announced that it will soon be time for him to leave the gang, and I spent some time wondering whether this would lead to a fight, shootout or brutal stabbing, as in the early brothel scene. Instead, the entire Wallingford storyline comes to an abrupt end when they are revealed for the crooks they are in a British forward base which is then attacked by the Germans. We hear nothing more of Wallingford and can assume, as Ponsonby says in the hospital much later, that he like everyone else in the base was killed. But not before Ross, who is also there, chases Percy, captures him and beats the truth out of him about Rommel’s spy being a senior official in the US Embassy in Cairo. When the rescuing troops reach the destroyed base they find the badly injured and unconscious Ross still handcuffed to Percy, who is dead.
Lieutenant Andy Anderson (page 54) A blunt-spoken Yorkshireman who’s risen from sergeant in 12 months of hard fighting, and now commands the unit out in the desert where the novel reaches its climax: where Harry Wechsler and his gofer Chips, Jimmy Ross, and Wallingford and his black market team, all find themselves as the Germans launch an attack.
Alice Stanhope (page 46) Phenomenally posh and very attractive daughter of the woman who knows everyone, who has got her a job in the British Army investigations department, where she comes under Ross-Cutler’s authority, on the condition she doesn’t actually do any dangerous work, preferably no work at all. She chafes at these restrictions and so Ross, who is badly smitten by her beauty and grace, first makes her his personal assistant, then gives in and gives her some elementary trailing to do. A lot later, at the end of the novel, she is in agonies waiting to find out what happened to the forward unit she knows Ross was off to visit and whether he’s still alive. As soon as she knows he is, she runs off to visit him, in what promises to blossom into a wartime romance.
Peggy West (page 30) A good-looking, 30-year-old senior nurse. She married a Jewish man, Karl, in the 1930s and came to Egypt looking for adventure. Karl was despatched to Iraq on a five-year contract protecting oil wells, and she hasn’t seen for 18 months. We meet her as she collects a small stipend from Solomon al-Masri, which the latter claims comes from Karl. Deighton spends a lot of time describing her background, her parents’ hopes for her, the difficulties in her married life, but she doesn’t come alive for me as a character. She becomes a sort of chaperone figure to Alice Stanhope through the middle of the book. Near the end she visits the City of Gold houseboat to find Solomon Marx badly wounded in a shootout with Mahmoud’s men. She helps him leave, during which he hands over ownership of the houseboat to her, so that she greets Captain Marker, who arrives to search the houseboat, as its new owner, with a heady sense of freedom and the strong hint that they might be about to become an item.
Karl West – A Jew who marries Peggy and then disappears off to Iraq, allegedly on a five year oil contract. Solomon al-Masri claims to receive money from Karl which he forwards to Peggy but Peggy wonders if it’s just a way of getting her to spy for Solomon. Near the end of the novel, Captain Marker’s investigations show him that Karl is in fact a crook with a long criminal record, some of it connected to the Haganah and Stern Gangs in Palestine. He also discovers that Karl is dead.
Jeannie MacGregor (page 61) One of the nurses under Peggy West’s command.
Solomon al-Masri, real name Solomon Marx (page 30) Lives on a houseboat on the Nile, which he has named The City of Gold. He and his partner, Yigal, are working for Jewish independence forces in occupied Palestine, sourcing information about the British, the Germans, the Arabs, where they can, and arranging the purchase and shipment of arms to the Jewish militias in Palestine. Wallingford, the black marketeer, over various scenes, tries to arrange the sale of Italian machine guns from an arms dump in the desert to Solomon. When Wallingford refuses to deliver them in person (knowing the British Army have seized them) Solomon in good faith commissions Mahmoud and his men to do it. But they are shot and eight killed by the Brits, making Mahmoud think it was a trap. Which explains why, when Solomon and Yizgal motor over to Mahmoud’s house, tucked away down Cairo’s narrow medieval streets, they are greeted very coldly and emerge from a puzzling meeting to be arrested by the British police who have been tipped off by Mahmoud. At the end of the novel Peggy West finds Mahmoud slumped in his unlit houseboat, late at night, having been badly wounded in an assassination attempt by Mahmoud’s men. A felucca of his people arrive and unload the badly wounded man who, in parting gesture, gifts Peggy the houseboat and reveals what she’s suspected – her husband is long dead. She is a free woman.
Yigal Arad (page 40) Palestinian born Jew and Solomon’s partner in their mission to get information and guns for their Jewish masters in Palestine.
THE ARABS
Mahmoud is a cunning old Egyptian ‘banker’ and businessman. We seem him in league with Major’ Wallingford, lending Datymple money solely to snare him in Wallingford’s schemes. We also learn that Solomon sub-contracted collecting the Italian Beretta machine guns from the oasis to Mahmoud for an appreciable sum. What Solomon didn’t realise is that the British Army had already found and claimed the cache. Therefore when Mahmoud’s men arrive to collect it they find themselves stopped, questioned and then fired upon by the Brits. Eight men die. Which explains why he greets Solomon and Yigal very coldly when they go to exchange payment, why he tips off the British police to arrest them both and then, at the end of the novel, is responsible for an assassination attempt on Solomon.
Sayed el-Shazli (page 64) Personable young westernised Egyptian who lives in the same hotel as Prince Piotr and so has become part of his social circle. He’s a student at the American University and an Egyptian Army reserve officer, but also active in a secret organisation of Egyptian Army officers who are planning to overthrow British rule and establish King Farouk on the throne of an independent Egypt. But after the King arrogantly commands his sister to attend him at his palace for a royal rogering, the bitterly humiliated Sayed agrees to become a spy on his independence organisation for the British.
Zeinab el-Shazli (page 64) Stunningly beautiful sister of Sayed. Her main function is to be propositioned by King Farouk’s staff in a stylish nightclub and, since she can’t refuse, going off with them, much to the anger of the white ladies present.
King Farouk Nicknamed ‘Fatty Farouk’, The 22-year-old king chafes at British rule over his country, nominally a free independent nation. But meanwhile he has time and money to live a sumptuous lifestyle and, as the Zeinab storyline shows, commandeer women for his pleasure.
THE ÉMIGRÉS
Prince Piotr Nikoleiovitch Tikhmeibrazoff (page 65) Large, tall, imposing Russian émigré who rents a whole floor at the Hotel Magnifico. He was abroad when his father died and he inherited vast estates, and when the Revolution broke out and he lost them all. He claims a general’s rank on doubtful grounds, lives magnificently and is widely – and incorrectly – thought to be Rommel’s spy in the city.
Lucia Magnifico (page 50) Daughter of Signor Mario Magnifico who founded the hotel of the same name in Cairo, where Prince Piotr now occupies an entire floor.
Harry Wechsler – Gung-ho American journalist, not particularly friendly to the Brits, pointing out that the US is now funding their war effort while the Brits are managing to lose everywhere. He is shrewd enough to figure out there’s some kind of scam surrounding arms dumps in the desert, and writes a long op-ed piece which gets published in American newspapers, explaining how the Brits gratefully used Jewish intelligence resources in Palestine and the wider Middle East at the start of the war, and promised help with the creation of a Jewish homeland. Now the Brits are trying to wriggle out of their promises, with the result that the Jewish organisations are engaged in securing arms from any source possible, preparing for the upcoming war with the Arabs, and this includes using agents like Solomon to secure abandoned weaponry. He’s following up on this story at a forward unit in the desert which comes under German attack. Leading a convoy of armoured cars and lorries, at the wheel of his own V 8-powered lorry, Wechsler runs over a German mine. Chips is killed instantly and Wechsler loses his legs and is impaled by various bits of the engine. He survives long enough to experience unbearable pain, before being given an overdose of morphine by the unit’s unqualified medical officer.
Chips O’Riley – Irish soldier, journalist who’s found a niche as a fixer and gofer and attaches himself to Wechsler. Has some witty repartee before being killed instantly in the lorry blown up by a mine.
City of Gold published by Pluriform Publishing in 1992. All page references are to the 1993 Arrow paperback edition.
City of Gold on Amazon
City of Gold article on the Deighton Dossier website
Len Deighton Wikipedia article
Len Deighton’s novels
1962 The IPCRESS File Through the thickets of bureaucracy and confusing misinformation which surround him, an unnamed British intelligence agent discovers that his boss, Dalby, is in cahoots with a racketeer who kidnaps and brainwashes British scientists.
1963 Horse Under Water Perplexing plot which is initially about diving into a wrecked U-boat off the Portuguese coast for Nazi counterfeit money, then changes into the exposure of an illegal heroin manufacturing operation, then touches on a top secret technology which can change ice to water instantly (ie useful for firing missiles from submarines under Arctic ice) and finally turns out to be about a list – the Weiss List – of powerful British people who offered to help run a Nazi government when the Germans invaded, and who are now being blackmailed. After numerous adventures, the Unnamed Narrator retrieves the list and consigns it to the Intelligence archive.
1964 Funeral in Berlin The Unnamed Narrator is in charge of smuggling a Russian scientist through the Berlin Wall, all managed by a Berlin middle-man Johnnie Vulkan who turns out to be a crook only interested in getting fake identity papers to claim the fortune of a long-dead concentration camp victim. The Russians double-cross the British by not smuggling the scientist; Vulkan double-crosses the British by selling the (non-existent) scientist on to Israeli Intelligence; the Narrator double-crosses the Israelis by giving them the corpse of Vulkan (who he has killed) instead of the scientist; and is himself almost double-crossed by a Home Office official who tries to assassinate him in the closing scenes, in order to retrieve the valuable documents. But our Teflon hero survives and laughs it all off with his boss.
1966 Billion-Dollar Brain The Unnamed Narrator is recruited into a potty organisation funded by an American billionaire, General Midwinter, and dedicated to overthrowing the Soviet Union. A character from Funeral In Berlin, Harvey Newbegin, inducts him into the organisation and shows him the Brain, the vast computer which is running everything, before absconding with loot and information, and then meeting a sticky end in Leningrad.
1967 An Expensive Place to Die A new departure, abandoning all the characters and much of the style of the first four novels for a more straightforward account of a secret agent in Paris who gets involved with a Monsieur Datt and his clinic-cum-brothel. After many diversions, including an induced LSD trip, he is ordered to hand over US nuclear secrets to a Chinese scientist, with a view to emphasising to the Chinese just how destructive a nuclear war would be and therefore discouraging them from even contemplating one.
1968 Only When I Larf Another departure, this is a comedy following the adventures of three con artists, Silas, Bob and Liz and their shifting, larky relationships as they manage (or fail) to pull off large-scale stings in New York, London and the Middle East.
1970 Bomber A drastic change of direction for Deighton, dropping spies and comedy to focus on 24 hours in the lives of British and German airmen, soldiers and civilians involved in a massive bombing raid on the Ruhr valley. 550 pages, enormous cast, documentary prose, terrifying death and destruction – a really devastating indictment of the horrors of war.
1971 Declarations of War Thirteen short stories, all about wars, mainly the first and second world wars, with a few detours to Vietnam, the American Civil war and Hannibal crossing the Alps. Three or four genuinely powerful ones.
1972 Close-Up Odd departure into Jackie Collins territory describing the trials and tribulations of fictional movie star Marshall Stone as he betrays his wife and early lovers to ‘make it’ in tinseltown, and the plight he currently finds himself in: embroiled in a loss-making production and under pressure from the scheming studio head to sign a lucrative but career-threatening TV deal.
1974 Spy Story The Unnamed Narrator of the Ipcress spy novels returns, in much tamer prose, to describe how, after escaping from the ‘Service’ to a steady job in a MoD war games unit, he is dragged back into ‘active service’ via a conspiracy of rogue right-wingers to help a Soviet Admiral defect. Our man nearly gets shot by the right-wingers and killed by Russians in the Arctic, before realising the whole thing was an elaborate scam by his old boss, Dawlish, and his new boss, the American marine General Schlegel, to scupper German reunification talks.
1975 Yesterday’s Spy Another first-person spy story wherein a different agent – though also working for the American Colonel Schlegel, introduced in Spy Story – is persuaded to spy on Steve Champion, the man who ran a successful spy ring in Nazi-occupied France, who recruited him to the agency and who saved his life back during the war. Via old contacts the narrator realises Champion is active again, but working for Arabs who are planning some kind of attack on Israel and which the narrator must foil.
1976 Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Spy (aka Catch a Falling Spy) The narrator and his CIA partner manage the defection of a Soviet scientist, only for a string of murder attempts and investigations to reveal that a senior US official they know is in fact a KGB agent, leading to a messy shootout at Washington airport, and then to an unlikely showdown in the Algerian desert.
1977 Fighter: The True Story of the Battle of Britain Abandoning fiction altogether, Deighton published this comprehensive, in-depth and compelling history, lavishly illustrated with photos and technical diagrams of the famous planes involved.
1978 SS-GB A storming return to fiction with a gripping alternative history thriller in which the Germans succeeded in invading and conquering England in 1941. We follow a senior detective at Scotland Yard, Douglas Archer, living in defeated dingy London, coping with his new Nazi superiors, and solving a murder mystery which unravels to reveal not one but several enormous conspiracies.
1979 Blitzkrieg: From the Rise of Hitler to the Fall of Dunkirk Another factual history of WWII: Deighton moves quickly over Hitler’s rise to power and the diplomatic bullying of the 1930s, to arrive at the core of the book: an analysis of the precise meaning of ‘Blitzkrieg’, complete with detailed notes on all the weapons, tanks, artillery and hardware involved, as well as the evolution of German strategic thinking; and then its application in the crucial battle for the river Meuse which determined the May 1940 Battle for France.
1980 Battle of Britain
1981 XPD SIS agent Boyd Stuart is one of about 20 characters caught up in the quest for the ‘Hitler Minutes’, records of a top secret meeting between Hitler and Churchill in May 1940 in which the latter was (shockingly) on the verge of capitulating, and which were ‘liberated’ by US soldiers, along with a load of Nazi gold, at the very end of the war. Convoluted, intermittently fascinating and sometimes moving, but not very gripping.
1982 Goodbye, Mickey Mouse Six months in the life of the 220th Fighter Group, an American Air Force group flying Mustangs in support of heavy bombers, based in East Anglia, from winter 1943 through spring 1944, as we get to know 20 or so officers and men, as well as the two women at the centre of the two ill-fated love affairs which dominate the story.
1983 Berlin Game First of the Bernard Samson spy novels in which this forty-something British Intelligence agent uses his detailed knowledge of Berlin and its spy networks to ascertain who is the high-level mole within his Department. With devastating consequences.
1984 Mexico Set Second of the first Bernard Samson trilogy (there are three trilogies ie 9 Samson books), in which our hero manages the defection of KGB agent Erich Stinnes from Mexico City, despite KGB attempts to frame him for the murder of one of his own operatives and a German businessman. All that is designed to make Bernard defect East and were probably masterminded by his traitor wife, Fiona.
1985 London Match Third of the first Bernard Samson spy trilogy in which a series of clues – not least information from the defector Erich Stinnes who was the central figure of the previous novel – suggest to Samson that there is another KGB mole in the Department – and all the evidence points towards smooth-talking American, Bret Rensselaer.
1987 Winter An epic (ie very long and dense) fictionalised account of German history from 1900 to 1945, focusing on the two Winter brothers, Peter and Paul, along with a large supporting cast of wives, friends, colleagues and enemies, following their fortunes through the Great War, the Weimar years, the rise of Hitler and on into the ruinous Second World War. It provides vital background information about nearly all of the characters who appear in the Bernard Samson novels, so is really part of that series.
1988 Spy Hook First of the second trilogy of Bernard Samson spy novels in which Bernie slowly uncovers what he thinks is a secret slush fund of millions run by his defector wife with Bret Rensaeller (thought to be dead, but who turns up recuperating in a California ranch). The plot involves reacquaintance with familiar characters like Werner Volkmann, Frau Lisl (and her sister), old Frank Harrington, tricky Dicky Cruyer, Bernie’s 23-year-old girlfriend Gloria Kent, and so on.
1989 Spy Line Through a typically tangled web of incidents and conversations Samson’s suspicions are confirmed: his wife is a double agent, she has been working for us all along, she only pretended to defect to the East. After numerous encounters with various old friends of his father and retired agents, Samson finds himself swept up in the brutal, bloody plan to secure Fiona’s escape from the East.
1990 Spy Sinker In the third of the second trilogy of Samson novels, Deighton switches from a first-person narrative by Samson himself, to an objective third-person narrator and systematically retells the entire sequence of events portrayed in the previous five Samson novels from an external point of view, shedding new and sometimes devastating light on almost everything we’ve read. The final impression is of a harrowing world where everyone is deceiving everyone else, on multiple levels.
1991 MAMista A complete departure from the Cold War and even from Europe. Australian doctor and ex-Vietnam War veteran Ralph Lucas finds himself caught up with Marxist guerrillas fighting the ruling government in the (fictional) South American country of Spanish Guiana and, after various violent escapades, inveigled into joining the long, gruelling and futile trek through the nightmareish jungle which dominates the second half of the novel.
1992 City of Gold A complex web of storylines set in wartime Cairo, as the city is threatened by Rommel’s advancing Afrika Korps forces in 1942. We meet crooks, gangsters, spies, émigrés, soldiers, detectives, nurses, deserters and heroes as they get caught up in gun smuggling, black marketeering and much more, in trying to track down the elusive ‘Rommel spy’ and, oh yes, fighting the Germans.
1993 Violent Ward Very entertaining, boisterous first-person narrative by Los Angeles shyster lawyer Mickey Murphy who gets bought out by his biggest client, menacing billionaire Zach Petrovitch, only to find himself caught up in Big Pete’s complex criminal activities and turbulent personal life. The novel comes to a climax against the violent backdrop of the Rodney King riots in Los Angeles in April 1992.
1993 Blood, Tears and Folly: An Objective Look at World War II
1994 Faith Return to Bernard Samson, the 40-something SIS agent, and the world of his friends and family, familiar to us from the previous six Samson novels. Most of the characters (and readers) are still reeling from the bloody shootout when his wife returned from her undercover mission to East Germany at the climax of the previous novel. This book re-acquaints us with all the well-loved characters from the previous stories, in a plot ostensibly about smuggling a KGB colonel out from the East, but is really about who knows the truth – and who is trying to cover up – the real cause of the Fiona-escape debacle.
1995 Hope 40-something SIS agent Bernard Samson continues trying to get to the bottom of the death of his sister-in-law, Tessa Kosinski and is soon on the trail of her husband, George, who has gone missing back in his native Poland.
1996 Charity Ninth and final Bernard Samson novel in which it takes Bernard 300 pages to piece together the mystery which we readers learned all about in the sixth novel of the series, ie that the plot to murder Fiona’s sister, Tessa, was concocted by Silas Gaunt. Silas commissioned Jim Prettyman to be the middle-man and instructed him to murder the actual assassin, Thurkettle. Now that is is openly acknowledged by the Department’s senior staff, the most striking thing about the whole event – its sheer amateurish cack-handedness – is dismissed by one and all as being due to Gaunt’s (conveniently sudden) mental illness. As for family affairs: It is Bret who ends up marrying Bernard’s one-time lover, the glamorous Gloria; Bernard is finally promised the job of running the Berlin Office, which everyone has always said he should have: and the novel ends with a promise of reconciliation with his beautiful, high-flying and loving wife, Fiona.
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Tagged 1992, Albert Cutler, Cairo, City of Gold, Jimmy Ross, Len Deighton, Lionel Marker, Peggy West, Rommel, Solomon Marx, Toby Wallingford, World War II
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Every room in Tate Britain (part two)
Violent Ward by Len Deighton (1993)
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Name Crime Penalty
Zach T. Going through a green light, and getting hit by a driver who made an illegal left turn Traffic Citation
Cypress Sigman
Riding on sidewalk Arrest
Tommy Eden
Asking officer for badge number after nearly being sideswiped Arrest
Reed Murray & Fred Meredith
Being passed by another cyclist Traffic Citation
(Too many to list)
Bicycling without helmet Arrest
Bernadette Noll's husband
Running red light Arrest (not ticket)
Bernadette Noll
Refusing to identify husband Arrest
Brendan Guilfoyl
Asking why another cyclist was being arrested Arrest
Shaun Stenshol
Riding a bicycle Arrest
explanation of some of these cases Motorists
Gabrielle Nestrande Killed a pedestrian while driving drunk,
and fled the scene Probation
(no fine, no jail)
Armando Reza Intentionally rammed cyclists, while drunk, and without a license 10 days in jail
Erik Fabian Intentionally rammed cyclists Probation
Melissa Graham
Killed cyclist Andrew Turner and injured cyclist Heather Sealey while drunk driving None
Michael Memon
Killed cyclist Tom Churchill while drunk driving None
Hector Gonzalez
Intentionally rammed cyclist None. Police refused to take statement from witnesses.
Lauren Robishaw
Ran red light and killed cyclist Ben Clough Community Service
Unknown motorist
Ran red light, hit two cyclists None
Ran Stop Sign, hit cyclist Janne Osborne None
Hit-and-run'd Keith Hailey None
Hit-and-run'd Mark Bennett Brooks None
These are just a sample. For more cases see the table.
This section of Bicycling in Austin details two separate problems:
Around half of serious car-bike collisions are hit-and-runs.
Drivers who hit cyclists often receive light penalties, or none at all.
I mostly gave up on updating this part of Bicycle Austin because it was too depressing, especially because things never seemed to get any better.
It's hard to accept the fact when I look out over a sea of cars, that half the drivers, if they hit me, are quite willing to leave me for dead. And even among the minority of motorists who do stop, probably many of them would flee if they thought they could get away with it. Think about that one for a minute.
Put this into perspective the next time motorists complain how cyclists won't get respect until they start following the law. Hit & running someone with a motor vehicle is far more illegal than a cyclist rolling a stop sign, but when was the last time anyone suggested that drivers as a class don't deserve to be on the road until they start acting lawful?
And in fact, research suggests that drivers are at-fault in 90% of car-bike collisions.
Even in cases in which the motorist doesn't get away, the motorist often will often face no charges, and may be acquitted in the event that they DO face charges. The motorist who was at-fault for hitting Devorah Feldman wasn't cited, the driver who ran over and killed Tom Churchill was no-billed by a grand jury, and the drunk driver who killed Andrew Turner and crippled Heather Sealey had two trials, both resulting in a hung jury. Of the 180 local cases in which the police noted motorist-related crash factors, citations were issued to motorists only 35% of the time. (1994-96) For example, in the 39 cases in 1998 where drivers caused or contributed to bike collisions by failing to yield the right of way, citations were issued in only 14 cases. (source) And people wonder why cyclists are upset? It time we hold motorists accountable for their actions.
The flipside of this issue is that cyclists often get arrested for minor traffic infractions, even when they don't hurt or kill somebody. In other words, it seems that it's easier to go to jail for riding a bike on the sidewalk than it is for running over and killing a cyclist with your car.
Here's our coverage of this issue
Why is there no justice? An article detailing the lack of prosecution of at-fault motorists, and why that happens.
The Table. A table of the major local cases, showing whether the case was a hit & run, what (if anything) happened to the motorist, and other items.
Details of the cases listed in the table.
Overview of the justice process. We explain what's involved for a motorist to actually face charges and how long it takes.
What to do if you're hit or harassed by a motorist.
How to Not Get Hit by Cars. If all this is scaring you, then be sure to check out our guide on how to not get hit. Of course, these tips assume that motorists are trying to avoid you. If they want to hit you intentionally, there's little you can do to prevent it.
Examples of cases like these outside Austin. We don't have the resources to cover these issues outside of Autin in any detail, but here are some examples.
Harassment from Motorists. Besides motorists injuring and killing us, sometimes they just threaten and harass us.
Collision Statistics. Here's our large section of collision statistics.
Police Criticism. Some of the injustice we suffer is at the hands of the police, who frequently arrest and send cyclists to jail for minor traffic offenses like riding on the sidewalk, while at the same time they fail to cite at-fault motorists who kill or injure us.
Media Criticism. Some of the injustice we suffer is at the hands of the local media, which shifts the blame for collisions onto cyclists even when the cyclists weren't at fault (maybe incompetence or bias, or both), or which simply fails to report real news -- such as the fact that motorists often face little or no penalties for hitting us.
Referrals to Attorneys. The only bicycle injury attorneys we know of are listed on our "What to do if you're hit..." page.
Who's usually at fault:
This isn't easy to quantify for at least two reasons. First, the police often don't even bother to write up a report if the cyclist or bicycle isn't seriously injured, so the data is woefully incomplete. As Preston Tyree told us in Dec. 2000, "Most of the statistics for bike injuries are severly undercounted. In Texas for instance, the DPS only gets reports of crashes that involve motor vehicles and in which the motor vehicle sustains enough damage that it has to be towed. (Fatalities do get reported even if the motor vehicle isn't damaged.) While I've spent time in the hospital from crashes on at least three occasions, none of those show on the DPS statistics. However, they do show on the lesser reported TDH statistics only because they were in Travis County where the hospitals report emergency room visits."
Leah Shahum of the San Francisco Bicycle Coalition says its group's 2001 study concluded that police neglect to report bicycle incidents. Out of about 40 injury cases called in to the coalition's hotline, officers refused to file reports one-third of the time. (source)
Also, when the police do write a report, the report can suffer from their anti-bike bias. If anyone doubts that such a bias exists, look through this site at all the cases where at-fault motorists fail to get properly ticketed for injuring or killing cyclists. The NYC group Right of Way says: "After NYC cycling fatalities increased twofold in 1999, police rushed to cover their, er, reputation by claiming (without analysis or supporting data) that cyclists are to blame in 75% of cycling deaths. Right of Way took a closer look. Surprise! The truth is just the reverse, as listed in our report, The Only Good Cyclist (PDF)."
According to Right of Way, over 90% of cyclist deaths in NYC are the fault of drivers.
More Information. Please don't write to ask for "more information" about any of these cases (or cases not listed). If we know about it, it's already here on the site. If it's not on the site, we don't know about it. On the other hand, if you have more information to provide, we would appreciate hearing about it.
Articles on other sites:
Most at-fault motorists who kill cyclists and pedestrians get off the hook. A study by the Silicon Valley Bicycle Coalition shows that three out of four at fault drivers were never even cited for hitting and killing pedestrians. 22% of fatal pedestrian crashes involved hit and run drivers, yet, none of the runaway motorists were found or charged.(2003) In New York, 70-92% of drivers were at-fault in killing pedestrians and cyclists, but 74% didn't even get a ticket. (RightOfWay.org, 1999) Only 35% of at-fault Texas drivers get cited when they hit a cyclist. (DPS, via City of Austin) The Statesman reports that murdering drivers getting off with only slaps on the wrist is fairly common.
Motorists usually at fault. Drivers are at fault in almost 90% of pedestrian and bicyclist deaths in New York. In over 90% of pedestrian fatalities, the driver is male. (RightOfWay.org, 1999)
Chronicle's article on the lack of justice. The Austin Chronicle ran a big story, reporting in car-bike collisions when the police noted that the motorist had committed a moving violation, half the time they didn't even bother to write the motorist a ticket. (Nov. 2006)
Driving while Drowsy. More than half of Americans admit to driving while drowsy. Is this really a problem? Hell yes! Many fatalaties are caused by motorists who fall asleep at the wheel. And when sleeping drivers injure or kill cyclists, and then often don't face any penalties! (For example, see the case of Jason Boardman & Cameron Cooper, also listed in the table.)
Cyclists lose their bikes for riding without a helmet. That's the threat by Holliston, MA police. But will they confiscate cars from motorists who aren't buckled up? Of course not.
APD's Collision Database. Search the local police department's database of collisions.
Assault with a deadly weapon. Prosecutors are often reluctant to consider a vehicle a deadly weapon under the "assault with a deadly weapon" crime. But a driver in Portland who two cyclists was successfully prosecuted, with his vehicle deemed a deadly weapon.
Explanation of cases listed above in which cyclists received harsh penalties
Cypress Sigman. Cypress was stopped for biking on the sidewalk (late 90's) , and when she asked the officer for clarification regarding the law against biking on the sidewalk, she was arrested. FYI, Austin prohibits biking on the sidewalk in a "business district", which is defined as certain parts of downtown an the drag. More on the law.
Tommy Eden. After Tommy was nearly sideswiped by a police car, he caught up with the police officer, whose window was rolled down, and told the officer that he'd nearly hit him, and asked him to be more careful. The officer ignored Tommy, so he repeated himself. The officer ordered Tommy onto the sidewalk. Tommy complied, then asked the officer for his badge number. The officer ignored him, so Tommy kept asking. The officer kept ignoring him, until he finally got out of the car and arrested Tommy. (mid 90's)
Reed Murray & Fred Meredith. Reed and Murray were legally cycling side-by-side on a 5-lane roadway. Another cyclist passed them on the left, so for a split second they were three abreast. An officer gave all three cyclists tickets. I was behind them, and witnessed the whole thing. (1994 or 1995)
Bicycling without helmets. During the year that Austin had a helmet law for adults (1996-97), we lost track of how many adults got arrested (not just ticketed, but arrested) for not wearing helmets. The law was amended in 1997 to apply only to those 17 and under, but now the problem is that nearly all the no-helmet tickets given to kids are given to black and Hispanic kids. More on the helmet ordinance.
Bernadette Noll & her husband. Noll wrote an article about her experience in jail after for the Austin Chronicle. (1996)
Brendan Guilfoyl. Pretty straightforward. Elliot was being arrested (for biking on the sidewalk, I think), and when Brendan asked why Elliot was being arrested, Brendan was arrested. I may have gotten the victims backwards (Elliot may have asked why Brendan was being arrested), but I do remember seeing the police videotape of this incident. (1993 or 1994)
Shaun Stenshol. A bike officer ordered Shaun to pull his bike over, for no apparent reason. (I witnessed the whole thing.) Shaun started to comply, but evidently not fast enough, and the officer plus another one tackled Shaun to the ground, then dragged him to a police van by his hair. (October 1994)
Cheapest Airfares. I actually hope you won't fly, because of the pollution it causes. But making this site was my way to get your attention for that message. If you're going to fly anyway, see my top 10 tips for finding cheap airfare, a comparison of the different search engines, and which site to use in which situations.
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Home Business Master Chef Sanjeev Kapoor flies into Dubai with specially made rotis to...
Master Chef Sanjeev Kapoor flies into Dubai with specially made rotis to surprise winners of Al Baker competition
Rotis prepared from Al Baker Gold flour stay soft even after seven hours
It’s not always that freshly made rotis are transported from country to country but this is precisely what celebrity chef Sanjeev Kapoor did at the end of an exciting Al Baker social media competition run recently on the Facebook page of Al Baker flour.
The competition run on social media was primarily to highlight the uniqueness of the new Al Baker Gold flour – rotis made out of it are not just tasty but stay soft for a longer period of time.
More than 500 entries were received. Chef Sanjeev selected 10 entries and personally responded to them through a video message on the Facebook page. The personal engagement by the renowned culinary expert was much appreciated by the participants.
Four of the 10 entrants ended up as winners, and each of them, along with their families, were invited for lunch with Master Chef Sanjeev Kapoor. For them it was an unexpected turn of events, as Sanjeev Kapoor flew in to the UAE with super soft rotis that he himself prepared in India using the Al Baker Gold Atta, which is made from 100% MP Sharbati atta.
Chef Sanjeev prepared the rotis in the morning at around 7 am in his kitchen in Mumbai and flew to Dubai with the rotis and drove directly to his restaurant, Signature by Sanjeev Kapoor to host the winners and their families for lunch. The guests were not just overwhelmed by this personal touch shown by the renowned chef but were also surprised to find out that even after seven hours since they were made, the rotis remained soft.
Commenting on his rendezvous with the winners, Sanjeev Kapoor, said: “It was a unique experience for me too, flying into Dubai with the rotis. I am delighted that the rotis were enjoyed by the winners. Rotis made with Al Baker Gold flour have a super taste and is unmatched for its softness.”
Ms. Bindu Rajeev, one of the winners, said:”It was great to meet Sanjeev Kapoor, and also find out that the rotis were so soft even after they made the long journey from India.”
The Al Baker Gold flour, made out of 100 % MP Sharbati wheat grain, is truly a benchmark for soft and tasty rotis.
Al Baker is an immensely popular brand from the stable of Emirates Grain Product Company, which was launched in 1995 with a vision to provide the world with the finest range of essential and value-added flour. In less than a decade, Emigrain has grown to become a leading manufacturer and marketer of wheat-based products in the Middle East.
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Americans Discover a New Business Model for Algae Bioplastics
By Axel Barrett August 13, 2018 August 19, 2018
Florida is dealing with an algal bloom problem. Why not make bioplastics from it?
A partnership between two companies aims to bring a solution to the algal blooming problem in the US and Florida.
AECOM, an infrastructure firm, and BLOOM a materials development company, have an agreement to deploy technology to mitigate harmful algal blooms. The joint initiative aims to provide an economic and ecologically sound solution to a problem that increasingly affects the world’s water resources.
Florida (Lee County, North Fort Myers and Cape Coral’s Nautilus Canal) are using an algae removal system developed by global engineering firm AECOM.
AECOM’s process removes the rich element of algae cells from the phototropic zone (30 cm below the water’s surface).
Dan Levy vice president of AECOM said:
“Combining AECOM’s environmental and infrastructure experience with BLOOM’s patented technology provides an innovative avenue to mitigate the algae crisis. This approach holds promise not just in Florida, but throughout the United States and other regions of the world.”
BLOOM harvests wild algae from water bodies around the world, solar-dries the biomass and converts it to a key feedstock for producing flexible foams and plastic products. The algae-based feedstock is used in the manufacturing process for products ranging from sporting goods and athletic footwear to foam insulation and automotive components.
However, Lee County has decided this time not to give the harvested algae to Bloom but they plan to work together in the future.
The advantage of this model is that companies could receive grants to remove the algae making it sustainable and profitable.
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Product Engineering internships are great!
By Steve Landey Apr 30, 2019
Every year, our incoming interns have a chance to talk to our Engineering teams and indicate their preferences so that we can match them up with good mentors and interesting work. We find that many people don’t have a clear idea of what they want, and request to be on “backend” teams that sound related to their academic courses. But building Asana requires a lot more than backend work, and more generally, the industry needs a lot of great product engineers with skills in technologies traditionally labeled as “front-end.”
This post explains why so many of us find product engineering compelling so that you can see opportunities for yourself. It’s not about pushing pixels around and fighting CSS—it’s about using great code to ship useful things to people who need them.
What product engineering is and why it’s important
Product engineering is, literally, building the product. You collaborate with your team to figure out what you need to make, and then you make it. You ship it. People use it. You improve it.
Lots of people are involved in shipping product features. Ideas come from many places: brainstorming sessions within the company, requests from customers, and the brains of passionate engineers. The whole team collaborates to pick things out of the sea of ideas: product managers have context on the whole product strategy, engineers know how hard things are to build, and program leads know what the team’s workload looks like. And after shipping, everyone helps to iterate on the feature.
We really do mean everyone. Brainstorming, customer calls and all product-y things that are the domain of PMs alone at other companies are accessible to engineers too, if they’re interested. We truly believe that we make the best product we can if the whole team is involved.
When you experience this cycle of iteration in an internship, you gain skills that put you ahead of most new graduates. You do more important work earlier in your career because you don’t have to learn how to work in a product team for the first time. And if you decide to start your own company instead, you’ll have a template for how to run your own product development process, rather than starting from scratch and making beginner mistakes.
Your work directly affects people
Shipping features that improve people’s lives is gratifying. As Asana engineers, we build a product that people use all day at work, where they spend 40 or more hours per week. Improving the product doesn’t just feel like programming, it feels like helping. Every time you add a time-saving tweak or deliver a large feature, you’re directly impacting the workflows of millions of people.
It feels really good to know that every time Sony Music promotes over 1,000 artists, they do it with Asana. And because of Asana, they’re able to build increasingly complex campaigns, faster. Or that every time Uber launches in a new city, they’re doing it four times faster with Asana. Or when MIT plans its annual Earth Day events, including research symposiums and outdoor celebrations to educate thousands of people on things like climate change, they’re doing it with Asana.
Web development has hard problems
Most of the Asana product runs on the web: users load a web page in a browser and our servers send them data. The technology that powers the web has a well-deserved reputation for being complex. Web servers and browsers are built on dozens of interrelated standards that have been evolving since the 1980s, solving for ever more complicated use cases.
Web development is a kind of superpower. It’s by far the fastest way to get product changes out to users and the lowest cost way to get new people using the product. It can be difficult to do well, but the payoff is massive.
Many companies’ web app code resembles exposed sedimentary layers of rock, weathered away by erosion. They aren’t composed of choices so much as circumstances. Not all companies do it poorly, though. There are some (including Asana!) that ship fast sustainably by improving their architecture, using strongly typed tools, and keeping third party libraries up-to-date.
Even with a good codebase, it can be very difficult to navigate the maze of tutorials, references, documentation, and sample code to figure out best practices and build a solid understanding of browser technology on your own. At Asana, we make sure every intern has a mentor who makes time for them. When you have a web UI expert on your team, easy problems have easy solutions, and when you run into something difficult, you’ll usually be able to find a reasonable answer. It won’t take you an entire afternoon to put a button on the right side of the screen.
On the server side, product engineers still deal with databases, performance, and core business logic for the product. You aren’t cut off from low-level thinking just because “product” is in your title. Everyone on an engineering team is responsible for good performance and code quality, and has opportunities to contribute to foundational ideas about how the team builds software.
Product engineering isn’t just web development
Product engineers can be specialists in one part of the tech stack, or generalists who can tie many technologies together.
Timeline, one of the biggest launches in Asana’s history, involved a lot of coordination with our backend Stability and Infrastructure teams. A few weeks before Timeline’s launch date, we noticed some poor performance issues that we hadn’t seen in initial development and planning. When we first initialized a Timeline view for a project, we had to create a lot of objects in our backend datastore. In the final stages of testing, we discovered it could be very inefficient, with large Asana projects straining our infrastructure. Our product engineers dug deeper into stability issues, sorting through all of the consequences of the new feature in terms of queries, space, cost, and traffic.
In addition to a web app, Asana also has native iOS and Android apps. Developing mobile apps requires full-stack thinking: there’s a data layer, a UI layer, and asynchronous network communication. We support some offline work, which means we have to use a carefully engineered client-side database. There are also fancy animations and haptic feedback that users really appreciate, so sometimes engineers need to sit with designers and tweak things until they’re perfect.
Product Engineers at Asana go beyond the superficial frustrations of web development. Yes, we work to create features that deal with browser idiosyncrasies, CSS quirks, and an ever-changing front-end landscape. But we also tackle hard, cross-cutting problems that touch the database, the backend, and everything in between, powering the complete reactivity in our product. We design intricate features that require pushing the boundaries of what web applications can do while maintaining a high bar for quality and polish. As a team, all of this thought and effort means that our end-users do better work themselves as we help them achieve their mission, whether it’s to spread the word about incredible music, or to make transportation accessible to everyone, or to educate the world about the environment.
Solve complex problems on Asana’s Product Engineering team
Our Engineering intern program gets better with every class of interns, and we’re gearing up to find the next group of engineers looking to tackle tough challenges that will ultimately help more people to work more productively. Learn more and see our open intern and new grad positions as they open on our Careers site.
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Deadmau5 dating celebrity tattooist Kat Von D
By seattlepi.com staff on September 17, 2012 at 2:34 PM
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Electronic dance music superstar Deadmau5 has found love with TV mechanic Jesse James’ ex Kat Von D.
The top DJ has been cooing about his new romance on Twitter, posting snapshots of himself with the celebrity tattoo artist and singer.
Confirming his relationship status in a tweet on Sunday, Deadmau5, real name Joel Thomas Zimmerman, wrote, “Yeah, im (in) love… inb4 I find a f– to give over the Internet implodes over it… (sic) at least I’m happy!”
Von D called off her engagement to James last year, six months after Sandra Bullock’s former husband asked her to marry him.
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Parents of children with autism know that the diagnosis process can take a long time. You may think your child is on the spectrum, but often wait lists to even get an evaluation can take months or even a year, and it may be months after that before your child is able to start therapy. On top of that, the diagnosis isn’t always clear, and it can be muddled further by coexisting disorders. Parents often don’t get clear answers until their child is between ages two and four, even though autism can sometimes be detected much earlier.
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Published in the journal Biological Psychiatry in September of 2018, and led by researchers at UC Davis MIND Institute and NeuroPointDX, part of Stemina Biomarker Discovery, the study is part of the largest metabolomic study of ASD done thus far, called the Children’s Autism Metabolome Project (CAMP).
The study was able to identify a grouping of metabolites in the blood that could detect autism, something that hasn’t been accomplished before.
So what are metabolomes? When large molecules break down, or metabolize, metabolomes are the molecules that remain. What’s unique and promising about using metabolomics to diagnose autism is that scientists can track not only genetic markers of the disorder, but environmental ones as well. They can study the way that increased levels of specific small molecules are linked to ASD, while also looking at how comorbid conditions, diet, and other environmental factors relate to autism.
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For the study, blood samples were drawn from 1,100 children between the ages of 18 months and 4 years old. They were chosen from eight different centers across the US and had either autism, an intellectual disability, or were developing typically. About two-thirds of the study participants had ASD.
When comparing metabolites in blood among children with ASD and children developing typically, CAMP researchers found that 17 percent of the kids with autism had higher concentrations of a specific biomarker. This could be the first in a series of biomarker panels that could indicate autism.
“The long-term vision is, once we’ve been able to analyze all the data from CAMP, we would have a series of panels,” said David G. Amaral, one of the researchers. “Each of these would be able to detect a subset of kids with autism. Ultimately, metabolomics may be able to identify most children with autism.”
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Identifying a condition through a biomarker panel has been successful before for phenylketonuria (PKU), which is a rare disease that’s unrelated to autism. However, PKU is caused by a build up of specific amino acids that cause brain damage, and it’s been shown that small changes to diet can have a huge impact.
“With just a simple dietary modification, a child can move from being profoundly disabled to one who lives a reasonably normal life,” said Amaral. “That’s the hope with autism as well.”
Researchers are realistic that this is just one test that could identify autism in some people; they have no starry-eyed vision that this will be the sole test, given the various ways the disorder presents itself.
But they do have confidence that this could eventually be part of a larger group of tests to help diagnose autism, and allow individuals access to targeted therapies earlier in life. The CAMP researchers plan to study these results further and also explore other metabolomes that could help identify additional groups of people with ASD.
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This Strange Weekend Ahead
Posted on November 28, 2013 by Steve Lewis
There is a consistent desperation in the voices of friends and promoter-types; the summer seems to be grasping for straws or gasping for air or fill-in-your-own-saying/proverb. Mark Ronson is at The Montauk Beach House tonight. I asked a honcho over there what the game plan was for rain on a big event at their big pool party, and was told "we don’t have one…it hasn’t happened yet.” I love that attitude. But what can be done short of enclosing the whole place in a retractable dome? At beach retreats, rain-outs are part of the landscape.
I’m staying in Brooklyn tonight…maybe. I might slip into the city for Frankie Sharp’s escapades at XL. He’s in the Lounge of this chic playpen with the amazing Lady Bunny. They have Shangela from RuPaul’s Drag Race and performances by Ebonee Ecxell and Epiphany Get Paid. Amanda Lepore and Marco Ovando are in the big room. As I keep saying: keep your eye on Frankie Sharp. He’s an up-and-comer.
I’ll probably stay near home in BBurg…maybe. I am totally psyched to attend the One Year Anniversary of Eight of Swords, 8pm to 11pm, 115 Grand Street, Brooklyn. There will be live performances by CornMo, Wi Hula Hoop Harlot Melissa-Anne, sword-swallowing and fire-eating by the fabulous Lady Aye, and my friends from The Love Show. The group art show entitled “Hitmen and Harlots” will feature work from "over 35 tattoo artists, photographers, graphic artists, and fine artists including: Diana Brozek, Diana More, Jess Versus, Karen Rockower Glass, Kati Vaughn, Linda Wulkan, Mike Suarez, Nalla Smith, Nyahzul, Sweety, Tasha Rubinow, Woodz, Wyatt Mills, Zoe Bean, Nash Hogan, Mia Graffam, Adam Korothy, D.C.Wallin, Dan Bones, Drew Linden, Fred Harper, Gerald Feliciano, Guy Ursitti, Jim Gentry, Joey Wilson, Liz Huston, Molly Crabapple, Sara Antoinette Martin, Sara Best, Sarah Rockower, Sophie C’est la Vie, and others."
I caught Top Gun at McCarren Park Wednesday night, which completely reaffirmed my love for the borough. We headed to Williams Candy in Coney Island to stock up on caramel apples and gooey cashew treats. Next week, it’s Empire Records. The week after: Raising Arizona.
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Tuesdays Rock: See Two Bad Girls and Legendary Photographer Mick Rock’s Exhibit Tonight
Yesterday I told you guys that Tuesdays in this town are off the hook. I can never decide between Frankie Sharp’s Westgay party at Westway and Lyle Derek’s Dropout bash at W.i.P. Westgay is beyond, beyond for those who are in the know – and I guess that now includes you. Tonight, resident DJ maniac Jon Jon Battles is joined by JD Samson. Amanda Lepore is there as well doing…well, Amanda Lepore things. Lyle Derek has Lady Starlight at W.i.P. in her first live show in …well…ever. There will be a DJ set by CREEP. I just must be there or there but alas, I will be elsewhere.
I’ll be DJing tonight at Avenue from 12:30 until 1:30 and I am pumped. Avenue is a great place to spin, from a DJ perspective. The professionalism of Tao/Strategic Group organization manifests itself on every level, including a user-friendly DJ booth and a staff that enjoys helping you feel comfy on every level. DJ Price will take my humble offerings to the next level. He will entertain me and everyone else in the always-packed-with-a fun-crowd room while I work the room after saying "hey" to not- seen-enough friends. I’ll buy a couple bottles of Beau Joie Champagne, as bubbles are always fun. I don’t drink very often but do adore that bubbles and sparklers combo. It makes me want to shout "Wheeee!" On the invite for tonight, I got a relatively huge billing over DJ Price, an apparent nod to age before talent.
I will be in a seriously fabulous mood because, before all that mayhem, I will be at the wonderful The Bowery Electric (327 Bowery @ Joey Ramone Place, 2nd Street), at 8pm, to catch two bad girls I’ve never been cool enough to catch. It’s Zoe Hansen and Mary Raffaele presenting TWO BAD GIRLS (GOOD BAD), described as "A Night of Rock and Roll Attitude and Outlaw Hilarity" featuring readings and performances by REVEREND JEN,PAULINA PRINCESS OF POWER,MARY "RAFF" RAFFAELE, ZOE HANSEN, HEATHER LITTEER aka JESSICA RABBIT, FACEBOY, THE PRETTY BABIES (FEATURIING MONY FALCONE, LINDA PITMON, DEBBY SCHWARTZ, TAMMY FAYE STARLITE, JASON VICTOR), HANDSOME DICK MANITOBA with JP "Thunderbolt" PATTERSON, on percussion (Mr. Manitoba’s first ever, onstage, public "RANT!")"
"This night has been a constant work in progress between Raff & myself. We wanted to not only have a reading, but a show. A tribute to the New York EV life, & years gone by, literature, comedy, burlesque with a splash of Rock N Roll all over it. We wanted real talent, which is most of our good friends, so it was hard deciding who we could scramble together to fit in on our bill. I am honored to say that we are truly proud of our all star line up. Raff & I promise you a real outlaw, loud, music inspired, hilarious bunch of performances, really entertaining, & all you have to do is just show up!"
I asked Raffaele a few questions:
Tell me about the event.
Zoe and I wanted to put together an event that would showcase our own talents as well as our friends’. We are writers primarily, but watching a series of people read off of pages can be dead-boring, so we decided to mix it up. We have a stellar line-up of very interesting, creative people who will be singing, performing spoken word, and doing plays, and we’ll have one really fun band. I am honestly excited about the people we’ve chosen and I’m glad I’m going on first so I can focus on really watching what they’re doing. I am really proud of all of the acts.
Tell me about our dear friend Zoe.
Zoe is my partner in crime: she calls me Patsy, I call her Eddy. She is whip-smart, super-creative, and very hard-working. She can do absolutely anything she puts her mind to. With her, anything is possible. I am very slow-moving in certain ways and Zoe is very good at lighting a fire under my ass. Plus, she’s easy on the eyes and no matter what kind of trouble we are in, she always makes the adventures seem classier with her accent.
I"ve always seen you as a rock star, always been a fan of Cycle Sluts From Hell. Tell me about that career and the other one with Patricia Fields.
I prefer being seen as a rock star! I got into daytime work after working in clubland for many years. Giuliani broke my heart – it was just too hard to continue trying to fight the good fight for decent nightlife. I was tired of getting screamed at at 2am by random task force fruit fly police, so I moved into day jobs. I have been with Pat for about 10 years; I take care of the money-end of things for her. But I am leaving in two months – I want more time to write a book and I burnt out on office work. It is an amicable parting and I’m helping them to find someone new and I will train the person, as my position is complicated. I am probably going to get back behind the bar. I’ve already started doing a Friday happy hour at Bowery Electric in preparation for my departure.
As if this evening were not already too packed with wonderment, legendary photographer of all things rocked and rolled Mick Rock will show for the first time ever his artwork, "based on his iconic rock ‘n’ roll photographs… The show is presented by CATM Chelsea with a private after-party to follow." The "expected to attend" list includes Mick and friends " Lou Reed, Todd DiCiurcio (Artist), Scot Lipps (Owner, One Management), Amanda Ross, Chelsea Leyland (DJ), Ben Pundole, John & Joyce Varvatos, Timothy White (Photographer), Alberta Cross (Band), Gary Graham (Designer), Paul Johnson Calderon (Reality TV Star), Michael H., Nur Khan, Mazdack Rassi (Founder, Milk Studios), Rebecca Dayan (Model), Clem Burke (Blondie), Tennessee Thomas (Actress, Drummer for The Like), As Light Takes Over (Band), The Ravonettes, Cory Kennedy (Model), Jessica White, (Model, Actress), Jamie & Daisy Johnson (Daughters of Jets Owner)".
It’s a 7pm to 9pm thing at 500 West 22nd Street at 10th Avenue. If you don’t know who Mick Rock is, this is a good time to find out. Chances are you have seen his brilliant work on album covers and such for decades. Yeah, he was the guy who took that Bowie/Ziggy Stardust shot and that one of Iggy you thought brilliant, that Blondie photo, and thousands of others – one more iconic than the next. It’s 40 years recording and making rock history. Look him up. He Googles well.
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Larry Tee On His Favorite Project Yet: New Single ‘Charlie’
Posted on November 28, 2013 by BlackBook
You can’t talk about the "good ol’ days" of nightlife without homage to Larry Tee. However, Larry, like myself, likes to be remembered for what he has done and acknowledged for what he is doing in the "now.” Larry and I have worked together many times. Sometimes the relationship has been testy, but it is always respectful. He has constantly redefined nightlife and our culture. I was around when he coined the term “Electroclash” for a genre of music that few knew about then. He helped push artists like RuPaul, Peaches, Fischerspooner, and Scissor Sisters into our vocabulary. He talked about Williamsburg while we were still paying Manhattan rents and listening to boring disc jockeys.
His Love Machine party with his Atlanta clan RuPaul, Lahomma Van Zandt, and Lady Bunny was the precursor to so much of our fabulously forward nightlife. He was pushing Amanda Lepore when she was still sporting a push-up bra. I remember hearing him talk about Princess Superstar when she was Princess "I wanna be a” Star. Larry has always been in front of the action. He has always gone where no man has gone before. So when he says that something’s going to be the next thing… we better listen. He and I were partners in crime at Le Palace de Beaute with Michael Alig before the famous crime(s). He has made a rock star out of Perez Hilton and created W.I.T. This can go on and on but as I said up top, Larry is still making it happen in a huge way and we chatted with him about it.
We met many years ago and worked together often. I have always looked at you as an innovator. Electronic music, RuPaul… talk to me about the things and people you helped push into the public view.
I have always been lucky to befriend people who have big talents, from my friends in Georgia like Michael Stipe and RuPaul, to the Scissor Sisters and Afrojack more recently. I have always loved other peoples’ big ideas and have tried to push them into the spotlight too since it’s exciting to watch. My whole Electroclash period of festivals and touring groups like Peaches, Chicks on Speed, Fischerpooner, etc., was all based around my love of outrageous and often political shows. And lately my work has been hi-jacked by more mainstream stars like Santigold, Shontelle, Steve Aoki, and Princess Superstar with my song "Licky" and Afrojack, MDPC and Roxy Cottontail with my "Let’s Make Nasty" track. As ‘crazy’ gets more mainstream with Nicki Minaj and Lady Gaga, my brand has been dragged into the mainstream too, thankfully.
Your single comes out today! Tell me about it and how it started.
The song is called “Charlie” and features 15 dogs in wigs dressed as contemporary artists like Chihuahua Del Rey and Stinky Minaj, designed by Lady Gaga’s hair couture genius, Charlie Le Mindu.
How do you get 100 million views on YouTube? That was the question when I decided to make a video with Charlie Le Mindu. Google-image him for sure. After some research, we realized that if you didn’t have Justin Bieber, Rihanna, or Eminem in your video, you better have children or animals. The song “Charlie” is a collage of sound effects, mad pianos, electro-synth riffs, a 60-year-old subway singer, and hyper-percussion bongo breaks, and so we needed something equally madcap to make the video pop.
So we got Charlie to make wigs for 15 dogs. When we were finished shooting, people kept saying that this dog looked like Lana Del Rey or this one looked like Amy Winehouse so we took the idea further and gave the dogs fake celebrity names like “Chihuahua Del Rey” and “Madogga.” It was one of the most satisfying projects in my life, I tell you.
Do you still DJ? What else do you do with your time now spent in London? Why did you abandon us?
Since I have had so many breakouts on the dance floor and in movies these last couple years, it’s led to a DJ residency at the Hard Rock Hotel in Las Vegas which is amazing. I was arm wrestling with Pete Wendt from Fall Out Boy at the pool party I did there last week. In London, Super Techno Party Machine at East Bloc is my residency every Friday/ I have guests like Rolf from the 2 Bears, Severino from Horse Meat Disco, Rueben Wu from Ladytron, Chicks on Speed, supermodel Luke Worrall, Richard Mortimer from Ponystep Magzine, and Carmen Xtravaganza from the house of Xtravagnza. What do these guys have in common? Nothing except if I wanted to put on an amazing party, I would want to have lots of diverse guests and sounds! And some fabulousness! And I still consider New York to be my spiritual home, but it was becoming like Groundhog Day where every day seemed like the one before…London has inspired me to make new things and experiment with new sounds, so I’m super happy.
While we are on the subject…what’s great in London club-wise, for people with…er… different perspectives?
London always has new hot spots popping up that are worth a try. Destroy Cluture raves are amazing featuring the Boy London DJ Team, Alis Pelleschi, the post-rave fashion goddess, and Sean Bass, the graphics genius behind the DISNEY bastardizations. Hot Boy Dancing Spot is just what you would expect: BUTT magazine come to life.
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Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Amanda Lepore, Charlie, Charlie Le Mindu, Chihuahua Del Ray, Good Night Mr. Lewis, Interview, lady gaga, Larry Tee, london, Love Machine party, Michael Alig, Michael Stipe, new single, New York, Nicki Minaj, Nightlife, Perez Hilton, Roxy Cottontail, RuPaul, Steve Aoki, Steve Lewis | Leave a comment
Why Don’t You Go As A Louis Vuitton Bag?
Posted on October 28, 2013 by Alyssa Shapiro
In case you didn’t get your fill of Halloween festivities this past weekend, since the ghoulish night falls on a Thursday the costumes and candies last almost two weeks this year. If you’re still searching for dress-up inspiration or need another transformational persona to add to your roster, look to the sittings and parties that are more fantasy than fashion. Photographers like Miles Aldridge, Steven Klein, and David LaChapelle have your back.
Why don’t you go as a Louis Vuitton bag? Grab a stencil and some body confidence and get to work. Lil’ Kim photographed by David LaChapelle.
You could always go as the creepy, pure girl. Steven Klein photographs Kate Moss as Good Kate for W.
Bad Kate is an option as well. Here, Moss plays the demon. Pearlescent teeth, mounds of accessories, and horns should do the trick.
Toss the conical bras and lace gloves and try for a different Madonna. Alana Zimmer photographed by Miles Aldridge. For her sickly look, grab the Moroccan oil and some lavender blush.
Always an option: grab a couture Margiela mask and go as Kanye West.
If pretty is more your thing, go as Natalie Vodianova’s Alice as shot by Annie Leibovitz. A blue dress, some maryjanes, a headband, and a smattering of small furniture should call the adventure to mind.
Reference more than a few historical figures by going as David LaChapelle’s rendering of Amanda Lepore as Andy Warhol’s Marilyn Monroe.
…Or as David LaChapelle’s Amanda Lepore as Andy Warhol’s Liz Taylor.
The ultimate surrealist costume inspiration, courtesy of Baroness Marie-Hélène de Rothschild and Baron Alexis de Redé at their Surrealist Ball in 1972.
Posted in Fashion | Tagged Alana Zimmer, Alyssa Shapiro, Amanda Lepore, Andy Warhol, Annie Leibovitz, David LaChapelle, FASHION, Halloween, Kate Moss, Lil Kim, Liz Taylor, Louis Vuitton, Margiela, Miles Aldridge, Natalia Vodianova, Steven Klein | Leave a comment
Amanda Lepore, David LaChapelle, Jake Shears… It’s Getting Pretty Gay at Skylark Palms Springs
Posted on February 15, 2013 by BlackBook
How gay is the new Skylark Hotel in Palm Springs? Let us count the ways…
1) The owners are gay, one of whom "werks" the web site homepage with his catwalk pose.
2) Staff is gay, most of whom don’t have much hotel experience but, hey, they look good!
3) Skylark was formerly Camp Palm Springs, a clothing optional resort. Repeat guests are still coming, but now wearing briefs.
4) Skylark served as the film set of many gay porn flicks. Don’t you recognize that pool?
5) It’s an LGBT hotel but "hetero" friendly, which means you probably won’t run into straight people.
6) Amanda Lepore, David LaChapelle, Jake Shears, Rose McGowan and Kelly Osbourne are invading this weekend for a crazy-ass grand opening that coincides with socialite Reggie Cameron’s birthday.
While Skylark has taken over Camp Palm Springs whose history is basically that sex resort, the bareback reputation will soon poof, thanks to the image Skylark wants. It’s going to be more of a chill, cosmopolitan, social hot spot. Sure, gay sex is going to happen but behind closed doors now that that sling is gone. Skylark is super boutique with only 28 rooms, a large, deep pool and shamrock-shaped hot tub to boot. The Crazy Coconut Bar & Grill is doing all their dining (YUM) and the bar in the back will be busy for both locals and visitors alike. And let’s stress the "social" aspect here. All rooms look out into the central pool area, so whether you’re voyeuristic or egotistic, everyone wins. And if you end up crashing the all-day, Saturday pool party (it’s free!), do a shot for us. It will probably be gay-flavored.
Posted in Hotels | Tagged Amanda Lepore, Gay Hotels, Hotels, Jimmy Im, Palm Springs, Skylark | Leave a comment
A Brief History of David LaChapelle’s Music Videos
Famed fashion photographer David LaChapelle does more than snap pictures for advertising campaigns and pal around with the world’s most glamorous trans woman. LaChapelle has a very solid resume as a music video director.
The latest example of LaChapelle’s work is the just-released video for Florence and the Machine’s “Spectrum,” a sexy, dramatic, sparkly take on the powerful song.
But it’s been a long road getting there. From early ‘90s videos for artists like Penny Ford (we didn’t know either) through long-lasting collaborations with icons like Elton John and Christina Aguilera, LaChapelle has spent years making music videos—and some of them are pretty great. Here’s a look back at five favorites.
Amy Winehouse – "Tears Dry On Their Own"
Gwen Stefani feat. Eve – "Rich Girl"
Macy Gray – "She Ain’t Right For You"
The Vines – "Outtathaway"
The Dandy Warhols – "Not If You Were the Last Junkie on Earth"
Posted in Music | Tagged Amanda Lepore, Amy Winehouse, ART, Christina Aguilera, David LaChapelle, Elton John, Florence and the Machine, Florence Welch, Gwen Stefani, Macy Grey, MUSIC, Penny Ford, The Dandy Warhols, The Vines | Leave a comment
A Chat with the Fabulous Amanda Lepore
Posted on June 17, 2011 by BlackBook
This coming Tuesday is the first day of summer and the beginning of a fabulous new weekly, Amanda Lepore’s Penthouse. The gala will be at the ever adaptable Ganesvoort Park. Joey Israel and Kenny Kenny will add to the magic, and Marco Ovando will host. The rooftop pool deck and penthouse will be the scene of the action for a crowd that loves nothing more than to dress up and be seen. The amazing Joey Arias will perform. This is a can’t miss event for the fashionista, gay, and fabulous crowd, which is finding a renewed resurgence in the new hotels we talk so much about.
Susanne Bartsch, the grand dame of this world, is of course doing her “On Top” thing over at the Standard on Tuesdays, so everyone will be all dressed up with at least two places to go. For a while, this crowd was pushed to the fringes as bottle service bucks pushed these fabulous ones to off-nights in irrelevant clubs. Now, the new world of nightlife is embracing this clan again, as they want their guests to have a true New York experience to tell all their friends back home about. Today’s interview is with Amanda Lepore, a true NY experience. She has an album coming out and a huge soiree slated at the Highline Ballroom to support it. She seems ready to expand her brand and re-re-re-invent herself.
I’m sitting with an old friend of mine, Amanda Lepore, who has worked with me many times. I don’t wanna say ‘worked for me,’ because in nightlife everyone has their roles, and my role might have been a director or whatever, and Amanda certainly was part of the entire circus that we tried to create. She’s a brilliant persona and has created an international brand with her appearance, performances, and parties. I’ve learned so much from her. Talk to me about your gender and how you became what you are today. Well, I started out in life thinking I was a girl, and my parents and stuff and everything would cut my hair and not buy dresses for me. And I didn’t even understand what they were doing. I just thought they were punishing me for something. And then, you know, slowly when you like get older, you realize, oh well, I’m stuck with this guy’s body. I did everything I could to change it, because I was really disturbed by it. I definitely have a female mind, I took hormones when I was 15, and I started getting breasts, and I saw talk shows, and people getting sex changes, and heard that it was possible, so I did it as soon as I can. I met a boyfriend that was supportive, and his father paid for my sex change, and I became a girl and didn’t really have any ambitions, I just wanted to be a pretty girl and maybe work in a mall doing makeup or something.
Your look is iconic. It’s a Marilyn Monroe caricature. What are you trying to say with your look, and when people you don’t know see you, what is their reaction? Well, I think at first I actually didn’t even have breast implants, I had little hormone breasts. And it was a wave. I’d always watched movies and stuff, and I really liked the Hollywood bombshells. I always liked like hips and breasts and all that, and I always thought it was the most feminine body type. So I wanted to look sexier, and I would buy clothes, and try on a top and I wouldn’t fill it out, so I could only wear certain things. I got more fascinated with girls in Playboy, so I got my breasts done, and I got lips.
You also have a persona. You always are classy. You are always on. You are always performing, if you will. Is there a time when you go home at night and turn it off? Is Amanda Lepore a 24-hour thing? It’s a 24-hour thing. I mean of course, I do errands and everything and I’m not made up. I’d like to think that people don’t recognize me, but people recognize me and say hi and treat me exactly the same. I’ll be insecure about it, but sometimes I’ll meet guys I went out with and they’ll say, “Oh, you look pretty and don’t worry about it.” But I feel better made up.
Well now you have a record coming out and you are doing an event, which coincides with this record. This is really important to you. Tell me about the production of that record, which has involvement from some of my old friends: Roxy Cottontail, Larry Tee, Cazwell. Your life is a performance art piece, but now you’re actually performing as an artist, a different step altogether. Now you have put out records before, but this album is different. A lot of people are talking about the legitimization of Amanda Lepore as a music artist. Well, it was a slow kind of a thing. Around the time we worked together at Life and Spa is where it all started. I would have those birthday parties once a year, and I always admired the scene, like there was the electro scene with Larry Tee and Cazwell—he was one of the best, we really liked his music. We would hire him for my birthday parties every year and he would perform. And then one day, he saw me partying with champagne. And he said, “I wrote this song ‘Champagne’ for you, would you do it?” And I said, “Sure, that would be great.” It took me a long time to learn it and do it well, but it was a success.
Tell me about the songs on the new record. “Turn Me On, Turn Me Over,” is I guess a sequel to “My Pussy.” There’s “Convertible” and “All I Wanna Do Is Get My Nails Done.” Roxy Cottontail does a rap on it with Cazwell.
Sounds like so much fun. Yeah, it’s a lot of fun.
So, the Highline Ballroom. We were just there for the Night of a Thousand Stevies, the Jackie Factory tribute to everything Stevie Nicks. It’s becoming this very legitimate venue for the fashion and gay set. Yea, Lady Gaga had her record release party and me and Cazwell performed at it, so it was really cool.
Did you talk to Lady Gaga that night? Yea, she knows who I am.
What does Lady Gaga talk to Amanda Lepore about? She just said, “Hi Amanda.” She was busy.
You didn’t talk about hair. Well actually, one time, when David LaChapelle was photographing her for Rolling Stone, and we went to her house and she cooked dinner for her boyfriend— it was at her boyfriend’s house at the time—she just talked a bit about getting up in the morning, she seemed like just a girl from Queens, kind of, she had her Jersey Shore kind of friends, you know, they were calling her Stefani, and you could really tell that it was Lady Gaga in the making.
Your relationship with David LaChapelle has been famous. You’ve been called his muse. We know David from the beginning, he was hanging out at the clubs when he was younger. He was this great up and coming photographer who became this mega photographer. Has your relationship changed with David over time? We’ve been friends all along. I didn’t see him as much when he moved to LA and then to Hawaii. He wanted me to come to LA but I don’t drive or anything, I’m just used to being in New York. We’ve been really close friends over the years, he’s great.
Where is the connection between you and him? Where do the minds meet? I think that we see things that other people don’t see. We’re kind of perfectionists, we’re both narcissistic, you know, he was attracted to me. He’d seen me in a club and was attracted to me because he actually used to draw girls that looked like me when he was like 15. They were always naked with big boobs, big lips and cheeks, and always had different hair. He actually showed me the pictures at his mother’s house once. It was really wild. They looked identical to me.
Why are you shy? I think from being harassed in school. I wasn’t an outgoing person, you know, when I first left my husband. I worked as a dominatrix, and they would really tell me not to tell guys that I was a transsexual. But in nightclubs, we were sort of celebrated for being a transsexual. I really related to these kids, they came from other cities and grew up being harassed and had the same kind of thing.
I’ve talked to the Mother of the House of Xtravaganza, Carmen Xtravaganza, a dear friend of mine about how difficult it was for her to find her true self, make the change, and to move forward with her life and have a productive life. You are, in a sense, a leader, an icon, and you are an example to a younger generation. It must be easier nowadays, but still impossibly difficult. The surgeries are easier, more accessible. And certainly, your gender, or your definition of gender, is more acceptable than it was 20 years ago or 10 years ago. Talk about how you feel about that responsibility to people and how young people approach you and talk to you. I think it’s a great responsibility, you know, it’s really hard for them. It’s a struggle to come up with the money, it’s very expensive, and the main problem is the bullying.
What do you have to say to that? The key to overcoming that is to feel proud of who you are.
Posted in Goodnight Mr. Lewis | Tagged Amanda Lepore, Gansevoort Park, Good Night Mr. Lewis, Highline Ballroom, New York, Nightlife, Steve Lewis, The Standard Hotel | Leave a comment
Partying for the Fabulous Larissa @ The Big Top
Posted on August 3, 2010 by BlackBook
Tomorrow night, Patricia Field, Mao PR, Roxanne Lowit, Susanne Bartsch, Kenny Kenny, and Joey Israel will host a benefit at Amanda Lapore’s Big Top for Larissa. Joey Arias and Amanda will perform. I am leaning heavily on Patricia Field’s website for my background, as Larissa, although very familiar to me, always remained a mysterious denizen of so many fashionable days and clamorous nights. I never asked questions about her, I just accepted her rank as one of the most important people in downtown culture. I would book her birthday at a club back in the day, or she might grace an invite, but as was my way, I kept my distance. It’s a combination of my skewed sense of chivalry and a shyness that most, except those who know me well, don’t believe exists.
Michael Alig would always drag me from whatever I was doing to chat with her. I was to reward him with a handful of drink tickets for the introduction. I was always shocked she knew my name. She was glamorous, bitingly witty, and catty as well. She was always a lady, except sometimes, maybe when she drank, and that was, well, often. Even then in a pickled state she was charming and mannered. She was easily recognizable to the hoi polloi with her trademark eyebrows, and cheekbones sharp enough to cut through bread, and a coif of the darkest, manicured black hair. She was impeccably dressed at first, with her own creations, and then with Mugler. She was known as his muse. She could size up a person, and discount them, or elevate them with a breath. She was always surrounded by the bestest of the best, the most down of any of the downtown set. At Max’s Kansas City she might be at a table with Nico, or Andy Warhol, or any of the bold faced names of that era—or of any era. Once, when I was clamoring with the masses to get into Thierry Muglers Fashion Show in Paris, she grabbed me from the crowd and walked me in. Doors parted like the Red Sea from Moses, as Larissa defined chic and everybody needed her around. When we were doing Club USA, it was Larissa who captured Thierry’s talents for the design of the Mugler Room. To say she was the candle of the aspirations of so many moths, and other creatures of the night, would be an understatement.
She was part of the Andy Warhol Factory crowd. She once said, “I studied Salvador Dali in art school, and there I found myself standing in a room with him while he paid me compliments. It was something.” According to the Patricia Fields website, her customers included “Miles Davis, Margot Fontaine, Egon Von Furstenberg, Jimi Hendrix, Gloria Steinham, Lauren Bacall, Dustin Hoffman, Betsy Johnson, Cicely Tyson, Lina Wertmuller, and Giancarlo Giannini, just to name a few. Her coats were sold at top stores like Barneys, Bergdorf Goodman, and Ultimo in Chicago. They will be feting Larissa at a benefit tomorrow night at 13th and University. Those who never pay will gladly contribute 10 bucks for a lady who gave us all so much.
On another note that so often wanted and discarded space on the corner of Essex and Houston may be changing hands once again. According to my source, a deal has been made and is pending community board approval. It has been home to the seminal club Chaos, a strip joint, a goth club, and so many other things. It has never really been on my radar of fabulousness but has always been around surviving, mostly I feel, because of it’s location, rather than good programming. I read that it was, at one time the studio and home belonging to Jasper Johns. Now it will be something else.
Posted in Goodnight Mr. Lewis | Tagged Amanda Lepore, Andy Warhol, Good Night Mr. Lewis, Patricia Field, Steve Lewis | Leave a comment
The Darby Gets a Name, Carnival is a Hit
Posted on July 15, 2010 by BlackBook
Sometimes, wearing two hats doesn’t stop the rain. I was kept late at job sites yesterday evening, as my designer hat kept me deep in sheetrock, dust, and paint fumes. My firm is currently finishing four venues that will open between now and Labor Day, and I don’t have enough hours in the day, or showers, or clothes, stashed around town. The Richie Akiva/Scott Sartiano restaurant on 14th and 8th has been named The Darby. I’ve known this for a while, but needed it to break in The Times, first. That’s where the two hats get into arguments with each other. I am so excited about this project, as each day the place looks more like the vision my partner, Marc Dizon, and I developed months ago. I’ll talk about this more in the coming weeks. Next door, at the old Country Club/ Dirty Disco space, now known as Snap, a woman and celebrity-friendly sports bar/restaurant is shaping up. The restaurant at 146 Orchard Street is in its final stages of construction, and looking like a winner. Stand Up New York, our first comedy club, is open to the public, while final finishes make it sweeter every day. Needless to say, my schedule is hectic, and I missed two events that I swore I’d attend last night.
The Jersey Shore soiree at Marquee was my biggest loss. I was promised access to the “talent,” and I was preparing questions all week. Most started with “YO!” In what had to be the biggest cultural ying-yang in quite some time, the Paul Kasmin Gallery next store opened David Lachapelle’s “American Jesus” exhibit. No press flack had the gumption to drag The Situation next door to the gallery, nor did David go to Marquee. Combining these two crowds would have been a snap. The images at David’s show, available online, feature an angelic Michael Jackson—with wings and all. They looked insanely hot. My Blackberry screamed to me that Julian Schanbel and Lenny Kravitz were there, and everyone who was everyone, as well. Afterward, the swells took their boom boom to the Boom Boom Room, which I hear will go private in a snap of Andre Balaz’s well manicured fingers. To almost everyone, that means very little access granted, and while people are always denied, it will discourage the mediocres from even trying to get in. I’m sure the fabulous aren’t affected much.
I was motivated by midnight, and headed to Amanda Lepore and Kenny Kenny’s Big Top party at Carnival, held at Bowlmor Lanes. Now, that’s a mouthful of candy corn for sure. I wanted to say hey to David Lachapelle, who I haven’t seen in a few years. It was advertised he would be there, and everyone knew he would. He has been mussing around with Amanda forever. I found David surrounded by a sea of paparazzi and iPhone photographers by a throne in the big room. He was wearing a gray Shepard Fairey T shirt, and a red baseball cap. Drag queens and flash dancers vied for his attention with big—real and store-bought—grins. Everyone was smiling, as “good nature” is considered classy with this fashion gay crowd. David posed with everyone. I saw photographer Roxanne Lowitt grab a few minutes while adoring fans jockeyed to be next. This scene latches onto its home grown celebrities like David and Richie Rich and Ru Paul and others who, for so long, have sipped cocktails in the same places and have now achieved international celebrity. The dress, style, and sensibility of this crowd loves to be validated with these success stories. Dressing up in fantastic costumes is high fashion, and high style, when one of these ambassadors “sells” it to the larger culture. The way of life has its own rewards, for sure, but it’s nice to be recognized. David is the real deal and it was nice to have him home again. I said hi, and we exchanged the “how good you looks” and all. He was always there for me over the years. He provided beautiful floral images for use on invites when I opened the Palace de Beaute with Larry Tee and Michael Alig. That was where the PetCo in Union Square now lives. Andy Warhol had his Factory upstairs. When my ex wife was putting out a record on Next Plateau Records, David shot it. He was always around to lend his brand to fabulous events, or have his after-events with my crew. He was always a wonderful, fun, and intelligent person—great to be around.
The crowd swarmed, posing, selling their fabulousness to him and each other, swarming his candle light. It was nice to be in a club where the idols were artists instead of moguls. Nearby, muscle queens took exaggerated hammers and rocketed energy up a 14 foot shaft to ring a bell. Others stood by with admiration while sipping vodka through straws. A successful slam had a huge LED sign begging, “HIT ME AGAIN.” All were delighted by this spectacle. Delicious cotton candy was being hawked by delicious young men, as a gymnast-type hoola-hooped in short shorts. 7-foot drag artists, with air-brushed makeup, air kissed each other and exchanged pleasantries. Gym-built bodies hawked games of skill and luck and distributed stuffed purple prizes, and sexy smiles to winners. The carni-shtick made wallflowers into entertainers. It was smiles all around, and forward music for a forward thinking crowd, who remain years ahead of it all while, doing much of the same as 10 years ago.
Kenny Kenny was pleased as he surveyed the room with me. He knows that he, Amanda, and Joey have created something that can be built on. “It’s good,” he humbly proclaimed. The crowd is fresh, unjaded, and uber friendly. They dress the part, and are aware that something is happening here that borrows only the best parts of the bawdy past. It is respectful of the legacy, and embraces the success of what came out of that era that broke it all out, but they don’t relate to the pitfalls of that time. David and Amanda, Kenny, and so many others from long ago bathe in the new light. I love Wednesday’s at Carnival.
Paul Alexander, who has always been an oracle—a person to ask when you want to know the story, the scoop, and what’s really happening—is hosting a Sunday night shindig at the Pearl lounge on 17th and 8th avenue. It’s an early gig, meant to fill those hours between dinner and Suzanne Bartsch and Kenny Kenny’s late night affair at Greenhouse. It’s cocktails and flirtations, 10 to 1am at Pearl, and then everyone heads downtown. Paul’s parties at Jackie 60/Mother, Caine, and so many other places, have been reliable fun for the sometimes, somewhat unreliable set.
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Men's Swim Recruiting 2018
UrsusArctosCalifornicus
Joined: Dec 7, 2013
In reply to bearz012 • 4:06p, 2/27/18
bearz012 said:
20 Question Tuesday: Reece Whitley Part 1
1. You have been asked a lot about Cal, but what about going to a politically open college like that -- was that important to you?
Reece: That's a bonus. Obviously. it's great to go to school in a very open place. That's something I was also looking for. All the schools I looked at were relatively open places. Berkeley is incredibly open and that makes for a very healthy environment to lean in. I also have heard they have (laughs) great food locally, great culture, and of course it's a great academic university.
2. You and Penn Charter Coach Crystal Coleman were very careful about not adding dryland too fast since you were still growing, now that you are old and filling out, are you looking forward to adding that at Cal now that your body is more ready for it?
Reece: Yes, definitely. Joel (Smith), who is the strength coach for Cal swimming, is a very, very smart guy. I've been fortunate because my high school strength coach, John (Estok) is like that and really smart about giving everybody what they need because there are so many different athletes that you get. So that has been great. Next (school) year, making that transition will be great. I've yet to have a dialogue with Joel but can't wait to get to work on that.
3. Your parents are both doctors -- how impressive is it that while they offered as much or as little help as you wanted, that they emphasized this was your decision?
Reece: That's the way they have been my entire life. They have guided me and given me information and insight that I'll never be able to repay them for. I knew from the beginning that it was my decision. Like they always have, they provided some lessons and ways of thinking throughout the process, but they were removed enough to let me do my own thing. They expected me to work out the phone calls and communication, and to seek out what I really wanted in a program -- they trusted me to do that. All I did was update them now and then. So when it came time to commit, I had weighed all the pros and cons in a way that emphasized what was important to me.
Also with regards to this comment that Reece had made on Regan...well hope she reads it, appreciates Reece's compliments, and ends up becoming a Bear! (well I had conveniently left out a number of rather essential steps in between which would have to go right, before my fantasy becomes reality, but you get the gist lol...)
11. Pretty awesome to turn it around last summer during what was an insanely exciting 2017 World Trials and make it?
Reece: Summer Nationals aren't as big but the field was just incredible. What was great was seeing people like Regan Smith make the team -- what mental toughness. And to get to see her swim in Budapest, and then swim with her last summer at World Juniors, was just incredible. Again, someone stepping up in the moment.
bearz012
Joined: Oct 2, 2017
Reece Whitley Focused on His Own High Expectations
Did Cal land anyone else in the Class of 2018 besides Reece Whitley? Where did the Bear's class rank nationally? Thank you in advance! GO BEARS!
In reply to Schroeder71 • 2:40p, 3/29/18
Schroeder71 said:
We had quite a small class this go-around, but some solid prospects.
- Galen Penvenne
- Kyle Millis
- Daniel O'Connell
- Chris Jhong
- Reese Whitley
At a first glance, SwimSwam ranked this class #7 out of the other classes:
SwimSwam: "This is a very small class, but they crack the top 10 because of one name: #1 in the class, Reece Whitley. The best high school breaststroker to enter the NCAA system since Andrew Seliskar (who happens to go to Cal, too), Whitley gives Cal an immediate elite breaststroke option who is already fast enough to A final in both breaststrokes at NCAAs and who can solidify their medley relays as soon as he gets to campus.
For how fast he is at breaststroke, Whitley isn't someone so specialized in his stroke that he can't do anything else. He's also 1:47.1 BK, 1:48.8 FL, 1:43.9/3:47.1 IM, and 45.1/1:38.1 FR, with his IM being the most impressive. Whitley also had a fantastic summer, giving way to long course bests of 27.7/1:00.0/2:10.8 in breaststroke, earning silvers in the 100 and 200 at the 2017 World Jr Champs. With the momentum Cal has, the addition of Whitley could turn the corner for them as they seek another national title.
Christopher Jhong is a great IM'er (1:47/3:50) with a 1:39.7 200 free, while Daniel O'Connell has been 20.7/45.2 FR and Kyle Millis has been 50.1/1:49.0 BK.
The class is tiny, but noting how large and powerful the current Cal freshman class is, the Golden Bears didn't necessarily need another army of newcomers for next fall. Still, the lack of numbers here and sparse sprint free promise keeps the class from breaking into the top 5."
https://swimswam.com/first-looks-ranking-the-incoming-ncaa-mens-classes-of-2022/
OBear073akaSMFan
Was Daniel Roy (wash) another that visited or did he commit to Stanfart? Collegeswimming still doesn't show him committed to any college.
HBear
Roy committed to Stanford, AFAIK.
In reply to OBear073akaSMFan • 6:19p, 3/29/18
OBear073akaSMFan said:
HBear said:
Yes, Daniel Roy (#37 Nat, #1 WA) did pay Bears an official visit:
2018 Baby Bear Chris Jhong (#83 Nat, #5 CA), IU commit Van Mathias (#43 Nat, #1 OR), 2018 Baby Bear Reece Whitley (#13 Nat, #2 PA), 'SC commit Owen Kao (#109 Nat, #6 CA), Daniel Roy
Roy apparently feels fiercely competitive with Reece (from an interview last year), so not altogether too surprising that he went to a certain Farm to continue their rivalry...
JONAH COOPER DROPS 46.3 100 BK, ZOIE HARTMAN EXCELS AT CIF NCS CHAMPS
Chris Jhong of Amador Valley rattled Curtis Ogren's National Independent HS record in the 200 IM, winning with a 1:45.51, just six tenths off Ogren's mark. Jhong was touched out in the 100 fly, 48.31 to 47.74, by Daniel O'Connell of De La Salle.
http://instagr.am/p/BisqMSOAyf-
11:54a, 6/7/18
RE-RANK: TOP 20 BOYS NCAA SWIMMING RECRUITS, CLASS OF 2018
THIS CLASS
Incredible breaststroke class has only gotten better
Dominant 200 frees abound
No standout fly/back swimmers, but depth has developed
Elite distance potential
Last time around, we noted that this class of breaststrokers is probably the best since the Seliskar/Vissering class of 2015. One year later, this group is blowing even that class out of the water. We've got three guys coming in with breaststroke times that would have made the NCAA's A final a year ago, including the best breaststroke prospect we've ever ranked. In fact, we're leaving guys off our list who would be the top breaststroker in almost any of the surrounding years' classes.
Outside of breaststrokers, this class is loaded with 200 free monsters. We count at least 8 guys under 1:36, at least five under 1:34 and three who are 1:33.0 or better. A lot of those guys swim up into the 500 free range as well, but quite a few of them are stroke specialists who happen to also have big-time 200 frees. Keep an eye on the NCAA 800 free relay, because that event is set to get a whole lot faster across the board in the coming years.
On the flip side, there aren't really any standout flyers or backstrokers, at least not to the level of the Hoffer/Murphy/Katz/Taylor Class of 2017. We noted last spring that the class was deep with fly talent, though, and that remains the case. What was previously a pretty thin backstroke class has also developed, so those events will have some diamond-in-the-rough opportunities.
Not counting the 200/500 types, this class only has two true distance swimmers ranked, but they're potential generational talents. Beyond that, there are three more just off our list who could probably make an argument for a top 20 ranking, if the NCAA had relay point opportunities for milers.
TOP TIMES IN THE CLASS OF 2018
50 Free
Drew Kibler
Daniel Krueger
Patrick Callan
1000 Free**
Robert Finke
1650 Free
Michael Brinegar
100 Back
Noah Henry
100 Breast
Cody Bybee
Andrew Koustik
200 IM
Kieran Smith
**The 1000 free isn't an NCAA event at the Division I level, but is swum at Division I dual meets and at the Division II level.
TOP 10 SWIMMERS FROM THE CLASS OF 2018
1. Reece Whitley (Previous Rank: #1) Penn Charter Aquatic Club - William Penn Charter School - Lafayette Hill, PA **Verbally committed to Cal**
Best Times: 200 breast 1:51.43, 100 breast 51.16, 200 IM 1:43.55, 400 IM 3:44.71, 200 free 1:36.99, 100 free 44.58, 50 free 20.61, 100 fly 48.23, 200 fly 1:46.42
Whitley has a chance to be a historically-good breaststroker at the NCAA level and beyond. Even since last spring, he's cut almost a full second from an already-unbelievable 200 breast. He would have tied for 2nd in the 100 and placed 3rd in the 200 at this year's NCAA Championships. If that weren't enough, Whitley adds the best 200 IM in the class and a 400 IM that would make him a top-20 recruit in this class even if he didn't swim breaststroke. We partially justified ranking him #1 last spring on the strong possibility that his 6-foot-8 frame would make him a likely free relay factor, and that's already bearing out in results. Since last spring, Whitley has dropped his 50 free from 21.3 to 20.6, his 100 from 45.1 to 44.5 and his 200 free from 1:38.5 to 1:36.9.
2. Drew Kibler (Previous Rank: #2) Carmel Swim Club - Carmel High School - Carmel, IN **Verbally committed to Texas**
Best Times: 200 free 1:32.66, 500 free 4:14.42, 100 free 42.90, 50 free 19.38, 200 back 1:42.34, 100 back 47.06, 100 fly 46.81
Kibler is a great prospect, too, and continues to rise in his own right. He's got a 200 free that would have made the A final at 2018 NCAAs, and would have had a shot to elevate almost any 800 free relay in the country. Kibler also has an NCAA scoring time in the 500 free, though he's maybe more valuable down into the 50 and 100, where he's right near the top of the class. Kibler has value on any and all of the five relays, and his big improvements have come in the back and fly in our original ranks, he was a 48.5/1:45.9 backstroker and a 48.8 flyer. Now he's 47.0/1:42.3 and 46.8, in striking distance of best-in-class in all three.
3. Alexei Sancov (Previous Rank: #3) Terrapins Swim Team - Northgate High School - Walnut Creek, CA **Verbally committed to USC**
Best Times: 200 free 1:32.80, 500 free 4:14.25 100 free 42.68, 50 free 20.27, 100 fly 47.32, 200 fly 1:44.51, 200 IM 1:45.85
Part of what drives down Kibler's value is that Sancov has caught him through the mid-range freestyles. Sancov, too, has an NCAA A final time in the 200 and a scoring time in the 500. Sancov also brings great two-distance butterfly speed and one of the better 200 IMs in the class. Sancov's wild card is that he's arguably better in long course meters (49.0/1:47.0 freestyles in particular), which could mean he's still got room to drop those short course bests even further. He's already had a great senior year, cutting five seconds in the 500, 1.2 in the 200 and seven tenths in the 100.
4. Max McHugh (Previous Rank: #5) Door County YMCA - Sevastapol High School - Sturgeon Bay, WI **Verbally committed to Minnesota**
Best Times: 100 breast 51.59, 200 breast 1:53.59, 50 free 20.24, 100 free 45.49
McHugh is the next of the elite breaststrokers in the class, and he moves up from last year's ranks thanks to almost a full-second drop into A final territory in his 100 and a nearly-two-second drop in his 200. He's built a lot like Whitley minimum six-foot-four with long limbs and has actually been dropping faster over the past four years. McHugh doesn't yet have the versatility of Whitley, but a 20.2 50 free is a solid tertiary event, and makes him a potential free relay factor down the road.
5. Daniel Krueger (Previous Rank: #10) McFarland Spartan Sharks - McFarland High School - Deerfield, WI **Verbally committed to Texas**
Best Times: 100 free 42.50, 50 free 19.48, 200 free 1:35.58, 200 IM 1:47.34
In the midst of the Kibler/Sancov battle for freestyle supremacy, our second Wisconsin prospect slid in and stole the class's best 100 free. Krueger has dropped almost a full second there and about a half-second in his 50 since ranking 10th in our first edition. Krueger had a huge drop in his 200 free right before last year's rankings, but went a tenth slower this year. He's got outstanding relay value
6. Trey Freeman (Previous Rank: #9) Baylor Swim Club - Baylor School - Chattanooga, TN **Verbally committed to Florida**
Best Times: 200 free 1:33.06, 500 free 4:15.06, 800 free 8:56.30, 1650 free 14:59.33, 100 free 43.87, 50 free 20.12, 100 fly 48.64, 200 back 1:46.83, 400 IM 3:53.12
Freeman is a rangy freestyle prospect and another elite-tier 200/500 talent. Already in scoring range in the 200 free (and therefore 800 free relay), Freeman isn't far off in the 500, and can swim equally well up to the mile and down to the 100. He developed better in the sprints this past year with big 100/200 drops, while his mile added slightly. Huge relay value and huge individual value, even in a class loaded in his best events.
7. Cody Bybee (Previous Rank: #4) Dayton Raiders - Bellbrook High School - Dayton, OH **Verbally committed to Arizona State**
Best Times: 100 fly 46.50, 200 fly 1:45.21, 200 free 1:34.02, 100 free 43.75, 50 free 20.19, 500 free 4:20.16, 100 back 48.28
You know it's a class-wide phenomenon when even the class's best flyer has a standout 200 free. Bybee moves down more than he should only because so many others exploded into NCAA scoring time range over the pat year. Bybee had a solid senior season, highlighted by a 2.5-second drop in his 200 fly. His other events were moderate improvements: four tenths in the 100 fly, a half-second in the 200 free, three hundredths in the 100 free. Potentially a five-relay guy down the road, and perhaps a relay factor even as a rookie.
8. Patrick Callan (Previous Rank: #6) Trident Aquatics Club - Bishop Kelley High School - Owasso, OK **Verbally committed to Michigan**
Best Times: 500 free 4:13.78, 200 free 1:33.52, 100 free 43.90, 50 free 20.61, 100 fly 48.29
Still the class's best 500 freestyler, Callan is yet another potential superstar in the 200/500 from this class. His stellar 200 and solid 100 make him a multi-relay prospect, and his best events cooperate well in the NCAA Championships lineup. In long course last summer, Callan cut down to 1:47.33 in the 200 free, making him one of the best 200 freestylers of any age in the nation. Like Bybee, he moves down, not because of any drop in potential, but because his senior season drops were moderate (half-second in the 200, nine tenths in the 500) rather than explosive.
9. Jack LeVant (Previous Rank: #11) North Texas Nadadores - Carroll High School - Southlake, TX **Verbally committed to Stanford**
Best Times: 200 free 1:33.57, 500 free 4:14.40, 100 free 43.98, 50 free 20.19, 400 IM 3:45.75, 200 IM 1:48.39, 200 back 1:45.06, 100 back 48.89, 100 fly 47.64, 200 fly 1:44.51
Last spring, we noted the difficulty of ranking the jack-of-all-trades LeVant, who at the time projected best as a fly/back type. His senior improvements have largely come in freestyle, though, and he's now joined the glut of talented 200/500 types at the top of the recruiting pool. Intriguingly, he's the third-best 400 IMer in the class, though that doesn't match well with his 200 free in the NCAA event schedule. LeVant is going to be an excellent college swimmer, we just don't know yet in what events.
10. Daniel Roy (Previous Rank: #14) King Aquatic Club - Gonzaga Prep - Spokane, WA **Verbally committed to Stanford**
Best Times: 200 breast 1:51.69, 100 breast 53.42, 200 IM 1:47.83, 400 IM 3:49.98
A bit of a forgotten man behind Whitley, Roy ranks 10th in the class despite holding a 200 breast time that would have finished 3rd at NCAAs this year. Roy is improving extremely fast. When we ranked him last year, he was 1:54.4 in the 200 and 54.1 in the 100. He's also cut about a second in both IMs and now has a very respectable three-event NCAA lineup. Just recently, Roy made a huge long course surge, going 2:09.7 in the 200 meter breast to challenge some of the best collegiate and professional swimmers in the nation.
11. Kieran Smith (Previous Rank: #8) Ridgefield Aquatic Club - Ridgefield High School - Ridgefield, CT **Verbally committed to Florida**
Best Times: 400 IM 3:43.20, 200 IM 1:44.08, 200 back 1:42.70, 200 free 1:34.89, 500 free 4:16.96, 1000 free 9:07.03, 1650 free 15:04.79, 100 back 48.16
Discounting Whitley (who probably won't swim both IMs much), Smith is the class's best IMer by a wide margin. The IMs have gotten so absurdly fast at the NCAA level (did you know it took 1:42.9/3:41.7 to score last year?) that no high school prospect looks like an instant-impact guy, but college-level training seems to have huge impacts on IM capability, too. Smith supplements with a 200 back that is one of the best-in-class, and he's got a ton of endurance, as evidenced by his awesome 200 through mile. Also a very good long course swimmer and a steady improver since last spring.
12. Robert Finke (Previous Rank: #7) Saint Petersburg Aquatics - Countryside High School - Clearwater, FL **Verbally committed to Florida**
Best Times: 1650 free 14:37.49, 1000 free 8:45.50, 500 free 4:17.79, 200 free 1:36.85, 400 IM 3:44.04, 200 IM 1:47.41, 200 back 1:44.68, 200 fly 1:46.48
The first of our stellar milers, Finke's time would have placed him 5th at NCAAs last year. He's got an elite 1000 and a good 500 with eventual scoring potential. And in the right program, he could also contend for an 800 free relay spot down the road. The bonus is his 3.6-second improvement in the 400 IM, which may make the best tertiary event for him over the 200 free. He's also outstanding in long course, where he's a Junior Pan Pacs champ and a senior World Championships team member.
13. Michael Brinegar (Previous Rank: N/A) Mission Viejo Nadadores - Columbus North High School, Tesoro High School - Mission Viejo, CA **Verbally committed to Indiana**
Best Times: 1650 free 14:35.35, 1000 free 8:47.53, 500 free 4:19.30, 200 free 1:38.96
Brinegar actually has a better mile than Finke one that would have placed 4th at NCAAs. But he's not quite as good down through the 500 and doesn't have the IM/stroke versatility of Finke. On the other hand, Brinegar has momentum. He dropped more than 18 seconds in his mile since our first ranks, and 9 from his 1000. On the other hand, his 500 didn't drop much. Brinegar is also improving rapidly in long course.
14. Matthew Willenbring (Previous Rank: #16) Austin Swim Club - Westlake High School - Austin, TX **Verbally committed to Texas**
Best Times: 200 IM 1:44.14, 200 free 1:35.26, 100 free 43.22, 50 free 19.93, 500 free 4:21.71
Willenbring made a massive improvement to his 200 IM (dropping from 1:47.00) since our first ranks, and his 50 and 100 free have also improved, despite not being able to compete for four months this winter as he served a suspension for a failed doping test at Junior Worlds. (FINA's doping panel eventually said Willenbring's failed test was an accident on his part and not an intentional use of banned substances).
15. Noah Henry (Previous Rank: #13) Tigershark Swim Team - Belton High School - Belton, TX **Verbally committed to Arizona State**
Best Times: 100 back 46.82, 200 back 1:44.81, 100 fly 46.80, 200 free 1:34.96, 100 free 44.87
Henry is the top backstroker in the class, and among the top sprint flyers, too. He dropped a few tenths in his 100 back since our original ranks, but also cut 1.3 in the 100 fly to surge toward the top of the class. His 200 back went backwards, a bit, but he also developed from a 1:37.9 to a 1:34.9 in the 200 free because it's apparently a rule for everyone in this class to be good at 200 free. Henry is a ways out of scoring range yet, but a double-46 swimmer out of high school is still a high-level talent.
16. Jason Park (Previous Rank: #17) Metroplex Aquatics - Allen High School - Allen, TX **Verbally committed to Texas**
Best Times: 100 back 47.09, 200 back 1:43.17, 100 fly 46.99, 200 IM 1:48.96, 100 free 44.20, 50 free 20.19, 200 free 1:37.57
Park has made massive strides since our last rankings, putting himself into contention with Henry for the best fly/back specialist in the field. Park is just a tick slower in the 100s of both, but quite a bit faster in the 200 back, plus brings solid 50/100 free potential to the table. Since our first ranks, Park has cut 2.6 seconds in his 200 back and 2.3 seconds in his 100 fly. The 200 back is especially exciting. He only trails three others in his class in that event, one of them being Kibler who may not swim the event regularly.
17. Danny Kovac (Previous Rank: N/A) Fort Collins Area Swim Team - Fossil Ridge High School - Fort Collins, CO **Verbally committed to Missouri**
Best Times: 100 fly 46.65, 200 IM 1:46.27, 100 free 43.86, 50 free 20.24, 200 free 1:36.98
Kovac is a late addition to our top 20 after a monster Colorado high school state meet just a couple weeks ago. Kovac who was 48.1 in fly and 1:48.8 in IM and didn't make our list last spring cut down to 46.6 and 1:46.2 at Colorado's state meet, and split 43.0 on the end of a 400 free relay. That leaves him knocking on the door of the class's best 100 fly with at least three-relay (200 medley, 400 medley, 400 free) potential coming in the door.
18. Khalil Fonder (Previous Rank: N/A) Virginia Gators - William Byrd High School - Vinton, VA **Verbally committed to Arizona State**
Best Times: 100 fly 46.91, 100 back 47.47, 200 back 1:45.88, 100 free 44.06, 200 free 1:37.62, 50 free 20.34
Yet another 46-second butterfly late in our list. Fonder has really come on during his senior year, slicing about a second and a half in both of his backstrokes and seven tenths in his 100 fly. His sprint free times give him some added relay value, including a 200 free that has dropped almost two seconds since last spring.
19. Andrew Abruzzo (Previous Rank: N/A) Plymouth Whitemarsh Aquatics - Germantown Academy - Plymouth Meeting, PA **Verbally committed to Georgia**
Best Times: 1650 free 15:06.67, 1000 free 8:56.26, 500 free 4:21.81, 200 back 1:45.51, 200 fly 1:46.03, 100 fly 48.59, 400 IM 3:51.30, 200 IM 1:48.56
Both rankings, it's been so tough to find a spot for Abruzzo in the top 20, and tougher to find a spot that feels accurate to his career thus far. At this point, he just doesn't have the short course production but that's by design. He's focused on (and had far more success in) long course, and that's made him a much bigger name than a lot of others who are more highly-ranked. 3:49/7:54/15:06 are especially eye-popping times in meters, and all three won World Junior titles last summer. Ultimately, he gets shorted on value without a great relay swim, but Abruzzo could put up a lot of points in a lot of different events if his short course catches up to his long course in the near future. He's chosen the right school, Georgia, for the races he's good at and that makes him a potential future Olympian, even from deep in the top 20.
20. Mason Gonzalez (Previous Rank: N/A) Allegheny North Swim Club - North Allegheny Senior High School - Allison Park, PA **Verbally committed to Stanford**
Best Times: 50 free 19.99, 100 free 43.03, 200 free 1:36.48, 100 fly 48.49
It's hard to pass up a 19-second sprinter, especially when his 43.0 in the 100 is one of the best in the entire class. Over his senior year, Gonzalez has improved his 200 a lot (1.5 seconds), his 100 a little (0.6 seconds) and event though he didn't break his 50 time, he did match it with a second 19.99. He's come up with some big-time relay splits in that time, too, including a 19.3 on the end of a national high school record-setting relay.
Paring the list down to 20 always feels like pulling teeth. This isn't an exhaustive list of others we considered, but the top few left off the list who made the decisions on 18-20 very difficult.
Shaine Casas (Previous Rank: N/A) Nitro Swimming McAllen High School McAllen, TX **Verbally committed to Texas A&M**
Best Times: 100 back 47.12, 100 fly 47.31, 200 IM 1:47.59, 50 free 20.16, 200 free 44.36Casas has made marginal improvements in his butterfly from last year, but it's his backstroke (48.4 to 47.1) that now puts him on the map. His 200 IM is intriguing, too, but he hasn't swum it in short course yards since early 2017 based on USA Swimming's database. Casas has appeared to focus more on long course over the past year or so, and did lower his 100 meter back time to 55.6 earlier this year.
Andrew Koustik (Previous Rank: N/A) Irvine Novaquatics Calvary Chapel High School Costa Mesa, CA **Verbally committed to Texas**
Best Times: 200 fly 1:43.69, 100 fly 47.68, 500 free 4:19.14Koustik continues to rule the 200 fly within this class, and compared to last fall, his 100 has come around significantly. He, too, gets shorted on relay value, and he also doesn't have a lot on paper in other events. That 500 free is a nice time, but very developmental at the NCAA level. He's another long course warrior who's been a bruising 1:58.1 in the 200 meter fly.
Zach Brown (Previous Rank: N/A) Marlins of Raleigh Athens Drive High School Cary, NC **Verbally committed to NC State**
Best Times: 200 fly 1:43.96, 100 fly 47.66, 200 IM 1:48.47, 400 IM 3:52.55We usually don't include this many honorable mentions, but in this case, we do only because so many of them are so similar in production. Compare Brown to Koustik in the butterflys, and the two are almost identical in time. Brown has made massive leaps since last year, when he wasn't even in discussion for a top 20 rank. He was 48.2/1:46.1 at the time. Currently a very fast riser in long course, too, after going 54.3/1:59.0 last summer in butterfly.
Jack Dahlgren (Previous Rank: N/A) Aquajets Swim Team Chanhassen High School Victoria, MN **Verbally committed to Missouri**
Best Times: 200 back 1:42.54, 100 back 47.52, 200 free 1:35.39, 100 free 44.92Dahlgren has one big standout event his 200 back that is pushing for the top time in the class. His 100 back is solid, as are his mid-sprint freestyle times. He's another fast riser a year ago, he was 48.2/1:45.8 in the backstrokes and 1:38 in the 200 free. Keep an eye on the 500 as a day 1 NCAA event. Dahlgren dropped about ten seconds in that event over the last year and sits at 4:22 with room to improve.
Will Davis (Previous Rank: N/A) Bolles School Sharks Metro Atlanta Aquatic Club Jacksonville, FL **Verbally committed to Florida**
Best Times: 50 free 19.79, 100 free 43.98, 100 fly 47.65Only three eye-catching events, but when it's those three, specifically, they can amount to three individuals and four relays. Davis is one of the better pure sprinters in the class, and made marginal improvements across the board in all three of his top events since last ranking.
Jack Franzman (Previous Rank: N/A) Zionsville Swim Club Zionsville Community High School Zionsville, IN **Verbally committed to Indiana**
Best Times: 50 free 19.74, 100 free 43.44, 200 free 1:37.58Franzman is very comparable to Davis slightly better in the sprint freestyles, but without the butterfly. His 200 free has potential to make up for it, though, especially after dropping from 1:41.7 as of our original rankings to 1:37.5.
1:03p, 8/1/18
Rough transcript of Reece's response to the SW interviewer's questions on college based upon a quick listen to the video clip posted below...methinks we have a really good fit in our incoming Baby Bear! Go Bears!
Reece Whitley said:
"I had a pretty narrowed down list from my Junior year when recruiting started for me. Really down to 3 schools.
I knew I wanted to be in nice weather. I've gone to school at Penn Charter, I was there from kindergarten through 12th grade, so I think the biggest thing for me was change.
The schools that I was looking at, I knew academics wouldn't be an issue in terms of where I was going to get the best education, because that's first.
With that out of the way - where are you going to find the best training site...where you're going to feel the most comfortable, just in terms of campus culture...and where you're going to be the most comfortable, who you're going to be the most comfortable swimming for...and luckily I found all three circumstances at Cal.
You see it here (2018 US Nationals) - Cal is running this meet, on the guys' side. I'm just excited to try and be a part of that over the years to come...they are not going to stop. We've got the pros - Nathan, Josh, Ryan, Pebs, Tom...we've got young guys stepping up - like Daniel Carr, Bryce Mefford, Hoff, Sean Grieshop...like, all the guys. We've got a small but mighty class coming in, so I'm excited!"
(re major)
"Hopefully Business Administration...you know everything is great at Cal...so wherever my interests kinda lie when it comes time to really hone in and choose a major, I'll go with that."
Meet Your 2018 High School Swimmers of the Year: Reece Whitley and Emily Weiss (VIDEO INTERVIEW)
Swimming World Magazine's Andy Ross caught up with our 2018 high school swimmers of the year Reece Whitley and Emily Weiss at the Phillips 66 Nationals. Whitley and Weiss broke the national high school record in the 100 breast in times that would have been top eight at the 2018 NCAA's.
Member of Penn Charter Aquatic Club in Pennsylvania
Committed to Cal class of 2022; Penn Charter class of 2018
2017 Swimming World high school swimmer of the year
National High School record holder in 100 breast and (independent) 200 IM
2015 Sports Illustrated Sports Kid of the Year
Named to Young Futurists list
2017 World Junior Championships silver medalist in 100 and 200 breast
First Pennsylvania high school swimmer of the year since David Nolan in 2011
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August 15, 2012 Bruce Allen Morning Links
Local Media Burned Again on Red Sox Story
By now, you’ve all likely read the story on Yahoo! Sports by Jeff Passan about the July meeting that Red Sox players held with management to express their unhappiness with manager Bobby Valentine.
So again, just like with Buster Olney’s story, and Passan’s earlier stuff, how does a national guy get this story ahead of all the local guys who are in there every day?
And how are stories like these ones, which ran yesterday, still being written – Ownership’s fault? Not buying it and Sox demise not what you think ?
I’m aghast. Everyone on that team, from top to bottom, but especially at the the top, is to blame for this disaster. This team has me openly pining for the glory days of John Harrington, Dan Duquette, Joe Kerrigan, Mike Lansing, Dante Bichette and Carl Everett.
The Nick Cafardo column above on ownership is truly mind-blowing, (at one point, Nick turns the finger at the fans, saying we’re too spoiled around here) as is Gerry Callahan’s continued defense of Larry Lucchino.
Meanwhile, my Twitter feed last night during the game was more about the setlist at the Springsteen concert.
At least there’s some hope today in these pieces:
Red Sox ownership lacking courage – Minihane, WEEI.com
Bobby Valentine continues to talk himself into trouble – Tomase, Herald.
It’s time to fire Bobby Valentine – Gasper, Globe (making his debut as full-time columnist.)
And then there is Joe Haggerty, making friends and influencing people:
Asked Bobby V 2 questions about Yahoo "national story" Sox star players called for his firing. Rest of hard-hitting Sox media: 0 questions
— Joe Haggerty (@HackswithHaggs) August 14, 2012
After all this Red Sox combustion, I fully expect Joe Sullivan to commission a full investigative piece into the Patriots rookie hazing practice. Send Hohler to Foxborough!
Sticking with the NFL for a second, does anyone find the Jets secrecy about their “Wildcat” formation to be hilarious? Media is forbidden to report on it, and they’ve booted fans from practice.
The Patriots do similar things and Sullivan is filing complaints to the league office. Meanwhile the Jets continue to be praised as an open team with nothing to hide. Got it.
Get all your Patriots news today at Patriotslinks.com.
57 thoughts on “Local Media Burned Again on Red Sox Story”
not st nick says:
Andy Gresh actually tried to defend Nick Carfardo, whose feet haven’t touched the ground in years when writing on the Red Sox. Nick wears a Red Sox beanie complete with propeller when not on camera and in my opinion, probably carries Ortiz’s travel bag when off duty.
Andy, you lost a great deal of credibility with the Nick Carfardo support today. he’s a major part of the problem, not the solution.
Winning_Again says:
Andy Gresh had credibility???? Did you mean Incredi-belly?
Has Joe Haggerty gotten to the bottom of why Tyler Seguin missed a morning breakfast in Winnipeg last year? Or did he just accept the team/players explanation that due to the time zone change, Tyler’s alarm on his smartphone malfunctioned? Is Joe’s twitter avatar still a photo of him looking adoringly at Seguin?
So if Haggerty was not on the Bruins beat, and did not appear to be a Bruins fanboy, then his truthful observations would be given more credibility? Look I am not his biggest fan either…however he is actually reporting things the guys I do respect (McAdam, Abraham) are deliberately not.
Merely pointing out that he’s as guilty as the baseball writers he’s pointing his finger at.
I don’t disagree that his hockey coverage is questionable but that does not disqualify the observations he is making about the Sox. The problem I have with people who want to shoot the messenger over this sox story is that they are missing the details of the story. Let’s not worry about Haggs hockey credentials right now… when he screws up a Bruins story let’s jump ugly on him. Right now he is out front of a Sox story no one else wants to cover…well not locally anyway.
The only fact he uncovered was that Lackey was double fisted after the game, unless you’re also uncluding that beer was in the clubhouse at all, to which he said himself he already knew after heswad embarrassed that he reported something that everybody else knew.
He reported that beer was in the clubhouse which was not known by the general public. We were then told by the state supported media that the policy all year was beer in the away clubhouse was fine. That was not how I understood Bobby V’s proclamation earlier this year. It seems to me the players do not take winning seriously. Management does not know how to foster an attitude change. If you want to ignore the story go ahead. I think it is another piece that explains the puzzle that is these Boston Red Sox.
But Haggerty himself said he knew beer was allowed on the road AFTER he flipped out about it and was embarrassed by the fact that he didn’t know. There is no question the Red Sox were coy about it, but that isn’t really the issue. The issue is that Haggerty just showed up in the Red Sox clubhouse a week ago, reported nothing but gossip, and then called out by name the people who are lacking journalistic integrity for not reporting gossip. Do you think Haggerty ever saw an underage Seguin having a beer in the Bruins locker room having a beer? Do you think he would ever report that? Or do you think he would instead opt to do a follow up piece on how beautiful Seguin’s condo is?
Haggerty is not the story in my mind…to make him the story misses the point. If after this is over you want to argue about how much of a tool Haggerty is I will be happy to sit on the sidelines and watch people pile on. The issue is the dichotomy of what the Sox ownership/management says and what they actually do.
Out front on what? He saw a guy with two beers in his hand? Period. He broke nothing Passan broke the story. Also, Haggs had a big stink with Minihane and accused Minihane of NOT BEING IN THE BRUINS LOCKER ROOM all year. He can’t have it both ways.
It’s more about him criticizing the writers on the beat for exactly what he does on the Bruins beat. But yeah, reporting that a guy on the 60 day DL who nobody likes to begin with was pounding beers after a loss is the work of Gayle Faye. This is nothing but a look atme phase from Haggerty. Go tell him on Twitter that you disagree with him and watch how fast he blocks you.
I am not arguing Haggs isn’t a tool. I am only saying that what he saw deserves to be reported and the fact that the beat guys are circling the wagons instead of trying to get to the bottom of why this team is not focused on winning is what is infuriating.
Snuffy Smith says:
Sox news is BURIED on pg 5 of today’s Projo. Sports editor there got it right. No one cares about this organization with their collective heads up their butts, from top to bottom.
Also, Buster Olney reported this in his writing and on Twitter last night:
Sure enough, less than a week later, Joel Sherman of the New York Post became the first to make reference to the players’ discussion with their bosses: “Outside officials say
the clubhouse dislike for Bobby Valentine is so intense, players
lobbying ownership for a change is not an overstatement.”
More details are out now,
reinforcing for all to see the reality that has been in place for
months: The Red Sox players don’t want to play for Bobby Valentine, not
in the way that the Chicago White Sox want to play for Robin Ventura or the Los Angeles Dodgers want to play for Don Mattingly.
From: http://es.pn/Ocwdeg
(Sherman’s link is http://nyp.st/OcwDSa )
He’s right after reading Sherman’s post. Now, I guess Sherman is a “local beat guy” but also does some national stuff. How did a guy from New York get this (start the Bobby Valentine conspiracy theories here. I assume some folks might know the Post/Sherman/Valentine relationship and might fill in details)
Also, I heard Passan on this morning with Mike and Mike (it appears as if he was on D+C/T+R as well), he hints that there are many more details but he could not verify them, so he didn’t go to print with them, but hinted at a follow-up piece. Moreover, he said on all programs that he “sat” on the story for weeks verifying this. So, he didn’t just have some guy call him yesterday and hastily write a story that was rushed through editors to go hot. Again, why wasn’t any of this written about/asked about/discovered?
Unfortunately it’s the way sports journalism works these days. I’m not agreeing with it but I understand it. Guys who have team sources, player sources, don’t want to risk ripping the 1 guy that will give them insight, material, or a quote.
However, the blind loyalty that follows is disgusting. We only get these stories because the national guys don’t have to worry about these bridges being burned.
The players and local media with the idea that “he’s not in our locker room everyday” don’t realize how stupid they sound, so they continue to use this as a crutch defense.
I wonder who leaked the story to Passan, had to have been one of the 18 in the room.
Haggerty is a WWE character at this point.
I swear Joe is trying so super hard to show the higher-ups at TSH that he should replace Evil Tony as Felger’s sidekick since most fans have had enough of “You’re right Mike.”
Instead of deflecting and insulting hags why don’t you admit that he got it right.
DryHeave says:
Gerry Callahan’s continued defense of Larry Lucchino”…
No shocker here, has Callahan (and/or Dennis) ever said anything bad about one of their REGULAR interview guests?….Brady?..granted that’s a tough one but even after the RARE poor game from Brady they’ll throw him softballs and blame receivers/O-line/Belichick….Schilling? according to D&C he walks on water…Doc Rivers? “Oh, he’s so informative in OUR interview compared to boring Belichick/Big Show interview”….Brad Faxon?…if he wasn’t a regular guest they would be MOCKING him for not winning a tournament since the stone age……nope, continued defense of Larry Lucchino, doesn’t surprise me in the least.
So there seems to be a light at the end of the tunnel. On D&C this morning during the Jerry Remy interview John Dennis mentioned that the latest NESN ratings for the Sox were a 5 share down from an 8. That is a 37.5% decline in ratings which is huge. If there is anything that ownership understands it is how ratings on NESN directly effect their bottom line.
Three other things from that interview and the Jeff Passan interview that came 30 minutes earlier.
1) I lost all respect for Remy today when he called out Haggs for “not knowing the club’s policy on alcohol” and then “blowing up some beer on the raod into a non story”. Remy was spewing the company line…I get it. What he does not get is that while this team is losing, fans do not want to hear a technicality defended. They want results, they want players taking the game seriously as this is not rec league softball with a keg standing in for second base. Perhaps Remdog should be following the lead of Haggs rather than blindly accepting the bull pucky spewed to him by his “source” Dustin Pedoria.
2) Passan said there are more incidents and incidences that will come out because no one in Boston can stay quiet. Yet the beat guys are mind numbingly quiet. The herald does not have an ownership stake in the Sox so maybe it is time to release the Kraken?
3) John metaperiel’s defense of Larry Lucchino this AM was pathetic pandering. I get it, the morning show guys all like Larry and as such they do not want to be critical…well if you can’t call a spade a spade then I suggest they get out of the way. Same with Callahan who has no problem drumming up all sorts of bile, invective and acrimony for Penn State football but god forbid he can critically look at the state Sr. management has put the Red Sox in. It is so frustrating.
Rick Mc says:
” What he does not get is that while this team is losing, fans do not want to hear a technicality defended.”
If a fan cares that a 33 year old man was drinking two beers after a game of baseball, they need to get a life. Remy was right because it isn’t a big deal. And don’t tell me it’s “perception.” That is the last defense of an emotionally immature shoe-peer.
Its not perception…it directly relates to the priorities of the organization. If ownership does not care how its players train, rehab, and take care of their bodies, because in the end winning is not important to them…then why should it be important to the fans who support the team. Remy was wrong, it is a huge deal. The organization is selling the notion that winning is tantamount that fans are important, yet its actions say differently. Trotting the mouthpiece of the organization out there to be indignant that people care about the lack of preparation or that maybe the athletes should be a little more aware of the message they are sending is exactly the wrong thing this organization should be doing right now. With the way they are hemorrhaging viewers and visits at the park, maybe they should be more appreciative of their fans and the way this is all presenting.
Taking a few minutes out of hours spent at the ballpark as an indictment of the team’s dedication is perception. Seeing a guy drinking beers is not indicative of his training, rehab, or preparation and is not cause for you to get your panties twisted. You don’t know what Lackey did the rest of the day. Show me the connection between his drinking and he lack of dedication to his rehab.
I know that whatever is going regarding training, preparation and rehab is not working. So if you want to believe that laughing at the fans while players continue to think a MLB clubhouse is the equivalent of a college frat house projects a winning mentality and work ethic…enjoy!
Read one book about ballplayers and you will find constant references to beer in clubhouses. Some of the greats, too, like Mickey Mantle and Whitey Ford. Christ, the We Are Family Pirates smoked butts in the dugout and did blow like they were at Studio 54. You are so naive and silly. Having a beer at 10 PM after your workday is done has nothing to do with one’s work ethic or mentality.
Winning, I do think the Red Sox players have whined and bitched, but that does not mean that John Lackey’s beer is the cause or that it should be taken away.
You both are such whiny, idiotic ninnies who lap up every BS story the media and talk radio gives you. Before you go, just make the connection between John Lackey’s two beers and his supposed lack of dedication or the troubles with the Red Sox.
You’re right Rick. The RedSox players have shown so much class, dedication, and strong desire to succeed this year. Let’s throw them a kegger to celebrate all their success this year. WEEEEE, acid is fun!
Denial is not just a river in Egypt.
Neil O'Callaghan says:
1. You can’t get on guys like Remy or Gammons or anyone else that works for NESN. They have no choice but to spew the company talking points, since, ya know, they work for the TV station that owns the company.
I can and I did…but I also know he had no choice. Still I lost respect.
On Point #1, I loved how Remy/Don were like, “Well, we don’t know if this story is true.. and if we take it as true” .. they spent more time basically saying Passan was some hack writing on a blog (might want to check what sand box you sit in there, boys). To mitigate this, however, they are just broadcasters and its not like they’re normal hard news/analyst.
NESN, also, on the pre-game hour, seemed to avoid the story for as long as possible. I think it took almost 15 minutes into the program, which they spent honoring Pesky (look, lets just skip the BS here and call this an obvious “executive programming decision”). CSNNE? Led with the story and went right to Haggs who was in Baltimore.
I’d be interested to see more on the numbers. Felger, the other week, mentioned something about NESN games being “semi-down” but NESN daily was down like 40%. I assume the games are starting to get hit in the similar way.
As to sources, quite a few have suggested Cherrington. I’ve even wondered if Bobby V is the source. Isn’t Bobby V on The Big Show today and also doing 30 minutes with Michael Kay in NY? However, his go-to guy seems to be Karl Ravech, and I assume he’d continue to use him because if Buster/TimK started breaking news on ESPN about clubhouse stuff that only he would know, they would know immediately it was him.
2.) Thought the same myself. Where are the folks who don’t have anything at stake here? Is the threat of having the BBWAA membership torn up really that big of a deal?
TARNATION! Sports says:
Bruce, good stuff. My opinion is that Bobby’s style just won’t fly here in the US with the way sports are now run by the players. Here’s my take on the situation: http://www.tarnationsports.com/2552/mutiny-in-boston/
bettyd says:
Very good piece about Sox on Grantland.com. It covered a lot of reasons for the bad season this year and Bobby V’s management style. Take a look.
I think you mean this:
http://www.grantland.com/blog/the-triangle/post/_/id/34740/whos-really-to-blame-for-the-red-sox-apocalypse
By Jonah Keri?
If only we had had some evidence of Larry Lucchino sticking his fat hands into a perfectly well-operating organization and screwing things up to the point of utter destruction….
[Looks at Baltimore Orioles]
OH WAIT
I just spit iced tea out my nose I was laughing so hard. Good one Dave!
love all the glowing comments from many of Boston’s infamous sports hacks/clownboys as to Johnny Pesky’s “class and dignity” (which of course Pesky had) but I guess none of them took the lead from Pesky. Is anybody more UNdignified than guys like Felger, Shank Shaugnessy, Tony Mazz, John Tomase, Gerry Callahan, John Dennis, Ron Borges, Joe Haggerty etc..etc..etc. OH the irony!!
You know who is more undignified…the Boston Red Sox and the fan boys who want to blame the media instead of the team.
who’s talking Red Sox?..I’m talking about dignity and if you’ve ever seen these clownboys on television or read some of their stuff you would know they have NONE
Even ESPN’s OTL is doing their entire 30-minute show right now on ESPN about the Red Sox. Figured it’d be front and center with it leading Sports Center + M+M.
Andy Dursin says:
Can’t wait to hear guys like Rob Bradford and Alex Speier weigh in, especially after hearing the two of them argue — as they have all season — that the issues in the clubhouse are “overblown”, that “people would like this team if they were winning” and that “chemistry is overrated.” How many times do we have to hear Bradford continually show up every weekend and defend his buddies? The local Sox media beat is a JOKE, pure and simple. After reading as Bruce pointed out one more NATIONAL WRITER get to the bottom of something that nobody local dared to write (or knew about, whicheever), you wonder if some of these frauds haven’t been drinking the beer along with Lackey and friends.
Baghdad Bradford is the king of the fanboys. If he says anything true about these punks then Beckett is gonna cancel the fishing trip.
MESSAGE TO ALL THE FANBOYS…THE LOCAL MEDIA IS NOT TO BLAME FOR THE SOX TROUBLES….IN FACT THE BASEBALL GUYS IN THIS TOWN ARE IN THE BAG FOR THE SOX…PLEASE STOP DIRECTING YOUR ANGER AT GUYS LIKE HAGS AND ACCEPT THE FACT THAT THIS TEAM YOU MAKE EXCUSES FOR IS A BUNCH OF OVERPAID BABIES WITH NO CLASS AND PROFESSIONALISM AND STOP BLAMING THE HOCKEY GUY FOR EXPOSING YOUR TEAM FOR THE JOKE THAT IT IS.
This professionalism you speak of, does it include knowing all the facts before you post something and than going back and changing it after your mistake is exposed and not issuing a retraction?
Love the puuka shell necklace and the prom picture with SEGS.
TjM says:
I think your shift key is broken. Or your 7 year old got access to your account.
well, goes by the name “Dan”…I think it’s Shank, sounds like him
whitey b says:
Shaddup Felger, ya douche!
I don’t care what the players want…they can all go f themselves.
This is the most hateable team ever.
It’s interesting how some people’s hatred for the media has blinded them to the fact that their favorite binkies on the team are just a bunch of assholes.
Hey Haggs, I mean Dan, Take a quick look at the name of the website you’re on there angry guy. It’s called Boston Sports Media Watch. One of the main points of the site is to offer fans a place to criticize the media when they mess up. As they often love to do to the athletes that they cover. Perhaps you would be more comfortable on a site like SOSH or another site, because I think you’re kind of missing the point of this one.
It’s interesting how Felger uses The CHB as a cover to mock the fans. Douche bag.
On a sidebar, since it’s a story I’ve posted about, awfulannouncing had a big post about the Comcast/FSN stuff. If you watched Dan Patrick or any regional sports (not the local CSNNE stuff) on CSNNE, this affects you:
http://www.awfulannouncing.com/2012-articles/august/comcast-sports-nets-drop-fox-sports-net-programming.html
Linda Austin says:
….still waiting for Bruin beat writer Joe Haggerty to write a hard hitting piece on the issues within the Bruin locker room. Hey Joey let’s start with Tyler Haggy is my Bro Seguin’s “party” problem.
You must feel pretty silly now. The most salacious part of that story wasn’t even true, Bruce. Way to attack the local reporters for no good reason.
Yeah, I sure have egg on my face. Did anyone here even report the meeting to begin with? That would be no. And who says it isn’t true? The players? John Henry? Larry Lucchino? Right, they are all bastions of credibility. The point remains that no one locally had a clue about this meeting until a national guy broke the story.
The morning after:
@buster_espn Red Sox worried about leaks after players/ownership story, re: Globe. http://www.bostonglobe.com/sports/2012/08/15/red-sox-concerned-about-breach-confidentiality-their-team-meetings/GapPJYMGs6ShGuiTwNmpjN/story.html Might have thought about that before meeting.
It was interesting that F+M (Bob Beers was in for Mazz) spent a good time talking about issues germane to this board/forum/site with the media. If you missed it, a quick summary would follow the post and many of the responses here.
And, while this issue gets lost/tossed around/dismissed, I still think it’s very relevant on why things seem to be so scant here when it comes to response/effort:
http://soccernet.espn.go.com/news/story/_/id/1134983/john-w-henry:-liverpool-still-rebuilding-after-hicks-and-gillett?cc=5901
“That was a tremendous challenge. You could say Liverpool is an even bigger challenge than the Red Sox. Looking back at the day we bought Liverpool, I was trying to make a point then about how much of a challenge it was going to be because of the issues we inherited.”
National guys get the story first because it’s Youkilis who is spilling the beans. That’s the same reason Bobby V wanted him out of the clubhouse. He’s the leak.
If he lived where I do, we’d have shut him up a long time ago.
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Homepage > About the OSUCCC – James > Publications > ImpactCancer > 2017 > Fall > OSUCCC – James Physicians Pioneer Life-Changing Surgery for Lymphedema Patients
OSUCCC – James Physicians Pioneer Life-Changing Surgery
What is it like living with lymphedema, a condition that impacts quality of life for many cancer patients, even long after they’ve gone into remission?
Columbus, Ohio-based retired attorney, nonprofit administrator and breast cancer survivor Deb Wallace can tell you: “It’s painful and sometimes dangerous. And there’s no escape from it. It’s always there.”
Lymphedema is an often-overlooked disorder that many cancer patients develop as a result of lymph nodes being removed during cancer surgeries, usually for breast, urologic, gynecologic, melanoma, lymphoma, and head and neck cancers. Without lymph nodes, fluid can build up in the arms, legs and other body parts near the area of the lymph node removal, causing massive swelling and discomfort. Many patients with lymphedema must wear heavy compression garments on a daily basis and use special pumps that force fluids to move instead of pool. Often patients have trouble fitting shoes over their feet and struggle to wear jewelry and clothes that fit the affected areas.
Wallace developed lymphedema several months following her mastectomy in 2008, which included removal of 22 lymph nodes. While the lymph node removal saved her life — six of the 22 tested positive for cancer cells — it also led to swelling, which caused numerous cellulitis infections in her arm. She was hospitalized due to infection half a dozen times, including a frightening bout of sepsis. “I thought, ‘I’ve fought this cancer for so long. I had a mastectomy, heavy duty chemo and radiation. I’m not going to be taken out by an infection in my arm.’ The fighter in me looked at different treatments for lymphedema rather than ways of just pushing fluid out of my arm.”
Wallace did her homework and discovered that a multidisciplinary surgical team had pioneered a new surgery making a huge difference for lymphedema sufferers at The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center – James Cancer Hospital and Solove Research Institute (OSUCCC – James). While no cure for lymphedema exists, Wallace knew she had stumbled upon the best option she had for relief.
Multidisciplinary collaboration leads to innovation
The groundbreaking new surgery stemmed from an invitation from one surgeon to another to collaborate.
Roman Skoracki, MD, division chief for oncologic plastic surgery who came to the OSUCCC – James from MD Anderson Cancer Center in 2014, had long sought a way to relieve lymphedema in his patients In fall of 2014, he approached Daniel Eiferman, MD, FACS, an Ohio State Wexner Medical Center general surgeon focused on abdominal surgery, with an idea: Rather than taking lymph nodes from the “good” arm or leg and transplanting them to the affected area — the standard surgical procedure for lymphedema that increased the patient’s risk for developing the disorder in the previously unaffected limb — what if they took lymph nodes that drained the small intestine?
The mesentery of the bowel, the tissue that connects the bowel with the blood vessels, contains more lymph nodes than an arm or leg, leading to practically no risk of developing lymphedema in the small intestine when two or three nodes are transferred to another part of the body. Still, the bowel lymph nodes are nestled next to the blood vessels that feed the intestine, making a general surgeon’s expertise a critical part of the procedure.
Dr. Eiferman thought it was feasible to remove the lymph nodes without damaging the adjacent intestine, and the two created a new surgery: the jejunal mesenteric lymph node transfer. Since February 2015, they and their colleagues have performed it on nearly 40 patients, including many who traveled to Ohio State from other cities and states to undergo the procedure.
While Skoracki and Eiferman are incredibly humble about their achievement, they marvel at the difference the surgery has made in their patients’ lives. “The surgery has generally delivered symptom improvements for most patients. We’ve seen that the majority have significant fluid volume reductions in their limbs, and around 90 percent have had an improvement where they say, ‘My limb doesn’t feel as heavy or tight.’ Infections are gone, and patients report being able to wear shoes or jewelry that previously didn’t fit,” says Dr. Skoracki.
Skoracki and Eiferman believe the OSUCCC – James to is the only institution nationally to offer the surgery, though a German surgeon who visited Ohio State to learn the procedure has performed the lymph node transfer in Europe.
“It’s given me my life back”
Since Wallace’s surgery in August 2016, performed by Eiferman and Albert Chao, MD, her quality of life has changed dramatically. Says Wallace, “Breast cancer and its aftermath is something you deal with every day as a survivor. Every time you look in the mirror you see it. This surgery has given me safety from infection and a return to normalcy, which is such a huge blessing for me. It’s given me my life back.”
To help more patients, Skoracki, Eiferman and their colleagues have created the Ohio State Lymphedema Center for Excellence, which will harness the vast existing resources of the OSUCCC – James to offer comprehensive lymphedema services in a patient-centric experience. The center will provide one-stop access to surgical oncology, plastic surgery, physical therapists with special accreditation in lymphedema, dietary support, MRL imaging that looks at the lymphatic system, specialized interventional radiology procedures, vascular medicine and more at the Stefanie Spielman Comprehensive Breast Center.
The physicians hope that, with the help of private philanthropy, the new Lymphedema Center for Excellence will find a cure for or prevent new cases of lymphedema. “We want to invest in the basic science research side of this to find out at the cellular level why it is that person A gets lymphedema and person B does not,” says Eiferman. “We have a robust clinical program, but research advances need to be made, and that starts at the level of the bench.”
Says Skoracki, “The last 10 to 15 years in lymphedema research have been more active than the last 85 before that. There is an incredible interest in lymphatic dysfunction right now, with so much research going on. This is the time we could potentially cure this disease with appropriate resources.”
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Label: Kid Ina Korner / Interscope
Smoke + Mirrors is an apt title for Imagine Dragons' second album. The Las Vegas act has proven itself to be magic, conjuring a blend of indie rock, mainstream rock and dance pop so unified that no single genre tag feels terribly accurate. The key ingredients to their potion are a rousing chorus and dreamy atmospherics, and they're all over this record, from "Gold" and "I Bet My Life" to "Trouble" and "The Fall." Another thing to keep in mind: Though the Dragons tend to be an upbeat bunch, a kind of sweet melancholy takes over Smoke + Mirrors toward album's end.
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Acoustic rock artist ARD Matthews, needs very little introduction within the South African landscape. The double platinum selling and much-loved frontman is acknowledged for his multiple hit singles, What He Means, Shallow Waters, I like You Madly, Father & Farther, Too Late, Impossible Machines to name a few; and for delivering a world-class performance every time.
Ards passionate and determined vocals illuminate the deep, uncompromising and virtuous message that lie within the dramatic song terrain. His preeminent voice will undoubtedly draw you in.
Impossible Machines is brimming with sophisticated and intriguing hooks while combining enthralling and unforgettable melodies.
Live, the band assure the listeners a sonic passage to a landscape of hope, inspiration and fortitude. The songs are rhythmic, melodic anthems, plumbing the depths of life, love, opportunity and release.
ARD has shared the stage with many iconic local and international artists while performing support duties with international stars such as U2, Counting Crows, Def Leppard, INXS, Maroon 5, One Republic, The Strokes, and many more.
Since its release in mid 2018, Impossible Machines has achieved multiple radio hits and playlisting’s, along with SOLD OUT shows across South Africa. After touring as the support act for Rock n Roll Hall Of Famer’s – The Cure Live in South Africa, 2019 is shaping up to be an incredible year for Ard and the band.
https://itunes.apple.com/za/album/impossible-machines/1395846757
Note: Dinner from 6:30/7pm. Show starts at 8:30pm
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Atiku Abubakar Childhood Story Plus Untold Biography Facts
CB presents the Full Story of a Nigerian Businessman and Politician best known as “Atiku”. Our Atiku Abubakar Childhood Story plus Untold Biography Facts brings you a full account of notable events from his childhood time to date. The analysis involves his life story before fame, family life/background, relationship life and many OFF and ON-Screen (little-known) facts about him.
Yes, everyone knows that he was a former vice president of Nigeria. However, only a few consider Atiku Abubakar’s Bio which is quite interesting. Now, without further ado, let’s begin.
Atiku Abubakar Childhood Story Plus Untold Biography Facts: Early Life
Atiku Abubakar was born on the 25th day of November 1946 at Jada, Adamawa state, Nigeria. He was born to his mother Aisha Kande (pictured with her below) and to his father Garba Abubakar (an itinerant trader and subsistence farmer).
Growing up in Kokoli, a small village at Jada local government of Adamawa State that is best known for its Agricultural significance, young Atiku enjoyed the benefits of being the sole child of his parents, a fact which the business mogul revealed while detailing his life journey;
“I was the only child born to my parents. Years after I was born my parents tried to get a sibling for me but were unsuccessful at it”
Atiku was much loved by his parents who not only considered him to be a child with an auspicious future but danced attendance to his material needs. Moreso, Garba Abubakar (Atiku’s father) who was renowned for instructing young children in Kokoli village with Islamic teachings, overzealously worked to ensure that his son also had good Islamic upbringing.
Garba’s overzealous disposition to instructing children with Islamic teachings was fueled by the then misconception of western education as the destroyer of cultural values and bane of morality. As a result, the efforts of local officials who carried out compulsory mass literacy campaign was met with stiff resistance from Atiku’s father. Consequently, Garba was detained for days and set free after meeting monetary charges for attempted deprivation of child education.
Atiku Abubakar Childhood Story Plus Untold Biography Facts: Education
Atiku began his western education at Jada Primary school in the year 1954 when he was aged 8. After six years of basic or primary education, he attained sufficient knowledge that secured him admission into Adamawa provincial secondary school in Yola (the capital of Adamawa) where he embarked on a five-year high school education program in 1960.
During Holidays he worked as a young teenage clerk for the district office of his local government. The job came with ample pay that helped Atiku meet his personal needs as well as buy a house for his mother who was facing threats of eviction at the time.
Post high school endeavours saw Atiku had bouts of studies at the Nigeria Police College Kaduna as well as School of Hygiene in Kano where he clinched his first notable leadership role as Student Union President. It wasn’t long before he secured enrollment to study law at the Ahmadu Bello University Zaria where he graduated in June 1969.
Atiku Abubakar Childhood Story Plus Untold Biography Facts: Road To Fame
Upon graduation, Atiku was offered appointment into the Department of Customs and Excise now known as the Nigerian Customs Service. His faithful discharge of duties saw him rise through the ranks to become deputy director of Customs.
The period also marked his foray into business as he engaged in real estate investments. More rewarding was the small Oil and gas business he started with an Italian partner, Gabriel Volpi in the 1980’s. The business was registered as the Nigeria Container services (NICOTES) and operated in a container office during its early days at Apapa ports, in Lagos.
The business now known as Integrated and Logistics Services (INTELS) was relocated to a decent office in Port Harcourt as it recorded successes. Fast forward to date INTELS is a multi-million Dollars business that has thousands of workers in its employ with outposts in other African Countries.
Atiku Abubakar Childhood Story Plus Untold Biography Facts: Rise To Fame
Atiku’s rise to fame can be much attributed to his foray into politics which was enhanced by his close relationship with political influencers. He was actively involved in political permutations at the time when hopes were high with regards to a successful transition from dictatorial to Civil rule. His commitment to the restoration of civil rule which was held at bay by series of military coups with resultant harsh dictatorship earned him the commendations and trust of his comrades.
As a result, Atiku clinched his party’s card for gubernatorial position of his state which he disputedly won but was annulled by domineering dictatorship of the then military Head of State General Ibrahim Babangida.
Subsequent political endeavours saw Atiku failed to become running mate to presidential aspirant Moshood Abiola, fled to London in order to escape dictatorial persecution and arrived united states to link up with Jackie Farris, a political strategist that was sympathetic to the transition movement in Nigeria.
Months later, the death of the then military head of state Sani Abacha paved way for a smooth transition to civil rule. Atiku supported the candidacy of presidential aspirant Olusegun Obasanjo who picked him as his running mate. The duo aspiration was met with goodwill which saw them win the February 27th 1999 election. The rest, as they say, is history
Atiku Abubakar Childhood Story Plus Untold Biography Facts: Relationship Life
For every thought geared towards understanding an optimal measure of practical polygamy, there’s an answer in the relationship lifestyle of Atiku. The seasoned politician is currently married to four women not to mention an ex-wife who he divorced before getting married to his present fourth wife.
We bring you factual details about he met and married his wives of which Titilayo Albert is the first among equals. Atiku and Titi (pictured below) were lovebirds whose relationship didn’t go down well the latter’s family. Consequently, the duo secretly got married in December 1971 in Lagos.
Eight years later (1979) Atiku tied the knot with Ladi Yakubu whom little is known about other than the fact that Atiku dissolved their marriage to make room for his present fourth wife Jennifer.
Commenting on reasons behind his decision to take more wives Atiku disclosed that;
“It was my desire to have an extended family because I had a lonesome childhood with no sibling to relate with. I don’t want such for any of my children hence my desire to marry more wives who do not only fulfill the stated aim but keep me company in all respects”
His marriage spree saw him unite with his third wife Princess Rukaiyatu who made the most additions of seven children to the family when compared to the six born by his fourth wife Fatima Shettima who he got married to in 1986. The last of his wives is Jennifer Jemila, a television journalist who he tied the knot with years after reestablishing contact with her in the United States.
His marriage is collectively blessed with 26 children, 4 by his first wife Amina Titi, as well as 6 by his second and divorced ex-wife Ladi Yakubu. Similarly, 7 were born to him by his third wife Princess Yakubu, 6 by his fourth wife Fatima Shetimma while Jennifer who became the defacto fourth wife after the divorce of Ladi Yakubu, made an addition of three children.
Atiku Abubakar Childhood Story Plus Untold Biography Facts: Family Life
Atiku Abubakar was the sole child of his parents. We bring you details about his parents.
About his father; Atiku’s father, Garba Atiku was an itinerant trader and subsistence agriculturist. He was learned in Islamic Literacy and abhorred western education, a development which got him into trouble for trying to deprive his son of the then compulsory western education.
He got drowned (in December 1957) while trying to cross the Mayo Choncha River, a water body on the outskirts of Toungo in present day Adamawa state. His remains were recovered a day after and interred according to Islamic rites
Recounting the sad incident years later Atiku gave insights into the life of his father;
“He was a simple, hard working, kind, honest and God-fearing man. I miss him a lot and wish he had lived long enough to see the benefits of Western education in my life. Nonetheless, I built an Islamic primary school at his burial site years later to immortalize him”.
About his Mother; Atiku’s mother, Aisha Kande outlived her late husband to singlehandedly raise Atiku and saw him record a number of career successes in the Nigerian Customs Services.
She died in 1984 due to a heart attack. Until her death, Aisha Kande was a supportive mother who was proud of her caring son.
Atiku Abubakar Childhood Story Plus Untold Biography Facts: William Jefferson Conspiracy
A controversy which has trailed Atiku Abubakar for years and has been used against him by political detractors Is the William Jefferson conspiracy.
The conspiracy which dates back to 2005 came into limelight after the FBI videotaped congressman and the then representative of Louisiana, William Jefferson receiving $100,000 worth of $100 bills in a leather briefcase.
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The videotape which was recorded via a wire worn by an investor Lori Mody captured Jefferson saying that he would need to give Nigerian Vice President (at the time) Atiku Abubakar $500,000 “as a motivating factor” to make sure their companies obtain telecommunications contracts in Nigeria.
Although the William Jefferson trial in the United States ended in 2009 without indicting or linking Atiku to corrupt activities, the former Vice president is yet to visit the United States, a development which raises speculation as to whether he has been banned from entering the states. Commenting on the speculations Atiku revealed that:
“I applied but wasn’t issued a visa. However, they did not decline me categorically either. They’ve only said my application is going through administrative process. It is the sole prerogative of America to determine who they want in their country or not. I’m not running away from America,”
More so The United States Department of Justice has in 2016 denied the existence of any pending lawsuit against Atiku Abubakar in the US. It, however, failed to comment on Atiku’s pending issuance of visa as it notes that;
“Visa issues are confidential under section 222(f) of the Immigration and Nationality Act”
Atiku Abubakar Childhood Story Plus Untold Biography Facts: Highest Employer of Labor
Atiku Abubakar had in 2014 claimed to be the highest private employer of labour in Nigeria. The claims which were contained in tweets made by the former vice president seems to hold water as no tangible dispute has been made against it. The claims are contained below.
As an individual, I believe my record in employing young Nigerians is unrivalled by any single private investor in Nigeria #LetsTalkJobs
— Atiku Abubakar (@atiku) March 19, 2014
Since the mid-80s, my private investments have generated thousands of jobs for Nigeria – currently standing +50,000 jobs #LetsTalkJobs
Atiku Abubakar Childhood Story Plus Untold Biography Facts: Contributions To Education
Atiku is one who desires to make contributions to education in view of the benefits he accrued from it. This was the ideology behind the establishment of ABTI – ZARHAM limited liability company. The company’s name was culled from the initials of Atiku’s children with his divorced ex-second wife Ladi Yakubu who is a co-founder of the establishment.
ABTI ZARHAM has subsidiaries in ABTI Nursery and Primary School established in Yola in 1992, ABTI Academy, an elite high school with boarding facilities modelled after the British public school, as well as ABTI-American University (now American University of Nigeria, Yola). The University provides American-style university education to students.
Atiku Abubakar Childhood Story Plus Untold Biography Facts: Other Facts
Atiku has till date participated in 4 presidential runs in Nigeria which didn’t get past party primaries. The years include; 1992, 2006-2007, 2011 and 2015.
He has a long time rivalry with his one-time principal. Ex-president Olusegun Obasanjo whom he served under as vice president for 8 years.
He is considered by many to be one of Nigeria’s few detribalized politicians from the northern part of the country owing to his marriage ties which cut along ethnic and religious lines.
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Ep 71 - Founder #Flashback: The Blood, Sweat and Pride behind M.A.C Cosmetics With Co-Founder Frank Toskan
June 26, 2019 by Carlene Higgins in Founder
We’re on vacation and we hope you are too! In honour of Canada Day, PRIDE and epic road trips, we are re-releasing our founder episode featuring legendary entrepreneur Frank Toskan, who co-created M.A.C Cosmetics! We also want to say a happy birthday to the iconic brand, which is celebrating 35 years in 2019. We originally launched the episode in two parts last summer, and this time around, we’re delivering one long track for your long-listening pleasure.
You’ll hear all the deets dedicated to the trailblazing brand that paved the way to so many modern, inclusive beauty lines today. With its unforgettable, original tagline: "All Ages, All Races, All Sexes", M.A.C was waaay ahead of its time, tapping into a culture completely foreign to the heritage beauty brands lining store shelves when it launched in 1984.
Jill and Carlene recall the M.A.C beauty products that helped form their youths (hands up if you wore Twig Lipstick!). Plus, we remind you of the brand's ultimate best-sellers like Ruby Woo Lipstick (2,900 of their made-in-Canada lipsticks are sold everyday around the world) and their epic Studio Fix Foundations (still #1 in prestige in Canada), which offered nearly 40 shades decades before Fenty Beauty came along.
Then, Frank takes us way back, on coming to North America as a young immigrant, with little more than a children's suitcase and a few small trinkets inside. Beauty history buffs will want to hear the story of "Frank & Frank" as the two founders would become known, partners in life and business until Frank Angelo's passing in the 1990's. And finally, the origin story on how Frank Toskan came to compose early M.A.C prototypes using nothing more than craft store supplies in his Toronto kitchen.
We hit you with all the juicy celebrity moments that helped catapult M.A.C to household name status (a young Lady Gaga, Madonna and Linda Evangelista were all involved.) Don't miss the rebellious acts that had department stores up in arms, like hiring crossdressing beauty consultants, and giving out condoms at beauty counters (mon dieu!) We also go deep on VIVA Glam, the unparalleled giving-back program that's earned a whopping $480M for M.A.C's AIDS Fund, including a sneak peek on an academic book on the topic (launching just in time for VIVA Glam's 25th anniversary next year). So, what's Frank Toskan up to now? We've got the scoop on his next indie startup, called Impact Kitchen, that tastes as good as it is for you.
Products mentioned in this episode: M.A.C Satin Lipstick in Twig; M.A.C Lipliner in Spice; M.A.C Retro Matte Lipstick in Ruby Woo;M.A.C Lipglass Clear; M.A.C Strobe Cream; M.A.C Proud to Be Canadian Lipstick; M.A.C Matte Lipstick in Russian Red;M.A.C Studio Fix Perfecting Powder
June 26, 2019 /Carlene Higgins
M.A.C, VIVA Glam, Frank Toskan, Ruby Woo
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Interview Exclusive Hype For Type Frontman Alex Haigh Part 2
Creating a type foundry/type studio obviously puts a lot of emphasis on the “business of design” for you. I’m seeing a lot of creatives starting to build their brand through application studios, web stores, and other various online entities. Are you guys to striking a balance between the “business” of design while staying fully creative?
HypeForType has never been about ‘business’ it’s purely about my obsessive passion for design and typography. Whether it goes well or it doesn’t my main emphasis is on helping designers to evolve. At the end of the day that’s what we all strive for, the ability, persistence, and shear dedication to get to the next level. HFT is here to give designers the opportunity to work with typography and discover it’s incredibly important standing within design.
What was it about type that hooked you and you knew it was something you wanted to be involved in? Besides HFT fonts, got any other fonts that you absolutely love?
That’s a good question. I think it came by chance through my career. My first ever ‘design’ based role was when I was studying and also working at a newspaper setting adverts out. All of these adverts were type based, so after a while you started to notice peoples lack of passion for this job which in a sense was no suprise as creatively it didn’t offer the most rewarding output. However I think if you line up a piece of work with standard text, and a piece of work with the same typography that has been treated, kerned, placed and cared for you can see a massive difference. This detail separates good typography from bad.
In terms of a favourite font, that’s a tough one but I think Neo Deco, that Alex Trochut produced for the foundry has been pretty ground breaking.
Last question. What is your favorite application (mobile, or computer based) that you absolutely NEED to survive in the type game?
Freehand. I will never stop using it, it’s a beautiful program.
Alex Haigh AKA Thinkdust AKA Hype For Type as interviewed by Jason Schwartz from Bright Bright Great.
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My name is Alex Haigh, I’m a freelance designer from Nottingham, running a company called Thinkdust.
Hey Alex.
I’ve been following you for a long time and your work as Thinkdust, long before Hype For Type was in the works. You recently launched Hype For Type as well as just dropped your first set of exclusive fonts. Exclusive Faces 1 already has some super hot fonts from some super hot creatives. How did you manage to collaborate with such a tight crew like Thinkdust, Jon Burgerman, Hello Hikimori, and Alex Trochut?
It kind of reminds me of the Olympics in 1992, when Michael Jordan, Magic Johnson, Charles Barkley, Larry Bird, and Patrick Ewing all played together. Those guys were the cream of crop and all knew how to bring the awesome.
Who is next? Eyes on anyone, or any foundry in particular?
Initially, I had this idea (for Hype For Type) around a year ago when I wasn’t that impressed by what the market was actually offering in terms of typography. You tend to find as you observe the design scene over the years some of the larger foundry’s become quite diluted. Products that are not developed 100% and are often technically flawed tend to be on offer, this not only means designers get a rubbish product, but they are also browsing a catalogue with few and far between fully developed professional typefaces.
Out of this idea the initial concept has always been to work with some of the design and illustration industries most creative to produce one off bespoke unique creations for designers, something no other foundry in the world is currently doing. This means we can offer a great catalogue alongside exclusive faces you will only find over at hypefortype.com
Who’s next? That’s a secret, but keep your eyes peeled because it will only get better from here.
I really can’t wait to see where you are taking this project. It excites me because I think font is still widely misunderstood. People realize that there are great fonts out there, but don’t know where to get them, or don’t know where to get started with purchasing fonts.
Besides type, what else are you guys hyped for? A laundry list is OK.
Well personally I am a type and design obsessive, apart from that I enjoy the old cold beer, laughs with friends, films, music and all your other general stuff!
I too obsess about design quite frequently. I understand where you are coming from. I’m always looking for new inspiration even when I am not sitting at my computer designing. I’m also finding great new ways to connect with creatives (that inspire me) from all over the world using Twitter, Facebook, and cool design sites like Behance.net. Who do you follow on Twitter? Also, why you follow them.
Top 5 people on twitter, tricky one. I would have to say I enjoy everyone’s posts, and with the foundry and the studio finding the time to actually read every single twitter followers posts becomes quite impossible.
Yeah, we kind of do the same thing over here. We run a Bright Bright Great Twitter, and each of us all have our own pages, so when you add up all the tweets, it get’s a little crazy. I do find it really helpful as a designer to embrace social media to connect with new friends, as well as awesome designers all over world. That’s actually how this interview happened. It all started as a Hype For Type game of Hangman on Twitter!
What’s the feeling like in the studio? Can we see a few pics of the HFT space? How many people, who’s around during the workday?
I’ve attached a photo for you.
Currently at the moment we are a small team, the core is made up of myself and my business partner Sam. Following that we have Dawn, who is a senior type designer with 15 years experience, she takes care of every imperfection for us so we can always output top quality.
Sam takes care of the business side of things, and my eyes are always on the visual side as ever. The overall concept of HFT is to offer affordable top quality fonts for designers and creatives looking to explore with typography, and I think the star of the show will always be our unique idea of the exclusive volumes, it’s only just begun so keep your eyes peeled.
Wow. Nice digs. Is that your Bentley?
End Part 1. To be continued.
Jason Schwartz is the Art Director at Bright Bright Great, a design company in Chicago, IL.
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Also, just as a reminder, all of the BBG Peeps Tweet.
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Joe Moser-Buchenwald Flyboy
About Joe Moser
This is the story of Joseph F. Moser, a World War II fighter pilot with an amazing story to tell. Joe very narrowly survived bailing out of his P-38 with an engine on fire. He was quickly caught by the Germans and sent on the very last train out of Paris–just before the Allies entered. On the train were 167 other Allied flyers–all except him held by the French Underground until betrayed and turned over to the Gestapo by a Nazi agent. They were sent to Buchenwald on orders from Berlin to be executed as “terrorfliegers.” Four days before their scheduled extermination, they were rescued by Luftwaffe officers and shipped instead to the most famous POW camp in Germany–Stalag Luft III. Joe was placed in the very barracks where just one month before, Allied flyers had tunneled out and temporarily escaped. The famous movie “The Great Escape” tells that story. But, as the Allies approached, Joe and the others were sent on a death march to another camp which he barely survived.
Joe, as of early 2008, is a spry, quiet, humble 86 year old gentleman living with his wife Jean in Ferndale, Washington, his home town.
This blog will have the chapters of the autobiography I am ghost writing for Joe.
If you come across this, let me know and tell me what you think. All messages will be past to Joe and his wife Jean and they would love to hear from you.
Mrs Pat MacGregor said,
I have read Joe’s story with great interest. This and a book entitled “Destination Buchenwald” by Colin Burgess, published by Kangaroo Press in Australia have been very informative.
I am interested in the Buchenwald airmen because two members of the crew with whom my Dad flew were amongst the 168.
They were in RAF, Bomber Command and flew with 158 Squadron that was based at Lissett in East Yorkshire. They took off on the night of 12/13th June 1944 to attack the marshalling yards at Amiens, Northern France and after dropping their bombs were attacked by a Junkers 88. Their Halifax lll crashed after all the crew had successfully parachuted over Northern France.
The two who were eventually captured were:
1084999 Sgt or F/Sgt John Joseph Fernandez, known as Ferdie, Air Bomber and
137476 F/O Cyril Worosley Nuttall, Navigator.
Both boys lived in Liverpool. Ferdie married Rose Cooper in May 1944 and he had been a Railway Clerk before joining up. Cyril had been a Shipping Clerk.
If Joe remembers these boys or knows of anyone who has contact details I would very much like to hear. Did they ever join the KLB Club?
Pat MacGregor
sue ellis said,
what an amazing story
i am researching stories that come from RAF Riccall for a short dvd about the nature reserve at Skipwith and how the airfeild was used in the war. If you can help that would be great i hope you can
Pat MacGregor said,
I don’t know anything much about RAF Riccall except that it was there my dad met up with Bill Reed’s crew in September 1943. It was 1658 Conversion Unit where crews were sent to convert from the two-engined medium bombers to the four-engined heavy bombers and in the case of Riccall these were the Handley Page Halifaxes. They were only there for about five weeks before being posted to their operational squadron at RAF Lissett.. .
Hi Pat please contatc me on sue.ellis@serendipityart.org I would love to know more many thanks sue
Ben van Drogenbroek said,
Dear Mrs. Pat MacGregor. I am running a Stalag Luft 3 group on Facebook. Stalag Luft 3 was the prisoner of war camp run by the German Air Force where the airmen were transferred to from Buchenwald. My real name and Facebook name is Ben van Drogenbroek.
gbaron said,
An additional comment to my post about this–I will ask Joe next time I see him if he remembers either of these guys. Is your father still living and sharing his memories with you?
Mary Larson said,
Hi – I am married to Col. Merle Larson’s son. We are fascinated to find this story of someone who was side-by-side with Merle during his Buchenwald days. Sadly, Merle died 10 years ago, but we still have many artifacts of his days in the military. He retired in 1972 as a Colonel in the USAF. I haven’t read every chapter as I found it when I was googling Merle’s name and started with Chapter 7. I will continue to read.
Stephane TESSIER said,
You can contact me: tessiers@wanadoo.fr for information about Merle LARSON.
Dear Mrs. Larson. I am running a Stalag Luft 3 group on Facebook. Stalag Luft 3 was the prisoner of war camp run by the German Air Force where the airmen were transferred to from Buchenwald. The group has some members whose father / grandfather / great uncle was at Buchenwald. My real name and Facebook name is Ben van Drogenbroek.
Hello Mrs. Larson, I am so pleased to hear from you. Joe will be very excited to hear from someone in Captain Larson’s family. Joe looked up to him tremendously–there were two officers who earned Joe’s strongest admiration–Captain Larson and Col. Lamason. If you have any photos or any of the memorabilia that might be appropriate for helping tell this story I’d be interested in knowing about them. I encourage you to read the rest of the chapters and comment on any issues relevant to Captain (Colonel) Larson, Thanks again for commenting.
Pierre MADRY said,
Very interesting. I made an enquiry about the plane where took place Phil Hemmens and where he crashed with his crew in Normandy on June 1944 (escape with French Underground, meeting with British Airmen, betrayal, Fresnes prison, Buchenwald etc…)
Do you know if it’s possible to have a contact with Joe Moser?
LeeAnn Lehni said,
Joe comes to my elementary classroom almost every year to share his experiences. My children are always amazed and enthralled with his testimony. I am so thankful for his courage to retell his past.
I have known Joe for years, but he has only been able to retell his story in recent years. His memory and heart have reopened. I think that this retelling has been his healing. He inspires so many of us, especially my young children in my classroom.
My 24 year old daughter adores Joe. He is walking and living history to her…. She now teaches history and English in Seattle. But her love of history has been amplified by Joe.
Joe came again today, to my newest 5th grade classroom. Thank you so much, Joe! You are a treasure!
Eric Johnson said,
This is a simple Thank You, Joe, for what you and your fellow soldiers, sailors, air men and Marines did for me so many years ago.
All of you set the world back upright.
US Navy, 1972-1978, A-7 pilot
CMST Cary Hatzinger said,
It was a proud honor to have you as our distinguished guest on McChord AFB and to be a part of your special moment as your received your award. You are a true American Hero and you touched my wife and I deeply. Thank you for your service and congratulations!
I was very excited to see the Joe has received well-earned medal at long last. My father-in-law, Col. Merle Larson, had received 2 Distinguished Flying Crosses shortly after his experience during WWII. It is a shame that it took this long to honor Joe properly, but Congratulations at long last!
Jim R C Baker said,
My dad – Horace Sumner Corbett Jr (Jim) – flew the P-38 as a USAAF photographer. He shipped out of Orlando in the late summer of 1943 just before I was born. In early 1944, he was killed retuning from a raid of a German Messeschmidt airplane factory in Germany. The sky as filled with clouds when he was hit and parachuted. The Resistance found him. His commanding officer notified my mother in March of 1943. My own family visited the beautiful Allied Cemetery in Netuno, Italy in the 1970’s, where we found his grave and laid flowers.
I recognized the distinctive P-38 in The Seattle Times Sunday front page photo from the 12″ silver-platted model he received as an award while in training.
Thank you so very much for your wartime service and beyond.
My warm regards,
This is to correct my mailto: jrcbaker@comcast.net
John Fernandez said,
Have only found this website today (forwarded by my daughter,Emma and prompted by the US President ‘s visit yesterday).
My father, John Fernandez, is referred to by several people and, of course, we did know he had been held in Buchenwald. He didn’t speak much of his experiences to his family though he had begun to write some memories of the war and talked a lot to my eldest son, David who has a lot of his memorabilia (including some terrible pictures of Buchenwald). We do have a letter which was written to my mother by members of the French resistance who had sheltered him. These refer to a betrayal and the fact that the traitor had been ‘dealt with’. It would be wonderful if we could ever meet up with the families of these brave people who saved my father’s life. He was shot down shortly after his marriage and, as I understand it, was reported as ‘missing presumed dead’ so the letter from France was a great relief to my mother – it was particularly poignant that his older brother, Marcial, was killed at Nijmegen in September 1944.
Dad died in December 1992 so, sadly, was not able to re-establish contact with those he had known in such difficult circumstances. I would be delighted to hear from anyone who either knew my father or knew of him.
John M Fernandez
Laurent Viton said,
Hello John ,
I’m interested about F/S J.J. Fernandes and his crew as they went down in my area during WW2. Pilot was P/O W.Reed , they were flying Halifax LV790 NP-L of 158 Sq. The plane crashed at Menerval , between Gournay-en-Bray and Forges-les-Eaux .Do you have a crew picture , or at least your father’s POW card ? I’m currently writing a book to honour all RAF and USAAF crews downed here , any documentation and account are most welcome.
Thanks , Laurent
Michael Coleman said,
Don’t know if this website is still working…my father told me a story about an RAF guy he knew (my father was from LIverpool an he was in the Navy during the War). He told me his name was Juan Fernandez and that he had known him before the War…was your grandfather from Liverpool?
Mike Coleman
It was a good surprise to hear from you. My father was known as both John and Juan Fernandez and was from Liverpool (where most of the family still live). I’d be interested to hear of any memories which you have of your father’s wartime years and how,exactly, he knew my dad. Were they at school together? Did they live near each other? Did they work together (on the railway)?
John Fernandez
Good to hear from you John…I thought you might like to know a little story my father told me about meeting your father in Liverpool when they were both on leave. I can’t recall how they knew each other…you mention the railway..my father worked for the railway after he left school and before he joined the Navy. If your grandfather went to St Edwards School (now Sandfield Park) then they would have known each other from school. My father told me that they when they met one day in town your father mentioned that he had completed quite a few missions (not sure how many, but it was alot..25? something like that) but that he felt sure that his number was now up and his luck was gone. He sort of ‘knew’ they would be shot down next trip. Obviously my father tried to be a bit more positive about it, but I have read that all bomber crews were massively superstitious and (given the 50% chance of survival) had good reason to be. My father then heard a while later that he had been shot down on his next mission and they must have met up after the war, as my father mentioned to me that your father was in a concentration camp. What impresses me about your father was, given how superstitious the crews were, if he thought his number was up, that time until the final mission must have been torture for him, yet he just got on with it and played out his hand, so to speak. They were just an amazingly tough and brave generation. I am in awe of them still. My father died in 2000 and he told me most about his war service when I was very young. He didn’t say so much in his last years and it began to catch up with him and he started to get nightmares. He used to present it to me as this huge adventure, but I think the sheer terror burned itself into his mind and sort of bided its time until he had had a couple of strokes and was not so strong anymore. However, I dare say he was like your father…even right to the end of his life, despite his negativity about the waste of war and the damage it did to his health and especially his hearing..if someone had said-we need you to go back and do it again, he would have gone and done it again. Without hesitation. Mike
Good to see the memorial sorted out today-just 67 years late, but at least it has happened now.
Dear Mr. Fernandez. I am running a Stalag Luft 3 group on Facebook. Stalag Luft 3 was the prisoner of war camp run by the German Air Force where the airmen were transferred to from Buchenwald. The group has some members whose father / grandfather / great uncle was at Buchenwald. My real name and Facebook name is Ben van Drogenbroek.
Dave Fernandez said,
I am John (Juan) Fernandez oldest Grandson – my Dad is his oldest child. My Grandad died in 1993 and did not really talk about the war – he was writing an account of his war for us when he died – the last line is him being shot down. I now have a lot of his Memorabilia – including photos from Buchenwald. I want to digitise all this stuff so once it’s online I’ll let you know. Dave
I confirmed last night that the list of Buchenwald detainees does include your grandfather Juan Fernandez. There is no first hand account of his experience and I looked for some time for other references in the “168 Jumped” book for anything else about him. I will keep looking.
Got my Grandad’s death year wrong – it was 1990
Sorry again – 1992!!
Melanie said,
I am looking for anyone who has any information on Lt. Col. John A. Halford, USAF. Flight Comdr. “B” Please email me. Thank you.
To the Fernandez family.
There is a very good source of information about the Allied Flyers who were sent to Buchenwald, called “168 Jumped into Hell,” by Art Kinnis and Stan Booker. I will look in my copy to see information about your Grandfather. There is considerable information about the families who helped these men and also information about Jacque Desobry, (sp) the traitor who turned these men over to the Gestapo. He was executed by the French in 1949 I believe. That information is in the same book.
I also have a very good contact in France who lives in that area and knows the family who helped these men. If you have not bought Joe’s book yet I would suggest you start there as it has the names of all these references and also contact information. I would be happy to help as much as I can.
Emma Fernandez said,
Many thanks for your reply. Do you know where I can purchase a copy of “168 Jumped to Hell” as I’ve not been able to find one. I’ve ordered a copy of Joe’s book also.
I have letters written to my Grandma during the war from a Mme Samain and one written to grandad after the war from a G.Brandon both from Gisors who I believe helped him (though the latter one is in French and I haven’t fully translated it) – are you aware of either of these people?
Dear Mrs. Fernandez. I am running a Stalag Luft 3 group on Facebook. Stalag Luft 3 was the prisoner of war camp run by the German Air Force where the airmen were transferred to from Buchenwald. The group has some members whose father / grandfather / great uncle was at Buchenwald. My real name and Facebook name is Ben van Drogenbroek.
Lori datlow said,
my dad, Nathan Datlow, was a navigator held at Stalag III from about June 1943 until liberation . He is now 92 and currently in the hospital with a stroke. He was given the “Death March” chapter yesterday to read- we’re not sure yet if he can read, and his speech is a problem now. but after therapy, we’ll hopefully be able to discuss this with him more.
just this week I looked up Floyd H. Greene on the internet… an artist who created 3 prints while in Stalag III. my Dad has 2 of them, from 1946. no one seems to know much about Mr Greene, except that he took “orders” in the camp and sent the prints out later.they are amazing prints! I’d love to hear form anyone who might ahve known him.
someone related to one of his flight crew has done extension research on the entire crew and his been in contact with my parents the past few years. he has obtained a photo of the plane wreakage from German archives, in addition to reports and letters from after Dad came home.
Sonia Hill said,
Hello, please be in touch with me regarding Floyd H Greene, thank you. Sonia (stlhseeker@yahoo.com)
Dear Mrs.Hill. I am running a Stalag Luft 3 group on Facebook. Maybe you like to become a member. My real name and Facebook name is Ben van Drogenbroek.
Hello Lori, very nice to hear from you. Do you know which camp in SLIII your father was in? There were four: North, South, East and West. The activities of the South Camp were most recorded in a book and website called The Longest Mission. You might want to check that out.
Emma Hills said,
Hi there, I have just purchased Joe’s book. I feel it important to learn what these brave men went through. Please pass on to Joe and his family – God bless. Joe, you are an amazing and brave individual.
Thanks, will certainly do. If you get a chance, writing a review on Amazon will certainly help spread the word. Thanks, Gerald
I’ve just purchased Joe’s book on Amazon , it will takes few days before receiving it in Normandy where I live. Needless to say how eager I am to read it ! However could someone help ? I’m looking for a picture of Lt Jack F. Greve of 429th FS also , who was killed flying P-38 # 44-23613 in the same area on 20 August 1944 . Maybe is there a group picture with both Joe and Lt Jack Greve , either in the book or in Joe’s stuff ? I’ll be so grateful !
Thanks , Laurent.
Hello Laurent–It so happens I was going back through Joe’s squadron history book last night–because I’m reading Antony Beevor’s new book on D-Day–it is excellent! I once again saw the reference to Jack Greve’s death and his posthumous DFC award which was included in the same Air Corp orders as Joe’s. I went through all the photos in the squadron history book but don’t recall off hand any of Jack Greve. I will look again and let you know if I find any. I don’t think Joe has any as he gave me almost everything he had and I don’t recall seeing any.
Possibility of working on a documentary film about Joe and his story. Since you are in Normandy, I may want to stay in touch and see if you could help us with some of this if it evolves.
Dion Valdez said,
Thank you Joe and Gerald for putting together this book…another testament of the incredible sacrifice and determination of those who did no less than save the world through WWII. I’ve only just started reading the book (today, Veteran’s Day as it happens) and am so impressed by your courage, Joe, in enduring all you did, and in then being willing to revisit it all in order to document it for others. Thank you, Joe, for your service, and for telling the story so that we will remember the cost paid by some so that many could have peace and freedom.
It’s really good to hear from someone in France who is interested in this part of History. I’ve recently read Joe’s book which I found to be very moving and filled in some details on my father’s life. As you may be aware, he died in 1992 and had not really talked much about his wartime experiences though we were aware that he had been in Buchenwald after being shot down over France. He was shot down shortly after getting married so you can imagine the terrible effect this had on my mother. We do have the letter (written in French) from the people who initially sheltered him which let her know that he was safe but had been betrayed – I think this letter came from Gisors. We also have a later letter from France and we are only sorry that none of the family has ever been aware of the brave French people who sheltered him and have not had the opportunity to meet and thank their families.
Before he died, my father had begun to write some of his own war memories (though did not get as far as 1944) and he also spoke fairly extensively to my son David (his oldest grandson). When my mother died in 1999, she asked that all of my father’s war ‘mementos’ should go to David so he now has some of the documents and photos which you might be interested in.
I’ve forwarded your e-mail to him (and copied him into this reply) so that, between us, we’ll try to give you as much help as we can.If you can let us know your e-mail address we can correspond directly Best wishes John Fernandez
I’ve just forgotten my email : laurent.viton@neuf.fr !
Many of the Buchenwald ” guests ” went down in my area , I’ve been fortunate to trace some of them ( Freeman , James ) , what a nightmare it was .
Yes John ! I’ll appreciate very much documentation you have regarding your father and his crew . 158 Sq lost many crews here , a memorial was recently unveiled in UK honouring those from that squadron who did not return .
James Allan Smith said,
Hi Joe, A fine book with great detail. Was with you during during this ordeal.I was in the box car with the loose floor boards and my skipper Joel Stevenson was the one who escaped.Probably rubbed shoulders with you many times.I am one of 6 remaining canadian KLB types and live in Trenton Ontario.Best wishes to you and yours.James Allan Smith.
Mr. Smith, thank you so much for writing. I would very much like to talk with you and get your email address as well as all the other KLBers you mention in Trenton, Ontario. Is Ed Carter Edwards in that group? The reason I am asking is a professional documentary filmmaker is right now working on a project about the KLBers, focusing on his grandfather, Lt. Freeman who is living in North Carolina. The filmmaker would like to interview several of the KLBers and it sounds like a trip to Trenton is necessary. Please contact me at gbaron@piersystems.com if you get this message.
Until today I had not visited this site since 2008 and ‘am very pleased I did. This message is for John Fernandez [son of John Joseph Fernandez] and Laurent Viton in France:
First of all, please read my brief note posted on this site 29th December 2007.
John, I have been trying to find a member of your family for several years and would like very much to make contact with you. My Dad, Leslie Maxwell Byrne [known to the crew as Max] was the flight engineer with Bill Reed’s crew and flew with your Dad. He and some other members of the crew attended your parents wedding in May 1944 whilst on two weeks leave. This would have been the last time your Dad saw your Mum until after the war.
I have been researching Dad’s time in the RAF during WW2 for several years and have some information to pass on to you about their time at 1658 Conversion Unit, Riccall where Dad met up with the crew and also a lot abour their time with 158 Squadron at Lissett. I also have the Operations Record Book pages for RAF Lissett and 158 Squadron covering the time they were stationed there and these detail all the operations they flew on. I have been to Lissett recently and seen the new Memorial erected and unveiled in May this year to commemorate the 851 airmen from the Squadron who lost their lives during the war.
I have a copy of the Liberation report for Cyril Nuttall who was the navigator and from this I know that he and your dad were together from bailing out of their Halifax on the night they were shot down. In fact, they landed in adjacent fields. This report lists where they went and who their Helpers in France were before they were betrayed and sent to Frenes Prison and then to the hell hole Buchenwald and on to Stalag Luft lll and then the long march from there at the end of January 1945 when the Germans were clearing their POW camps in advance of the Russians.
I have information on where all the other members of the crew were in hiding in France that may be of interest to you and also to Laurent Viton. This includes two who were in hiding together [Dave Arundel and Harold Squires [Darkie] who also had a brief stay in Fresnes Prison.
I would like to make direct contact with you both and request that my email address be given to you so you can contact me in the first instance.
Judy Cunnington said,
I have just discovered this blog while researching my father’s family tree. He was Cyril Worsley Nuttall and unfortunately died in 1990. I was very interested to read your reports – dad did talk about his war years a little (I have a newspaper clipping about his recollections of Stalag Luft iii and some counterfeit German marks!) but he never said too much about his time in Buchenwald. I will read Joe’s account with interest.
Judy Cunnington
Hello Judy, I also encourage you to get a copy of the film Lost Airmen of Buchenwald. Joe is also in this film but it includes interviews with six of the survivors. I recall your father’s name and I believe you and your family will be surprised and saddened by what he and his fellow airmen had to endure in Buchenwald. You should also know that a memorial placque is going to be placed at Buchenwald to honor these men. We also recently found who the Luftwaffe officers were who managed their rescue and we are hoping to arrange a reunion of family members of the rescuers and the rescued.
I have quite a lot of information on your dad’s time with 158 Squadron and his movements in France after his Halifax was shot down in June 1944. I would like you to contact me direct if you are interested in learning more.
Steve Adamson said,
I would love to see a copy of the Operations Record Book pages for RAF Lissett as I am a local historian living in Bridlington. i have a particular interest in WW2
American World War II Air Force pilots were prisoners at Buchenwald until rescued by the Luftwaffe « Scrapbookpages Blog said,
[…] This blog post give information about a new book that will be coming out soon; the book tells the story of Joseph F. Moser, one of the American flyers who was imprisoned at Buchenwald. According to the book, Joe Moser very narrowly survived bailing out of his P-38 with an engine on fire. He and 167 other Americans were sent to Buchenwald on orders from Berlin to be executed as “terrorfliegers.” Four days before their scheduled “extermination,” they were rescued by Luftwaffe (German Air Force) officers and shipped instead to the most famous POW camp in Germany: Stalag Luft III. […]
henry said,
I came to Joe’s blog through the story of Alexander McClelland. Most people know little of such stories.
I have a simple question that perhaps someone will know the answer to. Why did Australian and New Zealand gov. go to such great lengths to hide the fact that their men were in Nazi camps?
Thank You for any help in answering this question.
dean armstrong, jr. said,
I would be honored to have Mr. Moser sign my copy of his book. Is it possible to otain his address? would send it to him with all postage paid including on the return envelope. Many thanks Dean Armstrong, Jr.
Kenn Priebe said,
Just finished the book. What a great story. Thanks for what you endured for the benefit of all us now in this country–and the world.
Very respectfully and with best regards,
Kenn Priebe
fellow Washingtontonian and former Navy Aircrew
Yvonne Beaudreau Burkett said,
My father, Paul C. Beaudreau, has sent me on a quest for your book. Not only did I find the book, but I have also found you! At this time in his life, my almost 91 year old father is sharing many tales of his youth in Ferndale. One of them concerns you, Mr. Moser., as a young boy back on the farm. He claims to have taught you how to hitch up and drive a pair of horses with a wagon on the back. He said that these particular horses would stop at anything that even sounded a bit like “whoa”. Apparerently you had a great time testing the horses with words such as “slow”, “go”, etc.
I am looking forward to getting this book for my father. I will be reading it to him as his eyesight is not very good these days. Once I get the book, may I send it to you for an autograph? this would be a great surprise for him.
Yvonne Beaudreau Burkett
Hello Yvonne, sorry I have not been watching this site more closely. I will get your message to Joe through his daughter–I’m sure Joe will be very interested.
What a great Father’s Day gift this will be for my father. I bought the book and will insert these communications.
Terry Back said,
I would like to get in touch with Pat MacGregor about Darkie Squires. Darkie was married to my cousin Kath (nee Adams) who passed away recently. Darkie died of cancer in the 1960’s, after a post war career as a navigator with BOAC until he was invalided out. Please pass this e-mail on to Pat and I hope she will drop me a line with any information she has about Darkie.
Regards, Terry Back
I was interested in your message re Darkie Squires. Please contact me
Todd Jackson said,
Joseph Moser’s place and birth date.
I have done numerous searches but can’t come up with a birthdate for Joseph F. Moser. I have scanned the book as well but did not find it. My son is doing a report on the book / his life and for his timeline needs a place, time and date of birth. He picked the book out himself and at 10 was very interested and continues to ask questions regarding Joe, WWII, the planes of WWII, the camps, etc.
-Todd Jackson
Hello Todd, I’m quite certain it is in the book and I’m not absolutely certain. I know Joe turned 90 in September so his year of birth was 1921 and I believe it is September 13. If you send me an email I can reply to at gerald.baron@agincourt.us I will check with Joe or one of his daughters to be sure. Joe is absolutely thrilled with young people having interest in his story so if it is possible for your son to share what he writes about Joe I know that it would mean a lot to Joe.
Pat – certainly. What is your e-mail address?
Michael Jaceks said,
Joe, I read your book recently and enjoyed it immensely. Thank God for the men and women such as yourself from the greatest generation that stood tall and protected our country and way of life in our hour of need. Being a twice wounded veteran from the Viet Nam era and a history buff as well, I’ve seen through the history channel and documentaries many of the conditions you related in your book. By the way, I went to college in Visalia and I never knew they had a pilot training facility there or in Bakersfield. Thanks for the history lesson Joe. I also lived in Bellingham for a short while so I know the area you call home more or less. I’m an r/c airplane hobbyist and I love the WW ll warbirds… spitfire, mustang, P 40 warhawk, P 47 thunderbolt, and of course the P 38. Known as the forked tail devil by the germans. Thank you for your service Joe and for all the sacrifices you made for home and country.
Frederic Martini said,
Joe, I hope you continue to do well. I am wondering if you have any recollections about my dad, Frederic Martini, in Buchenwald or SL III? He died in 1995, the year my son was born, and I am trying to put together a story piecemeal as my dad never spoke of his experiences unless he was with another vet of similar history. I am glad you have received recognition at long last. It should have come 60 years earlier, however.
Dear Mr. Martini. I am running a Stalag Luft 3 group on Facebook. Stalag Luft 3 was the prisoner of war camp run by the German Air Force where the airmen were transferred to from Buchenwald. The group has some members whose father / grandfather / great uncle was at Buchenwald. My real name and Facebook name is Ben van Drogenbroek.
Michael Morris said,
My great-grandfather is George William Scott a member of the 168 Allied Forces at Buchenwald. I am looking for any information about the KLB Club that I may be able to get. Please email with maybe a contact for the club since according to Wikipedia he hasn’t been contacted since the end of WWII. Thank you and I appreciate you help with anything. Michael Morris
I am new to this site and don’t know how to contact you direct….any advice gratefully received!
So that I don’t have to give my address on this site, I will contact Gerald Baron and see if he will pass it on direct to you. If nothing happens in the next day or so, please let me know via this site.
Brian Smith said,
Al Smith of Trenton Ontario, now Markham Ontario was also among those who were turned over after their bomber was hit by a night fighter shortly after bombing the rail yards. Al, like Joe was put on a train and ended up in Buchenwald. Al, sadly passed today, July 29th at the age of 91.
Very sorry to hear that, and sorry we did not know that Al Smith was around to be involved in the documentary on these men, Lost Airmen of Buchenwald.
Michael Moores LeBlanc said,
Hello Brian,
I am very sorry to read your news. May I ask if Al was:
W/O2 J.A. Smith. RCAF. 419 Sqdn. Lancaster KB727.
FTR 4-5/07/44. (^) 0131 am, roughly a kilometre NE of Chartainvilliers (Euro-et-Loir) and about 14 km NNE of of Chartres.
Arrested # ca 14 July, 1944.
Pow 8067. Luft III.
Michael Moores LeBlanc
Alana Birt said,
Yes Michael. That indeed was my dad. I believe he knew about the documentary through Ed Carter-Edwards another of the KLB club.
Alana,
Thank you for your reply as well as for the rank correction. Your kindness in replying, at this especially sad time for your and your family, is very much appreciated.
Dear Mrs. Birt. I am running a Stalag Luft 3 group on Facebook. Stalag Luft 3 was the prisoner of war camp run by the German Air Force where the airmen were transferred to from Buchenwald. The group has some members whose father / grandfather / great uncle was at Buchenwald. My real name and Facebook name is Ben van Drogenbroek.
Oh Michael my dad Al Smith was Flying Officer not a wo2 . But the rest is correct. Thanks
I believe you likely have the correct information but I have forwarded your email to Al’s daughter, Alana Birt (alana.birt@gmail.com) in Markham. I’ll ask her to reply as I’m certain she will have some of Al’s records to confirm.
Al’s Buchenwald number was # 78428
You can hear Al speaking about his experience on the website:
http://www.thememoryproject.com
Thank you for your answer Brian.
The stories of evaders and would-be evaders, their helpers and their betrayers has been a subject of great interest to me for many, many years. Consequently, I have a large data base devoted to this matter.
Recently, I have returned to the stories of the Buchenwald airmen and have been updating information and adding KEW archive SPG-pow-lib files that a kind friend in England has been sending to me as he comes across them while doing his own work.
If you believe anything I might have would be of use to you for your wonderful website, don’t hesitate to ask.
A friend in England has been passing on SPG Pow-Liberation reports obtained from KEW archives. One of these is the debriefing report for F/Lt Cyril Worsley Nuttall, who shared his would-be attempt at evasion with John Fernandez. The report describes their travels and meeting with F/O Hoffman (RCAF) Sgt Pierson and Sgt Bryden (RAF) and finally his and Hoffman’s arrest on 2 Aug 1944.
Anyone who might care for a copy of this may contact me at:
mooresleblanc@gmail.com
Meghann Roberts said,
I was fortunate enough to hear Joe’s story first hand. I was a soldier stationed at JBLM and he came and spoke to us about his experiences. I recently bought his book and wanted to know how I could get his autograph inside the book. His story is incredible and I am very proud of him for what he did. Thank you for your service Joe. Would you be able to help me contact someone who could help ?
Has anyone ever seen a record of the organization of the KLB airmen? As I understand the descriptions, they were divided into teams/squads by nationality (US v UK/Commonwealth) with the ~38 noncoms distributed among the officers. But I’ve never found info detailing the groups and their members. On another topic, if anyone is interested, I have copies of Joe’s depositions to the War Crimes prosecutors regarding the train from Paris and conditions at Buchenwald. You can reach me at martini@maui.net.
Ric Martini, son of S/Sgt Frederic Martini, KLB 78299
Dear Mr. and Mrs. Moser,
We have met each other a couple of times in the past.
Last year, I finished my book about Stalag Luft 3 with the title:
The Camera Became My Passport Home – Stalag Luft 3, The Great Escape, The Forced March and the Liberation at Moosburg.
It is a hard-bound 3-volume set printed on glossy papier with a total of 526 pages and more than 500 images. You are also mentioned in the book.
I like to send you a complementary copy. Please don’t hesitate to contact me.
Ben van Drogenbroek
Stadhouderslaan 32
3417 TW Montfoort
b_v_drogenbroek@hotmail.com
Brandon Longaker said,
My wife and I live in ferndale and are currently in Germany. Had the tour at buchenwald yesterday and it floors us how strong mr. Moser was to endure. I know as a former us army NCO that we all shy from any thanks . We were doing our jobs. But Joe truly is an American hero even if he humbly denies it! Pass on a hometown hello !
Tymer Kimball said,
I have good news! I am neighbors with 1st lieutenant WARREN A. THOMPSON, one of the 168 airmen at buchenwald. He will be 90 yrs young on 6/20/14. I have talked to Mike Dorsey and Gerald Baron. They didnt know about Lt Thompson and are very excited about this. Mr. Baron checked his resources and confirmed that Lt Thompson is a Lost Airmen. His bomber was shot down on 5/27/1944 over France. I have not told Warren anything as i dont want to upset him. I will talk to his son Gary about how to handle this….
Thank you, Tymer
Hi Tymer I am researching RAF Riccall I wonder if you could help
Pam Williams Angerhofer said,
Having read the draft (where is chpt 16?) I am compelled to write out of gratitude and regret for what Lt. Moser suffered. The day he received one of his medals was the day I was born. Thirteen months later I saw my daddy for the first time when he returned from the Pacific Theater where he was a forward observer for the 81st Infantry Fighting Wildcats.
I want Lt. Moser to know that I easily believe his report of having gained 60 lbs in a few short weeks – I once gained 7 lbs in a weekend and have never been thin since! And I had no history of deprivation to blame it on, just unbridled gluttony. So I am sorry that what should have been a gift to him caused him so much unjustified scorn.
Because I grew up with so much of the War on my plate, I leaped on Lt. Moser’s story. The most gratifying thing to me is his lack of anger and bitterness, grace no doubt extended through having received the same forgiveness from the Lord.
Thank you all for your efforts. We are raising grandchildren who are not allowed to forget what has been done for them by folks like my daddy and Lt. Moser. Many blessings to all.
168 Jump into Hell is out of print and the only one I can find is on the ABEbooks website at a cost of, wait for it, £541.89 !!!!! If you want anything from this book your dad[?] John has my email address. However, you can purchase a used copy [in very good condition] of the book Destination Buchenwald by Colin Burgess published by Kangaroo Press from Amazon UK for £28.55. This is, I think, a more interesting book than the other one as it gives a lot of detail of Fresnes Prison in Paris [where the 168 were sent after capture] and detail of the journey too and life in Buchenwald. Please pass on my regards to your dad.
About How to Order the Book
About the ghostwriter
Chapter 10: Filth and Worse
Chapter 11: Rescue
Chapter 12: A POW At Last
Chapter 13 A Fighter Among Fighters
Chapter 14: A Rookie No More
Chapter 15 Death March
Chapter 17: Coming Home
Chapter 1: Flight Leader (DR1)
Chapter 2, Draft 2
Chapter 2: Come On!
Chapter 3: Marchefroy (Draft 1)
Chapter 4 (DR1) Fresnes Prison
Chapter 5 The Train
Chapter 6: Cattle Car to Hell
Chapter 7 Farm Boy to Fighter
Chapter 8: Buchenwald
Chapter 9: Air Raid
Rest in Peace, Joe Moser
Joe Moser Film Premiere Featured in Belllingham Herald
World Premiere of the Documentary featuring Joe Moser set for July 16
Joe Interviewed by KING5 enroute to Buchenwald
Joe Moser Traveling to Buchenwald to Celebrate Liberation and film documentary
Glenys Scott on Rest in Peace, Joe Moser
Steve on World Premiere of the Document…
Pete on Watch the video–Joe Mose…
SMartin on Joe Moser Traveling to Buchenw…
Canadian Flyers in Buchenwald
429th Fighter Squadron
Fighter Pilot
French Underground
Joe Moser
Stalag Luft III
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Craig International
Energy Surplus
ecoBuy
ebuy
Craig International secures multi-million contract with Spirit Energy
Craig International has secured a contract with Spirit Energy, which is potentially worth £21million over seven years.
The global oilfield procurement specialists have been awarded a five-year contract, with a two-year extension option, to source and supply products for maintenance, repair and operations at Spirit Energy’s onshore and offshore sites in the UK.
Following a rigorous competitive tender process, with multiple suppliers bidding for thirteen sub-categories, Craig International was awarded a contract to provide third party procurement services for nine of the sub-categories including hand tools, lubricants, mechanical, lifting and HSE equipment. Price, technical capability and HSE policies were factors in the decision-making.
Jill Macdonald, joint managing director of Craig International, commented: “We have a strong track-record in the energy industry with a growing global reputation. In the North Sea, we are a market leader with around 75% of marketshare. Having worked in this region for more than 20 years, we also have a deep knowledge of what UKCS operators require and how we can best deliver third party procurement that is time and cost efficient.
“Our innovative systems allow us to maximise efficiency and add value at every stage of the procurement process and this is why Spirit Energy has chosen us after a competitive tender exercise. It was refreshing to be involved in such a collaborative, comprehensive tender process and we are genuinely looking forward to working with such a progressive company.”
Craig International has invested in technology-led systems including its unique ebuy platform, a bespoke electronic procurement service. The system is designed to meet the day-to-day requirements of the global energy industry and provides simple online access to more than 60,000 products across 1,000 categories.
With a global network of pre-qualified suppliers, over 60 experienced buyers in seven countries, Craig International provides cost-effective and efficient third party procurement from its bases in Aberdeen, Cape Town, Calgary, Dubai, Doha, Hamburg and Houston.
©2019 Craig Group
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Craig International Ltd - Registered Office: Johnstone House, 52-54 Rose Street, Aberdeen, AB10 1HA
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Winners Announced for the 2018 DCEG Informatics Tool Challenge
In June, DCEG Director Stephen J. Chanock, M.D., announced six winners of the 2018 DCEG Informatics Tool Challenge, a competitive funding program that supports innovative approaches to enhance epidemiological methods, data collection, analysis, and other research efforts of the Division using modern technology and informatics.
Proposals were evaluated for their novel approach to specific research needs, ability for the project to be completed within one year of initiation, and cost, not to exceed $20,000. Reviewers considered the utility to epidemiologic and genetic research as well as technical feasibility.
Six proposals were submitted this year; all were funded. The NCI Center for Biomedical Informatics and Information Technology (CBIIT) is providing technical support; contractors from Information Management Services, Inc. (IMS) are collaborating on two projects; researchers from the George Washington University and Ohio State University, as well as staff from the NCI Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences (DCCPS), are collaborating on another.
Online Design Calculator for a Longitudinal Cohort Study
Sung Duk Kim, Ruth M. Pfeiffer, David Check, Paul S. Albert (DCEG)
This R-based, online calculator will support researchers as they design and implement the next-generation cohort, a large, prospective study designed to evaluate how carcinogenic changes unfold over time, resulting in a better understanding of cancer etiology that will help researchers develop more effective strategies for cancer screening and early diagnosis. The tool will estimate the annual resource burden required for a cohort of a given size and given schedule of longitudinal measurements, including: 1) the expected number of cancer cases over a fixed follow-up period; 2) the average number of visits/samples available before a cancer event; and 3) the power to detect associations for longitudinal designs under different follow-up schedules.
A Cloud-Based Webtool for Data Analysis and Visualization for Microbiome Studies
Jianxin Shi, Danping Liu, Paul S. Albert, Christian C. Abnet (DCEG); Sue Pan (CBIIT); William Wheeler (IMS)
DCEG researchers increasingly take advantage of high-throughput sequencing to perform large-scale epidemiologic studies of the human microbiome. As part of these studies, statisticians are faced with performing extensive analyses and generating publishable figures, which can be time-consuming and costly. These challenge winners propose to develop an easy-to-use cloud-based webtool for statistical analyses and data visualization, enabling epidemiologists to perform a large variety of analyses directly and generate high-quality figures for publication.
AuthorArranger: Create Journal Title Pages in Seconds
Mitchell Machiela, Geoffrey Tobias (DCEG)
In the population sciences, it is common for large studies to have hundreds of contributors, often with multiple affiliations. This poses a challenge when submitting manuscripts to journals, because the title page must contain the author names, titles, and affiliations arranged in order of contribution and formatted according to the specific journal’s style—a time- and often resource-consuming endeavor. AuthorArranger is an online tool that aims to make title page creation fast and painless. Users simply upload a file of author names and affiliations, configure formats using simple drop-down menus, preview the title page and make any necessary adjustments, and download the finished title page, ready for submission.
Radiation Dose Calculation Program for Patients Undergoing Nuclear Medicine Procedures: NCINM
Daphnée Villoing, Choonsik Lee (DCEG)
Nuclear medicine (NM) dosimetry is a critical input for epidemiological studies of patients undergoing NM procedures. To improve dosimetry quality for use in nuclear medicine studies, the challenge winners are developing a novel radiation dose calculation program, called the National Cancer Institute dosimetry system for Nuclear Medicine (NCINM). Development will be done in two steps: first, the creation of stand-alone computer software (NCINM); second, the translation of this stand-alone version into a web-based dose calculator. The new dosimetry system will incorporate the NCI’s library of advanced computational human phantoms, which have more realistic anatomy than those used in existing methods. While this new tool will be important for the success of current and future studies in the Radiation Epidemiology Branch, its translation to an online version will make it more attractive and easier to use by medical physicists and nuclear medicine specialists in clinical settings.
Automated metabolite name-harmonization for multi-cohort metabolomics analyses in COMETS-Analytics
Steven C. Moore, Joshua N. Sampson, (DCEG); Krista A. Zanetti (DCCPS); Sue Pan (CBIIT); Ella Temprosa (George Washington University); Ewy Mathé (Ohio State University)
This project focuses on adding metabolite-naming harmonization to the Consortium of Metabolomics Studies (COMETS) online application, named COMETS-Analytics, which was previously developed as a collaboration tool for analysis and sharing data among members of the consortium. Because metabolomics is a new field, and metabolite-naming conventions vary by continent, lab, and cohort, this aspect of the app has continued to be managed by hand. The latest proposed addition to the COMETS app will implement a hierarchical algorithm for harmonizing metabolite names across cohorts, enabling automatic harmonization of names.
A webtool for conducting Mendelian randomization analysis using GWAS summary data
Han Zhang, Kai Yu (DCEG); Bill Wheeler (IMS); Sue Pan (CBIIT)
Development of a user-friendly R package and accompanying web-based interface for non-R users that researchers can use to test whether a risk factor, which is partially determined by a set of genetic markers, has a causal effect on a cancer outcome. The method is based on Mendelian randomization analysis using summary data from genome-wide association studies (GWAS) conducted with a case-control design.
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dotPeek
Introducing JetBrains dotPeek
dotPeek Reviewer's Guide
Created by Jura Gorohovsky, last modified on May 10, 2011
What is dotPeek
Opening and Browsing Assemblies
Viewing the Source Code
Context-Insensitive Navigation in Decompiled Code
Navigating to a Type
Navigating to a Specific Symbol
Navigating Between File Members
Navigating to a Code File
Context-Sensitive Navigation Between Symbols in Decompiled Code
Searching in Decompiled Code
Type Hierarchy
Downloading Source Code from Source Servers
Keyboard-Driven Navigation Between Tool Windows
Customizable, Rich Tool Windows
dotPeek is a new free .NET decompiler from JetBrains, the makers of ReSharper, dotTrace, and dotCover for .NET developers, as well as a family of IDEs for Java, Ruby, Python, PHP, and other languages, plus team development tools: TeamCity for continuous integration and build management and YouTrack for issue tracking.
The main idea behind dotPeek is to make high-quality decompiling coupled with powerful ReSharper-like navigation and search features to everyone in the .NET community, free of charge.
dotPeek goes public for the first time on Wednesday, May 11, as JetBrains open an Early Access Program that implies regular publishing of pre-release builds. dotPeek web site will be made available at http://www.jetbrains.com/decompiler
JetBrains are also about to include decompiling functionality into their forthcoming release of ReSharper 6. In fact, decompiling has been announced as part of ReSharper 6 back in February 2011, and available in ReSharper 6 pre-release nightly builds since then.
For all features described below, default keyboard shortcuts are specified. By default, dotPeek uses the IntelliJ IDEA shortcut scheme derived from ReSharper. dotPeek also provides shortcut scheme familiar to ReSharper users - that is, the Visual Studio shortcut scheme. You can switch between those schemes via File > Options.
dotPeek decompiles any .NET assemblies and presents them as C# code. Both libraries (.dll) and applications (.exe) can be opened via File > Open assembly.
In addition, assemblies from GlobaL Assembly Cache can be opened via File > Open from GAC. One thing to note about the Open from GAC dialog is that you can batch-select assembly items there, and you can also filter out assemblies by entering their CamelHumps - the capitals that different parts of assembly names start with. For example, to find all assemblies with names containing Microsoft.VisualStudio.Modeling in the list of GAC assemblies, you can type mvsm:
CamelHumps support is a significant concept that also spans multiple navigation features of dotPeek that are highlighted below.
dotPeek provides the Assembly Explorer to traverse the list of opened assemblies. Expanding an assembly node lists namespaces within the assembly that can be further expanded to types and type members, as well as assembly references. Note that the Assembly Explorer uses the same set of icons that are used in Visual Studio for member identification.
Clicking a reference loads the referenced assembly, if immediately available. Clicking a type or type member displays decompiled code in the source code view area.
Source code that dotPeek decompiles is presented as C#. The source code view area has the look-and-feel of editor tabs in Visual Studio, with line numbers, options for word wrap and outlining, white space marks, and tabs to open different types in.
Code syntax is highlighted ReSharper-style, with distinctive colors for properties, types, accessors, and methods.
When you put the caret on a delimiter, be it a brace or, say, parenthesis, it gets highlighted along with its counterpart, bringing focus to the scope of the particular code block you're in:
Similar to ReSharper, you can choose to highlight matching delimiters with a color or an outline. This and other code view area options can be set via File > Options.
Known Issue
Highlighting matching delimiters with an outline doesn't work in early dotPeek builds.
Another noticeable ReSharper-like feature gets handy when you want to select a part of decompiled code, and is called Extend/Shrink Selection. Using a dedicated shortcut (by default, Ctrl+W) lets you successively select expanding blocks of code, starting from a substring of a symbol, on to a statement, line, code block, and all the way to the entire code file. A pair shortcut (Ctrl+Shift+W) works the opposite way, successively narrowing a selection. Read more about this functionality as it is implemented in ReSharper.
When you explore decompiled code, you may be willing to learn more about referenced types and method calls without opening their declarations. Two coding assistance features from ReSharper will help you with that:
Edit > Parameter Information (Ctrl+P) on a method call will display all available signatures of a given method.
Edit > Show Quick Documentation (Ctrl+Q) on a usage of a type, method, property, or another type member will display an overview of its documentation comments:
The primary idea behind dotPeek is to bring ReSharper experience to browsing external assemblies and make this available to everyone. The main thing that distinguishes dotPeek from other decompilers around is that the majority of ReSharper navigation features are available in dotPeek as well. Let's take a closer look at those:
When you're loading an assembly and you don't know what you're looking for and you want to find out how things are organized within the assembly, you start off with the Assembly Explorer and you probably proceed by navigating between symbol declarations in the code view area.
However, you go a different path if you know exactly (or even approximately) which part of the assembly you need to look at - in this case, you can use one of ReSharper's "go to" context-insensitive navigation features:
Use Navigate > Go to Type (Ctrl+N) to navigate to a specific class or interface. You type in the name of the type you want to find, and dotPeek searches for a match within all loaded assemblies. Here again, the concept of CamelHumps is applicable - you don't need to type DynamicMethodGenerator to open this class - typing dmg is enough:
Use Navigate > Go to Symbol (Ctrl+Shift+Alt+N) to navigate to a specific symbol declaration, which could be a type, method, field, or property. Again, use CamelHumps to narrow down the list of symbols that dotPeek presents:
Since the number of symbols is greatly higher than that of types, and there can possibly be multiple symbols with the same name, you may want to spend a little more time investigating the list of results. One way to do that is press the plus sign (Show in Find Results) while dotPeek shows symbols in the Go to Symbol drop-down list - this will allow you to flush all found results to the Find Results tool window where you can take your time to investigate the results, group based on different criteria, copy to clipboard or export to a file.
As soon as you've opened a specific type, use Navigate > Go to File Member for a quick overview of and navigation to members in this file.
Alternatively, you can open the File Structure tool window (Windows > File Structure, or Ctrl+F11) for a static display of members in the current file.
File Structure provides additional file browsing capabilities: for example, if you set Automatically scroll to source in File Structure toolbar, every time you select a member in File Structure, the code view area scrolls to the declaration of this member.
The Track caret in editor option works the opposite way: as you move the caret within the code view area, the corresponding member is highlighted in File Structure.
You can learn more about File Structure options in ReSharper web help.
dotPeek also provides Go to File (Navigate > Go to File or Ctrl+Shift+N) to quickly open files and folders. However, it is limited to temporary files from dotPeek decompiled code cache, so you can use it as an extended tab switcher that not only works with currently opened code files but also takes into account any tabs that you've opened during the current dotPeek session.
Speaking of previously opened files, if you've recently closed a code file but you need to have it open again, there's an easy way to have it back: just choose Navigate > Recent Files (Ctrl+E) and in the resulting drop-down list, pick the file you're looking for:
dotPeek provides the same level of insight in context-sensitive navigation between decompiled code symbols as ReSharper does for source code. You navigate to symbol declarations, implementations, derived and base symbols, and any other applicable destinations just like you would in Visual Studio with ReSharper enabled.
Specifically, when you've landed the caret on a symbol, you can always get an overview of all possible navigation targets using the Navigate To drop-down menu (Navigate > Navigate To or Ctrl+Shift+G):
The majority of navigation destinations presented in the Navigate To drop-down menu are also available directly through the top-level Navigate menu.
The following context-sensitive navigation commands can be available depending on context:
Go to Declaration (Ctrl+B): this takes you from a usage of any symbol to its declaration. Should the symbol be dependent on another assembly, the assembly will be loaded silently, if available.
Go to Base Symbols (Ctrl+U): this takes you to corresponding symbols upwards the inheritance hierarchy:
Go to Derived Symbols (Ctrl+Alt+B): the opposite of base symbols, this command lets you go to any of implementing/overriding members or implementing/derived types:
Go to Implementation (Ctrl+Shift+Alt+B): allowing navigating to end implementations of types and type members, bypassing intermediate inheritance steps in the inheritance chain, such as abstract classes.
Go to Extension Methods (only available through Navigate To): shows all extension methods for a certain type.
Go to Sources from Symbol Files (only available through Navigate To): download symbol information from a source server and recreate source code. (See below for more information.)
Go to Assembly Explorer (only available through Navigate To): navigates from a type or type member in source code view to the corresponding node in the Assembly Explorer. Interestingly, this command is duplicated by another shortcut, Shift+Alt+L, that, when applied in ReSharper, locates the currently open file in the Solution Explorer.
For more details on these and other special-purpose commands available through the Navigate To drop-down menu, see ReSharper web help.
The Navigate To functionality is shared between ReSharper and dotPeek. As of early EAP, the Navigate To menu in dotPeek contains several items that are ReSharper-specific, such as Go to Related Files. These items will be removed in subsequent EAP builds.
dotPeek offers the same capabilities of searching for items in decompiled code as ReSharper offers in source code inside Visual Studio. Here's the list of features serving to find all references to a certain symbol:
Navigate > Find Usages (Alt+F7): This finds all usages of a symbol (method, property, local variable etc.) from its any occurrence, be it a declaration or one of its usages. You can invoke this command from the code view area, from the Assembly Explorer, or any other tool window. If more than a single usage is found, all usages are fetched to the Find Results tool window where you can group them in different ways, navigate between them, and open in the code view area. You can learn more about Find Usages on ReSharper web site.
Navigate > Usages of Symbol (Ctrl+Alt+F7): This is a modification on Find Usages that shows a pop-up with all found usages instead of flushing them to Find Results. This is handy when you have a limited set of usages from which you can quickly pick the one you need. It is also available via the Navigate To drop-down menu.
Navigate > Find Usages Advanced (Shift+Alt+F7): This is a zoomed-in version of Find Usages that allows you to fine-tune search criteria by limiting the scope of search and other characteristics.
As of early EAP, the Find Usages Advanced dialog box contains ReSharper-specific items. These items will be removed in subsequent EAP builds.
We've already covered Go to Derived Symbols and Go to Base Symbols above but these two features are useful when you want to go to an inheritor or a base symbol right away. What if you're looking to plainly get an overview of a certain inheritance chain? That's where the Type Hierarchy view comes handy: press Ctrl+Alt+H on a usage of any type, and dotPeek will show you all types that are inherited from it, as well as types that it inherits itself - as a tree view, in a separate tool window.
Goodness doesn't end here, though: you can select nodes in the tool window, rebase hierarchies on them; show or hide previews of type members; and switch between several hierarchy views: for example, you can opt to only show subtypes or supertypes of a given type.
Decompiled code is better than nothing (especially if it's decompiled with dotPeek) but sometimes you want to explore an assembly exactly the way it had been originally written, and be able to read comments its developers have made. Sometimes dotPeek can help with that: it is able to get symbol information and recreate source code from Microsoft Reference Source Center and SymbolSource.org. You can try calling Navigate > Navigate To > Sources from Symbol Files on a type or member and see if symbol information for this particular assembly is available. Before you do that, though, go to File > Options and select Allow downloading from remote locations.
As of early EAP testing, Microsoft Reference Source Server frequently refuses download requests from dotPeek. One particular side effect of this behavior is that the EULA dialog box is shown multiple times before a PDB download is finally rejected. We're looking to find ways to improve this highly annoying behavior.
In the best traditions of JetBrains tools, you rarely need to use a mouse when working with dotPeek: switching between the Assembly Explorer and the code view area; opening File Structure, Find Results, Type Hierarchy and other tool windows doesn't require mouse clicks: every tool window is assigned a shortcut of its own (see the Windows menu for shortcut hints), and getting back to the code view area is as easy as pressing Esc.
When it comes to customizing your workspace within dotPeek, you do need the mouse but otherwise, it's plain easy and familiar. Tool windows behave the same way they do in Visual Studio: they can be left floating or docked in multiple positions. Find Results and Type Hierarchy support multiple tabs, allowing you to have several sets of search results or hierarchies open at the same time, and File Structure content can be filtered to only display results that match a search string:
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Selena Gomez Named Billboard’s 2017 Woman of the Year
Selena Gomez Named Billboard's 2017 Woman of the Year
The singer will be honored at the annual Women in Music dinner and awards gala on Nov. 30.
Selena Gomez is Billboarda s 2017 Woman of the Year.
The two-time Billboard 200 chart-leader will be presented with the award Nov. 30 at the annual Women in Music dinner and awards gala, held at the Ray Dolby Ballroom in Los Angeles.
Gomez, an award-winning singer, producer and actress, will join an all-star cast of previous Woman of the Year honorees including Lady Gaga, Taylor Swift, Pink, Katy Perry, Fergie, BeyoncA and last yeara s winner, Madonna, who delivered a moving speech that touched on feminism, sexism and much more.
Not only is Selena soaring on the charts, but she continuously inspires young women everywhere to be authentic, give back and to not be afraid to use their voice, said John Amato, president ofA The Hollywood Reporter-Billboard Media Group. She is never afraid to speak her mind and has used her platform to advocate for the needs of others. We are thrilled to be able to honor her as our Woman of the Year.
Gomeza career has never been in better shape.A In 2015 and 2016, she enjoyed top 10A Billboard Hot 100A smashes with Same Old Love and Hands to Myself and We Dona t Talk Anymore. A The trend continues, with hits Bad Liar, Fetish (featuringA Gucci Mane) and It Aina t Me (withA Kygo) in the past year.
Five of her albums have cracked the top 10 of theA Billboard 200, with the studio albumsA RevivalA (2015) andA Stars DanceA (2013) leading the chart.
Not confined to music, Gomez also executive-produced the Netflix dramaA 13 Reasons Why, launched partnerships with Coach and Puma, and worked tirelessly across various philanthropic endeavors, from the Step Up Foundation to coaching for World Kindness Day, and raising more than $500,000 for the Lupus Research Alliance. Also, Gomez has been an active ambassador for UNICEF since 2009.
The prestigious event, held in conjunction with the publication of Billboarda s Women in Music issue, also recognizes the most powerful female executives in the industry. Additional Women in Music honorees will be unveiled in due course.
For the first time, the Women in Music event and a red-carpet pre-show will be broadcast live for on Twitter from 9pm-midnight EST on Nov. 30. Sponsors of the 2017 edition include Twitter, American Airlines, Iron Mountain Entertainment Services and Nielsen Music.
Source: http://www.billboard.com/articles/events/
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The Anatomy of a Fox News Story. Or How to Lie without Lying.
TheCriticalMind / Daily Kos (03/29/2018)
KindaKath / Flickr
Like many media outlets, Fox News is divided into news and opinion. Its wake-up show, Fox and Friends, and its nightly talking heads are unabashed promoters of whatever nonsense buoys Trump or sinks liberals. On the other hand, its news side does adhere to some standards of journalism. In other words, they don’t outright lie. But that doesn’t stop them from sailing close to the wind. It is the art of misdirection.
A classic of the type is a reference to “many people are saying”. It’s genius. It requires neither the identity nor the qualifications of the people speaking. It leaves in doubt how many there are — or even if they really exist. It’s the journalistic equivalent of Jeff Sessions’ repeated claim that he “has no recollection”. Impossible to prove wrong.
There are other techniques Fox News uses. Let’s use this news piece to illustrate them:
“Documents suggest possible coordination between CIA, FBI, Obama WH and Dem officials early in Trump-Russia probe: investigators”
The headline lays the groundwork for what’s to come. ‘Documents’ conveys a sense of weight. The next two words are equivocations: ‘suggest’ and ‘possible’. The usual suspects are introduced. The victim is presented. And it ends with the concrete but completely undefined ‘investigators’.
The writer then repeats the headline in the first paragraph of the story
Newly uncovered text messages between FBI officials Peter Strzok and Lisa Page suggest a possible coordination between high-ranking officials at the Obama White House, CIA, FBI, Justice Department and former Senate Democratic leadership in the early stages of the investigation into alleged collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia, according to GOP congressional investigators on Wednesday.
‘Documents’ has been downgraded to ‘text messages’. ‘Suggest’ and ‘possible’ survive. As does the list of perpetrators — and the victim. However, we discover that the unidentified investigators of the headline are in fact ‘GOP congressional investigators’. Was the use of the anodyne ‘GOP’ instead of ‘Republican’ an attempt to play down the political element of the investigation?
The next paragraph develops the story
The investigators say the information provided to Fox News “strongly” suggests coordination between former President Barack Obama’s Chief of Staff Denis McDonough, then-Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid, and CIA Director John Brennan — which they say would “contradict” the Obama administration’s public stance about its hand in the process.
Fox takes a hands-off approach and allows the investigators to characterize their information — which now “strongly” suggests — which is just a strong equivocation. They (still unnamed) say their information ‘would contradict’ (why don’t they say ‘does’ contradict?) the Obama’s administration’s public stance about its hand in the process.
Why is the language so convoluted? Why doesn’t Fox say what the administration’s stance is? They must want the reader to imagine whatever Obama deviousness the reader chooses to.
The story goes on to report some of the texts, none of which seem to say what Fox suggests they say. Here’s one:
Days later, on Aug. 8, 2016, Strzok texted Page: “Internal joint cyber cd intel piece for D, scenesetter for McDonough brief, Trainor [head of FBI cyber division] directed all cyber info be pulled. I’d let Bill and Jim hammer it out first, though it would be best for D to have it before the Wed WH session.”
Besides identifying D as James Comey, Fox offers no explanation for what this means. Or even why it supports the headline. Do they even know? It’s gibberish without context.
Next up is a conversation about a letter Harry Reid wrote in which he claimed to have evidence that the Russians were somehow connected to the Trump campaign. Fox’s shadowy investigators saw a nefarious purpose to Reid’s missive. Although it was again couched in watery language.
Congressional investigators suggested that the Reid letter possibly provided “cover” for the fact that the FBI and Justice Department had already begun investigating the Trump campaign in mid-July on what they called “questionable ethical and legal grounds.”
Fox is eager to cast the FBI and Justice Department as bad actors for doing their jobs. But lacking anything concrete it resorts to throwing stink bombs about “questionable ethical and legal grounds”
Fox eventually admits the whole thing is at best a fishing expedition by anonymous sources. Even as the anonymous sources themselves confess there is no there, there.
The source told Fox News on Wednesday that investigators were neither “passing judgement” nor “claiming a smoking gun,” but suggested that the timeline was “incredibly concerning.”
“At some point, the amount of concerning information becomes enough for a special counsel to look into it.”
They are not making conclusions. There is no smoking gun. The timeline is ‘incredibly concerning’. But it doesn’t rise above ‘my gut tells me there is something wrong’. And that is not the stuff of robust investigative reporting.
The evidence is clear. This is a piece of wishful thinking masquerading as a news story.
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Twelve Songs for Madiba
December 14, 2013 January 14, 2015 Prof. Colin Talbot My Life and other trivia
The passing of Nelson Mandela – Madiba – caused me great sadness. He’d been the backdrop to most of my politically conscious life from the early 1970s onwards. Music played a significant part in the struggle to overthrow apartheid and free Mandela and his colleagues. Yet already, some of this musical history is being lost. So I’ve been moved to prepare a small compilation of music that moved me – and millions – over the years. If you can, listen. Continue reading →
Mandela – a musical tribute
December 6, 2013 Prof. Colin Talbot Whitehall
I was involved in the struggle against apartheid from 1970 onwards. Whilst I was involved in all sorts of campaigns in the 70s and early 80s, it was the 1988 70th Birthday Concert for Mandela that lifted to campaign to new heights. And central to this new phase was music – joyous, liberatory, defiant, music. Below is my own, completely idiosyncratic, ‘top ten’ bits of music that – for me – symbolise the striggel against one of the world’s most evil regimes – apartheid South Africa
Nelson Mandela – Specials – the song that more than any other captured the spirit of the campaign. (join the campaign to make this the Christmas number one for 2013)
Mandela Day – Simple Minds
Mandela (live) – Hugh Masakela
Mandela – Salif Keita
Mandela – Santana
Biko – Peter Gabriel – the song that became an anthem for a new generation of anti-apartheid activists in the late 80s.
Impi – Johnny Clegg – once a song buy a despised progressive, now the unofficial anthem of the Springboks. The world turns.
Ain’t Gonna Play Sun City – Steven van Zant
You have placed a chill on my heart – Annie Lennox – a she sang it at the Birthday concert in 1988, dedicated to Madiba – chilling indeed.
Nkosi Sikelel’ iAfrika – nuff said.
Finally, I’d add a tribute to George Michael. he performed a magical set of three numbers by black artists in 1988. As he came off stage a somewhat naive TV reporter asked him “was there any significance to you choosing to cover songs from three bald artists?” To which George replied: “what do you think?”
Human Nature: our (four) Human Social Instincts
October 21, 2013 January 15, 2015 Prof. Colin Talbot Social Science
It is often said that “human’s are social animals” without really thinking what that implies. Many creatures are social, in the sense that they live in groups, but there are wide differences in what ‘social’ means – from the simple semi-chaos of herding for cattle or deer through to the elaborate, regimented, division-of-labour society of the termite or the honey bee.
Norman Geras: For Human Nature
October 18, 2013 November 16, 2016 Prof. Colin Talbot Book Review, Social Science
Norman Geras died today. Many people will never have heard of a retired politics professor from Manchester, who wrote books on obscure German revolutionaries (Rosa Luxemburg) or human nature in Marx. Some may have seen his more recent “NormBlog” or maybe even heard about his support for theIraq war. But Norman’s influence has been profound on many people, including me. I met Norman back in the early 1970s when I joined the International Marxist Group (IMG), the British section of the Trotskyist Fourth International. The Manchester branch of the IMG was a revelation to a working class boy from Barrow – full of powerful intellects like Norman and Ian Gough, and teeming with debate and ideas. I haven’t seen Norman in many years, although we did exchange some emails when I came back to Manchester a few years ago. He’d retired by then and was writing Normblog and I was busy with my academic and domestic life, with a new son to look after. We said we should meet up, but it never happened. When I found out Norman had died this morning my first reaction was to find my copy of one of his books, from 1983. Here’s why: Continue reading →
Whitehall Watch has gone, to a better place…
September 25, 2013 Prof. Colin Talbot Whitehall
Dear friends, colleagues and readers,
Whitehall Watch has gone – but just to a better place. It has now joined what will be a suite of blogs under the umbrella of Manchester Policy Blogs.
If you have come here (by mistake) then please just click this www.manchester.ac.uk/whitehallwatch and it’ll take you to the new home of Whitehall Watch.
After nearly four years and over 180,000 hits I have to say it’s been a wrench “letting go”. It has been quite a journey, with more than a few unexpected twists and turns. Above all WW has had far greater impact than I ever thought possible. And reach – it’s extraordinary that its been read in over 140 countries. But, onwards and upwards… so join me and us at our new home.
Government defeats over public money in Parliament (crowd sourcing examples)
This is an appeal for a bit of research help from Whitehall Watch’s highly knowledgeable readership…..
There is a widespread belief – often repeated in serious academic texts – that any defeat on ‘budget’ or ‘money’ motions in the House of Commons is tantamount to a vote of no confidence. I’m grateful to Prof Philip Cowley for pointing out this isn’t actually true in practice – there have been about 20 cases, at least, of defeats since 1918 (see table below) none of which was treated as a vote of confidence. Continue reading →
Britons say no to smaller state (BSA 30)
By Colin Talbot, University of Manchester
Britain is still a majority social-democratic country. That is, politically, the most significant finding of the latest British Social Attitudes survey published this week. Most people want a country which “gets and spends” about what we do now, or even more, rather than less. The BSA figures seem to contradict the often heard assertion that the British people want Scandinavian levels of public services for American levels of taxes. Continue reading →
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No. 1 Alabama has 5 players first-team AP All-SEC selections
By The Associated Press - Dec. 03, 2018 12:20 PM EST
FILE - In this Sept. 22, 2018, file photo, Alabama quarterback Tua Tagovailoa (13) scrambles for a first down against Texas A&M during the first half of an NCAA college football game, in Tuscaloosa, Ala. Tagovailoa is the offensive player of the year and one of five members of the top-ranked Crimson Tide to earn first-team honors on The Associated Press All-Southeastern Conference team, announced Monday, Dec. 3, 2018. (AP Photo/Butch Dill, File)
Alabama quarterback Tua Tagovailoa is the offensive player of the year and one of five members of the top-ranked Crimson Tide to earn first-team honors on The Associated Press All-Southeastern Conference team.
No. 16 Kentucky (No. 14 College Football Playoff ) has the SEC's defensive player of the year in linebacker Josh Allen and the coach of the year in Mark Stoops. Vanderbilt running back and Illinois transfer Ke'Shawn Vaughn was named newcomer of the year.
Alabama (13-0) is the top seed in the College Football Playoff after overcoming Tagovailoa's ankle injury to rally past Georgia 35-28 in the Southeastern Conference championship game Saturday. Kentucky (9-3) will face No. 13 Penn State (9-3, No. 12 CFP) in the Citrus Bowl on Jan. 1 after posting its highest regular-season win total since 1977.
Tagovailoa, Allen and Mississippi wide receiver A.J. Brown were unanimous first-team selections.
Tagovailoa, one of the prime contenders for the Heisman Trophy, has thrown 37 touchdown passes with only four interceptions to rank second nationally in passing efficiency. He struggled in the SEC championship game before leaving in the second half with a high ankle sprain, though coach Nick Saban is hopeful the sophomore will be ready for the Dec. 29 Orange Bowl semifinal with No. 4 Oklahoma (12-1).
Allen has recorded 14 sacks to lead all Power Five players. Brown leads the SEC in catches (85) and yards receiving (1,320).
Vaughn has rushed for 1,001 yards and 10 touchdowns while averaging 6.95 yards per carry.
Alabama players joining Tagovailoa as first-team picks include offensive tackle Jonah Williams, center Ross Pierschbacher, wide receiver Jerry Jeudy and defensive tackle Quinnen Williams.
The Crimson Tide had eight overall all-SEC selections to lead all teams. No. 6 Georgia (No. 5 CFP) had seven players earn all-SEC honors, though cornerback Deandre Baker was the Bulldogs' only first-team selection.
A panel of 28 writers and broadcasters who cover the SEC voted on the AP all-conference team.
The Associated Press All-Southeastern Conference football team, with position, name, school, height, weight, class and hometown:
u-WR - A.J. Brown, Mississippi (u), 6-1, 230, Jr., Starkville, Mississippi
WR - Jerry Jeudy, Alabama, 6-1, 192, So., Deerfield Beach, Florida
T - Greg Little, Mississippi, 6-6, 325, Jr., Allen, Texas
T - Jonah Williams, Alabama, 6-5, 301, Jr., Folsom, California
G - Bunchy Stallings, Kentucky, 6-3, 305, Sr., McComb, Mississippi
G - Tre'Vour Wallace-Simms, Missouri, 6-5, 330, Jr., East St. Louis, Illinois
C - Ross Pierschbacher, Alabama, 6-4, 309, Sr., Cedar Falls, Iowa
TE - Jace Sternberger, Texas A&M, 6-4, 250, Jr., Kingfisher, Oklahoma
u-QB - Tua Tagovailoa, Alabama, 6-1, 218, So., Ewa Beach, Hawaii
RB - Benny Snell Jr., Kentucky, 5-11, 223, Jr., Westerville, Ohio
RB - Trayveon Williams, Texas A&M, 5-9, 200, Jr., Houston
PK - Cole Tracy, LSU, 5-11, 188, Sr., Camarillo, California
All-purpose - Deebo Samuel, South Carolina, 6-0, 210, Sr., Inman, South Carolina
DE - Jachai Polite, Florida, 6-2, 242, Jr., Daytona Beach, Florida
DE - Montez Sweat, Mississippi State, 6-6, 245, Sr., Stone Mountain, Georgia
DT - Jeffery Simmons, Mississippi State, 6-4, 300, Jr., Macon, Mississippi
DT - Quinnen Williams, Alabama, 6-4, 295, So., Birmingham, Alabama
u-LB Josh Allen, Kentucky, 6-5, 260, Sr., Montclair, New Jersey
LB - Deshaun Davis, Auburn, 5-11, 233, Sr., Prichard, Alabama
LB - Devin White, LSU, 6-1, 240, Jr., Springhill, Louisiana
CB - Deandre Baker, Georgia, 5-11, 185, Sr., Miami
CB - Greedy Williams, LSU, 6-3, 184, So., Shreveport, Louisiana
S - Johnathan Abram, Mississippi State, 6-0, 215, Sr., Columbia, Mississippi
S - Grant Delpit, LSU, 6-3, 203, So., Houston
P - Braden Mann, Texas A&M, 5-11, 190, Jr., Houston
WR - Kalija Lipscomb, Vanderbilt, 6-1, 201, Jr., New Orleans
WR - Deebo Samuel, South Carolina, 6-0, 210, Sr., Inman, South Carolina
T - Martez Ivey, Florida, 6-5, 306, Sr., Apopka, Florida
T - Andrew Thomas, Georgia, 6-5, 320, So., Lithonia, Georgia
G - Zack Bailey, South Carolina, 6-6, 314, Sr., Summerville, South Carolina
G - Hjalte Froholdt, Arkansas, 6-5, 315, Sr., Svendborg, Denmark
C - Lamont Gaillard, Georgia, 6-2, 308, Sr., Fayetteville, North Carolina
TE - Jared Pinkney, Vanderbilt, Jr., 6-4, 255, Norcross, Georgia
QB - Drew Lock, Missouri, 6-4, 225, Sr., Lee's Summit, Missouri
RB - D'Andre Swift, Georgia, 5-9, 215, So., Philadelphia
RB - Ke'Shawn Vaughn, Vanderbilt, 5-10, 222, Jr., Nashville, Tennessee
PK - Rodrigo Blankenship, Georgia, 6-1, 191, Jr., Marietta, Georgia
All-purpose - Mecole Hardman, Georgia, 5-11, 183, Jr., Bowman, Georgia
DE - Isaiah Buggs, Alabama, 6-5, 286, Sr., Ruston, Louisiana
DE - Raekwon Davis, Alabama, 6-7, 316, Jr., Meridian, Mississippi
DT - Derrick Brown, Auburn, 6-5, 320, Jr., Sugar Hill, Georgia
DT - Terry Beckner Jr., Missouri, 6-4, 295, Sr., East St. Louis, Illinois
LB - De'Jon Harris, Arkansas, 6-0, 245, Jr., Harvey, Louisiana
LB - Erroll Thompson, Mississippi State, 6-1, 250, So., Florence, Alabama
LB —D'Andre Walker, Georgia, 6-3, 245, Sr., Fairburn, Georgia
CB - Cameron Dantzler, Mississippi State, 6-2, 175, So., Hammond, Louisiana
CB - Joejuan Williams, Vanderbilt, 6-3, 210, Jr., Nashville, Tennessee
S - Mike Edwards, Kentucky, 6-0, 201, Sr., Cincinnati
S - Deionte Thompson, Alabama, 6-2, 196, Jr., Orange, Texas
P - Zach Von Rosenberg, LSU, 6-5, 245, So., Lake Charles, Louisiana
Offensive Player of the Year —QB Tua Tagovailoa, Alabama
Defensive Player of the Year_LB Josh Allen, Kentucky
Newcomer of the Year —RB Ke'Shawn Vaughn, Vanderbilt (Illinois transfer)
Coach of the Year_Mark Stoops, Kentucky
u-Unanimous selection
Voting Panel:
Reggie Anderson, WLTX, Columbia, South Carolina
Ben Baby, Dallas Morning News
Matt Baker, Tampa Bay (Florida) Times
John Bednarowski, Marietta (Georgia) Daily Journal
Robert Cessna, The Eagle, Bryan-College Station, Texas
John Clay, Lexington (Kentucky) Herald-Leader
David Cloninger, The Post and Courier, Charleston, South Carolina
Joel Coleman, Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal
Pat Dooley, The Gainesville (Florida) Sun
Garland Gillen, WVUE, New Orleans
Tom Green, Alabama Media Group
Jon Hale, The Courier-Journal, Louisville, Kentucky
Bob Holt, Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
Ben Jones, The Tuscaloosa (Alabama) News
Steve Layman, WTVF, Nashville, Tennessee
Logan Lowery, Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal
Maria Martin, WSFA, Montgomery, Alabama
Dave Matter, St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Tom Murphy, Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
Patrick Murray, WBIR, Knoxville, Tennessee
Scott Rabalais, The Advocate, Baton Rouge, Louisiana
Alex Schiffer, Kansas City Star
Adam Sparks, The Tennessean, Nashville, Tennessee
Nick Suss, The Clarion-Ledger, Jackson, Mississippi
Jake Thompson, The Oxford (Mississippi) Eagle
Blake Toppmeyer, Knoxville (Tennessee) News-Sentinel
Josh Vitale, Montgomery (Alabama) Advertiser
Marc Weiszer, Athens (Georgia) Banner-Herald
More AP college football: https://apnews.com/Collegefootball and twitter.com/ap_top25
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Jake Browning
Heart of Dallas Bowl win proves Washington a team to watch in 2016
Displaying a talent level and coaching competency far above its final 7-6 record, Washington handled Conference USA West Division Champion Southern Miss 44-31 Saturday afternoon in the Zaxby’s Heart of Dallas Bowl.
The Huskies led 14-7 after one quarter and, after Southern Miss gradually pulled to a 24-24 tie with 2:47 remaining in the third quarter, pulled away from the Golden Eagles by scoring 20 of the game’s final 27 points to provide the winning margin.
The majority of Washington’s near 600 yards and near 50 points were produced by a battery — freshman quarterback Jake Browning and sophomore running back Myles Gaskin — that should place the Huskies within the myriad of 2016 preseason top 25 polls and near the top of the Pac-12 preseason rankings. Browning hit 23-of-34 passes for 284 yards with no interceptions (plus 28 rushing yards), while Gaskin was the game’s breakout star with 26 carries for 181 yards and four touchdowns.
Gaskin slipped in from two and one yards out to provide both of Washington’s first quarter scores, and his 86-yarder at the 2:26 mark of the third quarter put U-Dub on top for good. His final score, a 13-yard dash with 7:53 left in the fourth quarter, put the Huskies up 41-24, effectively stretching the game out of reach.
Browning and Gaskin’s exploits, combined with a defense that entered bowl season leading the Pac-12 in both points and yards allowed, should give Chris Petersen and company plenty of optimism as the calendar turns toward next season.
That’s not to say that, despite today’s results, Southern Miss (9-4) shouldn’t feel darned excited about its trajectory, either. Todd Monken and company tripled their win total from 2014 — and that was a major success compared to the one combined victory the 2012 and ’13 seasons saw. Junior quarterback Nick Mullens hit 25-of-38 passes 331 yards and two touchdowns with no interceptions to lead the Eagles, and Michael Thomas shined in his going-away party with nine grabs for 190 yards and two touchdowns.
Tags: Jake Browning, Myles Gaskin
The Fifth Quarter: Week 3 Rewind
By John TaylorSep 20, 2015, 2:39 AM EDT
As is the case each and every season, each and every week, any omission below is not on purpose, it’s merely intentional.
SHUT. YOUR. HOLE.
In the week leading up to the Auburn-LSU game, at least one AU defender seemed to think “it shouldn’t be difficult” containing Leonard Fournette. Yeah, that didn’t exactly work out as planned. At all.
In the first half alone, Fournette, further embedding himself in the Heisman race, rushed for a career-high 169 yards. His first carry of the game set the tone as he raced 71 yards for a touchdown on the opening play from scrimmage. The super sophomore running back would finish the day with 228 yards (on 19 carries) and three touchdowns, but not before a display of speed and power that showed just how gifted an athlete he truly is.
Outta the way, Auburn. pic.twitter.com/r6HRMYYDqH
— SB Nation GIF (@SBNationGIF) September 19, 2015
Only took six Auburn Tigers to bring down Fournette. pic.twitter.com/eWkYQTMvof
Get that man out of there. Lol Fournette that ain't fair
— deuce mcallister (@dmcallister26) September 19, 2015
Leonard Fournette told me he was fueled by a comment made before the game by an Auburn defensive player
— Joe Schad (@schadjoe) September 19, 2015
If Fournette can continue at or near this level… if the Tigers can get just average play from the quarterback position… if the defense stays stout… if all three of those things happen, LSU will be a season-long challenger to Ole Miss (?) for SEC West supremacy. Well, at least until a Nov.21 showdown in Oxford that could very well be for more than just the edge in the division.
FIRST. TIME. EVER?
While generally speaking the BYU-UCLA game was a late-night matchup of ranked teams, it was the young-gun specifics that dominated the run-up to the game.
Both teams are led by true freshman quarterbacks, the 10th-ranked Bruins with The Rosen One, Josh Rosen, and the 19th-ranked Cougars with The Miracle Maker, Tanner Mangum. Based on multiple conversations with several different individuals, it’s believed this was the first game in FBS history involving ranked teams in which both started true freshmen under center. For quite awhile, though, it appeared that the ongoing coming out party of Mangum was going to continue at the expense of the top quarterback in the Class of 2015.
Trailing 20-10 early in the fourth quarter and struggling mightily — three first-half interceptions — Rosen impressively got up off the mat, dusted himself off and tossed a touchdown pass and directed a lengthy drive that lead to another score, the latter of which came with 3:21 remaining to give the Bruins a 24-23 lead. Mangum had a shot at his third straight game-winning drive to open the season, but was intercepted by Myles Jack to ice the game and keep the Bruins unbeaten on the season.
Statistically, Mangum won the head-to-head matchup, going 30-47 for 244 yards, one touchdown and one interception while Rosen went 11-23 for a paltry 106 yards, one touchdowns and the trio of aforementioned picks. Here’s to guessing, though, that Rosen will take winning on the scoreboard over the stat sheet any day of the week and twice on Saturdays.
FIRST. TIME. EVER.
There may have been some doubt regarding the above, but there’s none on this one.
Last year at this time, Jim Harbaugh was the head coach of the San Francisco 49ers, while Tony Sanchez was the head coach at national powerhouse Las Vegas Bishop Gorman High School. Saturday, those two were on the opposite sidelines with Harbaugh as Michigan’s head coach and Sanchez UNLV’s.
Based on my research — and thanks to a subsequent confirmation from the crack sports information department in the Mountain West Conference — that’s the first time such a thing has ever happened in the history of college football, that an NFL head coach the year before had squared off against a head coach a year removed from high school.
Unfortunately for Sanchez and his Rebels, they were taken to school by the Wolverines in the Big House, dropping to 0-3 on the year courtesy of a 28-7 loss to UM.
BAKER HAS A (MAY)FIELD DAY
If Baker Mayfield wasn’t in the Heisman discussion before, he is now.
In a Saturday afternoon blitzkrieg of Tulsa, the Oklahoma quarterback accounted for 572 yards of total offense in the Sooners’ 52-31 win over the Golden Hurricane. Of that, 487 yards came through the air and 85 came on the ground. Both of those totals are career-highs for the transfer quarterback from Texas Tech.
The total offense also set a school record, breaking the old mark of 554 yards set by Landry Jones. For good measure, Mayfield added six touchdowns — four passing, two rushing.
STATE OF THE U
It was fair to say that Al Golden was on the hottest seat in America entering the 2015 season. Three games in, and not much has changed on that front. In fact, after today’s events, his ass is en fuego.
With less than nine minutes remaining, Miami held a seemingly insurmountable 33-10 lead on Nebraska. Less than 480 seconds later, the Cornhuskers had tied it up and sent it into overtime. Forget the fact that the ‘Canes were able to win in that first extra session; the meltdown at the end of the game was hauntingly reminiscent of the late-game meltdowns last season that put Golden on the hot seat in the first place.
Yes, the Hurricanes are 3-0 for the second time in Golden’s tenure and the second time since 2004, but fan unrest might be at an all-time high.
Whoa! Pregame banners already flying re Al Golden at Nebraska vs Miami 3:30et abc/espn2. pic.twitter.com/KkGGD4V2af
— RodGilmore@espn (@RodGilmore) September 19, 2015
You know how hard it is to score 36 points in a win over Nebraska and have the screaming for your head coach to lose his job grow louder?
— Dan Le Batard Show (@LeBatardShow) September 19, 2015
SATURDAY RESET
Below is a list of links for all of the Week 2 gamers posted by the CFT crew, placed in one handy and convenient space for you, our beloved and dear readers.
Stanford upends No. 6 USC, Pac-12 championship race in one fell swoop.
Missed extra point costs Texas as California outduels Horns 45-44.
No. 7 Georgia blasts undermanned South Carolina 52-20.
Corn Elder’s overtime interception saves Miami from near-disaster vs. Nebraska.
C.J. Prosise powers No. 8 Notre Dame as they get past No. 14 Georgia Tech.
No. 13 LSU runs over, around and through No. 18 Auburn.
Turnover-prone Ohio State’s hold on No. 1 in danger after slipping past NIU.
Special teams lead No. 23 Northwestern to a win at Duke, 19-10.
No Fly Zone in East Lansing as No. 4 Michigan State rolls over Air Force.
CFT TOP FIVE
A snapshot look at how my ballot would look Sunday if I, ya know, had a real vote.
1. Michigan State — Take the totality of their three-game résumé, especially the Week 2 win over Oregon, and MSU is the best team in the country and have earned the right to move into the top spot this week. I doubt they do the same in the “real” polls, but it certainly wouldn’t shock me if they did. (Last week: No. 2)
Next up: vs. Central Michigan, Sept. 26
2. Ole Miss — You beat the No. 2 team in the country, on the road, after surviving a pair of comebacks and showing some serious stones in doing so, you go from the ranks of the unranked and right into the No. 2 hole. (Last week: unranked)
Next up: vs. Vanderbilt, Sept. 26
3. TCU — Minnesota’s struggles in a close call with Kent State takes some of the shine off TCU’s 3-0 start, as did Week 3’s close call with SMU, but there’s little doubt the Horned Frogs are one of the top three or four teams in the country. With non-conference play in the books, TCU’s competition level will decidedly increase most of the next nine games. (Last week: No. 3)
Next up: at Texas Tech, Sept. 26
4. Ohio State — Defensively, OSU is playing like the defending national champs. Offensively, they’re playing like the defending national chumps. Until they get the quarterback situation untangled… and the offensive line squared away… and the play-calling in line, the Buckeyes aren’t even remotely deserving of the top spot in any poll. (Last week: 1)
Next up: vs. Western Michigan, Sept. 26
5. Oregon — Up until the loss to Stanford, I was ready to put USC in this spot. Almost pulled the trigger on Georgia, then LSU, then Alabama even with the loss, but just couldn’t. Even as they’ve already gone down in defeat, I just don’t believe there are five better teams in the country right now than the Ducks, especially as I happen to think their one loss came to the best team in football right now. (Last week: No. 5)
Next up: vs. Georgia State, Sept. 19
(Dropped out: No. 4 Alabama)
After gloating over playing eight ranked teams, Bret Bielema has watched Arkansas lose two straight to unranked teams.
— CollegeFootballTalk (@CFTalk) September 20, 2015
BACK FAT TATS OF THE MILLENNIUM
This Miami fan, apparently a card-carrying member of the plumber’s union, is indeed all in when it comes to his Hurricanes.
Gotta say: This guy is all in. pic.twitter.com/ROBJeaUv2b
— Brian Christopherson (@HuskerExtraBC) September 19, 2015
I guess you could say The U is back?
EDWIN MOSES MEMORIAL AWARD
Ezekiel Elliott‘s as dangerous a man in college football with both feet on the ground. With both feet in the air? The Ohio State running back’s equally as dangerous.
Ezekiel Elliott is just like your favorite running back. Only better. https://t.co/aH1dHRn68W
— Eleven Warriors (@11W) September 19, 2015
JAMEIS’D
Jeremy Johnson hasn’t exactly lit the college football world on fire as Auburn’s starting quarterback, and he was at his dumpster-fire best again against LSU Saturday — much to the dismay and/or chagrin of his head coach.
Get it together, Auburn! pic.twitter.com/bwcPLngMMg
It's painful for Gus to watch Jeremy Johnson, too. pic.twitter.com/wHKqw1oQRc
— Jon Solomon (@JonSolomonCBS) September 19, 2015
CO-CATCHES OF THE DAY
I couldn’t pick just one, so up first is Nevada’s Hasaan Henderson…
What. A. Catch. Nevada's Hasaan Henderson pulls in a RIDICULOUS one-handed TD catch against Texas A&M. http://t.co/CQ6eUcyZgX #SCTop10
— SportsCenter (@SportsCenter) September 19, 2015
… followed by Michigan State’s Aaron Burbridge…
ICYMI: How pretty was this @MSU_Football Aaron Burbridge highlight-reel touchdown? Brought to you by #GrubHub http://t.co/Uud2UnRf3Q
— Michigan St. on BTN (@MichiganStOnBTN) September 19, 2015
DIRTY PLAY OF THE DAY
There’s playing hard, and then there’s what Central Michigan defensive lineman Mitch Stanitzek did to Syracuse quarterback Eric Dungey in the first half of the Orange’s overtime win.
Oh man, hoping for the best for Eric Dungey. Nobody wants to see this happen to anybody 😦 http://t.co/WreN1Pe5nX pic.twitter.com/44SZZiC6hk
— Alex Alvarado (@ARAlvarado13) September 19, 2015
Stanitzek was flagged for targeting and ejected from the game. Dungey left the game with what was described as an upper-body injury and did not return.
PHOTOSHOPPED TWEET OF THE DAY
If you’re on Twitter and not following @celebrityhottub, you’re doing Twitter wrong. Case in point?
pic.twitter.com/AZwW1eK525
— Ryan Nanni (@celebrityhottub) September 19, 2015
AN URBAN STATE OF MIND
It’s been five years since Urban Meyer coached in the SEC but he’s obviously not been forgotten, at least by a certain segment of the Alabama fan base.
Oh that is ice cold. pic.twitter.com/47PkBYhvJg
— College GameDay (@CollegeGameDay) September 19, 2015
MIZZERY, THY NAME IS MIZZOU
As back-to-back SEC East champions, Missouri has yet to garner the national respect you’d think they would; Saturday, they offered a glimpse as to why. Trailing 6-2 at halftime, Mizzou “bounced back” in the second half to outlast 14-point underdog UConn 9-6. That said, it was a squalid performance for the Tigers, which this fan encapsulates in nail-on-the-head fashion.
Mizery pic.twitter.com/tBb8MCYkgD
Adding insult to the fan’s mental injury, Mizzou may have a quarterback controversy on its hand. Starter Maty Mauk was benched and replaced by freshman Drew Lock, although the latter wasn’t much more effective than the former.
MIFFED?
It doesn’t appear that Cardale Jones is very happy with what was, at least for the moment, a one-game demotion as Ohio State’s starting quarterback. Or he’s having a little fun with his in-game move behind J.T. Barrett. One of the two.
Shortly after Ohio State’s win over Northern Illinois, Jones changed his Twitter profile to the following:
A short time later, after that had gotten quite a bit of attention, Jones changed it to the following:
HE SAID IT
“Good question. And I don’t know that right now. I haven’t had time to think about it.” — Urban Meyer, when asked if he knew who his starting quarterback is after both Cardale Jones and J.T. Barrett struggled in the closer-than-expected win over Northern Illinois.
HE SAID IT, THE SEQUEL
“We’re going to evaluate everything after today. Every position. We got to get better. It ain’t just him, it’s all positions and that’s the way we’re going to operate.” — Gus Malzahn, when asked if Jeremy Johnson is still Auburn’s starting quarterback.
HE SAID IT, THE THREEQUEL
“He got ejected out of the game, so that answers that right there. I don’t know why he did that. I don’t condone that to any team, let alone to my team. I feel like it’s excessive and unnecessary, but it happened.” — Syracuse offensive lineman Omari Palmer, when asked if he thought the hit on his quarterback shown above was a cheap shot.
HE SAID IT, BONUS EDITION
“Even you all can see that.” — Gary Pinkel, to the media when asked about Missouri’s offensive struggles in the win over UConn.
HE SAID IT, THE FINAL ONE
“Offensively, we’re a mess right now.” — A succinct Jerry Kill stated following Minnesota’s 10-7 win over Kent State in which the Gophers produced just 288 yards of offense.
Three wins to start the 2015 season have pushed Ohio State’s nation’s best winning streak to 15 straight. Up next are TCU (11), Memphis (10), Michigan State (seven) and Navy (six).
On the other side of the won-loss ledger, New Mexico State owns the nation’s longest losing streak at 13 straight. UNLV is next at nine in a row, followed by FAU (eight) and Wyoming (six). Kansas, on a bye this weekend, is the not-so-proud owner of the longest losing streak amongst Power Five conference members at five straight.
MY ANNUAL REMINDER THAT…
… this remains one of the greatest notes ever from a sports information department: On Dec. 5, 2010, TCU became the only team in college football history to receive an invitation to the Rose Bowl and implode its stadium on the same day.
S.I.D NOTE OF THE WEEK
Saturday marked the first time an unranked Stanford team met a ranked USC squad since 2008, and the first such matchup at the Coliseum since 2007. It was the 14th consecutive meeting in which at least one team has been ranked.
S.I.D. NOTE OF THE WEEK II
Georgia Tech’s 134 points in the first two games set an ACC record for most points scored through the first two games of a season. The previous mark was held by Florida State in 2012 (124). The 134 points are also the most for Tech in back-to-back games since scoring 139 in 1921 wins over Davidson and Furman.
S.I.D. NOTE OF THE WEEK III
Minnesota is the only team scheduled to play both No. 1 Ohio State and No. 2 TCU (L, 23-17 on Sept. 3) in the regular season (TCU ranking at time of game). The last time Minnesota played the No. 1 and No. 2 teams in the same year was 1986. Minnesota lost 63-0 at No. 1 Oklahoma, but then won 20-17 at No. 2 Michigan.
S.I.D. NOTE OF THE WEEK IV
Toledo’s Week 2 win over Arkansas marked the first MAC win against an opponent from the SEC since 2004 (Ohio 28-16 win at Kentucky on Oct. 2, 2004).
S.I.D NOTE OF THE WEEK V
Winning on the road is always special for college football teams, but for Eastern Michigan the Week 2 48-29 victory at Wyoming was even sweeter. No player on EMU’s roster was even born the last time the squad returned to Ypsilanti with a non-conference road victory – a streak of 57 games. In 1988, the then-Hurons led by Jim Harkema posted a 17-12 non-league triumph at Football Championship Subdivision foe Youngstown State University, Sept. 10. EMU, though, has never beaten a team that was an FBS member at the time in a regular season non-conference road game.
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OFF THE CHARTS, PART II
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OFF THE CHARTS, PART III
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OFF THE CHARTS, PART IV
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OFF THE CHARTS, PART V
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Georgia Tech (69, 65) and Ole Miss (76, 73) are only the fifth and sixth Power Five teams since World War II to score 65 or more points the first two games of the season. The others are Baylor (2013), Kansas State (1998), Ohio State (1996) and Florida (1994). Baylor actually hit or exceeded that mark the first four weeks of 2013 season before being “held” to 35 in a 10-point road win over K-State.
Minnesota’s first two opponents this year (TCU and Colorado State) combined for a 22-4 record last season. That mark for wins is the most that any team faced in its first two games of the 2015 season. Only five other schools (Arkansas State, BYU, Michigan State, Oregon and Tulane) opened their season against two opponents who combined for 20 wins last year.
… with five rushing touchdowns today, Navy quarterback Keenan Reynolds now has 70 for his career, which is fourth on the FBS’ all-time list? With 10 games plus a likely bowl to go in his career, Reynolds trails Wisconsin’s Montee Ball (77), Miami of Ohio’s Travis Prentice (73) and Texas’ Ricky Williams (72).
… Bowling Green’s Matt Johnson has thrown for more than 400 yards in all three games this year? He totaled 424 in the opener against Tennessee, a career-high 491 in a win over Maryland and 443 in yesterday’s loss to Memphis.
… true freshman Jake Browning has thrown for 300-plus yards in back-to-back Washington wins, including a school-record 368 in Saturday’s win over Utah State?
… Jeremy Johnson has as many interceptions this season through three games (six) as Nick Marshall had in Auburn’s 14-game run to the BCS title game in 2013?
… the three touchdown receptions for Michigan State’s Aaron Burbridge in the Week 3 win over Air Force matched his career total entering the 2015 season? The wide receiver now has four touchdown catches on the year.
… Michigan’s Jake Rudock has thrown five interceptions in 91 attempts this season, the same number he had in 345 attempts all of last season as Iowa’s starting quarterback?
… Kansas State’s Joe Hubener made his first career start at quarterback at either the collegiate or varsity high school level last weekend in a win over UT-San Antonio? Hubener’s last start came when he was playing junior varsity football.
… last season, North Carolina did not make a field goal longer than 30 yards? This season, kicker Nick Weiler has made all five attempts from 32, 38, 47 and 48 yards (twice) in the first three games.
… Stanford wide receiver Christian McCaffrey‘s parents were both student-athletes on The Farm? Ed McCaffrey was a star wide receiver for the Cardinal who went on to star in the NFL, while Lisa McCaffrey played soccer for the Cardinal.
… with a win over Arkansas last week and one over Iowa State this week, Toledo has defeated two teams from one of the Power Five conferences in the same season for the first time in the program’s history?
… Tennessee had not scored a touchdown on both a kickoff and punt return in the same game since 1950 before doing it today against Western Carolina?
… Nebraska is the only FBS program to have at least two players selected in every NFL Draft of the Common Draft Era (since 1967)? There has also been at least one former Cornhusker on a Super Bowl roster each of the last 22 years, the most of any team in the nation.
… LSU has played its first two games this season against SEC teams for the first time in school history? The opener against McNeese State was cancelled due to weather, leaving LSU with games against SEC West rivals Mississippi State (Week 2) and Auburn (Week 3) to open the year.
… the MAC has now won a regular-season game against the Big Ten for 10 straight seasons — the longest streak in MAC history — and has 21 wins over 10 different Big Ten teams in that period?
… the 459 wins Georgia Tech has accumulated at Bobby Dodd Stadium makes it the winningest active venue in college football?
… a Minnesota quarterback has rushed for 150-plus yards eight times in the program’s history, and five of those games have happened since Jerry Kill took over in 2011? MarQueis Gray was responsible for three of those, while Chris Streveler and current starter Mitch Leidner had the other two.
… the Mountain West Conference officially refers to the Power Five conferences (ACC, Big 12, Big Ten, Pac-12, SEC) as the autonomous 5 in its press releases? And, yes, the “a” in autonomous is not capitalized in said releases and, yes, that’s just spectacular.
… Cincinnati-Miami (Ohio) is the second-oldest rivalry in the FBS, starting in 1888? The Michigan-Notre Dame rivalry predates that series by one year (1887).
… San Diego State’s Rocky Long is the only head coach serving as his own defensive coordinator, and has done so for each of his five years heading the Aztecs? On the flip side, there are five FBS head coaches who also serve as their own offensive coordinators.
… Ohio University is the only team in the FBS to have kept the same head coach (Frank Solich), offensive coordinator (Tim Albin) and defensive coordinator (Jimmy Burrow) for at least the last 10 seasons? In fact, Albin has been a part of a Solich-led staff for 15 seasons (11 at Ohio, four at Nebraska) and Burrow 13 (11 Ohio, two Nebraska).
Tags: Aaron Burbridge, Baker Mayfield, C.J. Prosise, Cardale Jones, Christian McCaffrey, Drew Lock, Ezekiel Elliott, Hasaan Henderson, J.T. Barrett, Jake Browning, Jake Rudock, Jeremy Johnson, Josh Rosen, Keenan Reynolds, Landry Jones, Leonard Fournette, MarQueis Gray, Matt Johnson, Maty Mauk, Mitch Leidner, Montee Ball
YOU CAN’T SPELL “OVERRATED” WITHOUT S-E-C
Well, technically you can, but just let me go. I’m on a roll.
Last week, the Associated Press voters turned the SEC into the only conference in that poll’s history to have 10 teams ranked in its Top 25. Most outside the South scratched their heads at such deference to the conference, but the coaches in the league ran with it in trumpeting the superior firepower their collection of teams had to offer. And then Week 2 happened.
Second-ranked Alabama looked presentable against decided underdog Middle Tennessee State (and by “presentable” think Ohio State-Hawaii), while sixth-ranked Auburn was taken to overtime, at home, by FCS Jacksonville State. No. 18 Arkansas was embarrassingly dropped at home by Toledo of the MAC, followed by 21st-ranked Missouri hanging on for a 27-20 win over an Arkansas State team that was on the wrong end of a 55-6 USC woodshedding in Week 1.
The non-conference kick-to-the-tentacles day for the SEC was punctuated by 23rd-ranked Tennessee. Up 17-3 on No. 19 Oklahoma entering the fourth quarter, the Vols gave up a pair of touchdowns to send the game into overtime. The Sooners, on the road, scored two touchdowns in the two overtime sessions while the Vols managed just one in a gut-wrenching home loss that gives UT a 2-30 record vs. AP-ranked teams since 2009.
At least No. 16 Texas A&M (56-23 over Ball State) and No. 17 Ole Miss (73-21 over Fresno State) stepped on an inferior opponent’s throat and didn’t allow them to breathe.
Based on results and not on reputation, the SEC should have, at the very most, six teams ranked in the newest AP Top 25 — my ballot, if I had one, would have four: Alabama, Texas A&M, Ole Miss and Georgia and no I didn’t forget about LSU or Auburn. And that’s no slight to that conference or any of their teams; rather, that’s a nod to some quality teams throughout college football, some that are (gasp!) better than some of the currently-ranked ones in the SEC. In a few hours, though, we’ll see how many voters can leave their biases at the door and vote for the here-and-now — without tapping into their memory banks.
Earlier this past week, we noted that Kent State head coach Paul Haynes promised that his walk-on female kicker, April Goss, would see the field at some point this season. As it turns out, some point was Saturday.
Following a Golden Flash touchdown late in the second quarter of the game against Delaware State, regular kicker Shane Hynes went out for the point after attempt. Haynes, though, called a timeout and, when the special teams unit went back out on the field, Goss trotted out along with them.
And, as they say, the rest was history.
April Goss of @KentStFootball becomes 2nd female ever to score in FBS game! pic.twitter.com/gNeBUa9Zdw
— Kent State Athletics (@KentStAthletics) September 12, 2015
As noted in the tweet, Goss became the second female to score in an FBS game. The first, Katie Hnida, originally on the roster at Colorado before transferring under what ultimately became controversial circumstances, was successful on two point-after attempts for New Mexico in 2003. Months prior to that debut, Hnida attempted an extra point in the Las Vegas Bowl — it was blocked — becoming the first female to play in an FBS game.
Congratulations to Goss for grabbing her piece of history. And a personal thank you as well for giving my nine-year-old daughter something to cheer wildly about yesterday evening.
YOU GO GIRL! PART DEAUX
Unbeknownst to many, or even most, people, the SEC made some of its own gender history Saturday night.
The SEC oversees Sun Belt Conference officiating, and utilized a crew from that conference for the Texas A&M-Ball State game because of the number of league home games this weekend. Sebrina Brunson was an alternate on that crew and, after halftime, took over an on-field spot on that crew.
A league spokesperson subsequently confirmed to the Associated Press that Brunson became the first female to ever officiate an SEC game. Kudos to the SEC for at least partially breaking down that barrier.
IRISH TITLE HOPES SNAPPED?
Entering the 2015 season, many an observer was viewing Notre Dame as a viable playoff contender. In a span of seven days, however, the Irish may have seen their postseason hopes dashed.
First, top running back Tarean Folston was ruled out for the remainder of the year because of a torn ACL suffered in the season-opening win over Texas. Then, a week later, starting quarterback Malik Zaire sustained what will be a season-ending fractured ankle in the win over Virginia. And, suffice to say, it was a painfully horrific way for Zaire’s season to come to an end.
Malik Zaire’s ankle. It doesn’t look good. #GoIrish https://t.co/YglWYKYgnB
— Matt Hayes (@Matt_HayesSN) September 12, 2015
So, for the remainder of the year, the keys to the Irish offense will be in the hands of redshirt freshman DeShone Kizer. Kizer did his part in relief of Zaire as he tossed a pair of touchdown passes, including a 39-yarder with 12 seconds left to lift ND to a 34-27 win over UVa.
That said, what would the Irish give for a do-over from Everett Golson on his transfer to Florida State? The Irish aren’t out of playoff contention by any stretch of the imagination, but the twin losses to key offensive performers makes it a significantly tougher row to hoe for the Golden Domers. Well, that and a schedule that includes games against Georgia Tech, Clemson and USC.
HARBAUGH’S GONNA HARBAUGH
For the most part, it was a kinder, gentler Jim Harbaugh in Week 1. For the home opener, the khaki gloves came off.
Late in the second quarter of Michigan’s win over Oregon State, a Wolverine was, wrongly as it turned out, flagged for roughing the punter. And, being the gentleman that he is, Harbaugh decided to gently point out that fact to the men in black & white.
And by “gently” I mean he stomped and tossed his playsheet and generally ranted and raved about what was admittedly a bad call.
For some reason, I get the feeling that’s not the last time we’ll see an animated Harbaugh roaming the Ann Arbor sidelines.
NICE, JOHNSON
He’ll get barely if any Heisman buzz, but what Matt Johnson has done the first two games of the season deserves some recognition.
In the first two games of the season, and against Power Five teams Tennessee and Maryland no less, the Bowling Green quarterback has thrown for 915 yards and eight touchdowns. 491 of those yards and six of those touchdowns came during a career-high performance in BGSU’s 48-21 upset of Maryland in College Park Saturday; his previous career-high prior to this season was 393 yards against Northern Illinois in the 2013 MAC title game.
Perhaps the most impressive part of Johnson’s early-season performance, even above the fact that it’s come against to P5 teams? He missed most of the 2014 season with a hip injury that also kept him out of spring practice this year.
Thanks in large part to Johnson, the Falcons will have to be considered not only the favorites in the MAC East but one of the teams who could potentially grab the Group of Five’s New Year’s Six bowl bid.
LESS WEAK 2
Just a little bit, though.
In the 87 games that were played opening weekend, a full 47 were FBS vs. FCS — 22 involving Power Five conference teams, 25 involving the Group of Five. A week later, that number was cut nearly in half to 25 — 15 for P5s, 10 for G5s. The power conferences will, though, get a heavy dose of the G5s in the 76 total games played this weekend (including Thursday/Friday nights), with 31 games between those two football caste systems scheduled.
Last week there were 11 games pitting P5s against each other; in Week 2, that number dipped a bit to 10. Six of those contests are non-conference matchups (Oregon State at Michigan; Washington State at Rutgers; Notre Dame at Virginia; Iowa at Iowa State; Oklahoma at Tennessee; and Oregon at Michigan State) while eight teams will open up conference play (Wake Forest at Syracuse; Georgia at Vanderbilt; Kentucky at South Carolina; and LSU at Mississippi State).
Rounding out Week 2’s 76 games are 10 G5-G5 clashes.
Spartans clips Ducks, shows Michigan State will be firmly entrenched in the playoff discussion for the foreseeable future.
And the young shall inherit the ‘Horns: Jerrod Heard, freshmen lead Texas past Rice.
No. 19 OU comes from behind, tops No. 23 Tennessee in double overtime.
Whoops Pig Sooie! Toledo shocks No. 18 Hogs, makes Bert get up close and personal with the karmic football gods yet again.
Critical mistakes cost Vanderbilt in upset bid of No. 10 Georgia.
Wild fourth quarter — 39 points, 411 yards on scoring drives alone — sees Washington State edge Rutgers.
No. 9 Notre Dame loses starting quarterback Malik Zaire to a season-ending ankle fracture, but at least escapes Virginia with win.
Ohio State’s defense props up mostly lethargic offense in shutout win over Hawaii.
Sixth-ranked Auburn survives overtime scare against FCS Jacksonville State.
Jim Harbaugh wins Ann Arbor coaching debut as Michigan beats (that other) OSU.
Dalvin Cook helps No. 11 FSU overcome sloppy performance vs. USF.
1. Ohio State — Defensively, it was as impressive a performance as there was in Week 2. Offensively… it was as impressive a defensive performance as there was in Week 2. Both quarterbacks looked tentative and uncertain in the win over Hawaii; Urban Meyer needs to get that position cleared up sooner rather than later. (Last week: No. 1)
Next up: vs. Northern Illinois, Sept. 19
2. Michigan State — You beat the seventh-ranked team in the country, you get moved right on to the heels of the defending champs. In fact, the only thing that kept me from moving the Spartans up one more spot was a less-than-impressive win over Western Michigan in Week 1. (Last week: No. 5)
Next up: vs. Air Force, Sept. 19
3. TCU — What did we learn in TCU’s 70-7 shellacking of Stephen F. Austin? The Horned Frogs are still a damn-good football team and, well, that’s about all we learned. How good TCU is might not actually be known for another month. (Last week: No. 2)
Next up: vs. SMU, Sept. 19
4. Alabama — Let me be blunt here: I flat-out whiffed on ‘Bama in Week 1. The Tide should’ve been included in the original Top Five, and I just completely forgot about them. Consider this a market correction, even as they failed to impress much in the win over Middle Tennessee State. (Last week: NR)
Next up: vs. No. 17 Ole Miss, Sept. 19
5. Oregon — Lose by three on the road to one of the Top Five teams in the country? My conscience won’t allow me to move them out quite yet, especially as the likes of Baylor and USC and Notre Dame and a handful of others undefeated teams simply don’t look better than a one-loss Oregon. (Last week: No. 5)
(Dropped out: No. 3 Auburn, my dignity for actually having Auburn ranked that high)
OFFERING ONE UP TO ST. TIMOTHY
I don’t think much needs to be added to this.
Just saw somebody spreading ashes near the Tim Tebow statue. Look at the bottom. pic.twitter.com/Y2Jszp6f1i
— Andrea Adelson (@aadelsonESPN) September 12, 2015
Hey, who am I to judge a man’s/woman’s choice for a final resting spot?
WOO PIG BINKIE!!!
In the end, Bret Bielema stuck his foot in his mouth with his in-week touting of the strength of Arkansas’ schedule and the SEC overall leading into his Razorbacks losing to Toledo. His talking also left him open to this:
Nomination for meme of the week. RT @jrisgr88 pic.twitter.com/JgiFvnirEh
— Saturday Down South (@SDS) September 13, 2015
You know what they say: live by the word, die by the meme.
BILLY MADISON GAMEDAY SIGN OF THE DAY
Michigan State fans reached back to a cinematic classic for this zinger aimed at Saturday’s opponent Oregon.
GAME DAY #DuckHunting #Boregon #GoState pic.twitter.com/Dn6n4FMkia
— John Cahalan (@cahalanj2014) September 12, 2015
As Michael Kelso is wont to say…
GAMEDAY SIGN OF THE DAY, ALL DIVISIONS
As funny as the above was to my 12-year-old self, the one below is just exceptionally well done.
"Miley Cyrus the last time Michigan won the Big Ten" pic.twitter.com/Yod4YNqVDQ
— Busted Coverage (@bustedcoverage) September 12, 2015
Ouch. Oh, and that would be Miley Cyrus circa 2004.
HELMET OF THE YEAR
I’m far from a fan of the myriad uniform combinations Oregon employs. And I’m normally not a fan of cartoon characters masquerading as college football logos. I’m a huge fan, however, of the helmet the Ducks decided to wear for the Michigan State game Saturday night.
New Galaxy White helmet w/ Combat Duck decal today @WinTheDay #DuckSwag #GoDucks pic.twitter.com/FoWccli9SL
— OREGON FOOTBALL EQ (@OregonFBequip) September 12, 2015
Nicely done, Nike. Nicely done.
THAT’S A BUTCH MOVE
Al Golden entered the 2015 season on one of the hottest coaching seats in the country. How hot does it remain? Some fans want the university to go back to the future for a savior.
Banner flies over FAU Stadium before the Canes take on the Owls: MAKE MIAMI GREAT AGAIN- BUTCH DAVIS 2016 pic.twitter.com/X6vBdQ7dKX
— WPLG Local 10 News (@WPLGLocal10) September 11, 2015
I hate the smell of desperation this early in the morning…
TELLTALE TWEET OF THE WEEK
In numbers form, this is pretty much all you need to know about the state of the Texas Longhorn football program heading into Week 2.
Best records by Texas schools since 2013: Baylor 23-4 Rice 19-9 A&M 18-9 TCU 17-9 Houston 17-10 Texas 14-13 UNT/Texas State 13-12 Tech 13-13
— Brett McMurphy (@McMurphyESPN) September 11, 2015
And yes, Mack, I know it’s not your fault and you had nothing to do with the state of affairs in Austin.
It’s not just Charlie Strong, incidentally, that has the wrath of Longhorn Nation.
"Patterson Must Go" banner flying over DKR before the Rice game. @statesman pic.twitter.com/rrKCKxAVkM
— Jay Janner (@jayjanner) September 12, 2015
What an absolute mess in Austin athletics — the “huge” win over Rice notwithstanding — none of which is Mack’s doing, of course.
“I don’t know if anybody listens to me or not, but this is mainly about the players. The guys that are out there playing, and their families that are watching it.” — Michigan’s Jim Harbaugh, following the buildup to his first home game as his alma mater’s coach and all of the pregame focus being on him.
“Let’s not go heaping too much praise on them just yet. They’re kind of like mushrooms; we like to keep them in the dark and feed them manure.” — Houston’s Tom Herman, following the “upset” win over Louisville and with the first scatological reference of the “he said it” era.
“I don’t know. I guess you ask [athletic director] Gene Smith. That’s the guy to talk to.” — Ohio State’s Urban Meyer, when asked how he thought he’s handled the Buckeyes’ quarterback situation.
“You’re a helluva player, but have some damn class. ” — Tennessee head coach Butch Jones to Oklahoma’s Eric Striker, who was seen taunting the Neyland Stadium crowd following the Sooners’ double-overtime win.
“We won the game, but that’s not acceptable. You guys should be embarrassed having to write about it.” — An unhappy Jim McElwain, following Florida’s uneven seven-point win over East Carolina in Gainesville.
Two wins to start the 2015 season has pushed Ohio State’s nation’s best winning streak to 15 straight. Up next are TCU (10), Memphis (nine), Western Kentucky (seven), Michigan State (six) and Navy (five).
The “honor” of the longest losing streak had belonged to Georgia State, which had lost 12 in a row until Saturday night’s 34-32 win over New Mexico State. The win also marked GSU’s first-ever win over an FBS-level team as an FBS team themselves. Additionally, Colorado ended its nine-game losing streak, the longest amongst Power Five teams, with a 48-14 win over UMass. With those outcomes, UNLV now owns the nation’s longest losing streak at eight straight.
… Notre Dame, UCLA and USC are the only teams that have never played a non-FBS/Div. 1-A school since the current setup was established in 1978. Following the 2016 season, and because of a conference mandate, Big Ten teams will no longer be permitted to schedule games against FCS programs.
In a claim that the great Kellen Moore can’t even make, Jake Browning became the first true freshman to win the starting quarterback spot as well as the first true freshman QB to start for head coach Chris Petersen at either his current home of Washington or his former home of Boise State.
UNLV’s Tony Sanchez is just the fifth man in the modern era of college football to move directly from being a head coach at a high school to being head coach at a university that was part of what is now known as the FBS. Sanchez, of course, only had to move across the city after going 85-5 in six seasons while leading 2014 national champion Bishop Gorman High School in Las Vegas. Jim Bradley, who passed away in August, was the first to do it when he went across town to take over at NMSU.
The meeting with UCF marked the first for Stanford against a current FBS program from the Sunshine State. Stanford faced Pensacola in 1903 and 1904 when the team was stationed in the San Francisco Bay. Stanford has won three postseason games (1986 Gator Bowl, 1993 Blockbuster Bowl, 2011 Orange Bowl) played in the state of Florida.
Thursday’s game at Western Kentucky marks Louisiana Tech’s first return to Bowling Green since 1939, a span of 76 years. That gap between trips to Bowling Green is the longest in school history between trips to a single opponent. The previous longest drought was a 62 years in between trips to Baton Rouge to face LSU (1941 to 2003) as well as 62 years before returning to New Orleans to face Tulane (1936 to 1998).
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Qadree Ollison became the first freshman in ACC history to run for 200 or more yards (207) in the Week 1 win over Youngstown State and he did it in just the second half after an injury sidelined Pittsburgh’s James Conner.
V’Angelo Bentley is the only player in Illinois history to record a kickoff return, punt return, interception return and fumble return for touchdown in his career. Harold “Red” Grange is the only other Illini player with kickoff, punt and interception returns for TDs, but he never returned a fumble for a score.
… Dalvin Cook‘s 266 yards rushing were the second-most in Florida State history? Cook’s performance is topped only by Greg Allen‘s 322 yards in 1981.
… Kentucky’s win over South Carolina in Columbia ended a 22-game losing streak in true road games?
… Miami sophomore running back Joe Yearby posted career-highs in all-purpose yards (243), rushing yards (146), receiving yards (97) and touchdowns (two, one each rushing and receiving) in the Friday night win over FAU? Fellow running back Mark Walton set a career-high for rushing touchdowns with three in that victory as well.
… Utah State’s Chuckie Keeton last weekend became the second FBS quarterback to ever start five season openers, joining Tulsa’s T.J. Rubley (1987-91)?
… Wake Forest linebacker Brandon Chubb has a brother, Bradley Chubb, who is a linebacker at North Carolina State while his cousin Nick Chubb is a star running back at Georgia? Additionally, he had another cousin who played defensive back at Georgia while his father was a linebacker at UGA.
… Washington State linebacker Peyton Pelluer‘s dad (Scott, 1977-80), grandfather (John, mid-fifties) and great-grandfather (Carl, twenties) all played for Wazzu?
… this season there are 14 individuals serving as the head coach at their alma maters? Those are Troy Calhoun (Air Force), Bryan Harsin (Boise State), John Bonamego (Central Michigan), Ruffin McNeill (East Carolina), Paul Haynes (Kent State), Jim Harbaugh (Michigan), Pat Fitzgerald (Northwestern), Mike Gundy (Oklahoma State), David Shaw (Stanford), Kliff Kingsbury (Texas Tech), Matt Wells (Utah State), Sean Kugler (UTEP), Frank Beamer (Virginia Tech) and Paul Chryst (Wisconsin).
… Oregon had been a wagering favorite for 46 straight games before they headed into their game against Michigan State as three-point underdogs? Alabama has a current streak of 69 straight games as the favorite, which is tops in the country.
… Sept. 12 marks the latest LSU has opened a season since 1998 when the Tigers beat Arkansas State 42-6 on Sept. 12? LSU’s original 2015 opener against McNeese State last weekend was cancelled due to weather in general and lightning specifically.
… UCF’s game against Stanford Saturday was its first against a team from the state of California?
… with the win over North Carolina Central, Duke has started a season 2-0 for the third straight year for the first time since a streak of six in a row from 1949-55?
… in 2014 and 2015, West Virginia posted back-to-back shutouts in home season openers at Mountaineer Field at Milan Puskar Stadium for the first time in program history?
… Washington State’s Bob Robertson is the longest-tenured radio play-by-play announcer in college football with 49 years behind the mic? The first time Robertson was on the radio call for a Wazzu game, a gallon of gas would set you back 30 cents.
… with the Illinois game originally scheduled for last Friday night delayed because of lightning, Kent State has had postponements in each of their last two road trips? The first of the two was Buffalo last November because of a snowstorm.
… there are just three Group of Five teams that have played in at least five straight bowl games? That trio consists of Boise State, Northern Illinois and San Diego State.
… there are just six teams that won’t play back-to-back home games this season? The unfortunate six are FIU, Louisiana-Monroe, Middle Tennessee, San Diego State, UMass and Western Kentucky.
… Tulsa was the first school to play in five straight New Year’s Day Bowl Games? Those were the Sun Bowl (1-1-42), Sugar Bowl (1-1-43), Sugar Bowl (1-1-44), Orange Bowl (1-1-45) and Oil Bowl (1-1-46).
… only Hawaii and New Mexico State will have all new offensive, defensive and special teams coordinators in 2015?
Friday night, and in his first career start as a sophomore, Dubois (Pa.) Beavers quarterback Matt Miller passed for what’s believed to be a national high school record 782 yards, helped lead his team to 90 points… and lost. That’s in large part because Meadville’s Journey Brown ran for 722 yards and 10 touchdowns in leading the Bulldogs to a 107-90 win over the Beavers. Deadspin.com writes that Brown “had a chance to set the national high school record [for single-game rushing yards], but the Bulldogs took a knee” at the end of the game.
Tags: Chuckie Keeton, Dalvin Cook, Everett Golson, Jake Browning, James Conner, Jerrod Heard, Joe Yearby, Kellen Moore, Malik Zaire, Matt Johnson, Matt Miller, Nick Chubb, Tarean Folston
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'Arrow': Oliver and Diggle Face a New Challenge in "Brothers in Arms" Synopsis
By Jenna Anderson - March 15, 2018 10:39 pm EDT
The CW has released a new synopsis for "Brothers in Arms", the upcoming seventeenth episode of Arrow's sixth season.
While the episode's synopsis is fairly vague, it sounds like the installment will put Oliver Queen/Green Arrow (Stephen Amell) and John Diggle/Spartan (David Ramsey) in some sort of predicament, which requires Oliver to make a "daring" decision.
There's no telling exactly what that will entail, but considering all of the balls that are currently in the air - the ongoing threat of Ricardo Diaz (Kirk Acevedo), the various infighting between the factions of Team Arrow, and the after-effects of Dig's brief stint as the Green Arrow - it will be interesting to see how things play out.
The synopsis also confirms an interesting piece of information about Curtis Holt/Mr. Terrific (Echo Kellum) -- that he will receive a new love interest. After Curtis broke things off from his husband Paul last season, it sounds like he will be happy to get back out there, even if this particular love interest apparently isn't a fan of vigilantes.
"I, for one, think it'll be great to see him get in the field in a different way, to get out there and date, and just, you know, take life one day at a time, you know, club, or just something," Kellum told ComicBook.com earlier this year. "But just go out there, have some fun, and live life for himself and, you know, try to find some happiness. Even though he doesn't need anyone to make him happy, but, he can find someone to complement his happiness and, you know, I think you'll definitely see touches of that throughout the season."
You can check out the synopsis for "Brothers in Arms" below.
OLIVER MAKES A DARING MOVE THAT COULD COST HIM EVERYTHING — Oliver (Stephen Amell) and Diggle (David Ramsey) face their biggest challenge yet. Curtis (Echo Kellum) is disappointed to find out his new boyfriend has a firm anti-vigilante stance.
Mark Bunting directed the episode written by Sarah Tarkoff & Jeane Wong (#617).
Arrow airs Thursdays at 9/8c. "Brothers in Arms" will air on April 5th.
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Characters, Antagonists, Die Hard with a Vengeance characters,
Gruber family
Terrorist leaders
Simon Gruber's terrorist group
Gruber siblings
Main Antagonists
Simon Peter Gruber
Hans Gruber (younger brother)
Katya (partner)
Colonel (formely)
Bob Thompson
Peter Krieg
Mr. Vanderfloog
Makarov PM pistol
National People’s Army (formerly)
Killed in a helicopter explosion caused by John McClane
"Birds of a feather, flock together, so do pigs and swine. Rats and mice all have their chance, as will I have mine."
―Simon Gruber [src]
Simon Peter Gruber was a former National People’s Army colonel-turned-terrorist mastermind and the older brother of Hans Gruber. He is the main antagonist in Die Hard with a Vengeance, where he pretended to be seeking revenge against John McClane through a series of elaborate riddles and tasks, when this was really a distraction from a robbery of bullion in gold bullion from the New York Federal Reserve Bank. In East Germany, Simon was in charge of an infiltration unit where he trained German soldiers to speak English and mimic American accents. His work with the East German army likely caused the bitter sibling rivalry between the two brothers, as Hans was from West Germany, perhaps separated from Simon by differing political beliefs or the construction of the Berlin Wall, which separated the two countries, possibly splitting the siblings up.
Backstory Edit
The FBI hands McClane a file on Simon.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation have dirt on Simon that describes him as an "...obscure colonel, East German army... ran an infiltration unit- the kind of thing the Nazis did at the Battle of the Bulge."
The only personal detail the FBI has on him for now is that GDR records show that Simon suffers from migraines and he goes by the name "Peter Krieg."
Die Hard with a Vengeance Edit
Simon Says Edit
"I didn't say "Simon says"."
―Simon playing "Simon Says". [src]
Simon spies on John in Wall Street.
Simon begins his plan by blowing up a department store in New York City. While the NYPD are trying to deal with this act of terrorism, Simon phones police Inspector Walter Cobb, claiming responsibility for the bomb. He then tells Cobb that he wants to play a game of "Simon Says" with Lieutenant John McClane, or another bomb will go off. He instructs McClane to go to Harlem wearing a sign board that says "I Hate Niggers". The police drop McClane off in Harlem dressed only in the sign and his boxers. Before McClane can be attacked by a street gang, a local electrical store owner Zeus Carver intervenes and rescues him. The two return to the police headquarters. "Simon," annoyed that Carver has interfered with his "well laid plan," sends both Carver and McClane on a wild goose chase around New York City, telling them the location of bombs that will blow up if the two don't reach them and solve Simon's riddles.
The Federal Reserve Plan Edit
"I should have seen it coming a mile away. This was never about revenge, it was about a goddamn heist! "
―McClane when discovering Simon's true motives [src]
Simon as "Mr. Vanderfloog".
Simon is eventually revealed to be Simon Gruber, the older brother of Hans Gruber, whom McClane dropped off the 30th story of the Nakatomi Plaza. He has singled out McClane because of his involvement in the death of his brother, and at first it seems revenge is his primary motivation. It later becomes clear, however, that Simon shares his brother's pragmatism; He is not interested in terrorism and actually intends to steal $140 billion dollars worth of gold bullion from the Federal Reserve Bank. The bombs scattered throughout the city merely act as a distraction.
When the gold is stolen, and deposited in dump trucks, Simon's henchmen flee to Canada, while Simon remains behind with his personal guard. Simon informs the police that the gold is on a ship off Long Island, which he intends to blow up, thus distributing the gold across the seabed. However, the ship contains only scrap metal, while the gold is in the dump trucks heading to Canada. When McClane and Carver make an attack on the boat, they are captured and handcuffed to a pole, with the bomb intended to blow the ship sitting directly next to them. Simon reveals that whilst he disliked his brother, he will kill McClane anyway for repeatedly meddling with his plans and he had already intended to avenge the death of Hans ("There's a difference, you know, between not liking one's brother and not caring when some dumb Irish flatfoot drops him out of a window"). He then leaves for Canada with the rest of his henchmen, leaving McClane and Carver to die on the boat.
"Say hello to your brother"
―John McClane to Simon Gruber [src]
Simon's helicopter explodes from electrical cables.
In Canada, Simon and his henchmen celebrate the successful heist, but are interrupted by the police (including McClane and Carver, who escaped the boat moments before it exploded) who find them due to an aspirin bottle Simon left McClane that had the name of the town they fled to on it. Simon and his girlfriend Katya were about to have violent sex. Whilst the soldiers leave to battle the police, Simon and Katya set off in a helicopter to kill McClane once and for all. With Katya piloting, Gruber shoots McClane's helicopter down with an M60 machine gun. As the pilot lands, McClane runs into the open, knowing that Simon only wants to kill him. McClane hides behind parked cars for cover against the bullets as Simon flies around again he aims at McClane. But before Simon can kill him, McClane shoots a transformer on a power line, sending a live wire into the rotating blades of the helicopter, electrocuting Simon, while shooting at McClane, and Katya, who was ordered to retreat, and causing them to crash the helicopter into a pylon and engulfing them in a fireball. At the same time, his men are arrested by the police and the gold recovered, ruining his plan. He and Katya are the last of his gang to lose their lives to McClane.
Simon shares a laugh with John McClane.
Simon is portrayed as highly intelligent, manipulative and calculating. Of all the villains in the series, Simon is the one who got the closest to achieving his goal. Like his brother, he is very sophisticated and savvy which makes it easy for him to preserve people. In the end, Simon's one downfall is his sadistic pleasure in toying with McClane. This eventually lead to his defeat and becomes the one problem in his near-perfect plan. While part of Simon's plan was to exact revenge upon McClane for killing his brother, it's shown later on that he wasn't very fond of Hans anyway. When McClane is captured aboard the ship, Simon agrees and laughs alongside McClane when he calls his brother an 'asshole'. He later explains that: "There's a difference between not liking one's brother, and not caring when some dumb Irish flatfoot drops him out of a window.", indicating that avenging his brother's death was bonus to him.
Simon is a military man and has little concern with killing to achieve his goals. Unlike the other villains in the series, however, Simon doesn't bother with killing if he can find any way around it. He has his men use tranquilizers to knock out everyone guarding the Federal Reserve bank and when McClane discovers that he never placed a bomb in a school, Simon explains: "I'm a soldier, not a monster", suggesting that even he couldn't let himself go so far as to potentially kill (or even put them in imminent danger) a building full of children to achieve his goals.
Simon kickstarts his next piece of the puzzle.
However, while he never directly kills any one over the course of the film, if McClane hadn't tried to get rid of the bomb on the subway train, the bomb would likely have gone off and killed all of the train's passengers, maybe even everyone at the station. It's likely that Simon had planned for McClane to dispose of the bomb, however, as traffic would be impossible to beat in order to be there in time, and also, if he hadn't detonated the subway bomb, Simon and his team wouldn't have been able to reach the money they were after.
Like Hans, Simon has a very casual reaction to death (as seen when Katya kills one of the security guards and, later on, Targo). Simon is still a very socially pleasant man considering his role as an antagonist and he often laughs and jokes around with McClane, even giving him some aspirin to help with his headache, which eventually (unbeknownst to him) contributes to his defeat.
For Simon Gruber quotes, click here.
Die Hard Wiki has a collection of images related to Simon Gruber.
Jeremy Irons portrayed Simon Gruber in Die Hard with a Vengeance.
Similarly to his brother, Hans, Simon creates a facade of very vague ideology for his operation in order to distract the authorities. He announces that he intends to blow up and sink the gold on which the world's leading economies are built, leveling the economic "playing field" (which implies very left-wing motivations). This is a complete decoy; the true intention of Simon and almost all of his troops is to steal the gold for themselves. The only exception appears to be Mathias Targo, who seems to believe that the destruction of the gold had really been the plan. McClane, however, remembering the deceptions of Hans, anticipates that the announcement is a decoy, remarking "I know the man, I know the family".
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Hans Gruber - Karl Vreski - Dwayne T. Robinson - Harry Ellis - Joe Takagi - Argyle - Ginny - Theo - Eddie - Heinrich - Alexander - Tony Vreski - Franco - Fritz - Marco - Uli - James - Kristoff - Harvey Johnson - Gail Wallens - Mitchell - Rivers - Special Agent Johnson - Agent Johnson
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Improving Ventilation and Saving Energy: Laboratory Study in a Modular Classroom Test Bed
Title Improving Ventilation and Saving Energy: Laboratory Study in a Modular Classroom Test Bed
Publication Type Report
Authors Michael G Apte, Ian S Buchanan, David Faulkner, William J Fisk, Chi-Ming Lai, Michael Spears, Douglas P Sullivan
Institution Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
The primary goals of this research effort were to develop, evaluate, and demonstrate a practical HVAC system for classrooms that consistently provides classrooms with the quantity of ventilation in current minimum standards, while saving energy, and reducing HVAC-related noise levels. This research was motivated by several factors, including the public benefits of energy efficiency, evidence that many classrooms are under-ventilated, and public concerns about indoor environmental quality in classrooms. This project involved the installation and verification of the performance of an Improved Heat Pump Air Conditioning (IHPAC) system, and its comparison, a standard HVAC system having an efficiency of 10 SEER. The project included the verification of the physical characteristics suitable for direct replacement of existing 10 SEER systems, quantitative demonstration of improved energy efficiency, reduced acoustic noise levels, quantitative demonstration of improved ventilation control, and verification that the system would meet temperature control demands necessary for the thermal comfort of the occupants. Results showed that the IHPAC met these goals. The IHPAC was found to be a direct bolt-on replacement for the 10 SEER system. Calculated energy efficiency improvements based on many days of classroom cooling or heating showed that the IHPAC system is about 44% more efficient during cooling and 38% more efficient during heating than the 10 SEER system. Noise reduction was dramatic, with measured A-weighed sound level for fan only operation conditions of 34.3 dB(A), a reduction of 19 dB(A) compared to the 10 SEER system. Similarly, the IHPAC stage-1 and stage-2 compressor plus fan sound levels were 40.8 dB(A) and 42.7 dB(A), reductions of 14 and 13 dB(A), respectively. Thus, the IHPAC is 20 to 35 times quieter than the 10 SEER systems depending upon the operation mode. The IHPAC system met the ventilation requirements and was able to provide consistent outside air supply throughout the study. Indoor CO2 levels with simulated occupancy were maintained below 1000 ppm. Finally temperature settings were met and controlled accurately. The goals of the laboratory testing phase were met and this system is ready for further study in a field test of occupied classrooms.
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‘The Prince And The Dressmaker’ Feature Rights Acquired By Universal & Marc Platt
By Anita Busch, Mike Fleming Jr
EXCLUSIVE: Universal Pictures and Marc Platt have snapped up feature rights to The Prince and the Dressmaker, a graphic novel from Jen Wang which has crossover YA elements in it and in more ways than one. The story is a sweet one, it is about the friendship between a seamstress named Frances and a Prince named Sebastian, whose parents are looking for a bride for him. We were told this was a competitive bidding situation.
However, at night, the Prince transforms: he puts on a red wig and his friend Frances’ beautiful ballgowns and goes out in Paris as Lady Crystallia — the hottest fashion icon in the city where fashion is king … or queen.
The feel-good story about two people who have a mutual admiration for design, illustrates that yes, sometimes boys wear dresses. The conflict comes when Frances realizes that she cannot be someone’s secret designer forever and she wants to realize her dreams. At the same time, she doesn’t want to hurt her friend who already has his hands full with his parents.
The book, which examines identity, love, family relationships and sexuality, was brought into the company by Marc Platt Productions’ Adam Siegel (Drive). Senior VP of production Kristin Lowe will oversee production on behalf of Universal Pictures.
This comes just a month after Lionsgate optioned the book How the Girls Guides Won The War from author J. Mills Goodloe for the production company.
Wang is repped by APA, Hansen Literary Management and law firm Jackoway Tyerman Wertheimer Austen Mandelbaum.
This article was printed from https://deadline.com/2018/04/the-prince-and-the-dressmaker-universal-marc-platt-jen-wang-1202365395/
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Tag Archives: Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Birmingham – Hodge Hill Parliamentary Constituency
Updated Official Statistics on Dementia Prevalence and Improvements to Dementia Diagnosis, Care and Research (House of Commons Library)
Summary This recently updated House of Commons Library briefing paper summarises the government’s, the NHS’s and other statutory bodies’ work to improve dementia diagnosis, care and support and research. This document presents statistics and maps on rates (and the expected … Continue reading →
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Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Liverpool - Walton Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Liverpool - Wavertree Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Liverpool - West Derby Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Llanelli Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Loughborough Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Louth and Horncastle Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Ludlow Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Luton North Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Luton South Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Macclesfield Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Maidenhead Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Maidstone and The Weald Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Makerfield Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Maldon Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Manchester - Gorton Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Manchester - Withington Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Manchester Central Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Mansfield Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Meon Valley Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Meriden Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Merthyr Tydfil and Rhymney Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Mid Bedfordshire Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Mid Derbyshire Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Mid Dorset and North Poole Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Mid Norfolk Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Mid Sussex Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Mid Worcestershire Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Middlesbrough Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Milton Keynes North Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Milton Keynes South Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Mitcham and Morden Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Mole Valley Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Monmouth Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Montgomeryshire Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Morecambe and Lunesdale Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Morley and Outwood Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Na h-Eileanan an Iar Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Neath Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the New Forest East Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the New Forest West Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Newark Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Newbury Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Newcastle upon Tyne Central Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Newcastle upon Tyne East Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Newcastle upon Tyne North Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Newcastle-under-Lyme Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Newport East Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Newport West Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Newton Abbot Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Normanton - Pontefract and Castleford Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the North Cornwall Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the North Devon Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the North Dorset Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the North Durham Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the North East Bedfordshire Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the North East Cambridgeshire Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the North East Derbyshire Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the North East Hampshire Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the North East Hertfordshire Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the North East Somerset Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the North Herefordshire Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the North Norfolk Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the North Shropshire Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the North Somerset Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the North Swindon Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the North Thanet Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the North Tyneside Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the North Warwickshire Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the North West Cambridgeshire Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the North West Durham Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the North West Hampshire Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the North West Leicestershire Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the North West Norfolk Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the North Wiltshire Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Northampton North Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Northampton South Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Norwich North Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Norwich South Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Nottingham East Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Nottingham North Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Nottingham South Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Nuneaton Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Ogmore Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Old Bexley and Sidcup Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Oldham East and Saddleworth Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Oldham West and Royton Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Orpington Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Oxford East Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Oxford West and Abingdon Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Pendle Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Penistone and Stocksbridge Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Penrith and The Border Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Peterborough Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Plymouth - Moor View Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Plymouth - Sutton and Devonport Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Pontypridd Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Poole Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Poplar and Limehouse Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Portsmouth North Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Portsmouth South Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Preseli Pembrokeshire Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Preston Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Pudsey Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Putney Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Rayleigh and Wickford Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Reading East Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Reading West Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Redcar Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Redditch Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Reigate Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Rhondda Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Ribble Valley Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Richmond (Yorks) Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Richmond Park Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Rochdale Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Rochester and Strood Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Rochford and Southend East Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Romford Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Romsey and Southampton North Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Rossendale and Darwen Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Rother Valley Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Rotherham Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Rugby Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Ruislip Northwood and Pinner Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Runnymede and Weybridge Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Rushcliffe Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Rutland and Melton Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Saffron Walden Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Salford and Eccles Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Salisbury Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Scarborough and Whitby Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Scunthorpe Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Sedgefield Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Sefton Central Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Selby and Ainsty Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Sevenoaks Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Sheffield - Brightside and Hillsborough Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Sheffield - Hallam Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Sheffield - Heeley Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Sheffield Central Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Sheffield South East Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Sherwood Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Shipley Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Shrewsbury and Atcham Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Sittingbourne and Sheppey Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Skipton and Ripon Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Sleaford and North Hykeham Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Slough Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Solihull Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Somerton and Frome Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the South Basildon and East Thurrock Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the South Cambridgeshire Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the South Derbyshire Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the South Dorset Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the South East Cambridgeshire Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the South East Cornwall Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the South Holland and The Deepings Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the South Leicestershire Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the South Norfolk Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the South Northamptonshire Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the South Ribble Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the South Shields Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the South Staffordshire Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the South Suffolk Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the South Swindon Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the South Thanet Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the South West Bedfordshire Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the South West Devon Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the South West Hertfordshire Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the South West Norfolk Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the South West Surrey Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the South West Wiltshire Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Southampton - Itchen Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Southampton - Test Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Southend West Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Southport Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Spelthorne Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the St Albans Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the St Austell and Newquay Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the St Helens North Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the St Helens South and Whiston Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the St Ives Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Stafford Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Staffordshire Moorlands Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Stalybridge and Hyde Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Stevenage Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Stockport Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Stockton North Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Stockton South Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Stoke-on-Trent Central Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Stoke-on-Trent North Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Stoke-on-Trent South Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Stone Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Stourbridge Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Stratford-on-Avon Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Streatham Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Stretford and Urmston Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Stroud Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Suffolk Coastal Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Sunderland Central Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Surrey Heath Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Sutton and Cheam Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Sutton Coldfield Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Swansea East Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Swansea West Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Tamworth Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Tatton Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Taunton Deane Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Telford Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Tewkesbury Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the The Cotswolds Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the The Wrekin Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Thirsk and Malton Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Thornbury and Yate Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Thurrock Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Tiverton and Honiton Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Tonbridge and Malling Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Tooting Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Torbay Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Torfaen Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Torridge and West Devon Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Totnes Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Tottenham Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Truro and Falmouth Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Tunbridge Wells Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Twickenham Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Tynemouth Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Uxbridge and South Ruislip Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Vale of Clwyd Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Vale of Glamorgan Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Vauxhall Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Wakefield Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Wallasey Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Walsall North Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Walsall South Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Walthamstow Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Wansbeck Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Wantage Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Warley Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Warrington North Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Warrington South Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Warwick and Leamington Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Washington and Sunderland West Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Watford Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Waveney Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Wealden Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Weaver Vale Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Wellingborough Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Wells Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Welwyn Hatfield Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Wentworth and Dearne Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the West Bromwich East Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the West Bromwich West Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the West Dorset Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the West Ham Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the West Lancashire Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the West Suffolk Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the West Worcestershire Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Westminster North Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Westmorland and Lonsdale Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Weston-Super-Mare Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Wigan Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Wimbledon Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Winchester Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Windsor Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Wirral South Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Wirral West Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Witham Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Witney Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Woking Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Wokingham Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Wolverhampton North East Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Wolverhampton South East Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Wolverhampton South West Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Worcester Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Workington Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Worsley and Eccles South Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Worthing West Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Wrexham Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Wycombe Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Wyre and Preston North Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Wyre Forest Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Wythenshawe and Sale East Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Yeovil Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Ynys Môn Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the York Central Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the York Outer Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Airedale Wharfedale and Craven CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Ashford CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Aylesbury Vale CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Barking & Dagenham CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Barnet CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Barnsley CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Basildon and Brentwood CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Bassetlaw CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Bath and North East Somerset CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Bedfordshire CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Bexley CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Birmingham CrossCity CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Birmingham South and Central CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Blackburn with Darwen CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Blackpool CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Bolton CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Bracknell and Ascot CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Bradford City CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Bradford Districts CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Brent CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Brighton & Hove CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Bristol CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Bromley CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Bury CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Calderdale CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Cambridgeshire and Peterborough CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Camden CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Cannock Chase CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Canterbury and Coastal CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Castle Point and Rochford CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Central London (Westminster) CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Central Manchester CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Chiltern CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Chorley and South Ribble CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS City and Hackney CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Coastal West Sussex CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Commissioning Board, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Commissioning Board Authority, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Commissioning Board Authority (NHSCBA), Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Corby CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Coventry and Rugby CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Crawley CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Croydon CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Cumbria CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Darlington CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Dartford Gravesham and Swanley CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Doncaster CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Dorset CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Dudley CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Durham Dales Easington and Sedgefield CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Ealing CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS East and North Hertfordshire CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS East Lancashire CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS East Leicestershire and Rutland CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS East Riding of Yorkshire CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS East Staffordshire CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS East Surrey CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Eastbourne Hailsham and Seaford CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Eastern Cheshire CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Enfield CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS England (Formerly the NHS Commissioning Board), Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Erewash CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Fareham and Gosport CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Fylde & Wyre CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Gateshead CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Gloucestershire CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Great Yarmouth & Waveney CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Greater Huddersfield CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Greater Preston CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Greenwich CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Guildford and Waverley CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Halton CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Hambleton Richmondshire and Whitby CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Hammersmith and Fulham CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Hardwick CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Haringey CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Harrogate and Rural District CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Harrow CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Hartlepool and Stockton-on-Tees CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Hastings & Rother CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Havering CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Herefordshire CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Herts Valleys CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Heywood Middleton & Rochdale CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS High Weald Lewes Havens CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Hillingdon CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Horsham and Mid Sussex CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Hounslow CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Hull CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Ipswich and East Suffolk CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Isle of Wight CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Islington CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Kernow CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Kingston CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Knowsley CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Lambeth CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Lancashire North CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Leeds North CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Leeds South and East CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS 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Outline of Government’s Work to Improve Dementia Diagnosis, Care and Research 2015 (House of Commons Library)
Summary Coinciding with publication of the Prime Minister’s Challenge on Dementia 2020, this House of Commons Library Standard Note discusses the Government’s objectives for the next five years, in relation to Government’s, NHS’s and other statutory bodies’ efforts to improve … Continue reading →
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Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Enfield North Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Epping Forest Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Epsom and Ewell Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Erewash Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Erith and Thamesmead Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Esher and Walton Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Ettrick Roxburgh and Berwickshire Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Exeter Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Falkirk East Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Falkirk West Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Fareham Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Faversham and Mid Kent Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Feltham and Heston Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Filton and Bradley Stoke Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Finchley and Golders Green Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Folkestone and Hythe Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Forest of Dean Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Fylde Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Gainsborough Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Galloway and West Dumfries Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Garston and Halewood Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Gateshead Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Gedling Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Gillingham and Rainham Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Gloucester Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Gosport Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Gower Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Grantham and Stamford Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Gravesham Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Great Grimsby Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Great Yarmouth Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Greenwich and Woolwich Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Guildford Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Hackney North and Stoke Newington Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Hackney South and Shoreditch Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Halesowen and Rowley Regis Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Halifax Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Haltemprice and Howden Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Halton Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Hammersmith Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Hampstead and Kilburn Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Harborough Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Harlow Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Harrogate and Knaresborough Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Harrow East Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Harrow West Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Hartlepool Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Harwich and North Essex Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Hastings and Rye Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Havant Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Hayes and Harlington Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Hazel Grove Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Hemel Hempstead Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Hemsworth Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Hendon Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Henley Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Hereford and South Herefordshire Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Hertford and Stortford Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Hertsmere Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Hexham Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Heywood and Middleton Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the High Peak Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Hitchin and Harpenden Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Holborn and St Pancras Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Hornchurch and Upminster Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Hornsey and Wood Green Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Horsham Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Houghton and Sunderland South Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Hove Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Huddersfield Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Huntingdon Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Hyndburn Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Ilford North Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Ilford South Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Ipswich Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Isle of Wight Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Islington North Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Islington South and Finsbury Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Islwyn Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Jarrow Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Keighley Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Kenilworth and Southam Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Kensington Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Kettering Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Kingston and Surbiton Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Kingston upon Hull East Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Kingston upon Hull North Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Kingston upon Hull West and Hessle Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Kingswood Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Knowsley Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Lancaster and Fleetwood Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Leeds Central Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Leeds East Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Leeds North East Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Leeds North West Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Leeds West Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Leicester East Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Leicester South Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Leicester West Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Leigh Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Lewes Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Lewisham - Deptford Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Lewisham East Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Lewisham West and Penge Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Leyton and Wanstead Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Lichfield Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Lincoln Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Liverpool - Riverside Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Liverpool - Walton Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Liverpool - Wavertree Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Liverpool - West Derby Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Llanelli Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Loughborough Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Louth and Horncastle Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Ludlow Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Luton North Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Luton South Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Macclesfield Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Maidenhead Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Maidstone and The Weald Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Makerfield Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Maldon Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Manchester - Gorton Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Manchester - Withington Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Manchester Central Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Mansfield Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Meon Valley Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Meriden Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Merthyr Tydfil and Rhymney Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Mid Bedfordshire Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Mid Derbyshire Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Mid Dorset and North Poole Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Mid Norfolk Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Mid Sussex Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Mid Worcestershire Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Middlesbrough Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Milton Keynes North Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Milton Keynes South Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Mitcham and Morden Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Mole Valley Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Monmouth Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Montgomeryshire Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Morecambe and Lunesdale Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Morley and Outwood Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Na h-Eileanan an Iar Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Neath Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the New Forest East Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the New Forest West Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Newark Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Newbury Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Newcastle upon Tyne Central Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Newcastle upon Tyne East Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Newcastle upon Tyne North Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Newcastle-under-Lyme Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Newport East Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Newport West Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Newton Abbot Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Normanton - Pontefract and Castleford Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the North Cornwall Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the North Devon Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the North Dorset Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the North Durham Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the North East Bedfordshire Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the North East Cambridgeshire Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the North East Derbyshire Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the North East Hampshire Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the North East Hertfordshire Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the North East Somerset Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the North Herefordshire Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the North Norfolk Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the North Shropshire Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the North Somerset Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the North Swindon Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the North Thanet Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the North Tyneside Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the North Warwickshire Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the North West Cambridgeshire Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the North West Durham Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the North West Hampshire Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the North West Leicestershire Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the North West Norfolk Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the North Wiltshire Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Northampton North Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Northampton South Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Norwich North Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Norwich South Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Nottingham East Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Nottingham North Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Nottingham South Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Nuneaton Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Ogmore Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Old Bexley and Sidcup Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Oldham East and Saddleworth Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Oldham West and Royton Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Orpington Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Oxford East Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Oxford West and Abingdon Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Pendle Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Penistone and Stocksbridge Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Penrith and The Border Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Peterborough Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Plymouth - Moor View Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Plymouth - Sutton and Devonport Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Pontypridd Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Poole Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Poplar and Limehouse Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Portsmouth North Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Portsmouth South Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Preseli Pembrokeshire Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Preston Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Pudsey Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Putney Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Rayleigh and Wickford Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Reading East Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Reading West Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Redcar Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Redditch Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Reigate Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Rhondda Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Ribble Valley Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Richmond (Yorks) Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Richmond Park Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Rochdale Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Rochester and Strood Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Rochford and Southend East Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Romford Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Romsey and Southampton North Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Rossendale and Darwen Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Rother Valley Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Rotherham Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Rugby Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Ruislip Northwood and Pinner Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Runnymede and Weybridge Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Rushcliffe Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Rutland and Melton Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Saffron Walden Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Salford and Eccles Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Salisbury Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Scarborough and Whitby Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Scunthorpe Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Sedgefield Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Sefton Central Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Selby and Ainsty Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Sevenoaks Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Sheffield - Brightside and Hillsborough Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Sheffield - Hallam Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Sheffield - Heeley Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Sheffield Central Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Sheffield South East Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Sherwood Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Shipley Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Shrewsbury and Atcham Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Sittingbourne and Sheppey Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Skipton and Ripon Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Sleaford and North Hykeham Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Slough Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Solihull Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Somerton and Frome Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the South Basildon and East Thurrock Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the South Cambridgeshire Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the South Derbyshire Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the South Dorset Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the South East Cambridgeshire Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the South East Cornwall Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the South Holland and The Deepings Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the South Leicestershire Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the South Norfolk Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the South Northamptonshire Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the South Ribble Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the South Shields Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the South Staffordshire Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the South Suffolk Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the South Swindon Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the South Thanet Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the South West Bedfordshire Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the South West Devon Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the South West Hertfordshire Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the South West Norfolk Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the South West Surrey Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the South West Wiltshire Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Southampton - Itchen Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Southampton - Test Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Southend West Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Southport Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Spelthorne Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the St Albans Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the St Austell and Newquay Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the St Helens North Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the St Helens South and Whiston Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the St Ives Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Stafford Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Staffordshire Moorlands Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Stalybridge and Hyde Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Stevenage Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Stockport Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Stockton North Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Stockton South Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Stoke-on-Trent Central Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Stoke-on-Trent North Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Stoke-on-Trent South Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Stone Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Stourbridge Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Stratford-on-Avon Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Streatham Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Stretford and Urmston Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Stroud Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Suffolk Coastal Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Sunderland Central Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Surrey Heath Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Sutton and Cheam Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Sutton Coldfield Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Swansea East Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Swansea West Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Tamworth Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Tatton Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Taunton Deane Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Telford Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Tewkesbury Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the The Cotswolds Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the The Wrekin Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Thirsk and Malton Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Thornbury and Yate Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Thurrock Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Tiverton and Honiton Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Tonbridge and Malling Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Tooting Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Torbay Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Torfaen Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Torridge and West Devon Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Totnes Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Tottenham Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Truro and Falmouth Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Tunbridge Wells Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Twickenham Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Tynemouth Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Uxbridge and South Ruislip Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Vale of Clwyd Parliamentary 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Dementia (By Age): NHS North West Surrey CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Northumberland CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Norwich CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Nottingham City CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Nottingham North & East CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Nottingham West CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Oldham CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Oxfordshire CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Portsmouth CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Redbridge CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Redditch and Bromsgrove CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Richmond CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Rotherham CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Rushcliffe CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Salford CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Sandwell and West Birmingham 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UK Regional Dementia Prevalence: Local Age Breakdowns (Alzheimer’s Society)
Summary Statistics on local dementia prevalence by local authority, clinical commissioning group and parliamentary constituency (based on 2013 data) are available, courtesy of the Alzheimer’s Society and researchers at the London School of Economics and Kings College London. The purpose … Continue reading →
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People With Dementia (By Age) in the Bognor Regis and Littlehampton Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Bolsover Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Bolton North East Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Bolton South East Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Bolton West Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Bootle Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Boston and Skegness Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Bosworth Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Bournemouth East Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Bournemouth West Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Bracknell Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Bradford East Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Bradford South Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Bradford West Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Braintree Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Brecon and Radnorshire Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Brent Central Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Brent North Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Brentford and Isleworth Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Brentwood and Ongar Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Bridgend Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Bridgwater and West Somerset Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Brigg and Goole Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Brighton - Kemptown Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Brighton - Pavilion Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Bristol East Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Bristol North West Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Bristol South Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Bristol West Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Broadland Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Bromley and Chislehurst Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Bromsgrove Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Broxbourne Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Broxtowe Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Buckingham Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Burnley Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Burton Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Bury North Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Bury South Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Bury St Edmunds Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Caerphilly Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Caithness Sutherland and Ross Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Calder Valley Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Camberwell and Peckham Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Camborne and Redruth Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Cambridge Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Cannock Chase Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Canterbury Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Cardiff Central Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Cardiff North Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Cardiff South and Penarth Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Cardiff West Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Carlisle Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Carmarthen East and Dinefwr Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Carmarthen West and South Pembrokeshire Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Carrick Cumnock and Doon Valley Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Carshalton and Wallington Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Castle Point Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Central Devon Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Central Suffolk and North Ipswich Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Ceredigion Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Charnwood Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Chatham and Aylesford Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Cheadle Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Chelmsford Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Chelsea and Fulham Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Cheltenham Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Chesham and Amersham Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Chesterfield Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Chichester Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Chingford and Woodford Green Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Chippenham Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Chipping Barnet Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Chorley Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Christchurch Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Cities of London and Westminster Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the City of Chester Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the City of Durham Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Clackmannanshire and Dunblane Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Clacton Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Cleethorpes Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Clwyd South Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Clwyd West Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Clydebank and Milngavie Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Clydesdale Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Coatbridge and Chryston Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Colchester Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Colne Valley Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Congleton Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Copeland Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Corby Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Coventry North East Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Coventry North West Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Coventry South Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Cowdenbeath Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Crawley Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Crewe and Nantwich Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Croydon Central Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Croydon North Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Croydon South Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Cumbernauld and Kilsyth Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Cunninghame North Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Cunninghame South Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Cynon Valley Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Dagenham and Rainham Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Darlington Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Dartford Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Daventry Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Delyn Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Denton and Reddish Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Derby North Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Derby South Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Derbyshire Dales Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Devizes Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Dewsbury Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Don Valley Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Doncaster Central Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Doncaster North Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Dover Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Dudley North Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Dudley South Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Dulwich and West Norwood Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Dumbarton Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Dumfriesshire Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Dundee City East Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Dundee City West Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Dunfermline Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Dwyfor Meirionnydd Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Ealing - Southall Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Ealing Central and Acton Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Ealing North Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Easington Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the East Devon Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the East Ham Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the East Hampshire Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the East Kilbride Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the East Lothian Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the East Surrey Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the East Worthing and Shoreham Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the East Yorkshire Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Eastbourne Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Eastleigh Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Eastwood Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Eddisbury Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Edinburgh Central Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Edinburgh Eastern Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Edinburgh Northern and Leith Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Edinburgh Pentlands Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Edinburgh Southern Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Edinburgh Western Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Edmonton Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Ellesmere Port and Neston Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Elmet and Rothwell Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Eltham Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Enfield - Southgate Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Enfield North Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Epping Forest Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Epsom and Ewell Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Erewash Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Erith and Thamesmead Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Esher and Walton Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Ettrick Roxburgh and Berwickshire Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Exeter Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Falkirk East Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Falkirk West Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Fareham Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Faversham and Mid Kent Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Feltham and Heston Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Filton and Bradley Stoke Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Finchley and Golders Green Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Folkestone and Hythe Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Forest of Dean Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Fylde Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Gainsborough Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Galloway and West Dumfries Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Garston and Halewood Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Gateshead Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Gedling Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Gillingham and Rainham Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Gloucester Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Gosport Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Gower Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Grantham and Stamford Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Gravesham Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Great Grimsby Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Great Yarmouth Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Greenwich and Woolwich Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Guildford Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Hackney North and Stoke Newington Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Hackney South and Shoreditch Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Halesowen and Rowley Regis Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Halifax Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Haltemprice and Howden Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Halton Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Hammersmith Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Hampstead and Kilburn Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Harborough Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Harlow Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Harrogate and Knaresborough Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Harrow East Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Harrow West Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Hartlepool Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Harwich and North Essex Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Hastings and Rye Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Havant Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Hayes and Harlington Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Hazel Grove Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Hemel Hempstead Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Hemsworth Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Hendon Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Henley Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Hereford and South Herefordshire Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Hertford and Stortford Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Hertsmere Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Hexham Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Heywood and Middleton Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the High Peak Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Hitchin and Harpenden Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Holborn and St Pancras Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Hornchurch and Upminster Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Hornsey and Wood Green Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Horsham Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Houghton and Sunderland South Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Hove Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Huddersfield Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Huntingdon Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Hyndburn Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Ilford North Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Ilford South Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Ipswich Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Isle of Wight Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Islington North Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Islington South and Finsbury Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Islwyn Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Jarrow Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Keighley Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Kenilworth and Southam Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Kensington Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Kettering Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Kingston and Surbiton Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Kingston upon Hull East Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Kingston upon Hull North Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Kingston upon Hull West and Hessle Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Kingswood Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Knowsley Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Lancaster and Fleetwood Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Leeds Central Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Leeds East Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Leeds North East Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Leeds North West Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Leeds West Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Leicester East Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Leicester South Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Leicester West Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Leigh Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Lewes Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Lewisham - Deptford Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Lewisham East Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Lewisham West and Penge Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Leyton and Wanstead Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Lichfield Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Lincoln Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Liverpool - Riverside Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Liverpool - Walton Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Liverpool - Wavertree Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Liverpool - West Derby Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Llanelli Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Loughborough Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Louth and Horncastle Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Ludlow Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Luton North Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Luton South Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Macclesfield Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Maidenhead Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Maidstone and The Weald Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Makerfield Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Maldon Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Manchester - Gorton Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Manchester - Withington Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Manchester Central Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Mansfield Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Meon Valley Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Meriden Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Merthyr Tydfil and Rhymney Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Mid Bedfordshire Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Mid Derbyshire Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Mid Dorset and North Poole Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Mid Norfolk Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Mid Sussex Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Mid Worcestershire Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Middlesbrough Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Milton Keynes North Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Milton Keynes South Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Mitcham and Morden Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Mole Valley Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Monmouth Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Montgomeryshire Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Morecambe and Lunesdale Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Morley and Outwood Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Na h-Eileanan an Iar Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Neath Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the New Forest East Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the New Forest West Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Newark Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Newbury Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Newcastle upon Tyne Central Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Newcastle upon Tyne East Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Newcastle upon Tyne North Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Newcastle-under-Lyme Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Newport East Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Newport West Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Newton Abbot Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Normanton - Pontefract and Castleford Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the North Cornwall Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the North Devon Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the North Dorset Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the North Durham Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the North East Bedfordshire Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the North East Cambridgeshire Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the North East Derbyshire Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the North East Hampshire Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the North East Hertfordshire Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the North East Somerset Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the North Herefordshire Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the North Norfolk Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the North Shropshire Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the North Somerset Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the North Swindon Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the North Thanet Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the North Tyneside Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the North Warwickshire Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the North West Cambridgeshire Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the North West Durham Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the North West Hampshire Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the North West Leicestershire Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the North West Norfolk Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the North Wiltshire Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Northampton North Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Northampton South Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Norwich North Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Norwich South Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Nottingham East Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Nottingham North Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Nottingham South Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Nuneaton Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Ogmore Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Old Bexley and Sidcup Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Oldham East and Saddleworth Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Oldham West and Royton Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Orpington Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Oxford East Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Oxford West and Abingdon Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Pendle Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Penistone and Stocksbridge Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Penrith and The Border Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Peterborough Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Plymouth - Moor View Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Plymouth - Sutton and Devonport Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Pontypridd Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Poole Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Poplar and Limehouse Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Portsmouth North Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Portsmouth South Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Preseli Pembrokeshire Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Preston Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Pudsey Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Putney Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Rayleigh and Wickford Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Reading East Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Reading West Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Redcar Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Redditch Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Reigate Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Rhondda Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Ribble Valley Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Richmond (Yorks) Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Richmond Park Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Rochdale Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Rochester and Strood Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Rochford and Southend East Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Romford Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Romsey and Southampton North Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Rossendale and Darwen Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Rother Valley Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Rotherham Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Rugby Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Ruislip Northwood and Pinner Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Runnymede and Weybridge Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Rushcliffe Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Rutland and Melton Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Saffron Walden Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Salford and Eccles Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Salisbury Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Scarborough and Whitby Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Scunthorpe Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Sedgefield Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Sefton Central Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Selby and Ainsty Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Sevenoaks Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Sheffield - Brightside and Hillsborough Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Sheffield - Hallam Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Sheffield - Heeley Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Sheffield Central Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Sheffield South East Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Sherwood Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Shipley Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Shrewsbury and Atcham Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Sittingbourne and Sheppey Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Skipton and Ripon Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Sleaford and North Hykeham Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Slough Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Solihull Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Somerton and Frome Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the South Basildon and East Thurrock Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the South Cambridgeshire Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the South Derbyshire Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the South Dorset Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the South East Cambridgeshire Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the South East Cornwall Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the South Holland and The Deepings Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the South Leicestershire Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the South Norfolk Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the South Northamptonshire Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the South Ribble Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the South Shields Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the South Staffordshire Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the South Suffolk Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the South Swindon Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the South Thanet Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the South West Bedfordshire Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the South West Devon Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the South West Hertfordshire Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the South West Norfolk Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the South West Surrey Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the South West Wiltshire Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Southampton - Itchen Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Southampton - Test Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Southend West Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Southport Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Spelthorne Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the St Albans Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the St Austell and Newquay Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the St Helens North Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the St Helens South and Whiston Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the St Ives Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Stafford Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Staffordshire Moorlands Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Stalybridge and Hyde Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Stevenage Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Stockport Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Stockton North Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Stockton South Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Stoke-on-Trent Central Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Stoke-on-Trent North Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Stoke-on-Trent South Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Stone Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Stourbridge Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Stratford-on-Avon Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Streatham Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Stretford and Urmston Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Stroud Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Suffolk Coastal Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Sunderland Central Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Surrey Heath Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Sutton and Cheam Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Sutton Coldfield Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Swansea East Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Swansea West Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Tamworth Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Tatton Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Taunton Deane Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Telford Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Tewkesbury Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the The Cotswolds Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the The Wrekin Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Thirsk and Malton Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Thornbury and Yate Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Thurrock Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Tiverton and Honiton Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Tonbridge and Malling Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Tooting Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Torbay Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Torfaen Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Torridge and West Devon Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Totnes Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Tottenham Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Truro and Falmouth Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Tunbridge Wells Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Twickenham Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Tynemouth Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Uxbridge and South Ruislip Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Vale of Clwyd Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Vale of Glamorgan Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Vauxhall Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Wakefield Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Wallasey Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Walsall North Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Walsall South Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Walthamstow Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Wansbeck Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Wantage Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Warley Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Warrington North Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Warrington South Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Warwick and Leamington Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Washington and Sunderland West Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Watford Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Waveney Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Wealden Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Weaver Vale Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Wellingborough Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Wells Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Welwyn Hatfield Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Wentworth and Dearne Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the West Bromwich East Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the West Bromwich West Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the West Dorset Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the West Ham Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the West Lancashire Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the West Suffolk Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the West Worcestershire Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Westminster North Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Westmorland and Lonsdale Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Weston-Super-Mare Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Wigan Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Wimbledon Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Winchester Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Windsor Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Wirral South Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Wirral West Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Witham Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Witney Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Woking Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Wokingham Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Wolverhampton North East Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Wolverhampton South East Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Wolverhampton South West Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Worcester Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Workington Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Worsley and Eccles South Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Worthing West Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Wrexham Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Wycombe Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Wyre and Preston North Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Wyre Forest Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Wythenshawe and Sale East Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Yeovil Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the Ynys Môn Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the York Central Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age) in the York Outer Parliamentary Constituency, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Airedale Wharfedale and Craven CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Ashford CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Aylesbury Vale CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Barking & Dagenham CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Barnet CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Barnsley CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Basildon and Brentwood CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Bassetlaw CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Bath and North East Somerset CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Bedfordshire CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Bexley CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Birmingham CrossCity CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Birmingham South and Central CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Blackburn with Darwen CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Blackpool CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Bolton CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Bracknell and Ascot CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Bradford City CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Bradford Districts CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Brent CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Brighton & Hove CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Bristol CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Bromley CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Bury CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Calderdale CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Cambridgeshire and Peterborough CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Camden CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Cannock Chase CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Canterbury and Coastal CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Castle Point and Rochford CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Central London (Westminster) CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Central Manchester CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Chiltern CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Chorley and South Ribble CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS City and Hackney CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Coastal West Sussex CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Commissioning Board, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Commissioning Board Authority, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Commissioning Board Authority (NHSCBA), Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Corby CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Coventry and Rugby CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Crawley CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Croydon CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Cumbria CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Darlington CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Dartford Gravesham and Swanley CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Doncaster CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Dorset CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Dudley CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Durham Dales Easington and Sedgefield CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Ealing CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS East and North Hertfordshire CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS East Lancashire CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS East Leicestershire and Rutland CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS East Riding of Yorkshire CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS East Staffordshire CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS East Surrey CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Eastbourne Hailsham and Seaford CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Eastern Cheshire CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Enfield CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS England (Formerly the NHS Commissioning Board), Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Erewash CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Fareham and Gosport CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Fylde & Wyre CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Gateshead CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Gloucestershire CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Great Yarmouth & Waveney CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Greater Huddersfield CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Greater Preston CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Greenwich CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Guildford and Waverley CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Halton CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Hambleton Richmondshire and Whitby CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Hammersmith and Fulham CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Hardwick CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Haringey CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Harrogate and Rural District CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Harrow CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Hartlepool and Stockton-on-Tees CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Hastings & Rother CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Havering CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Herefordshire CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Herts Valleys CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Heywood Middleton & Rochdale CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS High Weald Lewes Havens CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Hillingdon CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Horsham and Mid Sussex CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Hounslow CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Hull CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Ipswich and East Suffolk CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Isle of Wight CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Islington CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Kernow CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Kingston CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Knowsley CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Lambeth CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Lancashire North CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Leeds North CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Leeds South and East CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Leeds West CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Leicester City CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Lewisham CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Lincolnshire East CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Lincolnshire West CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Liverpool CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Luton CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Mansfield & Ashfield CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Medway CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Merton CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Mid Essex CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Milton Keynes CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Nene CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Newark & Sherwood CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Newbury and District CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Newcastle North and East CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Newcastle West CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Newham CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS North & West Reading CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS North Derbyshire CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS North Durham CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS North East Essex CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS North East Hampshire and Farnham CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS North East Lincolnshire CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS North East West Devon CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS North Hampshire CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS North Kirklees CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS North Lincolnshire CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS North Manchester CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS North Norfolk CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS North Somerset CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS North Staffordshire CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS North Tyneside CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS North West Surrey CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Northumberland CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Norwich CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Nottingham City CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Nottingham North & East CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Nottingham West CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Oldham CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Oxfordshire CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Portsmouth CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Redbridge CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Redditch and Bromsgrove CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Richmond CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Rotherham CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Rushcliffe CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Salford CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Sandwell and West Birmingham CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Scarborough and Ryedale CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Sheffield CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Shropshire CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Slough CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Solihull CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Somerset CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS South Cheshire CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS South Devon and Torbay CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS South East Staffs and Seisdon and Peninsular CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS South Eastern Hampshire CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS South Gloucestershire CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS South Kent Coast CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS South Lincolnshire CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS South Manchester CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS South Norfolk CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS South Reading CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS South Sefton CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS South Tees CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS South Tyneside CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS South Warwickshire CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS South West Lincolnshire CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS South Worcestershire CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Southampton CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Southend CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Southern Derbyshire CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Southport and Formby CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Southwark CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS St Helens CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Stafford and Surrounds CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Stockport CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Stoke on Trent CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Sunderland CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Surrey Downs CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Surrey Heath CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Sutton CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Swale CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Swindon CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Tameside and Glossop CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Telford & Wrekin CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Thanet CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Thurrock CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Tower Hamlets CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Trafford CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Vale of York CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS Vale Royal CCG, Number of People With Dementia (By Age): NHS 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Ask the experts: How do we get girls into STEM?
By Phoebe Parke, for CNN
The shortage of women in STEM industries is a growing problem
As part of Leading Women's month of STEM coverage we asked experts for a solution
Women in STEM gave us a range of solutions from toys to mentoring
Just one in seven engineers are female, only 27% of all computer science jobs are held by women, and "women have seen no employment growth in STEM jobs since 2000" reports Forbes.
Women who work in the fields of science, technology, engineering and math, and those who campaign for higher numbers of women in these fields, think they have some solutions to this growing problem.
1. "The toys and games that young girls play with mold their educational and career interests; they create dreams of future careers." says Andrea Guendelman, co-founder of Developher.
Andrea Guendelman, co-founder of Developher
"Extensive research shows that certain toys and games can help young children develop the spatial logic and other analytical skills critical to science, technology, engineering and math.
"A huge part of the reason women are not entering these fields and huge part of the solution starts at the very beginning."
2. "Introduce girls early to role models of other women In STEM" suggests Regina Agyare, founder of Soronko Solutions.
Regina Agyare, founder of Soronko Solutions
"[These women] will mentor them and introduce them to STEM through games and practical learning experiences."
3. "It's important to engage girls in STEM at an early age and keep them interested." adds Patty L. Fagin, PhD, Head of School at Stuart Country Day School of the Sacred Heart.
"Girls start out as strong in math and science as boys, but lose interest along the way; we call this the "leaky pipeline." Grow the pipeline, keep girls engaged, and we'll increase the number of women in STEM.
"Create opportunities for success and safe environments in which to fail. They'll learn to persevere and develop a growth mindset, so critical to success in STEM fields ... instead of "this is hard, I can't do it," they will believe, "I can try another way."
Patty L. Fagin, PhD, Head of School at Stuart Country Day School of the Sacred Heart
"Girls want to make a difference, so give them hands-on, real-world problem-solving activities to show STEM is relevant and fun.
"Expose girls to the different areas of STEM and provide women mentors for girls and young women, so they, in turn, will mentor other girls."
4. "There's no magic recipe for getting girls into STEM, but we know early and positive exposure makes an impact." Karen Horting, CEO and Executive Director at the Society of Women Engineers told CNN.
Karen Horting, CEO and Executive Director at the Society of Women Engineers
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Prevalence of GH deficiency in cured acromegalic patients: impact of different previous treatments
C L Ronchi, C Giavoli, E Ferrante, E Verrua, S Bergamaschi, D I Ferrari, S Corbetta, L Montefusco, M Arosio, B Ambrosi, A Spada and P Beck-Peccoz
Radiotherapy (RT) for pituitary adenomas, including GH-secreting ones, frequently leads to GH deficiency (GHD). Data on the effects of surgery alone (S) on dynamic GH secretion are limited. The aim of the study was to investigate the occurrence of GHD in acromegalic patients treated with different therapeutic options.
Design and methods
Fifty-six patients in remission from acromegaly, (33 F & 23 M, age: 54±13 years, body mass index (BMI): 28.4±4.1 kg/m2, 21 with adequately substituted pituitary deficiencies) treated by S alone (n=33, group 1) or followed by RT (n=23, group 2), were investigated for GHD by GHRH plus arginine testing, using BMI-adjusted cut-offs. Several metabolic and cardiovascular parameters (waist circumference, body fat percentage, blood pressure, fasting and post-oral glucose tolerance test glucose, HbA1c, insulin resistance and lipid profile) were evaluated in all the patients and 28 control subjects with known diagnosis of GHD.
Serum GH peak after challenge was 8.0±9.7 μg/l, without any correlation with post-glucose GH nadir and IGF-1 levels. The GH response indicated severe GHD in 34 patients (61%) and partial GHD in 15 patients (27%). IGF-1 were below the normal range in 14 patients (25%). The frequency of GHD was similar in the two treatment groups (54% in group 1 and 70% in group 2). No significant differences in metabolic parameters were observed between acromegalic patients and controls with GHD.
Severe GHD may occur in about 60% of patients treated for acromegaly, even when cured after S alone. Thus, a stimulation test (i.e. GHRH plus arginine) is recommended in all cured acromegalic patients, independently from previous treatment.
Long-term effects of radiotherapy on cardiovascular risk factors in acromegaly
Cristina L Ronchi, Elisa Verrua, Emanuele Ferrante, Gwendolyn Bender, Elisa Sala, Andrea G Lania, Martin Fassnacht, Paolo Beck-Peccoz, Bruno Allolio, Anna Spada and Maura Arosio
Radiation therapy (RT) is a useful adjuvant tool for acromegalic patients not cured by surgery and/or not responding to pharmacotherapy. However, its specific effects on cardio- and cerebrovascular morbidity are still on debate.
Retrospective analysis of 42 acromegalic patients cured after conventional radiotherapy (CRT, n=31) or radiosurgery by gamma-knife (GKRS, n=11) followed for a median period of 16.5 years (range: 2–40). Totally, 56 patients cured by surgery alone, with similar GH/IGF1 levels and duration of disease remission, served as control group.
Changes in cardiovascular risk factors, such as body mass index, glucose metabolism, insulin resistance, blood pressure, and lipid profile (pre-defined primary end point) and occurrence of new major cardio- and cerebrovascular events (secondary end point) during follow-up.
The number of obese, hypertensive, and dyslipidemic subjects increased over time only in patients cured with RT. In contrast, the glucose response to the oral glucose tolerance test and the percentage of subjects with glucose alterations improved only in controls. As expected, the percentage of patients with pituitary failure was deeply higher among RT patients than among controls (86 vs 30%, P<0.0005). Despite these findings, a similar number of RT patients and controls developed major cardio- or cerebrovascular events (4/42 vs 3/56, P: NS). No differences were found between CRT and GKRS subgroups.
Previous RT seems to be associated with a worse metabolic profile in acromegalic patients studied after a long-term follow-up. Nevertheless, a direct link between RT and cardiovascular events remains to be proven.
Influence of the d3GH receptor polymorphism on the metabolic and biochemical phenotype of GH-deficient adults at baseline and during short- and long-term recombinant human GH replacement therapy
Claudia Giavoli, Emanuele Ferrante, Eriselda Profka, Luca Olgiati, Silvia Bergamaschi, Cristina L Ronchi, Elisa Verrua, Marcello Filopanti, Elena Passeri, Laura Montefusco, Andrea G Lania, Sabrina Corbetta, Maura Arosio, Bruno Ambrosi, Anna Spada and Paolo Beck-Peccoz
A common polymorphic variant of GH receptor (exon 3 deletion, d3GHR) has been linked with increased response to recombinant human GH (rhGH) in some patients with or without GH deficiency (GHD). The aim of the study was to investigate the impact of the GHR genotype on the phenotype of GHD adults and on the metabolic effect of rhGH therapy.
Prospective study of GHD patients evaluated before and during short- (1 year, n=100) and long-term (5 years, n=50) rhGH therapy.
Effects of rhGH on IGF1 levels, body composition (body fat percentage, BF%), body mass index, lipid profile, and glucose homeostasis (fasting insulin and glucose, insulin sensitivity indexes) were evaluated according to the presence or the absence of the d3GHR variant.
The different genotype did not influence basal phenotype of GHD. Short-term rhGH determined normalization of IGF1 levels, decrease in BF%, and worsening of insulin sensitivity, independently from the presence of the d3GHR allele. A significant increase in high-density lipoprotein cholesterol occurred in the d3GHR group. Normalization of IGF1 levels and decrease in BF% were maintained after 5 years. Insulin sensitivity restored to basal values, though in d3GHR patients fasting glucose remained significantly higher than at baseline. After both 1 and 5 years, percentage of subjects with impaired glucose tolerance, similar in the two groups at baseline, decreased in fl/fl while doubled in d3GHR patients. In this last group, a long-term significant reduction in total and low-density lipoprotein cholesterol was also observed.
The functional difference of d3GHR may influence some metabolic effects of rhGH on GHD adults.
Two familial giant pituitary adenomas associated with overweight: clinical, morphological and genetic features
E Ferretti, ML Jaffrain Rea, C Asteria, D Di Stefano, V Esposito, L Ferrante, P Daniele, C Tiberti, M Gallucci, C Bosman, E Alesse, A Gulino, P Beck-Peccoz and G Tamburrano
OBJECTIVE: Pituitary adenomas are usually sporadic, although rare familial cases have been described. Here we report two first degree female cousins with giant pituitary adenoma and overweight. Both presented with secondary amenorrhoea, occasional headache and weight gain. MATERIALS AND METHODS: In both patients clinical, morphological and genetic studies were performed. Both patients underwent surgery and post-operative medical therapy with somatostatin analogues and dopamine agonist, followed by a conventional radiotherapy course. RESULTS: Clinical examination at presentation revealed an acromegaloid habitus only in the second patient. Basal and dynamic hormonal evaluation showed high serum GH and serum IGF-I values, higher in the second than in the first patient, and a mild hyperprolactinaemia only in the first patient. On optical and electron microscopy, both tumours were oncocytic adenomas, immunopositive for GH in the first patient and GH/prolactin in the second. The genetic analysis for germ-line mutations of the multiple endocrine neoplasia type 1 gene was negative. Two years after radiotherapy a remarkable shrinkage of both tumours was observed, whereas the overweight worsened in both patients, accompanied by high plasma leptin values. CONCLUSION: To our knowledge, this is the first report of familial pituitary adenomas including one case of a clinically silent GH-secreting adenoma. In addition, it provides further evidence that familial pituitary tumours can occur as a multiple endocrine neoplasia type 1 unrelated disease.
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| ERROR: type should be string, got "https://profreg.medscape.com/px/getpracticeprofile.do?method=getProfessionalProfile&urlCache=aHR0cHM6Ly9lbWVkaWNpbmUubWVkc2NhcGUuY29tL2FydGljbGUvMzk2NDI1LW92ZXJ2aWV3\nDrugs & Diseases > Radiology\nSynovial Sarcoma Imaging\nUpdated: Mar 02, 2019\nAuthor: Michael J Duh, MD; Chief Editor: Felix S Chew, MD, MBA, MEd more...\nSections Synovial Sarcoma Imaging\nPractice Essentials\nSynovial sarcoma constitutes 8-10% of all sarcomas and usually involves the extremities (as demonstrated in the images below), especially the lower extremities around the knees. Synovial sarcoma is frequently misdiagnosed as a benign condition because of its often small size, slow growth, and well-defined appearance. This malignancy is driven by a translocation between SS18 and SSX 1, 2, or 4 (hybrid transcription factor SS18:SSX). Approximately 1,000 cases a year are diagnosed n the United States, most commonly between 15 and 30 years of age. [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]\nAs with all sarcomas, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is the modality of choice because of its excellent tissue contrast and ability to depict the lesion in multiple planes. MRI is useful for evaluating the extent of the tumor and its involvement with adjacent soft-tissue structures. For instance, MRI is helpful in the differentiation of tumor from muscle tissue and in depicting the involvement of neurovascular structures, tendons, fascial/fat planes, and bone marrow. MRI is also helpful for the differentiation of recurrent soft-tissue tumors from postsurgical or postirradiation changes. Computed tomography (CT) scanning can be used in lieu of MRI in patients who have contraindications to MRI (eg, claustrophobia, pacemakers, aneurysm clips). As with MRI, CT scanning can be useful for determining the gross anatomic extent of the tumor, and this modality is also especially useful for depicting calcifications, bone invasion, or periosteal reaction. [6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14]\nAlthough MRI has proven to be valuable for the detection and staging of soft-tissue tumors, MRI signal intensity characteristics are usually nonspecific for a histologic diagnosis, with some exceptions (eg, lipomas, some liposarcomas, pigmented villonodular synovitis). Although certain signs can suggest synovial sarcoma in the differential diagnosis, MRI findings are by no means pathognomonic, and histologic analysis of the involved tissue is usually required for definitive diagnosis.\n(18)F-fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography (FDG-PET) is useful for risk assessment in several types of sarcomas. [15, 16] In a study by Lisle et al, (18)F-FDG-PET-derived maximum standard uptake value (SUVmax) ranged from 1.2 to 13.0 (median, 4.35). According to the study findings, pretherapy tumor SUV(max) predicted overall survival and progression-free survival. Patients who had an SUVmax greater than 4.35 were shown to have a decreased disease-free survival and were therefore at high risk for local recurrence and metastatic disease. [15]\n(See the images below.)\nLateral radiograph of the foot in a 60-year-old man who presented with a mass on the dorsum of his left foot. The radiograph shows a soft-tissue mass that is anterior to the talus and without obvious underlying bone erosion. Subtle faint calcifications are seen within the mass.\nAxial T1-weighted magnetic resonance image of the thigh in a 45-year-old man who presented with a large, right midthigh mass. The anterior mass is well circumscribed, with mostly homogeneous isointensity relative to the muscle. Scattered, small, hyperintense foci probably represent hemorrhage. The fat plane between the mass and the femur is preserved.\nSynovial sarcoma tumors can appear small, especially those in the hands or head and neck regions, [17, 18, 19] where they come to medical attention earlier. Often, the small size, well-defined margins, and sometimes homogeneous appearance of synovial sarcoma can lead to misdiagnosis as a benign lesion. Berquist et al found that synovial sarcoma was the malignant soft-tissue sarcoma most frequently misdiagnosed as benign. [20] Small, superficial, solid lesions should be approached as a possible sarcoma unless strong signs prove otherwise. [2, 21]\nBiopsy guidance\nThe choice of the imaging modality for biopsy guidance depends on the availability of the equipment, the expertise of the radiologist, and the characteristics of the lesion. CT scanning guidance is optimal for the biopsy of small lesions or those lesions that are near neurovascular bundles or other critical structures. Fluoroscopy is a real-time imaging modality that can be used for the biopsy of larger lesions that are easily seen on 2-dimensional radiographs. Ultrasonography can be used in select cases in which the lesion is more superficial and easily visible on real-time images. [21, 22, 23]\nThe advantages of ultrasonography over CT scanning include the following: (1) continuous real-time visualization of the needle, (2) the ability to assess regions of viable tissue by using color-flow Doppler imaging, (3) the lack of ionizing radiation, (4) the availability of ultrasound scanners, (5) the reduced procedural time, and (6) overall cost-effectiveness. In some cases in which the tumor is not easily seen on CT scans or in which visualization of the tumor in several planes is desired, MRI-guided biopsy can be performed. [21, 22, 23]\nRadiography is often the initial study obtained for the evaluation of synovial sarcoma. In 50% of patients with synovial sarcoma, radiographic findings are interpreted as normal (as potentially could occur with the image below). If an abnormality is present, the radiograph may reveal a well-defined, round or lobulated soft-tissue mass that averages approximately 8 cm in its largest dimension. [6]\nLateral radiograph of the femur in a 45-year-old man who presented with a large, right midthigh mass. This radiograph is remarkable only for a subtle soft-tissue prominence on the anterior aspect of the thigh. No calcifications are depicted.\nApproximately 30% of patients have calcifications that are detectable radiographically (as in the images below). The calcifications may be focal or spread throughout most of the tumor, and they may appear fine, stippled, or opaque.\nAnteroposterior radiograph of the hip in a patient who presented with a mass in the region of the left hip. Opaque, masslike calcifications overlying the femoral neck and inferior pubic ramus are seen.\nUncommonly, tumors can erode bone. Adjacent periosteal reaction can be seen in as many as 20% of patients. Distant metastases to bone are usually of the lytic and/or mixed variety.\nWhen the neoplasm is near a joint and causes limitation of movement, periarticular osteoporosis may be seen.\nCT scan findings are nonspecific and usually demonstrate a single round or lobulated mass with a soft-tissue density. The lesions measure approximately 3-12 cm in their largest dimension and are usually found near a joint. Masses in the head and neck or distal extremities are smaller at presentation, presumably secondary to an early mass effect.\nThe mass is usually well defined (as in the CT scans below) but can occasionally appear infiltrative and can be homogeneous and show homogeneous enhancement, particularly in smaller lesions; alternatively, if hemorrhage or necrosis has occurred, the lesion may be multiloculated and show heterogeneous enhancement. [18, 24, 9]\nComputed tomography scan through the right thigh. This image demonstrates a round, noncalcified, well-circumscribed mass that displaces, rather than invades, the surrounding muscles. The mass appears to be separate from the bone.\nComputed tomography scan of the thigh in a 45-year-old man who presented with a large, right midthigh mass. A well-defined mass is seen on the anterior aspect of the thigh and appears to be mostly isodense relative to the muscle, with curvilinear areas of slightly increased density. The mass appears apposed to the underlying bone.\nCalcifications are demonstrated in 30% of patients [1] ; typically, diffuse punctate calcifications are revealed. These are often more concentrated at the periphery than at the center. Extensive calcifications can be similar in appearance to osteosarcoma or a calcified chondroid lesion. Densely calcified lesions, when found near a joint, may simulate tumoral calcinosis. Areas of calcification are seen in the image below.\nComputed tomography scan of the hip in a patient who presented with a mass in the region of the left hip. The scan was obtained through the mass and demonstrates masslike areas of calcification within the muscle density in the region of the left obturator externus muscle.\nInvolvement of the adjacent bone can cause changes, including cortical invasion with a wide zone of transition, bone remodeling from pressure erosion, and/or adjacent periosteal reaction.\nSynovial sarcoma tumors tend to be large, averaging approximately 8 cm in their largest dimension, which is usually parallel to the long axis of the body. Approximately 91% of patients have a well-defined, ovoid lesion with rounded or gently lobulated margins (see the image below). [24] The effect on adjacent structures is usually displacement, rather than invasion or destruction. [9]\nMost tumors display a heterogeneous intermediate signal intensity on T1-weighted MRIs. Lesions smaller than 5 cm are more likely to have a predominantly homogeneous signal intensity that is similar to that of the adjacent muscle (as in the above image). Larger lesions are most often heterogeneous secondary to extensive areas of hemorrhage and necrosis, a characteristic seen in the image below.\nSagittal T1-weighted magnetic resonance image of the thigh in a patient with a mass in the anterior left upper thigh and/or inguinal region. The image shows large areas of hemorrhage and necrosis, with intermediate signal intensity on a background of a muscle-intensity mass.\nOn T2-weighted images, lesions are usually hyperintense, with a signal intensity similar to or higher than that of fatty tissue (as in the first image below). Considerable inhomogeneity is demonstrated in 82% of lesions, with cystic components seen in 77% (as demonstrated in the second and third images below). Cystic components with striking fluid-fluid levels are demonstrated in 18% of tumors. [24]\nSagittal T2-weighted magnetic resonance image of the foot in a 60-year-old man who presented with a mass on the dorsum of his left foot. The mass shows predominantly high signal intensity that is hyperintense relative to fat. Scattered areas of hypointensity probably represent calcifications.\nCoronal T2-weighted magnetic resonance image of the thigh in a 45-year-old man who presented with a large midthigh mass on the right. On this T2-weighted image, the mass has become markedly heterogeneous, with high signal intensity depicting cystic regions of hemorrhage and necrosis. Note that portions of the mass are hyperintense relative to the subcutaneous fat. The location of the mass is somewhat atypical because it is centered at the level of the midshaft rather than near a joint.\nAxial T2-weighted magnetic resonance image of the hip in a patient with a mass in the anterior left upper thigh and/or inguinal region. The mass is inseparable from the underlying femoral cortex and contains strikingly hyperintense cystic areas with irregular septa of intermediate signal intensity.\nApproximately one third of lesions demonstrate the \"triple signal pattern\" on T2-weighted images; this pattern consists of a combination of (1) hyperintense fluid within cystic components, with or without fluid levels, (2) intermediate signal tissue similar in intensity to that of muscle, and (3) slightly hypointense tissue similar in intensity to that of fibrous tissue.\nApposition to bone surfaces without a clear plane of separation is seen in 50-59% of cases, with clear bone erosion (as seen in the superior talus in the image below) or destruction in 22%. Calcifications are not easily seen on MRIs and, when visible, are usually hypointense on all sequences.\nCoronal T1-weighted magnetic resonance image of the foot in a 60-year-old man who presented with a mass on the dorsum of his left foot. A rounded, soft-tissue mass is seen eroding the cortex of the superior talus. The mass is predominantly isointense relative to the muscle, with scattered areas of hyperintensity that are consistent with hemorrhage.\nThe use of gadolinium-based contrast agents has a limited value in the evaluation of synovial sarcomas. On dynamic imaging, malignant soft-tissue masses have been shown to enhance earlier, faster, and more predominantly peripherally than benign lesions. [25] These findings are believed to be secondary to the effects of tumor angiogenesis. Synovial sarcomas usually demonstrate heterogeneous contrast enhancement, with early enhancement of tumor within 7 seconds of arterial enhancement. [25]\nGadolinium-based agents may be helpful in posttreatment MRIs, in which mild, diffuse, nonfocal contrast enhancement is a typical finding. With recurrent disease, focal nodules with homogeneous enhancement and high signal intensity without cystic components are typically seen on T2-weighted images.\nGadolinium-based contrast agents have been linked to the development of nephrogenic systemic fibrosis (NSF) or nephrogenic fibrosing dermopathy (NFD). For more information, see the eMedicine topic Nephrogenic Systemic Fibrosis. The disease has occurred in patients with moderate to end-stage renal disease after being given a gadolinium-based contrast agent to enhance MRI or MRA scans. NSF/NFD is a debilitating and sometimes fatal disease. Characteristics include red or dark patches on the skin; burning, itching, swelling, hardening, and tightening of the skin; yellow spots on the whites of the eyes; joint stiffness with trouble moving or straightening the arms, hands, legs, or feet; pain deep in the hip bones or ribs; and muscle weakness. For more information, see Medscape.\nUltrasonography does not play a significant role in the evaluation of synovial sarcomas. The imaging characteristics cannot be used to establish a precise diagnosis. Grossly, sonograms can provide information regarding the size and consistency of a soft-tissue mass (eg, differentiating cystic from solid masses or a localized mass from diffuse edema). Most commonly, a well-circumscribed, heterogeneous mass, with or without cystic components, is seen.\nUltrasonography can be useful as a real-time imaging technique for guiding diagnostic needle biopsy, especially in large heterogeneous tumors. Color-flow Doppler ultrasonography reveals blood flow in solid soft-tissue masses. [26] Studies have shown that findings in color-flow Doppler ultrasonography are not specific for differentiating benign from malignant tumors; however, the technique may be useful for monitoring the regression of tumor neovascularity after the administration of chemotherapy or irradiation.\n(18)F-fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography (FDG-PET) is useful for risk assessment in several types of sarcomas. In a study by Lisle et al, (18)F-FDG-PET-derived maximum standard uptake value (SUVmax) ranged from 1.2 to 13.0 (median, 4.35). According to the study findings, pretherapy tumor SUV(max) predicted overall survival and progression-free survival. Patients who had an SUVmax greater than 4.35 were shown to have a decreased disease-free survival and were therefore at high risk for local recurrence and metastatic disease. [15]\nIn a retrospective study of 212 patients (160 patients with soft-tissue sarcomas, 52 patients with osseous sarcomas), Charest et al evaluated, on the basis of fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG) avidity, the sensitivity of FDG positron emission tomography/CT (PET/CT) scanning for the detection of soft-tissue and osseous sarcomas. Among the study's results, the authors determined that FDG-PET/CT scanning had a sensitivity of 80% for synovial sarcomas. [27]\nAngiography does not play a significant role in the evaluation of synovial sarcoma. Angiography allows the gross evaluation of the tumor's size and vascularity. The tumor appears as a soft-tissue mass with a fine network of tumor vessels and an inhomogeneous capillary blush. The degree of vascularity may vary according to the histopathology.\nOne study reported that monophasic tumors of synovial sarcoma demonstrate a higher degree of neovascularity than do biphasic tumors. [28]\nWhat is synovial sarcoma?\nWhat is the role of imaging in the diagnosis of synovial sarcoma?\nWhy are synovial sarcomas the most frequently misdiagnosed soft-tissue carcinoma?\nWhich imaging modalities should be used to guide biopsy of suspected synovial sarcoma?\nWhich radiology findings are characteristic of synovial sarcoma?\nWhich CT findings are characteristic of synovial sarcoma?\nWhich MRI findings are characteristic of synovial sarcoma?\nWhat is the role of gadolinium-based contrast agents in synovial sarcoma imaging?\nWhat is the role of ultrasonography in the diagnosis of synovial sarcoma?\nWhat is the role of nuclear imaging in the diagnosis of synovial sarcoma?\nWhat is the role of angiography in the diagnosis of synovial sarcoma?\nMurphey MD, Gibson MS, Jennings BT, et al. From the archives of the AFIP: Imaging of synovial sarcoma with radiologic-pathologic correlation. Radiographics. 2006 Sep-Oct. 26(5):1543-65. [Medline].\nFerrari A, Gronchi A, Casanova M, et al. Synovial sarcoma: a retrospective analysis of 271 patients of all ages treated at a single institution. Cancer. 2004 Aug 1. 101(3):627-34. [Medline].\nStacchiotti S, Van Tine BA. Synovial Sarcoma: Current Concepts and Future Perspectives. J Clin Oncol. 2018 Jan 10. 36 (2):180-187. [Medline].\nStegmaier S, Leuschner I, Poremba C, Ladenstein R, Kazanowska B, Ljungman G, et al. The prognostic impact of SYT-SSX fusion type and histological grade in pediatric patients with synovial sarcoma treated according to the CWS (Cooperative Weichteilsarkom Studie) trials. Pediatr Blood Cancer. 2017 Jan. 64 (1):89-95. [Medline].\nFisher C, de Brujin DRH, van Kessel AG. Synovial sarcoma. Fletcher CDM, Unni KK, Mertens F, editors. World Health Organization Classification of Tumours. Pathology and Genetics of Tumours of Soft Tissue and Bone. 2002. IARC Press; Lyon:200–204.\nBaheti AD, Sewatkar R, Hornick JL, Saboo SS, Jagannathan JP, Ramaiya NH, et al. Imaging features of primary and recurrent intrathoracic synovial sarcoma: a single-institute experience. Clin Imaging. 2015 Sep-Oct. 39 (5):803-8. [Medline].\nde Haas RJ, Bonenkamp JJ, Flucke UE, de Rooy JW. Synovial sarcoma of the abdominal wall: Imaging findings and review of the literature. J Radiol Case Rep. 2015 Feb. 9 (2):24-30. [Medline].\nChang KJ, Lim I, Park JY, Jo AR, Kong CB, Song WS, et al. The Role of (18)F-FDG PET/CT as a Prognostic Factor in Patients with Synovial Sarcoma. Nucl Med Mol Imaging. 2015 Mar. 49 (1):33-41. [Medline].\nLiang C, Mao H, Tan J, Ji Y, Sun F, Dou W, et al. Synovial sarcoma: Magnetic resonance and computed tomography imaging features and differential diagnostic considerations. Oncol Lett. 2015 Feb. 9 (2):661-666. [Medline].\nde Oliveira DCL, Pacheco EO, Lopes LTR, do Carmo CC, de Melo ASA. Pericardial synovial sarcoma: radiological findings. Radiol Bras. 2018 May-Jun. 51 (3):201-202. [Medline].\nBaheti AD, Tirumani SH, Sewatkar R, Shinagare AB, Hornick JL, Ramaiya NH, et al. Imaging features of primary and metastatic extremity synovial sarcoma: a single institute experience of 78 patients. Br J Radiol. 2015 Feb. 88 (1046):20140608. [Medline].\nAlhazzani AR, El-Sharkawy MS, Hassan H. Primary retroperitoneal synovial sarcoma in CT and MRI. Urol Ann. 2010 Jan. 2 (1):39-41. [Medline].\nO'Sullivan PJ, Harris AC, Munk PL. Radiological features of synovial cell sarcoma. Br J Radiol. 2008 Apr. 81 (964):346-56. [Medline].\nLisle JW, Eary JF, O'Sullivan J, Conrad EU. Risk assessment based on FDG-PET imaging in patients with synovial sarcoma. Clin Orthop Relat Res. 2009 Jun. 467 (6):1605-11. [Medline].\nShah D, Odedra P. Primary Pleuropulmonary Synovial Sarcoma on Fluorodeoxyglucose Positron Emission Tomography-Computed Tomography Scan. Indian J Nucl Med. 2017 Oct-Dec. 32 (4):340-342. [Medline].\nNakajima H, Matsushita K, Shimizu H, et al. Synovial sarcoma of the hand. Skeletal Radiol. 1997 Nov. 26(11):674-6. [Medline].\nHirsch RJ, Yousem DM, Loevner LA, Montone KT, Chalian AA, Hayden RE. Synovial sarcomas of the head and neck: MR findings. AJR Am J Roentgenol. 1997 Oct. 169(4):1185-8. [Medline]. [Full Text].\nRangheard AS, Vanel D, Viala J, et al. Synovial sarcomas of the head and neck: CT and MR imaging findings of eight patients. AJNR Am J Neuroradiol. 2001 May. 22(5):851-7. [Medline]. [Full Text].\nBerquist TH, Ehman RL, King BF, Hodgman CG, Ilstrup DM. Value of MR imaging in differentiating benign from malignant soft-tissue masses: study of 95 lesions. AJR Am J Roentgenol. 1990 Dec. 155(6):1251-5. [Medline]. [Full Text].\nSpillane AJ, A'Hern R, Judson IR, Fisher C, Thomas JM. Synovial sarcoma: a clinicopathologic, staging, and prognostic assessment. J Clin Oncol. 2000 Nov 15. 18(22):3794-803. [Medline]. [Full Text].\nRekhi B, Shetty O, Ramadwar M, Rangarajan V, Bajpai J. Role of fine needle aspiration cytology in the diagnosis of a rare case of a poorly differentiated synovial sarcoma with \"Rhabdoid\" features, including treatment implications. Diagn Cytopathol. 2017 Jul. 45 (7):662-667. [Medline].\nWang CH, Xu CC, Jiang JH, Chen YB, Zhan SH. Diagnosis of a rare primary pulmonary synovial sarcoma with endobronchial ultrasound-guided transbronchial needle aspiration. Thorac Cancer. 2016 Nov. 7 (6):684-688. [Medline].\nJones BC, Sundaram M, Kransdorf MJ. Synovial sarcoma: MR imaging findings in 34 patients. AJR Am J Roentgenol. 1993 Oct. 161(4):827-30. [Medline]. [Full Text].\nvan Rijswijk CS, Hogendoorn PC, Taminiau AH, Bloem JL. Synovial sarcoma: dynamic contrast-enhanced MR imaging features. Skeletal Radiol. 2001 Jan. 30(1):25-30. [Medline].\nVan der Woude HJ, Vanderschueren G. Ultrasound in musculoskeletal tumors with emphasis on its role in tumor follow-up. Radiol Clin North Am. 1999 Jul. 37(4):753-66. [Medline].\nCharest M, Hickeson M, Lisbona R, et al. FDG PET/CT imaging in primary osseous and soft tissue sarcomas: a retrospective review of 212 cases. Eur J Nucl Med Mol Imaging. 2009 Jul 11. [Medline].\nLois JF, Fischer HJ, Mirra JM, Gomes AS. Angiography of histopathologic variants of synovial sarcoma. Acta Radiol Diagn (Stockh). 1986 Jul-Aug. 27(4):449-54. 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CT head imaging in patients with head injury who present after 24 h of injury: a retrospective cohort study
Carl Marincowitz1,
Victoria Allgar2,
William Townend1
1Emergency Department, Hull Royal Infirmary, Hull, UK
2Hull York Medical School, University of York Heslington, York, UK
Correspondence to Dr Carl Marincowitz, ST4 Emergency Medicine, Emergency Department, Hull Royal Infirmary, Anlaby Road, Hull, HU3 2JZ, USA; Cm444{at}doctors.org.uk
Background National Institute for Health and Care Excellence guidelines used to triage patients with head injury to CT imaging are based on research conducted in populations presenting within 24 h of injury.
We aim to compare guideline use, and outcomes, in patients with head injury that undergo CT imaging presenting within, and after 24 h of injury.
Methods ED trauma CT head scan requests over a period of 6 months were matched to ED records. Case note review of adult patients with head injury that had undergone CT imaging was completed. Logistic regression was used to assess whether presentation after 24 h affected the guideline's ability to predict significant injuries.
Results 650 case records were available for analysis. 8.6% (56/650) showed a traumatic abnormality, 1.5% (10/650) required neurosurgery or died. 15.5% (101/650) of CT scans were for patients presenting after 24 h. 8.4% (46/549) of those presenting within, and 9.9% (10/101) of those presenting after 24 h had traumatic CT abnormalities.
The sensitivity of the guidelines for intracranial injuries was 98% (95% CI 87.0% to 99.9%) in those presenting within 24 h and 70% (95% CI 35.4% to 91.9%) in those presenting after 24 h of injury. The presence of a guideline indication statistically predicted significant injury, and this was unaffected by time of presentation.
Conclusions Patients with head injury presenting after 24 h of injury are a clinically significant population. Existing guidelines appear to predict traumatic CT abnormalities irrespective of timing of presentation. However, their sole use in patients presenting after 24 h may result in significant injuries not being identified.
imaging, CT/MRI
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Eye On ISIS in Libya is a pro-bono repository of non-partisan, cross checked information about the development of the Islamic State’s offshoot in Libya as well as the other Libyan jihadi movements from which it derives and occasionally competes.
The vision for this site came about throughout the course of 2015 as Jason Pack (its founder) was increasingly inundated with questions by Western media and governments about the latest happenings about the Islamic State in Libya. As Jason had previously focused on Libyan history, economy, constitutional developments, and diplomacy, he struggled to answer these questions focused on the jihadis. His government and media interlocutors frequently asked him if he knew of any think tank reports or any scholarly or media outlets which had definitive and comprehensive information about the Islamic State in Libya. Jason struggled in vain to recommend such a repository of information . It simply didn’t exist. There were scholars specializing in the Muslim Brotherhood in North Africa and others with expertise about al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb or the spread of Salafism from Egypt westward, but because ISIS was such a new and dynamic phenomenon and Libya such an understudied country there was per force no experts dedicated exclusively to the study of ISIS in Libya. He realized there was a vast lacunae. Out of this realization Eye On ISIS was born!
Jason established a team of experts, some listed on our Team page, some who wish to remain anonymous (especially the Libyan talent working on location and conducting information gathering). Our historical information derives from proprietary weekly Libya-Analysis monitoring reports dating back from before the first band of jihadis in Derna declared their allegiance to the Islamic State. All of our information is vetted by a network of academics, consultants and Western security experts.
EOIL has 501(c) 3 status and would enjoy your charitable tax deductible donation, which you can arrange by writing to us at eyeonisisinlibya@gmail.com.
Please watch this video featuring Eye On ISIS founder, Jason Pack, for more information about the origins of Eye On ISIS and why we feel our work is so important.
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Lessons from the English auxiliary system Journal Article
The English auxiliary system exhibits many lexical exceptions and subregularities, and considerable dialectal variation, all of which are frequently omitted from generative analyses and discussions. This paper presents a detailed, movement-free account of the English Auxiliary System within Sign-Based Construction Grammar (Sag 2010, Michaelis 2011, Boas & Sag 2012) that utilizes techniques of lexicalist and construction-based analysis. The resulting conception of linguistic knowledge involves constraints that license hierarchical structures directly (as in context-free grammar), rather than by appeal to mappings over such structures. This allows English auxiliaries to be modeled as a class of verbs whose behavior is governed by general and class-specific constraints. Central to this account is a novel use of the feature aux, which is set both constructionally and lexically, allowing for a complex interplay between various grammatical constraints that captures a wide range of exceptional patterns, most notably the vexing distribution of unstressed do, and the fact that Ellipsis can interact with other aspects of the analysis to produce the feeding and blocking relations that are needed to generate the complex facts of EAS. The present approach, superior both descriptively and theoretically to existing transformational approaches, also serves to undermine views of the biology of language and acquisition such as Berwick et al. (2011), which are centered on mappings that manipulate hierarchical phrase structures in a structure-dependent fashion.
Michaelis, Laura A
SAG IVANA; CHAVES RUIP; ABEILLÉ ANNE; ESTIGARRIBIA BRUNO; FLICKINGER DAN; KAY PAUL; MICHAELIS LAURAA; MÜLLER STEFAN; PULLUM GEOFFREYK; VAN EYNDE FRANK
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Have you ever wondered where that stranger sitting opposite you on the train is going? Imagined the story of their life and future? Or experienced moments of excitement and eager anticipation for what your own future may bring? Musical theatre has a spectacular catalogue of songs that capture those moments where characters take a step out from the crowd, follow their dreams and suddenly have their voices heard.
Performing four unique and touching storylines through a mix of songs from both classic and current Broadway and West End musicals, the award-winning Festival Players are bringing their touring show to venues in Sawston, Cambourne, Cambridge, Foxton, Newmarket and Haslingfield. Join us and see if Someone in the crowd could take you where you want to go.
Friday 15 February: Haslingfield Village Hall
Saturday 16 February: Cambourne Village College
Friday 22 February: Foxton Village Hall
Saturday 23 February: Robinson Theatre, Hills Road 6th Form College
Sunday 24 February: The Racing Centre, Newmarket
Friday 1 March: Sawston Village College
Saturday 2 March: Cambridge University Press, Cass Centre
Damion Box, Michael Brum, Marie Buda, Philippa Clark, Catriona Clarke, Lauren Gonnella, Harriet Graves, Alastair Horne, Paulina Levin-Ander, Jacob Nightingale, Rosie Parrish, Seren Wilson, Simon Young, Magda Zun,
The NODA Review
Featuring a cast of fifteen talented singers, Festival Players provided an evening of entertainment of sterling quality.
Devised and Directed by James Hayward, and under the musical direction of Ana Sanderson, an appreciative audience were treated to an eclectic mix of music with songs from a selection of shows from across the spectrum of musical theatre which more than showcased the talents of the cast. The talent in the Band was pretty good too with Andrew Taylor and MD Ana on Keyboard, Oliver Fisher on drums and James Hayward on guitars.
The standard of singing and presentation was, at all times, of the highest quality, and the well thought out theme of the programme provided a good variety. The little scenarios in each of the four sections worked well.
In The Commute we heard songs from La La Land, Merrily We Roll Along, Company, Chicago, Nine to Five and The Producers. In The Audition shows included Copacabana, A Chorus Line, Smash, Cabaret, Funny Girl, and Greatest Showman. After the interval we moved on to The College Years with songs from Mean Girls, Heathers, Wicked, Avenue Q, Carousel and Hairspray. In Date Night I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change, Les Miserables, Waitress, Hamilton, All Shook Up, Dear Evan Hansen and finally
We Will Rock You. I have to admit one or two of the shows from which the songs came were unfamiliar but a little bit of retrospective research solved that problem.
The Ensemble tackled the programme with talented enthusiasm leaving the audience in no doubt that their enjoyment was also theirs. In between the Ensemble numbers were a number of impressive solo performances. In fact all had either a solo number or a duet.
I saw the final performance of the tour and the evening had somewhat of a party atmosphere which was lovely. The performances of Someone in the Crowd’ on 23 February raised £1700 for Multiple Sclerosis research at Addenbrooke’s and the Cambridge and District Group of the MS Society and on Sunday 24 February raised around £800 for the West Suffolk branch of The Samaritans.
Congratulations to Festival Players and the whole team on the success of the 2019 tour and thank you for an excellent two hours of quality entertainment.
Julie Petrucci
Regional Representative NODA East District Four South
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Griffon Corporation (“Griffon” or the “Company”) (GFF) today announced it will present at CJS Securities 19th Annual “New Ideas” Summer Institutional Investor Conference on Tuesday, July 9, 2019 in Greenwich, Connecticut. A copy of Griffon’s investor presentation, which will be used at the conference, will be available at the time of the conference in the investor relations section of Griffon’s website (www.griffon.com). Griffon Corporation is a diversified management and holding company that conducts business through wholly-owned subsidiaries.
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Telephonics Awarded Tactical Communications Contract from the Department of Homeland Security
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Griffon Corp NYSE:GFFView full report here! Summary * Bearish sentiment is low Bearish sentimentShort interest | PositiveShort interest is low for GFF with fewer than 5% of shares on loan. The last change in the short interest score occurred more than 1 month ago and implies that there has been little change in sentiment among investors who seek to profit from falling equity prices. Money flowETF/Index ownership | NeutralETF activity is neutral. The $230 million in inflows that ETFs holding GFF received over the last one-month is a decline from earlier in the period and among the weakest of the past year. Economic sentimentPMI by IHS Markit | NeutralAccording to the latest IHS Markit Purchasing Managers' Index (PMI) data, output in the Consumer Goods sector is rising. The rate of growth is weak relative to the trend shown over the past year, however. Credit worthinessCredit default swapCDS data is not available for this security.Please send all inquiries related to the report to score@ihsmarkit.com.Charts and report PDFs will only be available for 30 days after publishing.This document has been produced for information purposes only and is not to be relied upon or as construed as investment advice. To the fullest extent permitted by law, IHS Markit disclaims any responsibility or liability, whether in contract, tort (including, without limitation, negligence), equity or otherwise, for any loss or damage arising from any reliance on or the use of this material in any way. Please view the full legal disclaimer and methodology information on pages 2-3 of the full report.
Griffon to Participate at the Baird 2019 Global Consumer, Technology, and Services Conference
Griffon Corporation (“Griffon” or the “Company”) (GFF) today announced it will present at the Baird 2019 Global Consumer, Technology, and Services Conference on Wednesday, June 5, 2019 in New York, New York. A copy of Griffon’s investor presentation, which will be used at the conference, will be available at the time of the conference in the investor relations section of Griffon’s website (www.griffon.com). Griffon Corporation is a diversified management and holding company that conducts business through wholly-owned subsidiaries.
Edited Transcript of GFF earnings conference call or presentation 2-May-19 8:30pm GMT
Q2 2019 Griffon Corp Earnings Call
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Griffon Corporation -- Moody's affirms Griffon Corp's CFR at B1; outlook remains negative
Moody's Investors Service, ("Moody's") affirmed Griffon Corporation's ("Griffon") ratings, including its B1 Corporate Family Rating (CFR), B1-PD Probability of Default Rating (PDR), and B2 senior unsecured notes rating. At the same time, Moody's affirmed Griffon's SGL-2 Speculative Grade Liquidity (SGL) rating.
Griffon Corporation Announces Tender Offer
Griffon Corporation (GFF) (“Griffon”) announced today that it has commenced a cash tender offer (the “Tender Offer”) for up to $500 million aggregate principal amount (the “Tender Cap”) of 5.25% Senior Notes due 2022 (CUSIP No. 398433 AH5) (the “Notes”). The Tender Offer is described in the Offer to Purchase dated May 9, 2019 (the “Offer to Purchase”). The Tender Offer will expire at 11:59 p.m., New York City time, on June 6, 2019 unless extended (the “Expiration Date”).
Griffon Corporation Announces Senior Notes Offering
Griffon Corporation (GFF) (“Griffon”) today announced that it intends to commence an offering through a private placement, subject to market and other conditions, of $500 million in aggregate principal amount of senior notes due 2027 (the “Notes”). The Notes will be senior unsecured obligations of Griffon and will be guaranteed by certain of its domestic subsidiaries. Griffon intends to use the proceeds from the offering, together with cash on hand, to (i) repurchase up to $500 million of its 5.25% senior notes due 2022 (the “2022 Notes”) in a tender offer, (ii) pay certain related fees and expenses, including any applicable tender premiums, redemption premiums and accrued interest on the 2022 Notes, and (iii) redeem up to $500 million of its 2022 Notes to the extent that less than $500 million of such 2022 Notes are repurchased pursuant to the tender offer.
Telephonics Awarded AN/UPX-40 IFF Contract from the United States Air Force to Support the Royal Saudi Air Force AWACS Program
FARMINGDALE, N.Y., May 6, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- Telephonics Corporation, a wholly owned subsidiary of Griffon Corporation (GFF), announced today that it has been awarded a $12.6M AN/UPX-40 contract from the United States Air Force. Through a Foreign Military Sales (FMS) agreement, Telephonics will supply its AN/UPX-40 Identification Friend or Foe (IFF) system to the Royal Saudi Air Force to support the country's E-3 Sentry (AWACS) program. Recognized as an industry leader in the development of IFF technologies, Telephonics' next generation AN/UPX-40 will include Mode 5 capabilities allowing for expanded data handling transmissions without increasing interference.
Griffon Corporation (GFF) Q2 2019 Earnings Call Transcript
GFF earnings call for the period ending March 31, 2019.
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Ocala-based home storage company ClosetMaid Corp. — which employs roughly 1,500 people worldwide — will occupy 27,000 square feet of space in Lake Nona as part of a headquarters relocation, according to an executive with Lake Nona developer Tavistock Development Co. And that may mean the company is bringing 192 people to its new Lake Nona campus, according to industry standards. A representative with ClosetMaid couldn't be reached for comment. The company plans to move into its new office at Town Center Office II in the Lake Nona Town Center later this summer, said Skipper Peek, senior vice president of commercial sales, leasing and pre-development with Tavistock.
Griffon Corporation Declares Quarterly Dividend
The Board of Directors of Griffon Corporation (GFF) (the “Company” or “Griffon”) declared a regular quarterly cash dividend of $0.0725 per share. Griffon is a diversified management and holding company that conducts business through wholly-owned subsidiaries. Griffon oversees the operations of its subsidiaries, allocates resources among them and manages their capital structures.
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Moody's Investors Service ("Moody's") has completed a periodic review of the ratings of Griffon Corporation and other ratings that are associated with the same analytical unit. The review was conducted through a portfolio review in which Moody's reassessed the appropriateness of the ratings in the context of the relevant principal methodology(ies), recent developments, and a comparison of the financial and operating profile to similarly rated peers. This publication does not announce a credit rating action and is not an indication of whether or not a credit rating action is likely in the near future.
Griffon Corporation Schedules Conference Call to Discuss Second Quarter 2019 Financial Results
Griffon Corporation (“Griffon” or the “Company”) (GFF) today announced it will release the Company’s fiscal second quarter financial results on Thursday, May 2, 2019, followed by a conference call at 4:30 PM ET. The call can be accessed by dialing 1-877-407-0792 (U.S. participants) or 1-201-689-8263 (International participants). Callers should ask to be connected to the Griffon Corporation teleconference or provide conference ID number 13689636.
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New Reading: Frequencies, Volume 1
The first issue of Frequencies, a new biannual journal of essays published by indie press Two Dollar Radio, is, in its physical form, the melding of professional digital publishing and the DIY aesthetic of the 90s.
The cover image is an illustration of a man: scowling, working-class, probably in his 40s, eyes squinting, 5 o’clock shadow, pursed lips, and a hat that says “Fix It!” with a picture of a wrench on it. At first, he’s easily mistakable for a (so-called) hipster, one that resides in Brooklyn and works at a local bike shop or cafe. On closer examination, however, the wall of television sets behind him creates air of authenticity–a menacing one at that.
For the interior, artist in-residence, John Gagliano, uses a handwritten font for the essays’ title pages but traditional type for the essays themselves. There are old-timey advertisements for a fictional store throughout and full page illustrations to go with each story.
The debut issue includes familiar names: writer and critic Joshua Cohen looks at the etymology of “Open Sesame;” bookseller and Two Dollar Radio editor Emily Pullen interviews poet Anne Carson; and author Scott McClanahan writes about his large, and slightly off-kilter, family from West Virginia.
“Seven Interruptions of the Image” begins with seven photographs: Wild Ruins; Wardrobe; Untitled Photo; My Parent’s [sic] House; Yellow Dress; All My Bags Are Packed; and Blossoms. They are beautiful, haunting images, some unrecognizable, others just odd—all invitingly sad. Their aged quality—smoky pastels, prevalence of shadows, and dubious chemical burns—makes them look as if they were taken by a practiced photographer or someone with an iPhone.
Following the photos, coinciding with their titles, are seven short essays written by Blake Butler. Within the first two lines of “Wild Ruins” it becomes clear this is a collaboration:
My sister emails me the link to the website with the catalog of photographs she has taken in her recent days of life. As I open the webpage a siren outside the house that we grew up in moves into ear range where I sit at this machine.
Those familiar with Blake’s writing will know of his father’s dementia. “Seven Interruptions” is an exploration of their relationship and a record of the degeneration. In the first essay we learn that his father is in a nearby hospital. “Within one mile of this house,” Blake writes, “my father is in a building full of people he does not know. This is where he sleeps now.” The photo “Wardrobe” reminds him why.
Blake’s writing, as always, is hypnotic; his thoughts, heartfelt yet analytic. The linguistic twists and turns, the spiraling phrases: at first not making sense but then, eventually, unfolding upon examination.
“I don’t try to wonder if my father’s memory condition is something that will come for me in the same way. It will or it won’t,” Blake says in the fifth essay. And finally, you feel the weight. Blake holds you there a bit longer with “All My Bags Are Packed,” a photo of a suitcase, barely visible in the shadows and a sheer curtain distorting its position.
I can’t think of what I would fill a suitcase with if I knew I was going to leave this house for the last time. Maybe just as much of the air as I could get to fit into it, something later to have to breathe.
The final essay in Frequencies, “The Magic Merge,” is Tracy Rose Keaton’s personal account of growing up the daughter of a demi-celebrity father. Having been exposed to his rock-and-roll lifestyle, and the women who come with it, Keaton was familiar early on with the groupie: the “American invention,” the “quintessence of feeling like nothing.”
The groupie is definitely a consumer who ends up getting eaten in the end. Not fabulous enough to be a concubine, or glamorously sinister enough to be a succubus…
It was her father’s girlfriend, a super-groupie—“Tall and slender, with long raven hair, her ass was on the cover of a 1972 ‘gentlemen’s’ mag, perched on a bicycle seat”—that made Keaton realize she could never compete as one of these women. So, instead, she opted for her own “odd mixture of scowling misanthrope and cultural anthropologist in big black shoes.”
She found salvation in a Pretenders album:
One day my dad brought home the first Pretenders album and threw it on the brown velvet couch. He might as well have thrown a grenade. …
A pivotal moment in Keaton’s life:
When I was growing up, girls simply did not play guitars. … I had never heard a lady sound so strong and threatening and calm. … Some of the oldies-but-goodies have Betty Friedan. I’ve got Chrissie Hynde.
“The Magic Merge,” a nod to the perzine, is a natural close to a new journal that values experimentation and old school style.
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A Good Way Out
Yesterday I saw the play A Good Way Out at the Pacific Theatre in Vancouver. It's a very intimate theatre setting with seating on both sides of the stage. The play was very realistic. For those of us who know, perhaps a little too realistic for comfort. It's about a guy who gets caught up in a biker gang. He gets tired of being ripped off by the "family" and tries to leave the life. Early on in the play there is a line that explains the title but I don't want to spoil the ending for others.
One review in the Vancouver Courier said Wheeler, who has played everything from Stephen Harper in PROUD, to Ebenezer Scrooge in A Christmas Story and Prime Minister Angus McLintock in the Best Laid Plans, makes your skin crawl in this role. That is very true.
The play is based on a true story. I do believe the club ripped the guy off but I dont believe he was skimming in real life any more than I believe Britney Irving was a rat. She was not. That was a bold faced lie they made up after they had her killed. We all know who put Joey Verma up to it. That is one crime that will never be solved in this life but it will be solved in the life hereafter.
I have previously expressed the concern that some undercover police officers go undercover because they covet that life. I do not. There is nothing in that life that appeals to me. They have absolutely nothing that I want. I am grateful that I am not part of that life nor have I ever been. That most certainly doesn't make me better than anyone else who is or has. It just makes me different. I'm just a broke ass bitch but I still rather be me. A poor man is better than a liar. Peace.
Kayla October 10, 2016 at 4:48 PM
I ate britannys asshole right before I shot the bitch in the back.
Yeah fuck that junkie goof britanny
I was there when Joey shot that bitch in the back
Yes I was Dennis
I heard that bitch scream and cry as well
Not a Damn thing you can do about it either
You are a broke fat loser. We know this
We know you live in shitty guildford welfare apartments
We know you're a goof
But like I said before, nobody cares Dennis.
Dennis Watson October 10, 2016 at 5:37 PM
Speaking of the murder of Brittney Irving, we all know you were there Blaze but you didn't order the hit. You're still a piece of garbage. History has recorded that.
Kayla October 11, 2016 at 12:34 AM
Yes I did actually. And I know I'm a piece of garbage but I get more respect than you do. What does that say about you?
No one respects you. You don't even respect yourself.
Francois Marseille October 10, 2016 at 7:44 PM
blaze is a pussy. Look where he is at now anyway. Douchebag
Kayla October 11, 2016 at 2:56 AM
Nobody cares Dennis
I'm on crystal meth and fentanyl right now
I'm blaze
trailrunner78 October 11, 2016 at 6:25 AM
Why the female screen name. Perhaps she's tranning to tell us something....
louis365 October 13, 2016 at 4:31 PM
DarkSide October 11, 2016 at 7:23 AM
This guy is retarted. Speaking on the dead like that you should be ashamed. What goes around comes around you POS and if u were there and she was innocent u got something worse coming for u. Too bad she doesn't have a family member willing to take the law into there own hands cause if she was my family you would be in the ground. But I do like how u keep implicating yourself hopefully it will come back to bite u in the ass.
I've posted quite a bit about Blaze over the years. It wasn't until I made this post about him being present when Joey shot Brittney that Kayla was created and started to troll my blog:
https://gangstersout.blogspot.ca/2015/02/blaze-busted-in-kelowna.html
He/she was freaking out about the fact that I pointed out Blaze lied about his whereabouts the night Brittney Irving was murdered. That is when the rampage began full of threats and repeated posts on the Dirty of my daughters picture trying to extort me into taking that blog post down.
Then he went out of his way to pretend Kala wasn't Blaze. He started emailing me directly citing spots in Surrey saying how could he know about that if he was Blaze in Kelowna. Pretty simple. He just had to know someone in Surrey.
He tried to set up a meeting with me in Guildford Mall to prove Kayla wasn't Blaze claiming he was a loser out of Fraser Pretrial living in Surrey. It was pretty obvious Blaze knew someone from Fraser Pretrial living in Surrey.
When he was sending me the e-mail pretending to be the guy in Surrey, his IP was coming in from Sooke on Vancouver Island so I knew it wasn't the guy in Surrey. Blaze is stupid. He has the mentality of a child. He's easy to read. Blaze is likely in hiding now that the Kelowna Warriors have turned up on the scene.
Kayla October 11, 2016 at 10:08 PM
Who the fuck are the Kelowna warriors??
They're the ones with the fly swatter looking for you.
trailrunner78 October 11, 2016 at 8:35 PM
If she was my family he'd only be in the ground after I used him to re-enact that deserted warehouse scene in "Law Abiding Citizen".....except I don't have access to all those neat pharmaceuticals, so he'd just have to scream into a ball gag for a few hours.....:grinwithteeth:
"We do bad things to bad people".
Please, search your name up on google just for fun, you're a joke ahahahahahahah
Search your name on google go ahead
Please search it
Ace Ventura has posted my picture all over the internet. Who cares? I was pissed you and he were posting my daughter's picture and making obscene threats towards her. You and Ace Ventura are both trolls who use multiple usernames to trash someone so it looks like there are many people saying shit when in reality it's just two idiots. You even posed that ridiculous lie on the Dirty not thinking anyone would check your source to find out you were lying.
https://gangstersout.blogspot.ca/2016/04/personal-privilege.html
e.a.f. October 12, 2016 at 6:15 PM
Ah, I see "Kayla" is having a "moment". Perhaps its time to check in with the doctor and have the medications adjusted. You do have to wonder why the person bothers coming to this blog. Its not like they impress any one.
More than a moment. He's still spamming trash again and those are the few I let through the spam filter. Typical grotesque comments about my kids. The guy has no self respect whatsoever.
I don't think its a matter of self respect. I'd suggest the writer, Kayla, is having mental health issues and needs to seek professional help.
It certainly isn't "wise" to confess you killed some one on a blog. Of course if the police aren't checking in here, they might want to. At least the police might want to have a "chat" with "Kayla". This "Kayla" person does give the impression they are somewhat degranged and might benefit from the attention of the police.
It's a done deal. He's already cut a deal with the crown on the drug trafficking charge and they have given him immunity. Last time he confessed to killing Britney he claimed it wasn't really him and he was just joking. I know he was there but I can't post how I know. The police know and they still gave him a deal. Just shows you where this world is heading.
It is my belief that men who beat women or talk about anyone in the demeaning way he does, has no self respect whatsoever. He who loves his wife loves himself.
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[Mainland Chinese Drama 2019] I Will Never Let You Go / Legend of Huo Buo 小女花不弃
By sugarplum892, March 3, 2018 in Mainland China
shihuangdi 788
3 hours ago, chisaholly said:
Googled on Dylan Guo, I don't think they looked similar (maybe side views could be a different story?) ... recently, I find the eyes of ZBB, reminds me of Chen Xiao, if I covered half of his face (just the eyes part visible), I could mistake him for CX.
They don’t look similar at all from the front. Its just that particular poster (on the front page of this sub) where ZBB is shot from the side. When ZBB smirks, he reminds me of someone, I can’t recall who yet.
angelangie 134,455
PhoenixAngel
7 minutes ago, gentlelily12 said:
Hi all, i have been lurking but this is just too sweet to not say a word. Tqvm for this @angelangie, i believe this is their first real kiss which is really befitting as their love go through all the thick and thin. I am just curious which episode is this kiss in actually...would you know @angelangie? Tqvm.
Hi @themarchioness, i just want to send virtual hugs and big thanks for your wonderful recaps.
PS: i cant seem to be able to delete the image...oops!
lols unfortunately i dont know either....as i have yet to reach there either lols
luna2nd 61
Fan Level: Casual
13 hours ago, angelangie said:
not a bad way to hide right?
Edited February 22 by angelangie
Mod Edit: Do not quote pictures & is there anything you wanted to say?
omiki 2,293
35 minutes ago, shihuangdi said:
... I really love how Zhu Shou deals with the bandits and negotiate the ransom - even saying I cannot lose even 0.01kg I hope he stays till the end, even though the character is minor, it adds some comedy into the story.
I also love this character. He’s so funny. I wonder if his character was supposed to be written as comedic, or the actor made it so. Here’s another scene of him which I found hilarious.
vtxy 103
45 minutes ago, gentlelily12 said:
This isn't their first kiss, their first kiss was in episode 28, second kiss if I remember correctly is episode 36/37. This kiss hasn't been aired yet, but likely to be next week!
Judging from what I've seen so far, I think this will be my favourite one yet!! Can't wait
8 hours ago, ayleenlovesyou said:
YAAAAAAAAAAAS!
Lmao even him asked “if I looked like this would you like me” hahahahahaha
@ayleenlovesyou HAHAHA! I'm glad he said what we were all thinking! So happy to have CY look like CY again!
2 hours ago, angelangie said:
hahaha something sweet
dont watch lols
@angelangie I watched this at work and had to stop myself from screaming! OMG SO HOTTTT!!!
@themarchioness I was just about to ask you what CY was saying when you posted "Playing with Fire"... omg, I'm dying over here! I cannot CANNOT wait for this scene!!
Finished the episodes for the day (omg just realised this also means another 5-day wait for the next episode sobs T.T) and they are so action-packed!
Finally got to see how all the spoilers fall into place chronologically haha. Jotting down some scenes I like hehe
- LQW trying to sell BQ to a brothel, and BQ escaping after shooting LQW with her wrist arrow(?)
- BQ getting thrown from a horse and being rescued by Bai Ma (DFS' guy)
- Bai Ma goes to BQ place to return BQ's belonging and BQ recognises him as CY (He disguised himself as Bai Ma
- The scene where CY goes into BQ room is so cute!
- CY wants to bring BQ away from all the danger but BQ shuts him out of her room because she wants to help him complete his plan.
- DFS and mysterious man ambushes CY's (empty) prison cart while it is on the way back to the capital and then brings CY's dead body for BQ to identify
- Her devastation is so heartbreaking :'(
- She tells DFS that she will need to be sacrificed in order for him to obtain the biluotian treasure. DFS is shocked and really upset. I feel for him, especially after he tells his grandpa (mysterious man) that even if he can't marry BQ, he won't let her be sacrificed because he really likes her a lot. I still don't like DFS as a person but poor him.
- CY (disguised as Bai Ma) comes to take BQ away. Their reunion is so touching :')
It's going to be a long 5 days stalking here and weibo while I wait for next Tuesday sighhh. Shall replay the hot kiss scene to tide me through the wait
@vtxy so jealous you've been able to watch the new episodes already! I'm at work so I have to wait until I get home
I love how CY always manages to outsmart his opponents and to find and rescue BQ. Which is why I am also so curious as to what leads up to that scene where we see BQ in chains and where he is cold to her.
themarchioness 13,200
43 minutes ago, vtxy said:
Reveal hidden contents
That's been my biggest question for a while now - whether DFS knew about BQ needing to be sacrificed. I've been especially curious about the answer to that question this week, since we finally got confirmation that he knew pretty much everything about Biluotian from his grandfather. And yet, there was still that final element -- had his grandfather told him that final key? Doesn't sound like it and that makes me feel a little bit better about DFS. But just that smidge better. LOL.
I just managed to watch up BQ's escape from QW's stupid brothel plot over lunch. Now it's back to work. Sigh.
Can't see it.
ElleSor 1,095
I love how everybody just rose up and complained about how plain looking the "masked" CY was. Hahaha.
I was a bit surprised the production team didn't get a more attractive looking actor but I realized the plainer looking the better since a more handsome guy would technically stand out.
jwhite 20
On 2/20/2019 at 3:26 AM, takeu2themoon said:
He ended his collaboration with her already when she set him up to make BQ witness them on the same bed. But now he let her stay under the his roof again despite how fustrated BQ is and even see her behind BQ’s back. Why?
Back then in the capital he used to pretend to be a playboy for the king to not suspect him as an usurper, why cannot he see through LQW’s fakery ( I really love Eternal Love’s Yehua for not being this dumb)?
What fustrated me most is his explanation when he was trying to make up with BQ, nothing is clear (and I don’t believe all of that can assure BQ that it will never happen again) all he did is just being too sweet to lure her and babbling about being with her in the future but no promise that he will never see LQW again.
I left for 9 eps beacause I couldn’t bear him holding her hand and flirting with her right after sleeping with BQ. When she confessed her feeling for him in that cave, even if he turned her down, his expression says he like it (the blame is for the director not BinBin), and I come back after some spoilers with super sweet scenes came out, watching 11 ep subbed and nosubbed nonstop. The consequenece is that I now am so sad I can’t trust CY any more, even if BQ forgive him but I cannot. This show is supposed to be a comedy, isn’t it? Then why?
Now I realize I have to take my 2nd leave.
Sorry for being too emotional.
Much worse - she killed BQs uncle and wants to kill BQ....maybe its not as much the writer as he really does have some real chemistry with her. Fortunately, he has lots more chemistry with BQ and his kisses are SO Romantic!!!!!!!!
Kai Wen Chia 54
6 hours ago, themarchioness said:
That's been my biggest question for a while now - whether DFS knew about BQ needing to be sacrificed.
nope he didnt know. said in last night's ep. at least he going to step up with his grandfather on it.
lol you guys talking about his mask. when i watched all i could think about is how he can remove and put back so fast. also the mask is so fake. it look like just a normal facial mask with some face powder lol
gentlelily12 16,367
9 hours ago, vtxy said:
@vtxy hi, haha and yes not their first kiss but i seem to think its the first time i am seeing BQ (hehe Ariel) open her mouth in the kiss
Cant wait to see the bts for this kiss!
53 minutes ago, Kai Wen Chia said:
Eh, you watch enough C-historical dramas, this is nothing unusual. I've seen the same trick pulled in other dramas. (Princess Weiyoung used it a lot!)
ayleenlovesyou 231
I cried... when they finally reunited after she thought CY died... omg.
I’m just done watching episode 43 and now I understand why in the opening song we see LQW in a queen suit cause she prob slept w/ the King.
roxnilla7 159
7 minutes ago, ayleenlovesyou said:
Yuck I guess better the King than CY
biancardi 110
yeah, I kinda knew that DFS
didn't know that buqi would have to be killed to get the treasure. Say what you will about him, he had a one track mind - and that was to marry and grow old with her. He never wanted her to be hurt - he just wanted to clear the field for himself so she would fall in love with him.
I know that a lot of people don't care for him and think the worst about him, but he has been very consistent about his feelings for buqi which was, whether you like him or not, romantic.
Going back & looking at the earlier episodes, chen yu was quite a jerk to buqi - and not pretending to be a jerk either - HE WAS one. That scene where he choked her because she said something about his mother was intense. DFS hasn't done anything remotely like that to buqi at all.
Alright, I'm going to do something out of the ordinary tonight -- I'm posting the recap for Episode 42 first, even though I haven't finished the recap for Episode 41. I did something different, which is to recap while I was watching the new episode. Overall, this episode was a lot easier for me to recap so it was something I could do simultaneously. I'm going to go watch Episode 43 now and then go back to working on Episode 42. Sorry for going about this out of order. I considered sitting on it, but figured you guys would rather have something versus nothing at all.
Episode 42 - Recap!
The episode picks up with DFS taking off his “Lian Yi Ke” mask. DFS says to BQ that he just wanted to see if this was a ruse put on by CY himself. BQ angrily tells him that he’s clearly got nothing better to do with his time, and he asks her if she’s worried about him (CY). BQ answers that she likes CY, so of course she’s worried about him. He says that’s too bad, as the crime he committed is too large and there’s no way the emperor will let him off since everything the emperor wants is in CY’s hands. DFS says that if CY turns the stuff over, he’s marked for death, but if he doesn’t turn it over, then he’ll just be locked up and tortured over time until he turns the stuff over. DFS then goes over in painstaking detail how CY might be tortured. He finishes by saying that if CY’s just putting on act, then he might be let go. But if he’s not, then he’ll probably never make it out. DFS tells her to give up on CY and be with him instead. As BQ turns away from him and crosses her arms, Xiao Xia steps in to warn him off. DFS says that he’s just trying to tell it like it is and leaves, but not before telling BQ to think things over carefully.
As BQ walks back inside, she seems lost in thought. Xiao Xia tells her not to listen to DFS and his crazy ramble, and promises that CY will be fine. BQ responds that DFS seems to know a lot more than what she thought, as he seems to know that CY has stuff that the emperor wants. She says they’ve all underestimated him. She tells Xiao Xia she’s worried about CY and suggests that they spend tomorrow hanging around the prison to see if they can pick up any news.
Elsewhere, DFS returns to meet with his grandfather. MM says he heard DFS found BQ and he’s curious to know whether DFS was able to gain any information concerning CY from her. DFS tells his grandfather that she’s not an ordinary girl. As she used to be a beggar, she’s skilled in her conversational skills, such that even he’s been tricked by her several times. He says that even though he got the impression from her that CY really was captured, he still can’t confirm whether that’s true or not. MM shares that his people also haven’t been able to secure any information, and instructs DFS to keep watching over BQ.
The next day, BQ and Xiao Xiao linger at a café near the prison. BQ looks despondent and Xiao Xia tries to allay her concerns. It’s around this time that two prison guards arrive. From their conversation, it sounds like they’ve been kept busy so this is the first time they’ve been able to come out for a break in a while. They sit down at the same café, calling for food, and as they wait to be served they start discussing everything that’s been going on at the prison. It’s around this time that another prison guard runs up to them. He wonders how they can eat and drink wine at a time like this, and reports that their supervisor is looking for them. As the guards get up to leave, the camera pans out and we see QW on the other side of the café hidden behind a trellis of some sort. (Honestly, she’s not that hidden. She’s got a clear view of BQ and Xiao Xia!)
After the guardsmen leave, Xiao Xia asks what they should do. BQ says she wants to meet with DFS. Xiao Xia doesn’t like this idea, as she knows he’d like to see CY rot in jail, but BQ says she doesn’t want to seek help from him, she wants to probe him about stuff. She asks Xiao Xia if she remembers what he said. He’d said that CY has in his hands stuff that the emperor wants, and that if he turns it over, he’ll die, but that if he doesn’t turn it over, then he’ll stay locked up and be slowly tortured until he turns it over. BQ said she spent the entire night thinking about it and she just can’t figure out how DFS would know CY has that stuff. Xiao Xia agrees that this is weird. BQ points out that, in fact, they really don’t know DFS’s full background. She thinks back to that seal that he carries on him and says she’s always found his story concerning its origins to be odd, and now wonders if he’s a descendant of “Cheng Wang” [who, I’m assuming is another extension of the royal family who wants the throne]. She observes that they’ve been fighting for the throne for a long time now and if DFS is a member of that family, then whatever it is that the emperor wants, he definitely wants it too. Xiao Xiao says, if that’s the case, then maybe they can rescue CY through him. BQ nods in agreement.
At this moment, the prison doors open and out walks Mr. Traitor Traitor Pants, BJF. He climbs into a waiting carriage and BQ says that from the guardsmen’s conversation earlier, it sounded like they were planning on sending CY to the capitol within the next two days. She tells Xiao Xia to follow BJF to see if she can learn anything. Xiao Xia doesn’t want to leave her by herself, but BQ says CY is important. She promises that after she meets with DFS, she’ll return to the store. She tells Xiao Xia to also return quickly once she’s finished her business.
As they part ways and BQ enters a carriage to go find DFS, QW instructs her servant to follow Xiao Xia while she goes after BQ. She says she’s found an even better way to deal with her.
BQ is riding along in her carriage when all of the sudden it’s stopped. She opens the curtain to find out what’s going on and that’s when BQ bops her on the back of her head.
Elsewhere, DFS is sitting on the edge of a precipice. It’s beautiful, wherever it is that he is, but I also can’t help but thinking that if one were to take one wrong step, or someone was to sneak up behind his . . . yikes! Anyway, he’s sitting there lost in his thoughts, when the manager lady from the gambling den approaches. She says he must have something on his mind. He pretends that he doesn’t, but she says she watched him grow up and she knows he always comes to this place when he’s got something on his mind and needs to think things through. She says that if he’s willing, she’d be happy to help him sort out his thoughts. He stands and says that the night before, he dressed as LYK and went to visit BQ. He never imagined that all she’d be able to think about was CY. (Really? Wasn’t that a given?? His life’s in peril right now, of course she’d be thinking about him. Although, I think we also all know, even if CY’s life wasn’t in danger, she’d still be thinking only of him. Haha.) He then shares that purposely left behind some nuggets during their conversation, with the hope that it would induce her into coming to see him. He admits that if she comes only because of CY, that’ll make him unhappy. But on other hand, if she doesn’t come, then he’ll miss her. He asks the gambling hall manager whether she thinks BQ will come. The gambling hall manager responds by commenting that he’s grown up. Before, he never understood what it was like to yearn for love and even avoided it. But what she doesn’t understand is, with his background and all the things that he has to recommend himself to the ladies, why would he fall in love with BQ? DFS just smiles and shrugs his shoulders. “Who can say?” (And that is something I can finally agree with!)
At this time, someone runs over to tell DFS that someone from Zhu Manor is there to see him. He tells the person to bring them over. It’s Xiao Xia who’s looking for BQ. She asks him if he’s seen her, as BQ was on her way to meet him, but he answers that he hasn’t met up with her. Xiao Xia leaves and DFS asks his right hand woman how come they haven’t heard from the person that his grandfather posted to follow BQ. He sends her off to find out. He’s then left alone to stand at the edge of his precipice.
In the carriage, BQ wakes up. She can’t believe QW is sitting across from her given that she’s supposed to be in prison. QW grabs her by the back of her neck to shake her and angrily proclaims that she wasn’t at fault for that last incident and that BQ falsely accused her. She says that it was also because of her that CY lost his trust in her. That’s why, today, she’s going to get her revenge. BQ asks her what she’s planning on doing and QW asks her if she knows where they are. BQ looks out the window and guesses a brothel, and QW cackles with glee. She describes it as the shadiest and dirtiest brothel in town and it’s her plan to send BQ inside to be used and abused. When BQ yells for help, QW tells her they’re on the back side where there’s no one around to help her. Without any martial arts skills, she’s pretty much a pawn in her hand. QW then says she wonders if “he” will still like her after she’s been touched by all the dirty people in the brothel. At this, BQ starts to cry and plead for her life. QW doesn’t by the pity act though and tells her it’s useless. She reaches for BQ, and that’s when BQ throws out her arm where she has darts hidden under her wrist. One of them enters QW in the stomach, and as QW slumps over, BQ quickly makes her escape. There’s on the horse tied to the carriage, so she quickly unties it and throws herself onto its back.
As BQ rides back towards the middle of the city, she loses control of the horse. It was saddled for a carriage, not a person, so she doesn’t have a saddle or stirrup to help her control it. Everywhere around her people are scurrying to move out of her path, but suddenly there’s a little boy. He’s tripped and fallen and too young to move quickly on his own, so BQ pulls hard on the horse. She avoids running over the little boy, but the horse bucks backwards and she goes flying into the air. A stranger comes running over to catch her on his back. As BQ is twirled around, something drops from her. When she finally lands, BQ thanks the stranger and asks him if he knows where the Zhu Manor store is. He never says a word and just smiles and nods. When she asks him to show her the way, he agrees. It’s at this time that DFS finds her. He asks her what happened and whether she’s not feeling well since her coloring is so bad. BQ momentarily faints into his arms and then gathers enough strength to stand back up. He asks her where she’s been, mentioning that Xiao Xia even came to look for him. He says he’s been looking all over for her and anxious with worry. BQ tells him that she killed someone. She killed QW. It’s obvious she’s shaken by this, but oh sweetie, there’s no need for you to feel bad. 1) She’s horrible, and 2) she’s not going to die that easily. BQ tells them where they can find her body and DFS tells her not to worry; he’ll send her home. DFS sends his right hand woman to go look for QW and then picks up the now completely fainted BQ. As he walks past the stranger with BQ in his arms, they nod their heads in recognition. The stranger then goes to pick up that thing that had fallen from BQ earlier. (It looks like a hair ornament.)
DFS’s right hand woman rushes over to find QW, but when she finds the carriage, it’s empty inside.
Back at the Zhu Manor store, Xiao Xia is enduring a lecture from Zhu Shou. He can’t believe she let BQ go find by DFS by herself and tells her that if anything happens to BQ, it won’t just be the grandfather that’s upset, he’ll be upset too. Zhu Fu steps in and tells him to stop yelling at her since it’s like crying over spilled milk. He suggests instead that they hurry up and try to find BQ. He orders the store clerk to start transmitting the word so that all their people will be on the look out for her.
In prison, which is where Mr. Traitor Traitor Pants should rot forever, BJF is yelling at his men for letting CY disappear. His man tells him that CY had said he wanted to go find the guard general to discuss some matter, and he wouldn’t let them follow. He had told them that he was doing something on BJF’s bidding BJF can’t believe they believed CY so easily. (I can, though, it’s because you’re a sucky leader, Mr. Traitor Traitor Pants!) His man tells him that they did eventually follow him, but he’d already disappeared by then. BJF guesses that CY went to find BQ. He tells his man to go tell the person that’s following BQ to keep a close on her. He says that if both she and CY disappear, he’ll tell the emperor to have their heads. After they leave, another guard comes running over and whispers into his ear. When he finishes listening to the message he says, “The leader of the Ming Yue Clan’s been brought here?” He then goes to meet with her. (I swear, if the two of them end up working together, that would only be too fitting. Two snakes in a jar.)
The stranger from the street approaches Xiao Xia, Zhu Fu, and Zhu Shou. Xiao Xia orders the stranger to step aside, but he pulls out the hair ornament and points to it. Xiao Xia recognizes it and asks him if he’s met BQ and where she is. He keeps pointing and gesturing. While Zhu Fu appears to be studying him carefully, Zhu Shou asks what place he’s trying to describe. The stranger pulls out a bunch of coins and starts to shake them around in his hand before throwing them up into the air. Zhu Shou finally guesses: that gambling hall den owned by DFS’s family. He then tells the store clerk to take care of the stranger while they leave to find BQ.
QW’s back in prison and keeps rubbing the area where she was wounded. BJF goes to meet with her. (I wonder, between the two of them, who would win the snarky award. I’m thinking her.) She asks him who he is. He announces himself as BJF, the person sent by the emperor to investigate the prince of Dong Ping Jun’s rebellion matter. He tells her that when he was in the capitol, he’s already heard that she and CY had a romantic relationship. He says that with CY being accused of rebellious activity, she won’t be able to disassociate herself from him and suggests that she share everything she knows about CY’s plans with him. He says that if she does, he’ll be able to lighten her sentence. QW says, ‘Your (plural) emperor sent CY to investigate LMY. Now you say he’s a traitor. That really is laughable.” BJF responds by wondering if she doesn’t hate CY after he had her locked up in the prison at Dong Ping Jun. She admits to hating him, but she also says she won’t harm him. (I wonder if this is going to have BJF asking how come all the ladies are in love with CY, much like when DFS asked the same question back in the desert. Here’s your answer guys: He’s a genuinely nice guy. Now go self-reflect.) QW adds that the reason she escaped from prison was to save CY. BJF scoffs and says that CY really is a person with good fortune. He explains that that CY was able to win the devotion of a woman like QW, but doesn’t know how to treasure it, and reminds QW that in CY’s eyes, there is only BQ. He then says he’ll share information with her, which is that CY didn’t actually conspire against the emperor and that he actually faked being captured by the emperor. She asks him if he’s being truthful and he says, of course he is. But then in his next breath he lies and tells her that CY told everything to BQ, and not her. (He is so manipulative!) He makes the observation that she escaped from prison for CY, but CY just keeps putting her in the path of danger. He says CY really shouldn’t behave like this. QW doesn’t want to believe him and says he must be lying to her. She says he wants her to misunderstand CY and try to get her to say stuff against him. BJF says if she doesn’t want to believe him, he’ll show her proof.
BJF takes QW to see the padlocked prison carriage box. When he opens it for her, she expects to find CY inside, but of course it’s empty. BJF points out that for real criminals who are taken to the capitol, they’re supposed to remain in this prison box and since he’s not there, she must know what that means. QW says she wants to meet with CY, and BJF tells her that he’s already with BQ and that they’ve happily and merrily left Xi Chu Zhou already. Her anger rising with every word, until she’s shoving at him, QW says she doesn’t believe a word he says. BJF says whether she wants to believe him or not, that’s up to her. He reminds her though that her escaping from prison is an offense punishable by death. He says the only reason he was willing to share this much information with her is because he thought she was a smart woman. He never thought he’d find her otherwise and tells her to just wait for her beheading in two days. At his threat, QW finally does a 180-and now she begs forgiveness from BJF (calling him “Da Ren,” which means she’s recognizing the weight of his position). BJF reminds her that what she committed was a capital offense, so how can she be left off with just some forgiveness. She says that given his position, he must have the ear of the emperor, and he says of course he does. And that’s when she says she wants to meet with the emperor. BJF laughs at her audacity, but that’s when she pulls out her own secret card. She tells him, “I know who the Biluotian priestess is.” BJF’s expression changes, and QW says, “If this information is shared with the emperor, I’m sure you’ll be able to earn some goodwill.” BJF asks to know who the Biluotian priestess is, but QW says this is something she must share with the emperor personally. She doesn’t want him taking all of the credit, otherwise she’ll be left with nothing. BJF warns her that if she’s faking anything, she won’t have a life anymore. QW just laughs and says that between life and power, she places more importance on power. BJF says he can take her to meet the emperor, but if she’s making up stuff, he’ll now be linked to her, so he insists on knowing the identity of the Biluotian priestess first or else she can forget about everything. She reassures him though that she’s not planning on going to the capitol to die, so she asks him to rest easy and reminds him that ultimately, he’ll receive credit as well. At this, BJF finally agrees.
DFS is watching BQ sleep. She wakes up in a startle and seems surprised to see him. He winks at her and she asks him where she is and why she’s there. He looks around and wrinkles his nose before telling her that she’s in one of the gambling den’s guest rooms and safe. He then asks her what’s going on between her and QW. She tells him that QW tried to sell her to a brothel so she’d be ruined. She starts to say something else about QW, but DFS cuts her off and tells her not to worry as he’s already sent his person to look for QW. If BQ killed her, he says that’ll be great because the she won’t ever be able to torture her again. He then tells her that she fainted because she was shocked over the incident and hasn’t rested properly these past several days. He tells her to drink the medicine he prepared for her. BQ declines and climbs out of bed. She says she’s fine and wants to go back to her store. DFS says Xiao Xia told him though that she’d wanted to meet with him. He then asks her why she’s in such a hurry to leave now that they’ve met up.
BQ says she’d wanted to look for him to ask him, “What exactly did CY take that the emperor has to accuse him of being a traitor to capture him? Also, how do you know about all this?” DFS responds, “This . . . I can tell you.” He tells her that CY has with him stuff that are related to the Biluotian, and that these are things that supposed to give a person access to all its worldly treasures within. That’s why the emperor is looking for him. BQ asks him how he knows about Biluotian, and he says that part is a secret and he’s told her what he can. When he offers her the medicine and she again declines it, he says he’ll give her one more chance. He says if she agrees to marry him, he’ll go rescue CY for her. BQ says she won’t beg him and that no matter what, she’ll find a way to return to the money to him. That way, when she has nothing else to worry about, she’ll follow him (CY). DFS asks her if she really loves CY to the point that she wouldn’t hesitate to break up Zhu manor, and she just tells him to let her go. When he asks her what she’s going to do if he doesn’t let her leave, she says that if she can’t leave today, then she’ll just leave the next day and points out that he can’t keep her locked up forever.
Outside, they hear Xiao Xia and Zhu Shou arguing with DFS’s right hand woman. He orders Hei Feng (I should probably start calling her by her proper name now that I can finally remember it) to let them in. Xiao Xia asks DFS what he did to her, and BQ reassures that he did nothing to her. She just suffered some shock and fainted. Zhu Shou adorably asks, “Fainted here?” while BQ just suggests they go home first.
As BQ leaves with Xiao Xia and Zhu Shou, DFS runs after her to call out, “Zhu Ya Tou, CY’s business isn’t something you (plural) can control so stop wasting all your troubles on him. Get some rest.” BQ doesn’t turn back and just keeps on walking. Once they’re gone, DFS asks Hei Feng if QW’s dead. She said there was blood in the carriage, but no body and suspects that someone took her away. DFS tells her to send someone to investigate as she must be brought back to him, dead or alive. He also tells her to keep after for information on CY.
When BQ returns to the store, Zhu Fu tells them to hurry and close the doors behind them and brings her inside to chat. She apologizes for having worried everyone, but he’s just glad to have her back. BQ says she heard from Xiao Xia that the person who saved her earlier was still at the store. She asks where he is as she’d like to thank him personally. The store clerk tells her he’s resting in the back and that he’ll bring him over to meet her. After the store clerk leaves, Zhu Fu tells her that he investigated this man and he’s a tramp and a mute, named Bai Ma. After Zhu Fu shares Bai Ma’s full background and mentions that he’s grown up in this area and knows it well, BQ decides that it’d be useful for their business to keep him around. She also gives him credit for not having followed DFS and instead coming to the store to find the others. Zhu Fu says that if she thinks it’s okay, then they’ll keep him on.
The store clerk returns with Bai Ma. He smiles and hurries to give his greeting. As he bends over and shows his clasped hands, BQ notices the mark on the back of his right hand. In what starts out a somewhat shaky voice, BQ asks him if he’s willing to stay on with their store and use his knowledge of the area to help them transport goods.” Bai Ma smiles and indicates his willingness to stay, and BQ tells the store clerk to prepare a room for him to rest in. She announces that when they leave for Suzhou on the morrow, he’s to go with them.
That night, Bai Ma enters BQ’s bedroom. She’s sitting on her bed and when she sees him, she says, “You’ve come.” Bai Ma finally speaks. He comments that BQ really isn’t like any normal woman. When a strange man enters her room at night, she doesn’t even flinch. He bows and says he’s quite impressed. BQ steps down from her bed and starts walking towards him. She says, “So you can talk now! Weren’t you a mute?” He asks if she isn’t afraid that he’s a bad person who’s going to kill her, and she just says, “You would trick even me? CY, don’t think that just because I’m going along with your act that means I’ll forgive you! Get out of here!” That’s when Bai Ma smiles and peels off the face mask that he’s wearing, revealing the real CY underneath. He walks over to her and taking her face in his hands and expresses admiration for “his wife’s” bright eyes and ability to see through everything. He says that he only changed into his new outfit that afternoon and she already knew it was him, even finding a way for him to allow him enter. BQ responds by biting down hard on his hand and then says, “Of course I knew it was you! And you dared to hide it from me.” She hits him as she asks him if he doesn’t know how she almost died from fear because of him. He smiles and accepts the abuse. Then he gives her a back hug and apologizes, saying he knows he was wrong. The then holds up the skin of his face masks and asks her, “If I really did look like this, would you not want me?” She grabs the mask and throws it at him, telling him that if he really did look like that, she of course wouldn’t want him because she wouldn’t want such a coarse man for a husband. CY doesn’t believe her though. He reminds her that back then, she didn’t know what LYK looked like, and she still fell in love with him. BQ says that’s not the same thing, and CY says, “Oh, it was because of the whole he can shoot 10 arrows at once thing?” She finally laughs and tells him to stop messing around.
BQ asks CY how he became Bai Ma. He tells her that after he shook off BJF’s people, he wanted to come find her. But when he saw the horse running loose earlier, he had only the thought of saving her. But then there was this person named Bai Ma, and he got there first. CY found this person suspicious as he was obviously hiding martial arts skills while pretending to be a kind, innocent person. CY also found him suspicious because when he watched DFS carry her away, he noticed that the two men gave each other head nods. That’s when he was able to guess that Bai Ma had to be one of DFS’s people and after he captured him, he confessed everything to CY.
BQ confesses to CY that once upon a time, she stole a seal from DFS that was connected to Cheng Wang. Also, she heard from DFS that he (CY) took the Biluotian stuff with the intent of rebelling. That made her think of when he told her that Ah Fu had given him two things related to Biluotian. CY said he never imagined that DFS would also know that he had the Biluotian stuff. He says it looks like DFS must be connected to the people who killed Ah Fu. He just never imagined that these people would also be connected to the traitors and Cheng Wang. CY explains that Cheng Wang and the previous emperor previously fought over the world. After the previous emperor ascended to the throne, Cheng Wang was confined to a remote area and not long after, died. Later, there were rumors that he had left behind male offspring. However, CY doesn’t discount the possibility that there could also be people who are trying to commit a rebellion under Cheng Wang’s name. BY is so cute, she mutters that she doesn’t understand why, if people have enough to eat and drink, they’d want to stage an uprising.
CY takes BQ by the shoulders and says he hadn’t planned on coming to see her so soon, but things are too dangerous here and he feels he has to take her away right now. BQ holds him back and says things will be fine now that the Ming Yue Shan clan has been ruined and QW’s also dead. CY tells her, though, that those aren’t the people she needs to be worried about. Her greatest danger is DFS. He suspects that with his background, DFS’s determination to marry BQ can’t be such a simple matter. BQ admits she’s had her suspicions about this as well. She tells CY about how when her mother was about to be born, that contract was written allowing MM’s family to take as a bride any daughter borne to the Zhu family. She doesn’t understand how that agreement could be worth the amount of money that MM’s family loaned to them. CY tells her, “Of course it was worth it,” because her mother was a Biluotian priestess. BQ asks him what he’s talking about, “Biluotian priestess?” CY tells her that she must’ve heard the tale before. As he repeats a part of it, she nods her head in recognition. Then, when he gets to the part about the Biluotian priestess, he tells her that her maternal grandmother was a priestess, and her mother was a priestess, which means she’s also a priestess. He tells her that everyone just wants to use her to get to its treasures and then the world. BQ laughs in disbelief, “Me? I’m a Biluotian priestess?” She has a hard time processing this new information. He sits down with her and she asks him how he knows all this. He tells her that before his father died, he told him all of the Biluotian secrets and that was why he looked for her for all those years. BQ asks if that means the Seventh Prince really did want to revolt and that he hoped CY would continue on that path by sharing his knowledge with him. CY tells her he doesn’t have the same aspirations as his father, and BQ says if that’s the case, then why don’t the two of them go in and get the Biluotian treasure and bring it back to the emperor. When he just sighs and doesn’t answer, she asks him if her idea won’t work. He takes her hands in his and tells her that the tale that everyone knows is only just one half. As he shares the second half, she figures out its meaning, which is that she has to die. CY clasps her hands and promises her that he won’t let her die. He says that since the emperor doesn’t yet know she’s the Biluotian princess, he’ll take her and leave. As CY stands and starts to escort her out of the room, she waylays him again and asks what will happen to Zhu Manor if she just disappears. He gives some sort of an explanation (of which I’m too lazy at this point to look up in the dictionary, sorry!) to reassure her that no harm will come to her grandfather and family. Plus, he admits that part of his plan is to bring out the people who killed his master (because he deduces that the people who killed his master will also be the people who try and break him out of his prison cart when he's taken back to the capitol). In essence, his plans are to catch both the traitors and get rid of the people who know about her real background at the same time.
After BQ hears his plans, she tells him that means she definitely can’t leave with him. He asks her why and she tells him to think about it. He faked being captured and didn’t tell her to make it look real. If she disappears now, everyone will be suspicious. She suggests they keep up the act until the end, and when it’s over, they can be together. CY thinks her idea is too dangerous because they’ll come and capture her. She points out though that so far, they haven’t come for her, and CY says the only reason they haven’t yet come for her is because they don’t have the map or the sphere. He’s afraid that with everyone suspecting he has the map and sphere, and with everyone knowing their relationship . . . BQ cuts him off and says that these are all just people’s guesses and she’s willing to bet that they’ll never be able to figure out that he wasn’t really captured. CY says he doesn’t want to gamble, but she says they’ve already reached this point. She doesn’t want all the plans that he’s so carefully thought out to fall apart just because of her. Plus, she points out that he’s already taken over the Bai Ma identity to be by her side and she doubts DFS will suspect her. CY still refuses and insists on taking her with him, so she lets him lead her to the door and then when they get there, she pushes him out and locks her door behind him. Through the door, she tells him that she won’t leave with him and asks him to let her help him see his playact to the end. She says she looks forward to one day being able to live happily and peacefully with him. CY has no choice but to acquiesce. They both lean against the door, back to back.
The next day, BQ meets with Zhu Fu, Zhu Shou, Xiao Xia, and Xiao Liu. She shares the information Xiao Xia was able to gather concerning CY’s journey from the prison to the capitol. She then makes plans and gives orders for them to also prepare to depart so that they can follow the caravan from a distance. Both Zhu Shou and Zhu Fu object to what she wants to do because they think she plans on intercepting the caravan. That’s when she clarifies that DFS told her the reason why CY was captured is because he has something the emperor wants. She feels like he keeps testing her to see if CY was really captured or not. She thus suspects that whatever CY has, DFS wants it as well. That’s why she wants to put on an act for DFS to see and let him think that she plans on intercepting the caravan to rescue CY. With that explanation, the men agree to her plan.
The episode ends with BQ looking determined.
1 hour ago, ayleenlovesyou said:
OMG... I just finished ep 43 as well and that whole last bit with QW and the Emperor? Makes me want to puke... ugh. Stop thinking with one thing and one thing only, Mr. Emperor!
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Autopsy reveals baby born premature suffered nearly 100 fractures in her body when she died
Posted 4:01 am, June 25, 2019, by Darren Sweeney, Updated at 04:13AM, June 25, 2019
HOUSTON, Texas — An autopsy reveals the horrific circumstances that lead to the death of a Houston baby at just 10 weeks old.
According to court records obtained by KTRK, Jazmine Robin was born premature at just 29 weeks. She spent several weeks in the hospital before being released to her parents on July 3, 2018 as a healthy baby.
But just 11 days later, she was brought to the hospital with “clearly inflicted head trauma.”
An autopsy, which was released last month, shows the baby had 96 total fractures, including a skull fracture, 71 rib fractures, and 23 long bone fractures, KTRK reported.
“It makes my heart break,” said Jazmine’s great-grandmother Virginia White. She said she never got a chance to meet her great-granddaughter.
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White’s granddaughter, Katharine White, was Jazmine’s mother. She is charged with injury to a child by omission, KTRK reported.
The baby’s father, Jason Robin Jr., is charged with murder.
Jason Robin, Jr.
According to KTRK, about a week before Jazmine’s death, the parents said they had to give her CPR because she stopped breathing. Once she regained consciousness, the parents did not take the baby to the hospital, court records revealed.
A man who lived in the same house as the Robin and White told investigators that he told Robin he needed to take the baby to the hospital but that he refused. A pediatrician who saw Jazmine a few days before her death also advised the parents to take their baby to the hospital, but that they showed “no interest.”
KTRK reported that the couple’s older son has been placed in foster care. A third child that White had since Jazmine’s death is staying with a relative.
As of Monday afternoon, neither Robin nor White had been arrested.
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Home|Locations|California|Canndescent: Sustainable Grow Blooms in the Desert
Canndescent: Sustainable Grow Blooms in the Desert
Geoff Nudelman May 12, 2017
At first glance, Desert Hot Springs doesn’t look like the center of California’s sustainable cannabis movement. As the name suggests, it’s a flat, sandy town of 28,000 that greets drivers as they make their way out to the Coachella Valley or Joshua Tree. The weather is hot and unforgiving.
It also happens to be the first Southern California municipality that legalized large-scale medical marijuana cultivation.
State-of-the-Art Retrofitting
After city leaders approved the law in 2014, the rush of commercial capital to the area was almost instantaneous. Tenured developer Adrian Sedlin’s search for large parcels of land to grow ultra-premium product brought him here with similar grand visions. His company, Canndescent, opened the city’s first growing facility last September – a 9600 square foot warehouse producing more than 200 pounds of product a month. “We retrofitted the entire building,” Sedlin says.
He’s talking about a state-of-the-art water clarification system they added to recycle the precious California water supply—the area gets only 5.7 inches of rain per year. The process filters impurities and dirt out of the water before it’s released into the sewer system, essentially making it cleaner than when it arrived through the pipes. Although Sedlin and his team have set a high standard for growing in a booming region, what’s coming next will raise the bar all over again.
Next month, Canndescent will complete $675,000 worth of solar panel additions to their existing building, producing around 30 percent of the warehouse’s total energy needs, according to CFO Tom DiGiovanni. To meet building code, the panels are positioned over the adjoining parking lots and double as shade from the brutal desert sun.
They’re bringing this solar template to new construction, too. Canndescent is building an 80,000 square foot grow space from the ground up that will combine propane and solar power in a co-generation method. DiGiovanni projects the system will offset 65-70 percent of their power needs. In some situations, it can operate independently of the desert’s expensive power grid. “We won’t be tapping [into] the grid very much,” Sedlin says.
Sedlin feels Canndescent has a duty to be an environmentally responsible producer, and that their customers will be willing to pay more to support that goal. Data says he’s right. According to Monocle Research’s RED BOMBr cannabis arm, 49 percent of California consumers are willing to pay more for cannabis grown using environmentally friendly methods.
Creating a nascent sustainable system has given Canndescent a head start over the incoming wave of producers once legalization takes full effect. Sedlin has already given tours of their existing facility to a variety of government agencies, from Los Angeles County to the California Department of Food and Agriculture. They’re proud to show it off.
“When you do it right in a regulated environment, people respond to it,” Sedlin says about the positive reaction he’s received so far. He added that they’re already following Colorado’s tough guidelines “from seed to sale” in preparation for anything new that comes up when California’s market opens.
The biggest challenge they’ll face going forward is matching the significant funding they’ve already achieved. At press time, they recently completed a $6.5 million round, mostly to help develop these and two other projects on tap in the desert. “Because of the relationship between the cannabis industry and banks, we’re raising our funds from existing investors,” he says.
Between their investors and the veteran leadership at the helm, Canndescent is on its way to becoming a state – and national – model in responsible cannabis cultivation. This fiery hotbed off Interstate 10 is set to become a hub of ingenuity for indoor agricultural growth as a whole.
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Thread: Belfast Celtic
A N Mouse
I think the IFA would have to approve any club in its jurisdiction playing in another league - new or old. Derry was different in that there was major security concerns about the Brandywell at the time and once they had agreed to them going to LOI they wee never likely to retract although I believe thee was an offer to return to IL ?).
a club (new or old) in the middle of Belfast is a distinctly different issue and I doubt the IFA would risk their power base by allowing clubs opt for the LOI. it is extremely unlikely the EUFA/FIFA would recognize a move without IFA approval.
Much as I would like to see his happen, I don't believe it likely anytime soon.
Point of order - the RUC lifted any objections, on security grounds, to matches in the brandywell before Derry left the Irish league. It was the clubs vetoed playing there. The same clubs that rejected the reapplication every year, until the loi application.
I don't know if it's true but remember being told they eventually made a rule about clubs owning or having long term leases on their grounds, so they could refuse without being accused of sectarianism. This must have changed recently, because it was used to refuse oxford admission to their championship, when they wanted to name brandywell as their stadium, but doesn't seem to be an issue for stute.
All of which is why returning to the IL is a non starter for many Derry fans.
EatYerGreens
Originally Posted by A N Mouse
OK neither time nor place for THAT debate but “security concerns” was cited by clubs as a concern in the 70s/80s.
Derry are now too well established in LOI to return to IL but I believe the IFA would have than. Lack of League place (in IL) would be only grounds EUFA night consider a Belfast Celtic request but that won’t happen.
Clubs from a unionist background raised 'security concerns', whilst the people legally in charge of security at the time said there were no genuine security concerns. I know which view I'd give more credit to
Derry are now too well established in LOI to return to IL but I believe the IFA would have than.
The Irish League would have Derry City back in a heartbeat. Derry get bigger crowds than any team in the Irish League does. Also - the Irish League is made up almost entirely of teams from unionist areas, and with supporters from a unionist identity - as can be seen clearly from the emblems displayed at games . Of the 36 teams that make up the 3 divisions in the Irish League, only 7 or 8 teams could be considered as coming from areas that are predominantly nationalist/catholic. So the Irish League is in danger of becoming ghettoised as a largely unionist pastime, despite the fact NI is on the verge of having a catholic majority population. Adding Derry City to their pyramid would certainly help address that.
Lack of League place (in IL) would be only grounds EUFA night consider a Belfast Celtic request but that won’t happen.
A clear legal precedent on this was set in 1994, which stated that under EU competition and restraint of trade laws there is nothing to stop a club from one footballing jurisdiction plying its trade (i.e. playing competitively) in another footballing jurisdiction, so long as the rules were followed on it joining that new jurisdiction. So whilst the UK remains under the influence of EU law, there is legally nothing to stop a club in the north playing in the south.
holidaysong
Originally Posted by EatYerGreens
Who set the precedent out of interest?
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Security concerns may have been part of Derry leaving the IL, but to claim it as reason for their applying to join the LOI is just plain wrong.
These same clubs, during this time, were having serious incidents inside their grounds. None as serious the one decades before that lead to the original Belfast Celtic to leave. But ten years before they left Derry were in a cup final, the majority of city fans stayed away. So those that went were severally outnumber by linfield fans. All well and good? Except Derry were playing Distillery.
You can't expect to talk about a club looking to call themselves Belfast Celtic - btw should never happen for this shower at any level - and bring in Derry joining the LOI and not talk about this.
Originally Posted by holidaysong
The 'exiled' Welsh clubs - led by Newport County - who took the FA of Wales to the High Court for being banned from playing English pyramid games in stadiums in Wales.
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Forgetting about the legitimacy issues of the claims and the fact we'd have the same sized pie but cut more ways for a minute.
If we did have Newry City, Belfast Celtic and the 6 junior clubs who have clubs at National League level - Kildare, Kerry, Mayo, Carlow-Kilkenny and Cavan-Monaghan.
The league would be in a much, much better place. Carlow and Kilkenny gave it a go previously. Maybe under a regime that didn't spend 40k on Ritz Carlton in Dubai and Man UTD tickets and designer clothes for the GF and instead actually invested prize money, sponsorship and TV money in to the league we could sustain these 8 new clubs (or at least maybe 4 of them) and all of a sudden we have 2 leagues of 12 and there's a much great "National" feel to the league. No more Dublin teams and teams in counties with huge potential ready to be tapped in to.
Just out of interest what sort of crowds do Institute get, and have their crowds changed much since moving to The Brandywell? Also is there any cross community support with the two clubs or is support very much along political/religious lines? In the distant future if ever there was an All Island league, would there be any scope for the two Derry sides merging in that enviornment especially if the smaller club was going to get cut loose and potentially flounder. Derry is big enough to have 2 clubs of course but not 2 competative clubs.
Originally Posted by Nesta99
Crowds are around 500 this year, and you do see a few people in Derry gear within that. For quite a few games the away fans out-number the home.
Stute would get 'support' (i.e more curiousity) from a range of people, but the club is fundamentally very small. As for a merger - there's zero chance of that, and sure what would be the point ? To what end ? On the very rare occasion that Derry want a Stute player, they usually get them transferred (e.g. McCrudden), but the flow is almost entirely in the other direction. Stute are a bit like a Derry B side tbh. It would be like asking why don't Cobh and Cork merge.
When there's an AIL Stute will be nowhere near the top division, whereas Derry would hope to be there perennially.
I wasnt really suggesting a merger as much as trying to figure out how the general perception among the Derry public could be down the line. If the lines are blurring between the communities that support the respective clubs. Are those crowds down from after the move to the Brandywell? As you say 'stute are like Derry B so if the circumstances are right a merger will be mooted at some point. It will probably happen with a few other clubs especially at Junior level with a proper AIL pyramid system and will be suggested for some senior clubs. Not likely to happen with a fan backlash but Newry and Warrenpoint, Derry and Stute, Cobh and Cork even. I'd like to see Dundalk push toward Monaghan-Cavan as their route to senior football. Pie in the sky talk really but at least its not about Delaney or Breit!!
brendy_éire
Up the town, Derry
I wasnt really suggesting a merger as much as trying to figure out how the general perception among the Derry public could be down the line. If the lines are blurring between the communities that support the respective clubs. Are those crowds down from after the move to the Brandywell? As you say 'stute are like Derry B so if the circumstances are right a merger will be mooted at some point.
I think Stute would be seen as more unionist-supported, but that's essentially because of the area they were located in, rather than by design or actions of their fans.
The move to the Brandywell will have changed the demographic of their support. It's now in a more populated area, within walking distance of the city centre, which really helps.
I'd hazard a guess, that half of the 500 odd people at Stute match this Saturday will have been in the Brandywell the night before for the City match. There's a decent enough crossover of support.
Whether a formal arrangement between the clubs would go down well with Stute fans, I don't know. It'd be a hard sell.
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Originally Posted by brendy_éire
To an extent - though don't forget that the club grew out of the Presbyterian YMCA in the city, and still uses the symbol of the Presbyterian Church as their crest.
The club is largely viewed as neutral, but does have strongly unionist roots. I would also question whether they'd have bothered with (or been accepted into) senior football had Derry City been in the Irish League at the time. They were very much seen as a way for the IFA to address the embarrassing lack of an IL presence in NI's second city.
Its where my thinking was, that if being located in the Brandywell over a protracted period of time, that the catchment area will blur the lines between Derry City and Institute support especially if as you say the club didnt exist first as a community's religious/political badge, it just happened to be located in one community. 50% of an Institute gate is already also part of the previous nights Derry City gate and that could evolve to the point where where there is such a crossover in support that any potential merger would be a hard sell to the club and IFA not the supporters in due course. It would be an interesting project if the clubs did merge but had teams represent 'Derry City' in both LoI and IL. An All-Island club with teams in two different jurisdictions. Again Im not floating the idea as much as find the concept interesting and its a name change for one arm of Derry City football when you consider the raised profile, general appeal in Derry for Saturday football etc. Under normal circumstances there are probably UEFA rules that would stump the idea but the GFA does seem to be able to trump a lot of rules and maybe even this too.
Nesta - you need to move on from this. There is no chance of Derry and Stute merging. Neither appetite nor need for it. You may as well ask if Shamrock Rovers and Cabinteely will be merge, Cork and Cobh, or Man United and Salford City.
As for support - it is very much largely in one direction. You'll find lots of Derry fans prepared to go to watch Stute - even though the standard of football isn't great. I'll be there on Saturday, for example. But I'd be surprised if there was a similar interest amongst Stute fans in going to watch Derry City.
And most Derry fans have no interest in their own club playing in the Irish league either.
I would have thought that there should be a huge potential for a West Belfast Senior club , but Donegal Celtic have been chugging along with poor enough support other than cup runs. The FAI will not be picking a row with the IFA (or anyone else) anytime soon, so a cod Belfast Celtic club in the LOI is pie in the sky nonsense.
It would be great to get a Setanta Cup type competition back though , some great way trips to Coleraine, the Oval and Windsor back in the day.
Did you read my post!? Yes it is off topic and by all means pull me up on that but if you are going to quote and comment at least have the manners to read what is posted but I will make it easy for you by pointing to two comments " Pie in the sky talk really but at least its not about Delaney or Breit!!" and "Again Im not floating the idea as much as find the concept interesting"
Am I not a not allowed ask questions, seek opinion, offer an opinion on what I feel would be an interesting situation, speculate on future evolution on clubs and leagues? Do you know how the landscape will be in the distant future?
In fairness the Internet is the place for streams of consciousness,
The problem with merging clubs like Cobh and Cork , or Derry and institute is the scale of one dwarfs the other so it ends up being like the smaller club closed down.
I think "franchise" type new clubs have more of a chance, the buzz around the "Belfast Celtic" name alone shows that but its hard to pull off in a country this size, where most of the large urban areas already have a team ..or several.
You're perfectly allowed to ask questions my friend.
Just like I'm allowed to tell you need to move on when the question's been answered for you but you continue to ask it anyway
The problem in Ireland isn't so much that all the large urban areas already have a team, and more that there really aren't very many large urban areas in the first place.
Football is an urban sport, and the fifth biggest city in the Republic is Waterford (population below 50,000). There just realistically aren't enough people and urban areas in the Republic to have a much bigger viable LOI. That's why an all-island league of some sort is the only way forward IMO. Drawing in new teams (in LOI terms) from new areas with the sort of urban populations that make football potentially viable.
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with institute in the brandywell is this a permanent move altogether? their old ground was that far on the other side of the river foyle?
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Shopping at – where else? The Dead Sea Mall!
When you think of the Dead Sea, do you think of a mall? What about a mall with luxury stores, an ice cream store, cafes, and even a spa?
A beautiful new mall at the Dead Sea, situated directly on the boardwalk and beach on the southern end of the salty attraction, offers both Israelis and tourists products at prices less the Value Added Tax amount. The cost of the rebate will be footed by the developer of the mall. Overseas tourists will be able to claim a double discount as they can still get a VAT rebate on many items.
The Dead Sea is the lowest point on Earth and is surrounded by the stunning landscape of the Negev Desert. The saline water of the lake gives lead to the name Dead Sea, because no fish can survive in the salty waters. The other result of the salty water of the Dead Sea is its renowned health and healing properties and the unique feature that one can float naturally in them.
There are a number of public beaches open along the shores of the Dead Sea. Popular beaches include the Ein Gedi Beach and the beach at the Ein Bokek resort where many hotels offer private beaches, and where some beaches charge an entry fee.
If for nothing else, tourists can always go in simply to enjoy the air conditioning.
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Jordan sets itself up for European MICE audience
Jordan, a country which is sheltered from the troubles of the region, is safe to travel in and around, independently or in a group. The country is presenting itself to the European MICE audience with fully-detailed proposals as well as a complete specializing catalogue thanks to the cooperation of The Platinum Services, a Rome-based event agency and DMC specializing in first class events in Italy, Europe and other selected areas, and Guarantee Travel Group, one of the biggest DMCs and event and travel agencies of the Country, benefitting from personal contacts with Jordan Minister of Tourism and Antiquities Majd Mohammad Shweikeh.
“Jordan’s MICE industry has come of age,” stated Regional Director Mr. Rami Qutishat. “It understands the particular demands of the meetings and incentive market and strives to exceed expectations. It has harnessed the ingredients needed to provide groups with a successful event that touches the hearts of most discerning delegates and resides in their memories». For nearly half a century, Late King Hussein was viewed as a respected world leader and a symbol of peace and reconciliation. Today, his son King Abdullah II echoes the same voice of moderation – not by chance, he’s been recently presented the Peace Lamp in Assisi, Italy.”
Jordan is located at the crossroads of three continents, making it an ideal meeting place for international events. Flying time from most European, African and Asian cities is around four hours, and there is easy and direct access from the USA and Canada. GMT +2 hours; US Eastern Standard Time +7 hours.
Aqaba’s King Hussein International Airport (KHIA) is a gateway to the Red Sea and is becoming an important regional hub for business and leisure travelers. It is the only airport in Jordan to operate an Open Skies policy.
The national carrier, Royal Jordanian Airlines, flies to 54 destinations and is a member of One World Alliance with code sharing alliances with many airlines. The country boasts a fine array of international hotels, with new investments constantly adding a number of exciting developments to the portfolio. The country is now embracing the concept of eco resorts and is increasingly supporting green initiatives.
Besides the wealth of meeting space available in all the major hotels, the opening of the King Hussein Bin Talal Convention Center in 2006 on the shore of the Dead Sea signaled Jordan’s commitment to this sector.
Jordan touches many senses – from spicy aromas and culinary pleasures to an invigorating mud wrap, first glimpse of Petra’s Treasury and the sound of desert silence. It is one of nature’s most unusual adventure playgrounds, containing some of the world’s best preserved Nabataean and Roman cities, as well as the Dead Sea, the lowest point in the world; and for an even greater adrenalin rush, it unveils the crags that tower over Wadi Rum or the waterfalls in Wadi Mujib.
“Jordan is a country with rich cultural heritage,” stated Loredana Chiappini, owner of The Platinum Services. MICE events are set against a spectacular backdrop of mountains, deserts and seas that have provided the stage for many of history’s most momentous dramas. When you combine world-class meeting facilities with an inspiring range of incentive activities in a dramatic setting, you will have the ingredients for a very special event. With easy access, value for money and highly experienced DMCs, success is assured.”
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Thank you for flying TAP Air Portugal: Welcome to Tel Aviv
Israel has about 9 million inhabitants and annually receives more than 4 million visitors. TAP Air Portugal landed its inaugural flight between Lisbon and Israel on time on Sunday night at Ben Gurion airport in Tel Aviv.
With this new route, TAP will offer connecting service from the United States via its Lisbon hub. Like all TAP’s “beyond Portugal” destinations, Tel Aviv qualifies for the airline’s stopover program en route.
TAP’s daily flight leaves Lisbon at 2:20 pm and arrives in Tel Aviv at 9:30 pm. From Tel Aviv, flights depart at 5:05 am, arriving in Lisbon at 9:00 am.
One of Israel’s main tourist attractions is the city of Jerusalem, where one can visit holy sites of various religions. Within walking distance are the Holy Sepulcher (Christian), the Wailing Wall (Jewish) and the Mosque of Al-Aqsa (Muslim).
But Tel Aviv, Jaffa, Nazareth, Tiberias, Caesarea, Haifa, the Dead Sea region, and in the Palestinian part, Bethlehem and Jericho, among other points, also have many attractions.
The Portugal Stopover comprises a network of more than 150 partners who provide exclusive offers for Stopover customers for hotels discounts and complimentary experiences such as tuk-tuk tours, visits to museums, dolphin watching in the River Sado and food tastings – even a free bottle of Portuguese wine in participating restaurants.
Travelers can also enjoy a stopover in Lisbon or Porto even if their final destination is in Portugal, such as: Faro (Algarve); Ponta Delgada or Terceira (the Azores); and, Funchal or Porto Santo (Madeira).
Furthermore, Stopover passengers can also create a multi-destination journey, making it will be possible to travel to one destination and return from another. For example, people may choose to fly to Barcelona then return from Seville, but they will still qualify for a stopover in Lisbon or Porto on either their outbound or return travel. Stopover visits are now also available on just one-way travel to Europe or Africa.
TAP will receive 37 new aircraft by the end of this year — and 71 by 2025 — thus becoming the operator of one of the most modern fleets in the world. This renewal and growth of the fleet has allowed TAP to announce new routes and more frequencies. From the United States, new service from San Francisco, Washington DC, and Chicago start in June. TAP has also announced new routes including Naples, Tenerife, Dublin, Basel and Conakry for 2019.
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Gin Sales Are Booming and It Could Be Thanks to the Growing Plant Craze
John Kell
In 2018, global consumption of gin grew faster than any other beverage alcohol category. Brandy Rand thinks she knows why, and she calls it her “plant theory.”
“If you look at consumption trends over the past few years, there is a high growth rate in people eating more plants. We have been told it is better for the environment and for our diets,” says Rand, chief operating officer for the Americas for global alcohol-industry tracker IWSR. The power of plants is changing consumption behavior across many food and beverage categories: There are plant-based burgers, chicken, seafood, and milk products—and even cannabis is soaring in popularity.
All this talk of plants may be giving gin a lift too. With a botanical base, gin has an herbaceous vibe that fits neatly into the plant craze.
Gin makers are experimenting with surprising flavors like basil, rhubarb, orange, and cinnamon, and in the process they’re bringing new drinkers into the fold. The trend toward these natural ingredients has become so buzzy that vodka brand Ketel One last year launched a botanicals line that’s gin-ish.
While technically a vodka, Ketel One Botanical Peach & Orange Blossom leans into gin influences. Ketel One
Globally, sales of gin jumped 8.3% last year versus 2017, IWSR data shows, bolstered in part by trendy pink gins, to lift the spirit’s sales to more than 72 million nine-liter cases. Growth has been explosive in European markets like the United Kingdom and Spain, where much of the innovation is occurring. IWSR forecasts gin will hit 88 million cases by 2023.
Bartenders are embracing gin in funky cocktails that shine on—you guessed it—Instagram. And even the tonic side of the equation is seeing innovation. Stateside, brands like Fever-Tree, Navy Hill, and Fentimans are giving gin drinkers new ways to experiment.
“Gin is an interesting drink,” says Ed Pilkington, liquor giant Diageo’s North America chief marketing officer. “The different flavor types that exist in gin align with our food culture.”
Pilkington says the gin renaissance in Europe has unfolded because it was a drink once preferred by people who are older but is now consumed by all legal age groups and more evenly by both genders. Diageo has focused on innovation within the category, launching Gordon’s Pink and hitting over 1 million cases just a year after that gin’s debut.
In 2018, Diageo launched an orange-flavored variant of Tanqueray called Flor de Sevilla. It is bringing the spirit stateside for the first time with a limited launch in Florida. And just last month, Diageo debuted a new super-premium Italian gin called Villa Ascenti, which it will sell in 14 European countries.
The world’s largest spirits makers are also placing bets on gin with acquisitions. In the past few years, Gruppo Campari bought Bulldog London Dry Gin, Pernod Ricard scooped up Italian Malfy and Germany’s Monkey 47, and Corona maker Constellation Brands bought a stake in craft spirits maker Black Button Distilling, which sells lilac- and citrus-forward gins.
Gin is so trendy that even actor Ryan Reynolds bought Pacific Northwest–based craft brand Aviation Gin.
“Competitors are investing in gin, and that’s good for the category,” says Pilkington.
In America, gin hasn’t yet emerged as a superstar. Last year, the spirit’s volume dipped 1.1% as growth for the priciest gins couldn’t fully offset declines for the cheapest stuff, according to data from the Distilled Spirits Council.
To put things further in perspective: Gin volume soared 52% in the U.K. versus a slim 1.5% gain in America for the 52-week period ending February 23, 2019, according to Nielsen.
Malfy Gin is a brand of gin bottled in Italy, distilled by Torino Distillati, and distributed by Biggar & Leith.Malfy
Part of what has held gin back in the U.S. is the misconception that gin must always have a juniper taste, and that’s because many London-style gins feature that flavor profile. And because the most popular cocktail was a gin and tonic, many drinkers find the floral notes overpowering.
Gin isn’t alone in fending off such misinterpretations. Rum often gets pegged as being too sweet, Scotch as having too much peat, and mezcal as too smoky. All of those spirits brands and their makers need to work on educating bartenders and consumers about their unappreciated versatility.
Popular cocktails like the Negroni have helped introduce gin to more Americans in a more subtle way. Craft gin brands are among those aiming to bring new flavors to the market. Ohio-based Watershed Distillery is selling gins with notes like rose petals and citrus, and even a gin that sits in a bourbon barrel for a year.
“A lot of people had a bad experience with gin in college,” says Greg Lehman, Watershed’s founder. “But gin isn’t a one-note category. And there is a new gin consumer that is open to new flavors.”
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On the trendy side, Beefeater Pink came to the U.S. last year, a pink-hued gin that balances juniper with strawberry and citrus. Hendrick’s Gin, meanwhile, gets a lot of credit for elevating the gin experience in the U.S., though other brands are adding excitement. Monkey 47, for example, has classic botanicals like juniper and coriander but also lingonberries and spruce. Pernod Ricard says that it has invested behind Monkey 47 in the U.S. and has been rewarded with exponential growth.
“If you start from the idea that American spirits consumers have always and will always look for flavorful experiences, and you layer on the trend of authenticity, craftsmanship, and health and wellness—it sets the stage for the reemergence of gin,” says Jeff Agdern, senior vice president of New Brand Ventures at Pernod Ricard. “Gin offerings today are wildly different than what was available 20 years ago.”
“I am not sure if we are ready to call gin the next big category [in the U.S.],” adds Agdern. “But more brands are coming in, and there’s more retail and consumer interest. We are betting on it.”
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Spence Hall on the campus of the Union Presbyterian Seminary, a school of theology run by the Protestant church in Richmond, Virginia, was redesigned by Glavé & Holmes Architecture. For this purpose, the architects chose metal mesh from GKD – GEBR. KUFFERATH AG. The Omega 1520 mesh mounted on two facing sides in the entire upper section of the prayer room functions as interior solar protection and decorative wall cladding.
Originally built in 1897, Spence Hall was transformed into a state-of-the-art teaching facility in 2000 that is also used as a chapel. From the outside the building blends in perfectly with its surroundings thanks to the red bricks typical of Richmond, Virginia. The interior of Spence Hall was given a new lease of life by Glavé & Holmes Architecture from Virginia as an open and generously sized prayer room with a gallery for visitors. The real eye-catchers of the modern and unostentatious room are the bronze-colored mesh panels made of Omega 1520 stainless steel mesh from GKD. At the front of the room, ceiling-high rosewood panels frame a discreet cross, thereby forming a second, larger cross. On the two long sides of the room, large, ceiling-height mesh panels from the gallery upward conceal the latticed windows arranged horizontally in rows of three. Their warm bronze color provide a pleasant contrast to the otherwise black and white color scheme. The woven material lends the room a feeling of comfort with its sail-like appearance. Targeted lighting accents cast the mesh in the room interior in the limelight. While the incoming light makes the windows shimmer like gold-embedded jewels during the day, at night the woven panels appear opaque from the inside but transparent from the outside. Alongside their decorative function, the metal mesh from GKD also meets the tough requirements of the architects as efficient solar protection. The open mesh structure filters the sunlight diffusely, reduces the heat input and guarantees effective glare protection for the visitors of the prayer room.
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GFF18 Closes with World Premiere of Nae Pasaran
GFF18 officially closed on Sunday 4 March with a Gala screening of Nae Pasaran, the feature documentary debut from director Felipe Bustos Sierra. The film delves into the refusal of Rolls-Royce factory workers in East Kilbride to work on Hawker Hunter plane engines being used by the Chilean military junta against the people in 1974. Forty years later, the film reunites the inspirational figures behind this strike, Bob Fulton, Robert Sommerville, John Keenan and Stuart Barrie to hear their story and to discover the impact the Scottish workers had on the people at the heart of this conflict in Chile. GFF18 was honoured to be joined by both the film’s director as well as Fulton, Sommerville, Keenan and Barrie, who embarked on the screening surrounded by friends, colleagues, family and supporters.
Before the screening kicked off, festival co-directors Allison Gardner and Allan Hunter took to the stage to close the festival. Both gave warm thanks to the staff behind GFF18 and their hard work in the face of immensely difficult conditions brought about by the Beast from the East, and to the wonderful GFF18 audience for bringing a spirit of camaraderie and care for one another through such unprecedented circumstances, ensuring the spirit of the festival never wavered.
Introducing Sierra to the stage, Hunter stated
“We were all incredibly touched by this film. It tells a great story but it’s also so timely in the way that it shows how individual acts of conscience can make a difference in the world and that individual people can change the world as well. It has been a labor of love for the director. It’s fantastic full in the cinema tonight for this world premiere.”
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Sierra himself followed on from this by saying:
“It’s absolutely fantastic to see so many familiar faces here. It’s been, as Allan said, a labor of love for me and many others for the last five years. It’s more fantastic to see so many strange faces, who’ve turned up in this weather to see it. When we started we never expected we’d get such a spotlight for a documentary, for a Scottish documentary, for this story... So thank you very much and I hope you enjoy it.”
The Glaswegian spirit was strong at the film’s close, with a lengthy standing ovation for the documentary’s subjects in attendance and Sierra taking to the stage once more to thank the audience for their heartfelt reception. All in all, Nae Pasaran proved to be the perfect closing note for GFF18 and we’re honoured to have screened it as our Closing Gala film for this year’s festival.
The screening was followed by the festival's Closing Party at The Old Fruitmarket, with a performance from Voces del Sur and DJ set from DJ Dema. Audiences were treated to drinks from Rekorderlig, Staropramen and Blue Moon.
Red Carpet Photography: Eoin Carey
Gala and Closing Party Photography: Pete Copeland
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Judith served 16 years for bank robbery and manslaughter. When she finally gets out, she runs into one of the victims' sons. A crime long past returns to haunt four people's lives.
A bank robbery with hostage-taking and two fatalities, made headlines in Frankfurt in 1999. Judith Schering spent 16 years behind bars for it. Now, she's out on parole, which means no booze, no drugs and no contact to her old friends. She broke off all contact to her former life in jail, but now she goes to see two people: Her husband Erik, who suffers from heart disease, and her daughter Anna. Both encounters are hard for all involved, especially Anna's brusque rejection. Then disaster looms by freak accident: Jan Beneke, son of the bank guard who died in the heist, recognizes Judith Schering in the subway. The boy goes to see David Roloff, son of a bank employee who also died, hoping he will "do something". But David is busy with his own problems: His mother wants him to try to get Judith's parole revoked. But the more he looks into the case, the more he begins to doubt her guilt ?
COLD FRONT is the debut feature by writer-director Lars Henning. The lead roles in this gripping drama are Jenny Schily ("Dora or The Sexual Neuroses of our Parents"), Adnan Maral ("The Wild Soccer Bunch - The Legend Lives!", "Homeland", "Turkish for Beginners"), Christoph Bach ("Charité", "Finsterworld") and Leonard Carow ("Who Am I?", "War Horse", "Naked Among Wolves").
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Why So Much Fuss about a Conference in North Carolina?, LobeLog
“The ongoing hullabaloo” over a UNC-Duke conference “highlights escalating efforts to delegitimize airing of facts that are unflattering to Israel, stifle criticism of Israel, & deny Palestinians the right & ability to communicate their own experiences and perspectives,” writes Lara Friedman.
US-Israeli/Palestinian relations
Two-state solution ‘failed,’ Jared Kushner says, JTA
Jared Kushner said “the two-state solution failed,” setting up the likelihood that the peace plan he expects to release soon will include limited autonomy for Palestinians.
The logic behind US humiliation of the Palestinians, Al Jazeera
It seems Kushner’s main goal is to break the Palestinians’ spirit and their hope for a sovereign state on all territories occupied in 1967, in order to force them to settle for autonomy in parts of these territories with a down-the-road option for a “Gaza first” pseudo-state, conditional on good behaviour.
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“When politicians find their voice only in contesting anti-Semitism from political opponents, they probably don’t care about it,” writes Ira Forman.
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Israel Was Built on the Backs of Palestinian Laborers, The Nation
Marginalized Arab workers have always done the physical work of building the Jewish “national home.”
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Sponsors had hoped to bring Hanan Ashrawi from Palestine. But she did not receive a visa over several weeks during which the event was organized.
Look at the Photos, Netanyahu, Ha'aretz
The reality in the occupied territories is conveyed to the citizens of Israel almost exclusively via the Israeli army spokesman. But photographs and video clips of confrontations between the Israeli army and Palestinians make it possible to demonstrate the horrifying discrepancy between the statements that the army feeds Israelis in shaping their consciousness of the situation, and the actual reality.
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Synod 2018
Final thoughts: The phoenix rises; The big three; Women – the movers and shakers
My grandson is pretty good at math. He told me the day after I returned home, “Grandma, you slept 15 hours straight.”
It was true.
I was exhausted from my long flight home and 30 days of exciting, but endless engagement with the forces at the Vatican.
So after a wonderful gathering with my family with the best potato soup I’ve ever tasted thanks to my daughter Karla; a game of ball tag with seven screaming, scheming smallish people; two games of Scrabble (won one, lost one); and, being baptized in the drool of the happiest, most beautiful baby on earth, I slept, contentedly.
This is my third synod and, in that short time, I have seen dramatic shifts taking place.
Synods under Popes John Paul II and Benedict XVI, were more or less an exercise in rubber stamping what was pre-ordained by the pope. It was quite striking when they did make some progress such as in 2008 when they became aware, thanks to Chris Schenk, CSJ and others, that the current catalogue of lectionary readings excised women’s experience or history. Proposal 17 sought to change that. Still, in general, synods had become a large floor exercise with prelates reading their interventions (proposals) one after another. Participants drifted in place, read, or nodded off.
In 2015, Pope Francis radically changed the synod process by introducing small language group discussions that included not only prelates, but also auditors, experts and fraternal delegates. Many conservative bishops opposed this change because it opened the synod process up to new influences including those from Catholics who were not ordained.
The small groups discussed the issues in the Instrumentum Laboris and offered modi (changes) that would be captured in the final document. The talks were often contentious but in the end, an opening for divorced and remarried catholics to receive communion became a reality.
The nascent process was markedly strengthened in 2018. The final synod document was the product of a long process involving young adults, experts, religious women and men, and ordained men and is clearly not the “final document” according to Francis, but a marker along the synodal path.
Pope Francis exhibits genius — a man on a mission from God. He chose young adults as the topic and the primary voices in piloting this new form of governance. It would be hard, if not impossible, to corral and ostracize their voices as bishops have handily done to other Catholic populations. In the end, young adults spoke boldly about what the church needed while capturing and enlivening the hearts of bishops who had long ago grown distant.
Daily, we heard from prelates that this was “the best” synod they had ever experienced. Young adults served as the voice of the Holy Spirit, penetrating hearts — engendering joy. And along the way, with Francis and his allies, young adults helped create more space for women, LGBT Catholics, victims of clergy sex abuse, while making the idea of a synodal church more appealing (at least harder to say “no” to) to those who had reservations.
Key moments include:
Pope’s announcement of the synod
His choices for the permanent council overseeing the synod,
A questionnaire that was completed by young people,
More than 220,000 people accessed the online questionnaire, just over 100,000 people ages 16-29 – 58,000 young women and 42,500 young men – completed the survey. Just over 50 percent of the respondents were 16-19 years old, he said. Uganda had the highest response rate with more than 16,000 completing questionnaires.
A preparatory document with survey for bishops
A letter from Francis to young people
A Pre-synod meeting with an address to young adults by Pope Francis
A work plan
A final document
The issuance of Episcopalis Communio on the norms for the synod
The Instrumentum Laboris or the working document for the synod
The Pope’s homily at the opening Mass
Francis’ address at the opening of the synod
Cardinal Baldisseri’s explanation of the synod process
Reports from 14 small circle language groups (English (n4), French (n3), German (n1), Italian (n3), Portuguese(n1), Spanish (n2) on Part I, Part II, and Part III of the Instrumentum Laboris,
A draft of the final document where there were heated exchanges at times about the language
A final document (only available in Italian at this point) which passed with 2/3rds majority votes
A letter to young people from the bishops
Pope’s Francis’ closing remarks and final homily at the closing Mass
The final document
The final document consisted of 3 parts, 12 chapters, 167 paragraphs and 60 pages. During the process 364 modifications were proposed. In the last few days, between the final draft and the final document there were sometimes heated exchanges over language about LGBT Catholics, clergy sex abuse, and synodality.
The entire document as well as each paragraph passed with the requisite 2/3rds majority vote.
The pope will determine how to go forward, but it possible that he could allow the document to become part of the ordinary magisterial teachings of the Church.
Who influenced, who voted
One Canadian bishop humorously observed that there always seemed to be at least one vote against a paragraph, no matter how benign, and he wondered if someone didn’t understand the equipment and just kept pushing the wrong button.
It’s a lovely little thought.
267 took part in the Assembly
249 voted. If you weren’t in the hall, you could not vote. The members included 51 Cardinals, 6 Patriarchs, 46 Archbishops, 102 Bishops, 37 Auxiliary bishops, 6 Apostolic Vicars, 1 Bishop Prelate, 10 Religious (8 ordained, 2 non-ordained) representing the Union of Superiors General (USG) and 10 members of the episcopal order, both diocesan and religious. (These numbers are reported with slight variations in different places, so don’t bet your house on this particular breakout).
6 U.S. prelates joined. Galveston-Houston’s Cardinal Daniel DiNardo, Chicago’s Cardinal Blase Cupich, Los Angeles’ Archbishop José Gomez, Philadelphia’s Archbishop Charles Chaput, Bridgeport’s Bishop Frank Caggiano, and Los Angeles’ Auxiliary Bishop Robert Barron. Cardinal Joseph Tobin and Cardinal Sean O’Malley were invited but turned down the offer to attend to crises related to clergy sex abuse at home.
8 Fraternal Delegates (representatives of other Churches and Ecclesial Communities)
23 experts
49 auditors (23 women, 26 men)
34 young adult auditors
15 other auditors
Synodality: the phoenix rises
Some of our conservative brothers and sisters complained when they learned that Pope Francis had a hand in writing the final draft. Their suspicion of his Vatican II agenda, his strategy for decentralizing governance that will be formalized in a new apostolic constitution Praedicate Evangelium, along with his determination to allow other Catholic and ecumenical voices to deeply influence pastoral policy as formalized in Episcopalis Commuio was illuminated in its particularities in the final document under the section on synodality.
Overall, this section had the most consistent number of “no” votes for each paragraph and reflected the ongoing and sometimes heated controversy between bishops over Francis’ push for a synodal church.
The missionary synodality of the Church: A constitutive dynamism
119. The young people ask us to walk together 206 34
120. The synodal process continues 203 39
121. The synodal form of the Church 191 51
122. The synodal form of the Church (additional) 199 43
123. A participatory and co-responsible Church 202 38
124. Community discernment processes 208 33
Paragraph 121, which received the second greatest number of “no” votes in the entire document reads:
121. The experience of the Synod made the participants aware of the importance of a synodal form of the Church for the proclamation and transmission of the faith. The participation of young people has contributed to “awakening” synodality, which is a “constitutive dimension of the Church. […] As Saint John Chrysostom says, ‘Church and Synod are synonyms’ – because the Church is none other than the ‘walking together’ of God’s flock on the paths of history meeting Christ the Lord” (FRANCESCO, Address for the Commemoration of the 50th Anniversary of the Establishment of the Synod of Bishops, 17 October 2015). Synodality characterizes both the life and mission of the Church, which is the People of God formed by young and old, men and women of every culture and horizon, and the Body of Christ, in which we are members of one another, starting with those who are marginalized and trampled underfoot. In the course of the exchanges and through the testimonies, the Synod has brought out some fundamental traits of a synodal style, towards which we are called to convert.
The call to convert to a new, Vatican II way of being church is suspect, if not the beginning of the end, in the eyes of those who felt more secure under the strong arm of Pope John Paul II and Pope Benedict who had a wistful relationship with the pre-Vatican II model of church. These prelates embraced the power of a papacy and curia who were quite content with a “smaller, purer” version of Catholicism and whose leaders vigorously punished dissent by theologians and others who questioned their teachings and their use of papal power to enforce Vatican agendas by silencing dialogue and loyal dissent.
I can only thank God that we have emerged from that period into a church that values the messiness of a people engaged in dialogue and isn’t at every turn prosecuting dissenters.
I have also felt that Spirit more fully myself, a more generous inner space and love for those I sat next to for 30 days who disagree, even vehemently, with Pope Francis and organizations like FutureChurch who work without apology for Vatican II reforms. Francis’ model of authentic dialogue and synodal decision making is moving from a concept to an institutionalized way of being church. And that is Good News!
Paragraph 122 gets at that relationality and mutuality where everyone learns. It received 43 “no” votes.
122. It is in relationships – with Christ, with others, in the community – that faith is transmitted. Also in view of the mission, the Church is called to assume a relational face that focuses on listening, welcoming, dialogue, common discernment in a process that transforms the lives of those who participate in it. “A Synodal Church is a Church of listening, in the awareness that listening” is more than feeling “. It is a mutual listening in which everyone has something to learn. Faithful people, Episcopal College, Bishop of Rome: one listening to others; and all listening to the Holy Spirit, the “Spirit of truth” ( Jn 14,17), to know what he “says to the Churches” ( Revelation 2,7) “(F RANCESCO , Speech for the 50th anniversary Memorial of the institution of the Synod of Bishops , 17 October 2015). In this way the Church presents itself as the “tent of the conference” in which the Ark of the Covenant is preserved (see Ex 25): a dynamic and moving Church, which accompanies walking, strengthened by many charisms and ministries. Thus God makes himself present in this world.
The synodal way is a more humble way that overcomes the kind of rampant clericalism that engendered clergy sex abuse coverup. The synodal way helps overcome the over reliance on one decision making body within the church. The synodal way that Pope Francis is unleashing is nothing less than the phoenix of Vatican II rising up again from the ashes of two papacies that endeavored to put a choke hold on that wisdom — on that living breathing Spirit.
What Francis is doing is dramatic.
In a series of moves, he is opening the windows and doors to the breath of the Holy Spirit embodied in the entire People of God.
Paragraph 3 and the big 3: LGBT, women, and abuse
Here are the top 9 paragraphs reflecting the greatest divide among bishops. It helps us to understand the degree to which the bishops went forward and the degree to which they were reticent about some critical issues.
150. Sexuality: a clear, free, authentic word (additional) 178 65
3. The Final Document of the Synodal Assembly 191 43
39. Questions from young people 195 43
148. Women in the Synodal Church 201 38
108. Formation of conscience 205 36
Who decides on LGBT?
The paragraph that engendered the most heated debate was No. 150. Even though the moniker LGBT had been removed, the notion that we would delve deeper into the theology of sexuality as a church is a risk some bishops do not want to take. What is “pre-ordained” in natural law is settled and every energy must be spent in circling the wagons, not exploring new questions.
150. There are questions relating to the body, affectivity and sexuality which require a deeper anthropological, theological and pastoral elaboration, to be carried out in the most appropriate ways and at the most appropriate levels, from the local to the universal. Among these, emerge those relating in particular to the difference and harmony between male and female identity and sexual inclinations. In this regard, the Synod reaffirms that God loves every person and so does the Church, renewing her commitment against all discrimination and violence on a sexual basis. She also reaffirms the decisive anthropological relevance of the difference and reciprocity between man and woman and considers it reductive to define the identity of people starting only from their “sexual orientation” (CONGREGATION FOR THE DOCTRINE OF THE FAITH, Letter to the Bishops of the Catholic Church on the Pastoral Care of Homosexual Persons, October 1, 1986, no. 16). In many Christian communities there are already paths of accompaniment in the faith of homosexual people: the Synod recommends encouraging such paths. These paths help people to understand their own [personal] history; to recognize freely and responsibly their own baptismal call; to recognize the desire to belong to and contribute to the life of the community; to discern the best ways to achieve it. In this way, we help every young person, excluding no one, to integrate the sexual dimension more and more into their personality, growing in the quality of relationships and walking towards the gift of self.
So when it comes to the church’s approach on sexuality and the use of language such as LGBT, maybe the most emblematic, most hopeful of all the paragraphs is No. 3 for it creates a brand new space and possibility for the voices of the People of God to be incorporated into church teaching.
Paragraph 3 received a large number of “no” votes (n43) because it sets out a new interpretive framework in the synodal process that strongly links the Instrumentum Laboris (where the LGBT language was incorporated) to the final document.
3. It is important to clarify the relationship between the ‘Instrumentum laboris’ and the Final Document. The former is the unitary and synthetic reference framework that emerged from the two years of listening; the second is the fruit of the discernment carried out and brings together the generative thematic nuclei on which the Synod Fathers concentrated with particular intensity and passion. We therefore recognize the diversity and complementarity of these two texts.
The present document is offered to the Holy Father (cf. FRANCESCO, Episcopalis communio, n. 18; Instruction, art. 35 §5) and also to the whole Church as the fruit of this Synod. Since the synodal journey has not yet been completed and foresees an implementation phase (cf. Episcopalis Communio, n. 19-21). The final document will be a map to guide the next steps that the Church is called to take.
My earlier grief about the excising of the language of LGBT has been replaced by hope knowing that the voices at the pre-synod meeting and in the synod hall will not be written out by the bishops. And while Pope Francis respects the voices of his brother bishops, he does not want their voices to blot out the voices of the young adults who called the church to new forms of justice and respect. The LGBT language came to life through difficult conversations in the struggle toward justice at the pre-synod meeting and found its way into the pre-synod document. That language became part of the Instrumentum Laboris, another sign of respect by those who drafted it. And, even though the bishops left it out of the final document, it will remain an important part of the synod’s ongoing dialogue and process.
Pope Francis is truly stretching the church toward authentic synodality.
It will be interesting to see how Pope Francis pays tribute to the particular language of the Instrumentum Laboris in his own writing.
For a rich and full examination of the issues read Francis DeBernardo’s blog.
Women: the document and the movers and shakers
I want to talk about two aspects of women’s participation in the synod.
What was in the final document.
The promise of women’s participation in the future.
Some of what I learned was offered in a post-synod press conference offered by the International Union of Superiors General. Some of what I learned was from my interview with Sr. Sally Hodgdon.
What was in the final document
Overall, the final document reflected significant progress on the role of women in the church. Courageous young adults spoke clearly and convincingly about the need to incorporate women as equals. For young adults, its about justice, and that was reflected squarely in the document.
Paragraph 13 seems to start with the usual suspicion about the erasure of “Catholic” assigned qualities particular to women and men. But it goes on to name discrimination and domination as offensive to God and woman:).
13. We cannot forget the difference between men and women with their peculiar gifts, the specific sensibilities and experiences of the world. This difference can be an area in which forms of domination, exclusion and discrimination arise from which all societies and the Church itself need to free themselves.
The Bible presents man and woman as equal partners before God (see Gn 5:2): all domination and discrimination based on sex offends human dignity. It also presents the difference between the sexes as a mystery so constitutive of the human being as irreducible to stereotypes. The relationship between man and woman is then understood in terms of a vocation to live together in reciprocity and in dialogue, in communion and in fruitfulness (see Gn 1,27-29; 2,21-25) in all areas of human experience: the life of couples, work, education and more. God has entrusted the earth to their covenant.
Reciprocity can be equated to a strict complementarity, but it can also allow for more movement between role assignments that are typically based on biological sex. Cultural norms are changing rapidly and offering more freedom for expression by women and men. It will be in the ongoing synodal work of the church to help free gender equality from restrictions based on outmoded norms that restrict both women and men.
55. There is also a demand among young people for a greater recognition and valuing of women in society and in the Church. Many women play an irreplaceable role in Christian communities, but in many places it is hard to give them room in decision-making processes, even when they do not require specific ministerial responsibilities. The absence of the female voice and gaze impoverishes the Church’s debate and the path, subtracting from the discernment a precious contribution. The Synod recommends making everyone more aware of the urgency of an unavoidable change, also starting from an anthropological and theological reflection on the reciprocity between men and women.
This paragraph makes clear the urgency to the work of bringing more women into governance, ministry, and leadership. As young adults made clear, there is no braking on this issue. The only way forward is with women.
148. A Church that seeks to live a synodal style cannot but reflect on the condition and role of women within it, and consequently also in society. Young men and young women ask for it with great force. The reflections developed require to be implemented through a work of courageous cultural conversion and change in daily pastoral practice. An area of particular importance in this regard is that of the presence of women in the ecclesial bodies at all levels, also in functions of responsibility, and of female participation in ecclesial decision-making processes while respecting the role of the ordained ministry. It is a duty of justice, which finds inspiration both in the way in which Jesus was related to men and women of his time, and in the importance of the role of some female figures in the Bible, in the history of salvation and in the life of the Church.
This final paragraph is the most exciting. It acknowledges women’s participation as disciples of Jesus; the critical work of our foremothers in faith; and the notion that there is an aspect of justice that has been missing within the church.
And it gets straight at the need for more women in the church.
An area of particular importance in this regard is that of the presence of women in the ecclesial bodies at all levels, also in functions of responsibility, and of female participation in ecclesial decision-making processes while respecting the role of the ordained ministry.
I especially love the line, “Young men and young women ask for it with great force.”
I will forever be grateful for all those young women and men and those allied bishops who spoke up with such courage at the synod. It is because of their faith and integrity that we are moving toward a greater sense of justice in the church.
Women’s full participation in the future
Kenyan nun Lucy Nderi smiles before the start of the synod afternoon session led by Pope Francis at the Vatican October 16, 2018. Picture taken October 16, 2018. REUTERS/Max Rossi
The process of the creation of small groups in 2015, created greater space for women’s voices to be captured in a teaching document. Sr. Sally Hodgdon confirmed that. In my interview with her, she said that there were very free to discuss any topic and whenever there was patriarchal language, she and others drew attention to it and tried to correct it.
But the small group process is not a guarantee that women’s voices will be heard.
I will never forget what Sr. Maureen Kelleher said about her experience of being in a group with Archbishop Charles Chaput at the 2015 Synod on the Family. She faced what too many women in this church face. While she felt free to talk to any of the members in a friendly manner during coffee breaks, the interaction in her small group was unsatisfying. She noted that there were “times that I have felt the condescension so heavy, you could cut it with a knife.”
“I see a high level of non-acceptance of us as holding up half the sky,” she said, referring to some bishops’ difficulty in working with women.
“It’s very clear that I’m not speaking with one iota of formation on some of the teachings that have formed these men in the seminary,” said Kelleher. “Some of it is, ‘Oh, here comes the bleeding heart. Well, she’s a woman what else would you expect?’, kind of thing.”
But let’s face it, the obstinacy of a few men never stopped women religious!
In 2015, the International Union of Superiors General (UISG) lobbied hard to get women to the synod. After many meetings, three women including Sr. Carmen Sammut (who famously asked Pope Francis to open the discussion on women deacons) and Sr. Maureen Kelleher were invited as auditors. And even though their ecclesial status was the same as a brother (non-ordained) superior general who was given permission to vote, they could not vote.
The Union of Superiors General (USG – the male branch) made a mighty effort to negotiate voting rights for their co-equals. They wanted to give 5 of their 10 votes to members of the UISG — an effort that was refused by Cardinal Baldisseri at the synod office.
The question of whether the next synod (2018) would close the door to non-ordained men or open it further was answered when the USG chose two brothers to be a part of the Synod and it was accepted by Pope Francis.
Epicopalis Commio says:
§2. According to the theme and the circumstances, certain others who are not Bishops may be summoned to the Synod Assembly; their role is determined in each case by the Roman Pontiff.
This year, there were eight women religious at the synod according to the official roster. But only three were from the UISG, and only one was a Religious Superior, Sr. Sally Hodgdon, CSJ.
Sr. Sally Hodgdon is a member of the Sisters of St. Joseph of Chambery. She is the Vice-president of the International Union of Superiors General (UISG).
When I interviewed her, the first thing that struck me was her presence. She is a tall woman with a no nonsense, “tell it like it is” personality. Her honesty creates an immediate sense that you can trust her to speak her truth.
Sr. Sally is respectful of titles and roles within the institution, but she isn’t impressed by them. She is not the swooning type in the presence of bright pink and red hats. It is clear that what matters to her is the content of the person’s character, prelates included. So, when she stated that her first response to being called to the synod was, “What am I going to do with all these men?”, we all relaxed a little. No one was going to pull any red silk sash over her eyes.
I think Sally’s response at the press conference sums up what she and the UISG hopes to accomplish at future synods.
She began by addressing the issue of voting at the synod, calling it the “elephant in the room.”
She asked, “Why are the three sisters from UISG not voting?”
She stated that the Union of Superior Generals (USG) brought ten representatives of their choice to the synod, including two non-ordained brothers who were able to vote.
But the UISG had only three representatives. And they were chosen by synod organizers and not elected by the UISG body as is the case with the USG.
Sally said that given that 80% of consecrated religious are women, inequality was on full display at the synod.
Sally confirmed that the USG and the UISG had met and would meet again to develop a proposal that will be given to Pope Francis. Though, it has not yet been written, she said she knows what she wants.
It is pretty simple. “Women religious should have the same number of members at the synod as men. If there is a vote, we should be allowed to vote.”
My heart swelled with joy and hope as she promised,
“We need to be the dangerous memory of this synod and the spirit of what happened at this synod.”
“We will not let this issue just die.”
I had a chance to ask two questions during the UISG press conference (via the miracle of Zoom).
I wanted to know a) how they felt about the LGBT language being left out of the final document, and b) if there was anything that disappointed them, that they felt was left out of the final document.
On the LBGT question, Sr. Maria Luisa Berzosa Gonzalez, who works with LGBT Catholics in Madrid, said the goal should be “to put that person in touch with God.”“It’s a really sensitive topic, but we cannot abandon people.”
“We must continue the synodal path toward a Church that accepts more widely,” she said, “not to exclude, not to throw away.”
Psychologist and educator, Sr. Lucy Muthoni Nderi from Kenya said that, “This synod did not have ready-made answers,” but stated the importance of research. She was clear that, “We as a Church cannot discriminate [against] or incriminate anyone who finds themselves in these situations.”
“What would Jesus do? He starts with the person.”
Sister Nathalie Becquart of France said that some participants told her that if they went back to their countries using the language of LGBT, they might be killed.
I heard her compassion. It makes finding a response more complicated. At the very least, the church must stand against violence of any type against our LGBTQI sisters and brothers, a stand they took at this synod. But they also need to formulate a response that would be create more safety for those who are excluded (there are far too many suicides and other forms of self-destruction), as well as those who might be in harm’s way as Catholics who stand for justice for all their sisters and brothers.
On the question of what disappointed, Sr. Mina Kwon responded, “I expected more specifics on overcoming clericalism in the final document. Clericalism is that feeling that priests are superior. It is against what Jesus taught. We have to overcome clericalism before it is too late.”
Anytime I saw Sr. Gonzalez, I had to smile. She struck me as a woman who has been around the block a few times, and along the way has developed a good sense of humor in the midst of a church that is sometimes oppressive.
Regarding misgivings about participating in the synod, she said that given the numbers of cardinals and bishops at the synod, she wondered if it could be a place for a woman.
“I am a baptized and mature woman, so why do I have to feel like second rate participant?” she asked.
But as she became involved, she felt she was treated as a full participant.
Sr. Sally noted that the need for further inclusion of women at every level of the Church became a recurring topic not just for young participants and women religious but also could be heard from the lips of cardinals and bishops.
Finally, Sr. Alessandra Smerilli of Italy was firm, “This synod is a point of no return for the journey of women.”
Now that was music to my ears.
Deborah Rose-Milavec
Reporting from home
NY Times article Modern Day Suffragettes
NY Times article Bishops Urge Greater Inclusion of Women
Reuters article Women Suffragettes Want Vote, Change
Reuters article Vatican meeting ends with call for greater role for women
NCR article World’s superiors want greater role for women religious
NCR article Synod ends calling for women’s inclusion as a “duty of justice”
The Amazon Synod will be held in October 2019. Here is the preparatory document.
For a fun read from a bishop on the events of the synods, read Bishop Tom Dowd’s blog.
Here are a series of interviews with prelates by Deborah Castellano Lubov for Zenit.
Below you can find the vote count for each paragraph in the final document.
Votes on the final document
AVENTI DIRITTO = 268
VOTAZIONE I e II parte – PRESENTI = 249 – 2/3 dei presenti = 166
N° TITULUS Placet Non placet
1. L’evento sinodale che abbiamo vissuto 227 1
2. Il processo di preparazione 229 1
3. Il Documento finale dell’Assemblea sinodale 191 43
PROEMIO
4. Gesù cammina con i discepoli di Emmaus 235 2
I PARTE
5. “CAMMINAVA CON LORO” 239 1
Capitolo I – Una Chiesa in ascolto
Ascoltare e vedere con empatia
6. Il valore dell’ascolto 238 2
7. I giovani desiderano essere ascoltati 238 1
8. L’ascolto nella Chiesa 236 5
9. L’ascolto dei pastori e di laici qualificati 235 7
Le diversità di contesti e culture
10. Un mondo al plurale 240 0
11. Cambiamenti in atto 238 2
12. Esclusione ed emarginazione 240 1
13. Uomini e donne 221 18
14. La colonizzazione culturale 233 5
Un primo sguardo alla Chiesa di oggi
15. L’impegno educativo della Chiesa 233 2
16. Le attività della pastorale giovanile 238 3
17. Il peso della gestione amministrativa 220 16
18. La situazione delle parrocchie 228 9
19. L’iniziazione alla vita cristiana 239 2
20. La formazione di seminaristi e consacrati 227 12
Capitolo II – Tre snodi cruciali
Le novità dell’ambiente digitale
21. Una realtà pervasiva 235 3
22. La rete delle opportunità 231 3
23. Il lato oscuro della rete 232 2
24. Il lato oscuro della rete (bis) 235 3
I migranti come paradigma del nostro tempo
25. Un fenomeno pluriforme 231 7
26. Violenza e vulnerabilità 234 5
27. Storie di separazione e di incontro 234 3
28. Il ruolo profetico della Chiesa 235 3
Riconoscere e reagire a tutti i tipi di abuso
29. Fare verità e chiedere perdono 208 30
30. Andare alla radice 204 31
31. Gratitudine e incoraggiamento 234 8
Capitolo III – Identità e relazioni
Famiglia e rapporti intergenerazionali
32. La famiglia punto di riferimento privilegiato 237 2
33. L’importanza della maternità e della paternità 222 18
34. I rapporti tra le generazioni 237 1
35. Giovani e radici culturali 233 4
36. Amicizia e rapporti tra pari 239 2
Corpo e affettività
37. Cambiamenti in atto 206 33
38. La recezione degli insegnamenti morali della Chiesa 214 25
39. Le domande dei giovani 195 43
Forme di vulnerabilità
40. Il mondo del lavoro 235 2
41. Violenza e persecuzioni 239 1
42. Emarginazione e disagio sociale 234 3
43. L’esperienza della sofferenza 241 1
44. La risorsa della vulnerabilità 235 3
Capitolo IV – Essere giovani oggi
Aspetti della cultura giovanile odierna
45. Originalità e specificità 238 2
46. Impegno e partecipazione sociale 235 1
47. Arte, musica e sport 232 7
Spiritualità e religiosità
48. I contesti religiosi diversi 239 1
49. La ricerca religiosa 238 1
50. L’incontro con Gesù 238 1
51. Il desiderio di una liturgia viva 227 9
Partecipazione e protagonismo
52. I giovani desiderano protagonismo 230 9
53. Le ragioni di una distanza 234 8
54. I giovani nella Chiesa 235 3
55. Le donne nella Chiesa 209 30
56. La missione dei giovani verso i loro coetanei 237 2
57. Desiderio di una comunità ecclesiale più autentica e fraterna 234 8
II PARTE
58. “SI APPRIRONO LORO GLI OCCHI” 238 1
Una nuova Pentecoste
59. L’azione dello Spirito Santo 234 2
60. Lo Spirito ringiovanisce la Chiesa 236 4
61. Lo Spirito nella vita del credente 238 2
62. Un’autentica esperienza di Dio 240 3
Capitolo I – Il dono della giovinezza
Gesù giovane tra i giovani
63. La giovinezza di Gesù 232 9
64. Con lo sguardo del Signore 236 5
65. Caratteri dell’età giovanile 232 7
66. La sana inquietudine dei giovani 232 5
67. I giovani feriti 235 5
Diventare adulti
68. L’età delle scelte 238 1
69. L’esistenza sotto il segno della missione 238 2
70. Una pedagogia capace di interpellare 236 3
71. Il vero senso dell’autorità 237 1
72. Il legame con la famiglia 244 0
Chiamati alla libertà
73. Il Vangelo della libertà 226 4
74. Una libertà responsoriale 239 1
75. La libertà e la fede 235 0
76. La libertà ferita e redenta 238 0
Capitolo II – Il mistero della vocazione
La ricerca della vocazione
77. Vocazione, viaggio e scoperta 237 3
78. Vocazione, grazia e libertà 236 3
79. Creazione e vocazione 235 3
80. Per una cultura vocazionale 230 10
La vocazione a seguire Gesù
81. Il fascino di Gesù 238 1
82. Fede, vocazione e discepolato 237 3
83. La Vergine Maria 236 2
Vocazione e vocazioni
84. Vocazione e missione della Chiesa 230 2
85. La varietà dei carismi 239 3
86. Professione e vocazione 232 7
87. La famiglia 210 6
88. La vita consacrata 227 4
89. Il ministero ordinato 231 7
90. La condizione dei “single” 212 29
CAPITOLO III – La missione di accompagnare
La Chiesa che accompagna
91. Di fronte alle scelte 234 2
92. Spezzare insieme il pane 238 1
93. Ambienti e ruoli 238 3
94. Accompagnare l’inserimento nella società 241 3
L’accompagnamento comunitario, di gruppo e personale
95. Una tensione feconda 243 3
96. L’accompagnamento comunitario e di gruppo 240 3
97. L’accompagnamento spirituale e personale 241 3
98. Accompagnamento e sacramento della Riconciliazione 239 6
99. Un accompagnamento integrale 236 5
100. L’accompagnamento nella formazione al ministero ordinato e alla vita consacrata 241 5
Accompagnatori di qualità
101. Chiamati ad accompagnare 239 2
102. Il profilo dell’accompagnatore 240 4
103. L’importanza della formazione 237 4
CAPITOLO IV – L’ARTE DI DISCERNERE
La Chiesa, ambiente per discernere
104. Una costellazione di significati nella varietà delle tradizioni spirituali 235 3
105. Il rimando costitutivo alla Parola e alla Chiesa 236 3
La coscienza in discernimento
106. Dio parla al cuore 223 20
107. L’idea cristiana di coscienza 219 23
108. La formazione della coscienza 205 36
109. La coscienza ecclesiale 205 34
La pratica del discernimento
110. La familiarità con il Signore 238 3
111. Le disposizioni del cuore 235 4
112. Il dialogo di accompagnamento 238 2
113. La decisione e la conferma 238 3
VOTAZIONE III parte – PRESENTI = 248 – 2/3 dei presenti = 166
III PARTE
114. “PARTIRONO SENZA INDUGIO” 242 0
Una Chiesa giovane
115. Un’icona di risurrezione 241 2
116. Camminare con i giovani 241 1
117. Il desiderio di raggiungere tutti i giovani 223 17
118. Conversione spirituale, pastorale e missionaria 214 25
CAPITOLO I – La sinodalità missionaria della Chiesa
Un dinamismo costitutivo
119. I giovani ci chiedono di camminare insieme 206 34
120. Il processo sinodale continua 203 39
121. La forma sinodale della Chiesa 191 51
122. La forma sinodale della Chiesa (bis) 199 43
123. Una Chiesa partecipativa e corresponsabile 202 38
124. Processi di discernimento comunitario 208 33
Uno stile per la missione
125. La comunione missionaria 215 26
126. Una missione in dialogo 230 10
127. Verso le periferie del mondo 228 11
CAPITOLO II – Camminare insieme nel quotidiano
Dalle strutture alle relazioni
128. Dalla delega al coinvolgimento 224 13
129. Il rinnovamento della parrocchia 225 11
130. Strutture aperte e decifrabili 222 15
La vita della comunità
131. Un mosaico di volti 229 9
132. La comunità nel territorio 229 8
133. Kerygma e catechesi 231 9
134. La centralità della liturgia 230 10
135. La centralità della liturgia (bis) 223 15
136. La centralità della liturgia (ter) 236 4
137. La generosità della diakonia 239 4
Pastorale giovanile in chiave vocazionale
138. La Chiesa, una casa per i giovani 236 6
139. L’animazione vocazionale della pastorale 234 3
140. Una pastorale vocazionale per i giovani 233 8
141. Dalla frammentazione all’integrazione 230 8
142. Il rapporto fruttuoso tra eventi e vita quotidiana 237 4
143. Centri giovanili 232 6
CAPITOLO III – Un rinnovato slancio missionario
144. Alcune sfide urgenti 222 17
145. La missione nell’ambiente digitale 237 3
146. La missione nell’ambiente digitale (bis) 234 6
147. Migranti: abbattere muri e costruire ponti 228 12
148. Le donne nella Chiesa sinodale 201 38
149. Sessualità: una parola chiara, libera, autentica 214 26
150. Sessualità: una parola chiara, libera, autentica (bis) 178 65
151. Economia, politica, lavoro, casa comune 230 7
152. Economia, politica, lavoro, casa comune (bis) 236 1
153. Economia, politica, lavoro, casa comune (ter) 233 6
154. Economia, politica, lavoro, casa comune (quater) 229 6
155. Nei contesti interculturali e interreligiosi 225 13
156. I giovani per il dialogo ecumenico 228 9
CAPITOLO IV – Formazione integrale
157. Concretezza, complessità e integralità 233 9
158. Educazione, scuola e università 230 6
159. Preparare nuovi formatori 230 7
160. Formare discepoli missionari 230 7
161. Un tempo per accompagnare al discernimento 229 13
162. Accompagnamento al matrimonio 231 9
163. La formazione dei seminaristi e di consacrati/e 217 22
164. La formazione dei seminaristi e di consacrati/e (bis) 211 25
165. Chiamati a diventare santi 234 2
166. Risvegliare il mondo con la santità 216 8
167. Trascinati dalla santità dei giovani 239 2
What it said about women
The language on women is very strong overall and it is rooted in a notion of justice that has not been held as a standard in recent history.
Women in the Synodal Church
What sisters said
Even those of us who joined via the video link were able to ask questions.
I asked the sisters how they felt about leaving LGBT out of the final document.
I also asked what disappointed them, what was left out of the document that they wanted to see included. Sr. Mina Kwon responded, “I expected more specifics on overcoming clericalism in the final document. Clericalism is that feeling that priests are superior. It is against what Jesus taught. We have to overcome clericalism before it is too late.”
Sr. Sally Hodgdon said, “We need to be the dangerous memory of this synod and the spirit of what happened at this synod.” S
Other good reads:
The votes on the final document
November 1st, 2018 Leave a comment Synod 2018 futurechurch
I am sitting in the Chicago airport after a nine hour flight from Rome. One more stretch to go until I’m back in Cleveland.
But I am very happy. This final document contains many reasons for hope.
I left Rome under a cloud of apprehension. We had received a report that the final document would contain language that would prevent women religious from voting at a future synod.
Over Copenhagen, with my usual stubborn determination, I wrote a note to the Vatican.
Dear Vatican,
We won’t stop.
#VotesForCatholicWomen
But as my plane drew closer to the United States, I learned that the document contained no such language.
What we did learn is that there was an effort to add language allowing women religious to vote, but that it was removed at the end. That is probably a good thing, especially if it wasn’t going to pass. The one thing we don’t want is for Francis to feel bound by a decision of world bishops that constrains future roles for women.
Beyond, the voting question, the document actually moves the conversation about women’s roles forward.
Here are some of the key paragraphs. The old constraining language of complementarity is still there, but it is a bit more balanced by the language of justice for women.
In the 1971 Synod document on justice, the bishops made an important observation. In paragraph 40 they say
While the Church is bound to give witness to justice, she recognizes that anyone who ventures to speak to people about justice must first be just in their eyes. Hence we must undertake an examination of the modes of acting and of the possessions and life style found within the Church herself.
It is really good to see that language again. As it is applied more squarely in the life of the church, it will overcome those schemes that keep women in certain roles based on biological sex.
In terms of greater inclusion for our LGBT Catholic sisters and brothers, there are some reasons to hope, but clearly more to accomplish.
Frank DeBernardo does a beautiful job analyzing the document’s language. I don’t see it on the website yet, so I am reprinting part of it below.
The Vatican’s synod on youth has issued a final report that calls for “a deeper anthropological, theological and pastoral elaboration” of sexuality and affectivity is an important step forward for the Catholic Church in regard to LGBT issues. The statement acknowledges that the church still has a lot to learn about sexuality. If the study of these topics is done with open minds and hearts, there is potential for great transformation in the church.
The call for more parishes to provide accompaniment to lesbian and gay people is also a positive. The words describing accompaniment seem carefully chosen to allow for wide interpretation. During the synod, a request was made to include a statement calling lesbian and gay people to “conversion,” a word used often in church discourse to mean celibacy. That language did not make it into the final document. Instead the pastoral recommendations allow for great latitude of welcome and accompaniment based on the individual person and the local pastoral community and ministers.
The document also contains a strong condemnation of discrimination and violence against lesbian and gay people—an important message to bishops who have sometimes implicitly and explicitly supported LGBT criminalization laws with severe punishments. Catholic support for these laws must end.
The document has some problematic elements, too. It reinforces the prohibition of same-sex relationships, though it does so in a way that has been typical of Pope Francis: it does not use condemnatory language, but instead it endorses the heterosexual model as ideal.
The idea that “it is reductive to define a person’s identity solely on the basis of their ‘sexual orientation’” is also a problem.
Finally, the report uses “inclinations,” to describe non-heterosexual sexual activity. This term reduces lesbian and gay love and sexuality to base desires for sexual activity which. Not only is it a derogatory word, but it shows a complete ignorance of the affective lives of lesbian and gay people. Its continued use in church documents is not only an embarrassment, but is harmful.
That the synod report would not use the ordinary terms “lesbian,” “gay,” “bisexual” is surprising given the pope’s own use of the word “gay.”
These problems remind us that there is still much work to be done LGBT justice and equality in the church. In fact, the section that contained the most comprehensive analysis of lesbian and gay issues received the most “no” votes, and it made it to the required 2/3rds majority by only two votes.
I agree with Frank that the power of the synod is in the process.
It was an unprecedented gathering of church leaders with youth representatives from around the globe, and unlike other synods, it gave a stronger role to the voices of the lay participants.
Regardless of the outcome, it appears that a true dialogue took place—and we hope it will be replicated.
Listening and pastoral accompaniment have potential for changing the hearts and minds of pastoral ministers and church leaders.
The synod’s success will be judged not by what it has accomplished to this date, but its impact on shaping a more dialogical and relational church for the future.
Thanks Frank. I couldn’t have said it better.
I will write more, but wanted to get this out before I hop on my final plane.
Reporting from Rome
Other reports worth reading:
https://www.ncronline.org/news/vatican/synod-ends-calling-womens-inclusion-catholic-leadership-duty-justice
https://www.americamagazine.org/faith/2018/10/27/synod-final-document-warns-against-pre-packaged-answers-urges-accompaniment-and
https://www.vaticannews.va/en/church/news/2018-10/synod-of-bishops-young-people-final-document-summary.html
https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/youth-synod-final-document-addresses-all-types-of-abuse-97908
October 28th, 2018 1 Comment Synod 2018 futurechurch
Bishops’ voices trump; How’s your Italian?; What’s in a name?
We are into the final days of the synod and the presentations at the press briefings are beginning to run together.
Folks continue to sing, “Everything is beautiful.”
I’m not buying it.
But I also hope I am way off base in my assessment in the end.
In the beginning of October, there was a promise of a new order — a church that received wisdom from the People of God — a new listening church.
Pope Francis had implemented pre-synod listening processes and the voices of young people were heard in the pre-synod document as well as the working document, the Instrumentum Laboris. The real promise of this particular synod was that Pope Francis set in motion a more synodal process, one more open to and inclusive of people who don’t wear pointy hats.
And bishops at the synod vowed to listen. They were genuinely inspired by the candor and energy of the 30+ young people among them.
The stories of mutual admiration were beautiful. Who wouldn’t love to be around people like Yadira Vieyra, Pope Francis, Rev. Martina Viktorie Kopecká, Cardinal Tagle, Brother Alois, or Sr. Sally Hodgdon?
Bishops and young people alike hailed the rise of the listening church, an accompanying church, a learning church — a synodal church.
It was exciting. It was inspiring. It was hopeful.
I thought, “this is the genius of Francis. Where prelates might be dismissive of older adults, who could resist vivacious and faith-filled young people filled with bold ideas about how the church could be renewed?”
There was talk of a Pontifical Council made of young people. I was so excited because as an advisor for Voices of Faith, we had made a similar proposal to a number of cardinals with regards to women.
I thought the youth might actually be able to accomplish what their older counterparts could not.
I was practically dancing with anticipation.
Bishops’ voices trump
But as the days wore on, there were hints that the promises made were not going to be honored. The honeymoon that had lit a fire in the hearts of so many began to lose its light.
And some bishops’s voices began to drown out, to call into question, to trump the voices of young Catholics.
And my own heart, with its almost 63 years of living, began to break a bit — for the young people there and everywhere — for the whole People of God who need a renewed, bold, Gospel infused church more than ever — for those bishops who are in some ways hopelessly lost in the clerical world they inhabit.
So my prayer today is that I will be wrong about how this will turn out. Very wrong.
How’s your Italian?
The final draft document was handed to participants on Tuesday. It has been debated in the synod hall. As a result, more revisions are being added today and tomorrow. Everyone will be back at 4:30pm on Friday for a reading of the final document.
The draft document was distributed in Italian only. The final document that receives votes from bishops around the world will be available only in Italian.
On Friday, it will be read in Italian with simultaneous translation.
The reading will occur once.
It astounds me that this crucial document — the end product of months and months of work — will not be translated in the same way much of the preparation, the discussions, the negotiations, and the proposed amendments were transacted — according to and within the major language groups; Spanish, Italian, German, French, and English.
Now that is an absurd way to make policy.
On Saturday, the bishops, cardinals, and male religious superiors will vote, paragraph by paragraph.
Then Pope Francis will decide how he wants to use the document. Given his new document for synods, Episcopalis Communio, it is possible the document could become part of the ordinary magisterium of the Church.
And maybe, the unintended consequence of Pope Francis’ new directive is that it sharpened the battle lines within the episcopate.
Maybe that is why the draft document is reported to have had language and an emphasis that did not actually come out of the synod talks.
According to Crux,
Cardinal Oscar Gracias of India, a member of the C9 council, and a member of the drafting committee for the final synod document told John Allen and Ines San Martin that the language on “synodality” and “discernment” in a draft distributed to bishops on Tuesday came from neither synod discussions nor the committee.
Gracias believed it was inserted by officials appointed by Pope Francis to run the event including Synod head Cardinal Lorenzo Baldisseri, and special secretaries Father Giacomo Costa and Father Rossana Sala.
Gracias presumes that Baldisseri and his aides were trying to capture the mind of the pope, even if it wasn’t a major theme of the summit itself.
Gracias said, “They’ve very heavily stressed, discernment and synodality, which really were not very much prominent in the discussions. It wasn’t very prominent in the minds of the synod fathers, but it’s come out very strongly.”
Further, Gracias told Crux, that acronym, LGBT, first adopted in the Instrumentum Laboris because it came from youth at the pre-synod meeting, will not show up in the document. Instead language about “sexual orientation” won out. And that language did not result from input at the synod hall, according to Gracias.
When the bishops received the document on Tuesday, there was some pushback, according to Gracias.
So after more discussion, the committee worked on revising the draft on Thursday.
That final document, will be presented on Friday for a final reading and a vote on Saturday. Gracias believes it will sail right through.
I am truly saddened by the news that LGBT — the self-chosen nomenclature of the young people at the synod and the pre-synod — who may be gay or lesbian but are without doubt advocating for and standing in solidarity their sisters and brothers around the world — has been excised.
Naming is one of the most sacred acts in our church. God names us. We name God. We name ourselves. We take a new name at confirmation. We name each other, sometimes nicknames, a sign that we are known well and intimately to another. We name our children. They name themselves. These are all sacred acts.
When my husband and I divorced many decades ago, we had a ceremony. We had tried to make the marriage work, but it would not hold. I had legally taken my mom’s first name, Rose, as part of my last name – a sign of who I was becoming as I grew into a new and sometimes terrifying awareness of my own strengths and gifts.
We set up three candles, with the middle candle lit, as we had done together on our wedding mass before Mary’s altar. That evening we wept as we took the flame from the middle candle and relit the two separate candles. During that ceremony, I asked him to rename me as I wished to be called – Deborah Rose. Generous man that he was and is, a few weeks later he gave me a watch with my new name at the top and all our children’s names on the watch face.
It is still one of my most prized and precious treasures.
The give and take of naming is an act of love.
So, for me, I wouldn’t care what four letters our young people chose. And I don’t care if some consider the political import of the acronym too controversial for the church to handle.
I just know that four letters did not win out — LOVE.
October 26th, 2018 4 Comments Synod 2018 futurechurch
Thank God we are not stupid; God is an abstract idea; Lyons and lobbies and bears, Oh my!; Delivering the good
Each day as the synod comes closer to the end, the press room fills with more and more journalists. It’s getting crowded. But I am also finding myself grateful for all the really fine human beings trying to decipher the Vatican-lese for Catholics around the world while burrowing underneath the great wall surrounding the Vatican to get at truth in a church that is not so famous for its transparency and where church men devour each other in the bid for power.
It is also a joy to watch Paloma García Ovejero at work each day. She is the first lay women to be appointed vice-director in Communications. She is personable and welcoming, a truly lovely quality in a place where people are usually on guard.
Thank God we are not stupid
Today the synod featured Cardinal Reinhard Marx of Germany, along with Archbishop Andrew Nkea Fuanya of Cameroon, Archbishop Grzegorz Ryś of Poland, and Archbishop Toufic Bou Hadir, of the Maronite Church in Lebanon.
Cardinal Marx moves like a prince in the church. Although he has often condemned clericalism, he seems pretty comfortable with it on many levels. He sat squarely in the middle of the panel. He gushes impatience. And when I have seen him at these events, he is always surrounded by a small assembly of the German press that comically looks more like a gathering of groupies. His special
secretary closely controls every movement of the cardinal and those around him.
I would not call him a “people’s man” but rather a German star.
Nevertheless, he has been a megaphone for the German bishops’ progress on increasing women’s participation in the church. Germany is one of the few regions where structures have been developed to increase leadership and ministerial roles for women.
The themes of his synod intervention were repeated in parts at the press conference.
In his intervention he cited the Instrumentum laboris: “The rage of young people in the face of rampant corruption, growing structural inequality, contempt for human dignity, human rights violations, discrimination against women [also in the Church] and minorities, organized violence, and injustice does not seem to be taken into due account, if we look at the responses given by the BC [Bishops‘ Conferences].” (IL 128)
The German Bishops, in 2013, committed themselves to, “Significantly increase the proportion of women in church leadership positions accessible to all lay people; to further clarify the participation of women (and lay people as a whole) in the leadership tasks of the church, theologically and pastorally; and to promote a gender-sensitive pastoral care in theology and practice.”
He listed the concrete steps they taken to shore up their commitment. In a 2015 document called Being Church Together, the German bishops laid out the theological foundation for leadership in the Church, including women’s leadership which included
A mentoring programme for women in the Church (Hildegardis-Verein together with the German Bishops’ Conference) has made clear the diversity of leadership tasks in the Church and prepared almost 100 women for a leading role in the Church.
At a study day the German bishops dealt with the gender debate and thus discussed far-reaching questions on anthropology and sexual morals, on sacrament and office theology and on more gender justice in the Church beyond traditional gender roles and egalitarian role patterns.
Then he urges in a striking way
If, as the ‘Instrumentum laboris’ demands, the Church wants to support the dignity of women (cf. No. 158), then it is not sufficient to repeat the corresponding official doctrinal texts.
We must face up to the often uncomfortable and impatient questions of young people about equal rights for women also in the Church.
We can no longer simply stay out of the discourses of the present and have to learn a new culture of conflict in order to get involved argumentatively and in a guiding way in the social debates on central basic questions of humanity, such as sexuality, the roles of women and men and the formation of human relationships.
And for the sake of our own credibility, we must involve women at all levels of the Church, from the parish to the levels of the diocese, the Bishops’ Conference and also in the Vatican itself considerably more in leadership tasks.
We really ought to wish this and implement it!
The impression that the Church, when it comes to power, is ultimately a male Church must be overcome in the universal Church and also here in the Vatican. Otherwise the young women will not find any real opportunity for formation with us.
It is high time!
At the press briefing, he highlighted the evolving nature of the synod process under Francis as part of his effort to decentralize power within the church.
He stressed that the church is on a great learning curve when it comes to true synodality and underlined the greater involvement of the youth and laity in the process from the survey, the pre-synod meeting, and to the synod itself.
Youth, according to Marx, are helping to shape the development of the Instrumentum Laboris into the final document because, “we are looking to the young to help us make real decisions.”
He also spoke of the need for accompaniment saying that the choices made at this time are often choices made for life.
During the Q & A, a German reporter asked if the issue of clergy sex abuse would be at the front of the final document as had been proposed by the German bishops.
Marx replied that clergy sex abuse in Germany has drawn global attention.
“We need to change our attitude. The important thing in my mind is not jut to seek new methods, but to change the church instead. We need to become an authentic church, open to dialogue — not a top down approach. All our statements must be translated into structures.”
He stressed, “We need to do this together.”
But, he also resisted qualifying its importance by where it was placed in the final document. For Marx, it must be addressed and where it lands in the document is not as important.
He was also asked if we should expect some strong statements on women and if we would have women deacons soon.
Sidestepping the question of women deacons, he remarked that on the role of women in the church, “Thirty years ago I too may have been opposed to seeing more women in leadership,” but, “Thank God I didn’t get stuck there!”
Marx said the Church must understand the evolution and development of women’s equality as a “gift God gives the Church in the light of the Gospel.”
He said, “We would be foolish if we did not make use of the potential that women have.”
“Thank God we are not stupid.”
He circled back around to the theme of accompaniment that is so prevalent at the synod saying that it is important to Pope Francis that, “I don’t decide for you, but we walk together.”
God is an abstract idea
The comments of Archbishop Grzegorz Ryś of Poland surprised me most. His candor about the life in the church in Poland was refreshing. And his willingness to poke holes in the illusion that full churches mean transformed Catholics was really refreshing.
In his opening comments he said
Just because people are in churches, doesn’t mean they know Jesus. Catholics in Poland finish 12 years of school, but in the end, God is an abstract idea.
Wow! That is powerful and powerfully true.
Then we have to ask ourselves, ‘What are the important values of the youth?’ They always say, ‘family.’
Then when you ask about faith, it is about 13th on the list of priorities.
For youth, it is the family — it is about acceptance. Family, friendship, and work is important.
Even though the churches were full, a measuring stick that prelates love to cite as a sign that all is well, the truth of the matter was the church is missing the boat and that it needed to extend the acceptance and love of family, community, and friendship to all in order to make Catholicism a transformative experience.
The reporter from LifeSite asked if they might do better if they had more Eucharistic Cenacles, even creating a kind of global structure for it, but the archbishop wasn’t impressed with the idea. Instead, he re-emphasized the need for acceptance, accompaniment, and friendship.
Lyons, and lobbies and bears! Oh my!
Marx and the German bishops are always a target of organizations such as LifeSite, Church Militant, etc. The German bishops’ strong influence at the 2015 Synod on the Family which helped open the doors to communion for divorced and remarried Catholics, their recent position on intercommunion, and a whole host of others reforms makes them personae non gratae to many ultra right Catholics.
So today, Marx was clearly getting frustrated by the ideologically driven question from LifeSite news that was directed to Archbishop Andrew Nkea Fuanya of Cameroon.
LifeSite posed,
The issue of LGBT or other similar language would make into the final document has been something that has come up. You had stated publicly that the bishops of Africa will not vote for any point that uses LGBT or other similar language, are you or the bishops of Africa concerned that there is a move to do so, to use other language that isn’t Catholic teaching? And are you concerned that if the bishops of the world do not resist the LGBT lobby which is powerful in the world, then maybe it will make it to the doors of Africa and perhaps aid would be dependent on whether Africa accepts such an ideology?
The archbishop’s answer was telling. It was a bit of a side step, but an interesting dance as he tried to make space for his cultural biases at a world summit where the need to embrace the full and equal dignity of LGBT people continues to garner more and more support. He even tried to talk about a time when, in reality, there would be more freedom in his country for LGBT people, although he still framed it like it was a disease.
He said, “If I come back to my country and tell 1000 youth that we now have pastoral care for LGBT, they will raise their hands and ask, ‘What’s that?'”
At that point, Cardinal Marx muttered an unintelligible comment.
The archbishop went on,
The synod cannot solve the problems of each particular country. We are looking at the church from a global point of view. And that was my sense when I said I would not vote for any article that said LGBT, because I would have to explain this to my young people. And I would have to take my time to explain something I am not conversant with.
The second problem you have raised is about aid to Africa. We are dealing with the government in Africa where the Church is the only voice that can oppose some of the policies. And if we begin to use certain language, they pick on this and play it back to the Church.
Some of the governments and funding groups of the West bring aid to Africa and they tied it to some of these things, some of these acronyms. Funding groups were forcing it, ‘If you don’t accept abortion, if you don’t accept, we will cut aid.’ These are the things that play into the hands of these kinds of groups.
And that is why we are saying, ‘Society is evolving’. We can say that this doesn’t exist in Africa. But an association is not existing. But with evolution, the way things are evolving, they may get there. As of now, it is not yet. And we cannot play into the hands of governments and funding groups because they want to pass on their ideas.
Marx jumped in at this point with a bit of a bluster.
We have to be careful about the question of sexuality, it should not be exploited and used in an ideological battle. We have lobbies on all different sides, but it is necessary to identify a way that is understandable to everyone, to accompany the young trying to understand them without telling them. When we use words, we should not take a stand that could be misleading.
It is not clear what he meant by the last part of the statement, but I have to wonder what that means in terms of what the document will say since young people themselves have been strong on using the language that describes who they are on their own terms.
Delivering the goods
While we have made one delivery to the office of the Synod of Bishops, today, Kate and I are beginning to deliver the petition online to bishops and cardinals, and to also put it into the hands of some key prelates.
Today, I saw a young auditor reading Visions and Vocations, the voices of Catholic Women Speak. I am loving it!
And I am reminded how much has changed under Francis. That Paulist Press and Tina Beattie can have this book in the synod hall where our prelates can read the witness and wisdom of Catholic women, is another reminder of how much women have accomplished!
In the end, this church will open to women’s full and equal participation. We are all doing our part to make that a reality.
Delivery of the petition: Cardinal Bo elevates Catholic Women Speak: Learning from a man who wears his humble heart on his sleeve; What if LGBT doesn’t show up?
Some days are better than others here at the Synod.
Today was a very good day.
First of all, we collected over 9,300 signatures for our “Votes for Catholic Women” campaign in just over a week.
Second, Kate McElwee and I delivered the petition with signatures, a document over 200 pages long, to the Synod of Bishops office.
What we learned is that the whole staff has moved from their normal offices to the Synod hall. But the person at the door was accommodating. He dialed an English speaking staff member and I had a chance to ask to explain what the petition was about and asked if we could give it directly to Cardinal Baldisseri or at least one of his staff.
The staff person was quite responsive (put me on hold three times trying to get an answer), but told me that because they were so busy trying to piece together the final draft of the synod document, they simply had no time.
I could only imagine the pressure they are under trying to write the final draft which was due to be in the hands of the synod participants in the morning.
He suggested that we leave the petition with the person at the door, and that he would make sure it would be given directly to Cardinal Baldisseri.
We will try to get an electronic copy into the hands of every prelate at the Synod, but also hand paper copies to a select group of prelates who might be able willing to share the petition with key figures (like Pope Francis) at the synod.
Cardinal Bo elevates Catholic Women Speak
Today we were joined by some very fine synod participants including Mr. Joseph Sapati Moeono-Kolio, auditor, member of Caritas Internationalis for Oceania, Samoa, Cardinal Charles Maung Bo of Myanmar, Cardinal Luis Antonio G. Tagle of the Philippines; Archbishop Bienvenu Manamika Bafouakouahou, of the Republic of the Congo, Fr. Antonio Spadaro, S.J., director of the journal “La Civiltà Cattolica”, Italy.
What stood out for me in these panelists was that we were in the presence of some very humble men including Cardinal Tagle and Cardinal Bo. They teased each other in a good natured way, laughed a lot and caused ripples of smiles throughout the room.
We learned that the final document was given to the synod participants. According to Paolo Ruffini, Cardinal Baldisseri and the relators spent some time explaining various aspects of the document.
Ruffini said it is a very different document from the Instrumentum Laboris, and that it is shorter the the IL but the final part contains many practical suggestions for implementation.
For me and I think many others in the room, Cardinal Tagle’s witness was powerful. He didn’t say anything that was new, but it was the way he said it, the way he wears his humble heart on his sleeve. It is transformative.
He said that every synod is unique – a space for the Holy Spirit to work and speak.
“I am learning a lot. They were teaching us.”
Here he stops, choked up with tears.
Of course, I began to cry as well taking in the beauty I was beholding in the Christ like man.
I’m crying now as I write this now, the truth of his words run deep.
Tagle continued, “If I were a twenty year old boy living in Iraq or Pakistan, how would I carry my self?”
Reflecting further he said, “I need to be humbled by that moment of unknowing.”
I need to enter into that pain and say, “I also do not know.”
This creates a moment of grace according to Tagle. “We then search with them.
Clear solutions and clear answers are not possible – for life is not clear.”
“This whole synod for me is a time of being taught; where my preconceived notions are being put to the test.”
A female reporter from the Associated Press asked a really insightful question.
She pointed out the that panelists had talked a lot about young men, but she asked, “What do you think the synod has to offer young women?”
And we received some surprisingly good responses.
Cardinal Tagle suggested that “this synod was especially sensitive to listening to the feminine voice.”
He agreed that “the experience of young women blossoming into their humanity should be heard.”
He said that there was some pointed proposals; among them the need to make women in Scripture more prominent so that all can use their experiences as an interpretive guide for life.
He said he was grateful for all the women experts at the synod for they provided “a much needed expansion of horizon.”
Next, to our surprise and delight, Cardinal Bo held up a copy of Visions and Vocations, the Catholic Women Speak book and said he was going to begin reading it. He spoke clearly about the need to put a laser focus on women because of the suffering they endure in his country and around the world.
Woo hoo! I could barely stay in my seat.
That is simply thrilling knowing that he would be reading the wisdom and candor of women like Mary McAleese, Anne Arabome, Cindy “Sam” Bowns, Gaya Lobo Gajiwala, Susan Hartford, Nontando Hadebe, and so many more.
What if LGBT doesn’t turn up in the final document?
Christopher Lamb of The Tablet asked one of the most important questions of the day. He wanted to know what the panelists thought the message would be to young Catholics if the preferred self descriptor, LGBT, doesn’t show up in the final document.
There was a bit of silence at first, but Cardinal Tagle answered that
In the interventions in my small group and in the aula, the approach of the church to the people – the so called LGBT – was present and many times raised. The call for the church as a welcoming church – that regards the humanity of each person – was always present.
We just received the document this morning.
Maybe the questions could be raised again tomorrow.
He looks at Ruffini who doesn’t shake his head in agreement.
My hunch is it will be there, but it what form I don’t’ know. But it will be there.
It was also fun to watch Cardinal Tagle respond to Edward Pentin’s question about the morality showing up at the synod with regards to LGBT people.
Pentin suggested that his brand of Catholic morality was missing and he asked if it was being discussed.
Cardinal Tagle, with a playful smile, responded simply, “Yes.”
I love this church everyday, but somedays I am in love…
October 24th, 2018 Leave a comment Synod 2018 futurechurch
The talk; Trust us; We heading in the right direction; Words from woman cleric at the synod — reason for hope
First, a correction.
Apparently I elevated Peter Comensoli in my report yesterday. He is not a cardinal, but an archbishop.
Second, you may notice that the Sunday, October 21 post is missing. It is not missing. It is under construction. It contains my interview with Sr. Sally Hodgdon, CSJ, the Vice President of the International Union of Superiors General and I want to give this person the attention to detail she deserves.
This morning, before the press briefing, I met with Bishop Everard Johannes de Jong of the Netherlands to have a cup of cappuccino and conversation.
As you may recall, after my question at an earlier press briefing about women religious voting at the synod, the bishop and I had an exchange that left me in awe of what passes for humor from a pastor, as well as the absolute claims on the story of Jesus’ chosen ones. That, coupled with the dismissive “What can we do? We’re stuck with Jesus,” and, “Are you an angry woman trying to knock down our castle?” — stoked my interest for further engagement.
I’m genuinely open and eager to engage in dialogue. I am respectful and polite, but luckily I’ve lost most of my girlish charm. So I was happy to meet this younger brother of mine (by a few years:) on level ground.
He deserves credit for taking the risk of meeting a complete stranger that he perceived was angry.
I took no notes. I wanted to be fully present. So this is a summary of what we talked about.
After we ordered, we sat outside at a cafe.
Bishop de Jong, began with a bit of an apology.
He confessed that he did not know how he had been chosen to be on the panel.
I smiled. What else is new in the Vatican?
Further, he was only prepared to talk about what he was learning in the synod hall. He did not expect the kinds of questions he received from journalists.
I smiled again. I’ve been there, only I stammer a lot more that he did.
So my question about women religious voting at the synod struck him as a ploy and he was suspicious that the background I was giving about the two non-ordained religious superiors who were voting alongside the bishops at the synod was simply not true.
So he answered in a way that he felt defended the Vatican and the Pope.
Part of the beauty of our petition and campaign has been that it has helped educate a whole bunch of people inside and outside the Synod about the fact that USG has added two non ordained men into the voting mix, the Pope has blessed it, and that has created a new opening for women religious. It also exposes the quiet but steady revolution toward a truly Vatican II church that Pope Francis is leading.
The rules are changing and it shakes people up.
As we informally set the ground rules for the dialogue, I told him I wanted to share my own story and my hopes for women’s equality in the church.
As such, I did not wish to argue biblical theology to refute his position on Jesus (although I have six or seven academic articles in a folder I will send him). His own education is in philosophy, so trading biblical citations or even well developed theological arguments didn’t seem very useful, nor does it create the space for grace to flow in and touch what is most human and meaningful about the issues at stake.
We started by sharing a bit about our backgrounds. I told him about my family of origin, my small traditional Catholic community, and my own family with six children and fourteen grandchildren.
I did not make him look at pictures of my grandchildren, but it was hard to resist.
He told me a bit about his life. You can find most of this information on wikipedia. He is one of six children and grew up in a very traditional Catholic home where the roles of women and men were pretty rigidly set as was the case with most families in that generation.
I explained that my world was similar and that it was only in leaving that I was able to grow past the pre-ordained cultural boundaries that were to be my destiny.
Bishop de Jong is also part of a region where the Catholic church has lost the lion’s share of its influence. As he described it, most people think religion is either too stifling or simply irrelevant.
He said he felt that way too, until one day he had a graced moment — a conversion experience — and his life began to move in another direction.
We talked about the fear our parents felt in terms of the church – the fear of hell that drove them to the church doors. We wondered how many Catholics would have attended church in an earlier era if they had not feared committing a mortal sin if they didn’t show up.
We laughed about the scrupulosity that made taking a sip of water before communion a mortal sin.
We also talked about our differences and about the petition.
He said that he had checked with folks at the press office and learned that indeed Pope Francis had allowed and blessed the initiative of the Union of Superiors General to open the door to two religious brothers to vote at the synod this year.
Although, the bishop would be loathe to criticize the Pope, it was clear that he was a bit uneasy with this development.
When I tried to set out the logic of a growing number of Catholics who think women religious superiors should vote, he repeated that it was a synod of bishops and that it should be restricted to bishops voting. While others can and should share their experiences and wisdom as was done at the pre-synod and with auditors at the synod, only bishops should vote. So, I gathered that if he had his druthers, we’d kick the religious brothers out and keep the boundaries clean. But in all fairness, that would need to be confirmed.
He was also doubtful that the final document would have the weight of ordinary magisterium. He felt there would be too many practical suggestions for that to be feasible.
So he’s not big on the Francis reforms for the synod so far.
He also pointed out that he was quite uncomfortable with some of the organizations listed on the petition. Pointing on his phone where he had pulled up the petition he said that when he saw Women’s Ordination Conference and Women’s Ordination Worldwide, he could go no further.
I explained how these organizations coalesced around this particular issue. It had less to do with ordination per se since non-ordained men were already voting and since there is no difference in ecclesial status between non ordained women religious superiors and non ordained male religious superiors, we believed women religious superiors should be voting.
But it was one of those moments when it is clear that the person can go no further — at this point. Ducking down into the JPII rabbit hole he firmly reiterated the teaching that he holds dear — that the issue of women’s ordination has been decided. (I have the Catholic Theological Society of America’s 1997 response, “Tradition and the Ordination of Women” in my file for the bishop).
Still, we talked on. He made a really interesting comment about his experience of being at a service with a woman Episcopal priest presiding. He said that she did everything perfectly, but he had a sense that the “holy was missing.”
Elaborating on that, he said that he feels the presence of God at the Eucharist can only be truly offered as something sacred by a male priest.
I sat in awe of this. But also understanding how we often do not perceive the depth of some action when we are new to a culture. It takes a while for us to learn to perceive as others perceive — to learn what is sacred, or despised, or funny, or beloved.
When I traveled to a Hindu temple, I was not able to perceive what was holy there. I understood it would take encounter and time to learn that.
The bishop was certainly supportive of more roles for women in governance. It was not clear to me exactly what that meant to him. So when I asked him what that would look like, he mostly pointed to work at the parish level.
Still, he pointed out that Pope Francis bringing more women into governance was very fine.
In the end, he said he would continue to do all he could to bring more women into governance.
I knew that his vision of women’s roles was much narrower than mine, but it was a good place to end the discussion.
He said, “You and I would make a good team in the Church.”
I replied, “Yes we might, but I would argue with you a lot.”
We laughed again. We both knew it was true.
And on the joke about a woman turning a man’s head…I told him it was a terrible one.
Young people who are not at the synod, trust us
Today we were visited by Fr.. Ángel Fernández Artime, S.D.B., representing the Salesians; Archbishop Paolo Bizzeti, S.J., of Turkey; Archbishop Frank J. Caggiano, of the United States of America; Archbishop David Macaire, O.P., of France, and auditor Henriette Camara, member of the Catholic Scouts in Guinea.
The folks at the press conference did not present anything radically new, but some interesting perspectives were offered.
The young woman auditor, Henriette Camara from Guinea was there representing Catholic scouts.
Even her presence representing the scouts made me happy since a few bishops in the U.S. threw them under the bus.
She told the story of her decision to convert from Islam to Catholicism because of her involvement in the scouts. It was a source of pain for her mother and continues to be a source of pain.
Henriette also talked about the work of the synod. She said they are working hard, expressing their deepest concerns, and telling the Holy Father “what they expect.”
She also said she is becoming aware of the experiences of others, and that she realized that there is discrimination, “not in the synod” but elsewhere. Learning that was “very moving to me.”
She ended by saying, “I want to tell the young people at home that we are representing them.”
“Young people who are not in the synod, trust us.”
Archbishop Bizzeti of Turkey shared his initial trepidation and critiques of the process.
He started with a recognition of all that has been done by staff at the synod of bishops.
And he expressed his initial trepidation that this would be all show with no real content. “I was concerned stepping into the hall and seeing so many dressed in way we don’t normally dress.”
But soon he realized that it meant nothing and that encountering people was the priority.
It was unusual to hear a bishop speak so clearly about this generation’s responsibility for the state of the world and the church’s limitations in addressing the challenges.
What world have we created for young people? I am 71 years old. We have failed. We not created a world where they can work and express their talents.
As church, we have to ask for forgiveness. We have created a world where young people cannot find their way.
Why have young people grown up with this impression that they don’t matter? We have given them useless things.
How can we talk about faith and vocational discernment when there are millions of young people who have no ability to choose.
We as bishops are unable to give answers. We cannot suggest solutions.
The archbishop also said that at the end of the second week, there were 1000 interventions. And while it was hard to understand what was going on, there were some reoccurring ideas.
Listening is central…not talking to or doing for… but listening.
There should be a document should be written with young and by young people. Their language is different from our ‘ecclesia-lese.’ They are blunt. They are outspoken. They don’t mince words. And they want a church with and for young people.
All Catholics, lay and ordained, young and old, need accompaniment.
The time if over for pastors to say, “it has to be done this way.” Perhaps we haven’t been able to pass on the faith because we kept it locked up.
Young people must also be able to listen to their elders.
He also stated that shadows are starting to emerge in the synod. He felt that the method was lacking and that they should have taken up a few foci and “debated the issues – even in a heated way.”
“We need to dialogue.”
The archbishop’s testimony was loud and clear. We need a new kind of church.
We are heading in the right direction
We are always working to bring about change that will broaden the structure of the church, create true equality for all to share their gifts, and address the challenges engendered by a flawed culture of clericalism.
And we have a holy impatience because people are suffering.
So, when things seem to move too slowly, I am helped when I am reminded of the direction we are headed and the progress that is being made.
Robert Mickens helps bring us back to the big picture in a very hopeful way. I am including most of the article below because I think it is such an important reminder of what is at stake, and what is actually happening.
After naming some of the complaints flying around in the synod hall, he writes
But what the critics (and even many people who disagree with them) have failed to appreciate is that this Synod gathering represents but a single step on a much longer and transformative journey.
Just like the two previous Synod assemblies on the family, Pope Francis has made this current assembly on youth yet another necessary juncture on the road towards radically reforming structures of ecclesial governance and effecting a “conversion” of the papacy itself.
In short, it is about the more arduous — and controversial — process of making true synodality a constituent part of the Church’s life and decision-making structures.
What is perhaps most remarkable about this project is the expanded role it has begun to carve out for ordinary Catholics — that is, all the baptized faithful and not just those who have received Holy Orders.
It is not an exaggeration to use the word “revolutionary” to describe what Francis is trying to accomplish, certainly if one looks at the post-Constantinian period of Church history. That most people have not experienced it as a dramatic event usually associated with social or political revolutions is a tribute to the pope’s skillful process of bringing about reform.
He believes the first and most important reform is to change mentalities and attitudes. And he has been surprisingly successful in doing that by excessively repeating key themes and concepts through the use of what we might call buzzwords or turns of phrase.
Some examples include his continues talk of “mercy,” “a poor Church for the poor,” “who am I to judge?” “an accident-prone Church,” “priests who have the smell of the sheep,” “please-thank you-I’m sorry” as a formula for happy marriage and so forth.
But he has also, although in a quieter way, laid the foundations for radical structural change. This has been less noticeable and disruptive to most people because it has come gradually.
Catholics in general, and popes in particular, do not like to use the word “revolution” when talking about developments in the Church. Pope Francis is no different.
He, like his predecessors, prefers to speak of “renewal” or “conversion.” He is even careful about using the term “reform,” which is often too jarring for more traditionalist-minded members of the Church.
Refounding the Synod of Bishops
The pope issued his blueprint for renewal early in his pontificate with the publication of Evangelii gaudium (The Joy of the Gospel). But that 2013 apostolic exhortation offers a broad vision of ecclesial reform without decreeing specific canonical or structural changes.
Like most of the documents that were ratified at the Second Vatican Council (1962-65), the exhortation has been greeted by reform-minded Catholics as being inspirational but lacking in force.
And so, it is surprising that so many people failed to recognize the true importance of one of the latest major document Pope Francis has issued — the apostolic constitution Episcopalis communio (EC).
This text, which was made public on Sept. 18, sets down the principles for substantially reforming the nature, purpose and function of the Synod of Bishops.
The 6,400-word document replaces all previous texts — including various points of Canon Law — that in any way pertain to or regulate the working of the Synod.
In a sensitive (some would say devious) way, Francis quotes all the previous popes who helped shaped legislation on the Synod in justifying the “developments” he’s introduced.
He respectfully and carefully cites Paul VI, who instituted this permanent institution in 1965, as well as John Paul II and Benedict XVI, to show he has acted in continuity with previous papal initiatives.
But in this new legislative text he also introduces and institutionalizes major shifts and breaks from the previous popes.
For example, the extensive consultation of the baptized faithful, which Francis introduced in preparations for the 2014 extraordinary assembly on the family and utilized again for the last two ordinary assemblies (2016 and currently), is now a mandatory procedure.
It was never even mentioned in previous papal documents, let alone mandated.
The Voice of the Faithful
“The history of the Church bears ample witness to the importance of consultation for ascertaining the views of the bishops and the faithful in matters pertaining to the good of the Church.
“Hence, even in the preparation of Synodal assemblies, it is very important that consultation of all the particular Churches be given special attention,” Francis says in Episcopalis communio.
“In this initial phase, following the indications of the general secretariat of the Synod, the bishops submit the questions to be explored in the Synodal Assembly to the priests, deacons and lay faithful of their Churches…” (EC, 7).
He then sets down precise articles outlining the consultation of the faithful which is to be carried out, including the “possibility” of holding pre-Synod assembly meetings at the international, regional and local levels.
“The Synod of Bishops must increasingly become a privileged instrument for listening to the People of God,” the pope says (EC, 6).
Towards a new type of ongoing Synod assembly?
Many commentators have rightly pointed out that one of the key novelties in the new apostolic constitution is that, should he deem opportune, the pope — the president of the Synod of Bishops — can allow an assembly’s final document to be published as an official act of the magisterium (i.e. as official teaching).
Usually, that text has been used as the basis or draft that would then be modified, re-written and published later as a formal papal document (apostolic exhortation).
Many are anxious to see if Pope Francis will decide for this newer option at the end of the current assembly on young people.
But there is another article in Episcopalis communio that few people have commented on.
In addition to the three types of Synod assemblies that have been convoked up until now — ordinary, extraordinary and special — the pope now has complete freedom to use the Synod in a more flexible way.
“If he considers it opportune, especially for reasons of an ecumenical nature, the Roman Pontiff may summon a synodal assembly according to other formats established by himself,” the document stipulates (EC, Art. 1 § 3).
This, too, is a novelty. It is not mentioned in any other papal document regulating the Synod of Bishops. But what might it mean in practical terms?
Perhaps this line from paragraph eight in the new apostolic constitution offers a further clue: “If circumstances so suggest, a single synodal assembly may be spread over more than one session.”
This would offer a pope the possibility to change the format (and membership) of a Synod assembly. He could even use it as a sort of permanent consultative body that meets several times over the course of a year or two.
And he could also use the already existing prerogative to give that assembly deliberative power, a possibility that Paul VI foresaw when he established the Synod as a permanent institution.
Whether we’re talking about a revolution or — to play it safe — a further development of the Synod in continuity with the past, Pope Francis has put forth legislation that could allow him or a future pope to substantially transform the governing structure of the universal Church.
Right now they may look like baby steps, coming as they do during a Synod assembly on young people. But they are steps nonetheless. And bold ones at that.
They are part of an exciting and sometimes terrifying journey on which Francis has launched the Church, the entire People of God. Indeed, that is what synodos means — journeying together.
I am grateful for Mickens because he is able to keep a focus on the reforming nature of a pope who recently told the Jesuits in the Baltics to “do everything you can to bring Vatican II forward.”
Words from a woman cleric at the synod: another reason for hope
Read Luke Hansen’s interview with Rev. Martina Viktorie Kopecka, the only female cleric at the synod.
It is stirring. It is beautiful. It is hopeful!
A young priest in the Czechoslovak Hussite Church has been pleasantly surprised by the welcome and openness she has experienced at the Synod of Bishops on young people, she told America in an interview.
A fraternal delegate, Rev. Martina Viktorie Kopecká, 32, has the distinction of being the only female cleric at the Synod of Bishops, which is taking place from Oct. 3 to 28 in Rome.
Dressed in the liturgical vestments of the Hussite Church—a black robe with an imprinted red chalice and white stole—she delivered an address to the whole synod body on Oct. 11, emphasizing the importance of ecumenical relations, calling the synod a “sign of hope” and affirming the capacity of young people to be bridge builders.
“The true ecumenical movement must be lived and shared together,” she said.
Rev. Kopecká did not go unnoticed. She believes the cardinals and bishops “were surprised, maybe shocked” to see her clerical attire, she told America. “They recognized me as the girl at dinner and now as a priest. It takes some time, but they have accepted me.”
“After my intervention, a lot of people came to me in the hallways, saying they listened to me and were inspired,” Rev. Kopecká said. “I was surprised that they even listened to me. I am quite young and a woman. I wore a white stole. They are not pushing me away. They accept me as a member of the family.”
The fraternal delegates who represent other Christian churches can make interventions in the synod aula and participate in small group discussions, but they cannot vote. The Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople has a delegate, as do ecclesial organizations like the World Lutheran Federation, the World Communion of Reformed Churches and the World Methodist Council.
Rev. Kopecká is representing the World Council of Churches, a fellowship of 350 member churches “seeking unity, common witness and Christian service.” Even at her young age, she has been entrusted with great responsibility at the W.C.C. She serves on their central committee and 20-member executive committee, and she moderates the ECHOS commission on youth in the ecumenical movement.
“When a human being meets another human being, it doesn’t matter which denomination we belong to,” she said. “We believe in Christ and can find a way—as Pope Francis says—to work and pray together. We are from different cultures and societies, but we have something in common. Young people, through friendship, are learning how to move toward acceptance and respect.”
At the beginning of her experience in the eternal city, Rev. Kopecká was not certain she would receive a welcome, she admitted. She is staying at an international house for clergy and sat alone for her first three meals. “I said: This is a disaster.” On the second day, however, a bishop from Paraguay asked if he could join her. “I said, Yes, please!”
She described the encounter as the first major “turning point” in her experience. The bishop was “really interested in who I am,” she said. “Ecumenical circles are not about papers, documents and institutions. It is about meeting people without any judgment. Yes, I am the girl. I am ordained. But he was interested in my culture and church and, later, many others joined us.”
Another turning point happened in her small group. “At the first meeting, I felt very vulnerable,” she admitted. “I’m quite introverted, so it is not easy for me to talk in a group with people I don’t know.” But the leader of the group helped create an atmosphere where she felt comfortable, she said.“I feel accepted. My voice is heard,” she said. “I can even turn the direction” of the conversation and influence decisions. “My answers are valued. We support each other.”
The moderator of the group is Cardinal Blase Cupich of Chicago. The relator is Auxiliary Bishop Mark Edwards of Melbourne, Australia. Several young people have spoken about their high regard for the welcoming and inclusive spirit of Bishop Edwards. On Oct. 15, Bishop Edwards invited Yadira Vieyra, a young auditor from Chicago, to read part of the group report to the entire synod.
Rev. Kopecká said the W.C.C. strongly supports young people, inviting many young leaders and speakers and “trying to be inclusive.” With the diversity of 350 member churches, she said, a consensus model of decision-making is “very, very difficult” but enriching. In fact, the Synod of Bishops has reminded her of the open-minded climate of the W.C.C.
“I feel we are touching very, very sensitive issues in the synod, like child exploitation,” she said. “People are speaking to each other very openly. I would not have expected the mutual acceptance, the variety of the topics, the richness and diversity. It is not about bringing divisions and differences but charity, which builds the Christian community.”
In her intervention to the synod, Rev. Kopecká referenced her conversion to Christianity at age 20. “When I heard the voice of God, I left everything and I followed that inspiration,” she told the synod.
In the interview with America, Rev. Kopecká described her native Czech Republic as a highly secularized society in which people generally do not want to be part of any institution, especially the church. She noted that her parents, who are both medical doctors, are “spiritual” but not Christians or churchgoers.
She could not have foreseen her conversion to Christianity or call to ordained ministry. She had been working as a highly paid manager in an international company and “had everything,” except for education. She decided to go to Charles University in Prague to study theology, simply because there were no entrance exams. She explained, “I had no knowledge of the Bible or Christianity.”
She started to take classes in Hebrew, Latin, systematic theology and biblical hermeneutics. In studying Hebrew, she said she discovered the values she had always been looking for. At first, she told herself it is only a science: “No, Martina, don’t believe in anything.” But she was being drawn into a mystery.
“I could not help myself,” she recounted. “Day by day, I realized this is the way. I fell in love with Jesus. I realized this calls me to become a member of the church.” So she began visiting parishes and considering baptism. Later, the “amazing work” of priests inspired her to quit her job and pursue ordination.
She has studied theology, psychology and special education and has worked as a crisis counselor. She was ordained at age 30 and is currently working as a pastor. She is also pursuing a doctorate in ecumenical theology at Charles University, which involves attending seminars, teaching classes and writing a dissertation.
She feels strongly about the ordination of women but also understands the sensitivity of the issue in the Catholic Church.
“For me, ordination is not a question of gender but human dignity and equal possibilities,” she said. “Women do a lot of work in the church today and should be considered as spiritual leaders and servants of God. They are doing the hardest work, caring for people in miserable situations. They make the face of the church more human.”
She said her small group discussed the ordination of women deacons. “I understand it is not an easy question. It is sensitive,” she said. “Sometimes I can disagree but I am trying to accept the different contexts and backgrounds.”
The Czechoslovak Hussite Church, formally established in 1920 in Prague by members of the modernist reform movement of Roman Catholic clergy, draws from the tradition of the Czech reformation in the 15th century (a century before Martin Luther). According to the website of the World Council of Churches, the Hussite Church has nearly 100,000 members and “occupies the middle ground between the essence of the Catholic Church (liturgy and the seven sacraments) and the principles of the Protestant churches (teaching and order).” Bishops are elected by a diocesan assembly. The church values dialogue, freedom of conscience and openness to a pluralistic world.
Jan Hus, a leading priest in the movement, sought to purify the church, Rev. Kopecká explained. He criticized indulgences, wanted to preach in the vernacular and asked for theological dialogue. Under pressure, he refused to renounce what he believed. He was burned at the stake in 1415 and considered a heretic for hundreds of years until 1999 when Pope John Paul II apologized and expressed “deep sorrow” for his “cruel death” and praised his “moral courage” as a true reformer of the church.
“My heart is really in Hussitism and the Reformation and the legacy of Jan Hus,” she said.
Rev. Kopecká said she first met Pope Francis in Geneva, when the pope visited the headquarters of the World Council of Churches on June 21. When she met him again at the synod, he remembered her.
“I expressed my gratitude [to Francis] on behalf of the World Council of Churches,” she said. “To be involved in the synod is a huge step in the ecumenical relationship between the Vatican and the World Council of Churches. It is an open door and a new era, a new dimension of sharing, of becoming a family.”
In the synod hall, she said, Pope Francis “is always very relaxed, ready to smile. He accepts fun, which is beautiful. When there is a joke, he smiles. He is not rigid in any way. We feel we are at home and can speak openly.
“He is really inspiring for many youth because he is not old,” she said. “He is incredibly young. He has openness, creativity and energy, and he also brings wisdom and experience, but not in the way that he is pushing anybody to anything. He just brings his values.”
Today, I feel enriched and lifted up by the wisdom and candor of Archbishop Bizzeti, Rev. Kopecka, Robert Mickens. And I am hopeful when a bishop such as Bishop de Jong is willing to sit down to dialogue, even when he is sure he will face opposition to his viewpoints.
Pope Francis is creating a quiet revolution. And I feel deep gratitude for living in this moment of foment and change in the Church.
A separate section on LGBT inclusion?; The crucial absent voices; The church should be better than this
Early this morning, I received a phone call from Bishop Everard Johannes de Jong of the Netherlands. And we set up a meeting to further discuss the issues around women’s roles in the church that came up last week. We will meet Monday morning for more dialogue. I am looking forward to it.
The streets are always crowded on Saturdays, and it is hard to stay on sidewalks because the throngs of bodies can send you tripping into the street where tour buses show no mercy.
As I made my way to the press office I took in the people around me and I thought how hard it must be to garner enough resources for the very basics.
Every ten feet or so there is a person selling tickets for sightseeing tours and museums.
Along the edges of the street people sell their wares — a wooden bowl that collapses, scarves, selfie sticks, rosaries, Pope Francis bobble heads (one of my favorites), umbrellas, and something made of brightly colored plastic that I think looks like a phone charger.
There is an old man with his colorful square clothe laid out on the sidewalk. He squats low as he neatly arranges a variety of wooden letters on little red wheels, the kind that hook together making a train with your name. As many times as I have passed him, I’ve never seen him sell anything which makes me sad.
A young fellow that I pass everyday plays his electric guitar all day until late into the evening. His worn guitar case is open so that people can offer a bit of gratitude that I am sure helps him eat. One day a small boy would not follow his mother as she beckoned him along. I couldn’t understand the Italian, but I do understand the art of negotiating with a four year old. She finally gave him a coin to place in the guitar case. After dropping it in the sand colored lid, he happily skipped back to her and they walked on.
In the middle of the walkway a person sits on a chair in the sun with a costume that makes him look like he has literally lost his head. I have to smile. People are so inventive.
Another person hides in a large box with a variety of signs and stuffed animals sitting on it. From time to time he jumps out of a hole at the top and scares the bejeebers out of people passing by. I’m not sure how you make money doing that, but folks seem to be good natured about it. I jumped.
There is a woman with her child under the cold damp bridge. I don’t always walk that way, but when I do, she is there. Her paper cup is always in front of her and the baby. Sometimes she is asking for help and sometimes she is carrying on a conversation with someone else as if she is in her living room.
Living in this concrete jungle are the homeless too. They find little patches of sidewalk or concrete benches to take a nap, or to sit with their paper cup at their feet. Most don’t speak or they speak softy, but from time to time someone will share their anguish loudly with anyone who cares enough to listen.
I like strolling in the evening because the pace is a little slower. One night on the way to the grocery (more carrots), Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelujah” came wafting through the air. I followed the sound with the singular focus of a pilgrim in search of the holy. And under a street light I found a crowd, young and old, gathered around a young man playing the acoustic guitar. He was singing the chorus so convincingly. As I stood there taking it in, I knew I was on sacred ground, with a flash mob community of believers and seekers listening to a love song that only God and Leonard could have created.
Saturday, October 20th press briefing
Today, the press room was a little more crowded than usual with Cardinal Blase Cupich joining the panel. The hot topics? Clergy sex abuse, LGBT inclusion, with a question about lay people and women thrown in.
Cardinal Peter Andrew Comensoli of Melbourne, Cardinal John Ribat of Papua New Guinea, and Archbishop Alain De Raemy of Switzerland joined the Chicago prelate.
The prefect reported that synod participants have finished making amendments to part three of the Instrumentum Laboris, the section on pastoral care for youth. As the final document is being completed, the synod participants will not meet on Monday. The draft will be presented on Tuesday morning where bishops will make final amendments.
The final document will be voted on, paragraph by paragraph with the possibility it become part of the ordinary magisterium.
The members of the writing committee are:
Cardinal Peter Turkson, prefect of the Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development
Archbishop Carlo Aguiar Retes, archbishop of Mexico City
Cardinal Oswald Gracias, president of the India bishops’ conference
Beatitude Sviatoslav Shevchuk, major archbishop of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church
Fr. Alexandre Awi Mello, secretary of the Vatican department for laity, family, and life
Fr. Eduardo Gonzalo Redondo, leader of a pastoral vocation program in Cuba
Archbishop Bruno Forte of Chieti-Vasto of Italy
Archbishop Peter Comensoli of Melbourne of Australia
Cardinal Lorenzo Baldisseri, secretary general of the Synod
Cardinal Sergio da Rocha, relator general of the Synod of Bishops
Jesuit Fr. Giacomo Costa
Salesian Fr. Rossano Sala
Another document is also being drafted, a letter addressed to young people, first suggested by Cardinal Cupich’s small working group.
Those who will draft the letter include:
Briana Santiago, an American consecrated women of the Apostles of the Interior Life
Anastasia Indrawan, a member of the youth commission for the bishops’ conference of Indonesia
Archbishop Dieudonne Nzapalainga of Bangui, Central African Republic
Auxiliary Bishop Emmanuel Gobilliard of Lyon, France
Archbishop Anthony Fisher of Sydney, Australia
Bishop Eduardo Horacio Garcia of San Justo, Argentina
Brother Alois Löser, prior of the Ecumenical Community of Taize
Michele Falabretti, leader of the youth pastoral care office at the Italian bishops’ conference
Use your voice for us
Cardinal Cupich explained that one of the most important things he heard was that young adults want the bishops to use their high profile positions “to give voice to their concerns…to speak out with the same energy and passion that we’ve heard from them.”
Young Catholics want the bishops to speak to world leaders and to promote the values of the Catholic Church in a world torn by war, poverty, unemployment, migration, arms trafficking that creates child soldiers, and corrupt governments whose penchant for war making comes at the cost of future generations.
A separate section on LGBT concerns?
Cardinal Cupich was asked how the issues of LGBT inclusion would be addressed. The journalist referred to the proposal by his small group that a separate section of the final document be written to address LGBT concerns.
English group B proposal: We discussed the issue of Catholics who experience same sex attraction or gender dysphoria. We propose a separate section for this issue and that the main objective of this be the pastoral accompaniment of these people which follows the lines of the relevant section of the Catechism in the Catholic Church.
To the question posed, Cupich responded,
There are a number in our group and in the reports today that wanted to make sure that we say something inclusive of everyone. I was asked a question, What is the final document going to say about people who are homosexual, who have same-sex attraction. My answer was I think the whole document should have something to say to everyone. We want to make sure that people feel included. So whatever form that takes, our small group is for it.
It is not clear from his response if he means that they backed off the suggestion of a separate section for the final document or not, but it is clear that the cardinal has influence when it comes to shaping the work at the synod.
Cardinal Cupich invited Cardinals Ribat and Cardinal Comensoli, both in his small group, to comment further.
Cardinal Ribat’s response was more robust and I think reflected more clearly what youth had been saying at the synod.
The approach of the church is to be able to welcome everyone. And to make them feel at home. No one is excluded, and that is the church. We have been talking about what the document will be.
In our small groups we saying that no one is excluded. It’s really about not excluding anyone about welcoming everyone. The church is a home.
I think the message is going out clearly in our discussions.
From the youth we are hearing, ‘With the difficulties we are having, the church is the place where we come home. We should be recognized, we should be accepted, we should be welcomed, and this is where our place is.’
This is the message we are getting. And this is the message we are sharing more.
The youth are talking about this freely. And they want us to use their language.
They say, ‘Address us as this because this is who we are.’
Note: The cardinal is likely referring to the language in the pre-synod document that is being reiterated at the synod about the need for the church to use youth’s preferred language such LGBT, etc.
So they are very free to tell us this. And they are also telling us that we should welcome them as they are.
And the youth are really helping us to understand, to really see where they are And at, and how they want to be heard, recognized and accepted.
What is clear in the responses of the prelates, is that while they have repeated their willingness to listen and to be welcoming, inclusive and respectful of all youth, none of these men used the term LGBT today as they talked about them.
And no self-identified LGBT Catholics are at the synod to share their stories of joy, beauty, and sorrow with a group of Catholic men who are profoundly in need of a conversion of the heart.
While it is positive that the young delegates there are vocal in their support for their LGBT friends and family, it is not clear from this exchange today that the bishops have garnered the courage to use their voice as the young people have asked, to speak their concerns.
The crucial absent voices
Tom Reese, SJ posed a key question to the bishops on the soundness of the methodology used for the synod in light of the great exodus of our youth.
Reese: You’ve stressed the importance of listening to the young people at the synod, and how important that is. We’ve also met with a number of them. They are wonderful. They are good Catholics. They are ‘the saved.’ But they don’t necessarily represent the many people who have left the church, and I’m wondering what you have heard about the concerns of people who have left the church, and what you have learned about how to respond to them.
Cardinal Cupich responded,
First of all, I would say the voices we have heard belong to people who have left and found their way back to the church. They’ve had a conversion experience. We’ve heard people tell those stories in the aula.
Secondly, even they haven’t left, or are ‘in’ or ‘the saved’, they have given voice to family members who are no longer practicing the faith. It pains them and they have represented their concerns quite forcefully in the discussions that we’ve had.
Those who are either de-churched or unchurched are not underrepresented. They are very present in the voices of these young people.
Cardinal Comensoli added that one has to consider context and regional differences when looking at the reasons young people leave the faith. He said that the reasons young people in Australia leave the church could be quite different from other parts of the world.
One of the practical things that I hope makes it into the final document, is that what is done at this synodal level on an international level can then be taken up regionally, in terms of conferences, in terms of dioceses, so the broader questions of why people leave can be particularly looked at depending on the circumstances and realities that are particular to a locality.
Cardinal Ribat said that members of their small group are very open about why family members or friends leave. They advocated for finding ways to make those who have left to feel a part of the church as well. The cardinal said, “There is an openness to really listen,” he said. ” I believe something good will come, but the pain will not go away over night.”
The Church should be better than this
A reporter from EWTN asked how the clergy sex abuse crisis in Australia and the United States has informed the conversations at the synod, especially as it relates to how we will retain youth and the impact it might have on their formation.
Cardinal Comensoli responded first.
From the first day, the issue of sexual abuse, the crisis around the failure of leadership to appropriately deal with the cases of sexual abuse, the failures of brothers in the episcopacy being able to hear well and believe victims, all of these matters have come up already have come up consistently throughout the three weeks so far.
One of the key things going forward, along with apologies and better practices, there must be action associated with it.
In the Australian context we have a particular way that is being worked through. The Royal Commission has, through a very searing grace, has allowed the church and especially us in the leadership of the church to see how better to move. There are all sorts of dimensions that are particular to Australia. We have our own particular civil laws and the way things will be dealt with here will be different from the way they are dealt with in Switzerland, or in Nigeria, and so forth.
With the knowledge of the upcoming gathering of bishops in February, Comensoli suggested that what is important at this synod is stating clearly that there is need to act.
Cupich added that young people want bishops to reach out to victims.
They want accountability. No one is exempt. And that gets at a clerical culture of privilege that allowed all of this to go forward unchecked.
If we are going to call young people to be honest with their lives, which is the Gospel, we have to witness that ourselves.
While this issue may not be on the front burner in some countries, many of the heads of bishops’ conferences are here. And they will be returning in February. So this is a springboard for that meeting in February.
Susiey Pinto of EWTN noted there has been some criticism of the February summit by thoe asking how bishops can address clergy sex abuse in three or four days. Asking what concrete steps can be taken to break up the clerical culture, Pinto added, “Will lay people and women be involved in that summit?”
Cupich stated he has confidence that Pope Francis will make sure the meeting is organized in a way that will make it effective to “get something done.”
And yes, there has to be the involvement of lay people. I’ve called for that.
I’ve called for every bishop, starting with myself to be accountable. I’m ready to cede over my authority or right and be investigated if there is a charge against me. I would want that to be done and I think bishops have to be willing to do that.
Men and women, lay people, have to be involved in that process. Lay people want us to succeed. They want us to get this right. That is where we have to start. That is what gives me hope. There’s a lot of anger out there. But beneath the anger is a sadness — that the church should be better than this. And that we should get this right.
Later when asked again about what kind of reforms will be put in place to stop clergy sex abuse cover up, Cupich repeated that the bishops have to agree to cede authority and oversight to an outside review board. When an accusation is made, Cupich wants the review board to examine the case independent of any bishop’s interference.
Vigano is saving the day?
The cross examination from LifeSite news was classic complete with Vigano as the hero “testifying” in the battle against the evil behind clergy sex abuse — which is not clericalism (which they love) — but homosexuality (which they detest).
Question 1: “To return to what you said about those persons who experience same sex attraction, would you be a little more clear about what you mean by welcoming, acceptance, and inclusion? Of course, it is a sensitive issue for many people. So I’m wondering if you are making the distinction between, welcoming everyone as a person loved by God, and welcoming the homosexual lifestyle, because people really want the truth, and they want to be led closer to the Lord. So I wonder what you mean by acceptance.”
Question 2: “For Cardinal Cupich, I wonder what impact you think Archbishop Vigano’s third testimony might have on the synod of bishops in which he refutes Cardinal Ouellet’s criticisms especially in light of what he says about a homosexual culture being the root cause of much of the sexual abuse.”
Cardinal Comensoli responded by saying all Christians must go to the foot of the cross and that we are called to offer the friendship of Christ to one another
Cardinal Cupich referred to Pope Francis’ Amoris Laetitia, saying, “There is a divine pedagogy. We have to make sure that we don’t put obstacles in the face of God’s grace. We take people where they are, walking with them, moving forward. Sometimes in that journey they stray or they take a step back, but we’re still with them in order to keep that journey going. Because it is God’s grace that we should discern with them.”
He continued, “Regarding your second question, I don’t know if there is anything new in the back and forth [between Vigano and Ouellet], but what I can say is that research in the John Jay Study and elsewhere shows clearly that the cause is not homosexuality, but other factors. I would refer people to that solid body of research.”
Edward Pentin batted clean up at the briefing asking Cardinal Comensoli,
A group of youth from Australia wrote a letter to the Synod this week calling for an end to what they called policy speak, ambiguity in church teaching, and superficial banalities. They want to have the unambiguous truth, clarity on church teaching, saying ‘we cannot help shape the church unless the church shapes us. I want to know what you think about that because we haven’t heard that much at the synod. Some people think there is too much sociological teaching and not enough theology and faith.
Comensoli answered that he was not aware of the letter but wanted to make two points. Young people at the synod want to grow in their relationship to God, in truth and in love, and doing that within the teachings of the church both in its positive and negative senses. And to the second point, he said that a lot of work had been done to move the document from a sociological focus to a faith focus.
Every Catholic’s opinion deserves to be heard. But it would have been a bit more genuine for Pentin to say the letter was signed by 217 university students and professors, not 2000. We live in an interesting and sometimes entertaining church.
Listening to the prelates today I couldn’t help but wonder about the difference between their response to LGBT inclusion and to the questions of clergy sex abuse. There was a marked disparity. It seems that in the case of clergy sex abuse and coverup, civil and criminal action has super charged their motivation to change.
But they are still timid in confronting the reality of LGBT Catholics and it shows in their reticence to use the language that Catholic youth and their allies want in terms of self-identification. Not once in any of the responses did the cardinals use the term LGBT.
We have a ways to go.
In this year of scandal and pain, these words will melt your heart
Archbishop Anthony Fischer,O.P. brought many synod participants to tears with his words in the first week of the synod. If you haven’t read them, take the time. They will do your heart good and you’ll see that bishops can experience transformation too.
Today, in your presence Holy Father, and amidst my brother bishops, I want to say sorry to young people for all the ways we’ve failed them.
For the shameful deeds of some priests, religious, and lay people, perpetrated on you and other young people like you, and the terrible damage that has done; and for the failure of too many bishops and others to respond appropriately when abuse was identified, and to do all in their power to keep you safe; and for the damage thus done to the Church’s credibility and to your trust; I do apologize. Read more
Pope Francis and Aaron Bianco
Aaron Bianco and his family may not know it but — when it comes to those who would put them in harms’ way by belittling and demonizing them and then publishing their personal information and address online — they have Pope Francis as their champion. Pope Francis recently reminded us, “Be careful around those who are rigid. Be careful around Christians – be they laity, priests, bishops – who present themselves as so “perfect,” rigid. Be careful. There’s no Spirit of God there. They lack the spirit of liberty.”
October 22nd, 2018 1 Comment Synod 2018 futurechurch
The triumvirate of hatred; There are bishops who still need to be convinced; I’ve got nothin’; Top down doesn’t work
The Triumvirate of hatred
If there is one thing my Mom passed on to me, it was her passion for justice for those at the margins. My chosen name sake, Rose was scrappy and often described herself as “small but mighty”. She was short, barely reaching 4’11”, but you didn’t want to mess with her. In our small town, she served as the human resource person in the business that she and my Dad helped build. Most everyone in town was employed there.
And it was my mom, not the local priest, who people wanted to talk to when they were struggling.
In an age where LGBT people were quickly labelled as perverse, those who still lived in town and secretly identified as LGBT told me that she was the one person in town with whom they could share their fears and suffering. They loved her.
Mom died in 1994, and as I look back, I realize that for many, she was the face of Christ for the marginalized in our small world. And she embodied what has been repeated over and over again here at the synod – the need for a “preferential option for the youth.”
As I read the story of a former colleague of mine, I wondered “What would Rose do?”. Aaron Bianco, a Catholic employee in the diocese of San Diego has been under attack. Over the past year, he has been harassed and threatened. His “crime”? He is gay, happily married, and serving as an employee of the diocese under Bishop Robert McElroy (a Francis bishop who has supported him 100%).
And while the harassment was painful and frightening, it rose to new heights with the release of the Pennsylvania clergy sex abuse report, a expose of sins and crimes that extremists have been exploiting in order to ramp up their anti-gay rhetoric and super charge their intimidation campaign. All in the name of their god, of course.
This week, someone broke into the church where Aaron works and painted “No fags” on an interior wall. Beyond, the break in, which is being investigated by the FBI as a hate crime, three fundamentalist websites, Lepanto Institute, Lifesite news, and Church Militant, have been publishing unChristian and vile descriptions of Aaron. And clearly crossing an ethical line, they also published his personal information, family photos, including one with his deceased mother, and his home address.
In fear for the safety of his family, he resigned.
I wept. And so did others when they heard of the hatred and threats raining down on him and his family.
Because these groups spew hatred, and because they have crossed an important line by publishing Aaron’s address and personal photos, James Martin, S.J., who has also been a victim, urges Catholics to write their bishops. In his facebook post he writes
More [referring to the National Catholic Rep9orter article] on the terrible story of the hatred, harassment, homophobia, targeting and physical violence directed against Aaron Bianco, a pastoral associate who is a gay man. Catholic leaders, bishops and the USCCB must stand against this kind of homophobia.
Martin also suggests other actions.
What can be done about groups like Church Militant, LifeSite News, the Lepanto Institute and Tradition, Family and Property, who traffic in the personal vilification that led to the kind of violence that plagued Aaron Bianco and caused him to fear for his own and his family’s safety? Report them to Twitter and Facebook when you see evidence of hatred, homophobia, and targeting. Then write to your bishop and to the USCCB.
So, as I report from the Synod in Rome, here are my questions.
Thank God for James Martin and Bishop McElroy. But why have they been the only ones to speak out?I am thinking of powerful words by Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel who said, “Always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the oppressed. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.”
Why do so many bishops continue to succumb to an underdeveloped theology of the body that simply can no longer be defended?While bishops in greater and greater numbers state that everyone should be welcomed into the church, they undermine those words at every turn because they still do not have the courage to seriously review teachings that have long been rejected by a majority of Catholics — teachings that ultimately scapegoat and call into question that which God Herself created – a holy, beloved, and beautiful people in all their human and Catholic dimensions and expressions of love.
Why are there no openly self-identified LGBT people here at the synod sitting and talking with the bishops and cardinals and helping them to listen and to understand the beauty of their lives as well as the pain and sorrow of a Church leadership that still crushes their Holy Spirit?
Given the ethical codes media organizations agree to follow in the Vatican Press room, why is an organization like LifeSite not held accountable by Prefect Paolo Ruffini when they willfully cross ethical lines, moving beyond what is acceptable (passionate disagreement with other Catholics) to willfully engaging in intimidation tactics that set the stage for violent acts against innocent people? Do the ethical standards apply only when writing about those in the hierarchy, or do they apply for all the People of God?
Where are the voices of other respected media outlets at the synod who do live by the ethical code? At what point do they band together to ensure that ethical norms and standards are honored at the synod while calling out any group that resorts to tactics that put people, like Aaron Bianco and his family, directly at risk?
October 19 briefing
Ms. Yadira Vieyra, an auditor from the Chicago diocese, Superior general Fr Valdir Joe De Castro of the Society of St. Paul, Archbishop Emmanuel Kofi Fianu of Ghana, and Archbishop Joseph Naffah of the Marionite Church of Lebanon sat on the panel to brief us about the events of the synod on Friday, October 19th.
There are bishops who still need to be convinced
Often, the state of clericalism in our Church is reflected in the speaking order of the panelists. Cardinals are often given the highest deference. But today, I was pleasantly surprised when Yadira Vieyra, an auditor from the Chicago diocese spoke first.
Yadira helps refugees deal with the trauma that occurs as they flee war, violence and oppression in their countries and come to a country that does not welcome them.
She said that one of the main reasons she wanted to come to the synod was to help church leaders to take seriously the mental health of those fleeing and the suffering of families and youth who are in detention centers.
“Some children are reaching milestones in detention centers and it is inhumane,” Yadira explained.
When asked about why the church speaks more about “welcoming the stranger” than “protecting our borders”, Yadira was strong.
I think it is important to address what is going on in the countries these families are fleeing and how the Church can advocate on their behalf and speak to the leaders of those countries.
Yes, it is important to have a secure border but that doesn’t mean that suddenly violence or terrorism in other countries is going to stop.
Yadira stressed the importance of church leaders speaking to the leaders of other countries, both secular and religious, addressing the war, violence, terrorism, and poverty — those inhumane conditions that cause people to flee.
We need to invest in people who are fleeing poverty, but also [address] the role of women.
Many women from Mexico are fleeing because of violence.
These families are not coming to the United States because they want to go on vacation. They are risking their lives. A lot of them only have the clothes they have on their back.
And then to receive the treatment they receive in the United States is very inhumane. We forget that these families are valuable. They are risking everything, even taking their own young children knowing that crossing the border is a massive risk and a lot of people die trying to cross the border.
Besides her important advocacy for refugees, Yadira has also been advocating for youth to take up more leadership in the Church.
She said that youth are involved in social activism and should be recognized in the Church. This is especially true of those who may no longer be connected to parishes, but who are working for social justice.
Yadira wants church leaders to recognize that youth are protagonists in the story of salvation, not just a group of people to be ministered to.
While stating that she has had a positive experience at the synod with many bishops who seem to genuinely listen, she also said there are bishops “who still need to be convinced that our youth matter.”
I had the opportunity to ask Yadira if she felt the topics of women’s roles in the church, gender and sexuality, and LGBT inclusion were be addressed properly at the synod.
I asked, “In an interview with Luke Hansen, SJ that was published in America Magazine, you said that ‘the role of women is sometimes overlooked, and that is discouraging.’ You also said, ‘the issues of gender and sexuality were being discussed extensively, and that the discussions were controversial and heated.’ And finally, you said you were very passionate about what has been going on with our LGBT brothers and sisters. Can you say more about those conversations in the synod?”
In relation to the role of women, it is unfortunate that our religious sisters are not able to vote.
Tuesday night I was able to read part of a report (English smalll group B first week report) with Bishop Edwards, and to me that was a big step in terms of giving women a voice within the synod.
They [the sisters] can provide interventions, but it is important to consider seriously giving them the opportunity to vote as they also invest in the spiritual development and formation of church members.
It very important to give them credit for the amazing work they do with the poor and vulnerable.
So for me that was a big moment and just looking at the bishops, it was a wonderful view, especially as I was able to make eye contact with several of them while sharing the report. I thought to myself, ‘I wish more women had the opportunity to have the view I have right now, and feel so close to the Pope in sharing such an important report on what the youth need in the church, how ministry could be improved.
Just the opportunity to stand before [the assembly] and have that voice was a big deal for me and for the church.
In terms of the LGBT community, we have been talking about how to better minister to this group of people who feel attacked, that feel displaced, and that the church doesn’t want them. It’s not true. Any Catholic knows it is not true. Our doctrine isn’t going to change, but we need to find a way to make them feel that Jesus loves them. We hold them to the same standard that we hold any heterosexual person who is having extra marital relations. It is important that we communicate that. The church is here for them. But’s tricky ministering to a group that already feels attacked.
Digitizing love
There was quite a long discussion by some of the ordained members of the panel about the place of digital communications in the Catholic Church and finding ways to expand the capacity of the Church to educate and build strong relationships among Catholics. One archbishop suggested that they could incorporate other organizational websites that produce Catholic content.
Of course, the topic of who would get the nihil obstat for their web content surfaced. Sigh…
The Church should develop criteria, of course. But, it is also true that the impulse to put a doctrinal stranglehold on every fresh idea is part of the problem.
Most understand that the role social media/digital content can play in the development of authentic relationships is quite limited. But sometimes as a prelate waxes poetic about the possibilities, I wonder if it isn’t cover for what is lacking. Seinfeld’s George Constanza pops into mind as he declares to Jerry. “I’ve got nothin’.”
People like Brother Alois and Sr. Norma Pimentel offer the medicine for what ails us and what all Catholics, including our youth hunger for. They show us how risk love with its joy, but also its inevitable pain, vulnerability, sacrifice, and rejection. The church won’t be enlivened by writing code. Brother Alois said it best this week. It is only when we walk humbly with each other — recognizing and seeking the Spirit of God that is already present and alive within each other — that we learn how to love.
Top down mentality undercuts accompaniment
Australian Sebastian Duhau, an auditor and youth minister for the Brothers of the Christians Schools in Australia wants to reach young people who are disconnected from the Church which he attributes to a church that, “talks at young people”, and “teaches about the Church”, rather than “introducing them to the person of Jesus Christ”.
He is among the young auditors at the Synod who recognize that there has been a kind of rigidity and top down mentality in some bishops that undercuts the meaning of accompaniment.
“From the birth of the Church, when Jesus was walking the earth, the Church has always been about accompaniment, and actually walking with people, building relationships with people, having conversations and loving each other.”
And he believes that in order to attract youth, we need a Church that is, “authentic, transparent, relational, loving, communal Church for all people.”
In his intervention, he spoke about the need to church create spaces, “where young people can voice their opinions, their hopes, their needs and their struggles, without being judged. The Church, like I had to, must learn to use its ears, to listen to the world around it, to listen to what is required of it, and most importantly, to listen to the voices of young people, because we have something offer.”
As an aside, Duhau’s bishop is the widely respected Vincent Long, O.F.M. Long posted a very funny article about his discoveries of the “secrets” of the Swiss Guards while in Rome. They have their own cookbook!
Do whatever it takes to move the Council forward
This week, La Civilta Cattolica published a dialogue Pope Francis had with Jesuits in the Baltic region. What is important about this interview is the fact that Pope Francis was so explicit and passionate about his desire to advance Vatican II.
In the Q & A, the Pope made his desire for a Vatican II church explicit saying he wants the Jesuits “to do whatever it takes to move the Council forward.”
I believe the Lord wants a change in the Church. I have said many times that a perversion of the Church today is clericalism. But 50 years ago the Second Vatican Council said this clearly: the Church is the People of God. Read number 12 of Lumen Gentium.
I know that the Lord wants the Council to make headway in the Church. Historians tell us that it takes 100 years for a Council to be applied. We are halfway there. So, if you want to help me, do whatever it takes to move the Council forward in the Church. And help me with your prayer. I need so many prayers.
Please support this work in whatever way you can
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October 21st, 2018 1 Comment Synod 2018 futurechurch
Pontifical council composed of youth proposed again; A letter to youth from the synod; More woman talk; Coming soon! My interview Sr. Sally Hodgdon, CSJ
First off, we are getting ready to deliver our petition urging the Synod of Bishops and Pope Francis to make room for women religious superiors to vote!
We are nearly 8000 strong! But we want the strongest voice possible!
If you have not signed the petition or shared it, please do so!
The Synod office and many others inside the Synod hall know about this petition. Help us do our part to further full equality for women in the church. SIGN and SHARE!
Today, we were joined by Sr. Alessandra Simerilli, a powerhouse advocate for the poor and the earth, based in Italy; Archbishop Matteo Maia Zuppi of Italy who has been called the "Bergoglio of Bologna", and is known for his peace activism and the preface he wrote for James Martin's book on building bridges with the LGBT; Cardinal Berhaneyesus Demerew Souraphiel, C.M. of Ethiopia; Fr. Alexandre Awe Mellow, secretary for the Dicastery for the Laity, the Family and Life; and instead of Greg Burke conducting, we had Paloma Garcia Overjero, the first lay woman appointed as Vice Director of Communications.
It was gratifying to see her in action with her very relaxed and easy going style.
Sr. Alessandra Smerilli began her comments by saying that she "dreams of a prophetic church" where economics and ecology are addressed recognizing they are inextricably linked to the suffering of the poor. Citing the importance of Laudato Si, she said that if we don't work together as a church to address the ills in our environment we will generate a whole new poverty.
Pontifical council of youth proposed again
Early on, when Sr. Sally Hodgdon, CSJ, the Vice President of the UISG, proposed that there be an International Pontifical Council made of young people during her four minute intervention, she was cheered by the young people sitting in the synod hall, a phenomena that has marked this synod as a very different experience from others.
Prefect Paolo Ruffini mentioned it again today as part of his press report and it seems the idea has come up quite a number of times at the synod, properly encouraged with the "woo-hooing" from the young auditors. In addition, Ruffini mentioned that "a woman could head up the council."
To which I say, "Woo hoo!"
The idea of a council has traction and could serve as an important vehicle for creating a church that is, not only more fully engaged with youth, but more in touch and empathetic to the variety of problems they face, including those who have moved away from the church because of its rigidity and exclusive ways. It could also serve as a vehicle for addressing the gap in equal opportunity for roles for women in the church.
The other idea that has gained traction and is popular with the young adults attending the synod is the idea of creating a digital platform for engaging youth. Over and over again, this idea has been applauded by the youth at the synod whenever it is introduced.
Part three of the Instrumentum Laboris is being discussed this week and the focus is on developing concrete strategies for engaging young Catholics, not only here at the synod, but in the wider church.
That will be the real test of this month long adventure.
A letter to youth from youth
It has been decided that a group of people from the synod will compose a letter to young people, separate from the final document which will be longish, and probably ignored by too many Catholics, young, old, ordained, and lay.
The elected group of eight participants to begin drafting a message are youth auditors Briana Santiago of the United States, Anastasia Indrawan of Indonesia along with Archbishop Dieudonne Nzapalainga of Bangui, Auxiliary Bishop Emmanuel Gobilliard of Lyon, Archbishop Anthony Fisher of Sydney, and Bishop Eduardo Horacio Garcia of San Justo, Argentina. Fr. Alois, prior of the Ecumenical Community of Taize, and auditor Michele Falabretti, leader of the youth pastoral care office at the Italian bishops’ conference are also part of the group.
To add some context, while there has been a lot of good feelings about the connectedness people feel at the synod, there are those who seem to be unshakable in their demands for a new way.
In an interview with Mary Rezac from Catholic News Agency, Sister Benedicta Turner of the Daughters of St. Paul hopes that the synod fathers recognize young people’s desire for clarity and truth, even when it is difficult.
“It is a generation that strongly values clarity and authenticity, perhaps to a fault. Slick, expensive presentations go ignored while raw, sincere testimony is held with reverence,” she said.
Turner said that Church leaders need to return to an authentic presentation of the totality of the Gospel, and to challenge rather than compromise with the current culture.
“I think we need leaders who are willing to answer the hard questions young people are asking, who are more inclined to engage the culture than to make excuses for it, and who are willing to admit mistakes and failure with honesty and humility,” she said.
“We need leaders who are unafraid to give us the Gospel in its most intense, undiluted form; the Gospel for which the martyrs offered their lives and whose beauty has inspired countless works of art over the centuries,” she added.
Only this kind of engagement with the Gospel and the hearts of young people will be effective in calling them out of complacency and into relationship with Christ, she said.
Br. Neil Conlisk, a 30 year-old Carmelite brother, told CNA that he feared the synod’s bishops would not listen to young people’s desire for authenticity and truth and that they would continue on with “business as usual” and talk past young people.
“No one wants a worldly Church,” he said. “I fear that the Synod Fathers will try to change the Church in the name of the youth, but this ‘change-the-church’ fever is a symptom of the illness that has caused the long decline, and we simply cannot afford to destroy the Church any more.”
“We are hearing, from many bishops, moralistic therapeutic deism, but we want the fullness of the faith within the one, holy, catholic and apostolic Church,” he added.
In addition to speaking the truth, Johnson said that what he hopes arises from the synod is a greater recognition throughout the Church of the need to live lives of holiness, so that young people have examples to follow in the Christian life.
“Young people need to see examples of holiness so that they know that Christianity is true, it’s beautiful and its attainable,” he said.
When young people need to see that there are Christians who “weren’t born perfect, but there are people who admit their weaknesses and rely on the Lord’s strength and are able to lead lives of holiness,” whether that person is a bishop or a priest or a lay member of the Church, he said.
This need for examples of Christian holiness is not new, Borsellino told CNA, but it is a constant need throughout the history of the Church.
“Young people need radical, authentic witnesses of the Gospel in this world that are willing to speak to their hearts,” she said. “It has always been and will always be a need. Jesus knew that well when he formed those intimate relationships with his disciples.”
They are getting real and I love it!
More woman talk
Paolo Ruffini also shared the ongoing dialogue about the role of women.
He said synod participants say that there needs to be a "cultural conversion" in the Church when it comes to the role of women.
Further, there is agreement that they need to be given an equal place, not only in society, but in the Church.
He also reported that there was a proposal that a Synod on women should be convened.
Let's get some dates on the calendar for these proposals and make it happen!
Coming soon! My interview with Sr. Sally Hodgdon, CSJ
Sr. Sally Hodgdon, CSJ, is Vice President of the International Union of Superiors General and one of women who could vote along with her male counterparts at the synod if all things were equal.
While I will post the whole interview in full this weekend, I just want to report that, Sr. Sally confirmed that the USG and the UISG will be developing a proposal and strategy for getting women the vote at synods.
Wouldn't it be great if that were in place for the next synod in 2019? Of course, it would have been better if it had been in place a long time ago, but this is progress.
The walls around the Vatican that have kept women out are crumbling as we speak!
An important voice at the synod coming from Nigeria
Vincent Paul Nneji of Nigeria urged the church to be more just in its treatment of lay people in his region. His message moved beyond what has become the usual deference displayed, to an authentic cry that shed light on the real experiences of youth.
He talked about survival. And basic needs, like work...and food...and shelter.
And his pointsare really worth repeating.
A lot of us work as volunteers in the church (with our talents and time) because we derive joy in God's service.
However, instead of feeling part of her, we feel used by her as many of us have little or no means of livelihood and we have little or no choice other than to 'depend on the scraps that falls from the master's table.'
We have talents, but there is little or no platform to express the same, even as church volunteers.
The church should pay apt attention to our upbringing, especially with choosing our career path.
The church should deliberately outline the steps for vocational discernment in the catechism.
We ask for a church that prioritizes more the capacity for development for young people rather than structural or institutional development.
We want to start dreaming again with firm hope that they church will pay more attention to our individual dreams, encouraging and accompanying us in the process of achieving them.
To that the whole church should say, "Amen!".
Possible progress in Vatican-North Korean talks
In case you didn't see it, Pope Francis and Secretary of State Cardinal Pietro Parolin met with the president of South Korea today, Mr. Jae-in Moon. It has been reported that the pope received an oral invitation to visit North Korea through President Moon, but that they will look for an formal invitation before responding.
I am recalling the joyful face of Sr Mina Kwon of S. Korea and the Archbishop of S. Korea, that I heard in the first week of the press briefings and can only imagine the hope they feel at these developments.
May the voices of faith, reason, and hope fill the airwaves and help drown out those that stoke hatred and fear.
My mistake and my apology; Brother Alois as the model for a renewed church; Sometimes it is hard to listen
A colleague contacted me to tell me that I may have misunderstood the exchange between Cardinal Bruno Forte and Greg Burke regarding a two part question on Humanae Vitae that I wrote about last week. I asked that person to go back and check the original exchange in Italian which I heard through a simultaneous translation.
Today, I learned that I was wrong about the sequence and thus, I was wrong about Greg Burke’s professionalism. In that, I maligned my brother’s reputation. It appears that the veil of objectivity that I originally suggested had slipped was mine, and not his.
For this I apologize and as we say when entering into the sacrament of reconciliation, I am sincerely and heartily sorry.
And now the politics
John Allen writes a superb column on what’s at stake in the synod process and why the process is contentious. An excerpt of his article is below.
According to Allen
Crux learned that a preliminary version of that final document has been prepared and given to members of a drafting committee. selected last week, with five members elected by the synod, two sitting on the body ex ufficio, and three appointed by the pope. Though it’s not clear who wrote the preliminary version, it was presented to the drafting committee by the synod office headed by Italian Cardinal Lorenzo Baldisseri.
To understand why they matter, both developments require a bit of explanation.
First of all, talk of “rigging” of the process probably has been a little overheated from the beginning. As Auxiliary Bishop Robert Barron of Los Angeles pointed out in a Rome event Oct. 4 sponsored by the Notre Dame Center for Ethics and Culture, every meeting is at least a little “rigged,” in the sense that organizers wouldn’t call it without some basic sense of desired results.
That said, Church conservatives often can’t help but suspect that the deck is stacked against them, and it didn’t help this time that Pope Francis introduced a new set of rules, one element of which is that the synod will no longer end with a series of recommendations which usually lay the basis for an eventual apostolic exhortation.
This time, the synod will produce an integrated final document that will be presented to the pope. If he gives it his approval, then it would become part of the Church’s ordinary magisterium, meaning the routine exercise of its teaching authority.
That new codicil, naturally, raises the stakes a bit in terms of the importance of the document, and bishops participating in this synod want to be sure that the final version genuinely reflects their input. If there had just been one sweeping vote at the end, it would have been much harder to flag which parts of the text were troublesome; now, with paragraph-by-paragraph tallies, it should be easier to know where consensus does and doesn’t exist.
Some observers had floated the possibility that if the only option was an all-or-nothing vote on the final text, some pocket of bishops might actually refuse to sign the final text, in an effort to demonstrate that it wasn’t really the product of genuine consensus.
Of course, ultimately all the synod can do is advise the pope, and it remains up to him what to do on the basis of the advice. In theory, even if a given paragraph doesn’t obtain a two-thirds majority to be part of the text, the pope could decide to revive it; and even if a paragraph does cross the threshold, a pope could still nix it.
Under these rules, however, at least bishops won’t be able to say they didn’t have the opportunity to make it clear where both their support and their concerns reside.
On the other hand, it may not do much among those already inclined to skepticism to hear that rather than waiting for the drafting committee to do its work, the synod office prepared its own working text to put before the group. To some, that’s likely going to sound like an exercise in stacking the deck, essentially confronting the committee with a fait accompli.
In all fairness, one could make the argument that the idea of ten exhausted and frazzled prelates drafting not just a set of recommendations but an entire, cohesive teaching document in just three weeks, ex nihilio, was a fantasy. They need something to start with, and theoretically it makes as much sense for the synod office to provide that base text as anyone else.
As one synod participant put it on Monday, “The thought that somehow [a few] selected people would sit down, craft and write many pages of material … a whole document … is not exactly realistic.”
Further, the great likelihood is that most of the material in the preliminary version of the document is drawn from either the instrumentum laboris, the working document for the synod, or from the early round of discussion inside the assembly.
In other words, there doesn’t have to be anything especially nefarious about it.
The problem is that however logical that explanation may be, it wasn’t made public before the fact. Certainly, synod officials understand by now that there’s a certain constituency, including a bloc of bishops, inclined to see the entire exercise through a hermeneutic of suspicion, and the idea that a pre-fabricated text was waiting for the drafting committee immediately after the body was assembled is unlikely to help.
Brother Alois as a model for a renewed church
Today, the panelists who briefed us included fraternal delegate Pastor Marco Fornerone of World Communion of Reformed Churches, Brother Alois, Prior of the Taize Community, Fr. Mauro Giorgio Giuseppe Lepori, O. Cist., and Archbishop David Bartimej Tencer, O.F.M. Cap. of Iceland.
Archbishop Tencer from Iceland held our attention as he talked about the obstacles of distance and climate he overcomes in order to form community there. In that, the digital world has created new opportunities for community and for education. So instead of cursing the abuses of the internet, he suggested that the Church make full use of the opportunities presented for strengthening community, especially among young Catholics.
Two other exchanges that point to the gifts that ecumenism offers the Catholic Church stood out.
Fraternal delegate Pastor Marco Fornerone of the World Communion of Reformed Churches explained that within his tradition, the process for developing a consensus on pastoral practices is inclusive and fully representative of all members. As such, there are more lay persons involved than ministers.
And he brings that experience to the synod where he explained that his intervention on the floor and his suggestions in his small group are treated with the same deference given to each and every person in the group.
And while we long for a synod process that is fully representative of the entire People of God, it is also important to remember the step Pope Francis took in 2015 that revolutionized the synod process.
Instead of an endless stream of interventions in the aula that had been the norm under previous popes, Pope Francis restructured the synod creating a space for authentic dialogue and exchange in small language groups. And while these exchanges have been revolutionary in and of themselves, it is also important to understand the impact it has on the final document to flows from the synod.
While the role of auditors is limited in that they cannot vote on each paragraph of the final document, nonetheless, their influence regarding what goes into the final document has absolutely been strengthened with Pope Francis’ reform.
In that context, it was heartening to hear that the wisdom and experience of another tradition and the way they have learned to build a structure around what they value is being heard within the synod.
Brother Alois of Taize
If there has been one voice at the synod that serves as a model for how to be church together and how to walk humbly and together with our younger sisters and brothers, it is Brother Alois.
His radiant love filled the room — a love that can only come from knowing and deeply trusting God and the God within each person he meets.
I’ll take a triple scoop of that, please.
When asked what the bishops might learn from the way the people of the Taize community meet those who arrive at their doorstep, he suggested that each parish should be a place of sharing of our spiritual lives, but also material sharing.
He said, “When the young see there is an authentically loving community, they are naturally attracted to it.”
He also said that we don’t pray for young people, but that we pray with them, walk with them and learn together with them.
And finally, and most importantly, he said that we must let them be free — free to choose what they can embrace and what they cannot in the life of love that is offered.
Somedays, God delivers an infusion of grace directly to the heart.
Today, that happened for me.
As I sat in the press room, I couldn’t stop the flow of tears that streamed down my cheeks as I thought about what I and all my/our children could learn from a man and a community such as this.
This is the profound love that changes the world.
I included Brother Alois’ intervention at the synod below. It is also on the Taize website.
Responding to the spiritual thirst of the young and to their search for communion
Articles 68 and 69 of the Instrumentum Laboris express the desire for a “more relational” Church, capable of “welcoming without judging in advance”, a “close and friendly” Church.
My brothers and I are often surprised to hear young people we welcome in Taizé say that they feel “at home” there, and we wonder why. It may be that, to be truly themselves, they need to feel useful, to see their creativity encouraged, to receive responsibilities.
Then their spiritual thirst awakens and it is important to go patiently, together with them, to the sources of faith. They know that they are welcomed by a community, first in the common prayer where all participate actively, by singing, listening to a brief biblical reading, a long moment of silence. And often they deepen a personal relationship with Christ.
We make sure that the liturgical signs avoid formalism, but are beautiful and simple. For example, we see how deeply young people participate, every Friday night, in a prayer around the cross, to lay down before Christ what is too heavy for them.
We say to ourselves: like Christ, let us listen to them with our hearts, reminding ourselves that he is already at work in their lives – and let us respect the sanctuary of their conscience. Those who listen must be accompanied themselves. There is a lack of accompaniers in the Church: could a ministry of listening be entrusted not only to priests, men and women religious, but also to lay people, men and women?
In Taizé, young people also discover that the Church is communion. Without creating an organized movement, we always send the young people back to their parishes and the places where they live. So many of them like to pray together with others of different faiths. They understand, if only implicitly, the call of Christ to be reconciled without delay.
We have recently experienced such a communion at an Asian young adult meeting in Hong Kong, a stage in our pilgrimage of trust. Of the young participants, 700 came from mainland China – it was the joy of the Holy Spirit.
I would now like to make a concrete proposal. Often, the words used and the manner of speaking are obstacles that prevent many young people from hearing what the Church says. Could not the final document be accompanied by a short letter, written in a simple style, addressed to a young person looking for meaning in his or her life?
I would like to summarize what I just said with a few words from Brother Roger, the founder of our community:
“When the Church listens, heals, reconciles, she becomes what she is at her most luminous, a communion of love, of compassion, of consolation, a clear reflection of the Risen Christ. Never distant, never on the defensive, freed from all harshness, she can radiate the humble trusting of faith into our human hearts.”
Like I said, I’ll take a triple scoop of that.
Sometimes it is hard to listen
Tonight the BBC produced a show with a panel of five young Catholics talking about their faith and their experience in the Church along with comments and discussion with members of the audience.
Nuala McGovern was the host and the participants came from a variety of regions such as Samoa, Nigeria, the United States, and Italy. Some of the panelists are also auditors at the synod.
First of all, I thought Nuala was brilliant as the host. She really understood the lay of the Catholic land.
Also, the questions and responses were quite lively and free flowing. It seemed that everyone had a chance to speak their mind.
Still, I wish the BBC had be able to achieve more balance in the panelists they chose.
Four of the panelists appeared to espouse varying degrees of what I would assess as a Pope John Paul II view of Catholicism complete with a strong defense of complementarity, the Catholic Church’s “separate, but equal” framework.
Just one, a young self-identified lesbian Catholic from Rome, spoke of her love for the Catholic Church despite the discrimination she faced. Although her family was very supportive, she spoke of the Church as a Mother and how painful it was to feel rejection because of her identity.
Ultimately, she feels the church is changing on this issue and will grow into a more welcoming place for LGBT sisters and brothers.
As I walked back home, I pondered Brother Alois’ words as I reflected on what had been said.
It is difficult to listen to those who are convinced that women and men should be take up certain roles in accordance with their God-given biological sex and all the assumed advantages attached to each sex. I thought of the suffering of the women, including some women religious, who know they are called to the priesthood and to other ministries that are simply not available to them within our church. And I thought the social assignment of certain characteristics based on sex and how that has been turned on its head in so many ways. Most close to my own heart is the way my sons-in-law exhibit what would at one time been thought of as maternal tenderness toward their children, as well as, vulnerability and a deep respect rooted in a firm sense of equality with my daughters that was practically absent in many men of my parent’s and grandparent’s generation.
It was hard to hear them say that women should not be priests because Jesus chose 12 male apostles. The lack of exposure to biblical criticism or to our long history of interpretation of the tradition as part of our life in God’s Spirit was manifest.
It was troublesome to hear them say that having women priests would just add to clericalism, a logic that most would probably never apply to any other sector. And when it has, such as in the days when many thought women were too delicate to be involved in politics, it simply exposed a sexist impulse to keep women out.
It was painful to hear them brush aside the stories of deep human pain in the inability to conceive children and simply reaffirm the church’s teaching on in vitro fertilization. I thought about one of my daughter’s friends who felt crushed by those in her community who simply repeated church teaching without ever understanding her suffering.
As I tried to imagine what Brother Alois would think and say given his deep ability for embracing all, I recognized that I share a passion for justice and a love for the church with these young people and that this forum was not a place where we might all go deeper or share our own evolving spiritualities and come to a better understanding of each other.
Still, I wished Brother Alois could have been sitting center stage, offering his understanding of God’s radical and “foolish” love in a world where law trumps generosity and rules are used to divide.
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The complete Fold discography
Fold (debut album)
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A Reflection of Us All
A Victim's Mentality
Detroit Red
Mr President, We're In Trouble
The White Man
Oil-Powered Machine
Be Water My Friend
Two Past Midnight
The self-titled debut Fold album – released November 2, 2015
All tracks written, arranged, performed, produced & mixed by Fold with additional contributions as listed below.
Fold are Seth Mowshowitz (keys, guitar & vibraphone), Kane Rattray (drums), Ben Walsh (bass) & Josh Gardziel (guitar).
Vocals on track 2 written & performed by Mr Gee. Vocals on track 6 written & performed by 6% poet. Vocals on track 7 written & performed by Kurt Vonnegut. Speeches on track 1 by John Lennon & John F Kennedy (in order of appearance). Speech on track 3 by el-Hajj Malik el-Shabazz. Speech on track 4 by Jimmy Carter. Speech on track 5 by Lena Horne. Speeches on track 8 by Michael C Ruppert, Jimmy Carter & Dr Martin Luther King, Jr (in order of appearance). Speech on track 9 by Bruce Lee. Speech on track 10 by Fannie Lou Hamer.
Brass arrangements on tracks 2, 5, 6, 7 & 9 by Emma Johnson. Brass on tracks 2, 5, 6, & 7 performed by Emma Johnson (tenor & baritone saxophone), Edward Ody (trumpet & flugelhorn) & Tom Smith (trombone). Brass on track 9 performed by Emma Johnson (tenor saxophone), Ciaran Diston (trumpet) & Peter Johnson (trombone).
Tracks 1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 7, 9 & 10 recorded, engineered & co-produced by Ed Heaton at Eiger Studios, Leeds. Tracks 3 & 8 recorded, engineered & co-produced by Matt Worsley at Luck Lane Studios, Huddersfield.
Mastered by Erik Aldrey
1. A Reflection of Us All (3:56)
[Kurt Vonnegut narrating his Slaughterhouse-Five novel]
It begins like this: Listen:
[John Lennon from his final interview on the day he died December 8, 1980]
My role in society, or any artist’s or poet’s role, is to try and express what we all feel. Not to tell people how to feel. Not as a preacher, not as a leader, but as a reflection of us all.
[John F Kennedy from his Remarks at Amherst College, October 26, 1963]
The artist, however faithful to his personal vision of reality, becomes the last champion of the individual mind and sensibility against an intrusive society and an officious state. The great artist is thus a solitary figure. He has a lover’s quarrel with the world. In pursuing his perceptions of reality, he must often sail against the currents of his time. This is not a popular role.
The men who create power make an indispensable contribution to the Nation’s greatness, but the men who question power make a contribution just as indispensable, especially when that questioning is disinterested, for they determine whether we use power or power uses us.
2. A Victim’s Mentality (2:59)
My desires have fallen victim to my pauses
as my promises will fall a victim to my breath
Yet as twilight forms a victim to the morning
my life shall never become a victim of my death
Who is the oppressor and who are the oppressed?
Who controls the mould that traps our souls
for he who rolls the dice holds the keys to treasure’s chest
Freedom can sail in on a half-shell
but does it ride the wave of a crest?
The full moon forms a cocoon
so we delightfully dance to the tunes
played by somebody else
You see everybody knows that on the streets you rule
You’re hoodied up to self-destruct but yet you look so cool
You make others love to copy every move you do
but your plight keeps them amused because you act the fool
But in the company board rooms – we never see your face there
Why die for post codes that you don’t own because bruv, nobody cares
The only slang this world understands is about the juice you got to spare
to buy the bricks between the mortar or the land beneath the air
Only effective journeys are worth repeating
and only reflective fables are worth rereading
For a story can never be told in the same way twice
and different generations each remould an old excuse to give it life
But can we honestly claim to be a victim all the time?
Is our sickness fully owned by the man who holds the dice?
So, who is the oppressor and who are the oppressed?
Its the thinking of remaining a victim in this life that brings you death
3. Detroit Red (3:41)
[Malcolm X]
Ten men can be sitting at a table eating – you know, dining – and I can come and sit down where they’re dining. THEY’RE dining. I’ve got a plate in front of me but nothing that’s on it.
Because all of us are sitting at the same table are all of us diners? I’m not a diner until you let me dine, THEN I become a diner. Just being at the table with others doesn’t make me a diner and this is what you’ve got to get in your head here in this country. Just because you’re in this country doesn’t make you an American, no – you’ve got to go farther than that before you can become an American.
I’m not a diner until you let me dine
then I become a diner
I’ve got a plate in front of me but nothing that’s on it
and this is what you’ve got to get in your head here in this country
You’ve got to enjoy the fruits of Americanism and you haven’t enjoyed those fruits. You’ve enjoyed the thorns, you’ve enjoyed the thistles – but you have not enjoyed the fruits, no sir.
So I point these things out brothers and sisters so that you and I will know the importance of being in complete unity with other, harmony with each other and not letting The Man manoeuvre us into fighting one another.
No, you’ve got to go farther than that
you’ve got to enjoy the fruits of Americanism
and you haven’t enjoyed those fruits.
you’ve enjoyed the thorns, you’ve enjoyed the thistles
but you have not enjoyed the fruits, no sir.
I say again that I’m not a racist, I don’t believe in any form of segregation or anything like that; I’m for brotherhood of everybody but I don’t believe in enforcing brotherhood upon people who don’t want it. As long as we practice brotherhood among ourselves and then others who want to practice brotherhood with us – we’re for that. But I don’t think that we should run around trying to love somebody who doesn’t love us.
4. Mr President, We’re In Trouble (3:21)
[Jimmy Carter]
It’s clear that the true problems of our nation are much deeper… deeper than gasoline lines or energy shortages – deeper, even, than inflation or recession.
Too many of us now tend to worship self-indulgence and consumption.
Human identity is no longer defined by what one does but by what one owns.
And we’ve discovered that owning things and consuming things does not satisfy our longing for meaning.
We’ve learned that piling up material goods cannot fill the emptiness of lives which have no confidence or purpose.
Mr President, we’re in trouble.
First of all, we must face the truth and then we can change our course.
If you lead Mr President, we will follow.
5. The White Man (4:35)
[Lena Horne]
The man is the employer
and the man was usually a white man,
a white employer
The man is a sheriff in Mississippi
The man is a cop in Harlem… white
He could be negro, because even though he’s negro
the man who’s the head of his police department is
I knew as soon as I said that I shouldn’t have without… explaining it
My father was a number banker
He was a negro man who to survive… hustled
and in the sense of hustling and a negro man
it means that often times if you were educated and able to get a job
the most menial
and that was all you had to hold
you didn’t want to do that
and you didn’t want to work for someone
who had less talent, less brains than you
so you risked your life
you laid your life down on the line
You were a hustler
you worked with, in many times, criminal attitudes
It took a lot of guts
and on the one hand you chose that
rather than have the man make a slave of you
The choice wasn’t very wide
you could be a whore or a cook
or you could struggle and be a teacher
but on the whole in New York
a little corrupt, a little cynical
you were more apt to be a whore if you couldn’t make it
and if you were a young, cute, negro kid
than be a teacher, especially if you hadn’t had the education
of being a teacher
and especially if your parents had no money to make you anything else
6. She (4:54)
[6% poet]
See, she wondered in mid-summer how to celebrate his birthday.
She never knew what little boys could do until she had one.
Tons of fun, hours of play, she loved when her little man smiled at her
his certain way.
Well today’s his day…
let’s celebrate.
Let’s celebrate little man’s birthday. And even though Daddy ain’t around
because he was gunned down by NY pig pound on the same date
let’s celebrate little man’s birthday.
And may he live longer… stronger… faster.
Old enough to maybe retaliate with his toast
and boast to the neighborhood folk of how he terrorizes blue coats
because see, she wondered in mid-summer how to celebrate his birthday.
Teenage years amongst his peers
brought black boy pressure none the lesser.
Sessions of aggression rehearsed on Nostrand Ave
BK abrasive, sly and persuasive when he swaggered or staggered
in the morning twilight
See, she wondered what would become of her son, full of discomfort
His situation turned mother against child
illicit occupation equivalent to incarceration
lifestyle led black boy wild
now he’s seven years later into manhood
He’s the black ethereal grand imperial being from the unseen light
he walks with a bop, swaggers to the right, up the ave.
26 without a witness he was wandering the city streets.
She never knew what little boys could do
and how they often wanted to compete.
He settled his story of American glory by doing fast things in the wild life
See, she wondered in mid-summer what would happen to him in the night.
And see, she wondered in mid-summer what to do
how to celebrate
how to be free.
7. So It Goes (3:50)
[Kurt Vonnegut]
So long forever, old fellas and gals
So long forever, old sweethearts and pals
God bless ‘em
Robert Kennedy, whose summer home is 8 miles from the home I live in all year round, was shot 2 nights ago.
He died last night. So it goes.
Martin Luther King was shot a month ago. He died too. So it goes.
And every day my government gives me a count of corpses created by military science in Vietnam. So it goes.
My father died many years ago now, of natural causes.
He was a sweet man. He was a gun nut too.
He left me his guns. They rust.
Everything is alright and everybody has to do exactly what he does.
8. Oil-Powered Machine (2:19)
[Mike Ruppert]
Here’s another piece of fun information for you: there are 10 calories of hydrocarbon energy in every calorie of food you eat. 10 calories of hydrocarbon … Why?
Well, you plant a crop – how do you plant a crop?
You drive an oil-powered machine to till the land. Then you drive another oil-powered machine to plant the seeds. Then you’ve gotta irrigate it – well how do you irrigate it? With water. Well how’s that pumped? Electricity. How do you make the electricity? Natural gas or oil or coal – to make the electricity. Then you spray ’em with fertilizers – well, what are all the fertilizers made from? Natural gas – ammonia is made from natural gas. What are all commercial pesticides made from? Oil!
So when the plant’s all grown up and you’ve used all this oil to get it there then you’ve gotta harvest it with another oil-powered machine.
You’ve gotta drive it to a food processing plant with another oil-powered machine where it’s processed with electricity – which is more hydrocarbon energy. Then you wrap it in plastic – which is oil. Then you drive it by another oil-powered machine to a supermarket where you go and whip out your plastic ATM card, pay for it, take it home and put it on a plastic plate which is made out of oil, throw it in a microwave oven which is run by electricity made by hydrocarbon energy; and then you eat it.
The energy crisis is real, it is worldwide, it is a clear and present danger to our nation. These are facts and we simply must face them.
[Martin Luther King Jr.]
Procrastination is still the thief of time.
We are at a turning point in our history.
The situation is one in which we must be ready to turn sharply from our present ways.
This is not a message of happiness or reassurance but it is the truth and it is a warning.
9. Be Water My Friend (4:10)
[Bruce Lee]
Empty your mind
Be formless, shapeless
Like water
When you put water into a cup
it becomes the cup
when you put water into a bottle
it becomes the bottle
when you put it in a teapot
it becomes the teapot
Now water can flow
or it can crash
Running water never goes stale
so you gotta just keep on flowing
Its very slow and you push it out
but all the time you are keeping the continuity going
bending, stretching everything
I suppose you know you just keep it moving
see the idea is running water never grows stale
To express oneself honestly
not lying to oneself
and to express myself honestly
now that my friend is very hard to do
and you have to train
you have to keep your reflexes
so that when you want it its there
When you want to move you are moving
and when you move you’re determined to move
not taking one inch – not anything less than that
If I want to punch
I’m gonna do it man
Here I am you know as a human being
How can I express myself totally and completely?
Its a process of continuing growth
Be formless
Shapeless
You what I want to think of myself? As a human being. Because – I mean, I don’t want to sound like ‘as Confucius say…’ but under the sky, under the heavens man, there is but one family. It just so happens man that people are different.
10. Two Past Midnight (2:50)
[Fannie Lou Hamer] I want you to know what’s happening to us today
[Malcolm X] I don’t see any American dream I see an American nightmare
[FLH] but we gonna change that baby.
We want a change
We want a change throughout the country
We want a change, change – I’m talkin about some real change
and people whether you believe it or not…
I want you to know what’s happening to us today
We are sick and tired of seeing people shot down in the name of law and order all across the country
[FLH] If I hate you because you hate me I’m no better than you are – and I don’t hate a person because they hate me.
I’ll try to free that person too.
I don’t see all people as bad… and I don’t hate a person because they hate me.
We are a part of America, but we do want to be treated as human beings
and I’m fighting for human rights, not for equal rights.
We want a change, change,
A house divided against itself cannot stand
A nation that’s divided against itself cannot stand
and its two past midnight and we on our way out.
Grandiose and uplifting debut full of meaning and purpose – Fold’s debut self-titled album.
Fold’s new record is impressive and important – a stunning debut.
Bridging the gap between the experimental and the engaging is no mean feat, as is finding innovative uses for sampling.
Fold’s first album not only manages to do all this, but also effortlessly bears the weight of important cultural observations with class and poise.
By and large, the album is down-tempo yet bold yet impressive. Rooted in funk and trip-hop, sampling is also integral to pretty every track. Yet, rather than chucking them in they are woven in amid impressive layers of composition with each song having an important message that fits perfectly with its musical surroundings.
Take ‘Mr President, We’re In Trouble’ as an example, where Jimmy Carter’s famous ‘Crisis of Confidence’ speech gets the Fold treatment. Psychedelic and mesmerising melodies are underscored by hypnotic, simple drum patterns which embellish the ex-President’s famous words without making them sound remotely tacky.
Fold’s treatment of such cherished subject material is elegant and graceful where it could so easily have been plain cheesy.
Fold is three-parts Yorkshireman and one part American, and it is the latter that overwhelms the lyrical content for this album with overtly-US sampling used. Yet, the cultural lessons are applicable to most aspects of western life, with John Lennon and John F Kennedy’s words a vital part of our shared consciousness.
In general ‘Fold’ seeks to warn humanity about our many modern predicaments from the climate to our lust for extractivism and consumerism. Yet, it should not be dismissed as simply pessimistic, rather, it nods to positive societal changes as well as drawing attention to the pitfalls, particularly around modern human identity.
Despite obvious similarities with Public Service Broadcasting, with grandiose, politically-charged spoken word accompanying heavily textured arrangements, Fold has a distinctive hip-hop flavour and is infinitely more rhythmic.
Great American blues artists like Gil Scott-Heron are evoked beyond the vocal delivery with jazz featuring heavily alongside rich brass instrumentation that include saxophones, trumpets, trombones and the flugelhorn. Fold develops these classic elements with contemporary prog-rock experimentalism and effortlessly combines normally disparate musical heritages to produce something fresh.
Simply put, Fold have produced a stunning, challenging and engaging debut album full of meaning and social commentary often missing in today’s superficial musical landscape.
http://www.neverenoughnotes.co.uk/2015/11/review-folds-debut-self-titled-album-a-stunning-debut/
Dan Vaughan, Never Enough Notes
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Libya’s biggest oil field restarts, adding hurdle to Opec cuts
The field in southern Libya has a capacity of 300,000 barrels of crude a day
Published: March 05, 2019 15:15 Bloomberg
A general view of the Al Sharara oilfield, Libya December 3, 2014. Image Credit: Reuters
Cairo: Libya’s biggest oilfield resumed production, adding another complication to Opec’s effort to trim a global supply glut.
Sharara resumed production and is expected to reach 80,000 barrels in one day, according to people with knowledge of the matter who asked not to be identified because they aren’t authorised to speak to the media. Regular output will be fully restored in the coming days, now that the site has been re-secured after a three-month occupation at the site, state energy producer National Oil Co. said in a statement.
The field in southern Libya has a capacity of 300,000 barrels of crude a day. It was shut down in December after guards and armed residents seized it over financial demands and was then taken over last month by forces loyal to eastern militia leader Khalifa Haftar.
The NOC “has received assurances that site security has been restored, verified by our own inspection team, enabling staff to return to work,” Chairman Mustafa Sanalla said in the statement, which urged that the oil company remain “free from extortion and armed incursion.”
The shutdown led to $1.8 billion (Dh6.61 billion) in lost production, according to the statement.
The company officially lifted its declaration of force majeure, a legal status protecting the NOC from liability if it can’t fulfil a contract for reasons beyond its control. Plans are also in place to repair 20,000 barrels per day of production capacity destroyed by looting and vandalism during the blockade, according to the statement.
Oil rallied this year as the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries and allies agreed to reduce output by 1.2 million barrels a day in the first half of 2019 to avert a supply glut. Libya was exempt from the cuts because of its internal turmoil but its oil production disruptions along with US sanctions on Opec members Venezuela and Iran restricted supplies further. The producers’ group will meet again in April to discuss whether to continue the supply reductions in the second half.
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Orlovsky list - embroidery amulet (pictures)
July 8, 2017 handmadebase
Orlovsky list - features of embroidery
"Set" or filling technique inside the contour
Branki
Plots and motifs of embroidery Orel
Video: old Russian embroidery "Orlovsky list"
Orlovsky list. This mysterious name belongs not to a fairy tale, but to an old embroidery, geographically belonging to the Russian lands, more specifically to the city of Orel, as it is evident from its name. And indeed, this embroidery has traditionally been performed in the Orel province since the very times when the Vyatichi tribes lived there. Common in it are the various symbols, which in those ancient times were pagan. These signs served as a guard for people, so up to now the plot line of the Oryol spill is considered and is basically protective.
In the local history museum of the city of Eagle to the present dayStored more than a hundred copies of embroidery, whose age dates back to the 18th century. Those same symbols that were considered magical, had the form of rhombuses, crosses or different birds, as well as other signs. The contours of the composition have always been sheathed with a tambour or stalk seam, and the filling inside the contour was performed in the "set" technique. This type of seam refers to counting seams. It resembles a countable "smooth surface". At the same time, each embroideress invented her own, unique pattern for filling, invented drawings and original combinations. The names of these patterned fillings (branoks), sound very expressive: "bells", "crow's eye", "wave."
In the color range of embroidery Orlovsky list in hisThe gamut of colors allows the predominance of various shades of red, rarely blue. The spectrum expands only in the 20th century, when yellow, green and black color was added to it. Red-blue combination of colors from ancient times had a profound meaning. Red symbolized life itself, and blue denoted the sky and water. Interesting is the name: Orlovsky list. There are many different opinions, but research shows that the word "list" means "writing off." There is a possibility that the Orel masters despatched their fairy motives, watching the miraculous frosty patterns on the windows when they embroidered with endless winter evenings.
According to another no less plausible version,Orlovsky list appeared as an organic continuation of the ancient Russian sewing with gold and silver threads. This idea is striking similarity of the rounded forms of both embroideries. The presence of the stalked pattern and the uneven filling of the figures also coincide. The peculiarity of the Oryol spill is its multifaceted nature. The variety in forms, symbols, various figures and outlines of animals amazes.
To perform counting seams, a structureFabric with a uniform weave, the same density and thickness of the warp threads. Calculation of stitching stitches should correspond to the score of fabric threads. The "set" technique is a two-way fast sewing. It is recommended to make a seam "forward needle" on the count of threads taking into account the pattern. The working thread is carried by a continuous straight stitch in a horizontal or vertical direction, from one end of the work to the other and back. On the account of threads of a fabric the alternating transition to the front and the underside is also carried out. On the wrong side of the work comes the negative pattern. So, as a result, the "set" pattern has the appearance of parallel rows of vertical or horizontal stitches, which are laid through one or two strands.
The term "branki" is closely related to the Orlovsky embroideryList. The outlines of this embroidery are very diverse. It's rhombic and various geometric motifs, bizarre flowers and long leaves with cuts. The contours of the figures are lined with a tambour or stalk seam in several folds of a dark colored thread. Inside the contour fill each small detail of the ornament, sewing them with the smallest multicolored cuttings, which are usually called brans. The drawing in them is made up of the smallest geometric shapes. These can be triangles, checkers or zigzags of different colors.
Branks are divided into several types, they are simple, complex and complex.
Simple brans. These are stitches and intervals between them, the same in size.
Compound brans. These are alternating short and long stitches, as well as intervals repeating with the same frequency in each row or across a row.
Complicated brans. These are stitches and intervals, different in length, in position on the embroidery from row to row and forming a different pattern.
Orlovsky list since ancient times, embroidered,Using plates called bralnitsami. With their help on the canvas were considered the warp threads. Orlovsky write the list in very small stitches, counting exactly the threads of the canvas. It is these small stitches that make up brunks. Small geometric patterns branok gradually fill arbitrary smooth lines of the contour pattern. The pattern is smoothly flowing from one form to another.
"Tree of Life" This embroidery has a lot of encryptedValues and values. And the ciphers are carefully preserved and passed on to the next generations by inheritance. The most famous old story lines are:
Tree of Life;
The bird-pava;
Frog;
Two-headed eagle.
The main motive of the Orlovski spill is "The TreeLife ". In ancient times, the elements of plants symbolized the very concept of Life, and not specific vegetation. They acquired a universal, cosmic meaning, as a consequence of the impact on the planet of solar energy and water. Pay attention that on all embroideries next to plant motifs there are necessarily different spirals, circles and crosses. This is a tribute to the sun, the so-called solar signs.
"Bird of the Pava" Bird of the pava (bird of happiness), asUsually has a small neat head, a fan-shaped tail, a wing raised up and a feather lying next to it, most likely a magical one. Similar images of birds are found on Slavic metal objects found during the excavation of ancient burial mounds. From this it follows that the plot is rooted in very distant times. The obligatory and final element is the border-charm. It gives the embroidery completeness and serves as a special amulet for the entire composition. Most often, the fringe consists of a strip of branocs (checkers and crushers), which alternate with each other. Bindweeds, stars and rhombuses may also be present.
In our turbulent time the Oryol list, like many othersTypes of folk art, was temporarily consigned to oblivion. But in recent years needlework has begun to revive and has again become fashionable. Orlovsky list, as well as many other types of folk art, is reborn with a new force thanks to the skilled craftsmen who have preserved traditions and techniques of craftsmanship. The elders convey their rich experience to the young, who painstakingly study needlework in all its diversity. They master the old techniques and techniques of the Oryol spell, being continuers of ancient traditions.
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Perspective | Come to Kashmir, the valley of roses, apple trees and corpses
Come to Kashmir, the valley of roses, apple trees and corpses
Shama Naqushbandi
Updated Aug 05, 2016 10:40am
A Kashmiri girl pulling a sheep in the snow-covered Neelum Valley, Azad Kahmir | AFP
I have been visiting Kashmir since my childhood. Over the years, the valley has taught me many hard lessons about the world. With my early trips to Kashmir, the terrain between history and reality blurred. It was the first time I realised that tragedy was not a foreign country. Its proximity was too intimate and too intense for me to ever return home again to that feeling of comfortable distance. I learnt how most of the world’s greatest crimes are executed without fuss in darkness and silence. I learnt that pain can bleed into the most beautiful things and great horrors are inflicted in the name of flags. I discovered that childhood is not always innocent, that news is not always the news, justice is never passive, laws aren’t always intended to protect, just as terrorists are not always terrorists and freedom fighters are not always freedom fighters.
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Though I have travelled all over the world, I keep returning to the Valley. Sometimes I ask myself why. In spite of the many forces that vie to possess it, for me Kashmir endures as one of the most wretchedly forsaken places in the world. Though fiercely desired, the people remain monumentally unloved. Perhaps that is why I love the valley so much. Approximately 135 km long and 32 km wide, it is the site of the world’s largest and most intransigent conflicts. There are no exact figures of the dead, but by any account they number in the tens of thousands, whether a low estimate of about 20,000 by the Indian government to around 100,000 by those living there. Thousands are simply missing, many more displaced or exiled. Few know much about the lives of the soft-spoken people that dwell there, where curfews, torture, rape, detention without charge, extrajudicial killings, enforced disappearances and mass graves have simply fallen into a way of life. In Kashmir, there are no hydrocarbons or diamonds buried in the soil, just roses and apple trees. And corpses.
In Kashmir, there are no hydrocarbons or diamonds buried in the soil, just roses and apple trees. And corpses.
Over the years, I have experienced the curfews, the checkpoints and the garrisoned townships. I have seen the entrails of orphanages, the countless fatherless children and the crippled bodies. I have found myself inadvertently sipping tea in national conferences observing every Kashmiri in the room silent whilst the Indian national anthem was sung. I have watched paid crowds come for staged political rallies and disperse as soon as the broadcast was over. I have seen the broken glass and bombed-out homes rotting in urban wasteland, whilst army abodes luxuriate on the choicest of locations. I have travelled behind military convoys and had my taxi battered by the batons of men riding tanks. I have spent time with the youth, played basketball with teenagers and listened to the way they speak of the artillery fire in the distance and their catalogue of beatings. I have consoled a boy whose best friend bled to death in his arms. Over and again, I have watched an entire population supplicate to men in uniform. In all of these occasions, I have seen no shred of love for the people that reside in the Valley’s folds. In fact, I have never seen such an unloved population, where the reach of compassion evades even the infant, the elderly and society’s most vulnerable.
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It is for this reason that when I think of Kashmir, I do not think of polemics between good and evil. I do not think of India and Pakistan. It is of no consequence to me whether Kashmir falls under the aegis of one flag or another, or whether it gains independence. I do not see politics. I see real people and real suffering. I see the orphans and the bullet-riddled bodies of children. I see the sad eyes of wailing mothers. I see the taciturn teenagers watching, remembering. I see generation after generation being relentlessly crushed in slow motion. Somewhere even now a child is being silently broken. The longings of a people are inscribed on the scars and burns of their young.
In the last couple of weeks, almost sixty more fledgling lives were cut short by violence, with hundreds more children permanently blinded by bullets, among them a five year old boy. All this because the life of another youth was extinguished. Lest it be forgotten, 22-year-old Burhan Wani – whose death was recently celebrated in India as the vanquishing of a terrorist, despite there being no official record of him ever launching an armed attack – chose to confront the army on social media as a direct result of personal persecution by the security forces as a child. For the hundreds of thousands of Kashmiris who took to the streets to join his funeral procession, Wani was David against Goliath, the young cricketing teenager who dared, bare-face, to take on the might of one of the most powerful militaries in the world, knowing full well his trajectory would entail the ultimate sacrifice. In response to the popular mass uprising that took hold of the valley following his death, the government imposed an indefinite curfew with shoot to kill orders for any who defied it, shut down the printing press and switched off the phone lines. This summer in Kashmir, there will be no wedding songs as a people continue to mourn their dead.
Indian police clash with Kashmiri protestors in Srinagar | AFP
At a certain point, aloofness gives over to complicity and becomes a wrong. There is a point when witnessing is no longer an option and one must speak up. The heart grows heavy with the lack of love. It is for this reason that I am writing. But what can you say for a people so comprehensively ignored and misappropriated? When their lives are played out for sport and their stories are constantly misrepresented? When their protests are lethally quelled? When their children are butchered in daylight, and their guardians have turned aggressors? When there is so little compassion around them?
Come to the valley.
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Come to the valley. I do not care what caste or creed you belong to. It does not matter to me if you wear a veil, turban or vermillion on your head. It does not matter if your freedom is painted in emerald, saffron or another colour, only come to the valley. Come to Kashmir. Come with your open souls. Come with your videos, cameras and pens. Go deeper than the Polaroid shikaras and the colourful picnic spots. Go off the beaten track into the townships, the hamlets and the villages. Go into the homes. Talk to the people. See their lives. Touch their flesh. Bury their dead. Feel as they do. Go deep, deep into their hearts. Witness their pain. Come wherever you are. It is not too late to find all that has been lost. Come to the valley of love. Empathy is the most we can hope for. Perhaps one day before it is too late enough hearts that can make a difference will learn to feel the same.
This was originally published in The Wire, India
The writer is based in London and authored the book, 'White House', which won 'Best Novel' in the Brit Writers' Awards 2012.
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planettrekker Aug 05, 2016 03:32am
Excellent article that humanizes an on-off traumatized region. Just wish the author was present, or equally eloquent, when Kashmiri Hindus (Pandits) and other minorities were religiously-cleansed (systematically targeted and butchered) and driven out of their ancestral homes by cross-border terrorists (or freedom fighters per their parlance) operating under a political Islamic mandate. The few who are left in Kashmir, and not living in squalid tenements in the hinterland, exist in a state of fear and dhimmitude. Who will tell their story?
def Aug 05, 2016 08:22am
Most of the stone Pelters are Upper caste converted Urban class Sunni Muslims, Have you ever tried to heard voice of Gujjar Sunni Muslims, Bakarwals Sunni Muslims, Shia's , Hindus, Sikhs and Buddhists... And many more Kashmiri Muslims living in far villages. Burhan Wani was himself from upper caste wanik (Baniya) community.
Mehmood Aug 05, 2016 08:52am
Unfortunate, Kashmiris are subject to justice Indian style.
jen Aug 05, 2016 08:56am
All these young kids should be studying in colleges. Instead they are trying to kill people with stones and get shot in the process. If only they know a bit of history and the failure of religion based administration, they would not not be doing this.
Arshad , Canada Aug 05, 2016 09:01am
"The great Indian Democracy "
The Big and powerful countries of the World have just closed their eyes to all the atrocities in Kashmir because all they see is a big market of 1.2 Billion people. Another very important reason, the victims are all Muslims. Therefore , who cares. Muslims are Terrorist anyway. But shame on Muslim countries who have been quiet on this issue. As I see it Kashmiri people need to spend lots of money and time on PR campign . I will contribute what ever I can on PR.
silajit Aug 05, 2016 09:02am
The only way this will work is if Article 370 is revoked and outsiders are allowed to live there. But you don't want that.
Harisingh Aug 05, 2016 09:11am
@Shama Naqushbandi,
The plight of Kashmiri Pandits and Sikhs is just as sad. They have been rendered homeless for 27 years and their properties confiscated. Their loved ones are missing and gone for good and they have been searching for them for the past 27 years.
Tikleme Elmo Aug 05, 2016 09:15am
There is a lot of empathy and love for Kashmir in Indians. What we can't accept is to let it become a symbol for religious intolerance and bigotry. India is home to all religions. Indian/Hindu culture puts people first and foremost and then only religion. For us religion is private and not our entire identity. Dare I ask- Why some Kashmiri muslims hate other religions so much that they can't even live with others peacefully? If any religion can't teach that, what is it good for? Before they became muslims, they were Hindus... all of them. Grow up!
Omair Aug 05, 2016 09:54am
Native kashmiris continue to die and we sit in the comfort of our homes with a strange twisted idea of nationalism claiming the piece of land that most haven't even visited.
Sachin Aug 05, 2016 10:02am
Will u believe when I say most Indians feel sad when they see pictures of violence and hear news about young people getting hurt or injured by security forces. Indians want Kashmiris to feel Indian. If that's not possible, that's ok . But plz understand how can an elected PM allow regions to break away into separate countries .? will Pakistan Army allow that .? Is freedom a romantic fantasy .? What about the plight of Kashmiri Pandits and Sikhs displaced ?
sandhu Aug 05, 2016 10:08am
And when Pakistani Interior Minister showed this truth to Indian HM in SAARC he quit the meeting.
Darshan Aug 05, 2016 10:51am
Good, MANUPULATIVE article..
mk Aug 05, 2016 11:15am
taciturn youth????? see that pic and judge
rs Aug 05, 2016 11:16am
@sandhu have you ever wondered who your ancestors were with a sir name sandhu.
Dear shama your point of view is primarily a muslim point of view. what about the call for making kashmir a part of pakistan without Kashmiri Hindu Men and with their women?? what about killing of Kashmiri Hindus before their mass exodus and after. Not your so called innocent kashmiri Muslims. Kashmir is a communal problem because it is majority muslim.
Raja. Aug 05, 2016 11:40am
@sandhu: "And when Pakistani Interior Minister showed this truth to Indian HM in SAARC he quit the meeting".
Funny & insulting behavior by pakistan IM, who does not know what is happening in his own country. Remember what he said when 'border crossing' was handed over to afghanistan. As on today the whole world does not believe what pakistan says. Without evidence it will be a propaganda.
Karthikeya Aug 05, 2016 11:47am
Big yawn!
I'm reading these dramatic one sided articles about Kashmiris since my child hood. Islamic Imperialism of Kashmiri muslims got them to this stage. Wish the author had written about the Pandits also. Till now, no kashmiri pandit turned into a terrorist while scores of muslims are proven terrorists.
Suave Aug 05, 2016 11:48am
I think we should also come up with an article on Baloochistan !
Peace Aug 05, 2016 11:50am
Some people are using these kids to further their own agenda. These kids should be in schools, not on the roads throwing stones, attacking police stations & government buildings. I feel pity for these kids. Their future is getting destroyed. The parents should be held responsible.
Jai Aug 05, 2016 11:52am
Condition of baluchistan brothers is worst then this . There is no media coverage and all dead bodies are declared as terrorists.
@Sachin Baluchistan brothers are maimed everyday. No press is allowed to publish even news about genocide happening everyday.
Akashwani Aug 05, 2016 12:06pm
Its quite sad that the whole article just covers the one part of the story. Author seems to be more concerned about the Kashmiri Muslims rather than all the people who have their roots in Kashmir(Buddhists,Hindus,Sikhs). Not a balanced article at all.
PunjabiMunda Aug 05, 2016 12:35pm
Cheeni maango toh kheer denge, Kashmir maango toh cheer denge!
butseriouslyok Aug 05, 2016 12:42pm
Another hypocritical propaganda article. Kashmir issues would easily have been resolved politically but India's neighbors export terrorism to keep the region simmering. They did the same to Afghanistan by supporting Taliban for a long time. All Kashmiris in India have the same rights as any other citizen of India....so this is not the same as colonization that the British practiced.
vague buster Aug 05, 2016 12:45pm
Brave Indian army deployed 1 soldier for every 4 Kashmiris.
Ani Aug 05, 2016 01:03pm
I am an Indian, politics aside the vivid imagery in the article left me speechless. Kudos to the writer.
Shahzad Aug 05, 2016 01:03pm
There are about 700,000 army personnel in J&K in addition to law enforcement personnel residing inside the cities.
The border is heavily fenced with artillery fires a norm. So the argument of the movement being an import of Pakistan is null and void.
An ex law enforcement personnel put it eloquently, when a child aims a sling shot against you, its pretty clear where their heart and minds are.
Ajay Tiwari Aug 05, 2016 02:19pm
Look at the poor sheep in the first picture. It is being pulled against its will. I think it's a freedom fighter. We in India should observe a black day for this Sheep-Khan.
LK Aug 05, 2016 03:09pm
Ultimately people are responsible for their own future. Let us not pretend like we dont know how this started. If you start an armed, religion based secessionist movement against the state, there will be an armed response. And once the army gets involved, even innocents suffer.
Knowing this, most people find other things to do - like getting on with their careers and families. Or getting involved in politics. If Kashmiris continue armed protests (and please dont say pelting rocks on security forces, setting fire to police stations and trying to seize their weapons etc is peaceful protest), the armed response will continue. If Kashmir is peaceful, the security forces will leave.
So actually quite a simple situation.
Worth_Commenting Aug 05, 2016 03:36pm
@Sachin Very sensible comment bro! As a Pakistani, I really appreciate when you said that you feel sad about young people getting hurt by Indian forces in Kashmir. If you google neutral sources, you will find out that Kashmiris have been fighting for freedom since 1931, first from the Dogras and then India. You pointed out the difficulty for India to grant them freedom but did not take into account that Kashmir is recognized as an internationally disputed territory and not a part of India or Pakistan pending a decision and thus, there is no comparison with other Indian states. As far as Kashmiri Pandits and Sikhs are concerned, they have been welcomed by the indigenous Kashmiris to return and we Pakistanis would support their return. Please understand that their return would not be a game changer in terms of demographics and therefore, their return is not a threat to anyone.
Ranjit Aug 05, 2016 03:45pm
@Shahzad Did you or your parents had similar views when the Pakistani Army was killing the Bengali Muslims, Hindus.
Nawaz Aug 05, 2016 04:11pm
I made a similar trip to Balochistan !!
Ahmar Qureshi Aug 05, 2016 04:49pm
The caption of the article is just heart throbbing!
sandhu Aug 05, 2016 06:01pm
@Jai There is no AFSPA in Balochistan, Pakistan never shut down the Press or electronic media but whole world know what India is doing in Kashmir no freedom of press, media has been shut down even the journalists like Barkha Dutt is being humiliated because he covered the miseries of innocent kashmiris.
Tamilslevan Aug 06, 2016 05:10am
@Shahzad . This is an internal matter of India and Pakistan should stay away from it. Security should be present as Pakistan is supporting the terrorists with arms and ammunition. Please read the UN resolution before calling for plebiscite. It's a three step process 1. Pakistan must withdraw all its forces from the occupied territory (and return back the territory gifted to China too). After verification India withdraw its army to a meaningful level and then comes the plebiscite issue. Please start with the first step and don't jump to third. UN cannot do anything until then.
Shiraz Aug 06, 2016 06:55am
All starts with Policies of Pakistan which supports and promotes disturbances in Kashmir. Civilians are the Collateral damage of Pakistani policies.
Hamza Shahzad Aug 06, 2016 12:41pm
Alas, India made this beautiful valley a home of fight,
Rahul Aug 06, 2016 05:27pm
They will suffer till they decided to suffer and pass this suffering to their children. Other people in india moved on and working hard to make their lives good and their country a recognizable force in world which is now showing the fruits of their labour.
Javed cheema Aug 06, 2016 10:09pm
@Shiraz to correct you. India did not fulfill its obligations for UN plebiscite and kashmiris wanted it. So killing by india started to this day. India will have to give freedom to IOK.
sam Aug 07, 2016 03:27am
A picture is worth thousand words and unfortunately the one showing kashmiri pelting stones at indian military doesnt align with the theme of this article.
Iqbal Aug 07, 2016 08:35pm
TRUE Nothing lasts This brutality will come to an end. That is the Law of Nature.
A Shah Aug 07, 2016 09:43pm
Yes what has happened to the Kashmiri Pandits is tragic.
P kumar Aug 08, 2016 12:01pm
I have been to kashmir too and i can see there are immense exagerations in this article.Truth is useful in its entirety.exaggeration gives satisfaction initially but the purpose is lost
yaqut khan Aug 08, 2016 06:06pm
i come here to read the comments of indians,i wanna read their logics how they justify the actions of their cruel army.just go through the indian logics in comment section.it made me more sad that how educated youth of india is justifying all the atrocities of indian government and indian army in indian occupied kashmir.
@yaqut khan we are equally sad about recent events in kashmir.but to understand why this happened you will have to ask why seventy people died in quetta today
Subu Aug 09, 2016 01:14am
Oh such tragedy, what about Kashmiri pandits who were killed, maimed, raped by Pakistan backed militants. Why are the mosques not asking people to restrain themselves , rather than calling for sacrifices.. none of these ulema have been killed by Indian forces.
what about the people killed by HM, LeT and ISI? dont they have a right to libes
guest Aug 09, 2016 02:07pm
Only 3 brave policemen and that too unarmed against a huge angry stone pelting mob of teenagers. Kashmiris muslims are cowards the only act of "bravery" they did was to drive away hapless innocent Pandits from valley.
How oppressed are Muslims in India?
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Lessons from California’s Successful Statewide Ballot Campaign for Housing
May 6, 2019 by NLIHC Leave a Comment
Contributors: Nur Kausar, Housing California; Alina Harway, Nonprofit Housing Association of Northern California (NPH); Jeannette Brown, Southern California Association of Nonprofit Housing (SCANPH); Tom Collishaw, Self-Help Enterprises and Rob Wiener, California Coalition for Rural Housing (CCRH)
This article was originally published on April 12 in Shelterforce: The Voice of Community Development
In November 2018, Californians voted with their values when they passed Propositions 1 and 2, a combined $6 billion for affordable and supportive housing for lower-income Californians and for people chronically struggling on the streets while living with mental illness. Proposition 1, the Veterans and Affordable Housing Act, received 56 percent of the vote. Proposition 2, the No Place Like Home Act, received 63 percent.
California’s unique model for running a statewide campaign that relied on regional coordination and the voices of the people most impacted offers relevant insights to organizations around the nation. Offering views from statewide to regional, and spanning varied political climates and cultural contexts, here is a sample of unique strategies and tactics from what became known as “The Year of Affordable Housing” in California’s 2018 election cycle.
California is home to more than 25 million registered voters spread across a diverse geography, each with its own unique political climate. The California Legislature placed Propositions 1 and 2 on the ballot, so a public campaign for these investments needed to be created from scratch and pushed out quickly, dissimilar to campaigns that may have started with a public signature gathering and education process.
Four diverse organizations spearheaded campaign coordination and fundraising: Housing California, California Housing Consortium, State Building Trades of California, and Silicon Valley Leadership Group. This statewide Props 1 and 2 team hired consultants, approved materials, secured major donors, and pumped relevant and cohesive information to each major regional artery that then branched out to local communities. This was done by creating four committees: Executive, Advisory, Fundraising, and Coalition and Communications – all of which included key allies and legislative leaders.
The campaign raised our top goal of $6 million thanks to a smart, multi-sector strategy for endorsements and contributions that included financial institutions, agriculture, health care, unions, and large businesses.
The Residents United Network was also an integral part of the campaign. This is a network of advocates who live and work in affordable housing developments across California. RUN conducted outreach within affordable communities to educate current and potential voters on the issues. This tactic allowed the campaign to reach voters that otherwise might get ignored, and expanded the leadership of low-income communities to use their powerful voice to continue to push for change.
Below, you’ll find more context and tactics for three regional arteries of the Props 1 and 2 campaign, written by regional leads.
The San Francisco Bay Area covers nine counties, 101 cities, and more than seven million people.
Housing California Conference 2018
NPH activated Bay Area communications collaboratives to leverage the Prop 1 and Prop 2 content; grew an existing fundraising program, having demonstrated the value to our donor network through previous campaigns, and quickly folded in the Props 1 and 2 education and engagement content into our ongoing resident engagement programs.
Working with developer members to share targeted voter information across affordable housing properties, NPH distributed slate cards in four languages and voter registration posters in seven languages, to every county in the region. NPH also sent Get Out the Vote mail to registered voters living in affordable housing communities and employed a robust digital advertising campaign partially targeted to affordable housing residents.
SCANPH serves the Southern California region of Los Angeles, Orange, Ventura, Riverside, and San Bernardino counties. Together, these counties represent the largest population base in California, the greatest concentration of poverty and housing need, and a vibrant mix of communities with diverse resources and approaches to providing affordable housing.
Los Angeles historically has low voter turnout and the large geographic terrain of Southern California presents challenges for voter mobilization. Nevertheless, Los Angeles voters in recent years had already shown a strong commitment to addressing the housing crisis at the ballot.
On the grassroots level, SCANPH conducted training sessions at member housing developments and across Southern California to advance civic engagement, greatly increasing the voter turnout rate.
Lessons Learned: The collective strength of SCANPH’s political reach is greatly amplified by member engagement via a committee framework, including a steering committee specifically for the campaign and a policy committee engaged on the substance of the measures; Southern California’s expansive geography requires consistent messaging dispersed in varied formats to reach necessary levels of magnitude; the power of storytelling has greater media resonance; voter education of residents represents an exciting opportunity to build an inclusive 21st-century democracy in the most populous region of the state and speaks to the importance of ongoing field work for future campaign work.
Rural California
“Rural” varies in California. Interior counties tend to be the most conservative politically and view government as untrustworthy, invasive, and inefficient – although they depend on government in many ways. Coastal rural counties tend to be more liberal but are faced with strong push-back from environmentalists and wealthy residents who don’t want lower-income people and people of color to live in their exclusive enclaves.
Bond funding from Props 1 and 2 was treated just like taxation from a local conservative perspective. Because of this, we needed to work to make the issue personal and local. The Propositions 1 and 2 rural coalition went to service clubs and selected city councils to make the pitch, and in all cases localized the message, telling stories of people affected by the housing crisis.
On Election Day, the rural coalition was disappointed with the Valley results, where only two of eight counties approved the two measures by a 50 percent+ vote. However, if we consider support for Prop 2, the statewide and rural county margins actually increased. Messaging here made a difference.
Rural lessons learned: Keep the message clear, don’t clutter the ballot with multiple housing asks, focus more on getting a majority of voters and less on counties less inclined to support, and personalize and localize the impacts.
Through the energy and hard work of dedicated organizations across the state, residents of California are now able to benefit from an initiative that provides robust funding for housing for low-income households. We look forward to building on California’s momentum with other ballot wins across the country. In 2020, we expect to elect a president who will expand housing affordability and work to decrease the severe shortage of affordable and available homes.
Gather additional tips and resources on voter and candidate engagement and education by checking out: https://www.ourhomes-ourvotes.org/ Be sure to track this campaign on Twitter and Facebook with #OurHomesOurVotes2020.
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Veronica Mars: The Girl Who Gets Me Through Post-Op Periods
August 25, 2015 Hilary
10 years ago I discovered Veronica Mars.
At the height of my obsession with Season 1 of the show, I was simultaneously recovering from major jaw surgery (which also necessitated another minor surgery after the crazy complication of a loose screw!) and studying for my General exams for my PhD in Sociology. That meant I was pretty home-bound, and, yes, lonely. Veronica Mars gave me not only something to look forward to each week (these were pre-DVR days so I literally had a date to watch the live show each week) but a community to connect with in the form of Television Without Pity. When I say there were days I thought I saw Logan Echolls' yellow car driving around New Jersey, you might get a hint of my obsession.
So why did I love VM so much? The snappy dialogue was a big part of it-- the witty way you'd love to talk on a daily basis was how Veronica, Logan, Weevil, et al spoke. I also loved how interwoven the narrative threads were, with weekly mystery characters coming back when it came to the series-long mysteries. And TWoP sometimes helped me appreciate what the writers had done even more. Oh, and of course, the ROMANCE. LoVe not only gave me my first relationship acronym but my first scream-at-the-screen reactions (balcony kiss, anyone?!). When I say Veronica Mars was the first show I ever loved in an epic way, I mean it.
But that's why anyone might appreciate the show. I think for me personally I liked that Veronica was essentially a very smart, tricked-out armchair sociologist (with a taser, natch). Additionally the actress who played her, Kristen Bell, was basically my age from a similar suburb of Detroit where I was from, so I had this weird parallel-lives interest as well.
I religiously watched Season 2, and while I liked it, in the end it can't compare to the highs and shocks of Season 1 (I think this is true for most people, but it was especially true for me since I had passed my exams and was recovered from surgery). Although the Season 2 finale is pretty incredible TV... By Season 3 I was in the thick of both my dissertation fieldwork and my own romantic crisis and I missed several episodes. It was an unsatisfying conclusion to what had been a torrid love affair.
When the now record-setting Kickstarter campaign launched I donated the first day. I was pregnant for the second time and knew I likely wouldn't be getting to a theater anytime soon, so I made sure to give enough to get the DVD mailed to me. I somehow thought I'd have postpartum time to (re)watch the three seasons on DVD; postpartum period#2 (and I imagine any subsequent ones) is much busier than the first, so that fell by the wayside...
About a year later, after finishing all seven seasons of West Wing with my husband, I suggested Veronica Mars. It was hard to describe the show that had meant so much to me and it was a bit of a tough sell when I described it as, "Well, it's about a high school girl who happens to be a teenage detective and she's really, really smart." But hubby agreed and began requesting episodes every night of what he (in a Logan Echolls-tone) called, "TEENAGE DETECTIVE!" [complete with jazz hands]
We got through half of the first season before we moved in early June, upending our lives across state lines. We then watched a few more episodes before I had surgery in early July. And that's when Veronica came back into my life in a bigger way. While I sat on the couch and he got me my meals we binge-finished Season 1 (staying up late when I should have been asleep recovering!). We did the same thing for Season 2 and he loved how I cheered when Duncan left and pointed out all the Beaver stuff going back to Season 1. I had more fun with Season 3, especially picking out the guest stars who would go on to become bigger stars-- like Matt Czuchry and Diana Argon. At least this time the unsatisfying end to Season 3 was assuaged with the MOVIE (and I finally watched the FBI alterna-Season 4 and am glad the movie went in another direction).
The movie is basically every fan's fantasy. I say basically because while I digged it and it made me smile in a nostalgic way (I especially appreciated the whole "teen PI" narration riff at the beginning given my husband's interpretation) it didn't move the character Veronica forward. It's a smart reunion, but more like a party in many dimensions.
Cue the books! As I readily admit more than anything I am a book person. I like a good TV show for sure, but books have always been my thing. Movies not so much, and especially at this moment in my life (1.5 hours is a long time to commit when you have a a toddler and a preschooler!). The day after I watched the Veronica Mars movie in July I gulped down The Thousand Dollar Tan Line. (I was still convalescing!) It's known that Mars creator Rob Thomas started conceiving of Veronica as a book character so it's not surprising the whole enterprise has gone this route.
First of all, I can't recall the last time a BOOK made me gasp aloud. But when (spoiler!) Lianne Mars reappears, I did just that. Because I am such a book person I always have an idea in my own head of what characters look or sound like, but because VM people are so a part of me I read the book with them in mind, which was a new and fun experience (complete with intonation). I think it was also wise to keep Logan away in this first one, but I was thrilled with his return in book 2, Mr. Kiss and Tell.
Two quibbles with Mr. Kiss and Tell. 1) I can't believe Graham (speaking of, how many TWoP-ers would have killed for this noir job?!) and Thomas skipped over the fact that Mac's old college boyfriend was the guy who exposed V to the porn site. No mention of their break-up? Also, let's introduce some new people.Not everyone only ever hangs with their high school crew and Leo as love interest can go away now please and Mac and Wallace can get some new steadies... I'm guessing in Book 3 we get more on who attacked Keith in the movie. I loved the pace of 2, the drudgery of detective work, and that thankfully Veronica did not end up in any mortal danger.
Given that the books are canon (I was gleeful that I got to explain a term to my know-it-all husband...) I wonder how many will come out before another potential movie gets funded? Or is this the way forward now? And these books defy categorization for me, falling somewhere between mystery/fan fic/YA. All things I generally love though, so me and my Kindle don't care!
After this latest surgery (hopefully my last for another decade!) these books woke my mind up again. They got me blogging again for the first time since May. And now that I am moved and recovered, I plan to blog personal things like this at least once a month, in addition to my other writings.
If you never watched Veronica Mars I'm impressed if you made it to the end here, and perhaps I've convinced you that, "A long time ago, we used to be friends..."
In Playing to Win Blog Tags Jennifer Graham, Kristen Bell, Logan Echolls, Mr- Kiss and Tell, Rob Thomas, The Thousand Dollar Tan Line, Veronica Mars
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Xiaomi Mi Mix 3 Review: The Slider Phone Is Back
Tuesday, 8 January 2019 11:57:57 Asia/Singapore
No one enjoys watching YouTube videos or browsing Facebook and Instagram pages on small screens anymore. In fact, most online content and applications nowadays are specifically designed to be enjoyed in big-screened devices. Thus, the demand for huge displays led to the birth of bezel-less and notched smartphones.
Honestly, bezels are just dead spaces on our phone screens. So, Samsung, iPhone, Huawei, and other world-renowned brands started limiting the size of phone bezels or turned to notches in the hope of achieving 100 percent full-screen display.
Unfortunately, no smartphone company has achieved such an ambitious dream. Samsung’s 6.4” Galaxy Note 9 only has 84.42 percent screen-to-body ratio. Apple’s iPhone XS and iPhone XS Max only have 82.9 percent and 84.4 percent screen-to-body ratios respectively. Meanwhile, Huawei Mate 20`s 6.5” was able to achieve an impressive 88.08 percent screen-to-body ratio.
While the screens of the abovementioned devices are wider than their predecessors, you can’t deny the fact that the notches and noticeable bezels still occupy a significant portion of their displays.
But, don’t fret. While these companies are back in the drawing room working on their next screen designs, Xiaomi Mi MIX 3 is already sliding its way smoothly into the hearts of smartphone users. This latest offering from Xiaomi has defied the odds to give the public what no other smartphone manufacturer has given before - a broader and better screen experience!
What's a 'slider phone'?
The Mi MIX 3 is Xiaomi’s latest flagship geared towards the premium market. It doesn’t follow Apple’s path toward notched phone designs or Oppo’s pop-up mechanism. Instead, Xiaomi forged its own display design by incorporating an old concept to its latest smartphone model.
Like the Mi MIX 2, the Mi MIX 3 takes advantage of the “slider phone” design to hide its dual front-facing cameras and give users a bigger screen to enjoy. However, unlike its predecessor, the Mi MIX 3 uses magnets to hold its sleek design into place, creating a satisfying “click” sound every time you slide its screen into a new position.
Simply put, this sliding design makes Mi MIX 3 a modern “slider phone.” If you’re not familiar with slider phones, these were cellular devices made famous by Nokia in the early 2000s. As the name implies, a portion of the device - usually the keypad - stays hidden until the user slides it out in place.
Design and display
Like all other products in the Mi MIX series, the Xiaomi Mi MIX 3 which boasts of 6.39” panel was designed with one goal in mind – maximized screen-to-body-ratio. And indeed, its developers didn’t fail to deliver. The device is nearly bezel-less with over 93 percent of its front occupied by the screen.
No notch or camera is visible on top of the screen, and no home button or fingerprint scanner is present at the bottom of it. It is just pure screen. All thanks to the multifunctional slider that hides the cameras when not in use.
The Mi MIX 3 also makes use of AMOLED panel typically found in Huawei’s Mate 20 Pro. This sophisticated display technology from Samsung ensures that the sliding panel is thin enough and will not make the phone bulky to hold. While it’s still early to tell how robust the sliding mechanism of Mi MIX 3 is, Xiaomi claims that it already surpassed intensive testing and could withstand up to 300,000 slides.
Also, instead of the Mi MIX series’ iconic white finish, Xiaomi opted to release the Mi MIX 3 in three different ceramic finishes: Jade Green, Onyx Black, and a Sapphire Blue finish. At this stage, whatever finish you choose, you’ll still surely get the best out of your purchase with this phone.
Specs and Performance
Xiaomi Mi MIX 3, without a doubt, is a complete package, a smartphone that can confidently compete with some of the most popular phone models in the market today. If you’re having doubts, here are the complete specifications of the Mi MIX 3.
Dimension: 157.9 x 74.7 x 8.5 mm
Build: Front glass, aluminum frame, ceramic back
Display type: Super AMOLED capacitive touchscreen protected by Corning Gorilla Glass 5
Display size: 6.39 inches (~93.4 screen-to-body ratio)
Resolution: 1080 x 2340 pixels, 19.5:9 ratio (~403 ppi)
OS: Android 9.0 (Pie)
Chipset: Qualcomm SDM845 Snapdragon 845
CPU: Octa-Core
Internal Memory: 128 GB and 256 GB
RAM: 6/8 GB RAM and 8/10 GB RAM
Main Camera: 12MP IMX363 f/1.8 + 12MP S5K3M3 f/2.4 AI dual rear cameras w/ LED flash
Front Camera: 24MP Sony IMX576 + 2MP hidden AI dual front cameras
Slider: Full magnetic
SIM: dual
Artificial Intelligence features: Xiao AI voice assistant/ AI Face unlock/ AI scene detection, bokeh, and studio lighting for image capture
Battery: 3,200mAH battery with QuickCharge 4.0+ fast charging, 10W Qi wireless charging
All specifications considered, the Xiaomi Mi Mix 3’s performance is guaranteed to be superb. With a Snapdragon 845 chip and up to 8GB of RAM, the Mi MIX 3 is definitely one of the fastest smartphones you could ever have. Not only that, power users don’t have to worry about the phone’s battery life since it charges faster than most smartphones in the market today. In fact, its charging capacity has been increased by 30 percent.
Unfortunately, Xiaomi didn’t pay much effort on the rear cameras of the Mi MIX 3. While the dual front-facing cameras boast of a 24MP main lens and 2MP depth sensors, the back of the phone only showcases dual 12MP+12MP cameras (a 1.4µm pixel size and f/1.8 wide lens together with an f/2.4 and 1.0µm pixel size telephoto).
However, despite the Mi MIX 3’s camera shortcomings, Xiaomi equipped it with cutting-edge components and the best artificial intelligence features. For instance, the camera has an Optical Image Stabilization module which augments the quality of images taken in broad daylight or in low-light environments. Other camera features include DUAL-Pixel AF sensing for better autofocus performance, 960 FPS slow-motion for enhanced video recording, and a 2X Optical Zoom that acts as a Camera Depth Sensor for Bokeh.
During our time testing the Mi MIX 3, Xiaomi made it clear in this new device that they are serious in their effort to provide people with high-end hardware at affordable prices. The Xiaomi Mi Mix 3 price in Singapore is at S$730. That’s almost half the price of Apple’s iPhone XS Max and Samsung’s Galaxy Note 9 which both cost over S$1000.
Xiaomi manages to set the Mi MIX 3 apart from its contemporaries by giving it a full-screen design and multifunctional slider. The bold attempt of the company gave birth to an awe-inspiring smartphone packed in a beautiful ceramic frame. Add to that the excellent performance of the Mi MIX 3, anyone who will purchase this device is bound to get more at just S$730.
Rechelle Ann Fuertes
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By Freestampmagazine in Animals, Fauna, Horses, Nature on June 14, 2018
F or thematic stamp collectors the horse has always been a very popular subject. If you are interested in horse sports or a particular breed there is bound to be a stamp to satisfy your interest.
The stamps shown below were issued by the German state of Saarland which, following the Second World War, from 1947 to 1956 was a French-occupied territory (the “Saar Protectorate”) separate from the rest of Germany. You may notice two values shown on each stamp.
The reason being the postal tariffs were adapted to French postage rates – mail to France was to be franked at the domestic postage, mail to Allied-occupied Germany at the foreign tariff.
From 1947 to 1959, the inhabitants of the Saarland used money (the Saar Franc) and postage stamps issued specially for the territory.
There is not room in this article to feature every known horse breed or equine sport, I hope the stamps displayed here will be of interest to some of our readers.
Above, from the Horses in Art series issued by Grenada in 2015. The sheet shows a painting entitled “The Horse Fair” by the French artist Rosa Bonheur. The painting is on display at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. It shows the horse market held in Paris on the tree-lined Boulevard de l’Hôpital, near the asylum of Salpêtrière, which is visible in the left background. For a year and a half Bonheur sketched there twice a week, dressing as a man to discourage attention.
This fine series also includes the stamp with a painting entitled The Three Horses, created by Xu Beihong in 1930. He was primarily known for his Chinese ink paintings of horses and birds and was one of the first Chinese artists to articulate the need for artistic expressions that reflected a modern China at the beginning of the 20th Century.
The first pictorial commemorative Romanian stamps appeared in 1903. During the ten year period from 1903 to 1913, only five different sets of commemorative stamps were issued, and three of them were issued during 1906.
Above stamp commemoratives from Romania (1903) show mail coach and horses leaving the then newly-opened Bucharest Post Office building.
The five surtaxed Austria stamps shown below were issued on October 20, 1946 to publicise the Austria-Prize Horse Race in Vienna.
Below, Germany 1952, Thurn and Taxis stamp centenary.
Above, Vatican State Stamp Centenary, 1952.
Below is a fine set of Portugal definitives from 1952. The character shown on horseback is King Denis of Portugal and the Algarve. He reigned from 1279 to 1325.
Issued in 2018 is this from Liberia, the subject being Wild Horses:
And from Kyrgyzstan, the stamp sheet below celebrates the 2016 World Nomad Games.
Below also from the same series:
Issued by Uruguay in 1929 and known as the Pegasus Issue, each stamp in the set above bears the same design but in different colour shades. The set has become a favourite among topical collectors.
This stamp booklet was issued by Sweden in 1987 to celebrate the 450th anniversary of Gripsholm Castle.
The horse on the second left stamp was the favourite of King Charles XI of Sweden (b.1655 – d.1697). Taken from a 1673 painting by David Ehrenstrahl, it depicts the horse Charles XI named ‘Blue Tiger’.
Fine set from Poland, 1963, displaying various breeds.
Set from DDR (East Germany) 1967, featuring thoroughbreds.
Also from 1967, this set of Arabian horses from Yemen.
Very fine mini sheet from Panama, 1968, with paintings of past champion English racehorses. In the margin you see horseshoes, jockey’s caps and crossed whips.
In 1996 Afghanistan issued this set, depicting various horse breeds and their prehistoric counterparts.
And Great Britain released the set below in 2017.
The set shows famous British champion racehorses, beautifully illustrated by artist Michael Heslop.
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Salisbury Incident — The Mysteries and Magic of the Novichok Perfume
“By his own account, Mr Rowley is not a reliable witness, his memory affected by the “Novichok”. It is not unreasonable to conjecture there may also be other reasons why he is vague about where and how he came into possession of this package of perfume.”
Craig Murray — Former UK Embassador
This before-after advertisement for Novichok perfume, featuring Yulia Skripal, was published in May 2018. Then, on July 15 2018, the BBC revealed that the nerve agent that poisoned two people in Amesbury was contained in a perfume bottle.
Amesbury Novichok poisoning victim Charlie Rowley has revealed a sealed box of perfume which he found and later gave to his girlfriend contained the novichok agent which killed her. Rowley does not remember where he found the perfume. Follow us on Twitter: @Intel_Today
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Former UK embassador Craig Murray just posted a pretty good analysis of the Novichok Affair. One thing is abundantly obvious. There is not one journalist in the UK investigating this crime. Why on earth not? Too many D-notices?
The mainstream media are making almost no effort today to fit Charlie Rowley’s account of his poisoning into the already ludicrous conspiracy theory being peddled by the government and intelligence agencies.
ITV News gamely inserted the phrase “poisoned by a Russian nerve agent” into their exclusive interview with Charlie Rowley, an interview in which they managed to ask no penetrating questions whatsoever, and of which they only broadcast heavily edited parts. Their own website contains this comment by their journalist Rupert Evelyn:
“He said it was unopened, the box it was in was sealed, and that they had to use a knife in order to cut through it. That raises the question: if it wasn’t used, is this the only Novichok that exists in this city? And was it the same Novichok used to attack Sergei and Yulia Skripal?”
But the information about opening the packet with a knife is not in the linked interview. What Rowley does say in the interview is that the box was still sealed in its cellophane. Presumably it was the cellophane he slit open with a knife.
So how can this fit in to the official government account?
Presumably the claim is that Russian agents secretly visited the Skripal house, sprayed novichok on the door handle from this perfume bottle, and then, at an unknown location, disassembled the nozzle from the bottle (Mr Rowley said he had to insert it), then repackaged and re-cellophaned the bottle prior to simply leaving it to be discovered somewhere – presumably somewhere indoors as it still looked new – by Mr Rowley four months later. However it had not been found by anyone else in the interim four months of police, military and security service search.
Frankly, the case for this being the bottle allegedly used to coat the Skripals’ door handle looks wildly improbable. But then the entire government story already looked wildly improbable anyway – to the extent that I literally do not know a single person, even among my more right wing family and friends, who believes it. The reaction of the media, who had shamelessly been promoting the entirely evidence free “the Russians did it” narrative, to Mr Rowley’s extremely awkward piece of news has been to shove it as far as possible down the news agenda and make no real effort to reconcile it.
The perfume bottle is now in the hands of the Police. Is it not rather strange that they have not published photos of it, to see if it jogs the memory of a member of the public who saw it somewhere in the last four months, or saw somebody with it?
The “perpetrators” know what it looks like and already know the police have it, so that would not give away any dangerous information. You might believe the lockdown of the story and control of the narrative is more important to the authorities than solving the crime, which we should not forget is now murder.
Novichok victim reveals perfume he gave partner contained deadly nerve agent | ITV News
In an exclusive interview with ITV News, the 45-year-old explained how his partner Dawn Sturgess fell ill moments after spraying the liquid on her wrists.
He said: “Within 15 minutes, I believe Dawn said she felt she had a headache and asked me if I had any headache tablets. I had a look around the flat and within that time she said she felt peculiar and needed to lie down in the bath, which at the time I thought was a bit strange.
“I went into the bathroom and found her in the bath, fully clothed, in a very ill state.”
Mr Rowley later fell critically ill himself. Dawn died eight days later.
He told ITV News he had found a sealed box in a cellophane wrapper containing a perfume bottle some days earlier, and had kept it at his Amesbury home, before handing it to his partner of two years as a gift.
He explained how he struggled to remember where he had originally found the item but was convinced it was legitimate, as it looked like it hadn’t been used, “Which made me think it was quite safe,” he said.
The latest development as to how Mr Rowley and Ms Sturgess came into contact with Novichok “raises questions” as to whether Salisbury is now free of the nerve agent, according to ITV News Correspondent Rupert Evelyn.
He said: “We are not privy to a lot of the details that police have as part of the investigation, but what Charlie Rowley said today was interesting in terms of the perfume bottle.
“He said it was unopened, the box it was in was sealed, and that they had to use a knife in order to cut through it.
“That raises the question: if it wasn’t used, is this the only Novichok that exists in this city? And was it the same Novichok used to attack Sergei and Yulia Skripal?”
The Silence of the Whores by Craig Murray
The Magic Of Novichok – Deadly Agent Found In Perfume Bottle — Moon of Alabama
Amesbury: Novichok found in perfume bottle, says victim’s brother — BBC (July 15 2018)
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Chicanery means using trickery or deception to achieve a goal, especially using verbal trickery or legalese in a deceptive manner to achieve a goal. The word chicanery was borrowed from the French in the 1600s, from the French word chicanerie which means trickery and the Middle French word chicaner which means to quibble. Obviously, chicanery carries a negative and underhanded connotation. Chicanery is a noun, the plural form of chicanery is chicaneries. According to Google’s Ngram, the popularity of the word peaked in the middle-1700s.
You’ve been warning that the party establishment will try to use this kind of chicanery to maneuver the nomination away from Trump — all of it happening before the first ballot. (Rolling Stone Magazine)
The higher-ups are the ones who need a spine, tightening regulations and oversight to discourage and eliminate this wanton academic chicanery. (The New York Post)
“If greed and avarice and chicanery are New York values, then yes,” Trump is a New Yorker, said Pete McParland, who works in maintenance at the College of Staten Island. (TIME Magazine)
And Mr. Trump began jeering primary rival Ted Cruz as “Lyin’ Ted,” targeting the Texas senator’s appeal to honesty and principled conservatism, after the Cruz camp was accused of campaign chicanery. (The Washington Times)
The most famous chicanery of them all at MIA, though, was over a decade ago when more than 20 people were arrested in the notorious “Fuel Farm” scandal, a series of schemes that included the theft of millions of gallons of jet fuel. (The Miami Herald)
That power grab sparked years of rival street protests and political chicanery by the Bangkok establishment. (The West Australian)
Another sub species of Islamofascists, PAS, has been playing this game for decades on the northern and east coast Malay-Muslims, using religious chicanery to make up the lack of good governance. (The Malay Mail)
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Stalin's Nose
Travels Around the Bloc
MacLean, Rory, 1954-
An Englishman visiting relatives in East Germany recounts his experiences as he sets off from there to explore the ruined Soviet empire, Prague, Budapest, and other areas, learning what life had been like under decades of communism.
Winston the pig fell into Aunt Zita's life when he dropped onto her husband's head and killed him dead. It was a distressing end to a distinguished life of spying for the U.S.S.R. After the funeral Zita, a faded Austrian aristocrat and vivacious eccentric, refuses to remain at home in East Germany. Instead she hijacks her nephew Rory and, with Winston in tow, sets out on one last ride. Austrians have extended families, their lineage is Europe's history and Zita has decided to rediscover hers.
In a rattling Trabant the threesome puff and wheeze across the continent, following the threads of memory Zita's remarkable east European relations - the angel of Prague, the Hungarian grave digger who had buried Stalin's nose, a dying Romanian propagandist - help tie together the loose ends of her life. The travelers picnic at Auschwitz. They meet Lenin's embalmer. They visit the impoverished Czech town where the sewers run with jewels. Everywhere they learn what life had truly been like under totalitarian rule. They hear a torrent of life tales, some heartbreaking, some hilarious, all enriched with the joy of telling after decades of enforced silence.
Humorous and black, touched with the surreal and the farcical, Stalin's Nose is a true and exceptionally vivid story of a journey from the Baltic to the Black Sea, between Berlin and Moscow, through an eastern Europe divested of fear and free to face the past.
& Taylor
The author shares his experiences traveling around Eastern Europe, and shares darkly humorous accounts of what life was like under communism
Publisher: Boston : Little, Brown, 1993
Branch Call Number: 914.7048 MACLE
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MacLean, Rory, 1954- — Travel — Europe, Eastern
Europe, Eastern — Description and Travel
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WATCH: Will Smith Continues to Goof Jaden Smith in Unexpected Remix
Jaden Smith has been building a serious name for himself in the hip-hop world, and is set to drop SYRE: The Electric Album this Friday! RELATED: Will Smith Has New Music on the Way Smith has established himself as an artist with a style, image, and flow separate from his superstar father's... but...
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In honor of it being Summer, Summer, Summertime, Will Smith is making a triumphant return to the studio! Check the video the OG rapper/Hollywood superstar posted eluding to his comeback.
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Ed Morrissey Show
Andromeda Strain remake midpoint: Twice the pace, with extra added Bush-hatred
Ed MorrisseyPosted at 6:51 am on May 27, 2008
When I first heard that A&E remade the sci-fi classic The Andromeda Strain as a four-hour miniseries, I immediately made it a high priority for this week’s viewing. I read the book repeatedly as a boy, so much so that my father still jokes about it. The original movie followed the book rather closely, but it dragged; except for the first 20 minutes and the last 30, the pace could cure insomnia.
After seeing part 1, I can say that the producers have cured that problem, but at the expense of making the story almost unrecognizable. As in the original, the plot involves a covert effort by the American government to find biological material in space that could be used as a weapon on earth, but unlike the original, we know that immediately. In attempting to cover that up, some members of the government try blaming the North Koreans for infecting the damaged satellite, even though as one character finally points out, why would Pyongyang spend all the money to send a biological weapon into space hoping an American satellite would come close enough to it to hit it and trust that said satellite would hit the US? The character who says that points out that Homeland Security can’t be bothered to inspect most shipping, leaving that method wide open.
And that brings us to some of the other updates. Everyone has personal problems in this remake; the Head Scientist has a bipolar wife, the Nosy Reporter has a cocaine addiction, three of the main characters have unresolved personal conflicts from the war. It’s all very Lifetime Channel in that sense. Worse, though, are the little zingers that the writers of the remake put into the script about the current war and administration. When the Utah National Guard gets mobilized to quarantine the area, the Nosy Reporter tells his television audience that the UNG expects the call-up to be brief and says with a smirk, “Where have we heard that before?” One character postulates that the US supplied Saddam with all of his biological weapons, and so on. These pop up on a regular basis about every 20 minutes during the first installment.
Still, I can sympathize. The producers needed to pick up the pace from the original, which means they had to add a lot more action, which meant more subplots. For the most part, they succeeded, and it’s entertaining even if it’s nowhere near the book any longer. Most of the characters have completely changed and the tone has gone from officious arrogance to near-hysteria. The ride has gotten much faster and more compelling, and as long as viewers don’t mind the 30-point decline in IQ, they should enjoy it.
Both the first installment and the finale air tonight on A&E, starting at 7 pm ET/6 pm CT.
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“This is the agenda of white nationalists.”
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Bucking the trends
Tucker: The lefties are correct about the corporations, man
Trust.
Dem Rep. Al Green: I’m going to force an impeachment vote on Trump after yesterday’s Ilhan Omar tweets
“I have had enough. I believe a good many of my colleagues have had enough.”
NY Post: Time for de Blasio to go
Hop on the bus, Gus
Death threat, sexist jokes: Puerto Rico governor refuses to resign after text messages leak
Watergate, this time as farce.
Pelosi: The House will vote on condemning Trump’s racist tweets about AOC and the “Squad”
Rebuke.
Oh, great. Now people are “microdosing” hormones to be “nonbinary”
Is this even safe?
Trump orders sweeping changes to asylum rules
Incentives.
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Feds: We found an expired passport in Epstein's safe under a false name claiming he's from Saudi Arabia
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Meghan McCain on Graham and Trump's tweets: This is not the Lindsey Graham I used to know
Pelosi: The House will vote on condemning Trump's racist tweets about AOC and the "Squad"
"Believe all women" makes the "Pence rule" just common sense
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Meghan McCain on Graham and Trump’s tweets: This is not the Lindsey Graham I used to know
Reckoning.
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THE PRESIDENT - By Appointment Of [Japan CD] (1983...
AOR TREASURES - The Japan Bonus Vol.04
BRENT LAMB - One Man (1986)
THE TRUTH - Jump (1989)
CHRIS SUTTON - Chris Sutton (1986)
EDDIE MONEY - Can't Hold Back (1986)
THE PRESIDENT - By Appointment Of [Japan CD] (1983)
Classy AOR / West Coast is not an exclusive patrimony of the prodigious L.A. scene.
THE PRESIDENT was an eighties project involving both genres by two excellent Dutch musicians & producers; Pim Koopman and Okkie Huysdens.
Huysdens was previously part of the rock&pop band Swan as well a renowned session vocalist recording for many artists.
Koopman was the drummer of Kayak in early seventies and then joined rockers Diesel as the drummer and keyboard player during the '80s.
But The President isn't a rocking affair at all. "By Appointment Of" is a pure early eighties AOR-flavored West Coast album with delicate sounds, refined arrangements and instrumentation.
Opener "Hot Blooded Lady" is a catchy and pleasant groovy typically L.A. session tune. "Workin' Girl" is more relaxed and breezy with excellent harmony vocals, while "Makin' Millionaires" is a top class ballad that reminds me early eighties Alan Parsons.
"Don't Put Me On Hold" has a vibrant vocal performance yet a cruisy melody in the style of Canadians Blue Rose (already presented in this blog). "Turn Me On" is more moving, AOR oriented, with great keyboards like Americans I-Ten and a stabbing guitar solo.
Also in the wonderful first half of the '80s AOR style is one of the highlights of the album; "That's The Way That It Is", penned by the great Paul Bliss and recorded by Uriah Heep on their 'Abominog' album.
"Only Once Is Enough" is another upbeat track with a pop / radio-rock sensibility, followed by the extremely delicate Toto influenced "You're Gonna Like It".
"Outland" is an interesting instrumental with climatic moments, then the disc ends with the uptempo and funky synth of "Goin' Places".
"By Appointment Of" is a classy '80s beauty from start to finish, with a first rate production.
This is a rip from the first ever 2001's CD release, only issued in Japan, @ maximum quality incl. artwork.
01 - Hot-Blooded Lady
02 - Workin' Girl
03 - Makin' Millionaires
04 - Don't Put Me On Hold
05 - Turn Me On
06 - That's The Way That It Is
07 - Only Once Is Enough
08 - You're Gonna Like It
09 - Outland
10 - Goin' Places
Pim Koopman - Keyboards, Drums, Background Vocals
Okkie Huysdens - Lead & Background Vocals, Keyboards
Bas Krumperman - Guitar
Frank Papendrecht - Bass
Hans Vermeulen - Background Vocals
THE PRESIDENT - By Appointment Of
Published by Camelblue on Wednesday, May 23, 2012 1 Comments
Labels: THE PRESIDENT
This is it. A new volume of Melodic Rock tunes only appeared in Japanese pressings.
Some relatively new, some old ones.
Compilation made some months ago but didn't find the time to post it 'til now.
Cool stuff. Enjoy!
01 - Serpentine - Dreamer (Radio Mix)
[Living And Dying... bonus]
02 - Kharma [Goran Edman] - Cold As Ice
[Wonderland bonus]
03 - House Of Lords - It Might Have Been Madness
[Come To My Kingdom bonus]
04 - Last Autumn's Dream - Hello, Hello, Hello
[Dreamcatcher bonus]
05 - Pride Of Lions - Stand By You
[Pride Of Lions ST bonus]
06 - Stan Bush - Don't Say It's Over
[Shine bonus]
07 - Wild Frontier - I Can't Believe (2007 Version)
[Bite The Bullet bonus]
08 - Talisman [J S Soto] - Final Curtain
[7 bonus]
09 - Mr. Big - Love Makes You Strong
[Lean Into It bonus]
10 - Vital Escape - Here To Stay
[Escapism bonus]
11 - Radioactive - Remember My Conscience
[Ceremony Of Innocence bonus]
12 - Brett Walker - Midnight Angel
[Nevertheless bonus]
13 - Damn Yankees - Come Again (Radio Mix)
[Don't Tread bonus]
14 - Tyketto - Wait Forever
[Strength In Numbers bonus]
15 - Captive Heart - Time Out
[Home Of The Brave bonus]
16 - On The Rise - We All Got To Change
[On The Rise ST bonus]
17 - Change Of Heart - (When Are You) Coming Home
[Continuum bonus]
18 - Khymera - Aftertouch
[Khymera ST bonus]
Back Cover, CLICK HERE:
Japan Bonus Vol.04 HERE
Published by Camelblue on Friday, May 18, 2012 7 Comments
Labels: AOR TREASURES - The Japan Bonus, BRETT WALKER, HOUSE OF LORDS, LAST AUTUMN'S DREAM, STAN BUSH
During high school, Brent Lamb started writing songs for other artists, and when his tune "Army of the Lord" recorded by the popular Christian group Harvest shot to #1, he was signed as solo artist and released a couple of albums.
By the mid-eighties, Lamb become pretty well known in the music industry, particularly as songwriter together with his wife. For his album "One Man" got a considerable budget for production and the prescence of top class session musicians such as the future core force of Giant: Dann Huff and Mike Brignardello.
"One Man" features truly good AOR tracks, some of them with a hi-tech sound in the vein of his contemporaries Allies, Robert Tepper, Brian Spence, Michael W Smith and why not, Michael Bolton.
Title track "One Man" is one of my favorites, a pumping AOR song with the typically middle '80s style.
Another winner is "Line Of Fire", and the title says it all, a track in the 'action movie AOR' style so popular those years. It's full of compressed drums, keyboards everywhere and a killer guitar solo by Huff.
We have more radio-ready, light AOR songs on the smooth "Destination Home", the catchy Kenny Loggins-like "Ambush", the midtempo "All That I Can Be", and the fine ballads "The Seasons Of My Soul" and "I Love You Anyway".
But my absolute favorite here is the climatic, pure '80s magic of "Tell Me Why". I love that chorus and the keyboard arrangement on this one.
"One Man" includes some really good and fun pure eighties AOR songs, rounded with melodious and accesible poppy-radio oriented tracks. A much sought after album, sadly only released on vinyl & cassette.
I have restored / cleaned the vinyl-rip to make it sound smooth and nice.
01 - One Man
02 - Destination Home
03 - The Seasons Of My Soul
04 - A Dime Dozen
05 - Ambush
06 - Line Of Fire
07 - I Love You Anyway
08 - Crazy Mad Man
09 - Tell Me Why
10 - All That I Can Be
Dann Huff – Guitars
Mike Brignardello – Bass
Phil Naish – Keyboards, Programming
Mark Hammond – Drums
Jon Goin – add. Guitars
Labels: BRENT LAMB
After the split of Nine Below Zero in 1982, British vocalist and guitar player Dennis Greaves saw an opportunity to fulfil other sides of his musical passion and decided to form a rock group named THE TRUTH.
Relying on the soulful sound of the Hammond organ, two guitars, drums and bass, the band signed to WEA in the summer of '82. By the following summer the band had notched up two top twenty singles in UK.
In 1984 the band signed to Miles Copeland (The Police, Sting) on I.R.S. and released their first album 'Playground', a soul/pop record.
Their 2nd full length 'Weapons Of Love' really did ignite the band's popularity, touring USA and getting one track featured on Miami Vice, plus recording the main theme soundtrack for the Hollywood's Si-Fi film 'The Hidden'.
The Truth's third album "Jump" was composed and arranged with the mind put in the American market. But the mangement and promotion were a disaster, with the first single "God Gave Rock n Roll To You" wrongly timed, published almost at the same time that KISS released the same song (and become a Hit).
Anyway, "Jump" is a truly fine and stylized radio-ready commercial American Melodic Rock / AORish album with the typical bombastic sound of the era: compressed drums, keyboards and a guitar attack that reminds me Giant and alikes.
Greaves also has added some of his personnal touch to some tracks, a bit of a 'British feel'.
The Truth's "Jump" is a 'suit & tie' recording, and elegant rock album with a top notch production and good melodies.
It isn't easy to find a cheap CD version of this album, ripped @ maximum quality by my friend totalaor.
Really Good.
01 - Wings Of A Prayer
02 - Throwing It All Away
03 - Shadow On The Sun
04 - Let Freedom Reign
05 - God Gave Rock & Roll To You
06 - Tug Of War
07 - Prisoner Of Love
08 - Jealous Man
09 - Listening To The Rain Again
10 - Straight To My Heart
Dennis Greaves: Lead Vocals & Guitar
Mick Lister: Vocals & Guitar
Andy Duncan: Drums, Percussion
Dennis Smith, Anthony Harty, Jaz Lochrie: Bass
Reg Webb: Keyboards
Mark Feltham: Harmonica
Mickey Roberts: Rhodes on "Straight To My Heart"
Published by Camelblue on Tuesday, May 08, 2012 9 Comments
Labels: THE TRUTH
CHRIS SUTTON may be a not well known name as solo artist, but this Scottish gentleman, working as multi-purpose musician hired by Polydor and other labels, has wrote and arranged music for major acts such as Starship ('Knee Deep in the Hoopla'), Paul McCartney and George Michael.
Primarily, at the mid-eighties, Polydor UK intended to launch Sutton as solo artist together with Brian Spence and alikes, to capitalize the radio friendly rock&pop so 'in vogue' at the time.
On his self-titled debut, Chris had the opportunity to record his own songs arranged by master Robbie Buchanan, commercial and smooth lite AOR poppy tunes with the typical '80s atmosphere. His style is not far from the aforementioned Spence, with nuances of several other Bristish artists as well.
We have a cheesy cover of Russ Ballard's classic "Voices", a nice ballad co-penned by Sutton with Starship's colaborator Martin Page (incorrectly credited in the booklet as 'Paige'), the lovely eighties-soundtrack-like "Don't Push Your Love" and a mix of up/midtempo tracks with different degrees of quality.
"Chris Sutton" is a nice and gentle '80s album with a polished sound, well recorded and produced by platinum awarded Dennis Lambert (Player, Peter Beckett and countless '80s soundtracks via TuneWorks Inc.).
This rare CD edition includes as bonus the track "The Money Ain't Worth It", originally featured as B-Side of the single "Prince Of Justice" (which extended version 'Justice Mix 7:21' I am looking for years).
There's a rip of this album floating around featuring many noises. This is a pristine CD-rip made by my friend Alan (thanx mate!).
01 - Trouble
02 - Tell It Like It Is
03 - Prince Of Justice
04 - Voices
05 - (You Just Can't) Tear It From A Heart
06 - Don't Get Me Wrong
07 - You Worry Me
08 - Know It All
09 - That One Love Feeling
10 - Don't Push Your Love
11 - The Money Ain't Worth It [CD only bonus track]
Chris Sutton - Vocals
Martin Page - Bass, Backing Vocals
Robbie Buchanan - Arranger
Dennis Lambert - Keyboards, Producer
Rest of personnel unlisted
Updated HERE
Published by Camelblue on Thursday, May 03, 2012 11 Comments
Labels: CHRIS SUTTON
Requested in "Request & Fill Corner" section..
EDDIE MONEY career was basically inclined to mainstream radio rock, but his sixth studio album "Can't Hold Back", released in 1986, obviously followed the trend of the moment: AOR.
We find colaborating here the most renowned songwriters of the era such as Richie Zito (who also play guitar, keys, and mixed the whole thing), Stan Meissner or Henry Small (Prism).
Also present are top-notch session musicians including Nathan East, Michael Baird, Pat Mastelotto, Richard Page (Mr. Mister) and Ronnie Spector to name a few.
Precisely the duet with Spector "Take Me Home Tonight" become a #1 hit in the U.S. Billboard Mainstream Rock chart, peaking #4 in the general Top 40. For this one, Money received a Grammy nomination for Best Male Rock Vocal Performance.
Besides, two other singles were amongst the 40 favorites: the excellent midtempo "I Wanna Go Back" and the '80s AOR of "Endless Nights".
All the songs are truly representatives of the golden decade. My favorite is "One Chance", penned by Stan Meissner (and also recorded by himself in his album Windows To Light).
If you don't know Eddie Money's work, "Can't Hold Back" is the album to start. Includes great commercial songs and a lush polished production & sound in the vein of Benny Mardones, eighties Michael Bolton and the aforementioned Stan Meissner.
HQ CD-rip incl. artwork.
01 - Take Me Home Tonight (feat. Ronnie Spector)
02 - One Love
03 - I Wanna Go Back
04 - Endless Nights
05 - One Chance
06 - We Should Be Sleeping
07 - Bring On The Rain
08 - I Can't Hold Back
09 - Stranger In A Strange Land
10 - Calm Before The Storm
Eddie Money - Vocals, Keyboards, Synths, Sax, Harmonica
John Nelson, Richie Zito, Darin Scott - Guitars
Nathan East, Greg Lowry, Randy Jackson - Bass
Steve George, E. Ulibarri, Richie Zito - Keyboards
Michael Baird, Pat Mastelotto - Drums, Percussion
Pat Mastelotto - Drum Programming
Sandy Sukhov, Ronnie Spector, Steve George, Jenny Meltzer, Richard Page, Henry Small, Becky West - Backing Vocals
EDDIE MONEY - Can't Hold Back HQ
Labels: EDDIE MONEY
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ILLUSTRATOR - Somewhere In The World (1989)
TIM MOORE - Flash Forward [Japanese Ltd Edition re...
IN 3-D - Barrage (1987)
LION (USA Pomp) - Lion (1982)
THE PAUL GODFREY BAND - More Of The Same Excellenc...
BILL WRAY - Seize The Moment (1983)
EARL VALENTINE - Danger Zone (The Unreleased Album...
DUGAN McNEILL - In The Velvet Night (1989)
SLASH PUPPET - No Strings Attached '89 + Slash Pup...
ANGRY ANDERSON - Blood From Stone (1990)
THE MAX - Shadows In The Shade (1989)
MARC JORDAN - Talking Through Pictures [Japan edit...
PETER FRAMPTON - Breaking All The Rules [remastere...
FEE WAYBILL - Read My Lips [remastered] (1984)
PATRICK SIMMONS - Arcade [remastered CD reissue] (...
LIGHT MELLOW - AOR Groovin' & Breezin' [Cool Sound...
20/20 BLIND - Never Far (1994)
EDEN - Fan The Flame (1994) [remastered]
Part of the American CCM AOR movement, Gaube's bros. band ILLUSTRATOR released two solid albums in the second half of the '80s. This kind of bands developed an interesting performance during the era launching radiable and commercial discs with a very good artistic production.
Illustrator's self-titled debut (posted on the blog) gained considerable success in CCM circles and mainstream radio, but it was their 2nd "Somewhere In The World" which achieved recognition between secular AOR fans, thanks to its catchy melodies and lush harmonies.
With a crisp production by Freddie Piro (Fortress, 707, Ambrosia) the overall sound on "Somewhere In The World" is typically polished '80s AOR with a pumping rock&pop punch, nice riffs, cool synths, and smooth lead vocals by Nathan Gaub helped by great harmony vocals provided by his two brothers and some stellar contributors such as Tim Miner and Cindy Cruse.
Speaking about additional personnel, the one & only Dann Huff (Giant) provides most the guitar solos on the album raising the bar.
Opener 'New Way To Love' is a highlight with its bouncy rhythm, sparkling keys and a killer Huff-trademark guitar solo. 'Dying To Meet You' has some Toto on it, then ballad 'Hold My Heart' brings to mind Illustrator's mates in the CCM, Liaison (a band featured on the blog aeons ago).
The 'mysterious AOR' of 'Cryin' Time' is another fav of mine, with that cadence akin the 'slash flick' soundtracks from the era. Love it.
There's a nice cover of Glenn Shorrock / Little River Band 'Help Is On It's Way', and some Canadian influences on the elegant semi-ballad 'Listen'.
If you need more sumptuous '80s AOR look no more and press play on the delicious 'Shoulda Been Love', a track that always brought to my mind Mickey Thomas' Starship.
After this record Illustrator taped another album but it was shelved, finally appearing in 2011.
"Somewhere In The World", alongside the self-titled debut were re-released some time ago as 2-on-1 CD, but honestly, I didn't liked the sound transfer.
This is taken from the original 1989 Ocean Records CD release which sounds much better, complete with artwork.
01 - New Way To Love
02 - Dying To Meet You
03 - Hold My Heart
04 - Cryin' Time
05 - I Surrender
06 - Help Is On The Way
07 - Listen
08 - Shoulda Been Love
09 - Feels Like
10 - Carry The Cross
Nathan Gaub - lead vocals, keyboards
Dan Gaub - guitars, vocals
Dawndee Gaub - keyboards, vocals
Mark Matthews - lead vocals, bass, keyboards
Kirk Allen - drums, vocals
additional musicians:
Dann Huff - guitar solos
Don Wallace - keyboards
Randy Lee - saxophone
Tim Miner, Cindy Cruse, Alan Ebensberger, Julie Philpott - backing vocals
ILLUSTRATOR Somewhere In The World (1989)
Published by Camelblue on Thursday, December 22, 2016 1 Comments
Labels: DANN HUFF, ILLUSTRATOR
TIM MOORE - Flash Forward [Japanese Ltd Edition remastered] (1984)
Philadelphia-based songwriter, musician and singer TIM MOORE released five solo albums and in-between was part of various bands and worked as session multi-instrumentalist. Several of his penned songs were successful singles for other artists.
Moore's first record was produced by Nick Jameson (which very nice solo album was featured on this blog), then his second effort included what remains his best-known song in the US, 'Rock and Roll Love Letter', a hit for the Bay City Rollers a year later. Moore's guitar work on the song got the attention of Rolling Stones' guitarist Keith Richards, and since then the two became friends and collaborators.
Despite of being signed by L.A. based Asylum Records, Moore didn't record in California until his third album, featuring the likes of Jeff Porcaro, Michael McDonald, David Foster and the Eagles Timothy B. Schmit as session musicians, among others.
All these albums received very good reviews but failed to chart and Moore concentrated in songwriting, achieving success in hands of other performers.
However, in 1984, Tim Moore recorded this "Flash Forward", entirely performed by himself layering guitar, keyboard, bass, keyboards, drums and programming, even the backing vocals alongside the lead.
Produced by Blondie engineer, Rob Freeman, the album scored a moderated single in the US, but for the first time, Moore found success outside North America when the ballad 'Yes' was used in a Brazilian soap opera. The single went straight to #1 for three months and Moore toured all over Brazil.
Musically, this is pure middle-Eighties rock&pop with elaborated arrangements and delicate vocals from Moore. There's a new version of 'Rock and Roll Love Letter' with a true '80s sound, the aforementioned ballad 'Yes', a great midtempo in the AORish 'Body And Soul' with a sound akin Canadian bands of the era, and a very cool keyboard filled tune in the radio-ready 'Surrender'.
"Flash Forward" is a quite unknown and nice '80s product, very well recorded & produced.
This is, as far I know, the only reissue of the album appeared in Japan on a mini-LP replica / Paper Sleeve, remastered. It was a Limited Edition - now out of print - including as bonus track a remixed version of 'Yes'.
Very rare.
01 - Let's Get Activated
03 - Body And Soul
04 - I'll Find A Way
05 - Anything And Everything
06 - Rock & Roll Love Letter
07 - Surrender
08 - Telepath
09 - Theodora
10 - Get It Outta My System
11 - Yes (Brazilian Machine Version) [Japan bonus]
Tim Moore: all Vocals, Guitar, Bass, Keys, Synths, Drums, Programming
TIM MOORE Flash Forward (1984)
Published by Camelblue on Tuesday, December 13, 2016 1 Comments
Labels: TIM MOORE
Hailing from Waukegan, IL, IN 3-D was a fleeting band from the mid-Eighties which anyway managed to release two LP's. They were part of the fruitful American CCM movement from the era aiming for non-secular exposure mixing rock&pop melodies with the typical '80s clean Lite-AOR sound.
"Barrage" was their second an final album before split. IN 3-D was often compared in some ways to The Police due the strong bass-guitar presence, but musically on this album there's a lot guitar riffs, keyboard flourishes and song skeletons more in common with Lite AOR.
Songwriting is mature, at places pretty elaborated for a band of this musical ilk still retaining catchiness. Some tracks aren't exactly my cup of tea in style, but overall you can file "Barrage" as a Lite AOR effort.
'Some Other Day', title track 'Barrage' and 'Holding On' are really fine tunes, with compelling arrangements and production.
Very rare CD and quite hard to track down (plus very expensive) this is the European Edition of "Barrage" appeared via a small indie company with a slightly different artwork.
01 - Now You Did It
02 - Barrage
03 - Too Much To Lose
04 - Some Other Day
05 - Anytime
06 - Holdin' On
07 - Love Will Find A Way
08 - Face To Face
09 - Love Is Lost
10 - Dunga Dunk
11 - Final Fire
James Neave - Vocals, Bass
Nail - Keyboards, Guitar
Randy Kerkman - Guitar
David Geer - Drums, Percussion
Published by Camelblue on Sunday, December 11, 2016 3 Comments
Labels: IN 3-D
From now, all request & fills goes in this post Comments.
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take a deep look at the end of each part...
Published by Camelblue on Tuesday, December 06, 2016 1626 Comments
Labels: REQUEST and FILL CORNER
It's time for some Pomp-AOR for the soul... this LION from Washington state, released this unknown and very good private LP of Pompy AOR in 1982, clearly influenced by Styx. But musically they go forward and some songs are really uptempo, full of analog keyboards (I mean A Lot), and elaborated guitar solos.
There's two vocalists (Kurt Hansen [R.I.P.] would later sing on Head East cult classic album 'Choice Of Weapons') spanning multi-part harmony vocals and layered choruses.
All tunes are goodies, but my pick is last track 'Time Won't Wait' featuring an over a minute flaming guitar solo.
If you're still wondering what is 'Pomp Rock', listen this little gem: you have keyboard / guitar duel galore, hyped up vocals and swirling analog keyboard effects. That's it.
Styx, Roadmaster, Head East, Ziggurat and why not, New England fans, must have this one. And aficionados of early '80s AOR variants will rejoice as well
Very good vinyl rip cleaned by myself.
01. On The Run
02. Over Your Shoulder
03. The Palace
04. Send Up A Rainbow
05. Queen Of The Forest
06. Where You Are
07. Waters Waiting
08. Time Won't Wait
Kurt David Hansen - lead vocals, bass
Kevin Wakefield - lead vocals, keyboards
Gary Hanson - guitars, vocals
Alan Clark - guitars
Rick Wakefield - drums, percussion
Published by Camelblue on Monday, December 05, 2016 5 Comments
Labels: LION (USA Pomp)
THE PAUL GODFREY BAND - More Of The Same Excellence; The Anthology (1988/2008)
Established in the San Fransisco Bay Area, during the '80s there was several incarnations of THE PAUL GODFREY BAND, fronted by guitarist and songwriter Paul Godfrey.
By the middle of the decade, the group turned a female-fronted melodic rock band with the classic American sound from the genre spiced with radio-friendly AOR melodies. At charge of the mic was Celeste Alexander, Paul Godfrey's wife.
After several demos, The Paul Godfrey Band recorded their self-titled 8-track debut LP released via private label Dolphin Productions in 1988. Only few vinyls were pressed resulting sold-out in few months and turning over the years a collector's piece.
However, two years after the album was re-released for the first time on CD re-entitled 'Magic Touch' including two previously unreleased tracks.
Yet again, the reissue went out of print soon becoming another highly-priced, hard to track down artifact that only true connoisseurs of AOR-tistry ever got to hear.
Fortunately, twenty years after the original LP, the album was re-released again including the 2 extra tracks, plus 5 previously unreleased demos recorded by the band in 1987, hence the 'more of the same excellence' title.
While these demos are good and fun, the real pearl here is the main album, a collection of pure US '80s Melodic Rock / AOR of the highest order, at least female-fronted speaking.
This pop-up comparisons to bands / artists in the same style like Scandal or Cindy Valentine but The Paul Godfrey Band at places sound like many well known all-male bands in the genre. Additionally, Paul provides back up / supporting vocals on most tracks, and full leads on 'Wild Ones'.
There's no weak tracks here, even the two cuts left-off in the original LP release are among the best of the bunch. All are catchy, plenty of keyboards and melodic riffs, plus great guitar (solos) contributions by master Marc Bonilla and John Wedemeyer (Starship).
"More Of The Same Excellence; The Anthology" is a delicious slice of pure mid-80s American Melodic Rock / AOR still unheard by many fans of the genre.
Requested by a friend... request yours!
01 - Magic Touch
02 - Only One
03 - Love Lies Deep
04 - Never Felt This Way Before
05 - Too Many Lonely Nights
06 - Tonight
07 - Can't Get My Mind Off You
08 - Wild Ones
09 - Hold On
10 - Got Lucky (Demo) [bonus track]
11 - Hot Night In The City (Demo) [bonus track]
12 - Jenny (Demo) [bonus track]
13 - Can't Live Without You (Demo) [bonus track]
14 - Tonight (Demo) [bonus track]
Paul Godfrey: lead & back-up vocals, guitar
Celeste Alexander: lead vocals
Paul Fox: bass, vocals
Kirk Gibbs: keyboards, vocals
Norm Plischke: drums
Marc Bonilla: guitar
Don Frank: drums
David Nowlin: bass
John Wedemeyer: guitar
Doug Caldwell: keyboards
PAUL GODFREY BAND - More Of The Same Excellence
Published by Camelblue on Tuesday, November 22, 2016 1 Comments
Labels: PAUL GODFREY BAND
BILL WRAY started as solo artist in the Seventies releasing several albums but since the mid-80s focused his career writing and producing songs for other artists including Loverboy, Eric Martin, Lisa Hartman, Trixter, just to name a few.
He is also known as an active contributor to lovely '80s soundtracks. Wray has penned and / or performed tracks for 'Tilt', 'Private School', 'Navy Seals' or the mythical AOR tune 'No Mercy' included in the 'Lionheart' OST.
His (last?) solo album, "Seize The Moment" is a cool Rock 'N Roll album featuring some really good early Eighties radio-friendly AORish tracks.
Opener "(You're A) Heartbreaker" is a clear proof of that, from the first notes you can hear those magical keyboards to die for. This was the b-side of the first and only single, a melodic and commercial tune hungry for radio airplay.
Follower "She Loves The Radio" has a title that speaks for itself: absolutely catchy and wimpy AOR song with massive synths. A winner.
Then "Goin' Down" (the lead single) is a vintage R'nR with some honky piano and classic rock structure. "After All These Years" is the ballad here, a nice classic soul-bluesy rock slow tune with female buck-up vocals.
The AORish "Someone To Love" including a fine guitar solo ends the 'side A' of this vinyl.
"Tonight" is a fresh commercial rocker with a contagious chorus, followed by the retro-rock "Somethin' I've Gotta Do" that doesn't do much for me.
But "Jealous" has a very nice AOR feel thanks to the keyboard arrangement and the midtempo pace. Very good song. "Young Girls Rule The World" is a cheap 'ol rock while the southern tingled "You And Me Tonight" is a gentle semi-slow classic rocker.
Well produced and recorded with a classy American radio-rock sound, "Seize The Moment" is interesting due the aforementioned AOR tracks
An album not easy to find only released on vinyl LP, restored by myself including artwork.
01 - (You're A) Heartbreaker
02 - She Loves The Radio
03 - Goin' Down
04 - After All These Years
05 - Someone To Love
07 - Somethin' I've Gotta Do
08 - Jealous
09 - Young Girls Rule The World
10 - You And Me Tonight
Bill Wray - vocals, guitar
Craig Hull - guitar
Dennis Belfield - bass, guitar
Nicky Hopkins - keyboards
Jeff Silverman - keyboards, synths
Mike Baird - drums
Lenny Castro - percussion
BILL WRAY - Seize The Moment
Published by Camelblue on Wednesday, November 16, 2016 3 Comments
Labels: AOR TREASURES - The Soundtracks, BILL WRAY, LISA HARTMAN
EARL VALENTINE - Danger Zone (The Unreleased Album)
As promised in the previous EARL VALENTINE post, here's the unreleased stuff the band recorded during the '80s. None of these tracks appeared on any Earl Valentine albums.
Earl Valentine as band released 3 LP: their debut in 1980, the featured on the blog Night Blindness (1987) and the last one, more like a Earl Valentine-solo album and musically oriented to AC / MOR.
I suspect the material on this "Danger Zone" was recorded between 1984 / 88 judging the mid-Eighties AOR sound & style (check the video-tracks below), all highly enjoyable stuff, that despite the programmed drums and the demo nature all have a pretty good sound.
Edited & compiled by me plus a little home-made artwork.
01 - Danger Zone
02 - Call Me
03 - Thinking Of You
04 - Stay
05 - If We Knew
06 - Thinking It Over
07 - It's Just A Matter Of Time
08 - It's Over
09 - Love Me If You Want
10 - Destiny
11 - All In The Name Of Love
Published by Camelblue on Thursday, November 10, 2016 3 Comments
This is a request from a post originally featured here more than 7 years ago
To complement Chameleon's discography here's vocalist & bass player DUGAN McNEILL solo album "In The Velvet Night". The record was gestated four years after Chameleon split, so the musical orientation chosen by McNeill is pretty far removed from early '80s light AOR vein of his former band.
To be clear, "In The Velvet Night" is 'adult rock & pop' material with contemporary AOR traces in a style according to the era. Think 88-92 Canadian sound, like Glass Tiger or Bryan Hughes Group (Beau Geste) then add some English styling and a hi-tech stamp on some songs.
"Stranger Than Paradise", "There Goes My Heart Again" and specially "Love You Today" are the highlights for me, elegant tunes with a nice atmosphere and McNeill smooth vocals.
A fine, pretty unknown album.
01 - Walls Come Down
02 - Israeltown
03 - Stranger Than Paradise
04 - Eyes Of A Child
05 - Take A Chance
06 - There Goes My Heart Again
07 - Ghost On The Radio
08 - I Will Be There
09 - Love You Today
Dugan McNeill: vocals,bass, guitar, keyboards
Donny Paulson: guitar
Dik Shopteau: bass, guitar
Kurt Barkdull: drums, percussion
Charlie Adams: drums, percussion
Stephanie Eubanks: backing vocals
Yanni: keyboards (uncredited)
Published by Camelblue on Monday, November 07, 2016 5 Comments
Labels: CHAMELEON, DUGAN McNEILL
SLASH PUPPET - No Strings Attached '89 + Slash Puppet '93
SLASH PUPPET were one of those bands arriving too late into the Melodic Hard Rock scene, thus, never made it big. But their musical quality was on par with any major North American '80s band in this genre.
This Canadian 5-piece made a name in the Toronto area with some energetic shows. The band recorded 8 songs and put 'em on cassette only, with the 2,500 copies sold out soon. Titled "No Strings Attached" bust mostly known as "The Demo", it was in fact a vehicle created to get signed by a recording label.
That never happened but Slash Puppet gained better exposure (also helped by a video featured on MuchMusic channel) and secured many gigs in the US. "No Strings Attached" / "The Demo" was a collectors piece until in 2007 Australian label SunCity Records remastered the original tape and released the album for the first time on CD. Despite of being a self-financed recording, the sound quality is pretty good.
By 1993 Slash Puppet released their first 'official' CD via small label Fringe, in fact an EP simply titled "Slash Puppet" quite well produced & recorded. But with the musical climate drastically changing, the band split next year.
And, what's Slash Puppet sound & style?
On both recordings, the band keeps faithful to classic second half of the '80s L.A. fancy Melodic Hard Rock with a touch of glam. Many references come to mind ranging from Britny Fox, Ratt or Autograph to country-fellas Sven Gali (Canada's answer to Skid Row).
There's punchy, energetic but a the same time melodic and polished rockers in 'Slow Down' (also re-done for the EP), the groovy midtempo 'Squeeze It In', the sexy 'Hard On Love' or the hook-filled 'Evil Woman' with a sound akin Autograph's catchiness.
'Some Kind O' Lady' is among my favorites, the kind of songs that made this genre so great including clean guitars mixed with distorted, a Dokken-esque riff, lots of harmony vocals and an overall Skid Row sonic vibe. Also power ballad 'Eyes Of A Child' has great atmospheres, and the Tesla-like bluesy 'Hitch A Ride (On A Train)' provide more variation.
All Slash Puppet members contributed banking vocals all over (not only during the choruses) resulting in a highly harmonized material and very melodious.
"No Strings Attached" & "Slash Puppet" are really good albums, quality musicians and quality songs.
No Strings Attached '89
1 - Slow Down
2 - Squeeze It In
3 - Hard On Love
4 - Bad Girls
5 - Turn It On
6 - Evil Woman
7 - Some Kind O' Lady
8 - Overload
Slash Puppet '93
1 - When The Whip Comes Down
2 - Rippin' On A Wishbone
3 - Eyes Of A Child
4 - Stop Tellin' Me Lies
5 - Hitch A Ride (On A Train)
6 - Slowdown
Anthony 'Mif' Mifsud: lead vocals
Frank Bartoletti: guitars, backing vocals
Lou Garscadden: guitars, backing vocals
Pete Dove, Dave Carreiro: bass, backing vocals
Franklin Wyles: drums, percussion, backing vocals
SLASH PUPPET No Strings Attached + 1993 EP
Published by Camelblue on Sunday, September 18, 2016 1 Comments
Labels: SLASH PUPPET
Frontman of Aussie hard rockers Rose Tattoo, in the secod half of the '80s ANGRY ANDERSON embarked himself into a solo career. In fact, the great 1986's album Beats From A Single Drum, although released under the Rose Tattoo moniker, was an Anderson own record.
For his second solo album, this "Blood From Stone" appeared in 1990, Anderson hired the services of talented Mike Slamer (Streets, City Boy, Seventh Key) not only to produce, but also play on the record and manage the overall project.
The result was a punchy Melodic Hard Rock album with ballsy AOR moments wrapped by a glossy production and a bright sound. Slamer turned Anderson's usually raspy throat into a clean and polished vocal delivery, and the the album simply rocks but with melodies galore.
There's hooky rockers like ‘Bound For Glory’, ‘Heaven’, and the pretty Americanized ‘Wild Boys’, but also melodic rockers sometimes bordering AOR like in the intense 'Fire And Water' or the groovy 'Bad Days'.
'Born Survivor' is pure melodic rock, and we find a L.A. sounding cover of Steppenwolf's classic 'Born To Be Wild'
You can hear Mike Slamer's master touch on the arrangements, always focused in a main melody although never losing the grip and the rockin' attack.
There were rumors back in the day that "Blood From Stone" would be released by major label Atlantic in the USA but the deal never crystallized. Hence, despite of being appeared in Europe via Music For Nations this CD is pretty hard to find.
A cool rocking album plenty of melody and hooks.
01 - Bound For Glory
02 - Wild Boys
03 - Heaven
04 - Stone Cold
05 - Fire And Water
06 - Born Survivor
07 - Motorbike Song
08 - Love From Ashes
09 - Born To Be Wild
10 - Bad Days
Angry Anderson: vocals
Mike Slamer: guitar, keyboards, production
Slice Rhammel, Mirke Leams: guitar
Leachim Armsel, Andy Cichon: bass
Tim Gehrt: drums
ANGRY ANDERSON Blood From Stone (1990)
Published by Camelblue on Tuesday, September 13, 2016 2 Comments
Labels: ANGRY ANDERSON
Hailing from an unusual US state for rock music, the Livingston, Montana based trio THE MAX was founded by brothers Kyle & John Brenner in the mid-Eighties.
The group is still active playing basically covers in clubs and weddings, but between '88/'92 they faced crowds as large as 80,000 opening for major acts such as Styx, REO Speedwagon or The Fabulous Thunderbirds.
In 1989 The Max released their first album "Shadows In The Shade" via a small Canadian label.
There's not much info in the CD booklet (in fact; zero) but the band managed to obtain a superb sound from their own written tracks. Seriously, the production is on par with any of the big-budget from the era.
The Max plays here a very nice collection of lovely AOR / Melodic Rock tunes with a radio commercial approach, sometimes poppy, sometimes rockier, including a couple of ballads.
The best track for me is the pure AOR title track "Shadows In The Shade", complete with lots of synths, a strong guitar riff and a cool chorus.
But the rest of the songs offer high quality melodies in the vein of The Outfield, 8084, Glass Tiger or Fahrenheit, with really good vocals and musicianship.
"Shadows In The Shade" is a pleasant listen from start to finish, with fine songs and excellent production.
The album was re-issued not so long ago by a retro label but on a cheap CD-R. This a high quality rip done by my friend totalaor (I miss you man) from the original CD press, including artwork.
Very Rare. Recommended music.
01 - You're Sorry
02 - Western World
03 - Shadows In The Shade
04 - Hardly Walking
05 - Got What I Wanted
06 - The Only Thing
07 - Shake The Chill
08 - Where Pride Runs Deep
09 - Hand In Hand
Kyle Brenner Vocals, Guitar, Keyboards
Eddie White Bass, Vocals
John Brenner Drums, Keyboards, Vocals
THE MAX - Shadows In The Shade HERE
Published by Camelblue on Wednesday, August 24, 2016 8 Comments
Labels: THE MAX
MARC JORDAN - Talking Through Pictures [Japan edition '91] (1987)
Canadian singer-songwriter, session musician and record producer, MARC JORDAN won the '94 'Best Producer Juno Award' (equivalent to Grammy), and has worked with the likes of Jay Graydon, Rod Stewart, Cher, Stan Bush, etc.
So as you could imagine, he's a sound perfectionist, and this "Talking Through Pictures" released in the second halg of the '80s is not an exception, immaculately produced and recorded.
"Talking Through Pictures" isn't strictly an AOR album, nor Westcoast or rock&pop, but all at the same time. How is that? The man has rounded a heterogeneous set of songs/styles, ranging from Hi-Tech, Lite AOR and WestCoast, but none in the traditional mood.
Atypical songwriting and concept, varied, and sometimes complex to keep you interested.
To give you an idea, this recording reminds me of Trevor Rabin's '80s works, solo and alongside with YES Big Genereator era - not strange 'cos Trevor plays guitars, keyboards and who knows what else here. Listen 'Seek And You Shall Find' and then tell me.
You have also other great session cats like guitar master Michael Landau, Tony Berg, super pump bass-man Stu Hamm, Stan Bush, Timothy B. Schmit, etc.
Does not 'Inside The Glass Bead' sounds a bit like an Alan Parsons mid-Eighties song? Oh yes. But all this is crafted with an elegant 'lite Aorish feel' and all kind of keyboards here and there (again; not in the traditional way).
Marc Jordan's "Talking Through Pictures" is a quite unknown album, at least from his discography, a pretty different from the usual hyped material posted here, something to refresh your ears.
There has been a recent digital reissue by a so-called Legacy Recordings, but it's poorly transferred from a dubious source. This Japanese edition appeared in 1991 it's the real deal.
01 - This Independance
02 - Kensington Garden
03 - Catch the Moon
04 - I Ching
05 - Talking Through Pictures
06 - Soldier of Fortune
07 - Seek And You Shall Find
08 - Inside The Glass Bead
09 - Human Race
10 - I Was Your Fool
Marc Jordan: Vocals, Keyboards, Backing Vocals
Trevor Rabin: Guitar, Keyboards
Michael Landau, Tony Berg : Guitar
Stu Hamm: Bass
Tony Braunagel: Drums
Stan Bush, Timothy B. Schmit, Graham Nash: Backing Vocals
and many more...
MARC JORDAN Talking Through Pictures [Japan edition '91] (1987)
Published by Camelblue on Friday, August 19, 2016 5 Comments
Labels: MARC JORDAN, MICHAEL LANDAU
PETER FRAMPTON - Breaking All The Rules [remastered] (1981)
"Breaking All The Rules" always has been PETER FRAMPTON's lesser known / heard album in part due to the record company clumsiness to properly promote the record and because Frampton indeed broke some rules here; he decided to make a rocking LP instead a Top 20 hit generator.
Of course there's a brilliant sweet melody in the slow, touching 'Going To L.A.' which should have been a hit in the charts, but most the material here rocks, and pretty hard.
For this matter Frampton enlisted a terrific back-up band including the half of Toto; Steve Lukather & Jeff Porcaro.
Lukather trade some killer licks with Frampton (the title track is awesome) but also contributing with his trademark, distinctive rhythm guitar, while Porcaro provide his unique 'groove-touch' all over the recording.
A proof of the guitar driven nature of this album is opener 'Dig What I Say', starting the record in a rocking mood with solos all over it, something unusual for a Frampton release. Here he also uses guitar synth to good effect.
The cover of 'I Don't Wanna Let You Go' is done in an absolutely classic Frampton vein but even here the guitar swirls like never before. Check Porcaro's hi-hat fills here, a master in this game.
Written by the Alessi Bros 'Rise Up' is another tune with a hit potential, there's an elegant midtempo on 'Wasting The Night Away', a rocky version of the classic 'Friday On My Mind' (also done by Gary Moore), while 'Lost A Part Of You' is the ballad on the album with some hints to Frampton's biggest hit I'm In You.
For the end we have the aforementioned title track 'Breaking All The Rules', a seven minute tour de force plenty of killer riffs, a melodic verse and a superb Frampton / Lukather duel in an almost hard rocking piece.
This is the 2005 release of the album for the first time on CD, and there's has been some controversy about the 'remastering' statement.
Obviously you need to digitally master the original analog tapes for a digital transfer, but that's not necessarily a re-mastering. I have read in some audiophile forums some people arguing the album was digitized 'as it is', some saying it was indeed re-mastered.
To my ears, this hard-to-find 2005 CD edition of 'Breaking All The Rules' has been re-mastered, with some 'air' added to the sonic atmosphere, but overall preserving the original feel of the LP.
Anyway, this baby rock, and rocks good.
01 - Dig What I Say
02 - I Don't Wanna Let You Go
03 - Rise Up
04 - Wasting The Night Away
05 - Going To L.A.
06 - You Kill Me
07 - Friday On My Mind
08 - Lost A Part Of You
09 - Breaking All The Rules
Peter Frampton - vocals, guitar, keyboards, guitar synthesizer
Steve Lukather - guitar, background vocals
Jeff Porcaro - drums
John Regan - bass guitar
Arthur Stead - keyboards, background vocals
Ed Mantleone - add. guitar
PETER FRAMPTON - Breaking All The Rules [remastered]
Published by Camelblue on Thursday, August 18, 2016 0 Comments
Labels: PETER FRAMPTON, PORCARO BROTHERS, STEVE LUKATHER
Frontman of melodic power-pop wonders The Tubes, FEE WAYBILL recorded in 1984 his first solo album "Read My Lips", much more AOR oriented than his main band.
While The Tubes already flirted with radio-friendly AOR on their excellent '83 album, Waybill definitely turn things in that direction here, spiced with touch of smooth of LA West Coast.
Many called this "Read My Lips" as a 'missing Toto album', as the overall sound & style here are in the vein of Isolation or Fahrenheit. Not strange, as Steve Lukather co-wrote most the songs and play here alongside the Toto crew including Jeff Porcaro, Steve Porcaro and Bobby Kimball contributing backing vocals.
But also top 'cats' like David Foster, Mike Landau, Paul Jackson, Jr., Jerry Marotta, Michael Boddicker, Bill Champlin, Tom Keane and Richard Marx (also involved in songwriting)... as you see, an AOR dream-team.
Although the poppy 'Who Said Life Would Be Pretty' is not exactly my cup of tea, the rest of the material is like a delicious cherry pie for '80s suckers.
Just check the punchy, guitar driven numbers such as the title track, the flamboyant and quite heavy 'Thrill Of The Kill', or the killer 'Saved My Life' (my favorite), mixed with the dynamic 'Nobodys Perfect', the slightly funky 'Who Loves You Baby' (very Toto-ish) and the superb power ballad 'I Don't Even Know Your Name', again with a Toto feel.
More in a West Coast trait yet plenty of AOR there's 'Caribbean Sunsets', a terrific tune akin Player / Toto and where you can hear David Foster's touch and Lukather in its full potential, then the elegant 'I Could've Been Somebody' closes this really good album.
Despite its horrible cover artwork, Fee Waybill's "Read My Lips" packs inside some of the finest AOR / musicianship you could find in any '80s record. Great songs co-written by the likes of Lukather, David Foster, Richard Marx, etc provide varied material, you have top notch performances by the who's who in the genre, and production is huge.
This BGO remastered edition sounds million bucks.
01 - You're Still Laughing
02 - Nobody's Perfect
03 - Who Loves You Baby
04 - I Don't Even Know Your Name
05 - Who Said Life Would Be Pretty
06 - Thrill Of The Kill
07 - Saved My Life
08 - Carribean Sunsets
09 - Star Or The Show
10 - I Could've Been Somebody
Fee Waybill - vocals
Steve Lukather, Mike Landau, Paul Jackson, Jr - guitars
David Foster - keyboards, backing vocals
Michael Boddicker, Erich Bulling - keyboards
Steve Porcaro - keyboards, synthesizers
Tom Keane - keyboards, backing vocals
Larry Klein - bass
Jeff Porcaro, Jerry Marotta, Tris Imboden, JR Robinson - drums
Paulinho Da Costa - percussion
Humberto Gatica - percussion overdub
Larry Williams, Marc Russo, Gary Grant - horns
Richard Marx, Bill Champlin, Bobby Kimball - backing vocals
FEE WAYBILL - Read My Lips [remastered]
Published by Camelblue on Tuesday, August 09, 2016 1 Comments
Labels: BILL CHAMPLIN, FEE WAYBILL, KEANE, MICHAEL LANDAU, PORCARO BROTHERS, STEVE LUKATHER
PATRICK SIMMONS - Arcade [remastered CD reissue] (1983)
Guitarist and vocalist PATRICK SIMMONS has been The Doobie Brothers' only consistent member throughout their career.
In 1983 Pat released his first solo album "Arcade", pretty away in terms of sound from the Doobie's, much more commercial with the typical '80s rhythms.
Co-produced by John Ryan (Styx) and Ted Templeman (Michael McDonald, Van Halen), "Arcade" counted with invaluable contribution of the great Chris Thompson co-writing four tracks and doing more than back-up vocals.
With top session musicians such as Mike Baird, Leland Sklar or John Elefante (just check personnel), "Arcade" includes lovable radio friendly tunes like the uptempo poppy AOR "Out On The Streets" and "Don't Make Me Do It".
Although the top-ten first single "So Wrong" is definitely pop (and a good one) and also had an extended dance version, this is the only track in this style on the album.
The beautiful Doobie Brothers influenced "Why You Givin' Up" is the first song in the tracklist leaning into Westcoast territory, as later the soft "Have You Seen Her" is in a true Michael McDonald style with good orchestrations, while "Sue Sad" has that classic L.A. Session flavor.
The uptempo AOR "Knocking At Your Door" (penned by Andy Fraser) reminds us that Simmons can rock good, and the melodic "Dream About Me" sports a memorable refrain and melody.
I always loved the true '80s "Arcade" sound and style, and this remastered CD reissue really hits home (courtesy of my good friend Nitderock).
Funnily enough, this CD reissue by a US label came to avoid the expensive Japanese-only digital version of this album, but it was pressed in limited quantities and now fetches around $150 on auction sites.
Pure Eighties sound. Guaranteed.
01 - Out On The Streets
02 - So Wrong
03 - Don't Make Me Do It
04 - Why You Givin' Up
05 - Too Long
06 - Knocking At Your Door
07 - If You Want A Little Love
08 - Have You Seen Her?
09 - Sue Sad
10 - Dream About Me
Patrick Simmons: Lead & Backing Vocals, Guitars
Chris Thompson: Lead & Backing Vocals
Michael McDonald: Keyboards, Synths, Backing Vocals
John McFee, Jeff Baxter: Lead Guitar
Alan Pasqua: Keyboards
Patrick Henderson: Organ
Jude Cole: Guitars
Leland "Lee" Sklar, Dennis Belfield: Bass
Bill Payne: Fender Rhodes
David Campbell: Strings Arrangements
Victor Feldman: Percussion
Mike Baird, Rick Shlosser: Drums
John Elefante, David Pack, Jeff Wilson: Backing vocals
PATRICK SIMMONS - Arcade [remastered CD reissue]
Labels: CHRIS THOMPSON, DAVID PACK, PATRICK SIMMONS
LIGHT MELLOW - AOR Groovin' & Breezin' [Cool Sound Japan] (2000)
"Light Mellow" is a compilation series assembled by various Japanese labels featuring artists from their back catalog all revolving around smooth AOR / West Coast music.
So there's Light Mellow compilations made by Warner Bros Japan, BMG Japan, Universal Japan, etc, but I think the best of all it's the first appeared in 2000, initiated by specialized AOR label Cool Sound, a little company legendary for their pristine remasters of long forgotten albums.
That first CD was titled "LIGHT MELLOW: AOR Groovin' & Breezin' [Cool Sound Japan version]", including some hard to find true gems for the first time on CD, remastered, plus a couple of previously unreleased tracks.
Among the great artists featured here we have Sneaker, Heat, Paul Bliss, Bruce Gaitsch feat. Jason Scheff, King Of Hearts (Tommy Funderburk), Joseph Williams and Tony Scuito with his classic 'Island Nights' but in its impossible to find Alternate Mix.
However the real pearls on this release are the 2 previously unreleased tracks: one being 'Heart Don't Change My Mind' by master Robbie Buchanan featuring the awesome lead vocals of the late Warren Wiebe, and Greg Guidry's 'Goin' Down' in a newly re-recorded version of this tune exclusive to this CD.
Of course out of print now, "LIGHT MELLOW: AOR Groovin' & Breezin' [Cool Sound Japan version]" is a much sought after album not only for its quality and collectors item status, but mostly because the CD was strictly prohibited to be sold to foreign customers due legal reasons.
Smooth stuff of the highest quality. Rare.
01 - Heat
Don't You Walk Away
02 - Bruce Hibbard
Never Turnin' Back
03 - Rosie feat. Lynn Pitney
There's a Song In It Somewhere
04 - Robbie Buchannan (feat. Warren Wiebe)
Heart Don't Change My Mind
05 - Greg Guidry
Goin' Down
06 - David Diggs
Lonely Weekend
07 - Paul Bliss
How Do I Survive
08 - Tony Scuito
Island Nights (Alternate Mix)
09 - David Lasley
You Bring Me Joy
10 - Sibling Revelry
Consider the Greatest Love
11 - Kazu Matsui Project
Is That the Way to Your Heart
12 - Bruce Gaitsch feat. Jason Scheff
13 - Michael Gonzales
Love is Forever
14 - Sneaker
Did You Order One
15 - Joseph Williams
16 - King Of Hearts
Lovin' Arms
LIGHT MELLOW AOR Groovin' & Breezin' [Cool Sound Japan]
Published by Camelblue on Monday, July 25, 2016 4 Comments
Labels: BRUCE HIBBARD, JOSEPH WILLIAMS, KING OF HEARTS, PAUL BLISS, TOMMY FUNDERBURK, V.A. LIGHT MELLOW AOR Groovin & Breezin
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20/20 BLIND were an underground band based in Houston, TX, and I said underground mostly because they were playing American Hard Rock in the second half of the '90s, an era when the genre and 'hooks' were almost a bad word.
The band had a CCM background, hence it's not strange that Benson Music Group accepted to distribute their debut album "Never Far" released in 1994.
20/20 BLIND style is US Hard Rock with the trademark sound from bands of this ilk circa 1991/92, especially the guitars, where still retaining the melody and catchiness from the '80s, added more thickness to the riffs.
There's steady tracks here like 'Show Each Other Love', 'Washed', the melodic 'Do I', the acoustically filled title track 'Never Far' and the heavier closer 'Sleepyland'.
They do as well a nice semi-ballad on 'Love Keeps Me Reaching', more melodic hard rock oriented.
"Never Far" is a nice and quite unknown record, nothing ground-breaking but pretty solid and especially very well produced for the genre / era with Brian Garcia (Galactic Cowboys) behind the desk. Throw me a pile of stones but I found 20/20 BLIND sound similar to Blue Murder / John Sykes solo around the same year, and some Extreme also.
01 - Wash
02 - Soul Song
03 - Love Keeps Reaching
04 - I Am Blind
05 - Do I
06 - Easier Way
07 - Never Far
08 - Show Each Other Love
09 - Only Hope
10 - Sleepyland
Wallace Chase: Lead Vocals
Doug Middleton: Guitars, Backing Vocals
Mike McNeely: Guitars, Backing Vocals
Schon Alkire: Bass, Backing Vocals
Chris Laurents: Drums, Backing Vocals
Phil Beck: Keyboards, Backing Vocals
Charles Powell: Backing Vocals
20/20 BLIND - Never Far
Published by Camelblue on Tuesday, July 19, 2016 1 Comments
Labels: 20/20 BLIND
"Fan The Flame" was the debut - and as far I know sole release - by Americans EDEN. Founded by quite solid & melodic vocalist Joe Dokken in the early Nineties, the band play here classic second half of the '80s US Hard Rock.
Although Joe Dokken is not related to the famous Don, the music of Eden has many points in common with Dokken, but also Tesla or WhiteCross, and I mention the latter because all the guitars on "Fan The Flame" were performed by Rex Carroll from WhiteCross.
So expect sharp riffs and some flashy solos in the vein of Ratt's Warren DeMartini, George Lynch or even Van Halen, as Carroll - truly underrated 6-string shredder - comes from the same school.
The album was recorded previously to Eden's definitive line-up, so this is basically Joe Dokken & Carroll with some session musicians, not the one listed in the liner notes (check below for personnel on the recording).
There's very cool rockers with melody such as 'Morning Star', 'Show Me', the great 'Forgotten Child' (some Queensryche on it), 'It’s A Shame', and the bluesy 'Tomorrow’s Yesterday', more straight hard rock on 'Back To The Garden' and closer 'Love Rolls On', and a stunning power ballad in title track 'Fan The Flame'.
"Fan The Flame" was originally released in 1994 independently by the band in very limited copies.
Fortunately it was reissued by Retroactive Records in 2003 - the one featured here - digitally remastered with new cover artwork. Also it was re-released in 2008 by a British label under the band's original moniker, Scream In Eden, re-titled Original Sin and again, updated artwork and different song sequence.
01 - Need Somebody
02 - Show Me
03 - Morning Star
04 - Fan The Flame
05 - Tomorrow's Yesterday
06 - Forgotten Child
07 - Give Me A Reason
08 - It's A Shame
09 - Back To The Garden
10 - Love Rolls On
Joe Dokken - Lead Vocals
Rex Carroll - Guitars
Phil Medeira - Keyboards
Mark Robertson - Bass
Brian Wirt - Drums
Published by Camelblue on Friday, July 15, 2016 1 Comments
Labels: EDEN (US)
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Hayat Alvi, Ph.D.
Associate Professor: International Relations, Political Economy, Middle East, South Asia, Islamic Studies
Public Lecture – Channing Church
TV Interview – ABC6 News
What Mullah Omar’s Death Means
This week the news media buzzed about the Afghan government’s announcement that the Taliban’s long time leader Mullah Omar died from illness. In fact, some sources claim that he had died in 2013. There are conflicting reports about whether he died in Afghanistan or in a hospital in Karachi, Pakistan. Of course, Pakistan is denying the latter version. If true, then that would be yet another huge embarrassment for Pakistan, following the discovery of Osama bin Laden in Abbottabad and the U.S. targeted assassination of the Al Qaeda leader. The timing of announcing Mullah Omar’s death, and the internal wrangling among senior Taliban leaders that followed the announcement, are all very telling.
First, it begs the question: Is this a major intelligence failure? Or, have world powers including the U.S. been aware of Mullah Omar’s demise in 2013? If so, then why keep it a secret for so long? Second, why should Pakistan’s denials be taken at face value, given the bin Laden legacy? Third, who leaked this news about his death? Fourth, no doubt the source of the leak is aware of the fragility of the current Afghan-Taliban peace talks taking place. Does that mean the leak is intended to derail the so-called peace talks? Fifth, Mullah Omar’s successor, Mullah Akhtar Mansour, a close confidant to Mullah Omar, is also very close to the Haqqani Network, which the U.S. considers a dangerous terrorist organization, and frequently targets its leadership with drone strikes. In fact, Siraj Haqqani has been appointed as Mullah Mansour’s deputy, which is a major chess move.
The situation in the Af-Pak region is extremely complicated, and it’s only getting worse with the changing dynamics and configurations involving a mindboggling number of militias, warlords, religious extremists and militants, drug traffickers, criminal elements, and corrupt officials. And now thrown into the mix we have, supposedly, an ISIS cell opening shop there too. Hence, what we see on the surface is much more complex underneath. Mullah Omar’s death and the belated announcement is not only the tip of the iceberg; it’s a symptom of the massive and violent glaciers and fault-lines that lie underneath, ready to explode or implode at any moment.
Consider the internal dynamics of the Afghan Taliban. According to the BBC News, Mullah Mansour’s appointment as the new Taliban leader did not come from consensus, which means that the Taliban are very divided. A Taliban faction prefers Mullah Omar’s son, Yaqub, to take his father’s mantle. Sounds familiar, no? That echoes the split between Sunnis and Shias that happened some 1400 years ago. The patterns and trends that drive schisms within Islamic extremist groups never grow old.
Mullah Mansour favors the peace talks with the Afghan government. Not all Taliban members agree with this move. And, interestingly, unlike Mullah Omar who held the title “Emir al-Mu’mineen” (“Commander of the Faithful,” a very important appellation in Islamic history), Mullah Mansour is called the “Supreme Leader.” To make matters more confusing, Iran’s Ayatollah Khamene’i bears the title Supreme Leader, and the head of ISIS, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi calls himself Emir al-Mu’mineen.
Competition among Islamic militant/terrorist groups is fierce, clearly both between and within them. However, while this configuration might seem ideal for the divide-and-conquer strategy that many governments employ, we should not be fooled to think, for a moment, that this is the end of the Taliban. They will regroup, they might have break-off factions appear here and there, but in general the Taliban are not going anywhere in the Af-Pak region. If anything, the fact that the Afghan government is engaging in peace talks with the Taliban indicates that they are a force and entity to contend with, warts and all.
Oh, and one more thing about Mullah Mansour, during the Taliban reign in the mid-1990s, he was actively serving as a minister in the Taliban government, and, according to BBC News, “he had an active role in drug trafficking” (“Mullah Omar: Taliban choose deputy Mansour as successor ,”BBC News, July 30, 2015).
In light of this, consider the following passage excerpted from the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) April 30, 2015 Quarterly Report (page 46):
“The U.S. government has spent over $8 billion since 2001 on a diverse set of counternarcotics initiatives aimed at reducing the amount of opium poppy that is grown in Afghanistan; reducing the assistance insurgent forces receive from the proceeds of opium trafficking; and reducing the consumption and export of opium products. Counternarcotics initiatives include eradicating opium poppies in farmers’ fields; seizing and destroying harvested opium and refined heroin; arresting and prosecuting drug traffickers; providing alternative crops and income sources to the people who rely on poppy cultivation for their livelihood; campaigning to reduce local demand for opium; and building Afghan capacity to reduce poppy cultivation with less international assistance. However, these efforts have not achieved the overarching objective of reducing the supply of opium in Afghanistan. In fact, opium poppy cultivation has risen dramatically from 8,000 hectares in 2001 to 224,000 hectares in 2014.”
The playing field for the variety of militants and warlords in the Af-Pak region has only expanded in recent years. The Taliban recognize their competition – both internal and external – yet they remain active in carrying out violent attacks in both Afghanistan and Pakistan. Also, Mullah Mansour is shrewdly allied with the Haqqani network, which could be highly beneficial for both.
Plus, Afghanistan and the U.S. and ISAF/NATO allies have numerous Achilles heels when it comes to their efforts in Afghanistan. For example, on the Afghan National Security Forces (ANSF) side, the picture is far from rosy. The SIGAR report (pages 3-4) tells a troubling set of facts:
“SIGAR has issued two audit reports that highlight the challenges the United States faces in gathering reliable information about the total size of the ANSF, reported as of February 20, 2015, to number 328,805 personnel. A new SIGAR audit of the Afghan National Army’s (ANA) personnel and payroll data, as well as one released in January of the Afghan National Police’s (ANP) personnel and payroll data, found no assurance that these data are accurate.
Without reliable data on ANSF strength, the United States cannot determine whether the billions it has spent on recruiting, training, equipping, and sustaining the ANSF since fiscal year (FY) 2002 has been spent properly, or accurately calculate what additional funding may be needed.
… Numbers provide a basis for budgeting and planning—including planning the pace of U.S. and other Coalition forces’ drawdown from Afghanistan.
SIGAR’s audit of ANA personnel data illustrates the cause for concern. A team of SIGAR auditors made unannounced visits to the headquarters of the Afghan National Army’s 207th Corps in Herat Province and the 209th Corps in Balkh Province, and the Afghan Air Force (AAF) air wing based in Kabul. The auditors collected information on 134 service personnel present for duty. Of these, the identities of only 103 could be verified against ANA personnel data. One in nine had no ANA identification card. Of 35 persons present at Balkh, only 23 had an ANA ID card, and five were not listed in the ANSF human-resources database.”
There is much hope and support pinned on Afghan President Ashraf Ghani to turn the security situation around, which would allow U.S. and Coalition troops to draw down significantly. In that spirit, President Ghani has conveyed a message to the Taliban. He is quoted as saying, “The Taliban need to choose not to be al Qaeda, and be Afghan.” For now, Mullah Omar’s death announcement has thrown a wrench into that process, while countless other ominous militant groups wait in the wings. Don’t hold your breath.
Hayat Alvi, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor in National Security Affairs.
The views expressed are personal.
Tags: Afghanistan, ISAF, Mullah Mansour, Mullah Omar, NATO, Pakistan, SIGAR, Taliban, US Foreign Aid
Categories : Af-Pak, Afghanistan, Al Qaeda, ISAF, Mullah Mansour, Mullah Omar, NATO, SIGAR, Taliban, US Foreign Aid
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Anti-Gay Hate Crime Up 21% in Tower Hamlets: Gay & Feminist Activists Respond to Gay Free Zone Case
This is at once hilarious and really, really pathetic. It’s basically a regurgitation of Johann Hari’s shit piece which I wrote about here:
http://howupsetting.tumblr.com/post/3503560578/can-we-talk-about-muslim-homophobia-now
with some added legalese taken from a Rainbow Hamlets press release on the same subject (which you can read here:
http://hurryupharry.org/2011/06/01/%E2%80%9Crainbow-hamlets-says-lgbt-people-in-tower-hamlets-have-been-let-down-by-the-criminal-justice-system-%E2%80%9D/ )
There seems to be some war going on between various parties in the East End ‘gay community representative’ circle. For the record, leaving aside the Muslim aspect, I don’t really agree with either on this point. I think ‘hate crime’ legislation is always going to be messy because the very concept is messy. Messy and extremely unhelpful. I don’t think we need to beef up ‘gay’ hate crime legislation, I think we need to get rid of it all.
Anyway, let’s look at some choice sections of this press release:
– The stickers (one sixth-A4 size) have been seen in several streets in Shoreditch, Canary Wharf and Hackney as well
Which is interesting, because only one of these areas falls entirely within Tower Hamlets. The vast majority of Shoreditch falls under Hackney Borough (as does Hackney, obviously). Homophobic crime has decreased in Hackney. And before anyone tells you that this means nothing because it’s a huge figure nonetheless, the 47 homophobic crimes the MET reports to April 2011 in Hackney compares with 317 Racist and Religious hate crimes, 130 rapes and 5900 cases of ‘violence against the person’.
People are upset that a coordinated, prolonged, multi-city attempt to define parts of the UK as Gay-Free Zones was treated as no more than mildly disorderly conduct
If this was ‘coordinated’ then the wicked people behind the conspiracy are truly the most inept planners…ever. Seriously, I could have done better. Some really shit stickers appeared in a few places and almost no-one knew they existed, and most people who knew they existed carried on their lives without giving it another thought. These shit stickers have been whipped up into some massive boogie man by people with an agenda.
There is a strong feeling that homophobia is being covered up, or ignored, in order not to ‘endanger community relations’
A ‘strong feeling’ from whom, exactly?! The 12 signatories of this release, several of whom have been deliberately exploiting this issue in order to demonise Muslims in East London for several months now? The guy was prosecuted for putting up offensive stickers. Statements from local gay people were read out in court. The judge said that he set out to “offend and distress”. Worst. Cover-up. Ever.
A comment on PinkNews says it all…
You know you’re in trouble when you resort to quoting comments from the shower of shite that is Pink News, with a bunch of commentors who wank each other into a frenzy with the idea that they are the Jews in Nazi Germany being ignored by ‘PC do-gooders’.
Such a light penalty would be unthinkable if we were considering groups operating across UK to create Jew-free, Black-free, Muslim-free or Christian-free zones.
It’s identity politics bingo! Let’s list a bunch of other minorities whom the NASTY PC DO-GOODERS are afraid of offending! Let’s ignore the fact that groups who do want such things frequently hold marches and protests with either no charges arising, or charges relating to public orderoffences after trouble kicks off. The idea that there is some conspiracy where racists, Islamaphobes and anti-religious bigots are being charged with hate crimes galore while homophobes run rampant is, quite frankly, risible. Laughter-inducingly so.
Human rights are for everyone or they are not at all.
Except, presumably, when it’s some stupid kid who’s stuck up a few really shit stickers. Then we should lose all sense of perspective and justice and demand his head on a plate.
The “Gay-Free Zone” campaign was deliberately committed to fill gay people with fear in an area where they have already have been subject to vicious assaults and intimidation by gangs and ideologues for years
The FIRST time I have seen any of these people mention ‘gangs’, albeit not in an acknowledgment that the incidents (which overwhelmingly seem to occur in Shoreditch) happen in places with huge gang problems and all of the violence that comes from that. When I pointed out to someone that there had been stabbings just metres from the horrible attack on Oliver Hemsley which no gay person seemed to care about, I was told that they had ‘nothing to do with gay people’. Breathtaking. Apparently it’s fair enough if you’re stabbed as long as you’re not called a ‘poof’ while it happens. Then it’s time to MOBILISE. Stupid, blinkered and useless.
While it is often claimed that homophobic hate crime is ‘falling’ in Tower Hamlets, the most recent statistics released by the Metropolitan Police Service show that homophobic hate crime is UP in Tower Hamlets by 21% over last annual reporting period, from 67 attacks to 81; during the same period, religious/racial hate crime remained flat
This has already been tackled by several people (http://www.islamophobia-watch.com/islamophobia-watch/2011/2/28/are-muslims-responsible-for-a-huge-rise-in-homophobic-attack.html and http://aethelreadtheunread.wordpress.com/2011/03/02/can-we-talk-about-johann-haris-shoddy-journalism-now/ to mention two ). It’s worth re-iterating that homophobic crime has actually fallen in Hackney. It’s also fallen in Waltham Forest, another heavily Muslim area, while in Newham there have been 2 more incidents than last year. Westminster, Islington and Enfield (to name 3 boroughs which don’t exactly spring to mind when you think ‘Muslim’) have had increases between 26 and 75%.
As for the quite horrible effort to play homophobic crimes against religious/racial crimes – in Tower Hamlets the rolling 12-month figure for homophobic crime is currently 81 incidents. For religious/racial crime, it’s currently 352. Hardly worthy of the ‘everything’s fine there’ dismissive tone it receives.
Many gay people have been forced out of the borough, unable to cope with the harassment.
Seriously – WHAT?! A repeat of Johann Hari’s assertion in the pathetic ‘correction’ to his original article. Any evidence for this? Anyone? Anything at all? I suspect it would be along the lines of ‘my mate Bob left’. PATHETIC!
A particularly vicious attack – ignored by national media – occurred in late August 2008, when a 21 year-old art student, Oliver Hemsley, was butchered just after leaving the George & Dragon pub on Hackney Road in Shoreditch
Leaving aside the hysterical language, it was so ‘ignored by national media’ that the first page of google results for Oliver’s name brings up articles from the BBC, Daily Mail, The Independent and Sky News reporting it.
15 year old, Nasrul Islam, was the only gang member to be brought to justice. Incredibly, the police released him on bail – only for him to mug a 12 year-old girl just days later.
Well that’s odd. Did he mug a little girl because he’s a homophobic Muslim? The judge in the case stated that ”This was an entirely motiveless, mindless attack. Its ferocity makes my blood run cold. He speaks with a degree of pride about his reputation with the boys, with the local community.” So a picture is emerging of a violent gang member in the area in question. Also of note is that the court reports tell of Oliver being attacked while en-route to an off-license, and not on his way to the nearby gay bar as these people like to report. When I noted the inconsistencies in the story with the ‘gay man attacked deliberately for being gay’ narrative, I was told by one of the signatories of this statement that I was ‘fine’ with the stabbing of a young man. This is the mentality of these people. You are either with them or you are a sympathiser for a rampaging homophobic menace which cares only about whether you are gay or not and nothing else.
The East London Mosque (ELM), the main mosque in East London, was quick to distance itself from, and to condemn, the “Gay Free Zone” stickers
But we’ll gloss over this, and the Mayor and other prominent Muslims’ support and participation in a Faith Communities and Homophobia Forum in May, cos that makes things a bit more grey than we’d like. Regarding the East London Mosque, they can speak for themselves with regards to the IFE : http://www.eastlondonmosque.org.uk/uploadedImage/pdf/2010_03_15_17_14_22_ELM_dispatches_response.pdf
We must stop assuming that the ELM/IFE represent the larger Muslim community
What a bizarre statement. Who said they did? If anything it seems to be these people who are so keen to lump all Muslims in with the ‘extremists’ they perceive to be running rampage in East London. If the vast majority of Muslims oppose and condemn the IFE and the Mosque itself condemns homophobia, I’m failing to see the point here.
In addition to its IFE connections, the ELM has also hosted numerous hate preachers who have promoted the most vicious homophobia imaginable over the years.
A criticism which Peter Tatchell acknowledged they had responded to and led to them promising not to host any such preachers in future.
While it is doubtful that many gaybashers are regular mosque attendees
STOP THE BUS!
the ELM’s preachers have created an atmosphere in which hate is socially acceptable
Even in non-Muslim areas by non-Muslims, apparently. ELM is PRETTY POWERFUL! The article then ends with a flourish of homophobic utterances from a bunch of Muslims. Even though they’ve just acknowledged that most Muslims apparently oppose extremism and gay-bashers are unlikely to frequently attend the ELM. That’s some nice logic there.
I don’t wish my tone to imply that there isn’t a problem. Homophobia and violent crime should be taken seriously and should be tackled. This is not served by trying to exploit and distort events in order to pursue your own personal agenda and pit minorities against each other. It is certainly not served by ignoring the common root causes of violent crime and acting like the attack of a gay man outside the George and Dragon is completely unrelated to the shooting of a straight man outside Jam (which used to be directly opposite). Engaging with these issues means growing up and getting past the idea that the thing which makes you a ‘minority’ is the defining characteristic of your entire being and everything you do and everything that happens to you, then demanding that everyone around act in the same way and responding with fury when they don’t.
The current path the signatories of this statement are on is going to achieve absolutely nothing.
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I like film souvenir books well enough, but with a few exceptions it's a little hard to get truly excited about them. De Mille's 1932 film, based on the play by Wilson Barrett, has a backstory about Charles Laughton as the Emperor Nero. Nero blames the Christians for burning Rome, and decides to put them all to death, as one is occasionally wont to do. There's also a love story between Frederic March as Rome's highest-ranking military officer, Marcus Superbus (really? Superbus? Why not "Marcus Gas Guzzling SUV"?) and Elissa Landi as Mercia, a cute Christian chick. You can see where complications might ensue.
Published on 12 Dec. 2011
First of all, I feel like a fraud writing this blog. Young Ashley Wildes suggested the theme of writing blogs about one or another of the weird and random objects that one stumbles across in the vast storage areas here in our 15,000 square foot school building.
Our blog editor Matt Histand and I both thought it a good enough idea. I primarily thought it was a good idea because I assumed that I would be exempt from contributing. After all, I am the one who is responsible for pretty much all of the over quarter-of-a-million objects being here in the first place.
For me to wax ecstatic about “finding” something that I was apparently surprised and delighted about enough to buy at some time in the past seemed just a trifle disingenuous.
However, Ashley just contributed a blog, and Matt is staring balefully across the room at me because no one else has stepped up and written one this week. So I guess I’ll be forced to elaborate on an item that has just crossed my desk for cataloguing. Thus, I will present a Souvenir Book for Cecil B. DeMille’s film The Sign of the Cross.
I like film souvenir books well enough, but with a few exceptions it’s a little hard to get truly excited about them. De Mille’s 1932 film, based on the play by Wilson Barrett, has a backstory about Charles Laughton as the Emperor Nero. Nero blames the Christians for burning Rome, and decides to put them all to death, as one is occasionally wont to do.
There’s also a love story between Frederic March as Rome’s highest-ranking military officer, Marcus Superbus (really? Superbus? Why not “Marcus Gas Guzzling SUV”?) and Elissa Landi as Mercia, a cute Christian chick. You can see where complications might ensue.
If this lavishly illustrated booklet is any indication, Nero probably had no trouble identifying the long-suffering Christians. It’s hard to miss them with those silly beards.
The front wrapper of the souvenir book mentions that the film features:
Elissa Landi
And 7500 others
Extra credit will be awarded to anyone who can identify the other 7500. No peeking.
The rear wrapper features an elaborate artist’s rendering in grand Hollywood style of Laughton cheerfully providing background music on the lyre as Rome burns, with a woman who almost certainly shouldn’t wear white to her wedding, smoldering at his feet.
The best part of the painting though is the broadside that hangs behind Nero’s throne, and as purveyors of rare paper products, you know how much we like broadsides! It reads in part:
Spectacle for the People
60 CHRISTIANS
WILL BE EXECUTED
In various and diverting ways
100 DANCING GIRLS
COMBAT BETWEEN DWARFS
AND AMAZONS
Okay, it goes on from there, but they had me at “Combat between Dwarfs and Amazons.” I mean, when planning spectacles for the disgruntled masses, don’t you think it’s always the details that matter most? In all the sand and sandals epics I’ve watched in film and on television, I’ve yet to see one that featured a purveyor of dwarfs and amazons. But then, as we’ve learned in the rare book trade, it pays to specialize.
As we are always at leisure here at BTC, this remarkable broadside engendered a deep and learned discussion about the pluralization of the word “dwarf.” Cecil B. apparently goes for “dwarfs” while I was always of the opinion that it should be “dwarves.” Matt seems to intimate that the animated Disney epic Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs was a game changer in the pluralization of dwarfs, but The Sign of the Cross predates Snow White by half a decade anyway. Maybe we’re on to something!
Oh, well, as deep and learned discussions at BTC often do, we lost interest in it almost immediately. Perhaps someone else can enlighten us.
You know, as I think on it “Combat between Dwarfs and Amazons” sounds a little bit like one of the seasonal diversions at the BTC Christmas Party!
This collecting tip is published in the Between the Covers Blog. It is presented here by permission of the author.
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The drama. The drama.
Shortly after I first published this post I was discussing it with a friend who had read it. The first thing he/she wanted to do, and what he/she repeatedly wanted to do, was to say… “But Trump this…” or “But Trump that…” I had to continually remind him/her that
This posting is NOT about Trump.
It seems that so many people want to conflate issues about anything even remotely political with issues about Trump. I see it constantly and I am sure you do too. The classic case is Rachel Maddow… but she’s into it on a much different level (Tin Foil Hat level). And she’s entertaining in a obsessive / compulsive / train wreck sort of way but still wildly entertaining. I often watch her show and wish I could date her. Then I could make the movie “My dinner with Rachel.” But I digress… Let me repeat;
So many people want to conflate issues
about anything even remotely political
with issues about Trump.
To all who do that, STOP! Just STOP! Make the effort to develop other interests! That said let’s continue…
And remember… this posting is NOT ABOUT TRUMP
Now click play
https://itbegsthequestion.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/ComeyLeaksOwn-BizarroWorld.mp4
“Former FBI director James Comey hinted Thursday at the identity of the source who provided to the media the content of his memos of conversations with President Donald Trump.”
“Comey said his source, which he instructed to provide information on the memos to the media, was a Columbia law professor who was a close friend.“
So why was he so coy? Why not just name him? Oh, I get it; because he makes himself look “loyal” to a good friend even though we all know, including Comey, that with the info he gave out it would only take someone about 10 minutes (or less) to figure out who he was talking about. Does anyone really doubt this?
“Daniel Richman was later revealed to be that professor. He confirmed that he was the source of the memos’ contents to The Huffington Post and other outlets.“
So what was the deal with all of the Comey drama?
Why all the drama and the so-called “leaking” thru a “friend?”
Does this really constitute a “leak” or is it a charade?
Charade: an absurd pretense intended to create a pleasant or respectable appearance.
The drama…The drama.
Comey knew he was going to talk about all of this in a few days anyway! Why not just release his own memos himself?
No balls? Likes the spotlight? Likes the buildup to his appearance?
“But he’s an upstanding guy with integrity.” Uh Huh… Sure… That’s why he dragged his “good friend” into the whole affair. Yeah… let’s go with that… upstanding and loyalty to a friend.
OK; after you’ve thought about it for a while…
How much of the “Comey story” do you buy?
How much of the “Comey story” did you buy last October?
Are we starting to see a pattern here?
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Bernie Sanders… The better he does in the popular/raw vote count, the worse he does, by a HUGE margin, in the delegate count!
The raw vote count in Iowa was essentially a dead heat with 49.9% of the raw vote going to Clinton and 49.6% going to Sanders. The delegate count based on the voting was similar with 23 delegates going to Clinton and 21 delegates for Sanders… Except that Clinton also got the the support of 6 extra superdelegates!
In New Hampshire, Sanders beat Clinton by about 60% to 38% and based on the ballot box, Sanders ended up with 15 delegates and Clinton got just 8. However… New Hampshire also has eight superdelegates. Six of them have endorsed Clinton, while two aren’t committed to either candidate. That means that Clinton tacked an extra six delegates on to the end!
All that said, did Bernie even mention any of this in the “debate” that occurred just days after the NH primary? Uhhh… no. So after all of Bernie’s railing about how Wall St. and K Street and SuperPacs are subverting the election process he would not even mention how he is losing in spite of handily winning the popular vote. He does not even acknowledge the elephant in the room.
And this is why, imho, Bernie Sanders should not be considered a serious candidate for President. A vote for Bernie is a vote by and for an ostrich.
If you’re going to vote in the Democratic primaries you should vote for Hillary Clinton. She knows how to get the votes and she is the first proven and competent SysAdmin ever to run for office. Just don’t vote for Bernie; it will only encourage him and will end up wasting valuable Secret Service protection and uneaten breakfasts at pancake houses around the country. And there’s only so many windmills to go around.
Stop Bernie Now!
At the end of the New Hampshire tally Tuesday night, Sanders had amassed enough support from voters to earn 15 delegates, while Clinton grabbed just eight based on the ballot box.
In Iowa, the superdelegate picture was much the same. Clinton won by the narrowest of margins, but she snagged the support of six extra superdelegates. Sanders, who so far has only a dozen or so superdelegate endorsements in total compared to hundreds for Clinton, got none of those bonus points out of Iowa. (While Clinton has been endorsed by hundreds of super delegates, NBC News is only including in its total delegate count those superdelegates whose home states have already voted in the primary.)
Results from Iowa’s Democratic Party, announcing 100 percent of the precincts counted, gave Clinton a whisker-thin margin: 49.8 percent to Sanders’s 49.6 percent — setting up what is likely to become a prolonged contest for the Democratic presidential nomination.
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Primary Nonbacterial Thrombotic Endocarditis Presenting with Bowel Infarction Secondary to Superior Mesenteric Artery Embolism
EduardoRodriguez, BS; MuhammadChoudhry, MD; Paul Boor, MD; Paul ;, ;; Paul ;,
Nonbacterial thrombotic endocarditis (NBTE) is a rare antemortem diagnosis that is commonly associated with hypercoagulable states such as advanced malignancies, disseminated intravascular coagulation, and autoimmune diseases such as antiphospholipid syndrome and systemic lupus erythematosus. We present a case of a previously healthy 42-year-old man who presented with small bowel infarction caused by embolic occlusion of the superior mesenteric artery and was subsequently diagnosed with NBTE. Despite thorough investigation, efforts to find an underlying cause failed to reveal any associated systemic illnesses. This case report emphasizes the importance of further investigation into the possible underlying causes of NBTE, as it can manifest without any apparent systemic factors.
A 42-year-old man presented to the emergency department with a 2-day history of diffuse, unrelenting abdominal pain that began after he woke up in the morning. The patient described his pain as severe, colicky, radiating to the back without exacerbating or relieving factors, and associated with one episode of nonbloody, nonbilious emesis and one episode of hematochezia. He denied any fever, chills, diarrhea, weight changes, shortness of breath, chest pain, dysuria, or hematuria. The patient reported no significant medical history but admitted to being an avid smoker for the past 20 years (one pack/day) and a recreational marijuana and cocaine user. His family history revealed systemic lupus erythematosus in his mother.
Upon presentation, his blood pressure was 125/82 mm Hg, pulse 104 beats per minute, body temperature 36.7°C (98.1°F), and respirations 18 breaths per minute. Physical examination revealed that the patient was distressed secondary to abdominal pain, his abdomen was mildly distended with mild diffuse tenderness, and bowel sounds were mildly reduced; overall, however, these physical findings did not correlate with his severe abdominal pain. His physical examination was otherwise unrevealing.
Laboratory evaluation was unremarkable except for a mildly increased white blood cell count at 13.4 x 103/µL (reference range 4.2-10.7 x 103/µL) and a slightly increased hemoglobin count at 17.1 g/dL (reference range 12.2-16.4 g/dL). Oral and intravenous contrast-enhanced computed tomography (CT) of the abdomen and pelvis revealed an acute splenic infarction, a thrombus within the superior mesenteric artery with thickened loops of jejunum, and mild hepatomegaly with diffuse fatty infiltration. The patient then underwent emergent laparotomy, with resection of 285 cm of necrotic jejunum, and superior mesenteric artery thrombectomy with endarterectomy. He was placed on intravenous heparin and broad-spectrum antibiotics.
The initial electrocardiogram performed shortly after presentation showed normal sinus rhythm. Transthoracic echocardiogram was also performed to evaluate for cardiac sources of embolism but failed to reveal any abnormalities. Follow-up transesophageal echocardiogram revealed a freely mobile, pedunculated, echodense 1.6 × 0.5 cm2 mass measuring attached to the interannular fibrosa of the aortic valve that prolapsed into the aorta during systole (Figure 1). Serial blood cultures failed to reveal any infectious organisms. The patient subsequently underwent sternotomy with excision of cardiac vegetation. Surgical pathology analysis revealed a fibrinous vegetation measuring 1.8 x 1.4 x 0.4 cm and without evidence of infective organisms, consistent with nonbacterial thrombotic endocarditis (Figure 2). Chest CT was performed to search for possible malignancy but revealed no lung masses. Thrombophilia work-up was unremarkable, with negative antinuclear antibody (ANA), lupus screen (dilute Russell’s viper venom time), and antiphospholipid antibodies (anticardiolipin IgG and IgM). Prothrombin time (PT) and partial thromboplastin time (PTT) were normal. The patient was continued on IV heparin, and his subsequent hospital course was uneventful. He was later discharged on warfarin therapy with a therapeutic international normalization ratio (INR), and scheduled to follow up as an outpatient.
Figure 1. Transesophageal echocardiogram. (A) Mid-esophageal (ME) apical 4-chamber view, and (B) ME aortic valve long-axis view showing a pedunculated mass (arrows) attached to interannular fibrosa of aortic valve.
Figure 2. (A) Histopathology of valve lesion consisted predominantly of homogeneous thrombotic material staining bright pink in routine hematoxylin and eosin stain (right); upper left shows small fragment of free edge of valve with early reactive fibrosis and lack of acute inflammation. (B) Higher power of thrombotic material that comprised most of the lesion shows typical pattern of acute thrombus; no evidence of infective organisms was seen. Original magnification: X 40 (A); X 100 (B).
Initially described by Zeigler in 1888,1 nonbacterial thrombotic endocarditis (NBTE) is characterized by the deposition of thrombi on previously undamaged heart valves in the absence of a bacterial infection in the bloodstream. Vegetations associated with NBTE are sterile, an important distinction from infective endocarditis, and consist of interwoven degenerating platelets and strands of fibrin.2,3 NBTE vegetations are found in approximately 1.2% of all autopsy patients, although incidence reports have ranged from 0.3% to 9.3%.1,2,4 The precise initiating factor for NBTE has not been determined, but it involves a hypercoagulable state in the presence of endothelial injury, which results in platelet deposition and inflammatory mononuclear cell migration that forms the initial thrombi.3
A common complication of NBTE is valvular dysfunction, which often prompts surgical intervention before the NBTE diagnosis is made. However, it is not certain whether the valvular dysfunction results from the formed vegetations or if initial vegetation formation is stimulated by valvular dysfunction.5 Aortic and mitral valves are the most common valves involved in NBTE, although involvement of any of the four valves has been reported.1,6
Antemortem diagnosis of NBTE is rare; however, it is commonly associated with hypercoagulable states such as advanced malignancies, disseminated intravascular coagulation, and autoimmune disease such as antiphospholipid syndrome and systemic lupus erythematosus.1,6-10 Adenocarcinomas—particularly lung, gastric, and pancreatic—are the most common type of malignancy associated with NBTE.1,2,11 Although NBTE has been reported in every age group, it is most often found in patients between their 40s and 80s. Additionally, the incidence of NBTE is the same for males and females.1
NBTE presentation is typically silent until complications such as embolization and valvular dysfunction occur.3 Embolization occurs in nearly 50% of patients with NBTE, most often affecting the central nervous system and splenic, coronary, and renal circulations. Embolization to the central nervous system and coronary arteries constitute the most significant morbidity, with neurological deficits caused by embolization being the most common clinical manifestation. Valvular dysfunctions might result in new-onset cardiac murmurs, arrhythmias, and heart failure, which may also prompt investigation.1,2,3,11
An important step in diagnosing NBTE is differentiating it from infective endocarditis. The use of the modified Duke’s criteria, laboratory tests such as antiphospholipid antibodies, and echocardiography can help make this distinction. A differential diagnosis may also include rheumatic valvular disease, degenerative valvular disease, and normal anatomic variants.3 Imaging studies are critical for the diagnosis of NBTE. Although transthoracic echocardiography may serve as an initial imaging technique, transesophageal echocardiography has a higher sensitivity and specificity for detecting valvular vegetations in NBTE.3,12,13 Management currently focuses in the treatment of the underlying disease and managing the risk of embolization. Therefore, anticoagulation is key to prevent recurrent embolization. Valvular repair or replacement can be performed in patients with large vegetations, valvular dysfunction, or recurrent embolism despite anticoagulation therapy.3,14
To our knowledge, we describe the first reported case of NBTE presenting with bowel infarction caused by superior mesenteric artery embolization without an underlying systemic cause. We diagnosed NBTE after mesenteric infarction prompted a search for a source of emboli. After serial blood cultures failed to reveal an infective organism, NBTE vegetations were first visualized by echocardiography followed by direct observation. Once the vegetations were excised, pathological examination once again failed to find evidence of infective organisms. Although the patient had a family history of systemic lupus erythematosus, his ANA test, lupus screen, and antiphospholipid antibodies were negative. Additionally, CT scan of the chest and abdomen imaging failed to reveal any malignancy. In other published case reports of NBTE, it is commonly associated with either malignancies or autoimmune illnesses, with only one other reported case of NBTE occurring without evidence of an underlying systemic illness.15-20 In our literature search, the only other reported case of “primary” NBTE was in a patient who presented with mesenteric vein thrombosis.15
Our case demonstrates a unique presentation of NBTE in a formerly healthy patient. As imaging techniques continue to develop and detection of NBTE vegetations increase, we highlight the importance of further investigation into the possible underlying causes of NBTE since it can manifest without any apparent systemic factors.
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Eiken PW, Edwards WD, Tazelaar HD, McBane RD, Zehr KJ. Surgical pathology of nonbacterial thrombotic endocarditis in 30 patients, 1985-2000. Mayo Clin Proc. 2001 Dec;76(12):1204-12.
Reisner SA, Brenner B, Haim N, Edoute Y, Markiewicz W. Echocardiography in nonbacterial thrombotic endocarditis: from autopsy to clinical entity. J Am Soc Echocardiogr. 2000 Sep;13(9):876-81.
Bhimani AA, Hoit BD. Extensive nonbacterial thrombotic endocarditis isolated to the tricuspid valve in primary antiphospholipid syndrome. J Am Soc Echocardiogr. 2010 Jan;23(1):107.e5-6.
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Mazokopakis EE, Syros PK, Starakis IK. Nonbacterial thrombotic endocarditis (marantic endocarditis) in cancer patients.Cardiovasc Hematol Disord Drug Targets. 2010 Jun;10(2):84-6.
Edoute Y, Haim N, Rinkevich D, Brenner B, Reisner SA. Cardiac valvular vegetations in cancer patients: a prospective echocardiographic study of 200 patients. Am J Med. 1997 Mar;102(3):252-8.
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Reynolds HR, Jagen MA, Tunick PA, Kronzon I. Sensitivity of transthoracic versus transesophageal echocardiography for the detection of native valve vegetations in the modern era. J Am Soc Echocardiogr. 2003 Jan;16(1):67-70.
Asopa S, Patel A, Khan OA, Sharma R, Ohri SK. Non-bacterial thrombotic endocarditis. Eur J Cardiothorac Surg. 2007 Nov;32(5):696-701.
Habib G, Lancellotti P, Antunes MJ, et al. 2015 ESC Guidelines for the management of infective endocarditis: The Task Force for the Management of Infective Endocarditis of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC). Endorsed by: European Association for Cardio-Thoracic Surgery (EACTS), the European Association of Nuclear Medicine (EANM).Eur Heart J. 2015 Nov 21;36(44):3075-128.
Kim HM, Kim HL, Lee HS, et al. Nonbacterial Thrombotic Endocarditis in a Patient with Bowel Infarction due to Mesenteric Vein Thrombosis. Korean Circ J. 2014 May;44(3):189-92.
Aryana A, Esterbrooks DJ, Morris PC. Nonbacterial thrombotic endocarditis with recurrent embolic events as manifestation of ovarian neoplasm. J Gen Intern Med. 2006 Dec;21(12):C12-5.
Piovanelli B, Rovetta R, Bonadei I, Vizzardi E, D’Aloia A, Metra M. Nonbacterial thrombotic endocarditis in pancreatic cancer. Monaldi Arch Chest Dis. 2013 Dec;80(4):189-92.
Shatila W, Rizkallah A, Aldin ES, Tfayli A. Nonbacterial thrombotic endocarditis as the sole manifestation of stage IV gastric cancer: a case report. J Med Case Rep. 2014 Aug 4;8:267.
Dokuni K, Matsumoto K, Tanaka H, Okita Y, Hirata K. A case of non-infective endocarditis accompanied by multiple cerebral infarctions and severe mitral regurgitation as initial presentation of primary antiphospholipid syndrome. Eur Heart J Cardiovasc Imaging. 2015 May;16(5):572.
Vinales KL, Gopalan RS, Lanza LA, Lester SJ, Chaliki HP. Unusual case of nonbacterial thrombotic endocarditis attributable to primary antiphospholipid syndrome. 2010 Sep 21;122(12):e459-60.
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Life Is Too Full in These Times to Be Comprehensible
Posted by jrbenjamin in History
Buddenbrooks, George F. Kennan, John Galsworthy, Journal, The Forsyte Saga, The Kennan Diaries, Thomas Mann
“I cannot help but regret that I did not live fifty or a hundred years sooner. Life is too full in these times to be comprehensible. We know too many cities to be able to grow into any of them, and our arrivals and departures are no longer matters for emotional debauches, for they are too common. Similarly, we have too many friends to have any real friendships, too many books to know any of them well, and the quality of our impressions gives way to the quantity, so that life begins to seem like a movie, with hundreds of kaleidoscopic scenes flashing on and off our field of perception, gone before we have time to consider them.
I should like to have lived in the days when a visit was a matter of months, when political and social problems were regarded from simple standpoints called ‘liberal’ and ‘conservative,’ when foreign countries were still foreign, when a vast part of the world always bore the glamour of the great unknown, when there were still wars worth fighting and gods worth worshiping.”
An entry from George F. Kennan’s journals, written on December 20th, 1927.
Kennan, who jotted these words when he was twenty-three, opens them with a notation that he is currently reading Die Buddenbrooks, which he calls “this Forsyte Saga of old Lübeck”. Die Buddenbrooks is Thomas Mann’s 1901 novel about a north German family’s multi-generational decline at the hands of modernity. The books to which Kennan compares it, John Galsworthy’s once-popular Forsyte series, relate the tale of a nouveau riche British family struggling to transition from an agricultural to a mechanized economy. So Kennan’s mind was certainly stirred by the questions of modernism and internationalism when he was writing this entry.
Kennan would live another seventy-eight lucid years following this entry. I wonder what he came to think of the trappings of globalization — or, alternately, its traps.
Martin Amis: “The world is getting infinitely less innocent all the time”
6 thoughts on “Life Is Too Full in These Times to Be Comprehensible”
Nia Simone said:
This is a highly articulate statement and eerily relevant to today. It helps me keep the focus on the depth in a time when the trends he notes are exponentially greater.
mlandersauthor said:
In The Letters Of J.R.R Tolkien he expresses a similar frustration with globalization, which he refers to as Americo-cosmopolitanism. He wrote about how wonderful various cultures are because they are distinct and undiluted and how horrified he was by the idea of a bland, single world culture. Very good reading.
jrbenjamin said:
Interesting. Thanks for letting me know.
Robert Benjamin said:
All thinking human beings must at times feel the pull of the simpler life. But unfortunately as progress and all it’s good implications move relentlessly forward, the simpler becomes more elusive and unattainable. Only momentary episodes of simplicity and depth seem to exist in our “advanced” state.
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The structural geometry, metamorphic and magmatic evolution of the Everest massif, High Himalaya of Nepal–South Tibet
M.P. SEARLE, R.L. SIMPSON, R.D. LAW, R.R. PARRISH and D.J. WATERS
Journal of the Geological Society, 160, 345-366, 1 May 2003, https://doi.org/10.1144/0016-764902-126
M.P. SEARLE
R.L. SIMPSON
R.D. LAW
R.R. PARRISH
D.J. WATERS
This paper presents a new geological map together with cross-sections and lateral sections of the Everest massif. We combine field relations, structural geology, petrology, thermobarometry and geochronology to interpret the tectonic evolution of the Everest Himalaya. Lithospheric convergence of India and Asia since collision at c. 50 Ma. resulted in horizontal shortening, crustal thickening and regional metamorphism in the Himalaya and beneath southern Tibet. High temperatures (>620 °C) during sillimanite grade metamorphism were maintained for 15 million years from 32 to 16.9 ± 0.5 Ma along the top of the Greater Himalayan slab. This implies that crustal thickening must also have been active during this time, which in turn suggests high topography during the Oligocene–early Miocene. Two low-angle normal faults cut the Everest massif at the top of the Greater Himalayan slab. The earlier, lower Lhotse detachment bounds the upper limit of massive leucogranite sills and sillimanite–cordierite gneisses, and has been locally folded. Ductile motion along the top of the Greater Himalayan slab was active from 18 to 16.9 Ma. The upper Qomolangma detachment is exposed in the summit pyramid of Everest and dips north at angles of less than 15°. Brittle faulting along the Qomolangma detachment, which cuts all leucogranites in the footwall, was post-16 Ma. Footwall sillimanite gneisses and leucogranites are exposed along the Kharta valley up to 57 km north of the Qomolangma detachment exposure near the summit of Everest. The amount of extrusion of footwall gneisses and leucogranites must have been around 200 km southwards, from an origin at shallow levels (12–18 km depth) beneath Tibet, supporting models of ductile extrusion of the Greater Himalayan slab. The Everest–Lhotse–Nuptse massif contains a massive ballooning sill of garnet + muscovite + tourmaline leucogranite up to 3000 m thick, which reaches 7800 m on the Kangshung face of Everest and on the south face of Nuptse, and is mainly responsible for the extreme altitude of both mountains. The middle crust beneath southern Tibet is inferred to be a weak, ductile-deforming zone of high heat and low friction separating a brittle deforming upper crust above from a strong (?granulite facies) lower crust with a rheologically strong upper mantle. Field evidence, thermobarometry and U–Pb geochronological data from the Everest Himalaya support the general shear extrusive flow of a mid-crustal channel from beneath the Tibetan plateau. The ending of high temperature metamorphism in the Himalaya and of ductile shearing along both the Main Central Thrust and the South Tibetan Detachment normal faults roughly coincides with initiation of strike-slip faulting and east–west extension in south Tibet (<18 Ma).
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Beyond the Plate: Teton County Access to Justice Center
In the second week of our spring Beyond the Plate series, we are taking a look at Teton County Access to Justice Center, the recipient of this week’s off-season fundraising effort. Access to Justice is a non-profit legal aid program that provides help to Jackson Hole community members struggling with civil legal matters.
Beyond the Plate: Spread the Love Commission
Spring has sprung and, despite lingering snow storms, the birds are chirping and tufts of grass are beginning to find their way out of the deep snow piles. The arrival of spring means a lot of things, but to us it means the reammergance of off-season specials… A time of year when those who like to dine out have a opportunity to give back to the community by dining out, buying one entrée and getting a second for $2. 100% of the money from the second entrée will be donated to a weekly featured non-profit organization.
Eat like a President
When we think about the US Presidents and food, many automatically think of our first President, George Washington and apple pie. In fact, Washington’s estate was known for hosting many guests and providing them with a wide variety of culinary options. As a result, the Mount Vernon Association has a long list of recipes online, showcasing cuisine Washington would serve to his guests.
Hospitality Holidays, What FDRG employees Bring to Festive Parties
‘Tis the season for holiday parties filled with friends, family, twinkling lights and, most importantly, food. Being in hospitality, around this time of year we are often asked what we bring to the holiday table when we’re dining with friends and family. In honor of this, we’ve compiled a list of the who, the what and the why of which delicious dishes Fine Dining Restaurant Group leaders bring along during the holidays.
Beyond the Plate: Dancers' Workshop
In the final edition of our Beyond the Plate miniblog series, we are rounding out the Fall 2018 off-season special beneficiary spotlight with Dancers’ Workshop. This local nonprofit is a multifaceted organization that strives to enhance the community both through movement and education.
Beyond the Plate: KHOL
In the third edition of our Beyond the Plate series, we are showcasing Wyoming’s community Radio station, 89.1 KHOL. KHOL has remained the only community radio station in Wyoming since they took to the airwaves in 2008. The content being broadcasted by local DJs can be accessed online and picked up from Victor, ID, all the way down to Alpine, WY.
Beyond the Plate: Community Entry Services
This week in Beyond the Plate, we are excited to introduce Community Entry Services (CES). An incredible Jackson Hole non-profit, CES will be receiving the funds from our off-season fundraising effort from October 29 to November 4.
CES is a local non-profit that supports adults with disabilities and acquired brain injuries in Teton County. They provide a variety of lifelong services to 30 individuals, including affordable housing, daily living skills, vocational services, medication management, residential living skills, community integration and bill payment.
Beyond the Plate: Jackson Hole Juggernauts
The changing of the seasons has brought another Jackson Hole “off season,” where we band together as a company to offer dining deals to guests, while also raising money for Jackson Hole area non-profits.
Get to know the non-profits who will be receiving funds from this fall’s fundraising effort in a four-part blog series “Beyond the Plate.”
First up is the beneficiary of fundraising efforts from October 22 – 28: Jackson Hole Juggernauts.
Eat Well. Do Good. a success
We were blown away by the stories of selfless good deeds being performed in our backyard, by people of all ages, throughout the Jackson Hole community.
Fine Dining Restaurant Group Launches Eat Well. Do Good. Initiative
We are please to announce the introduction of Eat Well. Do Good., a movement where we join together to show when a community stands together, magical things begin to happen.
Welcome to the Fine Dining family!
We have uncorked the bubbly to celebrate the opening of the newest addition to the Fine Dining family - Bar Enoteca.
Jackson Hole community rallies for Alex's Lemonade Stand
Building off the success of this winter's inaugural Alex's Table: A Winter Dinner in Jackson Hole, a group of Jackson Hole children will gather together this weekend to host a lemonade stand outside Roadhouse Pub & Eatery to benefit Alex’s Lemonade Stand Foundation.
Fine Dining Returns to the Famed James Beard House
For the third straight year, the Fine Dining Restaurant Group will be cooking at the historic James Beard House. The group previously partnered with Jackson Hole Mountain Resort (and Spur Restaurant in 2015) in two dinners using Wyoming as the inspiration for the menu. This year, Fine Dining Restaurant Group attends the dinner as the sole architects behind the menu; Gavin and team will keep true to their Wyoming roots while highlighting house-made creations from across the diverse group of restaurants.
Over $126,000 raised for local non-profits since 2011
The end of 2015 marked a new milestone - over $126,000 raised in five years of off-season specials at Jackson Hole Fine Dining restaurants!
Don Cosimo Wines - a new, exclusive import
In a special wine import project, Fine Dining Restaurant Group is now the sole importer of Don Cosimo wines. These Sicilian wines are sold in four varietals, including Nero d'Avola, Grillo, Catarratto and Sparkling Grillo, and are only available at Fine Dining restaurants in Jackson Hole.
Café added to the Fine Dining lineup
We are pleased to share we've added a Café to the lineup of Fine Dining restaurants. Located in the space previously occupied by Terra Cafe, the new addition will provide a casual outlet for breakfast and lunch, serving largely Italian-inspired selections in a grab-and-go setting - all next door to Osteria in Hotel Terra.
Fine Dining Restaurant Group and Carter Country Beef form unique relationship
Part-time professional snowboarder, part-time cattle rancher, Mark Carter and his brother RC embody the Wyoming lifestyle. Relying on sheer acreage and Mother Nature to harvest their beef, the Carter family has been raising cattle in Ten Sleep, Wyoming for four generations. Grass fed and grain finished, the Carters’ product is some of the best beef in Wyoming and it’s all being delivered to your plate in the most humane way possible.
Spring 2015 fundraising a success
We are pleased to announce that in Spring 2015, with the help of the Jackson Hole community, we were able to raise $15,964 in just two months! For more information on our bi-annual fundraising efforts, click Learn More.
Bodega - a new addition to the Fine Dining family
Please join us in welcoming a new addition to the Fine Dining Restaurant Group family! Bodega, located at the base of Jackson Hole Mountain Resort in Teton Village, is the destination's new stop for great food and beverages.
Happy Holidays! As the season ushers in, we welcome you into our restaurant homes to celebrate the sights, sounds and flavors of the season with us. Click below for a complete list of our restaurants' holiday hours.
Our evening at the James Beard House
Working in partnership with Jackson Hole Mountain Resort’s chefs Wes Hamilton and Dave Erlanson, Fine Dining Restaurant Group chefs Roger Freedman, Joel Tate, Chad Horton and Co-Owner Gavin Fine presented a Jackson Hole-inspired seven-course menu at the famed James Beard House on October 2.
Support Jackson Hole non-profits when you dine out this fall
What's better than dining out, getting a great deal and supporting Jackson Hole non-profits at the same time? In our opinion... Nothing.
Click below to learn more about our upcoming dining deals and the fantastic organizations they support.
Travel inspiration: Gavin's picks for dining out in NYC
Food and travel go hand in hand, no matter your destination. There's rarely a better way (in our opinion) to experience a new city than by tasting your way through. New York City is no different. With thousands of eateries within reach, incredible food and drink is simply a step away.
Traveling to New York City? Try out a few of Gavin Fine's favorite destinations for dining out in New York City.
Dine Out in September and Help End Childhood Hunger
More than 16 million American children face hunger. This September, we are joining thousands of restaurants nationwide to support Share Our Strength’s No Kid Hungry® campaign by raising funds in our Jackson Hole and Park City restaurants.
Meet the Chefs - Jackson Hole: From the Range, a dinner at NYC's James Beard House
The big news on the Jackson Hole food front this week is that the JH community will be showcasing culinary talents to the New York media and public this October 2nd at the historic James Beard House. Fine Dining Restaurant Group Executive Chef Roger Freedman and Jackson Hole Mountain Resort Executive Chef Wes Hamilton have collaborated to create Jackson Hole: From the Range a carefully curated menu of ingredients sourced from our region along with wine and whiskey pairings.
We’re excited to see these chefs in action in NYC, so in the mean time we sat down with them to find out what makes them tick.
Jackson Hole Mountain Resort and Fine Dining Restaurant Group to showcase at New York’s Famed James Beard House
Jackson Hole Mountain Resort (JHMR) and Fine Dining Restaurant Group (FDRG) are proud to announce a partnership with the Jackson Hole community hosting Jackson Hole: From the Range, a day celebrating Jackson Hole’s thriving culinary culture at New York City’s celebrated James Beard House. Jackson Hole: From the Range brings the best in food and travel culture from the mountain mecca of Jackson Hole to the esteemed, invite-only Beard kitchen.
Fine Dining Restaurant Group Donates Over $14,000 to Non-Profits from Spring Fundraising Effort
Led by Owners Gavin Fine and Roger Freedman, Fine Dining Restaurant Group presented $14,052.02 to worthy non-profits in a reception last Thursday at Bin22, leading to a total of over $79,000 raised through Jackson Hole restaurant off-season specials since Fall 2011.
Wine Enthusiast Names Jackson Hole Top Foodie City
We're excited to share Jackson Hole was named a Top 5 Foodie City by Wine Enthusiast. We're even MORE excited to share the article recommends Fine Dining restaurants The Kitchen and Il Villaggio Osteria! Click below to learn more.
Non-Profit Beneficiaries of Park City Fundraising Efforts Announced
In keeping with the Fine Dining Restaurant Group initiative of supporting the communities in which we work and call home, we are proud to support Park City non-profit organizations through offering 2 for 1s with a twist at Silver.
Jackson Hole Spring Off Season Specials to Benefit Nine Non-Profit Organizations
Spring off season specials begin in Jackson Hole on April 7 and will raise money to support nine non-profit organizations.
Fine Dining Restaurant Group Gives Away Over $31,000 Through 2013 Off-Season Specials
Thank you, Jackson Hole, for your support in making this possible!
Fine Dining Restaurant Group Releases Signature Coffee Blend
Working closely with locally-based Snake River Roasting Co., we have released our own Signature Coffee Blend - now available at all Jackson Hole Fine Dining restaurants.
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Immortalised
August 28, 2018 ~ katrinaporteouspoetry ~ Leave a comment
Immortalised: the people loved, left and lost in our landscape
A free exhibition at the Workshop, Lambeth, London
30 August – 16 September 2018
For millennia, we have celebrated and mourned, marked and memorialised. Through our culture, places, stories and rituals we pass down what matters to us.
It is how we make people immortal. But who decides who and how we remember?
Immortalised explores the ways people and events have been commemorated in England, by the statues, the plaques, shrines and murals that mark heroic, quirky, inspirational and challenging lives.
Peter Zinovieff and I are delighted to have been selected by @HistoricEngland to make The Long Line, a new memorial for this exhibition.
More details will be available on August 30.
30 August until 16 September 2018
Wednesday to Sunday 10am to 5pm
The Workshop, 26 Lambeth High Street, Lambeth, London SE1 7AG
London Underground: Vauxhall (Victoria line) and Lambeth North (Bakerloo + Northern lines)
Train: Vauxhall
Bus: routes 3, 77, 344, 360, 507 and C10
Dartington
August 16, 2018 ~ katrinaporteouspoetry ~ 1 Comment
Dartington International Summer School 2018, Week 2, August 4-11th
Poetry of Place
It’s not often that you end a week as tutor on a residential writing course feeling completely energised. Much as I love working with other writers, giving everyone the individual attention they deserve can be tiring if you give it everything you have. It’s worth it, though. In the past I’ve co-led courses for the Arvon Foundation at Lumb Bank and at the Welsh Writers’ Centre at Ty Newydd, and always feel that I learn as much from participants as they do from me. This time was no different in that respect; but it was also an unusually invigorating experience in other ways. It was my first time at Dartington, the world-famous music summer school in Devon celebrating its 70th anniversary, under Artistic Director Joanna MacGregor.
Students come to play instruments, to sing in the choir, and to experience a wide range of world-class music in the fabulous medieval setting of Dartington Hall, with its glorious gardens, ancient trees, and wider parkland stretching down to the River Dart. I cannot recommend it highly enough. In keeping with the historic spirit of the place, under Joanna’s inspired leadership, literature and creative writing have now been added to the curriculum. Alongside James Runcie’s courses on ‘Historical Fiction’ and ‘Reading the Landscape’, I led a twice-daily writing course entitled ‘Poetry of Place’ which, over six days, involved 18 hours of close reading of published poems, writing exercises to take away, group reading of the results, and some individual tuition.
The participants in my group were quite various in their life and writing experience, but every single student proved insightful, generous, sensitive and supportive of the others. Whether that came from the legendary Dartington spirit of cooperation or from the experience which many had of communal singing, who can say. They were a joy to work with.
And when work was finished, there was lovely food, great company and a wealth of fabulous concerts to enjoy. Highlights for me were Joanna MacGregor’s transcendent piano concert, including Chopin, Ginastera and Beethoven’s Appassionata, recorded for Radio 3; Steven Devine’s brilliant renditions of CPE and WF (or, as he put it, WTF) Bach on the fortepiano; Trio Gaspard playing Schubert; James Runcie’s moving play, ‘Bach, Man and Myth’; Kate Semmens’ glorious early English songs; Robert Howarth on the harpsichord; and the extraordinarily powerful final night – Bach’s St Matthew Passion, conducted by Tom Seligman, with the role of the evangelist split between tenor Tom Randle and soprano Gillian Keith. The emotion of the piece was heightened for me by the intimate setting, the projection of the words in English, and the very personal connection with so many of my students and new friends sharing with us so movingly the experience of the deepest human failing and the redemptive power of love. I shall never forget it.
On the Sunday evening I was lucky enough to be invited to perform some of my own work in the Great Hall, alongside the brilliant folk fiddler Alexis Bennett. Alexis performed live, to an electronic soundtrack of new music which he had created for the performance entirely from sounds made by the fiddle. Various techniques were used, including recording some passages on a phone, and hitting an old fiddle with a spoon. A traditional Northumbrian pipe tune, “The Bonnie Pit Laddie”, was quoted. I read from old and new work about the Northumbrian fishing community, women’s lives and education, and the wider natural history of Northumberland, from the perspective of some of my recent science-based pieces. Our collaboration was well-received and we hope to be able to build on it for future performances.
On the last afternoon my group of writers gave a short presentation of their work to a select audience in the lovely oak-lined Solar. There were some very interesting pieces, including two sound-based works each for two voices, developed from listening to a recording of the sea; a multi-perspective sketch examining the Dartington buildings as a film-maker might, using close-up and wide-angle views; and a powerful short verse drama based on 19th century French melodrama.
Everyone’s work had been developed that week, and everyone had, to some extent, surprised themselves with something new. We gathered these texts together into a small anthology, which the hard-worked Summer School office staff printed for us.
I cannot thank everyone enough: my students for teaching me, James Runcie for his good humour and moral support, all the tutors, performers and students for their great music and spirit, the fantastic staff, both in the kitchens, the domestic arrangements and in the Summer School office: huge thanks to Emily Hoare, Rachel Wilkinson and – especially – all the volunteers, without whom none of it would be possible. Special thanks to Joanna MacGregor for inviting me – and, indeed, for asking me back next year. I greatly look forward to returning, to new adventures; and in the meantime, cherish the many wonderful memories I take away: walking across the courtyard in the morning to the swell of Bach’s choruses rising from the Great Hall; bathing my feet in the silky Dart one hot afternoon and catching a glimpse of a kingfisher through the oak trees; rehearsing poetry and fiddle music with Alexis; finding a couple of quiet hours in the summerhouse to improvise some words and music with brilliant composer and hurdy-gurdy virtuoso Stevie Wishart and the extraordinary vocalist and nyckelharpa player, Anna Tam. I hope that these connections may continue.
Most of all, I came away from Dartington feeling supported, appreciated, energised and affirmed. That is a great gift to give to an artist of any kind. I don’t often think of myself in those terms but, by surrounding me with other artists, for a short time Dartington allowed me to do so. Thank you, Dartington. May I carry a little of your spirit with me to Northumberland, as I brought a glimpse of Northumberland to you.
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In an interview to the news channel News Nation, aired on Saturday last, Prime Minister Narendra Modi declaring that he had approved the air strike despite bad weather because he felt the clouds would hide Indian planes from Pakistani radar is known to have become a laughing stock across India.
While PM’s remark gained prominence after the BJP’s official Twitter first put it out before deleting the tweet, this is not the only remark which is being cited as Modi’s alleged “fekugiri” (boasting).
If the interview reveals that the PM overruled the suggestion by experts, who possibly included militarymen, to go ahead with Balakot air strikes because of clouds and heavy rain, a Facebook post has brought to light more from the interview to say how the interview is full of “fekugiri”, claiming, it shows “how much he lies and with so much confidence.”
Writing on his Facebook timeline, Rajendra Bhaduri, a militaryman adorning medals, says, “Feku claims that he owned and used a digital camera in 1987. The only known commercially launched digital camera in 1987, which was not portable and did not have attached memory was the US made MegaVison Tessera which costed costed between $50,000 – $60,000.
Bhaduri wonders, “In 1987 the USD was about Rs 13. That would make a MegaVision Tessera cost between ₹6,50,000 and ₹7,80,000. Add Customs duty of 1987 rates… However, Modi claims ’35 saal bhiksha kar ke khaya’, toh fer 7 lakh ka camera kaise khareeda?” (‘Modi claims he ‘lived on begging for 35 years’, then how was the Rs 7 lakh camera bought?), At the same time, Bhaduri seeks to “expose” Modi who suggests in the interview that he used email in 1987-88.
Except from the FB post:
In the same “Cloud radar” interview, Feku goes on to claim about his attachment to gadgets and how he owned a digital camera in 1987 and also transmitted pictures of some Advani rally in Ahmedabad to Delhi. The camera he describes as a rather bulky one.
Oh yes! He claims that he is “probably” the first person in India to use digital camera.
Official history of digital camera
1. First digital camera of any kind ever sold commercially was possibly the MegaVision Tessera in 1987 though there is no documentation of its sale known.
As per MegaVision’s website, MegaVision’s Tessera was the first digital camera offered for sale in 1987. Since Photoshop and modern computers didn’t exist, MegaVision made their own image processor, the 1024XM, and Capture Station software.
It was a rather largish camera which did not have any internal memory and was tethered to a computer. It costed between $50,000 – $60,000. The first Tessera system went into regular use in early 1989 at a commercial photo studio in Minneapolis.
2. The first portable digital camera that was actually marketed commercially was sold in December 1989 in Japan, the DS-X by Fuji.
3. The first commercially available portable digital camera in the United States was the Dycam Model 1, first shipped in November 1990.
It was originally a commercial failure because it was black-and-white, low in resolution, and cost nearly $1,000.
4. In 1991, Kodak brought to market the Kodak DCS (Kodak Digital Camera System). It used a 1.3 megapixel sensor, had a bulky external digital storage system and was priced at $13,000.
In 1987, Modi could have owned only a MegaVision Tessera which by all available open source information was not a handy portable camera. Also since it needed its own specialised software, a compatible computer would have been needed.
Modi is known to have visited USA as a RSS Pracharak for the first time in 1993. Wonder how did he get to buy a MegaVision Tessera in 1987 from the USA costing $50,000 – $60,000?
Official history of email in India
Rajiv Gavai, professor of the Theoretical Physics Department, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR), was one of the first Indians to work to set up a email network in India. He initiated setting up of a similar BITNET-based academic network in India.
In 1986, after the government nod, five Indian Institute of Technology (IIT Bombay, Delhi, Kanpur, Kharagpur and Madras), IISc (Bangalore), National Center for Software Technology (NCST) of Bombay and Department of Eletronics (DoE) were involved in the Education and Research Network (ERNET) project.
In 1986, a dial-up link for email exchange was set up between NCST and IIT Bombay. Very soon all ERNET partners were on dial-up ERNET email and academics in these institutions started sending emails to all over the world.
By 1991, the ERNET community crossed 1,000 and hundreds of persons started using email in these sites. The initial investment to have ERNET mail was around Rs 30,000, without a printer.
***PS: In the same interview Feku claims to have had a digital pad and a stylus to write on some time in the “90s”.
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