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Belgium's government brought down by language dispute
Dutch-speaking Liberals quit Cabinet, accusing Francophones of blocking deal to break up voting district
Associated Press in Brussels
Thu 22 Apr 2010 14.22 EDT First published on Thu 22 Apr 2010 14.22 EDT
Belgium's prime minister Yves Leterme has offered King Albert the resignation of his government. Photograph: Julien Warnand/EPA
Belgian premier Yves Leterme's government collapsed today after negotiations to resolve a long-simmering dispute between Dutch- and French-speaking politicians over a bilingual voting district broke down.
Dutch-speaking Liberals, one of Leterme's five coalition parties, quit the Cabinet, accusing their Francophone counterparts of blocking a deal to break up the Brussels-area district the constitutional court ruled illegal in 2003.
Leterme offered King Albert the resignation of his government. The Belgian monarch has not immediately accepted it, but began consultations with key politicians on the way forward. That may take several days, parliament president Patrick Dewael told reporters.
In a statement, the royal palace called a political crisis "inopportune". It said it could harm "Belgium's role in Europe and at an international level" – a reference to fear that the political deadlock could drag into the second half of 2010 when Belgium holds the EU's rotating presidency.
That is not an unreasonable fear. Leterme's government took office on 20 March 2008 after a political impasse over a similar and related linguistic spat that lasted a record 194 days.
Linguistic disputes – rooted in historical and economic differences – have long dominated politics in this country of 6.5 million Dutch-speakers and 4 million Francophones.
Belgium is divided into Dutch- and French-speaking regions, which determines what single language is used on everything from mortgages and traffic signs to election ballots and divorce papers.
In 2003 the constitutional court ruled the bilingual Brussels-Halle-Vilvoorde voting district illegal as it violates the separation of Dutch- and French-language regions. It comprises officially bilingual Brussels but also 20-odd towns in Dutch-speaking Flanders around the capital.
Dutch-speaking politicians have long complained the district lets Francophones – who have moved from Brussels into Dutch-speaking suburbs – vote for French-speaking parties in the capital.
Leterme's alliance of Christian Democrats, Liberals and Socialists – split into Dutch and French-speaking camps – agreed to resolve the voting district issue by Easter 2010, a deadline that was missed, leading to the government's collapse.
"We are the end of our rope," Guy Vanhengel, a Flemish Liberal, said yesterday. "I think that efforts to come to a negotiated settlement are not succeeding."
Belgium has three main regions: Dutch-speaking Flanders in the north, economically-lagging Francophone Wallonia in the south, and officially bilingual – but largely French-speaking – Brussels in the middle. The three regions have in the past 25 years acquired ever more autonomy.
As King Albert met with political leaders at the royal palace, about 15 members of the far-right Flemish Interest party sang the Flemish anthem and briefly hoisted a banner in the empty parliament chamber. It read: "Time For An Independent Flanders."
Flemish parties want their prosperous part of the country to be even more autonomous, notably by shifting taxes and some social security measures from the federal to the regional level. They also want more self-rule in transport, health, labour market and justice areas.
Francophone parties say enough powers have been devolved since the mid-1980s and accuse Dutch-speakers of trying to cut loose Wallonia, troubled by desolate smokestack landscapes and an excessive jobless rate.
It is that tense backdrop that feeds the debate over the contentious voting district.
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Game of Thrones: Stannis Eyes King’s Landing; Who Falls?
Stannis is almost at the gates of King’s Landing and the battle of Blackwater Bay, for those who have read George R.R. Martin’s books, will unfold next week. It’s the first pivot point in the War of Five Kings.
Until now, Season two has been all about jockeying for position. But the plans of the pretenders to the Iron Throne are starting to take shape, and in some cases go awry. It looks like major heads may start to roll.
Two key developments this week could have growing importance. The first, and biggest is Stannis’ move on King’s Landing where Joffrey, his mother Cersei and Tyrion have holed up preparing for a long siege. Finally, a showdown viewers have been waiting for.
Cersei is trying to get leverage over Tyrion because she doesn’t trust his motives involving impetuous Joffrey. Tyrion professes he is just trying to keep him on the throne, but she doubts him. She’s taken hostage whom she thinks is his prize whore.
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By doing so, though, she tips her hand. Tyrion vows revenge. At least now he knows where he stands.
Over in Winterfell, Theon continues to show the he may know how to take a castle, but has no clue how to keep it. He’s fearful of his own brutality and rightly so. He only has a skeleton force of 30 men who are vulnerable to attack… or an uprising.
He’s sweating his decision to murder two children and pass them off as Bran and Rickon. It’s revealed the both are alive and hiding in catacombs under the cathedral. That can only at up to trouble, especially since Rob Stark has gotten word of Winterfell’s fate and has sent part of his army to retake it.
His sister Asha arrives without the 500 men he requested with some advice from their father. Give up the castle, it’s too far inland to defend. Is he smart enough to withdraw and fight another day? It doesn’t look like it.
Meanwhile, Rob has his own problems. The Kingslayer Jaime Lannister has escaped thanks to help from his own mother Catelyn. She’s desperate to get her own children back, and Jaime has promised to help her if he’s freed. But Robb thinks otherwise.
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“Jaime Lannister has played you for a fool, you’ve weakened our position, you’ve brought discord into our camp,” he bellows. He places his own mother under guard for her treason.
“Talisa” who is “noble born” but working as a medic, captures his eye and eventually his heart after some heated lovemaking. Can she provide a valuable alliance through her family, is she a traitor, or just love struck?
Meanwhile, Jaime Lannister has his own problems as a prisoner of Brienne the Beauty. Not much is revealed about the two in this episode except that she has a deep hatred for the kingslayer.
Action north of the wall is still unraveling. Ygritte has convinced the Lord of Bones to spare Jon Snow. Now, the Crow has a chance to learn more about the Wildings. He also wants to find out why King-beyond-the-Wall Mance Rayder is massing an army.
At Harrenhal, Arya learns that Tywin plays to attack her brother Robb Stark, and plots to escape with the aid of the mysterious Jaqen H’gar. He has pledged to kill any three men she wants in exchange for saving him and his companions. Where she’s heading isn’t revealed.
In the distant east, beyond the red waste, Daenerys Targaryen continues to plot her return to the Seven Kingdoms. But without her dragons, she’s not going anywhere, except the House of the Undying to recover them. Ser Jorah tries to warn her of certain death, but she believes destiny is on her side.
Ser Jorah is so hot for her he agrees to help. Daenerys’ name and rumors she possesses dragons comes up at King’s Landing. But Tyrion wisely says a distant threat is the least of their problems right now.
Which brings us back to King’s Landing. Tyrion has an ace up his sleeve with his stash of “wildfire.” But there’s no mention of his plans to defend the castle or save Joffrey’s neck, if Stannis attacks.
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A charter carrying 132 refugees and asylum-seekers reaches Niger, resuming a life-saving evacuation programme after a two-month suspension.
By Tarik Argaz, Sufyan Ararah and Paula Barrachina | 10 May 2018 | Español | Français | عربي
Eritrean mother Eden and her baby son leave a detention centre in Libya, bound for an evacuation flight to Niger. © UNHCR
TRIPOLI, Libya – Pregnant and fearing for her life, Eden* crammed into a boat on the southern shores of the Mediterranean with hopes of reaching safety in Europe. But when the overcrowded vessel flipped offshore, the 25-year-old Eritrean found herself instead in detention in Libya.
Held for months in poor conditions in Misrata, she and her newborn baby boy were among 132 vulnerable refugees and asylum-seekers flown out of Tripoli to Niger today, after UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, resumed life-saving evacuation flights after a break of two months.
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"My only hope was to reach Europe so that my baby would see the light in a country where he could be protected and safe,” said Eden, as she fidgeted with her fingers at an airport in Tripoli, overcome by the many sensations she was living. “Today my prayers have been heard."
UNHCR began the emergency evacuations in November as part of a broader effort to address the complex movement of migrants and refugees along the Mediterranean routes, several of which converge in Libya.
"This programme is really about saving vulnerable individuals from further harm.”
Many refugees and asylum-seekers are detained in harsh conditions in Libya for long periods of time. At present, UNHCR estimates that there are 5,700 individuals held in official detention centres, of whom 2,637 are concern to UNHCR.
“Refugees in detention in Libya are languishing in extreme conditions that threaten their life and wellbeing,” said Vincent Cochetel, UNHCR’s Special Envoy for the Central Mediterranean Situation. “So this programme is really about saving vulnerable individuals from further harm.”
The flight, which departed Tripoli on Thursday morning, was the ninth since the evacuations began. The programme was suspended in March following concerns from the government of Niger that onward departures for resettlement in other countries were not keeping up with the pace of arrivals into Niger.
Eritrean refugee Simon, 38, waits at Tripoli airport for an evacuation flight to Niger after months in detention in Libya. © UNHCR/Photographer:Sufian Said
Aware of the difficult conditions that refugees are enduring in detention, authorities in Niamey generously agreed to the resumption of evacuations in May, offering additional spaces to host vulnerable refugees from Libya.
Along with Eden, 38-year-old Eritrean Simon also traveled to Niger. As a single man, he faced dangers en route to Libya including kidnap and forced labour. “Many detainees prayed for days to be part of UNHCR evacuations, as it's the only hope we have to be released," he said before boarding the flight. "Today I am lucky to have been selected and departing to Niger where I am confident many opportunities will arise."
There are currently some 605,226 persons of concern to UNHCR in Libya, including 184,612 internally displaced people, 368,583 returnees and 52,031 registered refugees and asylum-seekers.
"Many detainees prayed for days to be part of UNHCR evacuations."
For the flight to happen, UNHCR’s team in Libya had worked around the clock. A team visited different detention centres to register refugees, identifying the most vulnerable like Eden and Simon, and liaising with Libyan authorities to ensure that those selected for the flight had their exit permits ready to depart.
A logistics team meanwhile contracted the aircraft and arranged the refugees' transport from detention in Misrata, passing through several check points to reach Tripoli. Staff ensured blankets and other basic items such as clothing and shoes were also made available before travel.
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This was the charter flight’s second attempt to fly refugees and asylum-seekers out of Libya. On Tuesday, the aircraft had to turn back to Tripoli after encountering technical problems. The passengers had to spend an additional night in detention.
After reaching Niger, Eden and the other evacuated refugees will get another shot at finding long-term solutions, this time in the conditions of safety that they were desperately looking for when they left their countries of origin.
On arrival in Niamey, UNHCR met the refugees, taking them to transit guesthouses or 'cases de passage.' While solutions, including resettlement, are sought for them, they will receive food, psychosocial support and medical care, and will be able to take part in recreational activities such as sports, language, art and music classes.
With the resumptions of the evacuations from Libya to Niger, UNHCR hopes that many more refugees will find safety and, like Eden and Simon, have a new chance at life.
*Refugees' names changed for protection reasons
(With additional reporting by Louise Donovan in Niamey, Niger)
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Abadi Gerbremeskel has lived in Nashville for fourteen years but is originally from Ethiopia. He graduated from TSU in 2012 and now works as an accountant. Coming from an Ethiopian background, Abadi speaks Amharic and English. When Abadi isn’t crunching numbers at work, he enjoys helping others through United Way’s VITA Free Tax Prep program. Abadi first heard about the Tax Prep program while he was a student at TSU. During his senior year, he began volunteering for VITA and has been helping others with their taxes ever since.
“I like to help others, it’s my hobby. I love advising people on how to do their taxes. Sometimes even a $100 refund can really make a difference in someone’s life,” says Gebremeskel.
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Wir sprechen Deutsch in Montejaque!
Paul Whitelock
24 Dec, 2010 @ 16:10
AS I settle down for my first ever Christmas in Germany, I am reminded of a fascinating situation in Montejaque two years ago.
I was spending my first Christmas in Montejaque, staying with my German girlfriend (now my wife) and her two sons, who were also visiting for the festive period. One night, when we went out for a few drinks, we got a proper linguistic shock!
When we went out one evening for a few drinks in the village, we were astonished to end up in a bar in the village square where everyone present could speak German!
As we arrived in the bar talking together in German the landlady greeted us in fluent German. Anita, born and brought up in Knittlingen, south Germany, the daughter of emigrants from Montejaque, had met her husband, Antonio, also of Montejaque stock, in the Swabian town. They married and had two sons before eventually returning “home” to run the Bar El Rincón in the village square. Antonio worked in a factory in Knittlingen, so spoke factory German, while their sons, Diego and Antonio, are, of course, bi-lingual, having been born and educated there.
Suddenly, up piped a little old lady who had overheard us: “Ich sprechen Deutsch. Ich Putzfrau Knittlingen. Mein Sohn sprechen Deutsch auch. Er kommen jetzt. Er arbeiten an der Küste. Er sprechen gut Deutsch.” This lady, María, had been a cleaner in Knittlingen for many years. Her German wasn’t very good, bless her, but at least she could communicate. She’d told us that her son, who was due to arrive shortly from his job on the coast, also spoke German.
With that, in breezed Juan, and we quickly struck up a conversation in German. Unlike his mother his German was perfect – in fact, we were told later, it’s better than his Spanish. Well, he was born, brought up and educated there, so that’s understandable.
As the evening wore on our conversation became more fluid as the beer flowed. There we were: six Spaniards, two Germans, and an Englishman in a tiny bar in a small village in the mountains of Andalucía, all speaking German together. Something I will never forget. Fascinating!
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In the 1960s several hundred inhabitants of Montejaque and neighbouring village Benaoján emigrated to Germany in search of work. Many went to the town of Knittlingen near Stuttgart to work in the factories there as Gastarbeiter. Many have since returned to their home villages with their families, giving rise to the surprisingly high number of German speakers in this part of the Serranía de Ronda.
The strong links between the three villages developed into an official partnership which was officially signed and sealed in 2010.
“Just like brothers!”
What a coincidence!
About Paul Whitelock
Anglo-Welsh, born 1950. Two children (b. 1983 and 1987). Retired school inspector, and former languages teacher. Living in Serrania de Ronda. Re-married 2010. Freelance writer, translator and interpreter.
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23/05/2019 Tom Beasley 0 Comment 2019, Biopic, Bryce Dallas Howard, Certificate: 15, Dexter Fletcher, Elton John, Jamie Bell, May 2019, Musical, Rating: Pop, Richard Madden, Rocketman, Stephen Graham, Steven Mackintosh, Taron Egerton
Certificate: 15
UK Release Date: 22nd May 2019
Runtime: 121 minutes
Writer: Lee Hall
Starring: Taron Egerton, Richard Madden, Jamie Bell, Bryce Dallas Howard, Stephen Graham, Steven Mackintosh
Synopsis: The story of pop icon Elton John, from his humble roots growing up in working class Britain to becoming one of the most successful recording artists of all time.
In order to talk about Rocketman, we need to talk about Bohemian Rhapsody. Let’s mention that particular elephant in the room quickly, before it starts stomping around the room with a Best Editing Oscar in its trunk. Rocketman is a completely different film to Bohemian Rhapsody, despite the fact they share the influence of Dexter Fletcher behind the camera. This movie is a musical in every sense, with lashings of fantasy, while last year’s Freddie Mercury biopic was a far more conventional tale.
Got that? Good. Let’s actually review the film.
It’s clear from the first moments of Rocketman that Fletcher is painting with an unconventional set of brushes here. We meet Elton John (Taron Egerton), dressed in full, lurid stage gear – half devil, half phoenix. He shambles in to an AA meeting that is almost certainly in his head and tells them his life story, from growing up in a London council house to his enduring songwriting partnership with Bernie Taupin (Jamie Bell). Meanwhile, the spectre of drink and drugs is a constant, growing threat.
Jamie Bell and Taron Egerton as Elton John in Rocketman
The early stages of the movie are an absolute delight, with Fletcher bringing about the same joy he brought to the considerably more low-key Proclaimers musical Sunshine on Leith. ‘The Bitch is Back’ channels the anger and rage of Reggie Dwight’s washed-out childhood, while ‘Saturday Night’s Alright for Fighting’ uses bravura long takes and a sweeping camera to shift the action from the younger Elton to Egerton’s cocksure, swaggering proto-star.
The Kingsman star grabs this role – the stuff of an actor’s dreams – by the scruff of the neck and gives it absolutely everything. His vocals are on point and he perfectly channels the arrogance and hubris of someone whose talent has carried him to the top, without any time to pause and take stock of how best to use the platform and power his money affords him. Egerton’s unique charisma is a perfect fit for this and there’s a real joy to watching him throw himself, full-bore into embodying a complex musical legend.
Unfortunately, the cast around him is a bit of a mixed bag. Richard Madden is saddled with a strange and under-written role as Elton’s manager/lover John Reid. He’s immediately outrageously flirty and the hot and heavy sexual chemistry between him and Egerton works, but the character turns on his axis at the midpoint of the movie without any sort of explanation and Madden struggles to make this shift feel organic. Bryce Dallas Howard, too, feels miscast as Elton’s crass, often unsupportive mother. Jamie Bell fares better as Taupin and Stephen Graham is reliably brilliant in a sweary, scenery-chewing turn as a record label exec.
Taron Egerton plays Elton John in Rocketman
The muddled and variable cast is perhaps a metaphor for the movie as a whole. Its first act passes in a kaleidoscopic blur, powered by some of John’s most uplifting and engaging hits. The second half of the movie, meanwhile, suffers as some of the more dramatic swings taken by Fletcher and writer Lee Hall turn out to miss the mark. For every musical sequence that is a triumph of wild invention – the stripped-down ‘Your Song’, Elton levitating while performing ‘Crocodile Rock’ – there’s one that falls flat on its face – a restaurant of grim-looking poshos droning through ‘Sorry Seems To Be The Hardest Word’, the time and space chaos of an over-cranked ‘Pinball Wizard’.
Fortunately for the film, the songs are bulletproof and there’s not much of a limit to Fletcher’s willingness to try something different at every possible opportunity. This isn’t a sanitised, four quadrant biopic. It’s a movie with a foul mouth, a taste for the audacious and a willingness to spend five minutes in the midst of dozens of writhing, semi-naked bodies. It’s as brave and bizarre as it is magnificent and occasionally misjudged, amounting to something that’s a bumpy ride, but one that occasionally crackles with undeniable electricity.
Pop or Poop?
Taron Egerton delivers the performance of his life in Dexter Fletcher’s wild, unruly Rocketman. The Elton John story gets an impressionistic, colourful flavour in a movie that is admirably willing to push the limits of what a biopic can be.
Not everything about the movie works, and some of its biggest swings fail to bear fruit but, when it’s at its best, this is a memorable slice of fantasy that benefits from one of the strongest songbooks in pop music history.
Do you agree with my review? Let me know in the comments section.
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The Good Place reaches for the high concept
By Johanna SchnellerSpecial to the Star
Wed., Nov. 9, 2016timer1 min. read
The Show:The Good Place, Season 1, Episode 4
The Moment: The new roommates
Eleanor (Kristen Bell) and Chidi (William Jackson Harper) died recently. They now exist in “the good place,” a heavenish, perfect small town run by Michael (Ted Danson). They’re supposed to be soul mates. But there’s a problem: Eleanor was nasty on Earth. She’s in paradise by mistake. Her presence has disturbed its energy, creating a sinkhole.
Michael asks Eleanor and Chidi to house a couple who’ve been displaced by the sinkhole: a marriage counsellor and a psychological profiler. Chidi pulls Eleanor aside. “They’re going to catch us!” he hisses. “I am vexed!”
“They have no reason to suspect us,” Eleanor says. “I think they may have just come here to, you know, swing. I say we do it! It’ll get them to stop asking questions.”
“I’m not going to have sex with someone to get them to stop talking to me,” Chidi protests.
“Really?” Eleanor asks. “You and I are very different.”
Series creator Michael Schur wrote for Saturday Night Live and The Office (where he played Dwight’s brother Mose). He co-created Parks and Recreation and Brooklyn Nine-Nine. Here he’s reaching for high concept: Can Chidi, who was an ethics professor on Earth, teach Eleanor, whose misdeeds we see in flashbacks, to be good before she destroys heaven?
The problem with any high concept, however, is that the air is thin up there. The writing is twinkly but arch; the actors’ delivery zippy. But because the situation is so unreal it’s hard to invest in the characters. It’s like straining to keep confetti from falling.
The Good Place airs on Global TV. Johanna Schneller is a media connoisseur who zeroes in on pop-culture moments. She usually appears Monday through Thursday.
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The Bela Lugosi Collection
Bela Lugosi is known as the master of evil in the horror-film genre. His range as an actor in this realm knew no boundaries and his legend lives on in this 5-movie collector's edition, featuring Murders in the Rue Morgue, The Black Cat, The Raven, The Invisible Ray, and Black Friday.
Boris Karloff & Bela Lugosi 4-Movie Horror Collection
Horror icons Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi created some of the most memorable performances in cinematic history. Their unforgettable performances as Dracula (Lugosi) and Frankenstein's monster (Karloff) terrified a generation of moviegoers, and when these two legendary actors combined their talents for a series of spine-tingling films in the 1930's, audiences could not get enough. The Boris Karloff & Bela Lugosi 4-Movie Horror Collection includes 4 of their most blood-chilling...
Night Monster
Night Monster is horrific tale filled with strange characters, secret passages, dark storms and a murderer who has mastered the art of “mind over matter”. Kurt Ingston (Ralph Morgan) is a helpless cripple due to the incompetence of three doctors (Lionel Atwill, Frank Reicher, Francis Pierlot). He invites them to visit him at his estate on the pretext of donating money to medicine. One by one, the doctors are mysteriously murdered. The spooky mansion is filled with strange characters, any one of...
Horror icons Boris Karloff ( Frankenstein ) and Bela Lugosi ( Dracula ) star in the wicked thriller The Invisible Ray . On a scientific expedition to Africa, Dr. Janos Rukh (Boris Karloff) discovers a meteorite containing an unknown element a thousand times more powerful than radium. Contaminated by his contact with the element, Rukh finds himself killing everyone he touches. His friend Dr. Benet (Bela Lugosi) develops an antidote, but its effects are short-lived and result in unintended side-...
Bela Lugosi stars as Dracula in the 1931 original screen version of Bram Stoker’s classic tale. Towering ominously among the shadows of the Carpathian Mountains, Castle Dracula strikes fear in the hearts of the Transylvanian villagers below. After a naive real estate agent succumbs to the will of Count Dracula, the two head to London where the vampire hopes to stroll among respectable society by day and search for potential victims by night. Directed by horror specialist Tod Browning, the film...
Set in the old dark Winslow house, The Black Cat is a frightening mystery thriller starring Basil Rathbone, Bela Lugosi and Alan Ladd. A wealthy but embittered matriarch makes a deathbed recovery only to be murdered by someone in the greedy clan gathered for the reading of her will. The family is frustrated to learn that nobody receives a penny until the very last of the old lady’s multitude of beloved cats perish. Along with the family and servants, an eager real estate agent and a single-...
Horror icons Boris Karloff ( Frankenstein ) and Bela Lugosi ( Dracula ) star in the macabre classic The Raven , inspired by the works of Edgar Allan Poe. Dr. Richard Vollin (Lugosi) is a brilliant but unstable surgeon with a morbid obsession for instruments of torture. He saves the life of Jean Thatcher (Irene Ware), a beautiful young socialite injured in an automobile accident and becomes increasingly attracted to her. The girl is frightened, however, by his advances and complains to her...
Two of the horror genre’s most unforgettable icons, Boris Karloff ( Frankenstein ) and Bela Lugosi ( Dracula ), star in the thrilling classic Black Friday . Brain specialist Dr. Sovac (Karloff) illegally transplants part of injured gangster Red Cannon’s brain into the head of his dying friend Professor Kingsley (Stanley Ridges). The operation saves Kingley’s life, but at a terrible cost, transforming him into a Jekyll-Hyde who is sometimes his timid self, sometimes vicious Cannon. When Dr...
Based on the story by Edgar Allan Poe, Murders in the Rue Morgue is a haunting atmospheric classic starring horror icon Bela Lugosi (Dracula). Deranged scientist Dr. Mirakle (Lugosi) searches Paris for a "prospective bride" for his pet gorilla. Inviting young ladies to his sinister laboratory, he injects his victims with gorillas’ blood and then disposes of their ravaged bodies through an ingenious trapdoor. After Dr. Mirakle settles on a beautiful young woman (Sidney Fox), he kidnaps her with...
Hollywood’s best-known monsters collide in one of the great classic horror films of the 1940’s. This terror-packed story features Bela Lugosi as the Frankenstein monster and Lon Chaney, Jr. as the cursed Wolf Man. Beginning as a moody chiller, director Roy William Neill sets the stage for an unforgettable clash. The resurrected Wolf Man, seeking a cure for his malady, enlists the aid of mad scientist Patric Knowles, who claims he will not only rid the Wolf Man of his nocturnal metamorphosis but...
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How stars like Mariah Carey, Jennifer Lawrence and more celebrated Christmas
The Cyrus girls blasted *NSYNC's 'Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays.'
How stars like Mariah Carey, Jennifer Lawrence and more celebrated Christmas The Cyrus girls blasted *NSYNC's 'Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays.' Check out this story on USATODAY.com: https://usat.ly/2C6Ekxn
Erin Jensen, USAToday Published 9:23 a.m. ET Dec. 26, 2017
Meghan Markle and Prince Harry joined the royal family for Christmas church service. This is the first time a royal fiancée will spend the holiday at Sandringham before officially marrying into the family. USA TODAY
You know a stylish Meghan Markle spent Christmas with the royals in Sandringham and first lady Melania Trump played around with a Santa hat filter, but do you recall how other famous faces celebrated Christmas and Christmas Eve?
From being forced to wear "ugly" sweaters to jamming holiday tunes, see how the stars spent the holiday.
Last night, in the snow! Next stop Christmas morning! #MerryChristmas #AIWFCIY 🎄🎄🎅🏽❤️❤️
A post shared by Mariah Carey (@mariahcarey) on Dec 25, 2017 at 12:14pm PST
Naturally, the voice of the holiday had to do it up big. The All I Want for Christmas Is You singer shared a video to Instagram of her six-year-old twins, Moroccan and Monroe, meeting Santa and his reindeer.
Jennifer Lawrence visits with one of many families at the children’s hospital today! #christmas #jlaw #jenniferlawrence #nortonchildrenshospital #nortonchildrens
A post shared by Norton Children's Hospital (@nortonchildrens) on Dec 24, 2017 at 10:59am PST
Norton Children's Hospital, in Lawrence's home state of Kentucky, said the mother! star visited the hospital on Christmas Eve. In a photo shared to Instagram, the actress put her arms around two kids.
The tree ain't the only thang gettin LIT this year. 🔥🔥🔥 @tishcyrus @brandicyrus @noahcyrus
A post shared by Miley Cyrus (@mileycyrus) on Dec 24, 2017 at 9:47pm PST
*NSYNC's Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays seems to be a favorite of the Cyrus clan. Miley shared a video dancing alongside her mom, Tish and her sisters, Brandi and Noah, on Instagram.
Tryna get some photos in before these sweaters start Itchin’! I’m starting to feel it already. @treysmith0011 we wish you were here.
A post shared by Will Smith (@willsmith) on Dec 24, 2017 at 7:54pm PST
Speaking of Gettin' Jiggy Wit It, Will Smith was not down with the "ugly" sweater he says his wife, Jada Pinkett Smith, made him wear, but that didn't keep his from posing in a photo with their kids, Jaden and Willow, for his new Instagram account.
Shout out to all the REAL SANTAS that eat the cookies their kids left out as soon as you get them to sleep. #Crumbs #HimDownstairs Merry Christmas, all y’all!!!!!
A post shared by Justin Timberlake (@justintimberlake) on Dec 24, 2017 at 8:06pm PST
Someone who welcomed Will Smith to the 'gram, seemed to admit to eating the cookies his son, Silas, left for St. Nick. "Shout out to all the REAL SANTAS that eat the cookies their kids left out as soon as you get them to sleep," Timberlake captioned a photo on the social media site.
Merry Christmas from our ohana to yours! 😂🎅🏾🎶 ✋🏾
A post shared by therock (@therock) on Dec 25, 2017 at 9:28am PST
"Dwanta Claus" aka Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson shared a hilarious Insta vid in which he got shut out by his two-year-old daughter, Jasmine.
Chrissy Teigen, John Legend and Luna
A post shared by chrissy teigen (@chrissyteigen) on Dec 25, 2017 at 6:14pm PST
Clad in a red Christmas sweater, Luna posed for some gorgeous photos with her parents, Teigen and Legend, in a canyon, of course.
A post shared by Serena Williams (@serenawilliams) on Dec 24, 2017 at 6:09am PST
The tennis star who knows exactly how adorable babies in filters are had some fun with her daughter, Alexis Olympia Ohanian Jr., born in September.
✨Merry Christmas!! May you sparkle and shine this festive season, may all of your wishes and dreams come true. I pray that we all may feel this happiness all year round. God bless you! ✨ #BabyBump🤗
A post shared by Khloé (@khloekardashian) on Dec 25, 2017 at 1:14pm PST
Kardashian, who announced her pregnancy on Dec. 20, showed off her bedazzled baby bump and wished her Instagram followers a Merry Christmas.
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Prince Harry and his fiancee, Meghan Markle, arrive to their traditional Christmas Day service, at St. Mary Magdalene Church in Sandringham, England. Alastair Grant, AP
Britain's Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, right, wait for their car following the traditional Christmas Day church service, at St. Mary Magdalene Church in Sandringham, England, on Christmas Day Alastair Grant, AP
Festive swimmers take the plunge on Brighton beach during the annual Christmas day swim in Brighton, England/ Andy Rain, EPA-EFE
Girls wearing reindeer headbands stand outside the Roman Catholic Church of Holy Family in Gaza City on Christmas Day. Mohammed Abed, AFP/Getty Images
Worshippers attend Christmas Day mass at the Syriac Orthodox Church of Mar Dodo (Saint Dodo) in the northeastern Syrian Kurdish town of Derik, known as al-Malikiyah in Arabic. Dejil Souleiman, AFP/Getty Images
A Surf Life Saver takes a picture of a couple in front of a Christmas Tree as the traditional backpacker and tourist crowd enjoys Christmas Day on Bondi Beach in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia on Dec. 25, 2017. DEAN LEWINS, EPA-EFE
Indian Christians offer Christmas prayers at a church in Jammu, the winter capital of Kashmir. Jaipal Singh, EPA-EFE
The traditional backpacker and tourist crowd enjoys Christmas Day on Bondi Beach in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. DEAN LEWINS, EPA-EFE
Believers of Legio Maria of African Church Mission hold candles during their overnight Christmas Mass at the church near Ugunja, the western part of Kenya, early on Christmas Day. Fredrik Lerneryd, AFP/Getty Images
Holiday shoppers watch a Christmas Day parade at a major shopping mall in Seoul, South Korea on Dec. 25, 2017. YONHAP, EPA-EFE
Indonesian Christians take part in a parade during Christmas celebrations in Karo, North Sumatra on December 25, 2017. IVAN DAMANIK, AFP/Getty Images
Pakistani Christians sing Christmas carols during a midnight mass at the Christ Mission Church in Karachi, Pakistan on Dec. 25, 2017. SHAHZAIB AKBER, EPA-EFE
The Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem Pierbattista Pizzaballa (C) leads a Christmas midnight mass at the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem, West Bank on Dec. 25, 2017. MUSSA QAWASMA / POOL, EPA-EFE
Clergymen attend a Christmas midnight mass at the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem, West Bank on Dec. 25, 2017. MUSSA QAWASMA / POOL, EPA-EFE
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Usk Showground
Visitor Directions
Usk is situated in rural Monmouthshire, less than 10 miles from the M4.
Usk Showground is located on the B4235 Chepstow Road, 2 miles outside of Usk town. (Use SatNav location: NP15 1DD)
By Train: Please visit the National Rail website to book your train tickets. Nearest stations are Newport or Abergavenny.
By Bus: There are regular bus services to Usk from Chepstow, Cwmbran, Newport, Monmouth and Raglan. Travellers from outside the area should arrive at one of these destinations and pick up local services from there.
A FREE Shuttle Bus service operates from Twyn Square, Usk to the Showground on Show Day.
FREE Parking at the Showground
FREE Park & Ride service from Usk College, The Rhadyr.
From Usk: Follow the A472 out of Usk signposted to the A40 Monmouth/A449 Newport. Take the first left onto B4235 Chepstow Road from Usk and the showground is on your left.
From the A449 Monmouth/Newport:
Take the slip road off at Usk, and take the first Right for Chepstow (B4235). The showground is 1 mile on your left.
From M4:
Exit at Junction 24
From M5 (North):
Exit at Junction 8a, then take the M50 motorway to its end at Ross-on-Wye. Follow the A40/A449 signposted to Monmouth and Newport. (Note: A40 changes to A449 at Raglan) Exit the A449 signposted to Usk and take the first Right for Chepstow (B4235). The showground is 1 mile on your left.
From the M5 (South):
Exit at Junction 18, then stream left onto the M49. The M49 joins the M4 at the Second Severn crossing –follow the signs for South Wales. Exit the M4 at Junction 24, then take the A449 signposted to Monmouth. Take first exit signposted to Usk and take the first Right for Chepstow (B4235). The showground is 1 mile on your left.
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‘Teen Mom 2’ Star Leah Messer Wins Shared Custody of Her Twin Girls
By Joyce Chen and Brody Brown
Leah Messer attends the 5th Annual Variety Texas Hold ‘Em poker tournament in 2015. Paul Archuleta/FilmMagic
Teen Mom 2 star Leah Messer regained shared custody of her twin girls, Aliannah and Aleeah, on Wednesday, January 27, and the reality star couldn’t be more thrilled, an insider tells Us Weekly.
“Leah is doing great,” the source says. “She had confidence that she would be proven right and get her custody rights back.”
According to the insider, Messer, 23, will now have the girls on Thursdays through Sundays, and will deliver them to their dad, her ex-husband Corey Simms, on Mondays. He'll have them for the remainder of the week.
A source close to Simms said that the dad of three — he just welcomed baby girl Remi in November with wife Miranda — "came to an agreement that works best for the girls." The insider added that Simms will also have his twins one weekend a month, and that the former couple will "split the bills 50-50" as they continue to coparent.
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“She was never asking for full custody,” the source adds. “She wants the girls to be able to see their dad.”
In October, a West Virginia judge awarded Simms, 26, primary custody of the former couple’s 6-year-old twins based on accusations that have since been proven false.
“Leah just wasn’t getting them to school,” another source told Us at the time. “They were missing and they were tardy.”
But Messer — who completed a 30-day stay at a treatment facility for anxiety and depression this past June — told Us that the claims were untrue.
Corey Simms and his wife Miranda
“I talked to the superintendent,” she told Us at the time, “and I’m sending them the [time-stamped] pictures I took to prove the girls were not tardy. They’re going to take them off.”
On Wednesday, the first source confirms to Us, the judge did indeed throw out the allegations.
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“[Leah] proved in court that the kids were not tardy to school, so the judge said there was no reason the kids shouldn’t be with their mom predominantly,” the insider says.
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Messer is also mom to 2-year-old Adalynn with her ex-husband Jeremy Calvert, whom she split with in 2015 after three years of marriage.
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This new report examines the state of play of sustainable finance in Australia and compares it to the European Union’s Action Plan on Financing Sustainable Growth, offering positive steps forward for Australia’s finance industry and regulators.
The financial system lies at the heart of the economy and is therefore integral to reducing short-term systemic risks and enabling long-term sustainability. Momentum is building in banking, insurance and investment to meet the trillions of dollars of finance that is required to deliver on the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the pivotal global agreement to limit temperatures from rising two degrees above pre industrial levels. There is significant scope to ensure financial flows are directed towards enabling sustainable development.
Many countries across the world, including the European Union (EU), have committed to, or are in the process of, building the foundations of a sustainable financial system. These foundations guide regulation, legislation, policy, reporting requirements and responsible governance practices to enable the EU to effectively and efficiently tackle the challenges of the 21st century.
This report reviews the European Union’s Action Plan on Financing Sustainable Growth, comparing each of its ten action points to the current state of play in Australia.
We created a systems diagram of key stakeholders and institutions in the Australian finance ecosystem and then conducted semi-structured interviews with 23 representatives from across the following five groups:
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Analysis of opportunities for unlocking Australia’s sustainable finance potential are considered relative to the unique landscape of the Australian financial sector. These coalesce around four key themes relating to; (1) strengthened coordination and leadership to develop a sustainable finance system, practices and behaviours; (2) harmonised and standardised definitions, labels and standards; (3) improved transparency and disclosure requirements, and (4) changes in the culture and behaviour of stakeholders in the financial system to be more accountable for upholding their role and function in developing a sustainable economy.
Australia has just launched a sustainable finance initiative, with support from leaders in the banking, investment and insurance sectors, but at this stage there is no comprehensive support from the Australian Government.
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Thirteen-year-old Heo Yeon Woo, the daughter of a high-ranking official, accompanies her mother to the royal palace to attend her brother, Heo Yeom's civil service examination congratulatory ceremony. By chance, she comes across Crown Prince Lee Hwon. They fall in love, and Yeon Woo is chosen as the Crown Princess of Joseon. Before they can marry, the Dowager Queen secretly orders her death, in order to secure more power for herself. Yeon Woo becomes cursed and is stricken with an illness. All believe her to be dead, including the Crown Prince Lee Hwon. Heartbroken, he refuses to love another. Eight years later, the young king meets a shaman named Wol. He can’t help but find similarities between her and Yeon Woo and begins investigating Yeon Woo’s death.
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Portavogie
Portavogie is one of the main fishing ports in the province and is a seafood lovers paradise. The town is famous for its prawns and herrings, which have given rise to a fish processing industry as well as boat building.
The village's history can be traced back to the late 16th and early 17th century when a settlement was established North of the present village at a sheltered bay called Stablehole.
The village has become an important maritime centre because of its location and the rich supply of superb seafood in local waters. In fact, seafood is one of County Down’s most highly-prized exports. The celebrated Portavogie prawn features on many restaurant menus, locally and globally.
McCammon Rocks is a reef that lies just out to sea from Portavogie and in low tide you can walk to them. Historically, fishermen anchored their boats on the rocks, today it is very common to see seals gather.
A little inland is Kirkistown Race Track. This is a former RAF airfield and now the venue for regular car and motorcycle races that draw crowds throughout the summer season.
To the right of Portavogie harbour, there is a George Best mural. The famous footballer lived in Portavogie in the years before his death and locals remember him well. Villagers also celebrate Eileen Palmer, who set up the Fishermen’s Choir, which still thrives today. The founding fishermen in the choir all wore black sweaters, knitted by relatives. Poignantly, each garment had a unique pattern, ensuring that the wearer could be identified if they were lost at sea.
For information on the fishing heritgae of Portavogie, download our guide, available; here
For further information you can download our Portavogie Heritage Trail leaflet, available; here
You can also select Portavogie town in our Strangford Heritage Trail App available on the Google play store; here or from the iTunes library; here
To find out more contact
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Regent Street, Newtownards, Co.Down, BT23 4AD
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Tower House,34 Quay St, Bangor, Co. Down, BT20 5ED
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She found a dating app on her boyfriend’s phone. Then she bought a samurai sword.
By Kyle Swenson
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With her boyfriend finally asleep, Emily Javier reached for the samurai sword she had secretly taped earlier to the side of the bed.
According to an affidavit filed by police, the room was dark, and she sparked her phone to see better. To aim better.
Below snoozed Alex Lovell. He played too many videos games, Javier would later explain to the police, and now he was cheating on her, she claimed. She knew the signs. Tinder on his phone. Scratches across his back. A girl’s hair in their shower drain. In the weak phone glow, Javier allegedly started hacking.
Lovell woke to his girlfriend of two years attacking him with a sword, police say. Survival instincts — mainly martial arts training and all the kung fu films he had watched — clicked in.
“I was able to wing chun my way to survival,” he told the Oregonian/OregonLive in an interview this week over Facebook messenger, referring to a Chinese martial art. He eventually wrapped Javier in a bear hug. “I saw the look in her eyes, and it scared the living poop out of me,” he told the news outlet. “I told her I loved her, and she was killing me. She needed to call police, or I was going to die.”
Javier broke off the attack and made the call, frantically telling a 911 operator she had stabbed her boyfriend and she thought he was dead. “You used a sword?” the operator asked.
When police did arrive at the scene on March 3, they found Lovell curled up in the blood-spattered bedroom, according to the probable cause affidavit filed by police in Camas, a Washington state town northeast of Portland, Ore. Remarkably, he survived the attack despite serious injuries. Lovell almost lost the index, middle and ring fingers on his hand. But in interviews this week, the competitive gamer sounded happy to be alive.
“I was just so proud for beating this samurai wannabe crazy lady with hate in her heart,” the 29-year-old told the Oregonian/OregonLive. “I’ve been preparing my whole life for something like this.”
Javier — who pleaded not guilty this week to first-degree attempted murder, according to the Columbian — had also allegedly been preparing.
Alex Lovell — known as “Biggie” in his local gamer scene — is an avid player of “PlayerUnknown’s Battleground,” a multiplayer online fighting game. As he told the Oregonian/OregonLive, Lovell has been recently logging 12 to 13 hours a day playing the game. The regimen also required “exercises for his hands, wrists and shoulders and also practicing mouse moves and techniques to maximize performance,” the paper reported.
“I wasn’t a sweaty nerd, more of an Ethlete,” Lovell told the Oregonian/OregonLive.
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In an interview with police after the attack, Javier, 30, admitted she was frustrated with her boyfriend for staying glued to his game. Then, a week before the violent incident, Javier said she had discovered Lovell was unfaithful. According to the affidavit, she told police she discovered Tinder, the dating app, on his phone. She also noticed scratches on his back, possibly from a romantic encounter. She found red hair in the shower drain — her own hair was dyed green.
She did not confront her boyfriend. In the past, he had just denied such accusations. This time Javier went to the mall and bought a samurai sword. “I thought, I was gonna stab him while he was sleeping,” she told police.
The relationship reached a crisis point on March 2. According to the police affidavit, Lovell came home but ignored his girlfriend. She allegedly decided to go through with the attack, taping the sword and two knives to the bed. Javier also told police she hid Lovell’s phone so he could not call for help. When Lovell finally went to sleep, she reached for the sword.
In an interview with the Columbian this week, Lovell denied he was unfaithful. “I barely had time to hang out with my girlfriend, let alone another girl,” he told the paper. “I didn’t see it coming, but it makes sense that it happened. She obviously didn’t want anyone else to have me, so — samurai sword.”
Doctors were able to reattach Lovell’s fingers where they were nearly hacked off at the base. He also suffered wounds to his feet, legs, torso, neck and head. His right arm is in a cast. Members of the local gaming scene set up a GoFundMe page for his medical bills. The fund is just $2,000 shy of its $10,000 goal after 10 days.
Javier remains in custody. Her attorney did not return an email for comment.
“The feeling I had when I won the fight with my bare hands is just absolutely the best feeling,” Lovell boasted this week from the hospital. “I’ve played all the sports, won big games, landed some decent tricks on my snowboard. This was better.”
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Sept. 3, 2008 -- Can the measles vaccine cause autism? No, say researchers who updated older studies suggesting that it might.
The idea was that the measles virus from the live-virus measles vaccine lurks in the gut of some young children, causing bowel disease and making them more susceptible to environmental factors that might cause autism.
Now a painstaking, six-year study of children with bowel disease -- 25 with autism and 13 with normal development -- shows no link between getting the MMR (measles-mumps-rubella) vaccine and either autism or bowel disease.
"We are convinced there is no link between MMR vaccination and autism," study leader W. Ian Lipkin, MD, director of the center for infection and immunity at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health, said at a news conference.
Lipkin was quick to add that the current study focuses only on theories that the MMR vaccine causes autism. It does not address other vaccine-autism theories, such as the fear that the mercury-containing preservative thimerosal might cause autism. The MMR vaccine does not contain thimerosal.
It's a "fabulous" and "terrific" study, says William Schaffner, MD, president-elect of the National Foundation for Infectious Diseases and chairman of the department of preventive medicine at Vanderbilt University. Schaffner was not involved in the study.
"This really closes the scientific inquiry into whether measles or MMR vaccination causes autism," Schaffner tells WebMD. "It is convincing because it takes the original concept of the profoundly flawed [earlier] study and does it the way it should have been done the first time."
That earlier 1998 study by U.K. researcher Andrew Wakefield and colleagues first put forward the theory that measles viruses lurking in the gut might cause autism. However, most members of this research team later retracted their findings.
A 2002 study purportedly found measles-vaccine virus in the intestines of kids with autism and bowel disease -- but not in developmentally normal kids.
Some of those same researchers participated in the Lipkin study. The new study, repeating tests in multiple laboratories and using state-of-the-art technology, found slight traces of measles-vaccine virus in only two kids. One of these children had autism, the other did not.
Moreover, only five of the 25 kids with autism got their MMR vaccine before getting bowel disease and autism.
Autism and Intestinal Disease
Importantly, Lipkin said the study confirmed that kids with autism often have "unrecognized and undertreated bowel complaints." He credited Wakefield with being the "first to recognize the importance of gastrointestinal disease in autism," but insisted that MMR vaccination cannot account for this.
These intestinal problems may well be linked to the developmental regression seen in about 25% of kids with autism. Some of these children appear developmentally normal and then slide into autism. Others may have mild autism symptoms and then become much more disabled, says study researcher Mady Hornig, MD, director of translational research at Columbia's Mailman School of Public Health.
"The proportion of children with bowel disease and developmental regression underscores the possibility that this subset of kids with autism and intestinal problems may have separate problems that each contribute to their illness," Hornig said at the news conference.
That's a welcome thing to hear from mainstream researchers, says Sallie Bernard, executive director of SafeMinds, an autism-advocacy organization.
"On the plus side, this study has shown a link between gastrointestinal distress and regression in autism," Bernard tells WebMD. "A lot of people don't accept this and deny parents' perspective when they say their kids' with autism have GI trouble."
But Bernard says the Lipkin study does not close the book on the theory that MMR vaccine might trigger autism.
She notes that autism embraces a wide range of disorders likely caused or made worse by different factors. And the Lipkin study, Bernard says, was too small to clear MMR vaccination as a possible factor.
"I do see that some of the study authors, whom I like a lot, want to put MMR to rest as one of these factors. I respectfully disagree," she says. "I think it is premature to discount MMR from a study of this size. It is not a big enough sample to understand if there is a subgroup in which MMR is exacerbating or leading to the gastrointestinal inflammations we see in these children."
Lipkin and colleagues report their findings in the Sept. 4 issue of the online journal PloS One.
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June 28, 2010 -- Cholesterol-lowering statin drugs appear to reduce the risk for prostate cancer recurrence in patients who have had a surgical procedure called radical prostatectomy.
In a new study from Duke University Medical Center, men who took statins for their hearts were 30% less likely to have their cancers come back after their prostates were removed than men who did not take the drugs.
Those who took the highest doses saw their recurrence risk drop by half.
The research does not prove that taking cholesterol-lowering drugs directly slows the growth and progression of prostate cancer. But the fact that the fewest recurrences were seen in men who took the highest statin doses is compelling, says senior investigator Stephen J. Freedland, MD, of the Duke Prostate Center.
“Statin users may see their doctors more often and may be more health conscious in general, and it has been suggested that this could explain the observed reduction in risk,” Freedland tells WebMD. “If this is the case, dosage shouldn’t matter. But that is not what we found.”
Statins and Prostate Cancer
About one man in six will be diagnosed with prostate cancer during his lifetime, and one in 35 will die of the disease, according to the American Cancer Society.
In the U.S. alone, roughly 190,000 new cases of prostate cancer were diagnosed last year.
Statins such as Zocor, Lipitor, and Crestor, among others, are some of the most widely prescribed pharmaceuticals. While some previous studies have linked their use to a lower risk for prostate cancer and prostate cancer recurrence, this has not been seen in other studies.
In earlier research, the Duke team found that men who took statins tended to have lower levels of prostate-specific antigen (PSA), the protein that is a marker for prostate cancer.
Their latest research was designed to examine whether the drugs slow the progression of disease.
The study included just over 1,300 surgically treated prostate cancer patients enrolled in a cancer registry, including 236 who were taking statins to lower their cholesterol and heart disease risk at the time of surgery.
Statin users were followed for a median of two years, while the median follow-up for the nonusers was 38 months.
Recurrences were evaluated by measuring rising PSA levels following surgery. Specifically, the researchers measured time to "biochemical recurrence," which is considered a significant predictor of disease progression.
About 300 men were found to have biochemical recurrences during the follow-up, including 16% of the statin users and 25% of the nonusers.
After attempting to control for other factors that could influence cancer recurrence, the researchers found that taking statins before surgery was associated with a 30% reduction in biochemical recurrences.
Among men who took more than 20 milligrams of Zocor every day, the recurrence risk was reduced by 50%. Men who took less than 20 milligrams of the drug a day saw no reduction in risk.
Freedland says this decrease was similar to that seen with radiation following prostate removal.
Statin users tended to be white, older, and heavier than nonusers, and they had less advanced disease at treatment, but they also had more aggressive tumors as measured by their Gleason scores.
The study was funded by public and private health groups, including the National Institutes of Health, the Department of Veterans Affairs, and the American Urological Association.
It appears online today and in the July 15 issue of the journal Cancer.
More Research Needed
Freedland says the findings warrant further research to better understand if statins play a role in prostate cancer progression.
“Obviously this is just one study, and it is observational,” he says. “But if these findings are confirmed, this is pretty profound.”
American Cancer Society Director of Prostate and Colorectal Cancers Durado Brooks, MD, agrees that the matter deserves more study.
But he says it is far too soon to recommend statins to prevent prostate cancer recurrence.
“Even if these findings are confirmed, we don’t know if starting statins after prostate cancer is diagnosed does any good at all, because these men were taking statins before diagnosis,” he says.
He adds that since statin use has been shown to lower PSA levels, the interpretation of the findings is not so clear.
“Without actually doing biopsies on these men, we can’t say for sure that their cancers had not recurred,” he says. “And right now we can’t say if these drugs actually lower the risk of dying from prostate cancer. It will take many years to figure this out.”
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Our favourite celebs work hard for the money, and many of them are well under 30 years old. PopSugar reports what some of these celebs are earning these days, and the numbers will truly astound you. We've shared some of our favourite style stars below.
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Two-Shot Review: GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY VOL. 2
Erik Yates and Jim Tudor May 4, 2017 2017Current ReviewsG
Chris Pratt and the Crew are Back in the Marvel Universe, and Going Great Gunns!
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ERIK YATES: Probably one of the most anticipated sequels of 2017 is the follow up to Marvel’s smash hit, Guardians of the Galaxy. Led by Chris Pratt’s fun-loving scavenger persona Star Lord/Peter Quill, Zoe Saldana’s deadly & serious Gamora, Dave Buatista’s ultra-literal Drax, Bradley Cooper’s destructive and fun raccoon character Rocket, and Vin Diesel’s now-adorable Baby Groot, The Guardians of the Galaxy have come back for another high stakes adventure set in the larger Marvel Universe that will eventually lead them to share the screen with Earth’s mightiest superheroes, The Avengers.
The first film was extremely well received due to its likeable characters, good humor, strong action, and killer soundtrack that served as Peter Quill’s own “Awesome Mix-tape #1” throughout the film. Gifted with a new mix-tape (Awesome Mix-tape #2) from his now deceased mother, at the end of the first film, you knew that Guardians Vol. 2 was going to continue that tradition of great tunes to tap your feet to as the gang fights the latest galactic foe.
While many have commented that Marvel does best with their origin story films, and get diminishing returns with subsequent outings, I’d argue against that when talking about Captain America’s films, and now when discussing Guardians of the Galaxy. I’ll just come out with some broad statements to sum up how I felt about seeing this sequel in all of its IMAX 3D glory: “More fun than Vol. 1”, and it’s “A sequel that is even better than the original”.
The heart of the film, continues to be the tight-knit community that this rag-tag band of unlikely heroes has formed together, even when they seem to be light years apart. Nothing feels forced.
By having already established each of these characters, and some of the mythos of Quill’s possible back story, such as having a mysteriously unknown father, it allowed Vol. 2 to simply dive right in to a very character driven action film that gives even secondary characters like Michael Rooker’s Yondu, Karen Gillan’s Nebula, and Pom Klementieff’s Mantis some really nice character arcs to add depth to this ever expanding Marvel Universe. Throw in a Tango & Cash reunion of Kurt Russell, as Ego, and Sylvester Stallone, as Stakar Ogord, and it’s even more fun. Some might say that this character-driven approach slows down the momentum in the middle, but I thought it only added to what was truly at stake by the time we reach the climax, which culminates with an amazing finish.
The heart of the film, however, continues to be the tight-knit community that this rag-tag band of unlikely heroes has formed together, even when they seem to be light years apart. Nothing feels forced. Taking place just a few months after the events of Vol. 1, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 continues to show these characters to be the same individuals that we last saw a couple of years ago. While they might have a little more chemistry, they are still gloriously rough around the edges.
JIM TUDOR: I agree with pretty much all of that; very good summation! And thanks for doing the heavy lifting; it frees me up to build on this point… Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 is, in several ways, the ideal sequel. It’s true that there’s a terrific feeling of effortlessness (which, of course, it isn’t) in this film organically continuing the whole vibe, attitude and aesthetic of what came before. More importantly, Gunn and company resist any urge (more or less) to go bigger for the sake of going bigger. While I’m almost sure that Vol. 2 is indeed on a larger scale, it simply doesn’t feel like it. It’s a straight-up second helping of everything that worked so well before, and less of what didn’t. And, since everything pretty much worked last time, the latter part of the previous statement is moot.
As a Joss Whedon fan, it kind stinks to have to say that James Gunn (a St. Louis ex-pat, thank you very much. The opening flashback’s title card of “Missouri” got a huge cheer from our enthusiastic preview crowd) has succeeded where Whedon failed. It’s safe to say that Guardians 2 is the most hotly anticipated Marvel sequel since the second Avengers film, Age of Ultron. Ultron got bogged down and messy with its big-picture agenda and commitment to adding umpteen characters, concepts and locales. It’s scope, now de rigor for Marvel, what with the epic cast lists of the subsequent Captain America: Civil War and the upcoming Infinity War, makes the original 2012 Avengers seem kind of quaintly adorable in retrospect. One could conceivably look at its poster and think “six super-heroes? That’s it??” Guardians Vol. 2, meanwhile, keeps the rest of Marvel out of its own way, and tells a natural next-step tale in the saga of Peter Quill and company. Even Whedon’s trademark humor mixed with gravitas is better as co-opted by Gunn.
Kurt Russell is tremendous as the new character, Ego
It’s easy to forget that before they opened and were adored, both original films were considered offbeat risks for Marvel Studios, what with Avengers’ unprecedented on-screen teaming of established, wildly different super-heroes. (Never mind that they’ve been teamed successfully for decades in the source comics.) Guardians of the Galaxy was considered a risk because it was Guardians of the Galaxy. Marvel in space? A talking tree? Rocket Raccoon?? And based on a z-level comic book that never managed to sell, all placed on the shoulders of this guy Chris Pratt?
At least, that was the media perception. I actually bucked that opinion at the time in my review of what we now call Volume 1, making the argument that it wasn’t as big of a risk for Marvel as people were making it out to be. But I must say, that “at-a-glance” questioning was certainly understandable pre-August 2014.
Anyhow, the forced adorableness of Baby Groot wasn’t at all grating, which I’d braced myself for. Gunn wisely gets that obligatory aspect out of the way soon enough, even as he subverts the staging of what would be in any other such movie a major action set piece. Kurt Russell is tremendous as the new character Ego, and Elizabeth Debicki is intriguing as a self-serious golden antagonist who’s assault brigade is more of a video arcade.
ERIK YATES: Since you mentioned 2014, it is important to know that Vol. 1 was set in that year. Subsequently, so is Vol. 2. As The Avengers: Infinity War approaches, there will have to be a bit of a time jump for our Guardians of the Galaxy if they are to meet up in the current Avengers timeline.
I too wanted to comment a bit on Elizabeth Debicki’s new character Ayesha, a golden being whose race is composed of all of the best genes they can engineer. While their complexion is flawless, their physique impeccable, and their movements captivating, James Gunn seems to have a lot of fun using them for comic relief as the most imperfect bunch of misfits that are the Guardians of the Galaxy, seem to best them time and again. The assault brigade sequences you mentioned also were used to pay subtle homages to other films, many of them from the ‘70’s and ‘80’s like the “Awesome Mix-Tapes Vol 1 & 2”. There is a little of The Empire Strikes Back, Flash Gordon, and The Last Starfighter in there, with another cameo from a much panned 80’s film, but I’ll let viewers see that one for themselves.
This film is packed from start to finish with action, comedy, depth, and an even stronger song list that is bound to fuel a soundtrack purchasing frenzy.
In addition to the many Easter eggs planted all over the place, there are also five post credit scenes (or rather, in and throughout the credits scenes) for your viewing pleasure. These will extend the storyline of the just-finished Vol. 2, set-up the already announced Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3, give us a glimpse at the original comic book Guardians of the Galaxy as they exist in an alternate future from the 31st Century, and yet another development milestone for the adorable Baby Groot. This film is packed from start to finish with action, comedy, depth, and an even stronger song list that is bound to fuel a soundtrack purchasing frenzy.
JIM TUDOR: Absolutely! This film’s soundtrack is indeed a greater and more consistently strong mix. I had a hard time believing that the same person (Quill’s dead mother, rest in peace) would lump David Bowie’s “Moonage Daydream” with “Hooked on a Feeling” by Blue Swede. Being someone who savors the reveals of the songs within these films, I do in this case consider detailing their clever usages as minor spoilers. So, I’ll refrain, just as you have, Erik, in rattling off any titles. Having heard U.K. critic Mark Kermode’s radio review of Vol. 2 before seeing the film, I was subject to just such a list, and kind of wish I hadn’t been. I don’t always feel that way about such things, but in the case of these Guardians films, where the tunes really are a central part of the characters’ world, it’s best to discover the songs just as one would ideally discover plot twists and character reveals, in the context of actually seeing the movie.
All cylinders are hitting, whether they be in terms of the humor, the stakes, the characters, the cameos, props, the effects, or the hair, makeup and wardrobe.
Kermode and his cohost Simon Mayo, did for the record quip that the film has quite the sumptuous color palate and visual design, equating it to a Yes album cover set in motion. I wish I’d thought of that perfect description. A key location is an ornate but intentionally overwrought Lord of the Rings type of palace that demands thoughtful visual appreciation. All cylinders are hitting, whether they be in terms of the humor, the stakes, the characters, the cameos, props, the effects, or the hair, makeup and wardrobe. Even the 3D is arresting – a rarity in Marvel Studios history.
One more thing… Let’s lay to rest, here and now, this notion that Marvel movies represent everything that’s wrong with mainstream blockbuster filmmaking. Using the term “Marvel movies” as a verbal shorthand when describing hollow spectacle that forsakes its characters and nuance is not only shortsighted, it’s simply false. These films may never be the in-depth character meditations that people look for in Awards Season, but for mass entertainments, they’re far better than most. Even when they don’t quite work out (Age of Ultron, I’m looking at you again), the level of care, thought and planning on the creative end can’t be denied. If a verbal shorthand is necessary, there are plenty of other far more egregious franchises available to use for an intellectual piñata.
James Gunn continues to press the right buttons with Guardians Vol. 2. Quill’s quest continues, and both the Marvel Universe and the actual universe are all the better for it.
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Entrepreneurs, bosses, and leaders are often highly social and extroverted—take Steve Jobs or Richard Branson. They can work a room. They derive energy from being around others.
But what if being outgoing and extroverted isn’t actually the key to success in the workplace? Susan Cain, author of Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking, believes that innovation and introversion go together better than you might think.
[This interview has been edited and condensed. For the full conversation, visit www.innovationhub.org]
Kara Miller: Many innovators you hear about are larger-than-life characters. Are there introverted people in the shadows who are also part of the innovation process?
Susan Cain: In some ways, you almost can’t find a great innovation process without finding shy people who are a part of it. For example, the first personal computer was invented not by Steve Jobs, but by his partner Steve Wozniak, a very shy, introverted guy. Often, in these origin stories, we tend not to focus much on the contributions of the people who, by their nature, don’t really want us to focus on them.
KM: Is there a danger when these “silent partners” don’t end up with a major role in the history books?
SC: The real downside is that, when it comes time to dream up the next innovation, we don’t think about creating teams and processes that include shy, quiet members, or that effectively draw on the talents of the people who want to go off by themselves to do their work. A lot of people get to do their best work when they go off by themselves.
KM: What does the research show about the benefits of brainstorming versus sitting alone and coming up with something by yourself?
SC: We tend to think that collaboration only means sitting in a group of people bouncing around ideas. Over forty years of research on brainstorming shows that individuals who brainstorm by themselves produce more and better ideas than groups of people who brainstorm together. Most people are working in gigantic open spaces, with no respite at all from listening to other people’s conversations. These spaces make people much less productive. They make people physically ill—literally. But it’s a lot less expensive to design an office with no walls.
KM: If you, on behalf of introverts, could give one piece of advice to the extroverts of the world, what would it be?
SC: There’s research that shows that introverted leaders deliver better outcomes than extroverts do when they’re managing proactive employees, because introverted leaders are better at listening, cultivating other people’s ideas, and letting those ideas fly, as opposed to putting their own stamp on things. That’s one example of a way that extroverts could learn from introverts.
Mikaela Lefrak contributed to this write-up.
Kara Miller is the host of “Innovation Hub,” a national radio program that features the thinkers, researchers, and visionaries who are crafting the future. She is based at WGBH Radio in Boston. Follow @IHubRadio
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Jules Pieri says:
Thanks for this Kara. I shared it with my team. I can’t get enough of Susan Cain’s stuff, I guess because I am an introvert myself. I guard for personality imbalance on our team for the reasons she outlines.
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8.3-Magnitude Quake Strikes off the Coast of Chile
By: Kim Strong, Xiro Xone News September 16, 2015
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A 8.3-magnitude earthquake has struck off Chile’s coast on Wednesday and was followed by multiple strong aftershocks.
The first quake’s epicenter was about 34 miles west of the inland town of Illapel, about 130 miles north of Chile’s capital, Santiago, the U.S. Geological Center said. It occurred around 3:54 p.m. PT and had a depth of 15.5 miles.
It was initially reported as a magnitude-7.9 quake, but that was upgraded to 8.3, according to USGS.
There were reports of damages to homes in Illapel, Interior Minister Jorge Burgos told reporters.
The initial quake was followed at 3:59 p.m., by a magnitude-6.3 quake 44 miles west Illapel.
About 20 minutes later, a magnitude-6.4 earthquake struck. That temblor’s epicenter was below land, about 16 miles west of Illapel.
USGS indicated there were multiple other aftershocks as well.
Chile’s national emergency agency issued a tsunami warning, ordering evacuations in coastal areas from Arica to Puerto Aysen.
Hazardous tsunami waves were forecast for some coasts, the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center announced. Waves up to nearly 10 feet about the tide line were possible in Chile, the center said.
Other areas with Pacific-facing coasts could see waves of more than 3 feet about the tide line, including Mexico, Russia, New Zealand, Hawaii and many other Pacific islands.
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A tsunami advisory was also issued for the California coast from San Onofre State Beach in Orange County to Ragged Point in San Luis Obispo County.
The advisory refers to a tsunami capable of producing strong currents or waves considered dangerous to swimmers, boaters or coastal property.
A tsunami watch was in effect for the state of Hawaii, and investigation was underway to determine the threat there.
Chile sits on an arc of volcanoes and fault lines circling the Pacific Ocean known as the “Ring of Fire.” The area experiences frequent earthquakes and volcanic eruptions.
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How to Promote Brands Using Live Streaming Video: Gaming
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Kenji Ratier | June 21, 2019 at 12:00pm
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Why You Should Care About Live Streaming in 2019: Gaming
We surely aren’t the first ones to tell you that Live Streaming has become the newest trend in Audience Engagement and Marketing on social platforms. You’ve seen Marketing Gurus try to sell you on their book before to maximize your digital presence and leverage Influencer Marketing like a boss. Well.. we aren’t that different, to be honest.
As a business, you may wonder why we are better suited than anyone to help you grow through captivating narratives achieved with live streaming. Well, it’s true that our background roots are anchored in gaming, not in business. And this is precisely the reason we are the best suited to help your business start live streaming to gain brand exposure!
Streaming is big. But you knew that.
The number of growing communities we’ve seen stem from a single gamer has truly been a spectacle to witness. Here we are, in 2019, where the popularity of #1 global game Fortnite has mainly been driven by notable Twitch Influencers, like that popular Samurai guy (love your content btw!).
Brand Exposure
But it goes deeper than that, the streamed content itself has become a marketing platform of its own! Whether in the form of traditional logos and branding exposure on stream, as well as event venues being sponsored by the likes of Coca-Cola, Taco Bell, and the whole gamut, brands seem to have found a new avenue for reaching key demographics and target audiences with somewhat of a guarantee on time exposure compared to traditional media. Game launches now even plan close to no Marketing Strategy pre-launch and instead, spend a hefty amount on launch day for influencers to promote the game.
Brand Collaboration: Uniting Pop Culture
But there’s more! You may have heard of the collaboration between Marvel Studios and Epic Games to bring an Avengers time-limited game mode to Fortnite. It’s a win-win for both: the game studio gets viral content, while Marvel gains exposure (not that they need it) and more importantly, capture a fan base that is of a young age. The brand association to a game builds a rapport with your audience through emotions, end-users also believe in a sense of belonging to a community, not simply looking up to influencers, but feeling like one of their own. Brands and businesses have all realized this by now, and if they haven’t, they’re missing out.
Beyond the Entertainment Industry
Most recently, and in my eyes, potentially one of the most interesting from a marketing standpoint, is the Nike Jordan collaboration with Epic Games. Now, I don’t have the sales figures and they probably will never be released, but I am willing to bet that they will sell more virtual pairs of Jordan sneakers through Fortnite than their last retail drop. In addition to creating brand affinity, they are also capturing a potentially younger audience who may not have the means to afford their own physical pair of shoes, but that will undoubtedly rep the brand in a digital form, and will most likely start looking up physical pairs when they can. Mark my words, if three years from now, we see 16-18 year olds have no idea who adidas or puma is, it will be because of Nike Jordan’s foresight and bold tactic to reach new audiences through unconventional means.
What does this mean outside of Gaming?
Now, what is the main takeaway from all this? You might not be a game developer, so why should you care? Because Live Streaming isn’t exclusive to gamers and it should be part of your Marketing Channels, and incorporate your brand strategy. Sure, live streaming can be used as a one-off type campaign to create exposure and hype (eg. Apex Legends) and it can be quite successful at that. But looking at how Epic Games have built a vision for the long-haul, and how other brands can then leverage the platform for their own marketing, is truly a revolution in the industry of marketing and communicating with your audiences. Don’t look at live streaming as a banner advertorial, or a way to get your logo on there, but think of ways in which you can reinforce a sense of community, through advocates and influencers to boost social media brand exposure.
Have you been able to successfully leverage live-streaming in more than just an ROI capacity on advertorial? Do let us know what you have achieved, or even failed to achieve. and how you improved from there.
We’d love to discuss more topics about the industry, so please let us know if you’d like us to cover a story and we’ll do our best to shed some light and bust some myths.
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iTunes' Death Is All About How We Listen To Music Today
By Andrew Flanagan & Jasmine Garsd • Jun 3, 2019
Apple CEO Tim Cook delivers the keynote address at the 2019 Apple Worldwide Developers Conference in San Jose, Calif., on Monday. The company announced that it's breaking up the iTunes application into three apps handling music, podcasts and TV.
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Originally published on June 4, 2019 9:59 am
After 18 years, Apple is killing iTunes — well, sort of. The media management software for most Mac users (and many Windows users) is being broken into separate pieces for separate uses: Music, podcasts and television will soon have their own apps on the new Catalina Mac operating system.
Apple announced the move on Monday along with new hardware, including a new Mac Pro and Pro Display XDR, and entertainment and lifestyle features.
But the company's presentation, at its developers conference in San Jose, Calif., offered a lot of suspense around iTunes. "Tell me about iTunes or leave me alone while I feverishly try to back up my library lmao," tweeted one user.
Apple laid to rest a misapprehension that the iTunes Store (where users purchase songs and albums for download) would be going away in favor of Apple Music (the company's streaming service). The iTunes Store will remain, as will the music that people bought from it. But Apple did address a long-running complaint from users of the iTunes desktop app: mainly, that it's trying to be too many things at once.
At Monday's conference, Craig Federighi, Apple's senior vice president of software engineering, joked about this. "Customers love iTunes and everything it can do," he said, before sarcastically asking: "But if there's one thing we hear over and over, it's 'Can iTunes do even more?' "
Apple announced it will be launching a new stand-alone music app for Mac, as well as a new and improved TV app and a podcast app. And it said device syncing will now be handled in the Finder, the macOS file manager. Apple did not say how syncing iPhones or iPads would be handled on Windows machines.
iTunes will continue as a music store, but the new music app will be more closely aligned with Apple's music-streaming service.
Apple has seen a decline in iPhone sales due to a confluence of factors, including fewer buyers in China and an extended upgrade cycle. The company has been rebranding itself as a streaming-entertainment provider.
And it has made no secret of looking to grow its services businesses, including the Apple Music streaming service, a forthcoming TV-streaming service and a magazine subscription service.
So is owning music becoming a thing of the past?
Streaming made up 75% of the music industry's revenue last year. It's so lucrative that music streaming is where one of the fiercest battles against Apple's alleged monopoly is being waged. In March, Spotify announced it had filed an antitrust complaint against Apple with the European Commission. Spotify says the 30% commission on all App Store purchases is unfair because it forces Spotify users to pay more.
These accusations aren't just happening in Europe. In the U.S., the Supreme Court recently ruled that a class action lawsuit accusing Apple of operating an App Store monopoly can proceed.
Supreme Court Rules Against Apple, As Kavanaugh Sides With Liberal Justices
By Bill Chappell & Nina Totenberg • May 13, 2019
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Monday that a major antitrust lawsuit against Apple over its App Store can move forward. The 5-to-4 ruling immediately plunged Apple's stock prices and opened the door to the possibility of enormous future damages against the company.
Justice Brett Kavanaugh, appointed by President Trump last year, wrote the decision for himself and the court's four liberal justices. In it, he stressed that the court majority was taking no position on the merits of the lawsuit but said that under long-standing precedent the suit could proceed to its next stages.
Apple Debuts Streaming Video, Payment Card And News Subscription Services
By Avie Schneider • Mar 25, 2019
Apple announced on Monday a new video-streaming service, Apple TV+, to compete with Netflix, Hulu, Amazon Prime and others. It also unveiled a new credit card, tied to Apple Pay, and Apple News+, a subscription news service.
The iPhone has traditionally been Apple's biggest moneymaker, but those sales have been slowing, so the company is looking to make services a bigger part of its business.
Apple Disables Group FaceTime After Security Flaw Let Callers Secretly Eavesdrop
By Matthew S. Schwartz • Jan 29, 2019
A glitch in Apple's FaceTime app let users hear the other person — and in some cases, see video — even if the recipient never accepted the call. The bug was widely reported late Monday, and confirmed by several technology reporters. Until it can offer a permanent fix, Apple says it has simply disabled group FaceTime calls altogether.
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Definition of Roof
Roof Roof, n. [OE. rof, AS. hr?f top, roof; akin to D. roef cabin, Icel. hr?f a shed under which ships are built or kept; cf. OS. hr?st roof, Goth. hr?t. Cf. Roost.] 1. (Arch.) The cover of any building, including the roofing (see Roofing) and all the materials and construction necessary to carry and maintain the same upon the walls or other uprights. In the case of a building with vaulted ceilings protected by an outer roof, some writers call the vault the roof, and the outer protection the roof mask. It is better, however, to consider the vault as the ceiling only, in cases where it has farther covering. 2. That which resembles, or corresponds to, the covering or the ceiling of a house; as, the roof of a cavern; the roof of the mouth. The flowery roof Showered roses, which the morn repaired. --Milton. 3. (Mining.) The surface or bed of rock immediately overlying a bed of coal or a flat vein. Bell roof, French roof, etc. (Arch.) See under Bell, French, etc. Flat roof. (Arch.) (a) A roof actually horizontal and level, as in some Oriental buildings. (b) A roof nearly horizontal, constructed of such material as allows the water to run off freely from a very slight inclination. Roof plate. (Arch.) See Plate, n., 10.
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Q. What is Breakout Escape Room?
A. Breakout is the first real-life escape game to introduce character gameplay. The introduction of characters is to enhance gameplay strategy among players, creating a more intense atmosphere where decision-making becomes another crucial part of the game. Each character comes with its own perks, giving each player an individual responsibility in helping the team to complete their tasks. Character abilities can be paired strategically to form the perfect team to tackle different game cubes so that players can achieve minimal completion time.
Q. What is the recommended age limit?
A. There is no age limit but we do require adult supervision for children under the age of 13.
Q. Do you operate every day and what time is the last game session?
A. Yes, our store operates daily from 9AM-9PM from Sunday to Thursday and 9AM-10PM from Friday to Saturday.
Q. What is your operation time and each room’s time?
A. Our store operates daily from 9AM-9PM from Sunday to Thursday and 9AM-10PM from Friday to Saturday. You can check on each room’s time slot in our website. *Call to reserve for times outside our business hours.
Q. How long does one game session last?
A. Each game session takes approximately 1 hour 15 minutes; 15 minutes briefing and 55 minutes of gameplay plus an additional 5 minutes if the time bender character is chosen, total 1 hour.
Q. Is it all in English?
A. No. We have both Myanmar and English language used in the game rooms so that its convenient for all.
Q. Do I have to make a booking online or can I walk in?
A. We would advise online booking to secure your game session, especially during weekends. You will need to arrive as early as possible on the day and reserve for later that day as these will be on a first-come, first-served basis. For this reasons, we STRONGLY recommend booking ahead.
Q. How early do we turn up to secure the booking?
A. To secure the booking, kindly turn up 30 minutes before the game slot and paid for the session. A gentle reminder that your booking will be canceled if you don’t come and secure the booking before 30 minutes.
Q. What if I made a booking but am late for the session?
A. Please be on time for your game session to avoid cancellation of your booking as late arrival will affect upcoming game sessions. You may be required to play in a reduced amount of time. Your punctuality is very much appreciated.
Q. I made a reservation but I will be bringing more/fewer people with me to play. Do I need to call to let you know?
A. No, you do not need to call unless you are canceling your reservation (24hrs notice please). It is a private room so you may bring up to 8 players. We take payment for the total number of players once you arrive.
Q. Can kids play?
A. Yes, we have many families that come play together. Our rooms are not scary however some children may be too young (under 7) to enjoy the mysterious music so it is at the discretion/risk of the parent to determine if it is an appropriate activity.
Q. What type of attire is suitable?
A. Comfortable clothing and shoes that are easy to move around are recommended because there will be slight physical obstacles in the games
Q: Do we need to bring indoor shoes?
A: Yes, please bring an extra pair of shoes to help keep our rooms clean!
Q. What if I have shopping bags and luggage with me?
A. Each room is provided with a locker to store personal belongings or shopping bags. Locker keys will then be handed to you to hold on to until game ends.
Q. Is the game suitable for the weak-hearted, pregnant ladies or those with disabilities?
A. Some of our games might have some surprise elements and minimal physical obstacles such as climbing or crawling. However, if they are not keen on continuing the game, our game masters will definitely guide them out of the room immediately as requested.
Q. What is the maximum number of players in a room?
A. The maximum number is 8. If you have a group of more than 8 people, we would advise you to split your groups into 2 and take an extra room for better comfort and safety purposes.
Q. What if I don’t “escape”?
A. Don’t worry about it. If you can not escape, then the game master will come and guide you out of the room.
Q. Any special offers or discounts?
A. Like our Facebook page at www.facebook.com/breakoutyangon or follow us on www.instagram.com/breakoutyangon keep yourself updated on special deals of the month!
Q. I am a solo traveler and do not have a group. Can I still join the game?
A. No, minimum player for a game session is 2 players hence we would still suggest you to invite some new friends along.
Q. I wish to bring my company/recommend Breakout to my company for team building/events. Will there be a corporate fee and who do I contact?
A. You may email info@yangon.breakoutescapegame.com for discussion and corporate price.
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A. Kindly email your details/proposal to info@yangon.breakoutescapegame.com
Q. I am interested in franchising Breakout in my country or state. Who do I contact?
A. Kindly find out more information here. https://breakoutescapegame.com/franchise/
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Smartphone exchanges, social media, messaging apps and websites rendered students and their teachers at once disconnected and connected in the aftermath of hurricanes Harvey and Irma.
Now advocates of technology say it will only become more important in aiding students scattered by the storms. Administrators say this recovery has the potential to demonstrate how much instruction can carry on outside school walls amid future natural disasters and other disruptions.
“Oh, it was wonderful,” said Gay Foust, who said emailed and texted materials from Houston teacher Kristen McClintock helped Foust’s daughter, who has autism, cope with the disruption of having to stay at a friend’s home when their house flooded during Harvey.
“We’re not in Miss McClintock’s classroom, we’re not in school, and yet she was able to reach out and check on all of her students and offer any kind of help, assistance,” Gay Foust said.
Florida’s Orange County Public Schools distributed about 75,000 laptops to middle and high school students and teachers earlier this year. The idea even in fair weather is to personalize learning and boost engagement and achievement by providing students with unlimited access to their textbooks and other materials, schedules and assignments.
As schools prepared to reopen after Hurricane Irma, district officials were eager to assess how the devices fared in the students’ care after advising them through social media to charge and then unplug them and seal them in plastic bags. Many teachers posted assignments before school was canceled that gave students a chance to get ahead, and college-bound students could continue preparing for the SATs.
“This is really our chance to make sure all of our systems are working the way we want them to,” said Mariel Milano, director for digital curriculum.
One benefit when disasters strike is there are fewer textbooks to get soggy or wash away in a flood. But Hurricane Maria offered a reminder that even technology has its limitations. Authorities predict schools in Puerto Rico could be without the electricity necessary to power electronics for many of the U.S. territory’s 350,000 students for months.
The Orange County district, like others, has strict rules against penalizing students who lack access to electricity or the internet outside of school, even in the best of weather, Milano said.
In Florida, where all 2.8 million students missed school for at least two days because of Irma, Gov. Rick Scott last month said the state’s existing virtual public school would provide remote access and materials to those who are still displaced, as well as digital replacements for resources brick-and-mortar buildings may have lost. With the hardest-hit districts only beginning to reopen, it’s unknown how many students will enroll.
In the Houston area, too, many of the 1.4 million students affected by Harvey may find themselves taking virtual field trips and conducting online science experiments using technology adopted by many schools in response to budget cuts.
While schools were still closed in the Cypress-Fairbanks Independent School District, it posted a three-page list of educational websites for students at every grade level to access as constructive time-fillers.
“So much of what they have been doing for years is all online, and they’re just used to doing it that way,” said Nicole Ray, a district spokeswoman.
The disasters, which could leave buildings shuttered or drive away teachers, are also seen as openings to expand “virtual teaching” – services that have teachers provide instruction remotely by video conference.
Orange County has been looking into using the videoconferencing program Safari Montage Live to let students unable to make it back to town right away join their classrooms remotely. The program is being piloted now for a class being “co-taught” by two teachers in different buildings.
“We want schools to be successful when students return,” Milano said. “We want connectivity to be happening in every classroom and we want there to be that seamless uninterrupted period of learning.”
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Fortnite: Save the World’s Canny Valley Campaign and Updates Detailed
June 23, 2018Written by Zarmena Khan
Epic Games has offered some details about what players can expect from Fortnite‘s Save the World mode over the next few months.
Starting next week, the studio will be introducing some changes to its player reporting system. If you report someone who Epic finds guilty of engaging in inappropriate conduct, you’ll receive a message notifying you that action has been taken against the player. However, don’t expect all reports to result in penalties as Epic is reserving the system for “serial offenders.” “Penalties will range from warnings to escalating bans up to a permanent ban,” wrote the developer.
Following v5.0, Epic will release the first act of the Canny Valley campaign, which will offer players new places to explore. The campaign and a new biome will release in the “near future.” An overview of Canny Valley is as follows:
The story will answer many questions – was Dr. Vinderman a hero or a villain? What happened to him? Who is “the real Ray”, and where is she? What really is the Storm, and why did it happen? You’ll also see Lars and his band, “Steel Wool”, Dennis, Penny and all the other characters you love, along with iconic locations and enemies.
Elsewhere, Epic said that it has received a lot of requests to add mission variety and enemy types. Fans can expect two new enemy types over the next few months but for now, the developer is introducing a powerful variant of the Shielder “very soon” followed by his “new friend” Zapper.
For more on what’s coming, head over to Epic’s website.
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Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D-MI) recently blocked the sale of a former state prison set to be used as an immigrant detention center. According to The Associated Press, Whitmer prevented the sale from moving forward after Immigration Centers of America, the sole bidder for the property that has been closed since…
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Commentary: Politicized Schools Are Radically Transforming Our Nation
by Jay Schalin If somebody wanted to fundamentally transform society to its roots, where would he or she start? The most logical starting point would be education. And if there were one part of the educational system that would produce this transformation most broadly, effectively, and efficiently, it would…
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Ohio Governor DeWine to Announce Gas Tax Hike
At an annual forum sponsored by the Associated Press, Ohio Republican Gov. Mike DeWine announced Wednesday he intends to formally recommend raising the current gas tax. The recommendation will come as he introduces his first two-year transportation budget on Friday. Despite appointing an Advisory Committee on Transportation Infrastructure Issues specifically to explore…
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Minnesota State Rep Introduces Bill to Increase Criminal Penalties for Hate Crime Hoaxes
A Republican lawmaker plans to introduce legislation in the Minnesota House to increase the criminal penalties for hate-crime hoaxes in response to the ongoing controversy surrounding “Empire” star Jussie Smollett. Rep. Nick Zerwas’ (R-Elk River) proposed bill would elevate the false reporting of a hate crime to a gross misdemeanor…
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Another Snow Day Puts St. Paul Schools on Track to Fall Behind State Requirements
Wednesday’s snowfall made this February the snowiest on record for Minnesota, and with it came another day of school closures across the state. As weather forecasts predicted an inch of snow per hour during the morning commute, Minnesota announced that all public schools would be closed. For the St. Paul…
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Citizens for Community Values Joins Case Defending Christian Schools From State Discrimination
Wednesday, the Ohio-based Citizens for Community Values filed an amicus brief with the United States Supreme Court, supporting the Tree of Life Christian School in their Supreme Court case; Tree of Life Christian School v City of Upper Arlington. In 2001, the city of Upper Arlington decided that it needed to increase tax…
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Elon Musk ‘Certain’ Tesla Will Be Producing Self-Driving Cars By Year’s End
by Chris White Tesla CEO Elon Musk predicted Tuesday that the electric vehicle automaker will begin producing purely self-driving cars by the end of 2019. The mercurial tech guru has made similar predictions in the past. Musk argued in 2015 that his company would complete a self-driving feature within…
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Bernie Sanders Emerges As Early Frontrunner As Democrats Line Up to Announce for 2020 Race
by Molly Prince Independent Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders is kicking off his campaign for the presidency as the leading candidate for the Democratic ticket in 2020. Sanders announced on Tuesday that he will be officially launching a bid for the presidency to continue the “political revolution” that he began…
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How Many Times Trump’s Predecessors Declared a National Emergency
by Fred Lucas The push for a border barrier marks President Donald Trump’s fourth declaration of a national emergency—about a third as many as his three immediate predecessors in their two terms. The number of declared emergencies puts Trump on a par with Presidents Ronald Reagan and George H.W.…
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Africa and its European and Asian environment, by Jean Jolly
Hitherto unpublished maps showing the simultaneous development of Africa, Europe and Asia
Prehistory From 1350 to 1450
(french only)
(french only) Drugs, weapons
and medicine traffic
Table of 50 maps (28x28cm format)
– From the origins of man to the populating of Eurasia
– Vth-IIIrd millennium B.C.
– IInd millennium B.C.
– 1000-750 B.C. – The great proto-historical migrations - Indo-Europeans and Indo-Iranians, Sea Peoples and Dorian, Phoenician trading posts, Southern and Oriental Kushites, Centro-Sudanese and Nilotics, Proto-Bantus and Bantus, Proto-Khoïsan, Indonesians in the Indian Ocean, trans-Saharan routes of the Garamantes, Hittites and the propagation of iron
– 700-400 B.C. – The black pharaoh Taharka the Great, Berbers (Garamants, Nasamons, Toubous, Gétules and Numides), Axum and the caravan kingdoms of South Arabia, first Iron Age in the region of the Great Lakes, achemenid Persians, Scythes, Carthaginians, Greeks, Romans and Celts
– 300-44 B.C. – Carthaginians and Hannibal, Berbers (Masinissa, Syphax, Gétules and Garamants), Roman Republic, Greater Greece, Ptolemy's, Seleucids, Kingdom of Bactriane, Yué-Tché, Kushites and Axumites, Scythes and Parthians, Indian Empire of Açoka, Indonesian navigators
– 44-IIIrd century A.D. – Rome and its empire, Roman ports in the Indian ocean, Juba II and the Berbers, German, Slav and Indo-Iranian tribes in central and eastern Europe, Napata-Méroë and Axum, the arsacid Parthians, the Kushans, the Hiong-Nou Huns and the Chinese empire of the Han, the Indian kingdom of Catavahana, Nok and the beginning of the migration of the Proto-Bantu, Indonesian migration towards East Africa
– 350-420 – Roman Eastern and Western Empires subject to Barbarian invasions, the Christian kingdoms of Nubia (Nobatia, Makura and Aloa) and the Axum empire, the expansion of the Himyar in Southern Arabia, the Sassanid Persians, the march of the Huns to the West and South, the Gupta kingdom, the birth of Ghana, the town of Djenné-Djéno, the Bantu migration
– 420-480 – The Attila Empire, the Germans in Western Europe (Visigoths in Aquitaine, Suevians in the North-West of Spain and in Portugal, Angles, Jutes and Saxons in Great Britain…) and in North Africa (Genseric Vandals), the Berber kingdoms, strengthening of Ghana, Christians from Nubia and Axum, reflux of Khoïsan towards austral Africa before the Bantu, the Sassanid Persians against the Huns, the Guptas, the Toba kingdom
– 480-570 – The Eastern Empire against the Barbarians now masters of Europe and of the western Mediterranean, the Christian and Romanised Berber kingdoms of North Africa, the Christian Nubia and Axum in Arabia, the arrival of the Avars, Ghana, Djenné-Djéno, Bantu and Khoïsan, Rhodesian farmers and miners, the Sassanid Persians and the Guptas against white Huns, China spreads Westward
– 600-660 – The Arabs conquer Egypt, the Middle East and Persia, retreat of the Byzantine Empire, the Christians of Nubia and Axum cut off from Constantinople, the Djédars in the Maghreb, Ghana, Bantu and Khoïsan, the Francs in Gaul, the Visigoths in Spain, the Avars in central and eastern Europe, the Turks in central Asia, the breakup of the Gupta kingdom, Dravidian kingdoms, Tibetans
– 660-740 – The apex of the Arab empire, Ghana, Djenné-Djéno and Songhaï, Bantu (Sinoïa and Zhizo in Zambezi, Luba in the valley of the Upemba, etc.), the Eastern Empire against the Arabs, the Avars, the Bulgarians and the Lombards, the Slavs between the Baltic and the Black Sea, the Chinese empire of Tang on the defensive, the end of the divided Gupta kingdom, the Indonesians in Madagascar
– 750-814 – Charlemagne against the Umayyad emirate of Spain and the Avars, the Lombards and the Vikings, Constantine and Irene against the Arabs, the Bulgarians and the Swedish Vikings, new Finno-Ugrian migration towards the Baltic and the arrival of the Magyars in eastern Europe, apex of the Abbassid Empire with Harun el-Rachid, the Norman expansion in the Atlantic, in the Mediterranean and in eastern Europe, Ghana, Songhaï and Saharan Berbers, Bantu, Arab merchants and Indonesians in the Indian Ocean, Tibet, China of the Tang
– 815-915 – The Abbasids victims of the Karmats and Turks, the Byzantine and Nubian Christians on the defensive, Arab kingdoms (aghlabids) and Berbers (rostémids, sofrits, idrissids and Sidjilmasa) from the Maghreb, Ghana against the Berbers sanhadja, Songhaï, Yoruba, Christian kingdoms in the Sudan (Kanem and Tunjour) and the Nile Valley (Dongola, Aloa and Axum), Tulunids Turks in Egypt and the Middle-East, Bantu from the Congo (Téké, Luba), from Angola and from Zambezi (Sinoïa, Zhizo, Leopard's Kopje), first Slav principalities in Kiev and Novgorod, Normans in Russia and in the Mediterranean
– 920-1050 – Arab and non-Arab Muslims in Africa, Asia and Europe, Germanic and Slav Europe, Empire of Iarosolav the Wise, the Vikings in Iceland, Greenland and in North America, Nordic kingdom of Cnut the Great, the Normans in the Mediterranean, Byzantine Empire of Basil II, Bulgarian Empire of Tsar Samuel, China of Song, Chola Empire, Bantu of Congo (Téké, Luba), Angola and Zambezi (Sinoïa, Leopard's Kopje and Goumanié), Zimbabwe and Goumanié, Apex of Ghana, Songhaï, birth of Mali, Yoruba kingdom, Christian kingdoms of Sudan in the Nile, the Chola Empire in India and Indonesia, new Indonesian migration towards Madagascar
– 1050-1150 – The Murabits in the Maghreb and in Spain, the expansion of Kanem-Bornu in central Sahara, Sosso, Mossi, Songhaï and Haussa in Sudanese Africa, Yoruba in the Gulf of Benin, Greater Zimbabwe, the Normans in England, in Sicily and in North Africa, The Crusades in the Middle East, Empire of Iziaslav Ist, Turkish push westwards (sultanate of Roum in Anatolia, Seljuks in the Middle-East, Ghaznevids in Afghanistan, etc.), new retreat of the Byzantine Empire and the nilotic Christians, zagoué dynasty in Ethiopia, the end of the Fatimid's in Egypt, the China of Song, the Chola empire, Greater Zimbabwe, Arabs and Indonesians in Madagascar.
– 1150-1240 – The Muwahids Berbers in the Maghreb as well as in Spain, the Plantagenets in Aquitaine and in Normandy, the Teutonic knights against the Baltic Slavs, the Slav Republics of Novgorod, Rostov-Souzdal, Kiev, the Kurd Saladin in Egypt and the Middle-East, the Mongols of Genghis Khan at the gates of Europe, the Kanem-Bornu dominate the Sahara and central Sudan, struggle for influence between Sosso de Soumangourou and Mali de Soundiata, the sultanate of Delhi stretches into central India and threatens the Chola empire
– 1240-1350 – The Mongols in Asia and in Europe, the Republic of Novgorod and the Teutonic knights, the France of Saint Louis, of Philippe-Auguste and of Philippe le Bel against England, Marinids, Abdelwadids and the hafsid caliphate in the Maghreb, the Mamlukes in Egypt and in the Middle East, apex of Mali de Kankan Moussa and of Mansa Souleyman, Mossi, Songhaï, Gobir, Yoruba, Benin and Igbo-Ukwu, Kanem, Boulala, Wadaï, Mameluke Empire of Cairo, end of the Christian kingdom of Dongola, Aloa under pressure from the tribes of the desert, Axum, Greater Zimbabwe, Hova and Antalaotes in Madagascar, sultanate of Delhi
– 1350-1490 – Tamerlan dominates Asia, the Chinese fleet of the eunuch admiral Chen Ho takes control of the Arab trading posts of the African coast line, the Portuguese in Brazil and on the African Atlantic coast line, the France of Charles VII against the England of Edward III, the Aragon in the Baleares, in Sardinia, in Sicily and in the South of Italy, end of the kingdom of Granada, Marinids and Hafsids share the Maghreb, Mali in decline, the Touareg dominate western Sahara and the Boulala come to power in central Sudan, Ethiopia under threat from the Muslims, the united kingdom of Poland and Lithuania control the Ukraine
– 1490-1600 – Charles-Fifth (Holy Roman Emperor) in Europe, in North Africa and in America, Sweden becomes a great Nordic power, the Portuguese sail around Africa from the South and save Ethiopia from a Muslim invasion, The Ottoman Empire at its apex against the Austro-Spanish and the Russia of Ivan the Terrible, the empire of Tekrour destroyed by the Renegades and the Andalusians of the Sultan of Morocco, the Bornou take over in Kanem, Yoruba, Congo, Ndongo, Mutapa, Changamiré, the Indonesians in Madagascar, the Persia of Sefevids, the empire of the Great Mogul dominates India, the Vijayanagar, Chian of the Ming, Turkish khanates in central and eastern Europa and Asia
– 1600-1700 – The Europeans set out to conquer the world, the Ottomans against the Spanish in the western Mediterranean, the Moroccans in the Sudan, the slave-trade in the direction of the Americas and Asia, the kingdoms of the sahelo-sudanese zone (Bambara, Macina, Songhaï, Haussa, Bornu, Baguirmi, Wadaï, Darfur, Kordofan, Sennar), the kingdoms of the African coast line (Achanti, Oyo, Congo, Benguela, Nguni), the countries of equatorial and austral Africa (Lunda, Luba, Butua, Karanga, Maravi), a pirate Republic in Madagascar, the Persia of the Sefevids, the Mogul empire of Auranbeg, the Manchu empire of Qing
– 1700-1730 – Great-Britain gains power in Europe and throughout the world. Succession War in Spain and North War, Moulay Ismail in Morocco, the pirates leave Madagascar for the Sainte-Marie Island
– 1730-1795 – France, Spain, Great-Britain, Prussia, Austria, Russia, first dividing up of Poland, The Ottoman Empire in difficulty against Austria, the Russia of Peter the Great and Spain, the Alaouites succeed the Saadiens in Morocco, Touareg and Bambara fight at Timbuktu, wars between the slave-trading countries of central Sudan (Bornu, Baguirmi, Wadaï, Darfur), the Lunda dominate centre-austral Africa, Luba, Lozi, Butua, Manica, Maravi, the Boers progress towards the East, Madagascar divided up among European pirates, Betsimisaraka, Mérina and Sakalava, Persia threatened by the Russians and Ottomans, decline of the Mogul empire against the Maratha empire, French and English in competition in India, Manchu China receives the Kalmuks
– 1795-1804 – The French Revolution modifies the balance of power in Africa and Asia, the British come up against the Boers in the Cape and push the French out of India, the French provisionally occupy Egypt, the Russians against the Ottomans in the Caucasus and in the Black Sea, the Peul become influential in western Africa, the lunda Empire sells slaves to the Arabs and Portuguese, Butua, Karanga, Maravi, the Nguni win out between Mozambique and the Boers, the Merina take control of the central plateau central of Madagascar, Persia of the Kajars, the Marathas Empire, China
– 1804-1814 – The French Empire against the coalitions of European monarchies, the Ottoman Empire is contested in its African and European territories, the Wahabits take power in Mecca, the Russia of Alexander Ist pursues its expansion in Asia and the Caucasus, the Peuls (Fulani) take over in Sudanese Africa, wars between slave-trading states of central Sudan (Bornu, Baguirmi, Wadaï, Darfur), Radama Ist reinforces the power of the Merina, the English take over French trading posts throughout the world, settle in the Cape and extend their presence in India, The Chinese Qing empire, The Birman Kubaung Empire
– 1815-1830 – France gets another foothold for itself in Africa, Prussia increases its influence within the German Confederation, Great Britain becomes the dominant European power, the Ottomans are defeated at Lépante, Mahomet Ali takes power in Egypt with his Albanese troops, peule expansion in Sudanese Africa, the lunda Empire, Luba, the British at the Cape and in India, the Zulus of Tchaka and his lieutenants forge an empire in austral Africa, the Merina of Radama Ist conquer most of the peoples of Madagascar, the Qing Empire
– 1830-1860 – The French land in Algeria, the Ottomans recognise the independence of Greece, Bulgaria, Romania and Serbia and abandon Egypt to Mahomet Ali who conquers the Sudan, the Peuls dominate western Africa, the Zulus pursue their expansion in austral and centre-austral Africa, the British come up against the Boers and Zulus, the Merina kingdom confirms its power in Madagascar, The British Empire in India, the Empire of the Qing
– 1860-1885 – European expansion (France, Great Britain, Portugal, Italy, then Germany) in Africa, defeat of the Austro-Hungarians by Germany at Sadowa, constant decline of the Ottoman Empire, apex of the Peuls in Sudanese Africa, theocratic Empire of the Mahdi in the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, Arab slave-trading empires in central and eastern Africa, Madagascar unified by the Merina, ephemeral Empire of Yacub Beg within the confines of the China of the Qing
– 1885-1913 – Conquest and dividing up of Africa by the Europeans, resistance to the occupation and to the establishment of the British, French, Belgian, Spanish, Italian, German and Ethiopian empires, pursuance of Russian expansion in Asia, China under the Qing
– 1913 – Assessment of European colonization on the eve of the First World War
– 1914-1918 – The First World War
– 1918-1939 – Africa, Europe and Asia between the world wars
– 1939 – Assessment of European colonization on the eve of the Second World War
– 1939-1942 – The Second World War in Africa, Europe and Asia (German, Japanese and Italian military successes)
– 1942-1944 – The Second World War : the counter-offensive of the western allies
– 1945-1954 – Africa in the period following the Second World War and before the decolonisation (with the names of the African, European and Asian heads of state)
– 1954-1959 – Unambiguous warning reprimand from Washington and Moscow to the Europeans
– 1960 – Assessment of the colonization on the eve of independence
– 1960-1969 – The first years of independence
– 1970-1989 – Return to political realism
– 1989-2001 – Globalisation dominated by the Americans
– 2001-2008 – Multiform contestation of the American order
– The great world religions
– The migrations of the XXIst century
– The great endemic illnesses in the world
– Drugs, arms and medicine trafficking
– The major regional groupings
– The main economic resources
– Gross national product, big towns and big commercial ports
– Human development and the heads of state in office in 2008
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Fundraising Strategy
Firm foundations for a fundraising strategy
Friends International
"David’s manner is very engaging and professional. His service is top end. He listened and was not afraid to push us on some points. I was particularly impressed that he had the thought to come to me with his presentation before taking it to the Executive Committee."
ALAN TOWER, NATIONAL DIRECTOR, FRIENDS INTERNATIONAL
Friends International is a Christian charity that provides hospitality for international students coming to study in the UK. By equipping churches and volunteers, the charity helps overseas students to settle in, integrate and find fulfilling activities. The charity has 40 centres in university towns around the country and over 60 people working full-time or part-time. However, statistics showed its reach to be just one per cent of all international students in the UK and the strategic aim was to increase the number of centres from 40 to 60, requiring an estimated fundraising target of £800,000.
The charity’s National Director, Alan Tower, heard David Saint speak at a fundraising conference in Westminster Central Hall and asked him to help put together a fundraising strategy to guide Friends International towards the £800,000 target.
The first thing we do with any brief is challenge it. In this case, David began by questioning the target figure. Would £800,000 be enough to fund 20 new centres? Should we perhaps aim for a million, to cover a likely resultant increase in support costs? He and his colleague David Loxton then talked to directors, trustees and local staff to gather information, which he was able to use to inform his presentation to the Executive Committee. The presentation included a financial assessment and funding forecast to pinpoint how much money would be needed and where it might come from, prerequisites for the changes the charity wanted to make, resources required and how they could be accessed, and a recommended fundraising model with costs and first steps set out. Before presenting his recommendations to the Executive Committee, David ran them past Alan Tower to make sure he was happy for the somewhat radical conclusions to be presented to the committee.
The presentation gave Friends International’s Executive Committee a road map towards agreeing a workable and targeted fundraising strategy. It elicited a positive initial response from the directors, who agreed to assess it before talking it through at their next meeting and developing it further towards implementation.
Consultant’s insight:
It is particularly rewarding to come into a project early in its inception and be able to play a part in developing the thinking. As an outside consultant, we can bring an objective perspective and be in a good position to question ‘received wisdom’. Friends International does excellent work, but it seemed to us that its potential was somewhat limited by living on a shoestring budget. We hope that some of our proposals for gearing up fundraising will help the charity achieve even greater things in the future.
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Tag: harvey deitel
In my previous post I created a massive list of the hundreds of books written about .NET over the past eighteen years. In this post my goal is two-fold:
To highlight the authors who have written consistently over a number of years.
To highlight authors or books I am particularly interested in.
To note various patterns within the patterns of the books listed here or in the original post.
The Albaharis
The Albahari family have consistently authored well-respected books on C# throughout the lifetime of .NET.
C# 7.0 in a Nutshell by Ben Albahari and Joseph Albahari. 10/2017.
Safari: 5 (8).
C# 7.0 Pocket Reference by Ben Albahari and Joseph Albahari. 7/2017.
C# 6.0 in a Nutshell 6th Edition by Ben Albahari and Joseph Albahari. 11/2015.
C# 6.0 Pocket Reference by Ben Albahari and Joseph Albahari. 10/2015.
C# 5.0 in a Nutshell 5th Edition by Ben Albahari and Joseph Albahari. 6/2012.
Safari: 5 (19).
C# 4.0 Pocket Reference 3rd Edition by Ben Albahari and Joseph Albahari. 8/2010.
Safari: 4.9 (2).
C# 4.0 in a Nutshell 4th Edition by Ben Albahari and Joseph Albahari. 2/2010.*
LINQ Pocket Reference by Joseph Albahari and Ben Albahari. 2/2008.
C# 3.0 Pocket Reference 2nd Edition by Joseph Albahari and Ben Albahari. 2/2008.
C# 3.0 in a Nutshell 3rd Edition by Ben Albahari and Joseph Albahari. 9/2007.
C# in a Nutshell 2nd Edition by Ted Neward, Ben Albahari, and Peter Drayton. 8/2003.
C# Language Pocket Reference by Ted Neward, Ben Albahari, and Peter Drayton. 10/2002.*
C# in a Nutshell by Peter Drayton, Ted Neward, and Ben Albahari. 2/2002.*
C# Essentials 2nd Edition by Peter Drayton, Ben Albahari, and Brad Merrill. 1/2002.
C# Essentials by Peter Drayton, Ben Albahari, and Brad Merrill. 1/2001.
The Deitels
Visual C# How to Program by Harvey Deitel and Paul Deitel. 8/2016.
C# 6 for Programmers 6th Edition by Harvey Deitel and Paul Deitel. 8/2016.
C# 2012 for Programmers 5th Edition by Paul Deitel, Harvey M. Deitel, and Abbey Deitel. 9/2013.
Visual C# 2012: How to Program 5th Edition by Harvey Deitel and Paul Deitel. 3/2013.
Visual C# 2010: How to Program 4th Edition by Harvey Deitel and Paul Deitel. 10/2010.
Safari: 4.25 (3).
C# 2010 for Programmers 4th Edition by Harvey M. Deitel and Paul J. Deitel. 10/2010.
C# 2008 for Programmers 3rd Edition by Harvey M. Deitel and Paul J. Deitel. 9/2008.
C# for Programmers 2nd Edition by Paul J. Deitel and Harvey M. Deitel. 11/2005.
Also wrote Java 9 for Programmers 4th Edition (5/2017, 3rd Edition: 3/2014), C++ How to Program 10th Edition (2/2016), Java How To Program (Early Objects) 11th Edition (6/2017, 10th: 2/2014), C for Programmers with an Introduction to C11 (4/2013) and so on.
Dino Esposito
Is an author I’ve personally been reading for years and whose work I appreciate not only for its take on specific technologies but also on concepts and patterns.
Modern Web Development: Understanding Domains, Technologies, and User Experience by Dino Esposito. 3/2016.
Safari: 4 (2)
Microsoft .NET: Architecting Applications for the Enterprise 2nd Edition by Andrea Saltarello and Dino Esposito. 9/2014.
Programming Microsoft ASP.NET MVC by Dino Esposito. 2/2014.
Architecting Mobile Solutions for the Enterprise by Dino Esposito. 5/2012.
Programming Microsoft ASP.NET MVC by Dino Esposito. 10/2011.
Programming Microsoft ASP.NET 4 by Dino Esposito. 2/2011.
Microsoft ASP.NET and AJAX: Architecting Web Applications by Dino Esposito. 4/2009.
Microsoft .NET: Architecting Applications for the Enterprise by Dino Esposito and Andrea Saltarello. 10/2008.
Programming Microsoft ASP.NET 3.5 by Dino Esposito. 2/2008.
Introduction Microsoft ASP.NET AJAX by Dino Esposito. 5/2007.
Programming Microsoft ASP.NET 2.0 Core Reference 2nd Edition by Dino Esposito. 11/2005.
Introducing Microsoft ASP.NET 2.0 by Dino Esposito. 7/2004.
Programming Microsoft ASP.NET by Dino Esposito. 6/2003.
Applied XML Programming for Microsoft .NET by Dino Esposito. 10/2002.
Building Web Solutions with ASP.NET and ADO.NET by Dino Esposito. 2/2002.
Also wrote Start Here!: Build Windows 8 Apps with HTML5 and JavaScript (5/2013).
Another prolific author is Adam Freeman who has written extensively throughout the .NET lifespan on mainly web-based .NET topics. I’ve even included some of his not-strictly .NET books in this list.
Essential Docker for ASP.NET Core MVC by Adam Freeman. 4/2017.*
Pro Angular 2nd Edition by Adam Freeman. 1/2017.
Pro ASP.NET Core MVC 6th Edition by Adam Freeman. 9/2016.
Expert ASP.NET Web API 2 for MVC Developers by Adam Freeman. 8/2014.
Pro ASP.NET MVC 5 Platform by Adam Freeman. 4/2014.
Pro ASP.NET MVC 5 5th Edition by Adam Freeman. 12/2013.
Pro jQuery 2.0 2nd Edition by Adam Freeman. 10/2013.
Pro ASP.NET 4.5 in C# 5th Edition by Mario Szpuszta, Matthew MacDonald, and Adam Freeman. 7/2013.
Pro ASP.NET MVC 4 4th Edition by Adam Freeman. 1/2013.
Safari: 4.5 (22).
Windows 8 Apps Revealed: Using XAML and C# by Adam Freeman. 12/2012.*
Pro jQuery by Adam Freeman. 2/2012.
Applied ASP.NET 4 in Context by Adam Freeman. 9/2011.
Pro ASP.NET MVC 3 Framework 3rd Edition by Steven Sanderson and Adam Freeman. 7/2011.
Introducing Visual C# 2010 by Adam Freeman. 11/2010.
Visual C# 2010 Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach by Adam Freeman and Allen Jones. 3/2010.
Programming .NET Security by Allen Jones and Adam Freeman. 6/2003.*
Microsoft .NET XML Web Services Step by Step by Allen Jones and Adam Freeman. 11/2002.
C# for Java Developers by Adam Freeman and Allen Jones. 8/2002.
Also wrote Pro Design Patterns in Swift (1/2015), Pro AngularJS (3/2014), Pro Windows 8 Development with HTML5 and JavaScript (11/2012), Pro JavaScript for Web Apps (6/2012), The Definitive Guide to HTML5 (12/2011), Pro ASP.NET 4.5 in VB 5th Edition (9/2013, 3rd: 10/2010).
Julia Lerman
When it comes to the Entity Framework, Lerman is the definitive authority.
Programming Entity Framework: DbContext by Rowan Miller and Julia Lerman. 2/2012.
Programming Entity Framework: Code First by Rowan Miller and Julia Lerman. 11/2011.
Programming Entity Framework 2nd Edition by Julia Lerman. 8/2010.
Programming Entity Framework by Julia Lerman. 2/2009.
Mark Michaelis
Essential C# 7.0 6th Edition by Mark Michaelis. 5/2018.
Essential C# 6.0 by Eric Lippert and March Michaelis. 9/2015.
Essential C# 5.0 by Eric Lippert and Mark Michael. 11/2012.
Essential C# 4.0 by Mark Michaelis. 3/2010.
Safari: 4.5 (9)
Safari: 4.25 (4)
Pro WPF 4.5 in C# 4th Edition by Matthew MacDonald. 11/2012.
Beginning ASP.NET 4.5 in C# by Matthew MacDonald. 8/2012.
Pro WPF in C# 2010 3rd Edition by Matthew MacDonald. 3/2010.
Beginning ASP.NET 4 in C# 2010 by Matthew MacDonald. 8/2010.
Beginning ASP.NET 3.5 in C# 2008 2nd Edition by Matthew MacDonald. 11/2007.
Pro WPF in C# 2008 by Matthew MacDonald. 1/2007.
ASP.NET in a Nutshell 2nd Edition by Matthew MacDonald and G. Andrew Duthie.
ADO.NET in a Nutshell by Bill Hamilton and Matthew MacDonald. 4/2003.
Microsoft .NET Distributed Applications by Matthew MacDonald. 2/2003.
ASP.NET in a Nutshell by Matthew MacDonald and G. Andrew Duthie. 6/2002.
Also wrote a number of books in The Missing Manual series: Creating a Website 4th Edition (6/2015, 3rd Edition: 5/2011, 2nd: 12/2008, 1st: 10/2005), WordPress 2nd Edition (7/2014, 1st Edition: 10/2012), HTML5 2nd Edition (12/2013, 1st Edition: 8/2011), Office 2013 (6/2013, 7/2010, 4/2007), Excel 2013 (4/2013, 6/2010, 12/2006, 12/2004), Access 2013 (4/2013, 6/2010, 12/2006), Your Body (7/2009), Your Brain (5/2008), and Google (3/2006) as well as books on Silverlight and VB.NET.
Scott Millett
Patterns, Principles, and Practices of Domain-Driven Design by Nick Tune and Scott Millett. 5/2015.
Real World .NET 4, C#, and Silverlight: Indispensible Experience from 15 MVPs by Scott Millett, et al. 11/2011.*
Pro Agile .NET Development with Scrum by Scott Millett, Matthew Bussa, and Jerrel Blankenship. 10/2011.*
Professional ASP.NET Design Patterns by Scott Millett. 6/2010.
Safari: 5 (12)
Professional Enterprise .NET by Scott Millett and John Arking. 10/2009.
NHibernate with ASP.NET Problem-Design-Solution by Scott Millett. 2/2009.
Microsoft Visual C# Step by Step 8th Edition by John Sharp. 11/2015.
Microsoft Visual C# 2013 Step by Step by John Sharp. 11/2013.
Windows Communication Foundation 4 Step by Step by John Sharp. 11/2010.
Microsoft Visual C# 2010 Step by Step by John Sharp. 4/2010.
Microsoft Windows Communication Foundation Step by Step by John Sharp. 1/2007.*
Also wrote Games, Design and Play (6/2016) and a book on Visual J# (8/2002).
Andrew Troelsen
Are you starting to see a pattern? Yes, I like when authors write on the same topic over a long period of time. While not always indicative it can be an indicator of the depth of their knowledge on the subject.
C# 6.0 and .NET 4.6 Framework 7th Edition by Philip Japikse and Andrew Troelsen. 12/2015.
Pro C# 5.0 and the .NET Framework 4.5 6th Edition by Andrew Troelsen. 8/2012.
Pro C# 2010 and the .NET Platform 5th Edition by Andrew Troelsen. 5/2010.
Pro C# 2008 and the .NET 3.5 Platform 4th Edition by Andrew Troelsen. 11/2007.
Also wrote Pro Expression Blend 4 (2/2011) and Pro VB 2010 and the .NET 4 Platform.
Because Its New…
C# 7.1 and .NET Core 2.0 – Modern Cross-Platform Development 3rd Edition by Mark J. Price. 11/2017.
2nd edition: 3/2017.
1st edition: 3/2016.
Functional Programming in C#: How to Write Better C# Code by Enrico Buonanno. 8/2017.
C# 7 and .NET Core Cookbook by Dirk Strauss. 4/2017.
Beginning SOLID Principles and Design Patterns for ASP.NET Developers by Bipin Joshi. 3/2016.
.NET Design Patterns by Shine Xavier and Praseed Pai. 1/2017
Author Dave MackeyPosted on February 22, 2018 February 23, 2018 Categories .NET, ASP.NET, C#Tags .net core, adam freeman, ajax, asp.net, ben albahari, C#, dino esposito, entity framework, harvey deitel, john sharp, jquery, julia lerman, mark michaelis, matthew macdonald, microsoft, mvc, scott millettLeave a comment on Learning C#, .NET, and ASP.NET – A More Curated History
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Founded by Leeanne Rutherford in 1999, Ballet Theatre Australia is a Melbourne ballet school known for ballet training that balances a commitment to excellence with a nurturing environment, developing each student to their maximum potential as an artist. Teaching Vaganova-based classical method, we prepare the dedicated student for a professional career in classical ballet.
Based in the heart of Melbourne, Ballet Theatre Australia offers classical dance for juniors and seniors, full-time and part-time students; including ballet training to professional level, ballet assessments, dance performances, floor barre, classical class, pointe, pas de deux, character and contemporary.
At Ballet Theatre Australia, we offer two full-time programs. The Junior Full-Time Program for ages 12-16 years focuses on developing and nurturing the individual within a serious but encouraging environment, aiming to give each individual student a strong and refined classical technique.
The Pre-Professional Full-Time Program for students aged 17-21 years focuses on extending the individual’s artistry whilst further refining a level of technical excellence, preparing the student to enter directly into a career in a professional ballet company.
Course Studies
At Ballet Theatre Australia, we deliver government accredited Diploma & Advanced Diploma qualifications with a registered training organisation, Australian Dance Performance Institute (ADPI).
We host a one-week intensive summer school during the January holidays every year.
Entry into Ballet Theatre Australia is by audition only. Students are assessed on their flexibility, strength, physicality, musicality, concentration level and their inherent ability to apply corrections.
At Ballet Theatre Australia, we host two performances each year in which our students are encouraged to showcase their talent and training. Here are some highlights from previous performances.
With a reputation for meticulous classical training along with developing the true artist in each student, dancers from around Australia, Japan, USA and New Zealand audition to be part of Ballet Theatre Australia.
Many of our students have gone on to enjoy successful careers with various companies, from The Australian Ballet to Gratz Ballet, Austria; from Queensland Ballet to San Francisco Ballet; from Royal New Zealand Ballet to Zurich Ballet.
As proud as we are of our past students, we believe our most important students are our present ones. We actively seek out a variety of real performance opportunities where our students are challenged to become more experienced performers.
We believe in students performing their own lead roles within performance, for it is only with such intense rehearsal and performance experience that a student can advance to the level of a professional ballet dancer.
“The training at Ms Rutherford’s school is of International Standing. It develops a dancer of great merit possessing a strong use of epaulment and brilliance of foot work, diversity of style and great artistry and professionalism…”
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“Ms Rutherford is one of those unique teachers who is capable of procuring the maximum potential from each and every student. Her keen skills of observation, analysis of movement and her inherent understanding of her students’ personalities and individual learning styles ensure a methodology honed to provide an individualised teaching approach for every student.”
(Lee Anton-Hem)
“The professionalism and quality of training demonstrated by the students of this school represents the finest of International Standards.”
(Paul Hammond)
Summer Intensive 2019
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Our New Studio in South Melbourne
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Harken, Inc. has sold and entered into a long-term leaseback of its world headquarters located at N15W24983 Bluemound Road, Pewaukee, Wis. in a $15 million sale-leaseback transaction to HRKN LLC, a private real estate investment group that is not affiliated with Harken, Inc.
The 170,000 square foot industrial building with 30,000 square feet of second-floor office space was constructed in 2012 for Harken Inc.’s use.
“Completing this transaction will help accelerate our company’s growth. We will certainly continue to focus on organic growth and plan to stay right here in our home community of Pewaukee, Wis. With this sale, we may consider some strategic acquisition opportunities in our marine and industrial markets that will put this capital to work.” said Harken, Inc. co-owner and founder Peter Harken.
Harken, Inc. is a leading manufacturer and marketer of quality marine hardware and accessories that dominate such events as the America’s Cup and Olympics. Harken has invested significantly in new markets outside of the marine industry to chart a strong growth trajectory for the future in the safety and rescue markets. Harken manufactures in the USA and Italy. Its network includes offices in 48 countries, with group offices located in Australia, France, Italy, New Zealand, Poland, Sweden, the United Kingdom, and the United States (Rhode Island, California, and Florida).
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by T. Shaw
The book Get More is a foray into computer imaging and a great example of early experiments with Apple Computer graphics. Get More plays off the artist's usual structure of photographs with humorous, poignant captions pointing to global economic and cultural effects on individuals in separate episodes. This structure is expanded in Get More and involves a fast moving character, Get, a suited icon with an evil grin. Get moves very fast, the author says, in a self-conscious nod to the quick pace of economic change, the relationship between money and time, and also the artist's own use of the "new" computer imaging software with its jaggy lines and geometric syntax, which may be seen as looking very speedy. Rutkovsky's project is to show globalization's affect on individuals and cultures in a uniquely funny manner of social documentary.
Paul Rutkovsky
publication history: A single, first edition was published from work produced during a residency at Visual Studies Workshop supported by National Endowment for the Arts and New York State Council on the Arts. [T. Shaw]
popular culture (AAT)
artists' books (LCSH)
themes: Consumer culture [T. Shaw]
documentary (local)
inspiration: Television and other "appliances" in American culture. [T. Shaw]
related works: Other of the artist's books such as Commodity Character and I Am Siam. [T. Shaw]
community: workshop Visual Studies Workshop [T. Shaw]
manuscript type: other
location: artist's archive
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"Circle" Episode 1 in News
Back by: desire on May 28, 2017 11:03 PM
"Circle" Episode 1
"Circle"enters the drama game today and expectations are high for a genre so rarely loved by Korean film and television. The episode introduces both timelines, their characters and the two mysteries which will unfold through their adventures. These mysteries are instantly engaging, the characters easy to feel attachment to and the pop culture references and homages abundant. There is a lot to talk about, so here we go.
Before talking about the human and by far best element of the series, I have to say that I am surprised by how rich the world-building in"Circle"is. From the written to the mise-en-sc�ne this is a series which makes its setting clear. This is especially crucial in 2037, because the creators face the challenge of presenting a foreign world. From the masks carried by Normal Earth inhabitants to the giant, narcissistic phallic buildings of Smart Earth, everything paints a clear image.
Aside from the excellent aesthetics, the human element is what truly brings the drama to life. The characters and their relationships are all portrayed very simply and honestly. What I particularly like is the different coping mechanisms of siblings Kim Beom-gyoon (An Woo-yeon) and Kim Woo-jin (Yeo Jin-goo). Their past could be explained rationally and it is this logic Woo-jin latches onto. His brother has found purpose in the paranormal. Their relationship is engaging because of it.
While the future is more cryptic and alien, pardon the expression, it also raises so many delightful questions. From the division of classes to the concept of control, the social commentary is hefty and the cautionary value great. As for Kim� Joon-hyeok (Kim Kang-woo), while seemingly a typical "tough guy" detective, the episode is quick to establish his place in the story and reveal the connection between the two worlds. His identity as a Kim sibling is a theory I had before the series began, so I am glad that his exact identity is still a mystery.
I want to use this first episode to also address the naked elephant in the room. The Terminator-like arrival of the only currently known alien might be on the cheesy side, but the mystery is solid. We know so little about their origin and arrival, but most importantly their intentions are unknown. Our siblings are, in Woo-jin's own admission, unreliable narrators and so anything is possible at this time.
There is a lot I have to leave out for now, but it is truly a delight having so much to speak about that it cannot fit in one piece. Aside from the mystery, there are so many little touches that enrich the series. From the seasoned noir style detective and his webtoon to drones and hacking being the poor man's tools of the trade, I am just loving all the passion put into this so far. Please be good,"Circle".
"Circle"is directed byMin Jin-gi, written byKim Jin-hee-III,Park Eun-mi-I,Ryoo Moon-sangandYoo Hye-miand featuresYeo Jin-goo,Kim Kang-woo,Gong Seung-yeonandLee Gi-kwang.
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The cast of MBC’s “The Item” shared their thoughts as the drama came to an end. (247,201)
Fantasy Blockbuster MBC Wolh Miniseries 'Items' (a play by Jung In-do, directed by Kim Sung-wook), which contains people's good will and aspirations, is about to be broadcasted on the final day of the show today (2 days). Joo Ji Hoon, Jean Seon Yeon, Kim Kang Woo, and Ki..... by TaekYon.Kim
Yang Yoseob picked Highlight member Lee Gikwang’s concert as the perfect destination for his first break from the military (260,745)
"A precious friend!" Highlights Yang Yi-seop's first vacation destination was a solo concert by Lee Ki-kwang. Highlight (Yoo Doo-joon, Yi Kyoung-kwang, Yang Yongsup, Son Dong-wun) On the official SNS, the photo was released on the 25th with the article "With my prec..... by asian
Yeo Jin Goo talked about His Friendship With BTS’s Jungkook And Park Bo Gum and his plans for the future (292,063)
"Did you forget? Do you want to forget it? I'm sorry. I was going to forget, but I could not forget you. "(A scene of MBC drama 'The Year with the Sun' in 2012) Seven years ago, Ikhon, the young prince who confessed to the court, returned to King. A ju..... by asian
The 'item' captures the moment when Professor Se-yeon and absolute Kim Kang-woo are confronted in a breathtaking confrontation. (296,560)
In the last episode of MBC Woonhwa mini series 'Items' (Zenon Jungdo, Director Kim Sungwook), Shin So Young (Jean Seon Yeon) was the secretary of Yu Chul Woo (Kim Kangwoo) I have found that my body is damaged and that, unlike my own will, the body exhibits symptoms that move ..... by TaekYon.Kim
Joo Ji Hoon talked about why the CGI scenes in “The Item” are harder than those in “Along with the Gods” (322,741)
The actors starring 'Item' boasted the fantastic chemistry. On the 25th, MBC 'Section TV Entertainment Communication', MBC Wolhwa drama 'Item' four actors in the popular broadcasting, interviews with Ju Ji Hoon, Jean Seon Yeon, Kim Gang Woo and Kim Yoo Ri were reve..... by asian
Highlight’s Lee Gikwang appeared on the February 25 episode of “Please Take Care of My Refrigerator. (309,473)
Lee Ki-kwang was suspicious of his remarks about living alone near his parents' house. On February 25, JTBC "Please take care of the refrigerator," starring Lee Ki-gwang and Huang Chi-cheol as guests. The hosts couldn’t help but tease him, saying, “Is h..... by asian
Lee Se Young and Yeo Jin Goo will be going on a romantic trip to the seaside on “The Crowned Clown.” (324,698)
The man who became the king of the moonwalk TVN 'King of the King' (play Kim Sun-duk / director Kim Hee-won / production studio dragon) who is continuing the hot increase with breaking the double-digit ratings of the ma "Yeoseo Couple" Ye Jin-gu (Hae Sun Station) - Lee Se-youn..... by TaekYon.Kim
Highlight’s Lee Gikwang Confirms Military Enlistment Date (387,088)
The date has been set for Lee Gikwang’s impending enlistment. On January 28, industry representatives reported that the Highlight member will be enlisting at the Korea Army Training Center in Nonsan on April 18. According to the reports, Lee Gikwang will rece..... by HyonJoo.Kim
Ha Seon (Yeo Jin Goo) and King Lee Heon (Yeo Jin Goo) facing off against each other in a tense situation in “The Crowned Clown” (387,119)
On the 27th, the TVN monthly drama "The Man Who Became the King" revealed the scene still filled with the vast submarine (jinjin-gu) and the tyrant Leehun (jinjin-gu) In the last 6 episodes, the love of the clown ship and the heavy fighters Suk-young (Lee Se-young), who a..... by asian
Lee Se Young talked about a kiss scene with her “The Crowned Clown” co-star Yeo Jin Goo (387,762)
'Weekly User Manual' Lee Se-young mentioned the kissing of the jade. In the TVN 'Weekly User's Guide' broadcasted on the 27th, the pro-weekly llaminers, Kim Sook, Jang Yun-joo and Lee Se-young left their last trip to Jeju Island. Lee Se-young is appearing on T..... by asian
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Business Reimagined with Danny Iny | The Mirasee Podcast
Business Reimagined with Danny Iny takes you behind the scenes each week with thought and industry leaders to see how they are reimagining business in their realm. From marketers to authors, bloggers to software startups and beyond, Danny digs into the deeper ways of thinking that shape the future of how business is done.
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Building an Impactful Business That's True To Your Values 0
What do values have to do with your business? Isn’t business just about making money? Danny Iny, CEO and founder of Mirasee and author of Teach and Grow Rich: Share Your Knowledge to Create Global Impact, Freedom and Wealth, shares his reflections on how values can enrich an entrepreneur’s life as well as become a core competitive advantage.
In this episode of Business Reimagined, you’ll discover:
What business is really about (hint: it’s not just about money)
The key indicator that sets apart great online courses (and other products) from mediocre ones
How technology has made it virtually impossible to conduct business without ethics and transparency
A simple barometer to determine, at any given time, whether you’re conducting business with integrity
Why online course creators have the exciting opportunity to empower people, not as a cause that’s tacked onto their business, but as its core effect
Listen to this episode to discern what it means—and what it takes—to build a business that’s aligned with your values:
01:30 - The opportunity for many to experience the magical convergence of making an impact in the lives of people and doing so profitably
03:46 - The true meaning of growing “rich”
06:38 - Game theory and how it relates to conducting an ethical business
10:56 - Danny’s his definition of business
13:55 - The exciting opportunity for online course creators
14:13 - Consequences for online course creators who don’t really care about their students’ outcomes
17:04 - How Danny lets his values guide his business behavior
19:38 - An example of how ethical behavior pays off in unexpected ways
25:42 - Danny’s advice to entrepreneurs who want to build businesses in alignment with their values
The Future and Opportunity of Online Education 0
Danny Iny, Mirasee’s founder and CEO, takes a break from writing the revised edition of his book, Teach and Grow Rich, to reflect on where online education is heading and how independent online course creators can start capturing their markets today, while the industry is wide open.
At 1:07 - How the world of online business is growing up
At 6:42 - Why online education is like podcasting
At 10:35 - How most of today’s online courses are failing (and why that spells opportunity for those who know better)
At 14:25 - What makes for a good educational experience
At 16:19 - Why the best way to create an online course is to go… analog
At 18:27 - Why marketing matters when you first launch your course but becomes less important over time
At 25:14 - Exciting opportunities emerging through technology, and why you shouldn’t focus on them when you’re just getting started
At 27:10 - Danny’s advice for aspiring course creators
Looking Back, Looking Ahead with Danny Iny 0
The world has been reeling after the outcome of the US elections in November 2016. Even online entrepreneurs have seen the effects: post-election product launch results have ranged “ from disappointing to disastrous.”
Yet Danny Iny, CEO and founder of Mirasee, is optimistic that things are getting better. Why is that?
In today’s episode, he talks about the changes he’s seeing in the world of online business, and how entrepreneurs can ride on these trends—including those who are just starting out. Listen if you want to keep your ear to the ground and be ready for what’s coming.
The two biggest shifts in online business that have begun to take place and will continue to have an impact on how we do business and what results we get
What’s happening in the great information-education divide
Why 2017 is the best time to get started with creating and selling online courses, for those who haven’t done so yet
How small players can succeed, even if they don’t have the expertise, marketing savvy, technical ability, or money
At 4:02 - What types of businesses will do better, amidst all the uncertainty
At 9:10 - The biggest post-election risk for entrepreneurs
At 11:46 - How strategies and platforms go through cycles, and what’s coming up next for last year’s favorites
At 16:30 - How being value-driven is transitioning from a differentiating factor into a hygiene factor
At 21:36 - The challenge of scaling up online education
At 23:55 - Different ways online marketing is maturing and what they mean for solo- and small businesses
At 28:30 - Changes that are already happening in paid media that can be an obstacle to businesses that don’t have massive advertising budgets
At 31:06 - What the warm pyramid of traffic is and why it will experience a resurgence in 2017 and beyond
At 34:08 - How solo businesses are “growing up”
At 36:58 - How online product launches are transitioning from formulaic approaches to something more adaptive and resonant with audiences
At 41:43 - The two things that remain constant in business (that are not death and taxes)
The Competitive Advantage with Yanik Silver 0
Business owners want the competitive advantage. All too often, they resort to less-than-moral tactics to get there. But according to Yanik Silver, times are changing. People like you, who want to do good in the world and prosper from it, are about to eclipse those who just want the money.
In today’s episode, Yanik Silver talks about how aligning the ‘true soul’ of your business will not only help you stay motivated, but will also give you a competitive advantage with the shifting mentality of consumers. Also:
How Yanik turned a $400,000 loss into a wildly successful business by finding his own alignment
How to properly choose a mission, message, and cause, and avoid the same embarrassment that KFC faced when selling fried chicken to support breast cancer research
How to tie in your life’s work to your business model, and to do so without feeling bad about it.
If you are ready to join the forward-thinking entrepreneurs who are making real change in the future of business, and doing so in a way that enriches everyone, then you don’t want to miss this episode with Yanik Silver.
At 4:00 – Yanik talks about how he went from being nearly half a million dollars in debt to running a business that wasn’t just in line with his core beliefs, but also was highly successful.
At 6:00 – Danny and Yanik discuss how he made the new business sustainable as a membership model.
At 10:30 – Yanik explains exactly what an ‘evolved enterprise’ is, and why this type of company will have the competitive advantage in years to come.
At 13:00 – Yanik and Danny discuss how companies without a core mission are either going to evolve or fail. They talk about KFC’s doomed foray into the new landscape.
At 20:00 – Danny and Yanik talk about his new book, who it’s for, and what they can expect to get out of it that will usher in a new age of evolved enterprises.
The Science of Right Thinking with David Bayer 0
You can learn every single tactic and strategy taught by every single authority in your space, whether it’s online entrepreneurship, parenting, or even underwater basket-weaving. But if you don’t have ‘right thinking’ mastered, you probably won’t be able to execute on a single one of them. In fact, the deck has been stacked against you from birth.
Are you doomed to failure?
Not at all! Today’s guest, David Bayer, has dedicated his life to the science behind right thinking. Whether you realize it or not, you are constantly attaching information to every experience you have. You can’t always control the experiences, but you CAN control the information you attach to them. Discover:
How to reframe your past experiences to free yourself to be successful today
How science and research directly support how your beliefs affect your results
Why a little self-help won’t work; you have to be ALL IN
If you’ve spent countless hours learning and growing mentally but still haven’t achieved the level of success you want, then you need to listen to this episode. It will change the way you think, literally.
At 2:00 – David explains how finding a book at an airport, along with working a 12 step program for his drug and alcohol abuse, sparked his desire to solve the problem every entrepreneur faces.
At 4:00 – There’s a science behind the stories you tell yourself and the beliefs you have, and David explains how re-framing can change the way you experience life. Especially the beliefs you don’t realize you have.
At 14:00 – David explains why you can’t just ‘dabble’ in self-improvement, and telling yourself to ‘just believe,’ isn’t enough. He talks about what it really takes to make right thinking work for you.
At 18:00 – David explains reframing, and how people are not even close to working at full capacity, all because of the stories they tell themselves.
At 23:00 – Danny and David discuss ‘The Secret,’ and why it failed to work for so many people. He provides real, actionable advice that goes beyond wanting a million dollars or a new house.
Natural Performance Enhancement with Dr. Isaac Jones 0
In terms of performance, did you know that you have a ‘genetic bucket?’ Everyone does, and we don’t get to choose how much they hold. Some are bigger than others, and you can have a huge effect on the size of your children’s genetic bucket, by virtue of the life YOU live.
So what’s a genetic bucket?
According to Dr. Isaac Jones, your genetic bucket is how much toxicity you can hold in your body. Once the bucket overflows, you begin to feel tired and distracted. You have headaches and pain in your body. In short, an overflowing bucket can lead to poor performance.
In this episode, discover why you shouldn’t pass tiredness and headaches off as a hazard of being a busy entrepreneur. Also:
Isaac reveals his own painful past and the transition from special education student to the top of his class and nearly qualifying for the Olympics.
Find out what the dirty dozen and clean fifteen are, and how you can eat better, even on a budget.
Combat environmental toxins and cleanse your body through natural means, in spite of a broken healthcare system.
Get clear, easy-to-understand steps and explanations of how to improve your performance.
Yes, entrepreneurs and professions lead demanding lives, but that doesn’t mean you have to feel horrible while doing it. Don’t miss this episode with Dr. Isaac Jones; his passion for the performance will leave you feeling inspired.
At 1:30 – Find out the soul-crushing label doctors gave a young Isaac that almost kept him from being the success he is today.
At 3:40 – Isaac gets to the heart of what causes poor performance in the human body, and what causes it. If you’re thinking of buying a new computer, you’ll want to hear this.
At 10:00 – Isaac gives some practical, easy to implement steps for busy entrepreneurs that can help mitigate the toxins all around them, and inside their bodies.
At 12:00 – Danny and Isaac discuss the concept of the ‘genetic bucket,’ and the lifestyles many adults are living and teaching their children.
At 21:00 – Isaac take a little extra time to explain in simple terms what micronutrients are, as well as easy ways to increase your own intake to help your performance soar.
Making Rockstar Events with Louie La Vella 0
When the world slams a door in your face, do you give up, or do you build your OWN door? Today’s guest, Louie La Vella, is a carpenter-type entrepreneur. Every time a door closed for him, he built another. He’s spent a lifetime in the entertainment industry, and now focuses on creating amazing events that give a one-of-a-kind experience.
What’s holding YOU back from putting on an event, or being a rockstar speaker at someone else’s event? Discover:
How Louie broke into radio and television after he was turned down
What makes an event successful in a competitive market
What to do when your potential clients don’t want your help but desperately need it
If you’re tired of doors being slammed in your face as an entrepreneur, you don’t want to miss this episode. Build your own doors and craft amazing experiences.
At 3:00 – Louie talks about being rejected by his ideal clients, and pivoting to even greater success.
At 5:00 – Danny and Louie talk about event success in terms of crafting experience, and why it matters in a competitive environment.
At 9:00 – Louie explains how a rebrand works for an older or unpopular event, and the steps to take to bring it back to life.
At 12:00 – Louie addresses how to be a compelling presenter at other people’s events.
At 16:00 – Louie wraps up with his philosophy on entrepreneurship and how it’s made him an incredible success.
REPLAY: BR36: Strategic Philanthropy with Tom Matzen 0
When you think of the term strategic philanthropy, one company comes to mind: Tom’s Shoes. You’d be hard pressed to find someone who hasn’t heard of them. For every pair of shoes someone buys from them, they send another pair to a developing country. That strategy, do good to make money, has made them incredibly successful.
Today’s guest is Tom Matzen, and in this episode, he explains exactly what strategic philanthropy is, how your customers will thank you for raising prices, and a simple formula any company, from start up to corporation, can use to do good and make more money – ethically.
At 3:00 – Tom describes the difference between a small business owner and an entrepreneur.
At 8:00 – It was a poor review from a customer Tom helped to increase her sales by 50% that finally made him realize that he wasn’t truly meeting all of his clients’ needs.
At 12:00 – Tom dives into what strategic philanthropy is, and how to pick a great cause to support that makes sense for you and your customer.
At 20:00 – Tom describes the formula any company can use to do good and make more money in an ethical and sustainable way.
At 26:00 – Tom shares his vision of how it’s up to business to save the world, not government.
At 33:00 – Tom explains how a company can use a simple formula to ensure they are sustainable as they work toward their good cause.
Find and Define Your Nich
REPLAY: BR47: Customer Service on the Social Stage with Jay Baer 0
In most of business history, customer service was viewed as a necessary evil that didn’t have a lot of repercussions if it was done poorly, or not at all. Realistically, how many people could a single person tell about their experience with you? Oh, how times have changed.
In the world of the internet, customer service has become a spectator sport, according to today’s guest, Jay Baer, author of Hug Your Haters. All your interactions are playing out on the social media stage, and this can work for you or against you. And if you take advantage of it, the good it can do will scale so much that your happy customers will do your marketing FOR you.
Learn how marketing and customer service are being disrupted in the say way, and what to do about it.
The surprising place to adjust your budget for social media presence, even as a small business.
How catering to your most annoying customers pays off.
Whether or not ‘the customer is always right’ is the truth, and the power of over-informing.
At 2:00 – Jay explains how customer service is being disrupted in the same way marketing has been, and the ways entrepreneurs have had to change their thinking about it. He also discusses the practicality of small businesses entering the social media stage.
At 9:00 – Jay breaks down the numbers when it comes to customer complaints going unanswered, and where the majority of those complaints are found. It’s a huge missed opportunity for businesses.
At 12:00 – There are always customers who are unreasonable, and Jay gets to the heart of the message in his book that explains how to deal with customers like that, and whether it’s worth your time or not.
At 19:00 – Jay talks about the concept of ‘strategic ignorance,’ how it hurts businesses, and when it’s okay not to respond to customers. There’s also a surprising place you can adjust your budget to take on the complaints you should be addressing.
At 26:00 – There’s an often-missed psychological impact on the people who answer customer complaints, especially when it’s the business owner. Jay talks about how to deal with it, and his vision for customer service in the future.
Being Whale Vomit with Kevin Dubrosky 0
Whale vomit is gross. But being unique, relevant, and scarce isn’t. In fact, to maximize profits, those are the three things you need. How do whale vomit and business tie together? Today’s guest, Kevin Dubrosky, reveals the secret behind success in business, and the key is to be like whale vomit: unique, relevant, and scarce.
If you want to know why ‘whale vomit,’ you’ll just have to hear Kevin’s story.
Why the richest of the rich douse themselves with whale vomit
The 3 step verification that will measure your success potential
How Blackberry could have taken Apple down but didn’t
Keen insights on positioning your business, based on real life examples
If you want to learn how to be like whale vomit… or rather, to be unique, relevant, and scarce, then you don’t want to miss this episode.
At 6:00 – Kevin reveals the story of how whale vomit inspired his new book.
At 11:00 – Kevin explains how to find your uniqueness, or create it, based on 2 key factors: experience and offer.
At 13:30 – Dominoes has cornered the 30 minutes or less market; Kevin talks about why that works for them, regardless of the quality of their pizza.
At 16:30 – Kevin shares the story of how he tried to help Blackberry before their downward spiral, and the fatal mistake they made that could have been avoided.
At 20:00 – Danny and Kevin discuss the ridiculous price of his first edition book, and how you can get the 2nd version for much less, to help YOU become whale vomit.
How to Build an Entrepreneur with Ash Maurya 0
An entrepreneur isn’t an entrepreneur no matter how many businesses they try to build or how many startups they have a hand in. Entrepreneurs are built, too, and it’s a step too often skipped.
Today’s guest, Ash Maurya, founder of LeanStack, knows all about entrepreneurship. He also knows from personal experience what happens when you don’t build that skillset first. He’ll also be the first to tell you that the tools available to help you become a better entrepreneur aren’t readily available, especially when it comes to ideas and business plans. Discover:
The revolutionary way to ‘pilot’ a book and become a thought leader
How to tell when an idea will work and when it won’t
Where great business ideas come from
The alterative to a business plan that works like LEGOs
If you’re interested in a simple, flexible way to build a business, or how to know when you’ve got an idea worth pursuing, you don’t want to miss this episode.
At 4:00 – How to write a book using the lean startup method, and make yourself a thought leader in the process.
At 8:00 – Ash describes how his lean startup method goes a step further than its predecessors, and how it simplifies the process.
At 12:30 – Ash explains why the LeanCanvas method is something anyone can do; you don’t have to be a software designer like he is to use it.
At 17:00 – There’s lean startups, running lean, and now, Ash has a new book called Scaling Lean. Find out what that means for growing businesses.
At 21:00 – Ash explains why his passion lies in lean startups, and how he strives to build entrepreneurs instead of businesses.
How to Scale Happiness with UJ Ramdas 0
Stop. Take a breath. What are you grateful for, right now? What brings you happiness?
Can’t think of anything more meaningful than ‘my family,’ or ‘I’m alive?’
You’re not trying hard enough, according to UJ Ramdas, co-creator of the Five Minute Journal phenomenon. You’ve probably already heard of the Five Minute Journal. But you might not have heard or considered how you can take the happiness and gratitude you cultivate in the journal and apply it to productivity and successful businesses. Discover:
The exact questions you’ll find within the pages of the Journal and how they’re designed to hack your brain
What you should be FEELING when you think about what you’re grateful for
Adaptations to the Five Minute Journal that make it your own
How productivity and happiness scale with being aligned with your values
Want to create the kind of happiness that scales? Don’t miss this episode of Business Reimagined.
At 4:00 – UJ talks about what he calls the ‘toothbrush for your mind,’ and explains how to live a happier and more engaged life.
At 9:00 – UJ turns the tables on Danny, asking several piercing questions about Danny’s life and happiness.
At 15:00 – Danny and UJ discuss different ways people use the 5 Minute Journal, including discussing it with loved ones and logging emotions, to supercharge the effectiveness.
At 21:00 – UJ explains the new product his company has produced, aimed at aligning values and business to heighten productivity, and make it scale with happiness.
At 25:00 – UJ reveals how happiness doesn’t scale with money, and he shares his thoughts on how it DOES scale.
Creating Customer Experience with Joey Coleman 0
Ever been to McDonald’s? What if I told you there were masters of customer experience? You’d probably laugh me through those golden arches. But Joey Coleman, today’s guest on Business Reimagined, believes they’re doing something very right.
Only one thing, though: their French fries. Admit it. You’ve at least heard about people’s obsession with the fried feast of potatoes.
It’s not about the customer service you receive. It’s about the experience you have at McDonald’s that sets it apart from the rest. So how can you take this strategy and apply it to the real world of getting customers and keeping them? Joey Coleman discusses:
How to walk YOUR customers through the first 100 days of the relationship
The emotional bond you create with them that makes them rabid fans
How to get people to actually USE your product
Ways to connect AFTER the sale that will make a world of difference to your customers
If you want to create a customer experience your competitors and peers can’t touch, then you don’t want to miss this episode with Joey Coleman.
At 5:00 – Joey explains in three minutes what the first 100 days process is and how to get customer relationships right.
At 10:00 – A lot of businesses drop the ball, and Joey talks about the most common mistakes they make.
At 13:00 – Joey explains how the phases he described work in practice and process for many types of businesses.
At 18:00 – Joey addresses how to provide enough support to the variety of customers you will have without being too detailed for some, and not giving enough to others.
At 20:00 – Some customers buy, but never USE the product, which means less good reviews for a business owner. Joey explains the unusual way he encourages customers to use the product after the sale.
Create a Zappos Culture with Robert Richman 0
I’m sure you’ve heard of the shoe company, Zappos, and their amazing workplace culture. They have a popcorn machine in the lobby. Does that mean you should get a popcorn machine, too?
Is creating culture really that simple?
Yes and no, according to the man who helped Zappos pioneer their corporate culture training, Robert Richman. Today, he talks about what makes a great company culture, not JUST for existing companies, but those that are a single person scaling up. Discover:
The experience attendees to the Zappos training get from the minute they walk in the door
Why culture is more about belief that specific actions
The two things you need to establish to make a great culture
AND, how to create a culture for yourself as a solopreneur
Whether you’re an established entrepreneur or one who’s about to start scaling, culture is something you need to latch onto now. Don’t miss this episode!
At 7:00 – Culture is about way more than a notebook of tactics, and Robert talks about ‘game changers’ as simple as a popcorn machine and as sweeping as company meetings.
At 12:00 – Robert gives 2 tips for instant change in your company, even (and especially) if you’re a solopreneur.
At 14:00 – Danny and Robert address the issue of firing people who seem hard to replace, and the benefit of getting rid of what doesn’t work at a company, even people.
At 16:00 – Robert calls out managers who are habitually late for meetings, and explains how that kills culture in a company.
At 22:00 – Robert goes into detail about how new entrepreneurs can and should create culture from day one, and why it can be a challenge for distributed companies.
Trusting Your Hustle with Anthony Trucks 0
Entrepreneurs come in all shapes and sizes. You’ve got those who were born to it and others who had incredible mentors. The stars seemed to align for them. Then there are some who have to fight and hustle for every bit of ground they gain. It feels like no one cares about their dreams or passions, and no one is there to help or guide them.
Are YOU a ‘foster child’ of the entrepreneurial world?
Today’s guest, Anthony Trucks, was a REAL foster child, and he defied the statistics. Not only did he become a NFL football player, but he also went on to become a successful entrepreneur. He teaches other people to ‘trust their hustle,’ and how to get through the loneliness and hardships they face when stepping into the entrepreneurial ring. Discover:
The heart-wrenching experience Anthony had that make him feel unloved and unwanted for most of his childhood.
The 5 foundational bases you need to keep you stable as you go after your dreams.
The revealing question Anthony asks people that helps them get their priorities straight.
Why Anthony doesn’t care whether you’re trying to cure cancer or trying to be a better spouse.
If you’ve ever felt alone in the entrepreneurial world, maybe even abused by people who were supposed to help you, you need to hear this episode. Anthony brings an amazing perspective to people with big dreams who may not have all the ‘right resources’ to accomplish them.
At 5:00 – The statistics regarding foster children are shocking, and Anthony shares what his life WOULD have looked like if he followed the trend.
At 9:00 – As a foster child and NFL player, you might wonder what lessons you could learn from Anthony, but he explains why his own adversity allows him to teach anyone.
At 13:00 – Danny and Anthony talk about motivation, blind spots, and how a women’s Dove study reveals a deeper truth about how we view ourselves.
At 16:30 – Anthony reveals the one question he asks people that can shift their perspective entirely.
At 19:00 – Anthony explains the ways he can tell when people aren’t being honest with themselves, and how he breaks through it.
Simplicity and Honesty in Accounting with Greg Crabtree 0
For any business, profit is like oxygen. You can’t live long without it. It's also the key to building real wealth. If your accountant doesn't understand that, he could have you spending a dollar to save 40 cents. What kind of accounting is that?
The kind that will strangle your company’s profitability and growth.
Today’s guest, Greg Crabtree, is a new type of accountant. After working with hundreds of entrepreneurs, he provides his clients with something that few other CPA’s even bother with: sweeping insight into the numbers businesses can APPLY to make business decisions. This shouldn’t be revolutionary, but in today’s financially illiterate world, it is. Discover:
The simple numbers successful entrepreneurs use to make decisions that accountants don’t even consider
Why writing a big check to the IRS means you’re creating wealth
Why 10% is the new ‘break even’ businesses should be aiming for
The app to help you make your business accounting simple
If your accountant is AFRAID of you making a profit, you NEED to hear this episode with Greg Crabtree, CPA.
At 3:30 – Greg explains why it’s a terrible idea to spend away your profits at the end of the year to ‘save’ on taxes.
At 7:00 – Danny and Greg discuss behavioral economics and how Greg uses it to help entrepreneurs be more profitable.
At 13:00 – Greg shares the numbers he looks at every day, every week, and annually. Businesses can follow this same mentality to be more aware of how they’re doing.
At 20:00 – Danny and Greg discuss how the framework can help seasonal and cyclical businesses manage their accounting.
At 24:00 – Greg talks about the new app that will allow you to bucket your accounting data and create ‘simple numbers’ reports to help you make business decisions.
The Secret to Better Surveys with Dr. Matt Champagne 0
Having a ‘satisfied’ customer isn’t enough these days. How many people switch phone and TV plans every year or two to get the better deal, regardless of how satisfied they are? What you need to do is create ‘lifers,’ and one of the best ways to do that is through surveys.
Yes, I said surveys. But just ‘asking’ isn’t enough.
Today’s guest, Dr. Matt Champagne, is an industrial organizational psychologist. He has been helping businesses create better surveys for over a decade. And according to him, most of us have been doing it very wrong. Discover:
The one thing you can do to make your surveys matter to customers
How to ask the right questions to get the answers you actually need
3 of the biggest mistakes businesses make when creating surveys
Why the ‘autopsy approach’ should be left for dead
If you’re a business owner who wants to create life-long fans instead of satisfied customers, you don’t want to miss this episode with Matt Champagne, Ph. D.
At 4:00 – Matt talks about what the ‘autopsy approach’ is, and the biggest mistakes businesses make when creating surveys.
At 8:00 – Matt explains his principles of psychology, and shows how social media would fail if we treated it like we treat our surveys.
At 11:00 – According to Matt, surveys are key to earning lifelong customers, and he explains the why and how. He also explains why ‘asking’ is the complete wrong approach.
At 18:00 – Matt explains why he doesn’t use the ‘satisfied customer’ approach, and the surprising way to make your customers happy through surveys.
At 22:00 – Matt sums up what makes a great survey, and the short list of what you need to do to create it.
Mindset, Skill Set, and Action Set with John Assaraf 0
You’ve heard of the Law of Attraction, and it’s all about the mindset. But how often have YOU heard of someone wishing good things into his life successfully? Anyone who claims they have is probably pulling your leg. Here’s the truth: mindset is only part of it.
There are 2 other important components that make the Law of Attraction really attract success into your life!
Today’s guest, John Assaraf, is founder and CEO of NeuroGym, and a best-selling author who has appeared on most major TV programs like Larry King Live, was featured in ‘The Secret’ documentary. John and Danny discuss the two things that must follow the right mindset if you want to succeed. Also, discover:
John’s shocking start in life that almost left him dead
The 3 things you need to have to make the Law of Attraction work
The strange way our brains work, and how to use them differently
What causes Harvard grads to fail at life and success
John’s life went from a one-way ticket to jail to a juggernaut of success based on what he’s sharing on today’s episode of Business Reimagined. Before you dismiss the power of positive thought, see what John has to say about it.
At 3:00 – John talks about ‘true north,’ and how he lets this simple concept guide his life and his decisions.
At 9:00 – There are a lot of mental training, positive thinking gurus, etc., and John explains what they leave out, and why NeuroGym is very different.
At 13:00 – John explains how his process is more like using an owner’s manual to the most powerful organ we have, our brain.
At 17:00 – John explains the difference between fear of actual things versus fear of the feelings associated with them, and how to break the cycle for things like public speaking.
At 20:00 – There is a time when fear is acceptable, and there’s a time it isn’t. John explains the distinction that will change the way you look at what scares you.
Giftology in Business with John Ruhlin 0
Giftology: it’s a thing. Believe it or not, there is a science behind great gifting. Not only will giftology ensure the recipient has their metaphorical socks knocked off, but also that they will think warm, fuzzy thoughts about you for years to come.
Do you know what an ‘artifact’ gift is?
If not, and you want to learn the science of gifting, then you don’t want to miss today’s episode of Business Reimagined with John Ruhlin, author of Giftology. You’ll learn:
Why you should give a gift that’s NOT for the recepient
Perfect timing for maximum gifting impact
Whether or not gifts replace face-to-face meetings
A counter-intuitive approach to logo marketing
John is a brilliant gift-giver who can make every thoughtful dollar you spend worth a hundred of your competition’s mindless dollars. Give smarter, not harder.
At 2:00 – John tells the touching story of a man who made millions, but he did it by being the most generous person John ever met.
At 4:00 – Never, NEVER give gifts at certain times of the year. John reveals what holidays to avoid, and the odd times of year that gift-giving has its maximum effect. He also explains why gifts shouldn’t necessarily be given to the recipient.
At 7:00 – John talks about why expensive gifts aren’t always best. He describes some other types of gifts that have more impact.
At 13:00 – Danny and John discuss what type of ROI you can expect on the gifts you give, both to clients and prospective customers.
At 17:00 – John explains why it’s NOT the thought that counts, and getting help with gift-giving doesn’t make that gift thoughtless.
The Cross Pollination of Ideas with David Burkus 0
This is a touchy subject. As thought leaders and entrepreneurs, your ideas are precious. They are what make you unique, and give you the edge over your competition. The last thing you want is for your team members to leave and take your ideas to your competition.
Or is it?
Today’s guest, David Burkus, has written a book that challenges this commonly held fear. In Under New Management, he explains how the cross pollination of ideas is what propagates real growth and change in an industry.
He also thinks that ideas are mostly meaningless. What matters is the ability to execute them. Plus:
Commonalities among successful entrepreneurs, based on David’s research in social sciences
How your employees are more motivated and willing to bring their creativity to work when there aren’t restrictive NDAs and non-competes
The real life, Silicon Valley example of how an industry benefits from open doors for employees and sharing of ideas
If you’re a forward-thinker who believes that collaboration is more meaningful than competition, you don’t want to miss this episode.
At 3:00 – David explains what his new book, Under New Management, is really about. He offers a unique perspective on knowing what entrepreneurs do to be successful, using social science.
At 6:00 – David discusses some of the common things he sees among entrepreneurs who have built successful businesses
At 9:00 – Danny and David discuss how NDA’s, non-disclosure agreements, are often abused. As a result, entire industries are stunted, and employees are less motivated to bring creative thought and originality to their work.
At 13:00 – David explains how the lack of ownership of your own work can affect your company’s success, and why it’s okay for people to sidestep from one organization to another freely.
At 20:00 – Danny and David discuss Mirasee as a case study for problems with implementing the changes David recommends, and how other companies can approach it.
Policy and the Culture Killer with Nick Sarillo 0
Almost everyone loves pizza. Almost no one loves policy, especially employees. If you’re planning to grow a business, it pays to know in advance how your policies will affect the way your employees work for you, because that will affect your success. Better yet, don’t bother with policies at all.
But are you ready to put your policy book in the company shredder?
Today’s guest, Nick Sarillo, is the founder and CEO of Nick’s Pizza and Pub, a restaurant that boasts a turnover rate that is 125% lower than the industry standard, and Nick credits his management style and lack of restrictive policies for earning his employees’ overwhelming support… PLUS:
The amazing story of Nick’s big failure, and the unexpected way he went against the ‘smart people in the room’ to turn it around
How policy keeps you from being an effective leader
Giving employees ultimate freedom while still making the right choices
The all-or-nothing test to make sure everyone is on board with you
This episode isn’t just for companies with large teams. If you’re an entrepreneur looking to grow your business, you NEED to implement Nick’s management style with your first employee – all the way to your 50th.
At 5:00 – Nick describes the tearful moment he sent the email that would mark the end of his restaurant empire, and the amazing response he got that saved it.
At 11:00 – Nick explains how it wasn’t pity that saved his business; it was the company culture he had went to great pains to design and implement, one FREE of policy.
At 13:00 – Nick tosses the policy book out the window and explains how to handle team conflicts without becoming the company police.
At 17:00 – Danny and Nick discuss how existing companies can use his system to transition existing policy-centric cultures to those that offer employees more freedom to make good decisions.
At 22:00 – Nick discusses ‘culture,’ and how the loudest voice in the room usually defines it. He also explains how to shift it away from negativity.
Writing a Book Without Writing with Tucker Max 0
What if you could write a book without writing it? We’re not talking about ghost writing or word mills. This book would be your voice, your expertise, and exactly what you would have written if you had the time to sit down and write it.
Think it’s too good to be true?
Today’s guest, Tucker Max, has developed a process he calls Book In A Box, and he’s had incredible success helping busy entrepreneurs and thought leaders write books. While the name Book In A Box might sound like a gimmick, his process is far from it. Tucker also talks about:
The 3 questions you should ask yourself before you write a book or create a product
The exact process for writing a book without writing it
Where to get your *FREE* copy of the Book In A Box method if you prefer to do-it-yourself, but want to take advantage of the process
If you’ve ever wanted to write a book but didn’t know where to start, or you want to write a book without writing it to solidify your authority in your field, you don’t want to miss this episode.
At 4:00 – Tucker talks about some of the greatest thinkers we still refer to today, and how they didn’t write any of it down themselves.
At 8:00 – Danny and Tucker discuss the major differences between the Book In A Box method and traditional ghostwriting.
At 13:00 – Tucker explains the critical difference between thinking and writing, and what that means for people who have enough knowledge to fill a book, but might lack the time to write it themselves.
At 19:00 – Tucker gives his three step process for positioning yourself and your business, so that you achieve the outcomes you want with your book.
At 24:00 – Danny and Tucker discuss the stigma around writing without writing, and why that skepticism is unfounded.
Creating the Perfect Day with Craig Ballantyne 0
Have you ever had that ‘perfect day’ you wish you could replicate over and over again? You were firing on all cylinders, knocking out tasks, and every single one of them brought you a step closer to your big life goals?
How would you like every day to be a perfect day?
Today’s guest, Craig Ballantyne, author of Perfect Day, can help you do just that. In fact, he says that it’s structure that leads to ultimate freedom, and he’s got a three step structure to help you. Plus:
How to apply control, coping, and concentrations to the three parts of the day
Understanding ‘magic time,’ and upping productivity exponentially
Learning to create structure even when you’re juggling a bunch of different things
How to beat the treadmill other productivity books put you on that will NEVER bring you to the outcome you want for your life.
Make every day a perfect day, and start YOURS today with this episode of Business Reimagined with Danny Iny and guest Craig Ballantyne.
At 3:00 – Craig explains what ‘magic time’ is, how to figure out when yours is, and how to schedule your day around it. He also explains how to break out of ‘OCD loops.’
At 11:00 – Craig explains how to deal with having no control over the structure of your day, and what to do when your magic time is interrupted.
At 13:00 – There’s an important distinction between what some people consider the perfect day and what Craig is actually talking about; is it walking on the beach on vacation? Not according to Craig.
At 15:00 – Craig explains how ‘control, cope, and concentrate’ relate to the different parts of the day: morning, daytime, and evening, and the mindset around it that will change the way you do things.
At 23:00 – We already live by a lot of rules and structure we didn’t even know we have; Craig explains how to hack that mentality to make it work FOR you instead of against you.
The Art of Persuasion with Dave Lakhani 0
What's the difference between persuasion and manipulation? Is persuasion just a nicer way to manipulate someone?
According to Dave Lakhani, persuasion expert, they are related, but with two huge differences. Can you guess what they are?
On today's Business Reimagined, Dave takes us through his early life of being manipulated by an outlier religious cult, and the latter part of his life teaching his clients to use persuasion ethically. He discusses intent and outcome of persuasion. Plus:
How anyone can develop charisma and persuade others
The key differences between persuasion and manipulation
Social testing and some tactical approaches to persuade your audience
The simplest way to get someone to like you
Everyone can use ethical persuasion to get ahead in marketing, sales, or business in general. And how many times in your personal life have you wanted to get someone on your side of the fence? Don't miss today's episode with Dave Lakhani on the Art of Persuasion.
At 6:00 – Dave explains how persuasion is both harder and more simple than hypnotizing someone, and his definition of persuasion. He picks apart exactly how you can use heuristics to make a great first impression.
At 11:00 – There is a dark side to persuasion, and it’s called manipulation. Dave explains the intent of manipulators and what happens to them as a result of their disregard for others.
At 14:00 – Dave talks about what it’s like getting ‘caught’ testing new methods of persuasion, since everyone who knows him knows he’s a persuasion expert.
At 17:00 – You can get better at persuasion and develop a personality of charisma, and Dave explains how you can do it without being slimy.
At 23:00 – Dave wraps up with his thoughts on how you can become a ‘black belt’ at persuasion techniques, get what you want out of life, and do it where you and those you are involved with end up winning.
Where Engagement Is Going with Danny Iny 0
Engagement was a hot topic a few years ago, and it remains to be to this day...
...but most people are doing it wrong.
There's one simple thing to remember when you're talking about engaging with your audience, and it hasn't changed since the beginning of the Internet.
Want to find out the secret to real engagement?
Today, our own Danny Iny, founder and CEO of Mirasee and author of Engagement from Scratch!, talks about how engagement has changed over the years, and the very important way it's remained the same as when he wrote the book on it.
Learn the difference between 'list' and 'audience'
Real numbers revealed on how much money you should be making per subscriber
Find out whether guest posting is still a valid tactic
Whether success in today's online world is worth the effort you need to put into it
If you've got an audience online or are considering building one, you don't want to miss this high-level discussion of engagement with Danny Iny and special guest host, Lou D'Alo, who is Mirasee's Education Team Lead.
At 4:00 – Danny explains very succinctly what an audience really is compared to the common term ‘list.’ That simple change in mindset will bring you much closer to those you serve.
At 8:00 – Danny discusses his first book, Engagement from Scratch!, and how it’s held up over the years. You might be surprised to hear his response.
At 14:00 – Danny talks about influencers like Seth Godin and Tim Ferris, and how content creation is changing. If you’re creating content these days, you don’t want to miss these insights.
At 16:00 – Who is audience building really for? Danny talks about who it will really help, and the business types that shouldn’t bother with it.
At 20:00 – Danny debunks the myth that audience building is a ‘cult of personality,’ and instead offers up what audience building really is..
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LaSauce
Raised in the South Coast of Durban in a village called Umzinto, Sindiswe Magoso is a 18 year old singer that is
ready to take the music scene by storm.
It was at the age of 8 when she began to discover and groom her musical gift. This talented songstress used her musical interests and love for Hip Hop and Jazz music to pursue a career in music which led her to gravitate towards the sounds and style of the late Lebo Mathosa and Brenda Fassie. Her musical career nally surfaced in 2017 when she decided to join award winning record label Ambitiouz Entertainment and created a stage name for her persona, La Sauce.
The name LaSauce came about by the character Sindisiwe Magoso is and her interesting background whereas her diverse cultures, multilingualism and style have a great in uence. She speaks four different languages including Arabic and isiZulu.
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Expert Trading Tips
Why Traders Are Worrying About Low Volatility
Stock markets are a sea of green, punctuated by frothy highs as markets roll past shocks such as U.K. elections, North Korean missiles, Persian Gulf confrontations and tweet-storms from U.S. President Donald Trump. Normally, all that good market news would seem simply good, right? But a growing chorus of strategists, investors and even policy makers is fretting that there should be more downs to go along with those ups. They’re worried that what’s called volatility in the markets is too low — and that the low readings in market measures known as fear gauges could foreshadow a giant disturbance down the road.
1. What, exactly, is volatility?
It’s how much the markets go up and down. More precisely, it’s a way of measuring current or expected price fluctuations relative to the average level of price swings. Historical, or realized, volatility looks at how much a price has fluctuated over a given time. One notable example of volatility came with Brexit. On June 24, 2016, after Britons voted to quit the European Union, the pound swung between $1.3229 and $1.5018 – the sort of range that usually defines its highs and lows for a year. So 24-hour historical volatility for sterling reached a record 100 percent — basically, a year’s price swings in one day.
2. That’s the past. How do investors look ahead?
Nobody knows what the markets will do. But people are making bets all the time based on their guesses, and no one’s more honest about their expectations than somebody putting their money where their mouth is. Certain kinds of guesses can be read as implied volatility — implying how much traders expect a security to fluctuate. That’s the basis for widely traded indexes like the VIX (for the S&P 500 Index) and MOVE (for the U.S. Treasury bond market). They are seen as fear gauges because of the insight they give into traders’ worries.
3. How are those put together?
They’re mathematical constructs calculated from options, which are contracts that give the option holder the right, not the obligation, to buy securities such as the S&P 500 Index, Treasury bonds and currencies at set prices when the underlying asset reaches set levels. Traders often use these derivatives to hedge against market fluctuations. Options show how much they’re willing to pay to be prepared for certain outcomes.
4. How does that work?
The higher the price of the option, the bigger the fixed cost and therefore the larger the move needed to generate a return that will make it pay off. Say I decide to pay $5,000 for an option betting on yen moves, and let’s say that contract shows implied volatility is about 8 percent. If some other investor pays $10,000 for the exact same option, then the implied volatility level jumps to about 10 percent. (As for the way the model calculates volatility, and for why this is measured in percent terms, it relates to a complicated mathematical formula, which you can read about here.)
5. So it’s a fear gauge because it shows the price of worries?
Yes, options get more valuable when markets get more turbulent and the price of the underlying stock, bond, index, currency or commodity is moving. You pay more to hedge in a dangerous market, just like you pay more for car insurance if you are in your early 20s than if you’re 40 with two decades of a spotless driving record.
6. Why do I hear traders using so many Greek terms?
The Greeks? It might be better to ignore them. Part of the mystique of the options world is being able to reference a series of Greek letters: delta, gamma, theta and rho. There’s also vega, which sounds like it should be a Greek letter, but in fact isn’t. These all measure the sensitivity of options to changes in other variables. But if you’re not trading options yourself, don’t worry. Another term that comes up a lot is Black-Scholes. That’s the model used to price options, and therefore to produce the implied volatility that feeds into the VIX and other fear gauges.
7. So what does it mean that fear gauges are all so low?
Remember the Economics 101 lesson about how markets are driven by two opposing forces — fear and greed? The concern about low, or compressed, volatility is that the balance has tipped way over to the greed side. Historically, similar bouts have been followed by sudden turmoil – and a sudden rush to buy the insurance that investors realize they should have already taken out can exacerbate such moves. The VIX recently hit the lowest since 1993, busting through the lows seen in 2007 that were followed by the subprime crisis, Lehman Brothers collapse and the global credit crunch.
8. Does everybody think that?
Obviously the investors who keep making those trading screens light up green don’t. There’s a school of thought that the VIX isn’t necessarily any better at gauging apprehension than Wall Street’s real fear index — the S&P 500. Because options are complicated beasts, they are frequently cited by pundits trying to sound convincing. But 90 percent of the information contained in the VIX is visible in the S&P 500. There are others who think markets in general are going to be calmer. Some think that’s because we’re going back to the “old normal” of more stable global markets that prevailed before the great financial crisis. Others say we’re moving into an era where passive investing and trading done by robots is going to make the human error, and emotion, less of a driver of day-to-day market fluctuations than before.
July 05 2017 /by Bloomberg
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Bellator 201: Kristina Williams vs. Valerie Letourneau For Dummies: Dos and Don'ts Edition
By Schwan Humes
This Friday night at Bellator 201 we have a fight featuring Kristina Williams, a mixed martial arts newcomer and the hottest fighter in Bellator MMA's flyweight division. The 2-0 fighter arrived on the scene with two high profile wins -- the first over world champion boxer and previously undefeated Heather Hardy, and the second over consensus #2 fighter in the division and former title challenger Emily Ducote. In winning those two fights, Williams established herself as a dark horse in the division and was placed on the fast track to the elite status in the division. This has put her on a collision course with former UFC strawweight title challenger, big name Bellator signee, and the subject of this article, Valerie “Trouble” Letourneau. This fight, in my opinion, will determine the second best fighter in the division and the next title challenger. Today I will be discussing the things Letourneau needs to do and not do to make sure that she gets her second chance at championship gold.
DO Counter Aggressively
Williams likes to use a combination of her length and forward motion to limit her opponents’ offensive outbursts and to expose the limitations in their footwork. To dissuade Williams from attempting to repeat this feat, Letourneau will have to consistently and aggressively counter her at every turn. There are three specific weapons Letourneau can use. The first is leg and body kicking -- Williams is heavy on the front foot and has a tendency to telegraph strikes, which makes her very vulnerable to strikes to the leg and body. The second is long right hands, as Williams uses little to no angles or head movement in applying pressure, which leaves her open to these strikes as she comes in on straight lines and doesn’t move her head or keep her chin down enough to shield herself. Hardy and Ducote had a field day landing these shots, but neither had the length or footwork to follow up, a problem Letourneau doesn’t have. This will allow her to take further advantage of the aforementioned issues by using the third weapon -- a left hook, which can follow up the right hand or be used it as a check hook for when Williams overpursues (as she does often).
A second set of issues that Williams has is her lack of cohesion in her striking and creativity; essentially she either punches -- channeling old school Donald Cerrone pushing shots and unbalancing herself -- or she resorts to telegraphed or naked kicks. Either way, these approaches will allow Letourneau to make quick and precise reads that not only allow for lanes to land counterstrikes, but they also create opportunities to land reactive takedowns. The first way it does so is that when Williams initiates punches or elbows, she tends to reach, overextending and offering up a clear path to her hips for a takedown. The second and most likely way this creates opportunities for takedowns is that the lack of setup and the predictability of her kicks allows for them to be caught and repeatedly turned into takedowns. Letourneau is excellent at this, having done it against Joanna Jedrzejczyk and Joanne Calderwood, and we witnessed it being done to Williams repeatedly by Ducote.
These counters, whether takedown or strike, will help limit what weapons Williams uses, as well as where and when she uses them. This will allow Letourneau more freedom on the feet and in regards to takedowns and takedown attempts, mostly as a result of being able to get Williams to show her hand, and mixing up the responses to it.
DO Punish the Body
A key element in Kristina Williams’ success at flyweight is her durability. She has yet to show herself to be a defensively sound fighter, ignoring defensive measures in large part because of her length, height, and kicking game, working in conjunction with her physicality and durability. To put it in layman’s terms, Williams’ ability to attack from distances that others can’t attack or counter from has resulted in her lack of progression defensively, because most fighters don’t have the footwork and skill to get to her with enough volume to do real damage. On top of that, Williams is both extremely durable and physical, meaning she can take hard shots (especially singular ones) and has the ability to make you pay for any offensive outbursts. Williams is a big, long flyweight -- being big helps her absorb punishment, but being long makes her particularly susceptible to a consistent and concentrated body attack. The body is always there to be touched, much easier than the head; it just takes a fighter who is willing to attack the body, and has the skills and savvy to get to it in the face of leads or counters from an opponent.
Ducote showed flashes of success with body kicks against Williams. Letourneau is a much more seasoned fighter, a much more refined striker, and a much more natural striker than Ducote, having shown a busy, consistent body kicking (and punching) game against world class opposition like Maryna Moroz, Jedrzejczyk, and Calderwood. More importantly, Letourneau has shown knees to the body in clinches against Viviane Pereira and Elizabeth Phillips, which guarantees that she can get to Williams’ body at multiple levels and ranges. Getting to the body will help her establish an offensive rhythm, which will help her get to Williams’ head. It will tax Williams mentally, as she will be getting touched consistently, and it will tax her physically, as her gas tank gets holes punched in it all fight long. Once the mental and physical exhaustion sets in, Williams’ aggression and workrate will taper off, and those defensive holes will go from big to huge.
DO Extend Grappling Exchanges/Execute Takedowns
As good as Williams has been, she has faced opponents who only attacked her on the striking front, an arena that her frame, durability, and skills gave her the ability to navigate any rough spots she experienced, as well as limit any opportunities for either of her opponents to build on their fleeting moments of success. Neither had the striking acumen or savvy to be consistently effective on the feet, and in the case of Ducote, she didn’t have the skills necessary to create openings to test Williams in other phases of mixed martial arts (i.e. clinches, takedowns, and grappling). Letourneau has the length, the size, the physical strength, and the refinement in all-around striking to strike at distance, work her way inside of Williams’ reach, and engage her in extended and repeated grappling exchanges off of attempted or completed takedowns, or off of her clinch work. Williams didn’t have to worry about it at all against Hardy, and only had to deal with it in spots against Ducote.
We don’t know that Williams has the guard work, defensive wrestling, or conditioning necessary to survive repeated and extended engagements in those ranges, but we do know that Letourneau is strong enough in other aspects of mixed martial arts to create those openings and take chances as far as positioning and looking for submissions, as Letourneau has both the physical and technical tools to compete on even terms with Williams in her area of specialty. Attacking Williams on this front can hinder her ability to pressure, reduce her willingness to open up offensively, and create chances for Letourneau to do damage, whether on the ground or in clinches. In the worst case scenario, it can wear Williams down and take some spring out of her strikes.
DON'T Let Williams Dictate Pace
Kristina Williams has basically been able to dictate the pace and range of her fights. She hasn’t faced good enough technical fighters, nor has she faced fighters big and long enough to navigate her distance or match her tools in a manner that forces her to work outside of the pace she wants. By not being able to push a pace, a fighter has no chance of testing her cardio or really testing her overall defense or the execution of her offense. Nor has it allowed opponents to put her in spots where she hasn’t shown consistency, such as against the fence, on the ground, or on her back foot. The best way to test a inexperienced fighters is by making them uncomfortable, and part of making them uncomfortable is to force them out of their comfort zones; if Williams is able to maintain the range and activity level she wants, then she isn't uncomfortable, which means Letourneau isn't being effective.
DON'T Abandon the Jab
Letourneau has a good jab, and has enough athleticism, size, and seasoning to get it off against a world class caliber of striker. The problem is she often abandons the jab in favor of engaging in firefights. In fights with Jedrzejczyk and Calderwood, Letourneau was able to set up her right hand, land crisp one-twos, and provide a layer of defense early in those fights by countering their jabs and limiting their offensive output. But once she got hit, she abandoned it and committed to engaging in one-dimensional high contact brawls that made her easier to read, counter, and control. This resulted in her absorbing massive amounts of punishment and losing what were initially close fights. A fighter with Williams’ length, kicking game, and jab will be able to repeat that feat if Letourneau chooses to eschew craft for contact.
DON'T Fight Like A Rookie
Valerie Letourneau is a seasoned, experienced fighter who has fought at the highest levels of the sport, facing some of the best athletes and fighters in the world. She has a full array of skills and enough savvy to know when, where, and how to use them. Nonetheless, there are times in her career when she tends to lean on physicality, durability, and a willingness to engage offensively, to make up for not a lack of skills, but a lack of discipline in using them. Instead of being defensively sound, she will begin to take a shot to give one. Instead of using all her tools all the time, she will abandon some tools (jab) or holster certain tools (left hook), when in fact these things could guarantee victory, or at the worst, make a fight easier than it ends up being. Williams doesn’t have the experience, the ability, or the depth of skills to confuse, outsmart, or out-slick Letourneau. Very few fighters do, so why does Letourneau have so many losses? Easy, she tends to fight in a manner that exposes her limitations -- physically, technically, and strategically. If she follows that trend, she can and will be outworked and possibly stopped by a young, skilled, tough, physical, long, and active fighter who has the size and durability to take advantage of any openings presented, as well as the right attributes to make any reliance on intangibles to fail miserably.
This Bellator 201 bout is the second most important fight in Valerie Letourneau’s career, as it presents a clear path to a second title challenge, in a time in her career where big fights and title shots aren’t anything resembling guaranteed. She is facing a young, fresh, tough upstart who has upended the apple cart of one of the biggest stars in combat sports (Hardy) and one of the most accomplished fighters in the division (Ducote). But if Letourneau can do the things listed above, she can avoid being another fighter on Kristina Williams’ list of upsets and stamp her ticket to a second title fight.
• Valerie Letourneau vs. Kristina Williams
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The Elizabethan Session discography
Folk Artists | The Elizabethan Session
The Elizabethan Session - The Elizabethan Session
To say The Elizabethan Session album gets off to a dark start would be something of an understatement. The eight singers, songwriters and instrumentalists assembled by the EFDSS and Folk by the Oak have come up with a dazzling album inspired by the time of Elizabeth I, but it’s one that doesn’t shy away from the era’s bleakness.
The album begins with Shores of Hispaniola, by Nancy Kerr. When we interviewed the Elizabethan Session crew at Monnington House in Herefordshire, back in March, Kerr’s project-mates expressed their astonishment that she had written it before breakfast one morning. And this is understandable - it’s a gem, with Rachel Newton’s harp and Hannah James’ clogs setting the scene for a dramatic look at the slave trade, told from the perspective of a woman whose lover has been abducted by Admiral Sir John Hawkins and his crew.
Back on land, London, written by John Smith, is told from the point of view of a ’terrified peasant’. Smith sings of a city in thrall to the whims of Elizabeth, who “shines all over England / though I’ve never seen the light” - Martin Simpson’s slide guitar adds menace to an elegant string backing.
And the sense of foreboding is only amplified by Simpson’s own composition, titled Christopher Marlowe. A simple, sweet-sounding lament, it begins with the stark image of the effervescent playwright face down in a Deptford pub.
Bleak as some of the songs are, they represent collective and individual imaginations fired by the group’s time in the house, and by their resident historian, Dr Ian Mortimer. Simpson and Smith worked together on the brooding Elizabeth Spells Death, which returns to the theme of the Queen’s terrifying power, at a time when her elaborate signature would indeed mean the end for any number of conspirators, enemies and - in the case of Mary, Queen of Scots - fellow monarchs.
Literature of the era is a strong influence - William Shakespeare is referenced by Bella Hardy’s subtle Love-in-Idleness, written as a lament for Hermia of A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Rachel Newton’s Come Live With Me is a beautiful, sensitively sung marriage of poems by Marlowe and Sir Walter Raleigh, and Eve’s Apology in Defence of Women, by Aemilia Lanyer, is sung in beautiful harmony (with inevitable hints of Lady Maisery) by Newton, James, and Emily Askew. It transforms irresistibly into the lively tune Gather the Owls, complete with Askew’s fizzing hurdy-gurdy.
Early music expert Askew brought an Elizabeth authority to the group’s music, and she shines on the Monnington Pavane, a sped-up version of the 16th-century dance to which she adds dainty period recorders, violin and vielle. The Lover’s Knot Untied - written by Askew and James - also transforms into an Elizabethan dance, in this case a joyous galliard.
Jim Moray, modestly sticking to the piano for this project, presents one of the album’s highlights. The Straight Line and the Curve - about John Dee, the philosopher-occultist who attempted to communicate with angels in his ’scrying mirror’ - is superb, stately and sincere. Moray’s piano also backs the prolific Kerr on The Oak Casts His Shadow, while Simpson and Smith’s guitars duel in rather fiddly fashion on Broadside, whose Kerr-written and sung words honour ’sea queen’ Grace O’Malley.
In among all the period pieces, Hardy’s Hatfield stands out. A melancholy sketch of her personal memories of Elizabeth’s former home, it makes for an interesting and unexpectedly moving approach. And the album ends on the unlikely union of Elizabethan poetry (this time written by the Queen herself) and country music: Suspicious Mind, which sees Smith and Kerr present a somehow light-hearted exploration of longing and mistrust.
The project’s subject material - absorbing and thrilling, even for non-history buffs - is diligently and emotionally explored by a group of musicians who clearly clicked, while recognising that it wasn’t necessary for everyone to play on everything. That an album this good was composed in a week is deeply impressive - but it would still be an excellent piece of work had it taken longer.
Mark Dishman
Released on Quercus Records on September 8 2014
1. The Shores of Hispaniola
3. Christopher Marlowe
4. Love-in-Idleness
5. Eve’s Apology in Defence of Women / Gather the Owls
6. Broadside
7. Elizabeth Spells Death
8. Come Live With Me
9. The Straight Line and the Curve
10. True Lover’s Knot Untied / The Great Hall
11. The Monnington Pavane / Ortiz Ground
12. The Oak Casts His Shadow
13. Hatfield
14. Suspicious Mind
The Elizabethan Session Emily Askew Bella Hardy Hannah James Nancy Kerr Jim Moray Rachel Newton Martin Simpson John Smith
The Elizabethan Session
Jim Moray
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Oscar Isaac and Chris Weitz on ‘Operation Finale’ and Tackling Ben Kingsley Into a Ditch
by Vinnie Mancuso August 29, 2018
Operation Finale is a white-knuckle thriller that also just happens to be based on a true story. Director Chris Weitz helms the story of Peter Malkin (Oscar Isaac), who—along with a crack team of fellow Mossad and Shin Bet agents—tracked down and captured the war criminal Adolf Eichmann (Oscar-winner Ben Kingsley) years after he helped manufacture the Holocaust. The film features a few fantastic supporting performances—including Nick Kroll taking a break from comedy, and up-and-comer Haley Lu Richardson as a teenager hiding her Judaism from a Nazi boyfriend (Joe Alwyn)—but the rising tension between Isaac and Kingsley is a sight to behold, worth the price of admission alone.
Image via MGM
Recently, I got the chance to sit down with Isaac and Weitz in New York City. The Star Wars actor and his director discussed feeling the weight of all the history behind the story of Operation Finale, as well as what role that story plays in 2018. Also, because I straight up needed to know, Oscar Isaac talked about what it’s like to tackle iconic thespian Ben Kingsley into a ditch.
Check out what Isaac and Weitz had to say in the player above, and below is exactly what we talked about.
Oscar Isaac and Chris Weitz:
Filming the scene in which Isaac’s Peter Malkin violently captures Ben Kingsley’s character.
Specific moments when the weight of the story behind Operation Finale hit the actor and filmmaker.
How Isaac avoided playing an exact copy of his real-life character.
How Isaac went about finding the dynamic between his character and Adolf Eichmann.
What role the story of Peter Malkin and the capture of Adolf Eichmann plays in 2018.
Here is the official synopsis for Operation Finale:
The thrilling true story follows the 1960 covert mission of legendary Mossad agent Peter Malkin as he infiltrates Argentina and captures Adolf Eichmann, the Nazi officer who masterminded the transportation logistics that brought millions of innocent Jews to their deaths in concentration camps.
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So, settings, anyone?
Evan_The_Actor
Evan_The_Actor on Tue Jan 24, 2012 2:52 am
Okay, so we've got some good writing here and there, but we could use a setting.
My idea?
Near-future dystopia where the world has been overrun by zombies and all cities have a massive wall around them and a brutal police force that imposes tyrannical ruling that nobody opposes because, hey, would you rather be out there with the undead? Fuck no. So huge mega-corporations own the cities because the government collapsed when all major politicians got infected in a surprise attack from the supposed eco-terrorists that created the virus when in reality it was created by the corporations in order to take control and when they feel they have the world in their pocket they'll release the cure thus ensuring their complete world domination BUT the corporations are actually all run by aliens who have human thralls and are actually from another dimension released by a cataclysmic space anomaly that washed the earth in strange radiation thus gifting a number of its people super powers in varrying degrees and as these amazing individuals come together for peace or power they uncover the alien plot in that they actually plan to use all of earth's people, once properly indoctrinated into the alien's service, as footsoldiers for their intergalactic/interdimensional war with other alien races.
Just came up with it on the spot.
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Re: So, settings, anyone?
LastSeraph on Tue Jan 24, 2012 2:58 am
Suitably bat-shit insane, I suppose.
A few character I've seen (I guess mine included) deal with magic in their backstory or as part of their powers. Do you want to address that within the setting in any way or just go "oh hey magic exists" and leave it at that?
LastSeraph wrote: Suitably bat-shit insane, I suppose.
Well, when it comes to magic, I say it needs to have boundaries. I play DnD, so I know what I mean when I say that magic can have an acceptable limit based on personal safety of its user and their experience.
But since (in my setting) there's extra-dimensional crap, couldn't magic simply be viewed as warping reality in such a way that it SEEMS magical in nature, but is really an extension of the powers granted by the anomaly?
Evan_The_Actor wrote:
I think that might work.
LastSeraph wrote:
Evan wrote: But since (in my setting) there's extra-dimensional crap, couldn't magic simply be viewed as warping reality in such a way that it SEEMS magical in nature, but is really an extension of the powers granted by the anomaly?
Plus, I always maintain that magic, in some form or another, exists if we're talking about a multiverse/multidimensional setting. Light, dark, arcane, divine. Extraplaner or dimensional entities capable of bending reality could bestow such power upon mortals, or wield it through them for their own purposes, depending on their alignment.
Even dieties would work, just dieties of other dimensions.
"It's life, Jim, but not as we know it."
Ha ha, that's good, because the story I'm currently working on has Anna busting up a Lovecraftian-style cult, which would work perfectly with extra-dimensional shenanigans.
LastSeraph wrote: Ha ha, that's good, because the story I'm currently working on has Anna busting up a Lovecraftian-style cult, which would work perfectly with extra-dimensional shenanigans.
In addition to the corporate aliens, assuming that's the plan, all kinds of lesser creatures and lovecraftian-styled beasts and cults around them could find their way to Earth.
HurricaneFistoMan
Location : Mexico
HurricaneFistoMan on Tue Jan 24, 2012 3:16 am
the hard part about stablishing a settting here is making it fit the characters, why dont we make the characters fix the setting instead?
first, we agree on a setting and his rules/limits
then, people fix their characters to make them more fitting to said setting?
might sound kinda unfair to make people re-adjust theyr characters, but hey, order we need.
again, this is only a suggestion.
titillandus
titillandus on Tue Jan 24, 2012 3:17 am
what if we start with just twenty minute into the future dystopia
and everything happens from there
anyone who wants to make a GIANT CHANGE or suddenly meet up with aliens who made the earth is totally able to do that, it can all just be varying points in the timeline
actually wait hold on what if the emergence of superpowers is a result of cosmic/semi-cosmic/not even slightly cosmic forces all battling over reality and creation, all the universes have sort of collided and merged
anyone who says interdimensional deities made everything is right but also wrong
anyone who says a wizard did it is also totally right and wrong
i am not sure if evan basically just said that or not it is like six am here why am i not asleep
You know what, looking at this again, I think it would be better to have the setting be a bit closer to what modern-day earth is like, rather than a dystopian corporate-run future.
I still like the idea of the superpowers being caused by extradimensional energy anomalies, and have alien overlords as a potential plot for if a massive crossover happens later on. But right now the rest of it just seems a bit unnecessary.
LastSeraph wrote: You know what, looking at this again, I think it would be better to have the setting be a bit closer to what modern-day earth is like, rather than a dystopian corporate-run future.
Well like I said I made it up on the spot, nothing is concrete here. I was really just having fun making up a setting.
Really, what I thought the ideal thing we could do is have everyone make up a setting, and we choose the most interesting parts that would gel together nicely, and we figure out where to go from there.
Momento on Tue Jan 24, 2012 9:14 am
Ok lets see if I can get this idea across clearly
In an effort to creat a setting that (most) everyone can agree on, I've devised a way for all of us to have our cake and eat it too.
1.There is a "earth prime"
-this the regular, normal, everyday earth as we all know it. Nothing special.
-this earth can "host" an infinite number of variations of itself
2. Variations are created when "avatars", the characters that we the /co/mrades make, come into existence.
-for example let's say someone make a character that would fit in an old west setting, that character would then be "hosted" in an old west earth. Characters of similar genres typically have the same kind of earth, but this does not always have to be the case.
3.Any number of "variant earths" can crossover with eachother to various degrees.
-Example, the old west character crosses over with a science fiction character. Both of these characters earths merge into a new earth that blends both of their worlds together. The degree to which the worlds are merged can be decided by the people involved. When the crossover is done the characters can return to their original earths if they so choose.
4. All characters involved in crossovers may or may not be aware that their world has changed.
-the cowboy may not be that astounded by the giant robots, maybe he is, it's up to the people involved.
5. Dealing with "Avatars" in teams and team v team battles.
-if an avatar is on a team with that had characters of a wide variety of genres the best bet may be to let the people involved decide on a setting. Same goes for team v team battles. The earth variants in these cases should be decided as a collaborative process.
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Fifififi on Tue Jan 24, 2012 9:49 am
Momento wrote: Ok lets see if I can get this idea across clearly
This would be the easiest. Especially since my group's setting isn't flashy. Being a supernatural investigation firm, basically. The project is just taking off, so adding a super-intense setting might be too much in my opinion.
William VIII
William VIII on Tue Jan 24, 2012 6:09 pm
oh my fuck all that potential world building
ungh yes
Evan_The_Actor on Tue Jan 24, 2012 7:09 pm
Not bad. Multiverses are always good, but we should make sure they're specifically defined in regards to WHO is in what universe.
Example, my story where the Actor fights the Sports League is, as far as this idea is concerned, it's own canon/universe by now. If I want to bring others in or have them submit characters, I should probably make a seperate thread for it and make sure I have their consent.
Momento on Tue Jan 24, 2012 9:07 pm
I think the greatest strength and weakness of the multiverse idea is that is relies heavily on the collaborative efforts of all parties who want to be involved. With proper planing it could lead to very fun stories; it could also lead to massive headaches. I still believe in it though. We're all supercool people here.
I've also come up with some ideas to address the issues presented by Evan.
1. The different world can "echo" between each other.
-"Echoes" can be defined as subtle hits and references that different worlds exist, without going into crazy crossovers.
-Example. The ideal setting for "The Royal Pain" team may be a bit more extravagant then the setting for "The Unreal" team. Royal Pain would "echo" into the Unreal's world by way of being a saturday morning cartoon or comic. One of the Unreal might notice the Royal Pain comic /cartoon and think, "Man what is with these ritzy assholes."
-Alternatively, to get a little more complex with what we can do with echos/crossovers, we can have situations like this: The Unreal, having completed sever high profile investigations, gets contracted to have their likenesses featured in the Royal Pain comic/cartoon. In this comic/cartoon the two teams fight. In the Unreal canon, this is all just a silly situation that happens and nothing of major consequence goes down, because its just a comic and "not real." However, in the Royal Pain world, this is actually happening and the end of the crossover has genuine consequences good or bad for the Royal Pain cannon. This lets of have fun with each other characters without the possibility of unnecessary complication with those who want very specific settings. Also it lets the reader not have to worry about following the various stories, they can just stick to one and not worry about complex crossover cannon.
2.An Avatars history/age does not have to linear.
-This idea is still a little fuzzy, but it may work.
-Example: We have a character thats a doctor. This doctor character is featured in multiple sorties with varying settings,some very realistic, some very fantastic, some science fiction, some old west. For the most part this characters personally is the same and they look about the same age in the different stories. The best parallel I can think of is Cid from final fantasy. Same name, same basic personality (usually), but exists in different worlds.
If any of this does not make sense let me know.
SteveWhatever
SteveWhatever on Tue Jan 24, 2012 9:15 pm
Evan_The_Actor wrote: it's own canon/universe by now
Wasn't the whole point of this project to have multiple teams in ONE universe?
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Joe Awesome on Tue Jan 24, 2012 9:37 pm
SteveWhatever wrote:
Yeah, I'd assume that'd be easiest?
Momento on Tue Jan 24, 2012 10:39 pm
Joe Awesome wrote:
You'd think, but that would assume everyone who want get involved with this grand experiment can fully agree on setting. The multi verse idea lets everyone do what they want and have the means to work with everyone else in a way that does not step on any toes. Thats how I see it anyway.
SteveWhatever on Tue Jan 24, 2012 11:10 pm
Momento wrote: You'd think, but that would assume everyone who want get involved with this grand experiment can fully agree on setting.
We'd be spread around Earth.
I don't know why people are already considering multiple universes. Nobody has even done anything yet.
Joe Awesome on Tue Jan 24, 2012 11:16 pm
I'm with Steve. The Unreal is based in London, so we've got that sector taken care of.
HurricaneFistoMan on Tue Jan 24, 2012 11:18 pm
as i said earlier, we should wait for people to create their character´s stories/backgrounds and try to conect them based on that.
or, again as i said before, try to establish limits or create a setting THEN make people adjust their characters to said setting.
Not that I'm opposed to a multiverse - but that's something that comes way down the road. But, at this point, if you want to work in your own universe... what's the point of even being here? This whole project, from the start, was just about a bunch of /co/mrades scattered throughout the world fighting the forces of evil.
LastSeraph on Tue Jan 24, 2012 11:22 pm
Because people are still interested in using the character ideas, maybe? I like the idea of just having everybody in the same universe, just in different settings/ cities within it.
Evan_The_Actor on Wed Jan 25, 2012 2:15 am
LastSeraph wrote: Because people are still interested in using the character ideas, maybe? I like the idea of just having everybody in the same universe, just in different settings/ cities within it.
Yeah, I would like this too. But I think the origins of everyone's powers should be clearly defined and not conflict with anyone else's ideas.
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Author New Towns Symposium, Los Angeles, 1972.
Title New towns: why--and for whom? Edited by Harvey S. Perloff [and] Neil C. Sandberg.
Published New York, Praeger [1973]
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Series Praeger special studies in U.S. economic, social, and political issues
Notes Sponsored by the American Jewish Committee and the UCLA School of Architecture and Urban Planning.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
Other author Perloff, Harvey S. (Harvey Stephen), ed.
Sandberg, Neil C, ed.
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University of California, Los Angeles. School of Architecture and Urban Planning.
Subject City planning -- United States -- Congresses.
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Be Aware of the Fear
My name is Daniel Scharch and I'm afraid. Like everyone else, I'm afraid on a regular basis, whether I recognize it or not. It's an epidemic of our imaginations. We can and will make it worse than it really is.
To battle this idea we summon the sentiments of greater minds before us. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt said, "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." Gandhi said, "The enemy is fear. We think it is hate; but, it is fear." Yoda, of course, said, "Fear is the path to the Dark Side." And one of my favorites is from Dale Carnegie: "Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy."
OK, so we don't want our lives to be limited by fear, according to a President, an Indian icon of peace, a small, green hippie, and one bad-ass American author. Fair enough. But what can they say about the concept of fight or flight? Fear is hard-wired into our system, like other creatures, to determine danger and protect ourselves and others. We decide and react in an instant. You can see it in the home videos where people pop out, wearing masks and either get clocked by their victims or send them running, screaming, and jumping.
What we fear, in any circumstance, is the unknown. We choose fight or flight in an instant because we've evolved to prepare for danger. Just because we're at the top of the food chain doesn't mean our senses don't have to be piqued for predators. Today we have cancer and high-fructose corn syrup and Trojan viruses. Yesterday we had to fight off wild beasts. The unknown was when we would get jacked by a monster and die.
Today, the unknown seems to be still very rooted in death. We ask ourselves why we're here and where do we go when our time is up. We fear we'll regret our life decisions. We fear the kind of person we'd become if we stepped outside of the comfortable box. The unknown becomes a question of right and wrong. We wonder if we should take the risk to fight the beast or flee to safety. The problem remains that all progress relies on the people who dare to stare fear down and change the world. The rest of us remain afraid.
We can stop this. Hijack the fight or flight response with some better initial reactions. We can't necessarily turn off our impulses but we can be more conscious of them. Let's morph fear of the unknown into embracing the known. Study it. Play with it. Maybe Google it first if it's a snake. Think Jim Carrey in The Yes Man, or the What Would Lance Armstrong Do bracelets. Ask yourself honestly how you'd handle this fear with a snap judgment. What is the worst that can happen? Usually it's not so bad. What's the best that can happen? We forget but the benefits are usually amazingly progressive and memorable.
Why not ask out that hottie at the bakery? Because you might be rejected and embarrassed? And then what?
Why not try eating sushi you've never had before? Because you may not like it? And then what?
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Keep in mind that attacking most fears doesn't mean the end of the world, whatever the outcome. We get back on the horse and ride. Don't fear being wrong. Fear being frozen.
Build a better reaction. Find your North Star. Prepare yourself for meeting fear with more than just fight or flight. Question it. In the end, the way you answer to fear is going to determine how you design your life. You make the choices.
I'll end this newsletter with the sentiments of a journalist like no other. "I understand that fear is my friend, but not always. Never turn your back on fear. It should always be in front of you, like a thing that might have to be killed." - Hunter S. Thompson, Kingdom of Fear
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Musician / Composer / Instructor
David Colin Freeman, 2014
David Colin Freeman (born 21 March 1977 in Los Angeles, California) is a composer, producer, multi-instrumentalist, and music educator, with a diverse musical background, of whom’s history in underground recordings of various styles goes as far back as 1990. His work has been featured in independent film and performed live by ensembles throughout the Southwest United States. His most recent work focuses on meditative and spiritual minimalism, and song-without-words contemporary works featuring flute and piano. His full professional resume is available at this link.
David Colin Freeman grew up in a quiet suburb north of Los Angeles, Calif. Although neither of Freeman's parents were musicians by profession, they understood the value of music lessons and made sure that his life was filled with music every day from an early age, and was exposed to many different instruments and styles of music, and studied many instruments, most notably piano and flute. He remembers his first discovery of classical music as he browsed through his parents vinyl collection, and recalls being particularly struck by their many relaxing symphonic recordings. Early on, Freeman had dreams filled with melody and inspiration.
Musical Background
Freeman, flute; and Guthrie-Podley, harp; as Heaven’s Harp, cir. 2004
At age 12, his first composition to be played publicly was a special project given to him by a history teacher whose assignment was to compose a piece that could have been performed in ancient Greece. With a keen ear for melody and phrasing, Freeman improvised a full-length piano piece entitled "Song of the Sirens" and played the tape for his class at the amazement of his teacher and fellow students. His talent for creation became evident. It was at that moment Freeman fell in love with music creation and decided to pursue a degree in music, where he studied flute and piano performance as his main focus. He later composed and conducted many works for small ensemble and orchestra alike during his time as a student. While performing as a guest artist with a Los Angeles-area university in the year 2000, Freeman met harpist Melanie Guthrie-Podley. The two decided to form the performance duo, Heaven's Harp, with Freeman performing on flute. [and in addition to being involved in a baroque trio with a cellist and violinist, and playing keyboard in a hard rock band with his cousin.
2000-2001, 2004: River Andromeda Freeman combined flute and electronica into an experimental electronica album entitled, River Andromeda, which he then independently released in 2001. One of the tracks was featured in the award-winning documentary, Pedaling a Dream. A subsequent underground release of River Andromeda in 2004 soon followed along with the addition of new previously unreleased tracks including Still Summer Day. Freeman ultimately held the album back to be saved for future release, meanwhile he concentrated on developing his performance career. After many years spent on the shelf, rumor has it that Freeman has revisited the work and it is set to be released in early 2015.
2009: Symphonic Allusions After performing for many years on stage as a principal-chair flutist, in 2009 Freeman decided to move with his partner to Las Vegas, Nevada, to focus primarily on his solo work. While tucked away in a room he assembled and orchestrated a few sketches and even a flute and harp piece he had previously performed live in concert releasing the work as a fully realized symphonic-themed album, Symphonic Allusions. Soon after, he published the scores in a book for piano solo.
2011-2014: Winterspell Following a tragic personal loss, Freeman began work on a dark and haunting holiday-themed instrumental portrait of darkened Christmas carols. Freeman released the album under an alias, Colin Cumberland. where it airs on online radio. Additionally, Winterspell has been released on a multimedia platform DVD, which includes additional video and artwork.
2014-2016: Upcoming Releases Having visited the island of Kauai in Hawaii, Freeman recalls a time shopping for souvenirs being completely surrounded by wind chimes as influencing of his compositional style during this period. “I closed my eyes and floated away with all the sounds. I was transported.”
Now with a bit more experience producing music, Freeman revisits many of his former recordings and prepare for release.
Freeman utilizes a variety of software and acoustic instruments, some unconventional. He examines his unique sound and playing style in this 2016 interview:
Freeman, “harp-percussion”; January 2016
I wanted to detach from the virtual instruments and evolve my sound. Maybe it is a bit unconventional, but not more than then any prepared piano. I tilted my harp on its side, took a pair of mallets and began playing it like a hammered zither. I used the same approach on a grand piano during college. They locked the piano lids down after my performance.
My tenor flute is pink, although it was not my first choice in color, I immediately fell in love with its versatile tone. When I picked up the instrument for the first time, the tenor took a life of its own. I immediately hit the record button and ‘Mono’ was born.
Freeman, tenor flute; November 2015
David Colin Freeman is also known as (a.k.a) Colin Cumberland; Teale; Uvaura; and Xeruva.
2001: River Andromeda -- Teale*
2010: Symphonic Allusions -- David Colin Freeman*
2011: Hey That’s Not Clementi -- David Colin Freeman
2016: Cape Catastrophe -- David Colin Freeman
2014: Winterspell -- Colin Cumberland
2013: Awaken -- Colin Cumberland
2013: Morning Glory -- Colin Cumberland
2014: Nightshade -- Colin Cumberland
2016: Aquae -- Uvaura
2016: Eis -- Uvaura
2016: Mono Lake -- Uvaura
2017: Firefly -- Xeruva
*remaster released, 2015
2003: Wiccan Dances III. Hecate’s Firedance -- flute and harp
2004: My Angel -- flute and harp
2004: Sankyoku -- flute and harp
2008: Majorka -- piano
2008: Gymnopedie -- piano
2011: Symphonic Allusions -- piano
Maiden Voyage
Autumn Umbrella
Bonny Springs
By The Fountain
Gymnopedie
Into The Unknown
Mizuumi
Waterlilly’s Dream
2011: The Empty Quarter -- piano
2011: Pantomime -- piano
2011: Cinq Mouvements -- piano
TBD: Questionable Tea
TBD: Rustic Dance
TBD: Balanchine Waltz
TBD: Caprice At The Speed Of Sound
TBD: Swansong
2011: The Fossegrimen’s Forlana -- flute ensemble
2012: Elegy In Memoriam
2013: Awaken -- piano book
2015: Goldyn Sunset -- harp
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Civil Language Projectmiscellanea
Pivot Political Agendas
David Bruno on October 24, 2016
Like quite a few other people the world over, I am nervous about the upcoming presidential election in the United States. The increasingly incendiary rhetoric coming from Trump and some of his supporters makes me nervous.
It's incredible that our institutions of gov, WH, Congress, DOJ, and big media are corrupt & all we do is bitch. Pitchforks and torches time pic.twitter.com/8G5G0daGVN
— David A. Clarke, Jr. (@SheriffClarke) October 15, 2016
It’s tempting to make a Lord Farquaad joke, but we are not living in a satirical fairy tale. This is real life. And some of the anti-politician chatter in America has crescendoed to a revolutionary tone.
By all sensible accounts, the inevitable outcome of the election is that Clinton will win. Yet if she does, there are two significant points of trouble come November 9. The first is that a Clinton victory will afford would be antagonists a spark to ignite their rhetoric into violence. It is hard to imagine violence becoming widespread. Instead, it almost certainly will be localized and directed at vulnerable communities. Don’t expect pitchforks and torches on the National Mall. Do expect racial violence where local policing turns a blind eye and federal intervention would be too risky.
God willing, a Trump loss will not result in such violence. After the puffed up talk, hopefully Trump will do something utterly uncharacteristic and appeal for civility.
But there is another point of potential trouble. Clinton is a disciplined politician. She has been striving for the presidency for a long time now. And as best as can be discerned, she will come to her administration with an agenda that she has been carrying with her over the years. It is inconceivable that the agenda she has been forming over the past many years is the right one for our times. If she wins the presidency, she has a task ahead of her that pretty much is not the task she’s been dreaming about and aspiring to. It is hard to think of her bending the knee to the present situation.
This is the biggest problem with presidential politics in modern times, in my admittedly humble and under informed opinion. Presidents interpret a win as a mandate for the agenda they developed long before the election.
The next president of the United States has pretty clear marching orders. Submit to the times. Change agendas. Prioritize unity and compromise and civility and equity over an ideological agenda formed in ‘60s and fashioned in the ‘80s and ‘90s. I confess that I am not optimistic this will happen.
That should not stop citizens from asking their political leaders for unity, compromise, civility and equity. Peacefully.
Amplify What Goes Unseen
Have you ever noticed what goes unseen? Tristan Harris’s Hyjack #1 explains why we, in our technologically mediated times, miss so much. There’s only so many options on a menu. Only so many headlines fit in the headlines. Podcasts are unary and linear narratives. Picture-in-Picture allows for about five (very distracted) views.
There are more life options than make it into a website’s main navigation. The headlines are an infinitesimally small sampling of headline-worthy news. When we listen to a podcast, we are not listening to millions of other voices. And for the love our brains, let’s just get rid of television altogether, mostly.
The point is that so much more happens than what is brought to our attention by those who choose the menus. When our options make us anxious and nervous and mad, there are thousands of anecdotes for our concerns just waiting to be noticed. So the next time we feel stuck with the options we have available to us, let’s do this. Let’s find a good thing that has not made the menu and then amplify it.
Civil Language ProjectInspirationmiscellanea
Civil Language Project
David Bruno on July 7, 2016
The language of division tries to get enough people hostile toward enough other people so that the provocateur gains power. Too many in the political class, too many faith-based leaders and faithless skeptics, too many wealthy bosses and elite technocrats speak this language of division. Far too many average citizens speak it, too. If it goes on, eventually each person will have gained just enough power to be everyone else’s enemy. We must not tolerate such a hell on earth.
There is a better language out there. People are using it and flourishing. Rather than division and power, it seeks out unity and love. We need to rediscover that language and speak it with urgency and power.
Over the next few days with the help of others I am going to attempt to launch the Civil Language Project. Please consider participating.
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174 A Man, A Mission, Part XXVII
by Darwin Carmichael is Going to Hell on August 31, 2010 at 12:01 am
Lxndr
August 31, 2010 at 12:23 am | #
Sometimes, I really wish this comic had a “Darwin’s Karma Rating” bar for each episode.
ELLA JUST STOPPIT, OK
August 31, 2010 at 1:11 am | #
I imagine Darwins Karma just wouldnt show up on the bar it’s so low :S
Poor Darwin…
seriously Ella? SERIOUSLY!?
yea – bad people that are considered good doing bad things which they think are good – everybody can be the villain without knowing it
but if there wasn’t that chase that girl(?) would never have gotten that epic FREE HAT
@Lxndr: great idea^^ reminds me of the early spawn comics when Al has this bar of necroplasmaenergy
it tied up the plot too much i guess so they got rid of it
it would be interesting though what actions the goddesses consider karma positive/negative changing
(sry for grammar/tense messup)
firite
good god. this just sets the precedence for darwin to drop into hell after he gets hit by a car or something.
Oh goodness. Maybe luck figures into it too. Lookit that. The way karma works in this universe, Ella’s will probably rise from ‘giving someone a free hat’ but Darwin’s will drop (ok, not that much in the scheme of things) from spilling that guy’s soda.
KAR-MA PO-LICE
ARREST THIS GI-IRL!
Oh, radiohead. <3
Everyone who is hating on Ella right now is forgetting to laugh.
I second the vote for bar or something showing Darwin’s Karma-o-meter!
Okay, some random girl got a free Ella hat. I am jealous!
D. Walker
Per forgetting to laugh, it isn’t funny. Bad things happening to people for no good reason is a kind of humor I can’t get behind.
~D.
kschenke
I realize Ella doesn’t fully realize it, but it is frustrating how her antics hurt other people and she doesn’t feel guilty.
I don’t think she’s being malicious… she’s actually trying to do something good in her own mind, but Karma is going to eventually catch up with her.
@kschenke
But it won’t. Karma is Ella’s friend. A few homocides, remember? She’s in the clear because her parents left her goodwill. She’s karmically spoiled, and I find it very hard to sympathize with her in most situations, when she is overall, as I see it, a worse person than Darwin. He’s cynical, bitter, and made one HUGE mistake, but she doesn’t seem to care that much about other people. She does what she wants, and knows she’ll get away with it.
She acts all wacky and fun, but that’s because she will never, ever face the consequences of being a jerk in any real way, and then SHE looks down on DARWIN for being damned.
I just can’t like her very much.
The above is not to say I don’t find her funny, but the undercurrent rubs me the wrong way.
She’s entitled, and can’t seem to sympathize in a real way with anyone who isn’t.
Holly Dee
September 1, 2010 at 4:35 am | #
@Ergo it’s true that Ella is karmically spoiled, but I think that her purpose, by and large, is to “spread the wealth.” She may go around doing as she wants, when she wants, but her deeds (see the above “FREE HAT!”) almost serve as a way of exuding positivity, which has a trickle-down effect in most circumstances. The end result of her actions may or may not be the best conclusions possible, but not all actions end in a positive reaction, after all. Ella’s entire reason for being, the reason for her exuberance and her (general) happiness, is because she is a conduit of good will and happiness, as much as she can possibly muster.
That’s just my interpretation, however.
And, I agree that the Darwin-O-Meter would be a fun idea. I picture something akin to the “shit” counter from the “It Hits The Fan” episode of South Park, or the counter which counted how many cups of coffee Fry was on the “Three Hundred Big Boys” episode of Futurama.
It took me a while to realize that Ella is looking around the corner in the first panel.
September 1, 2010 at 10:46 am | #
@ Holly Dee
Really? There’s a difference in my mind between “positive” and “cheery.” She’s the fun one, but her version of fun involves doing whatever she wants to other people. In most situations, she has NOT, as far as I’ve seen, been that helpful while being manic. When she’s actually paying attention to the problem, she can be good, but otherwise she’s a bit of a sociopath. What ‘trickledown’ we’ve seen so far has resulted not from her wacky hijinks, but from those few instances where she’s been supportive rather than merely off-the-wall, rom-com love interest quirky.
Chad from Canada
I, for one, love Ella. She’s certainly not malicious, she’s just Naive. Her parents may have had great Karma, but I get the feeling that they were so busy being Saint-like that they couldn’t be there much to show her how to build her own. Leading by example may have been their philosophy, but that hardly ever works in real life. I’m not much like either of my parents…
Plus, she’s super cute.
September 1, 2010 at 2:08 pm | #
I can’t hate Ella, she reminds me too much of myself.
@Holly Dee – I also thought of Fry’s coffee meter!
@cello – I was actually listening to that song when I read your comment, so I freaked out quite a bit. ^-^
I suspect people are overreacting about the bad consequences to the lookalikes. Seems pretty likely that the mooks will notice the guy’s goatee, and the worst thing about it will be the spilled pop. Unless Rule of Funny dictates they get beaten up and left to languish with the Singing Bowls, anyway.
@Ergo she’s a little more than cheery. She’s not the best person in the world (see: the incident in which Skittles steals stuff), but what she does, she does for the greater good, such as trying to make sure Darwin doesn’t get smashed to bits by Buddhists.
@Mayday as we know, Rule Of Funny means that it doesn’t HAVE to make sense.
Even there, she did it in the way that maximized ‘fun’ (for her) while being completely crazy. I mean, what was her plan? Just leave, or try to stay and watch the Dalai Lama? Either way, the breakout can’t help D’s karma, and trying to stay means they have to keep running away from the Guard Buddhists. Plus she stole those singing bowls. I’m not saying she’s malicious, just that Ella doesn’t think things through. At all.
September 1, 2010 at 11:36 pm | #
I like Darwin’s hands in the second panel… Makes me smile.
@Ergo there’s no questioning the fact that Ella doesn’t think things through. I agree with that sentiment 110%
Omigosh. I’m not going to tell, but I think this is an homage to Fred running away from Jasmine and giving a girl her coat on “Angel.” Or I just love skinny spunky girls. Maybe that’s it.
I adore Ella, but I can’t help but wonder if she’ll ever use up her karma—not by doing horrendous things (like murders) but a lot of little bad things. It’d be ironic if she and Darwin switched places, because she lost all her karma fixing his.
Is that Neil Strauss?
September 19, 2010 at 5:53 pm | #
Personally, I think the karma rating is less about how you do things, and more how you intend to do things and how it affects people in the grand scheme. Ella’s parents were sucky, but in the grand scheme of the world, they helped a lot of people come into their own.
Ella’s possessiveness and stupidity over Darwin is more about guilt that she didn’t take the time to get to know her parents and the first thing she did when they died is gain possession of a lot of good karma. The second thing is that she started to spice up Darwin’s life, which spiced up Skittles life, which is going to affect a hell of a lot of people when it comes down to it. As much as D is a parental figure in S’s life, there’s a lot of people he could be living with, not limited to a karmic nobody.
Not that I don’t think her rating should go down, but she also acquires her parents continued karma every time some stoned college student or influenced professor puts on an album. Good deeds don’t stop just because they’re dead, and those good deeds go to her. Besides that, her girlfriend might be the reincarnation of Mary or Tara, mother godess of Hindu religion, who knows in this comic, and giving her pleasure might be up there with saving an entire third world country.
January 4, 2011 at 10:05 pm | #
Why’re people mad at Ella? I would gladly be in that girl’s position! Who cares if you are momentarily confused for an escapee / threat to the Dalai Lama? You just got an awesome -free- hat!
The guy who spilled his soda is the real victim. He gained nothing in this situation. Darwin owes him a hat.
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Review: Rise of the Planet of the Apes
15 Aug ’11 11 Jan ’14 Lord Christopher LavertyClothes from Fantasy & Sci-fi, Clothes from now, Film Reviews, Girls in Films, Guys in Films
Directed By: Rupert Wyatt
Starring: Andy Serkis, James Franco, Freida Pinto
Ignore the clunky, borderline baffling title, as Rise of the Planet of the Apes is gripping entertainment from start to finish. It’s reasonably smart too, with plenty of subtext on everything from ethnicity to hierarchical costume without skimping on the physical action. Director Rupert Wyatt (The Escapist, 2008) is going places in Hollywood.
You would be wrong to assume this is not an actors’ film either. It may be populated by Weta motion capture simians, but these are performances themselves; in the case of Andy Serkis as hyper-intelligent, revolutionist chimpanzee Caesar, a subtly complex performance worthy of recognition.
While James Franco’s misguided scientist Will Rodman could easily have faded into the background, his everyman face and simplistic moralistic standpoint, not to mention chemistry with Caesar, means he will be missed if exorcised for the inevitable sequel. It is shame that Will’s girlfriend Caroline (Freida Pinto) is so underwritten in comparison she could be cut from the script entirely. Really, through no fault of her own Pinto remains the one weak link in a film that is intelligently written for such an outwardly silly premise (apes take over the world) and layered with sly visual references and in-jokes.
Costume designer Renée April, her work recently seen in sci-fi thriller Source Code (2011, Duncan Jones) again employs clothes as a means of supplementing and supporting narrative. Costume provides symbolic recognition of Caesar’s position in society. He is dressed as human by Will, indicating he should be equal, yet is treated as a pet (an issue he takes up with Will using sign language). Worse still, Caesar is initially viewed as nothing more than a test subject by anyone – including Will.
Also interesting is the role Caesar’s clothes play in identifying the due order of those around him, e.g. Power (Will’s boss played by David Oyelowo) in pinstripe suit with silk tie; Intellect (Will) in casual cotton jacket and check shirt; Weak (Will’s father suffering from Alzheimer’s disease played by John Lithgow) in pyjamas and dressing gown. With Caesar dressed essentially in rags, he is positioned at the bottom, below the weak, below even the stupid. However these rudimentary clothes are a red-herring as he is actually none of these things; Caesar is an animal – his and Will’s acknowledgment of which creates a very powerful and tender moment on screen.
Who would have thought it, then? The second best Planet of the Apes film ever made; disregard for a minute that it is not really saying much and take a gamble on the best popcorn of the summer.
Rise of the Planet of the Apes was released on 11th August.
You can watch movies online including the orginal Planet of the Apes at LOVEFiLM.com.
© 2011 – 2014, Lord Christopher Laverty.
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Ever Tried. Ever Failed.
They were troubling times. A deep seam of discontent that seemed to split the country from itself. There were people too scared to lift their eyes and greet the person walking towards them. There were others who didn't open their curtains because they couldn't see the point.
Some said it was money – which kept losing its way; which kept on falling; which made people nervous and angry and in need of someone to blame. Others said it was historical, environmental, global – mills had stopped their milling; factories had stopped their making; towns had lost their meaning, and nobody was quite sure about what to value or who they might be.
There was still joy. People fell in love. Babies were born. Children tasted ice-cream for the first time. In the evenings the sun spilt its colours across the clouds, and then each morning washed the world in pastel pinks and blues. Seeds burst their casings and pushed green shoots up through dark soil into the light. There was still joy.
When the woman arrived, people noticed – it was a small town; people tended to leave or talk about leaving, but few moved in from elsewhere. She wasn't special looking – medium height, short hair, small features in a pale face. They talked about how old she might be – thirty, forty, fifty, it was hard to say. They wondered why she was there and what it was she wanted from them. She made them nervous, but they did not say this to each other.
She rented an empty shop on the high street, which had stumbled and sunk the past few years – the grocers gone, the butchers gone, the clothes shop that had been there for three generations gone. The shop she took used to be a florists. It was dirty, empty, damp, but some mornings, when she unlocked the door and walked inside, she caught the smell of roses, lilies, fuchsia, and the sharp green of freshly cut stems.
During the day she would prop the door open, as though to say come in, you're welcome, and she set about cleaning. Windows first. Then the floor, sweeping the rubbish into big black bags and then scrubbing and mopping and polishing until the lino remembered it used to be a beautiful duck egg blue. No one came inside, but some glanced through the windows and then told the others what they saw. It made no sense, they said, she was naïve, stupid even. She had no idea how things worked around there. She was in for a shock.
One day, the woman put an A-frame blackboard outside on the street. In beautiful white lettering she had written: Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better. (Samuel Beckett).
Well. Everybody in the town read it and nobody knew what to think. But they agreed that this woman, with her polished windows and duck egg floor, could have nothing to tell them about failure.
The next week the blackboard had been wiped clean and the woman had written, in red chalk this time: Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success (Dale Carnegie).
Well. Who the hell did she think she was?
The windows were clean. The floor was polished. The woman painted the walls a rich buttery yellow and started to build a table out of bits of wood she'd found in the back yard. She bought a kettle and six purple mugs and if anyone came in – which they didn't – she would have offered them a cup of tea.
The following week, the board read: Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly (Robert F. Kennedy).
The woman sat at her table on the florist's old plastic chair, with a pile of paper and a thick black pencil, and started to draw. Every time she finished a picture she pinned it to the newly painted wall at the back of the shop. The people who walked past and glanced in couldn't quite make out what the pictures were of. Some said they were obscene. Some said they were of a town far from this one, and badly done. Others said they were nothing but lines without meaning.
The woman kept on drawing and pinning the finished pictures to the back wall, and one morning she cleaned the blackboard and wrote: Art Exhibition. Free. All Welcome, each letter in a different colour.
Art?
No. The people shook their heads. Absolutely not. Free or not free, there was no need for art in their town. Art was for rich people. Art was for people who had gone to university and could stand in front of a splash of paint and think of something to say about it. Art was definitely not for them.
There were others, artists themselves, who looked at the blackboard and the shop and felt something they couldn’t quite put their finger on – excitement maybe, or envy, anger or anticipation.
The woman sat at her table, drinking tea from a purple mug, and waited. She knew that her pictures were good. She knew that people were curious. She knew that art was not just for rich people, and that artists needed to see as well as show. And so she waited.
The first person to cross the threshold was a schoolboy, dared by his friends. He was so pumped full of his own bravery it took him a while to notice that the pictures were of his town. The factory on the edge of town with its broken windows and boarded up doors; the front of a terraced house; his school playground. Crappy places, really, he told himself, and yet they looked nice drawn in bold black lines on creamy paper. There was a tree growing out of one of the factory windows; the terraced house had pots of flowering geraniums in the front yard; and she had drawn the playground from above so that the clusters of kids looked like constellations across the tarmac.
And then there was a picture of him, dressed like a prince, with a rich embroidered coat and a crown perched on his head. He was standing at the top of Crook Street, looking out over the town as if he owned it. He looked from the picture to the woman, who still sat at the table with her hands cupped around her mug.
'Would you rather I drew you differently?' she asked.
The boy didn't know what to say.
'Or you can draw it if you like.' She gestured to the pile of paper and a box of new pencils. 'I can help if you want me to.'
The boy walked slowly to the door, as though trying not to provoke a dangerous animal, then slipped back onto the street and ran to where his friends waited. He told them the pictures were of the town and they rolled their eyes and laughed and started to move off towards the football field. He did not tell them about the picture of him, but he couldn't get the thought of it out of his mind.
The woman stayed sitting at the table. Waiting.
The second person to come in was the woman who worked in the nail bar at the end of the street. She had liked art at school, had loved how it focused her attention so completely the rest of the world seemed to fade and quieten around her; loved how she could translate what she saw into something both like it and at the same time different; loved how capturing something on paper meant she could keep a version of it for herself, even when the thing she had drawn – sky, apple, cheese-plant – had changed, or gone. She hadn't painted a picture in years.
She walked into the shop with her head down, passed the woman at the table and went straight to the pictures. They were of her town. She stared at them. The post office. The tree outside the B&B. The curve of the road down towards the river. Tired, nothing-special places, and yet in the pictures they looked beautiful. The sky reflected in the post office window; a bird sitting in the tree, its head cocked as if asking a question; a boy riding his bike along the road, feet off the pedals, face lit up with joy.
And then there was a picture of her, standing at an easel, her hair tied back from her face, her shirt smeared with paint, a brush in one hand.
When she turned back to the woman at the table, there was steam twisting up from two cups of tea. She sat down, and the woman handed her a piece of a paper and a pencil, newly sharpened. The woman who worked in the nail bar, and had barely thought about art since leaving school, picked up the pencil and started to draw. She drew the woman opposite her. She drew the shop, with its buttery walls and duck egg floor, its large clean windows and the pictures of her town pinned to the back wall. She drew the blackboard with its multicoloured words: Art Exhibition. Free. All Welcome. She drew the people who didn’t think art was for them, and the artists who still weren’t sure what they thought about the woman and whatever she was up to. She drew the street outside and the people walking along it, the nail bar and the newsagents, the pound shops and the pub with its tattered sign and heavy plastic ashtrays. She drew the road down to the river and the road up into the hills.
When she had finished, the woman opposite handed her two metal tacks and a hammer. The woman who worked in the nail bar, and had just remembered what it felt like to draw, chose a place on the wall, right next to the window, and pinned up the picture so that anyone walking past could look in and see.
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Summer Clinics and Camps!
Bill Melvin's baseball camps are designed to teach and improve the baseball skills for kids ages 4 to 12.
Bill mixes baseball fundamentals with some life lessons and games and fun.
Participants work on a variety of skills including fielding, batting, pitching, base-running, and much more in a safe and fun environment. Coach Melvin employs a number of local baseball standouts as camp counselors to ensure that each camper will enjoy his share of personal instruction and attention.
What to expect at camp:
- a safe environment for each player
- qualified instructors who care about the well-being of players
- learning the fundamentals for hitting, pitching, fielding and throwing
- strategy and philosophies of the game of baseball
- more fun that you could ever imaging in the middle of summer in the Georgia heat
- great friendships
What to bring to camp:
- an attitude to learn the game of baseball
- the baseball equipment that you need for the game
- LUNCH!
- hat and sunscreen (shorts are permissible)
- signed medical release and registration form
- check for the camp (see registration form for amount)
DHYS Baseball will host Bill Melvin's camp at Medlock Park from June 9-13, 2014 and June 16-20, 2014 for ages 4-12. Cost of enrollment is $225.
Click HERE to register for the June 9 - 13 Camp!
Click HERE to register for the June 16 - 20 Camp!
For more information, visit http://www.pitchingforexcellence.com,
email Coach Melvin at , or call Bill at 404.213.3913.
Click below for information on:
Emory Baseball Camps
DHYS Wishes to Thank
Coach Mike Twardoski
from the Emory University Eagles
He has put together age appropriate tips and skill drills to use with your players.
You can download his tips here:
Lower Leagues (Ages 5-7)
Upper Leagues (Ages 8-14)
Ben Johnstone's Top Tier Baseball Advanced Development Camps:
Camp 1 - June 2nd to June 6th, 9:00am-1:00pm, Medlock Park
Camp 2 - June 23rd to June 27th, 9:00am-1:00pm, Medlock Park
Camp 3 - July 7th to July 11th, 9:00am-1:00pm, Medlock Park
Click here for Registration form or send form request to
All Players ages 11 (advanced 11's only) to 15 years-old are welcome to attend!
*Parents may drop off as early as 8:45am and must pick up no later than 1:00pm. Post-camp lesson slots are available by appointment. All campers should bring a water bottle and a snack or lunch. Snacks and lunch will not be provided by the camp.
Ben Johnstone will be conducting his annual Top Tier Baseball Summer Advanced Development Camps the weeks of June 2nd-6th from 9am-1pm, June 23rd-27th from 9am-1pm, and July 7th-11th from 9am-1pm at Medlock Park. At these hard work camps players will work on developing college and professional level skills in the areas of Hitting, Fielding, Pitching, Catching, Base Running/Stealing, and Team Fundamentals. Players will leave these camps clearly understanding what is expected of young players at the high school, college, and professional levels, and each player will feel more prepared to work toward their goals of making higher level teams in the years to come. THESE ARE THE MOST ADVANCED CAMPS IN THE ATLANTA AREA. Former campers are on varsity teams at many of the local high schools, and several are now playing in college or have finished their college careers.
These camps are part of Ben's Top Tier Baseball Instructional Program that includes year-round lessons at Medlock Park as well as clinics for players, parents, coaches, and teams. Through Top Tier Baseball Ben works to promote the ideals of scholar-athleticism and strives to contribute to the positive confidence-building experiences of children, teens, and families in the community of youth sports. For more information please visit www.toptierbaseball.com .
Ben Johnstone (the baseball player):
two-sport standout at Yale University (football / baseball)
played in the prestigious Cape Cod College Summer League
team co-MVP, Cape League All-Star, and Cape League Sportsmanship Award
drafted by the Chicago Cubs (1999)
named Best Defensive Outfielder and Fastest Baserunner by Baseball America
Cubs' MVP for both Instructional League and Spring Training
led the Cubs organization in stolen bases with 54 (2000)
Ben Johnstone (the coach):
13 years of coaching experience
has coached players and coaches as high as the college level
founder of Top Tier Baseball and Top Tier Recruiting
has guided dozens of players through high school into college ranks
is proud of all the young scholar-athletes he sees and works with each day
is grateful to all of the families in the DHYS community for their positivity and support over the past 10 years
NIKE Greg Frady Baseball Camp at McCoy Park
(Click the pic to register!)
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SPECIAL RULES FOR THE MAKEUP AWARD
1. The Academy President shall appoint a chairman from the makeup artist
members of the Academy and two co-chairmen who shall be Governors of the
Academy. The Makeup Award Committee shall be formed from active and life
members of the Academy, among them: makeup artists, hair stylists, art directors,
cinematographers and others who are qualified and recognized experts in
the field of makeup technology.
2. There are three options under these rules .
(a) A Special Achievement Award for Makeup may be made by the Board of
Governors upon recommendation of the Makeup Award Committee.
(b) If the committee finds that two productions, but not more than three
productions, are deserving of its recommendation, those shall be placed
on the final ballot as nominated achievements to be voted upon by all
active and life members of the Academy.
(c) The Makeup Award Committee may also recommend to the Board of
Governors that no award be made in a given year.
3. Makeup, as an achievement or a craft, shall be determined by the Makeup
Award Rules Commi,ttee. Makeup is any change in the appearance of a performer's
face, or hair, or body created by the application of cosmetics, threedimensional
materials, prosthetic appliances or wigs and hairpieces, applied
directly to the performer's face or body. When the hairstyles and/or hair effects
contribute greatly to the appearance and effect of the characters, the hairstylist
most responsible for the hair design work may be included in the Makeup Award.
This shall be at the discretion of the Makeup Award Rules Committee.
4. Makeup artist and hair stylist members of the Academy shall attend a meeting
to review a reminder list of all eligible motion pictures. Secret ballots shall be
cast to select a maximum of seven productions to be considered for the Makeup
Award. Twenty percent (20%) of the eligible voters shall constitute a quorum for
the selection of achievements to be taken under consideration.
5. The producers of the films selected for award consideration (or the directors
of those films) shall provide the committee with the name of the makeup artist
and/or hairstylist of credit principally responsible for the achievement in each of
the productions. A written description of the achievement is also required. In
rare exceptions, and only when approved by the Makeup Award Rules Committee,
more than one individual may be considered as having contributed equally
to a single achievement. It is the intention of these rules to recognize the achievement
of person(s) - not to exceed three in number - responsible for the
required look of the live performers in a motion picture.
6. Eligibility of the contributor(s) to the makeup achievement, for nomination
purposes, shall be determined by the Makeup Award Rules Committee no later
than one week prior to the Makeup Award Committee screening (paragraph 8
below).
7. The producers (or the directors) shall also be requested to provide the committee
with film excerpts of selected scenes showing the makeup achievements.
Full text Fifteen SPECIAL RULES FOR THE MAKEUP AWARD 1. The Academy President shall appoint a chairman from the makeup artist members of the Academy and two co-chairmen who shall be Governors of the Academy. The Makeup Award Committee shall be formed from active and life members of the Academy, among them: makeup artists, hair stylists, art directors, cinematographers and others who are qualified and recognized experts in the field of makeup technology. 2. There are three options under these rules . (a) A Special Achievement Award for Makeup may be made by the Board of Governors upon recommendation of the Makeup Award Committee. (b) If the committee finds that two productions, but not more than three productions, are deserving of its recommendation, those shall be placed on the final ballot as nominated achievements to be voted upon by all active and life members of the Academy. (c) The Makeup Award Committee may also recommend to the Board of Governors that no award be made in a given year. 3. Makeup, as an achievement or a craft, shall be determined by the Makeup Award Rules Commi,ttee. Makeup is any change in the appearance of a performer's face, or hair, or body created by the application of cosmetics, threedimensional materials, prosthetic appliances or wigs and hairpieces, applied directly to the performer's face or body. When the hairstyles and/or hair effects contribute greatly to the appearance and effect of the characters, the hairstylist most responsible for the hair design work may be included in the Makeup Award. This shall be at the discretion of the Makeup Award Rules Committee. 4. Makeup artist and hair stylist members of the Academy shall attend a meeting to review a reminder list of all eligible motion pictures. Secret ballots shall be cast to select a maximum of seven productions to be considered for the Makeup Award. Twenty percent (20%) of the eligible voters shall constitute a quorum for the selection of achievements to be taken under consideration. 5. The producers of the films selected for award consideration (or the directors of those films) shall provide the committee with the name of the makeup artist and/or hairstylist of credit principally responsible for the achievement in each of the productions. A written description of the achievement is also required. In rare exceptions, and only when approved by the Makeup Award Rules Committee, more than one individual may be considered as having contributed equally to a single achievement. It is the intention of these rules to recognize the achievement of person(s) - not to exceed three in number - responsible for the required look of the live performers in a motion picture. 6. Eligibility of the contributor(s) to the makeup achievement, for nomination purposes, shall be determined by the Makeup Award Rules Committee no later than one week prior to the Makeup Award Committee screening (paragraph 8 below). 7. The producers (or the directors) shall also be requested to provide the committee with film excerpts of selected scenes showing the makeup achievements. Page 14
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Need Some Money Motivation? Try the Buddy System
by Mia Taylor Updated on 10.27.18
On and off over the years I’ve had gym buddies I could rely upon to keep me showing up for workouts even when my inner couch potato was itching for another hour of Netflix.
Yet it never occurred to me that the same buddy system could be applied to my financial challenges.
Not until a recent playdate at McDonald’s, that is, when I confessed to a good friend — who’s far more financially savvy than I — what serious debt I’ve accumulated recently. Within 30 minutes, as our kids screeched with glee on the jungle gym, she had mapped out a detailed action plan for my financial recovery. And we agreed to check-in on my progress at regular intervals moving forward. Insert fist-bump here, because yes, that’s really how we wrapped up our little financial chit-chat over French fries and Happy Meals.
As a single mom who doesn’t have a partner to discuss finances with (or to rein me in during my most impulsive moments, which I sheepishly admit are all too frequent), this was just the lifeline I needed. I had officially found a financial buddy.
The thing is, most Americans are too embarrassed to talk about money. found that Americans are nearly twice as likely to talk with others about marital or relationship issues than credit card debt.
“In today’s connected world, people talk publicly about a variety of topics that used to be private – from sexual orientation to political affiliation – but money remains the last taboo,” said Steve Allocca, president of LendingClub. “This silence compounds the issues and poor financial health negatively impacts other key areas in people’s lives, causing many to feel shame or isolation. We need to remove the stigma and start engaging in conversations more openly on financial health.”
As a society we need to shed ourselves of this hang-up about money once and for all. There’s good reason to do so: A by Dominican University of California backs up the value of the buddy system with science.
As part of the study, psychology professor Gail Matthews discovered that participants who sent weekly updates to a friend about their goals were far more likely to achieve what they set out to do. In fact, the group of study participants who were asked to formulate action commitments and send their goals, action commitments, and weekly progress reports to a supportive friend achieved significantly more than other study participants who did not engage in such behavior.
More than 70 percent reported completely accomplishing their goals or being more than halfway there compared to 35 percent of those who kept goals to themselves and didn’t even write them down.
The moral of the story? If your finances are not what they should be, it may be time to find a financial buddy of your own. With that in mind, here are some tips from financial professionals about how to get your financial buddy system going, and who makes a good money buddy.
In her book “,” certified financial planner Ilene Davis dedicates a chapter to the concept of establishing a financial buddy system — or rather, creating an entire posse of financial cheerleaders.
Titled “Millionaire in the Making Support Group,” the chapter provides an ideal road map for those in search of the tools to establish and maintain a financial support system.
“Start talking to friends about your goals,” advises Davis. “You turn to someone and say, ‘Are you doing anything about retirement?’ If they say no, say, ‘Is it something you have thought about, because I’m looking for someone to help me stick to my game plan and doing it alone is really tough. I’m looking for people who might have similar goals and we help each other make wealthier choices.’”
If you’re feeling really bold or adventurous, you might even consider creating a Millionaire in the Making Meetup group or Facebook group.
The key is to surround yourself with people who have similar goals, said Davis, adding that when you hang around with individuals who are constantly buying the latest gadgets or a new car all the time, then it’s likely you’ll follow a similar behavior pattern.
But creating a support group of like-minded people or identifying a single buddy can help you stay on track in multiple ways. “If you’re tempted to buy something you don’t need, you’ll have someone to call who can help you understand why it’s not a good idea,” continued Davis.
What’s more, you can organize frugal approaches to entertainment and outings with these same individuals, further helping you to reach your goals.
“You can plan events that allow you to have fun together, but not necessarily spend money,” said Davis. “For example, instead of going out to the movies, and probably spending $10 to $20 each, get a group together, rent a movie, and put a couple dollars in for pizza or subs, to share.”
Some have shown that the best exercise partner is someone who’s about 40 percent more fit than you are, because he or she will actually motivate you to work out longer and harder.
“That principle can be directly applied to your budget and financial health,” says Sara Skirboll, of the coupon and savings site . “Look for a budget buddy who has a strong budget in place and a history of smart financial choices – this will help inspire you on your budget journey.”
Once you’ve identified that person, establish your financial goals and then sit down together to map out a plan for one month, three months and six-months-worth of benchmarks to get you to those goals.
“You should align these times with check-ins with your budget buddy – the accountability of having your buddy will motivate you to actually accomplish your smaller goals as you aim to reach your big goal,” said Skirboll.
It Can Really Work
Sha’Kreshia Terrell is living proof that the buddy system pays off.
She and her accountability partner have gotten rid of a staggering $70,000 worth of debt since joining forces in 2016 to help each other achieve financial goals.
An accounting clerk and founder and CEO of , 27-year-old Terrell had accumulated about $45,000 of that debt on credit cards and car loans, while her friend had accrued about $25,000.
At the beginning of each month, Terrell and her partner write down a list of clear goals they want to achieve before month’s end and send them to one another.
“We do this because it’s easy to get distracted in life and when motivation is lost throughout the journey, the other partner is there to help get oneself back on track,” she explained.
When they need still more inspiration to remain focused, Terrell and her friend get up on a Saturday morning and hit some open houses, daydreaming about owning a home themselves someday, and then head home to write down their plans to make those dreams a reality.
The duo has also learned to recognize each other’s spending triggers over the years.
“If I see a deal that I know she will fall for, I quickly pull out my phone and send her a text to remind her of her goals and to motivate her to move past the deal, vice versa,” said Terrell. “We talk daily. Our conversations have gone from talking about going out to eat or shopping to talking about goals and what we want out of life.”
All of the effort has paid off. Of that original $45,000 in debt, Terrell now owes a mere $3,500. The finish line is finally within striking distance and Terrell says she wouldn’t have made it nearly as far, as fast, without her buddy.
“It probably would have taken me a lot longer without her because it’s hard to motivate myself. We’re kind of there to motivate each other and remind each other,’” she explained. “I wish more people would be comfortable talking about their financial situation, rather than being embarrassed. You have to find that trustworthy friend or partner who can motivate you when times get hard.”
More by Mia Taylor:
Key Conversations You Need to Have Before Retirement
Five Situations Where Money and Emotions Don’t Mix
Refinancing Your Mortgage to Pay Off Student Loans: Tempting, But Use Caution
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Posted in Audio by Kyle - February 21, 2017
Released December 2015
At first glance, ‘Theatre of War’ seems like a bit of an odd choice for Big Finish to adapt from The New Adventures range. The original novel is immensely enjoyable as it meshes space opera and intrigue wonderfully amidst the backdrop of an interplanetary war, but it doesn’t fundamentally alter the trajectory of the leads or franchise in any meaningful way when taken in isolation even though it does put the manipulative Seventh Doctor in the odd position of not necessarily being several steps ahead of everyone else. However, given that ‘Theatre of War’ represents the first chronological meeting between Bernice and Irving Braxiatel, a figure who would become immensely important to Bernice and eventually Big Finish itself in her own ranges, it makes perfect sense to fill in that piece of continuity within the audio medium as well.
What’s instantly apparent in ‘Theatre of War’ is the scope of the production, opening on the rain-soaked Menaxus in the ruins of a mighty amphitheatre and quickly shifting to galleries, capitals of empire, and even the insides of a machine that can reproduce a vast number of plays from throughout the ages. The truth behind the supposed lost masterpiece play ‘The Good Soldiers’ and the events leading up to its revival are audacious and shocking, even though the story logically presents its facts and presents little doubt of what the ultimate outcome will be. The narrative woven is wonderfully straightforward yet complex, and the character of Bernice truly steps into the spotlight as her archaeological expedition leads her in completely unexpected directions. Her scenes at the Braxiatel Collection are among the strongest in the story, the great camaraderie between Lisa Bowerman and Miles Richardson shining through, and they spur on the narrative even as what she uncovers goes directly against what the Doctor does back on Menaxus. Although the Doctor is meant to be the hero and it’s understood that he will always emerge victorious, it is strangely satisfying to hear him told that the facts he has been presented alongside the audience have led him to draw false conclusions.
Original writer and audio adapter Justin Richards captures the voice of all of the characters, primary and secondary, wonderfully, and each performance befits the given role perfectly. Given his appearance here, it’s easy to see why Braxiatel would come to feature so prominently in future spin-off tales. It’s just a shame that the long-standing relationship between the Doctor and he is not explored more thoroughly as this may have given the battle of wits a greater subtext. The only other slight issue with the tale is with Ace, though this by no means Richards’s fault. At the time of the original novel’s release, there were only a few tales between ‘Survival’ and ‘Theatre of War,’ and so her characterization closer to the television series Ace as she continues her personal growth and development is understandable. However, given the immense number of stories featuring Ace as the sole companion from Big Finish and other media now available that have taken her closer to the edgier persona she would adopt towards the end of her tenure in The New Adventures alongside Bernice, it is slightly more difficult to reconcile where she is as a character at this point.
Nonetheless, with plenty of plot twists that question the reality of the environment itself, ‘Theatre of War’ comes to life wonderfully as an audio adaptation. It’s complex without ever becoming confusing, a long game and a longer war providing ample atmospheric backdrop for this vast space opera that nicely closes up an open piece of audio continuity.
Tags: Ace, Benny, Bernice Summerfield, Braxiatel, Lisa Bowerman, Menaxus, Miles Richardson, Seventh Doctor, Sophie Aldred, Sylvester McCoy, The Braxiatel Collection, The Good Soldiers
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From down in the dark: The Gutter Twins step into the light
by Dave Kerr February 22nd, 2008
Are you just up?
“Nah, I’ve been up for a while.”
DiS fills another agonising silence by suggesting Mark Lanegan’s monosyllabic reticence might be down to something other than an indifferent disposition. Consciously or not, his distance puts the kibosh on the zillionth attempt to demystify some small part of his growling, gothic lexicon.
The ‘Fire and Ice’ analogy torn straight out of a James Ellroy novel by Lanegan's tag team buddy Greg Dulli to describe the bluesy duo's yin-yang leaves nobody guessing who’s who. One of their chests audibly heaves with copious chuckling as he doles out more tales per breath than a Jackanory special, while the other was once quoted as deadpanning: “Comedy is for pussies.”
It may come as some surprise then, to learn that the origin of the duo’s new band lies with a prank executed by Lanegan four years ago. The man Dulli takes up the story…
Dulli: My first recollection is of an Italian journalist calling to ask me about the Gutter Twins and I replied with "What’s the Gutter Twins?" He told me that it was me and Mark Lanegan and I was like "Well, sounds interesting." I called Mark later and he tells me, "Oh yeah, we’re forming a band." I said "Okay, let me know when we’re gonna do that."
Lanegan: I was kidding around, but it became serious. We’re just really good friends who have similar musical tastes. We’d worked on each others records before, played in each other’s bands, so it seemed like a logical thing.
Video: The Gutter Twins, 'Idle Hands’ (live)
When did your friendship spark up?
Dulli: We first met around 19 years ago, but I’d say we’ve been close friends for the last nine or ten. It sparked up when we ran into each other in Los Angeles where we were both living at the time. We got together, had lunch and I think I showed him my house. We both have extensive record collections so we started looking through ‘em, playing some, then we picked up the guitar. When we started singing together it was probably ‘99 and it was like that style of porch singing, y’know, sitting on the porch, smoking cigarettes, drinking ice tea and trying it out. That was just for fun; we were really just passing the time. When I wrote the song [‘Number Nine’] for Mark to sing, I think that was the first time we recorded together. That was Blackberry Belle, we did that sometime in 2003 and by the end of that year we were doing songs that are on the Gutter Twins record. ‘All Misery’is the first one we did.
This collaboration makes for a fairly attractive proposition on paper, but in the past you’ve both expressed that you’re principally solitary songwriters, Greg even went so far as to say "I make most of my records rather selfishly; they’re done for me by me. That someone else would like it is just a bonus,” the last time we talked…
Dulli: Hahaha, did I say that?
You did, sir…
Dulli: Awesome.
Did that mentality make co-writing at all difficult, or territorial?
Dulli: It had to be that way, in the respect that along the way I would tell Mark that I’d heard him do that before, or he’d tell me "You’ve done this already." We kept each other honest as far as returning to a comfort zone and pulling out an old trick goes, it became a left brain / right brain kind of thing.
Looking back at your collective repertoire – Gentlemen, 1965, Blackberry Belle, Dust, Scraps At Midnight, Songs for the Deaf, we could be here all day – you could probably both have laid claim to a certain Midas touch in your writing at times. Was there any sense of pressure in combining those songwriting strengths, or was this just a loose situation where two mates made a record?
Lanegan: Songwriting is sort of intuitive between us. The only pressure we imposed on ourselves was that we wanted to separate it from anything we’ve done before. I think we’ve achieved that.
So where did you turn to in order to find the musical and lyrical impetus to create something that sounded original to the pair of you?
Dulli: We turned to each other. In respect to Mark, some of the people that he’s worked with in the past would be - off the top of my head – Mike Johnson, the Conner brothers, Josh Homme, Rich from Soulsavers, Isobel [Campbell]. He’s played and written with a lot of talented people...
So have you, though… [Thurston Moore, Mike Mills and Muggs spring to mind, for starters]
Dulli: I became his foil in this respect. But these people I mention are all disparate to one another, and the common connector to all of them is Mark. So we each brought our own experience and individuality to the project, but it was most definitively collaborative.
You mention Mike Johnson [one time Dinosaur Jr. bassist and longtime Lanegan guitarist], was there any desire to bring in a familiar player of that calibre to embellish the sound?
Dulli: I think if Mike had lived in the United States, he’d be on this record. We would have loved to have had him but it was rendered geographically impossible at the time. But I’ll bet you if anything we’ll play with him in the future.
Video: Mark Lanegan feat. Mike Johnson & Ben Shepherd, 'Hotel’ (live)
Did you tap the skills of any of those past associates?
Dulli: It’s kind of like…whoever’s around, for instance with the early songs Mark brought in Troy Van Leeuwen from the Queens, he was the logical guitar player to go to at that moment. Later on, we were in New Orleans and brought in Dave Rosser [Twilight Singers guitarist], who lives there. I guess it was dictated by geography, necessity and availability.
Saturnalia sees a return to the Sub Pop label where you released quite pivotal recordings early on in your respective careers [Dulli with the Afghan Whigs’ ‘Retarded’ single and Lanegan with the Screaming Trees’ Change Has Come EP]. Was there something poetic about going back there?
Lanegan: We looked at a couple of different labels, but Sub Pop made the most sense.
Dulli: I think, in retrospect, it was the only place we could do it. I’m really proud to see what they’ve done in recent years; like a great band does, they’ve reinvented themselves. I couldn’t be happier to be working with them again, Megan [Jasper, who famously duped the New York Times with 'Grunge Slang' that transpired to be a load of cobblers] and Jonathan [Poneman, Sub Pop co-founder] who were there when we were still there, that was the poetic part.
Do you feel any more productive now than you did in those days?
Dulli:I do. I’ve made more records in the last five years than I did in the first ten. I don’t know what happened…
Would you blame any of it on your past excesses?
Dulli: I’ll start by saying that I regret nothing and I’ll say that sowing my wild oats probably got in the way of productivity. But it was fun! I think what happened with the Whigs was that by the third record we had scattered to the four winds. When you’re a democracy, trying to get four guys in the same place for any length of time becomes more of a challenge and it actually began to hinder the creative and productive process. By the time we tried to mount it again it was just strange and unnatural. Something that had been like waking up in the morning and drinking a glass of water had become like algebra. That was when it was time for me to leave. We all left as friends and we still are. Then I worked on the first Twilight Record and laid low for a while, that’s when I bought my first bar. So I was running that and enjoying leading a structured life for the first time. For almost two years I was kind of afraid to write songs because writing songs would eventually mean I’d have to go on tour and I really didn’t want to.
Mark?
Lanegan: Nah, I don’t have any regrets, man.
Greg, you recently reconvened the Whigs to put a retrospective compilation together, how did that go? Was there a need to bookend things there?
Dulli: Yeah and it was fun, but it was really done with the knowledge that was that. We were doing a favour for our friend who works at Rhino, he especially asked us to do two new songs. One of those songs was an older tune that we just fixed; it was from the aborted final album sessions. But we did one from the ground up and it was good fun. They’re like my family, so we got together for one week and in that one week we whipped up the tunes, played them, got drunk a couple of times, played cards and then got on four different planes and went to four different places. It was vintage Whigs.
Video: Afghan Whigs, 'Gentlemen’
Also vintage are the styles that you've often both incorporated into your records throughout the years - be it the blues, soul, psychedelia or whatever. Saturnalia appears no different in that respect. But I’m interested to know what your take is on more contemporary music. Has anything blown you away lately? I don’t suppose you’re much for new rave and that?
Dulli: I like the Black Lips. I also like the new Edwyn Collins record a lot…I’ve been a fan of his since Orange Juice and was shocked to see what happened to him but really psyched to hear him flip off his situation and make a great record. Other than 'A Girl Like You he’s not known [in America], I don’t think he ever really toured over here, but I’ve always dug him. He’s a feisty fucker and I like people like that. I’m looking forward to hearing the new Martina [Topley Bird] record too, she’s one of my favourite singers.
Lanegan: I like Animal Collective, Band of Horses, Battles, you know, there’s a lot of stuff I really enjoy, liked the last Caribou record, the Grizzly Bear record and the new Six Organs of Admittance record. I like Teenage Fanclub and also - fuck - Mogwai, quite a bit. I was way into Belle and Sebastian too…
So was it a nice surprise when Isobel Campbell asked you to record a few songs with her?
Lanegan: Yeah, I was a fan, and I was into what Isobel did outside of the band, I liked those Gentle Waves records… so it was a pleasant surprise. I have another record with Isobel coming out in the spring.
And what’s next for Greg?
Dulli: Taking the Twins out on the road and seeing what that can do. My favourite part of touring is watching the songs evolve and stretch out, watching the new arrivals come in…the songs that haven’t been written yet.
Last time we talked you were working on a graphic novel too, Domino and Jimmy’s reason to Live Lounge. What became of that?
Dulli: Still workin’ on it! Me and my friend Charles - AKA Jimmy - we’re talking to another friend of ours to see if we can animate it. It’ll probably be a short at first, but the scope of the book could certainly fit a movie. Since I’ve been out of commission Charles has really picked up the slack. He sent me some things a week ago that blew my mind, I’m very excited. Jesse Garron - Elvis’s stillborn twin - features heavily in the latest stuff. It’s fuckin’ twisted - a twisted, crazy thing.
I’d expect nothing less, I'll look forward to seeing it some day, Gutter Twins live too... all the best with the album and tour.
Lanegan: Right on man, cheers.
Dulli: Nice talking to you Dave, bye.
The Gutter Twins are on MySpace here. Saturnalia is released on March 3 via Sub Pop.
Forthcoming UK tour dates:
6 Limelight Belfast
7 Oran Mor Glasgow
8 Academy Manchester
9 Glee Birmingham
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Dog Sniffs out Golfers’ Balls, Sells Them to Help Animals in Need
Video: KARE 11 on YouTube
It’s an unfortunate fact that some animals have better lives than others.
But Davos, the Bernese mountain dog, has found a fair way to help redress the balance.
His owner, Al Cooper, is a keen golfer.
That doesn’t mean he’s a very good one, but at least his wayward shots bring Davos’ own talents to the fore.
“I’m a lousy golfer, but he’s a good retriever,” said Al of his six-year-old canine caddy.
So eagle-eyed a retriever is Davos that he tracks down and returns every ball Al hits into the long grass at the Cedar Creek Golf Course in Minnesota.
However, Al clearly isn’t the only below par golfer to play there, as Davos regularly finds more balls than even Al can lose.
This gave Al an idea.
Davos had seen an ASPCA commercial about pets in need, and had been visibly affected by their plight.
Of course, Al wanted to help Davos help his brothers and sisters, so he decided to sell the extra balls at 25 cents each and give the money raised to the Animal Humane Society.
The venture, which suits Davos down to a tee, has proved quite the draw.
KARE 11 report a fantastic 400 balls have now been snapped up, with $100 collected and donated so far.
That’s already a lot of green, and it’s hoped the exposure given by the news network, which includes the video above, will lead to more local golfers pitching in and putting a few more dollars into the cup.
I’m sure Davos’ enthusiasm won’t fade and he’ll continue to sniff out the balls of the golfers at Cedar Creek for a good while yet.
Unlike Al, you have to admire his drive.
via KARE | h/t The Dodo
Related Topics:Animals, Charity, Dogs, Featured, Golf, Minnesota, Sport
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Interventions for tobacco use prevention in Indigenous youth (Review)
Carson, Kristin V., Brinn, Malcolm P., Labiszewski, Nadina, Peters, Matthew, Chang, Anne B., Veale, Antony, Esterman, Adrian J. and Smith, Brian J. (2012). Interventions for tobacco use prevention in Indigenous youth (Review). Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews,2012(8):1-32.
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Carson, Kristin V.
Brinn, Malcolm P.
Labiszewski, Nadina
Peters, Matthew
Chang, Anne B.
Veale, Antony
Esterman, Adrian J.
Smith, Brian J.
Tobacco use in Indigenous populations (people who have inhabited a country for thousands of years) is often double that in the non-Indigenous population. Addiction to nicotine usually begins during early adolescence and young people who reach the age of 18 as non-smokers are unlikely to become smokers thereafter. Indigenous youth in particular commence smoking at an early age, and a disproportionate burden of substance-related morbidity and mortality exists as a result.
To evaluate the effectiveness of intervention programmes to prevent tobacco use initiation or progression to regular smoking amongst young Indigenous populations and to summarise these approaches for future prevention programmes and research.
Search methods
The Cochrane Tobacco Addiction Group Specialised Register was searched in November 2011, with additional searches run in MEDLINE. Online clinical trial databases and publication references were also searched for potential studies.
We included randomized and non-randomized controlled trials aiming to prevent tobacco use initiation or progression from experimentation to regular tobacco use in Indigenous youth. Interventions could include school-based initiatives, mass media, multi-component community level interventions, family-based programmes or public policy.
Data pertaining to methodology, participants, interventions and outcomes were extracted by one reviewer and checked by a second, whilst information on risk of bias was extracted independently by a combination of two reviewers. Studies were assessed by qualitative narrative synthesis, as insufficient data were available to conduct a meta-analysis. The review process was examined by an Indigenous (Aboriginal) Australian for applicability, acceptability and content.
Two studies met all of the eligibility criteria for inclusion within the review and a third was identified as ongoing. The two included studies employed multi-component community-based interventions tailored to the specific cultural aspects of the population and were based in Native American populations (1505 subjects in total). No difference was observed in weekly smoking at 42 months follow-up in the one study assessing this outcome (skills-community group versus control: risk ratio [RR] 0.95, 95% CI 0.78 to 1.14; skills-only group versus control: RR 0.86, 95% CI 0.71 to 1.05). For smokeless tobacco use, no difference was found between the skills-community arm and the control group at 42 weeks (RR 0.93, 95% CI 0.67 to 1.30), though a significant difference was observed between the skills-only arm and the control group (RR 0.57, 95% CI 0.39 to 0.85). Whilst the second study found positive changes for tobacco use in the intervention arm at post test (p < 0.05), this was not maintained at six month follow-up (change score -0.11 for intervention and 0.07 for control). Both studies were rated as high or unclear risk of bias in seven or more domains (out of a total of 10).
Authors' conclusions
Based on the available evidence, a conclusion cannot be drawn as to the efficacy of tobacco prevention initiatives tailored for Indigenous youth. This review highlights the paucity of data and the need for more research in this area. Smoking prevalence in Indigenous youth is twice that of the non-Indigenous population, with tobacco experimentation commencing at an early age. As such, a significant health disparity exists where Indigenous populations, a minority, are over-represented in the burden of smoking-related morbidity and mortality. Methodologically rigorous trials are needed to investigate interventions aimed at preventing the uptake of tobacco use amongst Indigenous youth and to assist in bridging the gap between tobacco-related health disparities in Indigenous and non-Indigenous populations.
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2006 Transportation Bond Projects
Hwy 112 / Maple St: Razorback Rd to Garland Ave
What is this project?
This project focuses on widening Maple Street to four lanes from Razorback Road to Garland Ave.
The project will include:
Construction of sidewalks on both sides of the road (width will vary from 5 ft. to 8 ft.)
Construction of curb & gutter with stormwater inlets and pipes
Installation of a new traffic signal at the intersection of Razorback Road & Maple Street
Installation of a pedestrian hybrid beacon at an existing crosswalk on Maple Street
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Asphalt pavement overlay on Razorback Road from Leroy Pond Road to Maple Street
This project will help alleviate traffic congestion on a major route used by students, professors & University staff during daily activities as well as for the general public attending athletic events, etc. This will also provide safer walkways for pedestrians.
What is the current status?
A Bid Opening was held at 2:00 p.m. on Friday, June 1, 2018. Nabholz Construction, Inc. was the low bidder at $2,793,590.50. On June 5th, the City Council approved awarding the contract to Nabholz Construction, Inc. The Notice to Proceed with construction on Monday, June 25th was issued to Nabholz.
When is completion expected?
The construction of this project will be phased due to it's location in the heart of the University and the football stadium. The first phase of road construction will be Stadium Drive and a portion of Maple Street either side of Stadium Drive. This phase will also include an asphalt overlay on Garland Ave from Maple Street to Wedington Drive/North St. This phase will be complete by August 30, 2018.
The second phase will begin immediately following Commencement in May 2019 and will be complete by August 12, 2019. This phase will reconstruct the Maple Street & Razorback Road intersection including traffic signalization, a portion of Razorback Road south of this intersection and reconstruction of Maple Street east of Stadium Drive to Garland Avenue. Razorback Road will also receive an asphalt overlay from Leroy Pond Drive north to the new construction of Razorback Road just south of the Maple Street intersection.
How was this project funded?
This is a partnering project between the City, the University and the ArDOT. It is funded by a combination of Federal-aid, State, City, and University dollars.
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Dark City Is One Silly Town
The film:
Dark City (theatrical release in 1998 - this is a review of the 2008 Director's Cut)
The under-the-radar factor:
Box office receipts were fairly soft for this New Line Cinema effort on its theatrical run. Safe to say not a lot of eyeballs have laid eyes on this DC version. (It apparently features an absence of narration and a few scenes moved around.)
And you think you have trouble remembering things...
John Murdoch (Rufus Sewell) wakes up in a bathtub with blood spilling from a puncture in his forehead. Nearby is the body of a dead prostitute. What's up with that? - John has no idea. He has no recollection of how he got to this apartment, or, for that matter, any other memory. He doesn't even realize his name is John Murdoch until he finds the appropriate i.d. Soon enough he is informed that he is suppose to be married to a lounge singer named Emma (Jennifer Connelly), that he is the prime suspect in a string of murders involving other call girls which Inspector Frank Bumstead (William Hurt) is looking into, and that he is being chased by some really weird looking characters who look like relatives of Nosferatu (They're called "The Strangers"...ooh, scary, huh kids?). The one person who appears to be really capable of helping John - or betraying him - is the geeky shrink Daniel P. Schreber (Kiefer Sutherland) who supplies him with some information, but is obviously also holding back on a lot of other very important details. And then there are the constant references to Shell Beach - a place everyone has heard about but no one seems to remember how to get to.
Murdoch is eventually able to piece this much together... 1) the metropolis he's in stays in darkness and never sees daylight, 2) the inhabitants of this artificial excuse of a city regularly go through a process where they fall asleep and then identities are switched with new memories planted in their heads (this is called "tuning" - one day you're a down-and-outer - the next you're a filthy rich aristocrat) and, most importantly, 3) Murdoch seems to possess the same supernatural powers that the evil ones pursuing him have.
Dark City had a lot going for it at the time of it's theatrical release. Director/Co-Writer Alex Proyas was coming off his rather mesmerizing Brandon Lee vehicle The Crow. A pretty well known dude named Roger Ebert stepped up as a major cheerleader for the flick. The times seemed right with the table being set for other movies with similar visual panache like The Matrix. So...?
One of the major problems with this film is the porn-type approach to its art direction/cinematography - one stunning visual "money shot" after another eventually becomes boring and then irritating. The movie seems to exist more for the excuse to blast as many spectacular images as it can, instead of being there to tell a coherent and involving story on the topics of identity and the like. And in case you didn't see the landscape of the city being profoundly changed the first time, relax...it happens over and over again... and then some. Dark City comes across as a collection of outakes that even Terry Gilliam thought were too much and ended up in a never ending loop, ad nauseum. In the spirit of making sure everything in this production is ridiculously overdone, the so-called battle scenes between the characters have the kind of hyper qualities Vince McMahon would be proud of.
It also doesn't help that Sewell is in a bit over his head and doesn't really have the range needed for his role, that Sutherland's grade-B Peter Lorre bits aren't always up to snuff, and that Hurt spends much of the time apparently trying to stay awake. Connelly is there as lovely set dressing and not much more.
As far as visually excessive cinematic experiences go, the neo-noir sci-fi Dark City isn't nearly as bad a film as Juan Solanas' wretched Upside Down ...but that's like saying the six dollar bottle of wine was better than the four dollar one. With movies, as with wino, save your pennies for the good stuff. It ain't here.
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Labels: Fantasy, Noir, Sci-fi, Supernatural
Briefly - Familiar
Being led to believe by a voice in his head that life has passed him by, a middle-aged family man poses a danger to others and then to himself in writer-director Richard Powell's 2012 short film Familiar.
Robert Nolan
John Dodd (Robert Nolan) seems to be guided by an inner monologue convincing him that better times are just around the corner. His daughter (Cathryn Hostick) will soon be off to college, leading to the sinister narrator within John's frame to concoct an escape plan to take the fellow away from his wife Charlotte (Astrida Auza). Problem is, the lady of the house drops the bombshell that she is with child.
John is prompted by the sinister sermons going on between his ears to resort to some chemical weapons in the battle against Charlotte, first in terms of addressing her pregnant state and then by taking things even further. The one thing the evil side doesn't count on, however, is the "real" John beginning to question his own actions and stage an insurgence against that power which is trying to command him. It's at this point where the film truly does a flip from psychological thriller to body horror. If you've had a longing for the early works of Cronenberg, you'll be somewhat taken down memory lane by what's in here.
Familiar does have notable strengths going for it. While shot on an obviously low budget, the production values are pretty strong (with one unfortunate exception - see below). The storyline is intriguing and the pacing appropriate. The switch of the John character from unlikable menace to sympathetic victim comes about smoothly and believably. There are some genuinely creepy gore moments that deliver an impact towards the end of the flick. And, ultimately, the film belongs to Robert Nolan, who continues to display amazing gifts worthy of greater attention.
Criticisms? One is the running time - shorts have an important place on a cinematic landscape that is obviously biased towards features, but at 24 minutes this tale just seems too abrupt and more like a demo real for a longer, even richer examination. And while "the demon within" special effect at the end is genuinely cool and awesome, some of the earlier body manipulations have too much of a Halloween-via-dollar store quality to them to be taken with anything close to seriousness.
Defiantly worth checking out, Familiar serves as another example of how powerful an actor Nolan is and also prompts excitement as to where Powell and his Fatal Pictures producing partner Zach Green are headed next.
Labels: Fantasy, Horror, Indie films, Psychological Thriller, Short films, Supernatural
Willow Creek Runs Dry
The films of director Bobcat Goldthwait, while often critically acclaimed (or at least highly recognized for their audacity), have never done huge box office or found a mainstream audience. This film had a limited run on the theatrical circuit before its early fall DVD release.
Back on October 20, 1967, Roger Patterson and Bob Gimlin were said to have shot some footage around Bluff Creek, California showing what appeared to be the infamous "Bigfoot" (aka "Yeti"). Some say it was a dude in a monkey suit but that hasn't stopped many from being obsessed by the topic. That fixated attitude leads a couple into trouble in Goldthwait's break from black comedies and into the faux found footage horror genre.
Budding documentarian Jim (Bryce Johnson) has dragged his girlfriend Kelly (Goldthwait stalwart Alexie Gilmore) along for a trip to Willow Creek and the site where Patterson and Gimlin had shot their famous/infamous footage. He is set on taking a camping trip to the exact area where Bigfoot was alleged to have been spotted; she supports her man but sports a high degree of cynicism in the subject matter at hand. Local townsfolk and people who are said to be in the know about the subject and its reverberations are interviewed - some take the legend more seriously than others but the whole area is basically a dollar store version of a Bigfoot theme park. In between chats with the natives the couple try to have some fun and take in the sights. (They seem to care for each other but it's also obvious their relationship may not be on as strong a ground as Jim would like.) Just as they prepare to embark on the real investigation in the woods, they receive warnings - one low-keyed and the other definitely not - to take the Yeti legend seriously and go back to where they came. Predictably, Jim is undaunted and convinces his gal pal to proceed.
Describing the goings-on beyond this point would be traversing into far too much potential spoiler territory...see you after the trailer.
It seems with these faux found footage efforts that two crucial factors weigh heavily in the chance for a production to sink or swim in connecting with its audience. The first concern involves the matter of suspension of disbelief being severely challenged as to whether one will buy into a camera being turned on or left running at certain times. Even the most successful movies in the genre have at least one moment where the viewer reaction would be close to "yeah...right, lol" over the red light beaming away. The second component crucially needed for the semblance of cinema vérité illusion is that the performers don't appear to be actors acting but rather come across as unpolished everyday blokes going through natural motions.
Willow Creek has issues on both accounts. Some of the personal matters that the couple feel need discussing while driving seem like strange material to be recorded. They already know the equipment works, so why all the blabbering for the camera? A no-cost form of therapy? There are also the proverbial "I better run for my life...but damn if I'm not going to shoot this for the world to see" moments that will again send some eyeballs rolling.
As well, too many of the cast members fail to leave behind their thespian signatures for the world to see. A few actual (and obvious) non-actors are along for the ride but some of the professionals can't convey the same naturalness. The way people use language in real life - both the verbal and body kind - isn't the same as the way actors deliver the goods in mainstream fictional cinema. Actual folks run over each other's dialogue and interrupt each other; they also don't happen to pivot and pose to be perfectly framed by a camera that's supposedly recording them on the fly. Too many of these kinds of moments emerge in this film to go unnoticed.
Some films have you continually checking your timepiece to see if the movie will ever end; Willow Creek has you paying attention to the moments left to wonder if there is ever going to be a real payoff arriving. The elongated "tent scene" provides a few shutters, but while the concept of "what you hear can be more important than what you see" is an appealing tactic in theory, the execution here just doesn't produce enough oomph.
Clearly being marketed as a found footage horror movie, Willow Creek shortchanges on the scare aspect. Some may appreciate the amount of time dedicated to exploring the couple's relationship but these eyeballs found that to be a tedious experience.
They say a change is as good as a rest. I look forward to Goldthwait returning to his black comedic strengths after what seems to have been an unneeded cinematic detour.
Labels: Found Footage, Horror, Indie films
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NW China County Promotes Skills Workshops to Help Impoverished Women
Source：Chinese Women's Research Network | Release Date：2018-12-20-
Title： NW China County Promotes Skills Workshops to Help Impoverished Women
Author： Wang Yue
Source： China Women's News
Release Date： 2018/12/18
Keyword： Skills, Workshops, Impoverished Women
Women's federations at all levels in Huachi County, northwest China's Gansu Province, have made a determined effort to promote the construction of poverty alleviation workshops this year, which has already achieved significant results.
For example, a rural woman called Li Xiaoyan, from Wangjuzi Village, Huachi, has set up a professional farmers' cooperative to cultivate saplings.
As providing jobs for so-called "left-behind" women in the village has become a major concern for the local women’s federation, staff of the village federation talked with Li, and decided to offer free skills training courses to local women so as to enable them to work at Li’s cooperative. Up till now, some 56 female villagers have found jobs there, said officials.
At a sachet embroidery company in Huachi, official An Chunxia said that she provides training courses for impoverished female villagers so they can make paper-cutting and embroidery products at home during slack farming season.
This type of innovative women's workshop company with training bases has helped local women achieve flexible employment and thereby boost their incomes, according to officials.
According to Dong Fengling, president of Huachi Women's Federation (HWF), federations have helped impoverished women by developing demand for workers in local enterprises and promoting three models of poverty alleviation workshops, namely, cooperative-style, home-style and internet-style.
HWF has set up seven workshops involving seedlings cultivation, crop growing, handicrafts and e-commerce, most of which have been identified by relevant departments.
A total of 1,200 women have found jobs in such workshops, including 495 impoverished individuals, each of them earning around 1,500 to 2,500 yuan a month, said officials.
(Source: China Women's News/Translated and edited by Women of China)
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Trabzon | Article about Trabzon by The Free Dictionary
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(trĕb`ĭzŏnd'), city (1990 pop. 144,805), capital of Trabzon prov., NE Turkey, a port on the Black Sea. A commercial and transportation center with renovated port facilities, it exports food products and tobacco. Iron, lead, and copper are found nearby. Known in ancient times as Trapezus, the city was founded in the 8th cent. B.C. by Greek colonists from Sinop. It grew in importance after its conquest (1st cent. B.C.) by Mithradates VI and after its incorporation (1st cent. A.D.) into the Roman Empire. Although it suffered from invasions by barbarians after the 3d cent., it again became a prosperous port under the Byzantine Empire. It reached its greatest splendor after the establishment (1204) by the Comnenus dynasty of the empire of TrebizondTrebizond, empire of,
1204–1461. When the army of the Fourth Crusade overthrew (1204) the Byzantine Empire and established the Latin Empire of Constantinople, several Greek successor states sprang up.
..... Click the link for more information. , which endured until 1461, when it was annexed by the Ottoman Empire. Under the rule of Alexius III (1349–90) the city was one of the world's leading trade centers and was renowned for its great wealth and artistic accomplishment. Under the Ottomans it became the starting point of caravans to Persia. Trabzon was included (1920) in the short-lived independent state of Armenia. The city's large Greek population was deported in 1922–23. Trabzon has many historic monuments. The best preserved is the 13th-century Church of Aya Sophia (now a museum), an excellent example of Byzantine architecture. The city is the site of Black Sea Technical Univ.
(or Trebizond), a city in northeastern Turkey. Capital of Trabzon Vilayet. Population, 97,200 (1975).
Trabzon is a port on the Black Sea, through which hazelnuts, tobacco, wool, and construction lumber are exported. It is the point of origin of a highway to Iran that passes through Erzurum. The city has an airport. Industry includes food processing, the production of cement, shipbuilding, and fishing. There is also a university.
Trabzon was founded by Greeks from Sinope in about the mid-seventh century B.C. (or c. mid-eighth century B.C.). It was an important port and trade center in the ancient world. In the second century B.C., it became part of Pontus, and in 63 B.C., part of the Roman province of Bithynia and Pontus. From the fifth to early 13th centuries A.D., it was part of the Byzantine Empire, and from 1204 to 1461 it was the capital of the Empire of Trebizond. In 1461 it was conquered by the Ottoman Turks and became part of the Ottoman Empire.
Trabzon is divided into the Upper City, which is surrounded by bastions, and the Lower City, which extends from the bastions to the harbor. The Upper City contains a walled citadel dating from the Empire of Trebizond, with ruins of the imperial palace (13th-14th centuries), the Panagia Chrysocephalus (tenth century, rebuilt in the 13th century; since 1461, the Orta Hisar Mosque), and Hagia Sophia (built after 1204; rebuilt from 1248 to 1263), which contains remnants of sculpture and frescoes. The Lower City contains the Church of St. Anne (early eighth century; rebuilt in 884–885; since the 15th century, the Kücük Aivazil Mosque) and the Church of St. Eugenius (13th century; since the 15th century, the Yeni Cuma Mosque).
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The Trabzon Governor's Office said an investigation was launched into the incident.
One killed, 73 people taken to hospital over suspicions of anthrax in TurkeyAEs north
Trabzon Governor Yucel Yavuz said on Sunday that investigators were trying to determine why the plane had left the runway.
Panic as jet nearly plunged into sea; WORLD BULLETINS
On Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays the flight departs Sharjah International Airport at 08:45pm, and arrives at Trabzon International Airport at 12:20am local time the next day.
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On Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays the flight departs Sharjah International Airport at 21:45, and arrives at Trabzon International Airport at 00:20 local time the next day.
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Around 250 passengers, including Mr Malhotra, are currently stranded at Trabzon Airport and Emirates has said that the flight will now not be due into the North East until 8.
Emirates flight alert over Turkey
Around 250 passengers, including Mr Malhotra, were stranded at Trabzon Airport before the flight resumed.
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‘The Wicked + The Divine: The Funnies #1’ - Comic Book Review
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OmniOutliner 3 has had a great run, shipping 9 years ago this month—the same month Apple announced iWork. One year before Intel-based Macs.
Here is a quick survey of its milestones over those 9 years:
OmniOutliner 3.0 (Jan 4, 2005) added batch find, folded editing, inline notes, a sections drawer, file attachments, styles, and clippings.
OmniOutliner 3.0.2 added support for Spotlight on April 29, 2005—the day Spotlight shipped in Mac OS X v10.4 (“Tiger”).
OmniOutliner 3.5 (Dec 1, 2005) added LinkBack support, allowing you to embed editable content from other applications (like OmniGraffle). It also made a number of AppleScript improvements, making it a better host for the popular Kinkless GTD script. But the most important thing about OmniOutliner 3.5 was that it added support for Intel Macs, which were first unveiled on January 10, 2006.
OmniOutliner 3.6 (Apr 19, 2006) boosted performance and added more AppleScript features, built-in templates, and a compression setting.
OmniOutliner 3.6.3 (Nov 7, 2007) added support for the new Mac OS X v10.5 (“Leopard”).
OmniOutliner 3.7 (Sep 2, 2008) added support for QuickLook and for linking to omnifocus: URLs. It was the first version to be code-signed.
OmniOutliner 3.8 (Feb 24, 2009) added support for using QuickLook on embedded attachments, and for importing Keynote ’09 documents.
OmniOutliner 3.9 (Aug 19, 2009) added automatic updates, saved unsaved documents even when the system crashed, and exported to Word 2007. It also added support for the new Mac OS X v10.6 (“Snow Leopard”), which shipped later that month.
(In January, 2011, we also shipped a separate edition of OmniOutliner for the launch of the Mac App Store. But at that point our primary focus was on OmniOutliner for iPad, which shipped on May 12, 2011 and sold 10,000 copies in the first three weeks. But then back to the Mac for v3.10…)
OmniOutliner 3.10 (July 20, 2011) was ready the day Mac OS X v10.7 (“Lion”) shipped, adding Auto Save, Versions, full screen, and resume.
OmniOutliner 3.10.5 (Aug 6, 2012) added support for Mac OS X v10.8 (“Mountain Lion”).
On May 22, 2013, we added automatic document syncing to OmniOutliner 3 by shipping OmniPresence.
… which brings us to today, when OmniOutliner 3 was officially retired. Hello, OmniOutliner 4!
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1476: Ceres
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Postby Plasma Mongoose » Wed Jan 21, 2015 5:31 am UTC
Hovertext: Earth clearly hasn't been inspected, since it's definitely contaminated with salmonella.
Who would have thought...
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Re: 1476: Ceres
Postby Psykar » Wed Jan 21, 2015 5:33 am UTC
I'm clearly missing a reference. Came here to find out what it was, to find there was no thread yet.
Refreshed for a bit because I'm too lazy to create it myself - now - someone fix my ignorance? =(
Dr What
Postby Dr What » Wed Jan 21, 2015 5:45 am UTC
I'm not sure. I guess I should say, eggcellent?
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Postby Envelope Generator » Wed Jan 21, 2015 5:50 am UTC
I don't think there are any references beyond the probe and manufacturer's inspection stickers.
That said, Earth was probably inspected by No. 2. No. 2's always do a terrible job and get replaced.
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Postby phlip » Wed Jan 21, 2015 5:53 am UTC
Psykar wrote: I'm clearly missing a reference. Came here to find out what it was, to find there was no thread yet.
Dawn is a NASA probe to investigate, among other things, Ceres, a dwarf planet in the asteroid belt. Previous pictures of Ceres have shown a weird light spot, which stands out quite strongly in the pictures already taken by Dawn. As far as I'm aware, no-one is quite sure just yet exactly what it is.
I'm hoping that the white spot is a cryovolcano.
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Postby sotanaht » Wed Jan 21, 2015 8:35 am UTC
I'm sure the joke was actually in reference to something else entirely, but the first thing it brought to mind was this extremely old flash animation
mathmannix
Postby mathmannix » Wed Jan 21, 2015 1:40 pm UTC
Once upon a time, there was a widower who married a proud and haughty woman for his second wife. He had a beautiful young daughter from his first marriage, who was cast into servitude by her wicked stepmother and two jealous stepsisters, and forced to sleep with the fishes, and would so arise covered in the roe of the salmon whose friend she had become, giving rise to her mocking nickname...
I hear velociraptor tastes like chicken.
cellocgw
Postby cellocgw » Wed Jan 21, 2015 1:52 pm UTC
Of course it was inspected by that rebellious Number 6. The question is, "Who is Number One?"
Does Ceres look like a floppy underinflated beachball?
Ceres is and will always be classified as an asteroid. Why? Because we already have a World Ceres.
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Postby Beavertails » Wed Jan 21, 2015 2:02 pm UTC
cellocgw wrote: The question is, "Who is Number One?"
William T Riker?
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Postby Whizbang » Wed Jan 21, 2015 2:08 pm UTC
Beavertails wrote:
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Postby JudeMorrigan » Wed Jan 21, 2015 2:10 pm UTC
It's a reference to an old ad campaign by Hanes. Look up "Hanes inspector 12" on youtube for examples.
Kids these days...
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Postby eleniy86 » Wed Jan 21, 2015 2:24 pm UTC
it could be the death star
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Postby Coyoty » Wed Jan 21, 2015 2:54 pm UTC
eleniy86 wrote: it could be the death star
No, Mimas is the death star.
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Postby odog1999 » Wed Jan 21, 2015 3:01 pm UTC
I want Randall's enhance button.
Coyoty wrote:
maybe it's ANOTHER death star!
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Postby squall_line » Wed Jan 21, 2015 3:20 pm UTC
Envelope Generator wrote: I don't think there are any references beyond the probe and manufacturer's inspection stickers.
I think you meant to say that "No. 2's always do a crappy job and get replaced."
Postby rmsgrey » Wed Jan 21, 2015 3:28 pm UTC
odog1999 wrote: I want Randall's enhance button.
You can't just link to TV Tropes without warning people! I had things to do today....
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Postby Klear » Wed Jan 21, 2015 3:58 pm UTC
I'm more confused by the sticker. What is that? Who of what is #6?
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Postby Kit. » Wed Jan 21, 2015 4:03 pm UTC
Plasma Mongoose wrote: Hovertext: Earth clearly hasn't been inspected, since it's definitely contaminated with salmonella.
Those two last words were unnecessary.
Postby Flumble » Wed Jan 21, 2015 4:26 pm UTC
cellocgw wrote: Of course it was inspected by that rebellious Number 6.
HE WILL NOT BE NUMBERED!
"You are[,] Number Six."
Postby dp2 » Wed Jan 21, 2015 4:32 pm UTC
cellocgw wrote:
It's like they live in a bubble.
Postby Envelope Generator » Wed Jan 21, 2015 4:46 pm UTC
Flumble wrote: [,]
Okay, that's worth a keanu_reeves_whoa.jpg. Never occurred to me.
Envelope Generator wrote:
Reminds me of my all-time favorite use of an apostrophe. There was this wine company (Gallo) whose ad slogan was "We will sell no wine before its time."
Some wag stuck an apostrophe to make "it's" , quite grammatically and operationally accurate.
Postby Pfhorrest » Wed Jan 21, 2015 6:29 pm UTC
cellocgw wrote: Reminds me of my all-time favorite use of an apostrophe. There was this wine company (Gallo) whose ad slogan was "We will sell no wine before its time."
Suddenly I get a reference from an old Weird Al song ("Dare To Be Stupid"): "You better put all your eggs in one basket / You better count your chickens before they hatch / You better sell some wine before its time / You better find yourself an itch to scratch". The rest of those are obvious common idioms but I never got that one line.
(I also recently finally got the joke in "I Want A New Duck", where he wants a duck who'll "show me how to get down". He even repeats "how to get down" and shouts "GET IT!?" and I never got it until a few months ago. Down. Like, feather down. He wants a duck who will instruct him in how to obtain pillow stuffing. Because that stuff comes from ducks and the like. Wow I feel dumb.)
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Postby a9s » Wed Jan 21, 2015 7:13 pm UTC
I thought no one else outside of NASA cared about Ceres. Thanks for proving me wrong, Randall!
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Postby hamjudo » Wed Jan 21, 2015 8:43 pm UTC
Wilson Greatbatch was inspector number one. I worked at his pacemaker battery factory in 1978 and 1979. It is now diversified and trades under the symbol WGL on the NYSE. Back then it was a much smaller company. I was a high school student. My first summer job was to prepare documents for microfilming. Which is a fancy way of saying that I was a professional staple puller. Many of the documents were inspection records. Every part of every battery was inspected many times. Each inspection was recorded showing the date and time of the inspection, the serial number of the part (or lot number of the raw materials), and of course, the inspector's number. Some inspectors used rubber stamps with their number, others wrote their number.
The inspections were recorded on paper, not on the batteries themselves. It is too much work to open up a patient to read the inspection records off of the pacemaker battery. Also, the batteries are pretty small, and there were a lot of inspections. It worked pretty well, they had made more than 360 thousand batteries by the time I moved on. One of those failed at incoming inspection at a pacemaker factory, and just one had problems in a patient. The voltage dropped too fast on the bad one, so it need to be replaced a few years early. It was a slow enough process that the patient had plenty of time to schedule the operation. There are very few physical products that have less than a 1 in 100,000 failure rate over their five year life. Pacemaker batteries have a much longer design life these days.
In the early days of the company, the employee number was the inspector number. This wasted a bunch of two digit numbers, so after a few dozen employees, only inspectors got inspector numbers. I met quite a few of the inspectors at the time, but I've forgotten who was who, except for #1 and #7. #7 was a long time employee who worked in the same area of the building as I did.
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Postby Moose Anus » Wed Jan 21, 2015 9:18 pm UTC
Pfhorrest wrote: Wow I feel dumb.
How dare you?
Lemonade? ...Aww, ok.
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Postby Krealr » Wed Jan 21, 2015 9:43 pm UTC
a9s wrote: I thought no one else outside of NASA cared about Ceres. Thanks for proving me wrong, Randall!
I'm not sure Randall, as a former NASA employee, really qualifies as "outside of NASA".
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Postby azule » Wed Jan 21, 2015 9:57 pm UTC
Pfhorrest wrote: (I also recently finally got the joke in "I Want A New Duck", where he wants a duck who'll "show me how to get down". He even repeats "how to get down" and shouts "GET IT!?" and I never got it until a few months ago. Down. Like, feather down. He wants a duck who will instruct him in how to obtain pillow stuffing. Because that stuff comes from ducks and the like. Wow I feel dumb.)
Haha, don't you love that? "GET IT?" and you fucking don't? haha. Awesome. I don't think I've ever listened to that song intently (not a favorite), so I never even thought I was to be worried about getting anything.
"Put your down down" from Duckman I didn't get until years later, though. I just didn't understand that word, "down". Same joke.
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Postby Sir Lunch-a-lot » Wed Jan 21, 2015 9:58 pm UTC
Krealr wrote:
Well, I for one as a civilian am looking forward to seeing more of Ceres. Seeing close up images of strange new worlds within our own solar system pretty much always excites me (when I was growing up, I wanted to be the first human to visit Mars. I would still love to leave this planet and visit another world someday). I am also looking forward to the Pluto flyby, and am rather disappointed that that probe will not be orbiting Pluto to study it long term.
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Postby da Doctah » Wed Jan 21, 2015 10:11 pm UTC
cellocgw wrote: There was this wine company (Gallo) whose ad slogan was "We will sell no wine before its time."
It's grammatical and operational either with or without the apostrophe. Not so the sentence A wise cat knows it[']s master. The version without the apostrophe is grammatical, but anyone familiar with cats recognizes that it's semantically nonsense.
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Postby Sir Dancelot » Wed Jan 21, 2015 11:22 pm UTC
Earth is contaminated with humans.
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Postby niauropsaka » Thu Jan 22, 2015 12:54 am UTC
...I didn't get it either, and I'm definitely old enough to remember the original Huey Lewis song, "I Want a New Drug."
One of those things that's really obvious to some, and not at all obvious to others.
Postby Flumble » Thu Jan 22, 2015 4:10 am UTC
da Doctah wrote: It's grammatical and operational either with or without the apostrophe. Not so the sentence A wise cat knows it[']s master. The version without the apostrophe is grammatical, but anyone familiar with cats recognizes that it's semantically nonsense.
Depends on the context. Consider the unlikely event that a wise cat is second in strength and agility to another cat in the vicinity.
Postby Klear » Thu Jan 22, 2015 4:49 am UTC
Still wouldn't consider the other cat its master though. I don't consider Usain Bolt to be my master either.
Klear wrote:
Then again, Usain Bolt isn't in your vicinity and, even if he were, he would not try to assert his dominance by scratching your eyeballs out if you don't show your obedience.
Flumble wrote: Then again, Usain Bolt isn't in your vicinity and, even if he were, he would not try to assert his dominance by scratching your eyeballs out if you don't show your obedience.
Cats do not form clear-cut social hierarchy like canines do, though. One cat may be stronger, but that doesn't mean the others will consider themselves to be its underlings.
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Postby StClair » Thu Jan 22, 2015 7:23 am UTC
Sir Dancelot wrote: Hovertext: Earth clearly hasn't been inspected, since it's definitely contaminated with salmonella.
"The carbon-unit infestation is to be removed from the Creator's planet."
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Tracey DePellegrin is Executive Director of the Genetics Society of America. She previously served as Executive Editor of GENETICS & G3. She is also Editor-in-Chief of Science Editor, published by the Council of Science Editors. Follow her on Twitter @editor_traceyd.
C. elegans zygote fixed and stained for tubulin (green), DNA (blue), and the central spindle-associated kinesin ZEN-4 (red). Image courtesy of Julie Canman (Columbia University)
GENETICS’ publication of WormBook in the 21st century is a perfect partnership, because C. elegans research began in GENETICS with the May 1974 publication of Sydney Brenner’s The Genetics of Caenorhabditis elegans – the foundational article that launched an entire field. Since then, some of the most important papers about C. elegans have appeared in GENETICS. So it is fitting that, starting Spring 2016, the journal will publish the definitive review articles on the biology of the organism.
Iva Greenwald, Columbia University
WormBook Editor-in-Chief Iva Greenwald studies C. elegans at Columbia University. She investigates cell-cell interactions, signal transduction, and cell fate specification. Her earlier work provided deep insight into the role of Notch in development and the mechanism of Notch signal transduction. She discusses this work in a GENETICS Perspectives ‘Notch and the Awesome Power of Genetics’ (Greenwald 2012).
“WormBook will contain comprehensive reviews to serve all members of the C. elegans community, from trainees in worm labs to established researchers wanting to learn about a new area,” says Greenwald. “It will also serve other researchers who need to learn more about the worm, such as scientists working on related topics or orthologous genes in other organisms.”
Greenwald is collaborating with a team of Section Editors, all practicing scientists who themselves have made important contributions to C. elegans research. The Section Editors are helping to formulate WormBook’s topical areas, invite authors, manage reviews, and work with authors to refine the articles.
“WormBook in GENETICS will continue a great community tradition and will strengthen our longstanding association with GENETICS, which began with the publication in 1974 of Sydney Brenner’s landmark paper. That association has grown, which is apparent in the many papers that appear every year in GENETICS and G3, as well as in the GSA’s sponsorship of the C. elegans meetings.”
Canals and cell body of the C. elegans excretory cell, marked with LifeAct::TagRFP (magenta) and cytoplasmic CFP (Cyan). Image Courtesy of Daniel D. Shaye
Each month, starting in late spring 2016, GENETICS will publish one or two WormBook articles spanning the breadth of the biology, genetics, genomics, and evolutionary biology of C. elegans. About 60 articles will be published over the next several years.
Inspired by the original WormBook, GSA has been working with leaders in the yeast and the Drosophila communities on similar projects in GENETICS, starting in 2011 with YeastBook, a compendium of reviews presenting the state of knowledge of the molecular biology, cellular biology, and genetics of the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae.
In October 2015, the first chapters of FlyBook were published in GENETICS. Lynn Cooley is Editor-in-Chief of FlyBook, along with co-Editors-in-Chief R. Scott Hawley and Therese A. Markow.
“We are gratified that the yeast, worm and fly communities chose to publish in GENETICS these modern ‘books’ that define their fields,” says Mark Johnston, GENETICS Editor-in-Chief.
Fixed one cell stage embryo during mitosis, depleted of the dynein heavy chain DHC-1 using RNAi, and stained with antibodies against alpha-tubulin (green), PGL-1 (red, marking P granules) and counterstained with a DNA dye (blue). Image courtesy of Pierre Gönczy.
An earlier partnership between the Genetics Society of America (GSA) journals and the worm community continues to be innovative and important. In 2009, GENETICS and WormBase collaborated on a pilot project to integrate scholarly journal articles directly to biological databases – specifically, GENETICS and WormBase. The project provided readers with additional rich information and an interactive experience by directly connecting published literature with entries in model organism databases. Since then, the project pipeline has expanded to include article links in GENETICS and G3: Genes|Genomes|Genetics to Saccharomyces Genome Database (SGD), FlyBase, and soon, FungiDB.
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Oliver Hobert. Columbia University
Tim Schedl, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis
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Michel Labouesse, Institut de Génétique et de Biologie Moléculaire et cellulaire
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Cell Fate, Signaling, & Development
Meera V. Sundaram, University of Pennsylvania
Geraldine C. Seydoux, Johns Hopkins University/HHMI
Evolution & Ecology
Marie-Anne Félix, Institut de Biologie de l’Ecole Normale Supérieure
Asher D. Cutter, University of Toronto
Gene & Genome Regulatory Mechanisms
John K. Kim, Johns Hopkins University
Susan Strome, University of California, Santa Cruz
Metabolism, Physiology, & Aging
Adam Antebi, Max Planck Institute for Biology of Ageing
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Yuichi Iino, University of Toyko
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Hannes Bülow, Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Publication expenses for WormBook articles are provided by GSA as a service to the community. Existing chapters of WormBook at Caltech will remain available at http://www.wormbook.org/; several new and updated chapters will appear there over the next months. WormBook founding Editor-in-Chief Marty Chalfie and Greenwald have described these developments in letters to the community.
About Iva Greenwald: Her recent work is focused on identifying genes that modulate Notch activity in development and disease, the discovery and elucidation of different modes of regulation and crosstalk of Notch with other signaling pathways during cell fate specification, and investigating how Notch activity is modulated when environmental input is coordinated with temporal progression. She received her PhD degree from MIT, performed postdoctoral research at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, and was on the faculty of Princeton University before moving to Columbia University. Her honors include election to the U.S. National Academy of Sciences. She has served as an Associate Editor of GENETICS, an Editor of Development, a Section Editor of WormBook at Caltech, and is currently on the Editorial Board and Publications Committee of PNAS.
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My Fox Atlanta reported, “Officers were told that a black male walked into the Waffle House with a gun in hand and demanded money. At some point, a customer took action by shooting the robbery suspect… The suspect was transported to Grady Memorial Hospital, where he is being treated. There were no details regarding the nature or severity of the suspect’s injury, or the suspect’s identity.”
Waffle House corporate policy is to ban firearms from all Waffle House locations. The company says this decisions is based on legal matters that result from allowing armed customers.
But it’s only because of an armed citizen that this gun-waving criminal was stopped and the other people in the restaurant were sparred from potential harm.
Authorities say a customer at a Waffle House outside Atlanta shot and wounded a suspect who was trying to rob the restaurant.
Police say the shooting happened early Monday, when a gunman tried to hold up a Waffle House in south Fulton County.
Union City police Det. Gloria Hodgson says the suspect entered the Waffle House just before 2 a.m., armed with a pistol and demanding money.
Hodgson said that a customer inside the 24-hour diner shot the suspect. The suspect, whose name hasn’t been released, was taken to Grady Memorial Hospital for treatment. His condition wasn’t immediately available.
Hodgson says there were no other injuries.
Who knows if the criminal knew the Waffle House policy on guns, but if more crooks knew they would be shot if they tried to point a gun at someone and commit a crime it stands to reason that fewer of them would attempt stuff like this.
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I like Waffle House. NO company is going to dictate to me I cant carry in there place of business!!!! I will still carry at Waffle House.
Thomas C Blessing says
All these restaurants that are against permit holders are really making a mistake.The way I see it ,if they are not allowing you to legally carry on premises then they should be responsible for your safety and negligent when and if something happens while you are in their place of business.I don’t know if this would hold water or not but it only seems fair.
I didn’t see anything about if the good samaritan was going to be charged or not,for violating the posting on the wall.
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Giorgio Fresh Unveils New Packaging in Celebration of 90th Anniversary
BY: Jen Velasquez | DATE: October 08, 2018
TEMPLE, Penn.- October 8, 2018 - Giorgio Fresh proudly celebrates its 90th anniversary and unveils its new packaging at this year's PMA Fresh Summit in Orlando, Fla.
As part of its commitment to leading the category in innovation and insights, the company looked inward starting with a packaging refresh, as it is the first interaction the consumer has with the brand. Consumers are looking for clean, simple labels in bold colors that stand out on the shelf. "Less is more" truly is the name of the game when it comes to Giorgio's new packaging as they improve the shopping experience for consumers: the sleek, bright new labels are color coded by subcategory and invite consumers to visit their website for hundreds of recipes at the click of a mouse.
Giorgio will celebrate their new packaging and anniversary milestone at this year's Fresh Summit with a brand-new booth featuring an open footprint which allows the company to showcase its "Wall of Innovation," cooking station and the now well-known Giorgio coffee stand.
"Giorgio has a beautiful and rich history that started in 1928 when Pietro Giorgi built his first mushroom house in Temple, Pennsylvania and started our long-standing tradition of growing high-quality," said Greg Sagan, executive vice president of sales and marketing. "As we head into the tenth decade of service to our customers, we are proud to offer the same quality in packaging that speaks more to today's consumer."
Stop by booth #2872 for a first-hand preview of the new packaging and stay to celebrate the 90th anniversary over a cup of coffee at our new booth!
About Giorgio Fresh:
Since 1928, Giorgio Fresh, the premier grower, packer and shipper of mushrooms has enjoyed a long-standing reputation for providing the worldwide retail and food service industry with the finest quality mushrooms. A family-owned business with a family tradition of excellence, the Giorgio brand has come to stand for quality and integrity nationally. For more information, visit Giorgio online at www.giorgiofresh.com or call 1-800-330-5711 for sales assistance.
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BERNANKE´S SWAN SONG / BARRON´S MAGAZINE
| Etiquetas: Bond Markets, Financial Markets, Monetary Policy, QE, Stock Markets, U.S. Economic And Political
Bernanke's Swan Song
By KOPIN TAN
Can the Fed chairman put us back on the path to normal?
This week, the markets' reputation for anticipation will be put to the test.
Will the Federal Reserve begin scaling back its easy-money stimulus? The market seems to think so. Investors have been paring back bonds susceptible to rising interest rates, and the 10-year Treasury yield has already jumped this summer from 1.6% to nearly 3%, far faster than the pace of economic improvement. Last week, a Wall Street Journal survey of 47 economists found that two out of three think the Fed will begin tapering after Wednesday's policy powwow.
Ideally, the Fed should cut back its monetary medicine only after our fitfully recovering economy is strong enough to leap tall buildings in a single bound. But there are reasons not to wait until Miley Cyrus—last seen swinging naked from a wrecking ball—is old enough to buy a beer (which she will be Nov. 23—watch out!). Since the Fed began buying $45 billion of Treasuries and $40 billion of mortgage securities every month, our unemployment rate has fallen from 8.1% to 7.3% and 2.2 million jobs have been created. That's "significant cumulative progress" toward the Fed's objectives, notes Joseph Kalish, Ned Davis Research's chief global macro strategist. The effectiveness of further bond-buying in stimulating our economy also is debatable, and the Fed won't want to inflate new bubbles. Besides, Ben Bernanke might want to put us back on the path to normal before he retires early next year.
Clearly, the market thinks—or hopes—any stimulus reduction will be small and data-dependent, which is why stocks are crouching expectantly just 1.3% below all-time highs. Phil Camporeale, executive director at J.P. Morgan Asset Management, thinks the Fed will reduce monthly purchases from $85 billion to $70 billion or $75 billion. Mindful of how rising mortgage rates can undermine the housing recovery, Kalish thinks the Fed will cut Treasuries buying by $10 billion and mortgages by just $5 billion.
Already, risky stocks outperformed during August's pullback, and they continue to thrive now as the market turns higher. Since late-August, the 50 largest stocks within the Standard & Poor's 500 have gained just 3.2%, but the 50 smallest jumped 5.3%, notes Bespoke Investment Group. Stocks paying the richest dividends rose just 0.5%, while those offering no yield surged 5.5%. Heavily shorted stocks outperformed, as did those sporting the richest valuations.
Are stock buyers hoovering up risk because they aren't afraid of unruly interest rates? On the contrary, August marked the first time in six years when the paths of the S&P 500 and the 10-year yield diverged, with stocks retreating while yields climbed. "Normally, rising rates are not a problem for stocks until the 10-year yield gets above 5%," when inflation becomes a peskier problem, notes Jeffrey Kleintop, LPL Financial's chief market strategist. "But the pace at which yields head higher matters at any level."
So why are stocks rallying? Economic growth is picking up, and Wall Street hopes Fed tapering is increasingly priced in, and that the steepest rate surge is already behind us. Rising yields on five-year, 10-year, and 30-year Treasuries have stopped just shy of 2%, 3%, and 4%, respectively. If they breach these round-number thresholds with gusto, hold your hat.
Not everyone agrees with the consensus huddle. Ethan Harris, Bank of America Merrill Lynch's economist, thinks there's a 55% chance the Fed won't taper in September, and a 30% likelihood the Fed might taper by just $10 billion to $15 billion. Frank Beck, chief investment advisor at Beck Capital Management, thinks the Fed might be better off cutting monthly bond-buying by a tiny but steady amount each month until we reach zero—for instance, buying $4.25 billion less each month over 20 months. After all, announcing a new level of bond-buying, say, $70 billion each month, merely keeps investors guessing before future Fed meetings and anxious about how the program will change again. "We'll have the same guessing game, and the resultant volatility in the markets," Beck says. In contrast, a small incremental monthly reduction maps out the path back to normal, letting investors adjust to that pace, "and debt, equity, and emerging markets could start acting on fundamentals again."
FED TAPERING IS BACKED INTO A CORNER / MONEYNEWS.COM
| Etiquetas: Ben Bernanke, Monetary Policy, QE, The Fed, U.S. Economic And Political
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Fed Tapering Is Backed Into a Corner
By: Ashish Advani
I was watching President Obama's address to the nation the other night about Syria. For a person with great oratory skills, it seemed like his heart was not really in it. He seemed to get his scripted message across, but lacked conviction or passion. The prime cause? The Russian offer to mediate.
If we analyze the whole situation, following a scripted path is easier when you are either ready to act or when you know all the facts and your belief is unshaken. In this case, he made a passionate plea to attack Syria, had a change of heart in asking Congress for approval and then became sidelined in his conviction when diplomatic initiatives started popping up. He is now in the unenviable classic proverbial "Damned if you do, damned if you don't" situation.
Mind you folks, I am completely against this and the past two wars that America entered into. But if you are not going to follow through on your words, why utter them at all?
It is better to stay silent and let the world wonder if you are a fool, rather tan open your mouth and dispel all doubts.
So what does all this have to do with tapering?
Let's go back to May of this year when Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke made the announcement that the Fed might start tapering its stimulus program. While his intent of giving the markets a heads up may have been noble, it has now landed him in the same proverbial soup that I described above for Obama.
When he made the announcement, he indicated that the tapering would be data-driven and that unemployment had to be at 6.5 percent or lower before he would consider reversing track.
He then seemed to show unnecessary haste in solidifying the market conviction about the timing being sooner rather than later. I am not sure what Bernanke's motivation was in indicating haste when he made the half-baked tentative announcement of tapering, giving himself giant back-out clauses of data dependency. If he was not sure what the data would prove, why whip the market into a frenzy?
Was his guilt at leading this world into the financial abyss leading him to try to atone for his sins before leaving office? Or was he just plain old misreading the situation?
The housing market boom, which was touted as the major indicator of the recovery of our economy, has its wheels coming off. Mortgage applications are at five-year lows and large banks are laying off mortgage staff in massive numbers. Bank of America has laid off a massive number of staff, and Wells Fargo has dismal results in mortgages and will soon follow.
The main cause? Rising mortgage rates and no real jobs, which give people income to buy homes.
As a result, this tapering talk by the Fed is the main reason the fledgling economic recovery (if there ever was one) is crushing any remnants of the mirage of a recovery.
As I warned you
a few weeks ago, this euphoria around rising rates will diminish by end of summer or early fall. So far, it seems like the script I had written is playing out.
Now if the Feds do not taper in September, they will look weak. And if they do, the rates will jump up even more and definitely crush the housing recovery.
Damned if they do, damned if they don't.
I suspect they will taper by $10 billion and then send a message to the market that they will stay at that bond-buying rate for a long time to come. They will continue to fuel America's addiction to cheap money and help them avoid taking the bitter medicine and start down the road of a real recovery.
Stay long Treasurys and avoid this short-term trap in the rates market.
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REALPOLITIK IS THE WINNER IN U.S.-RUSSIA WEAPONS AGREEMENT / THE FINANCIAL TIMES COMMENT & ANALYSIS
| Etiquetas: Russia, Syria, U.S. Economic And Political, World Economic And Political
Realpolitik is the winner in US-Russia weapons agreement
By James Blitz in London and Geoff Dyer in Washington
Syrian disarmament plan sees Moscow and Washington compromise
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Who has got the better of whom in the negotiations between the US and Russia over Syria’s chemical weapons?
Poring over the text of the agreement signed by John Kerry and Sergei Lavrov in Geneva, there would appear to be advantages for both the Kremlin and the White House in the deal that has been done.
On the one hand, there is a clear victory for the Russian side on one point. Its Syrian ally is being told to hand over its chemical weapons for destruction or removal within nine months. But the pact does not threaten Syria with military action if it fails to comply.
The US and Russia agree that their joint plan will be enshrined in a forthcoming UN Security Council resolution. But the US has accepted Russia’s demand that the resolution will not authorise military action by world powers if the Assad regime obstructs the operation to secure its chemical stockpile. It merely commits to another Security Council discussion.
On the other hand, there are two key wins for the Barack Obama administration. First, the US has not been forced to take its threat of military action against Syria off the table. At a press conference in Geneva, Mr Kerry reiterated that President Obama reserved the right to act to protect US interests if he saw fit. “And, if diplomacy fails,” Mr Obama said later, “the United States remains prepared to act.”
Secondly, what will have surprised many diplomats is the ambition and detail of the plan that Russia has agreed to. It is structured around a series of deadlines which will allow the world to judge whether it is being adhered to or not.
Bashar al-Assad must provide an inventory of his chemical weapon stocks within seven days. He must allow the destruction of those stocks by the middle of next year. He must also give the world’s chemical weapons watchdog and UN “the immediate and unfettered right to inspect any and all sites in Syria.”
The US believes these deadlines make it hard for the Assad regime to obstruct progress. Western diplomats will also argue that by signing up to such a detailed agreement, Russia is putting its credibility on the line – and that it cannot allow the Assad regime to flout an agreement to which the Kremlin has put its name.
Still there will be at least three reservations on many minds.
First, how will the outside world know that Mr Assad is telling the truth when he publishes his inventory?
The US is certain to look at Mr Assad’s declaration of his chemical assets very sceptically. But it may not be easy for the Assad regime to hide the truth.
One of the remarkable developments of the last three days in Geneva is that the US has been sharing intelligence information about the stockpile for the first time with Russia. The White House and Kremlin now have a much more detailed picture of what the regime has. Both the US and Russia have established, for example, that Syria has around 1000 metric tons of chemical stocks.
Secondly, how difficult will it be for the UN and international bodies to complete such an ambitious plan in the midst of a civil war?
The scale is certainly daunting. Syria is thought to have the third largest chemical weapons programme in the world. Finding enough experts to secure and destroy the stockpile will be challenging.
“There are only two groups of people that have the experience and skills to do an operation like this and they are the US military and the Russian military,” says Aaron David Miller, a former state department official now at the Wilson Center.
That said, Mr Kerry was keen to emphasise on Saturday that the deadline for the destruction of the stockpile is achievable because the Assad regime has been continually moving its chemical weapons into areas that are not affected by the conflict.
“These weapons are in areas of regime control predominantly,” he said, suggesting that the Assad regime should have no difficulty providing access to them.
Finally, are we not going to see the Assad regime obstructing the inspections on the ground?
Many will say this is almost certain. UN inspectors investigating the August 21 chemical attack in Damascus were shot at as they approached the scene. The regime could easily instigate a repeat of such events, say diplomats, leading to debate over whether the Assad regime is culpable or not.
The Assad regime will also want to argue that opposition rebels must be questioned over their alleged holdings of chemical stocks – something that will prove difficult if not impossible for the UN to achieve.
Copyright The Financial Times Limited 2013.
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The Boy Scout Executives Said You Weren't Supposed to Know!
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In other words, Patriot, the BSA were simply going to drop this bombshell about a monumental policy shift on millions of scouts, scout leaders, parents and sponsoring churches.
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Home News Regional health leaders vow to eliminate neglected diseases
Regional health leaders vow to eliminate neglected diseases
by Asmau Ahmad October 11, 2018
By Asma’u Ahmad
Health ministers and senior officials of the World Health Organisation (WHO) in the Western Pacific on Thursday vowed to eliminate neglected diseases, and improve hospital planning and management for health in the region.
At the 69th session of the WHO regional committee for the Western Pacific, the health leaders stressed the need to control and eliminate diseases that stigmatise and discriminate.
The WHO said people living in tropical and subtropical areas who lack access to adequate sanitation, basic infrastructure and health services often suffer from neglected tropical diseases (NTDs).
NTDs are group of diseases that can have severe health impacts and lead to stigma and discrimination, of which 15 are endemic in the Western Pacific region.
According to the WHO in a statement, the region has seen remarkable progress in combating NTDs in recent years.
The WHO said the new Regional Framework for Control and Elimination of NTDs in the Western Pacific, endorsed by the health leaders, will build on these achievements and strive to end the scourge of NTDs in the Western Pacific.
The delegates also endorsed the Regional Action Framework on Improving Hospital Planning and Management in the Western Pacific.
“Although hospitals occupy a central place in health service delivery, countries can struggle to ensure hospital services are effectively planned and managed,’’ the WHO said.
The leaders also endorsed an action plan to harness e-health to improve health service delivery in the region, saying e-health can be a strategic tool for countries to improve access, expand coverage and reduce costs.
“E-health can enable people living in rural and remote areas to access good quality care, and provide timely and detailed information to assist in the prevention, early identification of needs, diagnosis and management of illnesses,’’ the WHO said.
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THE SCRUBS
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All busted up
The Scrubs is a horror novella and the first book in a trilogy of novellas based in this fictional world. Feel free to leave your thoughts and feelings about this book.
PREMISE: James Jeter, the notorious serial killer with a sixth sense, holds court inside London's Wormwood Scrubs Prison. He's the focus of the "North Wing Project." Under the influence of a hallucinogen, Jeter can create an alternative world known as "The Rift" containing the souls of his victims.
Pardons are on offer to inmates who'll enter The Rift. Michael Keeler has nothing to lose and little to live for. He's sent into The Rift to learn the identity of Jeter's last victim.
It's a mission where the guilty can be redeemed, but at a price...
Read an Interview over at Macabre Ink: http://www.davidniallwilson.com/intervi ... simon-wood
The Scrubs is published in print by Bad Moon Books and is available in ebook form from Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Kobo, Sony, Diesel, Smashwords and Apple iBookstore.
Praise for The Scrubs :
“The Scrubs is one merciless piece of work, in both the setting of Wormwood Scrubs prison and its colorful, even tragic, inmates, Simon has created a terse, tense, and powerful novella that closes in on the reader like the worst case claustrophobia you've ever had. An excellent achievement, and a real milestone in Simon's career."
— Gary A. Braunbeck, author of Coffin Country
“The Scrubs...it's a journey to a Twilight Zone of our time."
— Mort Castle, author of The Stranger
“Lean, mean fear machine - The Scrubs is gruesomely inventive entertainment.”
— Simon Clark, author of This Rage of echoes
“In this fast-paced cybernoir tale, Simon invites us to quite literally step inside the circus tent od a mad criminal mind...before zipping it right up behind us for good. This is, simply put, an incredible novella."
— Michael Arnzen, author of Bitchfight and Play Dead
“The Scrubs is a superb, fast-paced journey through the hell of incarceration...and way, way beyond.”
— Tim Lebbon, author of Dawn
“Truly a remarkable book and I highly recommend it.”
— David Niall Wilson, author of Ennui
“If you are looking for a quick read that is sure to leave you breathless until the final page is turned, you cannot do any better than The Scrubs.”
— Horrorworld
"This is a fasinating, disturbing journey.”
— Dark Discoveries Magazine
"A surreal horror trip.”
— Horror Fiction Review
"if you like your horror to be fast, hard-hitting and unflinching, then you will love The Scrubs.”
— Centipede Literary Supplement
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Post subject: Re: THE SCRUBS
I loved The Scrubs.
But the real question is, when will we see the last two books?
Sadly, other projects have gotten in the way. Scrubbers has sat partially written on my computer for 18mths.
But I will announce it here that Bad Moon has agreed to put out the final two books in the trilogy in 2012. I think they're going to be good. I've been really pushing what can happen in that world and keeping true to the first story.
Craig, post a review on Amazon or somehwere. Your opinion counts.
The thing I've noticed about Amazon is that their reviews are being used as reference for other review sites and libraries. So every bit helps. Thanks for posting a review on H/world.
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Home » Business » Bayer seeks glyphosate litigation advice as Elliott reveals stake
Bayer seeks glyphosate litigation advice as Elliott reveals stake
June 26, 2019 BAYER, g..., GLYPHOSATE, MEDIATOR, US
FRANKFURT (Reuters) – Chemicals giant Bayer, under pressure from activist shareholders, said on Wednesday it has hired an external lawyer to advise its supervisory board and has set up a committee to help resolve a multi-billion dollar glyphosate litigation issue.
Bayer has seen its share price tumble in the wake of its $63 billion acquisition of Monsanto, which brought with it massive legal issues after more than 13,400 plaintiffs alleged the company’s glyphosate weedkiller caused cancer.
Bayer, which acquired Monsanto last year, says studies and regulators have deemed glyphosate and Monsanto’s Roundup weedkiller safe for human use, but the German company has struggled to contain the reputational and legal fallout.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Wednesday that German farmers would stop using glyphosate eventually, a stance which is at odds with the Leverkusen-based company’s view.
Activist shareholder Elliott Associates said it welcomed Bayer’s new steps to improve supervision of litigation issues, as it revealed for the first time its holding of Bayer shares.
Bayer said it has hired U.S. lawyer John H. Beisner from Skadden, Arps, Slate Meagher & Flom LLP to advise the Supervisory Board on matters related to the glyphosate litigations, including trial tactics and mediation.
“His appointment is intended to add fresh and independent perspectives to the advice given to the Board of Management,” Bayer said in a statement.
“We are convinced that with his expertise, John H. Beisner will provide very valuable and concrete advice on the ongoing litigation as well as the mediation,” Bayer’s Chairman Werner Wenning, said in the statement.
Bayer also said a new Supervisory Board committee, comprised of eight supervisory board members, will consult with the Board of Management and make recommendations on litigation strategy.
The company appears to have changed its approach to litigation, from taking a “we will prevail, we will fight to the end” attitude to seeking a settlement more quickly as a way to reassure investors and employees, a person familiar with the discussion told Reuters on Wednesday.
Elliott Associates revealed that it holds Bayer shares and financial instruments equivalent to 1.1 billion euros ($1.3 billion) worth of Bayer stock. Bayer’s market value is 52.2 billion euros.
It is the first time that Elliott has acknowledged holding a significant stake in the German company. Reuters last year reported that Elliott had amassed a stake of under 3%, citing people familiar with the matter.
Elliott has a stake equivalent to 2.1% of Bayer shares, a source familiar with the matter said on Wednesday.
“Elliott welcomes these steps, and is confident that today’s statement marks a step change in Bayer’s approach to addressing the legal challenges currently facing the company,” Elliott said in a separate statement.
Elliott said it believes that the creation of the special committee will provide a new level of oversight and a fresh perspective to a litigation strategy, which it said needs a radical overhaul.
Elliott also said Bayer could do more to maximize long-term value for all its stakeholders, saying the company had an opportunity to unlock more than 30 billion euros in value.
“Elliott looks forward to the company building upon today’s announcement, and making a credible commitment to the exploration of long-term value creative levers beyond the immediate litigation and governance enhancements,” it said.
Elliott wants Bayer to resolve its litigation issues as an immediate priority and is not pushing the company to pursue deeper structural changes right away, the source said.
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GETTING THE FACTS RIGHT ON NAGORNO KARABAKH (ARTSAKH)
Started by Yervant1 , Sep 24 2014 06:16 AM
#1 Yervant1
The True North!
GETTING THE FACTS RIGHT ON NAGORNO KARABAKH
The Hill, DC
By Mark Dietzen
In his September 11 post, absurdly titled "Armenia has always been
the aggressor," the U.S. Azeris Network's military analyst Denis
Jaffe once again distorts the facts pertaining to the Nagorno Karabakh
conflict. Jaffe's exaggeration and abuse of the truth does a disservice
to The Hill's readers.
First, Mr. Jaffe points to four United Nations Security Council
Resolutions to back up his false claim that Armenia is the aggressor
in the Nagorno Karabakh conflict. But a reading of these resolutions
shows that they make no mention whatsoever of Armenia as an aggressor
or occupier, as Jaffe irresponsibly asserts.
ADVERTISEMENT Instead, while these resolutions express "serious concern
at the deterioration of relations between the Republic of Armenia and
the Azerbaijani Republic and at the tensions between them," references
to control over disputed territory specify "local Armenian forces,"
a point lost to Jaffe. These local forces were those of the Nagorno
Karabakh Republic (NKR), the independent but thus far internationally
unrecognized state, cosignatory to the 1994 ceasefire agreement,
and an official party to the peace talks until Baku refused to
continue negotiations with it in 1998. Though Armenia is a party to
the conflict and a guarantor of the NKR's security, the core problem
is between Azerbaijan and the NKR. So when it comes to the meaning
of the UN Security Council resolutions, Jaffe is right. We really
should not take his word for it.
Second, the NKR's secession from Soviet Azerbaijan happened not because
of Russia, but in spite of Russia's opposition, even though it was
in full accordance with then acting Soviet legislation. Moscow
had no determinant effect on the Karabakh War. Indeed, it was
post-Soviet Russia that mediated the ceasefire agreement between
Azerbaijan, Armenia, and the NKR. Jaffe's attempt to depict the NKR's
secession from Azerbaijan, and its current state-building efforts, as
"Russian-sponsored separatism," is simply contrary to the facts. It
was only a year ago when, during a press conference with Russian
President Putin, Azerbaijani President Aliyev announced that he had
made arms deals with Russia worth 4 billion dollars. Surely Baku would
not make such deals if it was convinced that Moscow was a NKR-sponsor.
Third, Jaffe's attempt at proving his unfounded charge that Armenia
has been "making grave threats against Azerbaijan for many years,"
is based on a series of cherry-picked quotations from the very same
articles that clearly demonstrate Armenia's adherence to peace. For
example, when Jaffe refers to the November 8, 2012 Wall Street Journal
interview, writing, "President Sargsyan said that Armenia would
strike Azerbaijan in a 'disproportionately' hard way," he attempts
to mislead readers by taking the original sentence totally out of
context. It reads: "President Sargsyan said Armenia would strike
Azerbaijan only if Nagorno Karabakh or Armenian were attacked, but
vowed that Yerevan's response would be 'disproportionately' strong."
The analyst does this again in his reference to the November 14,
2010 article published by Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, when he
writes, "Sargsyan said: 'our strike must be devastating and final this
time around.'" Yet, here is the same quoted passage from President
Sargsyan, in its entirety: "'We never wanted war, we were simply
compelled to defend our homeland at that time,' he said, referring
to the first Armenian-Azerbaijani [War]. 'We will not attack first
now either. But if the moment arrives, if they force us, our strike
must be devastating and final this time around.'" Clearly, these are
not the words of an aggressor. And clearly, Jaffe's Nazi reference
was completely inappropriate. One only needs to review the bellicose
rhetoric of top Azerbaijani officials for evidence of who is actually
jeopardizing regional peace.
Fourth, though the U.S. President has utilized his ability to
waiver Section 907 of the Freedom Support Act -- something granted
to him by the Senate in the wake of the 9/11 attacks to allow for
the transportation of military hardware through Azerbaijan on route
to Afghanistan -- Section 907 is still acting legislation: Congress
has never revoked the law. This signifies that the U.S. government is
still waiting for Azerbaijan to take, as the law states, "demonstrable
steps to cease all blockades and other offensive uses of force against
Armenia and Nagorno-Karabakh." Predictably, Jaffe's allegation that
Section 907 also limits U.S. assistance to Armenia is not true either.
Finally, in his blanket attack on the Armenian lobby, Jaffe seems
oblivious to the New York Times investigation published earlier this
month, "Azerbaijan and Think Tanks," which uncovered the government
of Azerbaijan's hiring of lobbying and public relations firms since
2012 to "build relationships with think tanks."
I would welcome a continued debate with Mr. Jaffe on the Nagorno
Karabakh issue, including in the form of a public debate in Washington
DC. But let us focus on the facts, not exaggerations and groundless
allegations intended to misinform and deepen mistrust between Armenians
and Azerbaijanis.
Dietzen is executive director of Americans for Artsakh.
http://thehill.com/b...agorno-karabakh
#2 Arpa
Interests:Culture
It is ironic that both Mr. Jaffe and Mr. Dietzen seem to be of the same ethno-religious persuasion, who speak from their hideouts, a suburb of telaviv- Washington DC.
Someone should write an article to show how the Palestinians were the aggressors ? NOT!!! at the turn of the 20th C m and still are???
Mr. Jaffe should read real history, not that garbage propaganda from boku. He should read real history and see, during the late 1980-s, when Moscow was losing its grip on the Union they launched the pogroms in boku, and proceeded with the nakhijevanization, ethnic cleansing of Artsakh.
Fortunately, turned out that the Armenians of Artsakh and Armenia were highly trained and seasoned warrior veterans of Afghanistan fiasco et al, while the asszeris were boot shiners in the SU Army and chobans.** ԻՐԱՆՑ ՄԱՅՐԸ ԼԱՑՈՒՑԻՆ, եւ ՏԱԿԱՒԻՆ ՊԻՏԻ ԼԱՑԸՆԵՆ:
The rest is HISTORY, not SCHMISTORY as some followers of that religion-milijun would have us believe.
Why, after 2000 years there still are hryas?
**Even though on the surface choban means shepherd, in the Armenian it is also a pejorative term meaning uncivilized nomad peasant.
Here is a picture of Mr Jsffe
http://kalcom.typepa...rav_ovadiah.jpg
Edited by Arpa, 24 September 2014 - 09:39 AM.
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15:08 07/02/2015 » POLITICS
Article by Armenian FM published in Politique Internationale journal
One of the most prestigious publications in the political and diplomatic world, the Politique Internationale journal, printed in Paris, published an article by Armenian Foreign Minister Edward Nalbandian on the Nagorno-Karabakh issue, according to the press service of the Armenian Foreign Ministry.
In an extended article, entitled "Nagorno-Karabakh: Is a Solution Visible?" Edward Nalbandian thoroughly presents the roots, the settlement process, legal aspects and possible ways of the settlement of the Nagorno-Karabakh issue.
Edward Nalbandian thoroughly presents the efforts, exerted since the early 1990s towards the settlement of the Nagorno-Karabakh issue, the stages of the negotiation process, proposals presented by the OSCE Minsk Group and recent developments.
"Azerbaijan rejected all versions of the Basic Principles of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict settlement proposed by the Co-Chairs of the Minsk Group, including the latest proposals submitted in Saint-Petersburg (June 2010), Astrakhan (October 2010), Sochi (March 2011) and Kazan (June 2011) summits. Azerbaijan rejected all the proposals, proposed by the Co-Chairs. Not only did it attempt to change the essence of the negotiating process, but also to distort the nature of the conflict within various international bodies, not hesitating to mislead the international community by presenting the consequences of the conflict as its causes," writes Edward Nalbandian.
Attaching importance to the implementation of confidence-building measures, proposed by the Co-Chairs, Foreign Minister stresses, "The Co-Chairs proposed a number of Confidence and Security-Building Measures (CSBM) — consolidation of the cease-fire, withdrawal of snipers from the line of contact, creation of a mechanism to investigate incidents and violations of the cease-fire agreement. These proposals were endorsed by a number of major international organizations, as well as the UN Secretary General. They were equally welcomed by Armenia and Nagorno-Karabakh. But all of them were rejected by Baku."
Minister of Foreign Affairs of Armenia touches upon the policy of hatred against Armenians, propagated on the highest level and its dangerous consequences, "In Azerbaijan, journalists, activists and the intelligentsia are all persecuted as "Armenian spies" and "enemies of the nation", just because they are advocating peace and reconciliation. The writer Akram Aylisli was ostracized for publishing a novel, where he talks about the pogroms against Armenians in Baku and Sumgait. His books were publicly burned and the writer had to leave the country because of threats on his life."
The Foreign Minister highlights that many international organizations warned about the flagrant cases of racism, intolerance and violations of human rights in Azerbaijan and the policy of hatred against Armenians. In response, Baku merely organizes fake conferences on tolerance and freedom, in an attempt to impose its own distorted perception of human rights on others.
Under the article sub-section, entitled "Azerbaijan, a Threat to Regional Security", Minister Nalbandian elaborates, "For the last twenty years, Azerbaijan has done everything in its power to undermine the cease-fire agreements. Military actions along the line of contact and on the Armenian-Azerbaijani border have resulted in significant loss of life and greatly raised tensions on the ground. All the statements and decisions by Baku's authorities prove that Azerbaijan has become a serious threat to security and stability in the South Caucasus. This country has lost its sense of reality and is doing its utmost to undermine the peace talks. That is why, despite the intensive efforts of the three Co-Chair countries during the last six years (twenty summits, several dozen ministerial-level meetings, visits by the three Co-Chairs to the region), it has not been possible to achieve a breakthrough in negotiations. In fact, Baku is not interested in anything but its own advantage."
Presenting the vision of Armenia on the Nagorno-Karabakh settlement, Edward Nalbandian writes, "We continue to believe that the principles and elements outlined in the statements of the heads of the Co-Chair countries over the last six years can be the foundations for reaching a fair and lasting settlement of the conflict.
We absolutely agree that peoples should be prepared for peace, not war. Unfortunately, until now the Azerbaijani leadership is doing just the opposite.
We fully agree with the heads of the Co-Chair countries that the use of force will not resolve the conflict, and that only a negotiated settlement can lead to stability and peace, which will open new opportunities for regional cooperation and development. The sooner the Azerbaijani leadership understands this reality, the faster the conflict can be settled."
The article by Minister Nalbandian in English and French came out also as a separate brochure – an annex to Politique Internationale journal.
Source: Panorama.am
AZERBAIJAN'S TERRITORIAL INTEGRITY HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH THE NAGORNO-KARABAKH REPUBLIC: SHAVARSH KOCHARYAN
20:37, 3 March, 2015
YEREVAN, 3 MARCH, ARMENPRESS. We have no problem with Azerbaijan's
territorial integrity, but that territorial integrity has nothing
to do with the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic. As "Armenpress" reports,
this is what Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of
Armenia Shavarsh Kocharyan announced in an interview on the occasion
of Diplomats' Day during the "Zham" news broadcast. Touching upon
Armenian diplomats' possible slip-ups in regard to the Karabakh issue,
Kocharyan mentioned: "You know, if it refers to the Karabakh issue,
I believe Armenia's position on the Karabakh issue had to be very
clear in the country's foreign policy because there are theoretically
three approaches. The first approach is the guarantee of the rights
of ethnic minorities. The second is reunification of the nation that
was forcefully divided. The third is the exercising of the right
to self-determination. Unfortunately, in the first years, Armenia
placed certain emphasis on the guarantee of the rights of ethnic
minorities, and this means seeing Karabakh as a part of Azerbaijan
with this or that status. At one point, Armenia placed emphasis on
the reunification, and finally, it got on the right track, that is,
the exercising of the right to self-determination, which has been
exercised for years and falls in line with the will that the people
of Nagorno-Karabakh have expressed, meaning an independent state. I
believe the lack of clarity didn't play a positive role. In any case,
self-determination is on the table of negotiations."
According to Kocharyan, it's not by chance that the negotiations are
over the three famous international principles, including no use of
force or threat of force, territorial integrity and equal rights and
self-determination of nations."I must say that we have no problem with
Azerbaijan's territorial integrity, but that territorial integrity
has nothing to do with the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic," the Deputy
Minister of Foreign Affairs concluded.
http://armenpress.am...c-shavarsh.html
PRAISE OF FOOLISHNESS
Another attack of malevolence is launched in Azerbaijan As is known,
elections to the National Assembly of the Nagorno Karabakh Republic
are scheduled for May 3, which will be the sixth since the proclamation
of the NKR.
Frankly, it is an event of great political and national importance for
us, as it allows to comprehend yet another stage passed and to define
the priorities for the further progressive development of our state.
Surely, different-level elections - whether presidential, parliamentary
or municipal - are essential for any country, but we will not be
mistaken if we note that this truth is especially important for the
state, which has not yet received international recognition.
For the reason that the NKR as an unrecognized state, which is under
the close scrutiny of corresponding international bodies observing
the ongoing public-political processes here, has constantly to prove
its existence and right to be a full member of the world community.
I must say, the NKR honorably passed such an exam on state maturity,
consistently demonstrating at all the elections the commitment of
both the people and authorities to universal democratic norms and
principles. This is also confirmed by the positive assessment of dozens
of independent international observers from different countries and
organizations, which observed the elections in Karabakh and stated
that in terms of its democratic development the NKR even outstrips
the neighboring recognized states.
As already noted, international organizations are closely watching the
state building processes ongoing in the NKR. But, not only them and
no less closely. It would have been very strange if official Baku,
in its usual aggressive manner, hadn't responded to the upcoming
parliamentary elections in the NKR. Commenting on them, head of the
Presidential Administration Department on Public-Political Issues Ali
Hasanov noted that Azerbaijan would react adequately to any unilateral
move, political and social action in Nagorno Karabakh. In turn,
Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry's official Hikmet Hajiyev noted that the
holding of parliamentary elections in Nagorno Karabakh is violation of
the Azerbaijani laws, the norms and principles of international law
and is aimed at undermining the negotiation process on the Nagorno
Karabakh conflict settlement.
Surely, Azerbaijan's painful reaction to our parliamentary elections
was easily predictable and, to be frank, does not deserve any serious
attention due to its boring monotony. But, what we cannot ignore is
that the Aliyev regime has completely lost the sense of reality. The
appeal to the laws of Azerbaijan, which is just an empty phrase for
Artsakh that has been living by its own laws for nearly a quarter of
a century, testifies to the inadequacy of the Baku top officials. One
should be too insane to "react adequately to any unilateral move,
political and social action in Nagorno Karabakh". And what does
"unilateral" mean? Does Baku really believe that Stepanakert should
coordinate with it the implementation of any political and social
actions in the NKR? Or isn't it aware that the people of Artsakh
have long been free to determine the ways and forms of their
public-political development?
And extremely absurd is the demagogic argument that the holding of
parliamentary elections undermines the negotiation process on the
Nagorno Karabakh conflict settlement. It is a very strange logic -
the purely peaceful and democratic way of building the public life
undermines the negotiation process, while Azerbaijan's gross violations
of the ceasefire, acts of sabotage, initiation of armed clashes
with casualties on both sides, downing of the Karabakh helicopter,
killing of Armenian hostages, and glorification of a murderer do
not undermine the process. Moreover, the legality is stated and is
attempted to be defined by the state, which is grossly violating
international law! Truly, it is limitless stupidity.
In this regard, I would like to enlighten the so-called official of
the Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry, who must know that in due time the
OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chairmen recognized "the necessity of forming the
de facto authorities in Nagorno Karabakh to ensure democracy and to
maintain the public life". Since the legitimately elected government
is predictable and acts responsibly, which is observed in the NKR,
unlike totalitarian Azerbaijan. This fact is very important in a
civilized community, as well as for the negotiation process, which
supposedly worries Baku. By the way, in response to the hysterical
reaction of Azerbaijan, the Foreign Ministry of Russia stated that
"we do not consider that the peaceful settlement of the conflict
could depend on holding the parliamentary elections".
Again, let's remind for educational purposes that the mandate of the
OSCE Minsk Group provides conducting negotiations with the elected
(!!!) representatives of the parties to the Karabakh conflict. Given
this requirement, Nagorno Karabakh, as an equal party to the conflict,
participated in the negotiation process and the international mediators
met and are meeting with its elected representatives.
There is no doubt that the forthcoming parliamentary elections also
will be held in accordance with the international standards and
the high election culture developed in the NKR, which is extremely
important in the context of the prospects of international recognition
of the NKR. Regardless of Azerbaijan's malevolence.
Leonid MARTIROSSIAN Editor-in-Chief of Azat Artsakh newspaper
http://artsakhtert.c...=3:all&Itemid=4
Belarus diplomat accuses Azerbaijan of violating Armenians' rights in Karabakh
General Consul of Belarus in Daugavpils (Latvia) Vladimir Klimov
accused Azerbaijan of violating the Armenian's rights in former
Nagorno-Karabakh autonomous region of Azerbaijan where he was carrying
his military service.
The people in Karabakh were deprived of a possibility to exercise
their right to self-determination, he said in an interview with
SeyChas ( СейЧаÑ?) newspaper, Ð`Ñани.lv reported.
The diplomat said that Armenians made majority of population in
Karabakh when it was an autonomous region within Soviet Azerbaijan.
`When a child was born in an Armenian family of Malumyans, he was
registered as Malumyanov, in Azerbaijani style,' Klimov said when
asked whether situation in Ukraine's South-East resembles conflict in
Nagorno-Karabakh.
National traditions were not encouraged, besides there were
disagreements on religious grounds, he said, adding that the conflict
broke out when someone provoked the situation.
http://news.am/eng/news/255919.html
Journal Pioneer, PEI, Canada
Will Armenia and Azerbaijan go to war over Nagorno-Karabakh?
Henry Srebrnik
A low-intensity conflict in the southern Caucasus, involving the now
independent nations of Armenia and Azerbaijan, has been escalating of
late. It concerns the de facto Republic of Nagorno-Karabakh that
emerged after the collapse of the Soviet Union.
While Armenia and Azerbaijan were both full-fledged union republics in
the former USSR, Nagorno-Karabakh was an Armenian-majority enclave
within Azerbaijan, with the status of an autonomous oblast, or region.
According to the British academic Robert Service, in 1921 Joseph
Stalin included the area under Azerbaijani control to try and coax
Turkey into joining the Soviet Union. Had Turkey not been an issue,
Stalin would probably have left it under Armenian control.
With the Soviet Union firmly in control of the entire Caucasus by the
1920s, the conflict over the region died down for decades. But with
the beginning of the dissolution of the Soviet Union in the late 1980s
and early 1990s, the question of Nagorno-Karabakh re-emerged.
When the Soviet Union collapsed, only the union republics gained
international recognition as independent states. So Nagorno-Karabakh,
along with other Soviet entities such as Chechnya, Moldova, South
Ossetia, and Transnistria, was out of luck.
On Nov. 26, 1991, the parliament of the Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist
Republic abolished the autonomous status of Nagorno-Karabakh, and its
territory was split up and redistributed amongst the neighboring
administrative districts in Azerbaijan.
In turn, the region's Armenians, who comprised three-quarters of its
population, declared their independence in 1991 and then, with the
help of Armenia, defeated Azerbaijan in a war that lasted until 1994.
The new entity gained additional territory during the fighting,
ignoring UN Security Council resolutions on the inviolability of
international borders and the inadmissibility of the use of force for
the acquisition of territory.
Armenia now effectively controls the narrow strips of land to the west
and south of Nagorno-Karabakh, giving the unrecognized state direct
borders with its patron Armenia, as well as with Iran.
An estimated 15,000-20,000 people, including civilians, were killed
during the fighting and hundreds of thousands displaced. Today,
Nagorno-Karabakh is almost entirely Armenian.
Even apart from this, Christian Armenians and Muslim Azerbaijanis have
had a tense relationship, including bloody massacres, that predates
Soviet times. The two countries have now both built up arsenals of
ever more powerful weapons, and January saw an upsurge of fighting
between them, with repeated gun battles and volleys of artillery and
rocket fire. Azerbaijan also shot down a drone not far from Agdam, a
formerly Azerbaijani city now occupied by Armenian forces.
President Ilham Aliyev of Azerbaijan, which has an economy seven times
larger than Armenia's, has announced that he plans this year to spend
more than double Armenia's entire annual budget of $2.7 billion on
strengthening his military. His Armenian counterpart, President Serzh
Sargsyan (who is originally from Nagorno-Karabakh) countered with his
own threats.
Aliyev also made reference to the influential Armenian diaspora,
formed largely after the Armenian genocide of 1915, when hundreds of
thousands of Armenians living in the Ottoman Empire were slaughtered
by the Turks, while others fled.
Today there are major Armenian communities throughout the world,
including in Australia, Canada, France, Lebanon, Russia and the United
"The truth is that the continued occupation of our lands is not just
the work of Armenia," he remarked. "Armenia is a powerless and poor
country. It is in a helpless state. Of course, if it didn't have major
patrons in various capitals, the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict would have
been resolved fairly long ago."
Neither side seems prepared to step down. As Abdulla Qurbani, a senior
official in the Azerbaijan Defence Ministry told a New York Times
reporter, "When water mixes with earth, this is mud. When blood mixes
with earth, this is motherland."
Nagorno-Karabakh's unresolved status remains one of the most
potentially explosive issues in the volatile southern Caucasus region.
Henry Srebrnik is a professor of political science at the University
of Prince Edward Island.
http://www.journalpi...rno-Karabakh?/1
ALIYEV IS RAGING, OR BAKU'S HABIT TO PRESENT A FICTION AS THE TRUTH
Recently, after a comparatively short period of relative calm, the
situation on the Line of Contact between the armed forces of the NKR
and Azerbaijan has again deteriorated sharply.
Almost every day, the Azerbaijani party, ignoring its own considerable
human losses, is attempting to penetrate into the territory of Artsakh,
which, unfortunately, results in casualties among the Karabakh
servicemen as well.
Yet another armed provocation of Azerbaijan, which was committed on
March 19 and resulted in casualties on both sides, forced the American
Co-Chairman of the OSCE Minsk Group, James Warlick, to respond to
this. According to him, the renewed violence in Nagorno Karabakh is
tragic and violates the ceasefire. "While the parties accuse each
other, the actions harm the process of peaceful settlement of the
Karabakh conflict", the diplomat wrote in his microblog on Twitter.
Surely, Mr. Warlick's being concerned and anxious about the
deterioration of the situation deserves appreciation, but we should
not ignore the fact that another attempt is made to assign the
responsibility for the gross violation of the ceasefire equally to
both sides. In this regard, it is impossible to refrain from asking
the American diplomat whether he is familiar with the content of the
speech of President Aliyev on the occasion of the Muslim holiday of
Nowruz. We think he should be familiar, as required by his status of
an international mediator in the Karabakh settlement process. And
if he is not, we'll remind him of it. Aliyev said the following:
"The Karabakh conflict should be resolved only (!!! - Ed.) in the
framework of the territorial integrity of Azerbaijan. After that, we
Azerbaijanis, will, surely, come back to our ancient lands - Erevan,
Geycha, and Zangezur mahal". Let us prompt James Warlick that all these
geographic names cited by Aliyev in the Azerbaijani ugly interpretation
are the lands of sovereign Armenia, the territorial integrity of which
this Baku official, advocating this international principle, does not
intend to observe. As if in passing or as a remark, let us also remind
the Washington diplomat that "Erevan" is Yerevan, which is older than
even the eternal city of Rome and for this reason cannot be the "old
land" of Azerbaijanis, who did not exist on the planet that period.
But let's return from the depths of centuries to our days and ask Mr.
Warlick a question: did he have the pleasure to familiarize also with
the speech of the country's Defense Minister, Zakir Hasanov, before
his brave soldiers? If not, then it can be only regreted, because he
deprived himself of the opportunity to learn the infinity of human
stupidity in the Azerbaijani filling. Like a parrot, he cited, as if
through a blueprint, the historical pearls of his supreme commander
named Ilham regarding all sorts of mahals, then swung to the armed
forces of Armenia and the NKR. "I openly declare that we'll destroy
70% of the enemies with the first blow. Armenians will not be able
to recover in hundreds of years", promised the formidable Zakir, who
has never smelled gunpowder. It is strange that not 100%. Maybe the
parquet General, armed with a calculator, has kept the remaining 30%
for the second blow. And then he broke up, calling on his subordinates
"to use every opportunity day and night to destroy the enemy". Agree,
it is cruel, first of all, towards their own soldiers, whom the
minister dooms thus to permanent insomnia.
But, let's be serious, because when the heads of state and army
are people with sick mentality, it isn't funny at all. There is a
concept in psychology - "wishful thinking". Such delusion, defined
by psychologists as a personality disorder, is suffered by the noted
persons, who are obsessed by the desire to exaggerate both their
importance and the power of their armed forces. According to experts,
persons with such a diagnosis get used to the role to the degree that
can hardly differ what is the truth and what is fiction in their life.
And they do not want to think about the devastating consequences of
such self-deception. We believe the abovementioned quotations by the
Azerbaijani President and Minister of Defense are more than enough for
James Warlick and his colleagues at the OSCE Minsk Group to realize
the real threat to the region posed by these persons. However, no
less dangerous is the indecision of the international mediators who
do not dare to call the adventurist regime of Azerbaijan to account.
Experience has shown that it is senseless to debate with Aliyev. His
and his defense minister's incessant bellicose statements facilitated
the Minsk Group co-chairs' search of the real perpetrators of the
escalation of tension, leaving no doubt for this. The armed clashes
initiated by Azerbaijan on the front line are becoming more dangerous,
putting the region on the brink of a new war. In these conditions,
the mediator-states must abandon their amorphous position and respond
more efficiently to the military rhetoric of Baku, the actions of
which challenge not only Armenia and Nagorno Karabakh, but also the
entire international community. While this does not happen, both
Armenian parties have themselves to suppress harshly any aggressive
encroachments of Azerbaijan, giving a tangible, moreover and as a
rule, an asymmetrical response. It is impossible to act otherwise -
force should be responded with force. As noted in a recent interview
to the 'Voice of Armenia' by the Armenian Defense Minister, Seyran
Ohanyan, who, unlike Zakir Hasanov, knows about the war firsthand,
"the matter is not only the implementation of defensive tasks,
but also the warning and preventive measures and the punishment of
the aggressor. If the Azerbaijanis understand only this language,
so they should be talked to in this language".
17:57 01/04/2015 » SOCIETY
The Fresno Bee: In upcoming parliamentary elections NKR will assert its national independence and sovereignty
US Fresno County Supervisor Andreas Borgeas will serve as a political observer of upcoming national elections in the Nagorno Karabakh Republic, The Fresno Bee reports.
“In the face of opposition from Turkey and Azerbaijan, the Armenian-populated Nagorno Karabakh is holding elections to assert their national independence and sovereignty,” the article reads. It is also noted that Borgeas will be gone from April 25 to May 5. Two more representatives from the US, Mexico, Argentina and Canada are among those invited. They will assess Nagorno Karabakh’s election process by international election standards.
According to the article, in a formal invitation letter, Ashot Ghulyan, chairman of the national assembly, said the parliamentary elections May 3 represent the sixth time since Nagorno Karabakh’s declaration of independence that residents will exercise their right to vote.
“We see the upcoming elections as yet another opportunity to reaffirm the adherence of Nagorno Karabakh people to universal freedoms and liberties and therefore attach great importance to international election observation mission,” Ghulyan wrote.
It is highlighted in the article that the election comes on the heels of the centennial of the Armenian Genocide. Borgeas stressed that this circumstance means a lot. Between the Turks in the west and Azerbaijanis in the east, Armenians are still precariously situated.
On April 23, the Board of Supervisors of Fresno County passed a resolution officially recognizing the Nagorno Karabakh Republic - a region historically and ethnically Armenian situated between Armenia and Azerbaijan – and also called upon the California Legislature, Congress and the US President to grant official recognition. The resolution also called on Congress and the US President to officially recognize the Armenian Genocide in Ottoman Empire in 1915, taking up the commitment to fairly presenting the fact to the decedents.
On 27 August, 2014, California State Senate by an overwhelming majority of votes passed the resolution AJR 32, encouraging Artsakh’s (Nagorno Karabakh) continuing efforts to develop as a free and independent nation and formally calling upon the President and Congress of the United States to support the self-determination and democratic independence of the Nagorno Karabakh Republic. Thus the State of California joined Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Maine and Louisiana in adopting legislation which supports the independence of Artsakh.
Fresno County passes resolution recognizing independence of Nagorno Karabakh Republic
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DONALD WILSON BUSH: KARABAKH PROVED IT EARNED RIGHT TO SELF-DETERMINATION
Region:World News, Armenia, Karabakh, Azerbaijan
YEREVAN. - The people of Nagorno-Karabakh have proved that they have
earned the right to self-determination and independence, and they
can independently govern their country.
The president of the Woodrow Wilson Legacy Foundation, Donald Wilson
Bush, who is also the great-grandson of 28th US President Woodrow
Wilson, told the aforesaid to Armenian News-NEWS.am.
He went on to say even though there is legitimacy that this nation
is represented at the UN, there is a need to reach consensus on this
matter. As per Wilson Bush, at present, however, the other big nations
do not offer opportunities for this discourse.
To the query on whether he is afraid of being added on Azerbaijan's
"black list" for visiting Karabakh, Woodrow Wilson's great-grandson
noted that he is not afraid, since he does not like people who try
to sway others. He stated that he believes in equality among nations,
there needs to be a dialogue between nations, and there is a need to
enter a new era that will function in accordance with the Westphalian
system of nation-state.
In Donald Wilson Bush's words, Nagorno-Karabakh is an opportunity
to introduce a new international system, from which small countries
can benefit. As per Woodrow Wilson's great-grandson, the Karabakh
government functions in normal fashion and in full.
EUROPE-BASED TURKISH ACTIVISTS VISIT ARTSAKH
Siranush Ghazanchyan
Lusine Avanesyan
Public Radio of Armenia
Stepanakert
"The recognition of genocide means not only condemnation, but also
restitution. All that has been seized from Armenians, should be
returned to its rightful owner, Chairman of the "Union Against
Genocide" Ali Ertem said in Stepanakert.
Members of the Frankfurt-based "Union Against Genocide" and the
Berlin-based "Support for Genocide Victims" Turkish organization
visitd the Stepanakert Memorial, Gandzasarm other places of interest
and had meetings with the leaders and journalists in Artsakh.
On a first visit to Artsakh, the Turks are aware they will be
blacklisted by Azerbaijan, but are not worried about this.
Representative of the "Support for Genocide Victims" organization
Recep Marasli also considers that being included in Azerbaijan's
"black list" should be treated as an honor. The two are Personae Non
Grata in Turkey, as well. Years ago they fled Turkey to survive.
Recep Marasli, who spoke about the Armenian Genocide in 1985, was
arrested and spent 17 years in jail.
At Stepanakert memorial, the Turkish activists paid tribute to the
memory of the Armenian Genocide victims and visited the graves of
the freedom fighters.
They say Azerbaijan and Turkey will continue to act against Armenians.
The number of those opposing this policy is small, but growing.
According to Marasli, the struggle of Artsakh is a just cause. They
pledge to raise the issue on Europe upon their return.
http://www.armradio....-visit-artsakh/
17:17 30/04/2015 » LAW
International report about Operation Ring: Weapons used against civilians, they are killed and looted
Karabakhrecords.info continues to publish the testimonies and the documents concerning the Operation Ring in spring – summer, 1991 during which the population of about 30 Armenian villages from Artsakh was subjected to terroristic acts, abuse and was deported from the native lands by the Azerbaijani OMON forces.
The website has published an excerpt from Baroness Caroline Cox’s book “Ethnic Cleansing in Progress: War in Nagorno Karabakh,” a document titled “The report of the delegation of the First International Andrei Sakharov Memorial Congress in Armenia and in Azerbaijan about the current events in Nagorno Karabakh, July 13-16, 1991” (abridged).
For the first time an international delegation was admitted to Nagorno Karabakh, interviewed Armenian detainees in Azerbaijani prisons, visited villages where deportations have occurred, and met local population, republican and local officials, military officials, deportees and refugees. The delegation was flown from Baku to Yerevan on an Armenian plane; no plane has flown this route for three years.
Since our first visit, tension in the region has escalated, with current mass deportations of Armenians, especially from the Shaumyan district. The populations of three Armenian villages of Shaumyan district (Erketch, Buzlukh, Monachuk) have been deported during our stay in the area.
We conclude that grave violations of human rights are still occurring. We identified four major areas of concern: Forced Deportations; Detentions; Harrassment of Civilians; Azerbaijani Special Forces -OMON
FORCED DEPORTATIONS
Forced deportations continue in the Armenian villages in and around Nagorno Karabakh. Villages in the Shaumyan region are this week surrounded by soldiers and Azerbaijani OMON forces and the population is being forcibly deported.
Azerbaijani officials, including President Mutalibov, and Azerbaijani Communist Party Second Secretary Polyanichko continue to justify these deportations as voluntary departures. Evidence shows that the deportations are brutally enforced. They involve loss of life, property and physical injury.
In our travels to the formerly Armenian villages of Kirov (Bertadzor district) and Dolanlar (Gadrut district) we interviewed new residents and confirmed that the villages are now populated by Azeris.
We received reports of recent detentions of Armenians in Nagorno Karabakh.
In Kirovakan, Armenia, we met eleven recently released Armenian militiamen who vividly described their detention by Soviet MVD troops, and their incarceration in Ganja (formerly Kirovabad) Prison in Azerbaijan. They suffered daily beating, displaying bruises and contusions. They described brutal prison conditions including the deprivation of water and the provision of excessively salty food to exacerbate thirst.
In Shusha Prison in Nagorno Karabakh we met eighteen ethnic Armenian prisoners. None of the detainees had had any contact with next-of-kin since their arrest, nor access to counsel. Some of the prisoners did not know why they were being held. At least one of the detainees had bruises and contusions on his back, which suggested the possibility of recent beatings.
Finally, in Stepanakert we received evidence of the detention of Armenians whose whereabouts are currently unknown.
ABUSE AND HARRASMENT OF CIVILIANS
Members of the delegation heard evidence of maltreatment of civilians in both Azeri-Turk and Armenian villages. They also visited one of the villages from which Armenians had been forcibly deported and which had been repopulated by Azeri civilians. Some expressed regret that they were living in homes which only six weeks previously had been inhabited by Armenians. Others expressed hatred of Armenians.
“We found evidence of much abuse by OMON troops during deportations. We (the delegation) were personally harrassed by OMON troops at Stepanakert airport. Five residents of Stepanakert on our plane from Yerevan on July 16 were arrested on arrival. When we protested troops threatened us.”
Another issue raised on both visits was concern over the Closure and Destruction of Churches.
“One member of the delegation spoke in Yerevan on July 16 to Bishop Parkev Martirosian, Bishop of Karabakh (Artsakh) of the Armenian Apostolic Church. In 1805 when Karabakh was part of the Russian Empire there were 1,311 churches and monasteries. In 1923 Nagorno Karabakh was handed over to Azerbaijan. Churches began to be closed immediately. He has the last letter of the Bishop of Karabakh in 1931 to the church’s headquarters in Echmiadzin affirming that there were then 112 churches and 18 monasteries. Six months later all were closed. In 1989, he opened a few churches and monasteries with permission from Moscow (Baku said ‘no’). On 21 November, 1990 Baku took the decision to close all Karabakh churches. The decision was published in the Azerbaijani press. They claimed that Moscow was not entitled to authorise the opening of churches. The Catholicos (head) of the Armenian church had written to various bodies for more than 20 years seeking approval to open churches in Karabakh when there were none.
Last September came the attack on Amaras church, within two days of its official opening. The monastery of St. Grigoris dates from the 4th century. Even before then the church had been attacked. It was rendered unusable and finally closed on 15 May, 1991. Gandsasar Monastery (13th century) is the main Karabakh religious site and seat of the bishop. On 6 July it was raided by Soviet soldiers and OMON troops allegedly looking for guns. Papers were checked and a thorough search, including the raiding of graves, took place.”
On the basis of interviews and observations at 16 different sites in both Armenia and Azerbaijan (because of the complex situation we wished to hear the views of both the Armenians and the Azeris), and of interviews within Yerevan with hospital patients, relatives of prisoners, and Government officials, we believe that serious violations of human rights and of Soviet and international law have occurred and are still occurring. Our concerns include:
1. Killings: e.g. eye-witness accounts of a man shot in the throat 30 times in front of his pregnant wife whom he was trying to defend from a beating; a priest shot while remonstrating with soldiers, who accused him of paramilitary activities. We were also given accounts of multiple killings in several villages.
2. Beatings, Torture and Physical Assault: e.g. a paralysed, bed-ridden elderly man shot in the legs in front of his elderly wife (whom we met), who was forced to leave him behind; many instances of rape and beating. In the presence of Soviet soldiers, a frail elderly woman (whom we met), forced at gun point to stand in a barrel and beaten on the head, was asked to identify ‘bandits’ and threatened with decapitation. Soldiers mutilated ears of girls and young women while ripping off their ear-rings.
3. Forced Deportation: Hundreds of villagers were forced at gun point to leave all their belongings and sign letters of ‘voluntary’ consent to deportation. One whole village was deported at night and the people left over the border in the pouring rain at midnight with no possessions. We are concerned that new forced deportations may be imminent. We urge that they should not occur and that atrocities should not be repeated.
4. Abduction and Imprisonment: Many examples, including 2 doctors sent to provide medical care who were abducted, imprisoned and beaten daily (photographic evidence of maltreatment available).
5. Destruction of Homes, Looting and Theft of Livestock: Tanks, shell and helicopter fire used to destroy homes; gasoline used to burn property. An 80 year-old man was burnt in his home. Livestock, automobiles and other property were confiscated or taken with humiliating offers of derisory payment (such as 3 roubles for a car).
6. Destruction of Churches, Schools and other Public Buildings.
7. Murder, Abduction and Acounts of Imprisonment of Law Inforcement Officers: This has created a state of fear. We met relatives of many militiamen and civilians who had been abducted. We are concerned over their grief and urge that an immediate effort should be made to release those held or to assure that they stand trial according to fair legal procedures. This matter was raised with Marshal D.Yazov this morning who said he would look into it. In a visit to Azerbaijan across the border ftem the northern Armenian village of Voskepar, a group of six delegates walked across the border to meet the Azeris there and to hear their version of events. No villager had walked this road for a month; the Armenians tried to discourage us because it was too dangerous. We had discussions with villagers on both sides, who had been friendly two years ago. The major on the Azeri side said there had been many family tragedies; but that is no excuse for revenge. All were happy that we took the effort to understand them.
On May 6, 1991, eleven Armenian militiamen were killed near Voskepar in Armenia by shots probably from a helicopter. About 14 were taken prisoner. There are other prisoners. The Azeris claim that the Armenian militiamen are bandits – the Armenians call them a legal local defence force. We do not want to interfere in internal affairs, but it is vital to notice the civil rights issues involved. The Armenian village has no one to defend them, we saw no guns and there was no Soviet army present – whereas in the Azeri village we counted over 6 submachine guns and many OMON troops, and there is also a Soviet Army headquarters. The recent damage all came from the Azeri side…
The document was signed by:
Leader of delegation Baroness Caroline Cox (The UK)
Membership of Delegation: Anton Andresen, Norway; Robert Arsenault, USA; Baroness Caroline Cox, UK (Leader of Delegation); Caroline Croft, USA; Felice Gaer, USA; Alexander Goldin, USSR, Secretary of the Organizing Committee, First International Andrei Sakharov Memorial Congress; Scott Horton, USA; Miiko Kataoko, Japan; David Leopold, USA; Dr. John Marks, UK; Shin-ichi Masagaki, Japan; William Miller, USA; Yuri Samodurov, USSR, Executive Director of the Organizing Committee, First International Andrei Sakharov Memorial Congress; Alexej Semyonov, USA; Professor Richard Wilson, USA.
15:59 30/04/2015 » INTERVIEWS
Russian human rights defender: Azerbaijani authorities strived to clear Karabakh from Armenians with Operation Ring
The Russian writer Inessa Burkova is one of those few human rights defenders who contributed to the truth about the tragedy of the Armenian villages of Artsakh that were deported by the Azerbaijani OMON in the framework of the Operation Ring, to break through the information blockade and reach the international community.
Karabakhrecords.info publishes the human rights defender’s interview.
- Inessa Yemelyanovna, remember, please, what happened on those days…
- In late April 1991 I managed to get to Shahumyanovsk. I was already aware that something was going on there. But then we could never imagine that the Soviet army could shoot at Soviet citizens. Everything started on April 30. I can very clearly recall the woman-radio-operator’s voice transmitting from Getashen by radio: “Help! We are under fire. They shoot at women, children, elderlies. They shoot guns from the air.” Then she said that tanks were entering into the village. I was immediately reporting on all that by RFE/RL.
Then refugees from Getashen started to appear in Shahumyanovsk. I talked with many of them. Later, in Yerevan, I also talked with the former captives who had been seized in Getashen. I can especially remember father and son Chilingaryans. The father was a Great Patriotic War participant and had lost his leg in the war. They said that when the Azerbaijanis took them hostage and drove away, they already started to beat them on the way in the bus. It is hard to imagine, but they beat the old disabled man with his own crutch. They tortured and mocked at his sun in front of him putting out cigarettes on his body. They threw him on the floor and several men jumped on him at a time, they hit him and mocked at him. Then they pulled him up holding his hair and took off his scalp – and all this before his father’s eyes...
The Azerbaijani OMON committed dreadful excesses. They broke into the houses on the plea of passport checks and allegedly searched for fighters. Indeed, they were not interested in any passports: they just plundered, drove off whole herds of cattle, behaved as savages, bandits towards the civilians to the point of raping women before their husbands’ eyes. All this naturally induced response hatred, fidayi detachments were formed which defended the village, and they did that very bravely.
The refugees said that the inhabitants of Getashen were not allowed to get out of the village in the beginning, they were just being exterminated. Though, they were later taken out on helicopters. To all the appeals of the Armenian leadership Moscow answered that, as it said, an operation of Armenian fighters’ liquidation was underway. I had a chance to see them, they were not fighters, but they were people having defended their wives, children, old people, native villages, real men who had saved defenseless civilians.
During the whole period in Shahumyanovsk, I was writing appeals and letters to different addresses. It did the job. In at least 3 small villages neighboring to Getashen - Buzlukh, Manashid and Erkech - they left a corridor for the inhabitants who left their homes making their way to Stepanakert on foot, in the mountains, over the abyss, with children on their hands and old people. I can remember that a woman then lost her small child who fell into the abyss.
- Eventually Gorbachev likely got his Nobel Peace Prize for that operation, too… After all, Baku would hardly decide on that without the approval and support from Moscow.
- Sure. The ‘OK’ for that nightmare could have been given by no one else but ‘the architect of perestroika,’ Mikhail Gorbachev. Nothing – neither ‘sumgait,’ nor ‘baku,’ nor other bloody events – would happen without his agreement. The deportation scheme had been tested in Afghanistan and executed with absolute one-to-one precision in Karabakh. The villages were first surrounded, after that they were subjected to intense shooting from all the sides with machine guns, assault rifles, guns, from the air. After that the Azerbaijani OMON officers and inhabitants from neighboring Azerbaijani villages were breaking in. They killed the elderly people right in their beds, raped and killed women, beat, abused and killed even children. They marauded and took away everything that could be stolen. All that went on in an organized way; the National Question was apparently being solved by that.
The information blockade is also important to mention. Glasnost declared by Gorbachev apparently did not refer only to Karabakh – there was just a wall there. It was impossible to publish anything you saw. But still, it was an organized genocide of a whole nation. In that way, they were going to exile all the Armenians from the native Armenian lands. And that was being done with the deadliest methods, exactly as the Turks did during the Genocide in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
- In your opinion, what aim was the Azerbaijani leadership pursuing executing the Operation Ring?
- They were striving to clear that land from the Armenians. In their time, they seized those lands but under the Soviet authorities it was necessary to imitate friendship of nations, though, it must be stated that the people were really friends. And without the arrangement of the authorities, they might be still living side by side. Still, instead of that, one side turned into savages and the other one – into those being mercilessly exiled.
In spring-summer of 1991 the population of about 30 Armenian villages from Artsakh was subjected to terroristic acts and abuse and was deported from their native lands by the Azerbaijani OMON forces in the framework of the Operation Ring.
WITNESS OF OPERATION RING, DOCTOR GEVORG GRIGORYAN: AZERBAIJANIS TRIED TO APPROPRIATE KARABAKH LEAVING IT WITHOUT ARMENIANS
19:30 01/05/2015 >> SOCIETY
Panorama.am's interview with Karabakh war participant, head of surgical
department of Masis hospital, Gevorg Grigoryan
- You are a witness of the Operation Ring, you have seen all that
with your own eyes in Getashen. Share, please, your memories, what
really happened there?
- There were the surnames of the freedom fighters and participants
of the self-defense battles of the village who the "defenders of
the law" wanted to seize. The Turkish slaughterers had taken the
village under their control and taking advantage of the connivance
of the Soviet troops they looted with impunity everything they saw:
property, money, cars, livestock and jewelry. This went on for a few
days with the village gradually getting empty. Everyone tried to group
in the houses in the center, often a few families together under one
roof. The moral and psychological situation was critical: one could
hear children crying and women howling incoherently and hopelessly
everywhere. The result of the nervous shocks was the display of
various pathological phenomena of many people: high blood pressure,
heart distress, neurotic spasm, etc. We the doctors ran out of the
houses and helped them how we could.
The journalist Vardan Hovhannisyan had been beaten and I had bound him
up. He went up to the inhabitants in the queue in the naïve thought
that as an injured inhabitant of the village he could freely get into
the helicopter and leave Getashen. But the pack appeared to get active
for they noticed him and got ready to 'meet him.' Vardan came back
to the village but on May 6 he was arrested. The inhabitants walked
towards the takeoff area carrying on their shoulders what they were
able to. I was going in one of the cars inside the village to take the
more helpless ones to the helicopters. By May 7 the village was almost
empty. Some of the inhabitants had burned down their houses not to let
the Turks defile their home; the hospital got the same fate. Along
with one of the last groups of the inhabitants, we also went to the
takeoff area getting ready to go home. The soldiers' behavior was just
disgusting: they made us squat with the hands on napes; they shot into
the air if they wanted to draw attention, they dragged us and swore.
And those were the Soviet soldiers and officers who just resembled
occupants.
- Why did still-Soviet Azerbaijan need to displace the Armenians from
their historical dwelling places?
- The USSR was really a giant built on artificial basis which tried
to merge nations of different cultures, faiths, traditions, lifestyle
and languages. However, certain aversion between the Turks and the
Armenians retained especially given the fact that the witnesses of
the massacres organized by the Turks were still alive and thus the
historical facts were passed down from generation to generation. The
policy conducted by Azerbaijan in Karabakh and Nakhijevan was not only
unfavorable to the Armenians but it was also marked with Armenophobia:
the offices were assigned only with Baku's approval; the roads taking
to Armenian-populated villages lay through settlements populated with
Turks; the Armenian studies were highly limited at schools; and the
overall atmosphere made the local Armenian population remain under
the burden of concerns of making the daily bread rather than thinking
about spiritual rebirth. Stalin's arbitrary decision naturally added to
that: Karabakh was granted to Azerbaijan. And emptying the territories
from the Armenians was what the supporters of the Great Turan had
always been yearning for. The Sumgait massacres and the right of
permissiveness finally gave freedom to the Turks and they tried to
appropriate Karabakh once and for all, yet without the Armenians.
- The Azerbaijani side often plays on the topic of emptying the
Karabakhi villages from the Armenians to misinform the public by
calling those events as "a fight against the armed detachments." Still
the Azerbaijani OMON officers took you a hostage despite you being
a doctor. How did that happen?
- The long term Chief Physician of Getashen Hospital, Sargis
Hakobkyokhvyan, Valerik Khachatryan and I were arrested by a Russian
soldier and were given to the Turks while getting into the helicopter.
If the head of the state Gorbachev took the liberty of characterizing
the participants of the national movement as separatists and
bandits, didn't that unbind the ties of Baku's hands and ideological
macerations? Any Armenian who was not registered in Karabakh was
considered to be a violator of the passport regime with all its
consequences. All the liberty fighters who were on the territory of
Karabakh were presented as 'fighters' who must be eliminated without
court or trial. Even being from Getashen did not grant the doctor with
the right to move in his native village, let alone us, the doctors who
had arrived from Yerevan. We were arrested and sent to Gyanja prison.
We were released only thanks to the intervention of our republic and
many international organizations which protested against the illegal
imprisonment of the doctors.
- The Azerbaijani propaganda often tried to free itself from the
responsibility of the Operation Ring pointing the Soviet central
authorities as such. Was that really so?
- No matter how hard the Azerbaijani authorities try to wash their
hands off the Operation Ring, it is evident to everyone that the
horrible idea was grist to Azerbaijan's mill and it's spiritual
father was born in that environment. They benefitted from emptying
the territories from the Armenians and trusting in that method they
attempted to have Russia pull their chestnuts out of the fire. And
who was howling like a hound behind the Soviet troops if not the
blood-thirsty Turks who even in the 20th century are not able to leave
looting and raiding which are considered to be their traditional craft?
Of course, it is impossible to clarify the things in short. I do not
grant myself with the right to describe the events I did not really
witness. I remained in Getashen for months but I returned to Yerevan
in March 1991 because the doctor Valeri Khachatryan substituted me
there. I once again arrived in Getashen on May 3, 1991 with a group
of horsemen from Shahumyan as Getashen was in a complete blockade and
even the Soviet military helicopter was prohibited to land in Getashen.
The Operation Ring reached its peak on April 30 when the Soviet troops
attacked Getashen with tanks and helicopters. The Turk OMON officers
hauled after them with the only aim to loot and maraud. Colonel
Mashkov was leading the operation.
I say all this based on the numerous testimonies of the eyewitnesses.
But getting into Getashen I saw the village that was supposed to
be emptied from the Armenians being actually doomed. A part of the
people crowded in the center were from Martunashen as it was already
robbed and burnt down. A tank stood there aiming to spread horror
and it should be noted that it reached its aim. The inhabitants
were heartsick, demoralized, and panic-stricken and were waiting
for news all the time as if hoping for a miracle that the situation
might change and it might be possible to remain in Getashen. But
everything had already been decided by the higher authorities in
Moscow: the village was to be emptied from the Armenians and passed to
Azerbaijan's authority. Military helicopters landed in upper Getashen
and took the population to Stepanakert group after group. The takeoff
area was surrounded by troops. Turkish OMON officers, policemen,
prosecution employees with papers in their hands were running here
and there like hungry jackals.
http://www.panorama....vorg-grigoryan/
The Calvert Journal: Dark picture painted by news headlines covering Nagorno Karabakh is forgotten once one arrives
The Nagorno-Karabakh Republic is a territory nestled in the mountains between Armenia and Azerbaijan. The landscape here is beautiful but the locals live with the spectre of war constantly hanging over them. A ceasefire from 1994 creaks uneasily while Armenian and Azerbaijani troops remain permanently stationed on Karabakh's eastern border, in trenches just 150 metres apart, writes Richard Ensor, the journalist of the British website The Calvert Journal.
The guards of Nagorno Karabakh greet the guests with neither guns nor aggression, but instead with the warmth that Armenians seem to display to westerners at all times. After the border checkpoint, the car starts twisting through the mountains again and the crucifix hanging below the rearview mirror flings itself left and right. The driver answered Richard and his friend’s questions: “The people living here, they use Armenian currency, they have Armenian passports, they speak Armenian, they are Armenian…” he said, “But it's complicated.”
Karabakh had its bloodiest week in August 2014 just before the journalist and his friend began their journey in the Armenian capital of Yerevan. Twenty soldiers died in border skirmishes, Azerbaijan's President threatened war via his Twitter handle, and foreign governments issued travel warnings regarding Nagorno Karabakh.
“…yet the dark picture painted by news headlines was forgotten once we arrived,” the journalist writes noting that, in fact, the mood was almost festive. Blessed with beautiful weather, Karabakh would celebrate its 21st birthday in a few days. The locals were not too concerned about the recent fighting. “The people here are used to it by now. It's a part of life,” a passenger told the journalist.
As the author has it, in this part of the world, relationships are everything. Armenians are famed for their fierce hospitality, and new acquaintances can become close friendships at a frightening pace. The more obliging tourists here often find themselves accepting invitations to family picnics and drinking sessions from locals, trying in vain to prevent their vodka glasses from being lovingly refilled. Two Armenian men sitting in the front of their car, Tigran and Asqanaz, invited the journalist and his friend to a pool party in the mountains near Stepanakert, Karabakh's capital. They were attending a private celebration between Karabakhti men, a feast for their friend who was getting married the following day.
Ensor writes that a few years ago the Karabakh government started paying its citizens to marry each other and have children. The idea came from Karabakh-born businessman Levon Hairapetian who in 2008 sponsored a mass wedding in Stepanakert for 700 couples in an extraordinary ceremony that courted international attention. Now the region's birth rate is up 30% from the previous decade.
Coming back to the topic of the stag party, the author adds that it was a day for men who delivered toasts on the importance of mothers (“You need to have a good mother to become a good man”), children (“You care about this, you care about that, but then one day you have a child and you realise that nothing else matters”), and ethno-patriotism (“Some of us are from Karabakh, some are not, but we need to remember that we are all Armenians.”)
One of the men at the table was missing an eye, while another had a prosthetic leg. “These guys, they all work for the HALO Trust,” Asqanaz later explained to the journalist. Their job is to remove land mines that are still there from the war so the land can once again be used for farming. It's extremely dangerous work: Karabakh has one of the highest land mine accident rates in the world, and the region's political status makes it difficult for NGOs to obtain funds to remove the remaining mines. “Not everyone who should be with us here today is still alive,” added Asqanaz.
On the next day, they hitchhiked to Tigranakert, an ancient city from before the time of Christ whose ruins were only discovered in 2005. After climbing a mountain near the small, abandoned Vankasar Monastery, they surveyed the view as vultures fly overheard. Just beyond the mist on the horizon, villagers in Azerbaijan's most western settlements are going about their lives. In the 1st century, before Armenia became the world's first Christian nation, this old stone building was a guard tower. If the guards saw an enemy approaching in the valleys below, they would ring the bells: other towers nearby would follow suit and the warning would soon reach the heart of Armenia.
“We enter the monastery and see an Armenian-language bible at the altar, along with a few small pictures of Jesus and extinguished candles. Someone has been here, praying,” the author writes.
Your Central Valley: Monument ‘Tatik-Papik’ is symbol of victory in Nagorno Karabakh war
British Journal: Nagorno Karabakh populated with Armenians could become the new wonder of world
Argentinian media: Immersed in cozy landscape around Gandzasar it is hard to believe that contact line is within hour’s drive
KARABAKH IS A MARVELLOUS LAND WITH WONDERFUL PEOPLE, RUSSIAN TYCOON SAYS
Russian billionaire German Sterligov has promised to explain the
reasons of his decision to move to Nagorno Karabakh at a press
conference Monday.
"I will tell the simple, clear truth, which many may dislike, but it's
better than all the wild guesses about my family and me," Sterligov
told Russian Ren-TV.
He said Nagorno Karabakh is a marvelous land with a wonderful people.
"Happy are those Armenians, who have such a Motherlland, such history
and beauties. I have traveled all over the world, but have not seen a
place like this - such a beauty, such fertility, and, most importantly,
such kind relations between people," the businessman said.
"I'm happy to have brought my children here, because I told them how
people should treat each other theoretically. Unfortunately, there is
no such attitude in Russia, practically. Here they see it in practice.
This is an extremely useful lesson for them," Sterligov said.
He invited everyone to visit Nagorno Karabakh to understand what he's
talking about. "This is a unique place. This is a cradle of ancient
human relations, which the Armenian nation preserves,"
http://ren.tv/novost...-ne-ponravitsya
http://www.armradio....an-tycoon-says/
SETRAK GARABEDIAN: THE CANADIAN ARMENIAN, WHO DREAMS OF LIVING IN ARTSAKH
Setrak Garabedian, a Canadian Armenian, who runs an on-line Armenian
radio station in Montreal, visited Armenia and Artsakh earlier this
year. He shared his impressions in a talk with Public Radio of Armenia.
Visiting the Motherland had been a childhood ream, which Setrak
Garabedian realized in 2012. But even before that he introduced the
foreign audience to the Armenian music and history through his Trik
Track radio airing from Montreal.
"We broadcast Armenian music 24 hours a day. I also host a talk show
and invite different guests every week. The topics we talk about
are different, and are not necessarily related to Armenian issues,"
Setrak said.
"Most of the listeners are Armenian, but there are also a number of
foreigners fond of Armenian music. For example, one of them is from
Chile. He knows the Armenian history better than me. It's the System
Of A Down that has inspired him to listen to Armenian music."
Setrak Garabedian also referred to the Armenian Genocide and its
recognition. He believes every Armenian should visit the Motherland
at least once on April 24 to be present at the commemoration ceremony.
Setrak, whose parents come from Western Armenia, dreams about the
return of lands. "Turkey should recognize the Genocide and return
our lands."
He spoke with particular inspiration and love about the visit to
Artsakh. He admired the land, the nature, the sincere smiles and
something intangible, which he found hard to explain.
"Yes, Armenia is really a beautiful country, but there is something
missing. To me Artsakh is more impressive."
Setrak Garabedian seriously thinks about moving to Nagorno Karabakh
and is now trying to understand how he can do that. He urges all
Diaspora Armenians to visit Artsakh.
http://www.armradio....ing-in-artsakh/
Jason Katz's Impeded Development
BY GAREN YEGPARIAN
Jason Katz's `Impediments to regional development in the South
Caucasus' , which Appeared in `Congress blog' on `The Hill' website,
leaves the (informed) reader with the impression that the only impeded
development exits in the author's mind. It leaves the broader reading
public with a badly imbalanced, inaccurate, and utterly skewed view of
the state of affairs in the South Caucasus. Here are most, though not
all of the flaws in Katz' arguments. One hopes the clients of TSG,
LLC, (where Katz is the principal) a consultancy that advises foreign
governments, NGOs and corporations in the realms of strategic
communications, politics and policy, will reconsider their
relationships with the provider of such flawed logic.
`Prosperous,' `stable,' `reliably Western-oriented,' and `most
influential and affluent'
These are NOT terms I associate with the area region in question, do
you? Yet Katz freely applies them. It would be interesting to have him
explain the poverty in the area; corruption and jailing of journalists
and oppression of minorities; Azerbaijan kicking out European and
American civil society entities; and what the influence of the
countries in the area is and in whose hands the wealth is
concentrated.
`Comprised of Georgia, Azerbaijan, Armenia and peripherally Turkey'
Interesting, isn't it, how Katz reveals his pro-Turkish bias? If
Turkey is `peripherally' part of the south Caucasus, then so are Iran
and Russia. Why are they omitted?
`Recently, the foreign ministers of Turkey, Azerbaijan, and Georgia
met¦' and `Conspicuously absent from this meeting and, indeed, from
all discussions on regional development, energy and general regional
prosperity was Armenia. Armenia¦ has oddly chosen to excuse itself
from the growing prosperity of the region.'
So Armenia is so stupid as to miss out on opportunities for economic
improvement. It's absence has nothing to do with its being excluded by
its two neighboring genocidal states, Katz' darlings, Turkey and
`As the other nations of the South Caucasus have embarked upon and
continue to navigate independent foreign and economic policies leading
to prosperity for their people, Armenia has increasingly become a
vassal state of the Russian Federation in direct contradiction to the
best interests of their people.' `As the South Caucasus region and
surrounding regions seek closer links with the European Union, Armenia
has opted to join Russian President Vladimir Putin's personal attempt
to usurp the EU, the Eurasian Customs Union suddenly interrupting its
half-hearted talks with EU.'
Katz ignores the imperatives imposed on Armenia by the threats posed
to it by its neighbors. He also ignores the ongoing efforts to develop
connections with Europe under the constraints imposed by his Turkic
`¦ Azerbaijan and Armenia fought a war over the Azerbaijani lands of
Nagorno Karabakh and its surrounding districts. The Azerbaijanis lost
the war as a result of the significant help rendered by the Red Army
and Iran. Following ethnic cleansing of Azerbaijanis in Nagorno
Karabakh and surrounding regions, Azerbaijan possesses nearly a
million refugees.' `In their place is an unrecognized area¦ seeking to
be the second failed Armenian state. During the fighting, Turkey
closed its border with Armenia in solidarity with Azerbaijan.'
Hallucinogens must be thoroughly in control of Katz' mind. Aside from
the cheap-shot about `second failed state', he also believes that
Russians and Iranians helped the Armenian side in the war. He must
have forgotten about the OMON units that helped Azeris attack
Armenians and Iran's studied neutrality. He also perpetuates the old
chestnut about `Armenia and Azerbaijan' fighting a war, which is far
from accurate, and at best incomplete in describing Artzakh's
liberation war. No explanation is offered as to why Turkey acted `in
solidarity' with Azerbaijan.
`Speaking at a joint press conference¦ Cavusoglu of Turkey eluded to
the real players,'
Since cheap-shots are evidently acceptable to Katz, I'll take one,
too¦ this guy can't even write properly! `Eluded,' above, should
presumably have been `alluded.'
`International agreements should be the basis for a solution,'
What a great idea! How about Katz prevails upon his buddies in Baku to
stop creating border incidents and respect the ceasefire?
1. Return the occupied lands of Azerbaijan with an ironclad agreement
that Azerbaijanis will return to their homes and lands and that ethnic
Armenians will be protected and given the same rights as any other
citizen of Azerbaijan.
2. Based on this gesture, work with Turkey to reopen their mutual
border. If events of WWI are an impediment to these negotiations,
agree to a tribunal of scholars to explore exactly what happened in
WWI and what to do about it all these years later.
3. Work to repair ties and relationships with Georgia, Azerbaijan and Turkey.
4. Force the Armenian Diaspora to use the considerable money spent on
lobbying related to the issues of events in WWI and Nagorno Karabakh
to invest in Armenia's economic survival.
5. Following these steps, engage in talks on regional development and
be a player in existing and future projects.
This prescription reads like and Ankara-Baku joint wet dream. The
lands in question were under Azerbaijan's control during soviet times
and led to ethnic cleansing of Armenians. How and why Turkey enters
the Artzakh picture is a mystery, but Katz is quick to dispense a
solution to the `impediment' to Armenia-Turkey negotiations,
suggesting a `tribunal of scholars' to `explore exactly what happened'
in the `events of WWI''this is identical to the Turkish government's
line. Then we're treated to the presumed need to `repair'
relationships with Georgia (where did this come from?) and the
two-Turk-states, with which there never really existed a
`relationship' in any positive sense, so what's to repair? And, since
Katz was the former head of Public Affairs and Public Relations for
the American Jewish Committee, I have to wonder if he advised the
Jewish Diaspora to `use the considerable money spent' on the Holocaust
to salvage Israel's faltering economy.
`Azerbaijan, Georgia and Turkey are open to solving this frozen conflict'
What do Georgia and Turkey have to do with Artzakh? That problem has
to be addressed by Azerbaijan and the NKR, no one else, not even
Armenia!
This whole piece reeks of the propaganda mills of Ankara. Trying to
introduce irrelevant participants to the Artzakh issue, promoting the
Turkish line on the Genocide, and generally trying to portray Armenia
and Armenians as outliers in the international arena, are all part of
a transparent effort to vilify us and sanctify the perpetrators of
endless massacres.
You might consider writing Jason Katz to give him a piece of your
mind, contacting `The Hill' to suggest they refuse to run such drivel,
and asking your Jewish friends if they are scraping the bottom of the
barrel of late since, given that someone as manifestly inept as Katz
used to work for one of the foremost Jewish groups in the U.S.
http://asbarez.com/1...ed-development/
Nagorno-Karabakh's a Happy Breakaway Republic, But Its War Goes On
by Anna Nemtsova
In the decades since the post-Soviet war that spawned this little
`independent' enclave, the Armenian diaspora in the West has helped
turn it into a surprising democracy.
STEPANAKERT, Nagorno-Karabakh'At sunset flocks of swallows race
through the pink sky over the central square of Stepanakert, a city
once bombed and largely destroyed in a the post-Soviet war between
Armenia and Azerbaijan. In the 21 years since the heavy fighting
ended, there is still occasional shooting around the frontier with
Azerbaijan, but this capital of the self-proclaimed state ' this early
`breakaway republic' ' of Nagorno-Karabakh is peaceful.
Superficially, it resembles other quasi-nations dotting the map of the
former Soviet Union: Abkhazia and South Ossetia, Transnistria and more
recently the embattled self-proclaimed states of Donetsk and Luhansk
in Ukraine. But where those have depended mainly on Russian backing,
and critics would argue they are Russian creations, Nagorno-Karabakh
has found other sponsors.
Some 150,000 people live here, but the enclave has support from a much
greater population of ethnic Armenians around the world, and on a
summer evening the veranda of the Florence Garden restaurant on the
corner of the main square is full of Karabakh's visiting benefactors.
The sound of clinking glasses mingles with leisurely chatting in
Armenian, French, English and Russian. The tranquil scene seems almost
surreal, considering Karabakh's war-torn history and its militarized
In some crucial respects, indeed, it is more at ease and more fair to
its people than Armenia itself. Less than 200 miles away in the
Armenian capital of Yerevan, police detained dozens of civil activists
last week. Armenian protesters unhappy about state corruption and
mismanagement had blocked a street outside the presidential palace
for over two weeks.
Nagorno-Karabakh, tucked in the green mountains of the Caucasus, has
preferred to remain a distant observer of any geopolitical turmoil,
developing under the influence of the Armenian diaspora in the West.
The Artsakh Republic, as locals call their mountain homeland, is aware
that the rest of the world did not acknowledge the republic's
existence. But people also realized that any political instability
could awaken the not-so-frozen war with Azerbaijan. Dozens of soldiers
continued to die on both sides of the 21-year-old front line that is
now the de facto border between Nagorno-Karabakh and Azerbaijan.
Another all-out war could involve neighboring Iran and Russia, and
wholesale destruction once again, and that's not wanted here.
To prevent traumatizing revolutions, Stepanakert made elections
transparent and honest. Besides, the state is so tiny that it seems
everyone knows everyone, and local officials are just too exposed to
cheat the voters.
Arayik Harutyunyan, the prime minister, told The Daily Beast that
Nagorno-Karabakh is different from the other internationally
unrecognized states in the former Soviet Union. If Abkhazia,
Transnistria, South Ossetia and the recently broken away and still
fighting Donetsk and Luhansk republics embraced opaque authoritarian
governments, Nagorno-Karabakh demonstrated that with transparent and
democratic presidential elections it could beat corruption and
organized crime successfully.
The tranquil scene seems almost surreal, considering Karabakh's
war-torn history and its militarized present.
One could leave a purse on a bench in the park and find it the next
morning, locals told us. `Maybe we managed to cure the typical
post-Soviet diseases because we are so isolated,' Harutyunyan said in
a recent interview, then thought for a moment and conceded with a
smile: `We are intolerant toward gays.'
Democracy is not the only goal for Nagorno-Karabakh. Very soon,
Harutyunyan promised, Karabakh would turn into a black caviar heaven,
to demonstrate to Azerbaijan that they not only despise dictatorship,
they can also grow rich: `In five years, our Golden Fish will produce
and export tons of black caviar,' Harutyunyan said. Last year,
Nagorno-Karabakh founded the Golden Fish sturgeon farm thanks to a
Swiss-Armenian investor, Vardan Semakesh, who was also the largest
investor in the republic's hydroelectric power plant.
Nagorno-Karabakh's shaky status does not allow it to have its own
airport. The windy road trip from Armenia takes six or seven hours.
But at the border checkpoint last week, two reporters in a car did not
have to show their documents.
In the last decade, Nagorno-Karabakh has signed friendly resolutions
and agreements with various American and European cities and regions.
Last year, Basque representatives visited Stepanakert; thanks to the
strong Armenian lobby in the U.S., the state of California established
cooperation with the local administration. Armenia, whose president,
Serj Sargsyan, was born here, provided more than 30 percent of the
modest annual budget of about $200 million.
If in Armenia people are angry with deep-rooted corruption, here in
the break-away state, businessmen feel safe. `I escaped Yerevan and
opened my business in Stepanakert, where there is no corruption and
nobody can make me pay a bribe,' says Dro Karapetyan, the owner of the
Florence Garden restaurant and rock club.
And yet any conversation on the street or in private homes slowly
drifts back to memories of war, and to stories of today's losses on
the border. It can seem at times that Nagorno-Karabakh is living a
Groundhog Day of violence. More than 30,000 people died in the
Armenia-Azerbaijan ethnic conflict in the late 1980s and early 1990s;
hundreds of thousands were forced out of their homes on both sides of
the front line.
When asked about similarities with the ongoing conflict in Ukraine,
Lucine Sarkisyan, an assistant at a grocery store, shook head
dismissively. 'In Luhansk and Donetsk they have water and
electricity'we had nothing when we lived in that basement for two
years,' she said, pointing at her house across the street.
Every local schoolboy knows that right after graduation he will put on
his uniform and go to defend his state from enemies. That is what
school programs taught the post-war generations; schools also train
kids to assemble Kalashnikovs, throw grenades and climb walls for
combat training. Many boys liked to watch weekly television shows
about the army. One of the children's drawings at Stepanakert's School
#3 exhibit themed `Peace' depicted soldiers marching in front of Grad
missile launch systems.
Has Nagorno-Karabakh ever heard of a pacifist movement? `I have
trouble imagining anything like that,' Stella Balayan, a school
teacher in Martuni told The Daily Beast. She is still in mourning for
her son, Col. Garik Balayan, who was killed in May 2014 during his
night shift on the border. Looking at a printout of an official
commemoration, Stella learned more about her son's military service
than she had ever heard from him.
One thing people in Nagorno-Karabakh do not understand is why their
friend Russia is selling weapons to Azerbaijan, for about $4 billion
in the last few years, including sophisticated S-300 anti-aircraft
missile systems. Last August, shooting in the conflict intensified,
the death toll increased by dozens.
Playing the role of peacemaker, Russian President Vladimir Putin
brought the presidents of Azerbaijan and Armenia to the same table in
his residence in Sochi to discuss the situation with Nagorno-Karabakh.
Azerbaijan's President Ilham Aliyev insisted that Armenia should
withdraw its forces from Nagorno-Karabakh, while Armenian President
Serj Sarkisyan accused Azerbaijan of not following UN resolutions.
When asked about how Russia helps Nagorno-Karabakh, the
self-proclaimed state's foreign minister, Karén Mirzoyan, said that
Nagorno-Karabakh did not see much help from Russia. `We receive more
support from the United States,' Mizroyan said.
http://www.thedailyb...ar-goes-on.html
US' OSCE CO-CHAIRMAN IS SOUNDING MORE LIKE ALIYEV
13 hours ago 15/07/15
President Ilham Aliyev of Azerbaijan (L) and the US Co-Chairman of
the OSCE Minsk Group James Warlick ®
BY ARA KHACHATOURIAN
James Warlick, the US Co-Chairman of the OSCE Minsk Group charged with
mediating a peaceful resolution to the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict,
is sounding more like Azerbaijan's president Ilham Aliyev than
a so-called impartial diplomat tasked with resolving the longest
conflict in post-Soviet history.
In an interview with Russian daily Vedomosti published this week,
Warlick said that the "occupied" territories of Azerbaijan must be
returned to Azeri control as part of a comprehensive settlement of
the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.
Warlick said that conflicting sides should not focus on just one
element or principle of the settlement. Territories must be returned,
but there are other factors involved, which is why the co-chairs
advocate a comprehensive settlement.
The most egregious part of Warlick's statement, which was a reiteration
of US policy outlined last year at the Carnegie Foundation after
Warlick held a very public meeting with Armenian-American community
leaders in Glendale, is the adoption of the language that has been
used for almost 25 years by one side of the conflict--Azerbaijan.
The "comprehensive settlement" to which Warlick alludes is incumbent
upon the return of the said territories, without any specific
guarantees that may favor Karabakh. Simply put, Karabakh is expected
to make the first move before any other provisions of a settlement
are carried out.
Warlick told Vedomosti that security guarantees are an element of
the settlement, which would include the deployment of international
peacekeeping forces--either UN or OSCE. Who would provide the
peacekeeping troops should be negotiated and decided by the parties
"to ensure the security of Nagorno-Karabakh."
Later in the interview, Warlick acknowledged that the mechanisms
for those security guarantees have not yet been outline, but his
insistence that the territories in question must be "returned to
Azerbaijan" does not, in any way or form, inspire confidence.
In fact, what is being said, in this case by the US Co-Chairman, is
nothing short of bullying, which favors and conforms to the rhetoric
emanating from Baku. How is this arm-twisting supposed to advance
the talks when one side's bellicose rhetoric is being parroted by
the mediator tasked with finding a peaceful resolution to the conflict?
The Armenian National Committee of America astutely observed that
"the OSCE Co-Chairs have developed this bad habit of very openly
lecturing the Armenian side about exactly what they 'must' surrender,
while remaining effectively silent about any specific concessions they
expect of Azerbaijan. This isn't mediation, it's public intimidation."
Coincidentally--or not--the other entity that urges the return of
lands before anything else is Turkey, which has preconditioned its
approval of the dangerous Armenia-Turkey protocols on the return of
"occupied territories." It would not be that far-fetched to infer a
correlation in this scenario.
The trajectory of the OSCE Minsk Group negotiations has shown that in
an eventual peace deal, Armenia and Karabakh stand to lose the most,
while Azerbaijan stands to gain despite its guilt in starting and
escalating the Karabakh conflict, a fact categorically being ignored
by mediators and the international community in general.
Warlick and the other co-chairmen are embracing and buttressing Baku's
victim mentality, thus providing it cover and carte blanche to advance
its military rhetoric and continue its attacks on Karabakh and Armenian
forces. The reaction to these cease fire violations by Azerbaijan has
usually involved a statement urging both sides to refrain from military
activities. This creates a false parity that does not bode well for
the Minsk Group's stated intention of providing security guarantees.
Warlick expresses concern about the escalation of tensions on the
border and claims that the sides must work together to reach a
negotiated peace, with Karabakh expected to make the first move by
giving up what Warlick and Aliyev both call "occupied territories."
There is no direct condemnation of the belligerent attacks on Karabakh
positions by Azerbaijani forces, such as the downing of a helicopter
in broad daylight and Baku's subsequent prevention of efforts to
reclaim the remains of the three soldiers killed in the attack.
The examples of Baku's violations have been reported and are too
numerous to recount here, but the OSCE Co-Chairmen's reactions have
always been the same--urging calm to both sides. Yet that same parity
does not apply when the OSCE Co-Chairmen continue to insist that
Karabakh make concessions in the interest of eventual peace.
What is lacking in this process is a frank reflection on the genesis
of the conflict, from which an equitable solution can be proposed
based on truth and justice.
When in 1988 Armenians in Armenia and Karabakh took to the streets by
the hundreds of thousands, using the new found freedoms envisioned
by Gorbachev's Glasnost and Perestroika, Azerbaijan's response was
to initiate pogroms against Armenians in Sumgait, Baku, Kirovabad,
Shahumian and Getashen, coupled with relentless attacks on the civilian
population of Karabakh, thus sparking the war.
Azerbaijan lost the war, and here is the OSCE Minks Group doing
its utmost to minimize Baku's embarrassment and the blemish that
it has left on the Aliyev clan. Interestingly, however, it has been
successive US Co-Chairmen who have carried that torch, with the most
notorious of them being Matthew Bryza, whose entrenched connections
with official Baku and Ankara are also too numerous to enumerate.
To build confidence and to ensure the success of any security
guarantees in the region, the OSCE Minsk Group co-chairmen must act
immediately and unequivocally to return Karabakh to the negotiating
table as a full-fledged party to the conflict. After all, the
signatories of the 1994 cease fire agreement were Stepanakert, Baku,
and Yerevan, with Moscow as the mediating entity.
Furthermore, the parity that is falsely being doled out should actually
be exercised whereby the Armenian side is not the only side that is
forced to make concessions. For the OSCE, which values democracy above
all else, the fact that the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic has existed for
almost a quarter of century and is being governed based on democratic
principles (the same cannot be said about Azerbaijan) must become an
important consideration in the eventual determination of its status,
which can be nothing short of an independent republic, for which the
people of Karabakh have shed blood and have expressed their will in
the polling booth.
The famous Soviet dissident Andrei Sakharov said at the time of the
Karabakh conflict that the issue of Karabakh is a matter of life and
death for Armenians, but a matter of prestige for Azerbaijan.
Mr. Warlick, conflict resolutions must be guided by matters of life and
death, and not on an insistence to give more leeway to the aggressor
so that it can advance its military agenda.
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Getting error code 1604 while restoring iPad 2 with iTunes
I had set up a pass code for unlocking my iPad 2. As I forgot that pass code, I tried to restore the device for getting into the home screen of the iPad. But, I got an error message “restore could not be completed error 1604” in middle of restore process. What should I do to get rid of this error?
Error 1611 on restoring iPad 2
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Getting an Error Code “3014”, during iPad 4 iOS update
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Getting error code 0xE8000084 while connecting iPad 3 with iTunes
iPad got struck in the middle of restoring via iTunes
Error 14 occurred while restoring iPad 2
Getting an error code “13019”, when trying to sync iPad 5 to the iTunes
Error 1440 when trying to sync up iPad 4 with iTunes
Re: Getting error code 1604 while restoring iPad 2 with iTunes
The first step required is to switch your device into Recovery Mode with the help of iTunes. Disconnect the USB cable from your iPad and leave the other end of the cable connected to USB port as such. Then, hold down the Sleep/Wake button on iPad and slide the red slider to turn off the device. Connect the USB cable again to iPad while pressing and holding the Home button. By the time you establish the connection, the device should be turned on. But, you need to hold the ‘Home’ button until the ‘Connect to iTunes’ label appears on the screen. Once you can view the ‘recovery mode’ alert, restore the device again and wait for the error. Then, click the ‘OK’ option on the prompt message. Quit and re-open iTunes after confirming that the device is already connected. Wait until the device is detected in Recovery Mode. After that, restore the device again and check whether it is possible to find the error code.
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:: Don't worry first of all you need to use the latest iTunes software which is now released.
:: After installing the new iTunes apps you again need to restore your device from the backup.
:: So first connect your device to your computer.
:: Select your i Pad touch when it appears in iTunes under "Devices" section.
:: Now select the "Summary" tab in the iTunes.
:: Then select the "Restore" option.
:: When prompted to back up your settings before restoring, select the "Back Up" option.
:: This will solve the problem.
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Well to resolve this problem all you need to do the following
1.GO to recovery mode by itunes
2.Now disconnect USB cable from your device
3.Now press sleep/wake button and thus device got turned off
4.Now press home button and simultaneosly connect USB cable to the device
5.Now "connect to iTunes" appears on screen
6.Now go to recovery mode and see the error
7.Press ok in the message comes
8.now again check if the error code comes or not
hope i helped
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NuVasive Completes Follow-on Public Offering
SAN DIEGO, Feb 07, 2006 /PRNewswire-FirstCall via COMTEX News Network/ -- NuVasive, Inc. (Nasdaq: NUVA), a medical device company focused on developing products for minimally disruptive surgical treatments for the spine, announced today that it completed its follow-on public offering. The Company sold 7,829,120 shares and the selling stockholders sold 795,880 shares of the Company's common stock at the price of $19.25 per share, less underwriting discounts and commissions. The number of shares sold by the Company includes 1,125,000 shares sold pursuant to the underwriters' exercise of an option to purchase additional shares. The Company's total net proceeds from the offering, after deducting underwriter discounts and commissions and estimated offering expenses, are approximately $142.3 million.
Banc of America Securities LLC and Lehman Brothers acted as joint book- running managers for the offering, and Thomas Weisel Partners LLC, William Blair & Company and Stanford Group Company acted as co-managers for the offering.
A registration statement relating to these securities was filed and declared effective by the Securities and Exchange Commission on February 1, 2006. The offering of these securities was made only by means of a prospectus. This press release shall not constitute an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy, nor shall there be any sale of these securities in any jurisdiction in which such offer, solicitation or sale would be unlawful prior to the registration or qualification under the securities laws of any such jurisdiction. Copies of the offering prospectus may be obtained from either Banc of America Securities LLC, c/o Prospectus Department, 100 West 33rd Street, New York, NY 10001 (phone (646) 733-4166), or from Lehman Brothers, c/o ADP Financial Services, Integrated Distribution Services, 1155 Long Island Avenue, Edgewood, NY 11717 (phone (631) 254-7106, fax (631) 254-7268).
MAS combines three categories of current product offerings-NeuroVision(R), a proprietary software-driven nerve avoidance system; MaXcess(R), a unique split-blade design retraction system; and specialized implants, like the SpheRx(R) pedicle screw system and CoRoent(R) implants- that collectively minimize soft tissue disruption during spine surgery while allowing maximum visualization and surgical reproducibility. NuVasive's classic fusion portfolio is comprised predominantly of proprietary saline-packaged bone allografts and internal fixation products. NuVasive also has a robust R&D pipeline emphasizing both MAS and motion preservation such as Total Disc Replacement (TDR) and dynamic stabilization systems.
Disclosure Regarding Forward-Looking Statements
NuVasive cautions you that statements included in this press release that are not a description of historical facts are forward-looking statements that involve risks, uncertainties, assumptions and other factors which, if they do not materialize or prove correct, could cause NuVasive's results to differ materially from historical results or those expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. The potential risks and uncertainties that could cause actual growth and results to differ materially include, but are not limited to: the risk that NuVasive may be unable to successfully integrate new products or technologies into its business; the risk that additional clinical experience may demonstrate that NuVasive's products do not provide the intended safe and reproducible results; risks related to NuVasive's ability to effectively manage the growth of its business; and other risks and uncertainties more fully described in NuVasive's press releases and periodic filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. NuVasive's public filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission are available at www.sec.gov. NuVasive assumes no obligation to update any forward-looking statement to reflect events or circumstances arising after the date on which it was made.
858-909-1800 scarrington@theruthgroup.com
investorrelations@nuvasive.com nlaudico@theruthgroup.com
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NuVasive to Present at Thomas Weisel Partners Healthcare Conference 2006
SAN DIEGO, Aug. 29 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- NuVasive, Inc. (Nasdaq: NUVA), a medical device company focused on developing products for minimally disruptive surgical treatments for the spine, announced today that Alexis V. Lukianov, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, and Kevin O'Boyle, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, are scheduled to present at the Thomas Weisel Partners Healthcare Conference 2006 at The Four Seasons Hotel in Boston, MA on Wednesday, September 6, 2006 at 9:45 a.m. ET.
A live Web cast of the presentation will be available online from the investor relations page of the Company's corporate Web site at www.nuvasive.com. After the live Web cast, the presentation will remain available on NuVasive's Web site, www.nuvasive.com, for 30 days.
The MAS platform offers advantages for both patients and surgeons such as reduced surgery and hospitalization time and faster recovery. MAS combines three categories of current product offerings-NeuroVision(R), a proprietary software-driven nerve avoidance system; MaXcess(R), a unique split-blade design retraction system; and specialized implants, like SpheRx(R) and CoRoent(R)-that collectively minimize soft tissue disruption during spine surgery while allowing maximum visualization and surgical reproducibility. NuVasive's classic fusion portfolio is comprised predominantly of proprietary saline packaged bone allografts and internal fixation products. NuVasive also has a robust R&D pipeline emphasizing both MAS and motion preservation products.
NuVasive cautions you that statements included in this press release that are not a description of historical facts are forward-looking statements that involve risks, uncertainties, assumptions and other factors which, if they do not materialize or prove correct, could cause NuVasive's results to differ materially from historical results or those expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. The potential risks and uncertainties that could cause actual growth and results to differ materially include, but are not limited to: the uncertain process of seeking regulatory approval or clearance for NuVasive's products or devices, including risks that such process could be significantly delayed; the possibility that the FDA may require significant changes to NuVasive's products or clinical studies; the risk that products may not perform as intended and may therefore not achieve commercial success; the risk that competitors may develop superior products or may have a greater market position enabling more successful commercialization; the risk that additional clinical data may call into question the benefits of NuVasive's products to patients, hospitals and surgeons; and other risks and uncertainties more fully described in NuVasive's press releases and periodic filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. NuVasive's public filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission are available at www.sec.gov. NuVasive assumes no obligation to update any forward-looking statement to reflect events or circumstances arising after the date on which it was made.
investorrelations@nuvasive.com scarrington@theruthgroup.com
nlaudico@theruthgroup.com
Jason Rando
The Ruth Group
jrando@theruthgroup.com
Kevin C. O'Boyle, EVP & Chief Financial Officer, NuVasive, Inc.,
investorrelations@nuvasive.com;
Investors,
Stephanie Carrington,
1-646-536-7017, scarrington@theruthgroup.com,
Nick Laudico,
1-646-536-7017, nlaudico@theruthgroup.com,
Jason Rando,
The Ruth Group, 1-646-536-7025, jrando@theruthgroup.com,
all of The Ruth Group, for NuVasive, Inc.
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Home / News & Updates / Dirt News / Volusia Speedway Park is Coming to iRacing
Volusia Speedway Park is Coming to iRacing
Kasey Kahne talks dirt racing on iRacing
DIRT RACING: First Look
iRacing.com today announced plans to add Volusia Speedway Park to its catalog of nearly 100 laser-scanned digital race tracks. Together with Eldora and Williams Grove speedways, the Florida half-mile will be included in the popular online motorsports service’s introduction of its new dirt racing feature later this year.
Known as “The World’s Fastest Half-Mile,” Volusia Speedway Park is located in Barberville, FL. Since opening in 1968 the track has hosted a variety of national racing series. The track made the switch from pavement to dirt in the 1990s and hasn’t looked back since. Race fans around the world know it as host to the season kickoff DIRTcar Nationals each February. The DIRTcar Nationals features the World of Outlaws Craftsman® Sprint Car Series, World of Outlaws Craftsman Late Model Series, Super DIRTcar Series Big-Block Modifieds, Arctic Cat All Star Circuit of Champions and DIRTcar Racing UMP Modified and Late Model divisions during the 12-night blockbuster event before the track shifts gears to a weekly program for Florida racers.
“We’re excited to join the other great race tracks on iRacing.com,” says Volusia Speedway President Tom Deery. “Volusia Speedway Park is famous for some of the fastest dirt track racing to be found, and I’m sure iRacers everywhere will enjoy the challenge of racing here.”
“Volusia Speedway Park will be a great addition to our lineup,” says Steve Myers, Executive Vice President and Executive Producer for iRacing.com. “The fact that great racers like Donny Schatz, Brad Sweet, Shane Clanton, Brandon Sheppard and others keep coming back to race every year tells you all you need to know about Volusia Speedway Park’s place in American racing.”
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Inaugural Droppings -- VII
Purple Rage
I held a valued and hard-to-get ticket to the purple section of the Capitol Inaugural viewing area. Standing room, but still a historic and privileged vantage point. Here is what I saw:
Thousands of purple ticket holders, including me, never got in. Never got close. The security gate was closed long after it was to have opened, it could not handle the number of people who had tickets and who got there in time, even though organizers knew exactly how many people were given tickets and how long it should take them to clear security.
But there were no cops, no volunteers, no signage, no crowd control. Organizers, whom we will get to in a moment, apparently thought everyone would come by getting off the same subway stop and march like ants down one street toward the gate. As a result of poor signage, thousands were in the line who had no tickets but thought it was the place to go to gain general admission to the Mall.
From ground level, even at 6’-2” level, the only markings were huge purple signs that said “Purple Gate.” But they gave no indication of where the line was supposed to start, finish or snake into the equivalent of an airport security station.
No cops, no volunteers, no signage, no crowd control. People had come from all over the country and contrary to the snot nosed replies the police gave, nobody got there late. Friends with tickets in another section on the other side of the mall, maybe three-quarters of a mile away, got to their security checkpoint at 10:20 and were in place in a few minutes.
The frustration was not incompetence but not knowing where to go. From ground level, even at 6’-2” level, the only markings were huge purple signs that said “Purple Gate.” But they gave no indication of where the line was supposed to start, finish or snake into the equivalent of an airport security station. We were stuck at the building of the National Association of Letter Carriers – and some of us were ready to go postal.
People were chanting “let us in” and if this were not a decent crowd of Obama supporters, there would have been a riot. Sure, some, including the infirm and infant, would have been hurt, but thousands of people storming the 12-foot fencing between the street and the security checkpoint could have overtaken either the Secret Service -- or the news.
Now, maybe I was lucky standing for three and a half hours going nowhere in 20-degree weather, because other purple ticket holders were – if you can believe this – told to stand in a tunnel, where like good little Germans stood claustrophobic and freezing for hours.
This was an outrage worthy of local governments. This was an outrage of Bushian proportions. This was an abomination for the Obama nation. I have been to inaugurals and I live nearby. But there were thousands who came from all over the country for this event and got there on time, who did what they were supposed to do but were foiled by the U.S. Secret Service and the real villain of this piece, California Sen. Dianne Feinstein. Why her? This former San Francisco City supervisor was in charge of the arrangements. The Obama campaign was the most efficient organization I have ever seen. Scary organized! But this was not their doing.
Dianne Feinstein, the Secret Service and God knows who else fucked this up so badly “Purplegate” will make Watergate a fond memory in the annals of government stupidity.
On the way back, I kept thinking that Dan White shot the wrong supervisor.
For new details, including the kind of comment from the Senate sergeant-at-arms that should get him fired by tomorrow, see the Washington Post article.
Pigeonholes Curmudgeonry, Government Amok, Personal Musings/Politics
Abby Kate 2:25 PM
I'm 18 years old. But, if I was in that crowd holding a ticket I probably would have cried like a six year old. This is one of the greatest thing to happen in US history and to not it in. OMG! I would not have handled it well. I guess for once. I was glad to be home sick. At least I got to see the entire thing on TV.
I'm sorry that you were unable to get to a decent vantage point, Ira. I know how much you were looking forward to it.
But a wonderful day. I was glad I had CNN on cable because, obviously, they made more of it than the British stations and I felt part of the gathering excitement a lot more. And Obama seems to have hit the ground running, doing all the things I hoped he would.
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Published on October 24th, 2014 | by Michaela Buckley
Rebelstar: Tactical Command
From the creator of XCom is this quaint little strategy game on the Gameboy Advance, it’s simpler, easier and damn, if it ain’t a little bit cuter too!
The first thing you’ll notice when you see this game is how different its overall presentation is in comparison to UFO: Enemy Unknown game on the PC as well as its modern rendition XCOM both of which use a typically western stylised visual aesthetic, but Rebelstar looks like it’s come straight out of Japan. With art done by Gez Fry, the anime-style characters are expressive and a lot more youthful than previous games.
The protagonist of Rebelstar is Jorel, a young man who has joined the rebel army in the midst of a struggle between the enslaved humans and the captor Arelians. Jorel and a handful of others have been able to reject the slave implants that subjected to all humans and are now on a mission to retake their planet and for Jorel, to avenge his parents’ deaths at the hands of the Zorn henchmen.
The game is a strategy game much like the original, but with the Gameboy Advance style visuals, it ends up looking and playing a lot closer to a Fire Emblem game than anything else. The game is purely action-oriented, there is no research or base-building features.The map is sorted into squares and is isometric in view, the characters start each mission with an objective such as to eliminate all hostiles or to reach a certain area. Anywhere outside of the characters’ line of sight is still visible but enemies there are not.
Gameplay involves taking turns with the whole set of characters each side, with limiting actions per character based on which class they are and what actions are taken. After this its pretty much manoeuvring around the map and exchanging fire.
At the start of a turn you can choose to use Overwatch instead of attacking, this feature allows that character to fire upon an enemy when they move into their line of sight, this is particularly handy for creating a variety of possibilities within a scenario, making it a fun, strategic dynamic core of the game.
The characters’ classes are in-built, such as heavy gunner and medic, but the weapons you give them are pretty flexible, although something like a medic can’t use a heavy gun. Guns have different accuracy depending on the conditions of firing and the positions of targets and all that jazz. After quite a way into the game the player can start using Psionics, a psychic power that can help in different ways, such as revealing enemy locations.
Levels are gained based on using the skills of the character, healing, damaging enemies and using the Psionic powers, once the character levels up, you can choose where to put the skill point gained, allocating it to things like melée or heavy machine guns.
Although the mechanics of the game are pretty solid, the engine is not. For a Gameboy game to have load screens it is pretty rare, but exceptionally still it actually takes a while for things to load, also visual hiccups occur frequently, with character portraits often looking glitchy and strange tears happening during movement. Despite the bugs, the game still soldiers on and didn’t shut down, delete saves or do anything else game-breaking.
Although rather difficult, the many features of the game can easily sway the tide of battle. Getting to grips with how to effectively utilise these methods and your arsenal is the real challenge behind this game, that’s not to say that it’s not easy to pick up, just punishing to master.
At times there were real frustrations when playing, it might feel like some of the missions hinged too much on luck and others played out too long with objectives that require more patience than skill. However, the engaging gameplay, colourful art and decent story are thoroughly enjoyable.
Despite its relative obscurity, Rebelstar manages to capture exactly all the aspects of strategy that I love in a Japanese game with some of the better pacing and interesting mechanics that come from the west.
A genuine but flawed game, Rebelstar makes an ideal gateway game for people who are interested in XCOM or strategy games in general.
Tags: Sci-Fi, Strategy RPG
Michaela Buckley Creator of this site.
Crashing Heaven by Al Robertson →
Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain →
A Princess of Mars – Edgar Rice Burroughs →
Top 10 Films of 2014 →
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Does this have the same problem as X-COM where it feels like you’re playing glorified hopscotch across the battlefield?
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First, Society. Why Japan Will Recover.
Before I took my first trip to Japan, one of my Sony hosts decided that it was important that I understand some of the nuances of Japanese thinking that he believed would more greatly assist me both in that trip and in the work I was about to start doing for the company.
It wasn't about corporate facts. It was the way that the Japanese are taught - from earliest childhood - to understand society and their place in it. As he explained, once you understood that, everything else - every decision made - flowed from there.
It was:
First, Society.
Second, Corporation.
Third, Family.
Fourth, Individual.
The logic, he explained to me, was that maintaining, protecting and building the society was always foremost - and that everything from the corporations' to individuals' life decisions were not only secondary, but specifically designed to always support the level above and, as a result, always support the societal goals.
That's why, even though we're not hearing as much about the aftermath of the Japanese earthquake and tsunami - and will hear even less over time - we should not be surprised at the speed at which the country recovers from this devastating experience.
Japan and its people know what their real responsibility is: To support each other and a greater good that is Japanese society.
I, like others, continue to send my thoughts and prayers to everyone - both in Japan and out - who are affected by this tragedy.
But, my money remains on Japan. I know that country and I know that they will rise like a phoenix from these ashes. Just as they have in the past.
Tagged: Japan, earthquake, society, tsunami
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Do you believe in "pre-incarnation"?
This is one of the most inventive manuscripts I have ever edited. Moreover, it is beautifully written, with strong verbs and wonderfully creative descriptions. The characters are strong -- even the minor characters, such as The Old One. The inner dialogue of the two main characters is revealing, and shows real emotional growth of both of them throughout this book.
I think what I liked most about this manuscript is that it calls on the reader to truly think about the possibility -- no, likelihood -- that reincarnation (and perhaps "pre-incarnation" actually exist. This is a fascinating story, beautifully told. It has"best-seller" written all over it.
- Bill Worth--Editor, and Author of the novels "House of the Sun: AMetaphysical Novel of Maui," and "The Hidden Life of Jesus Christ: A Memoir;"and the soon-to-be published non-fiction book exploring his 28 -year journeywith multiple sclerosis: "Outwitting Multiple Sclerosis: How Forgiveness HelpedMe Heal My Brain By Changing My Mind."
Do you believe in second chances?
Returning Souls begins with 60-something Evie D'Arico laying on the kitchen floor unable to move a muscle, though she sees and feels everything around her. She rises above the world through a dimension of color, horizon, and stars coming to rest in a primordial forest of fragrant trees and neon green moss. A place from memory. The life of a person she used to be.
Jumping to her feet, she waits for the familiar neck pain and stiff knees. Instead, a lithe body moves with animal grace and stealth. A garment fashioned from supple hide is smooth against her skin. Massive trees with shaggy bark of russet brown shelter her. What is this place?
An overriding thought shatters the reverie: Move quietly! Do not even breathe. Listen before you move. Make sure you are alone.
She is a long way from home.
Who is your real soulmate?
The Ultimate Love Sign Book...What are you looking for in a lover or a potential mate? If it's money set your sights on a Pisces/Taurus. Is exercise and health food your passion? Then a Virgo/Cancer will share it with you. Have you fallen for a Taurus/Gemini? Brace yourself...you may be in for heartbreak and broken promises!
You don't need to know a thing about astrology to use this book. Where do you find the best matches? It's all here in this book and its highly accurate system. All you need to know about the person is their date o f birth. Descriptions of every man and woman's Sun and Moon sign combination between the years 1950 and 2000 is found here in this book. It's like your personal "little black book".
This popular book is now back in the authors hands for re-release after a successful run and publication in 7 languages by two leading publishers. Author Carolyn Reynolds still gets requests for this book 20 years after its first release! Gain more in-depth insights and information than with Sun Sign books. Become your own matchmaker with THE BOOK OF LOVERS today! Astrologer and Author Reynolds' uses the Jungian system for marriage compatibility based on Sun/Moon connections discovered by the late Dr. Carl Jung.
Take your sales to the next level
If you've just started a career in sales, this book will give you a foundation of core fundamentals. You will find your basics here, written in a tone that's super direct, conversational, and cuts straight to the heart of it.
If you are building a team, and need to put in place a sales process that's repeatable and scaleable, buy this and use this as your textbook.
You don't need complicated sales techniques, or hokey gimmicks. It's about mastering the basics. Get these basics down and you will be ahead of the curve, and able to modify in any situation. ~Paige Drews
In Addicted to the Process, top sales leader Scott Leese injects you with a powerful shot of adrenaline and teaches you how to:
- Drill habits that build your confidence as a salesperson
- Use the addiction model to close deals like an all-star
- Stick to a proven process to blow up your numbers
- Hit milestones that drive you toward your real goals
Are you sick of life just happening to you, instead of deciding what you want and then setting a course to get it? You can take your life back. Once you know how to work the process, transactional sales can give you success for the rest of your life.
Success boils down to one question: "How bad do you want to make it happen?"
A toast to your journey into a mystical future
Honoring those Who Choose to Make This Real-Life Journey Out of the Chaos of Our World and into an Empowering, Mystical Future
A Toast to Your Journey is a small, powerful, mystical, nonfiction book. It outlines the steps the author, Shari Sylvester, took on her own quest from here to there—from this chaotic, troubled world we live in today into a new reality, a new beginning for those who choose to travel there. It is written as a general guide for teens and young adults, but it's open to all who are open to it.
Have you had enough lack of integrity, discrimination and corruption in this world? Enough anger and pain in your life, and in the lives of those around you? What if, out of chaos comes change? Are you ready for that change?
Shari Sylvester writes that you, teens and young adults, have never accepted the dysfunction and inefficiency in the world today, and that you're adaptable, open to change and love adventure. Will you choose to not only take this challenging journey, but in turn, lead others? There are enough of you, and you're young, strong, smart, brave and well prepared by movies, books and games. She feels you are here at the right time, and more than ready for this fabulous, sci-fi-like future. Could it be just what you've been waiting, or even searching, for?
Each of you would bring great value to this journey and its destination—no exceptions. Whatever you've done in this life is not the real you. You can shift into this new, high-vibration reality with no effect on your current life with family, friends, religion or anything else, but you will be an enhanced you in a subtly different life space as you release your emotional life-wound pain and increase your personal power through your own inner guidance. You are always the one in control of your situation.
Are you ready to gather your powers and go forward to a wonderous new future? Now is the time and this book shows you the way.
We have seen logo designs and feel like we have seen them before, or they do not seem too unique. It is where you have probably come across a generic logo design that is not doing much for your brand.
Your logo design is often the first interaction that potential customers have with your brand that is why it is important for your logo design be effective. A logo design is much more than just an image or a text which states that it has to be original and creative. For a brand that wants to attract customers and stand out from the competition must have a compelling and attractive logo design that can deliver the right message to the audience.
Logo designers know and value the importance of professional logo design to any business either it is large, small or just a startup. It represents the company, it tells their story and symbolizes their brand identity to the world. No matter how good your products or services are, if your logo design is poor, you are going to have a rigid time attracting customers towards your brand. Yes, it is necessary for the products to deliver value but a brand must first attract the customers through a unique logo design.
What Is Generic Logo Design?
Even the most experienced logo designers in the industry encounter challenges when it comes to creating highly professional and affordable logo design for their clients. Generic logo design is overused and clichéd logo designs that are often seen in most of the designs like,
§ Abstract logo designs
§ Inside Box logo designs
§ Swoosh People logo designs
§ Word marks logo designs
Industries like accounting, automotive, wellness, love, nature and photography have these generic logo designs. When logo designers use the same concepts in a logo design over and over again, then they are arguably no longer visual and are not able to make their trademark.
Avoiding Generic Logo Design:
Maintaining quality standards are must in your design process. Clichéd and overused design concepts are gone past. Learn to:
§ Make your design unique to your own creative ideas.
§ Not use stock images, clip-art or purchased vectors in logo design, illustration design or icon design contest.
§ Acquire proper license when needed while making any purchase for the design.
§ Do not submit placeholder designs or use personal watermarks.
§ Do not Copy, Plagiarize or Steal Someone Else’s Logo Design.
§ Do not have a Vague or Overly-Complex Design.
§ Keep things simple, clear and meaningful.
§ Choose balanced and legible typefaces that can both be read in extreme sizes.
§ Do not Design for building your portfolio Instead of the Client’s Needs.
§ Remember that it is not all about you.
Creative and appealing are two words that should fit a professional logo design, neither of which apply to the overused, clichéd, swoosh around a globe mark. Professional logo design is far away from common design elements and often employ safe and familiar symbols that give them an original twist. That “original twist” is a challenge for a designer where the designer takes the literal concept and making it original by adding creativity, style and the brand’s message.
About Loius Martin:
As a Marketing Manager, Loius approaches Digital Marketing not only as a profession but a creative thinking process. He knows well to connect all the points of a brand and make it appear well. With a passion for writing about content marketing, design and development he has been writing blogs since time. Get more of his articles @loiusmartin1
It was life changing
"Ms. Ortiz has the capacity in her writing to make you feel she is speaking directly to you! Her telling, through a fictional character, about her experience with breast cancer at the age of 37 is moving, funny and, in the end, triumphant. The grace with which her character, Luna, navigates her breast cancer diagnosis is a blueprint for how to handle life's challenges and hurdles. I couldn't put the book down and, when I finished, I felt as if I had lost touch with a cherished friend. I hope she writes a sequel so we can continue to follow and learn from her approach to this journey of life that we are all on." ~Amazon Reader
Smart and fiercely independent, thirty-seven-year-old Luna Rivera had it all. She was fresh out of grad school—officially a PhD. Her team, the Oakland A's were in first place, and it was only two months into the season. Plus, she was in love.
And then, the shit hit the fan.
One second she was laying on the sofa, watching an old black and white movie—The Thin Man, about a screwball husband and wife team known for solving murders—and just as Myrna Loy's character fell flat on her face while being pulled into a restaurant by her dog, Luna's life came to a screeching halt.
In a matter of seconds, fear hurled her into a world of confusion, uncertainty, and despair. Luna had inadvertently slipped her hand under her T-shirt and touched her breast. That's when life as she knew it vanished.
Is it a gift or a curse?
Pain rips through her body and bores deep into her soul. It vibrates to the tips of her toes and to the fingertips. Even to the ends of her long dark hair. She needs it to stop because it could kill her. How can she make it stop? Has she ever felt this kind of pain? She can't remember. All she knows is that it is killing her now. Why? Can't she be strong?
It is embarrassing, and she wants to know why people cause pain in other people. It's not right. Do they honestly think that they can get rid of their pain by projecting it onto someone else? It's not fair. Make it stop. She thinks she should be able to stop it, but realizes that if it is not her responsibility, though, who would do it? She should be strong enough. She knows she is different. Not because she feels pain- everybody feels pain. But wait! Narcissists don't feel pain. And they want to feel normal which they can't– and aren't.
Imagine a world –even if it were just your own personal world– without pain. She knows she is different because she feels other people's pain. It burns like it is burning in her now. She cries. She must do something to help others stop hurting and now she feels the pain spreading through her own body, heart, and soul. She doesn't know how to make it stop but she knows she must find out. People cannot survive pain like this! We are only human. Think of all the things people do to relieve pain. The pain is a wide-open white space; searing, moving, flexing, and reshaping itself. She needs to enter it, but it hurts, really hurts, to try to move into it. Because she is different.
Carly is an empath. She feels other people's pain. She is acutely aware of being different than most people but has no idea what to do about it. If it isn't enough to be in constant turmoil because the world is so full of maliciousness, hate, and evil,
Carly seems to have no trouble finding plenty of pain of her own. She is a joyous soul yet deeply intuitive and introspective.
What will she do with her gift, if you can call it that?
How will she survive the trials and challenges
that she walks right into all the time?
Can a person so sensitive tolerate so much ill will?
All Carly has ever done is love. She loves to learn and grow. She loves all people, big and small, dark or light, sad or happy. She is as close to being free of judgement and prejudice as a person can be. But Carly is a sociopath magnet. Maybe these emotional vampires sense her strong sensitivity and empathy. Perhaps Carly is a target because she is genuinely good. The problem is: Carly has no idea how to defend herself or fight back.
Carly is catapulted head first into a nightmare. This nightmare, however, is really happening. Or is it?
She dared to be the change
This deeply personal account of life from rural Louisiana to the banking board room is both inspirational and triumphant. In Dare to be the Change, Annella shares personal and professional experiences vivid detail to reveal how we can overcome challenging situations and make a significant difference in the lives of others. —Janet Melancon, Executive Coach & HR Consultant, Janet Melancon Associates
In Dare to be the Change, Annella Metoyer courageously shares the details of her life's challenges, her family's dedication to positive change as well as offers hope for readers through her struggles and accomplishments. Starting with the integration of her small town public school, she encounters a life-changing experience that sets her on a path of "being the change."
Not only did she face the challenges when women were not the voice in the room, but she also did so as a person of color. From coworkers to disgruntled customers' discrimination, she lived the evolution of attitudes. With each adversity, she became more determined to take the challenge and turn it into an advantage.
Annella Metoyer was blessed to experience many firsts. She was the first person of color to become a cheerleader. She was the first person of color employed by a local bank and ultimately, she achieved the position of the City President for a major, national corporate bank. Her journey later took an unexpected turn when she transitioned from employee to entrepreneur.
Dare to be the Change will resonate with anyone that has ever faced adversities. As you read the story, you will rejoice in the strength and tenacity that Annella finds within to help others and to make this world a better place.
A chakra book that won't put you to sleep
True knowledge is the one that comes through direct experience. Teresa, has done an amazing job to reflect how life experiences are the best teachers for us to learn, grow and succeed. Teresa has an incredible understanding of the chakras and energy systems and she knows how to pass it along to others to reflect upon and initiate their own journey in the world of energy. I am proud of having her as my student. ~Mirta Romberg, Registered Yoga Teacher and Therapist
Using chakras and art is like having a template to achieve balance, forgiveness, and peace. Life is challenging; our world often seems chaotic and tumultuous. Learning to assess and treat your chakra imbalances helps you to cope with these challenges and to find inner peace.
Through the use of true stories, both her own and those of others, Teresa McCallum provides examples of balanced and imbalanced chakras. She offers simple activities, methods, and art suggestions to help others achieve personal growth and inner balance. Teresa's background as a nurse working in mental health, as well as being a visual artist, lead her to develop a unique way of looking at spirituality, self-healing, and use of the ancient chakra system. Regardless of whether the chakra system is new to you or you are an experienced yogini (or yogi), Finding Balance and Forgiveness Through Chakras and Art will provide artistic insight and guidance.
In creating this book, I surveyed hundreds of people to discover their secrets of success and resilience. I was overwhelmed with the honesty and meaningful responses I received, but until I had fully explored and become engaged in the chakra system, I didn't have a cohesive method to assist people in overcoming their challenges. There are seven chakras, and my seven categories mirrored them perfectly. After exploring and experiencing the energetic transformative power of working with chakras, I realized what the focus of my book would be because art had provided therapy for both me and my patients. So, I was able to unleash my inspired voice which allowed me to complete the book I had conceived many years ago. My personal experiences and the experiences of others have allowed me to create this introduction to healing your chakras by using art therapeutically to find your balance and learn how to let go and forgive.
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Attacking Adams and recommending Charles Cotesworth Pinckney as the Federalist candidate in 1800
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SB-613 State Department of Public Health: dementia guidelines: workgroup.(2015-2016)
10/07/15 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 577, Statutes of 2015.
09/10/15 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3:30 p.m.
09/04/15 Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 2502.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.
09/03/15 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 80. Noes 0. Page 2849.) Ordered to the Senate.
08/28/15 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (August 27).
08/19/15 August 19 set for first hearing. Placed on APPR. suspense file.
07/15/15 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (July 14). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
07/09/15 Re-referred to Com. on AGING & L.T.C. pursuant to Assembly Rule 96.
07/02/15 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 18. Noes 0.) (June 30).
06/18/15 Referred to Coms. on HEALTH and AGING & L.T.C.
06/02/15 In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk.
06/01/15 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 1208.) Ordered to the Assembly.
05/28/15 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 0. Page 1157.) (May 28).
05/23/15 Set for hearing May 28.
05/11/15 May 11 hearing: Placed on APPR. suspense file.
04/30/15 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 9. Noes 0. Page 861.) (April 29). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
04/20/15 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH.
04/17/15 Set for hearing April 29.
04/16/15 Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH.
04/06/15 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on RLS.
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Joe Biden Again Says He Hasn’t Ruled Out 2020 Run, Will Decide By Year’s End
Former Vice President Joe Biden said in an interview broadcast Sunday that he has not ruled out a presidential run in 2020 and that he expects to make a decision by the end of the year.
Biden has previously left the door open to a 2020 presidential run but gave a newly expansive account of his thinking to the Rev. Al Sharpton on MSNBC’s “PoliticsNation.”
“I’m really hoping that some other folks step up,” Biden said. “I think we have some really good people. … I got to walk away knowing that it is – there’s somebody who can do it and can win because we’ve got to win. We’ve got to win in 2020.”
Biden said he is still struggling to recover from the 2015 death of his son Beau at 46 from brain cancer. In a December ABC interview, Biden said it could be a year before he might be ready to make a decision.
“It takes time to come back,” he said. “Look, no man has a right to go say help me become president unless I can look at you and say, ‘You’ve got my whole heart, my whole soul, all of my passion, all my attention.’ And I know I got to make that decision by, you know, by the end of this year.”
Sharpton pressed Biden: “You’re not telling me no.”
“No, no, I’m not,” he replied. “I’ve been honest about this. If the Lord Almighty, Al, came down and said, ‘The nomination is yours now; you have to accept it now,’ I would not.”
“But,” Sharpton interjected, “you say, ‘Lord, check with me before the year’s up.’ ”
“Exactly right,” Biden said.
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How did this crackpot escape from the dog-track? April 15, 2018 at 10:40 pm
Biden is nuts. He would go against the Lord? What the heck is he blabbering about? He is an old fart who’s time has come and gone. As a sitting VP, he had the right to run for President as most VP’s do, when Obama’s 2nd term was up. The fact that he has such a low self esteem and caved in to the Clinton machine and stepped aside because he is afraid of women, disqualifies him from all future political offices. His time as a useful idiot for the DNC has ended a lo g time ago.
The American people are fed up with selfish politicians who do nothing but line their pockets and those of their colleagues, destroy the country with corruptions and cripple the economy. I therefore doubt the American people will go back to another self-centered politician like Biden once they got a taste of a real President, namely Donald Trump who’s finally making America great again.
We don’t need four years of obama or Hillarey in this character Biden.
Baited breath April 16, 2018 at 12:13 pm
Hey, Bite Me. We just can’t wait.
אוי וויי April 16, 2018 at 10:50 pm
Let him run with Sharpton as his running mate.
What a team.
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Home News Breaking News THE ROSH YESHIVA’S BROCHA: Packed Event at Bell Works Launches Crucial Campaign...
THE ROSH YESHIVA’S BROCHA: Packed Event at Bell Works Launches Crucial Campaign to Rescue Kamenitz Yeshiva Amidst $1.2 Million Shortfall
WATCH THE VIDEO OF RAV SCHEINER ADDRESSING THE EVENT HERE:
Barely anyone stirred.
Silence reigned as Rav Yitzchok Scheiner, the zekan roshei yeshivos, took the podium to address a gala fundraising dinner held last night at Bell Works in Holmdel, NJ.
Rav Scheiner, who had not stood up to address a public audience in several years, overcame tremendous weakness and fragility to offer brief words of brocha to those who had come out to assist him in shouldering the staggering budget of his famed yeshiva back in Yerushalayim.
“I just want to express from depths of my heart a thank you to all of you who have come,” Rav Scheiner said in Yiddish. “Thank you for exerting yourself for me. May the Aibishter bentch you with all the brachos ad beli dai.”
Rav Scheiner stepped away, as the thousands in attendance watched in awe.
And then, quite suddenly, the crowd broke out into spirited singing of “ki orech yomim” in honor of the rosh yeshiva.
That Rav Scheiner made a trip to the United States at this point, despite his ill health, is itself extraordinary.
And the fact that he carries such a mammoth financial burden on his shoulders at this stage of his life is mind-boggling.
But to Rav Scheiner, he is simply continuing what he has been doing for many decades, leading one of the most storied mekomos haTorah in the world, perpetuating a cherished mesorah, focused on raising generations of bnei Torah as he has been doing for as long as anyone can remember.
The name “Kamenitz” to which Rav Scheiner is so connected is synonymous with the glory of the pre-war Lithuanian yeshiva world. Just uttering the name immediately brings to mind the image of the great rosh yeshiva, Rav Boruch Ber Leibowiz zt”l, who reared generations of Torah leaders and instilled in them love of Torah and a desire to grow in Torah and disseminate it. It was these lofty students of Rav Boruch Ber who replanted the yeshiva world on the shores of America and Eretz Yisroel after the war and ensured that the legacy of Rav Boruch Ber would be perpetuated for future generations.
The Kamenitz Yeshiva itself was reestablished by Rav Boruch Ber’s children in Yerushalayim and, over 50 years ago, found a home in the heart of the Ihr Hakodesh on Rechov Yechezkel. From the campus on Rechov Yechezkel, under the leadership of Rav Scheiner, the sweet sounds of Torah study reverberate day and night, as hundreds of talmidim sit immersed in the limud haTorah that personifies Kamenitz. Over the decades, thousands of talmidim – both native Eretz Yisroeldikers and young men from throughout the Diaspora who traveled to Eretz Yisroel to bask in the unique atmosphere of Kamenitz – have learnt on this campus and gone on to be marbitz Torah worldwide.
Today, the ruchniyus in the yeshiva continues to be on the highest level. Rav Scheiner himself is American-born, a talmid of Rav Shlomo Heiman and Rav Shraga Feivel Mendlowitz at Yeshiva Torah Vodaas of the 1940s. Rav Scheiner’s peers from his time in Torah Vodaas included the nucleus of great men who went on to build the yeshiva world in America. Although Rav Scheiner himself eventually moved to Eretz Yisroel and became rosh yeshiva of Kamenitz upon the passing of his father-in-law, Rav Moshe Berenstein zt”l, son-in-law of Rav Boruch Ber, he always maintained his close connection to the American yeshiva world and is often in contact with the leading American roshei yeshiva, who seek his sage advice and guidance. Thus, Rav Scheiner, who is also a member of the Moetzes Gedolei Hatorah of Eretz Yisroel, is a leading Torah figure for the yeshiva worlds both in Eretz Yisroel and in America.
Several years ago, after the physical conditions of the Kamenitz buildings on Rechov Yechezkel deteriorated greatly, Rav Scheiner undertook a mammoth project to complete a beautiful new building at Rechov Yechezkel 22, in the heart of Yerushalayim. It is a breathtaking structure in the center of Yerushalayim that houses a spacious bais medrash, as well as a state-of-the-art dormitory with hundreds of beds, many shiur rooms, and every other amenity a talmid needs to help him grow in Torah and ruchniyus.
The construction was made possible through the support of generous donors, who, hearing about Rav Scheiner’s dream to erect a fitting new home for the yeshiva, notified the rosh yeshiva that they were eager to partner in this project.
During the construction project, however, with the focus on the yeshiva building, the budget of the day-to-day operations of the yeshiva suffered. In fact, the yeshiva is now $1.2 million in the red and the burden on the shoulders of the rosh yeshiva is enormous.
But the talmidim of Yeshivas Kamenitz – thousands of alumni in Eretz Yisroel and across the Diaspora – are intent on not letting Rav Scheiner down. They launched a campaign to rescue their beloved yeshiva, with a massive asifa recently held in Eretz Yisroel, followed by the historic event held last night at Bell Works, in conjunction with a Charidy campaign, so that all avenues are being maximized in an effort to address the yeshiva’s staggering shortfall.
Last night, the dinner was addressed by Rav Aryeh Malkiel Kotler, rosh yeshiva of Bais Medrash Govoah, who highlighted how much Torah the rosh yeshiva has imparted to his talmidim, and how, despite his weakness, the rosh yeshiva has been making the rounds, inspiring bnei Torah across America with his very presence.
Rav Yitzchok Sorotzkin, rosh yeshiva of Mesivta of Lakewood and Telshe, remarked that those present in the room who had learned in Kamenitz were not just alumni of the yeshiva, but bonim – true children – of the rosh yeshiva, who worries about them and their welfare like a caring and loving father. He described Rav Scheiner as a connection to his legendary zaide, Rav Boruch Ber, and noted that Rav Scheiner cannot leave these shores until all the needed funds have been raised.
Rav Naftali Gefen, a renowned marbitz Torah and a maggid shiur at Kamenitz, stressed the power of the rabbim at this juncture.
In the name of Rav Scheiner, he related that “with yichud lev – unity of purpose – we can accomplish unbelievable things and can achieve a goal,” as daunting and colossal as it might be.
Prior to coming to America for this event, Rav Gefen spoke in Eretz Yisroel, where he said, “This is an effort to rescue Kamenitz from total collapse in a very literal sense. This difficult and severe situation is unlike any the yeshiva has ever experience before.”
Following Rav Gefen’s remarks last night, a video was shown, depicting the beauty and scope of Kamenitz Yeshiva, which, today, has thousands of proud alumni, who have been asked to step up and assist the yeshiva hakedosha at this crucial time.
Indeed, at the event, as Rav Scheiner concluded his remarks, talmidim, supporters and admirers flooded the dais, handing in pledge cards with generous contributions, with many people going above and beyond their means, understanding the importance of coming to the yeshiva’s aid at this time.
It is the sincere hope of the rosh yeshiva and his talmidim that more and more individuals will earn a share in coming to the aid of the Kamenitz Yeshiva at this crucial stage, recognizing Kamenitz as the bearer of the shalsheles haTorah, the institution that carries the torch of the exalted world of the prewar Lithuanian yeshivos and is transmitting this legacy to the next generation.
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This article first appeared in the Ami Magazine
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Throwback Thursday: Heaven by V.C. Andrews
Throwback Thursday is weekly meme hosted by Jenny from Take Me Away.
Author: V.C. Andrews
Publisher: Pocket
Publish Date: November 1st 1990
Heaven Leigh Casteel was the prettiest, smartest girl in the backwoods, despite her ragged clothes and dirty face...despite a father meaner than ten vipers...despite her weary stepmother, who worked her like a mule. For her brother Tom and the little ones, Heaven clung to her pride and her hopes. Someday they'd get away and show the world that they were decent, fine and talented — worthy of love and respect.
Then Heaven's stepmother ran off, and her wicked, greedy father had a scheme — a vicious scheme that threatened to destroy the precious dream of Heaven and the children forever!
I read Heaven and the whole Casteel series when I was still in High School. V.C. Andrew books were my stay up all night to read books back then. I loved the turns, twists, and straight up craziness of the world she created.
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"Waiting On" Wednesday: The Name of the Star by Maureen Johnson
"Waiting On" Wednesday is a weekly event, hosted by Jill from Breaking the Spine.
The Name of the Star
Author: Maureen Johnson
Expected Publication: September 29th 2011
The day Louisiana teenager Rory Deveaux arrives in London marks a memorable occasion. For Rory, it's the start of a new life at a London boarding school. But for many, this will be remembered as the day a series of brutal murders broke out across the city, gruesome crimes mimicking the horrific Jack the Ripper events of more than a century ago.
Soon "Rippermania" takes hold of modern-day London, and the police are left with few leads and no witnesses. Except one. Rory spotted the man police believe to be the prime suspect. But she is the only one who saw him. Even her roommate, who was walking with her at the time, didn't notice the mysterious man. So why can only Rory see him? And more urgently, why has Rory become his next target? In this edge-of-your-seat thriller, full of suspense, humor, and romance, Rory will learn the truth about the secret ghost police of London and discover her own shocking abilities.
Does that not seem awesome! I'm loving the cover too. I want to read this with something fierce.
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Released Today: Shark & Boys and Forbidden
Sharks & Boys
Book Review: Sometimes It Happens by Lauren Barnholdt
Sometimes It Happens
Author: Lauren Barnholdt
Publisher: Simon Pulse
Expected Publication: July 12th 2011
On the last day of her junior year, Hannah's boyfriend Sebastian dumped her. Facing a summer of loneliness, Hannah turns to her best friend Ava for comfort. Ava does what BFFs do: she stays by Hannah's side...until it's time for Ava to head up to Maine for the summer. Also left behind is Ava's boyfriend, Noah, who's such a great guy he gets Hannah a job at the diner he waits tables at. Slowly, Hannah comes out of her funk thanks to Noah's good conversation and their fun times at the diner. But things get complicated when their friendship turns into attraction--and one night, into a passionate kiss.
The novel opens on the first day of senior year; the day Hannah is going to see Ava, Sebastian, and Noah all in one place. Over the course of the day secrets and betrayals are revealed, and alliances are broken and reformed. In the end, everyone is paired up once again, but not the way you might think...
I know me, and I would swear that I hate books about betrayal and infidelity. Cheating is so not cool! So why o'why do I love Sometimes It Happens?
I really liked Hannah despite the fact that she did a messed up thing. Hannah is just a regular girl not a b*tch so why the hell did she do what she did? This is one of the reasons why I loved this book, I think she showed what being real really is. Sometimes good people do shitty things. Sometimes you can't help who you fall for. Sometimes the consequences aren't enough for you to do the right thing especially when it comes to the heart. Ava, Hannah's best friend is what I would call a High School friend. A friend you will have in high school that won't carry on into adult life. I say that because she comes off very fake and "me,me". Noah, what do I say about him..maybe that I really liked him. He cheated, but I still like him that says a lot about Ms. Barnholdt's writing. He is a very likable character. I was loving Hannah and Noah.
Back to Lauren Barnholdt's writing, I love how she writes. It's so authentic, and hits at the real crap that happens when you are a teen. All the angst..I miss teenage angst. I loved the pacing, characters, and story.
Can you tell that I really liked Sometimes It Happens? If you have a ARC read it, if you don't, pre-order.
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Mini Reviews and a DNF
The Girl Who Would Speak for the Dead by Paul Elwork
The Girl Who Would Speak for the Dead is about lies, and deceiving. Characters were good, but the pacing was slow. It took me awhile to finish because I was constantly putting it down. There were far more slow parts than engrossing.
Going Too Far by Jennifer Echols
Going Too Far was almost a DNF for me but I kept on. What really didn't work for me were the characters. I can't stand goody two shoes characters, or I-make-stupid-decision-because-I'm-a-rebel characters. I really could not stand the main protagonist. I spent most of my time rolling my eyes. I'm in the minority here because it has a really high rating on Goodreads.
The Lonely Hearts Club by Elizabeth Eulberg
What happens when your fed up with the opposite sex, in The Lonely Hearts Club you swear off boys and start a club. I enjoyed this book, predictable but cute. I found myself smiling while reading it, but I did think find it hard to believe a bit. I can't see a club like this getting as much attention as it did in high school. Easy fluffy read.
Summer in the City by Elizabeth Chandler
Summer in the City is another predictable cute story. I liked the characters especially Jamie. She was athletic, and tired of being just one of the guys. I liked the relationships. Nothing spectacular, but a good book.
and a DNF
Crusade by Nancy Holder and Debbie Viguie
Story wise I have no idea if Crusade is a great or even good book. I couldn't get that far. So what was it about Crusade that made it a DNF? The characters. I immediately disliked them all. I found Antonio cheesy and Jenn annoying. As for the others they also grated on my nerves. I might be missing something spectacular but I just don't care.
"Waiting On" Wednesday: As I Wake
As I Wake By Elizabeth Scott
Expected Publication Date: September 15th 2011
Ava is welcomed home from the hospital by a doting mother, lively friends, and a crush finally beginning to show interest. There's only one problem: Ava can't remember any of them - and can't shake the eerie feeling that she's not who they say she is.
Ava struggles to break through her amnesiac haze as she goes through the motions of high-school life, but the memories that surface take place in a very different world, where Ava and familiar-faced friends are under constant scrutiny and no one can be trusted. Ava doesn't know what to make of these visions, or of the boy who is at the center of them all, until he reappears in her life and offers answers . . . but only in exchange for her trust.
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Book Review: The Things We Cherished by Pam Jenoff
The Things We Cherished
Publisher: DoubleDay
An ambitious novel that spans decades and continents, The Things We Cherished tells the story of Charlotte Gold and Jack Harrington, two fiercely independent attorneys who find themselves slowly falling for one another while working to defend the brother of a Holocaust hero against allegations of World War II–era war crimes.
The defendant, wealthy financier Roger Dykmans, mysteriously refuses to help in his own defense, revealing only that proof of his innocence lies within an intricate timepiece last seen in Nazi Germany. As the narrative moves from Philadelphia to Germany, Poland, and Italy, we are given glimpses of the lives that the anniversary clock has touched over the past century, and learn about the love affair that turned a brother into a traitor.
Rich in historical detail, Jenoff’s astonishing new work is a testament to true love under the worst of circumstances.
The Things We Cherished is a book that should have touched me more than it did, but somehow it fell flat. Anything about the Holocaust is poignant, it was the main characters in The Things We Cherished that didn't work so well for me.
There are really two stories going on in The Things We Cherished. One is the main story of Roger Dykmans, the man currently in jail accused of a war crime. He is accused of ratting out his brother who was at the time saving hundreds of Jews escape. There is a clock involved in this story that is suppose to symbol something, but I just didn't get it. Maybe, it is what it is..a clock. Who knows. I was interested in what happen with Roger back during World War II. I kept reading on to find answers, but was disappointed. As I mentioned earlier it fell flat, still the ride was somewhat enjoyable even if the destination wasn't all that great in the end.
The other story going on involves Charlotte and Jack. I really didn't like either of them, so it was hard to be interested in them. I didn't feel any chemistry between them, and everything happened so quickly for me to appreciate.
It wasn't all a bust though. It's really hard to explain my love for historical fiction circa World War II because it's such horrible subject, but the stories of triumph and survival are so touching. Pam Jenoff has a way with words, as well. I think she is a fabulous writer, The Things We Cherished just happen to be my least favorite.
If you enjoy reading novels that take place during the Holocaust then you might want to give this a try, but I would check it out from the library.
Book Review: The Magnolia League by Katie Crouch
The Magnolia League
Author: Katie Crouch
Publisher: Poppy
Date Published: May 3rd 2011
From Goodreads
After the death of her free-spirited mother, sixteen-year-old Alex Lee must leave her home in northern California to live with her wealthy grandmother in Savannah, Georgia. By birth, Alex is a rightful, if unwilling, member of the Magnolia League, Savannah's long-standing debutante society. She quickly discovers that the Magnolias have made a pact with a legendary hoodoo family, the Buzzards. The Magnolias enjoy youth, beauty and power. But at what price?
As in her popular adult novels, Crouch's poignant and humorous voice shines in this seductively atmospheric story about girls growing up in a magical Southern city.
The Magnolia League had an interesting beginning, quickly caught my attention, and made me want to read on. As I read more into the book secrets started to unravel, and you think those secrets would make the book more interesting, right? No, not at all. For me the secrets made me not like the book as much as I had in the beginning. But then again, i'm not the type of person that particularly like fantasy and magic books. It also got really confusing about midway into the book. The story line got jumbled and I didn't really understand where it was going. But things were all cleared and everything was explained by the end of the book, of course.
If your into the fantasy and magic genre then you will for sure love The Magnolia League more than I did.
Review by Jaci
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Book Review: The Midwife's Confession by Diane Chamberlain
The Midwife's Confession
Author: Diane Chamberlain
Date Published: April 26th 2011
What I have to tell you is difficult to write, but I know it will be far more difficult for you to hear, and I'm so sorry…
The unfinished letter is the only clue Tara and Emerson have to the reason behind their close friend Noelle's suicide. Everything they knew about Noelle—her calling as a midwife, her passion for causes, her love for her friends and family—described a woman who embraced life.
Yet there was so much they didn't know.
With the discovery of the letter and its heartbreaking secret, Noelle's friends begin to uncover the truth about this complex woman who touched each of their lives—and the life of a desperate stranger—with love and betrayal, compassion and deceit.
Diane Chamberlain does not get the recognition she deserves. She is a brilliant storyteller, one of the best out there.
I knew The Midwife's Confession was going to take me on a ride, and I was prepared to stay up late like I always do when reading one of her books. The story is about friendships, secrets, and love..aren't all her books. After Noelle's death her close friends Tara and Emerson begin the unravel Noelle's secret life. They begin to wonder if they even knew Noelle. I'm very patient reading a Diane Chamberlain book because I know that in the ending when all is explained and out I will be satisfied. It's like going through a maze. There are so many dead ends in her story, but it is so well written I shake my head at her brilliant storytelling. There is something comforting about her writing. It flows with just the right amount of pacing, descriptives, and insights into characters.
I well always seek out Diane Chamberlain's book. The Midwife's Confession is a great read, but be prepared to stay up late.
Book Review: But I Love Him by Amanda Grace
Author: Amanda Grace
Publisher: Flux
Date Published: May 8th 2011
Tonight was so much worse than anything before it. Tonight he didn't stop after the first slap.
At the beginning of senior year, Ann was a smiling, straight-A student and track star with friends and a future. Then she met a haunted young man named Connor. Only she can heal his emotional scars; only he could make her feel so loved — and needed. Ann can't recall the pivotal moment it all changed, when she surrendered everything to be with him, but by graduation, her life has become a dangerous high wire act. Just one mistake could trigger Connor's rage, a senseless storm of cruel words and violence damaging everything — and everyone — in its path.
This evocative slideshow of flashbacks reveals a heartbreaking story of love gone terribly wrong.
Ann and Connor forever, that's what Ann believes with all her heart even as she sees Connor changing and becoming more and more like his father. She can't will him better, but she keeps on going forth with him hoping that her love is enough.
Amanda Grace aka Mandy Hubbard for some reason decided the best way to write Ann's story is by starting with the ending first and going backwards all ending with the beginning of Ann's and Connor's relationship. At first it wasn't working for me, there really wasn't any reason it wasn't working other than that I'm not use to it. It only takes a couple of chapters to get adjusted to how the story is being told to us. At the ending of But I Love Him I thought it was genius and somehow made the story even more powerful. But I Love Him is a serious topic. I think Ms. Grace did a fabulous job hitting her points and making it as real as possible. When tackling such a hard topic I think authors are aware that there words could in someway impact someone who can being going through the same thing.
Ann is such a heartbreaking character because you know what she's thinking just isn't what happens with guys like Connor. You can't fix them. They have to fix themselves. Just wishing something better doesn't mean it's gonna happen. Her thought process seemed so real. Sometimes you want to shake her and tell her to snap out of it. I also loved how we are given a glimpse into Connor's world. We learn a lot about how he's become the way he is. It really is a sad book looking back at it.
But I Love Him is a realistic look into love gone bad, and dangerous. Love does not fix all.
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Book Review: The Peach Keeper by Sarah Addison Allen
The Peach Keeper
Author: Sarah Addison Allen
Publisher: Bantam
Date Published: March 22nd 2011
It’s the dubious distinction of thirty-year-old Willa Jackson to hail from a fine old Southern family of means that met with financial ruin generations ago. The Blue Ridge Madam—built by Willa’s great-great-grandfather during Walls of Water’s heyday, and once the town’s grandest home—has stood for years as a lonely monument to misfortune and scandal. And Willa herself has long strived to build a life beyond the brooding Jackson family shadow. No easy task in a town shaped by years of tradition and the well-marked boundaries of the haves and have-nots.
But Willa has lately learned that an old classmate—socialite do-gooder Paxton Osgood—of the very prominent Osgood family, has restored the Blue Ridge Madam to her former glory, with plans to open a top-flight inn. Maybe, at last, the troubled past can be laid to rest while something new and wonderful rises from its ashes. But what rises instead is a skeleton, found buried beneath the property’s lone peach tree, and certain to drag up dire consequences along with it.
For the bones—those of charismatic traveling salesman Tucker Devlin, who worked his dark charms on Walls of Water seventy-five years ago—are not all that lay hidden out of sight and mind. Long-kept secrets surrounding the troubling remains have also come to light, seemingly heralded by a spate of sudden strange occurrences throughout the town.
Now, thrust together in an unlikely friendship, united by a full-blooded mystery, Willa and Paxton must confront the dangerous passions and tragic betrayals that once bound their families—and uncover truths of the long-dead that have transcended time and defied the grave to touch the hearts and souls of the living.
I truly, truly like Sarah Addison Allen's books..truly. Something about the way she writes really pulls you into her stories. I love that her books all have a touch of magic.
The Peach Keeper to me is the least of my favorites, but that is what is so great about her, even with The Peach Keeper being the least of my favorites it still is good. It lacks a little something that The Sugar Queen and Garden Spells has, though. I was quite drawn in by the secret between Willa and Paxton's grandmothers. I wanted to know what happen in their past and how it is connected to the mansion, Blue Ridge Madam. For some reason it felt that The Peach Keeper was missing a climax, or at least a very exciting one. The ending fell flat.
One of the best things about Ms. Allen's books are her characters. There is at least one character that somehow touches your heart, but I closed The Peach Keeper not feeling any real attachment to any of the characters. It took me awhile to even like her characters this time around, but it was there by the end of the book.
The best part of The Peach Keeper is the writing. Sarah Addison Allen knows how to write. Her descriptions are just right and I love the southern charm she brings to her books. Being from the South I relax right in to her settings.
I don't recommend The Peach Keeper for your first Sarah Addison Allen adventure, but I do think it's worth a read. Check your local library.
Throwback Thursday: Rumble Fish
Rumble Fish
Author: S.E. Hinton
Rusty-James isn't book-smart--he relies on his fists instead of his brains. So far whenever he gets into trouble, his older brother, the Motorcycle Boy, has bailed him out. Then one day Rusty-James's world comes apart in an explosive chain of events--and this time the Motorcycle Boy isn't around to pick up the pieces.
I remember reading this for English in school, and loving it. I can't remember everything about it, but I remember thinking it was to short. I wanted it to last longer. It think it's time for a reread.
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"Waiting On" Wednesday: The Beginning of After
Sixteen-year-old Laurel's world changes instantly when her parents and brother are killed in a terrible car accident. Behind the wheel is the father of her bad-boy neighbor, David Kaufman, whose mother is also killed. In the aftermath of the tragedy, Laurel navigates a new reality in which she and her best friend grow apart, boys may or may not be approaching her out of pity, overpowering memories lurk everywhere, and Mr. Kaufman is comatose but still very much alive. Through it all, there is David, who swoops in and out of Laurel's life and to whom she finds herself attracted against her better judgment. She will forever be connected to him by their mutual loss, a connection that will change them both in unexpected ways.
Publication Date: September 6th 2011
Book Review: Sharks & Boys by Kristen Tracy
Author: Kristen Tracy
Publisher: Hyperion Book
Expected Publication: June 28th 2011
When 15-year-old Enid Calhoun follows her boyfriend Wick to Maryland for a party, fearful that he might be intending to cheat on her, she finds herself sneaking on board a houseboat where Wick and his friends plan to have a wild night. But before the boys discover their stowaway, a hurricane strikes, and the teenagers are carried miles from the shore and shipwrecked. What follows is a harrowing, yet heartwarming, story of survival, as the teens battle hypothermia, dehydration, man-eating sharks--and along the way, confront their own deepest secrets, including their catalytic roles in the disaster.
I decided to give this one a try even if the reviews have been less than stellar. Hoping to be pleasantly surprised I picked my ereader Sunday morning and began. By Sunday night I was done, and though it had some flaws I quite liked it.
What I liked about it:
1. Love the title, and hey it had both Sharks and Boys, so it was not misleading.
2. Surprising the main female protagonist wasn't whiny nor annoying. She did occasionally have a brain fart moment, but who doesn't. I also liked the other characters.
3. Sharks and Boys was a unique story and I have not read anything like it.
4. I liked the discussions they had. I thought they were real, except for that one conversation (i'll get back to that).
5. The many references to Jaws and Titanic. I too would be thinking about those movies if I was in a similar situation. Is that weird?
5. The ending was good, and honestly I never got bored. I thought it was intense and interesting, Like MTV's the Real Word but on a raft in the middle of a shark infested ocean.
Now what didn't make a perfect book and Sunday:
1. The fact that Enid wondered about the situation between her and Wick. Are they together or not? She actually got happy he called her his girlfriend. Who freakin cares if he's your boyfriend! You are in a raft with sharks all around you with no water or food. You are in a shitty situation whether he's your boyfriend or not.
2. The conversation (pertains to #4 above) about Wick maybe possibly cheating on Enid with some girl name Simone. Didn't happen, but it could have happen had they not been instead in a raft with sharks swimming nearby snapping their jaws at them. In the situation as such do you honestly care whether you have been cheated on. Actually I think it would be the perfect time for your significant other to admit such transgressions due to the dire dilemma you are in who cares, and if you make it you would be so glad to be alive that you will be so busy smelling the roses, kissing the ground and traumatized that you will probably forget the confession.
If the book description sounds even remotely interesting I think get it a try. I wasn't disappointed maybe you won't be either.
Book Review: Best Intentions: A Novel by Emily Listfield
Author: Emily Listfield
After tossing and turning all night, thirty-nine-year-old Lisa Barkley wakes up well before her alarm sounds. With two daughters about to start another year at their elite Upper East Side private school and her own career hitting a wall, the effort of trying to stay afloat in that privileged world of six-story town houses and European jaunts has become increasingly difficult, especially as Manhattan descends into an economic freefall.
As Lisa looks over at her sleeping husband, Sam, she can't help but feel that their fifteen-year marriage is in a funk that she isn't able to place. She tries to shake it off and tells herself that the strain must be due to their mounting financial pressures. But later that morning, as her family eats breakfast in the next room, Lisa finds herself checking Sam's voicemail and hears a whispered phone call from a woman he is to meet that night. Is he having an affair?
When Lisa shares her suspicions with her best friend, Deirdre, at their weekly breakfast, Deirdre claims it can't be true. But how can Lisa fully trust her opinion when Deirdre is still single and mired in an obsessive affair with a glamorous photographer even as it hovers on the edge of danger?
When Deirdre's former college flame, Jack, comes to town and the two couples meet to cele-brate his fortieth birthday, the stage is set for an explosiveT series of discoveries with devastating consequences.
Filled with suspense and provocative ques-tions about the relationships we value most, Best Intentions is a tightly woven drama of love, friendship and betrayal.
Best Intentions showed promise in the first two pages with the prologue. In the first couple of pages there is a murder, then it backtracks into "the beginning" of the story. At first I found myself interested in what was going on these characters life, but around a fourth of the way in I realize I started caring less and less. I never fully committed myself to any of the characters because I just didn't really care for them. They seemed flat and I kept thinking I wasn't hearing or feeling the truth of them for some reason. As for the plot line of Best Intentions it just didn't come together for me in a way I could appreciate and love.
Book Review: Forbidden by Tabitha Suzuma
Author: Tabitha Suzuma
Date Published: June 28th 2011
Seventeen-year-old Lochan and sixteen-year-old Maya have always felt more like friends than siblings. Together they have stepped in for their alcoholic, wayward mother to take care of their three younger siblings. As defacto parents to the little ones, Lochan and Maya have had to grow up fast. And the stress of their lives—and the way they understand each other so completely—has also also brought them closer than two siblings would ordinarily be. So close, in fact, that they have fallen in love. Their clandestine romance quickly blooms into deep, desperate love. They know their relationship is wrong and cannot possibly continue. And yet, they cannot stop what feels so incredibly right. As the novel careens toward an explosive and shocking finale, only one thing is certain: a love this devastating has no happy ending.
How do I even begin to gush over a book that is about incest? Incest without a doubt is not a typical YA topic, but for some reason Ms. Suzuma thought it made for a good story, and it did. I'm surprised how much I liked Forbidden because of the ickiness factor.
I did feel uncomfortable reading some parts of Forbidden. The gross factor was too much at times, but I continued on because of all the talk about Forbidden being such an intense read. Forbidden is like a symphony, it starts off pensive and melancholy then soars into madness. You close the book feeling depleted of all your energy and just shaking your head. What a ride the author takes you on.
If you can stand to read a story about brother and sister in love than I really recommend you read it, if not just stay away.
I'm curious to hear what others think. Have you read Forbidden, or do you plan to?
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Gwyneth Shepherd's sophisticated, beautiful cousin Charlotte has been prepared her entire life for traveling through time. But unexpectedly, it is Gwyneth, who in the middle of class takes a sudden spin to a different era! Gwyneth must now unearth the mystery of why her mother would lie about her birth date to ward off suspicion about her ability, brush up on her history, and work with Gideon, the time traveler from a similarly gifted family that passes the gene through its male line, and whose presence becomes, in time, less insufferable and more essential. Together, Gwyneth and Gideon journey through time to discover who, in the 18th century and in contemporary London, they can trust.
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Book Review: Revolution by Jennifer Donnelly
Author: Jennifer Donnelly
Publisher: Delacorte Books for Young Readers
Date Published: October 12th 2010
BROOKLYN: Andi Alpers is on the edge. She’s angry at her father for leaving, angry at her mother for not being able to cope, and heartbroken by the loss of her younger brother, Truman. Rage and grief are destroying her. And she’s about to be expelled from Brooklyn Heights’ most prestigious private school when her father intervenes. Now Andi must accompany him to Paris for winter break.
PARIS: Alexandrine Paradis lived over two centuries ago. She dreamed of making her mark on the Paris stage, but a fateful encounter with a doomed prince of France cast her in a tragic role she didn’t want—and couldn’t escape.
Two girls, two centuries apart. One never knowing the other. But when Andi finds Alexandrine’s diary, she recognizes something in her words and is moved to the point of obsession. There’s comfort and distraction for Andi in the journal’s antique pages—until, on a midnight journey through the catacombs of Paris, Alexandrine’s words transcend paper and time, and the past becomes suddenly, terrifyingly present.
When Revolution came out last year I wanted it...wanted it bad. Everything about the book description interested me. Then the reviews started invading my google reader and I wanted it
even more.
Ms. Donnelly had me through most of the book up until about 3/4 of the way. All of sudden it got all WTF! It was going so well..then bam we have time travelling (spoilerish highlight if you want to know)g. At first I went along with it pretending all was well. Hey, you never know maybe this had to be done for the storyline. Sadly, no it didn't need to go there.
I guess I started with the one bad thing in all of the book, now on to the great things. I love historical fiction, and contemporary fiction so this was the best of both world. We are reading two stories, Andi's and Alexandrine's. Andi's is being told present and we get Alexandrine's through a journal/diary that Andi discovers in a hidden compartment of a old guitar case. I really enjoyed how both characters grow as their stories are being told. At first I found it hard to connect or even like Andi. I'm not down with that self loathing bullsh*t, and that's all she did in the beginning, but things got better between her and I not to far into Revolution.
I gave this a 4 rating on Goodreads because though it had some flaws I really enjoyed it. It is kind of a depressing read though.
The Lipstick Laws by Amy Holder
The Lipstick Laws
Author: Amy Holder
Date Published: April 4th 2011
At Penford High School, Britney Taylor is the queen bee. She dates whomever she likes, rules over her inner circle of friends like Genghis Khan, and can ruin anyone's life with a snap of perfectly manicured fingers. Just ask the unfortunate few who have crossed her. For April Bowers, Britney is also the answer to her prayers. April is so unpopular, kids don't even know she exists. But one lunch spent at Britney's table, and April is basking in the glow of popularity. But Britney's friendship comes with a high price tag. How much is April willing to pay?
I'm going to assume that The Lipstick Laws has been compared to the movie The Mean Girls. I thought there were so many similarities, the biggest being the mean girl clique that rule the school, out of fear mostly.
I did enjoy The Lipstick Laws but the whole time I was reading I kept thinking this has been done before plenty of times. I kept looking for a unique spin, and just couldn't find one. Even with the lack of originality, and the predictability I was still antsy to see how Britney was going down. There's something about seeing karma being played out. Really," karma is a Bitch", and The Lipstick Laws shows how kick ass karma is.
Debut author, Amy Holder did a great job writing. I loved the simplicity of the novel, as well as the authenticity of the main protagonist's voice. I understood her want to fit in, especially with her best friend gone, and I understood her want for revenge.
The Lipstick Laws is a smack dab in the middle book for me. I didn't love it, nor did I hate, but I do know I will definitely be reading more from the Amy Holder.
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