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Why Cataracts?
Are you an Indian Citizen?
Lions Clubs and HelpMeSee lead the way to Eliminate Cataract Blindness in India
February 12, 2016 - HelpMeSee and the Lions Health Foundation Alibag, India have launched a partnership to end cataract blindness, the leading cause of vision loss in India’s second most populous state, Maharashtra. The partnership focuses on training in Manual Small Incision Cataract Surgery (MSICS) and the use of surgical quality assurance systems. Lions Health Foundation Alibag has begun planning construction for a new hospital in Raigad District, the initial focus area for the joint campaign.
Lions Health Foundation Alibag announcing the launch of partnership with HelpMeSee.
Five Lions Clubs have joined together in Alibag to eliminate cataract blindness in Raigad District, Maharashtra. To this end, the Lions Clubs of Alibag, Alibag-Poynad, Alibag-Mandva, Alibag-Revdanda and Lions Club Chembur Diamonds have united to form a new body - Lions Health Foundation Alibag.
At the launch of the partnership between HelpMeSee and Lions Health Foundation Alibag, HelpMeSee President & CEO Jacob Mohan Thazhathu said, "HelpMeSee is committed to excellence in training of cataract surgeons and with simulation technology. This will ensure outstanding quality of surgical care and patient services to everyone. In this 21st century we owe it to every blind and visually impaired person to actively pursue the goal of ending cataract blindness."
Lion Nitin Adhikari, Vice-Chairman, Lions Health Foundation Alibag made a pledge of $50,000 to eliminate cataract blindness in the Raigad District. Thanking Lion Adhikari, Mr. Thazhathu, applauded the commitment of Lions Health Foundations efforts in Alibag for a locally sustainable campaign.
Cataracts cause nearly two-thirds of all blindness in India, where over five million are estimated to be blind. According to Nitin Gadkari, India’s Road Transport and Highways Minister, cataracts account for more road accidents than alcohol.
HelpMeSee brings two of its key technologies to the partnership in Raigad, including the HelpMeSee Reach App for population-based patient services, and a pre-sterilized, single use, disposable surgical kit for Manual Small Incision Cataract Surgery (MSICS).
"Our problem today is cataract," said Ashok Mehta, former President of the International Association of Lions Clubs. "We’ve been working for the past 25 years, but we have not been able to solve the problem. I am sure with the help of HelpMeSee we’ll be able to see the light of day and bring vision to thousands of people who are needy and deserving."
Co-coordinating efforts, Lion Venkataraman Subramanian of Lions Club Chembur Diamonds said,"The campaign which we have initiated now between Lions Health Foundation Alibag and HelpMeSee is unique in every sense. It is a partnership between two international organizations that believe in removing unnecessary blindness. We will ensure that the surgery done is of international standards ? for all patients whether rich or poor, belonging to any caste or creed. This is just the tip of the iceberg. We have to eliminate blindness from all the districts."
About HelpMeSee
HelpMeSee is a global campaign to end cataract blindness, the leading cause of blindness worldwide. HelpMeSee intends to make the sight-restoring surgery available to millions of poor within their communities by training tens of thousands (mostly women) to perform high quality, high volume MSICS surgery throughout the developing world. HelpMeSee is pioneering a virtual reality surgical simulator and training program to be implemented worldwide, adapted from extensive experience in simulator-based aviation training. Since 2012, the campaign has supported over 237,000 surgeries through 242 partnerships across India, Nepal, China, Vietnam, Madagascar, Togo, Sierra Leone, Peru and The Gambia.
About Lions Clubs International & Lions Health Foundation Alibag
Lions Clubs International is the largest service club organization in the world with over 1.4 million members in more than 46,000 clubs serving communities in more than 210 countries and geographical areas worldwide. Since 1917, Lions clubs have aided the blind and visually impaired, championed youth initiatives and strengthened local communities through hands-on service and humanitarian projects. Five Lions Clubs in Greater Mumbai joined together to form the Lions Health Foundation Alibag.
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Početna » Društvo » Svijet
EU Is Not a Nation
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Naslov: EU Is Not a Nation
‘EU Is Not a Nation’: Rees-Mogg, Farage Defend Turning Backs on Euro Anthem
British MEPs Brexit Party turn their backs during the European anthem ahead of the inaugural session at the European Parliament on July 2 , 2019 in Strasbourg, eastern France. (Photo by FREDERICK FLORIN / AFP)
Brexit Party MEPs have defended turning their backs on the European Parliament chamber during the playing of the EU’s ‘national’ anthem because they say the bloc should not be treated as a country.
The opening of the parliament in Strasbourg, France, was marked by protest, with pro-Catalan separatists demonstrating outside the building over former Catalonia president Carles Puigdemont and colleague Toni Comin being barred from taking their seats in the EU parliament.
The anti-Brexit Liberal Democrats led their own protest inside the chamber, wearing yellow t-shirts with “stop Brexit” on the front and “Bollocks to Brexit” on the back of some — in reference to one of their May 2019 European Parliament campaign slogans.
It was the Brexit Party’s demonstration against the globalist bloc that garnered the most disapproval from establishment politicians and negative attention in the mainstream media, however, when the eurosceptic MEPs turned their backs to the chamber during the rendition of the European Union’s ‘national’ anthem, Beethoven’s “Ode to Joy”, with Europhiles and the European Parliament President Antonio Tajani branding the move disrespectful.
Speaking on Sky News after the opening ceremony, Ms Rees-Mogg — the sister of Conservative Party MP and Brexiteer Jacob Rees-Mogg — said that she took part in the protest as she objected to the piece being referred to as “the nation’s song”.
“I would never, ever do that for any country’s national song, but you have to remember that the EU is not a nation. It should not have an anthem, it should not be arranged in that way. It doesn’t have a united peoples and Britain should have left it months ago,” Ms Rees-Mogg said of the bloc that is pushing for an EU army, a single budget, and a bloc-wide immigration and refugee policy.
Asked by anchorman Adam Boulton if she thought it was “rude” to turn her back during the EU’s anthem, the Brexit Party Member of European Parliament said: “I think it was rude to claim that the British people are part of a nation other than their own.”
Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage also weighed in on criticism that their protest was ‘disrespectful’, telling the news broadcaster: “What is disrespectful is to take the ancient states of Europe and without asking anybody’s permission turning [a union of them] into a country — because that’s what the president of the parliament called it this morning.
“I think that’s really disgraceful and I’m really not going to stand to attention for this anthem. No way. I’ll show respect for any anthem for any other country in the world but not a false creation like this. I think we did the right thing.”
Breitbart London spoke to Brexit Party lawmakers at the parliament on Tuesday, with Jake Pugh MEP saying: “[European Parliament President] Antonio Tajani said you respect the anthem of another country, but the European Union isn’t a country! We’d absolutely respect other anthems, but presenting the European Union as a country disrespects us, and disrespects the other European member states.”
Naslov: Re: EU Is Not a Nation
Postano: sri srp 10, 2019 8:55 pm
France Is on a Mission to Kill Free Speech Online
ALLUM BOKHARI8 Jul 2019447
France, still run by embattled globalist president Emmanuel Macron, is debating a draconian new law that would impose massive fines on social media and search engine companies if they fail to take down “hate speech” within 24 hours.
Company officials at Facebook and other social media platforms could face up to a year in prison in France if they fail to remove so-called hate speech under the proposed law. The companies themselves could face fines of up to 4 percent of their global revenues — a colossal sum — for repeated violations.
Individual users who abuse the “report” function on social media platforms could also face fines and jail time.
Via NYT:
If platforms refuse to remove such content, they could face fines of 1.25 million euros, or about $1.4 million. Company officials could face a year in prison and fines of up to €250,000.
Repeated violations could prompt France’s media watchdog to impose fines of up to 4 percent of the company’s global revenue — meaning, potentially, tens or even hundreds of millions of dollars.
The bill also creates penalties — a €15,000 fine and up to a year in prison — for individuals who abuse reporting mechanisms.
France is following the lead of Germany in this regard. The pro-censorship, pro-mass migrant regime of Angela Merkel passed a law last year imposing fines of 50 million euros ($62 million) on companies that fail to remove hate speech within 24 hours.
It’s another sign that western governments are increasingly behaving like China, where the government leans on private corporations to enact censorship and protect the ruling regime.
Writing on The Hill, law professor Jonathan Turley notes that these European laws could accelerate social media censorship in the United States:
The move by the Europeans hits in the blind spot of the United States Constitution. The First Amendment does an excellent job of preventing government action against free speech, and most of the laws curtailing free speech in Europe would be unconstitutional in the United States. However, although protected against Big Brother, we are left completely vulnerable to Little Brother, made up of the private companies that have wide discretion on curtailing and controlling speech around the world.
Europeans know these companies are quite unlikely to surgically remove content for individual countries. The effect will be similar to the “California Exception.” All states are subject to uniform vehicle emissions standards under the Clean Air Act, but California was given an exception to establish more stringent standards. Rather than create special cars for California, the more stringent standards tend to drive car designs. When it comes to speech controls, Europeans know they can limit speech not only in their countries but practically limit speech in the United States and elsewhere.
Thanks to leaked documents obtained and published by Breitbart News last year, its known that Google’s own researchers admit that the company and other Silicon Valley tech giants are “shifting toward censorship.” The leaked documents also note that one of the factors driving this change in policy is pressure from foreign countries.
But it seems those foreign countries aren’t just the usual suspects (Turkey, Russia, Pakistan, China, etc.). In Europe too, the very birthplace of liberalism and the enlightenment, powerful forces are moving to crush online free speech.
evo gledam neki sir na etiketi zemlja podrijetla: EU
majku li im jebem
dabogda se raspala
Postano: čet srp 11, 2019 12:05 am
Pridružen/a: ned kol 05, 2018 8:37 pm
Lokacija: Podunavlje
s one strane dinare je napisao/la:
Strašno... Nadam se da je bar košer i halal.
buenos aires je napisao/la:
Ovdje to imaš na šećeru, dobar vic u općinama s 18 muslimana i 2 Židova.
Postano: čet srp 11, 2019 3:38 pm
Pridružen/a: sri ruj 08, 2010 2:28 am
Macron is a leftard
Trenutno korisnika/ca: / i 9 gostiju.
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Home > TRAVEL > TOKYO > OTHER > RESTAURANT > Splash out on Exquisitely Delicious Seafood with a View at Fish Bank Tokyo!
Splash out on Exquisitely Delicious Seafood with a View at Fish Bank Tokyo!
If you love all things seafood and would like plenty of quality dishes to choose from, then be sure to check out Fish Bank Tokyo in Shiodome City Center. This restaurant serves carefully selected fresh seafood from all over the world. The dishes on the menu have also been prepared in a using a modern concept from France.
Lunch courses
The menu has been designed to suit the modern taste and their lunch and dinner menus are highly recommended. Lunch is served in a room overlooking Tokyo’s beautiful sky and the courses are divided into three categories: Fishbank Lunch, Tasting Lunch, and Special Lunch.
Fishbank Lunch serves the popular dishes of the season with each meal priced around 3,000 yen or more. If you like “Rossino” (French Steak) then you will love the Tasting Lunch which serves Wagyu Beef in this style. Each meal is priced at around 6,000 yen per person. The Special Lunch offers 5 courses (Amuse, Appetizer, Fish, Main Dish and Dessert which are very enjoyable for a price of 2,800 yen per person.
Dinner courses
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If you love the sound of the lunch courses, wait until you get a taste of what’s available on the dinner menu. These are also divided into three categories: Fishbank Course, Seafood Market Course, and Chef’s Tasting Course.
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The Fishbank Course is ideal for special occasions where a variety of foods are served together with wine. It comes at a hefty price of 10,800 yen per person. The Seafood Market course is the best way to enjoy a raw seafood platter from fresh oyster to the marinated type and is priced at 8,640 yen per person. The Chef’s Tasting Course is the most expensive of all; at 14,000 yen per head, you will be served three kinds of Amuse, an Appetizer, Foiegrass, Red Snow Crab, Tile Fish, Beef, Pork, and Dessert. It is great for people with a huge appetite!
So, splash out and let your taste buds explore Fish Bank Tokyo’s modern style seafood menu in a warm, inviting atmosphere with a view!
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For 9 consecutive years, Tokyo City has been known as one of the dining capitals of the world. With the extremely huge number of restaurants located in Tokyo, it is no wonder why many foodies flock to this place. vacancyforchef.blogspot.jp/ One of the establishments which gained a three-star rating in the 2016’s Michelin Guide to…
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Hollywood Hottie Quiz
Who’s YOUR dream guy? Take our quiz and if all goes well, you might find yourself with man candy on your arm at prom. (sigh!)
1. #TBT which picture do you post?
A) You’re triumphantly holding a trophy from your first season of Little League.
B) You’re in a bubblegum tutu, striking a perfect pose at center stage.
C) You’re playing school with your little bro, trying to teach a two-year-old to read.
D) A kindergartner with freckles and pigtails, you’re holding a straight-A report card, beaming from ear to ear.
2. Happy Birthday! As the birthday girl, you’re in charge of tonight’s menu. What’s for dinner?
A) Good ol’ surf and turf, thankyouverymuch. Why choose between steak and shrimp?!
B) Anything ethnic! You’ve always wanted to try Ethiopian food…
C) A meal made with love from your family’s recipes. Mom’s cookin’ can’t be beat!
D) Something simple but satisfying—maybe chicken with rice pilaf and steamed broccoli.
3. You’re reviewing your resume with your guidance counselor before applying for scholarships. What impresses her the most?
A) You’ve been named to the county’s Best of Preps for your athletic prowess.
B) You’ve won award after award for your extracurricular involvement. (Wow!)
C) You’ve been volunteering at a retirement home after school for years.
D) Your glowing personal recommendation letters—they’re nicer than any your guidance counselor has ever seen.
4. Your weather app predicts showers after school. How will you spend your rainy day?
A) You’re in a funk until the clouds clear. You’d been planning an afternoon at the beach!
B) It’s raining? You haven’t looked outside in hours; you’ve spent the day developing film in the art studio’s darkroom.
C) With your sibs under the neon lights of the town’s roller rink, taking shelter together from the storms.
D) Curled on the couch, binge-watching chick flick after chick flick. You’ll take any excuse for a movie marathon!
5. Mom and Dad sometimes ask about your college major. While the real world seems far away, what sounds most appealing now?
A) Industrial Organization or Marketing. You’ll definitely wear a power suit to work!
B) Anthropology or Foreign Language—something that explores other cultures.
C) Education or Social Work. You want to make a difference in people’s lives!
D) Engineering or Applied Math. You’re proud to be adorkable!
Mostly A’s: Cody Simpson
The reigning Prince of Pop has the pipes of a superstar—and the abs of a true athlete. Although he’s known for dethroning the Biebs, Cody felt his first brush with fame as a competitive swimmer poised for the Olympics. (He shifted gears when he received a MySpace message from a big-name producer who’d heard his songs on the site.)
Mostly B’s: Ansel Elgort
A brooding artist trained in ballet and tap as well as theater, Ansel Elgort impresses with performances in The Fault in Our Stars and the Divergent trilogy. In parallel with his mainstream success, he’s also recorded electronic dance music albums that wowed the EDM world.
Mostly C’s: Liam Hemsworth
Beneath the chiseled exterior of the Hunger Games star beats a heart of gold. Known around Hollywood for his close relationship with his bros, the Aussie publicly supports the Australian Childhood Foundation, which protects vulnerable children from abuse and neglect, and speaks highly of ex-fiancée Miley Cyrus.
Mostly D’s: Dylan O’Brien
The dork of our dreams, The Maze Runner’s Dylan O’Brien describes himself as shy and reserved, content to marathon shows from the comfort of his couch. (A softie at heart, Dylan reportedly worships New Girl’s Nick and Jess!)
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Archive for the ‘Top Ten Favorite Things on Youtube’ Category
Top Ten Favorite Things on Youtube #1: Rocky-How it Ends
Posted: December 22, 2015 in Top Ten Favorite Things on Youtube
Tags: DeVotchka, DeVotchka How it Ends, Rocky, Rocky Balboa, Rocky DeVotchka, Rocky How It Ends
Obviously I’m biased being a Rocky Fan but this is truly beautiful. It’s clips of all six Rocky Movies set to the song How it Ends by DeVotchka.
Top Ten Favorite Things on Youtube #2: Red Letter Media Star Wars Episode One Review.
Tags: Mr. Plinkett, Red Letter Media, Red Letter Media Episode One Review, Star Wars, Star Wars Episode One, The Phantom Menace
Years ago one of my friends on Facebook posted this review of Star Wars Episode One. It was a 60 + minute review. I teased him about posting it, but then I watched it. It was one of the funniest most amazing things I’d ever seen. Later, Red Letter Media, the company behind the reviews, did reviews for Episode 2 and 3. They were great as well, and very interesting and insightful, but the Episode One review as by far the funniest. It’s truly amazing and probably unprecedented in the history of film to have a review that is more entertaining than the actual movie.
Currently on youtube the review is split up into seven parts, but when it was originally posted it was one 90 minute video. I’ve linked part one below and from there you can watch the rest. Enjoy, and send me a pizza roll!
Top Ten Favorite Things On Youtube #3: Hogan/Flair Yappapi Strap Match Promo Remix
Tags: Hulk Hogan, Ric Flair, WCW, WCW Uncensored, World Championship Wrestling, Yappapi, Yappapi Indian Strap Match, Yappapi remix
One hobby among wrestling fans is to poke fun at some of the sillier moments in wrestling history, and one event that ranks up their among the silliest is the yappapi match.
In March 2000 World Championship Wrestling had their Uncensored Pay Per View event in which the main event was Hulk Hogan (who was back to the red and yellow/not the evil Hollywood Hogan anymore) vs Ric Flair in a strap match. In a strap match the two wrestlers are tied together, and you win by touching all four corners of the ring. For some reason WCW decided to call this a Yappapi Indian Strap Match. The origins of the word Yappapi are unknown to me, but I’m going to guess there isn’t really an Indian tribe by that name. (Even better, during the match Hogan won by pinfall, the rules of touching all for corners were seemingly ignored at the end.)
Anyway Hogan cut some pretty crazy promos for this match, and once youtube came around people were editing them into some funny videos. The one I’m linking has this promo, along with a Flair promo from when he and Hogan toured Australia years later, set to music. Pure nuttiness in all its glory. Enjoy.
Top Ten Favorite Things on Youtube #4: Hitler Rap
Posted: December 9, 2015 in Top Ten Favorite Things on Youtube
Tags: Hitler Rap, The Whitest Kids You Know
Back in 2006 the comedy group The Whitest Kids You Know about did this hilarious Hitler Rap video. So many good lines in this. Enjoy.
Top Ten Favorite Things on Youtube #5: Hulk Hogan/Steve Austin Wrestling Promo
Tags: Fantasy Wrestling Matches, Hogan Austin Promo, Hulk Hogan, Hulk Hogan vs Stone Cold Steve Austin, Stone Cold Steve Austin
Without a doubt the number one fantasy match that never happened in professional wrestling is Hulk Hogan vs Stone Cold Steve Austin. One of the many things that fill Youtube is fan made wrestling promos for matches that never happened. There’s a lot of Hogan Austin promos out there, but I think this one takes the cake. There was actually another one from years ago I wanted to give honorable mention to, but I think it’s not online anymore. Anyway, enjoy!
Top Ten Favorite Things on Youtube #6: Angry Video Game Nerd Rambo NES
Tags: Angry Video Game Nerd, AVGN, James Rolfe, NES, Nintendo, Rambo, Rambo Nintendo Game, Rambo Video Games
The Angry Video Game Nerd is one of my favorite things on the internet. James Rolfe stars in this web series as this angry nerd reviewing band Nintendo, Sega, and other 1980s and 90s era video games. There’s so many good episodes that I had to include one on this list. I picked what probably is my favorite one, his review of Rambo for the original Nintendo Entertainment System. I remember that shitty game when I was a kid. If I remember right, I couldn’t even get anywhere in the game. There’s some great quotes in this episode, like “Remember when Rambo has to fight a giant spider?” and “Who the hell throws grenades at a tiger?” The end of the episode asks the all important and all so obvious question. How do you mess up a Rambo video game?
Top Ten Favorite Things on YouTube #7: Godzilla, Countdown to Extinction.
Tags: American Version of Godzilla, Countdown to Extinction, Godzilla, Megadeth
Coming in at #7 is clips from the American version of the original Godzilla film set to the music of Countdown to Extinction by Megadeth. One of the best fits of music to film on youtube I’ve ever seen.
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Jennifer Britt
Where you'll always find a happy ending
Vino el Amor: Luciana finds happiness with Miguel?
Three weeks in and it appeared Luciana and David on Vino el Amor were already in love. Then, David chose his family over his happiness and Luciana decided not to fight for him. She realized family always comes first.
Luciana tried to get away from David and his family by taking a job at another vineyard. The new job didn’t last long because Luciana’s family needed her after Juan ordered a pesticide that made everyone sick. In fact, Marta got so sick that she ended up in the hospital.
By the way, Juan is still at the vineyard because David forgave him, even though Juan poisoned the employees and tried to kill the vineyard. I know Juan will get it in the end, but for now nothing seems to be sticking to him.
But I digress. Since returning to the vineyard, Luciana decided to give Miguel another chance. David is unhappy about this. His jealousy is palpable. He confronted Luciana about it and, of course, she got mad and said she deserves some happiness and a chance at a family of her own. After all, David has that. I agree with her, but I can’t help but feel that she’s playing with Miguel’s feelings. This reminds me a lot of the José Luis – Montserrat – Alejandro triangle in Lo que la Vida me Robó. That triangle didn’t work out well for José Luis and I don’t think this one will work out well for Miguel. I wish Miguel would find someone else, but I wonder if his fate will be the same as José Luis’s, which would be tragic.
Now, I have one rant for this week. Why are Susan and Tano together? Yes, I realize they argued and aren’t together at the moment, but I don’t expect that to last long. They will be back together soon. My biggest issue is that Tano just seems clueless about everything. The argument he had with Susan is proof of that. She’s going through a divorce and he announces to her soon-to-be ex-husband that she’s already with someone else. This is bad. Her ex is already going after the house she gave him money for and all Tano did was give the ex a reason to argue that Susan doesn’t need the house or his support because she already has someone else to take care of her. Frankly, Susan can do a lot better than Tano. To the writers, please give Susan another love interest.
What do you think of Luciana and Miguel? Susan and Tano?
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Tagged: David, drama, love triangle, Luciana, novela, romance, soap opera, Vino el Amor
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6 thoughts on “Vino el Amor: Luciana finds happiness with Miguel?”
I prefer Miguel and Luciana they make a great couple
Jennifer Britt says:
Miguel and Luciana are good together, but she is drawn to David.
Tinu says:
I would have loved it if Miguel had found love with Garito
Agreed. For some reason, he was obsessed with Luciana who only liked him as a friend.
Susam fits much better with Cesar who is more matured
Cesar is definitely a better match for Susan.
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Fairlawn Boys Freshman Basketball
Multiple Teams · Mar 9 Winter Sports Banquet
The winter sports banquet will be held on Tuesday, March 15 @ 6:00 in the HS café.
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Congratulation to Nathan Lessing on his first team, Div. 4, nomination. He averaged an area-best of 28 points per game. He, also, set a new single season scoring record for Fairlawn High School. Audrey Francis received a second team, Div. 4, nomination. She averaged 23 points a game. Congratulations to these outstanding juniors. WE look forward to
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A 40 year record of 592 points scored in a single season, held by Tom Pitts, was broken by Nathan Lessing on Feb. 13. Feb. 13, Nathan scored 38 points against Miami East, bringing his single season scoring record to 622 points. Nathan currently has been averaging 28 points per game. The majority of Nathan’s points come
Multiple Teams · Feb 26 Boys Basketball Defeats Triad
Congratulations to the boys basketball team on their win over Triad, in the second round of sectional tournament. The Fairlawn boys team will now face Jackson Center, on February 27 @ 7:00pm, at Piqua High School. Fairlawn is hoping “the third time to be the charm”, when facing Jackson Center Saturday. The past two years, in tournament
Multiple Teams · Feb 19 Boy’s Basketball Receive A Bye For Tournament!
The Fairlawn Boys Basketball team received a bye for the first round of sectional tournament. The boys will be playing on Wednesday, Feb. 24 @ 6:00pm at Piqua HS. Fairlawn will play the winner of the Triad/Riverside game. When the boys are “victorious” on Wednesday, they will play again on Saturday, Feb. 27 @7:00pm at Piqua HS. Be sure
Multiple Teams · Feb 8 Congratulations to our 7th Grade Boys basketball team
Congratulations is in order for our 7th grade boys basketball team. They are league champions!!! The 7th grade boys team defeated Fort Loramie 48-40, on Saturday, Feb. 6 . Picture of the CHAMPIONS, is located in the picture gallery. GO JETS.
Multiple Teams · Dec 19 Double Overtimes!!
If you missed the boys basketball homecoming game, against Jackson Center, you missed one exciting game. The score all night long went back and forth as to who would be victories, but as the game buzzer ended the game, the score was 46 Fairlawn and 46 JC. As you looked around the crowd, everyone was clapping
Multiple Teams · Nov 11 Meet the Team Night
Come and support your Fairlawn Jets on Saturday, November 14. Meet the team festivities will start in the gym at 5:45-6:00pm. Winter teams will include JH Basketball Boys and Girls Teams, HS Basketball Boys and Girls Teams, and Cheer. Mark your calendar.
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AP Jumps The Shark: Calling The Democratic Nomination
June 7, 2016 in AP Wireservices, Democratic Convention, Democratic Nominee, Hillary Clinton, Uncategorized | Tags: AP Wireservices, Hail Mary 1975, Hillary Clinton, June 7th 2016, Minnesota Vikings | 2 comments
I was in disbelief… Really, was it the AP? It was almost an “Et tu, Brute” moment….
Of course, by now everyone knows the American media is bought out… Of course, duh… Afterall, who is it all run by? Billionaires? Duh… We know that.. Amazon owns the Washington Post, for heavens sakes… Murdoch owns the Wall Street Journal and the National Geographic, for heaven’s sakes… Anyone with a brain noticed changes immediately occurring after each change in ownership….
But until now the AP has always stood on its credibility. It allegedly is owned by the sources it reports to and gathers information from. They never say anything speculative. They never say anything purposefully untrue. They never say anything to influence results… When they call a race on election day, they are the ones the rest of us use to confirm the same suspicions we gathered from viewing all the same evidence.
If fact, with the modern age, and the ability to see results turned in precinct by precinct, one can now see how they actually call races and are able to predict that exact moment when a candidate crosses the line which precludes no other possible outcome.
Today, June 7th, our most populous state (among others) goes to vote. To announce the overall winner the night before invites speculation of foul play… Upon hearing this newsbit from someone more glued to their phone than I, the immediate question that popped in my mind over all others, was… hmmm why couldn’t they wait one more day?
I wondered in this progression…..
A) Are they trying to persuade people NOT TO VOTE…
B) Are they trying to make sure no one else calls it before them , thereby getting to be considered the “new” expert and steal their place in all future contests as the final arbiter?
C) Are they showing off how they don’t have any morals? (“We’re bad; we’re bad”) Hounding superdelegates months on end reminds one of the ambulance chasing lawyers of the late 70’s?
D) Or are they jumping on the current news mantra of trying to create news, instead of report on it?… And therefore by pre-calling for Hillary to be the winner, minimize any Sander’s future claim on the superdelegates?
If you look at numbers, it seems funny for what you don’t hear….. Minus the superdelegates, here is where all stand.
2383 Delegates are required to win.
So far Hillary has won 1812.
So far Sanders has won 1521.
Ok, granted, so looks like Hillary’s ahead…
OH, but WAIT…..
694 Delegates are being decided today…. And most are in areas where Sander’s does really well…
As a baseline let us see what do we get if there is a 50-50 split of these potential delegates?
Hillary will have 2159
Sanders will have 1868
In this case, Hillary will be the winner.
So continuing the speculation, what if it goes 60-40 towards Sanders?
Hillary drops to 2089
Bernie rises to 1937
Hillary is still the winner.
But what if it squeaks to 63-37 split towards Sanders?
Hillary has 2068
Bernie has 1958
Ah, ha. So what if it becomes 65-35 towards Sanders?
Again, same winner. This race for pledged delegates was lost in PA, DE, and MD on April 26.
After fiddling around for a magic number where the delegates gain parity, we find the breaking point at….71-29 in Sanders’s favor….
Hillary at 2013 pledged delegates
Bernie at 2013 pledged delegates
Obviously neither candidate will have enough “pledged” delegates to clinch the nomination by the end of today.. So regardless of today’s outcome, the ultimate nominee will depend on their split of Super Delegate votes entirely to settle the outcome. This is a solid nod to the effectiveness of the progressive wing of the Democratic Party for being able to mount a significant challenge against whom all assumed would be the ultimate nominee as far back as 2008….
Therefore regardless of delegate outcome, it will be a contested convention in which deals get made to secure support and whoever makes the best deals to the most superdelegates, wins the race. This is not necessarily bad for America. Many of our finest presidents were elected in conventions by using this method… Of the many, both Roosevelts immediately come to mind.
So for the AP to already announce the winner based on super delegates alone is preemptive… It is like calling a playoff game over, before all time is gone.. Many of us not in a official capacity, have done that…saying:
This game sucks, season’s over; we know the winner, let’s get out of the stadium and beat the 3 hours of traffic that first three miles…
But at no time in my recollection have I ever seen a televised playoff game “officially called” before the final ticker to show another close game deemed more exciting in a different venue… But that basically is what the AP just did…
This playoff game is over. We will move on to the next one.
Although there may be a 90% chance that their prediction is correct, things are never over until they are over….
Some of you former Viking fans may be old enough to remember one playoff game when with less than thirty nine seconds left, it seemed assured to fans on both sides that the Vikings would go on to their 3 straight Super Bowl appearance, their fourth overall that decade, and for the first time, win it against a Steelers team who at best was mediocre ….After all with less then 40 seconds on the clock, it was fourth down and 16….there were still 75 yards between the ball and goal line. This was the year; it WAS going to happen. This Minnesota win was assured…..
Only it wasn’t. It was the Cowboys who lost to the Steelers in the Superbowl X that year 21-17. The Vikings never made it past that playoff game against the Cowboys, having lost to them on a score of 17-14 due to one “Hail Mary” pass..
The point is this distinction.
When one has specific times that delineate the beginning and ending of competition, to officially announce the winner before it is over, is always the wrong thing to do… One is confusing probability with inevitability. Reporting should not be in the business to be an odds maker; instead one reports on final results, and the results reported though absolutely probable, are not yet final because while time is still on the clock, there is still potential that things could change.
And that is what is different in this call. It was made WHILE there is still potential for alternative outcomes, instead of being determined after the line had been crossed where no other outcome is possible.
Hopefully the AP’s mistake in judgment should give every potential Bernie voter that little extra kick to get out to prove the naysayers wrong… As for all Hillary voters out there, since the AP says she won anyway, seriously, for you, duh, what’s the point of voting? Why put yourself through it? Stand in lines in the hot sun? Oh please…Plastered in sweat? Really? You all might as well stay home. Your vote doesn’t matter anyway. She’s already won.
AP Wireservices: Malicious or Just Plain Stupid?
January 2, 2009 in AP Wireservices, Cheap shots, civil disobediance, Dumbing of America, Hyperbole, In God We Trust, intelligence sharing, iran, Isreal, just the facts, middle east democracy, moslem fundlementalism, neocon madness, plausible deniability, professional advice, telemarketers, United Nations, Weekend news cycle | Tags: AP Wireservices, iran, Israel | 18 comments
I came across this post while searching for root causes in the Middle East. I have noticed that with the outgoing Bush now tainted as a target of shoes and other things, domestically there has been much more vocal sympathy for the Palestinians now than I can remember ever hearing before….
I can remember when Palestinians were not thought of highly at all, and all assumed that Israel could do no wrong.
Things change.
Apparently AP Wireservices miss-translated and juggled this headline in an effort to tie Iran to the killing of Jews…
The author of this post, juxtaposes AP’s headline with that from the Iranian newspaper itself…
Here is the Iranian Paper:
In separate phone calls to IRNA, students from universities of Tehran, Mashhad and Kerman announced their readiness to undertake operations in defense of the people of Gaza.
Here is the AP report:
Hard-line Iranian student groups have appealed to the government to authorize volunteer suicide bombers to leave Iran and fight against Israel in response to the Israeli assault on the Gaza Strip. . . .
Five hard-line student groups and a conservative clerical group launched a registration drive on Monday, seeking volunteers to carry out suicide attacks against Israel.
I’ve heard of journalistic leaps …. but from AP?…From where did you get the notion of “suicide”? Where did you get the clue there were “bombers”? How did you get “attacks against Israel” out of the words “in defense of the people of Gaza” ? One has to laugh. AP’s statement has the same validity as if Pravda back in August had headlined that the University of Delaware’s Young Republicans’ Club, was sending volunteers to blow themselves up in Moscow train stations in order to protest the Georgian invasion…. If Pravda were to go to press with such a silly story…. I sure not one Muscovite would believe it….No one would… And I would certainly hope that our nation is perhaps a tiny bit more sophisticated than the average vodka infused citizen of Moscow (Za Vas)? 🙂
So why is AP doing this? To drive a wedge into America’s new found sympathy to the Palestinian cause? Or, do they just get their translations from these people and print them?
Bottom line: after being told that there were WMD’s in Iraq back in 2002, and that Iran was close to detonating a nuclear device in May 2007…..you can’t trust anything these guys say.
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Netflix postpones Cosby comedy special
Posted 8:56 am, November 19, 2014, by KFOR-TV & L. Noland and CNN Wire
NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — Amid new attention on sex crime accusations against Bill Cosby, the comedian’s debut on Netflix has been put on hold.
The streaming service announced on Monday night that Cosby’s stand-up comedy special, filmed in front of a live audience in July, will no longer premiere as scheduled on the day after Thanksgiving.
Netflix said nothing about its rationale. But in a statement, the service said, “At this time we are postponing the launch of the new stand up comedy special ‘Bill Cosby 77.’ ”
A Netflix spokeswoman declined to comment further.
Netflix had been approached for comment about “Bill Cosby 77” in recent days because charges of sexual assault against Cosby have resurfaced through essays published on the Internet, social media comments and television interviews.
The company initially declined to comment, but apparently concluded that a postponement was the right course of action.
Separately, NBC has been developing a new sitcom with Cosby. The network has declined to comment.
In an interview on CNN’s “Reliable Sources,” one of the women who has accused Cosby of sexual offenses, Barbara Bowman, said she thought it was “a little bit on the irresponsible side” for NBC to be contemplating a new Cosby series.
A second accuser, Joan Tarshis, told Philadelphia magazine that “in an ideal world, I would love NBC to cancel the series they’re doing with him, but that involves money, not ethics. So that’s not going to happen.”
Cosby has never been charged with a crime.
On Sunday his attorney, John P. Schmitt, said the allegations against Cosby had been “discredited” and added, “The fact that they are being repeated does not make them true. Mr. Cosby does not intend to dignify these allegations with any comment.”
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Development of a rehabilitation game to support stand-up exercise and its usability in care facilities
Hiroyuki Matsuguma, F. Hattori, J. Kajiwara
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Purpose: Japan has been facing an aging society with a declining birthrate and it is urgently necessary to reduce the cost for medical and nursing care. Rehabilitation training is one of the keys to resolving the situation, but it is always difficult to motivate the elderly to spontaneously engage in exercise every day. We developed the game 'Rehabilium' to help stand-up exercise, which is strongly recommended in Japanese Guidelines for the Management of Stroke1. This paper presents usability data obtained through empirical studies in care facilities. Method: 'Rehabilium' is a game that displays a picture of a tree on the monitor. The tree grows in response to user's actual stand-up motion, which is sensed by Microsoft kinect with a variety of animations, beat voices, and cheerful music. While viewing a monitor, users repeat standing up and sitting down on a chair until they feel fatigued. A wide range of elderly people can use this game since stand-up exercise itself is simple and effective. The exercise is applicable in all stages of stroke recovery. Using this game, we compared the maximum number of times subjects could stand up under three conditions: exercise alone, exercise using the game 'Rehabilium', and exercise with a rehabilitation staff. We carried out this empirical study both in the hospital (n=48, Male/Female: 19/29, Age: 75.5±11.1) and the day care center (n=34, Male/Female: 8/26, Age: 80.5±10.3). Results & Discussion: As shown in Figure 1, there was a statistically significant increase in the maximum number of stand-up times when the subjects used the game during the exercise compared to those when they did it by themselves alone. No incidents of stumbling or falling down were reported through all the process during the study. From these results, we conclude 'Rehabilium' is a useful and safe game that helps the elderly voluntarily exercise and fulfilled nearly every role that a rehabilitation staff would perform in an equivalent manner. That shows also a possibility that it would be used effectively in elderly care facilities that are short of rehabilitation staff. This game is intended to be used only in the facilities under the assistance of care staff who advise the user's gesture properly, but more considerations need to be taken when it is used at home.
Gerontechnology
https://doi.org/10.4017/gt.2014.13.02.142.00
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Patient rehabilitation
Aging of materials
Costs and Cost Analysis
Matsuguma, H., Hattori, F., & Kajiwara, J. (2014). Development of a rehabilitation game to support stand-up exercise and its usability in care facilities. Gerontechnology, 13(2), 144-145. https://doi.org/10.4017/gt.2014.13.02.142.00
Development of a rehabilitation game to support stand-up exercise and its usability in care facilities. / Matsuguma, Hiroyuki; Hattori, F.; Kajiwara, J.
：: Gerontechnology, 巻 13, 番号 2, 01.01.2014, p. 144-145.
Matsuguma, H, Hattori, F & Kajiwara, J 2014, 'Development of a rehabilitation game to support stand-up exercise and its usability in care facilities' Gerontechnology, 巻. 13, 番号 2, pp. 144-145. https://doi.org/10.4017/gt.2014.13.02.142.00
Matsuguma H, Hattori F, Kajiwara J. Development of a rehabilitation game to support stand-up exercise and its usability in care facilities. Gerontechnology. 2014 1 1;13(2):144-145. https://doi.org/10.4017/gt.2014.13.02.142.00
Matsuguma, Hiroyuki ; Hattori, F. ; Kajiwara, J. / Development of a rehabilitation game to support stand-up exercise and its usability in care facilities. ：: Gerontechnology. 2014 ; 巻 13, 番号 2. pp. 144-145.
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Charles R. Lipcon graduated with his J.D. from the University of Miami in 1971. Since then, he has built a reputation representing victims of cruise line sexual assaults, wrongful death claims, and personal injury matters. Mr. Lipcon has written multiple books, including his latest, “Unsafe on the High Seas," and has earned a Martindale-Hubbell rating of AV due to his extensive experience and professional standards. Charles Lipcon is also involved in numerous associations outside of the Florida Bar including American Association of Justice and the Florida Admiralty Trial Lawyers Association, to name a few. His experience and authority in the industry has led many injured cruise victims to seek his counsel and is frequently quoted in various newspapers and publications.
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A Jade Pendant to Add to Your Favorite Necklace? Yes Please! (A Selection of 10)
Anna 04 Jun 2019 197
Some people love jades because of their extensive use in Feng Shui. The stone, depending on the color, changes the meaning. Red jades moderate tension, the blue ones help with meditation, black prevents negative situations, and green (the most popular), is all about hope, calmness, and romance. Jade Pendant is an extravagant and cool piece of jewelry that can be combined with many other accessories, precisely because jadeite stones vary in color.
While these meanings are significant to us as well, we also particularly love the stone’s use as simple accessory pieces since jade looks gorgeous!
That is why we selected 10 jade pendants we think are super unique, pretty, and interesting in terms of the symbol and meaning behind the design.
10 Jade Pendants to Spice up Your Collection
1. Dahlia Dragon/Phoenix Grade A Jadeite
For the first piece on our list, the manufacturer (Dahlia) takes inspiration from the classic design of jade pendants. The piece is comprised of two parts; a string and decorated jadeite. In the case of the string, its strength lies in its composition of strong, thin threads (they are twisted on both ends to create that sturdy build).
That’s not the best as the string is obviously not as durable as metal. But at the same time, it does come with its own advantage. It is adjustable from 12 to 24 inches which is a feature that practically makes choosing sizes null.
As for the main highlight, the stone is the more expensive of the two variants of jade. And for good reason since it’s the stronger. It scores a whopping 7 on the Mohs scale, which is great when you compare it to steel with a 6.5 and diamonds with a 10.
Perhaps the most significant thing about the stone though is the engraving. For men, the dragon-themed option has the Chinese synonyms of strength, intellect, and toughness.
As for women, yours is a phoenix, symbolizing the five female virtues which are benevolence, wisdom, righteousness, dignity, and sincerity.
2. Belacqua Heart Pendant
Belacqua definitely has an eye for materials. This pendant is comprised of a 14K gold chain (rolo links being the choice) and natural stone in the form of a heart pendant. Its aesthetic appeal practically upgrades any outfit you wear the pendant necklace with.
One of our favorite highlights about this jade pendant is the meaning. From the heart-shaped pendant to the Chinese words for love, the whole message is just to show how much you care for someone.
So while we would say you should buy it for your own collection, we think this would work well as a romantic gift as well. Since it comes in a deluxe gift box it’s practically the perfect gift for anyone loving awesome jewelry pieces.
The final feature we want to highlight is its durability. Starting with the obvious (the pendant), the stone has a rating of 6.5-7 on the Mohs scale. Just as a quick reference, steel is recorded to be 6.5 Mohs, which isn’t too far from the total score (10).
On the other hand, 14K gold, while not pure gold, is stronger than let’s say, 18K gold for a simple reason. It has a higher composition of foreign metals mixed intuit makes it more durable in time.
3. Raonhazae Smiling Chubby Buddha
Paying attention to the right details always manages to create jewelry pieces with more pros than cons (price falling in with the former!). The accessory is made from a combination of gold-plated stainless steel (316L grade), a green jade, and CZ stones.
The Cuban-styled necklace and the bale are made from plated steel, and the bale holds the green stone while its exterior is embedded with the CZ stones.
As for the meaning behind this piece jewelry; green jades are synonymous with peace and love, and that’s why there’s no better figure to symbolize this meaning than the depiction of a chubby, laughing Buddha. It’s definitely a sentimental accessory, and it’ll do well as a symbol of good luck in your personal collection.
Other features of this jade pendant include the lobster-claw clasp and the fact that it comes in only two (24 and 30 inches) sizes. We can only hope that the limitation in sizes won’t stop you from getting this if it’s caught your interest.
4. Palm Beach Jewelry Jade & Yellow Gold Charm
Design-wise, Palm Beach Jewelry has just made one of the best-looking pendants we’ve come across. Unlike other picks, this piece doesn’t come with a chain; however, the pendant is a blend of pure 14K gold (the bale) which holds a beautiful red jade. At the center, there’s a filigree depicting a spirited horse.
The horse is made out of gold, and it’s the Chinese symbol for speed and perseverance, in addition to red stones being known for easing tension.
Additional info includes the stone’s measurement (rectangular: 18.5 mm W x 2.5 mm H x 38 mm L) and size of 1.1 grams. The chain has that dainty, Oriental design to it that easily upgrades your outfit’s appeal.
The only con that we found in this piece of jewelry is the fact that it’s a bit expensive. Other than that, it’s beautiful, symbolic, and durable (the red stone is genuine, it shares the same score of 6.5-7 Mohs as all other options on our list!).
5. Belacqua Yellow Gold Jade Buddha
This pendant from Belacqua comes in two options; with and without a chain to hold the pendant up. We recommend you go with the latter since the chain is skinny. This was most likely done to minimize the cost since it’s 14K gold we’re talking about here after all. The bale of the pendant is also made from gold, with the choice in variants this time being green.
The stones depict a smiling, chubby Buddha, whose message of love and peace is only heightened by the meaning of jade itself. As for the aesthetics, this jewelry piece goes well with neutral colors like white and black.
Other highlights include the elegant gift box that it arrives in, and the size, which is 0.10 carats. The former will be helpful if you’re dropping this as a gift.
Being jadeite, the hardness is a solid 7 on the Mohs scale. So it’s tough enough to last indefinitely.
6. C1lint7785631 Hand Dragon Phoenix Pendant
With this pendant, the choice is an Hetian jade. In other words, while it’s not as strong as jadeite, it can stand toe-to-toe with steel with a score of 6.5 Mohs on the hardness scale.
That said, this jewelry piece isn’t only comprised of a jade; it also comes with a beaded string that has a deceptively strong build due to the manufacturing process.
Another highlight is the design of the pendant itself. The brand’s decoration is Chinese-themed with the pendant’s 48 mm surface covered with illustrations of both a dragon and a phoenix.
The attention to detail is exceptional, with the artisan expertly highlighting minor bits like the scales and feathers of these mythical animals.
Combine that with jade’s history of being known as a symbol of love land peace, and this accessory can rival the best out there, especially since it’s also hypoallergenic (being a grade A stone) and even comes at a budget-friendly price.
7. Ross-Simons Bead with Gold
Design-wise, Ross-Simons is definitely not a slouch. With this pendant, the brand went for a minimalistic design by using a single jade bead which measures 16 mm in size. It’s more dainty than imposing, so it’s an easy and stylish addition to any outfit.
There’s also a bit of 14K yellow gold mixed in. Know that the bead is only compatible with chains up to 2 mm. If you’d like to put your pendant on a heavier chain, you should check some of the other options on this list.
In terms of packaging, this jewelry piece comes in an elegant box which also includes a pouch. For people considering using this as a gift, we recommend you throw in a chain or beaded string. Also, there is a 30-day, 100% money-back guarantee.
8. Lux Green Elephant
Due to jade being majorly known as a Chinese accessory, here’s another pendant with Oriental design. This piece uses a figurine in the form of an elephant whose body is accented with 14K gold.
Heck, even the bale is made out of 14K gold while the highlight in the design is the Chinese symbol for good luck. The dimensions of the elephant are 23 mm W x 4 mm H x 33 mm L, and it definitely makes for a bold statement.
It’s a natural, grade A stone with a unique cut in the form of good luck. The only drawback to giving this a buy is that it costs a pretty dime.
9. OVALBUY Jadeite Pendant
This particular pick is jadeite with a Mohs hardness scale of 7, and is totally hypoallergenic since its formation is natural. Keep in mind that this jade pendant is definitely larger than it appears on the image, band the figurine of Kwan-yin is certainly something that will draw anyone’s attention to this beautiful piece of jewelry.
Kwan-yin is a Buddhist bodhisattva whose attributes are compassion and mercy.
Back to the design; the goddess’ features and exotic setting are accurately and beautifully conveyed by the artisan; it certainly doesn’t lack in any detail.
This jewelry piece comes in a pouch, and despite the size, it’s affordable.
10. Ross-Simons Green Jadeite
Here’s another pick from Ross-Simons and this one is a bit expensive, however, worth every penny if you ask us! This piece is made up of two parts; green jadeite and 14K gold. The stone comes in the form of a 23mm band, and at the center, there’s the Chinese Fu Symbol meaning “Blessing.”
The symbol, as well as the bale, are made out of 14K yellow gold, with it contrasting gorgeously with the green hue of the stone. Since this is jadeite, know that it’s built like a rock (stronger than steel for one).
It’s not big (dainty is the right word) with it being 7/8″ wide and 1 ¼” long. Other features of the jewelry piece include the inclusion of a gift box that comes with a pouch, and a 30-day, 100% money-back guarantee.
1. How to clean and care for your stones?
Cleaning jade jewelry is super easy All you need is a mixture of lukewarm water and a few drops of mild liquid soap. Polish your jewelry with a soft cloth. Don’t immerse the jade pendant nor scrub any spot.
Just polish the stone with a dry fiber cloth. If you have a bottle of jewelry cleaning solution lying around, do not use it. Jewelry cleaning solutions will bleach the gemstone, hence resulting in loss of the natural, vivid hue it’s known for.
Other things to avoid if you want to use it indefinitely:
✓ Don’t use ultrasonic or steam cleaners
✓ Remove your jewelry before showering
2. What does it symbolize?
Generally speaking (or according to Feng Shui), the stone is a symbol of goodwill, and it can be used in a variety of ways: an amulet of peace by Buddhists to acting as a symbol of love and good luck towards yourself and others.
3. What are the types that exist?
There are two types for you to look out for: jadeite and nephrite. Even though both of these are jades, their chemical composition is different (different silicate minerals). In the case of jadeite, its chemical make-up is the silicate of calcium and magnesium. As for nephrite, the stone is a silicate of sodium and aluminum.
Jadeite stone
Jadeite is also the strongest type of jade you can purchase and it’s the most beautiful, as well as the most expensive. For jadeite, you’ll find the stone in hues such as milky green/even grass green color, blue, white, grey, lavender, yellow-orange, pink, reddish, violet, brown, and black.
Nephrite stone
In comparison, nephrite usually comes in off-yellow, cream, standard green, black, grey, and marbled rust.
4. What are the enhancements?
Enhancements can otherwise be called types in some circles, and they refer to any enhancement the manufacturer applies to the stone. We’ve listed the various types below.
Type A: The stone has been treated in any way except for waxing the surface.
Type B: It involves chemically bleaching a stained piece of stone and then impregnates it with a clear polymer resin.
Type C: The gemstone has been artificially stained which leads to loss of transparency.
B+C Type: This refers to a combination of Type B and Type C enhancements.
Type D: The stone is part jade and part plastic.
5. How to tell if the jade is real?
The most popular test that we know of is the scratch test which implies scratching the stone’s surface in an inconspicuous part of the stone/piece of jewelry you have. If it’s real jade (jadeite specifically), you definitely won’t be able to leave a scratch on it.
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New Father Killed By Stray Bullet While Welcoming Newborn Home
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Justin Ayers is dead after a neighbor accidentally shot a bullet into Ayers' home earlier this week. What's even more tragic is that Ayers and his wife were in the process of welcoming their three-day-old baby home when he was fatally shot.
The shooter was Ayers' next door neighbor, 62-year-old Charles Edward Shisler, who did probably the stupidest thing you can do as a gun owner: He picked his gun up by the trigger causing it to shoot through the wall and hit Ayers in the head. Shisler's defense? He didn't think the gun would shoot.
""The damn gun doesn't usually shoot," Shisler's arrest report quoted him as saying. "You have to squeeze the hell out of the trigger to shoot it."
Unfortunately, "the hell" is not a unit of measurement and now a man is dead due to the fact that Shisler was irresponsible with a known working (if badly) and loaded weapon. Shisler was not only at almost the legal alcohol limit when he was tested four hours later, but apparently tried to hide the gun under a mattress when he realized what he had done. When the police arrived, they found him uncooperative and belligerent according to The Raw Story.
Investigators say that the bullet had a one in infinity chance of hitting Ayers and killing him. And yet it happened. Now Ayers, who was a guitar teacher and a musician is dead due to his neighbor's negligence. Investigators are treating both homes as crime scenes, but the death is thought to be purely accidental due to the fact that the neighbors had never had an acrimonious relationship.
Shilser has been charged with "manslaughter and felon in possession of a firearm." He has a previous felony conviction for carrying a concealed weapon in 2006. Due to his felony conviction Shisler should have never had a gun in the first place, as Florida prohibits felons from owning firearms.
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The answer for "I don't get Twitter"
The next time somebody cracks wise about Twitter, points to the vast numbers of Twitter Orphan Accounts, or otherwise belittles it, I will point them to this Twitter Blog posting:
A critical network upgrade must be performed to ensure continued operation of Twitter. In coordination with Twitter, our network host had planned this upgrade for tonight. However, our network partners at NTT America recognize the role Twitter is currently playing as an important communication tool in Iran. Tonight's planned maintenance has been rescheduled to tomorrow between 2-3p PST (1:30a in Iran).
As much as I fear what happens after the honeymoon with SMS and social media under repressive governments, currently they provide an amazing tool for immediate news even during crisis, citizen voice and discussion.
Update: The State Department is now involved; http://ac360.blogs.cnn.com/2009/06/16/state-department-to-twitter-keep-… :
By necessity, the US is staying hands off of the election drama playing out in Iran, and officials say they are not providing messages to Iranians or “quarterbacking” the disputed election process.
But they do want to make sure the technology is able to play its sorely-needed role in the crisis, which is why the State Department is advising social networking sites to make sure their networks stay up and running for Iranians to use them and helping them stay ahead of anyone who would try to shut them down.
For example, senior officials say the State Department asked Twitter to refrain for going down for periodic scheduled maintenance at this critical time to ensure the site continues to operate. Bureau’s and offices across the State Department, they say, are paying very close attention to Twitter and other sites to get information on the situation in Iran.
Web 2.0 and F/LOSS
Via Facebook: Personally, I
On 16 Jun 2009 , Jon said...
Via Facebook:
Personally, I feel that much of the belittling is due to those that make direct comparisons between Twitter and traditional media, such as the news. These comparisons fail in the minds of many because Twitter is NOT like traditional sources, and in my mind, does not serve as a replacement, as some have called for. In the case of the #IranElection, Twitter was great at getting the word out and building momentum, but for me, it did not replace "news." For me, news entails not just facts, but context and analysis. Do I know and trust the sources of news? How do I assess bias? How do I know that what I'm seeing isn't the result of some type of viral marketing? I, and many others can't digest all of this in 140 character bites.
So, I think Twitter is useful and serves an important niche, but it should not be sold as a replacement for slower and denser forms of communication. /curmudgeon
In other news, I haven't forgotten to say hi when I'm downtown--I just haven't been there!
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(this is my response)
I mostly agree, but the media seems to be missing the point that they have a market to fill (good, reliable analysis) and are (well, most of them) failing to market themselves thusly. I'd also posit that the MSM needs to find a way to address immediate/crisis events that balances the need for speed with accuracy/bias concerns (perhaps by nothing more complicated than making it clear that the sources are potentially misinformation and/or biased)
Although I do much respect
On 29 Jun 2009 , Phoenix said...
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Although I do much respect your opinion about tiwtter I do think that you are a little bit wrong. twitter has its best time right now and nothing there is nothing leftt o twitt. personally i don't see much of sense in it but it might be a good marketing tool.
Twitter is great social and
On 16 Jul 2009 , bloggerdragon said...
Twitter is great social and marketing network, no matter the uses that some people give it, if is currently playing as an important communication tool in Iran is because they need them, that is not twitter fault, tomorrow will be another network, cant be all dow
I fully agree with you. How
On 24 Jul 2009 , nizova said...
I fully agree with you.
How can we trust the stories, which are heard on a half and wiredrawn on the other half?
We need sources that are verifiable and filtered.
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Compliance as a stable function in the treatment course of bipolar disorder in patients stabilized on olanzapine: results from a 24-month observational study
Alexandra Kutzelnigg1Email author,
Martin Kopeinig2,
Chih-Ken Chen3,
Ágnes Fábián4,
María Gloria Pujol-Luna5,
Young-chul Shin6,
Tamás Treuer7,
Yulia D'yachkova8,
Claudia Deix8,
Siegfried Kasper1 and
Dagmar Doby8
https://doi.org/10.1186/s40345-014-0013-x
© Kutzelnigg et al.; licensee Springer. 2014
Received: 17 February 2014
Compliance is a key factor in the maintenance treatment of bipolar disorder. This noninterventional study was conducted to explore factors associated with higher levels of compliance in bipolar patients, all treated in routine clinical settings. Bipolar outpatients (Clinical Global Impression of Severity score ≤3) who had been stabilized with olanzapine mono- or combination therapy for ≥4 weeks were enrolled in the study. Compliance to medication was assessed at baseline and after 3, 6, 9, 12, 18, and 24 months by a physician-rated, 4-point categorical scale using the following classification: noncompliant (patients being compliant to treatment schedule less than 20% of the time) and low (20% to 59% of the time), moderate (60% to 79% of the time), and high (≥80% of the time) levels of compliance. Both baseline and post-baseline factors were used in a generalized estimating equations (GEE) model to predict the likelihood of high compliance. Of 891 eligible patients, 657 patients completed the 24-month observation period. High levels of compliance (≥80%) were observed in 67% of patients at baseline, increasing to 80% in study completers. High compliance at baseline was identified as a strong predictor of compliance during study participation (odds ratio (OR) = 6.9, 95% confidence interval (CI) = 5.0 to 9.5, p < 0.001). Factors associated with high compliance during the study (GEE model) included greater life satisfaction (p = 0.002), better insight into illness (p < 0.001), less work impairment (p = 0.007), and fewer days of inpatient care (p = 0.002). Compliance ratings varied by country (p < 0.001) and duration of post-baseline treatment (p = 0.014). In conclusion, a number of clinical, functional, and social factors were identified as predictors of compliance in patients with bipolar disorder. As compliance is crucial for the long-term management of these patients, more attention should be directed towards compliance itself and factors associated with compliance levels in everyday treatment settings.
Long-term treatment
Drug attitude
Compliance with pharmacological treatment is crucial for response to medication and for long-term outcome in any chronic medical condition (Haynes et al. [2002]). Compliance is usually higher in patients with acute illness compared to patients with chronic disease, dropping substantially after the first 6 months of treatment (Cramer et al. [2003]; Jackevicius et al. [2002]). Despite the great potential to benefit from stable and long-term treatment regimens, patients with chronic mental illness may frequently face more and specific difficulties in being compliant compared to nonpsychiatric patients, mainly due to a lack of insight, cognitive deficits, and (dis)beliefs regarding the efficacy and safety profiles of medication (Cramer and Rosenheck [1998]; Osterberg and Blaschke [2005]; Pompili et al. [2013]; Zygmunt et al. [2002]). Noncompliance is usually difficult for clinicians to detect and is thus underestimated in routine clinical settings. However, it is strongly related to relevant clinical outcomes such as relapse, (re)hospitalization, and suicide attempts (Novick et al. [2010]), especially in schizophrenia and bipolar disorder (Velligan et al. [2009]). Furthermore, noncompliance in patients with severe psychiatric illness may have a substantial economic impact (Murray and Lopez [1996]; Sun et al. [2007]).
Bipolar disorder is a common and often severe mental illness with a lifetime prevalence of 1% to 3% (Judd and Akiskal [2003]; Regeer et al. [2004]), which is associated with a high risk for relapse (Li et al. [2014]; Sharma et al. [2014]; Simhandl et al. [2014]). Noncompliance with medication has been frequently reported for bipolar patients, with a reported incidence ranging from 20% to 60% (Adams and Scott [2000]; Colom and Vieta [2004]; Gonzalez-Pinto et al. [2006]). Several pharmacological treatment strategies have been proposed for relapse prevention in patients with bipolar disorder (Beynon et al. [2009]) such as mood stabilizers (Goodwin et al. [2003]; Grunze et al. [2009]) and, according to more recent guidelines, second-generation antipsychotics (Goodwin [2009]; Grunze et al. [2009], [2010]; Yatham et al. [2013]; Hirschfield [2014]). Olanzapine is considered as first-line treatment for bipolar I disorder for both acute episodes and relapse prevention (Grunze et al. [2009]; Yatham et al. [2006]) and has been systematically studied in a large number of studies as monotherapy or in combination with mood stabilizers and antidepressants, such as fluoxetine, in all of these indications (Baker et al. [2003]; Tohen et al. [1999], [2002], [2003], [2005], [2006]).
Although the efficacy, safety, and tolerability of psychopharmacological agents used to treat bipolar patients have been widely evaluated (Beynon et al. [2009]), the current study is the first to evaluate compliance as the primary outcome in long-term, routine treatment settings and within a large patient population. The aims of the study were to determine factors associated with better compliance in patients with bipolar disorder stabilized on olanzapine and to assess whether there was a difference in compliance between patients stabilized on olanzapine monotherapy and those stabilized on combination therapy. The assessment of compliance was prioritized in our study, as it might be one important factor contributing to the lack of generalizability of clinical trial data and can be influenced in routine clinical care by a variety of intervention strategies.
This prospective, noninterventional, 24-month observational study (study code F1D-OE-B015) was conducted to address the need for further information regarding compliance in patients receiving long-term treatment for bipolar disorder. Stable bipolar outpatients were recruited from January 2005 to December 2006 in six countries (Austria, Romania, Hungary, Korea, Taiwan, and Mexico). The study protocol was acknowledged or approved by the relevant ethics committees. All patients and/or their authorized legal representatives provided written informed consent before screening. Treatment was prescribed in a standard-of-care setting at the discretion of the treating psychiatrist and was not provided by the sponsor during or after participation in the study. Treatment changes, as well as discontinuation of medication at any time after baseline, were permitted and did not lead to discontinuation of the respective patients. Concomitant medication at any point in time and for any duration of treatment during study participation was also allowed in order to reflect routine clinical settings.
To maximize generalizability and in line with the observational design of the study, minimal patient eligibility criteria were applied. Patients were enrolled at the discretion of their psychiatrist if all four conditions were satisfied: (1) presented within the standard course of care and were seen in an outpatient setting for the long-term treatment of bipolar disorder, (2) had received olanzapine oral medication alone or in combination with a mood stabilizer for the treatment of bipolar disorder for at least 4 weeks before study entry and were in stable psychiatric condition at screening (Clinical Global Impression of Severity (CGI-S) score (Guy [1976]) ≤3), (3) were at least 18 years of age, and (4) were not currently participating in any other clinical trial with an interventional design. Data were collected during the normal course of patient care at the baseline visit and at routine follow-up visits, which took place at approximately 3, 6, 9, 12, 18, and 24 months thereafter.
As the study was designed to reflect everyday clinical treatment settings, only measures, which are also commonly used in routine clinical care, were administered. No specific diagnostic instruments were used to screen for bipolar disorder, but physicians were asked to establish the diagnosis according to their routine clinical approach. Patients were further diagnosed as having bipolar I or bipolar II disorder, as suffering from rapid cycling or not, and as having a current manic/hypomanic or depressive episode. The presence or absence of psychotic symptoms during the current episode was also assessed. Besides differential diagnosis, data on sex, age, race, education status, psychiatric and treatment history (including record of suicide attempts), and height were collected at baseline to characterize the patient sample and detect initial differences between groups. The following variables were collected at baseline and at each study follow-up visit: (1) treatment regimen(s), duration of treatment, and level of compliance, (2) patient attitude to medication, (3) disease severity, (4) medical resource use, (5) functional status, (6) relapse status, (7) patient-physician relationship, (8) quality of life, (9) comorbidities and concomitant medication, and (10) weight. These variables were assessed as follows.
(1) The main outcome measure was compliance with the prescribed treatment regimen. This was evaluated subjectively by the treating psychiatrist by assigning the patients' compliance level to one of the four following categories: high (patients being compliant with the prescribed medication, appointments, and all other interventions 80% to 100% of the time), moderate (patients being compliant with all aspects of treatment 60% to 79% of the time), low (patients being compliant 20% to 59% of the time), and noncompliant (patients being compliant <20% of the time). (2) In addition, the Drug Attitude Inventory - short version (DAI-10) (Awad [1993]) was used to measure patients' attitude towards medication. Higher scores on the scale denote more affirmative attitudes towards medication. (3) Disease severity was measured by the CGI-S. (4) Information on medical resource use related to bipolar disorder was captured in a short questionnaire by quantifying the number of outpatient consultations, number of inpatient admissions, number of days spent in an inpatient facility, and number of days on sick leave. (5) Functional status was assessed by the physicians using a short categorical questionnaire to capture the number of social activities (with categories from 0 to ≥5), level of current work activity (categories: unable to work, unemployed, retired, student, housekeeping, sheltered program, volunteer work, working for pay), impairment in work activities (categories: unable to work due to mental illness, severe, moderate, or no impairment), and satisfaction with life (categories: very dissatisfied, dissatisfied, neither satisfied nor dissatisfied, satisfied, very satisfied). (6) Relapse status was determined as per the investigator's clinical assessment (based on exacerbation of acute symptomatology, hospitalization, etc.) and captured directly on the data collection form using questions with a simple ‘yes’ or ‘no’ answer and in case of a relapse the date when relapse was first noticed. (7) A 5-point categorical scale was used to record the strength of the patient-physician relationship (categories: poor, fair, good, very good, excellent), as well as the patient's insight into illness (categories: none, low, medium, moderate, high). (8) Patient quality of life was assessed by the European Quality of Life instrument-5 dimensions (EQ-5D) (The EuroQol Group [1990]), which consists of a patient-rated five-dimension questionnaire and a visual analog scale (VAS). (9) Comorbidities, use of concomitant medication, and tolerability (expressed as the presence of side effects judged to be associated with the patient's condition/treatment) during the 4 weeks before baseline and since the last visit, respectively, were captured.
The sample size calculation was based on the assumptions of 80% completion rates, 30% of patients receiving monotherapy, 70% receiving polytherapy, and corresponding compliance rates of 73% and 52%, respectively (Greenberg [1984]). The precision of the estimate for the difference in compliance between mono- and polytherapy treatment groups was used as the basis for the sample size calculation. Based on the above assumptions and a sample of 960 patients, the 95% confidence interval (CI) width for a difference in such proportions is ±7.1. Missing data were not imputed; all eligible patients were used for analyses. Due to the observational design, primarily descriptive statistics were used: means, standard deviations, and frequencies.
For the primary analysis of factors associated with compliance, the categories of compliance (high, moderate, low, and noncompliant) were dichotomized into ‘high’ compliance (≥80% compliance, corresponding to the high compliance category) and ‘low’ compliance (<80% compliance, a pooled group comprised of the moderate, low, and noncompliance categories). This classification was made as a result of the rare occurrence of low and noncompliance ratings (see the Results section). Baseline characteristics were compared between compliance levels by the chi-square test for categorical variables and by the t-test for continuous variables. Time to relapse was plotted by the Kaplan-Meier approach. The generalized estimating equations (GEE) approach was used to model evaluations of compliance collected at multiple visits during the study as a function of various baseline and post-baseline (i.e., time-varying) covariates. Some patients were prescribed a number of different drug regimens during the 3- or 6-month intervals between study visits and therefore had more than one compliance rating recorded at the corresponding visits. In case of such regimen changes between study visits, the lowest recorded compliance level was used for analyses.
Patient characteristics were analyzed at each visit when olanzapine-containing regimens were recorded. Due to the low proportion of patients not receiving olanzapine (proportions ranged from 2% to 11% between visits), they were not summarized separately. Due to the high number of baseline covariates collected in the study, only variables different at baseline at a 10% significance level and variables thought to be influential (country effect, treatment as mono- versus polytherapy) were entered into the initial joint model for compliance and were then reduced using stepwise procedures. At the next step, post-baseline values for baseline variables selected by the stepwise procedure were added to the model, and model reduction using stepwise selection was applied.
Secondary analyses included similar GEE modeling with repeated measures of total DAI-10 score over time and quality of life over time (total EQ-5D score derived from five domains and EQ-5D VAS score) as a function of the independent variables suggested by clinicians: country, education, olanzapine mono- versus polytherapy, interaction of treatment regimen by treatment duration, overall CGI-S score, patient-physician relationship, patient insight into their disease, indication of treatment for other psychiatric disorders, total EQ-5D score, EQ-5D VAS score, compliance level, age, and gender. Similar models were used to evaluate quality of life over time, measured by total EQ-5D score derived from five domains and by EQ-5D VAS score. Similar repeated measures logistic regression modeling of compliance (GEE) was performed with the ten sub-scores of the DAI-10 used as predictors. Two analyses were performed to study the association of compliance with relapse: logistic regression modeling to look at the presence/absence of relapse and Cox regression analysis to model the time to relapse. Because of the significant differences in health-care systems of the participating countries and different derivation of the costs used in the study (psychiatric hospitalization (with an overnight stay), outpatient consultations with a psychiatrist, and day hospital or day care facility use), UK 2007/2008 estimates of these costs were used in the analyses. The relationship between total medical resource utilization and total compliance over 2 years was modeled using linear regression for total cost based on UK estimates (also see the Results section) by baseline and post-baseline compliance levels adjusted for significant baseline variables, country, and treatment (mono/polytherapy and duration). Since compliance was of primary interest in the model, it was retained regardless of the level of significance.
Patient disposition
As presented in the study flow diagram (Figure 1), 967 patients were enrolled in the study. Of these, 891 patients were eligible to participate: 239 (26.8%) in Austria, 180 (20.2%) in Romania, 167 (18.7%) in Hungary, 145 (16.3%) in Korea, 99 (11.1%) in Taiwan, and 61 (6.8%) in Mexico. The most common reasons for noneligibility were sponsor decision, age <18 years, CGI-S score >3, or no olanzapine treatment before screening. A total of 657 patients (73.7% of eligible patients) completed the 24-month study; the most common reasons for discontinuation from the study were lost to follow-up (11.1%), subject decision (7.0%), and physician decision (5.5%).
Patient disposition. CGI-S, Clinical Global Impression of Severity.
Compliance level at baseline
In all countries, most patients were rated as being ‘highly compliant,’ followed by ‘moderately compliant’; low and noncompliant ratings constituted a very low proportion at baseline. As presented in Table 1, the percentages of patients receiving the different compliance level ratings were not evenly distributed in the participating countries, with the greatest proportion of high compliance ratings found in Austria and in Korea and the lowest proportion in Romania and in Taiwan. Low compliance ratings were most frequently reported in Taiwan; the highest proportion of noncompliance was recorded in Mexico.
Eligible at baseline
High (≥80%)
Moderate (60% to 79%)
Low (20% to 59%)
Noncompliant (<20%)
239 (26.8)
7 (2.9)
All data presented as n (%).
Table 1 also shows the proportion of patients with each compliance rating at baseline. The ‘high compliance group’ (HCG; ≥80% compliance) comprised 594 patients (66.7%), while the ‘low compliance group’ (LCG; <80% compliance) comprised 297 patients (33.3%).
Baseline characteristics by level of compliance
Baseline characteristics are summarized in Table 2. There were no significant differences regarding age, weight, height, gender, and race between the HCG and LCG; however, regarding functional and clinical characteristics, the following significant differences were seen: compared to patients in the LCG, patients in the HCG had a lower mean CGI-S score, had a higher mean DAI-10 score, had spent less time in hospital due to bipolar disorder in the year before entering the study, had fewer relapses in the last 4 weeks before study entry, had a higher mean EQ-5D overall health status score, and had a higher mean EQ-5D VAS score at baseline. Patients in the HCG also had significantly more often participated in social activities with friends or social groups, had higher level of work activities, had less impairment in work activities, had a better patient-physician relationship, had greater insight into their illness, and had remained longer on an unchanged treatment regimen before baseline. Psychiatric comorbidities were reported very infrequently at baseline and also throughout the study. Seventy-one percent of patients in the HCG and 65% in the LCG (p = 0.065) mentioned no comorbidity at all in the 4 weeks before baseline. At the beginning of the study, 44.6% of patients were treated with olanzapine monotherapy, while 55.4% received olanzapine combination therapy (of those, 87.8% in combination with a mood stabilizer).
Patient baseline characteristics by level of compliance
Low (<80%)
pvalue
Age, years, mean (SD)
Weight, kg, mean (SD)
Height, cm, mean (SD)
168.1 (9.3)
Sex, females, n (%)
Race, n (%)
Clinical characteristics
CGI-S, mean (SD)
2.4 (0.7)
DAI-10, mean (SD)
Days bipolar inpatient last year, mean (SD)
Recent relapse, n (%)
Functional characteristics
EQ-5D overall health status score (SD)
EQ-5D VAS score (SD)
Number of activities with friends or social groups, n (%)
Work activity, n (%)
Working for pay
Keeping house
Sheltered program
Impairment in work activities, n (%)
No impairment
Mild impairment
Moderate impairment
Severe impairment
Unable to work due to mental illness
Patient-physician relationship, n (%)
Insight into illness, n (%)
Length of previous treatment regimen (4 weeks before baseline, containing olanzapine), n (%)
<14 days
CGI-S, Clinical Global Impression of Severity; DAI-10, Drug Attitude Inventory - short version; EQ-5D, European Quality of Life instrument-5 dimensions; SD, standard deviation; VAS, visual analog scale.
Compliance and factors associated with compliance during the study
Figure 2 shows the proportion of patients rated as being ‘highly’ and ‘moderately’ compliant at each visit during the study (the proportion of patients showing low compliance and noncompliance accounts for the remaining percentages and is too low to be shown in the graph). The proportion of patients rated as being ‘highly’ compliant increased continuously from one visit to the next, from 67% at baseline to almost 80% at the last visit; conversely, the proportion of patients rated as being ‘moderately’ compliant showed a steady decrease from 27% to 18%. This shift could be associated with a higher discontinuation rate in patients with lower compliance. No significant difference in compliance was observed between patients taking olanzapine monotherapy and those taking olanzapine in combination with other drugs.
Compliance during study (number and percentage of patients on olanzapine-containing regimens). ‘Compliance’ and ‘noncompliant’ patients were too low to be shown.
Table 3 presents factors that were significantly associated with compliance during the study. Compliance during the study (modeled as a trend over time) was strongly related to the baseline compliance rating, with patients who had a high score at baseline having almost sevenfold higher odds of being rated as ‘highly’ compliant during the study. There was a strong variation in ratings between countries, with patients in Mexico having four times higher odds of receiving ‘high’ ratings than patients in Taiwan. Better insight into illness was strongly associated with higher levels of compliance, with an almost threefold increase in the odds of high compliance from moderate to high insight and a threefold decrease from moderate to low/none. We found a nonlinear relationship between the duration of the first treatment regimen and compliance, in that the rate of compliance was higher for short (≤30 days) and longer (>90 days) treatment regimens than for treatment regimens lasting for 31 to 90 days (p = 0.014). A lower number of inpatient days during the 12 months prior to study entry was also associated with higher levels of compliance. Post-baseline variables associated with high compliance were greater life satisfaction and less work impairment during the study. There was also an association with time, indicating increased compliance from one visit to the next.
Factors associated with compliance during the study
Odds ratio
95% CI
pvalue (vs reference)
pvalue (overall)
Compliance at baseline
High (80% to 100%)
[5.04, 9.46]
Length of initial treatment
30 days or fewer
Insight into illness at baseline
Low/none
Number of days the patient used day hospital
Satisfaction with life during study
Impairment in work activities during study
Per visit
CI, confidence interval.
Symptoms and relapse during the study
Figure 3 indicates that the gap between the mean CGI-S scores of patients in the HCG and LCG observed at baseline did not diminish over the course of the study. The mean CGI-S score of patients in the HCG remaining in the study decreased throughout the course of the study, whereas the CGI-S score of patients in the LCG was relatively stable (no formal comparison over time was done). Time to relapse was shorter in the LCG as illustrated in Figure 4. After adjustment for other variables, less than 80% compliance at baseline was associated with a twofold increase in the chance of relapse (Table 4), while a lower CGI-S score during the study was associated with lower odds of relapse. A difference of 1 unit (or 63% of the total possible range) in the EQ-5D overall health status score over time was associated with a fourfold decrease in the odds of relapse. Patients with an ‘excellent’ patient-physician relationship had 52% higher odds of relapse than patients with a ‘very good’ rating, and there was high variability in reports of relapse between countries (p < 0.001). Similarly, the time to relapse was different between countries and a difference of 1 unit in the EQ-5D overall health status score (the total EQ-5D range was −0.59 to 1) was associated with a 54% reduction in the hazard of relapse. No other baseline characteristics were associated with time to relapse.
Mean CGI-S score (±standard deviation (SD)) during the study by current compliance level. CGI-S, Clinical Global Impression of Severity.
Kaplan-Meier analysis of time to relapse.
Factors significantly associated with the absence of relapse (logistic regression results)
Compliance to treatment regimen at baseline
High vs low
CGI-S over time
6 countries
EQ-5D overall health status score over time
[1.57, 11.04]
Patient-physician relationship
CGI-S, Clinical Global Impression of Severity; CI, confidence interval; EQ-5D, European Quality of Life instrument-5 dimensions (overall score based on UK norms); OR, odds ratio.
Association of compliance with attitude towards medication
To determine whether higher levels of compliance were associated with a more affirmative attitude towards medication as measured by the DAI-10, single DAI-10 questions and the total DAI-10 score were modeled versus compliance at each visit. Answers to questions 1 (‘Good things of the current medication outweighing the bad’, odds ratio (OR) = 2.24 [1.64, 3.04], p < 0.001), 2 (‘Feeling weird on the current medication’, OR = 0.70 [0.55, 0.88], p = 0.003), 3 (‘Taking medication of own choice’, OR = 1.34 [1.07, 1.67], p = 0.010), and 5 (‘Feeling tired and sluggish on the current medication’, OR = 0.82 [0.68, 0.995], p = 0.045) were selected as highly associated in a joint model. Similarly, the total DAI-10 score (OR = 1.08 [1.05, 1.10], p < 0.001) turned out to be significantly associated with compliance as a single predictor. The model fit suggests that using the total DAI-10 score as a single predictor of compliance is better than using a more complex model with the four sub-domains described earlier or the ten sub-domains of the scale.
As shown in Table 5, being older and having higher EQ-5D overall health status scores during the study, higher EQ-5D VAS scores during the study, and greater baseline insight into illness were identified as being positively associated with a more affirmative attitude towards medication. Higher CGI-S scores during the study were associated with a less affirmative attitude towards medication, and there were substantial differences in DAI-10 ratings between countries, which were adjusted for in the model.
Factors that were identified to be significantly predictive of better attitude towards medication
[0.004, 0.034]
CGI-S
−0.31
[−0.42, −0.20]
EQ-5D (range −0.6 to 1)
EQ-5D VAS
Baseline insight into illness (vs moderate)
[−0.89, 0.13]
Country (increasing order: Taiwan, Korea, Austria, Hungary, Mexico, Romania)
0 to 3.86
CGI-S, Clinical Global Impression of Severity; CI, confidence interval; EQ-5D, European Quality of Life instrument-5 dimensions; VAS, visual analog scale.
Association of compliance with medical resource utilization
Based on UK estimates, a day of hospital stay costs about twice as much (£219) as day hospital or day care use (£98) or an outpatient consultation with a psychiatrist (0.5 h = £103.5). According to such a cost structure, the logistic regression model indicated that high compliance was marginally associated with lower total medical resource utilization (−£122 [−252, +9] per 3 months, p = 0.067), with a strong increase in costs per each unit of higher CGI-S score (+£314, p < 0.001), and change in costs over time (p = 0.001), with lower costs in the second year of the study.
Association of compliance with quality of life
According to the GEE model, high compliance was associated with better quality of life as assessed by the EQ-5D. The increase of 1 unit (63%) in the derived index score was associated with a twofold increase in the odds of high compliance (OR = 2.2, 95% CI = [1.4, 3.5], p = 0.001) after adjustment for time trend. Similarly, an increase of 1% on the EQ-5D VAS scale resulted in a 1.2% increase in the odds of high compliance (95% CI = [0.7, 1.8], p < 0.001). Figure 5 shows the trend of the mean EQ-5D health status score and the mean EQ-5D VAS score. On both graphs, the mean EQ-5D score of patients in the HCG was higher than that of patients in the LCG throughout the study. Mean EQ-5D scores increased in both groups during the course of the study.
Mean (±SD) EQ-5D VAS score (A) and mean (±SD) EQ-5D health status score (B). EQ-5D, European Quality of Life instrument-5 dimensions; VAS, visual analog scale.
Possible differences regarding compliance between male and female patients were analyzed in the present patient sample, but no statistically significant differences were found. Similarly, no correlations between gender and any of the secondary outcome parameters (e.g., DAI-10 total score, time to relapse, total medical resource utilization) were found.
Collection of adverse event data was not an objective of the study since patients were receiving multiple medications in a naturalistic setting, according to the prescriptions of the treating physicians. However, patients' weight was measured at each visit. Analyses of patients while on olanzapine-containing treatment regimens indicated that weight at baseline and 24 months was similar in the HCG and LCG, with an average weight gain of approximately 2 kg being observed over the 2 years of the study, both in the HCG (mean weight at baseline 73.5 kg (standard deviation (SD) 13.8), at the 24-month visit 75.4 kg (SD 13.8)) and the LCG (mean weight at baseline 73.9 kg (SD 14.1), at the 24-month visit 75.8 kg (SD 12.9)).
To our knowledge, the present study is the first large, noninterventional clinical trial assessing compliance to treatment as the main outcome parameter in patients with bipolar disorder. According to our analysis and in line with everyday clinical experience, patients with ‘high’ versus ‘low’ compliance showed significant differences in a range of parameters assessed at baseline and throughout the study. Due to the observational and naturalistic study design, conclusions regarding causality between compliance and other parameters cannot be derived. The findings that high baseline compliance is a strong predictor of later compliance and the importance of the patients' attitude towards treatment suggest that compliance might be a rather stable factor in the treatment course of bipolar patients. It is also possible that the strong association between baseline and 2-year compliance may be due to both variables being secondary to one or more common factors that remained relatively stable during follow-up.
The interrelation between compliance and all other investigated variables was multifaceted: high levels of compliance at baseline and during the study were significantly associated with more favorable clinical, functional, and social outcomes in the HCG compared to the LCG, suggesting that the relationship between compliance and these factors may at least be bi-directional. While higher levels of compliance may contribute to lower CGI-S scores, better insight into illness, higher levels of social and work performance, and better quality of life, it may very well be that patients with more favorable parameters at baseline (better clinical status, less severe disease course, better disease insight, etc.) show higher levels of compliance per se and that, in this context, better compliance might be only one additional parameter contributing to a more favorable prognosis. However, even if causality between parameters cannot be determined, improving some of these variables may also have a positive influence on the other parameters (including compliance), thus allowing for other possible interventions (such as psychoeducation, improvement of patient-physician relationship, etc.) besides pharmacological treatment in the long-term management of bipolar disorder.
Overall, in our patient sample, compliance was high both at baseline and also at all follow-up visits, regardless of the use of olanzapine as monotherapy or in combination with other agents. Compliance increased among study completers, a finding that is not surprising, as ‘lost to follow-up’ and ‘patient decision’, the main reasons for dropout, could be interpreted as noncompliance to the treatment schedule. Hence, the clinical trial setting itself might be a confounder, since higher rates of compliance are likely to occur in patients willing to participate in clinical research. This suggestion is supported by the results of a study of the effectiveness of lithium in bipolar disorder, in which patients were highly compliant with their treatment regimen ([Sylvia et al. 2014]). To minimize this factor, a naturalistic study design was chosen to investigate compliance under conditions that mimic routine clinical care. In order to increase reliability and generalizability, a large patient population was investigated, and a follow-up period of 2 years was chosen to determine the long-term disease course of this patient sample. Furthermore, as patients from different European countries (including countries in both Western and Eastern Europe with different health-care systems), Latin America, and Asia were included in the study, results from different social and medical practices regarding compliance could be obtained.
Overall, 44% of the patients included in the present study were on olanzapine monotherapy. This surprisingly high proportion may be the result of selection bias due to the clinical trial setting. However, the use of monotherapy may also contribute to higher levels of compliance, as it is easy for patients to use. While data on combination therapy in the maintenance treatment of bipolar disorders are limited, olanzapine monotherapy has been shown in several studies to have an efficacy profile comparable to that of lithium and was therefore rated as having Level A evidence for the prophylactic treatment of bipolar patients (Grunze et al. [2004]). Additionally, only stable patients who had received olanzapine treatment for at least 4 weeks before baseline and who had CGI-S scores of ≤3 were allowed to enter the trial, a constellation further contributing to the high compliance rates observed in this particular patient population. This agrees with the high rate of completers in the study, while in routine clinical practice, many patients have severe problems not only with taking their medication on a regular basis but also in attending appointments (DelBello et al. [2007]; Scott and Pope [2002]; Strakowski et al. [2007]; Chen et al. [2013]). In line with that, compliance was evaluated regarding the whole treatment regimen (medication, keeping appointments, etc.) in this trial and thus cannot be attributed completely to only one particular aspect of treatment, such as a single medication.
The rationale for including only patients who had been stabilized with olanzapine given as mono- or combination therapy was that at the start of the study (January 2005), olanzapine was the only antipsychotic approved for the treatment of bipolar disorder in the participating countries. It is possible that the inclusion of patients stabilized solely on olanzapine introduced bias into the study (Lundh et al. [2012]). However, a study by Rascati et al. ([2011]) showed that bipolar patients taking olanzapine were 35% more likely (p = 0.04) to discontinue their medication than patients taking ziprasidone, and another study showed that compliance with quetiapine was marginally greater (2% to 4% greater; p ≤ 0.002) than that with other antipsychotics, including olanzapine (Gianfrancesco et al. [2006]). Conversely, another study showed that compliance among patients with bipolar disorder was similar for the different atypical antipsychotics (Hassan et al. [2007]). Thus, it is unlikely that limiting patient participation to those treated with olanzapine had a significant effect on the results of the study. Furthermore, the recruitment of such patients would have provided a consistent patient population in terms of the basic treatment received.
Several other factors may also have contributed to the high levels of compliance in our patient sample. Compliance was assessed by a subjective measurement (a physician-rated scale); however, clinicians tend to overestimate their patients' compliance rates to the prescribed treatment regimen (Osterberg and Blaschke [2005]). As shown previously, there can be significant disagreement between physicians' estimates of patients' compliance and the results of pill counts or electronic monitoring (Velligan et al. [2007]). In the present study, higher levels of compliance were once again shown to be associated with lower probability for relapse; therefore, our findings are in line with several other studies showing that compliance may be an important factor in the long-term management of bipolar disorder, especially with regard to relapse prevention and rehospitalization (Velligan et al. [2009]; Novick et al. [2010]).
In our study, compliance showed a nonlinear relationship with the duration of treatment at the first routine follow-up visit (approximately 3 months post baseline). This could have been related to the fact that it is easier to be compliant in the short term and to the presence of a group of patients who are highly compliant and therefore likely to continue taking their medication for more than 3 months. In addition, there is potential for the taking of medication to become a habit in the longer term. Alternatively, it could have been due to an artifact in the study design in that patients were treated with olanzapine for at least 4 weeks before study entry, yet those who discontinued treatment by the first follow-up visit would be categorized as having a treatment duration of 31 to 90 days rather than >90 days. Further research is needed to explore the change in compliance with long-term treatment.
Despite substantial advances in pharmacological and nonpharmacological treatment possibilities, bipolar disorder often entails multiple relapses and impaired psychological functioning (Berk et al. [2010]; Solomon et al. [2010]). However, the extent to which modern treatments have influenced the natural course of mental disorders is not entirely clear. Providing a prognosis of the course and outcome of bipolar disorder(s) continues to be challenging, despite the variety of treatment options and multiple research efforts worldwide. Although long-term symptomatic remission does not guarantee functional recovery, it may have a favorable impact on long-term overall prognosis. The high degree of treatment resistance in patients with bipolar disorder highlights the need to develop better outcome predictors for compliance, prognosis, and treatment intervention, designed to reverse or prevent this burden of illness (Treuer and Tohen [2010]). Therefore, some of our findings, such as differences in compliance rates between countries, as well as potential cultural influences and the influence of different health-care systems - factors that may influence the compliance of bipolar patients - need further investigation.
Other factors crucial for compliance, such as adverse events during treatment with antipsychotics/mood stabilizers and their impact on patients' compliance could only be evaluated to a very limited extent (and not in context with a single medication) in the present study, as combination therapy, concomitant medications, and changes in treatment regimens were allowed at all time-points during study participation. Overall weight gain was low in our olanzapine-treated patient sample, another factor that might have contributed to the high compliance rates in study completers. However, weight gain at the individual patient level showed much variability. Analyses of patients on olanzapine-containing regimens in the present study indicated less weight gain during the course of the trial compared to other studies (Lipkovich et al. [2006]) and may be driven by dropouts due to weight gain. Furthermore, comorbidities and personality traits (Axelsson et al. [2009]; Halimi et al. [2010]; Holma et al. [2010]; Jerant et al. [2011]; Pappa et al. [2006]; Pompili et al. [2013]) - both also very likely contributing to different levels of compliance in bipolar patients - were not systematically assessed by structured interviews. Therefore, and similar to routine clinical care, these are very likely underreported in our sample and are not in accordance with published comorbidity rates in bipolar patients (especially alcohol/substance abuse, personality disorders, comorbid attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, etc.) (Correa et al. [2010]; DelBello et al. [2007]; Perugi et al. [2010]).
One limitation of our study is the fact that no specific diagnostic instruments were used to screen for bipolar disorder. Rather, physicians were requested to establish the diagnosis according to their routine clinical approach. This is an acceptable approach given the observational nature of the study, but it is worth noting that inter-rater reliability for diagnosing bipolar I and II disorders was low in initial field trials of the fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (kappa values 0.56 and 0.40, respectively) (Freedman et al. [2013]). Another limitation is the fact that inter-rater reliability for the different ad hoc questionnaires used to measure outcomes was not evaluated because, although important for controlled clinical trials, this type of evaluation is not generally used in naturalistic studies. The reason for this is that the key goal of these studies is to investigate how such rating is performed in a ‘real world’ setting. In addition, investigators did not receive specific training for using the ad hoc questionnaires because they involved simple questions with a number of possible answers and were therefore very easy to administer.
Other limitations include the fact that compliance was measured by a subjective rather than objective approach (e.g., measurement of plasma olanzapine levels, pill counts, or electronic monitoring). As discussed above, physicians tend to overestimate patient compliance, which may account for the high levels of compliance observed in the study. Nevertheless, our findings are in line with several other studies showing that compliance may be an important factor in the long-term management of bipolar disorder. Additionally, although compliance results from different social and medical practices were obtained in our study due to the inclusion of patients from different countries, no statistical analyses by country were performed because such analyses would have been very limited, particularly with so much variability in the data. A final limitation is the lack of investigation of the effect of symptomatology on compliance. Patients who are more symptomatic often change medication frequently because they feel it is not effective, and this can cause them to be less compliant with their current treatment regimen. The effect of the degree of symptomatology on compliance warrants further investigation.
Compliance is one of the key factors in the successful management and long-term treatment of patients with bipolar disorder. Therefore, it should be the subject of further investigation as the main outcome parameter of clinical studies. Factors that have been shown to positively influence compliance, such as the patient-physician relationship, should be given more attention in the management of bipolar patients.
CGI-S:
Clinical Global Impression of Severity
CI:
DAI-10:
Drug Attitude Inventory - short version
EQ-5D:
European Quality of Life instrument-5 dimensions
GEE:
generalized estimating equations
HCG:
high compliance group
LCG:
low compliance group
SD:
VAS:
visual analog scale
We would like to express our gratitude to all participating patients and investigators.
This study (F1D-OE-B015) was funded by Eli Lilly and Company.
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Chih-Ken Chen, Ágnes Fábián, María Gloria Pujol-Luna, Young-chul Shin, and Siegfried Kasper disclose research grants for their institutions from Eli Lilly and Company for conducting the study.
Chih-Ken Chen discloses board membership and consultancy (and lecturer) for AstraZeneca, GlaxoSmithKline, MSD, Otsuka, Lundbeck, and Sanofi-Aventis in Taiwan.
Siegfried Kasper discloses board membership, consultancy, and expert testimony for AstraZeneca, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Eli Lilly, Lundbeck, Pfizer, Janssen Pharmaceuticals, Sepracor, Servier, Pierre Fabre, Wyeth, MSD, and Schwabe; payment for lectures, including serving on speakers bureaus, for AstraZeneca, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Eli Lilly, Lundbeck, Janssen Pharmaceuticals, Pierre Fabre, Organon, CSC, Servier, Pfizer, and GlaxoSmithKline; travel/accommodation/meeting expenses unrelated to activities listed from AstraZeneca, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Eli Lilly, Lundbeck, Janssen Pharmaceuticals, Pierre Fabre, Organon, CSC, Servier, Pfizer, and GlaxoSmithKline; and grants/pending grants for his institution from AstraZeneca, Eli Lilly, Lundbeck, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Sepracor, Servier, Novartis, and Pfizer.
Alexandra Kutzelnigg discloses support for her institution for travel to meetings for the study or other purposes (travel expenses to the IRBD, International Review of Bipolar Disorders - Congress of the European Bipolar Forum, May 2010, Budapest) and payment for lectures, including serving on speakers bureaus, for Eli Lilly, Novartis, and Affiris AG and has acted as a consultant for Eli Lilly, Biogen Idec, and Affiris AG.
Martin Kopeinig is a former employee of Eli Lilly and Company.
Tamás Treuer, Yulia D'yachkova, Claudia Deix, and Dagmar Doby are employees of Eli Lilly and Company.
DD and TT designed the study protocol. AK and CD drafted the manuscript. All authors were involved in the analysis and interpretation of data and have critically reviewed the manuscript for important intellectual content. All authors were involved in the decision to submit the manuscript for publication and have read and approved the final manuscript.
Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Division of Biological Psychiatry, Medical University Vienna, Waehringer Guertel 18-20, Vienna, 1090, Austria
Psychosoziale Dienste in Wien (PSD), Mariahilfer Strasse 77-79, Vienna, 1060, Austria
Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Keelung, Chang Gung University School of Medicine, No.200 Lane 208, Ji-Jin 1st Road, Anle District, Keelung City, Taoyuan, 204, Taiwan
Réthy Pál Kórház-Rendelőintézet, Békéscsaba, Hungary
Hosp. Angeles Metropolitano, 59-600 Roma Sur, Mexico City, 06760, Mexico
Kangbuk Samsung Hospital, 110-746 Seoul, South Korea
Eli Lilly, Madách u. 13-14. (VII. emelet), Budapest, 1075, Hungary
Eli Lilly, Kölblgasse 8-10, Vienna, 1030, Austria
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Creative Lives — Photographer Benjamin Swanson talks self-discipline, persistence and unglamorous processes
Posted 03 March 2017
Drawing on his background in sculpture, Benjamin Swanson styles and shoots objects for luxury brands and top magazines. Slick as his images may be, Benjamin says the biggest misconception about his job is that it’s glamorous – he may shoot for the likes of Louis Vuitton and Nike, but he’s often cold and covered in dust. Aesthetically he’s inspired by Russian Constructivism and the Bauhaus, and frequently plays with bright blocks of colour, mirrors and precarious angles to create still lifes that force you to question their reality.
Benjamin Swanson
Freelance Photographer (2014–present)
Dezeen Watch Store, Hay, Nike, Louis Vuitton, Wallpaper•, Size?, The Telegraph, PORT Magazine
Freelance Photographer’s Assistant (2014)
BA Photography (started in Fine Art), Nottingham Trent University (2011–2014)
benjamin-swanson.com
instagram.com/benjaminswansonstill
Inside Benjamin’s London studio
How would you describe what you do?
I’m a freelance photographer working in still life. My clients are mainly in design and fashion, and I specialise in anything object-orientated. What I do changes monthly – I work for a lot of magazines, but what they get me to do each time is always different. A lot of my bread and butter comes from small businesses and other sole traders, for example graphic designers or small shops who want photography for their online presence. At the minute I’m retouching shots of a jeweller’s work, planning a shoot for Size? tomorrow and shooting a job for The Telegraph.
What does a typical working day look like?
On an average day I’m at the studio planning, shooting tests and doing research, usually between 9am until 7pm. If a set is too big to fit in the studio, then I base myself elsewhere. I tend to shoot eight days a month, but a two-day shoot will often end up being over a week’s work.
On a shoot day I usually get up at 5.45am to get in before everyone else. I’ll put on some music and have coffee, then the set designer arrives at about 8.30am with assistants and equipment. The initial set-up to get the first shot is the hardest. I try to plan as well as I can, but sometimes it goes to pot so it’s important not to be too sentimental. I tend to think less about locking down every shot (although sometimes I’ll sketch them out) and more about what we're trying to achieve. You work until the job's done, sometimes that’s 11pm. Knowing when you're done is a lot about gut feeling. It’ll look crap, you'll move everything around again, and then after a couple of hours it'll suddenly look right.
How does your freelance work usually come about?
Sometimes it's a surprise. I tend not to ask which of my projects people have seen, so I don't try to redo it for them. Art directors tend to have a pool of photographers that they like to work with; for example, I've shot a lot of stuff for PORT Magazine, and its co-founder has now moved to The Telegraph so I'm starting to work with them too. It's about relationships you make – the more you maintain them, the more things happen.
“It’s a blessing to do what you love as a job, but sometimes it’s hard to differentiate what is work and what isn’t, so you have to discipline yourself.”
Work for Range Rover with PORT Magazine, 2016
How collaborative is your role?
It’s very collaborative. I am always working with set designers, stylists, assistants, art directors and with clients directly. It took a little getting used to at first, as your work can quickly lose its identity. I think finding the right team and being critically aware helps when working with so many people.
What are the most and least enjoyable aspects of your job?
I love shooting and really enjoy the build-up to shoots, developing concepts and problem solving. I also like meeting people, talking about my work, and the research side. I dislike retouching and cleaning up the studio. My job can be very stressful; either thinking too much about a shoot or worrying when you have a dry patch. I find taking necessary breaks and engaging with other interests helps put perspective on your work. It’s a blessing to do what you love as a job, but sometimes it’s hard to differentiate what is work and what isn’t, so you have to discipline yourself.
What has been the most exciting project of the last twelve months?
I did a project for PORT Magazine documenting the interior of a Range Rover. Usually car photography comes with a really particular language, no matter who shoots it, but for this project we could do whatever we wanted. They left the car at a friend’s studio in Nottingham and I had to shoot it overnight and deliver the pictures in the morning. It was kind of gnarly but exciting. I got some beers in, put some music on and it was just me and the car. I used blackout cloth and abstracted certain parts to make graphical images. It's quite rare that you're just allowed to do something like that. It felt like a development for me and something I'd like to do more of.
What skills are essential to your job?
Being able to make decisions – quickly.
What tools do you use most for your work?
Apple products, a Hasselblad with a digital back, a flash, Capture One and Adobe, plus the spirit level built into the compass on iPhone is a lifesaver.
Work for Nike, 2015
FT Weekend Magazine cover, 2016
How I Got Here
What did you want to be growing up?
I wanted to be an inventor! I guess I am, kind of.
How (if at all) is the subject you studied useful to your current role?
I studied sculpture and installation which was hugely influential. I moved into photography because, as a sculptor, if you rig something up badly in a gallery, people can see it. I found that whatever I made only worked from a fixed perspective, and lost something in a physical space. I also found the documentation more stimulating than exhibiting, and was interested in the control a camera gives. I went to New Zealand and interned with an artist called Martyn Roberts, who makes light installations. The influence of sculpture isn't just physical – I think about how a combination of composition and light can covey what I’m trying to say.
What were your first jobs?
I assisted a few still-life photographers who had a similar philosophy in how they approach projects. It was massively important in shaping the type of photographer I would become. Some photographers will show you a lighting trick, but I was more inspired by the way the photographers would systematically break something down, think about concepts or put things together.
Was there anything in particular that helped you the most at the start of your career?
The chain of events are usually so long that it’s hard to remember. One person knows someone who suggests someone else, that kind of thing.
“Sometimes you’ll be really busy and other times it’s quiet. Instead of being rational, you wonder what’s wrong with you. You panic. It affects all photographers, whether they admit it or not.”
Was there an early project you worked on that helped your development?
I got few commissions off of the back of my degree work, entitled ‘The Conquest Materials’, and things slowly built up from there.
What skills have you learnt along the way?
Now that I work collaboratively, I have to be adaptable and open to ideas evolving quite quickly.
What’s been your biggest challenge?
The biggest challenge, other than financial, is self-doubt. If the thought creeps into your mind, which it does for everyone at some point, you get a fraud complex and feel like you’re not good enough. It can be really damaging, because if you lose confidence you're more likely to make mistakes. As a photographer you’re quite isolated. Sometimes you can be really busy and other times you’re really quiet. Instead of being rational, you wonder what’s wrong with you. You panic. It affects all photographers, whether they admit it or not.
Is your job what you thought it would be?
The biggest misconception about photography is that it’s glamorous. I spend a lot of time covered in dust in freezing cold studios staring endlessly at objects. The second is that you get paid. It’s very hard to get paid. The third is that you will be working all the time. Everyone has dry spells, but they are scary at first.
The Conquest of Materials, university work, 2014
I have a few personal projects I really want to get on with, which have been on the back-burner for far too long!
Could you do this job forever?
I hope so. I can imagine being 80 and taking photos of pints at the bowling green.
What is the natural career progression for someone in your current role?
Bigger shoots, more frequently.
Pliable, university work, 2012
What advice would you give someone wanting to become a freelance photographer?
Assist – it’s a good way of making a couple of quid and finding out whether you actually want to do photography. If you decide it’s what you want, the main thing is not to quit. In the first couple of years photographers fall like flies. I’m the only person still shooting from my year at university, and there were 98 of us. That’s because it’s hard, in those early days no one will commission you and pay you, but you have to just keep chipping away.
Posted 03 March 2017 Collection: Creative Lives
Disciplines: Photography
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Make yourself known: Photographer Cait Oppermann
Jules Young discusses the rise of food styling and her role as an agent
Photographer Mathieu Willcocks on documenting sea rescues, staying driven and dealing with isolation
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When Love's Not Enough Part 2
Jacqueline Williamson BBA MPA MS
Ms. Williamson is a published author and educator with a Bachelor of Business, Master of Public Administration, and Master of Science!
Under His Spell ...
When the music stopped, he and Bridget were still standing on the dance floor. Someone gave a sigh and the DJ violated by playing the song again. Joe moved Bridget closer to the center of the dance floor this time and began to take center-stage with his ability to not only captivate and hold an audience, but his lady as well. When that tune was over the DJ not willing to break the mood, switched to Human Nature.
“It seems like a night for Michael Jackson.” Bridget said.
“It seems like a night meant for lovers.” Joe corrected.
Bridget remained silent, digesting the remark Joe had just made.
“So, I hear you will be returning to college to collect a Master of Art in Journalism degree.” Joe stated.
“Yes, that’s right. I want to go on and get my education behind me.” Bridget said.
“That’s a good idea. Then you will have more time to devote to a family.” Joe said matter-of-fact.
Bridget was so overcome by the moment that she did not catch the first hints of the type of person Joe was.
“So, give me your telephone number so that we can keep in touch. I have been awarded several government grants for my research in Architectural Design with Computer Technology and I am going to start my own pilot company.” Joe stated proudly.
“Really, that’s fascinating!” replied Bridget. “And what is your company called?”
“Dynamic Electronics!” Joe said.
“Dynamic Electronics sounds like a very innovative name.” Bridget said.
“Thanks, it is going to revolutionize computer generated drafting.” Joe said.
“Here is my phone number.” Bridget said handing Joe a small neatly done business card. It read: Bridget Hathaway, Mystery Writer written in bold letters. There was a picture in one corner of a Pyramid type graphic and underneath in small letters read Pharaoh Publishing House with both Bridget’s home and cell phone numbers.
“Are you a published author?” Joe asked.
“Yes, a few of my short stories have been collected within an anthology called: For Those Who Love A Good Mystery.” Bridget said proudly as well.
“A profitable hobby, what a nice idea.” Joe said and dismissing the thought went on to something else. “I hope to put my business on the stock exchange someday soon. In the meantime, I have enough money to cover all my startup costs.” Joe said.
The First Inklings of Trouble ...
Bridget was a little taken aback by Joe’s comment that her writing was nothing more than a profitable hobby. But before she could comment further, her parents came to take her to their hotel before they returned in the morning.
“Well, it was nice meeting you, Joseph.” Bridget said.
“It’s Joe and I will be in touch.” With that Joe turned and headed toward a group of young men his age that had been congregating at one end of the auditorium.
“Well, what do you think of Joseph Henry Harrington III?” Angie asked.
Opinionated was the one word that came to Bridget’s mind.
Joe had seen a group of his frat brothers and decided to join them.
“My man Joey, it’s good to see you. How are the plans coming?” Roger asked.
“You are looking at the owner and Chairman of the Board for Dynamic Electronics.” Joe beamed.
“Cool.” Called one man.
“Way to go, dude.” Remarked ivy-leaguer Terry Giovanni a student who was completing his Master’s in Marketing.
“Terry, do you think you can get me the ‘hook-up’ on a few fellows in the Accounting Department?” Joe said.
“Only in Accounting?” Terry replied rather hurt.
“Terry, you and yours will head up my Marketing Department. Don’t take it like that, man.” Joe tried to smooth ruffled feathers.
“Alright, then. I will see what I can do.” Terry said feeling a little better. Although his roots were in Alpha Pi Alpha, he enjoyed hanging out with the brothers of Beta Sigma Epsilon and was as often mistaken for one because of his constant affiliation.
“I saw you putting the moves on Bridget “tender-roni” Hathaway.” Ellis joked.
“I think she is a nice young lady, and watch what you say about her.” Joe defended.
“Hey, man, I didn’t mean any harm about it. Most of us guy here would have loved to be in your place out there on the dance floor. You had it all together, man. I congratulate you.” Ellis said extending his hand and giving Joe a firm brotherly shake. All the other frat brothers joined in on congratulating Joe for making “the move of the year.”
There was no doubt that Bridget would prove to be a beautiful trophy bride for Joe.
A Conquest Worth Pursuing ...
Joe was in his environment loving it up. It was at that point when he decided that he would devote all the spare time he could muster (which wouldn’t be much) to giving Bridget a call and getting to know her better. One thing he knew would be in his favor was the fact that she would be working on her advance degree. This would keep her busy; however he was going to make sure that she would be the permanent woman in his life. “It’s part of the grand plan.” He chuckled to himself. Then he amused himself some more before deciding to call it a day.
That weekend, Joe went home to Davenport to visit his father and mother. It was always a joy to be home. His mother would busy herself making things comfortable for his father and him just like in his early years when he lived at home. He never heard his mother complain one time about how she had to give up a promising career to take care of his father. The house was a showcase designed by his father. Beautiful winding staircase, indoor fountain with live fish and flowers and an additional built-in aquarium with the largest goldfish imaginable.
After visiting his parents to reaffirm that everything was still as it should be with his father at the helm and his mother a willing and very obedient 1st mate; Joe proceeds in making matrimonial plans of his own.
© 2019 Jacqueline Williamson BBA MPA MS
When Love's Not Enough Part 11
Changing Directions: A Short Story
by Jeff Reed5
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These Are Officially Malta’s Favourite TV Presenters, According To You
By JohnathanCilia
Keith Demicoli, Ben Camille and Stephanie Spiteri have been named Malta’s most popular TV personalities, according to new a new survey conducted by research company Esprimi.
The suave Demicoli is well known for his regular hosting of TVM News, as well as local and international reports. Meanwhile, local favourite Ben Camille has been popular for a while, having had his own reality show, Benjamin, before becoming the first host of X Factor Malta on TVM.
The approachable Stephanie Spiteri has boosted her profile in recent months as the fun host of Illum Ma’ Steph, also on TVM.
Speaking to Lovin Malta, Ben Camille wanted to thank everyone for their support
“It’s really sweet, I can’t find a better word than ‘happy’ to be honest and humbly grateful,” he said in reaction to how he felt coming out on top.
“I do what I love for a living and I am very thankful for that,” he continued. “I’m currently working on a new production which I can’t reveal more about for now unfortunately, but it gives me all that more energy to do my best and give our audience the quality they deserve by reaching new standards on local TV and social media.”
“And I’m very happy for Keith too, I’m a fan of his, Keith is a great guy, a gentleman and a very good friend of mine,” Ben ended.
Demicoli and Camille topped the popularity chart among 16 – 24 year olds, while Spiteri was the favourite for females aged in that same age group. Demicoli was named the most popular personality for males in the same age group
Stephanie Spiteri gained 13.2% of the popular vote amongst the youngest cohort, closely followed by Benjamin Camilleri with 11.8% and Moira Delia with 5.9% among the young female audiences.
Among young males, Keith Demicoli gained 14.1% of the vote, followed by Peppi Azzopardi (Xarabank) with 9.4% and Andrea Cassar (Liquorish) with 4.7%.
Peppi Azzopardi and Andrea Cassar
The new survey gives quite an insight into Maltese viewers’ preferences
Esprimi Research Director Vanessa Bajada noted that for the first time, researchers and operators in the field could obtain a scientific view of their audiences which would be detailed down to the demographics, gender, socio-economic background and geography of the audience.
Media Insights gathers an abundance of data on local media consumption that can be examined and filtered according to any specific requirements. It helps marketing professionals pin-point exactly where to put their money, to reach their target audience and achieve the best results. The data gathered covers Maltese TV, print, radio and online platforms.
Who is your favourite TV personality?
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Urban Foxes of London
I knew late night encounters with the werewolves of London was a possibility, but meeting the urban foxes of London was unexpected.
Songs from the 70s like White Man in Hammersmith Palais by The Clash and Down in the Tube Station at Midnight by The Jam were the kind of songs that made me think night walking London was not such a good idea when I honeymooned there in 1989.
There were hardly any people on the streets in Westminster at midnight. The area was so deserted as I walked to Buckingham Palace that an urban fox trotted across the road in front of me from St. James’s Park onto the sidewalk. We made eye contact, shared a greeting and under the fence the fox went.
Encounters with wildlife seem like a good omen to me, although I read that urban foxes are a nuisance in London. Kind of like the London version of raccoons I guess.
Spending three hours in transit into the city and back to Heathrow might seem like a waste of effort on a 21 hour layover. In fact, sitting on the Underground train at 9:00 pm when I was on Finnish time, two hours ahead of London, and after getting on the wrong tube line in Hammersmith, I asked myself why I ever booked such a crazy trip with four overnight layovers in four different countries on four consecutive nights to get back to California from Berlin.
Oslo and Helsinki were easy commutes, less than 45 minutes from the airport plane touchdown into my hotel room. London took 1 hour and 45 minutes from the time the Finnair flight from Helsinki landed at Heathrow until I stepped out of the tube at Westminster station.
Instantly, I mean the second I stepped out of the tube station and walked up the stairs adjacent to the River Thames and saw Big Ben, a surge of energy rushed through me. The weariness of travel had gone.
View of Big Ben from Westminster Bridge
“You’ll find no man, at all intellectual, who is willing to leave London. No, Sir, when a man is tired of London, he is tired of life.” – Samuel Johnson
Kelley, my wife, had a poster with this saying that hung in our house for a couple of decades. I read the quote again today inside the Buckingham Arms pub we frequented during our honeymoon week in London 24 years ago March 1989.
County Hall and London Eye seen from Westminster Bridge.
My hotel was Park Plaza Westminster using 50,000 Club Carlson points. The hotel was quite conveniently located on the South Bank, directly across Westminster Bridge from the Westminster Underground station.
Park Plaza Westminster Bridge, London
The property seems like it should be a Radisson Blu and take advantage of free branding connections with all the blue lighting seen from Westminster Bridge.
Park Plaza Hotel review to come along with reviews of Oslo Radisson Plaza and Hotel Kamp Helsinki in the next few days.
Urban foxes prowling the London night
Like a wild creature scavenging urban neighborhoods in the night, I was looking for tasty things in London to capture with my camera.
Night walking in London
One of the best aspects of being out late on a cold London night was the lack of tourists. I felt like London was mine alone with as many security and police officers as tourists on the streets. Nobody walked in front of my camera shots.
Walking to Buckingham Palace had me wondering why there was nobody on the streets. Sure it was after 11pm, but with pubs having just closed, I figured there would be some tourists out sightseeing.
Alongside St. James’s Park there was only me and an urban fox prowling the London night. I wonder if that fox knew it was on Birdcage Walk. I did not know the name of the street either. I just remembered the area from my previous visits.
Wellington Barracks was quiet too. In 1989, Kelley and I watched a soldier forced to jog around the yard carrying a mattress while his superior trotted beside him bitching him out in military drill sergeant fashion. The changing of the guard at Buckingham Palace involves a squadron of soldiers marching over from the barracks to Buckingham Palace about 200 meters away.
Victoria Memorial in front of Buckingham Palace
Even the area around Buckingham Palace was nearly deserted, except for the constant stream of taxis driving around the fountain. I headed back toward the Thames River.
London has grand buildings. The city is a majestic place for a tourist.
The street cleaners, police, me, and a few couples strolling or kissing were the main bodies on the streets.
In March 1989 I remember blocks with hundreds of homeless people sleeping in doorways and sidewalks. There were remnants of cardboard beds on the steps at Westminster Station as the only sign of people having slept outside last night.
Walking the streets of London without my anglophile wife Kelley was kind of sad. The idea came to me that we should second honeymoon in London 2014 for our 25th anniversary.
Trafalgar Square fountain
St. Martin in the Fields church at Trafalgar Square always reminds me of Mozart’s Quintet for Clarinet and Strings, K. 581, from an enchanting recording I have by the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields chamber orchestra.
St. Martin in the Fields
Past Trafalgar Square I came across another pub I remember fondly from 1989.
The Sherlock Holmes Pub.
Kelley turned me on to Sherlock Holmes as literature in the 1980s. Two interests we shared in London back in 1989 were pubs and Sherlock Holmes. We saw Jeremy Brett and Edward Hardwicke in a London stage performance on our honeymoon trip.
Sherlock Holmes is all the rage again, but I find the Guy Ritchie Sherlock Holmes films rather inane. We are great fans of the modern TV versions. Sherlock from the BBC starring Benedict Cumberbatch is brilliant as Sherlock Holmes and Martin Freeman as Watson.
Kelley has always been a Johnny Lee Miller fan so we also watch the US television show Elementary.
I would have liked a pint, but alas, some London pubs still close at 11pm.
Interestingly though is alcohol can be sold in stores 24 hours. There is a 24 hour market between Marriott County Hall and Park Plaza Westminster Bridge on the South Bank of the Thames.
Golden Jubilee Bridge walking to the south side of the Thames. Kind of freaky being in the center of London alone outside at midnight.
I waited on the bridge to take a video of the midnight chimes of Big Ben. It was rather quiet and serene over the Thames River.
The lights of Parliament turned off at 11:59pm, and just as the tower chimed midnight, a train crossed the bridge behind me and the pedestrian bridge that had been empty for five minutes suddenly had a dozen people walking by me talking.
I just happened to be walking across Westminster Bridge the next day at 12 noon and got another chance to make a twelve chimes video. The street traffic was not nearly as loud as the train.
Golden Jubilee Bridge
Standing beneath the London Eye, the enormity of the structure reveals awesome engineering.
The fact that even Big Ben and Parliament had turned out the lights seemed like a sign that I should do the same after 90 minutes on a whirlwind trip prowling the magnificent city of London while remembering times past and finding new joys.
Posted in Club Carlson, London Tagged Big Ben, Buckingham Palace, London Eye, London Parliament, London Underground, National Gallery London, Park Plaza Westminster Bridge, Sherlock Holmes, Westminster Abbey, Westminster Bridge
Aeneas says:
Just want to say how much I’ve enjoyed reading your reports and seeing your photos.
downhillcrasher says:
You forgot to mention the danger posed by werewolves of london!
Great photos. I get to London a few times a year and never tire of the city. I also had a fox encounter in London a few months back. I saw him and called him like a dog, and he came right over. Of course he then proceed to try to take my glove off. I think people feed him by hand so he made an assumption that I had something good to eat.
Anyway, love the report and pics!
In the late seventies and early eighties, it seemed almost every inexpensive record of classical music in our college bookstore was made by the ubiquitous Sir Neville Marriner & the Academy Orchestra. Per wikipedia, they are “the most recorded chamber orchestra in the world, with over 500 sessions”
Excellent review of London at night, really enjoy your trip reports. I absolutely love Sherlock on the BBC, can’t wait for the next season. Much better than the CBS version here in the U.S.
London removed the 11pm closing time requirement on pubs years ago. Now to stay open later they only have to apply for a later closing time and its pretty much always allowed bless the pub is in a particularly residential area. Many pubs though, especially n areas that aren’t trafficked all that much late at night do still close at 11pm. The Sherlock Holmes closes at 11, but I’m fairly certain there’s a pub or two up Aldwych that stay open later.
Ric Garrido says:
@Mike – Thanks for the tip. I thought the 11pm law had changed. Usually I am an early bird and closing hours do not matter, but on this trip to Europe I was living more the 8am to 1am waking hours.
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ICG's Emerging Cinematographer awards are open to any member of the guild who is not already classified as a director of photography. The awards were created to give Local 600 members an opportunity to present themselves as directors of photography by submitting their short films. Out of 108 submissions, Geoff George (FTVM '08) was selected as one of the 10 honorees for his work on My Blood.
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OMG, That Reptile’s Got Salmonella!
Last reviewed on January 5, 2016
Much has been made of the ability of our animal species to spread Salmonella willy nilly. As veterinarians, we’re trained to tell you, our pet-owning clients, lots about how your pets might potentially give you the crud. But how careful do you really need to be?
It’s undeniably true: reptiles can carry about 200 different types of Salmonella, all of which can give you salmonellosis. Here’s an excerpt from this month’s NAVC Clinician’s Brief on the subject:
Approximately 40,000 confirmed cases of human salmonellosis are reported annually in the U.S. and result in nearly 400 deaths. Pet reptiles are a known source of Salmonella species exposure to humans. Salmonella detection and elimination in reptiles, however, does not seem to be a viable solution for preventing salmonellosis in humans because identifying Salmonella species from infected reptiles is not precise … numerous efforts have been made to prevent Salmonella shedding in reptiles without success. Even when the best efforts are employed to eliminate Salmonella from [infected] reptiles, there remains a constant risk for environmental exposure.
Yes, while reptiles often carry Salmonella around in their guts, knowing whether they’re liable to infect you with it or not isn’t exactly easy. So you can’t know whether that turtle you bought at the pet store has it or not before taking it home to your kids. And if it does, there’s no way to be 100 percent safe from its ability to shed the bacteria in its feces.
That’s because Salmonella bacteria have a way of hiding so that they’re not always identifiable when you test any given animal. But there is a silver lining, again thanks to the Clinician’s Brief:
The good news is that simply touching or holding a reptile will not result in spread of Salmonella. Exposure occurs when something that has become contaminated with fecal material while handling the reptile (eg, hands, fingers, food items) is placed in the mouth or ingested.
Which is why we veterinarians offer our clients these basic guidelines to prevent exposure:
Washing hands after handling reptiles
Not allowing reptiles to roam free in such areas as the kitchen and bathroom
Not cleaning reptile equipment in the kitchen or bathroom
Not eating, drinking or smoking while handling reptiles
Additionally, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention also recommends that kids under five years of age and immunocompromised individuals should completely avoid contact with reptiles … just in case.
But Dr. Doug Mader, veterinary specialist on the reptile front, has this to offer by way of commentary:
It should be noted that even though these numbers sound extreme, Salmonella species are ubiquitous and can be found not only in the common animals we encounter every day (eg, dogs, cats, mice, rats, birds, cockroaches, hermit crabs), but also in such foods as peanut butter, tomatoes, raw eggs and uncooked chicken. In fact, the odds of contracting salmonellosis are greater from exposure to these foods than from contact with reptiles.
And I do believe him. But are the odds in our favor because so few of us are willing to keep reptiles relative to eating soft-boiled eggs? Not sure about that one. I’ll keep you posted.
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Angel Creek
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Children's Book Council Australia, Notable Books List, 2012.
What do you do when you find an angel with a broken wing?
There are only two things Jelly likes about the new house on Rosemary Street: the old apricot tree and the creek over the back fence.
One night, Jelly and her cousins spot something in the creek's dark waters. At first they think it's a bird, but it isn't...it's a baby angel with a broken wing. They decide to keep it. But Jelly soon discovers that you can't just take something from where it belongs and expect that it won't be missed.
Sally Rippin's Angel Creekis a book about being brave and selfish and tough and scared. It's a book about an angel, about growing up. And about the amazing things that happen in the summer before high school begins.
Sally Rippinwas born in Darwin and grew up in South-East Asia. Sally has written and illustrated many books for children, including titles from the Go Girl and Aussie Bites series and the popular Fang Fang stories. She is also the illustrator for many others, including the recent Me, Oliver Brightby Megan de Kantzow and Mannie and the Long Brave Dayby Martine Murray. Sally lives in Melbourne and writes and illustrates full time.
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'Hideaways, rescues, broken rules, and a girl who must protect something fragile and precious and out of this world...I loved this book.' Martine Murray
'An intriguing and singular depiction of angels neatly wrapped up in a brief, captivating coming-of-age tale.' Kirkus Reviews
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'An evocative and haunting portrayal of a girl whose familiar world is visited by the unfamiliar, I was fascinated.' Martine Murray
'My favourite character was Pik. I liked him the best because he was funny, he always gets into trouble. He reminds me of my youngest brother.' Greta, grade 6.
'I like Angel Creek because of the excitement and spookiness.' Asuini, grade 3
'I absolutely loved the book. Once I began reading it I got stuck to it. I would rate it 10 out of 10!... This book is a thrilling adventure...' Thy, grade 6
Sally Rippin was born in Darwin and grew up in South-East Asia. Sally has written and illustrated many books for children, including titles from the Go Girl and Aussie Bites series and the popular Fang Fang stories. She is also the illustrator for many others, including the recent Me, Oliver Bright by Megan de Kantzow and Mannie and the Long Brave Day by Martine Murray. Sally lives in Melbourne and writes and illustrates full time.
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Choctaw Indians Raised Money for Irish Famine Relief Leave a comment
On March 23, 1847, the Indians of the Choctaw nation took up an amazing collection. They raised $170 for Irish Famine relief, an incredible sum at the time worth in the tens of thousands of dollars today.
They had an incredible history of deprivation themselves, forced off their lands in 1831 and made embark on a 500 mile trek to Oklahoma called “The Trail of Tears.” Ironically the man who forced them off their lands was Andrew Jackson, the son of Irish immigrants.
On September 27, 1830, the Treaty of Dancing Rabbit Creek was signed. It represented one of the largest transfers of land that was signed between the U.S. Government and Native Americans without being instigated by warfare. By the treaty, the Choctaws signed away their remaining traditional homelands, opening them up for European-American settlement. The tribes were then sent on a forced march
As historian Edward O’Donnell wrote “Of the 21,000 Choctaws who started the journey, more than half perished from exposure, malnutrition, and disease. This despite the fact that during the War of 1812 the Choctaws had been allies of then-General Jackson in his campaign against the British in New Orleans.’
Now sixteen years later they met in their new tribal land and sent the money to a U.S. famine relief organization for Ireland. It was the most extraordinary gift of all to famine relief in Ireland. The Choctaws sent the money at the height of the Famine, “Black 47,” when close to a million Irish were starving to death.
Thanks to the work of Irish activists such as Don Mullan and Choctaw leader Gary White Deer the Choctaw gift has been recognized in Ireland.
In 1990, a number of Choctaw leaders took part in the first annual Famine walk at Doolough in Mayo recreating a desperate walk by locals to a local landlord in 1848.
In 1992 Irish commemoration leaders took part in the 500 mile trek from Oklahoma to Mississippi. The Choctaw made Ireland’s president Mary Robinson an honorary chief. They did the same for Don Mullan.
Even better, both groups became determined to help famine sufferers, mostly in Africa and the Third World, and have done so ever since.
The gift is remembered in Ireland. The plaque on Dublin’s Mansion House that honors the Choctaw contribution reads: “Their humanity calls us to remember the millions of human beings throughout our world today who die of hunger and hunger-related illness in a world of plenty.”
Choctaw contribution memorial in Ireland
The Great Irish Famine led to the massive Irish migration to America.
Posted December 2, 2016 by markosun in History, Native Americans
Mi’Kmaq Warrior and Former U.S. Marine Sniper Danny Boy Stephens Leave a comment
Hailing from Canada’s East Coast Danny Boy Stephens joined the U.S. Marines and became a sniper. He also is a Mi’Kmaq Warrior and dons the Warrior uniform in stunning photos.
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Marine Corps medals can be seen over his heart.
Posted April 14, 2016 by markosun in Native Americans
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Video Vortex: opening session Friday January 18
By: Jasper Moes
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Yesterday the workshop, this morning the start of the two-day “Video Vortex – responses to YouTube”, an international conference organized by the Institute of Network Cultures at PostCS11, Amsterdam. A good crowd fills the hall at the 11th floor of the ex- Dutch postal service building, all waiting for the first session to kick off. When everyone has found a seat, Geert Lovink opens the session and the two-day conference has started.
[all photos by Anne Helmond]
This session covers, as the program booklet states, the YouTube era we’re living now, where video content is produced bottom-up with emphasis on participation, sharing and community networking. But as companies like Flickr being consumed by Yahoo, YouTube by Google, the question rises what the future is for the production and distribution of independent online video content. How can a participatory culture achieve a certain degree of autonomy and diversity outside mass media? What is the artistic potential of video database and online filmmaking?
Tom Sherman
The first to speak is Tom Sherman. Sherman is an artist and writer and professor in the Department of Transmedia at Syracuse University in central New York. He has represented Canada at the Venice Biennale, performs and records with the group Nerve Theory, and received the Bell Canada Award for excellence in video art in 2003. His most recent book is Before and after the I-Bomb: an Artist in the Information Environment (Banff Centre Press, 2002).
Vernacular Video
In his presentation, Sherman gives a nice overview of the forty years of “video evolution”, in which video art has lived many lives. Born out of television, video decentralized this medium by allowing consumers to electronically capture, record, process, store, and reconstruct a sequence of still images. The evolution of video has been fuelled not only by this capturing and storing, but also by the development of display techniques of which the future will bring us thinner displays (as thick as paper), which makes the ubiquity of displays possible (video watches, videophone (iPhone)), etc.). Distribution and exhibition of video is transformed into file sharing and transmission.
Is video a tool or an art medium? According to Sherman it is both. Video can be an art medium, just as it is used for video conferencing, video dating, video surveillance, video gaming etc. So video art is a way in which the “tool” video is being used.
In the late 60-ies, video was a process not a product. You’d capture the moment, analyze this in the initial playback, and then re-record over it. Videotape is not television (VT = not TV), but now with the overwhelming online video that is available, and people watching tv-episodes online next to “home made” videos, television is loosing its higher ground. As in many forms of art, video art as an art based on aesthetics is now in a period when “life waltzes over it”, like a tsunami, depriving it (perhaps) of its aesthetics, its rules.
As Sherman is talking about the history of video art, he shows that video art has had a repeated near death experience, as it is difficult at times in its 40 year existence to commodify and only kept alive by the following ongoing life support systems:
– Television network cable and the web
– Video publishing
– Governments and foundations
– Nightclubs music video and video culture hybrids
Video Art vs Vernacular Video: art becomes conservative
Video Art started the development of its aesthetics (internal logic, set of rules for making it) as a response to television. It was then avant garde. But with the rise of vernacular video (peoples video from their points of view), video art seems to attach itself firmly to traditional visual art, media and cinematic history in attempts to distinguish itself from the broader media culture. Video art becomes “rear garde”, it becomes conservative.
The characteristics of vernacular video (according to Sherman):
– Displayed recordings will continue to be shorter and shorter like tv and advertising
– Use of canned music will prevail
– Video diaries will become important, voice over will replace writing
– More road films, travelogues
– More extreme films
Where Video art “is” aesthetic, Sherman sees vernacular video as anesthetic: we don’t follow rules with recording. As said, video art was response to television, now the Internet is replacing TV, thus video art will be a response to the web.
Read Sherman’s article Vernacular Video.
Rosemary Comella
The second speaker is Rosemary Comella who has been working since 2000 as a researcher, project director, interface designer and programmer at the Labyrinth Project. As part of Labyrinth, she developed the interface for Tracing the Decay of Fiction, a collaborative project between experimental filmmaker Pat O’Neill and the Labyrinth team, and she helped direct The Danube Exodus: The Rippling Current of the River, an interactive installation with filmmaker Peter Forgács. She also developed Bleeding Through: Layers of Los Angeles, an interactive installation and DVD-ROM, in collaboration with cultural historian Norman Klein and the Center for Art and Media (ZKM) in Germany. She directed and served as photographer for Cultivating Pasadena: From Roses to Redevelopment, an installation and DVD-ROM, including catalog, exhibited at the Pasadena Museum of California Art in 2005. Comella is currently creative director for ‘Jews in the Golden State: A Home-Grown History of Immigration and Identity’, a public on-line archive and museum installation that hopes to illuminate one hundred and fifty years of Jewish history in California through a visually engaging project that invites users to supplement official history with their own histories and memories using text, home movies, photographs and ephemera.
Home-Grown History
In her presentation Comella put emphasis on the relation between narrativity and the database. As content on YouTube seems rather chaotic, a role for artists is to create order out of this chaos in picking and choosing, editing and shaping an anti-thesis of YouTube with discipline spaces that are coherent. Many of Comella’s projects have been participatory but in a more disciplined way. Participation of specialists and non-specialists.
Comella shows some of her work, of which two I will mention here. The first is a project she made in collaboration with Pat O’Neil, known for his participatory-style work, called “Tracing the Decay of Fiction”. The interface of the interactive DVD let’s you navigate through the rooms of the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles. It contains the now locked ballroom where Sirhan Bishara Sirhan assassinated Bobby Kennedy. J. Edgar Hoover, Marilyn Monroe, Howard Hughes, Jean Harlow, John Barrymore and Gloria Swanson once lived there, and with this DVD you can see footage that was shot over the last 30 years (numerous movies and scenes have been shot there). For generations of moviegoers and television consumers, these names and events have seeped into our consciousness, have become our memories.
Another project is called Home-Grown History. It is a software tool that is being developed at the University of Southern California’s School of Cinematic Arts, in collaboration with a number of partners. The Home-Grown History, software concept stems from earlier projects that combine personal and public archives to visually and aurally represent cultural histories of a particular place over time. In this latest incarnation, the software will be applied to the project Jews in the Golden State: a Home-grown History of Immigration and Identity that will work both as an on-line archive and traveling museum installation. The tool and concept can easily be applied to other communities. The concept is to facilitate the creation of a profound social space and structure for encouraging a productive dialogue between personal stories and public histories, in a way that will be useful and pleasurable to both the academic historian and the general public.
Florian Schneider
This session ended with a presentation by Florian Schneider, a filmmaker who has been involved in a wide range of projects that deal with the implications of postmodern border regimes on both a theoretical and practical level, over the past ten years. He is one of the initiators of the campaign Kein Mensch ist Illegal at documenta X in 1997 and subsequent projects such as the Noborder Network and the online platform kein.org. He developed and co-organized several events, including Makeworld (2001) and Borderline Academy (2005). Currently Schneider is working on Imaginary Property, a series of texts, films and video installations researching the question: “What does it mean to own an image?” He has lectured at museums, galleries, art academies and conferences worldwide. Since 2006 he has taught art theory at the art academy KIT in Trondheim and he is a member of the PhD program “research architecture” at Goldsmiths College, London.
Imaginary Property
Schneider gave a very good, yet very long presentation of which I will try to give a summary here. After the talk, Schneider promised me to put the transcript of his lecture on nettime somewhere next week, so make sure to read it (and check my summary for mistakes;)
The summary: Digitization of our ‘lives’ has irrevocably changed our image of ownership, and property. Self and ownership have a whole new arithmetic. Was the old, bourgeois conception of property characterized by anonymity and objectivity, (the relation between you and the object you may or may not own), today’s immaterial production, digital reproduction, and networked distribution create the need for property relations to be made visible in order to be enforced (now the relationship between you and property has changed to you and other users who can play with these images). We need to believe that property is still around in order for capitalism to work.
Property exists first of all as imagery (logo’s, branding, images as someone else’s property) and rapidly becomes a matter of imagination. A contrary way of reading “imaginary property” could also be understood as the expression of a certain form of possession or ownership of imaginaries: It opens up to the question: “What does it mean to own an image”?
Schneider sees a problem in the massive expropriation of images that is presented to us as web2.0: as soon as you upload, you sign the agreement to give the rights to a corporation. This massive expropriation is a response to p2p networks (they basically do the same) But what is at stake here? Ownership. The new imaginary ownership: replace ‘intellectual property’ with ‘imaginary property’, and see what happens then…
Tags: Florian Schneider, ownership, participatory culture, property, Rosemary Comella, Tom Sherman, video art, VideoVortex, youtube
8 Responses to “Video Vortex: opening session Friday January 18”
Erik Borra
More Florian Schneider: Search engines, their borders, and appropriation of the image
Matthew Mitchem
This is Matthew Mitchem… one of the presenters above. I just wanted to clarify some things about the entry. I might have made the impression that I made the “Hillary’s Favorite Word” video. I didn’t, a very close friend did: it was part of the delving into the world of YouTube that I dragged some associates into leading up to the conference. I don’t want to give the impression that I made it, or is it under my user account; zpinthedark is not my account on YouTube.
Also and more of interest, I didn’t discuss the notion of Virtuosity in relationship to Virno and on-line video, the idea of singular media works inhabiting networked space: a sort of media-network “common”; a follow-up essay will appear soon, with the title of this presentation, when it becomes readable. I also would like to consider how this is related to the notion of “imaginary property” explored by Florian Schneider earlier that day.
Thanks to everyone at Video Vortex, and the Masters of Media for bloging the event. It was wonderful meeting everyone there and I certainly left with a dose of inspiration and a host of new questions to explore.
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The Chinese Annual Conference (CAC) is one of the three Annual Conferences of The Methodist Church in Singapore. The CAC is a family of 17 churches with services conducted in Mandarin, several Chinese dialects, English and Tamil.
ADDRESS: 70 Barker Road #05-04, Methodist Centre, Singapore 309936
EMAIL: cac@methodist.org.sg
WEB SITE: www.cac-singapore.org.sg
PRESIDENT: Rev Dr Gregory Goh Nai Lat
DISTRICT: Rev Philip Lim Kian Leong (District One), Rev Poh Heow Lee (District Two), Rev Goh Aik Hiang (District Three), Rev Dr Niam Kai Huey (District Four)
Paya Lebar Chinese Methodist Mission
Paya Lebar Methodist Girls' School (Primary)
Worship Service: 298 Lorong Ah Soo (536741)
Office: Blk 124 Hougang Ave 1 #01-1444 (530124)
Email: plcmc@singnet.com.sg
Website: www.plcmc.org.sg
Worship Service: [Sunday] 10:45 (Mandarin, Naomi Hall), 10:45 (English, Shaw Hall)
Pastor: Rev Dr David Koh Ah Chye (i/c), Rev Daniel Teoh Kean Oon, Rev Lui Yuan Tze, Rev Patrick Chen Guek Fah, Rev Boey Kok Yeow
Church by Zone: East
During the initial stage of ministry among the Chinese immigrants in Singapore, beginning from 1885, the locus of the work, particularly among the Hokkiens, was around Telok Ayer Street. This led to the construction of the first Chinese Methodist Church at Telok Ayer Street. Inroads to the Chinese community were also established through the setting up of schools such as Anglo-Chinese School and Chinese Girl's School (later Fairfield). Subsequently, other groups began their own ministries and established churches along their dialects, including Foochow, Hinghwa and Hakka, to minister to immigrants from China, Malaya and elsewhere. The growth of these spawned ministries among the Cantonese and Teochews.
While the early years of the CAC’s work was facilitated along dialect lines, English-speaking congregations in the CAC were later established in tandem with Singapore's education policies and emphasis on bilingualism. While the English-speaking congregations have become an important ministry of CAC churches, the significance of Mandarin services has not waned.
The CAC continues to fulfill its mission of reaching out to the Chinese community, be they English-speaking or dialect-speaking. The CAC's strength and distinctive continues to lie in the myriad of dialect work and ministry among the diverse ethnic and linguistic communities in Singapore.
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Carol McGiffin calls Loose Women ‘desperate’ for Katie Price hire: ‘Where’s their self-respect?’
Hanna FlintWednesday 6 Apr 2016 12:55 pm
(Picture: Ken McKay/ITV/REX/Shutterstock)
Carol McGiffin has slammed Loose Women for hiring Katie Price.
The former panellist on the daytime talk show told Bella magazine that she was shocked her former colleagues could accept the ex-glamour model among their ranks.
‘I don’t know what she’s doing there. But she’s got a lot of Twitter followers, and they’re desperate for viewers,’ Carol explained.
Katie appeared in 2009 when Carol was on the panel (Picture: ITV ARCHIVE)
‘I can’t believe those women are sitting with her. Where’s their self-respect? That’s why the show is so different, because they’re going for people with a lot of fans.’
Carol left Loose Women in 2013, and the current panel is hosted by Ruth Langsford and Andrea McLean with the like of Kaye Adams, Jane Moore, Nadia Sawalha, Coleen Nolan, Sherrie Hewson, Janet Street-Porter, Linda Robson, Katie Price and Vicky Pattison subbing in at different times.
(Picture: ITV)
McGiffin – who appeared on the twelfth series of Celebrity Big Brother – says her reason for leaving the panel was because she felt too much of her personal life had been shared in public.
‘I felt as if I’d completely plundered my private life and exhausted my repertoire of anecdotes to the point of actually boring myself,’ Carol explained.
Metro.co.uk has contactedreps for Katie and Loose Women for comment.
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Gravity Falls - Catching Up
Visual Art Gravity Falls - Catching Up
By ShadOBabe, April 17, 2015
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Hey guys!! Just wanted to share the new Gravity Falls artwork I finished.
THIS ONE CONTAINS SPOILERS FOR "NOT WHAT HE SEEMS"!!
Hope you guys enjoy it.
I was a lot of fun to draw!! 8D
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If you ask me, Mabel's fingers are a little weird, but then again I know no one who can get fingers 100% correct.
Other than that, great picture all around!
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April 17, 2015 (edited)
Umm, Stan has six fingers on his right hand.
edit: although now that it's pointed out to me, I realize it's not Stan.
Edited April 17, 2015 by Sarcasmo
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Pegasus Pony
Spoiler of Not What He Seems:
It's Stan's brother, who has 6 fingers on his hands.
Edited April 17, 2015 by Blobulle
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And that, my friend is the spoiler.
One must watch 'Not what he seems' to understand.
Apparently I'm blind. I never noticed that the hand on the journal had five fingers, so it didn't seem odd to me when it matched Stan's brother's hand. (Only upon rewatching that scene.)
Don't worry. I think it had to be pointed out to me too.
I really need to figure out how to do the spoiler thing.
Really? I think they look pretty good.
They're round and stylized, just like the show.
But thanks!! Glad you like it!! 83
LOL!! It's all good.
See the blue/green box next to the font drop down? It's the Special BBCode menu.
Highlight what you want covered as spoilers, click the button, and look in the drop down menu until you see "Spoiler".
Click that and hit OK.
It isn't that they don't look like the fingers in the show, it's that, to me, they look a little too big for her hand. But you know, nothing's perfect, but this is as close to it as I can tell.
Ah I gotcha. Well thanks for the feedback!! 83
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THIS IS SO CUTE! YAY STANLEY
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Princess Diana police facing possible arrest
Image via WikipediaRemember when Princess Diana said that Prince Charles was gonna have her bumped off? No one paid too much attention at the time. That’s just what people going through a bad divorce say. Still Diana was pretty insistent that something bad was gonna happen to her. She told a number of people – including her butler, made a number of semi public statements about it, and even put it in writing several times. Diana said that she would be gotten rid of possibly through some kindof car accident. When she actually died by in a car accident, while vacationing in Paris with fiancee Dodi el Fayd, it seemed like one hell of a coincidence.
secrets in safe keeping
It was even more of a coincidence that a few weeks after her death, Lady Diana’s lawyer Lord Mishcon handed Scotland Yard chief Lord Condon a note in which Diana predicted her death by auto accident. The highly-respected lawyer’s document records the line: “Efforts would be made if not to get rid of her (be it by some accident in her car, such as a pre-prepared brake failure or whatever)…at least to see that she was so injured or damaged as to be declared unbalanced.” That note took some time to get to light. That’s partly because it spent at least three years locked in Condon’s office safe. I say that it spent at least three years in Condon’s safe because the safe was only Condon’s for three years. After he stepped down Lord Stevens took over the office and the safe. The note stayed on as a long term resident of the office strong box.
hi balls & chasers
This is where things get sticky. There were separate Diana Inquiries in both France and Britian. The British one clued up by concluding that it was a damned shame that Princess Diana allowed herself to be chauffeured around by a drunk, pill popping, mentally unstable Frenchman. The drunk unstable Frenchman would have been Henri Paul, who was taking medications for depression and was allegedly drunk on the night of the crash. Some reports had him 5 to 10 drinks under the weather and not up to a high speed chase with the paparazzi. Add those crazy French drivers into the equation and it was a recipe for disaster.
those French sure do things different
Not surprisingly the French see things a little differently. The current head of the French inquiry – Judge Gerard Caddeo, is concerned about the ‘murder note’. Specifically he wants to know why something relevant to the investigation, and possible evidence of foul play, had been kept under wraps for so long. To that end he’d like to have a little chat with the particulars Lord Condon and Lord Stevens; those two fine English gentleman who kept Diana’s death memo in the office safe for so long. In fact he’d even like them to take a little jaunt across the channel so that he can ask them some simple question while they enjoy some French hospitality.
French fields
Now neither of these fine and illustrious gentlemen seem to have any plans for a French vacation anytime soon. Lord Condon said only the other day, in regards to the issue, that “I have not been asked to go to Paris,” he said. “There was discussion of all these things at the inquest and if there is anything else, you will have to speak to the legal affairs department at Scotland Yard. This is not the time or place for this.”
noblesse oblige, or something like that
Meanwhile Judge Caddeo has been in contact with Sylvie Petit-Leclair – a French Judge attached to the French Embassy in London. Petit-Leclair specializes in cross channel legal issues. Judge Caddeo has also been in contact with the Home Office – busy fellow – demanding their help in getting interviews with the rogue gentlemen. Now these letters aren’t freindly “how do you dos” but ‘International Letters Rogatory’. Those are formal requests, and they name Condon and David as suspects. Caddeo especially wants to speak to Condon, to ask him why a note reporting that the Princess had been “informed by sources worthy of her trust” that an attempt was being made to “eliminate her in an orchestrated automobile accident” was withheld from French investigators by the British Embassy & Scotland Yard. So the Diana issue is heating up!
For more on the story go to Express.co.uk
Categories: Death of Diana Princess of Wales, Diana Princess of Wales, Home Office, Kate Middleton, Los Angeles, People, Princess Diana, Royal Family, Scotland Yard . . Author: AgentOrange . Comments: Leave a comment
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From RPGs to Miniature Games – How I got into Gaming
March 5, 2018 April 13, 2018 Jacob Stauttener 1 Comment musing, Other
Recently, I had an interview with St. Andrews Wargaming for their series Better Know a Blogger. In that interview, I discussed a bit about my gaming past. In this article, we delve deeper into my past with RPGs (Role Playing Games) and how that past influences me as a Miniatures Gamer.
My Path to RPGs
When I was young, I did not know about Miniatures Games. There was Nintendo. We had a Texas Instruments Computer with a game called Tunnels of Doom (an old computer game with some similarity to the Gold Series Dungeons and Dragons PC Games, which are basically Tactical RPGs). And… There was a library. At the Library, there was a series of books called Fighting Fantasy.
Those books combine the elements of a Book with the rolling of dice and RPG Style Combat. After borrowing these books from the library, I bought few Fighting Fantasy Novels of my own. I then bought the RPG based off of the Fighting Fantasy Series called Dungeoneer.
Eventually, I came across the Red Box Basic Dungeons and Dragons Starter Set at a local store. I bought it and tried to create a basic skirmish game out of the rules. This converted game was in essence a small scale miniatures game. None of my friends or family owned miniatures, so instead of using miniatures I used a pencil and graph paper to represent movement and combat. It is so odd that while I did not yet know about miniatures games, I was doing my best to use an RPG to develop what was essentially my own miniatures game.
I bought the Basic Dungeons and Dragons Red Boxed Set. I thought it was great. Image from DriveThruRPG.
Basic Dungeons and Dragons
I really enjoyed Dungeons & Dragons when I was young. I would draw up plenty of dungeons and used graph paper to keep track of the movements of players and monsters alike. In my heart, I did my best to transform the basic game of Dungeons and Dragons into a small skirmish game. After a few years of making up my own content, I bought some Dungeons and Dragons expansions. One of those expansions was the Sword and Shield Adventure Module. For me, this module was awesome. It offered an interesting adventure and featured Cardboard “Standies” and a paper gaming mat to allowed me to live out Dungeons and Dragons as a skirmish game. This was such a nice change for someone that was always trying to create the same thing on their own.
This adventure module included cardboard “standies” and a printed play mat. Image from DriveThruRPG.
At this point, I still was unfamiliar with miniatures games, but this module had me very close to the the true type of game that my heart desired. Essentially, this was Dungeons & Dragons with miniatures and I loved the experience. I remember wishing that that all RPG modules were like this one. How the module stood up to time, I am not too sure. I was much younger when I played this game.
Unfortunately, we moved to other game systems and we concentrated more on role-playing aspects of the game. Advanced Dungeons and Dragons (2nd Edition) was the next system we moved to after Basic Dungeons and Dragons. What I enjoyed about AD&D (2nd Edition) was how customization it was and how many supplements were available to the game. Sadly, combat became abstract again and gone were the “cardboard miniatures.”
Other games we played included the Star Wars RPG (by West End Games), Palladium Fantasy and RIFTS. By the time we got to RIFTS, I was missing tactical combat and started trying to make my own miniatures game using the rules of RIFTS as the core of the system. The home-brew tactical RIFTS game didn’t work out too well, but the first miniatures I ever owned were metal RIFTS figures.
Eventually, I came across GURPS. GURPS was awesome in that it included rules for miniatures and game mat based gaming. I bought a lot of GURPS books and enjoyed reading all of them. Unfortunately, I never found someone to share the game with. Oh well – that happens.
Although I played some Necromunda between GURPS and D&D3.5, the first RPG with miniatures that I actually played was Dungeons and Dragons (3.5 Edition). I really liked that system and got a lot of play out of the game.
D&D 3.5 was absolutely awesome in that the system was open. There were many different settings you could play. My favourite settings included Iron Heroes, Dragon Mech, and Darwin’s World. We did not have miniatures yet, but we had cardboard counters (to represent our figures) and grid-based maps to move around. In my mind, this is very much like playing a miniatures game.
As I continued to play the RPGs, I began to realize that I was more of a Roll-Player than a Role-Player.
Above is the cover of one of the DragonMech Source books. In the DragonMech world, Steam Powered Mechs of all sizes fight it out to survive in a post-apocalyptic D&D world. In the picture above, a Dwarf and some smaller mechs help in a colossal battle between two ginormous city mechs. If you like Giant Medieval Powered Mechs, then the DragonMech Series has some great RPG Content. Image from Goodman Games.
RPGs to Miniatures Games
My first introduction to Miniatures Games came in the late 90’s when I played Necromunda for my first time. That game was absolutely perfect for me at the time. It mixed RPG elements (like character progression and base development) and elements of a new type of game that I never experienced before (miniatures games). That said, I finally found what I was always trying to create on my own – a tactical skirmish game. I absolutely loved Necromunda.
After my Necromunda group disbanded, I got into Dungeons and Dragons 3.5. It was not quite the miniatures game I was after, but it was much closer than it once was. We even used gaming mats and counters for our “figures.” Later, I got into buying Reaper Miniatures just because I liked the figures and owned board games with miniatures in them (like ). I had not used these miniatures with Dungeons and Dragons 3.5, but when 4th Edition came out, I was ready!!!
I realize that many people will disagree with me, but I really enjoyed Fourth Edition Dungeons & Dragons. In 4th Edition, Wizards of the Coast transformed the game from a Role-Playing game to a Roll-Playing game. Not only was 4th Edition well suited for a “Miniatures Skirmish” styled game, I also owned miniatures!!! At this time, I collected (but had not played Warhammer) and also owned a plethora of Reaper Miniatures and Board Game Miniatures that I could use in my RPG games.
I loved it, and Dungeon Mastered my best campaign ever under that system by combining the 4th Edition rules with the setting of DragonMech. I plan to write more about that amalgamation in a future post.
After my group disbanded, I found myself looking to fill the miniatures gaming itch. This time, I turned to true miniatures games rather than more RPGs. The first miniatures game that I played extensively was Flames of War followed by Bolt Action and Frostgrave. Of course, there are many other miniatures games that I play and enjoy.
An Admitted Bias
One of the reasons that I do not rate games on Must Contain Minis is because I understand that people’s tastes differ. What is a selling point to me will turn others off of a game and vice-versa. What I strive to do in my reviews is to explain the basics of what is in a game (or book), offer my opinions, and allow my readers to make up their own minds about a product. I do my best to keep my reviews honest and unbiased. That said, I believe that my preference in game type shows through in the content of this site and may very well be influenced by my past in RPG gaming.
My past in RPGs (and desire to find affordable games) likely helps to dictate what elements I find appealing in a game. This likely leads me to giving preference to casual games with campaign elements and high degrees of customization. Games that fit this criteria tend to be a better fit for me than other games. While I like casual games, I also desire a points based system for my force and/or character creation that allows me to create a customized WYSIWYG (What You See is What You Get) army or gang.
Ruleswise, I tend to prefer simple over complex simply because of how many different systems I play. A younger me would have gone for “the more complex, the better.”
My journey into the world of miniatures was a long one. I had not known what a miniatures game was, but a younger me would spend plenty of time turning early Dungeons and Dragons into a tactical skirmish game. The first true miniatures game that I played was Necromunda. I also collected a number of Warhammer Armies that I no longer own. Oddly enough, I only tried Warhammer a couple of times and instead used those miniatures in my RPG games.
As time went on, I realized that I was more of a roll-player than a role-player and that it is in the world of Miniatures gaming where I truly belonged. While others may not have liked Dungeons & Dragons (4th Edition), I did because it turned the D&D experience from an abstract role-playing game to a tactical miniatures roll-playing game. I am sure that some people will disagree with my assessment of D&D 4th Edition and that is okay. Everyone has different tastes. After leaving Dungeons and Dragons, I played a whole host of different miniatures games.
The first that I dived deeply into was Flames of War followed by Bolt Action and Frostgrave. I also get a lot of enjoyment out of reading and experimenting with many miniatures rule-sets.
Hopefully you enjoyed reading this quick article about my past in RPGs and transition into miniatures games. Please feel free to leave comments about your own gaming journey.
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Trichinosis (Food Poisoning)
Trichinosis is a food-borne illness that is caused by eating raw or undercooked meats, particularly pork products infested with a particular worm. Typical symptoms include abdominal pain, diarrhea, fever, chills and headaches. Learn other symptoms of trichinosis plus how to prevent and treat this illness.
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What is trichinosis?
Trichinosis is a food-borne disease that is caused by eating raw or undercooked meats, particularly pork products infested with the larvae of a species of worm called trichinella spiralis. Digestion breaks down the hard outside shell of the larvae, freeing the mature worms. The worms then produce larvae which take up residence in body tissues, especially muscle. Anyone is susceptible, regardless of age or health status. Trichinosis is also called trichinellosis.
What causes trichinosis?
The most common causes of trichinosis are:
Eating raw or undercooked pork products
Eating improperly stored meats
Unclean kitchen utensils used to prepare meats
Eating raw or undercooked meat from wild animals, such as boar, bear or walrus, that are infected
What are the symptoms of trichinosis?
Symptoms of trichinosis range from very mild to severe and can include:
Diarrhea or constipation
Additional symptoms that may develop include:
Profuse sweating
In severe cases, trichinosis can cause:
Difficulty coordinating movements
Inflammation of the heart muscles
Difficulty while breathing
These symptoms can last from 5 to 45 days, but they usually begin to appear 10 to 14 days after consuming the infected meat. Milder cases of trichinosis are often mistaken for the flu or other common illnesses. In extreme cases, trichinosis may result in death.
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Article from DMN:Stars deal Bacashihua to Blues for defenseman
11:12 AM CDT on Friday, June 25, 2004
By RICHARD DURRETT / The Dallas Morning News
The Stars traded one former first-round pick for another Friday, sending goalie Jason Bacashihua to St. Louis for the rights to defenseman Shawn Belle.
Dallas has a wealth of goaltending prospects, allowing general manager Doug Armstrong the latitude to deal Bacashihua, 21, who was the Stars' 26th overall pick in 2001.
The move means Dan Ellis or Mike Smith would likely backup starter Marty Turco next season.
Belle, 19, gives the Stars some much-needed depth on defense. He was St. Louis' first-round selection (No. 30 overall) in 2003 and played in 55 games for the Tri-City Americans of the Western Hockey League last season. He had nine goals, 20 assists, 68 penalty minutes and was plus-5. Belle (6-2, 225) has also competed for Team Canada at different levels the past three seasons.
"Shawn Belle is a good two-way defenseman who is an excellent skater with very good size," said Armstrong in a statement. "He has been able to represent his country on several different occasions and has shined every time."
Bacashihua was 13-19-5 with a 2.66 goals against average and a .916 save percentage last season.
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Celebrate 80th anniversary of ‘Wizard of Oz’ at Music Box Dinner Playhouse in Swoyersville June 14-30
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Follow the funny ‘Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder’ at Music Box Dinner Playhouse in Swoyersville April 26-May 19
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Musical comedy ‘Company’ comes to Music Box Dinner Playhouse in Swoyersville March 8-24
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Solve ‘Clue: The Musical’ at the Music Box Dinner Playhouse in Swoyersville Oct. 20-29
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Comedic ‘Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged)’ plays in Swoyersville Oct. 21-30
From a press release: The Music Box Dinner Playhouse in Swoyersville will present London’s longest running comedy, “The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged),” beginning next Friday, Oct. 21 and running through Sunday, Oct. 30. The show by Adam Long, Daniel Singer and Jess Winfield is a fast-paced and physical comedy that features William Shakespeare’s […]
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‘La Cage aux Folles,’ the musical comedy remade as ‘The Birdcage,’ runs in Swoyersville Sept. 9-25
From a press release: The Music Box Dinner Playhouse in Swoyersville will present the Tony Award-winning musical comedy “La Cage aux Folles” beginning Sept. 9 and running through Sept. 25. The show, at its core, is an old-fashioned Jerry Herman musical – think “Mame” and “Hello, Dolly!” – with a twist, said T. Doyle Leverett, […]
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Music Box Dinner Playhouse presents comedic ‘Mid-Life! The Crisis Musical’ in Swoyersville June 10-26
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Swoyersville singer/songwriter Jenn Johnson offers ‘Window’ into herself and her music
Debut album available now online and at live shows across NEPA
When Jenn Johnson sings, people stop and listen. That’s because, despite her short statue, she’s a powerhouse vocalist who has been quieting rooms “since birth,” in her own words. “I started singing basically when I started talking, maybe before that without words. And I started piano when I was 7,” Johnson told NEPA Scene. “I […]
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Take a Moment to Marvel at Hyrule Castle Recreated in MINECRAFT
by Kelly Knox
The sweeping majesty of towering turrets emblazoned with the Triforce. Princess Zelda’s cozy study. A library filled to the brim with more books than you can read in a lifetime. You won’t find all of this in the ruins of Hyrule Castle in The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild. Thanks to expert builders of Team-Kyo (Team-京), you’ll only see it in dazzling detail in Minecraft.
Nintendo Japan featured the staggering Breath of the Wild-inspired build on the official website. Included is an interview with the creators, who shared what it’s like to take on a Minecraft build of this size. The tour video shows the major features of the castle, set to a calming rendition of the classic Zelda theme,”Epilogue” from the Breath of the Wild soundtrack. Slow down, take a deep breath, and just marvel at the majesty of Hyrule Castle.
Team-Kyo is made of seventeen professional builders, reveals the interview, and much of their Minecraft building experience has been in recreating cities in block form. The initial design was based on screenshots and official artwork from Nintendo. Two weeks of design and two months of building later, Hyrule Castle was restored to its former glory before the arrival of Ganon.
The amount of bricks and time it must have taken to build the audience room alone is staggering.
While it’s not currently possible to actually explore the pre-destruction Hyrule Castle in either Breath of the Wild or Minecraft, this amazing creation does make it easier to imagine what life was like for young Princess Zelda. Maybe if they make that Legend of Zelda television series or the animated series we’ve always dreamed of, we’ll get to see the castle in its full glory again.
Which version of Hyrule Castle is your favorite? Tell us in the comments.
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Transcendence 2.0: Louiz Banks pays tribute to Jazz legend Oscar Peterson in Mumbai
SOURCE: PRADEEP JOSEPH
Oscar Peterson is unanimously acknowledged as one of the greatest exponents of jazz piano. My own switch to jazz piano took place when my father introduced me to Oscar Peterson... that was the turning point in my musical studies and pursuits. Louiz Banks
Louiz Banks is India's pre-eminent jazz pianist, composer, film and record producer. He is also a Grammy nominee and fondly called the Godfather of Indian Jazz." Transcendence is an annual event where performers pay tribute to legends of Indian & Western jazz music. This year’s Transcendence 2.0, which took place on June 8th in Mumbai, saw two modern day Indian legends, Grammy nominee Louiz Banks (piano) and Dr. Mysore Manjunath (violin) paying tribute to their respective idols, jazz legend Oscar Peterson and Carnatic legend T. Chowdiah. The concert featured the music of the Vidwan of the Violin," fusing with the artistry of the Maharaja of the Piano," and proved to be a stupendous success.
Louiz Banks and Dr. Mysore Manjunath were accompanied by Gianluca Liberatore (bass guitar), Vidwan Bangalore Amrit (khanjira), Gino Banks (drums) and Pt. Yogesh Samsi (tabla) and together they took the audience to a heightened level of consciousness with their music, culminating in a joyous transcendent state.
Louiz Banks on selecting Oscar Peterson: The answer to that question will cover a few volumes... but in short... because Oscar Peterson is unanimously acknowledged as one of the greatest exponents of jazz iano..and he continues to inspire all students of jazz piano. My own switch to jazz took place when my father introduced me to Oscar Peterson... that was the turning point in my musical studies and pursuits. Hence, I pay homage to the greatness of Oscar Peterson."
The first set began with the lovely tribute by Louiz Banks to Oscar Peterson with some classic instrumental jazz popularized by Peterson. The second set began with a tribute by Vidwan Shri. Dr. Mysore Manjunathji to T.Chowdiah with the traditional Tyagaraja Kriti ‘Nyanamu Sakaratha’ in Purvikalyani. The finale was specially composed by Louiz Banks called Reunion" loosely based on Raga Chandrakauns. The finale also had Gino Banks, Pt.Yogesh Samsi and Vidwan Bangalore Amrit, showcased their respective class and talent separately and then sparring amiably with each other on their instruments. Pradeep Joseph from Raga to Rock enthused, the concert was like sitting at the crossroads, where the music of Chennai and New Orleans met."
Louiz Banks. Concept, Composer, Keyboards. A Grammy nominee, who has spearheaded the jazz movement in India for the past three decades. He has been singularly instrumental in bringing a high standard of jazz performances to jazz devotees in India.
Gianluca Liberatore. Bass Guitar. A bassist born in Palermo, Italy. After Graduating at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam, he moved to Mumbai in 2015, where he works as Dean of Academics at the True School of Music. Gianluca has performed alongside Ann Hampton Callaway, Ted Rosenthal, Loretta Holloway, Tulio Mourao, Ronal Douglas, SOI and many others.
Gino Banks. Drums. He is the son of Louiz Banks, India’s legendary jazz pianist and composer. Gino is a versatile musician, who has performed and recorded with artists and bands spanning genres.
Vidwan Dr. Mysore Manjunath. Western & Carnatic Violin, is a globally-renowned violinist. A child prodigy who matured quickly to emerge as one of the top violinists in India today. Acclaimed as a wunderkind with astonishing musicianship, Manjunath has established himself as one of the outstanding Carnatic Instrumentalists.
Tablaist Pt. Yogesh Samsi was born in the family of renowned vocalists Pandit Dinkar Kaikini and Shashikala Kaikini. From the age of ten he studied with the late Ustad Alla Rakha. An ‘A’ grade artist of All India Radio and Doordarshan, he has given numerous solo performances as well as accompanied many distinguished artists.
Vidwan Bangalore Amrit. Khanjira. He is a globally-renowned musician, performer, and frame-drummer. His power-packed performances filled with versatility, speed and intricate pattern presentation merged with aesthetics, grace and beauty have fascinated large audiences and received critical acclaim.
At last year's concert, Carnatic legend G. Harishankar (khanjira) was honored with a tribute by Vidwan Bangalore Amrit (khanjira) and jazz legend Buddy Rich was honored with a tribute by Ranjit Barot (drums).
The event was organized by Gigue Entertainment a division of SRH Consilium LLP lead by Rajashekhar Srinivasan. This initiative was made possible with the support of Aditya Birla Sunlife Capital Mutual Funds, Indian Oil Corporation, Life Insurance Corporation & Bombay Dyeing.
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Nancy Pelosi Stands By Her Dismissal Of Freshman Democrats: 'Regrets Is Not What I Do'
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HuffPost July 11, 2019
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) on Wednesday stood by her comments that downplayed the power of four high-profile freshman women in the House, increasing the tension between the congressional leader and her colleagues.
“I have no regrets about anything. Regrets is not what I do,” Pelosi told reporters about her Sunday remarks about the so-called “Squad” ― a group of progressives that includes Democratic Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (N.Y.), Rashida Tlaib (Mich.), Ilhan Omar (Minn.) and Ayanna Pressley (Mass.).
Asked @SpeakerPelosi: Any regrets your comments to @maureendowd may have created some disunity?
"No, I do not. Four people voted for the bill. That's what I said. And no other people followed. I have no regrets about anything. Regrets is not what I do."
— Mike DeBonis (@mikedebonis) July 10, 2019
The comments came after Pelosi left a closed-door meeting Wednesday in which she reportedly warned the Democratic left, specifically Capitol Hill staffers, to keep their criticism of more moderate colleagues in the party to themselves. According to two attendees at the meeting who spoke to The Washington Post on condition of anonymity, Pelosi’s remarks appeared to at least partially be a jab at Ocasio-Cortez’s chief of staff, Saikat Chakrabarty, who recently urged his fellow Twitter followers to support a primary challenger to Rep. Henry Cuellar (D-Texas) and tweeted, “Pelosi is just mad that she got outmaneuvered (again) by Republicans.”
“You got a complaint? You come and talk to me about it,” Pelosi reportedly said in the meeting, according to the Post. “But do not tweet about our members and expect us to think that that is just OK.”
In an interview published Sunday with New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd, Pelosi slammed the four women of color and dismissed them as a tiny squad with no real power in Congress.
“All these people have their public whatever and their Twitter world,” she told Dowd of the first-year congresswomen, some of whom she was happy to pose with on the January cover of Rolling Stone. “But they didn’t have any following. They’re four people, and that’s how many votes they got.”
Ninety-five House Democrats, including the four women, voted against the Senate version of the immigration bill, which increased funding to deal with conditions at the border but lacked humanitarian guarantees for detained migrants, specifically children. Pelosi chose not to amend the bill before it passed, leading to sharp criticism from some Democrats, including the “Squad.”
“When these comments first started, I kind of thought that [Pelosi] was keeping the progressive flank at more of an arm’s distance in order to protect more moderate members, which I understood,” Ocasio-Cortez told the Post later that Wednesday. “But the persistent singling out … it got to a point where it was just outright disrespectful … the explicit singling out of newly elected women of color.”
Pressley told the Post that the speaker’s comments were “demoralizing.”
“Thank God my mother gave me broad shoulders and a strong back. I can handle it. I’m not worried about me,” the Massachusetts Democrat said. “I am worried about the signal that it sends to people I speak to and for, who sent me here with a mandate, and how it affects them.”
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Fabulous Friday Reads: His To Protect
TGIF! Let’s kick off the weekend with Maia Dylan’s hot new paranormal romance His To Protect (An Alpha’s Claim 2). Take it away, Maia!
Thank you for hosting me for His to Protect – An Alpha’s Claim, 2. This book released in November with Evernight Publishing. If your readers would like to they can post questions to me on Twitter tag me using @MaiaDylanAuthor and I will answer them as I see them.
Kaea Hemopo was a man on a mission. He planned to kill the bastard who killed his grandmother, and nothing was going to stop him. He had the man lined up in his sights, his finger on the trigger, and was prepared to die to get it done, but then Kaea found out that he was following the wrong man.
Xavier Mulligan had been stalking his own prey the night he met his mate. He’d been shocked to discover that Kaea was not only there to kill him, but thought he was the asshole who’d murdered his own father. Xavier would just have to make his mate see him for what he was, and accept his very nature. How hard could that be?
Can Kaea and Xavier find a way to work together to avenge those who were taken from them, and retrieve that which was stolen from Kaea’s family, or will Xavier’s need for control be the one thing that could tear them both apart?
Kaea moved a little beneath him, and Xavier had to bite back a groan as his hips nestled a little closer to his.
“Do you—wait, am I naked?” Kaea asked incredulously, and Xavier couldn’t hold back a grin.
“That you are, my lovely. You were damp and dirty from being out in the forest and trying to kill me. I couldn’t very well pop you into bed like that, now could I?”
Kaea frowned as he leaned slightly to the side and looked at Xavier lying on top of him. “And you’re naked because…”
“I was in the shower.” Xavier shrugged. “Again, not somewhere where clothes are necessarily all that helpful. I came out of the bathroom when you woke up. Didn’t have time to go throw any clothes on.”
Kaea nodded, and a delicious red heat swept over the dark skin of his cheeks. “That makes sense, but you could let me go, get up and throw some clothes on now that I no longer want to hurt you, right?”
“But I like it where I am. Do I gotta?” Xavier had never pouted in his life, but he tried in this moment just to have fun with his mate.
Kaea’s laughter was quick and genuine, and had Xavier’s heart doing strange somersaults inside him. “Yes, you do. Come on, it’s very distracting having you lying on top of me.”
Xavier grinned, and knew it was just as wicked as he felt. “I love that you find me distracting, love, because the feeling is most definitely mutual.” Kaea’s eyes darkened, and Xavier knew he liked that particular revelation. “But, you’re right. I’m hungry, and healing this gunshot wound I seemed to have acquired recently has taken a lot of energy.”
Xavier pushed up from the bed, and grinned when he watched Kaea’s gaze wander down his abdomen, but shot back to the puckered scar of the wound on his shoulder. “Crap. Did I apologize for shooting you?”
Xavier resettled the towel around his hips. “No, you did not, and that was very remiss of you. I’ll expect you to make that up to me very soon. Repeatedly.”
Kaea’s soft laughter followed him as he stepped toward the back of the room where he’d put his bag. He grabbed a pair of sweats and pulled them on under the towel, then dropped it to the floor. He turned back toward the bed and laughed himself when he saw Kaea up on his elbows as if to get a better view.
“See something you might like, love?”
Kaea grinned at him, and Xavier could have sworn he felt his heart stutter in his chest. “Maybe, but I’m not a man who gives all his secrets away when he’s just met a man. I prefer a slow build up to a quick flash that’s over too damn soon.” Xavier scowled. “What’s put that look on your face?”
“I don’t like to think of you with other men.” Xavier heard the possessiveness in his own tone, but wouldn’t apologize for it. He was a dominant Alpha bear, and one who did not play well with others. Kaea needed to know and understand that. “I don’t share. You’re mine.”
Kaea arched a sardonic brow in his direction, and it irritated and aroused him at the same time. “Yours?” Xavier could practically feel the temperature in the room fall. “I don’t remember ever being asked if I’d be yours, or even if I wanted you. You presume too much.”
Xavier growled, his anger rising within him. “It’s not a presumption when I could feel your fucking arousal just as sure as you could feel mine, Kaea.”
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Wicked Wednesday Reads: Snowflake Wine
Happy Wednesday, darlings! Today I’m here with Elodie Parkes and her hot new M/M romance Snowflake Wine, now available from Encompass Ink and other online sellers. Take it away, Elodie!
Thank you for inviting me to your blog with new release, MM romance, Snowflake Wine.
The story is contemporary gay romance with an edge of fantasy, especially written as a sweet but sexy Christmas treat.
Jamie Snow and Nathan Bloom, my characters are as usual, dear to me.
Jamie has battled all his life with his strange, fantastic gift. His is the character that brings the element of fantasy to the story. The inspiration behind the creation of this character came, weirdly enough, in the summer, when I visited a ruined abbey. In the grounds were flowering shrubs that I’d never encountered before. From a distance, the flowers looked like frost, and as I drew close, into my mind came the idea of Jamie, a sprite who loves cold, ice, frost, and to comfort himself in the warm weather, he decorated the shrubs with frost flowers.
Nathan Bloom is the perfect partner for Jamie—gorgeous, calm, loving and open. He’s looking for love. He’s onto Jamie’s gifts long before he lets Jamie know it. This is a love story—romantic, sexy, hopeful.
Hunky Nathan Bloom works late for the company putting up the town Christmas lights and decorations.
Gorgeous, enigmatic, Jamie Snow works late forecasting the weather from his desk in the meteorology office.
Nathan sighs over the prospect of a holiday season with no one to love.
Jamie wonders if he’ll ever find a man to love who will accept his mysterious origins and talents.
One cold night, as Nathan finishes hoisting the wreath lights up the building where Jamie works, they meet.
The brilliant festive lights aren’t the only things to sparkle as the two men connect on a deep level.
Be delighted by a delicious, contemporary, gay romance with an edge of fantasy this season.
Sometimes being different is awesome.
Jamie Snow sat alongside Nathan. He glanced across at the man who stirred his frosty heart. He’s so attractive. Jamie hadn’t loved in a long time. He felt more than ready for it—longed for it on lonely nights. He wasn’t about to give up on the chance that this man might want a lover, that he was gay wasn’t in question. No straight guy looked the way he had at another man.
“My name’s Jamie, Jamie Snow.” He softened his voice as he spoke. The man beside him inspired tenderness and he felt a little prick of guilt. Using the weather to flirt with him had been inspired but maybe a little naughty.
Nathan drove the truck into a wide car lot that Jamie hadn’t known existed behind the furniture store on the end of the main street. “Here we are. The store allows us to leave the bigger rigs here every year. Jamie Snow—that’s an interesting name for a meteorologist—mine’s Nathan Bloom.”
Jamie’s smile infused his tone. “Yes. People tease me sometimes at work, they’ll know we’ve forecast it and as I walk by they’ll say, ‘here comes the snow,’ but I don’t mind. I like this name.”
“You’ve had others?” Nathan asked with a laugh.
Jamie didn’t want to reply. He waited. I won’t be lying to this lovely guy if I don’t answer.
Nathan turned off the truck engine and twisted to talk to Jamie. “It’s a cool name. Where do you live?”
It appeared he’d forgotten his question.
Happiness trickled into Jamie’s soul that the attractive man beside him liked his name, and used the word, cool. Eagerly, Jamie told Nathan his address on the outskirts of the town.
Nathan grinned, his eyes reflecting Jamie’s emotion. “I know it well. I live a couple of streets south from there.”
I’m a writer who is in love with happy endings, currently based in southern UK. I write for Evernight Publishing, Siren, Hot Ink Press, Encompass Ink, and eXtasy Books.
I love music, art, flowers, trees, the ocean. I work with antiques by day and words by night. Like a vampire, darkness is my friend, that’s when the silence is only broken by an occasional hoot of owls in the woodlands opposite my home, and I write.
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Marvelous Monday Reads: Golden
Welcome to another edition of Marvelous Monday Reads, darlings! Today I’m featuring Allyson Young and her delicious new shifter romance Golden (The Pride of Panthers 1), now available from purveyors of fine online romance. Take it away, Allyson!
Trace da Costa is determined to unite the nomadic and unsocial panther shifters of the Americas in order to add their voice—as a pride—to that of the rest of the world’s shifters. Humans are aware shifters exist which has led to innumerable problems, especially threatening the survival of the solitary big cats.
His followers have already embraced the idea of mating and staying together to raise their cubs and when he finds his mate he must convince her of the rationale behind the change in tradition.
Aura Maas has no interest in males, aside from the occasional one night stand and even if Trace da Costa is her mate she isn’t willing to give up her lonely lifestyle, having become inured to it at an early age. She is well aware of the risks with no one to have her back and resistant to the idea of being responsible for another—especially a cub or two.
But she’s impossibly drawn to Trace and when danger strikes they make a formidable team. Not to mention how great the sex is. She agrees to commit for a month, against her better judgment because her cat has already accepted him and her human side is fighting a losing battle.
But there are other forces at work, from traditionalists to hunters and it’s only when she flees on instinct and Trace follows her that she accepts her fate. She is claimed by him—and him by her.
“Where is she?” The tension in his voice betrayed his need.
Rock Gideon spoke from the side of his mouth. “Secured in the back room.”
His gut clenched as his entire body went on alert. “What do you mean, secured?”
“Tied, wrapped, and gagged. Secured. She should be waking up from the injection right about now.”
“You drugged and secured my mate.” A stupid man might have missed the dire warning in Trace’s tone. Rock was anything but.
Easing up on his elbows, the big male shook his hair from his eyes. Trace held his stare, their beasts close to the surface. The wolf broke first and dropped his gaze for an instant. “It took five of my pack to subdue her. Shade and Blaze are still recovering—in wolf form! It was a fucking bloodbath. Without the injection, you’d still be looking for her, and how I managed to administer that is a mystery.”
Despite the damage to Rock’s people, Trace couldn’t help but feel a frisson of arrogance and satisfaction. Aura Maas was worthy of him and his pride. Not that his loosely knit group of panthers were actually a pride, but they were still connected. And he required a mate to help bind them together before their kind faded into the mist. It was his lifelong ambition and one within his grasp.
He’d outlived his parents, and his sister… Well, he hadn’t given up hope for Ariana, not yet, but most everyone else had, and it was as if he was the last of his line. And so he was determined to build a larger family, both for safety and longevity of their species.
“I apologize for your trouble and offer my regards to your pack. I’ll also increase the prize money.”
With a huff, Rock turned back to his beer. His tone was admiring, if grudging. “Whoever tames that cat will have a lifetime of—”
Whatever the wolf thought Trace would have with Aura was clearly beyond his ability to describe. Trace hid a smug smile and said, “I’ll see her now.”
“Help yourself. Just keep between her and the fucking door once you cut her free.” Rock fished a key out of his shirt pocket. “New deadbolt. And the window is barred. We’ve kept … guests before.”
The information gave him pause but for a moment. Whomever Rock kept prisoner or in a way station wasn’t his business. The alpha wolf had a reputation of being on the up and up. Regardless, he didn’t have time to ponder. His mate awaited him.
Allyson Young aka Peri Elizabeth Scott lives in cottage country, Manitoba, Canada where she and her husband pretend to work well together in their seasonal business.
She has always enjoyed the written word, and after reading an erotic romance, quite by mistake, decided to try her hand at penning one. That was followed by a mix of spicy (Ally) and sweet (Peribeth) romances in various genres as well as a post-apocalyptic adventure without a lick of romance by Peribeth.
A bestselling Amazon author, a hybrid, and a coauthor, as of August 2018 she has published seven series and several standalones—all available on Amazon—with others in the works.
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Wicked Wednesday Reads: Alpha’s Second Chance
Whee, it’s Wednesday! Never fear, for today I’m here with Jessica Coulter Smith and her hot new paranormal romance romance Alpha’s Second Chance, now available from Changeling Press and other online sellers. Take it away, Jessica!
Alpha wolf Torren lost his mate a year ago. They weren’t fated mates, but he’d tried to give her a good life and thought she was happy. The day he found her mangled body, everything changed. Now he lives for his pack, keeping busy to forget the nightmares that plague him. When Torren wakes to discover a human has been brought onto pack lands, he doesn’t know what the hell his Omega was thinking, but the last thing they need is trouble.
Olivia Grant has never been accepted by the townspeople where she lives. Her parents are sorry excuses for human beings. The day she’s attacked and left for dead, her friend, Omega wolf Jaxon, takes her back to his home. She’s one breath away from dying, and only the Alpha’s bite can save her, but at what price?
Bonded together, Olivia and Torren discover a passion neither has experienced before. They’d thought they had found their happily-ever-after, but someone from the past is lurking in the shadows, and they aren’t happy the Alpha has a new mate.
“Torren,” she said softly.
His hand cracked against her ass, making her yelp in surprise.
“When I want to pleasure my mate, you won’t try to push me away,” he said. “I know you liked what I was doing. You were soaking wet.”
His hand came down on her ass again, making her gasp from the sting that quickly turned into a burn. His fingers trailed along her ass cheek, then stroked her pussy, before delivering another blow to her aching backside. He spanked her three more times before his body came down over hers, the weight pressing her against the pillows and mattress.
“Are you going to keep me from pleasuring you in the future?” he asked, his voice dark and delicious.
“No, Alpha,” she said softly.
His fangs scraped her shoulder, then he quickly moved off her. She heard the rustle of fabric before the bed dipped.
Torren’s hands cupped her ass and spread her open. “I love seeing you like this. Tied down. Open. So fucking wet. Your ass is nice and pink from me spanking you.”
“Torren, please,” she begged.
His hands squeezed her ass cheeks. “One of these days, I’m going to fuck this tight, virgin ass. I’ll claim you in every way possible.”
Goosebumps erupted along her skin and her cheeks warmed, but not in embarrassment. No, what he’d said made her burn in a good way.
Torren nipped her ass, then his body covered hers again. She felt his long, hard cock pressing against her pussy. Torren thrust deep, and Olivia gave a muffled scream as she buried her face in the bedding. He took her hard and deep, his thrusts unrelenting. She felt his hand caress her ribs, then slip between her and the bed. He gave her breast a squeeze before pinching her nipple.
“Mine,” he said in a garbled voice that was a mix of beast and human.
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Award-winning author Jessica Coulter Smith has been in love with the written word since she was a child writing her first stories in crayon. Today she’s a multi-published author of over seventy-five novellas and novels. Romance is an integral part of her world and she firmly believes that love will find you at the right time, even if Mr. Right is literally out of this world.
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Marvelous Monday Reads: My Life to Take
Welcome to another edition of Marvelous Monday Reads, darlings! Today I’m featuring Magali A. Fréchette and her delicious new romance My Life to Take (A Demon’s Love 2), now available from Evernight Publishing and other purveyors of fine online romance. Take it away, Magali!
Everything Celina thought she knew was a lie.
Her husband’s murder, her family’s religion…nothing was what it seemed. The avenging blood on her hands is barely dry, but she’ll do whatever it takes to save this unshakable proof of their love. Even swallow her terror to fulfill the bargain that was sealed on a bed of lies.
But there’s little time for tender reconciliation. Demons are being murdered, their mutilated bodies marked with cryptic threats only Celina can decipher. When visions of the massacres plague her at every turn, Kai sends her back to the human world in the care of the demon she fears most.
Secured in Shiriki’s high rise, she must uncover her own shrouded history. The key to saving the dark realm lies in her past, but an angel with a diabolical mind may lead to their destruction.
She wrapped her arms around his neck and pulled him closer. “I’m fine.”
“And how are you feeling about us?” he asked quietly.
She took a deep breath. “We have a lot to work on for the next while, but we’ll do it together.”
“We will certainly do many things together,” he said with a lewd grin.
In less than a second, he stood naked, his muscles rippling in the low lighting of the room. She ran her hands against his hard chest, her pulse racing as she stared at his pale skin.
The word resonated inside her mind as she felt him invade her thoughts. He growled as he pressed her body against his, kissing along her neck as she closed her eyes. He felt so good, and he was hers as much as she belonged to him.
“Your body, soul, and life are mine.” His tone darkened. “And although I never had a soul of my own, though my life is endless, you have all of me.”
Before she could respond, he took her mouth, thrusting his tongue inside. She moaned as he cupped her breasts, her nipples hardening under his touch. When he tugged at the hard peaks, their lips parted, and she let out a harsh breath.
“I want you.” The words left her in a whisper, a plea from the need pulsing through her.
He lifted her in his arms and carried her to their bed, sitting her on its edge. Despite his gentleness, an animalistic expression flashed across his face as he stared. He crouched in front of her and glided his hand along her thigh.
Heat filled her, burning so hot she was sure she’d combust. Licking her lips, she parted her legs. Her throbbing increased when his gaze traveled to her sex. He stared with such carnal desire, she was sure she’d orgasm.
“You are so beautiful … and no one else will ever touch you.” He kissed her inner thigh and trailed his tongue across her skin, nipping along the way as she gasped.
Letting herself fall onto the bed, her chest heaved as her stomach fluttered. He licked her swollen lips, and she trembled under the pleasure of his touch. He flicked her clit, and she whimpered. “Please.”
His muffled groans against her wetness had her trembling, and she writhed as he sucked hard on her pink flesh. She grabbed hold of his hands holding her hips, digging her fingernails into his flesh, crying out.
“Your screams are as delicious as you are, dove.”
Running her fingers through his hair, she tugged, so he’d look at her. He growled at being denied, his gaze darting to her sex as he licked his lips.
She panted. “I want you.”
He stood. Feathers flew around him, black as night. Within seconds, the feathers falling around him dissipated into smoke, leaving Kai in his true form. Her demon.
The horns on his head held the same red arcane symbols, glowing brightly. He folded his black wings as he took a step closer, the darkness behind his red irises sending a shiver down her spine. Her chest heaved as she crawled farther onto the bed and reached her hand out to him. She wished she had the words to tell him how much she loved him, but showing him would be better.
He chuckled as he got onto the bed, even kneeling he towered over her like a looming shadow waiting to pounce. “You do not need to use words. I can feel it radiating off you as easily as I smell your lust.”
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Still a casting director in my own mind
So you may have noticed that Shifter Woods: Snarl isn’t out yet. There’s a good reason for that–I’ve been having the very devil of a time finishing it. For some reason (which we will get to in a moment) I haven’t been able to get the characters to talk to me and tell me why they’re doing what they’re doing. This means that I can’t write about them because I don’t know them; I’ve already trashed three chapters because they were going nowhere and doing nothing for the story.
And then it hit me last night–I didn’t cast Jack and Kate in my head. Because I think very cinematically (frustrated screenwriter here), I always mentally cast my characters because then I can set them loose the in the story, “watch” what they’re doing, and write it down. I thought that coming up with a cover for SW:S meant that I could just use the models for my mental casting, but since I’ve never seen them move, talk, or emote it simply was not working for me.
So, last night, I cast Jack and Kate (oddly enough I’d already cast Kate’s father and a lot of the supporting characters–I was being ridiculously stubborn about my leads, though). Et voila, I woke up this morning with a VERY important scene that broke my block and will lead to the rest of the storyline. Which is a freaking relief, let me tell you.
Oh, my casting? Yeah, well, I’m pretty sure Richard Armitage is either a wolf shifter or part elf in real life, judging from those points on his years, and he’s very good at playing conflicted yet dead sexy characters so he’s a great choice for my Alpha wolf without a pack. And while I know there’s been a lot of controversy around her for some of her tone-deaf role choices, Scarlett Johansson is really the best person to play Kate–she’s good at being snarky, she can handle action roles (there’s going to be a chapter where Jack and Kate team up to find a little girl lost in the mountains), and she looks enough like the cover model that I won’t have to change anything to make Kate and the cover coincide.
The new goal is to bring this out on 7/31. Let’s get ‘er done.
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Wicked Wednesday Reads: Wrapped Up In Stripes
Happy Independence Day, Americans! And for the rest of our neighbors on Spaceship Earth, Happy Wednesday! Today I’m here with Sarah Marsh and her hot new paranormal romance Wrapped Up In Stripes, now available from Evernight Publishing and other online sellers. Take it away, Sarah!
As the daughter of the Alpha of the Blue Valley lion pride, Heidi should have the pick of the litter when it comes to dating, but her brothers think differently. Surprised with a trip on a very exclusive cruise, she’s excited to explore her fantasies. Bondage? Submission? Ménage? …yes, please! If this is her chance to experience everything she’s ever fantasized about, then Heidi is going to go for broke.
Who has time for pleasure? There’s far too much work to do. Wild Desires cruise line is having issues, and Mason and Wade plan to get to the bottom of it. They didn’t anticipate finding a lioness that has his tiger utterly fascinated. Neither of them seems to be able to resist the temptation sweet little Heidi presents.
Why fight fate when it presents them with such a tasty treat? Good thing they’ve always preferred to share.
“Wade!” she laughed as he bumped into the couch because he was too busy nibbling at her neck, “you’d better not drop me.”
“Ah, baby,” he gently placed her down on her feet once again, this time in front of a very large bed, “you know I’d gladly kiss any bumps or bruises better.”
“In fact,” Mason’s low, sexy baritone sent shivers down her spine. He had turned on a few small lamps, giving the room a low glow before he approached her. “Maybe we’d better check you over anyway, just to make certain you’re all right?”
Heidi’s heart was pounding now, her entire body aching for their touch. She stepped out of her shoes, kicking them to the side. The thin panties she’d worn tonight were already soaked through with desire, and glancing down at the dress pants both men wore didn’t help that situation at all. She could see the impressive outline of their hard flesh along their legs, and she longed to feel that firmness inside her.
“Hmm, yes, maybe you should check for yourself, then?” She smiled and turned around slowly, presenting them with her back and the strings that would untie her dress. Heidi had been fantasizing all through dinner whenever their fingers had played with that bow.
Wade groaned as he stepped closer and traced the criss-cross pattern of the strings along her back until he finally rested his hand at the top of her ass, the heat of it making her bite her lip to stifle her own reaction to his touch.
“Baby, since I first saw the back of this dress all I could think about was pulling on this little red bow,” he whispered, placing soft kisses on her bare shoulders.
“Every time one of you touched my back tonight, I imagined what it would be like if you had pulled on those strings right there at the table.” She closed her eyes and shared the forbidden place her fantasy had taken her.
“Oh? And then what would have happened?” Mason urged her on as his fingers ran a light path along her collarbone and then followed the edge of the neckline down, taking her breath away.
Just then, she felt the small tug at her dress that could only mean that Wade’s fingers were pulling on that bow, and when the pressure finally gave way, she could feel the strings along her neck move just a fraction.
“The dress would have slowly lowered,” she kept her eyes closed, imagining they were still in a restaurant full of people, “until it had pooled at my waist, revealing my bare breasts for you.”
Heidi felt the silky material of the dress move along her skin until it stopped at her waist, the cool air in the room causing her nipples to pebble. She still didn’t open her eyes as she heard the low purrs coming from her mates as she was bared to them.
“And then?” Wade’s voice was barely recognizable, thick with desire.
Heidi was almost panting at this point. She had never been this excited or turned on before, it was almost painful how much she wanted them, how her body longed to be joined to theirs. She supposed Mother Nature really didn’t pull any punches when it came to mating—it was glorious in its ferocity.
“Then you would put your mouth on me,” she whispered back, only seconds before she felt the tip of a warm tongue run a circle around her turgid nipple.
She slowly opened her eyes to see the inky darkness of Mason’s black hair in front of her as he finally closed his lips fully over her breast, his tongue playing with the sensitive flesh, making her moan out his name.
“We like that little fantasy of yours a great deal, baby, but I think we’re at our limit for restraint tonight,” Wade growled out the words and then released the strings holding up the rest of her dress, letting the silky red material float to the floor, leaving her in only her panties.
Mason drew hard on her breast before he let it go and moved his hands up to trace over the wet skin his mouth had left behind. “And we will be revisiting that fantasy, make no mistake, love. But look at you—I think you’re the most beautiful thing I’ve ever seen.”
Both men took a small step back, simply admiring her in a way no one ever had before. The heat in their eyes made her feel more beautiful than she had ever felt under a man’s gaze. It felt so natural to be with them like this, and her own beast preened inside of her. Heidi slowly brought her hands to the waist of her panties and ran a teasing finger along the inside of the lace.
“I think you both have way too many clothes on,” her eyes moved to where Wade was absently stroking his fingers along his covered cock as he watched her, “so I’m just going to take a time-out while you remedy that.”
Heidi first peeled down her panties, letting them drop to the floor beside her dress, and the tortured groans from both men as she slowly crawled onto the bed and up toward the headboard was exactly the reward she’d been hoping for.
Then she settled herself with her back resting against the headboard, looking forward to seeing her mates for the first time in all their naked glory. They certainly didn’t disappoint—both had intense expressions on their faces as they rid themselves of their ties and button-down shirts. Both strong bodies were darkly tanned and thickly muscled, although Wade’s physique was slightly bulkier than Mason’s refined lines. Their shoes and socks went second as their hands moved to their belts and Heidi suddenly had the urge to giggle as she felt like a kid on Christmas morning about to receive the best presents ever. When their zippers went down and revealed that both men were bare under those expensive slacks, it was her turn to groan, the lioness inside her wanting to taste her mates. She could see the thick roots of their cocks, and when they finally dropped those pants to the floor, her instincts found her crawling back towards them.
“That look on your face, love,” Mason’s voice was low and intense. “If you keep looking at us like you want to eat us up, I may end up embarrassing myself here.”
She watched his hand move down to stroke his thick cock, which was standing at attention. A small bead of moisture collected at the swollen head, and he groaned when she licked her lips, wondering what his flavor would be like. The drive to attack them both until they’d spent themselves inside her was overwhelming in its intensity. She needed them now, and there was simply no time for slow loving—her beast would not be swayed.
“I need to taste you both.”
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Sarah Marsh was born in British Columbia, she has only recently began her writing career finding it the perfect outlet for taking the edge off a nine to five office job. She’s been a science fiction and romance junkie for years and when her imagination started to take the characters she’d read about even further in their adventures she decided to try writing something of her own.
Sarah’s also a former pastry chef and spends a lot of time cooking and baking for friends and family as well as painting and knitting. Her biggest weaknesses are animals of any kind…she even loves the ones that wake you up at four in the morning because they can almost see the bottom of their food dish.
When it comes to life in general she’s a big believer that laughter is the best medicine and that there’s no such thing as too much love, which is why she’s such a sucker for a happy ending.
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Mid Week Tease: Shifter Woods: Snarl #MidWeekTease #MWTease
Hello, lovelies! I’m back, and this week I’m teasing you with some more from the third installment in my Esposito County Shifters series, Shifter Woods: Snarl. Some background: Jack Hawthorne is a ex-SEAL and wolf shifter who shows up in Esposito County looking for work at his former commanding officer’s ski lodge. He never expects to find his mate there as well — except that Kate Chandler is a cougar shifter, can’t smell due to a childhood accident (and thus can’t recognize Jack as her mate), and is the daughter of Jack’s former commander. As I like to say, hijinks ensue!
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“I like you, Jack. And I’d like to go to bed with you. I hope that doesn’t shock you.”
He choked back a laugh. If his dick got any harder it was going to break the zipper on his jeans. “It doesn’t.”
She leaned forward, celadon eyes glowing in the soft light from the fireplace. “And I get the impression you want the same thing.”
Oh, Christ yes. His wolf raised its muzzle and howled. It took every ounce of self-control he had to stay on his side of the couch. “Yeah, I do,” he said roughly.
Her eyes narrowed. “Then why do you keep holding me off? Did my dad say something to you?”
And there it was. He let out a long breath through his nose, struggling to keep his desire on a tight leash. “Pretty much. You know what he’s like. You’re a no-fly zone as far as he’s concerned.”
Her lips pursed, making them even more plump and kissable. An insanely hot image of them wrapped around his cock as her tongue massaged the underside of his shaft surged through his mind, making him want to howl along with his wolf. “I’m thirty years old, Jack. I can assure you, I haven’t been a virgin for well over a decade. And while I love my dad, he doesn’t get to decide who I sleep with.” She pushed the popcorn bowl towards him and stood up.
Before he could ask what she was doing, she took her sweater’s hem and pulled it up in a slow, teasing motion. It revealed smooth, creamy skin over sleek muscles and a set of small, round breasts cupped in a scrap of blue lace that was more confection than bra. His mouth went dry at the sight, hands burning to rip off that lace, free those perfect tits, kiss and suck them until all he could taste was her.
Smiling, she shook her hair free of the neckline and let the sweater drop onto the great room’s rug. “I’m going to my room. You can join me, if you want, or you can watch the rest of the movie. It’s your choice.”
Turning, she sauntered off, hips swinging hypnotically. It took him two tries to find the remote control and turn off the TV before he followed.
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Hello, lovelies! This week I’m teasing you with some more from the third installment in my Esposito County Shifters series, Shifter Woods: Snarl. Some background: Jack Hawthorne is a ex-SEAL and wolf shifter who shows up in Esposito County looking for work at his former commanding officer’s ski lodge. He never expects to find his mate there as well — except that Kate Chandler is a cougar shifter, can’t smell due to a childhood accident (and thus can’t recognize Jack as her mate), and is the daughter of Jack’s former commander. As I like to say, hijinks ensue!
Jack shook the worst of the snow from his parka, stamping his boots to dislodge more of the cold white stuff on the back porch before closing the door. “Getting a little deep out there,” he said laconically.
Kate smirked. “You think this is deep, you should be here during one of our blizzards.” She leaned against the mud room door frame, trying not to ogle as the hunky wolf shifter peeled off more of his outer layers. “You’d have a problem getting through the snowfall.”
He grinned as he hung up parka, hat, and scarf. “You’d be surprised. We get bad winters in North Carolina, too. I’m pretty good at dealing with snow.”
She wondered how he was going to deal with the news that her father would be staying in town overnight. It left them alone together in the house, with a nice little snowstorm blowing outside, and if that wasn’t a recipe for falling into bed and fucking their brains out she didn’t know what was–
Her next thought fled as Jack finished stripping down to a thermal T that outlined his broad shoulders and rock-hard pecs. His battered old jeans fit like they had been tailored for him, and she couldn’t help staring at the large package under the fly. Oh, yum.
Even with him fresh from outside, the heat from the big wolf shifter’s body drifted across the space between them, warming her skin. What would it be like if she moved closer, put her arm around his neck? Would he take it as the invitation it was, or would he back off on orders from her father?
I am an adult. I make the decisions in my life, dammit. And if I want to go to bed with Jack, I will.
She allowed herself a wry smile. Assuming he wants to, of course. But she was ninety-nine percent sure that he would be more than happy to visit her bedroom and relieve the growing desire that had been hitting her with increasing frequency since the day he showed up.
Use your words, Chandler. “So,” she said after clearing her throat, “Dad’s decided to stay in town and ride out the storm there, which means we’re on our own tonight. What do you want to do?”
He glanced down at her, and she was sure she saw a flicker of desire in those blue depths. And then he smiled. “Can we watch a movie?”
She wanted to growl in frustration. “Seriously?”
“Yeah. I like movies. Haven’t been able to see a lot of them recently.” He shrugged. “But if you don’t want to, that’s okay.”
Her cougar yowled in protest. Bed! Now! Before the Alpha gets back!
She pushed it back, thinking. The wall of the Chandler great room was one huge DVD collection, and that didn’t include all the films they had in streaming format. If she played her cards right, snuggling up on the couch with Jack while they watched something could definitely turn into something more. “What kinds of movies do you like?”
He considered it. “Believe it or not, I’m not big on action movies,” he admitted. “I like comedies, SF, and fantasy, given my choice.”
Fantasy. A brilliant idea popped into her head. “We have the extended versions of the Lord of the Rings trilogy. Plus I have popcorn. We could make it a marathon.”
He grinned, teeth white against the tan of his skin. “Ma’am, you had me at popcorn.”
Jack tossed a buttery popcorn kernel into his mouth as Bernard Hill magically changed from an aged husk back into a vigorous Theoden on the Chandler’s huge flatscreen TV. “I love this part. I’m a total sucker for a redemption story.”
Kate sat cross-legged on the couch next to him. In a soft moss sweater and brown leggings, she looked like a gorgeous little forest sprite, and keeping his hands off her was becoming more and more a test of willpower. “Yeah,” she agreed. “Wormtongue was a sleazy bastard. And I had such a crush on Theoden when the movie first came out.”
That surprised him. “Really? You must’ve been a kid at the time.”
“Mm, no. I was fourteen. Just the right time for puberty to strike with a vengeance.” She stole a handful of popcorn from the large bowl between then. “All my friends were crazy about Viggo or one of the hobbits, but I thought Theoden was seriously sexy. Must have been all that angst and leather armor.”
“I guess.” A gleam of hope flickered to life. She liked brave, strong leaders who weren’t perfect. And you’re a packless Alpha. Lucky you, you were pretty much made for her.
He ignored the snarky voice. “Hey, don’t eat all my popcorn,” he said, grabbing a handful for himself.
“That’s our popcorn, specialist, and I can always make some more,” she teased, pushing his hand aside with her own. The contact was platonic, but it still sent warmth rushing over Jack’s skin and nerves. He was grateful for the throw pillow he’d casually arranged over his crotch, camouflaging the semi he’d been sporting on and off since Kate had sat down next to him. Her proximity and the heat coming from the fireplace filled the air with her scent, locking onto every pheromone receptor he had and urging him to claim her. Watching an extended cut of the Rings trilogy with her sitting next to him had somehow become a strangely enjoyable form of torture.
As long as he didn’t have to stand up at any point. “So Viggo didn’t do it for you?” he added.
She shrugged. “He’s handsome. But he’s not my type.”
The words left his mouth before he could stop them: “What is your type?”
He winced, worried that he’d overstepped his bounds. But Kate smiled. “Someone who’s capable, confident, but not a macho Alphahole. A little vulnerability is nice. He doesn’t always have to be the strong one. I like to be leaned on once in a while, as long as I know I can do the same thing when I need help. And he has to have a good sense of humor.”
Jack ignored the sudden cascade of dirty limericks and jokes tumbling through his head. “Okay,” he said, readjusting his pillow. “In that case, I guess Aragorn is a little humorless.”
“Exactly. He’s so damn driven. But you can imagine Theoden having a beer and relaxing with some shield maidens once all the fighting was done. It also helps that I saw the outtake where Viggo cracked Bernard up by reminding him about being turned into a LOTR action figure.” She dropped her voice into an accented growl. “‘They’ll make ten thousand at least, for children to play stupid games with.’”
Jack grinned. “Now that has to be weird, knowing that someone made you into a doll.”
“Right? I mean, think of the potential for voodoo misuse.”
They both laughed at that before settling back, watching as the Fellowship persuaded Theoden and the rest of the Rohirrim to help out Gondor. But Jack couldn’t help mulling over what Kate had said. Since the moment he’d learned that she couldn’t smell him as her mate, he’d been worried that there was no way he could attract her, especially with his packless status. But it seemed that the sexy cougar shifter was far more open minded than he’d thought. And she likes capable, confident men. If that’s not a SEAL, I don’t know what is.
He reached for more popcorn and once again met her hand doing the same thing. This time the contact send a burst of heat through him, raw and hungry for more contact with his gorgeous little cougar. Underneath the throw pillow his cock surged up, tightening painfully against his jeans.
Kate left her hand touching his over the nubbly kernels. “Maybe we should talk about the elephant in the room?” she said slowly.
He took in a breath and wanted to groan at the deliciousness of her scent. “Yeah, maybe we should.”
Fabulous Friday Reads: Off-Limits
TGIF! Let’s kick off the weekend with Gale Stanley’s scorching new romance Off-Limits, now available from Siren Publishing and other purveyors of fine online fiction. Take it away, Suzy!
When Quinn Hart’s best friend died, he became guardian to the man’s ten-year-old son, Noah Stone. So far, Quinn has been able to conceal the growing attraction he feels for Noah, but now Noah is twenty-two and returning home from college. Honor still holds Quinn back from revealing his true feelings. Their community of bear shifters consider reproduction a priority, and Quinn fears they would never accept a homosexual relationship.
Noah has always hidden his romantic feelings for his guardian, but now he’s a man, and his desire is stronger than ever. Unable to handle his feelings, Noah leaves Oregon for a position in a research facility. But when Noah arrives in New York, he discovers his employer is harvesting bear bile and he’s the new source.
Quinn is determined to find Noah. But can he admit what he really wants before it’s too late?
Home. Noah had forgotten how much he missed the endless expanse of lush green landscape and the sparkling river. And the trees. Especially the trees. When the leaves whispered in the wind, it made Noah’s heart ache. Whoever had named their small town knew that trees were sanctuaries.
But for all that, home wasn’t a place, it was a person—Quinn. Noah could live anywhere with Quinn. But a life with Quinn was as likely as a sharknado ripping through Sanctuary.
Noah moved away from the window and gazed at his reflection. The mirror was wall mounted and speckled in places. The frame matched the wood dresser beneath it. A handknitted brown and tan spread covered the crude pine bed. The room had been decorated on a meager budget, but it was warm and comforting because Quinn had handcrafted all the furniture himself.
Noah’s bedroom hadn’t changed since he was a kid. Yesterday, when he’d first stepped through the door, he’d felt the walls close in on him. As a kid, this room seemed huge, but now that he was a man, he could see how small it really was. It felt surreal like turning back the clock, but not in a bad way. If only he could—
“Where’s the man of the hour?”
The sound of loud voices traveled up the stairs. More guests had arrived for the party. The community was small, but when everyone attended an event, it could be overwhelming. Noah checked his image in the mirror again. He’d already changed shirts several times, and he still wasn’t sure that he liked the blue chambray shirt he’d put on with his khakis. Why am I making such a big deal out of this? He felt like Marcus primping for one of those stupid frat parties. What difference did it make what color shirt he wore? Stop stalling, he told himself. You can’t stay in your room forever.
Noah stood at the top of the stairs. Below, friends and neighbors were chatting excitedly. Noah had nothing to say to them. He would disappoint them. Anxiety made his stomach churn.
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Gale Stanley grew up in Philadelphia PA. She was the kid who always had her nose in a book, her head in the clouds, and her hands on a pad and pencil.
Some things never change.
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Broncos on a roll
ENGLEWOOD – With Jake Plummer at the helm, the Denver Broncos are ready to roll.
Roll left. Roll right.
When the Broncos signed Plummer away from the Arizona Cardinals to a seven-year, $40 million contract, they knew they were getting a quarterback with quick feet who could make plays on the run.
So don’t be surprised to see Plummer do a lot of rolling and throwing out of a moving pocket.
“With Jake and his athletic ability, they are going to try to do more things to get him outside,” Broncos backup quarterback Steve Beuerlein said. “He does it very well, so he should do it.”
The strategy has nothing to do with a change of offensive philosophy. In fact, it is just the opposite. As tight end Shannon Sharpe points out, Broncos coach Mike Shanahan and offensive coordinator Gary Kubiak have always tailored the offense to the skills of the quarterback, whether it be John Elway or Brian Griese.
Now that they have Plummer’s ability to make plays out of the pocket, it is only natural that the offense will see more bootlegs.
“He (Plummer) can do some things, that if the pocket collapses, he can make some plays with his feet,” Sharpe said. “It is nice to know we have a guy that can tuck the football away, run, get us some yards and keep us positive in downs and distance.”
Plummer knows the offense is perfect for his game.
“I like the offense. I think it suits me well,” Plummer said. “I like the play action where I get to move in the pocket. In the past, there were times when I had to stay in the pocket and that makes it really difficult on your tackles to block the speedsters on the edges. This scheme also gives us the option of getting the ball into the hands of our receivers quickly and letting them make plays.”
Of course, if Plummer should go down with an injury, the offense will likely change. Beuerlein is not known for his mobility and will likely have plays geared toward his strength as a pocket passer.
“You won’t see me running the same kind of plays that you will see Jarious (Jackson) and Jake running,” Beuerlein said. “Their abilities are different from mine. But at the same time, I don’t think you’ll see J.J. and Jake doing some of the same things that they would do for me if I were in there. They are going to find ways to create more opportunities for me to sit in that pocket and find receivers. That is my strength.”
Still, the Broncos don’t plan to abandon the pocket with Plummer in there. Sharpe said that with all the weapons at Plummer’s disposal – himself, Ed McCaffrey and Rod Smith – Plummer won’t need to scramble and make plays on his own as much as did in Arizona.
“He has done it for so long, with his own feet, running around back there throwing the ball and taking off running, he has got to realize that he has a lot more weapons now that he doesn’t have to do that,” Sharpe said. “But Mike knows that if the defense has the perfect call and they have us blanketed, he can take off and get us a first down.”
McCaffrey knows Plummer is most effective when he’s out of the pocket.
“(Throwing on the run) is the type of play we are used to seeing him make,” McCaffrey said.
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Alumni are Worth More than Donations
Using alumni in the admissions process.
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A recovering economy and rising tuition costs have forced colleges and universities to demonstrate the ROI of a degree more than ever. Alumni have become a holy grail in the academic recruitment world, yet the bulk of the outreach to alumni is for donations.
There are a rising number of applications that mention the impact of alumni as the reason for applying to a particular college. If alumni are increasingly influencing student’s college choices, and are a key in demonstrating the value of a degree why aren’t more schools equipping this population to be evangelists’ for the school rather than simply asking for donations? A brand evangelist can produce more for your institution than a $50 donation.
Consider levels of influence and impact in recruiting. Prospective students receive varying levels of impressions ranging from those who directly impact the "control" of a decision, such as parents; those who "influence" their choice, such as friends; and those who serve as a "reference" point, such as a high school counselor.
The reason there is a gap in utilizing alumni in admissions is due to a lack of alignment. In many ways, schools are no different than business organizations in that there are different business units, or departments, that work in silos. This is simply a trait that grows over time. For colleges and universities, admissions, alumni, academics, and athletics are the silos that are typically held together by the marketing team or a single individual. There is simply too much to keep up with on an individual unit level that it makes it hard to see the forest through the trees. As a resulting alignment suffers and the alumni population is left underutilized in the admissions process.
Meanwhile, the number of high school graduates is expected to dwindle, but the diversity among those graduates is expected to grow. This means that colleges and universities have to fight harder for local students, while also marketing on a national or global level to reach a larger pool of students. All this to say the way universities are marketing themselves needs to change and alumni should be a key part.
Alumni provide institutions an opportunity to make personal connections with prospective students who may identify better with the individual alumni than the institution itself.
Guidance counselors, once an important influencer in the yielding process, have experienced a shift in job roles. A study of 806 middle schools and 2,084 high school counselors revealed that roughly 70 percent of high school counselors state being tasked with clerical duties; another 60 percent include test coordination as the main job responsibility. This leaves very little time to help students and their parents navigate through the intricate process of finding, applying, and choosing a school.
How might alumni play a greater role influencing student decisions?
Higher Ed institutions will need to think differently about their brand and route to market as competition heats up for a shrinking and changing group of high school graduates. Clever universities will find ways to create alignment among a shifting set of influencers from guidance counselors to alumni.
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An English Country Garden
by Melinda Burns
The ad in the newspaper said: English Country Garden. Specializing in the restoration and creation of imaginative landscapes and gardens. Visions of magenta and green and yellow sprang up in Delia’s mind: purple stocky things behind ochre sunburst things, a wild array of eye-popping, rambling color. She put down the paper and called.
Three days later, Ian Johnston, Master Gardener, pulled up in his green van. The logo on its side was of just the brilliant garden Delia had in mind. He put out his hand, a big hand with clean nails, a firm, once up-and-down shake. A no-nonsense kind of shake that made Delia immediately regret the way she’d burbled on when she’d called him. “We live in a very nice house near downtown,” she’d told him, “an older home, built in 1925, so that makes it, let’s see, goodness, more than ninety years old! Wow, I didn’t realize… Well, anyway, the garden, the backyard, was landscaped by someone from the university, a horticulturist or landscape architect or something and so it’s quite nice but we’ve lived here for eleven years and well, it’s suffered. Partly because we don’t know anything and partly because as the trees have grown there has been less and less light.” She’d felt a surprising twist of her heart at this last part. It had made her pause. “So when I saw the word ‘restoration’ in your ad,” she’d continued, “I thought maybe you could help us. Our garden, I mean. Help our garden. Do you think you can?”
On a whim, she called into the house to her husband, Richard, to join them, though he’d said he had no interest in gardening. He came out, phone in hand, and the three of them stood there in the spring freshness, surveying the patchy, ragged expanse of yard.
The garden patio was Delia’s favorite place to be as soon as the weather turned warm, though “garden” was a bit euphemistic. As was “patio,” which consisted of an area of concrete with a rickety metal table covered with a flowered vinyl cloth, and three white plastic chairs. And an umbrella she had bought for $12 at a yard sale. As for the garden, well… Each spring she drove to the nursery, hopeful, eager, and ended up turning in circles between the perennials and the annuals, dazzled by the possibilities and coming away with the same flats of impatiens and lobelia and potted geraniums that never quite flourished in the way she hoped. She stuffed the red geraniums into terra cotta pots, added dark purple trailing lobelia. They looked quite festive at first but the lobelia turned brown and scraggly and the geraniums struggled to bloom without enough sun. She and little Grace had planted flower boxes together the first year. Grace had chosen the plants: Columbine, Lavender, Hollyhock and Marigold – for the names of her mice dolls. Only the hardy marigolds had survived.
Surveying it now with the two men. she could see the yard looked scruffy, bits of bare earth around the old play structure, crops of dandelions and blue forget-me-nots running riot. “Pretty,” she’d thought just the other day, the yellow and blue spilling across the lawn, but now the dandelion heads had turned frowsy with seeds, the leaves jagged and unsightly. Still, whenever she turned the corner of the house and saw the table and chairs waiting for her, the graceful honey locust tree, the crabapple clouded as it was now with white blossoms that reminded her of a bride, the general greenness of it, she let out a breath.
Ian, the master gardener, made no comment as he looked around. “Do you have children?” he asked, gesturing at the playhouse and slide they’d put in when Grace was five and Peter, nine.
“Not small ones,” Delia said as if in apology. “We have a son at university and our daughter is 14. She’s at a friend’s.”
“Maybe it’s time to let it go,” Ian was saying. “And you could take down that crabapple. And maybe this one, too,” he said, patting the solid bark of the locust tree that dominated the yard and, even with its lacey leaves, kept out much of the sun in summer. A bird feeder hung from one branch. “The Eat and Tweet,” Grace had called it when she was little. They’d had a Grand Opening the first spring and Grace and Peter wrote out the menu and put up signs. Sitting out here in summer, Delia would put her book down and watch the birds wing in, perch, heads darting in and out of the seed holes, then fly off again. The original fast food.
“It would really open up the space and give you a lot more sun,” Ian was saying as he walked around.
“Well, I don’t know…” Delia said. “I really like those trees. Richard?” She turned to where Richard was hanging back, checking his phone.
“What?” He looked up for a moment.
“But the first thing you need to do is define the space. Decide on your vision and define the beds.” Delia thought the beds were defined. There was the perennial bed next to the back of the house, with the peonies that hadn’t enough sun to bloom. And the small area by the fence where they had buried their first cat, Daisy, after they found her stiff body under the basement stairs one Saturday morning. Richard had admonished her not to cry so that Grace and Peter wouldn’t get upset and she hadn’t, though she’d regretted it ever since. She’d loved that cat. Grace planted Shasta daisies on the grave as a memorial.
And then there was the former vegetable garden by the shed. Every year Delia had planted tomatoes on the long weekend, four small plants that managed to produce creditable tomatoes by August. “Now this is what a tomato should taste like,” Richard would say with huge pride as if he’d actually planted and cared for them himself. There wasn’t enough sun now for tomatoes and the rest of the bed went to various colored weeds. A “meadow” she called it. Another euphemism.
“You need to define the areas with borders of some sort between the beds and the … lawn,” Ian said, hesitating over what to call the bumpy, mossy, dandelion-infested lot. “And then I suggest rototilling the entire yard and starting again.” Was he serious? Was this some sort of landscaper’s joke? Right, bulldoze the whole thing, that’s the only way to save this. But even more startling was Richard’s sudden interest. He had put his phone down and was leaning in to Ian, asking about seed and fertilizer and heavy rollers.
“A rototiller? Can you rent something like that?” he asked, as if the idea of wholesale destruction, razing and going on, spoke to him.
Delia dropped back while the men talked. She had to sit down. The memory of the year Richard had left their marriage rolled over her with heart-squeezing force. He had rented an apartment, talked about a younger woman, a former employee. “Former,” he stressed, as if that would make a difference. He said he wanted to have another child and Delia, 42 to his 46, had said she hated him. But move he did. The children loved the new apartment at first – the skylight over the bed, the little balcony off the living room. But Peter started bullying at school and Grace wouldn’t let Delia out of her sight. It had lasted less than a year. He and the woman didn’t work out after all and he had moved back home the next summer. Grace was overjoyed; Peter kept his distance. And she was relieved. No broken home. No failure. That was seven years ago. They had all recovered, more or less, but there was a shadow over their home. Less and less light.
Richard and Ian were deep in talk of lawns now. What was it about a carpet of green, smooth and regulated as a golf course, that linked in some way to the Y chromosome?
“Write us up an estimate,” Richard was saying. “Give us an idea of what all this might cost.” They shook hands. They were still talking about other improvements – flagstones, fences – as they walked back around the house. Delia lingered, trailing her fingers on the vinyl table covering. She tried to picture her sanctuary without its trees, everything dug up and replaced. What had so appealed to her about an English country garden? The dazzle, the color? When she had met Richard, he’d taken her hand and pulled her along with him, to concerts and festivals, vacations they couldn’t afford. A sense of adventure and endless possibility. But then that need for more and more, nothing ever enough. They were in serious debt until the inheritance from her parents bailed them out. The year he left she’d painted her bedroom a soothing sea blue, and felt a peace she hadn’t realized she was missing. She took a last look at the dappled green yard and turned away.
“Well, that was interesting,” Delia said as she joined Richard. They stood at the front steps watching Ian’s truck pull away. “But I don’t know where the money’s going to come from. Taking down trees, rototilling the yard? Not to mention the landscaping and the plants. It must be thousands.” She realized her mistake as soon as the words were out of her mouth.
“You’ll have to make more money,” Richard said. Delia’s stomach clenched. The familiar stone they stumbled over. Delia’s part-time job at the library brought in a fraction of Ian’s salary, and her freelance writing hardly covered the cost of the impatiens and fertilizer she bought each spring.
“Wait. Can’t we discuss this?” Delia said.
“There’s nothing to discuss. You know how I feel. I can’t tell you what to do. You have to decide what you’re willing to do.” Richard’s “reasonable man” voice asserted itself, the one she imagined he used in the office to keep his underlings in check.
“But you could help think it through, how we could both be happy.”
“I have so many dreams,” he said. “I want to go to Greece. I want to sail the Mediterranean, take a year off. None of that is possible on a salary and a half. We can’t even afford to have the yard done.” The note of bitterness in his voice was like a rusty coin in her mouth.
A lawn mower started up down the block and Delia and Richard both turned to it. The leaves on the maple tree at the curb were beginning to unfold their green edges. The magnolia was coming into bloom and soon each flower would open like a cup, a lotus blossom floating on the breeze. Richard turned and went into the house.
When had their dreams diverged so dramatically? And what was her dream, her vision? It had something to do with growing things, she supposed. Like the little green tendrils of the morning glories beside the house that were beginning to wave. Every year she soaked the seeds in water overnight to soften the casings and then buried them in dirt by the porch, watered them, left them alone in the dark, and every year these miniscule bits of green poked through and surprised her. And then the profusion of saucer-sized, Heavenly Blue blooms that covered the side of the porch from August to fall. It seemed like more than anyone could expect from a $1.99 pack of seeds.
The Eat and Tweet needed refilling. Overhead, squirrels chased each other through the branching highway of interlacing trees as the sun filtered down on the forget-me-nots scattered like a blue lake in the grass.
Delia walked along the path by the perennial garden. The quickening of spring was all around her, the ferns beginning to let down their delicate green skirts, the hostas unfurling their dapper leaves. Small purple flowers covered the wild geraniums. She bent to pinch off a spent bloom. Maybe it wasn’t about “restoration” after all. Maybe at some point you worked with what you had or let it go. Some trilliums and Jack-in-the-pulpits might do well here in the shade of the trees. A woodland garden. That could work. That would be lovely.
I wrote a version of this story years ago in the midst of difficulties in my own marriage. It is fiction but it reflects the way couples can diverge in their visions for their lives and their future, and the way that shows up in the most ordinary decisions. One gift of age, I think, is coming to know who we are and what we want, what is right for us, and staying true to that.
Melinda Burns is a writer and a psychotherapist in private practice for years. She also teaches writing, and mentors writers in fiction, poetry and memoir. Her writing has won awards for fiction, including first prize in the Toronto Star Short Story contest in 2001. She has published poems in various magazines, read her essays on CBC radio, and published essays on writing in Canadian Notes and Queries and The New Quarterly and in K.D. Miller’s book on creativity and spirituality, Holy Writ. Burns lives in Guelph, Ontario, Canada, within walking distance of the public library.
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Spielberg selling East Hampton home for $24.5M
By Jennifer Gould Keil
May 21, 2014 | 5:04pm
Steven Spielberg is shopping his luxe property. AP
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Steven Spielberg, who bought a $20 million East Hampton “teardown” in 2008, is quietly selling the pond-front property at 94 Apaquogue Road — for $24.5 million. Spielberg tore down a traditional home built in 1900, and the lot has been empty ever since. Spread out over 3.2 acres, there’s plenty of room for a pool and tennis court. Spielberg owns two other properties nearby. Our local spies thought he’d buy some adjacent properties that had recently come on the market quietly — one of the properties is Steve Ross’ widow, Courtney Sale Ross‘s home, which David Geffen is buying for $50 million and the other is owned by Janet Ross, the widow of the late philanthropist/financier Arthur Ross. This week, Variety announced that Spielberg will be directing a Cold War project, starring Tom Hanks, with a Joel and Ethan Coen script, about James Donovan, a lawyer recruited by the CIA to negotiate the release of Gary Powers, the U2 spy-plane pilot who was captured after being shot down over former Soviet Union territory in 1962.
The hero’s former property.Eric Striffler
Not only was the late James Brady awarded a Bronze Star with the Combat V and Purple Heart for his military service, he was also a well-rounded author and columnist who helped create Page Six, among other things. He also happened to have great taste in real estate. Brady’s former one-acre property is now the site of a brand new $12.99 million home at 130 Further Lane in East Hampton — the same street where activist investor Barry Rosenstein is paying $147 million to buy America’s most expensive property, as we revealed earlier this month. The 5,500-square-foot, five-bedroom home was built and designed by Daniel Scotti. The home, made for entertaining, includes a double-height kitchen with a vintage industrial work table, a formal dining room and den. The finished basement includes a media room, a gym, billiard room and en-suite staff room. There’s also a pool and pool house. The listing brokers are Michael Schultz and Susan Ryan, of The Corcoran Group.
Driving a hard bargain
Formula One world champion Lewis Hamilton — who started racing with his first go-kart at age six — is looking for an upscale downtown home. He recently checked out a $21 million Puck Penthouse at 293 Lafayette St. The 4,895-square-foot unit in the iconic late 19th-century Nolita building has three bedrooms and 4½ bathrooms. It comes with a chef’s eat-in kitchen and a corner master suite with a fireplace.
We hear…
That Resident magazine just celebrated its Real Estate issue, with Douglas Elliman broker Tristan Harper on the cover, at Texas de Brazil.
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The Knicks may have already made their summer splash
By Marc Berman
June 22, 2019 | 3:40pm | Updated June 23, 2019 | 12:28pm
R.J. Barrett and Kevin Knox AP, Getty Images
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The Knicks have a new rookie trio to add to their 2018-19 version. If this threesome has as much promise, the Knicks will be ecstatic.
Thursday night and into Friday morning, the Knicks added the leading scorers from three blue-blood college programs — Duke, Michigan and UCLA.
RJ Barrett, Ignas Brazdeikis and Kris Wilkes, meet Kevin Knox, Mitchell Robinson and Allonzo Trier.
“They’re not just good basketball players, but they’re fine men,’’ general manager Scott Perry said of the newest Knicks. “These guys embody the way coach [David] Fizdale wants to play the game. We want to defend, represent versatility on the basketball floor and the most important thing we want to become winners.’’
While the Knicks’ chances of making a big score in free agency likely have dipped, president Steve Mills is sticking to his promise of player development. This new batch of kids offers a glimmer of hope, joining the promising Knox, Robinson and Trier.
Barrett, 19, is the Knicks’ new lottery pick, taken at No. 3-overall. The much-heralded Duke star was No. 1 in mock drafts a year ago
Michigan’s Brazdeikis was added in the second round, but only after the Knicks pulled off a draft-night swap, trading up from 55 to 47 for cash considerations to land the Wolverine. Brazdeikis, like Barrett, is a 6-foot-7 lefty with Canadian and European ties.
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Scouts are concerned about Brazdeikis’ defense, but he could become a lethal bench scorer after leading Michigan as a freshman (14.8 points per game). He shoots well from 3-point range (39.2 percent) — a Knicks need. A dogged offensive threat, he became the first freshman to lead the Wolverines in scoring since former Knick Trey Burke in 2011-12.
Perry, who used to be an assistant coach at Michigan, called the one-and-done Brazdeikis, “One of the top competitors in this draft.”
“I’m a relentless player,’’ Brazdeikis said Friday. “I don’t fear anyone or anything. I don’t back down from anyone either. I’m very confident in my abilities as well. I go as hard as I can every single game to help the team win. I’m aggressive. I feel like I l know who I am as a basketball player.’’
Friday morning, after Wilkes stunningly fell out of the draft, the Knicks scooped him up, offering a two-way G-League contract.
“Kris is a much better player than many who were drafted,’’ one NBA college scout said. “But his agent clearly didn’t bite on an offer of a two-way in the second round. He thinks he can play his way into a better deal.’’
Wilkes’ situation may turn out similar to that of Trier, who went undrafted last season out of Arizona. Sources told The Post at the time a couple of teams became interested with picks in the 50s, but were urged by his reps to pass. Trier’s camp believed the Knicks would have a two-way G-League offer if he became an undrafted free agent.
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“Kind of surprised [Wilkes] didn’t get drafted, similar to Allonzo Trier last year,’’ Perry said. “Winning player, can score, 6-8, highly rated player coming out of high school. Exciting to add him to our mix and see how we can develop him.”
Wilkes, 20, averaged a team-leading 17.4 points at UCLA along with 4.8 rebounds while shooting 43.3 percent from the field last season. Wilkes tested the draft waters in the spring of 2018 and met with Knicks brass. The Knicks thought he could be a first-rounder in that draft, but Wilkes returned to UCLA.
“You never know where their path is going,’’ Mills said. “We were comfortable with who he was as a basketball player but also who he was as a person.’
Teams are allowed a pair of two-way contract players, who are eligible for the main roster for 45 days. The Knicks’ other two-way player for 2019-20 is point guard Kadeem Allen.
The three rookies from last season and the three rookies from this draft will all gather in Las Vegas on July 2 for the first summer-league practice. It might be the only splash the Knicks make.
Knicks called out for ban
The Professional Basketball Writers Association called out the Knicks for banning Daily News writers from Friday’s press conference introducing their 2019 draft picks, RJ Barrett and Ignas Brazdeikis, a recent trend against the tabloid.
The decision was called “unprofessional and unacceptable” by PBWA president Josh Robbins in a statement.
“James Dolan, the owner of the Knicks franchise, previously has said that barring Daily News employees from media availabilities sends the Daily News ‘a message,’ ” the statement read. “In reality, the only message he is sending is that he is a bully who retaliates against legitimate news outlets that publish content he dislikes. … We condemn the Knicks’ attempts to hinder journalists’ ability to do their jobs and inform the public.”
— Zach Braziller
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Horror Zombies from the Crypt
October 21, 2018 Phil "Shadsy" Salvador
The best horror B movies treat their goofy subject matter sincerely. Parodies and homages to 40s and 50s horror movies seem to lapse too easily into tongue-in-cheek jokes about bad production values, cheap scares, and exaggerated cheesiness. Something like a Vincent Price film, or even a movie that’s fodder for Mystery Science Theater, plays it straight. They treat clichés with a straight face and are better for their earnestness towards shlocky material.
Horror Zombies from the Crypt does the same thing. It presents the game as an X-rated British horror film playing to a packed theater, but it doesn’t wink and nudge about the contents themselves, the haunted house, the zombies, the wolf men, and whatnot. It handles them like an actual campy horror movie would. At times, it’s fairly spooky. Less gracefully, it tries to bring the thrills of horror movie scares into the game too.
The game barely needs to explain the familiar setup: You are cast as an adventurer, Count Frederick Valdemar, who finds himself trapped in a haunted manor and must escape from a bunch of ghouls, vampires, and other creeps. Horror Zombies goes through every Gothic horror setting – a mansion, a graveyard, a cavern, a chapel, and the crypt from the title.
The crisp, well-animated graphics set the mood for a haunting
The Amiga version of the game has background music taken from “Dance of the Knights” from the 1938 ballet Romeo and Juliet. It calls to mind the way a piece from Swan Lake is used in the 1931 Bela Lugosi Dracula movie; it isn’t horror music, but the operatic Russian orchestral score has dramatic vigor. It fits the conceit so well, and the music is certainly creepy, but the best sound design comes from the musicless DOS version. Using only the limited internal PC speaker that makes beeping noises in old computers, it does its best impression of bloodcurdling screams, and it made my skin crawl. It sounds like the computer itself is screaming for help!
Though the game doesn’t have much of the suspense of a horror movie, it can be unnerving. Any monster can kill Count Valdemar with one touch, and when Valedmar dies, he looks at the player, screams, pulls his hair, and erupts into a fountain of gore. Maybe that isn’t the same type of scary as Dracula. It is frightening though.
The action moves at a walking speed, cautious enough for a few seconds to react to enemies lurching at you from the other side of the screen. To escape each area of the manor, you have to find all the skulls hidden inside. There’s usually only about 10 per section, and they encourage you to explore more of the environment by figuring out how to get to the ones that look just out of reach. As you search for them, you fall right into the manor’s tricks and traps.
Tiptoeing will avoid setting off certain traps
Like a Scooby-Doo villain’s hideout, the mansion estate is filled with spooky secrets. Trap doors open under you, and statues come to life. Like the rest of the game, they seem inspired by films with haunted house shocks and jump scares. It results in a trial-and-error style of game, where monsters pop out unexpectedly (sometimes with the gurgled screaming sound effect) and you play through the same section over and over until you learn the triggers – exactly right for a platformer trying to channel the spirit of old horror movies.
In practice, the game is just a smidge too unforgiving. The six zones in Horror Zombies are fairly short and have plenty of checkpoints to restart at, but you can still get a game over that sends you back to the start of the level. Too many of the traps involve zombies appearing out of nowhere; too few take advantage of the possibilities of the Gothic horror location, like the secret entrance hidden in a fireplace in the first level. The tricks the game plays don’t feel earned, as if they’re plopped in solely to get in the way.
Horror Zombies from the Crypt has the right tone because it doesn’t try to be self-consciously clever. Then again, maybe a ghoulish horror movie could use a little Scooby-Doo once in a while.
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The Foods of the Future Are Being Flavored by This Artist
Sean Raspet's art includes mixing flavors for the meal supplement Soylent, and now a specially-designed coffee sweetener
By Alanna Martinez • 06/16/16 12:30pm
Sean Raspet’s specially designed flavors of Soylent, titled Technical Food and Technical Milk. (Photo: Still from "Sean Raspet on Artificial Flavors" by the Swiss Institute)
Sean Raspet is not a scientist, but most days you can still find him tinkering in the lab. For Raspet, a Los-Angeles based artist, his day job as a flavorist at the meal supplement startup Soylent and his work in the studio often mix—literally. Raspet’s art consists of small batches of chemical formulations he’s tweaked molecule by molecule to vary slightly in flavor in scent. Two of his flavors were recently manufactured as food products by Soylent, called Technical Milk and Technical Food, and for a 2014 installation at San Francisco’s Jessica Silverman gallery he applied a scratch and sniff emulsion to the walls based on the scent of the space’s air. To the layman, his art may be perceived as highly scientific. Not that coffee lovers at Art Basel in Switzerland this week will care all too much when Raspet debuts his latest creation. For them, the free goods will simply sweeten their day.
The artist has teamed up with Art Basel’s biggest corporate sponsor, UBS, and the Swiss Institute, to craft a specially flavored artificial sweetener that’s being served to the public at the Planet Art Lounge inside the fair. It’s part marketing, part art, and visitors who stop by will get one free cup of coffee or cappuccino, from Berlin roasters Andraschko, flavored with a tiny amount of Raspet’s designer sweetener.
“It tastes like art, and makes you think,” UBS executive director of global sponsorship Peter Dillon told the Observer by phone. “It sort of sits on the back of your tongue; it’s distinctive.”
That’s just one take. At least 300 people stopped by the lounge to sample Raspet’s concoction during the opening night of Art Basel’s Unlimited, a section devoted to large-scale installations and new media.
At New York’s Frieze art fair in May, Raspet’s project with Société Berlin gallery and Soylent was a breakout hit. Instead of filling his solo booth with artwork, he opted instead to bring refrigerators full of Soylent, which was distributed for free to fairgoers by representatives from the startup clad in spacey gray suits. Was it art? Was it a marketing ploy? These are the questions we attempted to unravel in our previous report on the project while slurping down the soupy substance, which claims to contain all the essential nutrients a human needs to sustain life. By the end of the fair, we still remained skeptical.
However, the booth at Basel is more low key, said Dillon, and Raspet’s sweetener was in the works long before his Soylent stunt made the news. A film on his home brewed flavors plays on a screen, and features Raspet discussing molecule-swapping and why there’s a public misconception that artificial means bad.
The underlying message behind his project—described in a statement as “unlinking experiences of scent or taste from a conception of the ‘natural'”—may sound a lot like Silicon Valley rhetoric, masquerading as art. But according to Raspet there’s real science behind his thesis.
We wrote to the artist for further, much needed, explanation as to why he’s on a mission to clear artificial foods of their bad rap.
Do you have a background in science and health? My background is in art primarily, but I’ve done some study of chemistry as well. Most of my knowledge of flavor chemistry is self-taught. It’s more intuitive since it doesn’t involve synthesizing chemical compounds, but rather mixing them together in the right proportions to get the desired effect. It’s a lot like perfumery in that way.
How did you end up working with chemicals, and food, as your medium? Part of what led me to working with these kinds of materials is that I think it is reflective of the paradigm of production of our society: a chemical paradigm I would say. Wanting to work with that paradigm and to produce artworks using the most basic aspects of material—purified molecular compounds—is what initially drew me to this way of working.
Société Berlin gallery’s Frieze New York booth, filled with Soylent flavored by the artist. (Photo: Alanna Martinez)
I saw your project at Frieze NY, with Soylent. How did that come about? Société Berlin gallery, which represents me, wanted to do a project at Frieze and I thought let’s do a trade show promotional booth for Soylent. It fits with other aspects of my work where I have tried to blur the line between the art economy and the economy of mass-production—not to “comment” about culture but to actually create products for use in everyday life. The economics of the art world and the mass economy are in many ways counter-posed in terms of ideas of quantity and singularity. So it’s interesting to try to collide those two spaces together and Frieze was an example of that.
Tell me about your project for Art Basel. I chose to highlight a single molecular compound called neohespiridin dihydrochalcone (NHDC). It’s a very interesting kind of artificial sweetener molecule that I have been working with in other formulations.
How would you describe the flavor of your sweetener? It’s a delayed onset sweetener. So at first you drink the coffee and it doesn’t necessarily taste that sweet. But as you continue to drink it, it gets sweeter and sweeter. Then an interesting thing happens if you happen to take a sip of water at some point while drinking the coffee. The water will suddenly taste extremely sweet. From my research it seems likely that the reason for these effects is that the molecule actually blocks the sweetness receptors on the tongue rather than activating them directly. As it blocks out the perception of sweetness the brain over compensates and things that normally wouldn’t taste sweet, such as water, suddenly become sweet as the molecule leaves the receptor.
You’re not creating sugar, you’re making a “sweetener,” which isn’t necessarily good for people. Or is it? One aspect of food and flavor chemistry that people don’t typically consider is that of quantity. A lot of artificial sweeteners are hundreds or even over a thousand times sweeter than sugar…We all know that sugar can be bad for you: numerous studies have shown that a high-sugar diet can contribute to a risk for cancer and other health conditions.
Raspet in the lab. (Photo: Still from "Sean Raspet on Artificial Flavors" by the Swiss Institute)
What are the health implications of the products you create, and where does that enter the conversation? Most studies that have been conducted on artificial sweeteners have shown them to be healthy at recommended doses. Even though there are other studies that raise some concerns with particular sweeteners, the general scientific and regulatory consensus is that they are safe.
Predicting the health effects of any substance is a very complex issue and there is never 100 percent certainty. But since the scientific consensus is that sugar significantly increases health risks and that artificial sweeteners do not, I would personally rather go with artificial sweeteners. Especially since food with sugar requires 100s or 1000s of times more of it to get the same sweetness effect as a food sweetened artificially. But that’s just my take on it.
What do you think of the negative stigmas attached to GMOs? Is there a reason to be wary of lab-created foods? I think the cultural reaction against GMOs is very overblown. And it comes from simplistic ideas of “nature” rather than from any scientific basis. Humans have been genetically modifying crops for thousands of years through selective breeding and other techniques (more recently pre-GMO irradiation has been commonly used introduce random mutations). The non-GMO techniques of modification actually change much more of the genome of the organism and introduce a much greater amount of mutations. Whereas a typical genetically modified crop will only have a handful of carefully targeted functional mutations introduced into its genome. It doesn’t make any logical sense to think that GMO techniques are somehow more dangerous than traditional forms of modification, and scientific studies conducted to date have shown them to be safe.
Why is it so important to redefine what’s “natural”? The term “natural” doesn’t have any meaning from a scientific perspective. It’s a culturally constructed idea. The problem with this idea is that when it comes to food production and other cultural forms of production the “back to nature” or “all natural” idea of food can often have the counter-intuitive effect of being worse for the environment.
Organic farming generally produces a lower yield per acre than industrial farming. This means that typically more land and other resources have to be used to produce the same amount of organic crops. GMO crops can, in many cases, further increase the efficiency of crop yield. So a genetically modified, industrially farmed crop can potentially have a drastically lower environmental impact in terms of the amount of land, water and petroleum (to power farm equipment, irrigation pumps, etc.) used.
Ironically it is these simplistic ideas of “nature” in present consumer culture that are arguably doing some of the greatest harm to the environment.
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'Captain Marvel' post-credit scene leaks online.
- Captain Marvel's post-credits scene has leaked online. Watch here. Alt link here in case it's taken down.
- Obviously it has spoilers for [Spoiler (click to open)]'Avengers: Endgame': Cap and Black widow are looking at the pager and War Machine tells them it stopped transmitting. Cap and Nat wants to reboot it and Bruce says they don't know what would happen. Captain Marvel appears and asks 'Where's Fury?'.
- CAP STILL HAS HIS BEARD!!!!! Confirming my theory that most of the scenes in the Endgame trailer are fake, same as the Infinity War trailer.
ONTD, ARE YOU EXCITED FOR THIS NEW ˜HAIRY˜ CAP REVELATION?!
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Naomi Scott Covers British Vogue
Incredibly grateful, entirely stunned, still doesn’t feel real! Thank you to @Edward_Enninful, who slays everything he touches, @nick_knight who is a living legend, @kphelan123 who is class defined, @britishvogue and the huge number of people who helped to make this possible! pic.twitter.com/YpZfOajAL7
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On relating to Bend It Like Beckham as a child: "It was an Indian girl who wanted to play football! That movie was literally made for me. I just thought I was Jesminder."
On the Charlie's Angels reboot: Calls Kristen Stewart a "pure artist". "[The movie is] about women at work. You don't see much about their personal lives or who they're dating. It's about the agency going global, getting into intelligence and tech, whistleblowing. You don't see bikini shots of their bums."
On auditioning for Jasmine: "I saw her as a young woman, not a teenager. With a mature strength that can cut you down. So I said to them, 'Just to let you know, I want to play her strong, and if that's not what you're looking for, that's OK, but it's not for me.'"
On playing Jasmine in 2019: "Playing Princess Jasmine in 2019, I'm very aware that young girls, young boys are going to be watching. What do I want to portray? This ICONIC character that I LOVED growing up. How can I make her well rounded and ambitious. Multi dimensional. Not there just to AID somebody else's story."
source:1/2/3/4/5
Tagged: actor / actress, british celebrities, disney, fashion, interview, magazine covers and articles, reboot / remake / revival, south asian celebrities
RUMOR: Which Female Star's Firing from a Network Show will be Covered Up as Her Choosing to Leave?
EXCLUSIVE! They Gave Pizza The Boot: A major personal conflict on the set of this prime time network TV show... has resulted in one of the stars getting fired! Two of the female stars https://t.co/TS9L9HGp76 pic.twitter.com/x0MwAdJsva
— Blind Gossip (@blindgossipcom) March 7, 2019
Blind Gossip claims to have an exclusive about a show where tension between the two female leads led to one being terminated.
-The titular lead of the show is male and not involved in this dispute
-Sweety vs Pizza where Sweety wanted to be treated like the female lead from the start but always felt undermined by Pizza when it came to her salary, story lines, etc. Didn't want to do anymore scenes with Pizza, and the writers have acquiesced
-Storylines have been reworked to get rid of Pizza. She'll be leaving at the end of the season, and while they'll say it was her decision to leave, it really wasn't.
-"The drama and trauma of ousting one of the stars of a successful show is usually over with in a flash."
The popular guess for this blind item is The Flash where Sweety is Candice Patton, and Pizza is Danielle Panabaker.
source/source
Tagged: actor / actress, blind item, fanfiction, firing / termination, rumors / gossip, the flash (cw)
More 90210 Cast Members Share Memories of Luke Perry
https://instagram.com/p/BuszCmInJbA
Follow-up to this post. More actors from Beverly Hills 90210 share their memories of the departed Luke Perry as they continue to process the news.
source:1/2/3/4/5/6/7/8
Tagged: 90210, actor / actress, celebrity social media, death
elderpricely
Amazon’s confirms Lord of the Rings show set in the Second Age, includes Númenor
Amazon’s #LordOfTheRings TV Show Confirms Second Age of Middle Earth and Númenor Setting https://t.co/iA3fnB2wr6 pic.twitter.com/Pv7T0G12cN
— IndieWire (@IndieWire) March 8, 2019
Amazon has confirmed its upcoming “Lord of the Rings” television series will be set in the Second Age of Middle-Earth, putting to bed rumors the series would focus on the adventures of a young Aragorn (born in the Third Age). Further, Númenor — the island shown in Amazon's promotional maps — is destroyed in the Second Age, thousands of years before "The Lord of the Rings."
The Second Age ends with the first downfall of Sauron, so it appears Amazon’s series will take place during his rise to power. This may include Sauron building his forces in Mordor, the creation and distribution of the rings of power, and the destruction of Númenor.
Also of note: A map released March 6 included Minas Anor, the former name of Minas Tirith (the white city shown above), and Minas Ithil, the previous name of Minas Morgul. This has led fans to speculate that the show could eventually reach into the earlier years of the Third Age.
[Amazon confirms]
Welcome to the Second Age: https://t.co/Tamd0oRgTw
— The Lord of the Rings on Prime (@LOTRonPrime) March 7, 2019
SOURCE, 2
Tagged: amazon, lord of the rings / the hobbit, nerd alert, television
tabloidpersona
Billie Eilish - Wish You Were Gay (Audio)
Billie Eilish has released a new promotional single from her upcoming album 'When We Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?' (releasing 3/29), titled 'wish you were gay'.
As Eilish explained in an Instagram livestream, “wish you were gay” is about how it felt for her to be rejected by a boy she liked. At the time, Billie thought he didn’t like her because she was a “shitty person.“ She wanted some other reason for him not liking her, such as him being gay. Ironically, after she wrote this song, she found out he really was gay after all.
Tagged: music / musician (alternative and indie), new music post
masterofmystery
"Captain Marvel" blasts off with $20.7M in Thursday night box office preview
Box office: #CaptainMarvel flies to huge $20.7M in previews https://t.co/NEqRvLTrkq pic.twitter.com/vXsk2c0qJ5
— Hollywood Reporter (@THR) March 8, 2019
To no surprise, and to celebrate International Women's Day, Marvel's 'Captain Marvel' debuted with a great $20.7M on Thursday previews, and is expected to reel in $125 million-$145 million, and even manage to break $150M this weekend (on a $152M budget) domestically, and $300M internatinally.
As you can imagine, this had no huge competition for new releases. Out in limited release this weekend are 'Gloria Bell' and 'The Kid'. Spoilers under cuts, y'all.
Source: https://twitter.com/THR/status/1104060411048013824
Tagged: box office, brie larson, jude law, marvel, samuel l. jackson
asth77
(ONTD Original) #InternationalWomensDay : Portrait Of A Woman
Those last few years, TV shows have been extremely successful and have featured original writing as well as innovative directing. Their production costs have skyrocketed along with their cultural values, supported by the global echo provided by the Internet.
Consequently, actresses are given more and more complex roles with introspective journeys, as online platforms seem to want to target all audiences and give more freedom and opportunities to shows’ creators regarding women’s voices.
Here are the reviews of 3 shows whose writing showcases complex female characters, underlying interpretations of life’s challenges behind feminine glasses.
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ONTD, what are your favorite shows with feminist messages? Who are your favorite female characters on TV and online streaming platforms?
Sources : 1 2 3 , 4 5 6, 7 8 9
Tagged: amazon, asian celebrities, black celebrities, feminism / social issues, netflix, ontd original
benihime99
Rina Sawayama - Cherry (Piano Version)
Tagged: asian celebrities, british celebrities, music / musician
toxic_illusion
ONTD Roundup
For Thursday, Smarch 7, 2019:
Ariana Grande facing backlash over Starbucks partnership
Disney+ To Include ENTIRE MOTION PICTURE LIBRARY
Yesterday's Roundup
ONTD Originals:
Indie Film Release Guide: March 8th
Some New Artists to Celebrate International Women's Day
Tagged: ontd roundup
Gwyneth Paltrow talks Goop, elitist accusations, and pretending to be an actor
Many deride Gwyneth Paltrow's lifestyle brand Goop, which is worth $250 million, as little more than an overhyped e-commerce platform peddling pseudoscience. She is unbowed. https://t.co/pB04WVDrjQ
— The New York Times (@nytimes) March 7, 2019
The New York Times did a profile on businesswoman Gwyneth Paltrow, whose lifestyle brand Goop is now worth $250 million.
On what Goop is about: "We want to always be moving culture forward with what we do in the content and in the offerings and also create conversations and forums to help eliminate shame. I think a lot of women experience a lot of shame in their lives. The more we talk about things that are sometimes uncomfortable, it might resonate with somebody. [Goop is a brand for women] But I don’t want to eliminate men. And more and more, men tell me, 'We really need that same kind of content, and we want the same kinds of products.'"
On Hollywood: "I was masquerading as an actor." (She says her real passion is being a lifestyle entrepreneur)
On being called elitist: "[People] don’t want to take responsibility for themselves. So it’s easier to be critical of an entity or a person who is suggesting that, than it is to start making small, perhaps uncomfortable shifts in their lives. If you told our grandparents that eating whole, natural foods was elitist, they would have thought you were crazy."
Tagged: gwyneth paltrow, interview
just444
Julianne Moore On Being Fired From A Movie
Julianne openly talked about getting fired from Can You Ever Forgive Me?
she and writer Nicole Holofcener had different creative ideas
Melissa McCarthy replaced her and got nominated for an Oscar
Tagged: interview, julianne moore
beysactingcoach
Massive Attack Postpones US and Canada Concert Dates
.@MassiveAttackUK are postponing their tour https://t.co/3BBe6ppSFp
— Pitchfork (@pitchfork) March 8, 2019
*sighs eternally* Massive Attack, the Bristol trip hop duo was supposed to begin their US leg of the Mezzanine XXI anniversary tour on March 12. Apparently this is due to illness and the shows will be reschedule for the fall. Ticket holders are encourage to keep onto their original ticket as they will be honored for the new dates.
Who do you think you are, Janet Jackson?
Tagged: cancellation, concert / tour dates, music / musician (alternative and indie), music / musician (rap and hip-hop)
milfordacademy
ONTD Original: 5 Book Recs for International Women's Day
Happy International Women's Day! Here are 5 recs of books by women, about extraordinary women who have made a mark in history, whether by art, literature, politics and even war.
sources 1 2 3 4 5
illustration holly maguire
what other books by women/about women would you recommend, ONTD?
Tagged: books / authors, ontd original
Premiere: Mariah Carey - “A No No” (Music Video)
Watch Mariah Carey take the New York City subway in her latest music video for “A No No.” Her twins Moroccan and Monroe have cameos in the video as well as her boyfriend Bryan Tanaka. Carey’s latest studio album Caution is available on iTunes and streaming services now.
Tagged: mariah carey, music video
alienjiive
Chilling Adventures of Sabrina (Part Two): New Photos + Info
New pictures of Chilling Adventures of Sabrina part two! pic.twitter.com/WbKV1yKfuf
— Chilling Adventures of Sabrina (@caosposts) March 4, 2019
Netflix released a small new batch of photos (not much, but looks like the Sabrina/Harvey/Nick love triangle is going to be a big angle this season). And with less than a month away, Hypable previews the first five episodes of part two of Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, premiering on Netflix April 5th.
After watching the first five episodes of #CAOS (#ChillingAdventuresofSabrina) part 2, we can say that this season is darker, sexier, and much more magical. The writers took a risk and it paid off. https://t.co/qKpo0MONR3
— Hypable.com (@Hypable) March 8, 2019
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ONTD, are you Team Harvey or Team Nick? My choice is easy.
Tagged: netflix, riverdale (cw), television promo / stills
lawofcosines
Who went home on episode 2 of RuPaul's Drag Race season 11?
- Mini Challenge: Quick drag photobomb. Each queen had 15 minutes to get ready and shoot an image to be green-screened into a famous celebrity photo.
- Maxi Challenge: A team acting challenge parodying recent black Hollywood films. The two teams are “Good God Girl, Get Out!” and “Why It Gotta Be Black, Panther?”
- Guest Judges: Bobby Moynihan and Sydelle Noel
- Winners: [Spoiler (click to open)]Scarlet Envy and Yvie Oddly
- Bottom two: [Spoiler (click to open)]Kahanna Montrese and Mercedes Iman Diamond
- Eliminated: [Spoiler (click to open)]Kahanna Montrese
source: my tv
Current Music: LCD Soundsystem - Sound of Silver | Powered by Last.fm
Tagged: rupaul / drag race, spoilers
toddies
Race track featured in HBO's "Luck" cancels races indefinitely after 21 horses die
Update: Santa Anita cancels racing indefinitely after 21st horse dies at track since Dec. 26 https://t.co/JXczD0VQp0 pic.twitter.com/iZKZXh55kU
— L.A. Times Sports (@latimessports) March 6, 2019
· California's Santa Anita racetrack announced on Tuesday that it was suspending races indefinitely after 21 horses have died since December 26th. The closure means two prestigious races - the Santa Anita Handicap and the San Felipe Handicap, which is a major prep race for 3 y/o horses hoping to qualify for the Kentucky Derby - will have to be postponed. Both races were scheduled for Saturday
· The deaths include 2017 Breeders Cup winner Battle of Midway who died during training on Saturday. The 21st death was a 4 year old filly called Light the Way who died after sustaining an injury during training on a dirt track
· The cause of the injuries is unknown. Experts looked for surface irregularities on the track but none were found. Some say the horses may be drugged, although there is no evidence to support this. It could also be that the horses' bodies are not strong, as they are bred for speed. It may also be the weather, as Santa Anita has seen 12" of rain since the track opened in December; during rainy weather, the track is sealed, a process which presses the dirt down and allow water to roll off it. Safety & racing-surface expert Mick Peterson inspected the track and said it was 100% safe for racing. Nearby Los Alamitos Race Track offered their track for training while Santa Anita is closed
· Following the 20th death last week, PETA staged protests outside the track and called on Gov Gavin Newsom to shut it down
· The racetrack was embroiled in controversy after two horses died during the 2012 filming of HBO's "Luck." The show was cancelled following the deaths, citing animal safety concerns
Tagged: peta / animal rights, television - hbo
Riverdale Roundup: Five Feet Apart Red Carpet, Camila's Open Letter on Body Neutrality, and More
Our incredible CEO and cofounder @KristinaSaffran co-wrote an open letter about body neutrality with @CamilaMendes and Amanda Crew — please give it a read and share.https://t.co/fSU547lKVX
— Project HEAL (@TheProjectHEAL) March 8, 2019
Camila and Amanda Crew co-signed an open letter about body neutrality on International Women's Day
[Body neutrality is the idea that our worth is not tied to how we look. We may seem to be unlikely messengers of the body neutrality message, as three conventionally attractive, smaller bodied women. However, this issue is not just important for women in larger bodies, but for all women, because nobody can measure up to our societal beauty ideal — it’s unattainable]It’s a good time to be a woman in America. We’ve outpaced our male counterparts in graduating from college, the #MeToo movement is demanding an end to harassment and violence, we’re running for office in record numbers, and we’re beginning to demand equal partnerships at home as well. The women’s empowerment movement is in full swing, and women are finally demanding full equality.
But we will never have full equality until we tackle the unhealthy societal expectations placed on women’s appearance.
From a very young age, girls are brought up to believe that our most important attribute is our appearance. We spend an unseemly amount of time, money and mental energy on making ourselves "beautiful." Women are estimated to spend a quarter million dollars on vanity products over the course of a lifetime, and an average of 40 minutes getting ready each morning, three times more than their male counterparts.
We invest the most time, money, and mental energy on the "perfect body." According to a 2013 study, 91% of American women are dissatisfied with their bodies. Other surveys suggest that 67% of women are trying to lose weight. And it starts young: 40-60% of elementary school girls (ages 6-12) are concerned about their weight or about becoming too fat.
We have a beauty standard in this country that is unattainable for the vast majority of women. According to statistics from 2012, an estimated 67% of American women are plus-size, defined as a size 14 or larger. Further, almost all the ads we see are also photoshopped, meaning that we are literally comparing ourselves to something that is impossible to achieve.
To add insult to injury, we’ve been told that weight loss is critical to health, and diets will help us get there, but there’s strong evidence that that’s just not true. Weight is a poor proxy for health, and long-term studies show that the majority of individuals on diets end up weighing more than when they began.
Instead of questioning the system, we blame ourselves. Our bad feelings about our appearance overshadow our good feelings about other attributes. We continue to pour time and resources into “fixing” our appearance, rather than cultivating our meaningful qualities. And when you’re not comfortable in your own skin, you don’t value yourself. On a subconscious level, you don’t think you’re worthy of the dream job, a loving and equal partnership, being treated with full respect.
Body neutrality is the idea that our worth is not tied to how we look. We may seem to be unlikely messengers of the body neutrality message, as three conventionally attractive, smaller bodied women. However, this issue is not just important for women in larger bodies, but for all women, because nobody can measure up to our societal beauty ideal — it’s unattainable. But 30 million Americans of all races, ethnicities, socioeconomic statuses, ages, genders and body shapes and sizes almost kill themselves trying. Body dissatisfaction is the most important predictor of developing an eating disorder, which is the second deadliest of all mental illnesses. And trust us, recovery can feel pretty impossible in this society that puts such an emphasis on women’s appearance.
What got us to full recovery was not accepting that we were "close enough" to the beauty ideal, but really discarding the notion that appearance was an important part of who we are. We are intelligent, we are ambitious, we are changemakers. These are the qualities that we work to cultivate, and where we derive true self-worth.
Only when women’s appearance and body size don’t hold such outsize importance in our society will we be truly be equal. We need to be teaching young girls and women to spend time investing in the things that matter. Being smart, being creative, being curious, being kind. Unlike appearance, these are the things that build true and lasting self-worth. And there is nothing more powerful than a woman who values
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Tagged: #metoo, actor / actress, canadian celebrities, health problems, james corden, red carpet and event, riverdale (cw), schitts creek (cbc), sexism
ch33rylips
R. Kelly's Ex Lawyer Wants Everybody To Know "He's Guilty As Hell"
R. Kelly's lawyer from his 2008 trial is dying of cancer and wants everyone to know Kelly was 'guilty as hell' https://t.co/DKYioShMbx
— INSIDER (@thisisinsider) March 8, 2019
In we been knew news.
One of the lawyer who defended R. kelly in his 2008 child pornography case.
- Is dying of cancer
- Confessed that R. Kelly was guilty and is a pedophile who's attracted to young girls
- Somehow doesn't think R. kelly is guilty of his recent accusations, says "He hasn't done anything inappropriate for years"
- Had R. Kelly put on shots that killed in libido
- Made R. Kelly change the lyrics to 'Ignition' because it was about a Student/teacher relationship
Die faster plz
Tagged: legal / lawsuit, men are weak, r kelly, sexual misconduct
violet_crumble9
Star Trek: Disco 2x09 Promo "Project Daedalus"
- The synopsis is not out yet but it was directed by Jonathan Frakes (Riker from TNG)
- Is the 3rd Disco ep he's directed
- Written by Michelle Paradise. It's her first Disco script
Tagged: netflix, star trek, television - cbs, television promo / stills
ivy_b
Siren 2X08 promo (spring finale)
Promo for episode 2X08, 'Leverage', which is the spring finale. No date yet for the rest of the season.
' Mermaids and humans join forces in a radical plan to stop the oil company, but their efforts have a devastating effect. And facing an uncertain future, Ben, Maddie and Ryn come together for a romantic farewell.'
Are you all emotionally ready for the hiatus?
Tagged: television - freeform, television promo / stills
disasterboss
Jussie Smollet Indicted on 16 Felony Counts by Grand Jury
A Chicago grand jury on Friday indicted #Empire actor Jussie Smollett on 16 felony counts for allegedly lying to police about a supposed hate crime attack, according to multiple reports https://t.co/v9RU87luuf
There is also an internal investigation in the Chicago Police Department into who has been leaking information to the press.
"I would like to point out that a lot of the information out there was inaccurate and there were numerous agencies involved in this investigation," Sgt. Rocco Alioto said in a statement to THR. "As a standard procedure when there are allegations of information being leaked, an internal investigation has been opened and we are also looking at our vulnerabilities."
Smollett maintains his innocence. He is due back in court March 14 to face his disorderly conduct charge.
Tagged: black celebrities, empire (fox), legal / lawsuit, lgbtq / rights
Free For All Friday
Make good choices this weekend!
Today is International Women's Day!
No porn, nudes, pic spamming, fighting, advertising, rudeness, huge browser slowing comments.
Put multiple images/tweets, etc. under a spoiler cut (code is below):
<lj-spoiler>Your content</lj-spoiler>
AND TODAY'S
2012-2013 (18 episodes)
A failed Vegas showgirl ends up working in a small town's dance school.
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Current Music: Cyndi Lauper - Girls Just Want to Have Fun
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lydiainthesky
Normani - Waves (Behind The Scenes) feat. 6LACK 🌊
Normani takes us behind the scenes of her music video for Waves, featuring 6LACK and directed by Emil Nava
fun fact: the gravitational pull of the moon on the earth causes waves
🌊Download and stream the song here 🌊
Tagged: behind the scenes, black celebrities, fifth harmony, music video
ginainabottle
Ava Duvernay, Constance Wu and Jessica Chastain on the April cover of Marie Claire
April cover stars @Ava, @Jes_Chastain, and @ConstanceWu are revolutionizing Hollywood. In the April issue they share why their work with @TimesUpNow affiliate #TimesUpEntertainment is so crucial for inclusion, representation, diversity, and equality. https://t.co/5I9oLUfIXp pic.twitter.com/13Xp0IO4BX
— Marie Claire (@marieclaire) March 7, 2019
- They are said to be some of the most engaged women of the Time's Up organization
- There are labelled pictures of each: Constance is the firebrand, Ava is the groundbreaker, and Jessica is the champion
- Ava says her biggest career regret was to forgo her writing credit on Selma
- Constance says she's outspoken because she's sensitive, even though people assume she isn't
- People have told Jessica that she needs be a little more quiet with "all this woman talk"
If you had to pick famous women to represent feminism today, who would you pick, ONTD?
Also, happy international women's day ♥
Tagged: ava duvernay, constance wu, jessica chastain, magazine covers and articles
a_files06
Katie Cassidy to exit Arrow for 2nd time
Katie Cassidy Reportedly Leaving The Arrowverse This Year - https://t.co/0uVQoIr24U #Arrow pic.twitter.com/igfLHjFpgs
— We Got This Covered (@wgtc_site) March 8, 2019
-It is being reported that Katie Cassidy has decided to leave Arrow, exiting the series for the 2nd time (the 1st time she was written and killed off in S4 before coming back full time again in S6 as an evil doppelganger)
-Katie recently revealed a new look on IG further fueling the rumors of her exit with a caption that reads "A woman who cuts her hair is about to change her life"
-7x18 will most likely be her siren song though with Arrow ending with its 8th season she will likely cameo in at least 1 episode of its 10 episodes.
Tagged: actor / actress, arrow (cw), slow news day, television - cw
p0uritup
Keith Urban reveals Nicole Kidman is a ‘maniac’ in the bedroom
Keith Urban has revealed the inspiration behind his racy track Gemini is wife Nicole Kidman.
Urban told British publication iNews:
“The song is actually about Nicole”
In the song he sings about her “waking to make love in the middle of the night”.
The 51-year-old added:
“She loves it,”
“It’s a fun song. My co-writer Julia Michaels asked me to describe Nicole and that’s what came out. She is Gemini but she’s not a contradiction. She can roll with things.”
Tagged: keith urban, nicole kidman
Diane von Furstenberg Reveals She Once Slept with Richard Gere
During the game DVF or WTF?, actress Julianne Moore and Andy Cohen guess if “facts” read aloud about designer Diane von Furstenberg are true or false including if she ever dated Richard Gere.
She revealed that she slept with Gere
Tagged: actor / actress, fashion
Why China Has Embraced 'Green Book' Like a Blockbuster
Why has #GreenBook – a period drama about race relations in the American South – resonated so strongly in China? https://t.co/CQslVWsfek pic.twitter.com/WuQ0I6CRtL
— Hollywood Reporter (@THR) 7. März 2019
the chinese box office for Green Book is crazy good (X), but why?
- China is very interested in the Oscars
- the movie came out right after it won best picture
- Jack Ma's Alibaba Pictures helped produce it, so the movie's win is seen as a win for China:
"All of China is celebrating Green Book's Oscar win. Alibaba surpassed even Netflix and Amazon to become the first internet company to co-finance and co-produce an Oscar best picture winner. After a film with Chinese investment won this award, it feels like Chinese cinema and our national pride are not so far from the Oscars after all."
- Chinese audience is not very familiar with US race relations, which was the biggest criticism in US reviews of the movie:
"The seemingly heavy and sensitive topic is presented in a road trip setting and in a rather comedic fashion. This somehow makes it easier for it to resonate and be understood for Chinese moviegoers — they don’t need to be equipped with a lot of historic background."
Tagged: #greenbook, asian celebrities, box office
eightball
Jordan Peele nerds out to horror films
-Scariest villain for him is Michael Myers.
-Favorite final girl is Jada Pinkett Smith in "Demon Knight".
-Favorite performance ever is Shelley Duvall in "The Shining".
-For his Avengers-style crew, he'd include Freddy, Chucky, Candyman, a silver ball from "Phantasm", and a graboid from "Tremors".
Any new horror movies you guys watching, ONTD?
Tagged: actor / actress, film - horror, interview, jordan peele
illyrias_pet
Wade Robson and James Safechuck interview round up
I spoke with Wade Robson, James Safechuck, and filmmaker Dan Reed about how and why they made #LeavingNeverland, and how that process illuminated their feelings about Michael Jackson, and themselves. https://t.co/MARcQPPwvN
— Adam B. Vary (@adambvary) March 3, 2019
Buzzfeed Interview:
James on whether or not doing the documentary was healing for him: “I think Wade found it cathartic. I did not. It was not healing for me.”
James on how his mom became a part of the documentary: Safechuck ruled out asking his mother, Stephanie, directly to participate, because he knew she would say yes to anything he asked. “She, at this point, would do anything for me,” he said. “So I tried to have it be as much of her decision as possible.” So he invited his mom over to his house while Reed was there, and let the filmmaker make his case on his own. “Dan has a way,” he said, laughing. “Once they built their own relationship, she was like, ‘OK, I get what he’s trying to do.’”
Wade on his mixed feelings about his mom appearing in the documentary: “She was going to receive a certain amount of negative pushback and, you know, blame for what happened. Because I felt that towards her, as well, you know? My mother was really suspicious of Dan and this film. There’s a certain amount of, uh, denial in her life. I didn’t know to what degree she had processed everything that really has happened to me, and had happened to our family. So I didn’t know to what degree she’d be able to speak in a clear way about it all. But then I also had to realize, ‘You know what? Wherever she’s at, that’s the truth.’”
Wade's mother has still not heard the details of his abuse and had Dan skip over the parts in the documentary because she can't handle it and said it would give her nightmares. Wade said this about it: “No. She, uh, she had Dan skip over the parts about the abuse. That’s a little challenging for me. It’s like, come on, mom, you’ve gotta face this whole thing.”
In the documentary, Wade's mom, Joy Robson, spoke about how Wade told her he didn't want to want to testify in the 2005 trial and didn't want her to testify either because he wanted nothing to do with it. Joy asked him now as an adult when Wade was 21 if Michael ever abused him. Wade looked her in the eye and told her no. Joy told him that he should testify because Michael was his friend, Wade and Malcaulay Culkin were the only two people in the world who could save him, and Michael wouldn't survive in prison.
[tw: sexual abuse, tw: suicide]
Wade revealed his father who committed suicide in 2002 was also a survivor of child sexual abuse: “I’ve learned in the last few years that he was also sexually abused, as a kid,” he said. “I never knew that when he was alive.” Robson shifted again. He brought up the family’s first trip to Jackson’s Neverland Ranch when he says the abuse began. “I learned this within the last, you know, whatever, five or six years,” he said. “My mother told me that my father said to my mother when he got on the plane to go back to Australia, ‘Let’s not tell everyone that Wade was sleeping in the room with Michael. People wouldn’t understand.’” Safechuck’s already wide eyes went wider. “What to make of that?” he said. Robson shook his head. “I don’t know what to do with that.”
Wade on the Jackson estate: “What the estate and the Jacksons are trying to do — with obviously no boundaries and no human limit in what they’ll do to protect the image [of] Michael Jackson, the cash cow — is maybe a slightly heightened example of what so many survivors go through. In so many survivors’ cases, they’re not believed. They’re discredited, they’re shamed, by the perpetrator or people surrounding the perpetrator. And they’re revictimized over and over again. This is what the estate and the Jacksons are doing. They’re doing it to me, they’re doing it to James, but more importantly, they’re doing it to all survivors by these actions that they’re taking. It’s a nasty attempt, clutching at straws, to discredit something that they know is true. They’ve been hiding it and paying people off and shaming victims and terrifying victims of Michael’s for years. The thing is, I’m not going anywhere, James is not going anywhere. No matter what happens, I will never be silent again.”
Source: Twitter 1, 2; YouTube 1, 2; Jezebel
Tagged: michael jackson / jackson family, sensitive content, sexual misconduct
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Killing eve season 2 poster and new trailer
Sorry baby x
Your obsession returns April 7 at 8pm on @BBCAmerica. #KillingEve pic.twitter.com/j2plzJC294
— Killing Eve (@KillingEve) March 8, 2019
Season 2 premieres April 7th.
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First reviews are in for Jordan Peele's "Us" starring Lupita Nyong'o
VERY into #USMovie. An eerie thrill PACKED with A+ set pieces. The whole ensemble is something else. An unforgettable big screen family right here. A wild, highly engaging ride but best of all, it’s not one to quickly shake off after it ends. Gonna have it on my mind for a while.
— Perri Nemiroff (@PNemiroff) March 9, 2019
Jordan Peele's very anticipated followup to 'Get Out', 'Us' starring Oscar winner Lupita Nyong'o, debuted tonight at SXSW, and the insanely positive reviews are coming in. Take a look.
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Sources: https://twitter.com/PNemiroff/status/1104216718757560320
https://twitter.com/AwardsCircuit/status/1104216018765926400
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https://twitter.com/GeekWithAnAfro/status/1104214058515992577
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Lindsay Shookus doesn’t drink around Ben Affleck anymore
EXCLUSIVE: Lindsay Shookus doesn’t drink around Ben Affleck anymore https://t.co/wYRoENUpQE pic.twitter.com/zvqMsEJw0i
— Page Six (@PageSix) March 8, 2019
Affleck is back in a relationship with “Saturday Night Live” producer Lindsay Shookus
According to Page Six sources, Lindsay “is like his sober coach” this time around
“Lindsay doesn’t drink around Ben,” and, “She isn’t keeping alcohol in her home.”
About the paparazzi shots of the couple walking with giant coffees, a source says “They drink coffee a lot — she encourages that instead of alcohol.”
Tagged: ben affleck, saturday night live (nbc)
Alec Baldwin Shared A Sexy Throwback Picture Of All The Baldwin Brothers
https://instagram.com/p/ButT6LFg_QR
Alec posted a shirtless throwback picture of himself and all the Baldwin boys
Alec, now 60, stands in front showing off his biceps wearing only black sweatpants.
The other brothers are Stephen, Daniel and Billy
Who's your favorite Baldwin, ONTD?
Tagged: alec baldwin, celebrity social media, sexy, slow news day
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you can win James McAvoy’s signed shirt from the Oscars by donating for a good cause
AND A NOTE FROM JAMES:
Know what I did on February 24th? Went to the Oscars. Presented. Got mugged by Sharpie-wielding celebrities!
When I found a Sharpie lying on the floor, I just asked people to totally deface my beautiful white shirt. Sure, it was an off-the-cuff, alcohol-infused idea, but now I get to auction it off and raise money for an organization that means a lot to me!
For only a $10 minimum donation to Ronald McDonald House® New York, you could win the shirt I wore to the Oscars (don’t worry, it’ll be clean!) and help a great cause! Just look at all these cool autographs you’ll get—me (of course), Brie Larsen, Frances McDormand, Charlize Theron, Amy Adams, Samuel L. Jackson, Michael B. Jordan, Bryana Holly, Amanda Peet, Melissa McCarthy, Sophie Turner, Joe Jonas, Nicholas Hoult, Karamo Brown, Taylor Swift, Rumer Willis, Rashida Jones, Maya Rudolph, Sam Rockwell, Hellen Mirren, Elizabeth Banks, Kerry Washington, Zoe Kravitz, Jason Momoa, Michelle Yeoh...oh, and many more we're still trying to decipher!
Your donation helps Ronald McDonald House New York provide temporary lodging and care for families while their child battles cancer. If you want to give more, you’ll get extra entries!
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Home City Government Mister Phillips for West Contra Costa USD School Board
Mister Phillips for West Contra Costa USD School Board
Mister Phillips’ father, retired Richmond police Lieutenant Tommie Phillips, inspired him to public service at a young age.
Phillips, now aged 36, is running for the governing board of the West Contra Costa Unified School District.
Phillips’ vision is that every student will attend a safe school where they are engaged and able to achieve academically. He pledges that he “will strive to achieve this vision for the sake of all children, regardless of where they live or attend school.”
Phillips’ plan to get us there is simple. He believes the school district should focus on school safety, student engagement, academic achievement and employee morale.
This newspaper agrees. Our children have been underserved for too long. It is time for the school district to get back to the basics.
Phillips’ professional background will serve him well on the school board. He has worked as a labor relations representative in K-12 public schools, substitute teacher in the West Contra Costa and San Francisco Unified School Districts, GED instructor in Washington, DC, and instructional assistant in the Fairfield-Suisun Unified School District.
In addition, Phillips has represented West County on the First 5 Contra Costa Children and Families Commission since 2012. The commission funds health and education programs for children aged zero to five, countywide.
The West County programs are based in the First 5 Centers in Richmond and San Pablo.
Phillips s also a delegate to the Democratic Party of Contra Costa County, vice president of the El Cerrito Democratic Club, deacon of Providence Missionary Baptist Church of San Pablo and past president of the Rotary Club of Pinole.
Phillips’ family has lived in West County for six generations. He resides in Richmond with his wife, Angela. They have two children, aged three and one month.
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271 Wisdom Teachings That Will Change Your Life
March 5, 2019 March 5, 2019 by Edward Morgan
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Read this carefully, for it will change your life.
Apply what you read, because unused information is worthless.
The human bears a spirit that does not die nor sleep during the deepest sleep; it records all thoughts and emotions; it informs the human whether his thoughts are correct or false-if he has learned to pay attention.
The spirit within the human is the bearer of the creative realm, and every human has his own (spirit).
It is incomprehensible that the human speaks of a heaven and of a kingdom of heaven within himself, rather than to merely say: Creation, truth, knowledge, wisdom, spirit, consciousness and existence.
A human yearning lies in the joy that remains, for the imperishable life, the permanent peace, the spiritual and consciousness-related wealth that never fades and lasts forever.
Heaven and Earth will perish, but truth, knowledge, wisdom and spirit will never be changing [change?] or perish.
The spirit and the consciousness are on the look-out for what is perfect, for harmony, for peace, cognition and realization, for knowledge, wisdom, truth and beauty, for love and for the true BEING, all of which are of absolute duration.
All of these lead to what forms the spiritual kingdom of wisdom; all are existing within what is creative.
All of these are here in existence, as a genius of all ingenuity, as a melody of all melodies, as ability of all abilities, as the highest creative principle, as wonder of all wonders.
The human may create wondrous worlds in a dream, just as Creation consciously creates the worlds.
To the human, this capability arises from his consciousness, which is obtainable in existence within himself, in the same way that all wonders are available within himself.
He himself is the realm of heaven, the realm of what is creative.
That’s why the terrestrial philosophers of old spoke about the human as a microcosm within a macrocosm because everything that is included within the universe is included within the human.
The inner dimensions of the human are endless.
The image of Creation, the spirit within him–the existence that is without dimension–it bears all dimensions within itself and, at the same time, transcends all dimensions.
The spirit is the wonder of all wonders, and all power emerges from it.
A wonder means using the spirit force in perfection.
The human, however, places a wonder into something for which he lacks all possibilities of a logical explanation.
If a human is happy, his happiness comes from within, because happiness is a self-created state; never is happiness a location.
Joy comes forth from the human’s inner part, created by spiritual poise.
Therefore, everything comes from within.
The things that, or humans who, seemingly form the cause of happiness, are only the external occasion to bring the happiness within the human expressing itself, if he has spiritually worked towards this.
But happiness is something that belongs to the inner being, and it is an inseparable characteristic of the spirits existence.
Endless happiness and endless power are included in this existence.
Outwardly, the human may be old, but this is only a passing matter.
Fifty years ago, he wasn’t, and in fifty years–when his body is dead–he will not be, because only the body may become old and infirm.
The spirit, however, remains forever young and suffers no symptoms of old age.
The old age, and also youth and infancy, and also sorrows, grief or problems, is something that passes, like it is the case with all external conditions and experiences of the world.
What is lasting is the existence of the spirit, truth, knowledge, wisdom, reality.
What matters is to recognize and build them, because they only make the human free.
If the human recognizes the existence of his spirit, the old age is not harmful to him any longer.
No sorrows, no suffering, no problem, no changes and no ups and downs of life and of the surroundings, of the environment and the world may still throw him into grief.
Wisdom is an elemental, tremendous power.
Wisdom is light.
And wherever a light shines, darkness and ignorance vanish.
But ignorance is the actual darkness, and it is overcome by the light of wisdom.
Wisdom is a characteristic of the existence of the spirit and the consciousness, and it bears within itself the qualities of happiness, truth, knowledge, balance, beauty, harmony and peace.
However, wisdom is the characteristic of a human who has recognized the existence of his spirit and cooperates along with the spiritual laws.
Wisdom is using the spirit force.
Wisdom and spirit are two things that amount to one, in the same way as sunlight and the sun are two things.
The sunlight results from the heat of the sun, which she herself first has to generate through her processes.
Thus, there is also an all-creating existence in the universe that, on the strength of its force, creates forces that constantly and imperturbably follow and enliven the endless eons–as truth, knowledge and wisdom, (and) according to a given uniform guideline–along certain Creative laws.
This forceful existence, however, is Creation.
And therefore, there is only one existence that rules throughout the universe–only one Creation, only one truth, one knowledge and one wisdom–and that is synchronous and unchanging for all times.
The eternal truth is not subject to any variations and changes, and its laws must never be revised and adjusted to new times.
The spirit force is vital and dynamic, namely in such an amount as it embodies the wisdom within itself.
It is a sign of human weakness when religions and their false teachings are presented as instruments of what is creative, and when wisdom becomes unreal through this.
The human searches elsewhere for strength, freedom, joy and light, but not where they really may be found.
Wisdom is a distinguishing feature of Creation that, as a fragment, inhabits the human as spirit.
Therefore, the human shall increase his knowledgeable wisdom, and he will recognize Creation.
He shall increase his search for truth, and he shall know about the power of wisdom.
Cognition of the truth brings liberation from all restrictions.
It brings boundless knowledge and wisdom.
Wisdom is a powerful means to recognize the laws of Creation.
A human who is filled with love is also rich in wisdom, and a human who is rich in wisdom is also full of love.
However, the human cheats himself because he does not know love.
He interprets grasping feelings and sentiments as love, while, to him, real love remains strange and not understood.
A human is a human only if he has recognized truth, knowledge and wisdom, even if he never used the word Creation, because wisdom is also love in its best form.
Thus, the human always finds that enlightenment and recognition are knowledge and also wisdom and love, and where love rules, there rules wisdom, too.
Love and wisdom belong together, because Creation and Its laws are love and wisdom at the same time.
Where there is wisdom and knowledge, there is love and cognition, and where there is cognition and love, there is Creation.
Growth within love and wisdom teach the human to recognize Creation.
First, however, the human learns the truth, and thereby he will gain freedom and peace, a peace which is imperishable, a power without an end.
Wisdom and love both are two stimulating wings of the creative essence and character.
With wisdom and love, the human is master over all creation.
Wisdom and love increase his dedication for the fulfilment of the given creative-natural laws, because spirit and Creation are one.
The earth human speaks of love that he does not know.
He believes to know that his sentiments are love and, through this, he deceives himself.
Love cannot be clothed in words, because it is, just as luck, a state and not a place.
Love is imperishable, and nothing is able to change it into something else.
The path of the spirit force leads over cognition of truth, knowledge, wisdom and love.
The sense and function of the spiritual teachings are to spread truth, knowledge, wisdom and love.
If this fails it is not a help anymore but an evil cult which, through false teachings, enslaves the spirit and produces ignorance, as it is the case with the religions’ false teachings.
If it pursues the function of expanding the spiritual knowledge, then it is a powerful instrument of the creative order.
The spiritual teachings deal with the spreading of cognition, truth, knowledge, wisdom and love, with what is eternal, immortal, (and) imperishable, what overcomes death and spreads light, what embodies within itself the balance of wisdom and love, and they deal with the peace that surpasses all understanding.
Each human believes to know what is meant by peace, in the manner that he knows it according to human experience.
But to understand the wise peace of the endless existence, the spirit, the immortal Creation, surpasses his human understanding.
The reason for this is that he is a prisoner of religious false teachings and human-material things that withhold from him an understanding for inner experience.
The experience that forms the true key for true cognition and wisdom.
The kingdom of the spirit holds wonders over wonders.
The visible universe with which the human deals, is but a tiny spot within this wonderful, endless, spiritual intelligence of Creation.
Countless billion universes like this are held within the endless spiritual intelligence of Creation.
What is visible to the human’s physical eyes is but a tiny iota within endlessness.
What he cannot see with his eyes is immeasurable, inconceivable and unthinkable; it is confusing and unimaginable for his unspiritual human intelligence and (mental) capacity.
The entire universe which he sees is but one of many rooms and must be counted as myriads, because there are universes within universes, universes beyond universes, universes under universes, universes above universes and universes out of the universes within this ur-mighty, colossal and all-creative spiritual intelligence of the Creation’s existence.
And the human is connected with this mighty spirit, with these elemental powers of existence, Creation, spiritual intelligence, because a fragment of this spirit-intelligence Creation dwells within, and enlivens, the human as spirit.
Its (the spirit’s) power, its joy, its peace, its freedom, its wisdom, its knowledge and its ability are unimaginable for people that are spiritually ignorant, illogical; for critics and know-it-all’s; for those dependent to religions; for degenerated ones and other persons that have been led astray.
And only a human who knows this truth and produces knowledge and wisdom and love from it, is a blessed human.
He knows the answer to the last questions of science, of philosophy, and also of the wondering human.
But in order to become such a blessed human it is required to search for and find the truth, to gain knowledge, wisdom and love from it, for the human is only able to spiritually grow in truth, knowledge, wisdom and love, whereby he will be freed from all human frailties.
The human is enlightened and fully freed only if he–in his thoughts–incessantly and constantly dwells in the endless creative-spiritual reality.
The spiritual intelligence is enlightened by lawful spiritual principles, and directed towards the creative being, the perfection and the power of what is creative itself.
This in contrast to the human intelligence, because the human consciousness generally only deals with single things of the material world.
As a consequence, the human is restricted and handicapped in every direction; he even gets captured, suppressed, plagued and tortured by all possible forms of misfortune, frailties and enslavement.
Therefore, a human’s individual self-analysis is one of the essential methods to find the truth and to walk on the path of spiritual evolution.
Therefore, it is necessary that the human constantly examines his thoughts and may see, of what kind they are.
He has to pay attention (to the fact) that, ultimately, he is always led, directed and determined by creative-philosophical principles and realities, by creative-natural laws.
Within the human, there should reign a continually conscious feeling of belonging to what is creative, with his essential spiritual breath, his essential spiritual BEING.
It shall be spiritually clear to him that his essential spiritual BEING is inseparably one with what is Creative, in order that he may–in this awareness–overcome the material outer world.
This creative-philosophical truth and cognition should always and first of all rule a human’s thinking, feeling and acting.
For only he who is one with the spirit can recognize and do good in the long run, because he has the possibilities of Creation within himself.
Nothing negative within the endless universe may touch and enslave him anymore.
In addition to this creative-philosophical consciousness comes the practical, dynamic, creative, i.e. the mystical consciousness that consists of the perception of the one reality in all things.
Therefore, the human has to be a practical philosopher and mystic, and perceive the reality in its changeable, passing forms.
For what is a human?
He is only a figure and a name.
If one takes away a human’s name and figure, what will remain?
What remains is the fundamental essence, the existence–the spirit.
The human who fails to see this will be driven around and away by the slightest breath of air, without hope for rescue; (he will) always (be) striving to find a firm hold somewhere that, however, will never be offered unless he searches for, and finds, the fundamental truth.
Billions of humans look up to the stars in the sky, however without any results or realizations.
Astronomers, however, while looking up to the sky, discover new worlds and write books about it.
But what they see and recognize, other people cannot see or recognize, even if they can look up.
Despite their seeing eyes they are blind.
In a similar way this is the case with the normal and the spiritual human:
The human, who truly lives according to Creation’s laws, sees everywhere and recognizes what is creative, in every life form, in everything, in every thought and act in every human, in all of nature’s work and also in all conceivable circumstances.
But the normal, unspiritual human, who is harmed by religions or other unreal teachings, may not see or hear, or recognize even one iota of truth.
His life is unspiritual, all the more pressed into human-material ways.
Thereby he is blind, deaf and ignorant.
The human who adheres to Creation’s laws is the most blessed and most fearless being.
His will is insurmountable, his dedication immeasurable and endless, and his wisdom and love are constant and perfect, not capricious and full of doubts, like it is the case with those who are dependent from religions or generally those who are led astray in some way.
His mind resembles the wide, endless sea and does not let itself come out of its rest.
He does not tremble with fear.
Therefore, the human may unfold his spiritual mind that is not anymore reached by any degenerated negative force;
The mind which gives no shelter to negatively degenerated thoughts and supersedes all positively degenerated thoughts and actions.
Only a balanced mind that is rooted in what is creative–in creative service, in creative wisdom, its knowledge, its love and joy that are more real than all material walls around (and more real than) the human environment–is valuable and serving the spirit’s development.
Therefore, the human being shall be spiritually great and constructive at all times.
The spirit, the source of all endless, creative development, is itself the human’s innermost being.
The human outer being is full of limitations, because it is not itself, but only its wrap, its material body, a limitation, a misleading matter, the source of toil and pain, (and it is) limited regarding cognition and will, willingness to make sacrifices, freedom, love and luck.
If the human looks at his fellowman in an external, material way only, he sees nothing other than just exactly the form and figure, the material of this special person.
If he looks at him with the spiritual eyes of cognition and knows that this (universally) all-testifying consciousness in himself is also in all the other ones, albeit unknown to them, then the manner of how he sees his fellowmen changes completely.
He then does not simply see a man anymore, a woman, a girl or a child, but he sees the fellowman as a bearer of a creative spirit that knows about itself, about its existence, and wants to reveal itself through anybody if there would only be offered an opportunity.
He who knows the truth sees his fellowman from this knowledge and recognition, because he sees in him what is creative.
At least he now knows more than he knew before he recognized the truth.
This is the proof then that ignorance is nothing that cannot be changed for all times.
If the human is willing to accept the truth, he can free himself from all ignorance.
The human can free himself from everything, and everything can be taken from him, except the creative consciousness, the spirit, the existence within his interior, this purely spiritual realm within him.
He may be robbed from all of his possessions and may be driven away from his home, but nobody may drive him away from his spiritual realm within his interior.
Thus, the human should be constantly aware of what is creative, without which he would not be able to draw a single breath, could grasp no thought, could not realize, see, hear or experience.
Therefore, the great sages of all times say: “The creative spirit is nearer to the human than his own breath.”
The human may not escape from this highest consciousness, for sooner or later, he surrenders to this creative reality, because it is the life of his life, the spirit of his spirit, the consciousness of his consciousness, the light of his light, the central thought force of all life, the existence that projects all human thinking by far, against which all power of the human-material-intellectual thinking sinks into absolute insignificance.
The spirit itself is able to live without the light of the physical eyes, in the same way that it may live without hearing, arms, legs or even without the exterior consciousness’ exterior understanding.
However, there is always something present that enables him to keep on living, namely his own creative force.
This awareness of oneself, this all-observing and all-registering spiritual consciousness within the human, that looks at his thoughts and emotions and that stands behind all of his thinking, that tells him whether he is knowing or ignorant, this is what is called creative, the spiritual consciousness.
To always think again and again about the fact that the spirit is omnipotent–always present, all-knowing and, beyond this, endless luck, endless beauty, endless value, actually the value of all things–lets the word Creation become absolutely important for the human and brings forth evolution-related changes within him.
As often as the words spirit and Creation are impressed upon him, there occur within him psychological changes of the greatest importance.
His feelings and all of his senses change.
The clearer his spiritual intelligence becomes through it, the more his personality gains power, and the more blessed will be his life.
A wise one full of spirit consciousness sees what will happen in the most distant future, perhaps even billions of years later, and he has the life forms’ and humankind’s entire past before his eyes.
Thus, the greatest knowledge is given unto him.
Yet, how is this possible?
Such a human has the necessary requirements within his interior, in the spirit.
As the light may be perceived through the closed eye-lids, as lies within every human creative presence, the entire spiritual realm; however, it is visible only to those who are actually able to look inward through their inner eye.
It can only be useful to those who offer all requirements.
Every human bear within him the entire kingdom of spirit, but it is covered and beaten with ignorance, errors, imperfection, evil, mistakes and restrictions of all sorts, which have to be changed into their opposites through the recognition and acceptance of truth.
The human must resolve and open all evils by developing abilities that are opposed to everything that is degenerated and which lead to a neutral balance.
The way of experiencing the spirit will be accelerated through the unfolding of conscious searching and the gathering of true knowledge, and this unfolding leads to the true and all-encompassing, cosmic wisdom and love, based on the cognition that Creation is present within everything.
The human is one with everything within Creation, in truth, wisdom and love, in the kingdom of the spirit;
The truth and wisdom, that the human is separated through space and time and the body from each other; this, however, may be overcome through the internal experience.
Wisdom and love combined, knowledge and truth combined, the spirit’s wisdom and love lead–through experience–to unity and Creation itself, to universal joy, power and perfection.
Since the human does not know what is of Creation, and is led astray, namely by spirit-enslaving religions, he makes a great many mistakes, searches for the true treasures in the wrong places and, thereby, violates all nature-related and creative order and all rules of laws.
As precisely as he will observe the human laws of the human society, he still will constantly offend against all laws and rules and order of what is creative in the universe, and will let himself be captured in human-material troubles, sorrows and problems, in fright, false teachings, deceptions and failings, in misfortune, spiritual ignorance and spiritual enslavement and restrictions.
Exactly what is of greatest value will be made unobtainable by unreal religions and human ignorance.
To the human, this ignorance and the misleading religions disguise that which is the source of all valuable things, the life of his life and the light of all intelligence–the spirit and the Creation.
The human shall accept the entire realm of his daily life and his experiences as creative.
He shall see himself everywhere in space, in the times and in all things.
He himself shall be everything and shall evoke all that is creative in everything, and, in this way, shall bring it to recognition and experience.
For, in everything is the Creation, and everything is enlivened through its spirit, through which everything is one in everything.
However, the question remains how the human may identify himself with everything when he does not know the spirit’s path.
Generally, he identifies himself with his body.
But what will happen when he tries to enter into the truth and aligns himself in his interior with the creative BEING and the spiritual reality?
Involuntarily the entire world dissolves in this real reality, the “spiritual truth”. rules everywhere.
The one and only principle of what is creative-spiritual. rules everywhere.
But how shall the human identify himself with everything?
The human shall see himself for just what he really is.
He cares for it like it were a gem, he nurtures it and takes trouble for it until self-sacrifice.
He surrounds it with pride, junk and a stupid delusion, while he lets his spirit become stunted.
However, a little bit of pain makes him angry, sullen and uncomfortable against other ones, or he even starts complaining and crying, has self-pity and robs himself of his life.
He surrounds his body with some nondescript halo and with vanity, fear, sorrow, pride and problems.
More and more often, everything revolves around his body only.
Often, he extends his body identity towards his material possessions, or he gets upset if some fellowman involuntarily touches it.
Yet, what will a human do about it when he has recognized the spiritual truth?
He will identify himself with all things and all the world’s life forms and the universes.
A human full of creative-spiritual wisdom, full of knowledge, truth, love and cognition, knows that from the truth everything originated, originates and will originate for all eternity.
Therefore, he identifies himself with each and everything.
In his spiritual consciousness, he will always be–in his innermost part–one with each and everything.
In his interior, in his spiritual consciousness, he will identify himself with everything in the universe, in the same manner that the other one, who thinks materialistically, identifies himself with his body, with his money, his possessions, his confused speaking and teaching, and with the sound of his voice.
But when the human identifies himself with everything in the universe, no hate and no greed may dwell within him anymore, because he makes no more selfish differences.
He has just become one with the essence in everything.
Other people may claim something as their exclusive property, but he who thinks spiritually identifies it with the truth within and, therefore, owns everything internally.
All fright has left him, while he identifies himself with the truth.
This truth of Creation and of the spirit, with which he is one, even directs his enemy’s hand that will rise against him, in such a way that it falls back to (the enemy) himself.
The spiritual one is protected and sheltered, and the whole nature is well-disposed toward him, and yes, even his enemies have to serve him in the end.
With their attacks, they cause the spiritual within him to unfold to even greater strength and power and to overcome all that is evil, vile and degenerated.
Ultimately, the enemies only contribute to the recognition of the truth and growth of those who think spiritually.
They wish evil, troubles and bad things to those who think spiritually; they are of the opinion that they could destroy them through critique, know-it-all manner, lies and defamation, through complaints and false teachings, through condemning and making a fool of him; however, they only cause damage to themselves, because their acting gives testimony of intellectual foolishness and ignorance, from which he who thinks spiritually learns even more and becomes even greater and more powerful in his spirit and consciousness.
Are such truths perhaps suggestions?
To claim this would be a delusion, because it is false.
It deals here with absolute truths.
Generally, the lives of those who are thinking falsely, who are led astray and are depending upon religions, are full of evil suggestions, full of imaginary concepts, false teachings and delusional assumptions.
The only possibility and the only means to overcome those damages is to fundamentally recognize the truths which abolish the human figments, to adhere to them and to let rule the highest creative-spiritual forces.
All unreal suggestions and human imaginations will be corrected by stating: “I, the human, am a part of Creation that, as a fragment, as spirit, enlivens me.”
Yet the knowledge that everything is imaginations and illusions, except the creative-spiritual force, truth and reality, (this knowledge) doesn’t diminish the eagerness that the human unfolds in his life at all, but it will drive him up into unimagined heights.
Only that which is true and which remains truth can be valid as truth; something on which one can depend on through eternity, and that never and under no circumstances ever needs revision.
Truth must never be adjusted to some other or new time, because it is constant for all times.
It is eternally constant and always sounds alike, even if it is spoken with other words.
It is the rock upon which one can build in eternal times and in all spaces.
The truth has been before life, and the truth is afterwards also.
What is only of a short duration is danger, a grave deception, a false teaching.
Creation and truth are always the same, today just as tomorrow; they are always unchanging and of eternal, constant value.
They do not change, neither name nor form, because Creation and truth are without names and forms.
Therefore, the human shall cling to what is creative, because alone what is creative is the truth.
It is that which is imperishable, like Creation itself; it is that which is eternal and perfect, that is worth all of human’s efforts of will, because near it the human does not fall prey to deception.
Therefore, he shall cling to the truth and become imperturbable in always constant calmness, joy, knowledge, love, strength and wisdom in all things.
That which is creative alone is endless wisdom and truth, with which there is not one iota of error.
Therefore, the human shall get strength from the creative wisdom, and he shall search for his light in his own spirit.
The spiritual human knows well that he may not move his hand in a room without touching myriad of what is creative, because it is always present in all times and spaces.
The spiritual human is full of joy when he knows about the truth that the creative–which is eternally and indescribably powerful–surrounds him wherever he walks.
What is creative is full of endless peace, full of endless cognition and the most perfect perfection.
It is the source of all wonders of the highest spiritual consciousness that is present everywhere, within and external.
His joy is as endless as the spiritual life itself.
In order to achieve fast spiritual progress, the spiritual human looks upon each and everything as creative.
As soon as he sees something, he sees what is creative.
Behind everything and in its manifestations, there always stands before him what is creative.
Therefore, the spiritual human does not walk this way and that way in order to attain the highest spiritual experience; instead he always finds the best place to gather recognition and experience wherever he stays.
His spirit that is to be developed is within him and not at some other location.
He must develop it through his own thinking and acting.
Through this cognition, his attitude becomes a sanctuary, and all things along with him become holy–even the earth under his feet.
The spiritual human does not look upon the future as the time to experience Creation and the spirit dwelling within him, but the immediate “here and now”, through which he–in the eyes of the non-spiritual normal people–lives in the most distant future, often totally misunderstood.
For the spiritual human, the time is not sometime, but always in the immediate “here and now”.
For him it is not necessary to see physically in order to see the truth.
He begins to search within himself, and the truth becomes more and more real to him, because for him his spirit is the all-seeing presence.
No word that is spoken anywhere remains unheard by him.
In order to speed progress, the spiritual human hears the sound of truth from any sound he hears, whereby each sound penetrates his spiritual consciousness and establishes there.
In the same manner everything reminds him of that which is creative, and of the immediate truth.
Every circumstance is a creative circumstance, each opportunity a creative opportunity.
The creative human lives and works in such cognition, and through this he internally walks on.
What is great, what is spiritual, is present within his innermost as little things, because in the cognition of truth dwells what is infinite in the finite.
And within each human the infinite has its seat; however, very few are able to recognize this.
To wake up the infinite requires reasonable logic and being free from unreal teachings.
To wake up the infinite and let it become effective is the goal of life–spiritual perfection.
Those who are rich in spirit become an instrument, through which Creation expresses the spiritual realm.
This highest wisdom-like value of Creation lets the heaven arise.
Those who are rich in spirit are free of all boundaries of any restriction and the material self-awareness, and are, therefore, in constant touch with Creation itself.
In the case of the human, the weight of the material principle prevails.
In the not too distant future, terrestrial science will discover this principle in the (substance) matter.
Creation is included along with everything that was created; with everything that unfolds itself and develops further.
Only the unrestricted spirit and Creation itself represent true freedom, true perfection, true cognition, power, love, knowledge, truth and wisdom.
In its absoluteness, all of these are the creative itself.
In order to gain anything truly excellent in life, the human must be loyal to what is creative, the unrestricted and unlimitable.
Everything that is limited and restricted brings irreality and problems.
However, attractive as it may seem, it will once become a source of problems and irrealities.
The finite things of all forms are unnatural for the innermost essence, and, therefore, the human cannot recognize and love them as truth without harming himself most severely.
At all times they are full of faults, because everything that is finite brings along problems and difficulties.
If the human loves or possesses something that is finite, it has at least the fault of being absolutely transient.
He may love it greatly according to the human understanding of love; however, when its time comes it perishes, and he mourns over the loss of it.
That which is limited has faults in other respects, too.
Even if it does not perish at the first moment, it is at least subjected to changes.
If it is full of human love for one moment, it may be displaced by, or filled with, human hate at the next moment.
Whether it is a thing that changes or perishes, or a human who changes his approach towards his fellow man, the result is always sorrow and suffering, while that which may not be limited will never change because it is of unlimited and absolute lasting value.
When wisdom and truth dawn within the human and when his spiritual knowledge grows, when he is guided by universal love and when his life becomes a blessing to him and other ones, then cognition of truth has ripened within him.
Then he becomes aware of the fragment of Creation within him, the spirit–the spiritual realm.
Creation is present in spiritual love and wisdom.
He who struggles for spiritual light and spiritual love, to him the door to Creation opens.
If the human loves the truth, he loves that which is perfect and wonderful and what embodies the spiritual realm within itself, for it is also the path to wisdom’s realm.
The human shall become aware of the creative presence and let his spiritual intelligence shine forth from everything.
He shall recognize that even in the vast, infinite and open space the eyes of that which is creative are directed towards him, and that Creation is the true intelligence that sees him with those eyes which keep everything safe and are endowed with a sense, and which are able to answer everything.
Therefore, he shall live consciously-spiritually under the eyes of that which is creative; he shall live with the consciousness of that which is spiritual, that is infinite power, of which he must always be aware.
Then he can never be weak.
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elga konietzny
beautiful,,my reflection send me into the deepest crevice of myself,,so deeper i went
so vaster the space became,,
Except the quote was not from the Buddha but from Lau Tsu. and goes on to add when the student is truly ready the master will disappear”
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What courage you now display questioning the religious angles of current and past deceptions. Good Work.
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On Doing What You Want To
11:04 PM in the Crescent City, and the river is going to rise. Despite this distraction we are closing in on the answer to our general question.
You have to do what you want to, but the problem in our day was that women were not to think of what they wanted to do. Rather, we were to gather together a series of possible second choices, things we could do, but could also stand to give up. Things to do were good, but life works were not; and there lay the rub.
I always thought it was the poor state of the academic job market — there were no jobs, and our careers would end when we were awarded the PhD, so one should not hope a great deal or count on a thing. (Professors wondered why people were slow dissertation writers, but they were acting quite rationally insofar as they were protracting their time in a profession they enjoyed.)
And part of the problem was in fact the state of the market. A more secret part was that while we knew we could work, we felt that having a work or works was not our place. This is a lesson for girls, and it is important. I could respond at length to Sara Ruddick’s “A Work of One’s Own” (126-146) and perhaps I shall under my own name. For now I will just take a few notes and highlight a few quotations.
As we have already said, Ruddick suffered complete paralysis for several months, during which she could not read or talk about anything relating to her thesis, and certainly not write. For many years afterward she suffered from “serious inhibition, halfheartedness, and vacillation in [her] work–the legacy, in a milder form, of paralysis.” (129) And this was not procrastination. It may have had to do with not knowing how to work, but if so, then knowing how to work is more than having a methodology.
Ruddick discusses the pain of worklessness and the way in which, in her generation, a women’s work histories were so submerged in their histories of personal relations as to be barely visible. Part of what Ruddick needed was a sense of herself as a worker. (I would add here how confusing I am as a worker. “You work like a professional,” someone once said, “and that is why you are incomprehensible.”)
In Ruddick’s world growing up, you could have a vocation, but it had to be secondary. Respectable work was professional and “was free from the taint of commercialism.” For girls, there was a “radical conflict between their sexual identity and this work ideal.” (132) Ruddick’s intellectual work was praised for its weakness, that is to say for being intellectual, but not too much so. (133)
So Ruddick was encouraged to “play at having work,” which, a she points out, has consequences — it makes one unfit not to work, yet it still interdicts having work. Then in college, at Vassar, it became clear one was being prepared not to work, but to marry; the sexual division of labor and adult life “was expressed in the self-doubt and self-deception of the younger women faculty….” (134)
Ruddick evaded the contradictions by “doing work that did not require self-knowledge or personal commitment.” (134) She had “an observer’s relation to philosophy.” (135) A spectator, a participant observer, partly because philosophy was created by men and partly because to do it, you had to behave and conceive of yourself in ways unacceptable for women. She also dropped projects and fields of study as soon as it became evident she could succeed in them, including success in work she viewed as feminine, because to continue would have forced her to risk failure, “to know myself and confront my desires.” (135)
For years, unable to commit to a career in philosophy, she believed her work troubles came from choosing the wrong subject. She now thinks not — because of societal conditions at the time, she would have had this alienated relationship with any subject. In any case, she was expressing “a deep and general commitment to security, passivity, and spectatorship” (136) — by committing to a work not her own (while pretending to herself and others that it was her own).
In college I learned to avoid work done out of love. My intellectual life became increasingly critical, detached, and dispensable. If I self-deceptively denied my desires for … conventional loves …, I refused even to recognize the loves that work demands in its own name: love for oneself, love for the ideas and creations of others, love for the people one works with, love for the knowledge, change, and beauty that work alone can achieve.
It was easy to move from college to graduate school, but she did not take graduate school as seriously. (Here, I note, I remember how many of the professors I did not believe who said “publish that,” and how I surprised people at my PhD examination by being truly original and good. This I had decided to do as a way to organize the material for myself, so as not to be chaotic and fail. Yet it was a skill I only thought it appropriate to use very sparingly).
Later on:
…I felt challenged to prove my right to be in those very places where I ws so uncomfortably placeless. It was as if I were continually seeking invitations to parties at which I would be miserable and turning down invitations offered in good faith only to feel excluded if they were not offered again. (139)
Still later, she did not revise her thesis or parts of it for publication, although she was encouraged to do so, and she continued to look for her subject. Unfinished papers littered her desk, as they do mine. (140) And, she finally started working again because she had children, which was a success and made her feel competent.
(Here I think of all the friends I have who had children before graduate school and even before college, and think well that is interesting. They felt like adults and so they could take hold of work like adults, too. It is an interesting contrast to those of us who were cautioned to defer adulthood, in so many ways, again and again — to conserve mobility, to preserve ourselves from discrimination, but also, oddly, to keep us from growing fully into ourselves.)
And yet Ruddick still found herself turning down full time academic jobs; deprofessionalization turned out to be a key for her. (This is actually a classic radical position: professionalization involves gatekeeping, following the rules of a guild, and so on, and not, necessarily, good or serious work.) In Ruddick’s case, deprofessionalization meant finding pleasure and personal meaning in work. This was when the “balance between work and family,” as it is put now, stopped being a problem for Ruddick.
So long as profound desires are threatening and therefore disavowed, experience is impoverished. In my case, so long as that impoverishment continued, I could not have the self-love necessary for work of my own. Nor could I, without the self-respect of shared responsibility in my intimate, private life, gain the self-respect necessary for me to act with some freedom in the public world. (145)
I had carried an invisible, almost amorphous weight, the weight of guilt and apology for interests and ambitions that should have been a source of price. When that weight was lifted, I felt almost literally lighter, certainly more energetic, more concentrated. (145)
Of course, as we know, Ruddick went on to reprofessionalize, but it meant integration and individuation this time, not compartmentalization, tentativeness, and alienation. Do What You Want, Version 2.
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11 responses to “On Doing What You Want To”
Northern Barbarian
Yep. Be a Mictlantecuhtl rather than a Cipactli. It suits you.
So are you counting Xiuhtecuhtli as a Cipactli? And — can you expand upon the recommendation (reasons)? I am fascinated…
I hope that you’re not offended by demotion on the Aztec pantheon from Xiuhtecuhtl, Lord of Fire to Cipactli, the Crocodile, but I do think it’s more apt. Cipactli is subordinate to Xiuhtecuhtl since as one of the nine Lords of the Night he ruled the first hour of the night, named Cipactli. My impression of you swimming in your pool during the summer is juxtaposed to an image of a crocodile lurking in the bayous of Louisiana. The sex of crocodiles is not determined by genetics but by the temperature of the environment just as your functional gender or as you say “my characteristics would be far less shocking in a man” is an expression of your response to the surrounding environment. Crocs don’t spend hours waiting in one location because they’re procrastinators but because they’re ambush hunters. Your style isn’t procrastination but your strategic approach. You said about Ruddick, “And this was not procrastination. It may have had to do with not knowing how to work, but if so, then knowing how to work is more than having a methodology.”
At the moment, I’m considering expanding this line of thought to a post on my blog probably incorporating Tokyo hardware girls and Julian of Norwich.
Tokyo hardware girls and Julian of Norwich with Aztec deities! 🙂
I was being Xiuhtecuhtli to fight off rude Mexican commenters who assumed I wouldn’t know anything about Mexico, and also because in Yoruba mytholology the god of my head is Iansan, lord of lightning and storms. But I totally see (your view of) Cipatli … I don’t yet relate fully, but I am going to think about this.
“Here I think of all the friends I have who had children before graduate school and even before college, and think well that is interesting. They felt like adults and so they could take hold of work like adults, too.”
-In the majority of cases, early parenthood is an attempt to escape from adulthood. Such parents identify with their children, dedicate themselves completely to their games, activities, interests and milestones of growing up in order to avoid confronting their own milestones. Such parents are always deeply traumatized when the children start having desires and preferences of their own. When the children grow up and leave, it’s a tragedy for such parents because the barrier that protected them from the unwelcome necessity to grow up is suddenly gone.
I know, this is what one would think but in the case of one or two of these writers, perhaps because having children was a necessary right of passage, once they did it they could get on with their lives.
I find it interesting since the way I was raised, you had to have your life first, then have children. Notice how disadvantageous it is to assume you must give up living when your first child is born.
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NPR Sunday Puzzle (Oct 1, 2017): I can't make SUSHI without U
NPR Sunday Puzzle (Oct 1, 2017): I can't make SUSHI without U:
Q: Think of a 4-letter food. Move each letter one space later in the alphabet — so A would become B, B would become C, etc. Insert a U somewhere inside the result. You'll name a 5-letter food. What foods are these?
To make a long story short, I woke up to raindrops in the night. Later, when my alarm went off, I tried working on this in my sleepy state for about 15 minutes and then fell back asleep. Good thing I wasn't trying to get up for a final.
Edit: In Final Fantasy XV, during the "Raindrops in the Night" hunt, you fight a JUMBO FLAN. Perhaps a little too much of a clue and something searchable, but I went for it anyway.
A: FLAN and GUMBO
Posted by Blaine at 8:00 AM
Labels: lists, npr, patterns
clotheslover Sun Oct 01, 09:07:00 AM PDT
Poor Blaine. Do you really have to set your alarm on Sunday morning?
Siz Sun Oct 01, 08:02:00 AM PDT
No people like to eat the second food.
Word Woman Sun Oct 01, 08:07:00 AM PDT
Au contraire.
Anonymous Sun Oct 01, 12:26:00 PM PDT
I see what you did there, and yes, you're correct.
King Erroneous Sun Oct 01, 04:46:00 PM PDT
As long as I get my, chere.
Snipper Sun Oct 01, 08:11:00 AM PDT
While I occasionally enjoy the first food, I'm pretty certain I haven't ever enjoyed the latter.
Blaine, I am enjoying your "I can't make SUSHI without U" headline.
ecoarchitect Sun Oct 01, 09:30:00 AM PDT
Do you have a lot of yen for sushi?
UsUally.
It’s the wrong time of year for one of these foods.
Anonymous Sun Oct 01, 08:25:00 AM PDT
Where I live, cool weather is sometimes call [one of the answers] weather.
a Mélange?
jsulbyrne Sun Oct 01, 08:39:00 AM PDT
If a BLHM (bacon, lettuce, hummus, mushroom sandwich) were a thing, CUMIN would work.
Ok then.
Paul Sun Oct 01, 08:55:00 AM PDT
Rxqo?
Paul Thu Oct 05, 01:19:00 PM PDT
Do the math and you get SYRUP. KARO is a brand of SYRUP. OKRA is an anagram of KARO. I have tasted KARO.
ron Sun Oct 01, 09:01:00 AM PDT
Plsb avec u.
Charles Sun Oct 01, 09:04:00 AM PDT
If you're going to eat both, one of these foods should follow the other.
Often, but not always. . .
zeke creek Sun Oct 01, 09:12:00 AM PDT
My dad both liked and ate them with great regularity.
Mendo Jim Sun Oct 01, 09:36:00 AM PDT
Putting the five letter one first makes a better name for a law firm.
I guess you _could_ eat cuffs, but I wouldn't really call them a food.
I wouldn't call beer a food either.
jan Sun Oct 01, 03:51:00 PM PDT
Sure it is. Watery, fermented bread, basically. But better.
ron Mon Oct 02, 07:13:00 AM PDT
It's FOOD & DRINK. Apples are food, cider & Calvados are drink, potatoes (fermented) are food, Vodka is drink. Both food and drink can be more or less nourishing. Oranges are food, orange juice is a drink, etc. So fermented bread and yeast may be food, but beer is a drink.
Paul Mon Oct 02, 08:53:00 AM PDT
http://www.dictionary.com/browse/food?s=t
ron Mon Oct 02, 01:12:00 PM PDT
You don't eat a drink.
Paul Mon Oct 02, 02:50:00 PM PDT
But you might drink a food: https://muse.jhu.edu/book/7557
BTW, what about good old Campbell's Tomato Soup? Is it a food if you eat it with a spoon and a drink if you sip it from a mug?
ecoarchitect Mon Oct 02, 05:02:00 PM PDT
A couple of years ago I designed a facility for a company that makes packaged food for people with dysphagia. Since they cannot swallow, they take meals with a straw, just like Heywood Floyd on the way to the space station.
Is that a drink or food?
jan Mon Oct 02, 05:25:00 PM PDT
One of the technical goofs in 2001 was that food/liquid is seen to drop down in the straw when Dr. Floyd stops sucking on it.
skydiveboy Mon Oct 02, 05:29:00 PM PDT
I could never figure out how they were able to get a Turkey in the Straw.
Though couldn't that be explained by the straw forming a fairly tight seal with its opening, and a somewhat stiff packaging material wanting to return to its original shape? The vacuum created by removing the foodrink would need to be replaced by air, pushing the food back down the straw.
Is that the right physics?
...and I know it's picky, but in that scene, I believe Heywood Floyd is on his way from the space station to Clavius Base, on the Moon.
Eco, in that case, I think the straw would be completely cleared, to allow enough air in to replace what was sucked out.
I think you're right, he was flying to Clavius. I was only 7 when I saw that movie....
Whether the straw was completely cleared would depend on the elasticity of the encasing material and how much it would return to its original shape, whether there were any air gaps around the straw's opening, as well as how much Dr Floyd had consumed. One could experiment with juice boxes.
I think, but that doesn't mean I am.
Jean Dick Sun Oct 01, 10:13:00 AM PDT
Every week I've mustered up the courage to submit an answer to the puzzle... Something tells me it will be some time before I get the call. In the meantime, here's one of my favorite puzzles.
With a little creative pronunciation, take a five letter word and make it a four letter food, without removing any of the letters. :D (Resist the urge to GOOGLE it!)
pease → peas ?
Jean Dick Mon Oct 02, 09:38:00 AM PDT
I like it, not what I was thinking. This puzzle might be a bit rough, written for both men and women. It has rocked the fashion of a nation.... I'll just say, "Hooked on Phonics" doesn't work for everyone! :D
The anagram results of the two words are something I'm occasionally hesitant about?
I'm thinking of something nobler.
Rob Sun Oct 01, 10:33:00 AM PDT
These are two delicious foods, associated with different parts of the world and different courses.
skydiveboy Sun Oct 01, 11:39:00 AM PDT
Don't look for either of these foods on the menu at Mar-a-Lago.
ecoarchitect Sun Oct 01, 01:03:00 PM PDT
No, but if you change the first letter in one of the foods you'll find something at Mar-a-Lago. If you change the first letter in the other food you'll find something lacking at Mar-a-Lago.
Word Woman Sun Oct 01, 01:06:00 PM PDT
The latter changed word is within something geological.
skydiveboy Sun Oct 01, 01:15:00 PM PDT
Yes, and S’mores the pity.
ron Sun Oct 01, 03:45:00 PM PDT
Sounds like a lot of mumbo jumbo to me.
Another Bonus Puzzle: what is unusual in the following sentences?
Farm hand solves drought here, picked garden mallet, catches saddled horse. Those gallop north faster, can hear hard raspy, panting breath. Sorry lord has raffle, cash forms mounds, later gilds that lily.
Paul Sun Oct 01, 03:45:00 PM PDT
Well, they're sadly lacking in conjunctions and articles, for one thing.
Don't pander.
Given your profile pic, eco, something with George W. Bush (who we now miss. . .)
But, I must agree with Paul, that it is sadly lacking in conjunctions and articles.
I don't mean to carp, but darn, having fasted for the holy season at its greatest height, I can say that dear garbled "W" gives part of the battle; but you must ponder to find more bombs for your barren and fallow carts. Or golf.
There's a raft of clues; note I chose not to use any old line.
It seems like there's always at least one hint that's a bit too ... magnanimous.
Magnanimous is a synonym of generous, which might make you think of Ellen DeGeneres, who had a role in Coneheads, which might make you think of Harry Connick Jr., who's from New Orleans.
Dowager Empress Sun Oct 01, 05:04:00 PM PDT
eco -- all the initial letters in the words can be changed to W. Makes about as much sense...
Woo hoo!
Keep at it, there's more to it.
Changing the first letter to a W changes the pronunciation of a subsequent vowel in every word? (In the case of picked/wicked, the E sound is changed to 'short' from 'none', thereby adding another syllable.)
ecoarchitect Mon Oct 02, 09:20:00 AM PDT
You win the Kewpie Doll. In my mind I had phrased it although the words are identical except the first letter, they do not rhyme.
English is a quirky mongrel language, and virtually identical words can be pronounced in many ways - some of my favorites:
done, gone, lone;
dove, move, rove;
dose, lose, nose;
bomb, comb, tomb;
four, hour, tour; (extending Gilligan's trip?)
ballet, mallet, wallet;
bather, father, gather;
bough, cough, rough;
None of these triplets rhyme. And there are many pairs (Lord Roman --> Word Woman) that don't rhyme.
The letter "w" seems to change the pronunciation of the letters that follow quite frequently. It even affects current news events:
"Does Corker break that low cad Don mould?"
ViolinTeddy Mon Oct 02, 05:18:00 PM PDT
If you considered a crazily-pronounced six-letter word for that last triplet set: "SLOUGH". Of course, I guess 'through' also qualifies (albeit even longer.)
You are correct, I can't think of a word ending with more pronunciations than "ough". But I was limiting it to words of the same length. As they point out, that's just a little hiccough.
Another fun thing to figure out is all the different ways words can be spelled ending with a long "u" sound. I have 19:
flu, blue, new, ewe, view, too, to, two, you, shoe, through, coup, queue, lieu, Hugh, doux, ragout, Sioux, debut, ...
Whew! Enough to test your IQ. Glad I don't have to learn this stupid language.
That's really fun, eco! ALthough, having taken years of French, I'd have to object to 'lieu' being pronounced as you intend....it's really a fast 'lee' followed by ..geez, I don't know how to spell it....an open 'ugh/er' sound.
Did you forget, tutu?
Amurricans don't want no stinkin' frogs tellin' us how to pronounce things. The French don't even have a word for entrepeneur! (okay, Bush didn't really say that).
Meanwhile, back in the sane world, this might help.
And did you know there is no such word: gullible?
SDB: tutu, with a single u, falls under the flu file. But you gnu that.
A flea and a fly in a flue
Were imprisoned, so what could they do?
Said the fly, "let us flee!"
"Let us fly!" said the flea.
So they flew through a flaw in the flue.
Word Woman Mon Oct 02, 06:28:00 PM PDT
How about #20 vacuum?
That would be a pretty good poem were it not for its flaw.
And, speaking of juice boxes, #21 juice. . .
Sacré bleu! Good sleu-thing WW for legitimate long u's, but I was looking for words that end with the long u.
What would Lucy Liu do?
Henry Willis Sun Oct 01, 05:52:00 PM PDT
Buck Brannaman, the original horse whisperer, knows how to handle them.
Henry Willis Thu Oct 05, 12:14:00 PM PDT
The reference to Buck's handling of horses referred to the series of columns advertising a Buchhandlung service that Myles na gCopaleen ran in The Irish Times 75 or so years ago. Myles was the alias for Flann O'Brien, which was the pen name for Brian O'Nolan (or Brian Ó Nualláin if you insist). So that's my coded reference to Flan.
I know that this is all ridiculously obscure, but let me put in a plug for the great Flann O'Brien and for the columns he wrote as Myles. The ones on his book handling service provided to rich people too stupid to read the books in their libraries (and the companion ventriloquist service for those too stupid to carry on an intelligent conversation in public) are priceless; go invest in a copy of The Best of Myles and thank me later.
Leo Sun Oct 01, 07:42:00 PM PDT
Musical Clue: Dire Straits
cranberry Mon Oct 02, 12:17:00 AM PDT
I am proud to say I have solved this week's puzzle a few short hours from my nephew's funeral this afternoon(see previous post). I guess it just took having other more important things on my mind to clear my head about this.
68Charger Mon Oct 02, 06:57:00 AM PDT
Hope you're doing OK and sorry for your loss.
Patrick, I hope you saw my expression of sympathy on Puzzleria. I feel so bad for your entire family.
Natasha Mon Oct 02, 08:30:00 PM PDT
Patrick, Wishing you strength during this time of loss. I am so sorry.
Alice Mon Oct 02, 07:25:00 AM PDT
I found it easier to start with a 5 letter food with a U in it and work backwards.
clotheslover Mon Oct 02, 10:39:00 PM PDT
Me too. Much easier!
Buck Bard Tue Oct 03, 07:10:00 AM PDT
Yes, similar logic to last week’s. I figured with that clue the second word was “teacher” (duh), which gave me “her,” the analog of “his,” and then just filling in the last part of the first word. This puzzle was similar for me.
I hate to address the elephant in the room but, so sad for the people killed or injured in Las Vegas. I don't have any answers but still in shock that it happened. It will be very interesting to learn the facts.
TomR Mon Oct 02, 12:25:00 PM PDT
Hey Ron - a twinkling of an idea is a hint.
RIP Tom Petty (and so many other people) today.
Not yet, it appears.
Curtis Mon Oct 02, 06:47:00 PM PDT
Uh, yeah. It appears the rumors of his death are greatly exaggerated. Let's hope he pulls through.
I suppose everyone is entitled to petty errors.
People are horrified and then nothing happens to change things.
Sadly so. If Congress couldn't get their act together while Obama was president, there is NO hope now, with we know who, and the Repubs in control. (Bought and paid for by the NRA.)
Buck Bard Mon Oct 02, 06:26:00 PM PDT
I wonder, are they really horrified? I would suggest “no.”
68Charger Mon Oct 02, 07:05:00 PM PDT
I bet the sale of guns & ammo will only increase after this.
I found Trump's words today, especially when he quoted scripture, so moving a laxative was unnecessary.
SDB - That's great! You could tell he didn't write that speech!!
No shit! LOL
I just watched the speech. It sounded forced and unnatural for the Trumpster. I guess that was his best effort at sounding "Presidential."
Neither of these foods appeals to me. But, then, they don't appear on the menus of many restaurants in the Mountain West. I'm sure you could find them, but you'd need to dig a little...
Never heard of one of the foods.
Those of us who manage to read your posts prior to you deleting them cannot understand why you keep deleting what is interesting in favor of what is not. Please have more confidence in your writings.
SDB: I spelled Martha Stewart's name incorrectly. I was going to correct it but had to delete it and did not save a copy to paste and correct. All I said was I did not believe the second word was even a food when I found the first one. I said I would need to watch more Martha Stewart cooking shows, I guess. Did not mean to play games etc. Glad to read your thoughts, though. Thanks.
Stew Art; Stuart, or Stewart, who really cares? My suggestion would be either to copy and past again and then make the change with your correction and then delete the former post, or simply post beneath the name correction. People really want to read what you post, and you frequently post interesting remarks, only to quickly delete them. You do yourself no favor by doing this.
OK I will try. Thanks.
I agree the replacement post was very generic and worthy of deletion.
R.I.P. Tom Petty (confirmed now)
Curtis Wed Oct 04, 12:39:00 PM PDT
One of the true luminaries of music. I will miss him. I like this quote from Tom Petty: Do something you really like, and hopefully it pays the rent. As far as I'm concerned, that's success.
cranberry Mon Oct 02, 10:30:00 PM PDT
I actually once had to prepare one of the two foods in school, but if I were to say which class it would probably give it away.
SuperZee Tue Oct 03, 12:53:00 PM PDT
So, we can assume it wasn't Home Economics...
skydiveboy Wed Oct 04, 05:46:00 PM PDT
I don't understand why the news media can't seem to get the story straight. When Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said "Trump is a f**king moron," it was not in any way a disparaging remark. He was simply standing up for the President and correcting the person who had said "Trump was a f**king idiot."
ecoarchitect Wed Oct 04, 07:01:00 PM PDT
Exclusive video from the last cabinet meeting.
Buck Bard Thu Oct 05, 07:42:00 AM PDT
LOL eco, that took me back.
68Charger Thu Oct 05, 06:28:00 PM PDT
Ha! I just feel sorry for all the morons and idiots of the world that have now been brought down to Trump's level.
skydiveboy Thu Oct 05, 06:40:00 PM PDT
Yes, and if all the idiots and morons in this country got together and formed a political lobby, it would be larger than all the other lobbies plus Congress put together, and don't forget Trump and his delightful phamily.
That's what I thought of the voting majority, at least per the electoral college, last November...
The Electoral College is an oxymoron. by that I mean they are uneducated.
ecoarchitect Thu Oct 05, 08:59:00 PM PDT
Remember in the Cold War when the news media and intelligence agencies would try to understand the cryptic statements of the dangerous dictators that were the enemies of America?
Well, now we have "the calm before the storm".
68Charger Fri Oct 06, 01:29:00 PM PDT
When I first heard this I had a bad feeling about what he said. Listening to the White House press conference a little while ago, I thought of two things.
One, Trump is pulling his usual ruse of getting the press worked up about a news byte to deflect attention from something more pressing. In this case it could be either about Tillerson, Puerto Rico, Korea, Iran or maybe even the Robert Mueller investigation.
Two, the White House press conferences remind me of the old Wendy's commercial from long ago. These news conferences give you no choices, or information.
ecoarchitect Fri Oct 06, 03:50:00 PM PDT
You may be right, it could be deflection, or it could be another instance of his lack of self control and seemingly unlimited need for attention. CNN wrote about how he treats this as a reality show. His actions today do not inspire confidence.
This is "fine" when it's about something inconsequential, like his advisors or press secretary or health care or the economy. But no doubt the folks in Iran, North Korea, Russia, etc. are trying to discern and react to his mad lib remarks. And I worry mostly that Kim will do something equally impetuous, like launching a missile or exploding a nuke in the ocean.
It's like having a ten year old in office.
skydiveboy Fri Oct 06, 04:25:00 PM PDT
That's just like what Melania Trump said about her home life—"Living with an eleven year old isn't easy, and let's not forget about Barron."
ecoarchitect Sat Oct 07, 07:34:00 AM PDT
Like that 10-11 year old boy, it seems like he can't restrain himself from blurting out some secret information that he has.
I suspect he knew the Russians had hacked Hillary's emails, and it was no coincidence that he "asked" for that at a debate. Same thing, in May, with his revealing top secret info about the Israeli spy placed in ISIS.
He simply has to "show off" that he's a "superior". And so it makes me wonder if there is a real storm brewing. Fine if it's internal, like the extinction of Rex T., but otherwise....
GB Thu Oct 05, 10:41:00 AM PDT
Hey, that's all small potatoes (or however Dan from Indianapolis spells it), the Panthers now have Archie Bunker at starting QB. The NFL is in a tizzy.
FLAN & GUMBO
jan Thu Oct 05, 12:00:00 PM PDT
FLAN, GUMBO
> When I Googled the two foods, I got a link to a restaurant just a few miles from Steve Baggish's home.
Tasca, in Brighton, MA," serves both gumbo and flan. (Of course, Google knew I was just a few miles from Steve Baggish's home myself, at the time.)
Chuck Thu Oct 05, 12:00:00 PM PDT
Last Sunday I said, “It’s the wrong time of year for one of these foods.” Gumbo is frequently associated with Mardi Gras.
Word Woman Thu Oct 05, 12:06:00 PM PDT
"Bridge" referred to two things:
(1) the Flannery conventon of bidding in bridge and
(2) Beau (bo as in Gumbo) Bridges
"Ok, then." was a reference to OKRA.
"Often, but not always." refers to a savory FLAN, served as an appetizer.
eco's puzzle: Mar-A-Lago has a Jumbo TV, but not élan, part of the geologic mélangerie.
^^^Edit: geologic mélange
I thought eco was thinking of dumbo and élan.
Buck Bard Thu Oct 05, 12:15:00 PM PDT
I was thinking Dumbo and elan as well.
I was thinking of dumbo and élan, and almost made reference to the Klan.
I also responded to clotheslover's anagram about "something nobler". Nobler anagrams to LeBron (James) who tweeted about the "bum on flag", which anagrams to flan-gumbo.
I was thinking "Bridge" referred to the Manhattan Bridge. A hot neighborhood in Brooklyn is Down Under the Manhattan Bridge Overpass, or DUMBO, rhymes with gumbo.
ron Thu Oct 05, 12:14:00 PM PDT
F→G, + U, L→M, A→B, N→O
My hint: OKRA with a U = GUMBO. O→P, K→L, R→S, A→B. OKRA = PLSB avec U.
"Mumbo Jumbo" was not a hint, but simply verification I had solved the puzzle.
Snipper Thu Oct 05, 12:15:00 PM PDT
My clue "occasionally " was referencing o-Cajun-ally for gumbo.
I thought eco was referring to Dumbo and not having a plan.
Mendo Jim Thu Oct 05, 12:21:00 PM PDT
Gumbo $5 a bowl, with okra $2.50 a bowl, with extra okra $1.00..
Flan is a favorite.
Now that I think about it I am wondering why I didn't hint: Janet Flanner. I ran into her in the cocktail lounge in the Hotel Continental in Paris in 1965. She was living at the hotel at the time. Ernest Hemingway had already died by then.
cranberry Thu Oct 05, 05:24:00 PM PDT
FLAN and GUMBO
I once had to prepare flan for my Spanish class. Well, my mom actually made it. I never even tried any of it.
When I was growing up (no laughter here, please) I always thought Gumbo was a Cajun elephant.
ViolinTeddy Thu Oct 05, 07:36:00 PM PDT
That's cute!!!
Not so much if you had to clean up after it.
Flan is okay, but not my favorite.
In this week of Nobel Prize announcements I'm waiting for my call from the Nobel Committee for my important "Theory on Dessertology (Dessertification?). This Theory postulates that Switzerland is the dessert nexus of the universe, and the quality of desserts lessens the farther a country is from Switzerland. For example, all the countries adjoining Switzerland - France, Italy, Austria, Germany - have fantastic desserts. But as you move to the next ring - Spain, England, former Yugoslavia, Greece, Scandinavia, Czech Republic, etc - the dessert quality diminishes. Don't even think about Russia. One could argue that Belgium should be in the top tier, but we know about Belgians.
Of course as you get really far away from Switzerland, say, Asia, you're stuck eating almond jelly, custard tarts, tapioca pudding and glutinous rice.
So, the further from Switzerland you go, desserts become more of a desert?
I think you should get a cash prize for that!
Perhaps then you would be so good as to explain the very existence of Swiss Miss.
Switzerland as the nexus doesn't necessarily mean that Switzerland itself has great desserts, just as there is a calm in the eye of a storm. But the Swiss do have some awesome chocolates, Nestle not withstanding.
Quick aside: Swiss Miss is actually from Wisconsin, and is a Conagra brand. Explains a lot.
I actually did know that.
clotheslover Fri Oct 06, 02:06:00 PM PDT
"Um...blog fan." Is a an anagram of flan+gumbo. I am occasionally a hesitant blog fan.
Next week's challenge: Next week's challenge comes from listener Chris Stuart of Las Cruces, N.M. Take the name of a country. Insert an E somewhere inside it. You'll get a phrase that answers the question: What did Henry Ford do?
Not a repeat, exactly, but a slight variation on a puzzle from 8 years ago.
Unknown Sun Oct 08, 05:06:00 AM PDT
I think the hint Will gave is way too revealing. --Margaret G.
Solved. Took 2 seconds.
Well, at least there's Jeopardy! and Austin Rogers.
It's the second appearance for today's on-air player, who also submitted a puzzle used in 2006.
Curtis Sun Oct 08, 05:24:00 AM PDT
Yeah, WW, took me about 2 seconds, too.
As Tom Hanks would say, “Thanks” for noticing.
BTW, my wife also submitted a puzzle suggestion that Will used in 2000, which coincidently included Flan as part of the answer. Even though I’ve been selected twice to play on the air, neither my wife nor I have been able to get a second puzzle suggestion accepted. But we keep trying…
Regards – Phil J.
Congrats on your performance today, Phil!
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Small program from Thursday evening, June 19, 1884. Part one of the program included music, prayer, recitations, and essays. Part two consisted of, "La Jeune Savante ou Le Premier Jour de Pension."
8. Baldwin English and Classical Seminary pamphlet, St. Paul, Minnesota
Backus, Clinton J.
The Baldwin English and Classical seminary for boys and girls was located at 24 and 26 Summit Avenue, in St. Paul, Minnesota. The pamphlet for the 1887-1888 school year lists Trustees, instructors, courses of study, departments, location, aims of the school, regulations, teachers, and tuition costs. The back page of the pamphlet also lists the pupils of the Primary, Preparatory, and Academic Departments of the Baldwin Seminary the previous school year, 1886-1887.
9. Baldwin School Addresses, St. Paul, Minnesota Territory
Baldwin School
Addresses Delivered at the Dedication of the Edifice of the Preparatory Department, of the Baldwin School, Saint Paul, Minnesota Territory; And Catalogue for 1853. There are colored pencil notations in the booklet.
10. Baldwin School and College of Saint Paul Catalogues, St. Paul, Minnesota
Catalogues of the Baldwin School, and the Academic Department of the College of Saint Paul, Minnesota. MDCCCLIV. The catalogues have information on trustees, instructors, pupils, and a statement and general plan for the College of Saint Paul.
11. Baldwin School, An English, Classical and Polytechnic School for Boys and Girls, St. Paul, Minnesota
Pamphlet for the 1884-1885 school year of the Baldwin School, located on Summit Avenue, between Wabasha and St. Peter Streets in St. Paul. The Preparatory Department, Academic Department--Classical Course, and Academic Department--Scientific Course are described, as is the Music Department.
12. Baldwin School Announcement for 1873-1874, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Neill, Edward Duffield, 1823-1893
Pamphlet describing the history, costs, instruction, and rules for the 1873-1874 school year of the Baldwin School, a school for boys of at least thirteen years of age. The pamphlet includes an illustration of the school building on the back page.
13. Baldwin School announcement for 1859, St. Paul, Minnesota
Neill, Edward Duffield, 1823-1893; Mattocks, Rev. John 1814-1875; Ramsey, Alexander, 1815-1903
Notice from the Baldwin School Executive Committee (John Mattocks, Alexander Ramsey, and Edward D. Neill), announcing resumption of operations on September 5, 1859 at the school's leased building on Walnut Street. The Principal, Assistant, and courses of instruction are mentioned, as are tuition, transportation to the building, and furnishing descriptions. The announcement includes the blue Baldwin School seal in Latin at the top. The Baldwin School was for female youth, however a limited number of boys were admitted if they had sisters in attendance.
14. Baldwin School, English and Classical School, St. Paul, Minnesota
Baldwin School. English and Classical School for Boys and Girls. This is the first page of a pamphlet for the Baldwin School. The bottom reads "Fall Term commences Monday, September 15, 1884" so it was presumably created in the early 1880s.
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15. Baldwin School handbill for 1873 Summer and Fall terms, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Handbill briefly describing the Baldwin School expenses and accommodations, for the Summer Term beginning April 28, 1873, and the Fall Term beginning September 8, 1873. The top of the handbill has a "CHRISTO ET PATRIAE" seal, and the reverse side of the handbill consists of a chart for a week's courses and a rating system of "10, Perfect" to "0, Failure", possibly for grading.
16. Baldwin School of Macalester College announcement for 1881-82, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Small handbill announcing the departments, terms, tuition, and fees for the 1881-1882 academic year. Instructors listed are Edward D. Neill, Rockwood MacQuesten, and Philip A. Schapp.
17. Baldwin School Requirements and Prohibitions handbill, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Small handbill listing seven requirements and four prohibitions of the Baldwin school. There is a space for a signature, showing the student "assents to the above requirements and prohibitions."
18. Baseball game on the Macalester College field, St. Paul, Minnesota
View of baseball game on field, with trees and houses in the background.
19. Baseball game, viewed from the stands, Macalester College, St. Paul, Minnesota
View of a baseball game from the stands, with the heads of three female students in the foreground.
20. Baseball players carrying equipment, walking towards Old Main West, Macalester College, St. Paul, Minnesota
Baseball players walking in back of Old Main West. Carnegie Hall is under construction in the distance.
21. Baseball team, Macalester College, St. Paul, Minnesota
Macalester baseball team in uniform in front of a large tree. Left to right: Coach McCallum, Rock, Maxwell, R. Anderson, Claffy, Karp, Holman, LeGault, Thomas, J.F. Anderson, Griffith, Negaard, and Manager Scotton.
Macalester Baseball team on the field in front of Old Main. Top row: Milton Hebeisen, Class of 1917; Gerald Dale, 1915; Herbert Dierenfield, 1917; Hall (Coach); Westholm; John McCallum, 1916; Metag (Mgr). Bottom row: Ralph Peterson, 1917; Victor Johnson, 1917; Art Brown, 1914; Capt. Swanson; "Ole" Strand; Frank Edward Hall, 1916; Arthur Anderson, 1917.
Group shot of Macalester Baseball team in team jackets in front of Old Main. Cardle, Thomas, Schiek, Johnson, Heed, Plummer (coach), Phillips (seated), Carson (captain), Wilson (manager), Stuhr, Brown, Rocheford, Bell, and Fisher.
Golling, B. C.
Group portrait of Macalester Baseball team, who tied for State Championship. Phillips-P, Jenckes-SS, Schiek-P, Plummer-Coach, G. Johnson-CF, Fisher-2B, Cardle-LF, Capt.. Ed Carson-P, Bell-SS, Stuhr-CF, Metcalf-RF, E.W. Johnson-3B, Heed-1st, Ellison-Mgr, F. Carson-C.
Group shot of the Macalester baseball team in striped hats. First row: William Porter Lee, Class of 1889; Benjamin Irvin, 1889; Albert Tyler, 1890; George Achard, 1889; Billy Morse, 1888. Second row: Billy Pitts, 1890?; Paul McCurdy, 1889; Will Kirkwood, 1890; Sam Kirkwood, 1889; Thaddeus Creswell, 1890.
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From the Archive: Event Horizon (1997)
On a purely surface level, the science-fiction/horror film Event Horizon (1997) is a sturdy amalgamation of familiar imagery from the cinema’s storied past and traditions.
The film’s central visual of a haunted spaceship extruding blood by the gallon seems to emerge from a similar image (of an evil hotel elevator…) in Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining (1980), for instance.
Meanwhile, the notion of an inscrutable -- and unseen -- alien entity manifesting living “guests” from the memories of bewildered human beings deliberately evokes memories of Tarkovsky’s masterpiece, Solaris (1972).
And certainly -- with doorways to Hell opening and closing willy-nilly, and one character’s transformation (or degradation…) into the Devil’s inquisitor -- there seem to be powerful echoes of Clive Barker’s Hellraiser (1987) evident here as well.
Ultimately, however, the familiarity of these images does subtract one iota from the film’s thematic coherence or its success as a compelling work of art.
On the contrary, these visuals are carefully marshaled by director Paul Anderson to convey the film’s overriding theme: Catholic guilt.
Specifically, at least three main characters in Event Horizon suffer from feelings of intense guilt about their past behavior.
I call it Catholic guilt because that’s an easy and familiar short-hand for many of us. Explicitly speaking, Catholic guilt arises from one’s knowledge of personal wrong-doing. It is felt by all people, however, who are intelligent and insightful enough to realize that they have committed moral trespasses.
The key aspect that makes this guilt “Catholic,” perhaps, is the knowledge that Jesus died for man’s sins, and yet in sinning again, we betray that merciful act. In sinning, we waste the greatest gift it is possible to receive.
Accordingly, those who suffer with the weight of guilt must decide how to harness and re-purpose their feelings. Knowledge of guilt can lead to great acts…or merely deeper shame.
That is the key leitmotif of Event Horizon.
There are two men -- mirror images -- in the film, who choose to succumb to darkness, but do so for utterly different reasons, and with very different objectives.
One succumbs as a direct, nihilistic renunciation of faith and goodness, and the other does so as an affirmative act; one of both a self-punishment and self-sacrifice.
Given this theme, Event Horizon is brilliantly constructed -- from sets and dialogue, to camera compositions and special effects -- as a direct expression of Catholicism, and specifically the harsh Catholicism of the Middle Ages.
In 2047 AD, a small search and rescue ship, Lewis and Clark -- under command of Captain Miller (Laurence Fishburne) -- is dispatched to Neptune to respond to a distress call from a vessel that has been missing for seven years: Event Horizon.
Aboard the Lewis and Clark is one passenger, Dr. William Weir (Sam Neill).
He is the scientist who designed Event Horizon, and he reports to the crew that it was a prototype with a “gravity drive,” an engine that could fold space-time by opening a doorway between dimensions.
After a rocky ride to Event Horizon, the crew of Lewis and Clark explores the derelict ship.
Lt. Starck (Joely Richardson) is perplexed by the fact that her scanners keep picking up trace life-forms on the ship, but at no specific location. It’s as though the whole ship is a life-form.
The ship’s doctor, Peters (Kathleen Quinlan), meanwhile, discovers carnage on the long-missing vessel’s bridge. All the crew died, and in grievously bloody circumstances.
Worse, Engineer Justin (Jack Noseworthy) explores the engineering section of the ship, and is pulled into a dark black vortex at the gravity drive site. He returns from his visit to the “other place’ in a state of shock and catatonia.
Although Weir insists the gravity drive could not have activated itself, Captain Miller begins to grow suspicious of the ship…especially after he sees a strange specter, himself: a burning man from his past.
While technician Cooper (Richard T. Jones) attempts to repair the Lewis and Clark, which was damaged when the gravity drive was apparently activated, the remainder of the ship’s crew starts seeing additional hallucinations.
Weir keeps seeing his wife, who committed suicide in a bath tub.
And Peters repeatedly sees phantasms of her crippled young son, whom she left at home on Earth.
The burning man witnessed by Miller is also someone from a personal and shameful past: an officer whom the captain was forced to leave behind in a catastrophe.
Soon another horror occurs.
The captain’s log is re-activated, and Miller’s crew sees the Event Horizon crew going mad…totally insane. The crew’s bizarre and violent behavior leads Dr. Weir to conclude that when it activated the gravity drive, Event Horizon entered a dimension of pure chaos and pure evil…Hell itself.
Now, the ship wants a new crew.
Miller hatches a strategy to destroy Event Horizon and return home, but first must contend with a demonic Weir, a man who has willingly given himself to the dark…
“It knows my fears. It knows my secrets.”
The men and women depicted throughout Event Horizon are all facing a very specific Monster from the Id: guilt.
First and foremost, Dr. Weir is ravaged by his feelings of guilt. When we first meet the character, he is alone in his quarters on a space station, and he looks longingly at a shrine he has set up to his dead wife.
He tenderly touches a photograph of her, and says aloud “I miss you.”
This opening sequence brilliantly telegraphs -- without overtly stating it -- the motivations for Weir’s intense guilt.
We see him use the rest room, and shave his face. But while he is shaving, his gaze wanders irrevocably over to the bath-tub, where water is dripping ever so slowly.
Then he stares at the straight razor in his hands…just inches from his own neck.
With no dialogue or weighty exposition, these visuals immediately convey the connection between objects. We understand instantly that Weir’s wife took her own life, and that, in some way, Weir feels responsible for her final, monstrous act.
Later, we learn more. When Weir sees the ghost of his wife, she is still nude, and bearing the wounds of her death in the tub. Weir tells her “I know I wasn’t there when you needed me. I let my work come between us.”
The source of Weir’s intense guilt is that he never helped his wife. He never went to her when she was hurting, when she needed him. And worse: he knew she needed him.
But Weir wanted to continue working (presumably on Event Horizon). In a very real sense, then, the ship is a child of their failed marriage, a product of his decision to remain away from her. It is his sin personified, and a haunted expression of his guilt.
Weir is tortured by his failure to save his wife, and he experiences visions of her in the “deep cold” of the gravity couch, even before returning to Event Horizon. She speaks words to him that she also no doubt said in real life: “I’m so alone.”
This is the call for help Weir willfully ignored.
She also says words that indicate her suffering has not ended, even in death. “Billy, I’m so cold…”
Late in the film, Weir is forced to relive his wife’s suicide in the bath-tub, and perhaps this is the final reckoning for him.
Instead of continuing to resist the darkness, or finding a constructive way to contend with his guilt, Weir surrenders to it. He gives over to it.
Weir realizes that his sin can’t be forgiven, and that he is truly a terrible sinner. When Miller tells him they must go home, Weir responds that he is already home. He believes he belongs in Hell…or at least aboard the physical manifestation of his sin, the Event Horizon.
In essence then, Weir doubles-down on his feelings of Catholic Guilt, and is not able to erect something constructive from his emotions or feelings. When his wife implores “Be with me…forever,” Weir consigns himself to damnation. He believes that’s what he deserves.
Captain Miller is the second character in the film suffering explicitly from terrible guilt.
He keeps seeing phantasms of a man named Corrick, a crewman whom he left behind to die in a fire.
Corrick’s death has haunted Miller in the same way that Weir’s wife’s suicide has haunted the good doctor. Miller has closed off all of his emotions and humanity, and become a sort of military martinet, one who shows no humanity towards his crew, and yet worries about them incessantly.
He can’t lose another one. That’s his worst fear: reliving the pain and the ensuing guilt.
Accordingly, the evil ship manifests the monster from Miller’s id. The burning man -- Corrick -- appears to Miller and begs him “Captain, don’t leave me…”
However, Miller finally does something that Weir never manages: he confesses his guilt. The captain tells one of his crew-members, Smith (Sean Pertwee) the entire story:
“I did the only thing I could. I closed the lifeboat hatch…and I left him.” Miller reveals.
Importantly, it is after this confession of sin and recognition of guilt that Miller starts to take away Event Horizon’s power over him.
The ship knows his “fears” and “secrets,” but now at least one member of his crew does so as well. With his options for survival narrowed, Miller makes a selfless decision (and one that honors Christ’s choice to “save” mankind): He remains on Event Horizon to stop Weir so that Starck, Cooper and Justin can live.
In essence, Miller gives his life for theirs, and thus exorcises his demon, his guilt. By staying behind, and making certain that his crew survives, Miller may go to a dimension of literal damnation, but there is little doubt that he has saved his soul.
Peters is the third major character who suffers from Catholic Guilt in Event Horizon. She was called back onto active duty for the search-and-rescue mission, and had to leave her young, badly-crippled son behind on Earth with her husband.
It is clear that Peters feels she abandoned her child, and early in the film we see her watching home-video footage of the sick boy.
Once aboard Event Horizon, the ship manifests Peters’ son (though he is actually still alive, on Earth), and her feelings of guilt go into overdrive. She sees him, in particular, as sick and vulnerable.
Then, at the very moment Peters should be trying to escape the ship, she takes a wrong turn instead. She goes the wrong way…pursuing the phantasm of her boy instead of her own survival. It is as if she wants the boy to forgive her, to negate her feelings of guilt. Instead, he leads her to her death.
Peters’ fate is a demonstration of the fact that guilt -- while sometimes useful -- can also lead one astray, or down blind alleys.
Even a fourth character – a supporting one -- Justin also makes some key references to guilt in Event Horizon.
When he awakens after his journey to “the Other Place” (Hell…), Justin notes that it showed him “the dark place inside” himself, and that seems a veritable definition of how guilt feels.
“It shows you horrible things,” he adds, but importantly, all those horrible things are inside him, and that too defines guilt well: the internal memory of bad deeds committed.
In keeping with the overarching concept of guilt, Event Horizon is dominated by Catholic imagery and allusions. For example, the exterior of the malevolent spaceship -- when seen from precisely the right angle -- resembles a high-tech crucifix.
Worse, if inverted it could be interpreted as an upside-down crucifix, suggesting the Hellish nature of the thing. It is a place of sin and guilt made flesh.
At least one window at the fore of the ship, on the bridge, likewise resembles a crucifix.
In an unforgettable composition from the film’s opening act, a dead human figure floats weightlessly before such a window, his arms outstretched in a Christ-on-the-cross pose. He has been crucified for his sins, and left for dead.
Similarly, much of the interior of the haunted old ship deliberately reflects the Gothic architecture of European cathedrals, right down to the frequent appearance of arches.
The main hallway connecting forward life boat and rear propulsion section is but a series of ridged, pointed arches, for example.
Even the ship’s airlocks are labeled rather unconventionally with Medieval Roman numerals. Although invented, of course, in Ancient Rome, these numbers were also used extensively in the Middle Ages in a regnal fashion…to denote the reigns/identities of Popes, and national rulers.
And when Weir re-appears one last time for the film’s final sting, just look at his attire. He wears a space helmet that resembles something out of the Spanish Inquisition, the tribunal tasked with maintaining Catholic orthodoxy.
In popular culture, the Inquisition has come to symbolize intolerance or a capricious, arbitrary justice. In Event Horizon, the guilty Weir becomes the chief inquisitor of the ship itself -- the chief torturer – and so the helmet seems appropriate.
Further intimating Catholicism, the first message received from Event Horizon upon her return to our universe from Hell is spoken in Latin, like the liturgy of the Mass.
The words are: “liberate tutame ex infernis.”
The translation is literally “Save me from Hell.”
As I’ve written before, I believe that a movie reaches its apex of artistry when form and content intermingle meaningfully. In Event Horizon, the idea of Catholic guilt informs several characters, and the film’s singular, horrifying setting -- a haunted, Catholic spaceship, essentially -- visualizes their strife and turmoil, reflecting the nature of their conflict.
It is also significant that so many figures in the film lose their eyes -- or gouge them out -- from Weir and his wife to Justin and the original Event Horizon crew.
The idea seems to be that if you can cut out your eyes (the window to the soul?) you can't see your guilt anymore. You can't recognize it.
Of course, that isn't true. Guilt isn't about something external that you can look away from. It's an internal quality of the mind that is always there, even with your eyes shut, even without eyes at all.
There are those who will gaze at this film and see only the visual quotations, the many resonances of popular culture or the horror genre. They are present, to be certain.
However, Event Horizon travels some distance beyond mere homage to cogently express its riveting (and frequently grotesque…) tale of guilt and regret, damnation, and salvation.
The film serves as a brilliant "yang" to the "yin" of another 1997 genre film, Contact. The light, new age mysticism of that Jodie Foster movie contrasts very strongly with the heavy, almost dungeon-like Medieval exterior and interior architecture of Event Horizon.
Both films concern "portals" that open to other dimensions, and reveal something of human spirituality. Here, many of the discoveries are dark ones, but Miller's sacrifice, while grim, is a positive takeaway.
Hell is just a word, as Dr. Weir notes here, but Event Horizon visualizes the grim reality of that word in ways that are unforgettable, horrifying, and, finally, aesthetically coherent.
Labels: 1990s, cult-movie review, Paul W.S. Anderson, The Films of 1997
Mythical Monkey 6:05 PM
Interesting. As a Southern Baptist by upbringing on a long, meandering road to affable agnosticism, the sort of Catholic guilt you describe — that our every sin is a betrayal of Christ's sacrifice, to my mind an impossible burden to carry given that "all have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God" — is antithetical to my particular religious background. The heavy, heavy baggage of cultural associations aside, at the core of Southern Baptist theology is the notion of "once saved, always saved," which is to say that no matter how much a Christian fraks up in the course of his life, he's going to wind up in heaven anyway.
In fact, I often joke to my more religious brother that the doctrine of "once saved, always saved" taken to its logical end is basically a get out of jail free card for any sin you might commit. Assassinate a president? No problem — once saved, always saved. Turn your back on God and become a hard-core evangelical atheist? That's cool, too — once saved, always saved.
It's the perfect religion for psychopaths.
Which might explain a lot of my home region's politics and history. Don't know, not sure, but whatever, I don't feel particularly guilty about it ...
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Haley Randell
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June 13, 2018 in Battery Technology Innovation/Electric Vehicles, Cobalt, Critical, Strategic and Rare Earth Minerals and Metals, Europe Mining, International Media Resource Articles
https://www.bloomberg.com/
The search for cobalt, a key component of the battery-powered auto fleets of the future, has arrived on BMW AG’s doorstep with a discovery of an ore deposit not far from the plant where the German manufacturer makes its i3 electric city car.
The cobalt find in a forested section of Saxony’s Eichigt municipality, Germany’s first detection of the metal in modern times, could revive mining in an area that last saw activity during the Renaissance, and help diversify raw-materials supply, exploration company Lithium Australia NL said.
Some 60 percent of the world’s cobalt is concentrated in the Democratic Republic of Congo, where concerns over working practices and political strife have sparked a global hunt for alternatives sources.
Lithium Australia plans to “become a major supplier of energy metals — lithium and cobalt in particular — into the European market,” Managing Director Adrian Griffin said Wednesday in an emailed response to questions. The region “is the fastest-growing geographic sector for lithium-ion cell consumption outside China.”
For the rest of this article: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-06-13/cobalt-hunt-takes-aussie-explorer-to-forest-on-bmw-s-doorstep
Wheaton Precious Metals CEO says company ‘taking a gamble and investing in cobalt’ – by Gabriel Friedman (Financial Post – June 13, 2018)
Australia takes over Chile as world’s No.1 lithium producer – by Cecilia Jamasmie (Mining.com – June 12, 2018)
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Herb Kit for Wine Lovers $19.99 $14.99
Herb Kit for Wine Lovers
The Herb Garden Kit for Wine Lovers Includes the following Organic seeds: greek oregano basil bouquet english thyme italian parsley summer savory A collection of culinary herbs carefully chosen to compliment your culinary skills and fine wine selections. These are herbs that can be matched with an endless array of foods. If you are new to the art of pairing wines with dishes seasoned with herbs the accompanying booklet will provide some simple guidelines. Includes: US recycled steel tin container (5" diameter) 5 Certified Organic seed varieties (greek oregano, basil bouquet, english thyme, italian parsley, summer savory) Garden stakes Detailed directions with grow tips
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The Herbal Tea Garden Includes the following seeds: lavender coriander German chamomile peppermint wild bergamot A unique selection of the finest herbal teas ready to grow in your garden or window box. Growing herbs in your own garden will ensure that they are chemical-free and weed-free at harvest. Many of these herbs would also grow well indoors. Includes: US recycled steel tin 5 herb varieties Garden stakes Harvest directions with tips
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Horehound, Herb (100% Heirloom/Non-Hybrid/Non-GMO) The leaves of the Horehound plant are widely used to flavor juices and teas. Horehound is used to make hard lozenge candies that are considered by folk medicine to aid digestion, soothe sore throats, and relieve inflammation. - Easy to grow from seed and can be sowed directly in the garden - Plant in a sunny location with well-drainage Day to Maturity | 75 days See Horehound Recipes & Growing Tips on our Pinterest Board Follow SeedsNow.com's board Horehound on Pinterest.
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Hyssop, Herb (100% Heirloom/Non-Hybrid/Non-GMO) Hyssop has a long history of medicinal use and was so highly esteemed in the past that it was considered to be a virtual cure-all. Day to Maturity | 75 days Additional Details Currently an undervalued herb, it is often used as a household remedy, particularly as an expectorant and stomach tonic. It has a positive effect when used to treat bronchitis and respiratory infections, especially where there is excessive mucous production. Hyssop can irritate the mucous membranes, so it is best given after an infection has peaked, when the herb's tonic action encourages a general recovery. The plant should not be used by pregnant women, however, since in large quantities it can induce a miscarriage. The leaves and flowering tops are antiseptic, antitussive, astringent, carminative, diaphoretic, emmenagogue, expectorant, pectoral, sedative, stimulant, stomachic, tonic and vasodilator. The plant can be harvested when in full flower and dried for later use. A tea made from the leaves is used in the treatment of flatulence, stomach-aches, upper respiratory tract infections, coughs in children etc. A poultice made from the fresh herb is used to heal wounds. The essential oil is used in aromatherapy. Its keyword is 'Stability'. This oil should not be used on people who are highly strung as it can cause epileptic symptoms. The essential oil should not be used internally except under professional supervision. SOURCE WARNING LABEL: SeedsNow.com cannot take any responsibility for any adverse effects from the use of seeds and/or plants. Always seek advice from a professional before using a seed and/or plant for medicinal purposes. Follow SeedsNow.com's board Hyssop on Pinterest.
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Lavender, English (100% Heirloom/Non-Hybrid/Non-GMO) Lavandula angustifolia. English Lavender is one of the most beautiful seeds you can plant in your garden. - Lavender is an herb. The flower and the oil of lavender are used to make medicine. - Lavender is used for restlessness, insomnia, nervousness, and depression. It is also used for a variety of digestive complaints, loss of appetite, vomiting, nausea, intestinal gas, and upset stomach. - Some people use lavender for painful conditions including migraine headaches, toothaches, sprains, nerve pain, sores, and joint pain. It is also used for acne and cancer, and to promote menstruation. - Lavender is applied to the skin for hair loss, and pain, and to repel mosquitoes and other insects. - Some people add lavender to bathwater to treat circulation disorders and improve mental well being. - By inhalation, lavender is used as aromatherapy for insomnia, pain, and agitation related to dementia. - In foods and beverages, lavender is used as a flavor component. Day to Maturity | 85 days Follow SeedsNow.com's board Lavendar on Pinterest.
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Sweet Marjoram (100% Heirloom/Non-Hybrid/Non-GMO) Has an Oregano-like flavor. It can be used in many dishes including meats, stews, casseroles, poultry, sausages, and sauces. - Can be used dried or fresh. Great flavor and taste - Marjoram is also known for its healing properties with rheumatoid pain, tension headaches and minor digestive problems - It can be used in potpourri or added to sachets for linen and clothing cupboards- Easy to grow in a small container Day to Maturity | 90 days Follow SeedsNow.com's board Marjoram on Pinterest.
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Mini-Snapdragon (Antirrhinum majus) These rose-pink clusters of flowers on sturdy stems are an old-fashioned favorite. Plentiful blossoms of long-lasting fuzzy flowers appear in 8-10 weeks. Includes: seed, growing medium, coconut husks for drainage, directions. Bag 7" high x 6" wide. How to grow:
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Lemon Mint, monarda citriodora (100% Heirloom/Non-Hybrid/Non-GMO) Annual plant that is covered with beautiful pinkish purple colored flowers.- Acts as a natural wasp repellant - many people plant wormwood as a garden border. - Plant grows to about 18" tall. - These flowers are also great at attracting bees and hummingbirds perfect for pollinating the other plants in your garden! Health Benefits | In skin care, Lemon Mint leaves can be rubbed directly on the skin to fight off mosquitoes. The dried leaves can also be infused in oil made into lotions for soothing the skin. See 7 Awesome Mint Drink Recipes HERE Follow SeedsNow.com's board Lemon Mint on Pinterest.
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Mint, Spearmint (100% Heirloom/Non-Hybrid/Non-GMO) Spearmint is typically used in teas, jellies, deserts, and salads. - Extremely fragrant. - Sweet smelling.- Acts as a natural wasp repellant - many people plant wormwood as a garden border.- Mentha spicata. - Perennial. - Can be used as a garnish on ice cream and drinks. - 85 days to maturity. Click here to see 7 Awesome Mint Drink Recipes HERE Follow SeedsNow.com's board Mint on Pinterest.
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Mint Garden-in-a-Bag
Country of Origin: Made in the USA Mint (Mentha species) The name alone conjures up a refreshing image of the unlimited uses of mint; soothing mint tea, fine desserts and drinks garnished with fresh sprigs of mint and holiday mint candy canes hanging on the Christmas tree. Mint is a perennial with bright green, saw-toothed leaves. It is easy to grow, loves the sun and will thrive with regular harvesting of the leaves. How to grow: Includes: 20mg heirloom mint seeds growing medium coconut husks for drainage directions leak proof plant bag (7" high x 6" wide) See 7 Awesome Mint Drink Recipes HERE
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Oregano (Italian), Herb (100% Heirloom/Non-Hybrid/Non-GMO) Seed Count | Appx. 1,000 seeds/pack Details | Perennial. Hardy 2 ½ inch plant with pungent, oval leaves and purplish pink flowers. Use fresh or dried in sauces and soups. Day to Maturity | 90 days Additional Details Hippocrates used oregano as an antiseptic, as well as a cure for stomach and respiratory ailments. It is still used today in Greece as a palliative for sore throat. Oregano is also high in antioxidant activity, due to a high content of phenolic acids and flavonoids. Follow SeedsNow.com's board Oregano on Pinterest.
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Oregano Garden-in-a-Bag
Organic Oregano (Origanum vulgare hirtum) One of the most flavorful culinary herbs. A strong peppery flavor with hints of balsam & clove. It is much loved in many Mediterranean dishes. Keep this perennial growing indoors in the bag and it will be available year round. How to grow: Includes: 20mg organic oregano seed growing medium coconut husks for drainage directions leak proof plant bag (7" high x 6" wide)
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Parsley - Dark Green Italian Giant
Parsley, Flat, Dark Green Italian (100% Heirloom/Non-Hybrid/Non-GMO) Finely cut dark green leaves. - Flat leaves. - Use this parsley for garnishing, and culinary decoration. - Tolerates heat better than most varieties. Day to Maturity | 60 days Planting Guide | Sow directly in your garden and space seeds 7" apart. Seeds can take a while to sprout. Can take 3-4 weeks before seedlings appear. Plant will grow to about 10" tall in about 60 days. Additional Details Parsley is a commonly grown culinary and medicinal herb that is often used as a domestic medicine. The fresh leaves are highly nutritious and can be considered a natural vitamin and mineral supplement in their own right. The plants prime use is as a diuretic where it is effective in ridding the body of stones and in treating jaundice, dropsy, cystitis etc. It is also a good detoxifier, helping the body to get rid of toxins via the urine and therefore helping in the treatment of a wide range of diseases such as rheumatism. Follow SeedsNow.com's board Parsley on Pinterest.
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Parsley - Evergreen
Evergreen Parsley Seeds (100% Heirloom/Non-Hybrid/Non-GMO) Dark green curly parsley leaves.- Can withstand frost and cooler temps better than the other varieties. - Use this parsley for garnishing, and culinary decoration. Day to Maturity | 70 days Planting Guide | Sow directly in your garden and space seeds 7" apart. Seeds can take a while to sprout. Can take 3-4 weeks before seedlings appear. Plant will grow to about 10" tall in about 60 days. Additional Details Parsley is a commonly grown culinary and medicinal herb that is often used as a domestic medicine. The fresh leaves are highly nutritious and can be considered a natural vitamin and mineral supplement in their own right. The plants prime use is as a diuretic where it is effective in ridding the body of stones and in treating jaundice, dropsy, cystitis etc. It is also a good detoxifier, helping the body to get rid of toxins via the urine and therefore helping in the treatment of a wide range of diseases such as rheumatism Follow SeedsNow.com's board Parsley on Pinterest.
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Hamburg Rooted Parsley Seeds (100% Heirloom/Non-Hybrid/Non-GMO) A very old heirloom variety dating back to the 1600's!- Hamburg Rooted Parsley is used differently than other parsley plants. It's actually preferred by many European cooks and is typically the main ingredient for many stews.- Hamburg Rooted Parsley is a large edible root with smooth mild parsley flavor. - Very easy to grow.- In Europe root parsley is usually the first choice over parsnips. Day to Maturity | 85 days
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Parsley - Triple Moss Curled
Parsley, Curly, Triple Moss Curled (100% Heirloom/Non-Hybrid/Non-GMO) The Triple Moss Curled Parsley plant grows to about 12" tall with high yields of very dark green curled leaves. - Grows thickly and resembles a bunch of moss (hence the name) - Excellent for drying and use as a garnish - Extremely flavorful and aromatic Day to Maturity | 70 days Planting Guide | Sow directly in your garden and space seeds 7" apart. Seeds can take a while to sprout. Can take 3-4 weeks before seedlings appear. Plant will grow to about 10" tall in about 60 days. Additional Details Parsley is a commonly grown culinary and medicinal herb that is often used as a domestic medicine. The fresh leaves are highly nutritious and can be considered a natural vitamin and mineral supplement in their own right. The plants prime use is as a diuretic where it is effective in ridding the body of stones and in treating jaundice, dropsy, cystitis etc. It is also a good detoxifier, helping the body to get rid of toxins via the urine and therefore helping in the treatment of a wide range of diseases such as rheumatism. Follow SeedsNow.com's board Parsley on Pinterest.
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Rosemary, Classic (100% Heirloom/Non-Hybrid/Non-GMO) Excellent flavor - extremely fragrant. - Perfect to use fresh or dried. - Can be used to flavor many culinary varieties such as meats, soups, and sauces. - Can be used for treating headaches and known to improve circulation. - Perfect for containers. - Plant Height: 36" - Perennial. Day to Maturity | 80-90 days Want more? View our entire collection of gourmet culinary & medicinal herb varieties. Follow SeedsNow.com's board Rosemary on Pinterest.
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Rue, Medicinal Herb (100% Heirloom/Non-Hybrid/Non-GMO) Seed Count | 180 seeds/pack Needs full sun to grow well. - It is drought tolerant and rarely, if ever needs to be watered. - Rue has a long history of use as a domestic remedy, being especially valued for its strengthening action on the eyes. - The plant contains flavonoids (notably rutin) that reduce capillary fragility, which might explain the plants reputation as an eye strengthener. Day to Maturity | 75 days **Warning** Although rue is safe when used correctly, it is considered a toxic herb that can cause side effects such as severe rashes, mood swings, sensitivity to light, stomach pains, dizziness, liver and kidney damage, sleep disorders & muscle spasms. Rue is typically added to foods and used as a medicinal herb, however, people with the following conditions should avoid rue; "Pregnant, Breastfeeding Women and Children: Rue contains emmenagogue effects, thus an ingredient to trigger menstruation. It also contains abortifacient effects, which can cause miscarriage if used by pregnant women. Use rue with caution because it can cause death. Children should not use rue in any way or form. Kidney and Liver Problems: Individuals suffering from urinary tract problems, kidney or liver problems should not use rue as food or medicine. Rue can irritate these body parts making your problems worse. Stomach and Intestinal Problems: Avoid rue if you have inflammatory bowel disease or colitis, or ulcers." -Source Follow SeedsNow.com's board Rue on Pinterest.
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Sage, Broadleaf (100% Heirloom/Non-Hybrid/Non-GMO) Sage is an aromatic perennial plant that is actually part of the mint family. The plant produces grayish-green leaves that are used in many popular food dishes, most notably in the preparation of sausages.- Natural mosquito repellent. - The leaves can also be used as a digestive and nerve tonic. - Excellent as a border plant around the garden. - Grows well in containers. - Easy to grow from seed and can be sowed directly in the garden. Day to Maturity | 75 days Follow SeedsNow.com's board Sage on Pinterest.
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Salad Burnet (100% Heirloom/Non-Hybrid/Non-GMO) Poterium sanguisorba. Perennial. Keep flowers cut to promote leaf growth. - Plant produces serrated leaves that tastes and smells like cucumbers. - Can be used in salads, soups, stews, and flavored drinks. - Can also be used in facial treatments to improve skin. - Plant Height: 18" tall. Day to Maturity | 75 days Follow SeedsNow.com's board Salad Burnett on Pinterest.
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Saponaria AKA Soapwort
Soapwort, Herb (100% Heirloom/Non-Hybrid/Non-GMO) Saponaria officinalis. "Saponaria officinalis is a common perennial plant from the carnation family (Caryophyllaceae). This plant has many common names, including common soapwort, bouncing-bet, crow soap, wild sweet William, and soapweed." - source/wiki "The plants possesses leafy, unbranched stems (often tinged with red). It grows in patches, attaining a height of 70 cm. The broad, lanceolate, sessile leaves are opposite and between 4 and 12 cm long. Its sweetly scented flowers are radially symmetrical and pink, or sometimes white. Each of the five flat petals have two small scales in the throat of the corolla. They are about 2.5 cm wide. They are arranged in dense, terminal clusters on the main stem and its branches. The long tubular calyx has five pointed red teeth." - source/wiki "As its common name implies, it can be used as a very gentle soap, usually in dilute solution. It has historically been used to clean delicate or unique textiles; it has been hypothesized that the plant was used to treat the Shroud of Turin. A lathery liquid that has the ability to dissolve fats or grease can be procured by boiling the leaves or roots in water. Take a large handful of leaves, bruise and chop them and boil for 30 minutes in 1 pint/600ml of water; strain off the liquid and use this as you would washing-up liquid. In the Romanian village of Sieu-Odorhei, natives call the plant "Sǎpunele". It is traditionally used by the villagers as a soap replacement for dry skin." - source/wiki
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Shungiku, Edible Chrysanthemum is a very versatile asian green. Known as Shungiku, Edible Chrysanthemum, Garland Chrysanthemum, Chop Suey Greens and many other names. This is a salad green that can be grown in winter and again in spring. The flowers of Shungiku can be dried and stored to be used for tea. Often considered a substitute for Chamomile - with its soothing and stomach quieting properties. Day to Maturity | 30 - 50 days
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Summer Savory (100% Heirloom/Non-Hybrid/Non-GMO) The Summer Savory plant grows tasty peppery flavored leaves. - This is the herb to use if you want to flavor beans, cabbage, peas, and any other dishes. Widely used as a medicinal herb for curing sore throats. - Use the leaves to make some tea and you'll be feeling great! Day to Maturity | 65 days Follow SeedsNow.com's board Summer Savory on Pinterest.
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Sungold, Dwarf (100% Heirloom/Non-Hybrid/Non-GMO) This dwarf Sunflower that grows to a max. of 24" tall. - It is an all-time favorite of home gardeners who love sunflowers without the usual massive plant height of other sunflowers. - Semi-drought and heat tolerant. - Grows best during mid-summer through fall. - Easy to grow! Follow SeedsNow.com's board Sunflowers on Pinterest.
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Sungold, Tall (100% Heirloom/Non-Hybrid/Non-GMO) Giant "Teddy Bear" type sunflower. - Seven to eight inch bold yellow flowers.- Plants grow to 6 feet tall.- Easy to grow! Follow SeedsNow.com's board Sunflowers on Pinterest.
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Tarragon (100% Heirloom/Non-Hybrid/Non-GMO) Tarragon, aka Dragon Wort, is a popular herb widely recognized for its strong aroma and many culinary uses. - A native herb of Europe - Used to compliment to many classic continental – mostly French – dishes - Tarragon seeds should be planted in a warm and sunny spot - Grows well in containers - Tarragon is perfect for seasoning chicken, fish, and egg dishes Day to Maturity | 85 days Follow SeedsNow.com's board Tarragon on Pinterest.
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Thyme, Herb (100% Heirloom/Non-Hybrid/Non-GMO) Plant spreads to form attractive 8 to 12 inch high mounds. - Aromatic and flavorful leaves - Used to flavor meats, dressings, soups, and stews. Day to Maturity | 80 days Additional Details Before the advent of modern antibiotics, Thyme was used to medicate bandages. It has also been shown to be effective against the fungus that commonly infects toenails. It can also be found as the active ingredient in all-natural, alcohol-free hand sanitizers. Follow SeedsNow.com's board Thyme on Pinterest.
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Organic English Thyme (Thymus vulgaris) This aromatic and long-lived perennial is a mainstay of American and French cuisine. Thyme leaves are small but pungent and can be used fresh or dried in almost any dish. The plant is a small, many branched evergreen with light pink to purple flowers. How to grow: Includes: 20mg organic feathery dill seed growing medium coconut husks for drainage directions leak proof plant bag (7" high x 6" wide)
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Wormwood, Medicinal Herb (100% Heirloom/Non-Hybrid/Non-GMO) Wormwood is a very bitter plant with a long history of use as a medicinal herb.- Acts as a natural wasp repellant - many people plant wormwood as a garden border. - It is valued especially for its tonic effect on the liver, gallbladder and digestive system. - It is an extremely useful medicine for those with weak and under-active digestion. - It is known to increase stomach acid and bile production, improving digestion along with the absorption of nutrients. Day to Maturity | 65 days Additional Details Wormwood also eases wind and bloating and, if taken regularly, helps the body return to full vitality after a prolonged illness. Use with caution, the plant should be taken internally in small doses for short-term treatment only, preferably under the supervision of a qualified practitioner. It should not be prescribed for children or pregnant women. Follow SeedsNow.com's board Wormwood on Pinterest.
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Yarrow, Medicinal Herb (100% Heirloom/Non-Hybrid/Non-GMO) Yarrow has a high reputation and is widely employed in herbal medicine, administered both internally and externally. It is used in the treatment of a very wide range of disorders but is particularly valuable for treating wounds, stopping the flow of blood, treating colds, fevers, kidney diseases, menstrual pain etc. Day to Maturity | 65 days Follow SeedsNow.com's board Yarrow on Pinterest.
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Conservapedia:Schlafly Statistics
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“”There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
—Benjamin Disraeli, perhaps?[1]
Schlafly Statistics is one of the favorite "debating tactics" of Andrew Schlafly, the founder and braindead braintrust behind Conservapedia. It consists of making up an utterly spurious and unfounded correlative statistics in a bizarre attempt to undermine the argument of someone who is completely schooling him, usually but not always an expert in the field under discussion. This is basically a clumsily disguised ad hominem attack, and even if the "statistic" were true, it would have no bearing on the matter at hand.
Schlafly statistics are infallible as Andrew Schlafly has taken twice as many statistics courses as anyone else[2] -- he is extremely modest, too.
The National Academy of Science has described the attempt to publish Schlafly Statistics as such:[3]
“”The issues raised by Mr. Schlafly are neither obscure nor subtle, but are part of everyday statistical analysis at a level too elementary to need rehearsal in the pages of PNAS.
1.1 Wikipedia Statistics
1.2 Chim-chim-chimerae
1.3 Franklin Stoven In
1.4 A three-fer!
1.5 When the ratio is 1 in 100, that 1 still exists
1.6 Probability the Schlafly way
1.7 Sampling
1.8 Mystery: Why Do Non-Conservatives Exist?
2 Statistical contagion
3 Analysis techniques
3.1 Hypothesis testing
3.2 Data mining
3.3 Applications
3.4 Regression
4 Study analysis
5 Corollary
Here are but a few examples of this fascinating form of brain damage.
Wikipedia Statistics[edit]
Aschlafly had the genius idea to post this:
Wikipedia is 6 times more liberal than the American public. We've documented 50 instances of bias, falsehoods, smears, errors, etc. in Bias in Wikipedia................--Aschlafly 21:43, 28 June 2007 (EDT)
Andy here fails at basic math. To quote, "Polls show that about twice as many Americans identify themselves as "conservative" compared with "liberal", and that ratio has been increasing for two decades. But on Wikipedia, about three times as many editors identify themselves as "liberal" compared with "conservative". That suggests Wikipedia is six times more liberal than the American public."[4] We shall now proceed to utilize the power of mathematics to demonstrate that this is wrong.
Andy tries to justify this by using something he calls "liberal quotient". This is the ratio of liberals in the group to conservatives. In America, this would be 1:2, and on Wikipedia, 3:1. Apparently, Andy has somehow neglected to realize that a ratio expressed in this form is not a fraction, and that the fractional description of the portion of a group composed of n, out of a group composed of n and q, is not actually n/q, it's n/(n+q). Therefore, instead of dividing 3/4ths (3:1 = 75%) by 1/3rd (1:2 = 33.333...%) which gives 2.25, he divides 3/1 by 1/2 and gets 6. In other words, he's said that 300% of Wikipedia editors are liberal. As such, this statistic is entirely fallacious.
Chim-chim-chimerae[edit]
Show me 100 people who are "ardent subscribers" to The Theory of Evolution and I'll show you 50 who welcome the creation of chimerae. Show me 100 people who have strong faith and I'll show you 99 who oppose this.--Aschlafly 12:38, 28 June 2007 (EDT)[5]
Show me a chimney sweep and I will show you someone with 100% (!) dirty nails.[6]
Franklin Stoven In[edit]
From a discussion of Benjamin Franklin's religious views on his talk page:
I’ll bet the correlation between those who insist Franklin was a deist and liberals is nearly 100%. - Aschlafly 12:22, 24 May 2007 (EDT)
James, please disclose your political point-of-view along with that of the “scholar”. Let me guess: do both of you oppose prayer in the classrooms of public schools? Enough said. - Aschlafly 13:11, 24 May 2007 (EDT)
We are discussing the past, not the political present. So, why bring up school prayer? What does that have to so with Franklin’s deism? – Jamest 13:17, 24 May 2007 (EDT)
It explains your views. If you’re opposed to prayer in the classroom, then there is over a 90% chance that (1) you’ll insist that Franklin was a deist and (2) you believe in evolution. That extraordinary correlation suggests that the facts are irrelevant. If you’re not open-minded about prayer in the classroom, then it’s futile to expect you to be open-minded about these other issues. – Aschlafly 18:41, 24 May 2007 (EDT)
At least he is correct on that last point - with regards to his own closed mind, that is.
I do know, with 95% certainty, what your positions are on classroom prayer and evolution. The 95% confidence level is all that science requires. I know your positions with greater certainty than I know what the weather will be like tomorrow. But why do you refuse to disclose your positions? Are you embarrassed about them? Do you feel they are indefensible? Conservatives don't hide their views; liberals do. Why? - Aschlafly 10:26, 25 May 2007 (EDT) [7]
Now he's up to 95% certainty. He just keeps getting better! Is he aware that scientists consider a 90% or 95% correlation very significant when it is a correlation of data collected from actual observations or experiments rather than just plucked out of the air by one person based on intuition alone? Aschlafly didn't go into the details of all the people he has observed these data on; which ones advocate classroom prayer, which ones accept evolution, and which ones believe Franklin was a deist.
A three-fer![edit]
In a main page talk discussion of Ron Paul and evolution, Mr. Schlafly loads for bear and uncorks this unsubstantiated beauty:
The correlation between believing in evolution and opposing classroom prayer is probably over 90%; believing in evolution and supporting abortion is probably over 80%, and believing in evolution and supporting gun control is probably over 70%. People who believe in evolution tend to be materialists, while conservatives tend to be Platonic. I've never met or heard of anyone who believed in evolution and was a 100%, across-the-board conservative like Ronald Reagan, Ron Paul, Jesse Helms, Tom Tancredo, Sam Brownback, etc." - Aschlafly 15:47, 4 January 2008 (EST)"[8]
When the ratio is 1 in 100, that 1 still exists[edit]
We can infer the religion of a person by the majority religion of their countrymen 20 years after their death.[9] The relevant factors to consider when inferring someone's religion do not include: the assertions of their (liberal) family members, or the fact that they were Harvard-educated, but only their nationality. The possibility that a person would hold a minority religious viewpoint is inconceivable.
Note, by the way, that the odds against a Muslim converting to Christianity (as Obama essentially pretended) are greater than 100 to 1."[10]
Schlafly uses this method in order to create the impression that when someone makes a claim that is only true 1% of the time, it means there is a 99% chance they are lying. To turn this around on him, he claims to have a degree in electrical engineering as well as in law. Certainly far less than 1% of the population of the United States has both these degrees, therefore the probability that he is lying about this is much greater than 99%. The probability of him being gay or Muslim is much, much higher. (Additionally, he claims to be the son of Phyllis Schlafly, the odds of which are about 75,000,000 to 1, or in the neighborhood of .000001% likely.)
Just to explicitly say why this is wrong, if you haven't cottoned on yet, the point is that if someone says they are description X, it is much more likely that they are X than it would be if you just chose someone at random. For instance, very few people have a sister named Carmelita, but if someone says they have a sister named Carmelita, it's still likely that they're telling the truth, because the number of people who lie about having a sister called Carmelita is incredibly small.
Probability the Schlafly way[edit]
On the list of Counterexamples to Evolution Schlafly showed how, using a list of statements that may or may not be true, over all the list must be true.
If just one is correct, then logically the theory of evolution must be false. If there is merely a 5% chance that each example is correct, then the odds of at least one of the following counterexamples being correct is nearly 100%. At 14 examples and a probability that each is correct being 5%, then the odds of at least one being correct is 1-(.95)^14.[11]
The first major problem is the assumption that the 14 items are independent, which they of course are not, as some or all are true if evolution is incorrect and all are false if evolution is correct. The second problem is that 1-(0.95)^14 is approximately 51%, which most people wouldn't describe as "nearly 100%". His third problem is he just made the 5% figure up, and it could be less. Finally, the problem we have seen many times in Schlafly's arguments, is that the truth is not a statistical function that can be determined by getting close enough to 100%. So long as the probability is not 0% there still exists a chance that it might be true[12].
Sampling[edit]
Sampling is a process by which a representative subset of a population is studied in order to infer characteristics of the population as a whole. This is typically employed when the population would be too large to study, or when it's determined that the subset would provide acceptable levels of accuracy. The sample size must be representative if accurate inferences are to be made. For example, if wanting to understand the prevalence of beards in the population of London, examining just 10 chins is unlikely to yield representative results. The makeup of the sample is just as important. Would the results of a survey be useful if female chins were included, or if the men questioned all happened to be emerging from a local mosque? Schlafly does not trouble himself with such concerns.
In March 2011 Schlafly trumpeted the news that Wikipedia was only retaining 12% of its editors.[13] The fun began when Schlafly was asked for details on Conservapedia's editor retention rate.
Don't have a numeric answer, but based on experience our retention rate of quality editors is quite high. For example, there were three quality editors who registered at Conservapedia at the very beginning of the massive publicity of 2007. Two of those three (none of whom I have ever met personally) are still frequent editors today.[14]
Although clearly an informal and quick response to the question, the mere fact that he chose to give this answer demonstrates dishonesty or a complete misunderstanding of statistical analysis. He has arbitrarily chosen three "quality editors" who are what he describes as being "frequent editors". By this logic any wiki could claim a 100% retention rate.
Mystery: Why Do Non-Conservatives Exist?[edit]
Andy did a "statistical analysis" on the "mystery" on why non-conservatives exist.[15] He expanded his "analysis" over the period of a year[16] with such insights as "15%: refuse to forgive themselves and let go of their past mistakes and image" and "10%: refuse to rise above their personal temptations, often self-destructive, and hate conservatives who criticize their self-indulgent behavior".
One author who observed that these numbers were, maybe, not entirely backed up by data, and that making up "facts" does not exactly further the conservative cause was promptly reverted.[17]
He later added a helpful "statistical analysis" on "triggers reconsideration of liberal beliefs".[18]
Andy—being the intellectually honest man that he is—is aware that his methods may not be perfect, as he states that his numbers are merely estimates.
Statistical contagion[edit]
And it is infectious - here TK experiments with the new toy, in another context:
I responded to you via board email. I hope you get it. Sometimes wiki software doesn't send stuff, it seems, for people have complained here of that, and I have seen the same complaints at WP. That is why so many of us prefer the 21st Century convention of swapping email addresses and using instant messaging, like 80%+ of Internet users do. - Sysop-TK 21:15, 25 May 2007 (EDT)[19]
In a similar vein,
I am almost certain there is absolutely not [sic] sincerity in anything you typed above" - Sysop-TK 02:11, 23 May 2007 (EDT)
PS: that's not a footnote asterisk, it's an "emphasis" asterisk, in case you aren't familiar with this particular Sysop's style.
Analysis techniques[edit]
Hypothesis testing[edit]
Whilst more sophisticated statistical methods require testing to see if results and conclusions are valid, Schlafly statistics require only Andy to look at the numbers and he can see the difference:
When the rates are vastly different, as in the case of lung cancer and cigarettes, conclusions can and should be drawn immediately based on the vast differences in the rates. Of course further investigation is welcome, but unlikely to alter the obvious conclusion. - Aschlafly[20]
Data mining[edit]
Schlafly statistics also differs from frequentist or Bayesian statistical methods in that data mining is not needed:
Female rock stars likely to admit to breast cancer (e.g., due to a performance schedule) number on the magnitude of, at most, 50; female movie stars under 35 are perhaps a 100-200, at most; and other female actresses are perhaps another 100-200. Just look at how many albums and movies are released each year. Also, note that many stars go out of their way to conceal and deny health problems, understandably so. If you dispute any of these numbers, then I'd like to hear why. - Aschlafly[21]
I'm not disputing them, I'm asking where they came from. So you looked up how many albums and movies are typically released in a year and extrapolated from that? Murray[22]
Applications[edit]
Schlafly statistics are superior to any other method of analysing data as it would save millions of lives:
That provides a ballpark estimate. Given that the incidence in the Hollywood community is an order of magnitude larger than the general population, ballpark estimates are enough to reveal a problem.
Note that a ballpark estimate would have -- and should have -- demonstrated that cigarettes cause lung cancer a half century before people accepted it. Millions of lives would have been saved by acting on the evidence available rather than demanding unnecessary statistical detail. Surely you don't defend that. - Aschlafly[23]
Regression[edit]
Another advantage of Schlafly statistics is the ability to perform any kind of regression fit to the data and achieve a perfect fit, regardless of the data's pattern.
Example: fitting a geometric line through data.
Announce that your data has a geometric growth, despite the fact that it is linear.[24]
Constantly add hundreds of selected data points, keeping a meticulous count, until you achieve a geometric-like growth.[25]
Remove any data that upsets this geometric growth.[26]
Announce that this geometric growth applies to nearly everything.[27]
Study analysis[edit]
You will spend a certain amount of time preparing for the midterm exam. Call that amount of time "x". How you allocate that time to different areas of 1500-1877 will make a difference on how well you do on the exam. If you spend 90% of x on the period between 1500 and 1700, then you will do poorly on 90% of the questions, because they will be from the period 1700 to 1877. You would have done far better to spend the 90% of x on the time period that will have 90% of the questions.[28]
So, x=Time spent studying; Period between 1500 and 1700 = y; Period between 1700 and 1877 = z. Rebuilding Schlafly's equation, we get the ideal value of x=z*0.9-y*0.9. No, wait. If y*0.9=x, then ..no, hang on. I'll start again. X is 90% of 1877. No, that's not right. Wait. The difference in years of y=200, and the time period of z is 177. So y>z. So the factor of 90% can't be fairly applied to both periods. Can it? I don't know, I give up.
What he fails to understand here is that X = 7 and v = 9, therefore, 90% of questions will in fact be from the year 1880, making your studying of anything, especially from a liberal university, useless.
Corollary[edit]
A corollary to the Schlafly Statistic is the Schlafly Study, where Andy claims that his views are supported by "a majority of studies", and since this is so obvious, there is no need to cite them.
Your posting above is false and misleading. The Lancet entry, for example, is not a study at all. I doubt many of the others are either. Virtually all statistically significant studies have shown an increase risked [sic], as does logic. The increased risk was shown before abortion became politically controversial and before the abortion industry became so powerful.--Aschlafly 23:28, 10 April 2007 (EDT) (emphasis added; see here for the full conversation)
What Mr. Schlafly apparently does not understand (and what was pointed out to him in the same discussion) was that all significant studies show an increased risk because that is the definition of significance. A non-significant result only allows the conclusion "no significant effect was found" However if multiple studies are unable to find a significant effect despite superior levels of statistical power this suggests significant findings are due to random variation in the sample (i.e. the finding of significance is the product of random variation between the two conditions).
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It sucks when you lose a case and in a separate case, the decision in the first case you lost is used against you in the second case.
Posted: May 6, 2019 | Author: Recreation Law | Filed under: Assumption of the Risk, Case Analysis, Delaware, Mountain Biking, Release (pre-injury contract not to sue) | Tags: activities, allegations, applies, Assumption of risk, Bike Race, Business Invitee, courts, defendants', Dirt Bike, Dirt Bike Race, doctrine of primary assumption, Doctrine of Primary Assumption of the Risk, Genuine Issue of Material Fact, Gross negligence, Inherent Risk, inspect, Mountain Bike Race, Off Road, Off Road Dirt Bike, Off Road Dirt Bike Race, participants, permission, Primary Assumption of Risk, recklessness, Release, release of liability, relieve, restricted area, secondary assumption, Secondary Assumption of Risk, Sport, sporting event, sports-related, Summary judgment, waiver form | Leave a comment
Blue Diamond MX Park was sued by a participant in a race for the injuries he received during a race. The release he signed an assumption of the risk did not stop his claim for recklessness.
Citation: Barth v. Blue Diamond, LLC (d/b/a Blue Diamond MX Park), 2017 Del. Super. LEXIS 615, 2017 WL 5900949
State: Delaware, Superior Court of Delaware
Plaintiff: Scott Barth
Defendant: Blue Diamond, LLC (d/b/a Blue Diamond MX Park), a Delaware corporation, The East Coast Enduro Association, Inc., a New Jersey corporation, and Delaware Enduro Riders, Inc., a Delaware corporation
Plaintiff Claims: negligent and reckless failure to properly mark the race’s course caused his injuries
Defendant Defenses: Release and Primary Assumption of the Risk
Holding: for the Plaintiff
This case is another mountain-bike race case with the same defendant as an earlier case in Delaware. Delaware allows a release to be used; however, in both of these cases, the appellate court worked hard to find a way around the release.
The only facts in the case are: “The plaintiff, Scott Barth, suffered serious injuries during an off-road dirt-bike race.”
Analysis: making sense of the law based on these facts.
The court started its analysis looking at Primary Assumption of the Risk.
In Delaware, “primary assumption of the risk is implicated when the plaintiff expressly consents ‘to relieve the defendant of an obligation of conduct toward him, and to take his chances of injury from a known risk arising from what the defendant is to do or leave undone.'”[7] When primary assumption of risk exists, “the defendant is relieved of legal duty to the plaintiff; and being under no legal duty, he or she cannot be charged with negligence.”
The court then looked at the release.
The plaintiff argued the release was not valid because it lacked consideration, and the release does not release the defendant from liability for recklessness.
To be enforceable under Delaware law, releases of liability “must be crystal clear and unequivocal” and “unambiguous, not unconscionable, and not against public policy.” Barth does not (and cannot) argue that the waiver form at issue does not meet this standard. In Lynam v. Blue Diamond LLC, this Court found a virtually identical release form valid.
The plaintiff argued the release was not valid based on lack of consideration. The lack of consideration was based on the fact he did not walk or ride the course in advance. Another case in Delaware had held the release was invalid because the riders were required to walk the course and never given the opportunity to do so.
In this case the riders were told, they could walk or ride the course. The plaintiff never did. Not taking advantage of the offer is not a case for claiming the release is invalid.
Barth cannot claim he was denied permission if he never asked for it. Additionally, the “failure to apprise himself of, or otherwise understand the language of a release that he is asked to sign is insufficient as a matter of law to invalidate the release.” The Court finds that Barth’s own failure to perform a permissive part of the agreement does not make the waiver invalid.
The court then switched back to the issue of recklessness and held the release could not preclude a claim for recklessness. “The Court finds that the waiver form releases the defendants from their liability for negligence, but not for recklessness.”
The court then went back to primary assumption of the risk and found that primary assumption of the risk does not bar a claim for recklessness.
Primary assumption of the risk in Delaware applies to sports-related activities that involve physical skill and pose a significant risk of injury to participants. Primary assumption of the risk in can be only with specific activities.
Delaware cases have noted that primary assumption of risk commonly applies to “sports-related activities that ‘involv[e] physical skill and challenges posing significant risk of injury to participants in such activities, and as to which the absence of such a defense would chill vigorous participation in the sporting activity and have a deleterious effect on the nature of the sport as a whole.'”
So far, Delaware has found that primary assumption of the risk applies to:
(1) being a spectator at a sporting event such as a baseball or hockey game or tennis match where projectiles may be launched into the audience; (2) participating in a contact sporting event; (3) bungee jumping or bungee bouncing; (4) operating a jet-ski, or engaging in other noncompetitive water sports such as water-skiing, tubing, or white-water rafting; (5) drag racing; and (6) skydiving.[
Relying on a California case, the court looked at the requirements for an activity. That analysis must cover the nature of the activity and the relationship between the parties.
An analysis of the nature of the activities the courts must consider:
what conditions, conduct or risks that might be viewed as dangerous in other contexts are so integral to or inherent in the activity itself that imposing a duty of care would either require that an essential aspect of the sport be abandoned, or else discourage vigorous participation therein. In such cases, defendants generally do not have a duty to protect a plaintiff from the inherent risks of the sport, or to eliminate all risk from the sport.
In reviewing the relationship of the parties, the court must look at:
the general duty of due care to avoid injury to others does not apply to coparticipants in sporting activities with respect to conditions and conduct that might otherwise be viewed as dangerous but upon examination are seen to be an integral part of the sport itself.
In Delaware, secondary assumption of the risk was incorporated into Delaware’s contributory negligence statute and is no longer available as a complete defense. Secondary Assumption of the Risk occurs when “the plaintiffs conduct in encountering a known risk may itself be unreasonable, because the danger is out of proportion to the advantage which he is seeking to obtain.”
The court then found that primary assumption of the risk is still a valid defense to negligence. The court then found that the release the plaintiff signed was the same as primary assumption of the risk.
The Court finds that implied primary assumption of risk is a valid affirmative defense to negligence. Because Barth signed a valid release of liability for Defendants’ negligence, the remaining issue in this case is whether implied primary assumption of risk is a valid affirmative defense to allegations of recklessness as well.
As in other states, the defense provided by primary assumption of the risk is based on the duty of the defendants not to increase the harm beyond what is inherent in the sport.
Though defendants do not owe a duty to protect a plaintiff from the risks inherent in an activity to which the doctrine of implied primary assumption of risk applies, “defendants do have a duty not to increase the risk of harm beyond what is inherent in the sport through intentional or reckless behavior that is completely outside the range of the ordinary activity in the sport.”
The issue of recklessness came back, and the court seemed to combine that issue as one where the defendant increased the risks to the plaintiff.
Here, the Court has ruled as a matter of law that a genuine issue of material fact exists as to whether Defendants recklessly marked the course with inadequate signage. The Court finds there is a genuine issue of material fact as to whether the Defendants committed reckless conduct, which increased the race’s risk of harm. Further, the Court holds that the doctrine of implied primary assumption of risk does not insulate a tortfeasor from liability for intentional or reckless conduct.
The case continued with an unknown final outcome.
Because of these two cases, I think first I would require all participants in the race to ride or walk the course. This would reinforce the assumption of risk argument. I would then write the release to point out the fact the rider had seen the course and had no problems with it.
The analysis of primary assumption of risk in this and many other cases creates a gap in the defenses of many activities that can only be covered by a release, even in Delaware. Primary Assumption of the risk covers the inherent risks of the activity. Defendants are liable for any increase in the risk to the plaintiffs. There is an ocean of risks that a court can find that are not inherent in the activities that are not really under the control or something the defendant can do to decrease and/or is something the defendant has not done that increased the risks.
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An alert and call for action – a new Standard threat to play provision | Bernard Spiegal
A swift reblog to add my voice to this call for action from my longtime collaborator, Bernard Spiegal. The immediate issue is a highly problematic proposal on surfacing from some of those involved in setting European standards for play equipment.
This is an alert. An alert to all those – across Europe and wider – where European play equipment and surfacing standards are held, or will be held, to apply. A new Standard is being …
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6 responses to “An alert and call for action – a new Standard threat to play provision | Bernard Spiegal”
mickplay | July 4, 2016 at 5:51 pm | Reply
What are the actual proposals? Has the Play Safety Forum summarised the problem areas anywhere?
Tim Gill | July 4, 2016 at 5:59 pm | Reply
Hi Mick – the proposals have been circulated to the PSF, and they have been discussed. I am not sure if there is any summary online other than the comments Bernard made, and I am not aware of any other material online. The British Committee that feeds into the European one is also concerned.
bernardspiegal | July 5, 2016 at 9:33 am | Reply
Mick (and anybody else), I can send you the document that sets out the proposed changes if you like.
Rolf Huber | July 6, 2016 at 1:16 pm | Reply
Is this not the pot calling the kettle black? This is a move to protect children in playgrounds and confirm that the expensive surfacing, synthetic, actually is below the 1000 HIC level, which is 18% risk of MAIS>4, severe (life-threatening with survival probable), and 3% risk MAIS>5 (critical and life-threatening). It is incredible that some of the opposition comes from the family associated with the Sutcliffe Swing Seat that was developed back in 1975 to be less than 50 g as a result of the findings of the Franklin Institute that head injuries are not likely to occur for impacts less than 50 g. This even went so far as to be incorporated into the EN1176 Standard. All for 1 to 3% of the injuries in playgrounds, while you fight against 68 to 75% of the playground injuries. Did anyone rally to the playground owners or was there a cry from the risky play advocates when owners were forced to spend millions of pounds, euros, dollars on any swing delivering less than 1000 HIC or 200 g. Time to give children a break. Pardon the pun.
It is hard to believe that the UK, which was once a leader in playgrounds, has moved to being self-serving and lost all credibility with public health and play advocates around the world.
Tim Gill | July 7, 2016 at 2:43 am | Reply
Thanks for leaving a comment Rolf. We need to start with hard facts about the real risk, as I have argued before. Not the theoretical risk, but the real risk. We know from recent research that serious head injuries on playgrounds are very rare (a single child hospital admission per year in a city with a population of 700,000: the size of Memphis, TN).
The risk of serious injury in playgrounds cannot be eliminated. The key question is what is reasonable and proportionate. Given the hard facts about playground injuries, it is not surprising that a number of national playground safety committees in Europe – not only the UK – share the view that the measures being proposed are not reasonable or proportionate.
As for your last comment: I have no commercial interest in playground surfacing. Neither does Bernard (whose post I reblogged). You have a commercial interest in providing playground surfacing, and in providing playground surface testing services (correct me if I am wrong). I will leave it to other readers to judge who is being self-serving.
Rolf Huber | July 18, 2016 at 8:20 pm | Reply
July 16, 2016,
Mr. Matthew Marshall, Program Manager,
British Standards Institute,
W4 4AL
Re: Changes to En1177
Dear Mr. Matthew Marshall;
I am writing to you in relation to the attempt that a few are making in relation to requesting that BSI oppose the inclusion of field testing as a requirement in the next revision of the EN1177 and I presume to write on behalf of the children and caregivers who are not aware that children are exposed to significant hazards with every visit to the playground. The change would be of great benefit to users and the owners of playgrounds, who have an expectation that the surfaces upon which children are falling will prevent “disabling or fatal consequences” when in fact this is not true and failure of a surface to meet the minimal requirements of EN1177 puts children at even greater risk.
In the past you have written to ASTM demanding production of a peer reviewed paper that establishes that the injuries do actually exist and that head injuries are a debilitating injury. I take the pleasure in attaching 2 such recent papers, one from the US CDC and the other from York University, in Toronto, Canada. These not only confirm that injures from falls are on the increase, but also indicate that in relation to societal thresholds, the head injuries that are being sustained are under reported and of a disabling nature. The CDC points out that the field test in ASTM F1292 was adopted as an optional test in 1999 and without being a requirement has not moved the needle on injury reduction. Their point is the field testing is available and must be done. But you already knew this because you have a member of the Sutcliffe Group active in your industry, whose corporate history lays claim to causing no head injury with the Sutcliffe swing seat, based on the 1975 Franklin Institute work. This has been supported by the requirement in En1176-2 (2008) to perform a test to ensure that these swing seats to not impart more than 50g.
To oppose field testing would be embarrassing to BSI taken that BSI was a major contributor and voted in favour of the recently published ISO TR20183, which includes a number of definitions and injury thresholds that would support the proposed changes and the protection of children in playgrounds through field testing of surfacing. Beyond the TR20183, there is the CEN Guide 14 and ISO Guide 50 and Cen TR16148 that would suggest confirmation that surfacing that minimally meets the EN1177 would be beneficial in meeting the scope of En1176 and EN1177.
The argument that this is a unique change and will result in astronomical costs to owners is ludicrous. The CSA Z614, Chidren’s playspaces and equipment, has required field testing as the measure of compliance of the playground protective surfacing since 1998. Since this is the requirement of the standard, the volume of testing is quite high and compliance to the Standard has been mandated into many provincial, municipal, school board and private programs and contracts. Coupled to this cost consideration is that CSA Z614 in 2007 moved the fall height for structures from the deck or platform to the top of the barrier or guardrail, effectively being the same as lowering the HIC to 700 and leaving the fall height alone. Please note that in both Canada (CSA) and the United States (ASTM) there is no maximum fall height or limit to test height. These difference have not caused a ripple in the playground industry or ownership even though Armageddon was predicted. I dare say that on a per capita basis there are more playgrounds and play opportunities available to children in Canada than the UK. As a result playing the financial disaster card, is just “hot air” and Chicken Little saying the sky is falling.
Standards, particularly those that are to prevent injury, should be embraced and applauded. In consideration of what standards should be, we do not have to go beyond the BSI website with;
Standards affect all of us, every day of our lives. Whenever we use a product or service, there’s a good chance there’s a standard to cover it, whether we’re using a washing machine, mobile phone, playground or sports stadium, driving a car, paying bills, eating in a restaurant, making a complaint…there are standards for all kinds of things. Put simply, standards make things better: safer, higher quality and easier to use. But as a consumer you don’t just benefit from existing standards. You can also help shape tomorrow’s standards
Note the inclusion of playgrounds.
The prevention of injuries in playgrounds has evolved since the 1970s. First and foremost was the prevention of death. In the 1980s there was discussion of Severity Index of 1000, the median value for survival and non-survival in simulated auto accidents. Technology allowed the introduction of the HIC, with a threshold of 1000, which Cen TR16148 has demonstrated the probability of death being 10-15%. In the meantime the tolerable injury threshold has been modified to less than death and include serious injuries including concussions that also have debilitating outcomes. Improvements in technology have allowed for cost effective testing of surfaces in the field. The ability to field test has been in place since the late 1990s and injury quantity and severity have not decrease. The voluntary application of the field test moves the public health need to mandating the test. The ability of the protective surfacing to protect is the concern and this brings with it the need to test surfaces to ensure they are compliant.
The upcoming change to En1177 to require testing of surfaces in the field is a step that fulfills the goal of standards as stated above.
EVERPLAY International Inc.
Per: Rolf Huber,
c.c Adolf Russhold, convenor, CEN TC136/SC1/WG1
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Galaxy Fold – Samsung’s folding screen smartphone release the first image. Galaxy Fold is Samsung’s first folding screen smartphone with an estimated price from 2000 to 2500 USD.
In the past, we have continuously seen images and leaked information of the Galaxy S10 trio soon to be released by Samsung. However, there is a mysterious device that we have never seen a real “face” – it is a Galaxy Fold folding smartphone.
Samsung is said to have developed a smartphone screen can be fold for a long time, and by November 2018, the company had first released the device at an event. However, at that time, Samsung’s folding screen smartphone was covered in a protective panel and no one knew how it really was.
Today, the first image is said to be Samsung’s folding screen smartphone with the name Galaxy Fold leaked. We cannot confirm whether this image is accurate or not, but based on meticulous details it looks very reliable.
Through the image, we can see the overall design of the Galaxy Fold. It is unclear whether the Galaxy Fold screen is separated by a folding table or not, but perhaps Samsung has chosen a pretty clever image to hide this part. At the bottom edge is the appearance of external speakers, voice mic and USB-C port.
Besides folding screen design, Galaxy Fold predicts to be equipped with many advanced technologies such as 5G network or 3 camera cluster like Galaxy S10 +. The price of this machine has not been disclosed, but some previous leaked sources said it could reach 2000 to 2500 USD.
At the Galaxy Unpacked event on February 20, Galaxy Fold with Galaxy S10 series will be officially launched by Samsung. We all have to wait and see the what Samsung is going to do. But the fact ca not be denied that we’re all excited.
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April 28, 2015 at 10:18 am (Ezemvelo KZNWildlife, NGOs and Conservation Bodies, Other Organisations)
Tags: Community and Municipal projects, forests and woodlands, Reptiles, wetlands, Wildlife projects and initiatives
Simangaliso’s slithering specials
Of the 36 recorded snake species known to occur in iSimangaliso Wetland Park, the beautiful Gaboon adder (Bitis gabonica) (also referred to as a Gaboon viper) is surely the most iconic one associated with the world heritage site, with iSimangaliso the largest protected refuge for Gaboon adders in southern Africa.
The Gaboon adder is one of Africa’s most recognisable snakes. It’s a sedentary species renowned for its striking geometric patterning and is the world’s heaviest Adder, nonetheless notoriously cryptic in its natural environment. Stocky and often obese in appearance, the species can attain lengths up to 2 metres, although in iSimangaliso individuals rarely exceed 1.3 metres. The disproportionately large head resembles a dead leaf, complete with a dark dorsal stripe that mimics a midvein. Among snakes, Gaboon adders have the longest fangs (max. 40 mm) and highest venom yields. Bites from Gaboon adders are medical emergencies, but the species is of docile disposition and the majority of bites occur from handling of captive individuals by snake enthusiasts. Envenomation incurs mostly cytotoxic symptoms, although toxic effects to humans are not well known, and only one human death is described in the literature.
Another of South Africa’s well-known venomous snakes, the Puff adder, is seen here on the left in comparison to the Gaboon adder on the right.
This extremely rare inhabitant recently had its numbers boosted by 26 following the release of neonates at three locations on the Eastern Shores of iSimangaliso. Born in captivity at the iSimangaliso St Lucia Crocodile and Education Centre, their release into the wild was in line with the release protocol suggested from a three year study (2005-2007) by registered researcher Jon Warner who recently completed his Master of Science thesis on the conservation biology of the species in South Africa.
According to Park CEO Andrew Zaloumis, “Jon’s Gaboon research was one of the 185 current registered research projects ongoing in the world heritage site. iSimangaliso encourages research in numerous fields in order to inform and improve our management strategies and contribute towards the creation of scientific knowledge. Jon’s finding points to the importance of maintaining the continuity and integrity of the entire iSimangaliso dune forest corridor for the protection and conservation of the Gaboon adder. A good example of how iSimangaliso is conserving high conservation value species through protecting their habitats.”
The young Gaboon adders were collected at the iSimangaliso St Lucia Crocodile and Education Centre, seen above in a container, before being released gently into thickly forested habitat on the Eastern Shores.
Although primarily a tropical species extending into equatorial Africa, their distribution is very restricted in South Africa and it is mainly confined to iSimangaliso, highlighting the importance of the Park for the future conservation of the South African population.
Researcher Jon Warner recording habitat variables and marking the exact location of the snake. The Gaboon adder, previously captured and fitted with radio-tracking device, is in the white circle.
Following the insertion of tracking devices in the belly of selected Gaboon adders, Jon was able to track and monitor their movements as part of his research.
The core area of activity averaged 6.7 hectares, with the mean male core activity centre almost five times greater than that of females. Snakes tracked (using VHF telemetry) were highly sedentary, especially during winter when individuals remained at single localities for extended periods (max. 87 days). Activity peaked for both sexes at the onset of the breeding season during March, with individuals averaging a movement distance of 598 metres.
The Gaboon adder is a terrestrial forest Adderid and its habitat preferences in iSimangaliso are strongly influenced by season, with individuals selecting open-canopied areas during cooler months. This behaviour is presumably because the forested habitat individuals utilise the rest of the year is not adequate for the species’ thermoregulatory requirements during winter. Females used slightly less shrubby microhabitats than males and “thicket” microhabitat is important for the protection, thermoregulation and food acquisition requirements of Gaboon adders in iSimangaliso.
Feeding activity of Gaboon adders varied between seasons, with individuals spending long periods of time at single localities in an ambush position, especially during summer. Snakes exhibited strong ambush site fidelity, often remaining immobile for weeks at a time. Sites where ambush behaviour was observed were frequently in close proximity (less than 1 metre) to game trails created by antelope and Gaboon adders may feed on prey as large as Red duiker (Cephalophus natalensis).
Ecological research from Jon’s study, coupled with new molecular data that shows South African and central African Gaboon adders are genetically similar, suggests the South African Gaboon adder population’s conservation status is better than what was previously assumed. However, long-term protection and management of the coastal dune forest corridor (found primarily inside iSimangaliso) is needed for a viable, local Gaboon adder population.
St Lucia residents Charne von Plaster & Leon Steyn were cycling through the Igwalagwala Trail recently when they spotted this well-fed Gaboon lying in their pathway. Visitors walking the self-guided trails in the Igwalagwala Trail and St Lucia Nature Park areas of iSimangaliso should keep a careful eye open for these snakes as they are fond of lying in a sunny patch of path or amongst fallen leaves. Several visitors have reported spotting Gaboons, wisely choosing to leave a wide berth between themselves and the snoozing snake. A sighting should be considered a rare and special privilege, and just another example of the miracles awaiting discovery in iSimangaliso.
For more information on the iSimangaliso Wetland Park, follow us on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook and Youtube, or visit our website at www.isimangaliso.com. Media enquiries should be directed to Media Officer Siyabonga Mhlongo at siyabonga@isimangaliso.com or on 084 382 0884.
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This largest of the national forests in Montana covers 3.32 million acres, and lies in eight Southwest Montana counties (Granite, Powell, Jefferson, Deer Lodge, Silver Bow, Madison, Gallatin and Beaverhead). Forest Service offices administering the National Forest are in Butte, Dillon, Philipsburg, Deer Lodge, Whitehall, Boulder, Ennis, Sheridan, Wise River, and Wisdom.
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MarvelProbe: When Pixels And Ink Meet
Posted on August 19, 2014 by bloodlinematt
Welcome back to Rotten Ink. Today I would like to talk about video games; right now on the home console market PS4 is kicking the butt of its competitors, the Nintendo WII-U and the Xbox One and with the Steam Box and even rumored Amazon Game System in the works this generation of gaming is going to be an interesting one. Most modern Triple A titles are like playing a movie as they are heavy on plots and the graphics are top notch. Games of this style would be like Assassins Creed, Halo, God of War and Legend Of Zelda. When playing a game like this, you are treated to beautiful breathtaking cut scenes that help draw you deeper and deeper into the plot. Also popular nowadays are the tiny mobile games that kids and adults play on their smart phones and tablets and most of these style games have very little plot and are quick play games that can kill boredom when waiting. Examples of these games are Planets Vs. Zombies, Minecraft and Angry Birds. But for me mobile games are just kind of bland and when I want to play a video game, I want to pop in a cart or disc and grab my controller and play. In this day and age a player does not have to use much of his or hers imagination like they did back when Atari 800 or 2600 ruled the home game market with wire thin plots and pixels that were kind of in the shape of whatever your character was suppose to be. While I am sure gamers now look at classic video games like Pac-Man, Frogger and Q*Bert as primitive, nothing could prepare them for text adventure games! Yes, in the 1980’s text based games were very popular, and while some of them had some graphics at the top of the screen, many of them did not and looked like just a bunch of words on a screen waiting for simple commands to further the “adventure” along. Think of text games like the book series called Choose Your Own Adventure where by reading and making a decision, you have your character’s fate in your hands, because let’s be honest kids want to read a bunch of text in order to play a video game….right? Text based games have been made about all types of things from Dracula to World War II but some of the most popular ones were based on Marvel Super Heroes and would you know they also made comics based on their text based adventures and that’s what our main subject will be all about! So get ready to have a text not texting good time as we jump into the world of pixels and ink.
Adventure International was an early video game company run by husband and wife Scott and Alexis Adams who specialized in making games for the home computer market like the Commodore 64 and Apple II that started in 1978. Scott Adams was a big name in the world of video games throughout the early 80’s, and he was mostly known for making top of the line text based adventure games. This helped his company lock a partnership with Marvel Comics in 1984 to make a text based game series that would focus many of their top heroes. In fact, 12 games were planned in the line as were comics that would come out alongside the games via Marvel. The first three games to come out were adventures based on The Incredible Hulk, Spider-Man and Human Torch & The Thing from the Fantastic Four. The main plot had the heroes being studded by a unknown figure called Chief Examiner who would place them in odd places and situations to see how they would react to them. But sadly Adventure International hit a financial snag and closed up shop in 1985 leaving the 4th game,which was based around the X-Men, unfinished and the remaining titles in the line canceled. While his company may have closed shop Scott Adams still continued to make computer games throughout the years and even as of 2013 made a comeback after 10 years of not creating his own game made a text game called “The Inheritance” and remains an icon of PC Gaming.
Growing up the only text based games I could remember playing were ones that my Uncle Thurman would bring to our house in Waynesville when he and my Aunt Teresa would come visit us as kids. Most of the ones he had were more like dungeon and dragons and were the strict text ones with no graphics and were all for Commodore 64. I can remember one time looking through his massive collection of games all on floppy disks and finding Dracula and asking him if we could play it but after several tries the game never did load. That’s one of the downsides to Commodore 64, it had lots of issues loading and when it was loading the time to get your game to start was very long. Imagine kids of today who already complain about the install times of modern games trying to play a full game on Commodore where you had to wait for it to not only load the game but also most of the times each level! But I will move on and over the years text games seemed like an oddity to me and captured my attention as I never could wrap my head around why gamers of the past found them to be hours of fun, and I got a reason to buy some when I started to review Video Games on my old website for my production company Bloodline Video a few years back under the name of Xmortis. So after getting a complete working Commodore 64 with the datasette reader and floppy drive from Game Swap, I looked for a text based game that I could review and it came down to one called Wolfman and the other being Questprobe: Incredible Hulk and when a cassette version of Questprobe popped up cheap on Ebay it became the lucky winner. The game is text based but does have graphics that for the time are really fun and try their hardest to look like comic book art. I have to admit playing the first few times I hated it and was so frustrated by the lame commands that I would get bored and shut the game off or even gasp! Die in the game! How could I let The Hulk, one of my favorite comic characters, die in a lame text game is what I kept thinking, but finally I hate to admit it but I used an online walk through for what commands to give him and beat the game by cheating. The review never made it up on the site, and I hope to someday get back to Bloodline’s site and return it to the review and production glory it once was. As for now how I feel about Questprobe Hulk, I hate to admit it but I do like the idea of it, mostly cause it was the first video game based on Hulk. Below is the cover box for the game as well as some screen shots for you to feast your eyes on and enjoy all the pixel goodness.
Marvel Comics had a great thing going, not only did they have characters in video games now being written by Scott Adams but they could also get a 12 issue mini series from it that would help boost the sales of the game as also the game could boost the sales of the comics. This team up was truly a time when ink meet pixels, and the team up would have been perfect if not for the game company’s sudden shut down. Marvel during this time I am sure had a tough decision to make as they could continue a comic series based on games that were no longer being made or they could do the unthinkable and just cancel the mini series and leave fans hanging on what and who Chief Examiner was and what he wanted…and Marvel did what they always do they pulled the plug and walked away from the idea and as time passed did kind of wrap up the story in Marvel Fanfare # 33 where they printed the X-Men story and later in Quasar they added in the story of Questprobe. So on this update we are only going to cover the three issues released in the original mini series and will be graded on a star scale of 1 to 4 and am looking for how well the comic stays to the source material, it’s entertainment value and it’s art and story. I want to thank the vendor at Fright Night Film Fest for having issue # in stock and Lone Star Comics for the remaining two issues. So let’s pop these comics into the datasette player and type in the load keys and enjoy pixels and ink together.
Questprobe # 1 ** 1/2
Released in 1984 Cover Price .75 Marvel Comics #1 of 3
A race of peaceful aliens are preparing for an invasion from other aliens who are war hawks and want to kill them all as well as their planet. They all turn on Durgan, a member of there council who wants to fight back and not just roll over and die. When Durgan leaves the meeting he knows that something has to be done so he dons a giant helmet and calls himself the Chief Examiner and heads to Earth to steal the powers of some of our top super heroes to use in a fight with the invading aliens. On Earth The Incredible Hulk is facing off with the National Guard and after making short work of their tanks, he heads off to find a place to sleep and does so in a cave on the side of a cannon. When entering the cave, the Hulk sees the Natter Energy Egg and the Blood Red Bio-Gem right as the two explode. This event makes The Hulk tired and he falls asleep turning back in Bruce Banner and finally getting some piece and quite. Banner’s rest is quickly cut short as Chief Examiner enters the cave and tells him that he needs to have him walk through a door portal so that he can drain his power! Banner fights back and runs from the cave but soon learns that the cave is high and he is fallen to his death! Before he hits the ground he turns into The Hulk as the Chief Examiner tries to force him to enter the door portal, The Hulk doesn’t like to be told what to do and goes on a rampage to smash the dome headed alien into the ground, during this fight a group of white water rafters are knocked over when Hulk goes under water and breaks off one of the sides of the canon and pins Chief Examiner down, but by doing so the huge rock is blocking the river and causes the rafters to fall into the raging water. The Hulk dives in and pulls out all the males and see’s that the female is stuck in a whirlpool! The only way to get to her is by jumping into the portal doorway and he does so losing some of his power yet saving a young woman’s life. The Chief Examiner leaves with his prize the stolen energy as The Hulk waits to make sure the woman is okay and to remain some energy and leaps off into the sky.
This is a fun Hulk adventure that is a cool tie in for a video game and explains the strange world that the Hulk is found in during the text based adventure Game. The plot is pretty simple and has an alien who’s planet is under attack who travels to Earth to steal powers off powerful humans so that he can use it against the attackers, the first one he targets is Hulk cause of his brute strength. He tries to force the Hulk to enter his black doorway that allows him to steal/mimic his power and only does so when he forces The Hulk to make a decision to save a woman’s life and jump through the door or let her die and avoid the door. The Hulk in this issue is the simple minded version who just wants to be left alone and knows that his brute power is the best way to keep everyone away, this is my favorite version of the Hulk as he is the one truly grew up reading and the one that made me a lifelong fan next to the TV Show. I love the fact that while The Hulk is a “monster” in the eyes of humans he risks his own safety in this comic to save the life of one of them and by the end the humans seem to have a new respect for the green skin goliath. The Chief Examiner while not a full bad guy still is going about getting help in his planets soon to be war all the wrong ways, not once does he even try to explain to the Hulk why he needs his power nor does he even tell the power house about his planets upcoming doom or asks if Hulk would come back and help. Plus it’s great when The Hulk pins Chief Examiner down with a giant stone and how easily in the alien’s mind he gave up and knew that the Hulk could kill him with one punch. The comic’s art is done by the amazing Mark Gruenwald and inked by John Romita Jr. making for one powerful team that turned in a great looking comic, and the cover is amazing and is also what’s used for the video game. So in this first issue Chief Examiner gets the power of the Hulk, and now who’s next on his hit list of stealing powers?
So in this first issue Chief Examiner gets the power of the Hulk, and now who’s next on his hit list of stealing powers? Let’s jump into issue two and see what he has planned for Spider-Man!
Questprobe # 2 **1/2
Released in 1985 Cover Price .75 Marvel Comics #2 of 12
Spider-Man is feeling a little down in the dumps as the city is hot and he has a lot on his mind as his personal life is a mess. Meanwhile in prison, Quentin Beck comes up with a plan to escape so he can don his Mysterio outfit once more and challenge Spider-Man to a final fight! While on a distant planet the peaceful aliens watch as The Black Fleet conquers another planet and is heading their way, as Durgan also known as The Chief Examiner sets his sights now on steal/borrowing the power of Spider-Man to mix with that of the Hulk he already has taken. Tuskar is a student of Durgan and wants to find his old teacher and see if he can help as it’s shown the Black Fleet really just wants the Red Bio-Gem’s cause when put together they hold massive power, and the kicker are the Gems are alive and are kind of evil! Mysterio shows up to the Daily Bugle and holds everyone hostage as Spider-Man shows up to save them and the two fight it out, all the while Mysterio is using cheap and dirty FX inspired tricks on his foe. The Chief Examiner shows up and tries to get Spidey to go through his portal but web-head thinks that Examiner is just a costume change for Mysterio as they both wear domes over their faces, in the end Spider-Man figures out they are not the same person and is forced to dive into Examiner’s portal to escape an attack by Mysterio that leaves our hero weak, and just as Mysterio is to finish off Spider-Man the Red Bio-Gem uses its power to make The Chief Examiner try and steal the power of Mysterio given Spider-Man some breath time and getting his energy back to beat Mysterio and watch as The Chief Examiner disappears.
This issue is a good one and is a fun story to break up the normal story line that was going on in the main Spider-Man comic series at the time, but I will also say that it almost feels as if the writers of this issue in this mini series didn’t talk to the ones who made issue # 1. Because now I am not 100% sure if Durgan is The Chief Examiner or if the Red Bio-Gem on his planet is, as both seem to be in control of the dome headed power stealing loony. The Chief Examiner seems to be a little more polite in this issue and less forceful in making Spider-Man get into his portal than he was with The Hulk, but in this one he seems to be almost a ghost as nothing is under the robe making me scratch my head to as how then in issue # 1 Hulk was able to pin him to the ground and make him fear for his life. I kind of am so-so with the idea of the Red Power-Gems being alive and having the Energy Eggs around them as a way to keep them in line. Yep, if the egg feels they are in danger it blows up killing the gem and it’s power. Spider-Man is as he was in the 80’s, filled with one liners and drama with girlfriends, but I wouldn’t want the web slinger any other way. Mysterio was the perfect bad guy to use in this issue as he does look a lot like The Chief Examiner making for Spider-Man to have an almost “Who’s On First” kind of moments as he jumps from room to room. We will have to see what Tuskar is all about and if he will play out as a major player in the next issue. The art is by Al Milgrom and has that 70’s style Spider-Man appeal, the cover as well is just taken from the video games cover box. One smart move they did in this issue is they ask the question want to see what happened to Spider-Man’s power once he entered the portal, cause if you do go buy the game! Over all a good issue two that sadly leads us to the final issue in what was to be a 12 issue mini series.
So The Chief Examiner has collected the powers of The Hulk and Spider-Man but can he now get the powers of members of the Fantastic Four? Lets read issue # 3 and find out!
Johnny Storm and his blind girlfriend Alicia Masters return to the Baxter Building the base of The Fantastic Four to retrieve some books but while their they get a visit from The Chief Examiner who wants Storm’s powers! Johnny Storm flames on and turns into The Human Torch just in time to fight some robots that are being controlled by The Examiner who has taken over all of the electronics in the Baxter Building. After destroying many of the robots Human Torch is sprayed with water and tuned back into Johnny Storm and he and Alicia try and escape as The Chief Examiner still is forceful that Torch goes through is portal so he can have his power! Johnny and Alicia get onto a secret elevator to try and escape and give Johnny time to dry off to become Human Torch again, meanwhile She-Hulk has returned home from grocery shopping and rushes to Johnny’s aid as The Chief Examiner forces them out of the Elevator he uses a fantasticar to try and kill She-Hulk who knocks it away and it bounces off the wall and heads towards Alicia Masters and Human Torch rushes to save her from being crushed just as The Chief Examiner places his portal in front of them tricking him into going through and stealing the power of the Human Torch and poof he’s gone and they are all safe. The Power-Gem during this time also overhears that Durgan wants the help of Tuskar to gain more superpowers and to stop the Black Fleet. The Chief Examiner then pops up onto the alien planet that The Thing is on after the events of the Secret Wars and uses a twisted version of The Baxter Building to trick him into going through the portal and stealing his power.
This third issue is good but not nearly as good as the first two issues in the series and almost seems like a filler issue that has a touch of rush feeling. The first target is The Human Torch who The Chief Examiner tricks into getting into the portal by placing it between him and Alicia who was in danger, his intent to kill She-Hulk shows that the character is really at odds with being controlled by The Power Gem who is starting to really be the main villain of the series. It’s clear that The Human Torch is the main focus hero of this issue as the second target The Thing’s brief moments at the end of the issue is kind of a waste and not nearly as interesting as all the others who have been tricked before him. Weird enough as well is the fact the main story of Durgan also seems to be a second thought in the issue, making this one that’s kind of bland to talk about so lets just go ahead and wrap it up shall we. I will also say its odd that The Chief Examiner didn’t want to try and steal the powers of She-Hulk instead his first thought is to try and kill her, I am sure her power on top of Hulks and The Things would make him even more powerful and a force to be reckoned with. This issues art is done by Ron Wilson and is clearly a Fantastic Four style art. Cover is like the game same as the others and I must say while again a fun read it was also very lackluster and lost the “epic adventure” feel that the other two issues had.
It’s truly a shame that this mini series and video game series was cut so short as they had so many more Marvel heroes that could have been made into both. Just imagine this series continuing not only with the already planned X-Men but also Captain America, Ghost Rider, Daredevil, Doctor Strange, Iron Man and Thor to name a few. I truly feel that Marvel let all the fans down of the comic mini series and the video game series by just stopping the story arch before anything was really settled. But I guess that truly was the Marvel way just stop production on series without a second thought about their fans. So next month is September, and it will be the kick off to Rotten Ink’s second Halloween update that will go up on October 31st. For those who remember last year we took a look at comics based on Hammer Horror films well this year will be a little different and something I am super happy to bring all you friends and readers. But our next update will be a secret but I will drop you a giant hint when I say he hates New York! So until then think about it, plus play a video game and read a comic or two.
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September 1, 2018 rpggods
“Fly her apart then!”
Captain’s Personal Log, Stardate 47233.1
Captain Matsumoto Sulu
USS Excelsior
Excelsior was shaking, every seal and rivet rattling as the old girl strained at Warp 9.9, the equivalent of Warp 14 back in the early days. This is faster than she would have made even if the trans-warp drive had come off, and really ran the risk of us “flying her apart!” But we needed the speed.
I didn’t do this in a rash moment, blood rushing to my head. Chief Engineer Resh and Engineer Tokhtakhounov worked out a considered plan, based on Tokhtakhounov’s skills with support from First Officer Rekan’s insights into theoretical Warp Field dynamics. As a team we tested and prepared, as a team we considered the risks, as Excelsior’s Chief Engineer Resh advised me that we could do it, and as Captain I said “let’s do it!.” And it worked: sustained Warp 9.9 for over 24 hours. What a team!
I was never much for Engineering school at the academy: quantum physics, warp dynamics and dense mathematics were too involved for me! But since I’ve been Excelsior’s Captain, with Resh’s expertise available to me, I’ve become quite the warp engine enthusiast. And this experiment, taking Excelsior faster than she’s ever been before, was a terrifying delight! She cruises comfortably at Warp 9 (that’s Warp 11.5 in old money), and can take Warp 9.6 for extended periods, if she has to (Warp 12.6 back in the day). She still surprises me, and the admiration I have for her designers and builders, and for all those engineers and mechanics who have looked after her for all these years, only increases.
I say “experiment”, but this was no fun warp engine trial. My earlier log entries cover the incident with Poseidon’s Rift, our rescue / policing mission that diverted us from tracking down this alien signal that goes ever deeper into the Shackleton Expanse.
Well, we had calculated that we would still be well ahead of the Romulans and their Warbird, IRW Devian, under the command of Captain Nurama. You can imagine my surprise when Rekan told me he’d scanned the Devian, ahead of us and travelling at Warp 9! This was new: all our intelligence about the Warbird told us they were slow compared to us, with speeds beyond Warp 8 beyond them. In our current position, and even with pressing Excelsior to her so-called maximum, Warp 9.6, they would arrive at the new source of the signal 24 hours ahead of us.
They could do a lot of damage in 24 hours.
So, we shifted to Warp 9.9 for three hours, hoping to make the Romulans push their warp engines even harder and maybe blow a gasket, but what had started as a bluff didn’t work – they didn’t slow.
So, sustained Warp 9.9 it was. And it worked: we arrived in the star system a few hours before the Romulans, Excelsior suffering no ill-effects from her exertions, even if the warp engines would need some servicing before we pushed them so hard again. We tracked the signal to a small asteroid, hollowed out but protected by a shield, before Devian fell out of warp and joined us.
It was immediately clear what they had done, and our debate over the warp capabilities of the Warbird was settled: Nurama had pushed Devian hard to keep the ship at Warp 9, and the Warbird had suffered. She was listing badly, drifting towards us, her warp core running wild and explosions rocking her badly. A quick scan revealed the depth of her trouble and showed the depths of their determination to keep ahead of us.
I hailed, offering our assistance but expecting a short rejection. I was answered by the First Officer, Andeel, Captain Nurama having suffered terrible injuries. Andeel was only too happy for our aid. He realised that without our help they were all-but doomed.
Doctor Ketsu beamed across with a triage team, and Resh with an engineering team, supported by Lieutenant Torgh and a security detail, in case of Romulan deceit. Engineer Tokhtakhounov manned the sensors, his expertise with cloaking devices helping him search for a covert threat that is an ever-present concern when dealing with the Romulans.
Ketsu reported that the Romulans had suffered 300 dead, one-fifth of their whole complement. Many were wounded, about 20 critically, including Captain Nurama. Ketsu returned to begin trauma surgery, and his skill and that of his team, allied with his extensive knowledge of Vulcan physiology (very similar to Romulan), allowed him to save Nurama’s life. In fact, every critical casualty that we beamed to Excelsior survived – again, testament to my wonderful crew.
Aboard Devian Resh first managed the radiation leaks that continued to threaten everyone, then turned to help bring the Devian’s warp engines under control. This was not easy: Romulan warp technology is based on quantum singularities, very unlike our matter-antimatter technology. But again, the expertise of my Chief Engineer and his team made quick work of the problems, and within hours the danger was behind us.
It was in the quiet after the storm that we returned our attention to the signal and the asteroid, but this time I took the chance I’d missed a few weeks ago, to propose an alliance between Excelsior and Devian, so we could join forces and search together.
This may be doubly important if the civilisation behind the signal turns out to be hostile, although I am not blind to the risk of allying with the Romulans. We can’t trust them, and yet this is possibly a unique opportunity to extend the hand of friendship to our erstwhile rivals and adversaries: one that I’m not going to ignore, even if that comes with some risk to my ship and my crew. Risk is part of the deal, as a Starfleet officer.
I’m glad to say the Romulans agreed. A joint away team managed to access the asteroid, only for the signal to drop and yet another new one appear far in the distance. The next leg of the trek beckons…
Captain’s Log, Supplemental:
One more thing: despite the desperate need to bring the Devian under control and give aid to her crew we didn’t miss the opportunity to gather some intelligence on the Romulans and their Warbird: we now know that the crew complement is about 1500, nearly double that of Excelsior; we also know that sustaining their engines at Warp 9 is far beyond the Warbird’s operating parameters; Resh learned much about their engineering set-up and their quantum singularity warp drive, and from that we will be able to deduce much more; Ketsu knows much about their medical needs; and Torgh didn’t miss the opportunity to observe Romulan security and tactical crew, their weapons and stance in the face of Federation rescuers all over their ship.
I’ve submitted a formal report of our findings to Starfleet, using priority encoded subspace channels. It may add to our body of knowledge, against the day that the Romulans, and my new friend Captain Nurama, become our mortal enemies…
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April 14, 2016 | 10.13.2014 Mr. Rylander to lecture on IP Law at Oregon Statute University in November
Mr. Rylander was honored to be asked to lecture at Oregon State University (OSU). In November 2014, he will give four 2 hour lectures on IP law to students in the OSU business department.
April 14, 2016 | 2.25.2015 Mr. Rylander to lecture at WSU Vancouver Business Department on Negotiation and the Law
WSU Vancouver’s College of Business has again invited Kurt Rylander to lecture on Negotiation and the Law. Mr. Rylander has given the annual lecture for the last 10 years and is always excited to instruct, work with, and listen to a new generation of business people. The lecture is given as part of Professor Thomas Tripp‘s class on Negotiation. The lecture is scheduled for March 24, 2015.
April 14, 2016 | 6.27.2013 Kurt speaks at the Keiretsu Forum Capital Access Series on IP Law
April 14, 2016 | 3.22.2013 Kurt is featured “Up Close and Personal” by the Vancouver Business Journal
Kurt Rylander Up Close
April 14, 2016 | 3.28.2013 Kurt interviewed on the status of patent law
March 28, 2013, the Vancouver Business Journal published the article “Checking the pulse of business law” including a section on an interview with Kurt on the current state of patent and intellectual property law.
http://www.vbjusa.com/focus-sections/law/9040-checking-the-pulse-of-business-law
April 14, 2016 | Clauses I Heart
[vimeo]https://vimeo.com/57558923[/vimeo]
April 14, 2016 | 8.20.2013 Kurt speaks to Graphic Design Class at Clark College
April 14, 2016 | 4.19.2013 Mr. Rylander’s article “Inconceivable!” published in Vancouver Business Journal
On April 19, 2013, Mr. Rylander’s article “Inconceivable!” on use and misuse of NonDisclosure Agreements (NDAs) by innovators and companies was published in the Vancouver Business Journal.
http://www.vbjusa.com/focus-sections/innovation-manufacturing/innovation-manufacturing-column/9101-inconceivable
April 14, 2016 | 10.24.2012 Rylander & Associates present two IP Academies, at PSU and WSU
Rylander & Associates PC, in conjunction with the Keiretsu Forum NW, presents two IP Academies on October 24, 2012, one at the PSU Business Accelerator and one at WSU Vancouver, for investors and business people. The academies cover the new patent law, trademarks, copyrights, trade secrets, and general tips and pragmatic considerations for the start up and growing company.
See K4-Academy-Portland – IP
And K4-Academy-Vancouver
April 14, 2016 | IP Title is Everything
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Anthology Poetry
The Footing (ed. Brian Lewis)
January 9, 2014 Editor Andrew Hirst, Angelina Ayers, Bill Griffiths, Billy Mills, Chris Jones, Cornwall, Emma Lavinia Gifford, Fay Musselwhite, James Caruth, Longbarrow Press, Mark Goodwin, psychogeography, Richard Marsden, Rivelin, Rob Hindle, Samuel Holberry, Sheffield, Thomas Hardy
-Reviewed by Billy Mills–
To walk is to establish a rhythm, a human rhythm, the systole and diastole of feet on the earth. To walk with attention is to be in the world of immediate physical perception, to experience the world at your own pace. It’s not hard to see why walking has long been a favourite trope for poets, one that had currency long before the recent popularity of Psychogeography and that seems certain to outlast it.
In The Footing, Brian Lewis has brought together poems by seven poets whose engagement with the relationship between writing and walking is central to their work. The poetry in the anthology is not unified by any other artistic factor; there is no particular shared aesthetic and the seven writers do not appear to constitute a movement of any sort. The one other connection is that six of them live in Sheffield and their walking centres around that city.
The first section of the anthology is Tithes, a sequence of ten poems by James Caruth that concern themselves with the marginal and with war and how these two themes can overlap. The first poem is set in Stannington, a parish on the edge of the city of Sheffield and ends in the city itself. Images of the liminal abound; these include both physical boundaries like ‘stone walls’ and ‘borders’ and more intangible edgelands such as a war memorial and a Quaker graveyard.
The opening line of ‘Stannington’ sets the tone for the second major theme:
Twenty-five years a foot-soldier
pensioned to this high scrape
of heather and bracken
Two poems later, ‘he’ visits a war memorial carrying a tithe of familiar names before going home to watch the arrival of the latest coffin from Helmand on the TV news. There is even an echo of the WWI poets in ‘Close of Play’, when the narrator imagines
…lithe ghosts
throw down their caps to chase hope
all the way to a white picket fence.
The restlessness of the earlier poems in the sequence begins to find some sort of resolution in the final two. In ‘A Stone’ the speaker marks the possibility of carving out ‘our own small space’ in the marginal hills around the city, while in Nocturne the city itself becomes an enactment of civic order as in the night ‘A town hall clock chimes the hour.’
Caruth’s rhythm is patient and meditative, and his poems move with a quiet grace.
Chris Jones’ Death and the Gallant is a narrative sequence consisting of ten sonnets which tells the story of a pair of mercenary iconoclasts in Reformation England, Brown, apparently the head man, and an unnamed narrator. The make for an unlikely pair of religious reformers. Brown is a womaniser and is quick to take any physical comfort he can find, for instance abandoning walking for horseback at the first opportunity. The narrator’s sins are less evident, but more dangerous; he is both cataloguing and attempting to protect many of the works of religious art he is tasked with destroying.
The walking in these poems is hard work, the narrator picks his verbs carefully: ‘wade’, ‘trudge’, ‘trail’ and ‘haul’ are all used to describe his progress. However, the handling of the verse is deft and thoughtful, and the sonnet form reflects the episodic nature of the story well.
In the penultimate poem of the sequence the narrator achieves a kind of vision of an older order, the world the Reformation threatens with extinction:
The woods are free with spirits, faeries, elves:
they moth my thoughts now dawn makes light of me.
I bless my boots to find such company
plagued as such sprites are to bide amongst themselves
in dank and dappled corners of the realm.
It’s enough to convince the old man to take matters into his own hands and put an end to Brown’s depredations once and for all.
Angelina Ayers contributes a set of four poems under the title The Straits. These poems circle round the river Don as it passes through the city. In an essay, Ayers discussed the autumnal tone of these poems and her concern with matching linear and cyclical time as reflected in human life on the one hand and seasonal recurrence on the other.
This is a poetry of specifics clearly observed, as when the poet is walking down to the river at night:
luxury-model mobility scooters –
a yellow wagtail grubbing
in the tipped up crack willow,
margherita box greaseproof lining
and empty twenty Benson.
In the second poem in the sequence, ‘Ball Street Bridge’, she watches mallard standing in the water flowing over a wear and thinks ‘I want to learn//this knack of standing still.’ In ‘Stone Walls and Snowgates’, the last poem of the set, she sees her wish exemplified in the figure of an angler standing in the river waiting for a bite. This is walking in search of a dynamic stillness.
Mark Goodwin’s From a St Juliot to Beyond a Beeny is a work extracted from a longer sequence that maps a walk in the north of Cornwall. The mapping is almost literal, given that Goodwin provides OS map references for each of the nine sections of the poem, each one marking a kilometre of the walk itself. St Juliot is the parish where Thomas Hardy met Emma Lavinia Gifford, his future wife, in 1870. After Emma’s death, Hardy wrote a number of poems that celebrate the same landscape that Goodwin walks through here.
Goodwin’s short, heavily alliterative lines remind me of Bill Griffiths, and perhaps stem from a common interest in Anglo Saxon prosody.
continuous part
as a valley-bottom
begins to broaden
our boots chlink
on slate-scree
coppice-clumps
of young hazel
It’s a measured rhythm for a walk on rough terrain and for what is essentially a slow-burning love poem. By ‘Kilometre Seven’, the poet and his walking companion have kissed and form ‘an I & we & you’.
The four poems that constitute Fay Musselwhite’s Breach sequence follow the course of another Sheffield river, the Rivelin. These are poems of blockage and flow, and the walker is as likely to be in as beside the water. Musselwhite is immersed, bringing home great lumps of granite or working to clear debris from the swollen stream, ‘freeing the bottleneck’. At times, the river and the congestion is in her, working towards clearance, towards utterance, and the language enacts this effort.
Snagged in rock at a weir’s head, a dog-leg
of thorn-rusted twig, hoar coated
in feathers like bleached iron filings, clings
to robin-red hips hard-glazed
in the current’s breath.
The opening line of Andrew Hirst’s Three Night Walks sets the basis for what follows: ‘They say I’m a poet of the city’. In walks I and II, Hirst wanders the city at night both physically and in memory, memories of teen walks, encounters with would-be muggers, lost love and early stirrings into poetry. The third walk takes him out of the urban and into the rural, where his awareness of his not belonging is both foregrounded and accepted as necessary:
I don’t know where I am nor where
any of this is leading, but feeling my way over
the density or lightness of things I do not have
to think of memory very much
of foxhole, shattered meadow, oak’s bare branches.
He returns to the city, late at night to ‘begin to draw the future from memory’; a future of more loss as the poem closes with an image of faded friendship. These are slow, steady poems in which walking takes on a meditative quality.
The anthology closes with Rob Hindle’s Flights and Traverses, a set of five one-way walks that trace past itineraries: an ancestor of the poet’s personal participation in the 18th century flight from the land; the funeral procession of Samuel Holberry, chartist; the flight of members of a 1920s’ gang after a murder; the short trip from his granduncle’s family home to the hospital where he died and the line of flight of the first German air attack on Sheffield in December 1940. Hindle has provided useful notes on the cartographic aspects of these poems, so I will not comment on that here. Instead I want to briefly discuss the way in which the sequence is constructed around two axes; past/now and personal/public.
All five poems contain present and past journeys along the given traverse. Attercliffe to the General Cemetery, midsummer 1842, for example, is divided into six numbered sections, in each of which a verse part about Holberry’s funeral is followed by a prose paragraph reflecting the walk as it is now.
Equally, the sections concerning members of Hindle’s family focus on the personal in history. Richard Marsden’s 1782 walk enacts a social change that affected English society profoundly and irrevocably and the words given him by the poet could have been spoken by most of his generation:
Far as I can.
When will you get there?
Evening.
Where have you come from?
Over the moor?
Will you return?
Hindle’s poems are perhaps the most interesting in The Footing, and given the overall quality of the book, that’s quite an achievement.
The Footing is a handsome hardback clearly printed on decent quality paper. The combination of this high-quality physical production with the range of online resources available on the book’s blog make it a very interesting experiment in the kind of analogue/digital blend that may represent the future of poetry publishing. It is the best anthology of new work that I’ve read in years; anyone with an interest in contemporary British poetry should read it.
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mark goodwin . gone ground
I’m commenting because I can’t resist, and wish to point out a ‘creative mistake’ made by Billy Mills, in this attentive, and generous review. The ‘creative mistake’ is a misquote … but I’m very pleased by it because the poet reviewer’s sub-conscious has created an intriguing and illuminating expression by transforming the word ‘contour’ into ‘continuous’. (There is of course the chance that it wasn’t Billy Mills who made this ‘typo’, but I hope it was!) The map has been slightly (or massively?) misinterpreted, or re-interpreted. The lines I first wrote were: ‘on paper / contours part’. Billy Mills has re-created this into: ‘on paper / continuous part’. I really like the juxtaposition of ‘contiguous’ and ‘partial’ that he has discovered – which has much to do with the notions and imaginative and physical actions of mapping and navigation. At the end of ‘my’ section of the review, Mills focuses on a line that attempts to express wholeness comprised of parts … and I’m wondering if he has read the ‘contours’ on the map to gain a ‘continuous’ location … ? This is what I love about poetry … you can never tell what a creative reader is going to do! In this case I’m grateful for this ‘re-viewing’ creative-reader’s ‘mistake’ – it augments the poem.
Billy Mills
It was my mistake entirely, Mark, and like you I’m just a little bit pleased with it. I’m glad you like the review; the attention and generosity was elicited by the poetry.
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Romans de Sancta Enimia
The Old Occitan life of Saint Enimia
obrienatrix paratext November 5, 2018 November 5, 2018 3 Minutes
This modern English version is, I hope, going to read like a modern English text. My own English may be a little odd because I’m bilingual (English/French), my English isn’t English (Scottish, Irish, Northern Irish), and I grew up abroad (Belgium). But the resulting text should, if I’ve done it properly, read more or less like English, with as little interference as possible from the intermediate translation and without looking artificially antiquated.
One of the best and shortest discussions of translation, by active practitioners, is by Frances Freeman Paden and William D. Paden in their preface to their collection Troubadour Poems from the South of France (Cambridge: Boydell & Brewer, 2007): viii-x.
Here is the Limoges casket to which they refer (British Museum):
“On the casket the bird’s flight is circular; at the end of the story it is poised for flight, signaling that the narrative may begin again.”
En une piece de samit
a or brusdé e tut escrit
a l’oiselet envolupé […]
Un vaisselet a fet forgier.
Unkes n’i ot fer ne acier
tuz fu d’or fin od bones pieres
mult preciüses e mult chieres
covercle i ot tresbien asis.
L’aüstic aveit dedenz mis
puis fist la chasse enseeler,
tutz jurs l’a faite od lui porter
—Marie de France, Lai du Laüstic, ll. 135-37, 149-56.
“She wrapped the little bird in a piece of samite, embroidered in gold and covered in designs. […] He had a small vessel prepared, not of iron or steel, but of pure gold with fine stones, very precious and valuable. On it he carefully placed a lid and put the nightingale in it. Then he had the casket sealed and carried it with him at all times.”
—Glyn S. Burgess and Keith Busby translation (London: Penguin, 1986).
Like in the contemporary late 12th-century Anglo-Norman analogue above, we have a bird that is messenger and message and that metamorphoses along the way; and perhaps afterwards too, who knows what our casket that’s now in the British Museum originally contained: a bird enshrouded in fine silk on which a story had been embroidered (in words, in images, literally and literarily, or figuratively and allusively) in gold? Translation is that magic of metamorphosis which no-one should see in live action (and live, or live unchanged and unpunished, if Ovid’s Metamorphoses are any guide); and while what it makes should feel like a complete finished smooth work in and of itself, it would be a hubristic conceit to conceive of that as a new work; it is at best a renovation and an innovation, and inescapably haunted by ghosts of all intermediate versions.
Repeating decorative motifs weave the casket together as an aesthetic whole while guiding its reading, including its use as a functional object: lines and interlace, vegetation, rosettes, quatrefoils, borders, strapwork and straps, hinges. Birds reappear and seem to change shape and kind, from bird of prey to song-bird, and to shape-shift by way of the entangling vegetation; turning into flowers, into increasingly abstracted shapes and simplified lines, curving their way around the casket, and making their way into anyone who touches them.
Our ghost doesn’t accept death or silence, and refuses to be reduced to a crumbling corpse and then to nothingness.
The British Museum curator also comments:
“There has been considerable discussion about the identity and purpose of the mysterious black figure on the front of the casket.”
Once upon a time, there was a bird who died.
He’d had a rich exciting life, but it all seemed like a distant foggy dream from which he was waking up. Every moment in this new existence was full of change as he saw parts of himself dessicate, peel away, and reveal new structures and selves underneath that he had had no idea were there. Freed from the distracting obligations of his old life, he could focus on the ever-evolving wonder that was himself.
And so he crumbled away into dust.
One day, his world went dark and he felt a rhythmical shaking. It reminded him of his singing days long ago. He tried to join in, but he didn’t have a voice any more so he had to invent something that felt like it. Dancing! When the light reappeared, he assembled his motes into a murmuration and danced towards it. That is how he found the lock, and a way to find out what was outside and around him; with the added delight of battling a dread jealous guardian every time. He still also enjoyed relaxing quietly in his resting-place, and so he would come and go, leaving some of his dark dustiness around the lock on his way back, stuck to the oiliness left by human hands when they unlocked his casket.
Sometimes a lucky thumb, fumbling to find the lock, gets smudged with some of his dust.
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‘Dragged 100 yards’ 21 year female driver arrested in Redondo Beach Hit and Run
Pictured, California woman, Lelia Gonzalez involved in the fatal hit and run crash of pedestrian, Angelina Calderon Pinedo. Police bookings.
California woman, Lelia Gonzalez arrested in the hit and run crash victim, Angelina Calderon Pinedo who was dragged 100 yards and left to die.
A 21-year-old California woman has been arrested after allegedly fleeing the scene of a hit and run crash that killed a college student as she was walking with her two older sisters Saturday night.
Leila Gonzalez of Bell, admitted she was driving the car that killed 21-year-old Angelina Calderon Pinedo in Redondo Beach, police said.
The student was crossing the street on a crosswalk in the 1600 block of Aviation Boulevard near Grant Avenue at around 9pm when a black Audi Q5 SUV mowed her down and sped off, according to the Redondo Beach Police Department.
Witnesses told KTLA that Pinedo was dragged several hundred feet and that at one point, the driver of the Audio briefly emerged from the vehicle, only to get back in and drive off without helping the victim.
She was pronounced dead from her injuries at the scene. Two of Pinedo’s five older siblings were with her when the fatal crash occurred.
Angelina Calderon Pinedo remembered:
Police said they located the vehicle involved in the crash on Sunday morning in a residential area located a short distance away from the collision scene.
Gonzalez was booked into the Redondo Beach jail on a felony hit-and-run resulting in injury/death charge, with bail set at $50,000.
She’s due back in court on Wednesday, January 30.
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Michelle was walking a few steps ahead and Angelina was on a crosswalk with her other sister Martha when the SUV struck the college student.
‘My baby sister had the most amazing soul, and I wouldn’t be surprised if she were here telling me to forgive that person,’ said Martha.
A GoFundMe campaign has been launched to help the Pinedo family with Angelina’s final expenses with a target of $20,000.
Police are still investigating, and anyone with information about is asked to contact Clint Daniel by calling 310-379-2477, ext. 2721, or via email at clint.daniel@Redondo.org.
Anonymous tips can also be submitted through L.A. Regional Crime Stoppers by dialing 800-222-8477.
Hit and run victim, Angelina Calderon Pinedo
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Significant controversy surrounds the issuance of legal opinions in structured finance transactions, particularly where accountants separately use these opinions, beyond their traditional primary use, for determining whether to characterize the transactions as debt. Reflecting at its core the unresolved boundaries between public and private in financial transactions, this controversy raises important issues of first impression: To what extent, for example, should lawyers be able to issue legal opinions that create negative externalities? Furthermore, what should differentiate the roles of lawyers and accountants in disclosing information to investors? Resolution of these issues not only helps to demystify the mystique, and untangle the morass, of legal-opinion giving but also affects the very viability of the securitization industry, which dominates American, and increasingly global, financing.
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TSX-V: SCLT
Bootleg Lake, SK
Munro Warden, ON
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New York Canyon, NV
Searchlight Resources Acquires 51% of Bootleg Lake Gold and VMS Project
TSX Venture Exchange approves Bootleg Option Amendment
Searchlight now holds 51% interest in Bootleg Lake Project
Updated Map of Diamond Projects Right of First Refusal Area
Vancouver, British Columbia, November 20, 2018 - Searchlight Resources Inc. (“Searchlight” or the “Company”) (TSX-V: SRCH) is pleased to announce that the TSX Venture Exchange (the "TSXV") has accepted the option amendment agreement ("Amendment") with New Moon Minerals Corp. ("New Moon") for the Bootleg Lake Gold and VMS project (“Bootleg Lake”). The Amendment allows Searchlight to accelerate the payments and work commitments to earn a 51% interest by making a payment of its common shares. Bootleg Lake is located near Creighton, Saskatchewan, five kilometres southwest of the city of Flin Flon, Manitoba.
The Amendment replaces the original payment of $50,000 and 166,667 shares due June 30th, 2019 with a payment by Searchlight of 1,425,000 shares. This completes the obligations for Searchlight to earn a 51% interest in Bootleg Lake. The full terms of the Amendment are outlined in the Company’s press release of October 16, 2018 at:
https://searchlightresources.com/news/2018/searchlight-resources-earns-51-interest-in-bootleg-lake-option/ .
Stephen Wallace, President and CEO of Searchlight stated: “Our new majority interest in Bootleg gives direct value to Searchlight shareholders. This allows Searchlight to progress to the next phase of exploration, including reopening historic underground workings, and provides security in our long-term ownership of this highly-prospective project.”
Update on Diamond Projects Right of First Refusal.
In the Searchlight press release of October 4th, 2018, the Company announced that Diamond Projects Inc. (“Diamond”) granted Searchlight a Right of First Refusal (“RoFR”) for Diamond’s mineral claims on NTS Map Sheet 63L and the portion of NTS Map Sheet 63K located in Saskatchewan. The RoFR provides that any additional claims optioned by Searchlight will be under the same terms as previously disclosed the option agreement with Diamond. The RoFR extends to all 100% held Diamond claims in this area except for two claim areas being explored and advanced by Diamond. See Searchlight’s press release at:
https://searchlightresources.com/news/2018/searchlight-resources-options-4-claims-in-saskatchewan-from-diamond-projects/ .
The map below provides information on the location of the approximate 340,000 hectares of Diamond claim areas within NTS Map Sheets 63L and 63K. At present, Searchlight is reviewing these claims for geological targets that fit the Company’s exploration plans.
Stephen Wallace, President and CEO of Searchlight said: “This is an important opportunity for Searchlight, allowing our team to review, select and option quality exploration targets within the Flin Flon Greenstone belt with no cash or share option payments, leaving the Company to put cash into exploration”
Searchlight Resources and Diamond Projects claims with within NTS map sheets 63L and 63K
Stephen Wallace, P.Geo., is Searchlight's Qualified Person within the meaning of National Instrument 43-101 (“NI 43-101”) and has reviewed and approved the technical information contained in this news release.
About Searchlight Resources Inc.
Searchlight is a mineral exploration and development company listed on the TSXV. The Company is active with mineral exploration projects in Saskatchewan, Ontario and Nevada, which are consistently ranked by the Fraser Institute as three of the top seven jurisdictions in the world for mining investment. The Company holds a portfolio of gold, cobalt and base metal projects from grassroots stage to advanced exploration and NI 43-101 resource development.
Saskatchewan, Canada – Gold and Base Metals
Bootleg Lake consists of 16,900 hectares of claims in Saskatchewan covering prospective areas of the Flin Flon Greenstone belt. Exploration is being carried out at the past- producing Newcor, Rio (Bootleg) and Henning Maloney Gold mines located approximately 5 kilometres from Creighton Saskatchewan, and less than 10 kilometres from the 777 mine in Flin Flon, Manitoba, owned by Hudbay Minerals Inc. (“Hudbay”) (TSX: HBM).
In addition, Bootleg Lake has claims with potential for Volcanogenic Massive Sulphide (“VMS”) base metal mineralization adjacent to Hudbay’s claims that host the currently producing 777 base metal and gold mine in Flin Flon, and four past-producing base metal mines; Flexar, Birch Lake, Amisk and Coronation.
Ontario, Canada – Copper, Cobalt, Nickel & Gold
The Munro Warden project is an early stage exploration prospect targeting VMS copper, nickel and cobalt within the Kidd- Munro assemblage of the Abitibi Greenstone Belt. The project covers 1,100 hectares, including 9 mining lease and 11 claim blocks located approximately 90 kilometres east of Timmins, Ontario.
The Cameron project is a grassroots cobalt, gold exploration prospect located 25 kilometres southwest of Cobalt, Ontario within the highly prospective Cobalt Embayment.
Nevada, USA – Copper
Searchlight’s New York Canyon project hosts two copper deposits in the Walker Lane Structural Belt located in western Nevada; the Long Shot Ridge skarn deposit with a 2010 NI 43-101 resource estimate and the Copper Queen porphyry deposit drilled by Conco in the 1970’s.
On behalf of the Board of Directors,
“Stephen Wallace”
SEARCHLIGHT RESOURCES INC.
Stephen Wallace, President, CEO and Director
info@searchlightresources.com
Information set forth in this news release contains forward-looking statements that are based on assumptions as of the date of this news release. These statements reflect management’s current estimates, beliefs, intentions and expectations. They are not guarantees of future performance. The Company cautions that all forward looking statements are inherently uncertain and that actual performance may be affected by a number of material factors, many of which are beyond the Company’s control. Such factors include, among other things: risks and uncertainties relating to the Company’s limited operating history and the need to comply with environmental and governmental regulations. Accordingly, actual and future events, conditions and results may differ materially from the estimates, beliefs, intentions and expectations expressed or implied in the forward-looking information. Except as required under applicable securities legislation, the Company undertakes no obligation to publicly update or revise forward-looking information.
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The Impact Of War
Lauren Rae (left) and Olivia Marlow look at the ornaments in the Grand Foyer during the first viewing of the White House 2012 holiday decorations in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday. This year's theme is "Joy to All." Jim Watson/AFP/Getty Images hide caption
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White House Holiday Spirit A 'Joy To All'
November 30, 2012 The bows are tied, the garlands are hung, and the White House is aglow. The decorations were handled with care by volunteers from all over the country, and this week, first lady Michelle Obama showed them off to military families.
After Hurricane Sandy, the town of Madison, N.J., which runs its own power utility, had electricity restored long before its neighbors. Friscocali/via Flickr hide caption
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Superstorm Sandy: Before, During And Beyond
After Sandy Outages, A Tale Of Two Utilities
November 30, 2012 Residents of Summit, N.J., waited weeks for the power to return after Superstorm Sandy. That's in stark contrast to the nearby town of Madison, where the lights were on in just a few days. Madison owns its own utility company — and after its shining performance, Summit is weighing the idea, too.
2012 Election The Most Expensive In History
November 30, 2012 Robert Siegel talks to <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/decision2012/private-consultants-see-huge-election-profits/2012/11/10/edaab580-29d8-11e2-96b6-8e6a7524553f_story.html">Tom Hamburger</a> of The Washington Post, and <a href="http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-campaign-payday-20121027,0,6084625.story">Melanie Mason</a> of The Los Angeles Times about how much money campaign consultants made from the presidential election this year.
DOJ Sues Gallup For Overcharging On Contracts
November 30, 2012 The Justice Department has accused the Gallup Organization of cheating federal agencies out of millions of dollars by inflating the price of federal contracts. Gallup says in a statement that the case is "based on false allegations of a former disgruntled employee."
U.N. Ambassador Rice Not The Typical Diplomat
November 30, 2012 U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice has come under attack from all sides in her bid to replace Hillary Clinton as Secretary of State. We take look at Rice's record and why her critics seem to be growing in numbers.
Far From Mexico, Students Try Saving Aztec Language
November 30, 2012 The descendant of the ancient Aztec language is one of many endangered indigenous languages. Although there may still be a million speakers of Nahuatl, it is not being transmitted to a new generation. But there is an attempt to revive Nahuatl in New York City, and students eager to connect to their heritage are taking classes.
Boehner: Fiscal Cliff Negotiations At A 'Stalemate'
November 30, 2012 President Obama traveled to the the Philadelphia suburbs on Friday. He visited the maker of Tinker Toys and talked about the impact of tax hikes on consumers this Christmas season.
Committe Chairman John Kerry , D-MA, speaks during the Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on the nomination of Robert Beecroft to be ambassador to Iraq Sept. 19 in the Dirksen Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC. Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty Images hide caption
Kerry: In The Shadow Of Rice's Firestorm
November 30, 2012 The fight over U.S. Ambassador Susan Rice's potential nomination for secretary of state has left Sen. John Kerry in an odd spot because he could be up for the Cabinet post, too. Once a vocal defender of Rice, Kerry has kept quiet lately.
What Obamacare Means For Patients--And Their Docs
November 30, 2012 House Speaker John Boehner said it himself: "Obamacare is the law of the land." But what does that mean for patients--and their doctors and nurses? Ira Flatow and guests map out the road ahead for the Affordable Care Act, and when insurance exchanges, employer rewards for exercise and other features of the law take effect.
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Booches' Famous Burgers Seek New Buns After Hostess Plant Closes
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November 30, 2012 It's not just Twinkie hoarders and Ding Dong lovers that feel the pain of the Hostess factory closings. For the first time in about 40 years, Booches Billiard Hall in Columbia, Mo. has to go elsewhere to source the buns for its famous burgers. Regulars say they are adapting to the change.
Pigtails For Peace
November 30, 2012 Maisie Kate Miller regularly wore pigtails to her Massachusetts high school, but her hairstyle made her a target for a bully. Miller asked friends on Facebook to wear pigtails in solidarity. When word got out, she turned into a national anti-bullying crusader. Maisie Kate Miller talks about her "Pigtails 4 Peace" protest with host Michel Martin.
What Allen West And Abraham Lincoln Have In Common
November 30, 2012 U.S. Rep. Allen West came to Washington as part of the 2010 wave of Tea Party-backed candidates. He became known as aggressive and outspoken, but his tenure in Congress was short-lived. He recently conceded a close race for Florida's 18th District. West sits down with host Michel Martin to reflect on his term and his outlook for the future.
A Powerball lottery ticket sits in the machine at the 4 Sons Food Store and Chevron gas station which sold one of two winning Powerball lottery tickets in Fountain Hills, Ariz. Joshua Lott /Reuters /Landov hide caption
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For Powerball-Winning Family: A Trip To The Beach And Maybe A Horse
November 30, 2012 Each of the two winning tickets is worth about $192.5 million if the "cash option" is chosen. One was sold in Missouri, the other in Arizona. The Missouri family that bought one of the winners has some plans for the windfall.
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Train Derails Near Philadelphia, Some Chemicals Reportedly Spilled
November 30, 2012 A bridge collapse sent at least four tank cars into a creek. They reportedly contain vinyl chloride and at least one of the cars is reportedly leaking. Residents have been told to stay inside and roads to the area have been closed.
Senate Committee OKs Electronic Privacy Measure
November 30, 2012 The Senate Judiciary Committee voted Thursday to make it a little harder for police to read people's old emails. It's something privacy groups and tech companies have wanted for years, but law enforcement groups are less pleased.
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Home Fiction Mystery In at the Death
In at the Death
By: Francis Duncan
Available: AS, GU, MP, PH, PR, US, VI
When murder is afoot, nothing is as it seems
Mordecai Tremaine and Chief Inspector Jonathan Boyce rarely allow a promising game of chess to be interrupted — though when
Mordecai Tremaine and Chief Inspector Jonathan Boyce rarely allow a promising game of chess to be interrupted — though when murder is the disrupting force, they are persuaded to make an exception. After a quick stop at Scotland Yard to collect any detective’s most trusted piece of equipment — the murder bag — the pair are spirited away to Bridgton.
No sooner have they arrived than it becomes clear that the city harbors more than its fair share of passions and motives…and one question echoes loudly throughout the cobbled streets: why did Dr. Hardene, the local GP of impeccable reputation, bring a revolver with him on a routine visit to a patient?
Perfect for fans of Agatha Christie and Margery Allingham’s classic mysteries, Mordecai Tremaine’s latest excursion into crime detection convinces him that, when it comes to murder, nothing can be assumed…
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Home Fiction Romance Paranormal Romance Dark Paranormal Untamed
By: Sara Humphreys
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The Amoveo are an ancient race who’ve lived secretly among humans for thousands of years. They are beautiful and incredibly strong but their race is extremely fragile—each has until the age of 30...
The Amoveo are an ancient race who’ve lived secretly among humans for thousands of years. They are beautiful and incredibly strong but their race is extremely fragile—each has until the age of 30 to find their soul mate, before their bodies start to die a slow, painful death. Layla Nickelsen has spent her life running from a mate she didn’t choose, until William Fleury finally confronts her. Normally stoic and unemotional, William finds himself befuddled by Layla: his growing feelings for her and his driving need to protect her. And Layla has to admit that William might be everything she’s always wanted after all...
Why wouldn’t her legs go any faster? Her lungs burned with effort, and sweat dripped down her back as she stumbled blindly through the fog-laden woods. He was right be
Why wouldn’t her legs go any faster? Her lungs burned with effort, and sweat dripped down her back as she stumbled blindly through the fog-laden woods. He was right behind her. Always. His energy signature, the spiritual fingerprint that was so distinctly his, rolled around her in the mists. Behind her. Above her. In front of her.
He was everywhere.
His energy enveloped her, but still—she couldn’t see him.
Layla’s breath came in heavy, labored gasps, and a bare branch caught in her long, curly red hair as she tripped over a log. She pulled the tangled strands away, swore softly, and ducked behind the trunk of a giant old elm tree. Layla pressed herself up against it, praying he wouldn’t see her. In response to her silent plea, the fog in the dream realm thickened and provided additional shelter from her relentless hunter.
She’d been able to avoid him so far, but tonight it felt as if he was dreadfully close to finding her—and claiming her. His powerful energy swamped her and stole from her lungs what little breath she had left. She squeezed her eyes shut and prayed that the tree and the fog would swallow her up. Could she do that? Could she control the environment of the dream that much? Just as she was about to try, an unfamiliar voice tumbled around her.
Why do you run from me? The smooth, deep baritone flooded her mind and filled every ounce of her being in a shockingly intimate way. The sharp pang of desire zipped through her and made her breasts tingle. The sudden onslaught caught her off guard and had her head spinning.
Layla froze.
He’d never spoken to her before. She could barely hear him above the rapid pounding of her heart and wondered for a moment if she’d imagined it.
You did not imagine it. His voice had become irritatingly calm. Please answer my question. Why do you run away from me? That distinctly male voice rumbled through her. It reverberated in her chest just like the deep bass beat of one of her favorite songs. Why are you afraid of me? Amusement laced his voice and floated around her in the fog.
That did it. Now she was pissed. He was laughing at her? First he haunts her sleep every night for the past two weeks, and now he’s making fun of her? Oh, hell no! Layla’s eyes snapped open, and she expected to find him—whoever he was—standing right in front of her. However, she was met only with the thick fog she’d created.
I’m not afraid of you. She placed her hands on her hips and looked around at the swirling mist. Layla tilted her chin defiantly. I just don’t want anything to do with you. So why don’t you piss off!
Rich, deep laughter floated softly around her. You make it sound as if there is a choice in the matter.
You bet your bossy ass there is. Layla shouted boldly into the gray abyss. I decide my fate. Me. Layla Nickelsen. She pointed at her chest with her thumb. Me. Not you or anybody else.
She waited. The beautiful sound of silence encircled her. Was he gone? She sharpened her focus and found him quickly. No. His energy still permeated the dream but had lessened. He had backed off? Interesting.
Layla stepped away from the tree, and the fog retreated in response. She steadied her breathing as her heartbeat slowed to a normal pace. A victorious look came over her face as she found herself gaining control. She pushed her hair off her face and watched the familiar woods where she had grown up come slowly into focus. A satisfied smile curved her lips; she nodded and made a hoot of triumph. Fate can kiss my ass.
The words had barely left her mouth when two strong arms slipped around her waist and pulled her against a very tall, hard, and most definitely male body. Stunned and uncertain of what else he might do, Layla stayed completely still and glanced down to discover that her hands rested on two much larger ones. She could feel his heartbeat against her back as it thundered in his chest and thumped in perfect time with hers.
He dipped his head, and warm, firm lips pressed an unexpectedly tender kiss along the edge of her ear. Luminous heat flashed through her with astonishing speed, making her breasts feel heavy, and sending a rush of heat between her legs. It took every ounce of self-control to keep from sinking back into his strong, seductive embrace. Her body’s swift reaction was positively mortifying. She shivered, bit her lower lip, and fought the urge to turn around and kiss him. Why, and how, could she be turned on like this? Layla stiffened with disgust at her lack of self-control and her body’s obvious attraction to his.
You cannot outrun your destiny. His surprisingly seductive voice dipped low, and his breath puffed tantalizingly along the exposed skin of her neck. She closed her eyes and tried to fight the erotic sensations, but it was like trying to stop the tide as it throbbed through her relentlessly. And for future reference, Firefly, the only one kissing your ass—or anything else on your beautiful body—will be me. He released her from the confines of his embrace and disappeared with the mist.
The shrill ring of the motel’s wake-up call tore her from sleep. Without even looking, Layla picked up the receiver and slammed it down harder than necessary. For the first time in a long time, she hadn’t wanted her dream to end. That was a switch. She pushed herself up onto her elbows and blew the bed-head hair out of her face. She looked around the cheap motel room and squinted at the sun that streamed so rudely into her room.
“Why can’t the damn curtains ever close all the way in these places?” Her sleepy mumble echoed through the empty room. The memory of last night’s dream was still fresh and raw, which was painfully evident by the heat that continued to blaze over her skin. Layla flopped back down and threw her arm over her eyes. It looked like her bossy stalker was right.
There was no escaping fate.
“Something’s different about you,” Kerry said with a suspicious look in William’s direction. She cocked her head and studied him intently from across the dining room table of her spacious apartment.
“I’m not sure what you’re implying,” William said coolly. “I simply came by to see how the two of you are doing now that you’re married.”
He folded the newspaper neatly and placed it on the mahogany table, exactly in the spot he’d found it. He sipped the cold orange juice and checked his watch, hoping to keep Dante’s irritatingly perceptive mate from knowing just how much her intuitive nature unnerved him.
“On the surface… you look exactly the same.” She waved one manicured hand at him. “Three-piece suit. Hair tied back and not a smile in sight. You seem to be as uptight as ever, the cold bastard most of us have come to know and love.”
“Charming,” he murmured. “What exactly do you mean?”
“I mean,” she said, lowering her voice to conspiratorial levels. “You’re uncharacteristically distracted, and if I didn’t know better, I’d say that your unannounced visit this morning has more to do with you, than it does with Dante and me.”
“Really?” He glanced out the large picture window, pretending to be interested in the New York City skyline as opposed to her observations. “And why would you think that?”
“Well, for starters”—she laughed as she buttered her toast and prepared the rest of her breakfast—“most people don’t just pop in on newlyweds for a visit first thing in the morning, let alone you. I mean, let’s be honest, William. You’re emotionally anorexic, and in the brief time that I’ve gotten to know you, you’ve rarely shown concern. In fact, the only emotion that I think I’ve ever seen you exhibit is anger, but you had been stabbed at the time, so that was certainly understandable.”
“I wasn’t angry,” he said humorlessly. “I was irritated.”
“Forgive me.” Kerry took a bite of her toast. “You were annoyed that you got stabbed, not angry.”
“Hey,” Dante interrupted. Clad in his bathrobe and toweling off his wet head, he sidled up to his mate and gave her a kiss. “I thought you weren’t pissed about that anymore,” he said as he helped himself to some juice. “You know it was an accident. I was trying to kill that crazy Purist bitch Pasha, not you.”
“He wasn’t pissed.” Kerry elbowed him. “He was irritated,” she said in a tone that William assumed was her best attempt at mimicry.
He liked Kerry and appreciated her directness. It was, in his opinion, her finest quality, but he wasn’t in the mood for jokes. Then again, he was rarely in the mood for joking around.
“Ah yes, it’s a feeling I’m familiar with again,” he said pointedly to Kerry.
“See? Something is definitely up with you. A few weeks ago, it took getting stabbed to ruffle your feathers, but now, a little teasing, and you’re already annoyed. Ever since we left New Orleans, you’ve been just a bit… off.” She extended her hand to William and smiled. “C’mon, fork it over.”
He flicked a glance to her outstretched hand and back to a pair of mischievous brown eyes. He knew what she wanted him to do.
Kerry was a hybrid—half human and half Amoveo from the Panther Clan. In addition to the Amoveo abilities inherited form her father, her human mother had passed on her gift of second sight. With one touch she could see inside of people and the secrets they buried deep.
William shook his head. “There’s no need for that.” He turned his attention to Dante. “Your mate is quite perceptive, even without using her second sight.”
“Ha,” Kerry shouted. “I knew it.” She clapped her hands. “What is it?” Her eyes grew wider, and she leaned both elbows on the table as she peered at him. “Wait just a minute. It’s not a what at all… it’s a who… isn’t it?”
“You found your mate?” Dante said with a wide grin. “That’s wonderful news. Is she a hybrid, like Kerry and Samantha?”
“Not exactly.” William stood and straightened his vest.
He walked to the window and looked out over the sea of tall buildings, longing to shift into his gyrfalcon form. He wanted to fly and soar over the world, away from his doubts, because for the first time in his life, he was unsure of himself.
“She is a hybrid.” He kept his back to them, for fear of revealing his uncertainty. “However, there is one very large difference between my mate and yours.”
“What? Is she from some unknown Hamster Clan or something?” Kerry asked with her usual teasing tone.
“No,” William bit out. He kept his hands clamped firmly behind his back and struggled to keep his growing frustration at bay. “She knows what she is.” He finally turned to face them and found them looking as shocked as he had when he realized the truth. “She knows that she is half Amoveo.”
“Wait.” Dante’s brow furrowed with obvious confusion as he looked from William to Kerry. “She knows that she’s a hybrid?”
“Yes.” He nodded in Kerry’s direction. “You were correct about New Orleans. That’s where I found her. It’s Layla Nickelsen.”
“The photographer from my shoot.” Kerry slapped Dante on the arm. “I knew there was something up with her, but I just couldn’t put my finger on it.”
“Well”—Dante winked—“you were a bit distracted with your own… issues.”
“Hot damn! Way to go, William!” She wiggled her eyebrows at him. “If memory serves, she’s one spirited chick. Something tells me that you’re going to have your hands full with her.”
“You have no idea,” he mumbled. “Although, the thrill of discovering her has been rather short-lived.” He ran a hand over his face and paced back and forth by the windows, almost forgetting the two of them were even there. “I assumed that she knew nothing of her Amoveo heritage, just like you and Samantha, but when I connected with her in the dream realm… she ran from me. At first, I thought it was because she took the connection for an unusual or unsettling human dream, but last night… she confronted me.”
“Confronted you—how?” Dante asked.
“I’ve connected with her in several dreams over the past few weeks, and she continued to elude me, but last night she stopped running.” William adjusted his tie and smoothed it down, as if it could calm his growing confusion.
“What did she say?”
“She told me to get lost and called me a stalker.”
Kerry laughed long and hard, and Dante tried to suppress a smile, but to no avail.
“What on earth are the two of you laughing at?” William asked, openly bothered by their reaction. He stood ramrod straight as he watched their blatant amusement at his conundrum. “I don’t find this the least bit funny.”
“Oh, William.” Kerry wiped at the tears that were streaming down her face as her laughter subsided. “I’m not sure what’s more amusing. Your reaction to her, or the fact that you just don’t understand why a woman—whether she’s a human, an Amoveo, or a hybrid—wouldn’t want to be stalked?”
“Well, what on earth am I supposed to do?” William’s brow furrowed. “You know that the dream realm connection is crucial to our mating process.”
“How about introducing yourself to her in real life? What do you know about her aside from the fact that you think she knows she’s a hybrid.”
“I don’t think,” he snapped. “I know that she’s aware of her Amoveo heritage.”
“Fine.” Kerry sighed and folded her arms. “If she knows what she is, then who the hell raised her? It can’t be an Amoveo, right?” She looked at Dante. “Wouldn’t other Amoveo know about it? I mean, where in the hell has she been all these years?”
“I’m not sure of anything anymore,” William murmured. “You know that the prince informed the rest of the Council members that Purists like Brendan and Pasha wouldn’t be tolerated. He has publicly embraced the idea of humans mating with Amoveo, and he wants any other hybrids found and brought into the fold and protection of their clan.”
William couldn’t help but notice Dante flinch at the mention of his father’s name; his betrayal was still raw, a wound that would never heal. Brendan and the rest of the Purists wanted Kerry and Samantha dead, as well as anyone who would encourage the cross-mating of humans and Amoveo.
“I know she was raised in a rural area of Maryland by a human woman,” William continued. “I do not believe that the woman who raised her is a blood relation, but she must know about the Amoveo.”
“Hey,” Kerry said brightly. “I have a crazy idea. Why don’t you actually go and introduce yourself? Y’know? In person—as opposed to dream-stalking the poor woman.”
William blinked in surprise. “I am not stalking her. I’m solidifying our connection via the dream realm,” he said adamantly.
Kerry looked at him as if he were a complete moron.
“Yeah, you were raised by two Amoveo, but you’re telling me that you believe Layla was raised by a human, so how much does she really know?” She looked from William to Dante and shrugged. “Sometimes a small amount of information is more frightening than none at all.”
William nodded in agreement. Kerry was absolutely right. All he knew was that she had some idea that she was Amoveo and could control certain aspects of the dream realm. The cold, hard truth was that he didn’t know much of anything, and he found that to be the most uncomfortable feeling of all.
“You may have a point,” William said quietly.
“You’ll notice that he didn’t say I was right,” she said to Dante, laughing.
“Thank you for your assistance with this matter,” he said with a nod.
“You’re not gonna wear that are you?” Kerry asked through a grimace.
“Of course.” He glanced down at his suit as he straightened the vest again. “Why do you ask?”
“I only met Layla briefly… but she didn’t strike me as an I-love-a-guy-in-a-suit kind of girl.” She cocked her head and looked at him intently. “You might want to try a pair of jeans and a sweater, or at least ditch the tie.”
William made a face of disapproval, and Dante nearly choked on the toast he was eating.
“That’ll be the day,” Dante said through a coughing fit.
“Fine.” Kerry held up her hands in defeat. “It was just a suggestion. Maybe I’m wrong, and your three-piece-suit lawyerly hotness will knock her socks off.”
“Thank you.” William bowed his head in deference. He turned his attention to Dante. “I can call on you and Malcolm if I’m in need of assistance? The Purists don’t seem to be aware of her existence, but I would be more comfortable approaching her if I knew I could count on you both… considering your experience,” he said with a glance to Kerry.
“You don’t even have to ask—consider it done,” Dante said as he and William shook hands over the table. “Have you told the prince that you found Layla?”
“No,” William said grimly. “I want to find out more about her before I approach Richard and the rest of the Council. She’s remained safe all of these years, and I’d like to keep it that way.”
“But the prince told everyone that the Purists are the enemy, not the hybrids.” She looked from Dante to William. “Why keep Layla a secret? Even if it’s just for a little while longer?”
William thought for a moment, wanting to choose his words carefully. “Let’s just say that I suspect not all of the council members share Richard’s welcoming feelings about interbreeding with humans.”
“Are you sure?” Dante took Kerry’s hand and linked her fingers with his. “If there are Purists on the Council, there could be a shit-storm of epic proportions.”
“Let’s take things one step at a time. First, I have to convince a woman who hates me that I am her life mate.”
“You better find some patience and a sense of humor.” Kerry squinted, inspecting him closely. “You have any squirreled away under that nifty suit?”
“Thank you for your help as well, Mrs. Coltari.” He bowed regally and ignored her comment. “I’ll be taking my leave.”
“Anytime, Iceman,” she said with a wink.
William shot her a look of disapproval at the use of her nickname for him, uttered the ancient language, and vanished into the air.
Kerry smiled as he disappeared and murmured, “I bet a hundred bucks she gets him to ditch a lot more than that tie.”
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We have great presentations on tap, too. Hear Ashley Crowder (VNTANA), Shawn Frayne (Looking Glass Factory) and Brett Jones (Lightform) talk about using holograms to replace expensive headsets.
AR and VR — it’s not all fun and games. Derek Belch (STRIVR), Clorama Dorvilias (DebiasVR) and Morgan Mercer (Vantage Point) will talk about ways business can use the technologies to train employees.
Greg Castle (Anorak Ventures) and Peter Rojas (Betaworks) will discuss how early-stage investors have changed their approach to funding new talent and suggest ways founders can grab their attention.
That’s just a taste of what industry leaders, content creators and game changers will present. Take a gander at the full agenda.
Join us October 18 in Los Angeles at TechCrunch Sessions: AR/VR for an incredible gathering of the augmented and virtual reality community. Our early-bird pricing ends today, so get real and buy your ticket today.
The new Wear OS starts hitting smartwatches
Google’s in a tough spot with Wear OS. It’s been four and half years since the operating system arrived as Android Wear, and while plenty of manufacturers have tried their hand at devices, the operating system has failed to make a large dent on the smartwatch category. Apple continues to dominate the space, while top competitors Samsung and Fitbit have opted to go in-house with their operating systems.
In February, Android Wear got a modest 2.0 update, and the following month, the operating system got a full-on rebrand. “We’re now Wear OS by Google, a wearables operating system for everyone,” the company said at the time. Even with all of that movement over the past year, Wear OS is still in need of an upgrade. By a number of early accounts, the 2.1 update, which is starting to roll out to users, is a strong step in that direction.
This latest version brings new swipe gestures, prioritizing notifications, settings, Google Fit and Assistant. Those last two are also getting some key upgrades, helping bring the company’s health and AI offerings up to speed with the competition.
While the smartwatch play has appeared fairly stagnant at times, it’s important to remember as Android celebrates its 10th anniversary that the smartphone OS wasn’t exactly a rousing success out of the gate. In the meantime, Apple, Fitbit and the like have proven that smartwatches do have some staying power, and once again analysts are bullish on the category.
Earlier this month, meanwhile, Qualcomm reaffirmed its commitment to Wear OS by showcasing its chip architecture promising extended battery life. It seems as if enough players are involved and hopeful in Wear OS to keep it going, but there’s still a lot of work to be done if it’s going to break out of the looming shadow of the Apple Watch.
Blockchain startups: Apply to exhibit for free at TechCrunch Disrupt Berlin 2018
Back in July, TechCrunch held a sold-out event focusing on Blockchain and we want to see those startups at Disrupt this year! On 29-30 November thousands of attendees will descend on Berlin, and what better way to get your blockchain business in front of them than to exhibit in Startup Alley?
Oh wait, we know a better way — apply to be a TechCrunch Top Pick and exhibit at Disrupt Berlin for FREE! Our highly discerning editors will review every application and choose up to five of the absolute best early-stage blockchain startups. Each TC Top Pick receives one free Startup Alley Exhibitor Package along with prime real estate in Startup Alley where they can strut their stuff in front of influential technologists and investors, potential collaborators and customers. It’s an opportunity you can’t afford to miss, so don’t wait — apply before the 28 September deadline.
Here’s what you get with a Startup Alley Exhibitor Package:
One-day exhibit space
Three Disrupt Berlin Founder Passes
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Access to the Disrupt press list
A chance to be selected as one of the Startup Battlefield Wild Card companies (and you might even compete in our $50,000 startup-pitch competition)
You’ll also have the opportunity to hear some of Europe’s blockchain movers and shakers speak from the Main Stage. People like Vinay Gupta, founder of Mattererum and Kaidi Ruusalepp, founder and CEO of Funderbeam.
Disrupt Berlin 2018 takes place on 29-30 November. If you want a shot at being one of the blockchain TC Top Picks and exhibiting for free in Startup Alley, then apply here before 28 Sept. We can’t wait to see you in Berlin!
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The World’s Top Two Best Basketball Players in One Pick-Up Game
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It’s very normal to see NBA stars play in local pick-up games, especially during summer time while they are waiting for the training camp to begin. But it’s not usual to see several NBA superstars play in one pick-up game, how much more for the top two basketball players in the world to share one pick up game? But then again, this is the era where superstars join each other in one NBA team- Celtics, Heat, Warriors, Cavs and now Rockets. So read on.
Greatest Game Nobody Ever Saw
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In 1992, the U.S. men’s national basketball also known as the Dream Team conquered the world with their gold medal performance in the Barcelona Olympics. The team, composed of NBA legends, beat their opposition by an average margin of 43.8 points with no opponent losing by less than 32 points. But before their eight game domination of the Olympic games, the team played in what many call the ‘greatest game never seen’.
In the days leading to the Olympics, the Dream Team trained in Monaco. There were several practice sessions held there but the one on July 22, 1992 stood out. It happened on a literally empty gym. No TV cameras, no media, no fans, no scoreboards and no boxscores. Just a cameraman from coach Chuck Daly’s Pistons team and the 10 greatest basketball players in the planet:
Holy Grail of Basketball
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The full video of that scrimmage is the holy grail of basketball. We’ve seen clips of it but 25 years later, we haven’t seen the whole game. We don’t even know who won although an analysis of the game’s play by play account from Jack McCallum’s book ‘Dream Team’ reveals that the white team won 40-36 behind Michael Jordan’s 17 points.
We may never see the full video of that scrimmage just as we may never see a game great like that again. Nowadays, we see NBA stars play together during the summer. Last month, we saw new teammates James Harden and Chris Paul in the Drew League:
While it was special to watch two NBA superstars play together in the Drew League, Harden and Paul will team up in Houston when the NBA’s 2017-18 season begins this October. Paul was traded by the Clippers to the Rockets earlier this summer so we were going to see them play alongside each other anyway.
Pick-Up Game in New York
Photo: upi
There’s another video of a non-NBA game featuring NBA stars that’s going viral. This time around, it’s a high profile pick-up game featuring LeBron James, Kevin Durant, Carmelo Anthony, JR Smith, Enes Kanter, Lance Thomas, Dahntay Jones, Marshall Plumlee and Kentucky guard Hamidou Diallo. The games took place at the Life Time Athletic at Sky in New York. It’s not even close to the Dream Team’s 1992 scrimmage but this too is something special because we have the two best players in the world in LeBron and KD in a New York pick-up game.
The circumstances around the game make it even more special. It was reported that James flew to New York from Akron via private plane, just to play in that game. After two hours of hoops, the King flew back to Ohio to attend the annual LeBron James Family Foundation function at Cedar Point Amusement Park in Sandusky, Ohio.
That wasn’t just it as Kevin Durant was also reported to have traveled from Washington, D.C. just to ball with LeBron and Melo. Of course, Durant is a client of NBA trainer Chris Brickley, who filmed the game. Carmelo Anthony also works with Brickley and spends most of his summer training at that gym.
Greatness Overload
Greatness overloads in the video with LeBron James showcasing his otherworldly athleticism and Carmelo Anthony showing that he could face up and score at will even while wearing a hoodie. Kevin Durant also showed scary handle for his size and unbelievable accuracy with his mid range jumpers and outside shots. You’ve got to watch the video for yourself:
It’s really incredible to see the competitive nature of these world class athletes in August when the NBA regular season is still two months away. They’re playing defense, setting solid picks, and making hard cuts to the hoop. If I were an NBA GM for the Cavs, Warriors and Knicks, I’d be goddamn nervous by now. But as Brickley captioned in his Instagram posts: ‘For the love of the game’.
It can be recalled that earlier this month, LeBron sounded like he was already bored with the summer and wanted to fast forward to training camp. Said LeBron via Twitter:
‘Man I need some run!! Where y'all hooping at?? Off season please hurry up and end, I have basketball Jones!!’
Now he finally got some run hooping with KD and Melo at the Big Apple. And boy, that was something special. But yeah, where’s the full video of that pick-up game? I’m sure Chris Brickley has it. But perhaps we’ll never see the rest of the tape, just like what happened with the Dream Team scrimmage video.
Banana Boat Brothers
Photo: the shadow league
What Brickley’s video does though is stir controversy once again. It can be recalled that James, Dwayne Wade and Chris Paul were in that famous banana ride of 2015 and later seen toasting their brotherhood along with Carmelo Anthony. With CP3 opting in for the final year of his contract, the stage is set for the banana boat crew to become free agents next July. Now this leaves a question: Will they be on the same boat next season because that’s what brotherhood is about?
Anthony has expressed his intention to leave New York. He says he wants to join friend Chris Paul in Houston. But there are also rumors linking him to the Cleveland Cavaliers where his other buddy LeBron currently plays. LeBron’s status with the Cavs after this season is in question. There are wild rumors that he might leave Cleveland again. Certainly, he won’t be joining KD and the Warriors. But for him to fly to New York to play pick up ball with Carmelo Anthony sends a sign that the banana boat brotherhood is still much intact. Whether Lebron ends up playing with one or more of his banana boat brothers after this season, that’s going to be interesting.
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Criminal Case Of 'USA v. Steroid-Using Liar Barry Bonds' Begins
Ecstasy Of Defeat
SAN FRANCISCO—Barry Bonds, the San Francisco Giants outfielder who in 2007 capped his 22-year baseball career by becoming the MLB's all-time home run leader, arrived in Courtroom 10 of the Phillip Burton Federal Courthouse at 8 a.m. Monday to appear in Case No. 3:07-cr-00732-SI, USA v. Steroid-Using Liar Barry Bonds.
The prosecution has charged Bonds with four counts of perjury and one count of obstructing justice for allegedly lying to a grand jury about his use of performance-enhancing drugs. Bonds' lawyers stated in a press release yesterday they were confident they would receive a "quick and clear acquittal" for their "dishonest cheater of a client."
Jury selection took up most of the first day, with the two sides eventually settling on eight women and four men who, they mutually stated in a court document, would "do their best to consider the case of lying, steroid-using, baseball-ruining asshole Barry Bonds with fairness and impartiality."
"Your job is to determine if the defendant, the cheating liar known as Mr. Barry Bonds, did in fact commit perjury when he lied under oath in 2003," Judge Susan Illston said as she swore in the jury. "Ignore the painfully obvious fact of his steroid use unless it becomes germane to these proceedings—unless, for example, said obvious steroid use is something this liar lied about while committing his alleged steroid-related perjury."
Opening statements then followed, with the prosecution contending Bonds perjured himself by responding "no" when asked if he had ever taken anabolic steroids, testosterone, or human growth hormone.
"We intend to show you exactly how the statements about steroid use made by Mr. Bonds—whose defining characteristics, as we have established, are using steroids and lying—were in fact lies," said prosecutor Matt Parella, who carefully and methodically laid out his case for jurors. "By the end of this trial, we believe no reasonable doubt will remain concerning this lying steroid user's steroid-related lying, if indeed any such doubt exists."
Defense lawyer Allen Ruby's opening statements concerning his client did not downplay either Bonds' steroid use or his lying, as many had expected, but took a more personal approach.
"Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, my client, the defendant, Mr. Barry Bonds, the man who lied and cheated his way into the record books, the man who in fact used steroids to cheat and then lied about it—I am here to tell you that you must find him innocent of lying to the court," said Ruby, who was relaxed and cordial during his opening statements. "This will take several weeks, because my client is in fact such a huge liar that it will not be easy to weed through all the lying he's done."
"The truth of the matter is this," Ruby added. "When it comes to USA v. Steroid-Using Liar Barry Bonds, the government just doesn't have any hard, admissible evidence that he took steroids and lied."
Bonds, dressed Monday in a somber black suit and gray tie, sat impassively and silently while watching the proceedings with his defense team, who told reporters their strategy was for their client not to testify so that he would not have a chance to re-perjure himself during the proceedings.
"Ultimately, however, the prosecution will most likely call him to the stand," defense attorney Christina Arguedas said. "Mr. Bonds will then either plead his Fifth Amendment rights or, as we believe is more likely, lie extensively and to the best of his ability, which may hurt our perjury case."
Arguedas added that, while it would certainly be characteristic of the man, she did not believe Bonds would have the opportunity to take steroids during the trial.
"In the coming weeks, we're going to see a lot of people who have known Bonds—not just as a baseball player or a liar and cheater, but as a terrible human being—testify about his lying, his cheating, and his character," said criminal analyst Beth Reiser, explaining that Bonds' history of cheating would play just as big a part in his perjury trial as his lying. "Former players, trainers, lovers, employees, employers, neighbors, acquaintances, people who saw him play, people who met him for a few minutes at a signing… All of these people will come forward and talk about what a liar he is. Really, this trial should be pretty simple."
"Still, you never know," Reiser added. "Look what happened in The People of the State of California v. Psycho Wife-Beheader Orenthal James Simpson."
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PKL: Paltan downs Pirates, Panthers edges Yoddha
It was a one-sided affair right from the beginning and even as Pune tightened its control on the proceedings, Patna dismantled, struggling to score every point.
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Pune's win was a complete team effort, with every player who took the mat scoring points. - Rajeev Bhatt
Coming into Sunday's game, there was little to choose between Puneri Paltan and Patna Pirates, either in terms of results or individual performances. But, all that changed as Pune's all-round brilliance overwhelmed Patna for a 47-42 victory in the Pro Kabaddi League here.
It was a one-sided affair right from the beginning and even as Pune tightened its control on the proceedings, Patna dismantled, struggling to score every point. The only one standing between the two-time defending champion and a humiliating loss was captain Pardeep Narwal, who scored a massive 19 points in 24 raids, but there was only so much even he could do.
Patna also suffered its first loss of the season in the process even as Pune got its first-ever win against Patna in five seasons but, more than the defeat, it would be the manner in which it came that would rankle it.
Pardeep, the key to Patna's hopes, was one of only two players to manage a decent score for Patna along with Vinod Kumar. The latter had to be carried away towards the end after getting injured. Pune raced away to a massive 14-point lead in the first 13 minutes that saw Patna getting all-out twice in a space of five minutes.
READ: Scorecard and play-by-play commentary
At 13-25, Pune had a huge 12-point lead at half time. Patna tried to fight back but every time Pardeep clawed out some crucial points, the rest of his team squandered it with shoddy tackling. After a point in the second half, he was practically the only one going out for raids and coming back with points.
Pune's win, on the other hand, was a complete team effort. Every player who took the mat scored points, including the substitutes. If Deepak Hooda, Rajesh Mondal and Sandeep Narwal raided successfully, the team's foreign signing Zia-ur-Rahman, Dharmaraj and Sandeep shone in defence.
Monu, who came in as a substitute, did both. It wouldn't be wrong to say the game was a Pardeep Narwal versus Puneri Paltan contest and the team outplayed the lone warrior. With three minutes to go, Pardeep's three-pointer saw the margin reduce to five points for the first time in the game and he got another in the final few seconds, but it just wasn't enough.
The day's other game saw host UP Yoddha suffer its third straight defeat at home, going down 24-22 right at the end despite leading for most of the game.
The results:
Puneri Paltan 47 (Rajesh Mondal 10, Deepak Hooda 9, Ziaur Rahman 6, Sandeep Narwal 5, Monu 5) bt Patna Pirates 42 (Pardeep Narwal 19, Vinod Kumar 7, Vikas Jaglan 5).
Jaipur Pink Panthers 24 (Tushar Patil 5, Nitin Rawal 5, Jasvir Singh 4) bt UP Yoddha 22 (Nitin Tomar 5, Rishank Devadiga 4).
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Let’s Check Back In On That Tonx & Hand...
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Let’s Check Back In On That Tonx & Handsome Acquisition By Blue Bottle Coffee
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In April 2014 Sprudge.com was first to report that our friends and partners at Blue Bottle Coffee would be acquiring both Handsome Coffee Roasters and Tonx.org, in a move following their recent round of funding and planned expansion to Japan. In a series of blog posts yesterday, both Blue Bottle Coffee and Handsome Coffee Roasters have updated the public on that transition process; several members of the food & coffee news media also received an update on this process from Di Moda PR, a firm that has worked previously with Handsome and will assist on brand transitioning in the coming months.
We now know more about what that transition will look like. According to Blue Bottle, regarding Tonx, the brand has “successfully migrated their ordering, roasting and shipping operations to our Oakland roastery.” In the coming weeks, “Tonx customers will begin to enjoy more ordering flexibility on their deliveries, along with new Blue Bottle packaging that’s designed to incorporate the best of both companies’ design thinking.”
Meanwhile in Los Angeles, Handsome Coffee Roasters is now serving and selling branded whole-bean Blue Bottle Coffee, along with coffees from Handsome as well as Tonx. The coffee bar has added almond milk and sugar to its condiment bar, a departure from the original ethos at Handsome. The environment right now is, according to Handsome, “A case study in collaboration…you can grab a macchiato from a Handsome barista, then turn around and say hello to a member of Tonx’s L.A.-based team, then tell a visiting Blue Bottler where to park her rental.” Air conditioning is being added to the offices at Handsome LA, and an organic certification is in the works.
A significant amount of staff from both companies were retained in the acquisition, with employees at Handsome being “hooked up” with health, dental, and vision benefit packages. This includes Handsome Coffee Roasters co-founder and 2010 World Barista Champion Michael Phillips, who will be handling education and training for Blue Bottle LA, and Charlie Habegger, who joined Handsome’s roasting team in 2013 and will be managing the coffee program in LA for Blue Bottle, as per Di Moda.
For his part, Michael Phillips had this to say on his new workplace: “Getting to meet everyone at Blue Bottle has been an incredible experience. It is probably the healthiest internal culture I have ever seen. They are extremely supportive of staff and are very progressive in how they approach things.
“It’s like if you walked onto the set of Mr. Rogers. James has this sort of media image of cardigan and glasses, a nice husband/wife duo that has this really sustainable tasty coffee oriented company. And it is 100% true. The more I get to know coffee companies the more I realize the brand is only successful if it’s a manifestation of its leadership.”
But as for the future of these multi-branded identities, Blue Botttle’s blog post states: “By late summer, it will all fall under the Blue Bottle banner.” Handsome’s Tumblr mentions the coming change thusly: “Once it’s all Blue Bottle in August, we intend to throw a party. You’re invited, of course.” Di Moda’s PR info is perhaps more matter of fact: “Handsome Coffee’s social media channels will be completely transitioned into Blue Bottle LA channels by August 2014…We will be changing over all brand identity (including SM handles, blog, and eventually merchandise) to Blue Bottle Coffee completely by late summer.”
So yes, the day is fast approaching when Handsome Coffee Roasters will remove its iconic sign, and the brand will cease to exist. On the coming change, Mr. Phillips told Sprudge, “It will be bittersweet. In some ways I am looking forward to it. The people who made Handsome Handsome are still here and are still doing amazing things. Ultimately we are going to have more influence than we ever had before in the overall conversation about what coffee is.”
Merchandise and beans from Handsome Coffee Roasters are still available for sale online. Buy yours now; in 30 years, when specialty coffee is incalculably 3 gajillion times more popular than it is today, these babies will fetch a pretty penny on eBay.
Photos by Julie Wolfson for Sprudge.com, who also contributed to this reporting.
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Coffee Design: Broadcast Coffee In Seattle, Washington
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Lightning Storm Appears Amidst Milky Way Timelapse Footage
A brilliant capture with a bang!
Tremendous Time-Lapse Video of 2,000-Ton Chinese Temple Moved Horizontally
This footage shows the massive Grand Hall of Jade Buddha Temple, which is one of the most popular religious venues in Shanghai, being moved from its original location. The stately 2,000-ton building is being relocated from September 2 to September 17 mainly for security reasons.
Incredible Timelapse of Starry Night Sky as Seen From a Cockpit
Sales Wick, a pilot, photographer and film producer from Switzerland, creates mind-blowing videos shooting from the cockpit.
Six-Month Journey Across Asia Condensed Into Two Minutes of Hyperlapse
This short but comprehensive hyperlapse video chronicles the journey of Swiss couple Sylvain Botter and Jenny Gehrig across Asia.
Where the Ghosts of Planes Dwell: Time-Lapse Tour of 'The Boneyard'
This short but intriguing video offers you a glimpse of the 309th Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Group at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base in Arizona, also known as The Boneyard.
Stunning Time-Lapse Made of 6,870 Photos Shot Over Four Years
One man's journey captured in a stunning time-lapse covering four years.
Mesmerizing Time-Lapse of Bridge to Crimea Construction
The road-rail Kerch Strait bridge is considered to be the biggest and most ambitious infrastructure project undertaken by Russia in the last decade.
This Would Make Pinocchio Jealous: Extremely Realistic Face Cut out of Wood
Watch the miraculous transformation of an ordinary piece of wood!
Enjoy a Beautiful Timelapse Video of a Sunrise in Romania's Capital
Just look at the city’s attractions and at its diversity and recent developments.
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It's hard to properly identify these objects, but are they actually UFOs or something else?
A Time-Lapse Tilt-Shift Tour of Montenegro
A former part of Yugoslavia, Montenegro is now one of the fastest-growing tourist destinations in the world
Ice Cream Melts in Time-Lapse
Some eat it, while others melt it!
Cruise Ship Gets Built Before Your Eyes
This short time-lapse video allows you to appreciate the entire construction process of a majestic cruise liner in less than 9 minutes.
Fascinating View of Volcano Eruption in Mexico
This beautiful footage of the Popocatépetl volcano erupting in the middle of a starry night is hypnotizing enough to make one completely forget that the phenomenon is actually dangerous.
In a Historic First, Stunning Mercury Transit Caught on Camera by NASA’s Solar Observatory
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration has published stunning video online showing a timelapse of Mercury passing in front of the Sun, showcasing the first time a Mercury transit of the Sun has been captured by an orbiting satellite.
Shanghai Tower Construction Time Lapse in 2 Minutes
This fascinating timelapse video shows the seven-year construction of the world’s second tallest skyscraper, the Shanghai Tower, that will soon open for business.
Belching Fire, Spewing Flames: Stratovolcano Erupts in Indonesia
The video was filmed on February 26, 2016, about 6 kilometers away from the volcano.
A Year of the Sun: NASA’s Time-Lapse Video Shows Dynamics of Our Star
A year of the sun’s life was captured in detail by ultra-high definition cameras at NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO).
Top 10 Videos & Youtube Highlights of 2015 (Sputnik Edition)
As the year draws to a close, we’ve decided to look again at the YouTube trends & videos that kept us entertained throughout 2015.
Year in Review: Highlights of 2015
Northern Charm: Time Lapse Tour of Finland
The sublime beauty of Finland laid bare for you to appreciate.
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InfoWars' Alex Jones Accuses 'Demon' Mueller of 'Covering For Child Rape'
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Alex Jones has on more than one occasion spoken out against Mueller's investigation over alleged collusion between Donald Trump's presidential campaign and Russia during the 2016 presidential race, but this time he picked up on a few shadowy episodes from the special counsel's FBI past.
InfoWars host Alex Jones has accused special counsel Robert Mueller of covering up sex-related crimes, Media Matters reported, citing Jones’ comments on Monday’s edition of the Alex Jones Show. The host went on to verbally threaten the former FBI director with an imaginary duel.
In a video, Jones alleged that Mueller, who headed the agency from 2001 to 2013, had during all those years been covering up for multiple sex abuse cases involving Jeffrey Epstein, a now convicted billionaire, whom he points out was “kidnapping kids, flying them on sex planes, some kids as young as seven years old reportedly, with big perverts raping them to frame people.”
I’m the Reporter Mentioned in Mueller’s Indictment. Why Hasn’t He Spoken to Me?
“Mueller is a monster man,” Jones continued, stating that he personally is scared of “not manning up” and “not telling the truth” and thereby avoiding facing up to Mueller.
He then moved on to depict in highly artistic terms in what way he could rise against Mueller, portraying the “political” battlefield “at high noon,” as two imaginary cowboys meet for a deadly shootout.
© REUTERS / Grigory Dukor
Mueller Probe Is Driving US, Russia Apart - Trump
"That's a demon I will take down, or I'll die trying. So that's it. It's going to happen, we're going to walk out in the square, politically, at high noon, and he's going to find out whether he makes a move man, make the move first, and then it's going to happen," Jones says, directing his hand in the shape of a finger gun at an imaginary opponent.
It is unclear, according to The Hill, if Jones’ words could constitute a transmitted threat, which stipulates from 5 to 10 years’ imprisonment if a federal official is threatened.
Mueller is currently in charge of a special counsel investigation into alleged collusion between Donald Trump's presidential campaign and Russia during the 2016 presidential race, which the Russian side has denied on multiple occasions. Alex Jones, the renowned founder of InfoWars, has blasted Mueller for heading what he has called a "deep-state conspiracy" solely aimed at disrupting Trump’s presidency.
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Mueller Team Tries to Limit Access to Russia Probe Evidence Alleging Meddling
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Of Plants and Power
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New from Dumbarton Oaks Publications: The Botany of Empire in the Long Eighteenth Century
A Swiss doctor pens the first survey of Russia’s fauna. A British opium trader builds an opulent garden with plants culled from Indian and Chinese ports of call on land bought from the Maori in New Zealand. A Mongol monk writes a medical manual in Tibetan on the fringes of the Qing Empire. A Prussian naturalist takes field notes on Peruvian rafts used to haul massive loads of fruit up rivers.
Welcome to the world of The Botany of Empire in the Long Eighteenth Century, where plants prove even more globally mobile than the people and politics that set them in motion. Imperial geopolitics meets the systematic study of plants—transformed by new discoveries, inventions, and taxonomies—in this book of essays by sixteen scholars working across five continents. Plants were the focus of cutting-edge experimentation, and botany was big business. Opium could build, or topple, a nation; so could the ginseng that cured an addiction. The ability to identify, document, ship, and transplant the right plants built fortunes and projected power. Trading in plants and exploiting their properties became a key way to grow and run an empire.
The Botany of Empire in the Long Eighteenth Century investigates the ambitions of the nations that sought to use this power; documents some of the “agents of empire” who were its sometimes ambivalent enablers; charts the routes traced by people and plants around the globe; and examines how people and nations alike used plants to fashion identities for themselves. Featuring 183 full-color illustrations reproduced at high quality from prints, books, and paintings, many drawn from the rich collections of the Dumbarton Oaks Rare Book Collection, this book also highlights the artistic merits of the thousands of botanical publications of this age of empires.
The book grew out of a symposium held at Dumbarton Oaks in fall 2013 to celebrate the Rare Book Library’s fiftieth anniversary. Editors Yota Batsaki, Sarah Burke Cahalan, and Anatole Tchikine have brought together contributors from disciplines that include landscape architecture, media studies, comparative literature, archaeology, history, and art history. Readers can also sample its contents through an extensive online exhibit developed in conjunction with the 2013 symposium. Together, The Botany of Empire in the Long Eighteenth Century and the accompanying exhibit provide indispensable resources for anyone interested in the history of science, the eighteenth century, imperial studies, and the history of globalization.
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Aragorn and the Lonely Years
March 19, 2018 / stephencwinter
When Aragorn first met Arwen Undómiel in the hidden valley of Rivendell he could have no idea what journey was to lie ahead of him. It was loveliness that first called out to Aragorn just as it is with every young man who falls in love but just as it is with every young man falling in love this can never be just a private affair. And if this is so for every young man how much more it is with the heir of Isildur in the very year in which Sauron openly declares himself in the land of Mordor after his long exile and secret returning.
On the day in which Aragorn and Arwen marry in the City of Minas Tirith Tolkien tells us that “the tale of their long waiting and labours was come to fulfilment.” This tale lasted for sixty-eight years.
At first Aragorn has to deal with his mother’s anxiety. For Gilraen the long slow years of the decline of her people have left her fearful about the future. It is not greatness that she sees when she looks upon her son but dependence upon the protection of Elrond. And Elrond himself knows that the long years of his sojourn in Middle-earth draw now to a close and that Arwen will go with him into the West unless something calls her to remain.
“There will be no choice before Arwen, my beloved, unless you, Aragorn Arathorn’s son, come between us and bring one of us, you or me, to a bitter parting beyond the end of the world.”
And so begins the years of labour and of separation. Aragorn becomes Thorongil, the Star Eagle, and serves Thengel King of Rohan and Ecthelion, Steward of Gondor doing great deeds among them and encouraging them to prepare for the crisis that will come. In Gondor he leads a fleet to the Havens of Umbar, destroying the fleet of the Corsairs and overthrowing their captain but at the height of his fame he leaves Gondor and begins his lonely journeys into the South and the East “exploring the hearts of Men, both evil and good, and uncovering the plots and devices of the servants of Sauron.”
And so Aragorn leaves behind the young man exulting in his glory, heir of great kings, captivated by the beauty of an Elven princess, the greatest among her people, even as was Beren long before, the mightiest of his forefathers. The long years of labour and separation leave their mark. He becomes “somewhat grim to look upon” unless he smiles but he becomes the hardiest of living men, skilled in craft and lore and “elven-wise”, the hero of his age who gives no thought to his own greatness but only to his task and to his longing.
“His face was sad and stern because of the doom that was laid on him, and yet hope dwelt ever in the depths of his heart, from which mirth would arise at times like a spring from the rock.”
This is a beautiful picture of a man who has been shaped first by joy and then by the adversity that has to follow joy in order to refine it into something of lasting greatness. Aragorn’s majesty will be something that will not be for his benefit alone but will bring life and prosperity to all people. His is a journey from a princeling to a king. Readers will call to mind the moment in the story when he turns aside from his journey to Minas Tirith in order to undertake the pursuit of the orcs who have taken Merry and Pippin. To all extent this is a hopeless task and takes him from what seems far more important. He could try to follow Frodo and the Ring or go to Minas Tirith in its hour of need. His decision to follow the “unimportant” young hobbits proves crucial but he could not have known in what way. He makes the choice not upon a whim but because of the years in which his character has been forged. He trusts in the story of which he is a part sure that Frodo does not need him and that he will come to Minas Tirith at the right time and he risks all the years of hope for a single act of loving kindness whose reward is hidden from him. This is the true king!
A life too big for us, Bear One Another's Burdens, Dark Journeys, Pilgrimage, Spiritual Struggle, The True King
Aragorn and Arwen, Beren, Elrond, Gilraen, Gondor, J.R.R Tolkien, Rivendell, Rohan, The Lord of the Rings, Thorongil
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6 thoughts on “Aragorn and the Lonely Years”
Tom Hillman
Thank you, Stephen. I think you are right to put the choice he makes to pursue the orcs in the larger context of the choices Aragorn makes that shape his character. It is in many ways not the logical choice to make, which would be to sacrifice Merry and Pippin and follow Frodo and Sam, but it is the right choice. And in Tolkien’s mind morality has a greater logic.
In the same way later we see Sam make two choices, both of them correct. When he believes Frodo is dead, he chooses to take the Ring and go on. When he learns that Frodo is not dead, he chooses to turn back and try to rescue him. Had he not made both of those choices, the one horribly difficult, the other easy but desperate, all would have been lost.
The way in which Sam and Aragorn wrestle with their choices in books 3 and 4 deserves more exploration.
Many thanks for leaving this comment, Tom. I love the connection that you make between Aragorn and Sam. Sam was to become the one that Aragorn could trust in Arnor. Aragorn knew his quality.
I began my adult life with a strong respect for logic. I was sure that it was the only way to act with responsibility. When Aragorn takes on the leadership of the Fellowship and the mission to destroy the Ring he does his best to do it logically. All this does is to leave him in a state of anxious uncertainty. Eventually, after the orc attack, the death of Boromir and Frodo’s decision to go alone to Mordor, he decides to trust the story. I wonder if Tolkien made a similar decision. I can imagine him wrestling with the decision of what to do with the Fellowship after they left Lothlorien. Eventually they all end up being in the right place at the right time. The mystics understand why. I have been thinking about the line from a poem by Gerard Manley Hopkins when, after wrestling with the mess that we are making of the world, declares, “There lives the dearest freshness deep down things”. There are deeper rhythms at work than the surface chaos that we watch at work each day. Of course there are patterns at work in chaos too!
Josh Glover
A great post Stephen, the lonely years of Aragorn are definitely interesting ones especially for us knowing how his story ends, the earlier days and beginnings become of great importance; the events and experiences that shaped such a great man!
Hi Josh, Great to hear from you! I had not given much attention to how long Aragorn and Arwen had to wait for each other until I prepared for this post. Our culture is not particularly good at waiting. Everything is geared towards immediate satisfaction. With Aragorn’s story it is as if Tolkien is asking, what kind of man would be made by waiting and labouring for 68 years? Well the answer is, Aragorn! How we need more people like him!
Do leave comments whenever you like!
I love Aragorn’s humility, patience, compassion, love, loyalty, joy in these years. All this forges him into the king he will be. All great things and great people need this long time, their hidden years as it were, to give them time to become who they are meant to be. I think of my favorite line of his – pledging himself to a stranger, pledging his very life and perhaps his death, whatever will give the most aid. And that great love scene in the FOTR movie where he, a single, mortal man, faces down a horde of Orcs to give this stranger, now a beloved friend, a chance to escape. The LOTR movies excelled in these love stories of brotherhood and friendship. Greater love (and patience) hath no man…
Every life that is fruitful is founded upon a time of hiddenness. And what struck me about your reference to Peter Jackson’s films is that we do not try to “save” our lives at any time. The scene you speak of may not have been in Tolkien’s original story but it is entirely true to the character of Aragorn that Tolkien created. I think Aragorn may even have welcomed a moment of utter simplicity after the days of agonising about which way the Fellowship should go. Now Saruman (blessed irony!) makes the choice for him.
A new discovery for me in preparing for this last post was to learn that Aragorn was the hero of the raid on the Corsairs of Umbar. I must have read this before but missed it. If he had been a lesser man or if he did not keep his eyes on the prize of winning the hand of the woman he loved he would have given in to the temptation of enjoying the worship that the people of Gondor gave to their heroes in battle. This too is typical of him.
Many thanks once again, Anne Marie and God bless you 😊
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Hawala shutdown nearly crippled our economy; Somalia minister
Oct 5, 2015 by Editor -
A Somali bank employee serves a customer. The latest suspension of permits of 13 hawala firms is expected to drive most users to banks. (Photo credit: business daily Africa)
The closure of informal money transfer companies, commonly known as Hawala earlier in the year, locked out an estimated $ 5.4 million (Sh562.8 million) daily inflows into Somalia, a minister said on Friday.
Kenya was among the countries that shut the money transfer systems in a bid to stop alleged terrorist financing.
In April, the government closed down 13 money transfer firms in the wake of a terrorist attack on Garissa university college on April 1.
Finance minister in the Federal government of Somalia Mohamed Ibrahim said the move hit-hard the economy.
“When the Hawalas were closed, there was significant economic and social impact on many people in Somalia. Our currency has since lost about 25 per cent in exchange rates with black market activities increasing,” Ibrahim told the Star in Nairobi.
The daily estimates given by the minister for the informal cash transfer system translates to about Sh16.9 billion a month.
Ibrahim said the shut-down also led to an increase in money laundering and prices of goods and services, raising the cost of living.
“Transaction costs of the Hawalas have gone up since then. The low cash flow also weakened the Somali shilling against foreign currencies”, he said.
The impact is still being felt, Ibrahim said, adding that 80 per cent of the Somali population receives money through the system.
Many of the citizens rely on the Hawala system for remittances because of their lower charges compared to traditional global money transfer firms like Western Union. It is the most preferred transaction mode by the Somali expatriate community, mainly in Europe and the US. Most of the funds are channeled through Kenya.
The blanket suspension by Kenya was lifted on June 8 by President Uhuru Kenyatta on condition that the remittance firms comply with Central Bank of Kenya regulations.
“We are very thankful to the Kenyan government for being responsible and for making the decision to revise the move and continued support for Somalia. Hawalas support almost half the national GDP,” Ibrahim said.
He after the signing of a $ 24 million (Sh2.5 billion) World Bank funding, to support the second phase of the Somalia Recurrent Cost and Reform Financing. Hawala companies have since picked up business after a three month low.
“We are trying to get back our footing slowly,” said Kendy Money Transfer director Caroline Cherotich, one of the companies which were affected.
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Drug Charges: Kashamu Files Fresh Suit to Stop Extradition to US to Face Trial
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Abuja (Sundiata Post) – Senator representing Ogun East Senatorial District, Buruji Kashamu has filed suit before a Federal High Court seeking to stop his extradition to the US to face drug charges.
Joined as respondents in the suit are the Attorney General of the Federation (AGF) and others.
Kashamu’s suit against the respondents is seeking to stop an alleged fresh move by the Federal Government to extradite him to the United State of America to face drug-related charges.
Others respondents in the suit are Inspector General of Police, (IGP), Commissioner of Police Lagos state, Director General of State Security Service ( DSS,) and the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency( NDLEA).
At the resumed hearing of the matter yesterday, Mrs O. O. Odubela -Nasir appeared as counsel for Senator Kasamu.
Kashamu’s counsel told the court that the matter was adjourned for hearing and all the respondents have been served with proof of service in court’s record.
However, the counsel who appeared for Director General State Security Service, Mr A O Bajela informed the court that he has not been served with the further affidavit filed by the counsel to the applicant but had only been served with a reply on point of law.
Based on Bajela’s submission, Justice Aneke, consequently, adjourned for further hearing for the applicant to regularise his processes. Senator Kashamu in affidavit sworn to and filed before the court averred that in a newspaper publication: titled “Kasamu: FG demands fresh US request for extradition suit, ” wherein the Attorney General of the Federation was reported to have said that “the US Government has been told to make a fresh request for the Senator after the former extradition proceedings were dismissed.
Adding that as soon as US Government sends a fresh request, the new extradition proceedings will commence.
Senator Kashamu averred further that, whereas in a proceeding instituted in England by US authorities against him at the bow street Magistrate court between 2002 and 2003 Government of United States of America’s Buruji Kashamu that he was not the one implicated in the alleged narcotics offence committed in the US in 1994,consequently he was not the person sought by the US authorities.
Consequently, he urged the court to restrain the respondents and their agents from arresting or detaining the applicant in any manner whatsoever interfering with the applicants’ right to personal liberty and freedom of movement.
However in a counter affidavit sworn to by NDLEA litigation officer, Mr Kareem Olayinka,the deponent averred that Kasamu has never been exonerated of any complicity of any crime by any court either in Nigeria, United States of America or United Kingdom, so his talk of been exonerated of crime/charges of illicit traffic in narcotic drugs are false. The decision of British Court’s did not exonerate him of any drug charges, “NDLEA is unaware of any Interpol or indeed any law enforcement agency in OR outside Nigeria that investigated the applicant.
NDLEA, however, contended that the claim of the applicant in his affidavit is false and a rehash of an earlier story narrated in an affidavit in support of a suit filed at Abuja high court as far back as 2015.
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Rick Perlstein
No. 4 March 1993
Picasso at 25
Chicago and the civilization of deviance
1963: Before Picasso
In 1963, Chicago architect William Hartman was assigned the task of procuring an appropriate sculpture for the plaza in front of the newly-built civic center his firm, Skidmore, Owings and Merrill, had designed. The center was Mayor Richard J. Daley’s showpiece: a monolithic thirty story black steel tower built in the au courant International Style for a city anxious to display to the world its au courant international style.
So Hartman journeyed into the European heart of darkness to approach the only artist grand enough to put the capstone on this monument to civic hip—none other than the formidable Pablo Picasso. Hartmann didn’t fear, for he came bearing gifts, several sacred objects from his native land: a Sioux Indian war bonnet, a White Sox hat and blazer, a Bears’ helmet, a Chicago Fire Department helmet—and, the object the natives of Chicago revered most of all, a check for $ 100,000.
Picasso graciously accepted everything but the check which was, after all, chump change for the master. He would design the sculpture, free from the sullying taint of the filthy American lucre, which might have bound him to create something his middlebrow benefactors might find intelligible; say, a statue of a civil war general on a horse. His work was to be proffered to the city of Chicago as a gift from the Europe of haute-couture to civilize the Hog Butcher to the World.
Picasso set to work, and two years later, he had produced a scale model of the work, over which the following benediction was inscribed:
The monumental sculpture portrayed by the maquette pictured above has been expressly created by me, Pablo Picasso, for installation on the Plaza of the Civic Center in the city of Chicago, state of Illinois, United States of America. This sculpture was undertaken by me for the public building commission of Chicago at the request of William E. Hartmann, acting on behalf of the Chicago public building commission, and I give the maquette to the Art Institute of Chicago, desiring that these gifts shall, through them, belong to the people of Chicago.
The wording here is significant; his was to be a monumental sculpture, whose construction would symbolically bind the people of Chicago under the authority of the civic fathers of Chicago, through the talismanic power of the great artiste, “me, Pablo Picasso.” Its import was not merely artistic, but political—a monument to imposed civic order itself, disciplined under the sign of Culture.
1967: Unveiling the Picasso
Picasso never in his life set foot in Chicago. His design was realized, all fifty-feet and 162-tons of it, at the American Bridge Division of U.S. Steel of Gary, Indiana. It could withstand, the engineers there promised, winds of up to 185-miles-per-hour—and even the torrential hot-air gusts of the politicians who would hold forth under it at civic functions in the ensuing years. The statue was transported in pieces and assembled at the site in the summer of 1967, its construction bankrolled by $300,000 in donations from latter-day descendants of the tycoons who built Upton Sinclair’s jungle and then assuaged their guilt by building William Rainey Harper’s University of Chicago.
The unveiling, on August 15, was an historic event. It represented Picasso’s first and only foray into public art, and the debut of the very first piece of abstract public sculpture in America. With this cultural two-bagger, the City with the Perennial Inferiority Complex announced to the world of the limp-wristed cappuccino drinkers that they couldn’t push Chicago around anymore!
The significance of this was not lost on Chicago’s boosterist press. One commentator proudly proclaimed that the unveiling ceremony would divide Chicago history into two periods, “BP and AP”—Before Picasso and After Picasso. The Chicago Daily News breathlessly described the unveiling:
It was, probably, the greatest day in the cultural history of Chicago. The thousands who jammed Civic Center Plaza to witness it, left with impressions that, years later, they will doubtless will recall for their grandchildren. There was the Chicago Symphony Orchestra (led by Seiji Ozawa), playing at an outdoor public ceremony for the first time in its history. There was Gwendolyn Brooks, Chicago’s Pulitzer Prize poet voicing a poem she wrote specially for the occasion. And, most important of all was the piece de resistance—the five-story abstract sculpture of a woman’s head by the famed Spanish artist Pablo Picasso that seems destined to become the symbol by which Chicago will be known the world around.
Once again, the language here is significant. Chicago’s greatest cultural achievement, “the symbol by which Chicago will be known the world around” is revealed as borrowed goods, prostituted from a “famed Spanish artist,” and sanctified by a Japanese conductor. Its power actually issues from its very distance from any quality that could properly be called Chicagoan.
And, significantly, its power issues from its baffling unfathomability to the honest plain folks who inhabit the city. Life magazine reported that in the midst of the fifty thousand celebrants, “pickets demonstrated the whole project on the grounds of incomprehensibility.” Here high art serves a novel political function: rather than merely providing material for the self congratulation of the idle-rich for their patronage of the “radical” and “subversive,” it holds an entire city in the thrall of radical chic. “It is a head—but whose head no one knows,” Life continued. “Some see a horse’s head, others the head of Picasso’s Afghan hound. In the minds of the project’s sponsors it is the head of a woman.” Brooks’ unveiling poem registers the significance of this very confusion, however, for the cultural work of the statue:
Does man love art? Man visits Art, but squirms.
Art hurts. Art urges voyages—
and it is easier to stay at home,
the nice beer ready.
In the common rooms
we belch, or sniff, or scratch.
Are raw.
But we must cook ourselves and style
ourselves for Art,
who is a requiring courtesan.
We squirm.
We do not hug the Mona Lisa.
may touch or tolerate
an astounding fountain, or a horse-and-rider.
At most, another Lion.
Observe the tall cold of a Flower
which is as innocent and as guilty,
as meaningful and as meaningless as any
other flower in the western field.
In other words, the statue’s very condition of possibility as a civic monument seems precisely its irrelevance to real lives of people living within the arbitrary geographic boundaries signifying “Chicago.” If you don’t like it, there’s something downright unpatriotic about you; don’t you want Chicago to be a “world-class” city? Civic Center Plaza (later renamed Daley Plaza) soon became the epicenter for a never-ending pageant of rituals held “under the Picasso”—public performances, government ceremonies, civic celebrations—where people living in Chicago are “cooked and styled” as Chicagoans, far removed from the “common rooms” where they would ordinarily belch, sniff, and scratch. As a locus of civic pride, the “deviance” of the sculpture fashions Chicago into a marketable commodity, rendering invisible the struggle and toil of diverse peoples that constitute the actual materiality of any city and replacing it with a purchased, sanitized civic semiotic. An inscrutable product of decades of antibourgeois sentiment, the Picasso sculpture does not here merely épate le bourgeois, but rather it creates him; it is a monument in the service of the complexes of civic pride which undergird the construction of civil subjects as such. You can’t fight city hall; it’s too damned hip.
1992: Veiling the Picasso
Since the Enlightenment, European culture—in its poetics and its politics, in its utopic dreams and its distopic nightmares, has rested on the premise of the ultimate availability of an objective perspective, an archimedean point of view, a universal subject of history. Irreducible aesthetic laws, the ultimate meaning or meaninglessness of existence, the revolutionary end of history or the evolutionary perfection of human freedom, all were thought to open themselves up to the possibility of human knowledge, refinement, and ultimate resolution. Man thought he could see clearly. Picasso’s life project of rigorously interrogating the “essence” of the subjects he represented was part and parcel of this complex of notions.
This is the thought that sprung to mind one day when, walking around downtown, I saw the Picasso sporting a ten-foot tall birthday cap. I walked on, determined to locate the reason for this rude and unseemly rupture of the modernist project, in the year 25 AP. Had some clever concept artist decided to replace the stately seamlessness of this masterpiece of the high modern with an ironic bit of postmodern pastiche?
No. It was “Picasso 25,” the city’s 25th birthday celebration for the Picasso sculpture. A colorful banner hung from the civic center facade, proclaiming “Public invited to dance at 25th birthday party,” and below that, “Richard M. Daley, Mayor.” Hey! I was ready to boogie (“Can I cut in, Mr. Mayor?” “Why certainly, young man.”). But, alas, the dancing was to come later. There first was to be a ceremony featuring the mayor himself, the Spanish Consul, and the now-Illinois Poet Laureate, Gwendolyn Brooks. I strolled the grounds, anxious for the festivities to begin.
There are dozens of birthday cakes arrayed along a line of tables. I learn that they have been donated for the occasion by Chicago’s most prestigious restaurants and hotels, whose pastry chefs have had a field day recreating the sculpture in cake batter and frosting. On my way to a table where bright blue souvenir T-shirts, balloons, and mugs are being sold, I run into a man who, in an era of modernist certititude, would have been confined to a mental institutions. He wears a clown outfit (which is, coincidentally, the same colors as Picasso’s birthday cap) covered by a ratty gray tweed jacket, a tattered bowler hat, and mutters to himself, dancing in a circle. I browse the wares for sale; “Each unique, full-color, hand-painted Picasso 25 silk scarf was created by designer Tolanda Lorente. Dimensions: 40″ x 40″”. I fill out an entry blank to win a free flight to anywhere in the continental United States.
The crowd hushes as the ceremony begins. The Spanish Consul speaks first. He gives a high-minded speech, droning on about Picasso’s philosophical influences and his impact on modern aesthetics, and his “message of freedom and peace against terror and fascism.” He speaks with the flair and style of a Ricardo Montalban selling Cadillacs. Then Daley le petit speaks. He begins by quoting Dad’s remarks from the 1967 unveiling: “What is strange to us today, will become familiar tomorrow.” This is perhaps Richie’s way of commenting on the family business, for, as Marx just as for the Daleys, history has repeated itself in Chicago, first as tragedy, and then as farce (exactly one year after the Picasso was unveiled, policeman were clubbing innocents at the ’68 Democratic Convention while the whole world watched; this year, the Chicago police are under investigation by Amnesty International for torture). He blathers on: “People continue to debate what the sculpture is and what it represents … Towering giant of art in this century … He was at the forefront of every major art movement of this century [and we got him—not New York!], and though he never visited this city, he obviously had a place in his heart for this city … same steel that drove the economic engine of this city … union of public and private that made this city great … ” And so on. He speaks with the style and flair of one of those small business owners who does his own commercials, but has trouble reading the cue cards.
Then Gwendolyn Brooks, who delivers another Apologia for Art to compliment her 1967 effort:
Set,
seasoned,
sardonic still,
I continue royal among you.
I astonish you still.
You never knew what I am.
That did not matter and does not.
you almost supposed I almost Belong; that I
have a Chicago Beauty, that I
have a booming Beauty.
I tell you that although royal
I am a mongrel opera strange in the street,
I am radical, rhymeless—
But warranted!
Surely I shall remain.
Then, as if to assure that things will keep on a campy keel, we are presented with a concert of “Spanish dance,” by a couple on parole from the Fred Astaire Dance Studios. Finally, the head of the Mayor’s Office for Special Events, our MC, bubbles, “We’re all going to sing Happy Birthday and enjoy our cakes.” The crowd, mostly a mix of curious yuppies on lunch break and senior citizens who look like they had marked the event on their calendars a month in advance, oblige her. The crowd is then invited, at last, to dance, “to,” the MC states, “the greatest music in the world.” The “Stanley Paul Dance Orchestra”, which appears to have an afternoon free between weddings, strikes up an appropriately listless performance of “Chicago, Chicago, that toddlin’ town.” The man in the clown suit starts dancing first, wearing now a straw hat, an American flag in his hand. and then some of the senior citizens take to the floor. A photographer in a safari jacket and a big-game zoom lens squats histrionically, framing an elderly waltzing couple and the guest of honor in the same shot—“I hope you don’t mind it I take some pictures … just don’t look at me … ” A fat ward-boss type with hair the same greasy-gray tone as his three-piece suit chomps a thick stogie. Someone hails him heartily, “Hey, Louie!”
And a young man with a goatee scribbles furiously in a notebook, remarking that it is the only the statue’s veiled quality—symbolized by the obscuring of the aesthetics of the piece with a ten-foot red, yellow, and blue birthday cap—that is this moment’s very condition of possibility. Were any of the sculpture’s intended symbolic resonances actually obtaining at all, the earth would open up beneath the trailer-hitch housing the Stanley Paul Dance Orchestra, sucking the tuxedo’d musicians and everyone else present into the fiery bowels of the earth itself, and “me, Pablo Picasso” himself would thunder down angrily from the heavens. Or not.
Our faithful scribe composes his own poem, honoring this implosion of avant garde and kitsch, European high-modernism, and American low-postmodernism, Pablo Picasso and Richard Daley(s), Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Stanley Paul Dance Orchestra at the “Picasso 25” celebration:
It looks mostly like a vagina,
From Behind.
From the front,
A phallus, flaccid.
Chicago’s taunting androgene,
Unaroused, and Unarousing,
The steeled might of civic boosterism,
Tempered by the blank stares of a baffled public,
Avant-Garrulous.
Rick Perlstein is a contributing editor of The Baffler and author of Nixonland and other books.
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Big Pharma drug pushers infiltrate local public schools under the guise of “mandatory mental health screenings” for children
by Natural News · Published September 18, 2018 · Updated September 18, 2018
Big Pharma drug pushers infiltrate local public schools under the guise of “mandatory mental health screenings” for children by: Tracey Watson – Natural News
According to the World Health Organization, the United States is one of the most depressed countries in the world, with one in five adults experiencing some form of mental health issue each year. While some of the millions of people diagnosed with these conditions seek therapy to cope with their problems, the vast majority are simply handed prescriptions for antidepressant and other psychiatric drugs and sent on their way.
Sadly, more and more children are being swept up in this net of chemical medications. CCHR, the international mental health watchdog organization, warns that over 7 million children under the age of 17 are already on some form of psychiatric medication, including over 2 million on antidepressants, 1.2 million on antipsychotics, and 1.4 million on anti-anxiety medications.
And those numbers are sure to grow astronomically, if a new program being implemented in Washington State takes off nationally. Several King County school districts in that state will shortly be introducing mandatory screenings to establish mental health and substance abuse risk factors in seventh grade students. And that will provide a whole new batch of “patients” for Big Pharma to sell psychiatric drugs to.
Another opportunity for Big Pharma to make big profits off little kids
According to the Bellevue Reporter, a device called the Check Yourself Tool, based on research conducted by scientists at Seattle Children’s Hospital and the University of Washington, will be used to implement a program called Screening Brief Intervention and Referral to Services (SBIRT).
SBIRT is a web-based interactive survey that obtains information from the child and then spits out “instant personalized feedback about mental health behaviors.” It will take students no more than 10 minutes to complete, and will cover four areas of concern:
Strengths (goals, supportive relationships and school connectedness); substance use (use in the past year and frequency of use); mental health (anxiety, PTSD symptoms, and self-harm thoughts); and safety (harassment, feeling safe at school, and context at home).
Based on the results of their individual surveys, kids will then be divided into three tiers:
Tier 1 kids who are considered low risk and will not require additional services;
Tier 2 kids who demonstrate a need for some intervention and who will supposedly be connected to a mentor or some school-provided services; and
Tier 3 kids who “demonstrate a high need for immediate intervention and will be referred to YES counseling services. Students who screen out as very high risk will receive an evaluation either the same day or the next day.” These children will be assessed by certified clinicians who will no doubt ensure that they are immediately placed on some kind of chemical medication. (Related: Bombshell study admits antidepressants increase suicide attempts in teens and are completely worthless for treating depression.)
The stated goal of the program is to get kids who are depressed or predisposed to other mental health issues the help they need at an earlier stage. If that help revolved around getting to the root cause of these kids’ problems and working with them to eliminate them, that would make this a great program. The reality on the ground, however, is that most of these kids will simply be put on chemical medications – medications which have been conclusively linked to dangerous behaviors, including the spate of school shootings the United States has experienced in recent years.
A lose, lose situation for the kids involved
Martha Rosenberg, writing for Transcend Media Service, warned that when it comes to children and psychiatric medication, everyone’s a winner – except the child:
Everyone but the children wins at the pediatric psychopharmacology game that puts children on expensive psychiatric drugs—Pharma, Wall Street, doctors, insurers, pharmacy benefits managers and Pharma’s PR and ghostwriting firms. Researchers, medical centers, clinical research organizations and medical journals also profit through Pharma funding. The only losers at the pediatric psychopharmacology are kids themselves given a probable life sentence of expensive and dangerous drugs. They are denied the chance to grow up normally and outgrow what are likely minor problems or traits. [Emphasis added]
And therein lies the problem: Labeling these kids and putting them on the conveyor belt of chemical medication at an early age means they never get the help they really need and will likely have to deal with an ever-increasing cocktail of drugs to deal with all the additional symptoms and side effects caused by the medications themselves. These kids may go on to graduate school one day, but they will likely never be pronounced mentally fit and taken off the drugs.
Do we really want to give schools this kind of power over our children?
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Home Gadgets OnePlus 6T McLaren Edition India Launch Set for Today
OnePlus 6T McLaren Edition India Launch Set for Today
OnePlus 6T McLaren Edition is set to be launched in India today. The smartphone was unveiled globally on Tuesday. However, its formal India launch event is happening in Mumbai at 6pm IST. The USP of the OnePlus 6T McLaren Edition is 10GB of RAM, though there are also some other highlights to take on the competition. The smartphone comes with OnePlus’ new fast charging tech that it calls Warp Charge 30. Also, the rear panel of the handset features the signature McLaren Papaya Orange colour that wraps around the bottom edge of the device, fading into the black glass panel at the back. The back panel is touted to be based on McLaren’s groundbreaking carbon fibre that was featured on all McLaren cars since 1981.
OnePlus 6T McLaren Edition price in India (expected)
The OnePlus 6T McLaren Edition price in India is expected to feature a premium over the top variant that’s similar to what was announced for the UK market. The smartphone carries a price tag of GBP 649 (roughly Rs. 58,800) in the UK. This is notably higher than the regular 8GB RAM/ 256GB storage Midnight Black variant of the regular OnePlus 6T that was launched at GBP 579 (roughly Rs. 52,500). However, the new model has 10GB of RAM and 256GB of onboard storage. In India, the current top variant (8GB/ 256GB) is priced at Rs. 45,999, and thus the OnePlus 6T McLaren Edition price in India can be expected to be around Rs. 50,000.
OnePlus is set to bring the OnePlus 6T McLaren Edition to Western Europe and North America on Thursday, December 13. But for India, China, and Nordic regions, the company said in a statement that the handset will become available “soon after” the initial debut. Moreover, the price and availability details specific to India are expected to be revealed at the OnePlus 6T McLaren Edition launch event in Mumbai that as we mentioned starts at 6pm IST. Stay tuned to Gadgets 360 for more details from the event.
OnePlus 6T McLaren Edition specifications
The dual-SIM (Nano) OnePlus 6T McLaren Edition runs Android 9.0 Pie based on OxygenOS and features a 6.41-inch full-HD+ (1080×2340 pixels) AMOLED display with a 19.5:9 aspect ratio. The display panel has support for sRGB (100.63 percent) and DCI-P3 colour gamuts as well as a Corning Gorilla Glass 6 protection and 600 nits of brightness. Under the hood, there is an octa-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 845 SoC, paired with 10GB of LPDDR4X RAM. The smartphone sports a dual rear camera setup that includes a primary 16-megapixel Sony IMX519 sensor with an f/1.7 aperture and 1.22-micron pixels and a secondary 20-megapixel Sony IMX376K sensor with an f/1.7 aperture and 1-micron pixels. The rear camera setup is capable of shooting 4K videos at 60fps frame rate and supports Super Slow Motion Video mode with options for 1080p at 240fps and 720p at 480fps. It also comes with OIS and EIS support and has a dual-LED flash module. For selfies, there is a 16-megapixel Sony IMX371 sensor with an f/2.0 aperture and 1-micron pixels. The frontal sensor also supports EIS and can record 1080p videos at 30fps. There is also pre-loaded Nightscene feature to deliver a better low-light photography experience.
OnePlus has provided 256GB of onboard storage on the OnePlus 6T McLaren Edition. It is not expandable via microSD card. On the connectivity front, the smartphone has 4G VoLTE, Wi-Fi 802.11ac, Bluetooth v5.0, NFC, GPS/ A-GPS, and a USB Type-C (v2.0) port. The handset has Dirac HD Sound and Dirac Power Sound support to enhance audio through the USB Type-C port. There is an in-display fingerprint sensor that is claimed to unlock the screen in 0.34 seconds and works with the OnePlus screen protection. Also, the company has provided a Face Unlock feature that is rated to unlock the smartphone in 0.4 seconds.
The OnePlus 6T McLaren Edition packs a 3,700mAh battery that works with the company’s proprietary Wrap Charge 30 fast charging (30W) technology. This is claimed to deliver a full-day power in 20 minutes of charge. Besides, the smartphone measures 157.5×74.8×8.2mm and weighs 185 grams.
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Amazon Prime Video to Launch in India and 200 Countries Next Month
Amazon has been working to launch their Prime Video service in India for quite some time. Now, a tweet by the company’s CEO reveals that the Amazon is on the verge of introducing their video service globally by the end of December. With the global expansion of their Amazon Prime Video service in place, Jeff Bezos led e-commerce firm will give severe competition to one of its counterparts Netflix, which had so far been the only global player in this space.
Amazon recently launched their Prime service in India in July this year. In fact, the e-commerce giant gave a two month free subscription to all its users in a bid to promote their service in the country. Thereafter, the company has been charging a sum of Rs 499/year for their premium service that’s mainly targeted at trusted customers. That said, the Amazon Prime service that is in offing in the country is stripped down version of the US model. Apparently, Amazon has been bundling in a number of added benefits including free access to Amazon Prime Video, Amazon Prime Music and the latest Amazon Prime Photos in their homeland. So, it would be interesting to see whether the company plans to bundle in their upcoming Prime Video service to already subscribed Prime users in India.
Long wait is over… Clarkson, Hammond, May are back… #TheGrandTour premieres tonight in UK, US, DE, JP. And globally in Dec. pic.twitter.com/dfQjGGuDFW
— Jeff Bezos (@JeffBezos) November 17, 2016
Currently, the Amazon Prime subscription in the country is quite barebones with the option for unlimited free fast delivery, no minimum order size and access to some Prime exclusive deals. The addition of the Amazon Prime video service for free would definitely sweeten the deal. In fact, this service enables you to enjoy the both worlds; namely e-commerce and media consumption at a price of basic Netflix subscription. That said, Amazon’s library would need to expand by a huge margin in if they intend to take on the current leading global video streaming company.
Amazon, however, has been closely working on the launch of their video streaming platform. In a bid to do so, the company has been scaling up their video library to include content that suits the taste of Indian users. The e-commerce firm recently tied up with Dharma Productions for premiering their upcoming releases including Ae Dil Hai Mushkil, Oh Jaanu and Badrinath Ki Dulhania for Prime Video subscribers. Apart from that, they have partnered with Vishesh Films which has a number of popular Bollywood hits including Khamoshiyan, Aashiqui 2, Jannat and Raaz under their banner. Amazon has also signed a deal with renowned filmmaker SS Rajamouli, Graphic India and Arka Mediaworks for a Prime Video exclusive multi-episode animated series titles – Baahubali: The Lost Legends. It is set to premiere on the platform somewhere around next year.
Despite all these in place, Amazon will have tough times fighting it out with the local players like Hotstar, Spuul, Hungama, Eros Now and Voot in the video streaming segment. With those services offering content targeted solely at Indian users at nearly half the price, Amazon would be required to really differentiate itself from them.
Source:WSJ
Last updated by Sayan Sarkar, on 18-Nov-16
Sayan Sarkar Author Sayan is a technology aficionado who shares a keen interest in the booming startup scene in India. Prior to joining TechPP, he has had stints at GizBot and IBTimes UK. Currently based in Kolkata, Sayan is pursing a degree in Dental Surgery.
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