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Worldwide icon-chevron-right North America icon-chevron-right United States icon-chevron-right Illinois icon-chevron-right Chicago icon-chevron-right Chelsea Simonne McGrath, 24
Chelsea Simonne McGrath, 24
By Jake Malooley. Photograph by Andrew Nawrocki. | Posted: Tuesday July 27 2010
What’s your name?
Chelsea McGrath, but I prefer to use my middle name, Chelsea Simonne.
What’s wrong with “McGrath”?
It’s a very Irish name, and I don’t identify with being Irish.
You know the Irish aren’t persecuted in the U.S. anymore, right?
I like the Irish, but when I start my own business, the name’s going to be “Chelsea Simonne.”
What type of business?
A lifestyle brand: fashion, music and holistic medicine. Eventually a boutique, website, books.
The hipster Oprah.
It’s a pretty pretentious endeavor to strive to be Oprah, but that would be awesome. I’m stuck in PR right now. I just want to work for myself, basically. You know that Dolly Parton song “9 to 5”? I was in the bathroom during the Pride Parade and this song came on and summed up every feeling I’ve ever had about working a corporate job: You spend all this time working for someone else and you don’t have anything to take home for yourself.
Is the picnic basket just a prop?
I set out to have a picnic and see Kid Sister, but the cops said I can’t bring alcohol into Millennium Park.
What else was in your picnic?
Uh, wine. [Laughs] I blew my food budget on the booze.
Have you been making the most of summer?
This has been my favorite summer in Chicago. Being single is the defining factor. But I never go crazy. I think it’s funny when girls go out, like, “Oh, we’re gonna go meet guys!” Ew. You don’t need to try to meet guys; guys accost you all the time.
What’s the worst pick-up line you’ve ever heard?
The other day, someone was literally next to my ear and they were like, in a hushed tone, “Hey, you’re fuckin’ sexy.” I looked back and it was this homeless guy who was already halfway down the block. It was a hit-on-and-run.
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There is an art to writing a maths textbook that is also a good read. Noel-Ann Bradshaw picks out titles that aim to offer undergraduates engaging text as well as numbers and theorems
Why must I read a book? I’m studying maths, not English!” was the anguished response from a first-year student tasked with writing a review of a popular mathematics book in an assignment intended to broaden students’ mathematics knowledge.
Mathematics textbooks are not usually page-turners, and they rarely excite new undergraduates. Indeed Lara Alcock, author of How to Study for a Mathematics Degree, confesses that it was not until the end of her first year as an undergraduate that she began to read and appreciate her maths textbooks. And yet we encourage students to buy expensive books, hoping that some will at least open them and perhaps even make good use of them. Accordingly, it is well worth looking at some recent titles aimed at new maths undergraduates that are likely to be read rather than simply gather dust.
Discrete Mathematics with Ducks (Belcastro) boasts an attention-catching title and is designed to be used either by a lecturer teaching this branch of the first-year curriculum or by a student for self-study. It contains helpful hints on how to read and use textbooks, but its selling point is the amusing “duck” examples and “duck” annotations that break up the text and enhance its readability. The instructors’ preface explains how the exercises can be used in group work as well as independent study. The book comes with a host of links to a variety of resources: GeoGebra files for interactive computer graphics, interesting articles from sources such as the MacTutor History of Mathematics website, various mathematical puzzles and applets so that readers can explore the mathematical algorithms, and a downloadable version of Donald Knuth’s stimulating paper “The Computer as Master Mind”. Anyone teaching discrete mathematics should investigate this student-friendly book.
Another text with the potential to enliven lectures and engage kinaesthetic learners is the second edition of Hull’s Project Origami: Activities for Exploring Mathematics. It covers areas such as graph theory and abstract algebra, as well as the more expected subjects of geometry and topology, and offers origami activities that can be carried out to provide further insight into the topics, along with useful indexes of puzzles and the subjects covered. While these ideas would enhance the teaching of these topics, academics will also find them helpful for outreach activities to inspire potential students.
Our department’s book review assignment encourages new undergraduates to read maths books and to make more use of library facilities. We provide a number of suggestions, including Rob Eastaway and John Haigh’s The Hidden Mathematics of Sport and Marcus du Sautoy’s The Number Mysteries, and next year’s list will see the addition of Ian Stewart’s The Great Mathematical Problems. Although Stewart’s book is rather thicker than some of his others, it will appeal to the serious mathematics students looking to gain more knowledge and understanding of historic problems ranging from the pure mathematics of Goldbach’s conjecture to applications such as the “three-body problem”. As you would expect, it is engaging and readable while communicating serious mathematics: Stewart has a rare gift for presenting deep mathematics accessibly while making no concessions to dumbing down.
Another book that we will be strongly recommending to first-years is the aforementioned How to Study for a Mathematics Degree. This practical book has two halves. The first, designed to prepare students for university mathematics, looks at topics such as proof, the concept of definitions and theorems and abstract mathematics, while the second part deals with the study skills necessary for learning mathematics at university. It offers general advice that students would do well to heed: including “how to address your lecturer by email”, “what to bring to maths help sessions” and “why you should turn up to lectures”. Many lecturers will, I am sure, recognise their own words in this section, including lines such as “students who consistently attend lectures do better than those who don’t”.
There is a helpful section for students who become discouraged when they arrive at university and find that they are no longer top of the class as they were at school, and thus lose confidence in their mathematical ability. This is a problem many students face but do not feel able to discuss, and Alcock’s advice is valuable.
My dilemma regarding this book is whether I would want students to read it before they arrive at university or during their first year. This will depend in part on the content of the degree course and whether or not you think students straight from A level will be put off by reading about definitions, proofs and theorems before university. However, this book fills a gap: maths students sometimes find that guides to succeeding at university, like the excellent How to Get a Good Degree (Race), are insufficiently subject-specific. Alcock’s work will definitely join my list of recommended books for maths undergraduates during their first year, along with favourite old-timers such as Pólya’s How to Solve It and Mason et al’s Thinking Mathematically.
Other recommended new titles include A First Course in Mathematical Modeling (Giordano et al) and A Primer on Scientific Programming with Python (Langtangen). For more advanced students and for information about important new applications of maths, Mathematical Tools for Understanding Infectious Disease Dynamics (Diekmann et al), Statistical Models in Epidemiology (Clayton and Hills) and Statistics: Unlocking the Power of Data (Lock et al) are worth investigating.
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Universities in most nations are now obliged to prioritise graduate career prospects, but how it should be approached depends on your view of the meaning of education. Academics need to think that through much more clearly, says Tom Cutterham
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From true warriors to fake fighters, 'the battle is fought to be won'
MICHAEL 'MR. BOXING YYC' SHORT
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From left to right, International Boxing Hall of Fame Class of 2019 inductees : Teddy Atlas, Don Elbaum, Lee Samuels, Julian Jackson, Donald Curry, Tony DeMarco, Guy Jutras and Buddy McGirt display their IBHOF rings during the induction ceremony Sunday, June 9, 2019, in Canastota, N.Y. ( John Brewer/Oneida Dispatch via AP)
“There were young knights among them who had never been present at a stricken field. Some could not look up on it, and some could not speak. They held themselves apart from the others who were cutting down the prisoners at my Lord’s orders, for the prisoners were a body too numerous to be guarded by those of us who were left. Then Jean de Rye, an aged Knight of Burgundy, who had been sore-wounded in the fight, rode up to the group of young knights and said; “Are ye maidens with your downcast eyes? Look well upon it. See all of it. Close your eyes to nothing. For the battle is fought to be won, and it is this that happens if you lose.”
— Froissarts Chronicles
The abilities and resolve of real ‘fighters’ goes beyond what most can comprehend.
For me, attending the hall of fame weekend in Upstate New York in early June was a thrill, starting with the plane ride down and having the Great Gama of Stampede Wrestling fame sit behind us.
If Stu Hart had an HOF, Gama enters as the greatest ‘heel’ this city ever saw.
For my visit to the International Boxing Hall of Fame in Canastota, N.Y., the induction speech by trainer, broadcast commentator and now IBHOF inductee Teddy Atlas was most compelling.
Teddy always has a way with words and fills his commentary with anecdotes, euphemisms and stories, and when it was his chance on the mic, he gave a show.
What stood out was when he stated that “fighters are just like regular people — they have the same fear, inhibitions, doubts and pain, but they decide to be strong. Somewhere deep inside, they make a conscious choice to do things that a normal person cannot even begin to comprehend.”
Fighters who make it to the most elite levels, up to and including world champions, usually have some special skill such as the tremendous punching power of a Julian Jackson, the amazing boxing ability of ‘Sugar’ Ray Robinson or the mental game of Aaron Pryor.
The few who get inducted into the IBHOF, however, have taken themselves into the most elite of categories. Remember, though, being inducted is not just based on popularity — these are the ones who made the most impact on the sport.
Quoting from the IBHOF website: “For decades, the boxing community looked on with envy as legends from other sports were inducted into their respective halls of fame. The shrines to baseball, football and basketball are located in the ancestral homes to those sports. But boxing has no such geographical origin. Although organized pugilism as we know it originated in England, the sport’s epicenter moved across to America around the same time that the sun began to set on Queen Victoria’s empire.”
Beginning with the reign of heavyweight champion John L. Sullivan more than a century ago, professional boxing champions have been among the most celebrated athletes in history. And the epic championship battles they waged can be found on the annual lists of top sports stories. But for years, there was no structure or independent entity to chronicle and preserve boxing’s rich history.
The idea for a boxing hall of fame germinated out of a town’s love for two of its hometown boys who became world champions. In 1982, residents of Canastota decided to honour a former welterweight and middleweight champion of the late 1950s, Carmen Basilio, and his nephew, Billy Backus, who won the world welterweight title in 1970. The townspeople raised funds for a showcase that would celebrate the achievements of their two local heroes.
The success and enthusiasm for that project encouraged Canastotians to explore the possibility of establishing boxing’s first hall of fame and museum. That project was completed in 1989, when two dozen former champions witnessed the ribbon cutting ceremony of the International Boxing Hall of Fame.
A year later, the first class of boxing legends, including Muhammad Ali, were on hand to receive their long overdue enshrinement.
Since then, the hall of fame has added one wing to the museum and an event pavilion adjacent to the hall.
The hall of fame holds an annual induction ceremony in early June as the highlight of a four-day celebration of boxing and its legends.
During my stay, I connected with boxing guys I’ve only dealt with over the phone.
I met some of the most prolific boxing people and fighters such as Atlas, Ernie Shavers, ‘Marvelous’ Marvin Hagler, Buddy McGirt, Julian Jackson, Antonio Tarver, Orlando Canizales, Erik Morales, Jorge Arce, ‘Chop Chop’ Corley (a three-time world champ who fought Zab Judah, Miguel Cotto, Floyd Mayweather, etc.), Shane Mosley, Michael Moorer (the first southpaw to ever win a world heavyweight title by defeating Evander Holyfield), Iran Barkley, Vinny Paz and so many others.
I also hobnobbed with promoters Don Elbaum and Philly legend Russel Peltz.
If you’re a boxing fan, you must attend at least once. There’s four days of festivities, meetings, memorabilia, a parade of greats, a banquet of the same and a town that absolutely loves boxing
The other end of the spectrum of the HOF may become known as the Wall of Shame, highlighting the fighters who consistently pull out of fights for lame reasons.
I attended the XFFC MMA card in Grande Prairie on June 15 to work cuts and hand-wrapping for local fighters Dan Kovalchuk and Justin Grey from Dynamic MMA, as they were fighting five-round title fights.
On the early morning departure to GP, promoter Darren Cliffe sends a message that the third title fight featuring another Dynamic fighter was just called off due to the opponent being unable to secure a “sponsor to pay for my MRI???”
Am I being punked here?
Some of these guys are consistent with this behaviour. In fact, this same guy has more registered cancelled fights than real ones. Another MMA ‘fighter’ recently pulled out on fight week due to doctor’s orders.
The worst thing is a lot of these guys are actually the coaches at their own club, too. A boxer pulls out of a U.S. debut “due to injury,” which most of the time isn’t the real reason for cancelling.
Enough already.
When I fought, I never escaped a fight.
Yes, your mom, your students and your dog will still support you and tell you “your health is more important,” but be true to yourself and realize the “injuries” are never really bad enough to cancel — you’re just looking for a way out.
Your actions carry a lot of angst for all involved. Your opponent has spent money and valuable time in preparation, as did the coaches and team. And it’s all taxing on the body. The promotion has spent time and money marketing the card, fans tend to get angry when ticket money has been spent and is only sometimes refunded, other athletes have missed their chance to compete, and finally, it’s a discredit to yourself and the sport.
In life, you have reasons or results.
So in the meantime and in between time, that’s it another edition of Mr. Boxing YYC
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apparent rules of feminism Mar. 5, 2017
Emma Watson No Longer Allowed to Be a Feminist, Say Ridiculous Critics of Her Vanity Fair Photo Shoot
By Emma Barrie
Emma Watson. Photo: Frazer Harrison/Getty Images
Emma Watson is confused, and we can’t blame her. The Beauty and the Beast actress, and pioneer of the HeForShe campaign to make men advocate for feminism, has been getting a lot of backlash for her recent Vanity Fair photo shoot in which parts of her breasts were exposed. According to some critics, feminism and nudity are mutually exclusive. According to everyone else: That’s backward.
Julia Hartley-Brewer, a British radio presenter and commentator, had this to tweet: “Feminism, feminism … gender wage gap … why oh why am I not taken seriously … feminism … oh, and here are my (t*ts)!”
Emma Watson: "Feminism, feminism... gender wage gap... why oh why am I not taken seriously... feminism... oh, and here are my tits!" pic.twitter.com/gb7OvxzRH9
— Julia Hartley-Brewer (@JuliaHB1) March 1, 2017
“It just always reveals to me how many misconceptions and what a misunderstanding there is about what feminism is,” Watson said in an interview with Reuters. “Feminism is about giving women choice. Feminism is not a stick with which to beat other women with. It’s about freedom, it’s about liberation, it’s about equality. I really don’t know what my tits have to do with it. It’s very confusing.”
Cue standing ovation. When asked about the Watson “controversy,” Gloria Steinem told TMZ, “Feminists can wear anything they fucking want.” So … Steinem-Watson 2020?
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Emma Watson No Longer Allowed to Be a Feminist, Say Critics
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Controversial assignment asks Ohio students to rank 'most deserving' to save based on race, religion
Posted: 6:02 PM, Aug 23, 2018
By: Bretton Keenan
<p>Courtesy: Councilman Adam Miller of Ward 6</p>
CUYAHOGA FALLS, Ohio — In an assignment given out at Roberts Middle School in Cuyahoga Falls, students had to choose who they felt were "most deserving" to be saved from a doomed Earth from a list based on race, religion, sexual orientation and other qualifications.
The assignment, called Whom to Leave Behind, asked students to rank the 12 people from "most deserving" (1) to "least deserving" (12). Only eight of the twelve could be saved.
The descriptions of the 12 people are as follows:
An accountant with a substance abuse problem
A militant African-American medical student
A 33-year-old female Native American manager who does not speak English
The accountant's pregnant wife
A famous novelist with a physical disability
A 21-year-old female who is a Muslim international student
A Hispanic clergyman who is against homosexuality
A female movie star who was recently the victim of a sexual assault
A racist, armed police officer who has been accused of using excessive force
A homosexual male who is a professional athlete
An Asian, orphaned 12-year-old boy
A 60-year-old Jewish university administrator
In a Facebook post, Councilman Adam Miller said he spoke with the teacher who gave the assignment. He said the teacher intended to promote diversity. Miller told News 5 the teacher apologized for the assignment that has caused such controversy.
"It was a sincere conversation, and I encouraged the continued discussions on this topic," Miller wrote.
Miller said the teacher will be removing this assignment from future lessons. Miller also said he feels this was inappropriate for young students.
"It's implanting prejudicial thoughts in these young impressionable minds. This is NOT building a 'culture of caring,' this is building a culture of animosity, antagonism and hostility," Miller wrote.
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Nation Jul 15th 2019 - 7am
Republicans are quiet as Trump urges minority congresswomen to leave the country
Commentary: ND might stand side-by-side with coastal elites on marijuana
Maybe marijuana is the one thing that can bring this divided country together again, uniting the coasts with the heartland, the urban with the rural, the Democrats with the Republicans.
Written By: Mike McFeely | Jul 11th 2018 - 6pm.
Mike McFeely
If the good folks of North Dakota need to find something in common with the crazy liberals of California or the big-city swamp creatures of Washington, D.C.-people and regions residents of the Flickertail State seem to view with contempt and distrust-it might just turn out to be weed.
Can we call it the Great Ganja Get-Together? Maybe it'll mellow out everybody, from East Coast to Left Coast and everywhere in between.
Here's what's happening: North Dakota, among the most conservative and most Trumpy states in the union where "traditional" values reign and residents seem to like the idea the president is trying to turn back the clock to the halcyon days of Ward and June Cleaver, appears one giant leap closer to full-blown, no-holds-barred legalization of recreational marijuana.
How crazy is this to those who've spent decades watching the state drag itself into the 21st century on a number of cultural issues? If voters approve a measure that will likely be on the statewide ballot in November, a retail business could grow and sell marijuana but it couldn't open until after noon on Sundays because of the state's antiquated blue laws that date to the 1800s. Talk about centuries colliding.
Advocates of legal weed turned in about 18,000 signatures to the secretary of state's office this week, providing a thick cushion over the 13,452 needed to get the measure on the ballot. It is very likely North Dakotans will be voting to fully legalize marijuana.
The Washington Post reported that Legalize ND, the campaign behind recreational marijuana, conducted a poll in February showing 46 percent of the state's residents support the measure while 39 percent oppose it. Fifteen percent are undecided.
It appears there's a good chance recreational marijuana could be full-blown legal for those over 21 in North Dakota.
North Dakota! A state that glows red as Rudolph's nose and has voted for one Democratic presidential candidate (Lyndon Johnson in 1964) since 1936.
North Dakota would join only nine other states and the District of Columbia, and the measure, at least as voted on, will be the most liberal in the country. No licensing, no permitting, unlimited home growing, unlimited agricultural growing, unlimited personal possession, unlimited sale.
It would be, pardon the well-worn phrase, reefer madness. It's assumed the North Dakota Legislature would attempt to put some regulatory controls in place
But take a look at the other states that have legalized recreational marijuana: Alaska, California, Colorado, Maine, Massachusetts, Nevada, Oregon, Vermont and Washington-mostly coastal states that voted for Hillary Clinton in 2016. Add Washington, D.C., one of the most liberal and diverse areas in the nation. Alaska is the exception politically, and like North Dakota votes Republican with a wide libertarian streak.
Is it too soon to accuse North Dakotans of coastal elitism?
David Owen of Grand Forks, chairman of Legalize ND, believes marijuana's support in the state is less about politics than pragmatism. He points out that polls show a strong majority of Americans support legalization, Gallup says 64 percent, regardless of political leanings or geography.
"I think people are seeing that it works," he said on my 970 WDAY radio show. "They can see their neighbors to the north in Canada and they're seeing no problems there. They are seeing states on the West Coast, states on the East Coast, Colorado ... and they are seeing all the tax revenue and they are seeing a great opportunity."
Owen believes a wide swath of North Dakota interests can support weed-agriculture, libertarians, Democrats, young voters. He said he's been calling state legislators in both chambers and doesn't hear much opposition.
There is also this constituency that might help Owen's cause: Those who will vote for full legalization as a way to slap the Legislature for slow-walking and reshaping the medical marijuana bill passed overwhelmingly by voters in 2016.
"There's a lot of reasons for people to like this bill, and there's not a big reason to oppose it," Owen said.
North Dakota, standing side-by-side with the libs in California, Oregon, Massachusetts and Washington, D.C. Who would've thought it?
Opinion Oct 24th 2013 - 12am
Benson: Historic dialouge doesn't repeat, but it does rhyme
Dennis: Bipartisanship lives, say Democrat senators
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Obamas' Higher Ground co partners Spotify for podcasts 'lifting up new, diverse voices'
By John McCarthy-06 June 2019 16:25pm
The Obamas partner Spotify
The Obamas' production company, Higher Ground, has partnered with Spotify to produce podcasts exclusively for the streaming service, which has been making a major push into the podcasting space.
Higher Ground, president Barack Obama and Michelle Obama’s production company, already has a video deal with Netflix, but now it is making its first move into podcasting with fellow subscription service Spotify.
A podcast acquisition spree has seen Spotify acquire Gimlet, Anchor and Parcast for $400m in recent months. This latest deal promises to "produce powerful stories to entertain, inform and inspire, and to lift up new, diverse voices in the entertainment industry" for Spotify's 217 million monthly active users.
The Obamas will reportedly develop, produce, and lend their voices to select podcasts on a wide range of topics as part of the multi-year agreement.
President Obama said: "We’ve always believed in the value of entertaining, thought-provoking conversation.
“It helps us build connections with each other and open ourselves up to new ideas. We’re excited about Higher Ground Audio because podcasts offer an extraordinary opportunity to foster productive dialogue, make people smile and make people think, and, hopefully, bring us all a little closer together.”
Michelle Obama said the podcasts will "amplify voices that are too often ignored or silenced altogether".
Dawn Ostroff, Spotify chief content officer, added: "President Barack Obama and Michelle Obama are two of the world’s most important voices and it is a privilege to be working with them to identify and share stories that will inspire our global audience, which looks to Spotify for unique, breakthrough content.
“Connecting people with original and thoughtful creators – especially those with the ability to highlight underrepresented and indispensable narratives – is at the core of our mission and we are thrilled that not only will the Obamas be producing content, but that they will be lending their voices to this effort."
Spotify announced 100 million paid subscribers and underlined its podcast strategy in its 2019 Q1 results. But insight from Kantar suggests the company may have difficulty monetising its new podcast real estate.
The Drum has collated the major 2019 audio advertising trends, in which Spotify and its podcast strategy plays a vital role.
This article is about: World, Spotify, Podcast, Advertising, Media, Brand
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Film Reviews Review: First Man is perfect, transcendent, to-the-moon-and-back filmmaking
Review: First Man is perfect, transcendent, to-the-moon-and-back filmmaking
Barry Hertz
Published October 10, 2018 Updated October 10, 2018
Lukas Haas, Ryan Gosling and Corey Stoll in First Man.
Photo Credit: Daniel McFadden/Universal Studios
Directed by Damien Chazelle
Written by Josh Singer
Starring Ryan Gosling and Claire Foy
Classification PG
It takes a relentlessly curious mind to turn the cold science of space travel into pulse-pounding fodder for a tick-tock thriller. Just as it takes a hopeless romantic to find poetry in dialogue stuffed with words like “TPI backup” and “3355 on Number 2.” And it takes a calculating, almost unforgiving master of storytelling to make the vast, unending wonder of outer space seem so magnificently, crushingly small.
With his Neil Armstrong biopic First Man, Damien Chazelle proves to be all of these people and more. Nothing in the director’s filmography – not the low-budget musical whimsy of Guy and Madeline on a Park Bench, nor the furious cynicism of Whiplash or the ultimate dreams-die-best-in-Technicolor melancholy of La La Land – offers a hint of the urgency and sheer power of this, Chazelle’s first true epic. It is immersive, engaging and dizzying filmmaking – work that may live in the imagination for as long as Armstrong’s walk on the moon has.
If all the above sounds overwrought, it’s only because I’m trying desperately to not fail the film. Attempting to critique a perfect piece of art in any medium – and First Man is, with perhaps a microcosm of exception, a four-star masterpiece – requires a profound sense of hubris. When a filmmaker has accomplished the impossible, there’s an immense and ultimately insurmountable responsibility placed on a reviewer to not only honour what has been produced, but to avoid mucking up that glory. It was a dilemma I faced two years ago with Chazelle’s last film, but the pressure and the burden feels only higher this time, so skilled and awe-inspiring is the work.
A movie about Armstrong may not sound like a revolutionary act, given the widely accepted facts that a) the taciturn astronaut was the least-charismatic person to ever fly a rocket and b) the canon is filthy with space-travel movies. Yet Chazelle’s drama is far from a traditional beat-by-beat biopic – we don’t see an adolescent Neil dreaming about the stars, nor is there any mandatory check-list of Major Life Events.
Instead, we’re introduced to Armstrong (played by Chazelle’s La La Land leading man Ryan Gosling) in 1961 as he’s piloting one of the first flights of the X-15, a hypersonic rocket-powered aircraft that reached the edge of outer space. Some directors might have captured such a moment with wide, majestic shots – behold the power of humanity’s determination to test its natural boundaries, etc. Chazelle treats the exercise like a horror movie with tightly framed, claustrophobic shots, the look on Gosling’s face an impenetrable mix of icy cool and deep-seated terror. Instantly, Chazelle subverts the expectations of a moon-mission movie; First Man will be a ride, sure, but as intense and unforgiving as the one its historical subjects also endured, to eventual transcendent effect.
With the exception of a grandly meditative finale on the lunar surface – shot in IMAX, resulting in a series of astounding images – most of First Man’s action is captured on 16mm and 35mm film with hand-held cameras, for a gritty you-are-there-even-if-you-don’t-want-to-be sensation. The wave of nail-biting tension Chazelle rides throughout the film, from that initial X-15 flight to the various missteps of the Gemini and Apollo missions, is deliriously effective, to the point where even set-in-stone history seems up for grabs. We all know how Armstrong’s story ends, but Chazelle, working from a scorching screenplay by Josh Singer, expertly underlines just how deadly a game American scientists were playing.
“You’re a bunch of boys; you don’t have anything under control!” Janet Armstrong (Claire Foy) curses at her husband’s NASA minders during one point, and you have to believe that while making First Man, Chazelle and his collaborators were just as shocked at how dangerous Houston’s operation actually was.
To put a face to that turbulence, Chazelle finds the perfect avatar in Gosling. His Neil Armstrong, all steel and dedication, may strike some audiences as overwhelmingly cold. But the actor is also an expert at layering suppressed emotions underneath chilly exteriors (see Drive, The Place Beyond the Pines, Blade Runner 2049, even Only God Forgives) and uncoiling in the subtlest of fashions. Early in the film, Neil and Janet lose their young daughter Karen over a series of quick scenes that initially paint Armstrong as emotionally stunted, even callous. Yet toward First Man’s end, in an ingenious moment that pivots on a metaphor that might not have worked in lesser hands, Gosling reveals the depths of Armstrong’s pain, and how the burden of carrying such a weight can make or break history.
Ryan Gosling and Claire Foy in First Man.
As his dedicated but skeptical wife Janet, Foy matches and often exceeds Gosling. It’s a remarkable feat not only because the actress doesn’t get nearly as much screen time as her on-screen husband, but because she’s also crowded by a wealth of fantastic hey-it’s-that-guy character actors going to the hilt as various NASA honchos (Kyle Chandler, Jason Clarke, Shea Whigham, and a dozen more who will make you race to IMDb). If there’s more footage of Foy on Chazelle’s cutting-room floor, the least he could do is stitch together a separate short film of her searing, unforgettable work.
Despite First Man’s top-to-bottom excellence – if my Earthbound space were unlimited, I would lavish 1,000 words each on Justin Hurwitz’s beautifully hypnotic score, Corey Stoll’s cocky Buzz Aldrin, and the final 30-second scene between Gosling and Foy – I fear for its eventual reception. Not only because it may strike some as more viscerally uncomfortable than the sanded-down work of, say, Ron Howard’s Apollo 13, or because Gosling and Chazelle are playing a long game here, rather than offering quick and easy sentimentality.
Mostly, I’m afraid of the large contingent of know-nothings who are aiming to campaign against First Man on the grounds that it is “un-American.” When the film debuted at the Venice Film Festival this past August, a controversy of idiotic proportions erupted over Chazelle’s decision to not film the American flag being planted on the moon. (While the act isn’t depicted, the flag is visible in several moon-based shots, and the movie is overall rich with the stars and stripes.)
Despite not actually watching the film, U.S. Republican Senator Marco Rubio tweeted that the movie was “total lunacy. And a disservice at a time when our people need reminders of what we can achieve when we work together.” If Rubio and his Make America Great Again cohorts ever bother to view the film, they will realize that the power of “working together” is exactly what Chazelle and First Man are advocating.
Dreams can be terrifying, even deadly. Yet if we can be fearless, not just on our own but with like-minded and strong-willed and unrelenting collaborators, perfection is possible.
First Man opens Oct. 12 across Canada.
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FILE - In these Nov. 7, 2011 file photos, former Penn State vice president Gary Schultz, left, and former athletic director Tim Curley, right, enter a district judge's office for an arraignment in Harrisburg, Pa., for their actions related to the sex abuse scandal surrounding former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky. Schultz and Curley are due in court Thursday, Aug. 16, 2012 to try to persuade a judge to dismiss charges related to the Sandusky scandal. (AP Photo/Brad Bower, left, Matt Rourke, right, File)
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The Lowdown: Christmas in Sweden
Jennifer Heape
jennifer.heape@thelocal.se
Jellied pigs' feet, Donald Duck and a goat-riding gnome may not be your typical global Christmas symbols, but for Swedes they're all part of the fun, writes Jennifer Heape.
Like most European countries, Swedish Christmas celebrations feature such mainstream symbols as Father Christmas, decorated fir trees and brightly coloured presents. However, in among all the usual suspects, Swedish Yule celebrations also throw up some surprises.
The Christmas holiday period begins on the first Sunday of Advent when the first Advent candle is lit, although most of the feasting and celebrations take place after St. Lucia Day.
Held on December 13th every year, St. Lucia Day features a procession headed by a girl wearing a crown of candles, symbolizing the flames which refused to burn Saint Lucia when condemned to the stake.
From December 13th, the festive season is in full swing, and although every family celebrates the Christmas period differently, here are some of the country's most quintessentially Swedish traditions.
Smörgåsbord
The internationally renowned Swedish tradition of the Smörgåsbord makes a special appearance at Christmas as the julbord ('Christmas Table'). Literally translating as 'sandwich table', the smörgåsbord is a buffet style meal consisting of various dishes which may be eaten any time of the year.
The contents of the julbord vary from family to family, but generally will feature some, if not all, of the following: julskinka (Christmas ham), prinskorv (small sausages flavoured with spices and mustard), jellied pigs' feet, cooked red cabbage, meatballs, gravad lax (dill marinated salmon), Jansson's Temptation (a potato, cream and anchovy dish not unlike French gratin), lutfisk (dried and salted cod which is then cooked in water), and dopp i grytan (literally meaning 'dip in the pot' - guests and family dip bread in the juices left after cooking the julskinka).
Risgrynsgröt, a sweet rice porridge made with cream, sugar and cinnamon, is also a julbord favourite. Traditionally a whole almond is placed in the porridge and whoever finds the nut in their serving will be married the next year.
Arguably one of the best reasons to visit one of the many Christmas markets that spring up throughout the country, glögg is a yuletide staple and is often seen sold at outdoor kiosks.
Made from red wine and spices, including cinnamon, cardamom and cloves, glögg is drunk throughout Christmas time. Although also served in a non-alcoholic form, for an extra kick, vodka, aquavit or brandy may be added.
Served with raisins and almonds, glögg is typically drunk with pepparkakor (gingerbread biscuits) or lussekatter (a sweet saffron and raisin bun).
Although now either confused with, or replaced by, the more mainstream image of Santa Claus, Tomte is actually a gnome, a figure harking back to Norse paganism.
Tomte has been described in many different guises; indeed some believe he has the ability to shape-shift at will. However, he is usually depicted as a bearded old man with a tall, pointy red hat.
Living under the floorboards of the house or barn, Tomte is fabled to protect the family and livestock. Since the late nineteenth century, Tomte has come to be associated with Christmas, appearing with the Christmas goat (julbock) who gives out presents to children.
The julbock is most probably descended from the Norse mythology of Thor, God of thunder, whose chariot was pulled by goats.
The Disney character of Donald Duck, known in Sweden as 'Kalle Anke', has been making an appearance on Swedish television on the afternoon of Christmas Eve for decades.
Quite frankly, no one seems to really know why Donald is so ardently shown year upon year, but the show has become such an institution that taking it off the air would probably result in civil unrest.
Another Christmas television favourite is 'Sagan om Karl-Bertil Jonssons Julafton' by Per Åhlin, from the short story by Tage Danielsson. Made in 1975, the animated movie follows a Robin Hood style theme where wealthy Stockholmers are robbed and the bounty given to the poor.
Julmust
Devised by Harry and Robert Robberts in 1910 as an alcohol free alternative to beer, Julmust is a drink that you seem to either love or hate.
The syrup forming the base of the drink is still exclusive to the Robberts family, but the recipe contains hops, sugar, malt extract and spices. Usually impossible to get hold of during the rest of the year, this Christmas drink is very popular, even outselling Coca Cola during the festive period.
Knut's Day
So once the julbord has been devoured, washed down with liberal quantities of julmust and glögg, the family has dozed to the comic quacks of Donald, Tomte has visited and the Julbock delivered the gifts, there is not much left to do.
Many Swedes attend an early morning church service on the 25th called julottan, or just wait things out until Knut's Day on January 13th.
Knut's Day is named after King Knut (Canute IV of Denmark), who ruled during the early 11th century. He was sainted for his virtue and generosity and legend has it that Knut ordered for the Christmas holiday to continue for 20 days until the 13th.
On Knut's Day, the Christmas trees of Swedish households are thrown out amid celebrations and all the edible decorations are consumed.
Once Christmas has been packed away for another year, it's just a couple short months until Easter and the delights of semlor buns, pickled herring, witches and of course, yet another smörgåsbord.
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Immigration White Paper: What’s the impact on manufacturing?
Posted on 20 Dec 2018 by Maddy White
Yesterday the government published the long awaited Immigration White Paper, which sets out plans for a new skills-based UK immigration system.
The document sets out the removal of a cap on skilled workers – image courtesy of Depositphotos.
The foundation of the document proposes the removal of a cap on skilled workers coming to Britain from the EU, with a suggested minimum £30,000 salary threshold – this already the case for non-EU workers.
However, lower-skilled and unskilled migrants wouldn’t be able to come to the UK and settle permanently. They would be limited to twelve months in Britain.
Home Secretary Sajid Javid said the new system would be based on the UK’s skills needs rather than where migrants were from and show that the UK is “open for business”.
The Institute of Directors (IoD) commented that the ‘white paper gives with one hand and takes away with the other’. The controversial £30,000 salary cap for skilled workers has been put out for consultation.
The report in a nutshell:
Proposes to remove the current cap on the number of skilled workers from the EU and elsewhere
Low skilled workers are limited to 12 months in the UK
Minimum salary requirement of £30,000 for skilled migrants seeking five-year visas
Visitors from the EU will not need visas
The new system is planned to be introduced from 2021
The impact?
Skill levels matter to the UK economy, all of them. Limiting overseas workers who earn under £30,000 (and using this as the basis to define ‘skilled’) to 12-months could be damaging and encourage businesses to recruit different people every year.
The need for access to low-skilled EU workers on the production line is essential – Depositphotos.
According to Migration Observatory, an estimated half a million EU citizens are employed in low-skilled jobs in Britain, these include fruit-picking, working in factories, warehouses and cleaning offices.
The extensive report found that 132,000 people are working in cleaning jobs, 120,000 in hospitality roles, 96,000 in warehouses, 91,000 in factories, 74,000 working in food processing and 26,000 on building sites.
This immigration plan could encourage local talent to be utilised, but in the manufacturing industry the skills gap is already evident. However, graduates from the EU and across the globe could now work in Britain when the UK leaves the EU in March without a cap on numbers, though subject to their salary.
For the manufacturing industry where the average salary is £32,500, it sits at the boundary of the proposed ‘skilled’ threshold.
Lifting the cap on skilled workers is important and liberating, but the need for access to low-skilled EU workers on for example the production line, is equally essential for the industrial sector.
The response
Josh Hardie, CBI deputy director-general, commented: “A new immigration system must command public confidence and support the economy. These proposals would achieve neither.
He said that this system is a “sucker punch” for many firms and that the “government cannot indulge in selective hearing.
The document has received mixed responses – image courtesy of depositphotos.
“It tunes in to business evidence on a disastrous Brexit no deal, but tunes out from the economic damage of draconian blocks on access to vital overseas workers.”
Stephen Phipson, CEO of EEF, said: “British manufacturers need a future migration system that allows them to recruit critical mid-skilled roles such as engineering technicians; the UK has a significant skills gap.
“We are pleased that graduates from the EU and the rest of the world will be able now to work in the UK post Brexit and the skills route has been expanded to enable employers to recruit from the EU at technician levels too. These are significant changes.”
He added: “However, many other proposals still cause great concern. Employers will now need to pay thousands of pounds to cover the costs of visas, the immigration skills charge and the health surcharge for new EU workers as well as work through a complex bureaucracy to do so; many companies simply can’t afford this.”
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Home Andalucia Granada Back with the Andalucians he ‘couldn’t stand’: Sorolla at the Alhambra
Back with the Andalucians he ‘couldn’t stand’: Sorolla at the Alhambra
7 Aug, 2012 @ 10:45
HE once wrote to his wife to say he was going to go to bed early because he couldn’t stand the Andalucians.
But now Joaquin Sorolla is returning to Granada. An exhibition of the Valencia painter’s work inspired by Andalucia’s Arabic palaces is going on display in the Alhambra’s Palacio de Carlos V.
Sorolla initially travelled to Sevilla in 1908 with a commission to paint Alfonso XIII, ‘and had a terrible time,’ explained the exhibition’s curator, Tomas Llorens. He hated the bullfights, and the flamenco made him dizzy.
“He wrote to his wife that he was going to go to bed early because he couldn’t stand the Andalucians.” But when he ‘discovered’ the Alcazar and later the Alhambra, he became captivated with Andalucia beginning to paint patios, marble, ceramics, ponds and columns.
Now, the Jardines de Luz (Gardens of Light) reveals a collection of 50 oil paintings, more than two-thirds on loan from the Sorolla Museum, arranged in seven sections.
The exhibition, which was originally meant to be displayed in Ferrara in Italy but had to be closed after an earthquake struck the region, runs until October 14.
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Lorna 27 Aug, 2012 @ 23:33 at 23:33
Wish I’d known. I spent an entire morning in the Alhambra last week: the gardens, the Generalife and the Palacio de los Nazaries, but unfortunately didn’t have time to visit the Palacio de Carlos V (which I regard as a monstrosity of a building anyway, erected as it was in the midst of such delicate beauty). Having lived in Valencia for many years I am quite familiar with Joaquin Sorolla’s work and his exceptional treatment of the light in his paintings. In his time he was regarded as the world’s foremost artist. Ah well, my loss.
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Front page - The U-boats - Listing of all U-boats
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(U-56, U-3503)
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Ordered 1 Apr 1935
Laid down 1 Mar 1936 AG Weser, Bremen (werk 912)
Launched 25 Sep 1936
Commissioned 28 Dec 1936 Kptlt. Rolf Dau
28 Dec 1936 - 8 Nov 1938 Kptlt. Rolf Dau
8 Nov 1938 - 11 Mar 1940 Kptlt. Johannes Habekost
30 Jul 1940 - 2 Nov 1940 Kptlt. Wilfried Prellberg
7 patrols
28 Dec 1936 - 31 Aug 1939 2. Flottille (active service)
1 Sep 1939 - 31 Dec 1939 2. Flottille (active service)
1 Jan 1940 - 12 Mar 1940 2. Flottille (active service)
30 Jul 1940 - 2 Nov 1940 2. Flottille (Fb)
Successes 11 ships sunk, total tonnage 27,751 GRT
2 auxiliary warships sunk, total tonnage 160 GRT
1 warship damaged, total tonnage 33,950 tons
Sunk on 11 March 1940 in the Jade Bight in position 53.37N, 08.10E by bombs from a British Bristol Blenheim aircraft (82 Sqn RAF/O). 58 dead (all hands lost).
Raised on 15 March 1940, repaired at Wilhelmshaven and returned to service on 30 July 1940.
Sunk again on 2 November 1940, in the North Atlantic north-west of Ireland in position 56.26N, 10.18W by depth charges from the British destroyer HMS Antelope. 2 dead and 44 survivors.
Loss position
See the 14 ships hit by U-31 - View the 7 war patrols
Attacks on this boat and other events
An unknown enemy submarine fired two torpedoes at U-31 at 03.16 hours. The boat escaped by the narrowest of margins.
U-31 evaded a spread of four torpedoes fired by HMS Trident about 15 miles (24 km) south of Lorient and was then forced to dive when fired on by her deck gun. Trident followed up with some explosive charges, but without result. This was the third time that U-31 had been attacked by an enemy submarine on this patrol. The commander wrote sardonically in the war diary: "Main task of this patrol was to play the target ship for British submarines.".
A British submarine fired torpedoes at U-31 off Lorient, but without success.
3 recorded attacks on this boat.
General notes on this boat
16 Sep 1939. This boat, under the command of Kptlt. Johannes Habekost, attacked the first convoy in the war on 16 Sept, 1939 when she sank the British steamer Aviemore, sailing ahead of OB 4.
11 Mar 1940. U-31 was the first U-boat to be sunk by an aircraft in WWII. She was on sea trials in the Heligoland Bight following a refit when Squadron Leader Miles Delap came out of low cloud in his Blenheim and bombed her, sinking her almost immediately.
Men lost from U-boats
Unlike many other U-boats, which during their service lost men due to accidents and various other causes, U-31 did not suffer any casualties (we know of) until the time of her loss.
We have 1 emblem entry for this boat. See the emblem page for this boat or view emblems individually below.
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There was another U-31 in World War One
That boat was launched from its shipyard on 7 Jan 1914 and commissioned into the Imperial Navy on 18 Sep 1914. The Naval war in WWI was brought to an end with the Armistice signed on 11 Nov, 1918. Read about SM U 31 during WWI.
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Unilever advances carbon reduction commitment at five UK & Ireland sites
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One year after announcing its bold ambition to become carbon positive by 2030 1, Unilever has taken another significant step on its renewable energy journey, with the signing of a contract to use biomethane (also known as green gas/biogas) at five of its sites in the UK and Ireland.
Unilever UK & Ireland has signed a deal with a renewable energy company GENeco, which means that from 1 January 2017, its offices in Leatherhead (Surrey) and 100 Victoria Embankment (London), and its food and drink factories in Norwich, Trafford Park and Cork, will use by 10,000 MWh of biomethane to power the sites’ heating and significantly reduce carbon emissions from the sites. With electricity already coming from certified renewable sources, the purchase of a certified supply of bioemethane means that Unilever has become carbon neutral [from energy sources] at these five sites.
The biomethane – which is fully traceable and certified – is generated by GENeco’s anaerobic digester in Avonmouth, which converts inedible food waste and sewage into energy.2
This new contract supports the overarching work that Unilever has already undertaken in cutting its greenhouse gas emissions: since the launch of the Sustainable Living Plan in 2010, the global fast moving consumer goods company has cut its manufacturing greenhouse gas footprint by 39% per tonne of production since 2008 – the equivalent of one million tonnes of CO2 per annum.
Charlotte Carroll, Sustainable Business Director, Unilever UK & Ireland, said, “In 2015, just as world leaders came together for COP 21 (the United Nations Climate Change Conference), our business committed to making our operations carbon positive by 2030. The ambitious target encouraged us to look carefully at our sites through a fresh, sustainability lens which helped to inspire our landmark agreement with GENeco today.
“With Biomethane or “green gas” still in its relative infancy compared to other forms of renewable energy, this agreement marks a significant step forward in helping us source 100% renewable energy for five of our UK and Ireland sites. Recognising that this is only the start of our journey, we hope to build on this great foundation and eventually convert waste from our own operations into energy to truly support a circular economy.”
GENeco has been carbon neutral and zero waste to landfill in its operations since 2013. Biomethane generated at its Bristol site is produced from household food and sewage waste; from here it can be injected into the national gas grid to power thousands of local homes, or used as vehicle fuel.
GENeco managing director Mohammed Saddiq said: “This deal marks a significant step change in the decarbonisation of UK industry and we are very pleased to be working with Unilever to help in their aims to become carbon positive.
“We believe that in order for the UK to meet the 2020 targets as defined in the Renewable Energy Directive, there will need to be an increasing role for biomethane in the UK’s heat networks.”
In late November 2015, Unilever outlined its ambition to become carbon positive, eliminating fossil fuels from its operations and directly supporting the generation of more renewable energy than it consumes. Through the ambition, which is part of the Sustainable Living Plan, Unilever will:
Source 100% of our total energy across our operations from renewable sources by 2030
Source all electricity purchased from the grid from renewable sources by 2020
Eliminate coal from its energy mix by 2020
Directly support the generation of more renewable energy than the company consumes and make the surplus available to the markets and communities in which it operates.
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Climate variability and associated limnological changes in the coldest region of Eurasia over the past millennium: chironomid-based reconstructions in NE Siberia
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Climate variability and associated limnological changes in the coldest region of Eurasia over the past millennium: chironomid-based reconstructions in NE Siberia (SibClimLake)
Start date: Sep 1, 2008, End date: Aug 31, 2010 PROJECT FINISHED
Understanding the climatic instability on decadal to centennial timescales is essential for determining the baseline and recent trends of climatic variations. Our study has the aim to reconstruct climatic variability and climate impact on lakes over the last millennium in the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia), the coldest region of Eurasia. This goal will be achieved by means of chironomid analysis (Diptera: Chironomidae) of littoral and deep-water sediment records from three arctic lakes located in the northeastern Siberian tundra. Special attention will be placed on studying the response of littoral and deep-water chironomid assemblages to the past climatic variability and changes in duration of ice-covered period of lakes. Chironomid-based evidence of these changes will provide independent assessment of the climate impact on in-lake processes. Reconstructions of climatic changes in Arctic Yakutia over the past millennium will indicate whether recent climate change is unusual in the context of past variability. The obtained results will contribute to a spatial reconstruction of climate variability through time in Eurasia and may serve as background knowledge for future climate modeling. The proposed project will be realized in the Palaeoecology section, Universiteit Utrecht, Netherlands, and will be strongly interlinked with ongoing research at the host institution. The group is host to a number of multi-proxy palaeoclimatic and palaeoenvironmental investigations both on the Northern and Southern hemisphere. The applicant will be directly involved in training of researchers at the host institution in East Palaearctic chironomid analysis and in the interpretation of palaeoecological results from Siberian lakes developed by researchers at the host institution. This will guarantee a close interaction between the applicant and researchers at the host institution and will ensure a direct exchange of knowledge and scientific expertise.
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150 businesses call for ‘transformational’ £150m improvements to the A14 – the UK’s Premier Trade Route
Article by Suffolk Chamber on 12/07/19
After over three years of evidence gathering and building considerable public support, the campaign to secure Government investment into the A14 in Suffolk is making its concluding case – ahead of an expected announcement later in the year.
The Suffolk Chamber of Commerce-led No More A14 Delays in Suffolk has been building the business case for what is seen by most commentators as ‘Britain’s Premier Trade Route’ because of the amount of goods running along it to and from the Port of Felixstowe.
The campaign, which is looking to secure £150m from the second Roads Investment Strategy (RIS2) to address the seven worst pinch points, has now secured the backing of 150 businesses located along its Suffolk stretch.
Furthermore, analysis from the campaign has revealed that no fewer than 423,000 jobs exist within the whole A14 corridor between Kettering in the west and Felixstowe.
Mark Pendlington, chair of the Suffolk chamber of Commerce-led A14 Strategy Board, has now written to the Rt Hon Chris Grayling MP, secretary of state for transport and others, demonstrating the level of support for the campaign and the boost to jobs and prosperity it would create more generally if successful.
Mark said: “We have demonstrated how an investment of £150m could be transformational, with a return on that investment to the national economy of £1.5bn. Which is why we see the A14 in Suffolk as the ‘golden thread’ running through our economy that has the potential to further boost business growth, and to attract and secure more jobs and inward investment in our growing economy.”
“We believe our case is compelling – and we are hopeful that the Government will see the facts before them and invest in Britain by investing in Suffolk.”
The campaign received a major boost last year when Highways England, the government-owned company with responsibility for the operation, maintenance and improvement of the motorways and trunk roads, designated the highway as a ‘current, planned and potential expressway’.
Expressways are motorway-grade two-lane highways and their designation requires that all junctions off and onto them are enhanced.
Since then the campaign has contributed compelling evidence to the Department for Transport’s (DfT) consultation into the Highways England report to ensure that the A14 – and other Suffolk projects – are included.
A House of Commons reception, hosted at the start of 2019 by South Suffolk MP James Cartlidge, Mark Pendlington and Cllr. Mary Evans of Suffolk County Council, allowed the campaign to make its case in front of key decision-makers and influencers, including Chris Grayling himself.
Cllr Mary Evans said: “We know that upgrading these junctions will unlock growth and enable businesses in Suffolk to create 36,000 more jobs. Delays on the A14 are costing Suffolk businesses millions of pounds each year in terms of lost deliveries, missed appointments and cancelled meetings. Our ports are vital for the nation’s economy and we need to be able to rely on the A14 to transport our exports out of the country.”
John Dugmore, chief executive of Suffolk Chamber of Commerce, added: “We believe our case is compelling – and we are hopeful that the Government will see the facts before them and invest in Britain by investing in Suffolk.”
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Apple Pay takes to the skies via JetBlue
Apple Pay is poised to take off—quite literally. Starting next week passengers on select JetBlue Airways flights can use Apple Pay on their iPhone 6 and 6 Plus handsets to buy meals, drinks, and certain
Apple Pay takes to the skies via JetBlue Apple Pay is poised to take off—quite literally. Starting next week passengers on select JetBlue Airways flights can use Apple Pay on their iPhone 6 and 6 Plus handsets to buy meals, drinks, and certain Check out this story on USATODAY.com: http://usat.ly/1DdPOYy
Edward C. Baig, USA TODAY Published 12:05 a.m. ET Feb. 10, 2015 | Updated 1:00 a.m. ET Feb. 10, 2015
USA TODAY's Ed Baig goes hands on with JetBlue's iPad Mini with Apple Pay support. Video by Eli Blumenthal Full story: http://usat.ly/1DdPOYy
Using TouchID to verify a purchase on a JetBlue flight using Apple Pay.(Photo: Eli Blumenthal, for USA TODAY)
NEW YORK — Apple Pay is poised to take off — quite literally.
Starting next week, passengers on select JetBlue Airways flights can use Apple Pay on their iPhone 6 and 6 Plus handsets to buy food, drinks and certain onboard amenities when the plane reaches cruising altitude. You'll be able to upgrade to available premium seats, too.
JetBlue is the first airline to accept Apple Pay at 35,000 feet. It almost certainly won't be the last. "Somebody else doing it always puts pressure on the other guy," says Eddy Cue, Apple's senior vice president for Internet software and services.
Paying for stuff on planes can be difficult for the passenger sitting in a cramped seat who is trying to pull a credit card out of their wallet or fumbling with a purse that's under the seat or in an overhead bin. Apple Pay promises an easier experience.
Apple Pay first got off the ground in September, when Apple introduced the mobile payments system as a banner feature on the latest iPhone.
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In April, when the Apple Watch goes on sale, JetBlue travelers wearing the smartwatch will also be able to make payments from their wrists.
"The sky is definitely not the limit when it comes to mobile payments with Apple Pay," says Marty St. George, a senior vice president at JetBlue.
Ed Baig talks to JetBlue's Rachel McCarthy about the company's new Apple Pay integration. Video by Eli Blumenthal
The carrier is swapping older mobile payment terminals for specially outfitted iPad Minis with NFC-capable cases that are being issued to more than 3,500 inflight crewmembers. The Federal Aviation Administration had to approve the new iPads before they could be used onboard.
The iPads can also accept conventional plastic credit cards to accommodate passengers without the latest iPhone or smartwatch.
JetBlue's crew is getting video training on the new system. The iPads include an Inflight Service Assistant app with information that helps flight attendants identify frequent fliers or passengers with a birthday. With the FAA's blessing, the iPads will include the entire inflight manual.
Starting in the third quarter, passengers will be able to use Apple Pay to complete purchases through JetBlue's own mobile app.
I was treated to an exclusive pre-launch demonstration on a JetBlue flight before it left JFK Airport in New York for Los Angeles. The process works similarly to the way you might buy stuff in stores using Apple Pay. After ordering a salad, I raised the iPhone right up next to a flight attendant's iPad Mini while pressing my thumb against the secure TouchID fingerprint button on the phone. The transaction, via an American Express card in this case, almost immediately registered. You don't get a paper receipt — one will be e-mailed.
Wi-Fi is not required to use Apple Pay in the air, though wireless Internet is available on the plane.
After checking out JetBlue's Apple Pay integration USA TODAY's Ed Baig gives an update on the state of mobile payments. Video by Eli Blumenthal
Apple Pay on JetBlue begins with transcontinental flights between JFK and airports in San Francisco and Los Angeles. Additional flights will be added in March, with all JetBlue flights slated to accept Apple Pay by June. JetBlue is still working out the details on how to communicate the availability of Apple Pay to passengers.
JetBlue vice president for inflight experience Rachel McCarthy says passengers with Google Wallet or another mobile payments system will be able to pay with their phones "down the road."
Taking Apple Pay to the skies is important to Apple as it tries to expand the ecosystem for mobile payments beyond such merchants at McDonald's and Walgreens. USA Technologies recently announced that it was making Apple Pay available at about 200,000 self-service locations: commercial laundry machines, parking kiosks, as well as vending machines in businesses, schools and yes, airports. "Most people would prefer not to carry cash or worry about cash. There's a lot of opportunity there," says Cue.
It'll take awhile before Apple Pay makes huge headway with subways and public transit systems. They're all different, you're dealing with local governments, and funding is required, Cue says. "Those things tend to move slower than you and I would like. But it's clear you'll see more and more of those, but on a very regional basis.
To date, 750 banks and credit unions have signed on to bring Apple Pay to their customers. According to Apple, in the three months after launch, Apple Pay has made up more than two out of every three dollars spent on contactless payments across the major U.S. credit card networks. Whole Foods Market has seen mobile payments increase by more than 400%.
But a lot more merchants need to sign on.
Mobile payments go beyond Apple of course. Though it hasn't caught on in a major way, Google Wallet cannot be dismissed. Meanwhile, Samsung is rumored to be in talks with Massachusetts start-up LoopPay to bring its own payment system to the next flagship Galaxy Phone, expected to be unveiled in early March. LoopPay's technology, which I've reviewed, is compatible with the magnetic-stripe credit card readers that have been employed for decades.
Even if contactless mobile payments are widely adopted on planes, consumers won't be able to ditch their wallets just yet — you still typically whip out your driver's license to get past airport security.
"In our world, we really do want to replace the wallet at some point in time, and Apple Pay is the start of that," Cue says.
The timing on when it's complete, is still very much up in the air.
E-mail: ebaig@usatoday.com; Follow @edbaig on Twitter
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IMAGINE – DISCOVER – REFLECT
Singapore is a multicultural metropolis located just off the southern tip of Malaysia. The tropical climate breathes life into this city-state well-known for its cleanliness and abundance of botanical gardens and open natural areas, leading to Singapore also being called A Garden City or A City in a Garden.
The city is constantly evolving, reinventing, and re-imagining itself, and its people are passionate about creating new possibilities, which result in new attractions, restaurants or cafes cropping up every few years or months. With its mixture of modern and traditional architecture, it will leave any aesthete in awe of the city’s buildings.
Plus it has a plethora of leisure facilities that include a wide range of shopping options from bargains at markets to branded boutiques, mid-range to Michelin-star restaurants and world-class attractions all within easy reach through an excellent public transport system.
Things you need to know before going…
Singapore actually has four official languages: English, Mandarin, Malay and Tamil. Tipping is not required as a 10% service charge is added to your bill at all hotels and most restaurants and cafes, but you can still tip if you considered your had excellent service. Wi-Fi! Singapore is known for Free Wi-Fi in most public places that visitors can register for!
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Gardens by the Bay – A ‘must-visit’ for every visitor, this ‘only in Singapore’ attraction is set over 101 hectares in the heart of the city. Key highlights include the Supertree Grove with its towering Supertrees and the two conservatories: The Cloud Forest – veiled in mist with the tallest indoor waterfall in the world; and The Flower Dome – the largest glass greenhouse in the world according to 2015’s Guiness World Records, where a world of plants and flowers from the Mediterranean and semi-arid lands are on display. Be sure to catch the free Garden Rhapsody Sound & Light Show each night at 7.45pm and 8.45pm
Marina Bay Sands SkyPark Observation Deck – The entire complex a feat of engineering and an architectural statement that is now a key part of the Singapore skyline, the Observation Deck is where visitors flock to for that special selfie, 57 levels above the heart of the city.
Night Safari – Mingle with a different crow at the world’s first wildlife night park. This is above and beyond any typical zoo experience as you will see over 1,000 nocturnal animals froms 115 species as they graze in natural environments across the 40 hectare park.
Merlion Park – Home to Singapore’s 8.6 metre tall favourite and beloved icon , the Merlion has the head of a lion which symbolises the city’s original name “Singapura” (‘lion city’ in Malay), and the tail of a fish which represents its origins as a fishing village.
Singapore Flyer – Standing at 165 metres tall, this huge observation wheel gives you the perfect opportunity to take in incredible 360 degrees of panoramic views of the city.
Clarke Quay – Located along the historic Singapore River, Clarke Quay is Singapore’s best representative of its buzzing nightlife, with a range of restaurants, bars, live music and dance clubs.
Singapore Zoo – Since 1973, Singapore’s “open zoo” has been known as one of the most beautiful wildlife parks in the world, where animals roam freely in open and naturalistic habitats. Nestled within a lush rainforest, it is home to more than 2,800 animals representing over 300 species of which 34% are threatened. The Zoo has an international an excellent reputation for its conservation and breeding programmes.
Chinatown – Home to a Chinese temple (Buddha Tooth Relic Temple), Indian temple (Sri Mariamman Temple) and a Malay mosque (Jamae Mosque), Singapore’s Chinatown is a shining example of its multicultural heritage. Boasting a bustling, colourful mix of old and new, you’ll find markets, spas and dim sum restaurants mixed in with traditional Chinese medicine halls, food stalls and bakeries. Some laneways are now also home to stylish bars and restaurants, which gives a whole different vibe after the sun goes down.
Jurong Bird Park – Home to almost every species to impress every avian lover. Enjoy a feast for your senses with over 5000 colourful birds in over 20.2 hectaares comprising of natural habitats and giant walk in aviaries.
Battlebox, Fort Canning Hill – War history buffs shouldn’t miss the recently reopened Battlebox – the actual underground bunker at Fort Canning, where the British made the fateful decision to surrender Singapore to the Japanese during WWII. The historical site is itself situated on the 60-metre-tall Fort Canning Hill, known for its lush greenery and surprising history that dates back 700 years.
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Sunday, October 17, 2010 6:00 PM
Albuquerque, NM–The Sandia Mountain Natural History Center (SMNHC), an environmental education center operated by the New Mexico Museum of Natural History & Science, has been awarded a $12,500 grant by the Sierra Club to support the SMNHC’s Traveling Ecology Field Program.
The Traveling Ecology Field Program is an innovative, four-hour program that introduces students across the state to their local ecosystem. Trained naturalists from the Sandia Mountain Natural History Center meet students in a local “wild area” such as a state park or national forest and lead them on a hands-on, discovery-based journey into the natural world around them. This free, standards-based program will introduce over 1,500 students to the beauty and wonder of New Mexico.
The SMNHC is a featured partner in the Sierra Club’s nation-wide initiative, Building Bridges to the Outdoors (BBTO). The Sierra Club began awarding its Building Bridges to the Outdoors grants to New Mexico organizations in 2007, in response to recent studies suggesting that outdoor programs can reduce the incidence of childhood obesity and the effects of attention deficit disorder.
According to BBTO Southwest Youth Program Representative, Kristina Ortez de Jones, “The Sandia Mountain Natural History Center provides essential outdoor education to New Mexico schoolchildren. We have long supported their efforts."
Museum Executive Director, Hollis J. Gillespie said, “We are grateful to the Sierra Club, and the Sierra Club Foundation, for recognizing our efforts in environmental education; our outreach will reach further as a result of their generosity.”
By the end of the school year, SMNHC staff will have traveled over a thousand miles delivering the Ecology Field Program to elementary-aged students in New Mexico.
About the Sandia Mountain Natural History Center
The SMNHC is an award-winning environmental education center located in the Sandia Mountains just east of Albuquerque. This beautiful 128-acre piñon-juniper forest is owned by Albuquerque Public Schools and operated by the New Mexico Museum of Natural History & Science. Operating since 1967, the SMNHC has over five miles of hiking trails and serves approximately 17,000 people a year. The SMNHC provides exciting experiences with a variety of programs for people of all ages.
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The New Mexico Museum of Natural History & Science, a division of the New Mexico Department of Cultural Affairs, is a regional center of excellence in scientific research, exhibits, and science education.
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The specials, snacks, and screenings that will get you through the soccer frenzy.
Written by Julyssa Lopez
The World Cup is more than just an excuse for beer at breakfast time. It’s the biggest single-sport tournament in the world, with teams from 32 countries (as many as in the 2008 Olympics) and more than a billion people expected to tune in. With the games taking place in South Africa, the time difference isn’t necessarily working in our favor this time (7 AM Buffalo wings, anyone?), but here’s a roundup of bars, pubs and restaurants that are offering World Cup specials this month.
Bar Pilar (1833 14th St., NW; 202-265-1751). We don’t know whether Ernest Hemingway—the author whose boat (named for one of his wives) lends its name to this DC hot spot—was a soccer fan, but rest assured this bar is full of ’em. Swing by for an extensive cocktail list and an ambience that will make you want to stick around, even when your team’s 90 minutes are up.
Biergarten Haus (1355 H St., NE). This brand-new bar is slated to open the day of the opening game. Watch South Africa versus Uruguay or Mexico versus France on its two 100-inch outdoor projection TVs. At one of the three bars, order from a list of more than 30 European beers.
Ceiba (701 14th St., NW; 202-393-3983). Stop by the bar for $5 beer specials. During games, you can also get themed cocktails such as the Tarjeta Roja (Red Card) and the Targeta Amarilla (Yellow Card) for $5.
Fadó Irish Pub (808 Seventh St., NW; 202-789-0066). Although Ireland isn’t among the 32 teams in this year’s World Cup, Fadó will join in the festivities all the same, opening at 7 AM during the World Cup to televise all 64 games. Additional incentives for the soccer-crazed include a fantasy-football competition where players pick teams of “real” footballers and rack up points for how well they do for their respective squads during the tournament. Cash prizes are awarded to top finishers.
Irish Channel (500 H St., NW; 202-216-0046). It might get a little crowded around the seven TVs in this low-key Irish pub, but the specials will make it worth it. For the World Cup, there will be a $20 beer-bucket special—you can choose six bottles of Heineken, Coors Light, or Miller Light, or mix and match. The pub will continue its daily food specials, including wing specials during the weekend. All games will be shown starting at 7 AM.
Jackson 20 (480 King St., Alexandria; 703-842-2790). Executive chef Dennis Marron has created a $20.10 menu that will be available during live games only. The afternoon menu features all-you-can-eat barbecue pork ribs served with apple-cider coleslaw; a J20 burger made with ground chuck and smokehouse bacon, mountaineer cheese, grilled green onions, barbecue aïoli, apple-cider coleslaw, and fries and served with beer and a brownie; and a selection of six canned beers. Earlybirds can have a combination of a Bloody Mary, house-made beignets, and a bacon, egg, lettuce, and fried green tomatoes on toasted brioche bun also for $20.10. You can munch on these in front of the indoor television, which will be showing all matches, or outside on the courtyard where large flat-screen will be available. During halftime, Jackson 20 will feed customers Grand Marnier-dipped orange slices.
La Frontera Cantina (1633 17th St., NW; 202-232-0437). Is Latin-American fútbol more your style? Try La Frontera Cantina for margaritas, sangria, and cerveza and enjoy the World Cup on one of four screens.
Lucky Bar (1221 Connecticut Ave., NW; 202-331-3733). Need some breakfast with that brew? Come to Lucky for the World Cup’s earliest morning games and enjoy breakfast along with $4 Yuengling and Carlsberg, which this pub will serve up during every live match. The kitchen will make special South African treats, such as bobotie, a curry dish with ground lamb and egg. Even more drink and food specials will be posted each day on the Web site. The bar’s 25 TVs will allow for plenty of angles to bask in your team’s exploits on the field.
McFadden’s (2401 Pennsylvania Ave., NW; 202-223-2338). Who knew the same bar that hosts D-Listers like Real World cast members and Heidi Montag was so into the World Cup? The festivities here include opening the bar at 10 AM starting June 11. You’ll get a special brunch menu plus $5 burgers and wing baskets. Drink specials during matches will be $3 Bud Light drafts, $4 Budweisers, $6 Red Bull mimosas, $9 Red Bull Absolut cocktails, and $20 Bud Light Supertubes. Plus, if you show up on Thursday, June 10, for the kickoff tournament, you’ll be able to enjoy the $10 open bar from 8 to 10 PM. You’ll also have a chance to win soccer and World Cup merchandise, and a table/free bar tab for the UK-versus-US watch party Saturday the 12th at 2.
Molly Malone’s (713 Eighth St., SE; 202-547-1222). Head to this Capitol Hill bar during soccer matches for $5 Guinness, Harp lager, and Magners Irish cider. For earlybirds, the bar will be open at 7:30 AM to show the morning games on 12 televisions.
Pour House (319 Pennsylvania Ave., SE; 202-546-1001). This bar is usually the place to go for fans of the US men’s national team. During the World Cup, catch specials including $3 Peronis and $10 Peroni pitchers. Plus, there are more than 25 high-definition TVs where you can cheer (or grimace) over every goal. The bar will be open at 7 AM to show each match.
Urbana Restaurant and Wine Bar (2121 P St., NW; 202-956-6650). For anyone looking to celebrate the World Cup in a classier fashion, the bar will have South African wines in honor of this year’s host country. Starting June 11, try a 2008 Raoul’s Jackals River Chardonnay or a 2005 Blaauwklippen BVS Zinfandel—both will be available for $12 per glass or $40 per bottle. Additionally, the restaurant has temporarily put in a TV so guests can watch matches while sipping. Plus, if the United States, Italy, France, or Spain wins a game, all guests have to say is “World Cup wine special” to get 25 percent off bottles from that country. Reruns will be played during happy hour (5 to 8 daily) and will include $5 small plates of brandade-stuffed piquillo peppers; duck meatballs with Anson Mills polenta; crab beignets with yellow corn, scallions, and rémoulade; falafel with pickled red onions and tahini; and crispy seafood rolls with green-curry aïoli.
Ventnor Sports Cafe (2411 18th St., NW; 202-234-3070). This mega-sports bar plans to switch on its 28 televisions at 7 AM to show every game during the World Cup. Owners have expanded the usual breakfast menu to accommodate the morning crowds and are offering bottomless Bloody Marys and mimosas on Saturdays and Sundays. For those craving a bit of fresh air to go along with their drinks and football, the patio has plenty of screens showing matches all month.
Peacock Cafe (3251 Prospect St., NW; 202-625-2740). The American eatery mixes things up this month with several South African dishes, including beef bobotie, Karoo lamb pie, South African stuffed mushrooms, and vetkoek, a traditional Afrikaner pastry also known as a "fat cake." All World Cup games are shown on the restaurant's two high-definition TVs, and pastries will be offered during the early morning contests.
Ireland’s Four Courts (2051 Wilson Blvd., Arlington; 703-525-3600). All 64 games will be shown live in high definition and surround-sound at this Irish pub. Games will be taped and replayed nightly between 6 and 8 for those who miss the daytime action, and breakfast specials will be offered for dedicated fans who arrive when the bar opens for 7:30 AM contests. During live matches, the bar will serve Peroni for $3.50 in addition to specials and half-price appetizers during the evening replays.
Summers Restaurant (1520 N. Courthouse Rd., Arlington; 703-5
28-8278). This soccer bar is loaded with screens—more than 50—that will be switched on for every game, even the ones that start at 7:30 AM.
Union Jack’s (4915 St. Elmo Ave., Bethesda, 301-652-2561; 671 N. Glebe Rd., Arlington, 703-778-3568; 10400 Little Patuxent Pkwy., Columbia, 410-740-5225). This British pub will be hopping mad with fans clad in Lampard and Rooney jerseys come June 12, when England faces the United States in Britain’s first contest of the World Cup. But don’t let that stop you. This bar’s can’t-miss drink specials will run throughout the month, and each location will televise every game live and give away free team memorabilia during matches. Twenty-five high-definition televisions and a ten-foot high-definition projection screen will ensure that every blade of grass in Royal Bafokeng Stadium shows up in perfect clarity as the United States squares off against its C-group rival.
Flanagan’s Harp & Fiddle (4844 Cordell Ave., Bethesda; 20814). This pub will be showing every kick and every goal on its multitude of screens. Specials will be offered during each of the 64 matches.
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Tarragon is an herb. Some people call it “mugwort.” Be careful not to confuse tarragon with mugwort (Artemisia vulgaris).
The parts of the tarragon plant that grow above the ground are used to make medicine.
Tarragon is used to treat digestion problems, poor appetite, water retention, and toothache; to start menstruation; and to promote sleep.
In foods and beverages, tarragon is used as a culinary herb.
In manufacturing, tarragon is used as a fragrance in soaps and cosmetics.
Tarragon is a good source of potassium. It also contains ingredients that seem to be able to fight certain bacteria.
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Nausea and vomiting that can occur after surgery. Early research suggests that applying a mixture of ginger, cardamom, and tarragon essential oils to the neck after anesthesia and surgery may help relieve nausea and prevent vomiting for up to 30 minutes in some people. However, the effect seems to vary depending on the number of vomit-causing drugs that were given during anesthesia or as pain relievers during and/or after surgery.
Digestion problems.
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More evidence is needed to rate the effectiveness of tarragon for these uses.
Side Effects & Safety
Tarragon is LIKELY SAFE when taken by mouth in food amounts. It is POSSIBLY SAFE when taken by mouth as a medicine, short-term. Long-term use of tarragon as a medicine is LIKELY UNSAFE. Tarragon contains a chemical called estragole, which might cause cancer.
Special Precautions & Warnings:
Pregnancy and breast-feeding: It’s LIKELY UNSAFE for women who are pregnant or breast-feeding to take tarragon by mouth as a medicine. It might start your period and endanger the pregnancy.
Bleeding disorder: Tarragon might slow blood clotting. There is concern that tarragon might increase the risk of bleeding when taken as a medicine.
Allergy to ragweed and related plants: Tarragon may cause an allergic reaction in people who are sensitive to the Asteraceae/Compositae family. Members of this family include ragweed, chrysanthemums, marigolds, daisies, and many others. If you have allergies, be sure to check with your healthcare provider before taking tarragon.
Surgery: Tarragon might slow blood clotting. There is concern that tarragon might prolong bleeding during and after surgery. Stop taking tarragon at least 2 weeks before a scheduled surgery.
Interactions?
We currently have no information for TARRAGON Interactions.
The appropriate dose of tarragon depends on several factors such as the user's age, health, and several other conditions. At this time there is not enough scientific information to determine an appropriate range of doses for tarragon. Keep in mind that natural products are not always necessarily safe and dosages can be important. Be sure to follow relevant directions on product labels and consult your pharmacist or physician or other healthcare professional before using.
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A Pair of Loners: Photos, Friendship and Figuring It Out in Delhi
Author: Bryan DerballaBryan Derballa
Time cover by Adam Ferguson. New York Times A1 by Zackary Canepari.
The photojournalist has long been known as the lone wolf, traveling solo to the far-flung corners of the world to document experiences few are capable of seeing. By function, it's often a solitary quest, lonely and alienating; rarely as romantic as the photographs make it appear.
So it's significant when a couple of fledgling photographers meet at a card table in New Delhi, far from their respective homes, and form a friendship. Even more so when, two years later, those same photographers, Adam Ferguson and Zackary Canepari, score almost simultaneous covers of Time magazine and The New York Times.
After that first meeting, Ferguson and Canepari developed a camaraderie and healthy competition in India that took them through the dangerous hotspots of Pakistan and Afghanistan. Together they learned how to navigate the logistical hurdles of struggling photojournalists in an underdeveloped country. They discussed photography incessantly and edited one another's work, always striving for that next level. They got assignments from top publications and ultimately developed a friendship founded in photography.
Raw File asked the pair over e-mail to describe each other's photography and the competitive bond that formed in some of the most war-torn countries in the world.
Ferguson on Canepari
Kathputli Colony by Zackary Canepari
"Canepari landed in Delhi with his Hassleblad in early 2007, roughly the same time as myself, a time when photographers where thin on the ground in India. We met over a poker game. He was smoking a cigarette and wearing his dirty Pirates baseball cap. There was definitely a sense of competition between us. He could play poker and I couldn’t.
But competition aside, Zack and I were both in a certain exile in the developing world trying to cut our teeth, and that left us on common ground. Many a night have we spent on a grubby New Delhi roof top talking drunkenly about religion and politics, going on about tech stuff and whining about our artistic disillusionment, lack of work and mounting credit cards debts.
Zack didn’t consider himself a photojournalist. He came from a portrait background in California. He cast his medium-format eye on stories about camel breeders and circus performers. He would photograph the quirky and bizarre – things that changed over time, like shoes and hands and faces. He was barely interested in the news. But as I ventured off into Pakistan and Afghanistan, working more and more for magazines on digital format, Zack started grappling with the idea of portraiture versus reportage, film versus making a living, and where his photography lay. I was getting more assignments than he was, and I know that unsettled him.
Long Distance Truck Driver by Zackary Canepari
Although he’d never admit it, it was the right time for his Hassleblad to blow a part last year and leave him stuck on a digital camera. As soon as he got used to the idea of going digital, he started to show a stronger interest in the higher profile stories in the region and the idea of getting assigned to cover them. The first time I went to Afghanistan Zack laughed at me and said, “Never.” But soon after, he jumped on a plane to Kabul. He never had much ambition to photograph conflict, but he was hungry to push himself and was seeking work. It was a natural evolution. And now The New York Times calls him instead of me and I watch him fly off to Pakistan. Canepari does it better.
Although after getting himself established in the photojournalism arena in South Asia, Zack slipped back stateside in July and isn’t coming back to India, he tells me. He also tells me he is back on the Hassleblad and chasing quirky stories in California. I think Zack decided where his heart was and knew he now had the visual language to tell the stories he had in mental reserve. Although I would never tell him, I am glad to see him back exploring what got him started. Right now I am sure he is standing on a roadside in his Pirates cap photographing a neon hotel."
Canepari on Ferguson
Korengal Valley by Adam Ferguson*
"I met Adam at a card game in Delhi. I'm not sure either one of us especially likes playing cards so I'm not quite sure why we were there. We did both like smoking cigarettes though and quickly found ourselves outside talking shop. Typical shit mostly. Gear, work, places and artistic endeavor. Although we mostly started off from the same place professionally, I remember leaving that night feeling like I was in over my head. That feeling has subsided over time, but no doubt, Fergs has always been one step ahead of me. Which is probably why I've stuck to him for so long.
Even then, he wanted conflict and drama. At that point I only wanted kitsch and subversion (I still do). Clearly he's influenced me more than vice versa. The first time he went to Afghanistan, I said, "No thanks. Have fun." He put on his flak jacket before he left and I thought to myself, "No way, no how." But when he came back, all puffed up and fully of glory, I got inspired. Eight weeks later I landed in Kabul; his bullet-proof gear slung over my shoulder.
Adam is a throwback. He is a manual lens. Somewhere in a parallel dimension he is farming in Australia. I don't think he knows what a blog is. Nor does he get sucked into the photo ego trips that plague our industry. Don't get me wrong, he has a big ego. I don't think we'd be friends if he didn't. But the dude is a straight shooter. More direct than roundabout. Ask him to help you edit something only if you got the stomach for it...
Korengal Valley by Adam Ferguson
Although we've found ourselves deep into the world of the professional digital journalist, I think we'd both smash our computers in a hot minute. Half of our conversations are about artistic compromise. Basically disgust in our own work and a desire to cut those ties and venture creatively, free of our professional burdens. But alas, the real world has limited space for photo vagabonds and the glory and finances of the professional world beckon more than ever. To his credit, he seems to only get the jobs that fit his profile. Maybe he'd be shooting slightly different stuff if he had his way, but somehow, I think he's exactly where he should be.
Yeah, we're competitors. The same people call him that call me. Usually him first, although I'm angling to dethrone him. (Keep it to yourself. He thinks we're friends.) Once in a while, I get his scraps and honestly, I'm happy to have them. But easily the best thing about my relationship with him and all the other photographers in my life is watching the progression. The improvements are visceral. Fergs is 10 times better than he was on poker night two years ago. Being that I am always a step behind, that means I must be nine times better. I can live with that."
In the last few months, Canepari has worked for some of the best newspapers in the world, covering news in India, Pakistan and Afghanistan before retreating to California for some personal time. Ferguson is still at it, currently in Afghanistan. He was recently named of one of PDN's 30 Emerging Photographers and was added to the mentor program with the elite VII Agency. The two are helping to usher in the next generation of photojournalism in a time of rampant budget cuts, an overabundance of digital technology, and emphasis on celebrity gossip. It appears that as long as they're photojournalists, they'll never be rich and they'll never be famous, but at least they'll have each other.
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100 Years of the British Royal Family
From weddings to funerals, births to coronations, and, of course, a few scandals in between.
The world may change dramatically, but there's one thing that's for sure: The British Royal Family will endure. We're taking a look back from the days of King George V to Prince George.
View Gallery 101 Photos
1916: Taking a Ride
Queen Mary and King George V leaves Buckingham Palace.
1917: At the Club
King George V, Queen Mary, and the Prince of Wales are seen out in front of the British Officers' club.
1918: A Royal Anniversary
King George V and Queen Mary celebrate their silver anniversary. They married July 6, 1883.
1919: Family Outing
King George V, Queen Mary, and their youngest son Prince John leave the Great Allied War Photographic Exhibition.
1920: The Duke
The future King George VI (then named Albert) is made Duke of York. Here, he poses while dressed in his robes for the House of Lords.
1921: Game Time
The Duke of York kicks off a charity football game between Tottenham Hotspurs and Corinthians.
1922: A Royal Wedding
Princess Mary marries Viscount Lascelles.
1923: Another Royal Wedding
The Duke of York (the future King George VI) marries Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon (the future Queen Elizabeth and Queen Mother). Also this year, Princess Mary gives birth to George Lascelles (7th Earl of of Harewood).
1924: A Royal Baby
Princess Mary gives birth to a son, Gerald Lascelles.
1925: Family Getaway
The Duke of Kent, Queen Mary, Elizabeth, Duchess of York, and George, Duke of York visit Balmoral Castle.
1926: A Future Queen is Born
The Duke and Duchess of York hold Elizabeth (the future Queen Elizabeth II) at her christening.
1927: Baby Queen
A portrait of the young future queen, who bears more than a passing resemblance to her great-granddaughter Charlotte.
1928: Royals, En Route
King George V and Queen Mary in a carriage on their way to the Knights of St John Ceremony at Westminster Abbey.
1929: Holiday Travels
Princess Elizabeth on the platform at King's Cross station, about to depart with her Royal grandparents for Christmas holidays at their Norfolk country home, Sandringham.
1930: Royal Sister
The Duchess of York and Princess Elizabeth pose with the new Princess Margaret, who was born on August 21.
1931: Anniversary Celebration
The Duke and Duchess of York accompany Princesses Elizabeth and niece Diana, at Glamis Castle in Angus, Scotland, for the Golden Wedding celebrations of the Earl and Countess of Strathmore, the Duchess's parents.
1932: Joining the Grandparents
Princess Elizabeth accompanies King George V and Queen Mary to a church service at Crathie, near Balmoral.
1933: Three Royal Generations
King George V, the Duke and Duchess of York, and Princess Elizabeth take a trip in the Royal carriage.
Prince George, Duke of Kent (son of George V and Queen Mary) marries Princess Marina.
1935: King George V's Silver Jubilee
Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret wave from the balcony with King George V and Queen Mary. Also this year, Prince Henry (son of George V and Queen Mary) marries Lady Alice Montagu Douglas Scott, and King George V's sister, Princess Victoria, dies.
1936: Funeral For a King
King George V dies, Edward ascends to become King Edward VIII, then abdicates the throne 326 days later to marry Wallis Simpson. Here, he walks in his father's funeral procession with his brothers.
1937: A New King
After his brother abdicates the throne, the Duke of York becomes King George VI. Here, we see His Royal Highness with Queen Elizabeth and Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret on Coronation Day.
1938: Royal Watching
Queen Elizabeth, King George VI, Queen Mary (center) and Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret observe the presentation of new colors to Grenadier Guards at Buckingham Palace.
1939: King's Chorus
King George VI and Queen Elizabeth sing a song at the King's Camp at Abergeldie Castle, with Princesses Margaret and Elizabeth.
1940: The Dawn of a Difficult Time
The family poses together. Later this year, Buckingham Palace would be bombed during the Blitz, then again in November.
1941: A Stiff Upper Lip
The King and Queen stayed in London during the war, and could be frequently out in public surveying damage. Here, they visit Salford.
1942: The Family Gathers
The King and Queen pose with Princesses Margaret and Elizabeth. This year, tragedy hits when Prince George, Duke of Kent (King George's brother) is killed in active service only weeks after his son Michael is born.
1943: Doing Their Part
Queen Elizabeth leads King George VI, and Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret around Sandringham Park, which was turned over to agricultural production to assist the war effort.
1944: The Princess Does Her Part
Here, we can see Princess Elizabeth, the future Queen, doing technical repair work during her military service in WWII.
1945: Victory Day
King George VI and Winston Churchill, who became close friends during WWII, appear together on balcony during Victory Day celebrations
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Charlottesville Symphony – A triumph and a crowd-pleaser
Nov 19th, 2018 | By Ralph Graves
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Damon Gupton
The Charlottesville Symphony brought the audience to its feet twice Saturday evening. The first time was for an artistic triumph, the second time was for a crowd-pleaser.
The orchestra, under the direction of guest conductor Damon Gupton, opened the program with Rossini’s Overture to “Semiramide.” At first, I was a little concerned. The overture starts softly, and gradually builds in volume. The ensemble came in at mezzo-forte, which didn’t give them much room to increase volume. Things soon righted themselves, though.
The horn quartet delivered full-bodied, balanced sound. And the strings, as always, played the pizzicato passages with laser-focused precision. It’s quite impressive when you remember that the ensemble is a blend of professional, student, and ameature musicians.
Daniel Sender
Concert master Daniel Sender took center stage for the Barber Violin Concerto. It was an artistic triumph. Sender’s playing was wonderfully expressive. It highlighted the emotive possibilities of Barber’s deceptively simple melodies.
And Sender’s technique was impeccable. The pristine tone of his playing was constant even into the extremes of the violin’s upper register.
The concerto also had impressive performances from the ensemble. The middle movement’s melody is first presented in an extended oboe solo. In the program notes Sender said oboist Kelly Perel played with an “incredibly lyrical, sweet sound.” That’s what I heard Saturday night.
Also worth noting was the wonderfully tight blend of the strings. Lines would ripple through the sections, seamlessly transferring from violin to violas to cellos as if played on a single instrument.
The orchestra’s performance final movement was wonderful. The energy never flagged, the tempo never slowed, and the shifting rhythms were taken in stride. When it was over, the audience not only gave a standing ovation but called Sender and Gupton back twice. They (and the orchestra) obliged with an encore — Rachmaninoff’s Vocalise.
The second half of the concert was the crowd-pleaser — Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 5. Gupton kept things moving, especially in the last two movements. It was a good performance, and one the audience responded to. As the last notes of the finale faded away, the audience once again stood and applauded.
Damon Gupton’s conducting was subtle and efficient. His gestures were economical, but always crystal clear. He and the ensemble seemed to work well together, and that chemistry made the performances stronger, I think.
That’s not to say it was a perfect evening. Sometimes when the violins bowed repeated notes, the attacks would drift out of synch. During the concerto, there were places where the orchestra overpowered the soloist (this also happened at the last concert).
There were some bobbled horn notes during the symphony, possibly due to fatigue. To be fair, the horns had been playing long and hard all evening. Fatigue may also account for the string playing in the symphony’s final movement. The string sound pulled apart slightly at the beginning. But it eventually came together. Everyone seemed to get a second wind and were able to finish the symphony (and the concert) strong.
Charlottesville Symphony at the University of Virginia
Benjamin Rous, Music Director
Damon Gupton, guest conductor
Daniel Sender, violin
Gioacchino Rossini – Overture to “Semiramide”
Samuel Barber – Concerto for Violin and Orchestra, Op. 14
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky – Symphony No. 5 in E minor, Op. 64
New Blues & Soul News – 7/16/2019
Jul 15th, 2019 | By Dave Rogers
New Blues News – 7/16/2019 Tullie Brae – Revelation (Endless Blues): Tullie Brae is a confident and expressive singer who wrote the ten songs on this disc and also plays Hammond keys and piano and plays some slide. She is backed up by Jeff Jensen (guitar, hand claps), Bill Ruffino (bass), David Green (drums) and […]
New Jazz Adds – 7/16/2019
New Jazz Adds – 7/16/2019 Anat Cohen Tentet – Triple Helix (Anzic): “Anat does what all authentic musicians do: She tells stories from her own experiences that are so deeply felt that they are very likely to connect listeners to their own dreams, desires and longings.” (Nat Hentoff) “Anat has been declared Clarinetist of the […]
Józef Elsner String Quartets Worth Exploring
Jul 15th, 2019 | By Ralph Graves
Tags: Accord, CD Review, Chamber music, Classical music, Equilibrium String Quartet, Józef Elsner
Józef Elsner was one of the most important composers in early 19th Century Poland. He wrote 38 operas, eight symphonies, over 70 masses, and oratorios, dozens of chamber works, and more. Yet he’s remembered for one thing: he was Fredrick Chopin’s piano teacher. This release helps remove Elsner from his famous pupil’s shadow. The Op. […]
#ClassicsaDay Revisits #NAFTAclassics – Week 2
Tags: #ClassicsaDay, #NAFTAclassics, Alexina Louie, Amy Beach, Classical music, Healey Willan, Kelly-Marie Murphy, Silvestre Revueltas, Twitter
The Classics a Day team is made up of American and Canadians. The month of July has important national holidays for both countries. And so the theme for July is the music of North America. (Mexico doesn’t have a major holiday in July, but we decided to be inclusive). In my posts for #ClassicsaDay I […]
Johnny B & The Goodes at Offbeat Roadhouse, July 19
Jul 12th, 2019 | By WTJU
Blues harp legend Johnny B delivers The Goodes to Offbeat Roadhouse on Friday night, July 19, from 8-9 for a concert which will also be broadcast on WTJU. Sure you could listen on the radio (91.1 FM) or on-line, and even video stream it, but concerts always sound better with you as part of the studio audience. Offbeat Roadhouse takes […]
Johann Wilhelm Wilms Piano Quartets receive their due
Tags: CD Review, Chamber music, Classical music, CPO, Johann Wilhelm Wilms, Romantic period, Valentin Klavierquartett
Johann Wilhelm Wilms (1772-1847) only wrote two piano quartets (that we know of), and they conveniently fit on one CD. German-born Wilms was a major musical figure in the Netherlands As a contemporary of Beethoven, his fame remained more regional than international. A contemporary reviewer called Wilms a “practiced composer versed in compositional technique.” That’s […]
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BBC'S LATE KICK OFF RETURNS
The BBC’s ‘Late Kick Off’ programme returns to BBC One for a fifth series tonight (Monday 3rd) at 11.20pm.
More than a highlights programme, Late Kick Off has seven regional editions across England and reflects, celebrates and examines the fortunes of local Football League sides both on and off the pitch. The seven regional shows and their hosts are:
North West: Tony Livesey
North East & Cumbria: Steve Bower
Yorkshire & Lincolnshire: Guy Mowbray
Midlands: Manish Bhasin
East: James Burridge
London & South East: Jacqui Oatley
South, South West & West: Tony Husband
The programme focusses on the teams, the players, the fans and the communities that the clubs are so much a part of. As well as all the goals from the previous weekend’s local Football League action, each programme gets to grips with the issues fans want to talk about.
David Holdsworth, Controller of BBC English Regions says: “Late Kick Off means that football fans across the UK get exclusive access to their local clubs with journalism, comment and analysis from the regions’ footballing experts and personalities.”
For more information on the show visit www.bbc.co.uk/latekickoff.
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Bethpage, NY/ Garden City, NY; October 10, 2018 – Merrill Zorn, President of Zorn’s of Bethpage, regularly spends her time leading her team who serves Long Island families food at her iconic family-owned Long Island favorite take-out and catering destination of 80 years. She is taking a short break from the construction of the new Zorn’s of Bethpage to join with her team of Skeeter, Zorn’s of Bethpage’s Turkey Mascot, and Bill Jensen to raise funds for struggling Long Island families, youth and senior citizens in an unconventional way. On Saturday, October 20, 2018 at 11:30 am, Ms. Zorn and her team will take part in the tallest, most exciting fundraiser and community event to hit Nassau County as they courageously rappel 170 feet down the side of Nassau Community College’s 13-story Tower in Garden City during EAC Network’s Over The Edge event, which runs from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. and will include up to 92 other “Edgers.”
“Going over the edge is adventuress, thrilling, and frightening all at once but it is all well worth the effort,” says Ms. Zorn. “As nerve racking and scary as it is to repel off of a tall building while looking down 13 stories, I know that the funds we are raising will help people who need it most. We encourage all our friends and family to come out to watch us and all the other brave ‘Edgers’ as well as learn more about the important work that the EAC Network does here on Long Island.”
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Tralfaz. Yeccchh!
Many mysteries grip the world of Hanna-Barbera cartoons, ones the Scooby-Doo gang in the Mystery Machine could never solve (like why some people enjoy Scooby-Doo cartoons). But none are more baffling as the origin of the word “Tralfaz”.
Those who have a love for the word remember it from the Jetsons. It surfaced on one episode, Millionaire Astro, which first aired January 6, 1963 (and forever after in reruns). Astro was originally owned by the fabulously wealthy J.P. Gottrockets, who called him Tralfaz. The plot sees a Jury-Vac award the dog to Gottrockets, who finally decides to return him to his adopted family which divests him of the unwanted moniker for good (Astro spends the cartoon going “Tralfaz. Yeccchh!”).
The episode was written by Tony Benedict, who I don’t ever think has commented on where he got the name. But cartoon watchers have heard it before. In fact, Benedict likely heard it only a few months earlier.
Fish and Slips was released by Warner Bros. on March 10, 1962, which opens Sylvester and son watching TV and Mel Blanc intoning “A record-breaking, sharp-nose tralfaz was caught by Mr. Treg Brown.” It was written by Dave Detiege. But before that, Sylvester and “Tralfaz” tangled again in the form of a sign outside a run-down mansion in The Slop-Happy Mouse, written by Tedd Pierce and released on September 1, 1956.
But before that, “Tralfaz” appears as the name of part of a secret weapon that Private Snafu tells his girl-friend about in the Warners-made short Going Home (1945). The cartoon was never released—something about a war ending was the reason—but an animation drawing of it can be found in Chuck Jones’ book Chuck Redux.
But before that...
Warners cartoons were known for grabbing all kinds of catch-phrases and personalities from network radio, far too many to even begin to mention here. One show they seem to have left alone was Burns and Allen. Maybe it’s because George Burns and Gracie Allen didn’t have catch-phrases (other than “Say goodnight, Gracie”), and their show changed formats several times. They adopted the format they later used on TV—George suffering through the illogical logic of his wife—after Burns decided a format with the two of them as single people just wasn’t working. That was despite the presence of Artie Shaw and his orchestra.
This incarnation of the show, on September 9, 1940, opens with the following dialogue with announcer Bud Hiestand (who, incidentally, was later the announcer on the Mel Blanc Show):
George: Am I happy tonight.
Bud: Well, you should be, George, winning that $200,000 breach of contract suit against Elsie Tralafaz.
George (to Gracie): Well, I’m going down to write out that check for $25 for court expenses which will clear up that Elsie Tralafaz case once and for all.
So what was all this about?
There were several consecutive episodes of the show beginning on August 19th where George meets a bimbo named Elsie Tralafaz at the beach and, fed up with Gracie, offers to make her his new radio partner. The following week (August 26), Elsie decides to sue George for reneging on the offer, then the following week (September 2), a judge dismisses the case. That brings us to the September 9 broadcast, after which the character disappeared for good. You can hear the broadcast here and have to cue in to about the four-minute mark for the first bit of dialogue.
I realise there’s an extra ‘a’ in the character’s name, but if you say the word fast enough, it sounds like “Tralfaz;” it did when I first heard the show and that prompted this post. It could very well be Tedd Pierce (who was writing for Jones when he was making the Snafu shorts) heard the shows and remembered (or misremembered) the funny name and pulled it out when he needed one.
Then, again, it could all be coincidence. But if someone has the definitive explanation, they can let me know.
There’s another little connection between “Tralfaz” and Hanna-Barbera, if you want to stretch things a bit. The Burns and Allen Show at the time all this happened was sponsored by Hormel. And Geordie Hormel (heir to the Spam fortune) wrote some of the background music picked up by the Capitol Hi-Q library which was used in the Hanna-Barbera cartoons.
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Huckleberry Hound — Postman Panic
Credits: Animation – Carlo Vinci; Layouts – Dick Bickenbach; Backgrounds – Art Lozzi; Dialogue and Story Sketches – Charlie Shows and Dan Gordon; Titles – Art Goble; Production Supervision – Howard Hanson.
Cast: Huck, Bulldog – Daws Butler; Dog, Homeowner – Don Messick.
Production E-54, Show K-022.
First aired: week of Monday, February 23, 1959.
Plot: Postman Huck tries to get past snickering dog to deliver letter to Mr. Jones. It turns out Jones lives next door. Huck now has a different dog to get past.
As mentioned in the post below, this is one of those early cartoons in which Hanna-Barbera featured a dog whose response to someone’s misfortune was to wheezily snicker in a three-quarters head shot at the camera. Joe or Bill didn’t seem to realise what they had right away, as it took several years before a starring cartoon character was built around a dog with a snicker. And then another character. And another.
Otherwise, this is a pretty routine cartoon with a few neat poses by Carlo Vinci. It’s built around one of the principles of the cartoon universe—a dog that doesn’t act like a dog isn’t treated like a dog by other dogs. So, though Huck is a dog, he’s treated as a human stand-in as he’s walking upright, talks and is employed by the U.S. Postal Service. The dog vs. dog-that-is-but-isn’t plot was used in each of Huck’s three seasons.
It starts with Don Messick’s “intoning” narrator voice (Don used several different narration styles) announcing “This picture is dedicated to...” which was an opening device Warren Foster carried on when he took over the Huck series. It also has a rare background problem. Hanna-Barbera cartoons are famous for characters going past the same tree, lamppost or table six or seven times and unless you’re paying attention, you don’t notice. But at the beginning of this cartoon, the background jerks when Huck is walking as if the two ends of the background drawing used in the cycle didn’t quite match. It’s tough to see below, but you’ll notice before Huck passes the door in the frame to the left, the divide on the upper window is slanted. In the frame to the right, not only is the divide straight, there is less lawn and more pavement below it. You can see the pavement “move” on screen as Huck walks right. It actually happens twice.
The narrator asks the question “Speaking of dogs, I’ll be doggoned if I know why the poor postman has always been considered fair game by the dog of the house.” And that sets up our story. The unnamed white beagle jumps out from behind a bush, readies himself with a growly “On your mark! Get set! Go!” and chases Huck off the property before he can deliver a letter. And then we get the snicker. While Hanna-Barbera later put the snicker in Muttley, the line the dog says to himself is done by Messick in the voice he would use for Astro on the Jetsons, though this dog doesn’t start each word with the letter ‘r’.
So Huck tries again. He pats the dog, assuring us his bark is worse than his bite. That’s before the bite. “On second thought...” says Huck as he addresses his viewers without any pain. He tries to get the dog to release his hand by pulling out a dog biscuit, but takes so long making the offer, the dog grabs the bone-shaped treat, swallows it and resumes putting his claws on Huck’s arm. Carlo put together a nice little sequence of drawings here that takes up about a second of screen time. Check out four of them.
Next, Huck turns the letter into a paper airplane. The tricky dog responds by sticking his head out the mail slot and blowing the letter back. Huck responds in kind in a cute little sequence, featuring one of Carlo’s signature poses where the character leads with his stomach with the head pointing up.
Huck and the dog have a tennis-like match with the letter, getting closer and closer to each other as the pace quickens. It ends when the dog sucks in the letter and an indignant Huck fishes it out of the dog. Repeat animation follows as the dog chases Huck off the property then snickers.
I’ve always wondered if Stan Freberg influenced Daws Butler, or vice versa, or if it was a little bit of both. Daws lifted his Mr. Jinks voice from Freberg after the two worked together. Daws also loved bending his vowels when doing Huck, especially ‘u.’ In this scene, Daws does it to the dog when he exclaims “Just a darn minute, you!” Freberg did the exact same thing as the Texan in his record of ‘The Yellow Rose of Texas.’ when he yelled “You smart-aleck Yankee drummer, you!”
Huck decides to strap on a pair of roller skates and barrel past the dog to the house. The home must have the world’s longest sidewalk, as Huck skates past the same tree nine times. But the cagy canine pushes a makeshift ramp into Huck’s path, and the postman goes up it, and sails over the house, landing on an equally-long sidewalk behind it (skating past the same tree 14 times). Huck tells us “Three-point landing, folks.” But then we get a telegraphed ending with a cut to a shot of a mailbox, wherein Huck comes to an ironic rest.
Huck decides to use the mailbox as a shield but the dog, somehow, has a key to the back door of the metal box. Perhaps writer Charlie Shows gave it to him so Charlie could indulge in one of his patented ass-pain gags. We also get a painting error for Huck isn’t coloured blue as he runs away in the mailbox; he has the same white colour as the dog.
Charlie loves those ass jokes we get one again in the next scene as the determined Huck ignores the pain of another dog bite and delivers the letter.
However, it turns out he’s got the wrong house. Mr. Jones lives next door. So, that’s where Huck heads next. In the meantime, the dog calls the bulldog next door to alert him.
“Oh, no, not another goddone dog!” moans Huck as he goes through the same run cycle again, and the whole process starts over again, to the familiar snicker of his original antagonist.
Two of Bill Loose and John Seely’s better-known melodies from the Capitol Hi-Q library (‘L’ series, reel two) take up a good portion of the soundtrack. We also get four dum-dee-dum versions of Clementine out of Huck; only one of them is over top of the stock music.
0:00 - Huck/Clementine sub title theme (Hanna-Barbera-Curtin).
0:28 - ZR 51 LIGHT ANIMATION (Geordie Hormel) – Mailman Huck delivers letter, goes to second home, dog chases after him.
0:52 - Clementine over top (trad.)
1:14 - F-20 TOBOGGAN RUN (Jack Shaindlin) – Dog chases Huck from yard, snickers.
1:27 - TC 300 ECCENTRIC COMEDY (Loose-Seely) – Dog chomps on Huck’s arm.
2:14 - Clementine a capella (trad.) – Huck drags dog along sidewalk.
2:21 - TC 300 ECCENTRIC COMEDY (Loose-Seely) – Huck makes paper airplane out of letter.
2:44 - TC 202 ECCENTRIC COMEDY (Loose-Seely) – Letter flies back and forth, Huck pulls it out of dog, chased off property; Dog snickers.
3:42 - TC 303 ZANY COMEDY (Loose-Seely) – Huck approaches home on roller skates.
3:57 - LAF-2-12 ON THE RUN (Shaindlin) – Dog sets up teeter board; Huck flies over house, hits mailbox.
4:41 - TC 303 ZANY COMEDY (Loose-Seely) – Dog snoozes.
4:49 - Clementine a capella (trad.) – Huck in mailbox approaches home.
5:02 - TC 303 ZANY COMEDY (Loose-Seely) – Dog opens mailbox, chomps on Huck, chases him away.
5:32 - L-1154 ANIMATION COMEDY (Spencer Moore) – Huck bitten by dog but reaches door.
5:55 - TC 303 ZANY COMEDY (Loose-Seely) – Huck is at the wrong house, dog phones bulldog next door.
6:36 - Clementine a capella (trad.) – Huck approaches Jones house.
6:56 - LAF-2-12 ON THE RUN (Shaindlin) – Bulldog chases Huck, dog snickers for a third time.
7:10 - Huck sub end title theme (Hanna-Barbera-Curtin).
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The Dog that Snickers in the TV Flickers
Bill Hanna and Joe Barbera weren’t above borrowing—especially from themselves—when coming up with new characters. But as time marches on, it becomes fuzzy in the minds of new viewers who came first.
Say the words “snickering dog” and the response you’ll likely get is “Muttley.” He first appeared in Wacky Races, which began its broadcast life on Saturday mornings in 1968. It was one of the last Hanna-Barbera shows I really enjoyed, mainly because of the voice work, and the fact I liked the movie The Great Race. And breaking out into stardom were Dick Dastardly and Muttley, who ended up with their own vastly ho-hum cartoon later. Dastardly was Hanna-Barbera’s less funny version of Snidley Whiplash while Muttley was Hanna-Barbera’s version of, well, a bunch of Hanna-Barbera characters.
It was only a few years earlier (1965) on the Atom Ant Show that the best segment featured a character named Precious Pupp. Precious would loudly bark, which would surprise a robber, postman or other antagonist into getting bashed, and then snicker in a close-up. Muttley did the same thing. Sometimes, Precious would do a rassen-frassen-rattle-dattle mumbling-swear routine that Muttley expropriated, too. Ah, but none of this originated with Precious Pupp.
While the bark-scare routine was lifted from the Frisky Puppy-Claude Cat cartoons that Mike Maltese wrote for Chuck Jones at Warners, Joe and Bill borrowed from themselves for the snickering Pupp. The earliest instance I can find is in ‘Fireman Huck’, which first appeared on December 11, 1958. Maybe because this is written by Charlie Shows, the concept is a little different. The dog begins to snicker not because of anything he’s done, but because the “poor, li’l old, frightened” kitten Huck’s trying to rescue bares its claws, swipes and Huck lands on his head.
The wheezy laugh came from the larynx of Don Messick, whose financial planner probably came to appreciate it as much as cartoon fans.
Shows brought the evil snickering back in ‘Barbecue Hound’, released on January 26, 1959. Unlike the previous dog, or the later Precious, this one only snickers once, at the end of the cartoon as it fades out.
In a newspaper story here, Joe Barbera mentioned Kellogg’s liked certain incidental characters and wanted them to make return appearances in case they could be marketable. So Huck again tangled with Iggy and Ziggy the crows, Powerful Pierre and Leroy the Lion. And a nameless dog with the wheezy laugh was brought back, too, to complicate Huck’s life in:
• Postman Panic, aired February 26, 1959 (written by Charlie Shows).
• A Bully Dog, aired November 2, 1959 (written by Warren Foster).
• Nuts Over Mutts, possibly aired October 2, 1960 (written by Warren Foster).
• Two for Tee Vee, possibly aired October 13, 1961 (written by Tony Benedict).
It would seem odd, given the obvious love that Hanna and Barbera had for the idea of a snickering dog, that the next major canine characters in their cartoons went in a different direction. Snuffles on Quick Draw McGraw, merely leaped into ecstasy over dog biscuits (and occasionally grumbled under his breath, something H-B repeated with Precious Pupp) while the Jetsons’ Astro pronounced all his words starting with an ‘r’ (something H-B repeated with an unfortunately far more durable character named Scooby Doo).
But there was at least one other snickering character in the early H-B cartoons, and it wasn’t a dog. It was the wildcat in the Augie Doggie cartoon ‘Cat Happy Pappy’, released December 26, 1959. Mike Maltese wrote this cartoon and uses the snickering differently and logically. Augie tries to defend his dad’s honour by telling the cat to put up his dukes, and the cat raspily snickers at the absurdity of it.
There have been other similar-sounding animals since. There was a one-shot watchdog on The Flintstones named Buzzsaw in the first season’s ‘The Golf Champion’ (1960). It was the only cartoon written that year by Syd Zelinka, who was a live action writer from The Honeymooners. One can speculate that Warren Foster, who wrote the majority of Flinstones episodes that year, added the snickering gag. Even more Muttley-esque was Mugger, the bad guy pet/sidekick in Hey There, It’s Yogi Bear! (1964).
Other snickerers were regular characters. Hanna-Barbera paid Dan De Carlo to rip off his own drawing style to rip off Filmation’s wretched Archie and invent the somewhat-less-wretched Josie and the Pussycats, featuring a snickering Sebastian the cat. Then a few years later, someone, somewhere came up with something called Mumbly. But he isn’t Muttley, he .. um .. er.. just sounds like him and almost looks like him! Yeah, that’s the ticket!
There may have been others, but by this time, Hanna-Barbera cartoons became completely unwatchable for me. Viewing the animation credits for something like Mumbly with names like Carlo Vinci, Ed Benedict, Dick Thompson and Dave Tendlar just makes me sad. Many of those artists did fine work for Warners, M.G.M., Fleischer, Lantz, even Disney. Some provided enjoyable characters when H-B was starting out, a time when Huck took on a dog with a wheezing laugh in a show that gave at least one generation of young cartoon fans lasting memories.
And that’s nothing to snicker at.
Update from Yowp: It’s been pointed out to me that Hanna-Barbera may have borrowed the evil snickering from the brilliant Tex Avery and one of his finest M.G.M. creations—‘Bad Luck Blackie’, (released January 22, 1949). The cartoon begins with the laughing dog (who snickers only once) being cruel to a desperate, defenceless kitten running terrified from him, and ends with the kitten becoming the evil snickerer with the desperate, defenceless dog running terrified into the sunset. Avery used it later that year in ‘Wags to Riches’ when Spike decides to kill Droopy to get his fortune (in a skunk-transformation gag, yet), and again in ‘Daredevil Droopy’ (1951) when Spike bends a rifle before handing it to Droopy.
And due to popular demand, you can listen to the snicker here. It’s a Muttley version, but it’s the same.
Augie Doggie — Snagglepuss
Credits: Animation – Carlo Vinci, Layout – Walter Clinton, Backgrounds – Bob Gentle, Story – Mike Maltese, Story Sketches – Dan Gordon, Titles – Art Goble, Production Supervision – Howard Hanson.
Cast: Snagglepuss, Augie – Daws Butler; Doggy Daddy – Doug Young.
Released: February 20, 1960.
Plot: Snagglepuss parks himself in Augie and Doggie Daddy’s home to avoid being hunted. Daddy tries to get the orange mountain lion outside to be able to shoot him.
There are two kinds of funny cartoons. There’s the kind where something completely unexpected and outrageous happens, like in every great Tex Avery cartoon. Then there’s the kind where which features routines, familiar as the proverbial old shoe, with just enough of a twist to be different or interesting so someone doesn’t go “Not that old gag!”
This cartoon falls into the latter category. Mike Maltese, my personal favourite of cartoon writers, borrowed—really borrowed—from his days in the Chuck Jones unit at Warners to come up with gags for this one. Witness this exchange between Snagglepuss and Doggy Daddy, attempting to remove the pre-pink version of the mountain lion in a rigged armchair.
Daddy: You take it.
Snag: You take it.
Daddy: After you.
Snag: No, after you. I’ll take it.
Daddy: I’ll take it.
Snag: No, I’ll take it.
Daddy (annoyed): Whose house is this anyway? I’ll take it.
All we’re missing is Doggy Daddy saying “Pronoun trouble” after getting in the chair and inevitably being bashed.
(If you need me to explain the reference, you really shouldn’t be on an old animation blog).
And like in the pronoun-troubled Rabbit Seasoning with Daffy, Bugs and Elmer Fudd, Doggy Daddy tries the routine again—and once again comes out a loser because Snagglepuss is a few steps ahead of him.
But here’s the difference between a Hanna-Barbera cartoon and a Warner’s theatrical short (besides the superior artwork of the Jones unit). After the dialogue in Rabbit Seasoning, Daffy Duck is instantly shot by Elmer Fudd and stands in a typical Jones-designed pose. In this one, we have to wait through words and a telegraphed set-up. Doggy Daddy yells “Help, Augie.” We see a moving truck. Daddy says “Oh no!” Then the truck hits. We knew it was going to hit. That spoils it a bit.
H-B cartoons were havens of unnecessary words. After the dialogue between Snagglepuss and Doggy Daddy, nothing else need be said. The gag would have been better if Maltese had avoided any padding and simply saw fit to have Daddy and the chair zoom out the door, then roar down the street for a couple of seconds before they unexpectedly hit something.
But we do get necessary words, too. Ones put into the mouth of the title character, which always provide a lot of fun. Snagglepuss pokes his head out of his cave and happily starts exclaiming things to himself in his soon-to-be-familiar style. Then he spots an artist with a palette, who could be a bit of a caricature of animator Carlo Vinci, as he had dark hair, a distinctive nose and a small moustache back then. Maltese then comes up with an unexpected juxtaposed line when Snagglepuss asks the artist, while still really talking to himself, “Will it make you shoulder if I look over your nervous?”
The theatrical cat goes to investigate the “painting” and discovers it’s—Heavens to Murgatroyd!—a sign that says ‘Hunting Season Opens Today’ (can someone explain why H-B characters insist on reading every sign or newspaper headline that viewer can see on their own?). Then a whole bunch of long-snouted rifles emerge from the trees and begin firing.
Snagglepuss exits stage left in one of those angular Vinci run-cycles where the character leads with his feet. He seeks refuge in a very two-dimensional house where we find Augie Doggy and Doggy Daddy (each wearing cute little red caps) about to embark on a hunting trip.
Daddy starts firing, but Snagglepuss demands a halt to the bullets, cagily explaining hunting season signs are outside “then, it follows like night the day” that hunting is not allowed inside, “to wit, to woo.” The lion then settles down on a decorative chesterfield and decides to “take a little nap, and smoothen out the wrinkled lines of care,” as Maltese paraphrases (who else?) the Bard’s line in MacBeth: “Sleep knits up the ravelled sleeve of care.”
The rest of the cartoon sees Doggy Daddy trying to trick the performance-prone puss into going outside so he can shoot him. First, Daddy tries a smudge pot. But Snagglepuss is ready, though he aims his firehose directly at Doggy Daddy instead of the smokey vessel.
Next, Doggy Daddy ties an inner tube to a tree, then attaches the other end to a chair wherein Snagglepuss is reading a book. But, again, the cat sees what’s afoot and nails the chair to the floor. Then, more dialogue:
Daddy: So long, Mr. Lion.
Snag: Why? Are you goin’ out?
Daddy: No. You are.
Snag: I are?
Daddy (looking at chair): Hmm. I guess you aren’t.
Daddy decides to go to the door to investigate, at which point the tree is uprooted by the force of the stationary chair and crashes into the luckless dog.
Now comes the gag series where Daddy builds a “super-jet armchair” designed to whoosh Snagglepuss out of the house. The brings up the aforementioned ‘pronoun trouble’ bit during which Carlo continues, as he has in much of the cartoon, to have Snagglepuss crook his fingers in different directions. The second time, the gag works better, as Daddy turns to the audience and remarks how “there’s no truck this time” and suddenly whams into a tree.
Maltese gets in a “this is really a cartoon, folks” line in here, as Snagglepuss looks at a picture portfolio belonging to Doggy Daddy, and remarking “How droll! I thought this old family album was a comic book.” While the cat is laughing, Daddy rigs a hydraulic lift to the house, which raises it off the foundation, and into the sky. That puts Snagglepuss “smack in the middle of the great outdoors” and ripe for hunting.
Daddy fires some shots to scare away the cat, but then tells Augie he’s too tired to go hunting and all he wants to do “is sit down in a nice, comfy chair.” Unfortunately, it’s the rocket chair, which takes off down the street, where he bangs into a hitch-hiking Snagglepuss, who requests to be dropped off at the (and you saw this coming) Lions Club. They pass the same mailbox and directional arrow 12 times before Doggie Daddy looks at the camera and remarks “All I can say is: ‘Heavens to Murgatroyd!’” (which is heard three times in the cartoon).
We get a couple of my favourite Phil Green music beds here—Bush Baby and what I think is part of Big City Suite No. 2. I’ve listed the latter under the Capitol Hi-Q name; the rest of the Green titles come from the original EMI 45s. There’s a skippy piece of music featuring an electric guitar that got a fair amount of play in the Augie cartoons. Animation historian Ray Pointer identified it as ‘The Happy Cobbler’ by Hermann (Hecky) Krasnow, aka Lee Herschel, aka Steve Mann. Krasnow wrote ‘The Whistling Walk’ and 12 other pieces for the Sam Fox ‘Variety’ library, some of which ended up re-released in the Hi-Q series.
Jack Shaindlin wrote three 30-second-or-so beds for Langlois Filmusic called ‘Mad Rush’. They were generally heard in Snooper and Blabber cartoons, but two are in this one.
If anyone has ‘The Happy Cobbler’ and could send it to me, I’d be really greatful. You can click on the names of the Phil’s cuts in green (how appropriate) to hear them.
0:00 – Augie Doggie main title theme (Hanna-Barbera-Curtin)
0:25 – GR-65 BUSH BABY (Green) – Snagglepuss peers at hunting sign; runs from hunters.
1:16 – GR-256 TOYLAND BURGLAR (Green) – Snagglepuss decides to hide; Augie and Daddy get set to go hunting.
1:50 – LFU 117-2 MAD RUSH #2 (Shaindlin) – Snagglepuss bursts into Augie’s home.
1:58 – GR 154 COUNTRY OR GARDEN SCENE (Green) – Snagglepuss snoozes; uses fire hose on Daddy
3:31 – GR 258 THE TIN DRAGOONS (Green) – Daddy hooks inner tube to chair.
4:08 – SF ? THE HAPPY COBBLER (Krasnow) - Tree hits daddy.
4:27 – GR-65 BUSH BABY (Green) – Daddy moves rocket chair into home; pronoun trouble.
5:16 – LFU 117-3 MAD RUSH #3 (Shaindlin) – Daddy and chair hit by moving van; more pronoun trouble.
5:46 – LFU 117-2 MAD RUSH #2 (Shaindlin) – Daddy and chair zoom into tree.
5:56 – EM-107D LIGHT ACTIVITY (Green) – Daddy lifts house off support, shoots at Snagglepuss, sits in rocket chair and takes off.
6:57 – LAF-2-12 ON THE RUN (Shaindlin) – Chair and Daddy pick up Snagglepuss on street.
7:09 – Augie Doggie end title theme (Hanna-Barbera-Curtin)
Labels: Augie Doggie, Snagglepuss
The New York Times on Huckleberry Hound
Quite unfairly, I’ve always considered the New York Times to believe itself to be above aggregating pages with agate about such mundane things as animated cartoons on television. A failed second act of a Cole Porter remounting on Broadway, yes. The misstep of a former ingenue in making a comeback in a turgid cinematic melodrama, most definitely. But a pair of meece gracelessly running past the same lamp over and over? Surely not!
Ah, but embarrassingly incorrect am I. For in the August 28, 1960 edition, next to a profile on the multi-talented Polly Bergen, the venerable Times published the following feature story about the Hanna-Barbera studio. It would have been nice if “The Newspaper of Record” had spelled native New Yorker Joe Barbera’s name correctly. And a few other things.
Though North Carolineans may take issue with some of Warren Foster’s opinions, the last line sums up why the early H-B cartoons are appealing, even after all these years.
ANIMATED, YES—FRANTIC, NO
By MURRAY SCHUMACH
HOLLYWOOD.
THOSE who would seek out the lair of that great avenger of injustice, “The Purple Pumpernickel,” will have to come to Hollywood. For it is here that Huckleberry Hound puts on such disguises as member of the French Foreign Legion, American fireman, London bobby, international veterinarian trying to extract a lion’s aching tooth.
Since this hero’s voice is always the same soothing Tennessee mountain talk, and his speeches are forever those of the same amiable mongrel, an estimated 16,000,000 Americans are satisfied to look for him eagerly on some 200 television stations on the half-hour program known as “Huckleberry Hound.” It appears Thursdays at 6:30 P.M. on New York’s Channel 11.
The true home of Huckleberry Hound, however, is in a maze of corridors of three loosely connected buildings here, where Charlie Chaplin once made silent films. Huddled over drawing boards, the artists of William Hanna and Joseph Barberra [sic] put the good humor into Hucklberry’s [sic] rubbery face; flatten the pork-pie hat on Yogi Bear’s head; adjust the tie on Boo-Boo, the bear cub; plant the pompous smirk on Jinx [sic], the cat, and the mischief in the eyes of his tormentors, Dixie and Pixie, the mice.
Though all these characters are but cartoons, their sponsors of nearly three years obviously find them more alive than most performers of the Westerns, private eyes, situation comedies and panel shows that fill most of television.
The atmosphere of the Huckleberry Hound residence is appropriately zany. Since all offices are cluttered, with doors either wide open or nonexistent, it is difficult to tell which are the offices of the bosses. Grown men will be down on their knees as though in a dice game. Actually they are examining a series of comic-strip panels known as a story board.
Mssrs. Barberra and Hanna are proud of the informality of their enterprise and resent the “factory” to describe their incessant output of television cartoons by the 150 employes [sic] who do, in addition to “Huckleberry Hound,” “Ruff N Ready [sic],” “Quick Draw McGraw” and “The Flintstones,” which will make its debut this fall.
“We have no time clocks here,” said Mr. Barberra. “We have no closed doors and nobody makes appointments. They come in when they want and they leave when they want. All they make is money—and cartoons.”
Mr. Barberra vows that this Bohemian atmosphere will not change when, in the near future, the Huckleberry Hound workshop moves into a new air-conditioned building with its own dining room and kitchen. He and Mr. Hanna did a twenty-year stretch in a movie factory called Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, where they created a world-famous cartoon about a cat and a mouse called “Tom and Jerry.”
Mr. Barberra, who wrote the first twenty-six installments of “Huckleberry Hound,” recalls that when he first proposed the introduction of this character, one serious objection was raised. One of the sponsor’s representatives was afraid that the name of the hero was a bit too long for a television screen.
The present author of the scripts is Warren Foster, a mild-mannered man, who worked on Bugs Bunny cartoons for twenty years and has a fondness for his creatures that transcends their employment record.
“I think of Huck as human,” he said. “He is a sort of Tennessee-type guy who never gets mad no matter how much he is outraged. He is the fall-guy, and a large part of his humor is the way he shrugs off his misfortunes. To Huck nobody is really bad.”
Yogi Bear, the incurable filcher of picnic baskets from visitors to Jellystone Park poses two problems.
Since he is “bright in a stupid sort of way,” his adventures must show ingenuity as well as blunders. Second, there is the problem of what to do about the morality of thievery.
“So we let him get his picnic basket—and then we get him punished.”
Mr. Foster is happy about the philosophical quality of the mice, Dixie and Pixie, toward the cat, Mr. Jinx. “The mice make allowances for the occasional attacks on them by Jinx. They understand he is not evil. He is just a cat and he can’t help being himself. They are disillusioned each time the cat’s thin veneer of civilization cracks. The important thing in these stories is to keep out the rough stuff and mayhem.”
One rule is applied to all the creations of the “Huckleberry Hound” series: all animals must have something around the neck—a tie, a collar, a scarf. This is not for good manners or cuteness, but because the neck camouflage makes it unnecessary to worry about whether the neck of a particular character looks the same each time it is drawn.
The motto of the House of Huckleberry is that children can understand a great deal more than adults realize. No script is “written down” to the child’s level. The show is not afraid to use puns. Thus, when Yogi Bear was punished for stealing a witch’s broom and riding around on it, stealing picnic lunches, he said:
“They lowered the broom on me.”
Some connoisseurs of cartoon shorts think Huckleberry Hound and his friends have done the business a good turn.
“Disney’s trend was more and more toward beautiful art,” says Mr. Foster. “Huck and the others have restored cartoons to caricature and fun.”
Pixie and Dixie — Jinks’ Flying Carpet
Another Cartoon Voice Mystery
Yogi Bear — Big Bad Bully
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B. Wurtz: Kitchen Trees
About the Exhibition LocationImage Gallery
Aug 7, 2018 – Dec 7, 2018
City Hall Park
Kitchen Trees is the debut public art commission by New York-based artist B. Wurtz (b. 1948, Pasadena, California). This playful exhibition temporarily transforms the civic space of City Hall Park with five imaginative arboreal sculptures. They appear to grow like an oasis around the park’s historic fountain, echoing its circular forms and the spray of its jets with a splash of whimsy. Their composition is poised between meticulous order and energetic spontaneity, just as they simultaneously mimic and contrast the natural flora nearby.
For nearly fifty years, Wurtz has used found objects to create idiosyncratic assemblages related to basic human needs – food, clothing, or shelter. The sculptures here are made from everyday items found in the kitchen. Colorful colanders stacked atop each other sprout upward, forming bulbous trunks that seem like they could grow into endless columns. At the ends of their spindly branches, pots and pans sway in the breeze with a weightlessness balanced by overflowing plastic fruits and vegetables that dangle as if spilled from cookware cornucopias. Kitchen Trees is an inventive metamorphosis. Wurtz resourcefully re-uses these common materials in unexpected ways, yet still preserves their legibility. The resulting sculptures demonstrate a genuine appreciation for the value and beauty of ordinary things and help us see the extraordinary possibilities of our everyday surroundings. They celebrate potential where it might not otherwise be apparent, offering a different kind of creative nourishment for us to enjoy.
The exhibition is curated by Public Art Fund Associate Curator, Daniel S. Palmer.
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Major support for Kitchen Trees is provided by Bloomberg Philanthropies and Jill & Peter Kraus. In-kind support is provided by Melissa & Doug.
Kitchen Trees is courtesy of the artist; Metro Pictures, New York; Kate MacGarry, London; Maisterravalbuena Madrid/Lisboa; and Richard Telles Fine Art, Los Angeles.
Public Art Fund is supported by the generosity of individuals, corporations, and private foundations including lead support from Bloomberg Philanthropies, along with major support from Booth Ferris Foundation, the Charina Endowment Fund, The Marc Haas Foundation, Hartfield Foundation, Stavros Niarchos Foundation, and The Silverweed Foundation.
Public Art Fund is supported in part with funds from government agencies, including the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo and the New York State Legislature, and the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council.
Special thanks to the Office of the Mayor, Office of the Manhattan Borough President, and NYC Parks.
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Ghanaian water supply project completed
The Brakwa-Kokoso Water Supply Project estimated at over GH¢400,000, has been handed-over to the people of Brakwa in the Asikuma-Odoben-Brakwa District in the Central Region.
The District Chief Executive (DCE) for the area, Mrs. Georgina Nkrumah Aboah, said it is appropriate to acknowledge the immense financial contribution of the European Union, which largely funded the project. She also commended the contribution of Community Water and Sanitation Agency (CWSA) at Cape Coast and the financial contribution made by Brakwa/Kokoso Water Board.
Mrs. Aboah said, access to quality water is not only a basic need of mankind but a necessity to sustain all forms of lives. She, therefore, urged the community to ensure effective and efficient use of the water and to ensure that it is reserved and maintained for future generations to also benefit from it.
The Central Regional Director for the CWSA, Mr. Stephen Opoku Tufuor, received the keys from the contractors and in turn handed them over to the DCE. The DCE further handed over the keys to the Odikro of Brakwa, Nana Yamoah IV, who finally handed them over to the Chairman of the Water Board, Mr Andrews K. Aning. Mr. Tufuor said the project is an entirely community ownership system and therefore its maintenanceis the responsibility of the community.
Seventeen public stand pipes and 40 direct private peoples connection to serve about 200 houses were erected, Mr. Tufuor declared.
The Board Chairman commended Lt. General Akwasi Ocran (retired), Captain Kofi Ampomah (retired), First Ghana Airways Pilot and Mrs. Ocran, for their immense contribution towards the successful completion of the project.
Source: GNA
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K.D Dwivedi (President)
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Welcome gladly to Akhil Bhartiy Yuva Vikash Association Vill. & Po.- Bala Kaa Poora Raigarh Kunda, Pratapgarh U.P . Registered under society act 21, 1860 on dated 24/02/2010. The Society has Eleven members including president & manager/secretory Mrs. K.D Dwivedi is working as President of the is organization . The member of the Society are working voluntarily for the improvement & betterment of the human society through Awareness programs, Empowerment, Education Training of Women, Weaker, Unemployed, Disable & Helpless People.
The Society is doing possible effort for Empowerment of Women specially for Neglected & helpless Women to make them self-depend through education & technical training. Mainly Society is working for Women, helpless SC/ST, Depressed Class , Victimized & Disable People to make them Self-Employed & to Improve their living in society.
The Society is working under directions & active support of K.D Dwivedi (President) & Mr Sanjay Mishra(secretory) for empowerment of Women & improvement of weaker sections ,SC/ST, help Less, depressed & victimized people, Social Welfare, Magh Mela Shivir,etc.
In the simplest of words it is basically the creation of an environment where women can make independent decisions on their personal development as well as shine as equals in society.
Women want to be treated as equals so much so that if a woman rises to the top of her field it should be a commonplace occurrence that draws nothing more than a raised eyebrow at the gender. This can only happen if there is a channelized route for the empowerment of women.
Thus it is no real surprise that women empowerment in India is a hotly discussed topic with no real solution looming in the horizon except to doubly redouble our efforts and continue to target the sources of all the violence and ill-will towards women.
The website of Akhil Bhartiy Yuva Vikash Association has been created with the purpose to spread awareness, about empowerment of women, among people. This is a place where you can discuss, share your views and promote and demonstrate ideas on the subject.
The main purpose is to bring together people with similar outlook so that a revolution can be sparked and a change can be initiated. The society needs superheros to stand against the social evil. However the superheros exist only in the books. In reality, its the common man who can bring the change by standing up for the women and their rights.
There is a quote “Charity begins at Home”. So we should start respecting and shower love to the women around us. A homemaker works 365 days a year throughout her lifetime. An initiative can be taken by giving a day’s off. A maid comes to home daily to wash utensils, clean the floor and no body gives a second look to her or asks her how is she doing? Helping her overcoming her problems is a small thing but it is a change and no matter how small the spark of change is, continuous efforts can make it a wildfire.
Akhil Bhartiy Yuva Vikas Association is continuously working for improvement & progresses of the Society by arranging Women Empowerment, welfare disabled’s Child,Educational & health programmes, awareness regarding sort scheme for formers development. The Society denoted to serve the society and will continue its contribution to MAKE IN INDIA.
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I'm prepared to go out on a limb here and say, Love is the best way to see the world. It is the most incredible lens available to any of us through which to experience the world we live upon, and the one that we create with our own thoughts, words and actions.
I would note also that this is not a new idea by any means. The Beatles sang about it in the 1960's through popular music. 'Love is all you need'. Many musical bands have echoed it's power in the themes of so many songs. One of my favourites is 'The power of Love', by Frankie goes to Hollywood.
There is even a well known phrase that says, 'looking at the world through rose coloured glasses', which is all about lenses and how they can alter the way we see what is before us. Then is it any wonder that the world we live in is often coloured, themed, or even created by the lens we choose to look at it with?
If love was all there is, I believe the world generally would be a fairer and more honest place. I have reason to withhold claims of absolutes here, hence why I say 'more'. I feel sure that where love is engaged, as in the case of someone like Mother Teresa of Calcutta, Dr. Martin Luther King, John Lennon and Malala Yousafzai, then the most amazing transformations will occur in public awareness. Who would argue these peoples having affected the world around them by that love, compassion, empathy and dedication to pursue their life's work with gusto? Malala is still a young woman in her teens, and yet it can be seen in her eyes, the love by which she creates the world she wishes to be a part of.
Let's take a quick look at what love is defined as in the dictionary. (Collins Online)
(Please scan the Dictionary entries and hurry past if you wish to read the article more quickly. They are entered as a tool for reference mainly, for people who may not have access to quick reference places, and not to patronize anyone)
love (lʌv )
tr to have a great attachment to and affection for
tr to have passionate desire, longing, and feelings for
tr to like or desire (to do something) very much
tr to make love to
intr to be in love
an intense emotion of affection, warmth, fondness, and regard towards a person or thing
(as modifier) ⇒ love song, love story
a deep feeling of sexual attraction and desire
wholehearted liking for or pleasure in something
(Christianity)
God's benevolent attitude towards man
man's attitude of reverent devotion towards God
Also: my love. a beloved person: used esp as an endearment
(British, informal) a term of address, esp but not necessarily for a person regarded as likable
(in tennis, squash, etc) a score of zero
See fall in love
See for love
See for love or money
See for the love of
See in love
See make love
related adjective
Old English lufu; related to Old High German luba; compare also Latin libēre (originally lubēre) to please
View thesaurus entry
= adore, care for, treasure, cherish, prize, worship, be devoted to, be attached to, be in love with, dote on, hold dear, think the world of, idolize, feel affection for, have affection for, adulate, LUV,
= enjoy, like, desire, fancy, appreciate, relish, delight in, savour, take pleasure in, have a soft spot for, be partial to, have a weakness for, LUV,
= cuddle, neck, kiss, pet, embrace, caress, fondle, LUV, canoodle
= passion, liking, regard, friendship, affection, warmth, attachment, intimacy, devotion, tenderness, fondness, rapture, adulation, adoration, infatuation, ardour, endearment, aroha, amity, LUV,
= liking, taste, delight in, bent for, weakness for, relish for, enjoyment, devotion to, penchant for, inclination for, zest for, fondness for, soft spot for, partiality to, LUV
= beloved, dear, dearest, sweet, lover, angel, darling, honey, loved one, sweetheart, truelove, dear one, leman, inamorata or inamorato, LUV,
= sympathy, understanding, heart, charity, pity, humanity, warmth, mercy, compassion, sorrow, kindness, tenderness, friendliness, condolence, commiseration, fellow feeling, soft-heartedness, tender-heartedness, aroha, LUV
= greetings, regards, compliments, best wishes, good wishes, kind regards, LUV
Maybe it's no surprise then, that with so much affection, heart, endearment, humanity, warmth, compassion, fellow feeling, tenderness and fondness, that the world would be considered a lovely place to be. Is this not the way you see the world? Is there another reality in place that negates this view of the world around us?
Arguably the world is not a very nice place to be at the moment. Or indeed for a very long time in history. Certainly not one that can be thoroughly described in the above terms. War has been a constant feature of every decade in our history to date, at least in some part of the globe. Atrocities are rife, people live in fear and concern for the well-being of their loved ones, themselves and any property that they own. Not one country is left unaffected by a number of these social issues. So my observation is this. The majority of the world (Human beings) do not see the world through the lens of love nor create with that lens either. If they had, would we be here at this time, in a global financial crisis with numerous wars around the planet, and a constant war on terrorism? I hardly think so.
So what are the other potential lenses that are in use today? Would you like for me to name a few and show how looking at the world through these lenses can and possibly has created the very problems that we all face?
The lens of hatred.
I think that many people can agree that hatred is the complete opposite of love in the case of what we are discussing here.
Hatred is:
a feeling of intense dislike; enmity
= hate, dislike, animosity, aversion, revulsion, antagonism, antipathy, enmity, abomination, ill will, animus, repugnance, odium, detestation, execration,
Yes it does read like the world of today doesn't it? Gladly the above named people saw/see the world from a different place, to have shown us a better way, a clearer more hopeful vision. But if we are using this hatred as the lens by which to view our world, is it any wonder that so much suffering is being perpetuated as we discuss this issue? We aren't talking about some long ago historical event are we? Nor a fear of some future one, we are saying what we observe in the present day world.
The lens of power.
I love this quotation so much, I'm going to use it again. I think it came from Jimi hendrix, or from that era at the very least. ( www. jimihendrix .com/ )
"When the power of love overcomes the love of power, then the world will finally know peace".
Jimi Hendrix (1942 - 1970)
What is power?
ability or capacity to do something
often plural a specific ability, capacity, or faculty
political, financial, social, etc, force or influence
control or dominion or a position of control, dominion, or authority
a state or other political entity with political, industrial, or military strength
a person who exercises control, influence, or authority ⇒ he's a power in the state
a prerogative, privilege, or liberty
legal authority to act, esp in a specified capacity, for another
the document conferring such authority
a military force
military potential
the value of a number or quantity raised to some exponent
another name for exponent (sense 4)
(statistics) the probability of rejecting the null hypothesis in a test when it is false. The power of a test of a given null depends on the particular alternative hypothesis against which it is tested
(physics, engineering) a measure of the rate of doing work expressed as the work done per unit time. It is measured in watts, horsepower, etc P
the rate at which electrical energy is fed into or taken from a device or system. It is expressed, in a direct-current circuit, as the product of current and voltage and, in an alternating-current circuit, as the product of the effective values of the current and voltage and the cosine of the phase angle between them. It is measured in watts
(as modifier) ⇒ a power amplifier
the ability to perform work
mechanical energy as opposed to manual labour
(as modifier) ⇒ a power mower
a particular form of energy ⇒ nuclear power
a measure of the ability of a lens or optical system to magnify an object, equal to the reciprocal of the focal length. It is measured in dioptres
another word for magnification
(informal) a large amount or quantity ⇒ a power of good
plural the sixth of the nine orders into which the angels are traditionally divided in medieval angelology
See in one's power
See in someone's power
See the powers that be
to give or provide power to
to fit (a machine) with a motor or engine
intr (slang) to travel with great speed or force
power down, power up
C13: from Anglo-Norman poer, from Vulgar Latin potēre (unattested), from Latin posse to be able
= control, authority, influence, command, sovereignty, sway, dominance, domination, supremacy, mastery, dominion, ascendancy, mana, bottom
= ability, capacity, faculty, property, potential, capability, competence, competency,
= authority, right, licence, privilege, warrant, prerogative, authorization
= strength, might, energy, weight, muscle, vigour, potency, welly, brawn, hard power,
= forcefulness, force, strength, punch, intensity, potency, eloquence, persuasiveness, cogency, powerfulness
This entry says something about my theory.
Control or dominion or a position of control, dominion, or authority.
If we are looking at the world through this particular lens, we can say that dominion over or the position of control has a lot to do with an aim of using certain energies to demand an outcome. Suppose for example that someone wanted to dictate a particular outcome, of maybe their personal gain in an event. They could exert certain power over others if that was required, in order for their aims to be met. Relying on mere hope, or chance might leave the person bereft if they were determined to have the result they wanted. If they were not depending upon others for the assistance, then they would have to rely solely on their own resources for the outcome.
If the topic/subject is larger, a group, a workforce, a country or a race for example, then maybe more power is needed to bring about the aims of the few. A boss that wanted more time spent on producing a particular item, would require more powers of persuasion to encourage his staff to stay late every day, to get the product out in time for the customer. They might not see the value to them of doing this voluntarily. He might have to offer more money, better conditions and incentives, or he could just hang the doubt and uncertainty for continued employment over the workforce. (Many have done this, so don't laugh, too hard) So we begin to see, that for outcomes to match those of some people or groups, power often needs to be wielded to gain that result. The type of power can vary, and what that power consists of and whom and how it can affect others too. Sadly we have seen in our own history just what a misuse of power can and has done to society and civilizations. If we saw the world in these terms, and through this lens, maybe we would likewise be directly contributing to the pain of global issues.
The lens of money. (The biggie)
I feel sure everyone knows what money is. But do we know what it does? Like the previous lens, money can potentially have really negative affects. The world is seeing this over recent years particularly strongly. If money was used to the advantage of people, societies and civilization, then I hardly think we would even be discussing this topic. Fairness and happiness would be the rule not the exception. (I'm not even beginning to describe the world as having absolutely no happiness) Money is the foundation upon which all commerce happens these days, except in enlightened societies. But who owns/controls that money has a huge bearing upon what it does and whom it serves. If we look at the world through the lens of money, we find that everything has a specific value, a price. Sadly human life is not at the top of this list though. Nor is decency, respect, honesty or transparency. Everything about this lens is cloudy. We are seeing only the poor light that comes through it, which indicates we need more things that money can buy. And to do this we need to work more or harder or longer and more dedicatedly. In reality what we actually become are slaves to money. Money buys materialism but it also buys debt. Or better said indebtedness to the system and the ones controlling that debt.
So I think that is enough of a provocation for now, to cause a shift in our thinking patterns. Please ask yourselves, as I have done, which lens gives the best view? Which will lead to greater awareness and eventual happiness? The lens of Love is what I choose, I hope that you will too.....!
Love, Light, Peace and Harmony.
Peaceful Warrior.
A note from the author.
I do not mean to imply that there is no love in the world, quite the opposite. I hope that the reader can see my aim is to reveal only an observation of things and not be overtly judgemental about other peoples actions and motives. I simply offer a chance to look at things with another perspective.
Posted by Peaceful Warrior at 15:30
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Rob Duarte
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Rob Duarte’s practice is driven by a need to bring to the surface the politics embedded in all technology. Through sculptures and installations, Duarte draws attention to the ways in which technology often creates more problems than it solves, reinforces existing social hierarchies, and disguises its political ideology through slick “user friendly” interfaces. Over the past decade, Duarte’s critical gaze into the social, political, and cultural aspects of technology has materialized in works whose subjects are as disparate as public pay phones as vehicles and mediators for storytelling, the moral and ethical entanglements of turpentine production in the South, and the sandwich maker as the ultimate object of consumerist desire.
2011 MFA Visual Art, University of California San Diego (San Diego Fellow, UJIMA Graduate Scholar)
2004 BFA Sculpture, Massachusetts College of Art & Design
Areas of Responsibility
Co-director of the Facility for Arts Research. Director of REBOOT Laboratory. Area head for Digital Media. Instructor for graduate and undergraduate courses, including Digital Fabrication, Mechatronic Art, and Physical Computing: Wearable and Electronic Art.
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The Trolls extend their winning streak to ten games and keep their record unblemished as they move to 10-0 for the season with a win at Judson University (Elgin, Illinois). In a conference game the team scored early in the first half to take a 1-0 half-time lead. They extended their lead with a goal midway through the second half and capped off the game with a late goal in the final 10 minutes for the 3-0 win. The victory was the seventh shut-out of the season for the Trolls.
Trinity dominated the first period with a steady attack of shots at the goal. In the 16th minute an attempt by Selah Hopkins found the net to give the Trolls the lead. That goal was assisted by Elly Brummel. While Trinity had 13 shots for the half and Judson did not have any, the score was 1-0 at the intermission.
The Trolls continued to play aggressively. It was not until the 65th minute that they got on the board again when Hopkins scored her second goal of the game. This time Paige Rogers had the assist.
The team played in the two goal lead until the 81st minute when Jessica Bianchi finished a pass from Taylor Miller to create the 3-0 final.
The Trolls ended the game with 26 shots and Judson had three. Allyson Kranstz finished with two saves.
The team is next in action on September 29 at home against the University of St. Francis at 12 pm.
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Calculated Electronic Properties of Metals by V. L. Moruzzi, J. F. Janak and A. R. Williams (Auth.)
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OSA Publishing > Applied Optics > Volume 56 > Issue 16 > Page 4757
Ronald Driggers, Editor-in-Chief
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Interfacial surface roughness determination by coherence scanning interferometry using noise compensation
Hirokazu Yoshino, John Michael Walls, and Roger Smith
Hirokazu Yoshino,1,2,* John Michael Walls,1 and Roger Smith1
1Loughborough University, Leicestershire LE11 3TU, UK
2Taylor Hobson Ltd., Leicestershire LE4 9JD, UK
*Corresponding author: hirokazu.yoshino@ametek.com
H Yoshino
J Walls
Vol. 56,
Issue 16,
pp. 4757-4765
•https://doi.org/10.1364/AO.56.004757
Hirokazu Yoshino, John Michael Walls, and Roger Smith, "Interfacial surface roughness determination by coherence scanning interferometry using noise compensation," Appl. Opt. 56, 4757-4765 (2017)
Table of Contents Category
Instrumentation, Measurement, and Metrology
Light intensity
Phase shift
Reflection coefficient
Surface roughness measurement
Interferometry (120.3180)
Thin films (240.0310)
Buried interfaces (240.1485)
Original Manuscript: February 3, 2017
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The capability of coherence scanning interferometry has been extended recently to include the determination of the interfacial surface roughness between a thin film and a substrate when the surface perturbations are less than ∼10 nm in magnitude. The technique relies on introducing a first-order approximation to the helical complex field (HCF) function. This approximation of the HCF function enables a least-squares optimization to be carried out in every pixel of the scanned area to determine the heights of the substrate and/or the film layers in a multilayer stack. The method is fast but its implementation assumes that the noise variance in the frequency domain is statistically the same over the scanned area of the sample. This results in reconstructed surfaces that contain statistical fluctuations. In this paper we present an alternative least-squares optimization method, which takes into account the distribution of the noise variance-covariance in the frequency domain. The method is tested using results from a simulator and these show a significant improvement in the quality of the reconstructed surfaces.
Published by The Optical Society under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License. Further distribution of this work must maintain attribution to the author(s) and the published article's title, journal citation, and DOI.
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Fig. 1. Determined HCF function of a 520 nm SiO 2 thin film on a Si substrate: (a) The global determined HCF function HCF d ¯ , obtained from the full 21 × 21 matrix of four pixels; (b) the HCF function HCF px d determined from four pixels at the edge of the measurement area; (c) the locally determined HCF function HCF px d at the center of the measurement area.
Fig. 2. Noise variance-covariance matrix Σ o from a silicon reference sample with M ref = 21 × 21 pixels (actual CSI measurement): (a) real part, (b) imaginary part (color available online).
Fig. 3. Noise variance in the frequency domain (actual CSI measurement). The diagonal element of the (a) real and (b) imaginary parts of the noise variance-covariance matrix illustrated in Fig. 2.
Fig. 4. Schematic drawing of the model. The number of the pixels in the measurement area is M together with the pixels having the feature is M f . Note that the global film thickness d ^ ≃ d .
Fig. 5. Noise variance in the frequency domain: The diagonal element of the (a) real and (b) imaginary parts of the noise variance-covariance matrix given to the simulations. Note that the signal-to-noise (S/N) ratio is 2000.
Fig. 6. Comparisons between the three computational methods on the sample: SiO 2 (thicknes s = 514 nm ) on a Si substrate; the feature height is 5 nm: (a) the ISR method (with noise), (b) the ISR-NC method (with noise), (c) the ISR-NF method (noise free). The S/N ratio is set at 10 2 to correspond to Sim 3-1 in Table 1 (color available online).
Fig. 7. Surface roughness ( S q ) as a function of film thickness: Red circles, top ISR; red squares, Sub ISR; blue circles, top ISR-NC; blue squares, sub ISR-NC.
Fig. 8. Feature height sensitivity as a function of feature height: black circles, ISR-NF; red triangles, ISR; blue squares, ISR-NC.
Fig. 9. Signal-to-noise ratio sensitivity to the determined feature height: black circles, ISR-NF; red triangles, ISR; blue squares, ISR-NC.
Fig. 10. Surface roughness ( S q ) as a function of the S/N ratio: red circles, top ISR; red squares, sub ISR; blue circles, top ISR-NC; blue squares, sub ISR-NC.
Fig. 11. Erroneous determined feature height (originally set as 5 nm): black circles, ISR-NF; red triangles, ISR; blue squares, ISR-NC.
Fig. 12. HCF functions generated at the feature pixel (simulation 2-2 with 20 nm feature height): (a) true HCF function (without noise) denoted by “Org” and its first-order approximation by “aprx”; (b) spectral difference between the true HCF function HCF px d and the HCF functions produced by each method HCF px s (noise occurs in both ISR and ISR-NC, and NF stands for ISR-NF) (color available online).
Fig. 13. HCF functions generated at the feature pixel (simulation 5-1 with Ta 2 O 5 film): (a) the true HCF function (without noise) denoted by “Org” and its first-order approximation by “aprx”; (b) the spectral difference between the true HCF function HCF px d and the HCF functions produced by each method HCF px s (noise exists for ISR and ISR-NC, and NF stands for ISR-NF); (c) the spectral difference between the real and imaginary parts of the true amplitude reflection coefficient and its first-order approximation. Note that the dotted lines (black and pink) represent the maximum deviations of the real ( Re [ r − r aprx ] ), imaginary ( Im [ r − r aprx ] ), and the reflectivity R , respectively (color available online).
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Ms. Padberg is a former Fortune 500 Times Mirror executive, Integrated Marketing Communications Vice President and MBA graduate from the Graziadio School of Business & Management at Pepperdine University. Ms. Padberg has over 17 years of publishing and marketing expertise, served on several boards, is a guest speaker, published author, former Big 12 golfer and resides in Santa Monica.
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Weaverville Art Safari
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Date: May 12-13, 2012
Time: 10am-6pm
Location: Various locations in Weaverville, NC
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Forget-Me-Nots
InsideOutlaw
Location : Colorado
Subject: Forget-Me-Nots Sat Sep 07, 2013 3:45 pm
He stood back, running a grimy hand through his dark, sweat-soaked hair, and surveyed his work. The rocks were piled as high as he could reach. That ought to do it. It’d take some truly huge critter to dig its way through that rocky pile. No, he couldn’t think about that, or about them lying there under that weight of stone. Satisfied, he turned his back to the grave, resolute and dry-eyed, and started to walk away. The sound of a tumbling rock caught him up short, almost as though beckoning him back, begging him not to go. He clenched his fists as a stone bounced to the ground behind him and lay still; then he walked on.
“Jed! Time to go,” he yelled.
“Be right there.”
He walked towards the direction the sound had issued from and soon found his eight-year old cousin, Jed Curry, running towards him. Clutched in his hands was a tiny bouquet of blue flowers. The smaller boy had worked alongside him the first hour or so, but he had soon tired and Han had allowed him to drift away.
“What’ve you been doing, Jed?”
Red-rimmed blue eyes looked earnestly up at him and held out the flowers. “They’s Forget-me-nots; Ma’s favorites.” Jed hurried past him. Han turned slightly and watched his little cousin laying his humble gift on top of the largest stone set at the bottom of the rock pile. The one Han had chosen special, like a proper headstone, and levered into place using an old birch limb; just like pa had taught him. Pa used to tell him that you solved your problems like you build a stone wall, take care of the big stones first and the smaller stones will fall into place. He felt the hot stab of bitter tears as he wondered if his father had ever foreseen how practical that advice would become. Knuckling his eyes, he called to Jed, “C’mon, say your good-byes. We gotta get outta here before the soldiers come back.”
“Don’t you wanna say good-byes, too, Han?”
“Already did. Let’s go!” Han started walking again, away; away from who he used to be.
OOOOOOOOOO
“Doc said you got lucky this time, partner. Now, you lay still and try not to move or you’ll get the bleedin’ goin’ again. I’m gonna set right here while you get some rest.” Kid Curry pulled the ladder-backed chair away from the desk and spun it around on its two back feet, straddling it. He grinned at the bed-ridden man propped up on several feather pillows. A thick bandage was wrapped around Heyes’s right thigh and a small red blotch of blood glowed brightly on the white linen fabric.
“Stop fussing over me. I’m fine,” said Hannibal Heyes, closing his eyes and trying to shut out the pain.
“Yes sir, you look mighty fine; all pasty white and tight-lipped.” The Kid stopped grinning as his best friend grimaced in pain. “You scared the hell outta me, Heyes,” he whispered.
“Didn’t mean to, Kid. Believe me, I ducked, the damn axe ducked with me.”
“Doc says it might’ve nicked the artery. I ain’t seen that much blood since….” Curry’s voice trailed off and Heyes opened his eyes again staring at his partner. The Kid’s own eyes were unfocused, looking into his past.
“I’m sorry. I didn’t mean for this to happen.” Heyes had felt his life draining away through the ugly gash in his thigh as the Kid had half-dragged, half-carried him away from the tree they’d been felling and towards the logging camp. He’d hit a knot and the sharp-bladed axe he’d swung with all his strength, bounced wildly off the trunk, nailing his leg. He’d been so surprised that he’d dropped the axe and stared stupidly at his own blood spraying from the wound. The Kid had begun screaming off to his left somewhere as he sank to his knees. Only his partner’s quick thinking and a dirty bandana had saved his life.
“I thought you were a goner.”
“No way, not when you still owe me twenty dollars,” quipped Heyes. He didn’t like the look on his cousin’s face. “C’mon, it’s okay. I ain’t fixing to die.”
The Kid exploded off his chair. “They weren’t either, but they’re still gone.”
“Kid, don’t. I ain’t going anywhere.” He didn’t want to talk about this now and felt his frustration growing along with the pain in his leg.
“Don’t what, Heyes? Don’t worry about losing the last family I have?” The Kid had turned away from him and was staring out the window, looking at nothing. Curry spoke softly when he began again, “Do you even remember what they look like? I can’t. Sometimes, I’ll wake from a dream and I know it was about her, about them, but I just can’t see their faces.”
“Please, I can’t…” Heyes shifted on the bed trying to turn towards his partner, and, within seconds, the red blossom on the bandages had grown. He looked helplessly at his leg watching the linen grow sodden. “Kid.”
Curry pulled the curtains tight to close out the darkening night and leaned his head against the thick velvet he clutched in his fists. “I wish I could remember.”
“Kid, get the doc,” said Heyes weakly. Curry turned from the window and saw the saturated bedclothes. He bolted from the room.
A tapping at the door roused him. He rolled over and his angry muscles protested their rough usage. “Hold on, I’m coming.” Kid Curry pulled himself up using the chair. His back was sore from sleeping on the hard floor all night and he could barely make it to his feet. Heyes was still lying on his back, his injured leg in a sling, and pulled above his heart by a rope passing through a screw eye hastily drilled into the ceiling. The Kid was relieved to see the steady rise and fall of his partner’s chest. He crossed to the door and opened it carefully. Mrs. Campbell, the proprietress of the rooming house they were staying in, peeked into the room.
“Good morning, Mr. Jones. Is he still sleeping?” she whispered.
“Yes, ma’am. He never moved far as I can tell. Too weak to, I guess.” The Kid opened the door wider for the kindly, middle-aged woman. She had hurried in last night with the doctor and had worked by his side until well after midnight when the bleeding had finally stopped and the fever had set in. Finally, having done everything that could be done; she and the doctor had left, leaving the Kid to his fears. Before he had stepped out the door, the doc had told Curry as gently as he could to expect the worst.
“I brought you some breakfast.” Turning away, Mrs. Campbell lifted a tray off the hall table and passed it to the Kid. “I hope you enjoy the flowers. I picked them from my garden this morning thinking they might cheer you up. Mr. Smith, too, of course, when he awakens,” she added hastily.
“Yes, ma’am, when he awakens, I’m sure they will,” said the Kid sadly, hoping with all his heart that Heyes woke up at all. He took the offered tray and put it atop the dresser without looking at it. He had no appetite.
“I’ll pick up the dishes later on. Good day, Mr. Jones,” said Mrs. Campbell.
“Yes, ma’am.” Curry shut the door and turned back to look at the immobile figure on the bed. How could Heyes look so diminished and frail? He walked slowly back to the chair and sat down, staring at his cousin. Beads of sweat were sprinkled liberally across Heyes’s face and the Kid wiped his brow with the same damp rag he’d used during the night. The fever hadn't worsened, that was something to be thankful for. Finished, he sat back and studied his partner’s face carefully, the features as familiar as his own. Would the day come when he wouldn’t remember Heyes’s face? The thought terrified him and he stood up, pacing about the room.
He stopped in his tracks as he passed the dresser and turned back to stare at the small white vase on the tray and the blue Forget-me-nots it held. A chill ran down his spine as he reached out and gently fingered a petal; his Ma’s favorite flowers. He saw her suddenly as clear as day; her smiling face as she reached out to receive his offering, pulling him into her warm embrace; and his knees went weak with the memory. He snatched his hand back as though burned by a flame and when he touched the petal again, there was nothing. But he’d seen her, he’d remembered.
He picked up the vase and put it on the bed stand to the right of Heyes. They’d be the first thing his cousin would see when he opened his eyes. The Kid wondered if Heyes would remember how his mother loved them, too. Feeling better, he went back to the dresser and picked up the wedge of warm bread, slathering it with the plum jelly Mrs. Campbell had left. He wolfed down the meal and carried a cup of coffee back over to the chair, sitting down, and sipping it slowly as he watched Heyes breathing.
Heyes woke late in the morning, opening his eyes to the bright sunlight pouring through the crack in the velvet curtains. His eyes focused slowly, but when they did, he noticed the small white vase of flowers. Forget-me-nots, his aunt’s favorite. He hadn’t seen those in years, not since…No, he couldn’t think of that, didn’t want to remember that.
Heyes turned away and stared at the ceiling, overcome by his thoughts before becoming aware of the soft snoring to his left. The Kid was asleep sitting up, his head tucked down onto his chest. Heyes could still see the child in his partner when he was sleeping and he lay still, watching him and remembering all the way back to another sweeter, happier life. He let his thoughts sift through memories long forgotten until his eyes grew heavy and he slept again.
“Heyes?” The Kid was plumping the pillows behind his partner’s head. Heyes had awakened before noon and had surprised all of them; his partner, the doctor, and sweet Mrs. Campbell, by his rapid improvement throughout the remainder of the day.
“Hmmm?” Heyes had closed his eyes briefly when the Kid spoke.
“Do you remember our folks?” asked the Kid tentatively.
Heyes kept his eyes closed, feigning sleep. He hated to talk about their folks. It always brought dark, painful memories, and he usually sidestepped the Kid when the subject came up.
“Heyes?”
Heyes opened his eyes and looked into the searching blue eyes of his younger cousin. He could see how strained the Kid was by the worry he’d been chewing on and he felt a pang of guilt for ducking the question. He turned, looking at the tiny blue flowers on the table and said softly, “Yes, I do.”
The Kid pulled the chair over to Heyes’s side of the bed and sat down, straddling it, and putting his head on his arms which rested on the back of it. “What do you remember?” he eagerly asked with a happy smile.
“I remember your Ma and how beautiful she was. Did I ever tell about the time I was spending the night at your house? We were sleeping in the loft and I woke up. There was a light on below and I crawled to the edge. I sat there a long time, watching your Ma sewing that big, blue quilt your folks had on their bed. She was sitting at the kitchen table and the lamp had burned low, flickering, really, making her hair glow in the light it cast. She shimmered like an angel. I’ll never forget her.”
“Well, remember that time….?” Heyes talked late into the night, as long as his strength lasted, and his partner listened avidly; both of them remembering who they had been and who they hoped to be again one day.
Silverkelpie
Location : Over the rainbow
Subject: Re: Forget-Me-Nots Sun Sep 08, 2013 5:25 am
I posted a comment on the other site for this. Really sad, and so well-written.
Javabee
Location : Seattle
Subject: Re: Forget-Me-Nots Sat Sep 14, 2013 4:41 pm
This is a beautifully written and poignant story. It explains so much about who the boys became and why. It opens a window into their pain, and their fierce loyalty to one another. I love the way it ends with hope, with the parting phrase "......his partner listened avidly; both of them remembering who they had been and who they hoped to be again one day."
thewheatman
Location : San Jose, CA
Subject: Re: Forget-Me-Nots Mon Oct 07, 2013 4:44 pm
I like stories that go back to their childhood. I know Heyes is usually the one who never wants to talk about them and the Kid sometimes does. It's good to know that Heyes is going to recover becausse The Kid just couldn't take losing Heyes. Good writing.
gin16
Subject: Re: Forget-Me-Nots Mon Nov 12, 2018 8:46 am
This is such a beautiful story, full of sorrow and love and hope. I have read it many times and will again.
Subject: Re: Forget-Me-Nots
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One hundred years ago Eastbourne had a thriving pleasure boat industry, which by then was already over a hundred years old. Eastbourne had many boat yards such as Gausdens in Beach Road, later to become Sisks who built rowing skiffs for £1.00 per foot (many years ago) and not forgetting Prangnell and Sons at Street Farm in Westham Village. At one point there were 113 separate boat licences granted for Eastbourne between the Wish Tower and the Redoubt fortress with such old Eastbourne families as Boniface, Hide, Sayers, Huggett to name but a few and not forgetting the Allchorn family. After two world wars and a drop in tourism they decreased until the early sixties when there were only two familys left the Sayers and Allchorns. Mr Sayers thought enough was enough and in 1965 sold his boats Southern Queen and Eastbourne Queen’ (built by Prangnell and Son) to the Allchorns. The Eastbourne Queen was sold off and the Southern queen became the new sister boat to the William Allchorn which was built in Newhaven by Cantell in 1950 for the Allchorns. Both boats were designed and built to be beach launched and spent their entire working life operating off the beach west of Eastbourne pier. The Eastbourne Queen is now believed to be lying somewhere on the bottom of the Norfolk Broads.
These two remaining boats are all that is left of 200 years of local boating history, they represent and stand for all that has gone before, if the boats are sold off or are left to rot that door to the past will be closed forever.
We are attempting to raise funds to purchase the boats and protect them with a trust so they will remain in and work in Eastbourne. The team at this time includes Marine Professionals and carpenters; and I have had offers of help from people in all walks of life to help with the restoration and even offers to buy tickets for the first trip out ! Both boats need a major refit including engines but two reports on the hull have shown that they are in surprisingly good order with only remedial work needed.
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The aim of the project is to return the boats to working condition and running the pleasure trips again along Eastbourne’s seafront which they have done for the past 65 years, We also plan to have a visitor/history and education center.
We have Mr Brian Allchorn (The original owner and the last of the real old boatmen of Eastbourne) on the team in an advisory capacity and also Mr Roland Prangnell who was involved in the building of the Southern Queen.
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Celebrate Labor Day 2017 with SiriusXM’s special programming all weekend!
Put your work down and turn the radio up! SiriusXM is celebrating the unofficial end of summer with special programming beginning Friday, September 1 and airing throughout the holiday weekend.
50s on 5 (Ch. 5)
’50s School Days
All weekend long, 50s on 5 plays Back to School-themed songs that have been suggested by 50s on 5 listeners via Facebook.
Airs: 9/1 starting at 6 pm ET through 9/5
60s on 6’s Last Blast of Summer
Celebrate Labor Day Weekend with the Greatest ’60s Summer hits!
Airs: 9/1 at 3 pm ET through 9/5 at 12 am ET
Summer Songs Of The ’70s
Hear a finale of those Summer Songs of the ‘70s. Tunes that take you back to that June night on the lake. The Saturday in the park. Splashing in the river, the beach or pool in July. That August camping trip. It’s Labor Day Weekend, and we’ve got an 8-track case loaded with songs from your favorite summer from the ’70s!
Airs: 9/1 at 3 pm ET through 9/4 at 11 pm ET
’90s Labor Day House Party w/ Kid N’ Play
The masters of the ’90s house party, Kid N’ Play take over the 90s on 9 studio to host the biggest party ever seen, playing the top party songs and reflecting on their party hey days!
Airs: 9/1 at 5 pm & 8 pm ET; 9/2 at 7 am, 11 am, 3pm & 10 pm ET; 9/3 at 8 am, 2pm & 9pm ET; 9/4 at 7 am, 1pm & 7 pm ET
Pop2K (Ch. 10)
Boy Band Long Weekend
This Labor Day weekend, let’s hear it for the boys! Backstreet Boys member Nick Carter joins Pop2K to play his favorite boy band tracks, in celebration of his TV show Boy Band! From Backstreet to N*SYNC, O-Town to 98 Degrees, the boys are keeping you company throughout the long weekend.
Airs: 9/1 at 8 pm ET throughout Labor Day Weekend
Pitbull’s Globalization (Ch. 13)
64-Hour Labor Day Mix Weekend
Our Globalization DJs are working overtime for our Labor Day holiday weekend. Don’t stop the party!
Airs: 9/1 through 9/4
The Pulse (Ch. 15)
The Best of LIVE IN THE VINEYARD
There have been some incredible performances over the years at our favorite Napa Valley event. Listen all Labor Day Weekend as we celebrate the end of summer 2017 every hour with performances from Train, Goo Goo Dolls, Matt Nathanson, Rob Thomas, Colbie Caillat and many others.
Airs: 9/1 starting at 5 pm ET, every hour through 9/4
Pearl Jam Radio (Ch. 22)
Hometown Countdown
Pearl Jam has always delivered a bit extra in front of their hometown fans. This labor day weekend, Pearl Jam Radio counts down the band’s all-time greatest Seattle performances.
Airs: 9/1 at 5 pm & 10 pm ET; 9/2 at 10 am ET; 9/3 at 7 pm ET; 9/4 at Noon & 8 pm ET; 9/5 at 11 am & 5 pm ET
Classic Rewind (Ch. 25)
Classic Rewind’s 20 Hardest Workin’ Rockers
Hosted by REO Speedwagon’s Kevin Cronin – A Labor Day salute featuring the Top 20 Cassette Era Rockers who continue to tour and amaze audiences.
Airs: 9/1 at 6 pm ET; 9/2 at 8 am & 2 pm ET; 9/3 at 11 am & 9 pm ET; 9/4 at 11 pm ET
Deep Tracks (Ch. 27)
Deep Tracks’ 10 Most Important Albums from the Summer of Love
Hear tracks from the most influential albums from 10 to 1 from the summer of love – 50 years ago. San Francisco native and SiriusXM host Dusty Street gives insight into each artist/album.
Airs: 9/1 at 12 pm ET; 9/2 at 10 am & 8 pm ET; 9/3 at 6 am & 10 pm ET; 9/4 at 3 am, 9 am & 5 pm ET
Jam On (Ch. 29)
LOCKN’ 2017 Highlights
Jam On will to be replaying the best LOCKN sets from last weekend all Labor Day weekend. Don’t miss conversations with Phil Lesh, Warren Haynes, Ann Wilson, Dave Schools and more!
Tom Petty Radio (Ch. 31)
George Drakoulias Guest DJ
Tom Petty Radio welcomes special guest DJ George Drakoulias. George produced Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers eleventh studio album The Last DJ. Hear an hour of handpicked tunes, including his favorite Heartbreakers & Traveling Wilburys songs, music from his personal record collection, and more.
Airs: 9/1 at 3 pm ET; 9/2 at 1 am ET; 9/3 at 6 pm ET
The Bridge (Ch. 32)
Ani DiFranco’s Labor Day Mix for Working People
We asked activist and performing songwriter Ani DiFranco to choose labor songs and talk about her experience playing beside Pete Seeger, Utah Phillips and more.
Airs: 9/3 at 10 pm ET; 9/4 at 6 pm ET
Lithium (Ch. 34)
Lithium’s Top Summer Songs from 1997
Hear the best alternative and grunge from the summer of 1997 all Labor Day Weekend long!
Ozzy’s Boneyard (Ch. 38)
Kevin Harvick Guest DJ
Crank up tunes and put the pedal to the medal with professional NASCAR driver Kevin Harvick. Hear his Hard & Heavy Classic Rock playlist during the long Holiday Weekend
Airs: 9/1 at 12 pm ET; 9/2 at 7 am & 4 pm ET; 9/3 at 3 am & 8 pm ET; 9/4 at 11 am & 5 pm ET
The Heat (Ch. 46)
Bey Day Double Play
The Heat is paying homage to Queen Bey on her 36th birthday with a full day of double plays! In honor of the new twin babies, we will be playing back to back Beyonce records at the top of every hour!
Airs: 9/2 starting at 12 pm ET and the top of every hour
Hair Nation (Ch. 29)
Hair Nation’s Labor Day Double Shift
To everybody who’s ever pulled a double-shift, we salute you! All Labor Day weekend you’ll be hearing double on Hair Nation with Hair Nation’s Labor Day Double Shift! Twice the Poison! Twice the Bon Jovi! Twice the Dokken! Hear two songs back to back from all of your favorite Hair Nation artists for the holiday weekend!
Airs: 9/1 at 5 pm ET through 9/4
Soul Town (Ch. 49)
Soul Town’s 20 Most Popular Male Groups
Our Summer countdown series closes out with a salute to male groups. The Jacksons, Isleys, and Temps, take their place among the hitmakers.
Airs: 9/2 at 12 pm ET
40s Junction (Ch. 73)
Labor Day Weekend, 1945
World War II ended on September 2, 1945, with Japan’s surrender. The following day, Americans celebrated Labor Day as the first day of world peace. We’ll revisit the moment by playing the songs loaded in our Labor Day 1945 jukeboxes – the Wurlitzer ‘Victory’ and Model 950.
Classic Rock, Music, Oldies, Rock, Singer/Songwriter
Vote for the best songs for a mellow workout on The Bridge
Ozzy’s Boneyard: Vote for the best hard & heavy guitar solos
VOTE for the best songs of 1971 on The Bridge!
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[1]By GEOFF MOSHER
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PHILADELPHIA - Howie Roseman spent a little more than an hour today with reporters who cover the Eagles and, in that span, revealed very little about the team's plans for next week's draft.
It's assumed the Eagles will concentrate heavily on repairing the defense, epsecially since defensive players are considered the top prospects in a draft class most analsyst say is the deepest in more than a decade. Roseman, of course, didn't give any sneak previews as to which college prospects the Eagles really like or which areas of the team most need addressing.
When asked what the team needed most, Roseman said: "Good players all around." (Take that, mock drafters!).
The Birds have 11 total picks and three of the top 55, five of the first 87. They could use all their selections and come away with nearly a dozen new faces to push for playing time, or package some picks and trade up in any round, which they've commonly done under Andy Reid.
Given this draft's pre-ordained reputation as one of the best ever, it might be prudent this year to do less wheeling and dealing and come away with as many new faces as possible. Roseman clearly views the team's 37th overall pick, acquired from the Redskins in the Donovan McNabb trade, as the fifth pick in the second first round - if that makes sense.
"I think we spend a lot of time looking at the strength of our board and areas that maybe you can get two or three picks there that really can contribute right away and where that possibility is," Roseman said. "We had six picks a month ago so we went into this offseason we saw that this draft could really help us from an overall team perspective. We went out and got five other picks, two of them from the league. And we feel like they’re in strong places in the draft.
Some other interesting tidbits from Roseman's meeting:
* The team has talked to Jeff Garcia's representation, Octagon, about a return to the Eagles but nothing will probably happen until after the draft, depending on whether or not the team drafts a project quarterback [think John Skelton, Fordham]. Roseman also said he anticipated that Michael Vick will be with the Eagles in 2010 unless another team knocks his socks off with an offer, which some teams might be tempted to do if they don't get the quarterback they're looking for during the draft.
* Ellis Hobbs is ready to get back onto the field after a lengthy rehab following neck surgery that ended his 2009 season after eight games. Roseman said Hobbs would be on the field for the first official minicamp but he's not sure in what capacity Hobbs will be able to participate.
* The team signed center A.Q Shipley from the Steelers' practice squad as insurance if Jamaal Jackson [ACL] isn't ready for the season opener and if Nick Cole is asked again to start right guard, but Roseman also sung the praises of third-year lineman Mike McGlynn as a potential center. McGlynn, a 2008 fourth-round pick out of Pittsburgh, has played all three offensive line positions but Roseman said he's probably suited to center for the Eagles.
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At Oregon State University
A strong wall to bring forest to frame
Posted on April 9, 2019 by newtonca | Leave a reply
Construction of the A.A. “Red” Emmerson Advanced Wood Products Lab is underway on the Oregon State University campus. The new lab will add 15,000 square-feet of structural testing space to the Oregon State College of Forestry, which already boasts some of the best technical research facilities in the nation.
A new state-of-the-art space
The laboratory will also be home to a 2,500 square-foot advanced wood products manufacturing area, a flexible demonstration and classroom area and the TallWood Design Institute offices.
“There are a variety of ways research and teaching can intersect in this new space,” says Arijit Sinha, associate professor of renewable materials at Oregon State. “When we complete large-scale tests, we will need an army of undergraduate helpers. It will be a great experiential learning opportunity for students, while at the same time offering us new, world-class capabilities to test buildings at full scale.”
Juliana Ruble, former advanced wood products lab manager and project engineer for Andersen Construction, agrees.
“The new lab will provide space for architects, engineers, wood products manufacturers and researchers to come together and develop new products and new building systems designs,” she says.
A CNC panel processing center will be capable of creating large panels and straight beams as well as curved beams and other, smaller wood products. Another robotic machine will expand architectural fabrication opportunities.
A strong floor for large tests
A 60-by-80-foot strong wall and reaction floor system will facilitate testing of up to three-story wood structures.
The strong floor and accompanying reaction wall are composed of four-foot thick concrete. Anchors are attached to the floor and wall on a four-by-four-foot grid. Each anchor has a 60-kip capacity for a total of 240 kips for each cluster of four anchor points. The reaction wall is capable of withstanding a 150-kip reaction while the floor can withstand 500-kip compression across a twelve-inch diameter area.
“Our strong floor will be one of the largest related to wood and timber research in the U.S.,” Sinha says. “We will use the floor and reaction wall to test materials and structures. The strong base of the floor mimics a rigid surface during tests.”
Oregon State and TDI researchers anticipate using the facility to conduct seismic tests, connection tests, wall connection tests, loading tests and more.
“We do these tests now on a smaller scale,” Ruble says. “This new facility will more than double our research capacity while increasing our manufacturing research capabilities and our ability to bring in industry, students and stakeholders to learn in an applied research environment.”
Making connections, continuing research
Sinha researches connections within mass-timber buildings, and will continue this work inside the new lab. His current project focuses on nondestructive evaluation of mass-timber by exposing connection materials to extremes of modular and biological exposure on two different species of CLT.
Sinha will also assess how wood buildings react to biological attack including fungi. The research project is funded by the USDA, and the team includes collaborators from Portland State University.
“The results will be incorporated into building codes,” Sinha says. “This project is important because it will tell us how things play out overtime in wood buildings with intrusion of moisture.”
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CITIES: Capitals Built in Earthquake Zones
“Kathmandu: A collage,” 2012. Image: wikimedia.
Are capitals “moveable feasts?” Yes. History is filled with examples of capitals moved for new dynasties, new visions, coastal security, and more central political representation. In the future, we may see more relocations of capitals. Here’s three reasons:
EARTHQUAKES AND CAPITAL CITIES: There are other capitals, built on seismic ground, like Kathmandu or Tokyo, that may need to move. Another option, illustrated by Tokyo, might be to build a “spare battery” capital away from shaky ground. Indonesia is also earth-quake prone, located in the volcanic Ring of Fire; choice of a new capital location may require seismic assessment before a site is chosen.
What world capitals are vulnerable to shaky ground? At the time it was built, no one knew that Mexico City was located on ground susceptible to earthquakes. With a population of 20 million, the city is dense. Skyscraper towers can become “unintended object of mass destruction,” according to Michael Floyd of MIT’s Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences. Loss of a command-and-control center that is a capital city can inhibit and delay disaster response, as seen when on 12 January 2010, Port-au-Prince, Haiti suffered the loss of records, legal documents, land, census data, tax records, and tragic loss of life, during an earthquake that damaged the government building.
RISING SEAS AND COASTAL CAPITALS: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and Lagos, Nigeria are former capitals that ceded succession to Brasilia and Abuja. Both Rio and Lagos are ports. Many great capital cities were built as ports, among them Jakarta. Now, Indonesia may move its capital. Rising seas will inundate many capitals that also serve as ports.
NEW CAPITAL, NEW VISION: Moving a capital can mean a shift in demographic clout, inviting political power to more central areas of a nation. Jakarta is considering an area of Borneo. Will Mexico City plan a new Distrito Federal perhaps also serving as a regional capital for the Americas?
NEXT STEPS FOR CAPITALS IN EARTHQUAKE ZONES: The massive urban centers that are capitals, even if the government center moves, will still remain vulnerable. Earthquakes will continue: what can be done to preserve and protect cities built on shaky ground?
CAPITAL CITIES IN EARTHQUAKE ZONES
“The 20 Most Earthquake-Vulnerable Cities.” 4 December 2007. Forbes. https://www.forbes.com/2007/12/04/earthquakes-india-japan-biz-cx_db_1203earthquakes_slide.html/.
Chu, Jennifer. “Seismic gap may be filled by an earthquake near Istanbul.” MIT News. 11 September 2014. http://news.mit.edu/2014/seismic-gap-earthquake-istanbul-0911/.
Davidson, Frank P. and Kathleen Lusk Brooke. “Cities in Danger,” Building the Future, 2012. pages 65-97. University of Massachusetts Boston, Healey Library.
Ergintav, S, R.E. Reilinger, R. Cakmak, M. Floyd, Z. Cakir, U. Dogan, et al. “Istanbul’s earthquake hot spots: Geogetic constraints on strain accumulation along faults in the Marmara seismic gap.” Geophysical Research Letters 41, no. 16 (22 August 2014): 5783-5788.
Building the World Blog by Kathleen Lusk Brooke and Zoe G Quinn is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported Licen
Categories: The Founding of Abuja: Nigeria, The Founding of Baghdad: Iraq, The Founding of Brasilia: Brasil | Tags: Cities, Earthquakes, New Capitals, Sea Rise | Permalink
Jakarta: first capital to move due to sea rise
Rivers and canals of Jakarta, Indonesia. Image: wikimedia.
MOVING THE CAPITAL DUE TO SEA RISE: Jakarta, Indonesia is the fastest sinking city on earth. Sea rise threatens the city, located on land intersected by 13 rivers. A busy port, Jakarta is congested and dense; heavy port buildings weigh down the terrain. As the capital, Jakarta also supports government, industry, and a burgeoning population. Residential and industrial water needs result in considerable pumping from the rivers, further draining the land mass. Another burden of density: traffic – Jakarta’s is among the world’s worst. And then there’s the residential buildings: 10 million people call Jakarta home, making it one of the world’s megacities. Skyscrapers dot the skyline, adding weight. Jakarta has sunk eight feet in the past decade, and the subsidence continues. Half of the city is below sea level.
Baghdad, surrounded by the Tigris River. Image: wikimedia.
NEW CAPITAL, NEW VISION: Changing the capital of a country is not unique in history. Baghdad was founded with a new vision, drawn as three concentric circles with a stroke of the Caliph’s sword marking the new capital. As Baghdad rebuilds, will Frank Lloyd Wright‘s plans and drawings bring Al Mansur’s vision to life as Madinat as-Salam, “City of Peace?” Other times, capitals moved inland from ports: Lagos, a port city, begat Abuja, moving Nigeria’s capital to a central location designed with vision and values including Haussmann’s Paris and L’Enfant’s and Banneker’s Washington, D.C. Rio de Janeiro ceded its position as capital to Brasilia, in part because the city of Ipanema beach became too dense; coastal location also meant vulnerability. The new capital, Brasilia, was central to the diverse country, representing a wider vision. Lucio Costa designed the new capital to be built in the shape of an airplane; Brasilia was the first city built to be seen from the air.
Costa’s Plan for Brasilia, in the shape of an airplane. Image: Library of Congress.
NEW BALANCE OF POWER: Just as Brazil chose an inland location, and Nigeria selected Abuja to relate to the center of the country, so Indonesia’s possible choice of an area of Borneo might represent a wider view. Palangka Raya is in consideration, in part due to a previous proposal by first president (1945-1967) Sukarno.
FUTURE OF COASTAL LOCATIONS IN CLIMATE CHANGE: Jakarta is a case example of the future. Rising seas may inundate some of the greatest cities in the world, many built as ports. As Indonesia begins to move its capital away from Jakarta, it will rebuild the coastal metropolis to defend from sea rise: “By 2050, about 95% of North Jakarta may be submerged,” according to Heri Andreas, Bandung Institute of Technology. Can innovations such as those proposed by Lempérière and Deroo to use canals, and rivers, to combat rising seas, help Jakarta and other port cities build a safer, better future? Will the Belt and Road Initiative build very different kinds of ports, using rivers, canals, and urban harbors to address sea rise?
Afra Sapiie, Marguerite. “Jokowi wants to move capital out of Java.” 29 April 2019. The Jakarta Post. https://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2019/04/29/jokowi-wants-to-move-capital-of-java.html/.
BBC. “Indonesia’s planning minister announces capital city move,” 29 April 2019.
Lemer, Andrew C. “Foreseeing the Problems of Developing Nigeria’s New Federal Capital.” In Macro-engineering and the Future: A Management Perspective. edited by Frank P. Davidson and C. Lawrence Meador. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1982.
Lempérière, François and Luc Deroo. “Peut on éviter les inondations à Paris?” January 2018. Symposium du DCBR : comité français des barrages et réservoirs. http://www.barrages-cfbr.eu/IMG/pdf/symposium2018_10_deroo_lemperiere_peut-on_eviter_les_inondations_a_paris.pdf
Litwin, Evan T. “The Climate Diaspora: Indo-Pacific Emigration from Small Island Developing States.” 2011. University of Massachusetts Boston. https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers/cfm?abstract?id=1912859.
Kennedy, Merrit. “Indonesia plans to move its capital out of Jakarta, a city that’s sinking.” 29 April 2019. NPR. https://www.npr.org/2019/04/29/718234878/indonesia-plans-to-move-its-capital-out-of-jakarta-a-city-thats-sinking.
Toppa, Sabrina. “These cities have the worst traffic in the world, says a new index.” 4 February 2016. Jakarta, Istanbul, Mexico City, Surabaya, and St. Petersburg top the world’s cities among 78 surveyed. Time Magazine. http://time.com/3695068/worst-cities-traffic-jams/
Appreciation and recognition: David Edwards-May, Inland Waterways International, Andrew C. Lemer, Evan Litwin, and Cherie Potts for contributions to this post.
Categories: The Founding of Abuja: Nigeria, The Founding of Baghdad: Iraq, The Founding of Brasilia: Brasil, The Founding of Washington D.C.: United States | Tags: canal, Cities, environment, New Capitals, water, waterway | Permalink
Cities as Destiny
Cities may rebuild the world. Image: “Cirrus sky panorama.” Image: Fir0002/Flagstaffotos.
“We started talking about all these things that we could do if someone would just give us a city and put us in charge,” said Eric Schmidt, CEO of Alphabet. Sidewalk Labs, subsidiary of Alphabet, Google’s parent company, won a public competition to design a part of Toronto’s waterfront. Some of the proposed winning ideas:
Sidewalk Toronto:
heated pedestrian lanes to melt snow;
self-driving bus system;
taxi-bots and van-bots for shuttles;
transit and bike-shares;
street side parks and public spaces;
tunnels for utilities, making grids easier to reach and repair.
Throughout history, cities have espoused new visions. Baghdad was drawn in three concentric circles during a vision. Singapore was the spontaneous agreement for an economic and cultural nexus, celebrating diversity. Brasilia was the first urban design built to be seen from the air. Will Toronto take the next step to realizing a new vision, if chosen as Amazon’s HQ2? Prime Minister Justin Trudeau termed the project an “innovation hub.” Some question sensors and data collection, also planned, challenging Sidewalk Labs’ claim: “privacy can be baked into the design.”
Which 20 cities made the short-list for Amazon’s HQ?. Image: München Tram 20. Wikimedia commons.
Toronto, along with Boston, made the short-list for Amazon’s second headquarters. Boston’s note: “We would like to move Boston forward in the process so we can continue to learn more about your community, your talent, and potential real estate options.” Holly Sullivan, Amazon. While 19 cities in the United States made the list, one Canadian city joined the elite twenty: Toronto. Toynbee, in Cities of Destiny, explored cities that shaped history. What are your ideas for the future of the city?
Wingfield, Nick. “Amazon Chooses 20 Finalists for Second Headquarters.” 18 January 2018. The New York Times.
Categories: The Founding of Baghdad: Iraq, The Founding of Brasilia: Brasil, The Founding of Singapore, Singapore | Tags: Cities | Permalink
Forest Cities
We emerged from the forest; will forest cities return us to our natural state? Image: Shennongjia Forest, Hubei, China. Image: wikimedia commons.
China’s plans for a “Forest City” may establish a vision for a better urban future. New cities have often marked turning points in history. In the year 145 (or A.D. 762), the new Caliph of the Abbasid dynasty decided to move the capital to create a fresh vision. Setting off on horseback, Al-Mansur saw an auspicious spot, leapt from his steed, drew his sword, and carved three concentric circles upon the land. The new city? The Caliph named it Medinat as-Salam, “City of Peace.” Today, it is called Baghdad.
Liuzhou Forest City will not only be attractively leafy, it will literally eat smog. Commissioned by Liuzhou Municipality Urban Planning, Stefano Boeri Architetti designed the green vision:
Hosting 40,000 trees;
Growing 1 million plants of 100 species;
Absorbing 10,000 tons of CO2;
Eating 57 tons of fine dust and pollutants;
Producing 900 tons of fresh Oxygen.
Liuzhou, famous place on the Silk Road, builds upon the vision of Vertical Forests, as seen in Milan, Italy, or the Meir Lobaton & Kristjan Donaldson Torre Cuajimalpa in Mexico. Comparisons might also be made to Rhode Island’s tree-planting project designed by the School of Architecture, Art, and Historic Preservation of Roger Williams University.
No room to plant trees? Answer: CityTree, a green “wall” of plants with as much air-purifying power as 275 trees. Co-founder Zhengliang Wu of Green City Solutions recommends moss cultures because of their larger leaf surface areas.
Green Wall at Caixa Forum, Paseo del Prado, Madrid. Photographer: Mike Dixon. Image: wikimedia.
Cities around the world are seeking resilient responses to climate change. Energy, water, and transport systems are among the areas experiencing innovation. Sea level rise threatens many coastal cities including San Francisco and Silicon Valley, studied by system dynamics experts Christiansen and Libby. And it is not a moment too soon: by 2050, 75% of all the people in the world will live in cities. Will Liuzhou Forest City mark a point in history turning toward sustainability?
For Liuzhou Forest City video: http://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-asia-china-40502622/welcome-to-liuzhou-forest-city
“Changing Cities in a Changing Climate,” Alexander F. Christiansen and Bradd Libby, DNV GL Group Technology and Research, Climate Action Programme. https://www.dnvgl.com/technology-innovation/city-resilience/index.html
Categories: The Founding of Baghdad: Iraq | Tags: China, Cities, COP21, environment | Permalink
City as Art
“Singing’ in the Rain” with Gene Kelly. Will Boston’s “Raining Poetry” set a new style for the City as Art? Image: wikimedia commons.
Baghdad was designed in three concentric circles drawn in the sand by founder Caliph al-Mansur, who named the new capital “Madinat as-Salam” or “City of Peace.” As Toynbee observed in Cities of Destiny, urban centers possess cultural magnetism. Boston is showering the city in art: poetry appears in the rain. A collaboration of Boston City Hall, the Mayor’s Mural Crew, and Mass Poetry, the project echoes public art along the Greenway. Chicago’s Millennium Park brings public art to a new gathering green downtown. Beijing also uses urban life to uplift: riders on the metro’s Line 4 can access Chinese poetry and philosophy through barcodes posted in passenger cars. China’s Grand Canal standardized written language, facilitating government, and cultural, exchange. Boston’s poems, however, are ephemeral; disappearing ink lasts just a few weeks. But words are, as Roman poet Horace stated, “monumentum aere perennius” – “a monument more lasting than bronze” or as Langston Hughes, whose poem graces Dudley Square, might observe: “Still Here.”
Thanks to Chak Ngamtippan for suggesting featuring Boston’s “Raining Poetry.”
Categories: The Central Artery/Tunnel Project ("Big Dig"): United States, The Founding of Baghdad: Iraq, The Grand Canal: China | Tags: Art, Cities, Poetry | Permalink
Water is life’s mater and matrix, mother and medium. There is no life without water. – Albert Szent-Gyorgyi. Water Act! may lead the way. Image: www.komendenver.org.
Water is life, some would state. Water resources determined success of some of the world’s greatest cities: Baghdad, London, Rome, Singapore. Environmental consequences of climate change can be observed in water resources: floods devastate; drought strangles. Earth, the water planet, may be running out of water. Will “Water Act!” convened in Paris by the Fulbright Association produce consensus and action regarding world water?
As water becomes more scarce on earth, the element begins to be discovered in space. Earth’s solar system contains 23 oceans. Europa, Jupiter’s moon, may house a sub-surface ocean “vigorously convecting” with Hadley cells and ice plumes 124 miles high. Water movement on Europa may mean life; circulating from equator to poles, as evidenced by plumes, moving water may create the fertile environment for life. Findings of Krista Soderlund of University of Texas Institute for Geophysics and colleagues may indicate it is more likely to find life in Europa’s ocean than its land surface: water is a life-giving medium. Planetary Resources is aiming to harvest minerals, and water, from asteroids. Finding water in space may bode well for building a better future; perhaps Gerard K. O’Neill’s vision will be realized, guided in part by the United Nations Outer Space Treaty and Unispace.
Meanwhile, on earth, the world seeks to protect and preserve what water we still have. California continues to address change; citizens successfully met Governor Edmund G. Brown’s challenge to reduce water usage 25%. Differentiating water utilization for people, agriculture, building, industry, and technology might be the way of the future, as suggested by Régine Engström, Executive Director of Eau de Paris, proposing “non-potable water systems may help build tomorrow’s sustainable city.” The 2015 United Nations Climate Change Conference convening in France will seek goals of ambition, fairness, post-2020 financing, and pre-2020 actions regarding climate change and environment. What should COP21 recommend regarding water?
Special appreciation to Cherie E. Potts for Solar System Water references and suggestions.
On Europa:
Wenz, John. “Jupiter’s Moon Europa is Bursting with Icy Geysers.” Popular Mechanics, 12 December 2013. deep-space/a9830/jupiters-moon-europa-is-bursting-with-icy-geysers-16260205/
On Water in 23 Places in our Solar System:
Wenz, John. “23 Places We’ve Found Water in Our Solar System.” Popular Mechanics, 16 March 2015. http://www.popularmechanics.com/space/a14555/water-worlds-in-our-solar-system/.
Categories: The Aqueducts of Rome: Italy, The Founding of Baghdad: Iraq, The Founding of Singapore, Singapore, The New River: England | Tags: environment, space, water | Permalink
Baghdad: Madinat-as-Salam
Peace Symbol. Courtesy: wikimedia commons.
Riding a white horse, Caliph al-Mansur lept from his steed, unsheathed his sword, and drew three concentric circles in the sands of the land shining before him, proclaiming: “Here we will build the City of Peace, Madinat-as-Salam.” Calendar year 145 (or A.D. 762) proved auspicious; the Caliph had indeed found advantageous terrain. On the Tigris River, a trade nexus was born, at one time the wealthiest in the world and one of the most beautiful. Since then, the world has known that city under a different name: Baghdad. It is a place now rebuilding: new infrastructure, new water and energy systems, and perhaps a new vision. New Baghdad has an opportunity to claim its destiny of Madinat-as-Salam, City of Peace.
Categories: The Founding of Baghdad: Iraq | Tags: Cities, Peace, River | Permalink
by zoequinn001
Hospitality in a Time of Rebuilding
The Republican Palace in Baghdad’s Green Zone, one of the buildings hosting the 2013 conferences, by Jim Gordon.
Rebuilding a city after a disaster, be it natural or man made, is a task that requires the cooperation of government and civilian alike. There is often a great deal of pride involved in attempting to reach a former level of success and beauty. Baghdad is no exception. In the midst of reconstructing the city and government however, Baghdad is demonstrating that it is still a city worthy of international awe by hosting a number of 2013’s international conferences, including the Gulf Energy Forum and an Arab League conference on Palestine. Like with London and the 2012 Summer Olympics, the need to house the international players while presenting the city of Baghdad as a global leader has led to a great deal of improvement within the city.
For more informaiton on the city’s improvements and the conferences being held there, please see: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-20979039.
Building the World Blog by Kathleen Lusk Brooke and Zoe G. Quinn is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.
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Rebuilding Eden
Result of the draining, from bbc.co.uk.
Baghdad is not the only important settlement on the Tigris and the Euphrates. The wetlands of southern Iraq lay claim to being the Eden of Christian faith. Located on the Tigris and the Euphrates rivers, these marshes were home to a large wildlife population and supported whole human villages. Sadly they were drained in the 1990s under Saddam Hussein, an action that quickly destroyed the ecosystem and local communities. Since the fall of Hussein there has been a move to restore the marshes and the ancient way of life with some success. For the whole story please visit: http://news.bbc.co.uk/earth/hi/earth_news/newsid_9364000/9364044.stm
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Asmodee Digital Launches Zombicide on Mobile Devices
Posted on April 24, 2019 April 29, 2019 by BGB Admin
Based on the Popular Adventure Board Game Franchise, the Solo Tactical Squad-Based Mobile RPG Showcases an Untold Story Based on the Post-Apocalyptic Universe
PARIS – April 23, 2019 – Today, Asmodee Digital, a leader in digital board game entertainment, has launched Zombicide, a solo tactical squad-based mobile role-playing game (RPG) based on the incredibly popular board game franchise that has raised more than $18 million since 2012. Featuring an untold story set in the familiar over-the-top post-apocalyptic zombie universe, Zombicide delivers thrills and chills on iOS and Android devices, starting today.
“Creating tactical games is a huge part of Asmodee Digital’s DNA, and the introduction of Zombicide on mobile platforms is a testament to our commitment to bringing engaging universes and experiences to players worldwide,” said Pierre Ortolan, CEO of Asmodee Digital. “Zombicide is a beloved board game franchise, so bringing this title to mobile with a brand new storyline, as well as an immense level of care, quality and polish, is a great next step for the IP.”
With its intuitive but deep combat system, 40 campaign missions, ambient soundtrack, dazzling special effects and cadre of rich characters with unique abilities, Zombicide’s zombie-infested universe presents a colorful gameplay experience. The game features brisk 20 to 30 minute turn-based gameplay sessions, challenging players to eliminate zombies and survive as long as possible. The higher the danger level rises, the more zombies emerge in search of human flesh.
Zombicide follows a group of survivors who are forced to work together in the aftermath of a zombie apocalypse. Faced with danger, bonds eventually become stronger as the team works together to unearth the deadly secret behind the undead horrors in their hometown.
Zombicide will be available on iOS and Android devices starting today.
For more information on the game, feel free to visit:
https://www.asmodee-digital.com/en/zombicide/
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About Asmodee Digital
Asmodee Digital, a fully owned subsidiary of the Asmodee Group, is an international publisher and distributor of digital board games with operations located in Europe, North America, and China. Asmodee Digital manages the creation, design, development, publishing, and marketing of board and card games on leading digital platforms – spanning mobile, PC, Mac, virtual reality and consoles – for Asmodee studios as well as for third-party publishers. The current Asmodee Digital catalog includes best-selling digital games such as Catan VR, Carcassonne, Ticket to Ride, Splendor, Agricola, Mille Bornes, Pandemic, Small World 2, Mr. Jack London, Colt Express, Mysterium, Potion Explosion, Onirim, Jaipur, Spot It! Duel, Abalone, Ticket to Ride First Journey, Catan Stories, Talisman, Fighting Fantasy Legends, Smash Up and digital versions of many other well-known board games. http://www.asmodee-digital.com/en/
About CMON
CMON Limited is a fast growing hobby games publisher. Originated in 2001 as www.coolminiornot.com, an online community website, CMON now publishes several hit tabletop games, such as the Zombicide series, as well as Blood Rage, Arcadia Quest and more! We actively leverage crowdfunding to bring new and innovative titles to the tabletop games market, and have proven asset-light business model.
About Playsoft
We’re Playsoft, a mobile game development company of 50 passionate games professionals. We create top-grossing mobile games with selected market-leading publishers. We create outstanding products fast in a data-driven, player-centric way.
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PRESS RELEASE: Promenade – The Game of Impressionist Art is live on Kickstarter
Become the most prestigious collector of paintings in a 2 to 4 player economic deck-building game filled with impressionist art.
Los Angeles, CA – April 9, 2019 – Sunrise Tornado Game Studio, publisher of the hit game Cat Rescue, has just launched a new strategy game called Promenade that combines gorgeous artwork and a unique take on the deck-building genre.
Promenade brings players into the art world, where they can purchase paintings for their collection to score points. Artwork gains in value based on a simple but intriguing market system, and by placing art in the right museums. The winner will be the one with the most valuable art and prestigious exhibitions in the finest galleries.
“As a painter and great lover of Impressionist works in particular, I wanted to design a game celebrating this style and offering players the chance to collect and speculate in the art world,” says designer Ta-Te Wu.
Promenade features original art and unique deck builder mechanisms in a game that plays in about an hour.
Featuring over 15 gorgeous pieces of original artwork, mostly painted by the designer himself, Promenade is an excellent and approachable game for 2-4 players that plays in under an hour. Early reviewers are already championing Promenade for its innovative and quick play:
“I enjoyed Promenade greatly. The design is clever and engaging. Your turn never comes round quickly enough and there is wonderful suspense as we calculate the game end holdings…Highly recommended.”
Mike Siggins of Ludememike (also know as Sumo)
“If you’re a fan of economic games and deck builders or just love games about paintings, check out Promenade.”
Meeple Lady
“It must be asked. Another deck builder? Does Promenade offer anything new or exciting? Is it worth playing? Yes. Yes and HELL YES!”
Jay Bernardo of Cardboard East
The Kickstarter for Promenade offers a unique $1 pledge level where players get something for their buck. To show appreciation for the support, Sunrise Tornado is including print and play games to all people who agreed to spread the word about Promenade. Cat Sudoku and Kiti-o-Tiki are both fun, quick games that will be made available to all supports at the $1 level.
The game is now live on Kickstarter: bit.ly/2Ut8bKrand runs until May 12th.
About Sunrise Tornado Game Studio
Sunrise Tornado Game Studio is designer Ta-Te Wu and his collaborators. STGS is responsible for over a dozen board and card games. Working with publishers like Z-Man Games and Cross Circle Games in the early days, Sunrise Tornado Game Studio now primarily publishes games through crowdfunding, having launched several successful titles on Kickstarter like Cat Rescue, Kung Pao Chicken, Di Renjie, The Battle of Red Cliffs, and Glory of the Three Kingdoms. Learn more at: sunrisetornado.com/
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Travel Back Through Time In Time Chase
Posted on April 8, 2019 April 7, 2019 by BGB Admin
If you’re a fan of our small-box trick-taking game The Fox In The Forest but want a game you can play with more than 2 people, you will love Time Chase!
In this game that accommodates 3-6 players and can be played in 30 minutes, you’ve cracked the code to unlock time travel, but some nefarious colleagues are trying to use your invention to travel back in time and take the credit for themselves!
With the technology of time travel in hand, you’re allowed to travel back in time to previous tricks, known as events, and change their outcome. The first player to control three events in the timeline wins!
We’re really excited about this game, and we’re not the only ones: Dan of Game Boy Geek called it one of his most anticipated games of 2019!
Thankfully you won’t have to wait too long: Time Chase will be available in August at your friendly local gaming store.
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PRESS RELEASE: Hunters Entertainment Rolls The Dice With Altered Carbon Tabletop Role-Playing Game
Skydance teams up with award-winning game publisher
for officially licensed tabletop games starting in 2020
Los Angeles, CA (March 29, 2019) – Skydance Media has reached a multi-year licensing agreement with Hunters Entertainment to produce tabletop role-playing games set within the stunning sci-fi universe of the hit Netflix series, Altered Carbon.
Based upon the best-selling novels by Richard K Morgan, Altered Carbon is set centuries into the future when the human mind has been digitized and the soul itself is transferable from one body to the next. Takeshi Kovacs, a former elite interstellar warrior known as an Envoy who has been imprisoned for 500 years, is downloaded into a future he’d tried to stop. Netflix recently renewed Altered Carbon for a second season, with Anthony Mackie (Avengers) becoming the new Takeshi Kovacs as the series continues to explore his journey spanning hundreds of years across many different bodies and planets.
The long-term agreement calls for an ongoing series of tabletop RPGs drawing from the full scope of the Altered Carbon series, with direct tie-ins to the highly-anticipated second season from executive producers Alison Schapker (Fringe), Laeta Kalogridis (Alita: Battle Angel) and James Middleton. David Ellison, Dana Goldberg, and Marcy Ross serve as executive producers for Skydance.
“Altered Carbon is such a rich and expansive universe,” says Ivan Van Norman, CMO and Co-Founder of Hunters. “We look forward to producing an equally ambitious and inspired line of games for years to come.”The games will begin with a crowdfunding campaign for the core RPG manual later this year, with plans for print and digital releases in 2020 through their global publishing deal with Renegade Game Studios.
The Skydance-Hunters licensing deal was brokered by Joe LeFavi of Genuine Entertainment, who will manage the license on behalf of Hunters and serve as an editor on the game itself. LeFavi is no stranger to tabletop, as he is currently managing the master tabletop gaming license for Frank Herbert’s Dune with Legendary and Gale Force Nine. Skydance Media is represented by Evolution.
ABOUT SKYDANCE MEDIA
Skydance is the diversified media company founded by David Ellison in 2010 to create high-quality, event-level entertainment for global audiences. The Company brings to life stories with immersive worlds across its feature film, television, interactive and animation divisions. Recent feature films include Mission: Impossible–Fallout and Annihilation.
Skydance’s upcoming feature films include 6 Underground, Gemini Man, Terminator: Dark Fate, Top Gun: Maverick, The Old Guard, and Ghost Draft. Skydance Television launched in 2013, and its current slate includes two Emmy-nominated series, Grace and Frankie and Altered Carbon, Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan, Condor and Foundation. Skydance Interactive launched in 2016 to create and publish original and IP-based virtual reality video games; its library includes the mech-shooter game Archangel: Hellfire and the upcoming 2019 title The Walking Dead: Saints and Sinners.
In 2017, Skydance formed an animation division to develop and produce a slate of high-end feature films and television series. The first slated movie is Luck, which comes to theaters March 2021. Visit: www.skydance.com.
ABOUT HUNTERS ENTERTAINMENT
Hunters Entertainment LLC specializes in the creation of tabletop games and engaging customers via Actual Play series, many of our products are featured in shows on platforms such as Geek & Sundry, VRV, Pluto, and Project Alpha. Responsible for the popular tabletop games: Outbreak: Undead, Kids on Bikes, and Overlight in which they carry the digital rights with Renegade Games, we also are also a licensee of Dungeons & Dragons with our children’s book The ABCs of D&D. Visit www.huntersentertainment.com for more information.
ABOUT RENEGADE GAME STUDIOS
Renegade Game Studios is a premier developer and publisher of original award winning board and roleplaying games, including Clank! A Deck-Building Adventure, Lanterns: The Harvest Festival, Overlight, and more. Our mission is to publish games that are fun, challenging, and unique. We believe that gaming is for everybody and that everybody is a gamer; you just have to find the right game!Visit www.renegadegames.com for additional product information.
ABOUT GENUINE ENTERTAINMENT
Genuine Entertainment is an award-winning producer and paladin in genre entertainment, specializing in strategic licensing for entertainment franchises and fandoms that demand quality and authenticity in equal measure. It’s our mission to build brands by cultivating worlds and fan communities, making meaningful contributions with premium content and consumer products that extend intellectual properties beyond their core markets and genuinely connect with fans across multiple categories.
Recent collaborations include such genre greats as Altered Carbon, Avengers: Infinity War, Blade Runner 2049, Dune, Game of Thrones, and World of Darkness. To learn more, please visit: www.genuineent.com.
ABOUT EVOLUTION USA, LLC
Evolution has the expertise to fully monetize all forms of intellectual property through licensing and merchandising, digital monetization, promotions, location-based entertainment, retail development, and brand management on a global basis. Evolution is also adept at managing manufacturing and distribution, which enables it to develop intellectual property from concept to the retail shelf. Visit www.evomgt.com.
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PRESS RELEASE: IBC Launches Potemkin Empire on Kickstarter
Posted on March 28, 2019 March 27, 2019 by BGB Admin
Indie Boards and Cards brings you: Potemkin Empire
Russia: 1787. Empress Catherine the Great is taking a surprise trip down the Dnieper River to survey her new kingdom. This will take her directly past your old, unremarkable village. You don’t have the time or money to make your village impressive, but with a few pieces of timber and some strategically placed facades, you could certainly make your village seem impressive.
In POTEMKIN EMPIRE, up to five players attempt to impress Empress Catherine by convincing her that they have the most prosperous village in the land. You don’t have much time or money, so you’ll just have to set up empty building facades along the river to make your town look impressive.
Draft and assign interior cards to decide which of your buildings are real or fake. Score points by exposing your opponents’ fake buildings, or by passing off your fakes as real. Each building you can add to your town has a unique ability, so choose the buildings you construct carefully. Some will earn you points whether they’re real or not, but beware of your enemies’ spies!
Thank you for your support. We couldn’t make great games without you!
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PRESS RELEASE: North Star Games Breaches the Board Gaming Surface with Oceans
The Latest Offering in the Evolution Games Series Gets Kickstarted TodayKENSINGTON, MD. – March. 26, 2019 – North Star Games is positively effervescent to announce the release of Oceans – a stand-alone strategy game in the acclaimed Evolution game series. Oceans represents the deepest dive into gaming that North Star Games has ever attempted. It literally takes the Evolution Game Series into uncharted waters. For those who dare, the Kickstarter page is officially launched here.
Oceans is a grand cumulation of effort by North Star Games to design the ultimate gamer’s game. All Evolution games are known for their vivid themes, easy rules, and hidden depth. With many thousands of play-tests, years of non-stop design, reimagined mechanics, and more content than we’ve ever put into a game before, we’ve topped ourselves in every way with Oceans. In Oceans, players create a vibrant web of marine life through millions of years of evolution.
Whereas the previous games in the Evolution series were bound exclusively by the science (and the core of this game is as well), Oceans expands upon it with a new set of cards called “The Deep”. This fantastical set of new cards stretch the boundaries of the game from science, to science fiction by including creatures like the Leviathan and the Hydra.
“We’ve designed Oceans (our most strategic game ever) to work using rules that are simpler, more intuitive, and easier to teach even than Evolution, which was already known for being easy to teach,” states Dominic Crapuchettes, Founder, and Co-President of North Star Games. “Nonetheless players will be delighted to find tons of hidden tactics and strategies…under the surface.”
LATEST UPDATE: Oceans‘ first day on Kickstarter (March 26) received over 300% funding in the first 10 hours! It will be shipping, and available in wide-release, in September 2019.
About North Star Games
North Star Games is the publisher of award-winning party, family, and strategy games. Wits & Wagers is the most award-winning party game in history, Evolution is used in the Evolutionary Biology Department at the University of Oxford, and Happy Salmon has become a gaming phenomenon. For more information on these games and more, visit www.NorthStarGames.com.
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PRESS RELEASE: Palm Trees is coming from WizKids
Flaunt Your Fronds in Palm Trees—Coming Soon!
Hillside, NJ – March 19, 2019 – WizKids is pleased to announce the upcoming release of Palm Trees, its new dexterity game of lush leaves and fabulous fronds!
In this dexterity game of quite literal “hand management,” players compete to grow the most verdant trees on a tropical island. To start, players will place their elbows on the table, arms straight up, forming the trunk of their palm tree. Each player holds a number of cards, representing fronds and coconuts, in their hand. Each card indicates the way in which the player must add it to their hand. Frond cards are simpler, while coconut cards tend to have more difficult rules players must follow.
Each turn, a player will select one of three available cards on the table to have an opponent add to their tree. Each card has a rule on how it must be held: frond cards are simpler, while coconut cards have more difficult rules. Some cards require a player to hold them between two specific fingers, or potentially between their fingers and their palm. When a card is added to a player’s palm tree, they must continue to follow the rules indicated on all the other cards in their hand. Breaking any of these rules would be considered dropping a card, which ends the game.
If the game ends with a dropped card, the player who dropped the card will not score any points for that game. The game also ends when all cards have been placed in all trees. When the game ends, players add up the points on each of the cards in their respective hands, and the player with the most points wins!
The game can also be played teams of two, with one player acting as the tree while the other adds the fronds and coconuts. In this alternate way of playing, each team simultaneously builds their tree instead of taking turns. The game ends as normal. For extra fun, 6 tree trunk tattoo sleeves have been included with the game—these can be worn by players for extra immersion into the mind of an island tree. Palm Trees will release in June 2019, so be sure to preorder at your Friendly Local Game Store or online today!
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PRESS RELEASE: Renegade Game Studios and Oni Press to release The Aquicorn Cove Board Game
San Diego, CA (March 11th, 2019) —Renegade Game Studios and Oni Press are proud to announce The Aquicorn Cove Board Game designed by Steve Ellis, Tyler Tinsley, Ben Eisner, and Tim Eisner. Adapted from the Oni Press original graphic novel by Katie O’Neill, The Aquicorn Cove Board Game will encourage players to dive into an underwater conservation adventure. This delightful board game is expected to release in late 2019.
From the Eisner Award-winning author of The Tea Dragon Society and Princess Princess Ever After comes Aquicorn Cove, a heartfelt story about learning to be a guardian to yourself and those you love.
When Lana and her father return to their seaside hometown to help clear the debris of a big storm, Lana remembers how much she’s missed the ocean—and the strong, reassuring presence of her aunt. As Lana explores the familiar beach, she discovers something incredible: a colony of Aquicorns, small magical seahorse-like creatures that live in the coral reef. Lana rescues an injured Aquicorn and cares for it with the help of her aunt, who may know more about these strange creatures than she’s willing to admit. But when a second storm threatens to reach the town, choices made many years ago about how to coexist with the sea start to rise to the surface. Lana realizes she will need to find the strength to stand on her own, even when it means standing up to the people who she has always relied on to protect her.
Aquicorn Cove is a cooperative game for 2-4 players. In the game, players take on the roles of members of a small fishing village struggling to survive while maintaining a balance with the natural world. To win, the villagers must feed and grow their village, and help restore the health of the reef and aquatic ecosystem. The villagers are fortunate, though, and the waters of their cove are home to the beautiful and benevolent Aquicorns, as well as the wondrous reef guardian Aure, who can help them both to understand the impact humans are having on the environment, and to save the village.
“As a graphic novel, I wanted Aquicorn Cove to encourage kids to engage with concepts of marine conservation, and make grown-up choices to protect the environment they’re going to inherit,” said Katie O’Neill, author of the Oni Press graphic novel. “I’m thrilled that the game will provide another dimension to this, and bring to life how wonderful and important our oceans and reefs are.”
“The Tea Dragon Society Card Game was a huge success and we can’t wait to share this game adaptation of Katie O’Neill’s most recent book with our fans,” said Scott Gaeta, president of Renegade Game Studios. “All of her books have such strong positive messages presented in a fun and magical way. We love what she’s done with these graphic novels and are excited to work with Oni Press to bring them to the board game community. ”
“Working with our design team within this wonderful world created by Katie O’Neill has been a pleasure,” said Steve Ellis, head of Oni Games. “Creating a family-friendly cooperative game with a strong environmental message resonated with both the story and the team at Oni. We hope that the game sparks both conversation and joy.”
The Aquicorn Cove Board Game is slated for release late 2019. The Aquicorn Cove graphic novel is currently available at all major booksellers.
Make sure to join the Renegade Society and be the first to find out more about The Aquicorn Cove Board Gamelater this year!
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PRESS RELEASE: Nemo Rising coming from WizKids
Posted on March 7, 2019 March 6, 2019 by BGB Admin
Experience Daring Adventures with Captain Nemo and the Crew of the Nautilus in Nemo Rising—Coming Son!
Hillside, NJ – March 4, 2019 – WizKids is excited to announce the upcoming release of Nemo Rising, a cooperative adventure game based on C. Courtney Joyner’s thrilling sequel to Jules Verne’s classic novel!
In this exciting 1-4 player adventure game, players become members of a reimagined version of the Nautilus’ heroic crew, and must carry out missions in order to successfully complete the requirements of one of two scenarios— The Undersea Grotto or the City in the Sky. Each scenario represents a unique location with its own geography, environment, and adventures.
Players work together to accomplish the Mission Goals outlined on the game’s Mission Cards. Each round consists of two phases, the Action Row Phase and the Player Phase. During the Action Row Phase, a number of Threat Cards will be placed face down in the Action Row, and then the same number of Action Cards will be placed face up on top of them. The Player Phase then begins. During the player phase, each player can move around the board, scout Adventure Tiles, attempt Tasks, and confront Enemy Tokens. Player turns can be taken in any order, and the order can change each round. The game may be played solo, with one player controlling a single Hero. In this case, there are always two stacks of cards in the Action Row during the Action Row Phase.
The game ends and the Heroes win if they complete all of the Mission Goals on the game’s two Mission Cards, secure at least 4 Adventure Tiles, and then return to the Start space. All Heroes must be on the Start space at the same time in order for them to win. The Heroes lose, however, if they run out of Mission Points on the Mission Track.
With its exciting and unpredictable adventures, Nemo Rising is the perfect way to experience the escapades of Captain Nemo and his crew directly from the captain’s seat. Board the Nautilus and pre-order Nemo Rising, releasing this fall, from your Friendly Local Game Store today! Are you up for the adventure?
For more information, visit: https://wizkids.com/nemo-rising-robur-the-conqueror/
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PRESS RELEASE: Decide the Conclusion of an Epic Love Story in Chiyo’s Secret
Hillside, NJ – February 27, 2019 – WizKids is excited to announce that Chiyo’s Secret, its new game of deduction and subterfuge in feudal Japan, is now available in North American Game Stores!
In Chiyo’s Secret, the game is centered around Chiyo and Fusanobu, a pair of lovers seeking to escape the wrath of the spurned daimyo. Players seek to achieve a variety of hidden goals, such as overthrowing the daimyo, capturing the lovers, or protecting them until the emperor arrives to grant them the freedom they seek
With over 140 components, Chiyo’s Secret will have players deciding the fate of these star-crossed lovers, the daimyo that pursues them, and, ultimately, the entire kingdom. Chiyo’s Secret is available at your Friendly Local Game Store or online today!
For more information, visit: https://wizkids.com/chiyos-secret
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Mabuhay! Welcome to this blog dedicated in spreading news regarding related happenings concerning the restoration and promotion of orthodox and traditional Roman Catholic customs, traditions, practices, music, sacred art and liturgy in the Philippine setting.
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PRAYER FOR THE BEATIFICATION OF MOTHER IGNACIA DEL ESPIRITU SANTO
Mother Ignacia del Espiritu Santo 1663 - 1748 Foundress of the Congregation of the Religious of the Virgin Mary
The few primary sources and historical documents available yield enough information to reconstruct the story of Mother Ignacia del Espiritu Santo and the community she founded.
Mother Ignacia del Espiritu Santo A Lamp to Our Path by: S. Maria Anicia B. Co, RVM M.
Ignacia del Espiritu Santo was born, lived and died during the Spanish colonial era in the Philippines . The precise date of her birth is not known. Her baptismal record mentions only the date of her baptism, March 4, 1663 . This confirms the statement of Pedro Murillo Velarde that Ignacia was 21 years old in 1684. Ignacia was the eldest and the sole surviving child of Maria Jeronima, an yndia, and Jusepe Iuco, a pure Chinese immigrant from Amoy , China , who was converted to the Catholic faith in 1652 and resided in Binondo, Manila.
When Ignacia was 21 years old, her parents wanted her to marry. Heeding a call deep within but not wanting to disappoint her parents, Ignacia sought counsel from Fr. Paul Klein, a Jesuit priest from Bohemia who arrived in Manila in 1682. The priest gave her the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius. After this period of solitude and prayer, Ignacia decided to 'remain in the service of the Divine Majesty- and to 'live by the sweat of her face.- She left home and brought with her only a needle and a pair of scissors. She started to live alone in the house located at the back of the Jesuit College of Manila. Her life of prayer and labor attracted yndias who also felt called to the religious life but could not be admitted into the existing congregation at that time. M. Ignacia accepted these women into her company and the first community was born. They became known as the Beatas de la Compania de Jesus because they frequently received the sacraments at the Church of St. Ignatius , performed many acts of devotion there and had the Jesuit fathers for their spiritual directors and confessors.M. Ignacia centered her life on the suffering Christ and tried to imitate him through a life of service and humility. She prayed earnestly to God and performed penances to move God to have mercy on them. Her spirituality of humble service was expressed in her capacity to forgive, to bear wrongs patiently and to correct with gentleness and meekness. This spirituality was manifest in peace and harmony in the community, mutual love and union of wills, witnessing to the love of Christ and the maternal care of the Blessed Mother.
This spirituality sustained the beatas in their moments of difficulties especially during times of extreme poverty, when they even had to beg for rice and salt and scour the streets for firewood. The beatas continued to support themselves by the labor of their hands and sometimes received some financial help from pious people. In all these, they did not cease to thank God and to trust in divine providence.The growing number of beatas called for a more stable lifestyle and a set of rules. A daily schedule was drawn up and community practices were defined. Following the spirit of St. Ignatius, M. Ignacia exhorted her beatas to live always in the presence of God and to develop great purity of heart. She also emphasized charity in the community which was dedicated to the Blessed Mother. The spirit of Mary runs through the rules which were written for the guidance of the beatas. In defining her style of leadership, M. Ignacia drew inspiration from the Blessed Virgin Mary. She strove to be the living image of Mary to her companions and exhorted them to take Mary as their model in following Jesus.M. Ignacia gradually realized that the beaterio was called by God not only to a life of prayer and penance but also to apostolic service.
The beaterio admitted young girls as boarders who were taught Christian doctrine as well as works proper to them. M. Ignacia did not make any distinction of color or race but accepted yndias, mestizas and Spaniards as recogidas. The beatas were also involved in retreat work and helped the Jesuit Fathers by preparing the retreatants to be disposed to the Spiritual Exercises.M. Ignacia submitted the 1726 Constitutions to the Archdiocesan office for approval. After the approval was given in 1732 by the Fiscal Provisor of Manila, M. Ignacia decided to give up her responsibility as superior of the house. She lived as an ordinary member until her death on September 10, 1748 . Murillo Velarde saw this as a great sign of her humility. She had no desire to command and control. In his estimation, she was a 'true valiant woman- who overcame the great difficulties which she met in the foundation from the beginning to the end. She was 'mortified, patient, devout, spiritual, zealous for the good of souls.-A few months before her death, the Archbishop initiated a process of securing royal protection for the Beaterio. M. Ignacia died without knowing the response of the Spanish king but her long life in the beaterio must have taught her to trust in the providence of God. Little did she expect that the beaterio would become a congregation and continue to exist until today, more than 300 years after her death.
This congregation, now known as the Religious of the Virgin Mary, is a living testimony to her life as God's handmaid who opened the door of religious life to native women in the Philippines . She proved that God is the God of all peoples, of whatever color or race.The royal protection granted in 1755 guaranteed the safety of the beatas but it did not recognize the beaterio as a community of religious women. It was ordained to remain as a pious association. The beatas, faithful to the spirit of their foundress, M. Ignacia, continued to live the religious life even without being officially recognized as such. The expulsion of the Jesuits in 1768 was another blow to the beatas. They lost their spiritual guides but they continued to enjoy the solicitude of the Archbishop of Manila and other Churchmen. In the spirit of M. Ignacia, the beatas lived by the sweat of their faces and persevered in their service of God through education and retreat work. Despite attempts by the Governor-general to change the nature of the beaterio, the beatas remained true to the vision and charism of M. Ignacia and survived the dark years.
The growth of the beaterio into a Congregation and its response to the apostolic challenges of the times show the vitality of the spirit of M. Ignacia. Indeed, her lamp continues to shine as her daughters courageously strive to respond with zeal to the call of mission in different contexts.The Story of the Congregation that has grown from the small Beaterio of M. Ignacia continues to unfold. It bears witness to the enduring vitality and strength of the foundation, the spirituality of M. Ignacia. The lamp she lit to guide the path of native women aspiring to the religious life and the maturity of faith continues to shine. It remains undimmed. The life of this lowly yndia and the fruits of her spirituality proclaim the immense goodness of God whose generosity is unbounded. M. Ignacia trusted in the loving providence of God and she was never disappointed.
Father in heaven, Your name is glorified over all the earth in your saints, men and women, distinguished by a whole-hearted service and love for You. Through them You have established religious congregations in Your Church. In Your goodness and mercy, You have looked with favor on your people in the Philippines and have chosen from among them your lowly handmaid IGNACIA DEL ESPIRITU SANTO to be the foundress of a religious family under the special protection of the Blessed Virgin Mary. We humbly ask You, then, to glorify your name in her by performing the miracles needed for her beatification. Trough Your Son, our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. (Petition)May her prayers and intercession obtain for us the favors we ask for, particularly that of remaining ever faithful to Your love and service. Amen.
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Please visit the official website of the Mother Ignacia Movement of USA http://motherignaciamovementofusa.com
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On a damp July Friday morning a party of 24 Bowyers and guests gathered for a two-day trip to the scenes of the historic longbow triumphs of Crecy and Agincourt. It being the morning after the Bowyers' summer Livery Dinner, the smooth coach ride from London and calm crossing from Dover on the P&O Ferry were most welcome. Our overnight destination was Montreuil, a lovely medieval walled town fairly near both the Crecy and Agincourt battlefields, which some had seen before on previous Bowyer trips, but for many was a first visit.
During the drive from Calais on Friday afternoon, Dr Sinclair Rogers gave us a most useful introductory talk on the part played by the City of London in financing Henry V's Agincourt campaign. On arrival in Montreuil some hardy souls braved the drizzle to explore the town, and we all then gathered for informal drinks and a delightful and delicious dinner at one of our two hotels, the excellent family-run Le Coq.
The weather thankfully stayed dry all day Saturday, and after a first class early breakfast we drove the 20 miles to Crecy. Tony Kench outlined en route the political and military build-up to the battle in 1346, including the part played by the Bowyers of London in making a significant proportion of the longbows for King Edward III's army, and its successful long march from near Cherbourg across to Crecy. At the battlefield, speaking from the observation tower now standing on the site of the windmill that Edward III had used as his command post, Tony recounted the great victory won here by the longbow. It was the first and greatest of the major battles in which the longbow played the dominant part; what a pity Shakespeare never wrote a play about Edward III.
Robert Pooley had brought his own longbow with him on the trip, made by Richard Head, and a highlight of the Crecy visit was the opportunity for several Liverymen including Master Bowyer John Hayton, to hearty applause from the whole party, to shoot arrows into the empty battlefield that 669 years ago was filled with Genoese crossbowmen and armoured French knights. Back in the coach, Tony related the aftermath of Crecy: Edward III's year-long siege of Calais which culminated in the famous surrender of the burghers (as so memorably cast in life-size bronze by Rodin), and led to Calais becoming an English possession right through till 1558.
As we completed the 20 miles up the road to Azincourt, Major General Andrew Sharpe gave us a fascinating account of the march of Henry V's army from Harfleur to Azincourt in 1415. It had been intended as a tour de force in the footsteps of his great-grandfather Edward III, but had proved rather more difficult and disease-ridden. Andrew compared its rigours with his modern experiences of moving armies around, with infantrymen then and now carrying around 80lb on their backs.
Arriving at Azincourt and standing in the centre of the battlefield, Andrew held us absolutely spellbound for forty minutes with his distinctive 'soldier's view' of how the Battle of Agincourt unfolded and what would have been going on in the ranks.
At the west side of the battlefield we were greeted by the astonishing sight of a medieval tented village populated by hundreds of re-enactors who had assembled from all over Europe for the Agincourt anniversary. They included every kind of character from knights in armour on horseback to womenfolk cooking on log fires, with the smell of woodsmoke filling the air. Further through the site was the English camp, with authentically attired longbow archers; there too we were able to pay homage to King Henry V himself, majestic on his throne (apparently made at RAF Waddington).
Eventually the 2-300 archers assembled for the arrowstorm under the direction of English warbow man Nick Birmingham, and were lined up to shoot ten volleys of arrows at a row of dismounted knights in full armour 80 yards away (brave English volunteers all). The idea was that if they were hit by one of the (blunted) arrows they would fall down, which they duly did. Unlike 1415 the archers on this occasion greatly outnumbered the knights, but a great time was being had by all.
And so back to Calais. A late decision had been made to forgo the planned return by Eurotunnel and trust instead the P&O Ferry again; this meant leaving Azincourt a bit earlier, but it worked out well, with a calm crossing and time for a relaxed couple of pints of Guinness. The reality of the crisis situation at Calais was brought home to us as we passed the sprawling Sangatte encampment on the French side and the 10-mile queue of parked lorries held in 'Operation Stack' on the M20. We had been lucky to escape delays in either direction.
We had been joined on the trip by the Director General of the Royal Armouries, Dr Edward Impey, and the Clerk of the Gunmakers' Company, John Allen, who was pleased we knew there had actually been a few cannon present at both Crecy and Agincourt. We enjoyed their company, and altogether it had been an extremely lively and friendly couple of days in the best tradition of Bowyer events. Warm thanks were expressed to the three speakers who had brought the battles and their times to life for us so well, and to Upper Warden Tony Kench who had organised the whole trip.
John Hayton
In addition to the photographs shown here, a short video clip of the trip from Richard Head can be found on his YouTube page at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGJHKFKBbNY
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US, Indian govts talking on making F-16 in India: Lockheed
Article Posted on : - Feb 17, 2017
An internet imagery.
BENGALURU (PTI): American defence major Lockheed Martin has said discussions are currently taking place between the US and Indian governments on the company's plans to set up manufacturing base for F-16 fighter jets in India.
"The conversation has progressed to the point that we are deferring at this point to the government-to-government conversation. And that conversation is ongoing," a top company official told reporters on Thursday at Aero India 2017 air show here.
The comments from Randy Howard, Lockheed Martin Aeronautics, Integrated Fighter, Director, Business Development, came when asked about its move to push ahead with its plan to move production of its F-16 to India, but that the Trump Administration is taking a "fresh look" at its proposal.
"We had really very strong support up to this point. We are deferring those questions and concerns over to governments who are having an ongoing conversation. The discussions have progressed to the point that the requirements need to be more fully articulated...," he said.
"There are a number of internal discussions going on here in India on strategic partners. Discussions between the two governments at this point. We will wait to hear from the two governments and Lockheed Martin is fully supportive of those decisions," he said.
Lockheed had said recently that its officials have briefed the Trump Administration on the current proposal, which was supported by the Obama Administration as part of a broader cooperative dialogue with the Government of India.
Trump has flayed US firms for having moved manufacturing overseas and then sell their products back to the US and asked them to produce in the US itself. Lockheed, however, does not plan to sell back F-16 in the US which has not placed fresh orders for it.
In August last, Lockheed had offered to move its lone production line of the latest version of F 16-Block 70 to India from Texas to meet Indian and global requirement.
However, the company has made it clear the proposal is "conditional" to Indian Air Force choosing the world's largest-sold fighter aircraft for its fleet.
"We understand that the Trump Administration will want to take a fresh look at some of these programmes and we stand prepared to support that effort to ensure that any deal of this importance is properly aligned with US policy priorities," a Lockheed Martin official had said recently.
US India Aircraft F16 Lockheed Aero India Military
Aero India 2019 concludes
HAL signs MoU with Central PWD for works at chopper factory
HAL delivers first three Dhruv helicopters to Indian Army
Dr. V K Saraswat releases 8th edition of 'Brahmand World Defence Update 2019'
NITI Aayog member and former DRDO Chief Dr. V K Saraswat on 21st February 2019 released the eighth edition of global military yearbook 'Brahmand World Defence Update 2019' at the BrahMos Aerospace pavilion during Aero India 2019.
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My Favourite Books of 2011
Sticking with last year's approach, these are my favourite five books in any genre from 2011.
1) Grant Buday, White Lung (1999). The title derives from the occupational hazards inherent in working at a mass-production bakery. Buday is a severely underplugged veteran novelist, short story writer, travel essayist, and (most recently) memoirist, and here, in the former capacity, he penned an honest, emotionally versatile, complex tale of class necessity, subterfuge, and plans both thwarted and promising. Notice I didn't frame it "working class". Buday is observant, intellectually honest, and enlightening in turning the searchlight on characters from the bottom "up": the mentally challenged friend and foil of the protagonist who can't get off graveyard shift even after acquiring decades of seniority; the "outsider" who takes the job for quick cash but who splurges on inessentials through credit cards; the main character who dreams of starting his own bakery but whose inertia diminishes his future, both emotionally and financially; the floor boss whose comically "romantic" episodes weave between an equally impotent job-related revenge; the supervisor whose plodding professionalism and career cautiousness is sympathetic to the reader yet overlooked and derided by workers both under and over his level, as well as his wife; the site manager who's caught between the dictates of the owners and Central Canadian bosses, and the workers set to strike; a director whose oily cynicism is part of his spiritual make-up, and not a job description. But as page-turning a story as Buday can tell, the beauty is in the details. The characters are humourously and dramatically idiosyncratic, but in addition, the description of local detail is gritty and aesthetically creative, and the set pieces are unforgettable in tone and execution (the graveyard shift foreman calmly looking up to a passing neighbour while trapped under his carport door is terrifically dry in its humour, yet simultaneously sad in its transformative suggestion). The ending of the novel is superb, and widens the contrast between the two friends at the story's heart.
2) Martin Amis, Money (1984). This was the fifth (and best) Amis novel I've read. Extravagantly creative and consistently vibrant, it's tighter than The Information, more mature than Success, more realized than the (at times) apocalyptic London Fields, and more coherent than the clever yet problematically structured Time's Arrow. Plenty of philosophical digressions, which in a novel I love, and here they're tied to the first-person obsessions, and make sense in the back-and-forth with the narrative. Too many hilarious characters to outline in a short review, and too many imaginative set pieces, but one stand out episode was the tennis match between the physically catastrophic John Self and the athletically efficient Fielding Goodney. Money is humour at its best: it works on its base entertainment level while also driving huge non-comedic daggers into the soft dough of hard-assed greed.
3) Grant Buday, Monday Night Man (1995). A collection of loosely-linked short stories, Buday created three unforgettable characters in the financially and socially challenged friends who gamble, whore, and drink their way through existential exasperation. This is courageous humour, wild and low, but there're also moments of heartbreaking pathos (the story set in the Patricia Hotel) and dramatic, even quiet, counterpoint. Buday never forces a laugh at the expense of the characters. Actions, no matter how bizarre and entertainment-oriented, have consequences, and it's a grim reminder that we can sympathize with those we initially dismiss or make fun of.
4) D. G. Jones, The Stream Exposed With All Its Stones (2010). This is a poetry Collected, though some poems from Jones' lengthy opus have been excised, either through editorial choice or authorial pruning. It doesn't surprise me that several Canadian postmodernists have applauded the poetry of Jones since one of his poetic obsessions is with the creative act itself. His concern for a wide-ranging aesthetic for and to nature, art, and thought is generous, and not solipsistic. A delightful contrast exists throughout Jones' career score in his unironic handling of heavyweight themes (sex, death) with a stylistically light touch. Though I often have a distaste for recurring tropes in a poet's particular volume, I actually thrill to repetitions in variations when adroitly handled. "Sun" and "snow" are two of those unassuming emblems. And, in "Little Night Journey", they're joined by other elements in a smorgasbord of suggestion. The poem has a curious propulsion, both reverie and kinesthetic awe, and is nuanced enough to reward multiple efforts and delights of unpacking and stratification. If that sounds a tad highfalutin', how 'bout: it'll haunt one with its dark fathoms. Poets, unfortunately, even the best, are often remembered, if at all, for several poems, perhaps just one. If fate favours Jones with that small but unchippable corner of granite, I hope "Little Night Journey" is the reason.
5) Thomas More, Utopia (1516). Beheaded because of his integrity, Thomas More's life reminds us, five Cs later, that power mixed with integrity is a dangerous brew. The consensus on his philosophical tract the past hundred years has swung to a supposed satirical meaning, yet influential views, still strong, side with a belief that More was sympathetic to the ideal society while knowing it could never happen (thus explaining the narrator's inconsistencies, once thought a defect in More's thought). It's wonderful that the work is still debated. My enjoyment increased when I noted those inconsistencies gathering: the "moral" strictures, e.g., on infidelity, divorce, and sloth were illuminating as a "meet the new boss, same as the old boss" match with certain politically-entrenched religious codes this particular year of our lord(s).
Susan Musgrave's Origami Dove
Never a fan of Susan Musgrave's thirty year ditch-and-witch imagery, I was pleasantly surprised by her first new book of poetry in eleven years, 2011's Origami Dove.
The emotional alarm systems still go off in all five firehouses, at times ("and then I start weeping/I can't help it I can't/stop" from "Conjugal Visit"), but a maturity based partly, it seems, on the reading of detachment spirituality has given her poems more proportional resonance: "Small flocks of twitchy sandpipers/scoot out on the tide; a pheasant/stutters from the ditch into the trees" and "There's just enough light left/on the river tonight to turn/the water black. You see it flare up/behind my eyes: the obituary of light." The latter quotation is from the very good section two, and it represents a heartfelt merging of unadorned natural movement with personal mood, fate, and conclusion.
Advocacy overruns aesthetics in section four, the last, but I'm grateful for the many fine poems here as a stronger counterbalance.
Phil Hall's Killdeer
"Department of Critical Thought No. 4". Winston Smith would have been terrified of this back cover tag. And when you combine it with the publisher's own appellative aggression -- BookThug -- who would blame him for following Phil Hall's example regarding the latter's own earlier poems, where they were "hidden ... in stumps -- under floorboards -- behind pseudonyms ... in bus station lockers -- under bridges" ?(p.99). Leave the book in its closed state, that is. I'm not sure Hall wants to be identified with "departments", and mindful of two of his main anti-themes -- the awful intrusion of the personal onto the observation, in poetry; the awful declarations of aggressors in politics, personal relationships, chance incidents, poetics -- I'm not sure he wants to be identified on the side of the "Thug" as he or she (literally) presses against the "Book". But then, metaphors are too convenient.
Or are they? The chief metaphor -- with various spinoffs -- in Phil Hall's 2011 Killdeer is the titular victim. The nod to a lyrical trope here is indeed curious since, absent that occasional vulnerable walk-on, the book is much better classified as memoir, poetics apagoge, and cultural retrospective than as poetry. What's funny is that saying this immediately marks one now as narrow-minded. Note, I'm not saying the book is a hybrid -- prose poetry, say, or lyrical travelogue -- but that it could be shelved under poetry, and be eligible for awards in that category, without so much as a shake of the retreating tail. So I'll dispense with a critique based on verse lexicon, as such, and focus instead on the rambling assertions and anecdotes.
"I also handed her poems -- far too many -- a crumpled bundle -- I knew she didn't write poems -- I didn't care
She said that she didn't write poems but that she would read them & write me a letter about them" (p. 21)
This is the language and rhythm of telephone conversations, and rushed and distracted, at that. Hall would likely concur. Poetry as language doesn't seem to hold much merit for him: "these have healed me -- not cleverness or career or language" (p. 101).
I'll get to the defensive self-promotion later, but for now, note the italics. Elsewhere, and in a second hypocritical parade not covered by postmodern ambiguity, Hall relates as to how he doesn't like to talk about writing. Right. Just stuff it all in a book, and then don't ever discuss it, reader or writer. Makes sense. But that would prompt a third hypocrisy, that I'm being rational. Of course, one can't find any rational inflections and conclusions amongst Hall's mishmash, despite the furlongs of literary references and personal exegesis. Uh huh.
The suffocating tone and mood of Hall, the recorder in Killdeer, is so persistent, one wonders if he's progressed much beyond his first published chapbook at 20, of which George Amabile remarks to Hall: "Far from giving me any pleasure this book almost made me puke -- if I were you I wouldn't write another book for 10 years" (p. 28). Immediately on this quote's heels comes, "I was 20 -- that letter broke my stupid heart" (p. 29). As alluded to in the preceding paragraph, it's hypocritical for him to focus here on his emotional excesses (that it happened in his callow past doesn't alter the incongruities -- this book is chock full of Poet suffering the slings and arrows of derision and neglect) while in another section/poem/essayistic context criticize Irving Layton for the latter's reactive closer -- "I turned away and wept" -- to his "The Bull Calf". Hall references his own parallel summation elsewhere -- "I should have shot my father" -- as an absurd reaction, in his words, "the false politics of honesty" (p. 85), but emotional ham-handed tack-ons aren't any worse than the reverse pride Hall assumes in his own flashbacks and poetics statements. Your unhumble correspondent actually prefers the cruder calls: at least I don't have to negotiate contradictory and deadening theoretical ruminations at every turn.
More of the same here: "someone rescued me from years of ass-kissing
I longed to be a writer before I felt driven to write
I got a degree in writing -- & I published a first book -- way before writing became my compulsive practice" (p. 27).
In all seriousness, who, other than he and some of his friends, cares? This is what's given confessional writing a bad name for the past thirty years. Nothing transcends the hermetic particulars. Not the language, not the sentiments, not the commonplace revelation. The pun in the following line's, "Since then I have always learned to put the art before the course" doesn't cover up the solipsism.
Hall drops more names in Killdeer than periods. "See The Captive Mind (1953) -- in which Czeslaw Milosz chronicles the gradual corruption of the minds of artists by totalitarianism in central Europe" (p. 79).
Milosz makes it clear in indefatigable character studies that those minds weren't corrupted as much as they were ensnared, and necessarily two- or three-faced by opposing forces of political opportunism and ideological tenacity. To compare postmodern parlour games in Canadian learneries with the world of Poles drenched in blood and hazardous message-code is obscene.
The only parts of this book of poetry I enjoyed were those parts where poetry was actually on tap, and allowed to breathe. Unfortunately, the deer only popped up every ten pages or so. "The fawn nuzzled the doe -- wiping grass-flecked slobber along her withers" (p. 69) sure beats "Hope becomes the expectation of finding next an intricately imperfect process that might prove all of one's own imperfections worthy & irrelevant" (p. 49).
And after reading, "The bad sequence's mother is the Canada Council for the Arts -- she sings to the child in the womb a song of research & travel grants -- prospectuses -- itineraries" (p. 89), I'll note, with interest, Hall's obvious refusal of the 25 Gs, should he get tapped for the win.
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Anne Simpson's Is
The back cover of Anne Simpson's 2011 Is informs us that the author "illuminates what it means to be alive". Heady stuff. The book is also "[r]ich with muscular craft". If jacket photos weren't de rigueur, one could almost imagine a poets' union of middle linebackers or hod carriers. It's past time this hoary adjective was deprived of its steroidal cachet. There. Now on to the poems.
"before blue before blue deepening and unwinding inside blue before bluegrey before the envelope of morning before opening the crisp envelope of morning ..." (p.2)
Shouldn't this note-stretching proceed in reverse chronology? I'm probably missing the significance of the syntax, but if amazement is the feeling of the recorder (and the wish for the receiver), it seems a peek through a microscope would do the trick more effectively. I can't get a deep view of all this "blue deepening".
"sounds not yet sounds darkens before darkness and light before light beginning and ending ending and beginning." (p. 3)
I guess this is the illumination of "what it means to be alive". Or maybe it's just abstraction multiplying like Nut's fart in a chromosphere.
"You are day divided from night, night from day, minute from minute, hour from hour. Time begins, sliced into now" (p. 5)
Goddammit, can we get on with infanthood, already? The first chapter of Genesis and the beginning of The Iliad are boring, too, but at least they recorded basic elements and specific people, respectively.
"You are dark inside dark, and within this dark, intricate contraptions of darker darkness" (p.6)
Any smartypants outdark that?
"Before tinkering. Before the ululation of a siren. Before scarlet. Before latches. Before eyes. Before ... " (p. 7)
Ah! The world. The little fucker is finally with us.
"You are spaciousness." (p. 8)
Whoops.
"You are depth and more depth, earthing and earthed." (p. 9)
And never forget you are a child of the universe which is unfolding as it should. (Apologies to the lyricists of that gawdawful song.)
"a woman untucking a cotton shirt a man undoing a belt" (p. 13)
Wait a sec. What happened to Deep Blue? Are we having flashbacks, or is this number two already? Pp 14 and 15 shrinks the same poem (15 set tinier than 14), with two and four columns respectively. I don't think we're supposed to read this, and in any event if I wanted to read it again, the original p. 13 is the right option: I don't have a magnifying glass at hand.
"Break into break up break down break out break off break ... " (p. 16)
At least Quartermain's cliched variations had some wit.
"Aftershocks of noise -- a gas main, propane tank." (p. 17)
I'm lost. Is that the point? Is there one? Perhaps I've been in this mitotic funk and fug too long.
"syllables of spun light" (p. 18)
Here we go. The linguistic nature tropes. Soon we'll encounter "glottals of mud bubbles". And if our little lump of protoplasm was real, wouldn't the latter image be more accurate that the former preciosity? Or have we moved from the placental stew to the gas main to yet another universe?
(p. 19) : the paratactic list. Hurrah! A "poetic" rendering of a Titanic-like drama. In 13 ragged lines. My blood pressure: unchanged. E. J. Pratt is spinning in his grave like the Tasmanian devil.
"You imagine all that lies below: dank palaces under the ground." (p. 25)
She might imagine it, but I can't. But being "poetic" means taking it on good faith. Things are mysterious on page 25, and no lie. But it's a mystery, alas, not worth wondering about. As for imagining: imagine what Gwendolyn MacEwen could have done with this passage. Or Patrick Anderson. You could've seen the flux and dazzle of partially obscured, vivid shapes under the surface. That murk wouldn't have been announced with stock vagaries. Instead, strange word combos colliding. Awe or danger invading the mind that reads it.
"Crocuses, murmuring secrets to earth." (p 28)
If vegetables and flowers are going to be anthropomorphic studs and soothsayers, I suppose this is better than Lorna Crozier's carrots fucking the earth.
(p. 30): Bees are back. I sense a dramatic arc. "Broken necklace of bees in curled, damp grass." Not bad. And the rhythm of the pentameter makes sense.
"Is" (p. 33) is anaphoric five-and-dime rhetoric gone mad. I can't imagine this read aloud. Hushed? Excited? Solemn? The "is" of "Is" in Is is repeated as line and phrase starter 26 times. None of them are illuminating. Grandeur is not realized, not broached, not in the same solar system with these words just because we're supposed to be lulled into cheap awe by the "gathering force" of the repetitions.
(p. 37): Possible explosions on ship. Sentences cut like fingernails. In fact, "Cut-glass water. The ting of a fingernail against it." (p. 37). Terror as Morse Code. Easier to handle. Not important, anyway. Set up for poetic image. The world is dangerous. But there is always beauty.
(p 41): The plot, of a kind, thickens. Courtroom drama. The bad guys act cool under questioning. Serviceable journal reporting, albeit in court reporter shorthand, a la Heather Spears' Required Reading. Wonderful possibility for psychological complexity, inductive rage, physical detail. But we're left with that frequent three-quarters blank page. Of course, poetry is distillation. Distillation is so successful the distillery is bottling nothing but air.
The fisherman is "settling into his dreams. Into all he's given, dazzled with sea gleam." (p. 42)
(p. 43): a list of marine birds. Simpson wants us to know she's studied the library's pelagic thrust. Undoubtedly carved some walks on sand and pier.
(p. 46): "Sun shot through leaves, leaves, leaves."
I know of no other phrase as precious as "shot through" unless it's "shot through with light". The triple exit makes for a nice unintended irony, though. Oops! Two lines later: "Sun shot through trees." The sun is dangerous enough. Do we have to duck it from its assault behind natural hiding places?
(p. 48): "Someone's hand, a sweeping gesture in a window."
Suspense. Suggestion as importance. Letting the reader fill in ... what?
"The woman doesn't think herself old until the girl moves through her."
The paranormal is apparently one of the hottest selling sub-genres, lately. Robert J. Wiersema would be envious. It takes him over 300 pages to have the sympathetic dead enter the sympathetic living.
The poem "Life Magazine" (p 50) is, so far, the book's most pukeworthy effort. "Two monks doused Thich Quang Duc with gasoline, set him on fire." Why doesn't she just insert the news headline? Wrapped up seven clipped sentences later. Pain as idea. As opportunity for ... "Afterwards, his heart. Untouched plum." It takes a peculiar talent to not only suffocate a poem with a final line, but to take a dull meat-cleaver to it.
(p. 52): "Stink of gas and burning flesh." I believe "stink" is slightly redundant, and takes the immediacy and shock out of "burning flesh". But maybe that's just me. I just finished a YA novel written at a level of effectively-transmitted sophistication far above the faith Simpson shows for her reader. This, and the next five poems, takes another six disposable snapshots for that fifteen-years running overcrowded album: the poetry photo album. Sensitive (yet Olympian-cool, Olympian-frosty, even) poet scans war/family/art photo (sometimes painting), puts herself in place of tortured/sad subject, and concentrates on the traded chiaroscuro. The dead get a quick sigh (never a shudder), are put away, and we're left with horror-as-aesthetic, just another game to play between (in this case) cellular gobbledegook and placemats for the Titanic. Ralph Gustafson's "The Newspaper" (from the poem sequence "Phases of the Present") has a narrator looking at a war photo, too. The genius of the poem -- in artistic fashioning too detailed to describe here -- is that it implicates the narrator, transparently the author, and that the "face/Down" is both historically accurate and a blistering denunciation of Western complacency. In one of the six "photo" poems, Simpson includes the picture taker, but it's thrown into the remove unconvincingly, a tacked-on idea that isn't integrated with anything else in the wandering study in how-to-look-at-a-photo. John Berger's novel G has a similar style, in places, but you feel you've been there, or at least could be there, even if he hasn't.
I could go on -- there's another 36 pages, and I've read them -- but this has become unwieldy.
It would be funny if it weren't tragic how the forces of "write only what you know" have scared off much serious speculative work in poetry -- political, historical, religious, sexual -- yet it's A OK to give an authoritative inside-out biography of a cell. I suppose the takeaway here is "regression rules".
Meredith Quartermain's Recipes from the Red Planet
Meredith Quartermain's 2010 Recipes from the Red Planet, published by BookThug, didn't make it to this year's Governor General's poetry award shortlist, which must be somewhat equivalent to being repeatedly passed over in a shorthanded pick 'em pick-up indoor soccer game. Most other potential players, at least, never had a chance, locked out and deaf to the proceedings. The funniest part of that story? Recipes from the Red Planet is clearly a better book than its more celebrated home team competitors, so the McCaffery-led cabal couldn't even get that right.
I'd read one previous book of poetry by this author -- Vancouver Walking -- and though footnotes on local history also appear in this latest collection, they're far fewer, and have passion (in drips if not surges) filtering through their veins, as in "On my way to the overpass".
Gone, too, are the boring walkabouts and schoolroom lessons. These are replaced in Recipes from the Red Planet by language and rhythm that churns and declaims. The tone is relatively narrow, but is convincing and confident ("winding around me its magnetic flux of elastic vibrations -- until I threw off Bellerophon and kicked in the Helicon which they now call the horse fountain" from "She would"). I don't like "magnetic flux", but I'm not an overbearing stickler for detail when the voice and its sounds are this much fun.
The lessons, though mixed with sweeter medicine, keep a comin', however. Quartermain, through her narrators, has a big problem with authority of many kinds. And those authority figures -- whether bosses, politicians, mythic beings, or local heroes -- are invariably male. The ladies are persistent, tough, clever, or (to reach back into a more tilted patriarchal past) forgiveably winsome. And when a specific brute isn't handy, a generalized one will do, in the guise of unthinking (by creator and receiver) advice. "Directors Change Directions" is just one example of the latter tendency: "Don't touch. Don't skateboard. Don't talk with your mouth full." (Ah, to make a poem completely out of cliche and homily. To alter another popular phrase: "try this at home, kids, because anyone can do it!").
But "Directors Change Directions" and "Maximal" aren't just about guy-knows-best (or brainwashed woman-knows-best), they are list poems. Credit Quartermain for sticking to her belief in the poetics of her male masters. The so-called patriarchal dominant and subjective clauses must be powered over by the matriarchal, all-inclusive steamroller. Samuel Beckett wrote apparently levelling sentences, but there are exquisite shifts and ironical shenanigans going on within those units in Molloy, for example. Most other mortals haven't approached that kind of sophistication, though, which just goes to prove that theory which promotes "only one way" is both narrow-minded and exclusive of nuanced (ironically so) vertical evaluation, whether paratactic or (the form of most speech and thought) hypotactic. The anti-authoritarians don't or won't see their own attempts to dominate. The paratactical straightjacket limits syntax, rhythmical range, dynamics, mood, reverie, thought, and time signatures in all sorts of ways, and what results from the Oulipian, supposedly democratic arrangement is a temptation to flatline. Hence, the list.
A list, by nature, has no coherent beginning or ending, no arc, no reference within the structure. (All language has some kind of structure, even in brain-damaged individuals.) So all endings are arbitrary. Many of these poems could be fifteen lines shorter or fifteen thousand lines longer without helping or harming the finished product stylistically or structurally. After you've click-clicked through a few, the lists -- and the paratactical hopscotching -- start(s) to run away from the voice like the engine of a train separating from the other rolling cars.
At 119 pages, Recipes from the Red Planet feels like too much ice cream after too little protein, but since the diction and playfulness are an improvement over her previous starvation diet in Vancouver Walking, the meal is often enjoyable if not filling.
Tony Burgess' Ravenna Gets
Appropriate that I picked up Tony Burgess' 2010 vignette collection Ravenna Gets today. Horror ain't my thing, but literary horror sounded more intriguing. Thoughtful literature is to horror as is erotica to porn. That's my story and I'm sticking to it.
The plot: the townsfolk from Ravenna, Ontario kill the residents of neighbouring Collingwood.
Why? Well, there are a lot of possible reasons, but it's all conjecture.
Perhaps Burgess is making a satirical swipe at the entire horror genre where an "ah-ha!" psychological explanation will be tied like a tourniquet on the book's (or movie's) last pages and scenes.
Perhaps there's a clue in basic power trade-offs where one "picks up on this. Weakness." (p. 70.). But, no. The story subverts that. The one who, in the above quote, feels momentarily empowered is, seconds later, killed.
Perhaps it's a simple dream, or wish-fulfillment, and the murderers can be seen as liberating angels: "It's that he knew that when she left he would want to die." (p. 62). The victims are in one sense as depressing in their mundane lead-ins as is the (later) sudden received violence. But no, again. The victims at times are about to kill others, as well, and (in the collection's final brief chapter with the previously innocent primary character) sometimes succeed.
Perhaps this is Burgess' take on the Mad Max psycho-scenario where marauding bands of (literally) hungry thugs get their kicks in an eat-or-be-eaten energy-depleted world. But ... no, again. There is no hint that food or gas or heat or a basic level of economic activity is missing.
Perhaps the intriguing third paragraph on page 85 (I won't reveal it here) joins aesthetics, dream imagery, creation, and implication in a brave symbolic necessity. But that's doubtful because the story bursts out of its bounds and violently binds imagination with its non-symbolic realization.
What, then? Perhaps Burgess is making the scariest (and most responsible) statement of all, far scarier than the paper blood gushing out of stabbed hearts and perforated heads: there is no reason for a lot of the violence, which is also an everyday feature of our non-fictive world. (The first, above "perhaps", then, is partly correct.) As someone wisely noted in a vicious world only a breath away in the chasms of history: a staple of violence is its banality. And Burgess has accomplished much in this collection in that he has had to surmount the structural and aesthetic difficulties attendant in the (mostly stupid) horror genre. The writing, in other words, is what saves Ravenna Gets from the shotgun pump book dump. That, and its aforementioned anti-message. One example from page 66: "Sprinklers toss party rice across lawns and bent crosses like plague graves hold yellow leaves and hot tomato sacs."
Like last year, I'll be posting, shortly, mini-reviews here of some books that made this year's Gov-Gen poetry longlist. That should continue into early December.
Life as a Book Juror
The Telegraph just published an article by one of the jurors of The Man Booker prize in which it was revealed that the readers had to finish 138 books in seven months. That's two books every three days. Since the average novel clocks in at 250 pages or so, that's 166 pages a day. Every day. If one is otherwise busy for a time -- meaning, if one has a life -- and can't manage to read the 166 requisite pages, that means 332 pages the next day, or 190 pages every day for the next week. These are the people who're entrusted to make fine distinctions, thoughtful ones, about what they're reading, and to weigh those distinctions against the other 137 books in creating a detailed evaluative list.
(I work, socialize, write, etc, the same, I imagine, as the other jurors on this, and other, prize commitee(s); I manage to read about 40-60 pages a day, but then I don't skim, and I often reread what I've just experienced, as well as pausing, out of pleasure or confusion.)
Or one could just read five pages and pitch it in the "out" tray if the beginning isn't catchy. Or if it's from a publisher one's had mediocre experiences with. (The extension to this is Saul Bellow's remark on "The New York Review Of Each Other's Books.") Or if the jacket copy mentions zombies or grief-stricken daughters of alcoholic rural retirees. Or if one chances upon a great novel not on the list during those seven months.
Or one could just excuse oneself altogether from the masochistic ordeal.
Carol Shields' Larry's Party
I'd read only one Carol Shields novel before recently finishing Larry's Party. Small Ceremonies, her first effort, struck me as blandly middle brow and middle class, and left no residue. Larry's Party had a more appealing tone of vulnerability, though the possibilities it promised were rarely realized. A two decade tour in the life of the eponymous protagonist, the novel achieves Shields' stated wish to honour ordinary lives as they actually play out, notwithstanding the supposed metafictional ploys. James Joyce had the talent to find gold from muddy, subjective banalities, but Larry's Party, like many other novels of "small ceremonies", disintegrated for long stretches, including entire chapters (Larry's Kid; Larry's Threads; Men Called Larry), when the faithful rendering of the daily grind was the aim. The let-down was significant because most of her characters -- especially her female leads and support cast -- were idiosyncratic, lively, occasionally surprising. Larry was another matter. A lifelong dreamer, passive schlub, and befuddled reactive naif, Larry nevertheless stays in his first job for twelve years, is promoted to head honcho, then pursues his passion to become a leading entrepreneur in a career held by twelve others worldwide. The discrepancy was difficult to square up. And the dreaming artist/maze creator link didn't work for me: Larry was presented not only as an imaginative dynamo, but as a persistent, organizational stickler.
There were three serious plot contradictions in the novel, the most important between the first reference to Larry's mother mistakenly mailing away for literature for a Flower School class instead of a Furnace School class to help a bewildered Larry get an idea for his first job, and a later explanation that Larry had always wanted to enroll in that school and work with flowers, even though earlier it was made clear Larry had no particular interest in even observing them, let alone thinking about them.
Several scenes were powerful, their emotional pacing and build-up excellent. I'm thinking here of the events leading to Larry's first divorce, and to the strange death of his mother's mother-in-law.
Two shortcomings ultimately pushed me face first into the overgrown shrubbery. Shields has been praised, in other quarters, for a fearless view into dysfunctional domesticity. Sex and love -- she'd reveal those fireworks in all their glory and disarray. So one begins the chapter entitled Larry's Penis with the hope of transgression, vulgar hilarity, heartbreak, tenderness, anything raw or divine. Instead, we're treated to a belaboured list of euphemisms for the poor appendage -- all played for one-toned schoolyard laughs -- as well as narrative flaccidity. "A few days later he was in her bed, sweetly, plumply, satisfyingly fucked." That's the complete one-sentence story of Larry's first encounter with his eventual first wife.
The second problem came to a head in the last chapter. Without giving away the plot resolution, I'll just say Larry's epiphany was unconvincing, both in its realization and in its build-up from his time with Beth and Charlotte. Any maturation in the separate lives of Larry and Dorrie have no bearing on a believable resurgence in their own present and future as a couple.
Two additional notes: Alex Ramon, in a career rehashing of Shields, praised her attention, detail, and skill with setting. He even concluded that she was the best purveyor of Winnipeg-situated storytelling. This speaks either to the paucity of Winnipeg-centric novelists, or the individual projections of Mr. Ramon. The only references to local detail in Larry's Party are to a new coffee shop, to Winnipeg being the windiest of cities, to an outlying community being upscale, and to several passing notations of heavy traffic. I found it an extremely generic novel in its situational manoeuvrings -- (the description of Chicago was likewise vacant) -- which lent credence to Stephen Henighan's assertion that Shields sees little difference between one place and another. (The text explicitly states this, though it's in the guise of a specific character.) I don't buy into Henighan's ideological certainties, but it's easy to see how a lack of regional specificity and strangeness plays into favourable market forces in the U.S.
Finally, a word on the theme of Larry's Party. The "maze = life" analogies were too frequent and occasionally obvious -- "every classical maze contains at its heart a 'goal'. This is the prize, the final destination, what the puzzling, branching path is all about" -- but I liked them, nonetheless.
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Mark Carney, and Occupy Wall Street, Canadian Edition
I just caught the tail end of the disgustingly sane Peter Mansbridge interviewing Bank of Canada Governor Mark Carney (perfectly appropriate last name) on one of the media spin networks. Carney, in measured tones, with "papa knows best" slight smile -- condescension-lite -- actually said that Euro Central will need to print more than 1.5 trillion dollars. Guess who that inflation hurts, and guess who gets the money? It's obvious now that the Lloyd Blankfein/Jamie Dimon good cop/bad cop show spooked Carney after the latter publicly scolded Dimon for the Morgan Chase villain's first thumbscrew session. Round two, behind closed doors, must have been Carney's offer-you-can't-refuse moment.
For those going to the upcoming Occupy Wall Street demonstrations in Canada, save a corner of your placard for JAIL THE BANKERS. And it ain't just Americans and Europeans who're corrupt to the core.
Michael Boughn's Gov-Gen Acceptance Speech?
"And then, of course, having the judges that bestow the prizes for literary excellence write the excellent introductions to your excellent book before they give you the prizes for your excellence—that too is literary excellence above and beyond the normal kind of excellence which is usually just kind of run of the mill. ...
We however, are here because we know better. Poetry is not about truth or beauty or, heaven forbid, making things out of words. It’s about getting the prize. It’s about being on the committee that gives out the prizes so you can make sure your friends and students get the prizes, because if they don’t get the prizes, then what the hell does that say about you?" -- Michael Boughn
On Ed Champion's Review of Ian McEwan's Saturday
http://januarymagazine.com/fiction/saturday.html
I finished reading Saturday Sunday. That is, I finished Ian McEwan's post-Atonement novel, and then googled the above link to read, this morning, Edward Champion's review of it upon its release in 2005. I like Champion's style: good writing, provocative analysis, controversial ideas, allusive interest. But I didn't like this review. Here's a response to some of his words.
"There's a major anti-Iraq protest tying up traffic, serving more as an inconvenience for Perowne than a revelation of the fractious political circumstances around him." -- Champion
The reviewer, as is apparent from the rest of the piece, would have been more enlightened about McEwan's purposes if he'd spent a bit more time wondering how that protest tied in with the novel's larger issues.
"And there's a modest car accident the provides the linchpin for the novel's denouement." -- Champion
The modest car accident (typically wonderful set-piece by McEwan) provides the linchpin for the novel's climax and (in union with the novel's bigger theme, Perowne's conflicted and wise suspicion of his own set ideas) falling action in the operating theatre. The denouement is all about that narrator's conscience, the car accident becoming a faded spur to a resolution having much wider implications than his relationship with a mentally ill terroriser.
"But this time around, McEwan keeps his plot twists and character revelations to a minimum, throwing in a deus ex machina for good measure." -- Champion
It's true that the characterizations, outside of Harry Perowne, are limited, though still rendered with elegance and an individual flair. There's a good reason for that which I'll elaborate on later.
The deus ex machina may seem unconvincing, as the term suggests, but one of the novel's themes, a difficult one expertly handled, is how chance can operate to terrifying momentum and force in the most comfortable lives. Think on the odds, right at the novel's outset, as Perowne watches the flaming plane, of disaster when boarding a flight. Or the odds of Baxter's destruction encoded in that one renegade gene. Or of Perowne being waved through to the side street by the cop only to collide with Baxter and gang just after they spilled out from the bar. The home invasion, after those longshots, doesn't seem so implausible in those terms. It's against the same reasoning that damned Thomas Hardy's novels as being too coincidentally bare, inexpertly contrived so's to move the plot along its rickety tracks. In Hardy's case, there's a tragic arc so chilling that those critiques seem churlish and inapposite. Greater flukes happen everyday. And in Saturday, after establishing the theme, McEwan shows great restraint. A lesser novelist would have used the set-up as the perfect excuse to go the way of maudlin horror or metafictional gymnastics.
"In prioritizing consciousness instead of a series of events, McEwan has made himself more vulnerable to exposing his very few flaws." -- Champion
I saw it somewhat differently. The only notable flaw I found in the novel is that Perowne's consciousness violently stanched the flow of narrative shock.
"He is a passive observer. One might argue that he isn't a particularly lucid one." -- Champion
Huh? Observation by definition is passive, but only in that it can precede action. Effective action is usually precipitated by shrewd, even pitiless, observation. Think of the connections with Perowne's highly successful neurosurgery career. As for "lucid", yes, Perowne is presented as having a dreamy nature. The opening scene at the window shows this to mesmerising effect. But he's only dreamy in patches. He recovers quickly, as in the conversation with the woman he's just met in surgery (who would become his wife). Perowne's more complex than Champion's thumbnail-ridge sketches would indicate.
"He keeps to himself, relegating his social life to squash games with co-workers and dreamy morning booty calls with his wife." -- Champion
This is conveniently reductive. The novel spans one day in his life. It's a very active day, at that. Champion even misses some of the events of the day. How about his trip to visit his senile mother? Family, of course, but it's a social visit. Or his social visit to watch his son play the new blues tune? Outside of this day, he also runs marathons, follows up with patients with proactive, non-professionally motivated interest, and may have other social avenues not disclosed outside the time constraints of the novel. And since Champion brought up the "booty calls" -- disgusting term for a fearless depiction of loving sex between he and Rosalind, especially the second coupling near the book's close -- that means all family union can be included. Perowne's the opposite of "keeping to himself" with his family; he needs frequent and meaningful congress with his wife and son, and is overjoyed with daughter Daisy's visit. He neglects father-in-law John, but that's because of personality conflicts, not intimacy issues. Even here, the denouement brings a touching, believeable resolution.
"He's a neurosurgeon close to 50 who barely stirs in the operating theater, concentrating exclusively on the surgery at hand. He complains of other people going "nowhere without a soundtrack," yet insists on Barber's "Adagio for Strings" to be played over and over during the final stages of an operation." -- Champion
His complaints of the young have everything to do with a lack of concentration. He's most alive when under supreme concentration: making love, and operating. The text makes it clear that Perowne is completely focussed on the long brain operation. He loses track of the specific musical development in Barber's piece, yet at the same time is infused with its mood. This is perhaps complex for some to understand; I don't find it to be so. The people "going nowhere without a soundtrack" are in no way alike. Their music is a distraction. If they were to turn it off, they would have to actually observe -- you know, that "passive" stuff that Champion denigrates. They would have to find something to be passionate about in total concentration.
"With the character so married to his work and so casually misanthropic." -- Champion
This is the most cynically egregious statement in the review. First, he's not married to his work. He's passionately, faithfully married to his wife of twenty-five years. He loves his work, but also loves his family. Despite my previous statements, he doesn't have a magpie's fascination or involvement with the world. But when you're digging two deep wells, there's not a lot of time left over.
Misanthropic? A surgeon who talks with great sympathy of his patients post-op, and with care of those patients with his surgeon-friend Jay. Who feels guilt in two instances over his conduct after seeing the plane in flames, and turning the tables on Baxter in the street, and where no misanthropic spirit held. Christ, he operated on the disturbed man who, an hour before, had threatened to kill his entire family.
"Perowne may serve as an apt persona for McEwan himself. In expressing middle age so strenuously, Saturday might serve as a rhetorical novel for whether McEwan believes his work holds any relevance for people under the age of 40. That's an odd idea coming from a novelist who has repeatedly demonstrated his universal relevance." -- Champion
Or he may just be examining the binding similarities between young and old, accomplished and mentally shattered, an emigrant from Iraq and one England born. Proof? The tender conversation between the doctor and the fourteen year old who wants to be a neurosurgeon after she's been operated on by Perowne; the conversation between Perowne and the man who reveals to him the pervasive reality of terror under Saddam Hussein's rule, and how even the torturers were to varying degrees exempt from blame seeing as how their own lives were on the line from supervisors themselves marked by higher-ups in a never-ending chain of fear and confusion; and the brilliant depiction of the similarity between Perowne and Baxter with the theme of stupid pride, Perowne and Jay becoming ever more testy in their squash game (wonderful heart-accelerating section of the novel), and Baxter becoming infuriated, upon reflection, with loss of face to Nigel and the other friend in the alley when with Perowne. Nothing to do with age; everything to do with more universal concepts of human make-up and shortcoming.
"Other critics have made comparisons between Saturday and Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway." -- Champion
Fascinating for English profs, perhaps, but the details Champion provides don't apply directly to Saturday. Woolf's novel is extremely subjective, the world (as I remember Mrs Dalloway from many years ago) only existing as a dream extension of the narrator's interiority. McEwan shifts between the inner and outer with equal concern and force.
"Such is the curse of tying a novel so explicitly to one man's consciousness: the important details that Perowne catastrophically ignores are also ignored in the text. McEwan might have had a better novel had he dared to think outside of Perowne's taut box." -- Champion
Champion again reveals his misunderstanding. McEwan concentrated on Perowne's consciousness because he wanted to make a point about how ideas solidify, and how they can perhaps unravel or loosen with luck, grace, and persistent observational courage.
"Baxter himself drives a BMW, also an expensive car. Is there a correlation between these two men? Absolutely. Yet while Perowne's past is muddled with a passive swagger (he's described as being pitiless several times), McEwan shies away from comparing these two, preferring instead to keep Baxter's description confined to Perowne's speculations and their respective identities separate from each other." -- Champion
I've just described how McEwan joins the two in the theme of pride. But Baxter's impetus is described through action. Narrative action is often more revealing of character, certainly more poetically and dramatically so. There is no need to go into Baxter's consciousness. And how would that work, anyway? Not every author has the talent of Faulkner describing Benjy from within. And here it's not necessary. Baxter's frequent shifts in emotion show how his fevered mind operates.
"Why, for example, does McEwan spend so much time chronicling a banal political dialogue between Perowne and his daughter on whether the United Kingdom should get involved with Iraq? Does he want to memorialize the kind of hollow cocktail party banter that shows no sign of abating four years after September 11?" -- Champion
Firstly, McEwan began the novel in 2002. 9/11 was a hot topic, not a rehash, "cocktail party banter". (And how would this disparaging description apply? Daisy and Perowne get into the argument reluctantly on the latter's part, and the scene is there to show the greater theme of ideas in self-examination, how ideas are often provisional, and how fate, that oddsmaker again, can explain why many people hold the opinions they do, as in Perowne's encounter with the Iraqi emigrant.) Also, the conversation is anything but hollow. It may not be scintillating political discourse, but it's intelligent, and represents vividly how both sides on the Iraq war thought about that (then) impending decision. The novel is set just before the bombing, remember, not in 2005.
Champion then throws in a few faint bouquets in an attempt to avoid his own characterization of
"bitter book critics or outright lunatics [who] may be pining for a scabrous takedown", but it's clear, at least to this Saturday lover, that the reviewer missed living in this particular day by several years.
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Good to see Tomas Transtromer finally get the nod for the Nobel. Also enjoyable to read some of the predictable reactions to a poet winning the award: ("who?").
For any English-language readers unfamiliar with his work, and who are stumbling on this post when googling "Transtromer Nobel", there are plenty of translations. I don't have any particular favourites. Most anyone except that musical butcher Robert Bly would be a good place to start.
Americans, and the Nobel Prize for Lit (Part Two)
(cont'd from last post)
"The critical establishment was split on the award to Toni Morrison, but the Nobel Academy knew precisely what it was doing when it cited her “visionary force, [which] gives life to an essential aspect of American reality.” " -- Nazaryan
The quote within the above quote is only part of the story of what makes (or, more precisely, what can make) for a great body of work. Yes, Morrison doesn't flinch when tackling her ambitious material. But, again, this is a literary prize, not a politically correct tour of the immoral and criminal forces in America's past. But of course Salon is going to leap on this. Nazaryan's article is notable for its jejune thesis and lit-absent focus.
"You struggle through “Beloved,” but you reach an understanding you didn’t have before." -- Nazaryan
Yes. The struggle and the understanding: it's too bad Morrison's writing doesn't match her compassion.
"Can you honestly say that about Oates’ “We Were the Mulvaneys”?" -- Nazaryan
I haven't read it, but I wasn't aware that this single book was the cause of forty years of previous neglect of the Nobel towards American writing.
"Of the Americans thought to be on the long list, only Pynchon has written a big novel of big ideas — but it’s been 38 years since “Gravity’s Rainbow,” " -- Nazaryan
If the commitee were contemporarily consistent, this should boost Pynchon's chances. Actually, Pynchon's attitude towards his native land should warm the Nobel panel, and it's no surprise the odds on Pynchon are the shortest of any of this year's American roster. But I think the reason Pynchon has been overlooked for the award since the 70s is quite simple. They probably figure, and quite rightly, that Pynchon would embarass them by not showing. The Swedes may hate American culture, but I wouldn't doubt that even they watched Marlon Brando's stand-in at the Academy Awards many moons ago.
But now we get to the heart of the darkness. Notice that Nazaryan can't form his own argument, but has to lean heavily on David Foster Wallace:
"Four years after Morrison won the Nobel, David Foster Wallace predicted the current rut in which our literature finds itself in a New York Observer evisceration of John Updike’s “Toward the End of Time.” Though he took particular issue with Updike’s autumnal output, Wallace parceled blame to all of the Great Male Narcissists, with their hermetic concerns and insular little fictions. The following is Wallace’s estimation of Updike, but it could just as easily be said about anyone else in the postwar American pantheon: “The very world around them, as beautifully as they see and describe it, seems to exist for them only insofar as it evokes impressions and associations and emotions inside the self.”" -- Nazaryan
I'd read the Wallace denunciation some time ago. It has a degree of merit, but the trouble is that in aceing the frustrating scope of much fiction of the last forty years, it leaves out much else and misunderstands the greater concerns and ambitions of those authors.
Literature is supposed to hold up a mirror, not just in front of the supposedly narcissistic author/narrator, but for the reader and to society writ large. If Updike's protagonists can't see past their noses (or dicks), did it ever occur to Wallace (or Engdahl or Nazaryan) that Updike is making a serious point about Boomer selfishness and entitlement, about insularity and obsession? Even bringing up global misery in acknowledgement would serve to briefly trade in the microscope for the telescope, thereby breaking the pond-gaze dream.
"Our great writers choose this self-enforced isolation. Worse yet, they have inculcated younger generations of American novelists with the write-what-you-know mantra through their direct and indirect influence on creative programs. Go small, writing students are urged, and stay interior." -- Nazaryan
Now this is either disingenuous or naive. It's also dead wrong. First, Nazaryan calls these writers "great". How does that help his argument? Second, and I can't believe I'm defending creative writing programs, there's a lot of wisdom in writing about what one knows. O'Connor and Faulkner stuck to the South, Hemingway carried his persona around with him no matter what the subject. And two of those "claustophobic" writers won the Nobel. Especially for writing students just getting their feet wet, it's a good idea to not come out of the gate with a one thousand page techno-thriller-fantasy-romance anchor about the gritty realities of a Kashmir teen seeking refuge throughout Continental Europe while participating in local protests, trying to avoid being kidnapped by mysterious plutocrats, taking a sidetrip to Tibet for an ambiguous encounter with a Mahayana adept, and agonizing over the economic lures and spiritual dilemmas of selling Russian weapons to Iranian proxies, not to mention impregnating a Chinese student in Poland during a spring thaw where chemically-laden birds circle the docks in a repeating symbolic gift for the amazed protagonist.
That can all wait for the second book, at which point the creative writing programs can no longer be blamed. Of course, if career advancement is the only goal, as it is for so many, teachers-writers-prize dispensers-job procurers will be aped no matter what the prevailing aesthetic. In Canada, at least, the novelistic equivalent of the scene that Nazaryan depicts is quite different. A lot of multicultural nods and entanglements, though (often) not a lot of depth or enlightenment or energetic writing.
"Avoid inhabiting the lives of those unlike you — never dream of doing what William Styron did in “The Confessions of Nat Turner,” putting himself inside the impregnable skin of a Southern slave. Avoid, too, making the kinds of vatic pronouncements about Truth and Beauty that enticed all those 19th-century blowhards." -- Nazaryan
Just because an author inhabits the skin of another race or sex or species or inanimate object doesn't make this a daring success. One still has to be sold on the pronouncements, the relationships, the conclusions, and it has to again (and often) be said, the writing. I haven't read any of Styron, but I have read enough "progressive" lit to know that that approach is damnably difficult to pull off. As for the "vatic pronouncements about Truth and Beauty", I don't know what he's talking about. There are many American authors detailing the "big stuff" in their works.
Here, it would be appropriate to switch things up a bit. Why are American poets neglected in Nazaryan's article? Robert Lowell kicked off in 1977, but his greatest work was done by 1962. Transatlantic, steeped in European history, contemporary, politically engaged, Lowell is often stupidly pegged as a confessional, as if he had no more scope than an Olds (Sharon, not the car Nazaryan previously disparaged). He should have been a slam dunk for the award in his lifetime, but of course the panel who couldn't salute James Joyce knows a thing or two about merit. (That damn Irishman, picking scabs off that tiny island. What can a slum garreteer in Paris possibly enjoy from such a puny focus?)
The rest of the article is high-toned boilerplate, sermonizing vagaries with all the right adjectives. But I'll just note two snippets that caught my eye (one of them up-text):
"What relevance does our solipsism have to a reader in Bombay? For that matter, what relevance does it have in Brooklyn, N.Y.?"
"And lastly, the one word that seems most elusive to our writers today, so much so that I fear we’ve become afraid of it: universal." -- Nazaryan
What does universal mean, here? That the favoured Euros create a tale wherein a disenfranchised minority crosses a border, is subjected to the indifferent or menacing fates of a political elite the protagonist can't understand or defeat, which then gives lease for the author to vent or prophesy from an elevated third-person stoop on Truth and Beauty? And isn't that just as conformist as any narcissistic moaning in a small room? And what makes those authors automatically exempt from charges of narcissism? The Lebanese-Canadian Rawi Hage wrote an excellent novel based on his boyhood experiences in his blighted homeland, but how many Nobel Laureates wrote from the study, from historical and folkloric knowledge, the same as any American removed from the "action"? Some, if not most of them, are steeped in conscience, and are sincere. Last year's winner comes to mind. But they're writing from a protected position, and are espousing points of view (many of them) which have been accepted now for decades. Important? Often. Transgressive and daring? Not so much, unless you're talking about aesthetics. But aesthetics are political, too.
The argument breaks down, though, fundamentally. Roth, used as a punching bag in the piece (and its related quotes) because he's often cited as the most deserving American yet to win the Nobel, was talking deftly and intelligently about class differences and hatred as far back as Goodbye, Columbus. And the war of the sexes isn't universal? Other authors' narratives have spanned (for example) California to Indiana to New York in one work, a more complex socio-economic reality than books about poor maids in Jamaica brutalized by men, the women then travelling to England to become poor maids brutalized by men.
Click on the Lit Nobel winners of the past ten years or so, and note how the plaudits are framed. You'd think they were winning the awards for sociology exams.
P.S. , and edit:
I forgot to mention that Nazaryan is a Russian emigre teacher living in New York who is publishing his first novel about a Russian emigre in New York. But perhaps this is just an Oulipian experiment, the straightjacket he's putting himself in (perhaps?) an ironic comment on narcissism. Or is anything universal just because you've crossed an ocean by plane?
Americans, and the Nobel Prize for Lit
http://entertainment.salon.com/2011/10/03/why_americans_don_t_win_nobel/singleton/#comments
As literary prizes, with their attendant controversies, go, I've always been more interested in the Nobel than in our national, annual bluster-in-beer-mug versions. The politics are messier, the judgements more fascinating, the aesthetic conclusions more grandiose and self-serving (if that's possible).
Here's most of the record, from Alexander Nazaryan at Salon (itself a one-note ideological internet rag), with my responses.
"[T]he literature Nobel will be announced this Thursday and if an American doesn’t win yet again, there will be the usual entitled whining — the sound of which has been especially piercing since 2008, when Nobel Academy permanent secretary Horace Engdahl deemed American fiction “too isolated, too insular” and declared Europe “the centre of the literary world.” --Nazaryan
Nazaryan uses Engdahl's quote as a springboard for identical views. But let's first investigate Engdahl. The permanent secretary for the literary prize with the biggest cachet (though no longer with the biggest cash) not only misrepresents American literature (however much of it he -- and by extension, the 16 member panel -- reads), he also flunked Contemporary History 101. Here's Engdahl, in words Nazaryan fails to quote:
"Very many authors who have their roots in other countries work in Europe, because it is only here where you can be left alone and write, without being beaten to death."
Got that? In America, as the Soviet media were and are fond of reporting -- in eras of Andropov or Putin, Gorbachev or Brezhnev -- not only are the citizenry, urban or rural, fearful dupes locked in apartments constantly obsessing over impending criminal surges while trying to grow tomato plants through the light from cracked windows, the thugs have successfully breached the walls. Or, as the more balanced "political" section of Salon would no doubt update it, the stooges of the oligarchy/new world order.
Back to Nazaryan. He cedes several points to those American publishers, writers, and critics who rightly took Engdahl to task for his incredibly presumptuous views.
"It’s true that the Academy, like any body of judges, has made some ill-informed decisions. And they’ve not done themselves any favors with some George W. Bush-era selections that plainly had more to do with politics than literature.
In 2005, British playwright Harold Pinter fulminated during his Nobel lecture about “the crimes of the United States” with all the embarrassing authority of a college freshman who just discovered Howard Zinn. In 2007, the prize was given to South African novelist Doris Lessing, who called 9/11 “neither as terrible nor extraordinary as [Americans] think.” " -- Nazaryan
Those Bush-era decisions weren't anomalous. The Nobel lit commitee has always viewed the prize through an ideological prism: Eurocentric, and, in the last forty years, multicultural. Now there's nothing inherently wrong with this approach. But be up front about it. The Nobel for scribes is a stamp for Euro-centred cross-culture. Even this subset of a subset, though, (World Prize?) is contaminated. I'll get to that after going through the rest of the body of quotation.
"That only fed the vitriol directed at Stockholm, --" -- Nazaryan
A credit. Certainly no Stockholm Syndrome, then.
"obscuring a valid point about American letters: We’ve become an Oldsmobile in a world yearning for a Prius. Our paint is flaking. Nobody wants our clunkers." -- Nazaryan
First off, poor analogy. Today's Prius will be tomorrow's whole 'nother form, let alone genre. Worthy literature is about the long haul. Second, it's wrong. Many American authors are readily translated into Euro languages. It's true that Americans do a piss-poor job of seeking out and reversing the transaction, but the legacy of European culture doesn't automatically equal Oxford dons' noses scoring ceiling-grooves and painterly Parisian bohemians scoffing at the boorish American man of letters.
"Stockholm has been trying to tell us this for a long while, and we would do well to listen." -- Nazaryan
What does this even mean? That American authors should shape and alter their visions to accord with Nobel commitee whims and dictates?
"Between 1950 and 1959, every one of the 10 Nobel winners was a European male. Between 2000 and 2009, three women won the prize, as well as five non-Europeans. They have given it to Caribbean poets and Chinese absurdists. An American-born male hasn’t won since John Steinbeck in 1962. The last white American male to win the prize was Joseph Brodsky in 1987 — and though he wrote in English, his poetic training and intellectual sensibility are purely those of the Soviet émigré he was. Saul Bellow was born in Canada." -- Nazaryan
Like an accomplished sophist, an ideological hack, Nazaryan throws up this data without context or elaboration, then shifts tack so that the lack of winners somehow becomes a self-evident damnation. There is no argument here. Americans have been virtually shut out because of ideological -- and yes, baldly political reasons, certainly not aesthetic, moral, or (to directly counter the commitee's claims) comprehensive ones. (And Bellow, though born in Canada, was thoroughly American, having moved there at seven, and possessing the sensibility and peculiar concerns of an American.)
"But if we don’t win yet again, we are at fault. America needs an Obama des letters, a writer for the 21st century, not the 20th — or even the 19th." -- Nazaryan
I earlier stated that Nazaryan obviously flunked History 101. But he also seems to get the bulk of his current affairs information from the mag he's writing for.
Yes, American authors need to aspire to their teleprompter-regurgitating leader (who doesn't pen the words on the scroll, who needs ghost-writers for his aubiography, whose contribution to putative literature were two poems in an undergrad mimeo, and whose policies vis-a-vis the hated Bush II have only been notable for an entrenchment then amplification of the status quo). Hey, but he sure talks smooth, awright!
"One who is not stuck in the Cold War" -- Nazaryan
Are American authors to be blamed for the glacial, reactionary pace of the commitee's judgements? And isn't that supremely ironic in light of this quote? Pinter's and Lessing's anti-Americanism played a part in their wins as even Nazaryan states, but they also copped the award for a body of work which scaled the uppermost Alps forty or more years ago. And at that time .... well, there was a Cold War.
"or the gun-slinging West" -- Nazaryan
Other than Cormac McCarthy's highly-regarded Western, the genre has been deader'n a rattler lacerated by a cactus in a cyclone. Or is Nazaryan's fixation with Bush reappearing?
"or the bygone Jewish precincts of Newark" -- Nazaryan
Yes, because that's all Roth writes about. And because mono-racial and tightly geographic novels can't transcend their "narrow" confines.
(Part Two, and final, tomorrow.)
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Too Much, Too Little
It's long been my opinion that poets publish too often, and novelists publish too sparingly. I agree with this writer's article regarding the latter trend.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/18/magazine/dear-novelists-be-less-moses-and-more-cosell.html
David Gilmour's A Perfect Night to go to China
If you google David Gilmour's 2005 novella, A Perfect Night to go to China, you'll get the melodramatic plot hinge in a tight variation of, "man steps out for a quick drink, and when he returns, his son is missing; guilt ensues". But the vanished six-year-old is just an excuse for an exploration of the first-person narrator's spiritual claustrophobia. The hook, then, is not only unnecessary, it blunts the existential torpor of Roman, since his insights and ambiguous judgements don't have as much to do with every parent's worst nightmare as they do with his spiritual movement pre-disappearance. Too bad, because as wandering (physical and mental) meditations go, Gilmour, through his narrator, has some interesting things to say about gentility, thinly disguised conditional "help", and -- pointing the three fingers the other way -- ingratitude and misunderstanding.
I suppose one has to allow a broad acceptance of "just about anything goes" when it comes to dream revelation, but I've never had even one that involved long conversations without imagery. Gilmour's narrator can conjure them at will (or is assailed by them). Just one more reason the attention-grabbing plot push was a misstep. The connection between father and son, for all its sentiment, was abstract, and that hadn't much to do with dreams and memories. This is where the interiority of the novella was at its least interesting. The ending -- well, who didn't see that coming?
The bank robbery didn't make sense from what we're given by way of financial information. Roman is a TV talk show host, noon slot, in Canada's biggest city. Those types pull in (low) six figures per annum. His is a spartan existence, or at least not extravagant, from the little we're given of his diurnal recording, so how he can veer into the red after a month or two of quitting his gig is farfetched. That said, running into two friendly cops three blocks from the heist who want to waylay him only to chat about interviewing Dean Martin and real cops is hilarious.
The style has repeatedly been called "spare", and I've never been able to understand why this stand alone adjective is almost universally accepted as code for the de facto preferred prose procedure. I'm a lover of maximalist, shaggy, varied presentation, but I'm open to all styles, if well done. I just find this preference a trifle closed-minded, and, what's worse, an immediately accepted (often without evidence) synonym for "clear" or "essential", or "fast moving". Gilmour's prose is quite good, but the repetitiveness of the three-sentences-in-one broken up by commas, the phrasal sentences, and the phrasal tics ("I thought" prefacing many sentences -- clumsy segue between description and interior monologue) became wearing, at times. At other times, the darting thoughts and clipped sentences allowed a convincing opening into the narrator's unstable mind.
A quick, fairly interesting read.
David Gilmour in the NaPo
http://arts.nationalpost.com/2011/08/30/david-gilmour-figures-out-the-perfect-order-of-things/
This article by Mark Medley in the National Post based on an interview he conducted with David Gilmour upon the release of his latest novel brought to mind a similarly bizarre explosion some years back when listening to Nigel Beale's interview podcast with Gilmour a day after he won the Gov-Gen Award for A Perfect Night to go to China. But first to the NaPo piece.
Gilmour doesn't hang out with writers because they're "insecure".
He then recounts how he went on a manhunt for Andre Alexis after the reviewer had trashed A Perfect Night to go to China. A year and a half of rage. But he calmed down. "Beating the living shit out of this guy" became a plan to "slap him across the face". Medley reassures Alexis: "Still, the critic can breath [sic] easy -- if they do come face-to-face, 'I'm going to try to keep my hands to myself', Gilmour promises." I love the hilarious "try" and "promises". I'm sure Alexis' pulse would slow a few dozen beats per minute if he spotted those two words. It's now been five years since that thumbs-down review.
Beale, in his probing interview, asked Gilmour about the GG award process. The author, to his credit, admitted that success depended completely on the luck of the draw as to who the jurists were that particular year. He followed that up with this juvenile head-scratcher regarding his win: "everyone who's ever been a critic is going to have to eat it". But why would critics uncharitable to Gilmour's work care if he won the award or not since even Gilmour doesn't believe it has any objective merit?
But then the shit really hit the fan. Beale was highly praiseworthy of the book as a whole, but prefaced his comments with this: "I didn't like some of the similes you used in the first two chapters." Gilmour's response?
"Are you fucking with me? Don't fuck with me about my work. I don't put up with bullshit from people. Don't you be telling me that the quality of my work differs from one chapter to another. That is fucking presumptuous. I won't put up with that bullshit, do you understand? Fuck you."
But it gets better. Switching gears ....
"Those books are like children. When someone ... says, 'I like your first son, but I don't like your daughter', my response is to say 'fuck you'. "
The analogy is silly. A book is an insentient collection of words. It would be more accurate to say that a book is a closed-loop extention of the author, or father, to use Gilmour's terms. But rushing to the rescue of the honour of one's son is more noble than justifying one's artistic production by rage and threats. But let's play with his comparison, anyway. A son (or daughter) has to grow up. If a father attempts to continually coddle his offspring from the inevitable challenges and horrors of life, it promotes dependence and -- ironically -- a greater chance that protective intervention will need to be undertaken to save the bubble-world child/adolescent/adult. Which brings us back to the NaPo article.
Gilmour doesn't mix with writers because they're "insecure". Didn't Freud call this projection?
Another irony is that Gilmour relished sticking it to his guests, without warning, when he hosted his own TV arts program.
I bought A Perfect Night to go to China several months ago, but have been plowing through other novels since then. I'm in the middle of two others now, but when I finish them, I'll pick up Gilmour's book, read it, then review it in this space. Yes, even under the implicit threat of physical backlash! I just won't tell the greater public which bars I frequent.
Jian Ghomeshi and Rawi Hage
There's been a lot of debate about worth, or more exactly, lack of worth, in the Canada Reads series. The focus has been on the rules and their deployment. But the reason I only tune in for a yearly snapshot, and then only after the fact in desultory fashion, centres on the host.
I recently spent an excruciating twenty-plus minutes listening to Jian Ghomeshi try to cajole Rawi Hage into an admission that Canada is a big-hearted, complex-free assimilator. Hage's patience was admirable, and he also had to set the dilettante faux-chuckler straight on other matters.
I let out a silent cheer when I subsequently read that Hage hated lit soirees, and preferred kibbitzing with his taxi buddies since that's where the real storytelling originated.
I then thought, no doubt naively, that a parallel Canada Reads series would be a bigger bang for reader, author, and viewer if the host(s) were also fretted in depth with the books on display. But passionate digressions obviously scare CBC admin-flunkies who think they know how to "read" the public's taste for hard-hitting current events buffered by soft-boiled lit chat.
I realize the feed is from Feb 2009, but Teh World Wide Interwebz is a big place, and I'm frequently several universes behind.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=srIHTSxX8m0
"If we discovered that space aliens were planning to attack," [Paul] Krugman told CNN's Fareed Zakaria on Sunday, "and we needed a massive buildup to counter the space alien threat, and inflation and budget deficits took secondary place to that, this slump would be over in 18 months."
Did David Icke include Nobel Prize-winning economists in his reptilian gallery? And if that prophetic science whiz is on to something, shouldn't Krugman be attack-sacrificing to get this recovery show on the road?
Litterattainment, or Death Waits For No One
A Play in One Act
ROY BEAN, judge
TODD ZUNIGA, defendant
BEN MATLOCK; CHICO MARX, defense lawyers
HAMILTON BURGER, prosecutor
BOB KRONBAUER, literary juror
SHANE KOYCZAN, performance juror
MICHAEL ROBERTS, intangibles juror
SEAN CRANBURY
SARA BYNOE
BOB SHEA
JULIE WILSON
DAN LICHTENBERG
MEGHAN MURPHY SUSZYNSKI; JAMIE MILLARD; REGAN SMITH
TREVOR COLE
ALFRED BESTER
MIRIAM WADDINGTON
NATHANAEL WEST
bailiff, gallery
BAILIFF: Hear ye! Hear ye! Court is in session. The People Versus Literary Death Match. Drinking is optional.
GALLERY: (Cheers.)
BAILIFF: Judge Roy Bean presiding.
ROY BEAN: (Enters. Slaps pistol on desk.) Opening statement, Burger. Do you have anything to say before we find you guilty?
HAMILTON BURGER: What? Your Honour, I'm the prosecutor. I have no wish to make an opening statement. I'll allow the creator, perpetrators and seals of this mushrooming abomination to self-administer the poison.
ROY BEAN: Got any money?
HAMILTON BURGER: No.
ROY BEAN: Matlock, you want to say anything?
BEN MATLOCK: I do indeed, Your Honour. I'd like to call to the stand the defendant Todd Zuniga.
BAILIFF: Do you promise to tell the truth, most of the truth, or a conning verisimilitude thereof, so help you God or Goddess?
TODD ZUNIGA: More or less.
BEN MATLOCK: Mr. Zuniga, you've been charged with aiding and abetting the murder of literature, worldwide. How do you plead?
TODD ZUNIGA: Insanity.
ROY BEAN: Case closed. Defendant not guilty by means of insanity.
TODD ZUNIGA: No! The charge is insane. Not guilty.
BEN MATLOCK: Please explain the genesis of your idea for the Literary Death Match.
TODD ZUNIGA: It was a response to readings in general, which went, I started to notice as a person who went to three or four a week, this way: there'd be three readers, and one would be race-to-the-bookstore excellent, one would be so self-indulgent they'd go seven minutes over the limit, and one would read a "story", a.k.a. blog post, they slapdashed earlier that afternoon. Or we'd go to a reading with comedians, and some poor sap had to follow a hilarious stand-up with a memoir excerpt about his sister passing away. We wanted every reader to be great, to keep them within a time limit (I secretly believe that audience attention starts to wander at six minutes, can hold until seven, and largely evaporates at eight -- our time limit is seven minutes). And we wanted the comedic elements to have context, to blend into the show in a sensible manner.
BEN MATLOCK: What was the initial event like?
TODD ZUNIGA: The place was packed. We couldn't believe it. And we didn't know everyone -- which was the point: to get people outside the immediately literary world to come and enjoy literary things.
ROY BEAN: That'll be enough tongue-wagging, young man. Jurors? Who wants a go?
BOB KRONBAUER: This is too awesome!!!
GALLERY: (Cheers, clapping.)
SHANE KOYCZAN: We are the true north strong and free.
GALLERY: (Louder cheers.)
MICHAEL ROBERTS: There is no strong guiding aesthetic. Everything is for the moment.
GALLERY: (Shouts, the Wave.)
HAMILTON BURGER: MR. Zuniga, I don't want to characterize you as a cheerful cynic or as a literary equivalent to one of ... to steal Timon's phrase ... Mr. Shakespeare?
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE: (offstage.) Time's flies.
HAMILTON BURGER: Thank you. (Turns back to Zuniga.) But isn't this ruse just lo-cal/ so-Cal entertainment for the text-messaging set?
TODD ZUNIGA: Literature, and hearing it, is at the centre of what we do. (A water balloon sails over his head and breaks across the photo-imprisoned face of Queen Elizabeth.)
GALLERY: (Laughs and titters.)
HAMILTON BURGER: Excuse me? I must have misheard. Could you repeat or rephrase that for the court, please?
TODD ZUNIGA: The most important aspect of the entire show is to showcase literature.
HAMILTON BURGER: We'll get to the extracurricular dominance later, but for now I'd like to direct everyone's attention to this you tube video of a Mr. Dan Lichtenberg reading an extract of his to a Literary Death Match audience. Please dim the lights, clerk, and if I could press upon the audience to refrain from cell phone usage and hitting on their immediate neighbours.
DAN LICHTENBERG: (Walking in circles, repeatedly high-stepping over mic chord.) We fucked. It was all right. And then I told her we had to stop doing this to ourselves. "Doing what to ourselves?", Jenny asked. "You know." "No, what? Fucking? Fucking ourselves?" "Yeah, exactly." And then she kept asking me what the hell I was talking about. I think she knew it was over but she stayed there in bed for awhile and we smoked cigarettes even though I told her I didn't like smoking in the house because as soon as I made a habit of smoking in the house I'd be admitting to myself that I had an addiction on my hands, in my hands, in everyone's hands.
HAMILTON BURGER: This is the first 90 seconds of the six minute skit, or reading. The performance concludes, with no suggestion of irony: "To hell with diction. Sometimes word choice didn't mean shit." I'll remind the jurors that Mr. Zuniga, in his first response, "wanted every reader to be great". If what we just witnessed was greatness, what superlatives remain for Alexander? No further questions at this time, Your Honour.
ROY BEAN: Thank God. I need a nap. Court adjourned till two p.m.
GALLERY: (Schmoozing, drinking.)
BAILIFF: All rise for --
ROY BEAN: (Eyes make-out session on gallery bench.) Don't you have parents or the like? Next witness, Matlock.
BEN MATLOCK: I call Sean Cranbury to the box. While we wait, I'd like some feedback from the jurors on Dan Lichtenberg's art.
BOB KRONBAUER: You can't not fall in love with that magic.
SHANE KOYCZAN: An experiment going right for a change with influences that range from A to Zed.
GALLERY: (Wild cheers.)
MICHAEL ROBERTS: We stood there admiring the khaki mesh cotton hoodie and drop-crotch tweed track trousers.
GALLERY: (Etc.)
BEN MATLOCK: Mr. Cranbury, you organized the Vancouver chapter of Literary Death Match. You've expressed enthusiasm for the event. Could you elaborate?
SEAN CRANBURY: Vancouver has some of the most talented writers in the world, so this gives us a chance to put ourselves on the map internationally. What I really want to do with these events is grow the community and give people a chance to be cool and not be lame and literary, because that shit is just so old and nobody cares.
GALLERY: (Deafening cheers.)
HAMILTON BURGER: Objection, Your Honour. The audience is trying to influence the verdict. (Ducks a flying cupcake.)
ROY BEAN: Don't fret on it. I wouldn't waste my bullets on them, let alone my seed.
HAMILTON BURGER: Mr. Cranbury, how would you advertize the Death Match in a catchy, concise manner?
SEAN CRANBURY: The tag line should be -- "Come meet some attractive, intelligent, semi-drunk people."
GALLERY: (Laughs.)
HAMILTON BURGER: Interesting. Yet you've given a glancing, half-hearted acceptance of the Vancouver International Writers Festivals, where the dinosaurs do roam. Tough words -- "lame and literary" -- but I don't hear any specific names. You've mentioned Toronto in this context -- could they be the enemy?
SEAN CRANBURY: There's a distance in Vancouver from the hive of Toronto's -- which is good -- but we're very different here than Toronto.
HAMILTON BURGER: "Very different". "Which is good". Thanks for the specificity. I wonder what this "very different" amounts to. Lots of difference within Toronto. And lots of similarity between Vancouver and Toronto. In any event, you've learned well from Literary Death Match. The Vancouver Writers' Series had Sonnet L'Abbe doing push-ups while labouring through a poem, and the twelve-pack were kept close to the preferred six minutes, as well.
BEN MATLOCK: Objection, Judge. Is there a question in any of this?
ROY BEAN: You just asked one. Who's got the hooch? There's another one. Are you through flapping your gums, prosecutor? And another.
HAMILTON BURGER: Fair enough. Brevity is ... is ... well, it's my turn for first dibs on questioning. I call William Shakespeare.
BAILIFF: Do you promise to tell the truth, and then some?
ROY BEAN: Get my Bible.
BAILIFF: Can't find it, Your Worship. This 1879 Texas Revised Statutes book do?
ROY BEAN: Proceed.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE: I do.
ROY BEAN: This ain't no wedding, and that's a law book, not a salt lick.
HAMILTON BURGER: Help me out, Mr. Shakespeare.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE: Brevity is the soul of wit.
ROY BEAN: Mark that well, Mr. Burger. Now I'm hungry.
ROY BEAN: I am bending over backwards to be fair. Shut the hell up.
HAMILTON BURGER: What do you make of the Literary Death Match?
BEN MATLOCK: Is this an Avon calling?
GALLERY: (Wild laughter.)
ROY BEAN: (Snores.)
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE: Writing and reading, let that appear when there is no need of such vanity.
HAMILTON BURGER: But you were a hands on author and performer. Have you no sympathy for the entertainment focus of the event?
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE: Shall we their fond pageant see? Lord, what fools these mortals be.
HAMILTON BURGER: Over to you, Defense.
BEN MATLOCK: Is it all vanity, Mr. Shakespeare? Surely there is a genuine kernel of connection desired, at least by some?
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE: A poor player that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more.
BEN MATLOCK: Can the words not remain in the hearts of the audience?
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE: Go to your bosom, knock there, and ask your heart what it doth know.
BEN MATLOCK: Nothing to be salvaged, then?
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE: It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.
BEN MATLOCK: Your Honour, this is outrageous!
ROY BEAN: (Awakes with a start.) I agree. Another dead soldier. Damn good phalanx here. And I'm coming after you, Bailiff.
BAILIFF: Judge?
ROY BEAN: Top cupboard! Bourbon's behind the liniment.
BEN MATLOCK: No, no, Your Honour. I mean, the prosecution has trotted out a reverential quote machine. This is nothing more than an animatronic wax figure.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE: If you prick us, do we not bleed?
HAMILTON BURGER: James Joyce to the stand.
BAILIFF: Do you promise on this Bible to state the truth, the whole ... ah, forget it.
HAMILTON BURGER: Mr. Joyce, your insights concerning the Death Match festivities.
JAMES JOYCE: What do they go about for only getting themselves and their poetry laughed at?
HAMILTON BURGER: What, in your opinion, is the greatest challenge of the organizers?
JAMES JOYCE: The difficulties of the selection of appropriate music and humorous allusions from Everybody's Book Of Jokes (1000 pages and a laugh in every one).
BET MATLOCK: Jurors, I'd like your pronouncements on the performative farce from these wired wind-ups.
BOB KRONBAUER: Okay, seriously ... my favourites performing free. Full steam ahead!
SHANE KOYCZAN: That's where we used to be at.
GALLERY: (Ooohs, aaahs.)
MICHAEL ROBERTS: A multicoloured collage, clothes made from odd pieces of unrelated material, such as wool with leather or lame, chiffon, and stretch jersey combined in one outfit. Also, British heritage items such as green Wellington boots, eccentric floral dresses, flat caps, kilts, all accompanied by funny hats or headpieces.
BEN MATLOCK: The defense introduces Sara Bynoe into the record. Ms. Bynoe, how do you think the general book-inclined public views non- Literary Death Match readings?
SARA BYNOE: Hoity-toity, the equivalent of what people think of going to the symphony.
BEN MATLOCK: Over to Mr. Burger.
HAMILTON BURGER: Interesting characterization. I've met engaged, fascinating old people and curious, open-minded young people at both symphonic and chamber concerts. Joke ideas like 'Say Wha? Readings of Deliciously Rotten Writing' use verbatim text just as your words are being used here. What's your aim when performing in Literary Death Match and Say Wha? ?
SARA BYNOE: Learning to love my Roman nose is a struggle. I am lucky to have people in my life who tell me that beyond my unique nose I have other distinguishing features; my eyes, my smile, my curves, and my lady tah tahs (thanks boys).
HAMILTON BURGER: As the Bard said, "no need of such vanity", isn't that the 800 pound you-know-what in the room?
CHICO MARX: Your Honour, that's irrelevant.
HAMILTON BURGER: Julie Wilson next.
BAILIFF: Do you --
ROY BEAN: She does. Man and wife. Get on with it.
HAMILTON BURGER: Ms. Wilson, Todd Zuniga suggests that Death Match performers "risk being unfunny". How do you see that in the light of the event's actual ethos?
JULIE WILSON: One of the contenders wrote to ask if it would be a problem to read something sad. I replied, "You're not a sad person, so it won't be a sad reading."
HAMILTON BURGER: I see, then. Sadness is OK as a tone as long as the author doesn't in any way identify with the sadness, making for an uncool reaction amongst the audience. The reflexive emotions have to be event sanctioned, and the author-reader has to be admired even more so than his or her words. Are those fair comments?
JULIE WILSON: I had no clue who the patrons were. Yet they were being introduced to authors I felt I knew quite intimately. And they all fell in love.
HAMILTON BURGER: Trevor Cole, please. Your first novel is dominated by a vain, self-obsessed protagonist, an actor, Norman Bray. What do you have your character say while he watches a histrionic cooking show on TV?
TREVOR COLE: It's awful. But it's fascinating.
HAMILTON BURGER: Miriam Waddington to the box. Ms. Waddington, try, if you can, to get inside the head of the author-performer just before and during one of these seven minute sprints. What question might emerge from his or her curiosity?
MIRIAM WADDINGTON: Who are those giant spectators who chopped down the summer and now fill the arena with loud expectation?
GALLERY: (phone texts, whispers.)
HAMILTON BURGER: And what might the thought be, post-reading?
MIRIAM WADDINGTON: There my defeated choirs sing in broken keys of all the doors I forced by solar acts of love.
HAMILTON BURGER: Thank you. Mr. Matlock.
BEN MATLOCK: With all due respect, Ms. Waddington, metaphors can cover a lot of impressive ground through false union. One person's profound conclusion is another's inconsequential nightmare. The sun rises, we awake, and get on with our lives, more or less with yesterday's convictions. Aren't you reaching for an unnecessary and overdramatic meaning?
MIRIAM WADDINGTON: Under the dawn of city skies moves the sun in presaged course, smoothing out the cunning lies that hide the evil at the source. I sense the evil at the source now at this golden point of noon, the misdirected social force will grind me also, and too soon.
HAMILTON BURGER: I'd like to call Bob Shea to the stand. Mr. Shea, you write books for kids, yes?
BOB SHEA: That's right.
HAMILTON BURGER: Todd Zuniga says that your performance during the Texas --
ROY BEAN: Vinegaroon way?
HAMILTON BURGER: -- Literary Death Match was one of the three best and most popular -- best and popular being mutual terms here -- in its five year history. Your last line garnered the loudest, longest laughs. Would you repeat them here for the court, please?
BOB SHEA: Selling out wins!
BEN MATLOCK: Tarnation! Judge, this is out of all context.
HAMILTON BURGER: Is it? The video can be googled. The court of public opinion can weigh in after viewing it. The tongue is lodged only part way in the cheek, no firm stance can be deduced, but the implications for adults or children are clear. The real winner is Bob Shea because pitched to kids, it's a cute, energetic book of happy dinosaurs. Pitched to adults, it's a typical hey-I'm-a-loser-and-that's-cool characterization -- faintly cyncial, completely sympathetic -- which flatters the adult who, after all, has to buy the book and who is then motivated to read it. Kid likes the energy in book and adult reader, begs Daddy or Mommy for more, and the industry is created through cynical, crafty research.
BEN MATLOCK: I'd like to call on Meghan Murphy Suszynski, Jamie Millard, and Regan Smith. Ladies, your assessment of the particular show you attended.
MEGHAN MURPHY SUSZYNSKI, JAMIE MILLARD, REGAN SMITH: (Together.) Let us pay homage to the celebrities who made this possible, and who also made us feel extraordinarily cool when they came to dinner with us after the show.
HAMILTON BURGER: Alfred Bester. Impressions, sir?
ALFRED BESTER: I decided to sell my soul to the Devil, but the problem was how to find him. I was stumped, so I did the obvious thing: I called Celebrity Service.
HAMILTON BURGER: Nathanael West. Mr. West, Todd Zuniga likes to boast of the number of bums in seats at his creation. One hundred, two hundred. I believe a certain Mr. Springer, indeed a not-long-past Mr. Falwell, could promote numbers dwarfing that, and in the former case, the subjects were the same: sex and humour, the formula explicitly put forward by Zuniga. What are your thoughts on crowds, conformity, and suggestion?
NATHANAEL WEST: They were marching behind his banner in a great unified front of screwballs and screwboxes to purify the land. No longer bored, they sang and danced joyously in the red light of the flames.
BEN MATLOCK: Your Honour, I'm checking my roster. Since there are no more witnesses, I'd like to call my defendant to the stand a final time. Now then, Mr. Zuniga, one charge against the Literary Death Match is that it's all fun and games, that as long as one at the event meets another and gets laid, or failing that, gets a few good laughs, all's well. But you've insisted on the literary aspect and purpose of the show. Please elaborate.
TODD ZUNIGA: First off -- Vancouver, I challenge you to be a little more drunk than Toronto.
GALLERY: (Wild, sustained cheers.)
TODD ZUNIGA: I do believe there's a way to put literature back into the centre of the pop culture conversation, and our way of pushing it in that direction is to seamlessly marry literature and comedy at an event that very much feels like poetry.
BEN MATLOCK: You run Opium magazine. And you put these notions to work in the print medium. How so?
TODD ZUNIGA: We have an estimated reading time at the top of every page so if someone sees a poem with a :57, they could say, "Hey, I've got a minute." If you make the readers flip the pages fast, it makes them feel like they're getting something done. It's also a gateway to short stories and novels.
BEN MATLOCK: That's all, Your Honour.
HAMILTON BURGER: Mr. Matlock has performed my work for me. The defendant can step down. Judge and jurors, Mr. Zuniga has proudly stated that literature is at the heart of Literary Death Match, yet the party atmosphere at these events reaches its climactic impulse during the final furlong when bricks are thrown at pictures of famous authors, charades are performed, books are slam-dunked through basketball hoops, there's musical chairs, trivial pursuit challenges, and resurrecting Jesus -- photos of Mel Gibson on one side, Willem Defoe on the
other -- a notch at a time depending on whether or not a Cadbury egg knocks over a contestant's book. In Vancouver, Sean Cranbury came up with the brilliant idea of dividing the audience into opposing sides, with a name-that- tune finale. Just a note -- Vancouver TheatreSports did that over 30 years ago, and with real comedians and comediennes at the helm, so I'm not sure how
cutting edge it really is. As for the seven minute time limit, I can only speak for myself. If an author is on fire, literarily speaking, I have no concept of time, and were I to experience that reader getting pelted by a nerf dart as an ever so cute winking aside to the audience in order to terminate the reading, I'd then feel inclined to shoot my own hellebore-spiked arrow at the original assailant. Mr. Zuniga believes his creation is a gateway for readers who think other literary events boring. But literature is derided at every turn in the Death Match. There are some very good authors gracing the event, but they're shackled by the procedure. If new observers of literature learn anything there, it's that one reader's pretty much like the next, though those dreaming of fucking Benjamin Franklin, the belly fat making strange flapping noises against the narrator's flesh, or sci-fi porn rants from the P.O.V. of a horny woman in an
aquarium, often help scoop the deciding votes. Those observers of literature -- ghastly term -- anyone I've spoken to about literary influences are firm: a love for this endlessly fascinating obsession begins when young, but in the minority of cases when the bite occurs later -- as a young adult -- it originates through grace, fortuitous or hard-wired. If Mr. Zuniga wants to use the gateway metaphor, the Death Match would be marijuana, but what would be crack for those people? Just as that scare tactic is overblown, so too is any idealistic notion that seeing or listening to Dan Lichtenberg will lead to anything more lastingly mind-altering. The best readings I've attended have had no whistles or bells -- none. A usually -- not always -- small audience has shown up, been attentive, and I, at least, have lost track of time --
BEN MATLOCK: Your Honour, surely he's gone past the limit.
ROY BEAN: (Puts down newspaper.) Damn right.
ROY BEAN: Jurors. Wrap up. Shoot.
BOB KRONBAUER: Put yourself in the right place at the right time with the right credentials and experience and you are bound to "click" into some good fortune.
SHANE KOYCZAN: The design is what makes us more than the sum total of our history.
MICHAEL ROBERTS: Epaulettes, eye-popping camouflage, combat boots, brass buttons, peacoats, parkas, battle-dress blousons, flying jackets, military great coats -- even the long johns and skivvies traditionally worn under all of the above -- were paraded up and down, uber-masculine choices.
GALLERY: (And so on.)
ROY BEAN: Mr. Burger, it is the judgement of this court that you are hereby tried and convicted of illegally and unlawfully committing certain grave offenses against the peace and dignity of literature, particularly in my bailiwick. I fine you two dollars. Then get the hell out of here and never show yourself in this court again. That's my rulin'.
GALLERY: (Wild cheers, mosh dives, mooning, ostentatious handshakes.)
ROY BEAN: Bar is open.
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There’s more cause for celebration, though: the gala, which this year will be sponsored by Michael Kors and Audi, marks the four-year anniversary of the museum’s move downtown to the Meatpacking District. Plus folks will be able to celebrate — or perhaps more accurately, mourn — the closing of the oft-Instagrammed exhibit “Andy Warhol — From A to B and Back Again.”
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Lili Reinhart And Cole Sprouse Finally Make Couple Debut At Met Gala
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Holy Matrimony! There Was A Proposal At The Met Gala.
2 Chainz proposed to his lady love Kesha Ward. Again!
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Blake Lively Brought Her Family To The Met Gala Without You Even Noticing
It’s all in the details.
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The met gala: Met Gala 2018: Live Updates From the Red Carpet
Live from New York, it’s “the Oscars of the East Coast.”
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Met Gala 2018 Cheat Sheet: Banished Foods, Guest Trackers and More
Met Gala frenzy has ensued…but are you feeling a little out of the loop?
Don’t fret, friend. The biggest night in fashion can feel a little too insular for even the most style savvy…
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2018 Met Gala Theme Preview
Costume Institute head curator, Andrew Bolton opens up on the inspirational pieces borrowed from the Vatican for this year's Met Gala's Sunday Best dress code.
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The Controversial Met Gala Dresses We Can’t Stop Talking About
Here’s the thing about Met Gala fashion: It’s meant to provoke discussion.
The over-the-top custom creations are designed to bring awareness to the year’s specific theme…
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11 Donatella Versace Quotes That’ll Get You Pumped for Met Gala
Beyond the gorgeous gowns, the FX Networks depiction, the movie cameos, how much do you really know about Donatella Versace?
Ahead of the 2018 Met Gala, where the Italian designer will…
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Fear and Preening on the Met Gala Red Carpet
Young designer Sander Lak nervously faces his debut dressing a supermodel for the annual fashion event—’I will probably make a big fool of myself’
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"E! News" Met Gala Recap This Tuesday
Get the scoop on all the heavenly fashion from the divine red carpet! Watch the "E! News" Met Gala recap this Tuesday at 7|6c and 11|10c.
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Scene City: Parkland Survivors Are the Stars at Time 100 Gala
Jennifer Lopez and Shawn Mendes perform at the magazine’s biggest party of the year, to celebrate its 100 Most Influential People issue.
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Demi Moore Honored as a Visionary Woman at L.A. Gala
Demi Moore got her moment in the spotlight on International Women’s Day when Visionary Women, an L.A.-based nonprofit organization focused female empowerment and advancement, honored the actress and activist with its inaugural Visionary Woman Award for her work to combat human trafficking. Moore, cofounder of the nonprofit organization THORN, picked up her award at Spago Beverly Hills on Thursday night.
Moore’s friends Adam Sandler and his wife Jackie, Shepard Fairey, Eric Buterbaugh, Soleil Moon Frye, Maye Musk and others were on hand to support her, along with her daughters Scout and Tallulah.
“Demi’s strength and dedication in her career and charitable endeavors are what make her the epitome of a visionary woman,” said Angella Nazarian, cofounder of Visionary Women. To date, THORN’s work has led to the arrest of 6,500 child sex traffickers.
“We don’t have to fight much, we just need to unite,” said Moore. “The power of our collective is only going to bring the light and the success to an even greater level.”
The affair, sponsored by Cartier, was one of several events with a fashion tie-in taking place to celebrate International Women’s Day. Jonathan Simkhai teamed up with activist Janet Mock at The Standard Hollywood to promote Ring
Categories Style ArticlesTags Demi, Gala, Honored, L.A., Moore, Visionary, Woman
Naeem Khan Designs Feathered Dress for Houston Gala Chair
BLACK SWAN: Guests at The Houston Ballet Ball were encouraged to don black, white or a mix of both as an ode to Tchaikovsky’s ballet “Swan Lake,” but Houston Ballet Ball chair Hallie Vanderhider took the concept further — much further, enlisting the design prowess of Naeem Khan to create her feather-laden gown.
Vanderhider and Tootsies creative director Fady Armanious flew to New York and met with Khan to discuss a gown that would capture the elegance and dark beauty that Vanderhider had envisioned for the ball. Within a few sketches, the trio had landed upon an all-black gown covered in 3,500 natural black coque feathers, weighing in at 7.25 pounds.
“It was a magical moment. Naeem totally captured the essence of Swan Lake,” Vanderhider said. “He is such an amazing talent and has a great sense of humor.”
Khan encouraged Vanderhider to embrace the mysterious elements of the dress, reminding her, “This isn’t a mother-of-the-bride gown.” The gown’s sheer long sleeves and bodice were finished with intricate beading.
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Katie Holmes & Jamie Foxx at the 2018 Pre-Grammy Gala
The pair make a rare appearance at Clive Davis' Pre-Grammy Gala and get a little cozy. Watch!
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The MAXXI Museum Holds Fundraising Gala Dinner in Rome
MILAN — The MAXXI, Rome’s Museum of the Arts for the 21st Century, held its annual “Acquisition Gala Dinner” in Rome on Monday.
The fifth-annual fund-raising event, aimed at preserving and improving the museum’s permanent collection, drew more than 500 guests, including Roberta Armani; Nicola and Beatrice Bulgari; Fendi chief executive officer Pietro Beccari, who is leaving the Roman company and will join Dior at the beginning of 2018; Daniel and Florance Guerlain, and Italian entrepreneur Luca Cordero di Montezemolo.
Luca Cordero di Montezemolo, Giovanna Melandri and Pietro Beccari attending the MAXXI Acquisition Gala Dinner.
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Giovanna Melandri, president of MAXXI Foundation, underscored the importance of the synergies between public institutions and private firms. She also highlighted that in 2016, the museum’s self-financing accounted for 42 percent, while the “Acquisition Gala Dinner” aims to raise private funds.
The attendees were welcomed by an installation created by artist and photographer Michel Comte called “Light” and unveiled for the occasion. The artwork focuses on the global warming issue and features a video projection on the museum’s façade and a sculpture in the lobby.
Inside, a seated dinner — provided by Italian Michelin-starred chef Cristina Bowerman — followed a musical performance by Lebanese musicians Tarek Atoui and Mazen Kerbaj.
A scene from the
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Janet Jackson Makes a Fashion Statement in Fur and Lace at 2017 OUT100 Gala
Without missing a sartorial step, Janet Jackson is turning heads on the red carpet.
After more than a year spent mostly out of the spotlight, the musical icon has resumed her world tour…
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Kate Middleton Recycles Lace Gown She Wore While Pregnant With Princess Charlotte for Gala
Kate Middleton’s thrifty fashion sense still reigns supreme!
The Duchess of Cambridge stepped out Tuesday evening for a charity gala held at Kensington Palace, where she dressed her…
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Kim Kardashian Goes Shirtless in a Suit at LACMA Art + Film Gala
Kim Kardashian showcased a daring look at the 2017 LACMA Art + Film Gala on Saturday.
The Keeping Up With the Kardashians star, who is known for her risqué styles, sported a black…
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Charlize Theron, Brie Larson Attend Porter’s Incredible Women Gala 2017
Porter, Net-a-porter’s print magazine, on Wednesday held its second annual Incredible Women Gala at NeueHouse West Hollywood, in association with Estée Lauder. Hosted by editor in chief Lucy Yeomans and Universal chairman Donna Langley, the event drew Charlize Theron, Brie Larson, Elizabeth Banks, Mary J. Blige, Melanie Griffith, Raquel Welch, Kate Bosworth and more.
The Incredible Women list, now in its third year, grew out of a cover line on Porter’s first issue. It has since spawned a talk series that began with Christy Turlington Burns in 2014 and has included American Ballet Theater principal dancer Misty Copeland, film director Sofia Coppola and Serpentine chief executive officer Yana Peel. The first gala was held last year in London at the V&A Museum.
Partnering with Langley, who was profiled in the magazine in the past, made sense since this year’s list of 50 women was focused on the entertainment industry. The timing of this year’s gala comes when women in the industry have banded together in support of speaking out against sexual harassment. The magazine commissioned women including Copeland, Larson and the organizers of the Women’s March, Tamika Mallory and Bob Bland, to write open letters touching upon crucial issues facing women in
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Vera Wang Celebrates Chinese Heritage and American Upbringing at China Institute’s Blue Cloud Gala
BIG IN CHINA: Vera Wang and Ron Perelman were among the honorees at the China Institute’s annual Blue Cloud gala Thursday night.
The gathering at Cipriani’s lower Broadway location in the Cunard Building was meant to center on the Institute’s commitment to advancing understanding and deepening trust between China and the U.S. Ning Yuan, chairman and president of China Construction America, and Robert Hong Xiao, chief executive officer of Perfect World Co. Ltd. were also honored, as well as New York Gov. Andrew Coumo, who wasn’t able to attend the black tie dinner.
Beforehand, China Institute chairman Chien Chung Pei, better known as “Didi,” said of the honorees, “They share the spirit and mission of China Institute to shape positive and strong U.S.-China relations through education, culture and business.”
Derek Lam also turned up to support Wang. She later told the crowd how growing up in the U.S., her parents Cheng Ching and Florence Wang encouraged her to embrace American culture, never allowing her to forget her Chinese heritage. That delicate balance was what provided her and her brother “with such a unique view of the world and a sincere appreciation for both cultures,” she said.
Noting how the world she once knew has
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Jennifer Garner Gets Chummy with Joe Biden and Olivia Wilde at Annual Save the Children Illumination Gala
Jennifer Garner had a fun –and charitable! — night out in New York City on Wednesday.
The actress attended the annual Save the Children Illumination Gala as a guest this year after serving as host for the last three outings. She posed with former Vice President Joe Biden on the carpet and was seen catching up with Olivia Wilde before taking pictures.
The Butter star, 45, later ditched her high heels and slipped on sneakers during the auction portion of the night as she ran around and gave signed Rex Ryan footballs to people who pledged contributions.
Garner also presented the Visionary Award to fashion brand BVLGARI North America and talked about her recent trip to Houston with Save the Children in the wake of Hurricane Harvey.
“As flood waters receded, we expanded our response to include childcare programs because childcare centers…provide essential care after a disaster so that parents can rebuild their lives, put their lives back together, return to work,” Garner said. “Save the Children has chosen to make childcare recovery one of our signature programs in the United States, and today we’re helping more than 1,500 centers in Texas restore their services.”
Garner documented her trip to the area on her new Instagram page, giving followers a look at her interacting with children in the area.
The actress serves as a benefactor for the organization and spoke in front of Congress members at a hearing on Capitol Hill in March.
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James Corden Apologizes for Harvey Weinstein Jokes at amfAR Gala: ”I Am Truly Sorry”
America’s most lovable James Corden learned the hard way that not everything is a laughing matter.
On Friday night The Late Late Show star hosted a glittering star-studded amfAR Los…
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Ava DuVernay, Hilton Als to Be Honored at Hammer Gala
The Hammer Museum’s 15th Annual Gala in the Garden is set take place in Los Angeles on Oct. 14, co-chaired by Bottega Veneta creative director Tomas Maier, Jessica Lange, Zachary Quinto and Jenni, Maggie and Saree Kayne.
This year’s honorees include “Selma” director Ava DuVernay and Pulitzer Prize-winning writer and critic Hilton Als. Ms. DuVernay will receive a tribute from director J.J. Abrams, and Mr. Als from American writer Maggie Nelson. The evening will be capped with a performance by Grammy-nominated band Haim.
This marks the fifth year that Bottega Veneta is supporting the museum’s gala. The fashion house has previously supported the museum with cocktail parties and other events leading up to the gala, and Maier has provided creative direction for the event’s look in the past.
The Hammer Gala is usually a star-studded event and past honorees have included Diane Keaton, Joni Mitchell, Paul McCarthy, Joan Didion, Frank Gehry, Tony Kushner, Barbara Kruger, Catherine Opie, Ed Ruscha, Cindy Sherman and Mark Bradford. Last year’s honorees were Laurie Anderson and Todd Haynes.
L.A.’s museums have forged strong ties with the fashion community, which has been keen to underwrite marquee events, including Gucci’s ongoing support of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art’s Art
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Madonna Performs at Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation Gala in Saint-Tropez
PLANET HOLLYWOOD: Flexing his power in the name of the planet, Leonardo DiCaprio pulled a surprise performance by Madonna out of the hat for the fourth edition of his namesake foundation’s annual gala, held in Saint-Tropez on Wednesday night.
The evergreen pop star performed a string of greatest hits including “Ray of Light,” “Open Your Heart” and “La Isla Bonita” to guests including DiCaprio bestie Kate Winslet, Adrien Brody, Sean Penn, Tobey Maguire and Gerard Butler, with Grammy-winning artist Lenny Kravitz also entertaining the crowd.
In fact, the evening turned into a reunion for “Titanic” costars DiCaprio, Winslet and Billy Zane, who posted a picture of the three on Instagram with the caption: “Gang’s back together. Now we’re saving icebergs. Go figure.”
Kate Winslet at the Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation 4th Annual Gala in Saint-Tropez.
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Works by artists including Damien Hirst, Urs Fischer and Richard Prince went on the block during a live auction conducted by Simon de Pury, with $ 30 million raised so far, as guests dined on a sustainable pescatarian menu featuring local fish and produce also sourced locally.
The night’s chairs included Prince Albert II of Monaco, Cate Blanchett, Marion Cotillard, Penélope Cruz, Tom Hanks, Kate Hudson, Edward Norton, Emma
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New York City Ballet Unveils Designers for Its Fall Fashion Gala
The event, overseen by Sarah Jessica Parker, returns on Sept. 28. City Ballet also said that the principal dancer Rebecca Krohn would retire this fall.
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‘Hot Convict’ Jeremy Meeks Hangs With Nicki Minaj At AmFAR Gala
”Hot Convict” Jeremy Meeks is making the rounds at the Cannes Film Festival.
The model, who was discovered after the Stockton police department posted his mugshot to Facebook, was released from prison in March 2016 and has had a skyrocketing modeling career ever since.
Meeks attended the amfAR gala on Thursday night. Dressed in all black with diamond skulls on his loafers, he smoldered on the red carpet before mingling with stars.
At the gala, Meeks mingled with various guests, including Nicki Minaj and designer Philipp Plein.
Meeks walked at Philipp Plein’s resort 2018 show in Cannes on Wednesday. The model appeared alongside Paris Hilton at the show and spent time time with Carine Roitfeld, the former editor-in-chief of Vogue Paris.
“Thank you Philipp plein for an amazing show and Cannes experience!!!” Meeks wrote on Instagram.
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Just a few months ago, Meeks walked for Plein at New York Fashion Week. We hope we’ll be seeing a lot more of him around the globe.
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Bella Hadid, Lindsay Lohan, Paris Hilton and More Stars Break Out All of the Glitz and Glamour for Cannes amfAR Gala
It would not be the amfAR Gala without a little–or a lot–of glitz and glamour.
As is typical of the recurring soirée, Hollywood’s beautiful, famous and sartorially inclined…
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Adorable Kids Recreate Met Gala Looks
For over six years, photographer Tricia Messeroux has been recreating iconic style moments with adorable kids through a project she calls Toddlewood. Her latest photo shoot brilliantly tackles the incredible fashion at the 2017 Met Gala.
“I was excited but nervous to give the Met Gala the Toddlewood treatment,” Messeroux told HuffPost. “The Met Gala is the gold standard for high fashion and creative costumes by some of the most amazing designers.”
Messeroux make-up artist Shameika Simmons, hair stylist Peta-Gaye Antoine and wardrobe designers Mo Glover and Quianna Mercurius to transform a group of kids, ages 3 to 6 into the standout stars of the Met Gala red carpet.
The photographer said it took 48 hours to make the designs, and for the first time ever, she put her camera down to work on the costumes ― along with some help from Michaels craft stores and her daughters, Skylar and Sunday.
“Mini Rihanna’s dress was the biggest challenge, so I did it myself,” Messeroux said. “It was the best arts and crafts project my daughters and I have ever done.” Photos of “mini Rihanna” quickly went viral on Twitter.
Messeroux was excited to pay homage to Rei Kawakubo and Comme des Garçons, especially because she plans to launch her own line of high fashion costumes called “Toddlewood Red Carpet Stars” just before Halloween.
“The line features costumes inspired by this year’s award season (Golden Globes, Grammys and The Oscars) as well as the mega event for fashionable costumes, The Met Gala,” she told HuffPost.
Messeroux said the kids had a blast wearing the costumes and posing for pictures.
“The Migos boys were on cloud nine,” she told HuffPost. “We even put on the song ‘Bad and Boujee’ to keep their swagger going. Mini-Anna Wintour loved knowing that she was the queen of the night. Mini Janelle Monae loved the feathers.”
Though the girl who dressed as Rihanna loved her outfit, she was admittedly happy to get out of it by the end of the shoot, as it wasn’t the easiest to walk in.
“All the kids had funny one liners and silliness like kids do,” said Messeroux. “Great day for dress up.”
Keep scrolling and visit the Toddlewood Instagram to see more of the Met Gala series and some behind-the-scenes photos.
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This Little Girl Cosplayed As Rihanna At The 2017 Met Gala
A young cosplayer is going viral for her flawless recreation of Rihanna’s Comme des Garçons dress from the 2017 Met Gala.
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Party Coverage: Scene City: At the Met Gala, Paying Homage to Rei Kawakubo
At the party of the year, the guest of honor was a somewhat elusive presence.
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M.I.A. at the 2017 Met Gala: Where Were Your Favorite Stars?
The Met Gala is the place to see and be seen, and scoring an invitation to the exclusive event is an honor in it of itself, but this year some celebrity staples were missing in…
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Zendaya’s White Booties & Other Met Gala 2017 Trends to Start Wearing–Stat!
If there’s anything you take away from last night’s Met Gala looks, make it these style tips.
This year, we’re less focused on the direct red carpet to everyday closet…
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On the Runway: Met Gala 2017: Everything You Need to Know
The inside scoop on “the party of the year,” from how much it costs to who gets to go and why you should care.
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The Most Talked About Maternity Looks at the Met Gala Through the Years: Kim Kardashian, Kate Hudson, Emily Blunt and More
Sorry Kanye West fans, Kim Kardashian will be attending the Met Gala solo this year.
The “Ultralight Beam” rapper is taking some time off, opting to stay at home in L.A. with…
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Why Katy Perry Deserves to Have a Glorious Night at the Met Gala After Her Rough Weekend
Katy Perry has had better weekends, at least as far as Internet commentary goes.
Then again, if that were a reputable gauge, weekends would frequently suck for celebrities.
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Derek Lam Tapped as Host, Chair, Mentor for Cerebral Palsy Foundation Gala
UNIVERSAL DESIGN: Design students were charged with weaving the theme of fashion and innovation into their pieces for the Cerebral Palsy Foundation’s Design for Disability Gala.
The event, scheduled for May 16, has Derek Lam serving as the evening’s official host and honorary chair.
Lam also served as mentor to students from the Fashion Institute of Technology, The New School’s Parsons School of Design and School of Visual Arts for a fashion show component to the evening.
Honorees at the gala include ABC Network’s “Speechless” for the Goldenson-Arbus Vanguard Media Award, Microsoft for the Global Empowerment Award and Nike for fashion innovation specifically for its FlyEase shoe.
“Derek’s involvement has been wonderful, both enlightening and inspiring,” said Cerebral Palsy Foundation chief executive officer Richard Ellenson. “As students have wrestled with complex functional issues, he has not only shown an appreciation for their insights as to making fashion accessible, he has been unerring in helping guide them toward the creation of cohesive and affecting collections. It’s been a treat for all of us to experience firsthand his thoughts on fabric selection, workmanship and the power of fashion.”
Lam became acquainted with the organization’s Design for Disability program through Domenico de Sole, chairman at Sotheby’s and Tom Ford and
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Met Gala 2017: How Celebrities Prepped for Fashion’s Biggest Night Out
Here, we’ve rounded up all ways in which celebrities prepped and got ready for fashion’s biggest night out.
The photos will make you smile.
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Kendall Jenner and Hailey Baldwin Do Some Last-minute Shopping with A$AP Rocky Before the Met Gala
Kendall Jenner and Hailey Baldwin were spotted shopping in casual clothes ahead of fashion prom: the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s annual Met Gala, set for Monday in New York City.
Jenner, 21, opted for high waisted boyfriend jeans, enormous hoop earrings and a white cropped knit for the Sunday shopping trip while Baldwin, 20, wore a black and yellow varsity jacket and skinny black pants.
Rapper A$ AP Rocky was also with Jenner inside a store. The pair’s rumored romance began last June, and they were most recently spotted at Coachella together, where they flirted during his set at Jeremy Scott’s party.
The young models have graced the event’s hot red carpet before, each rocking stunning looks at the 2016 Manus x Machina red carpet for the gala. Jenner framed her supermodel bod in an Atelier Versace gown, then kept the rest simple with white Versace heels, a sleek ponytail and Lorraine Schwartz diamonds. Baldwin picked a fully sequin black-and-silver long-sleeve Tommy Hilfger gown with vertical stripes, plus Boudani earrings, Noudar rings, strappy heels and a high pony.
Jenner’s debut at the black tie fête was back in 2014, and she went for a full-on princess moment in a custom blush mermaid-style Topshop gown and 82 carats of Chopard diamonds around her neck.
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Katy Perry and Pharrell Williams will co-host this year’s bash alongside Vogue’s Anna Wintour. The celebration will honor Comme des Garçons designer Rei Kawakubo’s work. The focus of the exhibition will examine the “Art of the In-Between” and show how her work challenged norms on beauty, taste and fashion.
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Demi Lovato, Amy Schumer & More Celebs Who Got Real About the Met Gala
If you’re anything like us, you’ve dreamed of receiving an invite to the most anticipated fashion event of the year: the Met Gala.
Avant-garde, extravagant fashion, the…
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"Fashion Police" Takes on the 2017 Met Gala
Fashion your seatbelts, Giuliana Rancic and team critique the most exclusive red carpet of them all this Tuesday at 8|7c on E!
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The Crazy Story Behind Beyoncé’s 2012 Met Gala Dress
What goes into styling Beyoncé for the Met Gala? Apparently, it can all take less than 24 hours.
The pregnant singer will probably be a no-show this year, but as the first Monday in…
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Kim Kardashian’s Met Gala Looks Through the Years
Kim Kardashian always turns it out for the Met Gala.
The E! reality star scored her first invite to fashion’s biggest night in 2013, when she was pregnant with daughter North West….
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Everything It Really Takes to Get Ready for the Met Gala
As the old mantra goes, beauty is pain. When it comes to the Met Gala, we’d argue it’s also money, time, patience and inspiration.
Every year, stars arrive to the iconic…
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Met Gala Time Machine: Revisit Beyoncé, Sarah Jessica Parker, Anna Wintour and More Fashionistas’ First and Last Appearances
There have been many first Mondays in May.
As we prepare for yet another Met Gala next week, it’s easy to forget how much fashion–and the famous people that rock it–has changed….
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Why This Year’s Met Gala Is a Really Big Deal
A long-awaited look back at Rei Kawakubo and Comme des Garçons’ massive impact on the fashion world.
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What a Gem! Kate Middleton Glows in Green at 2017 Portrait Gala
Is there any color Kate Middleton can’t wear?!
The Duchess of Cambridge looks gorgeous in an emerald green lace gown by Temperley at the 2017 Portrait Gala. She paired her gemstone…
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Duchess of Cambridge Dons Temperley London to National Portrait Gallery Gala
LADY IN LACE: The Duchess of Cambridge donned a floor-length green lace Temperley London gown to the National Portrait Gallery Gala in London on Tuesday.
The Duchess of Cambridge in Temperley London
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A royal patron of the institution since 2012, she visited the gallery and viewed the latest exhibitions including Absent Friends, Claude Cahun, Howard Hodgkin and Gillian Wearing. She also saw two commissions specially made for the gala. One exhibit included ten masks designers by Vivienne Westwood and Philip Treacy while the other featured 100 postcards, which are a part of a mystery portrait postcard charity fundraiser sale. The duchess met with guests, donors and members of National Portrait Gallery.
The Duchess of Cambridge in Temperley London.
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This is the second gala for the Gallery that Kate Middleton has attended. This edition of the gala is focused on fund-raising for Coming Home — an initiative that aids the return of personalities’ portraits to various places such as a portrait of the Brontë sisters to Yorkshire or a portrait of Sir Walter Scott to Dorset.
Last week, she attended the launch of a series of mental health films by Best Beginnings, a charity that
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Social Circuit Crisis: With the Waldorf Closed, Where to Hold That Gala?
After the Manhattan hotel, including its Grand Ballroom, shut for renovations, party planners rushed to find alternative places to hold their fund-raisers and galas.
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Springsteen cover band changes tune, won’t play at gala
TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — A Bruce Springsteen cover band has changed its tune about performing at a Washington gala the day before Republican Donald Trump’s inauguration.
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Climbing the Socialite Ladder, One Gala at a Time
How Jean Shafiroff, the wife of a prominent banker, cajoled her way into becoming a self-appointed “first lady of philanthropy.”
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Annette Bening: Honored at New York Stage & Film Gala/ Mother Writ-Large in Mike Mills’ Twentieth Century Women
“If I were a woman,” Rob Reiner said in a video of congratulatory messages for Annette Bening at the Plaza Hotel where this sublime actress was feted at the New York Stage & Film Gala, “I’d be jealous.” Even those of us attending, with so many who worked with her or want to work with her, including Billy Crudup, John Patrick Shanley, Peter Gallagher, Julianne Marguiles, Jennifer Westfeldt, Greta Gerwig, a who’s who of stage, television, and screen including her co-honoree David Rockwell, admired Bening’s stellar career on stage and in movies– some favorites include American Beauty, The Grifters, and The Kids are All Right. Next up she is Irina in Chekhov’s The Seagull. With her husband Warren Beatty who was also present, she is Hollywood royalty.
But to hear her speak, she’s all about the work, and incredibly grounded. The next day at Bistro Milano, Bening joined Greta Gerwig and Mike Mills, her director in the new movie Twentieth Century Women, for a panel discussion. As was his wont in Beginners, a movie hewing close to the life of Mills’ father, this movie features a whimsical mother figure casually limning the life of his, Dorothea Fields, in California in the ’70’s, played so well by Annette Bening, she is sure to be nominated for this year’s Best Actress Oscar. Mills said he learned from the poet Allen Ginsberg about creating drama inspired by his life. Twentieth Century Women is not too far from everyone’s sense of the 1970’s, the artifacts especially. Annette Bening recounted her saying to Mike Mills, as they were making the film, you want to see that macramé bag. I have that macramé bag, and sure enough, she unearthed it.
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Travelers Choice Pacific Gear Gala 20 Carry-On Rolling Duffel Bag
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From the Met Gala to the Streets: 3 Tech Trends to Stock Your Closet With
What’s it called when you take some of the greatest designers and trendsetters in the world and shove them into one room? The Met Gala.
This year’s theme, “Manus x Machina:…
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At the Met Gala, Everyone Seems a Little Starstruck. Even the Stars.
The “party of the year” brings together everyone from Taylor Swift to Nicole Kidman to Alex Rodriguez.
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Kylie Jenner Makes Her Met Gala Debut and Looks Sexier and More Sophisticated Than Ever Before
Kylie Jenner is the future of fashion, all right.
The Keeping Up With the Kardashians star made Met Gala debut in New York City Monday, where she wholly embraced the night’s theme:…
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This Is The Actual Inspiration Behind Those Crazy Outfits At The Met Gala
Monday night’s Met Gala left onlookers speechless with the elaborate gowns and overall commitment to the theme, “Manus x Machina: Fashion in an Age of Technology.”
This year the annual exhibit, which opens up to the public at the Metropolitan Museum of Art shortly after the eve of the gala, examines the relationship between hand-made and machine made garments over time. The result? An even bigger display of mind-blowing gowns than those usually seen on the red carpet.
The museum’s website explains that the exhibit, which features over 150 ensembles, will “address the founding of the haute couture in the 19th century, when the sewing machine was invented, and the emergence of a distinction between the hand (manus) and the machine (machina) at the onset of mass production.”
There are feathers! There is intricate design! And if you thought the train on Zoe Saldana’s dress was long, well:
Feast your eyes on the gorgeous gowns below, and if you’re in New York, be sure to visit the exhibit, which runs May 5 to August 14.
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Stars Embrace Tech Theme At Lavish Met Gala
Models and actresses dazzled on the red carpet in futuristic frocks to celebrate an exhibit on fashion in the age of technology.
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Jourdan Dunn on Her Two Met Gala 2016 Balmain Looks: ‘I Felt Really Good About Myself’
If you thought Jourdan Dunn killed it with her two Met Gala looks—both by Balmain—you’re not the only one. The British model herself agrees with you. “Last night I felt really good about myself,” she told PeopleStyle when we caught up with her on the set of a campaign shoot today. She paired the look with Stuart Weitzman heels and Eva Fehren jewelry.
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Dunn fell right in line with the night’s overall trend: Bold silver gowns with a robot-like inspiration, a perfect fit for the Met Gala’s theme of ‘Manus x Machina: Fashion in an Age of Technology.’ Kim Kardashian, Kylie Kardashian, Kris Jenner, Cindy Crawford, Alessandra Ambrosio and Doutzen Kroes joined Dunn in wearing Balmain and, together, they walked the carpet as the #BalmainArmy, a hashtag the fashion house created in the past (and has stuck as a way to describe fans of the brand).
For Dunn’s look, she worked directly with Balmain creative director Olivier Rousteing. “Olivier sent two sketches—one was a short one and one was a long one,” she explained. “I was drawn to the long one, I thought it was amazing. When I had my fitting for it, it all came together.” As soon as her glam squad got a whiff of the direction, they suggested she pair the look with gray, silvery hair. “I thought it was a cool idea,” she said.
But despite the fact that she looked calm and collected in all of the photos, she admitted it’s actually a very nerve-wracking experience. “There are people everywhere, like waiting for you to walk out of your hotel and then all the paparazzi,” she said. “ It’s huge. So I was in the car, and I was nervous. But once I got on the red carpet, I just had to own it and feel myself.”
RELATED PHOTOS: Every Gorgeous Gown at the 2016 Met Gala
It’s a long way that she’s come from her first gala appearance in 2009 (below, with Karlie Kloss). “I remember when I first attended seven years ago, I felt so out of place and like I shouldn’t really be there,” she said. “Now I feel I do deserve to be here, I’ve worked hard. I like being in that mind frame.”
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After the gala concluded, Dunn slipped into a black sequined mini Balmain to head downtown to the Gilded Lily after-party. “The second look is all about being able to move and dance and just feel good,” she said. “With a Balmain dress, sometimes that’s a bit impossible because they’re so structured. But in my fitting, Olivier wanted to make sure I was able to move. It’s all about something fun and be able to move and get down in and look good in.”
But she didn’t change in the car. “Some people do that but I went back to my hotel, chilled, refreshed my makeup and changed really quick and headed out,” she said. (And no, the Army did not travel together.)
RELATED PHOTOS: The Biggest Trends at the 2016 Met Gala
So, how can regular people get into the #BalmainArmy? There’s no boot camp, unfortunately, she said. “I don’t know how I became a member,” she added, “but I’m happy to be in the army.”
Which Jourdan Dunn look did you like better: Met Gala or after-party? Tell us in the comments below!
—Sharon Clott Kanter
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At the Met Gala, Minimalism Is a Relative Term
Metallic and extravagant outfits, as usual, were consistent at the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Anna Wintour Costume Center in New York.
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Ciara Debuts Silver Hair and Shows Some Serious Skin at Met Gala 2016
All eyes were on Ciara at the 2016 Met Gala.
The “Give Me Love” singer, 30, shined on the red carpet Monday night wearing custom H&M–no real surprise, as she recently sat…
Categories Style ArticlesTags 2016, Ciara, Debuts, Gala, Hair, Serious, Shows, Silver, Skin, Some
Scene City: Beyoncé, Taylor Swift , Kanye West and Kardashian Clan at Met Gala After-Parties
Met Gala stars flock to Gilded Lily for after-party hosted by Balmain, and Up & Down for more late-night revelry.
Categories Fashion NewsTags AfterParties, Beyonce, City, Clan, Gala, Kanye, Kardashian, Scene, Swift, Taylor, West
In Defense of Selena Gomez’s 2016 Met Gala Dress
Real talk: What did you really think of Selena Gomez’s dress?
Style, at its best, is subjective–but post-2016 Met Gala, fashion critics neither really praised nor condemned…
Categories Entertainment ArticlesTags 2016, Defense, Dress, Gala, Gomez's, Selena
Zoe Saldana Flocks to the Met Gala 2016 in a Dramatic Feathered Gown
If there’s ever a time and place to peacock, it’s at the 2016 Met Gala–just ask Zoe Saldana. The fashion forward movie star is known for taking risks on the red carpet, and Monday’s…
Categories Style ArticlesTags 2016, Dramatic, Feathered, Flocks, Gala, Gown, Saldana
Crushed Crystals! Bloody Legs! All of the Most Dangerously Fashionable Looks at the Met Gala 2016
As the most stylish event of the season, the Met Gala is an annual parade of the world’s most innovative fashion. With all of the glitz and glamour, onlookers would rarely expect that some…
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That’s Right, Beyoncé Is Wearing a Naked Latex Dress at the 2016 Met Gala
Lemonade and latex, latex and lemonade.
Categories Style ArticlesTags 2016, Beyonce, Dress, Gala, Latex, Naked, Right, That's, Wearing
Reviewing the Met Gala Runway: ‘Manus vs. Machina’
The predominant color of the evening was silver, and the predominant pattern was circuitry.
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Sarah Jessica Parker Defends Her Met Gala Look After Being Criticized by Fashion Blogger on Instagram
Sarah Jessica Parker will speak her peace, especially if it has to do with fashion.
The former Sex and the City star proved that not only do celebs actually see the posts that you tag…
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Bleach Blond Kristen Stewart Looks Like a Badass at the 2016 Met Gala
Watch out, world: Kristen Stewart is coming through.
The Equals actress looked like a total badass when she hit the red carpet at the 2016 Met Gala in New York City Monday. In a sea of…
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The 26 Funniest Tweets About the 2016 Met Gala
Twitter’s got jokes.
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Who Ditched Her Dress When She Got Inside? Who Mistook the Curator for a Waiter? Met Gala Gossip You’ll Love
You never imagine the perfectly-coiffed and legendarily cool Anna Wintour putting a single foot wrong, but the longtime host of the Met Gala (and thus, star of the upcoming documentary about it, The First Monday in May) admits that she got caught on camera a couple times doing just that — and sometimes the foot was in her mouth. “People who make documentaries are really sneaky people,” she told PEOPLE. “They just follow you around until you make a complete fool of yourself.”
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But she seems to have a good sense of humor about it — and even admits to getting a little verklempt watching the film. “There is a really moving scene in the documentary which shows Andrew [Bolton, the exhibit’s curator] just before the exhibition opened last year just walking through the empty galleries,” she said. “Yes, to me that was absolutely the most emotional [moment]: When you see his work coming together at the end.”
So is Bolton enjoying his star turn? “Anna’s the star,” Bolton replied modestly. “I think it captures the work that goes into the shows we do, and also the work that goes into the gala. Bolton related that the most amusing encounter he had with a star was his first year at the Met gala when he was introduced to Jennifer Connelly. “She thought I was a waiter and she asked me to go get her a glass of wine,” he said.
So what did he do? “I got it for her,” said Bolton. “And she’s a bad tipper.”
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Designer Zac Posen recalled another unseen moment. “When I brought Christina Ricci for the Alexander McQueen exhibition,” he said. “She was wearing quite an elaborate dress. She had corset trained through the weekend to wear it. But we knew that training would only allow her to wear it up until a certain moment. From having been an intern at the Met, I know the guards there. So they let me go into a back room right after the first course was served, and I change her into a very transparent, short un-corseted dress. And they carried her gown out through the back entrance to the car in a body bag.”
Supermodel Karolina Kurkova has worn a number of dresses that barely fit in the limo, so much so that she knows exactly how to handle it. “The trick is to sit, and then let someone just shove the dress into the car,” she said. Another highlight every year?“And I have to say the ladies room at the Met is always quite a scene. Everybody is always in there touching up. It will be Jennifer Lopez on one side, and Meryl Streep on the other, Nicole Kidman, Rihanna — that is, if your dress will even fit through the door. At the end of the night, I’ve had to be cut out of a dress many times.”
RELATED PHOTOS: The best dresses at the 2015 Met Gala!
Lauren Hutton also described the ladies room as one of the starriest hangouts. “There are some huge dresses,” she agreed. “The Olsens were in there. That’s part of the fun, helping everybody get in and out of their dresses.”
“I loved Rihanna’s dress last year,” said Wendi Deng, a co-host of the 2015 gala. “It was designed by my friend Guo Pei, a Chinese designer. And I’m so proud of her. She works so hard and is so talented. And it helped put her on the map. I saw her later and we had dinner together and she was so happy about it.”
Andre Leon Tally, another star of the documentary, agreed that the most dramatic moment onscreen was: “When Rihanna came up the steps looking fabulous in the Guo Pei coat,” he said. The dress took two years to create and it required a small army to move and place the enormous train for photos on the stairs out front. Ultimately, it was “a moment in time,” Talley said.
What’s your favorite Met Gala moment?
–Jeffrey Slonim
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Pratt Names Honorees for Legends 2015 Gala
Pratt Institute will present Legends 2015, an annual scholarship benefit honoring art and design professionals whose works have helped shape the cultural landscape.
The event will be held Oct. 29 at the Mandarin Oriental in New York. The gala will begin at 6 p.m. with a cocktail reception followed by a 7 p.m. dinner and awards ceremony. Legends 2015 raises funds for merit- and need-based scholarships, as 90 percent of Pratt students receive financial aid to pursue their education.
The honorees are Daniel Boulud, chef and owner of 16 restaurants, including Daniel and Café Boulud, and the Feast & Fêtes catering company; interior designer Nina Campbell; photographer and filmmaker Timothy Greenfield-Sanders, and architects Tod Williams and Billie Tsien.
Previous Legends Award recipients have included Laurie Anderson, Iris Apfel, Dale Chihuly, Tommy Hilfiger, Marc Jacobs, Bruce Weber and David Yurman.
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Dior Returns as Sponsor of the Guggenheim International Gala
For the third consecutive year, Dior is sponsoring the Guggenheim International Gala in New York. The two-night art party, known as the GIG, supports the museum’s operations, including exhibitions, educational programs and the landmark building. To be held Nov. 4 and 5, the first night is a pre-party — read: younger, hipper — hosted by the Young Collectors Council that will feature a performance by Grimes, the Canadian producer, singer and songwriter also known as Claire Boucher, whose fourth album is due out this fall. The second night is a benefit dinner honoring artists On Kawara (in memoriam) and Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian, both the subjects of recent exhibitions, and Colombian artist Doris Salcedo, whose work is on view at the museum through Oct. 12.
Since coming on as a sponsor, Dior has infused the GIG with a new energy. In 2013 DJ Richie Hawtin (aka Plastikman) performed at the pre-party. Last year, it was British indie band The xx.
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Rihanna’s Met Gala Dress Designer Didn’t Actually Want Her to Wear It
Chinese couturier Guo Pei became an international fashion superstar the moment Rihanna took her first step on the Met Gala red carpet in May—but if the designer had her way, RiRi wouldn’t have worn it at all.
“I actually didn’t think the dress was the right one for her,” Guo told WWD. “I thought it would be too heavy and too hot, but she was so touched the moment she put it on.”
Bad-gal RiRi knows what works for her, though. The embroidered cape with fur trim and mile-long train was arguably the most photographed—and talked-about—dress of fashion’s biggest night. Pei revealed that the cape weighs 55 pounds and took nearly two years to make. Talk about conviction!
For more on Met Gala Fashion:
Best-Dressed at the Met Gala 2015
The Best Memes From the Met Gala
What Really Happens on the Met Gala Red Carpet
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Apollo Theater Celebrates Its Rich Legacy With 10th Annual Spring Gala
Monday night marked the 10th anniversary of the Apollo Theater’s annual Spring Gala, which was met with much fanfare.
The event, which featured a celebratory benefit concert, was hosted by Extra TV correspondent AJ Calloway and featured star-studded performances from Nile Rodgers and his pioneering disco-funk group Chic, Ne-Yo, Luke James, Rosanne Cash, “The Voice” season 8 contestant Kimberly Nichole and South African a capella trio The Soil.
During his opening monologue, Calloway shared some of his personal experiences and memories of the Apollo.
“I used to sneak into the Apollo when I was in high school,” Calloway said. “I was in [New] Jersey, my parents didn’t know I was here, but I used to watch Amateur Night so I’m very happy to be on this stage. And I started my career here. The first time I was on this stage was ‘106 & Park’ and that was 15 years ago. So I’m really, really happy to be here.”
In addition to Calloway’s return to the Apollo stage, the event also served as a homecoming for Rodgers, who landed his second professional gig performing with the theater’s house band. Prior to taking to the stage to perform a medley of Chic’s biggest hits, Rodgers opened up to The Huffington Post about the significance of headlining this year’s annual gala.
“When I played here I was 19-years-old,” Rodgers said. “I had just finished a year with ‘Sesame Street,’ which was my first professional job. And I was just telling the band how it was the first time I walked out onto this stage. It’s amazing for me to be here now, all these years later playing my own music, which is crazy.”
For Apollo Theater President & CEO, Jonelle Procope the Gala has served as an important part in the theater’s growth for the past 10 years.
“Although the Apollo is now in its 81st year, we have only been a nonprofit since 1991 and I would say it has really been over the last 10 years that the institution has experienced tremendous growth as a nonprofit with expanded artistic, educational and community programs,” Procope said to the Huffington Post.
“The Gala, which is one of our largest fundraisers, has provided crucial support toward those initiatives. It also allows us to celebrate and honor the Apollo’s rich legacy as the musical home for so many legendary artists like Nile Rodgers and the opportunity to continue that legacy as an important springboard for the next generation of artists.”
The benefit, which raises funds for the theater’s education and community outreach programs, also honored James Dolan, President and CEO of Cablevision Systems Corporation and Executive Chairman of Madison Square Garden, who accepted the Corporate Award on behalf of The Madison Square Garden Company, and Darren Walker, president of the Ford Foundation, who accepted the Percy C. Sutton Civic Leadership Award on behalf of The Ford Foundation.
Check out a collection of Apollo Gala performers through the years in the slideshow below.
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An Exclusive Peek Inside This Year’s Tony Awards Gala
Answer: Party at the Plaza Hotel into the wee hours!
Question: This Sunday at the American Theatre Wing’s Tony Awards, after the last circular medallion is handed out at New York’s Radio City Music Hall, what happens next?
For the fifth year, the nominees, presenters and other VIPs hightail it to the famous and historic Plaza Hotel for a Tony gala for the ages. “We’re the only event that takes over the entirety of the Plaza Hotel including the Todd English Food Court, the Palm Court and the Terrace Room. That makes it very special,” says Charlotte St. Martin, president of The Broadway League, which presents the Tony Awards along with the American Theatre Wing.
This year’s theme is Marie Antoinette with shades of pink, flowers and crystal galore. “It’s very Versailles-looking, which certainly matches the decor of the Plaza,” says St. Martin. In fact, the shindig has been in the works for an entire year. As Heather Hitchens, president of the American Theatre Wing explains, “The Tonys is June 7. On June 8, we begin planning next year’s Tonys.”
The glam Tony gala is a collaboration of 24 different businesses. So what can the partygoers expect at this year’s gala? For a preview of the big night (from 1,800 glasses of champagne to 1,500 pieces of shrimp), click on this story at Parade.com
The Tony Award Gala at the Plaza Hotel, 2014
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Bey and Jay’s ‘pre-Met Gala bust-up’
Beyoncé Knowles and Jay Z were apparently “on edge” ahead of this year’s Met Gala, following the incident at the 2014 event.
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9 Met Gala Dresses You Won’t Appreciate Until You See Them From the Back
Hate to see her go but love to watch her leave was another trend at Monday’s Met Gala. Stylish celebs went all out with trains and many of them, like Sarah Jessica Parker, had helpers to get them and their elaborate trains climb up those epic stairs. “I’m on train duty,” said SJP’s date Andy Cohen, who dutifully followed her with a helping hand. Lady Rihanna had no fewer than three people lifting her showstopping Guo Pei cloak. When asked about the challenges of wearing the look, Rihanna, who seemed to take all her might to get to the top, exclaimed “It’s heavy!”.
Beyonce, who arrived more than an hour after all the guests had settled into dinner inside, had stylist Ty Hunter following her every sashay, arranging her jewel-encrusted tulle train just so. Kim Kardashian’s feathered confection didn’t fare quite as well. While Kanye carefully helped her up the steps, her train left a trail of white feathers in her path. Kind of fitting for Kim, who always leaves her mark. Be sure to see all the dresses here.
Beyonce in Givenchy.
Sarah Jessica Parker in H&M.
Kerry Washington in Prada.
Bee Shaffer in Alexander McQueen.
Fan Bingbing in Chris by Christopher Bu.
Allison Williams in Giambattista Valli.
Miley Cyrus in Alexander Wang.
Kim Kardashian West in Roberto Cavalli.
Ivanka Trump in Prabal Gurung.
Lady Gaga in Balenciaga.
See all the best dresses from last night.
Categories Style ArticlesTags Appreciate, Back, Dresses, from, Gala, Them, until, Won't
Here’s What Really Happens on the Met Gala Red Carpet…
Monday night’s Met Gala has given us months, and possibly years, of good fashion fodder. But beyond the gorgeous dresses, don’t you wonder what that majestic red carpet is really like? Well, we found out just for you. Read on for the inside scoops and surprises of fashion’s biggest night.
Larry David (Larry David!?) was an early arrival. While most men and women in glittering gowns took their sweet time to sashay up the vertiginous steps, David galloped up them in the blink of an eye. No interviews or posing for him. If we knew any better, we would have clocked his time. We’re on it for next year.
Hannah Davis, here with boyfriend Derek Jeter, looked like she was poured into her crimson J. Mendel, but actually, the dress fit Davis like a glove. No tailoring required. “I went up to Vogue and it just fit perfectly,” the dishy model told us.
How did comedian Joel McHale prep for his first-ever Met Gala? He jokes, “I waxed all the hair off my body, then the microdermabrasion, then a large bath, full of whole milk and some vanilla,” he told us. Oh, he also joked that he delivered nine kittens in the car on the way to the museum. “I cut the umbilical cords; it was amazing. Smelled terrible but amazing.”
Bless Katie Couric, who helped a gaggle of reporters score interviews and pictures with some major celebrities.
Here she is lassoing Kendall Jenner in.
Katie nailed it. Kendall came to chat with us.
Kendall’s sister Kim Kardashian dazzled in a sheer embroidered Roberto Cavalli gown with a skirt full of feathers.
After she and Kanye climbed the steps, we noticed that Kim’s feathers littered the red carpet. Sad but a nice memento after the last flashbulb popped.
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At Met Gala, ‘HONY’ Photographer Shoots Pics Of Catering Staff And Others Who Don’t Get A Spotlight
Brandon Stanton, the photographer behind the immensely popular Humans of New York site, has a special talent for getting strangers to open up to him. And while he usually prefers to shoot and interview ordinary people he encounters on the streets of the city — so far, he’s photographed more than 5,000 New Yorkers — last night, he focused his lens on one of the most extraordinary events in Manhattan: the Met Gala. Unsurprisingly, while there was no shortage of star power at the ball, Stanton’s interest remained in those whose faces and names you don’t know off the top of your head.
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Saturday Night’s Chicest: See the Best Dressed at the Palm Springs Gala
Saturday night was super chic for some of Hollywood’s brightest, with the Palm Springs International Film Festival Awards Gala rolling out the first red carpet of note for 2015. There were fun frocks and elegant gowns, and I’ll admit: It was all a little more glam than the ripped jeans and moto boots I was wearing last night.
Reese Witherspoon picked a pearl-embroidered Michael Kors dress that, while slightly more luxurious than classic polka dots, had all the same cheer. The print’s an eternal favorite, but it can read too juvenile if done with frills and bows. Reese’s sharp sleeves keep it utterly grown-up. Bright dresses like this vivid red-orange pick are sure to stand out—how stunning does Julianne Moore look? By now you probably know I’m an off-the-shoulder addict too, so this one especially wowed me. Pregnant Blake Lively and Jessica Biel have been showing us major maternity style, and I’m happy that now we have Rosamund Pike to show perfect just-after-baby dressing. She welcomed a little one almost exactly one month ago and for her red carpet return, rocked a trapeze dress with a high hemline for a sexy flash of leg. We watched The Theory of Everything this weekend (so good!), so I’m feeling especially in love with Felicity Jones. This elegant navy-and-black Monique Lhuillier was divine, and I sincerely hope there were no elevators around… I guess I really have something for dresses that show shoulders, because Renee Bargh’s sleek pick was perfect to me. Rich velvet feels especially now, and the contrast of the high neck and below-the-knee hemline with those spots of skin is fantastic.
Which was your favorite? Anyone else obsessed with off-the-shoulder shirts and dresses too?
Categories Style ArticlesTags Best, Chicest, Dressed, Gala, Nights, Palm, Saturday, Springs
Booked for the Evening Gala: Newark Public Library
During a brisk October evening this past fall in downtown Newark, NJ, guests came out to attend a fundraising benefit for The Newark Public Library entitled “Booked For The Evening” and to celebrate The Library’s 125th Anniversary as one of the city’s premiere educational and cultural public institutions.
The Newark Public Library has served as an historical landmark anchored in the heart of the community for over 100 years, providing patrons and citizens with free resources and information to serve their needs, ideas, dreams and hopes.
Over many decades, the Library has welcomed residents from across the country and the world, serving as a global catalyst to help residents cultivate successful personal and professional lives. Currently, the City of Newark is embarking upon a new millennium resurgence of renewal and growth. With a newly elected mayor in office, The Honorable Ras J. Baraka, the city is undergoing rapid and innovative development. The Library is responding in kind to these progressive advancements. “In this environment, we are conscious of the changing needs of our patrons and we continually strive to grow and evolve to meet those needs…” says Wilma Grey, Director, Newark Public Library.
At the Booked for the Evening gala, the Library honored Newark native, Mikki Taylor, for her outstanding professional achievements. Ms. Taylor currently serves as the Editor-At-Large for Essence Magazine and is also an accomplished businesswoman, author and television personality. She is a highly sought after speaker who offers a message of empowerment that encourages women to own their lives, walk in their God-given gifts and honor their purpose. Born and raised in Newark, Ms. Taylor “is proud of this great city where her dreams were nurtured and her purpose began. She is proud to be celebrated by the Newark Public Library where she spent many of her childhood years preparing for her future.”
The evening’s special guest keynote speaker was Arianna Huffington, who is known internationally as the chair, president and editor-in-chief of the online news magazine, The Huffington Post, as well as for her extraordinary success in the field of politics and media. In addition to honoring Ms. Taylor, Arianna discussed her book Thrive, the third metric of redefined success and the need to live a well-balanced life which includes meditating and getting enough rest to prevent burnout so you can live and perform at an optimal level. Guests were gifted with signed copies of the book.
In closing out the evening, Newark Public Library Board of Trustees member Timothy J. Crist noted that the generous supporters of the event “give new energy and hope for the work that lies ahead…in continuing the Library’s mission of expanding horizons and changing lives.”
Photo courtesy of Flickr: Left to right: Wilma Grey, Arianna Huffington, Timothy Crist, Mikki Taylor
Quotes and citations courtesy of The Newark Public Library Booked For The Evening Gala Program.
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Attention, Kate Middleton: This Temperley Wedding Dress Is Ready for Your Next Gala Event
I assume Kate Middleton has a separate closet dedicated to Temperley London. In fact, the Duchess wears Temperley clothes so often—most recently in late October—one closet might not be enough. So I wouldn’t be…
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bpas is committed to protecting and extending women’s reproductive choices. Our Charter for Choice lays out our key demands to ensure that women are able to exercise choice and autonomy at every stage of their reproductive lives, from the contraception they use to how they give birth. We need to stand up for women’s right to make reproductive decisions for themselves by themselves – not in accordance with anyone else’s agenda. To support our campaigns to improve women’s choice and find out how you can get involved, please enter your details below.
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Decriminalise abortion
Due to Victorian-era legislation, in 2015 a woman who intentionally causes her own miscarriage can go to prison. Doctors and nurses can be prosecuted for helping women even if they provide exemplary care. The time has come to take abortion out of the criminal law across the UK – including Northern Ireland – and regulate it like other women’s healthcare procedures.
Protect clinic access
We need buffer zones around pregnancy counselling and abortion clinics to ensure women can access advice and care in privacy and dignity, free from interference and intimidation by anti-abortion extremists.
Offer choice in childbirth, abortion and miscarriage care
Women undergoing an abortion or experiencing a missed or incomplete miscarriage should be offered a choice of management including surgical or medical procedures. Women’s choices in childbirth – whether that is to deliver at home or in a hospital setting – should be respected. Women should not be stigmatised for their choices and should not be put under pressure to follow any particular agenda.
Put emergency contraception on the shelves
Let’s ditch the stigma and cut the price of emergency hormonal contraception. It should be available on the shelves at a price women can afford. There is no clinical need for it to be kept behind the counter, or for women to need to explain themselves to a pharmacist, and no financial justification for the £26-£30 price tag currently charged for the most widely available brand, Levonelle.
Train tomorrow’s abortion doctors
We need a commitment to training tomorrow’s doctors to deliver high quality, sensitive abortion care from NHS settings. There is poor access to abortion for women with complex medical conditions who need hospital-based care, with some being forced to continue life-threatening pregnancies.
Provide evidence-based information on pregnancy
Let’s trust women to make their own decisions. Women should have access to impartial, evidence-based information on issues from age-related fertility changes to alcohol use in pregnancy and infant feeding. Risks and benefits should never be overstated to pressurise women into making what are deemed the ‘right’ choices.
Deliver better care for pregnancy sickness
Too many women are having to end otherwise wanted pregnancies because their severe pregnancy sickness has not been properly treated, often because of misplaced fears over the impact of medication on the foetus. Safe medication is available. Women’s experience of sickness must be taken seriously, and medication offered at the earliest possible point to stop symptoms worsening.
Ensure equitable access to fertility treatment
Around 1 in 7 couples may have difficulty conceiving. There should be equal access to a comprehensive range of NHS treatments for infertility, including the ability to access up to three full cycles of IVF.
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Bail Schedule
Bail Reductions
Bench & Arrest Warrants
DMV Hearings
Bad Checks
Drunk In Public
Evading a Police Officer
Plea Bargaining
Auto Burglary
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What Clients Can Expect
Plea Bargain vs. Trial
Most people charged with committing a crime must decide whether to go to trial or to accept a plea bargain. Plea bargains are available to the innocent and guilty, alike. The reason a prosecutor may engage in a plea bargain even when the prosecutor believes the defendant is guilty is they cannot go to trial on every case. There are not enough courts or prosecutors to try every case and most prosecutors have enormous case loads. Some cases are just weak and witnesses are unavailable or reluctant to testify, and a prosecutor may feel it is better to get a conviction and some punishment than none at all.
Likewise, even a totally innocent defendant, may want to plea bargain because you never know what will happen in trial. If you get a good jury, you may win. Get a bad jury and an inexperienced trial lawyer and you may lose even if you are innocent. A negotiated plea bargain lets you know in advance what you are pleading to and the exact punishment.
Plea Bargains in Los Angeles
In Los Angeles County, prosecutors are under significant pressure to negotiate plea agreements – in California, a criminal trial costs approximately $10,000 per day to prosecute, prosecutors have heavy case loads, the jails are crowded and the criminal court calendars are full. A plea offer is made in almost every case; but the decision about whether to accept a plea bargain belongs to the defendant alone. It is extremely important to hire a criminal defense attorney who understands the details and consequences of a plea offer, who will aggressively negotiate when his client can get a better deal, who is willing to take a case to trial, and who has the experience it takes to win.
How Plea Bargaining Works
Plea bargaining can happen at almost any point of a criminal prosecution – from the arraignment (initial court appearance) to the steps of the courthouse on the first day of trial. In most plea bargains, the person charged pleads guilty or “no contest” (sometimes to a lesser charge) for a less serious sentence and/or for a dismissal of certain charges. If the defendant has been charged with felony domestic violence or misdemeanor DUI in Los Angeles, California, depending on the circumstances, the following plea bargains may be struck by the prosecutor and the defense attorney:
Guilty plea for misdemeanor Domestic Violence instead of felony domestic violence.
Guilty plea for a simple DUI (California Vehicle Code §23152) instead of a DUI with injury (California Vehicle Code §23153 Vehicle Code).
Guilty plea for reckless driving (non-alcohol related) instead of a standard DUI/DWI.
The prosecutor may even agree to reduce the DUI / DWI charge to a traffic infraction in some rare cases. Plea bargain options can be complex and depend heavily on the strength or weakness of the prosecution’s case. The prosecutor’s offer will also probably get better as the trial date gets closer. Usually, it will not be in the defendant’s best interest to accept the first plea offer. Before agreeing to any plea agreement, a defendant should completely understand :
Whether the plea bargain is really resulting in a lesser penalty than what could be expected from a trial.
What the actual sentence is and when the defendant will be eligible for probation or parole.
Whether pleading guilty will have collateral consequences; will the defendant have to register as a sex offender, get deported or lose his professional license.
If the plea bargain is for probation, whether the defendant could realistically comply with all of the conditions of probation.
Hire the Right Criminal Defense Attorney
It is important to hire an experienced criminal defense attorney with trial and negotiation experience. An effective and experienced Los Angeles Criminal Defense Attorney can properly evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of the prosecutor’s case and the potential penalties the defendant would be subjected to if the case went to trial and lost.
At DCS Defense, we are not afraid to take a case to trial – we never negotiate a plea agreement for our own convenience, and we will do what it takes to get the best outcome. When we represent a client, we strive to provide accurate information, to communicate options, and to completely answer questions. We want our clients to feel informed, and to be secure with the decisions they make. Past clients constantly reaffirm our proven track record of having criminal charges dismissed or reduced.
For aggressive and effective plea bargaining, contact Los Angeles criminal defense attorney Damian Siwek at DCS Defense.
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Willow Valley Retirement Communities
Willow Valley Digital Marketing Campaign
Founded in 1984, Willow Valley is one of the nation’s largest continuing care retirement communities. With thirteen different communities across two campuses, and products ranging from luxury villas to independent apartments to memory care, their success depends on a steady stream of qualified leads.
For many years, their online goals were branding and awareness — not conversion — but they realized it was time to change tack and focus their marketing efforts on lead generation.
Using a mix of online ad types — including behavioral, geotargeted, contextual and search — Creating Results developed a highly targeted, integrated digital marketing campaign with a mix of techniques/ad types all driving to a landing page with a simple, strong offer to motivate conversion.
We began with research and analysis, identifying opportunities for geographically and contextually relevant display advertising. The media team prepared a plan that included online display advertising, placements in enewsletters and directories, and remarketing — a new tactic for Willow Valley.
A key component of this effort was development of a custom dashboard to track daily performance of each ad buy. The resulting cost-per-click and cost-per-lead calculations were used to make weekly adjustments throughout the campaign to ensure best results.
Creative elements for the three-month campaign included:
New display ads leading to a custom landing page
Rich media ads in the form of an expanding banner; another first for Willow Valley
A landing page with a simple offer for a downloadable “Retirement Planning Guide”
Scripting of a series of emails for confirming download and then nudging leads to a next step
Projected online impressions = 4 million
Actual online impressions generated = 5+ million
Willow Valley had traditionally seen a seasonal dip in web traffic during the fall. Knowing that, our goal was to launch the new campaign elements in time to boost leads during that period.
The Retirement Planning Guide campaign dramatically reversed the previous downward trend in website visits, with visits up 171% over the same time period in the previous year.
The rich media ad test was a success as well. The expansion rate averaged 6.56%, in contrast to the average interaction rate for expandable ads, which is 4.44% (Source: PointRoll). The click-through rate averaged .23%, well above the .13% average CTR for expandable ads (Source: PointRoll).
Search engine marketing delivered consistently and powerfully during the four-month trial, generating 435,000 impressions and a .11% click-through rate.
The big winner was the placement within an enewsletter with a high retiree readership, which boasted a whopping .74% CTR and 130 conversions.
The landing page averaged 28 conversions/downloads a week, with a total of 397 leads directly attributed to the offer in the three months of promotion and the subsequent month.
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GPS World, November 2014
THE SYSTEM India Launches Third Satellite and ICD India successfully launched IRNSS 1C the third satellite in the Indian Regional Navigation Satellite System IRNSS on October 16 The satellite was injected to an elliptical orbit of 28256 x 20670 kilometers very close to its intended final geostationary orbit at 83 degrees East longitude IRNSS 1C is the third of the seven satellites constituting the space segment of the Indian Regional Navigation Satellite System Tthe first two were launched in July 2013 and April of this year Both are functioning satisfactorily from their designated geosynchronous orbital positions IRNSS is an independent regional navigation satellite system designed to provide position information in the Indian region and 1500 kilometers around the Indian mainland IRNSS will provide two types of services Standard Positioning Services SPS provided to all users and Restricted Services RS provided to authorized users IRNSS L5 SIGNAL SNR of two passes of 1A satellite IGSO over Moscow tracked and published by JAVAD GNSS Ground stations have been established in at least 15 locations across India The next satellite of the constellation IRNSS 1D is scheduled to be launched in the coming months The full IRNSS constellation of seven satellites is planned to be completed by 2015 IRNSS ICD Released In late September the Indian Space Research Organization ISRO released version 1 of the IRNSS Signal in Space Interface Control Document ICD for the Standard Positioning Service The document provides information on the signals and structures of the IRNSS system including signal modulations frequency bands received power levels the data structures and their interpretations and user algorithms Registration is required for ICD download access at a new IRNSS website http irnss isro gov in JAVAD Tracks Signal JAVAD GNSS published a chart showing that it has tracked the IRNSS L5 signal Shortly after ISRO released its IRNSS Signal in Space Interface Control Document ICD JAVAD GNSS tracked the L5 BPSK signal from both 1A and 1B satellites Ability to track IRNSS L5 will be added to all JAVAD L5 capable receivers in the near future the company said Design Ambiguity Continued from page 8 interruption in the flow was caused by freezing of the hydrazine The freezing resulted from the proximity of hydrazine and cold helium feed lines these lines being connected by the same support structure which acted as a thermal bridge Ambiguities in the design documents allowed the installation of this type of thermal bridge between the two lines In fact such bridges have also been seen on other Fregat stages now under production at NPO Lavochkin The design ambiguity is the result of not taking into account the relevant thermal transfers during the thermal analyses of the stage system design The system thermal analyses have been reexamined in depth to identify all areas concerned by this issue The board has chosen these corrective actions for the return to flight Revamp of the system thermal analysis Associated corrections in the design documents Modification of the documents for the manufacture assembly integration and inspection procedures of the supply lines Arianespace said these measures can immediately be applied by NPO Lavochkin to the stages already produced meaning that the Soyuz launcher could be available for its next mission from the Guiana Space Center in December We are looking at the resumption of Soyuz launches from the Guiana Space Center as early as December 2014 stated the Arianespace CEO The resolution of this anomaly will enable a consolidation of the reliability of Fregat which had experienced 45 consecutive successes until this mission Lets All Be GPS III for Halloween As this magazine goes to press on October 23 the U S Air Force is set to launch the eighth GPS IIF satellite from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station on Wednesday October 29 An 18 minute launch window will open at 1 21 p m U S Eastern time If all goes well the satellite will be accomplishing its early orbit checkouts and beginning maneuvers towards its final orbital plane as U S children make their costumed Halloween rounds collecting candy Other Western countries celebrate All Hallows Eve followed by All Saints Day on November 1 GPS World November 2014 www gpsworld com 10
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HomeComing Up ListingChelsea Perkins: You’re Busy
Chelsea Perkins: You’re Busy
October 30, 2015 Kendra Beltran Coming Up Listing 0
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An opened Baby-Sitters Club book is beside me and the other room is filled with chatter about the unjust thoughts about being a black father; a documentary my boyfriend is helping a friend out with. All the while I’m in my little cell listening to Chelsea Perkins’ You’re Busy. The title of her album is an understatement to my freelance world, but I’m taking some time to give her all my attention because come 2016, you’re all going to know her name like it was your own.
A little like an omniscient presence, the album starts with the soulful pop of “Quota.” Chelsea’s strong vocals are apparent and become more savory than sweet when we get into the depths of “Brown Sugar.” As the record plays on the title track proves that a killer chorus can make a song stand out. While “You’re Busy” was making waves with its hook, “Girlfriend” featuring Santino Corleon was sounding like something you’d hear while shopping at Urban Outfitters. A song played in between ‘90s rap and a Coachella headliner that’s gone mainstream but is somehow still indie enough to be cool. Lastly, the “White Flag” waves at the end and it’s very similar to what you’d hear on a record from Selena Gomez or Miley Cyrus – one of those songs they actually sing, not one they put out to make dance clubs happy.
For the record that Baby-Sitters Club book is for a tentative project that I don’t want to get into right now. What I do want to lament is the fact that Chelsea Perkins is an artist I came across by chance, reached out to and that just so happened to release a record last week. Her voice is strong, her style modern and her name – one you’ll want to get acquainted with now. So in order to do that, check out You’re Busy, out now.
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This video outlines the elements needed in a reflective paper and an approach to refining your reflective writing piece.
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How To Write A Research Paper Fast - Research Paper Writing Tips
http://www.waysandhow.com Subscribe to Waysandhow: https://goo.gl/RK2SbN Research paper writing tips, step by step tutorial and tips on how to write a research paper fast. Through the course of school, and sometimes your career, you have to write a research paper at one time or another. Usually you know enough about what to write; however, writing is seldom anyone's favorite way to spend time. In the pileup of work, writing often sinks to the bottom of priorities. At crunch time, you then need to double up in your efforts to make the deadline. Only the knowledge of how to write a research paper fast can save you. Waysandhow. ---------------------------------------------------------- Our Social Media: Google+: https://plus.google.com/+waysandhow Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/waysandhow/ Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/waysandhow/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/waysandhow
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12 "Purrfect" Things Writers Can Learn From Cats
Follow Us! http://writersrelief.com/ https://www.facebook.com/writersrelief https://twitter.com/writersrelief https://plus.google.com/+Writersrelief/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/writersrelief https://www.pinterest.com/writersrelief http://writersrelief.tumblr.com/ http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/7400591-writer-s-relief Here at Writer’s Relief (www.WritersRelief.com) we know a cat is the “purrfect” writing—and reading—companion, whether sitting on your lap or warming your computer keyboard. We’ve only begun to scratch the surface of the lessons cats can teach creative writers about staying curious, being flexible, and always landing on your feet: 1. Take Leaps Of Faith When Writing—Even If You Fall, You’ve Learned Something 2. Approach Each Writing Task With Enthusiasm And Excitement 3. Networking Pays Off: Never Turn Down The Chance To Meet Someone New! 4. You Can’t Rush Writing Success 5. Writer’s Relief Advises: Be Prepared—Don’t Be Surprised By The Unexpected 6. Remember To Give Yourself A Break 7. Sometimes You Can Be Your Own Worst Enemy 8. Take Full Advantage Of Technology 9. If Your Writing Career Is Going In Circles, Try Something Different 10. Even If You’re The Cat’s Meow, Don’t Let Your Head (Or Tummy) Get Too Big 11. Meet Writing Obstacles Head-On 12. Eschew Routine; Writer’s Relief Recommends Trying Something New Every Day You can see the full Writer’s Relief blog article at http://writersrelief.com/blog/2014/10/writers-can-learn-from-cats-national-cat-day/ . Visit the Writer’s Relief website for many free writer resources. Writer’s Relief helps writers of short stories, poems, and personal essays submit to literary magazines. Writer’s Relief also helps novelists, memoirists, and other book authors submit to literary agencies for representation. The Writer’s Relief staff prepares every client’s submission, including proofreading and formatting. We also research the best literary magazine markets for each individual writer’s subject and style. With our help, clients are able to submit to literary magazines regularly and successfully. Call Writer’s Relief today (866) 405-3003 (toll-free). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n3TkHYqCbHQ
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How to Keep a Gratitude Journal And Find Your Joy with Yasmine Cheyenne
Discover the power of journaling to cultivate confidence, mindfulness, and an attitude of gratitude in your everyday life. In this class excerpt, writer and self-healing advocate Yasmine Cheyenne shows you how to use a gratitude journal to promote your personal growth and development -- and transform your life for the better. This is a class excerpt. To see the full class visit: https://skl.sh/WritingForSelf-Discovery *** ABOUT THE CLASS: Transform your life with writer and self-healing advocate Yasmine Cheyenne. Her new, welcoming Skillshare Originals class on journaling for self-discovery will give you six meditative writing prompts to open your mind, leave judgment behind, and make the most of your writing. All are invited to learn how to: - Find the time for self-care in your day-to-day - Learn a variety of journaling styles and techniques - Translate writing insights into actionable change - Cultivate a personal journaling practice that lasts a lifetime Plus, the class includes a downloadable, printable journal so you can follow along with Yasmine's every lesson! These prompts were created for everyone and are accessible wherever you are in your journey. Whether you’re a dedicated writer or are new to the world of self-reflective writing, you’ll find exercises that guide you to powerful new insights for your life. This is a class excerpt. To see the full class visit: https://skl.sh/WritingForSelf-Discovery *** ABOUT YASMINE CHEYENNE: Yasmine Cheyenne is a writer, speaker, and self-healing advocate, born and raised in Brooklyn, NY. She helps people create and strengthen their individual self-care practices by teaching them the tools that empower lasting positive changes in their lives. An Air Force Veteran, Yasmine now focuses on her self-healing workshops as well as her writing. She is a published author and often shares on her Instagram. Yasmine currently resides in the Washington, DC area with her husband, two daughters, and two dogs.
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The results of 25 years of research strongly indicates that writing down what distresses and dismays us not only makes us feel better - it improves our resistance to physical illness, decreases the symptoms of anxiety and depression, improves our sleep patterns, as well as providing a host of other benefits. This promising psycho-social intervention is available 24/7 to anyone with a modicum of literacy. Sue Reynolds will talk about her work facilitating creative writing with female inmates in the Provincial Corrections system, and about how the protocols for writing for health can help all of us in times of trouble. BIO: Susan Lynn Reynolds is a freelance writer, an accredited writing instructor in the Amherst Writers and Artists' method, former president of the Writers' Community of Durham Region (WCDR) and former vice-chair of the national organization Canadian Creative Writers and Writing Programs. Her YA novel won the Canadian Library Association's national Young Adult Novel of the Year award, and she is also a winner of the Timothy Findley Creative Writing Prize for her short stories and poetry. She is currently practicing psychotherapy under supervision towards the fulfillment of the requirements for her license as a psychotherapist. Her area of specialty is the therapeutic use of journaling and memoir, and her thesis on that topic received the Canadian Psychological Association's Award of Academic Excellence. She has been leading writing workshops for female inmates at Central East Correctional Centre for six years and she received the June Callwood Award for Outstanding Volunteerism for that program. In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience. At a TEDx event, TEDTalks video and live speakers combine to spark deep discussion and connection in a small group. These local, self-organized events are branded TEDx, where x = independently organized TED event. The TED Conference provides general guidance for the TEDx program, but individual TEDx events are self-organized.* (*Subject to certain rules and regulations)
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Everything you need to write a poem (and how it can save a life) | Daniel Tysdal | TEDxUTSC
You're a poet and Daniel Tysdal is about to show it. Daniel will walk you through his writing process to showcase the Power of Poetry to help us remember, grieve and celebrate. Daniel Tysdal has been a Senior Lecturer in the Department of English at UTSC since 2009. He is the author of three books of poetry and the poetry textbook, The Writing Moment: A Practical Guide to Creating Poems (Oxford University Press 2014). He is the recipient of multiple awards for his work and his research interests include creative writing and poetry. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at http://ted.com/tedx
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3 Ways to Differentiate Yourself: Artist Identity, Vision, and Intention | Music Business
Download Your Free Music Business Handbook Now: https://berkonl.in/2s6VbMC Earn Your Music Business Degree Online with Berklee: https://berkonl.in/2BJLWpO In this interview, Berklee Online course author and renowned music producer Stephen Webber breaks down his definition of a musical artist’s identity, vision, and intention, which he calls your “I.V.I.” Your identity is who you are, where you came from, and your point of view. Some young artists start by identifying themselves in relation to a famous artist that they are influenced by. As a starting point, Webber advises: think of an artist who influenced you, and think of an artist you have something in common with, and those artists should be as far apart from each other as stylistically possible. Then think about what Webber calls your “unique differentiator.” This is some aspect of yourself that separates you from others, that makes you stand out. Capturing the emotional intention in your music will bring it to life. The difference between intention and vision, according to Webber, is that the vision is what art you plan on creating, while the intention is the execution of bringing your vision to life. As examples of artists who have tied the “I.V.I.” together especially well, Webber points to examples like Lady Gaga, The Beatles, and Bob Dylan. About Stephen Webber: Stephen Webber is an Emmy-winning composer and professor of Music Production and Engineering at Berklee College of Music. In three decades as a record producer, engineer, session player, music director, recording artist, DJ, and studio designer, Stephen has recorded with Ivan Neville, Meshell Ndegeocello, the Manhattan Guitar Duo, and the Turtle Island String Quartet, and performed with Bela Fleck, Mark O'Conner, Grandmixer DXT, and Emmylou Harris. A writer for Electronic Musician, Remix, and Mix Magazine, Stephen is also the author of Turntable Technique: The Art of the DJ, the first book to teach the turntable as a musical instrument. Stephen performs and presents clinics and master classes throughout the US, Canada, Europe, and Australia, and has been profiled on the Today Show, CNN, and NPR's All Things Considered, and in the New York Times and Rolling Stone magazine. He is also the executive director of BerkleeNYC, a recording studio refurbishment project in New York City. About Berklee Online: Berklee Online is the continuing education division of Berklee College of Music, delivering online access to Berklee's acclaimed curriculum from anywhere in the world, offering online courses, certificate programs, and degree programs. Contact an Academic Advisor today: 1-866-BERKLEE (US) 1-617-747-2146 (international callers) [email protected] http://www.facebook.com/BerkleeOnline http://www.twitter.com/BerkleeOnline http://www.instagram.com/berkleeonline/ Stephen Webber | Music Production | Music Promotion | Music Business | Berklee | Berklee Online | Berklee College of Music
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What Your Handwriting Says About You
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How To Start Writing Calligraphy
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Academic research and writing – Chapter 11 Language and style – Unit 5 Summary
https://academic-research-and-writing.org Academic research and writing Chapter 11 Language and style Unit 5 Summary Abstract: Chapter 11 provides a brief introduction to academic language and academic writing style. Academic writing can be differentiated from other forms of writing, for example literary writing. Furthermore, different academic disciplines favour different styles of writing, which have to be studied on an individual basis. Independent of specific academic styles, the principles of accuracy and clarity, that have been introduced in chapter 2, provide a general framework that prescribes to be specific, to omit the needless, to beware of adjectives, to avoid subjectivity, to apply factual tonality and to focus on clear phrasing. The elements of coherence, structure and cohesion, further support the logic of argumentation. Logical links between and within sentences as well as linking repetition are techniques to enhance the inter-subjective comprehensibility. The academic writer has inter alia to differentiate between British and American English and should use punctuation, special characters, symbols and figures in a way that supports the documentation of research projects. Key terms: Academic language, research language, academic writing, phrasing, cohesion, coherence, syntax, spelling, punctuation Course website: https://academic-research-and-writing.org Author's weblog: https://christiandecker.de Supported by: http://icademicus.com
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How David Fincher Hijacks Your Eyes
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Academic research and writing – Chapter 11 Language and style – Primer
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The art of being yourself | Caroline McHugh | TEDxMiltonKeynesWomen
Never miss a talk! SUBSCRIBE to the TEDx channel: http://bit.ly/1FAg8hB In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience. At a TEDx event, TEDTalks video and live speakers combine to spark deep discussion and connection in a small group. These local, self-organized events are branded TEDx, where x = independently organized TED event. The TED Conference provides general guidance for the TEDx program, but individual TEDx events are self-organized.* (*Subject to certain rules and regulations)
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Project Proposal Writing: How To Write A Winning Project Proposal
Project proposal writing. Learn how to write a project proposal that gets your project funded. Try our award-winning PM software for free: https://www.projectmanager.com/?utm_source=youtube.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=ProjectProposalWritingHowToWriteAWinningProjectProposal Struggling to write a proposal that "sells" your project? Can't work out why your brilliantly written and formatted proposals fail to engage the decision-makers that count? Watch as ProjectManager.com Director Devin Deen shares his winning project proposal writing tips with you in this short but compelling project management video on "how to write winning project proposals." Click the link below to claim your free 30-day trial of ProjectManager.com https://www.projectmanager.com/?utm_source=youtube.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=ProjectProposalWritingHowToWriteAWinningProjectProposal Subscribe to our YouTube Channel here: https://www.youtube.com/user/projectmanagervideos New to project management? Watch Project Management For Beginners right here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RT66tw1cKCA
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Know all about IELTS ( Reading Listening Writing & Speaking) Free English lessons
✅ https://youtu.be/puNo0sxC3VI 👉 Check the latest Video - American Idioms I love to use the most? Know all about IELTS ( Reading, Speaking, Writing & Speaking) Free English lessons Blog : http://www.learnex.in/what-is-ielts-know-all-about-ielts-test IELTS Test Format There are two modules to choose from – Academic and General Training. IELTS Academic IELTS Academic is for test takers wishing to study at undergraduate or postgraduate levels, and for those seeking professional registration. IELTS General Training IELTS General Training is for test takers wishing to migrate to an English-speaking country (Australia, Canada, New Zealand, UK), and for those wishing to train or study at below degree level. The four components of the IELTS test IELTS Listening Timing Approximately 30 minutes (plus 10 minutes’ transfer time). Questions There are 40 questions. A variety of question types are used, chosen from the following: multiple choice, matching, plan/ map/diagram labeling, form completion, note completion, table completion, flow-chart completion, summary completion, sentence completion, short-answer questions. IELTS Reading Timing 60 minutes (no extra transfer time). There are 40 questions. A variety of question types are used, chosen from the following: multiple choice, identifying information (True/False/Not Given), identifying a writer’s views/claims (Yes/No/Not Given), matching information, matching headings, matching features, matching sentence endings, sentence completion, summary completion, note completion, table completion, flow-chart completion, diagram label completion, short-answer questions. IELTS Writing - Timing 60 minutes There are 2 tasks. You are required to write at least 150 words for Task 1 and at least 250 words for Task 2. Test Parts There are 2 parts. Academic Writing In Task 1, you are presented with a graph, table, chart or diagram and are asked to describe, summarize or explain the information in your own words. You may be asked to describe and explain data, describe the stages of a process, how something works or describe an object or event. In Task 2, you are asked to write an essay in response to a point of view, argument or problem. The issues raised are of general interest to, suitable for and easily understood by test takers entering undergraduate or postgraduate studies or seeking professional registration. Responses to Task 1 and Task 2 should be written in an academic, semi-formal/neutral style. IELTS General Training Writing In Task 1, you are presented with a situation and are asked to write a letter requesting information or explaining the situation. The letter may be personal or semi-formal/neutral in style. In Task 2, you are asked to write an essay in response to a point of view, argument or problem. The essay can be slightly more personal in style than the Academic Writing Task 2 essay. Topics are of general interest. IELTS Speaking - Timing 11-14 minutes Part 1 Introduction and interview (4-5 minutes) The examiner introduces him/herself and asks you to introduce yourself and confirm your identity. The examiner asks you general questions on familiar topics, e.g. home, family, work, studies and interests. Part 2 Individual long turn (3-4 minutes) The examiner gives you a task card which asks you to talk about a particular topic and which includes points you can cover in your talk. You are given 1 minute to prepare your talk, and are given a pencil and paper to make notes. You talk for 1-2 minutes on the topic. The examiner may then ask you one or two questions on the same topic. Part 3 Two-way discussion (4-5 minutes) The examiner asks further questions which are connected to the topic of Part 2. These questions give you an opportunity to discuss more abstract issues and ideas.
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Academic research and writing – Chapter 11 Language and style – Unit 4 Spelling and punctuation
https://academic-research-and-writing.org Academic research and writing Chapter 11 Language and style Unit 4 Rules of spelling and punctuation Abstract: Chapter 11 provides a brief introduction to academic language and academic writing style. Academic writing can be differentiated from other forms of writing, for example literary writing. Furthermore, different academic disciplines favour different styles of writing, which have to be studied on an individual basis. Independent of specific academic styles, the principles of accuracy and clarity, that have been introduced in chapter 2, provide a general framework that prescribes to be specific, to omit the needless, to beware of adjectives, to avoid subjectivity, to apply factual tonality and to focus on clear phrasing. The elements of coherence, structure and cohesion, further support the logic of argumentation. Logical links between and within sentences as well as linking repetition are techniques to enhance the inter-subjective comprehensibility. The academic writer has inter alia to differentiate between British and American English and should use punctuation, special characters, symbols and figures in a way that supports the documentation of research projects. Key terms: Academic language, research language, academic writing, phrasing, cohesion, coherence, syntax, spelling, punctuation Course website: https://academic-research-and-writing.org Author's weblog: https://christiandecker.de Supported by: http://icademicus.com
EndNote: Editing an Output Style
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REVEALED: Key Lessons in Options Trading with PR Sundar | CNBC TV18
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https://academic-research-and-writing.org Academic research and writing Chapter 11 Language and style Unit 3 Logic of argumentation, phrasing and syntax Abstract: Chapter 11 provides a brief introduction to academic language and academic writing style. Academic writing can be differentiated from other forms of writing, for example literary writing. Furthermore, different academic disciplines favour different styles of writing, which have to be studied on an individual basis. Independent of specific academic styles, the principles of accuracy and clarity, that have been introduced in chapter 2, provide a general framework that prescribes to be specific, to omit the needless, to beware of adjectives, to avoid subjectivity, to apply factual tonality and to focus on clear phrasing. The elements of coherence, structure and cohesion, further support the logic of argumentation. Logical links between and within sentences as well as linking repetition are techniques to enhance the inter-subjective comprehensibility. The academic writer has inter alia to differentiate between British and American English and should use punctuation, special characters, symbols and figures in a way that supports the documentation of research projects. Key terms: Academic language, research language, academic writing, phrasing, cohesion, coherence, syntax, spelling, punctuation Course website: https://academic-research-and-writing.org Author's weblog: https://christiandecker.de Supported by: http://icademicus.com
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https://academic-research-and-writing.org Academic research and writing Chapter 11 Language and style Unit 1 Context and relevance Abstract: Chapter 11 provides a brief introduction to academic language and academic writing style. Academic writing can be differentiated from other forms of writing, for example literary writing. Furthermore, different academic disciplines favour different styles of writing, which have to be studied on an individual basis. Independent of specific academic styles, the principles of accuracy and clarity, that have been introduced in chapter 2, provide a general framework that prescribes to be specific, to omit the needless, to beware of adjectives, to avoid subjectivity, to apply factual tonality and to focus on clear phrasing. The elements of coherence, structure and cohesion, further support the logic of argumentation. Logical links between and within sentences as well as linking repetition are techniques to enhance the inter-subjective comprehensibility. The academic writer has inter alia to differentiate between British and American English and should use punctuation, special characters, symbols and figures in a way that supports the documentation of research projects. Key terms: Academic language, research language, academic writing, phrasing, cohesion, coherence, syntax, spelling, punctuation Course website: https://academic-research-and-writing.org Author's weblog: https://christiandecker.de Supported by: http://icademicus.com
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How E.E. Cummings Writes A Poem
CHECK OUT WISECRACK: http://goo.gl/OXsb3F HELP ME MAKE MORE VIDEOS: http://www.patreon.com/nerdwriter ASK ME QUESTIONS HERE: http://thenerdwriter.tumblr.com TWITTER: https://twitter.com/TheeNerdwriter Email me here: [email protected] SOURCES Roi Tartakovsky, “E. E. Cummings's Parentheses: Punctuation as Poetic Device” Style Vol. 43, No. 2, Temporal Paradoxes in Fiction and Stylistics in American Literatures (Summer 2009), pp. 215-247 http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5325/s... Martin Heusser, “Transcendental Modernism: E. E. Cummings’ Moon Poems” Aspects of Modernism: Studies in Honour of Max Nänny (1997) https://books.google.com/books?id=iif... Martin Heusser, “Unity Through Duality: Paradox Between The Relation of Self and Other in the Poetry of E.E. Cummings” Das Paradox: eine Herausforderung des abendländischen Denkens (2002) https://books.google.com/books?id=y10... Nicolas Ansel, “E.E. Cummings, Revisited” (A thesis submitted to the faculty of Wesleyan University) (2012) http://wesscholar.wesleyan.edu/cgi/vi... Ralph J. Mills, Jr., “The Poetry of Innocence: Notes on E. E. Cummings” The English Journal, Vol. 48, No. 8 (Nov., 1959), pp. 433-442 Rudolph von Abele, "Only to Grow": Change in the Poetry of E. E. Cummings” PMLA, Vol. 70, No. 5 (Dec., 1955), pp. 913-933 Raw audio of Cummings reading "i carry your heart with me" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q4Qb9... FURTHER READING e.e. cummings, i: six nonlectures (The Charles Eliot Norton Lectures) http://www.amazon.com/nonlectures-Cha... Eve Triem, “E.E. Cummings” University of Minnesota Pamphlet on American Writers No. 87 (1969) https://books.google.com/books?id=oox... nathan tebokkel, “E.E. Cummings and Pataphysical Love” (via Post-Scriptum) http://www.post-scriptum.org/e-e-cumm...
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Entering Author Names
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How to Write for Online Engagement — Lesson One: Introduction
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How to write a literature review
How to write a literature review. It’s easier than you might think! In this video, I demonstrate how to search the literature and identify relevant papers for your literature review. I do a pubmed search using Boolean operators and MeSH terms (these are extremely powerful tools that will help you sift through the large number of academic papers out there). So if you’re doing a master’s thesis or a PhD, or you’re doing research and writing a paper, at some point, you’ll need to do a lit review. A big part of that review is the search and this video is going to help you get that right. You might be doing a systematic literature review or meta-analysis – again, you’ll need to do a good PubMed search that identifies the right studies. Thanks to BMC !!! ----------------------------- This video was sponsored by BMC – (click here to go to BMC: https://goo.gl/RFaUA2 ). As a pioneer of open access publishing, BMC has an evolving portfolio of high-quality peer-reviewed journals including broad interest titles such as BMC Biology and BMC Medicine, specialist journals such as Malaria Journal and Microbiome, and the BMC series. BMC is committed to continual innovation to better support the needs of research communities, ensuring the integrity of the research we publish, and championing the benefits of open research. BMC is part of Springer Nature, giving us greater opportunities to help authors connect and advance discoveries across the world. I’m particularly excited about having BMC’s support because I’ve been working with them for nearly 15 years as the Editor-in-Chief of the journal Globalization and Health. I’ve been extremely impressed by them as a company that has integrity and that is truly making the world a better place. LEARN MORE about literature reviews ------------------------------------------------------------ Of course, there is more to a literature review than just the search. You need to have a structured approach to selecting paper, extracting data, writing the review itself and creating a bibliography. For more detail on these aspects of a literature review, go to www.learnmore365.com where I have a full course on literature review (it takes about 30 minutes to complete). About this channel ------------------------------ This channel posts global health and public health teaching videos and videos about how to find the right job in global health. If you haven't already, please consider subscribing to this channel and becoming part of this community. SUBSCRIBE: -------------------- Click here: https://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=YourChannelNameHere LETS CONNECT: --------------------------- Twitter: @drgregmartin Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/drgregmartin/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thisweekinglobalhealth/ SUPPORT THIS CHANNEL ----------------------------------------- Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/drgregmartin
Views: 165908 Global Health with Greg Martin
Submit To Lit Mags: Published Writer Doug Sovern Talks About How To Submit To Lit Mags
Doug Sovern wanted to submit to literary magazines but didn’t have the time. He started out by submitting his short stories to a few literary magazines that he’d already heard of, including The New Yorker, Ploughshares, Granta, and The Atlantic. But with all the demands of career and family—including newborn twins—he could not find the time to submit to literary magazines for publication. That’s where Writer’s Relief came in (http://www.writersrelief.com). Doug Sovern came to Writer’s Relief seeking submission assistance; he wanted the Writer’s Relief team to help him submit to literary magazines and get published. Within one year, Doug Sovern had eight short stories accepted for publication in literary magazines. He had also been nominated for The Pushcart Prize and a number of other anthologies. Writer’s Relief helped him submit to literary magazines that he had never heard of but that had turned out to be a perfect fit for his writing. Writer’s Relief helps writers of short stories, poems, and personal essays submit to literary magazines. Writer’s Relief also helps novelists, memoirists, and other book authors submit to literary agencies for representation. The Writer’s Relief staff prepares every client’s submission, including proofreading and formatting. We also research the best literary magazine markets for each individual writer’s subject and style. With our help, clients are able to submit to literary magazines regularly and successfully. To submit to literary magazines, a writer must have a broad knowledge of the literary magazine markets. There are many kinds of literary magazines and it can take a long time to sort through them all when deciding where to submit. Also, writers who submit to literary magazines must be sure that their submissions are formatted and perfectly proofread. Finally, writers must have a good command of publishing industry etiquette for making submissions. Busy writers who want help submitting to literary magazines can contact the Writer’s Relief Review Board. All potential clients must submit a writing sample prior to signing up with Writer’s Relief. About 80% of writers are turned away. Want to know how to submit to literary magazines for publication? Visit the Writer’s Relief website for many free writer resources and literary magazine market listings. With Writer’s Relief, clients spend more time writing and less time dealing with the frustrations of making submissions to literary magazines. Call Writer’s Relief today! (866) 405-3003 (toll-free) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=acgd13mKfPM
How do you write a reflective essay?
Watch this video for step-by-step help on how to write a reflective essay. Prof. David Coghlan explains how to best capture the learning of your placement using critical thinking and reflective skills. For more helpful guidance check out his book: https://uk.sagepub.com/en-gb/eur/inside-organizations/book251305
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Did Shakespeare write his plays? - Natalya St. Clair and Aaron Williams
View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/did-shakespeare-write-his-plays-natalya-st-clair-and-aaron-williams Some people question whether Shakespeare really wrote the works that bear his name – or whether he even existed at all. Could it be true that the greatest writer in the English language was as fictional as his plays? Natalya St. Clair and Aaron Williams show how a linguistic tool called stylometry might shed light on the answer. Lesson by Natalya St. Clair and Aaron Williams, animation by Pink Kong Studios.
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How to spot a leader in their handwriting | Jamie Mason Cohen | TEDxUBIWiltz
This talk was given at a local TEDx event, produced independently of the TED Conferences. Do Steve Jobs and Nelson Mandela have anything extraordinary in common? Jamie Mason Cohen shows in this entertaining, thought-provoking and interactive talk that great leaders share some intriguing personality traits... in their handwriting! And what's more fascinating is that each of us also possesses some of these traits in the way we write too. What if, with some small changes in your writing strokes you could take your inner leader to its fullest potential? "You all have the power to lead, if only you pause for a moment to look inside your writing", Cohen says. It's a message with inspiring possibilities for us all. What others say: "[Jamie's] abilities are heroic and like a super hero, [he] uses them wisely. [He] has the ability to identify peoples' leadership qualities, 'promote' those qualities and send them away to be confident that they are the 'best' reflection of their handwriting." TEDxUBIWiltz Organizer, Dirk Daenen. Jamie Mason Cohen is a former film director turned high school teacher who once worked for Saturday Night Live. He is the recipient of the 2013 TED/Huffington Post international teaching award, The Sole Challenge, and a lifelong student of handwriting analysis. Cohen is an innovation expert in education who creates and applies 21st century creative learning strategies to inspire students and teachers around the world in the classroom and the conference room. Handwriting analysis gave Cohen, a shy, twelve year-old boy who was afraid of speaking in front of others the realization that he could express himself with words and that he had dreams to do it one day. From that day on, Cohen developed a passion for learning how a person's writing could reveal what makes them truly extraordinary. About TEDx, x = independently organized event In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience. At a TEDx event, TEDTalks video and live speakers combine to spark deep discussion and connection in a small group. These local, self-organized events are branded TEDx, where x = independently organized TED event. The TED Conference provides general guidance for the TEDx program, but individual TEDx events are self-organized.* (*Subject to certain rules and regulations)
“Go Away Heat” - Being The Elite Ep. 160
#BTE #BeingTheElite #AEW Matt & Nick come up with an idea in the writer’s room. SCU miss a flight. Also, a #FightForTheFallen match announcement! SUBSCRIBE TO THE OFFICIAL AEW YOUTUBE CHANNEL https://www.youtube.com/allelitewrestling ------- CONNECT WITH US https://www.facebook.com/TheYoungBucks https://facebook.com/allelitewrestling https://twitter.com/MattJackson13 https://twitter.com/nickjacksonyb https://twitter.com/aewrestling https://www.instagram.com/mattjacksonyb https://www.instagram.com/nickjacksonyb https://www.instagram.com/allelitewrestling ------- SHOP OUR MERCH https://www.youngbucksmerch.com/ http://www.prowrestlingtees.com/aew http://www.prowrestlingtees.com/youngbucks http://www.prowrestlingtees.com/kennyomega http://www.prowrestlingtees.com/cody http://www.prowrestlingtees.com/adampage http://www.prowrestlingtees.com/beingtheelite ------- “Being The Elite Theme Song” “Warrior’s Cry” By Matthew Lee Massie http://www.MatthewLeeMassie.com Cover of "Warriors Cry" By Dillon Spears https://www.patreon.com/dillonspears Intro Animation By Wrestling Arcade (@wrestlingarcade) Outro Animation By Maria Lyng (@MariaLyngPoulse)
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Make Writing Easy for the Reluctant Writer
Lots of tears around the table when my daughter has a writing assignment. I have found a tool we really like to make writing easy for my reluctant writer. We are using book one of the Writing Rhetoric program and really like it. Writing Rhetoric Book 1(Student Edition) http://amzn.to/2fAGYye Writing Rhetoric Book 1(Teacher's Edition) http://amzn.to/2eSyTmW Writing Rhetoric Website https://classicalacademicpress.com/product/writing-rhetoric-book-1-fable-program/ Business Inquiries [email protected] Videos you may enjoy: Crochet Braid Playlist (Install & Maintenance) https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLXh9I9SVH9oCWkM8XRODwUcW4EIGbgEhJ Grandmother Detangles and Styles (hair vlog) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nAF5mkxZu2M African Threading https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DT3hz44yxc Homeschool Expectations Vs. Reality https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iteFms9Kx84 Stay connected with me: Instagram https://instagram.com/cherishmydaughter/ Twitter @IAmAMochaMom Facebook https://www.facebook.com/pages/Cherish-My-Daughter/106521262718106 Blog http://mochamom-cherishmydaughter.blogspot.com/ Pinterest https://www.pinterest.com/natachamoten/ MUSIC: Groove Grove by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Source: http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html?isrc=USUAN1200054 Artist: http://incompetech.com/ DISCLAIMER: This video and description contains affiliate links, which means that if you click on one of the product links, we'll receive a small commission at no cost to you. This helps support the channel and allows us to continue to make videos like this. Thank you for the support!
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George R. R. Martin's Top 10 Rules For Success (@GRRMspeaking)
✎ George R. R. Martin's Top 10 Rules For Success: In this video we're going to learn how to improve our lives by analyzing our take on George R.R. Martin's rules for success. ❤ HELP TRANSLATE THIS VIDEO ❤ If you loved this video, help people in other countries enjoy it too by making captions for it. Spread the love and impact. https://www.youtube.com/timedtext_video?v=gSZkktU7ylA ★ MORE RECOMMENDED VIDEOS FOR YOU ★ If you enjoyed this video, you may enjoy these other videos from Evan Carmichael: • Stephen King's Top 10 Rules for Success - https://youtu.be/f_Bh-yNpUpI • #MakingIt as a Writer - https://youtu.be/-WbyKtBYiyI • #MakingIt as a Filmmaker - https://youtu.be/jTS2uOW-EHQ ✎ He's an American novelist and short-story writer. He achieved major success with his bestselling series of epic fantasy novels, A Song of Ice and Fire, which was later adapted into the HBO dramatic series Game of Thrones. He's one of the most successful authors in the world. He's George R.R. Martin and here is my take on his Top 10 Rules for Success. -= GEORGE'S RULES =- 1. Aim high 2. Want it bad enough 3. Love what you do 4. Keep things interesting 5. Express your beliefs 6. Follow your gut 7. Be a good storyteller 8. Do your research 9. Engage emotionally 10. Do the unexpected BONUS: * Broaden your horizons. * Don't get influenced by others. * Enjoy your success. ✎ He earned a B.S. in Journalism from Northwestern University, Illinois. He also directed chess tournaments for the Continental Chess Association. He was an English and journalism instructor at Clarke University. He began selling sci-fi stories professionally at age 21. The unexpected commercial failure of his fourth book, The Armageddon Rag, led him to seek a career in TV. ✎ In 1991, he briefly returned to writing novels and began what would eventually turn into his epic fantasy series: A Song of Ice and Fire. HBO Productions purchased the television rights for the entire A Song of Ice and Fire series. His work has been described by the LA Times as having "complex story lines, fascinating characters, great dialogue, perfect pacing". Two more novels are still being written in the Ice and Fire series: The Winds of Winter & A Dream of Spring. ❞ REQUESTED BY ❞ TheBalls: "You should make one for George..." ✔ SOURCES ✔ [VHSfx] - GRRM Interview - https://youtu.be/hIva5LzhPFE [DiffHum] - GRRM How to be a successful writer - https://youtu.be/JNaOvuCgwkE [Amazon Books] - George R.R. Martin Answers Fans' - https://youtu.be/WbaslypgyWk [testchan555] - GoT Scene - https://youtu.be/rOLN08Gdo-U [TIFF] - GRRM - Master Class - https://youtu.be/DDIZnKujSa4 [Al Jazeera America] - Talk To Al Jazeera - https://youtu.be/GaPZGDlm2F4 [Talks at Google] - Talks at Google - https://youtu.be/QTTW8M_etko [Andy Atkins] - Conversation with Stephen King - https://youtu.be/v_PBqSPNTfg [Strombo] - Strombo Full Interview - https://youtu.be/b3Guf-T3U1U [92Y Plus] - The World of Ice and Fire - https://youtu.be/Vcy-EhkHXnE [Axhol3Rose] - Hold the Door - https://youtu.be/t9ywoXdFphE ♛ BUY MY BOOK, CHANGE YOUR LIFE ♛ Some used the ideas in this book to build multi-billion-dollar businesses. I'll give you the simple-yet-powerful formula that they used (and you can) to realize your dreams. Get yours. http://www.evancarmichael.com/oneword/ ✉ JOIN MY #BELIEVE NEWSLETTER ✉ This is the best way to have entrepreneur gold delivered to your inbox, and to be inspired, encouraged and supported in your business. Join #BelieveNation and feel the love. http://www.evancarmichael.com/newsletter/ ⚑ SUBSCRIBE TO MY CHANNEL ⚑ If you want to do great things you need to have a great environment. Create one by subbing and watching daily. http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=Modelingthemasters ¿ COMMON QUESTIONS ¿ • What is #BTA?: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BsY8bmTUVP8 • How do I get one of Evan's t-shirts?: http://evancarmichael.com/Gear.html • Why does Evan look like Nicolas Cage?: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gZHRniTcRwo • Why does Evan make so many videos? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NEKxGA8xr1k • How do I vote for the next Top 10 video Evan should make? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0arZb0xLIDM ツ CONNECT WITH ME ツ Leave a comment on this video and it'll get a response. Or you can connect with me on different social platforms too: • Twitter: https://twitter.com/evancarmichael • Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/EvanCarmichaelcom • Google+: https://plus.google.com/108469771690394737405/posts • Website: http://www.evancarmichael.com • Twitch: http://www.evancarmichael.com • Livestream Channel: http://smarturl.it/evanlive .: MORE ABOUT ME PERSONALLY :. • About: http://www.evancarmichael.com/about/ • Coaching: http://www.evancarmichael.com/movement/ • Speaking: http://www.evancarmichael.com/speaking/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Thank you for watching - I really appreciate it :) Cheers, Evan #Believe
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How to introduce yourself | Kevin Bahler | TEDxLehighRiver
This talk was given at a local TEDx event, produced independently of the TED Conferences. How you introduce yourself is usually the weakest explanation of who you really are. grant writer, Allentown Symphony Association About TEDx, x = independently organized event In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience. At a TEDx event, TEDTalks video and live speakers combine to spark deep discussion and connection in a small group. These local, self-organized events are branded TEDx, where x = independently organized TED event. The TED Conference provides general guidance for the TEDx program, but individual TEDx events are self-organized.* (*Subject to certain rules and regulations)
How Fleetwood Mac Wrote "The Chain"
POLYPHONIC MERCHANDISE: https://store.dftba.com/collections/polyphonic Sign up for your FREE trial to The Great Courses Plus here: http://bit.ly/poly-courses Music by Pracs: https://soundcloud.com/pracs Support me on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/polyphonic Tumblr: https://watchpolyphonic.tumblr.com/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/watchpolyphonic Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/watchpolyphonic/ "The Great Courses Plus is currently available to watch through a web browser to almost anyone in the world and optimized for the US market. The Great Courses Plus is currently working to both optimize the product globally and accept credit card payments globally."
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The Extraordinary Genius of Albert Einstein - Full Documentary HD
The Extraordinary Genius of Albert Einstein - Full Documentary HD Check out some other documentaries: http://bit.ly/1Wz4igV The core of the video is a workshop pedagogical on the Theory of Special Relativity as part of the educational process conducted by our youth leadership, not for the sake of understanding the theory itself, but using Einstein's particular discovery as a case study to demonstrate and walk people through real human thinking, as being something above sense perceptions or opinions. We end with reflecting on the principle of relativity in terms of social relations and individual identities or thought processes, asking the question --how was Einstein able to make his breakthrough? Einstein's personality, his method of thinking, and his theories. Our "narrow path" has led us primarily through Kepler, Fermat, Leibniz, Gauss, and Riemann; all representing a higher potential of man's creativity, who contributed to distinct up-shifts in human knowledge. Our mission in presenting such material is to provide an example of how a mind overcomes the variable and false nature of the senses to discover true invariant principles. In reliving these ideas for one's self, each person gets a chance to become acquainted with what separates them from an animal, their own innate creativity. These mental exercises are not only intended to improve one's knowledge in history, science, and culture, but are intended to help one's understanding generally in economics, politics, and beyond. Biography:http://www.biography.com/people/albert-einstein-9285408 Quotes:http://einstein.biz/quotes.php Einstein Clips:http://www.corbismotion.com/wicker/searchResults.do?search.type=intermediate&search.keywords=albert+einstein Einstein Papers Project:http://www.einstein.caltech.edu/
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Creative Writing for Young Children Individual Assignment
Creative Writing for Young Children (CSZB 4193)
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Mars brain, Venus brain: John Gray at TEDxBend
An all-time bestselling author of 17 books sold in 45 languages, including Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus, John Gray is arguably the world's foremost expert on relationships. Gray's focus is helping men and women understand, respect and appreciate their differences in both personal and professional relationships. He's appeared on Oprah, The Today Show, Good Morning America, The View and Larry King. He's also been profiled in Newsweek, Time, Forbes, USA Today, and People Magazine. In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience. At a TEDx event, TEDTalks video and live speakers combine to spark deep discussion and connection in a small group. These local, self-organized events are branded TEDx, where x = independently organized TED event. The TED Conference provides general guidance for the TEDx program, but individual TEDx events are self-organized.* (*Subject to certain rules and regulations)
8th Annual Peter K. Hixson Memorial Award For Creative Writers
http://writersrelief.com/peter-k-hixs... Peter K. Hixson (1947-2007) was a much-beloved client of Writer's Relief. In his writing, he was never afraid to tackle important issues, but he also had a lyrical and playful voice. With funding from Peter's estate, additional contributions from family members, and generous donations from the public, we are deeply honored to offer the Peter K. Hixson Memorial Award for Creative Writers. One poet, and one short story writer, will be selected to win $1,800 in Writer's Relief submission services, free of charge. Writers will be selected based on the strength of their writing sample, as well as the strength of their personal statement. See contest details, full submission guidelines, and more about Peter K. Hixson and his generous contribution to creative writers here: http://writersrelief.com/peter-k-hixs... Visit the Writer's Relief website for many free writer resources. Writer's Relief helps writers of short stories, poems, and personal essays submit to literary magazines. Writer's Relief also helps novelists, memoirists, and other book authors submit to literary agencies for representation. The Writer's Relief staff prepares every client's submission, including proofreading and formatting. We also research the best markets for each individual writer's subject and style. With our help, clients are able to submit to literary magazines, agents, and publishers regularly and successfully. Call Writer's Relief today! (866) 405-3003 (toll-free) https://youtu.be/RG6oCZmy2Is
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What is IELTS ?
Know all about IELTS ( Reading, Speaking, Writing & Speaking) Free English lessons WEBSITE: www.ieltsexpert.co.uk IELTS Test Format There are two modules to choose from – Academic and General Training. IELTS Academic IELTS Academic is for test takers wishing to study at undergraduate or postgraduate levels, and for those seeking professional registration. IELTS General Training IELTS General Training is for test takers wishing to migrate to an English-speaking country (Australia, Canada, New Zealand, UK), and for those wishing to train or study at below degree level. The four components of the IELTS test IELTS Listening Timing Approximately 30 minutes (plus 10 minutes’ transfer time). Questions There are 40 questions. A variety of question types are used, chosen from the following: multiple choice, matching, plan/ map/diagram labelling, form completion, note completion, table completion, flow-chart completion, summary completion, sentence completion, short-answer questions. IELTS Reading Timing 60 minutes (no extra transfer time). There are 40 questions. A variety of question types are used, chosen from the following: multiple choice, identifying information (True/False/Not Given), identifying a writer’s views/claims (Yes/No/Not Given), matching information, matching headings, matching features, matching sentence endings, sentence completion, summary completion, note completion, table completion, flow-chart completion, diagram label completion, short-answer questions. IELTS Writing - Timing 60 minutes There are 2 tasks. You are required to write at least 150 words for Task 1 and at least 250 words for Task 2. Test Parts There are 2 parts. Academic Writing In Task 1, you are presented with a graph, table, chart or diagram and are asked to describe, summarize or explain the information in your own words. You may be asked to describe and explain data, describe the stages of a process, how something works or describe an object or event. In Task 2, you are asked to write an essay in response to a point of view, argument or problem. The issues raised are of general interest to, suitable for and easily understood by test takers entering undergraduate or postgraduate studies or seeking professional registration. Responses to Task 1 and Task 2 should be written in an academic, semi-formal/neutral style. IELTS General Training Writing In Task 1, you are presented with a situation and are asked to write a letter requesting information or explaining the situation. The letter may be personal or semi-formal/neutral in style. In Task 2, you are asked to write an essay in response to a point of view, argument or problem. The essay can be slightly more personal in style than the Academic Writing Task 2 essay. Topics are of general interest. IELTS Speaking - Timing 11-14 minutes Part 1 Introduction and interview (4-5 minutes) The examiner introduces him/herself and asks you to introduce yourself and confirm your identity. The examiner asks you general questions on familiar topics, e.g. home, family, work, studies and interests. Part 2 Individual long turn (3-4 minutes) The examiner gives you a task card which asks you to talk about a particular topic and which includes points you can cover in your talk. You are given 1 minute to prepare your talk and are given a pencil and paper to make notes. You talk for 1-2 minutes on the topic. The examiner may then ask you one or two questions on the same topic. Part 3 Two-way discussion (4-5 minutes) The examiner asks further questions which are connected to the topic of Part 2. These questions give you an opportunity to discuss more abstract issues and ideas.
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Page Numbers Starting at a Specific Page in Word 2010
Pateron: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=4487120 Buy Me a Coffee? http://bit.ly/1WQYcUE Subscribe for More! http://bit.ly/TAfDi6 When using page numbers in Word it can be a bit tricky to get those numbers starting at a specific page. In this tutorial I will show you how you can quickly add those page numbers at the specific page you need.
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The 7 secrets of the greatest speakers in history | Richard Greene | TEDxOrangeCoast
This talk was given at a local TEDx event, produced independently of the TED Conferences. "Never give a “Speech”, says Richard Greene. In this masterful talk, he explains how the great speakers in history use 7 secrets and how we can all become a great speaker by following these secrets and by not just giving a "speech" but rather creating "conversations" from the heart. Richard has dedicated himself to creating new paradigms in Public Speaking, Politics, and even our understanding of God Called "The Master of Charisma" by The Sunday Times, Richard quit his law practice to coach Presidents, Prime Ministers, Senators, Governors, CEOs, Royalty and celebrities in 44 countries. Chief Judge on TLC's "The Messengers", Author, "Words That Shook The World: 100 Years of Unforgettable Speeches and Events". Richard Studied Political Science in The US and UK, ran for Congress in 1992, advises countless political leaders, hosted "Hollywood CLOUT", a live "Hollywood Meets Politics" talk show on Air America Radio for 3 years, blogs for The Huffington Post, created the non-partisan, celebrity driven "Choose YOUR America" campaign and "The 2014 Midterm Election 'Answer-Thon'" to increase political engagement in America. http://www.richardgreene.org/ About TEDx, x = independently organized event In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience. At a TEDx event, TEDTalks video and live speakers combine to spark deep discussion and connection in a small group. These local, self-organized events are branded TEDx, where x = independently organized TED event. The TED Conference provides general guidance for the TEDx program, but individual TEDx events are self-organized.* (*Subject to certain rules and regulations)
A Reason for Writing - Kindergarten
http://www.timberdoodle.com/A_Reason_for_Writing_Kindergarten_p/765-579.htm This book focuses on writing individual letters, accompanied by pictures to color, mostly of animals. A perfect fit for the beginning writer!
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How to write a story | John Dufresne | TEDxFIU
This talk was given at a local TEDx event, produced independently of the TED Conferences. Take a journey inside a writer's mind and learn his approach to creating a story. John Dufresne is the author of five novels, two of which were New York Times Notable Books of the Year, two short story collections and two books on writing and creativity: The Lie That Tells a Truth: a Guide to Writing Fiction and Is Life Like This?: a Guide to Writing Your First Novel in Six Months. The New York Times Book Review wrote of his latest novel, No Regrets, Coyote, “Dufresne is an original talent. His humor is frightfully dark, but also quite dazzling – even by the exacting standards of South Florida crime fiction.” Dufresne was a 2012-13 Guggenheim Fellow and teaches in FIU’s Creative Writing MFA program. About TEDx, x = independently organized event In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience. At a TEDx event, TEDTalks video and live speakers combine to spark deep discussion and connection in a small group. These local, self-organized events are branded TEDx, where x = independently organized TED event. The TED Conference provides general guidance for the TEDx program, but individual TEDx events are self-organized.* (*Subject to certain rules and regulations)
Poetry Journals: The Writer's Relief Method Will Find Poetry Journals
Poetry journals are the best places to submit your poems for publication if you're hoping to build a name for yourself as a writer and share your words with the world. But trying to find the right poetry journal for your work can be difficult, frustrating, and time-consuming. That's where Writer's Relief http://www.WritersRelief.com comes in! Writer's Relief has a database of thousands of poetry journals; our database is regularly maintained and updated, so we have the most up-to-date information on the specific details for literary journal submission guidelines. We've been helping our clients successfully submit their poetry to literary journals since 1994. Just ask Perie Longo, a client of Writer's Relief who has been writing poetry for a long time. Perie was once told by poet William Stafford that the important thing was to get her poems "out there"—and that meant submitting them to poetry journals for consideration and publication. Now Perie is a well-published poet, with many literary journal publication credits to her name, thanks in part to the efforts of her Writer's Relief team of submission strategists. If you would like Writer's Relief to identify and target the poetry journals that are best-suited to your unique style, voice, and concerns, we would love to connect with you. However, we can work only with strong writers, so interested poets should submit to our Review Board for consideration. The Writer's Relief client list is small because we are not a one-size-fits-all submission service; we offer personalized, caring service tailored to each individual poet seeking literary journal publication. Writer's Relief also works with books (novels, memoirs, and nonfiction books), as well as short prose (stories and creative nonfiction essays). Contact us to see if we are working with poetry collections. Whether you're widely published or have never been published in a poetry journal before, you may be a good candidate to take advantage of the Writer's Relief extensive poetry magazine database. Our clients have ranged from established best sellers to promising unknowns. Our rates are based on flat fees. Even if you're not ready to be a Writer's Relief client, there are many ways you can take advantage of the free writers resources on our website. We regularly feature poetry journals as part of our Literary Magazine Spotlight series on our blog. Also, find calls for poetry submissions in our Writers Classifieds. The literary journal market may seem daunting; some writers even lose hope and believe that they'll never see their work published in a literary magazine. But when Writer's Relief manages the submission process, clients report that they have a renewed sense of optimism and focus—and that can lead to better writing, better submissions, and more acceptance letters from poetry journals. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=07ZBdokMrJk
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in colorimetry: see colorcolor,
effect produced on the eye and its associated nerves by light waves of different wavelength or frequency. Light transmitted from an object to the eye stimulates the different color cones of the retina, thus making possible perception of various colors in the object.
in economics, worth of a commodity in terms of other commodities, or in terms of money (see priceprice,
amount of money for which a unit of goods or services is exchanged. Price is equivalent to market value and may or may not measure the intrinsic value of the goods or services to the buyer or seller.
..... Click the link for more information. ). Value depends on both desirability and scarcity. The marginal theory of value, pioneered in the late 19th cent. by Leon WalrasWalras, Léon,
1834–1910, French economist. After abandoning his studies in mining engineering, he became a freelance journalist, advancing the causes of economic and social reform. He later became a professor of political economy at the Univ.
..... Click the link for more information. , Stanley JevonsJevons, William Stanley
, 1835–82, English economist and logician. After working in Australia as assayer to the mint, he taught at Owens College, Manchester, and University College, London.
..... Click the link for more information. , and Carl MengerMenger, Carl
, 1840–1921, Austrian economist, a founder of the Austrian school of economics. He was professor of economics at the Univ. of Vienna from 1873 until 1903, when he retired to devote himself to research.
..... Click the link for more information. , has been highly influential in economics. It takes account of both scarcity and desirability by holding that the total value of a good depends on the utility rendered by the last unit consumed. It developed in opposition to David RicardoRicardo, David,
1772–1823, British economist, of Dutch-Jewish parentage. At the age of 20 he entered business as a stockbroker and was so skillful in the management of his affairs that within five years he had amassed a huge fortune.
..... Click the link for more information. 's earlier labor theory of value, which holds that the value of a good derives from the effort of production, based on supply. Ricardo asserted that the cost of production can be reduced to the cost of labor, either paid in wages or used as capitalcapital,
in economics, the elements of production from which an income is derived, usually defined with the exception of land and labor. As originally used in business, capital denoted interest-bearing money.
..... Click the link for more information. , the physical means of production. In the marginal theory of value, there is an exchange value, as Ricardo postulated, but there is also a use value, which signifies the utility of a given commodity for satisfying a human desire. This distinction is equally important in Marxian economics. Marginal theory is fundamental to modern economics, because it points out that both supply and demand have an impact on the price of a commodity.
See M. H. Dobb, Theories of Value and Distribution Since Adam Smith (1975); M. Allingham, Value (1983); B. Fine, ed., The Value Dimension (1986).
The amount of light reflected by a hue. The greater the amount of light, the higher the value.
(MARXISM) the quantity of LABOUR POWER, measured in units of labour time, which is on average necessary to produce a commodity. This for Marx is the basis of exchange-value. See LABOUR THEORY OF VALUE, USE-VALUE AND EXCHANGE-VALUE.
Marx accepted, indeed it was central to his way of working, that value in his sense did not always correspond closely to actual prices (empirical exchange-values). His argument was, however, that these concrete forms of value stood in a systematic relation to value in his theoretical sense and that this best revealed the social relations underlying the workings of a capitalist economy, e.g. its dependence on EXPLOITATION (see also APPEARANCE AND REALITY).
This conception of value is a highly controversial one even within Marxism. Regarded by some as the essential core of Marx's theory of capitalist society by which this theory stands or falls, by others it is seen to involve conceptual problems in application that render it impossible to use empirically or simply wrong. The main alternative, an empirical conception of value adopted by mainstream ECONOMICS, is that value is determined simply by economic scarcity, i.e. by supply and demand.
in painting and the graphic arts, a shade of a tone that expresses (in relationship with other shades) a certain quantity of light and shadow.
When applied to coloration in painting, the term “value” serves to designate each of the shades of a tone that are in a regular interrelationship and provide a sequential gradation of light and shadow within the limits of each color. The systematic use of value gradations (which marks the creative work of many of the greatest colorist painters, including D. Velàzquez, J. Vermeer, J. B. Chardin, C. Corot, V. I. Surikov, and I. I. Levitan) is one of the means that allows objects to be conveyed in their interrelationship with a milieu of light and air. It also permits the achievement of special depth and richness of coloration, as well as delicacy of color relations and transitions.
Fromanten, E. Starye mastera. [Moscow, 1966]. Pages 154-57. (Translated from French.)
(Russian, stoimost’), the social labor of commodity producers, embodied and materialized in a commodity.
Value is the social attribute of a thing, an attribute acquired in certain historical conditions—namely, in conditions of commodity production. It is created in production and manifested in exchange, when the commodity produced by the commodity producer is equalized with other commodities. Commodity producers are joined with one another in a system of social division of labor; they thereby work for one another, by virtue of which their labor takes on a social character. Differing from one another as use-values, the commodities being exchanged have one feature in common—that is, they are the products of labor, and labor that has been expended on their production constitutes their value. The proportion in which some commodities are exchanged for others is called the exchange-value. Thus, value manifests itself externally in the act of exchange, that is, in the exchange-value; the use-value of the commodity—the utility of a thing—becomes the bearer of exchange-value.
The magnitude of the value of a commodity is defined as the amount of labor socially necessary for production of the commodity; it is measured by work (labor) time. Since the various commodity producers expend an unequal amount of labor (time) on the production of one and the same commodity, the commodities have varied individual value. Since value embodies social labor, however, the social (market) value cannot be defined by individual expenditures of labor. Social value is defined as the socially necessary work time—the time expended on the manufacture of a commodity under socially normal conditions of production, and with the average degree of skill and intensity prevalent at the time—or it is defined as the time expended on the production of the basic mass of commodities of a given kind.
With private ownership, the proportions in which commodities are exchanged are spontaneously regulated by the socially necessary expenditures of labor (work time) in the process of competitive struggle (seeCOMPETITION). The complexity of labor also influences the magnitude of value. The magnitude of value is measured by the expenditures of simple labor that any unskilled worker is able to perform. In the exchange of commodities of different kinds, complex labor of all kinds is reduced to simple labor (seeREDUCTION OF LABOR). As a result, complex labor appears as multiplied simple labor, and in exchange, every hour of complex labor is equalized with a larger amount of simple labor.
W. Petty, A. Smith, and D. Ricardo laid the foundation for the labor theory of value. To K. Marx, however, belongs the credit for providing the labor theory of value with a highly consistent and comprehensive scientific grounding, and for drawing all the social and class conclusions therefrom.
Vulgar bourgeois political economy has attempted and is attempting to overthrow the labor theory of value. In bourgeois economics, for example, exchange-value is often treated as the expression of use-value. In this conception, the exchange proportions of commodities are determined not by the social labor expended but supposedly by the use-value of the commodity (seeMARGINAL UTILITY THEORY). Another theory of value, no less popular, treats value as the result of the effect of the three factors of production—land, labor, and capital (seePRODUCTIVITY, THEORIES OF).
In actuality, the amount of socially necessary labor expended on the production of a commodity determines the value of the commodity and the proportions in which one commodity is exchanged for another. “In general, the greater the productiveness of labor, the less is the labor time required for the production of an article, the less is the amount of labor crystallized in that article, and the less is its value” (K. Marx, in K. Marx and F. Engels, Soch., 2nd ed. vol. 23, p. 49). Marx’ labor theory of value served as the basis for his theory of surplus value.
The simple, elementary, or accidental form of value was coterminous with the early stage of exchange, when exchange was accidental in character. A commodity whose value was expressed in another commodity assumed the relative form of value; a commodity in which the value of another was expressed assumed the equivalent form of value, that is, it was the equivalent of the first commodity. The relative form of value reflects primarily the homogeneity of the commodities being exchanged as the products of human abstract labor. In the stage of accidental exchange, a single, accidental commodity plays the role of equivalent.
With the first great social division of labor, namely, the separation of stock raising from crop cultivation, exchange became more regular, and livestock were systematically exchanged for other commodities, which appeared not as accidental equivalents but as particular equivalents, to which the livestock were equated. To this stage of exchange corresponded the total, or expanded, form of value, in which one commodity expressed its value in a whole series of other commodities.
As exchange became regular, the expanded form of value was gradually transformed into the general form of value, when from the world of commodities a single commodity was excluded to become equivalent to all other commodities—a universal equivalent. Only one commodity, in which all commodities expressed their value uniformly, played the role of universal equivalent. The universal equivalent possessed the character of universal exchangeability. Depending on the concrete conditions of production, various commodities fulfilled the function of universal equivalent—such as livestock, hides, and fish. When exchange transcended the bounds of the local market, there arose a need to restrict the function of the universal equivalent to a single commodity only—which now became money. To this stage of exchange corresponded the money-form of value.
The role of money initially fell to various commodities; finally, however, it was restricted to a single commodity—gold, whose properties made it eminently suited to fulfill the function of money. With the appearance of money, the value of all commodities is expressed in money, and commodities thereby acquire a price. In the market, under the impact of supply and demand, the price fluctuates around value (seeVALUE, LAW OF).
The value of a commodity expresses the value created by past labor and transferred, by concrete labor, from the expended means of production to a given commodity; it also expresses the new (newly created) value imparted by living labor to the commodity in a given production process. As production becomes technologically more advanced, the unit value of production generally falls, the share of past labor in value increases relatively, and the share of newly created value decreases. In every socioeconomic formation in which commodity production exists, the ratio of past and newly created value expresses the production relations specific to that formation.
Under capitalism, value consists of the constant capital (c) used in the production of a commodity; the variable capital (v), or that portion of the newly created value that is equivalent to the value of the labor power expended in the process of production; and the surplus value (m), or that portion of the newly created value that is appropriated without compensation by the capitalists. The social value of a commodity coincides with the actual social costs of production but differs from the capital costs of production by the magnitude of the surplus value. Under developed capitalism, as a result of the spontaneous redistribution of surplus value and the equalization of profits to an average profit, the value of commodities is transformed into the price of production.
Under socialism, value expresses socialist production relations. It is created and used in conditions in which public ownership of the means of production prevails and social production is organized in planned fashion. In socialist society, use-value becomes directly social value, that is, it is earmarked for the planned satisfaction of the growing needs of society. The organic unity of value and use-value manifests itself in the planning of production and sales of production—both in money and in kind—and in the use of value-forms for the calculation and evaluation of expenditures of social labor, for control of the production, distribution, and exchange of material goods, for the organization of material incentives, and for increasing the efficiency of production. Value expresses the value of the means of production expended (outlays of past, materialized labor), the value of the necessary product, and the value of the surplus product (outlays of living labor).
The socialist economy distinguishes between value and the prime cost of production. The difference between the two is the enterprise’s net income, or profit. Through planned pricing, value acts as a reference point for individual enterprises, one that indicates the average level of the social productivity of labor. The social unit value of production is lowered as the individual value at individual enterprises is reduced by the increased productivity of social labor. Enterprises that produce with outlays less than those socially necessary make greater profits, a portion of which is used, in accord with standards set by the state, to create economic incentive funds. Socialist society has an interest in lowering the unit value of production, since to do so is to ensure the means necessary for production development and higher standards of living.
Under socialism, the formation of value is an objective process, organized in planned fashion for the whole of society. The socialist state, once it establishes a need for a certain product and the social importance of that product, determines the enterprises and quantities in which the product is to be manufactured. It plans the expenditures of labor and of the means of production at every enterprise and organizes plan fulfillment, thereby exerting an influence on the amount of socially necessary work time and thus reducing work time. Under socialism, changes in the magnitude of value are the result of conscious human activity, planned and directed by the socialist state.
Value is a historical category, whose existence is derived from the commodity-money relations that will be overcome in full communism.
Marx, K. Kapital, vol. 1, chs. 1–3. In Soch., vol. 23.
Lenin, V. I. “Karl Marks.” Poln. sobr. soch., 5th ed., vol. 26, pp. 60–62.
Rozenberg, D. I. Kommentarii k l-omy tomy “Kapitala” K. Marksa. Moscow, 1961.
Zakon stoimosti i ego ispol’zovanie v nar. khoziaislve SSSR. Moscow, 1959.
Zakon stoimosti i ego rol’ pri sotsializme. Moscow, 1959.
Tovarno-denezhnye otnosheniia v sisteme planomerno organizovannogo sotsialisticheskogo proizvodstva. Moscow, 1971.
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a term broadly used in the philosophical and sociological literature to indicate the human, social, and cultural significance of certain phenomena of the real world.
In essence, all the various objects of human activity, as well as all social relations and the natural phenomena that fall within their range, may be regarded as “value objects,” or the objects of value relations; in other words, they may be evaluated in terms, for example, of good and evil, truth and falsehood, beauty and ugliness, the permissible and the prohibited, or the just and the unjust. Such valuations may be graduated—that is, they may indicate different levels of the respective attribute. The methods and criteria used in the very process of evaluating the respective phenomena are crystallized in the social consciousness and in culture as “value subjects”; these value subjects—namely, attitudes and valuations, imperatives and prohibitions, or goals and projects that are expressed in the form of normative notions—serve as the compass points of human activity. Value objects and subjects are thus the two poles, as it were, of man’s value relationship to the world.
In the structure of human activity the value aspects are interrelated with the cognitive and volitional aspects; the value categories themselves express the “limiting” orientation of the knowledge, interests, and preferences of various social groups and individuals. The evolving rational cognition of society, which includes an examination of the nature and origin of values, affects the entire range of value relations, preventing such relations from assuming the character of metaphysical absolutes. Marxism rejects the idealist conceptions of the ahistorical and suprasocial nature of values, emphasizing the social, practical, historical, and cognizable nature of human values, ideals, and norms.
Every specific historical form of social organization may be described in terms of a specific set and hierarchy of values. Such value systems represent the highest level of social regulation; they formulate the criteria of what is accepted by a given society and social group—such criteria serving as a basis for the development of more specific and specialized norm-monitoring systems, as well as development of the corresponding societal institutions and, in fact, of people’s goal-oriented actions, be they individual or collective acts. The assimilation of these criteria on the level of the personality structure—that is, the internalization of values— is essential to the personality’s development and to the maintenance of a normative order in society. The integration of social systems and their inner contradictions and dynamics are reflected in the structure of the corresponding value systems and in the way each social system affects different social groups.
Personal value orientation systems are important elements of the value relationships in society; they represent man’s entrenched and not fully conscious attitudes toward various elements of the social structure and toward values themselves. Subjectively colored valuations are not directly coincident with the socially significant characteristics of values. The empirical study of value orientations is an essential part of sociological research dealing with such issues as education, choice of occupation, public work, and job-related activity.
Value systems are formed and transformed in the course of society’s historical development. Since these processes are connected to the changes that take place in different spheres of human activity, their timetable does not coincide with the timetable of other changes, such as socioeconomic and political ones. Thus the aesthetic values of antiquity retained their significance even after the fall of the civilization that had given them birth; similarly known for their enduring influence are the humanist and democratic ideals of the European Enlightenment, which had their roots in the ancient and Hellene cultures.
The materialist conception of history is equally opposed to those historical views of society wherein the latter is treated as the actualization of a system of “eternal values” or, alternatively, as a succession of changing types of values—for example, the replacement of transcendentally oriented values by secular ones, or of unconditional values by conventional ones. At the same time, a concretely historical analysis of the origin and evolution of value systems is an important aspect of any scientific study of the history of society and culture.
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Problema tsennosti v filosofii. Moscow-Leningrad, 1966. [Collection of articles.]
Drobnitskii, O. G. Mir ozhivshikh predmetov: Problema tsennosti i marksistskaia filosofiia. Moscow, 1967.
Liubimova, T. B. “Poniatie tsennosti v burzhuaznoi sotsiologii.” In the collection Sotsial’nye issledovaniia, fase. 5. Moscow, 1970.
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(1) The content of a field or variable. It can refer to alphabetic as well as numeric data. For example, in the expression, state = "PA", PA is a value.
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Circulation of Capital
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Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy
Based on the indigenous lexical analysis of Chinese values sedimented in the Dictionary of Modern Chinese, Li (2016) found some Chinese core values failed to fit in with Schwartz's 10 or 19 value types (e.
Assessing Schwartz's refined value theory in the Chinese context
To replicate the analyses in Study 1, the same measurements were used in Study 2: 40 items in the Vulgarity Scale; 29 items addressing value types, with 23 of these items from the instrument developed by Stern et al.
Vulgarity of the mass man as a predictor of defection
2007), "Measurement equivalence of 10 value types from the Schwartz value survey across 21 countries", Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 34(1), 3-23.
The impact of personal culture on sophisticated succession planning by owner-managers of SMEs in Malaysia
Schwartz (1992) for example found that values are ordered in a circular fashion with the consequence that if individuals place emphasis on one value type (e.
Measuring cultural values at the individual-level: considering morality in cross-cultural value research/ Mensuracao de valores culturais no nivel individual: considerando a moral na pesquisa cross-cultural de valores
Continuance commitment will be positively related to values that are consistent with the conformity, tradition, and security aspects of Schwartz and Bardi's (2001) value types.
Linking values and organizational commitment: a correlational and experimental investigation in two organizations
Schwartz (1994) proposed a classification of the 11 value types that emphasizes a dichotomy between an individualistic value orientation and a collectivistic value orientation that may help better understand how men and women are perceived when they depart from traditional gender norms.
Differential reactions to men and women's gender role transgressions: perceptions of social status, sexual orientation, and value dissimilarity
Collectively, we refer to the types TOP, INT, and (ret-from L) as value types.
A Type System for Java Bytecode Subroutines
3] Because there is limited empirical evidence about the personal values of Japanese business managers, we conducted a study to identify value types of mid- and senior-level Japanese business managers.
Personal Values of Japanese Business Managers
Table 1 Individual-Level Value Types Power: Social status and prestige, control or dominance over people and resources.
Culture, freedom and economic growth: do cultural values explain economic growth?
Following the desktop metaphor, the Folder Framework provides the familiar look and feel of interactive applications pioneered by the Macintosh system; and the Value Framework that enriches the standard value types offered by programming languages like C++ (e.
Framework development for large systems
The 10 value types are based on three universal requirements for human existence: "the biologically based needs of the organism, social interactional requirements for interpersonal coordination, and social institutional demands for group welfare and survival.
Personal values of exemplary family physicians: implications for professional satisfaction in family medicine
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Director, Center for Renewable Energy and Sustainability, UPR Río Piedras
Director, UPRRP Puerto Rico Center for Environmental Neuroscience
MBL Fellow, Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, MA
Office: CN-230 (second floor of Natural Sciences)
Office Phone: (787) 764-0000, ext. 1-4796
Laboratory: CN-118 Lab phone: (787) 764-0000, ext. 1-2713
Email: Loretta.Roberson@gmail.com
Professional Preparation
California State University, Northridge Biology B.S. 1994
Stanford University, Stanford, CA Biological Sciences Ph.D. 2001
California State University, Northridge Plant Ecophysiology Postdoctorate 2002-03
Anthropogenic impacts on coastal marine communities; physiology, ecology, and evolution of eelgrass and coral reef communities; the ecology and evolution of RNA editing in eelgrass and algae; marine biomechanics; biofuel production.
Puerto Rico provides a unique opportunity to study the interacting effects of biological and physical factors, including anthropogenic factors, on tropical marine ecosystems. Puerto Rico is one of the most densely populated islands in the world with over 500 km of coastline. My work in Puerto Rico has three main directions: (1) understanding coral calcification mechanisms by coupling neurophysiological techniques with ecology and environmental science; (2) measuring the distribution of pollutants in the watersheds of the San Juan metropolitan area and their sublethal impacts on local flora and fauna; and (3) growth potential of macroalgae for use as biomass in biofuel production and bioremediation. These three areas require a highly interdisciplinary approach and will provide critical information for predicting coastal ecosystem trajectories as disturbances from human encroachment and storm activity increase in the region.
Our lab participates in the Puerto Rico Center for Environmental Neuroscience (PRCEN), a partnership between Environmental Science, Chemistry, and Biology at UPRRP and the Institute of Neurobiology at UPRMS; the UPRRP Center for Renewable Energy and Sustainability; the EPA Region 2 Caribbean Science Consortium; and SeagrassNet, the Global Seagrass Monitoring Program.
Coral calcification mechanisms (L. Roberson, J. Rosenthal, G. Yudowski, and A. Sabat)
Presence and distribution of Emerging Contaminants in the San Juan Bay Estuary, Puerto Rico (L. Roberson, L. Diaz, and S. Leonardi, UPR Mayaguez and CariCOOS)
Detection and bioremediation of personal care products in estuary systems (L. Roberson, L. Diaz, R. Palai, Dept of Physics UPRRP, and Z. Flores, Dept of Biology UPRRP)
Bioaccumulation of contaminants in estuary trophic webs (L. Roberson, L. Diaz, and B. Brooks, Baylor University)
Impact of pollutants, eutrophication, and hypoxia on the distribution and abundance of fish and blue crabs in a tropical estuary system (L. Roberson and T. Grothues, Rutgers University)
Seafood consumption advisories ( L. Roberson, L. Diaz, J. Bauza, San Juan Bay Estuary Program, and C. Lilyestrom, PR Dept of Natural and Environmental Resources)
Neurotoxic effects of pollutants on the nervous system of organisms in the San Juan Bay Estuary (L. Roberson and S. Zottoli, Williams College and the MBL)
Impact of contaminants on algal productivity, co-products and production of biofuel
Habitat and biodiversity mapping for the determination of algal biomass aquaculture sites in coastal areas of Puerto Rico
Sanchez, M., S. Zottoli, and L. Roberson, Impact of Hypoxia on Startle Response (C-start) of Fish in a Tropical Urban Estuary, poster presented at ASLO February 2016
Roberson, L. and J. Rosenthal, A Comparative Transcriptomics Approach To Understanding Calcification In Corals, poster presented at ASLO February 2014
- Roberson, L.M. 2007. Materials: Strength. In: Gaines, S.D. and M.W. Denny (eds.) Encyclopedia of Tidepools and Rocky Shores, University of California Press.
- L.P. Keegan, J.J. Rosenthal, L.M. Roberson, and M.A. O'Connell (2007). Purification and assay of ADAR activity. In: Gott, J. (ed.) Methods in Enzymology: RNA Editing and Modification, Elsevier.
- Roberson, L.M. and J.J.C. Rosenthal. 2006. An accurate fluorescent assay for quantifying the extent of RNA editing. RNA. 12:1-6.
- Roberson, L.M. and J.A. Coyer. 2004. Variation in blade morphology of the kelp Eisenia arborea: Incipient speciation due to local water motion? Marine Ecology Progress Series 282: 115-128
- M.W. Denny and L.M. Roberson. 2002. Blade motion and nutrient flux to the kelp, Eisenia arborea. Biological Bulletin 203:1-13
- Roberson, L.M. 2001. Evolution of kelp morphology in response to local physical factors: The effect of small-scale water flow on nutrient uptake, growth, and speciation in the southern sea palm, Eisenia arborea. Ph.D. Dissertation, Department of Biological Sciences, Stanford University, pp. 255
Indoor (612 sq.ft.) and outdoor (535 sq.ft) aquaculture facilities with 2 950-gallon outdoor tanks, 2 50-gallon outdoor tanks, 4 129-gallon bioreactors, 444 gallons total of medium culture tanks, 288 gallons total of small culture tanks (5 to 20-gallon aquaria), and numerous smaller tank systems and supplies needed for marine aquaculture. A Sontek FlowTracker Handheld Acoustic Doppler Velocimeter is available for flow measurements in tanks and shallow streams.
Equipment necessary to measure algal and coral physiology and growth and analytical equipment for water quality analysis including a SmartChem Discrete Analyzer, CHNSO Analyzer, GC-MS, accelerated solvent extractor, UV/VIS spectrometers, an ICP-MS, Atomic Absorption Spectrometer, an automated total alkalinity titrator, an underwater pulse-amplitude modulated fluorometer (Diving PAM), dual chamber Rank Brothers oxygen electrode system, portable dissolved oxygen sensors, underwater light sensors and loggers, portable turbidometers and colorimeters, analytical balances, drying ovens, temperature-controlled water baths, a Gryphon Aquasaw for coral fragmentation, and an underwater camera for rapid surveys. A Nikon AZ100 Multizoom multi-purpose zoom fluorescent microscope system is available for imaging from 5x to 400x.
Equipment necessary for fish behavior and growth studies include a sound test chamber with high speed video camera and a Buehler isomet low-speed saw for otolith sectioning.
Several computers are available for advanced computing and software for GIS (ArcGIS) and molecular analysis (VectorNTI), along with an Intel Xeon E5-4620 Sandy Bridge 2.2 GHz Eight Core 32nm CPU with 1 TB of memory and 16 TB of storage for transcriptomics/genomics housed at the HPCF.
CIAM 6117 Coastal Environments A blended online/classroom graduate level course focusing on anthropogenic impacts on the environment, environmental problems caused by such interactions, and strategies for promoting sustainable development in the coastal zone.
CIAM 4990 Research for Undergraduates
Graduates:
Xochitl Perez (PhD)
Mayra Sanchez (MS)
Neidibel Martinez (MS)
Alexander Rodríguez (PhD)
Michael Marty (MS)
Undergraduates:
Gabriel Falcon
Vanessa Santiago
Frances Gomez
Valeria Arana
Paola Davila
Illianiz Roman
Jean Lodge – Assessing Distributions of Organisms and Communities You Can’t See: Methods for Addressing Problems of Detectability
LUQ Scientist, Professor Nicholas Brokaw's retirement talk: "The Professor as Hunter-Gatherer"
La alumna del Departamento de Ciencias Ambientales Aprende chino mandarín y gana beca de 15 mil dólares
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Empowerment Zone Coalition
A Collective Call To Action
About EZC
EZC has reached more than one million people over time
with substance abuse prevention community outreach projects
and programs.
EZC Has Reached More Than One
Million People
A Collective Call to Action:
Training & Workshop Series
Designed to educate the community on substance abuse
and drug-related issues.
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Family Health Fair
Youth volunteers participating at health fair at Chandler Park
in collaboration with St. John's Health System and Impact Church
The Empowerment Zone Coalition, Inc. is a very unique 501(c) (3) community-based non-profit collaboration that focuses on Health Education, Wellness and Behavioral Health. EZC is a broad based coalition with agency collaborations that improves collective advocacy and service delivery to the community with strong focus on the adults, youth and families. The mission of the Empowerment Zone Coalition is to raise public awareness and to mobilize communities to improve quality of life for Detroit residents through education, health promotion, wellness, and the prevention of substance use and mental health disorders in the city of Detroit with strong emphasis on the Eastside. EZC develops new initiatives based on identified needs of the community.
Public Education Campaigns
Local Coalition Development
Public Forums and Town Hall Meetings
Support Our Organization by Donating
Please donate we need your support. For every dollar raised, $.76 goes directly into programs and services.
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Awarded by the Community Anti-drug Coalition of America (CADCA) for its outstanding coalition work to prevent and reduce youth substance abuse and strengthen collaborations.
2,400 youth participated in the survey, the results were published and disseminate to prevention providers to assist them in strengthen their substance prevention programming.
Substance Abuse Summit
Each year, EZC planned and implemented the largest substance abuse summit in the City of Detroit in an effort to raise public awareness regarding drug related issues and to celebrate the success of the coalition.
EZC Successes
51% of the target population was familiar with the coalition and its activities
Reached More Than One Million People
EZC has reached more than one million people over time with substance abuse prevention community outreach projects and programs.
Providing comprehensive health and substance abuse prevention services to the catchment area
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Participants to the forum also expressed willingn
gness to actively take part in the construction of the pilot zone, and work together to
eradicate the barriers in terms of policy, technology and trade, said the document.
All sides are full of expectations for facilitating policies, which will allow new technologie
s and new products that conform with international standards to enter the pilot zone, said the declaration.
They are also ready to offer assistance to this initiative within their capabilities, and expect
the pilot zone to provide a new platform for medical innovation and cooperation in the region, it said.
The “China Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) Research Center for Medi
cal Innovation” will also be established in Fangchenggang, according to the declaration.
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With joint efforts of all parties, China has built a founda
ation for commercialization of 5G,” the ministry said, adding it will issue commercial 5G licens
es in the near future, a clear sign China will soon officially enter the first year of 5G.
“As always, we welcome domestic and foreign enterprises to actively participate in China’s 5G network construction and effort
to promote application of the technology, and jointly share 5G development opportunities,” the ministry added.
China’s big three telecom carriers are forecast to spend 900 billi
on to 1.5 trillion yuan ($134 billion to $223 billion) in total on 5G network construction from 2020
to 2025, according to a report from the China Academy of Information and Communications Technology. In co
mparison, Chinese telecom operators spent 720 billion yuan on 4G network construction from 2014 to 2018.
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We must work together to ensure that big data, and the
e technologies that it enables, are harnessed for the benefit of mankind while minimizing the risks to devel
opment, peace and security and human rights,” Guterres said in a congratulatory letter to the expo.
Miao Wei, minister of industry and information technology, said China has already made sig
nificant progress in bolstering the big data industry with a string of big data platforms established in sect
ors such as manufacturing, commerce, finance, transportation and medical care.
“We will make a fresh push to integrate cutting-edge information technologies into the re
al economy, including establishing a national industrial data center, to better power the country’s sp
rawling manufacturing sector,” Miao said at the opening ceremony of the big data expo.
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hina plans to boost rural development via digital technologies
China plans to promote the applications of digital technologies in rural areas to boost local development.
As a step towards rural modernization and transformation, digital rural development play
s a crucial role in rural revitalization and building a digital China, according to the guideline jointly issue
d by the general offices of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and the State Council.
The country has vowed to achieve initial development of buildin
g digital villages by 2020, with 4G internet accessible to more than 98 percent of the adm
inistrative villages and the digital economy growing rapidly in rural regions, the guideline said.
With the upgrading of internet technology, 2025 will see a n
otable narrowing of the urban-rural digital gap, the establishment of various ent
repreneurial and innovation centers in rural areas, and an intellectual rural logistics system.
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The supply of high-end talent, government investmen
t in culture and education, attractiveness for foreign investment and consumption scale are also indicators under consideration.
Shanghai has the highest infrastructure and cultural environment indexes, and the financi
al hub’s talent, technological innovation and financing indexes are in the top three of the country.
Although Beijing’s soft environment index ranked first among all Chinese cities, its hard environment index lagged behind
due to restriction of natural resources such as air quality, climate and forest coverage rate, the report said.
With the best hard environment, South China’s Shenzhen also leads on the country’s technological innovation index.
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Asian people expect Asia of common prosperity
I hope all Asian countries will jointly promote economic globalization that is open, inclusiv
e, balanced, and beneficial to all, and work together to eliminate poverty and backwardness in some countries.
Asian people expect open, integrated Asia
Civilizations will lose vitality if countries go back to isolation and cut themselves off from the rest of the world.
Mutual respect, equal treatment among civilizations stressed
It is foolish to believe that one’s race and civilization are superior to
others, and it is disastrous to willfully reshape or even replace other civilizations.
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Often these pictures do not represent how these indivi
duals look in real life without the posing, the filters, the photoshopping and the professional hair and make-up,” Martz said.
Pan, the Renmin University researcher, also believes that pi
ctures shared frequently on social media impose peer pressure on women.
“If people around you look thin on WeChat Moments, you are inevi
tably anxious to fit the general profile of having the ‘right look’,” she said.
Articles have also gone viral in summer on WeChat Moments, with sensational headlines such as “Good-looking girls never
weigh more than 50 kilograms” or “If you don’t lose weight in May, you will cry out loud in June”.
Shen Zijiao, a psychological consultant at Beijing Normal University, said: “Women don’t know what kind of beauty is best for th
em; they just thumb through their phone screens and get the notions of ‘being slender’ consciously or uncons
ciously. They always worry if their bodies are inconsistent with the so-called perfect body shape.”
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teps aimed at helping further develop countryside opt
hina will undertake key measures to further integrate the country’s rural and urban areas
and encourage the transfer and free flow of people and resources throughout the nation.
Measures include relaxing hukou (household registration) barri
ers, reforming zoning regulations for rural and residential land, marketing collective land
in rural areas for development purposes and increasing infrastructure spending in the countryside.
Experts said the new plan, announced by the Communist Party of China Ce
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ess in rural revitalization, driving up the process of urbanization and further boosting the economy.
China has a three-step plan. First, it will initially build a framework an
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Shen Chi, vice-director of the China Center for Urban Development, said the government’s new
plan will help foster high-quality and sustainable economic development across the nation.
“Relaxing the hukou policy will be a key step in promoting the free flow of labor across
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Devon Women Start with Successful Bank Holiday Weekend
After a successful pre-season Devon Ladies made the trip up to the Midlands last weekend for their first two fixtures of the 2017 County Championship against Staffordshire and Derbyshire respectively. The forecast for the weekend was bleak so after winning the toss at Milford Hall CC new skipper, Amara Carr, elected to field first against a weakened and recently relegated Staffordshire outfit.
Carr chose to open the bowling with the left-arm spin of Hazelle Garton which quickly proved effective as she trapped the Staffs opener LBW in the second over. Cait O’Keefe (Plympton) then took a smart catch at slip off the bowling of Mackenzie to reduce Staffs to 11-2 at the end of the 5th over. Staffordshire struggled to get the board moving as Devon consistently kept the run rate well below 3 an over on what was a good batting track with a quick outfield. The introduction of Milly Squire proved the difference for the Devon girls. The Filleigh bowler removed the only Staffs batters offering any resistance on her way to figures of 4-27. Squire was ably supported by Exeter University’s Becca Silk, 2-18, as Devon gave little room for error to bowl Staffordshire out for 104 from 44.3 overs.
It became quickly evident that Staffordshire had posted a target well below par as the new opening pair of Mackenzie and O’Keefe settled into the reply with confidence. Both batters hit the boundary with ease as they built an opening stand of 86 before Sophie Mackenzie (50) was caught and bowled shortly after making her first County half-century. The only question asked of the Devon batters was whether they could secure maximum batting points by scoring the required total inside of 26 overs but O’Keefe (32*) took Devon over the line in the 23rd over to round off an excellent first match for the Devon side.
On the Bank Holiday Monday the ladies had to make the short hop to Rolleston CC to play newly promoted Derbyshire who were keen to get their first win on the board after losing to Somerset the day before. The players warmed up throughout the drizzle, which then proceeded to stop just before the captain’s were due to toss. Carr lost the toss and unsurprisingly Devon were duly asked to bat first. The Derbyshire openers probed well at the beginning of the innings on a green and wet pitch that was moving around but once again O’Keefe and Mackenzie proved to much for the bowling attack. O’Keefe made her own maiden half-century in 50 over County cricket, scoring 53 from 104 balls, whilst Mackenzie struck her second in two days finishing on 89 from 142 balls. The pair built the partnership on some excellent running between the wickets brought about by a wet and slow outfield, which only conceded 14 boundaries throughout the day. After O’Keefe was caught at long on in the 36th over with the score at 136 the remaining batters went on to play cameo innings to support Mackenzie on her quest for a first county ton. The score continued to tick along despite wickets falling regularly to leave Devon with a final total of 209-5 from their 50 overs.
A brief downpour during the interval gave the Devon seamers plenty to work with at the start of the Derbyshire reply and all three made an impact early on in the innings. Squire, Edgcombe and Mackenzie took a wicket a piece to remove the Derbyshire top three reducing them to 34-3 but it was the introduction of Hazelle Garton, which quickly tied up the match. Garton went on to bowl yet another miserly spell regularly beating the outside edge on her way to match winning figures of 10-3-20-6. It was only Derbyshire’s Leah Kellogg (21) who looked to make any fightback as she looked to hit the boundary to try and wrestle back some momentum. Her attempts were in vain though as Derbyshire collapsed from 34-2 to 87 all out.
An excellent weekend for the Devon Ladies outfit as they secured maximum points from both games to leave them joint top of Division 2 in the County Championship. Next up is Somerset at Instow on Sunday 14th May.
Sunday’s Players' Player of the Match - Sophie Mackenzie
Monday’s Players’ Player of the Match - Hazelle Garton
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Re: The Darker Side of the News
Postby commodorejohn » Tue Nov 29, 2016 6:42 pm UTC
Sableagle wrote: A computer that's been taught to do it properly can do it very well indeed, but the only people who ever let the computer control the trains are model railway enthusiasts. Their warehouse-sized models of Britain with every rail line and station that ever existed faithfully replicated and trains running on all of them work flawlessly.
Good thing that the real world is no more complex or unpredictable than a model train set, eh?
"'Legacy code' often differs from its suggested alternative by actually working and scaling."
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Postby Sableagle » Tue Nov 29, 2016 7:14 pm UTC
Yep. In particular, isn't it wonderful that, now that we have "free at point of use" mass transit, there aren't any cars on level crossings* any more?
* warning: splat.
Oh, Willie McBride, it was all done in vain.
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Postby addams » Thu Dec 01, 2016 5:51 am UTC
The pipeline will do harm long after the Rich Bastards are dead.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cxcYNM9o6go
More Democracy Now.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vuurtEX5Za4
People calling, writing and speaking may make a difference.
You Posters from across the water Can help, too.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_eKxtO6CUU
This is Not what Democracy looks like!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4AzezTWwd4
This drone recording has not been banned nor blocked.
Because it shows nothing except Miserable living conditions.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZT4hs6AP_UY
In my opinion, the pipeline is a big waste of money.
The heat in the summer and the bitter cold in the winter will tear it down.
Maybe, if it were perfectly built it might work for a few years.
Errors made by humans working under those conditions will cause THE catastrophic failure.
One guy with cold hands will take a short cut to get in out of the cold. Can't blame him.
Some other guys, miserable in the heat, will 'skip' building a joint to contract in the cold.
Until we Think our way to using renewable energy,
We should run trucks and trains. Not a long pipe.
This is a fun little clip.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-RrKn-mZhcM
Our indigenous music might seem, kind'a, boring to European ears.
The dancing does not take years of training. It's easy and fun.
Even, I can do it. It is fun. We can talk and dance walk, too.
Do you see the oxbows in the riverbed?
Those oxbow are evidence of natural deep flooding.
meanders/oxbows
"It's all the same to the clam." by Shel Silverstein.
Oxbows do Not mix well with rigid man made structures.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meander
The result is a snaking pattern as the stream meanders back and forth across its down-valley axis. When a meander gets cut off from the main stream, an oxbow lake forms. Over time meanders migrate downstream, sometimes in such a short time as to create civil engineering problems for local municipalities attempting to maintain stable roads and bridges.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alluvial_ ... _migration
Just a little bit of reading will tell a reasonable person,
rigid structures built there will outlive Don Jon, not his children.
Russell Brand?
A comedian?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yh-PlpPCzn8
He, kind of, makes the Black History Month and American Indian Month seem hollow.
What does the present President say?
Not much....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b5j7TNk0UzI
(Ech) I watched and watched clip after clip.
Nothing! Obama's saying Nothing!
The poison from that pipeline will poison White, Black and Red people!
Birds, Fish, Deer, Elk the list goes on and on.
One more clip for you not to watch.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DCF21FH3StU
I think this is Dark, Dark News.
Maybe, Don Jon will step in and do a good thing.
Miracles happen.
Europeans! Do you understand how BIG that thing is?
When it spills, You might taste it.
Anonymous seems to support The People of Dakota against the pipeline.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2GAnTx3OHVU
I'm tired of it.
I can go to sleep.
I'm warm and dry.
Facts from U-Tube MoJo.com
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mykIJlooJhY
People around the world, say a prayer.
Atheists; You guys just sit and think. ok?
It's cold up in the Dakotas.
Those people are Not comfy.
One more:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eBvjiQQyZk0
Do I get a prize for the longest and most boring post?
This is still bothering me.
It gets Darker everyday.
Kelcy Warren, CEO of Energy Transfer Partners is a relaxed and confident Rich Bastard.
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/tru ... -pipeline/
Life is, just, an exchange of electrons; It is up to us to give it meaning.
We are all in The Gutter.
Some of us see The Gutter.
Some of us see The Stars.
by mr. Oscar Wilde.
Those that want to Know; Know.
Those that do not Know; Don't tell them.
They do terrible things to people that Tell Them.
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Postby PeteP » Sat Dec 03, 2016 11:16 pm UTC
(article discusses rape)http://www.elle.com/culture/movies-tv/news/a41202/bertolucci-last-tango-in-paris-rape-scene-non-consensual/?utm_campaign=trueAnthem:+Trending+Content&utm_content=58424bee04d3011c6bcde510&utm_medium=trueAnthem&utm_source=twitter Not really news since he said it a few years ago, but that is disturbing. (Though her wiki article is more informative than the article.)
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Postby sardia » Tue Dec 06, 2016 11:01 pm UTC
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/06/busin ... l-war.html
reversing the trend toward greater concentrations of income, in the United States and across the world, might be, in fact, nearly impossible.
That’s the bleak argument of Walter Scheidel, a professor of history at Stanford, whose new book, “The Great Leveler” (Princeton University Press), is due out next month. He goes so far as to state that “only all-out thermonuclear war might fundamentally reset the existing distribution of resources.” If history is anything to go by, he writes, “peaceful policy reform may well prove unequal to the growing challenges ahead.”
Professor Scheidel does not offer a grand unified theory of inequality. But scouring through the historical record, he detects a pattern: From the Stone Age to the present, ever since humankind produced a surplus to hoard, economic development has almost always led to greater inequality. There is one big thing with the power to stop this dynamic, but it’s not pretty: violence.
The big equalizing moments in history may not have always have the same cause, he writes, “but they shared one common root: massive and violent disruptions of the established order.”
The collapse of the Roman Empire in the second half of the fifth century, reinforced by a bubonic plague pandemic, brought about Western Europe’s first great leveling. Productivity collapsed and the aristocracy’s far-flung assets were expropriated, while Rome’s trade networks and fiscal structures were destroyed.
Inequality bounced back, of course. By 1300 the richest 5 percent of people had amassed nearly half the wealth in the cities of Italy’s Piedmont. But another bubonic plague known in history as the Black Death changed all that, killing a quarter of Europe’s population in the 14th century and cutting the share of wealth of Piedmont’s rich to under 35 percent.
Mr. Scheidel’s depressing view is bound to upset liberal politicians and social scientists, who quite naturally might prefer to live in a world in which events might move political and social systems to figure out a more equitable way to distribute the fruits of growth without the plague, the guillotine or state collapse.
Historians suggest best way to make society equitable is massive violence and chaos...repeatedly. Well that's real comforting to know that the solution to income inequality was inside us all along.
Postby Thesh » Tue Dec 06, 2016 11:30 pm UTC
Shorter answer: people who have power don't like to relinquish it. It's solvable, but you need government and economic structures that are resistant to individuals gaining wealth, power and influence (the three are very strongly linked).
Postby Sableagle » Wed Dec 07, 2016 12:44 pm UTC
Are you opposed to fracking? Then you might just be a terrorist
Over the last year, a mass of shocking evidence has emerged on the close ties between Western government spy agencies and giant energy companies, and their mutual interests in criminalising anti-fracking activists.
Activists tarred with the same brush
In late 2013, official documents obtained under freedom of information showed that Canada's domestic spy agency, the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS), had ramped up its surveillance of activists opposed to the Northern Gateway pipeline project on 'national security' grounds. The CSIS also routinely passed information about such groups to the project's corporate architect, Calgary-based energy company, Enbridge.
Investigative journalist Steve Horn reports that TransCanada has also worked closely with American law-enforcement and intelligence agencies in attempting to criminalise US citizens opposed to the pipeline. Files obtained under freedom of information last summer showed that in training documents for the FBI and US Department of Homeland Security (DHS), TransCanada suggested that non-violent Keystone XL protestors could be deterred using criminal and anti-terror statutes.
Just last December, other activists in Oklahoma faced terror charges for draping an anti-fracking banner in the lobby of the offices housing US oil and gas company, Devon Energy. The two protestors were charged with carrying out a "terrorism hoax" for using gold glitter on their banner, some of which happened to scatter to the floor of the building - depicted by a police spokesman as a potentially "dangerous or toxic" substance in the form of a "black powder," causing a panic.
In the UK, Scotland Yard's National Domestic Extremism and Disorder Intelligence Unit (which started life as the National Extremism Tactical Co-ordination Unit and later became the National Domestic Extremism Unit), has had a long record of equating the spectre of "domestic extremism" with "single-issue protests, such as animal rights, anti-war, anti-globalisation and anti-GM crops." Apart from animal rights, these movements have been "overwhelmingly peaceful" points out George Monbiot.
Back in 1975, the Trilateral Commission - a network of some 300 American, European and Japanese elites drawn from business, banking, government, academia and media founded by Chase Manhattan Bank chairman David Rockerfeller - published an influential study called The Crisis of Democracy.
The report concluded that the problems of governance "stem from an excess of democracy" which makes government "less powerful and more active" due to being "overloaded with participants and demands." This democratic excess at the time consisted of:
"... a marked upswing in other forms of citizen participation, in the form of marches, demonstrations, protest movements, and 'cause' organizations... [including] markedly higher levels of self-consciousness on the part of blacks, Indians, Chicanos, white ethnic groups, students, and women... [and] a general challenge to existing systems of authority, public and private... People no longer felt the same compulsion to obey those whom they had previously considered superior to themselves in age, rank, status, expertise, character, or talents."
The solution, therefore, is "to restore the prestige and authority of central government institutions," including "hegemonic power" in the world. This requires the government to somehow "reinforce tendencies towards political passivity" and to instill "a greater degree of moderation in democracy." This is because:
"... the effective operation of a democratic political system usually requires some measure of apathy and noninvolvement on the part of some individuals and groups... In itself, this marginality on the part of some groups is inherently undemocratic, but it has also been one of the factors which has enabled democracy to function effectively."
Today, such official sentiments live on in the form of covert psychological operations targeted against Western publics by the CIA, Pentagon and MI6, invariably designed to exaggerate threats to manipulate public opinion in favour of government policy.
Privacy watchdog ‘stonewalling’ over attempts to reveal number of anti-fracking protestors caught in ‘deradicalisation’ programme
The Network for Police Monitoring (Netpol), who claim there is no evidence to link the protestors to terrorism, requested information from five police forces in the North West of England for details of referrals made in the prior ten months to a scheme set up following the 7/7 attacks in 2005 as part of the government’s counter terrorism Prevent strategy. The ‘Channel’ programme is principally aimed at 15 to 24 year-olds reckoned to be vulnerable to being drawn into Islamist extremism. Netpol asked for the number of referrals made since January last year through Channel for individuals allegedly involved in anti-fracking campaigns.
Campaigners had contacted Netpol claiming to have been referred to the programme by the authorities at their own universities or colleges. The forces – Cheshire, Cumbria, Greater Manchester, Lancashire and Merseyside – replied that they would ‘neither confirm nor deny’ such information.
All forces issued almost identical responses saying confirmation or denial would reveal ‘operationally sensitive information about the scope of Prevent activities, resource allocation and prioritisation with regard to monitoring anti-fracking campaigns’. They went on to say that revealing such information would be ‘prejudicial to the maintenance of national security’ and providing the number of referrals would ‘disclose operational information far beyond that’. ‘If the information were held, confirming this would disclose that Prevent officers were targeting anti fracking events for extremist activities, and that maintaining a police presence at anti-fracking events was a Prevent priority,’ they said.
... dude.
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Postby Liri » Wed Dec 07, 2016 1:41 pm UTC
This is why Margaret Atwood (Oryx & Crake) is way scarier and more plausible than Orwell.
There's a certain amount of freedom involved in cycling: you're self-propelled and decide exactly where to go. If you see something that catches your eye to the left, you can veer off there, which isn't so easy in a car, and you can't cover as much ground walking.
Postby Tyndmyr » Wed Dec 07, 2016 4:23 pm UTC
sardia wrote: Historians suggest best way to make society equitable is massive violence and chaos...repeatedly. Well that's real comforting to know that the solution to income inequality was inside us all along.
Oh, sure, the easy path to equality is definitely to have everyone equally impoverished and ruined.
This is one reason why many people fear it.
Postby Diadem » Thu Dec 08, 2016 12:56 am UTC
Liri wrote: This is why Margaret Atwood (Oryx & Crake) is way scarier and more plausible than Orwell.
An article saying economic inequality tends to increase makes you consider a dystopian novel describing a society where all wealth and power are held by a very small elite to be less plausible? I don't follow that one.
Assuming humanity doesn't manage to extinct itself, I think the most likely dystopian scenario is one where technology allows a small group to establish a permanent dictatorship that can't be overthrown. If the police and soldiers are robots, with no morality and absolute obedience to the regime, then a revolution might become impossible. Even such a regime will eventually collapse from within, but that could take a long time.
A related dystopian scenario is one where robotics makes large parts of the population economically obsolete. If AI gets smarter than us, but still under our control, life could become fabulously luxurious very quickly for the rich and powerful. And they wouldn't need the rest of us then, not even as a source of cheap labor. So why wouldnt they exterminate 99.9% of the population so the rest can live like gods until the end of time?
Postby commodorejohn » Thu Dec 08, 2016 12:58 am UTC
Diadem wrote: An article saying economic inequality tends to increase makes you consider a dystopian novel describing a society where all wealth and power are held by a very small elite to be less plausible?
Yet another entry for my "everybody reads into 1984 whatever point they wish it was actually making" file...
Postby Liri » Thu Dec 08, 2016 1:47 am UTC
I didn't mean to imply it made 1984 *less* plausible, just Oryx & Crake *more* plausible. In 1984, the elite are the government. In O & C, the elite are corporations, and the article seemed more about the power held by corporations/the people that run them.
Postby sardia » Thu Dec 08, 2016 1:49 am UTC
Liri wrote:
What's the difference between elite corporations(who severely influence the government), run by the rich vs elites who run the government((who are often wealthy elites who run corporations)?
sardia wrote:
In Oryx & Crake, there is no government. There are no nation-states, period, which is antithetical to the world observed in 1984.
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Postby morriswalters » Thu Dec 08, 2016 3:34 am UTC
sardia wrote: Historians suggest best way to make society equitable is massive violence and chaos...repeatedly.
It's kind of a trivial observation if you give it some thought. His observation about thermonuclear war is the clearest example. Obviously if you fight that war then by definition you have destroyed the economy. Everybody is poor. Preppers plan for it.
What Orwell missed was that it works better if the slaves don't believe they are slaves. In Orwells days the idea of a TV that could listen back was a leap. You can buy one on Amazon now, it's called a smart phone. The technology didn't exist then to listen to millions of streams of communication all the time. And pick out words and phrases. NSA? Anyone. Yeah, I'm gonna call 1984 slightly more plausible. I bet Orwell was and Atwood is, a real party killer.
As a added side note consider that while Orwell was writing the advertising and popular media were laying the footings for a society where all data is suspect and where everybody lies.
Postby Tyndmyr » Thu Dec 08, 2016 5:28 pm UTC
sardia wrote: What's the difference between elite corporations(who severely influence the government), run by the rich vs elites who run the government((who are often wealthy elites who run corporations)?
Whatever you call it, there are people, and there are power structures. Calling something a government or a corporation makes surprisingly little difference in the end.
If a corporation is as large as a government, it wields a similar amount of power.
Postby sardia » Tue Dec 13, 2016 2:57 am UTC
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/12/healt ... .html?_r=0
It's crack babies all over again, except they're white, so that must mean it's important.
In all seriousness, it's gonna be a long time before the country gets serious about prosecuting pill mill doctors, and stops letting patients chomp pills as the answer to everything.
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Postby CorruptUser » Tue Dec 13, 2016 5:42 am UTC
Are you sure it's the doctors that are the pill-mills? My money is on the chiropractors being at fault. Just biased in favor of doctors and against chiros, is all.
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Postby Chen » Tue Dec 13, 2016 12:56 pm UTC
CorruptUser wrote: Are you sure it's the doctors that are the pill-mills? My money is on the chiropractors being at fault. Just biased in favor of doctors and against chiros, is all.
Are there a lot of chiropractors in the rural US? And can chiropractors even prescribe drugs?
Postby Liri » Tue Dec 13, 2016 1:16 pm UTC
Chen wrote:
The vast majority of chiropractors are not MDs and cannot prescribe medication.
Also, part of the whole idea behind chiropractic treatment is that it's drug-free.
Postby CorruptUser » Tue Dec 13, 2016 3:07 pm UTC
Actually, chiros CAN prescribe drugs. They had to sue the AMA to do that.
CorruptUser wrote: Actually, chiros CAN prescribe drugs. They had to sue the AMA to do that.
The most recent info I could find stated that NM allows them to prescribe certain drugs, while others permit them to prescribe OTC drugs, which isn't really what we're tallying about. Couldn't find anything about them suing the AMA, which sounds silly.
The point remains though that chiropractic treatment is intended to be drug-free, so I don't get why you were trying to blame them for over-prescribing medication. I'm not trying to insult your family here, but getting an MD does not make someone a better person, nor do only good-hearted people seek to obtain one.
Postby sardia » Tue Dec 13, 2016 4:04 pm UTC
https://news.aetna.com/2016/08/opioid-s ... escribers/
No, you can see here that different doctors over-prescribe opioids. The average doctor prescribes 0.3 pills, but the superprescriber gives out 4.5 refills.
The doctors are not necessarily those that write the most initial, short-term prescriptions for opioids. Rather, they are the ones who are most likely to write refills for their patients, often over and over, for drugs that should usually only be filled once before turning to other means of pain control for longer-term relief.
The mean refill rate for all physicians was 0.3 refills for every initial opioid prescription, Paz said. For the super-prescribers, it was 4.5 refills – or 15 times more often.
To be fair, there's multiple opiate epidemics.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/won ... e-in-2015/
There's natural opioid, Heroin, and synthetic opioid.
Alright, I'm just being biased. As for the lawsuit, Chiropractors successfully sued the AMA to allow doctors to associate with people who practice medicine in an unscientific manner.
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Postby Coyne » Tue Dec 13, 2016 11:56 pm UTC
sardia wrote: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/12/health/rise-in-infant-drug-dependence-in-us-is-felt-most-in-rural-areas.html?_r=0
Actually, this is much ado about nothing. That $1.5 billion is 0.11% of the $1.32 trillion healthcare expenditure. The four-year increase of 19.6% (versus 5.8% healthcare inflation) is so close this could well be due to reporting changes due to CARA (see article for reference).
Hardly an epidemic...but I suspect the FBI and DEA are behind this piece and would like it to be an "epidemic for which we must arrest people."
In all fairness...
UN warns of ‘atrocities against large number of civilians’ in Aleppo
Civilians 'massacred' as Assad forces take back Aleppo
Pro-government forces slaughter at least 82 civilians in Aleppo
We spoke to the last activists in Aleppo. They're waiting to die
Toddler weeps for dead father in harrowing footage from Aleppo
'Barbaric cruelty' in Aleppo shows Assad must go, says UK Government
Russia says it's tired of the US 'whining' about Aleppo
Boris Johnson rules out British aid drops over Aleppo
We said 'never again': the tragedy of Aleppo could have been avoided
Handful of Government MPs turn up for 'urgent' debate on Aleppo
Syrian army resumes bombing of Aleppo as fragile ceasefire crumbles
Assad may have used sarin gas on civilians near Palmyra
'I need peace': seven-year-old Bana tweets her life in besieged Aleppo
“The buildings and houses can no longer accommodate all the residents here. Now there are many families living in shops and streets, wherever they can. The weather is very cold now and rain is falling in addition to the shellfire which is almost constant over our heads
You can hear the noise of the fighting as I speak. The wounded can’t get appropriate treatment due to all the hospitals being bombed. Only one medical point where only first aid is available is operational. The seriously injured have nowhere to go, and these victims could join the fatalities list at any moment”.
“To be honest with you and, without any exaggeration, women are afraid of the possible entry of the army and militias, they are afraid of gang rape, which has happened in some neighborhoods. Senior citizens fears being killed and younger men also fear arrest or execution”.
So what's on the radio today?
A time for living, a time for believing
A time for trusting, not deceiving,
Love and laughter and joy ever after,
Ours for the taking, just follow the master.
A time for giving, a time for getting,
A time for forgiving and for forgetting.
Christmas is love, Christmas is peace,
A time for hating and fighting to cease.
Christmas time, Mistletoe and Wine
Children singing Christian rhyme
With logs on the fire and gifts on the tree
A time to rejoice in the good that we see
To lift a glass
Ahhh don't look down
Simply having a wonderful Christmas time
Are you waiting for the family to arrive
Are you sure you got the room to spare inside
So here it is Merry Christmas
Everybody's having fun
Look to the future now
It's only just begun.
And so this is Christmas (war is over)
And what have we done (if you want it)
Another year over (war is over)
A new one just begun (if you want it)
And so happy Xmas (war is over)
We hope you have fun (if you want it)
The near and the dear one (war is over)
The old and the young (now)
A very Merry Xmas
Let's hope it's a good one
Without any fear
War is over, if you want it
War is over now
Are they taking the piss?
Seriously, they're playing a recording of a choir of children's voices singing "war is over if you want it" while that's going on. Are they taking the piss?
They're not.
They're not taking the piss.
It's just that, well ...
... nobody around here gives a fuck.
Postby CorruptUser » Wed Dec 14, 2016 11:29 pm UTC
What the fuck do you want everyone to do? Invade Syria, costing hundreds of billions of dollars and god knows how many lives? Bomb the crap out of someone, killing hundreds of innocents in the process? Issue trade sanctions? Or just whine about it online so that we can feel morally superior without actually doing anything?
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Postby sardia » Wed Dec 14, 2016 11:33 pm UTC
Follow this yes no flow chart. Tell me what you get to yes.
Do you want world war 3?
What about the US killing Russians?
What about the US removing sanctions from Russia?
Would you give up welfare in the US?
Abortions in the US?
Less taxes on the rich?
You can't just blindly complain how nobody gives a fuck. What do you think we should do about it? Not just tell them to stop, say what you think should be done when they defy us.
sardia wrote: Follow this yes no flow chart. Tell me what you get to yes.
So far, I'm a "no" on all but the last one, and that's only a "yes" if you somehow also have "solve the national debt AND reduce income inequality" WITHOUT relying on Laffer Curve sophistry.
Postby morriswalters » Thu Dec 15, 2016 12:23 am UTC
This makes me more than a little angry. For whatever reason there seems to be an idea that the US entry into the Syrian Civil War would have somehow magically stopped the killing. There is a direct example of the price that you pay for going into another country to do good. You have to kill people. Lots of people. We've ended up with the largest Military in the world doing so. The US has killed enough. The only thing that will stop the killing will be a winner. If that is the Syrian regime, so be it.
Postby sardia » Thu Dec 15, 2016 12:56 am UTC
morriswalters wrote: This makes me more than a little angry. For whatever reason there seems to be an idea that the US entry into the Syrian Civil War would have somehow magically stopped the killing. There is a direct example of the price that you pay for going into another country to do good. You have to kill people. Lots of people. We've ended up with the largest Military in the world doing so. The US has killed enough. The only thing that will stop the killing will be a winner. If that is the Syrian regime, so be it.
Don't be so narrowed minded.
1. Since when has the US killed enough? That's never going to happen, even under the sunniest of liberal administrations. For one thing, there isn't enough to go around, hence killing will happen.
2. You can also go into a country to make a buck.
3. You could always kill everyone there, a la Chechnya.
I can't make them stop. But I don't have to support it.
sardia wrote: Don't be so narrowed minded.
I like being narrow minded. There is some irony to be had here. During Vietnam when the draft was on, nobody was worried about saving the Vietnamese. They worried about being drafted. My cousins husband spent two years in a Federal Penitentiary when his Religious deferment was denied, before my cousin married him.(Jehova's Witnesses are funny like that)
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Postby Vahir » Thu Dec 15, 2016 2:12 am UTC
morriswalters wrote: The only thing that will stop the killing will be a winner. If that is the Syrian regime, so be it.
This argument is fallacious because it implies Assad offers peace and stability. Let me put aside moral concerns over supporting a murderous and tyrannical regime for more utilitarian arguments:
1. Assad was dictator before the civil war, and yet here we are. How are we to believe that he can establish peace when he caused the butchery to begin with? When he continues to engage in butchery against his own people?
2. Say the government wins out in the end. I highly doubt the rebels would be wiped out; in all likelihood, we'd be facing decades of insurgency. Assad and his regime are damaged goods: to keep his throne, he splintered his forces into paramilitaries and sold out to Hezbollah, Iran and Russia. He's never going to be as secure in power as he was before this.
3. A regime at war with its own people will inevitably engender civil war. Brutality guarantees temporary stability, but eventually the people's tolerance will snap and another war will break out. Even if Assad emerges from this triumphant and all-mighty, it's just setting the stage for another explosion of violence in forty or fifty years.
I can't claim to know how to untie this knot, but I view a government victory as being as bad as a rebel or ISIS one.
Postby CorruptUser » Thu Dec 15, 2016 2:33 am UTC
I view Assad victory as less bad than ISIS victory. ISIS is, for lack of a better term, thorough, and if they win they will make sure that if anyone is left to oppose them it's only themselves. Rebel victory? Which rebels; the "moderates", or Al Qaeda? With a Kurdish victory, well, that's the best case scenario for the West, but let's not sugarcoat it and claim the Kurds would never ethnically cleanse the area.
Vahir wrote: This argument is fallacious because it implies Assad offers peace and stability.
But us being involved doesn't imply it either. Does it?
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Postby elasto » Thu Dec 15, 2016 1:26 pm UTC
The simple answer is that there is no simple answer.
Maybe if we had sent in a massive intervention force after the first revolt*, when most rebels were still moderate, there might have been a chance of a decent, stable government - rather like the first couple of years after Iraq.
But, even in that best case scenario, just as in Iraq, I have no expectation that opportunistic religious groups wouldn't have successfully used destabilizing guerilla violence.
Once extremist groups piled in on the rebel side, it got much murkier. In any power vacuum, the most ruthless groups tend to prevail, so chances are high that at least some parts of Syria would have ended up in the hands of people much worse than Assad.
The whole thing is just lose-lose.
*And us sending in a massive force that early would have been criticised as highly Imperialistic both in the ME and across the wider world... Every dictatorship in the ME would suddenly be on edge that the US was on a hair-trigger to invade them...
Postby Liri » Thu Dec 15, 2016 1:55 pm UTC
Our state legislature makes me sick.
Republicans gave the outgoing Republican governor increased powers, and now that he's lost, they've called a special legislative session (the 4th this year) to take them all away and then some, along with making the now-Democratic majority state supreme court lose its ability to hear constitutional cases without them first being heard by the GOP-majority state superior court (one step down), along with a huge slew of other bills they're going to try to rush through before the new Democratic governor takes office January 1st.
Postby sardia » Thu Dec 15, 2016 3:51 pm UTC
Liri wrote: Our state legislature makes me sick.
Don't be so naive, Democrats did the same thing when Ted Kennedy died. It went something like "Only the governor could appoint the Senate, unless the governor turned GOP. Then only a special election would do." It went back and forth like 3 times, and the Democrats still lost in 2010.
I get that this isn't unique, but it's still depressing.
Sableagle wrote: UN warns of ‘atrocities against large number of civilians’ in Aleppo
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http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/ ... takes-hold
There, a ceasefire occurred and the civilians are being evacuated. Hope it lasts long enough before Assad kills the ones who remain. That is what you wanted right? Just a way to reduce the killing right?
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Iron Maiden Dave Murray’s 1957 Fender Stratocaster Electric Guitar
“There’s a little bit of history behind the guitar,”says veteran Iron Maiden guitarist Dave Murray of the 1957 Strat he used to produce the wailing sounds heard on each of Iron Maiden’s first eight albums. “It used to belong to Paul Kossoff of Free. I bought it in 1976, a year after he died. I saw it advertised in an English magazine called Melody Maker, and I went down and checked it out. I got the serial numbers to make sure that it was his guitar!
“He used that guitar on a lot of Free. I actually saw him many years ago using it during a Free performance of ‘My Brother Jake’ on an English television show called Top of the Pops. They were one of my favorite bands, and I had to have that guitar because it belonged to Kossoff.
“I paid about $1,400 for it, which in 1976 was quite a bit of money. But I didn’t care. I just sold everything I had so I could get it. And I used it from then on. It just felt like I was holding a piece of magic, because he used this guitar”
Aside from replacing the original Fender pickups with DiMarzio humbuckers (“to fatten up the sound a bit”), Murray did nothing to alter the maple-neck, black-and-white guitar. “I used it on tour,” he continues. “It was my main guitar, and I played everything with it: lead and rhythm, clean stuff, heavy stuff. It was real versatile.”
Nevertheless, Murray gave his trusty Fender Stratocaster an honorable discharge from active duty several years ago. “I used to guard it with my life,” he says. “But it did start to get a little knocks in it just from general wear and tear. So I decided to retire it. It’s sitting in my mother’s house now, though I do pick it up now and again.”
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'VA-11 HALL-A: Cyberpunk Bartender Action' released on Switch and PlayStation 4
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Independent game publisher Ysbyrd Games has announced that VA-11 HALL-A: Cyberpunk Bartending Action is now available on PlayStation 4 and Switch. This story-based game has you playing as a bartender in Glitch City in the year 207X, serving customers who are down on their luck. Serve them correctly and they'll leave you with larger tips as well as more details of their personal stories.
"We wanted the bar itself to be as memorable as the colorful cast of cyberpunk characters, a place where hope exists amid a daily struggle," said Christopher "Kiririn51" Ortiz, co-founder, Sukeban Games. "VA-11 HALL-A serves a narrative-driven experience about steering intimate conversations with strangers, so it was important to give it the right vibe."
VA-11 HALL-A: Cyberpunk Bartending Action is available now with a MSRP of $19.99. Physical editions of the game will be arriving later this year.
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Crimson Peak and Monstrous Love: A Review
“Love makes monsters of us all.”
Crimson Peak is one of those rare films that left me haunted.
Not because of the ghosts that are rather grisly, or the large amounts of blood that splatter the actors in their fine Victorian clothing. Either of those are bound to keep you up a little bit through the night.
What left me haunted was the violence of emotions. Witnessing a tragedy unfold supported by the exquisite use of symbolism and metaphor was a true delight to witness. This film was able to say everything without saying anything at all.
Crimson Peak is a gothic romance telling the story of a young, American writer, Edith (Mia Wasikowska.), who falls in love with the mysterious, and sadly destitute, Baronet Thomas Sharpe (Tom Hiddleston). Visiting America with his sister, Lucille (Jessica Chastain), Thomas Sharp hopes to find funding for his machine that will mine the red clay of his deteriorating estate in order to create an income.
He whisks Edith away back to his crumbling mansion, Allerdale Hall, where she encounters more than she bargained for. A set of ghosts wants her to solve a mystery she doesn’t want to see.
The film’s lush visuals transport you into another world and time, seducing you so effectively you don’t even notice the slow decent into hell until you arrive.
The beginning of the film utilizes rich and vibrant colors with soft candlelit evenings. However, once Thomas Sharp arrives dressed in his fine black suits, an aura of darkness begins to decay the happiness surrounding Edith.
After Edith and Thomas are married the couple goes back to England and we receive our first glimpse of Allerdale Hall. The golden candlelights grow dim and cold. In an instant we are submerged into Thomas’ and Lucille’s world of gloom and deterioration. One of the aspects of the film I appreciated most was the representation of ghosts. Not only is Allerdale Hall sinking into the red clay, but the specters haunting its halls turn the environment from cold to sinister.
We are witnessing the insides of the characters revealing themselves to us.
Yet, whereas in most films the ghosts are the monsters, Director Guillermo Del Toro chose to twist the concept showing that humans are the true monsters.
Though the film is overwhelmed by darkness, love is the one source of light that is allowed to flicker. The individual pasts of each character threaten them in some aspect, and it is only with love that they can choose to move forward.
One scene in particular in the middle of the film we see the warm glow of the candlelight’s return for a final time. Edith and Thomas find themselves unable to return to Allerdale Hall for the night due to a snowstorm. You can see Thomas fighting against the pull of the past, Edith coaxing him to think only of the future.
“You won’t find me there,” she tells him.
This scene was particularly moving, and Tom Hiddleston imparted beautifully the torment of wanting to let go of inner demons. However, upon returning to Allerdale Hall, leaving the warmth and light behind them, the spiral down hill accelerates into a violent madness.
The agony is palpable as choices must be made.
The entire film is a slow slope downhill, gradually growing darker and more filled with violence with each passing moment. It is shocking and terrifying, and brings about the true horror that one feels when discovering a secret you wished never to admit.
Truly a wonderful directorial choice on Del Toro’s part.
Crimson Peak is a movie that will be remembered. Whether it be for the passionate and moving acting, or stunning visuals of a true gothic romance. But what will always stay with me is the darker power of love, and that, yes, love can indeed make monsters of us all.
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Regulation of Gene Expression by Dietary Fat
Salati, Lisa M.
West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV, United States
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The amount and type of fat in the diet has been the subject of public health recommendations to prevent obesity, diabetes and atherosclerosis. A considerable body of literature has developed that suggests that eating the majority of calories as fat results in the development of insulin resistance and type II diabetes mellitus. Much less is known about how non-pathological fluctuations in dietary fat intake alter intracellular metabolism and how these signaling actions affect events in the nucleus. In the course of our studies on mechanisms by which fatty acids regulate gene expression, we discovered that the rate of RNA splicing is inhibited in liver and primary hepatocytes by dietary polyunsaturated fat and by arachidonic acid, respectively. Using the glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G6PD) enzyme, which lacks transcriptional regulation, as a unique model we have generated a prototype for extending these findings to other genes. Because greater than 60% of genes undergo alternative splicing and many are also regulated by changes in splicing efficiency, these findings will have widespread signficance for determining the proteins expressed within cells throughout development and in muliple cell types. The central hypothesis of this application is that genes that under regulated splicing comtain splicing regulatory regions in an exon. These regions contain juxtaposed splicing silencing and enhancing elements. The binding of splicing inhibitory proteins to the silencer exclude the binding of splicing activators proteins to the enhancer. Polyunsaturated fatty acids regulate the activity of the splicing regulatory proteins by posttranslational modification and/or nuclear abundance. The splicing regulatory region of exon 12 of the G6PD gene is our paradigm for these studies. Despite the ubiquitous need for regulated splicing, little is known about the intracellular signals regulating this process. In the course of these studies, we will define intracellular signal transduction pathways by which nutrients and nutritional status can alter the activity or abundance of splicing regulatory proteins. Thus, the experiments in the current proposal will provide new data on regulation of splicing pre se and define a new pathway by which nutrients regulate gene expression.
The amount and type of fat in the diet has been the subject of public health recommendations to prevent obesity, diabetes and atherosclerosis. A considerable body of literature has developed that suggests that eating the majority of calories as fat results in the development of insulin resistance and type II diabetes mellitus. In addition, the amount and type of fat in the diet can regulate the levels of serum cholesterol and triglycerides, risk factors for atherosclerosis. This project will provide important new data on the ways in which dietary fat can regulate intracellular metabolism.
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Suchanek, Amanda L; Salati, Lisa M (2015) Construction and evaluation of an adenoviral vector for the liver-specific expression of the serine/arginine-rich splicing factor, SRSF3. Plasmid 82:1-9
Cyphert, T J; Suchanek, A L; Griffith, B N et al. (2013) Starvation actively inhibits splicing of glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase mRNA via a bifunctional ESE/ESS element bound by hnRNP K. Biochim Biophys Acta 1829:905-15
Walsh, Callee M; Suchanek, Amanda L; Cyphert, Travis J et al. (2013) Serine arginine splicing factor 3 is involved in enhanced splicing of glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase RNA in response to nutrients and hormones in liver. J Biol Chem 288:2816-28
Cyphert, Holly A; Ge, Xuemei; Kohan, Alison B et al. (2012) Activation of the farnesoid X receptor induces hepatic expression and secretion of fibroblast growth factor 21. J Biol Chem 287:25123-38
Kohan, Alison B; Qing, Yang; Cyphert, Holly A et al. (2011) Chylomicron remnants and nonesterified fatty acids differ in their ability to inhibit genes involved in lipogenesis in rats. J Nutr 141:171-6
Kohan, Alison B; Talukdar, Indrani; Walsh, Callee M et al. (2009) A role for AMPK in the inhibition of glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase by polyunsaturated fatty acids. Biochem Biophys Res Commun 388:117-21
Griffith, Brian N; Walsh, Callee M; Szeszel-Fedorowicz, Wioletta et al. (2006) Identification of hnRNPs K, L and A2/B1 as candidate proteins involved in the nutritional regulation of mRNA splicing. Biochim Biophys Acta 1759:552-61
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The Helton Family Dilemma by John Cooper
It was the Saturday of October 12TH, 1968, as Baxter Helton and his son Dave were in Pulaski's Barbershop in Covington, Kentucky. As the kind of a man whom often thought of himself as truly a "regular American" as the term would be quoted some years in the Norman Lear sitcom entitled, "All In The Family", well, Baxter was just getting his usual second Saturday of the month trim as always while Dave was getting a kind of a Glen Campbell slick down for class picture week coming up at Holmes High School where Dave and his older sisters Vickie Sue, Karen, and Teresa attended. That year though, things would be somewhat different, to say the least. That night after dinner, the family was settled into the living room as they usually did on Saturday nights. Cornelia Helton said, "Baxter, I feel that since Vickie Sue and Karen are old enough to drive their cars now, they're also old enough for another haircut apiece". Baxter gulped, "Cornelia, you gave each of them their first one at age 10. Already it's taken Teresa these past four years to regrow hers. Why should both Vickie Sue and Karen each get another one so soon?" He was quite right. The first haircut Vickie Sue had as a child was personally supervised, and cut off by Cornelia seeing as how she had copied the one Ginger Rogers gave herself in front of the camera in the film "The Story Of Vernon and Irene Castle" when she had cut Vickie Sue's hair seven years earlier. The following year, she had cut Karen's just like that of Doris Day in the film "Calamity Jane". Two years following, Cornelia cut Teresa's hair like that of Natalie Wood in the self-cut scene in the film "Splendor In The Grass". This year though, Cornelia had planned to cut Vickie Sue's hair like that of Goldie Hawn from "Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In", and also too cut Karen's like that of Yvette Mimieux in the film "Joy In The Morning". Even as they turned in for bed, Baxter bellowed, "I can understand when a mother gives a ten year daughter a haircut, yet to cut it off again when the same daughter turns 16 or even 17, well, that isn't proper parenting. That's discrimination against a teenage girls vanity!" Cornelia shrugged, "Like it or not, as of 3:00 P.M tomorrow, I'll first cut Vickie Sue's hair, and then at 3:30 P.M. I'll cut Karen's hair, and if you don't like it then go out, and get drunk for a while, and then drop dead".
3:00 P.M., Sunday October 13TH, 1968, Vickie Sue sat up straight facing the mirror on the dresserdrawer of her bedroom as she sat with one giant-sized bedsheet around her neck and shoulders. Vickie Sue had no choice, or say in the matter, despite her father's having favored her with long hair. The first 13 handfuls of Vickie Sue's hair were cut just short enough to add bangs. The next 20 handfuls were nearly cutoff too close to the scalp, almost. At 3:30 P.M., Cornelia began cutting off Karen's hair as planned. When Baxter came home all drunk as he could be, he roared, "Cornelia! I told you not to do it, yet you broke your word". Cornelia only scoffed, "Baxter, it's no wonder there's rebellion among the youth of America today. Nobody wants to obey their elders anymore". Baxter came to Vickie Sue's bedroom, and found her crying as she gathered up the chopped off tresses. He asked, "What's wrong, baby?" Vickie Sue weeped, "Oh Dad! I know I'M looking just horrible. It took me a long time to grow this, and now look at it". Baxter replied, "I know, honey. Look at the bright side. As of next year at this time, you'll be in a college dorm room, and some of it will have grown back by then. Besides, you still have your college graduation in like 5, 6, or 7, possibly 8 years even. By then I feel your hair will not only be longer again, but also you may be married, and I hope that the man you choose, whomever he may be, likes you with long hair instead of short under the circumstances. Anyway, I got to go comfort Karen, too. Later tomorrow, at work, I'll try to find you a nice hatbox to keep your hair in to remember this tragedy by. Ofcourse, you had had lot more coming off now than you did seven years ago, only then I brought you an old shoebox from work. I'll also see about maybe bringing a shoebox for Karen's hair, too". So after giving the same kind of a speech to Karen, Baxter got Cornelia alone, and gave her a lecture on the old Bible verse of 1 COR. 11:15, which confronts women's vanity. Thursday October 17TH, 1968, since the 7TH & 8TH graders had their class pictures taken on Monday with the Freshmen class pictures taken as of Tuesday, and the Sophomore class pictures on Wednesday, which would leave Friday for the Senior class pictures. Even Karen's good friend Catherine Aker, a delightfully charming redhead had faced the same humiliating experience that same weekend. Only Catherine's mother gave her the kind of bobbed type haircut Julie Andrews had in the film "Thoroughly Modern Millie". At least, Catherine's sister Patricia Ann, older by a year still had her long golden tresses intact. Whereas, 1/3 of the female students at Holmes High School with new haircuts for class picture week had it done at home by their own mothers, the other 2/3 of them, at least those actually got theirs kind of cut short to certain modern styles at the time, went to Maxine's Beauty Salon. Most of the the girls who managed to avoid the scissors were considered to be the lucky ones. Another good friend of Karen's named Maureen Marie Jenkins aka Mary was one of those lucky ones to avoid the scissors. Maureen couldn't to notice Karen weeping for the loss of her long tresses, and asked, "Karen, what's wrong?" Karen said, "Mom cut off all of my hair practically on Sunday. I may be smiling on the outside, but I'm certainly crying on the inside". Karen was absolutely right about how she felt. Two more of her friends, namely Dorraine Wagner aka Dori along with Karyn Schmidt were also smiling on the outside, and crying on the inside, even though they knew that their salon haircuts would only be temporary, to say the least, despite having the pixie style. Dorraine was Maxine's daughter. Actually, one of six daughters. Yet, the rest of the school year for the Heltons, and most other citizens in Kenton County turned out quite fair.
So the as the rest of the year flew by, as it looked, that's when the Helton family dilemma got complicated even further as Mrs. Hook, together with Mrs. Aker, Mrs. Hornbeck, Mrs. Peace, Mrs. Woolridge, Mrs. Cathers, and Mrs. Woodward had all got it into their heads that with summer getting close as well as their daughters: Patricia Ann Aker, Kathleen Anne Hook, Lou Ann Hornbeck, Paula Joyce Peace, Dianne Marie Woolridge, Sonya Gail Cathers, and yes, even Laura Jean Woodward, all were needing haircuts, according to their mothers. Naturally, that would only stir up rebellion among the daughters, to say the least. So part of the ultimatums delivered said that the girls had from graduation day to the 4TH of July to either get a salon cut, or face their mothers' and wind up with Mia Farrow's infamous 1"Inch, or less type cut. So, as luck would have it, the girls were desperate. They needed a plan or a solution to get out of the dilemma they were now into. One of the fellow graduating students, namely Vickey Lynn Houston, a shoulderlength brunette, had the solution in mind. What she said was this, "Let's draw straws, and whoever gets a straw of equal length will go to the salon, and those without will then spin the bottle because to determine who will give them a haircut in the privacy of a bedroom at home". Sonya drew the first straw, and chose to have a salon type cut like her good friend, and fellow blond Linda Irene Thompson as seen second from the right in the second row across on page 119 of the 1969 Lest We Forget yearbook. Paula Joyce Peace was next, and she decided on the chinlength bob worn by Peggy Ann Connley as seen on the far left of the second row across on page 104 of the Lest We Forget yearbook.. Then, Laura Jean Woodward drew the third straw, and chose a chinlength bob like her friend named Christine Sue Schulte as seen on the far right of the second row across in the upper column on page 117 of the 1969 Lest We Forget yearbook. Kathleen Anne Hook drew the forth straw, and chose to get the pixie cut of her friend Karen Wagner (who's widowed mother owned the salon) as seen in the center of the bottom row across on page 119 of the 1969 Lest We Forget yearbook. Ofcourse, that took care of the salon cuts, under the circumstances. Then Lou Ann Hornbeck, Patricia Ann Aker, and Dianne Marie Woolridge had drawn the three shortest straws, and they would be the ones spinning the bottle to determine who would give them haircuts in the privacy of a bedroom. Patricia Ann spun first, and the bottle stopped pointing to Lois Kay Poe. Well, Lois Kay's slightly short looking blond hair had been cut in a style that was a cross between the pixie cut and the old time style named the Marcel. Anyway, Patricia knew that for this upcoming haircut of hers to take place, she would have to go Lois Kay's house on Friday June 13TH, 1969, and get her haircut at 3:00 P.M. exactly. Dianne Marie was next to spin the bottle, and it eventually pointed to Vickie Sue Helton. Lou Ann was the only one left, and when she spun the bottle, once again the bottle pointed to Vickie Sue.
So one week after graduation day, the girls were ready. It was one difficulty they were ready for, departure from their long hair. Sonya Gail Cathers, Laura Jean Woodward, Paula Joyce Peace, and Kathleen Anne Hook all were lined up in a row at Maxine's Beauty Salon. At the Poe home, Lois Kay was ready to cut off Patricia Ann Aker's long flowing tresses. At the Helton residence, Vickie Sue was ready to first of all cut off Lou Ann's long blond hair, and then cut off the long golden brown hair of Dianne Marie. Now since the widowed Maxine Wagner was willing to hire the friends of her daughters as styling apprentices, this made it easier on Sonya, Laura, Paula, and Kathleen in the confidence department. Now at exactly 3:00 P.M., the cutting began. Patricia Ann Aker sat in front of Lois Kay's dresserdrawer with its large attached mirror, and awaited her haircut. She sat up straight in a plain wooden chair with one bedsheet around her neck and shoulders, and a second bedsheet on the floor to catch her hair as it fell when being cut off. Lois Kay wasted no time in cutting off Patricia Ann's long golden blond hair. Using the same all-metal 13"Inch scissors with green painted handles her own mother had used in giving her the rather short haircut a few months earlier when class picture week was nearing. Soon enough, about all of Patricia Ann Aker's long hair lay about the bedsheet on the floor of Lois Kay Poe's bedroom. It had taken nearly the entire hour just for Lois Kay to cut off Patricia Ann's long hair, but it was done, at least for now. So Mrs. Aker would be happy for Patricia Ann having short hair, as Mrs. Aker demanded, but Patricia Ann planned that it would only be temporary, because all through her college years the University of Minnesota at Duluth, Patricia An, and a lot of other girls with short hair in their freshman year of college would grow their hair so long throughout the following decade, well, it would be uncanny. At the Helton residence, Lou Ann sat up in a similar wooden chair with a bedsheet around her neck and shoulders, and a second on the floor for catching any hair that fell there upon being cut off. Dianne Marie was sitting at the foot of Vickie Sue's bed in Vickie Sue's bedroom where Lou Ann was first, and Dianne Marie was next in line for haircuts. Lou Ann took one last look at herself in the large mirror attached to Vickie Sue's dresserdrawer as she looked straight into the mirror. Lou Ann's long hair hung loose as she awaited her fate. One thick handful of her hair was in front of each shoulder, and the rest dangled loose over the back of the chair, except for Lou Ann's bangs in front of her forehead. Vickie Sue then began cutting. Despite using a similar pair of all-metal 13"Inch scissors with green painted handles, Vickie Sue's main problem was the thickness of Lou Ann's long hair. It took a hundred-eleven snips just to cut that first handful alone before Vickie Sue laid the cut off handful of hair into Lou Ann's lap. Vickie Sue felt like she was the nun who was suppose to be cutting off the hair of Clare, the one time sweetheart of St. Francis of Assisi. Ofcourse, Vickie Sue knew that the real Clare was a brunette as were most Italian girls, but she also knew that for the film "Francis Of Assisi", 20TH Century Fox made a majoring casting mistake when they cast the golden-orange haired beauty, namely one Dolores Hart, which resulted in her actually joining a convent in 1963, and taking her final vows about 1970. Anyway, Vickie Sue knew that if she didn't cut off Lou Ann's long hair, then Mrs. Hornbeck (Lou Ann's mother) would cut it all off just like Mia Farrow. With only five minutes left until she had to cut off Dianne Marie's long hair, Vickie Sue Helton had finished cutting off Lou Ann's hair and trimmed the bangs to match those of hers, meaning Vickie Sue's bangs. Lou Ann quickly gathered up her hair, now all cut off, and placed it into an old hatbox Mrs. Helton had laying up in the attic. Quickly, Vickie Sue sent those first two bedsheets down the laundry chute, and brought in two fresh ones from the linen closet. As the minute hand on Vickie Sue's Spiro T. Agnew alarm clock neared the six with the hour hand still on the three, Dianne Marie Woolridge knew it was now time for her haircut as Lou Ann headed home. Dianne Marie gulped, "I haven't felt this nervous since I was ten years old when mom gave me my first haircut. Now seven, almost eight, years of growth is to be cut off. Let's get it all over with". Since it three-hundred-thirty-three snips just to cut off Lou Ann's hair mainly due to thickness, Dianne Marie's haircut would be relatively simple. One handful of hair was in front of each of her shoulders, and the rest dangled loose over the back of the chair. So with those same all-metal 13"Inch scissors that Vickie Sue used for cutting Lou Ann's hair, she was now going to cut off Dianne Marie's long flowing tresses of yellowish-brown gold. First she got a hold of the handful in front of Dianne Marie's left shoulder, and cut it off, laying it in Dianne Marie's lap. Vickie Sue sighed, "That's just the first one. Keep watching". For the next 30 minutes, Vickie Sue kept on cutting away at Dianne Marie's long flowing hair like there was no tomorrow. Soon with one handful laying in her lap, thirty-one handfuls on the second bedsheet on the floor, and the one handful that was in front of her right shoulder still intact, Dianne Marie gulped, "It's the last one. No turning back now. Just cut it off". So Vickie Sue did cut off that last handful of Dianne Marie's long hair, and laid it in her lap, too. Now it was just a simple matter of trimming Dianne Marie's bangs by about 3/4'S of an inch, and it was all done. Dianne Marie replied, "It's not too bad, at least for a temporary haircut. I got all summer, and also all of my college years to let it all grow back. Do you ever plan to let yours grow again, Vickie?" Vickie Sue sighed, "Well, my dad wants me to, but my mom is still skeptical to say the least. Just send me a post card, or letter from Duluth once in a while, and if I ever start wearing my own hair long again, I'll let you know by mail". Soon enough, all seven girls were on the northbound train from Covington to Duluth, whether any of would return to Covington, even for so much as a visit, well, nobody knew for sure. Three of them each had a hatbox with loosely cut off hair, and the other four each had not one, not two, but three souvenir ponytails each also in hatboxes, too. You see in those days in the late 1960S, there were no charity organizations like, Locks of Love, or Wigs for Kids in business at the time, and if the stylists didn't throw out what they cut off, the wig companies were lucky just purchase what they could straight from the styling facilities themselves. Ofcourse, when the company that Mrs. Helton always sent out the sheets to for cleaning called up to say that four of the sheets had strands of long blond hair on them when they arrived at the cleaning place, well, they called the Heltons, and Mr. Helton answered, and when he heard about it, he bellowed, "Cornelia!" Mrs. Helton gulped, "Yes, Baxter?" Mr Helton growled, "Have you been cutting off Vickie Sue & Karen's hair again?" Mrs. Helton gasped, "I don't think I did. Why?" "The cleaning company that cleans our sheets say that traces of blond hair were found on four of the sheets they picked up laundry servicing!" Then Mrs. Helton spilled the beans, and said, "OK, I admit it! Allison and Ruth Esther wanted Lou Ann and Dianne Marie to have haircuts, yet I don't know how some of the strands wound up on our bedsheets! I swear I don't have a clue!" Mr. Helton then scratched his nose, and said, "Well, as far as I know maybe, just maybe, you loaned two of the sheets to the Woolridge family, and two sheets to the Hornbeck family. Then you put them in with the ones going to the special laundry cleaning place, and I guess that solves that mystery".
Upstairs, Vickie Sue had eavesdropped on them, and thought aloud to herself, "I hope dad never knows that I was the one who gave haircuts to Lou Ann and Dianne Marie". So Vickie Sue joined Lois Kay Poe, Peggy Ann Connley, Vickey Lynn Houston, Betty Ann Frazier, Deborah Ann Forrest, Gloria Kay Mote, Christine Sue Schulte, Linda Irene Thompson, Deborah Lynn Stephens, Karen Wagner, Nancy Juanita "June" Wagner, Concetta Jeanette "Connie Jean" Wilson, and some other friends as styling apprentices at Maxine's Beauty Salon in Covington. Eventually after just two years, younger sister Teresa Helton was out of high school, graduation wise that is, Mr. and Mrs. Helton filed for divorce, which started over Mrs. Helton cutting off the long blond hair of their two older daughters Vickie Sue and Karen. With Baxter and Cornelia now divorced, their only son Dave Helton joined the marines, and hasn't returned to Covington ever since then. So in spite of being divorced, the Helton family dilemma remains unresolved to this date.
by Ed on 02 Mar 2018
Readers who enjoy girls and women getting short haircuts would really like this story. As for myself it's in my interest and think young men forced to get short haircuts is the way it should be, good parenting. However, a girl and worse a teenage girl whose parent hacks all her hair off should be arrested. It's cruel and evil most likely to cause psychological damage.
by Mark Demarlo on 28 Feb 2018
Readers who enjoy girls and women getting short haircuts would really like this story.
Weird story.....
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The Halifax BB378 story
The story of the Bartter crew and their S.O.E-operations to France, Yugoslavia and Denmark in 1943.
The Halifax aircraft
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EVASION TO SWEDEN
Bartter, Fry and Howell had the necessary luck and evaded to Sweden with help from local people and the danish resistance movement.
When these officers reached the village Marup they got help from danes the met on their way. They also arranged that the airmen were connected with the danish resistance movement.
The officers were by the taken to Roskilde and Copenhagen hidden in an ambulance and then sent by boat to Malmø, Sweden.
P.O.W.´s in Germany
The crewmembers Smith, Atkins, Andersson, Fry and Turvil from Halifax BB378 were caught by the germans on December 13th 1943.
The were transported by the germans to Høvelte Kaserne (barracks) outside Copenhagen and later to Stalag 4B Camp in Germany where they became prisoners of war in 16 months. All five survived the stay in the camp.
Stalag 4B, Mühlberg, Germany.
Stalag IV-B was one of the largest prisoner-of-war camps in Germany during World War II. Stalag is an abbreviation of the German Stammlager (“Main Camp”). It was located north of Dresden.
When the Soviet Army arrived at the camp in April 1945, there were about 30,000 crowded into the facilities, of these 7,250 were British.
Many of the prisoners were sent to other Stalags or for work in labour commands in the near or wider vicinity of the camp. Due to the bad conditions and maltreatment by the guards about 3,000 died in Stalag IVB.
The Soviet Union did not sign the Geneva Convention, as a consequence the Germans did not allow to support Soviet POWs by Red Cross parcels, in contrast to the treatment of prisoners from other countries.
All POW´s relied on the Red Cross parcels to survive. It was a days work just trying to get every fed, fit and clean.
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New paper finds another potential solar amplification mechanism
A paper published today in Theoretical and Applied Climatology finds the 11-year solar cycle is correlated to the quasi-biennial oscillation (QBO), a wind reversal that "dominates" variability of the lower stratosphere and in turn "affects a variety of extratropical phenomena including the strength and stability of the winter polar vortex." The IPCC AR4 states that the IPCC climate models do not include the quasi-biennial oscillation due to inadequate understanding of the causes, and "Due to the computational cost associated with the requirement of a well-resolved stratosphere." The paper adds to many others finding solar amplification mechanisms that are not included in the climate models the IPCC uses to dismiss the role of the Sun.
From the IPCC AR4:
8.4.9 Quasi-Biennial Oscillation
The Quasi-Biennial Oscillation (QBO; see Chapter 3) is a quasi-periodic wave-driven zonal mean wind reversal that dominates the low-frequency variability of the lower equatorial stratosphere (3 to 100 hPa) and affects a variety of extratropical phenomena including the strength and stability of the winter polar vortex (e.g., Baldwin et al., 2001). Theory and observations indicate that a broad spectrum of vertically propagating waves in the equatorial atmosphere must be considered to explain the QBO. Realistic simulation of the QBO in GCMs therefore depends on three important conditions: (i) sufficient vertical resolution in the stratosphere to allow the representation of equatorial waves at the horizontally resolved scales of a GCM, (ii) a realistic excitation of resolved equatorial waves by simulated tropical weather and (iii) parametrization of the effects of unresolved gravity waves. Due to the computational cost associated with the requirement of a well-resolved stratosphere, the models employed for the current assessment do not generally include the QBO.
The inability of resolved wave driving to induce a spontaneous QBO in GCMs has been a long-standing issue (Boville and Randel, 1992). Only recently (Takahashi, 1996, 1999; Horinouchi and Yoden, 1998; Hamilton et al., 2001) have two necessary conditions been identified that allow resolved waves to induce a QBO: high vertical resolution in the lower stratosphere (roughly 0.5 km), and a parametrization of deep cumulus convection with sufficiently large temporal variability. However, recent analysis of satellite and radar observations of deep tropical convection (Horinouchi, 2002) indicates that the forcing of a QBO by resolved waves alone requires a parametrization of deep convection with an unrealistically large amount of temporal variability. Consequently, it is currently thought that a combination of resolved and parametrized waves is required to properly model the QBO. The utility of parametrized non-orographic gravity wave drag to force a QBO has now been demonstrated by a number of studies (Scaife et al., 2000; Giorgetta et al., 2002, 2006). Often an enhancement of input momentum flux in the tropics relative to that needed in the extratropics is required. Such an enhancement, however, depends implicitly on the amount of resolved waves and in turn, the spatial and temporal properties of parametrized deep convection employed in each model (Horinouchi et al., 2003; Scinocca and McFarlane, 2004).
The quasi-biennial oscillation (QBO) isa quasi-periodic oscillation of the equatorial zonal wind between easterlies and westerlies in the tropical stratosphere with a mean period of 28 to 29 months. The alternating wind regimes develop at the top of the lower stratosphere and propagate downwards at about 1 km (0.6 mi) per month until they are dissipated at the tropical tropopause. Downward motion of the easterlies is usually more irregular than that of the westerlies. The amplitude of the easterly phase is about twice as strong as that of the westerly phase. At the top of the vertical QBO domain, easterlies dominate, while at the bottom, westerlies are more likely to be found.
The QBO was discovered in the 1950s, but its cause remained unclear for some time. Radiosonde soundings showed that its phase was not related to the annual cycle, as is the case for all other stratospheric circulation patterns. In the 1970s it was recognized by Richard Lindzen and James Holton that the periodic wind reversal was driven by atmospheric waves emanating from the tropical troposphere that travel upwards and are dissipated in the stratosphere by radiative cooling. The precise nature of the waves responsible for this effect was heavily debated; in recent years, however, gravity waves have come to be seen as a major contributor.
Effects of the QBO include mixing of stratospheric ozone by the secondary circulation caused by the QBO, modification of monsoon precipitation, and an influence on stratospheric circulation in northern hemisphere winter (the sudden stratospheric warmings).
Manifestation of reanalyzed QBO and SSC signals
Global spatial distribution of oscillations in the period bands linked to the quasi-biennial oscillation (QBO) and to the 11-year sunspot cycle (SSC) was investigated using the pseudo-2D wavelet transform. The results were obtained for the ERA-40, NCEP-DOE 2, NCEP/NCAR, and Twentieth Century Reanalysis V2 datasets. Those included time series of air temperature and zonal and meridional wind velocities were examined for all reanalyzed series from 1,000 up to 10 hPa. Most of the datasets covered the second half of the twentieth century. The results are generally in agreement with other related studies, and they point to the presence of the QBO in the tropical stratosphere along with the regions of induced changes in residual circulation, temperature, or ozone amount across extratropics. The SSC [11-year sunspot cycle] imprint is located mainly over similar locations showing that the cycles’ signals are mutually affected there.
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how ENSO [which is also affected by solar activity] affects the QBO
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Effects of Launaea taraxacifolia on Lead - Induced Hepatotoxicity in Rats
Lead is a cumulative, multi-systemic toxicant which affects major body systems; it is associated with number of changes that include impairment of liver function. This study investigated the effects of extract of Launaea taraxacifolia on sub-chronic lead poisoning in adult wistar rats; it evaluated the effects of one of dimecarptosuccinic acid (DMSA), Vitamin C (VC); and combination therapy (DMSA + VC, DMSA + LT) on sub-chronic lead poisoning in adult rats. This was with a view to providing scientific basis for the use of L. taraxacifolia in the management of lead poisoning. Sixty rats (180-200 g) of both sex were randomly grouped into ten (n=6). One group was allowed free access to distilled water only, while eight groups were allowed free access to lead acetate (2 mg/ml) in drinking water, for 5 weeks consecutively. Seven out of the eight groups were later administered Launaea taraxacifolia extract (50, 100 and 200 mg/kg, p. o), DMSA, DMSA + LT, DMSA + VC and VC only for 21 days consecutively. The tenth group was administered LT (100 mg/kg) for 21 days, and later allowed free access to lead acetate in drinking water (2 mg/ml) for 5 weeks. Blood sample was collected and analysed for blood lead level (BLL), urine lead level (ULL), Alanine transaminase (ALT), Aspartate transaminase (AST), antioxidant activity of the extract [Reduced gluthatione (GSH), catalase and superoxide dismutase (SOD)] on day 20 and 22. Liver was harvested and processed for histological study: There was significant decrease in BLL, ALT, AST and glucose level in lead exposed rats treated with LT (100 mg/kg), however, combination of DMSA with LT or VC showed marked improvement than LT, DMSA or VC alone. GSH, SOD and catalase level were significantly increased in lead exposed rats treated with LT (p<0.05). Micrograph of the liver revealed remarkable improvement in the lead exposed rats treated with LT. In conclusion, leaf extract of Launaea taraxacifolia has ameliorative and preventive effect on hepatotoxicity of lead poisoning, thereby supporting its ethno medicinal use in the management of poisoning.
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Screen Skills Ireland – A Year in Review 2018
21 Jan 2019 : Nathan Griffin
Screen Skills Ireland has published the online version of its 2018 Review, which was launched at Screen Ireland’s Production Catalogue event last week.
"A Year in Review 2018" looks back over the key initiatives, events and support offered in 2018 by Screen Skills Ireland to the wider industry, and outlines the plan for developments in 2019 and beyond.
Firstly, Screen Training Ireland renamed and rebranded as Screen Skills Ireland. This new name was chosen as it is said to better reflects the remit and range of activity of Screen Skills Ireland, while also aligning the organisation more closely with education policy in Ireland, and with its sister agency, Screen Ireland. Screen Skills Ireland works with recognised industry professionals, both nationally and internationally, to identify, design and deliver skills development programmes for Irish professionals to enhance their expertise in film, television, animation, VFX and interactive screen content.
During 2018, Screen Skills Ireland developed and delivered over 47 courses and allocated 628 places to participants. Of these training places, 58% were allocated to female participants and 42% allocated to male participants. Screen Skills Ireland also supported 23 masterclasses and workshops at leading Irish film festivals and seminars in partnership with various organisations throughout the year. Approximately 2,434 places were provided at these events throughout the country, and of these, 43% were allocated to female participants and 57% allocated to male participants. Through the Bursary Award Scheme, 25 Irish industry professionals availed of funding to attend high-level skills development programmes and workshops with international organisations.
In November, Screen Skills Ireland launched Careers in Screen, a portal designed to proactively map career paths within the industry, the first of its kind in Ireland. Careers in Screen is a comprehensive online resource for new entrants and industry professionals, providing an overview of the screen industries, a breakdown of departments and the key skills required for all roles across Film, TV (drama and non-fiction), VFX and Animation.
Careers in Screen is an evolving resource that allows new entrants and industry professionals in Ireland to see at a glance the large range of roles available in the screen industries, as well as map out career paths and progression opportunities. In collaboration with industry professionals, the portal is managed and updated by Screen Skills Ireland, aiming to provide a snapshot of the industry as it currently stands, providing new entrants and professionals with guidance on where and how to best address their career objectives. careersinscreen.ie
The organisation also saw the appointment of Gareth Lee as Manager of Screen Skills Ireland. Prior to joining Screen Training Ireland, Gareth worked at Ballyfermot College of Further Education where he ran the Animation degree programme and most recently established the inaugural diploma programme in 3D & Visual Effects — the first programme of its kind in Ireland. Gareth also brings a vast wealth of experience in training from his role in Animation Skillnet where he established the network which has delivered industry-focused training solutions for the Animation and related sectors in Ireland.
Speaking about SSI’s year in review, Gareth Lee, Manager of Screen Skills Ireland, said:
“2018 was a year of change for our organisation: renaming to Screen Skills Ireland to reflect a renewed focus on skills development; listening to the wider industry and their needs at the Screen Industry Education Forum in November; and the creation of the Careers in Screen website to map the broad spectrum of roles and routes available across film, TV, animation and VFX. Our Year in Review document highlights the important work of Screen Skills Ireland last year. In 2019, we look forward to working closely with stakeholders across the screen industry to build on these positive foundations and support the further growth and development of the sector.”
In relation to the year ahead, Screen Skills Ireland highlighted a number of key areas it will focus on in 2019:
Work closely with the Skills Sub-Committee to finalise, publish and begin implementing an Action Plan for the organisation that will cover the next five years.
Continue to engage regularly with key industry stakeholders in relation to the ongoing skills needs of the sector through surveys and meetings with industry consultation groups and the Skills SubCommittee.
Update and expand the Careers in Screen portal to fully capture the range of roles and opportunities within the sector and actively promote screen careers through a Screen Careers event.
Host the second Screen Industry Education Forum to bring industry and education stakeholders together to further engage on the skills development challenges and opportunities of the screen sectors in Ireland.
Deliver a range of continuous professional development programmes that are responsive to the needs of the sector across business; creativity; film; TV drama; TV nonfiction; animation; games and VFX.
Work collaboratively with other organisations to develop more work-based learning opportunities through traineeships, apprenticeships, shadowing and mentoring programmes.
Work closely with regional partners on skills development initiatives in the regions.
Drive positive cultural change through delivering skills development initiatives that support a more diverse and inclusive industry.
Work closely with national and international industry stakeholders on festival masterclasses, partnership events, networking events and bursary opportunities for international skills development.
Engage with key policy influencers and relevant funding providers on the skills development needs of the sector.
Click here to read Screen Skills Ireland’s 2018 review in full.
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INTERVIEW: Lydia
Posted on October 26, 2014 by admin.IKE
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Hi guys! so this is your 1st time as a band in the UK, am I right saying that?
Leighton: Yeah, you are true in saying that.
I was going to ask how it’s been going but I’ve heard you’ve only been able to manage to walk down a street so far.
Leighton: (laughs) Yeah, I mean we’ve only played one show so far. Well actually this is our 1st show in the UK, we played Amsterdam.
Matt: We had English brekkie on the ferry this morning.
Was it good?
Matt: It was good brekkie.
You guys are going to Glasgow tomorrow? or the day after?
Leighton: We have a day off and then we go to Glasgow.
What are you going to do with your day off?
Matt: We haven’t decided yet.
Leighton: Urm, either drive, I dunno, how far is the drive do you think?
To Glasgow? Long!
Matt: I’ve been told like 9 hours. We can’t decide if we’re gonna chill and stay tomorrow or just drive to Glasgow tonight and chill there.
Leighton: Yeah, we’re not sure.
Glasgow is great, there’s a lot to see there. I’d recommend Glasgow but…
Matt: I’m just gonna go with the flow.
Leighton: Yeah we kinda like, whatever they wanna do, we’ll just go.
I don’t know if you’ve heard but we’ve recently just had a bit of a debate on whether Scotland is still part of our country or not.
Matt: Yeah.
Leighton: Oh yeah!
Matt: Could you educate us on that?
Urm, yeah so Scotland decided they didn’t want to be part of the United Kingdom any more. So everyone in Scotland voted and I think it was like 98% people registered to vote, which you know a lot of people don’t vote often so that’s quite a bit of a thing for them. But it was very close, it was like 49% to 51% that said they wanted to stay in the UK.
Leighton: Are you guys happy about that or you just don’t give a shit?
I’m happy about it as it makes it easy for us. We don’t have to pass a border to go to their and our currency is still worth something.
Matt: That’s true. All I can say is that as Americans we did that once (laughs).
That went alright for you guys.
Matt: It’s working out
But you know we’re attached to this country so… anyway back to the questions.
Matt: Fair enough. Sorry we side tracked
If you go to Glasgow have a great time there! Their local delicacy includes something called haggis, have you heard of it?
Matt: Heard of it
Leighton: Never heard of it
Matt: I have no idea what it is I just know that that’s what Scotland people eat.
It’s herbs and sheeps stomache mushed and cooked.
Leighton: Oh I have heard of that, yeah, yeah.
So it’s like a big thing over there it’s quite common you can get it at chippys and stuff.
Leighton: Is chippy kind of like a fast food thing?
That’s a very English thing for me to say. They’re like fish and chip shops.
Matt: That’s so cool that you guys call it a chippy! (laughs)
Yeah they deep fry this mush they call haggis.
Leighton: Have you had it?
I tried it once, yeah. I wouldn’t try it again. Are you guys going to try it?
Matt: Yolo! I’ll give it a shot, when in Rome.
That was my thought.
Leighton: If somebody has it I’ll try some but I’m certainly not going to buy it myself.
No, it’s not really worth the spend. You could probably share one between the band.
Leighton: Yeah, maybe we’ll just buy one for the whole package. For the whole tour.
Yeah that’s probably the best idea because you’re not gonna want much.
Matt: Haggis on Lydia! (laughs)
Leighton: Everyone can just take one bite.
You guys should take a video of you guys trying it.
Leighton: Yeah, we should.
Matt: Unless we like all really hate it and make nasty faces and Scott gets really mad at us on the video.
Everyone else will love it though. So, what is the weirdest thing you’ve ever eaten?
Leighton: That’s a good question, I dunno.
Matt: In Arizona we’re right next to the mexico border so there’s a lot more wild meat selection, in specifically beef selection. You go to a normal shop and you can get beef and chicken but in these shops you can get beef cheek and beef tongue.
I’ve heard there’s a thing that’s a cow tongue taco.
Matt: It’s a de lengua, it’s awesome.
It’s awesome?
Matt: It’s called de lengua, it’s a lengua taco and it’s really good. I know it sounds barbaric but it’s so good. That’s probably one of the weirdest things I’ve eaten.
Leighton: I’ve heard it’s good but not through anybody in Arizona just from like food network and whatever. They’re always like beef taco or they’ll be eating weird parts of the brain or something, they’ll be like “This is the best part of everything”.
Have you tried brain?
Both: No
Neither have I.
Leighton: I mean it would depend on how many drinks I had, but I might try some brain, maybe.
It depends if it was like battered.
Leighton: Buttered? You can see through butter.
Batter, is that English?
Leighton: Butter?
No, you know like in fish and chip shops when they cover the fish in batter.
Leighton: Oh, batter!
Matt: Oh okay (laughs) yeah.
So, moving on what’s the scariest experience you’ve ever had?
Matt: This morning our bus driver hit the breaks really hard unexpectedly (laughs). That was a super scary experience, but not the scariest experience ever, I just thought we were all gonna die.
Leighton: That’s your scariest experience?
Matt: It came to my head
Leighton: That’s a terrible experience
It’s a very recent scary experience.
Matt: Okay, one time I was at a carnival, you know those things, it’s a ride and they latch you in and the ship spins upside down it does a circle like that. As I was hanging upside down I felt my latch come up one click and I thought I was gonna die, now I’m here, there it is.
That is a near death experience in my opinion. What about you Leighton?
Leighton: I don’t know I guess going with the whole touring theme we were driving at like 3am and we were in the middle of nowhere and it was snowing like crazy and we were going like 70mph and this deer just jumped like right into our car, almost through the window, that was pretty intense.
But you missed the deer right?
Leighton: No, just totalled the van, totalled everything. Totalled the deer, yeah everything was just blown out and so we were stuck on the side of the highway forever. That’s more of a shitty story than like a scary story (laughs).
You guys formed in 2003, right?
Leighton: Yeah around there.
And you went through a few name changes?
Matt: Member changes.
What kind of effect does that have on a band? Members coming and going.
Leighton: We never really had like a set members for the band. I’ve always just liked to play with different people and it keeps it new and fresh and new ideas and whatever. Now we have a little bit more of a structured setting for the band.
Matt: Even so, not so much, it’s like me, him and our guitar player. We hire bass players and drummers and whatever else we need.
Leighton: We just hire our friends to come on tour with us cause we think it’s fun instead of having a set line up.
Matt: We’re not like a rock band type thing, we’re three guys who write songs together, none of us really have like defined roles of what we have to do so it makes it easier having less people (laughs).
Leighton: In the studio sometimes he plays bass, sometimes I’ll play the keyboard part. We just all like writing songs and then we’ll go on the road and hire people.
So it’s kind of like chilled out positions?
Leighton: Yeah absolutely.
So why did you call yourselves ‘Lydia’?
Leighton: That is a very simple story. People always ask me that and they think it’s going to be this long drawn out story but me and an old guitar player that first were playing together, starting the band. We were playing a show at a pizza shop, our very first show and the guy came out that was running the pizza shop and said “Hey you guys need a name, you can’t go on without a name” like we were just showing up trying to play shows and we didn’t have a name so he said “How about Lydia?” and everyone around us in the band was like “That’ll work”.
And it stuck!
Leighton: Yeah.
And it works! So kudos to him
Leighton: It stuck pretty hard I guess.
Their latest album release ‘Devil’ is available to purchase here.
So you’ve been together for a while now, what advice would you give to new bands?
Matt: Go to college! (laughs)
Leighton: I dunno, it’s such a weird industry, it’s just you gotta like…yeah, I dunno.
Matt: We do it because we’re insane and we’re obsessed, you know. We would be useless to the world if we weren’t doing this and so we gotta do it. And if that’s how you are you’re the kinda kid out there and you gotta do it, you really only have one choice, you’re gonna do it and if not you’re gonna do something else. It’s not super glamorous all the time, definitely not, it’s a lot better than working at McDonald’s though.
Was college not something you guys did then?
Leighton: I went to college for a year, but it was more so just waiting for the guy I started the band with, he was a year younger than me so I was just kinda doing it so I wasn’t sitting around for a year.
So you always wanted to write and play music?
So what’s the music scene like back in your home town?
Matt: We don’t know much about the home town thing. We don’t play a lot of local shows, we mainly tour and stop by at a Phoenix show. But all of the people who love us in Phoenix show us tons of love and from that point of view Phoenix seems awesome.
Leighton: Yeah it’s cool.
So there is a music scene?
Matt: Absolutely!
Leighton: Yeah, it’s a really big music scene. Phoenix is what the 5th or 6th biggest country in the US.
Matt: City, yeah I had to throw that out there.
Leighton: Biggest city in the US
Yeah I’ve actually only been to Florida, I went to Disney world so that’s my knowledge of America.
Matt: Florida was groggy with the temperature, huh? It’s so humid there.
Yeah it’s not the nicest weather I’ve ever been in. So what are your personal favourite songs from your latest album ‘Devil’?
Leighton: I dunno if I can really give a personal favourite, we wrote them all so it’s a bit biased, you know.
Matt: It’s like choosing your favourite kid really, I couldn’t tell ya.
Is there a specific one you like to play live?
Matt: ‘Knee Deep’ is the first song I ever wrote that I hear now and I’m like that doesn’t suck.
Leighton: That’s a good one
So how did you put your setlist together for this tour?
Leighton: urm, we’re playing a whole stuff off multiple records and we only have 35 minutes so we had to narrow it done the best we could so I don’t know, how did we pick it?
Matt: Fist fights, brawls. I’m just kidding. We just kinda decided what was the best combination of what we wanted to play and what kids over here hopefully wanted to hear.
So did you try to put a mix of the old stuff with the new stuff?
Matt: Absolutely, yeah.
Leighton: We’re playing a good amount of old stuff.
So just as a closer what are your plans for the rest of this year?
Leighton: We’re writing and recording like currently, we have about 3 songs recorded already and we’re gonna record more and hopefully before the end of the year we’re gonna have new material out for the spring of next year
Is that going to be a single or?
Leighton: It’ll be a full on record.
We’ll definitely keep an eye out for that, thanks for your time guys!
Matt: Absolutely.
Interview by Jess Pearson.
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Sean McVay: Setting the Table
January 28, 2019 Leave a commentLos Angeles RamsBy Mark Schofield
Perhaps the marquee matchup of Super Bowl LIII pits one of football’s brightest young offensive minds against a veteran defensive genius. The chess game between Sean McVay and Bill Belichick is going to be a battle for the ages. Both men have shown over the years (a few more years in Belichick’s case) the ability to dictate to an opponent what they want to do, and then take advantage of the ensuing situations. For McVay, one of his abilities as a coach is to set up a defense over the course of a game for one big play.
This is something that many have looked at, including myself in this piece for Pro Football Weekly, looking at how McVay used jet motion and movement over the course of the Los Angeles Rams’ Week 13 game against the Detroit Lions, and in particular during one specific drive. But the Lions game is just one example. Looking back at the NFC Championship Game, you can see how over the course of that contest McVay was setting up the Saints’ defense for one big play, a play that would be the Rams’ longest run of the afternoon.
Like all offenses the Rams incorporate a mix of zone and power blocking designs into their offensive system. But if left to their druthers, the Rams would run almost exclusively outside zone, and with good reason. In the 2017 season, for example, they were the league’s best outside zone blocking team according to Pro Football Focus, averaging 1.7 yards per carry before contact, and 5.6 yards per attempt. They also tallied 33 explosive rushing plays on outside zone (defined as runs of 15 yards or more), eight more than the second-best team.
This success continued into 2018. Los Angeles ran the outside zone play 280 times this year, most in the league. They ran for 1,555 yards on outside zone plays, most in the league, and out of those yards, 946 of them came before contact, again most in the league. Those 280 attempts resulted in 84 first downs and 14 touchdowns, most in the league. Finally, they averaged 5.6 yards per attempt and…stop me if you’ve heard this before…most in the league.
The Rams use two ways to set up this play. First is through their usage of personnel. Los Angeles is almost exclusively an 11 personnel team, using it on 87% of their offensive plays through the regular season and the playoffs. This number is actually down from the regular season, during which they ran 11 personnel on 90% of their offensive plays. By staying in this formation exclusively they dictated the defensive personnel, which in turn gave Todd Gurley the highest percentage of light boxes to face in the running game.
The second way the Rams set this play up is through the use of motion. Whether pre-snap (jet motion) or post-snap, when the tight end sifts or slices across the formation to throw a block, the Rams use movement as both eye candy and to create opportunities down the road.
But during the playoffs, the Rams have relied a bit more on C.J. Anderson in the running game, who is more of a north/south runner. As a result, Los Angeles is using inside zone more in the running game. However, that does not mean they are getting away from the movement and motion elements, they just take on a different feel, and McVay can still use them as part of a way of setting up the defense for a big play late in the game.
Let’s start with one example, a 1st and 10 play from the first quarter of the NFC Championship Game. On this occasion the Rams come out using 12 offensive personnel, with Jared Goff (#16) under center and Anderson (#35) behind him in the backfield. The Rams have their two tight ends to the right and a stack slot look to the left:
Here is the design for this inside zone running play:
Brandin Cooks (#12) comes in jet motion across the formation, showing the defense a potential jet sweep. Gerald Everett (#81), the tight end on the wing, executes the sift or slice block across the formation, aiming for the defensive end. Anderson takes the handoff on the inside and looks for a crease to form:
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As you can see on both the sideline and the end zone angles, the motion from Cooks causes the linebackers to slide a bit, giving the offensive line some advantageous angles when aiming for the second level defenders. Anderson puts his head down on the inside and picks up five yards, giving the Rams a manageable second down situation.
Early in the second quarter the Rams turn to the same look on a 2nd and 2 play in New Orleans Saints’ territory. Only this time the tight ends are paired on the left side and the stack slot formation is to the right. However, the design is the same. Cooks comes in jet motion, Everett slices to the backside defensive end, and Anderson looks for space on the inside:
This time Anderson puts his head down and staying on the left side, he picks up four yards. As you can see from the end zone angle, however, the motion causes the linebackers to slide in response, and there are creases available backside if Anderson or Gurley ever decide to plant their left foot in the turf and bend this run to the backside:
Something that the New England Patriots need to keep in the back of their minds this week.
So now we advance into the third quarter. Having shown the Saints’ defense this inside zone design twice out of 12 personnel, McVay tweaks things a bit and runs it out of their base offense, 11 personnel. With 8:04 left in the third quarter the Rams face a 2nd and 6 on their own 29-yard line. They line up with Goff under center and with three wide receivers in the game, using a tight wing slot to the right with TE Tyler Higbee (#89) in the wing, and another stack slot look to the left. While the personnel is different, the design is largely the same:
This time Robert Woods (#17) comes in jet motion, and it is Higbee slicing back towards the defensive end. Yet again Anderson gets the carry and he puts his head down, picking up another four yards:
By now you are probably wondering: Where are we going with this? So far we’ve seen three plays gain a whopping 13 yards? Is this really the explosive Rams offense Patriots fans should be worried about? Are these the plays you called me here to read about? Four and five yard gains? Please tell me you have something more, Mr. Schofield. These men are about to play the game of their lives. Please tell me that you haven’t pinned their hopes to a slice block.
With 4:55 remaining in the third quarter the Rams are in the red zone, facing a 1st and 10 on the New Orleans 17-yard line. The visitors are trailing 20-10, and break the huddle using 11 personnel once again. This time, they start with a trips bunch on the right:
However Woods shifts his alignment, moving into a stack on the left:
This brings us to the 2×2 alignment the Rams used on the previous example. Now this is what they run:
Woods comes back in jet motion, Anderson aims inside, and Higbee slices across the formation. Exactly like the three previous plays. But their is a difference. Higbee is now serving as a lead blocker, as Goff fakes a handoff to Anderson and flips the ball to one of the other receivers on the field, Josh Reynolds (#83). Reynolds takes the pitch from Goff and follows Higbee around the left end. The TE throws an excellent lead block and Reynolds is not stopped until just short of the goal line:
This was the Rams’ longest run of the game, and tied a 16-yard run by Mark Ingram for the longest of the game. Los Angeles would score a touchdown a few plays later to cut the Saints’ lead to three.
This sequence is part of the madness of McVay. He is incredibly adept at hitting a defense with the same look a few times, and then countering with something when the time is right. By showing the Saints this inside zone look early and from a few different personnel groups, he prepared them for the eventual end-around to Reynolds, and his receiver nearly punched it into the end zone. McVay is a master play-caller, and the Patriots need to be ready for his impressive sequences come Super Bowl LIII.
For more on the Rams’ offense listen to the Monday edition of the Locked On Patriots podcast.
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Show #8031 - Monday, July 8, 2019
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Sarah Hoban, a freelance writer and editor from Barrington, Illinois
Holly Ahronheim, a stay-at-home mom from Royal Palm Beach, Florida
Ryan Bilger, a student from Macungie, Pennsylvania (whose 2-day cash winnings total $63,849)
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EVERY PITCHER TELLS A STORY
A LA WHAT?
A PAST-ICHE
"J"-6
(Alex: 6-letter words starting with the letter "J" as correct responses.)
ON WEEKENDS
VISIT A NATIONAL PARK
A la Hongroise, or this nationality, means cooked in a cream sauce with paprika
Astronomer Fred Hoyle coined this term for the event that started it all 13.8 billion years ago
My sleep routine was way off due to this after I flew from Australia to Los Angeles
On Saturdays, you have 2 opportunities to catch this show on Broadway & hear songs like "Do You Want To Build A Snowman?"
"Maybe I'll Pitch Forever" is by this HOFer & Negro Leagues star who threw 3 scoreless innings in the majors at age 59
This term for items sold alone is from French for "according to the menu"
Of an error, a gap or a new discovery, what a lacuna in a historical text is
Having rough notches, like Alanis Morissette's "Little Pill"
A-list celebs have been known to hit a flea market held on the 2nd Sunday of every month outside this 90,000-seat stadium in Pasadena
Denali Park & Preserve has 6 million acres of wild land & a 20,000' peak in this state
Last name of "Ya Gotta Believe!" author & World Series champ Tug, who had a country-singing son named Tim
The origin of the phrase a la boulangère, for a dish cooked this way, honors the woman who did the cooking
Want to see a passionate history professor? Watch this late comic work himself up to a scream in "Back to School"
A chapter on used cars in "The Grapes of Wrath" uses this word for a rundown auto
This 2-word term for your fanciest & newest suit of clothes implies that you'll be donning it on the weekend
Head up to Washington state to the park created in 1899 & named for this volcano, the state's highest mountain
"Imperfect" is by Jim Abbott, who though born with one hand, gave up no runs & 5 walks pitching one of these in 1993
This American dish is chicken with a mushroom cream sauce; if you want to be fancy, you can call it "poulet royale" in French
For extra quaintness, a London pub opened in 1667 isn't just called Cheshire Cheese but these 2 words "Cheshire Cheese"
Pertaining to Jupiter
On the 7th day--as of 2014--a change in these "colorful" laws let Mass. liquor stores open 2 hours earlier, at 10 a.m.
In 2019 vandalism during the govt. shutdown damaged many of these trees in their Mojave national park
2015's "Pedro" describes his journey from the Dominican Republic to Boston, the World Series & the Hall of Fame
A dish prepared a la Normande likely uses plenty of this famed apple brandy from Normandy
Insert 3 letters in "antiques" to get this 1906 act that preserved U.S. archaeological sites from looting
An info-gathering Congressional excursion paid with public funds
One fine Saturday, this "O"hio liberal arts college will move up from Div. III & take down Alabama football, 70-21; go Yeomen!
Here's one of the 2,000-plus natural stone formations giving this Utah national park its name
Ryan Holly Sarah
MULTI-WORD SOUNDALIKES
FICTIONAL LANGUAGES
(Alex: You have to identify the author who created these languages.)
A sandpaperlike nail file, or a group of trustees at an Atlanta university
The word trident comes from a Latin word meaning "having 3" these body parts
Beneath the white fur, the skin of this bear is black, which helps absorb heat from the sun
Melted resin used to close envelopes, or a way to tell the people upstairs they are too loud
Replacing his brother Shemp, this actor joined the Three Stooges' lineup in the early 1930s
In England, in days of yore, the head of this wild swine was a centerpiece of the Christmas feast
William Augustus, the Duke of Cumberland, was known for his harsh suppression of the rebellion here in the 1740s
Valyrian,
Braavosi
Mrs. Michael Douglas, she says the Greek letter in her name is due to her grandmother's Greek origins
These two groups of things seen here have soundalike names if you run the words together
Putting $1 on Justify-Gronkowski-Hofburg at the 2018 Belmont won $229.74 in this bet as the horses finished in that order
Meerkats are members of this mammal family that's noted for its cobra-killing capabilities
Emperor Augustus Caesar was the adopted heir of Julius Caesar & was followed by this emperor, his chosen heir
Gobblefunk, used by a Big Friendly Giant
She rose to fame on "Downton Abbey" but has since blossomed on the big screen as Cinderella
An illegal tackle in football pulling at the jersey neck, or someone with laryngitis dialing the phone
Adopted by the U.S. in 1793, it's the 3-word phrase for territorial waters; now most countries claim more
More than half the tigers left in the world are this subspecies from India
Welsh painter Augustus John made many portraits of famous people, including this poet & fellow countryman
Mangani, language of the apes
This Irish-raised lass was just 13 when she got her first Oscar nomination, for "Atonement"
The Bill Evans Trio showed the power of jazz piano in albums like "Sunday at" this club named for its Greenwich Village location
Sharing about 93% of their DNA with humans, these monkeys, native to Asia, have long been used in medical research
Last name of banker Augustus, who bequeathed the bulk of his fortune to advance music education
Nadsat, spoken by Droogs
[wagering suggestions for these scores]
NORTH AMERICAN CITIES
In 2017 this city celebrated its 375th birthday & the 50th anniversary of an event that made it an international tourist destination
$32,801 $0 $32,400
3-day champion: $96,650 3rd place: $1,000 2nd place: $2,000
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The “Crushing” 1998 Vin Scully/Mike Piazza Interview Isn’t That Crushing
Mike Piazza has written a new book in which he claims that Dodgers fans turned against him during his ill-fated contract negotiations in 1998 because Vin Scully asked him about it during a Spring Training interview.
“He wasn’t happy about it. And Scully’s voice carried a great deal of authority in Los Angeles…The way the whole contract drama looked to them (the fans) — many of whom were taking their cue from Scully — was that, by setting a deadline and insisting on so much money, I was demonstrating a conspicuous lack of loyalty to the ball club. I understood that.”
As he started the season poorly at the plate, “Vin Scully was crushing me,” Piazza concluded.
The ‘crushing’ 1998 Scully interview on my alma mater KTLA is available online. Watching it, it can only be hoped that Mike hasn’t seen it, and had it (mis)interpreted for him by someone who has since been treated for paranoia or at least crippling – maybe the right word is crushing – tone deafness.
(C) KTLA
“We’re visiting with Mike Piazza, and I’m sure neither one of us would like to talk about it, and yet the millions of people out there watching are interested in it, it is a big story, so consequently we have to address it. And that is, you’re down here, playing out the last year of your contract, coming up hopefully for you will be a multi-year multi-million dollar contract. Is that on your mind?”
Crushing.
Piazza answered generically about trying not to think about it and being blessed with a great family and agent. Twice he said he hoped “it’d just take care of itself.” He went to nearly every cliche except ‘Employees Must Wash Hands.’
Then Scully went for the kill:
“Well to be honest, you know, the outsiders, myself and all the other fans, we pick up a newspaper: ‘Piazza issues an ultimatum,’ and you say ‘whoa! What is that all about?”
While branding himself just a fan, Scully has actually done something that a fair reporter does (and so it is rarely seen or heard or done). He offers Piazza the opportunity to say that the characterization as an “ultimatum” of the timeline he set for the Dodgers to sign him to a new deal – a very fair thing for Piazza to do with free agency seven months away – was inappropriate or incorrect.
Piazza will have none of it. He doesn’t criticize the reporting, he doesn’t criticize the Dodgers. He gives it the old c’est-la-vie: “We basically just made clear our intentions that for me, I mean, I made all along that I would love to work things out with the Dodgers. We didn’t mean it to be threatening, we didn’t mean it to – unfortunately it comes out that way sometimes – but again, I stated I would love to be a Dodger for my whole career and I hope we can work things out and again that remains to be seen. If for some reason I happen to be a free agent at the end of this year I hope the Dodgers are the number one team that’s interested. So, again those things, unfortunately sometimes get a little bit misconstrued in the paper and they come out maybe a little bit aggressive but for me again, I try to be very professional about it and realize my job is on the field and my representative, what he does is his job, so I have to trust him on a lot of things.”
Scully, Question Three:
“Sure. Well ultimatum is a heavy word. That’s the kind of the thing, ‘if you don’t do this, we bomb you.'”
Here that stinker Scully goes again, giving Piazza a chance to say it’s not an ultimatum, that he doesn’t want the thing to drag through the season and potentially ruin 1998 for him, or the Dodgers, or the franchise for the next decade (or, as it proved, all of the above).
But instead of taking this second opportunity to paint himself in a good light, Piazza again tries to have it both ways. Instead of saying ‘it’s not an ultimatum,’ or ‘I don’t think of it as an ultimatum,’ or ‘the Dodgers have unfairly leaked this to make me look bad,’ or even ‘Vin, you’re being unfair to me,’ he again tacitly accepts the term: “Well, again, that wasn’t the intention at all, we just wanted to make clear that for me, again, I basically came up through this organization and my intentions are to work things out and it remains to be seen. But again, as far as I’m concerned, it’s done, it’s over with, I’m here to play baseball, I’m signed to play through this year and I’m going to go out there and give 110% as far as not short-changing myself, the fans, or the organization. And everything else, again, remains to be seen.”
Ah, but that’s when Scully absolutely destroys Piazza.
“Absolutely. And well said.”
At this point Scully literally turns the interview to the question of Piazza’s knees, and then how many stolen bases Piazza had in 1997, and the next we hear of this almost milquetoast chat, it’s fifteen years later and this – not Piazza’s intransigence in negotiations nor the lunkheadedness of the Dodgers’ then-new owner Rupert Murdoch – this Scully interview is what induced Armageddon at Chavez Ravine.
Scully was understandably mystified. “As God is my judge, I don’t get involved in these things,” he told The Los Angeles Times. “I can’t imagine I would ever put my toe in the water as far as a player and his negotiations.
What Piazza was trying to do in the interview, of course, is exactly what he has so belatedly and unfairly accused Scully of so many years later. He was trying to influence Dodger fans. He wanted them to rally to his side. He wanted them to help him pressure the team to give him the money (now a ridiculous-sounding $105 million over seven years – $15,000,000 a season). He didn’t want to issue an ultimatum, but he wanted them to think there was an ultimatum dictated by circumstances and he had done all he could to avoid it and would continue to do so and gee don’t the Dodger Dogs smell good?
Again, one hopes Piazza hadn’t seen the interview and simply had it recounted to him by somebody who didn’t get it. You know: somebody who doesn’t understand English. That Piazza had a totally hit-and-miss record with, and understanding of, the media (if asked in 2000 to identify the most cooperative MLB star and the least cooperative one, my answer each time would’ve been “Mike Piazza”) suggests otherwise.
The sadness here is that until the release of his new book, Piazza’s exit from Los Angeles had been seen as one of the sharpest downhill turning points in the years between Kirk Gibson’s homer and the day the franchise was wrested away from Frank McCourt. If Dodgers fans did have it in for Piazza – because of Scully or their frustration or the shape of his mustache – they quickly turned. For nearly all of the last fifteen years he had been viewed as the victim in the equation, and his departure as an unnecessary and uncorrectable mistake.
Until, that is, he went and blamed Vin Scully, of all people, and forever made it look like Rupert Murdoch was the good guy in all this.
Tags: Frank McCourt, Keith Olbermann, KTLA, Los Angeles Dodgers, Mike Piazza, Rupert Murdoch, Vin Scully
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Just another crybaby overpriced unproFUSSYinal athlete …
By Go Fuck Yo'Self on February 14, 2013 11:33 pm - Reply
BB was a commentator, not an athlete. But other than that, right on.
By -v- on February 17, 2013 11:45 am - Reply
This is really deplorable behavior on the part of Mike Piazza. It’s just to sell his book which he probably had little influence in writing. I feel sorry for Lonnie Wheeler, the co-author, to have had to sit down and listen to this whiner about how he felt when playing on the team, and how he didn’t get along with teammates, and how Vin Scully ‘crushed’ him during an interview in the last season with the Dodgers. If he really wanted to play for the Dodgers, then he should have just accepted the terms and not given a time frame for resolution. Contract negotiations are difficult enough without the added pressure of putting a time limit on it.
And who is to say our illustrious Mr. Murdoch did not leak the story and call it an ultimatum in the first place. I would not put it past the man to soil the negotiations. Look at all the phone hacking that went on under his nose. Since Mike Piazza did not dispute the charge when given the opportunity, he has no cause for stating what he did about Vin Scully who clearly gave him chances to set the record straight.
This is a clear case of trying to make yourself out to be a victim when you really didn’t make the grade you promised you would. He failed in that season to produce the 110% he promised. And now it has turned out to be a publicity stunt to draw attention to his book. By the way, I wouldn’t buy it.
Great article Keith. Vince Scully is a man of great integrity and I do not believe anything otherwise.
By Mary Caruso on February 14, 2013 11:50 pm - Reply
This is like being mad at God for putting the ocean too far from my house.
By Greg on February 15, 2013 12:00 am - Reply
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I started the book last night – I’m up to his first full season with the Dodgers. I’ve always been a HUGE fan of catchers – Fisk & Piazza – my top two. That Piazza came up through the Dodgers who were MY TEAM until Murdoch bought them made it a double source of fun for me. As a kid who grew up with Vin Scully in her ear every night listening to games on the radio – this who thing makes my heart hurt.
BUT – I agree with your interpretation Kieth. I also agree with your description of Mike as the most and least cooperative player. He was always complicated – he’d have some fantastically fun and insightful conversations with Jim Rome on the radio one day, then clam up and be totally Mr Media/Image savvy coolness the next. I didn’t care though – what mattered to me was what he did on the field and in that way he never disappointed me. Nor did Fisk who has always been a cantankerous New Englander with a mighty chip on HIS shoulder here and there in interviews too.
The book so far is a fun read mostly because it mirrors my memories as a kid growing up watching baseball in the same era as Mike (he’s just three years younger than me). It is well told, but he also comes across as more disillusioned and defensive than I would have expected.
Unfortunately for Mike – Vin Scully will win out in the take back from that interview just about every time. As he should. No one classier or better at his job than Scully.
By Christina Nowacki on February 15, 2013 12:30 am - Reply
Good article, Keith. In other words: from-way-downtown-bang.
By section426 on February 15, 2013 11:22 am - Reply
I can remember a Dodgers pitcher at the time saying that the staff hoped that he got a hit in his first at bat so that he could concentrate on calling the game not his hitting. But to blame VIN SCULLY? How ridiculous!
By Steve Wehmhoff on February 15, 2013 12:33 pm - Reply
Even though I am a long time SF Giants fan, Have always liked and respected Mr. Scully. He is a real gentleman. Also, off topic, but somehow relevant; I have always gotten a big kick out of that other die-hard Dodger Tommie Lasorda (yea, I know, heresy from a Giants Fan, I could get booed for saying it out loud). As for Piazza; just another Whiner.
By Emerson Burkett on February 15, 2013 3:21 pm - Reply
I spend many hours each season listening to Vin Scully– he’s the most fair-minded, positive, objective person I’ve ever listened to when it comes to baseball, and probably in other matters too (though he has contributed quite a bit of money to Republican candidates– forgiven). He turns play-by-play into sheer poetry. And he’s funny too. One day at Dodger stadium there were quite a few flies buzzing around. After noting them for a couple innings Mr. Scully said: “The top of the third inning at Dodger Stadium and the flies rule the infield.” I love that guy.
By SamYanksGiantsMets on February 15, 2013 5:01 pm - Reply
The best thing about being a great guy or gal is that no matter what anyone else says, YOU know and OTHER folks with good sense know that you ARE that great person. Such a character does not have to worry about a thing, because there are indeed other grand folks who will come along and insist that you are as good as gold! Like you just DID! One’s own life is constantly blogging about WHO one is. Mama used to say, “Your friends don’t need and explanation, and your enemies won’t believe it.” Mama knew. And Vin Scully does too. 😉
By patriciaellynpowell on February 15, 2013 6:20 pm - Reply
One commentator said that the interview isn’t dispositive in this sense: Piazza referred to Scully broadcasting about him, and, in theory, he could have been critical there–but the same commentator made the important point that whatever The Vin said, Piazza wouldn’t have heard it, since he was playing. Now, that said, I have listened to The Vin (he isn’t a big ego, but he isn’t merely Vin any more, you know?) for 40 years and, if I were to criticize him for anything, it would be that he really isn’t critical enough at times (I have thought his friendship with Tommy Lasorda may have contributed him to not pointing out some obviously boneheaded moves). The idea that he would have gone after Piazza in the way he suggests is ridiculous.
This sort of thing has happened once before. When the Dodgers got rid of reliever Mike Marshall, he claimed that the fans never accepted him in LA because Scully never gave him the credit he deserved. Uh, what? The next time Marshall pitched in LA for the Braves, after being introduced, he got the biggest round of boos I have ever heard, and there was not even a hint of a trace of satisfaction in the voice of the play-by-play announcer, who happened to be … yes, Scully. Nor did he say a word on the air about Jeff Kent, if you’ll recall that bundle of cuddliness complaining that The Vin didn’t know when he was talking about when he said that Kent benefited from having a big hitter in the lineup with him. The great Jim Murray, who was one of his best friends, said that the only two players he knew of whom Scully disliked were Marshall and Eddie Murray, but I never heard any sign of it on the air. As it should be.
By Michael Green on February 16, 2013 2:59 pm - Reply
Back in the 1960’s a washed-up actor named Keefe Brasselle got in the Jacqueline Sussan derby by writing a trashy novel called “The Cannibals.” One of the characters was an egomaniacal comedian nakedly based on…wait for it…Jack Benny. Benny was such a beloved character (try to find someone saying a bad word about him) it generated a backlash against Brasselle as being both talentless and tone-deaf. That’s my take on Piazza. Vin Scully, besides being the only baseball announcer in history who is consistently “better than the game” is one of the most benign media presences anywhere. The idea of him trashing ANYBODY is ludicrous.
By Rich Procter on February 18, 2013 9:39 pm - Reply
Ya know … it’s fascinating to me how many people have to bring politics to this blog when politics has nothing to do with it, and I’ll prove it to you. If you look up donations, you’ll find that Vin Scully is listed as a donor to numerous Republican candidates. Yet Keith Olbermann thinks–as I do, and my politics are close to Olbermann’s–that The Vin may well walk on the water. So will everybody who brings up politics please do all of us who are baseball fans a favor and kindly shut up and leave?
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By Alex Vallado on January 7, 2016 4:22 pm - Reply
This piece of human waste should be shot in the head!! He is nothing more than a lowlife scumbag drug addict that does not belong in the hallowed hall for his use of PED’s, proven or unproven. his treatment of fans both old and especially the young kids that wanted to idolize him only to be smashed by his refusal to sign an autograph for them, and if u ever had the opportunity to see one, makes u wonder if he ever went to grade school, as it was totally undiscernable!!!
His total lack of loyality to the Dodgers who only signed him as a favor to Lasorda, and who he turned his back on. if it wasn’t for Tommy all this piece of waste would amount to is a used car salesmen on the Pa turnpike!!!
So i emplore u true fans to join me in Cooperstown this summer and staunchly protest his drug addict induction to our beloved Hallowed Hall. of fame!!!
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Now the River
Oh, but listen: down the far side the scrunch
of soldiers' feet in scree. Here is all the quiet
that a heaving chest can manage. Here
for five minutes, the war is over.
Listen again:
here and there. Fingertips pulled over
soft warm flesh.
Soft, pulsed nursing
At that little hooded nub of flesh,
Rose red in the dusk: trembling, ticking over
like a tiny bird
in a thicket at sundown.
Swans rear up indignantly, bugling
and sparring; beyond them the river runs away;
the cars on the bridge open their eyes wide
and bring on the night they are trying to dispel.
The rust-red steel clenches both banks, darkening
to old, clotted blood.
Unstranded, unbuckled, unworded
Love-sucked, undone, unmade, unmanned.
A husk in the starlight, turned backwards at the ends;
My hair falls loosely, as the wind blows it
here and there.
Labels: Hawthorne Bridge, Poems, Portland, Willamette River
Completing the Blessing
Sunim Soen Joon sent me a card from Korea year before last, congratulating me on passing my massage exams. Dangling from one corner of it by a narrow bit of yarn was a silver mylar cut-out of a bird in flight. The size of a nickel, maybe.
It's been my bookmark ever since. The card goes in the book, and the bird dangles outside. It picks up the light wherever it is: it looks, in fact, like a little flake of bright sky fallen to earth. Its tail has a kink in it now, and the yarn is badly frayed. It won't last forever. I'm thinking of it as Tibetans think of blessing cords and prayer flags: when it finally frays completely, and the bird is (as we say) lost, the blessing will be complete.
It's how I'm thinking about death, as well: as the completion of the blessing. "For a word to be spoken, there must be silence," says Ursula Le Guin's wizard. "Before, and after."
Labels: Massage
Going to the grocery store on Sunday afternoon is not efficient. The store is full of the indecisive, the poor planners, the amateur shoppers. They run aground with their shopping carts, mouths agape, in the middle of the aisles, flummoxed by the choice between thin spaghetti and vermicelli. They back slowly away from shelves, murmuring to themselves, unaware that they're backing into you, and then even when they become aware, reacting groggily, their reflexes dimmed. It's clearly, for many people, a stressful and difficult thing. Most people have their shoulders hunched and their heads down.
I love grocery shopping. All of it. I love the food, the prodigality of an American supermarket, all that produce and meat, all the color and the bright lights and the cleanliness. I love the soaring ceilings. I love being able to look at people, all the people jumbled together. There are always at least a few people of surreal, intense beauty. And a few people who are looking about them, joyfully alive.
Food is miraculous to me these days. I'm cooking more than I ever have, and discovering a delight that many people learn young, but which I missed: that I can make all those things that I usually buy ready-made -- make them cheaper, and better, than restaurants and packaged food. The fact that I can make something as simple as chicken soup fills me with wonder. And the whole store is full of secret ingredients for such things.
The checker is a stout, goggle-eyed woman with faded blond hair, an eastern European, stolid and inexpressive. She dutifully asks me if I found everything I was looking for.
"I did," I say happily. She looks up at me, curious. And a light seems to blossom there. She's not smiling, exactly, but we've become aware of each other. In some other lifetime we knew each other. We were children together, once, and balanced on the railing over a brook, dropping leaves into the water. Even farther back, lives before, we were lovers. One of us buried the other, but it's so long ago we no longer remember which was which.
She hands me my receipt. I thank her. I want to take her hand and say, "I remember, too!" Except of course I don't, I don't really remember. I'm just making it up.
Still. Outside the store the sky goes up and up. The early winter twilight. Pale blue, and dark trees. All the light is being gathered into the air.
Lose Six Inches in a Week!
I lost six inches around the waist last week. What a terrific diet!
Well, strictly speaking it wasn't the diet. And the inches were virtual. After the two rapid inches I lost, I seem to have stalled out at waist measurement between 44" and 45". Which is fine, so far; I'm still on schedule. What's changed is my goal. Remembering that I used to wear levis with a 32" waist, long long ago, I was thinking that I was looking to lose 15" total from the 47" I started with. Which is a lot.
But last week I realized that my 45" waist is now fitting comfortably into my supposedly 38" Levis. Which means that the "waist size" of the jeans and the sizing of my waist are not the same thing at all. If that proportion (45/38) holds, I really have only 7 inches to go. Which makes more sense all round, so to speak. I couldn't really picture where all those fifteen inches were going to come from. So the official goal of my diet has become a waistline of 38", not 32". At any rate, when I get there I'll see what I see. Which should be considerably less than I see now.
How I Will End the War
I will catch a rocket in the air and fly with it
into the sky. I will be a tracer, a beautiful line;
Between my thighs the chemical witchery
will burn, burn for vengeance. But I will soar
up and still up. I will be the glow, the memory
of dates eaten in a violet twilight back when love
seemed a power to reckon with. In my hands
the fuse will glitter like a sparkler drawing patterns
against the summer dark. Remember?
I will not drop. I will go so high that the sky
will darken and the stars will lift their startled heads
and the beautiful blaze of anger will surge through
my fingers and my nipples and still higher and higher
while the fountain of sparks runs for the touchhole;
and when we explode into tatters
The quiet evening will be marked by lovely
falling stars that are little pieces of me, and children
will point at them, at the tiny dropping fires winking out.
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Scholars sometimes talk -- seriously, so far as I can tell -- about a fabulous beast they call The General Reader. The non-scholarly reader who reads the books put out by the university presses. When you're writing your book about the adoption of Dantean tropes into 13th Century Lithuanian liturgical exegesis, your editor may tell you, you want to bear in mind The General Reader, who may not know all the works of Philenius the Younger, and may need to be reminded of the exact wording of the riparian statutes of Basil IX.
This harmless fantasy of a mass readership is one of the more endearing foibles of academics, whom I find an appealing lot, for the most part. But I bring it up as an introduction to our own variant of The General Reader, The Non-Blogging Blog Reader. I have one. (I had two, at one point, but I convinced one of them to start blogging, so now I have only one.) My prize possession. He signs himself "Bill." (No, no link. Haven't you been listening? He doesn't have a blog!)
Bill commented, Annihilation is my sharpest craving. Certainty that the next moment will be just like the last is something I can't abide. "Coffee, deliver me!"
And this led me to think again about craving, and to wonder whether all craving is not a craving for annihilation. I don't remember Freud's late work on thanatos and eros very well (if I ever read it: maybe I just heard the cool kids talking about it.) But in a certain frame of mind the only convincing alternative to endless continuity is death, and the hunger for change becomes the hunger for death. That death. A large death that is very like the Little Death. A gathering of all frustration and desire into one flowering: and then -- unimaginable, but deeply desired, peace.
As one gets older, one of the terms alters, and a new fear creeps into the equation. What if your frustration and desire is not great enough to flower? What if you are unable to die that death? What if the only death available is the long, slow ebb, draining away into triviality, irritability, and whining?
I used to go to strip bars and get drunk. I thought of it then as running away from death. The whole point of the dancers was that they were young and fearless, and had no part of age or death. With the help of a few beers I too could become fearless. And there we all were, having escaped from death together. I could buy them drinks and we could build towers of tavern matchbooks and tell each other stories, and I would live forever. They were lovely and they didn't give a damn and they didn't plan a thing, and I loved that about them.
That was a long time ago. I still think of them fondly. But to return to craving and death: I didn't actually want them, not to have them. I wanted to desire them, that's all. I wanted to stir desire up to its highest pitch -- and then walk away from it. Why?
After I quit drinking, I went a few times to the bars and had a club soda, but I found that without the alcohol the transaction became just weird and pointless. What on earth was I doing there? These people didn't particularly like me; I didn't particularly like them, we had nothing to talk about. I wandered away, and have not really been tempted in that direction since. The alcohol, which I had thought of as incidental to the whole experience, was in fact central to it.
I think what the alcohol did was disable my awareness that I was not, in fact, going to die that night. That I could not actually escape continuity. That this experience itself was a continuation, more of the same, just another in a series of unsuccessful debauches. (Any debauch that you live to the other side of is unsuccessful, really.) Without drinking I could not escape my own history.
Now, as a Buddhist, I have to wonder: was I closer to a true perception drunk or sober? Buddhism holds that continuity is a delusion. The world actually is new every moment. We are actually, whether we see it or not, radically free, now and always: we only imagine ourselves at 8:20.20 AM to be the same person we were at 8:20:19 AM.
I wonder if the real intention of Buddhist meditation is not to get really, truly, roaring drunk, and stay that way.
Labels: Alcohol, Blogs and Blogging, Dharma, Meditation
Today a horrible deadness came over me, in the afternoon. It was all sun glare and freezing weather, and I craved sugar and annihilation in a way I have not craved them for many weeks. I wrote:
Strange buds have grown in my throat, until they stick out my mouth; inarticulate fronds, nodding wisely, dumbly. I have only nonsense and failure. Sometimes the loneliness is so cold. There is nothing to do but nothing. Wait. Wait for another turn.
This evening Tori called from the hospital to say they were okay, but that she and her partner had had an accident on the freeway this afternoon. Getting on the freeway, she had veered to the shoulder, apparently, hit gravel and lost all traction: the car hit the divider on the right, spun across the three lanes, hit the divider on the left, and came to rest in the left lane. Collided with nothing else. They're fine now, though of course they'll be sore tomorrow.
I can't help connecting the distress I was in with the accident, which must have been happening at about that time. I don't believe in that sort of thing, particularly. But it certainly was an overwhelming fit of -- something.
Anyway. Grateful to have my daughter & her partner still in this world. But a little shaky.
Well, what do you know. Memphis is in Tennessee, just as Chuck Berry claimed. In the southwest corner of it, on the Mississippi. And what's more -- late-breaking news! -- the state of Tennessee extends all the way to the Mississippi! and it sits square on top of the states of Mississippi, Alabama, and Georgia, like a lintel.
(How, how can I have looked at maps of the US over and over and not really seen this? It's seeming downright spooky to me, now.)
And Columbia is, in fact, the state capitol of South Carolina, plumb in the center of the state. It sounds like a lovely little city. Memphis, to tell the truth, sounds like something of a hell-hole. But my responses to the South are all tinged with my horror of hot, humid weather. So are my responses to the East Coast, for that matter. I moved to Connecticut in late August, some 25 years ago, and could not believe that human beings voluntarily lived in such a climate. It was clearly simply uninhabitable. I was appalled to find that it did not get cooler at night. I had never lived in place that didn't cool down at night, and it gave me the horrors. It was as if the laws of physics didn't work there. In the daytime you moved through a miasma of hot, thick, soupy air, full of weird brown stuff. And if you opened a window at 3:00 AM and took a deep breath, you took a deep breath of -- hot, thick, soupy air, full of weird brown stuff. God. I still shudder to think of it.
(One good thing about it is, that I vowed that upon my return to a civilized climate I would never complain about hot weather again; and since I moved back to western Oregon, twenty years ago, I never have. There is no such thing as hot weather here. Weather that once would have made me fretful and cranky now leaves me placid and smiling. I know that I have only to wait till 3:00 AM to draw a breath of cool, pleasant air. Life is good.)
This Louche Transaction
I have always chafed at the phrase "believe in God." It sets up such a dualism: me here, God there, and between us this louche transaction of belief.
The contemporary poets I read are mostly bloggers, and mostly, like me, they're in rebellion against overly precious, obscure poetry. Our unwritten credo might be: if this would make boring impenetrable nonsense written out as prose, chopping it into lines will not make it good poetry, no matter how many clever effects you build into it and how much verbal riffing you do.
We don't have a lot of patience with poetry that yields its surface meaning reluctantly. Too often it does so because there isn't much meaning there in the first place, and it has to make what there is last.
I say all this, not to argue that our poetry is better than theirs ("our" poetry is always better than "theirs," and who cares?) but by way of urging you to read a poet who doesn't at first look like one of us. Her poems do yield their surface meaning with reluctance. But there's more and more and more in them. And if you read them aloud, which I urge you to do, their music will astonish you, and the words will keep resonating in your head for days Her use of rhyme and alliteration is magnificent, and her meter is the most skilled and disciplined of any poet I read (with the possible exception of Dick Jones'). Say these stanzas over to yourself a few times:
glass spice-vials
chromatophores
of curry/ cumin/ turmeric
Tintinnabulary
processions of jars
glink-glink reassurances
The poet is Julia Martin, of Clumps and Voids. She is also, not coincidentally, a brilliant aphorist; check out the sidebar, "herr keppler's notebook," for such asides as:
Professionalism is not saying "asshole" until you hang up.
Mammograms are S&M without a safe word.
The appearance of Clumps and Voids has been one of the delights for me of 2008.
Labels: Blogs and Blogging, Poetry
Slant Water: Meditation at the Half Moon
Sitting shamatha, my eyes unfocused;
following my breath as it leaves my body,
and appears at once again unbidden
in my pale lungs. It leaves again,
The world leans east, and the hanging sun
is edged from the window: the shadows slide away,
like clothes on the deck of a heeling clipper ship;
say some China merchant, reckoning on a killing
in tea and opium, racing for a Middle Kingdom
he can't begin to imagine.
If you think you're making no progress,
said my teacher, you're probably going backwards.
The world leans harder. The ship
labors uphill now: the sea gets steeper
by the minute. We claw for a grip on the water.
At last we can go no further, splash down
gasping in a trough of thin black fluid,
the backwash of the tilted sea, but
calm in defeat, and rocking softly, awake
at last, we look up:
Stitched loosely to a faded blue silk sky
is the broken button of the moon.
Labels: Dharma, Meditation, Poems
The South, Wrapped in Darkness
My brother and sister and I as children used to play, with great enthusiasm, "the map game" with my father. He had a world map, and a box of file cards with the names of countries, cities, rivers, islands, mountain ranges, lakes and oceans -- color coded, so which knew when he drew a card whether we'd be looking for a mountain range (yellow) or a body of water (blue). We each had a pointer, made from slender sticks that had once held the balloons they used to give away at Pietro's Pizza. He would draw a card -- we'd all note its color -- and then he'd announce, in his careful teacher's diction: "Atlas Mountains," or "Caspian Sea," or "Czechoslovakia." The first of us three to point to the place on the map won an M & M. We each of us had specialties: I specialized in mountains, so my heart leapt each time I saw a yellow-bordered card come out of the box.
In high school and college I played the marvelous historical games created in those days by Avalon Hill and SPI, played on beautifully rendered maps with superimposed grids. I was as familiar with the military problems and opportunities presented by the Pripyat Marshes of the Soviet Union as I was with the local bus routes.
But there are fuzzy areas in my geography. the places that have changed significantly are murky to me. It's hard for me to believe in the countries created in eastern Europe by the collapse of the Soviet Union: learning their boundaries and capitals seems to be beyond me. And then there's my ignorance of what by many standards is the heartland of humanity. China and India are simply huge blocks of land, to me. I know almost nothing of their provinces and geography. It's ludicrous that I know the exact shape of Idaho, with its handful of people, and nothing about the most populous lands in the world.
Prejudice creeps in. An inability to take people seriously results in an inability to learn their geography, and vice versa. I know the outlines of the states of western Europe by heart: given time I could draw them freehand with fair accuracy. Africa? Not a chance. I don't believe in the African nations, at some deep level. I think of them as made-up. It's partly a legacy of colonialism. As nation-states most of them were, of course, in some ways, made up. But the places are real enough, and so are the people who live there. I decided recently to force myself to learn the places. There's a certain circularity to this sort of insidious prejudice. If you don't know exactly where the place is, when you read about it in the paper, you take it less seriously. And then you're less likely to learn exactly where it is, because you don't take it seriously. And so on. I need to make Africa, eastern Europe, and the interiors of India and China real.
But what got me thinking about geography was reading about the Civil War, and realizing how sketchy my geography of the American South is. The rest of the country I know pretty well, but not the South. It's not an accident. The South made me deeply uneasy, as a child. I knew we'd fought a war with the South to destroy slavery. That stood clear in the light. But what had come after that was in pitch darkness. There was something that made the South impossible to speak about. I recognize it now, of course. Guilt. There were two pieces of it: one is that we held the South against its will. We were, or at least had been, an imperial power there: which called in question everything that America was supposed to stand for. And the other piece was that we had failed the slaves. Set them free and abandoned them. As the civil rights movement grew, that gradually came into focus. Light began to leak in. Memphis and Selma erupted into the news. But -- not so far as to illuminate the map. I didn't go to find them in an atlas. They were different. Not places that I wanted to exist.
So my geographical knowledge of the South remains stubbornly bad. I've tolerated a vagueness about it that I would never have tolerated about the rest of the country. I do not, for example, know which state Memphis is in, though the refrain of an old song comes to mind ("something something something, in Memphis Tennessee") which suggests it's a lot further north than I thought. There's a city of Columbia (unless it's Columbus), which is the capital of some southern state -- I think -- but I don't know which. All I know is that Sherman either burned it or tried to prevent it burning, depending on who you ask.
Of course, there are many people whose geography of everywhere is vague. My ignorance of these places only signifies because I have loved maps and pored over them all my life. And I have read detailed histories of the Civil War, complete with maps, and I still can't hold the places in my mind's eye.
So it's time to get some file cards, and drill myself a bit. By this time next week, I solemnly swear, I will know whether Columbus is actually Columbia, and what it's the capital of. And I will know where Memphis is.
Labels: Civil War, Geography, Maps
It is only a clearer example of the strangeness
of a God who creates us, and a few decades later
destroys us. We who make it alive out of the womb
may muddy the issue with guilt: we shouldn't have eaten
so much red meat. We shouldn't have smoked cigarettes.
Sure. However, that small heart that formed,
but never began to beat: nobody will lay the blame
on anyone but God. That strange and willful God.
He told Abraham to sacrifice his son, and wrapped
it in words, made it part of the covenant. A one-time deal
in the linear world of the fated kingdoms.
There are no words to help the women who see
the mute sacrifice of a bloody napkin. No one offers
a ram instead. No one explains. No one promises
a glorious kingdom. You can try again. That's all.
We walk to the water, listening,
all the world's women:
we listen for the slantwise words
of books written by men
whose sacrificial altars are
outside their bodies, who think
the Bible is talking about somebody else.
Labels: Miscarriage, Poems
After his first narrow defeat, running for a senate seat in Illinois, Lincoln was tentatively offered the position of Governor of the Oregon Territory. I wonder what would have happened, if he had taken it? We would have suited each other down to the ground, I think. We've never been much for pomp and ceremony. The shiftless get-rich-quick settlers were mostly siphoned off to the California goldrush, and good riddance: California's been saddled with that inheritance of greed and goofiness ever since. People here expected to work for a living. Lincoln's homely, shirtsleeve style would have played well here.
It's impossible to see Lincoln as a villain. Shelby Foote says, justly enough: "He would go down to posterity, not primarily as the Preserver of the Republic -- which he was -- but as the Great Emancipator, which he was not." The Emancipation Proclamation, frankly, is a miserable document, "freeing" slaves in the Confederacy (which of course it had at that time no power to do) and leaving them in servitude in the border states (where it could actually have affected them.) Lincoln, as always, was taking the practical course. He was a politician in the mold of Bill Clinton, possibly a little too quick to compromise, a little too responsive to the shifting political breezes. Fortunately for us, he was also a deeply humane and humble man. He wanted to save the Union, and he did save it, by taking on unconstitutional powers and wielding a despotism America had never seen before. In some ways the American Caesar, remarked Dave Bonta, and that's true enough: he marks the turning from the Republic to the Empire. The fact that we took as little harm from it as we did, though, was due I think largely to Lincoln's humanity. He never wanted to be a despot, and every unprejudiced person could see that. To him the issue of the Civil War was never slavery, but whether democracy could really work. He saw clearly enough that if the country split apart every time a really difficult dispute arose, a few generations would see the ruin of the whole experiment.
I have always loved and admired Lincoln. I wrote a report on him in school, in the fourth grade, I think, for which I read a simple and short biography. It's a book I'd like to see again, in the light of what I know now. Whatever it may have done with the facts, it conveyed the man.
I wish he'd come here, and never meddled in national politics again. We wouldn't have shot him. We would have given him a modest, unvisited mossy tombstone down in Salem, Oregon (marked "died 1892," say) instead of an outsize marble chair in Washington, D.C. Maybe Mary Todd would have settled down a bit here -- she would have liked being the first lady of the Territory, I think -- and his home life would have been happier. I like to think of him, old and content, wearing his slippers, reading Shakespeare by the fire. He would have done right by us, and we would have done right by him.
Labels: Lincoln
Fog this morning. Last night was clear: as I walked to the bus stop the full moon ghosted between the building tops.
Wrung and worn with love. In the last three years I've exhausted as many lifetimes: I am older than the earth. And yet younger than I have ever been. My leaves, if you could see them, are tender and Spring green. I've stopped trying to understand it.
Death is always with me. I look around Tosi's and see all the customers as they'll be in their coffins, slack-faced and shrunken; I talk with people at work and see their skeletons gently working apart, their bones nestling into the soil. There's nothing gruesome or terrible about it. But it makes it difficult to take the troubles of the workday or the discontents of the hearth all that seriously.
The days flicker by. I find myself looking more and more at the sky. Every time I go outside I have to contemplate it, puzzle over it. It has nothing to tell me, nothing that will pay the mortgage or fix the roof. But every day it sets the question over again: why, it asks, am I so heartrendingly beautiful? Until you understand that you don't understand anything.
Labels: Sky
Why a Non-Liberal Votes Democrat
It's funny that I almost always end up voting a liberal ticket, because I don't have a liberal bone in my body. I'm neither secular nor humanist. I want a small government. I don't want to improve people. I don't want to educate them so they're more like me: I don't even like government-run schools. I don't want government health-care (although I'd prefer a single-payer system to what we have now.) All this ought to put me in with the loony far right. So why did I again vote for a bunch of Democrats?
Well, because there's four non-negotiable issues, for me, and the Democrats fairly consistently take my side on all four.
One is a foreign policy that recognizes that as a general rule war is a spectacular waste of money, a crude and clumsy instrument of diplomacy, environmentally disastrous even on a small scale, and likely, on a large scale, to end humankind.
Two is an understanding of the gravity of the environmental crises (plural intended). The market is not going to solve this: it requires massive regulation and intervention. This is one of my few big-government positions.
Three is a commitment to civil rights. I take my first amendment seriously.
Four is a commitment to helping the poor. Your run of the mill Americans give maybe one percent of their income to any sort of charity. That's not enough to make even a dent. So, willy nilly, even though I find the Democrats' approach distasteful, paternalistic, expensive, and overbearing -- I vote for them. Because they propose to make sure everyone gets housed and fed.
Now, there are a couple of alternatives open to me, that still take in my four non-negotiables. One is the Green Party, and the other is the various incarnations of American socialist parties. (Nader wanders somewhere in these fields, angry and impotent.) I would vote for them before I voted for any party that stood against any of my four issues, let alone, as the Republican Party ordinarily does, against all of them. But -- leaving aside the realities of who has a shot at winning elections -- in both of them I find everything I dislike about the Democrats, only more so. Distasteful, paternalistic, expensive, and overbearing applies to them in spades. Their conviction of moral superiority reeks to heaven. You can't picture them deciding that something is too expensive to burden taxpayers with, or considering that opposition to them could proceed from anything but greed and malice. They do have a keen understanding of how deeply the Republicans and Democrats are beholden to big money, but I somehow think that if they gained a foothold and actually got some of that big money themselves, their scruples would mysteriously vanish. I don't know how to reduce big money's lamentable influence on our politics, but I don't think voting Green or Socialist will do it.
The libertarians are sometimes (though not always) with me on civil rights: I like Ron Paul, but -- they're an environmental disaster. They really just don't get it.
So that's why, although I'm not a liberal, I vote liberal, election after election. Notice to competing parties: I'm ripe for the picking. Give me something else to vote for, and I'm your man. Until then, I'm going to grimace, and sigh, and color in the little (Dem) ovals on the ballot.
Men without Weakness
"No. Shoot them all. I do not wish them to be brave."
Stonewall Jackson, responding to a Confederate colonel's regret at having killed so many young men of a particularly gallant Union cavalry force.
The cold blue eyes look down history, finding us with contempt. He gave up drinking whiskey when he found that he liked the taste of it; he gave up reading the newspapers when they started to praise him. He did take pride in winning battles, but he knew it was a sin: the victories belonged to God, not to him. In winning a battle he found spiritual ecstasy: it was, maybe, the only token of God's love he would ever believe. He exemplifies the hard cold center of the Confederate dream, as far removed from chivalry, in his direction, as Sherman of the Union was in the other. Between the two of them what was sentimental and humane in America would be ground to nothing. There was to be nothing but a wasteland, from now on, between the cold fanaticism of Jackson and the materialist imperialism of Sherman. In that devastated countryside men like Twain and Whitman would try to scrape a desolate spiritual living. It was a hardscrabble life.
Jackson was notoriously intolerant of weakness, and shot deserters without compunction. After his brilliant victories in the Shenandoah Valley -- achieved partly by marching his men so hard that they covered a phenomenal amount of ground, and began to be referred to as "foot cavalry" -- he was brought down to join the defense of Richmond. Driving himself even harder than he drove his troops, he rode all the way down to consult with Lee and rode all the way back to join his army and march down with them. He got some ten hours' sleep in four days.
What happened thereafter, in the Battle of Seven Days, perplexes many students of the war, but I don't think it would perplex many students of sleep deprivation. What Jackson mostly did during the Seven Days was fall asleep. Lee barely pulled a victory out of the fire anyway, but Jackson's veteran army, probably the best troops in the Confederacy at that point, took almost no part in it.
He loved his wife with surprising, even astonishing, tenderness.
I am rereading Shelby Foote's three volume history of the Civil War. Last month I read a biography of Grant, and I'm also in the midst of Sherman's Memoirs. I'm confirmed in the opinion I once gave, that if I were to give a foreigner one book to explain America, it would be Foote's Civil War. The Civil War is what made us what we are: it's when America hardened and set, when the dream of a New World empire triumphed over the Jeffersonian dream of a nation of independent farmers and artisans minding their own business.
People who think that it was World War I that destroyed the old order tend to forget that on this continent we had already fought a total war, a war of trenches, railroads and machine guns, a war of economic devastation, a horrible four year maelstrom that undid American civil liberties and destroyed the economy of the American South. It destroyed slavery as well, and thank God. But once a nation has practiced mass conscription, systematically eliminated its dissident press, and disappeared hundreds of its citizens, it will never, ever, be the same again.
Reading William Tecumseh Sherman's Memoirs, things began to fall into place. Why the South fought the Civil War is clear enough. But why did the North fight? "The mystic idea of the Union," explained Shelby Foote, and I thought: what the hell? What does he mean? But reading Sherman, I get it. "Union" is code for "Empire." It's all about expansion, the romance of the Reich. Sherman is high-strung and lyrical, and what excites him most deeply is the expansion of America. The dream of conquest. He began his career hunting Indians in the swamps of Florida, to make room for settlers; and after the war he hunted Indians again as the head of the U.S. army, protecting the railroads west by waging his trademark ruinous total war. That's why he couldn't bear to see the South depart. Nor can the South claim any moral high ground, here: they wanted to devour Mexico and Cuba as well. They wanted an empire in the image of Virginia, that's all, not in the image Massachusetts. An empire of planters rather than of manufacturers.
The two impulses weave throughout American history, from its earliest days. Two responses to the New World. One is: here is a place where we can finally be let alone, and put our own house in order. And the other is: here is where we shall found the new Rome, and make an empire to overawe the world.
We only want to be let alone, said Jefferson Davis. But one of the reasons the North fought was because Northerners felt there would sooner or later be a showdown anyway: why not now? Someone was going to master the continent, and then the world -- was it going to be a slave-owning planter aristocracy or honest egalitarian hardworking ingenious yankees?
But we are still here, too. The people who genuinely only want to be let alone. We want no part of war and empire. We want no corporations, no billionaires, no get-rich-quick. We don't want an enormous standing army posted all over the world. We want to tend our own garden in peace. I would appeal to the rest of the world: we've been overshadowed and our voices drowned out by the hectoring, bullying imperialists and frantically greedy capitalists, but we are still here, and our American dream is not dead either. Don't count us out. Men without weakness have their weaknesses, nevertheless, and weak men have their strengths.
Labels: Civil War, Stonewall Jackson, William Tecumseh Sherman
Look at this. You're not going to find anything more beautiful & true today.
. . . the fourth dull day of breathing greyly here amid the landscape drained of all warmth and colour, you start seeing sparks through your lowered eyelids . . .
Labels: Depression, Dharma, Jean Morris
Bringing us Home Safe
Since I've been writing about the difficult part of having parents lately, I thought I'd repost this, which I wrote a couple years ago. There's a lot that's wonderful too.
On the ride home Sunday evening, in the pitch dark, our skis back on the rack on top of the station wagon, I would sit in the back seat, longing for the warm air to make its slow way to the back seat. It would take me half an hour, sometimes, to undertake getting my ski boots off. First I had to lift the heavy left boot, still cold and wet, with snow-ice wedged between the laces, onto my right knee, which had only just gotten warm: always the cold water soaked the knee of my ski pants. Then I took my numb fingers and began working on the knots. There was all the time in the world. Another hour to home. Sometimes I'd take fifteen minutes, worrying at the knot for awhile, then holding my hands under my thighs to warm them back up for a while, then going back to it, and worrying some more. Eventually the laces would come untied, and I'd unwind them from their hooks (little slivers of snow-ice dropping onto the floor, onto the seat, onto me).
Finally I'd ease my foot out. Numb and stiff. Pull off the sock. Cradle my foot, as cold to the touch as the snow at first, in my hand. Such pleasure, to feel the warmth slowly come back, to be able to wriggle my toes. It hurt a little too. I'd stare out the window, watching the snowflakes appear in the headlights, gleam once, and streak over the windshield, back into the dark. Eventually I would lift the heavy right boot onto my left knee, and begin worrying that knot.
We never went into the lodge. We skied all day. That was what we were there for, after all. I had hot chocolate in a thermos. It wasn't very hot by the middle of the day, but it tasted wonderful. We kids discovered that we could climb down the snow-drifts and duck under the walls of the chairlift housing. There, in a secret, dark, hangar-like space, unheated but out of the wind, I would drink my cocoa. Except we always called it "hot chocolate" -- there was something vaguely self-indulgent about the world "cocoa." It was the kind of word people would use who would come up to go skiing and then hang about in the lodge with warm feet. Not for us.
(Not that my father cared about dignity. In town he held hands with us and skipped down the sidewalk. He would try to climb anything, appropriate or inappropriate -- bridges, fences, trees in someone's yard. He skipped stones across rivers with us; carried us piggy-back, as we called it; built sand-castles with us; taught us to yodel.)
All day is a long time to ski, when you're six years old. I was terribly proud, though. I skied with my legs shoulder-width apart, maybe, but the skis were parallel -- no snow-plowing for me. And by the time I was eight I took the chairlift clear up, and skied the most challenging slopes. People would remark on how little I was and how well I skied. (It never occurred to me that they were letting me hear them say that on purpose. And I would never look at them or show any sign that I had heard. But I would lift my chin and stand very straight.) And I was terribly proud of my father, in his huge baggy grey pants that fluttered madly as he swooped down the slopes. He skied beautifully. He always wore those absurd grey pants, and an ancient beat-up coat and silly bright-patterned hats with tassels, and his skis were unfashionably long and unfashionably wooden. (Short, fiberglass skis -- shorter than the people who wore them, for heaven's sake! were just becoming standard. I was crestfallen when he finally gave in and got a pair.) He was dowdy and ridiculous looking, maybe, standing still at the bottom of a slope. But no one would have thought that, watching him ski. Grace; confidence; sprezzatura, even.
Finally nightfall, and the long drive home. My Dad, no longer the dazzling skier, but now the cautious, slow-but-sure driver. Absolutely safe. He was the safest thing, the solidest, most reliable thing in the world. My confidence in him was boundless. Being his son might mean having achingly cold feet on Sunday nights, but it also meant that I knew I was safe. I didn't know, at the time, that I was lucky. I thought all fathers were basically safe. But my Dad was extra safe. He did mountain rescue and ski patrol. He did scuba-diving and spelunking. He could go anywhere, and take us anywhere, and bring us home safe. I spent my seventh birthday at the bottom of the grand canyon, having hiked all the way down. By the time I was eleven, I had written my name in the mazama registers at the peaks of half a dozen Oregon mountains, and rapelled down into the lava tube of little Belknap, and into Frog Cave, and into one cave we found once but could never locate again, on the far side of the mountains -- just an inconspicuous hole in the flat ponderosa chaparral, but it dropped into a big cavern, with tunnels snaking away in three directions. We explored them all. I gained a physical confidence that I see, with a pang, that my own city-bred kids have never acquired. I belonged in the wilderness. I belonged on cliffs, in the water, under the ground, on the ice. I might loathe and dread human beings, but nothing in the natural world scared me.
It sounds reckless, taking children into such places, but actually my father took his risks very carefully. He was endlessly patient. However long it took to get the belay just right, that was how long he took. He drilled us in what we had to know. How to fall down a snow slope. What to do if we got lost. How to make a fire. He never rushed anything. I remember vividly, still, watching him climb. He was deliberate, one-pointed. He tested every hold before he used it, and abandoned it at once if it didn't turn out as secure as he liked. There was always another route to try. There was always all the time in the world.
The contrast between the recklessness of the endeavor and its patient, deliberate, meticulous execution thrilled me, then. It still does, really. I've never left off admiring him. I still want to be him when I grow up.
The Year of White Roses
for Michelle
It is the year of white roses, whose common theme
is death of fathers. I can't be clever today. No sleep comes.
Oh, give me your hand. Walk away with me to someplace
cold and simple. I am heavy with kisses, pregnant with love,
wanting to give what I know only time gives,
wanting to take what can't be mine. Forgive me. It is still
love, as I know it, and the only thing I know.
Listen to the meltwater, old snow dripping from the eaves.
July is under January: in Joburg you can tell
because the layers are reversed, and the light
is hot on thin cotton. Today is perihelion,
our closest approach to the sun: but plainly
what matters is not how close we are but how
we are inclined. Death came to hold our hands awhile
but he is saying goodbye, and we must let him go.
Ice hesitates here in the shadows
of northern walls, but the snowmelt is already
on its way, by cloud, to Africa.
Strange, to come to the drenched hills
webbed with fog; the low, single-storied
houses, hidden under the trees, snubbed
between laurels and rhododendrons.
I was born here, and spent my childhood
yearning for space. For heights and vistas.
The raincloud broods, huge and dovelike, over
the nest of the city. Nothing ever hatches here.
Creatures eat the yolk and die in the shell.
My mother bought a grave for me,
a rectangle of putting green grass.
Eighty-four inches of wet soil waiting for me,
and a place beside her always. I'm not going
to come. Take what you can use: a cornea, a liver,
a kidney or two, and give the rest to the fire.
I'm never coming back. I'm going to the sky.
Labels: Another Country, Poems
Dark wet morning: cold rain, gray sky, leafless trees. In a subdued mood. Thinking of those I used to know, and no longer do. Thinking of how, at the grave age of fifty, I still can't visit my parents without feeling that I'm in danger of suffocating in alien expectations, in danger of my perceptions being overridden by theirs, in danger of losing my self and my way. It's none of their doing -- they can't help having their own perceptions of the world and of me, no more or less accurate than anyone's perceptions of anything, and they are very kind. But I limp away from the holidays feeling obscurely violated and lonely, at once overexposed and unseen.
And so. Hardly in the resolution-making frame of mind. More inclined to take to the hills, and find some hole under the soft dry duff in which to hide and heal up.
I'm glad of the rain and the thick drapery of clouds. I don't feel I could meet the stars on equal terms, just now.
I was so grateful to have a massage scheduled when I got home, which I did by the glow of a gas fire and christmas tree lights. A new life inside a pregnant belly. (Much is expected, little one: but you'll find your way, as we all do. And soon you'll be expecting things yourself, and you'll fondly believe these expectations are your own.)
It anchors me as few other things can, laying hands on a full abdomen, and feeling the baby move. The dream time, the long dark warmth, the mother's heartbeat like the constant sound of surf on a beach. Distant sounds. Shifts and turns. Soft walls to push against.
Maybe that's the real life, and this interregnum of separate personhood is only a necessary adjunct, an elaborate, farfetched way for the fully human dyads to blossom. We wouldn't be the only living things to flower only once in a generation.
No doubt the maple helicopters think they are starting a brave new life when they fall from the tree, whirling and swooping in the wind, and respond with horror when the flight ends and they're buried and trodden underground. They must wonder what it all was for. No way to tell them.
Now the River Oh, but listen: down the far side...
Completing the Blessing Sunim Soen Joon sent me a...
Groceries Going to the grocery store on Sunday af...
Lose Six Inches in a Week! I lost six inches arou...
How I Will End the War I will catch a rocket in t...
Craving Scholars sometimes talk -- seriously, so ...
Buds Today a horrible deadness came over me, in t...
Late-Breaking News Well, what do you know. Memph...
This Louche Transaction I have always chafed at t...
Clumps and Voids The contemporary poets I read ar...
Slant Water: Meditation at the Half Moon Sitting...
The South, Wrapped in Darkness My brother and sis...
Sacrifice It is only a clearer example of the str...
Lincoln After his first narrow defeat, running f...
Sky Fog this morning. Last night was clear: as ...
Why a Non-Liberal Votes Democrat It's funny that ...
Men without Weakness "No. Shoot them all. I d...
Dance Look at this. You're not going to find any...
Bringing us Home Safe Since I've been writing abo...
The Year of White Roses for Michelle It is the y...
Another Country III Strange, to come to the dren...
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Ready Player OneDrive
The Intrazone Episode 10 Transcript
Accept your reality – or deploy OneDrive for a better one. The facts are right here, waiting for you. Ready, Player? Your OneDrive audible mission, should you choose to accept it, begins now! This week Mark and Chris talk with OneDrive team members Jason Moore and Stephen Rose, focusing on the latest innovations, best practices for use and adoption, plus a little history retrospective. We also hear from Mr. OneDrive himself, MVP Hans Brender, forecasting his thoughts on the future of OneDrive and what to do with the old workhorse – groove.exe. This episode will self-destruct in five seconds. See photos of guests and read more about the episode on the SharePoint Tech Community Blog.
TRT: 01:15:08:00
Show Intro 00:00:00:00
Topic of the Week with OneDrive Team – 00:03:19:00
App of the Week – 00:42:10:00
Guest Perspective with Hans Brender – 00:47:55:00
FAQs of the Week – 01:00:02:00
Show Wrap / Outro – 01:12:54:00
"Microsoft OneDrive named again as a leader in Gartner Magic Quadrant for Content Collaboration Platforms," July 11, 2018. https://www.microsoft.com/microsoft-365/blog/2018/07/11/microsoft-onedrive-named-again-as-a-leader-in-gartner-magic-quadrant-for-content-collaboration-platforms/
"OneDrive - User activity within the Microsoft 365 usage analytics" https://support.office.com/article/navigate-and-utilize-the-reports-in-microsoft-365-usage-analytics-286fcf0b-ffc7-4593-8073-d7a4a5dd2b45?ui=en-US&rs=en-US&ad=US
OneDrive (main website) https://products.office.com/en-US/onedrive-for-business/online-cloud-storage
OneDrive User Voice https://onedrive.uservoice.com/
OneDrive (Microsoft Tech Community blog) https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/Microsoft-OneDrive-Blog/bg-p/OneDriveBlog
OneDrive Video Training https://support.office.com/article/OneDrive-video-training-1f608184-b7e6-43ca-8753-2ff679203132
Hans Brender https://hansbrender.com/
Bright Skies https://bskies.io/
Primary resources and social:
SharePoint site https://products.office.com/SharePoint/
SharePoint Community Blog http://office.com/sharepoint/community
SharePoint Facebook https://www.facebook.com/MSSharePoint/
SharePoint Twitter https://twitter.com/SharePoint
OneDrive Twitter https://www.twitter.com/OneDrive
Mark Kashman Twitter https://twitter.com/mkashman
Chris McNulty Twitter https://twitter.com/cmcnulty2000
Stephen Rose Twitter https://twitter.com/stephenlrose
Jason Moore Twitter https://twitter.com/jasmo
Hans Brender Twitter https://twitter.com/Hansbrender/
SPS Events http://www.spsevents.org/
SPS Events Twitter https://twitter.com/SPS_Events
SharePoint Fest - Seattle, August 20-24, 2018
SharePoint Tech Con - Boston, August 26-29, 2018
Microsoft Ignite, September 24-28, 2018
Office and SharePoint LIVE! 360, December 2-7, 2018
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Homicide Detective New Details Emerge
Keystone Games has released new information on Homicide Detective, their upcoming game set to release on PC and consoles sometime in Q4 2017.
In Homicide Detective, you’ll take on the role of a United Nations elite homicide specialist, traveling around the world solving tough crimes. Many historical landmarks will make up the backdrop for the story as you travel around, such as the London Eye, the Pyramids of Giza, and the vibrant nightlife of Times Square.
Homicide Detective breaks the mould in investigative games, skilfully blending cinematic action, gorgeous locations in fully explorable first-person 3D and the ability to utilize real investigative skills. The game has been developed with the support of actual senior homicide investigators, police and forensic experts from a number of nations, who have each worked closely with the development team to ensure that Homicide Detective is as real as it gets! The fusion of hugely experienced police officers and highly experienced game developers ensures Homicide Detective is a game to die for!
“Our aim was simple”, said Katie Bailey, Head of Art, “we wanted the player to be able to visit some of the most iconic locations in the world, from Times Square, to Tower Bridge in London, to the rainforests of Penang to the Pyramids of Egypt. We have the talents of some of the world’s finest 3D artists and programmers who have are recreating these stunning locations in breathtaking detail!”
Once the locations were created, the team enlisted the aid of senior Homicide Detectives from agencies such as the UK Police, the FBI and even Navy Seals to create “the perfect crime at each of these exotic locations”. Jane Whittaker CTO, commented “It was the most fun of the project for me. We built these amazing scenes and said to our police colleagues, what type of murder can we have here and how can the player solve it? We asked forensic pathologists, how would you go about solving this crime?. We then recreated the crimes described to us by the real experts in the field. It was an incredible experience for us to work alongside the real investigative officers and we share that insight with each and every player of Homicide Detective. The crimes you are solving are not devised by our development team but actual FBI and Police Officers at senior levels in murder investigation”
The concept behind Homicide Detective sounds extremely cool, with not many games putting you in the shoes of a crime scene investigator. For all of the negativity it receives, this was one of my favorite aspects behind L.A. Noire. Keystone Games is off to a strong start with this announcement and continued drip feed of information.
Stick with Level Down Games, as we’ll have continued coverage of Homicide Detective throughout its development.
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Growing concentrations of carbon dioxide (CO2) in the Earth’s upper atmosphere from human activities can be expected to induce a gradual contraction of the thermosphere, a change that will lower the drag on satellites but also diminish a natural destructive force for the re-entry of man-made orbital debris, according to a new study.
The study from a U.S. and Canadian science team led by the Naval Research Laboratory offers the first direct evidence that CO2 emissions from human activity are rising to the highest reaches of the atmosphere, including the thermosphere, or above 90 km (56 mi.) altitude.
The findings, published in Nature Geoscience on Nov. 11, are based on observations made with the Atmospheric Chemistry Experiment Fourier Transform Spectrometer aboard the Canadian SciSat-1 satellite between 2004 and 2012.
The observations confirm suspicions that concentrations of CO2 originating from human activity are increasing through the entire atmosphere, not just in the troposphere at 15 km and below. Prior to the study of SciSat-1 data, CO2 trends had not been measured above 35 km, the study team led by NRL’s John Emmert reports.
According to study estimates, concentrations of CO2 and carbon monoxide (CO) in the thermosphere are growing at a rate of 23.5 parts per million, plus or minus 6.3 parts ppm, each decade, which is about 10 ppm per decade faster than predicted by current simulation models of the upper atmosphere.
In the troposphere, concentrations of the greenhouse gas are increasing at a rate of about 20 ppm per decade. CO2 levels near the ground are about 390 ppm, and the study team believes that changes in the vertical mixing and transport of the atmosphere are responsible for the increased levels of carbon at higher attitude.
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Treasury ‘White Paper on Tax’ seized upon by an Abbott Government Considering Regressive ‘Reforms’
The Abbott Government's 'White Paper' on Tax could see big changes to superannuation and the overall tax mix. But the Paper seems oriented towards the Government's Ideological preference for 'small government', 'low tax' and 'simple/regressive tax' as opposed to a progressive tax system. Labor and the Greens need to enunciate a comprehensive alternative - also informed by a progressive ideology of equity and fairness. Tristan Ewins looks at the alternatives.
The Federal Australian Treasury’s White Paper on tax reform seems to have been received well by the Abbott Conservative Government.
Amongst other suggestions, it urges slashing the Company Tax rate to make Australia a more attractive place for investment.
But arguably decreased Company Tax is not the answer and will only lead to further ‘corporate welfare’.
The white paper complains that 70 per cent of Commonwealth tax revenue is drawn from personal and company taxes. But what is the alternative? A higher GST? More user pays? More austerity in the context of an-already stunted social wage and welfare state?
Dividend Imputation, Corporate Taxation, Corporate Welfare
On the good side, Gareth Hutchens of ‘The Age’ (30/3/2015) notes arguments have arisen for the potential rescission of Australia’s regime of Dividend Imputation. (tax breaks on share dividends; ostensibly to make up for ‘double taxation’)
For a start, lower Company Tax rates dilute arguments about the unfairness of ‘double taxation’. Australia’s Company Tax rate has been reduced markedly since the Keating Government which introduced the dividend imputation system. Countries such as the UK and France – which once had imputation – have now dropped the measure. It no longer appears ‘necessary’ either for ‘fairness’ or ‘competitiveness’.
To clarify: Nicholas Gruen of ‘The Age’ pointed out in 2012 that the cost of Dividend Imputation to the Australian people (as represented in the Government) of over $20 billion a year!
The result of falling Company Tax, dividend imputation and other pro-corporate measures has been much lower levels of tax paid by business, and the effective consequence of ‘corporate welfare’, in tandem with other effective corporate subsidies.
For instance David Holmes at ‘The Conversation’ has noted– “the fuel tax credit scheme to the mining industry” which delivered $2 billion in corporate subsidies for mining corporate interests in 2011 alone; and a total of over $5 billion all up.
But it goes much further than this. Corporate welfare can also be interpreted as taking the form of a falling minimum wage and a falling wage share of the economy. In Australia specifically the wage share fell by about ten percentage points since 1959. (see the associated graph via the hyperlink above) That means higher levels of exploitation of working people by business. That is, Australian workers are subsidising corporate profit through lower relative wages.
Further, there is an assault on welfare rights to ‘make room’ for effective corporate tax subsidies; and ‘punitive welfare’ , ‘work for the dole’ etc, effectively reduce the bargaining power of workers because of an insecure and desperate ‘reserve army of labour’.
Also consider the proliferation of ‘user pays’ measures. (for example for access to transport infrastructure; school ‘levies’; a higher cost of living re: water and energy etc) User pays mechanisms can only spread as a consequence of lower taxes. What we do not pay for collectively as tax payers, we will pay for (and usually we will pay more) in our capacity as private consumers.
Declining levels of corporate contributions (via tax) to the construction of infrastructure, and the development of skills which the corporates benefit from – means the burden is increasingly paid by workers, consumers and individual (private) tax payers. More corporate welfare!
Privatisation of communications, energy and water utilities and assets such as state-owned banks also saw an end to progressive cross subsidies. At the same time – progressively from the 1980s and 1990s - a more regressive tax mix (including the GST) ‘began to bite’.
Importantly, the argument that rates of corporate and personal income tax must fall because of ‘competition’ does not apply to all companies and individuals. Many companies cater to Australian markets and Australian consumers. The threat of capital flight is not universally applicable; and contributing to a ‘race to the bottom’ on corporate tax will result in spiralling and out-of-control corporate welfare. Global action is necessary to stop the existing ‘race to the bottom’ on tax.
To get the situation in perspective: Company Tax (now 30 per cent) has been reduced by approximately 20 percentage points since the time of the Hawke Labor Government.
The cost to the Australian people of this is tens of billions in revenue annually - which might otherwise have been directed towards infrastructure and education (which the corporate world benefits from after all), as well as health, social services and welfare.
Even though a return to the ‘high water mark’ of corporate tax may not be possible, an increase to levels enjoyed by other advanced economies might be doable, and would make a big difference. (nb: US Company Tax goes as high as 39 per cent; Japan 37 per cent and France 34 per cent – see HERE)
Furthermore, arguably most Australians are not so ‘mobile’ as the proponents of lower income tax suggest either. Taxes also contribute to the quality of infrastructure and services which underscore the desirability of living in particular country. This includes the professionals which some say are likely to ‘pack up and leave’ if progressive income taxes remain. Indeed the quality of education, services and infrastructure also acts as a ‘pull factor’ for investment and skilled labour.
Income Tax and GST
Treasury is also pressing for lower income taxes and a higher, less discriminate GST. (eg: apply it also to education and food)
But because apparently an increase in GST is rejected by the Andrews Victorian Labor Government we might hope for a more equitable alternative.
Unfortunately, though, it is more likely we will simply see further austerity.
The Treasury white paper apparently complains that only Denmark relies more on income and company taxation than Australia. But ‘just because other people are doing something’ is not a strong argument to follow suit. More appropriate would be to consider what –if anything – is wrong with the Danish tax system and economy.
Wikipedia states of Denmark that:
It has the world's lowest level of income inequality, according to the World Bank Gini (%),[8] and the world's highest minimum wage, according to the IMF.[9] As of January 2015 the unemployment rate is at 6.2%, which is below the Euro Area average of 11.2%.[10] As of 28 February 2014 Denmark is among the countries with the highest credit rating.
So Denmark has a strong economy. It has chosen ‘a different path’, say, compared with the Anglosphere. But its path of high, progressive taxes, labour market regulation and strong social welfare works!
Finally the Treasury White Paper has considered the threat of bracket creep, and apparently the Abbott Conservatives are considering an increased GST as an alternative.
Bracket Creep refers to workers being pushed into higher tax brackets as a consequence of inflation, and (only nominally) increasing wages. Both Labor and Liberal governments have a history of dealing with bracket creep by returning the proceeds to tax-payers through tax cuts. Though even under Labor arguably this has sometimes been dealt with in a regressive way. Higher brackets have been eliminated or cut - or raised so high as to minimise their progressive impact - and restrict (relatively) strong progressive taxation to only the most wealthy of all. Arguably this is to the benefit of the upper middle class and the wealthy; and to the detriment of working people, including the working poor. It means the working class and the poor pay more proportionately; and that those in need suffer with the constriction of the social wage and welfare.
But this is not an honest Liberal-National Federal Government. Joe Hockey made the ingenuous claim, for instance, that Australians pay 50 per cent of their income in tax.
As Ben Phillips explained at ‘The Conversation’:
“ Nobody in Australia pays 50% of their income as personal income taxation. According to NATSEM modelling, around 3.5% of those who have a tax liability actually face a top marginal tax rate of 49 cents in the dollar. Around 25% of taxpayers are paying a top marginal tax rate of at least 39 cents in the dollar.”
To summarise – Australia’s income tax system involves several brackets. Higher brackets and rates only apply after specific thresholds are met. So as Phillips insists: NO-ONE is paying 50 per cent of their income in income tax!
Hockey is not stupid. Surely he understood this. Apparently he was attempting to tap into populist anti-tax sentiment through a deceptive and false argument.
But depending on your notion of ‘the good society’ tax as a whole needs to go up; and the tax and spending mix also needs to be reformed.
Negative Gearing, for instance, benefits upper middle class investors; but does not create much in the way of new employment. And important social programs demand higher levels of social expenditure.
Crucial priority areas which need substantial public funding include:
· Full implementation of the National Disability Insurance Scheme as well as ‘lifting up’ the standards and resource base for state schools; Extend the NDIS to apply to aged disability pensioners
· A big public investment in a National Aged Care Insurance Scheme: to provide for the needs of aged Australians both at home and in care
· Investment in a comprehensive Medicare Dental Scheme
· Implement Programs to ‘Close the Gap’ on both Indigenous Life Expectancy and Life Expectancy for the Mentally Ill
· A big investment in new Public Housing stock – solving the housing affordability crisis by increasing supply
· Fair Welfare and amelioration of Poverty – Raise all welfare payments by at least $35 a week on top of the current indexing arrangements; Thereafter implement fairer indexing arrangements for Newstart, Sole Parents and Student Allowance; Relax criteria and significantly slow the withdrawal of payments for disability pensioners attempting to re-enter the work-force; Eliminate welfare poverty traps
· Restructure the Higher Education Contribution Scheme (HECS); raise the repayment threshold and lower interest on debt; suspend all debt for former students who acquire a disability which interferes with or prevents work
· Public investment in public infrastructure – Including the National Broadband Network – with Fibre to the Home Broadband
At a crude estimate these items would likely cost over $50 billion a year to implement out of an economy valued at around $1.6 Trillion.
Options to fund include Company and Income Tax reform, and withdrawal of Dividend Imputation; but also the following
· reform of Superannuation Concessions for the wealthy and the upper middle class*
· cut Negative Gearing and plough the proceeds into Public Housing;
· implement an Inheritance Tax;
· Restore the original (Rudd-inspired) Mining Tax
· Increase and progressively restructure the Medicare Levy
· Implement a banking sector tax on super profits
· Implement progressively-structured infrastructure levies on business and individual taxpayers– to provide for communications, transport, energy-related and water and sanitation related infrastructure – without regressive user pays mechanisms or inefficient/wasteful private finance
· Implement a progressively structured Aged Care Levy
The Treasury ‘white paper’ on taxation seems at a first glance to largely comprise a ‘wish list’ for Liberals pursuing an ideological ideal of small government, low taxes, and high levels of inequality. (which the Liberal ideologues put down to ‘merit’) Labor and the Greens need to develop their own responses. And hopefully this post will contribute meaningfully to that process.
*It should be noted, however, that even $1 million in accrued superannuation will provide a relatively modest retirement income of $33,000 a year. (compared with a Single Aged Pension of just over $22,000 and in the case of a couple roughly $17,000 each) This is far from grandiose – though assuming the recipients’ home is owned it provides relative comfort compared with those fully dependent on the Aged Pension. (more than $10,000/year additional income) But The Australia Institute has suggested that cuts in Superannuation Concessions - which cost taxpayers tens of billions annually – could instead be channelled into a more robust Aged Pension – lifting the full Single Rate to just over $26,000/year, and just under $40,000/year for couples. The rate at which the Aged Pension is withdrawn could also be slowed, benefitting those with smaller superannuation accounts – and especially women – who have suffered as a consequence of interrupted working lives and the devaluing of ‘feminised’ professions.
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Will Labor Stand Up against Small Government and Austerity? And Reflections on Greece, Anti-Semitism and more
above: Shadow Assistant Treasurer Andrew Leigh has been unfortunately equivocal on the issue of tax reform needed to ward off austerity under a future Shorten Labor Government.
In the following reflections the blog publisher, Tristan Ewins considers the dilemma faced by Labor on tax reform; as well as the Greek economic crisis, rising anti-Semitism and other issues. He also calls for readers to register their support for a genuinely progressive Labor Platform at this year's National Conference. Without such a Platform Labor will lack the flexibility on fiscal reform it needs in order to hold off against austerity - and instead improve the social wage and welfare
Reflecting on this week’s QandA episode raises crucial questions as to whether or not Labor will seriously resist pressures towards austerity and small government amidst a manufactured ‘debt crisis’. Tony Jones repeatedly pressured Assistant Shadow Treasurer Andrew Leigh to respond on that very question. And sadly Leigh was largely evasive in response. (probably under pressure from his Shadow Cabinet colleagues) Statements regarding a crackdown on corporate tax evasion were somewhat encouraging, yes. But Sydney Morning Herald columnist Michael West is correct to proclaim approximately $2 billion of savings over three years as ‘pocket fluff’. That tax policy is not going to ‘turn the tide’ on small government, punitive welfare and austerity. In the context of an economy valued at approximately $1.6 Trillion the effect will be relatively marginal if there is not additional progressive tax reform elsewhere. Empty rhetoric and tokenistic policies will make little difference for those who need our help. I believe Leigh is better than this - and am hoping for a less equivocal stand into the future.
Of course Liberal proclamations to the effect that it is ‘cleaning up Labor’s mess’ also need to be met with healthy scepticism. Current fiscal strains can be traced to repeated tax cuts and ‘middle class welfare’ during the Howard/Costello years. Rather than capitalising on the China mining boom, investing the proceeds for the future, Costello and Howard implemented a series of tax breaks – largely for the relatively well off – resulting in today’s structural deficit. Because from the outset it was clear the boom would not last forever, the short-term focus adopted by Howard and Costello condemned Australia to its current fiscal crisis. (nb: the fiscal crisis is not the same as the ‘manufactured public debt crisis’; debt is serviceable; but there is a need to reform tax to maintain the social wage, welfare, public infrastructure) The situation was further worsened as a consequence of Liberal opportunism over the Mining Super Profits Tax - which saw a responsible policy destroyed – further locking Australia into a fiscally unsustainable footing.
Labor’s next National Conference will take place mid-year 2015; and it is critical for Labor to reflect on what it stands for; and how it can defend services and social welfare against the Ideological Liberal drive towards austerity. There is also a need to address an infrastructure crisis – with fiscal pressures locking the country into polices of infrastructure privatisation which pass on inefficient cost structures onto the broader economy. (the consequence of profit margins and inferior costs to finance via the private sector)
What is most important is for Labor’s 2015 National Conference to endorse a Platform which keeps Labor’s options open! Locking into a small government, low tax policy will provide Labor with no room to move in response to fiscal pressures; and consequently pressures towards brutal austerity. Without a reformed Platform this year, Labor will lack the mandate to pursue the necessary change after the next Federal election. At the blogs ‘Left Focus’ and “ALP Socialist Left Forum’ last year we initiated a campaign in favour of progressive tax reform, reform of superannuation concessions and more; including an expansion of progressive taxation in a first Labor term by about $40 billion. (or by 2.5 per cent of GDP in the context of a $1.6 trillion economy)
Such a policy would see Australia only ‘edging towards’ average OECD levels of government social expenditure – and should not be viewed as being ‘too radical’. But failure to embrace a reform footing would inevitably mean sustained austerity even under a Labor government. And a lack of meaningful opposition to the fiscal policies that underscore Liberal austerity would only strengthen the Conservatives’ hand, with policy convergence on austerity, punitive welfare and the like.
Finally – the fiscal reform we have suggested here would provide scope for other progressive policies. This could include (but not be limited to)
· a National Aged Care Insurance Scheme,
· comprehensive Medicare Dental
· alleviating poverty for the welfare dependent and for low-wage workers
· properly implementing Gonski and the National Disability Insurance Scheme without resorting to punitive policies against other vulnerable groups
· developing a policy with the aim of ‘closing the gap’ on life expectancy for those with mental illness
But without progressive fiscal reform Labor could only provide the same drift towards austerity; even albeit more reluctantly. Certainly Labor could not pose as the party of social progress; and would stand to cede further electoral ground to the Greens; while also damaging its attempts to renew and inspire its membership base.
Other issues also arose from the most recent QandA. For instance the argument was forwarded that childcare subsidies only worsened cost pressures as private providers pocketed the money without passing on the savings. The obvious response is that greater emphasis on public and not-for-profit childcare would help do away with those pressures.
Similarly, it was no surprise that while the question of housing affordability was raised – and even the question of negative gearing – there was no consideration of the potential role of a big investment in public housing to promote urban consolidation (helping to address social problems like increasing transit times to work that damage families and communities); and also increase housing supply and drive down prices.
Greek Depression and the Eurozone
All these questions around austerity are also relevant for Europe, and especially for Greece. Unfortunately Germany had tried to tie an EU financial bailout package to austerity and privatisation – to the point of severely impairing the ability of Greece to repay its debts sustainably. The Social Democrats in Coalition with the Christian Democrats in Germany need to question this; and promote a new policy. With Greek unemployment at over 25 per cent, the consequence is economic Depression, loss of tax revenues, and unnecessary and extraordinary human suffering. For Greece and other similarly affected economies (eg: Spain), the answer is one of sustainable economic restructuring, and sustainable repayment of debts on the basis of full employment. The wealthy must also be made to shoulder a fair part of the burden. This must mean active industry policies around creating new export industries – that improve these nations’ balance of trade. Hence employment could be kept high, and the improved balance of trade could aid in the repayment of debts without a downwards deflationary and recessionary spiral; or forced privatisations and the like. By comparison austerity is a ‘double whammy’: hurting the Greek and Spanish people while also destroying their ability to repay debts.
Importantly there remain broader questions of disproportionalities in capitalist economies: the consequence of competitive pressures which drive constant renewal of the means of production. The Euro-zone economic crisis also provides an opportunity to question neo-liberal Ideology; and indeed to question capitalism as we know it.
Anti-Semitism Resurgent
Finally, this week’s QandA also saw a question in reference to growing anti-Semitism not only in Europe but also in Australia. Anti-Semites appear to have been emboldened by the military policies of the State of Israel in its conflicts with Hamas particularly. In Europe Jews increasingly feel unsafe – and are targeted violently ‘simply for being Jews’. But this turnaround has not resulted in the same degree of public consternation on the Left as has Islamophobia. And indeed while there is a great deal of damaging ignorance and fear with regard Islam in Australia, the Left nonetheless needs to be careful and vigilant with regard this emboldening of anti-Semitism. A new generation is being desensitised to the past sufferings and persecution of the Jewish people; and hence some may be open to historical revisionism on the Holocaust into the future.
The targeting of Orthodox Jewish communities appears to be especially fruitful for the anti-Semites – because significant numbers have always been fearful of what is clearly at variance with the ‘mainstream’ and is ‘different’. On the Left there are periodic qualifications to the effect that while we condemn the military and other repressive policies of the State of Israel, we do not accept hate crimes and violent attacks against Jews. But we need to be much more consistent and forthright. We need to confront where the current tenor of debate on the State of Israel and its policies is leading. For genuine Leftists certainly it is not in any way our intention to legitimise anti-Semitism. But we have a responsibility to confront the emerging Anti-Semitic trends just as forthrightly and consistently as we confront bigotry against Islamic communities. And just as consistently as we criticise human rights abuses by the State of Israel under its current right-wing leadership.
Closing Appeal:
Our Campaign in favour of progressive reform of Labor’s platform is approaching the goal of 500 supporters on Facebook. See HERE for our ‘model Platform’. And See HERE to register your support.
To help us ‘get over the line’ and maybe even go further depends on your support! Please ‘Like’ our page at Facebook; and let all your friends and networks know about our campaign. It is crucial to achieve a Labor Platform this year which at the very least keeps our options open on tax reform, progressive welfare reform, and extensions of the social wage.
nb: independent socialist blogger John Passant has also written a piece on the insufficient nature of Shorten's proposed tax changes. Readers may be interested in taking a look:
"Labor's tax avoidance crack down statement was the old pea and thimble trick. It wants to give the impression of doing something about big business tax avoidance (always a popular issue among ordinary workers) without really frightening the big business horses"See: http://enpassant.com.au/2015/03/03/labors-crackdown-on-tax-avoidance-shorten-fiddles-and-revenue-burns/
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1. Evening with Kathryn Ogletree, Reflections on the Bursar's Office Takeover (1:23:17)
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Kathryn Ogletree (WCAS’71, TGS’76) reflects on the Bursar's Office Takeover at Northwestern University in 1968. Ogletree was one of more than 100 African American student activists who occupied the...
2. Northwestern Football vs. Michigan, 1988 (38:08)
Final score, NU: 7, Michigan: 52. Coach: Francis Peay
4. Northwestern Football vs. Illinois, 1986 (38:04)
Final score, NU: 23, Illinois: 18. Coach: Francis Peay
5. Northwestern Football vs. Michigan State, 1986 (19:39)
Final score, NU: 24, Michigan State: 21. Coach: Francis Peay.
6. Northwestern Football vs. Minnesota, 1984 (35:00)
Final score, NU: 31, Minnesota: 28. Coach: Dennis Green
7. Northwestern Football vs. Iowa, 1984 (35:18)
Final score, NU: 3, Iowa: 31. Coach: Dennis Green
8. Northwestern Football vs. Indiana, 1984 (40:17)
Final score, NU: 40, Indiana: 37. Coach: Dennis Green
9. Northwestern Football vs. Northern Illinois, 1982 (34:59)
Final score, NU: 31, Northern Illinois: 6. Coach: Dennis Green. This game was NU's first win after 34 consecutive losses, and snapped the longest losing streak in Division I football. It also marks...
10. Northwestern Football vs. Michigan State, 1981 (42:09)
Final score, NU: 14, Michigan State: 61. Coach: Dennis Green.
11. Northwestern Football vs. Wyoming, 1979 (37:51)
Final score, NU: 27, Wyoming: 22. Coach: Rick Venturi. This was the home opener for NU, and also their only win for the 1979 season.
12. Northwestern Football vs. Iowa, 1977 (34:30)
Final score, NU: 0, Iowa: 24. Coach: John Pont
Final score, NU: 10, Iowa: 13. Coach: John Pont
14. Northwestern Football vs. Michigan, 1976 (41:13)
Final score, NU: 7, Michigan: 38. Coach: John Pont
Final score, NU: 31, Iowa: 15. Coach: John Pont.
Final score, NU: 14, MSU: 10. Coach: John Pont
17. Northwestern Football vs. Ohio State, 1971 (clip) (00:20)
Final score, NU: 14, Ohio State: 10. Coach: Alex Agase
18. Northwestern Football vs. Minnesota, 1971 (37:37)
Final score, NU: 41, Minnesota: 20. Coach: Alex Agase.
19. Northwestern Football vs. Illinois, 1971 (42:08)
Final score: NU 7, Illinois 24. Coach: Alex Agase.
20. Northwestern Football vs. Indiana, 1971 (40:10)
Final score: NU 24, Indiana 10. Coach: Alex Agase.
21. Northwestern Football vs. Purdue, 1971 (41:34)
Final score: NU 20, Purdue 21. Coach: Alex Agase. Includes highlight reel.
Final score: NU 28, Iowa 3. Coach: Alex Agase. Includes highlight reel.
23. Northwestern Football vs. Wisconsin, 1971 (52:00)
Final score: NU 24, Wisconsin 11. Coach: Alex Agase. Includes highlight reel.
24. Northwestern Football vs. Syracuse, 1971 (39:00)
Final score: NU 12, Syracuse 6. Coach: Alex Agase.
25. Northwestern Football vs. Notre Dame, 1971 (43:01)
Final score: NU 7, Notre Dame 50. Coach: Alex Agase. Includes highlight reel.
Final score: NU 6, Michigan 21. Coach: Alex Agase.
27. Northwestern Football practice, 1971 (22:39)
Practice. Coach: Alex Agase.
28. Big Ten, Big Time, 1971 (25:43)
Big Ten highlight reel of the 1971 season. Narrated by Bill Flemming. Music by the Purdue University "All-American" Band. Conducted by Al G. Wright and William D. Kisinger. NU Coach during the 1971...
29. Northwestern Football fifth scrimmage, 1971 (04:06)
Fifth scrimmage, May 1971. Coach: Alex Agase.
30. Northwestern Football first scrimmage, 1971 (39:38)
First scrimmage, 1971. Coach: Alex Agase.
31. Northwestern Football second scrimmage, 1971 (20:10)
Second scrimmage, April 1971. Coach: Alex Agase.
32. Northwestern Football third scrimmage, 1971 (14:31)
Third scrimmage, April 1971. Coach: Alex Agase.
Final score: NU 23, Michigan State 20. Coach: Alex Agase.
Final score: NU 21, Indiana 7. Coach: Alex Agase.
35. Northwestern Football vs. Ohio State, 1970 (38:10)
Final score: NU 10, Ohio State 24. Coach: Alex Agase.
Final score: NU 38, Purdue 14. Coach: Alex Agase.
Final score, NU: 48, Illinois: 0. Coach: Alex Agase. This game was Northwestern's first win of the season
Final score: NU 48, Illinois 0. Coach: Alex Agase.
40. Northwestern Football vs. SMU, 1970 (37:19)
Final score: NU 20, SMU 21. Coach: Alex Agase.
41. Northwestern Football vs. UCLA, 1970 (31:08)
Final score: NU 7, UCLA 12. Coach: Alex Agase.
Final score: NU 14, Notre Dame 35. Coach: Alex Agase.
Practice, September 5, 1970. Coach: Alex Agase.
44. Demolition of Northwestern University's School of Commerce Building (Memorial Hall) (11:00)
Footage of the demolition of the School of Commerce building. The first part is a NBC news report about the demolition and plans for the future. The second part is silent footage of the demolition....
45. Northwestern Football highlight reel, 1970 (38:33)
Games appear in order: Northwestern vs. Notre Dame, September 19, 1970, home game, final score: NU 14, ND 35. Northwestern vs. UCLA, September 26, 1970, Los Angeles, California final score: NU 7, U...
46. Northwestern Football vs. Wisconsin freshman game, 1970 (22:44)
Freshman game vs. Wisconsin. Coach: Alex Agase.
Final score, NU: 27, Wisconsin: 7. Coach: Alex Agase. This game was Northwestern's second win of the season
48. James Turner speaking on Bursar’s Office Takeover, May 9, 1968 (1:40:05)
49. Northwestern Football vs. Miami (Fla.), 1967 (28:14)
Final score, NU: 12, Miami: 7. Coach: Alex Agase. Season opener at home against #8 Miami.
50. Northwestern Answers Selma, April 1965 (1:27:26)
51. Northwestern Football vs. Miami (Ohio), 1963 (42:27)
Final score, NU: 37, Miami (Ohio): 6. Coach: Ara Parseghian. Northwestern was ranked #10 going into this game, and went up to #9 after the win.
52. Northwestern Football vs. Missouri, 1963 (22:49)
Final score, NU: 23, Missouri: 12. Coach: Ara Parseghian. Northwestern was ranked #6 going into this game, which was their season opener, but still fell to #7 after the win.
53. Northwestern Football practice game, 1962 (38:39)
This practice game probably took place in the spring, in preparation for the upcoming season. Coach: Ara Parseghian.
Final score, NU: 6, Wisconsin: 37. Coach: Ara Parseghian. Northwestern was ranked #1 going into this game, but dropped to #8 after the loss.
Final score, NU: 26, Indiana: 21. Coach: Ara Parseghian. Northwestern was ranked #1 going into this game and retained that rank after winning.
Final score, NU: 35, Notre Dame: 6. Coach: Ara Parseghian. After winning this game against Notre Dame, the NU football team would be ranked #1 in the nation for two weeks in a row
Final score, NU: 45, Illinois: 0. Coach: Ara Parseghian.
58. Northwestern Football vs. South Carolina, 1962 (34:43)
Final score, NU: 37, South Carolina: 20. Coach: Ara Parseghian
Final score, NU: 12, Notre Dame: 10. Coach: Ara Parseghian
Final score, NU: 0, Minnesota: 7. Coach: Ara Parseghian
Final score, NU: 30, Notre Dame 24. Coach: Ara Parseghian. Northwestern held on to their #2 spot following this game, ending with a 6-3 record for the 1959 season.
Final score, NU: 20, Michigan: 7. Coach: Ara Parseghian. Northwestern was ranked #2 for four weeks following this game and ended the season with a 6-3 record.
Final score, NU: 20, Ohio State: 0. Coach: Ara Parseghian. 48th Annual Homecoming. Fred Williamson member of Northwestern team.
Final score, NU: 7, Minnesota: 3. Coach: Ara Parseghian. Fred Williamson member of Northwestern team.
66. Northwestern Football vs. Stanford, 1958 (35:48)
Final score, NU: 28, Stanford: 0. Coach: Ara Parseghian. Fred Williamson member of Northwestern team.
Touchdown highlights from games against Washington State University, Michigan, Ohio State, Wisconsin, Purdue, and Illinois during the 1958 season.
Final score, NU: 14, Illinois: 13. Coach: Ara Parseghian. Northwestern won the last game of the 1956 season against Illinois, finishing the year with a 4-4-1 record.
Final score, NU: 14, Purdue: 0. Coach: Ara Parseghian. Northwestern defeated Purdue in the second-to-last game of the 1956 season, which they finished with a 4-4-1 record.
Final score, NU: 7, Illinois: 7. Coach: Lou Saban. Northwestern tied Illinois in the last game of the 1955 season. Northwestern lost every other game that season, finishing with a 0-8-1 record.
71. Northwestern Football Preview, 1955 (06:50)
Preview of the 1955 Northwestern Football season. Head Coach: Lou Saban. Assistant Coach: George Steinbrenner. Team Captain: Sandy Sacks.
Final score, NU: 20, Wisconsin: 24. Coach: Bob Voigts
73. Big Ten Conference Presents Its 1952 Football Highlights (34:11)
Big Ten highlight reel of the 1952 season. Narrated by Jack Drees. Introduction by Kenneth L. "Tug" Wilson, Big Ten Conference commisioner. NU coach during the 1952 season: Bob Voigts
74. Northwestern Football vs. Navy, 1951 (41:54)
Final score, NU: 16, Navy: 7. Coach: Bob Voigts. Northwestern beat Navy to claim the #18 spot, finishing the season with a 5-4 record
75. Northwestern Football vs. Army, 1951 (1:08:33)
Final score, NU: 20, Army: 14. Coach: Bob Voigts. Second game of the season at home. Includes marching band and cheerleader footage.
76. Northwestern Football vs. Illinois, 1950 (1:01:04)
Final score, NU: 14, Illinois: 7. Coach: Bob Voigts. A surprise win by NU against a #6 Illinois to finish out the season.
Final score, NU: 23, Michigan: 34. Coach: Bob Voigts
78. Northwestern Football vs. Pittsburgh, 1950 (33:21)
Final score, NU: 19, Pittsburgh: 14. Coach: Bob Voigts
79. Northwestern Football vs. California (Rose Bowl), 1949 (40:07)
Northwestern (#7) vs. California (#4). Final score, NU: 20, California: 14. Coach: Bob Voigts. Northwestern's Rose Bowl win. The first half is filmed in color, while the halftime show and second h...
Final score, NU: 16, Wisconsin: 7. Coach: Bob Voigts. #10 ranked Northwestern beat Wisconsin for the #8 spot, going on to beat UC Berkeley in the Rose Bowl and finishing #7 with an 8-2 record.
Final score, NU: 48, Syracuse: 0. Coach: Bob Voigts. #10 Ranked Northwestern defeated Syracuse to claim the #9 spot. Northwestern finished the season at #7 with an 8-2 record, defeating California...
Final score, NU: 19, UCLA: 0. Coach: Bob Voigts. Northwestern beat UCLA in the opening game of the 1948 season. Northwestern finished the season ranked #7 with a 8-2 record, and defeated UC Berkele...
83. Northwestern Football vs. Iowa State, 1945 (27:04)
Final score: NU, 18; Iowa State, 6. Coach: Lynn "Pappy" Waldorf. Northwestern in white uniforms.
Final score, NU: 14, Indiana: 6. Coach: Lynn "Pappy" Waldorf. Season opener at home.
Final score, NU: 42, Minnesota: 6. Coach: Lynn "Pappy" Waldorf. This blowout win against Minnesota was actually not NU's highest scoring game of the season--the team won 53-6 against Illinois for t...
86. Northwestern Football vs. Great Lakes, 1943 (29:21)
Final score: NU, 13; Great Lakes, 0. Coach: Lynn "Pappy" Waldorf. Northwestern squad includes Hall-of-Famer Otto Graham (#48).
87. US Naval Reserve Midshipmen's School, WWII (32:04)
The first film, "Drills and Exercises" shot by Lieutenant L. A. Wheeler, shows trainees in a variety of drills and exercises on land. "Training Cruise" includes an extended segment of a training c...
Final score, NU: 20, Indiana: 14. Coach: Lynn "Pappy" Waldorf. Northwestern spent most of the 1941 season as a ranked team, despite finishing with a record of 5-3.
Final score, NU: 41, Wisconsin, 14. Coach: Lynn "Pappy" Waldorf. The second game of the 1941 season. Following this game, Northwestern was ranked #8 in the nation.
90. Northwestern Football vs. Kansas State, 1941 (33:48)
Final score, NU: 51, Kansas State, 3. Coach: Lynn "Pappy" Waldorf. The opening game of the 1941 season. Northwestern ended the season ranked #10.
Final score: Minnesota, 13; NU, 12. Coach: Lynn "Pappy" Waldorf. Homecoming and Dads Day.
Touchdown highlights from games against the University of Wisconsin, the University of Illinois, the University of Minnesota, Purdue University, the University of Notre Dame, and the University of ...
Final Score: NU 0, Notre Dame 7. Coach: Lynn "Pappy" Waldorf
Final Score: NU 0, Purdue 3. Coach: Lynn "Pappy" Waldorf
Final Score: NU 13, Illinois 0. Coach: Lynn "Pappy" Waldorf
Final Score: NU 13, Wisconsin 7. Coach: Lynn "Pappy" Waldorf
Final score, NU: 13, Wisconsin: 7. Coach: Lynn "Pappy" Waldorf. Dad's Day. Northwestern in white jerseys.
Final Score: NU 0, Ohio State 13. Coach: Lynn "Pappy" Waldorf
99. Northwestern Football vs. Oklahoma, 1939 (34:06)
Final Score: NU 0, Oklahoma 23. Coach: Lynn "Pappy" Waldorf
100. Northwestern Football highlight reel, 1938 (35:39)
Touchdown highlights from the complete 1938 NU football season. In order: Kansas State University, Drake University, Ohio State University, University of Illinois, University of Minnesota, Universi...
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Below is a list of crimes reported for Paramount in the latest seven days. Keep in mind that the number of crimes reported for this time period may increase over the coming weeks as the Sheriff provides additional data.
15800 block of Downey Avenue Robbery June 30, 11 a.m.
7900 block of Madison Street Aggravated assault June 30, 9:45 a.m.
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Glorious Days: Australia 1913 - Vida Goldstein
Glorious Days: Australia 1913 was an exhibition at the National Museum of Australia that contributed to the Centenary of Canberra celebrations and explored life in 1913. It used contemporary objects, photos, paintings, advertisements and toys; cars and trams vied for space in the exhibition, with figures dressed in the fashions of the period. And visitors had a chance to visit the 1913 cinema.
Two shipping events were highlighted. Firstly items from the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, which set out from Hobart in 1911 under Douglas Mawson, were on display and revealed the terrible conditions endured by Mawson and six of his men in 1913. More positively, ships like the eagerly-awaited Aurora arrived to huge rejoicing. The passage of Australia’s naval fleet through Sydney Heads was greeted as the highlight of the year: a sign of national maturity and of the capacity to fight a feared invasion from the north.
The year 1913 has been described as hinge-year, a year in which people embraced the modern world of automobiles, airplanes, gramophones, car assembly lines, simple cameras and cinema, even as attitudes from the past persisted. It was a year in which American audiences were first exposed to cubism and fauvism at The Armoury show in New York, and Parisian audiences were initially outraged and then won over by Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring.
On the verge of cataclysmic descent into total war, the Western world experienced a huge outpouring of energy, hopefulness and creativity. And Australia, a white outpost on the edge of Asia linked by blood and loyalty to the British Empire, experienced it too. The new Federal Capital City was named Canberra in 1913, realising Australia’s confident expectation of a glorious future.
Australia gloried in a marvellous climate and outdoor leisure activities and sports. Despite a small population, Australia enjoyed great success in the world’s sporting arena, and our sporting prowess enhanced our national prestige. Everyone on the planet knew the achievements of well-known sports people like Annette Kellerman, Fanny Durack (both in swimming) and Victor Trumper (cricket).
Huge suffragette demonstration
London, pre-WW1
Australians offering support to their sisters in the mother land.
In addition to the inauguration of Canberra, 1913 also saw the final section of the Trans-Australian Railway built, early plans to harness and protect the water resources of the Murray River Basin and the printing of the Commonwealth of Australia’s first stamps and bank notes.
Australia’s many innovations in the areas of human rights, health and social responsibility made it a leader of the Western world. Universal suffrage had been in place for years, although mandatory voting by every adult citizen did not start until the state of Queensland brought in legislation in 1915. Educational standards were improving with the creation of universal & free high schools, and the creation of the country’s first free university in Western Australia. But for all its revolutionary advances, Australia in 1913 enthusiastically embraced the White Australia policy and many people had negative attitudes to anyone who was not of British extraction, including to Indigenous Australians.
The exhibition Glorious Days: Australia 1913 ended in October 2013. Achievements and ambitions that have been overshadowed for nearly a century by the outbreak of the Great War can be rediscovered in the truly beautiful book by the same name, edited by Michelle Hetherington. I had to put my young grandchildren onto the labour market to pay for it, but it was worth every penny.
I thought the book Glorious Days: Australia 1913 was published just for me! The Edwardian era is my all-time favourite era in history and the first wave of feminists are my heroes. But the women’s movement only gets a couple of pages in the book and Vida Goldstein gets only four microscopic mentions. So I had to rely on the Australian Dictionary of Biography instead.
Vida Goldstein (1869-1949) was born in rural Victoria to parents who were involved in political movements and social justice. Her mother was a suffragist, a religious teetotaller and worked for social reform. The Goldsteins moved to Melbourne in 1877 for the four daughters’ education. When The Depression hit during the early 1890s, Vida and her sisters ran a prep school to help the family’s finances.
Vida’s main interest throughout the 1890s was her school and urban social causes, work that gave her first-hand experience of women's social and economic disadvantages. It wasn’t until the turn of the century that Vida Goldstein took on a much greater organising and lobbying role in the women’s movement.
The year after Federation in 1901, the government of the newly formed Australian Commonwealth allowed women to vote in all national elections (although not yet in three of the state elections). From this position of strength, Goldstein travelled to the USA in 1902, speaking at an international suffrage conference and giving evidence before the still rather anti-woman USA Congress.
With the support of the newly formed Women's Federal Political Association, Vida stood for Parliament in 1903, becoming the first woman in the entire British Empire to do so. She failed, so she instead concentrated on a] female education and political organisation and b] her monthly journal the Australian Women's Sphere. In 1911 Goldstein visited the UK on behalf of the Women's Social and Political Union. Her speeches around the mother country, a place where women did not have the vote, drew huge crowds.
In the pre-war years, the recurrent themes in her writings were her visionary suggestions for a new social order; it was to have a spiritual foundation and be based on the brotherhood-of-man concept of true socialism and on Christian ethics. Vida sympathised deeply with labour and the cause of working peoples.
Vida formed the Women's Peace Army in 1915. Then she recruited Emmeline Pankhurst's daughter Adela Pankhurst, who had recently emigrated to Australia, as an organiser throughout World War One. Vida stood for parliament many times (1903, 1910, 1913, 1914 and 1917) until the middle of the war, the last time on the principle of international and individual pacifism.
Vida Goldstein standing for a senate seat
The poster does not say which year, so probably 1910
Long after Federation and universal suffrage had been won in Australia, Goldstein actively lobbied parliament and wrote journal articles on women’s most pressing issues such as equality of property rights, birth control and the creation of a system of children's courts. What a woman!
Ballarat Art Gallery has an exhibition until late January 2014 entitled Capital and Country. It is devoted to Australian painting in the years after Federation. The exhibition has two paintings very relevant to this post. When Melbourne-Sydney rivalry meant that Australia's new capital city had to be located in the empty bushland between these two cities, a competition was established in Dec 1912 to paint a topographically accurate view of the site BEFORE development began. In the end, the prize was won by W Lister Lister and a second prize was awarded to Penleigh Boyd, each of whom painted the view in the summer of 1913. This year's Centenary of Canberra celebrations could not have been better marked.
Posted by Hels at 3.12.13
Labels: Australia, Edwardian, history, literature, museums and galleries, women
Seems Adela Pankhurst was the daughter of Emily Pankhurst?
I saw the exhibition and yes, it was a glorious era. But how could they not have known about the imminent descent into total and catastrophic war?
Iron Lady Emmeline Pankhurst had three daughters who were in the women's movement with mum.
Daughter Christabel ran the WSPU, but the organisation split in 1913 and the other two daughters, Adela and Sylvia, left. The Iron Lady got sick of Adela's independent streak and shipped her out to the colonies.
I didn't like Adela's politics, but at least she worked very hard here.
The Edwardian era was one of great progress in science, literature, the visual arts, architecture, education, politics and fashions. They thought they were the cleverest generation ever born, especially in Australia.
Could they have guessed what was coming in 1914? What could they have done about it anyhow? Noone in Europe got it right :(
Hello Hels, We must be cautious when judging other times by our own standards but it seems that America and Australia were alike in tending to exclude certain groups from societies that were starting to show the world their economic and cultural influence.
Sinclair Lewis' 1922 novel Babbitt shows how readily people who wanted to enjoy the bounty were brought into line with these exclusionary policies.
I suppose it depends on which groups were being excluded. If you mean women, that battle had largely been won before the Edwardian era. All the federal and state governments in Australia had quietly granted universal suffrage, even if they blocked equal pay for decades.
If you mean non-whites, be they Asian or indigenous communities, I couldn't agree with you more. What a disgrace - we fought for good pay and conditions for the working class because equality was important. And excluded non-whites!!!
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Hmm it appears like your website ate my first comment (it was extremely long) so I guess Ill just sum it up what I wrote and say, Im thoroughly enjoying your blog. I as well am an aspiring blog writer but Im still new to the whole thing. Do you have any helpful hints for first-time blog writers? Id certainly appreciate it.
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I have to assume your blogging passion is Edwardian history, since you are reading my posts.
So I would advise you to read the top five academic journals and popular history magazines _every_ month to see what historians are saying about your favourite topics. eg what was Goldstein's relationship with the Pankhursts?
Why did Goldstein not get into Parliament?
Was pacifism a viable response in WW1?
I have added a reference to an exhibition in Ballarat Art Gallery called Capital and Country: the Federation years 1900-1914.
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Oligotyping analysis of the human oral microbiome
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Myself, Jessica Mark Welsh, Gary Borisy and Susan Huse, have done a comprehensive (re)analysis of the human oral microbiome data generated by the Human Microbiome Project using oligotyping. Our findings are published in PNAS:
http://www.pnas.org/cgi/doi/10.1073/pnas.1409644111
Meanwhile, Carl Zimmer just published an inspiring article mentioning our study, with a great introduction that would be very helpful to anyone who wants to understand the historical issues surrounding bacterial diversity analyses through the 16S rRNA gene-based approaches:
http://phenomena.nationalgeographic.com/2014/06/25/the-zoo-in-the-mouth/
What I will write is going to be some negligible musings about our impressive findings in avery general sense.
Oligotyping is a method that is most efficient when applied to closely related taxa. We have been using oligotyping to reveal diversity patterns of closely related taxa in high-throughput sequencing datasets by mostly analyzing reads that are lumped together in a single genus or a 3% OTU. But this time, we wanted to analyze the entire human oral microbiome dataset using oligotyping. To do that, we oligotyped 6 major bacterial phyla from the human mouth: Actinobacteria, Bacteroidetes, Firmicutes, Fusobacteria, Proteobacteria, and Spirochaetes, which constituted more than 99.75% of all oral microbiome data set, and corresponded to about 6 million reads generated from V3V5 region of the 16S rRNA gene. Briefly, we oligotyped each phylum individually, and merged oligotyping results into a large matrix for further analysis.
We could analyze an entire phylum with oligotyping (instead of a genus or family) rather easily, because the diversity of even a phylum is quite low in our humanly habitats (such as those within the mouth, or gut) compared to other environments (such as marine or soil samples). To give a visual clue, following figure shows the overall entropy for reads in the HMP dataset that were classified as Actinobacteria (each peak indicates a nucleotide position with high variation):
In comparison, the following figure is the entropy analysis of reads that are classified into phylum Acidobacteria from a soil sample. There are much more entropy peaks, which tells us about the richness of variable sites within this data set:
An irrelevant side note: Compared to the human oral microbiome dataset, reads from soil have almost no conserved region across the length of V3V5 region shown here, which is a great reminder of how much diversity we miss from diverse environments when we use primers designed and tested for less diverse environments.
Just like pretty much every other analysis we have done with oligotyping so far, the analysis of human oral microbiome also allowed us to explain the diversity of very closely related taxa that sometimes distributed very unevenly across habitats. For instance, Fusobacterium from Fig 3 demonstrates this phenomenon very nicely. Not only it shows how important subtle nucleotide variation can be, but it also brings many questions into one’s mind regarding more fundamental and theoretical quests within the field microbial ecology.
The bars on the left-side show the distribution of 6 oligotypes that are all identified as genus Fusobacterium across 9 mouth sites, namely subgingival plaque (SUBP), supragingival plaque (SUPP), saliva (SV), palatine tonsils (PT), keratinized gingiva (KG), throat (TH), buccal mucosa (BM), hard palate (HP), and tongue dorsum (TD). On the right side, you see the sequence similarity of these oligotypes. One thing that jumps out from this figure is the distribution of that red and orange organisms. From the legend you can see the orange is F. periodonticum, and the red one is also F. peridonticum 98.8%.
That “98.8%” postfix is a way to say “the closest thing we found in the HOMD database for thsi oligotype was F. peridonticum, but this is clearly something else“. And something else it is: while well-characterized and made-it-into-the-database F. peridonticum is found almost everywhere in mouth in high abundances, it is her sister, F. peridonticum 98.8%, who reigns specifically samples collected from keratinized gingiva.
Identification of Fusobacterium is the best you can get with the RDP classifier, one of the best classifiers available that can classify short reads up to genus-level and the one that is used by most studies analyzed the Human Microbiome Project data. Instead of the RDP classifier, we used a more ad hoc approach to annotate the representative sequences of our oligotypes using the Human Oral Microbiome Database, a very comprehensive database maintained by Dr. Floyd Dewhirst of Forsyth Institute and that’s how we could identify the “species” within Fusobacterium. But oligotyping results show that even that wouldn’t have been enough. With RDP results alone, clearly all these bars would have been one color. With the blastn+HOMD results alone, organisms distinguished by red and orange would have been the same color. With both approaches, the identification of the sister Fusobacterium that does better at keratinized gingiva would have been impossible. “Well, how about OTU clustering at infamous 97%?” you may ask. Unfortunately, in this particular case it wouldn’t have given us anything better than the RDP classifier either, since the right panel on the figure reminds us that the representative sequences of all 6 oligotypes are more than 97% similar to each other.
I find it a bit depressing to think that we mostly use taxa or OTUs identified at 97% similarity threshold in our attempts to create our models, generate and test our hypotheses regarding the fundamentals of ecology, or simply try to identify smoking guns of disease states.
This figure, as insignificant as it is in the grand scheme of things, shows that a very small amount of variation can result in completely different functions once again. Then one has to wonder about the fact that, for instance, a UniFrac analysis would have treated the orange and red organisms almost identically, as they would have been very close to each other in the “common phylogeny” even if they could have been identified as distinct organisms as we did through oligotyping.
Yes, 16S rRNA gene is not the ultimate marker to identify each different microbial genome in an environment with all the sensitivity and specificity issues associated with it. But with our general bioinformatic approaches we are not much better than the poor 16S, as we can’t fully exploit the data we have, even when the regions we sequence happen to be sensitive/specific enough to say more about the ecology.
Results of our analysis in this study will not surprise the most. I think anyone who knows anything about microbiology could appreciate the importance of subtle nucleotide variation. Yet, we had to deal with random sequencing errors that poisoned our precious diversity estimates by inflating the number of operational taxonomic units we found in our dataset, and to kill a beast, we summoned another one. But I guess the salient point I would like to finish with is that our study demonstrates once again that a comprehensive understanding in microbial ecology through marker genes must include a fair treatment of subtle nucleotide variation. I hope the ecologically important information oligotyping helped us recover from the human oral microbiome will intrigue other investigators to take a second look from their microbiome data sets.
These are truly exciting times to work with microbes, and I thank every scientist whose work allowed us to do what we can do today.
Oligotyping analysis of the human oral microbiome was published on June 25, 2014 and last modified on June 25, 2014 .
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"The Man who is possessed of this excellent Frame of Mind, is not only easy in his Thoughts, but a perfect Master of all the Powers and Faculties of his Soul: His Imagination is always clear, and his Judgment undisturbed: His Temper is even and unruffled, whether in Action or in Solitude."
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LG Announces K7i Technology to Expel Mosquitoes
September 28, 2017 GADGETS
LG Announces K7i Technology to Expel
LG announced yesterday a new phone called K7i, a phone that comes in low specifications and is directed to the Indian market and comes a new technology is the expulsion of mosquitoes.
The K7i phone has a rear part that generates ultrasonic waves through which mosquitoes are expelled and LG says that the technology is safe and has been used in some of its air conditioners and some washing machines and televisions.
The K7i comes with a 5-inch screen with 854×480 resolution, an unmatched quad-core processor, 2GB RAM, 16GB internal storage with 256 GB microSD card support.
The phone comes with a rear camera 8-megapixel camera and front 2-megapixel camera and a battery of 2500 mA and operates Android Marshmallow and will be available for sale in India for $ 121.
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Open To Ideas
By: Stuart Cross|Published on: Oct 3, 2017|Categories: Growth, Influencing, Stuart's World|
We moved into our new house five months ago. The day after we moved in, when there were still boxes on the driveway, I heard a knock at the door. A man, who introduced himself as Shane, told me that he ran a plant nursery and was delivering locally. He then asked, given that I had just moved in, whether I would be interested in buying from him.
Shane was so positive, enthusiastic and interesting that, before I knew it, he had opened up his van and was showing me samples of box shrubs, bay trees and olive trees. I didn’t buy at that point, but agreed that he should pop by whenever he happened to be in the area.
Shane visited us for the third time last week and we eventually bought several items from him – a cloud box shrub (pictured), an olive tree and a pair of skimmia shrubs.
Before Shane visited, I had no interest in any of these plants. I had no ‘need’. Yet, yesterday, I happily handed over £500 to Shane. (He told me to focus on how much I’d saved, rather than how much I’d spent!)
The truth is that I, like most buyers, am open to ideas. The buying process, even for business-to-business buyers and internal buyers, has a significant emotional side to it. We might like to think we’re analytical, independent self-servers, but in reality, we’re all persuadable.
The key for “sellers” is therefore to make sure that they’re proactively and enthusiastically sharing ideas and possible solutions. How effectively are you offering new, interesting and compelling ideas to your customers?
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FeaturedNewsOn CampusParking ServicesTransportation
UNR increases parking permit rates, changes PackTransit hours of operation
Taylor Johnson — April 23, 2019
Taylor Johnson // Nevada Sagebrush
Students board onto PackTransit’s BlueLine on Thursday, April 18. PackTransit will reduce hours of operations for the 2019-2020 school year.
Correction: In the original article, the Nevada Sagebrush stated the university will only be selling 600 parking passes. Horton corrected the Nevada Sagebrush, clarifying the number of excess permits by FY22 will be reduced to 600, rather than the 1,336 excess permits available as of today, Friday, April 26.
The University of Nevada, Reno’s Parking and Transportation Department will increase parking permit rates by three percent and is changing PackTransit’s hours of operation for the 2019-2020 school year.
“At the time, I committed to an annual review of the University Parking and Transportation budgets to evaluate the need for smaller, incremental increases each year,” President Marc Johnson said in an email sent to university faculty, acquired by the Nevada Sagebrush. “I have completed this review. Because the unit is self-supporting, it does not receive any state funding and must cover the increases in operational expenses through the revenue raised from permit sales. Due to increases in routine operating expenses and rising construction costs, additional funding is needed.”
The new parking permit fee will be between $60 to $700. The Parking and Transportation Department reported they will only have around 600 excess parking permit compared to the 1,336 currently available. Some of the new revenue will go toward the new Parking Complex, which will be available in summer 2021. The garage will house 700 to 1,000 cars.
“Because the Parking Department is a self-supporting unit, we do not receive any state funding and must cover the increase on our operational expenses through the revenue raised from permit sales,” said Director of Parking and Transportation Services Michelle Horton. “During the Great Recession we were opposed to raising rates because people weren’t getting raises and … because of inflation and bond payments and the deferred maintenance, it’s now time to implement a permit fee increase. I understand that any kind of permit increase is tough for students.”
Horton said the permit fee increase is going toward deferred maintenance, including replacing asphalt, filling potholes, getting new lighting and investing in new bumper blocks.
PackTransit is also reducing its hours of operation due to insufficient funding. PackTransit’s hours of operation will be from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Monday through Friday in August. Two shuttles will have 12 stops in 30-minute loops. Students will have to wait 15 minutes before being picked up by the shuttles.
In February 2018, the Nevada Sagebrush reported the PACKTransit shuttle system was in debt by more than half million dollars and was projected to lose another half million dollars. At an Associated Students of the University of Nevada Senate meeting last year, one plan was proposed to decrease costs by around $385,000. The plan was denied by ASUN and the Graduate Student Union. In 2019, Horton confirmed PackTransit is still in debt.
Johnson said the revenue which is produced from transportation services is not enough to cover expanded hours. The transportation department reached out to student organizations to see if they are willing to pay a fee for the services but students decided not to fund the expanded hours.
Horton said PackTransit receives limited funding. Horton has a contract with the Highlands Apartments, East Campus Residents, Younion Apartments and the Sterling Summit. They provide annual funding for the SilverLine to pick up students living there. The BlueLine was funded by permit holders but Horton said the permit holders were not reliable for funding. Currently, BlueLine is now funded only by the Parking and Transportation Department.
President Johnson approved an increase of parking permit fees in Spring 2018 for the 2018-2019 academic school year. There was also an increase in parking permit fees in 2011.
“I think students will be concerned to see the [PackTransit] times limited, but I think this will also allow students to use other resources such as Campus Escort and the Campus Cadets,” said ASUN President Anthony Martinez. “ASUN believes in affordable higher education, so the raising of the parking passes is not something we are in favor of, but this is also something we do not legally have control over.”
It is unclear how Campus Escort and Campus Cadets will fill in for PackTransit due to the time changes.
Horton advertised the new U-Pass system, which will begin operating in July. Any student, faculty and staff member will be able to ride an RTC Bus for free by showing their Wolfcard. The U-Pass will be free for the first year due to funding by a pilot program.
“I do think that is a big incentive with my service being reduced and their service bumping up, I think it will be helpful for students,” Horton said.
Taylor Johnson can be reached at tkjohnson@sagebrush.unr.edu or on Twitter @NevadaSagebrush.
The new parking permit fee will be between $60 to $700. The Parking and Transportation Department reported they will only be selling around 600 parking permit passes compared to the 1,336 currently available. Some of the new revenue will go toward the new Parking Complex, which will be available in summer 2021. The garage will house 700 to 1,000 cars.
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You are here: Main » Tottenham striker Kane knows he needs to break World Cup scoring hoodoo
by Perry Erickson - at June 12, 2018
England will adopt an aggressive approach to their World Cup fixtures and tackle the tournament "head on" as Gareth Southgate's youthful squad hopes to make its mark in Russian Federation, captain Harry Kane has said.
England captain Harry Kane has assured the press that there are no feelings of hostility between any members of the Three Lions' squad and that they are ready to tackle Russian Federation as a collective unit.
"What people have seen is the way we want to play - and we definitely want to be an intelligent team in terms of tactical approach and dealing with different stakes and stages in games".
Gareth Southgate's England side might want to be practising their penalties when they're not in action at the World Cup in Russian Federation this month, but there will be also be ample opportunity for the squad to enjoy a spot of golf.
Underscoring the importance of the tournament, Kane said that there are many big tournaments like Champions League and Premier League, but nothing is bigger than the World Cup for him.
"I want to score in tournament football and that's what I will try and do", the England captain said.
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