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Wrestling with Race and Police Power in a Minor Case
The Rude Pundit has been wrestling with something in his brain since he first heard about it yesterday. Mocking Republicans and getting all worked up about Bernie and Hillary can wait until the New Hampshire results. We still have nine more months of that shit until we birth a new president. Instead, let's turn our attention to what seems, at first glance, like another incident of white police officers mistreating a black driver, in this case, a Princeton University professor, Imani Perry. The Rude Pundit wanted to call "bullshit" on Perry, but then his thinking brain started fucking with his animal brain.
Perry wrote about what was a genuinely scary moment: she was pulled over by the police in Princeton, New Jersey, for speeding and then arrested for what she initially said was "for a single parking ticket three years ago." She was handcuffed and put in the back of a squad car, not allowed to contact anyone until she got to the station, and handcuffed to a table while she was being processed in the station. She was also frisked by one of the arresting white male officers. She attributed her "mistreatment" to being black, adding in a Facebook post, "I cannot ever say definitively that this specific mistreatment was a result of race. But I can say that what I experienced was far more likely because my skin is a deep brown, my nose is round, and my hair is coily."
This here blog has been writing about the mistreatment of African Americans by the police when most of the Black Lives Matter protesters were still in elementary school. This here writer has been incredibly harsh on the police and their abuse of power. That doesn't mean that, as a white person, the Rude Pundit can't be called out as "racist" or anything else (he is called that on a regular basis). But when it comes to the way in which cops enact their authority on the bodies of black people, he has squarely allied himself with those African American victims. If you're so inclined, stick with him while he works a couple of things out here. If not, fuck it. Go read something else. Or call him "racist."
'Cause, see, the real reason Perry was arrested wasn't because of a parking ticket. It was because her driver's license was suspended. The law in New Jersey is pretty fucked up this way: if you don't pay even a single parking ticket, your license gets suspended. How do you know this is going to happen? You receive warnings if you don't pay your ticket, like this one:
You get two of those and then you get a letter telling you that your license was suspended. It's easy to overlook these in the stream of daily junk mail, but that's on you.
How does the Rude Pundit know about all this?
Because about 12 years ago, he was pulled over in a small, wealthy town in central New Jersey and arrested for having a suspended driver's license for an unpaid parking ticket. He was frisked on the side of the road, handcuffed and put into the back of a squad car, and handcuffed to a table while he was processed at the station. He couldn't contact anyone until he got to the station. Perry's right: it is fuckin' frightening. He was released when someone arrived to get him, never put in a cell (and neither was Perry), and got a court date. He went before a judge a month or so later, and the judge even looked at the Rude Pundit, baffled, and said, "This is for parking tickets?" To which the Rude Pundit gave a rueful nod. He paid his fine, got his license restored, and has made sure to pay his tickets. Lesson learned.
Perry is very clear that she is not comparing herself to Sandra Bland or other African American women who have died as a result of their treatment in police custody. But, she says, "I hope that this circle of attention will be part of a deeper reckoning with how and why police officers behave the way they do, especially towards those of us whose flesh is dark."
She believes that her "disproportionate policing and punishment" was due to her race. The Princeton police chief disagrees, saying that her treatment was appropriate and that, yes, she was arrested for a suspended license for two unpaid parking tickets. She received the same exact treatment that the Rude Pundit did for the exact same violation of the law. It's a stupid law, yes, and it needs to change, but there it is.
As the Rude Pundit said, he is a white male. He can't even begin to imagine the fear of a black man or woman being arrested by white cops in this age of cases like Freddie Gray and Tanisha Anderson. How could Perry not wonder what might happen to her in the back of that squad car? Why wouldn't she feel panic? Why wouldn't she be outraged?
Yes, strictly by the law, Perry was in the wrong. But she lives, we all live, in this very wrong racial culture where an extra layer of extralegal repression exists. The department chief himself acknowledged this: "We are part of the larger law enforcement community in our current times in law enforcement. Therefore I understand how in this climate we can be perceived to be a microcosm of that." Mistrust is rampant.
In other words, it sucks for everyone in these situations. If we're not gonna do anything about that, then Perry has every reason in the world to be shaken up by what she went through, even if her arrest was legally justified, even if the police did absolutely everything right, even if you want to wave this off on the basis of "Princeton professor."
Perry is being attacked on right-wing websites and in the usual way on social media. But, then again, all of those writers and trolls think the cops did nothing wrong to Eric Garner. So fuck them where they type.
In this world, even when black and white people are treated equally, it is simply not equal.
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Porting ParaFEM to the Raspberry Pi
Last Updated: Wednesday, 13 May 2015 18:57
Written by zzalslm3 (Lee Margetts)
We have a guest article from Shane Balani at the University of Bristol. Shane has been working with Anton Schterenlikht, evaluating ParaFEM on a DIY Raspberry Pi cluster. Shane's article follows below.
Geometric and Material Nonlinearity
We have helped various research groups around the world adapt ParaFEM to solve large strain plasticity problems using a parallel “implicit” strategy. Regrettably, until now, that capability has not yet made it back into the open source distribution.
Programming the Finite Element Method
Last Updated: Wednesday, 17 December 2014 12:07
The 5th edition of the text book "Programming the Finite Element Method" is now available. It is aimed at undergraduates, graduate students and practitioners in all areas that use the finite element method. If you have used earlier editions for teaching, now is the time to update reading lists and to get your library to reorder.
Semester of Code
Last Updated: Wednesday, 17 September 2014 16:23
ParaFEM has registered on the Semester of Code programme, so undergraduates can now work with the ParaFEM development team as part of their degree programme.
Image-based engineering on HPC systems made easy
Last Updated: Tuesday, 29 April 2014 16:38
Press release 29 April 2014. Simpleware and ParaFEM have agreed to collaborate on making it easier to carry out image-based modeling on HPC systems. Currently, there is no common model format shared by the two packages, meaning users have to rely on running conversion scripts at the Linux command line and manually editing files. This can be both time consuming and prone to errors. Therefore both Simpleware and ParaFEM will implement new import/export options for a common data format. Importing and exporting large files can be a bottleneck in parallel processing, so the chosen interface will likely be through the binary Ensight Gold or ExodusII format. These are supported by the open source ParaView visualization package. The collaboration will provide a seamless meshing, solution and postprocessing pipeline for simulations requiring the use of HPC facilities. The common data format capability will be released towards the end of the year.
About Simpleware
Simpleware develops industry-leading software solutions for the conversion of 3D images (as obtained from MRI, CT, micro-CT...) into high-quality Finite Element (FE), Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD), CAD and 3D Printing models. Simpleware software is being used by engineers and researchers in a variety of fields, including: Life Sciences, Materials Science, Oil and Gas Exploration, Industrial Non-Destructive Evaluation and Reverse Engineering. Simpleware software is based on proprietary technology that facilitates the integration of image data with CAD and computational analysis (FEA and CFD) workflows. Unlike other approaches, Simpleware provides a direct route between 3D image data and simulation-ready models. For more information on Simpleware, please visit: http://www.simpleware.com
About ParaFEM
ParaFEM is an open source library for parallel finite element analysis. It is an extension of the software provided in Smith IM, Griffiths DV and Margetts L “Programming the Finite Element Method”, 5th Edition, Wiley, 2014. ParaFEM uses an element-by-element solution strategy together with iterative solvers to solve problems with up to 1 billion degrees of freedom and has been used on systems with up to 64,000 cores. It is under continuing development supported by both industrial and research funding. For more information on ParaFEM, please visit: http://parafem.org.uk
Software Sustainability Institute
Last Updated: Wednesday, 02 April 2014 20:58
Written by overseer (Louise M. Lever)
The Software Sustainability Institute awards software development effort to the ParaFEM project.
One billion equations
Last Updated: Thursday, 01 August 2013 00:09
Sunday 20th January 2013 is a historic date for ParaFEM. During the middle of the night, we managed to solve a problem with more than 1 billion equations, 1,023,468,720 equations to be precise!
The problem was a trivial one, a linear elastic analysis comprising a grid of 440 by 440 by 440 twenty noded hexahedral elements. However, the program did not take advantage of the regular geometry and therefore should be able to solve an arbitrarily shaped domain that is just as large.
We used HECToR to run the analysis. On 4096 MPI processes, the problem solved in less than 15 minutes. Using 8192 MPI processes, run time was 7 minutes. The compute nodes needed to be run in an "under-populated" state in order to access sufficient memory. One core on each of 4096 16-core processors was used for the 4096 process run. Two cores per processor were used in the 8192 process run.
Later in the year, we hope to report results for an arbitrary geometry and visualize the results!
Seminar: Hackers, Supercomputers and Faster Finite Element Modelling
Dr Lee Margetts will be giving a talk on ParaFEM, with question and answer session, on Wednesday 12 December, 2-3pm, Room C53, Sackville Street Building, University of Manchester.
Are you using a commercial finite element analysis package? Do your finite element analyses take a very long time to run? Have you simplified your model so much that it no longer represents the physics of your problem? Are these issues serious limitations to your research output? Supercomputers now have hundreds of thousands of processing elements and provide programs with access to terabytes of memory. This means it is theoretically possible to solve very large and/or complex problems in a reasonable time. Unfortunately, the gap between commercial finite element software and the capability of supercomputing facilities is widening. This talk will discuss whether an army of “hackers” could fill that gap by developing open source parallel finite element software. In particular, the speaker will introduce the ParaFEM project and an accompanying textbook to be published in 2013.
Our 100th Registered User
Congratulations to Jingxuan Yu, a research assistant at Texas Tech University, who is the 100th registered user on the ParaFEM website!
Cloud Computing at NAFEMS Awareness Seminar
Dr Lee Margetts recently gave a presentation on Cloud Computing at the NAFEMS Awareness Seminar on "Future Directions for Engineering Simulation" in Madrid. In his talk, Dr Margetts gives an introductory overview of Cloud Computing and then explains how a Cloud-based front end for ParaFEM will be developed in collaboration with the European funded Venus-C consortium.
Julich Supercomputing Center Boots Up GPU Cluster
Germany's Julich Supercomputing Center (JSC) has gone live with its new Julich Dedicated GPU Environment (JUDGE) cluster, which will be used for ensemble simulations in climate and atmospheric research, as well as for data analysis and simulations on big data sequences in biology and brain research.
JUDGE will enable JSC to optimize the applications for the highest performance. The hybrid system uses graphical general processing units (GPGPUs) and conventional processors. GPGPUs can help boost performance without significantly increasing energy consumption, which is important because improvements in energy efficiency will allow further supercomputing advancements in the future. NVIDIA's Stefan Kraemer says the JUDGE cluster is a good example of how computers need to continue to be developed in the future, following the target of exascale computing. "This is valid not only in regard to performance, but also to energy consumption and energy efficiency," he says. "Pilot projects like JUDGE play a key role in this process and are a key step on the way to hybrid systems.
Source HPCwire: May 07, 2011
Follow the link for the full article
Oak Ridge Supercomputers Modeling Nuclear Future
During the annual televised “State of the Union” address at the beginning of 2011, Barak Obama sought to renew the national focus on science and technology, in part by using supercomputing capabilities to drive progress.
To highlight the role of HPC in the new generation of scientific endeavours, the President told millions of Americans about how supercomputing capabilities at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) will lend the muscle for a Department of Energy initiative “to get a lot more power out of our nuclear facilities” via the Consortium for Advanced Simulation of Light Water Reactors.
For further details see the full article here.
Free Trial of Amazon Web Services
High Performance Computing in the Cloud - Amazon are offering a free trial of their Web Services.
This technology might be of interest to ParaFEM users or developers who do not have access to their own HPC systems. In essence, Amazon Web Services allow you to build a virtual cluster on the web and operate it on a pay-as-you-go basis.
For further details and to see a video tutorial explaining how to set up an HPC environment in less than 10 minutes, click here.
Special Issue on Data Intensive Computing in the Clouds
Springer Journal of Grid Computing
Applications and experiments in all areas of science are becoming increasingly complex and more demanding in terms of their computational and data requirements. Some applications generate data volumes reaching hundreds of terabytes and even petabytes. As scientific applications become more data intensive, the management of data resources and dataflow between the storage and compute resources is becoming the main bottleneck.
Analyzing, visualizing, and disseminating these large data sets has become a major challenge and data intensive computing is now considered as the "fourth paradigm" in scientific discovery after empirical, theoretical, and computational scientific approaches.
Google Exacycle for Visiting Faculty Grant Program
Google Exacycle for Visiting Faculty is a new grant program for high-performance, CPU-intensive computing. In its first year, the program invites proposals for large-scale, computationally intensive research projects. The program awards sizable allocations on Google’s computing infrastructure to address grand challenges in science and engineering. We will award a total of approximately one billion core-hours to drive transformational research in diverse fields such as astronomy, biology and medicine, earth sciences, mathematics and physics.
For further details, see http://research.google.com/university/exacycle_program.html
GPU support
Written by mkbane (Michael Bane)
Margetts and Bane, IT Services for Research, Univ. of Manchester, have been awarded time on the HECToR GPGPU testbed for developing efficient multi-GPU solvers for use with ParaFEM between mid-April and mid-October 2011.
Updates will follow...
Welcome to ParaFEM
ParaFEM is a freely available, portable library of subroutines for parallel finite element analysis.
The subroutines are written in FORTRAN90/95 and use MPI for message passing. It is an extension of the software developed in Smith I.M. and Griffiths D.V. "Programming the Finite Element Method", Wiley, 2004.
ParaFEM Source Linux Version 5.0.3
Newton International Fellowship
ARCHER eCSE Award for Multiscale Modelling
Research Software Engineer Fellowship
Training PRACE Palaeontology Dinosaurs Programming Finite Element Method ARCHER Fellowship Source Plasticity Goldilocks RFEM Nuclear Graphite UMAT HECToR DEISA Data Fortran Modelling Image-based Modelling
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Written by Dr. Duke
Category: Dr. Duke's Blog
The BREXIT vote surprised the markets last Friday and SPX plunged $76 or 3.6% from Thursday's close to Friday's close. But the markets didn't calm over the weekend. SPX gapped open lower on Monday to close down at $2001. But the last four days have been truly straight up! Today SPX closed at $2103, almost back where it closed on June 23rd before the BREXIT vote was in. We have seen a lot of price volatility in the markets over the past 2-3 years and the so-called V-bottom has become a familiar phenomenon. But I think this V-bottom set records - down nearly 4% in 2 days and essentially fully recovered in 4 days. We went from speculating about global recession to an aggressive bull market in record time.
The Chicago PMI jumped to 56.8 for June, up from 49.3 in May. The ISM manufacturing index increased again in June, up to 53.2 from May's 51.3. But construction spending remains weak, declining 0.8% in May; but that was an improvement over the 2.0% decline in April. Today's economic news was reasonably strong, but I don't think this huge turnaround is fully based on economic data. I think it has been a classic example of traders simply freaking themselves out. They panicked and sold, and just as quickly, decided it was overdone and bought back in with both hands. Volatility came in another point with VIX closing at 14.7%. This isn't the kind of price action that investors find comforting.
Many market participants left early for the long holiday weekend; trading volume was down 25% on the NYSE and down 19% on NASDAQ.
Another record turnaround came from Investors Business Daily this week. Their market assessment went from Confirmed Uptrend to Market in Correction and back to Confirmed Uptrend in just 3 days. That's a V-bottom.
Have a great Fourth of July Weekend. Fly the flag and eat a hot dog! We are fortunate to be Americans.
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A Reduced Future for Charlotte Mecklenburg Libraries
Charlotte Mecklenburg Libraries
Link to June 23 Charlotte Observer article, "Library future: No Novello, fewer hours".
Excerpt: Even with last-minute support from local governments, the Mecklenburg County library system will be vastly different as of July 6.
The current 20 branches - down from 24 in the past week - will remain open.
But on Thursday, the library board votes on a 2011 operating plan that will cut branch hours by 26 percent, cut staff by 18 percent, and end programs such as the popular Novello Festival of Reading after 20 years.
All this comes in response to an $11 million cut from the county, which is the system's chief source of money.
Even the Main Library and ImaginOn will take hits, shutting down Sundays and Mondays during the summer.
The proposed changes were forged from months of community meetings, government concessions and library cutbacks that included 120 layoffs in April.
Interlocal cooperation pact. (6/22/2010)
Three branches close. (6/19/2010)
Town of Mint Hill perspective. (6/18/2010)
Five towns tentatively OK $730,000 for libraries. (6/18/2010)
Carmel, two other branches to close. (6/16/2010)
Now that the ax has fallen. (6/16/2010)
Commissioners to vote on budget today. (6/15/2010)
Charlotte Mecklenburg Libraries: It's complicated. (6/9/2010)
Mayor wins straw vote at emotional council meeting. (6/7/2010)
Editorial: Should city 'stay in its lane' on libraries. (6/4/2010)
County commissioners restore some cuts to libraries. (6/4/2010)
Straw votes begin on Mecklinburg County budget. (6/3/2010)
Charlotte Mecklenburg Libraries continue to look for one-time financial help. (5/31/2010)
High school junior speaks out eloquently for libraries. (5/30/2010)
Mayor Foxx on the art of governing. (5/30/2010)
Mayor supports financial help for library. (5/27/2010)
County budget: Oh, yeah, this is fair. (5/25/2010)
Bailout proposal not gaining traction. (5/23/2010)
Library trustees vote to close 4 branches. (5/20/2010)
Mecklenburg County tightens its belt. (5/20/2010)
County manager cuts $14.7 million from library budget. (5/18/2010)
2010-11 Mecklenburg County budget to be unveiled today. (5/18/2010)
North Carolina woman plans on "going straight to the top" to keep Charlotte libraries open. (5/16/2010)
Charlotte Mecklenburg officials ask local municipalities for $3 million contribution. (4/30/2010Library Board chair speaks out. (4/25/2010)
County commissioners seek ways to ease library cuts. (4/23/2010)
Mecklenburg County needs to reduce $85-90 million deficit. (4/16/2010)
County manager takes library board to task. (4/10/2010)
Libraries now open fewer hours. (4/6/2010)
"Save Our Libraries Sunday". (3/29/2010)
Charlotte Mecklenburg users owe average of 55 cents in fines. (3/27/2010)
Library announces new hours for branches. (3/26/2010)
Library Board applies a Band-Aid to its bleeding system. (3/25/2010)
Follow-up on Charlotte Mecklenburg Library Board vote. (3/25/2010)
Charlotte Mecklenburg Library Board votes to keep all branches open. (3/24/2010)
Charlotte Mecklenburg Library Board presented with 2 budget-cutting alternatives. (3/24/2010)
More and bigger cuts looming on horizon. (3/23/2010)
Charlotte Mecklenburg Library System Rethinks Closings. (3/22/2010)
A New Day is Dawning in Charlotte/Mecklenburg County. (3/21/2010)
Charlotte Mecklenburg libraries haven't seen such large-scale reductions since the Great Depression. (3/17/2010)
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Polizzotto Development
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727 W Madison
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The 727 W Madison project consists of a new 45-story mixed-use tower. The 492-unit luxury apartment building is located in the West Loop neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois. The building will include a 5-story elevated parking garage with 379 spaces and retail at the ground level. The seventh floor will contain building amenities such as a fitness center, residential lounge and entertaining areas, as well as a landscaped outdoor roof deck and pool.
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← Beregond
Errand-rider →
Gondor. Warrior. Noble.
While Boromir has at least 1 resource in his resource pool, Gondor allies get +1 .
"By our valour the wild fold of the East are still restrained, and the terror of Morgul kept at bay..." The Fellowship of the Ring
Heirs of Númenor #2. Leadership.
A seriously under-rated hero, especially back at the time of his original release. To be honest I think the biggest reasons people underestimate Boromir are firstly that some people love Boromir a bit too much, and secondly that a lot of people wanted him to just be the Gondorian equivalent of Dain Ironfoot. Given that I just named possibly the two most powerful heroes in the game, it's small wonder he didn't quite measure up.
But let's leave aside what he isn't and talk about what he is. Now he certainly isn't the only way to build a Gondor deck. He synergises with Visionary Leadership, but you can equally put it on a different hero. So consider him on his own ability. Well, for one thing, unlike Dain, he can actually take actions while keeping up the boost. Holding onto a spare resource in the sphere with Steward of Gondor is not that big a hardship compared to keeping one of your three heroes ready all the time. And a constant, global boost? Obviously outside of Battle questing it's only good for combat, but oh boy is it really good for combat. You can look at the allies who are powerful already, like the now 4 Knight of Minas Tirith, the 3 Veteran of Osgiliath (4 in Valour); or on the other end you can look at allies like the Squire of the Citadel or Errand-rider, who usually have no use beyond chump-blocking or in the latter case moving a resource, but now here they can do something else when you don't require those things. Boromir's boost allows you to have a relevant combat presence basically regardless of which allies you draw so long as you draw some, because an army of usually wimpy 0-1 allies who are now 1-2 will add up pretty quickly (and handily they're cheap).
In the end I think the biggest piece of advice I can give to people who're skeptical about Boromir is what I said at the start of that second paragraph - look at what he is, not what he isn't. He isn't Boromir and he isn't Dain, but most heroes aren't either of those two either, and that doesn't stop them being good. Nor does it stop Leadermir being good
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Alexis Sweetnam
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Archive for June 9th, 2006
Dickson College Protest
As planned I went along to the Dickson College Closure Protest last night. The protest was organised at short notice by a group of concerned parents and citizens, and it was very convenient that the college was having its open night as this provided a perfect opportunity to hold the protest. This small group of people did a fantastic job in publicising it, with press releases going out to media organisations, and notices being stuck on virtually every lamp post in the Dickson Shopping Precinct, with a similar notice being handed out in the college. Credit should also go to the local radio stations for continuing to run the story about the protest throughout the day.
The protest got underway long before the advertised start time of 6:30. It really got underway when multiple ABC news and current affairs crews arrived. People were filtering in from about 6pm, and this gave the ABC a good opportunity to interview some people and get footage of people waving placards (myself included on both counts) to send back to the newsroom for use during the 7pm news. The ABC did a live cross to the rally, although it had more or less wound up by then and people were talking amongst themselves and signing the multiple petitions.
The main protest attracted approximately 250-300 people (that is my estimate), many people prepared placards, roughly five people wrote songs, and some Dickson students (from memory they were year 12 students) wrote and performed a lengthy song which involved the entire protest group.
One person had the bright idea of bringing a megaphone, which was utilised firstly for a driveby support announcement (filmed by ABC crews) and eventually for the speeches. A few people had semi-prepared speeches to deliver, whilst a few of the rest of us just jumped on the microphone to add our two cents to the discussion. I made a point which I think has been overlooked in the outrage, and that is Dickson’s unique place in education for students with special needs (Secondary Introductory English Centre, Dickson College Alternative Program (now called SITE) for troubled year 9 & 10 students, etc) and what will happen to them if the college closes.
The protest speeches wound up just before the open night started, although I think the college staff would have waited (there were plenty of them in the crowd) if the protest dragged on a bit.
I was mildly disappointed to see somebody flogging “Green Left Weekly” at the protest, although it did show that even the most extreme traditional Labor/Greens supporters are coming out against the Stanhope Labor government.
The press turnout was very good also. The ABC sent two (possibly three) crews out, with resources appearing to be combined for ABC News and Stateline (ABC TV Canberra 7:30pm tonight, repeated in Canberra Midday Saturday, and repeated nationally on ABC 2 (digital) 2:30pm Saturday and 4:30pm Sunday). I wouldn’t have recognised the Stateline crew if I hadn’t spotted Stateline reporter Catherine Garrett in the crowd.
The Canberra Times also sent a journalist out. She took multiple photos of the rally and was writing plenty of notes, she also appeared to interview a couple people. I also spotted a camera man from Prime News, which was very surprising considering that they only run mini-bulletins with minimal footage, Prime obviously consider this to be an extremely major issue. I think I spotted Win News loitering as well, although keeping track of attending media was not my top priority.
I made an effort to thank the media people for attending, although I was unable to thank all of them. I would, however, like to publically thank the ABC for bringing along a very large light which helped to illuminate the protest in otherwise difficult lighting conditions.
I did make an effort to invite opposition treasury spokesman Richard Mulcahy to the rally, although in the end he was unable to attend due to what he described in an email as an “unusual late sitting of the Assembly”.
Overall the rally was very good, and I think it is going to be very helpful. At this stage I am led to believe that more rallies are to be planned, there was a suggestion from an organiser that they would try and get a list of interested helpers, although I didn’t see it actually happen.
The other protest of the day (another short notice one) attracted approximately 150 people to Flynn Primary around 1:30pm. This is extraordinary for a protest which was only publicised a few hours prior to the event. Both of these protests are, in my view, a very strong indication to the Stanhope government that the community will not accept these changes, and if they want any chance of being re-elected in 2008, then they better start paying attention now.
Although I had nothing to do with organising the protest, and merely took it upon myself to help publicise it, I would like to thank everyone that attended, your support is greatly appreciated.
I would also like to thank everyone who has been leaving comments about the budget on this site, and sending me emails. I haven’t got around to replying to all of them yet, but I am getting there, and I do appreciate both the support, and the constructive criticism.
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Olivia Colman and 'The Favourite' rule at the BAFTAs
Pete Parker | Monday, February 11, 2019
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Coleman, who stars as Britain's Queen Anne in the film, seemed ecstatic about her friend's prize as she gave her a peck on the cheek and congratulated her.
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The Origins of Money
Adam Smith wrote an influential account of the origin of money, as follows:
“When the division of labour has been once thoroughly established, it is but a very small part of a man’s wants, which the produce of his own labour can supply. He supplies the far greater part of them by exchanging that surplus part of the produce of his own labour, which is over and above his own consumption, for such parts of the produce of other men’s labour as he has occasion for. Every man thus lives by exchanging, or becomes in some measure a merchant, and the society itself grows to be what is properly a commercial society.
But when the division of labour first began to take place, this power of exchanging must frequently have been very much clogged and embarrassed in its operations. One man, we shall suppose, has more of a certain commodity than he himself has occasion for, while another has less. The former consequently would be glad to dispose of, and the latter to purchase, a part of this superfluity. But if this latter should chance to have nothing that the former stands in need of, no exchange can be made between them. The butcher has more meat in his shop than he himself can consume, and the brewer and the baker would each of them be willing to purchase a part of it. But they have nothing to offer in exchange, except the different productions of their respective trades, and the butcher is already provided with all the bread and beer which he has immediate occasion for. No exchange can, in this case, be made between them. He cannot be their merchant, nor they his customers; and they are all of them thus mutually less serviceable to one another. In order to avoid the inconveniency of such situations, very prudent man in every period of society, after the first establishment of the division of labour, must naturally have endeavoured to manage his affairs in such a manner, as to have at all times by him, besides the peculiar produce of his own industry, a certain quantity of some one commodity or other, such as he imagined few people would be likely to refuse in exchange for the produce of their industry.
Many different commodities, it is probable, were successively both thought of and employed for this purpose. In the rude ages of society, cattle are said to have been the common instrument of commerce; and though they must have been a most inconvenient one, yet in old times we find things were frequently valued according to the number of cattle which had been given in exchange for them. The armour of [Diomedes] ..., says Homer, cost only nine oxen; but that of Glaucus, cost an hundred oxen. Salt is said to be the common instrument of commerce and exchanges in Abyssinia; a species of shells in some parts of the coast of India; dried cod at Newfoundland; tobacco in Virginia; sugar in some of our West India colonies; hides or dressed leather in some other countries; and there is at this day a village in Scotland where it is not uncommon, I am told, for a workman to carry nails instead of money to the baker’s shop or the ale-house.
In all countries, however, men seem at last to have been determined by irresistible reasons to give the preference, for this employment, to metals above every other commodity. Metals can not only be kept with as little loss as any other commodity, scarce any thing being less perishable than they are; but they can likewise, without any loss, be divided into any number of parts, as by fusion those parts can easily be re-united again; a quality which no other equally durable commodities possess, and which more than any other quality renders them fit to be the instruments of commerce and circulation. The man who wanted to buy salt, for example, and had nothing but cattle to give in exchange for it, must have been obliged to buy salt to the value of a whole ox, or a whole sheep, at a time. He could seldom buy less than this, because what he was to give for it could seldom be divided without loss; and if he had a mind to buy more, he must, for the same reasons, have been obliged to buy double or triple the quantity, the value, to wit, of two or three oxen, or of two or three sheep. If, on the contrary, instead of sheep or oxen, he had metals to give in exchange for it, he could easily proportion the quantity of the metal to the precise quantity of the commodity which he had immediate occasion for.” (Smith 1811: 16–17).
This thesis – that money emerged as a commodity from barter spot transactions – was taken up and developed by many Classical and Neoclassical economists.
Carl Menger (1892) developed a similar theory in the late 19th century (Menger 1892 and 2002 [1909]; cf. Goodhart 2004), which I have criticised here. Money emerges as a medium of exchange from the most saleable commodity in direct barter trades: usually (though not always) it must have the properties of being portable, homogeneous, easily divisible, and not subject to depreciation.
In the most extreme forms, it holds that money can only ever emerge from barter spot transactions as the most saleable commodity becomes the common medium of exchange. It has been known for a long time that there are severe problems with this latter view of the origin of money.
From the 16th century onwards, Europeans came into contact with numerous communities in various parts of the world. The empirical evidence from serious, scholarly study of money-less communities, especially since the 18th century onwards, demonstrates that the economies of communities which are (1) money-less or (2) have a marginal role for money take many forms, and the pure barter economy imagined by economists is a myth (Humphrey 1984: 48). More alarming still is that surveys show that societies where barter was a predominant form of transaction in certain sectors of the economy are astonishingly small: just three “primitive” economies where barter was predominant have been found (Crump 1981: 34, who mentions pre-Colonial Mexico, the Congo basin, and the northern coast of New Guinea and its adjacent islands, but in all of these barter was essentially an activity in long distance trade transactions). Barter does exist frequently of course, but often as a marginal activity or “in a corner of the economy,” and is often despised by people as being somewhat disreputable (Humphrey 1984: 49). It is often confined to foreigners or long distance trade. The notion that human beings have some natural propensity to “truck” or “barter” is itself questionable (Humphrey 1984: 50).
The gapping hole in the imagined origin of money by Adam Smith, Carl Menger, Ludwig von Mises and many modern neoclassical economists is that barter spot transactions can be mostly unnecessary in a money-less human society.
The sequence of historical development imagined by most economists is as follows:
barter > money > credit.
In reality, other sequences are more plausible:
Debt/credit relations (gift economies) > minimal/peripheral barter > moneyless society with debt/credit transactions and minimal barter.
Debt/credit relations (gift economies) > minimal/peripheral barter > wergild social practices > emergence of a unit of account through reckoning of relative values for compensation by legal codes > money.
Debt/credit relations (gift economies) > minimal/peripheral barter > emergence of a unit of account through reckoning of relative values in planning by influential socio-economic agents in society (e.g., priests, temples, kings) > money.
If an economy is dominated by debt/credit relations, where the debts are vague and non-enumerated, then there is no significant double coincidence of wants dilemma: and no need to invent money. There were presumably numerous human societies that never invented what we would call money, because they never needed to.
Economists have ignored the unit of account function of money. Grierson (1978: 11) emphasised how in many societies an abstract or concrete unit of account can be a measure of value, while payment is made in goods. If money is conceived as an abstract thing which is used to measure the value of one thing against another, an abstract unit of account can emerge before some commodity becomes a physical medium of exchange: it can be created by conscious design by deriving an abstract unit of account from weights or from high-prestige commodities. Alternatively, societies can develop wergild-like social practices in which a kind of “price system” is developed by legal experts to reckon the values of compensation and damage payments, but where the payments system must have a common unit of account to calculate what kinds of payment in kind are equivalent for damages paid.
We do in fact observe historical instances where money has emerged in just the ways described: in Mesopotamia (one of the earliest literate civilisations), Egypt and medieval tribal societies. In ancient Egypt, money appears as the most important unit of account called the deben (or uten), which was a unit of weight, originally equated to 92 (or 91) grams (Henry 2004: 92; there was also the unit called the khar for measuring wheat or barley, and 1 khar was equivalent to 2 deben of bronze). This unit of account appears to have been developed by complex palace, government and temple institutions for internal accounting. While goods came to be denominated in terms of deben, there were no physical deben changing hands, there were administered price lists for some goods, and coins were unknown in Egypt until the Ptolemaic era (323–31 BC; Henry 2004: 92). That is to say, the deben did not function as a physical means of payment, and did not emerge by barter spot transactions as the most saleable medium of exchange. Even though goods and services were measured in a deben unit of account, payment was made in goods.
An important element in this process was the institution (or institutions) where surplus products were stored from taxation, tribute and gifts. These institutions dealt with complex flows, in and out, of goods: they were palace and temple complexes. Accounting systems, weight measures and writing are connected with just such institutions, and, importantly, some abstract unit of account arose by which to measure relative values of goods. Since loans were also no doubt made from surplus products stored, repayment of loans in kind was facilitated by a unit of account. The preceding account applies to both ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia.
In ancient Greece, the Homeric epics the Iliad and the Odyssey were written c. 750–700 BC, and reflect social practices in the late Dark/Geometric Age (c. 1200–800 BC) and early Archaic period (800–480 BC). In Homer’s epics, cattle or oxen are the unit of account, but the means of payment are variable goods, not just cattle (Peacock 2011: 49–54).
The emergence of money in Greece appears to be related to religion and cult offerings. The ox was an important sacrificial animal and offering to the gods. The Greeks appear to have developed a cattle or ox unit of account derived from the value these animals had in sacrifice (Seaford 2004: 61). Priests needed to be paid in cattle for religious services, but it was also necessary to calculate the ox-value of other commodities offered for payment to temples or for sacrifice in lieu of oxen (Semenova 2011: 385): hence people came to develop “prices” of other goods in terms of oxen, and an ox unit of account emerged (Schaps 2004: 9–10; Heidel 1926; I cite the English review of Heidel in Economica 14 [1925]: 218–222; Heidel’s thesis is modified by Peacock 2011: 54–63; Peacock 2003–2004). But oxen were not generally used as a medium of exchange. Instead, other goods like metals or items associated with sacrifice of oxen like tripods, cauldrons, double-axes, and spits (Schaps 2004: 10) were used as a means of payment and medium of exchange, whose value was measured in a cattle unit of account. Some fines appear to have been payable in tripods and cauldrons, for example. Coins were introduced by states from 600–500 BC (Peacock 2011: 54–63). With the emergence of iron spits (oboloi), the beginnings of precious metal money can be seen, although gold and silver had been previously used as a means of payment as measured in the cattle unit of account. The first electrum coins appear at Ephesus in late 7th century (700–600 BC), and spread to mainland Greece from 575–550 BC (von Reden 2002: 152, n. 30).
In the Indo-European and, above all, medieval Germanic societies, we have the institution of wergild: a system of fines and compensations payments for killing a human being and also for a wide range of other injuries, infractions or insults, and for theft of objects and commodities (Grierson 1978: 11; Grierson 1977). Compensation payments are made in various goods, such as cattle, bondmaids, and precious metal, but it is likely a common unit of account was developed to simplify calculation of payments, which later spread to the wider community in economic transactions.
By using induction, we can postulate that it is likely that these various phenomena and social processes may well have occurred in pre-historic societies too, and that money, if and when it was invented in some forms in pre-literate, primitive societies, emerged just as often by the ways described above, as by barter.
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MattInShanghai January 8, 2012 at 8:54 PM
Dear LK,
I've recently been able to solve problems associated with the Great Firewall of China, and am happy to re-visit some of my old haunts, esp. your site (on which I have been unable to post comments in the past) and CE's. I see I have a lot of reading to catch up with. I've always found your posts very stimulating, although sometimes our opinions have differed.
The present post is very interesting to me, since I have been doing a lot of reading and thinking on the very subject. You might recall that a few years back I had a running discussion with CE on the nature of money. CE's opinion was similar to the "mainstream" thinking in that money was considered a kind of "thing" (gold, silver or some other "valuable" commodity), whereas my opinion (following the obscure XIX c economist H. Macleod) was that money is essentially a social category in the nature of a claim, and therefore immaterial, so that the common-sense notions which apply to physical objects do not hold in this case. I long wondered why the majority of economists insist on treating money as a "thing", and then perform all sorts of contortions trying to explain credit etc. I think that the root cause of this is the attempt to integrate money into the basic "free market" model assumed by almost all orthodox economic theories. Now, since the "free market" model is a model of pure barter exchange, where things and services are exchanged into things and services, and since money is obviously not a service, then it must be a thing. This was additionally reinforced by the historical fact that when these theories were originally formulated, gold and silver did in fact function as money, obscuring its real nature.
This ingrained notion of money as a "thing" is in my opinion one of the reasons why post-Keynesians and MMT proponents have difficulty in getting their message across to the wider audience. Your post is a good step towards clarifying this basic misunderstanding.
PeterS January 8, 2012 at 10:24 PM
What a ridiculously false characterization of Smith's writings.
In these passages, Smith didn't claim that money arose out of barter SPOT transactions. He correctly pointed out that money arises out of barter transactions. That is to say, money arises out of bartering on spot AND bartering on credit.
You dishonestly added the word "spot" as if barter transactions necessarily have to be immediately finalized and settled.
Stop being dishonest and start understanding the nature of money arising out of the division of labor, i.e. out of barter exchanges, which of course can be settled either sooner in time (spot) or later on in time (credit).
Credit transactions INCLUDE barter trades, and barter trades INCLUDE credit transactions.
It is false to say that the claim that must be argued against in order to refute Menger and Smith is "barter > money > credit".
This is because Menger and Smith held that the order goes barter (credit or spot) > money (credit or spot).
If there are historical cases of credit preceding money, then all that is showing is
barter (credit) > money (credit or spot)
That is CONSISTENT with Menger and Smith.
Credit is not an alternative to barter or money. Credit is a concept that determines WHEN barter and money transactions of goods are finalized and settled.
EVEN IF there is a historical case of one person trading a sheep to another in exchange for a future promise that is undefined, or unstated, that doesn't mean that the exchange is "barter for credit", thus making credit a thing to be traded in itself. No, the promise, the credit, is always referring to another good or service that is itself either a barter good or money, which finalizes the transaction.
Lord Keynes January 8, 2012 at 10:45 PM
PeterS/Major_Freedom/Christof/David,
Don't think I don't recognise your writing style and trolling nonsense. In fact, you've just said the same thing on the Krugman in Wonderland blog.
But, anyway, not that I really care. Let's review your lastest comment:
"In these passages, Smith didn't claim that money arose out of barter SPOT transactions. He correctly pointed out that money arises out of barter transactions. That is to say, money arises out of bartering on spot AND bartering on credit."
There is not one reference to credit/debt transactions in Smith's passage: you're lying. Smith is thinking of direct barter, just like Menger (1892. “On the Origin of Money,” Economic Journal 2: 238–255.).
Furthermore, in case it isn't clear, I have in mind (as I have said above) the most extreme statements of the barter-origin, as in Rothbard:
“[sc. Mises’s] Regression Theorem also shows that money, in any society, can only become established by a market process emerging from barter. Money cannot be established by a social contract, by government imposition, or by artificial schemes proposed by economists.” (Rothbard, M. N., 2009, The Essential von Mises, Ludwig von Mises Institute. p. 61).
"If there are historical cases of credit preceding money, then all that is showing is
That is CONSISTENT with Menger and Smith."
With your typical incompetence and stupidity, you have missed the WHOLE point (just as Robert Murphy did when he tried to criticise Graeber): anthropologists and other heterodox economists aren't arguing that money arose from IOUs or non-enumerated credit/debt transactions:
What anthropologists have in fact observed where money is not used is not a system of explicit lending and borrowing, but a very broad system of non-enumerated credits and debts. In most such societies, if a neighbor wants some possession of yours, it usually suffices simply to praise it (‘what a magnificent pig!’); the response is to immediately hand it over, accompanied by much insistence that this is a gift and the donor certainly would never want anything in return. In fact, the recipient now owes him a favor. Now, he might well just sit on the favor, since it’s nice to have others beholden to you, or he might demand something of an explicitly non-material kind (‘you know, my son is in love with your daughter...’) He might ask for another pig, or something he considers roughly equivalent in kind. But it’s almost impossible to see how any of this would lead to a system whereby it’s possible to measure proportional values.
Murphy then goes on to produce a straw man saying that a system where people borrow things from one another and then turn to political authorities to regulate the system would not produce money. True enough, but it seems a bit irrelevant considering (a) I never say people would be “borrowing” from each other in the way he describes, (b) I never attribute any role to political authorities in this process, and (c) rather than saying the informal system of favors I do describe would lead to the invention of money, I explicitly say that it would not.
http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2011/09/david-graeber-on-the-invention-of-money-%E2%80%93-notes-on-sex-adventure-monomaniacal-sociopathy-and-the-true-function-of-economics.html
An economy mainly run on the non-enumerated credit/debt transactions will probably NOT developed money.
The empircal evidence on how money can emerge shows:
(1) invention by temple/palace planners in collectivist economic institutions (Mesopotamia/Egypt);
(2) wergild social practices;
(3) emergence by religion/sacrifice of some commodity for its religious value used as a unit of account, then prices denominated in it.
Your ramblings have no force, no refutation of anything above has been achieved.
MattInShanghai,
Nice to see you back.
I agree with your comments.
Money has multiple functions (unit of account, means of payment, medium of exchange, and store of value), and economists have been obsessed with the medium of exchange role, and ignored the unit of account role.
I think the historical data shows how the abstract unit of account role can precede the medium of exchange role: what is very telling is that in ancient Mesopotamia the shekel of silver is set by temple/palace planners to equal to the monthly grain ration (i.e., wages in barley) doled out to their workers
It is obvious they have designed a unit of account from the major weight units: many prices were probably even set and administered in the money of account which developed from weight units.
CE's opinion was similar to the "mainstream" thinking in that money was considered a kind of "thing"
Cynicus Economicus holds eccentric and incoherent views on economics - witness his absurd theory of value: an incoherent, untenable mix of subjectivism and a labour theory of value.
Moreover, his endless failed predictions should alert people to uselessness of his analysis: what happened to that hyperinflation? Is the UK the new Zimbabwe today? Did the US dollar collapse to virtually nothing last year?
There's not much to learn from his blog - unless it's how to remain ignorant.
MattInShanghai January 9, 2012 at 1:24 AM
LK,
Thanks for your quick reply. I've read through your other post on Menger and the origin of money, and especially the links you provided to the interview with David Graeber and his exchanges with the Austrians, which I found quite fascinating. Although my interests are not primarily historical or anthropological, Graebner does provide a very interesting perspective, and his historical examples are a good counterpoint to the explanations provided by standard economics. I think one of the things that comes from taking such a wide, historical point of view, is that it makes one aware that since money is a social construct, its role, functions and importance evolve throughout time and space, and are in no way constant. This is in stark contrast with the "scientific" aspirations of many economic schools (esp. the apriori Austrians) which like to deal with "universal categories", which are independent of time, place or social organization. Hence the violent hostility from that quarter.
As I've said, I noticed that CE has resurrected his blog some time ago, but from what I've been able to see he mostly deals with current affairs, to which I have little to contribute. I enjoyed the first phase of his blog, because it was a civil forum for exchanging views, and I liked many of the contributors who posted comments there. At that time I was still at an early stage of my economic investigations, as was Cynicus. Over time our views seem to have drifted in opposite directions. His seem to have turned more into some eclectic form of neoclassical orthodoxy, mine have been moving away, so the opportunities for constructive engagement have been greatly reduced.
Unlearningecon January 9, 2012 at 3:14 AM
Gavin Kennedy has a lengthy 6 part review of Graeber, in which he takes issue with his characterisations of Smith:
http://adamsmithslostlegacy.blogspot.com/2011/12/review-of-david-graebers-5000-years-of.html
Lord Keynes January 9, 2012 at 3:38 AM
Unlearningecon,
Thanks for the link. I just read this:
"Review Of David Graeber's 5,000 Years of Debt (part 1)," "December 05, 2011
I find it a bit unfair. Quotations of Gavin Kennedy:
"Studies of human non-kin relationships show the prevalence of reciprocation exchanges. Reading Chapter 1, I expected to find this phenomenon integrated or at least mentioned in David’s analysis. It wasn’t."
The relevant chapter of Graeber's book is chapter 2.
In chapter 2, it is perfectly clear that Graeber does focus very carefully on "non-kin relationships show[ing] the prevalence of reciprocation exchanges" - it is the whole basis of his analysis, when he talsk about gift exchange economies and non-enumerated debt/credit relations.
(1) the charge leveled against economists is that they have been fixated on money (allegedly) emerging from barter spot transactions, when societies odminated by barter spot transactions appear to be rare when we look at real world money-less societies: just three “primitive” economies where barter was predominant have been found (Crump 1981: 54).
(2) It appears many money-less societies are dominated by non-enumerated debt/credit relations. In these societies barter is probably minimal: there is no reason to invent money at all. Why? Because with non-enumerated debt/credits or rough IOU exchanges, there is no significant double coincidence of wants problem.
Blue Aurora January 9, 2012 at 5:46 AM
Lord Keynes: I would be careful not to lump Adam Smith with neoclassical economists or Carl Menger and Ludwig von Mises, as he was not a supporter of Subjective Expected Utility or the Benthamite calculus. Smith disagreed with Bentham on speculation. But as for the money issue, I think Smith's analysis was pretty good for it's time.
PeterS January 9, 2012 at 6:41 AM
Lord Keynes:
"PeterS/Major_Freedom/Christof/David,"
"Don't think I don't recognise your writing style and trolling nonsense. In fact, you've just said the same thing on the Krugman in Wonderland blog."
Huh? MajorFreedomChristofDavid? What the heck? You seem to have me confused for someone else. Anderson's blog is where that I FOUND the above criticism of your nonsense, so I posted it here. Major's right.
"There is not one reference to credit/debt transactions in Smith's passage: you're lying. Smith is thinking of direct barter, just like Menger (1892. “On the Origin of Money,” Economic Journal 2: 238–255.)."
There is not one reference to spot transactions in Smith's passage. YOU'RE lying by claiming he can only mean spot.
"Furthermore, in case it isn't clear, I have in mind (as I have said above) the most extreme statements of the barter-origin, as in Rothbard:"
"[sc. Mises’s] Regression Theorem also shows that money, in any society, can only become established by a market process emerging from barter. Money cannot be established by a social contract, by government imposition, or by artificial schemes proposed by economists."
Notice there is no requirement that barter exchanges be ONLY spot in Rothbard either.
anthropologists and other heterodox economists aren't arguing that money arose from IOUs or non-enumerated credit/debt transactions:
I didn't claim that they did you dishonest snake. I said that they incorrectly claimed that credit is an alternative to either barter or money. In reality, credit is a form of barter exchanges and a form of money exchanges. People can trade barter on spot or on credit. People can trade money on spot or on credit. People CANNOT trade either barter or money for "credit" as if it is a thing that finalizes exchanges.
Pay attention numbskull.
What anthropologists have in fact observed where money is not used is not a system of explicit lending and borrowing, but a very broad system of non-enumerated credits and debts. In most such societies, if a neighbor wants some possession of yours, it usually suffices simply to praise it (‘what a magnificent pig!’); the response is to immediately hand it over, accompanied by much insistence that this is a gift and the donor certainly would never want anything in return. In fact, the recipient now owes him a favor. Now, he might well just sit on the favor, since it’s nice to have others beholden to you, or he might demand something of an explicitly non-material kind (‘you know, my son is in love with your daughter...’) He might ask for another pig, or something he considers roughly equivalent in kind. But it’s almost impossible to see how any of this would lead to a system whereby it’s possible to measure proportional value.
"Non-enumerated credits and debts" based on the expectation that they will be settled by exchanging either barter commodities or the money commodity.
Credits mean a promise to pay something. It is that something that Menger and Smith are referring to when they say that barter precedes money.
"Murphy then goes on to produce a straw man saying that a system where people borrow things from one another and then turn to political authorities to regulate the system would not produce money. True enough, but it seems a bit irrelevant considering (a) I never say people would be “borrowing” from each other in the way he describes, (b) I never attribute any role to political authorities in this process, and (c) rather than saying the informal system of favors I do describe would lead to the invention of money, I explicitly say that it would not."
Red herring. This is all besides your idiotic assertion that the regression theorem of money can ever be refuted by empirical data, if an anthropologist finds that credit for explicitly unnamed goods or services, somehow can precede or transform into money, without the existence of bartering of the monetary commodity first.
Money isn't sent down from heaven. At the time, it had to be mined. When money is mined, it had to be valued in itself as a commodity to be used for purposes other than money.
That is how to understand the regression theorem. It's a logical necessity.
"An economy mainly run on the non-enumerated credit/debt transactions will probably NOT developed money."
Right, it will STAY as barter, which is exactly consistent with the regression theorem. The regression theorem doesn't argue that barter MUST give way to money. Only that IF money arises, it must have been through barter. Whether the barter is carried out on spot or on credit is totally and completely irrelevant to the regression theorem.
"The empircal evidence on how money can emerge shows:"
"(1) invention by temple/palace planners in collectivist economic institutions (Mesopotamia/Egypt);"
"(2) wergild social practices;"
"(3) emergence by religion/sacrifice of some commodity for its religious value used as a unit of account, then prices denominated in it."
No, (1) is impossible. The data don't prove it. The data can only be incomplete. Collectivist economic institutions cannot create and impose a commodity to be money ex nihilo that wasn't already valued and exchanged for its own sake in some use other than money. This is a logical truth. If an anthropologist sees data that somehow show money is created by fiat outside of barter, then the data is necessarily incomplete/inaccurate.
(3) is just the regression theorem. FIRST the comodity was valued in itself, i.e. as a barter good, through religion/sacrifice. THEN it was used as a medium of exchange, after which "money prices" in that commodity formed.
"Your ramblings have no force, no refutation of anything above has been achieved."
On the contrary, YOUR ramblings have not only not refuted the regression theorem, but your ramblings have also disproven your own position against the regression theorem.
Nothing has been "achieved" by Graeber other than a historical tally of various events. His a priori economic theory is flawed, and that is why he misconstrues the historical data.
You're getting hung up on the whole credit versus spot thing, but the regression theorem is only about barter preceding money only. Credit and spot only tell us WHEN barter exchanges and WHEN money exchanges are finalized. Credit itself is not an alternative to barter or money.
Go back the drawing board.
"No, (1) is impossible. The data don't prove it. The data can only be incomplete. Collectivist economic institutions cannot create and impose a commodity to be money ex nihilo that wasn't already valued and exchanged for its own sake in some use other than money. This is a logical truth. "
A statement demontrating the intellectual bankrupcy of the Austrian arm-chair praxeologist: the data disprove what I'm saying, so therefore "the data is necessarily incomplete/inaccurate."!
Fit only for the deluded, the stupid, the ignoramus, and the stark raving mad.
"It is that something that Menger and Smith are referring to when they say that barter precedes money."
They are not referring to credit/debt transactions, and this is your persistent, laughable lie.
"Money isn't sent down from heaven. At the time, it had to be mined. When money is mined, it had to be valued in itself as a commodity to be used for purposes other than money. "
Garbage: the money thing could be cattle, cowrie shells, etc, not merely mined things.
"There is not one reference to spot transactions in Smith's passage. "
You are a contemptible liar:
"The former consequently would be glad to dispose of, and the latter to purchase, a part of this superfluity. But if this latter should chance to have nothing that the former stands in need of, no exchange can be made between them. [i.e, direct barter - LK] The butcher has more meat in his shop than he himself can consume, and the brewer and the baker would each of them be willing to purchase a part of it. But they have nothing to offer in exchange," etc.
Your idiotic attempt to deny that direct barter - that is, barter spot transactions - is not what is imagined by Smith, Menger, Mises etc. is totally destroyed by the fact that their main argument for the emergence of the most saleable commodity as a medium of exchange DEPENDS on the double co-incidence of wants problem: in a credit/debt transaction - exchange of present goods for future goods/services or even social relations - the double co-incidence of wants problem is AVOIDED.
If they really include credit/debt transactions, and think credit/debt transactions as a type of barter can also lead to money, the whole basis of their argument is undermined.
"The former consequently would be glad to dispose of, and the latter to purchase, a part of this superfluity. But if this latter should chance to have nothing that the former stands in need of, no exchange can be made between them."
How does this passage EXCLUDE credit exchanges? He just says exchanges. The butcher, brewer, and baker can make exchanges on credit. Smith isn't saying that ONLY spot barter exchanges are possible.
"How does this passage EXCLUDE credit exchanges? He just says exchanges. The butcher, brewer, and baker can make exchanges on credit. Smith isn't saying that ONLY spot barter exchanges are possible. "
He is assuming direct barter - barter spot transactions - here obviously, for the simple reason that a credit/debt transaction (or an exchange of present goods for future goods/services) would overcome the double coincidence of wants problem: the butcher can give his meat to the baker now, and the baker will promise to repay the mutuum loan (= loan for consumption) in the future with some commodity the butcher designated (e.g., meat now for nails in 2 months time). The baker now has a time period to find whatever commodity the butcher designated that the baker himself does not have now.
JP Koning January 9, 2012 at 7:38 AM
I don't really disagree with your claims, although I think you have to read the full Wealth of Nations in order to appreciate Adam Smith's theory of money. For instance, you are quoting from book 1 chapter 4, but Smith also has a very interesting (and much more extensive) chapter describing the complex workings of the system of bills of exchange, so he was by no means focused on gold and silver as money (See book 2 chapter 2). In this way he was different from Menger, who never discusses credit. Like Henry Dunning Macleod (who I see someone has already quoted), Smith was comfortable with credit as money.
The existence of Henry Dunning Macleod, as well as George Berkeley and James Steuart, disconfirms the thesis that classical and neo-classical economists were uniformly metallists. All advocated to various degrees a credit theory of money. Jevons credits Macleod for laying the framework for marginal utility calculus, so he was surely neoclassical.
The "origins of money" debate is interesting but I don't know how important it is. I think it's perfectly logical to adopt a Mengerian metallist approach and a Macleodean credit approach, modifying each just enough so that they can be amalgamated. Let the anthropologists take care of the chronological order of things.
The sheer level of your cultish, pig-headed lying is confirmed by even a quick read of what Robert Murphy said about Graeber:
In a crucial passage, Graeber says:
> "[T]he flaw in the barter theory of the
> origin of money is that barter presumes
> SPOT TRANSACTIONS. There is no reason
> whatsoever to presume that neighbors would
> limit themselves to spot transactions in
> dealing with one another. However, if one
> does not presume spot transactions, then
> the notorious problem of the “double
> coincidence of wants” does not occur. You
> end up with a system of broad,
> non-enumerated credits, and this is
> precisely what those who actually did
> research on communities that do not use
> money did find."
This is an excellent point, and Graeber is right: In the standard exposition of a barter economy, economists typically think in terms of spot transactions. But in principle, there’s no reason to restrict ourselves in this way. If we can imagine a farmer trading a pig for an axe, we can also imagine a farmer trading a pig for a promise to deliver an axe in two weeks.
Graeber is also right that the possibility of credit transactions expands the scope of a moneyless economy, and mitigates the problem of finding a double coincidence of wants.
http://blog.mises.org/18371/murphy-replies-to-david-graeber-on-menger-and-money/
The 2 crucial points:
(1) Murphy, just as I have said above, is clear that "in the standard exposition of a barter economy, economists typically think in terms of spot transactions."
(2) Murphy also says that debt/credit transaction do not "eliminate the problem" of double coincidence of wants - sure, they don't completely and utterly eliminate it, but they certainly significantly diminish it ("mitigates the problem", he says).
Too bad you are exposed for what you are: a liar and a fraud.
By the way, the last comment applies to Major_Freedom/PeterS, not to other commentators above, so there's no confusion.
How do tally sticks fit into the regression theorem? Whereas they were used by many major cultures around the world, I would assume it should say something about them.
Argosy Jones January 9, 2012 at 7:52 PM
"Huh? MajorFreedomChristofDavid? What the heck? You seem to have me confused for someone else.
LOL. Murray would be proud of you. I mean the five of you of course.
Lord Keynes January 9, 2012 at 8:52 PM
Argosy Jones,
This ludicrous troll is the worst I've ever seen.
Gene Callahan may be on to something:
http://factsandotherstubbornthings.blogspot.com/2012/01/couple-debt-updates.html?showComment=1325816136764#c7672460519914875997
Cool info on this blog.
LK have you seen the recent battle between David Graeber and George Selgin?
Is that something you would be interested in posting about at all?
Or maybe that doesn't interest you as much at this point - kinda interesting though.
LK March 29, 2016 at 11:40 AM
Do you have a link to this David Graeber and George Selgin debate?
So it appears it all started here.
When the Atlantic did this article (which I was intrigued that the truth had gotten out) :P
http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2016/02/barter-society-myth/471051/
Then Selgin this month posted this.
http://www.alt-m.org/2016/03/15/myth-myth-barter/
And then this happened on Twitter:
https://twitter.com/GeorgeSelgin/status/710152681961234432
Then Selgin did this:
http://www.alt-m.org/2016/03/24/graeber-once-more/
A few others jumped in to increase some flames:
https://twitter.com/barryDstocker/status/711561194855927809
And I'm not sure if Graeber is going to come back at him or not.
I guess it wasn't so much a debate, just more a quick battle where Selgin attacks Graeber's argument and Graeber's character a little too it seems, and Graeber attacks back... I think Selgin wants more to enter into a debate but not quite sure what Graeber wants to do next.
LK March 30, 2016 at 7:10 AM
My analysis here:
http://socialdemocracy21stcentury.blogspot.com/2016/03/george-selgin-versus-david-graeber-on.html
Selgin's revised Mengerian view of money's origins is Karl Marx's but stripped of the LTV.
AWESOME man!!!
Can't wait to read your thoughts on this!!! :D :) :D
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in search of triumphant escape
At 6.07am on Friday 24 June, I was woken up by the words: “Oh fuck, Leave have won.”
At 8.55pm on Friday 24 June, I walked into the black-box theatre at the New Diorama for Coyote, a “semi-improvised mixtape” telling the “story so far” of Ponyboy Curtis.
I'm always on tenterhooks, seeing Ponyboy, but this time the stakes were impossibly high. I went to them in need of reassurance, consolation and hope. I went knowing that Andre Ponyboy, Portuguese and in London on a student visa, was already feeling that his future in the UK was threatened, and wanting to give him a hug to say: we'll fight to make this OK. I needed Ponyboy and Chris to make everything OK. I needed them to process the day or at least bear its weight; to recognise the terror and anger lodged in people's stomachs, articulate it, expunge it, transform it. I knew such expectations were unfair, but everything about the day was unfair: I needed them to rebalance it.
For most of Coyote, they did. And yet this performance – my fifth encounter with the group – suggested some limitations of Ponyboy as a project that either hadn't struck me before or that I'd brushed off unexamined. Ponyboy, like all Chris' work, is a haven for me, a refuge of idealism; but on a day when all ideals were shattered, the walls of its asylum became visible. That Coyote survived its setting at all, without crumpling into irrelevance, is testament to the conviction with which the group shape a queer, anti-capitalist, romantic space that diametrically opposes the demonising and exploitative politics espoused by, among others, the frontline of Leave campaigners. But something about the hard truth of the day, the ugliness of the divide slashed through the country, made romance insufficient.
Coyote began, as always, with naked bodies walking silently and carefully, tuning in to each other's frequencies. As a line of the introductory text said, on such a day, “what could they do but pay even closer attention to each other?”
I've always cherished those opening minutes of Ponyboy shows, not just for the attention each body gives to the other, the scanning and scoping, the pausing and reflecting, the communication of openness and vulnerability through pores and downy hair, but for the transition it allows me to make, slowing me down, encouraging me to listen not just with ears but eyes and even my own skin. More and more I recognise that the attention of those minutes is vital: the invite of it, the kindness, the alertness of the listening; and that it shouldn't be focused solely on those with whom we sympathise, but extended to those with whom we disagree. The referendum, scarred by the death of Jo Cox, demonstrated the extent to which civic and cultural attention, whether to racism or the crushing effects of austerity or the too-many communities demoralised by ongoing lack of opportunity, has lapsed or was always lacking.
And yet, in Coyote, the attention of those minutes felt wrong. In following pre-set patterns and established behaviours, in speaking of itself generally rather than the specific moment, it seemed languid, luxurious, indulgent. Not a solution, but part of the problem.
[I've been trying to write about this show in a single, coherent, linear essay, but it's just not happening. There's something pleasing about that, how strenuously Ponyboy resist normativity in narrative, and any response requires me to do the same.]
I'd seen Ponyboy play with violence in FCKSYSTMS, wrestling and grappling, laughing as they overpowered each other. In Coyote they stopped playing and shit got real. Of course it did. Maybe it felt that way because, as well as the exposure of the time, Ponyboy were contending with exposure of the space. When they've performed to a general public before, it's been at the Yard, where the audience are contained in rake seating and the demarcated playing space has lots of air around it. I've seen them in more intimate settings, but there it's just been just me or a small invited audience. This was different. Even with the seats pushed back, the theatre at the New Diorama is small and overheated; even with the audience crammed against the walls, the playing space is cramped. It's marked out by white tape, a thin line separating internal from an amophous external in which Ponyboys can be off instead of on - only here, the outside was almost eradicated. The tension of having no release or relief poured into the play-violence of Coyote and made it savage, while proximity made it more perilous.
[As a sidenote: it's funny how we as audience stay in our places when watching Ponyboy, honouring the divide of that thin white line, even when almost sitting on it. On the recommendation of Simon Bowes, my Ponyboy sparring partner, I recently read an essay by John Berger on the "theatre of indifference", a social and cultural phenomenon whose "precondition is the failure of democracy", and results from "the inevitable divergence of personal fantasies when isolated from any effective social action". In his email mentioning it, Simon wondered whether "the experience of performing or of watching a performance is a way of divesting ourselves of real participation in politics by creating a simulation of it". Watching Ponyboy, do we really create the queer sexual revolution, or only fantasise about it? But I'm jumping ahead of myself.]
All they were doing, of course, was inhabiting an age-old model of masculinity, fearlessness as a mask for fear, aggression exaggerated to extinguish any other emotion. The more they fought, the more their sweating bodies cried: see? See this? This is what it's like out there. This is the violence you live with and ignore, day after day. Look at it. Look at it. And now help us get rid of it.
The smell in the room changes when they fight. It becomes heavier, muggier; I know it's absurd but I always think it's the musk of testosterone. If only the tropes of masculinity attached to it could be washed off as easily as sweat.
There's always been a visitor in Ponyboy shows. In At the Yard, it was a different person every night, reading out a letter they'd written, to men or boys, specific or generalised, real or imagined. In FCKSYSTMS it was a teenage white boy (Stan Smith): a totem of ultimate privilege, but one growing into a knowledge that this advantage is becoming necessarily precarious. Coyote's visitor looked back to Ponyboy's very first R&D in December 2014: to Chris' obsession with Nova, “someone from another village”, who appears in Peter Handke's play The Long Way Round to galvanise those around her with firebrand “words of resistance”. [Writing this, I think of what it means to be a fan, to have rare access to the object of obsession, to collect and collate facts, incidents, obscurities; b-sides, flexi-discs, bootleg live recordings. The mixtape analogy is perfect.]
During that R&D week Nova was played variously by the Ponyboys themselves, by Tilda Swinton in a swimming-with-dolphins recording set to electronic music I found offensive in its attempt at aura-manipulating psychedelic expansiveness, and by playwright Jo Clifford, who divested herself of jumper and bra to perform semi-naked and regal. In Coyote, she's played by Annie Siddons, who keeps all her clothes on and stays sat behind a desk, but loses no impact for it. I look up to Annie anyway, but those words combined with her strength of being set my pulse racing. It's a speech directed to a group of villagers, ignored and made-to-feel-inferior; a speech hymning nature, art, faith and revolution, and above all the promise of humanity committed to working with love. She is cosmic in scope – the line “a cry to the gods is form and form reveals the arcade in space” is exquisite – but also molecular, drawing attention to the “yellow-in-yellow amid yellow blossoms”. In total, the speech lasts a good 20 minutes; Chris slashed it in half, and I couldn't be sure what made the cut, but scanning my photocopy now my eyes catch on so many lines that speak to our tumultuous moment:
Nature can neither be a refuge nor an escape. It provides a model and a measure; but the measure must be taken each day anew.
Who says that failure is inevitable? Don't listen to the gasps of the dying: they lie.
Time is the vibration that helps you through the accursed century, and it is also the luminous tent of survival.
Nowhere in our human history is a consolation that holds water. The cries of horror will go on for ever.
Only love can enable you to see things as they are. You alone, my beloved, are real. Loving you, I awaken to myself.
Somewhere in the back of my mind, Nova's words were counteracted by a conversation I remembered having with Selina Thompson, a few days after the Orlando shootings, in which she briefly flashed with fury at the way the lives of queer and trans people of colour were as usual being erased, not just by the violence of one man wielding a gun, but by the use being made of their deaths to boost arguments for gun control and other white-liberal preoccupations. The white-gay-male-led campaign #loveiswinning in particular made her bristle: love, she fumed, isn't winning for black people. I also remembered Chris and Jonny Liron talking in the R&D rehearsal room about an uncomfortable prickle of right-wing fervour they apprehended in Nova's words, something – worryingly – I never felt I noticed. I might have missed it again in Coyote but for the music Chris used to underscore Annie's voice: a gentle, celestial twinkling that grew imperceptibly menacing with a sly change of key.
The visitor is a necessary figure in the Ponyboy space, which might otherwise feel hermetically secluded, as solipsistic as a teenage diary. And Nova is my favourite of all those I've encountered so far. It saddens me to say this – because I want not to be conditioned by heteronormative gender thinking, I want my brain to be less binary – but I know it's because she's a woman, unexceptional yet unconventional, speaking boldly, not to any gender but to everybody. It makes me happy, in a simplistic way, that the Ponyboys stop everything and sit, like acolytes, like children, while she holds forth. It makes me happier still, in a way that supports a recent insinuation that I'm as bad as Angela Leadsom and deserve a similar massacring, that it's Annie, a mother to teenagers, someone whose CV includes the career break taken when those children were small, whose current show is about her struggle to live in suburbia, who commands the room for this moment and illuminates a path that might save us. It's not that her words are uncomplicatedly hopeful – if anything, Nova says, “Hope is the wrong heartbeat.” It's her embrace of the difficulty that lies ahead that makes me cleave to her so.
When the Ponyboys howled in At the Yard, what they emitted was the sound of desperate hearts: a carmine sound aching with animal longing and thwarted desire, a yearning that might never end. There was looped projected film of a boy running and stumbling to throw himself into the arms of another, and on the stage there was running, stumbling, pounding and wanting, and falling to knees to emit that howl, head tipped back as though pleading with the moon.
When they howled in Coyote, what they emitted was the sound of desperate fury: disappointment, terror and rage. Maybe it was the proximity again, but I don't think so: the escalation of intensity was devastating. There were three in total, ending with Andre, whose howl was a severed artery, spraying blood.
Transgression
You know what I said about Hakim Bey when writing about FCKSYSTMS? Forget it. Or rather: if the text of Wild Children shot an arrow over my head in that show, here it hit solid and true. Not even the word ontological could faze me: because how perfect is the phrase “natural ontological anarchists, angels of chaos”? Bey's vision is of children as “savage runaways or minor guerrillas” locking gaze with “artists, anarchists, perverts, heretics”, creating together a “means of triumphant escape” through “delirious and obsessive play”. Play in the quotidian sense, the play of my children, with lego and teddies, or football and sticks, is something I struggle with: it never feels to me a route to triumphant escape but tighter bondage. For all its imagination and make-believe scope, I'm yet to accept its invitation, or find a way through it, to shape for myself a different role. But when I'm with Ponyboy Curtis, I'm able to shed that. I realise this will contradict what I've said above about Annie Siddons (to be honest, almost everything I've written this year is sloppy with contradiction), but words like that allow me to forget I'm a mother, they entice me to contemplate radical play: the play of breaking rules and testing boundaries and doing all the things a mother says you never should. I've done a bit more reading about Bey since then and this blog in particular left me furtive and breathless. We are conditioned from birth to behave as we do: I know this because I've been mindlessly conditioning my own children. Ponyboy are the vanguard of a full-scale rethinking.
Smashing down proprieties around sex is one of their methods: instead of equal marriage, that solid cornerstone of capitalism, they offer the fluidity of polyamorism; instead of monogamy, the gifting body, generous with its pleasures and on display. The fashion-show parading of different masculine types is a long-standing Ponyboy trope that has never held much meaning for me, straight-laced as I am, and in Coyote I see it as another dip into irrelevance and indulgence: a moment in which the “semi-improvised” is overtaken by the “mixtape”, to the detriment of the whole. But the sex is of a different magnitude entirely. It is untrammelled, almost rapacious: body piles upon body, limbs so entwined they might be conjoined; tongues travel greedily from mouth to nipple to hardened cock; and because the room is so small, sometimes those bodies are only just beyond reach. But perhaps the most electrifying thing about it, on this day of all days, is the extent to which this vision of male lust defies the narrow-minded prejudice of Farage and his cronies. What emanates from those bodies, in their tantalising almost-fucking, is an emphatic and joyful fuck you.
Im/possible dreams
I've been pretty positive so far, right? As I left Coyote, that's how I was feeling: becalmed, held, relieved. In the New Diorama cafe I had three separate conversations with four of the Ponyboys that reassured me further. Nick and Griffyn gave me news about Paul, whose absence was a sadness if not quite a surprise (on the last day of FCKSYSTMS he wrote on twitter: “the thing imitating itself – performance of sincerity/committment seems to preclude understanding of the artist as critical or suspicious – might be because we think of critical/ironic 'distance' - and i'm interested in proximity – & also probs as a relatively young artist people are reluctant to point out weakness or horror in the thing i have committed to – + when one name dominates a work, & is publicly seen to promote a politics, there's an assumption that everyone in the work agrees?” So I'd guessed he was ready to leave). Andre admitted that he'd spent the day in fear of being attacked every time he opened his mouth, but we agreed that his howling had dislodged something, unchoked us. Craig, brilliantly, said that he'd had exactly the same problem with the opening section as me (arguably, it misfired through a lack of conviction). But then I had a conversation with another audience-member, and performance-maker, Ira Brand. It's niggled at me ever since.
“Could women do this?” Ira wondered aloud. She's spent the past year playing (in a wild children way) with gender presentation, and now has as tangible a male identity as she has female, so I don't think she meant this in a straightforwardly cis- or white-feminist way. I talked meagrely of the experiment of CG&Co's Riot Act, a room of feminist expression crossing gender and sexuality, and Ira listened patiently before kindly pointing out I'd missed the point. She was thinking about the gaze, how it distorts female bodies/polices female sexuality, and how women using their bodies as tools for revolution would be received.
It's not often I feel I have a direct effect on CG&Co's movements, but the roots of Riot Act lie partly in something I wrote about the Ponyboy R&D, confessing that I'd find a room of naked women far more erotic than I do naked men. Whatever Riot Act achieved (and it was a difficult room, so ideas on that are mixed), it didn't do nakedness: there was a song about the injustice of men being able to walk the streets topless, and a comic strip about it too, but no undressed breasts hanging loose. The most triumphant expression of gaze-defying female presentation was Emma Frankland finally wearing the skirt she'd bought as a teenager, two decades before her transition.
Ira's comment made me re-see Ponyboy: for all its queerness, for all its transgression, it's the expression of a group of white males. They might be questioning their own privilege, but that they're able to gather at all is concomitant with that privilege. Even if they point to a queer romantic polymorphous future, arguably they do so for themselves first and everyone else second. I accept that I come at this through some problematically circumscribed thinking about binary gender, not to mention invisible exercise of privileges of my own. But still. On this awful day of turmoil, the promise of Ponyboy carried only so far.
[I love this song. Chris chose it as the closing of Coyote, and might have used it in another Ponyboy soundtrack, too. It hits a note of sincerity with such precision that its blandness, or sentimentality, is rendered inaudible. There is so much I don't write about when I write about Ponyboy, in particular the collage of materials Chris grafts to the group, the storytelling he does from his seat off-stage. Like Chris, I end with this song because it points forward. The youth are changing, changing. I don't know where Ponyboy Curtis will go next.]
Labels: chris goode and co, mothering, music, theatre, utopia
Demolition plot (extended play)
There was a time when I wrote a diary. Not every day; intermittently, for about four years. I stopped when I realised that a) I was only writing it when I was miserable, b) I was repeating myself, c) writing it changed nothing.
There was a time when I thought Chekhov, if not the most boring playwright in the history of theatre, certainly in the top 10.
I'm sorry if you've read these things before here.
Remember that last sharp day of winter we had? At least, it was the last sharp day London had: Tuesday 26 April, 2016. I stood at the kitchen window and tried to work out if those slushy white flakes were hail or snow. A few days later I stood in the same place and realised I was looking at the first sharp day of spring: green leaves so defined against a bright blue sky they seemed extra-dimensional. And I had a thought I'd never had before: this means nothing to me. The spring, the brightness, the green, the blue. Time turning, age grinding, unremarkable repetition, and a slow, inexorable deadening.
This is the emotional voice in my head that listened to Chekhov's First Play and heard its echo.
But we won't start with either of those.
Let's start with Dominic Dromgoole.
In 2000 he published an “A-Z of contemporary playwrights”, The Full Room, written with such irascible passion that with every dip I come away scalded. On Phyllis Nagy: “I'm sure she's terrific, but for me it always sounds like someone being a writer, rather than someone writing about being.” On Lee Hall: “Somehow he manages to keep many thousands of hungry mouths happy with a few loaves of a talent.” That the witticisms emerge from a forensic scrutiny of the actual plays gives everything he writes an air of justice, despite his protestations in the introduction that he's not here to judge, and regardless of whether or not I agree. But if he's ruthless in exposing flaws or inconsistencies, he's also intemperate with admiration: in the heat and light of his praise, his subjects glow.
He also writes with a strong moral compass, whose true north is Chekhov. In the entry on Anthony Neilson, he notes approvingly: “As Chekhov could dream of a better world in time to come, without providing some glib programme of improvement, so Neilson looks four-square into the heart of our sexual darkness, and allows himself to dream of a better world.” And in the entry on Patrick Marber – “a brilliant boulevard entertainer” – he looks in vain for “a real wish for good. With a Chekhov, with a Brecht, with a Beckett,” he explains, “you see a brilliantly realised and brutally honest vision, behind which there hovers the ghost of a better, fairer, more beautiful world. With Marber … beyond what we see is a chaos filled with violence, sexual desire and sexual disgust, and endless mutual loathing.”
I think about this chapter on Marber a lot, in particular for what Dromgoole says in the final paragraph:
“Chekhov wrote volumes of work, built schools, opened hospitals, interviewed ten thousand prisoners on Sakhalin island, kept his family, kept his patients alive, held hundreds as they died, spent fifteen years coughing his own life away, and still managed to keep hope in balance with despair, still managed to love life and its mad optimism.”
The leaves, drunk on chlorophyll, radiant and meaningless.
The “director” of Chekhov's First Play (warning: a frenzy of spoilers lies ahead) has read a biography of Chekhov; he knows these facts and knows that, by comparison, he himself is failing. I put “director” in quote marks to differentiate him from Ben Kidd and Bush Moukarzel, who co-directed Dead Centre's production, not because they didn't genuinely read the biography, but because I left the Mayfest performance stupefied by an adolescent crush on Moukarzel, who also wrote the adaptation and plays the “director” on stage, that heard everything he said as soul-dredging confession. I need the quotation marks to remind me that this is a character, that the voice that is speaking is a performed voice, that when the “director” begins berating himself as “a fraud”, when he says “I don't know what I'm doing” or that “I haven't been feeling myself lately. And by lately, I mean ever”, what I'm hearing is a fabrication. Never mind if it's the words I hear in my head all the time.
But let's avoid that voice a little longer.
It's hard to avoid the “director's” voice in this production. Once he's delivered his pitch-perfect introduction – light as a meringue and yet ominous, not just because he wields a gun, but because he makes visible something I (and likely others in the room) had never contemplated before: the audience member's temporary legal ownership of their theatre seat, its status as “private property” – he retreats to the wings and talks around, across and over his actors, commenting on their performances, his own choices, the themes and subtexts of the play. Of course, some of his own text has a subtext: when he says, close to the beginning, “I love real life. The detail”, there is an underlying irony that is quickly exposed when he begins to berate the actors for moving in the wrong way and forgetting their lines, in other words being real people, but also an undertow of pathos whose emotional pull operates more slowly.
What he particularly wants to draw our attention to is the reflection – no, continuation – of Chekhov's world in our own. Some of that is to do with unchanging human nature: as he notes in his introduction, all Chekhov's plays “ask the big questions: who am I? What kind of a society do I want to live in? What do I want?” But some of it is to do with the ways in which Chekhov thought about “the kind of society” that surrounded him, his attitudes towards privilege and work, property and debt, social stagnation and the possibility or imminence of change. These attitudes, compassionate, socialist and challenging of orthodoxy, have a pliability that the best directors (and playwright-adapters) seize as gleefully as children do playdoh.
I didn't think any of this until I watched Benedict Andrews' production of Three Sisters (Young Vic, 2012): it spoke so precisely to the frustrations of my own life, and to the stuckness I've been able to name since reading the Ann Cvetkovich book on depression, that I heard more vividly the play's address to society at large. I felt the same wonder and excitement watching Katie Mitchell's production of The Cherry Orchard (Young Vic, 2014): as adapted by Simon Stephens, it wasn't a play about privileged (albeit poor) people for whom I felt no sympathy, but the complex relationship between class, capitalism and environmental devastation. Robert Icke's Uncle Vanya (Almeida, 2016) was the least convincing of the three, in that a lot of the staging choices were fucking annoying even if they did make intellectual sense, but as a portrait of people damaged by the basic condition of being alive, holding down the lid on their hopes, desires, frustrations and anger before inevitably boiling over, it was exemplary.
I'd seen all of these plays before, sometimes in pretty good productions, but my general idea of Chekhov was sealed early on by a Cherry Orchard played in a wealthy suburb of London, by actors with plummy accents wearing white lace and linen suits, that left me wanting to punch every person on stage, for their entitlement, apathy and mediocrity. This was the problem of Chekhov's First Play for me: when the curtain rises, it looks like just such a traditional, tedious production. And that's a lie. The directors, Kidd and Moukarzel, know that it's a lie: they know they're working within a “German theatre” aesthetic, but they pretend not to be for dramatic and comic effect. To be fair, it works: the jokes teasing conservative theatre, in which the “director” complains about the actors and lets slip the sexual shenanigans going on behind the scenes, easily win the laughs they chase. OK, I sound like a miserabilist. But Chekhov's First Play does something incredibly powerful politically, and for me that could have been more potent still if Dead Centre hadn't settled on the chocolate-box image of a sprawling country house as the site for that action: an image that distances more than it implicates.
In other ways, Chekhov's First Play is rigorous in implicating. It makes explicit reference to Ireland's recent history, first with jokes about its flaccid economy, but gradually becoming more serious about the spiritual effect of debt. (Something about the way it compacted gravity and sickly unease into comedy reminded me of John McDonagh's film Calvary.) It talks about the central character of Platonov as someone “over-educated but useless, unnecessary”, typical of a generation who have “let go of ideals”: people who know that there is social inequality, rising poverty, ecological catastrophe taking place, but are comfortable enough themselves never to do anything more serious to challenge it than mouthing off on social media. (I'm very much describing myself here.) It spends its entire first half insistently arguing that we can't wait for someone else to save us. And then. And then.
Two months on, I still feel giddy and breathless just thinking about it. Because the hinge point of Chekhov's First Play unleashed all my wildest fantasies of what I'd like to do in the political world. It drops a wrecking ball from the flies and proceeds to demolish everything: the physical set, but also the metaphysical structures that hold the characters – and us, the audience – in place. That wrecking ball smashes at property, at family, at propriety and expectation. When it falls, the women stop talking in a vaguely dissatisfied way about lacking a sense of purpose and start naming their specific hatred of “my marriage and capitalism and my student loan and how the modern consumer society separates us from ourselves … normality and monogamy and gender normative privilege”. Being idealistic about wanting these things to change isn't enough. You have to get out there and actively fight them. You have to live the difference you want to see.
To do that takes courage and verve. It takes a willingness to make mistakes, look awkward, feel out-of-step with everyone else. It takes quick thinking and attentive listening. And Chekhov's First Play shows us how. It pulls someone out of the audience, someone prepared enough in advance to be wearing a particular red denim jacket but no more, and gets them to play Platonov. I've since read the playtext (THANK YOU OBERON for replacing the copy I stupidly lost) and understand a lot more about what happened in this half of the production, but I'm going to be truthful about the experience of watching and say that there was much that I didn't hear or that didn't feel clear in this section. It didn't matter: chaos was part of the point, the necessary correlative of destruction.
Through most of this, the “director's” voice is absent: he's silent because he shot himself, unable to bear the disparity between what he wanted the production to be and what he had actually made. Implicit in his adaptation is a question – what does it take to be extraordinary, and actually change the world? – and a recognition that it's the wrong question, playing into patriarchal notions of singularity and genius. Far better to be a nobody: but a nobody genuinely dedicated to the cause of helping other nobodies, enabling them to escape the bonds that tie them, enabling them to cast off the pressures of keeping up with life as shaped by neoliberalism. Platonov is that nobody: he's just a stranger, plucked from the auditorium. It could have been any one of us. And because of that, it's all of us.
Such was my intense sense of identification with this Platonov that I felt quite upset when the staging required him to point a gun at his own head. It felt wrong, an unethical ask. Reading back over the text, I wonder what it means to have a character repeatedly described as useless and unnecessary, and then have him played by a member of the audience. I worry that if I pick at the wrong thread of Moukarzel's adaptation, the whole thing will unravel.
What holds it all together for me, allows me to live in its contradictions, is that voice, the “director's” voice, which is also Platonov's, and mine. That voice caught between idealism and pessimism, hope and depression, knowledge of the work that needs doing and terror of actually doing it. The “director” seems so confident when Chekhov's First Play starts, but it's all bluff. He lacks faith not only in himself but in theatre as a medium: “It's so aimless,” he mourns, as his characters sing People Ain't No Good in Russian. The song returns in the final scene, when the “director” returns, head bandaged, for a speech that devastated me:
“This gun. At least let me explain one thing right. Chekhov's first play had a gun in it and his second, and all the rest had guns in them in one way or another, until in his last play … it was gone. It's like he got over it. He wrote away the gun.
He realised his characters have to do something even harder than dying. They have to go on living.”
I've lost count of the number of times I've thought those last two sentences in the past few years. The accuracy with which they echoed my inner voice – the inner voice that the “director” explicitly acknowledges in his opening speech – meant that the words that followed reduced me to a puddle. “I don't know who I am, what it is I want, why I'm alive. But I need to have courage,” his voice, my voice, said. “I wonder will this voice ever stop? … This commentary, commenting on everything. Will it ever go away?” Not just my inner voice but the voice I hear speaking to a counsellor, a weirdly out-of-body experience. “Where would I go, if I could go, who would I be, if I could be, what would I say...?” These are the questions that consume me at night, lying awake in my too-hard bed. And as I sat in my theatre seat – my own private property, which holds me in place, in which I always behave with absolute decorum, just as I do in the world outside – I knew exactly what was coming next, but still felt an intense sense of gratification when Platonov's final word is: hello.
For such a basic word, hello is really hard to say.
On Friday 1 July, I visited the South-East London Sisters Uncut occupation of a disused shop in Peckham. I'd planned to get there early and sit with my laptop, writing about the room, but also maybe writing this, or about Ria Hartley's work, or maybe about what it was to grow up in Thatcher's Britain as a way of reflecting on the terror and anxiety but also weird sense of euphoria I felt in the first week post-referendum, when it still seemed vaguely possible that there might be a left-wing resurgence (excuse me while I wring my hands with despair). Instead, I found all sorts of excuses to delay leaving home. There wasn't going to be wifi in the building. I had some scraps of food in the house that I ought to cook for my lunch. And so it was 1.30pm by the time I arrived, giving me barely an hour in the space before the school run.
The people on the door were immediately friendly but the usual shyness consumed me so I rejected the offer of a tour and had a look round on my own. The main room was welcoming, warm and light, despite having few windows and no carpet on the concrete floor. It was the warmth and light of generosity and political fervour. The occupation was staged to draw attention to the lack of provision for women living in Southwark who experience domestic violence, particularly black and minority ethnic women following austerity cuts. Along one wall was a huge banner bearing the group's slogan: how can she leave if there's nowhere to go? Along another, lively posters detailed previous Sisters Uncut actions, in photographs and clips from less than sympathetic media. There were sofas and a large children's play space with toys and a wendy house and drawing materials, and a stack of food with an invitation to all-comers to help themselves. Scattered around were copies of the excellently thoughtful safe space policy, and reminders that the space was open only to people who identify as female or non-binary. It was beautiful.
Looking around gave me the courage to go back to the people at the door and say hello. This is how I met Sita, who, it transpired, is a massive fan of Chris Goode: we'd both seen the Ponyboy Curtis show Coyote, and Sita is almost finished a PhD largely concerned with literary shapings of masculinity, but with a chapter on theatre in which Men in the Cities is prominent. When a friend of Sita's arrived I continued the conversation with Becca, asking about how the occupation was going, and about Sisters Uncut generally. When I had to leave, I felt like an idiot: I hadn't had enough time. I wished I'd been there all day.
I asked Becca why Southwark in particular and she patiently told me about its appalling record of failing women who come to the council seeking help in escaping abuse situations. We talked about the council's bristly, patronising response to the occupation, that “statistics don't tell the whole story”, and the blog Sisters Uncut planned to publish in reply. I asked how they managed to get into the building, and Becca told me about laws related to squatting and the mechanics of the occupation, how everyone involved was taking time off from work or study to be there. I've always been terrified of this kind of direct action – and there was a moment when the Sisters gathered at the door, worried that an aggressive man might be seeking entry, that reminded me why – but talking to Becca and Sita, it felt possible. More than that: necessary.
I can't imagine not writing about theatre but nor can I carry on as I am, advocating in the abstract for social change without doing physical work to bring it about. In the time it's taken me to write this post, I've been reading Here We Stand, a glorious, invigorating book of interviews with and texts by female activists, that is nourishing me and encouraging me and giving me a way forward. There's one woman in particular, Mary Sharkey, that I'm clinging to because she was in her early 40s before she became politically active: what a relief to encounter her, and recognise that there's no point berating myself for wasting time and not doing this sooner (that voice again, commenting on everything) because – as she says in the final line of her interview – it's never too late to start. She has an excellent motto, too: “Behold the turtle, who makes progress when she sticks her neck out.” Perfect.
So I've been inhaling that, and also Kimya Dawson's album Thunder Thighs, which I deeply regret missing on first release, if only because it would have done me much good to hear her sing “now I'm 37 and I'm glad that I'm alive” when I was 37 and really not. There are so many best-friend songs on this album: Same Shit/Complicated, which trumps me for ultra-earnest expression; Utopian Futures, which to the letter describes the place I want to live; Zero or a Zillion, a piquant fuck you to the art accountants out there. But I think my favourite is Miami Advice, in particular the chorus that closes it:
You think I'm preaching to the choir
But I am not
I'm singing with the choir
This is such a key point made by the women of Here We Stand (a book, it's worth noting, that was recommended to me by Mary Paterson, with whom I've been working for a couple of years and in that time has taught me so much about collaboration and political engagement): the real goal isn't individual action but collective. “What we create are ripples,” says Liz Crow, “where the work of many peoples combines to make change.” And collectivity starts with saying hello.
Five years ago, I started writing a diary again. It's going OK: I'm doing better at turning to it in different moods, and trying hard not to repeat myself. I still know it doesn't change anything, not materially. But it does something my old diary never did. It says hello. I know this because you're reading it now.
Labels: chris goode and co, feminism, films, music, theatre, utopia
not setting the world on fire but starting a flame in your heart
Previously on Maddy writes about Ponyboy Curtis: there was the R&D writing, the collective writing, and the heartbroken writing (links to all in that third one). This is dedicated to Simon Bowes, who was with me both nights at the Yard when I saw FCKSYSTMS, and said afterwards on twitter that it had left him "with a Hangover to be reckoned with", but is yet to write anything more.
1: Score
I sometimes get the impression that people think Chris tells me everything I need to know about his work. It's fair enough: I'm often in his rehearsal rooms, we chat now and then. But the truth is, I struggle to figure it all out as much as the next person. I haven't been behind-the-scenes with Ponyboy since the initial R&D in December 2014, so the stuff that's going on within that square of crumpled clothing is a series of riddles, enigmatic and mystifying. I have luminous moments in which an interpretation suggests itself to me, and befuddled moments when I haven't a clue.
In Chris' book A History of Airports, a collection of pre-Company texts for performance, there are two things that have long puzzled me: handprint/mouth configuration schematic (ON THE FLY), a “kind of textual archive” of a series of improvisations with Jonny Liron, and O Vienna (score for solo performance), which Chris says in his notes is “designed … to be interpreted (by a dancer, say) rather than read”. Handprint in particular is typographically exquisite; O Vienna flows like a poem; neither of them give me any indication whatsoever of how they might have looked, sounded or felt on stage. I don't know how to see them.
Watching FCKSYSTMS at the Yard, I suddenly understood those pages. Or rather, what I felt I was watching was a score activated, detonated even. I have no idea what that score would actually look like: angry scrawls in emerald ink, a collage of images and text ripped from financial pages and gay magazines, instructions on a set of postcards, Dennis Cooper's blog? It wouldn't look like this text, that's for sure.
Incidentally, I'm aware it's possible to read in the assumption that Chris tells me everything I need to know about his work the inference that I have meagre capacity to analyse it on my own. Like dedicating yourself to trying to understand the intricacies of thinking of another human being, in all their complexity and contradiction, not within the context of a romantic relationship or a therapy transaction, but as a basic function of being human, is too strange a pursuit to be believed.
2: Concerto
And if it's a score, what if it looks like music? What if each body is an instrument, with its own timbre and tonality, and Chris is, not composing exactly, but conducting an arrangement of tone clusters and sharps?
3: Text
I'm not even going to talk about the poem. I see FCKSYSTMS twice and it washes over me both times. It's the word ontological: by the third syllable I'm lost and I can't compute anything that's wrapped around it. In this room, it's the language of bodies that focuses me, not the system of communication already privileged.
4: Wrestling
Back in that original 2014 R&D, scant space was given to such banal expressions of testosterone-fuelled masculinity as grappling or wrestling. At the Yard that's prevalent; a fierce delight is taken in wrapping limbs around a torso and pulling it to the ground, in attempting to evade the touch of another, in hurling the body at walls and up scaffolding poles as though defying the building itself for its attempt to confine. When I see FCKSYSTMS on Thursday 2 June, I'm charged up and exhilarated by this; returning on Saturday 4 June it has me charged up but stressed out. There is a carelessness of bruises and the fragility of bones in the aggression directed against not just each other but themselves that alarms me. I'm not frightened by the slap of skin against concrete floor the way I would be watching an actual fight: it's the desire to care that's triggered, not fear. I want them to look after themselves. I want to look after them. But I also hear the echo in my mind of a paragraph from Men inthe Cities:
“And there's an old black-and-white photo of some kind of scuffle between these smartly dressed men and then on top of that it says: 'You construct intricate rituals which allow you to touch the skin of other men.' Rufus looks at that one for a while and he thinks about what it says and in the end he thinks: not that intricate.”
(5: )
(And I miss Jonny. I'm sorry. He was only there for those first few days. But there's something about how he moves through a room, daring it, daring gravity even, to obstruct him, something about how he gives of himself without giving away, something in the cadence I've described elsewhere as charisma, whose absence I notice both nights at the Yard. It's not that the others don't have these things – Nick, boyish and sly, clambering along the edge of the balcony, reminds me of him – but those chimerical glimpses just make me more wistful for the dynamic shifts he might bring.)
6: Soft
Turning the volume up on aggression makes the softness speak louder, too. Those moments of caress, of kindness, of support. Of love. Not the love charged with sexual excitement – although it is that, too – but the love that's ready to tend the bruises and mop the blood and tie the bandage tight. The unconditional love of human beings that rely on each other to survive. That pulses more clearly in FCKSYSTMS than ever before.
The softness is also a softening of the boundaries of what's sexually permissible on stage. The touch reaches further, fondness becomes fondling, tongues explore nipples, hips and thighs. In that first week of June I was reading Viv Albertine's memoir Clothes Music Boys and fascinating at the contradiction between “how uptight I am about my body, bodily functions, smells and nudity” and her use of her body in public space to shock or unsettle. “Referencing sex,” she knows, “is an easy way to shock.” The bodies in Ponyboy are neither uptight (there's a glorious line in Chris' book The Forest and the Field, quoting Jonny, on whether it's “unseemly” for people to stare at his genitals: “If I'm going to go to the trouble of getting my cock out,” Jonny says, “the least you can do is look at it”) nor out to shock: they're simply taking pleasure in each other – or rather, finding pleasure in giving it.
There's another softness here: that of individual personality. There are three new Ponyboys in the room, making seven in total, and each Ponyboy does something distinct (Paul a furious, stuttering, splintered dance; Andre a tattoo of gate-marks above his pelvic bone; Craig a sequence of hand-gestures from the sidelines, instructing others to perform specific actions). And yet I'm aware of a struggle in my mind: to differentiate one from another, or to work out whether the shift in temperature in this room compared with previous performances results from the new personalities coming in or the development of Ponyboy Curtis' own personality as a hydra-headed individual becoming braver about love, touch and reach.
7: Work
As I write this I'm reading Nicholas Ridout's book Stage Fright, Animals and Other Theatrical Problems, which is brilliant but also a brain-melting macrocosm of the word ontological. In his introduction he talks about Heinrich von Kleist's Uber das Marionettentheater, and in particular extrapolates from one of its passages the argument that “erotic exploitation is an inevitable part of the theatrical experience”. Theatre is the intersection of actor's work and audience's pleasure; as such, “sexual and economic exploitation are always on the scene”.
FCKSYSTEMS makes this explicit, while also questioning the assumption in the word exploitation. Just as there are sex workers (most likely white and in a position to choose other employment should they wish; the example I have specifically in mind is Amy Cade, who talks about this in Sister, her collaboration with her sister Rosana) who embrace the work as a fulfilment of their own desire, so Ponyboys don't kiss and hold and snog and thrust and wrap lips around another's erect cock because we've paid money to watch them but because they want to and they can. I don't watch porn and never have by choice because no one has ever persuaded me that it won't be degrading or objectifying, but I watch Ponyboy Curtis and pay money to do so because this isn't porn, it's an argument about society. Even so, I feel a shiver of discomfort about how my dedication to watching this group is perceived in the wider world. It's definitely exacerbated by the fact that I'm old enough to be their collective mother.
A few days after the show finishes at the Yard, Andre tweets the following: “The pursuit of sexual pleasure as a means of relatedness rather than procreation can be understood as a profoundly anti-capitalist act”. It's in quote marks but he doesn't say where he's quoting from. I'm excited by this as a proposition, but the more I contemplate it, the more it strikes me that this is a homo-centric aggrandising of a kind of sex that I, as a cis straight woman, can never access. All sex carries the possibility or threat of procreation for me. I also wonder if the person being quoted has ever asked a woman what sex as a defined means of procreation is actually like for her: in my experience it's pretty demoralising.
In the Thursday performance, one of the new Ponyboys – I don't know his name (status as Chris Goode know-it-all instantly downgraded to AA) – crouches on the floor and wanks. I don't see how this begins, I catch him in my peripheral vision at the moment that he sticks a finger up his anus while the other hand continues to pump. I've seen this before, on another concrete floor, in Jonny's bedsit: it happened during The Infancy Gospel of Pseudo-Belladonna, the final piece Chris and Jonny made together as the collaboration Action one19, I can't remember what Chris was doing but Jonny was wanking and it took him a really long time to come. My thought at the time was: my god, so much work. So much energy and effort required for a little spurt of sperm. I have the same thought watching the Ponyboy do it. The work you're putting into this. The work.
On Saturday night it doesn't happen and I wonder if I dreamed it.
8: Spectre
I'm fascinated by how much Griffyn and Paul's bodies are like that of my son Ben's. Ben is seven, wiry, bones protruding at shoulders and knees; he eats well but that's his physique, lean and taut. When he was a smaller child it terrified me how easily I could snap him; now he's almost too heavy to carry what awes me is his capacity for strength. Apparently little boys experience a surge of testosterone at just Ben's age: it makes them suddenly interested in fighting (check), wrestling (check), waving sticks around like swords (check), all things he didn't do much before now. I look at Griffyn and Paul's bodies and wonder how I would feel if Ben walked into the room, his tiny, fragile, powerful body naked and shining alongside theirs. If I would give permission for that. What I would be giving permission to. How that permission might be condemned or understood.
There's a bit of text towards the end of FCKSYSTEMS, co-written by Simon Stephens and teenager Stan Smith and performed by Stan (fully clothed) that, if I'm honest, repulses me with its aggression. I feel like I do when Ben is shouting at me because that's how he's learned to communicate from me and his dad: the last thing I need is an entitled little white boy telling me how superior he is. I have no idea if this is actually what that text is saying because in all honesty I don't hear it, not clearly, because the tone of it is white noise.
There is a huge conversation to be had about how boys become men. I have a little boy in my house becoming a man, a little white boy becoming a man in a world in which the damage wreaked across centuries and continents by white men is being condemned with a vociferousness and ferocity unprecedented, and I need a huge conversation about how to help him be the best man he can possibly be. Deep down I know the key to it is teaching him how not to be a man but a human. To be able to do so, there are ways in which I need to dismantle myself.
Ben, my little Ben, standing in front of the audience, his naked body speaking without words. I can't even begin to imagine.
From an email I sent to Chris, 2.05am, Friday 3 June:
i try (but often fail) to be v v cautious about what i write abt my kids, but i became really preoccupied at one point this evening with the similarity between paul's and griffyn's bodies and ben's, they're all three of them such strength and wiry, and i really wondered what work like this would look like if at some point a child appeared in it naked. i think it's part of my very deep regret about missing the charmatz that you saw, which i'm so burningly curious about, and also part of [a conversation I've had with a male director about his] fundamental fucking fury at safeguarding that happens in british theatre and how it basically casts any man working with young people in a kind of suspicion of paedophilia role.
From the email Chris sent back, 2.52am:
You're so right about the way that the child's body is so spectrally present & so frustratingly absent from Ponyboy. … The first few times [Stan] was in the room with us he was barefoot, of his own volition, I guess because everybody else was so it must have looked to him like a protocol. When we moved to the Yard he started wearing shoes for the speech and I was really sorry about the change in the image but it felt completely impossible in the context even to refer to it. Everything immediately becomes fetishistic and kind of incendiary. In the final third of the Charmatz piece when the kids start taking off some of their own clothes, apparently of their own will, I remember my heart thumping through it, like surely we were going to get busted or something. It really does feel like the untouchable third rail. I keep thinking about Terry Gross's interview of Sally Mann on Fresh Air last year. Here:
http://www.npr.org/2015/05/12/405937803/making-art-out-of-bodies-sally-mann-reflects-on-life-and-photography
I won't say any more in case you get to hear it, but it's such a sad, strange conversation, about exactly the questions you're raising, and in particular what connotations and permissions go along with motherhood.
9: Weaklings
So there's the holding and the falling and the wrestling, there's the posing and the dancing and the snogging and (maybe) the wanking, and then, oh my, there's the gif sequence. Over a club beat punctuated with a voice intoning “move” – Chris would be able to tell you what the track is, I can't (downgraded further to AA-) – a series of gifs projects across the back wall and each of the Ponyboys enacts the movement within it. Words flash up on the back wall, too: “move”, “incite”, “agitate” (might have made that last one up, it's certainly what it made me want to do). I have a flashback to CG&Co's production of Weaklings, a homage to and documentary about Dennis Cooper's blog of the same name, which also used gifs and movements based on them, in honour of the storytelling Cooper has been doing with them; and in particular I recall something Chris' regular collaborator and lighting designer for that show, Katharine Williams, told him: that Weaklings looked beautiful, because he had a grown-up, experienced, careful team who could make it so, but what the spirit of the work really needed was a bunch of kids ready to fuck everything up. Watching FCKSYSTMS, I see what she means.
But this isn't just about aesthetics, it's about community. Much more than Weaklings, Ponyboy Curtis are an embodiment of Cooper's blog, particularly in its heyday (at least, as that has been described to me by Chris). They are a group apart, vital and challenging and obsessive, a secret world at the heart of this one, in which there are no boundaries, no respect for money as a pre-requisite for action or happiness, and no limits to what sex can be or do. They are a 2am world of hallucination and extremity; Weaklings looked at that, Ponyboy live it.
8: Hail the new puritans
I was eight or nine when director Charles Atlas, choreographer Michael Clark and designer Leigh Bowery released Hail the New Puritan, and about 39 when I finally saw it. It does something that feels both more familiar now and absolutely still strange: it's neither dance nor documentary nor fashion show nor punk, but it's somehow the best of all these and more. It's sexy and silly and noisy and pretty; to adopt a quote from Matt Trueman on Ponyboy, it's alluring and wreckless, full of ego, mischief and dicks. I think I catch a glimpse of it amid the film clips and images projected on the back wall during FCKSYSTEMS, and sure enough it's listed in the works quoted or borrowed from in the credits at the end. (Brief note: Ponyboy audiences, what the fuck are you doing leaving before the credits play out? This isn't the cinema, it's not a boring list of dolly grips and stunt doubles. Chris is giving you the materials he's used to make the show: are you not interested in that?)
Like I say, I was small when it was released, so I have no idea how it landed in the art world, whether a culture already convulsed by punk would have batted even an eyelash at it. Online I've found a review, dated 27 February 1987, published in the LA Times, which hails it as “ambitious” before unleashing a barrage of criticism at the “whimsical” and “puerile” choreography, “derivative” performances, and a flamboyance that “leaves the subculture it wants to celebrate looking recklessly, suicidally self-indulgent”. Between the lines I'm reading: I want this to be more straight. Hail the New Puritan is resolutely not straight: it's queer and queers every cultural form it touches. That is its act of resistance.
I see Ponyboy Curtis in just those terms. But I wonder whether the theatrical climate in which Chris is working is, if not more restrictive than the one in which Clark operated, then more resistant back. I wonder how far he can really push things. I wonder what boundaries will neither soften nor crack.
On the Saturday night, Stan appeared on stage for his speech, pulled out an aerosol can and a lighter and lit a flame. From what Craig told me afterwards, no one knew he was going to do this, he just hinted he had “something up his sleeve”. That proved to be almost literal when he misjudged the angle and set his arm on fire. But the accident made the action perfect: not just belligerent but vulnerable and idealistic. Would any theatre give advance permission for an action like that to happen on stage? I doubt it. And I wonder how that deference to fear and safety is circumscribing imagination.
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Amazon India has announced an Apple iPhone Fest from today, April 10 till April 16. Under the sale, Amazon is offering discounts on the iPhone X, iPhone 8 and 8 Plus, iPhone 7, iPhone 6s, iPhone 6 as well as the iPhone SE. Other than discounts, HDFC Bank users can also avail instant discounts worth Rs 5,000 through debit card, credit card and EMI options. Here are the top offers for iPhone on Amazon India.
Starting with Apple iPhone X, this will be available at a price of Rs 79,999 for the base variant, which has 64GB storage. The 256GB variant of the Apple flagship can be bought for Rs 97,999, down from the selling price of Rs 1,02,000. Again there will be instant discount of Rs 5,000 on HDFC bank cards. The iPhone X comes with a 5.8-inch edge-to-edge Super Retina HD display. The iPhone X is powered by A11 bionic chip and comes with facial recognition through Face ID. The iPhone X also comes with Animoji as well as 12MP + 12MP dual-rear cameras with OIS.
Apple iPhone 6, iPhone 6s and iPhone SE discounts
The older iPhones are the most affordable options in the list on Amazon’s sale. Amazon will offer the 32GB variant of the iPhone 6s Plus at Rs 37,999, down from Rs 49,000. Also, the iPhone 6s, which was originally worth Rs 40,000 for the 32GB storage option, will be available at Rs 33,999 during the sale. Meanwhile, the 32GB version of the iPhone 6 is priced at Rs 23,999, down from Rs 29,500. This is the cheapest iPhone with a 4.7-inch display on the list, though it comes with the older 8MP rear camera.
The older iPhones are the most affordable options in the list on Amazon’s sale.
The iPhone SE can be bought at Rs 17,999 for the 32GB storage variant. Apple iPhone SE is the cheapest device on the list, and it comes with a 4-inch display, 12MP rear camera as well. For those who want an iPhone for less than Rs 20,000, the iPhone SE remains a good option.
Apple iPhone 8 at price of Rs 54,999
Amazon has also offered price cuts on the iPhone 8 and iPhone 8 Plus. The 64GB iPhone 8 variant is now available at Rs 54,999. Under the offer, the 256GB iPhone 8 option will be worth Rs 68,999. The iPhone 8 Plus with 64GB storage will be available for Rs 65,999. The 256GB storage option can be purchased Rs 79,999.
On the specifications front, the iPhone 8 sports a 4.7-inch Retina HD display, while the iPhone 8 Plus has a bigger 5.5-inch screen size. Both phones are designed with a glass body, feature aluminium frames on the side and support wireless charging. These iPhones run on Apple’s A11 Bionic chip. While the iPhone 8 sports a 12MP rear camera, the iPhone 8 Plus comes with 12MP + 12MP dual-rear cameras. Both phones sport a 7MP selfie lens.
The iPhone 7 is also available for offers, and can be purchased from Rs 41,999. But this price is for the 32GB variant. For the 128GB variant, consumers can get it at Rs 54,999. The 256GB storage option of the iPhone 7 can be bought for Rs 58,350 under the offer.
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The World of Doors » The Books » Chapter 09 - Cliffkeep
On a plane of existence call Oerth outside the city of Flaness the followers of Luz (The Demigod) storm the city. The followers of Pelor struggle to maintain their hold on the city. Some scream to the sky and ask why, while other fight on. On blind priest looks to the heavens and ask “Father, Where are your crusaders?”
Scene 1 - On the Way to Cliffkeep
After a short ride from the encampment the four ride to cliff keep and see a castle carved into the very stone of the mountain. The smooth stone is accented by the jagged claw like granite emanating from the Jurial Mountains. The group decides they would be better suited resting. They go into a nearby cave lead by Alec.
Scene 2 - Of Gods and Monsters
The group has a philosophical conversation. Do the instrumentatlities corrupt? Why has the overlord of become tainted? Is it that he wasn’t pure or was it that he has fallen under the spell of the stone. Also, Alec brings up that in the town they are normal kids growing up, but in the real world they were all considered “gifted” is that because they lived in the shadow of Pelor? Through out the talk Fizbin is quiet, while William contemplates meeting his God’s instrumentality. Alasar can still hear the roar of combat and the sounds of men ready to follow him into the gates of hell, he realizes that he was bred for this.
Scene 3 - Bright Reflections
William is outside practicing his “kata’s” and once again he hears the sound of a bell at the end of one of his swings. He meets the bright lady again, she explains that this is a great burden he will bear and people will die. She is a watcher of things and a knower of mysteries. She touches his chest and he can feel his skin move beneath his armor. She tells him she will “watch over us” and as she disappears he can hear the sound of the ocean. Alasar appears and they talk for abit about what is to come. As William goes inside Alasar thinks of his father and whether he would be proud or not. He decides that depends on if he succeeds.
Scene 4 - Memories
After the others have fallen asleep fisbin does a ritual and forces himself to recall the memory of his father. The nightmare where he saw his body shrunken and lifeless. He forces through the boundaries in his head and is there. He’s walking down the stairs and sees the fireplace moved from its normal place and behind it the husk of his father. Something rams him into the wall and lifts him, it is serpentine and slowly it’s face congeals into that of his dad. Except for his teeth, which reticulate out like a cobra. It bites him suddenly and violently. He shudders and awakes in the real world, his heart stopped and he floundering on the floor. Arthus wakes up and cradles him and William heals him just short of dying. The group confronts him as to what he’s doing. He confess’ not having chunks of his memory concerning Varlin and his father. He also tells them what REALLY happened when he met Sirilus. Alec is upset with him, the last time he dabbled like this he was sentenced to hell and the fate of the world changed. Everyone is concerned with is inconsideration and the effects on the mission. Arthus talks everyone down. They discuss how shortly after the incident where his father started acting different Varlin got him OUT of that house, again his fathers wishes. They can’t sleep and start out.
Scene 5 - Sewers of Cliff Keep
The sneak into Cliff keep and find someone else beat them to it. The gate into the sewer is snapped and tied shut. They make their way in are attacked by two nyads. They fight for their lives and ultimately win. They find on the bodies, a leather glove with metal plates, a map of the castle and parchment. The glove sets off Arthus’ ring, the metal was taken from a holy relic of Pelor. A Bell, that hung in church and was said to heal sickness. However, according to the ring, the Bell is still kept by the keepers. There is a bill for delivery from the “Black Company”. The pieces of metal on the glove where carved from the orginal token. Is this how they intended to touch the instrumentality? When William touch’s the glove he gets a healing surge and….
On a plane of existence call Oerth outside the city of Flaness the followers of Luz (The Demigod) storm the city. The followers of Pelor struggle to maintain their hold on the city. Some scream to the sky and ask why, while other fight on. On blind priest looks to the heavens and ask “Father, Where are your crusaders?” and suddenly a bell tolls and men all over the field of battle rise and charge, there sprits and bodies renewed. The priest smiles… “The Crusaders are coming”
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Chapter 51 - Awakenings
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Scene 1 - Fireside Chat
Arthus sat quietly, watching as each of his brothers wrestled with their own inner conflicts. William and Alec begin a pointed and cautious conversation, each trying to measure the other with every word. Arthus was intent on listening, but his eyes kept drifting to Alisaar standing at the edge of camp on an outcropping of razor sharp rocks.
He studied the dragonborn’s stoic silhouette and drifted momentarily to another place. Alisaar stood on the parapets of a massive granite wall. Behind him was a sprawling tiered city built from stone, crystal, and metal. Flags flew from the tops of massive towers and battlements bearing the draconic imagery and runes of all the metallic sub-races. Assembled before him was a gleaming army of metallic dragonborn. They were tens of thousands strong, and were accompanied by a sky filled with their true-dragon kin. Alisaar’s scales gleamed in the suns as he raised the relic halberd overhead and called to them, and their response shook the ground for miles. Alisaar launched himself from the wall and led the march to engage the chromatic armies.
Arthus watched as the image blurred and reformed with Alisaar perched atop Aurax at the center of a sprawling natural amphitheater. Sunlight flooded the area, and Alisaar’s scales blazed with the prismatic beauty of flawless gemstones imbued with a golden internal fire. Dragonborn filled Arthus’ vision, and as he scanned the surrounding landscape he looked with awe on the gathering of more dragonborn than he had even realized existed. They numbered perhaps in the hundreds of thousands, and their scales were of every conceivable pigment. Alisaar surveyed the gathering and his chest swelled with pride.
Arthus drifted back to the oppressive misery of the mithal and began listening more intently to William and Alec’s conversation. This was just in time to see Alec focusing intently on William and then quickly averting his eyes as if pained by the sight of him. He looked back at the knight with his mouth slightly agape. The three of them discussed what Alec had seen, what William had been concealing for some time. He was not just a blessed knight of Pelor, he was the Son of Pelor!
As was his way, William downplayed things, but the knowledge of his true nature was enough to stir his companions. Arthus wondered how this would affect William’s place in the Church, and admitted that it was probably best to keep it to himself for the time being. He also wondered, though not aloud, what this would eventually mean for William and Alec. Alec’s continued change into more fiend than “man” was obvious, and what Arthus knew of the gods was that they were polarized in their view of the mortal realms. Some things just were simply unacceptable, and if the Knights of Pelor warred openly with the tieflings, what would they do to a full-blooded prince of Hell in the presence of their god made man?
Arthus shivered at the though and was glad when the conversation moved to other topics.
Alec scanned each of the party in turn, though Arthus could not gauge his intent. Alec looked at Fizbin who was mulling over his own dilemma, but stopped briefly enough to tense and shoot a wicked look back at Alec who ceased his intrusion. He looked at Alisaar, still peering into the distance with a look of determination twisted on his face. Finally his gaze fell on Arthus, and the rogue jumped on the chance to return the favor.
Alec’s face registered surprise, but they each allowed the other a brief glimpse. Arthus saw Alec sitting upon the throne of Phlegethos, with Fierna at his side. He was a massive devil who ruled without challenge and Fierna was his devoted Queen. In a flash the image was gone and he saw Alec upon the same dais, but this time he was on his knees in front of the throne. Fierna had her hand around her lover’s neck and black ichor poured from the puncture wounds as her claw dug deeper into him. Her other hand was held high over her head as she writhed in the ecstasy of the kill. Alec’s body shuddered and went limp as Fierna’s eyes fell upon him to the thunderous cheers of her followers.
Arthus withdrew from the soulgaze and tried to look as unaffected as he could. He wondered for a moment what Alec had seen until he said “So, you know David? He has made himself quite an enemy to us.” Arthus answered flatly “Yes, what has he done to draw your ire?” Alec said “He has quite a few of our baubles.” Arthus nodded and didn’t pursue the line of questioning.
They each returned to talking with William, and finally Fizbin joined in as well. There was much they had left to do, and still so many unknowns, but the time was upon them to take the fight to their enemies. As they discussed how to handle their upcoming confrontation with Sirilius, Alisaar’s head snapped look in the distance. Something was out there. It was big and it was moving toward them. The party readied for battle.
Scene 2 - The Huntsman
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Scene 3 - Sparks of Power
The group had little time to rest after driving off the Huntsman. Within moments of his fleeing, Fizbin began to sense something odd within the weave. Soon a terrible force was being drawn to them, being drawn by the Aelid. Alec began sprinting on all fours up the massive stone arm of the ancient statue. Alisaar sailed past him as Alec screamed aloud that if the Aelid shattered they would never be able to navigate within the mithal. Arthus, Fizbin, and William followed with great haste.
Alisaar reached the Aelid first, and as he approached the aura of power that surrounded it time slowed and he hung motionless in space. Within the blinding light of the Aelid he saw an image from eons past. He witnessed Bahamut and Vorel colliding with one another in the heavens, and each one surrendered a modicum of his power with the impact. Left in their wake was the silhouette of a mighty dragonborn whose scales were resplendent with golden diamonds as Arthus had envisioned just a short time earlier. As the image burned into his heart and soul, Alisaar watched as diamond crystals began to break through his hide and encase the edges of the scales of his chest and left arm.
Fizbin’s eyes were drawn to the Aelid as the overwhelming energy rushed through him and into the ancient stone. As time slowed and space seemed to warp itself around him, Fizbin found himself watching a young and idealistic Sirilius as he enacted his grand design to destroy Jennesta.
It was impossible to tell whether these were images dragged from his “stowaway” or if somehow, beyond all reason, Fizbin was living these fragments of history alongside the arch-mage. It mattered little to Fizbin, who found himself privy to the research, preparations, and finally the actual weaving of the magics used to create Sirilius’ phylacteries. In what amounted to mere moments, Fizbin learned what might have taken a lifetime to unravel.
William watches a huddled figure from above, as if peering down from the heavens to look upon one of Pelor’s faithful.
An old man sits wrapped in blankets in front of the fireplace. His breath is slow and shallow, but his eyes drift up away from the fire with a look of contentment. He has led a good life, he has been a good husband and father, he has been honest and when the time has called for it brave. He looks at the mantle where several prized possessions sit. His worn though sturdy sword, and a few remembrances of his departed wife.
In truth, he is glad to leave this life. He has been without the company of his wife for many years, and has lost his son in the great war. He smiles and knows in his heart that he will be reunited with them soon, and they will all rest in Pelor’s light for eternity. So he has believed his whole life, and as his father taught him, so did he teach his son. The world is a cold gray place now, and it holds no happiness for him anymore. The knowledge that his time is short is his only comfort.
The old man sits and drifts through many memories, unaware that the dark armies march in his direction this night. The knowledge that his time is short is their only comfort.
William knows that this old man is the last of his Father’s believers outside of Tamirel. When he is gone, Pelor’s light will shine no place but here, diminished as it is. The only question left lingering is whether this was a vision of the past, present, or future.
Arthus scrambled up the steep incline with his head down as he strained against the rising mystical tempest. As he looked up to see the Aelid, everything around him seemed to fade away.
Arthus felt himself being pulled away from the ground, sailing through the clouds and above all Tamirel. Soon he could see the entire cosmos before him, then the heavens, and soon beyond. The entire multiverse was before him, and he could sense that there was an ultimate truth just moments from revealing itself to him. Suddenly, just as a being of impossible magnitude lifted his gaze from the entirety of existence to look upon Arthus, he was pulled away. He was pulled with the full measure of Lilith’s power and back to his own consciousness. Arthus stumbled, fell, and sprawled across the rocky terrain and just barely caught himself before falling over the edge. Anger and disappointment faded as the realization that whatever it was he was about to uncover would have destroyed him. He lay on the ground, still trying to re-orient himself to the here and now, and mouthed the name Ao. As he did, it was if a ripple went through all of creation, but just as quickly it was forever gone. Simply, no one was allowed to know that name, but now Arthus did. He flared his eyes as he stood and continued to catch up with the others, a silent acknowledgement to himself that this was a giant moment, one that would resonate through the rest of his existence.
The sudden realization that David was Ao’s token stunned him yet again. David was the Breaker, Ao’s equalizer to keep his children’s games in balance. He wished to Hell that he could talk to David at that very moment, but he would have to deny himself the answers he so badly wanted for a great while. It was torture.
The party stands in the massive palm of the ancient statue of a Titan long forgotten by history. Each of them is rendered exhausted in some measure by the profound experience of the Aelid's power. Time is all but still as they are all caught motionless in the event horizon of the confluence of magical energies.
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Google’s Nest Acquisition Is a $3.2 Billion Bet on the Internet of Things
This deal is about far more than thermostats and smoke detectors.
By Harry McCracken @harrymccrackenJan. 13, 2014
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News broke this afternoon that Google is buying Nest — the maker of Internet-savvy thermostats and smoke detectors — for $3.2 billion in cash. It’s a big acquisition by any standard, and the money involved is less interesting than the future implications — for Nest, for Google and maybe for the entire tech industry.
Nest was co-founded by Tony Fadell (the man who instigated the iPod and turned it into a company-changing business for Apple) and Matt Rogers (also an Apple alum). Google says the Nest brand will stay a distinct brand and that Fadell will continue to run it. But it’s a safe bet that Google isn’t plunking down $3 billion because it has a hankering to get into the thermostat and smoke-detector business. What it’s getting is the team that’s done as much thinking as anyone about what happens when almost anything in a home might be a polished, connected, downright pleasant smart device.
Once you’ve used Nest’s products, it’s a lot harder to think of the Internet of Things — also known as the Internet of Everything — as a mere tiresome buzzword. It’s an epoch-shifting development that’s going to change the world at least as much as the PC, web and smartphone did in their day. If I were Google, Apple, Samsung or Microsoft, I’d find the prospect both exciting and scary, and I’d want to do everything I possibly could to avoid being left behind. By snapping up Nest, Google adds enormous brainpower to its efforts — and, perhaps just as important, prevents those brains from winding up at a competitor.
I confess to at least some trepidation about the deal: Nest was already doing great things on its own, and there are far more stories about startups stumbling after being acquired than there are ones about them flourishing. (Then again, the most obvious example of a buyout working is Google’s own 2006 purchase of YouTube.)
There’s also the question of whether a Google-owned Nest will try to make money off the data that Nest devices collect about their users, as riffed upon in these tweets:
with the purchase of nest and boston dynamics, google has given up all pretense of caring about the appearance of creepiness
— matt (@mattbuchanan) January 13, 2014
Future couple argument: "No! I didn't touch the Google+ ThermoAdStat! Put on that sweater you got on Google+ Wallet" http://t.co/wsSjt0Z4OP
— [[[[[ REDACTED ]]]]] (@Qthrul) January 13, 2014
For the record, Nest says that Nest data will only be used to improve Nest products. But even if Nest remains sacrosanct, the notion of Google — and other companies — seeing the Internet of Things as an opportunity to end up with far more information about consumers than they’ve ever had before doesn’t sound so implausible. One way or another, we’re going to have to deal with the issues that raises, and this acquisition will likely speed that process.
Despite today’s emphasis on Nest remaining a stand-alone entity within Google, it’s fun to think about Fadell and Rogers’ fingerprints showing up elsewhere in the company. They know how to give even the most prosaic devices an Apple-like sheen, with hardware, software and services that blur together in a way that’s inventive, aesthetically pleasing and humane. Everything from Google Glass to Motorola phones to Chromecast to self-driving cars can benefit from what Nest already knows, and knows how to do.
So rather than worry that the deal will leave Nest looking more like Google, I’m hoping that it’ll result in the rest of Google feeling more like Nest. Let’s give this a couple of years to percolate, and then judge the results.
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Awayys
Overseas trips can be lonely, boring affairs...if you do not have friends and acquaintances out there. Making new buddies at an unknown land is not particularly easy (or advisable!) either. A couple of years back, we had worked on an iPhone app called Stopover - a travelers’ app which went on to win big at that year’s Talent Unleashed Awards. Awayys, conceptualized by Doris Llamas, is yet another multi-featured app for travelers - focused on ensuring that users are never ‘alone’, wherever they might be at any time. In essence, Awayys serves as an excellent iPhone travel networking app.
From my decade-long experience as an app architect, I have learnt one thing...if an idea seems intriguing enough, it has a good potential of being transformed into a workable app. The concept of Awayys was easily among the most interesting I had come across in the last couple of quarters.
Impressive Idea To Start With
A detailed free app quote was sent along to Ms. Llamas, within 24 hours of her having contacted us with the app idea. Arrangements were made to put her initial apprehensions (perfectly natural, since Ms. Llamas had agreed to deal with a company not in her country) to rest. The next couple of working days saw all the other formalities being taken care of...and the project started soon after.
A Dedicated iPhone App
We had a couple of brief discussions with the client about the desired device compatibility of the Awayys application. Finally, it was decided that it will be built as a iPhone social networking app for travelers. It will be a free application, and would be compatible with all Apple handsets running on iOS 8 (or later versions of the platform).
Awayys was always meant to be an iOS application...an app for iPhone-users who were frequent travelers. The challenge, at least for me, was finding a mobile app company that would be competent enough to make the app in the best possible way. Let’s just say that coming across Hussain’s agency was a stroke of good fortune...These guys were fantastic!
Getting Onboard
A social login feature seemed to be the right way to go for an app like Awayys. After all, it was a travel connections app - and what better social connection tool can there possibly be, than Facebook? We talked the matter over with Doris, and the Facebook login option was implemented in the app.
Installing Awayys on iPhone takes hardly a few seconds, and starting to use it is even simpler. All that users have to do is log in with their Facebook credentials - and they will be redirected straight to the ‘Friends’ screen. No elaborate registration forms, authentications, and all that jazz!
Once a person has logged in, (s)he gets to see three categories of connections in this innovative travel networking application. First, all his/her Facebook friends (who also happen to be fellow-users of Awayys) are listed under ‘Friends’. The ‘Friends of Friends’ tab lists out all the users who are not direct connections, but have mutual friends (for instance, User X is a friend of User Y, and User Y is a friend of User Z - so, User X is a ‘friend of friend’ for User Z). Finally, the ‘Everyone’ tab displays all the users of the Awayys app.
The categories of friends in Awayys is a lot like the structure we find in Facebook. I wanted to segregate the available connections for any particular user - to avoid confusions and clutter. Kudos to Team Teks for understanding this, and making this section of the app in just the way I had envisioned.
Note: Users can also view the actual physical distance (in kilometers) between themselves and each of their Awayys friends.
Sending Out Friend Requests...Awayys-Style!
Awayys is one of those apps that seamlessly blend in a fun quotient with custom functionalities. After due deliberations with Doris, we decided that the app will provide as many as 4 different options to send friend requests (via message). A person can select any of the options, depending on his/her preferences and the nature of the fellow-user (s)he wishes to get connected with.
On Awayys, sending friend requests is fun. You can send request with a wink...or with a smiley...apart from, of course, the normal message. I feel that for people trying to make new acquaintances, customized options are a big thing - and my app delivers that.
On the ‘Requests’ screen, a list of all the sent and received friend requests can be viewed by the user. Provided that (s)he is logged in on the app, real-time notifications will also be generated - as soon as a new request comes in.
Easy network-building is a must-have feature for any social application. Awayys makes it easy for individual users to connect with fellow-users. That, in my opinion, is one of the hallmarks of a user-friendly networking app.
Works As A Cool Chat App As Well
What’s the point of adding a lot of friends anyway, if you cannot chat with them any time you wanted? Credit to Doris for understanding the necessity of real-time messaging feature in Awayys. With important inputs from her, our in-house iPhone app developers added a seamless chat feature in the application.
In addition to text chatting, users can also send and receive images through the messaging feature of Awayys. I wanted to make a traveler's’ app which would allow each user to exchange ideas, opinions, pictures with others at any time. For that, presence of the chat feature was important.
All chats in the Awayys app are completely secure. There are no risks of unauthorized third-party access whatsoever.
Profile Matters
The entire profile information (along with the FB profile picture) is fetched by this new iOS travel networking app - for creating the default profiles of users. People can change their pictures later on (from the first 6 profile pictures). A simple swipe gesture is required to change the ordering of photos and set a new profile image. Other sections of the profile can also be edited easily, and whenever required.
Robust social media integration is one of the high points of this app. On Awayys, the entire profile information and details of individual users are fetched directly from their respective Facebook profiles. Users do not have to spend time manually setting up their profiles...the app itself takes care of that!
Apart from general profile data, there are a couple of other interesting fields on this screen. The first of them is ‘Spiritual Affiliations’, where a user can specify his/her religious inclinations/preferences - and find friends based on that. The other is the ‘Last Visited Countries’, which displays all the countries any particular user has recently been to. Based on this information, a person can easily find like-minded travelers...people with similar travel preferences and love for specific destinations.
Filtering & Getting Connected
On Awayys, the ultimate power always remains in the hands of the end-users. He or she can search for friends on the basis of several criteria...and take the final call on whether to be connected with a particular fellow-user or not. Helping people find friends according to their preferences is the main objective of this application.
Among ‘Friends’, a Awayys user can select connections according to gender (male/female/both) or geographical distance (i.e., finding friends from a radius of XX kilometers). In the ‘Friends of Friends’ section, the search can be filtered on the basis of age as well. By default, ‘Both’ is selected in the gender filter in ‘Friends of Friends’. A person can also type in his/her location in the ‘Search Place’ box, and check out the profiles of other users of the app within that area.
As far as travel networking apps go, Awayys is a power-packed offering. By tapping the ‘Matching Trips’ filter, people heading for common travel destinations can get connected with each other. Individuals can also find new friends on the basis of their nationalities, spiritual affiliations, and even institutions attended. Loads of options, really!
Note: All applied filters can be reset any time by the user.
Custom Privacy Options
A user might wish to reach out to the entire Awayys network...or wish his profile to be visible only to a select group of people. Keeping that in mind, we added customized privacy options in the app.
Profiles can be set to be viewable to the entire Awayys community, to ‘Friends of Friends’, or only to direct ‘Friends’. Once again, the final decision about his/her profile’s discoverability lies in the hands of the final user.
The all-new iPhone travel networking app also allows people to ‘block’ or ‘report’ users - if necessary. When someone visits the profile screen of any other user, (s)he can check out how (s)he is connected to that person. Every bit of information is clearly mentioned, the layouts and in-app navigation are extremely user-oriented...and this app truly has a host of interactive, interesting features.
Awayys is available for free download from the Apple App Store. Early reports from users have confirmed our belief that this is a really path-breaking travel networking social application - and we are confident of it becoming really popular among users worldwide.
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1. "I love the mixture that's in me. It makes me me. And that's why it's such a shame that people waste energy in denying who they are."
Author: Antony Sher
2. "People could live very happily without the Turner Prize, but they could not live without real communication and emotion."
Author: Billy Childish
3. "You have very Grace Kelly-like tendencies about you. I hear Grace Kelly had a filthy mouth too," he added. "You love my filthy mouth.""True. But I like it better when its full," he said, meaningful smirk in place. "You know, if you would shut up once in a while you'd be damn near perfect.""But I'd be a silent panty ripper, which I think is a lot creepier than the angry-boss panty ripper."
Author: Christina Lauren
4. "He loved her as though it had never occurred to him that he could feel otherwise. She wanted to be someone who deserved a love like that."
Author: Claire Vaye Watkins
5. "First, we have to find a common vocabulary for energy security. This notion has a radically different meaning for different people. For Americans it is a geopolitical question. For the Europeans right now it is very much focused on the dependence on imported natural gas."
Author: Daniel Yergin
6. "Love is a place & through this place of love move (with brightness of peace) all places yes is a world & in this world of yes live (skillfully curled) all worlds"
Author: E.E. Cummings
7. "Swung between the purest love and the wildest hatred. In spite of the fact that she gave herself to me without reservation, I would suddenly be overcome with the feeling it was all a sham. For a while she would seem as innocent as a young girl, but suddenly I would be convinced she was a bitch, and then a long parade of doubts would file through my mind: where? how? how many? when?"
Author: Ernesto Sabato
8. "To be really Bible-believing Christians we need to practice, simultaneously, at each step of the way, two biblical principles. One principle is that of the purity of the visible church. Scripture commands that we must do more than just talk about the purity of the visible church; we must actually practice it, even when it is costly. The second principle is that of an observable love among all true Christians. In the flesh we can stress purity without love, or we can stess love without purity; we cannot stress both simultaneously. To do so we must look moment by moment to the work of Christ and to the Holy Spirit. Without that, a stress on purity becomes hard, proud, and legalistic; likewise without it a stress on love becomes sheer compromise.Spiritually begins to have real meaning in our lives as we begin to exhibit simultaneously the holiness of God and the love of God. We never do this perfectly, but we must look to the living Christ to help us do it truly."
Author: Francis August Schaeffer
9. "I have no tolerance for boredom. I spend so many hours in the office, and I still love it."
Author: Francisco Costa
10. "I love the friends I have gathered together on this thin raft..."
Author: Jim Morrison
11. "…there was no more safety to be found in love than there was to be found in a virus."
Author: John Irving
12. "Keep your life free from love of money, and be content with what you have, for he has said, "I will never leave you nor forsake you." So we can confidently say, "The Lord is my helper; I will not fear; what can man do to me?" (Hebrews 13:5–6)"
Author: John Piper
13. "Well, you've got the growling part down pat already. Probaly all those years of practice."He began to rise, his legs wobbly."All right, I'm coming back. I just didn't want to be in your way."A grunt. Your not. Or that's what I hoped he meant."You can understand me, can't you?" I said as I returned to sit on his discarded sweatshirt. "You know what I'm saying."He tried to nod, then snarled at the awkwardness of it."Not easy when you can't talk, is it?" I grinned. "Well, not easy for you. I could get used to it."He grumbled, but I coulld see the relief in his eyes, like he was glad to see me smile."So I was right, wasn't I? It's still you even if wolf form."He grunted."No sudden urges to go kill something?"He rolled his eyes."Hey, you're the one who was worried." I paused. "And I don't smell like dinner, right?"I got a real good look for that one."Just covering my bases."
Author: Kelley Armstrong
14. "I love the cowbell. I think it's awesome. My family got the cowbell app on their iPhones. It's a classic part of ski racing."
Author: Lindsey Vonn
15. "The term - 'Fairy-Tales' is so ironical in itself, when I sometimes sit to write love stories with a happy ending, it usually drags me into a dilemma whether, I should even begin with a love story at first place or not? Because honestly, I haven't seen many of them reaching climax, most of them just die out in the mid. Then comes the concept of fairy tales or what we say 'fiction', where nothing is impossible!But over time, if I've realized something, it is that there's no such term called fiction when it comes to reality! Its harsh, in-your-face-sarcastic, ironical and highly irrational. You can't expect what's coming up next, and how it's going to blow you. In the real life, the entire meaning of fiction ceases to exist. Conclusively, we writers, deal with harsh reality and write lively fictions, this job in itself is so ironical but, that's life..."
Author: Mehek Bassi
16. "Truth that is not undergirded by love makes the truth obnoxious and the possessor of it repulsive."
Author: Ravi Zacharias
17. "Melbourne, I always knew you'd need to learn about this kind of thing. I 'd just kind of hoped you'd learn it on a real guy."
Author: Richelle Mead
18. "If you are a member of a small group or class, I urge you to make a group covenant that includes the nine characteristics of biblical fellowship: We will share our true feelings (authenticity), forgive each other (mercy), speak the truth in love (honesty), admit our weaknesses (humility), respect our differences (courtesy), not gossip (confidentiality), and make group a priority (frequency)."
Author: Rick Warren
19. "We created a show and a scenario for college students where they can take what they learn in class every day and apply it to the real world."
Author: Ross Martin
20. "I, however, was raised neither as Catholic nor as Jew. I was both, and nothing: a jewholic-anonymous, a cathjew nut, a stewpot, a mongrel cur. I was--what's the word these days?--atomised. Yessir: a real Bombay mix."
Author: Salman Rushdie
21. "What need is there to say more?The childish work for their own benefit,The Buddhas work for the benefit of others.Just look at the difference between them.If I do not exchange my happiness, for the suffering of others, I shall not attain the state of Buddhahood.And even in Samsara I shall have no real joy. The source of all misery in the world lies in thinking of oneself;The source of all happiness lies in thinking of others."
Author: Śāntideva
22. "Bullets sound like hornets when they pass too close to your head. After a while, the world closes down. You can't hear much, you can't see much, just the way ahead, the next slat, the next open gate. All you know is running; the only place that's real is away."
Author: Sarah Zettel
23. "...I understand Mother's need, whatever she might say on the phone, what she really wants is to hear, before she closes her eyes, the voice of someone who loves her. Love is at last, our only rejoinder to darkness."
Author: Scott Russell Sanders
24. "HECUBA: I had a knife in my skirt, Achilles. When Talthybius bent over me, I could have killed him. I wanted to. I had the knife just for that reason. Yet, at the last minute I thought, he's some mother's son just as Hector was, and aren't we women all sisters? If I killed him, I thought, wouldn't It be like killing family?Wouldn't it be making some other mother grieve? So I didn't kill him, but if I had, I might have saved Hector's child. Dead or damned, that's the choice we make. Either you men kill us and are honored for it, or we women kill you and are damned for it. Dead or damned. Women don't have to make choices like that in Hades. There is no love there, nothing to betray."
Author: Sheri S. Tepper
25. "I learned the real meaning of love. Love is absolute loyalty. People fade, looks fade, but loyalty never fades. You can depend so much on certain people, you can set your watch by them. And that's love, even if it doesn't seem very exciting."
Author: Sylvester Stallone
26. "The meaning and worth of love, as a feeling, is that it really forces us, with all our being, to acknowledge for ANOTHER the same absolute central significance which, because of the power of our egoism, we are conscious of only in our own selves. Love is important not as one of our feelings, but as the transfer of all our interest in life from ourselves to another, as the shifting of the very centre of our personal life. This is characteristic of every kind of love, but predominantly of sexual love; it is distinguished from other kinds of love by greater intensity, by a more engrossing character, and by the possibility of a more complete overall reciprocity. Only this love can lead to the real and indissoluble union of two lives into one; only of it do the words of Holy Writ say: 'They shall be one flesh,' i.e., shall become one real being."
Author: Vladimir S. Soloviev
27. "I'd love to do a Michel Gondry film. That would be ideal! I'd love to do an Almodovar film; you know, I think he's very, very talented. I don't care that people say he's pretentious. So what? He's a good director; he can be pretentious."
Author: William Moseley
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Obanzai is a traditional style of Japanese cuisine native to Kyoto. In order for food to be considered obanzai, at least half of its ingredients must be produced or processed in Kyoto. Ingredients in obanzai cooking must also be in season. Obanzai cooking heavily relies on vegetables and seafood, prepared simply. Consistent with the concept of mottainai (a sense of regret concerning waste), another characteristic of obanzai is the incorporation of ingredients which are usually discarded as garbage.
Mukade-ya
I thoroughly enjoyed sharing lunch here in this is atmospheric restaurant located in an exquisite machiya west of Karasuma-dōri. For lunch try the special bentō : two rounds (five small dishes each) of delectable obanzai (Kyoto-style home cooking) fare. Kaiseki (Japanese haute cuisine) courses start at ¥5400. The last plate is the restaurant’s speciality rice with black beans. It brought with nice smell of Japanese cypress from the wooden box. These boxes were used by warriors when traveling.
Mukadeya (百足屋, literally meaning centipede house) is one of these restaurants, located in 5minute-walk from Karasuma staion, center of Kyoto. The centipede name is significant for warriors as it cannot go backwards.
It is known that the house was used by a kimono trader and has been restored as a restaurant.
http://www.ocada.jp/provinces/obanzai.php
http://kokoraya.moss-co-ltd.com/shopdata/english/kokoraya_english.html
Kitchen Raku Raku
Both an obanzai and an izakaya, many people praise the experience of having chef Akira Mizobuchi prepare a meal for them.
That certainly was true for me. I had one of my favorite meals here while staying overnight at Shunkoin Temple at the Myoshinji Temple Complex. See: the http://www.shunkoin.com/
Closed every Monday & 3rd Tuesday
Email: rockers.kitchen.r@gmail.com
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Demachi Rororo
This is a small, traditional Japanese restaurant that serves a variety of dishes including lunch box sets. This small, beautifully decorated restaurant is run by a Kyoto-native chef who uses mainly organic vegetables sourced from Ohara, the rural north of Kyoto, in his delicious cooking. At lunchtime, there are only two menu options: a “mini obanzai” (Kyoto traditional fare), which has to be ordered in advance, or a lunchbox (“obento”), which is available on the spot as long as supplies remain.
For the Obento, there are a total of twelve dishes, many of them cold and prepared in advance, but the fried dishes cooked on the spot, so it takes about five minutes to arrive. The rice is cooked in an earthenware pot, making it slightly crispy around the edges. The lunchbox comes with a handwritten explanation, in Japanese, of the contents of each dish. The menu changes twice a month to make use of seasonal produce. All the dishes are beautifully presented. Very popular, so arrive early. In the evening, the food is more elaborate, and more expensive, so lunch is probably the best option for visitors.
11:30 – 14:00, 18:00 – 22:00, closed Tuesdays and the first and third Mondays
Smoking with no non-smoking area
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SOLAS INT > Activities > SOLAS sponsored activities and intiatives
SOLAS sponsored activities and intiatives:
SOLAS/IMBER Carbon (SIC) Working Group:
In 2006 SOLAS and the Integrated Marine Biosphere Research (IMBeR) programme launched a joint working group on Ocean Carbon. The SIC working group was divided into three subgroups: Surface Ocean System, Interior Ocean Carbon, and Ocean Acidification, and the International Ocean Carbon Coordination Project (IOCCP) also joined as a co-sponsor. The first two subgroups, on surface and interior oceans, are currently reorganizing, combining, and redefining themselves, with support of additional organisations to form a new Carbon Think Tank. More information will be available shortly. The information on the third subgroup is as follows:
SOLAS/IMBeR Ocean Acidification (SIOA):
The tasks of this subgroup are the coordination of international research efforts and synthesis activities in ocean acidification. At its first meeting (1-3 Dec 2009 at IOC-UNESCO, Paris), the SIOA identified topics for immediate attention:
Integration of the ocean acidification observing network with the ocean carbon network
Promotion of international experiments
Sharing experimental platforms
Regular updates of the Guide for best practices on OA reserarch & data reporting
Guiding principles on data sharing
Training students and early career scientists
Intercomparison exercises
Promote international exchange of students and postdocs
Promote collaboration between the natural and social sciences
Information on SIOA members see here.
Carbon Think Tank initiative:
SOLAS, in cooperation with CLIVAR, GCP, IMBeR, IOCCP, and WCRP, will work on new and integrated directions in ocean carbon research within the recently developed Carbon Think Tank initiative, which is now under the auspices of IOC.
IMBeR presented their project as well as the above mentioned working groups on a poster at the 2019 SOLAS Open Science Conference (see details here).
Biogeochemical Exchange Processes at Sea-Ice Interfaces (BEPSII):
BEPSII is aiming at identifying the feedbacks between biogeochemical and physical processes at the ocean-ice-snow-atmosphere interfaces and within the sea-ice matrix. It is co-chaired by Jacqueline Stefels (The Netherlands) and Nadja Steiner (Canada).
Cryosphere and Atmospheric Chemistry (CATCH):
The CATCH mission is to facilitate atmospheric chemistry research within the international community, with a focus on natural processes specific to cold regions of the Earth. It is co-chaired by Jennie Thomas (France), Thorsten Bartels-Rausch (Switzerland) and Markus Frey (UK).
Asian Dust and Ocean EcoSystems (ADOES)
The goal of ADOES is to quantitatively understand the deposition flux and bioavailability of Asian dust, and its impact on biogeochemical processes and ocean ecosystem in order to provide scientific bases for the mechanism of eolian dust-ocean ecosystem-radiative gases-climate change.
The main activities of the task team fall under the following categories:
Physical and chemical variations of dust aerosol during its downwind transportation
Transport path and layer of dust and its deposition flux to northern Pacific Oceans
Impacts of dust on biogeochemistry and ocean ecosystem
The co-chairs are Huiwang Gao (Ocean University of China, China), Guangyu Shi (Chinese Academy of Sciences, China) and Mitsuo Uematsu (University of Tokyo, Japan).
Materials available:
Annual report on the activities of 2013
Report on the Joint 6th Workshop on ADOES with Asian SOLAS, October 5-9, 2011 in Qingdao, China. pdf file (179 kB)
Report from summer 2011 in the SOLAS Newsletter issue 11 pdf file (81 kB)
Original task team proposal pdf file (96 kB)
ESA projects
In February 2011, the European Space Agency (ESA) opened a call "Support To Science Element (STSE)", an element of the Earth Observation Envelop Program (EOEP-3) to both public and private institutions. The SOLAS community submitted one proposal to each of the ESA call and was successful with three themes.
Sea spray aerosol production:
Acronym: OSSA (Oceanflux Sea Spray Aerosol Production)
Total grant: 350 000 Euros
Ending date: Oct 2013
Principal Investigator and co-PI: Gerrit de Leeuw (FMI), subcontractors National Univ of Ireland Galway (NUIG: Colin O'Dowd) TNO (Astrid Manders)
Website: http://oceanflux.fmi.fi/
Sources and sinks of climatically-active gases in the Eastern Boundary Upwelling and Oxygen Minimum Zone (OMZ) systems:
Principal Investigator and co-PI: Christoph Garbe, Véronique Garçon, André Butz, Boris Dewitte, Aurélien Paulmier, Joel Sudre, Isabelle Dadou and Hussein Yahia
Report: Activities of 2012
Website: http://upwelling.eu
OceanFlux Greenhouse Gases Evolution project:
Acronym: OceanFlux GHG Evolution (Oceanflux Greenhouse Gases Evolution)
Ending date: Nov 2017
Principal Investigator and co-PI: Jamie Shutler (UoE), David Woolf (HWU), Bertrand Chapron (IFREMER), Andy Watson (UoE), Phil Nightingale (PML), Jacek Piskozub (IOPAN), Lonneke Goddijn-Murphy (ERI).
Report: see website
Website: http://www.oceanflux-ghg.org/
A workshop took place 6-9 September 2016 in Brest, France, entitled 'Air-Sea Gas Flux : Progress and Future Prospects'. Poster and presentations are available at http://www.oceanflux-ghg.org/Workshop.
The report is available here.
IGBP Fast Track Initiatives
In May 09, the International Geosphere Biosphere Programme (IGBP) launched two fast track initiatives (FTI) proposed by SOLAS and other IGBP core projects. Both FTI were in collaboration with and co-sponsored by the Scientific Committee on Oceanic Research (SCOR).
Upper Ocean Nutrient Limitation: processes, patterns and potential for change (2009-2011)
The scientific coordinators are Mark Moore (NOCS, UK) and Matt Mills (Stanford Uni, USA). The contributing projects are GEOTRACES and IMBER.
Studies conducted during the past few decades have demonstrated that the productivity of the upper oceans is limited by the availability of a range of nutrients including nitrogen, iron and phosphorus. This, in turn, affects the storage of carbon in the oceans. However, several aspects remain to be fully understood.
FTI materials available:
FTI proposal
Workshop 3-5 Nov 2010, Southampton, UK: website, report in SOLAS Newsletter issue 12
Outcome: Moore et al. (2013) Processes and patterns of oceanic nutrient limitation, Nature Geoscience. doi:10.1038/NGE01765
Outcomes of this FTI contributes to the SOLAS Mid-Term Strategy initiative on Atmospheric control of nutrient cycling and production in the surface ocean
Megacities and the Coastal Zone: air-sea interactions (2009-2011)
The scientific coordinators are Roland von Glasow (UEA, UK), Tim Jickells (UEA, UK), Tong Zhu (Peking University, China), Ramesh Ramachandran (Institute for Ocean Management, India) and Josef Pacyna (Norwegian Institute for Air Research, Norway). The contributing projects are IGAC and LOICZ.
As the world’s population and urbanisation increase simultaneously, so does the number of cities with over 10 million inhabitants – megacities. Many megacities, such as Mumbai and Los Angeles, are located in coastal regions. This juxtaposition leads to particular environmental consequences that have a direct impact on the health and prosperity of people living in and around such cities. The environmental and ecological effects of the alteration of coastlines and input of sewage from cities have received much attention over the years. But the effect of urban atmospheric emissions on the adjacent coastal waters and that of emissions from coastal waters on urban air quality have received lesser attention.
Workshop 13-15 April 2010, Norwich, UK: report in SOLAS Newsletter issue 11
Outcome: von Glasow et al. (2012) Megacities and Large Urban Agglomerations in the Coastal Zone: Interactions Between Atmosphere, Land, and Marine Ecosystems. AMBIO, doi: 10.1007/s13280-012-0343-9
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Welcome to SOS Kent, our campaign for smarter solutions to Operation Stack than spending £250 million on the proposed 150 acre lorry park at Stanford which, alarmingly, as of mid July 2016 we have now heard that this may be as large as 250 acres.
With no discussion whatsoever with local communities, it was announced that the UK’s largest lorry park is to be built at Stanford, Kent at a cost of £250 million. This concrete monster will destroy 250 acres of countryside and blight the lives of local communities. We have offered the smarter options and we are being heard.
Eurotunnel says a giant lorry park won’t fix stack.
The Port of Dover says a giant lorry park won’t fix stack.
Existing lorry park operators say it won’t work.
The British International Freight Association says it won’t work.
For more information on exactly why it won’t work, please see here.
And the Government’s own Transport Select Committee has also said that ‘the case for spending £250 million on a lorry park has not yet been made’ and that ‘way more needs to be done to demonstrate that a lorry park the size of Disneyland is better than the alternatives offered during the inquiry’. The TSC has received just a bland response from the Transport Secretary to their objections.
We have had no support whatsoever from those we have elected to represent us. We have been sold out by Shepway District Council, by Kent County Council and by our own MP Damian Collins. They seem quite content to destroy The Garden of England and risk killing nearby residents with deadly diesel emissions and 2.5 particulates that the world’s largest lorry park could produce – if it were ever to be used…
Since the unprecedented events last summer, STACK HAS NOT BEEN IN FORCE ONCE.
Earlier in July the devastating announcement was made that the proposed ‘west’ site is to proceed to a ‘formal’ consultation. We have legal experts working for us and hope to mount a judicial challenge, so the fight is not over yet. Residents adjoining the proposed site are being seen on an individual basis.
Click the Smarter Options tab to discover the sensible approaches.
Below you will see four of the maps that have been published, but until recently there has been no confirmation from Highways England (who supplied the ultra-vague version with fading pink blobs and several errors) or anyone else, exactly what area is being proposed. The whole exercise has been clouded in secrecy for no good reason. Those residents who have met HE and their PR team (mid July) were shown a map, but not allowed to keep it. Finally, the truth was revealed in August, with the development even closer to homes than previously hinted and completely surrounding some houses.
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At the turn of the last century the game of golf had become very much in vogue and the absence of links in Scarborough was to the disadvantage of the town. Hence a movement was set afoot to provide golf links and tennis courts on South Cliff. The proposal at first was that the scheme should be municipal but later the movement became one of semi private character and a limited Liability Company was proposed in 1902. The company was formed to carry out the scheme with power to let the land to two new clubs – Scarborough Town Golf Club and Scarborough Cliff Lawn Tennis Club. After little success the tennis club later folded.
Distinguished golfers to play the course in the early days include Harry Vardon, James Braid and J H Taylor together with the 1907 Open Champion, Arnaund Massey. After a period of serious neglect and suffering during the First World War, Dr MacKenzie of Cypress Point, Augusta National and Royal Melbourne fame was commissioned to design and supervise the construction of a new course which is, with some alterations, the one that is played today.
A new clubhouse was added in 1930 and the professional’s shop in 1937.
As cliff erosion crept towards the 9th and 10th holes, the course was altered and remapped during the 1980s with new 16th and 17th holes. More holes were built in 2002 to accommodate the new Scarborough to Filey Road the 11th and 12th holes were completely new and the 3rd modified. A new bridge linked the two parts of the course and the dash across the busy road became a thing of the past!
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Bangkok Struggles for a Peaceful Conclusion
by ThatTravelGuy | Apr 10, 2010 | Travel | 0 comments
Topics: Asia / Thailand
There is no peace in Bangkok and other regions in Thailand these days.
I am a raving fan about that country and it causes me pain to see the demonstrations turning violent.
A Japanese journalist was killed in today’s protests, the ultimate sign that this is not going to resolve itself quickly.
There are points we need to take into account.
Tourists, so far, have been able to avoid the protests.
When the last protests erupted the Bangkok airport was closed and travellers had to wait or be transported to other airports in order to leave the country..
But on thing needs to be remembered. The only tourist causualty was not from the protests but rather from a vehicle accident as a person was being taken to another international airport.
The protesters are not targeting tourists and have been very specific in their agenda to creat new elections immediately.
While this situation is not likely to pass quickly the Canadian government to this moment, has not issued an official warning not to go to the city. There are official warnings against travel to a number of provinces.
To find out updates go to www.voyage.gc.ca
Bangkok…City on the Edge! Arrivals at Bangkok’s Suvarnabhumi Airport have fallen by a third since violence broke out. Thailand Tourism Expect to Take Huge Hit! The Pot Has Boiled Over in Bangkok…And It’s A Bloody Mess!
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James Holmes Says: I received Saints Row 2 for Christmas and I beat it. Here's my review on it.
Saints Row 2 is about a gang named the Saints (obviously) and they are building themselves back to be the strongest gang in town. You encounter 3 rival gangs who give you a hell of a lot of stress when going through the game. During this game you complete missions and strongholds. Strongholds tie in with the missions, so in all there are 56 missions in the game (42 missions + 14 strongholds).
The story line is somewhat kind of hard to follow seeing as it's in no particular order and each gang has their missions separated. I wish it were more like Grand Theft Auto in that it's easier to follow. In my opinion, the game should have revolved more around Ultor, who is trying to take over and rejuvenate the city blah, blah, blah. The gangs could have come together or something, but it took a whole different turn. Let's call this San Andreas with slightly better graphics.
Saints Row 2 has many features and side missions. In order to do the missions and strongholds you have to do side missions to gain respect. Yes it's annoying, but that's the way they make you come back to play it more and more.
You make your own character and he has no name. It made me laugh, but whatever. Your comrades are Johnny Gat, Peirce, and the lovely Shaundi. They get involved in a lot of your missions. Johnny is your right-hand man. Peirce is the back-up buddy. Shaundi is the one who gets the 411 (information) to lead you to taking over the city.
I played the game on Hardcore and I must say it's what I liked; however, I tried Casual (easy) and Normal for a few minutes and I must say the AI is horrible. I mean, you can be surrounded by 20 gang members and walk right by them. On Hardcore I doubt you would get past the first 10. If you're going to play the game, play it on Hardcore as you get the most out of it.
This game had a pretty interesting soundtrack. Minus the rap that is. I enjoyed listening to The Mix 107.7 as it had my kind of music on the stations from the 80's. Hall & Oates, Europe, Tears for Fears, Psychedelic Furs, Duran Duran, and more. I also liked the Ultor station, it featured Jet, Paramore, and Plain White T's. The soundtrack was a little better than Grand Theft Auto IV's.
Game Play is Pretty Fun
It was realistic in some ways like when you wreck your car it gets dented bit by bit. When you are traveling at high speeds and run into something then you go through the windshield. You have the climbing physics. If you run for a long period of time you can hear your person breathing very hard. If you walk into a car it takes time to stop and little bumps actually hurt you. Some times if a person is in your way and you hit them they go through the glass and they will stay in your car; that stood out. What I didn't like was how the damned cars blow up just because it's getting rammed over and over. In GTA IV that never happened; your car just stopped working. Also your car blew up like totally quick and you had almost no time to move out of the way. I have a question, how in the hell can a tank explode? That really ticked me off when it did.
There are a lot of extra activities that you can do to gain respect and money. Fight Club (UFC Fighting) was my favorite, Suwage Control (you spray crap onto others houses), PIMP, FUZZ (you dress up as a police officer and you let your buddy get footage of you being a bad cop for ratings), Escort (you drive others around while they have sex in the back of your car), Pleasure Fulfiller (you have sex with women and make sure you do the sex positions they want you to do), Hitman, Races, and many more.
Comparison to GTA IV
I preferred GTA IV as it renovated and did some things that Saints Row 2 does not. The driving in GTA IV was better, but hard to get used to. Saints Row 2 had some things that GTA IV didn't, such as house buying, buying businesses, car buying, planes, player customization, and car customization. It seems as if Saints Row 2 went back to San Andreas for its ideas. The story was almost the same as San Andreas to be honest. GTA IV's graphics were more polished as Saints Row 2 took more of a cartoony look. Saints Row 2 had more weapons and that's something I liked. Throughout the game my favorite weapon was the Tombstone (shotgun); it was awesome. I liked that if one of your buddies died you could revive them (revive your homie) instead of failing the mission because someone died. When it comes to map size they both seemed about even. I liked Saints Row 2 map a little better than GTA IV's for some odd reason. If we combined these two together you would have a swell sandbox game.
Saints Row 2 is not a perfect game at all. I never got a freeze or frame rate drop, but this game suffered some ugly glitches. Like when I am in a plane and I have a homie (funny right?) when I get into the air he some how glitches into the plane. Another was when I was on a ship for a mission and I was shooting this guy in a boat and he glitched right into my face and was shooting me. Another was my car got stuck into the ground. There are a lot more, but that's just some.
IGN gave Saints Row 2 an 8.2 for some reason that I do not know, but it would last you a while if you ask me. It's not Vice City or any GTA (3D Versions) for that matter. IGN was comparing it too much to GTA IV. Yes I know I compared the two, but not like IGN was.
The game in my opinion deserves a 8.8.
Story - 8.0
Game Play - 8.9
Graphics - 7.0
Sound - 8.8
Lasting Appeal - 9.2
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Pritikin’s Folly
Kitsch San Francisco mansion turned private museum that houses everything from Hitler memorabilia to a portrait turned down by Prince Philip for sale for £9.5 million
The collection of a former advertising executive turned San Francisco based bon viveur named Robert C. Pritikin – better known as ‘Bob’ to his friends – includes everything from Hitler’s Swastika armband and his personal world globe (supposedly acquired by American soldiers at the end of the Second World War) to a portrait of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh of which the royal once proclaimed: “I bloody well wouldn’t hang it on the walls of Buckingham Palace.”
Pritikin houses these items – and others including a replica electric chair, a mural featuring the cult leader Jim Jones, an exact replica of Rembrandt’s ‘The Night Watch’ and an original J. M. W. Turner painting – in a totally eccentric neo-classical mansion in the Glen Park area of the city. He built the property in 1987 and though it provides 9,966 square foot of accommodation it is primarily designed as an entertaining space and museum rather than a conventional family home.
Bob Pritikin with the portrait Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh so loathed
The mansion-cum-museum Pritikin built in 1987 for his collection is now for sale
Artworks in the building include a mock electric chair
There also many murals inside and outside of Chenery House
Now offered for sale for £9.5 million ($12.5 million, €10.4 million or درهم45.9 million) by the equally flamboyant realtor Joel Goodrich, Chenery House – or plain old 47 Chenery Street – has hosted guests including Liberace and Mickey Rooney. The building is dominated by a top floor swimming pool with glass retractable roof, a vast ‘showroom’ with adjoining display rooms but also comes with 5 bedrooms and 5 bathrooms. There is a 4-car carport, a garden cottage and a three unit building with two 2 bedroom units and one 1 bedroom unit.
Hidden from the street at its entrance and adjoining the Fairmount Elementary School on another, Chenery House stands on a 1 acre plot crammed to the brim with art pieces, murals and statues. It was offered by Pritikin to the City of San Francisco as an official mayoral residence in 2004 but after they declined he has since rented it for weddings and events.
In 2014, of living there, Pritikin remarked: “It’s a fun place to live. I would build the exact same house if I had to do it again, and in the unlikely event that I kick the bucket I intend to have my ashes buried here.” Though that will now unlikely happen, this true eccentric’s spirit will no doubt live on in spite of whoever eventually purchases what has to be one of America’s most whacky compounds.
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7 comments on “Pritikin’s Folly”
Definitely different but I am not sure what else to make of it.
He ought to give it to Donald Trump as a WESTERN WHITE HOUSE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It is MAGA worthy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I love it!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Joe Kesler says:
It does not belong in that neighbourhood
Karen Gray says:
Before the killjoys start, this place is fun, fun, fun and fun with a capital F! I could give many amazing parties here though it does need a bit more colour – some Katie Price pink would help and spice up the furniture a bit! Love it though! Well done Mr Pritken!
As a property professional, I would remark that this house is a white elephant. Better to follow Rod’s advice on this occasion. Knock it down and build something more suitable for the neighbourhood – this is not Pacific Heights but is in fact a less prosperous outer area and its situation next to a noisy school playground doesn’t help either. The layout is hopeless for a family and there are not going to be many people who want to pay nearly £10 million for a museum. Forget it.
bob pritikin says:
You clearly are not familiar with the property or the neighborhood.
Do The Right Thing says:
A complete con! Overpriced to the point of laugh ability! I agree with Yolanda (and I can’t say I imagined myself ever doing that)!
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Was the Preface to the Swedish Dracula Written by a Priest?
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by Hans Corneel de Roos May 26, 2018, 5:52 am 425 Views
Priest and author, Bernhard Wadström (1831–1918), shown in Hvar 8 dag, no. 42, 1911. What was his connection to Dracula? Picture: Wikipedia.
In April 2017, the British newspaper Express reported:
A “SEX and violence” version of Dracula deemed too shocking for Victorian Britain has been found serialised in Swedish newspapers from the 19th century. […] The existence of the soon-to-be published version of the classic spine-chiller was revealed by Stoker’s great-great-nephew Dacre Stoker. […] Scenes deleted from the version Bram Stoker submitted to his London publishers include a number of sizzling encounters between Jonathan Harker […] and a gorgeous blonde vampire.
In his introduction to the Swedish reprint of Mörkrets makter (Aleph Bokförlag, 2017), the text referred to by Dacre Stoker, the Swedish fiction expert Rickard Berghorn equally assumes that Mörkrets makter, the Swedish version of Dracula, was based on an early or alternative draft supplied by Bram Stoker himself.
But, did Bram Stoker really write such a “sexier” draft and send it to Sweden?
For over four years now, I have been struggling with the question whether the Icelandic—and now the Swedish—versions of Stoker’s classic vampire novel actually were founded on an English manuscript. The language of the Icelandic preface pointed to a translation from another language–but for more than a year, we’ve known that Valdimar Ásmundsson translated it from the Swedish preface that first appeared in June 1899, not from an English text.
The question whether Stoker was personally involved in the more erotic variant of Dracula has shifted from the publication in Reykjavik (starting in January 1900) to the somewhat earlier serializations in the Swedish newspapers Dagen and Aftonbladets Halfvecko-upplaga.
Although Berghorn added some new examples to the parallels with Stoker’s early notes for Dracula I discovered in 2014, there is no positive evidence that the Irishman, directly or indirectly, was in touch with the Stockholm newspaper group. Berghorn may call his idea that Anne Charlotte and Gösta Leffler might have assisted in bringing Dracula to Sweden a “strong working hypothesis”—but right now, it is no more than a suspicion.
Since March 2017, I have documented several similarities between the writings of the journalist Anders Albert Andersson-Edenberg (1834–1913) and the text of the Swedish novel. Although I believe that some of them are quite convincing (see my last article on the matter in Vamped.org of 26 March 2018), I decided to search the preface to Mörkrets makter for further clues—with some amazing results.
My newest article, which you can download as a PDF file from the link below, not only offers annotated translations of this Swedish preface to English and German, but also presents a rather surprising discovery: it seems that I caught the Swedish translator/editor with his hand in the cookie jar, copying key phrases of the Swedish preface from the memoirs of a local priest!
How the pious pastor got entangled in this Gothic literary enterprise—and what this means for Bram Stoker’s possible role in it—is the newest riddle that I am trying to tackle in this richly illustrated essay.
“A ‘SEX and violence’ version of Dracula”: Mark Branagan, “‘Sex and Violence’ Version of Dracula TOO Shocking for Victorian Britain,” Express (London), April 23, 2017, https://www.express.co.uk/entertainment/books/795175/Dracula-darker-version-sex-violence.
Although I believe that some of them are quite convincing: See Hans Corneel de Roos, “The First Author to Adapt Dracula? An Exclusive Report,” Vamped, March 26, 2018, https://vamped.org/2018/03/26/first-author-adapt-dracula-exclusive-report/.
Hans Corneel de Roos: “Was the Preface to the Swedish Dracula Version Written by a Priest? Bernhard Wadström and the ‘White Lady‘” (8 MB PDF).
“the Swedish reprint of Mörkrets makter (Häftad, 2017)” changed to “the Swedish reprint of Mörkrets makter (Aleph Bokförlag, 2017).” I inserted what I thought was the reprint’s publisher into Hans’ text, as I’d seen it mentioned on a couple of websites for the reprint. But it is actually, as Hans pointed out to me (De Roos, email message to the author, May 26, 2018), Swedish for “softcover.” My bad. –ed.
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A Knight in the Order of Count Dracula (Transylvanian Society of Dracula), Hans is also actively engaged in photography, sculpture, object art, performance. He lives in Munich.
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Netflix UK TV binge review: House of Cards Season 4, Episodes 10, 11, 12
A thrilling ride towards the end.
Chris Bryant | On 22, Mar 2016
Catch up with our House of Cards Season 4 viewing notes here.
“Don’t worry, you’re safe here. No monsters in the White House.”
House of Cards’ power-hungry President may be waging a successful war against Republican candidate Will Conway, but it looks as though Frank may be about to run into trouble. These three episodes force slow-burning issues to centre stage, including terrorists, nationwide illegal surveillance data and the worst enemy of all: truth.
One problem President Underwood doesn’t have is with Claire’s growing close to Tom Yates. Once again, Yates is a fascinating addition to the cutthroat show. Understanding, but never judging, Yates seems to connect somehow with the Underwoods’ unholy union, but without ever being dragged down with them. His role may be to highlight their distorted romance to the viewers, but for the Underwoods’ themselves, his responsibility is far closer to psychiatrist than colleague.
Elsewhere in Beau Willimon’s duplicitous world, Will Conway’s ante-upping warnings bear fruit, as the dreaded Islamic Caliphate Organisation seizes three hostages. Joel Kinnaman’s New York Governor is dragged into the centre of proceedings by Frank and they are forced to tackle the issue together. Their political manoeuvrings are some of the best the show has produced, their barbed back-and-forths creating some of the most honest dialogue ever to leave Underwood’s mouth.
Boris McGiver’s reemployed reporter now has the power of The Herald behind him once more, and sets about Frank’s rise with a fine-toothed comb. Interviewing the people nearest to him, Hammerschmidt is getting far closer to the truth than the Underwoods would like, if only they knew. Often shrouded in secrecy and journalistic tricks of his own, Hammerschmidt has yet to uncover anything he didn’t already suspect – the strain here derives solely from who he’s getting his information from.
In addition to accusatory articles, his sharp political opposite breathing down his next, an ongoing invasion into everyone living person’s privacy, and running a campaign with his wife, Francis has just one more item on his to-do list: Stop terrorism. Conway’s constant badgering regarding ICO forces the President to act, which, of course, forces ICO to retaliate. Taking hostages on American soil, the plot not only amps up dramatically in the penultimate episode, but also gives the show another chance to weave digital surveillance into the ethical extravaganza.
A short video displaying the hostages is immediately analysed by every Government agency imaginable, creating an intriguing CSI-esque manhunt within minutes. A shadow on a wall is scrutinised, speech-echo-patterns are calculated, camera pixellation is studied – for a brief period, an intermission from the politics makes way for another montage of the real power of modern technology.
The contrast between the two couldn’t be clearer. On the one hand, the dominance offered by technology is displayed in full force, as Frank decides to utilise his illegal system to help solve the problem, while in the foreground, his Shakespearean deceptions and plots play out across the “old stone building” of power he’s so fond of referencing.
The episodes overall depict a multitude of problems for Frank that, if they don’t go his way, spell disaster. Episode 12 is notably thrilling, both in content and subtext. On the Underwoods’ stage, nothing is certain, but it’s undeniable that they are playing a game of risk and reward in which the stakes have never been higher.
House of Cards: Season 4 is now on Netflix UK, as part of an £8.99 monthly subscription.
Spoilers and further consideration
– Hammerschmidt’s investigation gets on the record comments from Frank’s former President Garrett Walker, with Jackie Sharp and Remy Danton considering doing the same. Although Tom’s search for truth in Lucas Goodwin’s article hasn’t come as close to Frank’s real crimes, a perjury charge for a sitting President is more than enough to destroy Frank’s hold on power.
– Frank’s placing Conway at the centre of the ICO negotiations is not only a brilliant arrangement by the writers, but also an excellent chance for Underwood to force Conway aside when necessary and negotiate with the kidnappers directly. And Frank Underwood negotiating with idealistic terrorists is just as poetic as it sounds.
– The final 10 minutes of Episode 12 are stunning. After several full episodes of Conway fighting, insulting and goading Frank, our anti-hero finally responds. In true House of Cards fashion, his words cut Kinnaman’s American hero beautifully down to size – as though he was never a threat in the first place.
– The major step in Frank’s plan to fight ICO is to ask Claire to sit down with their Guantanamo-imprisoned leader and force his hand, by offering to fund his revolution. It’s a phenomenal moment in the show. Even in the context of House of Cards, it’s striking that the Underwood’s could decide to do anything even more deplorable than they already have. We should have known better.
Photo: David Giesbrecht / Netflix
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Netflix UK film review: The Lazarus Effect
Bit with a dog
This low-budget horror squanders its potential with generic jump-scares.
Matthew Turner | On 20, Oct 2015
Director: David Gelb
Stars: Mark Duplass, Olivia Wilde, Sarah Bolger, Donald Glover, Evan Peters
Certificate: 15
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Directed by acclaimed documentarian David Gelb (Jiro Dreams of Sushi, Chef’s Table), The Lazarus Effect is yet another low-budget horror from the prolific Blumhouse Productions, with a plot that’s basically Frankenstein meets Flatliners.
Mark Duplass and Olivia Wilde play engaged scientists Frank and Zoe, who spend their days holed up with a research team – including computer whiz Niko (Glover), stoner researcher Clay (Peters) and intern videographer Ava (Bolger) – in the basement laboratory of a California university, working on a serum that’s meant to prolong the period in which doctors can revive a recently deceased patient. When the team’s latest experiment brings a dog back from the dead, everyone is understandably a little freaked out, particularly when the spooky pooch starts exhibiting strange behaviour.
Things quickly go from bad to worse when Zoe is accidentally electrocuted in a lab accident and Frank makes the impulsive decision to bring her back to life with the serum. At first, Zoe appears to make a complete recovery, but her memories of the whole being-dead-for-a-bit experience are decidedly disturbing and it isn’t long before she’s busting out powers of telekinesis and picking off her fellow team members for no clear reason.
The majority of the performances are frankly better than the film really deserves, with Wilde the stand-out as morally conflicted Zoe, and likeable comic support from Glover and Peters. The exception is Duplass, who wears an expression throughout that suggests he’s fulfilling a contractual obligation and fails to put the emotional effort into his key scenes.
Nonetheless, the first half is enjoyable enough, with a promising, efficiently laid-out set-up, some engaging rapport between the characters and a spot of impressive dog wrangling with their back-from-the-dead canine co-star. The movie’s main problem is the depressingly lazy script, which opts for generic jump-scares and uninspired death scenes (one of the characters gets killed in a cupboard) rather than attempting anything interesting with its premise. It also fails to exploit its own sub-plots, such as Niko’s thinly-veiled crush on Zoe, various tensions within the team, or the fact that the university (headed by Ray Wise, in a token cameo) shuts down their lab and impounds their research.
The Lazarus Effect isn’t without the occasional worthwhile moment, but it’s one of those films where you find yourself making a better version in your head, even as you’re watching it.
Read our interview with David Gelb, discussing his Netflix original series and the move from documentary to horror.
The Lazarus Effect is available on Netflix UK, as part of an £8.99 monthly subscription.
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Home Sports Basketball Men’s Basketball upgrades front court, prepares for opener against Minnesota
Men’s Basketball upgrades front court, prepares for opener against Minnesota
As the 2017-18 points and rebounds leader, Jackson (above) pulled double-duty at the perimeter and the post to make up for injury. Now, an enhanced depth chart at front court lets him focus on his thing. Photo courtesy university communications.
Kenneth Pancake
For the Omaha men’s basketball team, its time to put the 2017-18 season in the rearview mirror.
The team is fired up to give it another go after returning from a disappointing year. This time, Omaha returns with more statistical talent, and brings in some new difference makers in the front court.
“Our whole team is a year older, and a year stronger, and a year better,” Head Coach Derrin Hansen said. “[We] have four double-digit guys returning, as opposed to last year.”
“It’s a different mindset than last year” senior guard Zach Jackson said. “This year we have a chip on our shoulder, more to prove.”
Omaha has only failed six times since 1969 to get to ten wins. The team finished with only nine wins last season, but much of that was due to circumstances beyond the team’s control. Many of the team’s most talented starters suffered injuries, such as forward Mitch Hahn (shoulder) and the since-graduated forward Lamar Wofford-Humphrey (knee).
“Having Mitch out last year, it wasn’t a problem for me to (adjust)… but that was a big piece missing,” Jackson said.
“Action Jackson” enters his senior season as a first-team all-Summit League player – and Hansen is optimistic about the team’s success with Jackson and Hahn leading the team for another year.
“We have a returning first-team player, but going into last year, we had a pre-season second team pick [in Hahn] … really, we have two all-league guys on our squad,” Hansen said. “It’s the same two guys sitting next to me (as last year).”
But the new guys are fun too.
“There’s so many new faces, as far as like coming in and out… in practice, you’re going against new guys,” Hahn said.
Many of those additions come on the front court, where depth is badly needed. Transfer Brett Barney and redshirt freshmen Wanjang Tut and Evan Tricker will all be eligible to play immediately.
“It makes our frontcourt have more depth… having those guys in our rotation will definitely help us,” Hahn said.
The goal with any of coach Hansen’s teams is simple: play a tough non-conference schedule to tune yourself up, play a competitive conference schedule and put yourself in a place to win the Summit League tournament in the spring.
“You have to get through your pre-conference, and if you can get through as healthy as you can, and get as good as you can… then you’ll be better going into the conference season for it,” Hansen said. “To be able to take our brand… and to be able to play on the PAC-12 network… and the Big 10 network… (it’s) invaluable to us.”
“Obviously, (we) want to make the NCAA tournament,” Jackson said. “I’m just happy that I got to spend all four years here… just ready to give it my all for my last year.”
The team opens at Minnesota on Tuesday, Nov. 6.
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Council » Policies and Plans » Rules and regulation » Waikato Regional Plan » Waikato Regional Plan (online version) » 6.1 Regional and Local Air Management » 6.1.8 Standard Conditions for Permitted Activity Rules and Standards and Terms for Controlled and Restricted Discretionary Activity Rules
6.1.8 Standard Conditions for Permitted Activity Rules and Standards and Terms for Controlled and Restricted Discretionary Activity Rules
The following are the standard conditions for permitted activity rules and the standards and terms for controlled and restricted discretionary activity rules for discharges to air:
There shall be no discharge of contaminants beyond the boundary of the subject property* that has adverse effects on human health, or the health of flora and fauna.
The discharge shall not result in odour that is objectionable to the extent that it causes an adverse effect at or beyond the boundary of the subject property.
There shall be no discharge of particulate matter that is objectionable to the extent that it causes an adverse effect at or beyond the boundary of the subject property.
The discharge shall not significantly impair visibility beyond the boundary of the subject property.
The discharge shall not cause accelerated corrosion or accelerated deterioration to structures beyond the boundary of the subject property.
Advisory Note:
Waikato Regional Council will use the Guidelines for Assessment in Chapter 6.4 to determine whether adverse effects are occurring from the discharge of odour or particulate matter.
Explanation and Principal Reasons for Adopting Section 6.1.8
Parts a) to e) apply to wherever this section is cross-referenced by a condition on a rule in this Plan, although clearly some of the conditions or standards and terms may not be relevant in specific cases. For these permitted activity rules, it is important to note that these thresholds have been designed to allow for minor or low scales of activity. Therefore, if an operator adopts good practice techniques then adverse effects on air quality should not occur.
Part a) is specifically designed for avoiding adverse effects on human health. A contaminant in this sense could be an aerosol discharged from the spraying of effluent or a gas or vapour formed from the combustion of materials. To be consistent with Policy 1 of this Chapter, adverse effects on human health from a discharge should be avoided, as remediation or mitigation is not acceptable.
Part b) is specifically designed to avoid adverse effects from odour, in accordance with Objective 3. Waikato Regional Council will, where appropriate and in accordance with the processes set out in Section 6.4.1.3, Section 6.4.1.4 or Section 6.4.1.5, assess compliance with this condition and respond to incidents of particulate matter which may be objectionable to the extent that they are causing an adverse effect.
Part c) is specially designed to avoid adverse effects from particulate matter. Waikato Regional Council will, where appropriate and in accordance with the processes set out in Section 6.4.2.3 or Section 6.4.2.4, assess compliance with this condition and respond to incidents of odour which may be objectionable to the extent that they are causing an adverse effect.
The discharge of contaminants can affect the visual amenity values on adjoining properties. Part d) has therefore been included to ensure that significant adverse effects on visibility (i.e. the clarity and colour of the air) do not occur.
Part e) is designed for the protection of the built environment from the discharge of contaminants that can corrode structures or cause deterioration to equipment and/or structures over time.
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Added on January 25, 2011 Robert Chesley derp , Football , necktie , NFL , Sports
Chicago Man Fired Over a NFL Necktie
According to the Chicago Tribune a man was fired because he wore a Green Bay Packers tie to work on Monday.
It’s stories like this one that make me feel ashamed to be a sports fan. John Stone, who formally worked at a car dealership, wore a Green Bay Packers tie because his late Grandma was a fan and wanted to honor her memory after the Packers won on Sunday night. The General Manager of the Car dealership apparently had advertising contracts with the Chicago Bears, who lost to the Packers in the NFC Championship Game on Sunday. This is what the Tribune reported:
John Stone said that when he showed up at work, general manager Jerry Roberts called him over to his office and then ordered him to take off the Packers tie or else he would be fired. Stone said he thought Roberts was joking and went back to work. An hour later, Stone said, Roberts came to the showroom floor and again demanded he take off the tie. When he didn’t, he was fired, Stone said.
“I didn’t know you could get fired for wearing a tie,” said Stone, 34, of Chicago’s Roseland neighborhood. “I’m supposed to dress up. I’m a car salesman.”
I can understand where the General Manager is coming from, but you don’t fire a guy because he is wearing a sports’ team tie. Considering had it been a Bears tie there would have been no conflict. You fire a guy for wearing indecent clothes sure, but never for something like this.
Could you imagine getting fired over wearing a trivial piece of clothing? Or if threatened, would you have just taken off the tie and said “Screw it.”?
by Robert Chesley
I'm mostly a gaming geek. I'm usually about playing Magic with my friends. If I'm not doing that you can find me reliving my childhood via Xbox Live. My username is Urzishra14 and if you see me playing your game feel free to send me an invite.
XopherReed says:
Apparently the guy got another job already thanks to all the news coverage.
Nick West says:
I’d fire someone for wearing a BYU tie.
No I wouldn’t, but it sounded funny.
Ryan Thomason says:
That GM was probably one of the people burning Jay Cutler jerseys because they thought he should have been playing on a torn knee.
I hope the salesman has a lawsuit, he could have just been sent home, not fired, that’s pretty extreme.
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Sony Invasion
The web cam for the Gävle Goat in Sweden is at
http://www.visitgavle.se/sv/gavlebocken
The 43 foot tall goat has been burned down 25 times
in the past. This year it looks like they thoroughly
plastered it with snow and ice, and like it might survive.
Florida Duo's Phony Heart Attack
Scheme Foiled
1945 U.S. Gen. George S. Patton died in Heidelberg, Germany,
of injuries from a car accident.
If you can help with the cost of the
Autobiography is an unrivaled vehicle for telling
the truth about other people.
--- Philip Guedalla (1889 - 1944)
Our college just completed a new three-story building. While
walking down a hall on the second floor, I overheard two
students say, "I really like the skylights on the third floor."
"Me too," remarked the second student. "I don't know why
they didn't just put some on the second floor too."
My violin teacher was teaching a large group class. She
showed them her violin and said, "This violin was made
in the early 1800s."
Someone in the class raised their hand and asked,
"Did they make it specially for you?"
An INTERNATIONAL BONEHEAD AWARD goes to
Tarus Scott,
30, and
Genard Dupree, 27
Duo's Phony Heart Attack
A Florida thief last week faked a heart attack inside a
Walmart so that a male accomplice could walk out of the
store with a shopping cart stuffed with toys, including
a motorized Barbie Power Wheel, police report.
While the diversion proved initially successful, the pair
was arrested yesterday on grand theft charges when they
were linked to the crime via surveillance footage.
According to a Polk County Sheriff’s Office report,
Tarus Scott, 30, and Genard Dupree, 27, entered the
Lake Wales Walmart together and filled a cart with
$369.94 in merchandise. As seen on the below store
surveillance video, the men separated after the
cart was loaded.
As Scott moved toward the exit with the merchandise,
Dupree dropped to the floor and clutched his chest.
With Dupree doing his best Fred Sanford imitation,
Scott walked past his sidekick. The fake heart attack,
cops noted, “appeared to be done in an attempt to
create a distraction long enough for Scott to exit
the store, past all points of sale, without paying
for the merchandise in the cart."
Dupree’s heart trouble lasted 44 seconds before he
was able to get to his feet and amble out of Walmart.
He met up with Scott in the parking lot and the pair
drove away in an SUV.
A subsequent police review of surveillance footage
resulted in the identification of Dupree and Scott.
Dupree is currently on felony probation for theft,
while Scott is an ex-con who was released from prison
last year after serving about a decade for armed robbery.
Pictured in the above mug shots, Dupree (left) and
Scott are being held in the Polk County jail for
felony grand theft.
From: Otto
Re: Server Message Block
Surely there must have been more than just routine sloppiness
that let the North Koreans into the Sony network!
Sony is a pretty big and smart company!
I realize the US Government won't do anything about it except
for some lame rethoric from the White House, but what can we
really do to avoid getting hacked by North Korea?
Dear Otto
Sony did not get knocked over by a traditional Denial-Of-Service
attack by a rented Russian Botnet. They are big enough and
have enough talent on staff, that they probably could have
fought that. Considering that they are a mostly Windows
network, they would have eventually gotten knocked over, but
that was not the case. They would have most definitely noticed
a DOS attack, while it was in progress.
We host some Human Rights servers for the East Block, and we
get attacked quite frequently by Russian botnets of 50,000
or more machines. Attacks like that are about as sneaky and
subtle as a forest fire. No way to ignore those!
Sony did not realize that they had been hacked, until their
files and emails appeared on the Internet. It was not till
a month later, that they found out that they had been
cleaned out with an SMB worm, that had gotten in through
sloppiness,
or possibly via a bought insider, who downloaded a nifty
tool bar or gadget without considering the consequences.
All I can do is repeat what I had written yesterday:
If you use McAfee and Malwarebytes,
and use common sense when it comes to downloading utilities
and games, then you will be quite safe.
If they don't get in, they can't hurt you.
If you can help with the cost of the Humor Letter, please donate what you can!
Use colored masking tape instead of ribbon to wrap gifts.
Colored Tape Instead of Ribbons
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Thanks to Arnie for this story:
I had an offer from a large company and they offered to fly me
out to the meeting on business class. During the return flight
we were given gourmet brownies and cookies. Not hungry, I
decided to save them for later, so I placed them in a vomit bag.
After the plane landed I got up to leave and a stewardess
approached me.
She asked, "Sir, would you like for me to dispose of that
for you?"
I said, "No thanks, I'm saving it for my kids."
A stewardess approached a gentleman who was voicing his
complains rather loudly.
"Yes, Sir?"
"I want to complain about this airline. Every time I fly,
I get the same seat, I can't see the in-flight movie, and
there are no window blinds, so I can't sleep."
"Captain, shut up and pretend to be busy. "
1620 The "Mayflower", and its passengers, pilgrims from England,
landed at Plymouth Rock, MA.
1898 Scientists Pierre and Marie Curie discovered the
radioactive element radium.
1913 Arthur Wynne published a new "word-cross" puzzle in the
"New York World" in England. The name was later changed to
"crossword."
1925 Eisenstein's film "Battleship Potemkin" was first
shown in Moscow.
1937 Walt Disney debuted the first, full-length, animated
feature in Hollywood, CA. The movie was "Snow White and the
Seven Dwarfs."
1944 Horse racing was banned in the United States until
after the end of World War II.
1948 The state of Eire (formerly the Irish Free State)
declared its independence.
1958 Charles de Gaulle was elected to a seven-year term as
the first president of the Fifth Republic of France.
1968 Apollo 8 was launched on a mission to orbit the moon.
The craft landed safely in the Pacific Ocean on December 27.
1971 The U.N. Security Council chose Kurt Waldheim to succeed
U Thant as secretary-general.
1978 Police in Des Plaines, IL, arrested John W. Gacy Jr.
and began unearthing the remains of 33 men and boys that Gacy
was later convicted of killing.
1988 270 people were killed when Pan Am Boeing 747 exploded
over Lockerbie, Scotland, due to a terrorist attack.
1991 Eleven of the 12 former Soviet republics proclaimed the
birth of the Commonwealth of Independent States.
1995 The city of Bethlehem passed from Israeli to Palestinian
1998 A Chinese court sentenced two dissidents to long prison
terms for attempting to organize an opposition party. A third
man was sentenced to 12 years in prison on December 22, 1998.
1998 The first vaccine for Lyme disease was approved.
2001 The Islamic militant group Hamas released a statement that
said it was suspending suicide bombings and mortar attacks in Israel.
2002 Larry Mayes was released after spending 21 years in prison
for a rape that he maintained that he never committed. He was
the 100th person in the U.S. to be released after DNA tests
were performed.
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Antarctic ice growth linked to ozone hole
ABC/Reuters
The study explains the increase in ice around Antarctica during the past 30 years, despite the recent record thaw of ice in the Arctic (Source: Reuters)
Audio: Antarctic ice spreading (AM)
Rising seas threaten west Antarctic, Science Online, 25 Jun 2008
Ice core reveals temperature 'seesaw', Science Online, 03 Nov 2008
Exploring Antarctica, Science Online, 09 Apr 2009
An expansion of sea ice around Antarctica is linked to a hole in the ozone layer high in the atmosphere, according to a study that helps clear up a mystery about global warming.
The finding, by scientists at the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) and the US space agency NASA, explains an apparent contradiction between the recent record thaw of ice in the Arctic and an increase in ice around Antarctica during the past 30 years.
"This new research helps us solve some of the puzzle of why sea ice is shrinking in some areas and growing in others," says John Turner of BAS and lead author of the report, which appears in the journal Geophysical Research Letters.
The scientists say damage to the ozone layer, which shields the planet from ultraviolet rays, cooled the stratosphere and disrupted wind patterns around Antarctica.
The shift meant winds blew off the continent more often, cooling the sea and creating more ice, they say.
"While there is increasing evidence that the loss of sea ice in the Arctic has occurred due to human activity, in the Antarctic human influence through the ozone hole has had the reverse effect and resulted in more ice," says Turner.
Sea ice around Antarctica has expanded at a rate of around 100,000 square kilometres per decade since the 1970s, and now covers an area of about 19 million square kilometres at its winter maximum, doubling the size of the continent.
By contrast, summer sea ice around the North Pole shrank in 2007 to the smallest since satellite records began in the 1970s.
Delayed effect
According to the study's authors, the ozone hole may also be delaying the effect of global warming on Antarctic sea ice.
"Although the ozone hole is in many ways holding back the effects of greenhouse gas increases on the Antarctic, this will not last, as we expect ozone levels to recover by the end of the 21st century," says Turner.
Dr Tony Worby of the Australian Antarctic Division, who was not involved in the study, says it's a really interesting hypothesis.
"The way sea ice is distributed around Antarctic has a lot to do with wind," he says.
"If you see long term changes in the way sea ice is distributed around Antarctica, one of the first things you would look at would be to understand whether there has been some shift in mean circulation in wind."
"We all know that different parts of the atmosphere are connected in different ways, so to see a surface signal from something happening in the stratosphere is an interesting result."
Worby says that while there has been an increase in the total area of Antarctic sea ice, the total volume of ice is relatively unknown.
"It's a bit hard to say because we don't know the thickness of the ice," he says. "We can measure the extent of the ice using satellites, but we don't have any satellite technology to tell us about thickness."
"The 1% increase [also] hides the fact that there is a huge decrease in sea ice around the Antarctic Peninsula," he says. "The devil is in the detail."
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NAMM: iRig Pads from IK Multimedia now shipping.
IK Multimedia, the leader in mobile music creation apps and accessories, today announced it's shipping iRig® Pads, the full-featured, ultra-portable MIDI groove controller for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch as well as Mac and PC. It's the perfect companion for the mobile electronic music producer on the move: Now you can make beats, grooves and mixes anywhere you go.
Effortless portability
iRig Pads is designed to be effortlessly portable. It's smaller than an iPad and less than 1" thick - it's the smallest groove controller in the market. It has a slim, compact form factor and it's lightweight, which means that it can be slipped into any iPad or laptop bag or backpack and carried around with ease. For maximum portability, iRig Pads is a low energy consumption device - it draws its power directly from its host device and does not need a power source to be fully functional. It can be used with iPhone, iPad and iPod touch via its included Lightning cable (30-pin connector sold separately) without the need of an adapter as well as Mac and PC via its included USB cable. *iRig Pads are currently being tested for iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus compatibility.
Extreme versatility, custom controls
At the heart of iRig Pads is its 4x4 grid of 16 velocity-sensitive, backlit multicolor rubber pads. Each pad lights up in multiple colors - red, green, orange and every shade in between - depending on the velocity of your playing and the MIDI information sent by your chosen music app or software.
But iRig Pads does more than your average mobile pad-based MIDI controller. Its full spread of controls - two knobs, two buttons, one slider and one pushbutton rotary encoder - let you get creative. All controls are MIDI assignable and customizable: Up to 16 distinct MIDI maps or "scenes" can be saved, which allows for full control of apps and software on stage or in the studio. iRig Pads comes with 6 pre-programmed scenes designed to work with many of your favorite apps and software right out of the box.
Apps for Beats, Loops, Decks and more
To help you get in the groove, IK is working to make iRig Pads the ultimate controller for beats, loops and more by adding support for a growing suite of powerful apps and software. iOS users will be able to make beats out of the box with the included SampleTank® free, and they'll soon be able to control grooves and launch loops with GrooveMaker® 2 free for iPhone and iPad and remix their preferred tracks with DJ Rig™ free.
On Mac/PC the included SampleTank 3 SE (worth $99.99/€79.99), available as a standalone and a plug-in virtual instrument for every major DAW, includes over 6.5 GB of sample contents, 400 instruments and 150 MIDI patterns, for a complete music production workstation, out of the box (coming soon as download from the IK user area). In addition, by registering their iRig Pads, users will be able to receive The Grid, an exclusive and free additional collection of 50 instruments (800 samples) and 50 MIDI patterns - designed exclusively for beat makers and groove performers who use iRig Pads - for SampleTank on iOS and Mac/PC (a value of $9.99/€7.99 for iOS and $39.99/€29.99 for Mac/PC).
The SampleTank Free App is available from the App Store on iPhone, iPad and iPod touch or atwww.appstore.com/sampletankfree
The SampleTank App is available from the App Store on iPhone, iPad and iPod touch or atwww.appstore.com/sampletank
The GrooveMaker 2 Free App is available from the App Store on iPhone, iPad and iPod touch or at www.appstore.com/groovemaker2free
The DJ Rig Free App is available from the App Store on iPhone, iPad and iPod touch or at www.appstore.com/djrigfree
And that's only scratching the surface - iRig Pads is also fully MIDI class-compliant, which means you can use it and customize its controls for use with virtually any MIDI-compatible app such as FL Studio Mobile, iMPC Studio and GarageBand or Mac/PC software such as MPC Studio, Ableton Live, Maschine, GarageBand and more.
iRig Pads is now available from music and electronics retailers worldwide for $149.99/€119.99 (excluding taxes) as well as on the IK online store. Thanks to its generous feature set, included content value and universal uses for iOS devices as well as Mac and PC, iRig Pads offers the best quality to price ratio of any MIDI groove controller on the market.
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The Grand Palace
Na Phra Lan Road, Phra Borom Maha Ratchawang, Phra Nakhon, Bangkok
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400 baht
A strict dress code applies. Clothing should cover elbows and knees and closed-in shoes should be worn. Go early to avoid the heat and bring plenty of water. If a smartly dressed person approaches you outside the gates, assume they are part of a well-rehearsed scam. Thank them kindly and walk away. Ticket price includes admission to the Vimanmek Palace for 7 days after purchase. The Palace is pram friendly, no parent’s room available.
Built in 1782 in the reign of King Rama I, the Grand Palace was constructed to mark the change in capital and serve as a residence for the Thai King, his Royal Court and administrative seat of Government. The Palace was the official Royal residence until 1925 and today hosts several royal ceremonies and state functions throughout the year. Considered the spiritual heart of Thailand, its magnificent design is made up of numerous buildings, halls and pavilions, including the Chapel Royal of the Emerald Buddha, set around open lawns, gardens and courtyards. The detailed and elaborate designs are a testament to Thai artistry and craftsmanship.
Young children may not grasp the historic and religious complexity of the Grand Palace, but they will adore the sparkly grandeur of the temples, onsite soldiers and gardens to relax and run free.
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(425) 306-9568 [cell]
wiverson @ gmail.com
2 Professional Experience
4 Technical Accomplishments
Built a professional services team from ~25 to ~85 consultants in apx. 2.5 years - and then did it again, building from ~20 to ~50 consultants in apx. 1.5 years.
Written four books on software development. Built numerous desktop and web-based products from scratch to production, as well as leading highly complex enterprise integration projects. Highly interested in cloud deployment, Lean/Agile project management - and most importantly, shipping great software.
Vertical domains of expertise include online marketing (SEO & SEM), education, online entertainment, developer marketing, content management, and staffing/consulting.
Enterprise Architect & Agile Coach, All Star Directories (2008-2010)
Software Development Practice Manager/Director, SolutionsIQ (2004-2008)
Consultant, Author, Founder (1999-2004)
Developer Relations & Technical Product Management, Symantec & Apple Computer (1995-1999)
Software Developer (1992-1995)
All Star Directories, Seattle, WA
Feb 2009 – Mar 2010
All Star Directories (ASD) is an Internet Marketing and Lead Generation firm focused on the higher and secondary education markets. With apx. $50 million in 2008 sales and 75 employees, ASD uses rich original content designed for search engine optimization (SEO) and search engine marketing (SEM) to generate highly qualified leads in a highly cost-effective manner.
Led all technical aspects of the conversion from PHP to Java, including the use of Groovy and Grails for the development of the internal tools, and the development of a robust, modern environment using Hibernate, Spring, and MySQL. The Agile processes put in place included the use of Maven for build and dependency management and Hudson for continuous integration, including establishing a strong test-centric and integration development culture. Established Scrum as the basis for iterative development.
As part of the hiring process, screened over 200 resumes, performed over 100 phone screens and led over 50 face-to-face interviews, including the use of pairing to quickly build a high quality team of FTEs and contractors.
Slalom, Seattle, WA
May 2008 – Feb 2009
Enterprise Architect & Agile Coach - All Star Directories
Laid the framework for all technical aspects of the conversion from PHP to Java, including the use and integration of off-the-shelf content management (OpenCMS), the use of Groovy and Grails for the development of the internal tools, and the development of a robust production environment using Hibernate, Spring, and MySQL. Conducted training and coaching on the use of a blended Scrum/XP Agile process. Set up and established the technical components of an Agile project, including the use of Maven for build and dependency management, Hudson for continuous integration, as well as a variety of test tools.
SolutionsIQ, Redmond, WA
July 2004 – Feb 2008
Software Development Practice Director /
General Manager, Radiant Machine
Responsible for P&L and defining best practices and market approach for the Application Development group in the professional services organization. Cross-functional role, including sales and marketing support, proposal development, and architectural vision definition. Generating business, managing multiple clients, project management. Grew business from apx 35 consultants on staff to over 80 while increasing margin.
Projects in the managed portfolio ranged in size from individual consultants to 10-20 person J2EE and .NET teams. Served as technical & business lead in a consultative relationship for several projects (in particular, strategic account development related to large application migration and service-oriented architecture development).
Three books on Java development published in Winter 2004-Spring 2005, including Real World Web Services (O'Reilly), Hibernate: A J2EE Developer's Guide ( Addison-Wesley Professional / Pearsons Education), and Jakarta Commons: Reusable Java Components (Prentice Hall PTR / Pearsons Education).
Cascade Technology Group, Union City, CA
July 1999 – July 2004
Responsible for all aspects of business, including generating business, managing multiple clients, billing, and all project management. Consulting engagements include tool analysis for DataChannel (Seattle, WA), integration of VisualCafé with Cloudscape database (Oakland, CA), product management of new website for CareerCentral (Palo Alto, CA), architecture (XML & Java servlets) for LoopNet.com, a port to Java 2 APIs for Hollywood Stock Exchange (hsx.com), creation of a custom workflow application for a large entertainment company, and the development of a tool set for the creation of Java-based digital interactive television applications for Canal+ US Technologies.
Wrote several articles for O'Reilly & Associates and a book, Mac OS X for Java Geeks.
Symantec Corp., Cupertino, CA
Developer Relations Manager, 10/98 – 7/99
Responsibilities include ISV relationships (technical integration & comarketing), training, and events. Management of three direct reports as well as several external vendors. Includes developing and preparing business cases, budgeting, and managing project execution. 10/98-11/98, created presentation, demonstration as part of delivery of successful European launch of VisualCafé 3.0 and Enterprise Suite, including five weeks of press, customer, partner, and seminar events. Cross-functional team lead for future Internet Tools product. Additional accomplishments include development of training material for VisualCafé product line, dramatic increase in event lead generation/ROI through leveraging partnerships (forty-five seminars held with partners in a eight week period), and addition of apx. three hundred additional ISVs.
Strategic Partner Manager, 9/97 – 9/98
Responsible for complete redesign of Symantec’s Internet Tools ISV relationship management. “Productized” VisualCafé Open API, positioning VisualCafé as an open, enterprise-class solution. Creation of comarketing programs, including self-funded catalog and CD-ROM. Grew program from apx. fifty to over seven hundred active participants. Developed relationships with key vendors, including BEA, Rational, and various application server vendors. Technical support for business development team. Cross-functional team lead for Visual Page, a visual HTML editor. Cross-functional team representative for VisualCafé Enterprise Suite, a CORBA/RMI development environment.
Apple Computer, Cupertino, CA
August 1996 – September 1997
Java & Runtimes Product Manager
Developed strategic documentation and positioning for Java, CFM, SOM/DSOM, and CORBA at Apple Computer. Extensive press briefings, marketing material preparation and presentation. Feature definition for Apple’s Java support on both Mac OS and Rhapsody platforms. Extensive analysis of the Java industry. Product launch of Mac OS Runtime for Java 1.0, 1.5, and 2.0. Involved in multi-million dollar licensing negotiations with regard to Apple’s Java strategy. Day to day activities included working closely with and coordinating engineering, outbound marketing, evangelism, field sales, and advisement of executive staff.
Mac OS Developer Relations
Worked in a high pressure environment in marketing and strategic positioning role within the Symantec Development Tools group. Responsibilities included acting as technical liaison with Apple Computer and other key partners, managing technical content and production for a variety of trade shows, providing technical verification and porting of critical third party source code, as well as supplementing product management. Software development of proof-of-concept Caffeine (initial hosting of the Mac JDK javac compiler from within the Symantec environment), and Café Studio for Macintosh, a visual Java source generation tool. Extensive work with C++ and Java. Accomplishments include the successful management of over half a dozen tradeshows (including budgeting and staffing), demonstration & technical support for three product launches (including Symantec C++ Release 4, Release 5 and Symantec Café), redesigning the Café website, and the acquisition and management of over four hundred high end developer contacts.
Environmental Physiological Labs, Davis, CA
Developed statistical software for NASA on the Macintosh. Specification, user interface design, creation, testing and debugging of a large scientific application. Implemented and integrated a wide variety of analytical tools, including mathematical analysis routines, a robust graphing environment, and an extensive batch processing system. Extensive work with Pascal, C and C++ on both 68K and PowerPC platforms.
Information regarding prior positions, including Macintosh Network Manager and Desktop Publishing Specialist, available upon request.
University of California at Davis
B.A., Political Science
Emphasis on International Relations and Post-1945 History. Additional coursework in Economics and CS.
Business Administration, Thematic Option, a multidisciplinary honors program focused on integration of politics, history, and philosophy.
Technical Accomplishments
- Author, Mac OS X for Java Geeks (O'Reilly & Associates). Translated to Japanese.
- Author, Real World Web Services (O'Reilly & Associates). Translated to Russian.
- Author, Hibernate: A J2EE Developer's Guide (Addison-Wesley Professional / Pearsons Education). Translated to Chinese.
- Author, Jakarta Commons: Reusable Java Components (Prentice Hall PTR / Pearsons Education).
- Author, several articles on topics including Maven, JNI on Mac OS X, and Sitemesh.
- Creator of Crash Dummy, a Java web application to help IT professionals setting up a Java application server environment[s]. It has several features to help make this easier, including simulating failures and diagnostics. Crash Dummy is particularly helpful for setting up complex clustered environments and monitoring infrastructure. (2005-present)
- Creator of BeanView, a system for generating user interfaces via reflection using Java 5 annotations and generics. Supports both Swing and Echo 2 (an Ajax-based web framework). (2005-present)
- Technical analysis and recommendations for the development of enterprise integration standards (service-oriented architecture) for a large HMO, including .NET, Java, and legacy mainframes (2004-present)
- Technical analysis and recommendation for the conversion of several large scale (one million source line+, one thousand table+) legacy systems, including technical approach, project management, and deployment for multiple clients. (2004-present)
- Organization-wide deployment of Scrum/Agile project management as applied to development. (2004-present)
- Development of web applications using Java (JSP, servlets, JDBC, etc.) and XML. Includes use of XML as RPC mechanism (XML-RPC), and emphasis on scalable, high-volume, concurrently run server applications. Additional details, including code walkthrough[s], available upon request. (7-99-current).
- Design and implementation of a tool set for the development of Java-based digital interactive television applications for the Canal+ MediaHighway platform. Includes code generation, project wizards, and extensive integration with VisualCafé for Java. (11/2000 - 10/2001)
- Creation of a wide range of demonstrations and sales tools for use with VisualCafé, including JDBC clients, servlets, EJB integration with WebLogic, CORBA integration with IONA’s ORB, crossplatform (NT to Linux/Solaris debugging), etc. Multi-tier development work, including such activities as tying a database to an application server and simultaneous development of Swing/JFC and DHTML front ends. (9/97 – 9/99)
- Integration of VisualCafé for Java 3.0 Enterprise Suite and Cloudscape/CloudView (automatic launching, UI integration, use of RMI-based driver). (8/99)
- Competitive analysis of software tools and runtime products, including impact of partnerships, current/future standards, and related technologies (e.g. development of multiple whitepapers on Java performance, analysis of CORBA and Java, competitive analysis between VisualCafé and IBM VisualAge, etc.). (9/97 – 7/99)
- Relationship & partnership development with enterprise-class server and tool providers (e.g. BEA, Gemstone, IONA Technologies, Netscape, Novera, Persistence, etc.). Includes estimation and support for the VisualCafé 3.0 Open APIs. (9/97 – 7/99)
- Development of technical market requirements documents, including Mac OS Runtime for Java (MRJ), Mac OS distributed object/runtime support and VisualCafé Open API requirements. (8/96 – 9/97)
- Author of several articles published in MacTech Magazine, including an overview of the JavaBeans architecture and comparative reviews of C++ and Java integrated development environments. (9/96 – 10/97)
- Software development of proof-of-concept Caffeine (initial hosting of the Mac JDK javac compiler from within the Symantec environment), and Café Studio for Macintosh, a visual Java source generation tool. (6/95 – 6/96)
- Developed statistical software for NASA on the Macintosh. Specification, user interface design, creation, testing and debugging of a large scientific application. Implemented and integrated a wide variety of analytical tools, including mathematical analysis routines, a robust graphing environment, and an extensive batch processing system. Extensive work with Pascal, C and C++ on both 68K and PowerPC platforms. (6/92 – 6/95)
References Available Upon Request
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Eli Badra
Cracker and Camper van Beethoven revisit 90′s classics
Led by frontman David Lowery, Cracker and Camper van Beethoven hit the Middle East in Cambridge as part of a nationwide tour to celebrate each of the band’s past. How did it go? Find out, inside.
Eli Badra: The Best and Worst Songs of 2010
We asked our writers to weigh in with their thoughts on songs from 2010. Here, in no particular order, are staff writer Eli Badra’s thoughts on the best and worst of 2010.
Eli Badra: My Favorite Albums of 2010
We had our writers take a stab at picking their favorite albums from 2010. Here, in no particular order, are staff writer Eli Badra’s picks.
Joe Satriani soars at the House of Blues
After rocking out with the supergroup Chickenfoot, guitar virtuoso Joe Satriani is back on the road for a solo tour in support of his brand new fourteenth studio album, Black Swans And Wormholes. Hitting Boston’s House of Blues on Thursday night, Satriani delivered a clinic on how to play the guitar.
EOTO deliver spontaneous show at Paradise
There are live bands and then there is EOTO. The two-man act consisting of Michael Travis and Jason Hann, drummer and percussionist for String Cheese Incident, deliver a 100% live improvised show each night, start to finish. How did it go in Boston on Saturday? Read our review, inside.
Yonder Mountain String Band deliver lively show
When the Yonder Mountain String Band comes to town, it’s always a treat. The band hit Boston’s House of Blues last Friday, and proved they are one of the most consistently entertaining bands touring right now by delivering a spectacular display of musicianship.
Me First And The Gimme Gimmes deliver good times
Me First And The Gimme Gimmes rolled through the Paradise Rock Club last week and delivered an energetic parade of jazz standards, showtunes, and even folk songs, all distorted and sped up, that left everyone sweaty and satisfied.
K’Naan entertains Boston with energetic show
Making his second stop to Boston in the past six months, Somali rapper K’Naan hit the House of Blues last Wednesday and delivered an enjoyable and very energetic set.
LCD Soundsystem throw dance party at the Orpheum
LCD Soundsystem’s third album, This Is Happening, came out in May to almost universal acclaim. James Murphy, the producer behind the name, hit the Orpheum to showcase a number of new tracks, as well as several old stand-bys that fans have grown to love. Get all the details on the show, inside.
Rogue Wave brings ‘Permalight’ to Royale
Oakland’s Rogue Wave played Royale last week, touring in support of their newest album, Permalight, bringing with them a relatively short, but thoroughly satisfying set of music mellow, mid-tempo rock. Get all the details on the show, inside.
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AUTUMN 2017 DOUBLES TOURNAMENT WINNERS
BTA News
Well done to Paul and Laurence on winning this years Autumn tournament. They played steadily throughout the tournament, only drawing in one game and beating the favourites early on. Playing against George and Andrew in the final, they were 0-2 down. They dug in and with steady base play and aggressive net work, they bought it back to a nail bitting 5th game. Both first time winners, they both had a look of shock when they took the win.
Spring 2017 Mixed Doubles Tournament Winners
The first tournament of the season was played on the 8th April. We had perfect Spring weather, a rarity for a BTA tournament, with blue skies and no wind or rain! Eight mostly mixed and very evenly matched pairs entered, contesting a competitive but friendly event with all pairs winning at least one match.
There were 4 pairs that were within touching distance of final but it came down to Pippa Sibley and David Waddilove, a rookie pair, playing against previous Summer tournament champions Claire and David Ventress. After a hard fought match with many long rallies and points that came down to very small margins, the tournament was eventually won by Pippa and David, who take home the trophy and more importantly, a bottle of red!
Thanks, as always, must go to Richard Flavell, superb at organising everyone on the day and keeping score, as well as umpiring the final. Notable guests were Jerry and Michaella Jacoby who were visiting from Michigan and presented the prizes to the winners.
Autumn Doubles Tournament – Winners
Congratulations to Neil and David who came out on top of five other teams after an excellent BTA Autumn Tournament on the 8th October. Their effective combination of a big serve and tricky net play saw them undefeated through to the final. Against them in the final were Jacqui and Roger who fought valiantly, with some excellent serving and well placed baseline shots, who took away the runners-up prize. Special thanks go to Richard who has been indispensable in his organisation of this tournament and many others.
We’ve got a new website!
Welcome to the new BTA website! First things first: a huge thanks to Jennie Routley, Claire Ventress and Pippa Sibley for all their help in getting the design and content together. Special mention to Neil for some of the photography.
Well… what’s new? The most important information for newcomers and members alike is front and centre on the home page: club nights, membership, and coaching. For members, our events will always be within reach, without you having to dig out your calendar. Our latest news and updates will always be available, without you having to search your email. Don’t worry – everything you expect from the booking system is the same as it ever was, just now a button press away at the top of the page.
For newcomers, we have tried to present the club in a concise, friendly manner – encouraging people to come to a Tuesday club night and meet us. We often find this is the best way for people to experience how the BTA works and our particular flavour of social tennis.
For those on social media, I have commandeered our Twitter account and will be maintaining it going forwards. Follow @BusbridgeTennis
I hope you like the new look – we welcome all feedback. We have big plans for the site to engage members, and make it easier for you to book courts and find members to play with. One step at a time…
Copyright © 2018 - Busbridge Tennis Association
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Mercyful Fate - _Into The Unknown_
(Metal Blade, 1996)
by: Gino Filicetti (5 out of 10)
After an eight year absence that, to most Mercyful Fate fans, felt like an eternity, the King and his boyz are back, kicking out their fourth album since their reunion in 1993. Pretty impressive eh? Well, unfortunately, I can't say the same thing about this here album. To tell you the truth, most of the music contained here bored the shit out of me, at times it seemed nothing more than bad 80s riffs rehashed again and again. Needless to say I was "just a little" pissed that this promo didn't include lyrics, which as we all know, are the best part of King Diamond's creations, and the reason he's been worshiped for so long. The first track, "Lucifer", starts this album with some scary synth music and the King chanting a bastardized Our Father in praise of the Dark One. Other notable tracks include, "Ghost of Change" which the bio states is a true story about an encounter the King had with a poltergeist. My personal fave track here was "Fifteen Men" it starts with a cool bass intro, and has a special groove thoughout. Definitely one of the only memorable songs on this record. I really found it hard to give a work of the King such a low score, but this record just didn't cut the cake for me, but by all means give it a whirl and see if it might not be your slice of cheese.
(article published 12/8/1996)
12/9/1999 P Schwarz 7.5 Mercyful Fate - 9
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Adding A New Team In The Cloud-Based Distributed Software Project: A Cross-Case Analysis Of Key Challenges
Collaboration in cloud businesses - value networks and ecosystems
The Impact Of User Experience Work On Cloud Software Development
Transformation toward a Cloud business model
What Cloud user should know about diseconomies of scale?
A model for risk management in agile software development
Towards trust management for cloud-based ecosystems
Cloud and lean transformation from capabilities viewpoint
What is "Cloud"?
Open Telco Ecosystem
CLOUD BASED CONCEPT FOR A FUTURE CONTACT BOOK
TOWARDS MOBILE DEVICE CLOUD
Software-as-a-Service Business Models
WHAT CLOUD USERS (SaaS PROVIDERS) SHOULD KNOW ABOUT DISECONOMIES OF SCALE?
Elastic Build Service
Designing IDE as a Service
Security Testing of Web Browsers
COLLABORATION IN CLOUD BUSINESSES – VALUE NETWORKS AND ECOSYSTEMS
Filed under: trust management, cloud, reputation, inter-enterprise collaborations, open service ecosystems
Authors: Sini Ruohomaa, Lea Kutvonen
Category: research article
Keywords: trust management, cloud, reputation, inter-enterprise collaborations, open service ecosystems
Abstract: Inter-enterprise collaborations allow service providers to focus on their key competences while providing a composed service to end customers. The actors involved must determine whether the gains from participating outweigh the risks of depending on other autonomous collaboration participants, in order to make trust decisions on their willingness to collaborate. We define trust as the extent to which an actor is willing to participate in a given action with a given partner, considering the risks and incentives involved. In this paper, we present two high-level alternatives for trust management architectures for cloud-based service ecosystems: closed collaboration environments and open service ecosystems. Closed environments, such as traditional virtual organization breeding environments, are often built around a hub actor, centrally managed and apply pre-formed trust relationships in determining who is allowed into the breeding environment. Open service ecosystems, in contrast, allow service providers to enter the ecosystem by publishing a valid service offer, and trust relationships are formed and evolve within the ecosystem. We discuss the implications these choices have on further architecture refinement, and compare the strengths and weaknesses of the approaches, including their infrastructure needs, viability and ability to scale up in size.
Permanent link to this page: http://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi-fe201203161571
reviewer1571-2 says:
This paper achieves something difficult but very valuable: the discussion of theoretical concepts in an industry context. The authors move from a description of the technology to what this actually means in the politics of the workplace and vice versa. I learn a lot from reading this paper and in a fashion that makes sense; what is appropriate for which types of context and how the medium can be adapted to suit a certain end goal.
• Second half very clear… The first sentence doesn’t contribute much to understanding the problem at hand… How about this?… Inter-enterprise collaborations allow actors to work together across organisations.
(I am providing a re-write suggestion because I recently got feedback about something that was wrong with little information about what could work).
• I think paragraph 5 (beginning with the sentence ‘The goal of our research is to explore trust management solutions’) would work well if it was brought up to be placed straight after the first sentence, paragraph 1.
• Despite only having software construction concepts available, cloud computing is left to support business-level needs with them as well, even in cases where business processes can be repeatably utilized as templates for new business cases in the style of BPaaS (Business Process as a Service) [6] and other alternatives.
This sentence is unclear…I don’t know who the ‘them’ is. I understand from this, that those responsible for the software construction end up designing for the business needs of the enterprise. Sometimes this work could be efficiently produced using a template, so the current arrangement wastes resources.
• The line … ‘Section 3 presents how objective reputation information is established to
drive trust decisions’. (Could be worth explaining how this fits in the flow of the argument (to join it to section 2 and 5)
• The definitions of open and closed systems is very clear and provides a basis for me to learn more. As a newcomer to this particular area, I am able to quickly see why different functionality are required by the different approaches (for instance, populator, negotiation support, reputation information, and the factor of scale on these different ventures.
• The actual section 3 could benefit from a sentence leading readers from section 2 into the main body of text in section 3.
• I wonder if it would work to swap around the position of sections 4 and 5… This would mean a transition from the general to the specific.
• I think that section 4 needs a minor re-write to fit more directly with the aims of the paper: to contrast the open and closed models. In section 4 I understand that there are some aspects that both models share, but then there are differences. Just a sentence or two orientating the reader would do the trick (in my opinion).
reviewer228-1 says:
I have read this paper twice and I still couldn't get the main contribution. Granted, it discusses the theoretical background of inter-enterprose collaboration but still doesn't add to the work itself. It has some potentials but it's still too abstract. Also some part seem like a comparison between centralized and distributed trust management systems which has been extensively discussed in other publications.
- The definition of trust in the paper needs to be bound to a criterion (or a set of aspects) rather than "the extent to which an actor is willing to participate...."
- A very good part was the stress on the difference between the identities of service providers and the services itself. Most work in this area don't make that distinction though it is quite important
- in section 2.1 (3rd page) it wasn't clear how the open service ecosystem work with central reputation system --> "..and provides a central input for risk evaluations. All actors perform private trust and risk analysis on which collaborations to join..."
- Section 2.2. When talking about the negotiation phase; It wasn't clear how the assessment is done? what are the criteria of the assessment?
- Also it wasn't clear how to handle first time interactions!
All in all, I would recommend the authors to keep working on the paper and make it more concrete than the current version. Currently, it is an abstract concept that definitely needs further investigation and more details.
Pasi Tyrväinen says:
Editor decision:
The reviewers state that a lot can be learned from reading this paper published as a discussion paper. They also recommend the authors to keep working on the paper with further investigation and elaborating it to make the content more concrete compared to this submission. This version will not be published in the journal issue and the review process is now finished. Thank you for submitting the discussion paper to Cloudse.org.
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Bizarro World Bigfoot
There's a few reasons I don't write much anymore. The main reason being I stay pretty busy with my other work. There's also the lack of content when it comes to things I enjoy writing about. New information, new ideas, things that can further the field of bigfoot research and investigation. Another big reason is I'm just kind of fed up with what the bigfoot subculture has become. The "Bigfoot Community", whatever you want to call it, has changed, and in my opinion it has changed for the worse.
The much worse.
It's to be expected that things would change in a field of study such as this. New people come along. New evidence is found. New ideas and theories are brought to the table for discussion. I understand and welcome that sort of change. What I didn't expect, was that the bigfoot world would slide backwards. Actually it more than slid, it was more of a complete collapse. A fall from a cliff edge only to smash on the rocks below. But it didn't d…
Missouri News Anchor Has Possible Bigfoot Encounter While Camping
Maria Neider is an award winning, well respected news anchor from KY3 news in Springfield, Missouri.
You can imagine the surprise of many when she posted a video on her personal Facebook page, discussing a possible bigfoot encounter her and her family had during a recent camping trip in the Ozarks.
Bigfoot Sightings And Investigations On The Navajo Reservation
When you think of New MExico and the Four Corners region of the United States, bigfoot probably doesn't come to mind. We're used to associating sasquatch with the Pacific Northwest, the forested mountains, and the swampy bottomlands of the South. But the Four Corners region has an extremely long history of reported sightings. The area actually has plenty of habitat to support these creatures, and while it may seem foreign to a lot of us outsiders, the locals certainly know the bigfoot are there.
Sightings and encounters take place on and around the Navajo Reservation on a constant basis. Whenever these events happen, the go to person to contact is Brenda Harris. Brenda is a Native American bigfooter with decades of experience.
Brenda recently joined Bigfoot Outlaw Radio to share some of her stories and findings over the years from investigations she's led on the Navajo Reservation, and the surrounding areas. This is an episode you definitely want to hear. Have a listen:
Why I Don't Believe In Bigfoot Portals
If you're reading this you must want to know why I don't believe in bigfoot portals. Or perhaps you're here to try and shoot my beliefs down or discredit what I say. Maybe you're just here to troll. Your reason for being here doesn't really matter. What matters the most is why I'm writing this.
If you had asked me 10 years ago if I thought I'd ever write an article about bigfoot portals, I would have laughed at the ridiculousness of the question. Which is probably what I should be doing now. But alas, I find myself in a time where bigfoot portals are an actual topic of conversation. In fact I have been somewhat challenged by various individuals when expressing my disbelief in the alleged phenomenon.
What the hell happened to the bigfoot community?
Just like parenting, there is no prerequisite for joining the bigfoot community. Therefore the door is wide open to any and all individuals, including the flies, mosquitoes, and other pesky and annoying parasites…
Update! Woman Shares Her Terrifying Bigfoot Encounters On Podcast
I recently shared a write up by Pamela Vasko of one of her bigfoot encounters here.
Pamela also went on the Bigfoot Outlaws Podcast and shared her incredible stories in a two part episode.
These encounters Pamela had in the 1980's as a single mother living on her own with virtually nothing but a roof over her head, sculpted her for the rest of her life in a negative way. She lived most of her life absolutely terrified that she would have another encounter with one of these creatures. She was even nervous just to be around wooded areas.
Now, that she has found others who have had encounters with these creatures, Pamela has begun the healing process.
Woman Shares Her Amazing Encounter With A White Bigfoot
A largely overlooked aspect of bigfoot encounters is the psychological effect it can have on a person. While many of us have the desire to see one of these incredible creatures, not everyone feels that way. Some individuals are terrified by the thought that these things even exist, let alone possessing the desire to see one in person.
But what if the situation was different all together? What if the person had no idea what a bigfoot was? What if the person wasn't out looking for one, and had no idea what was happening to them?
That was the case for Pamela Stewart Vasko. Pam was an expecting mother, taken from her life in the city, and placed into the secluded backwoods of Indiana by her boyfriend at the time. It was a bad relationship, he was hardly ever home, and most of the time Pamela was left to fend for herself in a house that didn't have running water or electricity. For most of us this seems hard to imagine, a situation so horrible, and for Pamela it was a reality.
As …
The Bigfoot Outlaws Talk Bigfoot In Alabama Part 2
In this continuation of Bigfoot Outlaw Radio, Episode 3, Bear, Coonbo, and special guest "Bubba Gump" discuss some of their many adventures into the 'Roll Tide' state.
They also discuss several of the behaviors they have observed from bigfoot over the years.
Bigfoot In Bama and Other Outlaw Tales
Brand new episode of Bigfoot Outlaw Radio! Episode 3 focuses on some of the bigfoot adventures the Outlaws have experienced in Alabama. With special guest "Bubba Gump"!
Bubba Gump is old friends with Coonbo and has been a cohort on many bigfoot adventures.
Be Mindful Of Ticks, Nature's Tiny But Dangerous Predator
In the summer lots of people spend time in the woods and at the lake, camping and fishing, or just enjoying nature. While most know that this time of year is snake season, and to be on the look out where they step, many forget to worry about another deadly predator, the tick.
The diseases that a human can contract from ticks are no joking matter, and should be taken very seriously. This article is a prime example of why people should take these tiny predators so seriously. They can do a lot more than just suck your blood.
(source: fox4kc.com)
SHAWNEE, Okla.– A woman in Oklahoma had her arms and legs amputated after contracting a disease during a family trip.
According to KOCO, four days after visiting Grand Lake, Jo Rogers, mother of two, thought she had the flu. She was tested for both West Nile Virus and meningitis, but the test results came back negative.
Doctors said her organs were starting to shut down. Rogers’ cousin, Lisa Morgan, told KOCO, “…her arms and feet were turning da…
iNaturalist: Free App Helps You Identify Things In Nature And Much More
There's a lot of junk apps out there that are designed to do nothing more than spend your money. This isn't one of those apps.
iNaturalist is not only a fantastic app for the outdoor enthusiast, but it's also free, and part of a huge growing community of citizen scientists.
Not only is this an app, but there's an entire community of resources available online at inaturalist.org.
Check out what the LA Times has to say about this amazing app.
If you see a creature in the wild but you're unsure of its identity, you can take a picture of it through the iNaturalist app, click on the "Need help identifying" tab and upload it to the site. You'll get responses from experts around the world — and you'll be able to add it to your list of natural history observations. You can use iNaturalist as a personal field journal or a place to learn which plant, animal and fungus species other people have found in a particular region. You can also participate in vario…
A Closer Look At The Western Oregon Fly Fishing Bigfoot Video
It's a little known fact that bigfoot love fly fishing! Nothing calms the nerves of a sasquatch like breathing in the fresh outdoors, wading into a mountain stream, and casting out a line.
Oh wait, nevermind, this is a video of a fly fisherman fishing, and catching a bigfoot on video by accident. Or was it by accident...
Parabreakdown gives us a closer look at what's really going on.
Yorkie Saves Man From Bigfoot In North Carolina
A North Carolina tourist claims his Yorkie "Zippy" protected him from a menacing Bigfoot creature, and he has the video to prove it.
While vacationing in Henderson County, Eric Walters was walking his pet Yorkie, Zippy, one morning when he spotted what appeared to be a Sasquatch watching him.
Zippy saw the Bigfoot as well, and sprung into action. As the Yorkie ran towards the Sasquatch barking his little heart out, the elusive Bigfoot creature retreated back into the forest. Alas, Zippy had saved the day.
"You'll have to be the judge on this one. Eric Walters just asks that viewers keep an open mind.
"Either there's a Sasquatch out there or someone is trying to play a practical joke," said Walters, who was walking his dog, Zippy, on Thursday morning when he spotted the creature.
Walters is renting a cabin on Buck Forest Road with his wife and another couple, and he shot the video on his phone."
Tsiatko: The Story Of The Stick Indians
The Tsiatko, or Stick Indians as they are more commonly known, is a Native American story I find interesting because of the descriptions they give of these beings.
Are they bigfoot, or are they something else entirely?
Notice the similarities the Tsiatko have to what we commonly call bigfoot. If the Tsiatko are in fact the same thing we call bigfoot, then it is painfully obvious the Native Americans knew about these creatures long before any white person reported seeing one, and based on their descriptions they have noticed some of the same things bigfoot researchers have experienced in the field.
As the days grow shorter and the nights get colder, people continue to usher in the winter season with gatherings, costumes, candy and stories. One story that many have grown up with is the story of the race of people known as stick Indians. Whether you believe in them or not, legends of stick Indians have been around many years. Often referred to as Tsiatko, the race of stick Indians were …
Camp Hack: Starting A Fire With Hand Sanitizer
Keeping yourself clean is an often forgotten (but greatly appreciated) part of wilderness survival and camping in general. It doesn't take much to introduce bacteria or infection to your body, so keeping clean can also mean staying healthy.
But did you know that hand sanitizer most ladies carry in their purse can also help you get a fire going?
Rob at Sigma 3 Survival School shows us how it's done.
Camp Hack: Get Drinking Water From A Tree
In a survival situation, water is crucial. You can not live without a water supply of some kind.
In a dire situation you can't always find a fresh water source, but this trick might greatly improve your survival odds.
This is a seasonal tip, not something to depend on by any means, but it may get you through a bad situation.
Rob from Sigma 3 Survival School shows us how it's done.
Camp Hack: How To Open A Can With No Can Opener
In a SHTF situation, or even a simple camping trip, you may find yourself in this situation.
You're starving, your family is starving. You have this can of Pork -n- Beans, but you forgot to bring your can opener. Some manufacturers have started putting the ring pull lids on their cans, but many have not. What good would it do you to find a stockpile of canned goods if you can't open them?
Sure, you could stab at it and ruin your knife, or try busting it open with a rock, but this little trick will get you into that can of goodness in no time.
Newly Released Unedited Complete Footage Of The Patterson Film!
Steven Streufert, owner of Bigfoot Books and member of the Bluff Creek Project, just posted this rarely seen unedited footage of the Patterson Film.
This is the complete film roll Roger Patterson had in his camera on the day he captured the most famous footage in bigfoot history.
The footage has been stabilized and color enhanced, but otherwise is untouched.
Most people have never seen this footage before.
The Bigfoot Outlaw Podcast Offers Some Southern Perspective
The Bigfoot Outlaws are a group of friends and extended family who met one another during their quest to learn more about bigfoot. Several years ago the group had a podcast called Bigfoot Outlaw Radio. At the time it developed a large following and was very well known around the bigfoot community.
After a long hiatus, the Outlaws are back with an all new podcast. Offering a common sense approach with a southern perspective. Bear and Coonbo lead the bunch in their discussions and stories of past encounters with this mysterious creature.
Camp Hack: Why A Trash Bag Should Be In Everyone's Pack
The humble trash bag. Commonly overlooked and mistreated, just a means to store and transport garbage without having to touch it.
But the trash bag is much more. It actually has many uses. This article by Craig Caudill over at ultimatesurvivaltips.com talks about how a trash bag can come in extra handy in a emergency or survival situation, and it isn't just to put your trash in.
The versatile trash bag should be an item in everyone's pack.
Why Trash Bags are Great for Survival Kits
I don’t know about you, but when I’m deciding whether something should go in my already packed out survival kit, it’s almost always gotta be lightweight, affordable, and multi-use. There are other criteria, durability for example, but these three are important to me.
One of the most useful and versatile items that satisfies these criteria is a simple garbage bag.
But NOT all garbage bags are made the same. So let’s first take a quick look at the types of garbage bags and then consider some uses for…
Camp Hack: Start A Fire With A Beer Can
Ever find yourself stuck out in the woods with a bunch of empty beer cans and no lighter? Don't worry, I won't judge.
Here's a cool camp hack to start a fire with nothing more than an empty beer can.
Of course you could use any aluminum can, but I thought you might relate better to a beer can.
REI Hosting Wilderness Survival Basics
If you live in or around the D.C. area, REI is hosting a FREE course on wilderness survival basics.
There's only 30 spots available, and they're filling up fast, so be sure to register.
The event will be held on August 17, 2015 at the REI Community Wunder Garten between 6:00 and 7:30PM.
For more info and to register, click the image above.
Deer Hunter Has Up Close And Personal Encounter With Bigfoot
Jim King is known around the bigfoot community as "Bear". He's a native Mississippian, and a person I am proud to call a friend and a brother. I have been out in the woods with this man many times, and while he tells some amazing stories and makes incredible claims in regards to these creatures, he's one of the few people I have ever met that can back up what they say.
The following is an encounter Bear had with a bigfoot while he was out deer hunting. This encounter would shake him to his very core, and ignite a desire within him to learn as much as he could about these creatures.
This story is told in Bear's own words.
"I was deer hunting a location bordering a swamp with numerous creeks flowing into the basin. I had noticed that a large buck was using a thick cane-infested area as a day time bedding area. Within this thicket I could see a large Red Oak tree that grew right along the bank of one of these creeks. This area was THICK! So thick, that the trai…
Do You Know The Differences Between These Look-A-Like Snakes?
The dog days of summer are in full swing, and that means we're in the middle of snake season. The warmer the weather, the more active snakes are, and people too.
With people enjoying outdoor activities such as camping, hiking, and swimming, your bound to come across a snake at some point.
Can you tell the differences between these common venomous snakes, and their non-venomous look-a-likes?
While your best bet is to leave any snake alone and give them their space, it's still a good idea to be able to tell the differences between a harmless snake, and one that could cause serious injury and possibly death. This chart is an excellent resource to study and learn.
Camp Hack: Easy Way To Avoid Water Contamination
The Sierra Trading Post has some great videos on Youtube with helpful camping tips and tricks.
In this particular video, they talk about water contamination, and how often times you might think you're being cautious when it comes to the water inside the bottle, but what about the water on the outside?
It only takes a tiny bit of contaminated water to ruin your trip.
With this simple trick you can easily avoid water contamination.
Camp Hack: Inexpensive Perimeter Alarm System
Whether you're worried about someone coming into camp and stealing your stuff, or you're trying to catch a bigfoot sneaking into your camp while you're asleep, a perimeter alarm can add security and peace of mind to a campsite.
Perimeter alarms can be expensive though, and often times not very practical for the weekend bigfooter.
Here's an inexpensive and simple DIY perimeter alarm system that can solve both of those problems.
Remember, you can always make changes and additions to fit it to your specific needs.
Guest Post: The Commercialization of Bigfoot
This is a guest post sent to me by Daniel Dover. Daniel's article, titled "The Commercialization of Bigfoot" discusses his views on how various people are using different methods to cash-in on the subject of Bigfoot. The good, the bad, the harmful, and the harmless. Check it out, it's a good read.
Putting Together The Bigfoot Puzzle And Dealing With Unknowns
When you put a puzzle together, what is your method? Where do you start?
Most people organize the pieces, make sure they are all flipped over the correct way, and look at the picture on the box.
The majority of you probably start with the corners and the edge pieces. Why is that? Because we know where those pieces go. You wouldn't start with some random piece in the middle would you? What if it was even more difficult, and you didn't have a picture to look at. You didn't know what the end result was supposed to look like. In fact, you don't even know if all the pieces are there.
If this were the case, we would definitely want to start with the corners and edges. Again, the pieces we know. If we start with the pieces we know, we can at least start to put the overall picture together. It gives us a starting point, and a foundation to build on.
So when it comes to the bigfoot puzzle, why are so many people trying to start with the unknown pieces?
In a recent article I wr…
Sasquatch Confessions: I Was Zapped By Bigfoot!
Angelina National Forest
Angelina County, Texas
Time Unknown
Myself with several other individuals were on an outing searching for the elusive Texas bigfoot. We were in an area we had visited numerous times, and had produced some solid activity.
That particular night we had more people in our group than we normally would have. In total I believe there were at least 8 of us, if not more.
I remember the air felt very heavy.
That night we decided to go completely dark. No lights. We had several pieces of audio and video equipment set up, but other than the illuminating glow of viewfinders and power indication lights, it was completely black.
The area itself is the end of a long and winding road where it dead ends after its final turn. One way in, one way out, and you are surrounded by miles and miles of forest in every direction. On any night it feels like a creepy place. You feel alone and isolated among the towering pines, and the tree frogs and insects can be deafening i…
My Thoughts On Being Zapped By Bigfoot
There's a lot of talk, or should I say whispers, about bigfoot "zapping" people. It is something that has happened in one form or the other to several, if not quite a few, people in the bigfoot community.
So what is "zapping" exactly? Why is it a taboo subject? If we're really seeking the truth about these creatures, shouldn't we be open minded to any and all possibilities.
Well, no, not exactly. But I'll get to that later. Right now our focus is zapping. What is it, and is it something to be concerned with? I guess it would all depend on who you ask.
There are no experts on zapping, but since I have experienced the phenomenon myself,(which you can read about by clicking here) I feel I can adequately speak on the subject.
First thing is first. When speaking about "zapping" we must first learn what is considered as being "zapped". The true definition in my opinion is being in an area where you believe there may be bigfoot in clos…
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Punjab send Kolkata to depths of despair by CricketArchive Staff Reporter
Scorecard: Kolkata Knight Riders v Kings XI Punjab
Player: BJ Hodge, DPMD Jayawardene, SM Katich, S Sohal
Event: Indian Premier League 2009
DateLine: 3rd May 2009
Four dropped catches in the first few overs saw Kings XI Punjab scrape through to 154 off the last ball of their innings, in the process, inflicting another defeat on Kolkata Knight Riders. This win takes Kings XI Punjab to the second slot on the points table.
The Punjab team needed 18 to win off the last two overs with Irfan Pathan and Mahela Jayawardene in the middle, but a couple of rank bad deliveries by Ishant Sharma in the penultimate over made the task very easy as the batting side then needed only seven to win off the last over.
Just seeing the way Ajit Agarkar bowled the last over, the match could have been much more tighter had he got more runs to bowl at.
Chasing a target of 154, Kings XI Punjab lost Kumar Sangakkara in the very first over for a duck but they did not let it hamper their run-chase as Sunny Sohal (25) and Simon Katich (34) quickly got into the repair act. Both of them having been dropped very early in their innings.
After these two got out, Mahela Jayawardene (52) and captain Yuvraj Singh (14) took over from where they has left. The duo adopted a cautious policy and then slowly but steadily started working towards taking their team closer to the victory target.
KKR did get a little glimpse of hope when Ishant Sharma claimed the wicket of captain Yuvraj Singh. He had him caught at the deep cover boundary where Brad Hodge took a simple one.
But after his dismissal, Jayawardene and Irfan Pathan made sure there were no further hiccups and the team went through the process of finishing the match in a composed manner. Though the pair could finish the game in the last ball, it must be said that the Punjab side outplayed Kolkata almost throughout the chase.
McCullum though would be very disappointed with his bowlers as 153 on that slow surface was looking more than competitive, but every time the Punjab side needed, there were a couple of boundary balls to relieve the pressure.
Earlier, batting first after winning the toss, Kolkata Knight Riders compiled a decent looking 153 off their twenty overs, courtesy a second consecutive half century by Brad Hodge (70).
KKR openers Chris Gayle (17) and Brendon McCullum (19) got the team off to a slow start. After a cautious beginning, Chris Gayle started to come into his own. Playing his last game of the tournament, the burly opener hit a couple of boundaries off Irfan Pathan. He was looking dangerous but just then Yusuf Abdulla struck and got the Kings XI Punjab their first breakthrough sending the Windies skipper back.
Thereafter, Brad Hodge (70) and McCullum moved at snail's speed and managed to score only fifty odd runs in 10 overs. McCullum especially, was moving at ultra slow pace. He was looking totally out of touch and it must be said that captaincy has taken a toll on the flamboyant New Zealand wicketkeeper.
When McCullum got out, the Knight Riders were in real trouble. However, Hodge and Sourav Ganguly increased the momentum a tad bit and managed to hit a few big ones to take the team's total past the three figure mark in the 16th over. Ganguly (22) holed out to Sangakkara off the bowling of Piyush Chawla trying to heave him over the boundary.
Hodge though had his plans set all along. He opened up in the last couple of overs and alongside Morne van Wyk (18) added 48 runs in the last four overs. Irfan Pathan came under some serious hammering with his last over costing him and his side 21 runs that included three boundaries and a last ball six from the willow of van Wyk.
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PMDC Rewards – Students to pay more after PMDC rewards private colleges for their good performance
By Our Staff Reporter
ISLAMABAD – The recent notice for grading of institutions by Pakistan Medical and Dental Council (PMDC) reference PID (1) 775/15 has graded colleges as category A and B. The category A colleges have been prompted to increase annual tuition fees by seven per cent for the students getting admission to private medical and dental colleges, thus making it beyond the reach of a common man.
These decisions were taken in the 139th session of the council held recently. In a public notice PMDC set mandatory grading requirements. They decided to categorize the recognized Medical & Dental Colleges as A & B. Medical Colleges who have made the list are the ones with 500 bedded own Teaching Hospital, latest treatment facility including MRI & CT Scan and a Nursing College.
All others who lack the aforementioned facilities are placed in category B. The meeting also decided that to let category A Private Sector Medical and Dental colleges raise their fees to Rs. 700.000.
As for the standalone Dental Colleges the ones with 60 bedded own teaching hospital have been graded as category A with liberty to increase the fee. The council after reviewing its 2013 regulations directed the colleges to implement the new fees from 2015-16 sessions onwards. This will affect more than 6000 students across Pakistan but who cares.
“No medical and dental institution training for MBBS/BDS in the private sector shall charge tuition fee more than 600,000 per annum per student,” the 2013 regulations read.
Interestingly one of the oldest private dental college in Sindh which until recently was marked in red with admissions stopped has now been graded as category A. Sources told Dental News that the letter issued to them by PM&DC has also been retracted stating that it was sent inadvertently.
With this decision it is expected that the tuition fees to the tune of Rs100,000will be increased per student for category ‘A’ private colleges. Similarly, category ‘B’ colleges would charge each student Rs42,000 as incremental annual tuition fees.
Students reacted to the development with anger and shock, in a recent statement by the Pakistan Medical Student Council (PMSC) they referred to PMDC as “private medical and dental council”.
PM&DC is silent on payments other than tuition fee like students pay university examination fees, taxes, hostel fees, transport fees and the one-time admission fee under the PMDC regulations. Some private colleges are charging Rs 200,000 as non-refundable admission fees and there is no stopping.
PMDC Registrar has categorically said that the council had increased the tuition fees to facilitate those medical and dental colleges which showed good performance. It seems no Public sector medical or dental college came upto the standards of PM&DC as none of them were rewarded.
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Justice Department urges Supreme Court to throw out Nebraska/Oklahoma lawsuit
Thanks to Tom Angell for the info:
This is regarding the lawsuit against Colorado by those states, because they feel harmed by the cost of having to arrest people in their own states for possessing marijuana.
Brief for the United States as Amicus Curiae
The motion for leave to file a bill of complaint should be denied because this is not an appropriate case for the exercise of this Court’s original jurisdic-tion. Entertaining the type of dispute at issue here—essentially that one State’s laws make it more likely that third parties will violate federal and state law in another State—would represent a substantial and unwarranted expansion of this Court’s original jurisdiction.
December 16th, 2015 by Pete | Permalink
34 comments to Justice Department urges Supreme Court to throw out Nebraska/Oklahoma lawsuit
claygooding
I was reading about this earlier and it supports the DOJ’s claim that it was not unconstitutional for states to end marijuana prohibition.
Whether the SC listens to the DOJ is still up in the air because according to the history of this court they don’t follow the constitution much either.
But it muddies up the water even more on why they refuse to reschedule cannabis,,and makes taxpayers look like fools for funding the DEA and local law enforcement to keep on busting marijuana users.
Tony Aroma
Both Oklahoma and Nebraska have an initiative process. I’d like to know, if the citizens in one or both of those states legalize marijuana, would they sue themselves and/or each other?
Duncan20903
Did you know that some OK State Republicans wrote a letter to the OK AG urging him to withdraw this hypocritical meadow muffin of a lawsuit back in January? I filed this one in the “don’t you have to at least graduate from law school to get elected AG?” category:
Some Oklahoma state lawmakers oppose pot lawsuit against Colorado
Cite the importance of states’ rights
Some Oklahoma lawmakers are asking the state’s attorney general to drop his lawsuit against Colorado — and the state representatives and senators are saying they might join Colorado as defendants if the U.S. Supreme Court takes the case.
“This is not about the legalization of marijuana,” said Republican state Rep. Mike Ritze, who wrote a stern, three-page letter to the state’s Attorney General Scott Pruitt.
“It’s about states’ rights.”
/snip/
Ritze, who leads the Oklahoma House’s public health committee and is a state-certified surgeon and physician, delivered the letter to Pruitt’s office on New Year’s Eve with the signatures of six other state lawmakers.
The letter said Oklahoma’s “lawsuit against Colorado is the wrong way to deal with the issue” primarily because of its potential implications “for states’ rights, the Tenth Amendment and the ability of states and citizens to govern themselves as they see fit.”
Oklahoma has an initiative being signed now for MMJ out of Duncan,OK with the TV news reporting it and telling citizens where to go if they want to sign the petitions,,and a Tulsa,OK group is starting a signature drive for a legalization initiative.
So it is happening,,even in a state where they roll they’re joints all wrong,,they are way too skinny and too damn long.
I had high hopes for the Cherokee,Comanche,Apache and the Choctaw nations but apparently the feds raiding other tribes has snuffed that out,,and the DEA asking for more money for seizure cases may be so they can try to take tribal lands,,these basturds are evil and they speak only with a forked tongue.
Mr_Alex
If anybody wants to see Linda Taylor, hahahahahaha:
http://youtu.be/an7neQrpc94
She looks like a whale
Wow, she must have gotten off parole for that aggravated ugly in public felony conviction. I wonder, is she actually aware of the potential criminal liability now that she’s a 3 time loser? For the love of humanity, let’s all chip in and buy that woman a burqa!!
(Does anyone know how the heck the women who wear burqas get a driver’s license, cash a check or make a withdrawal at the bank?)
Since we’re on the subject of truly disgusting whales for your viewing pleasure, here’s a four minute twenty second compilation of dead whales exploding:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJD8MT1Jfs8
Alex, next time you talk w/ Randy Philbrick, ask how much he’s receiving in Anti-Drug Community Grant money…
he already blocked me on FB, Twitter and even the SAM Oregon page
Mr_Alex, I think you may be encroaching on surpassing DdC’s record for getting kicked out of and banned from more venues than any activist on the Internet. (I’m smiling as I write that.)
Minging
He’s still working at Pizza hut.
Have you done anything about that yet?
kaptinemo
The fact that it got this far is just one more example of just how loopy the American justice system has gotten. If anything, these suits were perfect illustrations of the term, ‘frivolous’.
So, now, the citizens of OK and NE must pay for this enormously stupid and egregious waste of their taxpayer dollars by their public-servants-who-would-be-their-masters. For that is exactly what the aims of these suits were, plain and simple: an unwarranted power-grab on the part of those self, same ‘servants’. A tissue-paper thin disguise for a gambit to undermine the democratic process.
Time to fit these goons with tighter collars, and shorter leashes. They’ve already demonstrated their contempt for the very process which they were entrusted to protect. I wouldn’t trust them to be dog-catchers, much less cops and AG’s.
Obviously, their Oaths to ‘preserve and protect’ the Constitution and its Bill of Rights were only mumbled in order to gain a paycheck. They should be made to swear that Oath again, loudly, publicly, line by line, with a reminder where in the Oath they abrogated their pledges, in shame for what they have tried to do…or face termination.
B. Snow
There’s two things at hand here,
One = they couldn’t prove how much greater the use/possesion would be due to the other states’ laws – It would also force them to come up with a number of how much $$ they’re already wasting, on attempting to enforce these laws and failing… Long before Colorado and Washington, changed their laws.
Second = This argument/logic could be turned against them by other States (California, Illinois, New York, etc.) – In their current attempts to federalize gun control laws.
“We can’t get rid of guns in our state = because people go to the next state or two over and purchase them legally in those states & then bring them back to our would be Utopia…”
The – “If it weren’t for those *Meddling Citizens* who are serious about their right to own guns = aka a variant of the Scooby-Doo villian’s standard Trope, you hear them whining at the end of basically every episode.
No Nanny-Staters Tolerated, Period = End of statement…
“These aren’t the drugs, guns, or droids your looking for, we don’t need to see your license/registration/insurance, Move Along, move along…”
Actually, violating that oath of office is a REAL federal felony, they SHOULD be arrested, charged, and tried and convicted in a court of law, then go to prison!
Servetus
The Nebraska/Oklahoma lawsuit is meritless. It never had a chance. Even as symbolism, or political theater, it sucked. A far better lawsuit is making its way up the chain, one that should send shivers down any prohibitionist’s spineless back.
The U.S. Second Circuit Court of Appeals is opening a path to sue former federal officials for how they conducted the “war on drugs” by currently opening a path to sue them for their use of torture and false imprisonment on terrorism suspects in their “war on terror”:
Dec. 14, 2015 — For almost a decade and a half, the people behind the Bush administration’s shameful treatment of terrorism suspects have avoided punishment for their crimes, but that may be about to change.
The courts have had their say and have ruled that former Bush administration officials can, in fact, be sued for how they conducted the “war on terror.”
The Second Circuit Court of Appeals made that pretty much official on Friday when it refused to hear a challenge to its earlier ruling in the case of Turkmen v. Ashcroft. That case, sparked by a civil rights lawsuit filed by the Center for Constitutional Rights, involves hundreds of Arab, Muslim or South Asian men who were detained and then abused by our government in the weeks following 9/11.
In the matter of The People versus Robert L. DuPont, William J. Bennett, John Walters, Peter Bensinger, Joe Biden, et al., the future defendants could face interesting times.
http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/34032-court-rules-bush-administration-can-be-sued-for-war-on-terror-conduct
Any wonder why Lil’ Georgie high-tailed it to Paraguay as soon as he could? Economic reason aside, for the same reasons a lot of former Nazis did.
Good golly, the sycophants of prohibition must have done something extrastupid to get Mr. Murphy so pixxed off. Not only Murphy but they just had to push the envelope and now Morton’s corollary is giving them a beat down with a silly stick.
Hey, that means that it’s time for the latest episode of “Dueling Headlines”
The case for marijuana legalization just got stronger
Washington Post-17 hours ago
Fresh Data Shows No Increase In Teen Marijuana Use After …
Daily Caller-11 hours ago
Legalizing marijuana not a factor in increased teen use, federal …
SFGate (blog)
Are new laws leading more teens to smoke marijuana?
Christian Science Monitor-13 hours ago
“Never let the facts stand in the way of disseminating an effective piece of hysterical rhetoric”
Do you have any idea why a marginal decrease in youth rates of cannabis consumption could be leading more teens smoke marijuana? Well neither do I but the Christian Science Monitor says it’s because all of the youth use rates for the other popular names on the Federal naughty list had healthy reductions in their respective rates. Since cannabis rates held steady that means that youth consumption has increase. I bullshit you not so go figure that one out. If you succeed in doing so please come back and ‘splain it to me.
Marijuana use is becoming more acceptable to Americans in general – and that includes teenagers.
The shift was highlighted in a 2015 “Monitoring the Future” survey, which found teen use of pot has held steady in the last year even as abuse of most other drugs has declined among teens. At the same time, the survey indicates, teens are showing less concern about the dangers of marijuana use. The survey, published Wednesday by the National Institutes of Health, was conducted by researchers at the University of Michigan.
Pretzel Logic — Steely Dan
I stepped up on the platform
The man gave me the news
He said, You must be joking son
Where did you get those shoes?
Since we’re going to buy Linda Taylor a burqa, shouldn’t we chip in a to buy the other “elite” prohibitionist parasites a present? Just in the spirit of fair play? How would everyone feel about giving them dunce caps?
The Making of a Narco Terrorist (cartoon graphics illustrate five different drug cases, each allegedly terrorist linked):
Five criminals in far-flung parts of the world, five D.E.A. sting operations, five dubious links between drugs and terror. The characters are different but the story remains the same. Authorities said each case demonstrated alliances between terrorists and drug traffickers, but most of the alleged links fell apart in court. Here’s how narco-terrorism cases are made.*
http://projects.propublica.org/graphics/narco?utm_source=et&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=dailynewsletter&utm_content=&utm_name=
*By Ginger Thompson, ProPublica, Susie Cagle, special to ProPublica, and Lena Groeger, ProPublica, December 15, 2015.
Gurney Halleck (@GurneyHalleck85)
Article on Vox arguing for legalization of marijuana but which also substantively gives support to the position of prohibitionists. The take away is to make the reader more cautious and fearful of legalization, IMO:
http://www.vox.com/2015/12/17/10413134/marijuana-legalization-surveys
The DNC just suspended Bernie Sanders access too their voting data because an employee accessed Hillary’s files while the firewall was down,,which sounds sort of like a woman saving a cum stained dress for 2 years.
Bernie Sanders reported the breach and fired the employee,,which I believe was a plant,,and the DNC realizing that their propaganda polls were not fooling the public about Hillary leading the campaign had to do something or face all those rich contributors wanting their money back or never backing another (D).
This has got to have Wasserman-Schultz’s finger prints on it. Also, in other news of corrupt Dems, why are the msm so quiet about Rahm Emanuel’s oversight of the Laquan Macdonald shooting and the attempted cover-up? Couldn’t be anything to do with his closeness to Hillary, could it?
http://www.vox.com/2015/12/17/10423744/rahm-emanuel-resignation-chicago-mayor
http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/rahm-emanuels-catastrophic-downfall-why-it-should-be-much-bigger-deal-hillary
The “MSM” has been anything but quite IMO (based on MSNBC *much less partisan with Andy Lack back in charge* & CNN hasn’t skipped the story either… it’s far from over though.
IMHO there’s not all that much there there to legally blame on Rahm himself just yet though. That council/board who decides its cheaper to settle than go to court, was ostensibly making those decisions For the most part.
Did Rahm Emanuel *know* whwt was up?Probably, I’m sure he had a general idea = But did the political move of not watching the film personally = T keep some degree of plausible deniability.
I’m no fan of Rahm & that shooting AND police misconduct in Chicago are fraked up something fierce – its been that way since the beginning – not something that you -just fix- with corruption though. Will they ever manage to do so? IDK but It’ll take time -thsy just may actually start working on it (again) now.
The Democratic Party has had a long history of that sort of thing, the same kind of illegal procedural machinations as the Repubs did recently to Congressman Ron Paul.
In 1964, the Dems essentially shut out challengers to the Elite-controlled Party ‘machine’ in order to prevent what they called a ‘radical’ take-over by its base…essentially what the present-day Repubs are facing today, in the form of the schism between the Elite machine and the ‘base’ (many of whom joined the Tea Party) comprising many who see that Elite as self-serving and not in line with their values.
It’s getting ever harder to hide the heavy hand of the de facto political Elite’s influence in the political process any more, largely thanks to the Internet. Just as with drug law reform, the Internet allows one to ‘connect the dots’ of the hidden facts with the public face, providing a view of the (in the original meaning of the word) occulted dimensions of policy and politics.
Bernie Sanders Campaign Threatens Legal Action Against DNC
Sanders takes Democratic officials to court over campaign data breach
So Hilary “ask” Lil Debbie Wasserface to block Sanders, then find out if he did something wrong. Or if something actually happened.
“We are asking that the Sanders campaign and the DNC work expeditiously to ensure that our data is not in the Sanders campaign’s account,”
Clinton campaign spokesman Brian Fallon
His campaign had acted in an “inappropriate, unacceptable” manner and had downloaded the information.
CNN interview: DNC Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz
defended the punishment against Sanders.
“To get to the bottom of it we are going to ask the Sanders campaign to participate in an independent audit,” she said. “I hope they will agree to that.”
Stu Trevelyan, chief executive officer of DNC software vendor NGP VAN, acknowledged the breach in a statement but said his company is not aware of any previous reported incidents of data being “inappropriately available.” He called the breach a “brief isolated issue” that was fixed and is now being reviewed.
Sanders supporters were outraged by the DNC’s response to the breach.
Lil Debbie Wasserface…thinks it’s okay for medical marijuana patients to go to federal prison.
Debbie’s damage control
A top Democratic donor claims the DNC chair offered to switch positions on medical pot if he took back his criticism.
The proposal to Orlando trial lawyer John Morgan was straightforward: retract critical statements he made to a reporter in return for Wasserman Schultz publicly backing his cannabis initiative that she had trashed just months earlier. Morgan declined the offer with a sharp email reply sent to a go-between, who described the congresswoman as being in a “tizzy.”
Should Democrats Demand That Debbie Wasserman Schultz Step Down?
Pro-pot group says Debbie Wasserman Schultz repeatedly voted to send sick patients to prison.
That is one butt ugly woman and she doesn’t even TRY to make herself look like a human.
How the DNC Just Sabotaged Bernie Sanders’ Campaign
in One Devastating Move
Debbie Wasserman Schultz: Give the voter file back to Bernie Sanders’ campaign
We demand that DNC chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz immediately reinstate the Bernie Sanders campaign’s access to the DNC’s 50-state voter file, which is crucial for voter outreach in the last weeks before the first Democratic caucuses. Shutting down Sanders’ tools to reach voters is an infringement on democracy.
Why Did the DNC Let the Bernie-Hillary Tech Story Leak?
A better question: Would it have leaked if the roles were reversed?
Sanders regains access to voter files after bitter fight over data breach
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders regained access to crucial voter files on Friday after taking the Democratic National Committee to court and accusing party leaders of trying to undermine his White House bid and help rival Hillary Clinton.
I know it’s only decriminalization but I feel a song coming on ..
Oh, what did Della smoke boy
What did Della smoke?
What did Della smoke boy
She smoked a big fat doobie
Thats what she did smoke
One, two, three, four
http://tinyurl.com/z6qrxg8
Thanks to JayB for this one, you knew he’d havta get his $.02 in yah?
https://learnaboutsam.org/press-statement-on-doj-amicus-brief-to-supreme-court/
Commerce Kevi, Savedior of all brainless badges, corporate ho’s, and religionist twits. Justifying a trillion dollars to eradicate a weed people will gladly remove for free. Some even pay taxes on it. Instead of sucking needed funds for the basics to maintain a country. Leeches sucking the life out of the sick children. A multi-billion dollar smear campaign to ruin Americans lives. Disgusting domestic war crime.
Constant fear hovering over patients and those seeking alternatives to booze or the side effects of fat pharma. Is defined as domestic terrorism. You make a whole lot of people suffer and despise anything associated with the stain you’ve put on this country. Sneaky, Conniving, lying weasels should not be near anyone writing policy. Go away pest, prince of mosquito’s.
Federal, not state. Not enforcing is not “legalizing”. So nothing has changed. Colorado could sue Nebraska and Oklahoma with the same charges. Same game drug worrier profiteers play with the CSA. How’s it feel having your own bogus Prohibition used against you oh ignoble worm casting?
Left him a message in the comment section, it will never be posted in the comments as he won’t want anyone else to see it, but he will, heh heh heh! Told him he’s not credible, now that we now about his connection with the Semblers and with ONDCP still illegally funding him, and said no one is going to listen to his prohibitch ass any more. Just two sentences gonna get his BP up, maybe he’ll blow up like an overfilled balloon.
kaptineo
He considers preserving the remaining shreds of the separation of powers, so vital to our democracy, as being ‘hype’. Does this help illustrate the Inner Dictator that most prohibs have buried within them?
Truly, they are as Nietzsche described them. They have fought with monsters (of their own making) for so long, they have become what they fought, and they have looked so long into the abyss (again, of their own making), that that is all that’s left, an abyss within themselves. The fanatic truly does redouble efforts after forgetting the original aims. They really do ‘burn the village in order to save it’.
Prohibs are exactly like what Justice Brandeis described: those for whom government is an impediment on their road to ‘well meaning’ dictatorial power, to be wielded (supposedly, of course) for our benefit.
“Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government’s purposes are beneficent. Men born to freedom are naturally alert to repel invasion of their liberty by evil-minded rulers. The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in the insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning but without understanding.” (Emphasis min – k.)
Given Kevvie’s jetting hither and yon, he’s definitely a dictionary illustration of a ‘man of zeal, without understanding’ of the damage he has helped cause.
Prohibs do not understand – or choose not to understand – that the reason why our present form of government is such a mess is because it has slipped the bonds of those ‘checks-and-balances’ the Founders created to prevent precisely the problem that they have benefited so immensely from.
The so-called ‘Progressive Era’ of the first 2 decades of the last century, during which national drug prohibition was first deployed, ran roughshod over our supposedly unalienable rights, leading to the vast and largely unaccountable government that we presently ‘enjoy’. The same one whose agents kill children in order to ‘save’ them from drugs.
More documents prove Kevin Sabet is a liar, on google search when you type in DFAF (Drug Free America Foundation) Kevin Sabet, the 2007 and 2008 PDF file on google search turns up bu won’t display, by clicking on cached, these turn up, Kevin Sabet is listed in these documents:
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:qmV2P12o9QAJ:dfaf.org/assets/docs/dfaf_annualreport_2007.pdf+&cd=3&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=nz&client=aff-maxthon-maxthon4
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:bf2R6Q5PBl0J:dfaf.org/assets/docs/dfaf_annualreport_2008.pdf+&cd=3&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=nz
I was looking up information on 2016 ballot initiatives and found the abbreviation “IndICA” for Indirect initiated constitutional amendment humorous.
https://ballotpedia.org/Michigan_2016_ballot_measures
and ummm… were you uh, smoking any weed at the time of that find? Just sayin’…
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Home \ New Zealand Navy Signs Contract with Devon-Based DTM Global
New Zealand Navy Signs Contract with Devon-Based DTM Global
The Royal New Zealand Navy has placed an order with Totnes software company DTM Global following a six month tender and evaluation process.
The deal comes just weeks after the US Air Force placed a second order with DTM Global after using ‘Insight’, an innovative product aimed at reducing the risk of ‘friendly fire’ in battle.
The Royal New Zealand Navy will install DTM Global’s Fleetman Fleetwork Simulation Trainer*, which is a family of computer-based naval trainers designed to exploit the full power of modern PCs, at its Maritime Warfare Training Centre, in Auckland, next month.
DTM Global supplies off-the-shelf and bespoke simulation, training and cutting edge real-time 3D visualisation software products such as Fleetman and Insight, as well as fully integrated ‘turnkey’ simulation solutions, to clients across the world.
Fleetman enables the running of simulation exercises using a mix of ships, submarines, helicopters and aircraft. Students, or groups of students, may be assigned to different platforms within the exercise over a workstation network. Real-time software is used so that, if one student manoeuvres their platform, all other students in the exercise will see the manoeuvre as it is carried out. Fleetman has been in service with the UK Royal Navy Maritime Warfare Schools and waterfront learning centres since 2004.
DTM Global’s upturn in sales coincides with a further round of funding from the Finance South West Growth Fund. Finance South West, which closed for new applications for investment in December, is an £18 million investment fund that provided commercial finance from £10,000 up to £1 million for buying, selling, starting or growing a business in the Objective Two area of the South West. Finance South West invested over £15million in over 100 businesses in the region.
Chris Notman Smith from DTM Global said: “We are obviously delighted and very excited that the Royal New Zealand Navy has selected DTM Global for its Fleetman software and the team very much looks forward to working with them in the future.”
Chris Burt, Business Fund Manager for Finance South West, said: “We were happy to increase our investment in such a forward-thinking and successful company as DTM Global, which has an increasingly impressive client base, and we look forward to playing a significant part in its continuing success.”
DTM Global worked on the deal in partnership with New Zealand-based AAL (Training and Systems Solutions for Defence).
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Métiers et compétences
Evaluation of Research Careers fully acknowledging Open Science Practices
Rewards, incentives and/or recognition for researchers practicing Open Science - July 2017
Publié le 1er septembre 2017, par Thérèse Hameau
Open Science represents an approach to research that is collaborative, transparent and accessible1. There are a wide range of activities that come under the umbrella of Open Science that include open access publishing, open data, open peer review and open research. It also includes citizen science, or more broadly, stakeholder engagement, where non specialists engage directly in research. Open Science goes hand in hand with research integrity and requires legal and ethical awareness on the part of researchers. A driver for Open Science is improving the transparency and validity of research as well as in regards to public ownership of science, particularly that which is publicly funded.
Researchers across Europe already practise Open Science to some extent through, for example, open access to their publications. Some already provide open data, engage in open peer review, and stakeholder engagement or citizen science. Researchers advance in their career through assessment and this is the key factor to ensure that Open Science becomes mainstream. The exclusive use of bibliometric parameters as proxies for excellence in assessment by most funding agencies and universities/research organisations does not facilitate Open Science. Researchers’ engagement in Open Science will increase through encouragement and incentives from employers and funders through assessment.
The Open Science Working Group on Rewards/Recognition was created with the mandate (approved by the Open Science Policy Platform) to make recommendations in order that all researchers in Europe are recognised and rewarded for practising Open Science.
The following tasks were taken on :
Promote a discussion with stakeholders on the current reputation system in the context of the standing ERAC groups and the Open Science Policy Platform (OSPP) which will work on the concretisation of a European Open Science Agenda ;
Within the OS environment, reflect about and propose alternative methods to recognise contributions to OS, including ’rewards and incentives’ taking into account diversity in experience and career paths, while guaranteeing fair and equal career development of individual scientists ;
Propose new ways/standards of evaluating research proposals and research outcomes taking into consideration all OS activities of researchers, possibly recommending to pilot them under certain calls of Horizon 2020 ;
Identify existing good practices on how OS issues are already taken up by researchers, research performing institutions and research funding institutions in Europe.
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The Hyundai Origin Myth Revealed: There’s A Ford In Your Pony
David Saunders
– July 1, 2011
Most people in the US would tell you the Excel was the first Hyundai model. They’d be wrong. Most people in Canada would say that it is in fact the rear wheel drive Pony. They’d also be wrong. The Pony that came to Canada was actually the second generation of the Pony. Before that Hyundai built European Ford licensed cars. Hyundai got its automobile start in 1967 by building the Ford Cortina and Taunus under license. These Ford licensed cars were actually built right up until 1976.
A few years later Hyundai decided to develop their own car. The first step was to recruit George Turnbull who had recently left British Leyland. Turnbull immediately hired a few good men (Kenneth Barnett, John Simpson, Edward Chapman, John Crosthwaite and Peter Slater) from Britain. Turnbull also bought with him a pair of Morris Marinas to examine. The result was not a direct copy of the Marina but the unibody structure was very similar while the suspension was very similar to the Ford Cortina: MacPherson strut front suspension and a leaf sprung live rear axle.
In fact the rear axle is identical to the MkII Cortina which I exploited when I was building a Lotus Seven clone and found a low mileage Pony axle in the scrapyard. Mitsubishi overhead cam four cylinder engines of 1.2L or 1.4L and transmissions where used to complete the drivetrain. The styling was done by Giorgetto Giugiaro of Italdesign in Italy. An interesting side bar is the Hyundai Pony Coupé concept car (below) of 1974 also by Italdesign which was meant to raise the profile of Hyundai and their upcoming Pony on which it was based.
The Pony (below) was revealed to the world at the October 1974 Turin Motor Show. Starting in 1975 the Pony was sold only in the home market but then also overseas in 1976. The year 1978 was when the Pony was introduced to various European markets and by 1981 had found its way to the UK. By this time the Pony was offered in a variety of body styles from three and five door hatchbacks, pickup and station wagon.
The MkII Pony came about for 1982 and it was a mostly a styling update that brought it into the 80s with integrated impact bumpers, square headlamps, and a plastic grill. Body styles where reduced to just a five door hatchback with a two door pickup in available in some markets.
In 1984 Hyundai brought the Pony to Canada where it was a hit in the low priced segment populated previously by East European cars. There were a few changes for the Canadian market like beefier bumpers and the use of sealed beam headlights instead of the flush lights. Sadly only the four door body style was offered. While mechanically crude in many ways with manual choke, points ignition and live axle it became Canada’s bestselling car that year.
A cut rate price Chevrolet Chevette is probably an accurate comparison. Canada never did get the 1.2L engine but started off with the 70hp 1.4L engine paired with four speed manual or a five speed manual in higher trim levels and optional three speed automatic. All Ponys had front disc and rear drum brakes.
In 1985 a 74hp 1.6L engine from the larger Stellar became available and with the bigger capacity engine A/C was offered for the first time. This 1.6L engine had seen duty in Mitsubishi Colts and its Mopar branded siblings of the 70s. I had a Hyundai Stellar with the 1.6L and five speed combination and while no performance dynamo it was quite an agreeable combination.
Trim lines included L, GL and GLS. The L being base with GL offering five speed transmission, uprated trim, tinted windows, clock, rear wiper/washer. GLS added even better trim including cloth seats and a AM/FM/tape stereo. Power steering available as an extra as well as A/C (with the 1.6L). Dealer add-ons included rear window louvers, air dams, spoilers, and fog lamps. Canadian sales went right through 1987 with it even being sold side by side with the front wheel drive Excel for a time. The early cars can be identified by the “HD” logo on the grill with later ones (after mid 1985) with the Hyundai lettering on the driver’s side of the grill.
The Pony was never sold in the US due to its inability of meeting emission standards. The US market Excel was initially going to be called the Hyundai Pony Excel but the Pony name was dropped before the first US sales. In Europe the Excel replaced the Pony and even continued with the Pony name. South Korea was the last market to offer the classic Pony and sales finally ended in 1990.
Sadly it is rare to see a Pony on the street these days. This local one has a very whimsical Mario Kart theme.
Out East rust killed them off very quickly. Simple neglect and lack of value killed them off in the West. Mechanically they seemed to be more robust than the Excel that followed. I’m more likely to see one in the scrapyard than on the road and even those spottings are slowing down.
Nice history. I know many of the current Chinese manufacturers are going to have histories like this in my lifetime. (Currently making old versions of VW ect then invade North America with their own cars.)
I was always confused by the Hyundai Pony as a kid cause the most stripped down Escort was known as the “pony” also.
excellent history. i’ve been to korea and there are virtually no survivors there. i was very excited to see a 1980s hyundai grandeur on the street and the koreans with me thought i was nuts.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:20101003_hyundai_grandeur_001.jpg
I visited Toronto on business in ’91, and saw scads of these things on the road. Since they had never been sold in the States, at first I didn’t know what in the world they were, but I could tell they were popular.
A closer look revealed that they were Hyundai Ponies, which actually befuddled me even further. I was familiar with the U.S. Excel, but these obviously didn’t share that platform. I vaguely knew that Hyundai had Mitsubishi DNA, and concluded (from the angular front end and square eggcrate grille) that it was some kind of sedan conversion of the concurrent MItsubishi pickup–like a reverse Ranchero.
Think about it before you laugh at me–there is some resemblance….
Posted April 21, 2014 at 12:14 PM
I saw a Pony on the road in southern California with Canadian plates in the mid-90s. Given the horrendous reputation of the Excel I couldn’t imagine how clunky its predecessor must have been.
I don’t know what the rules are on allowing cars-that-don’t-meet-US-regulations to enter from Canada or Mexico, are they prohibited or is it OK for visiting vehicles that aren’t registered in the US?
I recall in the late 70s when Russian Ladas were sold in Canada there was a policy, or at least a rumor, that US customs prohibited driving them across the border, but don’t know if that was based on its regulatory noncompliance or just an unofficial exercise of Cold War spite.
zykotec
It’s quite an incredible succes story , given both the Taunus/Cortina and the Marina’s reputation in Europe. Allthough the Taunus/Cortina range sold in millions, I don’t think even us enthusiasts will ever claim they were neither refined or reliable, allthough easy to work on. (they had to be, if they were ever going to last more than a year 🙂 )
Most japanese manufacturers started out the same way btw, but I guess most people are aware of that now.
I believe the Cortina had a fine reputation. The Marina on the other hand …
I am not sure that the Cortina had such a great reputation. They seemed to be sort of brittle, as many british cars were back then. My boyscout master had a 69 or so Cortina wagon. I thought it was one of the most attractive small wagons ever, but it gave him no end of trouble. By the time the car was 2 years old, one wiper had broken off, the shift lever had snapped off so that he had to shift it with vice grips, and the hydraulic clutch leaked enough fluid that if you did not drive the car for a few days, it needed a complete fill and a hundred pumps of the pedal to get the clutch back. I loved the car, but I am glad I did not have to pay for the upkeep. On the other hand, I can’t imagine the Hyundai version being worse.
Those old MK2 Cortinas were good cars the Lotus version was discontinued as Lotus discovered OHC Vauxhall engines instead of the Ford Kent but these things were very popular and fairly durable NZ even had its own model the GTE worth huge bucks if you can find one now sounds like your scout guy severly neglected his one as the problems are only minor and easy repairs I didnt even realise thesemade it to the states
Posted August 10, 2013 at 11:59 PM
The first car I owned was 1964 Ford Cortina “Estate car” (station wagon). I went on to own a 68 sedan which I later sold to my future wife to buy a 1967 wagon. I also owned a 1969 wagon. Sometime after the 1967 wagon, I worked in an auto repair shop near Washington, D.C. that specialized in British Fords (Anglia and Cortina, principally), Capris and Japanese imports. If a wiper comes off of your car, you get it fixed. If the shift lever snaps off it may be due to an early implementation of a Gov’t mandated snap-off safety feature. You get it fixed. If the clutch hydraulics leak, it’s because the seals are worn out. You get it fixed. These cars had their characteristic failures as most cars do, and every car is different, but they were very rugged, well-designed and reliable if the modest maintenance needs were addressed with reasonable care. These cars were raced with a great deal of success in Europe and America and were among the largest selling cars of their type in their time.
Lornel
Posted January 22, 2015 at 12:20 PM
I rolled side over side 4-5 x according to the police officer in about a 1974 or older Cortina. There were 5 of us with no seatbelts crammed into that thing. Last thing I recall is my cousin saying “….and he switches into 5th” as we flew around a corner on a back country gravel road. Brilliant. We all survived, the Cortina did not.
The Pony and Stellar were fairly common sights in the Netherlands in 1984. The only time I can recall seeing a Pony in the US was when Jack Black did a belly flop on one, squashing it like a bug in ‘Saving Silverman.’
Riko77
I was in korea a lot in early ’70s, and remember well many ex-ford types employed in Ulsan designing the factory. Do not remember them being very optimistic for this endevor. At this epoch the koreans were mostly building Japanese cars under license.
But then in the mid-50s remember Toyota or maybe datsun making Renault 4cv.
Think of china and remember he who laughs last, laughs best.
The factory was built in an incredibly short period of time – a record for Ford at the time.
AteUpWithMotor
Interesting stuff. I didn’t know most of this.
I saw a Hyundai Stella yesterday but no camera that was the last Korean Cortina the Mk4 pretty rare now the engine was the weak link Ford Cortinas abound in Aoteroa plety of 2l pintos about The Marina was complete crap so they dodged a bullet there but the Marina ended up in China, poor bastards thats a shocking way to start a caR industry just ask Bmw and Nissan
Like many newly-wealthy societies, Koreans have little nostalgia for the time when they were poor. Hence, there amost no fond recollection of older consumer products, cars included. Only the latest and greatest counts here. Couple that with suspect early quality, lack of maintenance knowledge in the early years, and a taxation system that can impose a negative value on old vehicles. It’s little wonder that virtually nothing old survives here. I’ve seen perfectly good cars scrapped here just because they were out of style. This applies to furniture and electronics, too. Also, Korean culture dictates a complete change of furniture every time they move into a new residence.
Given time, an expat here can almost oufit thier apartment with what’s found in the street. Just make sure you do it at night!
Having said that, someone near me has undertaken the restoration of one of the above pictured Pony Pickups. It’s a painted a jaunty non-stock Lime Yellow-Green and i’ll try to shoot it and send it in.
WRT to the licence-built Fords. The folklore has it that the son of the Hyundai Chairman Chung Ju-Yung was killed behind the wheel of a Mark 2 (square lined) Granada-This led to him banishing the Ford-licensed cars in favor of thier own designs, although, as pointed out above, the Stellar was essentially a reskinned Cortina with a Mitsubishi engine.
And Stellar it werent Korean suspension tuning was pretty ordinary then too and crap tyres very basic cars
Korean suspension tuning still is, for the most part. I haven’t driven the Genesis, but generally, their cars are set on “Mush”.
I had a Daewoo Prince (Opel Senator-Holden Commodore genes)that ostensibly had Lotus tuning. Didn’t seem to help much.
The only decent handling car I had here was the Daewoo Lemans, a Kadett E built in the dark. Probably because it was early model , and the Koreans hadn’t a chance to monkey with the specs yet.
I attribute this tendency to local conditions of high congestion levels and low average speeds. High speed prowess just seems less important than a soft ride here.
The face lifted MkII Stellar is quite different from the Cortina – at least the front suspension as it changed over to use struts.
Ive spent some time turning wrenches under a Hyundai van lately very well made with a gruntyCRD engine these guys do seem to know what theyre doing now The have got away from the Misubishi crap they built for years and are doing their own thing and better than their Japanese tutors4, The worst by product would be Daewoo but the new Cruz seems ok so maybe they have their act tight too those old Lemans were awful quality wise assembled in the dark is correct.
Posted August 8, 2011 at 6:24 PM
OMG saw a mint Pony on Sunday no camera in car rare sight but they were here new
I am afraid that David Saunders’ premise that the Pony contained anything from the Cortina or the Marina is completely wrong.
As I was the Engineer responsible for developing the car, and making the original prototypes, I can tell him that the floorpan was developed from the Mitsubishi Lancer of that time, under licence from MMC.
The Lancer was at that time, a very successful Rally Car, yet we actually wore though the floor when using one as a comparator on Korean Roads, which at that time were very rough.
Guigiaro made one concept car, and my Korean Team and I made the next six cars by hand. We designed and developed the Pick-up too.
I am the only one of the original British Team still alive!
Further to another comment elsewhere about the Factory.
Ford had no part at all in building the Factory, it was built entirely by Hyundai Construction, and was to make 400k cars a year. This construction included Press Shop, Forging and machine shops, as well as the Production Lines
It was built on reclaimed land in the river estuary, and the Koreans virtually took down a local mountain for the hardcore necessary.
The first cars were coming down the line in 10 months, and at Production rate in 11, and we made every part of the car, except the glass and the tyres.
We also made 25km of Proving Ground.
Congrads for still being alive, but the “experts” imported to Ulsan for setting up the factory where Ford US men. Saw at least 30 or more of them. Never saw a brit, but was not looking for them either.
Most of the cars I saw on the road where Korean versions of Japanese models. Do not remember English like Fords being much around. Driving in that country was a real adventure. And getting an Olds around town mighty interesting. We had the only white car in a sea of black.
MrRWD
Lambda, Anyone know if Hyundai kept one of these prototypes.
It was supposed to be built on the floor pan of the Pony.
Guigiaro Desgin. Apparently, the Dolorean concept was based on this Pony concept car as well. You can see the lines.
If only the Pony looked like the prototype!!!
There are still a few Pony’s running around Canada. Rust usually got to them.
Most first time car owners never really took care of these cars.
More on the Guigiaro design.
gornzilla
When I was working in Korea last year, I toured a car museum and could only find a few old Korean cars. The Koreans I knew thought I was crazy for looking for old Korean cars. I’m crazy in plenty of ways, but didn’t see that one coming.
Scoutmaster
First place I ever saw a Pony was in, of all places, Costa Rica, where they were quite common as red-painted taxis (and the pick-up versions were plentiful, too) for some years in the late 90’s/early 2000’s. Fewer and fewer on each subsequent visit, as parts for any car are hard to come by there (so your car better be either plentiful or dependable). As of my last visit, almost no sightings (2004).
I have a Stellar 1.6GSL and it still works. Very basic by today’s standards but it always starts and now so rare
There are still quite a few good conditions Pony’s around the world.
At a Local Car Show.
Look at the condition!
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Hyundai-Pony-and-Classic-Hyundais/342351645864653
In a Hyundai Dealership currently.
Low Mileage Car.
Once owned by the president of Hyundai Canada.
Before that, it was owned by a little old lady. Dealer serviced.
More Pony’s
Still on the Road.
Fairly original 1.4L Base Model Pony. Sat for 8 Years and fired up and running again with little work.
stellarman
I had a 1990 Stellar 1.6 GLS until I sold it last year. Rear floorpan from Cortina, diff said “Pony” on it, Mitsubishi engine, electric windows, central locking, remote trunk and fuel opening, 5 speed box and lots more. A great package 20+ years ago
Benjamin Edge
Posted May 29, 2014 at 2:49 AM
Even if Hyundai sold this Pony here in the U.S., it, being rear wheel drive, would’ve seemed out of place against the likes of similar-looking hatchbacks as the Dodge Omni/Plymouth Horizon, the Mitsubishi Mirage and Dodge/Plymouth Colt, and the VW Golf, all of which were front-drive.
And even if the larger Stellar sold here (which we first got as the Sonata for 1989), because that was also rear-drive, its only real competition here would’ve been the BMW 500 series and the Mercedes 190 (W201) series, as the Nissan Maxima was front-drive since 1985.
Jed118
Power steering was never an option on these cars. Only Stellar 2.0s had that option (and it worked well, I had one for 10 years).
I remember the stellar had a lot of parts commonality with the mk3/4 Cortina. Suspension components would swop over between the two. That’s not much help these days, as Stellars are probably extinct by now.
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Curbside Classic: 1952 Buick Super – Hmmm, Decisions, Decisions . . .
– November 27, 2017
(first posted 11/26/2013) The early 1950s is commonly considered to be an era of dull conformity. This attitude bleeds through to American cars of those years. Everyone made cars that were the same shapes, with the same kinds of engines and transmissions and suspensions, and there just was not much variety there. Well, perhaps we should rethink this “conventional wisdom.”
Speaking from a mechanical standpoint, there was not all that much variation in the final years before the Second World War, and the sameness would reassert itself by the late 1950s. But that period within a few years either side of 1952 gave us some of the widest choices available in a generation.
Engine? You could get a modern, high performance V8 (Cadillac, Olds, Chrysler, Studebaker, Lincoln) or an old-school flathead V8 (Ford, Mercury). If you prefer an inline 8, you again have a choice of flathead (Pontiac, Packard) or overhead valve (Buick). Prefer a 6? Another choice to be had between an overhead valve (Chevrolet) and the venerable flathead (including the Hudson Hornet’s monster of a mill). There was even the unique Willys F head (here).
Transmission? Automatics were becoming all the rage, but again, there were several kinds. The four-gear HydraMatic was probably the market leader, but there were also torque converter automatics like the Buick Dynaflow, or torque converters that locked up for a “high gear” (Packard UltraMatic). Some three speed automatics also used torque converters, and even acted like two speeds in normal operation (Ford, Mercury, Studebaker). The Stude even added a lockup torque converter. Or, you could skip the complexity and just have a two speed automatic (Chevy Powerglide). Chrysler, of course, offered a variety of old-school semi-automatics mated either to a torque converter or a straight fluid coupling. Then, there were the ubiquitous three speed manuals, either with or without overdrive.
All finished? Not quite. We still have to consider whether you want an open driveshaft (most brands) or a torque tube (Buick, Chevrolet, Nash). Now, when we take these various choices between the old and the new, the common and the unique, they could be mixed and matched into a dizzing array of choices.
For those who opted for an overhead valve straight eight, a torque tube drive and a torque converter automatic, you got . . . (envelope, please) . . . a Buick! And quite a Buick it was, too.
Let’s start with that engine. Buick had been selling nothing but inline eights since 1931 (CC here), all of them of the “valve-in-head” design. Actually, there were two of them – a smaller engine in the lower lines and a big 320 cubic incher in the Roadmaster. By 1950, the smaller Buick Eight was up to 263 cubic inches, but was not long for this world with the Nailhead V8 planned for the 1953 models. Still, for the traditionally-minded, you could do a lot worse than the smooth, torquey old straight eight. Actually, the smaller Fireball Eight as used in this car would appear for the last time in the 1953 base-level Buick Special, with the Nailhead reserved for the upper models. And in a switch, the ’53 Super (Buick’s middle child) would no longer have to share its little brother’s engine, but would get the same shiny new V8 that was in the Roadmaster.
The Buick also retained the traditional torque tube. I have always been fascinated by this now-obsolete design, which rigidly attached a tube that surrounded the driveshaft to the transmission, making the entire engine/transmission/driveline/differential assembly a single assembly (with a single universal joint to account for suspension travel.) The torque tube design allowed Buick to become one of the first cars to employ a soft coil spring rear suspension, because the car’s drive forces were transmitted to the car through the engine and its mounts instead of through heavy, bulky rear leaf springs.
There was nothing traditional, however, about the Dynaflow automatic transmission that lived between the other two old-time components. Where Oldsmobile, Cadillac and Pontiac sold a lot of cars with Hydra-Matic Drive, this was not an option available to Buick. The original Hydra-Matic was a sort of jerky unit that would have transmitted an intolerable amount of harshness through the car due to the torque tube, so something smoother was necessary. Voila – nothing smoother than a pure torque converter which (at least in normal operation) completely eliminated gear shifts. Nothing slower or less efficient, either. But did a Buick buyer really care?
One new feature for 1952 was power steering, and Buick spent quite a few ad dollars letting everyone know about it. Although Chrysler beat GM to market by a year, it did so by using a less advanced system that provided boost all the time, and not just when called for. The system used by GM did not supply hydraulic assistance until there was some steering load. This system provided traditional road feel when cruising straight ahead, and power boost only when needed for turning.
Enough about this cars oily innards. This is, after all, a BUICK! In 1952, a car did not get any more “establishment” than Buick. Which, in 1952, was not really a bad thing. Doesn’t this thing just scream “I Like Ike?” Buick had been churning out big, comfortable, attractive, well-built cars for decades by then, and had developed a well-earned reputation as the standard by which all near-luxury cars were judged. A Buick in that era was the car that every other purveyor of higher-priced cars compared their cars to.
Doesn’t this big Super just reek of “Buick-ness?” Then (as now), there was nothing more desirable than a big, good looking car with that bank-vault-like Fisher Body and all of the trim touches that told the world that you were someone to be reckoned with. The Europeans and Japanese may occupy this ground in the minds of many today, but in 1952, cars like this were built by Buick. The guy who first bought this Buick probably proudly wore an expensive fedora up top and Florsheim wing tip shoes down below. “Let me have a couple of those Dollar cigars, there, Jasper.” Yes, this man would drive a Buick. And not a Roadmaster, either – that would just be flashy. This next-in-line Super model was plenty of Buick for him, and far enough up from the base Special to announce that he was no poser.
I didn’t see who was driving this Buick. I was sitting in a drive-thru line at a fast foodery one day this past summer, when I saw it in the parking lot of a nearby boat company. The car seats in the back tells me that today’s driver of this super Super would not fit the old stereotype. What lucky kids – they have no idea how good they have it. Will they ever be satisfied in the back of a Camry? Not likely. But is it right to waste all of this legroom on people who use child seats? Maybe the owner of this Buick and I should swap cars for a few years.
How many photographers are reflected in this picture?
I realize that this post is getting a bit long, but you must understand that there were just so many fascinating details to photograph on this fabulous old sled. So, I guess I shall have to keep yammering on about this Flint Flyer until I have shown you all of its cool jewelry. Just in case you may have forgotten how fond Harley Earl was of Chrome in his final decade running GM styling, this Buick is here to remind us. The car’s many square yards of plated surfaces are simply dazzling on a bright summer day (although they gave the ol’ JPC DroidCam quite the challenge.)
In truth, I don’t know what kind of a car I might have chosen in 1952. I have lately been kind of enamored with the Chrysler FirePower V8 mated to a Fluid Torque tranny. But I have always been a little out of the mainstream. Actually, most people probably didn’t care that much about the guts of their cars. Then (as now) eight cylinders and an automatic transmission was probably as far as they got. What sold an upper price car was substance, quality and style. This Buick Super certainly gave its owner all that, plus a double helping of gravitas to go along with it.
Scott McPherson (aka NZ Skyliner)
Great write-up on a handsome car JPC! The lines on these just flow so well, and that front end is magnificent. The “Buick Eight” script engraved in the grille is an especially fine touch. What a great find! Oh, I think I count six photographers in that picture!
Read any of Janet Evanovich “Stephanie Plumb” books. You’ll find this exact car as a recurring character in the books. Hilarious books (and we certainly could ALL use some laughter now days, couldn’t we?) about an inept bounty hunter (“bond enforcement)” in Trenton N.j. Stephanie goes through at least one sometimes two, cars per book, and has to revert to her late Grandfathers ’52 Buick. Which is seemingly indestructible. Fun reads.
*VERY* fun reads, not to be taken seriously .
I just got her newest one and yes, Stephanie had to drag out the Buick yet again .
Jim Grey
Brilliant writeup, JPC. And what a great find!!
For so long Buick was never really on my radar. I’m now (quickly) coming around to their many charms. This ’52 is as alluring as ever there was.
This was a terrific find and you are right – those kids riding in the back are quite lucky indeed.
One of my favorite little vignettes about early fifties automotive diversity concerns my grandfather and his two brothers: my Dad fondly recalls seeing their Studebaker Commander, Hudson Commodore and Kaiser Manhattan parked in a row at a family reunion.
The independent-lover’s dream lineup. What a sight that must have been! Buicks like this one doomed them all.
Robert Kim
Beautiful photos and great assessment of this car’s place in the automotive market of its time, JPC.
A further thought about Buick and its place in the market is that the pre-WWII versions of this car, which shared straight eight power and big, stylish bodies designed in Harley Earl’s studio, are the reason behind the high status of Buick as a luxury car brand in China today, three quarters of a century later. The Buicks bought in small numbers by wealthy Chinese during the 1930s created a reputation that survived the passage of time all the way to China reforming its economic system during the 1990s. The impression was so deep that even after over half a century, Chinese who had never seen a Buick knew the name and assumed that it stood for a top-quality, prestigious car, while in its home country Buick had become a brand associated heavily with senior citizens. So one can say that this car’s prewar predecessors had a profound, industry-altering influence on the luxury car market that is still ongoing and that we have not seen the final implications of.
Gerhard Neumann had a great story re Chinese Buicks: while he was with the Flying Tigers as an aircraft mechanic, he moonlighted fixing cars as well, usually for officials, and not excluding Germans since they were still on good terms with the Kuomintang, despite it being at war with Japan! A Chinese official got a brand-new Buick, but complained that it ran poorly. Neumann figured out it was the poor fuel available there, so he retarded the timing and it ran fine. No need for high speeds there anyway.
The official was so impressed, he gave Neumann a ’39 Peugeot.
nwflvr
I recall reading the book Mr. Newmann wrote years ago, “Herman the German” which was his nickname when he joined the AVG and was a mechanic when he was living in China. It was a very fascinating read.
What a contrast between this gorgeous Buick compared to my first car, a 1952 Chevy Deluxe! Kind of like comparing a Queen to a charwoman.
For the most part, with few exceptions, I’m not fond of early-50’s cars, but the Buick is a different animal. Except for some of the greenhouse side profile, the car is stunningly beautiful! I really like the three-piece backlight.
A wonderful old girl with class to spare, color choice notwithstanding.
I think at least once I mentioned how I love chrome…
Thanks JP for another great write up,I confess I have never properly looked at a Buick from this era at shows but will be looking a lot closer next time.It’s lovely especially the colour combo.
As for the color combo, the artistic people who did the ’52s brochure agreed with you!
Did everyone notice that there was not one little whiff of anti-GM bias here? 🙂
I will acknowledge that I do have an anti-GM bias when it comes to the newer stuff, and cars like this are the reasons for it. Once upon a time, General Motors built the best all-around cars out there. A guy might like something else better, but not because the GM car was crap or unappealing. Cars like this show us how GM became the biggest industrial corporation in the world. It was because they built very, very good cars.
I keep being drawn to the complexity of the sculpting of the sides – it should be over the top, but isn’t. This car’s styling somehow comes off as both hefty and substantial on the one hand while at the same time having an almost delicate quality in certain areas, like the greenhouse. Can you tell that I simply love this thing?
Are you aware that your feelings about Buick and GM mirror those of Nicola Bulgari, builder of the Bulgari jewelry empire and noted obsessive Buick fan, from long before (decades before) GM paid for the privilege of using his name in Escalade interiors? They put you in distinguished, highbrow company.
http://history.gmheritagecenter.com/wiki/index.php/Classic_Cars_and_Classic_Jewels
http://www.autoweek.com/article/20120424/CARNEWS01/120429901
One of the better pieces of advice I can give to the group is: If you ever have a chance to own a Buick straight eight in good condition, DO IT! They were as good it as it got when you’re talking a pre-1949 new generation drive train.
Mine was a ’37 Special, the engine was only 248 cu. in., but it was a really wonderful cruising machine. And that engine was absolutely bulletproof in the fifteen years I owned it. Only ended up replacing the stuff that (back then) would usually go bad, like the fuel pump.
And when you do have a work on them, they’re incredibly easy to do.
Those early fifties shapes are so much more appealing to me than anything with a fin on it. And Buick’s teeth made it the best looking version. A peak in US design.
Dave B
Terrific angle to the write up. Great post! Beautiful car. The nearly flat floor and leg room must have made this quite the family cruiser. Add the air conditioning you could get beginning in 1953, and I’d be set!
In the early ’80s I looked at a Buick two door hardtop of this era. I’m not sure what model, but reasonably certain not a Roadmaster. It needed too much and it was too unfamiliar to me at the time. But, it looked fairly solid, and I doubt the price was over $1,500. What I’d give to return to that day now and have another look at that car.
Wipes drool from keyboard…..Yes, Buicks and Cadillacs from this era are (and always have been) profoundly appealing to me. The only question is which one, since mechanically they were so different in their approaches.
The Buick straight eight is perhaps the greatest monument to American automobile building during its era, in terms of the level of refinement, performance, and durability it offered at a semi-affordable price. No wonder Buick had such a golden reputation. So for today, I’ll take the unmistakable muted but distinctive sound of straight eight Buick. You all know I’m very fickle…
Both? I’d take a nice 49-52 Roadmaster hardtop and a Cadillac Sixty Special(maybe a 53 with the air conditioning plant in the trunk?) to cover all my bases, and since it’s an early 50’s dream garage, lets throw in an Oldsmobile 98 convertible too.
Any rotation of the body styles would still be acceptable.
fahrvergnugen
Great write-up of a beautiful looking car. Thanks! (Un)fortunately I’ve been on a diet and exercise regimen lately.
While I get the appeal, I’ve learned to shy away from seven course meals from 1952. Just makes me feel too bloated.
Doctors’ orders.
A great write-up of a car that one rarely sees outside of the big Antique Automobile Club of America (AACA) events around here. That car oozes style and substance! A reminder of a time when Buick ownership was a badge of success.
I do question the wisdom of putting car seats in this car, particularly since the interior appears to be original. Our two pre-school daughters have regularly tossed sippy cups and bottles on to the floor while I’m driving, and there is often a little puddle of milk on the floor by the time I’m able to get the cup. It would be a shame to see this car’s interior ruined.
This Buick is so over the top it makes me think of Mel Brooks. In an interview once (link here) he was remembering his work on “Your Show of Shows”, Sid Caesar’s brilliant comedy show which was on when this Buick was new.
I remember the first one I wrote for Sid. Jungle Boy. “Ladies and gentlemen, now for the news. Our roving correspondent has just discovered a jungle boy, raised by lions in Africa, walking the streets of New York City.” Sid played this in a lionskin, right? “Sir, how do you survive in New York City?” “Survive?” “What do you eat?” “Pigeon.” “Don’t the pigeons object?” “Only for a minute.” “What are you afraid of more than anything?” “Buick.” “You’re afraid of a Buick?” “Yes. Buick can win in death struggle. Must sneak up on parked Buick, punch grille hard. Buick die.”
thetallguy
I rode home from the hospital as a newborn babe in a ’51 Super, seafoam green, w/ no two-tone paint and always on blackwall tires. My mom drove it daily until 1961 when the brakes failed! What a great car! I wish I had it now.
Carlo Di Tullio
A great write up on one of the cars that defines Buick, in my opinion. While it’s not my style, it is a beautiful and classic design. My personal preference is more for the designs of the 60’s and up, but even with my bias, if you asked me to pick one car that defines what Buick was in it’s heyday, I think this would be it. I mean, I may remember Wildcats, Rivieras and Grand National more, I can’t in good conscious put any of them in the same league as this car.
I also appreciated the discussion of the oily bits. I spent a lot of time wrenching on cars, but have very little experience with cars from this era. Torque tubes, flatheads and fluid drive transmissions are not something I ever worked with. Exception being some minor experience with my dad’s 49 Plymouth.
Brendan Saur
Very interesting about all the engines offered. Makes our options today seem much more restricted. I had to laugh at those carseats in the back. They look like the portable stadium seats people bring to sit on bleachers at sporting events.
“The Europeans and Japanese may build this kind of car today”
It was a good article until this line above, which just seems flat out ignorant on 2 counts, first, in spite of what you might think, its not 1982, American cars are not, contrary to what you might think, plastic piles of crap that Roger Smith designed to have the wheels fall off the moment you drive off the lot, 2ND….that Japanese and Europeans WISH that they made a car 1/3 as solid and as well built as this today.
Overall though, it was a good review, these are fantastic cars, they are very well engineered, its noticeable in the way the doors. hoods and trunk all close. Whats interesting to note is how all the of the earliest engineering advances were mostly designed to smooth out all the roughness of the automobile, evidenced in these Buicks, they operate with almost an electric car like smoothness, the straight 8 is glass smooth, the Dynaflow, while inefficient, just whirls away from a light without any rude shifting interrupting the Buicks smoooooooooooothness, yes, that many o’s.
The BIG 320cid Roadmaster engine is even smoother than the smaller Special/Super 8, that almost has a turbine like smoothness and an eerie silence that almost makes you think it isn’t running, a neat touch of this era Buick is that they start by pressing the gas pedal and of course, the cool either side opening hood that lasted until 1952 I believe.
The arrival of the Nailhead in the Roadmaster for 1953 signaled a changing of the guard that moved Buick into a new era and 1954’s return of the Century, which was the pseudo-muscle carish combination of the big Nailhead from the Roadmaster in the Special body started moving Buick in more performance oriented/luxury direction, as performance, big displacement and big HP numbers became selling points, and Buick was boasting about its 300HP 364 Nailhead by 1957, with the eventual progress of steady HP and CID increases every year until about 1970.
Ouch! I was not implying that there is a lack of quality cars made in the U.S., and I was also not implying that everything from Europe and Japan are wonderful. The point I was trying to make was that in appearance and in prestige, Japanese and German cars seem to have that image today, at least with non-car people. There are undoubtedly some U.S. cars that do well in these criteria, but they are fighting for recognition. In 1952, a Chrysler, or a Lincoln may have been (and were) excellent cars, but those cars did not have the cred of a Buick. Today, you drive up in an Avalon or a smaller Lexus, and everyone will think you made a great choice. Drive up in a Lacrosse or 300 or MKS and a most non-car people will tell you how nice it is, but silently wonder “its nice, but is it as good as a Toyota/Lexus?”
“May occupy that mental space today”
Phrasing it that way makes more sense, that’s understandable, the other way it seems more like a dig.
I see your point, and have amended the text to clarify the thought I was attempting to convey. Jeez, today I blubber and gush all over a GM car and still raise the ire of the General’s Posse. 🙂
Fascinating and detailed engineering analysis, Jim, I think you’re spot-on about why they used the Dynaflow.
Are you sure you’re not an engineer? Ever considered practicing patent law?
Interestingly, both Dynaflow and Powerglide (which, as a minor correction, was still a “pure” torque converter automatic in ’52; it didn’t become a two-speed until ’53) were based on concepts developed by the corporate Engineering staff, not Buick or Chevrolet, although each division gave it their own spin.
The basic principles were developed by most of the same engineering team that created Hydra-Matic — including Oliver Kelley, who became Buick’s chief engineer a few years later. The rationale was that while the H-M worked pretty well, it was mechanically inelegant and very complicated. Each gear change really involved two shifts (one for the clutch packs, one for the brake bands), which is why it was so difficult to make the transmission shift smoothly; if the bands weren’t adjusted just right, you’d get a jerk. The corporate engineers figured there had to be a better way and decided to focus on the torque converter.
That was up Buick’s alley because they’d been looking even before the war to offer a continuously variable transmission. Buick’s CVT concept didn’t make it because it was too complicated, so they saw the torque converter drive as a cheaper, simpler way to achieve the same effect.
Do you realize that the Dynaflow transmission was just about indestructible? As a teenager, I was amazed to watch the older guys shift into reverse at some 40 mph, bring it to a standstill and start back with screeching tyres! I seem to remember that they would shift into neutral, tweak the throttle and shove the lever down. Never learned the trick (or wouldn’ t dare…). AGB
As I recall from working on a few, some Buick Dynaflows seemed to have weaker housings which allowed the reverse band holding strut to break. The car would still drive forward, but it would not back up.
Fixing it properly would have required replacing the entire housing. We were taught to install a custom brace that transferred the hydraulic force engaging the reverse band to another part of the housing.
I suspect a teenager intent on torturing a Dynaflow like you describe would have eventually broken even one of the stronger reverse band struts.
What could you tell us about this Prewar CVT?
How does one anchor in child seats in a car like this without marring some trim? I would assume someone with a gorgeous car like this has figured it out. Probably a grandfather (or grandmother??) taking his grand-kiddies out for a ride.
“No kids, you can’t have your Frostie in the Buick; and make sure your little hands are clean!”
For me the car seats might be the best feature on this car, which is fairly wonderful to begin with. The child seats at least imply that someone is using this car as a car, as opposed to the museum piece that many old cars have become. So what if something gets spilled, just clean it up and go on. This Buick has lasted for over 60 years, I don’t think a little orange juice spilled on the floor is going to hurt it.
A lovely old Buick. The white over navy blue is perfect on it, too.
I also like the “N3 Boatworks” building in the background–how appropriate.
Actually Mike
Great write-on on a great car! I’ve had a straight eight/Dynaflow Buick in my imaginary Jay Leno Garage for quite some time now, and it’s nice to see that somebody out there is driving around in a real one. I don’t like that lowered look, but other than that, I don’t think I’d change a thing on this car.
I was thinking that the lowered look you refer to is old, saggy springs on what looks to be a very original car. The paint looked newer, but the rest of the car appeared pretty much right out of 1952, at least to my eyes.
wstarvingteacher
My brother had one of these. As you say, straight 8 and dynaflow. It broke for some reason and sat for quite a while. Ran good until then and he was happy with it. He wasn’t a banker or exec of some sort. Just a sailor albeit probably the main reason I became one later. It was still the mid to early fifties so Buick must not have been too expensive.
I liked the 50 olds with the OHV V8 and automatic better. Had one of those in 1964 and it ran good. I remember it as a modern car except for the brakes. Would prefer it to the buick if I were to pick one for use today. It was capable of turning some knots.
The 1950-56 period was so perfect for Buick and Cadillac. Car styling from 1930 to the present is a story of a pendulum swinging between curves and angles, and this Buick is all curves. Curves beat angles all the time, Not just in regard to cars, if you catch my drift.
This would still have the hood that opens from either side wouldn’t it? I remember seeing a Buick convertible from this era a few years ago, they are beautifully styled cars.
I didn’t realise they still had a torque tube etc – on one hand it would make installing a better transmission a challenge, but on the other hand why bother, just enjoy the car for what it is and accept it. Keeping the car out of everyday traffic is doing it a favor anyway.
The car seat anchoring is an interesting question, as it doesn’t appear to have front seat belts. Perhaps they are Latch style?
Yes, you can open it left or right, there is a hood latch on each side, or you can pull them both and remove the whole hood. What’s really impressive about these big Buicks is how well all the doors, hood and trunk shut. You can hold the door 2 inches from closed and just let it go and it shuts with a nice CLACK, great body engineering, especially when you realize that it was all done by men with drafting paper, slide rules and cigarettes.
Funny, I went looking for a picture of a ’52 Buick with its hood open, and Google offered up this.
Miss Austin (Beryl Wallman), left, and Miss Garfield Park (Ardee LeHew) pose on the front fender and hood of a 1952 Buick Super convertible, during the 44th annual Chicago Auto Show at the Amphitheatre. Facelifted for 1952 and offered in three series (Special, Super, and Roadmaster), Buicks stuck with their overhead-valve straight-eight engines.
From the fabulous web site of the Chicago Auto Show.
Wonderful! Not long after I got my driver’s license, our family car became a ’52 Buick Roadmaster Riviera (2-dr hardtop). It gave whole new meaning to the word “Imposing”.
LiteWerk
Wow! That is one very nice old Buick! Had never really appreciated them before this great CC and accompanying photos.
Steve Shuman
I have a question: I’m approaching 70 and I remember, when I was a boy of 5, that a great close friend of the family had a gorgeous 50 or 51 Buick….Maroon. The memory still takes my breath away seeing that beauty, not to mention riding in the front seat of same with that gorgeous chrome radio grill in front of me…and its neat radio antenna knob up top center of the windshield…BUT….the most endearing memory for me was the “sound” that car made…and only the Buicks from back then had this wonderful “purrrr” to its engine sound and my question is: WHAT gave those Buicks that unique engine sound? Was it the engine itself or the muffler system Buick installed at the factory?
Aaron65
It’s a straight-8 with overhead valves, an engine configuration uncommon in new cars then and nonexistent now.
I own a ’53 with a straight 8, and it’s mellow burble is one of my favorite engine noises too.
steven shuman
Thanks for reply
Richard Clayton
A very nice ’53 Buick parks next to my space in the condo garage. It is currently out for repairs, I think because there are a few drops of oil on the concrete. Normally it sits under a pale green cotton cover. What always strikes me about 50’s cars is that they are about the same height width, and length of current SUV’s and minivans.
I appreciate the opportunity to read this article and comments. My view of Buick has been changing as I consider the history of various brands, as well as their current offerings. Buick has certainly had many legendary features over the years. Examples include decades of overhead valves, various versions of Dynaflow and other smooth automatics, straight and nailhead eights, the Roadmaster, and even more recent offerings like the GS.
Very nice car ! .
I love inliners so these are a special treat for me .
Larry Haynes
We had one. A two-door Dyna-Flo. It had a distinctive sound and my mother could always hear it coming.
Somehow, this seems to be appropriate.
DanEKay
Tried to read all the preceding comments, but wasn’t able to, sorry.
As someone born in 1952, there aren’t many cars that were built in that year that I care for. This Buick isn’t bad, but my favorite 52 would be a Lincoln. But since I’m very practical, my other favorite is a 52 Plymouth.
Jeff ONeill
The Dynaflow transmission must have lived for a few more years. Does anyone else recall an article (maybe in the ’70s) in Car and Driver (I think) covering a road trip in a ’55 or ’56 Buick? It referred to the car as “Sargent Dynaflow.”
You’re thinking of an article by PJ O’Rourke. The title was SGT Dynaflow’s Last Patrol.
I had a ’53 Special straight 8/Dynaflow in college. A $50 car then. Priceless good memories now. As others have commented, you could always tell a Buick 8 by the sound. It not only felt smooth, it sounded smooth. The Mel Tormé of auto engines.
James Slick
Introduced in 1948, The Dynaflow was in production until 1963.
The original article makes two very interesting points, both new to me:
1) “The torque tube design allowed Buick to become one of the first cars to employ a soft coil spring rear suspension, because the car’s drive forces were transmitted to the car through the engine and its mounts instead of through heavy, bulky rear leaf springs.”
2) “The original Hydra-Matic was a sort of jerky unit that would have transmitted an intolerable amount of harshness through the car due to the torque tube, so something smoother was necessary. Voila – nothing smoother than a pure torque converter which (at least in normal operation) completely eliminated gear shifts.”
I haven’t seen insights like this since Ate Up With Motor (unfortunately) disappeared.
Aaron’s still there! Love me the Buick!
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little david schrader
when I was a little boy,i would spend a few days with ”Nonnie Schrader (grandma)
and Maxine,my Aunt We would go for drives in Nonnie’s 53 Special stick shift
as Dad would say “The last straight eight” Now Nonnie was a little lady
I wonder how hard it was for her to park that big old coupe
Was her car til she couldn’t drive anymore
Dad used to just carry on about what a good car that was
The Packard and Pontiac straight 8s both outlasted the Buick straight 8 by one year being used through the ’54s.
Bob Dylan preferred a Buick 6 …… out on Highway 61 …….
donaldo
Buick built a model “90” or Limited before the war on the Cadillac shared “D” body and I’m sure that helped the upscale reputation. My father once owned a black 1950 “Special” that he used to point out as having been owned by the mayor of our city – even the low line model was an impressive automobile. I remember that the Ventiports as Buick called them were three actual working ones on his car. The wheels were bright red, same color as my brother’s 1957 Special, which he still has. Buicks during this era except for being OHV, seem mostly anachronistic to me, conservative. Notice the lever shocks in your chassis photo of the ’52 for example. Full sized Buicks never went down to 14″ wheels as other makes did either.
The early 1950s [when] everyone made cars that were the same shapes, with the same kinds of engines and transmissions and suspensions, and there just was not much variety there.
Much like…erm…the present!
Chris In Australia
Make mine a convertible. Either the Roadmaster or I might have to slum it in a Super.
I’ll take the manual shifter too. That torquey straight 8 wouldn’t need too much shifting.
Great article, and as a GM fan, I too appreciated the love!
Lovely car – many early 50’s US automobiles seem so well built and useable – not too big, flimsy or thirsty like some later 60’s and 70’s models.
robadr
As I get older my personal recollections of cars like this appear to get even stronger.
Being somewhat under 4 feet tall at the time when they were still new and shiny things, my memories are mostly of their size and mass, of fascinating chrome detail that engaged and mesmerized most children at their young eye level. Of the heat on a warm summer’s day that radiated off swelling fenders and lustrous paintwork, and of sun that glinted off chrome and through sculptural taillights. Of the view inside to thick upholstery and a bejewelled and glistening world of plenty, and of a new car smell (a different kind from today’s) that occasionally wafted out of open windows. They were objects of wonder and fantasy that could be stared at seemingly endlessly, and suggested possibilities of other lives lived in ways more exciting than one’s own small-town, domestic reality.
A beautiful old Buick JP, and your description of the likely first owner was spot on. I had an uncle who fit the profile perfectly. WWII vet who grew up poor in the Depression. After the war became a successful small business owner who was the first in the family to move to a nice house in the suburbs. Smoked Dutch Masters. Joined a country club where my aunt would proudly wear the mink stole he gave her. Grand Knight in the Knights of Columbus. A man proud of his accomplishments, but wary of bragging about them lest he offend his less well off siblings. His car of choice? Buick, of course. Bought a new one every 3-4 years. Always a 4 door and usually a Super, with later models being an Invicta and then Electra.
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I was 10, a timid lad from a “good family.” 1957 in suburban Los Angeles. A couple of doors down lived the Andersons, a family from the wrong side of the tracks. I had fallen in thrall to Johnny A, a boy my own age, but decades my senior in matters of hell raising and mischief.
Mrs. A had a hulking green Buick of this vintage, and parked it the driveway. She was a hard, abrasive woman, and perpetually in a rush. One hot afternoon Johnny was inspired to stick about 6 feet of garden hose up the Buick’s long, straight tailpipe, and let the water run until it began to drain back out. He then removed the hose and threw it back on the scabrous lawn, where it generally reposed.
No doubt he had pulled this stunt before, because Johnny urgently suggested that we hide across the street, behind Mr. Terwilliger’s hedge. Not sure why, I joined him. We spent a seeming eternity slapping away June bugs and flies until we spied Mrs. A come flyin’ out the front door, heading straight for the Buick.
Buick’s of the era were equipped with a simple on/off ignition switch, with no start position. The starter switch was connected to the accelerator pedal, and worked rather like the kick down switch for a modern automatic transmission. That meant that the engine always started with the throttle wide open, generally with a mighty roar in Mrs. A’s case.
Well, there we crouched, Johnny trembling with repressed laughter. Into the front seat hopped his mom. The Buick’s slow-turning starter began to turn the big straight eight. Very slowly. Suddenly it fired, and a huge gout of filthy, sooty water sprayed clear across the road and thru the honeysuckle hedge. Followed by the roar of the mighty Buick Eight. Followed by the outraged screeching of Mrs. A. We lit out of there over MR. T’s back fence, undetected until supper time, when our soot-stained T-shirts did us dirty.
It’s been 60 years, but the sight of an early 50s Buick still brings back that long ago summer afternoon, and gives me a good laugh. I suspect that the straight eight sound that some of you remember is different from my recollection. B-L-A-A-A-A-T-T-T!
I have a ’52 Buick Super exactly the same as the featured one, here in New Zealand. Mine is original including ply tires, 6 volt battery and the original AM radio which has a great tone. As you can see, my Buick is the same color, original paint and only done 70,000 miles. It came from the US and is LHD, a very few RHD versions were imported into New Zealand in 1952, a friend has a ’51 RHD 4-door Super.
You have a beautiful old Buick!
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The Sabil was known as Sabil al-Basiri and Sabil Bab al-Nazir, but according to the foundation inscription, the one who renovated it was Ibrahim al-Rumi in the Mamluk era, during the reign of Sultan al-Ashraf Sayf al-Din Barsbai, Eypt’s 9th Mamluk sultan. The Sabil is built over a dome covering a large well carved in rock. The sabil is a free standing structure not attached to any adjacent building. The Sabil caters for people arriving from Bab al-Nazir and Bab al-Ghawanima. Its architecture is simple, comprising a single square chamber with a shallow dome above it. The east wall has a door leading inside the chamber and the other three walls have a window each, with water troughs for drinking. The drinking troughs were fed from the water well underneath, from where water was lifted and poured directly into them. Visitors to the Mosque drank from these troughs using tin cups.
Sabil’s Importance
The importance of this Sabil stems from the fact that it is one of the few Sabils which belong to three-window style. The building is simple but well-constructed, using dressed stone. There is a resemblance in planning and form between this Sabil and Sabil Bab al-Maghariba.
Conditions for Use of the Sabil
It is noteworthy that the Sabil founder restricted its use to the poor and destitute and prevented use by water providers, or transporting water from it in leather containers, indicating that he refused trading in water. This is an unusual condition in water sources like religiously endowed Sabils. Normally, water use is unrestricted in most cases.
Desert Monasticism / St. George Coziba Monastery
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Elonex launches eReader 6-inch eBook reader with Borders UK
by Ebook Doctor on July 1, 2009
Borders UK is looking to rival Amazon by beating them to a UK launch, with their unveiled Elonex ebook reader. This new ebook reader was launched nationwide in UK Borders stores at a £189 – Much cheaper than the the iRex iLiad, priced at £399, which they will continue to sell alongside the Elonex.
The Elonex eBook is compatible with the free Adobe Digital Editions software, and is one of the first ebook readers to market with this technology and supports DRM protected reflowable PDF and ePub formats, as well as other less widespread eBook formats and images/pictures. This puts the Elonex closer to the Bebook beating the Sony Ebook reader in terms of ebook formats, but doesn’t quite match the wide range of ebook formats available for the Bebook.
The ebook features a 6 inch e-ink screen, and at 9mm thick and only 180g it’s incredibly thin and light – And the long battery life means you can enjoy up to 8000 pages between charges.
The new device comes with 100 titles already pre-loaded and can hold up to 1,000 books (8000 with the optional 4gb SD card).
The device was launched into the 41 Borders stores and 10 Books Etc and Borders Express branches on the 30th June.
Customers will be able to take advantage of the 45,000 ebook library available on the Borders UK website, which are all going to be compatible with the device to maximise readability – Plus the many more available in epub format. Click here to see the range of ebooks available at Borders.
The Elonex eReader is now available online at the Borders website,click here to find out more.
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Sony PRS-350 Review
by Ebook Doctor on November 11, 2010
Sony are synonymous with timeless design, and solid quality – The Sony PRS-350 with its 5 inch screen is no exception.
Featuring a brushed aluminium design, it looks and feels great. And along with its larger sibling the Sony PRS-650 with its 6 inch screen are probably the best looking ebook readers around.
The Sony PRS 350 is an update to the PRS300 launched last year, featuring the following improvements:
-A new E-Ink Pearl screen, which improves contrast by 50%. This is the same new display used in the 3rd generation Amazon Kindle, and Sony PRS-650.
This new screen now provides 16 shades of grey instead of 8, and is now clearer than ever.
-The PRS350 now has touchscreen functionality, which uses infrared sensors for improved clarity and response rate (the previous PRS-300 didn’t have a touchscreen).
-Improved battery life, you can now read over 10,000 pages on one charge versus 7500 with the older model
-Its also 60 grams lighter, which makes it an ideal ebook reader for those travelling light (fits a handbag perfectly).
Other than these new features, the Sony PRS-350 build on the great feature set of its predecessor.
Its supports an impressive range of ebook formats including BBeB (LRF/LRX), PDF, EPUB, TXT, RTF, JPEG, BMP, GIF and PNG so you can literally purchase your ebooks from nearly every ebook store. Because of this you are not tied down to a specific ebook store like the Amazon Kindle.
This ebook reader also features a large 2GB internal memory which is enough to carry thousands of ebooks at a time.
Unfortunately you don’t get any Wifi or 3G connectivity, and you have to purchase books from online ebook retailers from your desktop. But these are somewhat advantages, as it means you get solid battery life, and can purchase ebooks at any ebook retailer (therefore can comparison shop for the best ebook deals).
In terms of price points, you can find this ebook reader for around £159/$179 which makes it an ideal purchase if you are an occasional book reader. If you spend a lot of time reading, you might want to consider the Sony PRS-650 which features a 6 inch screen for more comfortable reading.
Click here to compare the Sony PRS-350 to the other 6” ebook readers available today.
You can find the Sony PRS-350 and Sony PRS-650 at Waterstones.com
Sony Reader Touch Edition PRS-600 Review
Sony have recently released an updated lineup to it’s popular PRS-505 ebook reader which we reviewed last year.
This year they are releasing the Sony Reader Touch Edition PRS-600 and the Sony Reader Pocket Edition PRS-300. Both are looking to compete against different sides of the ebook reader market: Mainly the rise of the sub 5 inch ebook readers, and the new Amazon Kindle 2.
The Sony Reader Touch Edition is the new successor of the old PRS-505 and PRS-700, which adds a touchscreen into the mix. The Pocket edition sports a smaller 5″ screen format which we will review at a later stage.
The first thing you will notice once you handle a Sony Touch ebook reader is that it looks really classy – Its an elegant ebook reader which won’t look out of place next to your other accessories.
The screen is easy to read, and the contrast has been much improved since the PRS-700 and ebooks look great on this 6″ e-ink Vizplex™ paper-like screen.
The touch screen is interesting, unfortunately its a bit slow and doesn’t quite feel natural when interacting with words or the UI. Don’t expect an Iphone like touch interface on this ebook reader! But the touchscreen is useful, and adds to the ease of use of the ebook reader – For example you can flick through pages like on a real book.
In terms of capacity, the Sony Touch comes with 500 mb of internal memory which you can store about 350 books with, and you can expand this through an optional MS Duo (up to 16GB) and SD card (up to 16GB) slots for up to 13,000 eBook titles – practically an entire library!
The great difference in these new ebook readers is the change of stance from sony with reagards to ebook formats – Beforehand the Sony ebook readers were a bit limited in the book formats supported, not anymore.
You can now read eBooks in a choice of file formats: Reader Touch Edition™ supports EPUB (industry standard), PDF, Text, RTF, Word and BBeB. Also displays most common image and photo file types including JPG, PNG, GIF, BMP (in black-and-white).
This is a big change and will mean that you can now upload ebooks which are both DRM and non DRM protected to read on the go!
The US version of this ebook reader comes with a 3G connection built in similar to the Amazon Kindle, which has been ommited from the European and UK release, but thats not too much of a problem. Thanks Russ for the clarification, the US version is like the European version, and does not include a 3G card.
You can still buy your books from your favourite online book shop such as Waterstones, Borders, and Whsmith in the UK.
This is a lighter and more nimble device, and if you are a fan of Sony products, or haven’t yet got your feet wet with an ebook reader device this is a very affordable device, which oozes of quality.
Is it the best device out there? Well we still like the Bebook (reviewed earlier) which supports more ebook reader formats.
But if you are looking to spend a little more, and like the look of the Sony Reader Touch we definately recommend it too. Click here to find out more.
!Update:
Waterstones have just lowered the price of the silver Sony Touch, get it at £29 less here: Click here to find out more about the promo.
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Confused with nomenclature and too much complexity?
Silverwave
I must admit I'm a bit confused with all the different names given to "sub-mechanics".
Aspect, skill and stunt, that's from Fate Core, so I dig it.
But tag, traits, attributes, aptitudes, fields... err, I'm getting confused now.
Maybe the guide assumes the reader is familiar with EP rules?
I must admit I never was really interested in the rules of EP. I've read the book but I skipped most of the "crunch". It's the setting that made me buy the book.
Personnaly, I don't really like all the "sub-sustems" introduced to the very clean Fate Core system. I feel it overcomplexify Fate Core rules (that I like because everything is very clean).
I feel like Skill Fields would be better handled with Stunts, as describe in the Specializations section. It would be totaly on par with the Fate ruleset and will remove the sub-rules on how fields can be apply to certain actions
atamajakki
Agree strongly.
Though both "tag" and "field" have shown up in other FATE products. I actually still use tag to refer to temporary Aspects; it's a bad habit.
I delved a bit more in Morph
I delved a bit more in Morph aspects (tags and trait or whatever it is called) and ego stunts.
I keep my standing on thinking there are a bit too much sub-systems and terms there.
When I read them, I always think either "Well, that's just an aspect" or "yup, that's a stunt".
I don't think we would need to define them further down into a "tags" sub-category.
Let me quote one really important line in the guide :
Traits as Aspects Instead of Stunts If an ego trait from Eclipse Phase is important to your character from a story perspective, but as a player you don’t have a strong feeling about paying refresh for its rules benefit, you can always incorporate that trait into one of your aspects.
You got it right with this description. Basically, if it's not important enough for the player then it is not important enough to have its own sub-system, just leave it as an aspect. Don't part with this very important statement which is really the essence of Fate: keep things simple but elegant, easy to use but satisfying.
That applies well to tags. What's a tag? It's basically an aspect with added "crunch" to it. To me, that's exactly what a stunt is.
The Ego stunt are really interesting and totally on par with the Fate philosophy and rules.
But then, under How Morphs Work in Fate, rules explain that you get two aspects, traits, durability and refresh cost. Yet, in the Morphs descriptions, you don't retrieve those two Aspects mentioned (sometimes you have only one or none, sometimes you got 3 or more in the Traits section...) you got traits that are sometimes aspects, sometimes tags, sometimes stunts, sometimes linked to a skill and sometimes you have disadvantage. It's a bit off with what I'm expected to find from what I've just read.
It would be a lot more clear and easy in a "close to Fate" sense if you'd drop the idea of tag and disadvantage and keep them just as normal aspects. Players don't NEED to be told that a certain aspect is a disadvantage. It's clear enough that "Genetic defects" is leaning on the negative side. But more than that, the mantra of Fate on aspect is that they are double-edged, say more than one thing, and keep the phrasing simple, which mean that good aspects should be easy to invoke, but also equally easy to compel.
They also don't need extra crunch for certain aspects. I totally dig the idea of "upgrading" an aspect into a stunt if the player wants to have more crunch out of an aspect but as I mentioned before, if it's not important enough to have rules of its own but important enough for the character to have it on your character sheet, well that's what an aspect is.
So I'd present the Morph information like this, which is more instinctive to Fate players:
Name of the Morph
Aspects: No need for tag or have distinct nomenclature for disadvantage.
Durability: This could also be named Physical Stress or just Stress if wanted to be more close to Fate nomenclature. Otherwise, if you keep it as durability, I'd make the character sheet bears that name too not to get things confusing by mixmatching terminology.
Refresh cost:
As for Morphs tags and stunt list... well, if brough back to basic aspects instead of tags, yes, all those descriptions becomes more or less obsolete. Some of those would be easily incorporated into the stunt version of the trait. Mostly, it's the free invocation that don't fit that well. Personally, i don't really like it because it makes for a LOT of bookeeping knowing which tag free invocation you used on that session, which once is per scene, which refresh when, etc. In my own taste, there's already a LOT of aspects in game with basic Fate (each character has 5, each NPC as from 1 to 5), each scene has few, there's also the game aspects, and all the aspects that the players created. You already need to track which as free invocations, which has boost. There's a hell lot going on at the same time. I wouldn't what to add an extra layer of bookeeping which two free invocations on tags.
So here goes my opinion. It's really humble, I don't pretend having good ideas or that my ideas are better in any ways. This is totally selfish and based on my personal taste (although I know few players would probably agree).
On a side note, I think you guys are missing on a lot of very awesome feedback by not taking opinions from the Fate Core G+ community. I know it's a lot easier to assemble all the information on a single thread (on your forum) but people are not all eager to subscribe to yet another forum. Maybe you'd get a lot more feedback if one could only post on G+ on the matter of Eclipse Fate (or is it officially Transhumanity's Fate?).
Quincey Forder
bit of a survey of our own
For those who tested it, do/did you use the skills' fields, the tags ?
I'm thinking of using the skills, plain and simple, and having the fields as refresh free stunts, but limited in numbers, equal to the Willpower score. What do you think?
on tags, why not just call them morph boost? Because they work the exact same way.
Q U I N C E Y ^_*_^ F O R D E R
Remember The Cant!
I did use them to give it a
I did use them to give it a go but it didn't convinced me at reading and it didn't played well, as I was expecting. To be fair, I didn't talked my player about it beforehand not to influence their feeling on it but they felt the same as I did in the end of the session.
If we play another session, we will not be using them.
We'll use the basic stunts instead of skill fields and we'll just drop tags.
We didn't liked the bookeeping it added and it's more fun to play with Fate Points than free invokes automatically set at the begining of the session.
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2019 Regular Schedule
1 Sun, Sep 8 2019 vs Washington 1:00 PM
2 Sun, Sep 15 2019 @ Atlanta 8:20 PM
3 Sun, Sep 22 2019 vs Detroit 1:00 PM
4 Thu, Sep 26 2019 @ Green Bay 8:20 PM
5 Sun, Oct 6 2019 vs New York 1:00 PM
6 Sun, Oct 13 2019 @ Minnesota 1:00 PM
7 Sun, Oct 20 2019 @ Dallas 8:20 PM
8 Sun, Oct 27 2019 @ Buffalo 1:00 PM
9 Sun, Nov 3 2019 vs Chicago 1:00 PM
10 BYE WEEK
11 Sun, Nov 17 2019 vs New England 4:25 PM
12 Sun, Nov 24 2019 vs Seattle 8:20 PM
13 Sun, Dec 1 2019 @ Miami 1:00 PM
14 Mon, Dec 9 2019 vs New York 8:15 PM
15 Sun, Dec 15 2019 @ Washington 1:00 PM
16 Sun, Dec 22 2019 vs Dallas 4:25 PM
17 Sun, Dec 29 2019 @ New York 1:00 PM
1 Thu, Aug 8 2019 vs Tennessee 7:30 PM
2 Thu, Aug 15 2019 @ Jacksonville 7:00 PM
3 Thu, Aug 22 2019 vs Baltimore 7:30 PM
4 Thu, Aug 29 2019 @ New York 7:00 PM
PHILADELPHIA EAGLES NEWS AND UPDATES
The Eagles Down the Falcons
The Philadelphia Eagles have downed the Atlanta Falcons in a low scoring game 15-10 to qualify for the NFC Championship game against the Minnesota Vikings. The Eagles have missed the playoffs in each of the last three seasons but they have made it count this year. The Falcons were looking to make it to the Super Bowl for the second time in as many years after coming agonizingly close to winning the biggest title in the sport last time around. The Eagles were having none of it and in front of their passionate home crowd at the Lincoln Financial Field delivered a solid performance to earn the right to headline the NFC Championship encounter.
The Philadelphia Eagles will have home field advantage in the playoffs
The Philadelphia Eagles will have home-field advantage in the playoffs this season. On December 25, 2017 the Eagles were up against the Raiders and won 19-10 thanks to Jake Elliot scoring a 48 yard field goal in the final minutes of the contest. The Eagles offense struggled for much of the game but the defense turned up to force five turnovers and push the Eagles over the line. The Eagles are now 13-2 while the Raiders went 6-9 for the season. It was also the Raiders’ third straight loss. The Eagles are flying and they will be looking to go deep in the postseason this time around.
It is confirmed: Carson Wentz has a torn ACL
It has been confirmed that Carson Wentz has a torn ACL. The news has come at the worst possible time for the Wentz and the Eagles. The Eagles had been flying this season and a lot of that was down to Wentz delivering some stellar performances. Now his season is over. There are also fears that Wentz might not be fit in time for the start of the 2018 season either since an ACL injury is a serious one and can take between nine months to a year to recover from it.
The Philadelphia Eagles are NFC East champions
The Philadelphia Eagles win over the Los Angeles Rams has most probably ended Carson Wentz’s season but the win also means that they are not NFC East Champions. This is their first division crown since 2013. The Eagles have been among the favorites to win the Super Bowl this season but now they will have to do it without Wentz in the line-up. If the Eagles lift the Vince Lombardi Trophy at the end of the season, then that will be their first Super Bowl triumph. The last time they won the NFL title was in 1960, a full six years before the first Super Bowl was played.
Carson Wentz to have an MRI Scan
It looks like this will be the end Carson Wentz’s season. The Eagles quarterback has had a stellar campaign but according to news coming in, the Eagles’ management thinks that has torn his ACL. Wentz got injured in the Eagles 43-35 win over the Rams on December 10 and now he will have to undergo an MRI scan to see the extent of the damage. Nick Foles replaced him for the rest of the game and it looks like he will be playing a lot more regularly now that Wentz is injured. Wentz injury is a huge blow to the Eagles and now it will be interesting to see how they fare in the upcoming weeks without their star QB.
Philadelphia Eagles down the Washington Redskins
The Philadelphia Eagles keep on soaring to new heights this season. In the latest installment of Monday Night Football on October 23, 2017, the Eagles downed the Washington Redskins 34-24 at the Lincoln Financial Field. As a result of that victory, the Eagles are now 6-1 this season. The star of the show was Carson Wentz who recorded four touchdown passes and notched up an impressive two hundred and sixty eight passing yards. Up next for the Eagles are the San Francisco 49ers and going by current form, the 49ers should not put much of a challenge.
Philadelphia Eagles Schedule
Football season is here and is packed with epic matchups. You can catch all the action live as it happens. Next event featuring Philadelphia Eagles will be NFL Preseason: Philadelphia Eagles vs. Tennessee Titans, held at the Lincoln Financial Field in Philadelphia. As of now, the last event, New York Giants vs. Philadelphia Eagles is scheduled for 29-Dec-19 at the MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford. For complete itinerary of events, please visit our website.
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Sainsbury’s and Tesco vegetarian ready meals found with meat traces
June 11, 2018 Food Business Africa
UK – The Food Standards Agency (FSA) has launched an investigation into allegations that vegetarian and vegan ready meals from major supermarket chains Sainsbury’s and Tesco contain traces of meat.
An investigation by the Daily Telegraph disclosed that ‘meat free’ and vegan food sold at Britain’s leading supermarkets contains traces of meat.
Based on laboratory tests carried out by the firm, traces of pork in Sainsbury’s own brand “meat free” meatballs and traces of turkey in a vegan macaroni ready meal from Tesco’s new “Wicked Kitchen” line, labelled as vegan.
The sector has seen a spate of mis-labelled or contaminated food products reaching the public at the verge of supermarkets rushing to expand their meet free ranges with the number of people identifying as vegan or vegetarian rising to 3.5 million, according to the Telegraph.
Meanwhile, UK’s Ministry of Justice (MoJ) said it was suspending a supplier of meat to prisons after discovering that food products may contain traces of non-Halal meat, despite being sourced from a properly Halal-certified supplier.
This followed an urgent investigation launched by the Prison Service after a number of Halal meat pies and pasties supplied to jails were found to contain traces of pork DNA.
Following a number of recent cases that have shaken consumer confidence in food labelling, the Food Standards Agency (FSA) ordered a meeting of food suppliers and retailers.
While the Sainsbury’s item has been approved by the Vegetarian Society, a statement from the Vegan Society revealed that neither of the products were registered with their Vegan Trademark.
“The Telegraph tested samples at a German government accredited food testing facility and were found to contain trace amounts of animal DNA. Both retailers are conducting investigations and Tesco said that their own initial DNA tests showed no sign of animal products,” said the statement.
“The Vegan Society acknowledges that we live in a non-vegan world and, as a result, cross-contamination is always a possibility even, as in the case of one of these products, in a meat-free factory, as the supply chain can introduce a contaminated product,” added the statement.
An FSA spokesperson said: “Our priority is to ensure consumers can be confident that the food they eat is safe and is what it says it is.”
“We are investigating the circumstances surrounding these alleged incidents and any resulting action will depend upon the evidence found.”
The development also comes after recent scandal over horsemeat contamination when recently Burger King dropped the Irish food processing plant which supplied burgers contaminated with horse DNA.
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Fashion Wiki » Garrett Neff
garrett-neff
garrett-neff [Oct 11, 2017 13:31] (current)
+ ====== Garrett Neff ======
+ Garrett Neff is an American male model that made his debut when he walked for Perry Ellis, Adam+Eve and Rock Republic.
+ * Born: 12th April 1986
+ * Nationality: American
+ * Height: 6’1”
+ * Eye Color: Green
+ Garrett Neff is signed with Way Model Management Sao Paulo, Sight Management Studio Barcelona, IMG London, Why Not Model Management Milan, Success Models Paris and IMG New York.
+ In 2006 Garrett Neff signed with Click Management, he appeared in the spring issues of V Man and V, he walked the spring shows for Rock Republic, Adam+Eve and Perry Ellis in New York, he appeared in an editorial for GQ and he was in the fall issue of L’Officiel Hommes.
+ In 2007 he walked the fall shows for United Bamboo and Tommy Hilfiger in New York, he appeared in editorials for L’Officiel Hommes and Numero Hommes and he became the face for Calvin Klein Man Fragrance.
+ In 2008 she became the face for Calvin Klein Jeans, he was photographed for Lord & Taylor, he was in the spring ad campaign for Benetton, he was in a 10 page editorial for Details, he walked the fall shows for Rag & Bone, John Varvatos, Zegna, Perry Ellis and Nautica in New York, he modeled the catalogue for Saks Fifth Avenue, he appeared in the spring issue of V Man, he was on the cover of Upstreet, he became the face for Calvin Klein Body and he appeared in an editorial for L’Uomo Vogue.
+ In 2009 he was in an editorial for L’Officiel Hommes, he appeared in an editorial for V, he appeared in an editorial for Vogue France, he walked the spring shows for Tommy Hilfiger and Michael Kors in New York and he was in the fall issue of V Man.
+ In 2010 he appeared in ad campaigns for Blanco, Trussardi and Massino Dutti and he was in editorials for V Man, Details Magazine, L’Officiel Hommes Italia and L’Officiel Hommes.
+ In 2011 he was on the covers of Schon Magazine, Hercules Magazine and Numero Homme, he appeared in editorials for V Man, GQ Germany Hercules Magazine, GQ Style UK, Numero Homme, GQ France, GQ Russia, Vogue, Details Magazine, Schon Magazine and Portrait and appeared in ad campaigns for Express, Ralph Lauren, Belstaff and H&M.
+ In 2012 he was in ad campaigns for DKNY, Gant, Cesare Paciotti, H&M and Moncler, he appeared in editorials for DSECTION Magazine, Madame Figaro, Details Magazine, GQ Japan, Vogue Hommes Japan and Contributor Magazine, he was on the covers of August Man Malaysia and Fino File and walked for Banana Republic.
+ In 2013 he walked for Nautica, he was on the covers of Carbon Copy and L’Officiel Hommes China, he appeared in editorials for Harper’s Bazaar, Harper’s Bazaar UK, Fantastic Man, GQ Spain, GQ Germany, DA MAN Magazine, Carbon Copy, Neo 2, Hercules Magazine, V Man, El Pais Semanal and Portrait and appeared in ad campaigns for Banana Republic, Express, Redken, MAC< Salvatore Ferragamo, Thomas Pink and Marks & Spencer.
+ In 2014 he appeared in ad campaigns for Vera Wang, Hugo Boss, express, Joe Fresh and Ermenegildo Zegna, he was in editorials for Lab-A4 Magazine, GQ Russia, ODDA Magazine, Details Magazine, Out Magazine, Made in Brazil Magazine and Vogue Paris, he was on the covers of Lab-A4, ODDA Magazine and Details Magazine and walked for Nautica and Dolce & Gabbana.
+ More recently in 2015 Garrett Neff walked for Ports 1961, he appeared in editorials for Harper’s Bazaar Germany, Another Magazine and vogue.com and was in ad campaigns for Ports 1961 and Tod’s.
+ His look books include the 2012 look books for Express, the 2013 look book for H&M and the 2014 look books for H&M, El Palacio de Hierro and Neiman Marcus.
+ * [[http://sight-management.com/gallery/model/2399-Garrett%20Neff]]
+ * [[http://nymag.com/fashion/models/gneff/garrettneff/]]
+ * [[https://models.com/models/Garrett-Neff]]
+ * [[http://www.city-data.com/forum/fashion-beauty/|Discuss Garrett Neff on our popular forum]]
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George Clooney Is a Bachelor, Kim Kardashian Is a Spinster
Filed under: Gender,Media — Tags: Ashlee Simpson, bachelorhood, Body Image, Brad Pitt, Double Standards, George Clooney, George Lopez, Jennifer Aniston, Jessica Simpson, Khloe Kardashian, Kim Kardashian, Kourtney Kardashian, slut shaming, spinsterhood — Melanie @ 4:22 pm
Originally posted at Ms. Magazine.
It’s official. As Kim Kardashian approaches her 30th birthday in October, she is joining the ranks of women such as Jennifer Aniston and Jessica Simpson: modern-day spinsters. There’s no comparable expression for men, such as 49-year-old unmarried George Clooney, who has traipsed around the globe parading a rotating bevvy of babes. Oh wait, he’s a bachelor.
Breastfeeding: Nurturing or Sexual?
Filed under: Media,Sexuality — Tags: Angelina Jolie, Bitchfest, boobs, breast obsession, breastfeeding, breasts, Dancing with the Stars, double life of breasts, George Lopez, history of the breast, Julie Bowen. Modern Family, Kardashian, Lopez Tonight, nudity, PETA, Yalom — Melanie @ 10:56 pm
Julie Bowen of Modern Family recently shared a picture with George Lopez of her breastfeeding her twins in a move called the “double football hold.” Unsurprisingly, that photo, seen below, created a public outcry and claimed that the picture was offensive and shocking.
The squeamish response is unsurprising given previous outcries in recent years. In 2006, Babytalk, a free parenting magazine consumed mostly by mothers, received a backlash from offended parties when they featured a cover of a nursing baby in profile. The magazine received over 700 letters, comments included:
I was SHOCKED to see a giant breast on the cover of your magazine,” one person wrote. “I immediately turned the magazine face down,” wrote another. “Gross,” said a third.
One mother who didn’t like the cover explains she was concerned about her 13-year-old son seeing it.
“I shredded it,” said Gayle Ash, of Belton, Texas, in a telephone interview. “A breast is a breast, it’s a sexual thing. He didn’t need to see that.”
“Gross, I am sick of seeing a baby attached to a boob,” wrote Lauren, a mother of a 4-month-old.
Here is the “controversial” cover:
Angelina Jolie created a similar uproar in November, 2008 when she appeared on the cover of W Magazine nursing one of her newborn twins. Along with general discomfort, people responded to the breastfeeding image as something inherently sexual and claimed that the cover photo “sexualized” the act of nursing.
Is empowerment found in a "pink disco ball" vagina?
Filed under: Body Image — Tags: Ariel Levy, bedazzled, blinged-out crotch, corportae cooptation of fmeinism, do-me feminism, empowerment, Female Chauvinist Pigs, George Lopez, Georgia O'Keefe, Jennifer Love Hewitt, medispa, pink think consumerism, raunch culture, vagina, vaginal rejuvenation, vajazzling, waxing — Melanie @ 11:26 am
Guest post by Marley P with Melanie K.
Jennifer Love Hewitt recently appeared on “Lopez Tonight” promoting her new dating book and simultaneously bragging about how her vagina looks like a “pink disco ball”. Vajazzling has become not only one of the most searched terms on google but the newest below the belt “beautification” procedure in which the vagina is waxed bare and then embellished with Swarovski crystals. According to Love, she vajazzled her “precious lady” for the first time after a painful breakup and is now a proud advocate of a shiny, blinged-out crotch.
I initially heard about vajazzling from a girlfriend of mine who works at a medical spa who recently tried out the product as a way to see what all the buzz is about. The jewels supposedly stay in tact for two weeks and are a simple way to bling out and embellish your otherwise boring lower region– just like a celebrity. She is going strong on day five and reports feeling “accessorized”.
Personally, I don’t understand the interest in bedazzling your “lady parts”. In fact, the cons seem to outweigh the pros in my book. I guess I could understand the appeal if the jewels somehow improved the quality of the sexual experience but the possibility of condoms tearing, the possibility of irritation or a misplaced crystal seem like an uncomfortable (not to mention unnecessary) burden to have to think about when engaging in sex. Vajazzling poses as a seemingly benign procedure, that works to promote sexual empowerment but I can’t help but think that it is really promoting quite the opposite. It is just the icing on the cake of “pink think” consumerism, isn’t it? The beauty industry runs on selling women an innate insecurity and notion that self worth is implicitly tied to what we look like and simultaneously co-opts feminist ideals of empowerment as a way to sell a product. We are not being sold empowerment; in fact, we are being dooped into believing that empowerment and liberated sexuality can be bought at a medical spa (that is, if you can afford it).
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Windows Phone 7 NoDo update finally hitting HTC Surround
Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Smartphones, Handhelds, Microsoft, Software,
Microsoft on Tuesday started rolling out its Windows Phone 7 "NoDo" update to the HTC Surround, the last U.S. smartphone on the platform to get the upgrade.
Separately, Microsoft also started rolling out the first security update for Windows Phone 7, which fixes nine fradulent third-party digital certificates.
Like other Windows Phone 7 users, those with an HTC Surround will receive two updates, the first of which will be for a minor update first rolled out in February. Once that's updated, users can move on to the March update, which includes copy and paste, improved Marketplace search, and faster app launching.
Windows Phones check for updates every three days, so it might not appear right away. If you don't want to wait, you can check for it manually via the Zune software on the PC. Just plug the phone in via USB and click "update now." Once the February update is installed, you will have to unplug the phone and plug it back in to receive the March "cut and paste" update. Microsoft has a how-to guide on its Web site.
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Windows Phone 7 review round-up
Posted by Patrick Lambert Categories: Smartphones, Microsoft, Product Reviews, Software,
Microsoft's latest foray into the mobile space, Windows Phone 7, is now for sale throughout the US. How do these new devices fare? Should you throw your iPhone or Blackberry out of the window for a brand new Windows Phone? Or is this just another device for the history books? Well, we've given you our Windows Phone 7 review (as well as a review of the HTC Surround!), but if you wanted a second opinion, here's a list of reviews to help make up your mind:
Engadget has a very in-depth review, going point by point over every feature of the phone, along with pictures and commentaries. They refer to their initial preview, saying that "it finally has the fit and finish of a fully realized product" and "there's a lot to like or even love in WP7". At the end of their review are also links to more reviews on the individual Windows Phone devices.
Gizmodo follows in with another slightly less extensive review, in which they conclude with their stamp of approval.
The New York Times has a fairly short review that asks several questions such as "will these battle plans help catapult Microsoft’s latest smartphone attempt into a relevant standing in this important space" and concludes by saying that "so far the new AT&T phones seems to have everything going for them".
Apart from the written reviews, what I typically prefer are video reviews such as this one from MobileTechReview in which they go over every feature in this very in-depth 27 mins 2-parts review. They also have videos about the individual devices.
We'd love to hear from anyone who's decided to pick up a Windows Phone 7 device - what do you think?
Windows Phone 7 devices now available in the US
Posted by Patrick Lambert Categories: Smartphones, Microsoft,
Windows Phone 7, Microsoft's latest foray into the mobile space, is now available to all in the US. The company's primary partner is AT&T, and they have the Samsung Focus and HTC Surround (see our HTC Surround review and photo gallery) for $199 with a 2 years contract, with the LG Quantum launching in a few days. The phones are also available without a contract for $499. Meanwhile, T-Mobile has the HTC HD7 for $199, with the Dell Venue coming in later this year. Microsoft has stated that they will put $400 million towards advertising Windows Phone 7 as they hope to compete with the iPhone and Android phones this holiday season. Gartner predicts the company's share of the mobile space will climb above 5% by next year.
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HTC Surround review
Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Smartphones, Handhelds, Microsoft, Product Reviews,
We performed our Windows Phone 7 review while using an HTC Surround smartphone from AT&T. Now that we've got the overarching review of Microsoft's big comeback in the mobile operating system world out of the way, we wanted to focus on the HTC surround itself. It's an interesting one, as AT&T is going to launch with three Windows Phone 7 devices come November 8th. The Samsung Focus has that Super AMOLED display and is nice and thin, and the LG Quantum has a slider QWERTY keyboard, which makes it thicker. The HTC Surround is also a thicker slider, but rather than a keyboard, it packs in a pair of Dolby Mobile and SRS Wow "virtual surround" speakers with a kickstand. This is obviously aimed at the Windows Phone 7 customer who plans to use their device as an entertainment device for music and video, and its got 16GB of internal memory to hold that stuff. Is it worth your attention? Keep on reading for our verdict!
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Bleeding Edge TV 367: Windows Phone 7 Connector for Mac
Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Gizmatic, Cell Phones, Features, Microsoft, Podcasts, Software, Videocasts, Videos,
As we mentioned in our Windows Phone 7 review, Microsoft has given Mac users a way to sync their phones and Zune devices with their computers. Windows Phone 7 devices have no Zune client to sync with a Mac, which would have left Mac owners out in the cold. However, Microsoft is releasing the Windows Phone 7 Connector software for Mac, allowing Mac users to sync content from iTunes, iPhoto, and other areas of their Mac, directly to their Windows Phone 7 and Zune handhelds. Hey...it's better than nothing. We give you a look at how it all works in this episode.
Windows Phone 7 review
Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Smartphones, Features, Handhelds, Microsoft, Product Reviews, Software,
When Apple announced the iPhone three years ago, the entire mobile industry started to play catch-up to what Apple was doing. It took a while, but slowly companies like Google, RIM, and Palm eventually released smartphone operating systems like webOS and Android that aimed to compete. However, not much was heard from Microsoft. Once heralded as a major player in the smartphone business with Windows Mobile, Microsoft took a hell of a long time to come up with anything that could compete against iOS, Android, webOS, and really anything else out there. Then, finally, they announced Windows Phone 7 Series, and smartly dropped the "Series" part when just about everyone made fun of them for coming up with a name that was more convoluted than necessary.
Microsoft wanted to tell the world that they were serious about competing, even going so far as to hold a funeral for the iPhone and BlackBerry. A bold (and ridiculous) statement for sure, but now Windows Phone 7 has arrived, launching tomorrow over in Europe, and arriving in the USA on November 8th. Has Microsoft actually learned anything by sitting back and observing the smartphone wars over the past few years, sitting on the sidelines while taking notes? We've been playing with Windows Phone 7 non-stop for a while now, and we're sharing our answers with you here in our Windows Phone 7 review.
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Catch me on Windows Phone Radio!
Windows Phone 7 launches on November 8 here in the US, and in just three days over in Europe. I got a chance to sit in (okay, I kinda took it over) on Windows Phone Radio a couple days ago to talk to Brian Seitz and Matt Akers about what we can all expect from the launch, from the software, and from the hardware devices that we will see launching. We chat about Zune, Xbox Live on the devices, and also what it took to bring a bunch of Microsoft divisions together to collaborate on this operating system. It's all good stuff, and if you're interested in WIndows Phone 7 or mobile devices in general, give it a listen.
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The Hague Transavia Grand Slam | 15 - 20 July 2014
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Fijalek & Prudel Net Poland’s First FIVB World Tour Gold Medal
Grzegorz Fijalek and Mariusz Prudel net Poland's first-ever gold medal on the FIVB World Tour.
The Hague, The Netherlands, July 20, 2014 - The names of Grzegorz Fijalek and Mariusz Prudel are now in the FIVB Beach Volleyball World Tour record book as the Polish pair became the first men’s or women’s from the European country to win a gold medal after upsetting Americans Phil Dalhausser and Sean Rosenthal of the United States in the men’s finale of the US$1-million Transavia Grand Slam presented by Bas Van de Goor Foundation.
Seeded sixth in the event, Fijalek and Prudel won seven-straight matches in the ninth men’s event on the 2014 FIVB World Tour calendar by posting a 2-1 (21-18, 13-21, 15-13) win in 59 minutes over the top-seeded Americans. With the win, Fijalek and Prudel share the $72,000 first-place prize while Dalhausser and Rosenthal split $52,000.
It was the second win this season for the Poles over Dalhausser and Rosenthal, who were seeking to become the first team since the 2011 FIVB World Tour season to win three-straight tournaments. The Americans had won the last two Grand Slam stops in Norway and Switzerland and entered Sunday’s finale with a 20-match winning streak that ended when the Poles commanded the third and deciding set by scores of 7-4 and 12-8. Behind Dalhausser, the Americans rallied to 12-11, but Fijalek and Prudel sided out the rest of the way to win their first gold medal match in four attempts.
“This is historical win for Poland,” said Fijalek. “Through the years, in The Hague, we got better and finished higher and higher. It's a great step to the world championship next year. There are a lot of fans from Poland, I'm really happy about it and it's a good motivation for us."
When the Americans pulled within a point at 12-11 in the third set, Fijalek said “we called a time out and said to each other: concentrate. It helped and we did it! I can't tell you about our tactics, but we defeated the Americans for the second time this year so we knew how to beat them. In the first set, we had a couple of lucky serves. In the second set the situation was changed and they made two or three aces. But if you have three points up you can win. In the tie-break, we played point by point and in the end we got it. We're going to drink the champagne on our flight to Los Angeles because we don't have time to celebrate in The Netherlands with our Polish fans.”
Prudel was also “happy to win today, it's our first golden medal. We won by only two numbers, but it's the best way. Our level in this tournament is very high and constant. We stayed concentrated until the end. There are very many people from Poland, some friends as well, who live and work here. On the court today, I felt like I was in Poland!"
Dalhausser said the Poles “played very well and had some big points in the third set. They also had three net point serves. Rosenthal also lauded Fijalek and Prudel by saying “they're a great team and we got close a lot of times. They had a few more games than we did. I had a lot of shaky passes and a couple of serves coming over. They played great and they deserved to win today.”
In the All-Brazilian men’s bronze medal match, the eighth-seeded Emanuel and Salgado posted a 2-1 (12-21, 21-16, 15-11) win in 51 minutes over third-seeded Alison Cerutti and Bruno Oscar Schmidt at The Hague Beach Stadium on Scheveningen beach. With the victory, Emanuel and Salgado shared the $40,000 third-place prize while their compatriots split $30,000.
Earlier Sunday, Brazilians Fernanda Alves and Taiana Lima defeated Katrin Holtwick and Ilka Semmler of Germany 2-1 to win the women’s Transavia Grand Slam title. Maria Antonelli and Juliana Felisberta of Brazil captured the bronze medal and with a 2-0 (21-13, 21-14) in 35 minutes over the third-seeded Kristyna Kolocova and Marketa Slukova of the Czech Republic.
This coming week, the FIVB World Tour returns to the United States for the second-straight year as Long Beach in southern California hosts another $1-million event. The international circuit returns to Europe in August for stops in Austria (Klagenfurt, July 29-August 3) and Poland (Stare Jablonki, August 19-24).
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Cape Coast, April 19, GNA - Global Host Project (GHP), an NGO, has cut the sod for the construction of a 10-seater toilet facility worth GH¢ 23.000 for a settler fishing community at Duakor near the University of Cape Coast. GHP initiated the project as part of its social responsibility towards deprived rural communities in the Central Regional. &n
Cape Coast, April 19, GNA - Global Host Project (GHP), an NGO, has cut the sod for the construction of a 10-seater toilet facility worth GH¢ 23.000 for a settler fishing community at Duakor near the University of Cape Coast.
GHP initiated the project as part of its social responsibility towards deprived rural communities in the Central Regional.
Mr Odua Kwesi Sampson, Country Director of GHP, said the NGO was founded in 2008 with the aim of promoting developmental projects by constructing useful social amenities to communities where they operate.
He said apart from building the toilet facility for the Duakor community, plans were far advanced to build identical projects in Ahenborboi, Okyeso and Abakam.
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Mr Francis Apedo, assembly member of the area, commended GHP for the prompt response to their appeal and gave the assurance that the community would give the project the needed support to ensure its early completion.
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The chief of the area, Togbe Ayivi II, commended both the assembly member and the GHP for their efforts at providing the community with a toilet facility saying that the lack of such facilities had resulted in needless deaths.
He pledged to give the project the needed support to ensure that it was completed on schedule and called on other NGOs to come to the aid of the community.
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Born: 11 December 1803
Died: March 8, 1869, in Paris due to a heart attack
Alternate/ Birth Name: Louis-Hector Berlioz
Birthplace: La Côte Saint-André, France
Mother: Marie Antoinette Josephine Marmion (1784 - 1838)
Father: Dr. Louis-Joseph Berlioz (1776-1848)
Siblings: Five siblings. Only two of them survived adulthood.
Sister:Marguerite Anne Louise Berlioz (Commonly known as Nanci) (1806-1850)
Sister: Louise-Julie Virginie Berlioz (1807-1814)
Sister: Adele Eugenie Berlioz (1814-1860)
Brother: Louise Jules Felix Berlioz (1816-1819)
Brother: Prosper Berlioz (1820-1839)
Profession: French Romantic composer
Education: Some noted references from that time suggest that Berlioz's elementary education started at the age of six, he was sent to the local seminary.His father had a keen interest in young Berlioz's education for he recognized his son's capabilities.Dr. Berlioz tutored his son in the literature, history and geography. During this period young Berlioz developed keen interested in music Both father and son read many books together in this course of his education, they read the Virgil La fontaine's fables, Paul et virginie (Bernardin de saint-pierre's saccharine take if young love in the Indies, 1788). His passion for music hence increased and studied biographies of composers specifically one called J.F. Michaud's "Biographie Universelle" which used to come out as annual fascicles'.During the same time recognizing young Berlioz's keen interest in music his farther bought him a flute and a flute tutor along with some treatises. Berlioz at the age of 12 became proficient at Guitar and Flute and also wrote small compositions and arrangements. Alongside, he was also kept involved in politics and literary trends of that time. Though his father supplied the material to nurture young Berlioz musical interest and talent, he never took his son's musical interest seriously for he thought his son would follow his footsteps and become a surgeon but Berlioz had a different goal in mind. In 1821, Berlioz at 18, was sent to Paris to study medicine but his passion for overshadowed everything else he did at that time instead he took advantage of the scope in Paris for music as Paris conservatory's library supplied scores of many composers and other musical works. Berlioz was more interested in Gluck's spent great deal of time in learning about Gluck musical style for he also educated himself by attending Paris Opéra, where he saw Iphigénie en Tauride by Christoph Willibald Gluck. In 1824 he left the study of medicine and concentrated solely on music though his parents were agitated against this decision Berlioz followed his dream. In 1826 he studied at the conservatory tutored by Le Sueur and Anton Reicha for compositions.
Childhood: Berlioz in no way can be called a child prodigy if we alone consider success at childhood but if we also consider a child driven by pure determination towards his goal so much so that almost all his musical intellect came from self study then who wouldn't call him a child prodigy. He was born at La Côte-Saint-André in the département of Isère, France. Father for a successful and hard working physician and mother for a orthodox roman catholic who was said to be fretful and had short temper. Responsibility of Berlioz's education at an early age was taken up by his father who made sure that his son gets all round education. The family ambition was to see Berlioz's as a surgeon but during his young years he developed a keen interest in music it is believed that musical passion was fueled by his first attempt at love when he was 12. Berlioz fell in love with a girl named Estella Fornier, the girl next door who was 18 years old at that time. It was then he started to understand the depths of Virgil which he learnt to read Latin and French from his father. His mostly self taught education made him proficient at Guitar, Flute and singing. He was never very comfortable with the school education or his inability to curb his passion for music in front of those people who shard lesser zeal for for music. At his parents wish in 1821, he joined medicine school to become a surgeon but he was never interested in it and use to spend more time in music studies that in medicine so he left medicine in 1824 to which his family refuted and his mother cursed him for brining shame to the family and father was planning to stopped Berlioz's allowance after some time.All this didn't deter him and in the same year he composed Messe solennelle, joined the conservatory in pairs and worked to achieve his goal.
First Break: In 1830, He won the Prix de Rome with the cantata Sardanapale.
Harriet Smithson (1800 - 1854), Married in 1833 and divorced in 1842
Marie Recio (Marie-Geneviève Martin) (1814 - 1862), Married in 1854. This relationship survived till Marie death.
Son: Louis-Thomas Berlioz (1834-1867) from Harriet Smithson.Thomas Berlioz died of yellow fever in Havana
“Love cannot express the idea of music, while music may give an idea of love”
“Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils”
“At least I have the modesty to admit that lack of modesty is one of my failings”
“Every composer knows the anguish and despair occasioned by forgetting ideas which one had no time to write down”
“The luck of having talent is not enough; one must also have a talent for luck”
Most Famous Performances:
1830 - H48, Symphonie fantastique
1846 - H111, La Damnation de Faust
1837 - H75, Grande Messe des morts (The Requiem)
1856-1858, 59-61, 63 - H133, Les Troyens
1839 - H79, Roméo et Juliette
1834 - H68, Harold en Italie
1846-1851 - H101B, Le Corsaire
1844 - H95, Le Carnaval romain
1841 - H81A, Les Nuits d'été
1853-1854 - H130, L'Enfance du Christ
1848-1849 - H118, Te Deum
Musical Journey:
1838 - 76A, Benvenuto Cellini
1860-1862 - H138, Béatrice et Bénédict
Operas: fragmentary
1825-1826 - H23A, Les Francs-Juges opera
1841-1842 - H91 , La Nonne sanglante (Incomplete)
1842 - H80B, Grande Symphonie funèbre et triomphale (VERSION II: for band, with orchestra and chorus ad libitum)
1848 - H80C, Grande Symphonie funèbre et triomphale (Version III : Apothéose, for solo voice, chorus and piano)
1826 - H23D, Grande Ouverture des Francs-Juges
1828 - H26, Grande Ouverture de Waverley
1831 - H53, Grande ouverture du Roi Lear
1831 - H54, Intrata di Rob-Roy MacGregor
1838 - H76B, Grande Ouverture de Benvenuto Cellini
Other Orchestral
1841 - H88, Rëverie et Caprice
1841 - H90, L'Invitation à la valse
1845 - H105, Marche marocaine
1846 - H109, Marche de Rakoczy
1864 - H133B, Marche troyenne
Works with Band
1833 (Prior) - H21B, Scène héroîque
1840 - H80A, Grande Symphonie funèbre et triomphale (Version I for military band)
Other Instrumental
1826 - H22, Fugue
1829 - H35, Fugue à trois sujets
Orchestra and Chorus I
1824-1825 - H20A, Messe solennelle
1837 - H75, Grande Messe des morts (Requiem)
Orchestra and Chorus II
1825-1826 - H21A, Scène héroïque (La Révolution grecque)
1828 - H20B, Resurrexit
1828-1829 - H33, Huit Scènes de Faust
1830 - H51A, Hymne des Marseillais
1830 - H51bis, Chant du neuf Thermidor
1830 - H52, Ouverture de la Tempête
1831 - H55A, Le Retour à la vie
1832 - H59, Quartetto et coro dei maggi
1835 - H74, Le Cinq Mai
1844 - H97, Hymne à la France
1844 - H103, Marche funèbre pour la dernière scène d'Hamlet
1846 - H110, Chant des Chemins de Fer
1848 - H117, La Menace des Francs
1850 - H128, La Fuite en Egypte
1854 - H129, L'Impériale
1855 - H55B, Le Retour à la vie (Lélio, ou le retour à la vie)
Prix de Rome Cantatas
1827 - H25, La Mort d'Orphée
1828 - H29, Herminie
1829 - H36, Cléopâtre
1830 - H50, La mort de Sardanapale
Chorus and Organ
1859 - H135, Hymne pour la consécration du nouveau tabernacle
1861 - H137A, Le Temple universel (Version I : for two choruses and organ)
1861-1868 (between) - H142, Tantum ergo
1861-1868 (between) - H143, Invitation à louer Dieu
Chorus unaccompanied
1833 - H64, Sur les Alpes, quel délice!
1850 - H122, Chant des chérubins
1850 - H123, Pater noster
1867-1868 - H137B, Le Temple universel (Version II: for unaccompanied chorus)
1861-1868 (between) - H141, Veni creator
Songs with Orchestra
1829 - H41 , Chant guerrier
1835 - H65D, Le Jeune Pâtre breton (VERSION IV: for voice and orchestra)
1842 - H42C, La Belle Voyageuse (VERSION III: for mexxo-soprano and orchestra)
1843 - H44B, Chant sacré (VERSION II: for chorus and orchestra)
1843 - H85B, Absence (VERSION II: for voice and orchestra)
1844 - H40B, Hélène (VERSION II: for male voices and orchestra)
1845 - H104B, Le Chasseur danois (VERSION II: for voice and orchestra)
1845 - H107B, Zaïde (VERSION II: for voice and orchestra)
1848 - H60E, La Captive (VERSION V: contralto or mezzo-soprano and orchestra, in E major)
1848 - H60F, La Captive (VERSION VI: contralto or mezzo-soprano and orchestra, in D major)
1848 - H92B, La Mort d'Ophélie (VERSION II; for female chorus and orchestra)
1849 - H56B, Méditation religieuse (VERSION II: for chorus and orchestra)
1849 - H69C, Sara la baigneuse (VERSION III: for three choruses and orchestra)
1851 - H42D, La Belle Voyageuse (VERSION IV: for female chorus and orchestra)
1884, 1885, 1856 - H81B, Les Nuits d'été (VERSION II: for voices and orchestra. See 82, 83, 84, 85, 86, 87)
1856 - H82B, Villanelle (VERSION II: for voice and orchestra)
1856 - H83B, Le Spectre de la rose (VERSION II: for voice and orchestra)
1856 - H84B, Sur les Lagunes (VERSION II: for voice and orchestra)
1856 - H86B, Au Cimetière (VERSION II: for voice and orchestra)
1856 - H87B, L'Ile inconnue (VERSION II: for voice and orchestra)
1859 - H134, Plaisir d'amour (Arrangement: music by J.-P.-E. Martini)
1860 - H136, Le Roi des aulnes (Arrangement: music by Schubert)
1819 - H7, Le Dépit de la bergère
1819-1821 - H9A, L'Arabe jaloux
1819-1821 - H10A, Amitié reprends ton empire
1822 - H9B, Le Maure jaloux (Version II)
1822 - H11, Pleure pauvre Colette
1822 - H14, Canon libre à la quinte
1823 - H10B, Amitié reprends ton empire (Version II)
1823 - H15, Le Montagnard exilé
1823 - H16, Toi qui l'aimas verse des pleurs
1828 - H23B, Nocturne (Mélodie pastorale)
1828 - H33A, Le Roi de Thulé (VERSION I: for soprano and piano)
1829 - H37, Le Ballet des ombres
1829 - H38, Neuf Mélodies
1829 - H39, Le Coucher du soleil
1829 - H40A, Hélène (VERSION I: for 2 voices and Piano)
1829 - H42A, La Belle Voyageuse (VERSION I: for voice and Piano)
1829 - H43, Chanson à boire
1829 - H44A, Chant sacré (VERSION I: for tenor or soprano solo, chorus, and piano)
1829 - H45, L'Origine de la harpe
1829 - H46A, Adieu Bessy (VERSION I: in A-flat)
1829 - H47, Elégie en prose
1832 - H60A, La Captive (VERSION I: for voice and piano)
1832 - H60B, La Captive (VERSION II: for voice and piano)
1832 - H60C, La Captive (VERSION III: for voice, cello, and piano)
1833 - H65A, Le Paysan breton (VERSION I: for voice and piano)
1834 - H65C, Le Jeune Pâtre breton (VERSION II: for voice, piano, and horn)
1834 - H67A, Les Champs (VERSION I)
1834 - H70, Je crois en vous
1835 - H71A, Le Chant des Bretons (VERSION I: for chorus and piano)
1835 - H73, Chansonette de M. Léon de Wailly
1840 - H82A, Villanelle (VERSION I: voice and piano)
1840 - H83A, Le Spectre de la rose (VERSION I: voice and piano)
1840 - H85A, Absence (VERSION I: voice and piano)
1841 - H81A, Les Nuits d'été (VERSION I: for voice and piano)
1841 - H84A, Sur les Lagunes (VERSION I: voice and piano)
1841 - H86A, Au Cimetière (VERSION I: voice and piano)
1841 - H87A, L'Ile inconnue (VERSION I: voice and piano)
1842 - H92A, La Mort d'Ophélie (VERSION I: voice and piano)
1843 - H94, La Belle Isabeau
1844 - H104A, Le Chasseur danois (VERSION I: voice and piano)
1845 - H107A, Zaïde (VERSION I: voice and piano)
1846 - H112, Prière du matin
1846 - H113, Le Trébuchet
1848 - H51B, Hymne des Marseillais (La Marseillaise.) Arrangement: music by Rouget de Lisle. VERSION II: for tenor solo, chorus,)
1848 - H80C, Apothéose (VERSION III, arranged for solo voice, chorus, and piano)
1849 - H46B, Adieu Bessy (VERSION II: in G)
1849 - H71B, Le Chant des Bretons (VERSION II: for chorus and piano)
1850 - H67B, Les Champs (VERSION II)
1850 - H125, Le Matin
1850 - H126, Petit Oiseau (sur les memes paroles que la Romance [Petit Oiseau, 125])
Songs with Guitar
1819 - H5, Fleuve du Tage (Arrangement: music by Pollet)
1819-1822 - H8, Recueil de romances avec accompagnement de guitar (Arrangements: music by various composers)
1828 - H31, Nocturne à deux voix
1839 - H78A, Aubade (VERSION I: for voice and 2 horns)
1850 - H78B, Aubade (VERSION II: for voice and brass)
1844 - H98, Sérénade agreste à la madone
1844 - H99, Toccata
1844 - H100, Hymne pour l'élévation
1849 - H119A, Tristia (VERSION I: Collection of two works for chorus and pf., issued as Oeuvre 18. See 56, 92A.)
1849 - H120, Vox Populi (Collection of two works for orchestra and chorus, issued as Oeuvre 20. See 117, 97.)
1850 - H121, Feuillets d'album (Collection of three works, issued as Oeuvre 19. See 107B, 67B, 110)
1850 - H124, Fleurs des landes (Collection of five méliodies, issued as Oeuvre 13. See 125, 126, 113, 65C, 71B)
1851 - H119B, Tristia (VERSION II: Collection of three works for chorus and orchestra, ussed as Oeuvre 18. See 56B,)
1863 - H139, 32 Mélodies
1831-1833 - H23C, Le Cri de Guerre du Brisgaw (Incomplete intermezo in one act based on Les Francs-Juges)
1835-1839 - H77, Erigone (Imcomplete)
1841 - H89, Le Freyschütz (Recitatives for Weber's opera)
1844 - H101A, La Tour de Nice (Version I of Le Corsaire)
Sketches and Albumleaves
1833 - H62, Sketchbook of 1832-36
1842-1848 - H93, Souvenirs-Betises-Improvisatiosn (Album from concert tours, 1842-48)
1844 - H96, Albumleaf
1845 - H106, Le Vent gémit (Albumleaf)
1847 - H114, Nessun maggior piacere (Albumleaf)
1852 - H127, Albumleaf for Edouard Silas
1855 - H131, Valse chantée par le vent dans les cheminées d'un de mes châteaux en Espagne (Albumleaf)
1856 - H132, Au bord d'une rivière (Exercise on an experimental scale.)
1865 - H140, Salut matinal
1817-1819 - H1, Potpourri concertant sur des thèmes italiens (Lost)
1817-1819 - H2, Quintet for Flute and String Quartet (Lost)
1817-1819 - H4, Romances (Lost)
1817-1819 - H6, Je vais donc quitter pour jamais (Lost)
1822 - H12, Le Cheval arabe (Lost)
1822 - H13, Canon à trois voix (Lost)
1823 - H17, Estelle et Némorin (Opera. LOST)
1824 - H18, Le Passage de la mer rouge (Oratorio with Latin text. LOST.)
1824 - H19, Beverley, ou le joueur (Dramatic Scene. LOST.)
1828 - H27, Marche religieuse des Mages
1828 - H28, Fugue (Lost)
1828 - H30, Là ci darem la mano (Lost)
1829 - H32, Salutaris (Lost)
1829 - H34, Chanson des pirates (Lost)
1831 - H56A , Méditation religieuse (VERSION I: for chorus and seven wind instruments. LOST)
1831 - H57, Choeur
1831 - H58, Choeur d'anges
1831-1833 - H61, Le Dernier Jour du monde
1833 - H63, La Chasse de Lützow (Arrangement: music by Weber. LOST)
1833 - H66, Romance de Marie Tudor
1834 - H42B, La Belle Voyageuse (VERSION II: for male quartet and orchestra. LOST)
1834 - H60D, La Captive (VERSION IV: for soprano and orchestra)
1834 - H65B, Le Jeune Pâtre breton (VERSION II: for soprano and orchestra. LOST.)
1834 - H69A, Sara la baigneuse (Lost)
1835 - H72, Fête musicale funèbre (Lost)
1838 - H69B, Sara la baigneuse (VERSION II: for vocal quartet, chorus, and orchestra. LOST)
1844 - H44C, Chant sacré (VERSION III: for six wind instruments and orchestra)
1844 - H102, Scène de la comédie (Morceaux d'Hamlet, no. 1. LOST)
1845 - H108, Marche d'Isly (Arrangement: music by Léopold de Meyer. LOST)
1848 - H115, Chant du départ (Arrangement: music by Méhul. LOST.)
1848 - H116, Mourons pour la patrie (Arrangement: music by Rouget de Lisle. LOST.)
Harriet Brower's Account For Hector Berlioz
In the south of France, near Grenoble, is found a romantic spot, La Côte Saint-André. It lies on a hillside overlooking a wide green and golden plain, and its dreamy majesty is accentuated by the line of mountains that bounds it on the
southeast. These in turn are crowned by the distant glory of snowy peaks and Alpine glaciers. Here one of the most distinguished men of the modern movement in French musical art, Hector Berlioz, first saw the light, on December 11, 1803.
He was an only son of a physician. His father, a learned man, with the utmost care, taught his little boy history, literature, geography, languages, even music. Hector was a most romantic, impressionable child, who peopled nature with fairies and elves, as he lay under great trees and dreamed fantastic day dreams. Poetry and romantic tales were his delight and he found much to feed his imagination in his father's large library.
His mother's father lived at Meylan, a little village not far from Grenoble, and there, in this picturesque valley, the family used to spend a part of each summer.
Above Meylan, in a crevice of the mountain, stood a white house amid its vineyards and gardens. It was the home of Mme. Gautier and her two nieces, of whom the younger was called Estelle. When the boy Hector saw her for the first time, he was twelve, a shy, retiring little fellow. Estelle was just eighteen, tall, graceful, with beautiful dusky hair and large soulful eyes. Most wonderful of all, with her simple white gown, she wore pink slippers. The shy boy of twelve fell in desperate love with this white robed apparition in pink slippers. He says himself:
"Never do I recall Estelle, but with the flash of her large dark eyes comes the twinkle of her dainty pink shoes. To say I loved her comprises everything. I was wretched, dumb, despairing. By night I suffered agonies—by day I wandered alone through the fields of Indian corn, or, like a wounded bird, sought the deepest recesses of my grandfather's orchard.
"One evening there was a party at Mme. Gautier's and various games were played. In one of them I was told to choose first. But I dared not, my heart-beats choked me. Estelle, smiling, caught my hand, saying: 'Come, I will begin; I choose Monsieur Hector.' But, ah, she laughed!
"I was thirteen when we parted. I was thirty when, returning from Italy, I passed through this district, so filled with early memories. My eyes filled at sight of the white house: I loved her still. On reaching my old home I learned she was married!"
With pangs of early love came music, that is, attempts at musical composition. His father had taught him the rudiments of music, and soon after gave him a flute. On this the boy worked so industriously that in seven or eight months he could play fairly well. He also took singing lessons, as he had a pretty soprano voice. Harmony was likewise studied by this ambitious lad, but it was self taught. He had found a copy of Rameau's "Harmony" among some old books and spent many hours poring over those labored theories in his efforts to reduce them to some form and sense.
Inspired by these studies he tried his hand at music making in earnest. First came some arrangements of trios and quartettes. Then finally he was emboldened to write a quintette for flute, two violins, viola and 'cello. Two months later he had produced another quintette, which proved to be a little better. At this time Hector was twelve and a half. His father had set his heart on the boy's following his footsteps and becoming a doctor; the time was rapidly approaching when a decision had to be made. Doctor Berlioz promised if his son would study anatomy and thoroughly prepare himself in this branch of the profession, he should have the finest flute that could be bought. His cousin Robert shared these anatomical lessons; but as Robert was a good violinist, the two boys spent more time over music than over osteology. The cousin, however, really worked over his anatomy, and was always ready at the lessons with his demonstrations, while Hector was not, and thus drew upon himself many a reprimand. However he managed to learn all his father could teach him, and when he was nineteen consented to go to Paris, with Robert, and—though much against his will—become a doctor.
When the boys reached Paris, in 1822, Hector loyally tried to keep his promise to his father and threw himself into the studies which were so repugnant to him. He says he might have become a common-place physician after all, had he not one night gone to the opera. That night was a revelation; he became half frantic with excitement and enthusiasm. He went again and again. Learning that the Conservatoire library, with its wealth of scores, was open to the public, he began to study the scores of his adored Gluck. He read, re-read and copied long parts and scenes from these wonderful scores, even forgetting to eat, drink or sleep, in his wild enthusiasm. Of course, now, the career of doctor must be given up; there was no question of that. He wrote home that in spite of father, mother, relations and friends, a musician he would be and nothing else.
A short time after this the choir master of Saint Roch, suggested that Hector should write a mass for Innocents' Day, promising a chorus and orchestra, with ample rehearsals, also that the choir boys would copy the parts. He set to work with enthusiasm. But alas, after one trial of the completed work, which ended in confusion owing to the countless mistakes the boys had made in copying the score, he rewrote the whole composition. Fearing another fiasco from amateur copyists, the young composer wrote out all the parts himself. This took three months. With the help of a friend who advanced funds, the mass was performed at Saint Roch, and was well spoken of by the press.
The hostility of Hector's family to music as a profession, died down a bit, owing to the success of the mass, but started up with renewed vigor when the son and brother failed to pass the entrance examinations at the Conservatoire. His father wrote that if he persisted in staying on in Paris his allowance would be stopped. Lesueur, his teacher, promised to intercede and wrote an appealing letter, which really made matters worse instead of better. Then Hector went home himself, to plead his cause in person. He was coldly received by his family; his father at last consented to his return to Paris for a time, but his mother forbade it absolutely. In case he disobeyed her will, she would disown him and never again wished to see his face. So Hector at last set out again for Paris with no kind look or word from his mother, but reconciled for the time being with the rest of the family.
The young enthusiast began life anew in Paris, by being very economical, as he must pay back the loan made for his mass. He found a tiny fifth floor room, gave up restaurant dinners and contented himself with plain bread, with the addition of raisins, prunes or dates. He also secured some pupils, which helped out in this emergency, and even got a chance to sing in vaudeville, at the enormous sum of 50 francs per month!
These were strenuous days for the eager ardent musician. Teaching from necessity, in order to live, spending every spare moment on composing; attending opera whenever he got a free ticket; yet, in spite of many privations there was happiness too. With score under arm, he always made it a point to follow the performance of any opera he heard. And so in time, he came to know the sound—the voice as it were, of each instrument in the orchestra. The study of Beethoven, Weber and Spontini—watching for rare and unusual combinations of sounds, being with artists who were kind enough to explain the compass and powers of their instruments, were the ways and means he used to perfect his art.
When the Conservatoire examinations of 1827, came on, Hector tried again, and this time passed the preliminary test. The task set for the general competition was to write music for Orpheus torn by the Bacchantes. An incompetent pianist, whose duty it was to play over the compositions, for the judges, could seem to make nothing of Hector's score. The six judges, headed by Cherubini, the Director of the Conservatoire, voted against the aspirant, and he was thrown out a second time.
And now came to Berlioz a new revelation—nothing less than the revelation of the art of Shakespeare. An English company of actors had come to Paris, and the first night Hamlet was given, with Henrietta Smithson—who five years later became his wife—as Ophelia.
In his diary Berlioz writes: "Shakespeare, coming upon me unawares, struck me down as with a thunderbolt. His lightning spirit opened to me the highest heaven of Art, and revealed to me the best and grandest and truest that earth can give." He began to worship both the genius of Shakespeare and the art of the beautiful English actress. Every evening found him at the theater, but days were spent in a kind of dumb despair, dreaming of Shakespeare and of Miss Smithson, who had now become the darling of Paris.
At last this sort of dumb frenzy spent itself and the musician in him awoke and he returned to his normal self. A new plan began to take shape in his mind. He would give a concert of his own works: up to that time no French musician had done so. Thus he would compel her to hear of him, although he had not yet met the object of his devoted admiration.
It was early spring of the year 1828, when he set to work with frantic energy, writing sixteen hours a day, in order to carry through the wonderful plan. The concert, the result of so much labor, was given the last of May, with varying success. But alas, Miss Smithson, adsorbed in her own affairs, had not even heard of the excitable young composer who had dared and risked so much to make a name that might attract her notice.
As Berlioz père again stopped his allowance, Hector began to write for musical journals. At first ignorant of the ways of journalism, his wild utterances were the despair of his friends; later his trenchant pen was both admired and feared.
For the third time, in June of this year, he entered the Conservatoire contest, and won a second prize, in this case a gold medal. Two years later he won the coveted Prix de Rome, which gives the winner five years' study, free of expense, in the Eternal City.
Before this honor was achieved, however, a new influence came into his life, which for a time overshadowed the passion for Shakespeare and Miss Smithson. It happened on this wise.
Ferdinand Hiller, composer, pianist and one of Hector's intimate friends, fell deeply in love with Marie Moke, a beautiful, talented girl who, later on, won considerable fame as a pianist. She became interested in the young French composer, through hearing of his mental suffering from Hiller. They were thrown together in a school where both gave lessons, she on the piano and he on the—guitar! Meeting so constantly, her dainty beauty won a warm place in the affections of the impressionable Hector. She was but eighteen, while her admirer was twenty-five.
Hiller saw how things were going and behaved admirably. He called it fate, wished the pair every happiness, and left for Frankfort.
Then came the Prix de Rome, which the poor boy had struggled so long to win, and now did not care so much for, as going to Italy would mean to leave Paris. On August 23, 1830, he wrote to a friend:
"I have gained the Prix de Rome. It was awarded unanimously—a thing never known before. My sweet Ariel was dying of anxiety when I told her the news; her dainty wings were all ruffled, till I smoothed them with a word. Even her mother, who does not look too favorably on our love, was touched to tears.
"On November 1, there is to be a concert at the Theater Italien. I am asked to write an Overture and am going to take as subject Shakespeare's Tempest; it will be quite a new style of thing. My great concert, with the Symphonie Fantastique, will take place November 14, but I must have a theatrical success; Camille's parents insist on that, as a condition of our marriage. I hope I shall succeed."
These concerts were both successful and the young composer passed from deepest anxiety to exuberant delight. He wrote to the same friend;
"The Tempest is to be played a second time at the opera. It is new, fresh, strange, grand, sweet, tender, surprising. Fétis wrote two splendid articles about it for the Revue Musicale.—My marriage is fixed for Easter, 1832, on condition that I do not lose my pension, and that I go to Italy for one year. My blessed Symphonie has done the deed."
The next January Berlioz went home to his family, who were now reconciled to his choice of music as a profession, and deluged him with compliments, caresses and tender solicitude. The parents had fully forgiven their gifted son.
"There is Rome, Signore."
It was true. The Eternal City lay spread out in purple majesty before the young traveler, who suddenly realized the grandeur, the poetry of this heart of the world. The Villa Medici, the venerable ancient palace, centuries old, had been reserved by the Academié of France as home for her students, whose sole obligation was to send, once a year, a sample of their work to the Academié in Paris.
When Hector Berlioz arrived in Rome he was twenty-seven, and of striking appearance. A mass of reddish auburn hair crowned a high forehead; the features were prominent, especially the nose; the expression was full of sensitive refinement. He was of an excitable and ardent temperament, but in knowledge of the world's ways often simple as a child.
Berlioz, who was welcomed with many humorous and friendly jests on his appearance among the other students, had just settled down to work, when he learned that his Ariel—otherwise Marie Moke—had forsaken him and had married Pleyel. In a wild state of frenzy he would go to Paris at once and seek revenge. He started, got as far as Nice, grew calmer, remained at Nice for a month, during which time the Overture to "King Lear" was written, then returned to Rome by the way of Genoa and Florence.
By July 1832, Berlioz had returned to La Côte Saint André for a home visit. He had spent a year in Italy, had seen much, composed a number of important things, but left Rome without regrets, and found the familiar landscape near his home more fascinating than anything Italy could show.
The rest of the summer was spent in the beautiful Dauphiny country, working on the "Damnation of Faust." In the fall he returned to Paris. The vision of his Ophelia, as he used to call Miss Smithson, was seldom long absent from his thoughts, and he now went to the house where she used to live, thinking himself very lucky to be able to find lodging there. Meeting the old servant, he learned Miss Smithson was again in Paris, and would manage a new English theater, which was to open in a few days. But Berlioz was planning a concert of his own compositions, and did not trust himself to see the woman he had so long adored until this venture was over. It happened, however, that some friends induced her to attend the concert, the success of which is said to have been tremendous. The composer had the happiness of meeting the actress the same evening. The next day he called on her. Their engagement lasted nearly a year, opposed by her mother and sister, and also by Hector's family. The following summer Henrietta Smithson, all but ruined from her theatrical ventures, and weak from a fall, which made her a cripple for some years, was married to Hector Berlioz, in spite of the opposition of their two families.
And now there opened to Berlioz a life of stress and struggle, inseparable from such a nature as his. At one moment he would be in the highest heaven of happiness, and the next in the depths of despair. His wife's heavy debts were a load to carry, but he manfully did his best to pay them. We can be sure that every work he ever produced was composed under most trying circumstances, of one kind or another. One of his happiest ventures was a concert of his own compositions, given at the Conservatoire on October 22, 1833. Of it he wrote: "The concert, for which I engaged the very best artists, was a triumphant success. My musicians beamed with joy all evening, and to crown all, I found waiting for me a man with long black hair, piercing eyes and wasted form. Catching my hand, he poured forth a flood of burning praise and appreciation. It was Paganini!"
Paganini commissioned Berlioz to write a solo for his beautiful Strad. viola. The composer demurred for a time, and then made the attempt. While the result was not just what the violinist wished, yet the themes afterward formed the basis for Berlioz' composition "Childe Harold."
The next great work undertaken by Berlioz was the Requiem. It seems that, in 1836, the French Minister of the Interior set aside yearly, 3,000 francs to be given to a native composer, chosen by the Minister, to compose a religious work, either a mass or an oratorio, to be performed at the expense of the Government.
"I shall begin with Berlioz," he announced: "I am sure he could write a good Requiem."
After many intrigues and difficulties, this work was completed and performed in a way the composer considered "a magnificent triumph."
Berlioz, like most composers, always wished to produce an opera. "Benvenuto Cellini" was the subject finally chosen. It took a long time to write, and perhaps would never have been finished, since Berlioz was so tied to bread-winning journalistic labors, if a kind friend—Ernest Legouvé—had not offered to lend him two thousand francs. This loan made him independent for a little time, and gave him the necessary leisure in which to compose.
The "Harold" music was now finished and Berlioz advertised both this and the Symphonie Fantastique for a concert at the Conservatoire, December 16, 1838. Paganini was present, and declared he had never been so moved by music before. He dragged the composer back on the platform, where some of the musicians still lingered, and there knelt and kissed his hand. The next day he sent Berlioz a check for twenty thousand francs.
Berlioz and his wife, two of the most highly strung individuals to be found anywhere, were bound to have plenty of storm and stress in their daily life. And so it came about that a separation, at least for a time, seemed advisable. Berlioz made every provision in his power for her comfort, and then started out on various tours to make his compositions known. Concerts were given in Stuttgart, Heckingen, Weimar, Leipsic, and in Dresden two, both very successful. Others took place in Brunswick, Hamburg, Berlin, Hanover, finishing at Darmstadt, where the Grand Duke insisted not only on the composer taking the full receipts for the concert, but, in addition, refused to let him pay any of the expenses.
And now back in Paris, at the treadmill of writing again. Berlioz had the sort of mentality which could plan, and also execute, big musical enterprises on a grand scale. It was proposed that he and Strauss should give a couple of monster concerts in the Exhibition Building. He got together a body of 1022 performers, all paid except the singers from the lyric theaters, who volunteered to help for the love of music.
It was a tremendous undertaking, and though an artistic success, the exertion nearly finished Berlioz, who was sent south by his physician. Resting on the shores of the Mediterranean, he afterwards gave concerts in Marseilles, Lyons, and Lille and then traveled to Vienna. He writes of this visit:
"My reception by all in Vienna—even by my fellow-plowmen, the critics—was most cordial; they treated me as a man and a brother, for which I am heartily grateful.
"After my third concert, there was a grand supper, at which my friends presented me with a silver-gilt baton, and the Emperor sent me eleven hundred francs, with the odd compliment: 'Tell Berlioz I was really amused.'"
His way now led through Hungary. Performances were given in Pesth and Prague, where he was royally entertained and given a silver cup.
On returning to Paris, he had much domestic trouble to bear. His wife was paralyzed and his only son, Louis, wished to leave home and become a sailor—which he did eventually, though much against the wishes of his parents.
The "Damnation of Faust," now finished, was given at the Opéra, and was not a success. Berlioz then conceived the idea of going to Russia to retrieve his fortunes. With the help of kind friends, who advanced the money, he was able to carry out the plan. He left for Russia on February 14, 1847. The visits to both St. Petersburg and Moscow proved to be very successful financially as well as artistically. To cap the climax, "Romeo and Juliette" was performed at St. Petersburg. Then the King of Prussia, wishing to hear the "Faust," the composer arranged to spend ten days in Berlin: then to Paris and London, where success was also achieved.
Shadows as well as sunshine filled the next few years. The composer was saddened by the passing of his father. Then a favorite sister also left, and last of all his wife passed quietly away, March 3, 1854. With all these sorrows Berlioz was at times nearly beside himself. But as he became calmer he decided, after half a year, to wed a woman who had been of great assistance to him in his work for at least fourteen years.
The remaining span of Berlioz' life was outwardly more peaceful and happy. He continued to travel and compose. Everywhere he went he was honored and admired.
Among his later compositions were the Te Deum, "Childhood of Christ," "Lelio," "Beatrice and Benedict" and "The Trojans."
At last, after what he called thirty years of slavery, he was able to resign his post of critic. "Thanks to 'The Trojans,' the wretched quill driver is free!"
A touching episode, told in his vivid way, was the meeting, late in life, with his adored Estelle of the pink shoes. He called on her and found a quiet widow, who had lost both husband and children. They had a poignant hour of reminiscence and corresponded for some time afterwards.
Hector Berlioz passed away March 8, 1869. The French Institute sent a deputation, the band of the National Guard played selections from his Funeral Symphony; on the casket lay wreaths from the Saint Cécilia Society, from the youths of Hungary, from Russian nobles and from the town of Grenoble, his old home.
The music of Berlioz is conceived on large lines, in broad masses of tone color, with new harmonies and imposing effects. He won a noble place in art through many trials and hardships. His music is the expression, the reflection of the mental struggles of a most intense nature. The future will surely witness a greater appreciation of its merits than has up to now been accorded it.
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The Classics 031
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A deeper look at the grooves pressed into the Porterhouse vinyl reissue of the Saturation LP by Urge Overkill.
Quick history lesson: By 1992, Urge Overkill had already established itself both in the fairly unforgiving Chicago music scene and on the North American college radio circuit with the help of albums like Americruiser and The Supersonic Storybook. Not only that, the band had cut a fairly striking and peerless image; unlike so many other alt-rock groups who preferred to mix, match and intertwine vintage sonics with a post-modern vibe and simply leave the results to be judged on those merits (see Pearl Jam, Alice In Chains, Mudhoney et c.), Urge Overkill really liked to play up the stylish and sarcastic sides of their music and its presentation and make sure no one could miss them. It is for those reasons that the band’s impressive suits, hooks identified as “similar to those of the Rolling Stones” and covers of material by the likes of Neil Diamond and Glen Campbell played so well into their identity – they were already playing the “cooler than you” card and goofing on people like superstars, they just hadn’t yet won the actual title for themselves yet.
Being short the ‘superstar’ title for their job description was precisely the problem Urge Overkill sought to solve with Saturation, their fourth album, originally released in 1993. The band boldly sought to create a hit record at a time when everyone viewed mainstream success with suspicion. To achieve that, the band enlisted the Butcher Brothers (who’s credits at that time included a host of Columbia and Ruffhouse Records artists, but not a whole lot in the realm of alternative rock) and pushed smoothly-intoned guitarist/singer Nathan “Nash Kato” Kaatrud up to do more of the lead vocals on the album because it had worked so well on the band’s landmark cover of Neil Diamond’s “Girl, You’ll Be A Woman Soon” the year before.
The idea of simply revolving Urge Overkill’s membership internally seems like it shouldn’t at all have been a tremendous risk, but there’s no question that it was; thanks to Nirvana and Pearl Jam (who had achieved tremendous success around the same time), punk rock ethics had become a fantastic tag of credibility in the mainstream and the curse of being called a “sell out” was tantamount to career suicide – so swimming against the proverbial current seemed like the height of a dicey proposition. Under normal circumstances, such ambition and obvious posturing as that which Urge Overkill attempted with Saturation could have been brutally rebuffed – especially when one considers the “anti-image” stance that the biggest names in the game were taking at the time – but that no such thing happened to Urge Overkill speaks volume toward just how good Saturation proved to be. In this case, the quality of the music and the presentation of it totally undermined any and all dogmatic thinking about what needed to be present on a record in the grunge era, and that Saturation was able to accomplish that successfully remains a thing of beauty to this day.
From the moment “Sister Havana” swishes in to open Saturation suavely, listeners who were already familiar with Urge Overkill from earlier albums will instantly be able to pick out and appreciate the difference between this album and everything that preceded it. Here, the sound is a perfect fusion of post-punk, alt- and classic rock but, unlike other bands who had already turned such fare into platinum sales (like Pearl Jam and, to a lesser degree, Soundgarden), Urge changes the dates affixed to their musical mosaic and so achieves both a different sound and image in one fell swoop. While other acts were mixing classics like The Beatles, Rolling Stones, Neil Young and Pink Floyd with their muses for the music they were making in the early Nineties, Urge Overkill was brashly getting a little more “second gen” in their focus. Yes, the Stones still factor into the slick tones and vibe of “Sister Havana,” but there’s also a polish about the song comparable to the likes of Mott The Hoople and the Sweet. It’s bold and brash and, with both grunge and alternative rock having already cemented themselves into the public conversation by ’93, “Sister Havana” feels like a move forward because lyrics like, “She’s comin’ on like a bicycle army/ Everybody’s waitin’ for the man to come down from the tower” feel like filler in print but fly high thanks to Nash Kato’s fantastic vocal performance. Simply said, the song gets over in spite of itself because the hook, melody and performance are absolutely flawless. It doesn’t exactly set the standard for the album (there are songs which are obviously more poignant and affecting than this in the album’s running) but it is an excellent and anthemic beginning and does leave listeners ready for more.
After “Sister Havana,” the A-side of Saturation doesn’t quite hit the same level of formulaic “mainstream alt-rock” bliss again, but it does open some avenues which hadn’t yet been explored at the time. “Tequila Sundae” Kato and Roeser collaborate on a vocal which delivers the perfect aural equivalent to unease which has ever been found anywhere else in pop, while the crunchy and malignant guitar figure in the song makes the sense of disgust in the song palpable in a way that lines like “Got no time for stimulation/Daylight runs and runs for hours/In a cold sweat under the black sun showers” just don’t articulate as well. “Positive Bleeding” carries the lick from “Tequila Sundae” as far as its intro before the song falls into AOR convention with lines like “People just like me who go it alone/ ‘Cause baby I’m a rolling stone” and introducing it to a healthy dose of irony with the help of Nash Kato’s vocal, which manages to cross “sweet” and “snide” tones like a seasoned punk rock veteran. Roeser follows that with the comparatively subdued-in-performance but damning-in-fact “Back On Me” before burning through the more-punk-than-alt- “Woman 2 Woman” and closing the side with the “half Stones, half Heartbreakers” workshop which is “Bottle Of Fur.” There, Kato starts out messing around with ideas which fall squarely into the realm of “classic rock orthodoxy” (check out the images of sailing away on a crystal ship in a bottle) before spontaneously mutating into a form which extolls loss against a ballad of beautiful words (“Bottle of fur/Missing the smell of her”). Since 1993, “Bottle Of Fur” has always hung together a little awkwardly on its own but, placed with the other cuts as it is on the A-side, the song continues to play very much like a strange-but-strong hit and can effortlessly keep first-time listeners engaged and interested to see where the album goes on its B-side.
As soon as a record player’s needle sinks into the B-side of Saturation, it sets itself up as a very, very different entity from its counterpart. While the A-side consistently showcased Urge Overkill’s mainstream ambitions (how offbeat they might have been is for listeners to decide, individually), the B-side ducks convention and melts minds with the aggressive, scabrous rock-punk blast of “Crackbabies.”There, after a gentle, tentative and fairly morose keyboard passage opens the song, a lean, buzzing and angry guitar perches over listeners ready to assault them at any moment while King Roeser hints that all things may come to a gruesome end at any moment with the words, “Crackbaby, out of time.” Even now, twenty-five years after the album’s original release, “Crackbaby” is still able to surprise the unsuspecting because it’s so totally unlike everything which has played through on Saturation to that point; the slick and seamless production values affixed to the songs on the album’s A-side are completely absent from “Crackbaby,” and the song somehow rips through like a breath of fresh hair raggedly gasped rather than an ill wind as a result. The hits on the A-side of Saturation sound good, but “Crackbaby” sounds real. That sudden sonic shift informs the boozy and stoned vibe of “The Stalker” – the second cut on the B-side – which also manages to play like a MASH note to the Chicago scene (which included Steve Albini, Liz Phair and Kill Hannah, at that time) and loses the sheen of the A-side’s production value to marvellous effect. “Dropout” stays outside of the production bubble and plays like the album’s real oddball cut with acoustic guitar and a manufactured beat supplying the lion’s share of the accompaniment for Roeser’s uncharacteristically timid vocal before “Erica Kane” speeds up and singes nerves with the closest to a genuine punk ear bleeder to be found anywhere on the album. “Night And Grey” slides through another molten moment caustically, and then “Heaven 90210” closes both the side and the album with some odd found-audio loops and a fantastic, ballad-esque number which feels simultaneously very sweet and very carefully constructed to play sweetly. Unlike its CD counterpart, the new vinyl reissue of Saturation cuts the unlisted “hidden” song “Operation Kissinger” from the record’s running but, really, only the most devout super-fans are likely to notice; between the A- and B-sides of this transparent blue Porterhouse reissue, fans will find everything they ache to hear from this album, presented perfectly. Without meaning to overstate the point, this reissue of Urge Overkill’s Saturation is the BEST way to experience the album. [Bill Adams]
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Benedict of Nursia
Title: Benedict of Nursia
Subject: Christianity in the 6th century, Pope Benedict XVI, History of the Catholic Church, Rule of Saint Benedict, Monte Cassino
Saint Benedict of Norcia
Saint Benedict Detail from a fresco by Fra Angelico
Patron of Europe
Norcia (Umbria, Italy)
21 March 543
Venerated in
Canonized
1220, Rome by Pope Honorius III
Major shrine
Monte Cassino Abbey, with his burial
Saint-Benoît-sur-Loire, near Orléans, France
Sacro Speco, at Subiaco, Italy
11 July (General Roman Calendar), (Anglican Communion)
14 March (Byzantine Rite)
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Benedict of Nursia (Italian: San Benedetto da Norcia) (c. 480 – 543 or 547) is a Christian saint, honoured by the Catholic Church and the Anglican Church[1] as the patron saint of Europe[2] and students.
Benedict founded twelve communities for monks at Subiaco, Italy (about 40 miles (64 km) to the east of Rome), before moving to Monte Cassino in the mountains of southern Italy. The Order of St Benedict is of later origin and, moreover, not an "order" as commonly understood but merely a confederation of autonomous congregations.[3]
Benedict's main achievement is his "Rule of Saint Benedict", containing precepts for his monks. It is heavily influenced by the writings of John Cassian, and shows strong affinity with the Rule of the Master. But it also has a unique spirit of balance, moderation and reasonableness (ἐπιείκεια, epieikeia), and this persuaded most religious communities founded throughout the Middle Ages to adopt it. As a result, his Rule became one of the most influential religious rules in Western Christendom. For this reason, Benedict is often called the founder of western monasticism.
3 Later life
4 Veneration
5 Rule of St. Benedict
6 The Saint Benedict Medal
7 The influence of St. Benedict
10 Gallery of pictures related to St Benedict
Apart from a short poem attributed to Mark of Monte Cassino, the only ancient account of Benedict is found in the second volume of Pope Gregory I's four-book Dialogues, thought to have been written in 593.[4] The authenticity of this work has been hotly disputed, especially by Dr Francis Clarke in his two volume work The Pseudo-Gregorian Dialogues. Book Two consists of a prologue and thirty-eight succinct chapters.[5]
Gregory’s account of this saint’s life is not, however, a biography in the modern sense of the word. It provides instead a spiritual portrait of the gentle, disciplined abbot. In a letter to Bishop Maximilian of Syracuse, Gregory states his intention for his Dialogues, saying they are a kind of floretum (an anthology, literally, 'flowers') of the most striking miracles of Italian holy men.[6]
Gregory did not set out to write a chronological, historically anchored story of St. Benedict, but he did base his anecdotes on direct testimony. To establish his authority, Gregory explains that his information came from what he considered the best sources: a handful of Benedict’s disciples who lived with the saint and witnessed his various miracles. These followers, he says, are Constantinus, who succeeded Benedict as Abbot of Monte Cassino; Valentinianus; Simplicius; and Honoratus, who was abbot of Subiaco when St Gregory wrote his Dialogues.
In Gregory's day, history was not recognised as an independent field of study; it was a branch of grammar or rhetoric, and historia (defined as 'story') summed up the approach of the learned when they wrote what was, at that time, considered 'history.'[7] Gregory’s Dialogues Book Two, then, an authentic medieval hagiography cast as a conversation between the Pope and his deacon Peter, is designed to teach spiritual lessons.[4]
He was the son of a Roman noble of Norcia,[4] the modern Norcia, in Umbria. A tradition which Bede accepts makes him a twin with his sister Scholastica. If we accept the date 480 for his birth, we may fix the date of his abandonment of his studies and leaving home at about 500. St Gregory's narrative makes it impossible to suppose him younger than 19 or 20 at the time. He was old enough to be in the midst of his literary studies, to understand the real meaning and worth of the dissolute and licentious lives of his companions, and to have been deeply affected himself by the love of a woman. He was at the beginning of life, and he had at his disposal the means to a career as a Roman noble; clearly he was not a child.
Benedict doesn't seem to have left Rome for the purpose of becoming a hermit, but only to find some place away from the life of the great city. He took his old nurse with him as a servant and they settled down to live in Enfide.[8] Enfide, which the tradition of Subiaco identifies with the modern Affile, is in the Simbruini mountains, about forty miles from Rome and two from Subiaco.
St Benedict orders Saint Maurus to the rescue of Saint Placidus, by Fra Filippo Lippi, 1445 A.D.
A short distance from Enfide is the entrance to a narrow, gloomy valley, penetrating the mountains and leading directly to Subiaco. The path continues to ascend, and the side of the ravine, on which it runs, becomes steeper, until a cave is reached above which the mountain now rises almost perpendicularly; while on the right, it strikes in a rapid descent down to where, in St Benedict's day, 500 feet (150 m) below, lay the blue waters of the lake. The cave has a large triangular-shaped opening and is about ten feet deep. On his way from Enfide, Benedict met a monk, Romanus of Subiaco, whose monastery was on the mountain above the cliff overhanging the cave. Romanus had discussed with Benedict the purpose which had brought him to Subiaco, and had given him the monk's habit. By his advice Benedict became a hermit and for three years, unknown to men, lived in this cave above the lake. One day, the Devil brought before his imagination a beautiful woman he had formerly known, inflaming his heart with strong desire for her. Immediately, Benedict stripped off his clothes and rolled into a thorn-bush until his body was lacerated. Thus, through the wounds of the body he cured the wounds of his soul.[2]
St Gregory tells us little of these years. He now speaks of Benedict no longer as a youth (puer), but as a man (vir) of God. Romanus, he twice tells us, served the saint in every way he could. The monk apparently visited him frequently, and on fixed days brought him food.[8]
During these three years of solitude, broken only by occasional communications with the outer world and by the visits of Romanus, Benedict matured both in mind and character, in knowledge of himself and of his fellow-man, and at the same time he became not merely known to, but secured the respect of, those about him; so much so that on the death of the abbot of a monastery in the neighbourhood (identified by some with Vicovaro), the community came to him and begged him to become its abbot. Benedict was acquainted with the life and discipline of the monastery, and knew that "their manners were diverse from his and therefore that they would never agree together: yet, at length, overcome with their entreaty, he gave his consent" (ibid., 3). The experiment failed; the monks tried to poison him. The legend goes that they first tried to poison his drink. He prayed a blessing over the cup and the cup shattered. Thus he left the group and went back to his cave at Subiaco. There lived in the neighborhood a priest called Florentius who, moved by envy, tried to ruin him. He tried to poison him with poisoned bread. When he prayed a blessing over the bread, a raven swept in and took the loaf away. From this time his miracles seem to have become frequent, and many people, attracted by his sanctity and character, came to Subiaco to be under his guidance. Having failed by sending him poisonous bread, Florentius tried to seduce his monks with some prostitutes. To avoid further temptations, in 530 Benedict left Subiaco. He founded 12 monasteries in the vicinity of Subiaco, and, eventually, in 530 he founded the great Benedictine monastery of Monte Cassino,[2] which lies on a hilltop between Rome and Naples.[9]
During the invasion of Italy, Totila, King of the Goths, ordered a general to wear his kingly robes and to see whether Benedict would discover the truth. Immediately the Saint detected the impersonation, and Totila came to pay him due respect.[2]
Veneration
Totila and St. Benedict. Painted by Spinello Aretino
He died at Monte Cassino not long after his sister, Saint Scholastica. Benedict died of a high fever on the day God had told him he was to die, and was buried in the same place as his sister. According to tradition, this occurred on 21 March 543 or 547. He was named patron protector of Europe by Pope Paul VI in 1964.[10] In 1980, Pope John Paul II declared him co-patron of Europe, together with Saints Cyril and Methodius.[11]
In the pre-1970 General Roman Calendar, his feast is kept on 21 March, the day of his death according to some manuscripts of the Martyrologium Hieronymianum and that of Bede. Because on that date his liturgical memorial would always be impeded by the observance of Lent, the 1969 revision of the General Roman Calendar moved his memorial to 11 July, the date that appears in some Gallic liturgical books of the end of the 8th century as the feast commemorating his death (Natalis S. Benedicti). There is some uncertainty about the origin of this feast.[12] Accordingly, on 21 March the Roman Martyrology mentions in a line and a half that it is Benedict's day of death and that his memorial is celebrated on 11 July, while on 11 July it devotes seven lines to speaking of him, and mentions the tradition that he died on 21 March.[13]
The Eastern Orthodox Church commemorates St. Benedict on 14 March.[14]
The Anglican Communion has no single universal calendar, but a provincial calendar of saints is published in each province. In almost all of these, St Benedict is commemorated on 11 July.
Rule of St. Benedict
Seventy-three short chapters comprise the Rule. Its wisdom is of two kinds: spiritual (how to live a Christocentric life on earth) and administrative (how to run a monastery efficiently). More than half the chapters describe how to be obedient and humble, and what to do when a member of the community is not. About one-fourth regulate the work of God (the Opus Dei). One-tenth outline how, and by whom, the monastery should be managed. And two chapters specifically describe the abbot’s pastoral duties.
Following the golden rule of Ora et Labora - pray and work, the monks each day devoted eight hours to prayer, eight hours to sleep, and eight hours to manual work, sacred reading, or works of charity.[2]
The Saint Benedict Medal
Image of Saint Benedict with a cross and a scroll stating Vade Retro Satana which is abbreviated on the Saint Benedict Medal
This medal originally came from a cross in honour of St Benedict. On one side, the medal has an image of St Benedict, holding the Holy Rule in his left hand and a cross in his right. There is a raven on one side of him, with a cup on the other side of him. Around the medal's outer margin are the words "Eius in obitu nostro praesentia muniamur" ("May we, at our death, be fortified by His presence"). The other side of the medal has a cross with the initials CSSML on the vertical bar which signify "Crux Sacra Sit Mihi Lux" ("May the Holy Cross be my light") and on the horizontal bar are the initials NDSMD which stand for "Non Draco Sit Mihi Dux" ("Let not the dragon be my overlord"). The initials CSPB stand for "Crux Sancti Patris Benedicti" ("The Cross of the Holy Father Benedict") and are located on the interior angles of the cross. Either the inscription "PAX" (Peace) or the Christogram "IHS" may be found at the top of the cross in most cases. Around the medal's margin on this side are the Vade Retro Satana initials VRSNSMV which stand for "Vade Retro Satana, Nonquam Suade Mihi Vana" ("Begone Satan, do not suggest to me thy vanities") then a space followed by the initials SMQLIVB which signify "Sunt Mala Quae Libas, Ipse Venena Bibas" ("Evil are the things thou profferest, drink thou thy own poison").[15]
Benedict depicted on a Jubilee Saint Benedict Medal for the 1400th anniversary of his birth in 1880
This medal was first struck in 1880 to commemorate the fourteenth centenary of St Benedict's birth and is also called the Jubilee Medal; its exact origin, however, is unknown. In 1647, during a witchcraft trial at Pope Benedict XIV in his briefs of 23 December 1741, and 12 March 1742.[15]
Saint Benedict has been also the motive of many collector's coins around the world. The Austria 50 euro 'The Christian Religious Orders', issued on 13 March 2002 is one of them.
The influence of St. Benedict
Austria 50 euro 'The Christian Religious Orders' commemorative coin
The early Middle Ages have been called "the Benedictine centuries."[16] In April 2008, Pope Benedict XVI discussed the influence St Benedict had on Western Europe. The pope said that "with his life and work St Benedict exercised a fundamental influence on the development of European civilization and culture" and helped Europe to emerge from the "dark night of history" that followed the fall of the Roman empire.[17]
St. Benedict contributed more than anyone else to the rise of monasticism in the West. His Rule was the foundational document for thousands of religious communities in the Middle Ages.[18] To this day, The Rule of St. Benedict is the most common and influential Rule used by monasteries and monks, more than 1,400 years after its writing. Today the Benedictine family is represented by two branches: the Benedictine Federation and the Cistercians.[19]
The influence of St Benedict produced "a true spiritual ferment" in Europe, and over the coming decades his followers spread across the continent to establish a new cultural unity based on Christian faith.
Anthony the Great
Benedictine Order
Camaldolese
Poustinia
San Beneto
St. Benedict Medal
Vade retro satana
^ a b c d e
^ a b c Ford, Hugh. "St. Benedict of Norcia." The Catholic Encyclopedia. Vol. 2. New York: Robert Appleton Company, 1907. 3 Mar. 2014
^ Life and Miracles of St. Benedict (Book II, Dialogues), translated by Odo John Zimmerman, O.S.B. and Benedict R. Avery, O.S.B. (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1980), p. iv.
^ See Ildephonso Schuster, Saint Benedict and His Times, Gregory J. Roettger, trans. (London: B. Herder, 1951), p. 2.
^ See Deborah Mauskopf Deliyannis, editor, Historiography in the Middle Ages (Boston: Brill, 2003), pp. 1–2.
^ a b , John J. Crawley & Co., Inc.Lives of Saints"Saint Benedict, Abbot",
^ Nursia
^ Apostolic letter of Pope John Paul II, 31 December 1980 (Latin)
^ "Calendarium Romanum" (Libreria Editrice Vaticana), pp. 97 and 119
^ Martyrologium Romanum 199 (edito altera 2004); pages 188 and 361 of the 2001 edition (Libreria Editrice Vaticana ISBN 978-88-209-7210-3)
^ Orthodox Church in America: The Lives of the Saints, March 14th
^ a b "The Life of St Benedict," by St. Gregory the Great, Rockford, IL: TAN Books and Publishers, pp 60–62
^ Benedict XVI, "Saint Benedict of Norcia" Homily given to a general audience at St Peter's Square on Wednesday, 9 April 2008
^ Stracke, Prof. J.R., "St. Benedict – Iconography", Augusta State University
^ Foley O.F.M., Leonard, rev. McCloskey O.F.M., Pat, "Saint of the Day", American Catholic
Gallery of pictures related to St Benedict
St. Benedict and the cup of poison (Melk Abbey, Austria)
Small gold-coloured St Benedict Crucifix
Two sides of a Saint Benedict Medal
Portrait (1926) by Herman Nieg (1849–1928); Heiligenkreuz Abbey, Austria
"St. Benedict at the Death of St. Scholastica" (ca. 1250-60), Musée National de l'Age Médiévale, Paris, orig. at the Abbatiale of St. Denis
Statue in Einsiedeln, Switzerland
St. Benedict (pdf) from Fr. Alban Butler's Lives of the Saints
A Benedictine Oblate Priest – The Rule in Parish Life
Guide to Saint Benedict
St. Benedict’s Rule for Monasteries at Project Gutenberg, translated by Leonard J. Doyle
The Holy Rule of St. Benedict, translated by Boniface Verheyen
The Order of Saint Benedict
The Medal Or Cross of St. Benedict: Its Origin, Meaning, and Privileges
Life and Miracles of St Benedict
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Works by Benedict of Nursia at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks)
"The Life of St. Benedict" from the Caxton translation of the Golden Legend
St. Benedict Of Norcia, Patron Of Poison Sufferers, Monks, And Many More
Saint Benedict of Norcia at the Christian Iconography web site.
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community weblog - [ Fishing ]
A good season for DNR steelhead egg harvest
STRONACH TWP. — A handful of steelhead flop in shallow water in a stainless steel bin, sending slimy splashes of water over Michigan Department of Natural Resources personnel, zipped up tight in raingear and waders.
Work at the Little Manistee River egg take weir is fast and furious. The DNR collects nearly 4 million steelhead eggs and fertilizes them to raise in the DNR’s hatcheries to support the popular Great Lakes and stream steelhead fishery. more...
Rainbows more of a shore thing
By Jim Lee
Gannett Wisconsin Newspapers
MANITOWOC — While the quality of brown trout fishing on Lake Michigan has ebbed in recent years, opportunities have improved for near-shore rainbow trout anglers along Wisconsin's eastern shore.
The rainbow — also called steelhead — resurgence can be attributed to a Department of Natural Resources experimental program designed to improve shore fishing opportunities, according to Steve Hogler, DNR fisheries biologist. more...
Lake St Clair Presentation at Hanks Flyshop
Just sending a quick reminder about my Fly Fishing Lake St Clair Presentation at Hanks Flyshop in Novi Mi. this Thursday April 5th at 7pm.
I will be giving a Lake St Clair Fly Fishing power point presentation at Hanks Fly Shop in Novi on Thursday April 5th at 7pm. I will be including some very interesting facts and knowledge on the lake along with covering a vast amount of information on techniques, tactics and flies etc used to fish this world class lake for musky, smallmouth bass, pike and carp. I will be at Hanks until 9pm to talk about and answer all your questions on Lake St Clair’s fly fishing. Refreshments will be served and this event is FREE. Also check out Hanks new online store
Hanks Fly Fishing Novi 43535 East Grand River Road Novi, Michigan 48375 Tel: 248-349-3677
http://www.hanksflyfishing.com/
Captain Steve Kunnath Lake St Clair Fly Fishing Guide Service
Lake St Clair's prime fishing time is approaching
Winter is quickly fading and its almost time to start another world class warm water fly fishing season on Michigan’s Lake St Clair. The ice on the inland lakes has almost melted and the great lakes ice is starting to break up. Vast ice flows are now being pushed down from Lake Huron through the St Clair River into Lake St Clair which is a clear sign spring is almost here.
A FISHING FRENZY: Expect plenty of steelhead and walleye
BY ERIC SHARP
FREE PRESS OUTDOORS WRITER
One of the best indicators of what to expect for spring steelhead, walleye and sucker fishing in Michigan is something that happens in Ohio. It's the huge annual walleye run in the Maumee River, and anglers at Maumee say it's about to kick into high gear.
"When I hear the walleyes are thick in the Maumee, I know that the steelies will be good in the Pere Marquette and the Muskegon, and the walleyes will be starting in the Detroit River," said Jim Evans of Monroe. "I used to go to the Maumee, but it's kind of like fishing steelhead or salmon at Tippy Dam on the Manistee, shoulder-to-shoulder stuff. more...
Bass Bugs & Other Critters
By: Jerry Kunnath
The flies that we will feature in this article are some of the most productive that you can use in fly fishing for bass, both smallmouth and largemouth. Like many flies that we use in fly fishing, they imitate natural foods preyed upon by lunker bass on the prowl for a quick and easy meal of hearty protein. When fished properly, they are sure to lure a vicious strike from lurking bass, often being taken clean out of the water by a marauding, hungry bucket mouth or an acrobatic, feisty smallie. You might even tempt a strike from a toothy pike or musky if fishing the proper waters where they live. more...
People I Have Met On A Stream While Fly Fishing
[Previously published in the Michigan Outdoor News]
A nice little stream
On the shore of Lake Superior, about thirteen miles due west of Whitefish Point, lies the ruins of the old Coast Guard Vermilion Point Life Saving Station. The last time that I visited that site, it was being restored by Lake Superior State University as an environmental research facility. Years ago, right around 1969 or 70, I used to fly fish for brook trout in a short tiny stream near the station.
Vermilion Point was first settled and developed as a commercial cranberry bog way back in the 1870’s. A pioneer family came to the area, which was mostly a swampy bog with a small stream flowing through it into Lake Superior, and built dikes and dams to help in the harvest of the natural cranberries of the bog. more...
Finesse Sight-Fishing
How many times have you given up on a big bed-fish because you couldn't get it to react to a big bait. Maybe a smaller-profile presentation was all that was needed to get that fish to bite.
"A lot of times, I'll take a finesse approach to finicky bed-fish," said 2nd-year Bassmaster Elite Series pro Jared Lintner of California. "If you throw a dropshot rig out there on a little bit heavier line, they might eat that better than they will a conventional tube or a swimbait.
"Over the last couple of years, I've caught a lot of sight-fish using that technique. It doesn't work all the time, but it can be a quick and easy way to get them to eat." more...
New Regulations Could Cripple Great Lakes Tournaments
On Oct. 24, 2006, fisheries agencies throughout the Great Lakes area were presented a new federal order that profoundly impacted recreational and tournament angling within and around their borders.
The new emergency order, and subsequent revisions, came from the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS), a division of the U.S. Dept. of Agriculture (USDA). The order's purpose was explicit: Prevent the spread of viral hemorrhagic septicemia (VHS) – an aquatic virus implicated in a number of large-scale fish dieoffs in the Great Lakes basin. more...
Going Deep In The Name Of Trout Research
By Kirk Deeter
Photos and video by Tim Romano
I am a 6-foot-long cutthroat trout, wallowing near the bottom of Colorado’s South Platte River. The water is perfect, not too high, not too low, 48 degrees and clear. I’m holding in the current with other trout, watching bugs float by. One is drifting right at my head. I turn for a closer look and—foul hooked. I swim to the surface and spit the regulator out of my mouth. "Dang it, Bruce, you snagged me again." I'm in the middle of an experiment to find out what trout really do under the river surface. The only way to truly understand the fish, I figured, was to be the fish, so I got out my scuba gear and jumped in. Here’s what I learned. more...
Double-nymph will do the trick
With the best of spring steelhead fishing upon us, fly and spin fishermen can take advantage of the double-nymph technique perfected here in Michigan about 30 years ago.
This is far from pure fly fishing because it requires the use of small weights to get the flies down to the fish, but it's that slight amount of weight that makes the system possible with a spinning rod. more...
Musky Fishing on Lake St. Clair
Lake St. Clair - Best Musky Fishery Bar None
Right in Detroit's back yard is a lake that most people in the know consider to be the world's best musky
fishery. Lake St. Clair, located just northeast of Detroit, fed on the north end by the waters of Lake Huron flowing through the St. Clair River, and emptied on the south end towards Lake Erie by the Detroit River, just teams with giant, toothed, savage, eating machines called the Great Lakes Musky. There are more musky per square mile here in this lake than anywhere else in North America, albeit possibly the world. The Michigan DNR estimates, with information garnered from surveys and other data, that there are probably over 50,000 musky present in the lake that are over 30'' in length. more...
Simply put, fly fishing makes it possible for an angler to deliver his lure, or other form of bait, to a specific location in a unique fashion, using only the momentum created from the fishing line.
And that, in a paragraph, may be the best way to summarize the sport. Moreover, that definition may be the simplest thing about the sport.
The whats, whys, wheres and hows of fly fishing make it one of the more intimidating endeavors an outdoors person can undertake. more...
Michigan's Master Angler Pike
By Steven A. Griffin
The open-water fishing fan of northern pike could get a bit discouraged after taking a close look at Michigan's Master Angler Award list. From lakes that have produced multiple Master Angler-class pike in the last few years, most of the trophy fish have come through the ice, not from open water. Tip-ups and spears did most of the work, not crankbaits and spoons.
But then, when the ice is gone, how many people really focus on pike the same way winter anglers do, with long hours. heavy tackle and single-species dedication? Those fish didn't just appear when ice sealed the lake, after all. That's just when they were caught in the fishing spotlight. more...
Fish/Veggie Boil
One of the tastier dishes that my fishing and hunting friends and I enjoy after a great day of outdoor activity at my northern Michigan retreat is my fish/veggie boil. It is simple to make and prepare, tastes delicious, is very low fat and healthy, and satisfies even the most voracious, fresh air created, appetites. more...
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Schools, Sport
Cricket, schools, T20 tournament
The dull thud of bat on ball, the desperate shouts of “Howzat!” and the delight of the crowd as another ball is hit over the boundary for a six; these are the sounds Zimbabweans love to hear at a game of cricket and this is what the CABS T20 Cricket Tournament held at St George’s last month served up to eager spectators.
The tournament, which is growing in popularity and size, played host to eight Zimbabwean high schools and four South African schools and an amazing 32 matches were played over the weekend.
Mini McDonald, the head of sports at St Georges congratulated the players on a “fine display of talent and sportsmanship,” and even though the weather on Friday and Saturday had given organisers “a few grey hairs” the tournament was a resounding success.
The final was held on a beautiful Sunday afternoon. It was an all-out South African affair as St John’s from Johannesburg and St Andrew’s from Grahamstown fought to be crowned as this year’s winners. St Andrew’s took to the bat first and made 134 runs all out and in reply the boys from Jo’burg put on 136 for 4 to win convincingly by 6 wickets. The Plate was won by Falcon College of Zimbabwe who managed to defeat Churchill in a game also played on the Sunday.
The Mayor of Harare Bernard Manyenyeni was there for the exciting closing match. He noted with pleasure that the tournament is growing rapidly every year and is fast becoming a highlight on Harare’s calendar. He even suggested that it could soon become as well known as flagship events such as HIFA.
Moving through the crowd, it was clear that this T20 tournament was a hit with cricket fans. “It’s great to see such a high standard of the game at a high school level” said Cain Chinogureyi, a spectator and a past player of the tournament.
Players who shone during the tournament were awarded prizes at the end of the day on Sunday. Best batsman went to A. Daiken from St Andrew’s who scored 358 runs and averaged 78.6 runs, best bowler was awarded to L. Masedi from St John’s College South Africa who took 13 wickets, with best all-rounder going to L. Roach from St George’s College.
Tournament organisers and sponsors are looking forward to an even bigger and better tournament in 2016 that will get more and more people around the country excited about cricket, and will help build and develop our cricketing youth to compete at higher levels locally and internationally.
Image by Gregg Robinson
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Corpus of Academic Spoken English
Corpus of Academic Spoken English (CASE)
CASE is a corpus of Skype conversations between speakers of English as a Lingua Franca (ELF) currently being compiled at Trier University of Applied Sciences International students from various European countries (Germany, Bulgaria, Italy, Spain, Sweden, Finland, Belgium, France) and a native speaker component from the UK and the USA. It contains about 200 hours of Skype conversations (video and audio data). The conversations are first encounters; participants converse in an informal, dyadic setting. Topic prompts from a loosely academic and cultural setting are provided to facilitate conversation initiation. Conversations develop naturally and generally last between 30–60 minutes.
Project leader: Stefan Diemer, Trier University of Applied Sciences
Time of compilation: 2012–
Number of text/samples: 200–300 texts
Period: 2012–2017
Released: work in progress
Project home page: http://umwelt-campus.de/case
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Long citation:
CASE. Forthcoming. Corpus of Academic Spoken English. Stefan Diemer; Marie-Louise Brunner; Caroline Collet; and Selina Schmidt. Birkenfeld: Trier University of Applied Sciences (coordination) / Saarbrücken: Saarland University / Sofia: St Kliment Ohridski University / Forlì: University of Bologna-Forlì / Santiago: University of Santiago de Compostela / Helsinki: Helsinki University & Hanken School of Economics / Birmingham: Birmingham City University / Växjö: Linnaeus University / Lyon: Université Lumière Lyon 2 / Louvain-la-Neuve: Université catholique de Louvain. [http://umwelt-campus.de/case] (date of last access).
Short citation:
CASE. Forthcoming. Corpus of Academic Spoken English. Birkenfeld: Trier University of Applied Sciences. [http://umwelt-campus.de/case] (date of last access).
Single transcript citation:
05HE18FL52. CASE. Forthcoming. Corpus of Academic Spoken English. Birkenfeld: Trier University of Applied Sciences. [http://umwelt-campus.de/case] (date of last access).
(please also cite CASE)
Project director: Stefan Diemer (Trier University of Applied Sciences and Saarland University)
Primary Investigators: Marie-Louise Brunner (Trier University of Applied Sciences and Saarland University), Caroline Collet (Trier University of Applied Sciences and Saarland University)
Associated researchers: Selina Schmidt (Birmingham City University), Sebastian Malinowski (Karlstad University)
Birmingham City University, UK
Boise State University, USA
Hanken School of Economics, Helsinki & Vasa, Finland
Helsinki University, Finland
Linnaeus University, Växjö, Sweden
Saarland University, Germany
St Kliment Ohridski University, Sofia, Bulgaria
Trier University of Applied Sciences, Germany
Université catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
Université Lumière Lyon 2, France
University of Bologna, Forlì, Italy
University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain
In preparation. Will be available online.
Transcripts and video files will be available.
Corpus of Video-Mediated English as a Lingua Franca Conversations (ViMELF)
CoRD Entry submitted on December 10, 2013 by Caroline Collet.
Revised on November 12, 2015 by Tanja Säily. Entry approved by Stefan Diemer.
Last updated 2018-07-03 by Tanja Säily
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Press Release: ict@innovation Training Handbook released: "Free your IT-Business in Africa!"
Fri, 11/06/2010 - 11:54 — Geraldine
To publicise the launch of the new ict@innovation Training Handbook "Free your IT-Business in Africa!" we have written this press release and are currently spreadind the news that the materials can be downloaded for free here on the website on different mailinglists and relevant repositories. We want to make sure everyone interested in the materials knows about them so please feel free to help us spread the word and pass on this press release and most importantly the link to the materials!
ict@innovation Training Handbook released: "Free your IT-Business in Africa!"
"How can I build a sustainable business around Free and Open Source Software in Africa?"
- In order to answer this frequently asked question by young African IT-business owners, InWEnt and FOSSFA are pleased to present "ict@innovation: Free your IT-Business in Africa!” - a set of advanced training materials on African Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) Business Models for IT-enterprises.
(Accra, Bonn, 01.06.10) The open training material "ict@innovation: Free your IT-Business in Africa!" is part of the initiative ict@innovation, a partnership of FOSSFA (Free Software and Open Source Foundation for Africa) and InWEnt - Capacity Building International of Germany, funded by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ). The handbook includes numerous successful business models suited to the African context, such as Software Selection, Software Installation, FOSS Training, Maintenance and Support, Software / Systems Migration, Consultancy, Software Localization and Internalization, FOSS Customization as well as Technical / Legal Certification. Eight in-depth case studies of successful African IT-businesses give concrete avenues for Free and Open Source business models that work in Africa. Other key sections focus on Knowledge and Skills for FOSS Entrepreneurs such as communication and business skills and on FOSS Training as a Business in Africa.
Bringing together Open Source and Business expertise across Africa
Nnenna Nwakanma, FOSSFA Council Chair, acknowledged this book as a great joint achievement and its meaning for ICT business in Africa. The training handbook has been collaboratively developed by more than 50 FOSS experts from Africa and beyond, who have contributed their expertise and helped put together this wealth of knowledge including detailed examples, model presentations, assessment tests, exercises and assignments. For their contribution/involvement “we would like to thank the team of experts, editors, authors and trainers, and particularly thank our training partners, the United Nations University Maastricht Economic and social Research and training centre on Innovation and Technology (UNU-MERIT), the Ghana-India Kofi Annan Centre of Excellence in ICT (AITI-KACE)” says George Nyambuya, ict@innovation Africa Coordinator for FOSSFA and InWEnt- Capacity Building International, Germany.
A starting point for new businesses: "ict@innovation: Free your IT-Business in Africa!"
“Free your IT-Business in Africa!” is a comprehensive starting point for anyone planning to start an IT business around Open Source technologies. It is particularly suitable for Training-of-Trainers and for advanced courses within ICT-associations, training institutions as well as universities.
The book consists of different training modules divided into three thematic parts:
The first part - African FOSS Business Models - introduces basic FOSS concepts and provides practical case studies across the African continent.
The second part - Knowledge and Skills for FOSS Entrepreneurs – focuses on FOSS communication and business skills which are vital for businesses and contribute immensely in helping young entrepreneurs leverage FOSS to gain a competitive advantage. Innovative and cost effective tools and techniques, community building and networking, and FOSS strategies which are vital for starting and sustaining a viable FOSS business in Africa are also covered in this part of the syllabus.
The third part FOSS Training as a Business – aims to foster understanding of some of the requirements for becoming a FOSS trainer, and identifies the opportunities that exist for FOSS training as a business in Africa and further introduces a global look at Linux training worldwide.
The book is available for free download at the following link of the ict@innovation website: http://www.ict-innovation.fossfa.net/node/4252. In the spirit of sharing and mutual capacity-building, the training material is released under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike licence. Therefore, distribution, remixing and updating of the materials by their users is encouraged. For further information please visit http://www.ict-innovation.fossfa.net/wiki/public-wiki/ictinnovation-training-materials or make use of the contact pool of African http://ict-innovation.org/wiki/public-wiki/course-advanced-african-foss-business-models/FBMTrainers.
For further information please contact
George Nyumbuya, FOSSFA/InWEnt ICT@Innovation
E-mail: george.nyambuya@inwent.co.za
Petra Hagemann&Balthas Seibold, InWEnt
Tel: +49-228-4460-1382,
E-mail: petra.hagemann@inwent.org
About ict@innovation
The ict@innovation programme builds capacities in African small and medium ICT enterprises to make a business with Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) – inter alia through through a training-of-trainers programme on the topic of African FOSS business models in 10 countries in Southern and East Africa. In this context, the Advanced Training Material on African FOSS Business Models for IT-SMEs is an important milestone in the endeavour to harness the potential of FOSS to drive innovation, add local value and create sustainable and affordable ICT solutions in Africa. See http://www.ict-innovation.fossfa.net/
About InWEnt and FOSSFA
InWEnt – Capacity Building International,
InWEnt, Germany, is a non-profit organisation with worldwide operations dedicated to human resource development, advanced training, and dialogue. Our capacity building programmes are directed at experts and executives from politics, administration, the business community, and civil society. We are commissioned by the German federal government to assist with the implementation of the Millennium Development Goals of the United Nations. Further information on InWEnt's IT-Programms: www.it-inwent.org. Further information on InWEnt: www.inwent.org/en/
The Free Software and Open Source Foundation for Africa (FOSSFA)
FOSSFA is the premier African FOSS organization, and was founded in 2003 under the auspices of the Bamako Bureau of the African Information Society Initiative within the mandate given by African governments in 1995 to the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA). The vision of FOSSFA is to promote the use of FOSS and the FOSS model in African development, and the organization supports the integration of FOSS in national policies. FOSSFA also
coordinates, promotes, and adds value to African FOSS initiatives, creativity, industry, expertise, efforts and activities at all levels. FOSSFA partners with development organizations who share these goals towards a participatory and gender-mainstreamed sustainable development and the attainment of the Millennium Development Goals in Africa. Further information on FOSSFA: http://fossfa.net
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Students will need to know the Academic Word List (AWL) if they hope to study in an English-speaking university environment. In fact, because some of these words are very common, they are even useful to those who do not have academic goals of this kind.
Many of these words are frequently encountered in newspapers, magazines, and novels, and can be heard on television, radio, and movies or in everyday conversation. Exposure to all of these media helps you to learn these AWL words.
The following words are examples of the vocabulary contained within the AWL. You can see that the vocabulary ranges from everyday language to words of a more academic nature.
area issue capacity qualitative
energy similar vary hierarchy
function environment intrinsic equate
It has been found that if students know the 2,000 most commonly used words and then learn the AWL, understanding of academic texts increases by 10%. If instead of learning the AWL, however, the student studies the next 1,000 most frequent words, understanding will only increase by 4.3%.
Choosing words to learn
New words can be learnt by studying the AWL list (570 words divided into 10 sublists) and also by doing the online exercises available here. This site contains many gap-fill exercises to review and recycle the general word families contained within the AWL.
AWL online exercises
Start with Sublist 1.which contains the most common words in the AWL. If these words are known, move on to Sublist 2 (the next most common words) and work all the way down to Sublist 10.
Don’t start with the headwords starting with the letter ‘A’ and work down the list in alphabetical order, but choose words that do not look like each other and are not related in meaning.
Check the list for words you find in texts. If the words are in the AWL, you should learn them. If they are not in the list, then check the 2,000 most frequent words. If the words are not in the most frequent 2000 words of English or the AWL, then think carefully about whether or not you need to learn them.
How to learn new words
Focus on retrieving the words rather than recognising them. Every time you retrieve a word the connection between the form of the word and its meaning is made stronger. Using word cards with the word to be learned on one side and the translations on the other forces you to retrieve the word.
Space the number of repetitions of the words you are learning because spacing repetitions results in longer lasting memory. The best spacing is to review the words a few minutes after first looking at them, then an hour or so later, then the next day, then a week later and then a couple of weeks after that.
Process the words thoughtfully so that the depth of learning is better. Use techniques which encourage you to make a lot of associations with the words you are learning. For example, think of language contexts and situational contexts in which you could use the words.
Avoid interference between the words you are learning by choosing words which are spelled differently and start with different letters. Don’t learn words with similar meanings at the same time. Words which look the same or share similar meanings are easy to confuse and make your learning less effective.
Many thanks to the following for text contributions:
Victoria University – School of Linguistics and Applied Language Studies
Gerry’s Vocabulary Teacher
Nation, P. (2001). Learning Vocabulary in Another Language. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
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Adjectives comparing equal quantities
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ROBOTS! ALIENS! BODY SNATCHERS! Science Fiction Film Classics of the 1950s: UCSB A&L's Roman Baratiak Interviewed in "The Freak Power Ticket" PODCAST
by Development Coordinator | Jun 27, 2012 | Interviews |
THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL - Photo Credit: From the collections of the Margaret Herrick Library - CLICK TO ENLARGE
On Friday, July 6th, 2012, UCSB Arts & Lectures, Santa Barbara County Arts Commission, Santa Barbara County Park Foundation, and the Community Services Department of Santa Barbara County present ROBOTS! SPACE ALIENS! BODY SNATCHERS!: Science Fiction Film Classics of the 1950s, a free summer cinema series that runs on most Wednesday nights through late August in UCSB’s Campbell Hall and most Friday nights at the Santa Barbara County Courthouse Sunken Garden.
The 3rd annual, free summer film series highlights the curatorial genius of UCSB Arts & Lectures Associate Director Roman Baratiak. This year’s incarnation comes at a time that science-fiction narratives are more popular than ever (think Hollywood genre blockbusters, special Sci-Fi editions of New Yorker Magazine, and San Diego’s Comic-Con International).
On Monday’s edition of “The Freak Power Ticket,” producer/host Ted Coe‘s conversation with Baratiak previewed the entire series, while sharing trailers, select tracks of science-fiction film music, and more. An edited podcast and webstream of this appearance is now available below!
The series presents key works from the Cold War era, starting with Robert Wise’s inversion of paranoid “Alien Invasion” stories, the pacifistic The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951) screening outdoors only, on Friday, July 6th.
Next up is the Howard Hawks-penned/Christian Nyby-directed The Thing from Another World, a scary sci-fi thriller from the same year of 1951 (remade by the contemporary horror-meister John Carpenter in the early 1980s). The original moody masterpiece screens on Wednesday, July 13th and Friday, July 15th.
UCSB Arts & Lectures' Associate Director Roman Baratiak - CLICK TO ENLARGE
On July 20th and 22nd, Jack Arnold’s It Came from Outer Space (1953) captures a somewhat similar mood. Originally released in the now common 3D format, this 2D screening will likewise evoke the memory of its original storyteller, writer/novelist Ray Bradbury. During Monday’s broadcast, Baratiak paid tribute to Bradbury by discussing the Santa Barbara history of this former A&L guest author, and his overall legacy.
July 27th and 29th bring the George Pal-produced/Byron Haskin-directed full-color, Oscar-winning adaptation of H.G. Wells’ The War of the Worlds. Laser-blasting, giant-tripod war machines of the story’s Martian invaders populate this effects-laden epic adventure from 1953.
Next, screening only on Wednesday, August 1st at UCSB’s Campbell Hall, the Atomic Age produces a new kind of enemy invader: as Gordon Douglas’ 1954 creature-feature Them! brings giant radioactive mutant ants from nuclear-test sites of the Nevada desert into the city of Los Angeles.
“One of the most resonant and highly imitated films of the sci-fi genre” screens next on August 8th and 10th, Don Siegel’s 1956 story of alien panic, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, as space entities systematically replace earth’s people with soulless duplicates.
August 15th and 17th present Fred MaLeod Wilcox’s Forbidden Planet, a 1956 reimagining of William Shakespeare’s The Tempest set on a planetary colony, starring Walter Pidgeon and Anne Francis, and featuring the iconic Robby the Robot. (One co-creator of its groundbreaking electronic music score, Bebe Barron, had a late-career residency at UC Santa Barbara in the year 2000.)
Finally, the series reaches a startling conclusion on August 22nd and 24th, with screenings of another Jack Arnold masterpiece, The Incredible Shrinking Man (from 1957).
Guests are invited to bring blankets, lawn chairs, and picnics to the Courthouse screenings. Showtimes are 730pm at UCSB and when darkness settles after 8pm at the County Courthouse (1100 Anacapa Street). For more information call 805.893.3535 or CLICK HERE.
KCSB is a media supporter of A&L’s Summer Cinema.
UCSB A&L's Summer Film Series - DRACULA Summer 2010 - CLICK TO ENLARGE
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DINNER AUCTION
CHAPLAIN ARTICLE
Praise and glory to the Lord...
We have moved the entire Gospel Mission
to our new facility!
Our new address is 1931 Mission Avenue, co-located on the Klamath Works/Sky Lakes Community Health Campus
(which is 1930 South 6th St.)
Our Recovery Center Thrift Store remains at the current location, 840 Klamath Ave.
For info on accessing our new facility, and where to bring donations, click the link below:
Accessing Our New Facility
Will you be one of the 300, the “300 STRONG”
Remember the Ministry
in your giving
Giving to KFGM
The Klamath Falls Gospel Mission, Inc. ('KFGM') was founded and incorporated as a nonprofit organization in 1958...
Welcome to The Klamath Falls Gospel Mission
Our Mission is to advance the Gospel of Jesus Christ by providing, rescue, recovery, and renewal services in the city and county of Klamath Falls.
People who come through our doors will meet and embrace life in Jesus Christ and through having their spiritual and physical needs met will become vital, contributing members of our community.
The Mission provides services to anyone without regard for race, color, sex, disability, religion or national origin.
Services include Meals, Emergency Shelter, Chapel & Devotions, Recovery Program and Temporary Assistance Program (T.A.P.)
The profits from our Recovery Center Thrift Store provide vital support of the programs of the Gospel Mission.
The Recovery Center Thrift Store carries a wide variety of quality merchandise, and has become a viable center for job training.
Our volunteers come from all occupations, many different areas, varied economic backgrounds and divergent life experiences.
There are many ways you can help including the Kitchen, Thrift Store, Ministry Opportunities, Office Help, Maintenance, and more!
What is 300 Strong?
In the book of Judges, the man Gideon was told “The Lord is with you” and the Lord wanted to show Himself strong, so the Lord spoke through Gideon to 22,000 people if you are fearful and trembling, GO HOME. So the number left was 10,000.
The Lord had the remaining 10,000 drink water and basically those who drank like a dog had to go home too. This left “300”, that were “STRONG”, because though small in number, their hope was in their God. Despite insurmountable odds, those “300” ended up defeating an army 135,000.
What does this mean to you? We have seemingly insurmountable odds with the spiritual and physical warfare that many men, women and children are going through right here in the Klamath Basin. But we also have the same God that Gideon does “300 STRONG” signifies a small number of people, that are not afraid of this fight because they know God is for them and they don’t drink water like a puppy.
Will you be one of the 300, the “300 STRONG” (monthly givers)?
Go to Donations to sign up to be one of the 300 people that gives $10, $20, $40, $100, or any amount you feel led to give, on a monthly basis. Or fill out one of the 300 Strong secure envelopes and return to the Gospel Mission. What seems small to you is a very powerful thing, when partnered with the Lord.
MOST NEEDED ITEMS AT THE MISSION RIGHT NOW...
MEN'S JEANS, WAIST SIZE 30-38
Recreational Intoxication: And a future is going up in smoke
By Rev Steve Flecken
The petition for sale of recreational marijuana in Klamath Falls has collected enough signatures to qualify for the November ballot, according to the Herald and News. Proponents are proclaiming victoriously “WE DID IT!” with the hashtag #KLAMATH-STRONG.
A commentary in the July 8 H&N by Ed Medina Jr., chief petitioner and owner of a local medical marijuana dispensary, claims that the pros of recreational pot outweigh the cons and that “there is no downside.”
Let’s pause a moment to remember the bottom line: This debate is about legitimizing intoxication as recreation. We already have medical marijuana available in town. That is not the question. We are now talking about getting high just for fun. In what way is that a victory for our community or a source of strength?
Mr. Medina’s commentary began with a chilling admission: “We know beyond any doubt that what we are doing is in the best interest of this community, and the people in it, even if the people do not understand that.” Whoa! High or sober, that is positively fascist. Why even bother with the November ballot if Mr. Medina and his supporters know better than the voters what is good for Klamath?
Meet Shawnna
"Shawnna Ottenbacher came to the mission looking to fill her water bottle with some water. Little did she know that she would receive more than the water this world has to offer, she would receive the living water that Jesus Christ offers...."
Gospel Mission Recovery Center Thrift Store - New Store Hours:
Tuesday - Saturday 10am - 5pm
Donations Received Mon. - Sat. 10am - 4pm
In the book of Judges, the man Gideon was told “The Lord is with you” and the Lord wanted to show Himself strong, so the Lord spoke through Gideon to 22,000 people... “if you are earful and trembling, GO HOME.” So the number left was 10,000. Download Newsletter PDF September 2018
Last month we talked about the science of scarcity. We hinted that scarcity is more than just poverty. For the poor it may be a lack of food, clothing, shelter, or money. For the busy, it may be a lack of time... Download Newsletter PDF August 2018
The emerging science of scarcity describes how we function when facing a perceived lack of resources. ... Download Newsletter PDF July 2018
The Klamath District of the Boy Scouts and the Klamath Falls Lions Club joined together to raise money to build hygiene kits to be distributed to the Klamath Gospel Mission and Marta’s House Women’s Crisis Center... Download Newsletter PDF June 2018
Save the Date Klamath Falls Gospel Mission annual fundraising dinner and auction... Download Newsletter PDF May 2018
Billy was raised in a military family and moved around as most families do in the military. He got into drugs at a young age... Download Newsletter PDF April 2018
From Nowhere to Somewhere - Carol came to the Gospel Mission in June of 2017 seeking shelter and stability. She came to us broken and confused with no place to turn... Download Newsletter PDF March 2018
Jason Was Set Free - I first came to this Mission in 2011 utilizing the services offered here. But I was drinking heavily, not working... Download Newsletter PDF February 2018
We’re looking to 2018 with a great deal of excitement because we will be moving into our new Recovery Center and celebrating our 60th year! Download Newsletter PDF January 2018
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Upcoming Events / KFGM News!
ONGOING 2018
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Klamath Falls Gospel Mission
Raising the ongoing support of 300 Strong!
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Apply for Temporary Assistance
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In need of clothing, furniture, household goods? Our thrift store Temporary Assistance Program (TAP) may be able to help you.
TUE-FRI
10:00am 11:00am
Bible / Discipleship Classes
Mission Classroom
We provide ongoing bible based classes utilizing proven curriculum. Come join us.
TUE, THU, SUN
7:00pm 8:00pm
Chapel Service
We have staff, local pastors and guest speakers share the Word of God at our Chapel service. It is open to the public and you are invited.
8:00am 8:30am
Morning Bible Devotion
Mission Dining Hall
We have staff, local pastors and guest speakers share the Word of God for our Devotion service. It is open to the public and you are invited.
View Complete Calendar
DID YOU KNOW, IN 2017... The Klamath Falls Gospel Mission provided for those in need:
BED NIGHTS PROVIDED
ITEMS OF CLOTHING, GOODS, & FURNITURE GIVEN AWAY
SHOWERS PROVIDED
Construction of our new facility is progressing well. View our photo gallery to follow the progress of construction from the beginning
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Ring-fencing April for clubs will only work with goodwill of inter-county managers: Paddy Tally - The Irish News
Ring-fencing April for clubs will only work with goodwill of inter-county managers: Paddy Tally
St.Mary's manager Paddy Tally is sceptical about some of the GAA's fixture plans Picture by Philip Fitzpatrick
BRENDAN CROSSAN
Paddy Tally still planning to punch the hours in with Sigerson Cup winners St Mary's
Paddy Tally says December start for McKenna Cup would suit universities
Past students of St Mary's/ St Joseph's looking forward to 'Ranch' reunion
St Mary's University boss Paddy Tally is congratulated by UCD manager John Divilly after the Belfast club won Sigerson earlier this year
PADDY Tally has welcomed the tightening of the GAA calendar for 2018 – but says some of the tweaks can only work with the goodwill of inter-county managers.
The St Mary’s manager also highlighted the need for the Association to make attempts to re-balance the training sessions per games ratio in Gaelic Games.
In a bid to give more time over to club programmes, the GAA has cleared the month of April from inter-county action - but Tally envisages problems as it is on the doorstep of the Championship.
New Donegal manager Declan Bonner has already expressed concern over ring-fencing April for clubs, although the GAA stopped short of calling it a ban on inter-county activity.
“I think giving April over to the clubs is fantastic but then again will they have access to their players?” said Tally.
Arguably a bigger issue for the Sigerson Cup winning manager is the high amount of training sessions players accrue for so little game-time.
“I was chatting to one of our players and he’s back training with his county. We started working out how many games he played for his county last year.
“It worked out he played two hours football in an entire season. You’re talking about 80 to 90 training sessions and two hours football.
“There’s not another sport in the world where that would happen. There is so much information on this now that tells us training is the problem.
“If the games were coming thick and fast, the players would love it, but there is so much training. It’s okay if you’re a nailed own starter in your team but if you’re between number 17 to 28 you mightn’t kick a ball all year, and you mightn’t be playing for your club, so you’re going to miss out on everything.
“You mightn’t stick it too long before you say: ‘This isn’t for me.’”
Third level football has been taking hits from all angles in recent years, although abolishing the U21 provincial Championship in favour of a summer-based U20 Championship alleviates some pressure on university teams at the business end of their seasons.
Despite the perceived criticism of inter-county managers and the demands they place on their players, Tally insisted that the increased prestige of the National League in recent years means that county teams need to hit the ground running.
“Years ago there was a bit of National League before Christmas and a bit after Christmas but you didn’t really hear too much about it, and that’s 20 years ago,” said the Galbally clubman.
“You used to drag players to play National League pre-Christmas… But the way the GAA has moved on the League is a premier competition; it’s the second most important competition.
“So there is a big push on the National League and teams want to do better in it because the higher up you go, the better competition it is for them.
“You can see the National League is starting that bit earlier next year and it’s squeezing the McKenna Cup [group stages] into seven days which puts a big burden on our squad.
“But that’s the way it is - and then we have the Sigerson coming up a couple of weeks after that.”
St Mary’s will face Tyrone, Cavan and Antrim in their Dr McKenna Cup section, beginning on Wednesday January 3.
Asked about the lack of fixture space in the calendar for third level teams, Tally replied: “It is getting harder. Is there an answer to it? I don’t know. The calendar still seems to be the big problem.
“I think even the fact the All-Ireland Club semi-final and final are still going to be played in February and March of next year doesn’t help.
“I think if they were played in the one calendar year that would have eased up some of the problems because Derry won’t have access to their Slaughtneil players, Armagh suffered for years with Crossmaglen’s success and Derry had the same problem with Ballinderry in the past. So that’s one of the big problems.”
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Home » » Malabe Medical degree not recognized
Malabe Medical degree not recognized
By Don Asoka Wijewardena
The University Grants Commission (UGC), Board of Investment (BOI) and the Sri Lanka Medical Council (SLMC) do not recognize medical degrees offered by the Malabe Medical College as it is neither a registered medical college nor well-equipped to provide medical education.
The Government Medical Officers’ Association found fault with the government for permitting the private sector to operate medical colleges and allowing such institutions to mushroom in the country. The GMOA also emphasized that Ministers should not accept sophisticated medical equipment as donations to hospitals without consulting medical experts.
GMOA Committee Member Dr. Chandika Epitakaduwa told The Island that medical degrees offered by such private institutions cannot be accepted due to split in courses of studies, lack of separate departments for anatomy, physiology, surgery and medicine, lack of qualified academic staff and unavailability of a teaching hospital.
Under these circumstances, the future of doctors passing out from Malabe would be bleak, he said.
Even the selection criteria to the medical college were unclear. The main reason for not accepting the degrees of the college was that the first part of the degree was being done in Sri Lanka and the second part would be conducted in Russia. The College has several shortcomings and medical students there were being taken for a ride, Dr. Epitakaduwa charged.
SLMC Registrar Dr. N. J. Nonis said that the SLMC would not recognize the degrees offered by the Malabe private medical college because the administration had introduced medical education programmes in contravention of the Medical Ordinance. The first part of the Malabe course was done in Sri Lanka and the second part would be done in Russia and degrees offered after conducting courses in two different places cannot be recognized, Dr. Nonis said.
Dr. Epitakaduwa added that the GMOA would ask Ministers to go through the Health Ministry’s Master Plan before accepting donations of medical equipment for hospitals because some Ministers had been creating a mismatch between physical and human resources. The only motive of Ministers was to please their voters without understanding the systematic distribution process of medical equipment to hospitals.
He said that on many occasions political decisions and requirements of the medical profession did not tally. It was the responsibility of Ministers to consult medical experts before donating medical equipment to hospitals because medical experts had been aware of the requirements of hospitals relevant to the Master Plan.
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07.34.00 1993, Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
Genre : Comedy, Fantasy, Horror, 1993
Tanggal Rilis : 19 February 1993 (USA)
Sutradara : Sam Raimi
Naskah : Sam Raimi, Ivan Raimi
Pemain : Bruce Campbell, Embeth Davidtz, Marcus Gilbert
Sinopsis Film Army of Darkness (1992) :
After being pulled through a time portal, Ash Williams lands in A.D. 1300, where he is soon captured by Lord Arthur's men, who suspect him to be an agent for the Duke Henry, with Whom Arthur is at war. He is Enslaved along with the captured Henry, his gun and chainsaw confiscated, and is taken to a castle. Ash is thrown in a pit where he fights off a Deadite and regains his weapons from Arthur's Wise Man. After demanding Henry and his men be set free (as Henry Knew he was innocent, and his persecution was simply a witch hunt) and killing a Deadite in full view of everyone, Ash is celebrated as a hero. Also he grows Attracted to Sheila, the sister of one of Arthur's knights fallen.According to the Wise Man, the only way Ash can return to his time is to retrieve the Necronomicon Ex-Mortis, a book with magical powers. After bidding goodbye to Sheila, Ash starts his search for the Necronomicon. As he Enters a haunted forest, Ash pursues an unseen force through the woods. Fleeing, he ducks into a windmill where he crashes into a mirror. The small reflections of Ash climb out from the shattered mirror and torment him. One of the reflections dives down Ash's throat and uses his body to Become a life-sized clone of Ash and attack him, after the which Ash kills and buries the clone.When he arrives at the Necronomicon's location, he finds three books instead of one. Eventually Ash finds the real one and attempts to say the magic phrase that will allow him to safely remove the book - "Klaatu Barada Nikto". However, Forgetting the last word, he tries to trick the book by mumbling and coughing the missing word. He then grabs the book from the cradle, and rushes back to the castle, while the dead rise from graves all around. During Ash's panicked ride back, his evil copy rises from his grave and unites the Deadites into the Army of Darkness.Despite causing the Predicament faced by the medieval soldiers, Ash initially demands to be Returned to his own time. However, Sheila is captured by a Flying Deadite, and later transformed into a Deadite. Ash Becomes determined to lead the humans against the army of the dead. Reluctantly, the people agree to join Ash. Using scientific knowledge from textbooks in the trunk of his 1973 Oldsmobile Delta 88, and enlisting the help of Duke Henry, Ash successfully leads the medieval soldiers to victory over the Deadites and Evil Ash, saving Sheila and bringing peace between Arthur and Henry in the process , The Wise Men return him to his own time, giving him a potion to drink after reciting the magic phrase.Back in the present, Ash recounts his story to a fellow employee at his job, working in housewares at a store called "S-Mart". As he talks to a girl who is interested in his story, a surviving deadite, allowed to come to the present due to Ash again Forgetting the last word of the magic phrase, attacks the customers. Ash attacks and kills it using a Winchester rifle from the department store's Sporting Goods, finally ending the deadite threat.
Trailler Army of Darkness (1992) :
Label: 1993, Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
Army of Darkness (1992) Reviewed by Unknown on 07.34.00 Rating: 5
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Knitting and other Needlework
July 11 @ 1:00 pm - July 16 @ 2:00 pm
PA United States + Google Map
Knitting and other needlework with Pitzie. Held at 2101 Strahle Street, Philadelphia. Starts at 1 pm. Lunch (available by request when you register) starts at 11:30 a.m. Call 215-320-3250 to register.
Breakfast and Learning with Rabbi Yaakov Glasser
Congregation B’nai Israel – Ohev Zedek, 8201 Castor Avenue
Philadelphia, PA 19152 United States + Google Map
Rabbi Yaakov Glasser, the David Mitzner Dean of the Center for the Jewish Future and University Life at Yeshiva University, will speak on "The Transformative Impact of Talmud Torah in Community Growth." Breakfast will be served. Presented by Yeshiva University, B'nai Israel - Ohev Zedek, and the Chelkeinu Initiative.
Lake Trip
Atsion Lake, Route 206
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Bring a bathing suit, towel and sunscreen and join the Mosaic Outdoor Club of Philadelphia for a swim trip to Atsion Lake in New Jersey. The group will carpool at 10:30 a.m. from in front of the Shop Rite at the intersection of Routes 70 and 73 in Marlton, New Jersey. For information call Jon […]
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Gullible's Travels
Grade: B +
Director: Sarah Smith
Starring the voices of: James McAvoy, Jim Broadbent, Imelda Staunton, Bill Nighy and Hugh Laurie
A winterscape of wit and winsomeness, Aardman Animations' Arthur Christmas careens into the well-populated yuletide movie genre but manages to cordon off its own corner of the Santa mythos. The most brilliant stroke of Peter Baynham (Borat) and director Sarah Smith’s screenplay is reimagining the title of Santa Claus as a royal lineage, an ancestral birthright passed from father to son over generations.
The current Kris Kringle (voiced by Jim Broadbent) is a detached old elf on the verge passing the crown to Steve (Hugh Laurie), his eldest heir and already the de facto Santa. Steve, sporting a Christmas-tree groomed goatee and Versace camouflaged tights, has modernized the gift assembly and distribution process with military-type precision, including elves who rappel commando-style into kid’s homes and parking the wood sleigh and reindeer in lieu of a mammoth hovercraft named the “S-1.”
When mechanization fails to deliver a new bike to Gwen in the tiny hamlet of Trelaw, England (not Mexico, as several characters will discover), Steve chalks up the mishap as an acceptable margin of error. This does not sit well with Arthur (James McAvoy), Santa’s goofy, diffident son, whose throwaway job of corresponding with “Dear Santa” letter writers coincides nicely with his idealistic notions of Christmas.
So, Arthur and his crotchety Grandsanta (Bill Nighy) dust off the old, lead paint-covered sleigh and embark on a trip to Cornwall deliver Gwen’s gift before sun-up and the child’s disappointment. The journey routes them through Canada – “Nobody lives there,” explains the eldest Claus – and as many unintentional detours as their faulty GPS suggests. While a seemingly impossible task, Grandsanta reminds Arthur “They used to say it was impossible to teach women to read!”
Indeed, the presence of the pure-hearted yet daft and out-of-date Grandsanta alludes to the male-centricity of the Santa lore and the traditional holiday stories that have sprung around it. The lesson of Arthur Christmas is not progress is bad, but that progress that forsakes one’s core values isn’t progressive.
The celebrity voice-work is terrific throughout, particularly McAvoy, Broadbent and Nighy, who all adapt splendidly to the animated medium. The story speeds along at an over-caffeinated pace, which nearly makes for sensory overload when coupled with the 3-D visuals. But, it also knows when to slow down and balance the silliness with sentimentality. Clever enough to support repeat viewings, Arthur Christmas is a cinematic gift that keeps on giving.
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The Bracket
The NCAA Basketball Tournament is upon us (in fact I’m watching it as I type), and it’s grown to a size I doubt anyone could imagine. Prior to the Michigan State / Indiana State (Magic vs Bird) game in 1979 the tournament was largely unnoticed and kinda played second fiddle to the NIT. I believe only the final game was televised and that wasn't shown live.
I have a few memories of the NCAA. I went to the first round games the year Christian Laettner hit his game-winner against Kentucky, and I went to the final four in 2016. I was in a bar in Grand Rapids the night Austin Peay beat a heavily favored Illinois team. A guy in the bar must have been an Illinois fan because as soon as the game ended he left the bar, slammed the door, and the full-length piece of glass in the door shattered, exploded really, and the guy never even turned around to look, he just walked directly to his car.
Then there was the year I had Indiana going all the way and they lost in the opening game at noon. I was eliminated before I got home from work, my interest waned a bit after that.
But the landmark moment came in 1983.
I was fresh out of college and working for a large company in Grand Rapids. It was a steel company so 95% of the employees were guys and we liked to bet, we bet on anything that moved.
Anyway, the NCAA Tournament was coming up and we couldn’t figure out a way to get money involved. We thought about drawing team names out of a hat but that didn’t really have a good vibe because, technically, one guy could end up with the entire final four.
So five guys, Steve Coutre (engineer and computer whiz, Illinois), Ken Fusee (purchasing agent, GVSU), Mitch Van Houten (engineer and computer whiz, Michigan Tech), Jim Hathaway (engineer, MSU), and I sat down in the lunchroom and tried to figure something out. We went through a variety of scenarios and decided to give everyone a sheet and have them pick the winner of each game. You got a half point for picking winners, one point in the next round, etc., and six points for the finals.
Steve made a computer program to track the scoring and we were off. I think we had ten players the first year. Last year, using the original computer program, we had somewhere around three hundred participants (my Mom won).
Now I’m not saying those five guys in that lunchroom invented the bracket pool, all I’m saying is none of us had ever seen one before, or heard of one before, or knew anyone who had ever seen or heard of one before and, coincidentally, the pool that exists now across the nation is the EXACT same format we used thirty-six years ago.
I just wish there was a way to forensically track the history of the bracket pool, a pool that has created a whole industry, thousands of jobs, and made a sport exponentially larger than it ever was because let’s face it, there’s really no reason to watch 90% of the games if you’re not in a pool.
If there were a way to track it I wouldn’t be surprised if it spiraled back to that lunchroom and five guys with an idea and a giant computer; in fact, I’d...bet on it.
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Prof. Marcantonio Spada
Professor of Addictive Behaviours and Mental Health; Head of Psychology
spadam@lsbu.ac.uk
Applied Sciences / Psychology
Marcantonio Spada is Professor of Addictive Behaviours and Mental Health in the School of Applied Sciences where he is the Head of the Division of Psychology and Deputy Lead of the Centre for Addictive Behaviours Research. He is also a Visiting Researcher at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience King’s College London, a Visiting Professor of Psychology at the Sigmund Freud University Milan/Vienna, a Director of UK SMART Recovery, and a Trustee of GambleAware.
Prior to his current appointment he was Professor of Psychological Therapies in the School of Health and Social Care at London South Bank University and Consultant and Trust Lead in Cognitive Behaviour Therapy for North East London NHS Foundation Trust. Before joining London South Bank University Professor Spada held Principal Lectureships in Psychology at the University of Roehampton and at London Metropolitan University.
Professor Spada has made a significant contribution to the understanding of metacognitive mechanisms underlying general vulnerability to addictive behaviours (alcohol use, gambling, nicotine use, and engagement with technology) by conducting seminal studies that have identified the key role played by metacognitions in the maintenance of such behaviours, and by defining and shaping the novel concept of ‘desire thinking’, a third form of perseverative thinking (beyond rumination and worry) which is linked to the persistence and escalation of craving. This body of work has led to the development of a novel clinical model which integrates knowledge on attention, perseverative thinking and metacognition into a single ‘architecture’, aimed at explaining the unfolding of addictive behaviour and the application of metacognitive focused techniques in its treatment.
Professor Spada is now leading research on testing the efficacy of metacognitive focused therapy protocols for addictive behaviours.
BSc Psychology
Introducing Real World Psychology
Psychology of Addictive Behaviour
Psychology of Mental Health and Distress
Psychology of Thinking and Communication
MSc Addiction Psychology and Counselling
Therapeutic Counselling Theory and Practice
MSc Mental Health and Clinical Psychology
Introduction to Clinical Skills
MSc Psychology
Thinking, Intelligence, and Communication
Kolubinski, D and Nikčević, A V and Marino, C and Spada, MM A metacognitive model of self-esteem. Journal of Affective Disorders, DOI 10.1016/j.jad.2019.05.050
Gini, G and Marino, C and Spada, MM The role of metacognitions and thinking styles in the negative outcomes of adolescents' peer victimization. Violence and Victims,
Davies, J and Read, J and Hengartner, M P and Cosci, F and Fava, G and Chouinard, G and van Os, J and Nardi, A and Gøtzsche, P and Groot, P and Timimi, S and Moncrieff, J and Spada, MM and Guy, A Clinical guidelines on antidepressant withdrawal urgently need updating. BMJ, 365. DOI 10.1136/bmj.l2238
Fernie, B A and Spada, MM and Brown, R G Impact of a brief auditory attention training on a modified colour-word Stroop task in a high anxiety and worry sample. Journal of Cognitive Psychology, DOI 10.1080/20445911.2019.1612408
Howard, A and Albery, IP and Frings, D and Spada, MM and Moss, A Pre-partying amongst students in the UK: Measuring motivations and consumption levels across different educational contexts. Substance Use and Misuse, DOI 10.1080/10826084.2019.1590414
Fernie, BA and Aoun, A and Kollmann, J and Spada, MM and Nikčević, AV Transcultural, transdiagnostic, and concurrent validity of a revised Metacognitions about Symptoms Control Scale. Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy, DOI 10.1002/cpp.2367
Martino, F and Caselli, G and Fiabane, E and Felicetti, F and Trevisani, C and Menchetti, M and Mezzaluna, C and Sassaroli, S and Albery, IP and Spada, MM Desire thinking as a predictor of drinking status following treatment for alcohol use disorder: A prospective study. Addictive Behaviors, 95. 70-76. DOI 10.1016/j.addbeh.2019.03.004
Fernie, BA and Spada, MM and Brown, RG Motor fluctuations and psychological distress in Parkinson’s disease. Health Psychology, DOI 10.1037/hea0000736
Marino, C and Caselli, G and Lenzi, M and Monaci, GM and Vieno, A and Spada, MM Emotion regulation and desire thinking as predictors of problematic Facebook use. Psychiatric Quarterly, 1-7. DOI 10.1007/s11126-019-09628-1
Marino, C and Marci, T and Ferrante, L and Altoè, G and Vieno, A and Simonelli, A and Caselli, G and Spada, MM Attachment and problematic Facebook use in adolescents: The mediating role of metacognitions. Journal of Behavioral Addictions,
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Accredited Cognitive Behaviour Therapy Practitioner, British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies
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Registered Metacognitive Therapy Practitioner, Metacognitive Therapy Institute
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Visiting Professor of Psychology, Sigmund Freud University, Milan
Visiting Researcher, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience, King's College London
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Writing in the Margins: Lola Baltzell, Carol Blackwell, Amy Solomon and Valerie Spain
Reception: Thursday, May 9, 6:00 – 8:00 pm
Gallery Series workshop: Saturday, May 11, 10:00 am – 2:00 pm
Avid readers will feel right at home in “Writing in the Margins.” The upcoming Chandler Gallery show, which features mixed media artists Lola Baltzell, Carol Blackwell, Amy Solomon and Valerie Spain, is just as much of a celebration of how readers consume as it is of text and books themselves.
Baltzell explained that the title came from a song by John Gorka, whom she cited as her favorite singer/songwriter for his “evocative” and often ambiguous lyrics. For that reason, the show is aptly named. There is openness in “Writing in the Margins” and room for the viewer to insert themselves into anything abstract, just as readers might.
Despite visible differences between each piece, Baltzell noted how they share “many commonalities,” particularly in how “the pieces are worked and re-worked in many layers.”
In Spain’s “House of Nails,” for example, she layers a flattened “Grip-Rite Nails” box over indistinguishable handwritten words. After a closer look, the bright blue outline around the box more visibly suggests its house-like shape. Baltzell’s “Jigsaw Collage” similarly places disparate chunks of text and imagery over each other, garnished with three painted green circles. The words “JIGSAW” line the bottom while a clock with handwritten numbers peeks out on top. Blackwell’s “Vocabulary Building” stacks blocks of letters and words in a sort of three- dimensional collage, playing on words by literally building with vocabulary.
Individually, each piece is strikingly unique, like Solomon’s “Tea Cup and Wallpaper,” which gives the illusion that a teacup is melting into its background. When placed side by side, it’s impossible to ignore what links them. In many cases, wordplay and handwriting are a uniting motif. Baltzell explained that this comes from a “nostalgia for the way that readers interacted with books for generations,” which includes dog-earing and writing notes.
“On the one hand, [handwriting] can feel archaic and not modern, and yet there is energy and passion and character in it that is otherwise not expressed,” she said.
“Writing in the Margins” is on display at the Chandler Gallery from April 29-May 17. The opening reception will be held on Thursday, May 9 from 6-8pm. The Chandler Gallery is a program under the umbrella of the Agassiz Baldwin Community, a private, non-profit organization that has provided quality programs and services in the Cambridge community for over 40 years. Agassiz Baldwin Community also manages Maud Morgan Arts, a full arts program of classes and workshops for all ages. Maud Morgan Arts works to reflect the diversity of talents of the community, bringing people together to make art, share art, and support visual arts education.
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Home / دینی رہنمائی، / مضامین: انگریزی ، / مہمان مضامین: انگریزی، / Decisive Proofs of the Finality of Prophethood [Khatm-e-Nabuwwat]
Decisive Proofs of the Finality of Prophethood [Khatm-e-Nabuwwat]
in دینی رہنمائی،, مضامین: انگریزی ،, مہمان مضامین: انگریزی،
It is the unanimous belief of the entire Muslim Ummah that Prophet Muhammad (SallAllahu Alaihi wa Sallam) is the Last and Final Messenger and Prophet of Allah. In other words Prophethood has ended with Prophet Muhammad (SallAllahu Alaihi wa Sallam) and those who do not believe in it are ventured out of the bounds of Islam. This belief in the finality of Prophethood has been an established belief of the Muslims since the time of the Prophet (SallAllahu Alaihi wa Sallam). Every time a false prophet has arisen, the Muslims knew he was false because belief in the finality of Prophethood has been established as part of the Muslim's Aqidah (tenets of faith). Here we wish to prove this fact beyond a shadow of a doubt.
..:: Proof from the Holy Qur'an ::..
The Noble and Exalted Qur'an states:
ما كان محمد أبا أحد من رجالكم ولكن رسول الله وخاتم النبيين وكان الله بكل شيء عليما
Muhammad (Peace and Blessings of Allah be upon Him) is not the father of any man among you – but he is the Noble Messenger of Allah and the Last of the Prophets; and Allah knows all things. [Surah al-Ahzab, Verse 40]
This Qur'anic verse is an unequivocally decisive primary text that there will be no prophet after him. And since there will be no Prophet (Nabi), it follows a fortiori that there will be no Prophetic Messenger (Rasool). Exalted Muslim Scholars, since the time of our beloved Prophet (SallAllahu Alaihi wa Sallam), have correctly understood this verse to indicate that no new prophet or messenger will be sent to humanity until the day of judgment. Following are few interpretations of well-known Muslim Scholars on the finality of prophethood in chronological order.
Allama Ibn Jarir Tabari [224-310 AH] interprets:
Muhammad (SallAllahu Alaihi wa Sallam) is the last prophet, the one who has closed up Prophethood or sealed it. This seal will not be opened for anyone till the Day of Judgment. [Tafsir Ibn-e-Jarir, Vol. 22, Page 12]
Imam Abu Hayyan al Andalusi [d. 445 AH] after decisively proving Finality of Prophet Muhammad (Peace be upon him) from Quran and Sunnah writes in his Tafsir Al-Bahr al-Muheet:
A person who has a viewpoint that Prophethood is not closed, or one who thinks that a Wali is superior than Nabi then such a person is Zindeeq (Heretic) and “Wajib al-Qatl”. Those who had claimed Prophethood amongst people then Muslims have killed them. [Tafsir Bahr al-Muheet, Under 33:40]
Muhiyy as-Sunnah Baghawi [d. 510 AH] has written:
Allah has closed the line of Prophethood after Prophet Muhammad (SallAllahu Alaihi wa Sallam). Sayyiduna Ibn Abbas (Radi Allahu Anhu) says that Allah has declared that there is no Prophet after him [Tafsir Ma'alim at-Tanzil, Vol. 3, Page 158]
Allama Zamakhshari [467-538 AH] has stated:
If you say how can he (SallAllahu Alaihi wa Sallam) be the Last Prophet when Sayyiduna Eisa (Ala Nabiyyina wa Alaihis Salat wa as-Salam) will come in the future ages, I will reply that he (SallAllahu Alaihi wa Sallam) is the Last Prophet in the sense that after him no New Prophet will come; Sayyiduna Eisa (Ala Nabiyyina wa Alaihis Salat wa as-Salam) is one of those Prophets who have already come before him. When Sayyiduna Eisa (Ala Nabiyyina wa Alaihis Salat wa as-Salam) will come again, he will follow the Shari'ah of Prophet Muhammad (SallAllahu Alaihi wa Sallam) and will face Qibla in his Salah; this means that he will come as an individual of this Ummah.
Imam Raazi [543-606 AH] is of the opinion that:
The words Khatam an-Nabiyeen are used to show that the Shari'ah of Islam is complete. The view that no prophet will come after Muahmmad (SallAllahu Alaihi wa Sallam) is also more affectionate too and particular about his (SallAllahu Alaihi wa Sallam) Ummah and gives the significance of the words in more details. This is like the example of a son who has no guardian after his father. [Tafsir al-Kabir, Vol. 6, Page 581]
Allama Baydawi [d. 685 AH] says:
Prophet Muhammad (SallAllahu Alaihi wa Sallam) is the last of all Prophets. He has sealed the Prophethood of all Prophets, or their Prophethood has been sealed by him. It makes no difference that Sayyiduna Eisa (Ala Nabiyyina wa Alaihis Salat wa as-Salam) will come again after him, because he will come as a follower of his (SallAllahu Alaihi wa Sallam) Noble Shari'ah. [Tafsir al-Baydawi, Vol. 2, Page 196]
Allama Nasafi [d. 710 AH] recorded that:
Prophet Muhammad (SallAllahu Alaihi wa Sallam) is at the end of all Prophets (SallAllahu Alaihi wa Sallam); and after him there will be no New Prophet; and Sayyiduna Eisa (Ala Nabiyyina wa Alaihis Salat wa as-Salam) was made a Prophet before him (SallAllahu Alaihi wa Sallam); and when he comes again, he will come as a follower of the Shari'ah of Prophet Muhammad (SallAllahu Alaihi wa Sallam) as if he (Sayyiduna Eisa) were an individual of this Ummah. [Tafsir Madarik al-Tanzil,Vol. 3, Page 234]
Allama Alauddin Khazin [d. 725 AH] has expressed the view that:
Allah has ended the line of Prophethood through him (SallAllahu Alaihi wa Sallam). Therefore, neither there is Prophethood after him, nor any other Prophet during his own time. Indeed, Ibn Abbas has said that Allah has declared there will be no Prophet after him (SallAllahu Alaihi wa Sallam). [Tafsir al-Khazin, Vol. 5, Page 218]
Ibn Kathir [d. 774 AH] comments:
Allah Most Blessed and Exalted has stated in His book, as has His Messenger (Allah bless him and give him peace) in hadiths of numerous channels of transmission (mutawatir) that there will be no prophet after him, so that whoever claims this rank thereafter is a lying (kadhab) pretender (dajjal), misled and misleading, even if he should stage miracles and exhibit all kinds of magic, talismans and spells. [Tafsir Ibn Kathir, Vol. 3, Page 493]
Imam Jalal al-Din Suyuti [d. 911 AH] says:
The words Khatam an-Nabiyyeen mean there will be no new prophet after him (SallAllahu Alaihi wa Sallam) and when Sayyiduna Eisa (Ala Nabiyyina wa Alaihis Salat wa as-Salam) will come again, he will act according to the Shari'ah of Prophet Muhammad (SallAllahu Alaihi wa Sallam). [Jalalayn Ala Hamish Jamal, Vol. 3, Page 442]
Allama Ismail Haqqi [d. 1137 AH] has stated:
Read the phrase Khatam an-Nabiyyeen with the upsound of "Taa" which means the instrument by which something is closed (sealed). The meaning is that he (SallAllahu Alaihi wa Sallam) was the last of all Prophets by whom the office of all Prophets has been sealed. In Persian, "Seal of Prophets" means that by him the doors of Prophethood have been sealed, and the line of Prophethood terminated once and for all. Some other scholars have read this with a down sound of "Taa" which indicates he was "Khatim" in the sense of "Fa'ail". In Persian, it will mean the one who seals (ends) the prophets, in which case, the meaning is the same. [Tafsir Rooh al-Bayan, Vol. 22 Page 188]
Qadhi Thanaullah Panipatti [d. 1255 AH] writes in his Tafsir al-Mazhari:
Khatam has been mentioned (in this Aayah) in the meaning of Aakhir (Last) and someone who came to bring an end to something as Last Nabi after whom no Prophet will come. [Tafsir al-Mazhari, Vol. 9, Page 266]
Allama Aaloosi [d. 1270 AH] writes:
Hadrat Muhammad (SallAllahu Alaihi wa Sallam) is also Khatim al-Mursaleen meaning that after his Prophethood there will be no Prophethood at all. [Tafsir Rooh al-Ma'ani, Vol. 22, Page 23]
..:: Proofs from the overwhelming Ahadith ::..
Narrated Sayyiduna Abu Huraira (Radi Allahu Anhu): The Prophet (SallAllahu Alaihi wa Sallam) said,
"The Children of Israel used to be ruled and guided by prophets: Whenever a prophet died, another would take over his place. There will be no prophet after me, but there will be Caliphs who will increase in number." The people asked, "O Allah's Apostle! What do you order us (to do)?" He said, "Obey the one who will be given the pledge of allegiance first. Fulfil their (i.e. the Caliphs) rights, for Allah will ask them about (any shortcoming) in ruling those Allah has put under their guardianship." [Sahih al-Bukhari, Vol. 4, Hadith 661]
Narrated Sayyiduna Sa'ad (Radi Allahu Anhu):
Allah's Apostle (SallAllahu Alaihi wa Sallam) set out for Tabuk appointing Sayyiduna 'Ali as his deputy (in Madinah). Hadrat 'Ali said, "Do you want to leave me with the children and women?" The Prophet said, "Will you not be pleased that you will be to me like Aaron to Moses? But there will be no prophet after me." [Sahih al-Bukhari, Vol. 5, Hadith 700]
Narrated Sayyiduna Abu Huraira (Radi Allahu Anhu): Allah's Apostle (SallAllahu Alaihi wa Sallam) said,
"The Hour will not be established (1) till two big groups fight each other whereupon there will be a great number of casualties on both sides and they will be following one and the same religious doctrine, (2) till about thirty dajjals (liars) appear, and each one of them will claim that he is Allah's Apostle, (3) till the religious knowledge is taken away (by the death of Religious scholars) (4) earthquakes will increase in number (5) time will pass quickly, (6) afflictions will appear, (7) Al-Harj, (i.e., killing) will increase, (8) till wealth will be in abundance..." [Sahih al-Bukhari, Vol. 9, Page 237]
Narrated Sayyiduna Isma'il (Radi Allahu Anhu):
I asked Abi Aufa, "Did you see Ibrahim, the son of the Prophet?" He said, "Yes, but he died in his early childhood. Had there been a Prophet after Muhammad then his son would have lived, but there is no Prophet after him." [Sahih al-Bukhari, Vol. 8, Page 214]
Narrated Hadrat Sayyidah Ayesha (Radi Allahu Anha):
"Prophethood will NOT continue after me, except the harbingers of good news". They asked "What are the harbingers of good news, O Apostle of Allah?." He replied: "Virtuous and pious dreams a Muslim sees or are shown to him".
Narrated Abu Huraira: Allah's Apostle (SallAllahu Alaihi wa Sallam) said,
"My similitude in comparison with the other prophets before me, is that of a man who has built a house nicely and beautifully, except for a place of "ONE" brick in a corner. The people go about it and wonder at its beauty, but say: 'Would that this brick be put in its place!' So I am that brick, and I am the last of the Prophets."
Sahih al-Bukhari, Vol. 4, Hadith 735
Sahih Muslim, Hadith 5675
Musnad Ahmad, Hadith 7479
Sunan al-Bayhaqi, Hadith 11422
Sayyiduna Anas bin Malik (Radi Allahu Anhu) narrates from the Prophet (SallAllahu Alaihi wa Sallam) who said:
The Messengership and Prophethood have ended and there will be no Messenger and Prophet after me.
Sunnan Tirimdhi, Hadith 2274
Musnad Ahmad bin Hanbal, Vol. 3, Page 467
Mustadrak ala al-Sahihayn lil Hakim, Vol. 4, Page 391
Sayyiduna Abu Huraira (Radi Allahu Anhu) reported that the Messenger of Allah (SallAllahu Alaihi wa Sallam) said:
I have been given superiority over the other prophets in six respects: I have been given words which are concise but comprehensive in meaning; I have been helped by terror (in the hearts of enemies); spoils have been made lawful to me; the earth has been made for me clean and a place of worship; I HAVE BEEN SENT TO ALL MANKIND AND THE LINE OF PROPHETS IS CLOSED WITH ME. [Sahih, Muslim, Hadith 1062]
The Prophet (SallAllahu Alaihi wa Sallam) said:
Allah has not sent any Prophet who did not warn his nation about Dajjal, but Now “I AM THE LAST OF PROPHETS” and you are the last Ummah, he will for sure arise from amongst you. [Sunan Ibn Majah, Hadith 4067]
The Prophet of Allah (SallAllahu Alaihi wa Sallam) said:
I was Last Prophet in (sight) of Allah when Adam’s Khameer was being created. [Shu'ab al-Iman, Vol. 2, Page 134]
Hadrat Jabir bin Abdullah (Radi Allahu Anhu) narrates that the Prophet (SallAllahu Alaihi wa Sallam) said:
I am the leader of all Prophets and there is no boast, I am the Last of all Prophets and there is no boast. [Sunnan al-Daarimi, Hadith 50]
Hadrat Abdullah bin Umar (Radi Allahu Anhu) narrates:
Once the Prophet (SallAllahu Alaihi wa Sallam) came to us in a way as If he is leaving us, then he said thrice: I am Muhammad the Ummi Prophet (SallAllaho Alaihi wa Sallam) and there is no Prophet after me. [Musnad Ahmed bin Hanbal, Vol. 2, Page 172]
There is no Prophet after me, and there is no Ummah after you, so you should worship your Lord and say your five daily prayers, and fast in your month (Ramadan), obey your leaders and thus enter the Blessed garden of your Lord. [Mu'jam al-Kabir, Vol. 8, Hadith 7217]
Narrated Jubayr bin Mutim: Allah's Apostle (SallAllahu Alaihi wa Sallam) said,
"I have five names: I am Muhammad and Ahmad; I am Al-Mahi through whom Allah will eliminate infidelity; I am Al-Hashir who will be the first to be resurrected, the people being resurrected there after; “AND I AM ALSO AL-AQIB (i.e. THERE WILL BE NO PROPHET AFTER ME).” [Sahih al-Bukhari, Vol. 4, Hadith 732]
Hadrat Ibn Abbas (Radi Allahu Anhu) narrates that the Prophet (SallAllahu Alaihi wa Sallam) said:
I am Ahmad, Muhammad, Hashir, Muqaffi (One who is sent in the last) and I am Khaatim. [Mu'jam al-Saghir, Hadith 152]
Now, the above is just a small portion of the vast amount of mutawatir evidence that proves conclusively that there are no prophets after the Prophet Muhammad (Allah bless him and give him peace), if someone believe that there is a prophet after him he is a kafir. There is absolutely and utterly no room for any doubt in this matter. In the face of such overwhelming evidence then why is it that the Qadianis persist in their misguided and misguiding belief?
..:: Consensus of Muslim Scholars and Ummah ::..
Throughout the centuries, Muslim Scholars have unanimously supported the fundamental doctrine of Finality of Prophethood in Prophet Muhammad (SallAllahu Alaihi wa Sallam). So much so, that the entire Ummah has recognized anyone who claims to be a prophet (in any capacity), supports someone else's claim to prophethood, or views such claimant as a religious leader, to be an unbeliever (Kafir).
Imam Qadhi Iyadh al-Maaliki (Alaihir Rahmah), the author of magnificent Seerah work i.e. Al-Shifa, writes:
We declare that person as Kafir who considers someone along with you or after you as a Prophet, just like this we also declare him Kafir who claims that Revelation (Wahi) is sent to him even if he does not claim propethood, Thus all such people are disbeleivers because they do Takdhib of Prophet (i.e. call him liar – Na'udhu Billah). The Prophet (Peace Be Upon Him) has informed us that he is Khatam al-Nabiyyeen and no prophet will come after him and that he has been sent to all people. The ummah is unanimous that this Kalaam is to be taken on its apparent and there is no room for any Ta'weel, or Takhsees and the Kufr of such people is Qat’i (i.e. Definite) Ijma'i (i.e. Unanimously Agreed). [Ash-Shifa, Page 237-238]
The great Hanafi Imams, Allama Khafaji (Alaihir Rahmah) and Mullah Ali Qari (Alaihir Rahmah) have also endorced this strongly in Naseem ar-Riyadh, Vol. 6, Page 355-256 and Sharh ash-Shifa Vol. 2, Page 515-516.
Hujjatul Islam Imam Muhammad al-Ghazzali (Rahimuhullah) have stated:
We have known through “Consensus” that La Nabi B’adi (There is no Prophet after me) proves that the door to Prophethood has been permanently closed after Prophet Muhammad (Peace be upon him) and the word “Khatam an-Nabiyyeen” also includes all Anbiya. We are thus certain that there is no room for any kind of Ta'weel (interpolation) or Takhsees (to make specific such as Nabi could come in this form or that form – Na'udhu Billah). Whosoever does Ta'weel in this hadith then he is Munkir of Consensus. [Al-Iqtisad fil I'tiqad, Page 163]
Imam Ibn Qudama al-Maqdisi, the great Hanbali Imam said:
Whosoever claims Prophethood or one who accepts his claim then (both) become Apostates because when Musaylama Kaddhab claimed to be Prophet and his people testified to it then all of them became apostates along with him. [Al-Mugni, Vol. 9, Page 33]
Imam al-Tahawi [d. 321 AH] states:
"Every claim to prophethood after him is falsehood and deceit." [al-Aqidah al-Tahawiyya]
This is the greatest favour of Allah Almighty upon this Ummah that He has perfected for them their religion. Therefore, they will not be needful of a religion other than Islam nor of another Prophet other than their Prophet. May Allah's peace and blessings be upon him. This is why Allah has made him the last and final Prophet and sent him to both the humans and the Jinns.
The sheer amount of evidence provided here should suffice to convince anyone believing in the divinity of Islam that the Prophet Muhammad (SallAllahu Alaihi wa Sallam) is the last Prophet of Allah and that anyone with a claim to prophethood should be considered an outcast from Islam.
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Laureen( Blu) Waters; Istchii Nikamoon- Earth Song
Cree/Métis / Micmac-Wolf Clan, member of the Metis Nation of Ontario
Blu's family is from Big River Saskatchewan, Star Blanket Reserve and Bra’dor Lake, Eskasoni First Nation Cape Breton Nova Scotia.
Full moon conductor. Traditional teachings. She has been a traditional counselor for most of life. She is a mother of 3 and a grandmother of 3 and a Sun dancer and a pipe carrier.
Blu is currently working at Peel Aboriginal network as a elder providing Traditional teachings and One on One Counseling, full moon ceremonies, and work shops. Blu is also currently working at Seneca College as a elder on campus providing Traditional teachings and One on One Counseling.
Blu grew up with her grandmother and learned about traditional medicines performing extractions, healings, and care of the sick and teachings. She was adopted by a white family. At 10 and grew up and lived in Parkdale. Blu spent many years in High Park, hunting geese, rabbits, ducks, muskrat, harvesting medicine plants and maintaining her connection to Mother Earth. She has traveled to Nova Scotia to learn from Herbal medicine people and the Queen Charlotte Island in British Columbia where her brother is a Shaman. And medicine man.
She studied landscaping and Horticulture for four years and has studied herbal medicine. Blu was also the national caucus Representative for the Toronto urban aboriginal strategy for 5 years working with the community of Toronto and the Government. She also is a graduate of DeVry Institute of Technology receiving her business software, micro computer architecture, and A+ certification.
Blu’s gifts include:
Traditional teachings
Giving traditional spirit names
Hand drumming
Song writer
Laureen (Blu) Waters will be present during the Mush Hole Project for consultation
Email: lgaudio@hotmail.com
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Concert Review: Justin Hayward In Concert At The Colonial Theater In Pittsfield, Mass.
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Another legend of music graced our paths last night at the Colonial Theater in Pittsfield, Massachusetts. Justin Hayward, the voice of the Moody Blues, took the stage and entertained us with his catalog of Moody Blues hits and solo material from the 2013 Spirits of the Western Skyrelease.
Prior to that happening Hayward walked out on stage to introduce Mike Dawes, a young emerging artist that specializes in finger picking the acoustic guitar. Dawes was a one man band with all of his techniques and various sounds and effects. He made his way through 4 songs before coming back to the stage to be part of Hayward’s band. Julie Ragins also joined them on keyboards and backing vocals. The young lady added a nice layer of sound with the keys and her smooth vocals.
Hayward is a spry 68 and he sounds amazing. He is every bit the proper English gentleman on stage and he delighted the capacity crowd with his melodic acoustic guitar playing and surprisingly strong and poignant vocals. When you go to a concert to see someone that got their start in the 60s there is some trepidation as to be expected but as usual when I attend these events I am very pleased with what I hear.
Hayward kicked off the evening with one of the Moody Blues hits “Tuesday Afternoon” and that got the crowd in the right mood. For the first time I witnessed an audience that got to their feet to applaud an artist after every number. It was quite a tribute to Hayward. He has a strong following to this day. He asked the audience if they were at a certain event recently and a large portion of them raised their hands in recognition, followed by hoots and hollers of course. It was a nice thing to see that kind of acknowledgment and well deserved I might add.
I must tip my hat to Mr. Dawes for playing some excellent backing guitar on acoustic and electric and Ms. Ragins for her marvelous keyboard fills, lovely vocals and visually pleasing expressions as each song played.
As Hayward traversed his way through the Moodies hits and solo material his voice got stronger. His in between song conversation with the audience was interesting and informative and it added to the overall intimate ambiance that the Colonial offers at any live concert. Towards the end of the evening as the show continued to gather momentum, Hayward launched into a gorgeous rendering of “Forever Autumn” followed by “Question.” For the encore the night reached its pinnacle with the mega hit “Nights In White Satin” followed by the most excellent “I Know Your Out There Somewhere.”
Justin Hayward is a real showman and he still has the magic touch with his guitar and voice. The songs soothe your soul and make your heart smile. Thank you Mr. Hayward for a special night out and one I shall remember forever.
Keith “MuzikMan” Hannaleck-Founder Write A Music Review, Prog Rock Music Talk & New Age Music Reviews
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HomeBlogPA Arrests a Palestinian Woman for Helping Gazans
PA Arrests a Palestinian Woman for Helping Gazans
November 15, 2018 Blog, News
Palestinian police officers detain a Palestinian protester. (Photo: via MEMO)
A Palestinian woman was arrested by Palestinian Authority security forces earlier this month accusing her of sending funds to help impoverished families living in the besieged Gaza Strip.
Suha Jubara from Turmus Ayya village north of occupied Ramallah was detained on November 3, her family was given no information about her whereabouts.
A Human Rights Watch report detailed routine, unwarranted arrests and torture of critics by the Palestinian Authority and Hamas. Our Director of Latin American Affairs Eduardo Kohn explains more in our latest expert analysis blog: https://t.co/PwrqWnuzCR @hrw
— B'nai B'rith Int'l (@BnaiBrith) October 30, 2018
The 30-year-old mother of three who holds dual US and Panama citizenship was transferred to Jericho city prison is thought to have been interrogated on the grounds of assisting the transfer of financial aid to the Gaza Strip for families of Palestinians killed or imprisoned by Israeli occupation forces after the PA suspended their salaries. Suha’s family reported that she suffers from a critical medical condition and not receiving sufficient medical attention.
The family’s lawyer was not permitted to visit her in prison, while the family has said Suha has been tortured and there are marks of physical violence on her body.
This aid is given to the Palestinian Authority who have established a safe haven in Ramallah for themselves. In return they police on behalf of Israel to imprison, torture & spy on Palestinians who reject occupation. #Westernpuppets
— Sandra Tranfield (@oldkhayyam) November 15, 2018
A court in Jericho ordered that she been held for “interrogation”.
The PA had told her family that she was being held in an effort to stop Israeli occupation forces from arresting her, however, they fear that her continued detention will heighten the likeliness that she will be held by Israel upon her release from the PA’s prisons.
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August 26, 2018 Blog, News, Videos
The sole crossing point from Egypt to the Gaza Strip will be opened on Sunday, border authorities said yesterday. The Rafah border crossing is the only window to the world for people who live under the Israeli blockade. […]
Livni: Israel Must ‘Recruit the World to Pressure Hamas’
July 16, 2018 Blog, News
Former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Israel Tzipi Livni (Zionist Camp) criticized the Israeli government for its approach to the occupied Gaza Strip on Sunday, urging intensified efforts to fight Hamas, reported Arutz Sheva. Spoken […]
Palestinian Student Leader on Hunger Strike in Israel Jail (VIDEO)
March 24, 2018 Blog, News, Videos
Palestinian student leader Omar Kiswani started on March 19 an indefinite hunger-strike in Israeli jail, protesting his detention, torture and interrogation without charges. omar kiswani on hunger strike in protest of his detention without charge […]
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Panama Canal Increases Daily Neopanamax Vessel Reservations to Seven
Date: 30-NOV-2017
The Panama Canal Administration is capitalizing on the larger Neopanamax Locks to increase slot availability and efficiency for customers
Panama City, Panama, November 30, 2017 - The Panama Canal will increase the number of daily booking slots available for Neopanamax vessels from six to seven effective December 1, 2017.
With this measure, the Panama Canal is embracing the additional capacity allowed for by the new, larger locks. The seven daily booking slots for Neopanamax vessels are offered in addition to the 23 slots available each day for transit through the Panamax locks.
"This increase is the direct result of our efficient, streamlined use of resources and effective collaboration as we meet the growing demand for transits through the Expanded Canal," said Panama Canal Administrator Jorge L. Quijano. "We are excited to offer the additional capacity, and deliver on our promise to provide unparalleled safe and efficient service to our customers."
The additional slot is now available for ships transiting northbound (from the Pacific Ocean to the Atlantic Ocean), and was first offered beginning September 26 through a special competition in the first booking period in adherence to Panama Canal regulations.
Container vessels will have preference over other vessel types when allocating these additional slots. If no container vessels are interested, the slot will be awarded to any vessel that participated in the special competition, based on the Panama Canal Customer Ranking. After the special competition, the slots will be available to all vessels on a first-come, first-served basis.
The Neopanamax Locks can transit additional ships beyond the number of daily slots allotted. For example, the Expanded Canal transited a record 10 Neopanamax ships on November 17, and provides daily performance that far exceeds the three to four daily transits originally expected.
Dedicated to providing the utmost safety and efficiency for its customers, the Panama Canal will continue to explore ways to expand its capacity, working toward the goal of offering eight Neopanamax reservation slots by the end of the first quarter of 2018 and gradually implementing additional measures to increase capacity through 2019.
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What is the cost and process for filing a trademark application?
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Trademark Application Costs
Costs for applying for federal registration of a trademark with the USPTO depend largely upon three key factors:
number of classes of goods and services;
filing basis (whether based on actual use of the trademark or an Intent-To-Use); and
the number of Office Actions from the USPTO, if any, and the type of rejections or requests therein.
Since the number of classes and filing basis can be determined upfront, our firm provides flat attorney’s fees for filing trademark applications. The variable cost factor in federally registering a trademark is the possibility that the trademark examining attorney may reject your application or issue follow-up questions and requests.
Our initial filing cost of a trademark application is $975 for a single class of goods/services, including our $700 attorney’s fee and the $275 USPTO filing fee.
If the application is based on an Intent-To-Use, then our firm currently charges $375 per class to file the Statement of Use (or Amendment to Allege Use as the case may be), including the $100 USPTO fee.
If your trademark application is successful and we receive the certificate of registration, we charge a flat rate of $250 for forwarding the certificate and docketing renewal deadlines.
So if there are no Office Action rejections, the total cost of a trademark application with a single class of goods/services from initial filing to registration would be $1,225 for a use-based application or $1,600 for an Intent-To-Use application.
Reducing the Cost of a Trademark Application
The most practical way to reduce cost is to minimize rejections. Two of the most common rejections consist of likelihood of confusion (i.e., your mark is too similar to another trademark filing) and mere descriptiveness (your mark describes a quality, characteristic or feature of the goods/services identified in the application).
A knockout trademark search helps identify potential sources of a likelihood of confusion rejection. Knowing what similar marks have already been filed by others can help you recognize obvious landmines before applying for the mark. Such searches often lead to additional brainstorming of new marks which may be less risky than the original mark. Our firm’s trademark filing package includes a knockout search at no additional cost.
Experienced trademark attorneys can also provide guidance on the potential of a merely descriptive rejection. The issue is not how common the words are, but the meaning of the words in your mark in relation to your goods or services.
Trademark Application Process
Initial Filing
We think checklists are wonderful, so we’ve provide a simple questionnaire/checklist to help clients gather the necessary information and materials for a trademark application Trademark Form-ICLG. If an ITU application is contemplated, then specimens of use and dates of first use are not required.
Office Actions
After the initial filing, it takes about 3-6 months for a USPTO examining attorney to review the application. If the examining attorney rejects the application or has any questions or requests, an Office Action will be issued giving the applicant a non-extendable 6-month period to respond.
Mark Published for Opposition
If there are no rejections or any prior objections have been fully resolved, the mark will be published for opposition. The applicant will receive a Notice of Publication identifying the starting date for the 30-day window during which any member of the public may oppose the registration of the mark. If there are no oppositions, then the USPTO will issue either the certificate of registration (for marks where evidence of use has already been submitted) or a Notice of Allowance for ITU applications.
Notice of Allowance (ITU only)
A Notice of Allowance provides the applicant with a 6-month timeframe to submit the Statement of Use. If additional is required, the applicant may request further extensions of time in 6-month increments for a maximum total of three years from the Notice of Allowance date.
You may place the circle R symbol only after the certificate of registration has been issued. Renewal deadlines are generally at the 6-year anniversary of the registration date, the 10-year anniversary, and every ten years thereafter. Unlike patents, trademark registrations can continue indefinitely as long as the owner continues using the mark on the goods or services identified in the registration.
The USPTO has provided helpful trademark application timeline here.
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Home/ Women's Cross Country/ 2017 NAIA Women's Volleyball Coaches' Top 25 Poll — Poll No. 2 (Sept. 19)
2017 NAIA Women's Volleyball Coaches' Top 25 Poll — Poll No. 2 (Sept. 19)
Hastings (Neb.) continues the streak with four consecutive No.1 appearances
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By Katie Green, Manager of Athletics Communications and Media
KANSAS CITY, Mo. – The No. 1 seed out of the Great Plains Athletic Conference, Hastings (Neb.), remained in the No. 1 slot for the fourth consecutive time in Coaches’ Top 25 Poll, the national office announced on Tuesday. The Broncos were dealt 17 first-place votes.
Top 25 Highlights (historical information dates back to 2000):
-Last week Hastings (Neb.) recorded big wins over the No. 7 Columbia (Mo.) Cougars, No. 16 Doane (Neb.) and RV Ottawa (Kan.).
-The Broncos currently hold a record with no blemish at 12-0.
-Three new teams made their way into the top 25: No. 21 Missouri Valley, No. 22 Ottawa and No. 25 Marian (Ind.)
-Lindsey Wilson (Ky.) holds the longest active streak in the Top 25 with 51 total appearance. The last 23 consecutive appearances have been in the top five.
-There has only been one program that has been able to maintain the No. 1 ranking for an entire season, with Fresno Pacific (Calif.) accomplishing the feat in 2004, 2008 and 2009.
-The poll was voted upon by a panel of head coaches representing each of the conferences, Association of Independent Institutions and Unaffiliated Groups.
-The Top 25 is determined by a points system based on how each voter ranks the best teams. A team receives 30 points for each first-place vote, 29 for second-place and so on through the list.
-The highest and lowest ranking for each team (a non-rating is considered a low ratings) is removed and the team’s ranking will be recalculated with an additional point added to each team for every ballot (including discounted ballots) that the teams appears on.
-Teams that receive only one point in the ballot are not considered “receiving votes”
-Frequency of polls occur bi-weekly. This policy was approved by the National Administrative Council (NAC) for the 2016-17 academic season. This change will allow raters the opportunity to consider a larger body of work in between rating periods.
-For the complete ratings calendar, click here.
2017 Women's Volleyball Poll #2 - Sept. 19
RANK LAST WEEK SCHOOL Record Points
1 1 Hastings (Neb.) [17] 11-0 588
2 2 Viterbo (Wis.) [4] 12-0 571
3 3 Lindsey Wilson (Ky.) 13-0 557
4 4 Park (Mo.) 12-1 534
5 5 Westmont (Calif.) 16-1 497
6 5 Dordt (Iowa) 14-3 488
7 7 Columbia (Mo.) 12-2 477
8 8 College of Idaho 13-1 466
9 9 Midland (Neb.) 10-3 445
10 11 Missouri Baptist 15-2 415
11 14 Northwestern (Iowa) 15-1 410
12 13 Eastern Oregon 11-4 368
13 12 Grand View (Iowa) 11-6 363
14 10 Cornerstone (Mich.) 11-5 322
15 16 Doane (Neb.) 9-5 305
16 15 Corban (Ore.) 10-5 304
17 17 Montana Tech 9-5 299
18 18 Georgetown (Ky.) 6-1 278
19 21 Bellevue (Neb.) 12-3 261
20 22 Madonna (Mich.) 15-2 212
21 NR Missouri Valley 15-2 162
22 NR Ottawa (Kan.) 11-5 151
23 23 Jamestown (N.D.) 7-5 142
24 24 Morningside (Iowa) 9-7 130
25 NR Marian (Ind.) 14-2 124
Dropped from the rankings: No. 19 MidAmerica Nazarene, No. 20 Indiana Wesleyan and No. 25 Northwest (Wash.)
Others receiving votes: MidAmerica Nazarene (Kan.) 111, Northwest (Wash.) 102, Indiana Wesleyan 91, Rocky Mountain (Mont.) 89, Campbellsville (Ky.) 49, Saint Xavier (Ill.) 34, William Woods (Mo.) 24, College of the Ozarks (Mo.) 21, Southern Oregon 14, Union (Ky.) 8, Mobile (Ala.) 6, Tabor (Kan.) 6, Siena Heights (Mich.) 3
^Top 25 ranking in Coaches’ Poll on Aug. 15, 2017
40th ANNUAL WOMEN'S CROSS COUNTRY
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Safari Experiences at Thula Thula Private Game Reserve
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Day visitors, wedding parties, conference delegates and extended guests can expect great KwaZulu-Natal game reserve activities, exceptional cuisine and service at Thula Thula.
At Thula Thula Private Game Reserve in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, visitors can track game and really experience the African bush on foot or in open Land Rovers. Other nearby Zululand attractions such as golf, Zulu cultural tours, battlefield tours and whale watching in season can be added to the outstanding KwaZulu-Natal game reserve activities.
The Thula Thula Private Game Reserve in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, is home to a diverse African wildlife population, including Elephant, Zebra, Nyala, Hyena, Kudu, Crocodile, Wildebeest, Rhinoceros, Leopard, Giraffe, and a spectacular variety of other indigenous species, great and small.
The re-introduction of a family herd of Elephant in August 1999 marks the historic return of these great creatures to the area for the first time in 100 years. Birdlife at Thula Thula Private Game Reserve is prolific with over 350 identified species, including raptors. Guided walking safaris and game drives are conducted by experienced and professional rangers and trackers.
Day visitors at Thula Thula Private Game Reserve
This KwaZulu-Natal game reserve in South Africa offers great Limpopo safari activities, which can be combined with sumptuous meals for a fabulous day out.
Thula Thula has a private air-conditioned conference room and breakaway lounge with bar, library, TV / DVD. The conference room has a pull down screen for overhead projection and seating for 32 delegates in cinema style.
The centre is 150 metres from the main lodge and has great bush views, a private garden, an adjacent refreshment station and WC facilities. All AV equipment can be sourced locally on request. Half day, full day and fully inclusive overnight conference packages are available.
Thula Thula Private Game Reserve in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, is a dream wedding location in the South African bush. The Elephant Safari Lodge with its stylish décor and unique atmosphere of peace and tranquillity will make any Thula Thula wedding unforgettable. The stunning Suite Royale, elegantly decorated with colonial and ethnic style, is the perfect setting for a most romantic South African honeymoon in the Limpopo Province.
Activities at Thula Thula Private Game Reserve
Game drives and bush walks with professional rangers and trackers
Other attractions in this KwaZulu-Natal area
Traditional Zulu Village cultural tour
Big Five game reserve nearby
St Lucia estuary boat cruises
Whale watching (June to October)
18-hole golf course
Anglo-Zulu Battlefields
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Thula Thula Private Game Reserve near Durban has a diverse wildlife population, including Rhino, Elephant, Leopard, Giraffe, Zebra, Nyala, Hyena and Crocodile.
Thula Thula game-drives
Safari activities at Thula Thula Game Reserve in Zululand, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, include game drives in open Landrovers with professional rangers.
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Disabling cancer cells' defenses against radiation
Woodruff Health Sciences Center | March 13, 2012
Vincent Dollard
vdollar@emory.edu
The legendary Trojan horse was a way for the Greeks to bypass Troy's defenses.
Researchers at Emory are testing a strategy where cancer cells are induced to shut down their DNA repair genes, making them defenseless against radiation.
NASA awards Emory, MCG $7.6 million for space radiation research Nov. 8, 2010
Paper in Cancer Research
Profile: Ya Wang, MD, PhD
Related paper in PLOS One
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Researchers at Winship Cancer Institute are developing a technique to remove cancer cells' defenses against radiation.
Radiation primarily kills cells by inducing DNA damage, so the aim of the technique is to sensitize cells to radiation by disabling their ability to repair DNA. The technique sneaks RNA molecules into cells that shut down genes needed for DNA repair.
The still-experimental method could potentially allow oncologists to enhance the tumor-killing effects of radiation, while using lower doses and reducing damage to healthy tissues.
In the laboratory, Wang's team uses modified lentiviruses to introduce the RNA molecules. The same types of viruses have been used in gene therapy research. Wang says her team is now testing whether a small peptide tag can direct RNA to brain tumors instead.
The results are published in the March 1, 2012 issue of Cancer Research.
The senior author is Ya Wang, MD, PhD, professor of radiation oncology at Emory University School of Medicine and director of the Division of Experimental Radiation Oncology at Winship Cancer Institute. The first author is Zhiming Zheng, now at Shandong University in China. Winship faculty members Jeffrey Olson, MD, Chunhai Hao, MD, PhD and Walter Curran, MD contributed to the research.
Zheng and his colleagues focused on two genes, XRCC2 and XRCC4, which encode proteins needed for separate pathways of DNA repair. XRCC2 and XRCC4, in general, are both more active in tumor cells than in healthy cells.
In the past, using "RNA interference" techniques to silence a gene was via targeting the coding region only. Here, Wang's team used the RNAi technique to more efficiently knock down the gene via targeting both the coding region (making the RNA unstable) and non-coding region (blocking protein production), thus making brain cancer and lung cancer cells two to three times more sensitive to X-ray radiation.
"Inhibition of DNA repair has been tried using drugs that inhibit repair enzymes," Wang says. "This approach — combining targeted genes and combining targeted regions of one gene — made it possible to efficiently knock down either gene and achieve a greater sensitivity to radiation.”
RNAi is a technique that is widespread in the laboratory. It could be useful clinically as well because of the targeted ability to silence particular genes, but is still experimental for use in humans. Andrew Fire and Craig Mello received the 2006 Nobel Prize in Medicine for the discovery that short pieces of RNA, when introduced into cells, can silence a stretch of genetic code. Artificially introduced RNA hijacks machinery inside the cell that the cell naturally uses for regulation.
Wang adds that her team's tactic of combining two ways to knock a gene down may be useful in the laboratory, among a wide range of fields of biology. "It may be particularly suited to suppressing genes that are difficult to approach by simpler methods,” she says.
Wang's research is supported by the National Institutes of Health and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
Z. Zheng, W.L. Ng, X. Zhang, J.J. Olson, C. Hao, W.J. Curran and Y. Wang. RNA-mediated targeting of noncoding and coding sequences in DNA repair gene messages efficiently radiosensitizes human tumor cells. Cancer Res 72, 1221-1228 (2012).
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