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Momentum Maintained - Reaction
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Tunbridge Wells maintained the momentum at home to Lingfield, winning 2-0 and ensuring no goals have been conceded in 180 minutes of football. At the other end, Brendon Cass hit his fourth goal of the season within less than 30 seconds of kick-off – all of which leaves first team boss Martin Larkin a happy man…
Senior Trophy Incentive? Reaction
As documented last night via the club’s Twitter and Facebook pages, Tunbridge Wells play Woodstock Sports in the First Round of the Kent Senior Trophy this year, a game to be played at Culverden on Saturday, October 18. However, a juicy incentive potentially awaits in the Second Round that could offer the extra spark to get Martin Larkin’s troops over the Woodstock hurdle…
Larkin Reflects on Season Opener
(Photo by Alan Coomes)
Tunbridge Wells got the 2014/15 campaign off to a winning start at Cray Valley PM with a 3-0 win and a hat-trick from Brendon Cass in his competitive debut for The Wells. Cray Valley will undoubtedly prove themselves to be a solid outfit over the course of the season and the win pleased first team boss Martin Larkin.
Chomping At The Bit
Martin Larkin is a day away from sending his new-look side out to kick off season 2014/15 at Cray Valley PM. It’s been a busy summer on the pitch; a summer in which the side that took The Wells to Wembley in 2013 has been broken up – the core remains, but added experience and leadership has been brought in as part of a bid to help take this club to the next level.
Now that our new First Team Squad page is live at http://www.tunbridgewellsfc.com/node/198 you have a chance to sponsor a player. The cost is £50 and you will have your name associated with the player throughout the season on the website and the programme. Contact our Commercial Director terry.exall666@btinternet.com for more details.
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Bourney's Blog
With the new season upon us, and all possible preparation complete, the squad is all fit and excited to get started again! As always the Kent league is wide open with Greenwich Borough heavily investing, and a pick of probably another 4-5 others in the mix as serious title contenders. Getting a good start is going be key to ensuring a push for promotion.
Martin has, without doubt, put together a team of leaders and winners, and with a good blend of exciting youngsters, the back four has had a few adjustments that we will build a team upon.
It was good to see all pre-season friendlies well supported, and I'm sure the club will not sit back and settle without raising the attendances yet again this year.
On a personal note it's a big season for me, being my 11th at the club, and am told I have ten more appearance to break a long standing club record currently held by Tony Atkins (410). That would be an immensely proud moment for me and my family. I just hope to add the Kent League to that record so the club can move forward to where it belongs!
COYW!
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Looking Forward to the Challenge - Nick Davis
Tunbridge Wells boss Martin Larkin reacted quickly to pull off a coup and secure the services of central defender Nick Davis. He was joint-manager at Sittingbourne last season and has hundreds of games under his belt playing Ryman and Conference level football before becoming available in July.
By way of welcoming him to Culverden, www.tunbridgewellsfc.com caught up with Nick to find out more about The Wells’ latest signing.
DAVIS JOINS THE WELLS
Nick Davis has joined Tunbridge Wells. Davis stepped down as joint manager of Ryman League side Sittingbourne earlier this month. An experienced central defender, he also lists Maidstone United, Tonbridge and Ramsgate among his former clubs.
Season 2014/15 - Opening Fixtures Reaction
Season 2014/15 kicks off with an away game at Cray Valley PM on August 9th, breaking a long run of years in which the campaign has kicked off at Culverden. Lingfield – newly transferred from the Sussex Countly League – will provide the opposition for The Wells’ first home game on Tuesday, August 12th.
LARKIN ADDS TWO
Tunbridge Wells have announced the signing of two more additions for Season 2014/15. As Martin Larkin’s squad takes shape, George Benner (pictured) and Matt Parsons have put pen to paper.
George Benner joins from Herne Bay. Prior to joining Bay, however, he was with Erith & Belvedere and was a key figure is their Kent League and Cup double winning season two years ago.
Someone's Rubbish is Some People's Treasure!
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Adapt & Progress - Tom Bryant Interview
Goal scoring last season wasn’t a problem for Tunbridge Wells. Goals conceded was an area that needed addressing, and Tunbridge Wells manager Martin Larkin has moved to freshen up his defence during pre-season.
Last week, a defensive addition was made in the form of Tom Bryant, who brings a wealth of experience playing further up the pyramid. As a happy coincidence, he also chips in with the odd goal. www.tunbridgewellsfc.com caught up with Tom to delve further into the winning mentality that Larkin’s been looking to recruit…
BRYANT & POWELL SIGN
Following last night's friendly at Rusthall, first team boss Martin Larkin was delighted to secure the signings of defender Tom Bryant and forward Danny Powell (who marked the night scoring the first goal). In addition goalkeeper Stephen Lawrence has opted to stay at Culverden for the coming year.
Team Success At Heart - Brendon Cass
With the first three summer signings revealed, it's an exciting prospect having Brendon Cass added to the core of a side that produced 90 league goals last season. Cass has been a goal-scoring hit at all of his previous clubs and has winners medals to show for his exploits, yet as www.tunbridgewellsfc.com found out in an interview with the player - he has the success of the team at heart for this coming season, ultimately...
TWFC: Firstly, welcome to Culverden! Tell us something that few people know about Brendon Cass…
TRIO JOIN - MANAGER'S REACTION
Martin Larkin outlined earlier in the summer that he wanted to add some leadership to the mix to support Jason Bourne and Joe Fuller. It would appear he’s succeeded as today he discusses the signings he’s made to support a serious title assault for 20014/15 season with www.tunbridgewellsfc.com.
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What is Unicode and non-Unicode?
Early computers were limited to type English alphabets, integers and some special characters. This capability was sufficient for simple documentations and arithmetic. With the passage of time when the computer usage started spreading, scientists realized that every country has its own language and people use different characters to represent the words of their native language and available char size is not sufficient to cover character sets of every language.
ASCII character code represents 128 different codes. 28 lower case alphabet, 28 upper case alphabet, 0-9 digits and some special characters like pipe sign, hash sign etc. One byte which contains 8 bits has 256 possible combination and it is sufficient to represent all these 128 characters in one byte.
The problem would not have been this huge, if everyone used languages similar to English for example Swedish and German, but there are other languages like Chinese, Arabic,Urdu, Tamil…. then it’s a difficult problem to handle. Lets see what happens when it comes to other languages. Urdu has 37 characters, Russian has 33. Chinese language based on more than 50,000 graphs and symbols instead of characters.
We know that character is one byte long and this is not possible to handle all characters of different languages in 256 possible combination (one byte). In late 80’s scientist introduced 16-bit encoding scheme for solving this problem and that encoding scheme is known as Unicode. Character with 2 bytes or 16 bits long with possible 65,536 combinations are sufficient to solve this problem. C++ has adapted this technique and it represents different languages in Unicode characters. These Unicode characters are known as wide characters. char ch; wchar_t wch;
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Ranulph is a British adventurer and holder of several endurance records. He is also a prolific writer and described by The Guinness Book of Records as “the world’s greatest living explorer”. That was back in 1984 since then he has broken many more world records and led many more expeditions to remote regions.
Ranulph Fiennes (Sir Ranulph Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes, 3rd Baronet, OBE) inherited his father’s baronetcy, becoming the 3rd Baronet of Banbury, at his birth. Fiennes is the third cousin of actors Joseph and Ralph Fiennes and is a distant cousin to the British Royal Family.
After the war his mother moved the family to South Africa, where he remained until he was 12. Fiennes then returned to be educated at Sandroyd School, Wiltshire and then Eton, after which he joined the British Army.
Fiennes served in the British Army for eight years including a period on counter-insurgency service while attached to the army of the Sultanate of Oman.
Ranulph is the author of 19 fiction and non-fiction books, including The Feather Men. In 2003, he published a biography of Captain Robert Falcon Scott.
In 1986 Fiennes was awarded the Polar Medal for “outstanding service to British Polar exploration and research.” In 1994 he was awarded a second clasp to the Polar Medal, having visited both poles. He remains the only person to have received a double clasp for both the Arctic and Antarctica.
In 2007, he received the ITV Greatest Briton Award (other nominees included Lewis Hamilton and Joe Calzaghe).
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In May 2009, at the age of 65, he climbed to the summit of Mount Everest. According to the Guinness Book of World Records he is the world’s greatest living explorer.
Ranulph Fiennes was named as the UK’s top celebrity fundraiser by JustGiving in 2010, after raising more than £2.5 million for Marie Curie Cancer Care over the previous two years, which is more than any other celebrity fundraiser featured on JustGiving.com during the same period.
Fiennes continues to compete in UK-based endurance events and has seen recent success in the veteran categories of some Mountain Marathon races. His training nowadays consists of regular two-hour runs around Exmoor.
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James A. Crabtree is a freelance writer for various publications both online and in print. He resides in Melbourne Australia and considers himself a tennis obsessive. Follow his sporadic updates on Twitter at @JamesACrabtree or email him at jame[email protected].
U.S. Open – Tie-Break City
Published August 2, 2013 | By James Crabtree
By James A. Crabtree
With the U.S. Open fast approaching now seems as good a time as any to look back on the greatest tie-breakers ever.
There is no better place to start than with the only slam to play a tie-break in the deciding fifth set. From one angle it’s a shame the Americans get to miss out on a possibly endless epic that might stretch on for days, like the 1080 points John Isner and Nicholas Mahut endured during the 2010 Wimbledon marathon.
On the other angle it’s great to watch a match where you can have match point, then only seconds later be match point down. Exciting, unpredictable and how very New York.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_fLkVJSBplE
One such thrilling tiebreaker took place during the 1996 U.S. Open quarter final between Pete Sampras and Alex Corretja. Sampras won the match after firing a second serve ace down match point. He also showed more Hypochondriasis than Andy Murray before, like Murray, playing like an animal when it really mattered. Sampras went on to win the tournament beating Goran Ivanisevic in the semis and Michael Chang in the final.
The 1996 U.S. Open also initially caused controversy for the higher seeding of American players Michael Chang and Andre Agassi above their world ranking. Thomas Muster, Boris Becker and Yevgeny Kafelnikov were seeded below their ranking with Kafelnikov withdrawing himself in protest.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gw21Z-37JW0
Arguably the greatest match ever, surely Nadal’s most memorable victory, the 2008 Wimbledon final had a bit of everything. Federer, the defending champion was starting to show signs he was human and Nadal was hungry for a slam that wasn’t played on clay. The longest final in Wimbledon history included a couple of tie-breaks, the second that included match points for Nadal. Incredibly Nadal didn’t capitalise in that set, but did manage to win 9-7 in the nail biting fifth set.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NjnvvzmX6MY
Another match Nadal won but came up short in the tie-break is the 2009 Australian Open semi, where he was blasted by a player simply on fire. Fernando Verdasco brought himself to the attention of the world with an attacking game that was all but faultless in a tie-break he won 7-1 to level the match. It was hard to think that Nadal could comeback from this kind of thrashing. What was harder still was the level of play Verdasco had to replicate to beat Nadal in the fifth. Against the odds Nadal was fresh enough to win the final, another five set match, against old foe Roger Federer.
Arguably the other greatest match ever and first major tiebreak to capture the attention of the world was during the 1980 Wimbledon final featuring John McEnroe and Bjorn Borg. More was on the line than just victory and defeat; this was baseline versus net, lefty versus right but most clearly fire and ice.
Borg had already squandered two championship points at 5–4 in the fourth. McEnroe saved five further match points during tiebreaker and won 18–16. Bjorn went on to win the fifth set 8-6 for his fifth and his final Wimbledon crown.
The final match to make the list is a Futures event this past January in Florida. Monaco’s world number 636 Benjamin Balleret beat unranked compatriot Guillaume Couillard 36-34 in the first set of their third round qualifying match. Balleret, a former world number 206, took the second set 6-1 and now holds the record for the longest tie-break in history.
Posted in Blogs, Featured Columns, James Crabtree, Lead Story | Tagged Borg, federer, isner, James A. Crabtree, McEnroe, nadal, Sampras, tie break, tiebreak, U.S. Open, verdasco, Wimbledon
Federer Racquet – What A Racquet
Published July 19, 2013 | By James Crabtree
Roger Federer’s switch to a new racquet has made more news stories worldwide than a lunar landing. And so it should. When the world’s most successful assassin changes his most trusted weapon, this is big news.
Federer has made minor adjustments over the years, from the Pro Staff 85 6.0 he used in 2001 to defeat Sampras (the same racquet Sampras used). He then went to the Hyper Pro Staff which looked like a paint job of the previous.
If you painted your old Porsche and told everyone it was a new model would they believe you? Well, lets just assume your friends are gullible. And you would argue it is still a Porsche and should be driven with care. Both the Porsche and the Pro Staff are tough to handle.
By 2003 Federer was using a racquet with a 90 sq. inch frame and winning slams. This was the most dramatic adjustment and to many an observer the racquet has barely changed since. Just subtle paint jobs and a twinge on the marketing with a new name to keep mugs like myself trying to emulate our Swiss hero. The nCode range followed, then the nSix-One Tour 90, K Factor Six One Tour, Six.One Tour BLX and up until Wimbledon 2013 the BLX Pro Staff Six.One.
This is a tough racquet to play with. It may also be the least friendly racquet for your regular club player, as it doesn’t allow for errors. It’s a pure players racquet for Samurai’s who have mastered the craft.
So is it the same old Pro Staff that has been around for Eon’s. Well it is and it isn’t. The racquet has been moulded and adjusted to fit the player, rather than the other way around. Federer has made detailed and minute changes to his racquet and although it may look like the one in the shops it would feel and play totally different. The model, which has the same shape and hard edges would vary in weight, balance, swing weight, composite material, grip and strings whether you chose the version played by Sampras, Edberg, Courier or Federer. Regardless, it can still account for 41 slams.
Irrespective of the intricacies the Pro Staff, a racquet initially designed for Jimmy Connors, is now gone. The replacement looks like the Blade that Monfils has been using, but is now suspected to be a prototype. Whatever racquet it is, the switch has laid to rest the most successful racquet in grand slam men’s tennis history.
Usually when players change racquets it is for money, such as Djokovic to Head or more recently Wawrinka and Tomic to Yonex. When players switch model within the same company more often than not it is a paint job. Federer’s latest racquet is definitely more than just a façade.
Federer lost one surprise match at Wimbledon and it’s not unreasonable to think he has overreacted. He has had a horrid year thus far, with only one tournament win and no victories over a top 10 player. On top of this his confidence has taken a hit. He has dropped in the rankings, and showed inconsistency with his various game plans. Is a new racquet just a desperate shot in the dark to find form, or another experiment that could plummet his woes further?
Is Federer learning from Pete Sampras, who never changed his racquet throughout his career but suggested perhaps he should have. Or is coach Paul Annacone in his ear, having been there at the end of both the careers of Sampras and Henman.
Federer has stated he is happy with the new racquet, and the greater sq. inches it provides should add a little more power and help with the various shanks we have become accustomed to seeing. The new racquet hasn’t yet experienced a loss or been put up against a considerable opponent. His arm may have been tested, but not his ability to deal with the underlying psychological aspects it will undoubtedly present.
Posted in Archives, Blogs, Featured Columns, James Crabtree, Lead Story | Tagged Connors, Courier, Djokovic, Edberg, Henman, porsche, Roger Federer, Sampras, U.S. Open, wawrinka, Wilson Pro Staff, Wimbledon
Djokovic And Murray – The Wimbledon Battle Royale, Round 4
Published July 7, 2013 | By James Crabtree
Normality has been restored, with the exploits of Janowicz, Darcis, Del Potro, Stakhovsky, Brown, Kubot and Verdasco disappearing into the vault named Wimbledon folklore.
After all the hiccups throughout the draw the number one and two ranked players meet in the final. Wimbledon 2013, like 33 of the last 34 Slams will be won by one of the Big Four.
Novak Djokovic and Andy Murray, currently the best hard-court players tour, know each other’s games well. Too well, having played18 times, with Djokovic leading 11–7. This tally includes three Grand Slam finals. The 2011 and 2013 Australian Opens, won by Djokovic and the 2012 US Open, won by Murray.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wqbbikk13tk
For Murray to win this one he will have to find influence from a multitude of sources. He is coming off a tough fight back victory against Verdasco, and a solid win against Janowicz. There is no reason to believe he has peaked. Also, he has beaten his rival on the big stage but also on the same court, one year ago during the Olympic semi-final. He knows he can’t rely on just rallying out his opponent. He needs surprise attacks, rather than just the passive get backs. Somehow he needs to persuade the Serb to over hit his backhand and question the serve that can get tight under pressure. He needs to keep Novak guessing, find a way into his brain while keeping his own mind unruffled. Conversely, the Serb will be looking to play the very same mind games, and very similar tactics to the Scot.
Wimbledon 2013 will serve to either even the score for Murray or push Djokovic past the tallies of Becker and Edberg with six total slams and onto seven to equal Wilander and McEnroe.
Novak has reached this level by shaking the old label as someone who would quit and crumble. These days he doesn’t merely tolerate tough battles, in truth they galvanize him, not that he has had many this Wimbledon. When he is pushed to the brink he screams, dives, slides, rips and fights to the bitter end better than no man. A tennis machine, possibly inspired by Nikola Tesla, is always dangerous even when he is playing badly; he is always in the game. Novak carries the air of invincibility. He doesn’t miss an easy shot. His serve is rarely broken. He doesn’t make unforced errors. He chases down balls that most players wouldn’t have even attempted. The only real worry is the fact he has only been pushed once all tournament, in that absurdly good semi-final against Del Potro. But is it foolhardy to question someone who has been good?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XKbsq26lU7E
If Novak claims his second Wimbledon crown he will further cement his name as a legend, all round good guy, great player on all surfaces and poster boy for the new Serbia. If Murray wins his first Wimbledon crown, and the countries first in seventy-seven years, the Scot will enter the realms if immortality. Murray hysteria will abound. Aside from all his extra million dollar deals will be surely be a Knighthood, statue at the All England Club, a new Column in Trafalgar square opposite Nelson and likely divinization.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tK4HDCIr_E8
Posted in Archives, Blogs, Featured Columns, James Crabtree, Latest News, Lead Story | Tagged Australian Open, champion, del potro, Djokovic, federer, Janowicz, london, Murray, nadal, Olympics, U.S. Open, Wimbledon
5 Thoughts From Wimbledon 2013
Published June 30, 2013 | By James Crabtree
Return of the Serve and Volley?
John Newcombe, Boris Becker, John McEnroe and Todd Woodbridge have been saying it for years. And for the first time in years they were proved correct. Dustin Brown and Sergiy Stakhovsky proved you can play aggressive while rushing kamikaze to the net, and most likely received a thankyou card and box of chocolates from legends turned commentators.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMgXktpnRvY
The 1980’s were back, minus the short shorts and mullets. All that talk about the limited time to rush to the net, players hitting too much spin, the returners being too sharp, was halted. Well, halted for a day. All the guys who produced the massive upsets failed to find the adrenaline rush that caused the upset and thus lost. Where does that leave us? Pretty much back to where we were at present day baseline tennis, but with a more recent memory of the old days and a little proof that it can be effective.
Thank God For The Roof
It used to really suck when it rained, now there is a roof 😉 Are you listening Roland Garros?
Keep Off The Grass?
Lets not hope the powers that be get their knickers in a twist and decide that the grass is bad after the carnage of that Wednesday. Okay, so everybody wearing shoes fell over, seven players were lost including seeds Victoria Azarenka, Jo-Wilfried Tsonga and John Isner. But it was all just a freak occurrence (although most falls were on a similar spot on the baseline and during a similar change in direction) no matter which court right?
But the grass is good, and lets remember the game was born on it and the majority of the slams used to be played on it.
Ol’ Boris summed it up best.
“A short grass court season is definitely part of the problem with the injuries. Grass court tennis is different to other surfaces, it is only two weeks of action after a long clay court season. Players need to give themselves more of chance. The grass is the same, the groundsman is the same.”
Nadal and Federer Finished?
Are the Spaniard and the Swiss finished or is this just one freak tournament where some players we assumed were finished are making comebacks and the old guard just got trounced? As bad as it is for the faithful Federer and Nadal fans it is great for the likes of Verdasco, Youzhny and Kubot to get some time in the sun, well London clouds but you get the picture. It would be hard to imagine that Nadal and Federer will not reach the same heights again. Nadal definitely has developed grass demons or hates being in England paying the extra tax, and Federer seriously has trouble producing the blistering winners he used to be able to conjure from nowhere. The U.S. hard-court season will pose some fascinating questions, especially if Federer is ranked as low as 5.
A-Tomic Tonic
Bernie started the year on a tear, won a tournament and then ran into Federer at the Aussie Open. Since February he hasn’t put together more than two wins in a row and his personal life has been in disarray much in thanks to his father/coach John and all those issues we wont get into. At Wimbledon this year he as won three matches in a row already beating Sam Querrey, James Blake and 9th seeded Richard Gasquet, all whilst father/coach has been banned form attending. So is Tomic playing well for his dad who cannot attend or because his dad cannot attend. Either way the formula is proving a successful tonic and it would be hard to bet against Tomic in his next match against twitter sensation Berdych.
Posted in Archives, Blogs, Featured Columns, James Crabtree, Lead Story | Tagged becker, Boris Becker, federer, James A. Crabtree, John McEnroe, nadal, Newcombe, Sergiy Stakhovsky, Todd Woodbridge, upset, verdasco, Wimbledon, Youzhny
Wimbledon Demons, Wizards and An Absurd Amount of Hope
As usual this Wimbledon is about the big 4, just not the top 4 seeds.
This is the first Wimbledon since 2008 a slightly altered group make up those positioned for a meeting in the semi-finals. Back then Federer, Nadal and Djokovic were the top seeds and Nikolay Davydenko was the fourth. Andy Murray was way back as the 12th seed, making it to the quarterfinals where he was defeated at the hands of that years champion, Nadal.
This year 5th seed Nadal, on current form, is more than suspected of just reaching the semi. Many believed the legendary Majorcan would be bumped up in the seedings, but to relegate current 4th seed David Ferrer would have been bad form. Incredibly the Majorcan has seemed invincible since returning to action in February and would relish nothing more than lifting the title he last won back in 2010. The question is can Nadal lose this year, on current form? Well, it was the grass that aided the Nadal disappearance act contributed by two surprise losses last year, firstly Kohlschreiber at Halle and Rosol at Wimbledon. It will be interesting to see if it’s demons that remain or a quest for vengeance that prevails. Either way a quarterfinal clash with Federer should be enough incentive to push him through the draw even though a potential fourth round with Stan Wawrinka (or Hewitt for the more romantic) should cause some fireworks.
Federer, after a slow start seems to be finding form ahead of his attempt at an 8th Wimbledon crown. With that sort of record it’s strange to think we are even considering anybody else for the title. That being said his 2013 Wimbledon journey is lined with traps including ‘2012 Nadal tamer Rosol’ and Poland’s Janowicz.
After winning Halle Federer now has 77 titles, tying him for third on the career ATP list with John McEnroe, behind only Ivan Lendl with 94 and Jimmy Connors’s 109. But has Federer found form too late? 2013 has been tough and to date Federer has only beaten one top ten player this year. Federer returns to Wimbledon as champion but strangely having lost the last match he played on Centre Court.
The match Federer lost was the Olympic final against Andy Murray. The great Scot is the first Brit to win a slam in 76 years but to the more picky home fans only a Wimbledon title will suffice. They remember well that Murray was in control in last years Wimbledon final and very close to taking a commanding two set lead. This picky bunch want more than last years gold and fresh strawberries. This picky bunch envision, after 77 years, sipping a celebratory drink greater than Pimms. In truth these particular fans bring not only added pressure but also the strange desperate phenomenon known as hope. An attribute that is enough to will their man through a tough five sets (possibly Robredo or Youzhny) but three big successive victories that could be Tsonga, Federer or Nadal and then Djokovic is a big ask.
2011 champion Novak Djokovic is the number one seed and world number one, but has the unique possibility of flying beneath the radar. Strangely whenever Djokovic is not playing at his 2011 level people tend to doubt him in favour of the others but this is becoming his magic trick. With all the hoopla and stories surrounding the others the superb Serb could sail through the draw until at least a fourth round meeting with old man Tommy Haas then a quarterfinal with Berdych. When it comes to five sets Djokovic’s hunger, resolve and retrieval expertise are unmatched meaning he could be the safest bet for this years title. As long as he doesn’t stay too long in cruise control.
Posted in Archives, Blogs, Featured Columns, James Crabtree, Lead Story | Tagged Andy Murray, ATP Tennis, Novak Djokovic, Rafael Nadal, Roger Federer, Tennis, Tomas Berdych, Wimbledon
Lleyton Hewitt – working overtime as usual
Research has concluded that those who repeatedly work extended hours are more than twice as likely to experience major depression.
And influences such as marital status, socio-demographics, lifestyle, work strain and support at work make little difference.
So spare a thought for Lleyton Hewitt. Whether you love him or loathe him it is impossible to deny the guy gives more than a hard days work and never leaves work early. He is hard school from the old school and someone the new school could learn from. This year alone out of the 19 matches he has played 12 have gone the distance.
Apologies for the following business jargon filled paragraphs that many readers may find enlightening, motivating and team spirited or mind-numbing, long winded and down right boring.
Lleyton owns a can do bizmeth attitude, a holistic, cradle-to-grave approach that he has displayed since the get-go. His mission critical goal of raising back up to the top proves you can have your cake and eat it, given he is nearing his tenure yet still manages to push the boundaries.
Some say he is well beyond his prime but this fearless, spirited, Dad of three will argue otherwise. He continues to challenge and apply himself to every proposal. He is certainly no guy that abuses the ‘sickie’. Lleyton prefers a life where he is at work, playing tennis and playing hard.
Just so you know, the business jargon paragraphs are over and of the 42% who claimed they understood them only 8% actually did. Irrespective, we are back to tennis.
And Lleyton Hewitt is back, thanks to a fine week at Queens Club where he has outlasted Grigor Dimitrov, Sam Querrey and Juan Martin del Potro. At age 32 Lleyton is back and we could well see him around for many more years to come considering the dinosaurs, older than him and still playing, such as Michael Russell, Radek Stepanek, Nikolay Davydenko, Tommy Haas and Michael Llodra.
Don’t, however, shed a tear for the taxing way in which he plays. This is simply the way Lleyton plays, and as far as we can recall has always played.
Lleyton’s family usually come to work with him, watch him work than reap the reward of more than a standard income. The seventeen year veteran and two-time grand slam winner has almost $20 million in prize money, a whole heap in sponsorship deals and a property portfolio to his name. Simply, hard work pays off and people, adversaries and peers are always jealous of those who work hard. He doesn’t have an obvious weapon such as a serve or a devastating forehand. His weapon is grit and resolve.
So as far as working overtime it could be argued that its Lleyton’s opponents are the ones experiencing overtime. As for the Aussie battler, it’s just a normal days slog.
Posted in Archives, Blogs, Featured Columns, James Crabtree, Lead Story | Tagged del potro, dimitrov, Grand Slam, Lleyton Hewitt, Queens, Wimbledon
As predictable as a Vin Diesel movie and the Importance of that Gulbis Debate
Published June 8, 2013 | By James Crabtree
“Modern tennis is sorely lacking in character.”
Snot nosed rich kid Ernest Gulbis raised a debate recently at Roland Garros.
“I respect Roger, Rafa, Novak and Murray, but, for me, all four players are boring. Their interviews are boring. Honestly, they are boring.” Gulbis said after his second round loss to Gael Monfils that Federer was the biggest perpetrator.
“I often go on YouTube to watch interviews. I quickly stopped watching tennis interviews. It’s a joke,” said the Latvian.
“It was Federer who started this trend. He has a superb image as a perfect Swiss gentleman. I repeat that, I respect Federer, but I don’t like the way that young players try to imitate him.”
In truth, Ernie does have a point, but only sort of. This debate has a few underlying factors that need to be addressed.
Now, the question of boring is really only being brought up because the same players are being asked the same questions time and time again. And why, Ernie, are they being asked the same questions? Because Rafael Nadal, Novak Djokovic, Roger Federer and Andy Murray have been winning all the time! How many differing responses can they come up with from the same journalists asking the same questions at tournament after tournament?
The same four players winning consistently is all becoming as predictable as a Vin Diesel movie, and as we know he has been using the same script on different titles for roughly a decade. Now we can’t fault the stars of the game for their monopoly across different tournaments. Perhaps the bigger crime is that of the underachievers, and that is a huge number of players below the top four.
Over the years we have been waiting on the likes of Ferrer, Berdych, Tsonga, Gasquet, Tipsarevic, Raonic, Isner, Baghdatis, Janowicz and dare I say Gulbis to not only provide us with a surprise win, but a surprise championship. Someone to come in and really stir things up.
Surprisingly the monopoly of the slams is very even across the men and women’s tour. Since 2003 the men can boast ten different slam winners. The women meanwhile can only boast fourteen.
However since 2008 and across twenty-one slams the men can claim only five winners while the women can boast eleven.
If we compare this with the past usually a no name or unlikely could sneak a slam. Gustavo Kuerten won the French in 1997 ranked 66th. Mark Edmondson won the 1976 Australian ranked 212th, Goran Ivanišević won the 1999 Wimbledon title ranked 125th. Richard Krajicek sneaked a Wimbledon win between the Sampras dominance as the 17th seed. Thomas Johansson managed to take the 2002 Australian title as the 16th seed. These days a shock grand slam triumph would be Juan Martin del Potro at the 2009 U.S. Open seeded sixth.
Gulbis may claim that the game lacks characters. What he has failed to notice is that the games most prominent representatives happen to come off as gentleman, whether they sincerely are or not. Not many sports can claim that. In truth when we think of the most major sports a plethora of reprobates line the tabloid pages for all the wrongs reasons.
Something, for now, tennis gladly doesn’t have.
Always do sober what you said you’d do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.
Posted in Archives, Blogs, Featured Columns, James Crabtree, Lead Story | Tagged Andy Murray, ATP, del potro, Ernest Gulbis, Hemingway, James Crabtree, nadal, Roger Federer, Roland Garros, Vin Diesel
Roland Garros Week 1 Done! Random Thoughts…
Question- Can Serena Williams lose on current form?
Answer- No
What do Jiri Novak, Christophe Van Garesse, Thomas Enqvist, Tommy Haas, David Nalbandian, Lleyton Hewitt, Marat Safin, Rafael Nadal, Juan Martin del Potro, Novak Djokovic, Jo-Wilfred Tsonga and Andy Murray all have in common?
They have beaten Federer in 5 set matches since his career began. Gilles Simon cannot be added to this list after losing his second five set match to Mr Federer in the fourth round at this years Roland Garros.
In other Fed news he appears to have bulked up or perhaps has a Batman costume beneath his shirt? And his shoes with that white bit at the back don’t look unlike old man slippers.
John Isner needs to learn how to break serve, not just hold serve.
A tennis purgatory exists for tour players who seem lost, unable to find their former glory. No player wants to end up here but those who find residence here are not losing drastically but are in an awful limbo land. They are not winning the tough matches that they once would; they are not improving and are far from retiring. Caroline Wozniacki, Sam Stosur and Anna Ivanovic have continued their limbo form in Paris and have exited Roland Garros before Monday of the second week.
Bethanie Mattek-Sands has already equaled her best slam performance, a fourth round at Wimbledon in 2008. Can she go one further?
Question? Can Rafael Nadal lose at this years French Open?
Answer? Yes, but would you bet against him. Even when he is not up to his best his opponent seemingly crumbles
Ryan Harrison needs a big win over a big player as much as I need to clear my overdraft.
Former world number one and 2008 U.S. Open finalist Jelena Jankovic is seeking to leave the purgatory group and seems to be finding old form after bating Stosur. She next faces Jaime Hampton who ‘Is For Real’. She has been steadily improving; she is fun to watch and embodies a certain toughness that is endearing.
Australian Open has a roof, is building another court with a roof and has lights. Wimbledon built a roof. U.S. Open has lights and plays until late. Roland Garros needs a roof. Roland Garros needs lights. Surely the people who live near Roland Garros can put up with this for two weeks a year?
Nadal can get upset. Blame the rain and the lack of a roof Rafa, not the schedule.
Bernard Tomic didn’t do anything to make us forget the daddy issue
If everything goes to form and Victoria Azarenka meets Maria Sharapova in the semi, hope that Azarenka wins. Sharapova has not beaten Serena Williams since 2004 and has lost the last twelve matches to her.
Gael Monfils could’a and should’a won against Tommy Robredo. Instead Robredo has won three straight 2 set down 5 set matches! What the! Incredibly Tommy is the first to do that since five-time champion Henri Cochet, one of the four muskateers. Of interest Cochet, a spruce little Frenchman won in Paris five times. He also beat ‘Big Bill’ Tilden in a 1927 Wimbledon semifinal after being down two sets and 1-5 before winning 2-6 4-6 7-5 6-4 6-3.
Nicholas Almagro is making a name for himself as a choker against fellow Spaniards as he was 2 sets up and 4-1 against Robredo. Back in January Almagro was 2 sets up against David Ferrer then fell apart after having match points
Ernets Gulbis comes from a wealthy family and is a bad tempered racquet thrower. He suffered a big defeat then went on to talk bad about the four best players in the game. Is Ernie a whiner, an heir to the throne or just Joffrey Baratheon?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VjA4vDBdpcs
Posted in Archives, Featured Columns, James Crabtree, Lead Story | Tagged federer, Mattek-Sands, monfils, nadal, Roland Garros, Serena, Tomic, Tommy Robredo, Williams, Wimbledon
Nadal, and mistakes from his past?
Published May 24, 2013 | By James Crabtree
Is Rafa not learning from his mistakes?
Yes, he has been absurdly good since his return. Nobody prophesised such a success return, and in a word his reappearance been made us wonder if he made a secret deal with the tennis Gods.
But has it all been too much and too soon? Has he pushed his body too far, too quickly? Let’s face it, the amount of trophies he has been chomping down on he could have metal poisoning;)
Think back to the months following Wimbledon 2012, when we knew about the knee issue but we were certain it was a mental problem. Rewind back to January when everybody was asking every other Spaniard when Rafa was going to return. Think back to how we thought the King of Clay was all but done.
Then he announced a return to a little 250 clay tournament after pulling out of the Australian Open. And when he did return we didn’t think he would be the same player. Sceptics thought he would need to change his tactics, finish rallies quicker to rest his knee. Naysayers believed he needed to play closer to the baseline to minimise court coverage. Doubters whispered he wouldn’t have the willpower to overcome adversaries when going the distance and he had hit his expiry date.
Recall his first tournament, Vina del Mar, Chile; and that three set final loss to Horacio Zeballos. The Doubters, Sceptics and Naysayers aligned with their arms folded and smug grins across their chubby red faces. Nadal had lost, not to Djokovic or Murray or even Federer. He had lost to a mere mortal. He was indeed finished.
What followed next was not only contrary to the belief of the Doubters, Sceptics and Naysayers but also contrary to rational thought. He won a tournament. True, there were bumps along the way, it was just another 250 event in Sao Paulo, and he was pushed to three sets by non-household names Carlos Berlocq and Martin Alund. Nadal followed with another tournament win, this time Acapulco which included convincing wins against Nicolas Almagro and David Ferrer.
The Pessimists were still not convinced, “He can still play on clay, but the hard court is a different animal.”
What better way to silence the critics than with a win? Nadal did, this time on the hard courts of Indian Wells. The journey included a tough three sets with Ernests Gulbis and a reunion with Roger Federer, Tomas Berdych and Juan Martin Del Potro. This win was subsequently a reminder to all that Nadal can still beat anyone.
Nadal lost his next tournament in Monte Carlo, in the final to Djokovic, a place we all but thought he was forbidden to lose. Being a clay court tournament all the typical questions about injury, attitude and aptitude were again asked. By now Nadal had most certainly won a lot, but he had also played a lot.
The questions were however shrugged off quickly thanks to more critic silencing displays in Barcelona, Madrid and Rome where Nadal had been pushed in some instances but for the most been brutal. Once again the big names were no obstacle and again included wins over David Ferrer, Tomas Berdych and Roger Federer plus Stanislas Wawrinka, Milos Raonic, Nicolas Almagro and the troublesome Gulbis.
With all these conquests is there any reason to suspect that Nadal will not win his eighth Roland Garros title. Is it rude to even think otherwise? Or should he have taken it a little easier on himself. Should he have included more rest among his preparation? Or is Rafa basking in the tonic of his own victories yet to come? His season so far ‘has been dream,’ time will only tell if it will become ‘more than dream’.
The 3 worrying little details….
1. This season Nadal’s Fibonacci sequence is…
Runner up, Winner, Winner, Winner, Runner up, Winner, Winner, Winner…
2. Rafa has lost to Djokovic on clay this year.
3. Is Rafa’s 2013 French Open draw too easy?
Posted in Archives, Featured Columns, James Crabtree, Lead Story | Tagged Andy Murray, ATP, French Open, Grand Slam, Novak Djokovic, Rafael Nadal, Roger Federer, Roland Garros
ATomic Dilemma
Arguably the most hated Australian tennis player since a young Lleyton Hewitt, life isn’t easy for Bernard Tomic.
In fact Bernie has almost gone in search of bad press. There was the turning down of Lleyton Hewitt as a practice partner. The allegations he was going to quit Australia at his father’s behest and play for Croatia. In the 2012 Miami Masters he asked the chair umpire to remove his own father. During last years US Open John McEnroe accused Tomic of tanking a loss to Andy Roddick. Following all that he angered the old guard of Australian tennis with apparent refusal to play Davis Cup. And then we have the numerous driving issues, too numerous to mention.
Nevertheless Tomic is also the man with the best chance of restoring Australian tennis fortunes.
It must be tough for him. Most people find young men in their late teens and early twenties irritating to the say the least. Unless you are a fifteen year old girl chances are you also find Justin Bieber and One Direction intolerable.
Another difficulty for Tomic is the daddy dilemma as Bernard is not the person with the biggest ego among his entourage.
What on earth is young Bernie supposed to you?
The youngest Wimbledon quarterfinalist since Boris Becker in 1985 Tomic started 2013 well. He won all three of his singles Hopman Cup matches against none other than Tommy Haas, Novak Djokovic and Andreas Seppi. He then went onto win Sydney. There he beat Marinko Matosevic, Florian Mayer, Jarkko Nieminen, Andreas Seppi (again), and Kevin Anderson for his tenth win in a row and his first career singles title.
Quickly Tomic went from being loathed to loved.
The following week at the Australian Open, Leonardo Mayer and Daniel Brands fell victim. By this time the whole of Australia was in a flutter and Tomic was not only invincible, but was displaying the sort of ego not seen since Clubber Lang.
Then there was the rumoured incident before the big Australian Open 3rd round match. On the practice court where John Tomic is notoriously hot headed Bernie sat after practice, his dad stood behind and berated him incessantly for ten minutes. Eventually Bernie walked off shaking his head. Not the best possible way to get a sense of Zen before a match?
Bernie went on to lose the match, and hasn’t won more than two matches in a row since. Of course his drop in form went unnoticed until dad John reportedly beat up Bernie’s hitting partner Thomas Drouet. Complications have heightened further since Drouet has come forward with other incidences.
What is Bernie supposed to do?
Judy Murray once commented that talent got her son, Andy Murray, within the top 100, but it was hard work and determination that propelled him to the heights he now knows. Compare the 2013 Andy Murray with the 2005 version of himself and we could be looking at a different athlete.
It is obvious that Bernard could administer similar changes.
This poses the question, who would be the perfect person to guide arguably the most naturally talented youngster on tour? Tennis Australia are already trying to help solve the crisis, and undoubtedly all the familiar names will arise such as Tony Roche, Pat Rafter and Scott Draper. Again akin to the LTA Brad Gilbert hiring for Andy Murray perhaps the best coach for the player is not one made by a committee. And besides, Bernie has had more than his fair share of runs with a number of high profile Australian coaches during Davis Cup play already. Perhaps he needs someone with an old school work hard mentality similar to Ivan Lendl or someone who can understand the games intricate details such as Andy Roddick’s old coach Larry Stefanki.
Sacking the only coach you have ever known would be difficult enough, now imagine starting that ordeal with the word ‘Dad’. Bernard obviously needs a new coach, but probably deep down worries about what his father will do without him.
Posted in Archives, Featured Columns, James Crabtree, Lead Story | Tagged Andy Murray, ATP, Australian Open, Bernard Tomic, Bernie, Ivan Lendl, John McEnroe, John Tomic, justin bieber, Lleyton Hewitt, One Direction, Pat Rafter, Tony Roche, U.S. Open
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Henry Ford purchased the Iron Mountain forrest for the trees and turned it into a specialized woodworking plant. The sportsman was the most expensive car produced in this plant.
The Sportsman was created around a light metal skeleton. None of the wood was steam bent or laminated. The bird's eye maple ribbing and the mahogany panels were sawed from a solid block of wood.
The Sportsman has no through bolts or other visible fasteners to detract from its appearance like the wagon did.
The bodies were then shipped to the final assembly plant in Dearborn and fitted with V-8 motors and deluxe trim.
Special features on the car include: power hydraulic top and windows, a heater and a radio.
This Sportsman was delivered new from Alpart Motors of Albany, New York to Charles Murray. Mr. Murray paid $579 over the original price to get the car because new cars were so hard to buy after WWII.
This car was purchased for the collection in December of 1965.
It is painted the original, pheasant red, color.
The engine is a flathead V-8 with 239 cubic inches and produces 100 horsepower.
It weighs 3398 pounds and rides on a 114" wheelbase.
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Divergent | Shailene Woodley, Ansel Elgort, Tony Goldwyn, Ashley Judd, Zoe Kravitz, Ben Lloyd-Hughes, Miles Teller, Jai Courtney, Theo James | Review
Category: Jacqueline Monahan
Written by Jacqueline Monahan
http://www.lasvegasroundtheclock.com
Jacqueline Monahan is an educator for the GEAR UP program at UNLV.
She is also an entertainment reporter for Lasvegasroundtheclock.com
Veronica Roth’s bestselling novel comes to the screen in this 140 minute foray into a futuristic world (set in Chicago) where the population is separated by personality.
Amity (Peaceful) Candor (Honest) Erudite (Intelligent) Dauntless (Brave) and Abnegation (Selfless) share the Windy City in apparent contentment, until one fateful Choosing Day, when every 16-year-old pledges allegiance to their born-into faction or chooses another. Once a choice is made, it is irrevocable. Those unsuccessful within their faction become “factionless” – homeless, aimless, and forced to live in crushing poverty.
Before this happens, brain scans read each adolescent’s responses in a series of theoretical tests that place them in different, often dangerous situations. Beatrice Prior (Shailene Woodley) possesses traits in three different areas, making her divergent – a very dangerous thing to be. She is told to keep this information secret at all costs.
Beatrice and brother Caleb (Ansel Elgort) join differing factions on Choosing Day, shocking their parents (Tony Goldwyn and Ashley Judd). Caleb becomes an Erudite egghead while Beatrice, now calling herself Tris, becomes one of the adrenaline junkie, thrill-seeking Dauntless.
Now living more scrappily than happily ever after, Tris must battle her own faction-mates for acceptance. As an initiate, she is not a confirmed member of Dauntless until she passes a series of (seemingly) endless physical stamina and hand-to-hand combat scenarios, with results ranked on a scoreboard at the end of each day.
Like any YA heroine, Tris finds new friends in Christina (Zoe Kravitz) and Will (Ben Lloyd-Hughes) as well as nemeses Peter (Miles Teller) and Eric (Jai Courtney). And yes, there’s a love interest in initiate instructor Four (Theo James).
The de rigueur romance, while tougher than most, is still a predictable patch to get through. Most of the film is connected to the trials of new Dauntless, but slithering through the proceedings at fact-finding intervals is platinum-haired Erudite leader Jeanine Matthews, who is threatened by individuality to the point of wanting to eradicate it, although she herself bucks the cliché about blondes being intellectually challenged.
Director Neil Burger (The Illusionist, Limitless) constructs a compelling film (the first half is more successful) with effective visuals and introductions that set up the premise and provide bleak, dystopian views of a rundown Chicago, including Navy Pier, the Marina Towers and Sears (now Willis) Tower. The color-coded factions make a know-your-place, don’t question-anything point about complacency and contrived happiness, the entitlement of intelligence, and the danger of deviation.
A bit long and sometimes predictable, the series of Dauntless prove-yourself tests take up most of the film, the romance seems forced (Theo James elicited giggles from the audience nearly every time he spoke – too much gravitas, I think) and poor Shailene Woodley, who does a fine job of portraying the intrepid Tris, must face even more critical trials in being compared to Jennifer Lawrence of the wildly popular Hunger Games franchise.
There are two more novels in Roth’s Divergent Trilogy that are destined for the screen, so stay tuned for more Tris-capades and Four-play.
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The Lalo Blog
Apologia Rex
In the commentary on proroguing by Rex Murphy, the government apologist who's forced to do a lot of apologizing these days, the undertone was one coloured with amnesia. He wants to know what the fuss is about, suggesting that the only reason proroguing is an issue is because haters are using it as a vessel to direct their anger.
Well, sorry Rex, but you're wrong...again.
If it was just about government taking time off to 'recalibrate' (there was a time when I thought I knew what that word meant) then whatever, I could use some extra time to recalibrate myself (with or without lube).
But no. Many of us are so angry, we may forget where this all started, so let me remind you: Richard Colvin. His testimony regarding mistreatment of afghan detainees, and the subsequent parade of diplomats, current and former, who came to his defence after the appalling mistreatment by the Harper government, leaves the distinct impression the government has something to hide.
According to Rex “There’s not an adult in the country who doesn’t know why he [Harper} shut the shop down --- for partisan convenience.” It's a clever line – it implicitly acknowledges that mere convenience is not a good reason to shut down parliament, while also suggesting that the outrage is disproportionate - as if shutting down a committee doing investigative work is roughly as important as something something something on a bull (I forget how the line goes). He finds it amusing that there are suddenly so many defenders of the dignity of parliament, where there were none before. So let me edify Rex on how we feel regarding aforementioned dignity: There is none. Okay?
We're not pissed off at the spectacle and Cirque du Blase that is question period, which is what many think is the sum total of what goes on in Ottawa. When you shut down Parliament, you shut down all of it, committee work, investigative work, and input on minor things like disasters in Haiti.
No, Mr. Murphy, we're not mad at politicians taking extra time to work on their tans, because, believe me, the conservatives caucus could definitely use a bit of colour. We're pissed off because killing off a committee that Canadians felt was important is just one more act of dissing the detectives: Police complaints Commissioner, defanged; Military complaints commission, declawed; Nuclear Safety commissioner, fired.
And while we're on the subject, I just love the lame excuse that “Chretien prorogued parliament.” Which leads me to the question, what does that have to do with the price of tea in the Byward Market? The liberals paid the price for his arrogance, and they have a new leader. I'm happy to judge politicians on their own merits and not on their predecessors'. That's an advanced concept for Harper's communication staff, I know, but they'll learn.
Here's my favourite Scandinavian poet, Piet Hein and his poem called “Hygiene: a short piece with no reference whatever to the two-party system."
To wear a shirt that's relatively clean,
you needn't ever launder off the dirt--
If you possess two shirts to choose between,
and always change into the cleaner shirt.
I'm not saying the red shirt isn't dirtyt. At this point, it's just cleaner.
Lalo Espejo is a writer, monologist and political satirist whose work has appeared on CBC radio, campuses across Canada. He has also taught writing and presentation skills at career colleges in Vancouver. lalo@thelaloblog.com
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Creative NonfictionLiterature
By Zachery Cooper Last updated Dec 11, 2017
Running on the treadmill at Vancouver Island University’s gym, listening to a playlist of old ’90s rap, “Shook Ones” by Mobb Deep begins playing. It triggers a landslide of memories. The day David Lacroix took a stand for me, a kid he barely knew, floods my mind and I have to decline my speed to think straight. The girl on the treadmill next to me glances over, then goes back to the video on her phone. A bead of sweat collides with my welling tear duct, stinging my eye as the two liquids mesh.
David Lacroix. I had only heard stories about him from the different crowds at Sequim High School (SHS), but everyone who was anyone seemed to know the name. The juvenile courts sent him to a youth military boot camp in Spokane as a consequence for some poor choices. When he came back, he was stocky from the high-protein diet, his skin olived from the intense heat. His head was shaved. He stood a little over average height and carried a sense of humour everywhere. I believe everything David experienced––drill Sergeants screaming in his face, constant conditioning through endless cardio, repetition, discipline, helping the man beside him through the treacherous hikes––molded him into the humble guy I will always know him as.
When I met David, I was a sophomore who wore my pants below the hips, smoked until my eyelids were at half-mast, and far overused the words fuck, damn and shit. My path collided with David’s at the spot to be after school: Half-Block. 2nd Avenue intersected with a path that led out of the school, and that path ran between the practice field for the Wolves, SHS’s football team, and the tennis courts that no one used. Half-Block was half of an actual city block. It was where all the underage delinquents hung out to get the eighteen-year-olds to pedal their parent’s hard-earned cash up to the Chinese-owned convenience store for smokes and chew. I was heading to Half-Block as soon as that glorious bell rang to flush as much of the algebra out of my head as I could, and make room for the head rush I’d get from the nicotine.
I have Breanna to thank for my introduction to David. She sat two desks away from me in the same row. She was talking about her current boyfriend with another girl.
“He’s so sweet, and I just love all of his tattoos. When we walk through the school, everyone says hi to him. Like he knows everybody,” Breanna said.
The prince charming she was referring to was named Anthony. He was a super Senior: a high school student taking way longer to graduate than everyone else. He was nearly nineteen and loved to scoop up the freshmen and sophomore girls. I shouldn’t have opened my mouth, but I did.
“He’s kind of a dick, to be honest,” I said. “I feel like he just has a big ego and people just say hi to him because they feel bad that he’s still here.”
Breanna slid her flip phone out of her pocket and glared at me while she texted under the desk. I thought it was odd that she didn’t, say, reply, but I was nicotine-deprived and just wanted to get up to Half-Block and take the first magical pull off a Marlboro. The craving was ravenous and untamable.
The bell rang, and the class filed out into the traffic of people quickly filling the hallway. There was a tug on the back of my backpack, and I turned around.
“You’re going to be sorry you said that,” Breanna said.
Her words and tone sent a shiver down my spine, knowing how inclined she was to stir up drama. She walked away quickly with her cellphone clasped in her hand. Whatever. What did I have to worry about? In a few short minutes, I’d be indulging in the sweet nectar of nicotine, and soon after that, I’d be damaging my brain cells somewhere, right?
I walked up 2nd Avenue, past Jared’s house, one of the few homes on Half-Block. But the hangout spot was dead. The occasional student walked by as I leaned on the green electrical box with a sticker of a stickman being electrocuted. I slid my phone out of my pocket, but there were no texts. No eighteen-year-old was in sight to run up to the store, so I resorted to the can of chew in my back pocket I used to get me through the school days.
I packed the can with a flick of the wrist and limp pointer finger; it bounced off the top of the can like a drumstick. I popped the can open, pinched a bit of tobacco, and then it was knocked out of my hand. Chewing tobacco exploded into the air, coating the white concrete with fine strands of black. I looked up, and there was Breanna’s boyfriend, Anthony. We were a near-identical match with our slender builds and luscious skater hair, but the sleeves of tattoos that wrapped his arms gave him a polished-by-the-streets look. That and all the red he wore to represent the Norteños (a Spanish street gang that spread up the west coast from California, though their presence wasn’t strong in small town Sequim; mainly just a bunch of “wannabes.”)
“You’re a punk. You thought you could talk shit about me to my girl?” Anthony said.
Before I could respond, Anthony threw a right hook. I dodged, jerking my head back, but it skimmed the edge of my chin. My earbuds were pulled out of my ears, falling to dangle at my feet. My fight-or-flight response picked a bad third option: freeze, but my mouth still worked.
“What the hell, dude,” I said.
Anthony said nothing and took a step forward, his fists clenched. He came within swinging distance and I put up my hands to block what was coming, when someone stepped between us. He put one arm out, like a stiff arm from an NFL running back, and made contact with Anthony’s sternum.
“Not here man, this isn’t cool,” David said. “He’s like four years younger than you.”
“David, I don’t have a problem with you.”
“I don’t care, this isn’t happening.”
Anthony continued to yell through David at me, and tried to get around him. David kept his extended palm in his chest and walked him slowly down the sidewalk, shaking his head and repeating the same thing: “This is not going to happen here.” After he was walked down the block to the intersection, Anthony gave up, threw his arms up in the air and stormed off down the street. David walked back up to me, as I scraped the particles of chewing tobacco off the sidewalk and into the grass. I bent down to grab the tangled mess of earbuds that swayed from my pocket, and David placed a hand on my shoulder. I looked at him in his bloodshot eyes as a smirk grew across his face.
“You alright, Zach?” David asked.
“Yeah, that was stupid man. I had it coming though, I guess,” I replied. “Hey, thank you, man.”
“It wasn’t fair, and he totally snuck up on you. What did you do?”
“I called him a super senior and said everyone just says hi to him because they feel bad for him,” I replied.
David’s reply was a loud, ha, and we did the traditional fist bump. As he talked, I realized that had been the first time anyone ever stood up for me; did he really just do that? Why would he do that?
I hit the red stop button on the treadmill and see my heart rate is at 130 beats per minute. The song ends. The next one starts with rapid gunfire, and I hold the volume button down to relieve my ears of the loud pops. The painful memory of David’s death bubbles up from deeply suppressed waters. He was shot standing up for the little guy, this time his mother from an abusive boyfriend who took an argument far beyond where he should have. I wipe down the treadmill and my right eye with my wrist. My chest feels tight. Is this grief? Am I grieving? A loud bang from the drop of weights snaps me back to the gym. I leave, walk down the hallway and look out the window at the rain and puddles forming on the asphalt.
I left Washington in 2011, the murder happened in 2012. I contemplated going back for the funeral but couldn’t bring myself to board that ferry in Victoria. I honour David by the lesson he left with me: take a stand for something, someone, a complete stranger.
Zachery Cooper
Arts Editor
Zachery Cooper is a third-year creative writing student at Vancouver Island University. He is the current Arts and Entertainment Editor for The Nav. His work has appeared in Portal, The Nav, and Incline.
All I want for Christmas is…
Fish farm fundamentals
The little fish
Moving box blues
Charged, with love
At five years
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KC Times, June 21, 1945
Kansas City Interstate Fairgrounds (1880s)
The fairgrounds ran from Thirty-eighth and Penn Streets (nobody called it Pennsylvania Avenue then) west to Roanoke Road and north to Valentine Road. The racetrack was at Thirty-Eighth and Summit, running north. To make this track it had been necessary to grade and fill. That left a deep hollow in the middle of the race track over; the rains accumulated and first you knew, there was a year-round pond deep enough for luckless boys to drown in, and a few did.
But that never discouraged other boys from going swimming there, with or without parental permission. Some of the boys Dixon remembers were Jack Ragan, Fred and Bert Duerr, and Julius and Mort Boeber. There were plenty more whose youthful faces came laughing back through a mist of years as a fellow sits in the living quarters of the grocery store his father started in 1884, and which he and his brothers closed three years ago under the duress of war shortages, OPA and rationing.
The fairgrounds was always a magnet to the boys of old Westport. Most of all of course it lured them the week the fair was on in the fall, which usually was shortly after school had opened. Farmers brought their prize livestock to exhibit, cows and steers calves, bulls, bulging hogs, yellow ears of corn and apples they hoped would win prizes. Women brought preserves made in busy kitchens on hot summer days, when the wise boy would keep out of his mother’s way and attract as little attention as possible. Those were good days for slipping off to the fairgrounds to go swimming.
The unfortunate clashing of dates between school and the fair, Mr. Dixon remembers with a mild twinkle of amusement, made it necessary to play hooky a good deal the week the fair was on. Because, unless a fellow played hooky, he had no opportunity to make a quarter of a dollar watching somebody’s team or buggy horse.
The great sophisticated world came to the fairgrounds for that week –race horses and ring games for prized of doubtful worth but ? none the less – bright-handled pocket knives that could never be anything but dull; brass jewelry to endear you to the hearts of girls, at least until their skin turned black or green from contact with the brass.
There was a jockey named Isaac Murphy who used to come to that fairground racing session, and everybody said he was one of the greatest jockeys in the world and what a thrill a boy got out of seeing Isaac Murphy up close and maybe hearing him say something.
Under the grandstand, which was on the west side of the race track, over toward Madison Street, the thirsty gathered to buy beer and whiskey. A boy could see them guzzling beer from the bottle and hopefully wait for someone to get in a fight, and someone usually did if you waited long enough. For this impulsion of hot weather and hot liquor brought differences of opinions to a brawling point, and a poke in the nose, and “rasaling,” cussing, grunting and rolling around. Usually bystanders broke up the fight before it got so bad that some “deppity” marshal had to take official action. But the “deppities” mostly were good fellows who were shunning, not seeking, opportunities to make arrests. When they were forced by circumstances to take somebody in tow, they usually turned him loose as soon as he had sobered up a little, unless he was an unusually quarrelsome sort of pest.
Imported Chariots
The grandstand was an elaborate 3-decker affair, surmounted by a cupola, and with the Roanoke woods forming a cool background behind it. The fairgrounds were laid out on farm land bought by Allen B. H. McGee, and many businesses contributed to the fair’s financial needs. The promoters were lavish in superlatives when it came to advertising the fair. A 2-column display advertising in the Kansas City Times, Aug, 23, 1883 advised:
Go to the greatest of them all!
After you have visited your County Fairs, your State Fairs and National Fairs, go to the Kansas City Interstate Fair, Sept. 17, 18, 19, 20, 21,22, 1883, where you can witness the grandest exposition of the Wealth and Industries of the Western States ever collected at any fair. An aggregation of Fleet-footed Horse, of Blooded Cattle, Sheep and Hogs, f Agricultural and Horticultural and Mineral Products, Agricultural Implements and Machinery and the most interesting races over the BEST RACE TRACK IN THE WORLD and from the finest grand stand in America! Address for information, M.J. Payne, General Manager.
Ran Excursion Trains
This was not Westport’s fair alone; the railroads ran excursion trains out from the old Union Depot on Union Avenue, meandering and climbing up from Southwest Boulevard by way of Roanoke Road. And that brought back to memory the days of John I. Blair and the Kansas City railroad that was going to run all the way to the Gulf of Mexico. Blair was a railroad promoter and builder who had a town called Blairsville named after him, over in Henry County, Missouri, northwest of Clinton.
Grading operations were started between Westport and Dedson, and eventually a track was laid. A tunnel was bored through a bluff in Roanoke, but so far as Mr. Dixon’s memory goes, it was never used because it was not braced and reinforced properly, and soon began to fall in. So the railroad company boarded up the mouth of the tunnel as tightly as possible. But no job of boarding up could keep adventure-hunting boys out of anything as exciting as a dark tunnel, where you had to take candle ends to find your way, and the water dripped down from above, and here and there a chunk of rock had fallen and you might find a robber’s gold or human skeletons at any time. Of course, you never did find any gold or any skeletons either, but that didn’t prove you might not find them that day.
The K.C. Osceola & Southern
Edward Dixon was about 15 years old, as he remembers, in the days when the Osceola & Southern Railroad was booming and was the talk of Westport. Young Ed thought he had a job clinched as a water boy for the railroad builders, and he was looking forward to what he would do with the fortune which was bound to accumulate at $1 as day six days a week. And then another boy underbid him for the water boy job – agreed to work six days a week for $5 and got the job and then – moral warning here, maybe – broke his leg. So Ed Dixon was glad he hadn’t gotten the job.
His father, Hugh Dixon, had been running a grocery store since 1864. Sometimes during fair week, his mother used to run a lunch stand at the fair. It doesn’t seem possible to anybody today, but at that time neither hot dogs or hamburgers were on lunch stand menus. The hungry brought a lunch –meat and potatoes and a vegetable and something sweet. If you wanted the real holiday spirit, you could also buy soda pop at the lunch stand, to wash down your lunch, and a large, fat shiny cigar, guaranteed to suffocate mosquitoes on contact. For cigars were the mark of adulthood and sophistication; men of the world in derby hats and horseshoe-spangled vests, rolled their cigars under their walrus mustaches, while boys looked on in admiration and planned to do likewise as soon as they could sprout mustaches.
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Gibson Trini Lopez Standard
Trini Lopez Valuation
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Trini Lopez Standard description | 1965 promotional sheet
Promo sheet for the Gibson Trini Lopez Standard from around 1964/1965 - when the model was introduced.
The Gibson Trini Lopez Standard (and it's more expensive companion model, the Trini Lopez Deluxe) were produced at Gibson's Kalamazoo facility from 1964.
The thinline Standard was the most popular of the two models, by far, selling 2000 instruments over 8 years (see shipping figures). It was, however, considerably lower priced than the full-body Deluxe: at the first listing (Feb. 1965) the Standard and Deluxe were $375 and $645 respectively.
The Trini Lopez 'features' were primarily the split diamond neck position marker inlays, the Firebird-style headstock, Trini Lopez emblem tailpiece and diamond-shaped 'f' holes. The two models were quite different though, with the above features applied to a thinline 335-style guitar for the standard, and to a full-body, Barney Kessel-style guitar for the Deluxe.
So the main difference between the two guitars was the thickness: the Deluxe was 3", the Standard just 1 3/4"; and cutaway style the Deluxe had double Florentine, the Standard double Venetian. Furthermore the Deluxe had an ebony fretboard, compared to the rosewood of the Standard.
Both models were included in price lists until late 1970, and shipped up until 1971.
The following description is taken from the 1970 Gibson catalogue.
TRINI LOPEZ STANDARD - Artist Model Built for the guitarist who needs an instrument with a modern sound and a stylish appearance. An exceptionally responsive instrument with thin body and double cutaway design.
FEATURES: Select maple top, back and rims with cream binding and bound diamond shaped sound holes. Slim, fast, low action mahogany neck with adjustable truss rod and diamond shaped pearloid inlays, joins body at 19th fret. Twenty-Two fret rosewood fingerboard. Twin humbucking pickups. Chrome-plated Tune-O-Matic bridge. Chrome-plated machine heads. 16" wide, 19" long 1 ¾" thin: 24 ¾" scale, 22 frets.
TL-S Trini Lopez Standard - Cherry finish 519L - Faultless plush-lined case
304L - Archcraft plush-lined case
The Trini Lopez Standard was really only available for a few years in the late 1960s (actually shipping between 1964-1971, but only a handful in the first and last years - see the shipping figures), a time in which Gibson was having production and other problems, and printed less publicity material than usual. It was therefore only included in two major US catalogues, the 1966 and the 1970.
1966 Gibson catalogue
The Trini Lopez Standard appears on page 3 alongside the Barney Kessel and Tal Farlow models.
1970 Gibson electric acoustics catalogue
The Trini Lopez Standard appears on page 5
Built for the guitarist who needs an instrument with a modern sound and stylish appearance. An exceptionally responsive instrument with thin body and double cutaway design
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June 25th, 2013 | by Jaime Babbitt
Lyrics or No Lyrics On Stage?
Is having the words with you on stage a helpful security blanket or a sign of laziness? Jaime Babbitt wades into the debate.
Dear Jaime,
What are your views on using lyrics in a performance? I just can seem to fit all my songs into my brain…
-Velma
Velma (I love your name!),
Last week, I was singing BGVs for a Nashville artist at a prestigious club during a huge music festival.
I knew the material but wanted to have the lyrics onstage- a security blanket, if you will.
I asked the sound person for a music stand; he said, “We don’t have any.” “You don’t HAVE any?” I stammered, incredulously.
He shrugged and said, “We don’t have a need for ‘em.”
Wow. All righty then.
I learned two things that afternoon: Not all venues have music stands, and: TAKE THE TIME TO MEMORIZE YOUR PARTS!
We singers store our lyric libraries on:
iPhones (for singers with ridiculously keen vision—yay, you!)
I’ve seen music stands, clip-on-the-mic-stand iPad holders, pages with handwritten lyrics on the floor…I’ve seen (and used) them all.
And I’ve also had every excuse in the book: I was too busy/sick/headache-y/, the songs were hard… but I forgot this excuse:
I’M TOO L-A-Z-Y.
*For those of you who have to read complicated notated music while singing: you people are off the hook.
Everyone else, please listen up: whether you’re a lead or background vocalist, your job is not just to sing well. Your job is also to put songs across well.
And how well are you putting across a song if you’re looking at the words? How emotionally available are you to communicate to the people who paid money to see you?
Be an audience member for a minute: how do YOU feel when you see singers reading lyrics?
So, unless you got the gig a few days ago and had to learn 40 songs, guess what? You’re on the hook to start memorizing lyrics (and parts, if you notate your lyrics with pitches, rhythms and specific melodies like I do!).
There will always be extenuating circumstances: spontaneity, requests, a bandleader who’s okay with lyrics onstage.
So try this: BRING your lyrics on whatever medium you use…and only use them if ABSOLUTELY NECESSARY. Then your security blanket is in the house.
And I’m only telling you what I tell myself…except I’m really old and I forget everything all the time.
Joking! My promise to not be L-A-Z-Y anymore starts N-O-W. Are you with me?
-Jaime
Find out more about Jaime Babbitt at www.workingwithyourvoice.com for bookings, see www.greenhillsguitarstudio.com/voice-lessons You can see more of Jaime’s articles here.
I sing what people want.. and my Fakebooks and lyric sheets let me keep an active repertoire that is fifty times as large as anything my aging brain could memorize.
Even if I never glance twice at the music in front of my just having it is good for my confidence, insures that the inevitable interruptions and glitches won’t ruin my show, and as I pointed out… lets me respond to requests and favorites for different audiences…
Having trained as a classical musician (brass major) picking up improvisational skills has been a self taught process…
When I’m doing guitar and vocals having that chord and lyric sheet just feels right
I love having my iPad on stage, especially for nights when I am playing 3+ hour gigs (35-40 songs). It is not as obtrusive as a full music stand and not nearly as cumbersome as a binder full of songs.
It definitely can change from a security blanket to a crutch though. Sometimes I find myself looking down at my iPad for words/chords to songs I have known for 20 years instead of connecting with he audience.
I think it is great that some folks can remember all the lyrics, but I don’t believe that this is a universally achievable thing. People have varying abilities to remember lyrics. For me, I need the occasional reminder of how the next phrase or verse starts. For this, I find my iPad running an app such as unrealbook indispensable.
I feel like I am cheating the audience if I don’t know the lyircs by heart. I don’t like to just “sing” the song…I want to be able to make it mine!
webheadwilks
If you know the song, you know the words. If you don’t know the words, you don’t know the song. If you don’t know the song, don’t do it. It’s LAZY to not put in the time to learn them. Practice them alone, then, rehearse with the band. Don’t try learning them when with the band and waste every serious member’s time. Very un-pro.
Derek Cook
It can be a huge ask memorizing all of this stuff. I remember a bass player in my first band, who could never be without crib notes due to confidence. He of course needed to look at them, which took his attention away from the band and the audience. I occasionally have them when learning a piece, but ditch them as quickly as possible, usually before I even get to band practice, but always before playing on stage.
As a keyboard player who had to take on backing vocals and some lead vocals for the first time recently in my Pure Floyd band, that was a huge challenge. I started off with the words in front of me in practice, and then left them behind one day on the logic that I can play two hours worth of complex music with no crib notes, so why should singing be different? It’s all “muscle memory” in a performance (music and/or vocal); if you need to think about it, you don’t really know it! So, practice, practice, practice until you know it without having to think about it.
In fact what I found the hardest was harmony singing when you need to be above or below the main melody and you always want to go for the main melody – I thought I’d never achieve that and nearly gave up at one point, but you know, again it was practice, practice, practice! Your vocal chords are a muscle, so muscle memory rules again.
HTH.
JAIMEBABBITT
A big ‘heck yeah’ on the ‘crutch’ concept! And a really good point about looking at words you’re sure about just ’cause they’re there…
Ha, tchall, I have one of those brains, too! Do what feels right for sure…sounds like you’ve found a good balance for yourself and for your audiences!
Unrealbook; yeah, mando, I don’t have it yet but
that’s a nice app. And a friend told me there’s even a way to use a foot pedal w/it to turn pages? Even less obtrusive that way….
That’s how I feel, too, Chris…all the best on making songs yours!
Great point, webheadwilks…rehearsal is so NOT the time for lyric learning!!
Well said on every count, Derek! Congrats on handling all your challenges well! Ha, not to get too technical but FYI: vocal cords are made of mucous membrane but the larynx is muscle, cartilage, ligaments, etc. And practice does make perfect…thanks to muscle memory, which totally rules!
As musicians we are there to put on a show. You wouldn’t go see a play if the actors were holding their scripts. If you haven’t learned everything you need, then you aren’t done rehearsing and aren’t ready to put that song in your set list. Reiterating what Jamie said – you have to connect. You can’t convey the emotion of a lyric you haven’t internalized. If you have a brain fart and forget just fake your way through – if the emotion and “show” are uninterrupted then only a small percentage of the audience (if anyone) will notice you flubbed the lyrics – and that’s only if they are covers. If they are originals then for all anyone knows you changed it up for the show. We cover Adele’s Rolling in the Deep, I completely blanked on the second verse, so I just repeated part of the first, then my brain kicked in and I finished the verse with the correct lyrics. No one even noticed. Granted I do carry my lyrics book everywhere, and if I’m worried about a song I’ll look the lyrics over between sets to refresh my memory.
On a side note if I could recommend anything to anyone to help with their stage show and confidence it would be Tom Jackson’s All Roads Lead to the Stage. I always felt awkward and “stupid” on stage, it didn’t matter how well I sang if I was just a lump on a log doing it, and those moments between songs were torture “what do I say? How do I act?” I don’t ask those questions anymore. I have a clear concise vision of the show and my role in it, where to put songs in a set list, how to introduce them, how to read my audience, where to stand, where to look, how to move – I’m completely confident and it feels great to not have to stress and worry about these things anymore and just enjoy the crowd and being on stage.
I used to be a “no lyrics/music onstage!” purist, until I watched a Billy Joel concert, and he had all his songs (that he wrote himself and has been playing for DECADES) on *laminated* pages inside a big notebook on his piano.
(And let’s not forget about the teleprompters buried in the stage among the monitors for a lot of big name acts)
That’s why requests can be such a challenge (especially if the tip is already in the jar). Sometimes, I know a song good enough to get through it sight reading, but I know it’s not the best.
If your role in a band is the singer then yes, learn the words, learn the music. However, many of us are solo artists and wear more than one hat when we perform.
In my case, I play guitar and sing. For some venues, I am my own sound tech. Then, half way through a song a friend walks in or someone comes up with a request/tip and my ADD mind just may wander off…
I’ll just say it’s nice to have the words/chords close by.
I stand humbly corrected on the biology lesson! :-) But the drift is what matters, muscle memory really does rule. It is something that is so implicit in our life that we don’t think about it (think hanging gears in your car, or the mechanics of getting food from your plate to your mouth – the point is that you don’t!), and it’s a revelation when you realise it also applies to our music endeavors.
Good point. Rehearsals are for putting a song together and fine tuning, honing things; everybody should have done their homework prior to that. I’ve suffered from other band members not taking that approach! :-)
bullit98
The use of an iPAD on stage for prompting lyrics is something that I have seen beaten to death in several forums….and in my life with local cover bands. I am a local DFW area musician (lead singer) and currently have a couple tribute bands I am fronting. I have used an iPAD (discreetly) for the past 2.5 years with one of the tributes…but the new tribute band has a “problem” with that…I guess it interferes with their rock star image….even though they still don’t know the songs instrumentally all the way through…including the background vocals.
I have never heard any complaint from a member of the audience…or from a club/venue owner who have all rehired us…..repeatedly.
I have always focused on hitting the notes…..all of them. I am doing Plant
for a Zeppelin tribute…and Lou Gramm for another…..but I am well rehearsed (on my own)….and can do justice to both. Remembering lyrics isn’t the problem…it’s just the occasional brain fart I have on stage. Rather than make some crap up to cover for it….I have the opportunity to glance at a performance “aid” if you will. Anyway….I went one better this week. As a compromise…I actually spent a week of my time (and $650) gutting a perfectly good JBL stage monitor….and built my own custom teleprompter….so…it’s totally discreet….and gives me a 20″ screen to view from as far back as 10-15 feet. It’s a safety net for me…as I am now 56……and have over 2,000 songs in my head…..that I have sung…since I was 13. I told one of the guys in the band what I had built….and he said he had a problem with the wireless mouse that I may be using on stage to open the Word documents with the lyrics (in 4 seconds). Geeeez. I guess Ozzy, Sting, Bono, The Eagles, Bon Jovi, McCartney,R.E.M, Springstein,Prince, Alice Cooper and a ton of others would get a thumbs down from these local rock stars as well…:-)
When I know a song – when I really know a song – I’m far more confident and I can focus on getting that song across to the audience than when I’m insecure about the lyrics. I always found bringing lyrics on stage exacerbated the entire situation when trying to get through a song, or group of songs, I don’t know or songs I half-way know. I’d say having the lyrics created all sorts of problems. I had them on a music stand when someone opened a door and the wind blew them to the floor. I skipped lines while looking at them and sang the wrong part. I felt worried, and kept looking down at the lyric sheet. The list goes on and on. So I realized I had to know these songs so well, it would be like breathing. Unexpected things can happen on stage and if I’m following a “script” of lyrics, I have little room to improvise or correct a situation. So, I decided to leave the lyrics at home. I have a list of songs I flat out know, a list of songs I almost know, a list of songs I’m learning, and a list of songs I plan on learning. I work on one song a week until I can do it in my sleep. When i go to a venue, I bring along the list of songs I flat out know and leave the others behind. I go up there with no lyrics. Is it perfect? Nope. I’ll miss something now and then, but I’ve learned not to worry about it. But the thing is this – I’m having a lot of fun, I feel good, and it’s exciting.
mfguitar11
That works IF you have a pre-scripted show and that works well for a lot of venues. And, that works if your only role is to sing. Frankly, if your only role is to sing, then you better have the words down.
However, those of us that are solo artists/cover artists often play in locations where our original set list has to get modified on the fly to meet the “feel” of the audience that night. For me, that means I need lyrics.
When it comes down to it, I think the key thing is to not overly rely on having lyrics on the stage and to keep it as subtle as possible (hence why I love the iPad). If I just play a whole set and don’t look up at the crowd, then I know my performance has been a little “sucky” to say the least.
Leo O’Neil
I have been a pro musician for over 50 years. I feel that the availability of lyrics on the internet
has hurt singers. Listening to a song many times and writing out your own lyrics helped with learning the fine points of a song. Today, the singer listens a few times to a song, prints out the lyrics and thinks he’s ready to perform the song. Wrong! I hear many more vocal mistakes since lyrics have been easy to come by.
Freya Astrella
Agree! I see many young singers clutching their smart phones on stage – detracts from stage presence.
Laminated? How does that work under stage lights?
TalkWithME
Exactly! It is a known fact that many of the greatest musicians of all time rely upon teleprompters, lyric sheets, etc. The rationale? When you can focus on technique, style, and avoid the nerves the go for it. No one would ever ask a conductor to take to a podium without music to guide him/her. If you are a pro doing only one set or maybe you do the same two sets every performance then fine memorize your 10 or 12 songs. But, if you are a musician that adjusts a wide repertoire to fit the audience then you are talking about 3 to 4 sets with a wide variety of music. I say stop the snobbery and focus more on the quality of performance, vocal technique and enjoy live music.
Exactly on all points. I will never forget seeing Todd Rundgren with his ipad affixed to where he could see it at all times. The bottom line is this – did you sing well, perform well and deliver a song well? If not quite because all the memorization in the world is not going to help your intonation.
Ken McCauley
I’ve been singing as a solo artists for 30 years and take requests as well as play for a wide variety of audiences. Using the iPad is cheating. Learn the lyrics. We are not juke boxes we are human musicians. One person, one guitar, one voice. If you don’t know the song just tell the audience you don’t know it. The iPad is an excuse no matter how much lipstick you want to put on it. It is also distracting for the audience.
Logan Broughton
i have a real crap memory so on stage help is great for me so a jyric book is generally what i need and only with new songs until i get to remeber them adfter a few gigs
Shecky Liebowitz
you really need to bite me. no seriously, bite me right here. I cant remember what I had for dinner last night let alone lyrics to multiple songs. You think that’s the measure of a good entertainer?…. memorizing lyrics? Did I axe you to bite me lately? I would smoke you in any musical venue including stroking the basket you just recently weaved AND that would include SOME MEANS OF REMEMBERING LYRICS! Look hack, you see me reading lyrics. don’t come in. Your mind is on judgement and fuckedupism. don’t need you. Oh, and have a nice day.
Oh your so angry. Your damn right. Angry at assholes who cant play but love to pass judgement.
ruthenium66
Funny how people assume pros must memorize. Do people know that once it was considered arrogant for performers to memorize a composer’s music rather than read it? I recently learned that talented pianist Clara Schumann was severely criticized for memorizing her husband Robert Schumann’s music! She felt memorization gave her freedom to play more expressively but others felt it was arrogant to interpret the composer’s written expression. We think that memorization is the time-honored tradition, but at least in classical music it wasn’t! https://www.theguardian.com/music/2007/apr/20/classicalmusicandopera1
Tablets are a lazy mans crutch. This article is dead on.
I much prefer having the song in my body and mind. Singing the right lyrics and the right notes is just about a given. But delivering the song in all its human depth is the extra layer and usually you have to be off book to become the person in the song.
Scott Aminal Logsdon
as a promoter I suddenly notice the WiFi went out at the venue and I notice I have 2000 pissed off fans because the artist on the stage who they just paid to see can’t even sing their own stuff without a security blanket. Shows over!!
Frikkie Frederick Botes
when performing on stage in concert halls etc you dont use it, when you perform at pavilions for thousands then you do .
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Jaime Babbitt has coached voice and performance for Disney and has written "Working With Your Voice: The Career Guide to Becoming a Professional Singer" (Alfred Publishing). As a NYC session singer, she “jingled” for Coke, Pillsbury, Chevrolet and hundreds more. She has sung thousands of gigs and has toured with Leon Russell and Sam Moore. Jaime sang BGVs with George Strait, Courtney Love, Barbra Streisand, Willie Nelson, Jimmy Webb, Barry Mann & Cynthia Weil, Miley & Billy Ray Cyrus, Johnny Mathis and many more, performed off-Broadway and coaches privately in Nashville, New York and Los Angeles. For info and bookings, visit www.workingwithyourvoice.com and www.greenhillsguitarstudio.com. Photo Credit: Guy Webster
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Tseng Aiming for Aussie Open Hat-Trick at Royal Melbourne
By Conor Nagle under LPGA
Quite good: Tseng won 12 times in 2011.
Tiger and the PGA Tour are at Pebble Beach this week, but if you want to see a genuinely world-class field tackle an innovative piece of golf architecture, the Australian sandbelt, home of Royal Melbourne and the ISPS Handa Women’s Australian Open, probably has the edge over Monterey.
Not only will the latter pit the cream of the Ladies European and LPGA Tours against one of the world’s most imaginative tournament venues, it will also mark Yani Tseng’s first competitive appearance of the new year.
If she’s to finish the week having claimed a hat-trick of Women’s Australian Open titles, the five-time major champion – who collected a staggering 12 international victories last year – will have to fend off a host of high-profile challengers, including Jiyai Shin, Christie Kerr, Brittany Lincicome and world number two Suzann Pettersen.
Though Tseng sounds optimistic, her decision to debut a number of swing changes this week could well render a title defence that little bit less likely.
“I have tried to change my back swing. I have tried to get physically stronger, so my swing can match my physique. I have been working out very good [sic]. My trainer was in Orlando with me last month, and my coach. We work really hard.
“I have more power. I don’t swing as hard as before. I feel I am swinging easier and striking the ball better.
If Tseng’s current form is uncertain, the person best placed and most determined to take advantage of a potential lapse in the 23-year-old’s dominance is Norway’s Suzann Pettersen.
Encouraged by a winter of hard training, the Solheim Cup hero begins this season hopeful of mounting a run at the summit of the world rankings.
“It’s always been a dream of mine… And I definitely think my game is there.
“I look at my game and what I can do better to get the most out of it every day,” she said. “She’s a great No. 1, she’s very aggressive, very fearless and obviously has a lot of confidence at the moment. But I’ve beaten her before so I know you can do it.”
(via Newser)
Also notables in the field this week include teen stars Lexi Thompson and Lydia Ko, home favourite Karrie Webb and Australian Ladies Masters champion Christel Boeljon.
Conor Nagle
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Lah Land
Mike Lah was quoted in Didier Ghez’ Walt’s People, Vol. 11 that he was freelancing at Quartet Films in 1957 after the MGM cartoon studio closed and “was supposed to be a part” of the ownership group of Hanna-Barbera when it began in July that year. Presumably he didn’t have enough money to invest in it. But he ended up doing layouts and animation, sometimes uncredited, on the first season of The Huckleberry Hound Show and, I suspect, on Ruff and Reddy. Animator Mike Kazaleh says Lah did inserts in some of the cartoons, sometimes up to 90 seconds of animation taking up one or two gags.
Lah’s animation is distinctive. Compare these two drawings. The first is by Carlo Vinci, the second is by Lah.
Granted, the head positions aren’t the same, but you can see Lah preferred rounder eyes with rounder pupils and more whites (he liked drawing a big nose on Yogi).
Both the above frames are from “Big Bad Bully.” Lah sometimes liked to animate in profile with most of the head stationary with the mouth moving around on the side of the face. Occasionally, there are two or three upper teeth, generally no tongue and a long upper line to indicate the top of the mouth.
The drawing of Boo Boo above is from “Pie Pirates,” the first cartoon put into production for the Huck show. Lah animated from his own layouts. Boo Boo has kind of a goofy look; some of Lah’s characters are either a little cross-eyed or one eye is a different shape or size than the other. Here are a few more from that cartoon. He drew conjoined eyes (I don’t believe anyone else did), or had them overlapping a bit. He animated characters the same way at MGM, including characters running off screen at the same angle you see below.
These frames don’t show off Lah’s best work at Hanna-Barbera. He seemed to get more of his share of pain and shock takes and the drawings are very funny.
For whatever reason, Lah didn’t animate any more cartoons for the studio after 1958. He continued freelancing and at some point, set up his own company called Cinema Ad.
There’s misinformation on some web sites that Lah was one of the founders of Quartet Films. He was a part-owner of the company, but that came in 1960. A story in Back Stage magazine marking the studio’s tenth anniversary stated Quartet was founded on June 14, 1956. Here’s a story from Broadcasting-Telecasting magazine from the following July 16th.
Quartet Films Organized, Will Use Storyboard Space
ALTHOUGH Storyboard Inc. closed its Hollywood doors to business today (Monday), key West Coast executives of the tv commercial film production firm have taken over the entire facilities to offer the services of a new company they have formed, Quartet Films Inc., 8480 Melrose Ave., with Arthur Babbitt as president. Mr. Babbitt is former Storyboard animation director of the Snowdrift tv spot "John and Marsha," which took a Gold Medal at the Art Directors Club of New York [BT, June 4].
He is joined in formation of Quartet Films by Arnold Gillespie, who directed the award winning Diamond Crystal Salt commercial; Stan L. Walsh, whose Speedway gasoline and National Bohemian beer spots won awards in the eastern competition, and Les Goldman, former Storyboard production manager. Mr. Gillespie is vice president and secretary of Quartet while Mr. Walsh is vice president in charge of production. Quartet has hired members of the former Storyboard creative staff in Hollywood, Mr. Babbitt announced last week. Storyboard Inc. continues its New York office with John Hubley as president [BT, June 25]. Broadcasting July 16, 1956
As Keith Scott’s book The Moose That Roared relates, Lah set up Shield Productions with Bill Hanna, MGM background artist Don Driscoll and Don McNamara to make some “Crusader Rabbit” cartoons on spec; the U.S. Government Catalog of Copyright Entries shows Ruff and Reddy were copyrighted by Shield on May 25, 1956. Evidently, ownership was transferred to H-B Enterprises from Shield (McNamara formed his own company in October 1956 with Driscoll as his art director).
Lah’s early background in a nutshell: he worked at Disney and Harman-Ising (assisting Mel Shaw) and animated for both the Hanna-Barbera and Tex Avery units at MGM, in addition to briefly co-directing with Preston Blair, then returned to the studio after being let go when the Avery unit disbanded in 1953, first as a freelancer and then as a director. He died on October 13, 1995.
He had another connection to the Hanna-Barbera studio besides being an employee. Alberta and Violet Wogatzke were twin sisters. Vi married Bill Hanna. Alberta married Mike Lah. The Wogatzkes’ brother Roy Wade was a cameraman at Hanna-Barbera, and MGM before that.
I wish I could supply some anecdotes about Mr. Lah (especially since he animated on the first Yowp cartoon) but I never knew him. Perhaps some readers can add something. You can read his interview in the Ghez book HERE.
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J Lee 11 March 2015 at 07:40
The budgets for Lah's CinemaScope Droopy cartoons at MGM seem to be a little lower than what Bill & Joe were doling out for their contemporaneous Tom & Jerry efforts, which probably helped him with the early TV animation, since several shortcuts that became part of the early H-B efforts (such as Spike 'popping' from one position to another without an in-between) show up in Lah's widescreen cartoons
Mike Kazaleh 11 March 2015 at 13:07
I did know Mike Lah, and I always found him to be friendly and good humored. The one time I spoke to him about Shield productions, he'd indicated that they had actually completed several Crusader Rabbit cartoons. I wonder what the might've looked like...
Yowp 12 March 2015 at 05:29
Mike, I got that impression from Keith Scott's book.
I'm curious about why Joe Barbera wasn't part of Shield, considering Hanna went into business with him soon after Shield folded.
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New Jersey school closed for cleanup after mold found in classrooms, auditorium
NEW YORK (1010 WINS) -- Students in New Jersey got a couple of unscheduled days off and it's not because of the weather.
Mold was discovered in two classrooms and the auditorium at the Mount Olive middle school last week.
Acting district superintendent Susan Breton wrote parents and said tests show the mold isn't life-threatening but it could cause respiratory problems. Therefore, the school will be closed Tuesday and Wednesday for cleanup.
All other schools in the district remain open.
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All Blogs, Bookshop of the Month, Reading, Recent Posts June 8, 2015
Bookshop of the Month: Jarrold’s Bookshop, Norwich
We are heading east for our bookshop of the month for June, to Jarrold department store in Norwich. The store is part of the Jarrold Group which was formed in Woodbridge, Suffolk back in 1770. The group’s main store is situated in Norwich’s historic London Street and has gained landmark status for being the region’s most popular independent department store. We recently spoke to Chris Rushby from the book department at Jarrold about the host of literary events they hold, some favourite books coming up this summer and what’s special about Norwich’s best book haven!
Jarrold’s book department holds numerous events such as author signings and your monthly book club. What are your favourite bookish events and why?
The easy answer would be the events where we sell the most books: there were 800 people in the queue at a Tanya Burr signing session here a few weeks ago. If you don’t know who Tanya Burr is, neither did I until about six months ago – but she sells a lot of books. Beyond that, authors talking to authors can be particularly fascinating. A couple of months ago we sold books at an event with Helen Macdonald (of H Is For Hawk fame) and Jeanette Winterson (of rabbit pie fame) in conversation. They were both warm, revealing and insightful and clearly sparked off each other.
From your local bestsellers list, it looks like your readers love reading about Norwich. How are you able to meet the demand for local interest titles?
By having the best East Anglian book range in the world. That might sound slightly big-headed (and to be frank there probably aren’t a lot of bookshops trying to compete with us in that endeavor) but Jarrolds is known for local books and customers come to us for them. Authors of local interest books also come to us, often the self-published, no ISBN, stock in the garage kind of authors whose titles wouldn’t make it to the shelves of the big chains. If they’ve written the right kind of book we welcome them with open arms.
Can you recommend three favourite books to add to a summer reading list?
The Shepherd’s Life by James Rebanks – a memoir of sheep farming in the Lake District so gritty, honest and alien to the way most of us live and work it reads like something from another country, or another century.
The Honours by Tim Clare – a fine, strange novel that’s hard to describe, but probably somewhere between Mervyn Peake and Dennis Wheatley. It also happens to be set in north Norfolk.
Edward Thomas: From Adelstrop to Arras, a Biography by Jean Moorcroft Wilson. The first full biography of Thomas for a number of years sheds some fascinating new light on this strange, brooding poet and countryman. The author has already written books on Sassoon and Rosenberg, so WWI poets are clearly her thing.
What are the benefits of being located within a large department store?
Where do I start? A brand that’s known and trusted throughout the region; cafes and restaurants providing perfect event venues; a marketing department that dresses windows, creates point-of-sale material, promotes events and does a dozen other things better than we could do them ourselves; finance, HR and all the other back office functions to take the strain of their specialisms and allow the bookselling team to focus on customers and books.
So if you’re in Norwich this summer – whether heading off to visit the broads, bagging a cathedral or preparing for you first term at the University of East Anglia – you now know where to head if you’re in need of a book.
Intrigued by East Anglia? Our Pevsner Guides might be able to help you make the most of a visit.
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Over the past few years, MARES has expanded its reach from primarily
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When brand-new 3 Collection was revealed by BMW, exchangeable and also sports car versions of deluxe model were also revealed as the 4 Collection. This suggested that there would certainly be BMW M4 versions along with M3 models. This also introduced the high-performance BMW M4 GTS versions. In conclusion, 2017 BMW M4 as well as M4 GTS is a two-door efficiency lorry with perfect styling.
2017 BMW M4 and M4 GTS– System as well as Styling
BMW M4, just like M3, has a much-reduced weight, with light weight aluminum fenders and also hood in addition to carbon fiber on its plastic little bits, roofing and also driveshaft. Thanks to this extreme use of light-weight materials, 2017 BMW M4 and also M4 GTS are lighter by 174 lbs than existing designs.
Exterior features of M4 are same as standard 4 Series. The lump on hood shows a twin turbo system beneath and larger wheels are housed by flared fenders. Actually, the GTS variation obtains even more aerodynamic enhancement as compared to the standard version.
The conventional M4 gets twin fronts lights with LED innovation, whereas the M4 GTS uses OLED modern technology. Adaptive M shock absorber is something brand-new for this model, which offers dynamic change over a larger range of powerful driving capabilities.
What will it use inside?
The BMW M4 as well as M4 GTS 2017 are a great deal closer to the basic 4 Collection models when it comes to the interiors. Nonetheless, there are touches of M department throughout its cabin, with M badges, M-specific controls and updated seats. Together with that, sportier carbon fiber trim offers the cabin an overall high-performance feeling. There are simply few various specs which set the GTS version besides its conventional equivalent.
Front pail seats are exceptional, but rear seat does not supply much area. Respectable cargo room is supplied as well in its trunk. Standard features used consist of 10 means flexible pole positions, keyless ignition, sport exhaust, warmed pole positions, adaptive cruise ship control, leather wrapped steering wheel, BMW iDrive infotainment system, navigating as well as Bluetooth connection.
2017 BMW M4 and also M4 GTS– Spec as well as Performance
Both these designs have the exact same engine under their hood. They are powered by exact same 3-liter inline-6 twin turbo device. Nevertheless, it is mostly the output which establishes the 2017 BMW M4 and M4 GTS apart. While common BMW M4 produces 425 hp along with 406 lb-ft of torque, the BMW M4 GTS has actually an increased outcome of 493 hp and 443 lb-ft of torque. This means that M4 GTS alternative creates additional 68 hp and also 37 lb-ft of torque over common variation.
M4 GTS takes 3.7 secs as well as standard M4 takes 3.9 secs to increase to 60 mph. M4 GTS could reach a full throttle of 190 mph, while conventional design has a minimal full throttle of 155 miles per hour.
2017 BMW M4 as well as M4 GTS– Cost as well as Release Day
2017 BMW M4 and also M4 GTS are expected to arrive late in 2016. Standard M4 has a starting rate of $66,000 while M4 GTS has a cost near to $134,000. Mercedes-Benz C63 Coupe may come to be the primary opponent for 2017 BMW M4.
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AMC budget 2018 -19: BJP looks east, ahead of 2019 polls
Ahmedabad Mirror | Updated: Feb 3, 2018, 02:00 IST
The BJP in the AMC added projects worth Rs 490 crore to the Rs 6,500 crore budget proposed by the administrative wing in what is being seen as an effort to win over citizens ahead of the 2019 General Elections. The budget lays emphasis on development projects in the eastern parts of the city where the saffron party lost three seats, and its victory margin decreased, in the recently held Gujarat Assembly election. Bowing to uproar over proposal to withdraw 50% rebate given in property tax, the budget on Friday maintained the rebate at 25% for new properties.
The old properties, however, will not enjoy the rebate in property tax. In a bonanza for the eastern parts of the city, AMC has committed to build aflyover in Naroda, a community hall each in Amraiwadi and Saraspur, two libraries, two swimming pools and two schools besides development and beautification of three lakes. Also on the anvil is construction of six party plots which can be used for social functions by citizens in the eastern parts. As part of the area development initiative, the focus of the AMC will be on Asarwa and Jamalpur.
Vadgam MLA Jignesh Mevani reaches AMC office to submit memorandum, 432 policemen ‘welcome’ him
The development works will include broadening of roads, installation of specially designed light poles, construction of traffic circles, installing street-side sitting arrangement and building pedestrian paths. For the first time, a high-tech social media centre will be set up to develop and manage AMC applications and website. The centre will be the nodal point from where officials will communicate important updates about civic utilities with citizens. In a unique initiative, all the 240 public gardens will be equipped with loudspeakers at a total cost of Rs 1crore to play music for the entertainment of visitors.
The civic body has earmarked Rs 6.5 crore to construct a sculpture garden, acupressure walking tracks, yoga and meditation centre in some of these gardens. Flaying the budget, leader of the opposition in AMC Dinesh Sharma said: “The BJP has done nothing to alleviate traffic problems. For example the flyover at Income Tax Circle will end at the Bata Crossroads which will lead to traffic congestion. Several projects like multilevel parking facility have either not taken off or failed. BJP only believes in proposing, not executing.”
New projects worth Rs 490 crore added
1. A corporator’s discretionary budget increased from Rs 17 lakh to Rs 25 lakh
2. Roads in the new TP areas at cost of Rs 15 crore
3. A Singapore-model fish aquarium at Kankaria Lake
4. 50% relief in vehicle tax for electric vehicles
5. Construction of City Beautification Cell
6. Left turn-free traffic facility at major junctions
7. Drainage, water, light and road facilities in housing boards and AUDA residential areas at cost of Rs 10 crore
8. A World Heritage City at cost of Rs 3 crore
9. Heritage Gallery at Sardar Patel Bhawan
10. Smart lighting along Riverfront and Kankaria Lake peripheral road
11. Broadening of entrance roads to the Riverfront
12. Underground automated car parking at AMC headquarters
Droopy Oppn, dogged BJP
Gujarat BJP leaders work undeterred
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LOGS 1/29/2009 (Thu)
6676 SSB Mumbai Volmet Mumbai India 45444 English Weather report by OM 0428 UTC 1/29/2009 AG
7390 Channel Africa Meyerton South Africa 35333 English Report on World Economic Forum at Davos by YL 0332 UTC 1/29/2009 AG
7400 Radio Bulgaria Plovdiv Bulgaria 35333 English Music Program - YL Presenter 0351 UTC 1/29/2009 AG
9690 Radio Romania International Galbeni Romania 45444 English Program "Cultural Events Today" - Talk by YL 0428 UTC 1/29/2009 AG
9800 Deutsche Welle Trincomalee Sri Lanka 55444 English Report by YL on farmers plight in Greece 0323 UTC 1/29/2009 AG
11387 SSB Mumbai Volmet Mumbai India 45444 English Weather report by OM 0429 UTC 1/29/2009 AG
12759 SSB AFRTS Diego Garcia United States 45444 English NPR Programming, Talk by OM 0353 UTC 1/29/2009 AG
15250 CVC International Darwin Australia 35343 Mandarin Song by YL 0426 UTC 1/29/2009 AG
15320 Radio Taipei International (Taiwan) Paochung Taiwan 34333 English Report on Chinese people in Africa by YLSplatter from 15325 Chinese 0328 UTC 1/29/2009 AG
15600 Deutsche Welle Trincomalee Sri Lanka 45444 English Report on home schooling in Germany by YL 0425 UTC 1/29/2009 AG
15610 CVC International Tashkent Uzbekistan 35333 English Pop song by OM singer 0440 UTC 1/29/2009 AG
17820 CVC International Darwin Australia 35433 Indonesian Talk by OM 0427 UTC 1/29/2009 AG
Rx : ICOM R71
Ant : 40' E-W Longwire
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Madagascar leader to put radio station back on air
ANTANANARIVO, Madagascar (AP) - Madagascar's president made a conciliatory gesture Thursday, promising to put a radio station back on air after its closure sparked anti-government rioting that left at least 43 dead.
Read the AP story here :
http://tinyurl.com/albgcu
Listen to VOA Bangla Programs, Win Quiz Competition
VOA Bangla Service has announced a Quiz Competition. The questions for the quiz will be based on VOA Bangla broadcasts from February 1, 2009 to February 7, 2009 for both our morning and evening air shows. VOA Bangla Service will announce the questions in the second week of February and after that you will get another three weeks to send your answers to VOA Bangla Service. While VOA Bangla Service give you the questions, VOA Bangla Service will also let you know the address where you would be required to send your answers. Listen to VOA Bangla Service air shows during the first week of February every day and win prizes in the Quiz Competition. Best of luck for all.....
Mani Sankar
DX-ers` Association of Medinipur ( Via Bangladx yg)
Labels: VOA, VOA Bengali
VOA's Hausa Service celebrated its 30th Anniversary
Washington, D.C., January 29, 2009 - Voice of America's (VOA) Hausa Service celebrated its 30th anniversary today at the agency's Washington, D.C., headquarters.Nigeria's Minister of State, Information and Communications, Alhaji Ikra Bilbis, participated in the festivities and represented Nigeria's First Lady Hajia Turai Yar'Adua. On behalf of the First Lady, Minister Bilbis said: "We recognize and appreciate the vital role the VOA's Hausa Service plays as a vehicle of mobilization and development....We are also particularly thankful for the tremendous attention that the VOA Hausa Service gives to issues affecting women and children." Several other Nigerian dignitaries traveled to Washington for the event, joining diplomats from the embassies of Nigeria, the Niger Republic and Zambia. "Since the Hausa Service first went on the air in January of 1979," VOA Director Danforth Austin said, "it has been one of the most popular
international broadcasters in Africa-providing relevant news and information about Nigeria, the United States and the world." The day's activities included a presentation on The Role of International Radio in Promoting Democracy by Howard University's Dr. Bolaji Aluko, followed by a panel discussion. The celebration also featured a special performance by a local Nigerian cultural dance group. The VOA Hausa Service reaches over 20 million people on shortwave, medium wave and affiliate stations in Nigeria, Niger, Cameroon and Ghana. In Nigeria alone, VOA Hausa enjoys a weekly audience of over 47 percent. Its programs are also available on the Internet at www.VOANews.com/Hausa. The Voice of America, which first went on the air in 1942, is a multimedia international broadcasting service funded by the U.S. government through the Broadcasting Board of Governors. VOA broadcasts approximately 1,500 hours of news, information, educational, and cultural programming every week to an estimated worldwide audience of more than 134 million people. Programs are produced in 45 languages.
(VOA Press Release)
Labels: VOA
MV Baltic Radio is on this Sunday
On the 1st of February 2009
At 1300 UTC
On 6140 KHz
MV Baltic Radio is on the air from the transmitting station in Wertachtal Germany. We will be using a non-directional antenna system (Quadrant antenna).
Good Listening
73s Tom Taylor
Labels: MV Baltic Radio
Sri Lanka bans LTTE's FM radio
After cornering the LTTE to the thick jungles of Sri Lanka's north-east, the Government has banned the official radio of the rebels' -- Voice of Tigers -- two weeks after it proscribed the militant organisation. The Government on Monday banned the Voice of Tigers (VoT), the mouthpiece of LTTE, Director General of the Media Center for the National Security Lakshman Hulugalle said.
Full story at :
http://beta.hindustantimes.com/StoryPage/StoryPage.aspx?sectionName=NLetter&id=6485bf70-3440-4cc2-9054-1957c18c97e7&&Headline=Sri+Lanka+bans+LTTE's+FM+radio
More VOA broadcasting to Pakistan's north west frontier province
Washington, D.C., January 26, 2009 - Starting today, people in Pakistan's Northwest Frontier Province, as well as the rest of the country, can listen to a six-hour radio program of news and information in Pashto, Urdu and English on FM, AM, shortwave and the Internet. The trilingual program will feature news packages, talk shows and in-depth analysis of events in the United States and Pakistan. It will be broadcast across Pakistan, with a focus on the Pakistan-Afghanistan border, from 12 a.m. until 6 a.m. The format replaces an existing program that was exclusively on music. "This new program will give all Pakistanis, particularly those living in the remote region along the Afghan border, more opportunity to hear VOA's objective news coverage of what's happening in the world and in South Asia," said VOA Director Danforth Austin. VOA currently broadcasts six hours of radio news and information in Urdu daily to Pakistan, from 7 p.m.-12 a.m. and from 6 a.m.-7 a.m. VOA also broadcasts from 6 p.m.-12 p.m. to Pakistan in Pashto. In addition, VOA's Urdu Service produces a daily television show, Beyond the Headlines. Urdu and English are the official languages of Pakistan, a country with about 172 million people. But an estimated 40 million people in Pakistan speak Pashto, primarily those living near the Afghanistan border. VOA's broadcasting to Pakistan's Northwest Frontier Province can be found online at www.VOANews.com, www.urduvoa.com and www.VOANews.com/deewa.
BBC changes frequency for evening Bengali & English service
Wed, 28 Jan 2009
In order to avoid interferece the following changes made by the BBC recently
1330-1500 hrs Bengali on 7550(now replaces 7580) - SUN only
1600-1800 hrs WS in Engl on 7355 (now replaces 7270) - daily
(AlokDasgupta via http://dxasia.info/news/20090128 )
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Veteran broadcaster Ameen Sayani gets Padma Shri
January 26th, 2009 - 1:55 am ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Jan 26 (IANS) Veteran broadcaster Ameen Sayani, who has mesmerised old and young alike for decades with his golden voice, has been conferred with the Padma Shri in recognition of his contribution in the field of broadcasting.One of the most popular announcers of All India Radio (AIR), Sayani, 77, became a household name with his signature "behno aur bhaiyo" catchphrase in musical programmes like "Geetmala". Sayani has immensely contributed in the development of commercial broadcasting in India.
Full report at :
http://www.thaindian.com/newsportal/uncategorized/veteran-broadcaster-ameen-sayani-gets-padma-shri_100147062.html
BBC World Service South Asia staff to ballot on strike action
Oliver Luft
guardian.co.uk, Monday 26 January 2009 16.04 GMT
Staff working in the South Asian section of the BBC World Service are to ballot on possible strike action over redundancies and plans to relocate jobs and programme-making overseas.
Read the full story here :
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2009/jan/26/bbc-world-service-strike-ballot
Tune in to rural radio
Bhubaneswar, Jan. 18: Community radio stations, believed to be an important tool for social empowerment of marginalised people, are finally making inroads into rural Orissa.Bringing useful communication and radio programmes relevant to the community it serves, Koraput is ready with the first community radio station in the state. With a capacity to cover 15km radius on air, the station is being set up with the joint partnership of Unicef and Sova, a leading NGO in Orissa. The station at Chappar village, about 6km from the Koraput district headquarters, will be fully managed by the community and will cover about 51 villages, including Koraput town. The programmes will be designed by the community themselves and will be accessible to a population of about 1.5 lakh, said Sanjit Pattnaik, the secretary of Sova. At least 12 village youths, including five girls, have been trained as reporters, while one station manager has been appointed for it. "Their role will involve collection of news to be broadcast. Besides, we will also play programmes highlighting the culture and tradition of the area," said Pattnaik. "As of now, we will initially run recorded shows for trial base till we get final clearance from the government," he said, adding that the district collector was a part of the advisory committee. Programmes relating to development, government schemes, including NREGA, besides a host of
awareness and advocacy programmes will be its major contents.
http://www.telegraphindia.com/1090119/jsp/nation/story_10408775.jsp
VOA : Special extended b'cast on Presidential Inauguration
VOA will b'cast special live coverage of US Presidential Inauguration program on 20th January 2009. VOA is adding extra transmissions in addition to the regular b'cast on SW on 20th January (UTC) time as per the following schedule :
1700-1730 UTC 1575 7435 11500
English for South Asia:
1600-1800 UTC 5780 7590 9310
1630-1800 UTC 9580 11765
(Alok Dasgupta via http://dxasia.info/news/)
GBC IS ROTTEN
By Ras Mubarak
Read the story here :
http://www.modernghana.com/news/199103/1/gbc-is-rotten.html
Labels: GBC
Anti-Israel hackers attack Web site of Israeli radio station
By Barr Hayoun
Anti-Israeli hackers managed to take over the Web site of Radio 102
FM on Sunday. Clicking on one of the Website's tabs brings up a
message condemning the war in the Gaza Strip and calling for Israel's
destruction.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1056678.html
AFRTS planning worldwide TV, radio survey
By Kevin Dougherty, Stars and Stripes
While AFN-Europe continues with its online survey, its parent organization is planning a worldwide review for later this year that will help set the agenda for radio and TV programming well into the next decade.
http://www.stripes.com/article.asp?section=104&article=60112
Labels: AFRTS
Mid-day Manipuri bulletin on AIR Imphal from Jan 21
Source: Hueiyen News Service
Imphal, January 18 2009: STATE CHIEF Minister, O Ibobi will launch a five-minute mid-day Manipuri bulletin of the All India Radio Imphal on January 21 . Deputy Director (News), BB Sharma informed through a press release that this is the first of its kind among the All India Radio Stations in the North Eastern Region. The Chief Minister will also open three FM news headlines at 12 noon, 2 pm and 4 pm at the same function. Information Minister TN Haokip, Director General (News), All India Radio, Dr PK Bandyopadhyay, Deputy Director General (NER-II), AIR, C Lalrosanga will grace the launching ceremony as guests of honour. BB Sharma further informed that a five minute mid-day Manipuri bulletin has been a long standing demand of the people of Manipur during the last twenty years. It was mainly due to the timely initiative of the Chief Minister, Okram Ibobi that the outstanding demand of the people of Manipur would be fulfilled on the 37th Statehood Day. He further informed that an hour long launching ceremony of the mid-day bulletin from the AIR Imphal premises from 11 am to 12 noon will be broadcast live on the primary channel of the AIR Imphal.
http://www.e-pao.net/GP.asp?src=27..190109.jan09
Labels: All India Radio
The Roots of Radio Hobbyists
http://infoanvil.rticlz.com/2009/01/18/the-roots-of-radio-hobbyists/
Digitally speaking, radio is just on the verge of an explosion
http://www.exchange4media.com/e4m/Radio/RadioNews.asp?section_id=7&news_id=33695&tag=28656&pict=0
Labels: Radio
Kurukshetra '09
Kurukshetra '09, the annual international techno-management festival of the College of Engineering, Guindy, Anna University, Chennai, India, is here with a myriad of events to test your skills and showcase your talents in front of some of the brightest brains of the country. Do check out Fox Hunt - A transmitter finding event for the amateur radio enthusiast, this event is aimed at boosting the spirit of the age old radio techniques. One of the best kept secrets in Ham radio, Fox hunt is a fresh start to a new adventure. This SCIENTIFIC GAME helps every enthusiast to gain knowledge about radio direction finding, attenuation techniques and associated
concepts like direct signal and reflected signal detection, orientation etc. Visit the official site http://www.kurukshetra.org.in/ for more details.
ASBU elects new president
The Arab States Broadcasting Union (ASBU) elected a new president at the opening of its 28th General Assembly in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, today. The new president, who will serve a two-year term, is Riyadh Najm, Assistant Deputy Minister for Engineering Affairs with the Saudi Ministry of Culture and Information.
Read the full story here : http://tinyurl.com/7y7nbn
Radio channel by students
17 Jan 2009, 0807 hrs IST, TNN
TUMKUR: A Tumkur-based private educational institute, Shri Siddhartha Centre for Media Studies, has launched a community FM radio station on Friday. The trial run of the station will help radio journalism students to acquire skills as well as entertain locals. The station will cover 40 km and the frequency is 90.8 MHz. It will broadcast for a month, two hours daily from 6 pm to 8 pm.
http://tinyurl.com/7tsbja
Golden Jubilee of All India Radio HPT, Khampur & inauguration of DRM Service
Labels: All India Radio, DRM, Golden Jubilee, HPT Khampur
TWR Announces New International Director of Africa
CARY, NC, January 16, 2008–International Christian broadcaster Trans World Radio (TWR) officially announced today the selection of Dr. Emmanuel D. Mbennah as its new International Director for Africa. Hailing from Tanzania, Dr. Mbennah succeeds the Rev. Stephen Boakye-Yiadom, who passed away in June 2007. Mbennah will begin his new role on April 1. "Dr. Mbennah is eminently qualified to lead the ministry of TWR Africa, and we're excited to have him on board" says TWR President/CEO Lauren Libby. "He brings a tremendous blend of spiritual leadership and maturity as well as the strategic ability to develop mission." Prior to accepting his new position, Mbennah served as a Country Director for Compassion International in Tanzania. There he provided strategic leadership and management for program quality and impact. He also helped maintain a vital spiritual environment for the staff and ministry, and he served as a model child advocate for the Church, the nation and the Compassion organization. Mbennah's extensive academic resume includes a postgraduate degree in Biblical Studies. Dr. Mbennah holds a Ph.D. in Communications from Potchefstroom University in South Africa. He also earned a Master's in Communications from Wheaton College in Wheaton, Ill., as well as a B.A. in Communication Arts from Messiah College in Grantham, Penn. With more than 10 years of experience teaching and conducting research at a university level, Mbennah has published numerous articles for various scholarly publications. He currently serves as a member of the board of directors for Dodoma Christian Medical Center and Action for Children. Mbennah accepted the Lord Jesus Christ as his Savior on June 15, 1975, when he was 16 years old. He and his wife, Ruth, have four children.
(TWR Press Release)
Labels: Trans World Radio
Shortwave radio still packs an audible thrill
Wed Jan 14, 2009 3:29pm EST
By Robert MacMillan
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Somewhere on a lonely mountaintop on a starry night, or maybe in an apartment on a bustling city block, someone is channeling the whole world onto a mobile device. It's not a phone; it's a shortwave radio. A staple form of broadcasting in many parts of the world since the 1920s and 1930s -- shortwave in North America has been mostly a hobby for decades. Now that the Internet is a fixture in many homes in the United States and Canada, there are few practical reasons to buy a shortwave radio. Thousands of stations that once were available only on the shortwave band are online.
Read this interesting story here :
http://www.reuters.com/article/technologyNews/idUSTRE50D6JF20090114
Labels: Radio, Shortwave
II2RAI
The RAI Hamradio Team, to celebrate the 55th anniversary of the regular service of TV broadcasting in Italy, made by RAI in January 1954, will activate the special callsign II2RAI, from January 2009 to all June 2009. For the occasion a special QSL card will be printed and sent to any ham station who will connect II2RAI. For the qsl card will be considered valid any qso in any band and mode, except those made via repeater end Echolink.QSL card via IQ2RD.
QSL Info
QSL cards can be sent to us via Bureau or directly at our postal address:
Gruppo ARCAL Radioamatori Rai
c/o stanza 3602 - C.P. RF-TV RAI Milano
Corso Sempione, 27
Tel. +39-02-3199-3060
email: iq2rd@rai.it
web: http://www.iq2rd.it/
(Dario Monferini via playdx)
Labels: II2RAI
Radio still rules
14 January, 2009 - What was used five years ago for information is in use today for entertainment. This was one of the most significant changes in media trends, according to the draft media impact study (MIS) 2008, conducted by the centre for media and democracy. The most visible influences of media are in the language, dress, behaviour, thinking and culture. The study found that Bhutan Broadcasting Service (BBS) radio had the widest influence (33.8 percent), followed by BBS TV (29.5 percent) and Indian TV (22.3 percent). The study had 1191 respondents. Though most felt that media promoted Dzongkha after the election debates, the study also states that, "a significant development is the emergence of Dzonglish (a mixture of English and Dzongkha), particularly among the youth." The visual media's influence on dress, appearance, concept of beauty and behaviour (imitation of TV actors) are other impacts of the media. "The concept of beauty, with traditional notion of beauty being related to health and strength, is being replaced by the hour glass figure," says the study. Newspapers influenced decision makers, while Bhutanese broadcast media had the greatest influence on mass thinking. In terms of culture, Hindi music was replaced by rigsar and youth are taken in by the fast talking radio jockeys. One significant social change was that, today, Bhutanese have adjusted their lives around TV viewing for, in 2003, 64.5 percent said that TV viewing affected the time they have for work, while today it's only 16.3 percent. While media now are critical players in the political process of an emerging democracy, overall, it found that there is a lack of content for children. In terms of news preference, BBS radio tops as the main source for news. 49.4 percent respondents choose BBS radio, followed by BBS TV (37.6 percent) and Kuensel with 27.5 percent. Kuzoo FM is the main source of entertainment for 35.8 percent, followed by international TV, 21.7 percent and BBS TV 7.7 percent. Among other findings, the study states that, with foreign radio jockey (RJ) culture, the private radio's popularity has grown among youth and the rate of international radio listeners has dropped from 33.7 percent in 2003 to nine percent in 2008. After the launch of satellite TV in 2006, BBS overtook international channels, with its viewership increasing from 30 percent to 54 percent. The past five years also saw a drastic increase in the use of mobile phones, with more than 250,000 users, compared to 28,000 fixed line users. Yet, while the digital media became more popular, with eight percent of the respondents having access to Internet, 41.2 percent going to cinema, 44.8 percent watching TV for entertainment and 45.8 percent for news, the study found that newspapers were the least popular. Among the respondents, 34.6 percent read Kuensel, 21.7 percent Bhutan Times and 20.9 percent Bhutan Observer. Though Dzongkha was the most popular language for TV and radio, for newspapers, it was English. In terms of news coverage on developmental topics, good governance and culture were seen to be better covered than socio-economic and environmental issues. On content, however, people generally thought that youth were portrayed negatively, along with gender stereotypes, and the media was becoming more tabloidish, political and the nation's critic. They also saw a need to balance rural-urban stories and wanted more coverage on laws (marriage, citizenship, policies, NOC). BBS TV and radio enjoy more credibility than private radios and international TV. 29.5 percent believed in BBS TV as compared to 7.5 percent in international TV. In case of press, Bhutanese newspapers were more believable than the international papers.
14.1 percent said Kuensel was a more credible source of news, while 6.5 percent said Bhutan Observer and 6.2 percent said Bhutan Times. But the competition in the media has made people question accuracy, thus affecting the media's credibility, says the study. "Many note new sensationalism and degradation in content." Five districts representing the east (Trashigang), west (Thimphu), south (Sarpang, Chukha) and central (Bumthang) regions were covered during the survey. The survey sample includes 600 rural and 600 urban households.
By Sonam Pelden
spelden@kuensel.com.bt
http://www.kuenselonline.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=11813
EMR This Sunday with Radio Jackie Part 5
Time : 1300 - 1330 UTC, Channel : 6140 khz , Date : 18th of January 2009
Tom Taylor + The Radio Jackie History Part 5 with Colin King
EMR/ Internet repeat times
All programmes are also repeated via the EMR internet stream at:
www.emr.org.uk and click on the "EMR internet radio" button which you will
find throughout the website (see the menu on left). Today's programmes will
be repeated at the following time: 1700 - 2000 utc. The Radio Jackie book
can be bought from www.jackiebooks.com The price in the UK is £10 + postage
& packing.
A Happy New Year and Good Listening
Labels: EMR, Europen Music Radio
Waste of Public Money - BBC's Sinhala Service
Rajiv Peris
http://www.lankaweb.com/news/items09/130109-12.html
DRM meeting in London
The DRM Consortium will hold its upcoming DRM Steering Board meeting in Bush House (BBC World Services) London on January, 30th. The DRM Steering Board chaired by the DRM Consortium Chair, Mrs. Ruxandra Obreja, has a maximum of 18 DRM members representating the main stakeholders' groups in the consortium. The major role of the DRM Steering Board is to define the overall policy direction of the DRM activities. On the agenda of the January 30th meeting an important point will be to discuss the organisation of the General Assembly in March (Germany) as well as the latest technical and receiver developments of the last few months.
TDF - special DRM transmissions to Finland
This week TDF will perform special SW DRM test transmissions to Finland:
Coding parameters:
Mode : DRM
Cr = 0.6, bit rate # 21 kbits /sec
Audio encoding : AAC / SBR
Tx Power = 150 kW RMS
Wednesday 14 and Thursday 15 January 2009, from 08.00 to 16.00 UTC
*Frequency = 9725 kHz*
Antenna: 4/4 at 35°
Time: 08:00:30- 08.59 TU
Audio Program: Chinese
*Frequency = 11875 kHz*
Time: 09:00 -14.59 UTC
Audio Program: Chinese.
Time: 15.00-15.57 UTC
Friday 16 January, from 08.00 to 10.00 UTC
Antenna 4/4 at 35°
Time: 08:00:30- 08.59 UTC
TDF is interested in reports.
As AM signal fades, Europe moves hesitantly to digital radio
By Eric Pfanner
http://www.iht.com/articles/2009/01/11/business/radio.php
AIR 7 Mhz frequencies to be changed
The frequencies of AIR stations operating between 7105 & 7195 are proposed to be shifted to frequencies on the higher side of the 41 meter band (above 7200 kHz) from the A 2009 broadcasting period. More details will be available asap.
Jose Jacob, VU2JOS
National Institute of Amateur Radio
QSL from V51PP, Namibia
Last night there was an excellent opening towards Africa on 40m band, was listening to VU2PAI from Mangalore 1800 UTC onwards way past 1900. Heard around 35 qso's with stations from South Africa, Namibia, France, Poland, Germany, Japan, Oman & Russia.
Labels: V51PP
Mahabalipuram Eyeball Meet 2009
All are invited for the Great Eyeball meet at Mahabalipuram in this year 2009
VENUE : Hotel Veeras near Mahabalipuram Bus Stand
TIME : From 08;59 hrs on 14th February 2009 2nd Saturday)
FREQUENCY: 144.900Mc/s - Simplex Mode.
THIS MEET IS DEDICATED TO MV.CHAUHAN
M.A.HA.M was started by OM Vittal/Vu2VIT in 2003,in a small scale with the support of INAR/VU 2INA,APPAN/VU 2MPK and Anna /VU 2KBX,in order encourage poor HAMS & School Students to meet other HAMs of our Motherland,without spending much money.MAHAM is organized every year on 2nd Sturday & February. Mahabalipuram (also known as Mamallapuram) is a 7th Century Port city of South Indian dynasty of the Plaavas,around 60km south from the city of chennai in Tamilnadu.It is believed to have been named after the pallava King Maamalla. It has various historic monuments built largely between the 7TH and the 9th Century, and has been classified as a UNESCO world heritage site.For more info: URL:http;//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahabalipuram.
SALIENT FEATURES OF THIS MEET
1. Admission is FREE to all Amateurs & Shortwave Listeners.
2. Seniors,Prominent & successful HAMs are attending this Meet. Their Invaluable experience,Infectious Enthsiasm and Exemplary Skills will be useful to the participants.
3.At Mahabalipuram there are many Hotels serving delicious cuisines ranging from indian,Orient,Continental dishes.Hence,the organizers are NOT organizing any Food arrangements for the participants.Participants are encouraged to get together with their friends to decide on the food of their choice.
4. Participants are encouraged to bring their HAM materials for SALE or Exchange.A Small fee of Rs 100( one hundred only) will be collected from each seller for organizing appropriate Displays.
5. Those who are going to sell Brand New Products have to contribute Rs 1000 (one thousand only)
6. Om Lalith Diwakar/VU2LB from Bhavnagar is attending this year meet and brings lot of interesting HAM Materials for participants. He is available on Mobile 09427181973 please contact him of your requirement to bring to the meet.
7.Om Appan VU3MPK is intending to sell excellant RF Probes for Rs 100 oonly. These probes shall be useful for any Home Brewer His ll No 044-65254988
8. Om Sunder VU2VSD is selling High Quality (PIC) frequency counters and
Band pass filters to avoid TVI.
9. Vu2ARA om Arasu coming with SMPS Power supply 13.8v / 10A Mobile : 094429 07669
10. VU3STJ om Radha wants to sell Valve Linear consisting EL84, 807 2 Nos, VR150 -3Nos suitable for RM96 XCVR assembled by VU2SV Mobile no. 097910 34652
11. Room accomodation for night stay Please contact OM INAR VU2INA 09440 83804
12. For further information please contact OM Vittal VU2VIT 044-22240820 & Om Radha VU3STJ - 097910 34652 Those who wants to sell /Buy any Material please send to OM Anna vu2KBX by 31 st January 2009
It Is a great oppertunity for Chennai Hams to meet their Ham friends as it is very near to them.
Let us all wish the Great success for this event year after year
(Varadarajan G, VU2ITI via vuhams list)
Labels: Eyeball Meet, Mahabalipuram
Special offer from Medium Wave Circle 2009
Calling all Medium Wave listeners, DXers & enthusiasts
For 55 years the Medium Wave Circle has served Medium Wave listeners, DXers & enthusiasts and now we want to make you the best ever membership offer. Right now is the season for receiving long distance Medium Wave broadcast and utility signals. And we are in the sunspot minimum which is making long distance MW reception better than it has been for many, many years. So there is no better time than now to put on your listening ears and turn the dials. And of course join the premier club for radio enthusiasts interested in the medium waves, the Medium Wave Circle.As a member, you will receive Medium Wave News regularly and you will have use of the MWC e-news service. You will also be entitled to discounts each year on the World Radio TV Handbook and Passport to Worldband Radio and you can be among the first to receive these prestigious books. In fact things are even better since right now the Circle has a special membership offer that will save you money.To find out more about the Medium Wave Circle please visit www.mwcircle.org where you can find out more about the club and the benefits of membership.
To see a recent copy of Medium Wave News just click here: www.mwcircle.org/freemag.htm
Come join the Circle and make the most of your hobby
Steve Whitt
Editor Medium Wave News
P.S. If you are already a member you can extend your membership at the
special new rates saving money
P.P.S. Europe includes the EU, Scandinavia, all of Eastern Europe, Russia,
Ukraine, Baltic countries, and Turkey.
Labels: Medium Wave Circle 2009
More listening to the radio in tough economic times
Article from: Australian Associated Press
RADIO has once again proved itself to be the most resilient of the traditional media in tough economic times, recording steady advertising revenue in 2008, new figures show. This is despite a 7 per cent fall in ad revenue in radio's key market, Sydney. According to figures released by the industry body, Commercial Radio Australia (CRA), metropolitan commercial radio ad revenue fell by only 0.1 per cent in 2008, compared to 2007.
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,24891025-12377,00.html
BlueStar Radio this Sunday 6140 khz
Date 11th of January 2009
Time 1300 to 1400 UTC
Channel 6140 KHz
The transmissions of BlueStar Radio will be broadcast over the transmitting station Wertachtal in Germany. The transmitter power will be 100 000 Watts, and we will be using a non-directional antenna system (Quadrant antenna).
Labels: BlueStar Radio
Zimbabwe call-in show launched by VOA
Radio program serves listeners in English, Shona, and Ndebele
Washington, D.C., January 9, 2009 – The Voice of America's (VOA) Studio 7 today launched LiveTalk, a 30-minute weekly call-in radio show for Zimbabwe, offering people a forum to discuss the political, economic and social challenges facing the nation. "With LiveTalk, Zimbabweans have a chance to say what is on their mind and express themselves openly and freely," said Gwen Dillard, director of VOA's Africa Division. Brenda Moyo and Blessing Zulu, co-hosts, discussed the stalled power-sharing process between President Robert Mugabe and opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai, Zimbabwe's economic collapse, food shortages, the on-going cholera epidemic and other issues during the inaugural show. Among the callers were Vijana from South Africa, who said, "People are disappointed with the current leadership, including the regional leadership." Callers to LiveTalk, which airs Friday at 8:00 p.m. Zimbabwe time, are able to speak English, Shona or Ndebele, the three languages in which Studio 7 broadcasts. Started in 2003, Studio 7 broadcasts 90 minutes Monday-Thursday, and one hour on Saturday and Sunday, on shortwave, medium-wave and on the Internet at VOANews.com/english/Africa/Zimbabwe/programs.cfm. The program provides news and information about the latest developments in Zimbabwe, including details of the humanitarian crisis under way in the country. The World Food Program, for example, is providing assistance to 4.5 million Zimbabweans.
Labels: VOA, Voice of America
VOA Urdu service restores all SW frequencies
Fri, 09 Jan 2009
VOA Urdu Service has restored all SW frequencies effective 9th January after a gap of 9 days in parallel to 972 and 1539 kHz MW :
0100-0200 UTC on 9520 9820 kHz
(Alok Dasgupta via http://dxasia.info/news)
Labels: VOA Urdu, Voice of America
BBC World Service and WAMU debate Obama's Washington
In the run-up to the US Presidential Inauguration, BBC World Service and Washington DC's WAMU 88.5 have joined forces for a global debate about the challenges the next US administration will face. Obama's Washington And The World will be broadcast live at 13.00 EST (18.00 GMT) on Saturday 10 January 2009 from the American University's Washington College of Law. The programme will be broadcast to the BBC's audiences across the world. The panel includes Susan Eisenhower, consultant, author and expert on international security; Lawrence Mishel, Director of Economic Policy Institute in Washington DC; lobbyist Grover Norquist; Richard Perle, political advisor and lobbyist; and Democratic Congresswoman Maxine
Waters. The debate will cover issues such as how the current financial crisis, as well as the events in Gaza and the wider Middle East, will affect the next US presidency, and whether Obama will be able to keep his campaign-trail promises to shut down the Guantanamo Bay prison and get the US troops out of Iraq. The panel will be fielding questions from a live audience as well as those submitted by BBC listeners around the world via bbcworldservice.com/news. The programmes's co-presenters – WAMU's Kojo Nnamdi and BBC World Service's Owen Bennett-Jones – say they are looking forward to a dynamic discussion about what's in store for the new president at home and on the world stage in the months and years to come. Owen Bennett-Jones says: "It's a very exciting time to be in Washington, and I'm looking forward to hearing the questions our live audience are going to put to such a distinguished panel of guests." Kojo Nnamdi adds: "Every day, our show's mission is to connect issues important to our Washington community to issues throughout the world. I see this joint BBC-WAMU event as a wonderful opportunity to connect the world to Washington – and a truly unique way to celebrate this historic Inaugural."
WAMU 88.5, American University's radio station since 1961, is the leading public radio station for NPR news and information in the greater Washington, D.C., area. WAMU broadcasts three HD channels – the flagship frequency at 88.5-1;WAMU's Bluegrass Country, a bluegrass and Americana station, at WAMU 88.5-2; and WAMU-3, a news and information station focused on
international coverage from the BBC and public radio programmes unavailable elsewhere in the Washington, D.C., metropolitan area.
Kojo Nnamdi just celebrated his 10th year as host of The Kojo Nnamdi Show, a two-hour daily current affairs live talk show connecting the Washington community and its concerns to issues worldwide.
(BBC World Service Publicity)
Taiwan to issue new radio licences
Taiwan's National Communications Commission (NCC) is scheduled to hold its first hearing today on the release of new radio licences, Taipei Times reports.They will be the first broadcasting licences to be issued since 2000.
http://tinyurl.com/7cz6s9
Labels: Radio, Taiwan
India Radio Forum 2009
IRF 2009 will be held on Friday, May 29th, 2009. More information on speakers and sessions will be announced in February. Do visit IRF website at www.indiaradioforum.com for more information and for sponsorship opportunities. Another highlight of the forum is, the Indian Excellence in Radio Awards 2009 (ERA). Submission of awards entries opens on 16th February, 2009. Categories up for grabs will be posted on the website in February.
Labels: India Radio Forum 2009
RTI Minhsiung Streaming Video
For a brief look at the historical, but current RTI Minhsiung TXer site & more about Radio Taiwan International please go to the following webpage:
http://rti.im.tv/english/VideoList.asp?FID=4581617&PAGE=3&next5=0
Unfortunately the entire video is in Mandarin (and my limited Mandarin isn't enough for translation), but it should be of interest to our group members. Perhaps some of our Mandarin speaking members can translate some of the some interesting & relevant parts of the video.
(Ian Baxter via shortwavesites.....)
Labels: Radio Taiwan International
AIR Khampur : DRM inauguration
After a series of tests & trials for last 2 years DRM facility at All India Radio, Khampur transmitter site will be officially inaugrated on 16th Jan (Fri) by CEO, Prasar Bharati. As per sources two more SW txers each at Khampur & Aligarh will be converted for DRM Transmission very soon.
AIR looking for reception reports for DRM Test to UK/Europe
All Indian Radio is looking for reception reports for DRM test transmission towards UK & West Europe :
Frequency: 9950 kHz
Service : GOS-IV/ HINDI/GOS-V
Time : 1745 - 2230 UTC (2315-0400 IST)
Target/ Coverage Area : UK & WEST EUROPE
POWER: 50 kW (7dB below the original analog power)
MODE: B
QAM: 64
INTERLEAVE: L
PROTECTION RATIO: 0.6
Reception reports to: spectrum-manager@air.org.in
and v_baleja@hotmail.com
Labels: All India Radio, DRM
Sirius XM rolls out MiRGE satellite radio
http://www.slipperybrick.com/2009/01/sirius-xm-rolls-out-mirge-satellite-radio/
EDXC Conference 2009 in Ireland
Dear DX-Friends, Shortwave Listeners all over the World !
The EDXC ( European DX Council, the umbrella organisation of shortwave clubs, DX-clubs in Europe ) cordially invites you all to the next EDXC Conference, August 28-30, 2009, in Dublin / Ireland. We kindly ask you to make your hotel reservations already NOW !
Venue of the Conference : Grand Canal Hotel, Grand Canal Street, Ballsbridge, Dublin 4, Ireland.
Phone : + 353 1 646 1000 . Fax: + 353 1 646 1001.
E-Mail: reservations@grandcanalhotel.com.
Home-page: www.grandcanalhotel.com
Please observe: This is a 3 / three / star hotel. Prices: Single-room EUR 115,- / room and night, Double-room EUR 115,-/room and night. If sharing the Double-room you only pay EUR 57,50 per person.This hotel accepts the following credit cards: VISA, MASTER CARD, AMERICAN EXPRESS and DINERS CARD.PLEASE MAKE YOUR OWN RESERVATION NOW !
First you write: The special password for this reservation: EDXC CONFERENCE 2009.
Then you write your family name, your christian name, your arrival date at the hotel, your departure date from the hotel. The hotel needs your credit card number at the time of reservation to be able to confirm your room.The Irish DX Club, Edward Dunne and the EDXC, Tibor Szilagyi are working on the programme of the Conference. What we know now : There will be interesting lectures about our hobby, sightseeing tour in Dublin by bus with English speaking guide and a visit at the Ye Olde Hurdy-Gurdy Museum of Vintage Radio in Howth, Dublin North. The traditional Banquet Dinner will take place at our Conference Hotel on Saturday evening, August 29. Please do allow me to come back to you with more detailed information about the programme, as soon as we know more about it. THE CONFERENCE FEE YOU WILL PAY DIRECTLY TO ME (Tibor Szilagyi) UPON ARRIVAL. The Conference Fee: EUR 115,- per person includes: Use of the Conference Room, relevant papers like Conference Covers, Name-Tags, Lunch on Saturday, Sightseeing Tour in Dublin, visit at the Museum of Vintage Radio. Furthermore the Conference Fee includes the Banquet Dinner. What you consume as drinks during the Banquet Dinner, you will pay extra to the hotel staff.
For further information you may contact: Tibor Szilagyi, Sweden.
Phone: +46 8 500 264 83 .
E - Mail: tiszi2035@yahoo.com
and Edward Dunne, Ireland: E-Mail : edunne@iol.ie
edxc2009@live.ie
http://edxcnews.wordpress.com/2009/01/08/edxc-conference-2009-in-ireland/
Labels: EDXC Conference 2009
Urdu university educational programmes on AIR
Indo-Asian News Service
Hyderabad, January 08, 2009
The Maulana Azad National Urdu University (MANUU) will now offer distance education programmes for its students over state owned All India Radio (AIR). The directorate of distance education of the university Tuesday entered into a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with AIR in this regard. To start with, a half-an-hour long programme will be broadcast every Sunday at 5 p.m. by 31 AIR stations in seven states - Andhra Pradesh, Bihar, Jammu and Kashmir, Karnataka , Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh and Maharashtra. "The programme will go on air Jan 9, which is the foundation day of MANUU," university vice-chancellor A.M. Pathan told a news conference after signing the MoU with P.S. Gopalakrishna, station director, AIR, Hyderabad. The vice-chancellor said the duration of the programme would be increased depending on the response from the students. Last year, the university had launched its educational programmes on Doordarshan Urdu channel. "We started with the telecast of one programme a week but the number of programmes per week has gone up to four following the tremendous response it received from students," he said.
http://tinyurl.com/7cze6n
World's first Internet car radio unveiled
http://spoonfeedin.blogspot.com/2009/01/tech-worlds-first-internet-car-radio.html
2009 edition of the ENDBH & NANDBH handbooks and CDs
The 2009 edition of the ENDBH & NANDBH handbooks and CDs is now available. The new NDBH 2009 contains the data of more than 6300 NDBs on 160+ spiral-bound pages in A4 format and the NANDBH 2009 shows the data of more than 5800 NDBs on 130+ pages. The 2009 version of the CD introduces an additional chapter with NDB data sorted per bearing and direction. The Google Earth compatible NDB waypoint file has been updated with the latest NDB coordinates so that you can "visit" NDB locations around the globe. The multimedia contents of the CD version have been expanded to a total of more than 160 NDB pictures and more than 190 NDB sound clips from around the world. In case you're interested in ordering a handbook or CD for other parts of the world please don't hesitate to ask, I'm able to produce customized versions for your special needs. Delivery of the CDs will be via download. In case you still want a physical copy of the CD please indicate this when ordering. Prices in Euro remained stable once again and foreign currency priceshave been adjusted when necessary. When using PayPal for payment please add €1 / £1 / US-$2 to cover PayPal fees. Please find all relevant details under the 2009 info package URL below. Once again I'd like to take this opportunity to say many thanks to all DXers who have sent me comments and updates, suggested improvements, pointed out errors, or provided NDB pictures and sound clips etc. As always your support is very much appreciated and an invaluable help and encouragement for me!
vy 73 + gd DX,
http://www.4shared.com/file/79454639/44c8035b/2009_ndb_info_package.html
http://tinyurl.com/88okum
Labels: ENDBH NANDBH handbooks
Hamfest India 2009 - Events through Year 2009
The Organising Committee of Hamfest India 2009 and BARC Golden Jubilee Year, is happy to announce that it has finalised the following events to be conducted through the year 2009. The events will be conducted and coordinated by the Organising Committee Members.
Day Fox Hunt in Bangalore
Sat - Sun, 23 and 24 May 2009
HF Contest - Phone/CW
Sat - Sun, 27 and 28 June 2009
Field Day at Nandi Hills
Quiz on the Air - Activity in Schools
Sat - Sun, 15 and 16 August 2009
International Lighthouse & Lightship Weekend - Mangalore / Cochin
Sunday, 20 Sep 2009
Family Field Day
Sat - Sun, 3 and 4 Oct 2009
VHF Contest
The entry fee for the events, rules & regulations for the contests, etc, will be announced at least one month prior to each of the events. The Winners and participants in these events will be awarded and recognised respectively during Hamfest India 2009 on 7 - 8 November 2009.
Note: We request all Clubs and Societies to make note of the above dates and avoid scheduling any special event/s of the Club/Society coinciding with the same.
73, Ramesh Kumar - VU2LU
Official Correspondent
Organising Committee - HFI 2009
Labels: HAMFEST INDIA 2009
Winter SWL Fest registration form now available
It's just 66 days until the Winter SWL Festival comes to the Philadelphia region; we've been privileged to have several ODXA members join us for the Fest in years past, and we hope ODXA members will again help the US balance of trade by spending some foreign currency in the USA for a change. The registration form can be downloaded from the Fest website,
http://swlfest.com
Hope you can join us!
Richard Cuff / co-chair
Richard Cuff / Allentown, PA USA
Via ODXA yg
Labels: Winter SWL Festival
Vatican Radio changes morning frequency
Tue, 06 Jan 2009
Due to unavoidable circumstances Vatican Radio ceases its broadcast from Russia at 0200-0320 hrs on 12070 kHz to South Asia in Hindi,Tamil, Malayalam, English and moved on to 9545 kHz from Santa Maria station at the same time.
( Alok Dasgupta Via http://dxasia.info/news)
Labels: Vatican Radio
Art of Radio Hawaii Competition
To celebrate Hawaii's 50 years of statehood in 2009, the Radio Heritage Foundation [www.radioheritage.net] is running a new competition open worldwide. It's on-line exhibition 'Art of Radio Hawaii' features great art work of letterheads and logos from Hawaiian AM radio stations since the 1930's, and is already amongst the most popular content at www.radioheritage.net. To enter the competition, simply visit the 'Art of Radio Hawaii' exhibition before February 14 2009, and send an email to info@radioheritage.net headed 'Art of Radio Hawaii Competition' with the answer to this question:
What is the callsign of the Hawaiian AM radio station that began broadcasts in 1957 from the Kaiser Hawaiian Village Hotel in Waikiki?
You'll see the art work for this station logo in the exhibition, along with many others in a nostalgic tour of the island state's radio dial.
The prize is a brand new copy of the 2009 World Radio TV Handbook that also contains a full list of all 32 AM and 57 FM radio stations on air in Hawaii today. It also includes many website details, so you can listen in to your favorite Hawaiian radio stations wherever you live in the world!
Judges decision is final and no correspondence will be entered into. Entries are only by email and must be received by February 14 2009. As a condition of entry, your email address will be added to a mailing list to receive newsletters and other mailings from the Radio Heritage Foundation. The Radio Heritage Foundation is a registered non-profit organization that connects radio heritage and popular culture across the Pacific. It's volunteer based and welcomes donations of time, skills, memorabilia and funds to continue its projects.
Website: www.radioheritage.net. Email: info@radioheritage.net. To be removed from this list email 'remove me' to info@radioheritage.net. However, we hope you'll enjoy hearing from us from time to time, and our special offers and competitions celebrating radio heritage across the Pacific.
Labels: Art of Radio Hawaii Competition
International Radio Forum 2009, Iran, 18-20 May 2009
http://www.radioforum.ir/
In its inaugural year, the International Radio Forum brought together leading radio media practitioners, media specialists, policy makers and academics from across the Middle East and other parts of the world. Eminent speakers from all radio broadcasting industry shared their experiences and their vision for the future of this medium. Most of them underscored the need for radio to reinvent itself and reposition itself in the evolving multimedia environment. The theme selected for the International Radio Forum 2009 responds exactly to this requirement. The era of diverse multimedia platforms being available for delivery of content is already with us. Several of these new platforms cab gainfully be used for delivery of radio programming. While this multimedia environment creates new competition for radio broadcasters, more importantly, it provides them with exciting possibilities for creating new genres of content and delivering their programming in many new ways. As a medium of communication, radio has immediate access to mass audiences. Being a cost efficient mass medium, it lends itself best to low cost at the production end as well as at the receiving end. Together with the ease with which radio services can be received, it is not surprising that radio has found itself deeply involved in dissemination of developmental communication. Considering that in many developing countries radio may still be the only affordable medium of mass communication with access to target population, the role of radio broadcasting is to provide a powerful tool for flow of modern ideas. Developmental communication is about human development and the quality of human life. Developmental communication is a means of binding individuals into a society by the use of shared language and aspirations, common interests and objectives. Coupled with economic growth, social dimensions like education, health and ecological considerations are important factors for development. In particular, developmental communication focuses on the disadvantaged and deprived groups. Radio is a medium that is aptly used to encourage positive individual attitude to development and constructive social change. Radio can, in a more effective manner, carry interesting, entertaining and valuable information into the homes and lives of millions of listeners, through imaginatively conceived lessons, music, dramas and documentaries that engage listeners' emotions and thought-process towards life improvement. Creation of content (programming) for developmental communication is a major challenge for radio programmers. An innovative approach rooted in the cultural ethos of the target audience and making use of modern metaphor and content creation tools is the key to developmental communication programming. Devising appropriate formats for developmental communication is
of vital importance. What is also important is that these formats and content need to be location specific, language specific, borrowing heavily on local mannerisms, nuances and traditions. Delivering developmental communication to audiences is one of the important roles that radio has been playing over the last one century. Across the region, many families continue to be at disadvantage on social, economic and developmental opportunities. The such medium of radio has been, and continues to be utilised to impart gainful information to such audiences designed to enable them to work towards their empowerment through awareness-generation, confidence-building, employment, economic independence, education, training, health, nutrition, welfare services and legal safeguards. Radio will have to continue to play this role in the society effectively. And for this purpose, the new delivery opportunities can be harnessed.
Public Service Broadcasters continue to play a pivotal role in broadcasting. While the PSBs may not always produce the most popular content, they do try to reach a wide and broad segment of the population. Demands to stay competitive, relevant and current mean that PSBs have to find unique new ways to attract and retain listeners. With technology playing an increasingly important role in reaching audiences, PSBs have embraced technology and used it to advantage. This second edition of the International Radio Forum is an effort to focus on all the aspects of radio in the traditional and emerging markets in West Asia and North Africa. Given the mix of public service and commercial radio broadcasters operating in this region, the conference takes up issues which concern both the public values and the commercial world. The Forum takes place alongside the 10th International Radio Festival of Iran 18-20 May 2009) in Tehran.
P.O.Box : 19395-3778 Tel : (+9821) 22168048
Fax : (+9821) 22168048 E-mail :IRF@irib.ir
Labels: International Radio Forum, Iran
JSWC QSL 2009
Japan SW Club is issuing a new QSL card for 2009, the Year of the Ox.
All correct reports to the Asian DX news segment in HCJB DX Partyline (every 4th Saturday) and AWR's Wavescan (the first Sunday of the month) will be verified by this new "Year of the Ox" QSL Card.
Send your reports to JSWC c/o T. Ohake, 5-31-6 Tamanawa, Kamakura 247- 0071,
Japan. Please enclose 1 IRC. (No more US one dollar bill, which does not
cover an airmail stamp.)"
Labels: JSWC 2009 QSL Card
Broadcasting station attacked by armed gang in Sri Lanka
Submitted by Sahil Nagpal on Tue, 01/06/2009 - 02:36.
Colombo - A private radio and television station on the outskirts of Sri Lanka's capital has been attacked by an armed gang that inflicted extensive damage to the studio complex and interrupted its broadcasts, a spokesman for the station said Tuesday.
http://www.topnews.in/broadcasting-station-attacked-armed-gang-sri-lanka-2105277
Spanish-language radio stations refocus their missions
By MELISSA SÁNCHEZ
Yakima Herald-Republic
Read the complete story here :
http://tinyurl.com/82zwz2
Bangladesh 4750 kHz is off
As I wondered whether Bangladesh 4750 kHz inaudible from Kolkata, India was a propagation hiccup, I got a prompt reply from the station which puts the controversy to rest.
"Senior Engineer, RRC,BB, Dhaka" to Supratik
Dear Dr Supratik Sanatani
At present 4750KHz is in trouble. There is no other SW transmission for HS. Please try to reach 693 KHz MW.
Supratik Sanatani
Labels: 4750 kHz, Bangladesh Betar
DX Report From GK
Here is some latest radio monitoring observations ...............
R.Japan NHK World in Bengali,Hindi & Urdu:::
After several days rather weeks of poor to barely audible signal , on saturday i.e. January ,2009, I heard loud & clear signal of Radio Japan's Bengali,Hindi & Urdu Transmission on 15215kHz from 1322UTC onwards (my monitoring starting time).But on sunday i.e.January 4th, there was very poor signal signal on 15215kHz from 1300UTC onwards. I checked around 1421UTC during the time of Hindi Transmission, the signal was poor with slight noise.
VO Turkey English on 11735kHz from 1330UTC onwards:
There has been poor spell of reception with poor to barely audible signal for past several days rather weeks. On saturday i.e. Janaury 3rd, there was loud & clear signal during almost entire transmission period. I recorded a moments of audio of that transmission also.But on on sunday i.e.January 4th, there was poor signal again.
SARL's DX Programme for HAM Operators etc on 17860kHz on Janaury 4th:
Now-a-days, on every sunday, I'm getting good signal of this transmission via Sentech Relay from South Africa on 17860kHz during 0800-0900UTC. I recorded a few moments of audio of this programme on January 4th.
Voice of Mongolia English on 12085kHz during 1030-1056UTC:
The reception of this transmission is also improving day by day after a long spell of poor reception here due to very weak signal etc. On January 4th, sunday, I heard initial a few minutes of its transmission with fair signal.
AWR Transmission.....
The spell of poor reception of AWR transmission is still going on here in my place.Nothing to add further as I mentioned you in detail in my earlier e-mail.
KBS World English:::
I heard KBS World English a few days back on 7275kHz during 1800-1900UTC with slight QRM from nearby stations plus with fair to poor signal.I think best option will be to listen to 2200-2230UTC trax on 3955kHz via UK Relay for QSLings etc.This transmission is reliable.
Radio Taiwan International -English:
RTI-English is still not audible properly (poor signal often & sometime initial fair signal fades away later ,also noise is there) on 9785kHz (via France Relay) & not audible at all on 11550kHz now-a-days during 1600-1700UTC.
That's all for this report. Thanks for reading it.
More DX reports etc soon.
Gautam Kumar Sharma(GK)
Abhayapuri
Geographical Location of Reception Place(Abhayapuri)
Longitude:26º18´20´´North
Latitude:90º37´50´´East
Receiver:Grundig YB400 (Digital)
Antenna:Long Wire
Labels: DX Tips, Gautam Sharma
Hamfair 2009 at Kollam
Ham Fair 2009 will be conducted on a house boat on April 19, 2009 at Kollam, Kerala by Quilon Amateur Radio League. A Fox Hunt Event will also be held at Kannur. For details please contact : VU2KGN - vu2kgn@yahoo.com
(Thanks to VU2YNS)
Labels: Ham Fair 2009 Kollam
AIR frozen in time warp
Mahesh Joshi
EVEN THOUGH it has about two months passed for Deepawali festival, it seems that All India Radio (AIR) still has not come out of from the mood of festive season. When new celebrations were going on, AIR relayed a program telling importance of Deepawali and pollution control measures on first day of 2009 across the state. However, after this incident AIR is also shocked and said that they will look into the matter.
http://www.merinews.com/catFull.jsp?articleID=154897
VOA Urdu service dropped SW frequencies
from DXAsia News
Effective 31st December 2008 VOA Urdu service has dropped all SW services to South Asia at 0100-0200 (9520 9820 kHz) and 1400-1500 (7440 9390 kHz) hrs. Only MW 972 and 1539 kHz are available at 1400-0200 hrs. There are many listeners in India and Bangladesh who are listening to this Urdu service on SW and many more especially after the closure of VOA Hindi service.
(Alok Dasgupta via http://dxasia.info/news/ )
Labels: VOA Urdu
Broadcast Matters: Long, Medium and Short January 2009
http://dxinternational.blogspot.com/2009/01/broadcast-matters-long-medium-and-short.html
SWR-January 2009 transmission
Dear listeners ,
Scandinavian Weekend Radio's January 2009 transmission started 22 hours UTC on 1602, 6170/5980 and 11720/11690 kHz. Check our time and frequency tables from http://www.swradio.net . Lot of more information there as well. +358 400 995559 call or send your SMS's info(at)swradio.net send your e-mails here. Letters and reports for QSL's (add 2 euros/2 IRC's) write to:
SWR reports
FI-34801 VIRRAT
Alpo Heinonen
Scandinavian Weekend Radio
Greeting waves in the air
http://retailigence.wordpress.com/2009/01/02/greeting-waves-in-the-air/
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Filmed: Late September 2017
Location: Hotel room, London, England
Broadcast: Monday 2 October 2017, ITV1, UK
Release status: Unreleased
Shown in: UK
Benny was interviewed by entertainment correspondent Ross King in a lively exchange where they discussed his album Piano, ABBA, the ABBA catagloue of songs, the holograms project - where he said that they would look like they did around 1979/1980 - and Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again. Benny confirmed he would be in the film and that he hadn't intended to get involved with the music but couldn't help himself!
LK Today (Benny & Björn, 2008;
Lorraine (Benny), 2017;
YouTube link c/o Lorraine
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Dreams not realized for Duke players following Elite Eight loss
By Mark Armstrong
WASHINGTON (WTVD) -- No one was more visibly distraught after the game than Tre Jones. Playing for his mother, who's currently battling breast cancer. Playing for a spot in the Final Four in his hometown. Playing for a dream come true.
The NCAA tournament is ruthless that way. Other dreams being realized means someone else's have to be squashed. Duke and Tre were on the wrong end of that Sunday in Washington.
RELATED: Michigan State takes down Duke 68-67, advances to Final Four
It'll be easy for many to dismiss this Duke team as a failure having come up short of the Final Four. The ridiculous recruiting class, that first game demolition of Kentucky and the ascension of Zion made for some weighty expectations. Those weren't fulfilled, but this group was very proud of what they'd accomplished.
Anyone of the mindset that one and done freshman superstars are some sort of mercenary force in college hoops needed only to be in Duke's locker room Sunday night. The sad, exhausted faces told a story of investment, of a shared fight, and yes, of brotherhood.
Duke gave all credit to Michigan State as the better team on this night. It'll be a whole new group next year.
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Recursive Make Considered Harmful
Programming Topics + Overload Journal #71 - Feb 2006 Author: Peter Miller
For large UNIX projects, the traditional method of building the project is to use recursive make. On some projects, this results in build times which are unacceptably large, when all you want to do is change one file. In examining the source of the overly long build times, it became evident that a number of apparently unrelated problems combine to produce the delay,but on analysis all have the same root cause.
This paper explores a number of problems regarding the use of recursive make, and shows that they are all symptoms of the same problem. Symptoms that the UNIX community have long accepted as a fact of life, but which need not be endured any longer. These problems include recursive makes which take “forever” to work out that they need to do nothing, recursive makes which do too much, or too little, recursive makes which are overly sensitive to changes in the source code and require constant Makefile intervention to keep them working.
The resolution of these problems can be found by looking at what make does, from first principles, and then analyzing the effects of introducing recursive make to this activity. The analysis shows that the problem stems from the artificial partitioning of the build into separate subsets. This, in turn, leads to the symptoms described. To avoid the symptoms, it is only necessary to avoid the separation; to use a single make session to build the whole project, which is not quite the same as a single Makefile.
This conclusion runs counter to much accumulated folk wisdom in building large projects on UNIX. Some of the main objections raised by this folk wisdom are examined and shown to be unfounded. The results of actual use are far more encouraging, with routine development performance improvements significantly faster than intuition may indicate, and without the intuitvely expected compromise of modularity. The use of a whole project make is not as difficult to put into practice as it may at first appear.
For large UNIX software development projects, the traditional methods of building the project use what has come to be known as “recursive make.” This refers to the use of a hierarchy of directories containing source files for the modules which make up the project, where each of the sub-directories contains a Makefile which describes the rules and instructions for the make program. The complete project build is done by arranging for the top-level Makefile to change directory into each of the sub-directories and recursively invoke make.
This paper explores some significant problems encountered when developing software projects using the recursive make technique. A simple solution is offered, and some of the implications of that solution are explored.
Recursive make results in a directory tree which looks something like figure 1. This hierarchy of modules can be nested arbitrarily deep. Real-world projects often use two- and three-level structures.
This paper assumes that the reader is familiar with developing software on UNIX, with the make program, and with the issues of C programming and include file dependencies.
This paper assumes that you have installed GNU Make on your system and are moderately familiar with its features. Some features of make described below may not be available if you are using the limited version supplied by your vendor.
There are numerous problems with recursive make, and they are usually observed daily in practice. Some of these problems include:
It is very hard to get the order of the recursion into the subdirectories correct. This order is very unstable and frequently needs to be manually ‘‘tweaked.’’ Increasing the number of directories, or increasing the depth in the directory tree, cause this order to be increasingly unstable.
It is often necessary to do more than one pass over the subdirectories to build the whole system. This, naturally, leads to extended build times.
Because the builds take so long, some dependency information is omitted, otherwise development builds take unreasonable lengths of time, and the developers are unproductive. This usually leads to things not being updated when they need to be, requiring frequent “clean” builds from scratch, to ensure everything has actually been built.
Because inter-directory dependencies are either omitted or too hard to express, the Makefiles are often written to build too much to ensure that nothing is left out.
The inaccuracy of the dependencies, or the simple lack of dependencies, can result in a product which is incapable of building cleanly, requiring the build process to be carefully watched by a human.
Related to the above, some projects are incapable of taking advantage of various “parallel make” impementations, because the build does patently silly things.
Not all projects experience all of these problems. Those that do experience the problems may do so intermittently, and dismiss the problems as unexplained “one off” quirks. This paper attempts to bring together a range of symptoms observed over long practice, and presents a systematic analysis and solution.
It must be emphasized that this paper does not suggest that make itself is the problem. This paper is working from the premise that make does not have a bug, that make does not have a design flaw. The problem is not in make at all, but rather in the input given to make – the way make is being used.
Before it is possible to address these seemingly unrelated problems, it is first necessary to understand what make does and how it does it. It is then possible to look at the effects recursive make has on how make behaves.
Whole Project Make
make is an expert system. You give it a set of rules for how to construct things, and a target to be constructed. The rules can be decomposed into pair-wise ordered dependencies between files. make takes the rules and determines how to build the given target. Once it has determined how to construct the target, it proceeds to do so.
make determines how to build the target by constructing a directed acyclic graph, the DAG familiar to many Computer Science students. The vertices of this graph are the files in the system, the edges of this graph are the inter-file dependencies. The edges of the graph are directed because the pair-wise dependencies are ordered; resulting in an acyclic graph – things which look like loops are resolved by the direction of the edges.
This paper will use a small example project for its analysis. While the number of files in this example is small, there is sufficient complexity to demonstrate all of the above recursive make problems. First, however, the project is presented in a non-recursive form (figure 2).
The Makefile in this small project looks like this:
OBJ = main.o parse.o
prog: $(OBJ)
$(CC) -o $@ $(OBJ)
main.o: main.c parse.h
$(CC) -c main.c
parse.o: parse.c parse.h
$(CC) -c parse.c
Some of the implicit rules of make are presented here explicitly, to assist the reader in converting the Makefile into its equivalent DAG.
The above Makefile can be drawn as a DAG in the form shown in figure 3.
This is an acyclic graph because of the arrows which express the ordering of the relationship between the files. If there was a circular dependency according to the arrows, it would be an error.
Note that the object files (.o) are dependent on the include files (.h) even though it is the source files (.c) which do the including. This is because if an include file changes, it is the object files which are out-of-date, not the source files.
The second part of what make does it to perform a postorder traversal of the DAG. That is, the dependencies are visited first. The actual order of traversal is undefined, but most make implementations work down the graph from left to right for edges below the same vertex, and most projects implicitly rely on this behaviour. The last-time-modified of each file is examined, and higher files are determined to be out-of-date if any of the lower files on which they depend are younger. Where a file is determined to be out-of-date, the action associated with the relevant graph edge is performed (in the above example, a compile or a link).
The use of recursive make affects both phases of the operation of make: it causes make to construct an inaccurate DAG, and it forces make to traverse the DAG in an inappropriate order.
Recursive Make
To examine the effects of recursive makes, the above example will be artificially segmented into two modules,each with its own Makefile, and a top-level
Makefile used to invoke each of the module Makefiles.
This example is intentionally artificial, and thoroughly so. Makefile However, all “modularity” of all projects is artificial, to some extent. Consider: for many projects, the linker flattens it allo ut again, right at the end. The directory structure is as shown in figure 4.
The top-level Makefile often looks a lot like a shell script:
MODULES = ant bee
for dir in $(MODULES); do \
(cd $$dir; ${MAKE} all); \
The ant/Makefile looks like this:
all: main.o
main.o: main.c ../bee/parse.h
$(CC) -I../bee -c main.c
and the equivalent DAG looks like figure 5.
The bee/Makefile looks like this:
OBJ = ../ant/main.o parse.o
all: prog
Take a close look at the DAGs. Notice how neither is complete – there are vertices and edges (files and dependencies) missing from both DAGs. When the entire build is done from the top level, everything will work.
But what happens when small changes occur? For example, what would happen if the parse.c and parse.h files were generated from a parse.y yacc grammar? This would add the following lines to the bee/Makefile:
parse.c parse.h: parse.y
$(YACC) -d parse.y
mv y.tab.c parse.c
mv y.tab.h parse.h
And the equivalent DAG changes to look like figure 7.
This change has a simple effect: if parse.y is edited, main.o will not be constructed correctly. This is because the DAG for ant knows about only some of the dependencies of main.o,and the DAG for bee knows none of them.
To understand why this happens, it is necessary to look at the actions make will take from the top level. Assume that the project is in a self-consistent state. Now edit parse.y in such a way that the generated parse.h file will have non-trivial differences. However, when the top-level make is invoked, first ant and then bee is visited. But ant/main.o is not recompiled, because bee/parse.h has not yet been regenerated and thus does not yet indicate that main.o is out-of-date. It is not until bee is visited by the recursive make that parse.c and parse.h are reconstructed, followed by parse.o. When the program is linked main.o and parse.o are non-trivially incompatible. That is, the program is wrong.
Traditional Solutions
There are three traditional fixes for the above ‘‘glitch.’’
The first is to manually tweak the order of the modules in the toplevel Makefile. But why is this tweak required at all? Isn’t make supposed to be an expert system? Is make somehow flawed, or did something else go wrong?
To answer this question, it is necessary to look, not at the graphs, but the order of traversal of the graphs. In order to operate correctly, make needs to perform a postorder traversal, but in separating the DAG into two pieces, make has not been allowed to traverse the graph in the necessary order – instead the project has dictated an order of traversal. An order which, when you consider the original graph, is plain wrong. Tweaking the top-level Makefile corrects the order to one similar to that which make could have used. Until the next dependency is added...
Note that make -j (parallel build) invalidates many of the ordering assumptions implicit in the reshuffle solution, making it useless. And then there are all of the sub-makes all doing their builds in parallel, too.
The second traditional solution is to make more than one pass in the top-level Makefile, something like this:
This doubles the length of time it takes to perform the build. But that is not all: there is no guarantee that two passes are enough! The upper bound of the number of passes is not even proportional to the number of modules, it is instead proportional to the number of graph edges which cross module boundaries.
We have already seen an example of how recursive make can build too little, but another common problem is to build too much. The third traditional solution to the above glitch is to add even more lines to ant/Makefile:
.PHONY: ../bee/parse.h
../bee/parse.h:
cd ../bee; \
make clean; \
This means that whenever main.o is made, parse.h will always be considered to be out-of-date. All of bee will always be rebuilt including parse.h, and so main.o will always be rebuilt, even if everything was self consistent.
Note that make -j (parallel build) invalidates many of the ordering assumptions implicit in the overkill solution, making it useless, because all of the sub-makes are all doing their builds (“clean” then “all”) in parallel, constantly interfering with each other in non-deterministic ways.
The above analysis is based on one simple action: the DAG was artificially separated into incomplete pieces. This separation resulted in all of the problems familiar to recursive make builds.
Did make get it wrong? No. This is a case of the ancient GIGO principle: Garbage In, Garbage Out. Incomplete Makefiles are wrong Makefiles.
To avoid these problems, don’t break the DAG into pieces; instead, use one Makefile for the entire project. It is not the recursion itself which is harmful, it is the crippled Makefiles which are used in the recursion which are wrong. It is not a deficiency of make itself that recursive make is broken, it does the best it can with the flawed input it is given.
But, but, but... You can’t do that!’’ I hear you cry. ‘‘A single Makefile is too big,it’s unmaintainable, it’s too hard to write the rules, you’ll run out of memory, I only want to build my little bit, the build will take too long. It’s just not practical.’
These are valid concerns, and they frequently lead make users to the conclusion that re-working their build process does not have any short- or long-term benefits. This conclusion is based on ancient, enduring, false assumptions.
The following sections will address each of these concerns in turn.
A Single Makefile is Too Big
If the entire project build description were placed into a single Makefile this would certainly be true, however modern make implementations have include statements. By including a relevant fragment from each module, the total size of the Makefile and its include files need be no larger than the total size of the Makefiles in the recursive case.
A Single Makefile Is Unmaintainable
The complexity of using a single top-level Makefile which includes a fragment from each module is no more complex than in the recursive case. Because the DAG is not segmented, this form of Makefile becomes less complex, and thus more maintainable, simply because fewer “tweaks” are required to keep it working.
Recursive Makefiles have a great deal of repetition. Many projects solve this by using include files. By using a single Makefile for the project, the need for the “common” include files disappears – the single Makefile is the common part.
It’s Too Hard To Write The Rules
The only change required is to include the directory part in filenames in a number of places. This is because the make is performed from the top level directory; the current directory is not the one in which the file appears. Where the output file is explicitly stated in a rule, this is not a problem.
GCC allows a -o option in conjunction with the -c option, and GNU Make knows this. This results in the implicit compilation rule placing the output in the correct place. Older and dumber C compilers, however, may not allow the -o option with the -c option, and will leave the object file in the top-level directory (i.e. the wrong directory). There are three ways for you to fix this: get GNU Make and GCC, override the built-in rule with one which does the right thing, or complain to your vendor.
Also, K&R C compilers will start the double-quote include path (#include "filename.h") from the current directory. This will not do what you want. ANSI C compliant C compilers, however, start the double-quote include path from the directory in which the source file appears; thus, no source changes are required. If you don’t have an ANSI C compliant C compiler,you should consider installing GCC on your system as soon as possible.
I Only Want To Build My Little Bit
Most of the time, developers are deep within the project tree and they edit one or two files and then run make to compile their changes and try them out. They may do this dozens or hundreds of times a day. Being forced to do a full project build every time would be absurd.
Developers always have the option of giving make a specific target. This is always the case, it’s just that we usually rely on the default target in the Makefile in the current directory to shorten the command line for us. Building “my little bit” can still be done with a whole project Makefile, simply by using a specific target, and an alias if the command line is too long.
Is doing a full project build every time so absurd? If a change made in a module has repercussions in other modules, because there is a dependency the developer is unaware of (but the Makefile is aware of), isn’t it better that the developer find out as early as possible? Dependencies like this will be found, because the DAG is more complete than in the recursive case.
The developer is rarely a seasoned old salt who knows every one of the million lines of code in the product. More likely the developer is a short-term contractor or a junior. You don’t want implications like these to blow up after the changes are integrated with the master source, you want them to blow up on the developer in some nice safe sand-box far awayfrom the master source.
If you want to make “just your little” bit because you are concerned that performing a full project build will corrupt the project master source, due to the directory structure used in your project, see the “Projects versus Sand-Boxes” section below.
The Build Will Take Too Long
This statement can be made from one of two perspectives. First, that a whole project make, even when everything is up-to-date, inevitably takes a long time to perform. Secondly, that these inevitable delays are unacceptable when a developer wants to quickly compile and link the one file that they have changed.
Project Builds
Consider a hypothetical project with 1000 source (.c) files, each of which has its calling interface defined in a corresponding include (.h) file with defines, type declarations and function prototypes. These 1000 source files include their own interface definition, plus the interface definitions of any other module they may call. These 1000 source files are compiled into 1000 object files which are then linked into an executable program. This system has some 3000 files which make must be told about, and be told about the include dependencies, and also explore the possibility that implicit rules (.y -> .c for example) may be necessary.
In order to build the DAG, make must “stat” 3000 files, plus an additional 2000 files or so, depending on which implicit rules your make knows about and your Makefile has left enabled. On the author’s humble 66MHz i486 this takes about 10 seconds; on native disk on faster platforms it goes even faster. With NFS over 10MB Ethernet it takes about 10 seconds, no matter what the platform.
This is an astonishing statistic! Imagine being able to do a single file compile, out of 1000 source files, in only 10 seconds, plus the time for the compilation itself.
Breaking the set of files up into 100 modules, and running it as a recursive make takes about 25 seconds. The repeated process creation for the subordinate make invocations take quite a long time.
Hang on a minute! On real-world projects with less than 1000 files, it takes an awful lot longer than 25 seconds for make to work out that it has nothing to do. For some projects, doing it in only 25 minutes would be an improvement! The above result tells us that it is not the number of files which is slowing us down (that only takes 10 seconds), and it is not the repeated process creation for the subordinate make invocations (that only takes another 15 seconds). So just what is taking so long?
The traditional solutions to the problems introduced by recursive make often increase the number of subordinate make invocations beyond the minimum described here; e.g. to perform multiple repetitions (see ‘Repetition’, above), or to overkill cross-module dependencies (see ‘Overkill’, above). These can take a long time, particularly when combined, but do not account for some of the more spectacular build times; what else is taking so long?
Complexity of the Makefile is what is taking so long. This is covered, below, in the ‘Efficient Makefiles’ section.
Development Builds
If, as in the 1000 file example, it only takes 10 seconds to figure out which one of the files needs to be recompiled, there is no serious threat to the productivity of developers if they do a whole project make as opposed to a module-specific make. The advantage for the project is that the module-centric developer is reminded at relevant times (and only relevant times) that their work has wider ramifications.
By consistently using C include files which contain accurate interface definitions (including function prototypes), this will produce compilation errors in many of the cases which would result in a defective product. By doing whole-project builds, developers discover such errors very early in the development process, and can fix the problems when they are least expensive.
You’ll Run Out Of Memory
This is the most interesting response. Once long ago, on a CPU far, far away, it may even have been true. When Feldman [1] first wrote make it was 1978 and he was using a PDP11. Unix processes were limited to 64KB of data.
On such a computer, the above project with its 3000 files detailed in the whole-project Makefile, would probably not allow the DAG and rule actions to fit in memory.
But we are not using PDP11s any more. The physical memory of modern computers exceeds 10MB for small computers, and virtual memory often exceeds 100MB. It is going to take a project with hundreds of thousands of source files to exhaust virtual memory on a small modern computer. As the 1000 source file example takes less than 100KB of memory (try it, I did) it is unlikely that any project manageable in a single directory tree on a single disk will exhaust your computer’s memory.
Why Not Fix The DAG InThe Modules?
It was shown in the above discussion that the problem with recursive make is that the DAGs are incomplete. It follows that by adding the missing portions, the problems would be resolved without abandoning the existing recursive make investment.
The developer needs to remember to do this. The problems will not affect the developer of the module, it will affect the developers of other modules. There is no trigger to remind the developer to do this, other than the ire of fellow developers.
It is difficult to work out where the changes need to be made. Potentially every Makefile in the entire project needs to be examined for possible modifications. Of course, you can wait for your fellow developers to find them for you.
The include dependencies will be recomputed unnecessarily, or will be interpreted incorrectly. This is because make is string based, and thus “.”and “../ant” are two different places, even when you are in the ant directory. This is of concern when include dependencies are automatically generated – as they are for all large projects.
By making sure that each Makefile is complete, you arrive at the point where the Makefile for at least one module contains the equivalent of a whole-project Makefile (recall that these modules form a single project and are thus inter-connected), and there is no need for the recursion anymore.
Efficient Makefiles
The central theme of this paper is the semantic side-effects of artificially separating a Makefile into the pieces necessary to perform a recursive make. However, once you have a large number of Makefiles, the speed at which make can interpret this multitude of files also becomes an issue.
Builds can take “forever” for both these reasons: the traditional fixes for the separated DAG may be building too much and your Makefile may be inefficient.
Deferred Evaluation
The text in a Makefile must somehow be read from a text file and understood by make so that the DAG can be constructed, and the specified actions attached to the edges. This is all kept in memory.
The input language for Makefiles is deceptively simple. A crucial distinction that often escapes both novices and experts alike is that make’s input language is text based, as opposed to token based, as is the case for C or AWK. make does the very least possible to process input lines and stash them away in memory.
As an example of this, consider the following assignment:
Humans read this as the variable OBJ being assigned two filenames main.o and parse.o. But make does not see it that way. Instead OBJ is assigned the string “main.o parse.o”. It gets worse:
SRC = main.c parse.c
OBJ = $(SRC:.c=.o)
In this case humans expect make to assign two filenames to OBJ, but make actually assigns the string ‘‘$(SRC:.c=.o)’’. This is because it is a macro language with deferred evaluation, as opposed to one with variables and immediate evaluation.
If this does not seem too problematic, consider the following Makefile shown at the top of the next column.
How many times will the shell command be executed? Ouch! It will be executed twice just to construct the DAG,and a further two times if the rule needs to be executed.
If this shell command does anything complexor time consuming (and it usually does) it will take four times longer than you thought.
SRC = $(shell echo ’Ouch!’ \
1>&2 ; echo *.[cy])
OBJ = \
$(patsubst %.c,%.o,\
$(filter %.c,$(SRC))) \
$(patsubst %.y,%.o,\
$(filter %.y,$(SRC)))
test: $(OBJ)
But it is worth looking at the other portions of that OBJ macro. Each time it is named, a huge amount of processing is performed:
The argument to shell is a single string (all built-in-functions take a single string argument). The string is executed in a sub-shell, and the standard output of this command is read back in, translating new lines into spaces. The result is a single string.
The argument to filter is a single string. This argument is broken into two strings at the first comma. These two strings are then each broken into sub-strings separated by spaces. The first set are the patterns, the second set are the filenames. Then, for each of the pattern substrings, if a filename sub-string matches it, that filename is included in the output. Once all of the output has been found, it is re-assembled into a single space-separated string.
The argument to patsubst is a single string. This argument is broken into three strings at the first and second commas. The third string is then broken into sub-strings separated by spaces, these are the filenames. Then, for each of the filenames which match the first string it is substituted according to the second string. If a filename does not match, it is passed through unchanged. Once all of the output has been generated, it is reassembled into a single space-separated string.
Notice how many times those strings are disassembled and reassembled. Notice how many ways that happens. This is slow. The example here names just two files but consider how inefficient this would be for 1000 files. Doing it four times becomes decidedly inefficient.
If you are using a dumb make that has no substitutions and no built-in functions, this cannot bite you. But a modern make has lots of built-in functions and can even invoke shell commands on-the-fly.The semantics of make’s text manipulation is such that string manipulation in make is very CPU intensive,compared to performing the same string manipulations in C or AWK.
Immediate Evaluation
Modern make implementations have an immediate evaluation := assignment operator. The above example can be re-written as
SRC := $(shell echo ’Ouch!’ \
OBJ := \
Note that both assignments are immediate evaluation assignments. If the first were not, the shell command would always be executed twice. If the second were not, the expensive substitutions would be performed at least twice and possibly four times.
As a rule of thumb: always use immediate evaluation assignment unless you knowingly want deferred evaluation.
Many Makefiles perform the same text processing (the filters above, for example) for every single make run, but the results of the processing rarely change. Wherever practical, it is more efficient to record the results of the text processing into a file, and have the Makefile include this file.
Don’t be miserly with include files. They are relatively inexpensive to read, compared to $(shell), so more rather than less doesn’t greatly affect efficiency.
As an example of this, it is first necessary to describe a useful feature of GNU Make: once a Makefile has been read in, if any of its included files were out-of-date (or do not yet exist), they are re-built, and then make starts again, which has the result that make is now working with up-to-date include files. This feature can be exploited to obtain automatic include file dependency tracking for C sources. The obvious way to implement it, however, has a subtle flaw.
SRC := $(wildcard *.c)
OBJ := $(SRC:.c=.o)
include dependencies
dependencies: $(SRC)
depend.sh $(CFLAGS) \
$(SRC) > $@
The depend.sh script prints lines of the form:
file.o: file.cinclude.h...
The most simple implementation of this is to use GCC, but you will need an equivalent awk script or C program if you have a different compiler:
gcc -MM -MG "$@"
This implementation of tracking C include dependencies has several serious flaws, but the one most commonly discovered is that the dependencies file does not, itself, depend on the C include files. That is, it is not re-built if one of the include files changes. There is no edge in the DAG joining the dependencies vertex to any of the include file vertices. If an include file changes to include another file (a nested include), the dependencies will not be recalculated, and potentially the C file will not be recompiled, and thus the program will not be re-built correctly.
A classic build-too-little problem, caused by giving make inadequate information, and thus causing it to build an inadequate DAG and reach the wrong conclusion.
The traditional solution is to build too much:
.PHONY: dependencies
Now, even if the project is completely up-do-date, the dependencies will be re-built. For a large project, this is very wasteful, and can be a major contributor to make taking “forever” to work out that nothing needs to be done.
There is a second problem, and that is that if any one of the C files changes, all of the C files will be re-scanned for include dependencies. This is as inefficient as having a Makefile which reads
prog: $(SRC)
$(CC) -o $@ $(SRC)
What is needed, in exact analogy to the C case, is to have an intermediate form. This is usually given a .d suffix. By exploiting the fact that more than one file may be named in an include line, there is no need to ‘‘link’’ all of the .d files together:
include $(OBJ:.o=.d)
%.d: %.c
depend.sh $(CFLAGS) $* > $@
This has one more thing to fix: just as the object (.o) files depend on the source files and the include files, so do the dependency (.d) files.
file.d file.o: file.c include.h
This means tinkering with the depend.sh script again:
gcc -MM -MG "$@" |
sed -e ’s@ˆ\(.*\)\.o:@\1.d \1.o:@’
This method of determining include file dependencies results in the Makefile including more files than the original method, but opening files is less expensive than rebuilding all of the dependencies every time. Typically a developer will edit one or two files before re-building; this method will rebuild the exact dependency file affected (or more than one, if you edited an include file). On balance, this will use less CPU, and less time.
In the case of a build where nothing needs to be done, make will actually do nothing, and will work this out very quickly.
However, the above technique assumes your project fits entirely within the one directory. For large projects, this usually isn’t the case.
DIR="$1"
case "$DIR" in
"" | ".")
sed -e "s@ˆ\(.*\)\.o:@$DIR/\1.d $DIR/\1.o:@"
And the rule needs to change, too, to pass the directory as the first argument, as the script expects.
depend.sh ‘dirname $*‘ $(CFLAGS) $* > $@
Note that the .d files will be relative to the top level directory. Writing them so that they can be used from any level is possible, but beyond the scope of this paper.
All of the inefficiencies described in this section compound together. If you do 100 Makefile interpretations, once for each module, checking 1000 source files can take a very long time - if the interpretation requires complex processing or performs unnecessary work, or both. A whole project make, on the other hand, only needs to interpret a single Makefile.
Projects versus Sand-boxes
The above discussion assumes that a project resides under a single directory tree, and this is often the ideal. However, the realities of working with large software projects often lead to weird and wonderful directory structures in order to have developers working on different sections of the project without taking complete copies and thereby wasting precious disk space.
It is possible to see the whole-project make proposed here as impractical, because it does not match the evolved methods of your development process.
The whole-project make proposed here does have an effect on development methods: it can give you cleaner and simpler build environments for your developers. By using make’s VPATH feature, it is possible to copy only those files you need to edit into your private work area, often called a sandbox.
The simplest explanation of what VPATH does is to make an analogy with the include file search path specified using -Ipath options to the C compiler. This set of options describes where to look for files, just as VPATH tells make where to look for files.
By using VPATH, it is possible to “stack” the sand-box on top of the project master source, so that files in the sand-box take precedence, but it is the union of all the files which make uses to perform the build (see Figure 8).
In this environment, the sand-box has the same tree structure as the project master source. This allows developers to safely change things across separate modules, e.g. if they are changing a module interface. It also allows the sand-box to be physically separate – perhaps on a different disk, or under their home directory. It also allows the project master source to be read-only, if you have (or would like) a rigorous check-in procedure.
Note: in addition to adding a VPATH line to your development Makefile, you will also need to add -I options to the CFLAGS macro, so that the C compiler uses the same path as make does. This is simply done with a 3-line Makefile in your work area – set a macro, set the VPATH, and then include the Makefile from the project master source.
VPATH Semantics
For the above discussion to apply, you need to use GNU Make 3.76 or later. For versions of GNU Make earlier than 3.76, you will need Paul Smith’s VPATH+ patch. This may be obtained from ftp://ftp.wellfleet.com/netman/psmith/gmake/.
The POSIX semantics of VPATH are slightly brain-dead, so many other make implementations are too limited. You may want to consider installing GNU Make.
This section brings together all of the preceding discussion, and presents the example project with its separate modules, but with a whole-project Makefile. The directory structure is changed little from the recursive case, except that the deeper Makefiles are replaced by module specific include files (see Figure 9).
The Makefilelooks like this:
MODULES := ant bee
#look for include files in
# each of the modules
CFLAGS += $(patsubst %,-I%,\
$(MODULES))
#extra libraries if required
LIBS :=
#each module will add to this
SRC :=
#include the description for
# each module
include $(patsubst %,\
%/module.mk,$(MODULES))
#determine the object files
$(patsubst %.c,%.o, \
$(patsubst %.y,%.o, \
#link the program
$(CC) -o $@ $(OBJ) $(LIBS)
#include the C include
# dependencies
#calculate C include
depend.sh ‘dirname $*.c‘ $(CFLAGS) $*.c > $@
This looks absurdly large, but it has all of the common elements in the one place, so that each of the modules’ make includes may be small.
The ant/module.mk file looks like:
SRC += ant/main.c
The bee/module.mk file looks like:
SRC += bee/parse.y
LIBS += -ly
%.c %.h: %.y
$(YACC) -d $*.y
mv y.tab.c $*.c
mv y.tab.h $*.h
Notice that the built-in rules are used for the C files, but we need special yacc processing to get the generated .h file.
The savings in this example look irrelevant, because the top-level Makefile is so large. But consider if there were 100 modules, each with only a few non-comment lines, and those specifically relevant to the module. The savings soon add up to a total size often less than the recursive case, without loss of modularity.
The equivalent DAG of the Makefile after all of the includes looks like figure 10
The vertexes and edges for the include file dependency files are also present as these are important for make to function correctly.
There are a couple of desirable side-effects of using a single Makefile.
The GNU Make -j option, for parallel builds, works even better than before. It can find even more unrelated things to do at once, and no longer has some subtle problems.
The general make -k option, to continue as far as possible even in the face of errors, works even better than before. It can find even more things to continue with.
Literature Survey
How can it be possible that we have been mis-using make for 20 years? How can it be possible that behaviour previously ascribed to make’s limitations is in fact a result of mis-using it?
The author only started thinking about the ideas presented in this paper when faced with a number of ugly build problems on utterly different projects, but with common symptoms. By stepping back from the individual projects, and closely examining the thing they had in common, make, it became possible to see the larger pattern. Most of us are too caught up in the minutiae of just getting the rotten build to work that we don’t have time to spare for the big picture. Especially when the item in question “obviously” works, and has done so continuously for the last 20 years.
It is interesting that the problems of recursive make are rarely mentioned in the very books Unix programmers rely on for accurate, practical advice.
The Original Paper
The original make paper [1] contains no reference to recursive make, let alone any discussion as to the relative merits of whole project make over recursive make.
It is hardly surprising that the original paper did not discuss recursive make, Unix projects at the time usually did fit into a single directory.
It may be this which set the “one Makefile in every directory” concept so firmly in the collective Unix development mind-set.
GNU Make
The GNU Make manual [2] contains several pages of material concerning recursive make, however its discussion of the merits or otherwise of the technique are limited to the brief statement that
This technique is useful when you want to separate makefiles for various subsystems that compose a larger system.
No mention is made of the problems you may encounter.
Managing Projects with Make
The Nutshell Makebook [3] specifically promotes recursive make overwhole project make because:
The cleanest way to build is to put a separate description file in each directory, and tie them together through a master description file that invokes make recursively. While cumbersome, the technique is easier to maintain than a single, enormous file that covers multiple directories. (p. 65)
This is despite the book’s advice only two paragraphs earlier that
make is happiest when you keep all your files in a single directory. (p. 64)
Yet the book fails to discuss the contradiction in these two statements, and goes on to describe one of the traditional ways of treating the symptoms of incomplete DAGs caused by recursive make.
The book may give us a clue as to why recursive make has been used in this way for so many years. Notice how the above quotes confuse the concept of a directory with the concept of a Makefile.
This paper suggests a simple change to the mind-set: directory trees, however deep, are places to store files; Makefiles are places to describe the relationships between those files, however many.
BSD Make
The tutorial for BSD Make [4] says nothing at all about recursive make, but it is one of the few which actually described, however briefly, the relationship between a Makefile and a DAG (p. 30). There is also a wonderful quote
If make doesn’t do what you expect it to, it’s a good chance the makefile is wrong. (p. 10)
Which is a pithy summary of the thesis of this paper.
This paper presents a number of related problems, and demonstrates that they are not inherent limitations of make, as is commonly believed, but are the result of presenting incorrect information to make. This is the ancient Garbage In, Garbage Out principle at work. Because make can only operate correctly with a complete DAG, the error is in segmenting the Makefile into incomplete pieces.
This requires a shift in thinking: directory trees are simply a place to hold files, Makefiles are a place to remember relationships between files. Do not confuse the two because it is as important to accurately represent the relationships between files in different directories as it is to represent the relationships between files in the same directory. This has the implication that there should be exactly one Makefile for a project, but the magnitude of the description can be managed by using a make include file in each directory to describe the subset of the project files in that directory. This is just as modular as having a Makefile in each directory.
This paper has shown how a project build and a development build can be equally brief for a whole-project make. Given this parity of time, the gains provided by accurate dependencies mean that this process will, in fact, be faster than the recursive make case, and more accurate.
Inter-dependent Projects
In organizations with a strong culture of re-use, implementing whole-project make can present challenges. Rising to these challenges, however, may require looking at the bigger picture.
A module may be shared between two programs because the programs are closely related. Clearly, the two programs plus the shared module belong to the same project (the module may be self-contained, but the programs are not). The dependencies must be explicitly stated, and changes to the module must result in both programs being recompiled and re-linked as appropriate. Combining them all into a single project means that whole-project make can accomplish this.
A module may be shared between two projects because they must inter-operate. Possibly your project is bigger than your current directory structure implies. The dependencies must be explicitly stated, and changes to the module must result in both projects being recompiled and re-linked as appropriate. Combining them all into a single project means that whole-project make can accomplish this.
It is the normal case to omit the edges between your project and the operating system or other installed third party tools. So normal that they are ignored in the Makefiles in this paper, and they are ignored in the built-in rules of make programs.
Modules shared between your projects may fall into a similar category: if they change, you will deliberately re-build to include their changes, or quietly include their changes whenever the next build may happen. In either case, you do not explicitly state the dependencies, and whole-project make does not apply.
Re-use may be better served if the module were used as a template, and divergence between two projects is seen as normal. Duplicating the module in each project allows the dependencies to be explicitly stated, but requires additional effort if maintenance is required to the common portion.
How to structure dependencies in a strong re-use environment thus becomes an exercise in risk management. What is the danger that omitting chunks of the DAG will harm your projects? How vital is it to rebuild if a module changes? What are the consequences of not rebuilding automatically? How can you tell when a rebuild is necessary if the dependencies are not explicitly stated? What are the consequences of forgetting to rebuild?
Some of the techniques presented in this paper will improve the speed of your builds, even if you continue to use recursive make. These are not the focus of this paper, merely a useful detour.
The focus of this paper is that you will get more accurate builds of your project if you use whole-project make rather than recursive make.
The time for make to work out that nothing needs to be done will not be more, and will often be less.
The size and complexity of the total Makefile input will not be more, and will often be less.
The total Makefile input is no less modular than in the recursive case.
The difficulty of maintaining the total Makefile input will not be more, and will often be less.
The disadvantages of using whole-project make over recursive make are often un-measured. How much time is spent figuring out why make did something unexpected? How much time is spent figuring out that make did something unexpected? How much time is spent tinkering with the build process? These activities are often thought of as “normal” development overheads.
Building your project is a fundamental activity. If it is performing poorly, so are development, debugging and testing. Building your project needs to be so simple the newest recruit can do it immediately with only a single page of instructions. Building your project needs to be so simple that it rarely needs any development effort at all. Is your build process this simple?
Peter Miller miller@canb.auug.org.au
1 Feldman, Stuart I. (1978). Make - A Program for Maintaining Computer Programs. Bell Laboratories Computing Science Technical Report 57
2 Stallman, Richard M. and Roland McGrath (1993). GNU Make: A Program for Directing Recompilation.Free Software Foundation, Inc.
3 Talbott, Steve (1991). Managing Projects with Make, 2nd Ed.O’Reilly & Associates, Inc.
4 de Boor, Adam (1988). PMake- A Tutorial.University of California, Berkeley
Peter Miller has worked for many years in the software R&D industry, principally on UNIX systems. In that time he has written tools such as Aegis (a software configuration management system) and Cook (yet another make-oid), both of which are freely available on the Internet. Supporting the use of these tools at many Internet sites provided the insights which led to this paper.
Please visit http://www.canb.auug.org.au/˜millerp/if you would like to look at some of the author’s free software.
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Legion Recap: “Chapter 13”
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The return of Lenny has everyone asking whose body she has.
Brown Blue-Eyed Girl
Heald in an upside-down room (the ceiling looks like a floor and the floor has a bird’s eye view of a city), Lenny hosts three visitors through the course of the episode. The first on is our favorite, marred interrogator, Clark. He gets right down to business, taking a sample of Lenny’s blood, asking her if she is the Shadow King, questioning her as to how she come to be. Lenny is more interested in scoring drugs and playing the victim.
Her gran-gran (who is also her name sake) would get her drunk after school when she was 9 years-old, her father had a pre-teen porn fetish, her mother suffered from depression. “I’m not a bad person, I’m not” Lenny proclaims. “There’s bad and there’s really bad… I am not a villain!”
“Whose body is that?” Clark asks and Lenny can’t answer. She does tell him Farouk knows where his body is and “the end of the world is coming.”
Ptonomy is next. Lenny throws the memory mutant off balance when she covers her eyes and asks him what color they are. Ptonomy knows the are brown, but not anymore. They are an eerie blue. Realizing the change in eye color comes from the new body she possesses, Ptonomy goes to read her memories. He sees Lenny’s gran-gran giving her booze as a young girl, but the memory looks distorted. A newer more disturbing memory starts to come forward, sunflowers on the floor and sprayed with blood.
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Unable find the thread of the two memories, Ptonomy pushes further and sees Admiral Fukuyama, but he is different. Inside the basket on his head is the chicken-demon thing. As he is coming out of the vision, he realizes he has Lenny pressed up against the wall and is choking her. He lets her go and leaves, visibly disturbed.
Dead Sea Donuts
Farouk and Oliver drive through the desert and arrive at an unmarked grave. Oliver digs up the coffin and at Farouk’s instruction, takes a piece of the flesh from the rotting corpse. The flesh is placed inside a machine Oliver and Lenny stole during their trip through D3. The two “homo superior” men then follow a donut truck through more desert until they arrive at a home guarded by several men.
Throughout their trip Farouk and Oliver seem to take the time to bond. Oliver has been seemingly happy to go along with whatever Farouk wants, but in the middle of a conversation about death and morality (for the record, Oliver finds the concept of life and death “obscene” because atoms that used to make up life forms are not holding together his car), Oliver calmly vows to kill Farouk. He knows what the Shadow King’s weakness is and will exploit it when it is least expected.
Third Visitor
Still in the upside-down room, Lenny wakes to find David with her. He is happy to see his friend and even brings her Twizzlers, but he talks to her with caution. While questioning her to make sure it is really Lenny, he is looking inside her mind. He knows she is still working for Farouk, but she claims he put her up to it. That Farouk sent her to D3 to let them know he found his body, but that’s all the intel she has. Farouk only let her and Oliver see what he wanted them to see.
David starts to look deeper into her mind and realizes there is a memory of him and his sister in Lenny’s mind. He asks how she came to be and Lenny says that she doesn’t know. She woke up in the desert, naked and alone.
Statue in the Stone
Initially we are lead to believe the Farouk and Oliver road trip is happening in the present while Lenny is at D3, but as Lenny explains where she woke up, the horror of how she came to be is realized. The road trip actually happened before Lenny arrived. The body Oliver unearthed was not Farouk’s, but Lenny’s. The donut truck they followed belonged to the husband of Amy Haller.
Under the protection of D3, Amy and her husband have been housed somewhere in the middle of the desert. Something is off with Amy. She talks about strange dreams where she has a mustache and a musical voice. A feeling of dread washes over her husband before an unnerving silence falls. The husband is turned to ash when he goes to check the front door and Oliver appears in the kitchen with the device containing Lenny’s DNA. He places her on the table and uses the device transform Amy into Lenny.
David sees all of this inside Lenny’s mind and realizes his friend is a grizzly message to him. What truce they had is done and David wants revenge.
I know I have already said it before, but I’m saying it again. Someone get Aubrey Plaza a damn Emmy already!
Oliver’s dead-eyed look as he is transforming Amy into Lenny is chilling.
It is unclear if Amy is completely erased. Vestiges of her memories inside Lenny seem to point to the two of them possibly sharing a consciousness. Also, it is strange Amy is having dreams of being one of the Vermillion. What connection does she have to the Admiral?
Ptonomy’s vision of Fukuyama is disturbing, but is there any real meaning there? Was the vision imbedded by Farouk to plant a seed of doubt in Ptonomy? Or a real vision as to what the Admiral really might be?
It is also curious that for the first time Legion has done a flashback to previous events before the start of the episode. But instead of the standard of “Previously on”, John Hamm says “Apparently on”, implying everything we have seen so far might not be real. It also makes me wonder if there is more going on in “Chapter 13” than we realize.
Till Next week!
The Nerdling was born in the majestic land known as Texas and currently resides there after several years of journeying through Middle Earth in a failed attempt to steal the one Ring from that annoying hobbit, serving the Galactic Empire for a time, and then a short stint as a crew member on the Serenity. Since moving back to her homeland, Nerdling flirted with a hero reputation. Saving children from the dangers of adoring domineering, sparkly vampires (champions with souls are the only vampires worth loving) and teaching normals the value of nerdom, all while rooting for her beloved Dallas Stars. Then came the Sokovia Accords and her short spell of saving others came to an end. With Darth Vader’s reputation rightfully returning to badass status, Nerdling is making her way back to the Empire. They do have cookies, you know. You can find her on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram.
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The 100 Recap: “Red Queen”
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Land Rover unveils Discovery Vision Concept in New York
Land Rover revealed its Discovery Vision Concept at the USS Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum in New York Monday night for the auto show.
Land Rover revealed its Discovery Vision Concept at the USS Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum Monday night ahead of the New York auto show.
Land Rover says it's a vision of future Discovery vehicles, the first of which is due in 2015. The Discovery is now sold as the LR4 in the United States, but Land Rover says it will eventually shift the name back to "Discovery" for the North American market -- that's what we knew it as when it first made landfall, anyway.
The Discovery Vision is shaped like a bigger Ford Explorer. It has many hallmarks of a concept, such as the lack of side mirrors and door handles, not to mention giant wheels with rubber-band tires. Still, LR did say that the lack of door handles was something that would make it to production; the Discovery will sense your hand motions and pop the door automatically. There will be several other motion controls, as well.
Inside, the concept SUV can be converted from a seven-seat configuration to five with a table or a limo-style configuration with the middle seats pushed up and the rear seats pushed back. It also features carry-away roller luggage integrated into the doors. The middle seat in the middle row can fold down into a table. Seating surfaces are covered in water- and oil-repellent Foglizzo premium leather that can be cleaned in seconds.
The next Discovery will feature Land Rover's “transparent hood” setup that projects the road beneath onto the windshield, making the hood look see-through. It uses laser scanners to render a road contour map in the instrument cluster and it can help drivers chart a path over rough terrain and check water depth for wading.
About the New York auto show
“The Discovery Vision Concept demonstrates where Jaguar Land Rover's pioneering technology and great, modern design could take the SUV in future,” said Dr. Wolfgang Epple, director of research and technology. “It showcases the innovative approach that continues our leadership of the off-road segment. Smarter, more connected, more desirable and more capable -- the Land Rover vehicle of tomorrow will be fully and perfectly integrated into everyday life.”
The 2014 New York auto show runs April 16-27 and is expected to attract a range of production and concept cars including the 2015 Mustang convertible, BMW M4 convertible and next Hyundai Sonata. Check out Autoweek's complete coverage at autoweek.com/new-york-auto-show.
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How to Know Whether You Have a Cold or the Flu
By B4 Brands on February 1, 2018 in Flu, Hand Hygiene
The vicious winter lion known as the 2017-18 cold and flu season is claiming victims by the day as Americans struggle to stay on their feet, at work and breathing easy. What NBC News is calling “the worst flu season in a decade” has already resulted in thousands of hospitalizations, hundreds of deaths, and widespread […]
With flu cases surging nationwide, CDC issues Influenza Red Alert
By B4 Brands on January 8, 2018 in Flu, Hand Hygiene
The intense, remorseless, relentless and certified severe 2017-18 cold and flu season hasn’t even reached halftime, but health officials are already issuing a coast-to-coast Influenza Red Alert. With flu outbreaks already reported in 46 of 50 states, the U.S. Centers for Disease Controls and Prevention are advising Americans to be extremely cautious to protect themselves […]
2017-18 Flu Season Forecast: Influenza Strikes Back
By B4 Brands on October 5, 2017 in Flu, Hand Hygiene 0
Experts: Flu Could Roar With Sickly Wrath This Season The National Foundation for Infectious Diseases has issued a jarring warning for Americans coast to coast: Expect influenza to roar with a sickly might this cold and flu season. Unfortunately, influenza’s miserable resurgence is due in part to factors beyond everyone’s control. Severe weather, including the […]
New Flu Vaccine Targets Influenza’s Most Notorious Strains
By B4 Brands on August 14, 2017 in Flu, Hand Hygiene, Healthcare 0
The most worrisome and important words for the upcoming 2017-18 influenza season continue to be H1N1, H3N2 and B Victoria. With research, trends and statistics pointing to these three flu strains being the most prevalent and contagious in the United States and North American, the World Health Organization has designed its 2017-18 flu vaccine to […]
WHO Reminds Us Fight Against Antibiotic Resistance is ‘In Our Hands’
By B4 Brands on May 5, 2017 in Hand Hygiene, Healthcare 0
Antibiotic resistant superbugs are a global health threat the world can’t sit on. That’s the powerful and alarming message the World Health Organization stressed in this year’s observance of World Hand Hygiene Day on Saturday, May 5. With super viruses, able to repel antibiotics on the rise, the WHO is challenging everyone to join the […]
Proper Precautions to Help Prevent Infant RSV
By B4 Brands on April 17, 2017 in Hand Hygiene 0
First came the coughing, then the running nose, then the fever. Next, a lost appetite. What two-month-old gets tired of milk, I thought? Time to call our pediatrician. Just a day later, my wife Jill and I were writhing in emotional pain as our infant daughter Mackenzie screamed her lungs out in terrible pain while […]
Smart Hand Hygiene a Must in Fight Against Superbugs
By B4 Brands on March 23, 2017 in Hand Hygiene, Uncategorized 0
As certain as death and taxes, dangerous contagious bacteria and pathogens will forever be a part of our lives. And in these scary days of evolving superbugs, we need to be vigilant 24/7 in our hand hygiene practices. The sun may be setting on the 2016-17 flu and cold season, but we can hardly sleep […]
America’s Top 2017 Hangouts For Germs and Bacteria
By B4 Brands on February 27, 2017 in Hand Hygiene, Office Buildings 0
More stealth than any fighter jet, more incognito than any spy, more invisible than H.G. Wells’s “The Invisible Man,” harmful germs and bacteria lie and live in plain sight during flu and influenza season. To put it bluntly, germs are everywhere, outnumbering 100 to one every single blade of grass in your yard and every […]
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by Robert James
01. Hurricane Time Again 3:45
02. I Don't Care 2:46
03. This and That 2:40
04. No Dice 4:11
05. Blind Eye 2:03
06. Break Time pt1 3:51
07. No Life to Give 3:29
08. The Sun Shines 4:05
09. Designated for Assignment (A.J. Pierzynski's Blues) 4:09
10. Bleed 3:04
11. Run and Hide 4:21
12. Who Cares 3:05
13. Be There Soon 2:53
14. Grass Roots 3:04
15. I See the Light 3:28
16. Evidence 3:45
17. Killer 3:41
18. Disrespected 3:30
19. How Deep it Runs 4:42
20. Hands Up 4:25
21. Seems a Breeze 3:01
22. Up to Me 5:43
23. Riot Police 3:23
24. Send Me to Jail 3:42
25. I Surrender (Remix) 4:34
27. Mad Henry 2:00
28. Supernatural 4:00
29. Take Two 3:22
30. Labor Day Weekend in Boston 4:14
31. Enjoy What You've Got 3:51
32. You Lie Like Sam Hyde 2:00
33. Let's Hear it for Good Days 3:07
34. Tens of Millions Lost 2:59
35. Young and Stupid 4:00
36. Family Vacation 4:02
37. Bill Saunders' Sad Story 2:55
38. Troubleshooting 4:52
39. Fawmers Blues 5:19
40. Good Luck with That 5:32
41. Side By Side 3:35
42. Mixed Up 4:40
43. Man in the Street 3:19
44. The Introvert Rag 3:08
45. Sappy Love Song 5:50
46. Protect and Serve 4:28
47. How Do We Handle This 5:34
48. Ocean Born Mary 4:06
49. Won't You Let Me Try 2:44
50. Troll 4:30
Fawmers Blues
This one was forced. I had just finished recording guitars on another couple of songs and made myself come up with something new. I wasn’t very into it at all, but now that it’s finished it’s not as bad as I thought it would be.
The lyrics are a songwriting challenge cliche for me. It’s a songwriting challenge song about working through a songwriting challenge. Shameful I know, but there’s a song called RPM Blues in my past. It seemed time for a FAWM-50/90 song as well.
The rhythm guitar is my Les Paul. The lead is my ES-335
A shock to the system
A twist in the tail
The challenge is fearsome
And to no avail
When we buckle down
It’s all sort of pointless
Though we never frown
But we keep it moving
What else can we do
We all keep on trying
Why do we do this
There isn’t a point
We go through the torture
And still disappoint
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Florida School Shooting Confirms MCPS Focus on School Security
Peter Christian
Franklin School
There has been another school shooting, this time at the Marjorie Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida.
After the fifth anniversary of the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre, MCPS Communications Director Hatton Littman said the newly built and remodeled schools had student and teacher safety as their highest priority, when Dr. Alex Apostle was the superintendent.
“Dr. Apostle was deeply concerned, and started a facilities safety and security committee,” Littman said. “That committee made recommendations for physical safety in our buildings, as well as procedures that we could do to keep kids safe, and that work has been carried out with help of the passage of our bond in 2014.”
Littman said the school entrances have been redesigned for maximum safety..
“Paxson, Rattlesnake, Lowell and Franklin elementary schools now have newly configured entryways, and every new school that is undergoing renovation or construction will receive the same treatment,” she said. “Now, our new entryways include a welcoming area for guests. They can sign in and be welcomed by the principal or the secretary on duty, and then there’s a set of locked security doors in between that front area and the classrooms.”
Littman said even further security protocols are in the works as remodeling and construction continue.
"All of our buildings will get card-key access systems that will allow staff to enter and exit the buildings with the security card key," she said. "As each building is completed, that new system will also be installed. We're also installing security camera systems in all our buildings.”
Littman said the district hopes to have all the construction completed, including the Jeannette Rankin Elementary School, by the end of 2020.
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New Emily Barker record due next month
Aussie singer-songwriter Emily Barker has announced the release of a new album “Sweet Kind of Blue” which lands on May 19th on the Everyone Sang label. Described as “a departure from her folk-based sound” the record reaches more into the Country / Americana space, having been recorded in Memphis with Grammy-award winning producer Matt Ross-Spang (Margo Price, Jason Isbell) alongside various members of Memphis ‘music royalty’ as her backing band, who are always a better backing band than actual royalty. Continue reading “New Emily Barker record due next month”
Author Mark WhitfieldPosted on April 27, 2017 Categories NewsTags Emily BarkerLeave a comment on New Emily Barker record due next month
Rolling Stone reviews new Willie Nelson track by track
Kind of like a singalonga but readalonga. The new album arrives tomorrow and RS have been to it in detail. They report: “Listening to a new Willie Nelson album with a set of fresh ears is almost impossible to do in 2017 – and Nelson knows it. Hovering over all news regarding the Red Headed Stranger are worries about the health of the country icon, who turns 84 on April 29th. So he decided to make the elephant in the room – his own mortality – the focal point of his new LP, God’s Problem Child. Continue reading “Rolling Stone reviews new Willie Nelson track by track”
Author Mark WhitfieldPosted on April 27, 2017 April 26, 2017 Categories NewsTags Willie NelsonLeave a comment on Rolling Stone reviews new Willie Nelson track by track
Marty Stuart & His Fabulous Superlatives “Way Out West” (Superlatone, 2017)
Sometimes it’s good to get outside your comfort zone and listen to something that you wouldn’t normally expect to enjoy. As the late, great George Michael said – “Listen without Prejudice” Most people know Marty Stuart as the guy who used to play guitar for Johnny Cash and as a big part of the Nashville establishment; a very traditional country singer. If that’s your view this album is going to come as a real surprise. Way Out West is a fascinating piece of record making. There are some traditional sounding tracks on there, songs like Lost on the Desert could’ve come straight from his Johnny Cash days, but there are relatively few of them and even the ones that do sound mainstream have more than a touch of the maverick about them. Continue reading “Marty Stuart & His Fabulous Superlatives “Way Out West” (Superlatone, 2017)”
Author Rick BaylesPosted on April 27, 2017 April 25, 2017 Categories Album Reviews2 Comments on Marty Stuart & His Fabulous Superlatives “Way Out West” (Superlatone, 2017)
Video: Hannah Aldridge “No Heart Left Behind”
From her new album Gold Rush, out on June 16th, this is a superb new single from Hannah Aldridge. She’s also on tour in the UK in July, dates under the video.
Continue reading “Video: Hannah Aldridge “No Heart Left Behind””
Author Jeremy SearlePosted on April 27, 2017 April 27, 2017 Categories VideosLeave a comment on Video: Hannah Aldridge “No Heart Left Behind”
The August List “Ramshackle Tabernacle” (Ubiquity Project Records, 2017)
Husband and wife duo, Martin and Kerraleigh Childs or The August List as they’re known, return with their second release following 2014’s ‘O Hinterland’ which see’s them mature as songwriters and grow into quite the formidable duo. On first listen, the first track of the nine on offer, the bluesy ‘Old Rip’ sees The August List picking up where they left off however, immediately following that is ‘Palace On The Rocks’ in which the group experiment with an arguably louder, full-band sound which indicates a potentially alienating change in direction for the duo; however, they don’t feel quite as accomplished as the softer side of the band. Continue reading “The August List “Ramshackle Tabernacle” (Ubiquity Project Records, 2017)”
Author David StevensonPosted on April 26, 2017 April 21, 2017 Categories Album ReviewsLeave a comment on The August List “Ramshackle Tabernacle” (Ubiquity Project Records, 2017)
Michael Logen “New Medicine” (Back Room Racket, 2017)
Michael Logen is a professional songwriter and it shows. This is both a good and a bad thing; what you get here is an album of beautifully crafted songs – well written, well sung, well played and very well produced. What you don’t get is any real idea of who Michael Logen is and what he’s searching for as a musician. Logen’s songwriting credentials are excellent. He’s written for a number of major American TV shows, most notably country music soap “Nashville” but also for other high profile shows like “Suits” and “One Tree Hill”. His excellent song for “Nashville” was Wake Up When It’s Over (co-written with Marren Morris), which was sung by characters Gunnar & Scarlett and that tells you a lot about his writing style. That song’s not on “New Medicine” but there are plenty of similar songs here – romantic ballads, drawing on Americana influences but with a strong classic pop feel. Continue reading “Michael Logen “New Medicine” (Back Room Racket, 2017)”
Author Rick BaylesPosted on April 26, 2017 April 26, 2017 Categories Album ReviewsLeave a comment on Michael Logen “New Medicine” (Back Room Racket, 2017)
New Nathan Bell album due out June
The Americana artist who’s been described as “the Woody Guthrie we need in the age of globalization” (and God do we need some of him right now), Nathan Bell has announced the release of his upcoming LP, “LOVE>FEAR (48 hours in traitorland)” which will be released on June 30th via Stone Barn Records. Along with the announcement, Bell shared his new single “Traitorland (rules for living in)” over at No Depression which you can hear below. Continue reading “New Nathan Bell album due out June”
Author Mark WhitfieldPosted on April 26, 2017 April 26, 2017 Categories NewsTags Nathan Bell1 Comment on New Nathan Bell album due out June
Video: Justin Currie “Failing To See”
Any new material from the one-time Del Amitri main man is a cause for delight and this is no exception, the lead track from his latest album This Is My Kingdom Now, out on May 12th.
Author Jeremy SearlePosted on April 26, 2017 April 23, 2017 Categories Videos2 Comments on Video: Justin Currie “Failing To See”
Video: Little Mammoths “Get Me Back To Austin”
Sometimes you need something raw and enthusiastic and this fits the bill to perfection. From their latest album Cargo For The Road, due for release on 23 June.
Author Jeremy SearlePosted on April 26, 2017 April 23, 2017 Categories VideosLeave a comment on Video: Little Mammoths “Get Me Back To Austin”
The Lonetones “Dumbing It All Down” (The Lonetones, 2017)
This is quite a hard album to review because it’s really an album of two halves. The Lonetones, hailing from Knoxville, Tennessee, are essentially the band of husband and wife duo Sean McCollough and Steph Gunnoe. They front the band and all the tracks on the album are written by them – but not together. So you get 6 tracks from husband Sean and seven from wife Steph – and they sound like they should be on two separate albums. Continue reading “The Lonetones “Dumbing It All Down” (The Lonetones, 2017)”
Author Rick BaylesPosted on April 25, 2017 April 21, 2017 Categories Album ReviewsLeave a comment on The Lonetones “Dumbing It All Down” (The Lonetones, 2017)
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The beginning of the end for no-questions-asked student loans?
The Australian this morning is running stories on the likely increases in doubtful HELP debt* and crackdowns on lending through VET FEE-HELP, which principally lends to students taking vocational education diploma courses.
Industry minister Ian Macfarlane (the Australian must have been sitting on this story, as Chris Pyne become the responsible minister in the pre-Xmas reshuffle) is said to have:
…blasted “criminal’’ training colleges for recruiting elderly students from retirement homes to cash in on taxpayer funding.
Mr Macfarlane said the federal government would take action early next year to stop training companies and brokers offering free iPads to “suck in’’ students who are unlikely to graduate.
Under the proposed measures, some of the government payment to colleges would be withheld until the student found work. This has parallels with the ‘gainful employment’ rules proposed in the United States to deal with similar problems there.
While obviously measures should be taken to reduce rorting, bad provider practices highlight deeper problems with HELP loans. Income-contingent lending has been expanded many times since HECS was introduced in 1989 without anyone going back and thinking carefully about the lending or repayment systems.
In 1989 higher education was still a relatively elite activity and graduates a relatively small proportion of the workforce. Recent graduate un-or-under-employment was only a third of what it is now. To a significant extent, the admission requirements for university could double as a creditworthiness check. The income contingent loan scheme largely acted as a genuine risk manager, rather than handing out mislabelled subsidies to people who were never likely to repay.
Now higher education participation is heading towards 40 per cent of the age cohort, and HELP has been extended to vocational education. Higher education students with lower ATARs are significantly less likely to complete their degrees, leaving them with a HELP debt but without significantly enhanced income-earning potential. People with vocational education qualifications on average earn significantly less than higher education graduates, and more importantly for HELP are much less likely to earn more than the repayment threshold (pp 20-23). Admission to a course is no longer a good proxy for ability to repay.
During 2014 several people have suggested that institutions enrolling students using HELP should share some of the risk of non-repayment (eg Judy Sloan and Core Economics bloggers). The proposal to making some provider payments contingent on student outcomes looks like the first sign of this becoming reality. However, this may not be the best solution.
While vocational and higher education providers could use their own data to develop sophisticated analysis of what types of students are most likely to drop out, they are much less well-placed to assess employment outcomes for those who complete. Former students are under no legal obligation to answer employment surveys. By contrast, the government as the HELP lender has vast amounts of information. Tax file numbers are used for both HELP borrowing and tax collection, what matters for HELP repayment. Linked back to Education Department records, this data could also be used to produce sophisticated analysis of repayment risk.
Arguably, under current arrangements the government is not being a responsible lender. Good lending practices in the financial sector protect both the lender and the borrower from imprudent decisions. Neither protections are currently robust for HELP. Asking some more questions about repayment prospects before lending under HELP could be good for many prospective students, and good for taxpayers who face ever-increasing bad student debt.
* Using Grattan projections based on a mix of official figures and extrapolations from historic data.
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I note with interest that in my reply to your previous post, I suggested the Government exploit the ATO’s wealth of HECS data to support the student i.e. by identifying universities/courses with the best graduate outcomes. However in your recent post you suggest using the same data but shifting the focus to the student i.e. identifying which types of students appear to represent the greatest financial risk. I believe this is a slippery slope and against the principles of equality of opportunity and access, as it could lead to students being excluded from higher education on the basis of their social background.
Tim – That depends on whether SES has predictive value, which on most of the data to date it lacks, other than as a weak proxy for prior academic achievement.
This also goes to one of the issues raised in the demand driven review, and why we proposed abolishing the low SES target. The target implies that we should aim for some number arrived at independently of the interests of the people involved, which I think is a mistaken idea. If someone is at high risk of ending up with a HELP debt but no qualification they should at minimum be told, and possibly be prevented from incurring debt that is more likely to harm them than help them.
I don’t think HELP needs to be run on a commercial basis. As a matter of policy, it would be possible to take risks a bank would not. But we need to be much more explicit about the risks and costs, and make decisions accordingly.
That said, I think one of the weaknesses of putting all responsibility on the providers is that they would probably have to use crude proxies, which may not reflect actual risks or policy priorities.
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65th Primetime Emmys: Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series Leave a comment
PAST PREDICTIONS:
2005: Lupe Ontiveros, “Desperate Housewives” [WRONG]
2006: Blythe Danner, “Will & Grace” [WRONG]
2007: Judith Light, “Ugly Betty” [WRONG]
2008: Carrie Fisher, “30 Rock” [WRONG]
2009: Tina Fey, “Saturday Night Live” [CORRECT]
2010: Betty White, “Saturday Night Live” [CORRECT]
2011: Gwyneth Paltrow, “Glee” [CORRECT]
2012: Melissa McCarthy, “Saturday Night Live” [WRONG]
And to finally complete the four guest acting categories, let’s go on and tackle the Guest Actress in a Comedy Series. Historically, I’ve done really bad in this category unless there’s a frontrunner, and even then, I still sometimes stumble (coughMelissaMcCarthycough). With that said, let’s first give some spots to snubbed performances such as those of Liza Minelli in Arrested Development (what does she have to do to get that late but deserved nod!??), and Parker Posey in Louie. Anyway, let’s begin!
Speaking of Louie, Melissa Leo picks up her second Emmy nod in three years; this time, it’s her comedic turn for Louis CK’s show. In her episode Telling Jokes/Set Up, the aggressive Laurie makes some moves on Louie after being set up by a common friend. Melissa Leo really has some LOL moments in her episodes, and it doesn’t even need much introduction to see the fun in her character. I think she has the most memorable scene among all the tapes in this category. It also doesn’t hurt that she’s an Oscar winner.
Then you have the other Melissa…Melissa McCarthy that is. After her surprising loss for Saturday Night Live last year, her second hosting stint once again gained her a consecutive nod in this category. Truth be told, this wasn’t even comparable to the great pilot hosting stint she had last year, but if Emmys want to play nice and catch up with her, then she’s definitely in the running.
Speaking of SNL, previous perennial Supporting Actress nominee Kristen Wiig hosts the show for the first time after ending her stint as a mainstay on the show. She has the longest episode here, as she appears in all the gags throughout the show. It’s also a different dynamic every time a previous mainstay comes back and host the show. However, as proven many times in the past, Emmys are the least sentimental awards group, and they probably won’t even care for this narrative at all.
Another past SNL mainstay is nominated here, though not necessarily for hosting the show. Molly Shanon picks up a surprise Emmy nod for a somewhat resurgence of love for HBO’s canceled series Enlightened. In her episode The Ghost is Seen, she played the person whom Amy used in order to get their needed files. Shannon comes off as very sympathetic by the end of the episode, and while I won’t be surprised if she somehow wins it, I feel that her odds are relatively small as compared to the other women here.
2007 champ here Elaine Stritch comes back for her last shot for 30 Rock after missing last year here. As a perennial nominee, it’s surprising how she was left off the list last year, but with one win and multiple nods under her belt, it’s one of the easier nods to predict this year. As for her submission My Whole Life is Thunder, let’s just say it puts Coleen Donaghy’s character back to full circle, and this one tugs your heart the most. However, same as Wiig’s case, Emmys are very far from sentimental though let’s see if they give her a free pass for it.
To close this one, we have another perennial nominee: Glee‘s Dot Marie Jones. Jones is on her third consecutive nod this year, and while it amazes me how she still keeps getting nominated, I’m more surprised how voters favor her much. It is wise of her to submit the show’s most buzzed episode Shooting Star, though I don’t think she has any Emmy worthy submission this year, so at least she gave her best shot in it.
There’s a lot of directions this category can actually end up going with. I guess I have to go with Elaine Stritch then. The Emmys usually give farewell wins to shows they really love (Frasier, Will & Grace, Everybody Loves Raymond) and they do it by throwing out acting wins. This can be an easy farewell to both Stritch and 30 Rock the show. If not her, they maybe either one of the Melissas grab the momentum. There are instances when Emmys play catch up so McCarthy might benefit from this, then the movie star in a TV guest stint might be too big to ignore for them and works for Leo. Though with that last part, I’m still adamant with a Louie actor winning for the show and it’s not someone names Louis CK. Stritch then, I guess.
Prediction: Elaine Stritch, “30 Rock”
Runner-Up: Melissa McCarthy, “Saturday Night Live”
Full Rankings:
1. Elaine Stritch, “30 Rock”
2. Melissa McCarthy, “Saturday Night Live”
3. Melissa Leo, “Louie”
4. Kristen Wiig, “Saturday Night Live”
5. Molly Shannon, “Enlightened”
6. Dot Marie Jones, “Glee”
To check out other Emmy predictions, you can see them here.
Also, you might want to follow me on Twitter: @nikowl
Posted September 5, 2013 by Nicol Latayan in Awards, TV
Tagged with 30 rock, dot marie jones, elaine stritch, emmys 2013, emmys 2013 predictions, enlightened, glee, kristen wiig, louie, melissa leo, melissa mccarthy, molly shannon, saturday night live
ANALYSIS: Emmy Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series 2012 Leave a comment
EPISODE SUBMISSIONS:
• Elizabeth Banks, “30 Rock” (The Return of Avery Jessup)
• Kathy Bates, “Two and a Half Men” (Why We Gave Up Women)
• Margaret Cho, “30 Rock” (The Return of Avery Jessup)
• Dot Marie Jones, “Glee” (Choke)
• Melissa McCarthy, “Saturday Night Live” (Host: Melissa McCarthy)
• Maya Rudolph, “Saturday Night Live” (Host: Maya Rudolph)
It’s funny to note how everyone’s supposed frontrunner Ellen Barkin was snubbed for a nomination when she was even predicted to be the winner this year. Anyway, Elizabeth Banks reaped a consecutive nod as Avery Jessup, and I find her submission to be better this year than her baby storyline last year. However, while I’m a fan of her chemistry with Alec Baldwin, I feel that her banters with him can go either way: people appreciating it or people feeling Baldwin owned that scene. Still Emmyless Kathy Bates nabbed two noms this year, and the first one is for her portrayal as the reincarnation of Charlie Sheen’s character in Two and a Half Men. In her submitted episode, she gets to smoke cigar and play the role of Charlie that is reminiscent of the Emmy nominated character. If voters feel that she’s somewhat overdue, I can see them giving her the Emmy in this category. Margaret Cho seems like a very humble character actress who was very elated with her Emmy nomination; however, her material simply does not warrant it. Her total episode screentime reminds me of Ellen Busrtyn’s infamous 2006 nomination. Yes, she gets to play different characters, but even in her submitted episode, it was her co-nominee Banks that stole the show from her. Dot Marie Jones remains to be the sole major Emmy nod for Glee, and her consecutive nod is an assurance that voters really like her character. While her episode tends to be on the dramatic side, she certainly leaves enough impact at the end f her episode, and I won’t be surprised if voters reward her with the trophy. The last two noms are both from Saturnday Night Live; the first one is current Emmy Best Actress Comedy champ Melissa McCarthy. In her submitted episode, she was really memorable especially in the skits that involved tasting a new salad dressing and the one where she keeps on falling the stairs. Those two skits alone can definitely assure her a justified and deserved win, IMO. The other SNL nominated performance belongs to Maya Rudolph who is a past SNL alum. This is the first time she hosted the show, and I’m really happy that she got nominated. The variation of the roles she played from a white trash (with Amy Poehler) to Beyonce to Michelle Obama and Maya Angelou is really memorable, and she blends well with the cast that it’s just pure comic genius that you’re seeing while watching the episode.
In the end, I feel it’s a battle of the Bridesmaids co-stars. At one hand, McCarthy being Emmy champ and the current comedy it girl can reap a second Emmy win, and like what I said, this win is definitely justified if it happens. She also has a bigger chance of winning here than reaping a second Lead Actress Comedy win, so if voters really want to reward her, they might vote for her here. On the other hand, Maya Rudolph also poses as a threat having the longest screentime and most memorable characters played in her episode (her Beyonce skit is Emmy worthy already!). If there happens to be a vote splitting between them, then expect Dot Marie Jones to prevail here with her serious and dramatic episode. But for now, I’m sticking with Maya Rudolph.
Prediction: Melissa McCarthy, “Saturday Night Live”
Dark Horse: Maya Rudolph, “Saturday Night Live”
Complete Rankings:
1. Rudolph
2. McCarthy
3. Jones
4. Bates
5. Banks
6. Cho
Posted August 19, 2012 by Nicol Latayan in Awards, TV
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Balchin Family Society
Sir Roger de Balchen
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The Loss of the Victory Man of War
Model of Admiral Sir John Balchen’s Victory
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Edmund Balchin (1826 – 1888) – Gun Maker of Hull
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Nigel Marlin Balchin (1908 – 1970)
Professor William Balchin (1916 – 2007)
Carlton House, 15 Cheyne Walk, Chelsea
Cedar House, Cobham, Surrey
Daux, West Chiltington, Sussex
New Place, Lingfield , Surrey.
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2009 – Chestnut Lodge, Loseley Park.
2006 – Brooklands Museum, Weybridge, Surrey
2005 – Horsham, Sussex
2004 – Dorking, Surrey
2003 – Farnham Castle, Farnham, Surrey
2002 – University of Sussex, Brighton
2001 – Royal Holloway College, Nr Egham, Surrey
2000 – Portsmouth, Hampshire
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1999 – Aldershot, Hampshire
1998 – Alfold, Surrey
1997 – Godalming, Surrey
1996 – Royal Geographical Society, Kensington Gore, London
1995 – Little Bookham Common, Leatherhead, Surrey
1994 – Guidford, Surrey
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25 September 2017 27 November 2018 rlb_878032 History
Sir Rogon de Balchen and the Abbey of Lieu Dieu
We have long known of the existence of Sir Roger (or Rogon) de Balchen for he is mentioned in two manuscripts in the British Library. The first is dated 1191 and is a deed drawn up in Latin by Bernard IV Count of St Valery who owned vast lands near the Normandy/Picardy border in France as well as on the other side of the Channel near Oxford. In 1191, the Count accompanied King Richard I, Lionheart, on crusade and, before he went, he was anxious to ensure that prayers would be said for his soul, should he perish in the Holy Land. Accordingly he founded an Abbey near Gamaches, close to the modern Abbeville, by purchasing various pieces of land and confirming them in perpetuity to the Cistercian Order. One such area he bought from Sir Rogon de Balchen and in the 1191 deed he gave this to the Abbey which was to be called Lieu Dieu, The Place of God. One of the deed’s witnesses was Sir Rogon, who was a knight in the Count’s service, and who possibly accompanied him to Outremer. In the British Library deed of 1207, Count Thomas, son and heir of Bernard III reiterates the grant to the religious order and again mentions the land (about 40 hectares) which he bought from de Balchen (spelled de Bauchen here).
Sir Rogon had inherited a considerable land holding, some 47 fiefs, which had been given by William the Conqueror, to his ancestor Sire Hugues de Beauchamp, after the Norman invasion of England, for his loyalty during the campaign. Sir Rogon was Seigneur of Beauchamp and of Bouvaincourt, two manors close to each other in the Gamaches area. It is very probable, therefore, that Balchen, Bauchen, Bauchien and ultimately the modern Balchin, are simply derivatives of Beauchamp.
Sir Rogon arranged for his own burial to be in the Abbey of Lieu Dieu of which he had been a benefactor. He died about 1215-1220 and his tomb was decorated with a memorial showing him in complete panoply of chain mail, his head protected by a coif de mailles which is joined to the hauberk or mail shirt. This extends to the hands which are put together in prayer. The legs and feet are covered by long mail chausses. He wears a linen surcoat gathered at the waist with a belt, and probably a guige (shoulder belt), to which a long sword is attached. Above each shoulder are ailettes, meant to protect the neck from blows, each depicts his coat of arms: barry ermine and vert (horizontal bars of ermine and green). Above his head in Picardian Old French is CHI GIST MES SIRE ROGON DE BAUCHEN–PRIE—Here Lies Sir Rogon de Balchen—Pray (for his Soul).
The memorial is extremely interesting in that it is made in glazed tiles in several colours, probably by a monastic tile factory in the area. Later ones were made, of course, of brass and are visible in many of our churches.
Sir Rogon lay undisturbed in the Abbey for many centuries, although the church was partially destroyed around him by Henry V on his way to Agincourt in 1415, again by the Burgundians in 1472, once more by the Calvinists in 1638 and finally raised almost to the ground during the French Revolution.
Lieu Dieu is now an equestrian centre and M & Mme Maillard de Thézy are the present owners. Today, of the Abbey, only part of a tower and of an outhouse remain, although the cloister and garden areas are still very visible. In 1978, under what is now a car park, archaeologists discovered Sir Rogon’s tombstone. In the grave beneath were no human remains. It was photographed and sketched at the time and the tiles removed to the museum at Abbeville. Alas, after thirty years, the tiles are (2009) still in a box in the basement and cannot currently be seen…..However, Mme La Conservateur may hopefully persuade her chiefs to spare her some money for the preservation and display of this unique artefact for it is the only near complete example in existence.
A glance at the sketch(figure, left) shows that at some time, possibly at the end of the 17th century when the church was reconstructed, the tiles of the figure’s lower half have been removed and subsequently replaced in a muddled fashion. No artist who created the Sir Rogon’s torso so carefully would have given him two stumpy left feet! In the drawing, therefore, these tiles have been cut out and moved about into what is probably their original position (there are still many missing) and, based on pictures of early memorial brasses, his legs and surcoat and part of his sword have been completed with dotted lines (figure, right)
The first documentary evidence of Balchins in this country concerns Henry of East Worldham whose signature is on a lay subsidy in 1327. He was born, therefore, around 1280 and is the confirmed ancestor of all the Balchins on the current family tree. He owned some land in West Surrey for which he issued a quitclaim.
In the centuries after the Conquest it was common for Norman knights to own land on both sides of the channel. Because relations between the two countries were unsettled, it was wise for Norman families to settle some of their members in England so that their interests could be looked after in times of strife. We believe, therefore, that a grandson, possibly great grandson, of Sir Rogon de Balchen, Seigneur de Bouvaincourt, settled here on the Surrey-Hampshire-Sussex border and thus his name, which died out in France, became anglicised.
Below is an image of what the tomb would have looked like, by Henrietta Webb.
If your name is Balchin or you are descended from, or married to, a Balchin, you will be most sincerely welcomed as a Member of the Balchin Family Society.
Family Newsletters
THE BALCHIN FAMILY NEWSLETTER Issue 49 January 2019 Contents page Balchins in Business (Bernie & Roger Balchin) – Diana Beamish […]
THE BALCHIN FAMILY NEWSLETTER Issue 48 July 2018 Contents page Nigel Cecil Balchin – Ruth Bond / edited by […]
THE BALCHIN FAMILY NEWSLETTER Issue 47 January 2018 Contents page 2017 Gathering – Diana Beamish 5 Searching for the […]
THE BALCHIN FAMILY NEWSLETTER Issue 46 July 2017 Contents page Bankrupt Balchins – Diana Beamish 4 Campanula Capers – […]
THE BALCHIN FAMILY NEWSLETTER Issue 45 January 2017 Contents page In Memoriam 4 Siblings in the First World War: […]
THE BALCHIN FAMILY NEWSLETTER Issue 44 July 2016 Contents page Dr Nigel C Balchin – Lord Lingfield (Sir Robert […]
THE BALCHIN FAMILY NEWSLETTER Issue 43 January 2016 Contents page Arthur John Balchin – Florence Willard, née Balchin 4 […]
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Levi Ackerman
Character Spotlight: Levi Ackerman
Levi is the squad captain of the Special Operations Squad within the Survey Corps, and is said to be humanity's strongest soldier.
No Regrets manga
Junior High/High School manga
Spoof on Titan manga
Chibi Theater anime
Junior High anime
リヴァイ・アッカーマン
Rivai Akkāman
"Humanity's Strongest Soldier" (人類最強の兵士 Jinrui Saikyō no Heishi?)[1]
Early 30s (850)[13][14]
30s (854)[15]
Ackerman clan
Kuchel Ackerman (mother, deceased)
Kenny Ackerman (uncle, deceased)
Unnamed great grandfather (deceased)
Mikasa Ackerman (relative)
Mr. Ackerman (relative, deceased)
December 25th[2]
Squad Captain (兵士長 Heishichō?)
Former occupation
Thug[3]
A++[4]
Titan kills
Solo: At least 89[5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12]
In team: Unknown
Total: At least 89
Captain Levi
I want to put an end to that recurring nightmare, right now. There are those who would get in my way. But I'm fine playing the role of the lunatic who kills people like that. I have to be ready to rearrange some faces. Because I choose the hell of humans killing each other over the hell of being eaten.
— Levi explains his mentality to his squad[16]
Levi Ackerman (リヴァイ・アッカーマン Rivai Akkāman?), often formally referred to as Captain Levi (リヴァイ兵長 Rivai Heichō?), is the squad captain (兵士長 Heishichō?, lit. "leader of the soldiers") of the Special Operations Squad within the Survey Corps, and is widely known as humanity's strongest soldier.[1]
Levi has short, straight black hair styled in an undercut, as well as narrow, intimidating dull gray eyes with dark circles under them and a deceptively youthful face. He is quite short, but his physique is well-developed in musculature from extensive vertical maneuvering equipment usage. He is usually either frowning or expressionless; that, plus his extremely calm demeanor, often makes it difficult for others to guess what he is thinking.
He is most often seen in his Survey Corps uniform, with a light gray button up shirt underneath along with his trademark white ascot. When embarking on expeditions outside the Walls, he also wears the Survey Corps' green hooded cloak. Once, when forced to take leave from his duties due to injury, Levi was seen in a black suit, plain white shirt, ascot, and dress shoes.[citation needed] However, since the beginning of the coup d'état, he has left the ascot off. For most of the time during which the Survey Corps were on the run from the military and monarchy, he simply wore his vertical maneuvering equipment harness over casual clothes.[citation needed]
As a result of his early childhood years, Levi is described as a "clean freak" by those who know him personally as he prefers his environment and himself to be spotlessly clean. He is averse to having either himself or his equipment soiled, and has been known to wipe down his blood-smeared blades while still on the battlefield. However, he will not hesitate to touch filth if he deems it necessary.[17][18]
Levi shows his obsession with cleaning
Despite his preoccupation with cleanliness, Levi is not very approachable. He rarely shows emotion, giving a cold impression to others. His manner of speaking tends to be very blunt, even insulting, and his comments are often coarse or inappropriate. He is not above provoking or belittling those who oppose or irritate him. His sense of humor tends toward the vulgar, insulting, and dark. All of this makes him unsettling to a great number of people.
In his pre-Survey Corps criminal life, when he lived in the Underground City, Levi refused to take orders from anyone (as Petra Ral tells Eren), though he placed a great trust in his comrades, something he would later do with his subordinates. However, after he joined the Survey Corps, he came to greatly respect Commander Erwin Smith, whose orders he follows willingly because he trusts in Erwin's vision for the Corps.
Levi's obedience is strictly limited to individuals he respects, and he has no problem showing open disdain for authority from anyone outside of this circle. At Eren's tribunal, he insulted the merchants by calling them "pigs" and told the Military Police that they were not competent enough to handle Eren,[19] mocking several MPs by observing that they have never battled or even seen a single Titan. He even sardonically suggests that they join the Survey Corps, which caused them to back off. He openly resents most of the MPs for their continual attempts to undermine the Survey Corps, and also presumably because of the criminal life he led before he joined the Corps.
Although he rarely shows it, Levi has a strong sense of morality and empathy. One of his most defining characteristics is the great value he places on preserving human life; this is especially shown when it was revealed that all Titans might have once been human themselves. The thought that he had unknowingly been killing humans all this time disturbs him greatly.
Though he bore no malice against Eren, he was willing to resort to violence in order to save his life at his tribunal, eventually asking Eren whether he resented him for the beating. Levi himself has stated that he hates unnecessary casualties, and he tells his subordinates to use their judgment so that they can avoid blunders that may cost them their lives.
Levi beats up Eren at the military tribunal
Because of their hazardous profession and his personal values, he cares greatly for his subordinates' welfare. This is seen several times: when ordered to retreat early to Wall Rose at the end of the disastrous 57th Expedition, Levi was visibly distressed that so many of his soldiers had died on a fruitless mission. Later, he risked his life against the Female Titan in order to retrieve Eren from her mouth and also to protect to Mikasa, who had gone after her recklessly looking for vengeance. As they re-entered the gate, Petra's father approached him, cheerfully talking about his daughter and her unwavering devotion to the Survey Corps. Unbeknownst to him, his daughter had just been killed; Levi remained silent, he was too overcome with grief to reply. Levi was visibly affected by the loss of his entire original Special Operations Squad at the hands of the Female Titan, stating that he carries the will of his fallen comrades, and that their collective grudge against the Titans further strengthens his resolve to continue to fight.
Despite his obedience to Erwin, Levi operates rather independently. Many of his Titan kills are solo, accomplished with little direct cooperation from other soldiers (due to him usually assigning them to hunt other Titans in the vicinity). Although he is looked up to by many, and he does not hesitate to give orders when necessary, Levi does not see himself as a leader in the same way Erwin is. He does not seem to have much use for hierarchy in general, and he leaves decisions up to his subordinates as often as he can.
Though Levi is aware that his battle skill is in a different league from that of almost any other human soldier alive, he is not particularly arrogant about it, as he knows from experience that no human soldier is invulnerable. Few will argue with his claims that only he can handle certain difficult tasks, because he has proven his ability to accomplish them.
While Levi shows loyalty and empathy for his comrades, he shows no mercy towards the Titans, slaughtering them indiscriminately with obvious indifference. However, when the Titans are former friends and subordinates, Levi can briefly hesitate and wonder if they are still aware of their actions while trapped inside their Titan forms; regardless, Levi has displayed no problem in killing them. When dealing with individuals he perceives to be enemies to mankind, Levi is capable of behaving sadistically, even vindictively. For example, when the Female Titan was captured, Levi told her he enjoyed watching her suffer and described in chilling detail how he intended to mutilate her human body. He has also tortured Djel Sannes with Hange Zoë, punching him and twisting his already broken nose. After defeating Zeke Yeager a second time, he sadistically made it clear that he was going to torture Zeke for his crimes against Paradis and the Survey Corps, impaling him with a Thunder Spear. Levi displays no emotion during these times aside from bloodlust, shown by him methodically slicing apart Zeke's legs.[20]
Levi is occasionally known to lose his calm demeanor and to use threats or violence to get others to listen to him, even if they are fellow members of the corps. An example of such behavior was shown when he directly ordered Historia Reiss to take on the role of queen when the question was presented to her. When she shakily says she is unfit, he grabs her and lifts her off the ground, choking her and telling her to fight back if she does not like it. He then drops her and yells at her to make her decision, but is however calm once again when she complies with his demands.[21]
A young Levi and Kenny met
Levi is the son of Kuchel Ackerman, a prostitute who worked in the Underground and was made pregnant by one of her clients. One day, Kenny Ackerman, Kuchel's older brother, came to the city to see her only to find that she was dead.[22] There, he found a young and squalid Levi sitting in front of his mother's bed.
In a rare showing of compassion, Kenny decided to take care of him. He raised Levi as well as he could: teaching him knife skills, how to get along with people, and violent behavior. Levi also learned to use his own inner power that he possessed as a member of the Ackerman clan.[23]
Time passed and eventually, Kenny taught Levi everything he knew. However, he did not consider himself as a good father figure. [24][25] One day, in the subterranean city, Levi started a fight which he won easily. At that moment, Kenny decided to leave him behind, satisfied that he had taught Levi the skills he needed to survive.[26]
Later, he became a notorious thug in the underground, but eventually left the place to join the Survey Corps.[3] Although he was at odds with Erwin,[27] he ended up becoming one of his most trusted men.
Ilse's Notebook
While on an expedition beyond the Walls, Levi and Hange recover the notebook of a soldier named Ilse Langnar. After reading the contents of the journal, Levi is left stunned and comments that it is what Ilse died for.[28]
Levi saves the group
Levi is seen leaving Trost District, along with the rest of the Survey Corps, on the 56th Expedition Beyond the Walls—the same day the Colossus Titan attacks the district.
While on the expedition, Levi sees a soldier caught in the jaws of a nearby Titan and kills it. As more Titans approach, Levi orders Petra Ral to take care of the injured soldier while he takes care of the remaining Titans. After clearing the immediate area, Levi checks on the injured soldier, who is quickly succumbing to his injuries. In an attempt to comfort the scout in his dying moments, Levi assures him that he has done his duty well. As the soldier dies, Erwin arrives and informs Levi that they are returning to Trost. Levi is unwilling to turn back so soon, is forced to concede when Erwin informs him that Wall Rose has possibly been breached.[29]
Battle of Trost District arc
Levi arrives back in Trost in time to find two Titans bearing down on four soldiers at the base of the Wall. He quickly kills the Titans, and demands that the soldiers fill him in on what has happened.[30]
Three days later, after Eren wakes up in the dungeon beneath the courthouse, Levi assures him that the higher-ups will let him join the Survey Corps—and that he himself will make sure Eren does not get out of hand. Should that happen, Levi says, he will not hesitate to end Eren's life.[31]
The Female Titan arc
After Eren issues a verbal challenge to the audience during his trial, Levi violently beats him on the spot, mockingly observing that while chained on his knees, Eren is perfectly placed for his kicks. Armin has to restrain an infuriated Mikasa from coming to Eren's rescue and killing Levi. She glares at Levi after the trial, and Levi appears unsettled by her gaze. The beating was an act, which Mikasa was not aware of, and was designed to convince all witnesses that while the Military Police Brigade cannot keep Eren under control. Levi can.[32]
Levi attempts to calm his squad down
After the trial, Levi hands Eren over to his Special Operations Squad for the next month. They move into the old Survey Corps HQ inside Wall Rose. Levi orders Eren to sleep in the castle dungeon, so that if he accidentally transforms, he will not cause problems.[33] During this month, Hange conducts experiments to try to get Eren to transform. If Eren goes out of control in Titan form, Levi intends to cut him out of the nape in a manner that would sever his human limbs, which would grow back in any case. However, Eren fails to transform, and his hands do not heal from his bites. The Squad decides to postpone any further experiments.[34]
One day, while having tea with them, Eren leans over to pick up a spoon and accidentally generates a partial Titan body. The alarmed Squad threatens him, and Levi has to defuse the situation.[35] Levi tells Eren not to take their actions personally, and that they have good intentions. Later, after Hange explains why Eren triggered his Titan form, Levi's entire squad punishes themselves, and apologizes to Eren for acting on assumption.[36]
During the 57th Expedition Beyond the Walls, Levi and his team are ordered to ride in the safest area of Erwin's formation. When the formation is suddenly attacked by a horde of Titans coming at their right flank, they change course toward the Titan Forest, and Levi's squad takes the central route.[37]
Once the Female Titan appears, his squad begs Levi to give them orders, but he continues to ride forward and look straight ahead.[38] Eren badly wants to transform and fight the Female Titan, but Petra and her comrades urge him to trust them, and Eren hesitates.[39] Levi tells Eren that he is not wrong for wanting to transform and that nobody can know the correct choice until after they have made it. Whatever Eren chooses to do, Levi says, he should do it and believe he will not regret it. Eren then declares that he trusts completely in his squad's victory, and they keep going through the Forest.[40][41] This enables the Survey Corps to capture the Female Titan.[42]
Levi and Mike try to attack the Female Titan
Shortly afterward, Levi gets separated from his squad. He reunites with Erwin and prepares to extract the human in control of the Female Titan from the nape of her neck.[43] He and Mike attack her and try to cut her hands, only to discover her ability to harden her skin.[44] After Erwin orders the cannons to be loaded with explosives and aimed at the Female Titan's wrists, Levi, standing on her head, taunts her with threats of violence, telling her he would like to face her in her human form over the deaths of countless of his soldiers. In response, the Female Titan begins to roar.[45] Shortly after, Titans come at her from all directions and devour her. On Erwin's order, Levi and the rest of the Survey Corps elite try to protect her from them, but they fail due to the sheer number of Titans. Erwin orders the Corps to retreat back to the Karanes District.[46][47] However, Erwin notes that the steam from the Titan bodies will make it difficult for the rest of the Survey Corps to see the signal flares. He then realizes that the human inside the Female Titan may have escaped, and he orders Levi to replenish his gas canisters and blades.[48]
After the Female Titan returns and kills Levi's entire squad and captures Eren, he and Mikasa join forces to rescue him. Levi tells Mikasa to distract the Titan but avoid trying to kill her, since she is able to harden her skin.[49] Levi then proceeds to attack the Female Titan, and after a series of successful attacks, he incapacitates her. Seeing that the Female Titan is now helpless, Mikasa disobeys Levi's orders and attempts to kill the person inside the Titan. However, the Female Titan swings her hardened fist at Mikasa, and Levi is forced to pull Mikasa out of the way. While doing this, Levi injures his left leg.[50] Using the momentum he gained from the last attack, Levi then proceeds to cuts through the Female Titan's facial muscles, causing her to open her mouth and release Eren. He grabs Eren and flees with Mikasa, whom he reprimands for having risked the life of her "special friend" for the sake of vengeance.[51] As he leaves, he takes one more look at the beaten Female Titan and is visibly surprised to see it crying.
Levi's reaction to the words of Petra's father
As they enter Karanes after retreating, the Survey Corps receives a hostile response from the public for their failed mission. Levi is approached by Petra's father, who reveals that she wrote to him frequently. He tells Levi that, as a father, he is worried about Petra's decision to dedicate her life to him, as she is still quite young and has her whole life ahead of her. Levi continues to walk silently ahead without responding.[52] A few days later, Eren is summoned to the Capitol for a trial to decide his fate. Beforehand, Levi, Erwin, Eren, and the other survivors reunite in the old Survey Corps HQ. Armin tells them his theory about the Female Titan's true identity.[53] Levi, still injured, does not participate in the subsequent operation in the Stohess District; during this part of the arc he is only seen with Erwin.[54]
During the supposed breach of Wall Rose, Levi is seen accompanying Hange and the others as they head to Ehrmich District while they attempt to get information from Minister Nick. Though he will not personally offer them any information, he agrees to reveal the identity of a person who is able to speak about the secrets of the Walls: Historia Reiss. The Shiganshina Trio offer to help locate her, and in describing her, Mikasa reveals the name of Ymir—much to Hange's and Levi's surprise.[55]
Levi is briefly seen again at Trost District, still sidelined due to his injury. After the appearance of the Armored and Colossus Titans atop Wall Rose, a detachment of about 100 soldiers from all three military branches is gathered. Some of the MPs express disappointment not to have seen any Titans nearby. Levi calls their bluff by inviting them to join the Survey Corps any day so they can go outside of the Walls to fight them, whereupon they back down.[56]
Levi sees Erwin's reaction to Hange's theory that Titans used to be humans
Levi visits Erwin when he is well enough to talk and expresses sympathy for the loss of Erwin's arm. Hange and Connie arrive as well to report on their findings regarding Ragako village and Hange says that they support the theory that the Titans were once human.[57] Levi is initially skeptical because they have never found humans inside the bodies of Titans, even living ones, and is depressed to think that he could have been killing people this whole time. Hange offers some comfort in that there is no solid proof of that.[58]
By contrast, Erwin smiles at the news, which disturbs Levi to the point he says Erwin is going to make him sick. Since Erwin is exhausted from his ordeal, Levi notifies him that he has taken the liberty of selecting members for his new Special Operations Squad. He believes that Eren needs to be pushed into desperation.[59]
Levi discusses the plan and Nick's murder
Levi, Hange, and members of their squads retreat to a remote cabin where Eren and Historia are being hidden. Their objective is still to seal the hole in Wall Maria, and if Eren can do that as a Titan it would save the logistical costs of hauling out materials like originally planned. When Eren says he is willing, Levi gives Hange the responsibility of running the experiments necessary to test the limits of Eren's abilities.[60]
However, Hange also wants to lay low because Minister Nick has been murdered.[61] After hearing the details, Levi disagrees. An enemy that persistent will find them eventually. He also guesses that Nick did not reveal any information, as all his fingernails had been pulled out. Someone willing to talk, he states, would have given up after just one. Levi sees two paths forward: they can either flee before they are stabbed in the back, or exterminate their would-be killers. Hange suggests they do both, and Levi notes that this is exactly what Erwin would say.[62]
Levi, ready to take action
After running their experiments, Levi receives a note from Erwin and asks those members of his squad "dumb enough" to trust the Commander to come with him. They manage to escape before intruders reach their cabin and hurry to their rendezvous point. When they arrive, they are approached by a crowd that blame the Survey Corps for the poor living conditions in Trost District. In the middle of this, a carriage comes crashing through and seemingly kidnaps Eren and Historia.[63] However, the kidnapped ones are actually Jean Kirstein and Armin in disguise. Levi and his squad track the kidnappers to their hideout.[64]
The Survey Corps and Reeves Company form an alliance
They attack the kidnappers before the deception can be discovered and quickly subdue them. Their leader turns out to be Dimo Reeves, the merchant boss who was blocking the gate with his cargo the day Trost was invaded. Reeves protests about not knowing anything and Levi suggests that they go out and talk. On top of Wall Rose, Levi says he is not here to lecture him, but find out about the deal Reeves made with the Interior Military Police. Reeves reveals that there was no deal so much as if his company did not cooperate his employees would be out of jobs and he would be dead.[65]
Though the Reeves Company does a lot of good for Trost, Levi recognizes that this will not last and compares Reeves' fight with the Military Police to that of the Survey Corps against the Titans. So that Reeves will fight too, Levi offers to hand over Eren and Historia on three conditions: the Reeves Company will work against the Interior Military Police together with the Survey Corps, the Reeves Company will trust the Survey Corps completely, and the Survey Corps will receive priority access to any luxury goods. It is a hard bargain, but Reeves agrees and baits Djel Sannes and Ralph of the Interior First Squad into a trap so that they can be captured by the Survey Corps.[66]
Levi torturing Djel Sannes
In hiding below ground, Levi and Hange begin work on Sannes,[67] who proves difficult to crack, even after being beaten and having his fingernails removed to equal the treatment received by Minister Nick. Sannes expresses some remorse for the torture he has had to inflict, but believes it was necessary to maintain peace within the Walls. Levi is unsympathetic and suggests beginning Sannes' torture properly if he does not answer questions correctly, starting with the identity of the Reiss family.[68]
Rather than giving in to the torture, Sannes goads them into tormenting him further. He knows what it is like to be the torturer and the power it gives. Disgusted, Levi suggests they take a break, and they leave the door open a crack behind them.[69] This allows Sannes to overhear a staged conversation between Levi and Ralph, where Levi claims that Ralph told them everything and Ralph in turn pretends to have no care for Sannes, calling him a pain, and asking if there will be a bed in his cell. Levi adds that if Sannes speaks, the two of them can even be housed in the same cell together later. This is enough to break Sannes and he confesses that the Reiss family is the true royal bloodline.[70]
The next morning Nifa returns after carrying news of the Reiss family heritage to Erwin and bringing back a return message. Levi holds a meeting with his squad along with Keiji, Nifa, and the goggled soldier from Hange's squad. Dimo and his son, Flegel Reeves, are present as well and Levi insists that they stay. However, Levi neglected to inform his squad of Historia's heritage, shocking her when Nifa raises the topic of how to place her on the throne. When Historia panics, he agrees that most people would not step up under such circumstances, but it does not change things. She has to do it. He makes it clear that if she refuses, she had better run, because they will do everything in their power to force her.[71]
Levi ordering Historia to be the Queen
Though the rest of his squad is upset by his behavior, Levi presents his worldview, where food, sleep, even the lives of companions are not guaranteed to be around tomorrow. He is abnormal, the way he sees things, but because of it, Levi will be faster to react to a crisis than any of them. If he has to play the lunatic and kill some people to save some portion of humanity then he will, but it would be better if someone else simply seized control of the world so things do not come to that point. Unfortunately they do not have the time for Historia to think this over, so he snaps and demands her answer immediately. She cracks beneath the pressure and agrees. They then move ahead with the plan for the Reeves Company to hand over Eren and Historia and track their kidnappers to Rod Reiss.[72]
The kidnapping goes wrong when Dimo Reeves and his employees are killed [73] and the murders pinned on the Survey Corps.[74] While his squad waits in an alley for their part in the rescue plan, Levi along with most of Hange's manages to catch up with the First Interior Squad in town and spy on the hearse and coffins that they suspect are carrying Eren and Historia. Levi is disturbed that the First Squad figured out the Reeves Company deception, because that would require thinking like him, or perhaps more like "Kenny the Ripper." Nifa calls him an urban legend, but Levi assures her that he is real and that they lived together when he was a kid. He notices how the tactics he uses are strongly influenced by Kenny.[75]
Levi avoiding a shot from Kenny Ackerman while Nifa is killed
As he realizes this, Kenny Ackerman appears behind him, wearing vertical maneuvering equipment that is modified to work with guns for killing humans. Levi narrowly dodges being shot, but Nifa is killed instantly. Elsewhere around the stakeout, Keiji and the goggled soldier are killed as well.[76]
Levi throws one of his blades at Kenny and dodges his next shot by throwing his cloak as cover. He makes a break for it, frustrated that Kenny can read all of his moves and shocked that Kenny of all people has become an MP. Members of the Anti-Personnel Control Squad ambush Levi, using vertical maneuvering equipment modified for use with firearms, and he takes cover in a bar to avoid being shot. Kenny follows him inside.[77]
The two of them exchange barbs about their past and while Kenny talks, Levi takes the opportunity to load the barkeeper's rifle and reposition an alcohol bottle, allowing him to see Kenny in its reflection. Kenny figures that Levi joined the Survey Corps for the same reason he joined the Military Police. He found something he wanted to do and hobbies make life worth living. When Levi asks if killing his soldiers is a part of that, Kenny admits he will kill anyone if it gets the job done and says Levi would do the same.[78]
Levi agrees and shoots Kenny by aiming with the bottle's reflection. The shot hits the chair Kenny is holding, but is still strong enough to throw him back outside and Levi takes the opportunity to escape. He tosses a chair through a window to distract the squad members outside before emerging himself and firing a grappling line into the throat of the nearest one. The remaining two members nearby prepare to fire, but Levi uses the dead man as a meat shield so that he can get in close in and kill them. He continues to flee and curses that there are still over ten pursuers left.[79]
Levi flees from the Anti-Personnel Squad
Levi catches up with his squad while the Anti-Personnel Squad is chasing him. He kills one of the MPs before landing in Armin's wagon and orders them to stop following the hearse. Their plan has leaked and now Eren and Historia are being used as bait to kill them. As they make their escape, he tells his squad that they must kill their pursuers whenever they have the opportunity, but Jean is unable to do so and finds himself on the wrong side of a gun.[80]
Before Jean can be slain, Armin uses his pistol to lethally shoot the MP and save his life. Though Levi's squad escapes intact, Armin is deeply bothered by the fact he was willing to kill someone and Levi explains to him that he was able to pull the trigger because he knew that if he did not, then Jean would have died. Jean admits he thought Levi's way of doing things was wrong, but it was more that he did not want to hurt other people. He will fire next time. Levi agrees that Jean's softness put them in a bad spot, but he does not know what is right or wrong and Jean might not have been wrong.[81]
Levi carefully instructs Marlowe and Hitch of their fate
Levi and his squad trap Marlowe Freudenberg and Hitch Dreyse, who have been sent into the forest to look for Survey Corps soldiers. They take their uniforms with the intention of infiltrating the Military Police to find out where Eren and Historia have been taken. Before he can announce their fates, Hitch challenges him over the civilian deaths in Stohess District and berates his squad over the disappearance and presumed death of Annie, who she never really got to know.[82]
Levi corrects her about Annie's true state, in that she was the Titan hiding in Stohess and she is currently being held, though that is not likely a fact they want new recruits to know. It bothers him that collectively so many people are in the dark about the truth of their world. Marlowe asks if the Survey Corps really killed the people from the Reeves Company and Levi replies that it was the Interior Military Police, which causes Marlowe to offer helping him to set things right. He would be more effective as an actual MP than Levi's disguised soldiers. Levi is skeptical, but Jean steps in and asks if he can handle this. Levi allows it.[83]
Jean tests their character to see where their hearts truly lie and when it is clear they have no intention of killing him or following their original orders, he believes this is enough to convince Levi to trust them.[84] Levi and his squad use the information gathered by Hitch and Marlowe to attack an Interior Military Police compound.[85]
The infiltration goes successfully, with the Interior MPs being disabled rather than killed, but they do not find Eren and Historia. Levi and his squad depart with one hostage who Levi interrogates about their location, but the MP refuses to talk, instead spouting off about how the Survey Corps will be lucky to survive and how Erwin and the other captured soldiers will be executed. He tells Levi that their only option is to surrender and hope that enough to spare their comrades' lives.[86]
Levi breaks the arm of a First Interior Squad member while asking where Eren and Historia are
Undeterred, Levi asks again where Eren and "Krista" are located. The MP is surprised that Levi would give up on his comrades, but Levi doubts the crown would spare them and savagely twists and breaks the MP's arm for not answering his question. The third time he asks about Eren and "Krista" the MP is panicked and confesses that he does not know where they are. Kenny Ackerman is extremely tight-lipped about it.[87]
Both Levi and Mikasa are surprised to hear the last name, but they are interrupted by people approaching on foot before they can question the MP further. The squad prepares to do an ambush.[88]
Hange announces that the Survey Corps have been absolved of their guilt and Levi's squad celebrates
However, the newcomers turn out to be Hange along with Marlowe and Hitch, who have come with good news. The false charges against the Survey Corps have been dropped and the capital is now under the control of Commander-in-Chief Darius Zackly. Levi's squad celebrates and he asks what in the world could have been done to accomplish this. Hange answers that it was the individual choices of many people that changed their world. He apologizes for losing Keiji, Nifa, and Goggles, but Hange finds hope in the fact that their sacrifice enabled Levi to beat the First Interior Squad, to which Levi admits that their leader and his team are still out there.[89]
Hange has a lead though and suspects that Eren is going to be eaten in order to obtain his Titan power. Erwin had a report commissioned on the Reiss estate, and assuming that Eren and Historia were captured by the Reiss family, that is likely where they are being held. The day Wall Maria fell a group of bandits burned down the village chapel while the Reiss family was inside, massacring everyone except for Rod Reiss. Days later he initiated contact with Historia. Levi concludes that there must be something special about her bloodline.[90]
The destroyed chapel is what interests Hange though, because fire should not have torn down a stone building, and then Rod Reiss rebuilt the place with his own assets. There is something strange about all that. Levi agrees and has everyone head there.[91]
Levi and Mikasa discuss Kenny, the name Ackerman, and the power that comes to those with that name
He warns his squad that Kenny will be their biggest obstacle, because fighting him will be like fighting Levi himself. Levi asks Mikasa if she thinks Kenny might be related to her since they share the same last name, Ackerman, but she does not directly answer. She only knows that her father's family was persecuted, and not the reason why. Levi then asks her whether she experienced a moment when she felt a sudden power awaken inside her. Upon confirming this, Levi tells Mikasa that he and Kenny also experienced such moments in their lives.[92]
Levi and Mikasa charge forward under cover of smoke to destroy the First Interior Squad and save Eren
They arrive at the chapel and find the secret door leading underground. Levi and the others make preparations for facing the Anti-Personnel Control Squad, which is waiting for them below.[93] The group sends barrels of gunpowder and bags of oil down the stairs, setting fire to them and filling the underground chamber with smoke, reducing visibility and the usefulness of firearms. Most of the squad exacerbates the problem with signal flares while Levi and Mikasa Scout out their enemies. Levi calls for his squad to take them down and the team springs into action. After a concerted push, they manage to drive back the Anti-Personnel Squad. Levi leaves Armin to take care of an injured Hange while he and the others chase after them.[94]
Levi apologizes to a doubtful Eren, before again telling him to make a choice
The squad finds Rod Reiss transforming into a Titan and Historia trying to free Eren from his chains. When she is blown back, Levi, Connie, and Jean take the keys to help free him. Making matters worse, the roof begins to collapse from the size of Rod's Titan and the team is trapped against the wall of the chamber. Eren is hesitant to act until Levi pushes him to make a choice, just like he did back when they were facing the Female Titan. The memory is enough to get Eren on his feet. He grabs the "Armor" bottle that had fallen out of Rod's bag and breaks it between his teeth as he transforms.[95] Eren's Titan form then crystallizes, stabilizing the cavern around the squad, preventing them from being crushed. Even after he is cut out of it, his hardened form does not disappear, which Levi states is a huge development, as they can now seal the hole in Wall Maria.[96]
Levi and his squad exit the cavern through a hole made in the ceiling above and see the trail of destruction left in the wake of Rod Reiss' Titan. Armin believes it is an abnormal since it is ignoring them and Levi tells everyone that they are going after it. Eren entertains the possibility of getting eaten by Rod, since that would turn him back into a human who would then have the powers of the Progenitor Titan, but Levi disabuses him of the notion. Even if they turn Rod Reiss back into a human, they would still have to undo the First King's brainwashing in order to get him to help them.[97]
Levi begrudgingly allows Historia to take part in the attack against Rod, thinking about the time he threatened her and told her to fight or run
Erwin meets up with them and Levi briefs him on the situation. The Survey Corps regroups in Orvud District in preparation to fight Rod.[98] At dawn, Historia joins the others on the Wall in preparation to defeat the gigantic Titan and Levi tries to convince her to stand down, but she pushes back using his own reasoning about choosing whether to run or to fight.[99]
Levi watches the Garrison's cannon attacks against Rod Reiss, noting how ineffective they are.[100] When the Titan reaches the Wall, Levi and his squad move forward with Erwin's plan to cripple Rod Reiss' hands with explosives and have Eren shoves barrels of gunpowder inside Rod's mouth, causing him to explode. The plan is a success and they begin cutting down the flying pieces of flesh to find Rod Reiss' true body and Historia is the one who kills him.[101]
Some time after the fight, Levi and a subordinate find Kenny sitting under a tree in the woods. Kenny is heavily wounded and Levi sends the other soldier away, saying he will be fine on his own. As if to mock him, Kenny shows Levi one of the syringes with the serum that transforms a person into a Titan. However Levi knows that if Kenny was inclined to use it, he would have done so by now. Levi asks him about the First King and why he does not want humanity to survive, but Kenny only knows that it was for that reason that the Ackermans opposed him. When Levi, now knowing that his last name is Ackerman, asks Kenny what exactly was he to his mother, Kenny laughs and reveals that he was her older brother, thereby making him Levi's uncle. Shocked, Levi questioned him on why he abandoned him and is told that the reason he left Levi was because he believed he was not fit to be a parent. He gives Levi the serum just before dying as Levi looked at his late uncle with a solemn expression.[102]
Levi thanks his subordinates
After Historia's coronation, Levi is confronted by the new queen and the members of the Special Operations Squad. She punches him, as Dimo Reeves had told her to do, and she dares him to retaliate. Instead of getting angry however, he smiles and thanks his friends.[103]
Two months later, Levi backs up Historia on providing a home for the poor and orphans, considering that he was from the Underground City as well.[104] He is present at Trost when Hange Zoë is testing out the Executioner from Hell and attends the military meeting where Erwin Smith goes over a new expedition to Shiganshina. In a private follow-up between the heads of the military, Erwin decides to entrust Levi with the Titan injection since he has the highest chance of surviving. It will be Levi's call if and when to use it.[105]
Return to Shiganshina arc
The next morning, Instructor Keith Shadis is visited at the training camp by Eren, Hange, Mikasa, Armin, Jean, Sasha, and Levi. The reason for this is that Eren now remembers a past memory where his father Dr. Yeager met Keith after the massacre in the Reiss family chapel. Eren asks Keith to tell him everything he knows about his father, and they go to a house to talk. Levi remarks that Keith has changed a lot since they last met, remembering his head full of hair and then looking at his now bald scalp.[106]
Keith starts by warning them that he knows nothing of Grisha's secrets, but anyway recounts to them all his experiences with him ever since they met 20 years ago, until the day of the fall of Wall Maria after Keith found Eren unconscious in a forest after receiving the Coordinate. A furious Hange tells him that he is not the one who decides if that information is valuable or not and reprimands him for not saying anything about it to the Survey Corps before, prompting Levi to tell her to stop. Hange continues to chastise him and is only silenced when she is again asked to stop by Eren.[107]
During a meeting with other members of the Survey Corps, Levi sits silently and listens to Hange tell Erwin what Keith Shadis explained to them on their visit. After the meeting is finished, Levi waits until all the other members have left and then shuts the door, intent on having a private conversation with Erwin. He tries to persuade Erwin to sit out on the upcoming mission to retake Wall Maria and to leave it to the others, telling him that in his weakened state, Erwin will simply be Titan food and that he is not willing to carry along any extra baggage. Erwin however explains to Levi that the chain of command must be preserved, and that he has an intense desire to see what is in Grisha's basement, which prompts Levi to threaten to break both of his legs. However, this does not deter Erwin and Levi realizes that he will unfortunately not be able to change Erwin's mind, even though he fears his death as a wounded soldier.[108]
Squad Levi advances towards Shiganshina District
Late that night at a special 'red meat' dinner, Levi breaks up a fight between Eren and Jean by kicking and throwing them both into submission. He then orders that they and the rest of the Corps to go back to their quarters and go to bed. Shortly after, Eren, Armin and Mikasa talk about their returning home and Levi listens to them while in the barn. As he hears Armin's ambitions, his expression is lowered and darkened.[109]
The next day, just before sunset, Levi along with the other Survey Corps leaders salute the higher-ups of the brass, including Darius Zackly and Commander Pixis. Levi watches on as the citizens of the Trost District cheer for the Survey Corps and call out his name. He acts modest and calls them selfish before seeing Erwin cheer back at the enthusiastic civilians. Right after, the 58th expedition begins, Levi rides out with the Corps at Erwin's side as he glances back at Eren and Mikasa.[110]
Near dawn, the Survey Corps walk on foot through a forest on a mountain, leading their horses. Levi questions a subordinate, asking if they are still not at the bottom of the mountain, worrying that it is almost dawn. As Squad Levi talk among themselves, Jean spots a Titan and Hange order the Corps to halt and illuminate the area, using fragments from the cave below the Reiss Chapel. She then states that the Titan is asleep, and the Corps continue.[111] Eventually, they reach Shiganshina District and ride in on their horses. Erwin orders the soldiers to be wary of hidden Titans and then orders them to switch to vertical maneuvering equipment and begin the mission. The soldiers leave their horses and rush toward the gate to Shiganshina. As Eren arrives atop the inner Wall, he stares at the ruins of his home town. He is quickly urged on by Levi to get to the outer gate and the two take off.[112] As per the plan, 100 soldiers covered by hoods rush to the outer gate to confuse any watching enemies, making sure they do not know which soldier is Eren. Hange and Levi wonder why there are no Titans in the area and Levi claims that they have fallen right into the enemy's hands. However, the two agree that they must go forward with the plan anyway as Eren flies up above the gate and prepares to transform.[113] After Eren successfully seals the hole in the Wall, Levi reminds him that they have to kill all of their enemies, including Reiner and Bertolt before their mission will truly be finished.[114]
Levi goes for the kill on Reiner
When Reiner is discovered by one of the Survey Corps members and attempts to attack Armin, Levi attacks Reiner, shoving his blade through the nape of his neck and stabbing him, before kicking him to the ground. After seeing that Reiner survived the brutal attack, Levi angrily laments that he was not able to kill Reiner. While on the ground, Reiner shifts into his Titan form. Levi makes his way back to Erwin's side, where the latter begins issuing commands. He tasks Levi with helping to protect the horses, believing that Levi is the only soldier he can trust to take out the Beast Titan. He arrives first, out of the two squads sent, and immediately kills two Titans,[8] ordering the soldiers under his command that they cannot die. After Bertolt is thrown over the Wall and transforms, Levi and his soldiers are bombarded by a barrage of stones and boulders from the Beast Titan. They retreat to the Wall where Erwin meets them. Levi asks about Eren and Squad Hange's well-being, and Erwin informs the soldiers of their increasingly desperate situation. As the young recruits fall into a panic, Levi asks Erwin if he has some kind of plan.[115]
Regarding the situation, Levi gives Erwin the advice to save as many lives as possible by "loading them on Eren" to make an escape.[116] Levi continues by saying that he will fight the Beast Titan. Although Levi knows that there is little chance of a victory, he deduces that there is still hope for the Survey Corps if Erwin and Eren survive. But for Levi to take down the Beast Titan, Erwin must sacrifice himself and his men. At this point, Erwin is melancholic, but Levi makes the decision and swears that he will take down the Beast Titan after telling his commander that he must die for them.[117] In an attempt to get closer to the Beast Titan, Levi uses the line of Titans around him to his advantage while in an open space. To his side, he notices Erwin's men following closely behind, fear-stricken as they ride toward their death.[118]
Levi shoves his sword through Zeke's head
After Erwin and most of the Survey Corps fall when charging the Beast Titan, Levi takes out the surrounding Titans and engages Zeke. After realizing what has happened, Zeke attempts to crush Levi, who merely dodges, slicing up the Titan's arm to pieces in the process. Levi then proceeds to slash the Beast Titan's eyes, blinding it, then cuts up its ankles which causes it to topple over. Slicing open the nape, Levi thrusts his blade into Zeke's mouth, commenting that his body is heavily damaged after transforming into a Titan so Zeke can not transform again while he is busy healing it. Further thrusting his blade right through Zeke's cheek and above his right eye, Levi decides he cannot kill him yet, pondering over whether there are anyone still alive who he would use the Titan injection on and have them eat Zeke to steal his Titan power. However, Levi is interrupted and shocked when the Cart Titan snatches Zeke and carries him away in its mouth. Zeke then orders the remaining Titans to kill Levi, but Levi, remembering his promise to Erwin, finds his resolve and begins to take on the Titans and chase down Zeke.[119]
Levi pursues Zeke and the Cart Titan back to Shiganshina District, where he is stopped by his lack of supplies. He orders Eren to give him all his gas and blades so that he can continue the chase, but Eren panics and demands that Levi give Armin, who has been mortally wounded, the Titan injection he is carrying. Levi hesitates, but agrees. Just as he is about to hand Eren the injection, a recruit crawls up onto the roof with Erwin, who is on the brink of death. Levi decides that he will give it to Erwin instead of Armin, which enrages Eren.[120]
Eren's insubordination over the serum is met with a punch from Levi
Appalled at Eren and Mikasa, Levi reminds them of how important Erwin's survival is, and orders them not to let their feelings bias their decision. When Eren refuses to step down, Levi forcefully punches his face and knocks him aside, before being pinned down by an enraged Mikasa. Eren and Mikasa try to convince Levi of Armin's value, while Floch argues that Levi is correct to save Erwin, and a fight between them is only narrowly avoided by the arrival of Hange, who pulls Mikasa off of Levi. Levi prepares to inject Erwin, but is given pause by Eren, who tries to sway Levi by telling him of Armin's dream to see the ocean. Levi orders his comrades to leave him alone while he injects Erwin.[121]
As Levi prepares to inject Erwin, he recalls Armin's conversation with Eren and Mikasa about the ocean, and Erwin's dream to see the secrets locked in Eren's basement. As he begins injecting Erwin, Levi recalls Kenny's final words about people becoming slaves to their own desires, and is surprised when Erwin lashes out in his sleep, knocking away the syringe. As he watches Erwin, Levi recalls his order to Erwin to give up on his dreams and die with the rest of the Survey Corps' recruits, and the look of relief on Erwin's face at the order.[122]
Levi sits with a dying Erwin
After injecting Armin, Levi watches as Armin's mindless Titan form devours Bertolt, and explains to a confused Floch that, after all he has given, it is time for Erwin to finally rest. Levi attempts to apologize to Erwin for failing to kill the Beast Titan, but Hange informs him that Erwin has already died.[123]
On top of the Wall, Levi notices that Armin has awoken. He fires a signal flare for the soldiers to regroup. He orders Eren to tell Armin about the events that occurred in the past few hours. Armin shows remorse for the measures his comrades have taken for him, but Levi advocates that he should not be regretful. Afterward, Levi follows Eren, Mikasa, and Hange to the Yeager family's basement. When the group find that Eren's key cannot open the locked door, Levi proceeds to kick the door open. They inspect the basement thoroughly and Mikasa finds a drawer which needs Eren's key to unlock. Initially empty, Levi discovers a false bottom and under it are three hidden books kept intact with various preservatives. They open the first book and within it they find an uncannily realistic portrait of Grisha standing beside a fair-haired woman and a child. On the back of it, Grisha had written that it is not an illustration; it is called a photograph and humanity has not perished.[124]
While serving their punishment in jail cells, Mikasa and Eren discuss the journals and Grisha’s memories until Hange, Levi, and Armin interrupt Eren and provoke them about what they were talking about until Levi accuses him of going through a phase as a teenager and lets them go, claiming that their sentence is being cut short because of their low numbers and their superiors failure to catch the Armored and Beast Titans.[125] The group, now with Jean, meet Historia afterward to speak with her after she finishes reading a letter left to her by Ymir. After the meeting, everyone, including all other military commanders and officials, meet to discuss the recent expedition, the journals, and the huge loss of life.[126]
Once the information obtained from Eren's basement is released to the world, Hange and Levi meet with Roy and Peaure to discuss the revelations and how the public are handling it.[127]
The royal government plans for the Survey Corps to be awarded with medals in a ceremony for their bravery and success. Over hearing a fight breaking out among the younger recruits, Levi cuts in to stop them and tell them to prepare for the beginning of the ceremony. A military audience gathers in a large room where Historia presents each of the nine soldiers with a medal of honor in the form of a dark bolo tie with the wings of freedom on it.[128]
Months later, in the summer season, Shiganshina District is once again populated with people as all the Titans had been cleared out. Finally, the Survey Corps once again ventures outside of Wall Maria on an expedition for the first time in six years. They find a trail left by a Titan crawling along the ground, and follow it until they reach the edge of Paradis Island. Here, the Survey Corps sees the ocean for the first time.[129] Jean, Connie, and Sasha begin splashing and playing while Hange gleefully picks up never before seen ocean materials such as coral much to Levi's dismay, as he attempts to caution them against touching the water.[130]
Levi learns Yelena and Onyankopon's mission
One year after the Battle of Shiganshina District, Levi and other members of the Survey Corps make contact with the Anti-Marleyan Volunteers, Yelena and Onyankopon, who rebel against the rest of the Marleyan crew on their ship. The two defectors show Levi and Hange their technology and Levi is concerned by how greatly Hange is impressed by Marley's level of advancement. He asks if the defectors would notify Marley that they have eliminated all the Titans on the island, but Yelena says they would not. They are here under orders from Zeke to free the Eldian people.[131]
Levi attends the military meeting to decide whether to cooperate with Zeke and the Anti-Marleyan Volunteers. Though he does not voice an opinion, he asks Eren why he withdrew information that he could control the Founding Titan's power if he is in contact with a royal-blooded Titan. Not wanting to disrupt the meeting, Levi tells Eren they will discuss this later.[132] Once the Survey Corps agrees to work with Yelena and Onyankopan, Levi assists them in capturing the soldiers sent on future Marleyan expeditions.[133]
Levi squares off against the Jaw Titan
The Survey Corps learn that Eren infiltrated Marley on his own. Disappointed in his actions, Levi and Hange work to organize a rescue. They later receive word from Eren his location and Levi volunteers to go as part of the strike team. He participates in the infiltration into Marley and the ensuing Raid on Liberio. After the Jaw Titan sneaks behind and jumps on the back of the Attack Titan, Levi takes note and goes to intercept it. The Jaw Titan tries to bite into the neck of the Attack Titan, but Levi severs the muscles in the left side of its face, rendering it unable to rip out the nape. Then both him and Mikasa engage it along with many other members of the Survey Corps. The Cart Titan's Panzer Unit makes a surprise attack, eliminating many of the Corps, and forcing them to fall back. Noticing the sudden arrival of Zeke Yeager's Beast Titan, Levi orders the surviving soldiers to regroup and stares down the Beast Titan.[134]
Levi takes down the Beast Titan
Levi is on standby as the Beast Titan sends debris flying into the surrounding area. He observes as the Titan calls for him to come out, and later ambushes it by quickly slicing its nape, knocking it down. Levi proceeds to cut Zeke out of his Titan form and, before grappling away, throws a bomb into the Beast Titan's nape, detonating it and demoralizing the Marley troops with the presumed death of their Warchief.[135] Levi is able to get Zeke aboard the Survey Corps' transportation airship unnoticed by the other members of the Marley military.
As the Survey Corps retreat, Levi helps Eren aboard the airship and then kicks him into the wall and places him under arrest.[136] He takes Eren to a back room where Zeke and his attendant Yelena are. Both him and Zeke go back and forth insulting each other when two stowaways are brought to them; he listens to Hange and silently agrees when she states that Eren made the entire Paradis Island a target due to his actions in Marley.[137]
Once they return to the island, he rides into the city in a carriage with Zeke. Levi mock threatens to kill Zeke, send his corpse back to Marley, and then reveal everything about his plot which would spell the end for his grandparents. However, Levi admits as long as Zeke's "secret plan" is real, he is willing to wait a little longer before slicing him to pieces.[138]
Levi escorts Zeke to a Titan Forest with a number of soldiers explaining that it will not be easy for him to escape from such an environment. Zeke asks Levi if he can show the trees to Gabi and Falco, but Levi responds that it depends on his own actions.[139] Despite his reservations, Levi is convinced by his subordinates to allow them to drink wine imported from Marley while they are guarding Zeke in the forest.[140]
Levi remembers his comrades
Zeke later tells Levi about the method he had used to turn the people of Ragako into Titans. After the explanation finishes, Levi admonishes Zeke for his lack of guilt, and tells him that he clearly has no concern for human life. He is shaken off and told not to assume how he felt. Zeke changes the subject by asking when he will be allowed to carry out his experiment with Eren. Levi tells him that this is not his call, but both agree that it would be a mistake to wait around too long.[141]
After a Survey Corps messenger arrives at the camp, Varis notifies Levi that Darius Zackly has been assassinated and of Commander Pixis's plan to deal with the Yeagerists. Dismayed to hear that his friends and comrades have essentially died for nothing to protect Eren, Levi tells them they are altering the plan. He suggests they capture one of the Yeagerists and force them to eat Zeke; then when Historia gives birth several months from now and is ready to inherit, they will feed the Yeagerist to her. Levi orders Varis to go inform Pixis and descends from the tree. Despite the holes in this plan, Levi admits to himself that he does not care about Pixis's reply.[142]
Titans rain down on Levi
After trading a few barbs with Zeke, Levi gets lost in his thoughts. He considers how he will soon fulfill the vow he made to Erwin during the Battle of Shiganshina, and give meaning to his deceased comrades. Turning around, he notices Zeke running into the forest; before Levi can react, however, Zeke lets out a piercing scream. He looks on in horror as the numerous Survey Corps soldiers above him begin to fall out of the trees and transform into Titans.[143] Levi is caught off guard but comes to his senses in time to avoid one of the Titans charging him. Remembering how his subordinates insisted they enjoy the wine offered and Zeke's comment on it from earlier, Levi theorizes that the wine was indeed the likely cause of the soldiers transforming.[144] Noticing these Titans are faster and more unpredictable, he reflects on if his subordinates are still inside and conscious of their actions. As the Titans swarm around him in midair, Levi closes his eyes.[145]
Levi glares at a horrified Zeke
Levi slaughters his former subordinates, and collects several Thunder Spears before chasing down Zeke. Catching up with him, Levi kills one of Zeke's three Titan escorts and meets Zeke's gaze with a murderous look. Levi quickly dispatches another of the Titans before Zeke transforms into the Beast Titan.[146] As Zeke butchers the final Titan and throws the bloody pieces at him, Levi dodges Zeke's attack while chopping up large tree branches to hide himself in mid-air. He criticizes Zeke for not anticipating that he would be capable of killing his fellow soldiers.[147]
Levi curses Zeke as he cuts him out of the Beast Titan
Falling towards Zeke, Levi fires and hits Zeke's nape with four Thunder Spears before quickly detonating them. Cutting Zeke's mangled and burned body from his Titan form, Levi insults him before dragging him out of the forest.[148] When the tied up Zeke comes to inside a horse-drawn cart, Levi instructs him to not move, informing Zeke that he has placed the tip of a Thunder Spear inside his stomach and attached the fuse around his neck. Levi chastises Zeke for killing his men, before starting to cut off chunks of his legs. Hearing Zeke scream, Levi shouts at him to shut up, explaining that this has to be done to prevent him from becoming a Titan. Zeke weakly asks where his glasses are but Levi brushes it aside, stating he would no longer be needing them.[149]
While Levi steers the cart, Zeke begins muttering about his plan to euthanize Eldia in order to ensure the world's safety. Hearing this, Levi begins mocking him, saying that his impending death at the hands of a Titan is too merciful when considering the lives he has taken. Zeke weakly protests that he was saving their children from living in a cruel world, prompting Levi to angrily prepare to cut off his legs again. Terrified, Zeke pulls the pin on the Thunder Spear lodged in his stomach; a shocked Levi is unable to react and is caught in the resulting explosion.[150] The two of them are launched from the cart, and Levi is sent hurling towards a nearby river.[151]
Levi's unconscious body is found shortly afterwards by Hange and a group of Yeagerists. When a soldier suggests shooting Levi, Hange insists that he is already dead, prompting Floch to request that he be allowed to check for a pulse.[152] Before Floch can check, he is distracted by the sight of Zeke emerging from a nearby Titan, allowing Hange to grab Levi's body and dive into the river to escape.[153]
Vertical Maneuvering Equipment
Levi in action
Levi is unbelievably adept at using the vertical maneuvering equipment, to a point that everyone says he is the best at it. He is also said to be as valuable as an entire brigade, far outweighing all of the other soldiers.[1] Furthermore, he was considered extremely strong even before joining the Survey Corps.
He has shown the capability of incapacitating the Female Titan by moving too fast for her to defend, something which whole squads and even Eren in his Titan form could not accomplish.[154] He even defeated Zeke Yeager in his Beast Titan form, who is one of Marley army's strongest Warriors and an extremely skillful Titan. Neither of these assaults are without some degree of prior planning and situational advantage, as the Female Titan was tired out from multiple conflicts in the span of a few hours, and Levi had engaged Zeke by surprise, getting too close to defend against before Zeke noticed. That said, Levi's full abilities with his blades are still tremendous, able to carve the Beast Titan's arm into multiple clean pieces so fast they fell in unison. Nonetheless, Levi has proven himself capable of taking on powerful possessors of the power of the Titans in a one-on-one situation where his vertical maneuvering equipment can be utilized to its utmost. For example, as seen when Levi bested Zeke again in a forest terrain where his vertical equipment could be properly employed.[140]
Levi has formidable physical strength, which is no doubt evident by his mastery of the vertical maneuvering equipment. Despite his small stature, his body is well built with heavy muscle, making him very strong, and easily able to defeat his opponents. At one point, Levi intercepts one of the Female Titan's attacks, by using her hand to launch himself towards her mouth before she could hit Mikasa.[155] This does not stop him from injuring himself though.
Aside from his extraordinary battle skill, Levi has shown a profound ability to quickly analyze situations, and make calculated decisions in the heat of battle. This has given him the ability to save himself and his comrades on many occasions such as when he realizes the Female Titan cannot be killed easily because of her skin hardening and regenerative abilities, and subsequently saves Mikasa when she tries to slay the Female Titan herself,[155] or the time when he fights Kenny Ackerman inside a bar, using chairs, a double-barreled shotgun and even corpses to stop his adversaries.[156] However, Levi admits that he does not believe a person can be right all the time, and some scenarios are beyond a person's control.
Levi Ackerman's statistics [157]:
Awakened power
Being a member of the Ackermans, Levi has "awakened" a dormant power within himself earlier in his life that he describes as "knowing exactly what needs to be done."[158] This also prevents him from having his memory wiped.[159]
Sword-Wielding Technique
Levi's reverse grip
Levi has an unusual fighting stance that involves holding his right sword backhanded with the blade facing out and being behind him instead of in front of him. By doing this, the blades cut in a "circle" around him, and give him the ability to utilize spinning and other rotating attacks, allowing him to maintain incredible speed and agility while fighting. At the same time, this helps him keep his energy up without wasting stamina and strength needlessly, enabling him to fight for longer periods of time and take multiple targets out simultaneously.[citation needed] This reverse-grip technique may have been inspired by Kenny Ackerman's lessons on knife-wielding, in which Levi learned at a young age how to hold a blade in a reverse grip.[160]
Thunder Spears
Levi does not seem to favor using Thunder Spears, since he does not carry them during the raid on Liberio, contrary to the other members of the Survey Corps's ground forces.[161] However, he is competent enough with them to blow Zeke out of his Beast Titan's nape when Zeke tries to escape after turning Levi's soldiers into Titans.[162]
Erwin Smith - Levi and Erwin's relationship was not initially an amicable one. Erwin eventually became one of the few people Levi places full trust in, obeying his every command and judgment.[48] However, this did not stop Levi from speaking in his usual rude manner around him.[163] Erwin was also one of the few people that could maintain casual conversation with Levi, able to exchange brief banter with one another on equal grounds.[164]
Hange Zoë - Levi was introduced to Hange during his first expedition as part of the Survey Corps. He immediately snubbed Hange's attempts at getting to know him, but their relationship would eventually improve over the years.[165] By the events of the story, Levi and Hange are on better terms, though he is still annoyed by her obsession with capturing Titans, and dislikes her recklessness.[166] Levi has gradually become more familiar with Hange, able to comfortably reach out and reprimand her when she gets too carried away.[167] After years of working side by side, the two share a strong bond of trust, and Levi does not doubt any theories she may have on the Titans, even if he may dislike them.[168]
Eren Yeager - As humanity's strongest soldier, Levi commands great respect from Eren.[169] Upon encountering Eren personally, Levi treated him like an animal, wary of his Titan shifting power, though he was impressed by Eren's passion.[170] Upon getting to know him, Levi began treating Eren as he does most others: dismissively and coldly. However, Levi also becomes a mentor of sorts to Eren, understanding the potential good the young recruit is capable of, and offering advice during Eren's moments of doubt.[171] He later becomes more patient with Eren, forgiving his mistakes, and nurturing his growth as a soldier, and as a vanguard for humanity's hope.[172] Eren's assault on Liberio, and the formation of the Yeagerists leaves Levi dismayed at how Eren has turned out. However, he is still unwilling for Eren to be eaten due to all the lives sacrificed for his sake. Instead, Levi places the blame of Eldia's fracture on Eren's brother, Zeke.
Mikasa Ackerman - Mikasa quickly took a disliking to Levi, one of the first actions she witnesses is of him beating Eren at his military trial.[173] Since then, Mikasa held a grudge against Levi, swearing to one day make him pay for his actions.[174] She would later lash out at Levi, blaming him for Eren's capture by the Female Titan, and her carelessness would later result in Levi needing to rescue her at the cost of injuring his leg.[175] While sidelined, Levi repeatedly offers advice to Mikasa, who deeply regrets her mistake and endeavors to protect Eren in his place.[176][177] By the time of the Survey Corps' rebellion, Mikasa has largely set aside her bitterness for Levi, choosing to trust his leadership.[178] Levi and Mikasa share the same physical and intellectual traits. The two share the last name Ackerman, indicating both hail from the same bloodline.[179][180]
Petra Ral - Petra served under Levi in the Survey Corps and was later hand-picked by him to be in his first Special Operations Squad. She harbored a deep respect for him and was proud to be a part of his team. Levi seemed to trust her and her capabilities as a soldier, as she held one of the highest records for killing Titans (48 assist kills and 10 solo kills). After Petra was killed by the Female Titan, Levi guarded her body until the Corps had to retreat back to the Wall and was horrified after her father informed him of her intentions to dedicate her life to serving him and the squad, possibly because her father assumed that she had feelings for him.
Kenny Ackerman - Kenny looked out for Levi during his childhood and taught him the skills needed to survive in the underground city. He told Levi that he was friend of his deceased mother.[181] However, he eventually abandoned him due to believing that someone like him was not fit to be a parent.[182] Years later, they had an antagonist relationship due to being on opposite sides of the coup d'état.[78] When Kenny finally laid dying, Levi found him and the latter gave information about the Ackerman clan and revealed that he was really the older brother of Levi's mother, making him Levi's uncle. Levi was shocked to learn this and questioned his reason for abandoning him. In his last words, Kenny stated he was unfit to be a parent, and Levi then watched solemnly as his uncle died.[183]
Zeke Yeager - As the Beast Titan and superior to Annie, Reiner and Bertolt, Zeke serves as one of Levi's greatest enemies. In turn, Levi's status as humanity's strongest soldier made him a priority target for Zeke to eliminate. During the battle Shiganshina, Levi blinded and severely wounded Zeke. In vengeance, he told the remaining Titans to kill Levi. Levi surprised Zeke not only by his survival but by having followed him all the way to the location of Eren Yeager. Zeke realized Levi was too much and decided to fall back and leave Paradis Island with Reiner Braun after abandoning Bertolt Hoover. Four years later, Levi helps lead a surprise attack on Marley and as soon as he is spotted, Zeke does not hesitate to order Levi killed. Despite their coordination in the attack, Levi's hatred of Zeke remains as strong as before, yet is able to act relatively civil towards him, albeit with their conversations frequently peppered with insults. However, Levi still possesses a strong desire to kill Zeke but admits he will tolerate him for the time being.[138] This tolerance is gone after Zeke transforms Levi's subordinates into Titans in an attempt to escape; after killing them and crippling Zeke, Levi immediately begins torturing him and makes it clear he will kill him slowly.
People killed
Duran[184]
Seven other members of the Anti-Personnel Control Squad[185]
Indirectly
Erwin Smith[123]
Bertolt Hoover[123]
Failed attempts
Kenny Ackerman[186]
Reiner Braun[187]
Zeke Yeager[188]
Levi topping a popularity poll
Levi has ranked first place in the First and Second Character Popularity Polls.
He is attributed with the title of squad captain (兵士長 Heishichō?) among the Survey Corps. However, his comrades and subordinates usually call him by the shortened title of "captain" (兵長 Heichō?), though the literal translation of this rank is "Lance Corporal." This has led to the wrong idea that he is actually a Lance Corporal, a somewhat low rank.[189]
His name is Hebrew in origin, and means "attached" or "joining."[190]
His name was inspired by a person from the American documentary Jesus Camp.[191]
Levi's age is one of several mysteries Isayama has hinted about in interviews. He once stated that Levi is "surprisingly old," but declined to give an exact answer beyond stating that he is "older than 30."[192] In February 2016 he was interviewed again at the Attack on Titan "The Real" theme park, and when questioned about Levi's age responded that he is in his "late thirties." However, Marina Inoue (Armin Arlert's voice actress) later rectified and said Isayama made a mistake due to nervousness, and had asked her to correct that Levi is actually in his "early thirties."[13] This was further confirmed in the Attack on Titan ANSWERS guidebook.[14]
In Levi, Erwin, and Hange's character interview, it was said that Levi forcefully bathes Hange by knocking her unconscious.[193] [194]
Isayama has said that Levi had once wanted to open a tea shop. [195] [196]
Levi's liquor tolerance is not bad. More specifically, he does not get drunk.[197]
He only sleeps an average of 2–3 hours.[198]
Isayama has said that if he could say one thing to Levi, it would be, "Go quickly to sleep," as Levi suffers from slight bouts of insomnia. Also, Levi does not change clothes before going to sleep, as it is such a non-event for him. Rather than sleeping in a bed, Levi just sleeps in his chair.[197]
It was also confirmed that due to living in the Underground in an unsanitary state in his younger years, he longed for a clean home. That may be the reason for his obsession with cleaning.[197]
Levi's short height was inspired in part by Might Adam's Astro Boy, and in part by Kyuzo from the film The Seven Samurai.[197]
In Isayama's interview he was asked about Levi's preferred type of woman and answered "A type of woman he likes? Since he’s short, small people tends to like tall people… I guess he might like tall people.”[citation needed]
Levi currently finds Eren to be the best at cleaning.[197]
In a Q and A session, Levi was asked from a fan, what is his type. He responded by saying "It must meet my cleaning standards."[citation needed]
Levi's blood type is A.[198]
Levi is known to cut his own hair, using clippers.[198]
Levi was aware that Oluo Bozado was imitating him and thought it to be annoying.[197]
Isayama has stated that Levi drinks plain tea, as any additives such as sugar or milk are too valuable for him to afford.[199]
↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Attack on Titan manga: Side Story 1 (p. 6)
↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Attack on Titan Guidebook (p. 256)
↑ 3.0 3.1 Attack on Titan manga: Chapter 20 (p. 8)
↑ Attack on Titan Guidebook (p. 79)
↑ Attack on Titan manga: Side Story 1 (p. 17 & 19-20)
↑ 13.0 13.1 "Isayama Hajime, Kaji Yuuki (Eren), Ishikawa Yui (Mikasa), and Inoue Marina (Armin) made a surprise appearance at Universal Studios Japan’s SNK THE REAL exhibition today!". Fukushuu. Retrieved on August 13, 2016.
↑ 14.0 14.1 "Good day just would to ask of snk answers fanbook did Isayama mentions Levi age?". Suniz. Retrieved on August 13, 2016.
↑ Attack on Titan manga: Chapter 91 (p. 24 & 25) — Four years have passed since the Battle of Shiganshina District.
↑ Attack on Titan manga: Side Story 1 (p. 17-19)
↑ Attack on Titan manga: Chapter 30 (p. 28 - 29)
↑ Attack on Titan manga: Chapter 19 (p. 20, 38 & 39)
↑ Attack on Titan manga: Side Story 2 (p. 18)
↑ Attack on Titan manga: Side Story 1 (p. 6-18)
↑ Attack on Titan manga: Chapter 20 (p. 2-7)
↑ Attack on Titan manga: Chapter 25 (p. 6-17)
↑ 48.0 48.1 Attack on Titan manga: Chapter 28 (p. 5-6)
↑ 78.0 78.1 Attack on Titan manga: Chapter 58 (p. 12-15)
↑ 123.0 123.1 123.2 Attack on Titan manga: Chapter 84 (p. 43)
↑ Attack on Titan manga: Chapter 106 (p. 6-17)
↑ Attack on Titan manga: Chapter 103 (p. 23, 33 - 38)
↑ Attack on Titan manga: Chapter 105 (p. 38 - 42)
↑ 138.0 138.1 Attack on Titan manga: Chapter 106 (p. 43-44)
↑ 140.0 140.1 Attack on Titan manga: Chapter 113
↑ (p. 32)
↑ 155.0 155.1 Attack on Titan manga: Chapter 30 (p. 26)
↑ Attack on Titan: No Regrets manga: Chapter 5 (p. 31-32)
↑ Attack on Titan anime: OVA 1
↑ Attack on Titan anime: Episode 9
↑ Attack on Titan manga: Chapter 30 (p. 13, 27)
↑ Attack on Titan manga: Chapter 64 (p. 6) — Traute mentions that Levi killed 12 members of Kenny's squad.
↑ Attack on Titan: OUTSIDE Osamu
↑ "thinkbabynames.com about the name "Levi"".
↑ "Isayama's blog from the 20th of October 2010".
↑ "Interview of Isayama from the 8th of June 2011".
↑ http://yusenki.tumblr.com/post/141836483282/au-smartpass-erwin-levi-close-up-interview
↑ http://yusenki.tumblr.com/post/141485724499/au-smartpass-erwin-levi-close-up
↑ 197.0 197.1 197.2 197.3 197.4 197.5 "FRaU August 2014 issue English fan translation". fuku-shuu.tumblr.com.
↑ 198.0 198.1 198.2 "FRaU August 2014 issue". hibana.tumblr.com.
↑ Bessatsu Magazine, September 2016 issue
Keith Shadis^ · Erwin Smith† · 11th Commander†
Squad Captain
Levi Ackerman?
Eren Yeager^ · Historia Reiss^ · Sasha Blouse† · Oluo Bozado† · Petra Ral† · Eld Jinn† · Gunther Schultz†
Fourth Squad
Squad Vice Captains
Moblit Berner†
Lauda? · Rashad?
Black-haired soldier†
Ranking Officers
Keiji†
Goggled soldier† · Nifa†
Squad Mike
Squad Leader
Mike Zacharias†
Thomas?
Nanaba† · Gelgar† · Henning† · Lynne†
Other Squads
Jean Kirstein
Dirk† · Marlene† · Klaus† · Darius Baer-Varbrun† · Dita Ness†
Mikasa Ackerman · Armin Arlert · Connie Springer
Squad Klaus
Sandra† · Gordon† · Marlowe Freudenberg†
Other Squad Members
Louise^ · Floch Forster^ · Holger^ · Wim^ · Reiner Braun^ · Claude Duvalier^ · Varis† · Lobov† · Ymir†^ · Bertolt Hoover†^ · Luke Siss† · Ilse Langnar† · Moses Braun†
Non-canon
Mikarin · Baggy-pants Leon
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UnderscoreNathy
I dont think Hanji would've risked being gunned down as she jumped in the river if he was dead. Carrying his body would just slow her down... 2019-06-06T07:52:29Z
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'''LEVI IS ALIVE, '''''atleast''' '''that's what I want... 2019-07-12T22:46:44Z
Is the Ackerbond a choice or not
Cheng The Nerd
can the ackerbond be seen as a form of weakness 2019-05-13T16:11:41Z
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Cheng The Nerd wrote:can the ackerbond be seen as a form of weakness Maybe, as it prevents the Ackerman from thinking rationnally when it... 2019-05-13T16:15:48Z
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Chasing a Mirage by Tarek Fatah: Book Review
May 13, 2009 May 14, 2009 Bilal Ali3 Comments
Chasing A Mirage: The Tragic Illusion of An Islamic State
By Tarek Fatah
Wiley, 2008
Reviewed by Ayub Khan
It is a tragedy of the post-911 world that the field of Islamic concepts and terminologies have also fallen a victim to misunderstanding, misinterpretation, and plain hysteria. Fuelling these fears among the masses are not only rabid Islamophobes but also those who claim to be nothing of that sort but whose actions speak otherwise. Canadian TV host and commentator Tarek Fatah belongs to the latter category. He has a history of mindless criticism of things as mundane as the aversion to music to more significant ones as the introduction of Sharia-based laws in Ontario. In Chasing a Mirage: the Tragic Illusion of an Islamic State he tries to show that the idea of an Islamic state is not only futile and untenable but outright dangerous.
Fatah lays his claims on a rather simplistic analysis of the concept of Islamic state by saying that, “Islamists argue that the period following the passing away of Muhammad was Islam’s golden era and that we Muslims need to re-create that caliphate to emulate that political system in today’s world.” For the casual observer it might appear that the “Islamists” want to create an exact replica of the age of the righteous caliphs. But this isn’t the case as an analysis of the writings of those advocating an Islamic state reveals. For most Muslims an Islamic state can adopt many forms of modern polity and administration without comprising the Islamic ideals. Even Dr.Israr Ahmed of Pakistan’s Tanzeem-e-Islami, for instance, is open to the concept of a parliamentary caliphate. Benazir Bhutto, for whom Fatah is of fulsome praise, was better informed than Fatah on this front as her last book reveals. She quotes the Pakistani Jamaat-e-Islami ideologue Khurshid Ahmed who says: “God has revealed only broad principles and has endowed man with the freedom to apply them in every age in the way suited to the spirit and conditions of that age. It is through the ijtihad that people of every age try to implement divine guidance to the problems of the time.”
Fatah fails to realize that most Muslims who consider the golden age of the righteous caliphs as an ideal do not want to re-create the historical epoch but rather the values which were prevalent at that time. But for him that age had nothing to offer as “when Muslims buried the Prophet, they also buried with him many of the universal values of Islam that he had preached.” In his attempt to prove this he cites in detail the disputes that arose after the passing away of the Prophet Muhammad (SAW) among his companions. There is nothing new in his research. These topics have been of much debate and discussion in the Muslim literature. What the author fails to understand is that these incidents, if indeed they were true, are of secondary importance to modern day Muslims. What is of importance is the emulation of sacrifice, sincerity, dedication, justice, and the brotherhood of the early Muslims. In his overzealousness to prove his pre-conceived notions Fatah marshals up a number of historical references of disputed events of history without any care for their authenticity. An indication of this un-scholarly attitude can be seen for example when he cites Maulana Maududi when convenient while at other times lashes out against him.
The author is dismissive of most things related to the practice of traditional Islam and appears to believe that it is just a set of values which are to be believed in but not practiced. In a display of his lack of seriousness he tries to create connections between themes and events where there are none. For instance, he cites Akbar Shah Najeebabadi regarding the caliphate of Ali (RA) and claims that his view backs up the Saudi version of historical events. He arrives at this conclusion because the English translation of Najeebabadi was published by a Saudi publishing house. Little does he realize that Najeebabadi was an Indian scholar who was noted for approaching history in an unbiased manner and whose books were first published in pre-independence India.
In a marked display of intellectual dishonesty Fatah claims that Muslims have forgotten the act of hospitality by a Hindu ruler of Sindh to Abdullah Ushtar, one of Prophet Muhammad’s great-great-grandsons. “The lone descendant of Prophet Muhammad had to find refuge and protection with a Hindu prince of India. No school textbook in Pakistan recognizes this historic act of hospitality by a Hindu ruler in Sind who gave sanctuary to escaping descendants of the Prophet,” he writes. What Fatah fails to tell his readers is that this incident is mentioned in Najeebabadi’s book, whom he had earlier derided for promoting a Sunni version of history.
Admittedly, current projects (there are more than one) for the creation of an Islamic state are not without problems. There indeed are some issues which need to be addressed (like the treatment of minorities) but this does not mean this whole premise is based on faulty foundations. One needs to differentiate between the radical violent forms of Islamism with those of peaceful/persuasive ( Rachid Al Ghannouchi, ‘democrat within Islamism’ anyone) ones. This project doesn’t need to and shouldn’t journey on a violent route. It can be accomplished through the winning of the public opinion by persuasion and reasoning which are the hallmarks of a democratic society. Just as the Liberals, the Conservatives, Communists, the Leninists and others are allowed to put forward their case so too should the advocates of the Islamic system be allowed to do so.
Fatah fails to recognize or just plain ignores that obsession with politics or attempts to reduce Islam to a mere political ideology have been criticized by many notable ulema like India’s Maulana Abul Hasan Nadwi without compromising the tenets of Islam. One would have expected that their views will be discussed in the book but one comes out disappointed.
Fatah sets out with a pre-determined objective and goes about attempting to strengthen it with all and sundry references. In his obnoxious attempts to display a secular than thou attitude, the ‘iconoclast’ Tarek Fatah has turned secularism itself into an idol; an untouchable beyond criticism. Thus, his opposition to the introduction of Islam based arbitration in Ontario despite its backing a former Attorney General of the province who wrote an exhaustive report in its support. Similarly, he ridicules the organizers of Muslim entertainment show for not allowing certain musical instruments and forms of art and those Muslim women who wear the veil. If this is not stifling of individual and group rights then one wonders what is.
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3 thoughts on “Chasing a Mirage by Tarek Fatah: Book Review”
as-Salik says:
When any open-minded Muslim with the basic understandings of the spirit of Islam reads articles, statements, or watches interviews of Tarek Fatah, he can easily see the bias and desperate attempts of Fatah to mix with western secular ideologies (regardless of whether or not they are contrary to Islamic ideologies)and appease Islamophobes… similar to Turkey’s desperation to join the European Union, which has resulted in laws with blatant discrimination against practicing Muslims.
Naeem Muhammad Khan says:
Tarek Fatah is a Murtid, Mulhid and Zindiq by every angle. This person is insane and very biased towards anything which is Islamic. He is more Islamophobic then most Evangelical Christians i know off. He attacks Islam where ever and when ever he can and leaves no opportunity what so ever. His book such a Pathetic piece of work with references which hold almost no credibility and the out of context quotations are so erronous that even a child can see through it. When i saw the remarks of his book by so Called “intellectuals”, i was forced to think of them as people who have so idea of what scholarship is all about. Muslims stay away from this JACKASS!!!!
abu Nusaybah says:
I reviewed Tarek Fatah’s book, Chasing a Mirage (2008), here. I think you’ll find it interesting.
http://www.alhamdulilah.info/2010/11/tarek-fatah-chasing-mirage-2008.html
It is valuable for us to look at all sorts of opinions, and it is also vital to know when information if factual or falsehood.
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What is the backstory behind Snoop Dogg's name? Or how about singer Lady Gaga? We've dug up the most interesting stories behind your favorite celebrities' stage names.
Click through this gallery and learn all about how these monikers came to be!
Lady Gaga - Originally Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta, Lady Gaga received her stage name from music producer Rob Fusari.
Lady Gaga - When he was helping her with an album, he compared her sound to Queen's 1984 song 'Radio Ga-Ga,' giving birth to Lady Gaga.
The Weeknd - Born Abel Tesfaye, The Weeknd's name was inspired by a weekend getaway with friends in high school.
The Weeknd - He dropped the "e" in weekend because there was already a band with the name.
Jamie Foxx - Born Eric Marlon Bishop, he changed his first name to Jamie when doing stand-up comedy because women were chosen to go first and "Jamie" seemed to be a gender-ambiguous name.
Jamie Foxx - His last name, "Foxx," was in tribute to comedian Redd Foxx.
Katy Perry - The singer's real name is Katy Hudson.
Katy Perry - The reason she changed her name is pretty simple: she shared it with actress Kate Hudson.
Bruno Mars - Peter Gene Hernandez was nicknamed Bruno by his dad because as a chunky kid, he resembled pro wrestler Bruno Sammartino.
Bruno Mars - He changed his last name after thinking he'd get mistaken as wanting to make Latin records when his passion was funk and R&B.
The Rock - The American-Canadian actor's first wrestling name was actually Rocky Maivia, which came from a combination of his father and grandfather's wrestling names.
The Rock - Eventually, it was shortened to The Rock. His birth name is Dwayne Douglas Johnson.
Whoopi Goldberg - Born Caryn Johnson, the actress-comedian had a tendency to pass gas when she was younger, and people allegedly said she was like a whoopee cushion.
Whoopi Goldberg - She kept her first name as Whoopi but adopted a more serious last name after her mom told her no one would take her serious if she changed her name to "Whoopi Cushion."
Shay Mitchell - This pretty little liar's name is actually Shannon.
Shay Mitchell - She is a big fan of J.Lo, so her friends would call her "Shay Lo" after the Latin artist.
MC Hammer - Singer Stanley Kirk Burrell got his nickname from a childhood job working as a batboy for an athletic club.
MC Hammer - They called him "Little Hammer." It changed to "MC Hammer" when he picked up the mic and began singing.
Miley Cyrus - Destiny Hope Cyrus legally changed her name to Miley Cyrus when she was 15.
Miley Cyrus - Because she was always smiling as a kid, people called her "Smiley," which later became Miley.
Snoop Dogg - Rapper Calvin Broadus was nicknamed "Snoopy" as a child.
Snoop Dogg - His parents thought he looked like the famous cartoon dog.
Jackie Chan - The martial artist's real first name is Kong-sang, but when working at an Australian construction site, a coworker couldn't pronounce his name, calling him "Little Jack" instead.
Jackie Chan - The name ultimately evolved into "Jackie" and stayed that way.
Portia de Rossi - De Rossi's real name is Amanda Lee Rogers.
Portia de Rossi - She changed her name at age 15.
Stevie Wonder - The singer's given name is Stevland Morris.
Stevie Wonder - People called him "the little boy wonder" because of his talent when he showed up on the scene at age 10.
Olivia Wilde - Born Olivia Jane Cockburn, the actress's mother suggested that she change her name when she first started her acting career.
Olivia Wilde - She was a huge fan of writer Oscar Wilde and was inspired after starring in 'The Importance of Being Earnest.'
LL Cool J - A semi-acronym for "Ladies Love Cool James," the rapper's real name is James Todd Smith.
LL Cool J - The nickname came about when he was 16 and joking around with a friend about how to attract the ladies.
Harry Houdini - Born Ehrich Weiss, "Harry" was the Americanized version of his first name.
Harry Houdini - His last name was inspired by his idol, French magician Jean Eugène Robert-Houdin.
Nina Dobrev - This Canadian beauty was born Nikolina Konstantinova Dobreva. Now it's Nina Dobrev for short.
Drake - Drake is actually Aubrey Graham's middle name!
Alessia Cara - Alessia Cara's actual last name is Caracciolo, of Italian origin. Now it's Cara for short.
deadmau5 - The Canadian electronic producer got his stage name after finding a dead mouse in his computer!
K'naan - This Canadian poet and musician was born Keinan Abdi Warsame. His stage name means "traveler" in Somalian.
Joan Crawford - Producer Louis B. Mayer made the actress change her name from Lucille LeSueur because he thought her last name sounded too much like "Le Sewer."
Joan Crawford - MGM publicity held a contest to find her a new name, and she became Joan Crawford.
PARTYNEXTDOOR - This Canadian musician took his stage name from a FL Studio audio filter setting.
IISuperwomanII - This famous Canadian YouTuber, originally Lilly Saini Singh, got her username Superwoman even before she launched her channel.
IISuperwomanII - She had a ring with the Superwoman "S" on it and has been the Superwoman everyone knows and loves ever since.
Bif Naked - Bif actually comes from her first name, Beth. Someone couldn't pronounce Beth and so everyone just began calling her Bif.
Bif Naked - Naked came later when she was in college and her band needed a punk rock name.
Kardinal Offishall - Hip-hop superstar Jason D. Harrow used to go by KoolAid. He then changed it to Kardinal Offishall after 17th-century French politician Cardinal Richelieu.
Lights - This singer was born Valerie Anne Poxleitner, but legally changed her name to Lights at the age of 18. The name actually stems from her last name Poxleitner.
Massari - R&B singer Massari's stage name means "money" in Lebanese Arabic and comes from his birth name Sari.
k-os - Pronounced like "chaos," Kevin Brereton's stage name is actually an acronym that originally stood for "Kevin's Original Sound," which he then changed to stand for "Knowledge of Self."
Classified - This rapper got his stage name by skimming the classified ads, according to Gig City.
Shad - Shad is actually short for Shadrach Kabango, his birth name.
Moka Only - Daniel Denton, member of hip-hop group Swollen Members (second from the right), got his nickname because he drank a lot of coffee!
Tory Lanez - A friend actually nicknamed this rapper, born Daystar Peterson, Lanez because he used to run into the roads to play without checking for oncoming traffic.
SonReal - Vancouver rapper Aaron Hoffman reportedly wanted a moniker that made him sound like he was from New York.
Buck 65 - Canadian rapper Richard Terfry is known to use various stage names. However, his principal stage name comes from a car—a '65 Buick to be specific.
Roy Wood$ -
Denzel Spencer enlisted the help of his high school peers when picking out his stage name. Roy Wood$ ended up being the most popular.
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Kansas patients can now win big in doctor malpractices suits
By ANDY MARSOJuly 12, 2019
KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) — Brenda Lundeen went in for routine surgery to relieve heavy periods.
What the Overland Park mom and grade school teacher got was a nightmare, as a medical mistake...
Baltimore jury awards $229.6M in medical malpractice lawsuit
BALTIMORE (AP) — A jury in Baltimore has awarded $229.6 million to a woman and her young daughter in a medical malpractice lawsuit that alleged the child suffered a brain injury at birth that...
Lawsuits against renowned psychiatrist have been settled
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Legal settlements by state to be published regularly online
SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — A New Mexico agency plans to begin regularly publishing legal and financial settlements of claims against the state for civil rights violations, medical malpractice,...
Ex-major leaguer, hospital, reach $5.1M legal settlement
BOSTON (AP) — Former major-league pitcher Bobby Jenks has agreed to accept a $5.1 million settlement from Massachusetts General Hospital and a doctor he says caused his career-ending spine...
Court orders new trial in fetal malpractice case
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A state appeals court has ordered a new trial in a medical malpractice lawsuit alleging a Milwaukee doctor didn't take steps to protect a baby from brain damage.
Renowned psychiatrist facing malpractice lawsuits
NEWBURYPORT, Mass. (AP) — Two more patients of Dr. Keith Ablow have filed lawsuits against the renowned Massachusetts psychiatrist alleging he pressured them into sexual relationships.
Judge again rules against $200M raid on insurance surplus
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — A federal judge is again ruling against Pennsylvania legislation that would take at least $200 million from a state-chartered medical malpractice insurer of last resort.
U.S. District Judge Christopher Conner on Tuesday said the state can't "legislatively recapture" the Pennsylvania Professional Liability Joint Underwriting Association to take its assets.
Puerto Rico approves law to reduce medical malpractice suits
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Puerto Rico's governor has signed a law to help reduce the number of medical malpractice lawsuits.
Ricardo Rossello announced on Monday that he will create 13 panels to review medical malpractice claims across the U.S. territory. Three people will serve on each panel, including a health expert, a public advocate and a lawyer or former judge.
Mixed rulings from Kentucky Supreme Court
By ADAM BEAMNovember 15, 2018
FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Kentucky's state Supreme Court on Thursday struck down a law requiring a panel of doctors to review medical malpractice lawsuits and upheld a law banning mandatory union dues for most employees.
Cook County Board votes to settle medical malpractice case
CHICAGO (AP) — Cook County's board of commissioners have voted for a nearly $4 million settlement of a malpractice lawsuit filed after an alleged botched heart surgery at Chicago's Stroger Hospital.
Lawyers for Jaime Flores alleged Stroger physicians made a "very unfortunate and grossly improper decision" to perform a bedside pericardiocentesis on Flores in 2013.
King County to pay former inmate $1M for untreated injury
SEATTLE (AP) — King County will pay $1 million to an ex-jail inmate who fell while in custody, suffering a spinal injury that went untreated for days and left him with permanent nerve damage.
Jury awards family $130 million in medical malpractice case
ROYAL OAK, Mich. (AP) — A jury has awarded the family of a boy who suffered brain damage after being treated at a suburban Detroit hospital more than $130 million in a medical malpractice case.
The McKeen & Associates law firm announced the verdict Tuesday following a trial in Oakland County Circuit Court in Pontiac.
Prince family moves suit against doctor to where he died
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Attorneys for Prince's family have moved a medical malpractice and wrongful death lawsuit to the county where he died.
Prince's family sued Dr. Michael Schulenberg and various health care providers in Hennepin County last month, saying they provided services to Prince in the weeks before his death but failed to treat his opioid addiction. That lawsuit was dismissed earlier this week and refiled in Carver County.
Woman whose uterus ruptured awarded $2M from OB-GYN
COLUMBUS, Miss. (AP) — A Mississippi woman whose uterus ruptured during childbirth has been awarded more than $2 million in a medical malpractice lawsuit against an OB-GYN.
The Columbus Dispatch reports a jury awarded Talanda Blevins the funds on Friday. She sued Dr. James Holzhauer for negligence in 2016.
Kansas Supreme Court upholds $907K malpractice verdict
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — The Kansas Supreme Court has upheld a $907,000 medical malpractice verdict against a Wichita doctor.
The Wichita Eagle reports that the Supreme Court says in a news release that it's affirming a Sedgwick County jury's 2013 judgment against physician Brian DeBrot.
Couple wins $74M for baby’s brain damage caused in delivery
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — A jury has awarded a New Mexico couple $74 million in a medical malpractice lawsuit involving a son left with brain damage.
KOB-TV in Albuquerque reports the jury this month ruled that a women's health clinic in Hobbs, New Mexico, didn't properly follow Lorenza Botello's pregnancy and a doctor injured her baby during delivery.
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Kansas offers little hope to patients unnecessarily treated
By KELSEY RYANAugust 24, 2018
KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) — When Joanne Clarke read the recent news that oncologist Mark Fesen was going to be sued by the federal government for alleged fraud, she started crying.
"It brought all of this back. Every bit of it back," said Clarke, remembering the agonizing pain her husband had been through while taking what two other doctors said was unnecessary chemotherapy years ago.
Lawsuit alleging doctor’s sperm donation heads to court
By REBECCA BOONEAugust 23, 2018
BOISE, Idaho (AP) — A judge will hear arguments later this month in a lawsuit from a woman who accused a fertility doctor of fraudulently using his own sperm to artificially inseminate her mother.
Dr. Gerald Mortimer and his former medical practice asked for the lawsuit to be dismissed, and U.S. District Judge David Nye is scheduled to hear arguments on Aug. 30 in Pocatello.
Supreme Court examines Kentucky’s medical review panels
By ADAM BEAMAugust 8, 2018
FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — After Ezra Claycomb was born with severe brain damage and cerebral palsy, his mother considered filing a medical malpractice lawsuit. But in 2017, Kentucky's Republican-controlled legislature passed a law requiring all such lawsuits first be reviewed by a panel of doctors.
The law gave the panel nine months to issue an opinion on whether the lawsuit is frivolous — yet section 14 of Kentucky's Constitution says every person has access to the courts "without ... delay."
Records: Kentucky malpractice review panel backlogged
FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — A Kentucky panel established to review medical malpractice claims before lawsuits can be filed is severely backlogged.
Pennsylvania blocked again in bid to take insurer’s cash
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — A federal judge is blocking a third attempt in as many years by Gov. Tom Wolf and state lawmakers to take at least $200 million in surplus cash from a state-chartered medical malpractice insurer of last resort.
Wisconsin high court caps some malpractice damages at $750K
By TODD RICHMONDJune 27, 2018
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The Wisconsin Supreme Court upheld the state's cap on noneconomic medical malpractice damages on Wednesday, reversing an appellate ruling that awarded $15 million to a woman who had all four limbs amputated after a mishandled infection.
Man awarded $18.4 million in lawsuit over canceled HIV test
BOSTON (AP) — A federal jury has awarded $18.4 million in damages to a man who said in a lawsuit that two doctors failed to test him for HIV, which allowed the virus to progress to AIDS.
Judge stops state plan to take $200M out of malpractice fund
By MARK SCOLFOROMay 17, 2018
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — A federal judge on Thursday blew a $200 million hole in Pennsylvania's state budget by throwing out a law that appropriated the surplus from a state-created medical malpractice insurer of last resort.
U.S. District Judge Christopher Conner sided with the Pennsylvania Professional Liability Joint Underwriting Association and declared the 2017 law violated the U.S. Constitution.
Appeals court upholds dismissal of wrongful death case
BREMERTON, Wash. (AP) — A federal appeals court ruled the husband of a Naval Hospital Bremerton nurse who died after giving birth at the hospital cannot sue the Navy for medical malpractice.
The Kitsap Sun reports a Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals panel issued the decision Monday, upholding a lower court's dismissal of the lawsuit.
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Wisconsin woman to argue for full award in amputation case
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The Wisconsin Supreme Court will decide whether a woman should receive a $25.3 million jury awarded her after she had four limbs amputated as a result of medical malpractice.
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Geisinger Will Pay $6.5M In Death Of Infant
James HalpinApril 14, 2018
WILKES-BARRE — The family of an 11-month-old boy who died of septic shock caused by an intestinal problem has settled a medical malpractice lawsuit against Geisinger Health System for $6.5 million, according to documents filed in court Friday.
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Billerica Man’s Estate Wins $4.2M Medical Malpractice Suit
By Aaron Curtis, acurtis@lowellsun.comApril 3, 2018
BILLERICA -- Billerica resident Neil Senna died of kidney cancer on New Year's Eve 2014, about 3 1/2 years after his initial diagnosis.
Had the diagnosis come sooner -- with the help of Senna's Billerica-based primary-care physician -- the 54-year-old could have been treated at an earlier stage, when the illness was more curable.
Judge sees no evidence juror was bribed in Iowa civil trial
By RYAN J. FOLEYMarch 27, 2018
IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — A judge declined to order a new trial Tuesday in an Iowa medical malpractice case, saying an investigation turned up no evidence to support an anonymous letter that claimed a juror was bribed.
Judge Chad Kepros on Tuesday unsealed the anonymous typed letter that he received in March 2016, which triggered an unusual two-year jury tampering investigation and continues to baffle those involved in the case.
Family blames doctor for child’s disfiguration
JOHNSTOWN, Pa. (AP) — A Texas family is claiming in a medical malpractice case that a Pennsylvania doctor's decision to use a head wrap on their premature baby left the child with permanent head scarring.
Jury award cut by $15M because of death day before verdict
CHICAGO (AP) — An Illinois jury's medical malpractice award has been slashed by $15 million because the injured woman died the day before the 2015 trial verdict.
Bill aimed at revising medical malpractice system advances
By BRUCE SCHREINERFebruary 7, 2018
FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Following up on a big change made last year to Kentucky's medical malpractice system, state lawmakers are considering a measure that would further alter the process of pursuing lawsuits claiming medical error or neglect.
The bill advanced by the Senate Health and Welfare Committee on Wednesday would place caps on a plaintiff's attorney's fees in malpractice cases. It also would insert another potential hurdle for some plaintiffs to clear before taking their claims to court.
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Jury decides against Nebraska couple who accused late-term abortion doctor of malpractice
LORI PILGER Lincoln Journal StarJanuary 24, 2018
DENVER — A federal jury in Denver has decided against a Nebraska woman who claimed a Boulder, Colorado, doctor who performed a late-term abortion on her was to blame for her no longer being able to have children.
The Auburn woman and her husband accused Dr. Warren Hern and the Boulder Abortion Clinic of medical malpractice after part of the fetus' skull was found embedded in the wall of her uterus more than a year after the original procedure.
North Dakota malpractice damages law ruled unconstitutional
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — A state district judge has ruled that North Dakota's law limiting damages in medical malpractice cases is unconstitutional.
The case involved a 35-year-old Fort Yates woman who suffered a disabling stroke in 2012 due to a botched surgery at CHI St. Alexius Health in Bismarck.
Dr. Allen Michael Booth was found to have negligently performed a surgery on Chenille Condon.
Woman seeks $1M after paramedic allegedly fondled her
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — A 19-year-old woman is suing the city of Sacramento for $1 million after a paramedic allegedly fondled her breasts while she was unresponsive in an ambulance after suffering a seizure.
Woman sues over nude photos take of her on operating table
WASHINGTON, Pa. (AP) — A woman has sued the Pennsylvania hospital where she once worked over nude photos taken of her while she was on the operating table.
Sheila Harosky sued Washington Hospital, its chief executive and the doctor performing her surgery. She alleges invasion of privacy and medical malpractice, among other claims in the lawsuit filed Dec. 12.
Medical center settles malpractice lawsuit for $2 million
CHELSEA, Vt. (AP) — A New Hampshire medical center has settled a medical malpractice lawsuit for $2 million with the family of a Vermont high school athlete who died in 2014.
Couples win lawsuit over donated eggs with genetic defect
By DAVID KLEPPERDecember 14, 2017
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Two couples that gave birth to children with a genetic defect later traced to donated eggs won a lawsuit against a New York fertility doctor and his clinic in the state's highest court Thursday.
The two children, both born in 2009, have Fragile X syndrome, a genetic condition that can lead to intellectual and developmental impairments. The parents, identified by initials and last names in legal papers, were told the egg donors were screened for genetic conditions.
Edina dentist, family of teen who died after surgery settle suit for $2M
By Paul WalshDecember 5, 2017
The family whose teenage daughter died after having wisdom teeth removed reached a $2 million settlement with the Edina oral surgeon who performed the procedure.
Dr. Paul Tompach, who temporarily had his right to practice suspended and now teaches at the University of Minnesota, and the family of Sydney Galleger settled the lawsuit late last month.
Family agrees $2M settlement in teen’s dental surgery death
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The family of a Minneapolis-area teen who died during surgery to remove her wisdom teeth has reached a $2 million settlement with the oral surgeon who performed the procedure.
Legislative Malpractice At Its Worst
The Editorial BoardNovember 27, 2017
It was fitting in a way last week when a federal judge stalled the state government’s effort to help fund the budget with $200 million from a fund for medical malpractice coverage. The budget itself, after all, is the result of legislative malpractice. U.S. District Judge Christopher Conner, of Harrisburg, granted a request sought by the Pennsylvania Professional Liability Joint Underwriting Association to prevent the government from taking the $200 million from its reserve funds. The injunction...
Judge blocks Pennsylvania’s demand for $200M from insurer
By MARC LEVYNovember 24, 2017
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Pennsylvania's cash-strapped state government has lost round one in its effort to shut down a state-created medical malpractice insurer of last resort if it does not hand over $200 million in reserves by Dec. 1.
U.S. District Judge Christopher Conner this week granted a request sought by the Pennsylvania Professional Liability Joint Underwriting Association, suspending the state's deadline until the association's lawsuit can go to trial.
Judge grants Cleveland Clinic doctor protection order against former cancer patient
Ginger Christ, The Plain DealerNovember 18, 2017
CLEVELAND, Ohio – A Common Pleas judge granted a Cleveland Clinic surgeon and his family a five-year civil stalking protection order against a former cancer patient.
The order followed a hearing today in which Dr. Jihad Kaouk, a urologist, alleged that his patient David Antoon, a retired U.S. Air Force colonel, threatened his personal safety and made him fear physical harm.
Detective says juror bribery claim in Iowa trial was a hoax
By RYAN J. FOLEYNovember 17, 2017
IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — A letter purporting to be from a juror who was bribed to rule for the University of Iowa in a major medical malpractice case was likely a hoax by someone upset with the verdict, the lead detective says.
Johnson County Lt. Doug Gwinn told The Associated Press the case has hit a dead end after a 20-month investigation into the letter's shocking allegation of jury tampering failed to identify the author.
Couples sue fertility clinic over eggs with genetic defect
By DAVID KLEPPERNovember 15, 2017
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Two couples are suing a New York fertility doctor and his clinic after giving birth to children with a genetic abnormality later traced back to donated eggs.
Pennsylvania’s budget package is hit by $200 million lawsuit
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — A state-created medical malpractice insurer of last resort is asking a federal judge to block the Pennsylvania government's demand for $200 million from its reserves and a threat to shut it down if it does not hand over the cash.
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Apple OLED iPhone X and ProMotion iPad Pro win Display Industry Awards
Tuesday, May 15, 2018, 10:40 am PT (01:40 pm ET)
Apple has been named as a winner at the 23rd Display Industry Awards, honored in two categories for the screens used in the iPhone X and the iPad Pro that include technological advances, outstanding features, and in the case of the iPhone X, how the display is actually used in the device.
The iPad Pro screens used in the 10.5-inch and 12.9-inch models have been declared Displays of the Year, which are given to "display products with the most significant technological advances or outstanding features."
The display's ProMotion technology is highlighted as one of the main reasons it won in the category, with its ability to adapt between 24 and 120Hz noted as "the first displays in mainstream computer products to do so." The committee adds that it is enabled by a "new high-performance oxide TFT, as well as newly engineered liquid-crystal materials and advanced photoalignment materials."
The iPad Pro is honored alongside the other category winner, the Sharp 70-inch 8K LCD TV, said to be the first to offer full compatibility with 8K display technologies, with "unmatched luminance, contrast, and color gamut."
For Display Applications of the Year, a category dedicated to "novel and outstanding applications of a display, where the display itself is not necessarily a new device," the iPhone X is celebrated as the first in the product line to "fulfill the vision of a smartphone that is entirely screen, with no physical elements, keyboards, or dedicated function buttons." Removing the Home button made the display become the "primary element for all interaction, allowing the display to flow and entirely fill the face of the iPhone."
The 5.8-inch Super Retina display with a pixel density of 458ppi is said by the committee to be the "first OLED panel to match the standard set by prior iPhone generations," with its striking colors, true black shades, million-to-one contrast ratio, and HDR support for Dolby Vision and HDR 10 also praised.
Alongside the iPhone X in winning the category is the LG Display UHD Crystal Sound OLED, a television that is noted for having a speaker integrated into the display panel. This allows sound to be emitted from the display itself, rather than from the sides or reflected from a speaker on the back of the screen.
"Several of the winners feature new capabilities that will help drive broader levels of technology integration and adoption," said awards committee chair Dr. Wei Chen. "Moreover, the companies chosen represent a mix of prior and first-time recipients of Display Industry Awards, further emphasizing the growth that continues to take place throughout the electronic display ecosystem."
The awards consider products available to purchase during the 2017 calendar year, and were decided upon by a panel of experts who evaluated the nominees "for their degree of technical innovation and commercial significance, in addition to their potential for positive social impact."
The Display Industry Awards will recognize the honorees during a luncheon at the Los Angeles Convention Center on May 23, as part of the Society for Information Display's Display Week.
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Anil's Ghost
by Michael Ondaatje
With his first novel since the internationally acclaimed The English Patient, Booker Prize—winning author Michael Ondaatje gives us a work displaying all the richness of imagery and language and the piercing emotional truth that we have come to know as the hallmarks of his writing.
Anil's Ghost transports us to Sri Lanka, a country steeped in centuries of tradition, now forced into the late twentieth century by the ravages of civil war. Into this maelstrom steps Anil Tissera, a young woman born in Sri Lanka, educated in England and America, who returns to her homeland as a forensic anthropologist sent by an international human rights group to discover the source of the organized campaigns of murder engulfing the island. What follows is a story about love, about family, about identity, about the unknown enemy, about the quest to unlock the hidden past–a story propelled by a riveting mystery. Unfolding against the deeply evocative background of Sri Lanka's landscape and ancient civilization, Anil's Ghost is a literary spellbinder–Michael Ondaatje's most powerful novel yet.
From the Trade Paperback edition.
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Fiction Literature Historical Fiction
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John Proctor by Arthur Miller
John Proctor by Arthur Miller Essay Sample
Category: Arthur Miller play
John Proctor, a very complex character, a defeated individual, and arguably the protagonist in the play in The Crucible by Arthur Miller. A farmer in his mid-forties whose only priority at the beginning of the play was to maintain happiness. He’s a very confused and insecure man especially due to the affair that he had with Abigail even though he was married to Elizabeth ideally committing adultery. He’s mindset and role changes dramatically throughout the play as he is forced into making tough decisions and keeping his status as a devout Puritan. He transforms from a reckless adulterer to a righteous man who seeks forgiveness.
The major twisting point of this character was when his wife was accused of performing witchcraft as he drifts from an ordinary citizen to a sinner and then a dreadful hero. Proctor’s change of mind to remain a faithful Puritan instead of falsifying to avoid being hanged, shows how much he signifies being a pure and just Puritan. In the first act the readers get the impression that Proctor is a weak man who lacks the power to criticize others because he looks down on himself as a sinner and his rare church attendance makes him look extremely unreligious.
He didn’t have the power to correct or advise other individuals because of his low value in the community. He is also viewed as an arrogant man who refuses to attend church because he dislikes Parris stating on {P. 65} ”I surely did come when I could, and when I could not I prayed in my house” trying to find excuses for his rarity at church but Hale brings it to his attention that his house isn’t a church, Proctor then goes directly to his point {P.65}“
A minister may pray to God without he have golden candlesticks upon the altar” and contributing to his failure to recite the 10 commandments when questioned by Hale worsens his overall situation. At this stage of the play he’s viewed as an unloyal and an unholy man who only follows his own principles. Proctor suddenly undergoes major change when Cheever arrives at his house to bring a warrant for Elizabeth but he stays brave and refuses for her to be taken away as he believes that his wife is being unjustly accused. Now, the readers begin to have a different view towards Proctor.
During the court in Salem, after Elizabeth was already jailed, Proctor gets frustrated with Abigail’s attitude, yelling (P. 110)“It is a whore! I have known her, sir. I have known her. ” There’s silence throughout the room after this poisonous claim, shortly after that, he states that Elizabeth was aware of this and if she was then Abigail would have found herself in serious trouble. As Elizabeth is walked into the court, Proctor and Abigail are commanded to have their backs towards Elizabeth to avoid any influences with her response.
Elizabeth then denies that Proctor committed lechery hoping to save him, unaware that he has confessed, which leads to the clearance of Abigail’s name in the court. Proctor astonishingly confesses to witchcraft to save his life and avoid being hanged but suddenly takes his decision back when informed that he has to sign the paper of his claim which would then be posted outside the church. He feels like he’s betrayed his friends and wouldn’t let his pride get into the way resulting into him taking back his confession. The outcome of this was him him being indefinitely hanged but he sa w himself as a good man who died a good death.
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15 Low-Cost Alternatives to a Juice Cleanse
Tess Rose Lampert April 12, 2018
SWEAR OFF THE JUICE CLEANSE
Juice cleanses may be a raging fad, but they're not the be all and end all of detox programs. In fact, many people find that juice cleanses make them feel worse, because the regimen lacks fiber and sufficient calories. Moreover, juice cleanses are often outrageously expensive, costing upward of $30 a day. Since there's argument whether there's even a scientific basis for the "detox," it makes sense to find cheaper and arguably healthier ways to cleanse the body, change up diet, and introduce detoxifying activities into a daily routine.
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The idea of cleansing is to flush the body and give it a chance to rest and find its natural balance. Our bodies work hard to eliminate what some call toxins consumed in the form of dyes, preservatives, and additives often found in packaged foods. Check labels before buying and shun products that contain harmful chemicals, giving the liver and blood a chance to relax and rejuvenate.
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HYDRATE THYSELF
Keeping the body hydrated is one of the simplest and most important things to do for overall health. Our bodies are made up mostly of water molecules, so it's no surprise we need to stay well hydrated. Two ways the body eliminates water-based waste and toxins are through urine and sweat, and drinking water helps replenish the fluids that have been lost. Eliminating solid waste requires sufficient water, as well. Drink at least eight 8-ounce glasses of water a day to detox quickly, efficiently, and without sabotaging your health.
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ELIMINATE MEAT
Regardless whether meat stays part of a regular diet, cutting it out temporarily might be good for you. A study in The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition found that eating a vegetarian diet lowers the risk of heart disease. Many meats are high in cholesterol, which builds up fatty deposits in arteries, constricting blood flow and thus the oxygen bodies need. Getting protein from other sources, including nuts, legumes, vegetables, and dairy, takes the pressure off the heart and circulatory system while kicking up fiber and calcium intake. Moreover, meat is often the most expensive part of a meal, so eating less means saving more.
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BRUSH THE SKIN
Skin is the largest organ in the human body and, sometimes referred to as the third kidney, plays a large role in ridding the body of toxins -- yet is often neglected during detox routines. An easy way to help the skin detox and renew is by dry brushing with a regular natural bristle hair brush or special skin brushes costing less than $4 on Amazon. (Be sure the bristles are soft and full enough for comfort.) Dry brushing before bathing removes old toxin-carrying cells and encourages the growth of new cells.
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EAT RAW
Raw fruits and vegetables contain a load of fiber (helping eliminate waste) and easily absorbed vitamins, minerals, and protein (which together boost energy) -- and not the toxins or chemicals a cleanse is meant to avoid. Aim to incorporate five servings of raw produce daily. Raw fruits and vegetables are also high in water, so they fill you up faster, which reduces caloric intake, and help keep you hydrated. Schedule a cleanse in the warmer months and there should be access to plenty of fresh produce at bargain prices.
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TRY PSYLLIUM HUSK
Waste builds up in digestive tracts (i.e., the intestines) over time. As tiny particles cling to the sides, the intestines become an increasingly narrow pathway for elimination. Livestrong suggests using an all-natural fiber supplement such as psyllium husk to clean out the system periodically. Psyllium husk is available as a powder (12 ounces are $9 at The Vitamin Shoppe) and in gelcaps (100 are $7 from The Vitamin Shoppe). It's a gentle natural supplement, and some find even one teaspoon or three gelcaps is sufficient. Start small and increase gradually as needed.
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CONSUME GINGER
In addition to the impressive anti-inflammatory and antioxidant properties of ginger, this superfood is an impressive detox aid, the Alternative Daily website says. Among its many functions, ginger helps boost blood flow and speed digestion, both essential to ridding the body of toxins. Ginger, with a high-fiber diet, will clean out the digestive tract thoroughly. Consuming ginger raw or in tea form (check a favorite herbal tea purveyor, or mix raw ginger with hot water) are the most effective ways to get the spicy detox power into your body. At about 50 cents an ounce, it's also one of the cheapest edible medicinal plants.
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EXERCISE THE BODY
Getting blood pumping and working up a sweat is a good way to eliminate potentially harmful toxins, many of which are stored in fat cells, then released into the body and finally eliminated with a sweaty workout. Deep stretches or strength training can help release toxin buildup by bringing more oxygen to the muscles and improving circulation. Depending on daily caloric intake, design a workout that combines at least 30 minutes of cardio and strength training, and work up a good sweat. There are many no-cost ways to incorporate exercise into your daily routine.
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CUT THE SUGAR
Delicious as sugar is, it's not a treat for the body. Just some nefarious effects cited by Rodale News: Sugar encourages organs to retain fat, is addictive, and negatively affects the brain's pleasure receptors. There's really no place for conventional sugar in a healthy diet; going off it every now and then is a gift to the body. Substitute agave, which is lower on the glycemic index but sweeter, meaning less of it is needed for the same high. You may go through sugar withdrawal for a few days, but the effects will subside and you'll experience increased energy and overall body performance.
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SKIP THE BOOZE
While a fun and delicious indulgence, alcohol compromises the immune system and makes the body's internal organs work harder to eliminate toxins. A moderate amount of alcohol can be healthy for most adults, especially in the form of red wine, which is rich in antioxidants and the plant compound resveratrol. Still, it's a good idea to give the system a break several times a year. Many alcoholic beverages are high in calories and sugar, and giving them up for a week or so may help shed a few pounds. Alcohol also is one of the more expensive habits, so a little self-discipline will be a boon to the budget.
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MUNCH PROBIOTIC FERMENTED FOODS
Naturally fermented foods such as sauerkraut, kombucha, and kimchi contain probiotics, which promote healthy digestion and a strong immune system. Our bodies are home to thousands of bacteria, some very helpful and essential to proper bodily functions, and fermented foods are rich in them. Probiotics are alive when we ingest them, so there may be a noticeable burst of energy when eating fermented foods. Stick to locally made vegetable-based products for the best prices; transporting these life-filled foods requires temperature-controlled cargo space that adds cost to the consumer. Some people skip the food approach and seek out probiotic supplements to take like vitamins.
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START THE DAY WITH LEMON WATER
Adding the juice from half a freshly squeezed lemon into morning water -- cold or hot like tea -- supercharges a detox regimen. Lemon juice is a natural way to support digestion as well as liver and kidney function, all of which are essential to ridding bodies of free radicals and toxins.
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FAST INTERMITTENTLY
Intermittent, small-scale fasting is a trend among the health conscious as well as those looking to drop a few pounds quickly in a healthy way. The idea is to limit food intake to nine hours a day, which most people do by skipping dinner. Since a significant portion of time spent not eating is while asleep, it doesn't feel like deprivation.
DETOX WITH TEA
Incorporating a gentle detox tea into your daily routine is a mild and efficient way to rid the body of impurities. There are many cheap varieties on the market combining all-natural herbs and spices to promote detoxification from the inside out. A box of 16 tea bags is $4 at The Vitamin Shoppe.
INGEST ACTIVATED CHARCOAL
Activated charcoal works like a magnet for certain impurities that could be lurking in the body -- it is even given to people in the hospital when they overdose on certain drugs and alcohol to help the body rid itself of the substances quickly and safely. Enough powdered activated charcoal for multiple small doses is $8 at Bulk Apothecary.
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By JULIO OCHOA
A wayward panther that got caught between Corkscrew Road and a fence forced local officials to hone their cat herding skills.
Using their bodies to funnel the cat through a small hole in the fence, scientists and officers from the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission were able to drive the panther back to the wild unharmed.
“It worked as planned,” said Mark Lotz, a biologist for FWC “I don’t know how much is luck or whatever, but it turned out well.”
Not bad, considering the situation could have resulted in the third panther to get struck and killed by a vehicle on the deadly stretch of road since August 2006.
Drivers on Corkscrew Road were the first to see the panther running up and down along the fence line, frantically searching for a way through.
The fence is in place to keep panthers off the road, but in this case it acted more like a trap.
Lee County officials are extending the fence on the north and south sides of the road in order to help funnel more of the endangered animals through an underpass that serves as a panther crossing.
But crews could only finish extending the fence on the south side because flooded wetlands on the north side temporarily halted their progress.
That created a problem for the female panther that was heading across Corkscrew Road from the north and ran into the completed fence on the south.
“With traffic running, it probably got pretty frightened and found its way into a culvert,” said Dave Onorato, a panther biologist for FWC.
The 32-inch high culvert that runs under the road is where Lotz found the panther when he arrived.
Officers cut a hole in the fence, hoping the panther would escape but it didn’t work.
Lotz decided to intervene.
He positioned three people perpendicular to the fence to the left of the hole and three people on the right.
Once everyone was in position, Lotz sent someone into the opposite side of the culvert to flush the panther out.
“He did it really slow so the panther wouldn’t get spooked and run out,” Lotz said. “She came to the entrance and stood there a minute and looked around. She sized up the situation, saw the hole and just made her way right to it.”
With this week’s completion of the fence extension on the north side of Corkscrew Road, county officials hope the situation is never repeated, said Betsie Hiatt, environmental manager for Lee County Department of Transportation.
But since the area is so popular with panthers, the county will continue to work with the FWC to make sure the fence is working properly.
“If we need to, we’ll make some more modifications,” Hiatt said.
Scientists believe the corridor is so popular with panthers and other wildlife because it is an island of habitat surrounded by development.
When biologists returned the day after the panther was rescued they found both male and female panther tracks in the area.
“One of our objectives this year is to spend some time up there and collar some animals and see how they are using that isolated habitat,” Onorato said. “It’s an area of conservation concern. The habitat is shrinking but panthers are still using it.”
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BP boosted by oil spill settlement
Shares in BP rose over 2% on Monday after the oil giant reached a settlement with businesses and individuals impacted by the Gulf of Mexico oil spill worth an estimated US$7.8-billion
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By Tom Bergin
LONDON – Shares in BP rose over 2% on Monday after the oil giant reached a settlement with businesses and individuals impacted by the Gulf of Mexico oil spill worth an estimated US$7.8-billion.
Some analysts said the expected payout was less than they had forecast, reduced legal uncertainty and suggested the final settlement with BP’s biggest opponent – the U.S. government – would be much lower than the worst case scenario.
Predictions were that BP’s shares could benefit even more than Monday’s initial boost.
“On a trading basis we see a potentially quite positive reaction … BP moving to the 530-550 pence range near term (if not higher), and possibly higher thereafter,” said Jason Kenny, oil analyst at Santander.
BP shares were up 2.3 percent at 508 pence by 0807 GMT, outperforming a flat STOXX Europe 600 oil and gas index .SXEP.
Analysts had given a wide range of forecasts for how much BP would have to pay out to compensate fishermen, condominium owners and hoteliers, with many predicting a figure of $14 billion, although BP had taken a provision of just $6.1 billion.
The company has also taken a $3.5 billion provision for expected government fines but the maximum possible level of penalty could be over $20 billion, if BP is found to have been grossly negligent.
Analysts said the agreement boosted the chances of a settlement with the government.
“What this agreement does, if it is implemented, is to give the management of BP further encouragement to try and reach a settlement out of court (with the U.S. Department of Justice),” said Iain Armstrong, oil analyst with Brewin Dolphin, via email.
Fadel Gheit, oil analyst at Oppenheimer in New York, said BP’s hand had been strengthened by the deal.
“I think the settlement further weakens the government claim of gross negligence,” he said.
Analysts at Morgan Stanley predicted the agreement would allow BP to continue raising its dividend, which was cut at the height of the oil spill – the worst in U.S. history.
“We believe the path towards free cash flow of $8.7 billion and a dividend of 39 cents per share by 2014 remains intact,” the bank said in a research note.
BP paid a dividend of 29 cents per share for 2011. Some investors had feared BP’s ability to grow the dividend could be limited by the legal uncertainty.
Nontheless, even the most optimistic forecasts suggest BP will remain well below its pre-spill payout of 14 cents per share per quarter for years to come.
In addition to the U.S. federal government’s claims, BP faces lawsuits from the states affected by the spill, which came after a blast on a drilling rig that killed 11 men.
Analysts at Citigroup said they expected BP to have to pay another $1-2 billion to settle these claims.
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On World Mangrove Day, a new strategy to protect the world’s most important ecosystem
by Jorge Ramos
Young mangrove at sunset. (© Matthew D Potenski 2011/Marine Photobank)
Editor’s note: Mangrove forests are the world’s most productive and important ecosystem, but they’re being wiped out by unsustainable agriculture and other threats. The Global Mangrove Alliance, a new collaboration between Conservation International (CI),and partners, is working to reverse the destruction of these forests.
As coastal communities face the effects of overfishing and sea-level rise, restoring mangroves has never been more important. On World Mangrove Day, CI’s manager for oceans and climate, Jorge Ramos, unveils the Alliance’s strategy to protect them.
Why mangroves matter
Mangrove forests are amazing ecosystems that grow along tropical coasts, where they thrive in saltwater and tidal conditions. Mangrove ecosystems are some of the most productive and biologically diverse ecosystems on the planet: They serve as important habitats for fish, sharks, manatees, crabs and other important species; provide food, jobs and other resources to communities around the world; and protect some of the most vulnerable coastal communities from the devastating impacts of climate change. Lastly, although mangrove forests cover just 0.1 percent of our planet’s land surface, they store more carbon than any other type of forest and are therefore an important part of the solution to climate change.
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CI’s mangrove restoration projects are critical to addressing climate change impacts — and protecting communities.
Unsustainable aquaculture: the greatest threat to mangroves
Approximately 75 percent of the world’s mangrove forests are found in just 15 countries. Indonesia, a country of 17,000 tropical islands, has by far the largest mangrove forest cover, followed by Brazil, Malaysia, Papua New Guinea and Australia. Despite their wide-ranging benefits and importance, mangroves are being destroyed and degraded at an alarming rate. Around the tropics, mangrove forests are being cleared for aquaculture (fish and shrimp ponds) and other agriculture as well as coastal urban development along the coasts. They also suffer from land based pollution and from impacts of rapid sea-level rise.
Unsustainable aquaculture is the largest and most pressing threat to mangrove ecosystems worldwide with increasing rates of pond development in Asia and South America. For example, while Indonesia today is home to 22 percent of the world’s mangroves, in the last 30 years, Indonesia has lost 40 percent of its mangroves, mainly as a result of shrimp and fish ponds. Recently, palm oil plantations have also been an additional pressure on Indonesian mangroves.
Mangroves in the Dominican Republic. (© Rachel Docherty/Flickr Creative Commons)
This is where the Global Mangrove Alliance comes in
The Global Mangrove Alliance (GMA) is a commitment from the international community to reverse the loss of critically important mangrove habitats worldwide. The GMA has the ambitious goal of expanding the global extent of mangrove habitat by 20 percent by 2030.
The Alliance is coordinated by Conservation International, International Union for Conservation of Nature, The Nature Conservancy, World Wildlife Fund and Wetlands International. Together with the other members the Alliance, these organizations will build on current global efforts to conserve and restore mangroves so that together we can increase funding, strengthen scientific research, improve coastal management and support governments to implement policies that accelerate conservation and restoration of mangroves at the global scale that matters.
“The goal of the Global Mangrove Alliance is to change the way that people see and value mangroves, which will lead to an increased commitment to conserve and restore these amazing systems,” says Jennifer Howard, director of marine climate change for CI. “If we are to reach a net increase in mangrove cover of 20 percent by 2030, we need more organizations, governments, private companies, and funding organizations to commit to making mangroves a priority.”
The GMA will link the essential role of mangroves for climate change adaptation and mitigation with responsible and sustainable use of mangrove resources and ultimately to protect biodiversity and improve the well-being of more than 10 million people who are directly dependent on coastal ecosystems for their food security and livelihoods.
Want to help protect mangroves? Here’s how
There are many ways you can help protect these ecosystems. Look for sustainable alternatives to eating farmed shrimp from mangrove areas. Find local conservation and government organizations in your area that are working to conserve mangrove forests, and support them. Remember, conservation of mangrove ecosystems is more than just planting new trees. It includes, science, policy, education and much more.
After all, keeping mangroves healthy is critical to human well-being. “Mangrove ecosystems support a wide diversity of people that live and depend on them,” says Emily Pidgeon, CI’s senior director for strategic marine initiatives. “From the coasts of Brazil to Indonesia, from Liberia to my home in Australia, mangroves are essential to coastal communities.”
Jorge Ramos is CI’s manager for oceans and climate.
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July 26, 2017 at 6:09 pm Tessa says
CI is doing amazing work across the globe to Conserve these forgotten forests. At CI in Liberia they are employing simple strategies like providing communities with small motors to have them fish further out to sea. This is ensuring no fishing near mangroves, no undersize fish are caught and the communities commit to halt the use of small nets that kill small fish in breeding grounds. Providing the women with eco-stoves is halting the cutting of mangroves for firewood and protecting the coastal communities from flooding. Wonderful work in Africa too. Check out more of their news at https://www.facebook.com/Conservationliberia/
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I love to go camping in the nature and sustainability is really important for our activities
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Samsung Galaxy S8 and S8+ Phone Holders
May 11, 2017 • ProClip USA
The Samsung Galaxy S8 is designed to have a plethora of new features that is sure to swoon every smartphone user. Among the most notable, the Galaxy S8 has an infinity screen, a camera that offers multi-image frame processing and Bixby, Samsung’s new personal assistant. Samsung is also looking to bridge the gap between smartphones and desktops by introducing Samsung DeX. Samsung DeX is a docking system that enables a Samsung S8 to be used as a desktop computer, where users can manipulate apps as they would on their personal computer. It is safe to say that the Galaxy S8/S8+ is an innovative product that the modern individual can use for multiple needs.
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Has the NY Housing Crisis Turned into a Due Process Crisis?
Editor’s note: This article was written by Gail Kagan as a follow-up to the article she wrote regarding New York Bill 1258. The opinions expressed here belong to Gail Kagan.
On May 7th, speaker of the City Council Corey Johnson pushed a vote on a series of 17 bills to address the housing crisis in New York City, including proposal Int 1258A which is very likely to adversely impact the process serving industry.
This vote was propelled by an eye-opening series of articles in the New York Times regarding the re-gentrification and unfair displacement of tenants in the city. The New York City Council was pushed to action. Johnson tasked the housing committee, chaired by Robert Cornegy, Jr., with drafting up proposals addressing the problem. In the package was Int 1258A, a bill dealing with process server audits.
As legislative chair for the New York State Professional Process Server Association (NYSPPSA), I have worked on this bill with Councilman Cornegy’s staff since the first hearings were held in December of last year.
In the version originally proposed, Int 1258A required the commissioner of the department of consumer affairs to annually audit the records of at least 20% of licensed process servers who have served process for a housing court procedure. It also required that litigants be informed when a process server or process serving agency has failed its audit.
At the hearing, I testified that:
NYC already has the strictest regulations of process service in the nation.
The Department of Consumer Affairs (DCA) can and does audit process servers’ records at their discretion when deemed necessary.
The current city rules require that servers report the findings of every traverse hearing which takes place when a consumer complains about improper service to the DCA.
From 2012 to 2016, the audits conducted by the DCA have produced violations in record keeping which revolve around the hand-written log book. This logbook is an exact duplication of the digital record in a much less efficient and more mutable method. This handwritten record is required for every service or attempt of service in a bound and paginated book with no erasures, abbreviations, or dittos allowed. It also consists of over 32 fields requiring handwritten text and numbers. These records are required to be completed at the time of service while the server is in the street. This makes it almost impossible for a server to produce 100% perfect records every time. The fines for any record-keeping errors are onerous and has been the cause of attrition of process servers, reducing our numbers by over 70% since the rules went into effect.
Digital records include the description of the attempt or service and GPS tagging which is uploaded to a 3rd party provider. They are designed to be tamper-proof and are a much more secure and transparent way to keep records. They are also easier to review and are more in step with current technology. Certified copies of these records are available on request and process servers would not be subject to audits of the digital records.
Any unwarranted audit will surely cause a drop in the already low number of process servers in New York.
If you read the New York Times article that generated this reaction from the city, you will notice that the same landlords are cited time and again. It is also apparent that any sewer service cited was discovered by the already existing rules and those servers are no longer licensed to serve. So, while the system works on servers, it’s not effective in stopping unscrupulous landlords.
Based on our experiences in the street along with research of the city rules of service, proposing simple changes to the city codes and rules could make a big difference. I believe the following measures will work to reassert fairness into a housing court action if implemented:
Start by giving the landlord consequences if he or she is serving unregulated process.
Educate consumers by serving an additional notice with the service documents explaining that the papers served signal the start of an eviction proceeding and offer them information on where to get help.
Make sure that the tenant receives the service papers by ensuring that documents in housing cases when served by conspicuous service (308.4) are never slipped under the door where they can be ignored, stepped on, sent out with the trash, or eaten by the family dog.
The proposals and comments I made coincided with what the committee heard from the Department of Consumer Affairs. The DCA agreed that audits would more than likely find recordkeeping errors that would not aid in revealing improper service. The cost to the city to do these audits would be extensive and do nothing to further the City Council’s goals.
The cost to the city to do these audits would be extensive and do nothing to further the City Council’s goals.
The DCA also made their own amendments to the proposed bill, suggesting that audits would be triggered if a server was accused of improper service by a consumer or lost multiple traverse hearings, setting a pattern of improper service.
In March, Speaker Johnson’s central staff proposed a new version of Int 1258A. Ignoring the DCA and NYSPPSA’s advice and the concern about audits, the bill now proposed that every licensed server turn in all the affidavits they served each month. This would triplicate the documentation; a server would have to provide and generate an avalanche of thousands of paper documents that the DCA was expected to review. NYSPPSA reacted strongly to the new proposal, pointing out how ridiculous it was. This section of 1258A was eventually withdrawn.
On the last day of April 2019, the final versions of the bill package, including Int 1258A, were revealed. Speaker Corey Johnson decided that this legislation must be voted on and 1258 was going to be included. No more discussion would be had.
On Friday, while I was attending the National Association of Professional Process Servers (NAPPS) Annual Convention in Orlando, two of NYC’s legislative staff called me saying they understood our concerns and realized the detrimental consequences of this bill on the process serving industry. They explained that the bill would be coming to a vote soon and encouraged me to organize our opposition. Our NAPPS and NYSPPSA members responded, as did many of the independent contractors, making hundreds of phone calls and emails. Our appeals were ultimately ignored.
The vote was scheduled to go forward on 17 of the proposals including Int 1258A. On the morning of May 7th, several colleagues and I were in the room to watch the vote and implore the Housing Committee not to pass 1258A. I spoke to as many council members as would stop to listen, but I was told by almost everyone that I was too late even though this was the first time they were hearing from us. I confronted Mr. Cornegy as he walked into the room with one of his staff, who I had worked with for months. I stood there, all 5’2” of me, looking up at this towering 6’8” man and asked him what was he doing?
He responded puzzled; hadn’t his staff addressed our concerns regarding the duplicitous records? He looked at his staffer, who just shook his head, silently agreeing with me. The councilman said, “talk with me after the vote” and walked into the meeting room.
The Housing Committee was stretched out before us on a long dais with Mr. Cornegy in the center. In front of them on the desk were my latest flyer and a letter citing our position on the bill. I made clear the likely consequences of losing more servers. Our process server contingent took the front two rows and we were no more than ten feet from the committee. We were holding signs asking that they vote NO on Intro 1258A. I looked each one of those council members in the eye. Not everyone had the backbone to look back at me and the ones that did dropped eye contact quickly. They knew this was wrong.
Mr. Cornegy introduced the package of bills citing the press and mentioning the New York Times piece which highlighted the unfair practices of New York landlords. He explained that they were voting on all 17 proposals as one. He called for the vote. It was unanimous on all but proposal 1258A. One brave councilmember abstained to vote and stood against his colleagues.
As the council stood up to leave, I confronted them, declaring that they had just done process servers in NYC a great disservice. I queried, “who do you expect to protect your due process rights now that you have dismissed the process serving industry?”
Now, the already beleaguered process servers of NYC are the scapegoat of an ill-thought-out rule created by a knee jerk reaction to pressure from a problem we did not create. Meanwhile, the city’s politicians and Speaker Corey Johnson specifically gain glory for reacting to but not actually fixing the situation.
But this is not over. The bill still must be implemented and we haven’t had our last word.
After the meeting, Mr. Cornegy spoke with us. He stated that he would make a new bill addressing the issues we brought up and specifically that the landlords should have consequences for serving unregulated process. He addressed the issues we will now face.
He seemed to understand that our industry, which should be thriving, is failing as fewer process servers are willing to work in the city. He says he wants to encourage business owners and the small independent contractors. He promises to look at the reasons process servers are not able to flourish because of overburdensome and archaic rules. Have we made a friend in the city? Time will tell.
Gail Kagan is the legislative chair of the New York State Professional Process Servers Association and the past president of the New York State Professional Process Servers Association. She is also a member of the National Association of Professional Process Severs Asscociation and the New Jersey Professional Proccess Servers Associtation.
Source: ServeNow
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How to capitalize on the rise of solo travel
Terrilyn Kunopaski
CT Magazine > Career Development
According to a new report, solo travellers are forgoing the expertise of travel advisors. What business might you be missing, and how can you reel it in?
If there's any trend crossing the generational divide, it’s one of self-care and self-interest, whereby people are no longer putting off doing what they want, when they want. Life is short, after all; at least, that’s what many tell themselves when making a deposit on their annual vacation. And now more than ever, the travel industry is seeing this tendency pay off.
According to a May 2018 report from Booking.com, about 40 per cent of Baby Boomers have taken a solo trip in the last year, and a further 21 per cent are planning to take one in the future. The latest Holiday Habits survey from UK-based Abta shows that one in six travellers went solo in the past 12 months, compared to one in nine in 2017.
It’s a flourishing market, undeniably, but the new Solo Travel Trends Report released by tour company Just You, in partnership with online content platform Solo Traveler, suggests that it’s an opportunity largely being missed by travel advisors. In fact, results show that less than 17 per cent of solo travellers speak to a travel advisor when researching their next experience – a figure that drops to 11.68 per cent when it comes to actually booking.
The good news is, it’s not too late to capitalize off the stillgrowing trend. CAA is setting a good example for what other agencies can do to connect with the solo traveller market; CAA Manitoba launched its Solo EsCAApes club in 2014, followed by CAA South Central Ontario’s Extraordinary Explorations Solo Collection, launched in 2016. In Manitoba alone, the club has grown from 150 members in its first year to more than 1,200 in 2018.
“Everyone has their own bucket list when it comes to travel destinations but not everyone has friends or family who want to experience those same places. Solo travel allows people to travel and experience different cultures on their terms while staying active and living life to the fullest,” says Dianne Jackson, director of travel & retail product, CAA. “Creating a solo travel club enables you to serve a group of travellers who tend to be under serviced in the marketplace. It creates options specifically designed for people who are looking for more.”
As for what this specific community looks like, the Solo Travel Trends Report suggests that the vast majority are female, the largest group is aged 65-plus (the second largest is 55-64), and the most in-demand region for these experiences is Europe.
And, just as Jackson suggests, the main reason these folks are travelling solo is that they want to see the world and, quite simply, don’t want to wait for others.
“There are a lot more people, particularly in the 55-plus demographic, who are empty nesters or their partners are no longer with them,” says Tracey Nesbitt of Solo Traveler. “They have the flexibility, the time and the funds to do more travel.”
That said, experts agree that an important distinction to make in this conversation is that “solo” does not always mean “alone.” While many might be quick to think of a Millennial backpacker navigating her way from hostel to hostel and from town to town via local bus systems, it’s clear that that reality is quickly evolving as tour companies cater more to the growing demand.
Just You, which was acquired by G Touring (parent company of G Adventures) in 2017, is the lone operator in the Canadian market exclusively for solo travellers. While many others offer itineraries targeted to solo travellers, Just You’s itineraries are designed to address specific demands – each participant gets his or her own room and there are no single supplements – not otherwise possible without a hefty price tag.
As for sun vacations, Transat introduced its Solo Collection in 2015 in response to popular demand. Free WiFi, no single supplements, free room services and communal tables for sharing meals are among the benefits, depending on availability.
“The initial thinking behind the creation of this collection was for people travelling alone,” says Debbie Cabana, Transat spokesperson. “But we started seeing more and more women and men, travelling with two, three or four friends or family members, that wanted to travel altogether but preferred to have the peace and quiet of their own room at the end of a fun-filled day. This represents a large part of our customers.”
And the proof of success is in the numbers: the collection hosted 62 per cent more guests in 2017 versus the year prior, and as such, it continues to be enhanced with more resorts and destinations offered. Cabana says that of the total number of Transat travellers booking South packages annually, about 8,000 are those who purchase a Solo Collection product.
Cruising – a market infamous for its single supplements – is also catering more to the solo traveller. According to a 2017 release from the Cruise Lines International Association, “Cruise lines now offer a variety of incentives, benefits and experiences designed with single cruise travellers in mind.” For example, some are waiving single supplements and hosting singles-exclusives events and activities for these specific travellers.
And even travel insurance is reaping the rewards. Allianz Global Assistance Canada’s Dan Keon, vice-president of market management, told CT in a recent interview that, “In 2017, 70 per cent of [our] policies purchased were purchased by solo travellers… and that number is up seven per cent over 2015.”
So how can travel advisors begin building their solo travel business?
Roberti suggests beginning with a CAA-style approach of forming a solo traveller club. He also recommends advisors network with local women’s groups and organizations, look into singles meet-ups and organize exclusive departures.
And while he agrees that it’s easy to overlook single travellers because of the amount of work required for a single booking, he’s confident it pays off, especially given the solo traveller’s tendency to take between two and four trips annually.
“The opportunity is endless,” he says.
TAKE 5 WITH DIANNE JACKSON
Director of Travel & Retail Product, CAA
Why did CAA establish its solo travel clubs? What do they involve?
We are continuously reviewing and evolving our travel products to respond to the needs of our members and customers. Over the years, we saw a growing interest in experiences for travellers who did not have a travel companion. We noticed that there were quite a few solo travellers already travelling on our group departures and felt that there was an opportunity there to create something more personalized for them. With solo travel clubs already becoming a niche market, we felt that it was the right time to develop something special.
How did you begin attracting members to become part of the CAA Solo Escapes Club?
Our front line travel associates truly act as trusted partners to CAA members and customers looking to plan their next trip. Once the product was developed, our top priority was to make sure our travel associates were fully trained so they could easily identify when it might be of interest to someone they are working with. We also placed some advertisements to let people know that solo travel was an option to consider.
What makes a trip appealing to solo travellers?
CAA solo travel programs are designed to appeal to people who enjoy travelling but may not have a travel companion and don’t want to travel alone. They are designed with safety, comfort and memorable experiences in mind. It is not just about waiving a single supplement; it is about building trips knowing that each traveller is solo. These trips provide an opportunity to meet like-minded individuals while exploring bucket-list destinations. There is a level of comfort and security when going on a CAA-hosted trip, so travellers know they can see the sights they want to see, in the safety of a group and the peace of mind that all the details are covered.
What destinations (or types of destinations) are appealing to solo travellers, and why?
We are finding that the most compelling solo traveller destinations tend to be the common bucket list destinations where people may not be comfortable travelling alone. Destinations such as Africa, Peru, China and Vietnam are quite popular. Our Christmas Market river cruise has sold out the last two years and we are already getting requests for 2019 details.
What are some “best practices” for travel advisors to employ when working with solo travellers?
The most important thing for travel advisors to do when working with solo travellers or when booking group trips is to understand their client’s past travel experiences and preferences in order to build a trip that appeals to a broader group. Some key questions to ask include: Is this their first trip? Where have they travelled in the past? Do they prefer a full itinerary or a more leisurely pace? Is travelling with a host important to them? It is also important to ensure the solo trip is positioned as a solo trip and not a singles group. They are completely different experiences.
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Blacks Have Already Received $8.3 Trillion in Reparations
A friend of mine has child in St. Louis Park High School. He (a white kid) was forced to attend some black lives matter rally at the high school, and when conveying the story to his father said,
"It's like they think all white people are racist."
As his father conveyed this story to me he said at the end of it,
"You know, it's like they want us to be the slaves."
To which I responded to both,
"LIKE????"
So put on your economist hat lieutenants and economists, for the Ole Captain is about to lay down some of his serious Super Awesome Economic Genius.
It is a given that blacks receive government checks at a higher rate than the rest of the population. It is also a logical given that this is unfair to the rest of the population as this makes the rest of the population at least "part time slaves" to blacks (though anybody paying taxes is a slave to anybody else collecting a government check regardless of race).
without even an nano-second passing, you can bet the national debt the immediate knee jerk response from the left (and the BLM, NAACP, etc.) will be "BUT RAAACISSSSSMMMMM!!!!!!!!"
Fine, which means this is a debate about....
reparations.
It is at this point I would like to say, "as far as my logic takes me, any additional government monies received above the proportion of the population should be considered reparations," but I'm not going to "say" it because, frankly, that's precisely what it is.
Reparations (well, either it's that or slavery).
Thus, the real issue my economic spidey senses wanted to solve was just how much in effective reparations has been paid out to the black community over the years through the form of government checks they've received beyond the rest of the population in terms of proportion. And with some previous research and some good luck finding a key piece of data, I was able to come up with a figure quite quickly.
$8.3 trillion.
The math is actually quite simple.
According to the DAILY KOS of all people, blacks account for 32% of welfare recipients while only accounting for 12% of the population. You would then think they receive thrice the amount of money they should, but it is not proportional math that is required here, but a "premium" calculation. In short, blacks are entitled to 12% of the social spending budget, but receive an additional 20%.
But how much in social spending has there been? And when do we start accounting for social spending? Have blacks always been collecting a 20% premium over their non-black American peers? There are all legitimate questions, but without over-complicating things, we'll just assume the vast majority of social spending has occurred since The Great Society. And 1971 is as good a starting point as any.
Why 1971? Because that's when I did some more serious research about all the social spending and it more or less includes the vast majority of social spending since The Great Society started.
The key thing is the total amount of federal government spending since 1971 is $63.3 trillion. 65% of that is social spending, so $41.3 trillion. 20% of that (using welfare as a proxy) has "unfairly" gone to blacks, or $8.3 trillion in reparations.
Now the predictable argument immediately coming from the left in the next nano-second will be, once again, "THAT'S FOR ALL THE RAAAAACCCCISSSSM!!!!!"
To which, I say, "fine, so shut the hell up about reparations, and while you're at it, shut the hell up about racism, BLM, and all the other bullshit."
If we are to be precisely mathematical, logical, and intellectually honest about it (idealistic, I know), blacks have been compensated for all the evils and ills of racism. That's the whole point of reparations. And since non-blacks have forked over $8.3 trillion over the past 50 years to blacks, it should at least buy white kids in St. Louis Park High School (who weren't alive long enough to commit any racial atrocities of the past) a reprieve from the false accusations and propaganda by hate groups like BLM.
Naturally, because it really isn't about racism, but rather the professional victim/race whore industry doing a generations-long shake down, I fully expect the specious and predictable response of "$8.3 trillion isn't enough." Because, well, it's never enough.
And you're right, it isn't. Because that's just the amount of reparations blacks have received from the FEDERAL government. Imagine if we included the state and local wealth transfers!
The larger point is people on the right (or those of you sick of paying reparations for sins you never committed) have to argue past the narrative that blacks are discriminated against and entitled to some kind of compensation and blood from innocent people. This is nothing more than a naked attempt by cowardly thieves who hide behind the color of their skin (or in the case of feminists, their vag), and bring shame to those black people who don't resort to such cowardly and shameful tactics. It is merely a humble request that in my lifetime I see Americans grow the balls required to free themselves from this part-time slavery and tell these professional victims to take a hike and shove it.
Before making any accusations of racism on the part of the author, please go here and pull your foot from your mouth.
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Will said...
Have blacks been at 12% of the population steadily since 1971, and have they been getting 32% of it the entire time?
You can't take a years worth of data, and apply it to years in which the data isn't from.
Something is overly simple in your calculations, but the basic premise seems sound.
Survivorman said...
Let's not forget the 300,000 white men that lost their lives in the American Civil War.
That was a pretty big check we wrote to free African Americans from slavery..
a pretty.. big.. check!
Marshallaw said...
Hey what about the Micks...the Brita never gave us Jack shit for the famine...1 million starved to death then countless millions emigrated.....but da bruthas get trillions cuz they rap about 3 acres n a mule....
I have tried to quantify the numbers myself some time ago, and simply gave up. 8.3 Trillion is not even close, off my maybe a factor of 10.
Once you start to figure in the "after-effects" of the original 8.3 trillion dollar spending, the white flight, rebuilding a new city 20 miles away from the old city to get away from crime and to have access to better schools, the time spent committing, the gas and energy, wasted resources, and the fact that the money "spent" is not fully paid off but is accruing interest somewhere, either as government debt, bad paper on the Federal Reserve books, the number gets even higher.
Black LIES matter.
mts1 said...
I've heard from far too many blacks that no matter how much the Man pays, it'll never be enough, and the Man will still be the White Debil.
Like anon above says, when you factor in the cost of white flight, the number mushrooms. But you know what frosts my pumpkin? All of these urban renewal grants with zip to show for the money, billions of dollars of good housing stock once the pride of white ethnics now burned out shells (Detroit, once the richest city now a moonscape), money poured into schools with people coming out as dumb as if you left them in the forest for 18 years, functioning business districts now gone where anyone has to drive 10 miles to grocery shop.
How much must one hate to destroy a once in history "gift" of being sold 1965-1975 most every inner city, the most valuable part of the city anywhere else in the world, for but a fraction of its value, then to within 15 years lay waste to them like Hiroshimas and look to the collar suburbs as "next" which they soon became? If you did me wrong and I somehow guilted you into selling me your new car for $500, I'd baby it for 300K miles, not slam it into a wall at the first chance. I see once prosperous parts of Gary now being reclaimed by prairie. How much black hate is there to rather reduce where they live to a pit? And you know why recovery hasn't come to Gary? I've heard it from enough people feeling free to speak with me that they're afraid if success comes, the whites will move back and they'll lose "their" city.
Peoples have displaced others back and forth, but the new ones coming in would keep it up and make it their own. Boston saw Irish supplant English, then came Italians, still a nice city. I have no answer for this.
And it's not just some old Anglo slave owner. Many blacks hate Koreans, Mexicans, and Jews to boot. So Mr. Sanders, they were never going to feel the Bern and BLM felt totally comfortable stepping onto your platform and taking it over for they knew there would be 0% blow back in the black community for they aren't too keen on your kind, though when you figure what many Jews did to help the Civil Rights movement, I'd feel back stabbed if I were you.
So what have 50 years of Johnson's Great Society done for whites or blacks?
deborah harvey said...
the irish didn't just emigrate. many were sold as slaves, chiefly, it seems, to the west indies.
I'm a Not Guilty Yt.
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Mr Bones said...
https://aspe.hhs.gov/report/welfare-indicators-and-risk-factors-thirteenth-report-congress
Table IND 1c. Percentage of Total Income from Various Sources by Poverty Status and Selected Characteristics: 2011
"For all persons of the racial/ethnic category, X% of their total income came from the respective source."
Non-Hispanic White
TANF, SSI and SNAP 0.9%
Earnings 82.7%
Other income 16.4%
Non-Hispanic Black
Taking the White number as the baseline for legitimate welfare and considering the rest to be reparations, we can see that in 2011, fully 4.1% of all Black income was from reparations. Astonishing.
Jay Nix said...
Your numbers are further skewed by the assumption that all of the 13% of US Blacks are receiving welfare. That said, BLM is a pity party for individuals who have made poor decisions and refuse to own up to them. Its collection of people with fragile egos looking for any excuse for why they haven't achieved their imagined greatness.
Their hated of white people is a reflection of an weak psyche.
Worst move ever made was enslaving the blacks. The resulting mess is immeasurable. One can only dream of how much better this country would be without them.
YIH said...
This ''reparations for slavery'' has been going on for about 30 years now. It's origin is the reparations granted to Japanese Americans over WWII internment. They, even if US citizens or US born, were arrested and placed in internment camps after the Pearl Harbor attack. Often, legitimately owned property such as businesses and real estate were seized as well - and often with little or no compensation.
The difference being there were identifiable people involved and reparations were paid to them or if dead, their estates. Not their post-war children, grandchildren, ect.
With Africans how do you identify who were enslaved, and who are their direct descendents? Verifiable birth/death records simply don't date back that far (government birth/death/military/marriage records only exist back to about 1850 and typically didn't include slaves) and BTW who owned who? And who didn't?
So Africans IN America (Really, do you consider those who rioted in Baltimore/Ferguson ''fellow Americans''? Really?) ''moved the goalposts'' to count those in ''the Jim Crow era'' as also worthy of payments.
And where are all these funds supposed to come from? The Federal Reserve's 'magic money machine'?
To top it off even if being a direct descendent of a slave can be proven, what is to be done with that payout? All that will be is ''lottery winner syndrome'' on a much larger scale - an example is Mike Tyson, made about $600 million during his boxing career, broke and homeless today.
Joe Smith said...
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atonio Davis said...
You white people are hilarious. Reread these comments then you'll understand why most black people hate your ignorant fucking asses. How can a population of only 12% make up 32% of all welfare rolls when 100% of blacks aren't on welfare. Not to mention, anyone who does work for a living also pays for welfare recipients, so that's like saying blacks should pay for their own reparations. Not even close to the same thing, but hey, white ignorance and arrogance says it's true than it mist be true. And lastly, the largest welfare recipients are people who receive farm subsides and military families. Dept of labor and statics is where you can find this information out. Lots of negative comments and shit throwing but not one single graph or link to any Gove study or private study to correlate your position. Smh. Ignorant ass white bastard. These lies you continue to spew is why people fucking hates your dumb asses. Next time you want to argue a point, bring facts and not your narrow minded way of thinking.
Black lies matter. Now go fuck yourself.
Antonio,
I'm sorry you can't do simple 4th grade division/math.
I'm sorry your inability to do understand this math has led you to hate white people.
But you want to talk about ignorance?
Dude, you are the epitome of it.
Hey Cappy! As a Negroloid who has greatly benefited from your works I first must say thank you for all the good you've done the world. Well I don't "have to" because I already paid for your damn books but thanks anyway . Perhaps as my economic situation inevitably improves from your advice I'll become a monthly Patron of yours. Nonetheless, you just stepped on a landmine of an issue. If you really think about it in an America ruled by spineless cucks like Mr Sanders that also has angry, "Pro Black" kool aid sipping black "activists" the inevitable result will be reparations. Now, as youtuber David Carroll has pointed out, the Democratic Party will eventually have to face the reparations question if they continue to give in to BLM. I'm certain that this will never happen because on average black people are politically ignorant (other special interest groups know how to play the system "we" don't). Any Black people who are intelligent enough either don't care about reparations because technically our money will be going towards them (government programs are funded by taxpayers BTW) or because they are in the racial agitation industry (reparations would damage the viability and legitimacy of their trade).
But let's think about what would happen reparations were made. For starters would someone like me, whose ancestors were enslaved not in America but the West Indies, be entitled to muh 40 acres? Legitimately, not. Besides I'd demand muh free shekels come in gold. Secondly despite both the outright acceptance of Blacks and non acceptance of everyone else, mongrels like Mr Obama and Beyonce aren't technically "Black." But hey if you're the result of a master banging a slave maybe you're MORE entitled to Massa's money. Third are only the descendants of slaveholders required to pay up? Less than 4 percent of whites owned slaves in the south and most of "you" showed up here AFTER the Civil War. Finally, if Black people in America had the power to take reparations from white people would we even care about doing so. The white race, if enough of you wanted to, could literally exterminate every Black person in this country or world for that matter. Maybe instead of begging and pleading to whites for anything "we" should learn how outcompete them (a la the Jews) or at least learn from them as much as we can (like everyone else). If this reparations ever becomes a campaign issue I'm leaving this place.
Kwashington said...
Cool. 8.7 Trillion. Great, only another 300 trillion more to go. You can't go around kidnapping, raping, pillaging, killing and enslaving people for hundreds of years, then go about the systematic genocide of said people under the auspices of the Federal government and expect to pass off this minuscule amount as some form of compensation. The reason no former slaves was able to make demands for reparations is because of this little pesky government sponsored set of laws called Jim Crowe. Blacks couldn't vote, were essentially considered partial human beings and were routinely discouraged or even killed for trying to participate in the democratic processes that might have given the reparations initiative legs. However, last I checked there is no statute of limitation on murder and genocide. If you were a Nazi bell boy and you're 102 years old, the government will snatch you, your IV, and your walker and haul you into international court to answer for your collaboration, it doesn't matter whether any of the so-called victims are alive or dead. The Nazi's and Germany paid dearly for their crimes against Jews. America has never answered for, apologized, compensated, or been punished for its involvement in a form of genocide that is no different from that which Hitler engaged. Reparations is a legitimate claim and it will continue to gain traction as Black people are awakening by the masses. Stay tuned, it's not over...
Kwashington, do they teach math or economics in the inner city?
The entire country never even made $300 trillion in its entire existence. Keep pulling shit out of your ass.
"kidnapping, raping, pillaging, killing"
Like what happens in the inner city every day? Looks like you got three fingers pointing back at you.
Same deal with reparations. We're going to hold you responsibility for every crime every black ever committed. Wanna go down the blame road, pal, fine. Plenty to go around.
If you really want to help America join the fight to end the federal reserve. They are the ones who make welfare possible!
Ed Wright said...
Mike lost a good chunk of that money but he made a comeback and is more humble these days.He is not broke and homeless.
Listen reparations is wrong but this article has already blamed every Black for what other Black's do and think.
Antonio made some good points. Fact is Black people are individuals. We should not have to carry the weight of what other black people do on their shoulders. We all have to stand before Almighty God by ourselves! A real capitalist would join the fight to end the federal reserve! Without them reparations can never happen. No doubt they paid a few blacks to bring up the subject of reparations to take the limelight off of themselves and how they are gaming all of us!
Jose Roderick said...
Captain Dumb Ass! How can you believe in God! Read your bible ignorant white people. You don't have any clue of what's right is right, and what's wrong is wrong. When go to the doctor, they ask you a series of questions about your families medical history such as Cancer, Diebeties, etc...., the same goes as the spirit of our past ancestors. READ YOUR BIBLE PLEASE!!!!
Gary Scott said...
White people who have not experienced a black inner city playground have no point of reference or idea what black residents are fed and do. None. By now the 1964 most sneaky eugenics project ever devised (The War on Poverty) has run a full 50 years - 3 gerations of illiteracy, increasing poverty, hate and misery. On purpose. They have been taught their plight is all white bread's plan to keep them down and himself in power. So when some paid Marxist agitator, social worker or feeder politician comes along with sweet words (like BLM) to get even and more stuff they are eager to take the hook. What's to lose? Every riot and burning before has resulted in a new round of government housing, benefits, pretend job training and cash. All without any effort on their part or time away from what they do now. They never realize that the cops in general are not their problem, their accepted massa's are. Jail? Only working people fear jail. That is why they protest and loot for the most criminal of their pretend victims & heros, no matter what they did to end up that way. And who othrwise they would step over as a speed bump blocking their way into Wal-Mart if shot or stabbed by any community neighbor. Believe me.
Quite a while ago I patrolled the streets of Compton and surrounding areas near Watts, CA. as a uniformed white LA County Deputy Sheriff. Life there is cheap. As cheap as a pair of tennis shoes, a TV, a woman, some drugs or a car. That is their daily reality that middle America cannot fathom. They have been indoctrinated by our politicians, their own 'leaders' and every social worker & program that has been conceived. All to spend ever more money to feed the system - for now going on three generations without improvement. Any claims to the contrary are grand 1 million+ full time paycheck and grants government buracracy propaganda lies - and some extra guilt trips to send tax payers on. Why are the women paid only when they (1) keep children under 18 around the house and (2) only if there is no man to help. That is a lot of incentive when mama don't have to worry about who pays for little Tyron or Tyisha and gets that rent, doctor care and food money every month. Every month guaranteed, if she just keeps doing the same as before. There are hundreds of programs with fancy names and buracracies but end up promoting the same end product. And a big disincentive to get off the free stuff, because as soon as they get some paying position or bring a working dad in Uncle Sam pulls the benefits packages all at once. And mama never got too far in school herself, so this is normalcy bias to the extreme. She didn't have to. Government incentives are designed to never let the victim crawl out of the web. I saw it first hand and know what they are told and by whom.It will never end because it is designed only to get bigger every year.
Until tax payers demand real honest education and performance for their dollars it will continue as before. Only worse after 2016, because they have been given sanction to act up and kill by the country's leader. Not so? Just look at the (almost never reported in the media) beatings the BLM crowd hands out at the sight of a Trump yard sign, bumper sticker or T-shirt. That is ignorant, raging, animal fear on parade comrades.
Government incentives use human nature to destroy the human. Nothing will change until the black community crawls out of the pit, gets truely educated and wants to change their own reality. No white, Asian, Syrian or Hispanic can do that for them.
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Book Review | THE POTION DIARIES, by Amy Alward
March 7, 2018 March 7, 2018 booksbeyondimagining
The Potion Diaries (Potion #1), by Amy Alward
Published by: Simon & Schuster
My Rating: ★★★☆☆ (3.5 out of 5 stars)
When the Princess of Nova accidentally poisons herself with a love potion meant for her crush, she falls crown-over-heels in love with her own reflection. Oops. A nationwide hunt is called to find the cure, with competitors travelling the world for the rarest ingredients, deep in magical forests and frozen tundras, facing death at every turn.
Enter Samantha Kemi – an ordinary girl with an extraordinary talent. Sam’s family were once the most respected alchemists in the kingdom, but they’ve fallen on hard times, and winning the hunt would save their reputation. But can Sam really compete with the dazzling powers of the ZoroAster megapharma company? Just how close is Sam willing to get to Zain Aster, her dashing former classmate and enemy, in the meantime?
And just to add to the pressure, this quest is ALL OVER social media. And the world news.
No big deal, then.
I came across this book by happenstance at my workplace and was instantly intrigued. It sounded like it would be cute and romantic with an intriguing fantasy world and plot. And while the story easily drew me in, I was not completely enthralled with the writing itself, and the romance was definitely lacking.
Like I said, the story drew me in instantly, with great world-building, a fantasy setting I absolutely loved, and narration that is easy to follow. The story is mostly told from the first perspective of Samantha Kemi, with a few chapters interspersed told by Princess Evelyn’s perspective – but in third person. This seemed a little strange and unnecessary to me, especially since each chapter title was headed by the narrator’s name, so the use of both first and third person seemed strange to me. This didn’t draw away from the rest of the story, luckily, and I was able to easily follow along as the story progressed, save for a few times where things jumped around so quickly – either in the plot itself or in what Sam’s decisions and emotions were – that I felt confused and startled at the abruptness of things.
I thought the plot was interesting, if a little convoluted at times. The premise is that there are these Wilde Hunts that are called by a magical horn whenever a member of the royal family is given a potion that puts them or the country in mortal danger. It pits alchemists against each other in what is basically an Amazing Race to find all the ingredients to create a cure for the potion, and whoever creates the cure first wins money from the crown and access to the royal’s magic. You’d think the honor of just saving a person’s life might enough? I mean, it was fun and definitely made for some suspense, but it also just seemed a little insensitive in the scheme of things.
I thought Sam was a great character, and she remained so through most of the book, but the other characters just felt very one-dimensional. Her family especially annoyed me, because her parents seemed to have no conviction whatsoever, and always went along with whatever Sam’s grandfather said without question. He, meanwhile, is very stubborn and difficult, revealing little about why he believes certain things and refusing to listen to Sam’s suggestions to help improve the family store to gain more customers. Some of the other characters did have promise, but just didn’t really get to show it as much. Even the antagonist, Emilia, had an interesting history, but when she did appear on the page, turned out to be kind of cheesy and disappointing.
Then there is the romance. I had such high hopes that it would be a strong part of the plot but honestly it was kind of…not. I mean, if it hadn’t been such a factor in the summary of the book I would have been okay with that, but since I was going into the story with the idea that the romance was going to be very prevalent, I was a little disappointed. Sam spends all of three or four actual scenes with Zain, and none of them were very enlightening. There is some clear attraction between both of them, but I felt like they never really spent enough time together.
Overall, this was a cute and fun read, with really great world-building and a wonderfully unique setting. It had some unfortunate plot-holes, a romance that I wanted to see much more of, and many characters who needed more dimension. Despite the technical issues, I still enjoyed reading it and will most likely pick up the next one sometime soon.
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CHS Robotics Goes to World Competition
Katrina Bucher, Staff
Robots are taking over! But fear not, CHS is fully prepared. A few weeks ago, the Robotics team, advised by engineering teacher Robert Oehrli, placed 2nd at the state level, qualifying the team for the “Worlds” competition in Kentucky this coming April.
It’s been an uphill battle for the newly-formed robotics team. Co- president Adam Fu describes the grueling process of building the robot.
“The robot we took to states was the fifth version just this season, and we started building in May of last year. Our priorities for the robot have changed a lot,” stated Fu.
The team only consists of five people, but they work together cohesively in different roles.
“I handle most of the building, then members Skye Jonke and Josh Noguera handle programing, Rachael Kerhman works on the aesthetics, and other members help the senior members,” explained Fu.
This is the first time the team has qualified for Worlds, and they couldn’t be more excited. Co-president Josh Noguera details the logistics of going to Worlds, and the pristineness of the competition.
“Worlds is the highest-level competition where only 500 teams are invited to attend from all over the world. It’s really cool to see teams from New Zealand and Japan signed up. But now we must focus on fundraising for the expenses of the trip in addition to adjusting our robot design,” stated Noguera.
Fu hopes that this major accomplishment lights a fire for the program, because he sees the amazing potential for the team.
“I believe that Catonsville can become a robotics powerhouse like Hereford or Calvert Hall, and I’m glad that we’ve taken the first step toward that,” reflected Fu.
Katrina Bucher, Writer
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KIN SHIP Premieres New Single “Golden Dust” via IMPOSE
April 17, 2014 July 30, 2014 citybirdpublicity
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New York’s Kin Ship have just premiered their striking new single, “Golden Dust,” via IMPOSE late last week. The vibrant song is laced with singer Conor Belcher’s harmonious vocals, that are smooth yet packed with an unstoppable punch. A surefire way to say good riddance of your Winter blues and kick off Spring, “Golden Dust,” will captivate your ears from the very beginning. Melodic guitars are brightly strummed throughout, which help set the tone for the piece. “Golden Dust,” is off of Kin Ship’s latest release, Where I Live, a stunning collection of songs that follow in the same vein.
Conor Belcher, vocalist and guitarist of Kin Ship tells IMPOSE:
“Golden Dust” was actually one of the songs I recorded way back in Oly, though it’s gone through countless incarnations since then. The recording process for “Golden Dust” and all of ‘Where I Live’ was all about taking the best of what we had been doing together, live and otherwise, over the past three years and recording it from our point of view at the time. This was all done in a huge house surrounded by a lot of really close friends during our first summer in Nashville and I feel that the whole record really reflects the way we were living and feeling at the time, culminating with “Golden Dust.”
In the summer of 2010, six like minded, young and musical dirty stay outs loose on the streets of Ithaca, NY, found each other. Tiring of traditional debauchery, the group united over a number of demo tapes Belcher had brought from Olympia, WA and retired to a secluded lair. Two years, a number of changes in line up and a near death experience or two later, Kin Ship had relocated full time to Nashville, Tennessee. Now comprised of songwriter Conor Belcher (vocals, guitar), Jesse Wallace (bass guitar), Elliott Weaver (lead guitar), Meghan Wood (keyboard, vocals) and Duncan Shea (drums, vocals), Kin Ship recorded and released their debut LP Where I Live with Denim Records. The rest is Kin Ship. Drawing upon influences ranging from Nilsson to The Kinks and back again, Kin Ship is a last cigarette, a first kiss and what you miss about your father’s record collection. Rock and Roll in the truest sense, this is the soundtrack to the best summer of your life.
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Bin Laden in Massachusetts, Says FBI (from: The Disassociated Press Archive)
A Disassociated Press Report, Boston, MA, November 1, 2004
By Eric Mader
Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden is most likely hiding out somewhere in the northeastern U.S. state of Massachusetts, according to a new report by the Federal Bureau of Investigation. The report is based on high-tech analysis of the recent video tape released by al Qaeda, in which the wanted terrorist leader threatens more attacks on America.
"It was VRE technology that allowed us to come to our conclusions," FBI technician Frank Moser said, speaking at a press conference held this morning in Boston.
VRE stands for "video resolution enhancement," a technique whereby video imagery can be clarified through digital enhancement.
Moser said the analysis proved that the video tape of bin Laden was made somewhere in Massachusetts.
"Initially we analyzed the brown fabric hanging in the background," Moser said. "From a distance it looks like a fabric commonly woven by Pashtun tribes in the north of Afghanistan and the border region with Pakistan. But resolution enhancement allowed us to see the weave. In fact the fabric is machine woven."
According to Moser, further checking showed that the fabric hanging behind bin Laden was most likely produced by an American fabric company based in California, Aladdin Fabrics. A fabric closely matching that in the video is currently sold around the U.S. under the name "Pashtun Brown."
"We have no connection with Osama bin Laden," said Jill Meyer, owner of Aladdin Fabrics. "We cannot be held responsible for who buys our products."
Moser said VRE analysis was also applied to the wooden podium behind which bin Laden stands.
"It's here that we really struck gold," he said.
On an overhead screen Moser showed an enlargement of one two-inch section from the left side of the podium. Written in black ballpoint pen one could clearly make out the words "Sox Rule."
"This graffiti is obviously a reference to the Boston Red Sox," Moser said. "The most logical conclusion is that the video was made in a Massachusetts classroom, perhaps at a university somewhere in the Boston area."
"The brown fabric was probably hung in front of a blackboard," he continued. "Bin Laden was standing at a teacher's podium. Since podiums usually aren't used in high schools or elementary schools, our best guess is a college or university."
VRE analysis also uncovered the two words "Jimmy was" on another part of the podium, apparently a graffito that was never finished.
"Perhaps a student was writing something when the teacher came in," Moser said. "And the student stopped. In any event, we do not believe that the graffiti has any direct connection to bin Laden. We're not saying by this analysis that bin Laden is a Red Sox fan, only that he is possibly somewhere in Massachusetts."
Moser said the FBI has put out an APB (All Points Bulletin) in hopes of finding the podium and thus the classroom where the video tape was made.
The news that the al Qaeda leader is possibly hiding in Massachusetts has led to renewed interest in a number of frantic calls received earlier this month by Massachusetts state police. At least three worried callers reported seeing bin Laden among the tourists taking part in one of the popular fall "leaf tours."
"At the time we thought the callers were just paranoid," said Ned Childers of the Cambridge city police department. "Now we're not so sure."
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In review: Massenet ‘Cendrillon’ at the RNCM
January 3, 2018 · by Caroline Taylor · in Performances, Reviews. ·
Image credit: Royal Northern College of Music
I’d like to start this post by wishing you all a very Happy New Year! Christmas has absolutely flown by and I can’t believe that Spring Term at the RNCM starts next week. I’ve been busy eating, resting and of course, preparing music for some very exciting upcoming projects, so watch this space…but for now, here’s a post looking back on the magical experience that was Massenet Cendrillon (Cinderella) at the RNCM!
Directed by Olivia Fuchs and under the baton of Martin André, Cendrillon was the 2017 winter production with RNCM Opera and featured the RNCM Chorus, Orchestra and two casts of soloists from the School of Vocal Studies and Opera (I was in the Blue cast). In addition to being my first full operatic role at the RNCM, Cendrillon was my first role in a foreign language – so I was able to put my undergraduate degree French skills to good use.
Photo credit: Robert Workman
In this version of the story, Cendrillon has a father, a step-mother and two ugly stepsisters; her real mother has died years previously and she and her father have moved from their beloved countryside to a bustling, wealthy town. The story follows the usual route until Cendrillon, realising she can never be a part of the Prince’s world, tries to end her life. The Fairy Godmother then unites Cendrillon and the Prince in a half-dream world, assuring them that they will be together one day. Months later, Cendrillon begins to think she really did dream everything, until news breaks that the Prince is looking for her. Aided for the final time by her Fairy Godmother, Cendrillon appears at the Court once more in her magical ballgown and is reunited with the lovesick Prince, much to the delight of the King and of Cendrillon’s stepmother, who now insists that she adores her daughter.
Music rehearsals started in September with Deputy Head of Opera Kevin Thraves and the following month we moved into Studio 6 to begin staging with Olivia, Martin and choreographer Bethan Rhys William. During this time, we also received in-depth French coaching from Edwige Herchenroder; as well as achieving correct pronunciation and fluency, we learnt how to employ the ‘accent d’insistence’ in French romantic opera and how to make use of Massenet’s own, very specific markings. Under the guidance of Olivia, Martin and the fabulous production team, both casts and chorus worked through the opera scene by scene and really got to know our characters, their stories, the details of their lives and the way they would think and behave. Massenet’s music is so well-written that is almost sang itself at times, which in turn made embracing our characters an even more enjoyable task.
The set and costumes, beautifully designed by Yannis Thavoris, and the lighting, by Matt Haskins, created a breath-taking space that had at its centre a mirrored wall, representing the strong theme of self-reflection in the opera. Cendrillon’s ballgown was expertly crafted and made me feel like a princess – especially when twirling across the stage! There were stark contrasts in costume between garish and humble personalities and also between different worlds, the most noticeable probably being the Act III changes from the brightly coloured house of Madame de la Haltière to the enchanted space of the Fairy Godmother and finally to a stark hospital ward. However, one of my favourite elements of the show remains the Sprites dressed as Nuns on roller-skates! In addition of course to the flying ballgown, the poodle portraits, the glow-in-the-dark wigs and habits…the list is endless.
Cendrillon is one of the most exciting characters I have ever played; she is completely full of surprises. It was a joy to bring her to life and to feel her grow throughout the opera, from an innocent maid in her first entry to a strong and decisive woman by the end of the show. I especially liked Olivia’s concept of making both Cendrillon and the Prince relatable teenage characters in a world full of mad adult caricatures (you can read more about her concept in an RNCM interview by clicking here).
Performances ran from December 6 until December 16; the Blue Cast had two shows under Martin André and one under RNCM Junior Fellow in Conducting Sergej Bolkhovets. It was a great pleasure to work with all involved and thanks and congratulations must go to everyone on the production team, the stage team and to all singers and instrumentalists in both casts and the orchestra. Thanks too must go to the wonderful audiences who came to support us every night and who sold us out on more than one occasion! This was a very special production and I was delighted to be a part of it.
“Clearly relishing her title role Caroline Taylor as Lucette, known as Cendrillon, excelled both in voice and acting prowess moving with grace. Looking elegant in her gorgeous evening dress and suitably demure in her adopted personality Taylor made a most credible downtrodden heroine who has found love with a handsome Prince. Reasonably bright with a light creamy tone the soprano doesn’t have a particularly large voice, but it’s a most attractive one. The coloratura requirements and high notes were satisfyingly achieved by Taylor displaying real promise […] Royally entertained by Olivia Fuchs’ Cendrillon the delighted Manchester audience supplied long and enthusiastic applause.”
(Michael Cookson, Seen and Heard International)
Tags: Cendrillon, Cinderella, French, Massenet, Opera, RNCM, Royal Northern College of Music
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Radon Webinar: Prevention and mitigation methods related to indoor radon and natural radionuclides in building materials
9:30 AM - 11:00 AM (EST)
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Presenters: Joshua Kerber, Friderik Knez, Tony Löfqvist
Date of broadcast: 26 February 2019, 9:30 am EST (Eastern Time - Canada)
About the webinar
Many countries have developed regulations on indoor radon and have verified these regulations, but remedial and preventative measures are not sufficiently used. This is related to an absence of a trained workforce on remedial and preventative techniques.
The IAEA is developing a new Technical Document to support radiation protection against indoor radon and Naturally Occurring Radioactive Materials (NORM) in building materials by highlighting prevention and mitigation methods. The document will include both mitigation measures for existing buildings and prevention measures for new buildings.
The webinar will be divided into three sections and will last about 90 minutes.
In the first section, Tony Löfqvist, a technical engineer from Sweden, will discuss NORM and gamma radiation in stone-based construction materials for buildings. This section will highlight how to test in all stages of the production cycle, which include in construction material before it has been removed from rock pits, in factories during manufacturing and in constructed buildings.
In the second section, Joshua Kerber, an environmental research scientist from the United States, will discuss how to prevent radon from entering buildings, regardless of building type. Design features and construction details will be presented along with field research results from housing stock in a cold climate.
The concluding presentation by Friderik Knez, an expert on radon mitigation from Slovenia, will focus on the remediation of large existing public buildings. Case studies will showcase examples of radon mitigation and illustrate its principles. Different possibilities and factors affecting the design and execution of radon mitigation will be also discussed.
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How construction, including the fine details, can keep radon from entering a building; and,
Factors to consider in the design and implementation of radon mitigation
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New Game Arrivals - August 11, 2016
August 11, 2016 • Charlie Graham
Tides of Madness
The veil between this world, and the past is opening. The Ancient Ones are slowly waking. Their power touches our world, sending dreams and nightmares to tempt humanity into casting long-forgotten rituals. Old books have been rediscovered. Temples, and palaces found. It is the dawn of their awakening, and soon the stars will align.
Tides of Madness is the sequel to the award winning Tides of Time. With familiar game-play, and similar rules, Tides of Madness offers a new twist: Madness. Some cards, while powerful, will harm your psyche. You must keep an eye on your Madness or risk losing the game early as your mind is lost to the power of the ancients.
The fast-paced Simon's Cat Card Game features adorable art taken directly from animator and illustrator Simon Tofield's YouTube series, Simon's Cat, which has hundreds of millions of views.
In the game, players go around the table playing cards to escape Simon's attention. Get caught and you get Blame; get too much Blame and you get fed last. No one wants that.
Via Nebula
Crafters, builders and carriers — your help is needed to dispel the mists of Nebula! The people of the valley will reward you handsomely if you harvest and exploit our many resources, open paths through the mists, and help our settlers build new structures. Cooperate temporarily with other builders in order to create paths and share goods, but do not forget your own objectives. Will you have a statue erected in your honor on the Nebula City plaza?
Mobi Math Game
It's like Bananagrams, but with NUMBERS!
Möbi is a simple, quick and addictive number game that can go anywhere and be played in as little as five minutes! No pencil, paper, board or elaborate scoring is required .... all you need is a flat surface! No matter how old you are or how many number games you've played, this little blue whale is bound to enchant! Introduce your little ones to numbers or challenge your friends to numerical combat - this game is made for absolutely everyone! Find out why Möbi is becoming an instant classic!
Imagine a game that becomes the life of the party! Combine, overlap, and even animate the special transparent cards in this fast guessing free-for-all. Is that icon actually a flag pole? Or is it a golf club, a shark fin, or even an ostrich's neck? With 61 unique icons and more than a thousand prompts, it's a game as big as your imagination!
Netrunner: Blood Money
For twenty-three seconds, Runners tear through Titan Transnational Bank, completing an untold number of transactions. Trillions of credits are lost, stolen, or simply erased. In the days that follow, chaos ensues. The New Angeles financial system suffers a massive collapse. Each corp blames the others. And it's simply not a good time to be Georgia Emelyov (23 Seconds, 14), the former Titan Transnational employee who made a surprising move to Jinteki just before the damage was done.
Even when there's no financial certainty, there's always financial opportunity. And in the wake of the Twenty-Three Seconds incident, much of that opportunity comes in the form of blood money...
With its sixty new cards (three copies each of twenty different cards), Blood Money — the second Data Pack in the Flashpoint Cycle for Android: Netrunner — continues to explore the New Angeles transformed by the Twenty-Three Seconds incident and the events of the Flashpoint Cycle. You'll find a host of cards that focus on using wealth to build wealth. You'll find a pair of powerful Corporate Trace cards that you can play even if the Runner didn't just make a run. And you'll find plenty of people looking to take advantage of the chaos in New Angeles, from Prisec operatives and bounty hunters to news reporters and rumor mongers.
Star Wars RPG: The Force Awakens Beginner Game
The perfect entry into the Star Wars roleplaying experience for players of all skill levels, Star Wars: The Force Awakens – Beginner Game introduces a complete, learn-as-you-go adventure that carries you from the sands of Jakku deep into the heart of a mystery that could change the course of the galaxy. Everything you need is right at hand. Pre-generated character folios introduce the basic rules, while custom dice and an exciting narrative gameplay system advance your story with every roll. Open the box, select your character, and let the Force flow through you!
Star Wars: The Force Awakens – Beginner Game draws upon the core mechanisms shared by Star Wars: Age of Rebellion, Star Wars: Edge of the Empire, and Star Wars: Force and Destiny. Players interested in continuing their Star Wars adventures can do so through any of these fully compatible systems.
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Program: B.A., Africana Studies
African-American Urban Education
Africana Studies, B.A.
The Africana Studies (AFRS) major is a multidisciplinary academic major (45 units) designed for students who wish to gain an understanding of the history, psychology, sociology, literature, culture and education of African-Americans and other Africans in the diaspora and the continent. The three specific options within the major enable students to concentrate their efforts on certain aspects of this broad subject. These options are intended to enhance students’ preparation for both graduate school and employment. By carefully selecting General Education courses in consultation with an AFRS advisor, students majoring in AFRS also have the opportunity to complete a second major. For example, a double major in AFRS and Urban Studies and Planning can be completed with the selection of Option III (below) plus the core course requirements in Urban Studies and Planning. Consult an advisor for other possible combinations within the major.
Africana Studies majors interested in teaching social studies at the middle school or high school level may combine their major program with the Single Subject Social Science Subject Matter Program in the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences (CSBS) to meet requirements for entering a Single Subject Credential program. View Social Science Subject Matter Program for Secondary School Teachers (.pdf) for more information. See also the disclosure statement regarding Programs Leading to Licensure and Credentialing.
The Africana Studies major consists of two components: the completion of the core requirements (21 units) and the completion of one of three specific options (24 units). For each of the options, there are specific lower and upper division core courses and electives that are relevant to that concentration. All students who major in Africana Studies must select one of the three options, each of which is designed to prepare students for graduate study or for a career of their choice.
1. Core Requirements for All Options (21 units)
AFRS 100 Introduction to Black Studies and Culture (3)
AFRS 168 Introduction to the African Diaspora (3)
AFRS 201 Economics of the African-American Community I (3)
AFRS 220 Psychological Environment of the African-American (3)
or AFRS 221 Social Environment of the African-American (3)
AFRS 245 African-American Literature Since 1930 (3)
or AFRS 252 Popular Culture and the Black World (3)
AFRS 271 African-American History to 1865 (3)
AFRS 272 African-American History Since 1865 (3)
2. Required Courses for African-American Urban Education (18 units)
AFRS 350 Advanced Writing (3)
AFRS 391 Psychological Foundations of Education (Elementary) (3)
or AFRS 392 Sociological Foundations of Education (Elementary) (3)
AFRS 397 Urban Education and Policy in Africa and the African Diaspora (3)
AFRS 417 Equity and Diversity in Schools (3)
AFRS 420 The Black Child (3)
or AFRS 421 Strategies for Black Child Development (3)
AFRS 498 Proseminar in Pan African Studies (3)
3. Electives (6 units)
Select two courses from the following:
AFRS 300 Contemporary Issues in the African-American Community (3)
AFRS 324 The Black Woman in Contemporary Times (3)
AFRS 325 The Black Man in Contemporary Times (3)
AFRS 395 Bilingualism in the African-American Community (3)
AFRS 488 Sustainability and Environmental Justice in the African and African Diaspora Communities (3)
4. Languages (Optional)
All students majoring in Africana Studies are encouraged to take foreign languages (French, Portuguese, Spanish or Swahili recommended).
5. General Education (48 units)
Undergraduate students must complete 48 units of General Education as described in this Catalog.
12 units are satisfied by the following courses in the major: AFRS 201 and AFRS 220 or AFRS 221 satisfy D1 Social Sciences; AFRS 271 satisfies D2 American History, Institutions and Ideals; and AFRS 100 satisfies 3 units of F Comparative Cultural Studies.
If taken, AFRS 245 satisfies C2 Humanities; and AFRS 300, AFRS 324 or AFRS 325 satisfies 3 units of upper division F Comparative Cultural Studies.
Total Units in the Major/Option: 45
General Education Units: 36
Additional Units: 39
Total Units Required for the B.A. Degree: 120
Chair: Theresa R. White
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africanastudies@csun.edu
The interdisciplinary degree program in Africana Studies enables the graduate to gain an understanding of the political-social-historical cultural perspectives of the African-American and African experience. Students also will learn key concepts and fundamental literature; gain a knowledge of the broad cultural, political and historical contexts in which the African-American experience took place; and learn appropriate skills in research design and methodology used to examine the various interdisciplinary areas (e.g., political-historical, humanities, sociopsychological) of Africana Studies.
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Poster Policy
Posting Notices in Outdoor Areas
Groups should restrict posters to kiosks.
Each activity will be limited to two posters per kiosk per event.
No poster or notice may be larger than 14” x 17”.
All activities found in violation of these policies will pay a fine of at least $1.00 per poster.
Mounting of posters or use of paint on walls, sidewalks, trees, benches, or other surfaces not intended for posting is prohibited. Posting of notices with adhesives which damage surfaces also is prohibited. The cost of removal of this type of publicity will automatically be charged to the group and/or individuals who posted said publicity.
Posting Notices in Indoor Areas
Posters may only be placed in those areas designated for posting.
Groups wishing to mount posters in University buildings should contact the appropriate building administrator’s office to ascertain the proper locations for posters.
Groups failing to adhere to the poster policy may be denied use of funds allocated to them by the Activities Council and/or be denied further use of University facilities until such time as corrective action is taken and payment for damages, if any, is received.
All fines will go into the budget of the Student Activities Council.
Policy for Locust Walk Banners
Any registered organization may reserve one of 16 locations and sets of poles for banner display along Locust Walk between 36th & 37th Streets.
Reservations may be made via the online reservation portal. Poles and locations may be reserved for a maximum of one week after which the reservation must be made again for the next week.
Reserved poles may be picked up in the OSA, as early as 9:00am on the first day of a reservation (a group must have received an APPROVED reservation email from the OSA in order to have a confirmed reservation).
At the time the poles are picked up, a cash deposit of $25.00 must be made. This deposit will be returned to the reserving group when the poles are returned to the OSA at the end of the reservation period.
FAILURE TO RETURN RESERVED POLES BY THE END OF THE RESERVATION PERIOD (FRIDAY AFTERNOON AT 4:00 PM OF THE WEEK FOR WHICH THE RESERVATION WAS MADE), RETURN OF DAMAGED POLES, AND/OR FAILURE TO RETURN POLES BECAUSE THEY WERE LOST OR STOLEN WILL RESULT IN FORFEITURE OF THE $25.00 SECURITY DEPOSIT AND AN AUTOMATIC $100 FINE TAKEN FROM THE ORGANIZATION'S UNIVERSITY ACCOUNT. Poles still need to be returned even if the deposit is forfeited.
Any poles found in sleeves that have not been reserved ahead of time, or for which there is no deposit on record, will be removed. The deposit will not be returned.
If a group fails to return its poles ONCE in one year, it forfeits all rights to use the poles for four academic months from the day the poles were due.
Poles and the spaces in which to place them are the only things obtainable through the OSA. Neither twine, string, rope, tape, scissors, ladders nor any other materials will be provided. Such items must be provided by the reserving groups.
Facilities Services personnel have been authorized to remove any banners hung in unauthorized locations, i.e. any location unmarked on the schematic diagram mentioned previously in this document and/or the absence of the use of University provided poles.
Failure to abide by any of the guidelines listed in this policy may result in the loss of a group's permission to reserve poles and locations on Locust Walk for the balance of the academic year.
Office of College Houses and Academic Services Postering and Flyering Policies
Instructions for Residential Posting:
This policy covers posting within the Penn College Houses. Posting elsewhere in the University is covered by the University Poster Policy. Posting on floors or in lobbies requires the approval of each House Office. Postings and notices in these areas are reserved for the College House, CHAS, Residential Services and Facilities. Any exceptions to this may only be granted by College House staff.
If interested in posting on floors or in lobbies, you have three options:
Option #1: Bring the following number of flyers or posters to the appropriate House Office for posting by staff:
Du Bois: 8
Fisher-Hassenfeld: 24
Gregory: 12
Harrison: 24
Harnwell: 24
Hill: 17
Kings Court Eng: 16
Riepe: 22
Rodin: 24
Sansom West: 15
Stouffer: 13
Ware: 25
Option #2: Bring 234 posters to the CHAS Central Office in Stouffer Commons for dissemination to all House Offices. The front desk will pass on the items.
Option #3: Open posting by students and groups is available only in certain locations and on designated public boards:
Du Bois: upper lobby bulletin board
Gregory: no open posting at this time
Hill: no open posting at this time
Kings Court English: boards facing mailboxes on first floor; board near bike rack; boards on ground floors facing elevators
High Rises (Harnwell, Harrison, Rodin, and Sansom West): residential floors including roof top lounge on the designated side of the elevator bays
New: dining center bulletin board
Quad (Fisher-Hassenfeld, Riepe and Ware): all exterior (courtyard) bulletin boards
Stouffer: no open posting at this time
A few general guidelines:
Leafleting under doors and soliciting are prohibited within all residences.
No more than one or two copies of a poster may be placed on an open board and should be promptly removed when information is outdated.
Posters should not exceed the size of 11 x 17 inches.
Posters may not be placed on top of existing posters.
Posting is not allowed in stairwells and elevators.
* Think before you post. College Houses defend the right of free speech and expression on campus and actively promotes the civil exchange of ideas. In the spirit of the latter aim, students are urged to reconsider creating and distributing posters or flyers containing material or language that could be construed as malicious toward or dangerous to other responsible members of the University community.
** Unauthorized posters may, at the discretion of residential staff, be removed. In all cases, the above policy will be implemented within the framework and spirit of the Code of Student Conduct, which defines the general rights and responsibilities of student citizenship in the Penn community, and where appropriate, the Charter of the University of Pennsylvania Student Disciplinary System, which sets forth the processes for disciplinary action against students and organizations. Pursuant to the Code of Student Conduct (Sec. III.d), "the content of student speech or expression is not by itself a basis for disciplinary action," and no posters shall be prohibited or restricted solely on the basis of their content, except when they may violate other applicable laws or regulations.
(Source: College Houses & Academic Services; Office of Student Affairs Manual)
(updated December 2016)
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Beating Back Opening Trouble at the Chicago Open
On June 1, 2018 By Beilin LiIn Uncategorized
May was my biggest month in a long time, as I finally graduated from college after four busy years of math and computer science! In August, I’ll be moving to California to start my tech career, but until then, I’ll have a few months (my first free summer in years) for family, travel, appreciating my Indiana homeland, and, of course, chess. What a better way to start off the last than with one of America’s largest and strongest open tournaments, the Chicago Open?
The 27th Chicago Open, held over this last Memorial Day weekend, easily beats all other contenders for my personal toughest tournament. In the top section, superior competition was all but guaranteed – my 1938 FIDE rating seeded me 8th to last seed (!) in a 128-player field dominated by strong masters, many of them GMs, IMs, and norm seekers. There’s also the question of fatigue over such a long event – in my only other event of this type (the 2017 US Masters), I started off with two wins over IMs in my first four games, only to manage one draw for the rest of the tournament. This time, I was hoping to avoid such a reversal.
But ultimately it was my openings that made me struggle. Of course, I had a general idea of what positions to expect from the openings I played, but the lines I faced in Chicago more varied than I was used to, and revealed that I was woefully underprepared. FM Aaron Jacobson’s descriptions of my positions out of the opening as “ranging from barely playable to completely lost” seems apt, while IM Alexander Katz deemed some of my positions indistinguishable from my ultrabullet games.
The above descriptions may give the impression that I barely made it out of the tournament in one piece. On the contrary, I scored a respectable 4/9 against all higher-rated opposition, for a solid 2174 FIDE/2245 USCF performance. But I’d be lying if I said it was a pleasant process, or that I could see that result coming based on my openings!
Days 1 – 2: Getting on the board
My first game certainly didn’t help my case on openings. I was destroyed by FM David Peng, despite entering a line Isaac had played against me several times in a bullet match a few weeks ago. Despite my play being supposedly theory, the resulting position was rather uncomfortable and I had no conception of the correct plans, making for a rather easy victory for White. My weaknesses were not limited to the opening – in the second round, I navigated a slightly worse opening position to reach an equal ending, but messed that up.
So if my openings were bad, my endgames were bad, and my middlegames were dubious, where did my results come from? The answer may be as simple as resilience. In the past, we’ve talked about how players can be distinguished by how they handle worse positions. Many inferior positions are lost not out of force, but because it’s much easier to make a mistake. Making an opponent work hard for the win in such a situation is useful, because in many positions it’s easy to tell how one side has a clear advantage, but not how they should use it.
I didn’t have to wait very long for a practice opportunity – in Round 3, I got this gem of a position as White right out of the opening.
Li – Greanias: after 14…Be6
White is clearly much worse, if not completely busted; e3 is permanently weak, and Black has more space and more active pieces while White has no clear plan. In most situations, I wouldn’t waste too much energy trying to save the game, but a third straight loss would have tanked my tournament. Luckily, Black didn’t know what to do either, and proceeded to make rather unhelpful moves, some of them weakening. This eventually made the position equal, but because my initial position was so bad, I didn’t have any real chances to push for more.
Li – Greanias: after 36…h6
As expected, the game simplified into a drawish ending, but I really needed a win here, so I tried one last trick. Try to see as much as you can before looking at the game continuation – let’s just say that it was not all sound, and my king eventually ended up on d8.
Day 3: Finally some decent opening positions!
Round 4 came and went fairly quickly as I accepted an early draw from NM Gopal Menon (2200 FIDE, 2336 USCF). For the first time in the tournament, my opening went well and I’d achieved a nice advantage in a Closed Sicilian as White.
Li – Menon: 18…Ne5 1/2-1/2
On move 18, Gopal took a long think, and then offered a draw. In retrospect, I should have played on, with the advantage on the board and on the clock. But my extraordinarily lucky Round 3 win had not made me confident about my play, so I made the safe choice.
Unfortunately, fatigue set in that night, and despite getting a decent position on the Black side of an English (kind of a reversed Bb5 Sicilian), I made a simple oversight on move 19 and never recovered.
Homa – Li: after 19. Rxe4
My kingside had become a bit exposed as a result of an earlier …g5 and a few exchanges, and moves like Rg4 and h2-h4 are looming. However, White is not without difficulties either; his kingside light squares are weak, and his inferior pawn structure on the queenside provides good counterchances if Black reaches an ending without further weakening the kingside.
Although Black’s position looks difficult, 19…Qe6! is quite effective; Black threatens 20…Qh3 to block h2-h4 for good, and the immediate 20. h4? is met by 20…g4 keeping the kingside closed, with moves like …h5 and …Rf3 to come. Black can’t stop h2-h4 after 20. Qe2 (see the attached game) intending to trade queens on g4, but his resources seem sufficient in the resulting ending.
Unfortunately, after a lot of thought, I decided on 19…Qd7? at the last minute, thinking I might as well leave the queen out of harms way. After 20. h4, I realized why I’d ditched 19…Qd7 in the first place – 20…g4? simply hangs the h6 pawn. White was able to open the kingside to his liking, and eventually won. See the rest of the game.
Day 4: Crush with White, crushed with Black
Day 4 started off with a nice win against NM Damir Studen. I didn’t play the opening very well; Black equalized rather easily despite choosing an inferior variation of the 3. Nf3 Scandinavian.
Li – Studen: after 15. Rfd1
However, thinking he was out of danger, Black quickly played the natural-looking 15…Rad8? and was surprised by 16. c5! threatening to win the dark-squared bishop with 17. a3. 16…Rc8 was probably best, but White has several advantageous options, such as 17. Nd2 (going for d6, probably gaining the bishop pair) and 17. Bd6 which also looks uncomfortable for Black. Instead, Black accelerated his defeat with 16…Bxf3? 17. Bxf3 Rc8 18. Rd3!, when the threat of Rd3-b3 is a big problem. Black is always a step behind, and I finally cashed in about 10 moves later.
Unfortunately, in Round 7 it was back to opening trouble. Like in my early games, I was again nearly lost out of the opening. I had my chances later, but got into severe time trouble around move 25, giving White a winning attack. Instead, White traded into a much better, but tricky ending, and when both of us fell low in the second time control, I managed to swindle into a drawn ending.
Posthuma – Li: after 60. Rb4
Instead of the obvious 60…Kg4 drawing after 61. Ke4 g5!, I played 60…Kg3 and after 61. Ke4 h5?! (61…g6) 62. Kf5 h4?? 63. Rb3+ my king was cut off along the 3rd rank, giving White the h4-pawn and the game. Throwing the game away like that was unfortunate, but I definitely came a lot closer to holding than I deserved to. See here for the game.
Day 5: Finishing strong
Round 8 started off rather unpleasantly, as I got the following position out of the opening, as White. Reasonably-prepared players probably shouldn’t find themselves in these situations as White, but anyway… no time to worry about that yet.
Li – Chen: after 18…cxd5
Black’s superior center and White’s f5-pawn are a source of worry. On the other hand, Black’s weaknesses on b7 and f7 require some attention. Once again, the position looks difficult, but resilience goes a long way; the key for White is to keep Black tied down to b7 and f7, because until those are resolved, Black cannot immediately advance his center or grab White’s weak f5-pawn. As the game progressed, Black eventually got in his …d5-d4 and I fell into time trouble, but Black’s kingside provided enough counterchances for me escape unscathed into the second time control, and we drew a few moves later. See here for the rest of the game.
The last round had a rather lethargic feel to it, as many players without prize or norm chances are dropping out or making quick draws out of inertia. I was barely awake, but determined to make the last game count, even as Black. This was a fairly smooth win, except for one slip-up in the middle. My opponent and I both missed a strong, but not so obvious piece sacrifice; she attempted the same sacrifice two moves later but it was not nearly as good, and I consolidated without too much trouble.
This last win brought me to 4/9, which was good for a 15-point USCF gain and 40-point FIDE gain. I had gone into the tournament thinking an even score would be really good, so this is certainly a solid result. Nevertheless, I will be sure to catch up on my openings so I don’t subject myself to these unpleasant experiences again.
I’m planning to play next at the National Open in Las Vegas. This is a big event with a lot of great side events, so it should be a lot of fun!
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Anthony Boron
Nice report – good of you to share the travails of the ‘amateur’ player.
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Why are China’s anti-pollution lawsuits stalling?
Xu Nan
Zhang Chun
A hoped-for flood of environmental cases brought in the public interest remains a mere trickle, six months after the country’s new environmental law came into effect. A Chinese legal expert explains why.
(Image by Lu Guang / Greenpeace)
This article is the final of a three-part series on China's legal institutions and environmental law. The other two stories are:
Part one: Growing pains for China's environmental courts
Part two: China trials environmental audits to hold officials to account
It could take up to three years before lawsuits, taken in the public interest, start to populate Chinese courts. So thinks Lin Yanmei, an associate professor at Vermont School of Law and a doctoral student at China University of Politics and Law. Lin, who has a longstanding collaboration with CUPL’s Center for Legal Assistance to Pollution Victims, and has monitored environmental public interest litigation in China, tells chinadialogue the reasons why few public interest cases are likely to be taken soon.
chinadialogue (CD): The expected flood of environmental public interest cases hasn’t appeared. Why not?
Lin Yanmei (LYM) Bringing these cases requires that NGOs have the required capacity and expertise. Early figures from the Ministry of Civil Affairs puts the number of qualified NGOs nationwide at more than 700, but that’s an estimate, not an actual list. I’d guess that over 80% of those are academic associations, industry associations, or research groups. Very few are environmental NGOs working on industrial pollution or environmental damage. Between 2007 and 2013 only four NGOs brought public interest cases, and the All-China Environment Federation accounted for 90% of them.
There are four main reasons for the lack of environmental lawsuits. Firstly, NGOs that want to bring cases don’t have experienced environmental lawyers. For most NGOs bringing a case like this for the first time is like eating a crab – you just don’t know where to start. Secondly, many qualified NGOs, particularly those with strong local roots, are still worried: fighting an easy case just to look good would be meaningless; fighting a hard one would put them under a lot of pressure and not necessarily solve anything. So they’re waiting to see what happens.
Thirdly, many local courts haven’t set up the necessary environmental and resource tribunals and aren’t familiar with the new system. Finally, the judicial system is often subject to interference by local governments, which generally prioritise economic growth. Between 2007 and 2014, more than half of the defendants in environmental public interest cases had been found guilty in criminal trials. And that’s the problem – without those prior convictions it would be next to impossible to use the civil courts to challenge a big local taxpayer.
CD: What stage do you think China’s environmental public interest litigation is at?
LYM: Currently the legal framework is there, but the necessary mechanisms aren’t yet in place.
One of the main problems isn’t just the lack of clear rules on who can bring this type of litigation, its even more uncertain who can be sued. An interpretation by the Supreme People’s Court in January didn’t deliver a definition of what a ‘polluter’ is. For example, if hazardous waste is polluting soil and water, who is responsible? The manufacturing firm which produced the waste? The company or individual that transported it, processed it, or unloaded it? Are they responsible for removing the pollution, long or short term restoration, and paying compensation? None of this is clear.
Also, are companies that breach emissions limits ‘polluters’? How many violations have to be committed before they are considered to have damaged the public interest? Can the amount of money saved by the polluting company be used to set levels of compensation? Again, there are no clear answers to these questions.
The outcome of the Taizhou case was widely hailed, as six companies last December were fined a total of 160 million yuan for polluting local rivers. But it was a special case not easily repeated. The plaintiff, Taizhou Environmental Federation, has government links and seems to have been set up specifically to bring this case; the head of the Jiangsu provincial court himself acted as the chief judge; and only six companies of many implicated were sued. Friends of Nature tried to sue another three, but were refused. And 60% of the compensation was paid into a special account at the Taizhou Environmental Welfare Fund – and there’s a big question mark over how that money will be used.
Environmental litigation mechanisms will only take shape if many administrative and judicial reforms are implemented. That process could take three years, after which the number of cases will increase, with NGOs, lawyers and the courts all more capable. So there’s going to be a three year period of working things out.
CD: How will environmental civil public interest litigation develop?
LYM: The most basic thing is to have people trust the system, like with openness of information. For example there’s a degree of faith in the transparency of what we have already. There are cases in Yunnan where information hasn’t been divulged, or applications for its release have been refused. But when administrative redress is sought it is then released, or at the least there’s a response.
This is because everyone, from the body holding the information to the public, realises that openness of information is inevitable, that it’s unreasonable not to release it. But that’s not the case with environmental litigation, and that kind of trust needs to be built up. Some cases aren’t accepted by the courts, while some are but don't get a hearing, or do get a hearing but are unsuccessful, which de-motivates some NGOs from taking cases.
CD: The idea of laws to protect the environment came from the US. How do the US and China differ when it comes to environmental litigation?
LYM: In the US there are two types of litigation – citizen enforcement suits, which can be brought against ‘polluters’ in breach of pollution permits, or that don't have permits, and are also known as preventative litigation. There are only 100 of these a year. And there are cases where the government hands out punishments. Once that has happened it’s no longer possible to bring a case, and there’s still only 300 or 400 of these a year.
But compared with China, bringing a case in the US is cheaper, the processes are simpler, evidence is more straightforward, and methods of redress are very clear. There are also mechanisms for giving notice of intent to sue, equivalent to an application for the law be enforced.
The other type of civil case on environmental damage or pollution is brought by Environmental Protection Agency or the body entrusted with management of natural resources – such as the Department of the Interior and state governments – requesting the responsible party clean up and restore the damage and pay compensation for damage to natural resources.
Unlike in China, in the US ownership of natural resources is very clear. Forests and rivers are either public (owned by federal or state government) or private, and that’s the case for everything, so in the US the owner of natural resources has the right to bring litigation. It’s different in China, as even within one nature reserve the rivers and forests belong to different authorities, while ownership of groundwater and mineral resources is also divided. Even if environmental NGOs request that a court orders a restoration, it’s unclear how that litigation should proceed or any punishment be enforced.
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Xu Nan is a senior policy analyst at Climate and Energy Finance Research Center at Central University of Finance and Economics.
Zhang Chun is a senior researcher at chinadialogue.
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A Republic Day to remember
Did you know… that the 28th of May is Republic Day in Nepal? The holiday – also known as “Ganatantra Diwas” – commemorates the day on which the country put an end to its long-standing civil strike to officially become a federal democratic republic in 2008.
To get in on the celebrations, Indian company Mangalam Industries is enlisting the help of Nepalis all over the world to create the country’s largest-ever national anthem.
Those wishing to participate in the #VoicesofNepal can visit the specially created website to record and upload their unique renditions of the anthem. The company will then collate these to create a master copy, which will be shared on the 26th of May. While the crowd-sourcing campaign hopes to appeal to all ages, the colourful collaterals put a youthful spin on things.
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CRIV/Bloomberg BNA June 2016 Phone Call
July 26, 2016 by djaque2013 Leave a Comment
Bloomberg BNA Semi-Annual Phone Meeting
I. Present on call:
Mike Bernier: Director of Library Relations, BBNA
Joe Breda: Executive Vice President for Product, BBNA
Kate Hagan: Executive Director, AALL
Diana Jaque, CRIV Liaison to BBNA
Rick Montella, Executive Vice President for Commercial Operations, BBNA
II. Scheduling of Future Calls:
Our next call will be in late 2016 with the 2016/17 CRIV BBNA Liaison.
III. New Bloomberg BNA Products, Policies, and Other Issues of Interest to AALL Members:
There are some exciting new products launching within the next month and substantial enhancements coming this fall!
A new vertical focusing on Tax is coming to Bloomberg Law. It will include a new user interface that was developed after numerous interviews with users and incorporates the results from eye tracking studies. Content will include the Tax Management Portfolios as well as federal and state primary law as well as the complete library of tax content currently available on BNA.com. In addition, the resource consists of historical versions of the tax code back to 1913 as well as a comprehensive collection of agency materials and approximately 15,000 international tax treaty documents. This tax resource has been built as a vertical and is available for sale as a stand-alone product, but will be included in Bloomberg Law subscriptions as well at no additional charge.
In addition, Bloomberg BNA is revamping their Labor and Employment Practice Center on Bloomberg Law and making its content more robust. This fall, all content from the Labor and Employment Law Resource Center will appear on Bloomberg Law as well as additional local labor ordinances and public employee resources.
The Business Development Center on Bloomberg Law is being streamlined and users will be able to build customized dashboards and populate it with widgets covering news, dockets, deals and more. Dashboards can be published and shared firmwide.
Within representation analytics, they also have introduced a jurisdiction view. By the end of the year, judicial analytics will also be available and users will be able to see how judges rule on certain types of motions and, for example, to see how long matters are pending before a particular judge.
IV. Updates from AALL:
Kate Hagan: Summary of recent and upcoming AALL activities.
Most AALL staff members are busy at this time with preparations for the AALL Annual Meeting. The good news is that we are already ahead of the attendee numbers for the past three years. The headquarters hotel is already sold out, but two nearby hotels have been added. Thanks to BBNA for their support of the annual meeting.
“Defining Value: Law Library Best Practices” is an AALL digital publication that is now under production, to be released in the fall of 2016.
AALL is currently recruiting for a Manager, Content Strategy, and is in the interview process now.
V. Requests for Assistance/Member Advocacy Issues: 12/1/15-present:
There were no requests for assistance or member advocacy issues with BBNA since our last phone call.
VI. Questions/Updates:
A. BNA.com: Any plans to sunset?
At this point, most development efforts are focused on Bloomberg Law. The creation of Bloomberg Law verticals continues in different practice areas and allows end users to buy just the material that meets a practice group’s needs. As time goes on, there will be a content gap between the legacy BNA.com legal products and the Bloomberg Law platform. There is no date given for sunsetting BNA.com. Content will be also be available on dual platforms for enough time for users to be adequately trained on the new platform with significant notice to all affected parties. Subscribers to Bloomberg BNA’s Privacy and Data Security Resource Center Law who renew after September 1 will receive Bloomberg Law: Privacy and Data Security as part of their subscription with dual access for a time to be determined. The CRIV liaison strongly encouraged that BBNA users be given at least one year’s notice prior to sunsetting BNA.com.
B. Revisiting: MARC records:
The Vendor-Supplied Records Advisory Working Group for TS-SIS has a page concerning the MARC records supplied by BBNA. BBNA will contact VRAG if content needs to be updated.
C. Revisiting: Usage Statistics:
Ashley Moye has compiled a web page listing how to access usage reports for existing legal databases. BBNA to contact Ashley to make corrections as both Bloomberg BNA and BNA are listed.
VII. CRIV Roundtable:
Just a reminder that the CRIV Roundtable will be held on Sunday July 17th at 5:15-6:15 PM in the Hyatt Acapulco room. Topic is still to be announced, but it will focus on the Vendor’s design process for new electronic products.
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by Niallhope | February 11, 2016 · 8:28 am
My Favourite Gig – Miles Hackett, Dry Heave Records
This is the sixth in a series all taken from the Fanzine Hope *.2. The fanzine sees a collection of 70 contributors from the punk rock world. All asked the same question What is Your Favourite Gig. The zine is €5 including postage to anywhere It is a benefit for Pikpa Refugee Centre, Lesvos Pay by paypal, here
This week it is Miles Hackett from Dry Heave Records
Dry heave are taking old skater and thrash bands and reminding the kids that these bands once shredded. Usually limited run and usually full on power
Miles Hackett – Dry Heave Records
NAPALM DEATH, EXTREME NOISE TERROR, BOLT THROWER, CARCASS & INTENSE DEGREE
LONDON, ULU 1989
You’d be forgiven for glancing at this line-up and thinking you’d picked up an extreme metal zine by mistake, but way back in ’89 this gig, aptly named ‘A Night Of Rock N’Roll Armageddon’ was the one of the pinnacles of the, then furtive UK hardcore punk scene. Unlike its US counterpart the UK scene had been born from the legacy of UK 82, anarcho and crust bands that moved in Crass and Discharge circles and pushed their musical power and lyrics to the very point of decimation. Sure there was a slight thrash metal influence (most of the bands on tonight’s bill are firmly entrenched in metal circles these days) but back then this was the largest gathering the UK hardcore scene had witnessed. This scene was, in all its glorious extremity, finding support in the most unusual of places,
John Peel acting as its chief ambassador. He’d been playing and inviting in for sessions many of these bands for the last couple of years and championing their socio-political, sonic terrorism across the nation’s airwaves on his nightly BBC show. This in turn had caught the eye of the of the music broad sheets who had been devoting more and more column inches to this underground phenomena of the extreme, dubbing it Britcore. Which all ended up at this gig and its public broadcast on national television. Anyone remember Snub TV? It was the mildly alternative music show that boasted a weekly tea time slot on BBC2 and was the brain child of the unintelligible Frenchman from Eurotrash, Antoine De Caunes. The show devoted a whole episode to UK hardcore and was centred around this gig. What they filmed wasn’t pretty….
Five bands for a meagre £3.50 was a snip even back in the late 80’s so, expectedly tonight’s show at London’s ULU is a sell out and punks, thrashers, crusties and indie kids alike are shoe horned in to the confines of this 600 capacity venue to witness the band on everyone’s lips, Napalm Death and their all grinding, supporting cast. Earache records, who were born of and at the forefront of this movement had laid on this showcase of the extreme and the expectation was high in the air. Mansfield’s Intense Degree were up first and capitalising on their 1988 debut ‘War In My Head’ and a Peel session of March that same year are the least metallic band on the bill tonight. Their superfast hardcore more in the vein of stalwarts Heresy proving the perfect, adrenalin kick of warm up this gig needed. Up next were another band fresh from their dropping their debut album and being taken to John Peel’s bosom, Liverpool’s Carcass. 1988’s crudely produced ‘Reek Of Putrefaction’ had already been heralded an underground classic with its blitzcore grind and medical textbook lyrics, they even shared a guitarist with headliners Napalm Death in Bill Steer. Dreadlocked frontman Jeff Walker growled and snarled like the deaths he sang about were his own, as songs like ‘Genital Grinder’ saw the first stage divers of the night leap like lemming s into the assembled throng.
Carcass are the most ‘metallic’ band on tonight’s soiree, their riffing and lyrical subject matter pegging them into a pioneering seat in the brave new world of ‘grindcore’, they are rewarded with an ever increasingly violent pit. Next up were the Games Workshop inspired, Coventry crust- thrashers Bolt Thrower. Their debut ‘In Battle There is No Law’ hadn’t been an Earache affair but had been released the previous year on Vinyl Solution records after they were once again championed by none other than John Peel. With a sound that was as much Discharge and Crass as it was Slayer, their raw guitars and stupidly fast rhythm section was also moving into grindcore territory. Also, like Intense Degree they boasted a female bassist, something of a rarity in the testosterone fuelled world of extreme music but a door which the punk mentality of their collective backgrounds had opened.
Unlike Carcass before them who were a wall of intense speed, Bolt Thrower’s sludgy crust-metal breaks offered respite from the blast beats. The crowd by now was at capacity, the squashing horde offering ample support to the occasional stage divers leaping for victory. Main support tonight were positive veterans of the UK scene, Extreme Noise Terror. This Ipswich quintet were conceived in 1985 and boasted two vocalists for that added harsh vitriol and are widely considered the forefathers of this genre and its subgenre crust-grind. Their roots are unashamedly crust-punk but having evolved and veering toward grindcore with their short sharp, political ragers that became a blueprint for the movement in its formative years. With all this in mind ULU starts to turn to mayhem at this point and there are practically queues at stage left and right for divers to launch themselves into the increasingly chaotic pit. Cameramen are now starting to look over their shoulders as moshers barge towards them as they try to document the unconventional image of ENT and the crowd reaction alike.
However, nothing could prepare the Snub TV crew, security guards, venue staff and to an extent the crowd for who were fast becoming one of the most infamous bands in the UK, Napalm Death. Their 28 track debut album ‘Scum’ had propelled them into folklore, where people not even remotely associated with punk or metal had their curiosity aroused by the band dubbed the ‘fastest band in the world’. Their debut may have dropped two years previous but the media hype on Napalm Death was growing feverishly. As soon as they hit the stage maelstrom erupted, the orderly stage side queue of divers looked for new launch pads and the PA was scaled on each side, three or four people atop at any point, then swan diving into the vortex of bodies below. Fire hoses were sprayed upwards, trying to topple the lemmings. Chaos was reigning while Napalm Death’s soundtrack to oblivion played as its backdrop. The whole night began to feel like a Boeing 747 hurtling, out of control towards the ground as chunks of the PA fell beneath the climbers, crashing onto the heads of the sardine packed crowd below. The Death managed to maintain course during the carnage around and after it was all over everyone spilled out into the crisp February night.
This show was arguably the pinnacle and end of a scene. Vocalist Lee Dorian left Napalm Death not long after and they elevated into the metalsphere along with Carcass and Bolt Thrower who would become death metal behemoth’s in their own right (and still are to this day). Intense Degree faded into obscurity and the lone hardcore punk survivors Extreme Noise Terror would lose vocalist Phil Vane when he untimely died in 2011. But for this evening, as documented by the BBC, Britcore lived, roared, conquered and became extinct in a blaze of primeval glory.
Miles Hackett
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by Niallhope | January 17, 2016 · 7:12 am
Hope Show 109 – the lowdown
1. Youth Of Today – No More
2. Quicksand – Delusional
3. Custody – Stitches are all we have
4. The No Marks – Coming Around
5. World Be Free – Breakout or Busted
6. Allo’ Darlin’ – Silver Dollars
7. June Brides – Every Conversation
8. June Brides – A January Moon
9. No Ditching- If you hate cats you die
10. Vanilla Pod – Restore Factory Settings
11. Freebase – P.N.D.
12. Sacrilege – Star Wars
13. Fit Of Anger – The Oppressed
14. Down To Nothing – Life On The James
15. The Walking Targets- Here’s to the thoughts we hold
16. Maxwells dead – Would you go out with me
17. Down and Out’s – Iron
18. All – Until I say so
Tonight’s show feature People from record labels who have contributed to the latest Hope fanzine. The same question was asked of over 70 contributors, “What was your favorite gig?” and answers were as wide, varied and mixed up as you’d expect. It was all done in good spirits as the zine is a benefit for pikpa lesvos refugee centre. You can buy the fanzine here
We start off tonight’s show with some US Hardcore music from Youth Of Today, just wanted to make sure you were awake. Youth of Today were on Revelation Records who were leading the way in the 90’s pushing the New York Hardcore scene. Some of the bands members have been in many other bands including Quicksand.
Custody brought out a 7″ on Brassneck Records last year. Brassneck is based in Cardiff and have been releasing records since 2010. The latest release is a split between No Marks and the Spoilers and is out in a week or so.
World Be Free are on Revelation Records, and are pretty much a super group of the new york hardcore scene from the early 90’s
I saw Allo’ Darlin in London a few years ago and was numb with shivers rushing through my body when they played this song. So much of the positive things about being in a band came through that night and the music is just pur pop majestic. Out on slumberland records.
A band that finished their illustrous career on slumberland is the June Brides, I had to play two songs panning that career. My introduction was Every Conversation from the NME c86 era, and they continued with style right throughout.
No Ditching are part of an expanding Durham, Newcastle, scene of diy pop. They have an ep available from Drunken Sailor now
Dry heave records is an interesting label. Set up to remind people of great music from times gone by when thrasher magazine was read by many in the punkk scene with check shirts and baseball caps. Vanilla Pod are a bit of a surprise for the label as their songs, whilst still retaining the speed, are more tuneful. Freebase get ready to thrash out, for sure. This is from their 4 way split
Freddy Alva has a very interesting story. Read the previous link to find out. His Wardance label captured some great new york bands, much like Revelation. Sacrilege are one of these, Fit of anger are on his New Breed Tape Compilation.
Down to nothing ahve that classic Revelation sound
I’ve mentioned make that a take records many times on this show and keep playing the Scotish label bands. I love the title Here’s to the thoughts we hold from the walking targets and how true that is.
Years ago there was a pop punk band, crocodile god, on Skimmer Records. their music lives on for many and there’s a tribute compilation to them. Down and Outs are a punk band from Liverpool and their take of Iron is on this.
Finally All were listed as the favourite gig for Scott from Brassneck Records and I love tenuous links and a reason to play All.
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Tagged as all, allo darlin', brassneck records, custody, down and outs, down to nothing, drunken sailor records, dry heave records, fit of anger, freebase, Hope show, june brides, make that a take records, maxwells dead, no ditching, phil wilson, quicksand, radioactive international, revelation records, sacrilege, slumberland records, the no marks, the walking targets, vanilla pod, wardance records, world be free, youth of today
by Niallhope | April 17, 2015 · 3:46 pm
Vanilla Pod – Seeing Out The Sunshine
Vanilla Pod
Seeing Out the Sunshine
TNS / Dry Heave
In 1995 Vanilla Pod started pushing their brand of hardcore on to the masses. That included a trip to ireland as they tried to woo audiences with that fast US influenced sound, harking back to New York. They seemed to pop up on so many line-ups which goes to detail how involved the band were collectively in the dit music scene in the UK in the 90’s. 5 albums later over different time spans and we ow have a new offering. Whilst the real world has played a part in each individuals life it has meant less time for touring and sleeping on floors however time has been found for Seeing Out The Sunshine and we are lucky it has.
The hardcore influence is there as strong as ever. No need to tinker too much around the edges, plenty of power and passion. 7 tuneful blasts of hardcore. Here’s to the next 20 years
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by Niallhope | July 12, 2014 · 5:50 pm
Down By Law – Revolution Time
Dry Heave Records
I have a fear of dentists. it all stems back to me as a 10 year old boy being terrified of a tall man in a white suit with sharp instruments in his hand. I can’t begin to explain this irrational phobia. But there hasn’t been much sympathy for it in the proceeding 35 years. Even typing this my hands are starting to get a bit clammy and lumps appear in my throat. Listening to this album is its musical equivalent. Plainly speaking it is disappointing.
I remember when down by law played Dublin in the 1990s. We were so excited that a stalwart of the dc music scene was coming to play our city. The excitment was palpable as we discussed prior to Smalley and co’s arrival that there was no need for heroes. It was a lifetime ago and for some of us young punks in Dublin there was real buzz of anticipation in the air. We had no real perception of the outside world as our education was through records and fanzines interspersed with protest marches and leaflets from radical organisations. We had no feeling of Dublin being something to be proud of as we grew up here and most of us wanted to get out, those who didn’t have to leave to find employment of course. So when Americans came over and exclaimed how proud they were to be Irish we got ready to swap identities even for one night. Most bands that played over here felt some connection with the country and our cynicism needed to be left outside many venues. I will never forget down by laws introduction to barnstormers. They were so impressed with a Phil lynnott picture on the wall and wanted to talk about thin lizzy. To the young punk in me thin lizzy and their ilk were the enemy, pin them up against the wall with blue oyster cult or whatever they were called. They played a pretty energetic set though and whilst I have mellowed through the years I still haven’t felt a need to listen to “the lizzy” though but I appreciate that Dave Smalley was just a fan like we were of his band.
This is their 9th album and it starts with some note ‘New Autonomy’, ‘The future is good’ and ‘riot riot’ give a little insight into the potential that was once there. It has that melodic punk rock feel that you’d get from Stiff Little Fingers but more of the Go For It era when we all wished they would play Suspect Device instead. ‘Rebel conformist’ could have been good if it didn’t feel like they were just trying too hard. “Truth is you’re not a rebel at all. You hate all those who don’t think like you” is the line there but whilst Tte sentiment sounds good but it just doesn’t seem real. Whether that is dave smalleys self proclaimed celebration of capitalism I don’t know. I don’t call myself a rebel but I don’t appreciate American Republicanism, Smalley had a brief flirtation with it publicly and I find it extremely hard to let that go.
And then there’s the (filler) acoustics covers of elvis Costello and slf> They are the teeth extraction moments, painful. Acoustic sets are great, I’m found in rebellion at the acoustic stage as much as anyone else and love the feeling of a song being stripped bare and sung with real passion. The energy of one person and a guitar can be immensely powerful. But these are so weak in comparison. It’s no tim barry or chuck ragan, I really want it to be
Sorry but no
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Best Wishes for An Atomic Wedding
Today is a happy day for Atomic Tumor and his Ladyfriend as they are getting hitched.
I echo the thoughts of many when I wish them a most happy day and many, many more happy days to come.
So three cheers and a w00t!! to them.
Labels: good news
Camera Obscura: Buffy Reunion; Futurama News; The Hell of High School
Buffy creator Joss Whedon and cast-members of the show were at the Paley Center yesterday for a discussion of the show, an event which had Sarah Michelle Gellar on-stage and talking about the show for the first time. One newish project mentioned is the online musical Whedon is making with Neil Patrick Harris, called "Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog". It's a series of 10-minute webisodes about a low-rent villian (Harris) and a superhero (Nathan Fillion, of "Firefly") who keeps beating him up.
The blogger at Futon Critic was at the event and has a good account of what was said which you can read right here. Cast members talked about some of the best episodes, like "Hush" and "The Body", and no, there is no reunion movie project ahead. Plenty of pictures here.
Good news, everyone!
The first of four Futurama movies, "Bender's Big Score" airs Monday on Comedy Central. The 2nd movie, "The Beast With A Billion Backs", arrives on DVD in June. Plenty of details from creator David Cohen here.
And remember - Everyone Loves Hypnotoad!
Benecio del Toro goes Lobo as a Monster-Wearing-Pants in the big budget re-telling of "The Wolfman" Yes there are even more pictures here at the MovieMorlocks blog.
Rick Baker (who else?) is the man creating the makeup for the movie.
So, a question for you -- has there ever, EVER, been a good werewolf movie? I always found some humor and enjoyment in "I Was A Teenage Werewolf", and then there was the Watergate-inspired "The Werewolf of Washington" which made me laugh too.
Comedy was the king in "An American Werewolf in London", too, but that doesn't mean it was a good movie. So, the question - is there such a thing as a good werewolf movie? I say no.
I've recently seen a couple of nightmarish movies about the Hell that is High School and found that both of them are quite good and worth viewing. First up was the long-delayed feature "The Woods" from director Lucky McKee. Lucky scored big with his first feature "May", and though his second feature lay quietly on the shelf for some years, "The Woods" is now available on cable and on DVD.
It's set in 1965 at an all-girls boarding school and McKee relies solely on atmosphere and creepy characters to propel the story along. it has some similarities to "Suspiria" but here we have the added attraction of Bruce Campbell as the poor Dad who reluctantly allows his little girl to leave home and attend a school where the faculty is ... well, no surprises to hide, they are witches.
What makes the movie work is McKee's solid and steady direction. Yes, the story is familiar, but he presents it with great atmosphere and suspense, does not rely on gore or torture porn, and instead makes an excellent old-fashioned horror film. I think most viewers will like it - some who crave more onscreen deviance may not.
Speaking of Bad Things At Boarding Schools, "Evil" is a very disturbing morality tale from Swedish/Danish filmmakers, with the original language title of "Ondskan". The movie was nominated for an Oscar award as Best Foreign language film and is set in post-World War 2 Europe. The movie appears to be simple and straight-forward, but there are layers and layers here, many of which raise far more questions than the movie can answer - but that's the point.
A young man named Erik lives in a household where his step-dad beats him for no reason, and as Erik acts out in violent attacks at school, he is expelled. "You are Evil", says the school principal.
His parents shuffle him off to a boarding school where class systems provide an institutional brutality, and since Erik has vowed to leave his violent ways behind, the challenge from the social/psychological cruelties from upper classmen gets very intense very fast. The movie could have easily been a Z-grade revenge flick, but that is not where this movie is headed.
While Erik tries to remain tough and unresponsive to attack, innocent friends are drawn into the attacks. Should he go on the attack to protect them? Do they want such a defense? No matter how Erik tries to respond (or not respond), the situation becomes worse for those around him. Some major concepts in morality and justice and more are offered here, with no simple solutions. This is a truly complex tale for our very complex times.
I couldn't help but be reminded of another hell-in-high-school movie called "If ...", where violent overthrow of the status quo is presented as a justified response to insane structures. In "Evil," there is a more subtle tale being told.
Labels: DVDs, movies
Trouble Sleeping On Easter Weekend?
Then perhaps this illustrates why it matters ....
Labels: bunnies
'Not Your Typical Bigfoot Movie' Debuts
Other film festivals may have the fame, but the annual SXSW festival has the cool.
One entry from this year's fest is "Not Your Typical Bigfoot Movie", about some folks from Ohio searching for Bigfoot and for the promises of the American Dream. The official site for the movie is here, complete with background and high praise from movie blogs.
The documnetary follows Dallas and Wayne, two men who grapple with Life's big questions and the quest for Bigfoot too. One AICN reviewer says:
"Wayne, a big, hulking guy, breaks down emotionally more than once, unable to control his facial expressions. This guy, God love him, bears his soul in an unforgettable way. There’s one phone call with Wayne that was truly gut-wrenching. There’s more real drama in this doc than I can tell without spoiling it. I do hope you take the time to seek out this amazing little real-life nugget. You will never forget Dallas and Wayne’s world."
The Real, The Distorted and the Virus of American Ideals
The fuming, frantic reactions to the speech made by Democrat Barack Obama has had heads wagging and tongues twisted, which makes me think Obama's comments were quite accurate. Racial divisions hold on in America with a ferocious grip.
It was a wide-ranging speech about perceptions and divisions, about media, and about distorted reality, and about the desire he has to move forward on these ideas and not surrender to them. And yes, it has taken some time for me to read his words and ponder on them. No insta-reactions are justified here on this page.
What is certain is that the media will wallow in the speech and ignore another speech which has equal if not greater relevance - the one made yesterday by the President defending his war in Iraq. It isn't just five years since we began the current war, it's almost five years since he made his dramatic "Mission Accomplished" speech about Iraq too. It isn't and wasn't accomplished, but supporters and enablers are far too shy to call him out. It has also been five years of war in Afghanistan, too, with no clear sign of accomplishment there either. This week his view is "no end in sight".
I have seen and read some notable coverage on the ongoing war, but the television is focused on the speech from Obama. For many folks, his speech is rock-solid proof Obama is a Bad Man, for others proof he is a Good Man. As with so much in politics and in war, we each create what we believe and nurture it, no matter the true reality.
Here's a prediction - no matter how intense the presidential race has been, no matter how intense the summer's nominating conventions will be, the late summer and fall will be an ugly, brutal mess which will be an historic and a shock-filled time for most of us.
I watched the new mini-series on HBO this week about John Adams and the early days of the American Revolution and decision to declare independence. In Adams' time, the issue of slavery and it's moral costs were very much a part of the debate about what kind of nation we would be.
Most interesting to me though, was the inter-cutting of scenes about the wrangling for votes for a declaration of independence and scenes of Adams' wife and children being inoculated against smallpox as their doctor took live pox tissues from one patient and cut into their healthy bodies to insert the diseased samples. Not all could survive this self-induced transmission - a controlled infection. I could not help but see the comparisons of the political efforts and the transmission of the virus. The decisions made in that Continental Congress, like that of Abigail Adams, would mean some would be risking death, but that the promise of a better life for many more would thrive.
It's a metaphor that is most instructive in our times, too.
Test Your Rock and Roll Lyrics Skills
50 very well known rock tune lyrics are presented - but can you guess which songs they are if the words are listed alphabetically, with no words are repeated no matter how many times they are used in the song? Its a good challenge and will only take a few minutes - maybe much more.
I barely scored a half-decent 31 out of 50, so maybe you can score higher. I blame a low coffee level. Here's the link to the "And Great Lyrics Quiz Rock Roll The By" and a few samples of what you'll find there:
First, an easy one for true rock fans -
"a and baby be become can come couldn’t fire funeral get girl hesitate higher i if in is it know liar light lose love mire much my night no now on only our pyre say set that the through time to try untrue wallow was we would yeah you"
Something less easy (or is it??):
"a and answer are bring brother brutality but can ’cause conquer crying don’t dying escalate everybody far father find for going got hair hate here i’ll is judge know lines long love loving many me mother need not of on only our picket punish see signs simply so some talk tell the there’s they thinks to today too us war way we we’re we’ve what’s who with wrong you"
Get down with your bad self and see if you can score 50 out of 50.
Labels: pop culture
Liveblogging Guns at the Supreme Court
Most Americans already consider owning a gun as a guaranteed constitutional right. Is it?
That's the center of the debate in the DC v. Heller case begin argued today in the Supreme Court. The best source for info comes from SCOTUSblog, which live-blogged the case and they've also got a host of articles, opinions and history on the 2nd Amendment and gun laws. A sample from an analysis today:
"The Supreme Court’s historic argument Tuesday on the meaning of the Constitution’s Second Amendment sent out one quite clear signal: individuals may well wind up with a genuine right to have a gun for self-defense in their home. But what was not similarly clear was what kind of gun that would entail, and thus what kind of limitations government cut put on access or use of a weapon. In an argument that ran 23 minutes beyond the allotted time, Justice Anthony M. Kennedy emerged as a fervent defender of the right of domestic self-defense. At one key point, he suggested that the one Supreme Court precedent that at least hints that gun rights are tied to military not private needs — the 1939 decision in U.S. v. Miller — “may be deficient” in that respect. “Why does any of that have any real relevance to the situation that faces the homeowner today?” Kennedy asked rhetorically."
Whatever the ruling on the case - will it firmly establish or even alter the public perceptions of the laws are or what the 2nd Amendment says?
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Labels: Supreme Court
Deep Thought of the Day
"It's too bad we didn't invest one-third of the Social Security system in the market." (Via)
Labels: finance
Goodbye, Volunteer Voters
It's beyond me why WKRN axed one of the best political news blogs in the state. But they did.
ACK's coverage of politics in Tennessee was massive - and his absence affects many. Likewise the once very active WKRN blog Nashville is Talking is silent, too, being converted into a blog aggregator.
As noted before, East TN was and is the blog capital of Tennessee.
5th Anniversary of War in Iraq
When the announcement of a trip to the Middle East by V.P. Cheney was made, reports said it was a push for a peace deal between Israel and Palestine. But the V.P. was there to also say that after 5 years of American-led warfare in Iraq the U.S. and the Iraqis were living in the best of all possible worlds.
Whatever your views the fact remains we are and will remain in the country well into the next year, the next administration and for who knows how long. Casualties, costs both economic and ethical, and more are still to be counted. I mourn for our losses and for the future. Seems all the decisions that led us there and those made in the early days were - at best - full of colossal blunders.
Continuing coverage is here, and here. Attention and knowledge of what's happening is falling away.
Perhaps in 2010 (or beyond) we'll have some effective new policies in place. Perhaps.
In Vermont, something I have never, ever heard of before - two towns have issued "arrest on sight" orders for the President and Vice President, due to war-related issues. Is it worth noting that while the presidential pair have made many trips to Iraq, they won't go to Vermont?
Labels: Iraq
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Meme!
School sucks and I am a little late posting this. OH, WELL.
Stolen from peppervl on my Friend's List:
Post the first sentence (or three) from every WIP you're currently working on, even if it's very short. Then invite people to ask questions about your WIPs. With any luck, the motivation to take that WIP one step closer to completion will appear as if by magic!
1. The platform under him was iron, Zack could tell, the press of chill metal warming him in a way that had nothing to do with temperature and everything to do with the comforting tingle of strength easing into his body from the close proximity. Even better was the fact that he was underground, at least 30 feet below unless he missed his guess. It was that more than anything that convinced him he was probably in safe hands.
2. "I need a good reason for spending a lot of time at the hospital for the next... while," Jared blurted, eyes not quite managing to get high enough to meet Jensen's. "I figured that a boyfriend who worked there would be a pretty good excuse."
3. "Look buddy, whether you're dead or not has nothing to do with me. I'm just the ferryman. Go to H.R. down in the Eighth Circle if you want to put in a claim." Not that any claims actually went through, but this nitwit could probably do with a century or two of sitting around waiting for his number to be called. "Now are you getting in the boat or not?"
4. The worst part was that this was all his own damn fault. Not just for wandering into the forest at night without so much as a flashlight - though that was certainly Grade-A idiocy at work right there - but for being dumb enough to stomp off in a girly teenage huff because Jared fucking Padalecki had a boyfriend.
5. Before he'd met Jensen Ackles, Jared had had no idea how much you could touch somebody else without getting laid.
6. "Why is your kitchen staff answering your phone anyway?"
"I'm making bread dough," Jared explained. "No free hands."
"Why don't you buy a Bluetooth or something?"
Jared shrugged and nearly lost the phone in the process. "Tried it for a while. But then I got jam on it and it stopped working."
7. The postcard says it's from Okinawa, but Jensen knows that's not where Jared mailed it from; Jared knows that Jensen hates having the surprise ruined by a postcard. Besides, Jared was in Japan the year before last. There's no way he's gone back so soon.
8. "Not so good at taking your own advice?" is what comes out of his mouth instead, voice ahead of brain as usual. Jensen doesn't answer and the words keep rolling out in a reckless kind of challenge. "Or are wish fairies too busy making other people's dreams come true that they're never allowed to make themselves happy?"
9-agh. Whee! I am bad at finishing stuff!
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Spanish politics; & The final camino fotos.
The Spanish political kaleidoscope has been shaken and some of the glitter bits have settled. But many others haven't. The President of Spain, Sr Rajoy, has said that everything and nothing has changed. Things are as they were: his PP party got the most votes both nationwide and in individual regions and so remains Spain's leading party. Which rather glosses over the fact it retains the reins of power in only one region, and this in North Africa. Further, despite the loss of 33% of its supporters, the PP's best bet, says Sr Rajoy, is to leave him and his team in power. After all, the PP's setbacks were due to the old chestnut of "poor communication". Mr Rajoy was speaking, of course, from his bunker 3 meters below ground in the Saharan desert.
For a professional commentary, see the article printed after these final camino fotos, all taken in wonder-ful Salamanca this morning:
Small Earthquake in Spain
After Greece — runs the theory beloved of left-wing optimists and right-wing pessimists — comes Spain. In January the anti-austerity Syriza party, founded only ten years earlier, came to power in an election in Greece which humbled the centre right and obliterated the centre left. Syriza had turned the 26 per cent of the vote it received in the 2014 European elections, into 36 per cent of the vote in the general election.
This week regional elections were held in Spain and a party which was created in January 2014, Podemos (We can), won a substantial share of the vote. Candidates it supported took the mayoralty of Barcelona and at the time of writing looked likely to take that of Madrid.
The ruling Popular party, which had its worst election results for a quarter of a century, suddenly looked like the Unpopular party. It lost control of eight regions, some big cities and the support of more than 2.5 million voters. The main opposition party, the socialists, also lost votes, in its case nearly half a million. With a general election in Spain quite likely this autumn, the anti-establishment domino theory looks plausible.
But perhaps we should take a breath before prophesying a Spanish meltdown. Spain, for all its sunny southness, is not Greece. While Greece was seeing very few of the benefits of a long period of austerity and was offering its citizens little but sweat, blood, toil and tears and then more blood, Spain seems to have overcome the post-2008 crisis and its economy is growing again. True, the unemployment rate is still 24 per cent, and it will take time for the benefits of growth to reach millions of Spaniards. And it is true, too, that the party of the prime minister, Mariano Rajoy, has been implicated in a series of corruption scandals involving tens of millions of euros.
Yet when the electorate was able to register a protest vote without jeopardising national policy, more than half still chose one of the two traditional parties. Podemos polled just over 14 per cent, which though remarkable for such a recent party, puts it for the time being in the Ukip rather than the Syriza category.
This lack of an outright collapse suggests both that the Popular party and the socialists are, for the time being, more robust than their counterparts in Greece, and also that voters do not feel quite the same sense of desperation. Although post-mortems were being held yesterday, and there was talk of pressure on Mr Rajoy, the political establishment in Spain would do well not to panic. It must purge itself of corruption, but there is much to be said for sending out the message that when it comes to the basics, it understands how the country must be governed.
This result, though difficult for Mr Rajoy, suggests that he has some time. And it gives the Spanish people slightly more space in which to consider whether they really want to hand power to insurgent parties. In the case of the anti-corruption but essentially liberal democratic party, Ciudadanos (Citizens), which polled 7%, that would not seem to be much of a risk. But Podemos, which is a Syriza-style coalition of anarchists, socialists, regionalists and pressure groups, is a different matter. Do the Spanish people, for example, want to leave Nato, as Podemos does?
We rather suspect not. In which case, if Spain’s leaders hold their nerve, this could be the domino that refuses to fall.
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My experience of Shakespeare in Love at Bard on the Beach was kind of like an okay date that ended with some fantastic making out. The morning after, am I in love with this show? Nope, not by a long shot, although I’m grateful for the pleasures it offers.
Lee Hall’s stage play is based on Marc Norman and Tom Stoppard’s screenplay for the 1998 film. It imagines Will Shakespeare as a youthful playwright who’s struggling with writer’s block until he meets a young woman named Viola de Lesseps, who comes from a moneyed family. Viola is smitten with theatre and longs to take part, but the law forbids women appearing onstage, so she disguises herself as a man she calls Thomas Kent, auditions, and gets cast as a character called Romeo in a new script that Will is working on.
Will and Viola fall for one another, of course — while Viola is still in drag, a convention that reconstructs the gender mirrors that feature in many of the real William Shakespeare’s plays.
Trouble arrives in the form of the money-grubbing Lord Wessex, who wants to marry Viola for her father’s fortune and cart her off to his tobacco plantation in Virginia. “Is she fertile?” Wessex asks Viola’s father. “She will breed,” de Lesseps replies. “If not, send her back.”
This set-up is seductive and, under Daryl Cloran’s direction, the play receives an extremely handsome mounting — I’ll talk more about that in a bit — but, thematically, Shakespeare in Love is shallow (which comic entertainment does not need to be).
There are a lot of broad jokes. Initially, Will calls his evolving script Romeo and Ethel, the Pirate’s Daughter. A gag in which Will gets all of his best ideas from his friend and competitor Kit Marlowe is repeated ad nauseum. There’s a cruel thread that exploits stuttering for its supposed comic effect. And the play is built to include a whole lot of virtually meaningless stage business, including an extended swordfight in which rival producers Henslowe and Richard Burbage brawl, along with their supporters, for the possession of the only copy of the play that is, by this point, called Romeo and Juliet. Because the rivalry between Henslowe and Burbage isn’t established in any resonant way, the swordfight is vacant flash.
There are also moving moments and transcendent passages, but those are, for the most part, cheaply bought. Will’s love for Viola inspires him to write Sonnet 18, for example: “Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?/Thou art more lovely and more temperate.” And, as Will gets further into the writing of Romeo and Juliet, more and more of that text — including the balcony scene and the palmers’ dialogue — emerges. This material is exquisite and this cast delivers it with skill, but this text is also ripped off. Its contextualization in Shakespeare in Love provides no illumination; the real poetry is just dropped into a sentimental romance to give that romance the appearance of heft.
That said, the acting company in this Bard on the Beach production is extraordinary and the costumes glitter like the crown jewels.
In a consistently impressive cast, Ghazal Azarbad is the standout as Viola. Azarbad is direct, warm, and intelligent, and she makes such simple, moving sense of the Shakespearean language that her presence becomes the most consistent point of emotional access. Charlie Gallant is swoon-inducingly charming as Shakespeare and he commits himself to the play’s ecstasies and heartbreaks.
There’s an abundance of comic talent including Andrew McNee as Burbage, Scott Bellis as Henslowe, and Anton Lipovetsky (sometimes funny, mostly appropriately creepy) as Wessex. There’s also a surprising young discovery: Jason Sakaki, who plays a cross-dressing boy actor named Sam. In less gifted hands, Sam could be a one-note throwaway, but Sakaki brings such emotional precision to his performance that he’s compelling to watch. Then of course there’s Jennifer Lines, who is having an infectiously good time parading around in a fabulous gown as Elizabeth I, making imperious and well-timed pronouncements.
The story didn’t grab me until very late, though — well into Act 2. That’s when Will and Viola’s love affair starts to overlap with their play-within-the-play production of Romeo and Juliet. Shakespeare’s story and words are deliriously lovely. Everybody onstage, including Azarbad and Gallant, is acting their heart out. Costume designer Cory Sincennes has clothed all of the bodies in gorgeously textured whites. And, as we’re watching all of this unfold at Bard on the Beach, it’s a summer night and the last rays of the sun are flickering behind the mountains. Who could resist? Not me — not in the moment, anyway.
All night, Sincennes’s costumes are knockouts. I have never seen such a dazzling parade at Bard. Wessex’s outfit alone, with it’s cream and gold pumpkin pants, quilted jacket, and thigh-high, gold-tipped boots, is a sartorial wet dream. There are so many stunners.
But sometimes, after you’ve kissed somebody, you have to pull back and look them in the face.
I won’t give away the details of the ending, but I will say that Viola sacrifices herself to Will’s genius. Her reward is supposedly literary immortality, but fuck that. Who remembers the muses? What about Viola’s creativity? And do we really want to buy into the bogus romanticism of women being happy fodder for male artistry?
Bard’s choice to produce Shakespeare in Love also calls into question the company’s perception of its audience. At its best — as in last year’s productions of As You Like It, which Cloran also directed, and Lysistrata — Bard on the Beach takes risks. At its weakest, Bard dumbs things down, offering easy comedy and sumptuous but conservative design in lieu of challenging content and artistic adventure. My take is that, for all of its successes, Shakespeare in Love falls into the latter category. And it’s not like Bard needs a cash cow: according to their own audience stats, they have one of the best attendance records in Christendom.
I’d much rather see a more substantial script than Shakespeare in Love, maybe something by somebody like — I don’t know — William Shakespeare.
SHAKESPEARE IN LOVE Based on the screenplay by Marc Norman and Tom Stoppard. Adapted for the stage by Lee Hall. Music by Paddy Cunneen. Directed by Daryl Cloran.A Bard on the Beach production. In the BMO Mainstage Tent in Vanier Park on Friday, June 21. Continues until September 18. Tickets.
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Talk: PB-NpO War
Pandora's Box?? Edit
Does having only half of the bloc really construe this as a Bloc war? Lightning jim (talk • contribs) 07:33, January 18, 2011 (UTC)
The name will be changed when there is a clear consensus on the OWF for the official name. Bobogoobo | Talk | Nation 12:47, Tuesday, 18 January 2011 (ET)
Umbrella and GOONS are obviously waiting to counter. It is clear that PB intends this war to be a demonstration of their bloc's military power. However, I must point out that putting the Super Friends on VE's side is misleading, as SF is not fighting together on one side. --Taishaku (talk • contribs) 05:35, January 21, 2011 (UTC)
Not only that, but the attackers cited the Animal House Accords in their declarations of war. --Haflinger (talk • contribs) 12:30, January 23, 2011 (UTC)
Synergy Header Edit
Should the Synergy header be removed as both current Synergy alliances are also in the Sirius?--LittleRena (talk • contribs) 06:39, January 20, 2011 (UTC)
No, Synergy would take precedence as it's an MDoAP bloc. What you do in the case of multiple bloc ties is...well, look at any past war article for the syntax, but you use ref notes to mention "while listed under bloc y, x is also part of bloc z." ~ Locke talk contribs nation 04:29, Thursday, 20 January 2011 (ET)
Well I had already put the ref notes in, just wanted to know to make it look a little neater but if it's the case to have MDoAP blocs take precedent, then okay.--LittleRena (talk • contribs) 13:09, January 20, 2011 (UTC)
Random Insanity Alliance Edit
Okay...I'm confused about how to add them since they declared on both SLCB and IAA? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Lightning jim (talk • contribs)
Oh well that's interesting. My personal recommendation would be to add them to both sides of the table, and add a footnote explaining why they appear on both sides, per the precedent in the Second Unjust War article. That said, I'll leave it to the actual editors to work out; I'm sticking to doing the stat charts. Michael von Preußen voicemail • nation @ 2:29, Duodi, 2 Pluviôse CCXIX
Listing NpO as an Independent? Edit
It is true that the NpO is independent in that it has no bloc to be aligned within during this war, but as a principal combatant, should not the NpO be displayed prominently at the top of the column? -Taishaku (talk • contribs) 05:31, January 21, 2011 (UTC)
No, they should be first in the independents but that's it, look at the TPF War, you can see that TPF aren't at the top, there are others where the defender isn't in a bloc and blocs have taken precident over them in the listing.--LittleRena (talk • contribs) 06:01, January 21, 2011 (UTC)
This, however, is not a consistent rule. Farkistan is listed at the top of their side in Great War II, despite being an independent, and, in fact, I think that such should be the preferable manner in which to go about this. Polaris is the principle reason for why this war is occurring in the first place, not Synergy, or IAA. It would different if Polaris was in a bloc, but, as it is...
I am hereby proposing that, in these cases, from now on, the principle initial independent combatants take precedence even over blocs in the coalition listings, to indicate to the casual reader the importance thereof, and that other articles be amended as such based on this issue (i.e., WotC should display Hyperion above all others (and, frankly, it should also be two separate wars, considering that the GGA-Hyperion and Coalition-BLEU fronts were entirely distinct and should never have been presented as a single war anyway), BiPolar War should place \m/ above their side, etc.). 71.218.224.194 05:27, January 25, 2011 (UTC)
Global War Edit
I would like to know at what point we should consider calling this a global war. I think the 100 million or the 150 million NS mark is a good precedent to establish, what do the rest of you think?
-- Dynasty Talk • Grand Besaid 01:25, Saturday, 22 January 2011 (EST)
I personally think it should possibly be related to the amount of alliances that enter rather than the NS.--LittleRena (talk • contribs) 18:27, January 22, 2011 (UTC)
We just should stick to the defintion Types of alliance wars uses. Xoin (talk • contribs) 18:37, January 22, 2011 (UTC)
Missing DoWs Edit
I believe this page is missing the GOD DoW on GATO through this link: http://forums.cybernations.net/index.php?showtopic=97445
NuclearTrogo (talk • contribs) 14:57, January 22, 2011 (UTC)
Yeah, it was. It is fixed now. Thank you!
Image for hooligans Edit
Hi, I am a member of the alliance hooligans and I have just received word from its leader that we are in the war, I have added the alliance at the appropriate place but I cant find the image, can someone put it on thankyou —Preceding unsigned comment added by Guy Benson (talk • contribs)
Doom House-Pacifican Front Edit
I would dispute the appropriateness of including the conflict between Doom House and Pacifica within this war since the CB for such has no legally direct relation to that of this one. Pacifica was attacked more or less to prevent them from becoming too powerful and building their sphere of influence enough to become dangerous again. They had not entered this war on the side of Polaris in relation to the espionage accusations, nor to uphold any treaties, and the same can be said of Doom House's move. I recommend that they be considered two separate wars, because they are. There is no sense in considering this front a part of this war simply because they happen to be occurring at the same time. 71.218.224.194 05:12, January 25, 2011 (UTC)
I agree, there does not seem to be any particular link between this conflict and the NpO one besides perhaps an ancillary intention to keep Legion and TPF from reinforcing NpO's front, but that's as indirect as it gets. It seems like the most logical move would be to treat this as two concurrent, separate conflicts. That said, the precedent set by this wiki--- by Bipolar, just a year ago no less, in a situation almost identical to this--- is to treat this as one conflict, with regularly maintained pages for each front. The PB-NpO front, and the Doomhouse-NPO front will be the NpO-\m/ front and TOP-CnG fronts of this war.
JT Jag (talk • contribs) 09:21, January 25, 2011 (UTC)
However, in the Bipolar war, there were a large number of alliances that fought in both parts of the war, and the TOP-IRON attack was planned in conjunction with the NpO. So far there are not any alliances fighting in both sides of this war. Apart from the fact that both wars were launched including Pandora's Box members against the Orders around the same time, they really don't have anything in common. The attackers on NpO cited Pandora's Box in their DoWs as well, while the attackers on NPO (except FAN of course) cited Doomhouse only. --Haflinger (talk • contribs) 13:05, January 29, 2011 (UTC)
Sub-conflict added to help clear it, can be found here Doomhouse-NPO War with thanks to Michael von Preußen for making it look neater! --LittleRena (talk • contribs) 10:59, January 25, 2011 (UTC)
You're welcome. While I agree with all the points made above, I think listing it as a sub-conflict, much like the TOP-C&G War is listed as a sub-conflict of the Second Unjust War, is indeed the way to go. While there are no treaty links between the wars, the Doomhouse declaration of war on NPO made it clear that they were attacking in part due to the perception that NPO's allies were conspiring to keep them out of this war. That's enough, in my opinion, to link the conflicts, as LittleRena has done. Michael von Preußen voicemail • nation @ 4:78, Sextidi, 6 Pluviôse CCXIX
NOIR and Superfriends Status Edit
They're on both sides of the web. Surely the purpose of having the bloc information is to say that the bloc entered as a unit. To have bloc partners on both sides means the bloc is no longer a 'bloc' of nations for the duration of the conflict and the participants are instead independents. 125.237.72.83
Agreed. It would really help reduce the clutter too. - Taishaku (talk • contribs) 21:27, January 28, 2011 (UTC)
Stat Boxes Edit
Are the stat boxes overlapping into the Force 1 column for anyone else? Does anyone have a problem if they're moved below the DoW's and Withdrawl links? Rogal DornTalkqwerty nation February 6, 2011 (ET)
They're fine for me, you must have a pretty small screen. It would be better if the humongous padding between the day and the graph could be reduced, but I'm not sure how to do that. Bobogoobo | Talk | Nation 15:53, Sunday, 6 February 2011 (ET)
It would appear to be impossible <_< Michael von Preußen voicemail • nation @ 8:76, Octidi, 18 Pluviôse CCXIX
Ya Bobo i have a 15inch laptop. >.< MvP do you mind if they're moved below the DoW's and Withdrawl links? Rogal DornTalkqwerty nation February 6, 2011 (ET)
I won't support or oppose it. I will say, however, that if everything on the wiki was redesigned to fit ultrasmall screens, it would be a lot of work and pose significant problems, both for the wiki layout in general and for people using more standard-sized monitors. Michael von Preußen voicemail • nation @ 1:41, Nonidi, 19 Pluviôse CCXIX
Surrenders vs. White Peace Edit
Apparently, there is some disagreement among people as to what is considered white peace and what is considered surrendering. To be honest, I could care less where we draw the line; however, we need to draw one. According to our own wiki, “White Peace refers to when alliances declare peace in a conflict without being subject to any formal terms or conditions. This means that no one side surrenders to the other, no reparations are paid or improvement/wonder restrictions are enforced for example." According to that definition, many of the peace declarations would be considered surrenders since there were formal conditions (that alliances cannot re-enter). Thus, either we need to change the wiki definition of White Peace or we need to change many of the current declarations of peace to declarations of surrender. I am fine with whatever we do, but we need to make it consistent.
-- Dynasty Talk • Grand Besaid 16:36, Wednesday, 9 February 2011 (EST)
It's politically motivated. People who surrender call it white peace, people who don't call it surrender, or they'll call it white peace if they feel like being nice to the surrendering party. Individual alliances can classify it however they like on their own pages, but the war page should follow the objective definition. ~ Locke talk contribs nation 20:44, Wednesday, 9 February 2011 (ET)
A surrender imo should be when one of the terms is "x admits defeat to y" otherwise it's just conditional peace but not white peace, if you don't admit defeat, how can it be a surrender?--LittleRena (talk • contribs) 20:16, February 12, 2011 (UTC)
So do you guys want to have three categories of peace (white peace, conditional peace, and surrender), change the definition of white peace, or change the peace declarations to surrenders? We have to do one of the three (or something), since we have inconsistency without it. As for the definition of surrender, according to Dictionary.com, it can mean, "to give up, abandon, or relinquish". I can see the peace declarations meaning that one side "gave up fighting" or "abandoned fighting" so it could technically fit if we want to go that route. Honestly, I do not care what route we take, but we need to be consistent.
-- Dynasty Talk • Grand Besaid 15:39, Monday, 14 February 2011 (EST)
okay, the thing is a few alliances declared white peace and it still says surrender, which is really stupid, wish it wasn't locked Underlordgc (talk • contribs) 02:38, March 14, 2011 (UTC)underlordgc
Except for when an alliance gets a white peace with a condition(or conditions) they're still capitulating to another alliance's demands, ergo they're surrendering. there were few strait up "White Peace" where both alliances make agree to stop with no conditions imparted on each other and they go back to their pre-war status. Rogal DornTalkqwerty nation March 14, 2011 (ET)
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“Garbage collection was No. 1 under ISIS”
Posted by Mike | 8 Apr 2018
From The New York Times, We unearthed thousands of internal documents that help explain how the Islamic State stayed in power so long:
What began as a cosmetic change in Mr. Hamoud’s office soon turned into a wholesale transformation.
The militants sent female employees home for good and closed the day care center. They shuttered the office’s legal department, saying disputes would now be handled according to God’s law alone.
And they did away with one of the department’s daily duties — checking an apparatus, placed outside, to measure precipitation. Rain, they said, was a gift from Allah — and who were they to measure his gift?
Employees were also told they could no longer shave, and they had to make sure the leg of their trousers did not reach the ankle.
Glossy pamphlets, like the one below, pinpointed the spot on the calf where the hem of the garb worn by the companions of the Prophet around 1,400 years ago was said to have reached.
I forgot how awesome religion is.
But wait, ISIS runs a ruthless but clean ship:
Mr. Hamoud, who is known as “Abu Sara,” or Father of Sara, gave in and bought a niqab for his daughter.
As he walked to and from work, Mr. Hamoud began taking side streets to dodge the frequent executions that were being carried out in traffic circles and public squares. In one, a teenage girl accused of adultery was dragged out of a minivan and forced to her knees. Then a stone slab was dropped onto her head. On a bridge, the bodies of people accused of being spies swung from the railing.
But on the same thoroughfares, Mr. Hamoud noticed something that filled him with shame: The streets were visibly cleaner than they had been when the Iraqi government was in charge.
Omar Bilal Younes, a 42-year-old truck driver whose occupation allowed him to crisscross the caliphate, noticed the same improvement. “Garbage collection was No. 1 under ISIS,” he said, flashing a thumbs-up sign.
So hey, you’ll have the occasional head smashed with a big stone, but things are going to be squeaky clean.
Humanity, Military
brutality / ISIS
“Android freezes up”
Posted by Mike | 18 Jul 2016
Over at DOD Buzz, Matthew Cox reports the, “U.S. Army Special Operations Command is dumping its Android tactical smartphone for an iPhone model“:
The iPhone 6S will become the end-user device for the iPhone Tactical Assault Kit — special-operations-forces version Army’s Nett Warrior battlefield situational awareness tool, according to an Army source, who is not authorized to speak to the media. The iTAC will replace the Android Tactical Assault Kit.
The iPhone is “faster; smoother. Android freezes up” and has to be restarted too often, the source said. The problem with the Android is particularly noticeable when viewing live feed from an unmanned aerial system such as Instant Eye, the source said.
When trying to run a split screen showing the route and UAS feed, the Android smart phone will freeze up and fail to refresh properly and often have to be restarted, a process that wastes valuable minutes, the source said.
“It’s seamless on the iPhone,” according to the source. “The graphics are clear, unbelievable.”
“Open always wins,” right?
Maybe not.
via Daring Fireball
Military, Mobility, Technology
Android / iPhone / Special Ops / US Army
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art by Jeffrey Redmond
To Be Undone of Such Small Things
by Damien Walters Grintalis
Damien Walters Grintalis lives in Maryland with her husband. She is an Associate Editor of the Hugo Award-winning magazine, Electric Velocipede, and a staff writer with BooklifeNow. Her debut novel, Ink, will be released in December 2012 by Samhain Horror. You can visit her website, dwgrintalis.blogspot.com, or follow her on Twitter @dwgrintalis.
***Editor's Note: The story that follows is disturbing. Use your discretion in choosing to continue.***
She sits in her car with her hands in her lap, staring at the glass doors of the facility. Tears shimmer in her eyes. Strange that she should never find healing through grief as others do. Strange that her heart cannot give up the barbed wire fragments it carries within.
She wipes away the sorrow from her face and goes inside.
A war veteran with half his face twisted into scars passes her in the hallway. He smiles. She knows what he wanted to give up. She wishes him a thousand nights of peaceful sleep and shadows without enemies lurking in their darkness.
The doctor smiles. She signs the papers. Yes, she understands the risks. Yes, she understands. But this is for the best. The paper robe scratches her skin. The table presses hard against her back. A nurse pats the back of her hand, latex to trembling flesh. The bite of antiseptic hangs heavy in the air; the white walls whisper of scalpels and needle sticks.
The procedure isn't painless. A sensation of a million bees inside her skull all stinging at once. The hurt grows too big to hold in, and she falls into darkness.
When she wakes, she remembers: Her father kissing her on the head at bedtime and teaching her how to read. Sitting on the floor of the bathroom and laughing as he put shaving cream on his face and growled before he scraped away the bristles. The aftershave lotion with its sharp scent and a ship on the bottle.
Beyond that, there is a tiny space. A grey haze at the edge of a faded dream.
She opens the journal they told her to keep and reads what they took away: Her father leaving. All the days she spent waiting on the front steps, hoping today he'd come back. All the questions she asked her mother, the questions that remained unanswered.
She lets out a small sigh. Maybe now she won't be so afraid to let someone close.
Another addition to her journal. When the bees sting, she grimaces and clenches her fists, but she welcomes the pain.
What she remembers: Running to the car in the rain, holding the shopping bag with one hand and her keys in the other. The way her wet hair clung to her cheeks and neck.
What the journal says is missing: The gun pointed at her head. Rough hands shoving her into her car. The face above hers. His voice, a sandpaper rasp in her ear. The sour reek of his sweat. And later, standing in the shower with hot water dancing on her skin, scrubbing hard enough to bleed, fearing she'd never be clean again.
She tears out the page and rips it to shreds. She doesn't need the reminder; the hurt isn't hers anymore. Maybe now the touch of someone's hand on her skin won't feel like a million maggots hungry for the soft parts deep inside.
A siphon, taking out the bad. A fountain pen, rewriting her story, erasing the shadows from her eyes and the thorns from her heart.
And each time, another grey spot where the pain used to live.
She remembers her mother pulling weeds from the garden, laughing all the while. The sweet perfume of lilacs in a vase on the kitchen table. Making dinner together on Sunday nights and eating ice cream for dessert. Searching for her mother's face in the school auditorium during the spelling bee.
Her journal holds the antiseptic stink of the hospital. The tubes and wires and gentle hum of machinery. The way pain bloomed in a dark rose on her mother's face and clouded up her eyes. The steady drip of morphine. Counting the days and the weeks and the months until the malignancy finally stole her away.
She sits in front of the facility and sheds her last bit of mourning--the memory of a baby, still and silent in her arms. She will remember the movements beneath her skin. The way her shape changed. The cocoa butter rubbed on her belly and thighs.
She wants to give up the panic in the delivery room. The nurse's tearful apologies. The tiny casket. Waking up every day with a throat raw from weeping and an empty hollow in the place where her heart should be. The way everyone said perhaps it was for the best. She was so young. She had plenty of time.
This is the deepest hole of them all. A place all tangled up inside, its edges cutting her with every movement, every breath. She needs to be free so she can breathe again.
The hallways of the facility are as familiar as her own home by now. The nurse greets her by name and offers a hug instead of a touch on the hand.
When it's over, she goes home and tucks the notebook away.
And she smiles.
On a cold day in December, she wakes to discover a stranger in the mirror. The woman smiles too easily, the worry lines have vanished from her brow, and there's a light in her eyes that doesn't quite fit.
"Are you the me I should have been," she whispers. "Or the me I never could?"
The stranger says not a word. Of course not. She doesn't know pain or loss or grief; she knows nothing but the absence of such things. Of grey spaces filled up with nothing.
Unbidden, tears blur her vision and spill over her lashes. She flees from the reflection and finds the journal, wiping her eyes dry with the back of her hand so she can read. Page after page, she sees not sorrow, but strength; not defects, but all the bits and pieces that make a person whole.
She turns the pages faster and faster. Inside, she's a broken puzzle that can't put its pieces back together. An ache coils in her chest, a yearning for the things they took away, the things that shaped the curve of her smile and the set of her jaw. She wants a familiar face in the mirror, not the stranger. She wants everything back the way it was. She wants her self the way it was.
The tears fall anew. They taste of dandelion and talcum powder and ashes. She clutches the journal tight, crying for what she cannot remember. For all the things she wanted to forget, to throw away like a toy full of broken.
But the knowledge comes too late. Far too late. The procedure is irreversible. All she has left is a journal of memories that belong to someone else.
Someone she once knew.
This story was first published on Thursday, August 2nd, 2012
Sometimes stories come from a specific inspiration--a photograph, a random snippet of thought, or a stray bit of song lyric carried on the wind. Sometimes, though, they creep in with neither prompt nor warning and demand to be told. This story belongs in the latter category.
Yet we bring a bit of our histories to every story we write, whether by conscious or subconscious thought, and regrettably, I have watched a loved one�s memories slip away bit by bit to leave behind a stranger clothed in familiar skin.
- Damien Walters Grintalis
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Nicholas LaDelfa, 31, Of Ridgefield, Served In Army
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A Ridgefield man, 31, from Ridgefield who served in the Army and being remembered as having a "heart of gold" has died.
Nicholas P. LaDelfa died Sunday, June 10 at Danbury Hospital.
He was born Aug. 26, 1987 in Danbury to Pam LaDelfa and Ken Carpenter. LaDelfa attended Ridgefield schools and was a graduate of Ridgefield High School with the Class of 2005.
He enlisted in the U.S. Army upon graduation and served a 15-month tour in Iraq from 2007 to 2009. LaDelfa worked as a service technician at Professional Water Systems in Ridgefield.
He lived life through simple pleasures; talking to friends, listening to music, going to concerts, taking walks with his nephew, spending time with family, friends and his dog Don Enzolino Ferrari Ladelfa- Enzo for short. Anyone who knew him would say he had a heart of gold, an incredible sense of humor and was a fierce friend to so many.
He is survived by his mother Pam and father Ken, sister, Jennifer Bradshaw and her husband Doug, their son Jase and many aunts, uncles, cousins and friends.
There will be a celebration of life for family and friends on Saturday, Aug. 24 from 2 p.m. to 7 p.m. at Tarrywile Park, 70 Southern Blvd. in Danbury.
Donations are asked to Til Valhalla Project- "Where Heroes Live On Forever" in Nick LaDelfa's name. Click here.
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Westchester Students Organize 'March For Our Lives' To Combat Gun Violence
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In the wake of dozens of successful walkouts by students in Westchester last week to call on Congress for tighter gun control laws, students are now organizing a countywide “March for Our Lives” movement.
Thousands of Westchester residents are expected to participate in a “sibling march” beginning at 1 p.m. on Saturday, March 24 in White Plains, which is being organized by students throughout the county.
According to White Plains High School senior Kelly Marx, who is one of the lead student organizers for the Westchester County March For Our Lives, more than 3,000 members of the community are expected to join students at the march, which will kick off at Post Road Elementary and make its way to the White Plains Public Library.
A rally will follow the event at 2 p.m. next to the Martin Luther King, Jr. statue behind the White Plains Public Library, featuring remarks from student activists.
Organizers noted that the march is one of hundreds happening around the country planned by students in solidarity with survivors of gun violence. “The purpose of the march is to call on lawmakers to make students’ lives and well-being a priority and to pass common-sense gun safety legislation.”
“It is time to stop gun violence from tearing up communities,” Marx, 18, said. “As a teenager, I realize how powerful my voice is, and that this is our time to speak out about a cause that is very important to me because it should not be affecting every individual in the United States. This is our future that we are fighting for, the future for the next generations too.”
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Catch-22: Rapid data centre growth colliding with ageing workforce
Article by Schneider Electric Operation Services general manager Tony DeSpirito
The IT industry as a whole is facing a shortage of skilled workers and the data center segment is no exception. No quick fix is available to correct the problem, either.
It’ll take creative outreach to new groups of potential workers and training; lots and lots of training.
Sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but there’s really no sugar-coating the situation. Joe Kava, VP of data centers for Google, summed it up nicely in a keynote address at the recent Data Center World conference, saying, “The greatest threat we’re facing is the race for talent.”
Even Google has trouble staffing data centers
A study last year by TEKsystems highlighted the issue, with 81% of the IT leaders surveyed saying it was difficult to find quality candidates for IT jobs. Nearly 50% of leaders with open positions didn’t expect they would fill them in the desired timeframe.
There’s reason to believe the situation is even worse for companies looking to hire data center infrastructure staff for a simple reason: the field is currently dominated by men who are nearing retirement age.
“The industry today is predominantly men,” Kava said in his keynote. “Even my own organization are majority men: white men, middle-aged white men.”
Meanwhile, as Data Center Knowledge reports: “IDC predicts that worldwide public cloud services and infrastructure spending will reach $160 billion this year, up 23 percent from 2017. Gartner says total cloud services revenue will increase by 87 percent between 2016 and 2020, reaching $411.4 billion.”
So, we’ve got an aging pool of talent coupled with rapid growth in data center demand. Clearly, we need a new approach to address the issue.
Diversity and education are keys to a solution
Diversity is clearly one avenue, starting with getting more women into the field. This will be a long-term endeavor, however, based on current statistics. The National Girls Collaborative Project, in a report on girls and women in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM), found:
22.7% of chemical engineers are women
17.5% of civil, architectural, and sanitary engineers are women
17.1% of industrial engineers are women
10.7% of electrical or computer hardware engineers are women
7.9% of mechanical engineers are women
Data center infrastructure staff can come from any one of those fields, but we’re effectively eliminating nearly half of the potential workforce from the start because not enough women enter the fields.
Education is another area, and we’re starting to see some movement there. In a guest post for CIO.com, Nancy Novak, Compass Datacenters’ SVP of Construction, says Southern Methodist University (SMU) has established a post-graduate degree program in the data center discipline, Marist University has a Bachelor’s Degree in data center science and Global Skills X-change Corporation (GSX) recently launched a Certified Mission Critical Operator (CMCO) program.
I also happen to know that Northern Virginia Community College this fall will launch a Data Center Operations (DCO) specialization of its Engineering Technology associate’s degree.
Schneider Electric has trained 1,500 data center techs
That’s all good news, and hopefully more schools will follow suit. But let’s face it, it’ll be at least two years before these programs really begin bearing fruit.
I can speak from experience in saying that because Schneider Electric has long offered its own training program for the data center personnel who operate data centers for our customers around the globe.
We target folks who already have experience in a relevant area – electrical or mechanical engineering, fire suppression, generator specialist or the like. They then enter an ongoing training program that focuses on continuous improvement and associated certifications.
Eventually they reach Critical Environment Technician (CET) Level 3 status, meaning they are subject matter experts (SME) in all relevant disciplines.
We’ve trained at least 1,500 CETs by now, so we’ve gotten pretty good at it, if I do say so myself. The really tricky part is recruiting candidates to enter the program. For that, we look to various sources, including folks who are leaving the military, technical schools, lots of job fairs and plenty of word of mouth.
In fact, we’re constantly in recruitment mode, because we need to ensure that when one of our technicians gets promoted (or, rarely, leaves for another organization), we can quickly fill that position.
Plus, like everyone in the data center business, we have to prepare for the rapid growth the industry is seeing and quickly execute when a customer decides to out-task data center operations to us.
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Antonelli, Fabio: Requiem “Ad Lilium” in c minor, for choir and Orchestra
Composer: Fabio Antonelli
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Genre: Sacred
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Antonelli, Fabio: Requiem "Ad Lilium" in c minor, for choir and Orchestra quantity
Fabio Antonelli
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Fabio Antonelli was born in Rome in 1966 and studied musicology and composition with some of the great Italian composers such as Ivan Fedele, Mario Garuti and Gabriele Manca. He graduated in Musicology at the University of Pavia (Italy) and in Composition in Conservatoire of Como (Italy), then he graduated at the master level of Composition in Conservatoire of Milan (Italy). He’s also d.doctored in Astrophysics and Cosmology at the University of Bologna ( Italy ). With his work Antonelli try to give a presentation of the silence of the Universe. This is the project of his creativity. His music consists of fragments that are isolated and suspended in the Void. Summary of his theories that consist in the mathematical, abstract and theoretical definition. He imagines consistency with little forms of energy, maybe ethereal or material. This is the silence he’s searching for, an artistic expression of an energy. His works can be total or opening from little fragments with modern music techniques expressed his personal view.
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This Week’s Find: A Time Capsule from 1898
For those interested in turn-of-the-century Victorian life, This Week’s Find is a living museum.
A butler’s pantry, parlor and conservatory aren’t the only antiquated things about the seven-bedroom Kensington home: virtually every element, including the furniture, artwork and sculptures, dates back to the home’s late 19th century origins. Walking the halls means taking a trip back to times when ornate drapes matched the wallpaper, libraries had secret doors and houses had names (this one is called “Sunny Crest”).
The home has only been up for sale twice since it was built, as the original owner — a patent lawyer — and then his daughter occupied the home for several decades. Everything was passed on to the current owners as-is, and now, this house could make the dreams of a historical re-enactor come true: the current owner hopes to convey almost everything in the house to the eventual buyer.
The previous owner found all sorts of treasures hidden in the attic and basement, including a valuable statue of Abe Lincoln. There is also a large greenhouse, currently occupied by antique cars and various tools, beside the home. More photos and details below.
Full Listing: 3924 Baltimore Street, Kensington, MD (map)
Price: $1.395 million
Bedrooms: Seven
Listing Agent: Kyle Richards, Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage
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Sadistik – Kill The King (ft. Deacon The Villain) [Prod. By Kno]
February 14, 2013 By deadendhiphop
Earlier this year, Sadistik announced his new album, Flowers For My Father, a project that pulls its inspiration from the passing of Sadistik’s father and rings as the Seattle rapper’s most personal work to date. The album will be released on February 19th via Fake Four, Inc., but before then, Sadistik is today releasing the album’s first official single, “Kill The King,” which features Deacon The Villain and is produced by Kno, who, together, make up two-thirds of the beloved underground group CunninLynguists.
The title, “Kill The King,” draws its name from the acoustic album When In Rome… Kill The King, made by Sadistik’s late friend and accomplished rapper, Eyedea. Heavy and ponderous, according to Sadistik, “it basically means to kill your ego in order to gain objectivity and express yourself with honesty.” And Sadistik drives that theme home throughout the record, with open, exploring lines like, “I won’t say I’m getting stronger/ ‘Cause what doesn’t kill me only makes me wait a little longer.”
Listen: Sadistik-Kill The King (ft. Deacon The Villian)
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London Film Festival To Open With Armando Iannucci’s ‘The Personal History Of David Copperfield’
Mark Cousins Is Making A Road Trip Movie About Oscar-Winning Producer Jeremy Thomas And His Croisette Pilgrimage — Cannes
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EXCLUSIVE: Here’s a fun project steeped in Cannes and cinema lore. Documentarian Mark Cousins, whose latest movie The Eyes Of Orson Welles played at Cannes last year, is making a film about the life and work of Oscar-winning producer and Croisette regular Jeremy Thomas who will be at the festival this year with Takashi Miike’s First Love.
The Last Emperor producer Thomas makes a land and sea pilgrimage to the Cannes Film Festival every year, traveling from London in an old sports car often with one or two close friends in tow. This year Cousins is along for the ride and will be filming as they go.
Their off-beat grand tour will take in landmarks and people connected to the producer’s life and films. From the locations in Paris used in Bertolucci’s The Dreamers, to Lyon, the birthplace of cinema, and on to the Riviera festival. Here’s a first look at the two filmmakers en route yesterday afternoon in Paris.
Jeremy Thomas Relocates RPC & HanWay Films From Iconic Soho Building To West London Venue Steeped In Music History
Thomas has undertaken the 1000km trek every year for the last 40 years. It was a journey he first made with his film director father, Ralph Thomas. He has taken up the same Carlton suite in Cannes for decades.
Half of filmmaking is battery charging. My bedside table tonight in Paris after first day shooting new film. pic.twitter.com/PLfuBNZ3DX
— mark cousins (@markcousinsfilm) May 9, 2019
Recorded Picture Company and HanWay Film founder Thomas is well known for his collaborations with auteur directors. Credits include Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence, The Last Emperor, The Sheltering Sky, Crash, Tideland, Sexy Beast, The Dreamers, and Matteo Garrone’s recent Cannes drama Dogman. Upcoming he has Garrone’s Pinocchio with Roberto Benigni.
Cousins said of the project, “In my youth I noticed that if a film said ‘produced by Jeremy Thomas’, it was going to be scary, sexual, a brain fuck or a stylistic whirlwind. His movies are the opposite of genteel and the opposite of stiff upper lip Englishness. The films are tempestuous and international, violent and unraveling, a bomb under Brexit. I’ll try to make an innovative film about this man’s great work.”
Thomas added, “Who cannot love Mark Cousins’ films and the creative world around him, and who would not be excited at the prospect of a great road trip, which I shall do identically as I’ve done so many times and let the journey reveal itself, just with the idea of getting there in time for lunch on the opening day. Hope we don’t get a puncture.”
The film’s producer David P. Kelly has wanted to make a film about Thomas for some time, and initially made contact with Cousins at last year’s Venice Film Festival. Kelly said, “I am extremely delighted that Mark is directing the film and is bringing his own personal and artistic vision to make a unique film about Jeremy Thomas.”
He continued, “Thomas has had a truly audacious career, more than any other living film producer. In terms of quantity (sixty producing or executive producing credits), and quality (collaborations with Bertolucci, Cronenberg, Ôshima, Roeg and many other distinguished directors). Of course, there have been some rocky encounters along that road. He shows no signs of becoming more conservative as he approaches the fiftieth year of his filmmaking career. Thomas’s enquiring self-immersion in the art, business and culture of filmmaking is a unique testament to a life lived from its very outset in cinema. Now as his company enters the new digital evolution of the film business, he is evolving once again.”
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Interesting Information About the Chic and Classy Sally Port Doors
Rujuta Patil Mar 17, 2019
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Sally port refers to a gate, passage, or exit point in a historical fortification, from where troops made a sally. It came to be associated with the high-end security system employed at protected areas like prisons or munition storage facilities.
The Coat of Arms of the Republic of Malta has a sally port and five turrets on its gold mural crown, symbolizing the fortifications of Malta.
In olden times, 'sally port' referred to the small and secure door or gate in the outer wall of a fortification. Soldiers would make a swift passage through the secret and safe sally port.
They would 'sally forth' to attack and weaken the besiegers. This would help in slowing the offensive siege process. So, it was a part of military engineering as an important technique to turn the tide on the attackers.
Today, sally ports in a fortification are only there to remind us of historical tales. But, these doors have become a security device, rather, a foolproof system to guarantee a controlled entry and exit to some prominent areas.
What are Sally Port Doors?
Porta, in Latin, means door; postern is another word used for the same. It also means an underground tunnel or passage. Salīre is the Latin word for 'to jump', or sortie. Sally is a tactical maneuver used by the military.
Merriam Webster defines a sally port as:
i) a gate or passage in a fortified place for use by troops making a sortie.
ii) a secure entryway (as at a prison) that consists of a series of doors or gates.
Access to certain areas are restricted for security reasons. No commoner is allowed to enter the campus. Military areas that are safeguarding a large number of weapons or facilities that house nuclear weapons, or such isolated sensitive storage areas need thorough security.
Similarly, correctional facilities like prisons in several states across the country have to be well-guarded to avoid any inmates from escaping, and for their safety too. Another example is of the country's crucial financial institutions, like the United States Treasury building, which is safe pertaining to the plentiful security measures undertaken.
One such measure to ensure that the facility remains intact and free from any possible danger entering or harming the institution is the installation of sally port doors.
Sally Port Doors can be custom-made as per requirement. The variations, include bi-fold, four-fold, rolling, or sliding doors. Vehicular sally port systems provide a way to manage controlled entry and exit of vehicles and personnel at the same time.
Police sally ports are quite different; they are enlarged garage areas to allow controlled entry and exit of prisoners to a police vehicle. Besides professional or government facilities, these are also employed for private buildings.
There is an organized way of operation for all kinds sally port doors. Usually, a facility houses a system of two separate sally port doors at the entry point to the campus. There is some space between these two doors (middle space); military vehicular sally ports can be large enough to occupy many military trucks at a time.
A security guard is employed at a location far from the actual doors. He controls the following: i) the space between the two doors, ii) the operation of these doors, and iii) the movement of personnel, and/or materials, vehicles through the sally port.
Before the First Door Opens
The guard has to verify for the authenticity of all the people, escorts, or materials that are to enter the middle space.
During Actual Transit
He sees to it that no more than the maximum number of persons can move in or out of the protected space, at once.
Before the Second Door Opens
A separate controller of the interior protected space clears and permits any transit of people and/or materials. Also, the first door is to be locked and secured.
Before the Second Door Closes
The guard inspects whether the transit through the middle space is complete, and that it is empty.
Overcrowding at the middle space is the greatest danger posed in this movement. In case of emergencies, it has to be executed with immense caution. Only one door can be opened at a time, resulting into too many people or vehicles crowded in the middle space.
So, even if spaces are built after considering the average entry and exit load for that particular facility, lack of middle space can be a problem at times. However, for sally ports, there are overrides established for manual intervention and correction. Multiple openings and safety zones for internal evacuation are also built for emergency situations.
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Things to do in Belem Lisbon
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The resort town of Lagos is one of the best places to stay in the Algarve, the south coast of Portugal. Lagos has a fine historic centre, and streets full of restaurants,...
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DM Live is an ever-expanding encyclopedia about Depeche Mode to which anyone can contribute. Since its launch in January 2014, it has evolved into one of the largest sources of Depeche Mode information on the internet, with extensive tour and concert information, ticket stubs, and documented streams and downloads available for all circulating recordings of Depeche Mode's extensive live career. You're welcome to browse, or create an account / login to contribute.
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re: What’s an unpopular software opinion you have? VIEW POST
deleteme deleteme
TDD is a meme and you shouldn't be writing tests before you even know what your modules will look like.
Writing code is an art form. It takes intuition and freeform thought to structure things.
Brian Hanna
Couldn't agree more. TDD is workable when you're well staffed and have some discretion over deadlines. Otherwise it's an incredibly difficult sell from a business value standpoint, unfortunately. Especially if you're in an organization where certain delivery timelines are expected regularly
Chris Bennetts
Most of the cost of software is after the initial build. TDD helps keep it decoupled so it's easier and cheaper to maintain in the long term. TDD software probably has better TCO.
Molly Struve
😂 In a fit of frustration on Friday afternoon bc I couldn't get specs to cooperate I put this message in slack. I'm kidding of course, mostly....
TDD has its place, in some scenarios it's the only sensible option, but its benefits in general are massively overstated.
Writing code is more like artisanship. I feel I've got more in common with someone who builds bespoke wooden furniture than a painter.
Adrián Norte
TDD is the only way to create code that is maintainable and extensible. Unless of course, what you are making is utterly simple.
Writing code is a science, not an art. The problem is that humans have spent less than 60 years doing code and we do not have the hang of it completely that is why point 1.
Daniel Marlow
Khalil Stemmler
I tend to agree that TDD is a bit excessive, but I strongly believe in a BDD approach which is very common in Domain-Driven Design. Writing the failing test cases that describe how what use cases, policies and rules a system should have is much more likely to be known at the start of a project than if "computeXYCoordinates()" returns false :)
Writing code is a mixture of both!
It's science!
Computer "SCIENCE" is theory. The way that mathematics, physics and information work together to "determine how many users this application will be able support under peak hours" is a bit of physics, math, and probability all in one!
Computer "programming/coding" is the practical application of such theory. It's also what leans more in the direction of....
Art!
There are 100s of ways of writing code to perform the same observable behaviour. It takes skill, practice, patience and empathy to create code that is timeless, well-designed and readable for future developers.
Scot McSweeney-Roberts
_ is the only way to create code that is maintainable and extensible
That's what they said about COBOL.
DELETE EDIT THREAD
Harvey Thompson
And when some wise guys at Cambridge said, hey we've invented a replacement to COBOL called "CPL" everyone said "We don't need yet another programming language!"
(CPL -> BCPL -> C -> C++/ObjectiveC -> Java/C#/Swift/Kotlin/Go/Scala/...)
So, I've added another of my unpopular opinions:
We will always need Yet Another Programming Language
Because as Adrián said, we're pretty new at this, and so we need better tools. We're still in the software stone age.
yucer
Thank you for the quotation. I have the same opinion. We don't need too many more programming languages and frameworks.
With the programming languages happen the same that with the mobile phones. The unique reason new ones are needed is to make the old ones obsoletes and try to take control of the market.
Can someone really tell me why was Ruby needed in the moment of its creation? What does it provide that could not be added to existing languages?
The principle of "Do not repeat yourself" that science respect is not not followed most of the time.
It seems that the theory behind sofware development doesn't matter anymore and the they're is a global hype on languages like Javascript that is dangerous becoming the ground stones of apps without being so mature as language or some optimal for execution.
It is like if some new tech allows to recycle the garbage in a new material javascriptolite and they're is a boom in sell of cars with "futuristic" look, low weight and a hammer toolkit to shape it yourself to the shape you like.
Of course many skilled people will make from Javascriptolite a new market. But some day people will start to read again physics and mechanics.
Or would somebody build an space ship from that material?
Robert Erb
Writing code is hardly science, any more than writing fiction is. We are craftsmen and -women, not scientists.
Jonathan Dickinson
I think the truth exists somewhere in the middle. I did a coding dojo with a brilliant manager a few years back on TDD, and learned a lot about the value of unit tests.
The first advantage is that it gives you a usable API (API is UX). It's all too easy to get tunnel vision and write an unusable API because you've never attempted to use it. The "doesn't compile" step in TDD makes sure that you are trying to use the thing before making the thing.
The other advantage is that it prevents you from solving problems that don't exist. The specific example we had was roman numerals. At the start of the session I felt a bit of dread: roman numerals are, superficially, pretty hard to parse. Working through "I" to "III" to "MCVIII" resulted in a complete solution that was far simpler than the one I conjured up before we started coding.
But, you'd never get anything done if you followed TDD strictly.
I think the middle ground is writing your code while visualizing the test. This ensures that you are writing units (which are easier to use and obviously easier to unit test).
Jonathan Irvin
Write the code. Does it work? Write a test to prove it. Write more tests as you think of ways to break it.
Found a bug? Fix it. Write a test to prove it was fixed.
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Michael Avenatti heads to Iowa
Michael Avenatti, the combative lawyer ...
Posted: Jul 26, 2018 3:47 PM
Updated: Jul 26, 2018 3:47 PM
Michael Avenatti, the combative lawyer who represents adult film star Stormy Daniels against President Donald Trump, will speak next month at a Iowa Democratic fundraising dinner, a frequent stop for potential presidential candidates.
Avenatti, a lawyer who has become ubiquitous presence on television and Twitter in recent months, confirmed the appearance to CNN and his photo and bio are now featured on the Wing Ding website.
"I'll be at the Wing Ding," the lawyer said.
The August 10 dinner in Clear Lake, Iowa -- known for its fried chicken wings and presidential politics -- is a grassroots fundraiser for county Democratic parties and has become a popular stop for Democrats considering running for President.
Avenatti has previously said that he would consider running for President in 2020 if he felt like other Democratic candidates were unable to defeat Trump.
Avenatti told CNN earlier this month that he is qualified to run "because I have three things this president lacks: Brains, heart and courage."
On Wednesday, he said that he had not decided whether to actually run.
"I have not decided what I'm gonna do honestly. I'm meeting with a lot of people. I'm looking at the potential field of candidates. I am hopeful that Donald Trump will not be in office to run in 2020," he said. "If he is, the Democratic Party has to be very smart as to who they nominate. He should not be underestimated."
Maryland Rep. John Delaney, who has announced he is running for president, and Ohio Rep. Tim Ryan, another potential presidential contender, are both slated to speak at the 2018 dinner.
John Colombo, vice chairman of the Iowa Democratic Wing Ding, confirmed that Avenatti would speak at the event and said the lawyer asked to make an appearance.
"He indicated to one of our state party members that he would be interested in speaking, and the Wing Ding Committee then extended the offer to him," Colombo said Wednesday.
Avenatti also said he will start to dip his toe into 2018 politics, too, and said the Wing Ding likely won't be his only stop this year.
"I have been asked to assist some congressional candidates running in November at various rallies," he told CNN, noting that he's been asked to speak at fundraisers in Ohio, Pennsylvania and Iowa.
Avenatti represents Daniels, who earlier this year alleged that she had an affair with Trump in 2006, drawing the President into a legal fight about whether the adult film star should be able to publicly tell her story despite signing a non disclosure agreement.
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FINRA Orders Schwab To Pay $18 million to Investors In the YieldPlus Bond Fund
FINRA Orders Schwab To Pay…
This month, FINRA announced that it ordered Schwab to pay $18 million to investors for improperly marketing its YieldPlus Bond fund to retail investors. The order requires Charles Schwab to pay the money into a Fair Fund that will be established by the Securities Exchange Commission (SEC) to repay investors in YieldPlus fund, an ultra short term bond fund managed by Charles Schwab Investment Management. According to the disciplinary report, $17.5 million of the $18 million consists of fees that Schwab collected on sales of the fund. The other $500,000 constitutes a fine.
The FINRA investigation found that despite changes in the fund’s portfolio that caused the fund to be disproportionately affected by mortgage backed securities, Schwab continued to market the fund as a low-risk alternative to money market funds. Between September 1, 2006 to February 29, 2008, Schwab sold over $13.75 billion in shares of the YieldPlus to customers.
The Doss Firm, LLC represents investors who lost money in the YieldPlus fund. For a free consultation, please feel free to contact us.
Jason Doss is the owner of The Doss Firm, LLC, an Atlanta-based law firm devoted to representing consumers across the country in a variety of areas including investment disputes and consumer class action litigation. Mr. Doss earned his J.D. from Florida State University in 2002 and his B.A. from the University of Florida in 1997.
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November 15, 2018, 20:10 GMT-0500 League of Legends
Ambition and Crown leave Gen.G
Ambition and Crown’s departure marks the end of an era for Gen.G.
Malcolm Abbas
Photo via Riot Games
Following a rocky 2018 season, Gen.G have parted ways with veteran jungler and team captain Kang “Ambition” Chan-yong, as well as mid laner Lee “Crown” Min-ho, the team announced earlier today.
“We would like to express our greatest gratitude to Ambition, who has been actively leading the team as captain for the last three years, and Crown, who led the team to 2018 World Championship stage with his great efforts,” Gen.G wrote in its farewell post to the two players. “We hope for the two players’ bright future and ask for your support and a warm round of applause.”
Gen.G LOL on Twitter
Farewell, Ambition and Crown ]
Crown was one of the first players to join Samsung Galaxy, now known as Gen.G, after the organization lost all of its players following the 2014 World Championship. Crown helped Samsung rise from a low-ranking LCK team into the eventual 2017 world champions.
But as the years progressed, Crown’s skill saw a decline. Following Gen.G’s acquisition of mid laner Song “Fly” Yong-jun in May, Crown was placed on the bench. Crown played only three games throughout the entirety of the 2018 LCK Summer Split before being brought back into the starting lineup for the regional qualifier and World Championship.
As the second-oldest player in the LCK after KT Rolster jungler Go “Score” Dong-bin, Ambition has spent the last three years leading Gen.G’s roster as the team’s captain. Although he wasn’t always Gen.G’s starting jungler, Ambition remained a reliable pillar for the team to substitute in if need be.
Crown and Ambition’s future plans aren’t known at this time. Considering his age, it wouldn’t be surprising if the veteran jungler retired. Gen.G have yet to announce any plans to find jungle and mid lane replacements for Crown and Ambition, too.
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Trump Helpless Against Alternative Payment System Designed To Circumvent Sanctions (#GotBitcoin?)
Europe Gears Up Trade Mechanism. Trump Helpless Against Alternative Payment System Designed To Circumvent Sanctions (#GotBitcoin?)
European officials confirmed at Friday’s meeting that a trade mechanism, known as Instex, was now operational and was starting to process its first few transactions. Seven European countries said they would join France, Britain and Germany in their work on Instex, which seeks to allow trade between European and Iranian companies without the need for direct financial flows.
Iranian officials say Europe needs to do more to encourage the country to stay within limits of 2015 pact.
Iran said it would proceed with its plans to stop complying with some limits in the 2015 nuclear accord, but left the door open to a pause in those steps after European countries made progress in opening a trade channel to cushion the blow of U.S. sanctions on Tehran.
Friday’s developments mean Europe might win valuable time for diplomatic efforts aimed to defuse heightened tensions between the U.S. and Iran over Tehran’s recent military actions and its nuclear work.
Abbas Araghchi, Iran’s deputy foreign minister and a key player in Iran’s nuclear negotiations, said he would report back to Tehran on the progress made by European governments in developing a mechanism to cushion the impact of tight U.S. sanctions on Iran. He didn’t rule out the possibility that Iran would pause more drastic steps to move away from the 2015 deal.
Officials from Britain, France and Germany met with Iranian, Russian and Chinese officials Friday in Vienna, with the aim of persuading Tehran not to exceed limits set in the 2015 nuclear accord, which set tight limits on Tehran’s nuclear work in exchange for the suspension of most international sanctions.
“I can say one step forward compared to the previous meetings…But it is still not enough and it is still not meeting Iran’s expectations,” Mr. Araghchi said. “I would certainly report back to Tehran the developments that took place in this meeting…and the final decision obviously would be by Tehran to take.”
Iran is expected to surpass in coming days a limit imposed in the nuclear deal on its stockpile of enriched uranium, a material that can be used to fuel a nuclear weapon. Iranian and European officials indicated after Friday’s meeting they still expected Tehran to exceed this cap.
However, Iranian officials had warned they could take additional bigger steps to move away from the accord from July 7, including enriching uranium to 20% purity—closer to weapons grade—and measures to renew work on its Arak plutonium reactor. Mr. Araghchi said that he doubted they would be paused but that it wasn’t his decision to make.
If Iran moves ahead with those additional steps, European officials have said they may have to trigger a dispute-resolution mechanism, which could lead to the unraveling of the nuclear accord. While the dispute process could last for at least two months, a collapse of the deal would significantly increase already heightened tensions with U.S. officials, who warn they won’t tolerate a scaling-up of Iran’s nuclear work.
European officials are working to avoid that scenario. French President Emmanuel Macron called on Washington this week to ease some sanctions in a bid to encourage negotiations between the U.S. and Iran. Foreign ministers from Iran and the remaining participants in the 2015 nuclear deal are set to meet to discuss the situation—probably before August, Mr. Araghchi said Friday.
Since the U.S. last year pulled out of the international agreement to curb Iran’s nuclear program, Europe has fought to keep it alive. As the U.S. has ratcheted up sanctions on Iran, Tehran has warned it will exceed some of the key commitments in the deal in coming days unless Europe offers real economic assistance that would help relieve some of the pressure the U.S. sanctions have exerted.
France, Britain and Germany set up Instex in January but it wasn’t operational until now. On Wednesday, The Wall Street Journal reported that the mechanism would be given a credit line—or advanced payments system—of a few million euros to help the system get going. Officials confirmed that Friday.
Until now, other European countries had been reluctant to get directly involved in Instex, in part because of U.S. pressure to avoid the scheme. However Sweden, Spain, the Netherlands, Finland, Belgium, Slovenia and Austria said in a joint statement they would back the scheme. The Dutch confirmed they will become shareholders. Others are expected to follow.
U.S. officials largely have been dismissive of the European trade mechanism. Some U.S. lawmakers have called for sanctions to be prepared either against Instex or against a mirror Iranian company that is supposed to net out Iranian exports and imports from Europe in a similar way.
Europe Says Iran Trade Channel Operational: Statement
Britain, France and Germany have a special trade channel up and running with Iran that aims to circumvent U.S. economic sanctions, the EU said in a statement.
“France, Germany and the United Kingdom informed participants that INSTEX had been made operational and available to all EU Member States and that the first transactions are being processed,” the EU said in a statement, referring to the channel’s formal name.
Iran has also established an entity to trade with Europe, while some more EU countries are joining INSTEX as shareholders, the statement said, following talks between the remaining signatories to the Iran nuclear deal – Russia, China, Britain, France and Germany – after the United States pulled out.
US Could Disconnect Russia From Swift But EU Prepares Escape Hatch
European Alternative To Swift Is The Instex System
For a long time, Ukraine’s current government has been following a strategy based on the good old Chinese approach: “If you wait by the river long enough, the bodies of your enemies will float by.” Chinese stratagems are applicable only to the Chinese. Sitting by the river might take thousands of years, and the Ukrainian Cabinet of Ministers has only five years.
Ukraine has no time to wait. Nevertheless, the general state strategy relies precisely on “passive assiduity.” Our officials guaranteed us that the Crimean bridge would not be built, the Russians would not host the World Championship, the Nord Stream – 2 would never be launched, and the sanctions would immediately kill Russian economy, and Russian Federation would collapse soon.
One of these expectations is the topic of disconnecting the Russian Federation from the SWIFT payments system.
Recently, SWIFT issue has been widely discussed by the EU, which does not fully agree with the “hawkish” US policy against Iran and the Russian Federation.
The EU has applied the so-called blocking regulations as a preventive measure to formulate a policy independent of the United States against Iran. The extraterritorial sanctions of the United States are not applied to European companies. The EU regulation prohibits its companies to comply with the US sanctions requirements.
EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Federica Mogherini announced the launch of a project to create an alternative system that could secure financial transactions with Iran, bypassing US sanctions radars. As conceived by the European functionaries, this system might become a global project. Theoretically, something similar can happen if the US sanctions against the Russian Federation are strengthened, if Europe does not want to join them. In this case, the alternative transaction program will include the Customs Union countries and, possibly, China.
Everything would be fine, and the EU’s blocking regulation could completely level the entire US sanctions package if not for one small detail. At the moment, SWIFT is an international interbank system of information transfer and making payments between banks and their customers. The bank must be a member of this system in order to use the money transfer services within the overall system. If a financial institution does not comply with the established regulations, including with regard to the control of customers’ operations, it may be restricted in conducting international settlement transactions or excluded from the list of participants, as it happened with Iranian banks.
The legal status of SWIFT is a cooperative society registered in Belgium under local law; it unites more than 9,000 banks from almost two hundred countries of the world. The annual turnover of transactions is 4-5 billion payment orders. Daily financial turnover is 6 trillion USD.
Today, financial transactions are monitored by the United States using the ECHELON Global Electronic Intelligence System technology, and structures such as the National Security Agency (NSA) in the United States are connected to it. That is why the bank customers believe that payments in euros go faster and are less monitored than similar transactions in dollars.
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The introduction of US sanctions against SWIFT would result cutting off 34% of its payments (that is how much dollars transactions were made in 2018).
In fact, Ukraine is on the verge of a very painful failure of its foreign policy. Something similar has already happened with the projects to bypass Russian gas pipelines. We have lost our first passing move several years ago, although at first Ukraine managed to block the Black Sea South Stream through the transit of Russian gas to Bulgaria and to the European market. As it turned out, the Bulgarians supported us idly. After all, South Stream gradually transformed into TurkStream, silently taken by Kyiv. Then, Nord Stream 2, which can completely transfer our transit potential to zero profitability, was also missed by Ukraine.
Now Ukraine practically prefers not to notice launching of a European alternative to SWIFT – the INSTEX system. Ukrainian Foreign Minister likes to repeat that the dependence of Russian gas exports on the Ukrainian GTS does not allow Russians to intensify aggressive actions against Ukraine. In fact, a universal sanctions weapon that can be compared with a financial neutron bomb is not a pipe, but an interbank currency transfer system, on which not only the currency reserves of the Central Bank of the Russian Federation depend, but also the currency assets of the entire Russian business and population. And the creation of INSTEX (if this system works in full-format mode) would be a major anti-authorization tool, helping the Russian to eliminate the basic transaction risks from the United States.
The Beginning Of The End Of SWIFT: Russian Banks Join Chinese Alternative Global Payments System
With Russia actively dumping US dollars and buying gold at the fastest paced in decades, the writing is on the wall when it comes to what the Kremlin thinks of any possibility for a detente in the painfully strained US-Russian relations.
And with Russia now clearly seeking to end monetary ties with a dollar-denominated “west”, there is just one alternative – China. Which is why it will probably not come as a surprise that several Russian banks joined the China International Payments System (CIPS) also known as China’s “SWIFT”, to ease operations between the two countries, according to a senior official at the Central Bank of Russia (CBR).
“As for the cooperation on payment systems, a range of banks are already connected to CIPS, allowing to facilitate payments routing procedure,” Vladimir Shapovalov, who heads a division dealing with foreign regulators at the CBR’s international cooperation department, said earlier this week during the international Russian-Chinese forum.
Meanwhile, as RT writes, the regulator hopes that in turn, Chinese counterparts will pay more attention to Russia’s own SWIFT alternative, the SPFS (System for Transfer of Financial Messages), as “it can further boost bilateral trade”, the official added.
As RT adds, Russia has been actively demonstrating the SPFS network, which was created in 2014 in response US threats of disconnecting Russia from SWIFT, to foreign partners, including China after its export version was finished late last year. The first system transaction involving a non-bank enterprise, was made by Russian oil major Rosneft in December 2017. Some 500 participants, with major Russian financial institutions and companies, have already joined. And with Europe contemplating alternatives to SWIFT in order to keep funding the Iran regime in light of its exclusion from the dollar-based monetary system following Trump’s reimposition of Iranian sanctions, it would land a major blow to the US Dollar’s reserve status if Brussels announced that it, too, would be joining either the Chinese or Russian alternative to dollar hegemony, a process which based on reserve managers’ declining allocations to US dollars…
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Bujin
Bujin is a character in the Dragon Ball franchise. He makes his debut in the 1993 film Bojack Unbound. He is seen again in a cameo in Fusion Reborn
Bujin is one of Bojack's four Galaxy Soldiers. His appearance is similar to that of his comrades, all members of the same race, as he sports teal-colored skin. Unlike the other members of this race, it is uncertain if Bujin's hair is colored orange, or if he even sports hair at all. He often collaborates with Bido in battle, trapping foes within his needles of energy thus allowing Bido to take them down. Of his needles, Bujin claims that when a victim is ensnared, their struggles to escape are futile and only result in their body being drained of energy until they are either rendered unconscious or dead.
Infiltrating a World Martial Arts Tournament funded by X.S. Cash for his son's birthday, Bojack seeks to eliminate every single fighter on Earth in order to be rid of any obstacles in the way of universal conquest. Bujin is among the minions ordered to frequent the battle arenas, where he ambushes Gohan, entrapping him within his needles. Later in the film, Yamcha and Tien arrive to assist Gohan's struggle against the Galaxy Soldiers, where they fight but are defeated by Bujin, Bido and Zangya. When Gohan assumes his Super Saiyan 2 transformation however, he makes short work of both Bujin and Bido, breaking them both in half with a single kick and punch respectively, vaporizing each on impact.
Like Zangya and Bido, there is some debate as to whether or not Bujin is capable of the maximum-power transformation shared by Bojack and Kogu, as when Gohan first senses Bojack, Bujin is seen glowing orange.
Other appearances Edit
Along with countless other Dragon Ball antagonists, Bujin makes a cameo appearance in the 1995 film Fusion Reborn when the residents of Hell make their escape to Earth.
Energy needles capable of ensnaring victims, and at the behest of their struggling, begins to drain energy from their body.
Flight, the ability to fly with the use of ki.
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Walking around Singapore’s Civic District
August 31, 2017 · by Karen · in Singapore
On many occasions that I stare at Singapore’s modern skyline, I find it difficult to imagine its colonial past. The progress and success of Singapore’s economy made it a little dissociated from the characteristics of former colonies: struggling nations seemingly incapable of combating poverty.
Yet, only a heartbeat away from the towering skyscrapers lies the heart of colonial Singapore: the civic district. Most of the former government buildings in the area have now been converted into cultural hotspots. A lot of spaces have been kept open, a rarity in my opinion, in the bustling downtown core of the country. My friend Jo and I were able to explore the area in a couple of days, in addition to another night at the museum.
From the Merlion Park, we used the underpass to gain access to the Fullerton Hotel. Its former use as the General Post Office had been engulfed by a hospitality brand synonymous to luxury. Inside, the hotel reeked of opulence but remained warm and welcoming to anyone who wished to have a look around. The story of its heritage is even displayed on some of its walls.
The Asian Civilizations Museum proudly stood just across the Singapore River. Entry is half-priced on Friday nights, which we gladly took advantage of. Intricate gold-laden objects, celadon jars and wood carvings were exhibited. So were furniture pieces filled with mother of pearl inlays, marble sculptures and ornate tapestries.
The items on display were magnificent on their own, yet it was the most sanitized arrangement I have ever seen of Asian gems. Most museums I visited around Asia were housed in former palaces or residences, providing some context to the historical artifacts presented. I guess that general lack of context made me feel a little disinterested with some of the galleries. The two big floating giant rice grains were amazing, though.
Asian Civilizations Museum
Continuing on our civic district walking tour, we popped into the nearby Queen Victoria Theatre, and exited towards the Arts House. We made a little detour to see the Cricket Club up close, only to find ourselves treading on the muddy open field as we made our way to the National Gallery.
Arts House
Formerly home to the country’s Supreme Court and its City Hall, the National Gallery is now the venue for Singapore’s visual arts. Yet, we weren’t there for the framed art pieces. I was more interested in getting up its roof deck and seeing Singapore on a different vantage point (a trait I have embraced from San Francisco’s hills and towers). The view, honestly, didn’t disappoint. Historic buildings, modern skyscrapers, the Singapore Flyer, the Esplanade, the Marina Bay Sands and the Marina Bay could all be seen in one sweep. However, our timing was less than perfect. A festival was to be held at the Padang in a few days, and tents were being set up all over the lawn — such eyesores to an otherwise picture-perfect view!
Marina Bay Sands, the business center and the civic district
Another view from the National Gallery’s roof deck
Tents = eyesores to the perfect view!
We followed this with a visit to an Anglican church, St. Andrew’s Cathedral. Gothic influence is evident in its spires and pointed arch windows. It was the first Anglican church I have ever entered, so I was piqued with interest. Honestly, had I not known that it was Anglican, I would have though easily mistaken it for a Catholic church, albeit did not have a crucifix. Peaceful and quiet, it is such a sanctuary in the middle of the city.
St. Andrew’s Cathedral
Note: If you’re visiting the Asian Civilizations Museum at night or late in the day, walk by the Singapore River to see the Boat Quay at night. It’s another pretty picture of traditional versus modern Singapore.
Boat Quay at night
Boat Quay and the business district at night
More on the Civic District next time. Happy travels! =)
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Wong Kar-Wai is my hero...
Eduardo A. Garcia — Writer and Director [ IMDb ]
Eduardo A. Garcia is an award-winning writer and director from Austin, Texas. His films and scripts, embracing the moral ambiguity between good and evil, have gained international attention by winning and being featured in countless film festivals worldwide.
Eduardo's stories center around emotionally wrenching, isolated characters clinging to obsessions, unfulfilled desires, and revenge. His visual aesthetic embodies the high contrast between light and shadow, accentuating the dark themes of moral ambiguity while seizing the irresistibly of the noir ethos.
Among Eduardo's many achievements, his work has won the top prize at the European Independent Film Festival, the International Film Festival South Africa, and the Mexico International Film Festival. He has been an official finalist at the Beverly Hills Film Festival, the Sacramento International Film Festival, the Latino Screenplay Competition, and the Screenplay Shootout. The Denver Underground Film Festival awarded Eduardo the Best Technical Achievement Award while the Mountain Film Festival selected Eduardo for the esteemed Seven Summits Award. Other notable festival wins are the Las Vegas Film Festival, the CineStory Screenwriting Awards, the Visionfest Screenwriting Competition, and the Back In The Box Screenplay Competition. Notable selections took him to the Seattle International Film Festival, the San Francisco Independent Film Festival, and the prestigious Austin Film Festival.
Eduardo's films have screened across the world on five continents.
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- Abigail Victoria, Actor [ IMDb ]
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"... his dedication to his work was startling. He would work all hours, non-stop to stretch himself to the limit to achieve his vision. From a purely technical view of his work, he excels at keeping a story localized and concentrated, lean and mean, usually centering around one location. Eduardo has the right mixture of ambition. He aspires to perfection with all aspects of his film, yet does not yield to desires to create massive, unwieldy projects. He chooses little moments or stories he can tell in a short period of time and concentrates to make them as compelling as possible. His camera direction is first rate, very expressive and always kinetic. what's also startling is his innate understanding of music, sound, and rhythm in conjunction with the images, he manages to create and shift a mood almost at will..."
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Category Archives: measure for measure problem plays
An analysis of MEASURE FOR MEASURE (Shakespeare)
No play in the Shakespearean canon is as politically radical as Measure for Measure, suggesting, as it does, that all political authority is corrupt at its core. It is the antithesis of The Tragedy of Coriolanus, Shakespeare’s most reactionary play.
The title, Measure for Measure, is richly ambiguous. It refers directly to the Hebraic and Christian Bibles–in particular, to the Sermon on the Mount: “With what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again” [Matthew 7:2]. This is Jesus’ endorsement of divine justice. While Jesus repudiates the endless cycle of human eye-for-an-eye violence, he has no problem endorsing a divine lex talionis.
In Shakespeare’s play, the character Angelo, who is no angel, makes of himself a figure of divine justice. He is invested with secular authority, as well. Before Vincentio, Duke of Vienna, withdraws from the city, he deputizes Angelo, delegating to him all of the powers of the state:
Mortality and mercy in Vienna / Live in thy tongue, and heart [I:i].
Well, mortality does, at least. But no mercy lives in Angelo’s reptilian heart.
The Duke only pretends to withdraw from Vienna and to migrate to Poland (others say to Russia or Rome); all the while, he remains in the city, disguised as a friar.
In the Duke’s (apparent) absence, Angelo sentences to death a young man named Claudio for lechery. Claudio is betrothed to his beloved Juliet, but their marriage has not yet been consecrated:
[S]he is fast my wife, / Save that we do the denunciation lack / Of outward order [I:ii].
“Outward order” is indeed the problem of the play. She has been impregnated out of wedlock. For this, the sin of fornication, Claudio is to be beheaded.
Angelo is a theocrat who does not distinguish between secular and religious authority. He recognizes no nuance, no degree between offenses. Every crime is equal to him. In accordance with his absolutist morality, all of the bordellos in Vienna are ordered to be plucked down [I:ii]. When the demi-god Authority [I:ii] hammers down on the city of Vienna, it knows no distinction between murder and fornication. Prostitution is a secular and a spiritual offense in Angelo’s eyes. Unlicensed sex is the same as murder and deserves the same penalty as murder:
To pardon him that hath from nature stolen / A man already made, as to remit / Their saucy sweetness that do coin heaven’s image / In stamps that are forbid. ’Tis all as easy / Falsely to take away a life true made, / As to put mettle in restrained means / To make a false one [II:iv].
Angelo’s moralism is anti-sexual, and what is anti-sexual is anti-life. It is also, of course, an unreachable ideal. As Lucio puts it, it is impossible to extirpate human sexuality. You might as well condemn the sparrows for lechery. Pompey’s question (to Escalus) is a propos: “Does your worship mean to geld and splay all the youth of the city?” [II:i]. Indeed, Angelo’s New Vienna is much like Giuliani’s Times Square in the 1990s. Like Giuliani, Angelo would desexualize the city, eunuchizing its populace.
A more measured justice, against the moralistic extremism of Angelo, is represented by Vincentio. And this is the second connotation of the title: As opposed to the absolutism of measure-for-measure religious violence, a more moderate, more measured secular justice is desirable.
There is a third connotation in the play’s title that I would like to illuminate. The entire play is a web of substitutions. Measure for Measure means, in this context, taking one thing for another. Angelo replaces Vincentio—when the surrogate takes the place of the original, disaster results. Ragozine’s head replaces Claudio’s head. The violation of Isabella’s virginity would substitute for Claudio’s death. There are linguistic transpositions, as well: Pompey says, “benefactor” instead of “malefactor,” “varlets” instead of “honourable men,” “Hannibal” instead of “cannibal,” etc. [II:i].
Claudio asks his sister Isabella (by way of Lucio, friend to Claudio) to prostrate herself before the deputy and plead for his life. He knows the erotic power that she radiates:
For in her youth / There is a prone and speechless dialect / Such as move men [I:ii]
In the city of pimps and whores, brother prostitutes sister. Claudio would be his sister’s procurer. One should recall that “prone” connotes “lying down.” It is unclear what the denotative meaning is supposed to be. “Move” suggests the contagion of sexual desire. Her words would not be a logical appeal, an appeal by reason to reason, but an erotic appeal, an appeal by reason to the libido.
Isabella isn’t a very strong advocate for her brother’s life. “I’ll see what I can do” [I:iv], she tells Lucio. And she gives up far too easily when her petition is rejected. During the first interview with Angelo, she says, weakly, “O just but severe law! I had a brother, then: heaven keep your honour” [II:ii]. After her appeal seems to be rejected during the second interview, she says, unimpressively, “Even so. Heaven keep your honour” [II:iv].
Isabella’s argument for her brother’s life is a biblical one: Hate the sin, but not the sinner. Angelo sees himself as a vehicle for divine law. It is the law, not he, who is responsible for condemning her brother to death. Both Isabella and Angelo depersonalize in their arguments for and against the death penalty as punishment for “illegitimate” sexual intercourse. Here is what Isabella says at the beginning of her argument:
There is a vice that most I do abhor, / And most desire should meet the blow of justice; / For which I would not plead, but that I must; / For which I must not plead, but that I am / At war ’twixt will and will not [I:ii].
Who would consider this a strong appeal for someone’s life? If your brother were sentenced to death, I would hope that you would plead more forcefully. She speaks of her brother’s death with such flippancy that one must question whether or not she even cares if he will die:
Dar’st thou die? / The sense of death is most in apprehension; / And the poor beetle that we tread upon / In corporal sufferance finds a pang as great / As when a giant dies [III:i].
The Duke, disguised as Friar Lodowick, says nearly the same thing to Claudio: Be absolute for death, since it is better to die than to live fearing death. The argument is specious.
Like all moralists, Angelo is a sanctimonious hypocrite. When Isabella pleads with the corrupt deputy for mercy, he makes a bargain: Only if Isabella surrenders her body to Angelo’s sexual desires will her brother be released from the death sentence. As commentators have suggested before me, Isabella is more concerned with her own vanity, her narcissistic self-regard, than with her brother’s mortality:
Is’t not a kind of incest, to take life / From thine own sister’s shame? [III:i].
Harold Bloom might have been correct when he asserted that Isabella is unable to distinguish sexuality from incest. Notice that Isabella not only accuses her brother of incest for attempting to recruit his sister as an advocate, but claims that he cohabitated with her cousin [I:iv].
Though her basic position might be an anti-sexual one, others have noticed before me that Isabella uses an erotic language to persuade the corrupt magistrate Angelo:
Go to your bosom, / Knock there, and ask your heart what it doth know / That’s like my brother’s fault. If it confess / A natural guiltiness, such as is his, / Let it sound a thought upon your tongue / Against my brother’s life [II:ii].
Angelo’s aside:
She speaks, and ’tis such sense / That my sense breeds with it [II:ii].
William Empson pointed out, cogently, that the first “sense” connotes reason, while the second “sense” connotes sensuality. Angelo is clearly turned on by Isabella’s coldness (and rationality). The colder (and more rational) she appears, the more he desires her (of course). Isabella wishes “a more strict restraint” than her nun colleagues enjoy [I:iv]. She plays on Angelo’s masochism AND sadism:
[W]ere I under the terms of death, / Th’impression of keen whips I’d wear as rubies, / And strip myself to death as to a bed / That longing have been sick for, ere I’d yield / My body up to shame [II:iv].
There is no question that Isabella is trying to turn Angelo on by talking about “stripping herself.” Nor is there any question that she is succeeding. There is no question, either, that Isabella is exciting Angelo’s masochism by her refusal to submit to his sexual will. She is quite revealing when she says to Angelo: “I had rather give my body than my soul” [II:iv]. And yet she never gives her body to the reprobate deputy. When Angelo, in one of Shakespeare’s wondrous soliloquies, listens to himself speak, we get a glimpse into the character’s inner experience:
Dost thou desire her foully for those things / That make her good? [II:ii].
The question is rhetorical. Angelo is thrilled by the idea of violating her celibacy. Polluting what is holy and dragging it down into the mud–that is what excites him. He is corrupt. Why shouldn’t everyone else in the world be? I hear in Angelo’s “We are all frail” [II:iv] a failed attempt at identification with Isabella: He can never be as pure as she, so she must become as impure as he.
As I stated at the beginning of this analysis, Measure for Measure suggests that corruption is inherent to the structure of all political authority. The Duke has the same designs as his substitute. After all, both Angelo and Vincentio desire and pursue the same person: the celibate Isabella.
When the Duke visits Friar Thomas, the former quickly waves away the idea that he could ever have a sexual thought:
No. Holy father, throw away that thought; / Believe not that the dribbling dart of love / Can pierce a complete bosom [I:iii].
This is trickery. The Duke might not seem as aggressively amorous as Angelo or as libertine as Lucio, but he does desire women or, at least, a particular woman: Isabella.
Is Duke Vincentio indeed a “gentleman of all temperance” [III:ii]? According to Lucio, “He’s a better woodman than thou tak’st him for” [IV:iii]. A “woodman” is a hunter of women. What if Lucio is telling the truth? And why does the thin-skinned Duke castigate and punish Lucio for having insinuated that the latter has a pulse?
Is the Duke’s self-withdrawal and self-disguising a cunning stratagem to seduce Isabella? This cannot be exactly the case, for the Duke never, in fact, seduces Isabella. He commands her to marry him. And then the Duke compels others to be married, whether they want to be married or not: Lucio is forced to marry the punk Kate Keep-down and Angelo is forced to marry Mariana, whom he abandoned once the dowry was lost. As they enter into compulsory matrimony, the Duke must say goodbye to the “life remov’d” [I:iii] as the novice nun Isabella must say goodbye to her celibacy and dedication to things atemporal.
Isabella never says a word after the Duke compels her to marry him. Her silence is ear-splitting. How are we to understand Isabella’s silence? Is it the silence of shock? The silence of assent? And who is Varrius, and why does he have nothing to say?
Reading the play is like looking into an abyss. Every depth leads to a deeper profundity. It would be impossible to exhaust the meanings that this magnificent play generates.
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Missionary Man
Following the mysterious murder of his lifelong friend, a Bible-toting biker named Ryder (Dolph Lundgren) rolls into town to get some answers, and learns that a nefarious businessman (John Enos III) may be behind his buddy's death. When he unravels a conspiracy to illegally acquire land from an Indian reservation to build a casino, Ryder takes the law into his own hands and launches an attack of biblical proportions.
Dolph Lundgren, John Enos III, August Schellenberg, Jeff Krebs, Bryan Massey, Daisy Lang
Action & Adventure, Action Thrillers
Dark, Gritty
Portuguese, Thai, Korean, Spanish (Neutral), Chinese Simplified, English, French
English: Dolby Digital 5.1, Spanish (Neutral): Dolby Digital 5.1, Portuguese: Dolby Digital 5.1, Thai: Dolby Digital 5.1, French: Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo
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The Last Exorcism Part II
2013 UR 1h 29m Blu-ray / DVD
This horrifying sequel has teenager Nell Sweetzer back in the grip of evil. Nell's new ordeal finds her alone and petrified in the woods, recalling little -- except that her entire family is now dead.
Ashley Bell, Julia Garner, Spencer Treat Clark, David Jensen, Tarra Riggs, Louis Herthum, Muse Watson, Erica Michelle, Andrew Sensenig, Judd Lormand
Ed Gass-Donnelly
Horror, Satanic Stories, Supernatural Horror, Supernatural Thrillers
Ominous, Dark
English, English SDH, Spanish (Neutral)
Widescreen 2:40:1
English: DTS-HD Master Audio
UR -
Common Sense rating OK for kids 15+
Parents need to know that The Last Exorcism Part II is the sequel to The Last Exorcism (apparently it wasn't the last one after all), though it doesn't follow in the original's "found footage" footsteps. It's also less gory than the first movie, focusing mainly on spooky stuff -- such as things jumping out from the shadows and sudden shocks -- more than blood, though there are a few shocking moments. Language is fairly light but does include one use of "f--k" and a few uses of "s--t." There's some sensuality, such as flirting, kissing, and sensual moaning, as well as some innuendo.
The main character definitely thinks about having sex. She also flirts with and kisses a boy at her work. In one scene, someone or something gives her sexual pleasure while she sleeps. She moans, and an unseen force unties some of the laces on her nightgown, though no nudity is shown. She also hears a couple having sex through the walls in a hotel room she's cleaning; she clearly enjoys listening in, moving closer to the wall.
The movie has the expected kinds of spooky stuff -- mostly things jumping out from the shadows, sudden noises, and characters screaming. Violence and blood is more suggested than shown. Some scary flashbacks are shown, with very brief flashes of gore.
One use of "f--k" and a few of uses of "s--t." Also "hell," "a--hole" is seen written on paper, and characters say "Jesus" and "oh my God" as exclamations.
There are a few messages about how people can make their own decisions about who they are, but the story eventually nullifies these ideas.
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Limit my search to Physics of Living Systems
Physics of Living Systems
Biophysics: Common concepts for bacterial collectives
Hannah Jeckel,
Noémie Matthey,
Knut Drescher ,
Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology, Germany;
Philipps-Universität Marburg, Germany;
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne, Switzerland;
Insight Apr 30, 2019
The expansion of bacterial swarms and the spreading of biofilms can be described by a unified biophysical theory that involves both active and passive processes.
A long-held paradigm in microbiology has been that bacteria are unicellular creatures, and that the effect of a large population of bacteria is the sum of the effects of all the individual cells. However, this view of bacterial life has changed fundamentally over the last few decades (Parsek and Greenberg, 2005), and it is now clear that bacteria can communicate with each other via small molecules and coordinate their behavior. Bacteria can, for example, form swarms as they move across a surface to explore their surroundings and search for nutrients, and they can also grow into multicellular structured communities termed biofilms, which provide various benefits to the cells, such as an improved tolerance to antibiotics. The study of behaviors that only occur in groups of bacterial cells now represents an exciting frontier in microbiology research. It has also caught the attention of physicists and mathematicians who are interested in identifying the quantitative principles that underpin multicellular organization.
Bacterial swarms and biofilms are typically viewed as two fundamentally different phenotypes because they are regulated by different genes, are caused by different cellular processes, and display obvious differences at the microscopic scale: swarms involve highly motile cells that move collectively (Darnton et al., 2010; Kearns, 2010; Zhang et al., 2010), whereas biofilms consist primarily of non-motile cells that are held together by an extracellular matrix (Flemming et al., 2016). However, at a more macroscopic level of description, there are also some similarities: swarms and biofilms both involve the spreading of bacterial communities with low height-to-width ratios over an agar substrate, and both consist of multiple different components (cells, matrix and fluid).
Biofilms and swarms are similar in many ways.
Illustration showing a biofilm (right) made of bacteria (green shapes) and extracellular matrix (gray) looking at itself in a mirror and seeing a swarm of bacteria, where different colors indicate groups of cells that are moving together in the same direction. Srinivasan et al. have shown that the spreading dynamics of swarms and biofilms at the macroscopic level can be described by a single biophysical theory. Illustration by Noémie Matthey.
Now, in eLife, inspired by these similarities, Siddarth Srinivasan, Nadir Kaplan and L Mahadevan of Harvard University report that they have developed a unifying theory that can describe the expansion of both swarms and biofilms (Srinivasan et al., 2019). Srinivasan et al. realized that the spread of both systems can be viewed as involving just two phases of matter: an active, growing phase of bacteria and/or matrix components, and a passive phase of fluid which can move from the substrate to the system and back. Based on this insight, Srinivasan et al. formulated a two-phase model which establishes a general set of coupled equations that include the effects of growth, fluid fluxes, nutrients and diffusion, with the specific components of the equations being adapted for swarms and biofilms. They found that despite the differences between swarms and biofilms, their model could quantitatively predict the dynamics of how they expand.
The model neglects biological details such as gene regulation and the actual mechanisms of cell-cell interactions. Instead, it relies only on growth and physical effects. A remarkable conclusion of the fact that such a theory quantitatively reproduces the bacterial spreading dynamics is that, on the macroscopic scale, physical interactions between the two phases and the agar substrate together with cellular growth are the driving factors of colony expansion.
Similarly, studies focusing on the microscopic dynamics of swarms and biofilms have identified a unifying concept for cell-cell interactions: physical interactions (such as collisions between cells) determine both the architecture of a biofilm and the collective movement of a swarm (Hartmann et al., 2019; Jeckel et al., 2019; Trejo et al., 2013; Wensink et al., 2012). This suggests that while biological mechanisms determine the physiological state of cells and the type of community they build, physical interactions can in certain conditions predict the structure of this community and the dynamics of the cells within the community both microscopically and macroscopically.
Taken together with previous work on the similarities between swarms and biofilms at microscopic length scales (Hartmann et al., 2019; Jeckel et al., 2019), the results of Srinivasan et al. are another step forward in efforts to identify general principles that are able to explain the behavior of bacterial communities across a range of length scales and across species.
Dynamics of bacterial swarming
NC Darnton
L Turner
S Rojevsky
HC Berg
Biophysical Journal 98:2082–2090.
Biofilms: An emergent form of bacterial life
HC Flemming
J Wingender
U Szewzyk
P Steinberg
SA Rice
S Kjelleberg
Nature Reviews Microbiology 14:563–575.
https://doi.org/10.1038/nrmicro.2016.94
Emergence of three-dimensional order and structure in growing biofilms
R Hartmann
PK Singh
P Pearce
R Mok
B Song
F Díaz-Pascual
J Dunkel
K Drescher
Nature Physics 15:251–256.
Learning the space-time phase diagram of bacterial swarm expansion
H Jeckel
E Jelli
JF Totz
L Vidakovic
B Eckhardt
A field guide to bacterial swarming motility
DB Kearns
Nature Reviews Microbiology 8:634–644.
https://doi.org/10.1038/nrmicro2405
Sociomicrobiology: The connections between quorum sensing and biofilms
MR Parsek
EP Greenberg
Trends in Microbiology 13:27–33.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tim.2004.11.007
A multiphase theory for spreading microbial swarms and films
S Srinivasan
CN Kaplan
L Mahadevan
Elasticity and wrinkled morphology of Bacillus subtilis pellicles
M Trejo
C Douarche
V Bailleux
C Poulard
S Mariot
C Regeard
E Raspaud
Meso-scale turbulence in living fluids
HH Wensink
S Heidenreich
RE Goldstein
H Löwen
JM Yeomans
Collective motion and density fluctuations in bacterial colonies
HP Zhang
A Be'er
EL Florin
HL Swinney
Hannah Jeckel
Hannah Jeckel is in the Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology, and the Department of Physics, Philipps-Universität Marburg, Marburg, Germany
Noémie Matthey
Noémie Matthey is in the School of Life Sciences, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
Knut Drescher
Knut Drescher is in the Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology, and the Department of Physics, Philipps-Universität Marburg, Marburg, Germany
k.drescher@mpi-marburg.mpg.de
Version of Record published: April 30, 2019 (version 1)
© 2019, Jeckel et al.
Article citation count generated by polling the highest count across the following sources: Crossref, PubMed Central, Scopus.
biofilms
collective spreading
B. subtilis
Siddarth Srinivasan et al.
Bacterial swarming and biofilm formation are collective multicellular phenomena through which diverse microbial species colonize and spread over water-permeable tissue. During both modes of surface translocation, fluid uptake and transport play a key role in shaping the overall morphology and spreading dynamics. Here we develop a generalized two-phase thin-film model that couples bacterial growth, extracellular matrix swelling, fluid flow, and nutrient transport to describe the expansion of both highly motile bacterial swarms, and sessile bacterial biofilms. We show that swarm expansion corresponds to steady-state solutions in a nutrient-rich, capillarity dominated regime. In contrast, biofilm colony growth is described by transient solutions associated with a nutrient-limited, extracellular polymer stress driven limit. We apply our unified framework to explain a range of recent experimental observations of steady and unsteady expansion of microbial swarms and biofilms. Our results demonstrate how the physics of flow and transport in slender geometries serve to constrain biological organization in microbial communities.
A microfluidic device for inferring metabolic landscapes in yeast monolayer colonies
Zoran S Marinkovic et al.
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Liquid-crystal organization of liver tissue
Hernán Morales-Navarrete et al.
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Praised as “an artist of utmost taste, proportion and charm” (The Cleveland Plain Dealer) and “a force to be reckoned with in the world of classical musicians” (Southampton Press), American pianist Esther Keel has captivated audiences around the world since making her debut with Esa-Pekka Salonen and the Los Angeles Philharmonic at the age of thirteen. Since then, she has concertized throughout the United States and Canada, as well as in Germany, Italy, Switzerland, Austria, Ireland, Korea, and Russia.
Ms. Keel has performed as soloist with over 30 orchestras including the Jacksonville Symphony, Pasadena Symphony, Juilliard Orchestra, Korean American Symphony, Merrick Symphony, Mozart Festival Orchestra, Peninsula Symphony, Colburn Orchestra, and the San Francisco State Symphony, among others. In addition to Esa-Pekka Salonen, she has worked with notable conductors such as Otto-Werner Mueller, Rossen Milanov, Fabio Mechetti, Nicholas McGegan, and Bundit Ungrangsee.
As a soloist Ms. Keel has appeared in prestigious concert halls including Kennedy Center in Washington D.C, Lincoln Center’s Alice Tully Hall in New York, Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles, and abroad at the Kurhaus Bad Aussee in Austria, Teatro Guglielmi in Italy, the Poland Embassy in Moscow, Royal Dublin Society Concert Hall, and the Villa Strauli as part of a 5-city tour throughout Switzerland. She has been featured in the Southampton Rising Stars Concert Series, the Los Angeles Da Camera Society at the historic Doheny Mansion, San Francisco’s Annual Chopin Concert Series, and the Los Angeles Philharmonic Rising Stars Recital Series. Ms. Keel’s numerous competition honors include top prizes in the Moscow International Chopin Competition, Juilliard Concerto Competition, Washington International Piano Competition, National Federation of Music Clubs Competition, Ostra International Piano Competition in Italy, Los Angeles International Liszt Competition, and the American Prize at the Cleveland International Piano Competition.
In addition to her recital and orchestral performances, Ms. Keel has dedicated herself to the art of chamber music. She has most recently performed with Ronald Leonard and Clive Greensmith and regularly collaborates with the students of Clive Greensmith at the Colburn Conservatory. As a chamber musician, Ms. Keel has performed in venues such as Alice Tully Hall, Peter Jay Sharp Theatre, Wilshire Ebell Theatre, LACMA, Zipper Hall, and the California Club. She has worked with musicians including Fred Sherry, Jonathan Feldman, Joseph Kalichstein, Seymour Lipkin, and Vivian Weilerstein. She has performed in the Musica L’Amore Chamber Music Series, Alice Tully’s Wednesdays at One Series, and the Young Musicians Foundation Chamber Music Series, which was broadcast live on the classical music station KUSC 91.5.
Born and raised in Los Angeles, California, Ms. Keel began playing the piano at the age of three with her concert pianist mother, Mihyang Keel. She received her Bachelor and Master of Music degrees from the Juilliard School and an Artist Diploma from the Colburn Conservatory. In addition to her studies, she has served as an instructor in the college division of the Juilliard School. She has been on the MTAC South Bay Board of Directors as Vice President. She currently maintains a private piano studio in the South Bay. Her former teachers have included John Perry, Yoheved Kaplinsky, Yong Hi Moon, and Robert McDonald.
...an artist of utmost taste, proportion, and charmCleveland Plain Dealer
Keel played with technical élan and detailed shading.Cleveland Plain Dealer
A rising-star among pianists, Esther Keel is an amazing talent, truly displaying a life dedicated to eighty-eight keys.St. Galler Tagblatt
Keel utilized keyboard technique that seems to blend old-style accuracy and modern sensibility leading to a rendering of the not-too-often heard Saint-Saens work filled with colorful timbre, careful pedaling, and brisk, clean arpeggios.Arcadia Weekly
Especially impressive was Keel's handling of the concerto's[Saint-Saens 'Egyptian' Concerto] slow movement, where her prismatic colors and well-honed sense of lyricism paid dividends in this movement's mood of melancholy rumination...But Keel knew when to call in the proverbial big guns too, as she did with her dazzling rendition of the work's finale, which gained her the audience's well-deserved and very warm approbation.Crescenta Valley Weekly
...a superb pianist of phenomenal technique and depth of musical understandingRheintalische Volkszeitung
"Her performance of Liszt's Dante Sonata reached powerful interpretative depths, vividly revealing the piece's dramatic character...an extraordinary performance of the highest caliber.Rheintalische Volkszeitung
Elegance and warmth combined with brilliant technique describes Keel's dazzling interpretation.Korea Times
From the very first moment that pianist Esther Keel commenced her performance of Tchaikovsky's popular piano concerto, the air was charged with rare musical electricity. She demonstrated her orchestral drama and her brilliant technique beyond anyone's expectation.Merrick Life
Keel dazzled the audience with her elegance and charm in Rachmaninoff's difficult Piano Concerto No. 2. She boldly attacked the majestic bell-like opening chords with energy and drama and brought out the emotional intensity of the gorgeous theme...Her entire performance came off as graceful and polished, and the audience was quick to reward her with a standing ovation.Daily Breeze
Keel's Chopin Etudes aptly exhibit her virtuosity that places intelligent interpretation of the music ahead of brandishing formidable technique.News of Polonia
Keel's inherent musicality enhanced a spontaneous, seemingly artless flow of endless melody.News of Polonia
...an artist full of great emotional intensity and passionNeue Zuger Zeitung
...incessantly uncompromising in her pursuit of glorious sound and powerful effectsNeue Zuger Zeitung
With commanding technical control, she beautifully recreated the emotional world of Chopin.Rheintaler
Ms. Keel has become a force to be reckoned with in the world of young classical musicians.Southampton Press
Keel’s performance in Mozart’s D minor Piano Concerto, K. 466 was impressive, technically immaculate and surprisingly mature. She exhibited the delicacy and mastery of nuances that are the hallmarks of Mozartean style. Her command of dynamics, from whispered pianissimo to thunderous fortissimo, was absolute, and she maintained her poise and control to the utmost.Long Beach Gazette
She kept the audience enthralled with her showmanship, dexterity and versatility.Richmond Register
Friday, January 18, 2019Beach Cities SymphonyEl Camino College Center for the ArtsTorrance, CARachmaninoff Piano Concerto No. 1 in F Sharp Minor
Friday, August 4, 2017KYCC Annual Benefit ConcertWalt Disney Concert HallLos Angeles, CA 90012Gershwin Rhapsody in Bluemore info...
Sunday, July 23, 2017Peninsula SymphonyRedondo Union High SchoolRedondo Beach, CA 90277Addinsell Warsaw Concertomore info...
Wednesday, April 5, 2017Recital with Minji Choi, celloThayer HallLos Angeles, CAJanacek Pohadka
Tsintsadze Five Pieces on Folk Themes for Cello and Piano
Rachmaninoff Sonata for Cello and Piano, Op. 19
Monday, December 14, 2015Recital with Yun Han, celloThayer HallLos Angeles, CABeethoven 7 Variations on a theme from Mozart's "Magic Flute"
Chopin Sonata for Cello and Piano in G minor, Op. 65
Sunday, October 18, 2015Recital with Yong Kim, violinBeethoven Violin Sonata No. 1
Franck Violin Sonata
Wednesday, September 30, 2015Recital with Peter Eom, celloThayer HallLos Angeles, CABritten Cello Sonata
Ives 4 Songs
Poulenc Cello Sonata
Sunday, September 20, 2015Seoul National University Alumni ConcertZipper HallLos Angeles, CA 90012Works by Brahms and Berio
Esther Keel, Mihyang Keel, pianos
Friday, April 10, 2015Recital with Yewon Ahn, celloThayer HallLos Angeles, CABrahms Sonata No. 1 for Cello and Piano in E Minor, Op. 38
Bartok Rhapsody No. 1 for Violin and Piano; arranged for cello
Saturday, January 17, 2015Pasadena SymphonyAmbassador AuditoriumPasadena, CA 91105Poulenc Concerto for 2 Pianos
Nicholas McGegan, conductormore info...
Tuesday, December 9, 2014Duo Piano Recital with Mihyang KeelSteinway Piano GalleryPasadena, CA 91105Works by Berio, Brahms, Debussy, Poulenc, and Gershwin
Friday, October 3, 2014Performance with Clive Greensmith, celloBarnum HallSanta Monica, CABruch Kol Nidrei
Friday, August 29, 2014Students of Esther Keel in concert with Musica SinfoniaTorrance Armstrong TheatreTorrance, CA
Friday, April 18, 2014Recital with Ronald Leonard, celloZipper HallLos Angeles, CAHandel-Feuermann Adagio and Allegro
Beethoven Cello Sonata No. 1 in F Major
Friday, January 31, 2014Recital with Yewon Ahn, celloThayer HallLos Angeles, CASchumann Fantasiestucke for Cello and Piano, Op. 73
Tsintsadze Five Pieces on F olk Themes for Cello and Piano
Brahms Sonata No. 2 in F Major for Cello and Piano, Op. 99
Friday, January 25, 2013Beach Cities SymphonyEl Camino College Center for the ArtsAddinsell Warsaw Concerto
Saturday, November 10, 2012San Bernardino SymphonyCalifornia TheatreSan Bernardino CARavel Piano Concerto in G
Saturday, September 29, 2012Moorpark SymphonyMoorpark College Performing Arts CenterMoorpark CAGershwin Rhapsody in Blue
Sunday, April 29, 2012Peninsula SymphonyRolling Hills Covenant ChurchRolling Hills Estates CABrahms Piano Concerto No. 2 in B-flat Majormore info...
Saturday, February 18, 2012Pasadena SymphonyAmbassador AuditoriumPasadena CASaint Saens Piano Concerto No. 5 'Egyptian'more info...
Sunday, October 9, 2011Solo RecitalPeninsula Committee of the Los Angeles PhilharmonicPalos Verdes CA
Friday, July 22, 2011Redlands SymphonyRedlands BowlRedlands CABeethoven Piano Concerto No. 5 'Emperor'
Friday, July 8, 2011Solo RecitalMessiah Lutheran Summer SeriesSavannah, GA
Friday, May 13, 2011LA Doctors SymphonyGrand Lounge of the EbellLos Angeles CABeethoven Choral Fantasy
Ebell Chorale & the Hollywood Master Chorale
Saturday, April 23, 2011Sejong SoloistsPrivate ResidenceLos Angeles CAWorks by Vivaldi, Tchaikovsky, Sarasate, Wieniawski, Ponce
Sunday, April 3, 2011Recital with Steven Chang, violinThayer Hall at ColburnLos Angeles CAWorks by Mozart, Brahms, Sarasate, Williams
Sunday, February 20, 2011Solo RecitalThayer Hall at ColburnLos Angeles CAWorks by Beethoven, Vine, Brahms, Ravel
Sunday, January 23, 2011Musica L'Amore Chamber ConcertLos Angeles, CASchubert Wanderer Fantasie, Schubert Trout Quintet
Tuesday, January 18, 2011Pasadena & FriendsPasadena CAw/violinist Nigel Armstrong
Saturday, November 20, 2010Solo Recital, The Previews Concert SeriesTrinity Lutheran ChurchManhattan Beach CAWorks by Bach-Petri, Vine, Brahms, Ravel
Saturday, September 25, 2010 Colburn OrchestraAmbassador AuditoriumPasadena CAFranck Symphonic Variations
Sunday, June 27, 2010Steinway Concerts in the CanyonBeverly Hills, CAWorks by Chopin, Albeniz, Liszt
Tuesday, June 22, 2010Da Camera Society Private EventDoheny MansionLos Angeles CAWorks by Chopin, Brahms, Ravel, Gershwin
Wednesday, May 19, 2010Solo RecitalChunrat HallAltstatten SwitzerlandWorks by Mozart, Debussy, Liszt, Chopin, Ravel
Tuesday, May 18, 2010Solo RecitalCollege Untere WaidSt. Gallen SwitzerlandWorks by Mozart, Debussy, Liszt, Chopin, Ravel
Saturday, May 15, 2010Solo RecitalKnight's HallRegensberg SwitzerlandWorks by Mozart, Debussy, Liszt, Chopin, Ravel
Saturday, May 15, 2010Solo RecitalVilla StrauliWinterthur SwitzerlandWorks by Albeniz, Debussy, Chopin, Ravel
Wednesday, April 21, 2010Recital with Christine Kwak, violinThayer Hall at ColburnLos Angeles CAWorks by Strauss, Debussy, Albeniz, Janacek, Brahms
Saturday, April 3, 2010Musica L'Amore Chamber ConcertOld Ranch Country ClubSeal Beach CAMozart Piano Quartet in E-flat, Dvorak Piano Quartet in E-flat
Tuesday, March 2, 2010Evening of BrahmsThe California ClubLos Angeles CABrahms Clarinet Trio
Sunday, February 21, 2010Annual Chopin Birthday ConcertOld First ChurchSan Francisco CAWorks by Chopin, Liszt, Ravel
Friday, January 29, 2010Beach Cities SymphonyEl Camino College Center for the ArtsTorrance CARachmaninoff Piano Concerto No. 2 in C Minor
Saturday, October 3, 2009Moorpark SymphonyMoorpark College Performing Arts CenterMoorpark CASaint-Saens Piano Concerto No. 2 in G Minor
Lisa-marie MazzuccoLong Island based classical music photographer Lisa-Marie Mazzucco. Lisa Marie Mazzucco, photographer and make up artist, Montauk, New York, NY.http://www.lisamazzucco.com
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contact Esther
esther@estherkeel.com
Ms. Keel is a member of the California Association of Professional Music Teachers (CAPMT), Music Teachers Association of California (MTAC), and Music Teachers National Association (MTNA). Her students have been prize winners in numerous competitions such as the Southwestern Youth Music Festival (SYMF), CAPMT Sonata Competition, CAPMT Contemporary Competition, CAPMT Concerto Competition, VOCE competition, MTNA Competition, Southern California Junior Bach Festival, MTAC Scholarship Competition, MTAC Concerto Competition, Bellflower Concerto Competition, Marina Del Rey-Westchester Symphony Young Artist Competition, Torrance Symphony Concerto Competition, Artists of the Future Competition, Glendale Piano Competition, Korea Times Music Competition, American Protege Competition, Lansum International Piano Competition, and the Los Angeles International Liszt Competition, among others. Her students have also been admitted to prestigious colleges including New England Conservatory, Eastman School of Music, University of Southern California, San Francisco Conservatory, and the Peabody Conservatory.
For current lesson rates and to arrange a lesson, students should contact Esther by email:
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'Game of Thrones' Is Getting Roasted for Leaving a Coffee Cup in One of Its Shots
By Josiah Hughes
Fans are having mixed reactions — and absolute meltdowns both positive and negative — as the final season of Game of Thrones unfolds on television. While some stars think the shows critics can go fuck themselves, some criticisms of the show might be warranted. For example, they seemed to have accidentally left a coffee cup in a shot last night (May 5).
Around the 17:40 mark of Season 8, Episode 4, Daenerys Targaryen (Emilia Clarke) is sitting at a table with what appears to be a paper coffee cup. Someone was apparently sipping bean tea while setting up the shot and forgot to dispose of their java cup!
While the internet is convinced it's a Starbucks cup, we're not entirely certain. Then again, since Game of Thrones is an elevated fantasy show, maybe it's safe to assume that there's a hip roastery nearby, and they just haven't mentioned it until now. Hell, maybe the last two episodes will see Jon Snow applying for jobs from his laptop in a cafe.
UPDATE (5/6, 3 p.m. EDT): Some reps from GoT are now addressing the coffee cup controversy, confirming the crew most definitely left a cup in the shot. While speaking to Variety, art director Hauke Richter said the whole thing was being "blown out of proportion [because] it has not happened with Thrones so far." Ritcher also admitted it was indeed a coffee cup left in that shot, telling TMZ, "We are usually so diligent that this does not happen. The shoot was very hard and demanding and it is likely that after a very tiring episode three shoot, this was simply overlooked by an exhausted crew."
Either way, check out the internet's reaction to the Game of Thrones coffee cup below.
I thought this might be a joke to make us all rewatch that scene, but nope, it's real. I took a picture too. It's at 17:49 and it's a pretty unmistakable coffee cup. https://t.co/uc8I0zoXiL
— Hollie Baggins-Kenobi (@holliebutler) May 6, 2019
my favorite show in the entire world forgot a STARBUCKS COFFEE CUP ON THE TABLE WHILE FILMING pic.twitter.com/60z3pOCfg9
— zane (@zane) May 6, 2019
Guys it's not Starbucks, it's Winterfell's own coffee chain "Dire cup" #GameofThrones pic.twitter.com/icM6bhXkbx
— ♉️ (@_alexalexalex) May 6, 2019
You're telling me they had TWO YEARS to put together a decent show and they couldn't even spot the goddamn Starbucks cup in Winterfell??!?! #GameOfThrones pic.twitter.com/8opg7nyydv
— Jenna Guillaume (@JennaGuillaume) May 6, 2019
That's a pumpkin spice latte pic.twitter.com/fPThGIWJPW
— Walt (@UberKryptonian) May 6, 2019
when you want to be ruler of the seven kingdoms but all anyone wants to talk about is the Starbucks cup you left on the table pic.twitter.com/MOOwXm08nw
— Dave Itzkoff (@ditzkoff) May 6, 2019
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